The less useless junk you bring with you, the less you have to carry. Especially if you are going to stay at places that are, shall we say, less than secure. My short, not very sweet story of traveling woe is that, I went to the Caribbean to visit a friend and his wife. I met him in Puerto Rico, and we traveled on from there to sint maarten, and then to saba. whilst on sint maarten, we were drugged and robbed, and the only thing I had left was my Backpack, whatever was in my pockets, and my digital camera. I lost a 20Gb iPod, 12" PowerBook, various cords and whatnot, clothes, and a nice bag. Granted, had I not felt the need to be able to offload my pictures to something else, I would not have taken the laptop
the moral of my story is: 1) be careful where you have a beer in a foreign country, and 2) don't sleep in your rental car. My friend lost a laptop, 60Gb iPod, camcorder, two digital cameras, and a bunch of other crap at the same time. Travel light, it's less to get stolen, and less to carry with you. =D
they picked florida obviously because we're too proud to ask others if we can use their land to launch our stuff. that, and you know, the babes. =D we don't have colonies like europe you know... nor did we randomly acquire "property" like russia.
will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers.???
more efficient lighter cars already DO share the road with Hummers. I call them, NOT SUV's =D but really, the solar cars aren't designed with crashes in mind, since they are usually not in traffic. plus they have to stay light to be able to move at all:)
dude you're getting ripped off. we just bought TWO identical san's to put at different sites which cost about $100000 each, and each has about 5Tb... is your san 2 ata drives in raid 1? =D granted, the tape libraries are about the right price, but that's a tiny san:)
I perform this function on a network with around 2000 user workstations (don't scan those. I shudder at the thought, but it's not *my* job/area) and about 130+ windows servers. the aix and netware stuff I don't worry so much about, but the aix stuff still gets weekly scans. at the moment, we use ISS internet scanner (http://www.iss.net) which I think sucks big donkey schlong. my prefferred scanner is nessus, but I can't use linux on the production network. I weep, like a young child with a skinned knee... but that is beside the point =D I use scheduled batch files to run the scans (within the limitations of the reporting, i.e. 4 hosts at a time) late at night, so as to not impact the users. stuff always gets scanned before going on the network (servers that is, since I build most of them anyway) and sometimes, people even act on the reports of vulnerabilities that I give them! we are moving toward ca vulnerability manager, so it will keep track of all this crap for us, and so I don't have to run the scans. I think.... either way, I'd rather have nessus running on a host on the network, so I could use THAT to schedule scans, or even to do them myself, just to get something that reports accurately, and deeper than stupid ISS... "duh.. you have a vulnerability... I hear that that's bad... you should fix it..." stupid software!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a $20000 server is not that easy to drop, unless you try and put it into the springboards that dell calls rails. granted, it was dumb to try and mount it in the rails by myself, but it works fine so far =D
personally, my IT job is for the state of new york, so it's stressful, but not overly so. let me give an example... the other day, I dropped a server. now, I know intel commodity hardware is cheap and all, but still, this bothered me. =D it luckily fell on the corner that has the least amount of useful hardware in it, and thus, I only broke the power plug plugs. my friend and I glued it back together, and it even works, so all is well. I have to think that if I'd done that at a corporation, I'd have been fired within minutes, whereas at the state, I could commit felonies and still work there! but none before you get hired... save the crime spree until after you're hired =D
it's part one of a three part series, it's not going to go out with a bang. that's what book three is for:) and I did quite enjoy it, although I was also disappointed in the ending to snow crash. =D
it's ab00t fscking time they got some sense into them. nobody needs 300 fps on quake 3, not that any computer in existence could get close to that in doom 3 =D
I think it's an issue of kde/konq is not based on mozilla, thus, the benefits of their labour do not make it into mozilla stuff. IIRC they use the khtml rendering engine. but I agree...I want SVG support =D
yeah, there's this really cool new compression scheme called jpeg. it takes almost all the data from the 211Mb tiff, and slaps it down in a 7Mb jpg file. wow. just freakin' wow. =D I believe the sarcasm was implied, but hey, just to let you know...it's there. =D
I think it's somewhat of an elegantly stupid business strategy. sue customers for more money than they would ever spend on BUYING music, maybe alienate them, most likely just make them mad that they have to pay for music ever again. it does make some sense, but only lawyers and moneygrubbing jerks in the music industry would try it. maybe they figure that since everyone already hates them for unleashing such people as brittany speared and and christina whoreguileria, that we cannot hate them any more than we already do...:)
I'm not doubting the usefulness. =D I'm merely saying that there is enough background radiation in space that chandra can tell if the moon is swiss cheese, or gouda, a smoked cheddar, or perhaps a brie. whatever kind of cheese it is, there's enough zap floating to and fro in the infinite expanses to let us see that with our x-ray specs known as chandra =D
good god man, they're not taking a huge honking X-ray of the moon, chandra uses the background X-ray radiation in the universe as it's "X-ray" and it focuses that into useful data. it's a passive x-ray, not an active scan:)
I think that your best option would be the happy hacking keyboard. they are small, moderately expensive, and have unix key layouts, or windows, so the ctrl key will be in the right place, no matter what your denomination:) they have a yahoo store...don't ask me why =D
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The less useless junk you bring with you, the less you have to carry. Especially if you are going to stay at places that are, shall we say, less than secure. My short, not very sweet story of traveling woe is that, I went to the Caribbean to visit a friend and his wife. I met him in Puerto Rico, and we traveled on from there to sint maarten, and then to saba. whilst on sint maarten, we were drugged and robbed, and the only thing I had left was my Backpack, whatever was in my pockets, and my digital camera. I lost a 20Gb iPod, 12" PowerBook, various cords and whatnot, clothes, and a nice bag. Granted, had I not felt the need to be able to offload my pictures to something else, I would not have taken the laptop
the moral of my story is: 1) be careful where you have a beer in a foreign country, and 2) don't sleep in your rental car. My friend lost a laptop, 60Gb iPod, camcorder, two digital cameras, and a bunch of other crap at the same time. Travel light, it's less to get stolen, and less to carry with you. =D
they picked florida obviously because we're too proud to ask others if we can use their land to launch our stuff. that, and you know, the babes. =D we don't have colonies like europe you know... nor did we randomly acquire "property" like russia.
