Pardon the nitpick . . . I don't think that word is right. It appeared in a comedy film as a word-geek riff on secret societies and conspiracy theories. The word itself is wrong (which is the joke) because it is a build-up on triumvirate, latin for "three men". Penta, however, is a Greek prefix for 5. I think you are looking for something more like "quintumvirate".
Biking to work is good. I did that for a while before my job moved too far away. (No, I will not sell my home in a buyer's market to move closer to work)
I can still bike partway, and take a bus the remainder. Our local transit authority has bike racks on all of the routes.
During the summer, I swim at least three times a day, once before breakfast, once when I get home from work, and once just before bed.
During the rest of the year, I do push-ups, sit-ups, stretches and jumping jacks, following the programme in The Hacker's Diet, with a minor modification: I skip the lifts, because I don't need them.
At work, I get up frequently, and choose to pay visits to people rather than phoning or emailing them. I use the stairs, and not the elevators.
Weather permitting, I will go for a walk at lunch time.
In other words, I do a little bit at every opportunity.
Please bear with this non-Christian for asking a stupid question . ..
the OP says:
However, I've got a feeling that some people won't be happy to see it online, since it makes no mention of the resurrection, which is a central part of Christian belief.
My question: Why would this be upsetting? Christians call the BCE period "BC" meaning "Before Christ". The text is from the fourth century BCE -- about three to four hundred years before Jesus' birth, and therefore at least that long before the resurrection. Unless the resurrection was supposed to have been foretold, then there isn't anything to get upset about, is there? Even if the resurrection was supposed to be foretold, maybe it hadn't been foretold yet at that point.
Is this a look into the future where the majority of malware will function based on extortion?
Actually, no. It's a look into the past. There was an alert going around circa 1990 about a piece of malware (it was a trojan, to be specific) that, running on DOS, would encrypt your entire hard drive during the installation. It would then send the demands to your printer.
Of course, the thing is that the wide distribution of sub-par software has lowered people's expectations of software, and allowed commercial software interests to distribute goods that are clearly sub-par, with no real incentive to fix.
Free software, on the other hand, is often a labour of love, and therefore will get fixed eventually.
As an aside, I moved a non-geek friend from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Hardy) this past weekend. Thirty minutes into showing her hot to use it, she declared, "I already don't miss Windows."
I'm not so sure that's "perfect" unless you can find a webmail service that uses very few and very compact images. If it has half a gajillion little icons, it's going to slow things down miserably.
Couple it with Lynx (text-only web browser), however, and you may have something.... provided it is compatible with Lynx.
Option 1: get an aircard. It's a little more expensive and not as fast as getting broadband by other means typically is, but these aren't typical circumstances.
Option 2: find ways to optimize the dialup connection. While a text-only mail client seems to make sense, it doesn't make all that much. Attached photos will pose a problem regardless whether or not your email client can process them, and a GUI mail client like Thunderbird poses no more or less traffic than a text-based one like PINE.
What you can do, though, is see if there is a solution for downloading the mail in the background. Some sort of border box, as it were. Maybe there is a Windows solution to do this on their existing machine, don't know (I don't use Windows, so I am guessing here).
There are some "dialup accelerator" packages out there that work by clever pipelining and recompressing JPEG images to reduce file size. These might be worth looking at.
For WWW access, there is some fine-tuning that can be done to Firefox (I don't know if IE has similar tweaks) to reduce inter-request lag time by pipelining the requests.
If you have a server that they could SSH to, you might set them up to tunnel to a proxy you are running, using the -C (compress) option. This is a bit touch and go, though.
There's a few thoughts, anyway. Good luck with it.
My work-issued machine is a Dell with a 1920x1200 matte-finish display, and it is gorgeous. I don't know if I would necessarily recommend Dell to anyone, but I mainly bring it up to point out that they do exist
Similarly, I recently purchased a 1680x1050 LCD monitor, also in a matte finish. Salesdude was trying very hard to sell me on a high-speed, high-contrast, glossy (and, of course, high-priced) model, but (a) I didn't like the finish and (b) I didn't need that much speed (the claimed 2ms is equivalent to 500 FPS)
In my personal experience, this is a matter of individual taste. You just have to try things.
A good rule of thumb, though, is to make sure that you have some contrast in the green, and that your red and blue don't move in opposition. For example, white/black, white/dark-blue, white/dark-red, and green/black are all good combinations (in either order, i.e. white/black vs. black/white is no big deal). However, red/black, blue/black, magenta/black, etc. are bad choices (no green contrast). Similarly, complementary colours are a bad choice, e.g. yellow/blue, magenta/green, cyan/red. I think you should be able to see the logic.
Oddly enough, even though it may have been in jest, red/yellow is actually not that bad.
