Pulling wire is the most fulfilling home improvement project you can undertake.
When you realize you can have gigabit capability in any room in the house, even the never-used bathroom in the addition, let me tell you, it's a great feeling.
Of course I have gigabit capability, but not enough bananas for a 32 ports of gigabit switching goodness on my rack. But even my 10mbit/100mbit hybrid of discarded switches from the office beats the unreliable 802.11 bulldink.
Heh, I only seem to have this problem with Linux problems. I know this is going to be modded troll, but it's true.
Like if I search on some Samba error I'm getting, I'll find a question in a mailing list by some guy with the same problem, but there'll almost never be an answer.
Frankly, I would love to see the opinion sections of CNN or FoxNews in the blog section too.
If you search for ferret care, you'll problably get a handful of ferret owners sites, some information and howtos, maybe a link to i-love-ferrets.com.
If you want to hear PJ McDonut's story about the cute thing his pet ferret did on the weekend, you can click another link.
I welcome this. Between the ads and the blogs, mining actual information using google is becoming ever more time consuming and annoying. I've actually been getting better hits off of search.msn.com.
It's just a guy who picked radioshackoutlet as his nickname, it has nothing to do with Radio Shack.
And there are a lot of people, enthusiasts, collectors, eccentrics, who would bid for such a thing. I had a great uncle who bought a vintage caboose and had it parked in his backyard, and attached to his house. Made a really cool little 3-season porch.
Hell, if I had the bananas and space for it, I'd probably want it.
I guess I have no sense of humor, because this isn't one of the 'funny' ebay auctions.
If you look at the image, there are some odd streaks that go from red to blue (or blue to red).
I'm just curious here, what are they? I thought maybe it could be a bit of space debris that whizzed in front of the camera, but with an exposure of 3.4 days, the streak would go from one side or another.
What moves that far in 3.4 days? A comet? A meteor? A star?
And that big bright cluster in the lower bottom, what's that? It looks pretty close galaxy-wise.
It's a neat pic for sure, a little blurry, which makes it less jawdropping than other hubble efforts but makes sense for a 3.4 day exposure.
Note - I didn't make any goatse or Uranus crack this whole post. You're welcome.
I have no beef with steel coasters, but frankly this thing doesnt count.
It's one hill. And you're hydrolically propelled up it, then down the other side. (Ie; you dont really coast on gravity)
I havent travelled the world riding steel coasters, but I've been on some good ones. The Anaconda at Paramount King's Dominion in VA is pretty cool. Top Gun at Canada's Wonderland (well I guess all the Paramount parks have it) is cool too, I like the feeling of flight from being slung under teh track.
I've always been partial to the wooden ones though. Growing up outside of Toronto, I spent tons of time riding the Minebuster and Wildebeast at Canada's Wonderland. King's Dominion has the Hurler and Rebel Yell.
Hershey Park, PA has a pretty cool dueling wooden coaster thing, where two trains "race", and the track twists in a few ways that it looks like the trains are going to collide head-on.
King's Dominion has one of these "thrill rides". It's so unimpressive I forgot it's name, but it's something teen and Xtreme like "UltraThrill XLT".
It's lame.
You go up, then down. Making it taller and/or faster wont make it better. It's a four hour wait for nothing.
I think coaster designers and park owners love it to death, because design and implementation just means building one big hill, not designing an intricate and well crafted true coaster.
These stupid go straight up then straight down and thats it coasters are just lame, and the speed or height doesn't impress me. They're boring as hell. You wait in line for 2 or 3 hours, go fast for 2 or 3 seconds, and the rides over.
Give me more giant wooden behemoths with hills and twists and corkscrews, and a track that rattles your brain loose from your skull.
THAT's a rollercoaster. This is just theme park owners comparing wangs to attract customers.
By a similar token, does allowing anonymous ftp access mean that anyone can use the ftp site.
If someone sets up an ftp with full access to anonymous users, can they really say it's unauthorized when a million kiddies start trading warez through there? (I'm wondering about all the 'pubs' which are basically "stolen" space on public ftps for the warez kiddies. )
The piracy is a crime, but does a computer trespass take place? (Say they were trading Red Hat ISOs for the sake of argument)
If you said something on your site like "please do not link to this page in a slashdot article", then they very well could be held liable.
The/. effect is overrated, only little personal websites hosted on DSL lines go down, but those little guys often do incur bandwidth and maintainance costs that they could probably hold/. accountable for.
