Someone give me a patch to remove Clippy, and I'll be satisfied with 2000 forever... )
There's a folder in the \program files\Office subfolders that's called "Actors" Delete the folder or its contents and you'll never have clippy bugging you - ever.
While I think that three degrees seems in theory like a community building tool, what worries me is the limit to 10 participants in a "posse" will create in groups.
So you're afraid that the homies and hispanics will form online gangs and do some serious shit? Come on! The worst you'll see is a DDoS/TCP drive-by shooting up some silly webserver. About the cliques: just remember/. is a clique too - though sometimes socially inept, but that's another thing. And the thing about broadband is, well, it's widely available in the developed countries, but geez... if you want to chat & listen to music but you don't have broadband just run xmms/winamp in the background and you're off (or go live on a Uni Campus... Err. No. Forget that.) I honestly think that the basic idea of the program is meritorious, but by limiting users to ten per group, and (and I could be wrong) users to one group, the collaborative aspects are blunted. YES it is meritorious (?) BUT limiting it to 10 concurrent users is just a smart networking policy. Geez... I surely wouldn't want my shared cable connection in the student apartment to be clogged with Jane Doe's traffic to/from her friends - all 58 of them.
I'm just wondering which distro they are running... Would it be big playa Red Hat or did they choose the less support-backed versions like Debian? I couldn't find anything on their site mentioning this either.
Remember that the attack only affected MS servers, and MS has plenty of enemies. If the attack had wiped out the transaction, inventory and employee records of thousands of companies, people might actually think twice about using MS products in the future. Interesting comment, especially because of M$'s next OS platform being based on Yucon - which is, by incident, SQL driven. Maybe these guys are running some preliminary tests. Imagine what can happen if 70% of the internet-connected desktops would flood the network with this kind of traffic.
I think the point is that the Slashdot editors just like the sound of "I bet Windows is prone to this vulnerability" way too much, and they'll post the story immediately, just to bash Windows. OTOH, they may take this story off the frontpage now because Windows in itself is not vulnerable, but Linux is...
Ehrm.... Nevermind... Sorry... Mindless rambling... Crave coffee... *Gollem! Gollem!*... Master is nice, takes care of cofee... No! he only makes Decaf! Decaf no good!
OK, I'm going to get a life now. You guys know someplace where you get a special deal for that?
Can I E-Mail a picture of my system to see if it will work with the product? Absolutely!! Send the picture to support@computerexhaust.com and we'll tell you if your system is compatible or not.
I just sent some pics of the Nvidia plant tour (pics somewhere in the middle)... I wonder what they'll tell me:-P
Again we're in the discussion of games make people kill. PEOPLE kill people, and playing a game doing just that is usually a big factor of letting some steam off for me. Mind you, I have never held a gun IRL, and wouldn't do so if I ever got a chance. Why? I'm opposed to violence in the real world. It is a downward spiral all the way. But what would be fun in a game where you would run around in camouflage gear and use foam webbing to neutralize your opponent? Take an analogy: why are cartoons so much fun? It's because it's "everyguy" down in "everytown" on his trip to "everybeach"... is a very common person. Yet at the same time this guy does not have limits. If the cartoonist wants to make him fly, he does... If he wants to make him a giant in episode #21, he does... Things you might want to do in real life sometimes (imagine telling your pointy haired boss off a la Dilbert) but are just unimaginable to most of us, are perfectly simple in a cartoon. Yet there always are a few people that take some things too literally, and the government acts to "protect the masses"... Aah... if only all the lunatics that take everything literally were on an island with a huge tower with a "jump" sign at the top...
'mystery force' it's the little green men, didn't you know that?
but NASA is unable to explain it. What do _they_ know? It's not that they've been to the moon or something [insert favorite conspiracy theory here]
Countless others are with you when you browse the web, some reading the same words at the same time, and yet you have no way of sensing their presence. How about the/. effect? Seems one way to sense the presence of a lot of people.
Let _me_ get this one this time... If I see another post with "in Soviet Russia" again, I will push this shiny red buttonthingy right here on my desk and nuke the US... Always telling jokes over other pples backs. BUAHAHAHAA *BOOOOM* the joke's on _YOU_ now Oops... do I sound like some terrorist hippy on speed? Ummm.. never mind... scroll along
I wouldn't mind this software - though a bit extended - running in music shops. If I would want to buy a cd and listen to it before I buy, I would like to have a touch screen with a 1-10 score for each song. That way I - the customer can express what I feel for each song so the Record Companies may actually see that they publish Bad Stuff (tm). Include two buttons on the screen saying "good music, will buy" and "crap again, will download favourite songs from P2P though" and they can get a legit sense of the consumers' viewpoints. This will be perfectly anonymous (yeehaw for paranoia) and optional. They can use this scheme for the downloaded software too, and privacy issues aside, both the consumer and the industry may benefit from this.
