Which makes me wonder, why not install heatsinks on hard drives? They shouldn't be getting *really* hot to begin with, and being that many old CPU's only needed a heatsink, a hard-drive should be happy with that.
With an angled heatsink, you get dissipation without vibration - enough that the internal circulation of the case should be able to take care of the rest.
To buy a book to realize when it's time to move on from your job, and follow your dreams? Magazines like "Reader's Digest" etc are full of stories about individuals who have left a depressing/draining job to find themselves. Of course, these stories never mention the people that try this, and end up broke back living with their parents, etc.
If your job really, truly, sucks 100% of the time, you should know when to move on. How you go about moving on really depends on the job you have, and the job/etc you want. For most people, a job is only part of life, and if it's burning you out at some point you can take a holiday, or focus more on family etc or something else that makes you happy outside of the workplace.
Almost nobody enjoys their job 100% of the time, it's how you manage with the rest of your life that counts.
A lot of the well known classics for Ninendo were created by or heavily involved rare.... doesn't anyone else find it surprising they shifted to X-box.
I still remember that big Rare logo on starting up Donkey Kong Country on SNES, and a few other popular nintendo games.
Well, it may be because I'm Canadian, but truly I've not seen much bad in having a numbered plate - other than insurance costs and speeding tickets tied to such.
The plate serves as a/an:
a) Indication that the person is legally entitled to drive (so long as the car isn't stolen,etc).
b) Identifier not only for legal bodies and government, but also for other motorists in the event of an accident.
c) Identifier in the case of stolen vehicles, abductions, etc
How many people actually remember this show and made the connection. The first thing I thought when I saw the name "Dave Barry" was, "Isn't that the guy from that old TV show."
Just goes to show, somebody with a brilliant mind and writing career... and a lot of people probably only know him through an old TV comedy.
Well... in this case it's because I want everyone else to have plates too, because I want to be able to identify them in the advent of an accident, etc.
Without license plates, the cases of a hit-and-run would likely be much greater. If some idiot in a Ford slams your car and takes off half a fender, he/she could then peel off away and not worry about anybody being able to readily identify him/her.
Granted, you might bring along a similar arguement for tagging people, but tagging one's person is a lot worse than tagging one's property - and the majority of people aren't involved in such incidents on a regular basis.
What qualified this technique as "cheap, and is it available to the home consumer?" I'm guessing that they probably don't have a kit for my home inkjet that would allow me to print mini-computers.
Still, if one could get a printer for say,
Note: With the current trend, I wouldn't be surprised if "CPU printers" cost $100, but the paper is $150/ream and the equivilent of ink somewhere in that range as well...
For any idiot who wants a method of tagging us like cattle... I wholly support rectal scans. I will also be happy to submit the contents of said oriface for.... um.. DNA examination, in the form of a flaming brown paper bag on the doorstep of supporting parties.
What if the car has a defect or flaw... and while there is a fix, released for said defect, some people aren't notified, and thus get in to fatal car accidents.
That being said, people are definately dumb for putting SQL databases online when not needed - however I worked for a company that this was needed at, so some of these were probably in that group.
In addition, good sysadmins should check for such patches, etc - especially with software known to have bugs or vulnerabilities at various intervals. Even 'nix software has bugs, but 'nix/bsd/etc sysadmins are often smart enough to check up on them.
Which is of course, one of the reasons I read slashdot. That and to laugh at those that don't and get downed by code-red, sapphire, whatever
Actually, using cat/dev/zero will screw you too. Remember that that copyrighted that song was X minutes of silence?
Although, one would think that "prior art" would have taken care of that a long time ago.
When I first started using linux GUI's, Ximian's Gnome desktop was one of the early one's I ran through and tried.
Even now, it's still rather impressive: nice themes, runs fairly quick/smooth, interesting suite of applications. Changing settings was also quite easy.
I've since tried running RedHat 8.0's packaged Gnome, and was considerable less impressed. The thing runs like a wounded Yak, and it's not nearly as pretty as Ximian.
Oh, and as a really nice point for GUI newbies... installing Ximian Gnome was "extremely" painless on RedHat, using a webpage piped through a shell: (substitute "links" for "lynx' as needed): lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
So basically what you're saying is that:
The bacteria more succeptible to the antibiotic are killed in the initial stages of treatment, but unless you continue nuking them for awhile then it's the remaining antibiotic-resistant strains that begin propogating again.
So, they don't truly spawn antibiotic resistant mutations, just propogate from the existant resistant strain.
