I urge you to write to Intel and let them know that you are dissatisfied with their license and that you want the ability to freely distribute their firmware.
Please note that nobody is asking them to open the source of their firmware--they just need to make it so that free operating systems can distribute their firmware without having to force their users to agree to this licensing.
Radiation levels in many parts of Iraq are way above normal background, and since the first Gulf War, the incidence of birth defects has risen dramatically. You can google for references yourself.
I'm sure that none of these birth defects were caused by the Iraq's mass-torching of Kuwaiti oil wells, right?
Uhm, that's assuming that MS is directly querying Google.
Who says that they haven't put a transparent proxy in front of unknowing MSN customers, capturing the results of those customers' queries. Not terribly difficult to implement and as a side effect, you are looking at a set of search terms that are most popular with your users--ones that MSN Search may want to improve.
1) As a windows user, plus some experience with Linux (Mandrake is running my current file/web server), where's the best place to start when trying to jump into one of the BSDs for a file/web server?
First off, don't listen to anybody that says the OpenBSD is not fit for heavy-duty serving or that FreeBSD is easier. I used FreeBSD for over seven years before switching to OpenBSD this year. OpenBSD is defintely server-capable (we run it here) and not just for firewalls. There is excellent documentatio available at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/. IMHO, it's the best documentation for any free OS. You will especially appreciate how easy it makes learning the pf firewall.
2) My drives are currently ext3; will BSD recognize that?
I don't want to say "no" because I'm not 100% sure but invariably, I'm happier using the native fs. My advice is to back up your files to CD-R or DVD-ROM and then restore them after reinstall.
The hackers in my company were not given any test data to work with (of course) in a particular web app we were building, which had (among other features) an online events calendar.
God forbid you show some common sense and input some non-offensive events like "Jane Doe's Birthday"...
The Apple Airport Express is what I use to stream my music library to my stereo system, its an amazing device which works great with linux considering it uses open standards.
Open standards? Last I heard, DVD John had to reverse engineer the Airport Express streaming encryption. Hardly an open standard.
That said, they are nice little boxes with excellent audio quality and CHEAP!
If you want a truly hardcorde messenger bag, you should check out Ortleib. Timbuk2 is good (we used to sell them) but I think the Ortleib's contruction is more "bomber".
However, if you want a computer bag, you really don't want a bike messenger bag. These bags are usually designed for papers and small packages--not heavy laptops. You're better off with a real laptop backpack. I love my JanSport pack--I think it's the "Firewire" model. I bought mine at the mall and probably paid about $100 than I would have paid at eBags. I carried a heavy Apple TiBook, along with books and cables, on a business trip to New Zealand. My laptop survived six flights, five hotels, and countless bus rides without a scratch.
Actually, the wireless D-Link webcam that we bought has (unfortunately) a web interface that relies on an ActiveX component to do the video streaming. So, no *nix support, no Mac support, no Firefox/win32 support.:(:(
That said, the camera makes available on-demand JPEG still images and I've used software that makes pseudo live video by quickly refreshing these images but its nowhere near as good as a streaming video file format.
On a side note, I tried like hell to get VLC to work with their (H326+ or something) implementation but could never make it happen.
There are lots of us that ARE NOT HERE that might have been if there were baby monitors "back then."
Re-read my posting, jackass. I said "cell phone baby monitors" and "live video feeds". That's slightly different from the across-the-house audio monitors that everybody uses. I'm referring to remote (out of the house) baby monitoring.
Hey, before you go drop $1000 on an electric bike, you need to consider this question: who is going to work on your bike when it inevitably breaks? Scanning through the thread and looking at web pages, I can tell you that pretty much every one of these "e-Bikes" has an electric motor mounted on a department store-grade bicycle. The motor drive makes up the lion's share of the bike's cost and you are ending up with a cheap steel (probably not even chro-moly) frame, crappy no-name low-grade derailluers and heavy, poorly-constructed steel wheels.
