Besides the 24th Century High School crap where everyone falls in love with everyone else, I saw nothing wrong with DS9. It was a lot more raw and somewhat more realistic than TNG. You had lots of different races working with each other, and you even got to see a darker side of the Federation with Section 31. I can see a new movie based on exposing them.
Voyager: did you see the episode where most of the senior staff was assimilated? Damn Janeway looked old.
Enterprise: Decent actors, yet the most horrible Trek show evar. Just the fact that the show is set 150 years before TOS stinks of a Star Wars ripoff. They could have probably asked for ideas and/or scripts from one the dozens of paperback writers and got a show worth watching, or even asked for ideas from the fans. Star Trek Elite Force the Series anyone?
DEAD OPERATING SYSTEM SKETCH
Cast:
Mr. Praline: John Cleese
Shop Owner: Michael Palin
A customer enters an operating system shop.
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The owner does not
respond.) Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss? Owner: What do you mean "miss"? Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint! Owner: We're closin' for lunch. Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this
operating system what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very
boutique. Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, *BSD...What's,uh...What's wrong with it? Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead,
that's what's wrong with it! Owner: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting. Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead operating system when I see
one, and I'm looking at one right now. Owner: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable OS, *BSD,
idn'it, ay? Beautiful kernel! Mr. Praline: The kernel don't enter into it. It's stone dead. Owner: Nononono, no, no! It's resting! Mr. Praline: All right then, if it's restin', I'll wake it up! (bashes at the keyboard) 'Ello, Mister *BSD! I've got a lovely fresh kernel update for you if you show...
(owner hits the keys)
Owner: There, it spewed some debug output to the command line! Mr. Praline: No, it didn't, that was you hitting the keys! Owner: I never!! Mr. Praline: Yes, you did! Owner: I never, never did anything... Mr. Praline: (yelling and typing into the console repeatedly) 'ELLO COMMAND PROMPT!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock cron job!
(Rips out hard drive from computer case and thumps it on the counter.
Shoves it back inside the case and reboots the system - blank screen.)
Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead operating system. Owner: No, no.....No, it's stunned! Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!? Owner: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was finishing an I/O task! *BSD
stuns easily, major. Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That operating system is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you
assured me that its total lack of responsiveness was due to it bein' in the
process of recompiling itself after a particularly comprehensive code update.
Owner: Well, it's...it's, ah...probably pining for some dilettante
dabbling. Mr. Praline: PININ' for some DILETTANTE DABBLING?!?!?!? What kind of
talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I started
Emacs? Owner: *BSD prefers swapping everything out to the hard drive!
Remarkable variant, id'nit, squire? Lovely kernel! Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining the system when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been printing any text at all to the screen was because
of all the WORRYING COMPILER WARNINGS encountered while it was being rebuilt.
(pause)
Owner: Well, o'course it was spitting out those warnings! If I hadn't updated the kernel with an unstable development build, you might have had your FTP server compromised
[slashdot.org], and VOOM! Bye bye to your business. Mr. Praline: "Server"?!? Mate, this OS wouldn't "serve" if you put four
million volts through it! It's bleedin' demised! Owner: No no! It's pining! Mr. Praline: It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! [lemis.com] It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in
peace! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir inv
How many millions of women expose themselves to infants so they can breast feed! This is intolerable! I implore the FCC to require blindfolds for babies.
P.S. I am not a kook.
Problems such as the broadcast flag are more a fault of intense lobbying from the MPAA and very little opposition because people either don't understand or don't care. The fcc cannot be faulted for blunders to fair use.
I'm usually the first to say, "Never assume malice for what can reasonably be attributed to ignorance", but when billions of dollars are being thrown around, it has to look pretty fucking obvious it's the former.
I do agree that privatizing the radio spectrum will promote an even worse situation where only the highest bidder will be able to transmit. That $1 trillion market will only take effect after ClearChannel, Infinity, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc, take control of what they want.
Yeah, right after Mad Max 4 hits theaters, Duke Nukem Forever reaches store shelves, and BeOS reaches 90% desktop market share. In other words, not in our lifetime.
That urban legend is about cars in opposing traffic with their lights off, not flashing slow drivers in the fast lane.
