Often, troops are operating places where airlift is just not available. This would be really useful for those guys who sit well in front of the front (when we have those) on a mountain top listening to/messing with enemy radio transmissions--a C-130 would be a little conspicuous.
Trust me, the idea fills me with horror and loathing, but if it keeps you alive (and hidden), it might be worth it. Might.
Sorry, but I don't think there's anything in the current MREs that require hydrating. We have water-activated heaters which use a little (maybe 2 oz) of water, but that's it.
Modern MREs aren't really that bad, speaking as someone who has lived on them recently. They get old, but most anything does after a while.
Even the enlightened ones...
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...can't always pick what they use at work.
Or if they're really unlucky, they get the support the Win32 users.
[Or if they're really unlucky, they lose their job right before the holidays and don't even do that any longer. But I digress.]
To be fair, it's not like non-MS software is annoyance-free. =) One nice difference with Linux, Evolution, and all of the other OS software I use is that I can learn about the annoyances before I pony up my increasingly scarce cash for it....
I personally rather enjoy David Weber, but to each their own.
In addition to the oft-pimped Baen Free Library, you can also find their CD-ROMs included in several of their hardcovers which contain such gems as the entire Honor Harrington series. Or, if John Ringo's more your style, there's another CD with the entire Legacy of the Aldenata series available. Baen allows free distribution of these CDs, so long as no money is charged. I find it convenient to keep them on my webserver.
Lots of other good books not available on the BFL can also be found on the CDs, incidentally. It's a horribly effective marketing scheme. The BFL has cost me close to $300 over the last two years in books I would not have otherwise purchased.
What a load of wind..tried reading from the top, tried browsing for interesting tidbits...I REALLY doubt anyone around here will be interested enough in this topic to read the article as presented.
Interestingly enough, that's how I felt about some of his books. =) It may have just been that I was too young to fully understand/appreciate what I was reading.
Name of the Rose, when I did read it later, was quite good--see the movie with Sean Connery!--but I never managed to wrap my brain around Foucault's Pendulum.
Linux for Windows Administrators, 2nd Ed by Mark Minasi is probably a fairly close fit. It helped me over some very rough spots in my home network migration. Mr. Minasi is something of an authority in the NT world--his Windows 2000 series is also excellent.
Only downside is that it's getting a little dated--how about a 3rd edition, Mark? =)
...to coincide with the installation of my cable modem. Previously, I've used a Smoothwall-based system for my firewall/routing needs, but I didn't happen to have a spare box lying around, and being in a hurry, I picked up a router. Belkin makes some decent stuff--how bad could it be?
I saw the ad about an hour into my browsing experience. My wife would later describe me as "foaming."
It's going back this weekend in favor of a Linksys that several friends have recommended.
...some hardware issues. Like, for example, when the drunk kid two blocks down rams a power pole and knocks out power for a few days. Silly me, it turns out that my surge protector didn't--I had to replace the power supply and EVERY DRIVE in the system (HD, DVD, CDRW). Not a happy camper.
Yeah, that's pretty rare, and preventable if I'd taken more precautions, but if your data is really that valuable, it needs to be backed up somewhere outside the same computer case--maybe outside the home, depending on your needs.
THere's another faq there on managers for hackers. Similarly condescending, but there are some choice bits:
5.4: My manager counts from one.
Ordinals (counting numbers) have always started from one; counting from zero, while obvious and natural to many programmers, is probably wrong from a linguistic standpoint. Try to be flexible.
After Blaster and Welchia we decided it's
better to be safe than sorry, and our customers seem to agree.
To many people, however, that means that you wait to install a patch until it has been tested. It is going to depend on your environment and needs; there is no one correct answer on this one.
Not THAT old, a Pentium 150 Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, but it's my primary system right now. Boots to RedHat 9, and then connects to my dual P3/450 Red Hat server with SSH. All of the apps run on the server and display locally on the laptop. Coming from a Windows world, I find this to be insanely cool. This laptop would be useless running Windows, but it does just fine to run the latest apps under Red Hat.
For satire to work, it has to work well. This doesn't. I'm glad that you were willing to skip over that method in your post--since I'm obviously too stupid to grasp it--and move straight on to the ad hominem attacks.
Hang on a minute; the arguments being used and of which you accuse of being "smarmy" are the exact same complaints and arguments we generally see in "I'm a Windows user who tried Linux" articles you often see. The basic premise is always "Linux doesn't work exactly the same way as Windows, therefore it is bad and wrong" Why can't the same petty argument be used by someone using Windows for the first time in five years?
