I used to have a terrible time keeping plants alive until I got myself a silk plant. Those things are practically unkillable. The only problem is that it doesn't want to flower for me. I'm going to try watering it more and see if that helps.
So one of the next season will be "Simpsons - Atlantis"?
...which will be nearly identical to the Japanese series "Mr Sparkle - The Secret of Blue Water", despite the fact that the writers, producers and animators all swear to have never seen it before and deny that any similarity exists.
Employee: Um, look harder please, remember we're paying you all this money for [Operating System] [Any Vendor At All]: Ah, ok, I think we've found the problem. You're running software we don't support. Now go fix it yourself and stop bothering me.
How about this instead?
CEO: What's going on here? Employee: I unwisely installed a new package on our production server without testing it first. I'm just in the process of removing it and going back to the old version. Everything should be back up by the end of our maintenance window. CEO: Good. Let me know how it turns out and why this won't happen again.
Paying a lot of money for a support contract is no excuse for being careless. If your server absolutely has to be running tomorrow, then keep it running. I don't care if you use a cold spare, restore from a backup or try to fix it yourself, but I do know that if I told my boss that I couldn't be bothered to find a solution and was sitting in my butt waiting for a vendor to fix it for me instead, I would soon be out of a job. And I would have earned it.
Being a sysadmin means you always have a backup plan. Having someone to point your finger at does _not_ constitute a plan.
It does keep us all safe from serial suicide bombers. Sure, they may slip by the first time, but gosh darn it security isn't going to let them through a second time!
You can sleep easy at night now, citizen. Homeland Security is on the job.
"First" to 64-bit on the desktop? No, but some random company someone has never heard of doesn't really count.
I know things have been tough for Digital Equipment Corporation since they were bought out, but this is the first time I have heard them described as "some random company someone has never heard of".
You can't make sure all the variables are the same if you don't know what all the variables are.
If you believe that you are studying the effects of an electrical current on two metal electrodes submersed in water then you would make note of the current strength, the composition and dimensions of the electrodes, the temperature of the water and that kind of thing. You don't often record what kind of shoes you are wearing when you set up the equipment, what you ate for lunch or how long the fluorescent lights in the room had been on before you started taking measurements. Why not? Because it never occurs to you that it would be important.
Good experimental procedure is to document everything as well as you can, but if you are investigating something entirely new you can't always know what matters.
Sometimes even very smart people overlook small things that turn out to be important. Ask Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee about that if you see them.
Just remember that those are your _first_ ammendment rights. If you use your _second_ ammendment rights to complain about poor phone service, then you may find yourself having to use your fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth ammendment rights as well.
Don't worry about it too much. Before long those other providers will be bought up by Verizon and you won't be bothered by all that nasty choice any more.
But the US Space program didn't spend a penny to develop a ball-point pen that could write in null gravity. In fact, they didn't need to as regular pens work just fine in orbit. They did, however, buy a few boxes of pressurized ball-point pens from an outside company for $2.95 each.
Up here, schlocky local bands who charge less than $6 cover absolutely do not have to pay royalties for cover songs. Of course, this is in a country where copying music is legal, so your milage may vary.
But of course, the RIAA doesn't like that whole "backup" idea, after all the thief would then have a copy of the music as well as the legal owner, and that's just not right!
True, but that would mean that the guy who stole the car is not only a thief, which is forgivable, but also a dirty, filthy music pirate who must be hunted down and brought to justice by any means available including hordes of brown-shirted RIAA copyright-troopers storming into his home to drag him out of bed at gunpoint.
The only down side to this is that your friend would probably receive the same treatment, since she was an "Accessory to the Copying of Music".
Sounds just like any other kind of online dating, except this way you know for sure the picture is a fake, and that no matter how much money you spend on her she's never going to meet you in person.
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Finkployd, what is a plethora?
I would just like to know if you know what a plethora is because you believe there is a plethora.
I think you can find the answer you are looking for here.
