They needed a faster way to get data to a printer than was available using current technology, so they created the parallel port. Data is sent via multiple pathways. So in the case of disks, you stripe them to combine bandwidth. Since most drives have multiple platters you just stripe across them internally. Or use a special head that writes to a single platter in multiple places at once.
When ever someone calls Microsoft's tech support and asks for a Spanish speaking tech they are given the choice of calling Microsoft Mexico or Microsoft Spain on their own dime. Why should companies have to accomodate?
Insightful? I've already taken several pay cuts in the past few years. I've had job offers for $9 an hour for laptop repair, and the recruiters get all huffy when you say they're less than half way there.
I remember those CDRW drives fondly. They made a series with a power adaptor that was a DIN connector that amazingly fit into the the PS/2 port on computers. The company that I was working for ordered about 150 of those drives and sent them out to our traveling reps with laptops. And it wasn't long before the phone calls started... "I just plugged in my laptop and a puff of smoke came out the keyboard!" What color is the power adaptor that you used ma'am? "Purple!" *SMACK* Good times....
Old Lady #1: When my ex-husband passed away, the insurance company said his policy didn't cover him.
Old Lady #2: They didn't have enough money for the funeral.
Old Lady #3: It's so hard nowadays, with all the gangs and rap music..
Old Lady #1: What about the robots?
Old Lady #4: Oh, they're everywhere!
Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them.
Old Lady #2: Darren and I have a policy with Old Glory Insurance, in case we're attacked by robots.
Old Lady #1: An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I'm too old.
Old Lady #2: Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack, regardless of current health.
[ cut to Sam Waterston, Compensated Endorser ]
Sam Waterson: I'm Sam Waterston, of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration.
[ SUPER: Limitied Benefits First Two Years ]
You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time.
[ show pie chart reading "Cause of Death in Persons Over 50 Years of Age": Heart Disease, 42% - Robots, 58% ]
And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice.
[ SUPER: "WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ]
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.
It is especially handy when people were complaining about slow access on the network. I did a sniff and found about 33% of all network traffic was from printers broadcasting Appletalk packets and another 10% or so was DLC and IPX/SPX. Since the MAC address was detected I simply located the IP and put each IP into my browser and went in to the web based admin utility and killed everything but TCP/IP. The users were amazed how much of an improvement it made. For an encore, I went into the Macintosh only area and converted each user from Appletalk printing to LPR/LPD printing (OS 8.6 - 9.0) and again killed it on all the printers. I explained that each printer had the IP labeled on the front, so they shouldn't dig in the chooser, but use the IP instead. There was no point however completely killing Appletalk since the whole network was basically peer to peer and everyone had set up shares on all their systems with passwords and it wouldn't have been worth it trying to reinvent the wheel. Appletalk is the devil spawn!
If you compile GLIBC with NPTL support you'll see even more of the new kernel in action. I quote from LinuxJournal.com,
NPTL brings an eight-fold improvement over its predecessor. Tests conducted by its authors have shown that Linux, with this new threading, can start and stop 100,000 threads simultaneously in about two seconds. This task took 15 minutes on the old threading model.
So when does slashdot start using less annoying ads? I saw a big flash ad on the side of my screen just right now for Visual Studio.Net. I'm not on my computer so I can't just make it go away.
The Lindon, Utah, software firm wants IBM to pay $5 billion for reneging on a deal to push a version of Unix that runs on PCs, a niche Linux now fills.
How about Solaris, it runs on PCs? Since that is actually UNIX(tm)(r)(c)(etc). Or even SCOpenserver. Seriously if SCO had anything worthy of running a desktop system off of, people would be using it there. Are they just POed over the Tarentella deal? That group was spun off and isn't even part of them any more. Actually Tarentella is actually what we used to know as SCO and SCO is really Caldera + Unix.
The C8xx and I8xxx series all had mostly compatable video cards, so you could put a IIRC you could put Radeon 8500 in a 3 year old Inspiron 8000 that came with a Rage128 based card.
If you compile glibc with NPTL enabled, combined with a 2.6 series kernel, the whole system becomes amazingly more responsive under load. That's my hint for Gentoo tweaking.
Because of the high amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere, wouldn't this create a lot of Ammonia (Nitrogen + Hydrogen) as well as water vapor? They talk about oxygen all the time but that is only a portion of the atmosphere.
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They needed a faster way to get data to a printer than was available using current technology, so they created the parallel port. Data is sent via multiple pathways. So in the case of disks, you stripe them to combine bandwidth. Since most drives have multiple platters you just stripe across them internally. Or use a special head that writes to a single platter in multiple places at once.
When ever someone calls Microsoft's tech support and asks for a Spanish speaking tech they are given the choice of calling Microsoft Mexico or Microsoft Spain on their own dime. Why should companies have to accomodate?
Insightful? I've already taken several pay cuts in the past few years. I've had job offers for $9 an hour for laptop repair, and the recruiters get all huffy when you say they're less than half way there.
Nah, that's so last year. ZING! That's where it's at now.
