If your in a larger scale organization IMHO you should take a look at Totality they do the heavy lifting on our servers running Solaris, Oracle, and Weblogic they do a rather fanatical job. We just put in tickets and they do upgrades and installs, do late at night recoveries, take tapes out of the backup server, etc. They have a nice blend of on-site and remote management. They fix stuff so I can sleep.
Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
For those of you who actually look on a user's history of posts, yes this is a variant of another post I did, however it's apropos here as well.
This would not be news. This weekend I in the NYC Port Authority and I saw a poster for a girl about 17 missing in NYC. I wonder why FOX 'News' hasn't pick this up. This is a shorter trip then Aruba. Guess as their overall ratings slip they can't afford real vacations, so a hot story in Aruba serves two needs. This is not that I don't care about the fate of Natalee Holloway, its a sad story. But the Aruba thing is a tempest in a teakettle./offtopic
I fit your general definition, however I don't confine myself to just engineering issues. Why break off one side of the subject of knowledge just because it has no 'science' in it? Curiosity encompasses all things from rockets to poetry. The so called liberal arts are the study of why people act like people.
It's over due, everybody should get them. Best if they are across the forehead, but if you went to Aruba and got a deep tan it may make it hard to run you thru the scanner. Don't you just hate it when these thing don't scan?
The Pirates of Substance With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan.
By Lincoln Spector
The curtain opens on a group of pirates sitting at their computers, surfing the Web and downloading illegal copies of copyrighted works. One of them, FREDRICK, tells the others that he will no longer take part of such piratical activity. The PIRATE KING, shocked by the news, bursts into song.
Tune: Pirate King
PIRATE KING: Oh better far to live and die
With music I take, not music I buy,
If a CD I hold in a high regard
I'll have it but not on my credit card.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where record execs are well to do;
But I will rip what the others sing,
And pass it around as a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
PIRATE KING: With rock and jazz and rap and swing
I am a Pirate King!
ALL: Hurrah!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
PIRATE KING: Tho' Napster's gone, I still can say
I help myself in a Napster way;
Copyright laws, I break, 'tis true,
But the laws are made for the wealthy few.
AOL-Warner has money to burn,
It isn't my money, it's not my concern.
I take their music, their movies; so soon
That I've had The Two Towers since the first day of June. For I am a Pirate King! ALL: You are! Hurrah for our Pirate King! PIRATE KING: For action movies are my thing I am a Pirate King! ALL: Hurrah! Hurrah for our Pirate King! Hurrah for our Pirate King!
I use an rss feed from http://www.dealmein.net/ People pitch in a find deals then post them. Sometimes you see FUD or ill considered postings but on the whole its really useful in the non-ebay world.
the bit with the mouse was great. James 'Scotty' Doohan was god.
"Die Cast Construction it's a lost art."
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"Die Cast Construction it's a lost art." -Optimus Prime.
Some of you might not remember the Transformer's episode. However it's useful in regards to building in space. Using focused sunlight and magnets you could build space stations and space craft. It would solve the delema mentioned in another article about the aging shuttle fleet. Why carry stuff up, when we can use moon rocks to build it.
" I've been attending the USENIX NT and LISA NT (Large Installation Systems Administration for NT) conference in downtown Seattle this week.
One of those magical Microsoft moments(tm) happened yesterday and I thought that I'd share. Non-geeks may not find this funny at all, but those in geekdom (particularly UNIX geekdom) will appreciate it.
Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager (henceforth MPM), was holding forth on a forthcoming product that will provide Unix style scripting and shell services on NT for compatibility and to leverage UNIX expertise that moves to the NT platform. The product suite includes the MKS (Mortise Kern Systems) windowing Korn shell, a windowing PERL, and lots of goodies like awk, sed and grep. It actually fills a nice niche for which other products (like the MKS suite) have either been too highly priced or not well enough integrated.
