Sense is much deeper than the launcher. It's like a cancer that spreads into all the menus and built in systems. I absolutely despise it and I just returned a One X because of it.
You assume that other professions don't have "appreciation days" when, in fact, they do. Also, you appear to think that SAs believe that they are more deserving than other professions. While I don't doubt that there are plenty of admins out there that hold an arrogant view like that, I also believe that the majority of professional sysadmins don't. I don't begrudge my boss bosses day, or our administrative assistant's secretaries day. It's just nice to be appreciated.
Just an FYI: I bought the MGS4 bundle because I wanted backwards compatibility (my daughter has taken over my old PS/2) and I have yet to make it through MGS4. I'm told fans of the series absolutely love it, but so far it's been incredibly boring with long, drawn out (mostly skip-able, thankfully) cut scenes that make absolutely no sense. Whoever did them has absolutely no sense of pacing, and a cut scene that should be a minute or two is drawn out into 20 minutes with lots of unnecessary pauses in the dialog. It's pretty bad, IMO.
Otherwise, I'm loving the PS3 so far. I'm in on the LBP beta and it's a shitload of fun.
Yes. Masks are illegal. Halloween is now outlawed.
(To be fair, yes, some locations have laws against protesting in masks, or in any way that would obscure the face. However this varies greatly by location and there's certainly no blanket "masks are illegal" law like you're suggesting.)
Or, as a third alternative, I could tell you off because you are an idiotic asshat with zero empathy. Gee, whoda thunk it - there are more than two options on how to deal with people?
If you re-read what I wrote you'll find that you are mistaken and I did not present a false dichotomy. I only gave two examples (the extremes, really) of many possible reactions and did not, in fact, limit all possible reactions to only those two. I was careful not to do that, actually, which is why I said "one reaction" followed by "another" and did not say "the other." Language can be a subtle bitch.
I gave the reader a little credit to be able to fill in the spectrum between them -- I guess I shouldn't have done that, as your reaction points out that it was still unclear.
I think you're just being pedantic, which isn't surprising given the audience here.
It's not hard to understand that I'm merely talking about not getting your panties in a twist unnecessarily.
I see how you're trying to bait your trap, but the reality is that it's not difficult to determine what should be taken seriously and what shouldn't. A random jerk on slashdot doesn't merit the same concern as a threat directed at you on your personal myspace page, and neither is nearly as serious as a dead cat on your doorstep. Don't forget that the original slight under discussion was someone making a bad pun about a person's name, which just wasn't a serious offense.
Do you need this kind of clarification when reading the instructions on a shampoo bottle? When it says "lather, rinse, repeat" do you then ask "well, when do I stop?" I doubt it, and this type of rhetorical grandstanding (and forgive me if it was a serious question, it certainly doesn't read as such) is rather cheap.
I don't think we're wired for that much of the time. If we were, there'd be a lot less violence and trouble in the world.
You are correct, which is why I, personally, think it's important that we consciously try to overcome that natural reaction as much as we are capable. Save your anger for when it can do the most good, otherwise it's wasted effort. I'm well aware that ignoring those that offend you is a goal to be achieved, and is certainly not something you can do at the flip of a switch, but it's important (to me anyway) that the effort is made. That's also a good thing about "arguing on the Internet" -- those that wish to do so can self edit as much as they want before they hit the "submit" button. What you say can start out hurtful and full of vitriol, but you can pare down the garbage to the core of your argument and present it in a much better manner than if you were to blurt out the first thing that comes to your head. Those that don't wish to do that can, usually, be safely ignored. Probably what they had to say was without merit, otherwise they'd have put some effort into it.
the words reveal the presence of some sentiment that exists
I could very well be wrong about the original jokester's intentions, but I don't think his "joke" was racially motivated. Yeah, it was lame (and even worse to me: not funny) but I didn't detect any real malice in his statement. I grew up in the whitebread American middle class, though, so some of that sort of thing just sails right over my head.
No, I'm saying that if you take it seriously you're going to drive yourself insane. There's absolutely nothing you, or anyone, can do about what someone else says or does on the Internet, or in person for that matter. Trying to do so is an exercise in futility. The only person you have even a little control over is you.
It shouldn't matter (to you) if I say something that is offensive, what matters is how you deal with it. You have choices in how you react to it. One of those choices is to ignore it and write it off as "oh, that's just some asshole on the Internet." Another is to become upset about what some anonymous asshole on the Internet who didn't know your friend has said. It is your choice.
