proceeding to rm -rf *.
Pretty typical of any inexperience user. Everyone do this kind of mistake just 1 time in life.
When I was young, (I was 12 or 13, i think... around 1993) I tried to find out what every dos program did. If you're starting from A you usually get to 'fdisk'. You can guessed what happened. I deleted the main partition.Didn't have any backup of anything except windows and an old dos modem/fax application. it took me weeks to find in local BBS all the shareware that I had lost.
Oh, but I'd love to live in a world where robots did all the work. Where I showed up to work one day a week to code the robots a bit, and spent the rest of my time in leisure pursuits.
Well, with the way things are going, it will probaly be more like: "...showed up to work one day a week to code the robots a bit, and spent the rest of my time in lawyer pursuits."
Are there many French Canadians left who aren't bi-lingual?
Lost. Too Many of them if you ask me. (Although anyone can at least say "yes", "no" and "Toaster")
People in the province of Quebec are that way because the anglophones were(some decades ago) the rich part of society, while the francophones were the vast poor majority... Modern (less than 40 years) laws helped drive English buisness out of the province, and so, the economical status has change but not the mentality... The tradionnalist (usually separatists) still some sort of revenge agains the anglophones, but they are not the majority...
Most of my friends are like me: we use the best tool for the best job. Watch a movie, read a book in the original language... Communicate with whatever goes for the occasion...
And we use an English version of most games and OS because they tend to have less bugs:)
(Of course, I still have to use a french dictionnary in Openoffice to type reports....)
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Yeah. I know, my text is full of mistakes. Bite me.
Most of the time, these "MePod" would contains more than just your personnal information, but also the names, adresses, birthdays and other kind of informations of all your friends... What if it get stolen? This thing will have to be built will good security for me to trust it, and even then, it won't stop my friends from getting one and storing all MY information on theirs...
And since most of the population is lazy( "Why do I have to type my password AGAIN?"), these thing are going to be a real problem really fast...
Sure, store ALL personnal in the same place: a wireless-able database.... sure...
When I think about it, most of my friends have Palm Pilots... Hell, I have one, and it's full of important stuff.... damn... gonna change the password...
If drinving was dangerous in Montreal, we would be the only city in North America where it's illegal to turn right on a red light because drivers are not mature enough...
What is missing is an Access-like Program. Something that allows to use a database, and generated formatted documents as output, WITHOUT having to program anything ( Except maybe SQL queries)...
I can't remember how many times i saw Access in use... and could not name an alternative that would do the job well....
Surely they're not suggesting Canada invaded the US!?
Actually, in thoses years, Canada was still a British colony... but yes Canada invaded the US and burned Washington. But the US troops did also burned York (Toronto) which was the capitol of the Upper Canada at the time.
Actually Every english-speaking (or english-capable) Engineer i ever met know of this song.
It actually came from England. It was sung by the english military Eng. Corps. If you search a bit on the net, you can find military verses. It was transported to the US (and Canada) during World War I ( and II) and it's sung by every Engineer in North America (Hell, Even the French-Canadians... I know, i'm one of them!). The MIT 'version' of the song is the most reconized one... it's the one we used... And I can tell you that in any Engineering school, thoses verses are SOOO true:
The firehose by day and forty beers by night,
An engineer may never sleep and still be just as bright. And should you ever ask him how he keeps up his routine, he'll raise his trusty can of JOLT, smile and say "caffeine"
Around here, It's reconized that MIT is the BEST Engineering School: The one with the most "freakish" people.
Slashdot Mirror
only Slashdot did?
Fill in the blanks: The average Slashdotter is _________
It's called "Targeted" Advertising.... Like this
No, beer is one of the fundamental building blocks of the universe, like gravity and duct tape.
.sig....
This is SOOO going to be my new
proceeding to rm -rf *.
Pretty typical of any inexperience user. Everyone do this kind of mistake just 1 time in life.
When I was young, (I was 12 or 13, i think... around 1993) I tried to find out what every dos program did. If you're starting from A you usually get to 'fdisk'. You can guessed what happened. I deleted the main partition.Didn't have any backup of anything except windows and an old dos modem/fax application. it took me weeks to find in local BBS all the shareware that I had lost.
Been making backups ever since.
Anyone knows how this could be duplicated elsewhere?
