In my experience, most of the people who don't get much sleep aren't really too busy, they just think they are. I'm even guilty of it. I've kept a time log before to see how much time I'm wasting by not being well-organized, and it's astounding. Why haven't I fixed it? Because in the short term, it's less of a hassle to just go to bed later than to actually plan out what I need to do the following day.
If you work out at all, BMI is worthless. I guess it works for some people, but I'm listed at ~27, which is considered very overweight, but my body fat percentage hovers around 12% all the time. Most of it is muscle weight, but the BMI has no method of factoring that in.
Interestingly, I seldom get more than 5hrs of sleep a night, and I've never had a problem staying in shape. A 20 minute nap in the afternoons does wonders for energy levels.
The police didn't start firing pepper balls until people in the crowd started pushing them.
Is it excessive? Definitely. But rather than calling this fascism, I'd call this hyper-sensitivity by law enforcement, probably mostly due to the constant terror warnings and the much higher than normal tension over this election.
Is it possible that he's just a very poor public speaker, but given the chance to sit down and think over his answers, can provide at least coherent responses? That's my guess.
I agree. I'm anti-Bush (not pro-Kerry, which is a sad, sad thing to say), but I wouldn't support widespread airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 in the next couple of weeks, either.
That said, I do find it interesting that although F9/11 scored over $100M in the box office, is doing very well on DVD, and MM stated several times that he'd like to see his movie on TV before the elections, that no TV station seems to be taking him up on the offer. Anybody else wonder why the liberal media isn't all over this?
This is exactly the kind of resoning that many religious groups use, when it suits them. I'm not saying all do, but often "shocking away from sin" is deemed an acceptable, even important method of education in many churches.
I'm not talking out my ass. Case in point: I grew up in a southern baptist church. When I was in the 5th-6th grade class, our teacher showed us a video that was abortions and post-aborted children set to christian music. If IIRC (it's been a long time), this was in excess of 10 minutes long. This was something being done in many other churches at the time, sometimes for the 3rd-4th grade class (We're talking about 9 or 10 year old kids, here). None of the church elders saw anything wrong with this, if it kept even one of us kids from deciding to have an abortion later.
This looks like a very interesting and efficient method for recording ideas. Thank you. I'd heard of shorthand before, but I never really knew how it worked.
I suppose the average MCSE might not be terribly good at scripting, but in Windows server 2003 and even 2000 almost every function accomplished through the GUI (and many which can't be) is also scriptable through WMI and WSH. So to say that Linux has an advantage here is not really correct. I agree that any paper-MCSE who doesn't know how to do at least some scripting isn't worth his salt, but this is starting to change for the rest of us.
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Not that's it's terribly relevant, but most IT folks don't need to spend large amounts of time patching systems to stay busy. In fact, in my facility we spend far less than 5% of our time patching or recovering from infection annually, and would be plenty busy without it.
That's fascinating. I take it you work in the tank farms, or for BNI? What about all the stuff that's in the Burial Grounds with the submarine reactors? I was always told there were a bunch of sealed tanks out there. Is that only for solid/semi-solid wastes?
The article doesn't say that they actually looked inside the tanks. They tested ground samples from boreholes taken in areas contaminated from leakages. Those tanks are sealed and buried, so I doubt if they are even able to open them up to see if any bacteria is currently living inside.
However, with the vitrification plant being finished in a few years, some of those tanks will be getting dug up soon, and it will be interesting to see what they find when that happens.
Come to think of it... The only thing I've ever used my cameraphone for is to get a pic of the girl whose number I just got, to decide if I'm going to call her or not once I sober up.
I don't know how this got modded insightful.
Response to #1: L0phtcrack and several other cracking tools have had character substitution methods for years. This method no longer works as a security measure.
Response to #2 and #6: Breeding fear and paranoia through alarmist propaganda is a really bad idea, because there will always be enough people in that office who will know better, and it's better to have those people on your side rather than in contempt of you.
