It's not like CB radio. We don't just pick a "handle" and use it. We study, take exams, get a licence, and with it, an assigned callsign.
Here's one, for instance: I believe she's the one that dropped the bag.. And here's another you might know
the exact same problem U.S. fans have with iPlayer.
You guys started it with your stupid DVD region encoding, and releasing films over here weeks or months after they are released in the US.
Sauce, goose, gander, etc?
I'm working with a contractor whose contract is ending at the end of this month. He's had a couple of calls about jobs from agencies whose clients are "large media companies" about a massive ongoing project. I guess this is what it is. He's a Linux specialist too, so I guess there'll be a lot of Linux experts needed in the coming months.
it'd be silly to set up a 2nd machine running 24/7 so that I could turn mine off a few hours a day.
Get an HP Thin Client, or similar. Leave that running, it'd draw 8 watts, I think. Then you could SSH to it, and send the WOL packet to your big, beefy 400W PSU box.
It'd be nice if all IRC servers spoke a common protocol - then a network could use a variety of different IRCds.
I migrated from Unreal to Inspircd about a year ago (phew), and it was a problem. I had (until then) assumed that the IRC linking protocol was a common protocol (like SMTP or XMPP). Oh no.
So, to all the IRC software people - get together, and standardise on a single format. You can have an "extensions" section in the protocol for your specific additions, but make it a general, federated protocol.
The problem as I see it is that on a video call, you can't hold your phone to your ear.
That then means that you have to have it on loudspeaker (not acceptable when anyone else is around), or you have to have a headset plugged in.
Frankly, paying extra, making sure you look OK, and putting on a headset for a call is just not worth it.
We're just conditioned to hold a phone to our head when we ring someone, and I think that is part of why video calling isn't taking off.
Bandwidth is a big problem too - and most of the networks in the UK are cutting back on their unlimited data deals because they can't cope with the traffic.
I'm just really impressed that the.gov.uk is using torrents. I'd have expected you'd have had to apply, and it would have been posted to you on a stack of DVDs.
In what alternate universe do these little weapons with _tons_ of yield work "just as well" in destroying hard military targets compared to devices that yield in _kilotons_?
not to mention the fact that it might be a high probability of being a journey to certain death
I've always wondered - why not find people who are dying of long term illnesses, and ask them to go, with all payment going to surviving family/friends?
Or criminals on death-row/in prison for life? Again, offer them payment to their family/friends.
Please tell me that's a typo? Are we talking about the same thing? An LFT? Where they take blood from you, and check levels of substances? Twenty thousand dollars? It's about £50 max, I'd guess.
They're pretty routine over here. Complaining of something? The doctor will take some blood, and tick the LFT box, oh, and maybe the TFT, and some others.
If that's what privatised medicine does for health care, long live the NHS.
Fuck it. Even if I'm completely wrong about it all, long live the NHS.
A very large company I know is moving from Oracle/MySQL to Voldemort for certain parts of their system. The two they evaluated were Cassandra and Voldemort.
Awww. That means it'll be hard to distinguish between the people in the UK who got it early, and those who didn't. My share price has dropped 15% on this news.
I'm confused. When I was thinking of learning a new language a few years ago, I took a good look at them all (well, the top 5 to 10), and picked one based on how many jobs there were, pay levels, non-proprietary-ness, etc.
One of the things I liked about Java was that there aren't any buffer overflows to worry about. Well, apart from ones in the JVM, but they are few and far between.
I don't understand when people say that all languages are as insecure as each other. Sure, people can do stupid things like not check input, etc - but when it comes to finding some sort of buffer overflow in a function/library?
If I had to write a website that would be deployed onto a box which was not touched for 5 years, I imagine that a Java-based site would have a better chance of faring than a PHP one.
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Well, you've confirmed it to death now - Netcraft confirms.
It's not like CB radio. We don't just pick a "handle" and use it. We study, take exams, get a licence, and with it, an assigned callsign.
Here's one, for instance: I believe she's the one that dropped the bag.. And here's another you might know
the exact same problem U.S. fans have with iPlayer.
You guys started it with your stupid DVD region encoding, and releasing films over here weeks or months after they are released in the US.
Sauce, goose, gander, etc?
