Thanks for pointing out the obvious, I thought my post was was quite on topic.
And yes, I don't think I will ever get a first post, and that was my best try without sitting on F5 waiting for new articles to post! And since my fat ass will never fit on just that little key without crushing the rest of the keyboard, I believe I have been relegated to FP limbo.
I'm glad you like my breasts... They're not real y'know, but some people can't tell.
seem an appropriate reflection on the intelligence of our candidates.
Bush has no idea what's going on and can't answer our questions or uses "Your gonna die if you don't agree" answers.
Kerry has thoughful answers whether you agree with him or not, and you know he's intelligent enough to change his mind if confronted with appropriate facts.
One wonders how you'd go about indexing every life form including undiscovered species and how you'd protect the DNA from radiation.
I think I'll go drink a soda... but how can I drink the molecules that evaporate? or stick to the lining of the can?
One wonders how you'd go about drinking every drop of soda incuding evaporates and how you'd clean the inside lining.
You do the best you can, jackass. That may be one of the dumbest, most smartass trolls I've seen on/. so they went and made everybody read it cuz it's a headlining article.
I just read the italicized line again and I am amazed once more. I don't use the word stupid often but in this case....
As a father with children, or just a human being for that matter,
Then stop being a father and human and start acting like one and teach your kids what is right and wrong, how to act polite with company, what they should and shouldn't watch, yada yada yada
Nothing gets done just looking at it or waiting for others to do it!
the other with interference of pacemakers and electronic equipment.
It has nothing to do with pacemakers, it's all about the remote monitoring equipment that the hospitals use. This is old technology however, as most newer hospitals or newer installed equipment allow cells phones everywhere now. However, I asked several times about this during my hospital stays, and I never spoke with anyone who ever heard of the cell phones interfering with the monitoring. Just like there has never been a plane downed due to electronic gadgets, they are just playing it safe.
And don't bother teling me I'm wrong, I've had 5 pacemaker type devices before the age of 35. And no, microwave ovens don't mean shit either for the last 10 years or more.
With their track record, I'm afraid if ATI gets their shit together, the only thing we'll have is a nice big pile of ATI shit. Don't get me wrong, the potential is there (boot under windows to see it though). I can't even begin to tell you about my Linux/ATI woes. Well, OK, I just did begin, but it wasn't a detailed report.
Intel won't say if it has licensed AMD's x86-64 extensions. But Barrett seemed to hint that Intel's technology will be somewhat less than completely compatible with AMD's instruction set.
"For the most part, (software) will run on both systems," he said. "Intel has some (things) unique to Intel, which we will make sure people write, port and tune to."
Many times, These are just boilerplates obtained from HR software or previous companies. I have had occasion to change, and add, to employee aggreements.
Did I hire a lawyer? Did I freak and farm my resume some more and never return their calls? No, I Simply asked them if I could modify it. The response 2 times out of 3? "Sure, that's just what we had at my last company." Just make your change, initial it, and let them know.
If they have a problem, they'll tell you. If your tin hat gets in the way, let them know you want a lawyer to proof it first. We all know how important it is to protect our million dollar ideas. Let me know when I have mine please.
Back in the day (mid-80s), our computer curriculum went like this:
1. Machine language (hex coding) 2. Assembly 3. Pascal 4. There was no 4
If you ask me, even though I didn't go into programming, by taking these courses (and understanding them) I am a better systems engineer, because I do know the low level stuff, and how that affects the systems I'm working on, be it infrastructure, network OS, or client side.
(bad metaphor) It's like cars. There are end users who get stuck on the side of the road. High level programmers who can work on their cars and even put one together. Then there are the low level programmers, who can make a sweet car, know the mechanical tolerances and even do some under the hood innovations. A good mechanic can put an engine together, a great mechanic can pick the materials and the molds and work on indy cars.(/bad metaphor)
In your article Linux cyber-battle turns nasty by Stephen Evans, dated February 5, Mr. Evans specifically points to the Open Source community as the cause of the MyDoom virus. Here are some specific factual errors: "So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge." As has been proven by several REPUTABLE organizations, LinuxWorld has the news:
"In a story that would completely exonerate the Linux community, accused by SCO of perhaps being behind this week's e-mail virus, the Moscow Times is carrying a story this morning that the first e-mails infected with MyDoom [trace] back to addresses with Russian Internet providers." There are several more sources, this one dated February 2 should suffice, please do your own research next time.
