And why, over the course of the thousands of years it would take for a noticable difference to occur, would the work day still be at the same absolute time of day, regardless of the fact that that time is now the middle of the night? Obviously the time change would be extremely slow, and humans would just naturally adapt to being awake in the PM. It really isn't a big deal...
My MP3 CD player has this. It also came with a pair of slim-format NiMH...which last for well over 10 hours. I've never had to use the external battery pack, but I carry it around in my backpack just in case I forget to charge the NiMH. It's really a convenience more than anything else. If you want the extended life, you can take the external pack with you, otherwise just use the built in batteries.
I always thought the reason they (big retailers) brought in the customer-swiping was to make it more difficult for cashiers to collect card#/PIN combos. There were a rash of episodes around here where employees scanned the card into a bogus reader and then just eyeballed the PIN.
Of course, it's still possible by replacing the pinpad, but it's a lot more difficult.
As an aside, I didn't even realize they were supposed to check signatures on debit cards. It's never happened to me, not once. Of course, the debit card network here is entirely seperate from the CC network (Interac).
If it had a Property of Miramax banner, it was probably a screener, taken from a VHS (or more likely) DVD source.
Are you sure you're getting DVDs and not a VCD or SVCD?
In any case, I agree. For most movies, I'm not willing to pay $13 to go see it. Heck, a $13 CD gets me more value for my money, and I'm usually not willing to pay that either.
Just want to clear up some of the issues you had, in case you ever decide to try out Debian again.
Finding binaries isn't that hard, if apt-get install doesn't work, searching Google should find it quickly. This is better in RedHat somehow?
But, it doesn't really matter since a dist-upgrade (from a fresh install) to unstable (or testing) will work without problems from a base install. You might run into problems if you do it from a fully-installed system, but it's fairly unlikely even then.
It's always a bad idea to circumvent a distro's package managment and install a package from source. If you have to install something from sources, it's best to create a package to make sure that the package managment tools know what files belong to it etc. You also might run into problems if some random program depends on what you just installed from source and APT doesn't know about it, then you're back to installing from source again. It's a slipperly slope, if you do it with one thing, you'll almost invariably end up doing it elsewhere too, until your package managment system is next to useless.
That said, if RedHat works better for you, by all means use it. Linux is about choice:)
In all the buildings I've ever had access to the fusebox in, 15A breakers have been standard (not that that's a whole hell of a lot...), in commercial buildings it's generally been 20A or 30A.
That's around Vancouver and Edmonton...but mostly newer buildings...perhaps you're in an older area?
You're forgetting that the cable drops would need to be documented:P
Of course, they could just unplug the cable from the switch...but perhaps there are dozens of switches to check..but even so, you're right. It should have taken no more than a few hours at most to disconnect the machine. Finding it is another matter, I helped with some cabling in a fairly small business in the area. They didn't have any documentation on the network whatsoever, and I presume that this isn't entirely uncommon, especially where things are constantly changing (and generally at a slow rate) and often installed by relatively uneducated people, such as in a college or high school.
You don't need the OS to protect you. All it takes is some common sense.
So when Microsoft implements all these annoyances (for someone competent with common sense), I'll be doing something wrong by editing the registry to turn them off?
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Any (traditional) encryption is brute-forceable, it just takes an exorbitant amount of cpu time to do so. IIRC, the RC5-64 challenge by RSA (a single ciphered message to decode) took something like 5 years to decode, using distributed.net's distributed computer, with 10's of thousands of nodes.
It's reasonably safe today, but it *is* decodable if you have the time (probably decades at minimum without a supercomputer at your disposal).
He said guns where designed to kill people. And that's exactly right. People didn't design guns so they could poke holes in a piece of paper, they designed them to win wars. It greatly obscures the meaning of the original poster if you take his post and portray it as saying 'guns can only be used to kill people'.
This is why you invest in admins that know what they're doing. For many companies it's still probably far cheaper than paying the telco to do it for you.
IT networks aren't inherently unstable. My telco (Telus in BC, Canada) recently switched their national network to an entirely packet-switched system. Not a hiccup, the telephone infastructure here has been fine. On the much smaller scale we're talking about here, it should be trivial to keep a data network going.
It takes half an hour, and the computer you build actually works, instead of crashing hourly like 90% of OEM boxes do. Not to mention that it will be built from decent components instead of an onboard-everything molestation of the PC architecture.
