We need a COMPLETE "netiquette" guide for idiots. So when they say: 'what is this?' or 'why is that?' you can just reply : "Here read this book. If you have any further questions, you can ask them, but first, please Read it!"
By the way, whatever happened to those backups put in place for Y2K that were supposed to prevent one grid from taking out a zillion others? Where'd my tax money go?
Actually, from what i heard, a couple of those "failsafe" systems (long before Y2K) where put in place to protect the US power system from the possible 'problems' with the Hydro-Quebec power System...
Thoses systems protected you during the 1998 Ice Storm... and this time it protected us from this cascade failiure.
On Mandrake, CD Reading (or floppy) is about the only problem i have... But DAMN is it annoying... It seems I HAVE to use auto-mounting for cd-burning to work properly, but if i try to remove at the same time that some process decises to read on in, i get a frozen cd burner (tray not comming out until i reboot) and a Kernel Panic! (Those funny Chirstmas lights on the keyboard)
I can use Manual, mount/unmount and everything works fine (with applet in KDE and Gnome to do the mounting/umounting) but CD-burning doesn't work right!
Besides that, Mandrake Works like a charm...
(That and Kpilot not able to sync mail, but i'm just too lazy to reverse-engineer Jpilot and gnome-pilot and rewrite the kpilot mail conduit... )
That's why the have a U.S. Patent and not a Canadian Patent. If you check the web site(http://www.detechnologies.com/contact.htm), they also have 2 Offices in VA.
And since right now their biggest competitor is
themselves, they are using that money to try to push win2003 further, by
Giving it away with "evluation kits"...
Well, they seems to have learn a couple of things from FOSS... like "try before you buy"...
From a sys admin point-of-view, memtest86 is REALLY useful. It can save you A LOT of headaches.Ex: I was able to install windows 98,by using the boot cd, on a system with defective memory.(and it installed properly, but could not run for more than 5 minutes) It took me some time to find the exact problem...And i found it when an old DOS boot disk failed to load himem.sys because of "error at adress X".(now i use the LNX-BBC cd, which comes with memtest)
At least, Windows is not that much bug-ridden anymore...
you can then specify those address ranges to the linux kernel and applications will not be able to malloc the bad memory
I used to say "if you;ve done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide".Then my identity got used for illegal purposes, which wasn't fun, and damn near killed my career.
I could have been worse... Someone could have posted pictures of you naked or in an embarrasing postion on the internet...
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We need a COMPLETE "netiquette" guide for idiots. So when they say: 'what is this?' or 'why is that?' you can just reply : "Here read this book. If you have any further questions, you can ask them, but first, please Read it!"
you forgot:
[X?]Profit!!!!
Electricity as a LAN? You mean thisRFC?
It's like advertizing space on a blue screen.
I can see it now:
Application iexplorer.exe has produced an Exception OE but for just 29.99$/Min we can solve this problem! Just call 1-800-MS-TECHS
Try a French-canadian one. It's a good compromise and still remains QWERTY. Not that it has any EURO symbol though, but it's closer to the US.
By the way, whatever happened to those backups put in place for Y2K that were supposed to prevent one grid from taking out a zillion others? Where'd my tax money go?
Actually, from what i heard, a couple of those "failsafe" systems (long before Y2K) where put in place to protect the US power system from the possible 'problems' with the Hydro-Quebec power System...
Thoses systems protected you during the 1998 Ice Storm... and this time it protected us from this cascade failiure.
That would be iAnal(TM) the first in Apple's new line of internet enabled buttplugs.
Thanks to you, I just choked on my coffee and I'll have a hard time sleeping tonight with the mental image that you just helped create.
On Mandrake, CD Reading (or floppy) is about the only problem i have... But DAMN is it annoying... It seems I HAVE to use auto-mounting for cd-burning to work properly, but if i try to remove at the same time that some process decises to read on in, i get a frozen cd burner (tray not comming out until i reboot) and a Kernel Panic! (Those funny Chirstmas lights on the keyboard)
I can use Manual, mount/unmount and everything works fine (with applet in KDE and Gnome to do the mounting/umounting) but CD-burning doesn't work right!
Besides that, Mandrake Works like a charm...
(That and Kpilot not able to sync mail, but i'm just too lazy to reverse-engineer Jpilot and gnome-pilot and rewrite the kpilot mail conduit... )
To quote Scott Adams on this:
"Analysis comes from 2 words:
-Anal
and
-Isis which is a latin word meaning 'to pull numbers from' "
Or something like that... I don't have the book near me. (I'm working right now... )
Actually there are lots of linguists in Quebec that works hard at defining French words for a lot of things that didn't have one.
:)
If you want to, you can check the Quebec 'official' translation for each computer-related term. The site is in French only.
Or you could check Wikipedia.org on Quebecois French
But i can imagine that most of you just don't care
I'm sure somone could design a firewall for this type of comunication...
Altough it would probably involve a 100,000 volt electromagnet....
That's why the have a U.S. Patent and not a Canadian Patent. If you check the web site(http://www.detechnologies.com/contact.htm), they also have 2 Offices in VA.
Is TTyQuake considered an improvement?
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
Not sure if it is what you are searching for though (it would not backup data)
Create 'artforge' or something similar?
Nice idea, not sure if it would work though.
In years past, I knew of someone who used emacs as his login shell :-)
Stallman?
I have never been so engrossed in a game since
:)
Then DON'T get this: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
because It might happen again
(For those who don't know that's the free(as in Stallman) edition of the game made from the released sources of Star Control 2 3DO version)
Why not taking the google api and writing a regex engine the search the result of a string....
Or a simple perl script that searches the resutls giving back by the web site?
Great idea, i'll ask for my PO Box on the ISS today!
Now, there's the just "little" problem of collecting that mail.... or even receiving some...
http://www.bcg.com/media_center/media_press_relea
OVERALL HACKER MOTIVATIONS
Note: Question asked for top three motivators of F/OSS participation
they have $30 billion in cash
And since right now their biggest competitor is themselves, they are using that money to try to push win2003 further, by Giving it away with "evluation kits"...
Well, they seems to have learn a couple of things from FOSS... like "try before you buy"...
"God is dead" --Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead" --God
From a sys admin point-of-view, memtest86 is REALLY useful. It can save you A LOT of headaches.Ex: I was able to install windows 98,by using the boot cd, on a system with defective memory.(and it installed properly, but could not run for more than 5 minutes) It took me some time to find the exact problem...And i found it when an old DOS boot disk failed to load himem.sys because of "error at adress X".(now i use the LNX-BBC cd, which comes with memtest)
At least, Windows is not that much bug-ridden anymore...
you can then specify those address ranges to the linux kernel and applications will not be able to malloc the bad memory
Any possible way to do that with another OS?
The one with the Evil Bit set to one?
I used to say "if you;ve done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide".Then my identity got used for illegal purposes, which wasn't fun, and damn near killed my career.
I could have been worse... Someone could have posted pictures of you naked or in an embarrasing postion on the internet...