I'm sick of these mindless "funny" posts -granted, some of them _are_ funny- dissing Soviet Russia, while the "land of the free" is slowly turning into a fully legislated police state under the guise of Homeland Security (that is HomSec in newspeak). Write to your senator right now... yeah right, so he can put another bill up and look good in public? Get some free karma points with Joe Public with _your_ brilliant idea? Whatever... I know this is Off-Topic and I don't mean to rant but PUH-LEASE stop this. /. used to be a fun forum with great posts and intelligent discussions - I've been a/. visitor for more than 3 years now, thank you very much - but it seems to me that now most posters are more concerned with being modded funny than enlightening the other readers with a well-tought out personal perspective on any given subject, and I think most of the "older" members would agree with me on this. Bottom line: if you have nothing sensible to bring to this wonderful forum (I still read it for the interesting views that I fortunately still encounter in almost every article discussion), then don't post at all. Please don't think of me as boring, I do like the funny posts, but the balance seems to be gone.
Now I'm just glad I got this off my mind - I'll go out to some friends now telling them I got modded interesting on a Beowulf Cluster of First Posts regarding Natalie Portman with the content of the slashdotted site copied into the message for karma-whoring (did I get them all?).
How do they keep the darn thing closed? I mean, in car-audio subwoofer systems you tend to build the sturdiest structure imaginable, just to keep the box from rattling (blasting) apart, because of the massive soundwaves (ergo airwaves) that are generated. Could someone explain how they will be able to prevent that from happening and still allowing the door to open easily? Or would they use a "soundbox" cooling entrapment and conductor setup?
If anyone has more info than the PR-babble on both sites, I would appreciate that.
So Apple Computers might be sueing them again for using the "i" in front of their name??? iPod, iBook, iMac etc...
I think they should have been a bit more creative with their new name, even if they are avid Apple users, which you might think because they follow the naming so closely. OTH, maybe they do this on purpose to ride along with the big guys' advertising, you never know...
On a more humorous note, will we all get bandwidth on Ellen Feiss now?:-P
Slashdot Mirror
so I took it you meant Lines Of Code?
There's a folder in the \program files\Office subfolders that's called "Actors" Delete the folder or its contents and you'll never have clippy bugging you - ever.
While I think that three degrees seems in theory like a community building tool, what worries me is the limit to 10 participants in a "posse" will create in groups. /. is a clique too - though sometimes socially inept, but that's another thing. And the thing about broadband is, well, it's widely available in the developed countries, but geez... if you want to chat & listen to music but you don't have broadband just run xmms/winamp in the background and you're off (or go live on a Uni Campus... Err. No. Forget that.)
So you're afraid that the homies and hispanics will form online gangs and do some serious shit? Come on! The worst you'll see is a DDoS/TCP drive-by shooting up some silly webserver.
About the cliques: just remember
I honestly think that the basic idea of the program is meritorious, but by limiting users to ten per group, and (and I could be wrong) users to one group, the collaborative aspects are blunted.
YES it is meritorious (?) BUT limiting it to 10 concurrent users is just a smart networking policy. Geez... I surely wouldn't want my shared cable connection in the student apartment to be clogged with Jane Doe's traffic to/from her friends - all 58 of them.
And you were going for +5 Funny, right?
I'm just wondering which distro they are running... Would it be big playa Red Hat or did they choose the less support-backed versions like Debian?
I couldn't find anything on their site mentioning this either.
You might want to mirror the Library of Congress. That _should_ get you started.
You turn around the corner. Your foe (Server, 58 Hp 3D1) awaits. You engage battle. You /. the server.
You gained an experience level!
Remember that the attack only affected MS servers, and MS has plenty of enemies. If the attack had wiped out the transaction, inventory and employee records of thousands of companies, people might actually think twice about using MS products in the future.
Interesting comment, especially because of M$'s next OS platform being based on Yucon - which is, by incident, SQL driven.
Maybe these guys are running some preliminary tests. Imagine what can happen if 70% of the internet-connected desktops would flood the network with this kind of traffic.
3. = Profit! ;)
Though I can't imagine how
Kernel request:
could you insert the following line in mod_ACPI: "UPS on fire"
thx in advance
I think the point is that the Slashdot editors just like the sound of "I bet Windows is prone to this vulnerability" way too much, and they'll post the story immediately, just to bash Windows.
OTOH, they may take this story off the frontpage now because Windows in itself is not vulnerable, but Linux is...