I'm not sure who was going slow in the fast lane, but a woman was shot while her husband was driving on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens N.Y. around Christmas a few years back. They finally caught the guy a couple years later.
I'm here in the US and I make it a point to avoid everything Belkin makes, except cables. I've tried one of their 4 port routers and it was a buggy mess hooked up to DSL, and I've heard a few stories of flakey KVM switches as well.
this will be expanded to gamers as well. If your game sucks, you must pay me royalties to play it.
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It seems a lot of people are overlooking the fact that not all cards can be a true access point. I have an Admtek 8211 based card that will only work in Ad-Hoc or managed mode, and I'm sure there are others.
If I set my laptop to the same channel as the card in my router it will work, I can run a DHCP server on the router to automate the network layer, but there is no way to set the PCI card in the router so that the laptop automagically picks up the channel and establishes a link.
Okay I take your point about the regulations. I was unaware of the NY codes. Does the prohibition include underground runs between access points? Like, shouldn't it be acceptable to run PVC between externally vented boxes or pull points?
Assuming it's low voltage class 2 wiring, and it won't be subject to possible physical abuse, like a driveway or near a tree, it's probably OK, but like my former employer and my neighbor who are both licensed electricians I'd play it safe and run steel or aluminum. After all, the main reason BX is mandated in the city is because of rodents chewing through wiring, and although I highly doubt they'd have an urge to chew through PVC, I guess its possible. NYC has it's share of wildlife, including moles.
As for minimizing the cost of the bender: Check pawnshops. People are forever hocking hydrolic benders and rigid conduit threading machines.
Very true. My old boss decided to get a smaller Rigid 200 to replace a huge Rigid 1822, but nobody wants an 1822. It's mostly used in shops and plumbing supplies since it's not very portable. He eventually had to give it away to Bosces (a LI tech school) for the tax cut.
Never underestimate the power of those little Radio Shack walkie talkies. Place one of them close enough to the recieving point and all of the victim's "CQs" will be for nothing. You can have all the power in the world to transmit, but if there's a 400mw transmitter deadkeyed on your home channel half a block away, you aren't recieving anything. It takes only a few minutes to change the TX crystal, and with a few D cell batteries the damn thing will be on for a week or more.
Then there was the guy that just went and cut about 18" off the other guy's RG-8. That stuff is a pain to splice.
Intrepid class, Defiant class, Delta Flyers, runabouts, and shuttles can land on planets, light cruisers and larger cannot. Even the Enterprise D can't do it in one piece, and the only reason they landed (actually crashed) the saucer section is because they had no choice.
But then again, the way they write Star Trek stuff now is totally inconsistant with older shows, and forget about any of the books, including the tech manuals.
Translation: Microsoft failed to dumb down web browsing and email with WebTV, so they're going to try and turn game consoles into dumbed down PCs running their game console OS.
Registry settings by default are not altered by the startup/shutdown process, but again there may be a group policy or logon script attached to the object in AD somehow that is launching a permissioning process, or inheriting a new registry hive, although this is exceedingly unlikely. Again, a complete rebuild would solve this.
Another possible scenario is that the NTUSER.DAT file which stores the user's policy is renamed to NTUSER.MAN. The user can change anything in the registry, but on reboot it will revert back to the old policy stored on the server.
Codes don't prohibit PVC (it's not "plastic conduit" -- water pipes may be plastic but electrical conduit is PVC and made for use as such); Codes specify the gauge and diameter of conduit you may use; the materials allowed for the conduit can vary some based on envronments (wet/dry/corrosive, etc). Note that Low-voltage (e.g. network) wiring codes are different than power wiring codes. In general you don't run power and signal in the same conduit.
Regional building electrical codes vary by locale. Here in NYC PVC is a no-no, period.You can't use it for plumbing, electrical, or even temporary structures. It produces toxic fumes when burned. Since I only know of the ban here, I mentioned it as a worst case scenario. "Plastic conduit" was used in the parent post, so I used it for clarity.
