On the other hand, I'm pretty much a windows expert. I can do pretty much anything with a windows machine EXCEPT keep it running for more than a month. I'm not talking windows expert as in the guy in your family that helps with PCs, I'm speaking as the guy who helps the IT department when they get stuck.
Yeah. I'm running a 2000 server at home thats been up at least 6 months, the last time it was down was due to a power outage (its not on a UPS).
I'm hosting like 10 webpages for different people, many of them running ASP applications I wrote myself... I also use it for doing torrents (just downloaded a 12 GB file over the last week)... oh, its also running a popular MMORPG server (not going to name it here) which has an average of 15 players on it at any given time, up to 40 at peak times.
Been doing this since 2003, really haven't any problems with downtime except for a drive failure, and have not once been hacked into, tho it is fun to watch all the chinese bounce off my firewall.
Not sure what you're doing wrong. And I wouldn't even call myself an 'expert' as you did.
I'm quite familiar with the whole story and regardless of what snopes says, I'm in the camp that Al Gore was trying to take credit where the credit was not his.
Anyhoo, I'd worry more about his views on global warming than his views on him creating the intertubes.
/me start two flamewars with one post? //unpossible! ///why does slashdot hate slashies? ////I have to encode this post as HTML or the slashies don't work
Well huge amounts of learning occurred over thousands of years before books were invented (well movable type anyways), heck some cultures never developed a written language yet still there was plenty of knowledge transfer between people.
Point being you don't need the internet, or books, or a written language, but each of those things do make it possible to learn things that otherwise could not be learned.
I'd say it is important in this day and age. I'd also say that a private uni should be able to do whatever they want and if you don't like it, take your business elsewhere.
one thing I found out accidentally is that google's cache has child porn in it. that is similar to what you said about people blindly downloading 'all new articles'.... google just goes out there and downloads the entire intertubes.
not that I think thats wrong (downloading intertubes, that is), but shouldn't google be in trouble under current law?
(oh, I was looking for a particular boxing video game. stumbled on a bunch of nekkid kids wearing boxing gloves.)
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Unemployment in the 00's is lower than unemployment was in the 90s. or 80s. or 70s.
I do not understand all the whining about lost jobs due to offshoring.
Sure it sucks in your case, but that is one anecdote, where the statistics at large paint a different picture.
that was the day I blocked jon katz's stories in my preferences...
good times, good times.
My fellow Russians, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Wyoming forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
i know some people that are gonna get pranked tonight.
how do they find these things?
the size of 11,000 football fields
NFL? Canadian? European kickball?
Besides, this is a nerds site. Don't make athletic references.
Volkswagen Bugs or Libraries of Congress would be more appropriate.
my boss _is_ the goatse guy =(
that read that as 10 Base T products of 2006?
i agree... i wasn't really going for funny
and whenever i do go for funny, i do it AC, and then it gets modded insightful
ah whatevar
well it depends on the length of the password times the number of possibilities per character
so alphanumeric is harder than straight alpha
and alphanumeric + special characters is harder than just alphanumeric
a 14 year old cares far more about their social life than most adults care about their jobs.
ya, I don't know who decided on black hole compression.
like that doesn't already happen with radar guns for speeding, or license plate frames, or things hanging form your rear view mirror.
heck, i got pulled over once for 'taking a left turn too hard', then having my car searched for drugs (none found as none were there)
this device isn't going to make any difference one way or another as far as your comment is concerned.
is that i don't know how to read chinese
On the other hand, I'm pretty much a windows expert. I can do pretty much anything with a windows machine EXCEPT keep it running for more than a month. I'm not talking windows expert as in the guy in your family that helps with PCs, I'm speaking as the guy who helps the IT department when they get stuck.
Yeah. I'm running a 2000 server at home thats been up at least 6 months, the last time it was down was due to a power outage (its not on a UPS).
I'm hosting like 10 webpages for different people, many of them running ASP applications I wrote myself... I also use it for doing torrents (just downloaded a 12 GB file over the last week)... oh, its also running a popular MMORPG server (not going to name it here) which has an average of 15 players on it at any given time, up to 40 at peak times.
Been doing this since 2003, really haven't any problems with downtime except for a drive failure, and have not once been hacked into, tho it is fun to watch all the chinese bounce off my firewall.
Not sure what you're doing wrong. And I wouldn't even call myself an 'expert' as you did.
disagree... I have no further desire to play Pong.
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/me start two flamewars with one post?
//unpossible!
///why does slashdot hate slashies?
////I have to encode this post as HTML or the slashies don't work
With that in mind
I'm quite familiar with the whole story and regardless of what snopes says, I'm in the camp that Al Gore was trying to take credit where the credit was not his.
Anyhoo, I'd worry more about his views on global warming than his views on him creating the intertubes.
I fail to see how Sony is in any way responsible.
to get that to work I had to use 'html formatted' with the option
looked something like this
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Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 3.6).
We won't even need the 'No Girls Allowed' sign.
-recently divorced geek
--1 year old son
---half custody!
Well huge amounts of learning occurred over thousands of years before books were invented (well movable type anyways), heck some cultures never developed a written language yet still there was plenty of knowledge transfer between people.
Point being you don't need the internet, or books, or a written language, but each of those things do make it possible to learn things that otherwise could not be learned.
I'd say it is important in this day and age. I'd also say that a private uni should be able to do whatever they want and if you don't like it, take your business elsewhere.
I don't know what this has to do with geekery or nerdology.
...maybe some business forum has been getting all our nerd news stories lately...
Seems like it should be posted on some business forum or something.
They're going after the credit card companies.
I'll bet you 5 bucks it sticks.
one thing I found out accidentally is that google's cache has child porn in it. that is similar to what you said about people blindly downloading 'all new articles'.... google just goes out there and downloads the entire intertubes.
not that I think thats wrong (downloading intertubes, that is), but shouldn't google be in trouble under current law?
(oh, I was looking for a particular boxing video game. stumbled on a bunch of nekkid kids wearing boxing gloves.)
... because sendmail has never had any security vulnerabilities....