Response to #3: These tools are not scripts, but rather auditing tools which still require some training to use correctly. For example, LANguard, just like Nessus and ISS Internet Scanner (which I've also used) can crash systems if you're not careful, and tends to return a substantial amount of false-positives, in my testing at least. BTW, 'cracking' the network with Yet Another Password Safe? Might be a little tough.
Have you ever actually watched hidden fortress? It's almost nothing like ANH. Yes, the story is told from the perspective of the two simpletons (the droids in ANH), and there's an old samurai and a princess that he's saving. But no younger samurai helping out, not really any dark lord, and instead of destroying the enemy fortress, they're taking a bunch of gold through enemy lines back to their allies.
In fact, George Lucas does admit to taking the PoV from the movie, and there are a few small parts, like the battle between the two head samurai, which are somewhat similar, but all in all, not even very similar movies at all.
You've got One NT4 domain, 52 servers, and out of those, 22 of them are Novell, but most of those are going away, right?
Since you've already got an NT4 domain, your easiest bet is to upgrade to Win2k/2k3 AD. If you've got s single domain, and no trusts, this is simple. if you upgrade your NT4 PDC to Win2k/2k3, it will automatically promote it to an AD DC. Now, it's important to learn something about AD, and you really should have multiple DCs for fault tolerance and load balancing, but this is all pretty easy. Microsoft even has free guides to help you out.
I absolutely agree. Rather than treat people who disagree as merely misinformed, and attempt to politely educate, many skeptics are outright rude to anyone who believes in pseudoscience or theories which have little factual evidence. Robert Caroll, who keeps up the Skeptic's Dictionary, is a perfect example. I agree with probably 95% of what he writes, but he can be abrasive to the point of annoyance at times, even when I agree with him.
That's what I do. I use goldwave (windows cheapware) to compress the audio to whatever works best for me, usually 600 wpm or so. I think the reason it works so well is that I go into an active listening state, instead of letting my mind wander.
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Not true. 2k and XP both fully support WINS. It's generally configured in the DHCP scope, but it can be explicitly defined on the client.
MS is trying to kill it off, but since 9x and NT boxes don't understand DNS for anything but internet name resolution, its demise is still a long way off.
Obviously just my opinion, but since there haven't been any major WMD/bio/or nuke attacks by terrorists in the US, I'm not too worried about the fact that it wasn't on the agenda before. Is this an accomplishment by the DHS? I guess so. Is it a positive accomplishment? Dubious.
Most authors don't really make enough money to do it as a full-time job, so this wouldn't necessarily tell you much. I an author who's considered to have "made it", but she doesn't make anything close to a decent living.
You know what I've noticed on that? It's not the PC bios but the damn SCSI bios that takes the longest time during startup on our servers. I'm not really a hardware guy, and I don't know if that's normal or not, but these are mostly fairly new Dells.
You forgot about the omnidirectional antennae, since using pringles cans doesn't work very well for omnidirectional antennae which you would want to use for a community network. Yes, this is all technically fairly easy to do, but you are still completely missing my point. I will say it one last time:
This is currently a bad idea because 256k is incredibly expensive and isn't enough bandwidth for a community network. Besides, the Government ISP would probably have a serious problem with you competing with them with their own bandwidth and shut you down in a hurry. Sattelite solutions are bad because you could support both the LUG founders on what it would cost a month, plus the latency on a satellite solution added to the latency of an AP to AP community lillypad like what you're describing would be horrendous.
I'm not being a cynic, I'm being a realist. There are a lot of better things you could do with the money at this time. Later on, it could be a good idea, but not now. No need to be a dick about it.
I played a demo of this game for the Xbox the other day, but damned if I can remember what it was called. The premise is that you're a commander of a rebel squad in alternate future US. You command your team alternately to guard, follow, attack, etc. I found it difficult to switch to the correct screen to call my group while in the middle of a firefight. It would have been a lot easier if I could've Just issued voice commands.