If your goal is to "lessen EMI", use grounded metal conduit; PVC, while it may not be entirely transparent to EM, is certainly less of a sheild than metal. [EMT = "Electrical Metal Tubing"] However, CAT5 is not particularly noise sensitive, esp if you use twisted pairs. You can also get shielded cables, which, for my taste, make really excellent audio cables, since audio signals really are EMI sensitive. Also, shielding the audio is cheaper, since it requires fewer sheidled pairs...
I summed this up at the very beginning, s/plastic conduit/emt, which means replace "plastic conduit" with "EMT". Also, the whole point of running conduit at all is to ease adding or replacing wiring without ripping out the walls and ceilings.
PVC is not hard to bend at all, especially the larger diameter conduits. Contrast bending 2" EMT with bending 2" PVC. You just need a PVC bender, which typically uses heat, not hydrolics, as the EMT bender would.
PVC bender: $300+
Hand operated 3/4" EMT bender: $50
I also mentioned using multiple smaller conduits as opposed to one big one, to prevent them from interfering with each other.
Some areas have strict codes against plastic conduit and/or PVC, it'll help lessen any EMI, plus it's very difficult to bend PVC. You should also substitute one 2" conduit with 2 or 3 smaller ones so you can seperate noisey conductors (speaker wire) from EMI sensitive conductors (Cat5), and reduce the cost of tools. A hand operated 3/4" EMT bender is much cheaper than a hydraulic 2" bender.
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Besides the 24th Century High School crap where everyone falls in love with everyone else, I saw nothing wrong with DS9. It was a lot more raw and somewhat more realistic than TNG. You had lots of different races working with each other, and you even got to see a darker side of the Federation with Section 31. I can see a new movie based on exposing them.
Voyager: did you see the episode where most of the senior staff was assimilated? Damn Janeway looked old.
Enterprise: Decent actors, yet the most horrible Trek show evar. Just the fact that the show is set 150 years before TOS stinks of a Star Wars ripoff. They could have probably asked for ideas and/or scripts from one the dozens of paperback writers and got a show worth watching, or even asked for ideas from the fans. Star Trek Elite Force the Series anyone?
But I have to admit this is funny...
DEAD OPERATING SYSTEM SKETCH Cast:
Mr. Praline: John Cleese
Shop Owner: Michael Palin
A customer enters an operating system shop.
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The owner does not respond.)
Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?
Owner: What do you mean "miss"?
Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
Owner: We're closin' for lunch.
Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this operating system what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, *BSD...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Owner: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know a dead operating system when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Owner: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable OS, *BSD, idn'it, ay? Beautiful kernel!
Mr. Praline: The kernel don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
Owner: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
Mr. Praline: All right then, if it's restin', I'll wake it up! (bashes at the keyboard) 'Ello, Mister *BSD! I've got a lovely fresh kernel update for you if you show...
(owner hits the keys)
Owner: There, it spewed some debug output to the command line!
Mr. Praline: No, it didn't, that was you hitting the keys!
Owner: I never!!
Mr. Praline: Yes, you did!
Owner: I never, never did anything...
Mr. Praline: (yelling and typing into the console repeatedly) 'ELLO COMMAND PROMPT!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock cron job!
(Rips out hard drive from computer case and thumps it on the counter. Shoves it back inside the case and reboots the system - blank screen.)
Mr. Praline: Now that's what I call a dead operating system.
Owner: No, no.....No, it's stunned!
Mr. Praline: STUNNED?!?
Owner: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was finishing an I/O task! *BSD stuns easily, major.
Mr. Praline: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That operating system is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of responsiveness was due to it bein' in the process of recompiling itself after a particularly comprehensive code update.
Owner: Well, it's...it's, ah...probably pining for some dilettante dabbling.
Mr. Praline: PININ' for some DILETTANTE DABBLING?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that? Look, why did it fall flat on its back the moment I started Emacs?
Owner: *BSD prefers swapping everything out to the hard drive! Remarkable variant, id'nit, squire? Lovely kernel!
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining the system when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been printing any text at all to the screen was because of all the WORRYING COMPILER WARNINGS encountered while it was being rebuilt.