I don't think it has to be an intent to harm, as in I didn't intend to hit the baseball through my neighbours window but still wound up paying for it.
You can look at it as Apache/IIS allowing access to port 80, or restricting access to only port 80, and only a certain publicly available part of the filesystem.
If you view it the latter way, then exploiting it to get access to another protocol, or section of the filesystem would clearly be a trespass.
Ie; I run a business like a barbershop out of the front room of my house, or say live above a store. This doesnt give the public access to go check out my bedroom.
I'm from Ontario, and there was a big tornado that literally ripped right past me as a kid. We were at my folks "retirement property", which is 99 acres outside of Owen Sound, and at the time there was just a little cabin there.
It took out the trailer park down the road (that's always the way), and came straight across our fields behind the cabin, not more than a half a kilometer from the cabin itself. We would have been seriously boned if it hit us dead on.
I remember the sound, it sounded like an army of combines or tractors coming across the field. You couldnt see too much of anything, there was so much dust and stuff flying around. Just a deafening roar and pitch black darkness. The next day we saw the path it tore through the trees, and realized how close it came.
It's awesome to see what it leaves behind. It looked as though crews had been through to clear the land for a highway or something, except the tornado did in an hour what would have taken a months with heavy equipment.
Damn, it was cool. Not something I'd want to see every day, though.
Now I'm on the east coast of the states, all we have are crappy old hurricanes and floods. (Well, and a good old blizzard this year to make me homesick)
each of your examples, by itself, is functionally equivalent, but completely different depending on it's use.
while (++i 10) { } (preincrement)
vs
while (i++ 10) {} (postincrement)
vs
while (i 10 ) { i+=1; } (assignment with register increment)
vs
while (i 10) { i = i+1; } (assignment)
They refer to the pre and post increment operators present on most CPUs and post increment with a register vs straight assignment in memory. C is inherently a lower level OS, and things like this are greatly useful when optimizing code.
In a high level pseudo-interpreted language like Java, it's useless. But it serves its intended purpose when it comes to systems level programming.
There's a fine line to be tread between orthagonality and optimization. Of course, these days, we just throw a faster CPU and more RAM at the problem, which is akin to "the door i bought doesnt fit in the opening of the house, so lets buy a new house"
I prefer watching the radiator explode or the boat sinking as they bail furiously, or the one with the cant-apult that just snapped when they tried to fire a washing machine with it.
It makes for a much better "reality" show.
Re:At King of Prussia this weekend...
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If the JY wasnt seeded, there'd be no show. Go to a real junkyard, see how far you get building a dune buggy with no engine and no wheels.
In a real junkyard you'll never find a good set of 4 working tires, or a hydraulic pump, or a solid truck chassis, or even a good supply of solid angle iron.
The junkyard thing is a theme, they still build the shit from scratch in a day.
Mine was so simply designed and executed, that it was altogether unimpressive, but it was by far the fastest one out there.
I cut the block into a wedge. One cut. The end. I gave it a coat of poly.
Now, to get to weight, I came up with an ingenious idea. I filled the wheels with plaster of paris. There was absolutely nothing in the rulebook about the wheels, other than that you must use the ones they provide, with the nails they provide. Ie; no ball bearings etc. Nothing about adding the weight in the wheels.
So I was at the perfect weight, and the center of gravity was basically at the axle point. Huge advantage over the cheesy hollow plastic wheels.
This simple scheme made my car twice as fast as anything else out there. I smoked my own troop hands down, and crushed the local rally. I went to the finals, and some ass-clown judge disqualified it.
Like I said there was absolutely nothing wrong with my design. He was just a dickweed who couldnt accept the fact that a plain brown doorstop could smoke his sons painstakingly hand-carved stupid looking piece of shit (his son got 2nd place eventually - wow surprise surprise)
I was basically disqualified for outsmarting everyone else. Creative thinking is apparently not the scouting way. Bah. The whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth to this day.
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Pulling wire is the most fulfilling home improvement project you can undertake.
When you realize you can have gigabit capability in any room in the house, even the never-used bathroom in the addition, let me tell you, it's a great feeling.
Of course I have gigabit capability, but not enough bananas for a 32 ports of gigabit switching goodness on my rack. But even my 10mbit/100mbit hybrid of discarded switches from the office beats the unreliable 802.11 bulldink.
WAP, Shmap.
Wires are where it's at.
TCPA has nothing to do with Microsoft or digital content. It's a hardware spec. How it's used is up to the user.
