will we have to begin microwaving them for reasons of security? We've been microwaving them for fun for years, but doing it for security reasons takes some of the fun out of it.
Disagree. If replacing entire files (which I see few other ways other than registry and config file changes) removal of crap code, or replacing long complicated code with short to the point code can fix bugs and leave a smaller foot print in the end. I don't exactly expect Microsoft to do that, but it is a possibility.
Remember, the original Mozilla project they intended the entire browser to fit on a single floppy and be better than Netscape 4.x They didn't suceed, but the early pre-releases just about fit on a floppy, and in many was were much better than Communicator.
At around the same time, however, the operating system was ridiculed by one of Microsoft's key developers for containing 63,000 known defects and bugs. The first service pack was released less than six months later. The latest service pack apparently has about 675 bug fixes.
The Scary part is, I've found Win2000 to be the most stable and reliable Windows ever released. 63,000 defects? I wouldn't doubt it. The part that worries me with how well 2000 works, how many defects do the 9x, XP, and NT versions contain?
and I'm looking at my radar, oops BSOD. No prob, I'm a good pilot, I can fly this baby where it needs to go without radar, after all it's just a patrol, we're not attacking anything right now. Then I try to adjust my course, oops, I nearly forgot fly by wire, no cable and pulleys anymore, it's all fiber optic and pumped right through that blue screened computer. Hmm this is begining to look bad. Those MS reps assured the engineers that there was no reason to leave a reset button acessible to the cock pit, heck it would be dangerous if a pilot accidently hit the PC reset button in the heat of battle, so they chose not to leave me one. Time to radio for help. Oh yeah, voice encryption now, guess what encrypts my voice? Hmm, maybe if I can cut the power, damn, that panels in the back. I'm running out of options here, good thing the engines still running since the reaction was already started. Lets see, toggles, hmm, nope, I know what all of these do, none of them will cut power to the computer systems. Looks like I'm going to have to eject. *pulls canopy release*. Dammit! The canopy release is manual, but I'll be damned if they didn't make the actual seat ejection computer controlled, now I'm 12,000 feet up, traveling at 800MPH, freezing my balls off, and theirs nothing I can do about it! Thank you Microsoft, I'll show you where you can go today! Let's see, there's got to be some way out of this. I can't just jump, to fast, to high, and I'm not even sure if their's ocean under me anymore. Maybe I can get the chute off of the seat? Dammit, rivited on. Damn it's cold. Whats this? Blowing the canopy must have cut the power to the computer! Thank God the switch was broke, it's coming back up now! I'm saved, maybe I will be able to land this thing. *watches computer boot on Radar display* Looks at screen, push CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in. Dammit, how am I supposed to do that? Is there a keyboard up here? Damn it's cold. *try stick* Alright! The fly by wire program runs as a service! I didn't have to log in. Okay, it still says hit ctrl+alt+del, lets see, *lifts up console panel, finds a small cash register sized keyboard* BINGO! You know hard it is to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL at 800MPH FREEZING COLD? Good, username and domain already in, lets see, I don't know the password to this. Lets try a couple.
gotohellbill, nope not that one armyofone, nope, that didn't work eaither militaryisminenow, hey what do you know? That was it.
*Watches windows start through ice on screen* Damn, how much crap do they have in the start up group? Hey look, the radar program is beging to load, oh whats this loading behind it? MS ejection seat monitor? *pilot ejected from plane without warning*
The pilot lands on a backwoods farm owned by a real old fashioned hillbilly who forces him to marry his buck toothed daughter at at shotgun wedding, he doesn't know for sure but he thinks that their pilot had to much fun with Daisy Mae. The F16 continues under it's own power until it crashes into the Chinese embassy in Canada. This of course starts a war between the Canadians and the Chinese, the Canadians figure out that we are responsible and finally convince the Chinese of the same. WW3 begins, the bloodiest war of all time. The pilot and Daisy Mae live happily ever after with a bunch of Mullet headed kids, they're so far back they don't even know about the war.
then what? Inty office? How long until vi is ported? emacs? Mozilla likes to run on everything, is Sun now obligated to write a virtual machine FOR the Intellivision?
On my old website I posted this paragraph at the bottom:
Thanks to spammers I'm not going to provide a nice simple email link. If you want to email me, I'm pecosdave at this domain. If you don't see the domain in the address bar for some reason it's geeksofrage.com so email pecosdave there.