This makes sense, and is a little less scary than having them "mutate" to adapt... but still leaves us with more resistant virii in the future:-(
Any reason why this would be better than one of the following using cron:
Create an NFS connection between PC's and the backup host. Directly tar or copy files to the host via a simple backup script (same as a tape script, but pointing to a file on the host)
Tar files, then securecopy (SCP) them to a remote host - or even do so directly
You could even (in a pinch) use samba (smbd, smbclient) to connect two PC's, and run a backup script
Just wondering... I'm actually looking at implementing some of these so it would be nice to know why this project is better.
I've been told several times (by people ranging from home-remedy moms to doctors/nurses etc) that if you take antibiotics or other related pills, but only take say 50% of them... and don't really kill off the disease, then said medication becomes much less effective in containing said disease when symptoms reoccur.
This is not true?
A few questions about this that may be of concern: The system may be able to generate randomized quests, etc. How will we be sure that it doesn't make the questions frustratingly difficulty semi-unplayable.
The idea of destroying an artifact or killing an ally would be cool... make a major change and the game outcome/storyline changes - but what if such action gets you completely stuck after playing for another 2-3 hours... not good. They'll have to build in some sort of special logic to check for playability.
Another thing, a lot of people are saying that this would put RPG companies out of money, as nobody would buy new RPGs. Wrongo! If it were handled as a subscription-based online application, much like Evercrack, not only would they soon create an army of helplessly addicted zombies.... but they'd be rolling in the cash
I'm not sure how good this development is though. A lot of the nicety of RPG's is the well-thought premade storyline, making them much like a good book. If this system makes the storyline more flexible, e.g. providing several routes through to various fixed outcomes, them it could be very cool. If it starts making large parts of the game up by itself... things could be very odd, at least for the first while.
* Look girl
*- The girl is holding a small dog
* Look dress
*- You are eaten by the small dog
While it is possible that somebody has smuggled away the plutonium, but this wasn't plutonium that was sitting around - it's an amount expected to be "extracted" from the processing of used nuclear fuel.
Makes it a bit tricky to track though, either they have a process that's inefficient, or somebody with sticky (and now possibly glowing) fingers.
Realistically, N. Korea can supposedly make their own nuclear material with the reactor they're revving up, so it probably hasn't been snitched by them. One would think that if anyone took it, they could trace the radiation signature though... this stuff probably leaves some time of trail.
One thing that always worries me
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When scientists are attempting cures with diseases at a genetic level, there is always a possibility of creating something worse, or a really nasty mutation. Antibiotics, for example, can make a virus more resistant if they don't kill it the first time around.
Still, I am hopeful - since the more we know about such virii, the better we can combat them. The issue is in knowing enough to develop countermeasures but not enough to predict future consequences.
A portable battery pack, capable of plugging into your AC/DC adaptor slot. While some of these can be a bit bulky, there are others that will fit into the laptop bag well enough. They're nice when your laptop's battery is dying off, and you want longer lasting power. Some of them come with decent warantees so that you can expect a long lifetime as well.
How about the "Acer Travelmate 312T" (310 Series). I had one die on me with power issues (wouldn't always turned on, would turn itself off, even with powersaving off). If I left it for a long time, it might come back to life for a day or two before problems resumed
I retired my Acer until I saw one on ebay that had a cracked LCD. I bought the new one and transplanted the LCD... it worked awhile and then started experiencing the same power issues.
Not 100% related, but along the same lines. Anyone else know of this or other laptop "cover-ups". For such expensive hardware, the warrantees and defects can sure suck.
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Yeah, I read that too. That's why I was mentioning the simulated cars. Even if they simualated performance and handling... they're not going to cover the fact that when vehicle XX climbs up a cliff, the low exhaust gets torn off by a rock. Or after 30 days of playing, the radio goes on the fritz, etc.
Anyone buying a car based mainly on the simulation seems a bit cukoo to me.
P.S. Where did a Yugo get it's name?
"Yugo buy one, 'cause I'm sure as heck not going to"
But they're "tailored" ads based on the sites you view.
So, when you go to goodpr0n.com it reads the site, and assume that you must be suffering from some type of relationship dysfunction. The next day: welcome to the viagara spammail list!
We won't even get into what happens if it combines results: you visit goodpr0n one day and a petcare site the next...
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You expect people who can't even get the weather predictions right to be able to figure that out? Ha?
I don't know what CNN has against random news generators - after all... they already seem to use ones for their weather reports.