An older man, probably mid-50s, stands up in the back of the room and asserts that Microsoft could have done better with their choice of Korn shell. He asks if they had considered others that are more compatible with existing UNIX versions of KSH.
The MPM said that the MKS shell was pretty compatible and should be able to run all UNIX scripts.
The questioner again asserted that the MKS shell was not very compatible and didn't do a lot of things right that are defined in the KSH language spec.
The MPM asserted again that the shell was pretty compatible and should work quite well.
This assertion and counter assertion went back and forth for a bit, when another fellow member of the audience announced to the MPM that the questioner was, in fact David Korn of AT&T (now Lucent) Bell Labs. (David Korn is the author of the Korn shell)
Uproarious laughter burst forth from the audience, and it was one of the only times that I have seen a (by then pink cheeked) MPM lost for words or momentarily lacking the usual unflappable confidence. So, what's a body to do when Microsoft reality collides with everyone elses?"
Not to mention the things NASA has brought to American Technology. TANG alone is worth cost of three shuttles. However on a serious note, NASA works on practical engineering. Their ideas are pirated by every Defense contractor and many other industries. This is the goose that lays golden eggs. Now I am going to go lay down on my Temperpedic bed and drink some TANG.
Nothing money can't fix. SciFi is loaded now and Fox is likely to look at the success of Battlestar Galactica and allow a renegotiation. That and pour themselves a nice piping hot cup of STFU.
Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can never bathe twice in the same river. Confucius, while looking at a stream, said, "It is always flowing, day and night." The Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight. We may be tempted to say that because things are impermanent, there is suffering. But the Buddha encouraged us to look again. Without impermanence, life is not possible. How can we transform our suffering if things are not impermanent? How can our daughter grow up into a beautiful young lady? How can the situation in the world improve? We need impermanence for social justice and for hope.
If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away.
If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.
General Motors: 19.48 billion adjusted for debts
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GM has a major outbound flows. I was reading how of every car they ship $1600 goes to just Pensions. Their stability is declining. Income from tangibles is all well and dandy, but Google's has next to no materials overhead which tips the scale. Still it's not the income, it's the long term stability. Keeping Google afloat is cheap. If a goose eats $100 bill then it better lay golden eggs and this goose is laying some nice golden eggs. Once last word to the to wise, playing the stocks is like surfing. You ride the wave till it falls. Long term anything in the stock market is a fools game.
Lucky me I just came from Seattle and I am hiding in AC'ed offices, server rooms, and am making my landlord poor because utils are included. But I plan to be nice to him and upgrade the 70's era AC units with modern ones. How do I know they are 70's era? Who pray tell uses brown plastic anymore??
Nice bit of underhanded baiting there yourself. Not that I don't agree on many levels. Solaris isn't so immature, however the user level stuff is horrific and unfriendly. I know I am a Solaris admin. Get into big oracle or financials systems then tell me it's child's play. Still over all your correct.
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Using a keyword instead of actual investigation is both lazy and useless. Look at how bad the that works in the Help desk industry. How much time do you waste because the person on the other line isn't able to think the problem thru? And we wonder why Ossama walks free and Saddam is in Jail (not that he shouldn't be). It was just took less effort to find him.
Climatology, simple chemistry, pharmacology Ethics, Mathematics, Economics, Archaeology, History, and the list goes on and on. The guy is a Luddite..
If he could read I would get him a copy of
Jesus on Mars by Philip José Farmer
Selling Science to the this Congress and the bush administration, that's a losing cause. You need to tell them that Jesus is on Mars. Then they will open the spigots of money. If you think I am kidding watch the people they replace these guys with. Can you say Doctorate in Theology?
Slashdot Mirror
If your in a larger scale organization IMHO you should take a look at Totality they do the heavy lifting on our servers running Solaris, Oracle, and Weblogic they do a rather fanatical job. We just put in tickets and they do upgrades and installs, do late at night recoveries, take tapes out of the backup server, etc. They have a nice blend of on-site and remote management. They fix stuff so I can sleep.
Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
For those of you who actually look on a user's history of posts, yes this is a variant of another post I did, however it's apropos here as well.
This would not be news. This weekend I in the NYC Port Authority and I saw a poster for a girl about 17 missing in NYC. I wonder why FOX 'News' hasn't pick this up. This is a shorter trip then Aruba. Guess as their overall ratings slip they can't afford real vacations, so a hot story in Aruba serves two needs. This is not that I don't care about the fate of Natalee Holloway, its a sad story. But the Aruba thing is a tempest in a teakettle. /offtopic
I fit your general definition, however I don't confine myself to just engineering issues. Why break off one side of the subject of knowledge just because it has no 'science' in it? Curiosity encompasses all things from rockets to poetry. The so called liberal arts are the study of why people act like people.
It's over due, everybody should get them. Best if they are across the forehead, but if you went to Aruba and got a deep tan it may make it hard to run you thru the scanner. Don't you just hate it when these thing don't scan?
The Pirates of Substance
With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan.
By Lincoln Spector
The curtain opens on a group of pirates sitting at their computers, surfing the Web and downloading illegal copies of copyrighted works. One of them, FREDRICK, tells the others that he will no longer take part of such piratical activity. The PIRATE KING, shocked by the news, bursts into song.
Tune: Pirate King
PIRATE KING: Oh better far to live and die
With music I take, not music I buy,
If a CD I hold in a high regard
I'll have it but not on my credit card.
Away to the cheating world go you,
Where record execs are well to do;
But I will rip what the others sing,
And pass it around as a Pirate King.
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
PIRATE KING: With rock and jazz and rap and swing
I am a Pirate King!
ALL: Hurrah!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
PIRATE KING: Tho' Napster's gone, I still can say
I help myself in a Napster way;
Copyright laws, I break, 'tis true,
But the laws are made for the wealthy few.
AOL-Warner has money to burn,
It isn't my money, it's not my concern.
I take their music, their movies; so soon
That I've had The Two Towers since the first day of June.
For I am a Pirate King!
ALL: You are!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
PIRATE KING: For action movies are my thing
I am a Pirate King!
ALL: Hurrah!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
Hurrah for our Pirate King!
I use an rss feed from http://www.dealmein.net/ People pitch in a find deals then post them. Sometimes you see FUD or ill considered postings but on the whole its really useful in the non-ebay world.
the bit with the mouse was great. James 'Scotty' Doohan was god.
"Die Cast Construction it's a lost art."
-Optimus Prime.
Some of you might not remember the Transformer's episode. However it's useful in regards to building in space. Using focused sunlight and magnets you could build space stations and space craft. It would solve the delema mentioned in another article about the aging shuttle fleet. Why carry stuff up, when we can use moon rocks to build it.
Einstein did NOT say it was impossible. However it would dip into tricky relativity questions.
if anything I am bigoted against know-nothing jerks who stand on flimsy data. I am writing this from a windows box.
I didn't write this but I wish I had been there.
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" I've been attending the USENIX NT and LISA NT (Large Installation Systems Administration for NT) conference in downtown Seattle this week.
One of those magical Microsoft moments(tm) happened yesterday and I thought that I'd share. Non-geeks may not find this funny at all, but those in geekdom (particularly UNIX geekdom) will appreciate it.
Greg Sullivan, a Microsoft product manager (henceforth MPM), was holding forth on a forthcoming product that will provide Unix style scripting and shell services on NT for compatibility and to leverage UNIX expertise that moves to the NT platform. The product suite includes the MKS (Mortise Kern Systems) windowing Korn shell, a windowing PERL, and lots of goodies like awk, sed and grep. It actually fills a nice niche for which other products (like the MKS suite) have either been too highly priced or not well enough integrated.