Also the following: "Meanwhile the court dispute between SCO and Linux users (rather than the cyberspace war between SCO and the hackers) is scheduled for next year in a court in Utah." is actually between IBM and SCO. If I need to point out sources for that one, turn in your press pass. Another:"So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge.", or as REPUTABLE news organizations have pointed out by doing research beyond reading SCO press releases, the most likely perpetrator was or is working with spammers, using the SCO debacle as a way to hide the fact that the virus installed a spam relay on every computer it infected.
Also note:"The users are putting in place formidable defences. A group called Open Source Development Labs has set up a fund of $10 million with the backing of IBM and a host of other big Linux users." is only a partial truth, as HP (largest computer retailer in the world) has indemnified there users against lawsuits by SCO, as has Novell and several other companies, Red Hat foremost among the Linux companies.
Another:"This attack, though, is not blackmail. It is about malice not money." Spam is about money, or it wouldn't exist. And as for clever? This is an old trick in a new wrapper, there are tools for 12 year olds to do the same thing. Nearly every sentence is full of twisted truths, half lies, or factual errors.
This is the most irresponsible reporting from the BBC I have ever seen. Well, except for your most recent example of such that lost you several of your top executives. Please report the news, not FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). I am a Microsoft Certified Engineer working in a large Windows only company, and even I can see that this reporter is spewing complete nonsense. It's as if he woke up after a binge and needed to make his deadline, and so called Darl McBride for something to write up.
This was told to me by the former supervisor for the phone systems in the AZ/NM area.
The very first fiber run in Phoneix went from one federal building to another. I'm not sure which, but they must have been important.
If you've ever seen an phone cable room underground, you know that the cables are straight, so straight that you can easily follow them across the room and usually clearly labeled. Well some dumbass manager went down into this one cable room underground in Phoenix, and saw this great big looping yellow piece of shit cable run and wanted it fixed pronto!! So he gets some new hire (been on the job less than a month) to go down there and I quote "Fix that Fu**ing thing! I want it to look just like the rest of the cable down there, and I'm gonna get the guy who installed it fired!!" (yes, he does come off as a jackass doesn't he?)
So this poor newbie goes down into the manhole and starts hammering, and tying down, this 'cable' run. He's using pliers, 3 pound mauls (why won't this stuff stay flat?) and whatever else he could do and wouldn't you know it, after 4 hours or so of this, it looks beautiful, just like the rest of the runs and even re-labeled!
Well, when this guy pokes his head out of the manhole, there are like 20 officers from the FBI, State DPS, County sheriff, ATF, and whoever else waiting for him with guns drawn!!!! Poor guy is fired on the spot and questioned for over 2 days, telling them he's not a sabateur and that his boss told him to do this. The boss doesn't fess up until the 3rd day of questioning, at which point HE is fired and the pleeb gets his job back.
The second first fiber run in Phoenix was back up shortly, and the other workers educated about it's "don't take a hammer to this shit" properties.
in 2000, a co-worker was migrating a large Catholic Diocese, one of the top ten say, from Novell to Microsoft (I still don't know why) as I had somewhat purposefully(on my part) been asked not to come back for a while (but that's another, dumber story).
Anyway, not having done any such migrations before, after thoroughly RTFM, he set up, almost entirely correctly, the migration service and began moving users. The syncing tool was set to run just before backups, so that the backup would reflect that days migrations and updates.
It was supposed to go like this: copy all files from the Novell directory, nightly, to the new user directories on microsoft shares unless the Microsoft file was newer (hence indicating that user was migrated) and eventually all users, over the course of a week, would be migrated and the sync turned off. everyone transparently suddenly works with microsoft shares and la di da off they go.
It was an excellent plan with the exception of forgetting to check the little box that made sure that newer files were not overwritten with the old ones from the (now defunct) novell servers during syncing. So every night the old files would overwrite then newer ones. People started to complain about the third day that their changes to documents and such weren't "sticking", and on the last day of the migration, we figured out what had happened.
So every night, before backups, the newer files were being overwritten and then backed up. This included the Accounting, Newspaper articles, judgements, spreadsheets, EVERYTHING. For a whole week, 1600 users lost their data and it wasn't backed up on purpose. Oops. Funny thing though, our company kept the account and what remains of that company still works on it to this day!!
What happened to the co-worker? Well we all just kinda laughed it off and that 19 year old kid became the second youngest CCIE up to that point in time, and a year later got his second CCIE in security and is making comfortably north of 120k/yr now.
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Jericho4.0,
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, I thought my post was was quite on topic.
And yes, I don't think I will ever get a first post, and that was my best try without sitting on F5 waiting for new articles to post! And since my fat ass will never fit on just that little key without crushing the rest of the keyboard, I believe I have been relegated to FP limbo.