(I had to add the last sentance to help non-geeks along, I use my family as a test bed for stuff like that)
This one was already non-bootable and broken. I can't see a problem here. As for the cars, hot rods are nice, but turning them into lowriders just seems wrong.
Think about it, there are glow in the dark lures, but now we can use actual glow in the dark fish for bait! What about where glowing lures are illegal? Would it sill be legal to use a glow in the dark fish? After all, it is live bait.
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Tell me about it, I put in 70+ hours a week at a company I helped to start. Since all I had to take care of was a small dog they let me take him to work, and they paid "Chinese overtime". Talk about getting screwed.
BTW, Nazi mod to the above post, I find it very relevant and on topic. There are more than one "unofficial" things to look for when hiring.
My parents have always been a little behind on technology, and often don't even know of tech that I consider "normal" everyday technology. I'm picturing in the probable future a makeup table in our bedroom strategicaly positioned so that it can be easily veiwed from the bed, with recessed/hidden stows for the mouse and keyboard.
I'm also picturing it being at an angle where all my parents would be able to see when they come to visit is the fact it was a makeup mirror. I also see them getting very disturbed that everytime they walk past our bedroom door they see me sitting in front of it. When they happen to go in our room and I'm not their, I also expect them to see nothing but a makeup mirror/table.
Yes, I think it would disturb them greatly to wonder why their son who often had uncombed hair as a kid and always looked like he had just dragged himself through the dirt was now sitting in front of a bunch of makeup and staring blankly at the mirror all the time. Oh the gossip that would ensue after that. After all, the only thing the common human can make that travels faster than light is gossip.
so that searches an inqueries didn't take so much bandwidth? I've found most of my bandwidth use wasn't uploads/downloads but passing on request, and IIRC there was a python mod being made to address this. I started doing searches to see if I could find proof, closest I've found was vague references to "Gnutella2"
You are working on a weekend all by yourself, you get the average of one phone call every 3 hours and nobody EVER comes into the office on weekends but you, the poor tech support guy.
You work for a small company that uses a Netware 5 file server for the firewall. (Remember, Netware 5 is Java based)
You don't have admin access.
The server doesn't have the console locked.
The server IS the firewall, and therefore can be outside of it.
You REALLY want to get your dose of porn, which the firewall wont let you do.
The firewall is unlocked........
Yep, time to load up a JAVA browser on the file server for your own porn surfing pleasure.
I've found reason to use HotJava, not often but I've found reason. Nitch uses, agreed, but they still exsist. I probably will substitue Jazilla after Alpha if I ever need to use another Java based browser. Is it going to be a phenomenal success? Probably not. Should it exsist, yes. Anytime there's a need for something, something should exsist to fill that need.
1. NES emulator, that sounds like fun, my biggest concern would be the control interface but I adapt well.
2. But will it do ogg? That would be nice for the bus trip downtown, but I usually jam Oggs on my notebook while playing a game or working on a personal project during my only free time (which happens to be on the bus).
1. I must admit, I've considered one for the remote control functions alone. I have a TV, VCR, DVD, CD Changer and reciever (living room alone). My wife doesn't like having a remote in one hand for channels and one in the other for volume. The big draw back, the 5 year old likes to loose the ones we have, and nearly broke the Gameboy Advance once, what would she do with a PDA on the table?
2. I gave my daughter her own computer. Socket 8 (Pentium Pro originally) with the PII 333 over drive chip and 128 MBs of EDO RAM. Cost me almost nothing and plays most kids games. Of course she still wants to know what I'm playing when I'm editing config files and will take nothing less of a full explanantion. She says "sounds boring" but insist on full updates occasionally as well as looking over my shoulder at text she can't even really read yet. Fortunately "go play on your own computer" works occasionally.
1. phone
2. I see future improvements in this area that haven't happened yet. Maybe after they do (furthering of convergence) I'll consider one. PDAs, mobile phones, and notebooks are nearing the point of indistinguishable. Can't wait for "globals" used on Earth Final Conflict, some of the mobile phones sound close though.
I can't see much of a point. Phone number storage? I have that on my mobile phone anyways. Note taking? Pen and paper seem to have better input capabilities and work faster. Calendar? Again, a normal mobile phone seems to foot the bill on alarms anyways. Email, I'm still back to the phone. I suppose a Handspring Treo could make my life easier having more functionality than a normal phone, but I have a tendancy to break things that are on my body, glasses, bones, pagers, lesser phones (I carry a durable one) I couldn't imagine trying to keep something as expensive as a PDA with me all the time.
