i really don't understand the point in having separate partitions when using a stable, journalled filesystem; unless those partitions are on multiple physical disks.
the best advice i can give when calling tech support is not to act/point out/pretend to be smarter than the tech. when you do, it immediately puts them into a defensive mode and they may not want to solve your problem in the easiest fashion.
regardless if you know exactly what the problem is (misconfigured router, etc), telling the tech will not convince him/her to act on your diagnosis. at all.
i remember being able to call Pacbell Internet (SBC) and say, "hey, this router is misconfigured.. what engineer handles that particular router?" a minute later i would hear... "ya, this is dave, what's up?" usually after telling him the problem, they would be like, "wow, thanks for pointing out this problem. i'll take care of it right away."
never, ever tell your ISP tech you're running linux. if they run you thru some script to look at your Network Neighborhood settings or whatever, fake it.
i have also discovered that if you're talking with a female tech, talk a little slower and sweeter and they will help you at all costs, or even better, direct you to someone that really knows their stuff.
wardriving might sound stupid of you're somewhat new to the geek scene, but wardriving is obviously derived from the term 'wardialing' which was a term coined in the early eighties.
wardialing meant dialing random or sequenced numbers on your modem looking for computer responses, in which you would then 'investigate' further.
How exactly does the US Government define beer? Anything from the BudMilloor company is not beer. It's more like a carbinated, rice beverage with alcohol. The only choices Americans have for good beer are local breweries (or micro-breweries) or anywhere outside of the US.
When I first moved from California to Germany and had my first real beer, I didn't like it. Fact is, I didn't realize what beer was because I grew up subjected to marketing blitz by Budweiser, Miller and Coors. However, after a couple more German Karlburgs, I really started to appreciate what a good beer could be. Now, I am completely and utterly repulsed by anything from BudMilloors.
Hi Bruce, could you please tell us a bit about your experience working with HP? I am interested if you were able to share your views on open source with the HP execs. What were their thoughts about it?
Do you see open source becoming more accepted by large corporations or will it remain largly popular with the developer/hobby crowd?
when driving thru Los Angeles traffic every morning, i would do my own traffic pattern analysis.
here are my results:
brakelights. that's right, brakelights is a serious cause of traffic.
currently, brakelights are either on or off, there's no middle. from a small distance, it's hard to tell weather someone is braking hard or soft. result? you end up using your brakes a little more than the person in front of you.
so if one person taps his brakes, it could conceivably cause a traffic jam 5 miles down the road, sort of like the domino effect.
the solution? put in some sort of dynamic brakelighting. the harder you hit your brakes, the brighter the lights.
also from the article: But Giga/Forrester analyst Stacey Quandt says that SCO is exerting undue pressure on corporate Linux users. "SCO is telling companies that if they buy a license they will be protected, but they are basing their claims on allegations, not facts," she told NewsFactor. "Why would customers pay unless they know they have to?"
Businesses using Linux may want to wait until the battle between SCO and IBM is settled. "Larger companies can wait this out -- and tell SCO to 'show us the proof, and don't try to shake us down,'" Quandt suggested.
it doesn't get any more true than this. but the thing that gets me the most is this: "We now have the right to enforce our copyrights with all end users," SCO company spokesperson Blake Stowell told NewsFactor.
SCO now has the right to enforce? what has suddenly given them this right? the United States is a free country. we have the right to do anything at all. of course, if the consequences are against the law, then we must be held responsible for our actions...
They ignored their engineers in '86. Astronauts died. NASA was unaware of the booster issues with the freezing weather. the ones that didn't listen were the top brass at the contracted company that didn't listen to their own engineers.
They cant convert units, expensive Mars rovers are lost. you mean the Mars Climate Oribter that was lost due to one team using miles and the other using kilmometers? um, that was the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, not NASA.
this mission was considered to be a huge success, so everyone was like, 'hey, this new model we've just adopted works, and what's more, it saves us a lot of money! let's build everything to be faster, cheaper and better!'
unfortunetely, as we all know, when you start removing quality out of a project, the chances of that project succeeding become less and less.
when doing a careful examination of the SCO Group's SEC filings, at the end of March, these people purchased at $2.07 per share: HUNSAKER (VP SALES) purchased 100,000 MCBRIDE (CEO) purchased 200,000 OLSON (VP) purchased 50,000 BENCH (CFO) purchased 100,000 BROUGHTON (VP INT'L SALES) purchased 50,000
now, between June and July, here's more activity: HUNSAKER sold 10,000 shares at around $11 per share, BENCH sold 14,000 shares at around $11 per share, OLSON sold 6000 shares at around $9 per share, BROUGHTON sold 15,000 shares at around $11 per share.