Who am I to you? Nobody. Why should anything I say at all have any impact on you if you don't want it to?
For example, you may consider my stance of "you can only control yourself" as lame-ass, and attempt to insult me by insinuating that I live in the past, but I can choose to react negatively to that (ie: "waaah, my fewwings are hurted") or I can read between the lines and see that you're just angry about someone making a joke about your departed friend and not take offense -- just like I would do "in real life."
"How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?"
Well, I think first a sysadmin has to, you know, kill someone. This incident does not even remotely compare with postal shootings. I'm all for hyperbole, but, fuck, it has to be within a couple of orders of magnitude.
I came in here to post that. Thanks for trying to be a voice of reason.
Detention Letter Press Release December 17, 2007
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.
The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.
Reports coming in from all over the globe are confirming it as true. Zombies posting from "delphi.com" are taking over Usenet and are start- ing to get a firm grip on the Internet proper.
These "posters" are filling up available bandwidth with rehashed arguments, flames, extraneous punctuation, inability to quote, and bad sentance struc- tures. They are unstopable short of putting "delphi.com" in ones kill file.
It is belived that Delphi corp. is unaware of their users actions and that the actions themselves are caused by some lone hacker sending subliminal messages to users at Delphi.com. Such as:
Hbi, Chris55!
Heow are ysou? I'tm, fiune, so farp. Whein cand I see
you again?
Users everywhere should be aware that this could start happening at any site.
A suggested course of action is:
Do NOT put "delphi.com" in your killfile -- there may be some
intelligence left at delphi and we need to rescue it if we can,
killfileing "delphi.com" would also encourage the hacker to in-
filtrate another site.
Do NOT reply to dumb Delphi zombie posts. This only wastes
more bandwidth on the same crap that was posted origionaly.
DO reply to any posts from Delphi that have actual informational
content. This would exclude any posts containing "!!!1", "......",
"d00d!", "u st00pid", "get a job", "l8r", "l8er", etc, ad. nausium. --
Jason Balicki | ko...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | Tao. Tao.
Taylight come an' we wan' go home.
Usually, yes. But in this particular case, no. Digium releases Asterisk in a dual license, one is the GPL and the other is a more restrictive commercial license.
I believe (but don't know for sure and I don't feel like researching it right now) that Fonality has a special license with Digium for Asterisk. This is not unheard of.
In order for any patch to be included in the GPL Asterisk the author must assign their copyright to Digium, which allows them to do the whole dual license thing.
This is one of the reasons why OpenPBX forked from Asterisk.
Yes, PBXtra is based on Asterisk, but it is a licensed closed-source derivative of the Asterisk code.
You can not have the source for PBXtra. They'll give you the Asterisk code before they apply their patches, but they won't give you the source for their interface or their changes.
They might if you buy their product --I don't know, I've never bought it, but you are certainly not allowed to distribute the product to someone else after you buy it.
If you look at a map of the US you'll notice that a lot of towns in the mid west line up along lines of longitude.
The reason for this is that the great plains are on a similar grade from east to west. Many railroad lines ran straight east/west. Going from the lower elevation up the grade to the west the trains would run out of steam (literally) and need to be refueled at pretty much the same place no matter what latitude you were on. Consequently, the same approximate distance between towns in rural areas, especially in plain states.
That has nothing to do with population density. Sorry.
If I understand what you've described then what you need is a channel bank and a t1 card for the asterisk box. The channel bank will provide dial tone for up to 24 lines, digitize the lines and pass them to asterix via t1, from there you can route them where you want.
Slashdot Mirror
if I had heard of this lynn-u-ex thing.
FWIW. This place is dusty and needs a new coat of paint.
Sense is much deeper than the launcher. It's like a cancer that spreads into all the menus and built in systems. I absolutely despise it and I just returned a One X because of it.
All of those things were done here before they were done at reddit. You might want to get a new prescription for your rose colored glasses.
Confirmed.
We might actually nuke a gay baby whale for Jesus?
You assume that other professions don't have "appreciation days" when, in fact, they do. Also, you appear to think that SAs believe that they are more deserving than other professions. While I don't doubt that there are plenty of admins out there that hold an arrogant view like that, I also believe that the majority of professional sysadmins don't. I don't begrudge my boss bosses day, or our administrative assistant's secretaries day. It's just nice to be appreciated.