more efficient lighter cars already DO share the road with Hummers. I call them, NOT SUV's =D but really, the solar cars aren't designed with crashes in mind, since they are usually not in traffic. plus they have to stay light to be able to move at all :)
dude you're getting ripped off. we just bought TWO identical san's to put at different sites which cost about $100000 each, and each has about 5Tb... is your san 2 ata drives in raid 1? =D granted, the tape libraries are about the right price, but that's a tiny san :)
I perform this function on a network with around 2000 user workstations (don't scan those. I shudder at the thought, but it's not *my* job/area) and about 130+ windows servers. the aix and netware stuff I don't worry so much about, but the aix stuff still gets weekly scans. at the moment, we use ISS internet scanner (http://www.iss.net) which I think sucks big donkey schlong. my prefferred scanner is nessus, but I can't use linux on the production network. I weep, like a young child with a skinned knee... but that is beside the point =D I use scheduled batch files to run the scans (within the limitations of the reporting, i.e. 4 hosts at a time) late at night, so as to not impact the users. stuff always gets scanned before going on the network (servers that is, since I build most of them anyway) and sometimes, people even act on the reports of vulnerabilities that I give them! we are moving toward ca vulnerability manager, so it will keep track of all this crap for us, and so I don't have to run the scans. I think.... either way, I'd rather have nessus running on a host on the network, so I could use THAT to schedule scans, or even to do them myself, just to get something that reports accurately, and deeper than stupid ISS... "duh.. you have a vulnerability... I hear that that's bad... you should fix it..." stupid software!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a $20000 server is not that easy to drop, unless you try and put it into the springboards that dell calls rails. granted, it was dumb to try and mount it in the rails by myself, but it works fine so far =D
personally, my IT job is for the state of new york, so it's stressful, but not overly so. let me give an example... the other day, I dropped a server. now, I know intel commodity hardware is cheap and all, but still, this bothered me. =D it luckily fell on the corner that has the least amount of useful hardware in it, and thus, I only broke the power plug plugs. my friend and I glued it back together, and it even works, so all is well. I have to think that if I'd done that at a corporation, I'd have been fired within minutes, whereas at the state, I could commit felonies and still work there! but none before you get hired... save the crime spree until after you're hired =D
hrm... some of the same hardware that lives in my datacenter. but I don't get to take care of the beast. ahh.. IBM F50... =D
dude...my name is andy! but it wasn't me! =D
you just lemme know, and I'll sell you one for that inflated price ;)
it's part one of a three part series, it's not going to go out with a bang. that's what book three is for :) and I did quite enjoy it, although I was also disappointed in the ending to snow crash. =D
a local chapter of ACM could help you out. www.acm.org :) an organization for geeks. =D
I already have a gesture or two for billy gates =D
it's ab00t fscking time they got some sense into them. nobody needs 300 fps on quake 3, not that any computer in existence could get close to that in doom 3 =D
I think it's an issue of kde/konq is not based on mozilla, thus, the benefits of their labour do not make it into mozilla stuff. IIRC they use the khtml rendering engine. but I agree...I want SVG support =D
yeah, there's this really cool new compression scheme called jpeg. it takes almost all the data from the 211Mb tiff, and slaps it down in a 7Mb jpg file. wow. just freakin' wow. =D I believe the sarcasm was implied, but hey, just to let you know...it's there. =D
I think it's somewhat of an elegantly stupid business strategy. sue customers for more money than they would ever spend on BUYING music, maybe alienate them, most likely just make them mad that they have to pay for music ever again. it does make some sense, but only lawyers and moneygrubbing jerks in the music industry would try it. maybe they figure that since everyone already hates them for unleashing such people as brittany speared and and christina whoreguileria, that we cannot hate them any more than we already do... :)
I can't imagine most young boys getting tired of that =D (and of course a small proportion of young girls...I have to be fair)
actually, the VW is a W16 :) like two V8's side by side, smushed together :) those germans, what will they think of next =D
I thought they were usually v-12's (ferrari) =D
dude, you so TOTALLY forgot the most important part: you pay for the whole seat, but you'll only need the EDGE!!! =D
I'm not doubting the usefulness. =D I'm merely saying that there is enough background radiation in space that chandra can tell if the moon is swiss cheese, or gouda, a smoked cheddar, or perhaps a brie. whatever kind of cheese it is, there's enough zap floating to and fro in the infinite expanses to let us see that with our x-ray specs known as chandra =D
good god man, they're not taking a huge honking X-ray of the moon, chandra uses the background X-ray radiation in the universe as it's "X-ray" and it focuses that into useful data. it's a passive x-ray, not an active scan :)
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I'm sure you're not. they're rocker switches. up is 1 down is 4, etc... =D