As a guy who grew up in his family's bicycle stores, let me tell you, I highly doubt that you are going to be able to find anybody to work on your e-bike when it breaks. Bike shops are usually reluctant to work on department store-grade bikes because you often end up breaking them even more when trying to fix them. Even if you have the mechanical skills to repair your own bike, the parts they use are often of non-standard size and replacements are not usually available. Keep in mind, I'm just talking about the bicycle that this e-bike is based on. When your local bike shop sees the motor on the wheel, they are going to cry.
Please, do yourself a huge favor and go to your locally-owned bicycle store and pick yourself up a quality name-brand bicycle. We sell Trek, Klien, and Gary Fisher, but Specialized and Cannondale are also pretty good, too. For the price of your e-bike, you'll get a high quality aluminum frame, durable Shimano components, tough aluminum alloy wheels, and a friendly local dealer who will gladly repair your bike if it breaks. At our store, customers get a free 30-day tune-up and subsequent minor adjustments are generally free for the first couple of years.
If you *really* don't want the life-improving effects of cycling and want power-assist, go get yourself a cheap, used Honda scooter or something.
I'd like to add that every single one of us here survived just fine without the benefits of cellphone baby monitors and live video feeds. I was raised by two working parents and spent much of my time with baby sitters and housekeepers. We had great babysitters, okay babysitters, and horrible babysitters. I could type a bunch of horror stories but none of the babysitters were bad enough to injure us though. It takes an incredibly stupid person to intentionally injure a child and you should be able to spot that kind of person in the interview process.
Like somebody else said, find a good neighborhood girl, treat her with respect, and pay her well and relax.
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I applied for an IT job there about five years ago and one of their managers called me back. Their salary range was definitely below industry standards but he said something funny which really turned me off on the job: this position required a lot of travel and when they travelled, they slept two people in the same hotel room because "it's the Wal-Mart way".
I wonder if free e-mail providers are using compression to make the provision of free 1GB+ accounts possible. Most e-mail is quite compressable. The only problem I see would be the CPU overhead of the compression/decompression. I've seen SSL accellerator PCI cards and HTTP compression PCI-X cards but I don't think I've ever seen a card that can do offloaded gzip compression.
Chris
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those two quicktimes have been downloaded close to 80,000 times today so far, but the server (dreamhost.com) appears to be going strong.
Your monthly hosting invoice is going (to be) pretty strong, too.
BTW, speaking as a dog trainer and having worked in kennels for many years the very BEST guard dog in the world is a Chesapeak Bay Retriever. They are gentle and loyal with the elderly and children but make the best, most intelligent guard dogs there is. A Chessie is NOT afraid to knock a perp over and stand on them snarling in there face and only bite if necessarly till help arrives without any training in protection work. Also, they love to "be tough" without actually being mean.
Couldn't agree with you more (see my.sig). They can be crazy and they can be high energy but they can also be chill and sweet.
The only problem with Chessies is that they are not suited to everybody. As I'm sure you know, they can also be food-protective and their wariness of strangers can lead to problems. A dog that attacks burglars is good but I've also had mine charge at neighbors who are walking down the sidewalk. You have to assert your dominance if you're going to own a chessie.
Please do not spread FUD. Almost all dogs available at the shelters will make fine and hardy pets. Why? Unfortunately, most injured or otherwise unadoptable dogs are put down if not claimed within a day or two of their arrival. There is nothing about the shelter process that will make a dog unhardy. Well, with the exception of diseases like Parvo--but this disease is not very common and will be very obvious within a few days of adopting a dog. If you adopt a dog, take it to the vet for a thorough check-up and you and pup will be fine.
One of the best dogs that I've ever had came from a shelter. You can't beat a good labrador mix from a shelter for their intelligence and character. I'm also a big fan of purebred Chesapeake Bay Retrievers but I advocate rescuing one (see my sig) instead of purchasing a puppy. There's just something about a rescued animal...most of them, especially those that have had some hard times, are truly appreciative of you as their saviour.