Every OEM I've ever used has had problems, and been built from shoddy parts, which, since this is./, often don't have Linux drivers (or even Windows ones for that matter). I'd much rather take the time to know that I'm getting decent equipment, for less money.
I've been (trying) IDE mode for the past few days...and every CD I burn has some sort of error. Audio CDs have messed up cuesheets, data CDs have corrupt files. Load ide-scsi up and it works fine.
Perhaps I'm just using the wrong driver, but it's the same one that I use with ide-scsi.
You do need to manually unmask the packages in/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to install Gnome 2.4 though. Just comment the lines in the section labelled:
# Gnome 2.4 RC mask
You also have to unmask libgnomeprintcups or something (it'll tell you when you try to emerge it)
Then just emerge -u gnome...I had to also remove some blocking packages...
The biggest problem with them was really Via's chipsets of the time. Drivers were extremely buggy on Windows, to the point of making them virtually unusable (at least on 3 machines I was forced to use from time to time). The one machine I got my hands on with an AMD chipset never caused me any grief.
Thankfully Via has cleaned up their act and now makes decent products.
CPU -> RAM: ~1.5GB/s (166MHz DDR)
7200RPM HD: ~20-50MB/s (sequential)
100mbit Ethernet: ~12.5MB/s
T3: ~5.5MB/s
T1: ~180KB/s
56k: ~5KB/s
Keyboard: ~2.5KB/s
Obviously all those figures are under optimal conditions, so yeah you're right...though I don't see how the hard drive would get much hotter from lots of access...it's the drive motor (along with air friction) that generates the most heat, not the heat actuator.
As for broadband...I dunno where you're from, but around here residential broadband is generally 1.5mbit+ down, and 512kbit+ up. You should move:P
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And why, over the course of the thousands of years it would take for a noticable difference to occur, would the work day still be at the same absolute time of day, regardless of the fact that that time is now the middle of the night? Obviously the time change would be extremely slow, and humans would just naturally adapt to being awake in the PM. It really isn't a big deal...
My MP3 CD player has this. It also came with a pair of slim-format NiMH...which last for well over 10 hours. I've never had to use the external battery pack, but I carry it around in my backpack just in case I forget to charge the NiMH. It's really a convenience more than anything else. If you want the extended life, you can take the external pack with you, otherwise just use the built in batteries.
And an oft misunderstood one, dumbass.
I always thought the reason they (big retailers) brought in the customer-swiping was to make it more difficult for cashiers to collect card#/PIN combos. There were a rash of episodes around here where employees scanned the card into a bogus reader and then just eyeballed the PIN.
Of course, it's still possible by replacing the pinpad, but it's a lot more difficult.
As an aside, I didn't even realize they were supposed to check signatures on debit cards. It's never happened to me, not once. Of course, the debit card network here is entirely seperate from the CC network (Interac).
If it had a Property of Miramax banner, it was probably a screener, taken from a VHS (or more likely) DVD source.
Are you sure you're getting DVDs and not a VCD or SVCD?
In any case, I agree. For most movies, I'm not willing to pay $13 to go see it. Heck, a $13 CD gets me more value for my money, and I'm usually not willing to pay that either.
Just want to clear up some of the issues you had, in case you ever decide to try out Debian again.
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Finding binaries isn't that hard, if apt-get install doesn't work, searching Google should find it quickly. This is better in RedHat somehow?
But, it doesn't really matter since a dist-upgrade (from a fresh install) to unstable (or testing) will work without problems from a base install. You might run into problems if you do it from a fully-installed system, but it's fairly unlikely even then.
It's always a bad idea to circumvent a distro's package managment and install a package from source. If you have to install something from sources, it's best to create a package to make sure that the package managment tools know what files belong to it etc. You also might run into problems if some random program depends on what you just installed from source and APT doesn't know about it, then you're back to installing from source again. It's a slipperly slope, if you do it with one thing, you'll almost invariably end up doing it elsewhere too, until your package managment system is next to useless.
That said, if RedHat works better for you, by all means use it. Linux is about choice
You just had to make your own post prove your point didn't you? :P
Weird...where in Canada are you?
In all the buildings I've ever had access to the fusebox in, 15A breakers have been standard (not that that's a whole hell of a lot...), in commercial buildings it's generally been 20A or 30A.
