Additionally I wonmder if this might actually violate federal wiretapping law in that they are tracking what I am doing on their site without my permission or informed consent.
Uhh, no. You're walking around their site. They can watch whatever you do. You're not one of those nuts that buy into those popups that say "You're broadcasting an IP!!!!" are you?
This took the company from 5,000 USA based developers, qa, doc, sales, etc down to less than 1,500 of which most of them are in Sales, accounting, HR, and executive management.
So? Programming and tech support are grunt work. Let the Indians do it for $1 an hour for all I care. The real profit is in management and sales. Go back to school and get your MBA and you'll be managing those Indian laborers like it was South Carolina in 1840. Can you say legalized corporate slavery?! It's beautiful!!! GO AMERICA!
The poster to this story is pretty funny... I think most of us nerds here cared more about that dangling tit than anything else in the game. Then again... I think most everyone cares about the dangling tit more than the actual game.
In all honesty I don't even remember who played in the Super Bowl this year, but I remember Janet Jackson had a nipple shield on. I feel sorry for Boston or Dallas or whoever won the Super Bowl this year.. it'll go down in history as the event where Janet Jackson showed her old floppy boob rather than where some team won their championship.
No. PHP sucks just as much. Just in a different way. If you want to move to something else, try mod_perl. I switched from PHP a while ago and am happier, now.
The nForce2 was a new chipset, so OF COURSE it takes some time for Linux to build in compatibility. The reason it worked flawlessly under Windows is because there are Windows drivers. It has nothing to do with the AMD chip itself.
I know that, but I bought this machine almost 9 months ago and support is still lacking. I don't dare try to turn on APIC mode or my machine will crash. All I'm saying is be wary of AMD chipsets (specifically Nvidia Nforce) under Linux.. they're very iffy in their compatibility whereas Intel chipsets are very well supported.
some people are also scared of amd being cheap. my brother was convinced that there were some things his amd 600 wasnt compatible with just because it was an amd. i tried to convice him otherwise and, well, he now owns a 3.whatever dell with hyperthreading.
Your brother is smart. It's wise to avoid AMD unless you don't care about compatibility. For example, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU in an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard with an Nforce2 chipset is absolutely horrible under Linux. I have to practically cripple the thing by shutting off APIC before I can even get it running for longer than a few minutes without hard locking up. Personally I feel this is a problem with Linux since I have the same board running Windows XP and it works flawlessly, but suffice it to say, there is definitely an incompability somewhere. If I had gotten a P4 system instead I'm assured it would've been working 100%.
Wouldn't pagers fall under the category of personal devices along with cellphones? I'd imagine notebooks (including subnotebooks) and PDAs would be the same.
This is just stupid. If you NEED to be notified instantly then your company should supply you with a pager or cell phone. If they specifically ban the devices and deem you don't need one to do your job then why argue about it? When the server goes down let them know you weren't aware of it because you don't have a pager and were at lunch.
3DRealms has been focused on Duke Nukem Forever for 5 or 6 years now and they still have nothing but vapor. They're hardly a company to talk about video gaming anymore since they can't even get a simple game out the door. License the damn Quake 3 engine and make Duke Nukem Forever with that instead of jumping around redesigning engines every year. 3DRealms is like a kid with ADD when it comes to their flagship character. The fun thing about Duke3d wasn't that it had great graphics (it didn't), but that you could hold up a buck to a stripper and say "shake it baby". We must have more of this in the next version!
I would like to see Debian have some good SATA support in the installer considering how it's taking off.
Good news! I hear this is slated for inclusion in Debian 5.0!! The bad news is Debian is at 3.0 right now and there's 2 years between each stable release. In the meantime get a 3ware 8506 RAID controller (even the 2 port one will work fine) and just use it in JBOD mode. 3ware support is fantastic in the kernel.
Most people setting up linux initially (especially those that need this installer), don't care about how their drive gets partitioned or what gets installed where.
Debian's current installer is absolutely horrible. The Solaris text based installer is even easier than Debian's! I've lost more than a few potential converts based just on the fact that they got lost trying to figure out how to do something simple like setup their network card. Off to Mandrake they went and they're happy. Oh well.
This is why I'm not completly against Spam, but I wish they would clearly mark it so those who don't want it won't get it and this guy will.
Get Congress to do something useful and mandate that an X-Spam tag be added to all unsolicited e-mail. Then just filter on that. Until that happens I'll let Spamassassin do it.
I know everyone is in love with Mozilla, but honestly, what's not to love about Opera?