My personal choices are based on environment: white on dark blue for local; dark blue on white for QA; white on black for development; white on dark red for production. Of these, I find the production combination the most soothing.
They are papers and/or personal effects, and should be treated accordingly under the law. How hard can that be to understand?
Right, exactly. Let's try putting it into terms that the Founding Fathers would have been familiar with.
First off, in the 18th century, people had books, papers, notes, etc. In no manner that I can see is the content of a cell phone, PDA or laptop computer any different than the words written in such a fashion, except for the medium itself and the flexibility that the medium provides (transmission, far better encryption, searchability).
Motor vehicle law complicates things a tad, because there are things which are illegal when operating a motor vehicle (talking on a cell phone, drinking, smoking pot, etc) and pose a legitimate risk to others. These wouldn't have been an issue in the 18th century, unless your horse was drunk.
The practical upshot of that is that police have arrogated to themselves the power to look into what you are doing and carrying.
However... I have no doubt in my mind that people carried papers and/or books with them back in the 18th century, just as we carry our PDAs now in the 21st century. These should not be subject to examination in any manner whatsoever, because the intent of the Founding Fathers is clear, and the exceptions made for the combination of motor vehicles mixing with distraction simply do not apply.
KISS was never really about music. It was a huge franchise to capitalize on. Gene Simmons is not a musician. He is a businessman.
Spot on. If you caught the Henry Rollins show where he was interviewed, it becomes plain to see. Gene Simmons doesn't make music; he makes money. The music is merely a tool to get to the money.
What he doesn't realise, however, is that sometimes you have to give up a little bit to make more. In business, it's called a loss leader. You give away a little something, or sell it below cost, and then make that money back and then some on the add-ons.
I downloaded and installed Squid the other day on my home server. I had done this once before in the past, but I had completely forgotten how tiny it is.
Then there's SQLite. It's a surprisingly powerful and astonishingly fast SQL server. Not enterprise grade, mind you (it lacks any real security and can't handle data being updated while there is an open cursor on it), but great for a lot of simple tasks.
If you program in Perl, the DBD::SQLite module actually contains the entire SQLite engine. No server is needed (there is no daemon). It stores the entire database in one file, which makes for easy replication, archiving and compression.
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Pardon the nitpick . . . I don't think that word is right. It appeared in a comedy film as a word-geek riff on secret societies and conspiracy theories. The word itself is wrong (which is the joke) because it is a build-up on triumvirate, latin for "three men". Penta, however, is a Greek prefix for 5. I think you are looking for something more like "quintumvirate".
I'll shut up now.
I can code in COBOL. It seems unlikely, however, that Califorina can afford my fee.
This is not as hard as it sounds.
Biking to work is good. I did that for a while before my job moved too far away. (No, I will not sell my home in a buyer's market to move closer to work)
I can still bike partway, and take a bus the remainder. Our local transit authority has bike racks on all of the routes.
During the summer, I swim at least three times a day, once before breakfast, once when I get home from work, and once just before bed.
During the rest of the year, I do push-ups, sit-ups, stretches and jumping jacks, following the programme in The Hacker's Diet , with a minor modification: I skip the lifts, because I don't need them.
At work, I get up frequently, and choose to pay visits to people rather than phoning or emailing them. I use the stairs, and not the elevators.
Weather permitting, I will go for a walk at lunch time.
In other words, I do a little bit at every opportunity.
Okay; thanks for the clarification.
You are the site owner and moderator. The site is your private property. Warn the user of this fact, and if he persists, swing your banhammer.
Please bear with this non-Christian for asking a stupid question . . .
the OP says:
My question: Why would this be upsetting? Christians call the BCE period "BC" meaning "Before Christ". The text is from the fourth century BCE -- about three to four hundred years before Jesus' birth, and therefore at least that long before the resurrection. Unless the resurrection was supposed to have been foretold, then there isn't anything to get upset about, is there? Even if the resurrection was supposed to be foretold, maybe it hadn't been foretold yet at that point.
FTFY. It compiles now.
Actually, no. It's a look into the past. There was an alert going around circa 1990 about a piece of malware (it was a trojan, to be specific) that, running on DOS, would encrypt your entire hard drive during the installation. It would then send the demands to your printer.
That's a good one.
Of course, the thing is that the wide distribution of sub-par software has lowered people's expectations of software, and allowed commercial software interests to distribute goods that are clearly sub-par, with no real incentive to fix.
Free software, on the other hand, is often a labour of love, and therefore will get fixed eventually.
As an aside, I moved a non-geek friend from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Hardy) this past weekend. Thirty minutes into showing her hot to use it, she declared, "I already don't miss Windows."
I'm not so sure that's "perfect" unless you can find a webmail service that uses very few and very compact images. If it has half a gajillion little icons, it's going to slow things down miserably.