Does anyone else share this same view. I'll admit that I find the Sharp Zarus somewhat appealing, for one thing it has a mini keyboard, and for another it runs Linux (maybe I would install a palm emulator on it), but I still can't seem to justify that eaither. With notebooks becoming more PDA like, and PDAs becoming more notebook like, they're bound to meet in the middle. I would say something like a mini notebook, like the ones that have the Transmetta processors, or a Treo which would merge a device I already carry anyways are the only way I could justify adding computing power to my normal walk around aresonal. I'll leave PDAs in my mental CEO toys catagory.
paperweight? These things have got to be easy to hotwire right? They're totally electric. My guess is the key isn't much more than a fancy toggle switch. Connect two wires together, go. Probably replace it with a toggle. Does anybody actually have any data related to the key mechanism on these things? Unless the key happens to be something along the lines of a smart card that talks to the CPU someone has a fully functional Segway. The biggest problem is figuring out how to pawn it. These things are so rare it's going to be hard to pass one off without being noticed.
Planet of origin shouldn't change that unless a significant amount of evolution has happened since the break with the common planet of origin.
The introduction of a parasite/symbiot shouldn't matter eaither. We all have single celled organisms that act in a symbiotic or parasitic relationship. The only thing to call into question is the Jof'fas inability to live without their symbiots. I'm unclear as to if this is from birth or a dependance built up over time. If from birth considerations need to be made, if a dependance built over time, simular to a drug addiction, then no.
Cranes, bulldozers, and dump trucks just may not fit in those containers and would have practical uses within the city at time. There are of course alternative methods for almost everything but where does practicality vs. expense meet? Building new buildings in the middle of the city will be hard unless some roadways are preserved.
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will we have to begin microwaving them for reasons of security? We've been microwaving them for fun for years, but doing it for security reasons takes some of the fun out of it.
Disagree. If replacing entire files (which I see few other ways other than registry and config file changes) removal of crap code, or replacing long complicated code with short to the point code can fix bugs and leave a smaller foot print in the end. I don't exactly expect Microsoft to do that, but it is a possibility.
Remember, the original Mozilla project they intended the entire browser to fit on a single floppy and be better than Netscape 4.x They didn't suceed, but the early pre-releases just about fit on a floppy, and in many was were much better than Communicator.
The Scary part is, I've found Win2000 to be the most stable and reliable Windows ever released. 63,000 defects? I wouldn't doubt it. The part that worries me with how well 2000 works, how many defects do the 9x, XP, and NT versions contain?
I saw the article once, clicked on a picture link, then I couldn't even hit the back button. Dammit, should have opened in new tab.
and I'm looking at my radar, oops BSOD. No prob, I'm a good pilot, I can fly this baby where it needs to go without radar, after all it's just a patrol, we're not attacking anything right now. Then I try to adjust my course, oops, I nearly forgot fly by wire, no cable and pulleys anymore, it's all fiber optic and pumped right through that blue screened computer. Hmm this is begining to look bad. Those MS reps assured the engineers that there was no reason to leave a reset button acessible to the cock pit, heck it would be dangerous if a pilot accidently hit the PC reset button in the heat of battle, so they chose not to leave me one. Time to radio for help. Oh yeah, voice encryption now, guess what encrypts my voice? Hmm, maybe if I can cut the power, damn, that panels in the back. I'm running out of options here, good thing the engines still running since the reaction was already started. Lets see, toggles, hmm, nope, I know what all of these do, none of them will cut power to the computer systems. Looks like I'm going to have to eject. *pulls canopy release*. Dammit! The canopy release is manual, but I'll be damned if they didn't make the actual seat ejection computer controlled, now I'm 12,000 feet up, traveling at 800MPH, freezing my balls off, and theirs nothing I can do about it! Thank you Microsoft, I'll show you where you can go today! Let's see, there's got to be some way out of this. I can't just jump, to fast, to high, and I'm not even sure if their's ocean under me anymore. Maybe I can get the chute off of the seat? Dammit, rivited on. Damn it's cold. Whats this? Blowing the canopy must have cut the power to the computer! Thank God the switch was broke, it's coming back up now! I'm saved, maybe I will be able to land this thing. *watches computer boot on Radar display* Looks at screen, push CTRL+ALT+DEL to log in. Dammit, how am I supposed to do that? Is there a keyboard up here? Damn it's cold. *try stick* Alright! The fly by wire program runs as a service! I didn't have to log in. Okay, it still says hit ctrl+alt+del, lets see, *lifts up console panel, finds a small cash register sized keyboard* BINGO! You know hard it is to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL at 800MPH FREEZING COLD? Good, username and domain already in, lets see, I don't know the password to this. Lets try a couple.
