It's really just a standard we need to stop trademark dilution spheel. 'Member the O'Riley people complaining a few months back about "Slacking for Dummies"? There wasn't any real force behind the letters then, and there isn't now
"We even have a concept of the afterlife" said Doran, "so if your OS freezes you can go in and look at the state of the machine, change configuration, load a different driver, and do a sensible restart."
so their plan is..
1)Create new layer between bios and os
2)Say it helps when your OS crashes
3)have it log system stats so users can see what went wrong
4)Re-invent all the kernel-logging utilities
5) Profit!
seriously folks, a graphical kernel logging utility would be pretty handy. you could have it start after a crash instead of kdm/gdm/xdm, so you can find the problem before you go under again.
whats a bios? in all the newer computers ive seen that havent been built by the users, there is no bios. when i finally got into the bios on a friends compaq, it took twenty minutes for me to look up the "security codes" so i could change his boot sequence.. most users dont know what a bios is, so it might as well already be dead
there was, (or still is, i dont remember) a distributed computing project to map out all possible end games, and put them on a local internet server. the point being, that anyone with a large amount of disk space could access the perfect moves for end game. when i last heard, they were up to 7 pieces on the board, and each combo fit compressed onto a dvd.
yeah, there are loads of commercials for these things in japan. the weirdest thing is, the commercials are people doing voice overs in english while cat stevens is playing...
In my public school (k-8 in nowhereville, maine) the sysadmins quote is "my steak bomb comes before this computer.." the school uses macs primarily, with one windows/linux dual boot box. I had to pull hairs to get support for setting up the dual boot, even though I did it all by myself. In any case, it works nicely and runs off of a cron-compiled kde3 cvs snapshot.. The teachers love it, once they actually used it they apologized to me. Just give the common person a chance and they will see the right thing.
yes, i know this is off subject but.. is anyone else having problems contacting cvs.sourceforge.net? specificly my giFT and WineX cvs's gave me an no contact error when cron tried to update them...
When I was in Japan, where everyone has cell-phones and very few people (I staw) had decently powerful desktop machines, if you didn't have a phone you were toast. I thought it was all kinda stupid, and typing kanji on those stupid little things is nuts..
So I guess that if you can't understand their algebra in the 2nd part of the explanation, you aren't elible to join..maybe some/.'er could translate that for those of us who haven't graduated grade school yet?
Why does there need to be special legislation depending on the method employed? Do you have special laws for murder with a knife; with a gun; with a mango?
Now this class, is how you kill someone with a strawberry...
You mean you're supposed to solder it? Jeesh, when I tried to put my hard-drive in, there was this one peg, that didn't have a corresponding hole on the cord..aren't you SUPPOSED to pull that one out? Computers these days..
so what do we all do, when watching "the simpsons" (to quote the article) and our box gets 0wn3d? count the number of days before script kiddies have a script to pipe specific (obscene) images/sound onto your tvs..just what microsoft wants grandma and kids to see huh?
Panel One:
Dogbert Consults
My data mining software has found another message from God.
Panel Two
It says you've been stealing lunches from the refrigerator in the break room.
Panel Three
Then it says "Ha, Ha that wasn't pudding!"
btw, that was January 3rd on the Dilbert Callender this year..
Yeah, Blizzard's Diablo II was pretty bad there for awhile. It took the "Pindle Revolution" for me to wake up and stop playing. Of course by then, I had only paid for the copies of the game and 3 months worth of WineX. No big deal. The downside is that Warcraft 3 is out and its pretty cool....
2 screens means twice as many blue-screens! isnt that cool? now we can crash our *favorite* with the same ie bug twice in one boot up!! seriously, are they using a special version of windows? none of the joe user releases ive seen have multi-monitor support...
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in 'Larry Niven, a collection from known space' I believe
It's really just a standard we need to stop trademark dilution spheel. 'Member the O'Riley people complaining a few months back about "Slacking for Dummies"? There wasn't any real force behind the letters then, and there isn't now
"We even have a concept of the afterlife" said Doran, "so if your OS freezes you can go in and look at the state of the machine, change configuration, load a different driver, and do a sensible restart."
so their plan is..