I'm working with a contractor whose contract is ending at the end of this month. He's had a couple of calls about jobs from agencies whose clients are "large media companies" about a massive ongoing project. I guess this is what it is. He's a Linux specialist too, so I guess there'll be a lot of Linux experts needed in the coming months.
There are a lot of very rich Russians who wouldn't even notice if they lost $186 million.
Why are you attacking the GP?
it'd be silly to set up a 2nd machine running 24/7 so that I could turn mine off a few hours a day.
Get an HP Thin Client, or similar. Leave that running, it'd draw 8 watts, I think. Then you could SSH to it, and send the WOL packet to your big, beefy 400W PSU box.
I am looking at it the other way around. There is not really any reasons now to require root access in order to listen on ports below 1024.
Amen. I'm glad I'm not the only one. In this day and age, where anyone can run a Unix box, the whole "root under 1024" thing is redundant. http://calum.org/posts/root-to-bind-to-ports-under-1024.
Make it a damn kernel config option at the very least, and let me decide.
It'd be nice if all IRC servers spoke a common protocol - then a network could use a variety of different IRCds.
I migrated from Unreal to Inspircd about a year ago (phew), and it was a problem. I had (until then) assumed that the IRC linking protocol was a common protocol (like SMTP or XMPP). Oh no.
So, to all the IRC software people - get together, and standardise on a single format. You can have an "extensions" section in the protocol for your specific additions, but make it a general, federated protocol.
The problem as I see it is that on a video call, you can't hold your phone to your ear.
That then means that you have to have it on loudspeaker (not acceptable when anyone else is around), or you have to have a headset plugged in.
Frankly, paying extra, making sure you look OK, and putting on a headset for a call is just not worth it.
We're just conditioned to hold a phone to our head when we ring someone, and I think that is part of why video calling isn't taking off.
Bandwidth is a big problem too - and most of the networks in the UK are cutting back on their unlimited data deals because they can't cope with the traffic.
I told you I was ill
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I'm just really impressed that the .gov.uk is using torrents. I'd have expected you'd have had to apply, and it would have been posted to you on a stack of DVDs.
In what alternate universe do these little weapons with _tons_ of yield work "just as well" in destroying hard military targets compared to devices that yield in _kilotons_?
Quantity.
not to mention the fact that it might be a high probability of being a journey to certain death
I've always wondered - why not find people who are dying of long term illnesses, and ask them to go, with all payment going to surviving family/friends?
Or criminals on death-row/in prison for life? Again, offer them payment to their family/friends.
give someone a goal and they will try to accomplish it, to the point of losing all perspective of why they were given that goal to begin with
That seems fairly deeply wired too
The same amount?
"man touch", says koxkoxkox.
a ($20k) liver function test
Please tell me that's a typo? Are we talking about the same thing? An LFT? Where they take blood from you, and check levels of substances? Twenty thousand dollars? It's about £50 max, I'd guess.
They're pretty routine over here. Complaining of something? The doctor will take some blood, and tick the LFT box, oh, and maybe the TFT, and some others.
If that's what privatised medicine does for health care, long live the NHS.
Fuck it. Even if I'm completely wrong about it all, long live the NHS.
See if you can download Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show from somewhere. He's a funny old guy from the north of England, who talks like that.
A very large company I know is moving from Oracle/MySQL to Voldemort for certain parts of their system. The two they evaluated were Cassandra and Voldemort.
Awww. That means it'll be hard to distinguish between the people in the UK who got it early, and those who didn't. My share price has dropped 15% on this news.
I'm confused. When I was thinking of learning a new language a few years ago, I took a good look at them all (well, the top 5 to 10), and picked one based on how many jobs there were, pay levels, non-proprietary-ness, etc.
One of the things I liked about Java was that there aren't any buffer overflows to worry about. Well, apart from ones in the JVM, but they are few and far between.
I don't understand when people say that all languages are as insecure as each other. Sure, people can do stupid things like not check input, etc - but when it comes to finding some sort of buffer overflow in a function/library?
If I had to write a website that would be deployed onto a box which was not touched for 5 years, I imagine that a Java-based site would have a better chance of faring than a PHP one.
You know, I just assumed that it was a British knighthood. I had no idea other countries gave knighthoods. Live and learn. :)
C'mon, Dott.
tar zcvf `date '+%Y%m%d'`_configs.tgz /etc
Try date +%F for more concisosity. I made that word up, btw.