That's around Vancouver and Edmonton...but mostly newer buildings...perhaps you're in an older area?
You're forgetting that the cable drops would need to be documented :P
Of course, they could just unplug the cable from the switch...but perhaps there are dozens of switches to check..but even so, you're right. It should have taken no more than a few hours at most to disconnect the machine. Finding it is another matter, I helped with some cabling in a fairly small business in the area. They didn't have any documentation on the network whatsoever, and I presume that this isn't entirely uncommon, especially where things are constantly changing (and generally at a slow rate) and often installed by relatively uneducated people, such as in a college or high school.
You don't need the OS to protect you. All it takes is some common sense.
So when Microsoft implements all these annoyances (for someone competent with common sense), I'll be doing something wrong by editing the registry to turn them off?
Any (traditional) encryption is brute-forceable, it just takes an exorbitant amount of cpu time to do so. IIRC, the RC5-64 challenge by RSA (a single ciphered message to decode) took something like 5 years to decode, using distributed.net's distributed computer, with 10's of thousands of nodes.
It's reasonably safe today, but it *is* decodable if you have the time (probably decades at minimum without a supercomputer at your disposal).
I'd say that rule 1 for earning respect is deserving it in the first place.
He said guns where designed to kill people. And that's exactly right. People didn't design guns so they could poke holes in a piece of paper, they designed them to win wars. It greatly obscures the meaning of the original poster if you take his post and portray it as saying 'guns can only be used to kill people'.
If it hasn't been said, the best I've found (free or commercial) for Windows is Kerio Personal Firewall, availiable free from Kerio's site
This is why you invest in admins that know what they're doing. For many companies it's still probably far cheaper than paying the telco to do it for you.
IT networks aren't inherently unstable. My telco (Telus in BC, Canada) recently switched their national network to an entirely packet-switched system. Not a hiccup, the telephone infastructure here has been fine. On the much smaller scale we're talking about here, it should be trivial to keep a data network going.
Of i386 boxes, not macs...:
./, often don't have Linux drivers (or even Windows ones for that matter). I'd much rather take the time to know that I'm getting decent equipment, for less money.
It takes half an hour, and the computer you build actually works, instead of crashing hourly like 90% of OEM boxes do. Not to mention that it will be built from decent components instead of an onboard-everything molestation of the PC architecture.
Every OEM I've ever used has had problems, and been built from shoddy parts, which, since this is
I've been (trying) IDE mode for the past few days...and every CD I burn has some sort of error. Audio CDs have messed up cuesheets, data CDs have corrupt files. Load ide-scsi up and it works fine.
Perhaps I'm just using the wrong driver, but it's the same one that I use with ide-scsi.
According to their help page, this program will remove the toolbar. I don't know that I'd trust it though...
You do need to manually unmask the packages in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask to install Gnome 2.4 though. Just comment the lines in the section labelled:
# Gnome 2.4 RC mask
You also have to unmask libgnomeprintcups or something (it'll tell you when you try to emerge it)
Then just emerge -u gnome...I had to also remove some blocking packages...
The biggest problem with them was really Via's chipsets of the time. Drivers were extremely buggy on Windows, to the point of making them virtually unusable (at least on 3 machines I was forced to use from time to time). The one machine I got my hands on with an AMD chipset never caused me any grief.
Thankfully Via has cleaned up their act and now makes decent products.
And how many people run personal servers and don't have control of the reverse dns...
Your ISP provides IPv6, yet forces you to use PPPoE. How lame.
CPU -> RAM: ~1.5GB/s (166MHz DDR) 7200RPM HD: ~20-50MB/s (sequential) 100mbit Ethernet: ~12.5MB/s T3: ~5.5MB/s T1: ~180KB/s 56k: ~5KB/s Keyboard: ~2.5KB/s Obviously all those figures are under optimal conditions, so yeah you're right...though I don't see how the hard drive would get much hotter from lots of access...it's the drive motor (along with air friction) that generates the most heat, not the heat actuator. As for broadband...I dunno where you're from, but around here residential broadband is generally 1.5mbit+ down, and 512kbit+ up. You should move :P
The metric, and arguably proper date format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (entirely in descending order).
It's easiest to discern from others (dd/mm and mm/dd are totally ambiguous), makes the most sense etc...but we're talking about America here...
RTFA: the FAI puts a (I believe) 2 meter wingspan and length limit on this class of aircraft.