gotohellbill, nope not that one
armyofone, nope, that didn't work eaither
militaryisminenow, hey what do you know? That was it.
*Watches windows start through ice on screen*
Damn, how much crap do they have in the start up group? Hey look, the radar program is beging to load, oh whats this loading behind it? MS ejection seat monitor?
*pilot ejected from plane without warning*
The pilot lands on a backwoods farm owned by a real old fashioned hillbilly who forces him to marry his buck toothed daughter at at shotgun wedding, he doesn't know for sure but he thinks that their pilot had to much fun with Daisy Mae. The F16 continues under it's own power until it crashes into the Chinese embassy in Canada. This of course starts a war between the Canadians and the Chinese, the Canadians figure out that we are responsible and finally convince the Chinese of the same. WW3 begins, the bloodiest war of all time. The pilot and Daisy Mae live happily ever after with a bunch of Mullet headed kids, they're so far back they don't even know about the war.
then what? Inty office? How long until vi is ported? emacs? Mozilla likes to run on everything, is Sun now obligated to write a virtual machine FOR the Intellivision?
I think Amazon beat you to it......
On my old website I posted this paragraph at the bottom:
Thanks to spammers I'm not going to provide a nice simple email link. If you want to email me, I'm pecosdave at this domain. If you don't see the domain in the address bar for some reason it's geeksofrage.com so email pecosdave there.
(I had to add the last sentance to help non-geeks along, I use my family as a test bed for stuff like that)
This one was already non-bootable and broken. I can't see a problem here. As for the cars, hot rods are nice, but turning them into lowriders just seems wrong.
I sent him an email suggesting the happy hacking keyboard before I read your comment. I'll look at yours to.
Here's to Happy Hacking
Think about it, there are glow in the dark lures, but now we can use actual glow in the dark fish for bait! What about where glowing lures are illegal? Would it sill be legal to use a glow in the dark fish? After all, it is live bait.
I worked 87 hours one week, and all I got was regular hourly pay, it didn't become time and half after fourty hours.
Tell me about it, I put in 70+ hours a week at a company I helped to start. Since all I had to take care of was a small dog they let me take him to work, and they paid "Chinese overtime". Talk about getting screwed.
BTW, Nazi mod to the above post, I find it very relevant and on topic. There are more than one "unofficial" things to look for when hiring.
My parents have always been a little behind on technology, and often don't even know of tech that I consider "normal" everyday technology. I'm picturing in the probable future a makeup table in our bedroom strategicaly positioned so that it can be easily veiwed from the bed, with recessed/hidden stows for the mouse and keyboard.
I'm also picturing it being at an angle where all my parents would be able to see when they come to visit is the fact it was a makeup mirror. I also see them getting very disturbed that everytime they walk past our bedroom door they see me sitting in front of it. When they happen to go in our room and I'm not their, I also expect them to see nothing but a makeup mirror/table.
Yes, I think it would disturb them greatly to wonder why their son who often had uncombed hair as a kid and always looked like he had just dragged himself through the dirt was now sitting in front of a bunch of makeup and staring blankly at the mirror all the time. Oh the gossip that would ensue after that. After all, the only thing the common human can make that travels faster than light is gossip.
I'll bet it's Amazon.
so that searches an inqueries didn't take so much bandwidth? I've found most of my bandwidth use wasn't uploads/downloads but passing on request, and IIRC there was a python mod being made to address this. I started doing searches to see if I could find proof, closest I've found was vague references to "Gnutella2"
hopefully this doesn't start some sort of national MAC address registry, I'm having a hard enough time protecting my guns.
Imagine this uncommon but very possible setup.
You are working on a weekend all by yourself, you get the average of one phone call every 3 hours and nobody EVER comes into the office on weekends but you, the poor tech support guy.