(pause)
Owner: Well, o'course it was spitting out those warnings! If I hadn't updated the kernel with an unstable development build, you might have had your FTP server compromised [slashdot.org], and VOOM! Bye bye to your business.
Mr. Praline: "Server"?!? Mate, this OS wouldn't "serve" if you put four million volts through it! It's bleedin' demised!
Owner: No no! It's pining!
Mr. Praline: It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! [lemis.com] It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir inv
How many millions of women expose themselves to infants so they can breast feed! This is intolerable! I implore the FCC to require blindfolds for babies.
P.S. I am not a kook.
Problems such as the broadcast flag are more a fault of intense lobbying from the MPAA and very little opposition because people either don't understand or don't care. The fcc cannot be faulted for blunders to fair use.
I'm usually the first to say, "Never assume malice for what can reasonably be attributed to ignorance", but when billions of dollars are being thrown around, it has to look pretty fucking obvious it's the former.
I do agree that privatizing the radio spectrum will promote an even worse situation where only the highest bidder will be able to transmit. That $1 trillion market will only take effect after ClearChannel, Infinity, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc, take control of what they want.
Google
They may not be free, but there a several games based off of the Q3 engine, including RTCW, Star Trek Elite Forces, and others.
...and potential x86 out roll of OSX
Yeah, right after Mad Max 4 hits theaters, Duke Nukem Forever reaches store shelves, and BeOS reaches 90% desktop market share. In other words, not in our lifetime.
Honestly, all these conflicting reports are just plain unprofessional.
And in most companies grounds for termination. I expect this to happen soon if they want to maintain a shred of credibility.
that Sun is more mixed up than a fart in a fan factory. Free hardware, no, free Java, no free Java.
I was thinking about something like that. Maybe give away free hot pockets and set up microwaves all around the lecture hall.
despite the fact that I recall hearing it'll be much more focused on single-player action.
That's what mods are for. CTF and TeamFortress all started as free third party mods.
...and we wore onions on our belts because it was the style at the time.
and we had to use dickety because the Kaiser stole our word for twenty.
That urban legend is about cars in opposing traffic with their lights off, not flashing slow drivers in the fast lane.
I'm not sure who was going slow in the fast lane, but a woman was shot while her husband was driving on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens N.Y. around Christmas a few years back. They finally caught the guy a couple years later.
If you were of a mind to make a 3D crossword puzzle on paper, how would you do it?
Popup pictures or fold-ins, and until XP SP2 comes out, IE users will have no choice but to solve them.
.AU Slashdotters, avoid the Belkin 802.11b cards.
I'm here in the US and I make it a point to avoid everything Belkin makes, except cables. I've tried one of their 4 port routers and it was a buggy mess hooked up to DSL, and I've heard a few stories of flakey KVM switches as well.
this will be expanded to gamers as well. If your game sucks, you must pay me royalties to play it.
It seems a lot of people are overlooking the fact that not all cards can be a true access point. I have an Admtek 8211 based card that will only work in Ad-Hoc or managed mode, and I'm sure there are others.
If I set my laptop to the same channel as the card in my router it will work, I can run a DHCP server on the router to automate the network layer, but there is no way to set the PCI card in the router so that the laptop automagically picks up the channel and establishes a link.
They use a Delta 120mm fan, which is famous for being the loudest fan in production. (Sounds like a vacuum cleaner.)
You've obviously never heard a Vantec Tornado in action. I can only use it for a couple hours at a time because it drives me nuts.
Okay I take your point about the regulations. I was unaware of the NY codes. Does the prohibition include underground runs between access points? Like, shouldn't it be acceptable to run PVC between externally vented boxes or pull points?
Assuming it's low voltage class 2 wiring, and it won't be subject to possible physical abuse, like a driveway or near a tree, it's probably OK, but like my former employer and my neighbor who are both licensed electricians I'd play it safe and run steel or aluminum. After all, the main reason BX is mandated in the city is because of rodents chewing through wiring, and although I highly doubt they'd have an urge to chew through PVC, I guess its possible. NYC has it's share of wildlife, including moles.
As for minimizing the cost of the bender: Check pawnshops. People are forever hocking hydrolic benders and rigid conduit threading machines.
