I'd mod up too, but I am not here any more.
Seriously, any change takes a while to get used to, but the new site design is an epic fail of Digg proportions.
I have now added an RSS feed to/. on my phone and that's pretty much as far as I get with/. now.
I find it amazing that the entire thread can get this long without anyone asking about the make and model of DSL router involved and whether it can run DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato etc.
Things are slipping round here.
"I honestly can't think of a scenario that would demand SSH access from a single person, on the fly, such that they don't get time to go to a computer or arrive at the physical location of the computer in question, that doesn't hint at poor IT management anyway."
If only there was some type of wipe-clean passive material that could be supplied in a card-index style format with individual recipes printed on it, or
perhaps some form of perspex or glass shielding that could be placed over a recipe book then we wouldn't need to spend so much to bring our remote touch technology and expensive touchscreen devices into such a hostile environment.
I believe that someone's always playing Corporation Games.
Great, but...
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Tron: Legacy
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It was a good romp in keeping with the spirit of the original film, but I have to say that the 3D effects were, with one exception, uremarkable and few and far between. I was disappointed to note that the 3D glasses darkened the film in general and when I took them off for comparison during 2D scenes, the colours were much move vivid. Worth seeing for the effects and not so much for the storyline which strings them together. A good effort, but I wonder if seeing the film in 2D (ie: without the glasses) would be more visually stunning.
Actually, the Wii cluster was quite powerful, but the operators couldn't lift the 1760 Wiimotes glued together in order to navigate the front end menu.
The popular MailScanner spam/virus filter removes 1x1 Web bugs by default so there are quite a few mail servers out there that will neutralise this issue.
No, silly. The database is an historic record that they keep of every demo CD and floppy they ever sent out (date, name, address etc.). It was designed to ensure that they never sent more than 999 to the same person.
I insisted on sending our accounts databases to the consultants working for our new business owners as Axcrypted files on DVDs, plus I required them to sign a Non-disclosure Agreement and told them I would pass on the encryption key via SMS text to the IT Manager in Head Office. I was told this was all 'over the top' and I was being awkward. Hey ho.
I hear those episodes have to be watched with special glasses - one eyepiece is tinted full black and the other is...full black too. This apparently makes the whole viewing experience of these films much much better.
"Ah, but Minister, it works like this...
Open source products cost zero to procure. Admittedly there are the associated installation and support costs, but that holds true for commercial products, so let's take the installation and support costs out of the equation. This leaves the cost of acquisition, which, as I said, for Open Source products is zero. Now, consider a commercial software alternative that would cost, say £15 million to acquire, yet we negotiate the price down to £10 million, so we can rightly say that we have saved the taxpayer £5 million - an not inconsiderable sum - but look at the Open Source alternative; it costs zero to acquire so there is zero that can be saved by negotiation - nothing - so what is better for the taxpayer: something on which we can save zero, or something for which we can negotiate a £5m discount? Basic maths and economics, Minister. "
I just have to tell you of the perils of calculators...In the early 80s, my mate Douggy was very proud of his flashy, solar-powered engineering calculator. We were taking a 2 hour exam in Electronic Engineering in a small, poorly-lit hut in the college campus at 7pm one dark winters evening. Douggy had spent a considerable amount of time running through a complex question and tapping furiously into his calculator. At that moment, the teacher who was overseeing the exam walked by and leant over Douggy to see how he was doing, simultaneously blocking out the light above Douggy's head. As the display on the calculator dimmed, Douggy jumped up, called the teacher a bastard before sitting down again to start over.
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I'd mod up too, but I am not here any more. Seriously, any change takes a while to get used to, but the new site design is an epic fail of Digg proportions. I have now added an RSS feed to /. on my phone and that's pretty much as far as I get with /. now.
I find it amazing that the entire thread can get this long without anyone asking about the make and model of DSL router involved and whether it can run DD-WRT, OpenWrt, Tomato etc. Things are slipping round here.