Which makes me wonder, why not install heatsinks on hard drives? They shouldn't be getting *really* hot to begin with, and being that many old CPU's only needed a heatsink, a hard-drive should be happy with that.
With an angled heatsink, you get dissipation without vibration - enough that the internal circulation of the case should be able to take care of the rest.
To buy a book to realize when it's time to move on from your job, and follow your dreams? Magazines like "Reader's Digest" etc are full of stories about individuals who have left a depressing/draining job to find themselves. Of course, these stories never mention the people that try this, and end up broke back living with their parents, etc.
If your job really, truly, sucks 100% of the time, you should know when to move on. How you go about moving on really depends on the job you have, and the job/etc you want. For most people, a job is only part of life, and if it's burning you out at some point you can take a holiday, or focus more on family etc or something else that makes you happy outside of the workplace.
Almost nobody enjoys their job 100% of the time, it's how you manage with the rest of your life that counts.
Aren't the "only need automatic update" and the "problem is lazy customers" somewhat mutually exclusive?
All of Microsoft's crap goes into your PC... you don't need a bathroom!
A lot of the well known classics for Ninendo were created by or heavily involved rare.... doesn't anyone else find it surprising they shifted to X-box.
I still remember that big Rare logo on starting up Donkey Kong Country on SNES, and a few other popular nintendo games.
Well, it may be because I'm Canadian, but truly I've not seen much bad in having a numbered plate - other than insurance costs and speeding tickets tied to such.
The plate serves as a/an: a) Indication that the person is legally entitled to drive (so long as the car isn't stolen,etc).
b) Identifier not only for legal bodies and government, but also for other motorists in the event of an accident.
c) Identifier in the case of stolen vehicles, abductions, etc
How many people actually remember this show and made the connection. The first thing I thought when I saw the name "Dave Barry" was, "Isn't that the guy from that old TV show."
Just goes to show, somebody with a brilliant mind and writing career... and a lot of people probably only know him through an old TV comedy.
Well... in this case it's because I want everyone else to have plates too, because I want to be able to identify them in the advent of an accident, etc.
Without license plates, the cases of a hit-and-run would likely be much greater. If some idiot in a Ford slams your car and takes off half a fender, he/she could then peel off away and not worry about anybody being able to readily identify him/her.
Granted, you might bring along a similar arguement for tagging people, but tagging one's person is a lot worse than tagging one's property - and the majority of people aren't involved in such incidents on a regular basis.
What qualified this technique as "cheap, and is it available to the home consumer?" I'm guessing that they probably don't have a kit for my home inkjet that would allow me to print mini-computers.
Still, if one could get a printer for say,
Note: With the current trend, I wouldn't be surprised if "CPU printers" cost $100, but the paper is $150/ream and the equivilent of ink somewhere in that range as well...
For any idiot who wants a method of tagging us like cattle... I wholly support rectal scans. I will also be happy to submit the contents of said oriface for.... um.. DNA examination, in the form of a flaming brown paper bag on the doorstep of supporting parties.
Your scenario is a bit bad, try this one:
What if the car has a defect or flaw... and while there is a fix, released for said defect, some people aren't notified, and thus get in to fatal car accidents.
That being said, people are definately dumb for putting SQL databases online when not needed - however I worked for a company that this was needed at, so some of these were probably in that group.
In addition, good sysadmins should check for such patches, etc - especially with software known to have bugs or vulnerabilities at various intervals. Even 'nix software has bugs, but 'nix/bsd/etc sysadmins are often smart enough to check up on them.
Which is of course, one of the reasons I read slashdot. That and to laugh at those that don't and get downed by code-red, sapphire, whatever
Prior art would mean that the work existed before the copyrighted work... in which case they're copying you, and it could mean a copyright dispute
Actually, using cat /dev/zero will screw you too. Remember that that copyrighted that song was X minutes of silence?
Although, one would think that "prior art" would have taken care of that a long time ago.
When I first started using linux GUI's, Ximian's Gnome desktop was one of the early one's I ran through and tried.
Even now, it's still rather impressive: nice themes, runs fairly quick/smooth, interesting suite of applications. Changing settings was also quite easy.
I've since tried running RedHat 8.0's packaged Gnome, and was considerable less impressed. The thing runs like a wounded Yak, and it's not nearly as pretty as Ximian.
Oh, and as a really nice point for GUI newbies... installing Ximian Gnome was "extremely" painless on RedHat, using a webpage piped through a shell: (substitute "links" for "lynx' as needed):
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh
So basically what you're saying is that:
:-(
The bacteria more succeptible to the antibiotic are killed in the initial stages of treatment, but unless you continue nuking them for awhile then it's the remaining antibiotic-resistant strains that begin propogating again.
