Certainly, until the rebels cut power to or carve up the plate on the ground you're pushing against, or until your castle melts to slag from resistive heating due to the vast currents required;).
Actually, the concrete, if it is like normal concrete, would probably explode instead of melting...the little air pockets inside it expand until they break the structure. It's neat. Hold a blowtorch to some concrete sometime---it crackles!
So this stuff can conduct electricity, meaning it could generate a magnetic field, right? So you could theoretically generate a magnetic field to hold a concrete structure made from this stuff in the air. Does this mean that my goal of making a floating castle like all the bad guys in RPG video games have is finally within reach?
I work for a small economic consulting firm as a systems administrator. Our company receives all types of documentation everyday from all of our clients, and we create many, many reports ourselves. What I did was write a small application that lets you check scanned documents into a MySQL database, and then runs through newly scanned documents using some OCR software (I can't remember what the name of it is...I did it a while back) to create an index of keywords that you can (slowly) search on. I did this because there is software called Hummingbird that works really well, but costs an ASSLOAD of money (in the tens-of-thousands range). It took me about three weeks on and off to write, but you could probably hire some intern to do what I did for a summer project for pretty cheap. Our server that we put together for the document repository has an 80gig hard drive, a 1.4 GH AMD processor, and has worked just fine for us so far.
So there would have to be some kind of flag on government traffic so it could be placed in a higher priority, right? Does that mean it would be possible to set this flag with some sort of hack so I could get a better ping rate in Quake 3?
Even if we did notice it, What are we going to do about it? Would the earth really unite together as a force to stop it? I think it would be more like "Well, an asteroid is going to hit at spot x, so if you are there, you'd better start running!" Either that, or we'd try to shatter it with a missle, break it into smaller pieces, and damage a much, much wider area. Plus, Steve Buscemi would go crazy, and Liv Tyler would cry because her father dies (but secretly she'd be happy because she'd be riding Ben Affleck's bone rollercoaster...).
I can understand the government being able to block child pornography, but how can they blacklist entire sites/servers to meet this goal? I would think that the most they would be able to do is block images from servers--not the words surrounding it. I find it hard to believe that this would stand up in a federal court...
They need to be concentrating their efforts into cracking down on the people distributing kiddie porn...not just blacklisting entire sites/domains/whatever.
The best way to go is surf around on the net and find an intro-level T1 howto-- this is a good one. You'll also need some hardware to start up with--the small Intel routers are nice and easy to set up. Sangoma cards are great if you are comfortable with Linux. Unfortunately, though, the documentation that comes with both of these are less-than-helpful unless you have a basic understanding of T1 stuff, which is best reaped from the web.
Man, people who do this for a living scare me. What scares me worse are the people who wrote a compiler called Brainfuck , a language that has 8 operators and emulates a Turing machine. Even more scary are the inventors of Malbolge , a programming language that took over a year to write a "Hello World" program--IN MIXED UPPER/LOWER CASE!!!!
That's why I said that I thought it would be good in a work environment, where you would have IT support. In the home, it is still a bit difficult unless you have a resident geek around. I'm amazed that I haven't seen Linux popping up more around small businesses that don't want to fork out the dough for Windows...but then I guess you'd have to fork out the dough for someone who knew linux. Choose your poison...
I've been using RedHat 7.2 with the default Gnome desktop for the past few months now, and even my far-from-computer-geek girlfriend has grown to enjoy using it instead of Windows. She likes the "feel" of it, and I haven't had any complaints from her so far (other than perhaps the content of my Mozilla history...had to give her her own login).
I have gotten used to using StarOffice, Mozilla, Licq, and several other applications that have almost taken the need to boot into Windows away completely. The only times I find myself booting into Windows is to play video games or watch media files that I can't find Linux players for (.wmv--mostly pr0n).
Since Linux can be configured well enough for my far-from-computer-geek girlfriend to use, and the only reason I boot into Windows is to surf for pr0n and play video games, I think that it would actually make a better solution in the working environment. All the productivity, none of the vices...
Just my two cents...
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I guess you are right--I didn't really think of it that way...being young and being the only system admin/tech support guy, I didn't really separate the two. I worked for a large telecommunications firm before I got laid off and came here, and now that I think about it, I guess the admins and tech support guys were separate. My bad...but I still think the level of computer education people get in American institutions is lacking!