In addition, Durango is one of these "new Aspens", where college students hang out, there are a lot of older locals (ranchers, Navajo, people who showed up before the '70's, mainly), and so forth, but there are a LOT of VERY rich people around (WalMart heir rich; 4th richest in the US rich), who can afford these kind of eccentric houses (and seem to get off on living in this gorgeous place, and ruin the whole atmosphere at the same time because then no one else can afford to live there ).
Yeah, you aren't kidding. There are definitely some people around there who might want this. My girlfriend and I just got back from a trip to the area. Here are some pictures of one such ranch. I'll leave it to the readers to figure out whose ranch this is, but here's a hint: look at the sign--he makes clothing. This guy owns an insanely large peice of some of the prettiest land in the Unitied States. He has a very expensive-looking fence around the property and, believe me, it goes on for miles. I heard a funny story about his fence...if you know about ranch fencing, you know that you build a wooden fence with the railings on the inside edge of the fence posts. This way, your cattle don't push the railings out. Well, supposedly, Mr. RL didn't like the way this looked so he had his people reverse the railings--at enormous expense--to make it look pretty.
On a side note, there is a National Forest Access road through his property. We drove down it and I had to pee. To my girlfriend's horror, I got out and peed on his fence. Yes, now I can say that I have pissed on Mr. RL's fence.:)
I haven't looked at GNOME since the very early versions. I've always been a waimea/blackbox fan. The look and feel is very impressive--and nothing like MS Windows in my opinion. It looks crisp and business-like. This is attractive enough to get me to try it out. I wonder how long it would take to build on my P3 FreeBSD box...
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Use of this driver requires that you download Intel firmware which is covered by a very non-free and restrictive license.
I urge you to write to Intel and let them know that you are dissatisfied with their license and that you want the ability to freely distribute their firmware.
Please note that nobody is asking them to open the source of their firmware--they just need to make it so that free operating systems can distribute their firmware without having to force their users to agree to this licensing.
Radiation levels in many parts of Iraq are way above normal background, and since the first Gulf War, the incidence of birth defects has risen dramatically. You can google for references yourself.
I'm sure that none of these birth defects were caused by the Iraq's mass-torching of Kuwaiti oil wells, right?
Uhm, that's assuming that MS is directly querying Google.
Who says that they haven't put a transparent proxy in front of unknowing MSN customers, capturing the results of those customers' queries. Not terribly difficult to implement and as a side effect, you are looking at a set of search terms that are most popular with your users--ones that MSN Search may want to improve.
1) As a windows user, plus some experience with Linux (Mandrake is running my current file/web server), where's the best place to start when trying to jump into one of the BSDs for a file/web server?
First off, don't listen to anybody that says the OpenBSD is not fit for heavy-duty serving or that FreeBSD is easier. I used FreeBSD for over seven years before switching to OpenBSD this year. OpenBSD is defintely server-capable (we run it here) and not just for firewalls. There is excellent documentatio available at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/. IMHO, it's the best documentation for any free OS. You will especially appreciate how easy it makes learning the pf firewall.
2) My drives are currently ext3; will BSD recognize that?
I don't want to say "no" because I'm not 100% sure but invariably, I'm happier using the native fs. My advice is to back up your files to CD-R or DVD-ROM and then restore them after reinstall.
Good luck!
Chris
Maybe I've been living in a whole...I'm really lost here...Can somebody please tell me what the hell "I Love Bees" is?
Is this the new "All your base"?
The hackers in my company were not given any test data to work with (of course) in a particular web app we were building, which had (among other features) an online events calendar.
God forbid you show some common sense and input some non-offensive events like "Jane Doe's Birthday"...
"It's Funny. Laugh."
The Apple Airport Express is what I use to stream my music library to my stereo system, its an amazing device which works great with linux considering it uses open standards.
Open standards? Last I heard, DVD John had to reverse engineer the Airport Express streaming encryption. Hardly an open standard.
That said, they are nice little boxes with excellent audio quality and CHEAP!