So, they don't truly spawn antibiotic resistant mutations, just propogate from the existant resistant strain.
This makes sense, and is a little less scary than having them "mutate" to adapt... but still leaves us with more resistant virii in the future
- Create an NFS connection between PC's and the backup host. Directly tar or copy files to the host via a simple backup script (same as a tape script, but pointing to a file on the host)
- Tar files, then securecopy (SCP) them to a remote host - or even do so directly
- You could even (in a pinch) use samba (smbd, smbclient) to connect two PC's, and run a backup script
Just wondering... I'm actually looking at implementing some of these so it would be nice to know why this project is better.I've been told several times (by people ranging from home-remedy moms to doctors/nurses etc) that if you take antibiotics or other related pills, but only take say 50% of them... and don't really kill off the disease, then said medication becomes much less effective in containing said disease when symptoms reoccur.
This is not true?
A few questions about this that may be of concern: The system may be able to generate randomized quests, etc. How will we be sure that it doesn't make the questions frustratingly difficulty semi-unplayable.
The idea of destroying an artifact or killing an ally would be cool... make a major change and the game outcome/storyline changes - but what if such action gets you completely stuck after playing for another 2-3 hours... not good. They'll have to build in some sort of special logic to check for playability.
Another thing, a lot of people are saying that this would put RPG companies out of money, as nobody would buy new RPGs. Wrongo! If it were handled as a subscription-based online application, much like Evercrack, not only would they soon create an army of helplessly addicted zombies.... but they'd be rolling in the cash
I'm not sure how good this development is though. A lot of the nicety of RPG's is the well-thought premade storyline, making them much like a good book. If this system makes the storyline more flexible, e.g. providing several routes through to various fixed outcomes, them it could be very cool. If it starts making large parts of the game up by itself... things could be very odd, at least for the first while.
* Look girl
*- The girl is holding a small dog
* Look dress
*- You are eaten by the small dog
While it is possible that somebody has smuggled away the plutonium, but this wasn't plutonium that was sitting around - it's an amount expected to be "extracted" from the processing of used nuclear fuel.
Makes it a bit tricky to track though, either they have a process that's inefficient, or somebody with sticky (and now possibly glowing) fingers.
Realistically, N. Korea can supposedly make their own nuclear material with the reactor they're revving up, so it probably hasn't been snitched by them. One would think that if anyone took it, they could trace the radiation signature though... this stuff probably leaves some time of trail.
When scientists are attempting cures with diseases at a genetic level, there is always a possibility of creating something worse, or a really nasty mutation. Antibiotics, for example, can make a virus more resistant if they don't kill it the first time around.
Still, I am hopeful - since the more we know about such virii, the better we can combat them. The issue is in knowing enough to develop countermeasures but not enough to predict future consequences.
A portable battery pack, capable of plugging into your AC/DC adaptor slot. While some of these can be a bit bulky, there are others that will fit into the laptop bag well enough. They're nice when your laptop's battery is dying off, and you want longer lasting power. Some of them come with decent warantees so that you can expect a long lifetime as well.
How about the "Acer Travelmate 312T" (310 Series). I had one die on me with power issues (wouldn't always turned on, would turn itself off, even with powersaving off). If I left it for a long time, it might come back to life for a day or two before problems resumed
I retired my Acer until I saw one on ebay that had a cracked LCD. I bought the new one and transplanted the LCD... it worked awhile and then started experiencing the same power issues.
Not 100% related, but along the same lines. Anyone else know of this or other laptop "cover-ups". For such expensive hardware, the warrantees and defects can sure suck.
Yeah, I read that too. That's why I was mentioning the simulated cars. Even if they simualated performance and handling... they're not going to cover the fact that when vehicle XX climbs up a cliff, the low exhaust gets torn off by a rock. Or after 30 days of playing, the radio goes on the fritz, etc.
Anyone buying a car based mainly on the simulation seems a bit cukoo to me.
P.S. Where did a Yugo get it's name?
"Yugo buy one, 'cause I'm sure as heck not going to"
But they're "tailored" ads based on the sites you view.
So, when you go to goodpr0n.com it reads the site, and assume that you must be suffering from some type of relationship dysfunction. The next day: welcome to the viagara spammail list!
We won't even get into what happens if it combines results: you visit goodpr0n one day and a petcare site the next...