Which is probably why I can make money using BeOS (photo restoration)...sure, it's dead, until you open your eyes and see what is out there that really is great.
People have become used ot the idea that in order for an app to be useful, it must be huge and do everything under the sun. I have news for you, it isn't true. Some of the best BeOS software takes up less than 1 meg on disk, and does things that Windows programs can't do under 10 megs.
I'll completely agree with you. Games these days are all about flash, hardly substance. I much prefer emulators (esp. the atari 800, M.U.L.E. here I come!) over modern games.
We only live once (that we know of) so make the most of it. If you live right, once is enough.
I do anything I want to, if it interests me. Why? Because I can. I've been with OSHA, I've been a race car driver, I've been a writer, worked in a tattoo shop, network engineer, among other things.
Not for money or fame, I don't care about that, I did it because I wanted to. And I am richer (not in terms of wealth) for it. The experiences will last a lifetime, far beyond the thrill of a new computer or a new kernel upgrade.
Life finds a way to working itself out. I've never been homeless, even though I was jobless for a year. Even then, life had something to offer, if we would only learn from it.
As an aside, of all the jobs I've held, the illegal ones were most fun:)
Yes, it was in jest, I have no idea what KDE and Gnome are, beyond a GUI...I only have heard that there are 'disagreements' from the/. crowd. I use BeOS myself and we don't have GUI problems:)
Sorry, I've known this (and my clients are becoming {finally!} increasingly aware) for ages.
Yes, Windows (and related products) blow in regards to security, it just means that we have to go an extra (or more) step to make sure they don't blow up in our faces.
Yes, I run WinNT at work, it's stable, and not been disrupted by exploits/worms/virus/holes/whathaveyou, simply because I take the time to *make sure* it doesn't.
We all know that even *nix can have problems, so this is hardly surprising.
Because of where I work, I have to use Outlook Express. I know, sucks to be me. OE does have a filter setting so I can at least start putting keywords in and have mail sent to different boxes. I have found that a large (greater than 95%) of spam sent to me is "personalized", meaning that somewhere in the spam is my name.
Co-workers, friends, family, don't call me by my name, so I add my name to the kill-filter list and most spam goes bye bye. I only wish OE had an option to kill-filter anything with HTML in it since nearly 100% of my incoming spam contains HTML, sound, images and whatnot.
I'd love to see M$ get their act together and fix OE and Outlook and include modern filterin techniques (such as discussed in the main article) but I doubt it'll ever happen.
David Drake - Hammers Slammers F. Paul Wilson - does all kinds of interesting "SF" stuff. His Repairman Jack series is excellent. Wil McCarty (or McCarthy) - Aggressor Six - Best 1st encounter novel I've *ever* read (and I'm a sucker for 1st contact novels) Keith Laumer - His bolo series, cybernetic tanks (also turned into a series of books that went from kick ass to terrible in the space of 4 of them) Wilhelmina Baird - Crashcourse (and sequels) shows how cyberpunk can really be done properly. Worth catching.
Patricia Anthony - Brother Termite (she generally wrote excellent sci-fi from a most unique perspective)
What has become of this country? This is (sadly) not the first time a C&D letter has been the first volley on some unsuspecting (but well meaning) person.
I'd happily host the website on our web servers (my boss wouldn't care one bit about some lame C&D letter) but the entire list is gone, so much for a mirror.
(begin off-topic rant) I'll tell you my way out of this mess, win one of those huge honkin' powerball lotteries, then go buy an island somewhere and form your own country. The only problem I've encountered so far was naming it. I had originally thought of the word "France", but I hear it's been taken. (end off-topic rant)
When you drive a 2000 pound fiberglass car (my TVR 2500m) you have to be *acutely* aware of everything around you, like those lumbering 5000 ton SUVs that not only would squash me flat, but wouldn't even notice in the process of changing lanes.
I'm not arrogant about my driving skills, I am a better driver, not just because I drive fancy cars, but because my life depends on my driving skills (also honed by defensive driving classes and SCCA racing.)
I agree, but when I drive, I am placing my life in my hands, and my skills. Considering the types of cars I drive (see my webpage for more info) I have the skills to avoid getting killed while driving.
Placing my life (or my eyes) in someone elses hands...that's a different matter entirely. And to do so with the full knowledge they're using a MS product...well I don't have a deathwish yet;-)
My main.mp3 playing machine has no internet connection at all. No modem, no NIC. I get my.mp3s from another machine, burn onto cd-rom, and then transfer over to the main machine and play or create audio compilations.
I have yet to see any kind of activity where some program attempts to access a dial-up or network connection.
So if I've got an infected.mp3, the moment I play it, something should be going on, the hybrid should be cataloging all my.mp3s. Since I have several thousand.mp3s, I would suspect my hard drive to start spinning as the worm runs its course. Yet my drive stays down.
Where I work, we are strictly a word of mouth company. We don't have to advertise because the work I do is impeccable. When a customer comes with a broken machine, and I get it fixed quickly and save his data, I have a client for life. Furthermore, he will tell his friends, and so on, and so on.