Yes, of course there's nothing wrong with the concept of tech support, but the REALITY of tech support is totally screwy. The stereotypes of some young punk making an inordinate salary for sitting in the back room while a bunch of technically illiterate people come and ask very simple questions all day is in many cases reality. I know; I'm that guy in the back room. I'm not the best systems admin in the world, but because I know how to set up a network and run computers better than the general populace, I'm worshipped. This is not good. What happens to small companies when people like me get run over by cars? Also, at many locations, tech support are not trained at all. Before I came here, a PhD economist had become the full time systems admin simply because he had been forced to tinker with the computers so much! In general, tech support people such as myself are overpaid and too valuable simply because of one reason: people don't know enough about computers. There is no profession I can think of these days that doesn't use a computer for something; so why are we not educating people about them enough?
I see the gap every day. I am a 24 year old head systems administrator at a small economics consulting firm, and I am the youngest person in my office by about 8 years. Although a small group of people here are capable of fixing simple commputer problems, the vast majority rely upon me to do just about everything. The thing that amazes me is that in this day and age, companies are still failing to see how valuable basic computer skills (the kind that could be gleaned from some sort of basic training course) are valuable for EVERYONE, not just the system admin. Not that I mind, but it is rather silly to have 40 people, 20 Linux boxes, 40 PCs, and a whole slew of technical gadgets in a back room, and only one or two punks in their mid-twenties that know how to maintain any of them. My company does this, and I can think of 5 friends off the top of my head who are in the same positions at other small companies! AMAZING! Oh well, I guess another year of 20% raises all around... Cheers!
"Shite," or "shyte," is actually a commonly used curseword in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Watch the movie Trainspotting to see it in common use.
"That's a load of bloody shyte."
Sometimes, there are special constraints on the networks you are working with. For instance, I need to use stuff that uses IP, but since PPP over SSH is strictly TCP, I can't use that option. Moreover, my boss is a paranoid guy that doesn't trust some 24-year-old punk (me) to run his firewalls, so both offices have managed firewalls through different ISPs, ruling out the possibility of a single ISP routing traffic over its network to the other office so that I don't have to do anything. This adds additional constraints because since I can't control the firewall without going through pains with both ISPs for several days, I can't even open a port for something like PPTP (which I really wouldn't want to do anyway). Granted, I can probably find out what I need to know from a Google search, but it would be nice to have all the common VPN solutions covered--even just introduced--in a book format. I'm buying it.
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I can see it now--some future entrepreneur making an ORDB-like system blocking any servers that have sent out serving papers in the past...
Opening email,
I realize she found me,
Child support sucks ass.
Actually, the concrete, if it is like normal concrete, would probably explode instead of melting...the little air pockets inside it expand until they break the structure. It's neat. Hold a blowtorch to some concrete sometime---it crackles!
So this stuff can conduct electricity, meaning it could generate a magnetic field, right? So you could theoretically generate a magnetic field to hold a concrete structure made from this stuff in the air. Does this mean that my goal of making a floating castle like all the bad guys in RPG video games have is finally within reach?
I work for a small economic consulting firm as a systems administrator. Our company receives all types of documentation everyday from all of our clients, and we create many, many reports ourselves. What I did was write a small application that lets you check scanned documents into a MySQL database, and then runs through newly scanned documents using some OCR software (I can't remember what the name of it is...I did it a while back) to create an index of keywords that you can (slowly) search on. I did this because there is software called Hummingbird that works really well, but costs an ASSLOAD of money (in the tens-of-thousands range). It took me about three weeks on and off to write, but you could probably hire some intern to do what I did for a summer project for pretty cheap. Our server that we put together for the document repository has an 80gig hard drive, a 1.4 GH AMD processor, and has worked just fine for us so far.
...I can download pr0n faster?
So there would have to be some kind of flag on government traffic so it could be placed in a higher priority, right? Does that mean it would be possible to set this flag with some sort of hack so I could get a better ping rate in Quake 3?
Small box under desk, Promiscuous mode net card, Silently watch boss.
Even if we did notice it, What are we going to do about it? Would the earth really unite together as a force to stop it? I think it would be more like "Well, an asteroid is going to hit at spot x, so if you are there, you'd better start running!" Either that, or we'd try to shatter it with a missle, break it into smaller pieces, and damage a much, much wider area. Plus, Steve Buscemi would go crazy, and Liv Tyler would cry because her father dies (but secretly she'd be happy because she'd be riding Ben Affleck's bone rollercoaster...).
They need to be concentrating their efforts into cracking down on the people distributing kiddie porn...not just blacklisting entire sites/domains/whatever.