I'm glad you like my breasts... They're not real y'know, but some people can't tell.
Just look at the breasts on this first post!!
(.)(.)
Up yours FCC!
Now do you believe I RTFA?
Bush has no idea what's going on and can't answer our questions or uses "Your gonna die if you don't agree" answers.
Kerry has thoughful answers whether you agree with him or not, and you know he's intelligent enough to change his mind if confronted with appropriate facts.
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You live your life your way, I'll live my life my way.
I think I'll go drink a soda... but how can I drink the molecules that evaporate? or stick to the lining of the can?
One wonders how you'd go about drinking every drop of soda incuding evaporates and how you'd clean the inside lining.
You do the best you can, jackass. /. so they went and made everybody read it cuz it's a headlining article.
That may be one of the dumbest, most smartass trolls I've seen on
I just read the italicized line again and I am amazed once more. I don't use the word stupid often but in this case....
...better pr0n
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Just another case of that scary technology stuff.
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Then stop being a father and human and start acting like one and teach your kids what is right and wrong, how to act polite with company, what they should and shouldn't watch, yada yada yada
Nothing gets done just looking at it or waiting for others to do it!
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no they don't. My NVidia cards work sweet, My ATI cards do not. Same system, two different motherboards.
It has nothing to do with pacemakers, it's all about the remote monitoring equipment that the hospitals use. This is old technology however, as most newer hospitals or newer installed equipment allow cells phones everywhere now. However, I asked several times about this during my hospital stays, and I never spoke with anyone who ever heard of the cell phones interfering with the monitoring. Just like there has never been a plane downed due to electronic gadgets, they are just playing it safe.
And don't bother teling me I'm wrong, I've had 5 pacemaker type devices before the age of 35. And no, microwave ovens don't mean shit either for the last 10 years or more.
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With their track record, I'm afraid if ATI gets their shit together, the only thing we'll have is a nice big pile of ATI shit. Don't get me wrong, the potential is there (boot under windows to see it though). I can't even begin to tell you about my Linux/ATI woes. Well, OK, I just did begin, but it wasn't a detailed report.
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Yeah, ten thousand anonymous cowards!!
Intel won't say if it has licensed AMD's x86-64 extensions. But Barrett seemed to hint that Intel's technology will be somewhat less than completely compatible with AMD's instruction set.
"For the most part, (software) will run on both systems," he said. "Intel has some (things) unique to Intel, which we will make sure people write, port and tune to."
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Lots and lots of tinfoil... around the walls of the apartment of course, not your head.
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Many times, These are just boilerplates obtained from HR software or previous companies. I have had occasion to change, and add, to employee aggreements.
Did I hire a lawyer? Did I freak and farm my resume some more and never return their calls? No, I Simply asked them if I could modify it. The response 2 times out of 3? "Sure, that's just what we had at my last company." Just make your change, initial it, and let them know.
If they have a problem, they'll tell you. If your tin hat gets in the way, let them know you want a lawyer to proof it first. We all know how important it is to protect our million dollar ideas. Let me know when I have mine please.
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Back in the day (mid-80s), our computer curriculum went like this:
1. Machine language (hex coding)
2. Assembly
3. Pascal
4. There was no 4
If you ask me, even though I didn't go into programming, by taking these courses (and understanding them) I am a better systems engineer, because I do know the low level stuff, and how that affects the systems I'm working on, be it infrastructure, network OS, or client side.
(bad metaphor) It's like cars. There are end users who get stuck on the side of the road. High level programmers who can work on their cars and even put one together. Then there are the low level programmers, who can make a sweet car, know the mechanical tolerances and even do some under the hood innovations. A good mechanic can put an engine together, a great mechanic can pick the materials and the molds and work on indy cars.(/bad metaphor)
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Your Bad Idea is actually the better idea. It's called a weeder class for a reason.
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In your article Linux cyber-battle turns nasty by Stephen Evans, dated February 5, Mr. Evans specifically points to the Open Source community as the cause of the MyDoom virus. Here are some specific factual errors:
"So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge." As has been proven by several REPUTABLE organizations, LinuxWorld has the news:
"In a story that would completely exonerate the Linux community, accused by SCO of perhaps being behind this week's e-mail virus, the Moscow Times is carrying a story this morning that the first e-mails infected with MyDoom [trace] back to addresses with Russian Internet providers."
There are several more sources, this one dated February 2 should suffice, please do your own research next time.
