But it seems like there are a lot of new ventures into the storage device market... I wonder when all the dust settles which one will be adopted the quickest. My bet, is that it'll be the one with fewer moving parts, and the highest seek rate... sounds like IBM, but the dust is far from being settled....
I thought at first glance...
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that the title of this story was verizon fatigue... and I had a glimmer of hope that there was a professional diagnosis for being driven insane by their "can you hear me now? good..." adds.
my pII 300/w 320 MB ram, and SCSI drives is simply graceful as my main desktop. it's running kde 3.0.1/w all the translucent goodies, anti-aliased fonts, liquid style, and keramik deco's.
I compiled the full mother load ~30MB the other day on my slackware 8.0 which is powered by a PII 300,/w 320 MB RAM, and has an 18 GB ultra2 scsi HDD.
when i launch mozilla or mozilla -mail or whatever, it takes approximately 20 seconds for the browser/mail client to appear. surfing/typing in URLs is *painfully* slow. i mean, if I type a URL, the characters appear once every 3 seconds.
anyone know how to speed this behemoth up? anyone compile from source/w simmilar hardware and not have this problem?
I dont know what the command bc (i read your.sig), so I went to freshmeat to see if there was a project page.... performed the good old/search?q=bc, and found that the third project in the results was a theme, and the theme was for some european model.
But anyway, i just wanted to thank you for leading me to this....
Even if you don't like the software's license, mange to remove it; hate the sticker preventing you from opening the CD w/o reading the license, manage to circumvent that -- you're still bound by your EULA (everyone's unescapable life agreement), which you accepted by being born and which menas you agree to contribute to microsoft's world domination by doing anything and everything this guy deems appropriate.
well, i remember old cd-rom drives had a bay that accepted a disc enclosed in plastic case slid into.... just design a cd-rom drive with similar functionality.
that was brilliant. i can just imagine 'exhibit a' during the court procedure... picture of the mangled CD case with the seal holding two pieces of broken plastic together... "but i didn't break the seal, and i never saw and agreed to this EULA during the installation process...", "so how was i too know that distrubuting it to all my internet friends was actually illegal?"
worm authors used perfect english! man they would spread like wildfire... mail with malicious attachments is getting so damn easy to spot due to the broken grammar.
If this tactic by divine where to make their fiscal quarter finnancial documents look more appealing, then this would be one -- albiet shaddy technique of doing so. However, the documents linked said the orginization was attempting to bring themselves back to profitability. IMHO, regaining profitability doesn't warrant band-aid solutions. it requires a definite 180 in business practices, and perhaps some unfortunate layoffs. to dock only a percentage of their employee's a whopping 50% while hypothetically sparing someone who could make only $1k less/annum is ludicrous. There is absolutely no ethical way to determine the marker for paycuts, which is why it would have made more sense for a bout of lay offs, followed by a company wide salaray weighted, percentage based paycut. say employee's earning $25-33k/annum are docked 4%, 6% for $33k-$40k... granted this method isn't perfect as a marker must still be determined for each bracket, but it's a wholehelluva lot more humaine then taking someone who earns $60k/annum and reducing that to a mere $30k! But then again -- those earning $60k/annum *should* have enough stability such that they won't be in a panic situation, which would spare that single mother employee with two children who only earns $25k/annum and who must now live off $24k indefinitely. It's a definite puzzler, but in the end it's still business, and inevitably, the decision will be made based on the bottom line and in the best interest of the owner(s)/shareholder(s).... ahhh... corporate america.
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But it seems like there are a lot of new ventures into the storage device market... I wonder when all the dust settles which one will be adopted the quickest. My bet, is that it'll be the one with fewer moving parts, and the highest seek rate... sounds like IBM, but the dust is far from being settled....
that the title of this story was verizon fatigue... and I had a glimmer of hope that there was a professional diagnosis for being driven insane by their "can you hear me now? good..." adds.
...combine it with the tooth cell, and get a real live shot of the world through the callers mouth :)
www.dmarien.comblogs are fun!
and it's a good forum for leaving your thoughts and feelings for your friends to read.
this site, slashdot, is in essence, the web log (blog) of Rob Malda -- or at least it was...