An older man, probably mid-50s, stands up in the back of the room and asserts that Microsoft could have done better with their choice of Korn shell. He asks if they had considered others that are more compatible with existing UNIX versions of KSH.
The MPM said that the MKS shell was pretty compatible and should be able to run all UNIX scripts.
The questioner again asserted that the MKS shell was not very compatible and didn't do a lot of things right that are defined in the KSH language spec.
The MPM asserted again that the shell was pretty compatible and should work quite well.
This assertion and counter assertion went back and forth for a bit, when another fellow member of the audience announced to the MPM that the questioner was, in fact David Korn of AT&T (now Lucent) Bell Labs. (David Korn is the author of the Korn shell)
Uproarious laughter burst forth from the audience, and it was one of the only times that I have seen a (by then pink cheeked) MPM lost for words or momentarily lacking the usual unflappable confidence. So, what's a body to do when Microsoft reality collides with everyone elses?"
source = http://www.flutterby.com/archives/1998_Sep/quicki
Not to mention the things NASA has brought to American Technology. TANG alone is worth cost of three shuttles. However on a serious note, NASA works on practical engineering. Their ideas are pirated by every Defense contractor and many other industries. This is the goose that lays golden eggs. Now I am going to go lay down on my Temperpedic bed and drink some TANG.
Nothing money can't fix. SciFi is loaded now and Fox is likely to look at the success of Battlestar Galactica and allow a renegotiation. That and pour themselves a nice piping hot cup of STFU.
and thats just because XP-pro was free from work's site license. I still do my windowish stuff in 2k.
I do too. If you consider it's about flexability, in stocks, life, gaming whatever. BTW, I actually follow the Tao.
Impermanence
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-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can never bathe twice in the same river. Confucius, while looking at a stream, said, "It is always flowing, day and night." The Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight. We may be tempted to say that because things are impermanent, there is suffering. But the Buddha encouraged us to look again. Without impermanence, life is not possible. How can we transform our suffering if things are not impermanent? How can our daughter grow up into a beautiful young lady? How can the situation in the world improve? We need impermanence for social justice and for hope.
If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away.
If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.
http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Treasure/impe
GM has a major outbound flows. I was reading how of every car they ship $1600 goes to just Pensions. Their stability is declining. Income from tangibles is all well and dandy, but Google's has next to no materials overhead which tips the scale. Still it's not the income, it's the long term stability. Keeping Google afloat is cheap. If a goose eats $100 bill then it better lay golden eggs and this goose is laying some nice golden eggs. Once last word to the to wise, playing the stocks is like surfing. You ride the wave till it falls. Long term anything in the stock market is a fools game.
Lucky me I just came from Seattle and I am hiding in AC'ed offices, server rooms, and am making my landlord poor because utils are included. But I plan to be nice to him and upgrade the 70's era AC units with modern ones. How do I know they are 70's era? Who pray tell uses brown plastic anymore??
and for those who have no clue what I am talking about, Kidnapped Dalek
Nice bit of underhanded baiting there yourself. Not that I don't agree on many levels. Solaris isn't so immature, however the user level stuff is horrific and unfriendly. I know I am a Solaris admin. Get into big oracle or financials systems then tell me it's child's play. Still over all your correct.
Using a keyword instead of actual investigation is both lazy and useless. Look at how bad the that works in the Help desk industry. How much time do you waste because the person on the other line isn't able to think the problem thru? And we wonder why Ossama walks free and Saddam is in Jail (not that he shouldn't be). It was just took less effort to find him.
Don't expect help from them.
Climatology, simple chemistry, pharmacology Ethics, Mathematics, Economics, Archaeology, History, and the list goes on and on. The guy is a Luddite.. If he could read I would get him a copy of Jesus on Mars by Philip José Farmer
Selling Science to the this Congress and the bush administration, that's a losing cause. You need to tell them that Jesus is on Mars. Then they will open the spigots of money. If you think I am kidding watch the people they replace these guys with. Can you say Doctorate in Theology?