You work for a small company that uses a Netware 5 file server for the firewall. (Remember, Netware 5 is Java based)
You don't have admin access.
The server doesn't have the console locked.
The server IS the firewall, and therefore can be outside of it.
You REALLY want to get your dose of porn, which the firewall wont let you do.
The firewall is unlocked........
Yep, time to load up a JAVA browser on the file server for your own porn surfing pleasure.
I've found reason to use HotJava, not often but I've found reason. Nitch uses, agreed, but they still exsist. I probably will substitue Jazilla after Alpha if I ever need to use another Java based browser. Is it going to be a phenomenal success? Probably not. Should it exsist, yes. Anytime there's a need for something, something should exsist to fill that need.
Doesn't everybody fuck a rubber ducky in the shower?
1. NES emulator, that sounds like fun, my biggest concern would be the control interface but I adapt well.
2. But will it do ogg? That would be nice for the bus trip downtown, but I usually jam Oggs on my notebook while playing a game or working on a personal project during my only free time (which happens to be on the bus).
1. I must admit, I've considered one for the remote control functions alone. I have a TV, VCR, DVD, CD Changer and reciever (living room alone). My wife doesn't like having a remote in one hand for channels and one in the other for volume. The big draw back, the 5 year old likes to loose the ones we have, and nearly broke the Gameboy Advance once, what would she do with a PDA on the table?
2. I gave my daughter her own computer. Socket 8 (Pentium Pro originally) with the PII 333 over drive chip and 128 MBs of EDO RAM. Cost me almost nothing and plays most kids games. Of course she still wants to know what I'm playing when I'm editing config files and will take nothing less of a full explanantion. She says "sounds boring" but insist on full updates occasionally as well as looking over my shoulder at text she can't even really read yet. Fortunately "go play on your own computer" works occasionally.
1. phone
2. I see future improvements in this area that haven't happened yet. Maybe after they do (furthering of convergence) I'll consider one. PDAs, mobile phones, and notebooks are nearing the point of indistinguishable. Can't wait for "globals" used on Earth Final Conflict, some of the mobile phones sound close though.
I can't see much of a point. Phone number storage? I have that on my mobile phone anyways. Note taking? Pen and paper seem to have better input capabilities and work faster. Calendar? Again, a normal mobile phone seems to foot the bill on alarms anyways. Email, I'm still back to the phone. I suppose a Handspring Treo could make my life easier having more functionality than a normal phone, but I have a tendancy to break things that are on my body, glasses, bones, pagers, lesser phones (I carry a durable one) I couldn't imagine trying to keep something as expensive as a PDA with me all the time.
Does anyone else share this same view. I'll admit that I find the Sharp Zarus somewhat appealing, for one thing it has a mini keyboard, and for another it runs Linux (maybe I would install a palm emulator on it), but I still can't seem to justify that eaither. With notebooks becoming more PDA like, and PDAs becoming more notebook like, they're bound to meet in the middle. I would say something like a mini notebook, like the ones that have the Transmetta processors, or a Treo which would merge a device I already carry anyways are the only way I could justify adding computing power to my normal walk around aresonal. I'll leave PDAs in my mental CEO toys catagory.
Am I the only one that feels this way?
paperweight? These things have got to be easy to hotwire right? They're totally electric. My guess is the key isn't much more than a fancy toggle switch. Connect two wires together, go. Probably replace it with a toggle. Does anybody actually have any data related to the key mechanism on these things? Unless the key happens to be something along the lines of a smart card that talks to the CPU someone has a fully functional Segway. The biggest problem is figuring out how to pawn it. These things are so rare it's going to be hard to pass one off without being noticed.
Planet of origin shouldn't change that unless a significant amount of evolution has happened since the break with the common planet of origin.
The introduction of a parasite/symbiot shouldn't matter eaither. We all have single celled organisms that act in a symbiotic or parasitic relationship. The only thing to call into question is the Jof'fas inability to live without their symbiots. I'm unclear as to if this is from birth or a dependance built up over time. If from birth considerations need to be made, if a dependance built over time, simular to a drug addiction, then no.
Cranes, bulldozers, and dump trucks just may not fit in those containers and would have practical uses within the city at time. There are of course alternative methods for almost everything but where does practicality vs. expense meet? Building new buildings in the middle of the city will be hard unless some roadways are preserved.