that's what I did. it did come with win98, but I deleted it right off. just be careful when buying used- I made the mistake of buying from a tradeshow and it took 2 months before I could get a usable one.
I did end up with a gateway solo2150 which is working pretty well.
if you're not playing games, a 600 mhz will work fine. I have kde 3.1 and openoffice on debian and it runs with little lag.
ok, while I feel that they shouldn't be butting in on this, I don't really know how to tell them that. If you're gonna make an argument, make a clear and consise one...
I have finals this week, and my brain is fried from studying. it's one thing to post to slashdot, it's another to convice a government agency that they need to keep out of a field because I don't want them making money at my expense.
as much as I hate to say it, is there a cliffnotes for this subject- something I can spend 10 minutes reading before sending an intelligent and informed message to them?
wow, this is really interesting... I've never heard of this meteor before, however I find this really cool. I wonder why this was never mentioned in any of my chemistry, physics, geology, or biology classes in high school or college (last 10 years)?
on a side note... is anyone else creeped out by the picutre of the guy halfway down the page? *shudder*
I agree. Within 70 miles of my house, I accounted for 4 people besides myself that had the same name as me. Two even had the same middle initial.(This was the first thing I did when I was exposed to the internet for the first time way back when).
Now, my name isn't exactly common(Jesse), which makes it even more annoying. Spam for.name is a very LAME idea because names aren't unique, and most people know this.
but how are they going to procecute out-of-country spammers?
basically they're getting a huge verified list of email addresses. what I'd do is put some test addresses in there before my personal one and see if it gets spammed first.
Well, John's got money, perhaps he should talk to their board members and CEO. As much as I hate to say it, sometimes you gotta bribe to get stuff done.
Offer to make a donation, or figure out how to become a registered peroxide buyer(?)
Then again, there might always be other forces working against him. but I'm too tired to go into conspiracy theories:)
before ANYONE bitches about how difficult linux is to install, try knoppix. if it doesn't work, you may continue bitching.
I've been switched over to linux for almost a year now. I just tried knoppix about 2 months ago. I was IMPRESSED. I know I haven't been at the linux game for very long, but I gotta say, it's getting easier than windows. For christmas, I gave my brother a copy of knoppix (yes, I'm that broke), and had it booted on my parents computer within 5 minutes. Who my little brother can play Katomic whenever he wants. that makes him happy, and he's now playing with linux to boot. The only installation is when he gets to the boot prompt, he tells it to use 600x800 resolution because the monitor is crappy. That's it.
sorry bud, I count seven. Since I've never seen you before, I dub thee the nostradamus troll.
...and now for something completely on topic. I honestly don't know how to feel about this whole thing. On one hand, I obviously feel bad about this because people died trying to do something good. On the other, maybe it'll light a fire under congress' ass to get some funding, or maybe a major reform on nasa.
Let's face it- in it's current state, Nasa isn't doing much- just slurping down gov't money and doing nothing groundbreaking. Part of that is from budget cuts, the rest is because it's safer to maintain the status quo.
I get the feeling that Bush might want to privatize the space industry now that he as an excuse (he likes to privatize things- that means more campaign contributions).
I'm starting to get the feeling that it might be better off that way.
As for previous comments about nasa conspiracies that they knew before the shuttle tried to land, I have to agree that it's a possibility. If you were in nasa's shoes, would you tell the world that they were deadmen? I think not. It was a lose-lose situation, and it was better off for them to play dumb.
...but not perfect. Ok, here's the situation as I see it. We have a problem: Spam
We need a solution. So far filtering has been working good and is slowly getting better, but there's always gonna be the chance for false positives. so how do we stop this? I have no clue. We should probably start cracking down on open relays, even use governmental pressure if needed (on spammers in our countries and on the governments of other countries). They serve no real purpose other than facilitaing spam. What else can we do? Go after spammers legally. We need to make them pay. I bet if 1000 people sued ralsky for $500 a piece he'd start to take notice, but he still wouldn't learn. Some states, like washington, are doing that, and it seems to be working, or at least getting the spam recievers a little extra cash. If I lived there, I know I'd try it at least once. Hell, I might even pay for my braodband connection with the money I got from spammers:)
I've heard people recommend opt-out lists like they use for telemarketers- that's not gonna work because spammers are much more slimy- they'll use the opt-out list as a verified list.
We're not left with many choices, besides educating people to simply delete spam and DON'T buy from it. make it cost spammers money. if they sell even one thing, they they're winning.
I took a slightly fun approach. I'm building a list of 'legit' companies that sell your email address to spammers. What I did was bought a domain, and whenever I signed up for something, I used the companies name@ the domain, and had it all forward to one account. so when I get spam to musiccity@mydomain.com, I know that musiccity sold my email address (which they did).
