I worked for a major insurance company around here. They had an old-timer in tech support for reasons I could never understand. I think it's just because he was a couple years from retirement and they thought it wouldn't be a big deal if they stuck him there.
His answer for *EVERYTHING* was "let me change your password" because that was pretty much the ONLY thing he knew how to do. I actually overheard him personally when someone called up and said they couldn't print. What was his response? Yep, you guessed it. "Let me change your password and you can try again."
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' "
I had a friend with a pitbull who purchased one fresh case of frisbees per summer because after the tenth throw, the dog didn't want to run again. So he shredded the frisbee with his teeth and dropped it at his owner's feet and looked at him like "There, throw that, m-f'er..."
I have to second this. I don't use OZ on my Zaurus, but I do use Opie Reader.
The thing I like about it as opposed to other readers is that it deals with the crappy line breaks and reformats paragraphs very well. Most importantly, you can switch to LANDSCAPE mode for reading.
But also the keymap is easily reconfigurable to whatever you want. Two different scroll methods. Scroll speed is very adjustable. Search, bookmark, and annotate to your heart's content. All around goodness in a reader.
However unless I'm storing it under my mattress, and that would be one big damn mattress, it would collect interest and therefore increase exponentially.
Ah yes, you're right. We had those crappy ps/2's in high school. I'd forgotten about those. Now that you mention it, my retarded computer teacher thought it would be such a wonderful idea to buy a system/36 and those terminals had the armored tank keyboards too. Ah, the early days of instant messaging and organizing classroom wide message beep alert attacks on an unsuspecting target.:)
I wrote this many months ago, it seems to be on-topic here.
if i answered every spam...
I'd have a two foot penis and someone would still guarantee me that I could make it 3" longer. But I wouldn't because I'd already be able to attract any woman I wanted using "proven techniques" anyway. My 2' penis would be erect 24 hours per day, 7 days a week between my endless supply of hot porn featuring babes who like to show off on their "naughty web cams" to me as well as enough viagra to make a sperm whale fuck an iceberg and crack it.
I could enjoy all of this while talking to my loved ones at a long distance rate of $0.00001 cents a minute on my cell phone that I'd boosted the reception to such a degree that it transmitted as clear as a bell from the middle of the pacific on the cruise liner where I was enjoying 874 total days of cruise time for a mere $1.83. I could probably buy the cruise liner, as my debt reduction skills would be so vast that I could wipe out the u.s. defecit while simultaneously working from home making three to five thousand dollars per minute using nothing but my home computer.
Of course my website would turn into another huge, gigantic source of income due to the unbelievable number of people willing to promote my website and submit it to 956,451 search engines. Since I can only personally name about 8 search engines and only actually use about 3, I'm very grateful for this. I would probably bore of this quickly and since I can use the internet to "Find *Anyone* Instantly", so I'd simply find "someone willing to give me a billion dollars" and then that'd be one less thing. I thought of this because I'm so goddamn smart I have 12,874 university diplomas.
This level of intelligence proved helpful thinking of a way to pay back the 4,157 places that were willing to loan me money at an interest rate so low you'd think it'd been hidden by a worldcom accountant. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to enjoy this for very long because I will eventually drown in an ocean of inkjet printer ink and toner.
Personally, my favorite keyboard was always the old fashioned metal keyboard that looks like this one. It could take a major beating, but the keys had such a nice action that I could really fly on it. I've seen some clones for pc's now, but they sure are pricey...
My other favorite was a natural style PC Concepts keyboard with the built in touchpad. I'd love to have one just like that again only with all the fancy extra buttons you see on keyboards now. I refuse to buy a Microsoft one since they can't even adhere to standards in a simple keyboard layout and the 6 is on the wrong side. I just can't get used to that. Hell, I don't feel like I should *have* to get used to it anyway!
it's good to see major Japanese corporations interested in Linux.
Having just recently picked up a zaurus and started delving into locating online resources, I can say it doesn't surprise me to see Japanese corporations interested in Linux. There's a truckload of japanese Zaurus resources. ezaurus.com for one.
This is why they're spinning Time Warner Cable off into its own separate company, complete with public stock. Being lumped in with the loser that is AOL dialup is killing them because they do indeed have to worry about shares and money and all.
As I heard, if the AOL/TW deal happened today, the name of the company would be Time Warner AOL, not the other way around.
It was a good day when Steve got booted. After TW realized they got a raw deal (which didn't take long), they slowly and methodically ousted all of the original AOL board members. Steve Case was the most difficult, but it just took a little perserverance and then it was done. Now after they dig themselves out of the current mess, it'll start being a successful company again. Parsons is a very very sharp guy, I think he'll be the one to do it, too.
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Particularly irritating are things like "no servers", "no wireless connection sharing", "no NAT" and "no peer-to-peer".