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In my experience, most of the people who don't get much sleep aren't really too busy, they just think they are. I'm even guilty of it. I've kept a time log before to see how much time I'm wasting by not being well-organized, and it's astounding. Why haven't I fixed it? Because in the short term, it's less of a hassle to just go to bed later than to actually plan out what I need to do the following day.
If you work out at all, BMI is worthless. I guess it works for some people, but I'm listed at ~27, which is considered very overweight, but my body fat percentage hovers around 12% all the time. Most of it is muscle weight, but the BMI has no method of factoring that in.
Interestingly, I seldom get more than 5hrs of sleep a night, and I've never had a problem staying in shape. A 20 minute nap in the afternoons does wonders for energy levels.
The police didn't start firing pepper balls until people in the crowd started pushing them.
Is it excessive? Definitely. But rather than calling this fascism, I'd call this hyper-sensitivity by law enforcement, probably mostly due to the constant terror warnings and the much higher than normal tension over this election.
So did I. To bad I can never be funny when I'm actually trying.
Is it possible that he's just a very poor public speaker, but given the chance to sit down and think over his answers, can provide at least coherent responses? That's my guess.
I agree. I'm anti-Bush (not pro-Kerry, which is a sad, sad thing to say), but I wouldn't support widespread airing of Fahrenheit 9/11 in the next couple of weeks, either.
That said, I do find it interesting that although F9/11 scored over $100M in the box office, is doing very well on DVD, and MM stated several times that he'd like to see his movie on TV before the elections, that no TV station seems to be taking him up on the offer. Anybody else wonder why the liberal media isn't all over this?
This is exactly the kind of resoning that many religious groups use, when it suits them. I'm not saying all do, but often "shocking away from sin" is deemed an acceptable, even important method of education in many churches.
I'm not talking out my ass. Case in point: I grew up in a southern baptist church. When I was in the 5th-6th grade class, our teacher showed us a video that was abortions and post-aborted children set to christian music. If IIRC (it's been a long time), this was in excess of 10 minutes long. This was something being done in many other churches at the time, sometimes for the 3rd-4th grade class (We're talking about 9 or 10 year old kids, here). None of the church elders saw anything wrong with this, if it kept even one of us kids from deciding to have an abortion later.
This looks like a very interesting and efficient method for recording ideas. Thank you. I'd heard of shorthand before, but I never really knew how it worked.
I suppose the average MCSE might not be terribly good at scripting, but in Windows server 2003 and even 2000 almost every function accomplished through the GUI (and many which can't be) is also scriptable through WMI and WSH. So to say that Linux has an advantage here is not really correct. I agree that any paper-MCSE who doesn't know how to do at least some scripting isn't worth his salt, but this is starting to change for the rest of us.
Not that's it's terribly relevant, but most IT folks don't need to spend large amounts of time patching systems to stay busy. In fact, in my facility we spend far less than 5% of our time patching or recovering from infection annually, and would be plenty busy without it.
That's fascinating. I take it you work in the tank farms, or for BNI? What about all the stuff that's in the Burial Grounds with the submarine reactors? I was always told there were a bunch of sealed tanks out there. Is that only for solid/semi-solid wastes?
The article doesn't say that they actually looked inside the tanks. They tested ground samples from boreholes taken in areas contaminated from leakages. Those tanks are sealed and buried, so I doubt if they are even able to open them up to see if any bacteria is currently living inside.
However, with the vitrification plant being finished in a few years, some of those tanks will be getting dug up soon, and it will be interesting to see what they find when that happens.
Come to think of it... The only thing I've ever used my cameraphone for is to get a pic of the girl whose number I just got, to decide if I'm going to call her or not once I sober up.
I don't know how this got modded insightful.
Response to #1: L0phtcrack and several other cracking tools have had character substitution methods for years. This method no longer works as a security measure.
Response to #2 and #6: Breeding fear and paranoia through alarmist propaganda is a really bad idea, because there will always be enough people in that office who will know better, and it's better to have those people on your side rather than in contempt of you.