Also the following: "Meanwhile the court dispute between SCO and Linux users (rather than the cyberspace war between SCO and the hackers) is scheduled for next year in a court in Utah." is actually between IBM and SCO. If I need to point out sources for that one, turn in your press pass.
Another:"So, it seems likely that the perpetrators of the MyDoom virus and its variants are internet vandals with a specific grudge.", or as REPUTABLE news organizations have pointed out by doing research beyond reading SCO press releases, the most likely perpetrator was or is working with spammers, using the SCO debacle as a way to hide the fact that the virus installed a spam relay on every computer it infected.
Also note:"The users are putting in place formidable defences. A group called Open Source Development Labs has set up a fund of $10 million with the backing of IBM and a host of other big Linux users." is only a partial truth, as HP (largest computer retailer in the world) has indemnified there users against lawsuits by SCO, as has Novell and several other companies, Red Hat foremost among the Linux companies.
Another:"This attack, though, is not blackmail. It is about malice not money." Spam is about money, or it wouldn't exist. And as for clever? This is an old trick in a new wrapper, there are tools for 12 year olds to do the same thing. Nearly every sentence is full of twisted truths, half lies, or factual errors.
This is the most irresponsible reporting from the BBC I have ever seen. Well, except for your most recent example of such that lost you several of your top executives. Please report the news, not FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). I am a Microsoft Certified Engineer working in a large Windows only company, and even I can see that this reporter is spewing complete nonsense. It's as if he woke up after a binge and needed to make his deadline, and so called Darl McBride for something to write up.
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Thank god for DVD players in cars now... That will make those 3 day trips cross country with the family much quieter.
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The very first fiber run in Phoneix went from one federal building to another. I'm not sure which, but they must have been important.
If you've ever seen an phone cable room underground, you know that the cables are straight, so straight that you can easily follow them across the room and usually clearly labeled. Well some dumbass manager went down into this one cable room underground in Phoenix, and saw this great big looping yellow piece of shit cable run and wanted it fixed pronto!! So he gets some new hire (been on the job less than a month) to go down there and I quote "Fix that Fu**ing thing! I want it to look just like the rest of the cable down there, and I'm gonna get the guy who installed it fired!!" (yes, he does come off as a jackass doesn't he?)
So this poor newbie goes down into the manhole and starts hammering, and tying down, this 'cable' run. He's using pliers, 3 pound mauls (why won't this stuff stay flat?) and whatever else he could do and wouldn't you know it, after 4 hours or so of this, it looks beautiful, just like the rest of the runs and even re-labeled!
Well, when this guy pokes his head out of the manhole, there are like 20 officers from the FBI, State DPS, County sheriff, ATF, and whoever else waiting for him with guns drawn!!!! Poor guy is fired on the spot and questioned for over 2 days, telling them he's not a sabateur and that his boss told him to do this. The boss doesn't fess up until the 3rd day of questioning, at which point HE is fired and the pleeb gets his job back.
The second first fiber run in Phoenix was back up shortly, and the other workers educated about it's "don't take a hammer to this shit" properties.
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in 2000, a co-worker was migrating a large Catholic Diocese, one of the top ten say, from Novell to Microsoft (I still don't know why) as I had somewhat purposefully(on my part) been asked not to come back for a while (but that's another, dumber story).
Anyway, not having done any such migrations before, after thoroughly RTFM, he set up, almost entirely correctly, the migration service and began moving users. The syncing tool was set to run just before backups, so that the backup would reflect that days migrations and updates.
It was supposed to go like this: copy all files from the Novell directory, nightly, to the new user directories on microsoft shares unless the Microsoft file was newer (hence indicating that user was migrated) and eventually all users, over the course of a week, would be migrated and the sync turned off. everyone transparently suddenly works with microsoft shares and la di da off they go.
It was an excellent plan with the exception of forgetting to check the little box that made sure that newer files were not overwritten with the old ones from the (now defunct) novell servers during syncing. So every night the old files would overwrite then newer ones. People started to complain about the third day that their changes to documents and such weren't "sticking", and on the last day of the migration, we figured out what had happened.
So every night, before backups, the newer files were being overwritten and then backed up. This included the Accounting, Newspaper articles, judgements, spreadsheets, EVERYTHING. For a whole week, 1600 users lost their data and it wasn't backed up on purpose. Oops. Funny thing though, our company kept the account and what remains of that company still works on it to this day!!
What happened to the co-worker? Well we all just kinda laughed it off and that 19 year old kid became the second youngest CCIE up to that point in time, and a year later got his second CCIE in security and is making comfortably north of 120k/yr now.
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How about a TMO (tiny multiplayer online)