It's not free. If this were 1996 you might have a valid point in getting us to buy a copy of Opera, but there are a bazillion web browser out there that cost absolutely nothing (yes, I consider watching their adware version to come with a cost as well). I'd rather just use Mozilla or IE.
you wouldn't be able to JUST block the adverts unless you found out the filename convention and coded something that looked for that specific pattern. What a fantastic idea... Anyone got a spare afternoon with nothing to occupy their time?:)
Apparently someone had time on their hands: adblock
It works great for getting rid of those annoying banner ads and inline ads on sites. Blocks flash or images based on a URL pattern. i.e. http://*.doubleclick.*.
Oddly enough, I think this is going to be the year of people stating: "I think this is going to be the Year of Linux"
That was 1998.
...and 1999, and 2000, and 2001, and 2002, and 2003... yep, we're comin' out, guns blazing. Pretty soon we may even overtake #2 Apple's 5% desktop marketshare spot. Any day now... I have a feeling 2004 is it... 6% desktop dominance.
Not really, they're just showing reluctance to spend their time and money analyzing data and user records for the recording industry without being compensated. If the recording industry offered a fee I'm sure they'd fall flat on their back for them.
which would take them about a day in the case of PostGreSQL, which is a far finer database as well.
What exactly is better about it? I'm just starting out with database programming and I was considering going with MySQL and PHP... Why would I choose PostgreSQL instead? PHP seems to favor MySQL as the database of choice.
His point was that someone smaller, like RedHat couldn't withstand that kind of judgement against them because of their limited resources.
But Microsoft had limited resources in 1980. They gradually grew into the corporate behemoth monopoly that we all know and love today sometime in the early 1990's. How is Red Hat any different at this point in their lives to Microsoft 15 years ago? Could Microsoft have survived a $500 million lawsuit in 1982 if IBM had brought it against them for patent infringement?
what about the US turning into a police state. I'd say that's quite a bit more disturbing than paying a few bucks.
They've only got 8 more months to do this shit. I'm a fiscally conservative (and social moderate) Republican, but IF I vote it'll be for Kerry. I want this asshole Bush out of office before kids have to learn to goosestep and wear brown shirts in kindergarten. The religious right must've spooged in their shorts when the supreme court handed the Presidency to Bush, but it's set back democracy 100 years. I guess I'll have to deal with that Massachusetts asshat Kerry raising my taxes and giving welfare mothers more of my money for 4 years, but it's better than the fascist fucks in office right now.
If I'm paying $$$ for Check Point 1 software, I don't wanna have to buy aftermarket book to tell me how to use it.
Don't worry, if you get stuck or locked out of your firewall you can call up the Mossad for tech support. *ducks away from the ensuing firewall geek flamewar*
Noe, 400GB seems vast. More than enough to be going on with, but I know this would fill up as well. So will the 4TB drive I'll eventually have. I wonder if we'll ever have "enough" space. I also wonder what I'll actually fill all this space with.
Television:
/dev/sda1 597423012 467347336 130075676 79%/store
That's just the 600 MythTV recordings of shows I want to save. I thought 600GB of RAID-5 storage would be enough, but I should've spent the extra money and gotten 8 drives instead of only 4 200GB SATA Maxtor disks.:-( Granted, the 3ware controller would've been another $300 as well, but it would've been another 800 gigs of storage.
Oh well, maybe this summer I'll upgrade it again. This array is only 2 months old (300GB of the video dates back to May 2003 when I was recording in DivX before I got PVR-250 cards).
Sorry, I'm a PVR geek these days.. as you can see though, 400GB is nothing to people recording video at 1.7GB/hour and want to save your favorite television shows forever. I guess I should archive them to DVD eventually but that's 100 discs and a ton of time burning!
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Uhh, no. You're walking around their site. They can watch whatever you do. You're not one of those nuts that buy into those popups that say "You're broadcasting an IP!!!!" are you?
So? Programming and tech support are grunt work. Let the Indians do it for $1 an hour for all I care. The real profit is in management and sales. Go back to school and get your MBA and you'll be managing those Indian laborers like it was South Carolina in 1840. Can you say legalized corporate slavery?! It's beautiful!!! GO AMERICA!
In all honesty I don't even remember who played in the Super Bowl this year, but I remember Janet Jackson had a nipple shield on. I feel sorry for Boston or Dallas or whoever won the Super Bowl this year.. it'll go down in history as the event where Janet Jackson showed her old floppy boob rather than where some team won their championship.
I may have to finally get one at that price. Not to play games of course.. I'd use it as a MythTV frontend.
mod_perl? What is this, 1996? PHP is the bomb.
I know that, but I bought this machine almost 9 months ago and support is still lacking. I don't dare try to turn on APIC mode or my machine will crash. All I'm saying is be wary of AMD chipsets (specifically Nvidia Nforce) under Linux.. they're very iffy in their compatibility whereas Intel chipsets are very well supported.
