Never managed to do that on a 10Base-T before, but one day my mate and I were installing a phone line into my room, I had already connected the line but I realized I needed to strip a bit more of the end to attach the jack--and I had lost my wire strippers. (Can you see where this is going?:P)
So, of course, I'm thinking "I really don't want to disconnect the line again, ah, what the heck there isn't that much voltage in the line I'll get a few small shocks if I use my teeth but thats it".
Unfortunatly, I forgot that the level increases somewhat if, say, there's an incomming phone call.
It definatly wasn't the most glorious moment of my life.
Interesting, but tabloid magazines are still flying off the shelves...and they're obviously fake by the standards of other media.
I don't doubt that the same mass hysteria that origionally occured would be missing--but I'm afraid more people would buy into it then both you, or I, would hope.
what about something like root-tail which works with gnome 2.x?
It was probably the most useful app (for those who don't know, it 'tail'ed any files, usually logs in my case, onto your desktop within specified demensions instead of having to run a "tail -f" in a console, which is easy to accidentaly close/move/whatever) I've used.
I work (at the moment) in technical support, and I find that in almost every case I can provide assistance to the user. My major issue is that most of my users are either incapable of actually performing the step by step guide I give them, or are unable to comprehend certain parts of it. Thus they feel they have been shortchanged when in fact they have been given all the help it is possible to provide without getting a scratchy voice.
But how can linux become an operating system and a worty sucessor to all the real unices (tm) if it has a standardized layout between different "flavours"?
Another question related to the same topic:
Can USB flash drives support autorun in windows like a CD-ROM or do they act more like a disk with no autorun feature?
Patching might actually be to their advantage. Remember how much everyone used to hate IBM? They started being nice to the developer and OpenSource community and we all gave them a second chance, perhaps Microsoft might actually be helping themselfs if they did start to do limited linux work, although that goes against everything you learn in business school I'm sure
I think the problem might be that he is selling Linux into customer sites
I've always found that 'marketer' types tend towards obscure buzzwords and obfustucation of facts rather then the technical approach.
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I used to MUD every now and then (years ago) and reading this article kind of reminded why I stoped. When the MUD was still relitivly small player-wise it was easy to police things. Usually the wizards would do most of their work, except in a situation where a person pk-ed another person who had an anti-pk (they shouldn't be attacked nor were they to attack anyone else) flag set, which then allowed everyone (pk or otherwise) to attack them free of penalty. A kind of hard system, esp if you were a low level, but it sort of balanced out, and you could always appeal to one of the wizards for help.
The problem with these new MMRPGs is their sheer size, there is no really easy way for the few 'wizards' to police them, and having players police themselfs can lead to gang type situations. As well, even if you were to use players as police officers, there is no means to protect against police corruption. The problem with some of these games is they end up almost too 'read world' in many ways.
Actually, I'm inclined to argue that xBASIC is a good starting language for people to learn. Unless you want to spend the rest of your natural born life programming Microsoft I'd stear people away from VB, and while QBASIC does teach programming concepts it doesn't exactly help develop good style and some concepts are just backward when we look at today's programming needs.
I think that Python would be a better starting language, or barring that Pascal. Both of them were sort of designed to teach programming, and Python is also OO which (to my eternal regret) seems to be here to stay.
I can think of one failure I had recently trying to get the evangelical work done for OSS.
At my work we are currently running a Win2k network. A piece of software we have to run over the network is this thing called âoeThe Agency Managerâ which is a closed-source buggy-assed piece of software. We toyed around with the idea of switching to a Linux (my bossâ(TM) suggestion) or BSD (my suggestion) network, but our use of T.A.M. wouldnâ(TM)t allow us. We also fooled around with WINE for a bit, and another agency which uses the same software has already done that and found that it still provides performance benefits. Unfortunately we were informed by the makers of T.A.M. that they only offer support for Win2k or WinNT networks, not *nix nor Novell. Because the software was so buggy we had no choice but to continue with Win2k.
