The U.S. Space Surveillance Network is currently tracking over 13,000 human-made objects larger than four inches (ten centimeters) in diameter orbiting the Earth
I have trouble keeping track of my car keys, wallet, and house keys - and they're usually within 10 metres of me. Perhaps I need a House Surveillance Network - actually, scratch that...
Orange in the UK have been running something like this for ages. Text some stuff, and you get a code that lets you have 2 tickets for one. Orange Wednesdays.
Look a little further on, and you'll see a twist: actgacgccggctatataSCOtgctagtagcgtatgctagctagtag. I don't know how the author thinks of things like that...:)
I spent 2 days pertty much solidly, trying to get Grub installed on a DL360 (or was it a 380?) with a ReiserFS root, and an EXT2 boot. After much gnashing of teeth, and hair pulling, I gave up. I'm sure it can be done. I am. It can be done. I believe you. But what a lot of hassle, loading reiser 1.5 stages, and stuff. Sod that. Lilo, point at kernel, lilo -v after a kernel upgrade, and init 6.
It's as retarded as the Debian boot disks not supporting the DL360 raid controllers. That was the last time I bothered trying Debian.
I have my own technique for languages - not sure if it will work for anyone else. Just watch films with the audio in your native language, and read the subtitles that are in the new language. It's a fun way to learn - it helps you learn grammar, vocabulary, and also the way that they say things differently from the English. Once you've done that, learn the pronounciation for the language, and attempt to speak as much like they do as possible. I've learnt Spanish and Dutch like this, but the bloody Russians dub foreign films - badly - which is ironic as they're a very literate educated bunch. Shakes fistskis at Russia. Even if they didn't though, you'd have to learn their alphabet first.
But as any Sysadmin will tell you - it's the users that actually make your website worthwhile. If you don't implement the latest thing they all clamour for, they will seek out new sites that do.
Oracle lets you encrypt columns within tables with AES128, AES192, AES256, or 3DES.
psql=> update table set column = encrypt(column, 'password', 'aes');
(PostgreSQL and MySQL users, I left you out on purpose. I said enterprise vendors, and I meant it.)
Well, both PG and MySQL can do this. Don't leave them out.
Bleargh - anyone remember this old thing? KDE 1.x. Got a box at work with it still on there - Redhat 7? 8? and it pains me.
But agreed on the comments about the default styles.
Only in the US. Don't forget that there are 4.7 billion people that haven't got a clue about/don't give a shit about Thanksgiving. And before everyone starts banging on about Slashdot being a US site, (which I think it is becoming less and less true all the time), it's not so hard to employ an editor in Europe, and possibly one another in Japan so that all timezones are covered, is it? I'm sure a dedicated geek would do it for the kudos of it - you wouldn't even need to pay them.
Basically, the UK (and others?) want to keep 12 noon as when the sun is at it's highest point above Greenwich (pronounced Grenidge for our Atlanticly challenged), and change the clocks accordingly to keep them in sync, but the US want to let time gradually go out of sync from the Earth's physical position, so that at some point, way, way into the future, 00:00 might be when the Sun was highest in the sky over Greenwich. Which seems really silly to me.
Cell phones have already handled (for well over a decade) things like handing an active call off from one access point to the next.
That's because the phone companies manually program in "adjacencies" - which cells are near to what. It's not the handset that says "I can see Cell 1241, I'm going to move" - it's the phone company's network that tells the phone to move.
WiFi is a lot more ad-hoc - you can't just put up a new cell on a phone network, and expect it to work.
I started playing with Slony this morning. Will have another try tomorrow. But if I was going to do that, I'd just do a dumpall | pg_restore onto the new one. The problem comes from having both installed at the same time. I could do it to a different location, but that's just hassle.
If I state in a court that as far as I know, no human has walked on Mars, I won't get imprisoned for perjury if that fact changes in a few decades.
Or even if they have already. Just as long as you genuinely didn't know that they had.
You did hear about it, right though? 1997, the Chinese danced around on Mars. With that girl from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You didn't get the memo?
Is the data format the same between 8.0.x and 8.1.x - i.e. can someone just upgrade the software, and stop and restart the daemons? Or will it require a pg_dumpall, stop, upgrade, start, and restore?
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Erm, what the fuck? If you know how to run a Linux box, you know how to run a Linux box. Used up all my mod points yesterday...