Couple it with Lynx (text-only web browser), however, and you may have something.... provided it is compatible with Lynx.
I see two options:
Option 1: get an aircard. It's a little more expensive and not as fast as getting broadband by other means typically is, but these aren't typical circumstances.
Option 2: find ways to optimize the dialup connection. While a text-only mail client seems to make sense, it doesn't make all that much. Attached photos will pose a problem regardless whether or not your email client can process them, and a GUI mail client like Thunderbird poses no more or less traffic than a text-based one like PINE.
What you can do, though, is see if there is a solution for downloading the mail in the background. Some sort of border box, as it were. Maybe there is a Windows solution to do this on their existing machine, don't know (I don't use Windows, so I am guessing here).
There are some "dialup accelerator" packages out there that work by clever pipelining and recompressing JPEG images to reduce file size. These might be worth looking at.
For WWW access, there is some fine-tuning that can be done to Firefox (I don't know if IE has similar tweaks) to reduce inter-request lag time by pipelining the requests.
If you have a server that they could SSH to, you might set them up to tunnel to a proxy you are running, using the -C (compress) option. This is a bit touch and go, though.
There's a few thoughts, anyway. Good luck with it.
My work-issued machine is a Dell with a 1920x1200 matte-finish display, and it is gorgeous. I don't know if I would necessarily recommend Dell to anyone, but I mainly bring it up to point out that they do exist
Similarly, I recently purchased a 1680x1050 LCD monitor, also in a matte finish. Salesdude was trying very hard to sell me on a high-speed, high-contrast, glossy (and, of course, high-priced) model, but (a) I didn't like the finish and (b) I didn't need that much speed (the claimed 2ms is equivalent to 500 FPS)
In my personal experience, this is a matter of individual taste. You just have to try things.
A good rule of thumb, though, is to make sure that you have some contrast in the green, and that your red and blue don't move in opposition. For example, white/black, white/dark-blue, white/dark-red, and green/black are all good combinations (in either order, i.e. white/black vs. black/white is no big deal). However, red/black, blue/black, magenta/black, etc. are bad choices (no green contrast). Similarly, complementary colours are a bad choice, e.g. yellow/blue, magenta/green, cyan/red. I think you should be able to see the logic.
Oddly enough, even though it may have been in jest, red/yellow is actually not that bad.
My personal choices are based on environment: white on dark blue for local; dark blue on white for QA; white on black for development; white on dark red for production. Of these, I find the production combination the most soothing.
Logic dictates the obvious: terrorists sell oil.
Right, exactly. Let's try putting it into terms that the Founding Fathers would have been familiar with.
First off, in the 18th century, people had books, papers, notes, etc. In no manner that I can see is the content of a cell phone, PDA or laptop computer any different than the words written in such a fashion, except for the medium itself and the flexibility that the medium provides (transmission, far better encryption, searchability).
Motor vehicle law complicates things a tad, because there are things which are illegal when operating a motor vehicle (talking on a cell phone, drinking, smoking pot, etc) and pose a legitimate risk to others. These wouldn't have been an issue in the 18th century, unless your horse was drunk.
The practical upshot of that is that police have arrogated to themselves the power to look into what you are doing and carrying.
However... I have no doubt in my mind that people carried papers and/or books with them back in the 18th century, just as we carry our PDAs now in the 21st century. These should not be subject to examination in any manner whatsoever, because the intent of the Founding Fathers is clear, and the exceptions made for the combination of motor vehicles mixing with distraction simply do not apply.
Spot on. If you caught the Henry Rollins show where he was interviewed, it becomes plain to see. Gene Simmons doesn't make music; he makes money. The music is merely a tool to get to the money.
What he doesn't realise, however, is that sometimes you have to give up a little bit to make more. In business, it's called a loss leader. You give away a little something, or sell it below cost, and then make that money back and then some on the add-ons.
Incidentally, YSlow gives Slashdot a C.
Charisma, and a working, production-grade kernel
You should also post this complaint on Consumerist.
I downloaded and installed Squid the other day on my home server. I had done this once before in the past, but I had completely forgotten how tiny it is.
Then there's SQLite. It's a surprisingly powerful and astonishingly fast SQL server. Not enterprise grade, mind you (it lacks any real security and can't handle data being updated while there is an open cursor on it), but great for a lot of simple tasks.
If you program in Perl, the DBD::SQLite module actually contains the entire SQLite engine. No server is needed (there is no daemon). It stores the entire database in one file, which makes for easy replication, archiving and compression.
As am I, and as is my wife of 11 years. Our relationship started out as an on-line one.
...and yes, the marriage is happy and stable.
Because it will take them that long to export the schema and tables, create a new database and import the schema and tables to that.
Really? It seems to me that the vandal who did this had very good gun control.
QSL, however, I was mainly pointing out the immediate neighbours of the TV bands.
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