Does anyone else have any Ideas how to stop spam? if so, save the redundant mods and reply.
I'm currently a Senior Computer Science major, and I'm really starting to dislike the idea of coding for a living. I mean, I love coding, but not with deadlines. This review sorta hit home. I'm not a 'careerist,' I just want to get a comfortable, low stress job that can support my wife and kids. I don't think that's possible, since I'd like to be a network admin.
There are some days where I'd give it all up to work the night shift at a seven-eleven, But I know the money just isn't there.
I had a similar situation with my laptop. there are plenty of people you can talk to screw with scammers. all else fails, the state attorney general is happy to get involved or get you on the right track, as is the better business bureau.
In my case, I lucked out- I contacted the people who leased the tradeshow space to them and they threated to wipe them off the circuit if I didn't get a full refund:)
never seen a vic-20, but if it was anything like my apple ][e was, do you realize how BIG of a balloon that would take?!
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not all of them are fat and ugly.
keep saying that, but until your discussing the finer points on functional programming versus OO programming with a hot chick during sex, you, my friend, are missing out.:)
or something like that on a internal company website. everyone except my supervisor thought it was fricking hillarious. it didn't do anything, just another waste of space.
I quit shortly thereafter when I realized the boss had no sense of humor.
absolutely correct. I feel for ya man. you were right.
HOWEVER, they tried something new- it needs some revision obviously, but when they're done it could be something great. don't rain too hard on their parade- you might use this some day.
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that's what I did. it did come with win98, but I deleted it right off.
just be careful when buying used- I made the mistake of buying from a tradeshow and it took 2 months before I could get a usable one.
I did end up with a gateway solo2150 which is working pretty well.
if you're not playing games, a 600 mhz will work fine. I have kde 3.1 and openoffice on debian and it runs with little lag.
as a bit of a pre-waring, I'm lazy...
ok, while I feel that they shouldn't be butting in on this, I don't really know how to tell them that. If you're gonna make an argument, make a clear and consise one...
I have finals this week, and my brain is fried from studying. it's one thing to post to slashdot, it's another to convice a government agency that they need to keep out of a field because I don't want them making money at my expense.
as much as I hate to say it, is there a cliffnotes for this subject- something I can spend 10 minutes reading before sending an intelligent and informed message to them?
but use scp. SCP is part of the SSH suite.
as a matter of fact, I mention it in my beginners walkthrough of ssh on my website. I'd suggest checking it out if you got the time.
and yes, it's probably got incorrect information, but it's sole purpose is to teach my future father-in-law how to use ssh.
wow, this is really interesting... I've never heard of this meteor before, however I find this really cool.
I wonder why this was never mentioned in any of my chemistry, physics, geology, or biology classes in high school or college (last 10 years)?
on a side note... is anyone else creeped out by the picutre of the guy halfway down the page?
*shudder*
I agree.
.name is a very LAME idea because names aren't unique, and most people know this.
Within 70 miles of my house, I accounted for 4 people besides myself that had the same name as me. Two even had the same middle initial.(This was the first thing I did when I was exposed to the internet for the first time way back when).
Now, my name isn't exactly common(Jesse), which makes it even more annoying. Spam for
but how are they going to procecute out-of-country spammers?
basically they're getting a huge verified list of email addresses.
what I'd do is put some test addresses in there before my personal one and see if it gets spammed first.
should be interesting either way.
Well, John's got money, perhaps he should talk to their board members and CEO. As much as I hate to say it, sometimes you gotta bribe to get stuff done.
Offer to make a donation, or figure out how to become a registered peroxide buyer(?)
Then again, there might always be other forces working against him. but I'm too tired to go into conspiracy theories:)
you mean like knoppix?
before ANYONE bitches about how difficult linux is to install, try knoppix. if it doesn't work, you may continue bitching.
I've been switched over to linux for almost a year now. I just tried knoppix about 2 months ago. I was IMPRESSED. I know I haven't been at the linux game for very long, but I gotta say, it's getting easier than windows.
For christmas, I gave my brother a copy of knoppix (yes, I'm that broke), and had it booted on my parents computer within 5 minutes. Who my little brother can play Katomic whenever he wants. that makes him happy, and he's now playing with linux to boot.
The only installation is when he gets to the boot prompt, he tells it to use 600x800 resolution because the monitor is crappy. That's it.
From the human flock nine will be sent away,
...and now for something completely on topic.
sorry bud, I count seven. Since I've never seen you before, I dub thee the nostradamus troll.
I honestly don't know how to feel about this whole thing. On one hand, I obviously feel bad about this because people died trying to do something good. On the other, maybe it'll light a fire under congress' ass to get some funding, or maybe a major reform on nasa.