Come on man, this is slashdot. Any version of Windows is crippled!
Shoddily made computers sold with a crippled version of an OS? Acer did it in the 90's they called it "Aspire". LAWSUIT AGAIN!
I remember those CDRW drives fondly. They made a series with a power adaptor that was a DIN connector that amazingly fit into the the PS/2 port on computers. The company that I was working for ordered about 150 of those drives and sent them out to our traveling reps with laptops. And it wasn't long before the phone calls started... "I just plugged in my laptop and a puff of smoke came out the keyboard!" What color is the power adaptor that you used ma'am? "Purple!" *SMACK* Good times....
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Old Lady #1: When my ex-husband passed away, the insurance company said his policy didn't cover him.
Old Lady #2: They didn't have enough money for the funeral.
Old Lady #3: It's so hard nowadays, with all the gangs and rap music..
Old Lady #1: What about the robots?
Old Lady #4: Oh, they're everywhere!
Old Lady #1: I don't even know why the scientists make them.
Old Lady #2: Darren and I have a policy with Old Glory Insurance, in case we're attacked by robots.
Old Lady #1: An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I'm too old.
Old Lady #2: Old Glory covers anyone over the age of 50 against robot attack, regardless of current health.
[ cut to Sam Waterston, Compensated Endorser ]
Sam Waterson: I'm Sam Waterston, of the popular TV series "Law & Order". As a senior citizen, you're probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel. Well, now there's a company that offers coverage against the unfortunate event of robot attack, with Old Glory Insurance. Old Glory will cover you with no health check-up or age consideration.
[ SUPER: Limitied Benefits First Two Years ]
You need to feel safe. And that's harder and harder to do nowadays, because robots may strike at any time.
[ show pie chart reading "Cause of Death in Persons Over 50 Years of Age": Heart Disease, 42% - Robots, 58% ]
And when they grab you with those metal claws, you can't break free.. because they're made of metal, and robots are strong. Now, for only $4 a month, you can achieve peace of mind in a world full of grime and robots, with Old Glory Insurance. So, don't cower under your afghan any longer. Make a choice.
[ SUPER: "WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves. ]
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will.
It is especially handy when people were complaining about slow access on the network. I did a sniff and found about 33% of all network traffic was from printers broadcasting Appletalk packets and another 10% or so was DLC and IPX/SPX. Since the MAC address was detected I simply located the IP and put each IP into my browser and went in to the web based admin utility and killed everything but TCP/IP. The users were amazed how much of an improvement it made. For an encore, I went into the Macintosh only area and converted each user from Appletalk printing to LPR/LPD printing (OS 8.6 - 9.0) and again killed it on all the printers. I explained that each printer had the IP labeled on the front, so they shouldn't dig in the chooser, but use the IP instead. There was no point however completely killing Appletalk since the whole network was basically peer to peer and everyone had set up shares on all their systems with passwords and it wouldn't have been worth it trying to reinvent the wheel. Appletalk is the devil spawn!
Yes it did. Search slashdot for it.
If you compile GLIBC with NPTL support you'll see even more of the new kernel in action. I quote from LinuxJournal.com,
NPTL brings an eight-fold improvement over its predecessor. Tests conducted by its authors have shown that Linux, with this new threading, can start and stop 100,000 threads simultaneously in about two seconds. This task took 15 minutes on the old threading model.
So when does slashdot start using less annoying ads? I saw a big flash ad on the side of my screen just right now for Visual Studio .Net. I'm not on my computer so I can't just make it go away.
The Lindon, Utah, software firm wants IBM to pay $5 billion for reneging on a deal to push a version of Unix that runs on PCs, a niche Linux now fills.
How about Solaris, it runs on PCs? Since that is actually UNIX(tm)(r)(c)(etc). Or even SCOpenserver. Seriously if SCO had anything worthy of running a desktop system off of, people would be using it there. Are they just POed over the Tarentella deal? That group was spun off and isn't even part of them any more. Actually Tarentella is actually what we used to know as SCO and SCO is really Caldera + Unix.
The C8xx and I8xxx series all had mostly compatable video cards, so you could put a IIRC you could put Radeon 8500 in a 3 year old Inspiron 8000 that came with a Rage128 based card.
Try n-n-n-not to have a s-s-s-s-s-seizure!
Do such things exist? Such as standard things like "openssl speed rsa dsa", compiling bash, compressing a file etc.
Love the sig.
If you compile glibc with NPTL enabled, combined with a 2.6 series kernel, the whole system becomes amazingly more responsive under load. That's my hint for Gentoo tweaking.
But why would you ever use Gentoo in a production environment?
Security updates w/o waiting for them the be packaged?
I SAID "HARUMPH!"
Because of the high amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere, wouldn't this create a lot of Ammonia (Nitrogen + Hydrogen) as well as water vapor? They talk about oxygen all the time but that is only a portion of the atmosphere.
Buyer protection and all. If he didn't get what he paid for, he should dispute the charges. :)
But probably be much happier.
"Windows 2600"
The hackable quarterly?