now, things are a bit more clear, are they not? this stock is going for a plummet, and most of the officers of SCO Group knew that it was going to be a quick, PR ride to the top and back down again. they loaded up, and let it go.
now, they were able to do this at the expense of running Linux thru the gutter a bit.
here is where this is going: i don't know much about investing, and even less about 'shorting' a stock. could someone here on Slashdot with experience perhaps give me (us?) a clue on going about this? i firmly believe that this stock is on it's way down, and it would be nice to profit a bit from all this built up anger i've had regarding this fiasco.
your response is well written and very informative.
keep in mind that the W3C is there to protect the interests of the consumer. instead of a peice, big corporations want to take this entire web pie. the W3C is there to help enforce some sort of ruleset to the fiasco.
but, ask yourself this: if the web services MS is trying to incorporate as web standards were open, then MS wouldn't be having a problem, thus, they wouldn't be calling current web standards 'immature', either.
Rob Helms, research director for Directions on Microsoft, says this: The.Net platform itself has been hampered by immature Web service standards.
excuse me Mr. Helms, but what's wrong with the world not wanting to standardize on proprietary web services? just because web services are 'open' doesn't mean they're immature.
This is obviously just a cheap shot at open standards.
Ok, now we need to answer the question of which games teach what.
one thing that I am sure most action games help with is peripheral vision. when you play Galaga, do don't stare at your ship while firing and moving, you typically stare at the center of the screen and let your periphery take care of the rest.
I've played tons of action games as a kid (atari 2600, c-64) and my peripheral vision is incredible; I can take in most of my surroundings while looking straight ahead.
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Sending Millionaires up in space has nothing to do with science !!!!
So the ISS is not about science.
how is this insightful? it is obviously very flawed logic. i suggest that the parent poster take a logic course and reconsider his/her thoughts before posting.
I don't think it's entirely because Linus doesn't speak english natively
have you ever been to Helsinki? I am an American and most of the people i spoke with in Helsinki has a better grasp of the English language than my friends back home. Linus' first language is Swedish, although he is a Finn.
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why would i want to help allievate the situation? hell, i get to have all my computers attack microsoft for free! and legally! wohoo! sick 'em!
if you don't already know, head on over to Symantec's blaster removal site to fix any systems that have already been infected.
there are many systems infected on our apartment network, and everyone is looking at me to fix them.
i think i will wait until sometime next week. i mean, how many times can you legally DOS microsoft?
this should be fun...
i really don't understand the point in having separate partitions when using a stable, journalled filesystem; unless those partitions are on multiple physical disks.
can anyone enlighten me?
yes, yes! or a freakin mullet!
oh wait, they still have those in the southern states, don't they? disregard..
the best advice i can give when calling tech support is not to act/point out/pretend to be smarter than the tech. when you do, it immediately puts them into a defensive mode and they may not want to solve your problem in the easiest fashion.
regardless if you know exactly what the problem is (misconfigured router, etc), telling the tech will not convince him/her to act on your diagnosis. at all.
i remember being able to call Pacbell Internet (SBC) and say, "hey, this router is misconfigured.. what engineer handles that particular router?"
a minute later i would hear... "ya, this is dave, what's up?"
usually after telling him the problem, they would be like, "wow, thanks for pointing out this problem. i'll take care of it right away."
never, ever tell your ISP tech you're running linux. if they run you thru some script to look at your Network Neighborhood settings or whatever, fake it.
i have also discovered that if you're talking with a female tech, talk a little slower and sweeter and they will help you at all costs, or even better, direct you to someone that really knows their stuff.
wardriving might sound stupid of you're somewhat new to the geek scene, but wardriving is obviously derived from the term 'wardialing' which was a term coined in the early eighties.
wardialing meant dialing random or sequenced numbers on your modem looking for computer responses, in which you would then 'investigate' further.
ever see Wargames?
SCO...
..and the look on their faces tells me there's a cat involved..
their hands are empty, their mouths are full.
I'd be willing to bet that this whole charade by SCO is just a shell game to pump and dump stock
a shell game? You can say that again!
Buy out SCO.
as much as I would like to see SCO go away, it pains me to think that the SCO crooks can walk away from this with pockets full.
also, buying SCO to 'go away' sets a bad precedent and I would really rather not see this kind of business plan to be considered successful one.
How exactly does the US Government define beer? Anything from the BudMilloor company is not beer. It's more like a carbinated, rice beverage with alcohol.
The only choices Americans have for good beer are local breweries (or micro-breweries) or anywhere outside of the US.