Open source is about a lot more than just having access to the source code.
If it is distinguishable from magic, then the technology is not sufficiently advanced.
(First corollary to Clarke's Third Law, first proposed by Gregory Benford. Just because it's Slashdot doesn't mean it has to be plagiarism too.)
I don't mind getting fragged by the plant so much, I just wish it wouldn't laugh at me every time.
I used to have a terrible time keeping plants alive until I got myself a silk plant. Those things are practically unkillable. The only problem is that it doesn't want to flower for me. I'm going to try watering it more and see if that helps.
And more importantly, do you even know what "redundant" means?
This is Slashdot. Why spot the reference when you can make up your own?
You may want to read the formatted man-page for fstab some time.
I think that you may find the "user" and "noauto" options interesting.
No, it was effected years ago. It wil not be affected either.
Well, "In Search Of..." had better writing than "Voyager" and "Reading Rainbow" had better acting than "Enterprise".
Or...
Employee: Um, look harder please, remember we're paying you all this money for [Operating System]
[Any Vendor At All]: Ah, ok, I think we've found the problem. You're running software we don't support. Now go fix it yourself and stop bothering me.
How about this instead?
CEO: What's going on here?
Employee: I unwisely installed a new package on our production server without testing it first. I'm just in the process of removing it and going back to the old version. Everything should be back up by the end of our maintenance window.
CEO: Good. Let me know how it turns out and why this won't happen again.
Paying a lot of money for a support contract is no excuse for being careless. If your server absolutely has to be running tomorrow, then keep it running. I don't care if you use a cold spare, restore from a backup or try to fix it yourself, but I do know that if I told my boss that I couldn't be bothered to find a solution and was sitting in my butt waiting for a vendor to fix it for me instead, I would soon be out of a job. And I would have earned it.
Being a sysadmin means you always have a backup plan. Having someone to point your finger at does _not_ constitute a plan.
It does keep us all safe from serial suicide bombers. Sure, they may slip by the first time, but gosh darn it security isn't going to let them through a second time!
You can sleep easy at night now, citizen. Homeland Security is on the job.
Apple was the first to ship a 64-bit Macintosh, period.
Arguing that they did anything more is sophistry.
I know things have been tough for Digital Equipment Corporation since they were bought out, but this is the first time I have heard them described as "some random company someone has never heard of".
You can't make sure all the variables are the same if you don't know what all the variables are.
If you believe that you are studying the effects of an electrical current on two metal electrodes submersed in water then you would make note of the current strength, the composition and dimensions of the electrodes, the temperature of the water and that kind of thing. You don't often record what kind of shoes you are wearing when you set up the equipment, what you ate for lunch or how long the fluorescent lights in the room had been on before you started taking measurements. Why not? Because it never occurs to you that it would be important.
Good experimental procedure is to document everything as well as you can, but if you are investigating something entirely new you can't always know what matters.
Sometimes even very smart people overlook small things that turn out to be important. Ask Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee about that if you see them.
Just remember that those are your _first_ ammendment rights. If you use your _second_ ammendment rights to complain about poor phone service, then you may find yourself having to use your fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth ammendment rights as well.
Don't worry about it too much. Before long those other providers will be bought up by Verizon and you won't be bothered by all that nasty choice any more.
(Sherman who? Never heard of him.)
It'a an urban legend. Read the real story at snopes.com.
Up here, schlocky local bands who charge less than $6 cover absolutely do not have to pay royalties for cover songs. Of course, this is in a country where copying music is legal, so your milage may vary.
I think that "Rigourous Proof By Lack of Counterexample" would apply here.
Go ahead. Prove that it doesn't.
No, those would be the processors that can interface with both Socket 939 and Socket 940 boards.
The only down side to this is that your friend would probably receive the same treatment, since she was an "Accessory to the Copying of Music".
Sounds just like any other kind of online dating, except this way you know for sure the picture is a fake, and that no matter how much money you spend on her she's never going to meet you in person.