Trust me, it gets tedious after a while - hearing the same jokes when you book into hotels, sign card receipts etc.
Yours
William Indows
Scary network media choice - Cat 6 - that's 'Catheter, 6mm'
At least the guys at the two end stalls don't need to be fitted with terminators too!
"I honestly can't think of a scenario that would demand SSH access from a single person, on the fly, such that they don't get time to go to a computer or arrive at the physical location of the computer in question, that doesn't hint at poor IT management anyway."
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
So you'd be playing on a pee-to-pee network
Shh - don't tell us Brits that the PAL standard was developed in Germany.
..Yeah, you could send an email warning about the problem, provided your phone hasn't already used up your data plan without your help.
If only there was some type of wipe-clean passive material that could be supplied in a card-index style format with individual recipes printed on it, or perhaps some form of perspex or glass shielding that could be placed over a recipe book then we wouldn't need to spend so much to bring our remote touch technology and expensive touchscreen devices into such a hostile environment.
Surely the important question is whether to edit your BASIC code with vi or emacs?
I believe that someone's always playing Corporation Games.
It was a good romp in keeping with the spirit of the original film, but I have to say that the 3D effects were, with one exception, uremarkable and few and far between. I was disappointed to note that the 3D glasses darkened the film in general and when I took them off for comparison during 2D scenes, the colours were much move vivid. Worth seeing for the effects and not so much for the storyline which strings them together. A good effort, but I wonder if seeing the film in 2D (ie: without the glasses) would be more visually stunning.
End of Line.
But does it run...android?
Actually, the Wii cluster was quite powerful, but the operators couldn't lift the 1760 Wiimotes glued together in order to navigate the front end menu.
The popular MailScanner spam/virus filter removes 1x1 Web bugs by default so there are quite a few mail servers out there that will neutralise this issue.
We will never know since every time an anti-physicist turns up for a meeting with a physicist to discuss their results they both disappear.
Nope, it was he awesomeness of EDLIN that had them worried.
Compiling!
http://xkcd.com/303/
No, silly. The database is an historic record that they keep of every demo CD and floppy they ever sent out (date, name, address etc.). It was designed to ensure that they never sent more than 999 to the same person.
I insisted on sending our accounts databases to the consultants working for our new business owners as Axcrypted files on DVDs, plus I required them to sign a Non-disclosure Agreement and told them I would pass on the encryption key via SMS text to the IT Manager in Head Office. I was told this was all 'over the top' and I was being awkward. Hey ho.
I hear those episodes have to be watched with special glasses - one eyepiece is tinted full black and the other is...full black too. This apparently makes the whole viewing experience of these films much much better.
"Ah, but Minister, it works like this... Open source products cost zero to procure. Admittedly there are the associated installation and support costs, but that holds true for commercial products, so let's take the installation and support costs out of the equation. This leaves the cost of acquisition, which, as I said, for Open Source products is zero. Now, consider a commercial software alternative that would cost, say £15 million to acquire, yet we negotiate the price down to £10 million, so we can rightly say that we have saved the taxpayer £5 million - an not inconsiderable sum - but look at the Open Source alternative; it costs zero to acquire so there is zero that can be saved by negotiation - nothing - so what is better for the taxpayer: something on which we can save zero, or something for which we can negotiate a £5m discount? Basic maths and economics, Minister. "
One in two - that's fifty percent???
the digit - when expressed in binary - is 0.
Any ideas what it is in hex?
I just have to tell you of the perils of calculators...In the early 80s, my mate Douggy was very proud of his flashy, solar-powered engineering calculator. We were taking a 2 hour exam in Electronic Engineering in a small, poorly-lit hut in the college campus at 7pm one dark winters evening. Douggy had spent a considerable amount of time running through a complex question and tapping furiously into his calculator. At that moment, the teacher who was overseeing the exam walked by and leant over Douggy to see how he was doing, simultaneously blocking out the light above Douggy's head. As the display on the calculator dimmed, Douggy jumped up, called the teacher a bastard before sitting down again to start over.