My father is a database manager for the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and he telecommutes from home every day.
It's improved is mood greatly, and overall, I'd say it's a Good Thing(tm) to telecommute for jobs like this (as databases are pretty much made to be remotely accessible).
How will we pay for insurance on this? With credits?
But really, serious question: would the insurance rates be at all affected by driving this? The link mentions it's "street-safe" but there's more regulations on driving than just having this required component and that required component.
When you reinstall Windows on your dual-boot system and it destroys your partition table (not just the MBR mind you), the "morning after" pill comes in and wipes out the unwanted OS (Windows).
Then again, I'm an anal-retentive asshole nut.:)
(BTW, I'm not some insane person who doesn't indent; just the ecode tag doesn't want to indent my code:()
IIRC, there was a strip where Dilbert goes to buy a new computer and a salesman tells him that keyboards/laptops are outdated and he should use these little sensors that go underneath one's fingernails and sense where your fingers go.
In the final panel, you see his hands saying, "Bill, about last night..." and a rather embarrased face on the salesman.
"One observation...I've noticed a lot of people point out that Windows doesn't install all the other apps you want such as office software etc. while Redhat, etc. do. But, if Windows did do this, people would scream evil monopoly."
Well, let's see: if RedHat coded and produced all of those utilities, and/or (most importantly) gave you no choice but to include them in an install, I would scream evil monopoly at them too.
"Anyway, the installtion competition is pointless, win2k and XP install very quickly with almost no user intervention beyond setting the time zone."
My computer shipped with WinXP on it. I used it for a while, but then I decided it was time to create a few ext2 partitions at the end of the disk. So, lacking a version of PartitionMagic non-destructive partitioning that worked with NTFS, I used DiskDrake to create them destructively. I come out of the gates installing WinXP.
Mind you, I've (re)installed Windows 98 probably dozens of times on my old laptop. So WinXP installation was painless. But there was plenty of user intervention besides timezone config, like modem/network config (which *could* be a pain in the ass for a clueless user) (there were more, the specifics just don't come to mind this late). There was a flaw though, it set my 'system partition' to be I: instead of C:, which got me pissed at the beginning (because I couldn't change it and was never prompted during install about it), but I gradually got used to it. But it doesn't end here.
I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 (yes, an old version of Mandrake, but I couldn't find anything newer laying around) to the partitions at the end of the disk flawlessly. Everything went flawlessly; it even set up GRUB to boot into Windows if I felt like it. I hacked around in Linux for a while, and decided to go to Windows for some gaming.
Boy, was it a suprise when XP freezed at the splash screen. I figured at this point that it was an mbr problem, so I go into the Windows Recovery Console and run 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot'. This of course overwrites the MBR (luckily I made a boot disk for Linux). No luck booting into Windows.
After some snooping around, I find that Windows has apparently remapped I: to C: out of the blue, which of course made Windows sit in the corner and pout and not boot.
So I sigh deeply, search for the XP cd, and reinstall. Everything goes as before. I find my Mandrake 8.2 CDs and pop CD1 in to install it over 7.1.
Lo and behold, Mandrake tells me that my partition table is corrupted! Yippee-kiyay! So I restore it, and all looks well... but upon mounting them I get some problems. Undoubtedly, XP has fucked up my hard drive.
In a rage, I just wiped my hard drive clean and installed 8.2 over it all (33.9GB home directory, w00t). Off-topic, but it was probably one of the better decisions I've made in my young life.
I wouldn't call any of those shenanigans Windows pulled on me simple and easy.
Email this to the SpinMaster (Bill O'Reilly). You might want to edit it for "foul language" (as FOX "News" will probably censor it anyway... in fact, I doubt they would run it, but you might as well try)
> What do you think the chances are than Microsoft can create a VM to run on Solaris?
Can, or will? Microsoft has had plenty of time and loads of resources to port their products to Free (in the FSF sense) Operating Systems, like FreeBSD and Linux. But they don't, for fear that it will destroy their empire.
I think that Microsoft has plenty of opportunity to create a.NET VM on Solaris.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks. You stated it better than I did. messiertom the Liberal.
Sorry for feeding the trolls but:
> if it isn't politically correct or Americna [sic]-right leaning
You seem to be fairly confused - politcal correctness is a trait of the American Left, not the Right.
A bunch of ugly robotic bridesmaids in bad dresses to make the homely bride look even better.
My father is a database manager for the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and he telecommutes from home every day.