No, read the story again, they aren't looking for a Linux application. They need a win32 app.
If you want a truly hardcorde messenger bag, you should check out Ortleib. Timbuk2 is good (we used to sell them) but I think the Ortleib's contruction is more "bomber".
However, if you want a computer bag, you really don't want a bike messenger bag. These bags are usually designed for papers and small packages--not heavy laptops. You're better off with a real laptop backpack. I love my JanSport pack--I think it's the "Firewire" model. I bought mine at the mall and probably paid about $100 than I would have paid at eBags. I carried a heavy Apple TiBook, along with books and cables, on a business trip to New Zealand. My laptop survived six flights, five hotels, and countless bus rides without a scratch.
Chris
Actually, the wireless D-Link webcam that we bought has (unfortunately) a web interface that relies on an ActiveX component to do the video streaming. So, no *nix support, no Mac support, no Firefox/win32 support.
That said, the camera makes available on-demand JPEG still images and I've used software that makes pseudo live video by quickly refreshing these images but its nowhere near as good as a streaming video file format.
On a side note, I tried like hell to get VLC to work with their (H326+ or something) implementation but could never make it happen.
There are lots of us that ARE NOT HERE that might have been if there were baby monitors "back then."
Re-read my posting, jackass. I said "cell phone baby monitors" and "live video feeds". That's slightly different from the across-the-house audio monitors that everybody uses. I'm referring to remote (out of the house) baby monitoring.
Hey, before you go drop $1000 on an electric bike, you need to consider this question: who is going to work on your bike when it inevitably breaks? Scanning through the thread and looking at web pages, I can tell you that pretty much every one of these "e-Bikes" has an electric motor mounted on a department store-grade bicycle. The motor drive makes up the lion's share of the bike's cost and you are ending up with a cheap steel (probably not even chro-moly) frame, crappy no-name low-grade derailluers and heavy, poorly-constructed steel wheels.
As a guy who grew up in his family's bicycle stores, let me tell you, I highly doubt that you are going to be able to find anybody to work on your e-bike when it breaks. Bike shops are usually reluctant to work on department store-grade bikes because you often end up breaking them even more when trying to fix them. Even if you have the mechanical skills to repair your own bike, the parts they use are often of non-standard size and replacements are not usually available. Keep in mind, I'm just talking about the bicycle that this e-bike is based on. When your local bike shop sees the motor on the wheel, they are going to cry.
Please, do yourself a huge favor and go to your locally-owned bicycle store and pick yourself up a quality name-brand bicycle. We sell Trek, Klien, and Gary Fisher, but Specialized and Cannondale are also pretty good, too. For the price of your e-bike, you'll get a high quality aluminum frame, durable Shimano components, tough aluminum alloy wheels, and a friendly local dealer who will gladly repair your bike if it breaks. At our store, customers get a free 30-day tune-up and subsequent minor adjustments are generally free for the first couple of years.
If you *really* don't want the life-improving effects of cycling and want power-assist, go get yourself a cheap, used Honda scooter or something.
Good luck,
Chris
I'd like to add that every single one of us here survived just fine without the benefits of cellphone baby monitors and live video feeds. I was raised by two working parents and spent much of my time with baby sitters and housekeepers. We had great babysitters, okay babysitters, and horrible babysitters. I could type a bunch of horror stories but none of the babysitters were bad enough to injure us though. It takes an incredibly stupid person to intentionally injure a child and you should be able to spot that kind of person in the interview process.
Like somebody else said, find a good neighborhood girl, treat her with respect, and pay her well and relax.
I applied for an IT job there about five years ago and one of their managers called me back. Their salary range was definitely below industry standards but he said something funny which really turned me off on the job: this position required a lot of travel and when they travelled, they slept two people in the same hotel room because "it's the Wal-Mart way".
Me: No thanks.