Just an FYI: I bought the MGS4 bundle because I wanted backwards compatibility (my daughter has taken over my old PS/2) and I have yet to make it through MGS4. I'm told fans of the series absolutely love it, but so far it's been incredibly boring with long, drawn out (mostly skip-able, thankfully) cut scenes that make absolutely no sense. Whoever did them has absolutely no sense of pacing, and a cut scene that should be a minute or two is drawn out into 20 minutes with lots of unnecessary pauses in the dialog. It's pretty bad, IMO.
Otherwise, I'm loving the PS3 so far. I'm in on the LBP beta and it's a shitload of fun.
Yes. Masks are illegal. Halloween is now outlawed.
(To be fair, yes, some locations have laws against protesting in masks, or in any way that would obscure the face. However this varies greatly by location and there's certainly no blanket "masks are illegal" law like you're suggesting.)
Irony noted. However, I do have my own, non-expressed, reasons for replying.
Or, as a third alternative, I could tell you off because you are an idiotic asshat with zero empathy. Gee, whoda thunk it - there are more than two options on how to deal with people?
If you re-read what I wrote you'll find that you are mistaken and I did not present a false dichotomy. I only gave two examples (the extremes, really) of many possible reactions and did not, in fact, limit all possible reactions to only those two. I was careful not to do that, actually, which is why I said "one reaction" followed by "another" and did not say "the other." Language can be a subtle bitch.
I gave the reader a little credit to be able to fill in the spectrum between them -- I guess I shouldn't have done that, as your reaction points out that it was still unclear.
I think you're just being pedantic, which isn't surprising given the audience here.
It's not hard to understand that I'm merely talking about not getting your panties in a twist unnecessarily.
I see how you're trying to bait your trap, but the reality is that it's not difficult to determine what should be taken seriously and what shouldn't. A random jerk on slashdot doesn't merit the same concern as a threat directed at you on your personal myspace page, and neither is nearly as serious as a dead cat on your doorstep. Don't forget that the original slight under discussion was someone making a bad pun about a person's name, which just wasn't a serious offense.
Do you need this kind of clarification when reading the instructions on a shampoo bottle? When it says "lather, rinse, repeat" do you then ask "well, when do I stop?" I doubt it, and this type of rhetorical grandstanding (and forgive me if it was a serious question, it certainly doesn't read as such) is rather cheap.
I don't think we're wired for that much of the time. If we were, there'd be a lot less violence and trouble in the world.
You are correct, which is why I, personally, think it's important that we consciously try to overcome that natural reaction as much as we are capable. Save your anger for when it can do the most good, otherwise it's wasted effort. I'm well aware that ignoring those that offend you is a goal to be achieved, and is certainly not something you can do at the flip of a switch, but it's important (to me anyway) that the effort is made. That's also a good thing about "arguing on the Internet" -- those that wish to do so can self edit as much as they want before they hit the "submit" button. What you say can start out hurtful and full of vitriol, but you can pare down the garbage to the core of your argument and present it in a much better manner than if you were to blurt out the first thing that comes to your head. Those that don't wish to do that can, usually, be safely ignored. Probably what they had to say was without merit, otherwise they'd have put some effort into it.
the words reveal the presence of some sentiment that exists
I could very well be wrong about the original jokester's intentions, but I don't think his "joke" was racially motivated. Yeah, it was lame (and even worse to me: not funny) but I didn't detect any real malice in his statement. I grew up in the whitebread American middle class, though, so some of that sort of thing just sails right over my head.
No, I'm saying that if you take it seriously you're going to drive yourself insane. There's absolutely nothing you, or anyone, can do about what someone else says or does on the Internet, or in person for that matter. Trying to do so is an exercise in futility. The only person you have even a little control over is you.
It shouldn't matter (to you) if I say something that is offensive, what matters is how you deal with it. You have choices in how you react to it. One of those choices is to ignore it and write it off as "oh, that's just some asshole on the Internet." Another is to become upset about what some anonymous asshole on the Internet who didn't know your friend has said. It is your choice.
Who am I to you? Nobody. Why should anything I say at all have any impact on you if you don't want it to?
For example, you may consider my stance of "you can only control yourself" as lame-ass, and attempt to insult me by insinuating that I live in the past, but I can choose to react negatively to that (ie: "waaah, my fewwings are hurted") or I can read between the lines and see that you're just angry about someone making a joke about your departed friend and not take offense -- just like I would do "in real life."