The No Servers rule is basically because of the people that do abuse it intentially. No wireless, we don't have that rule specifically, but if we catch you doing something crazy like reselling your service, we'd be putting the smack down on that. (You have to be pretty @#$%ing stupid to get caught anyway.) No NAT, not a rule where I am. The less IP's the better. No peer-to-peer, see servers rule. We've never blocked people from accessing p2p. We used to care about people serving it up, but now one person can't do enough damage to a single node so we only respond to abuse complaints, really.
As far as blocking ports, we don't block many. We snip one or two of the netbios ports, that's about it. You can still use it if you know the persons ip, though.
As far as mail servers, same issue as the other rule about servers, it's the other idiots that killing it for you. Mail servers tend to be the worst simply because I swear it seems like 4 out 5 people that try to run a mail server at home are too retardard to shut off relay and the spam starts a'flowin. Some of them set up fricken proxy servers that relay port 25 wideopen to the world forwarding right to our own mail server and that ends up getting our primary outbound mail server blacklisted.
As far as your final question, I'm not really sure. At the moment, I think it's simply because it's very very difficult. If some company comes out with some slick, seamless box that makes usage monitoring a breeze, then you'll probably see it happen. In house, we're on something like our 3rd attempt at homegrowing something that can do it, and it's still not good enough to be worth a damn. Think of the logistics behind doing that for hundreds of thousands of modems, it's nuts.
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No, you're paying for a personal internet connection
Absolutely correct. It's a personal internet connection. Some restrict to one cpe per modem, others more. (we allow 5 in Maine.) If you were paying for bandwidth, we'de have to guarantee you a certain amount or something, ya right...
If you were paying for bandwidth, it would likely be more expensive and they wouldn't care what you did with the connection
Pretty close. Specifically, we charge an arm and a leg (well, not compared to a T1 or something) for *dedicated* bandwidth. For that, we have a seperate freq for the modem and the number of customers has to be split exactly evenly so that we can make the guarantee. And no, we really don't care what you do with it (subject to AUP, of course).
that this money will be used by big cable providders to buy up mom and pops and build out their systems to implement technology using the new higher speeds
Not as easy as you might think. You just wouldn't believe what a phenomenal PITA it is to for a town to change cable providers. It's almost literally an alignment of the stars and moon and crap. It's ridiculous and often takes a year at the earliest. The legalese is voluminous beyond belief. Delays are numerous and sometimes the towns can get downright demanding in want they want from the cable company, too. Like saying they want the cable company to implement and manage a fiber ring between all their town offices and crazy shit like that.
geez, 10 minutes after posting: Could not connect to JRun Server
Do they talk about cable infrastructure did anyone catch?
Forthcoming improvements to cable technology might be considered disruptive. There's stuff pretty close to market that uses 860 to 1000Mhz for up and downstream, split right down the middle. Supposedly capable of a whopping 100Mbps. Problem is that the bulk of cable plants in the country are only capable of frequencies up to 750Mhz and some of the real backwoods mom-and-pop's only something like 360Mhz.
Proximitron is about the best I've found (for windows). Very very configurable. You can even allow other machines to proxy through it from elsewhere. And free, to boot.
Yeah, I always hoped drunken missiles would make it to other games. They were GREAT!
I used to like to screw with them by playing the baseball diamond level in "chase the triad" mode (or whatever it was called). It was kinda fun to get out in the big open field and see how many times you could get a huge flock of missiles to go round and round chasing that triangle.
You have to admit, this game did have some sort of unique appeal to it. For some reason, my non-gaming friends used to love to play this game.
I'm already looking forward to the filthy critic review...
Seriously though, they could've made something cool out of part 3, something creative with the changing of fate maybe. Something deep. But no, go to imdb and look at the tagline:
Eight Years Ago. The Machines Who Rule The Future Sent An Unstoppable Terminator To Assassinate The Young John Connor. They Failed. In 2003. The Machines Will Try Again.
Give me a BREAK! More spooge from collective asses of hollywood's finest.
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Because the voices told him to post it here...
This command, for example, would show you China from that file:
I worked for a major insurance company around here. They had an old-timer in tech support for reasons I could never understand. I think it's just because he was a couple years from retirement and they thought it wouldn't be a big deal if they stuck him there.
His answer for *EVERYTHING* was "let me change your password" because that was pretty much the ONLY thing he knew how to do. I actually overheard him personally when someone called up and said they couldn't print. What was his response? Yep, you guessed it. "Let me change your password and you can try again."
"Throw a stick for a dog to fetch, and after 10 times the dog will say, `Get it yourself, buddy,' "
I had a friend with a pitbull who purchased one fresh case of frisbees per summer because after the tenth throw, the dog didn't want to run again. So he shredded the frisbee with his teeth and dropped it at his owner's feet and looked at him like "There, throw that, m-f'er..."
I saw one, too. Poor frisbee...
I have to second this. I don't use OZ on my Zaurus, but I do use Opie Reader.
The thing I like about it as opposed to other readers is that it deals with the crappy line breaks and reformats paragraphs very well. Most importantly, you can switch to LANDSCAPE mode for reading.
But also the keymap is easily reconfigurable to whatever you want. Two different scroll methods. Scroll speed is very adjustable. Search, bookmark, and annotate to your heart's content. All around goodness in a reader.
