I'm not even going to get started on all the VM's rule/suck discussion. Instead, I'll just point out that VMWare ACE might be a something worth looking at.
I flew over this morning on a flight from Houston to Orlando. While NO certainly looks bad (even from 39K ft), Mississippi simply looks to have been wiped clean. The only anology I can think of for what the MS coast looked like from altitude is brown static. In many areas, there was no obvious structure or pattern at all aside from the occasional series of bridge columns where functioning bridges used to be.
I just got a call from my credit union about this. Seems they were notified this morning that a number of cards they issued were affected, and they're actually calling the customers to go over the recent transactions and to notify them that new cards will be issued! I'm so impressed.
Why is it that Google is the only one out there with a toolbar that:
makes searches simple
allows them to be complex if you like
doesn't innundate you with spyware crap
As far as I'm concerned, the other search engines can do whatever they want, but until they provide a reasonable duplicate of the functionality provided by my precioussss Google toolbar, I'm not switchin'.
I can't take it anymore! When's someone gonna prove all this "enough for the entire Library of Congress" crap, and just give me the friggin' Library of Congress on some kind of rediculously itty-bitty medium?
I can't take it anymore! When's someone gonna prove all this "enough for the entire Library of Congress" crap, and just give me the friggin' Library of Congress on some kind of rediculously itty-bitty medium?
Disclaimer (i.e. flame preventative): I think this absolutely sucks, and the creators of such things should burn in hell.
Of course, this doesn't help those who use Win9x/ME (and you need help if you do...), but on Win2K you shouldn't do your day-to-day work with enough priviledge to allow the apps you run to do things like this. I don't work with Administrator priviledges, just like on UNIX I don't log in as 'root'. If I'm browsing, and some piece of crap software wants to rape my system, it'll have hell trying to do so. If I want/need to do more, I can use the 'Run As' service to do most things, and it won't kill me to log off and log back in as root.
Being a government agency, I don't think you can donate your money (well, you could...), but you can donate your time/effort to the USGS Earth Science Corps. According to the information I got with several maps I ordered a few weeks ago, you can email escorps@usgs.gov, call (800) 254-8040, or write to:
Earth Science Corps
MS 513
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, Virginia 20192
for more information on doing so. I have to agree with you: after using the aforementioned maps to find my way to a very remote part of NM last week, I have a new favorite organization as well!
Let's just have nice big colorful plastic buttons (big enough so nobody swallows them) by each candidate's colorful name. Maybe even big cartoony elephants and donkeys next to them as well. And music! Yeah, it'll have to play music when you pick one. And light up too! They have to light up. And flashing lights! Big, primary colored lights... Yeah. Now can da wittle voters get da wittle candidates picked out?
This'll go well with McDonalds' picture menus for the illiterate. Sheeesh.
If anyone is interested in actually reading them, the RFCs MS is SUPPOSED to be following with this are 2136 and 2052.
Also, no one I know who is testing this out (in the IT consulting firm who will be doing a great deal of this whem it spills out upon the world) is fooling themselves about what a GIANT political battle this could turn into. To avoid this, you will probably see Active Directory Domains handling their own DDNS, and forwarding to existing UNIX infrastructure for all other name resolution if those doing the implementation aren't up to the fight.
...how other systems in the network will resolve to systems in the DDNS zones is supposed to be worked out, (with the use of some crazy zone magic) but I've not seen it work yet.
OK, for the most part, I'm inclined to agree. But I'm confused about something:
Poor drivers aside -- both OSes can have trouble here, so I see this as a poor defense for NT. (Why are NT's drivers poor? Doesn't NT's interface, etc. make development easier?) -- if NT can be made stable via better administration, why is it that so many people have stable Linux boxes, but at the same time, can't get NT to run worth a damn? Isn't NT easier to administer? Can't a dummy do it now? (some of those books really rub me wrong...) This seems paradoxical to me. I see many people lately referring to arguments against NT's stability as "cheap shots", etc.; yet, experience (my own, and others) doesn't seem to correlate this. On the other hand, I've found Linux to be quite stable in comparison, while I typically find NT to be "cross your fingers" propostion. Sometimes it's OK, but not nearly as often as Linux. Yes, even when using hardware on the HCL, with the latest service packs, yadda, yadda -- for good admins those things are standard procedure on any OS. Seems to me recent arguments that NT's lack of stability in some situations is not NT/MS's fault are contradictory to claims of it's being so much easier to use. It just sounds like a lame excuse to glaze over a real problem.
http://www5.zd net.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,387506,00. html Not a totally cluefull article, (parts of it are actually quite scary - "Apache for OpenLinux is superior to Apache for RedHat", etc.) but for those suggesting they run single CPU benchmarks to see Linux shine, it's a start. It's funny there's been no mention of this reviewer's findings since.
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Left your mic on did you? Nice reference! ;)
I'm not even going to get started on all the VM's rule/suck discussion. Instead, I'll just point out that VMWare ACE might be a something worth looking at.
I flew over this morning on a flight from Houston to Orlando. While NO certainly looks bad (even from 39K ft), Mississippi simply looks to have been wiped clean. The only anology I can think of for what the MS coast looked like from altitude is brown static. In many areas, there was no obvious structure or pattern at all aside from the occasional series of bridge columns where functioning bridges used to be.