I wonder if free e-mail providers are using compression to make the provision of free 1GB+ accounts possible. Most e-mail is quite compressable. The only problem I see would be the CPU overhead of the compression/decompression. I've seen SSL accellerator PCI cards and HTTP compression PCI-X cards but I don't think I've ever seen a card that can do offloaded gzip compression.
Chris
those two quicktimes have been downloaded close to 80,000 times today so far, but the server (dreamhost.com) appears to be going strong.
Your monthly hosting invoice is going (to be) pretty strong, too.
Sony Puppy Fingerprint Identity Token
BTW, speaking as a dog trainer and having worked in kennels for many years the very BEST guard dog in the world is a Chesapeak Bay Retriever. They are gentle and loyal with the elderly and children but make the best, most intelligent guard dogs there is. A Chessie is NOT afraid to knock a perp over and stand on them snarling in there face and only bite if necessarly till help arrives without any training in protection work.
.sig). They can be crazy
Also, they love to "be tough" without actually being mean.
Couldn't agree with you more (see my
and they can be high energy but they can also be chill and sweet.
The only problem with Chessies is that they are not suited to everybody. As I'm sure you know, they can also be food-protective and their wariness of strangers can lead to problems. A dog that attacks burglars is good but I've also had mine charge at neighbors who are walking down the sidewalk. You have to assert your dominance if you're going to own a chessie.
Please do not spread FUD. Almost all dogs available at the shelters will make fine and hardy pets. Why? Unfortunately, most injured or otherwise unadoptable dogs are put down if not claimed within a day or two of their arrival. There is nothing about the shelter process that will make a dog unhardy. Well, with the exception of diseases like Parvo--but this disease is not very common and will be very obvious within a few days of adopting a dog. If you adopt a dog, take it to the vet for a thorough check-up and you and pup will be fine.
One of the best dogs that I've ever had came from a shelter. You can't beat a good labrador mix from a shelter for their intelligence and character. I'm also a big fan of purebred Chesapeake Bay Retrievers but I advocate rescuing one (see my sig) instead of purchasing a puppy. There's just something about a rescued animal...most of them, especially those that have had some hard times, are truly appreciative of you as their saviour.
Chris
If you decide to get a dog, PLEASE rescue one and do not buy a puppy. Too many great dogs are euthanized every day because nobody wants them.
In addition, Durango is one of these "new Aspens", where college students hang out, there are a lot of older locals (ranchers, Navajo, people who showed up before the '70's, mainly), and so forth, but there are a LOT of VERY rich people around (WalMart heir rich; 4th richest in the US rich), who can afford these kind of eccentric houses (and seem to get off on living in this gorgeous place, and ruin the whole atmosphere at the same time because then no one else can afford to live there ).
:)
Yeah, you aren't kidding. There are definitely some people around there who might want this. My girlfriend and I just got back from a trip to the area. Here are some pictures of one such ranch. I'll leave it to the readers to figure out whose ranch this is, but here's a hint: look at the sign--he makes clothing. This guy owns an insanely large peice of some of the prettiest land in the Unitied States. He has a very expensive-looking fence around the property and, believe me, it goes on for miles. I heard a funny story about his fence...if you know about ranch fencing, you know that you build a wooden fence with the railings on the inside edge of the fence posts. This way, your cattle don't push the railings out. Well, supposedly, Mr. RL didn't like the way this looked so he had his people reverse the railings--at enormous expense--to make it look pretty.
On a side note, there is a National Forest Access road through his property. We drove down it and I had to pee. To my girlfriend's horror, I got out and peed on his fence. Yes, now I can say that I have pissed on Mr. RL's fence.
Sorry. See link #2.
I couldn't resist.
Mason-powered site showcase: Utah Homes Now.com [utahhomesnow.com]
That was my sig.
That's not much of a showcase, bro.
I haven't looked at GNOME since the very early versions. I've always been a waimea/blackbox fan. The look and feel is very impressive--and nothing like MS Windows in my opinion. It looks crisp and business-like. This is attractive enough to get me to try it out. I wonder how long it would take to build on my P3 FreeBSD box...