Very interesting. It's probably two thousand, seven hundred and nine because that's how lists are done. John, Mark, and Peter. Although having thought about it, it's two hundred and fifty-two thousand, four hundred and ninety-nine.
Perhaps it's due to the Germanic influence in our language? Drei und funfzig. (Apologies to the Germans here, I'm sure that spelling is wrong.
Well, anyway. As a Brit, the American way of missing the "and" just sounds horrible to me. Like you're trying to save.25 second of time saying it. You drop a lot of words from English. We're say: "Write to your MP". You'd say "Write your senator". Things like that. I forget the other examples.
I've been using it now for about 8 years. I find it a god-send to be able to SSH right from home, in through the v4 firewall, and straight into my desktop at work*. Saves messing around with all that VPN nonsense.
* Of course, there's a v6-filter in place too.
Zen are great. However, they're not implementing IPv6, or even contemplating it. I even offered, if they would provide the hardware and v4/v6 connection, to run a v6 gateway for all the people on Zen who wanted it. (My reasoning being that it's better to tunnel to a box in your ISP's network, than out to some other network.) They declined, and told me that there was no demand for IPv6, and that's why they weren't doing it.
As an aside, tunnelbroker.net has lots of PoPs around the world, so they're actually very good.
Do you include drunk driving incidents? People who later die of their injuries? Assisted suicide? What if a murder gets classified as an accidental death, due to corruption or incompetence?
Good point. I hadn't thought of those. However, drunk driving AFAICSeeIt is not murder. Murder has to be premeditated, with deliberate intent. De la Wiki:
Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide.
So no, drink-driving isn't murder. In my eyes, anyway. And I'd hope that most sane people would agree that helping someone who really wanted to end their life end their life wouldn't be included as murder either. Of course, that's a whole 'nother discussion.:)
Nobody in that could would ever talk to you again. Let alone invite you to dinner, because they could just happen to offer you something you might be allergic to and sue again.
I realized I'd rather go places than just have my phone tell people I'm at home...still.
That's what we sensible people call a false dichotomy. You can do both, you know. (Although I have never remembered to take it other than to the Netherlands one time.)
Write your own. http://calum.org/location/. I worked for a mobile telco until recently, so had access to the location info direct, but now I just run a GPS app on my phone, and it's much the same.
Me: "I can't connect to 192.168.7.241--it's out of admin slots for remote desktop"
So configure it so suspended sessions don't hang around long, and beat your other admins to make sure they log out when they're finished, and not just close the window. Why bother your boss with it?
The same way it applies to people in the UK who have a TV but do not watch the boring BBC channels... or those who have Cable or SKY and similarly, do not watch the BBC.
Or the people who pay tax for the fire service, and never use it, or the people that pay tax for military use, and don't agree with it, or the people....
So fucking what? I haven't any idea what Google Gadets (sic) do, least of all do I care that they intergrate (sic) into Plasma. I want a stable, fast, functional desktop.
I downloaded Kubuntu 8.04 to try out the new KDE, and boy was it a mess. I use KDE 3.5 on Gentoo at home, but am using Ubuntu (with Gnome) more and more recently, and I don't think I'll try KDE 4.* again for a good long while.
You can blame KDE for their release numbering, you can blame Kubuntu for jumping to such a load of junk, you can blame me for not reading all the documentation ever written about all the software I ever install, but at the end of the day, once burned, twice shy.
Well, thank heavens for that. Hopefully now the horrible, oldfashioned looking, bad file-selecting-dialogs GTK will slowly disappear. The number of times I've had to select something in/usr/bin, and have started to type/usr/bin only to have it try and go to/usr/sr or some nastiness.
Plus, OTA digital has shorter range the same way FM radio has shorter travel range than AM.
Huh? That's to do with wavelength, not mode or "digital-ness". A few kilowatts at 1MHz will go a damn sight further than a few kilowatts at 100 MHz. Ask any ham. The worldwide contacts are (almost) all under 30MHz.
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Well. I've never seen it before, so a few more times yet, I expect.
$ date ; ddate
Thu Feb 26 17:48:30 GMT 2009
Today is Boomtime, the 57th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3175
Very interesting. It's probably two thousand, seven hundred and nine because that's how lists are done. John, Mark, and Peter. Although having thought about it, it's two hundred and fifty-two thousand, four hundred and ninety-nine. .25 second of time saying it. You drop a lot of words from English. We're say: "Write to your MP". You'd say "Write your senator". Things like that. I forget the other examples.
Perhaps it's due to the Germanic influence in our language? Drei und funfzig. (Apologies to the Germans here, I'm sure that spelling is wrong.
Well, anyway. As a Brit, the American way of missing the "and" just sounds horrible to me. Like you're trying to save
I've been using it now for about 8 years. I find it a god-send to be able to SSH right from home, in through the v4 firewall, and straight into my desktop at work*. Saves messing around with all that VPN nonsense.