I have more work than I can handle, and our company is growing carefully. I am ultimately responsible for any work performed on a computer, whether it is done by my boss, or my co-workers, because I take pride in what I do.
Regulation wouldn't help in this regard, but it *might* remove some of the shady/incompetent places, for example Gateway stores.
Not ten minutes ago a new customer came in crying that Gateway had formatted her hard drive to remove a virus. Data backup? What's that? Gateway didn't bother to tell her they were going to do this, they just did it.
As I said, regulation *might* remove these guys from the business, but I think word of mouth will do it faster.
When everything else goes wrong in one day, dropping the top and going for a cruise in my Alfa Romeo will make everything right in the world once again.
You know what I tell them? "No fucking way, you are NOT the FBI, you do NOT get my fingerprint. If you don't like it, I'll take my checking account, savings account, IRA and mutual fund account elsewhere."
You know what they say? "We're sorry sir, here's the money you are requesting."
Only one place (that I am aware of) in the world has my fingerprints on file, the FBI, and there's damn good reason they have them.
A bank? A grocery store? KMA.
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Perfection can't be found in people, so I certainly don't expect perfection from doctors. What I *do* expect is a modicum of competance.
Allow me to relate a story:
A client of mine's child was rushed to the ER because of a burst appendix. The child was operated on, and discharged the next day.
Day after that, re-admitted becuase of internal bleeding (docs didn't close the suture correctly)
Discharged the next day.
Re-admitted the day after that for complications from the 2nd surgery, which was supposed to correct the complications of the 1st surgery.
Gross incompetance at work here. And from my nursing clients, this isn't an isolated case.
I don't know why the rush to get them in and get them out, like a Burger King (I'm guessing the HMOs are behind that) but it's not doing any good for the patients.
Slashdot Mirror
Which is probably why I can make money using BeOS (photo restoration)...sure, it's dead, until you open your eyes and see what is out there that really is great.
People have become used ot the idea that in order for an app to be useful, it must be huge and do everything under the sun. I have news for you, it isn't true. Some of the best BeOS software takes up less than 1 meg on disk, and does things that Windows programs can't do under 10 megs.
I'll completely agree with you. Games these days are all about flash, hardly substance. I much prefer emulators (esp. the atari 800, M.U.L.E. here I come!) over modern games.
Just my 0.03$ worth (adjusted for inflation)
We only live once (that we know of) so make the most of it. If you live right, once is enough.
:)
I do anything I want to, if it interests me. Why? Because I can. I've been with OSHA, I've been a race car driver, I've been a writer, worked in a tattoo shop, network engineer, among other things.
Not for money or fame, I don't care about that, I did it because I wanted to. And I am richer (not in terms of wealth) for it. The experiences will last a lifetime, far beyond the thrill of a new computer or a new kernel upgrade.
Life finds a way to working itself out. I've never been homeless, even though I was jobless for a year. Even then, life had something to offer, if we would only learn from it.
As an aside, of all the jobs I've held, the illegal ones were most fun
Yes, it was in jest, I have no idea what KDE and Gnome are, beyond a GUI...I only have heard that there are 'disagreements' from the /. crowd. I use BeOS myself and we don't have GUI problems :)
Hell must be frozen over now.
You can't read can you?
Sorry, I've known this (and my clients are becoming {finally!} increasingly aware) for ages.
/., so it must be News for Nerds.
Yes, Windows (and related products) blow in regards to security, it just means that we have to go an extra (or more) step to make sure they don't blow up in our faces.
Yes, I run WinNT at work, it's stable, and not been disrupted by exploits/worms/virus/holes/whathaveyou, simply because I take the time to *make sure* it doesn't.
We all know that even *nix can have problems, so this is hardly surprising.
Still, it's
Because of where I work, I have to use Outlook Express. I know, sucks to be me. OE does have a filter setting so I can at least start putting keywords in and have mail sent to different boxes. I have found that a large (greater than 95%) of spam sent to me is "personalized", meaning that somewhere in the spam is my name.
Co-workers, friends, family, don't call me by my name, so I add my name to the kill-filter list and most spam goes bye bye. I only wish OE had an option to kill-filter anything with HTML in it since nearly 100% of my incoming spam contains HTML, sound, images and whatnot.
I'd love to see M$ get their act together and fix OE and Outlook and include modern filterin techniques (such as discussed in the main article) but I doubt it'll ever happen.
I can't get a peep out of their server...
David Drake - Hammers Slammers
F. Paul Wilson - does all kinds of interesting "SF" stuff. His Repairman Jack series is excellent.
Wil McCarty (or McCarthy) - Aggressor Six - Best 1st encounter novel I've *ever* read (and I'm a sucker for 1st contact novels)
Keith Laumer - His bolo series, cybernetic tanks (also turned into a series of books that went from kick ass to terrible in the space of 4 of them)
Wilhelmina Baird - Crashcourse (and sequels) shows how cyberpunk can really be done properly. Worth catching.