It's all fun and games until someone eats my sacred cow.
Sorry you lost a friend, but if you continue to take the Internet seriously you might wind up in a similar situation.
to make friends. :(
"How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?"
Well, I think first a sysadmin has to, you know, kill someone. This incident does not even remotely compare with postal shootings. I'm all for hyperbole, but, fuck, it has to be within a couple of orders of magnitude.
I came in here to post that. Thanks for trying to be a voice of reason.
Detention Letter Press Release
December 17, 2007
Recently, a file was uploaded to the Internet purporting to be a copy of a letter from Big Spring High School to a student regarding a two hour detention. The uploaded letter was an altered version of a detention letter sent to a student. Unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent the School District from giving a full explanation of the nature and source of the letter's alteration at this time. The Big Spring School District does have confirmation that the discipline letter was altered.
The reports, blogs and other sources on the Internet indicating that a Big Spring student was assigned detention for using the Firefox internet browser instead of Internet Explorer are untrue and were based on the fake letter. Detention is assigned in our schools after appropriate warnings are given, if students continue to engage in non-academic activities or fail to follow a teacher's directive during class time discipline can and will be assigned.
Sincerely yours,
John C. Scudder
High School Principal
Ha. Here's a link to something I wrote back then. I "hoep" you enjoy it.
http://tinyurl.com/2knjba
Here's the text:
VATICAN --
Reports coming in from all over the globe are confirming it as true.
Zombies posting from "delphi.com" are taking over Usenet and are start-
ing to get a firm grip on the Internet proper.
These "posters" are filling up available bandwidth with rehashed arguments,
flames, extraneous punctuation, inability to quote, and bad sentance struc-
tures. They are unstopable short of putting "delphi.com" in ones kill file.
It is belived that Delphi corp. is unaware of their users actions and that
the actions themselves are caused by some lone hacker sending subliminal
messages to users at Delphi.com. Such as:
Hbi, Chris55!
Heow are ysou? I'tm, fiune, so farp. Whein cand I see
you again?
Users everywhere should be aware that this could start happening at
any site.
A suggested course of action is:
Do NOT put "delphi.com" in your killfile -- there may be some
intelligence left at delphi and we need to rescue it if we can,
killfileing "delphi.com" would also encourage the hacker to in-
filtrate another site.
Do NOT reply to dumb Delphi zombie posts. This only wastes
more bandwidth on the same crap that was posted origionaly.
DO reply to any posts from Delphi that have actual informational
content. This would exclude any posts containing "!!!1", "......",
"d00d!", "u st00pid", "get a job", "l8r", "l8er", etc, ad. nausium.
--
Jason Balicki | ko...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | Tao. Tao.
Taylight come an' we wan' go home.
Usually, yes. But in this particular case, no. Digium releases Asterisk in a dual license, one is the GPL and the other is a more restrictive commercial license.
I believe (but don't know for sure and I don't feel like researching it right now) that Fonality has a special license with Digium for Asterisk. This is not unheard of.
In order for any patch to be included in the GPL Asterisk the author must assign their copyright to Digium, which allows them to do the whole dual license thing.
This is one of the reasons why OpenPBX forked from Asterisk.
Yes, PBXtra is based on Asterisk, but it is a licensed closed-source derivative of the Asterisk code.
You can not have the source for PBXtra. They'll give you the Asterisk code before they apply their patches, but they won't give you the source for their interface or their changes.
They might if you buy their product --I don't know, I've never bought it, but you are certainly not allowed to distribute the product to someone else after you buy it.
Just sayin'.
Anyway, Trixbox is FOSS. But PBXtra -- no.
If you look at a map of the US you'll notice that a lot of towns in the mid west line up along lines of longitude.
The reason for this is that the great plains are on a similar grade from east to west. Many railroad lines ran straight east/west. Going from the lower elevation up the grade to the west the trains would run out of steam (literally) and need to be refueled at pretty much the same place no matter what latitude you were on. Consequently, the same approximate distance between towns in rural areas, especially in plain states.
That has nothing to do with population density. Sorry.
I wonder how much Verizon will charge to enable the "bend" feature.
If I understand what you've described then what you need is a channel bank and a t1 card for the asterisk box. The channel bank will provide dial tone for up to 24 lines, digitize the lines and pass them to asterix via t1, from there you can route them where you want.
I'm interested to hear why it is taken so seriously.
Because I'm the one that has to clean up the mess that's been made, and I'm lazy.