I have trouble keeping track of my car keys, wallet, and house keys - and they're usually within 10 metres of me. Perhaps I need a House Surveillance Network - actually, scratch that...
Perhaps Microsoft can send them a few developers to help out? Together, I'm sure they can really mess it all up :)
"No, I'm Brian, and so's my wife!"
Orange in the UK have been running something like this for ages. Text some stuff, and you get a code that lets you have 2 tickets for one. Orange Wednesdays.
Look a little further on, and you'll see a twist: actgacgccggctatataSCOtgctagtagcgtatgctagctagtag. I don't know how the author thinks of things like that... :)
I spent 2 days pertty much solidly, trying to get Grub installed on a DL360 (or was it a 380?) with a ReiserFS root, and an EXT2 boot. After much gnashing of teeth, and hair pulling, I gave up. I'm sure it can be done. I am. It can be done. I believe you. But what a lot of hassle, loading reiser 1.5 stages, and stuff. Sod that. Lilo, point at kernel, lilo -v after a kernel upgrade, and init 6.
It's as retarded as the Debian boot disks not supporting the DL360 raid controllers. That was the last time I bothered trying Debian.
I can see how that post can be +5, Informative - or even Insightful - but Interesting? :) I glazed over at "1959".... :)
I have my own technique for languages - not sure if it will work for anyone else. Just watch films with the audio in your native language, and read the subtitles that are in the new language. It's a fun way to learn - it helps you learn grammar, vocabulary, and also the way that they say things differently from the English. Once you've done that, learn the pronounciation for the language, and attempt to speak as much like they do as possible. I've learnt Spanish and Dutch like this, but the bloody Russians dub foreign films - badly - which is ironic as they're a very literate educated bunch. Shakes fistskis at Russia. Even if they didn't though, you'd have to learn their alphabet first.
But as any Sysadmin will tell you - it's the users that actually make your website worthwhile. If you don't implement the latest thing they all clamour for, they will seek out new sites that do.
psql=> update table set column = encrypt(column, 'password', 'aes'); (PostgreSQL and MySQL users, I left you out on purpose. I said enterprise vendors, and I meant it.)
Well, both PG and MySQL can do this. Don't leave them out.
What Makes a Good IM Client? One that does what you want it to.
Bleargh - anyone remember this old thing? KDE 1.x. Got a box at work with it still on there - Redhat 7? 8? and it pains me.
But agreed on the comments about the default styles.
Only in the US. Don't forget that there are 4.7 billion people that haven't got a clue about/don't give a shit about Thanksgiving. And before everyone starts banging on about Slashdot being a US site, (which I think it is becoming less and less true all the time), it's not so hard to employ an editor in Europe, and possibly one another in Japan so that all timezones are covered, is it? I'm sure a dedicated geek would do it for the kudos of it - you wouldn't even need to pay them.
I wonder what it sounded like to him? Or if he went deaf with the bang.
Until it mutates.
Basically, the UK (and others?) want to keep 12 noon as when the sun is at it's highest point above Greenwich (pronounced Grenidge for our Atlanticly challenged), and change the clocks accordingly to keep them in sync, but the US want to let time gradually go out of sync from the Earth's physical position, so that at some point, way, way into the future, 00:00 might be when the Sun was highest in the sky over Greenwich. Which seems really silly to me.
Does OWA use AJAX? I've only ever noticed it using standard HTML and Javascript - web-pages, and pop-ups.
That's because the phone companies manually program in "adjacencies" - which cells are near to what. It's not the handset that says "I can see Cell 1241, I'm going to move" - it's the phone company's network that tells the phone to move.
WiFi is a lot more ad-hoc - you can't just put up a new cell on a phone network, and expect it to work.
I started playing with Slony this morning. Will have another try tomorrow. But if I was going to do that, I'd just do a dumpall | pg_restore onto the new one. The problem comes from having both installed at the same time. I could do it to a different location, but that's just hassle.
Or even if they have already. Just as long as you genuinely didn't know that they had.
You did hear about it, right though? 1997, the Chinese danced around on Mars. With that girl from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. You didn't get the memo?
Is the data format the same between 8.0.x and 8.1.x - i.e. can someone just upgrade the software, and stop and restart the daemons? Or will it require a pg_dumpall, stop, upgrade, start, and restore?
I can see the value in anti-biotics, but LSD?
Free? Only if you buy their other products.