1)Create new layer between bios and os
2)Say it helps when your OS crashes
3)have it log system stats so users can see what went wrong
4)Re-invent all the kernel-logging utilities
5) Profit!
seriously folks, a graphical kernel logging utility would be pretty handy. you could have it start after a crash instead of kdm/gdm/xdm, so you can find the problem before you go under again.
whats a bios? in all the newer computers ive seen that havent been built by the users, there is no bios. when i finally got into the bios on a friends compaq, it took twenty minutes for me to look up the "security codes" so i could change his boot sequence.. most users dont know what a bios is, so it might as well already be dead
there was, (or still is, i dont remember) a distributed computing project to map out all possible end games, and put them on a local internet server. the point being, that anyone with a large amount of disk space could access the perfect moves for end game. when i last heard, they were up to 7 pieces on the board, and each combo fit compressed onto a dvd.
you forgot
15) Profit!!
i heard someone talking about that, and the guy who needed warcraft III was complaining that he already had most of the games..
yeah, there are loads of commercials for these things in japan. the weirdest thing is, the commercials are people doing voice overs in english while cat stevens is playing...
i dunno, but i just saw "Cowboy Neal Says No To..." then I refreshed the page and it said Hollywood..hmm..
In my public school (k-8 in nowhereville, maine) the sysadmins quote is "my steak bomb comes before this computer.." the school uses macs primarily, with one windows/linux dual boot box. I had to pull hairs to get support for setting up the dual boot, even though I did it all by myself. In any case, it works nicely and runs off of a cron-compiled kde3 cvs snapshot.. The teachers love it, once they actually used it they apologized to me. Just give the common person a chance and they will see the right thing.
yes, i know this is off subject but.. is anyone else having problems contacting cvs.sourceforge.net? specificly my giFT and WineX cvs's gave me an no contact error when cron tried to update them...
When I was in Japan, where everyone has cell-phones and very few people (I staw) had decently powerful desktop machines, if you didn't have a phone you were toast. I thought it was all kinda stupid, and typing kanji on those stupid little things is nuts..
So I guess that if you can't understand their algebra in the 2nd part of the explanation, you aren't elible to join..maybe some /.'er could translate that for those of us who haven't graduated grade school yet?
Google Mirror, elgoog!!
frozen bubble even has a time in secons addicted-o-meter..
Why does there need to be special legislation depending on the method employed? Do you have special laws for murder with a knife; with a gun; with a mango?
Now this class, is how you kill someone with a strawberry...
You mean you're supposed to solder it? Jeesh, when I tried to put my hard-drive in, there was this one peg, that didn't have a corresponding hole on the cord..aren't you SUPPOSED to pull that one out? Computers these days..
so what do we all do, when watching "the simpsons" (to quote the article) and our box gets 0wn3d? count the number of days before script kiddies have a script to pipe specific (obscene) images/sound onto your tvs..just what microsoft wants grandma and kids to see huh?
my computer wakes up the people below me when i turn it on..well, i do have a pent 4 overclocked to 4.0 ghz, but thats not the point!
It's not directly a language, but something sysadmins have to see to alot. We could call it fire extinguishing for the sake of simplicity...
jeesh that grep took along time! i tried running it on my 486/16meg ram.. coulda atleast warned us! what does grep do again?
Panel One:
Dogbert Consults
My data mining software has found another message from God.
Panel Two
It says you've been stealing lunches from the refrigerator in the break room.
Panel Three
Then it says "Ha, Ha that wasn't pudding!"
btw, that was January 3rd on the Dilbert Callender this year..
Yeah, Blizzard's Diablo II was pretty bad there for awhile. It took the "Pindle Revolution" for me to wake up and stop playing. Of course by then, I had only paid for the copies of the game and 3 months worth of WineX. No big deal. The downside is that Warcraft 3 is out and its pretty cool....
2 screens means twice as many blue-screens! isnt that cool? now we can crash our *favorite* with the same ie bug twice in one boot up!!
seriously, are they using a special version of windows? none of the joe user releases ive seen have multi-monitor support...
isn't he the one who collects info from set-top boxes, without telling the users that they are being watched?