...how gross video conferencing would be!
teleportation!!!!
article
that's your mom d00d? and you advertise that fact? that's fucked...
Correct: see here.
wiped due to EMP...
I *hate* it when that happens.
my pII 300 /w 320 MB ram, and SCSI drives is simply graceful as my main desktop. it's running kde 3.0.1 /w all the translucent goodies, anti-aliased fonts, liquid style, and keramik deco's.
I compiled the full mother load ~30MB the other day on my slackware 8.0 which is powered by a PII 300, /w 320 MB RAM, and has an 18 GB ultra2 scsi HDD.
/w simmilar hardware and not have this problem?
when i launch mozilla or mozilla -mail or whatever, it takes approximately 20 seconds for the browser/mail client to appear. surfing/typing in URLs is *painfully* slow. i mean, if I type a URL, the characters appear once every 3 seconds.
anyone know how to speed this behemoth up? anyone compile from source
IBM model M's from 1993 /w the blue logo. only keyboard i'll ever use!
click through to their second page of new features. it's first on that list.
I dont know what the command bc (i read your .sig), so I went to freshmeat to see if there was a project page.... performed the good old /search?q=bc, and found that the third project in the results was a theme, and the theme was for some european model.
But anyway, i just wanted to thank you for leading me to this....
echo "deny: *" > /HttpDocR00t/robot.txt
they do, but they're obebiant.
Even if you don't like the software's license, mange to remove it; hate the sticker preventing you from opening the CD w/o reading the license, manage to circumvent that -- you're still bound by your EULA (everyone's unescapable life agreement), which you accepted by being born and which menas you agree to contribute to microsoft's world domination by doing anything and everything this guy deems appropriate.
>>All the indecipherable jargon makes...
the what jargon?
well, i remember old cd-rom drives had a bay that accepted a disc enclosed in plastic case slid into.... just design a cd-rom drive with similar functionality.
yes. i know.
that was brilliant. i can just imagine 'exhibit a' during the court procedure... picture of the mangled CD case with the seal holding two pieces of broken plastic together... "but i didn't break the seal, and i never saw and agreed to this EULA during the installation process...", "so how was i too know that distrubuting it to all my internet friends was actually illegal?"
worst analogy ever
worm authors used perfect english! man they would spread like wildfire... mail with malicious attachments is getting so damn easy to spot due to the broken grammar.
"I'm on a modem for a few weeks and downloading countless megs of mail viruses is extremely frusterating"
...but to some it's not as bad because on broadband internet connections downloading mail is fairly speedy.
telnet to the pop3 server directly, delete messages you think to be spam, log off -> send & recieve...
Kinda makes the silly things we argue about here on slashdot...
:P
NO IT DOESN'T!
faggot!
If this tactic by divine where to make their fiscal quarter finnancial documents look more appealing, then this would be one -- albiet shaddy technique of doing so. However, the documents linked said the orginization was attempting to bring themselves back to profitability. IMHO, regaining profitability doesn't warrant band-aid solutions. it requires a definite 180 in business practices, and perhaps some unfortunate layoffs. to dock only a percentage of their employee's a whopping 50% while hypothetically sparing someone who could make only $1k less/annum is ludicrous. There is absolutely no ethical way to determine the marker for paycuts, which is why it would have made more sense for a bout of lay offs, followed by a company wide salaray weighted, percentage based paycut. say employee's earning $25-33k/annum are docked 4%, 6% for $33k-$40k... granted this method isn't perfect as a marker must still be determined for each bracket, but it's a wholehelluva lot more humaine then taking someone who earns $60k/annum and reducing that to a mere $30k! But then again -- those earning $60k/annum *should* have enough stability such that they won't be in a panic situation, which would spare that single mother employee with two children who only earns $25k/annum and who must now live off $24k indefinitely. It's a definite puzzler, but in the end it's still business, and inevitably, the decision will be made based on the bottom line and in the best interest of the owner(s)/shareholder(s).... ahhh... corporate america.
canada is no better.