...being installed at a cost of nearly $200,000...
I'm all for keeping soldiers comfortable whenever possible, but doesn't this seem excessive? Besides, who wants to play videogames when you can go out and drive the real thing?
The odd thing is that when listing the menu, the Waitress first mentiones "egg and bacon" followed by "egg, sausage and bacon" and only then beginning the spam entrees.
Mrs. Bun's problem was that she didn't listen hard enough.
Where in California are you? I live in Palo Alto (south of San Francisco, north of San Jose) and have Speakeasy DSL. $50/month gets me 608/128 as unfortunately I'm just barely out of range for 768/128. Or I could pay the same to SBC for 384/128 and sucky customer service.
I know a couple of people in Southern California, Orange County, who use Speakeasy as well. I suspect they are available wherever Covad can sell the lines.
Mod that up. This describes the last three months (and probably the next six months) of my life. Though we do now have a "catwalk" running from the custom climbing tree, across the hall and through a nicely finished hole in the wall into the stairwell. And a remote TV connected to the DirecTV receiver's RF out, cable run through the floor and the TV mounted on the wall. And new screens in the sliding doors, and a whole lot of plants and trees and stuff in the back patio, and a fountain in the front. As long as we were cleaning the living room...
*You see, because God is all powerful no mortal can hear God's voice without their head exploding which is why the Metatron is the "voice of God" so mortals can hear what is God saying without their heads exploding...
The same thing happens to me whenever I'm forced to listen to Alanis Morrissette. Brilliant casting, IMO.
This was interesting news when it happened, back in November. They went back to "normal" behavior in about March. The date on the linked story is January 16. Why is this posted now?
Apple II and IIe (and compatibles)
Atari
Coleco ADAM
Commodore 64
IBM PC (and compatibles)
Texas Instruments TI 99/4a (with Extended BASIC)
TRS-80 Models 1, 2, 3, and 100
TRS-80 Color Computer
VIC 20
Hmm, I seem to have at least three of those (C64, IBM PC [8088 4.77MHz!], VIC 20) in my garage. I wonder if it would work on an Osbourne?
This is brilliant and (not coincidentally) very close to what I have tried to implement at my place of torture^Wwork. It hasn't been easy, mostly because I work with a load of bloody useless loonies^W^W^Wchange-averse individuals.
"C:\My Documents" a concept invented by idiots and only supported by idiots.
What about SHFOLDER.SHGetFolderPath()? Any programmer who assumes the personal documents directory will always be "C:\My Documents" needs to have his head examined.
Like the bastard(s) who broke into our place last month. Somehow missed the huge Dell monitor on my wife's desk and the rack of PCs next to mine in their race upstairs. Presumably looking for drugs or jewelry in the bedroom. Anyway, we came home just as they hit the top of the stairs and they took off through the bedroom balcony--her expen$ive heirloom necklace (and my laptop) untouched, as was the rest of the house.
It freaked us out though, and we're thinking of creating some secured storage in the empty space under the stairs.
First, the door would be difficult to see if you weren't looking for it. Then once you got in, everything of value would be securely locked down (think heavy bars bolted to concrete foundation) or in fire safes themselves so secured.
I'd really like to put the computer rack in there too, if I can figure out the long-distance SVGA problem--the idea of cheap laptops as dumb terminals had simply not occurred to me. So thanks to the three or four people up there who mentioned it.
Count me in as a very happy SpamPal user. I have it set up with the Bayesian filter and the Notify plugin and it just works. It's still a bit rough 'round the edges because I have only been running it for a month or so (so there are still some false positives--mail tagged as spam that should be clean) but it's easy to retag as clean. Opera 7's new mail client includes complex filters which can easily filter on the tags SpamPal adds to suspected spam.
Some games will not run for me unless the user is an administrator. Any ideas or info you can point me to?
2000 and XP have the RunAs service, which adds an extra option to the context menu when you right-click on an executable. This lets you run programs as another user--usually the administrator, but it could be anyone. You could create a special higher-privileged account for games and tell them to RunAs that account, or even just logout (or in XP, Fast User Switch) and log in to that account. It should be possible to give the account enough privs to run the game and still not be full administrator level.
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...and now my company keeps on asking me to truck stuff around for trade shows, saving costs and having me haul stuff around when I don't really want to be....So, any ideas on what I should do? I can't just say "no, i'm not going to work on the show" as that is part of my job, but i don't want to be used as a cheap frieight loader!