Patricia Anthony - Brother Termite (she generally wrote excellent sci-fi from a most unique perspective)
All Fucked Up.
What has become of this country? This is (sadly) not the first time a C&D letter has been the first volley on some unsuspecting (but well meaning) person.
I'd happily host the website on our web servers (my boss wouldn't care one bit about some lame C&D letter) but the entire list is gone, so much for a mirror.
(begin off-topic rant)
I'll tell you my way out of this mess, win one of those huge honkin' powerball lotteries, then go buy an island somewhere and form your own country. The only problem I've encountered so far was naming it. I had originally thought of the word "France", but I hear it's been taken.
(end off-topic rant)
When you drive a 2000 pound fiberglass car (my TVR 2500m) you have to be *acutely* aware of everything around you, like those lumbering 5000 ton SUVs that not only would squash me flat, but wouldn't even notice in the process of changing lanes.
I'm not arrogant about my driving skills, I am a better driver, not just because I drive fancy cars, but because my life depends on my driving skills (also honed by defensive driving classes and SCCA racing.)
I agree, but when I drive, I am placing my life in my hands, and my skills. Considering the types of cars I drive (see my webpage for more info) I have the skills to avoid getting killed while driving.
;-)
Placing my life (or my eyes) in someone elses hands...that's a different matter entirely. And to do so with the full knowledge they're using a MS product...well I don't have a deathwish yet
The death metal band "Onslaught", from their 1st album "Power From Hell". The tune was called "The Devil's Legion"
I was considering Laser realignment on my eyes, but when I went to talk to the eye doc, I found out his machine was running windows (NT IIRC).
I left immediately.
You evil remote-controlled garage door hackers you!
All of you should be strung up, you're wrecking this great country and letting the terrorists win.
(humor, sarcasm, or something close to that)
is happening over at Arstechnica in the Battlefront section: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=fr m&s=50009562&f=48409524
You may wish to join in and set some of them straight.
I personally don't use Linux on my machines (I prefer BeOS) but I'd hate to see a good *nix company go down.
(Posted as plain text because I prefer it that way)
My main .mp3 playing machine has no internet connection at all. No modem, no NIC. I get my .mp3s from another machine, burn onto cd-rom, and then transfer over to the main machine and play or create audio compilations.
.mp3, the moment I play it, something should be going on, the hybrid should be cataloging all my .mp3s. Since I have several thousand .mp3s, I would suspect my hard drive to start spinning as the worm runs its course. Yet my drive stays down.
I have yet to see any kind of activity where some program attempts to access a dial-up or network connection.
So if I've got an infected
Methinks this is FUD on the part of the RIAA.
If you knew in advance there was going to be confusion, and possibly controvery over this, then why even undertake it at all?
In Other Words, what is to be gained by this?
Improves the breed...I'm glad s3 is getting back in to video cards, if for no other reason than to ensure the other makers don't slack off.
And let's not forget about the awesome offering from BitBoys!! (humor)
Where I work, we are strictly a word of mouth company. We don't have to advertise because the work I do is impeccable. When a customer comes with a broken machine, and I get it fixed quickly and save his data, I have a client for life. Furthermore, he will tell his friends, and so on, and so on.
I have more work than I can handle, and our company is growing carefully. I am ultimately responsible for any work performed on a computer, whether it is done by my boss, or my co-workers, because I take pride in what I do.
Regulation wouldn't help in this regard, but it *might* remove some of the shady/incompetent places, for example Gateway stores.
Not ten minutes ago a new customer came in crying that Gateway had formatted her hard drive to remove a virus. Data backup? What's that? Gateway didn't bother to tell her they were going to do this, they just did it.
As I said, regulation *might* remove these guys from the business, but I think word of mouth will do it faster.
An Italian convertible sports car.
When everything else goes wrong in one day, dropping the top and going for a cruise in my Alfa Romeo will make everything right in the world once again.
Nevermind the overclocking, imagine the silence...no more fans, and as an added bonus, you get a stovetop cooker with every purchase :-)
You know what I tell them? "No fucking way, you are NOT the FBI, you do NOT get my fingerprint. If you don't like it, I'll take my checking account, savings account, IRA and mutual fund account elsewhere."
You know what they say? "We're sorry sir, here's the money you are requesting."
Only one place (that I am aware of) in the world has my fingerprints on file, the FBI, and there's damn good reason they have them.
A bank? A grocery store? KMA.
Perfection can't be found in people, so I certainly don't expect perfection from doctors. What I *do* expect is a modicum of competance.
Allow me to relate a story:
A client of mine's child was rushed to the ER because of a burst appendix. The child was operated on, and discharged the next day.
Day after that, re-admitted becuase of internal bleeding (docs didn't close the suture correctly)
Discharged the next day.
Re-admitted the day after that for complications from the 2nd surgery, which was supposed to correct the complications of the 1st surgery.
Gross incompetance at work here. And from my nursing clients, this isn't an isolated case.
I don't know why the rush to get them in and get them out, like a Burger King (I'm guessing the HMOs are behind that) but it's not doing any good for the patients.