The best way to go is surf around on the net and find an intro-level T1 howto-- this is a good one. You'll also need some hardware to start up with--the small Intel routers are nice and easy to set up. Sangoma cards are great if you are comfortable with Linux. Unfortunately, though, the documentation that comes with both of these are less-than-helpful unless you have a basic understanding of T1 stuff, which is best reaped from the web.
Man, people who do this for a living scare me. What scares me worse are the people who wrote a compiler called Brainfuck , a language that has 8 operators and emulates a Turing machine. Even more scary are the inventors of Malbolge , a programming language that took over a year to write a "Hello World" program--IN MIXED UPPER/LOWER CASE!!!!
That's why I said that I thought it would be good in a work environment, where you would have IT support. In the home, it is still a bit difficult unless you have a resident geek around. I'm amazed that I haven't seen Linux popping up more around small businesses that don't want to fork out the dough for Windows...but then I guess you'd have to fork out the dough for someone who knew linux. Choose your poison...
I have gotten used to using StarOffice, Mozilla, Licq, and several other applications that have almost taken the need to boot into Windows away completely. The only times I find myself booting into Windows is to play video games or watch media files that I can't find Linux players for (.wmv--mostly pr0n).
Since Linux can be configured well enough for my far-from-computer-geek girlfriend to use, and the only reason I boot into Windows is to surf for pr0n and play video games, I think that it would actually make a better solution in the working environment. All the productivity, none of the vices...
Just my two cents...
That's some funny shit, man!
How Stanley Kubrick-esqe!
I guess you are right--I didn't really think of it that way...being young and being the only system admin/tech support guy, I didn't really separate the two. I worked for a large telecommunications firm before I got laid off and came here, and now that I think about it, I guess the admins and tech support guys were separate. My bad...but I still think the level of computer education people get in American institutions is lacking!
Yes, of course there's nothing wrong with the concept of tech support, but the REALITY of tech support is totally screwy. The stereotypes of some young punk making an inordinate salary for sitting in the back room while a bunch of technically illiterate people come and ask very simple questions all day is in many cases reality. I know; I'm that guy in the back room. I'm not the best systems admin in the world, but because I know how to set up a network and run computers better than the general populace, I'm worshipped. This is not good. What happens to small companies when people like me get run over by cars? Also, at many locations, tech support are not trained at all. Before I came here, a PhD economist had become the full time systems admin simply because he had been forced to tinker with the computers so much! In general, tech support people such as myself are overpaid and too valuable simply because of one reason: people don't know enough about computers. There is no profession I can think of these days that doesn't use a computer for something; so why are we not educating people about them enough?
I see the gap every day. I am a 24 year old head systems administrator at a small economics consulting firm, and I am the youngest person in my office by about 8 years. Although a small group of people here are capable of fixing simple commputer problems, the vast majority rely upon me to do just about everything. The thing that amazes me is that in this day and age, companies are still failing to see how valuable basic computer skills (the kind that could be gleaned from some sort of basic training course) are valuable for EVERYONE, not just the system admin. Not that I mind, but it is rather silly to have 40 people, 20 Linux boxes, 40 PCs, and a whole slew of technical gadgets in a back room, and only one or two punks in their mid-twenties that know how to maintain any of them. My company does this, and I can think of 5 friends off the top of my head who are in the same positions at other small companies! AMAZING! Oh well, I guess another year of 20% raises all around... Cheers!
http://www.google.com/programming-contest/
I guess all companies are a bit shady...
"Shite," or "shyte," is actually a commonly used curseword in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Watch the movie Trainspotting to see it in common use. "That's a load of bloody shyte."
Sometimes, there are special constraints on the networks you are working with. For instance, I need to use stuff that uses IP, but since PPP over SSH is strictly TCP, I can't use that option. Moreover, my boss is a paranoid guy that doesn't trust some 24-year-old punk (me) to run his firewalls, so both offices have managed firewalls through different ISPs, ruling out the possibility of a single ISP routing traffic over its network to the other office so that I don't have to do anything. This adds additional constraints because since I can't control the firewall without going through pains with both ISPs for several days, I can't even open a port for something like PPTP (which I really wouldn't want to do anyway). Granted, I can probably find out what I need to know from a Google search, but it would be nice to have all the common VPN solutions covered--even just introduced--in a book format. I'm buying it.
is there a swimsuit issue with CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal?
When is the new Metroid coming out?