Having just spent all damned weekend working on my taxes, I have one thing to say to you: unreimbursed business expenses. Mileage, depreciation, any repairs that fix damage caused by hauling company material, tolls, parking fees, etc. Keep mileage logs, and save your receipts.
Almost everything you buy has the manufacturers logo permanently emblazoned on it. I'm looking around and my computer, my calculator, my speakers, phone, watch, wallet, mugs, mp3 player, books cds, movies, etc,etc,etc all have manufacturer/creator logos/names on them.
Once you purchase something and it's yours, you are of course free to remove whatever branding the manufacturer's hyperactive marketing department has seen fit to excrete on it. As I am not intimately familiar with the terms under which Linux distributions include the GNU tools, under what conditions could the FSF require that GNU be part of the OS name? Or alternatively, under what conditions could a distribution maker remove the GNU tools or the GNU name from those tools? If the FSF wants the OS to be known as GNU/Linux, perhaps the license under which the GNU tools are provided could include a clause stating such. If they have not and are merely suggesting this terminology, it can be ignored.
Too bad that page doesn't seem to have been updated since last year sometime. I just sent him a version in InstallScript (InstallShield's scripting language). I'd enter in this contest but InstallShield isn't available on Linux.
/* 99 Bottles of Beer in InstallScript (c) 2003 Project Insomnia Released under GPL for http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/ Requires: InstallShield Professional 5 or greater */
#include "ifx.h"
NUMBER nBottles; STRING szTitle, szStatus, szTitleS, szStatusS;
program
Disable ( BACKGROUND ); Enable ( STATUSDLG );
for nBottles = 99 downto 0 switch ( nBottles ) case 1: szTitleS = ""; szStatusS = "s"; default: szTitleS = "s"; switch ( nBottles ) case 2: szStatusS = ""; default: szStatusS = "s"; endswitch; endswitch; Sprintf ( szTitle, "%d bottle%s of beer on the wall, %d bottle%s of beer", nBottles, szTitleS, nBottles, szTitleS ); if ( nBottles ) then Sprintf ( szStatus, "Take one down, pass it around, %d bottle%s of beer on the wall.", nBottles - 1, szStatusS ); else szStatus = ""; endif; SetDialogTitle ( DLG_STATUS, szTitle ); SetStatusWindow ( nBottles, szStatus ); Delay ( 1 ); endfor;
I can already see the same thing happening at McDonalds, as teens without broadband at home search through the trash bins and dumpsters to get the access codes for a few more hours of free, high speed Internet.
Trust me... you do NOT want to go dumpster diving behind the McD.
How many of you reading the parent post suddenly realized how dusty your monitor was and had to wipe it off before continuing? I usually just use my shirt sleeve.
Opera 7 has a "Nostalgia" mode which tries to imagine what a C64 Web browser might look like. Screenshot (6KB PNG)
It looks a lot like the Contiki browser, funnily enough.
I installed TurboTax onto a clean Win2000 guest OS in VMWare. The only boot sector the activation routines got to touch was the one on the virtual drive. Oh, and after I installed TT (but before using it), I made a copy of the Win2000 guest OS file. So if I wanted, hypothetically, I could copy that VMWare file to any other machine and run it from there. I don't have any intention of copying or sharing the software. But it pisses me off that a) I had to take these measures to ensure the safety and stability of my real OS installation, and b) for all the possible danger to my machine if I'd installed it the normal way, it was trivial to circumvent. Good move guys.
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Oh fine, they're airmen not soldiers, and they fly jets not drive tanks. My question is still valid.
The odd thing is that when listing the menu, the Waitress first mentiones "egg and bacon" followed by "egg, sausage and bacon" and only then beginning the spam entrees.
Mrs. Bun's problem was that she didn't listen hard enough.
Where in California are you? I live in Palo Alto (south of San Francisco, north of San Jose) and have Speakeasy DSL. $50/month gets me 608/128 as unfortunately I'm just barely out of range for 768/128. Or I could pay the same to SBC for 384/128 and sucky customer service. I know a couple of people in Southern California, Orange County, who use Speakeasy as well. I suspect they are available wherever Covad can sell the lines.
Mod that up. This describes the last three months (and probably the next six months) of my life. Though we do now have a "catwalk" running from the custom climbing tree, across the hall and through a nicely finished hole in the wall into the stairwell. And a remote TV connected to the DirecTV receiver's RF out, cable run through the floor and the TV mounted on the wall. And new screens in the sliding doors, and a whole lot of plants and trees and stuff in the back patio, and a fountain in the front. As long as we were cleaning the living room...