Response to #3: These tools are not scripts, but rather auditing tools which still require some training to use correctly. For example, LANguard, just like Nessus and ISS Internet Scanner (which I've also used) can crash systems if you're not careful, and tends to return a substantial amount of false-positives, in my testing at least. BTW, 'cracking' the network with Yet Another Password Safe? Might be a little tough.
Have you ever actually watched hidden fortress? It's almost nothing like ANH. Yes, the story is told from the perspective of the two simpletons (the droids in ANH), and there's an old samurai and a princess that he's saving. But no younger samurai helping out, not really any dark lord, and instead of destroying the enemy fortress, they're taking a bunch of gold through enemy lines back to their allies.
In fact, George Lucas does admit to taking the PoV from the movie, and there are a few small parts, like the battle between the two head samurai, which are somewhat similar, but all in all, not even very similar movies at all.
You've got One NT4 domain, 52 servers, and out of those, 22 of them are Novell, but most of those are going away, right?
Since you've already got an NT4 domain, your easiest bet is to upgrade to Win2k/2k3 AD. If you've got s single domain, and no trusts, this is simple. if you upgrade your NT4 PDC to Win2k/2k3, it will automatically promote it to an AD DC. Now, it's important to learn something about AD, and you really should have multiple DCs for fault tolerance and load balancing, but this is all pretty easy. Microsoft even has free guides to help you out.
I absolutely agree. Rather than treat people who disagree as merely misinformed, and attempt to politely educate, many skeptics are outright rude to anyone who believes in pseudoscience or theories which have little factual evidence. Robert Caroll, who keeps up the Skeptic's Dictionary, is a perfect example. I agree with probably 95% of what he writes, but he can be abrasive to the point of annoyance at times, even when I agree with him.
That's what I do. I use goldwave (windows cheapware) to compress the audio to whatever works best for me, usually 600 wpm or so. I think the reason it works so well is that I go into an active listening state, instead of letting my mind wander.
Not true. 2k and XP both fully support WINS. It's generally configured in the DHCP scope, but it can be explicitly defined on the client.
MS is trying to kill it off, but since 9x and NT boxes don't understand DNS for anything but internet name resolution, its demise is still a long way off.
Obviously just my opinion, but since there haven't been any major WMD/bio/or nuke attacks by terrorists in the US, I'm not too worried about the fact that it wasn't on the agenda before. Is this an accomplishment by the DHS? I guess so. Is it a positive accomplishment? Dubious.
Most authors don't really make enough money to do it as a full-time job, so this wouldn't necessarily tell you much. I an author who's considered to have "made it", but she doesn't make anything close to a decent living.
You know what I've noticed on that? It's not the PC bios but the damn SCSI bios that takes the longest time during startup on our servers. I'm not really a hardware guy, and I don't know if that's normal or not, but these are mostly fairly new Dells.
I think the alcohol kills all the germs. That's why I never get sick.
You forgot about the omnidirectional antennae, since using pringles cans doesn't work very well for omnidirectional antennae which you would want to use for a community network.
Yes, this is all technically fairly easy to do, but you are still completely missing my point. I will say it one last time:
This is currently a bad idea because 256k is incredibly expensive and isn't enough bandwidth for a community network. Besides, the Government ISP would probably have a serious problem with you competing with them with their own bandwidth and shut you down in a hurry. Sattelite solutions are bad because you could support both the LUG founders on what it would cost a month, plus the latency on a satellite solution added to the latency of an AP to AP community lillypad like what you're describing would be horrendous.
I'm not being a cynic, I'm being a realist. There are a lot of better things you could do with the money at this time. Later on, it could be a good idea, but not now. No need to be a dick about it.
I played a demo of this game for the Xbox the other day, but damned if I can remember what it was called. The premise is that you're a commander of a rebel squad in alternate future US.
You command your team alternately to guard, follow, attack, etc. I found it difficult to switch to the correct screen to call my group while in the middle of a firefight. It would have been a lot easier if I could've Just issued voice commands.