Ehrm.... Nevermind... Sorry... Mindless rambling... Crave coffee... *Gollem! Gollem!*... Master is nice, takes care of cofee... No! he only makes Decaf! Decaf no good!
OK, I'm going to get a life now. You guys know someplace where you get a special deal for that?
Absolutely!! Send the picture to support@computerexhaust.com and we'll tell you if your system is compatible or not.
I just sent some pics of the Nvidia plant tour (pics somewhere in the middle)... I wonder what they'll tell me :-P
Again we're in the discussion of games make people kill. PEOPLE kill people, and playing a game doing just that is usually a big factor of letting some steam off for me. Mind you, I have never held a gun IRL, and wouldn't do so if I ever got a chance. Why? I'm opposed to violence in the real world. It is a downward spiral all the way. But what would be fun in a game where you would run around in camouflage gear and use foam webbing to neutralize your opponent?
Take an analogy: why are cartoons so much fun? It's because it's "everyguy" down in "everytown" on his trip to "everybeach"... is a very common person. Yet at the same time this guy does not have limits. If the cartoonist wants to make him fly, he does... If he wants to make him a giant in episode #21, he does... Things you might want to do in real life sometimes (imagine telling your pointy haired boss off a la Dilbert) but are just unimaginable to most of us, are perfectly simple in a cartoon. Yet there always are a few people that take some things too literally, and the government acts to "protect the masses"...
Aah... if only all the lunatics that take everything literally were on an island with a huge tower with a "jump" sign at the top...
yeah, but maybe this guy lives in Soviet Russia?
the site seems to be loading slow already after 5 mins.
Earth has one natural moon, and many thousand artificial satellites.
this is debatable, as astronomers have yet to agree on what a moon is.
'mystery force' it's the little green men, didn't you know that?
but NASA is unable to explain it. What do _they_ know? It's not that they've been to the moon or something [insert favorite conspiracy theory here]
Countless others are with you when you browse the web, some reading the same words at the same time, and yet you have no way of sensing their presence. /. effect? Seems one way to sense the presence of a lot of people.
How about the
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
I'll take those before _any_ Terminator movie, but YMMV
Let _me_ get this one this time...
If I see another post with "in Soviet Russia" again, I will push this shiny red buttonthingy right here on my desk and nuke the US... Always telling jokes over other pples backs. BUAHAHAHAA *BOOOOM* the joke's on _YOU_ now
Oops... do I sound like some terrorist hippy on speed? Ummm.. never mind... scroll along
I wouldn't mind this software - though a bit extended - running in music shops. If I would want to buy a cd and listen to it before I buy, I would like to have a touch screen with a 1-10 score for each song. That way I - the customer can express what I feel for each song so the Record Companies may actually see that they publish Bad Stuff (tm). Include two buttons on the screen saying "good music, will buy" and "crap again, will download favourite songs from P2P though" and they can get a legit sense of the consumers' viewpoints. This will be perfectly anonymous (yeehaw for paranoia) and optional.
They can use this scheme for the downloaded software too, and privacy issues aside, both the consumer and the industry may benefit from this.
I'm sick of these mindless "funny" posts -granted, some of them _are_ funny- dissing Soviet Russia, while the "land of the free" is slowly turning into a fully legislated police state under the guise of Homeland Security (that is HomSec in newspeak). Write to your senator right now... yeah right, so he can put another bill up and look good in public? Get some free karma points with Joe Public with _your_ brilliant idea? Whatever... /. visitor for more than 3 years now, thank you very much - but it seems to me that now most posters are more concerned with being modded funny than enlightening the other readers with a well-tought out personal perspective on any given subject, and I think most of the "older" members would agree with me on this.
I know this is Off-Topic and I don't mean to rant but PUH-LEASE stop this.
/. used to be a fun forum with great posts and intelligent discussions - I've been a
Bottom line: if you have nothing sensible to bring to this wonderful forum (I still read it for the interesting views that I fortunately still encounter in almost every article discussion), then don't post at all. Please don't think of me as boring, I do like the funny posts, but the balance seems to be gone.
Now I'm just glad I got this off my mind - I'll go out to some friends now telling them I got modded interesting on a Beowulf Cluster of First Posts regarding Natalie Portman with the content of the slashdotted site copied into the message for karma-whoring (did I get them all?).
Yours truly
Sander
If anyone has more info than the PR-babble on both sites, I would appreciate that.
I think they should have been a bit more creative with their new name, even if they are avid Apple users, which you might think because they follow the naming so closely. OTH, maybe they do this on purpose to ride along with the big guys' advertising, you never know...
On a more humorous note, will we all get bandwidth on Ellen Feiss now? :-P