This was interesting news when it happened, back in November. They went back to "normal" behavior in about March. The date on the linked story is January 16. Why is this posted now?
Watch Cube. Take notes.
This is brilliant and (not coincidentally) very close to what I have tried to implement at my place of torture^Wwork. It hasn't been easy, mostly because I work with a load of bloody useless loonies^W^W^Wchange-averse individuals.
Like the bastard(s) who broke into our place last month. Somehow missed the huge Dell monitor on my wife's desk and the rack of PCs next to mine in their race upstairs. Presumably looking for drugs or jewelry in the bedroom. Anyway, we came home just as they hit the top of the stairs and they took off through the bedroom balcony--her expen$ive heirloom necklace (and my laptop) untouched, as was the rest of the house.
It freaked us out though, and we're thinking of creating some secured storage in the empty space under the stairs.
First, the door would be difficult to see if you weren't looking for it. Then once you got in, everything of value would be securely locked down (think heavy bars bolted to concrete foundation) or in fire safes themselves so secured.
I'd really like to put the computer rack in there too, if I can figure out the long-distance SVGA problem--the idea of cheap laptops as dumb terminals had simply not occurred to me. So thanks to the three or four people up there who mentioned it.
Count me in as a very happy SpamPal user. I have it set up with the Bayesian filter and the Notify plugin and it just works. It's still a bit rough 'round the edges because I have only been running it for a month or so (so there are still some false positives--mail tagged as spam that should be clean) but it's easy to retag as clean. Opera 7's new mail client includes complex filters which can easily filter on the tags SpamPal adds to suspected spam.
Wow. I don't like "trusted computing" much either, but equating MS to Nazi Germany is a stretch. I call Godwin's Law on you.
Real Genius
As I am not intimately familiar with the terms under which Linux distributions include the GNU tools, under what conditions could the FSF require that GNU be part of the OS name? Or alternatively, under what conditions could a distribution maker remove the GNU tools or the GNU name from those tools?
If the FSF wants the OS to be known as GNU/Linux, perhaps the license under which the GNU tools are provided could include a clause stating such. If they have not and are merely suggesting this terminology, it can be ignored.
How about one that runs on methane? Imagine, an economy based on cow farts...
Too bad that page doesn't seem to have been updated since last year sometime. I just sent him a version in InstallScript (InstallShield's scripting language). I'd enter in this contest but InstallShield isn't available on Linux.
/*
99 Bottles of Beer in InstallScript
(c) 2003 Project Insomnia
Released under GPL for http://99-bottles-of-beer.ls-la.net/
Requires: InstallShield Professional 5 or greater
*/
#include "ifx.h"
NUMBER nBottles;
STRING szTitle, szStatus, szTitleS, szStatusS;
program
Disable ( BACKGROUND );
Enable ( STATUSDLG );
for nBottles = 99 downto 0
switch ( nBottles )
case 1:
szTitleS = "";
szStatusS = "s";
default:
szTitleS = "s";
switch ( nBottles )
case 2:
szStatusS = "";
default:
szStatusS = "s";
endswitch;
endswitch;
Sprintf ( szTitle, "%d bottle%s of beer on the wall, %d bottle%s of beer",
nBottles, szTitleS, nBottles, szTitleS );
if ( nBottles ) then
Sprintf ( szStatus, "Take one down, pass it around, %d bottle%s of beer on the wall.",
nBottles - 1, szStatusS );
else
szStatus = "";
endif;
SetDialogTitle ( DLG_STATUS, szTitle );
SetStatusWindow ( nBottles, szStatus );
Delay ( 1 );
endfor;
Disable ( STATUSDLG );
endprogram
How many of you reading the parent post suddenly realized how dusty your monitor was and had to wipe it off before continuing?
I usually just use my shirt sleeve.
Opera 7 has a "Nostalgia" mode which tries to imagine what a C64 Web browser might look like. Screenshot (6KB PNG) It looks a lot like the Contiki browser, funnily enough.
I installed TurboTax onto a clean Win2000 guest OS in VMWare. The only boot sector the activation routines got to touch was the one on the virtual drive. Oh, and after I installed TT (but before using it), I made a copy of the Win2000 guest OS file.
So if I wanted, hypothetically, I could copy that VMWare file to any other machine and run it from there.
I don't have any intention of copying or sharing the software. But it pisses me off that a) I had to take these measures to ensure the safety and stability of my real OS installation, and b) for all the possible danger to my machine if I'd installed it the normal way, it was trivial to circumvent.
Good move guys.