* Of course, there's a v6-filter in place too.
Zen are great. However, they're not implementing IPv6, or even contemplating it. I even offered, if they would provide the hardware and v4/v6 connection, to run a v6 gateway for all the people on Zen who wanted it. (My reasoning being that it's better to tunnel to a box in your ISP's network, than out to some other network.) They declined, and told me that there was no demand for IPv6, and that's why they weren't doing it.
As an aside, tunnelbroker.net has lots of PoPs around the world, so they're actually very good.
The XKCD that relates.
I added this to my /etc/hosts.deny file:
entertainment.slashdot.org
hosts.deny is for listing hosts (and services) to deny connections from. You're thinking of /etc/hosts.
No, they don't, because unimmunized kids are a health risk for the entire community.
Not if your kids have been immunised. Stop worrying about everyone else, and sort yourself out.
Good luck using your terrestrial packet switched networks in the middle of the Atlantic or in a remote valley in the Himalayas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
Di-di-dah-dit, and all that.
Define 'murder'
Do you include drunk driving incidents? People who later die of their injuries? Assisted suicide? What if a murder gets classified as an accidental death, due to corruption or incompetence?
Good point. I hadn't thought of those. However, drunk driving AFAICSeeIt is not murder. Murder has to be premeditated, with deliberate intent. De la Wiki:
Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide.
So no, drink-driving isn't murder. In my eyes, anyway. And I'd hope that most sane people would agree that helping someone who really wanted to end their life end their life wouldn't be included as murder either. Of course, that's a whole 'nother discussion. :)
And clearly they're all using the same reporting methods, so those numbers speak volumes... right?
Murders, per 100,000 population, per year. Seems fairly hard to fuck that up. How are you suggesting they're different?
Those who do not know the history are bound to repeat it's mistakes.
Those that know history, *and* the difference between it's and its are bound not to repeat its mistakes.
Imagine that Iran stationed troops at the Vatican and count the ways in which THAT would rub you the wrong way.
Honestly? I'm not Iranian, and I'm not Vatican(ese?), so I absolutely honestly wouldn't care in the least.
Would we be denying ourselves the use of certain orbits for hundreds of years?
Man! That would be annoying! No amateur radio contacts via the satellites put up there for that purpose :(
Are you saying then that 0.001 cents is different to 0.001 dollars?
Whoosh?
Nobody in that could would ever talk to you again. Let alone invite you to dinner, because they could just happen to offer you something you might be allergic to and sue again.
But - you could buy friends with that much money!
I realized I'd rather go places than just have my phone tell people I'm at home...still.
That's what we sensible people call a false dichotomy. You can do both, you know. (Although I have never remembered to take it other than to the Netherlands one time.)
Write your own. http://calum.org/location/. I worked for a mobile telco until recently, so had access to the location info direct, but now I just run a GPS app on my phone, and it's much the same.
Me: "I can't connect to 192.168.7.241--it's out of admin slots for remote desktop"
So configure it so suspended sessions don't hang around long, and beat your other admins to make sure they log out when they're finished, and not just close the window. Why bother your boss with it?
The same way it applies to people in the UK who have a TV but do not watch the boring BBC channels... or those who have Cable or SKY and similarly, do not watch the BBC.
Or the people who pay tax for the fire service, and never use it, or the people that pay tax for military use, and don't agree with it, or the people....
PS. BBC boring? You're off your head.
It even intergrates google gadets into plasma!
So fucking what? I haven't any idea what Google Gadets (sic) do, least of all do I care that they intergrate (sic) into Plasma. I want a stable, fast, functional desktop.
I downloaded Kubuntu 8.04 to try out the new KDE, and boy was it a mess. I use KDE 3.5 on Gentoo at home, but am using Ubuntu (with Gnome) more and more recently, and I don't think I'll try KDE 4.* again for a good long while.
You can blame KDE for their release numbering, you can blame Kubuntu for jumping to such a load of junk, you can blame me for not reading all the documentation ever written about all the software I ever install, but at the end of the day, once burned, twice shy.
if it will be cloudy on March 5th, 2010
It will be, I guarantee it. You didn't specify where.
Oooh, that's interesting - very nice tip! Merci beaucoup!
Well, thank heavens for that. Hopefully now the horrible, oldfashioned looking, bad file-selecting-dialogs GTK will slowly disappear. The number of times I've had to select something in /usr/bin, and have started to type /usr/bin only to have it try and go to /usr/sr or some nastiness.
Plus, OTA digital has shorter range the same way FM radio has shorter travel range than AM.
Huh? That's to do with wavelength, not mode or "digital-ness". A few kilowatts at 1MHz will go a damn sight further than a few kilowatts at 100 MHz. Ask any ham. The worldwide contacts are (almost) all under 30MHz.