I just got a call from my credit union about this. Seems they were notified this morning that a number of cards they issued were affected, and they're actually calling the customers to go over the recent transactions and to notify them that new cards will be issued! I'm so impressed.
...but porcine gas is far worse!
Hey! That is pretty nice...
OK, forget everything I just said. I wonder why my Google searches didn't turn this up...
- makes searches simple
- allows them to be complex if you like
- doesn't innundate you with spyware crap
As far as I'm concerned, the other search engines can do whatever they want, but until they provide a reasonable duplicate of the functionality provided by my precioussss Google toolbar, I'm not switchin'.Borland recently decided to purchase TogetherSoft, whose ConrolCenter product can do VB.NET and C# projects.
Shit, wrong story. Sorry 'bout that. Bed time for Scotty...
I can't take it anymore! When's someone gonna prove all this "enough for the entire Library of Congress" crap, and just give me the friggin' Library of Congress on some kind of rediculously itty-bitty medium?
I can't take it anymore! When's someone gonna prove all this "enough for the entire Library of Congress" crap, and just give me the friggin' Library of Congress on some kind of rediculously itty-bitty medium?
iThink they've run the concept into the ground. iM tired of seeing everything start with "i". iLl have to avoid them because of this.
LOL... Geez, now how do I moderate insightful, funny, and sick all at once?
Disclaimer (i.e. flame preventative): I think this absolutely sucks, and the creators of such things should burn in hell.
Of course, this doesn't help those who use Win9x/ME (and you need help if you do...), but on Win2K you shouldn't do your day-to-day work with enough priviledge to allow the apps you run to do things like this. I don't work with Administrator priviledges, just like on UNIX I don't log in as 'root'. If I'm browsing, and some piece of crap software wants to rape my system, it'll have hell trying to do so. If I want/need to do more, I can use the 'Run As' service to do most things, and it won't kill me to log off and log back in as root.
Just my $2*10^-2 worth......and here
I'm glad someone pointed this out. Also, the relevant Debain Security Advisory is here.
So just fake an infection by Sircam, and have it release the info. :)
Earth Science Corps
MS 513
U.S. Geological Survey
Reston, Virginia 20192
for more information on doing so. I have to agree with you: after using the aforementioned maps to find my way to a very remote part of NM last week, I have a new favorite organization as well!
Let's just have nice big colorful plastic buttons (big enough so nobody swallows them) by each candidate's colorful name. Maybe even big cartoony elephants and donkeys next to them as well. And music! Yeah, it'll have to play music when you pick one. And light up too! They have to light up. And flashing lights! Big, primary colored lights... Yeah. Now can da wittle voters get da wittle candidates picked out?
This'll go well with McDonalds' picture menus for the illiterate. Sheeesh.
Unless they have at least four asses, they're useless...
(sorry, couldn't resist)
"Federal judge finds that Microsoft has monopoly power in personal computer operating systems"
The freakin' site's slashdotted, but CNN's saying things don't look good for MS!!!
If anyone is interested in actually reading them, the RFCs MS is SUPPOSED to be following with this are 2136 and 2052.
Also, no one I know who is testing this out (in the IT consulting firm who will be doing a great deal of this whem it spills out upon the world) is fooling themselves about what a GIANT political battle this could turn into. To avoid this, you will probably see Active Directory Domains handling their own DDNS, and forwarding to existing UNIX infrastructure for all other name resolution if those doing the implementation aren't up to the fight.
...how other systems in the network will resolve to systems in the DDNS zones is supposed to be worked out, (with the use of some crazy zone magic) but I've not seen it work yet.
OK, for the most part, I'm inclined to agree. But I'm confused about something:
Poor drivers aside -- both OSes can have trouble here, so I see this as a poor defense for NT. (Why are NT's drivers poor? Doesn't NT's interface, etc. make development easier?) -- if NT can be made stable via better administration, why is it that so many people have stable Linux boxes, but at the same time, can't get NT to run worth a damn? Isn't NT easier to administer? Can't a dummy do it now? (some of those books really rub me wrong...) This seems paradoxical to me. I see many people lately referring to arguments against NT's stability as "cheap shots", etc.; yet, experience (my own, and others) doesn't seem to correlate this. On the other hand, I've found Linux to be quite stable in comparison, while I typically find NT to be "cross your fingers" propostion. Sometimes it's OK, but not nearly as often as Linux. Yes, even when using hardware on the HCL, with the latest service packs, yadda, yadda -- for good admins those things are standard procedure on any OS. Seems to me recent arguments that NT's lack of stability in some situations is not NT/MS's fault are contradictory to claims of it's being so much easier to use. It just sounds like a lame excuse to glaze over a real problem.
http://www5.zd net.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,387506,00. html Not a totally cluefull article, (parts of it are actually quite scary - "Apache for OpenLinux is superior to Apache for RedHat", etc.) but for those suggesting they run single CPU benchmarks to see Linux shine, it's a start. It's funny there's been no mention of this reviewer's findings since.