You're being fooled by slashbot FUD.
We already have that in the states. It's called Mountain Dew Code Red.
Yes, you just made the argument for the TCPA, and probably understand why it will quickly become ubiquitous in the workplace.
Heh, I only seem to have this problem with Linux problems. I know this is going to be modded troll, but it's true.
Like if I search on some Samba error I'm getting, I'll find a question in a mailing list by some guy with the same problem, but there'll almost never be an answer.
Frankly, I would love to see the opinion sections of CNN or FoxNews in the blog section too.
If you search for ferret care, you'll problably get a handful of ferret owners sites, some information and howtos, maybe a link to i-love-ferrets.com.
If you want to hear PJ McDonut's story about the cute thing his pet ferret did on the weekend, you can click another link.
I welcome this. Between the ads and the blogs, mining actual information using google is becoming ever more time consuming and annoying. I've actually been getting better hits off of search.msn.com.
It's just a guy who picked radioshackoutlet as his nickname, it has nothing to do with Radio Shack.
And there are a lot of people, enthusiasts, collectors, eccentrics, who would bid for such a thing. I had a great uncle who bought a vintage caboose and had it parked in his backyard, and attached to his house. Made a really cool little 3-season porch.
Hell, if I had the bananas and space for it, I'd probably want it.
I guess I have no sense of humor, because this isn't one of the 'funny' ebay auctions.
If you look at the image, there are some odd streaks that go from red to blue (or blue to red).
I'm just curious here, what are they? I thought maybe it could be a bit of space debris that whizzed in front of the camera, but with an exposure of 3.4 days, the streak would go from one side or another.
What moves that far in 3.4 days? A comet? A meteor? A star?
And that big bright cluster in the lower bottom, what's that? It looks pretty close galaxy-wise.
It's a neat pic for sure, a little blurry, which makes it less jawdropping than other hubble efforts but makes sense for a 3.4 day exposure.
Note - I didn't make any goatse or Uranus crack this whole post. You're welcome.
This is true, I can't argue that.
I have no beef with steel coasters, but frankly this thing doesnt count.
It's one hill. And you're hydrolically propelled up it, then down the other side. (Ie; you dont really coast on gravity)
I havent travelled the world riding steel coasters, but I've been on some good ones. The Anaconda at Paramount King's Dominion in VA is pretty cool. Top Gun at Canada's Wonderland (well I guess all the Paramount parks have it) is cool too, I like the feeling of flight from being slung under teh track.
I've always been partial to the wooden ones though. Growing up outside of Toronto, I spent tons of time riding the Minebuster and Wildebeast at Canada's Wonderland. King's Dominion has the Hurler and Rebel Yell.
Hershey Park, PA has a pretty cool dueling wooden coaster thing, where two trains "race", and the track twists in a few ways that it looks like the trains are going to collide head-on.
King's Dominion has one of these "thrill rides". It's so unimpressive I forgot it's name, but it's something teen and Xtreme like "UltraThrill XLT".
It's lame.
You go up, then down. Making it taller and/or faster wont make it better. It's a four hour wait for nothing.
I think coaster designers and park owners love it to death, because design and implementation just means building one big hill, not designing an intricate and well crafted true coaster.
You tell your daughter slashdot is quality?
You should be in prison with the other child abusers.
These stupid go straight up then straight down and thats it coasters are just lame, and the speed or height doesn't impress me. They're boring as hell. You wait in line for 2 or 3 hours, go fast for 2 or 3 seconds, and the rides over.
Give me more giant wooden behemoths with hills and twists and corkscrews, and a track that rattles your brain loose from your skull.
THAT's a rollercoaster. This is just theme park owners comparing wangs to attract customers.
He'll catch on next week when the same questions are sent to him again.
Garfield, Beetle Bailey or Casper.
Fucking lame-oh's
By a similar token, does allowing anonymous ftp access mean that anyone can use the ftp site.
If someone sets up an ftp with full access to anonymous users, can they really say it's unauthorized when a million kiddies start trading warez through there? (I'm wondering about all the 'pubs' which are basically "stolen" space on public ftps for the warez kiddies. )
The piracy is a crime, but does a computer trespass take place? (Say they were trading Red Hat ISOs for the sake of argument)
If you said something on your site like "please do not link to this page in a slashdot article", then they very well could be held liable.
/. effect is overrated, only little personal websites hosted on DSL lines go down, but those little guys often do incur bandwidth and maintainance costs that they could probably hold /. accountable for.
