you have never had to admin a bunch of Xp boxes on a shoe string budget before you have?
never had to run one close to the "low end" of minimum resource requirements ??
turning off all those un-used and un-needed services and themes makes a difference.
it will never make a slow machine fast, but for those of us that dont have the best of everything,each of those 2 mb here 3 mb here services add up and it makes a difference.
now to try and get an alternate Shell running so i can trim the fat a bit more.
if people want a fancy GUI and have the CPU power for it , well good for them, for those of us that dont, its nice to be able to get rid of the crap and keep the functionality of the machine.
I use XP at home ( for games ) and at work , cause i have to.
But the first thing i do after a clean install is disable all that fancy dandy Perdy UI shit. Its a resource hog and gets in the way.
even tho i use linux for select things ( file serving, firewalls, routers etc ) the single best thing i like about Windows is the consistency of it. No i dont mean the crashing:P, i mean that everything is in the same spot on every version, all the time.
It saves me time when working on someone elses machine , not to have to go digging round looking for the option i need.
This is where i feel distros like Ubuntu will help on the desktop, givin that "Windows Feel" , without all the crap that comes along with it.
Is it there yet, no i dont think so, but its sure moving forward awful fast.
I seem to recall a similar incident ( perhaps the same one ) where a 747 ran out of fuel and was gliding for a long time, i think after the incident it was named the "Gimly Glider" or something similar.
But seriously they could easy go up through the Bearing Straight ( spl ) then hook round over the top, and pick a gap between Greenland and the North American main land.
the shortest path by flying is a curve anyways and if you can do it all at high mach numbers the extra distance wouldnt be that much of a bother would it ? specially if you could still do it in half the time.
** snip ** In the US, each year there are about 40,000 deaths per year in automobile accidents vs. about 200 in air transport. To put this in perspective, the chance of dying in an automobile accident is about 1000 times more than winning a typical state lottery in a year.
Considering that NewYork and Tokyo are just about on opposite sides of the world, i would suggest that they do an "over the top shot" and go via the North Pole.
By going that route, so long as the plane could pass the required regulations for minimum safe distance from a landing zone ( sorry i cant remember what its called ) , they would be able to do just about the entire flight with out coming anywhere near land at all.
Would come down... that is if De Beers could be regulated and stop their monopolistic practices of artificilly limiting diamond supply to keep prices up.
still Emeralds and other jems are rarer than diamonds and should there for be worth more, but since De Beers controls the supply of diamonds and spends stupid amounts of money telling everyone how "rare diamonds really are" , prices will always be what they are.
( go google it if you dont believe me )
ever wonder why every 4 / 6 months you see jewelery adverts saying *OMGz , 50% off*
yeah.. they can afford to.
Still , if it keeps the little woman happy and people dont bother thinking about it, De Beers is always going to have demand far out strip the supply it is willing to give and make lots and LOTS of money.
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you have never had to admin a bunch of Xp boxes on a shoe string budget before you have?
,each of those 2 mb here 3 mb here services add up and it makes a difference.
never had to run one close to the "low end" of minimum resource requirements ??
turning off all those un-used and un-needed services and themes makes a difference.
it will never make a slow machine fast, but for those of us that dont have the best of everything
now to try and get an alternate Shell running so i can trim the fat a bit more.
if people want a fancy GUI and have the CPU power for it , well good for them, for those of us that dont, its nice to be able to get rid of the crap and keep the functionality of the machine.
I use XP at home ( for games ) and at work , cause i have to.
:P, i mean that everything is in the same spot on every version, all the time.
But the first thing i do after a clean install is disable all that fancy dandy Perdy UI shit. Its a resource hog and gets in the way.
even tho i use linux for select things ( file serving, firewalls, routers etc ) the single best thing i like about Windows is the consistency of it. No i dont mean the crashing
It saves me time when working on someone elses machine , not to have to go digging round looking for the option i need.
This is where i feel distros like Ubuntu will help on the desktop, givin that "Windows Feel" , without all the crap that comes along with it.
Is it there yet, no i dont think so, but its sure moving forward awful fast.