There's this one but it's not USB-powered
Oh, but I'd love to live in a world where robots did all the work. Where I showed up to work one day a week to code the robots a bit, and spent the rest of my time in leisure pursuits.
Well, with the way things are going, it will probaly be more like:
"...showed up to work one day a week to code the robots a bit, and spent the rest of my time in lawyer pursuits."
Bogomips?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips.html
Are there many French Canadians left who aren't bi-lingual?
:)
Lost. Too Many of them if you ask me. (Although anyone can at least say "yes", "no" and "Toaster")
People in the province of Quebec are that way because the anglophones were(some decades ago) the rich part of society, while the francophones were the vast poor majority... Modern (less than 40 years) laws helped drive English buisness out of the province, and so, the economical status has change but not the mentality... The tradionnalist (usually separatists) still some sort of revenge agains the anglophones, but they are not the majority...
Most of my friends are like me: we use the best tool for the best job. Watch a movie, read a book in the original language... Communicate with whatever goes for the occasion...
And we use an English version of most games and OS because they tend to have less bugs
(Of course, I still have to use a french dictionnary in Openoffice to type reports....)
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Yeah. I know, my text is full of mistakes. Bite me.
This idea from the article scared me... a lot!
Most of the time, these "MePod" would contains more than just your personnal information, but also the names, adresses, birthdays and other kind of informations of all your friends... What if it get stolen? This thing will have to be built will good security for me to trust it, and even then, it won't stop my friends from getting one and storing all MY information on theirs...
And since most of the population is lazy( "Why do I have to type my password AGAIN?"), these thing are going to be a real problem really fast...
Sure, store ALL personnal in the same place: a wireless-able database.... sure...
When I think about it, most of my friends have Palm Pilots...
Hell, I have one, and it's full of important stuff.... damn...
gonna change the password...
I think they call them coporate workers...
"the light blinks in a repetitive pattern."
It's called a Kernel Panic.
Not sure what could cause this, tought.
Read the headlines and tought:
"Hum? What happenned? They found a computer that STILL has code red?... Ho, REAL worms.... right..."
Anyway, I already read about this years ago: this is not the first... Although the last time was about 80 day, or 300 humans-years.
And like the article said it left the worms very lethargic...
Live 500 years but have a brain that works slower than molasse at -40... sure....
It might be interesting to know, that the he was drinving in a 50km/h zone: that's 31.25mph...
So he was going at over 2 times the speed limit.... and 2 second prior to that, 3 times the speed limit...
dangerous driving? In Montreal? Nah!
If drinving was dangerous in Montreal, we would be the only city in North America where it's illegal to turn right on a red light because drivers are not mature enough...
Oh, right... we are...
Damn not having money...
well... you are still richer than me... I still have my old 3Dfx (Voodoo3 2000).... And it still works like a charm!
Or this one: Morphix Games (Description)
Not exactly...
What is missing is an Access-like Program. Something that allows to use a database, and generated formatted documents as output, WITHOUT having to program anything ( Except maybe SQL queries)...
I can't remember how many times i saw Access in use... and could not name an alternative that would do the job well....
Surely they're not suggesting Canada invaded the US!?
Actually, in thoses years, Canada was still a British colony... but yes Canada invaded the US and burned Washington. But the US troops did also burned York (Toronto) which was the capitol of the Upper Canada at the time.
They where also the target of fraud in the last few days.
In the future, you will probably just have to download BOINC for any of these projects
We already have the technology for something that writes that fast. Problem is, you can't read from it...
You forgot Assembly.
I have WAY more respect for languages since i started to learn x86 Assembly...
and A LOT of respect for compilers... GCC (or Intel's) does so much job optimizing code...
And it seems google did not implement features for inteligent crawling of slashdot.
Maybe not for comments, but for the headlines, you have: News.google.com Sci/Tech section...
It actually came from England. It was sung by the english military Eng. Corps. If you search a bit on the net, you can find military verses. It was transported to the US (and Canada) during World War I ( and II) and it's sung by every Engineer in North America (Hell, Even the French-Canadians... I know, i'm one of them!). The MIT 'version' of the song is the most reconized one... it's the one we used... And I can tell you that in any Engineering school, thoses verses are SOOO true:
Around here, It's reconized that MIT is the BEST Engineering School: The one with the most "freakish" people.
you'd be suprised...
Altough most are worms, there are about 50-60 virus existing.
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