The
I don't think it has to be an intent to harm, as in I didn't intend to hit the baseball through my neighbours window but still wound up paying for it.
You can look at it as Apache/IIS allowing access to port 80, or restricting access to only port 80, and only a certain publicly available part of the filesystem.
If you view it the latter way, then exploiting it to get access to another protocol, or section of the filesystem would clearly be a trespass.
Ie; I run a business like a barbershop out of the front room of my house, or say live above a store. This doesnt give the public access to go check out my bedroom.
I'm from Ontario, and there was a big tornado that literally ripped right past me as a kid. We were at my folks "retirement property", which is 99 acres outside of Owen Sound, and at the time there was just a little cabin there.
It took out the trailer park down the road (that's always the way), and came straight across our fields behind the cabin, not more than a half a kilometer from the cabin itself. We would have been seriously boned if it hit us dead on.
I remember the sound, it sounded like an army of combines or tractors coming across the field. You couldnt see too much of anything, there was so much dust and stuff flying around. Just a deafening roar and pitch black darkness. The next day we saw the path it tore through the trees, and realized how close it came.
It's awesome to see what it leaves behind. It looked as though crews had been through to clear the land for a highway or something, except the tornado did in an hour what would have taken a months with heavy equipment.
Damn, it was cool. Not something I'd want to see every day, though.
Now I'm on the east coast of the states, all we have are crappy old hurricanes and floods. (Well, and a good old blizzard this year to make me homesick)
each of your examples, by itself, is functionally equivalent, but completely different depending on it's use.
while (++i 10) { } (preincrement)
vs
while (i++ 10) {} (postincrement)
vs
while (i 10 ) { i+=1; } (assignment with register increment)
vs
while (i 10) { i = i+1; } (assignment)
They refer to the pre and post increment operators present on most CPUs and post increment with a register vs straight assignment in memory. C is inherently a lower level OS, and things like this are greatly useful when optimizing code.
In a high level pseudo-interpreted language like Java, it's useless. But it serves its intended purpose when it comes to systems level programming.
There's a fine line to be tread between orthagonality and optimization. Of course, these days, we just throw a faster CPU and more RAM at the problem, which is akin to "the door i bought doesnt fit in the opening of the house, so lets buy a new house"
My favorite line:
Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation.
Hahahaha.. I bet they sell a ton of licenses of XP to people who've pulled out all their hair looking for their "Linux documentation"
Something about the RIAA!
The DMCA and my rights!
Bill Gate$! Micro$oft! Palladium!
WIFI
+5 insightful, please, I used all the standard karma buzzwords.
It is nonsense! Wonderful upper management nonsense!
If you've ever seen one, it reads like something from Lewis Carrol or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or maybe more like a Dr. Suess poem.
I prefer watching the radiator explode or the boat sinking as they bail furiously, or the one with the cant-apult that just snapped when they tried to fire a washing machine with it.
It makes for a much better "reality" show.
If the JY wasnt seeded, there'd be no show. Go to a real junkyard, see how far you get building a dune buggy with no engine and no wheels.
In a real junkyard you'll never find a good set of 4 working tires, or a hydraulic pump, or a solid truck chassis, or even a good supply of solid angle iron.
The junkyard thing is a theme, they still build the shit from scratch in a day.
Bah, they screwed me with cub cars.
Mine was so simply designed and executed, that it was altogether unimpressive, but it was by far the fastest one out there.
I cut the block into a wedge. One cut. The end. I gave it a coat of poly.
Now, to get to weight, I came up with an ingenious idea. I filled the wheels with plaster of paris. There was absolutely nothing in the rulebook about the wheels, other than that you must use the ones they provide, with the nails they provide. Ie; no ball bearings etc. Nothing about adding the weight in the wheels.
So I was at the perfect weight, and the center of gravity was basically at the axle point. Huge advantage over the cheesy hollow plastic wheels.
This simple scheme made my car twice as fast as anything else out there. I smoked my own troop hands down, and crushed the local rally. I went to the finals, and some ass-clown judge disqualified it.
Like I said there was absolutely nothing wrong with my design. He was just a dickweed who couldnt accept the fact that a plain brown doorstop could smoke his sons painstakingly hand-carved stupid looking piece of shit (his son got 2nd place eventually - wow surprise surprise)
I was basically disqualified for outsmarting everyone else. Creative thinking is apparently not the scouting way. Bah. The whole thing leaves a sour taste in my mouth to this day.