It was stupid, immature, and intellectually dishonest the first time, too. Stooping to 'their' level doesn't help anyone.
The bottom panel on my KDE desktop is filled with icons for my 'daily use' applications. No matter how covered my screen is with applications windows (and it is almost always fully covered), I can click on a panel icon and open a new app. I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can be done. Perhaps it can only be done by smart Windows geeks, but not by simple-minded Linux people like me.
This attitude really pisses me off. While the mechanics are slightly different on my RedHat box, it's not so different that one couldn't figure it out by playing. My father-in-law can; I think this guy could, too, if he wasn't so busy being not-a-smart-Windows-geek.
It's Windows. Millions of AOL users can figure it out. If you say you can't, you're either lazy or lying. It's not rocket science; it's not even model rocket science.
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... I just can't tell anymore whether I'm supposed to be laughing WITH or AT people.
Maybe it's targeted at those people still hanging on to WinME, which was lucky to run ONE app at a time...
Often, troops are operating places where airlift is just not available. This would be really useful for those guys who sit well in front of the front (when we have those) on a mountain top listening to/messing with enemy radio transmissions--a C-130 would be a little conspicuous. Trust me, the idea fills me with horror and loathing, but if it keeps you alive (and hidden), it might be worth it. Might.
Sorry, but I don't think there's anything in the current MREs that require hydrating. We have water-activated heaters which use a little (maybe 2 oz) of water, but that's it. Modern MREs aren't really that bad, speaking as someone who has lived on them recently. They get old, but most anything does after a while.
Or if they're really unlucky, they get the support the Win32 users.
[Or if they're really unlucky, they lose their job right before the holidays and don't even do that any longer. But I digress.]
To be fair, it's not like non-MS software is annoyance-free. =) One nice difference with Linux, Evolution, and all of the other OS software I use is that I can learn about the annoyances before I pony up my increasingly scarce cash for it....
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In addition to the oft-pimped Baen Free Library, you can also find their CD-ROMs included in several of their hardcovers which contain such gems as the entire Honor Harrington series. Or, if John Ringo's more your style, there's another CD with the entire Legacy of the Aldenata series available. Baen allows free distribution of these CDs, so long as no money is charged. I find it convenient to keep them on my webserver.
Lots of other good books not available on the BFL can also be found on the CDs, incidentally. It's a horribly effective marketing scheme. The BFL has cost me close to $300 over the last two years in books I would not have otherwise purchased.
"Hey, I can see my node from here!"
Name of the Rose, when I did read it later, was quite good--see the movie with Sean Connery!--but I never managed to wrap my brain around Foucault's Pendulum.
Hooah. Spec. Steele 341st MI Bttn
Only downside is that it's getting a little dated--how about a 3rd edition, Mark? =)
Doesn't Windows+M minimize all under XP?
...to coincide with the installation of my cable modem. Previously, I've used a Smoothwall-based system for my firewall/routing needs, but I didn't happen to have a spare box lying around, and being in a hurry, I picked up a router. Belkin makes some decent stuff--how bad could it be?
I saw the ad about an hour into my browsing experience. My wife would later describe me as "foaming."
It's going back this weekend in favor of a Linksys that several friends have recommended.
...is that it is fairly short range, so when you identify the spammer you can go punch them.
Yeah, that's pretty rare, and preventable if I'd taken more precautions, but if your data is really that valuable, it needs to be backed up somewhere outside the same computer case--maybe outside the home, depending on your needs.
What consumer would buy this thing? Think about the target market for a second.
"Holy Grail?" Maybe Pandora's Box would be more apt.
Not THAT old, a Pentium 150 Fujitsu Lifebook laptop, but it's my primary system right now. Boots to RedHat 9, and then connects to my dual P3/450 Red Hat server with SSH. All of the apps run on the server and display locally on the laptop. Coming from a Windows world, I find this to be insanely cool. This laptop would be useless running Windows, but it does just fine to run the latest apps under Red Hat.
For satire to work, it has to work well. This doesn't. I'm glad that you were willing to skip over that method in your post--since I'm obviously too stupid to grasp it--and move straight on to the ad hominem attacks.
I hadn't known of this. Thanks.
It's Windows. Millions of AOL users can figure it out. If you say you can't, you're either lazy or lying. It's not rocket science; it's not even model rocket science.