I know that at this point some of you are doubtlessly thinking âoeWhy the hell didnâ(TM)t you just find/make an Open Source alternative to T.A.M.â and I can tell you the answer is the other big failure in the Open Source model. T.A.M. is the paramount software piece for the insurance industry; however, it is not glamorous in the least. Iâ(TM)ve found that most Open Source developers would rather program a new web browser, or tool around with encryption, that make a bloated database front-end/accounting software and conversion tools from T.A.M.â(TM)s obscure data format (a db3 variant). As Open Source developers we would rather do something interesting then something needed because we are doing the work for free. This is probably (IMO) the biggest failure with the Open Source model.
That gives me an idea, you know if we #define 'begin' as '{' and 'end' as '}' we'd have finally made pascal useful:P (or is that 'c' useless).
To answer your question though, how would you like it if you had to read over and work on someone elses code and they had aliased all the symbols to something different?
Correct me if I'm wronge, but isn't the SCO Group involved with several linux projects itself?
I think the one real reason for the lawsuite is pointed out in the article-->The fear of loosing the revinue from the IBM liscencing on AIX
You might be intrested to know that the routing problems which were plagueing the UK lately are still there in part. Don't blame slashdot for being down when its only your ISP's messed up...
and now so this doesn't go 'off topic': Maybe their routers use some of the RAM?:b
*phew* hate it when I get modded down for going off-topic
I always said lynx was that wave of the future...
but did anyone beleave me? nooooo! showed you all up now! *goes and plays on his old 486/33 without 'x' installed*
Iraq deciding not to produce oil for a while Concidering the energy demands of the western countries Iraq not producing oil for a while would probably not show up in the immediate short-term but if you gave it a year or two? Lets just say I hope you drive something like a truck or a SUV when the US decides Saddams stint is over:b
Don't you just wonder sometimes how Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer or someother hight Microsoft exec must feel when news-lines like this come out?
Everyone is starting to bail on them now, they're locked in a conflict with both the opensource community, the mac people, the DOJ and the ever increasing amounts of world governments looking for alternate solutions.
I mean, they gotta be feeling (by now) that things are starting to fall apart and it looks like they're grasping with everything they have to keep above the flood that we are starting to see the beginning trickles of now.
They arn't going to go down without a fight, but you gotta figure that they're allready makeing plans for a hastey retreat, oh well...at least those high up might get out of this with a fair amount of money.
In my opinion the best site to find out about electronic music (at a beginners level) is ishkur.com,
the site is really a rave-related site, but ishkur has a guide to electronic music which, while it is done in a satirical sense and is quite opinionated in his genre description it is generally accurate and provides samples which (in my opinion again) perfectly demostraight the sound of each sub-genre in the electric scene. He also lists some of the best artists in each subgenre.
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So, of course, I'm thinking "I really don't want to disconnect the line again, ah, what the heck there isn't that much voltage in the line I'll get a few small shocks if I use my teeth but thats it".
Unfortunatly, I forgot that the level increases somewhat if, say, there's an incomming phone call.
It definatly wasn't the most glorious moment of my life.
Interesting, but tabloid magazines are still flying off the shelves...and they're obviously fake by the standards of other media.
I don't doubt that the same mass hysteria that origionally occured would be missing--but I'm afraid more people would buy into it then both you, or I, would hope.
It was probably the most useful app (for those who don't know, it 'tail'ed any files, usually logs in my case, onto your desktop within specified demensions instead of having to run a "tail -f" in a console, which is easy to accidentaly close/move/whatever) I've used.
I work (at the moment) in technical support, and I find that in almost every case I can provide assistance to the user. My major issue is that most of my users are either incapable of actually performing the step by step guide I give them, or are unable to comprehend certain parts of it. Thus they feel they have been shortchanged when in fact they have been given all the help it is possible to provide without getting a scratchy voice.
But how can linux become an operating system and a worty sucessor to all the real unices (tm) if it has a standardized layout between different "flavours"?
Can USB flash drives support autorun in windows like a CD-ROM or do they act more like a disk with no autorun feature?
Patching might actually be to their advantage. Remember how much everyone used to hate IBM? They started being nice to the developer and OpenSource community and we all gave them a second chance, perhaps Microsoft might actually be helping themselfs if they did start to do limited linux work, although that goes against everything you learn in business school I'm sure
I've always found that 'marketer' types tend towards obscure buzzwords and obfustucation of facts rather then the technical approach.