Very true. My old boss decided to get a smaller Rigid 200 to replace a huge Rigid 1822, but nobody wants an 1822. It's mostly used in shops and plumbing supplies since it's not very portable. He eventually had to give it away to Bosces (a LI tech school) for the tax cut.
Never underestimate the power of those little Radio Shack walkie talkies. Place one of them close enough to the recieving point and all of the victim's "CQs" will be for nothing. You can have all the power in the world to transmit, but if there's a 400mw transmitter deadkeyed on your home channel half a block away, you aren't recieving anything. It takes only a few minutes to change the TX crystal, and with a few D cell batteries the damn thing will be on for a week or more.
Then there was the guy that just went and cut about 18" off the other guy's RG-8. That stuff is a pain to splice.
Intrepid class, Defiant class, Delta Flyers, runabouts, and shuttles can land on planets, light cruisers and larger cannot. Even the Enterprise D can't do it in one piece, and the only reason they landed (actually crashed) the saucer section is because they had no choice.
But then again, the way they write Star Trek stuff now is totally inconsistant with older shows, and forget about any of the books, including the tech manuals.
Translation: Microsoft failed to dumb down web browsing and email with WebTV, so they're going to try and turn game consoles into dumbed down PCs running their game console OS.
Registry settings by default are not altered by the startup/shutdown process, but again there may be a group policy or logon script attached to the object in AD somehow that is launching a permissioning process, or inheriting a new registry hive, although this is exceedingly unlikely. Again, a complete rebuild would solve this.
Another possible scenario is that the NTUSER.DAT file which stores the user's policy is renamed to NTUSER.MAN. The user can change anything in the registry, but on reboot it will revert back to the old policy stored on the server.
No, in Kilingon, it would be Q'log. On some planets they make tasty corn flake breakfast cereals, but it 's a curse word on others.
Yeah, totally offtopic.
Codes don't prohibit PVC (it's not "plastic conduit" -- water pipes may be plastic but electrical conduit is PVC and made for use as such); Codes specify the gauge and diameter of conduit you may use; the materials allowed for the conduit can vary some based on envronments (wet/dry/corrosive, etc). Note that Low-voltage (e.g. network) wiring codes are different than power wiring codes. In general you don't run power and signal in the same conduit.
Regional building electrical codes vary by locale. Here in NYC PVC is a no-no, period.You can't use it for plumbing, electrical, or even temporary structures. It produces toxic fumes when burned. Since I only know of the ban here, I mentioned it as a worst case scenario. "Plastic conduit" was used in the parent post, so I used it for clarity.
If your goal is to "lessen EMI", use grounded metal conduit; PVC, while it may not be entirely transparent to EM, is certainly less of a sheild than metal. [EMT = "Electrical Metal Tubing"] However, CAT5 is not particularly noise sensitive, esp if you use twisted pairs. You can also get shielded cables, which, for my taste, make really excellent audio cables, since audio signals really are EMI sensitive. Also, shielding the audio is cheaper, since it requires fewer sheidled pairs...
I summed this up at the very beginning, s/plastic conduit/emt, which means replace "plastic conduit" with "EMT". Also, the whole point of running conduit at all is to ease adding or replacing wiring without ripping out the walls and ceilings.
PVC is not hard to bend at all, especially the larger diameter conduits. Contrast bending 2" EMT with bending 2" PVC. You just need a PVC bender, which typically uses heat, not hydrolics, as the EMT bender would.
PVC bender: $300+
Hand operated 3/4" EMT bender: $50
I also mentioned using multiple smaller conduits as opposed to one big one, to prevent them from interfering with each other.
For low voltage communication wiring? What areas are these?
It's not what they carry, it's the toxic fumes they produce when they catch fire.
s/2" plastic conduit/EMT
Some areas have strict codes against plastic conduit and/or PVC, it'll help lessen any EMI, plus it's very difficult to bend PVC. You should also substitute one 2" conduit with 2 or 3 smaller ones so you can seperate noisey conductors (speaker wire) from EMI sensitive conductors (Cat5), and reduce the cost of tools. A hand operated 3/4" EMT bender is much cheaper than a hydraulic 2" bender.
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