Let's face it- in it's current state, Nasa isn't doing much- just slurping down gov't money and doing nothing groundbreaking. Part of that is from budget cuts, the rest is because it's safer to maintain the status quo.
I get the feeling that Bush might want to privatize the space industry now that he as an excuse (he likes to privatize things- that means more campaign contributions).
I'm starting to get the feeling that it might be better off that way.
As for previous comments about nasa conspiracies that they knew before the shuttle tried to land, I have to agree that it's a possibility. If you were in nasa's shoes, would you tell the world that they were deadmen? I think not. It was a lose-lose situation, and it was better off for them to play dumb.
...but not perfect.
Ok, here's the situation as I see it.
We have a problem: Spam
We need a solution.
So far filtering has been working good and is slowly getting better, but there's always gonna be the chance for false positives.
so how do we stop this?
I have no clue.
We should probably start cracking down on open relays, even use governmental pressure if needed (on spammers in our countries and on the governments of other countries). They serve no real purpose other than facilitaing spam.
What else can we do? Go after spammers legally. We need to make them pay. I bet if 1000 people sued ralsky for $500 a piece he'd start to take notice, but he still wouldn't learn. Some states, like washington, are doing that, and it seems to be working, or at least getting the spam recievers a little extra cash. If I lived there, I know I'd try it at least once. Hell, I might even pay for my braodband connection with the money I got from spammers:)
I've heard people recommend opt-out lists like they use for telemarketers- that's not gonna work because spammers are much more slimy- they'll use the opt-out list as a verified list.
We're not left with many choices, besides educating people to simply delete spam and DON'T buy from it. make it cost spammers money. if they sell even one thing, they they're winning.
I took a slightly fun approach. I'm building a list of 'legit' companies that sell your email address to spammers. What I did was bought a domain, and whenever I signed up for something, I used the companies name@ the domain, and had it all forward to one account. so when I get spam to musiccity@mydomain.com, I know that musiccity sold my email address (which they did).
Does anyone else have any Ideas how to stop spam? if so, save the redundant mods and reply.
I'm currently a Senior Computer Science major, and I'm really starting to dislike the idea of coding for a living. I mean, I love coding, but not with deadlines.
This review sorta hit home. I'm not a 'careerist,' I just want to get a comfortable, low stress job that can support my wife and kids. I don't think that's possible, since I'd like to be a network admin.
There are some days where I'd give it all up to work the night shift at a seven-eleven, But I know the money just isn't there.
You're not too far off.
I had a similar situation with my laptop.
there are plenty of people you can talk to screw with scammers. all else fails, the state attorney general is happy to get involved or get you on the right track, as is the better business bureau.
In my case, I lucked out- I contacted the people who leased the tradeshow space to them and they threated to wipe them off the circuit if I didn't get a full refund:)
never seen a vic-20, but if it was anything like my apple ][e was, do you realize how BIG of a balloon that would take?!
not all of them are fat and ugly.
:)
keep saying that, but until your discussing the finer points on functional programming versus OO programming with a hot chick during sex, you, my friend, are missing out.
duh, it has. When you add all our DNA extra bits together, it makes a large equation..... ...and the answer is 42.
so far every post I've read is complaining about "taxpayers money at work" or "why bother?"...you're looking at it the wrong way-
think of the uses of these maps!
ut2003, doom3, quake 10, counterstrike:anti-terrorist unit, etc... what ever.
I got chewed out for adding the variable
EvilBackDoor=true
or something like that on a internal company website. everyone except my supervisor thought it was fricking hillarious. it didn't do anything, just another waste of space.
I quit shortly thereafter when I realized the boss had no sense of humor.
absolutely correct. I feel for ya man. you were right.
HOWEVER, they tried something new- it needs some revision obviously, but when they're done it could be something great.
don't rain too hard on their parade- you might use this some day.
likewise, it also prohibits parrots.
"They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet."
then your muscles will atrophy. better give you a nice padded mouse wheel for excersise.
MS is the FIRST Office suite vendor to store documents as XML
or really? besides, microsoft has the OPTION (read: not it's primary, default format)
openoffice has been xml for quite a while now, and I'm sure there are others as well.
oh yeah, why do you have me listed as a foe? hope I'm not raining on your parade.
sorry man, my bad.
ebayconfirm.net it's been reported by a friend of mine since they tried to scam him last week.
fortunately it appears to be down now.
fact: quite a few politicians have affairs.
fact: in some countries, adultury is punished by castration...
wonder what the case would be if another country did that to a visiting US diplomat?
do as we say, not as we do.
was it tomi? I hate that bastard. he deserves to fry...