The problem with these new MMRPGs is their sheer size, there is no really easy way for the few 'wizards' to police them, and having players police themselfs can lead to gang type situations. As well, even if you were to use players as police officers, there is no means to protect against police corruption. The problem with some of these games is they end up almost too 'read world' in many ways.
I think that Python would be a better starting language, or barring that Pascal. Both of them were sort of designed to teach programming, and Python is also OO which (to my eternal regret) seems to be here to stay.
At my work we are currently running a Win2k network. A piece of software we have to run over the network is this thing called âoeThe Agency Managerâ which is a closed-source buggy-assed piece of software. We toyed around with the idea of switching to a Linux (my bossâ(TM) suggestion) or BSD (my suggestion) network, but our use of T.A.M. wouldnâ(TM)t allow us. We also fooled around with WINE for a bit, and another agency which uses the same software has already done that and found that it still provides performance benefits. Unfortunately we were informed by the makers of T.A.M. that they only offer support for Win2k or WinNT networks, not *nix nor Novell. Because the software was so buggy we had no choice but to continue with Win2k.
I know that at this point some of you are doubtlessly thinking âoeWhy the hell didnâ(TM)t you just find/make an Open Source alternative to T.A.M.â and I can tell you the answer is the other big failure in the Open Source model. T.A.M. is the paramount software piece for the insurance industry; however, it is not glamorous in the least. Iâ(TM)ve found that most Open Source developers would rather program a new web browser, or tool around with encryption, that make a bloated database front-end/accounting software and conversion tools from T.A.M.â(TM)s obscure data format (a db3 variant). As Open Source developers we would rather do something interesting then something needed because we are doing the work for free. This is probably (IMO) the biggest failure with the Open Source model.
To answer your question though, how would you like it if you had to read over and work on someone elses code and they had aliased all the symbols to something different?
Correct me if I'm wronge, but isn't the SCO Group involved with several linux projects itself? I think the one real reason for the lawsuite is pointed out in the article-->The fear of loosing the revinue from the IBM liscencing on AIX
You might be intrested to know that the routing problems which were plagueing the UK lately are still there in part. Don't blame slashdot for being down when its only your ISP's messed up... and now so this doesn't go 'off topic': Maybe their routers use some of the RAM? :b
*phew* hate it when I get modded down for going off-topic
Shouldn't it read? "On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more bugs than the Linux community (will ever in their entire lives)."
or perhaps "On the second day of January, the Linux community had solved more bugs then Microsoft will admit to (in their entire lives)."
I always said lynx was that wave of the future... but did anyone beleave me? nooooo! showed you all up now! *goes and plays on his old 486/33 without 'x' installed*
(thus forcing hardware & software companies to consider the impact that Linux will have on their bottom line before making any deals with the devil)
:b
But I thought Linux was more popular then BSD, hmmm...I smell something fishy going on here.
cripes, it even screwed up somebody's PDF resume
You think thats bad? Go back to the main page and check out the guy's email address, it says the address is: louis.hamilton@villanova.edu
but check where the mailto link points,
yup, thats right: medievals@fordham.edu
Iraq deciding not to produce oil for a while :b
Concidering the energy demands of the western countries Iraq not producing oil for a while would probably not show up in the immediate short-term but if you gave it a year or two? Lets just say I hope you drive something like a truck or a SUV when the US decides Saddams stint is over
Don't you just wonder sometimes how Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer or someother hight Microsoft exec must feel when news-lines like this come out? Everyone is starting to bail on them now, they're locked in a conflict with both the opensource community, the mac people, the DOJ and the ever increasing amounts of world governments looking for alternate solutions. I mean, they gotta be feeling (by now) that things are starting to fall apart and it looks like they're grasping with everything they have to keep above the flood that we are starting to see the beginning trickles of now. They arn't going to go down without a fight, but you gotta figure that they're allready makeing plans for a hastey retreat, oh well...at least those high up might get out of this with a fair amount of money.
In my opinion the best site to find out about electronic music (at a beginners level) is ishkur.com, the site is really a rave-related site, but ishkur has a guide to electronic music which, while it is done in a satirical sense and is quite opinionated in his genre description it is generally accurate and provides samples which (in my opinion again) perfectly demostraight the sound of each sub-genre in the electric scene. He also lists some of the best artists in each subgenre.