Your brother is smart. It's wise to avoid AMD unless you don't care about compatibility. For example, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU in an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard with an Nforce2 chipset is absolutely horrible under Linux. I have to practically cripple the thing by shutting off APIC before I can even get it running for longer than a few minutes without hard locking up. Personally I feel this is a problem with Linux since I have the same board running Windows XP and it works flawlessly, but suffice it to say, there is definitely an incompability somewhere. If I had gotten a P4 system instead I'm assured it would've been working 100%.
This is just stupid. If you NEED to be notified instantly then your company should supply you with a pager or cell phone. If they specifically ban the devices and deem you don't need one to do your job then why argue about it? When the server goes down let them know you weren't aware of it because you don't have a pager and were at lunch.
Hmm, the link is to xorg.freedesktop.org. Are you sure you got what you wanted? It looks like they ARE using the fork.
3DRealms has been focused on Duke Nukem Forever for 5 or 6 years now and they still have nothing but vapor. They're hardly a company to talk about video gaming anymore since they can't even get a simple game out the door. License the damn Quake 3 engine and make Duke Nukem Forever with that instead of jumping around redesigning engines every year. 3DRealms is like a kid with ADD when it comes to their flagship character. The fun thing about Duke3d wasn't that it had great graphics (it didn't), but that you could hold up a buck to a stripper and say "shake it baby". We must have more of this in the next version!
Good news! I hear this is slated for inclusion in Debian 5.0!! The bad news is Debian is at 3.0 right now and there's 2 years between each stable release. In the meantime get a 3ware 8506 RAID controller (even the 2 port one will work fine) and just use it in JBOD mode. 3ware support is fantastic in the kernel.
Debian's current installer is absolutely horrible. The Solaris text based installer is even easier than Debian's! I've lost more than a few potential converts based just on the fact that they got lost trying to figure out how to do something simple like setup their network card. Off to Mandrake they went and they're happy. Oh well.
Get Congress to do something useful and mandate that an X-Spam tag be added to all unsolicited e-mail. Then just filter on that. Until that happens I'll let Spamassassin do it.
It's not free. If this were 1996 you might have a valid point in getting us to buy a copy of Opera, but there are a bazillion web browser out there that cost absolutely nothing (yes, I consider watching their adware version to come with a cost as well). I'd rather just use Mozilla or IE.
Apparently someone had time on their hands: adblock
It works great for getting rid of those annoying banner ads and inline ads on sites. Blocks flash or images based on a URL pattern. i.e. http://*.doubleclick.*.
That was 1998.
Not really, they're just showing reluctance to spend their time and money analyzing data and user records for the recording industry without being compensated. If the recording industry offered a fee I'm sure they'd fall flat on their back for them.
What exactly is better about it? I'm just starting out with database programming and I was considering going with MySQL and PHP... Why would I choose PostgreSQL instead? PHP seems to favor MySQL as the database of choice.
But Microsoft had limited resources in 1980. They gradually grew into the corporate behemoth monopoly that we all know and love today sometime in the early 1990's. How is Red Hat any different at this point in their lives to Microsoft 15 years ago? Could Microsoft have survived a $500 million lawsuit in 1982 if IBM had brought it against them for patent infringement?
They've only got 8 more months to do this shit. I'm a fiscally conservative (and social moderate) Republican, but IF I vote it'll be for Kerry. I want this asshole Bush out of office before kids have to learn to goosestep and wear brown shirts in kindergarten. The religious right must've spooged in their shorts when the supreme court handed the Presidency to Bush, but it's set back democracy 100 years. I guess I'll have to deal with that Massachusetts asshat Kerry raising my taxes and giving welfare mothers more of my money for 4 years, but it's better than the fascist fucks in office right now.
South Park is the best show on television. What are you talking about?
Don't worry, if you get stuck or locked out of your firewall you can call up the Mossad for tech support. *ducks away from the ensuing firewall geek flamewar*
Cartman: You bastards!
Kyle is the one that says "You bastards!" Cartman is the fat one who hates everyone. Geez, if you're going to quote South Park at least get it right.
Why? Are you a terrorist? It's not like you can do anything about it anyway so just shutup about it and do what you're told.
Television:
That's just the 600 MythTV recordings of shows I want to save. I thought 600GB of RAID-5 storage would be enough, but I should've spent the extra money and gotten 8 drives instead of only 4 200GB SATA Maxtor disks. :-( Granted, the 3ware controller would've been another $300 as well, but it would've been another 800 gigs of storage.
Oh well, maybe this summer I'll upgrade it again. This array is only 2 months old (300GB of the video dates back to May 2003 when I was recording in DivX before I got PVR-250 cards).
Sorry, I'm a PVR geek these days.. as you can see though, 400GB is nothing to people recording video at 1.7GB/hour and want to save your favorite television shows forever. I guess I should archive them to DVD eventually but that's 100 discs and a ton of time burning!