Is there a clearly defined statute of limitations? If so, then yes, it really should be "that easy" shouldn't it?
I used to work at a very large ISP and I can attest that the discounts that vendors will give to get your business are very very substantial.
However unless I'm storing it under my mattress, and that would be one big damn mattress, it would collect interest and therefore increase exponentially.
Ah yes, you're right. We had those crappy ps/2's in high school. I'd forgotten about those. Now that you mention it, my retarded computer teacher thought it would be such a wonderful idea to buy a system/36 and those terminals had the armored tank keyboards too. Ah, the early days of instant messaging and organizing classroom wide message beep alert attacks on an unsuspecting target. :)
I wrote this many months ago, it seems to be on-topic here.
My other favorite was a natural style PC Concepts keyboard with the built in touchpad. I'd love to have one just like that again only with all the fancy extra buttons you see on keyboards now. I refuse to buy a Microsoft one since they can't even adhere to standards in a simple keyboard layout and the 6 is on the wrong side. I just can't get used to that. Hell, I don't feel like I should *have* to get used to it anyway!
Probably ought to have a chat with Merlyn about his case that definitely had some similarities... He might have some worthy insights.
I'm curious, how did they shut SCO up in Germany and the other countries? What argument did they use? Is there any worthy online reading?
This is why they're spinning Time Warner Cable off into its own separate company, complete with public stock. Being lumped in with the loser that is AOL dialup is killing them because they do indeed have to worry about shares and money and all.
As I heard, if the AOL/TW deal happened today, the name of the company would be Time Warner AOL, not the other way around.
It was a good day when Steve got booted. After TW realized they got a raw deal (which didn't take long), they slowly and methodically ousted all of the original AOL board members. Steve Case was the most difficult, but it just took a little perserverance and then it was done. Now after they dig themselves out of the current mess, it'll start being a successful company again. Parsons is a very very sharp guy, I think he'll be the one to do it, too.
As far as blocking ports, we don't block many. We snip one or two of the netbios ports, that's about it. You can still use it if you know the persons ip, though.
As far as mail servers, same issue as the other rule about servers, it's the other idiots that killing it for you. Mail servers tend to be the worst simply because I swear it seems like 4 out 5 people that try to run a mail server at home are too retardard to shut off relay and the spam starts a'flowin. Some of them set up fricken proxy servers that relay port 25 wideopen to the world forwarding right to our own mail server and that ends up getting our primary outbound mail server blacklisted.
As far as your final question, I'm not really sure. At the moment, I think it's simply because it's very very difficult. If some company comes out with some slick, seamless box that makes usage monitoring a breeze, then you'll probably see it happen. In house, we're on something like our 3rd attempt at homegrowing something that can do it, and it's still not good enough to be worth a damn. Think of the logistics behind doing that for hundreds of thousands of modems, it's nuts.
Absolutely correct. It's a personal internet connection. Some restrict to one cpe per modem, others more. (we allow 5 in Maine.) If you were paying for bandwidth, we'de have to guarantee you a certain amount or something, ya right...
Pretty close. Specifically, we charge an arm and a leg (well, not compared to a T1 or something) for *dedicated* bandwidth. For that, we have a seperate freq for the modem and the number of customers has to be split exactly evenly so that we can make the guarantee. And no, we really don't care what you do with it (subject to AUP, of course).
Not as easy as you might think. You just wouldn't believe what a phenomenal PITA it is to for a town to change cable providers. It's almost literally an alignment of the stars and moon and crap. It's ridiculous and often takes a year at the earliest. The legalese is voluminous beyond belief. Delays are numerous and sometimes the towns can get downright demanding in want they want from the cable company, too. Like saying they want the cable company to implement and manage a fiber ring between all their town offices and crazy shit like that.
Do they talk about cable infrastructure did anyone catch?
Forthcoming improvements to cable technology might be considered disruptive. There's stuff pretty close to market that uses 860 to 1000Mhz for up and downstream, split right down the middle. Supposedly capable of a whopping 100Mbps. Problem is that the bulk of cable plants in the country are only capable of frequencies up to 750Mhz and some of the real backwoods mom-and-pop's only something like 360Mhz.
Proximitron is about the best I've found (for windows). Very very configurable. You can even allow other machines to proxy through it from elsewhere. And free, to boot.
I used to like to screw with them by playing the baseball diamond level in "chase the triad" mode (or whatever it was called). It was kinda fun to get out in the big open field and see how many times you could get a huge flock of missiles to go round and round chasing that triangle.
You have to admit, this game did have some sort of unique appeal to it. For some reason, my non-gaming friends used to love to play this game.
Seriously though, they could've made something cool out of part 3, something creative with the changing of fate maybe. Something deep. But no, go to imdb and look at the tagline:
Give me a BREAK! More spooge from collective asses of hollywood's finest.Don't forget Schmindows. That one would be worth it just to hear someone making an argument in court actually say "Windows Schmindows!"
I think they meant quaHOG, didn't they? :)