It's improved is mood greatly, and overall, I'd say it's a Good Thing(tm) to telecommute for jobs like this (as databases are pretty much made to be remotely accessible).
How will we pay for insurance on this? With credits?
But really, serious question: would the insurance rates be at all affected by driving this? The link mentions it's "street-safe" but there's more regulations on driving than just having this required component and that required component.
Stop it, now you're making me wish I was blind and had a time machine.
When you reinstall Windows on your dual-boot system and it destroys your partition table (not just the MBR mind you), the "morning after" pill comes in and wipes out the unwanted OS (Windows).
Well if this was talking about Linux and not OpenBSD... you might make some sense.
Well, more correctly, too bad it doesn't link
>
Header files aren't needed for a C program. For example, the following will compile, link, and run:
Then again, I'm an anal-retentive asshole nut.
(BTW, I'm not some insane person who doesn't indent; just the ecode tag doesn't want to indent my code
IIRC, there was a strip where Dilbert goes to buy a new computer and a salesman tells him that keyboards/laptops are outdated and he should use these little sensors that go underneath one's fingernails and sense where your fingers go. In the final panel, you see his hands saying, "Bill, about last night..." and a rather embarrased face on the salesman.
"One observation...I've noticed a lot of people point out that Windows doesn't install all the other apps you want such as office software etc. while Redhat, etc. do.
But, if Windows did do this, people would scream evil monopoly."
Well, let's see: if RedHat coded and produced all of those utilities, and/or (most importantly) gave you no choice but to include them in an install, I would scream evil monopoly at them too.
"Anyway, the installtion competition is pointless, win2k and XP install very quickly with almost no user intervention beyond setting the time zone."
My computer shipped with WinXP on it. I used it for a while, but then I decided it was time to create a few ext2 partitions at the end of the disk. So, lacking a version of PartitionMagic non-destructive partitioning that worked with NTFS, I used DiskDrake to create them destructively. I come out of the gates installing WinXP.
Mind you, I've (re)installed Windows 98 probably dozens of times on my old laptop. So WinXP installation was painless. But there was plenty of user intervention besides timezone config, like modem/network config (which *could* be a pain in the ass for a clueless user) (there were more, the specifics just don't come to mind this late). There was a flaw though, it set my 'system partition' to be I: instead of C:, which got me pissed at the beginning (because I couldn't change it and was never prompted during install about it), but I gradually got used to it. But it doesn't end here.
I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 (yes, an old version of Mandrake, but I couldn't find anything newer laying around) to the partitions at the end of the disk flawlessly. Everything went flawlessly; it even set up GRUB to boot into Windows if I felt like it. I hacked around in Linux for a while, and decided to go to Windows for some gaming.
Boy, was it a suprise when XP freezed at the splash screen. I figured at this point that it was an mbr problem, so I go into the Windows Recovery Console and run 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot'. This of course overwrites the MBR (luckily I made a boot disk for Linux). No luck booting into Windows.
After some snooping around, I find that Windows has apparently remapped I: to C: out of the blue, which of course made Windows sit in the corner and pout and not boot.
So I sigh deeply, search for the XP cd, and reinstall. Everything goes as before. I find my Mandrake 8.2 CDs and pop CD1 in to install it over 7.1.
Lo and behold, Mandrake tells me that my partition table is corrupted! Yippee-kiyay! So I restore it, and all looks well... but upon mounting them I get some problems. Undoubtedly, XP has fucked up my hard drive.
In a rage, I just wiped my hard drive clean and installed 8.2 over it all (33.9GB home directory, w00t). Off-topic, but it was probably one of the better decisions I've made in my young life.
I wouldn't call any of those shenanigans Windows pulled on me simple and easy.
Email this to the SpinMaster (Bill O'Reilly). You might want to edit it for "foul language" (as FOX "News" will probably censor it anyway... in fact, I doubt they would run it, but you might as well try)
I believe Scott Adams calls this kind of person a "Technology Prima Donna."
> What do you think the chances are than Microsoft can create a VM to run on Solaris? Can, or will? Microsoft has had plenty of time and loads of resources to port their products to Free (in the FSF sense) Operating Systems, like FreeBSD and Linux. But they don't, for fear that it will destroy their empire. I think that Microsoft has plenty of opportunity to create a .NET VM on Solaris.
Ooh, posting anonymously... I'm gonna stop using Linux now, you guys are so clever!!!
Would you believe some people actually believe that's for real? I won 2 years payment for a domain name from a bet on that :))