I seem to recall a similar incident ( perhaps the same one ) where a 747 ran out of fuel and was gliding for a long time, i think after the incident it was named the "Gimly Glider" or something similar.
Not Really ... :P
But seriously they could easy go up through the Bearing Straight ( spl ) then hook round over the top, and pick a gap between Greenland and the North American main land.
the shortest path by flying is a curve anyways and if you can do it all at high mach numbers the extra distance wouldnt be that much of a bother would it ? specially if you could still do it in half the time.
Sooo... flying from NY to say London and going over that "nice warm" North Atlantic Ocean is soooo much safer..
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.. you have a greater chance of dying by "driving your car" to the airport, than you have of dying by the plane falling out of the air.
look at the odd's , crunch the numbers.
the USA has about 40K ppl die per year from car crashes, and about 25 - 30 K from assaultings ( shootings , stabbings etc )
http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.ht
** snip **
In the US, each year there are about 40,000 deaths per year in automobile
accidents vs. about 200 in air transport. To put this in perspective, the
chance of dying in an automobile accident is about 1000 times more than
winning a typical state lottery in a year.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99
Sooo yeah
but even with that said, if you did go down in the North Atlantic, at least you wouldnt have to worry about the pain for more than about 3 or 4 mins.
Considering that NewYork and Tokyo are just about on opposite sides of the world, i would suggest that they do an "over the top shot" and go via the North Pole.
By going that route, so long as the plane could pass the required regulations for minimum safe distance from a landing zone ( sorry i cant remember what its called ) , they would be able to do just about the entire flight with out coming anywhere near land at all.
Take off and landing aside.
Armed Dolphins...
.. /Run away Run away.!!!
The Sky is burning the end is near
I dont want to glow in the dark...
believing in an untestable book about a mythical Carpenter and his dad "The Wizard" makes so much more sence..
... what ever floats your boat.
but hey
There was a quote i heard once, it went something along the lines of this.
"He was a supremely arrogant man, but he carried it well, because he was usually right."
This wasnt made as a reference to Theo at the time, but it seemed apt
Giant Steps
..
Are, what, you, take
walking on the moon...
I wonder if they considered defences to the /. effect when writing this.
Would come down ... that is if De Beers could be regulated and stop their monopolistic practices of artificilly limiting diamond supply to keep prices up.
.. they can afford to.
still Emeralds and other jems are rarer than diamonds and should there for be worth more, but since De Beers controls the supply of diamonds and spends stupid amounts of money telling everyone how "rare diamonds really are" , prices will always be what they are.
( go google it if you dont believe me )
ever wonder why every 4 / 6 months you see jewelery adverts saying *OMGz , 50% off*
yeah
Still , if it keeps the little woman happy and people dont bother thinking about it, De Beers is always going to have demand far out strip the supply it is willing to give and make lots and LOTS of money.
you mean something like this http://www.bsdcertification.org/news.htm http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/BSDCerti ficationRoadmap.pdf Big nasty PDF
ihavebeensayingforyearsthatdrinkinglotsofcoffeeisa goodthinganditsnothingtoworryabout. /Deeeep breath /twitch twitch
Betting at all the usual places.
uh oh ....
I just used this link
http://www.mininova.org/tor/60628 Mininova
that was in the story, it took a while but started going ok.
bit off topic i know .. sorry.
but with Torrents like this , what is the fastest speed people have seen ( for the swarm i mean )
atm i am getting this Knoppix ISO at about 50Kps and seeing a swarm speed of about 9Mbytes/sec
interesting to see how fast distributed networks really can be.
Might do well to check this page
http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/results2004.htm
not sure if its the latest tho
Baby Seal walks into a Club...
Turns into a Fur Coat.
I just hope they leave all the settings on default, just like most of the people on my island.
( Australia )
Identity theft..........
now this will give all those Virii / Worms something to chew on.
All your personal info in one nice tight bundle
... ,
If you didnt have to decrypt it
It didnt come from me.
Seriously Baby! , I can prescribe anyZing , i Vant