When I first moved from California to Germany and had my first real beer, I didn't like it. Fact is, I didn't realize what beer was because I grew up subjected to marketing blitz by Budweiser, Miller and Coors.
However, after a couple more German Karlburgs, I really started to appreciate what a good beer could be.
Now, I am completely and utterly repulsed by anything from BudMilloors.
I mean, come on, can't the OSS community come up with a SINGLE good-looking graphical frontend for mySQL!?
i have been using web-based phpMyAdmin for a few years now and it's an incredible tool.
it's easy to install, provides relationship views for multiple tables and is being actively developed.
i recommend you give it a look.
Hi Bruce,
could you please tell us a bit about your experience working with HP? I am interested if you were able to share your views on open source with the HP execs. What were their thoughts about it?
Do you see open source becoming more accepted by large corporations or will it remain largly popular with the developer/hobby crowd?
firebird still runs slow as a dog on my linux machine
ya, i had the same problem. then i upgraded from my 486/33 machine.
i dunno, maybe you should try upgrading to 16MB ram?
when driving thru Los Angeles traffic every morning, i would do my own traffic pattern analysis.
here are my results:
brakelights. that's right, brakelights is a serious cause of traffic.
currently, brakelights are either on or off, there's no middle. from a small distance, it's hard to tell weather someone is braking hard or soft. result? you end up using your brakes a little more than the person in front of you.
so if one person taps his brakes, it could conceivably cause a traffic jam 5 miles down the road, sort of like the domino effect.
the solution? put in some sort of dynamic brakelighting. the harder you hit your brakes, the brighter the lights.
also from the article:
But Giga/Forrester analyst Stacey Quandt says that SCO is exerting undue pressure on corporate Linux users. "SCO is telling companies that if they buy a license they will be protected, but they are basing their claims on allegations, not facts," she told NewsFactor. "Why would customers pay unless they know they have to?"
Businesses using Linux may want to wait until the battle between SCO and IBM is settled. "Larger companies can wait this out -- and tell SCO to 'show us the proof, and don't try to shake us down,'" Quandt suggested.
it doesn't get any more true than this. but the thing that gets me the most is this:
"We now have the right to enforce our copyrights with all end users," SCO company spokesperson Blake Stowell told NewsFactor.
SCO now has the right to enforce? what has suddenly given them this right?
the United States is a free country. we have the right to do anything at all. of course, if the consequences are against the law, then we must be held responsible for our actions...
wow, where do you get your 'facts'?
They ignored their engineers in '86. Astronauts died.
NASA was unaware of the booster issues with the freezing weather. the ones that didn't listen were the top brass at the contracted company that didn't listen to their own engineers.
They cant convert units, expensive Mars rovers are lost.
you mean the Mars Climate Oribter that was lost due to one team using miles and the other using kilmometers? um, that was the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, not NASA.
14 astronauts sacrificed ??
wow, you are seriously deluded.
the Mars Pathfinder mission (with the Sojourner landing probe) was one of the first missions to have the faster, cheaper, better label.
this mission was considered to be a huge success, so everyone was like, 'hey, this new model we've just adopted works, and what's more, it saves us a lot of money! let's build everything to be faster, cheaper and better!'
unfortunetely, as we all know, when you start removing quality out of a project, the chances of that project succeeding become less and less.
and this:
Over Chad's career he has recieved 1,000's of individual personal and business related success stories from around the globe.
so, like how many then? many one thousands?
i don't get it
The Windows requirements is to put a stop to those damn Commies voting.
haha, good one! but actually here Russia, almost everyone uses windows. why? well, no one pays for license fees here, not even corporations.
when doing a careful examination of the SCO Group's SEC filings, at the end of March, these people purchased at $2.07 per share:
HUNSAKER (VP SALES) purchased 100,000
MCBRIDE (CEO) purchased 200,000
OLSON (VP) purchased 50,000
BENCH (CFO) purchased 100,000
BROUGHTON (VP INT'L SALES) purchased 50,000
now, between June and July, here's more activity:
HUNSAKER sold 10,000 shares at around $11 per share,
BENCH sold 14,000 shares at around $11 per share,
OLSON sold 6000 shares at around $9 per share,
BROUGHTON sold 15,000 shares at around $11 per share.
now, things are a bit more clear, are they not? this stock is going for a plummet, and most of the officers of SCO Group knew that it was going to be a quick, PR ride to the top and back down again.
they loaded up, and let it go.
now, they were able to do this at the expense of running Linux thru the gutter a bit.
here is where this is going: i don't know much about investing, and even less about 'shorting' a stock. could someone here on Slashdot with experience perhaps give me (us?) a clue on going about this? i firmly believe that this stock is on it's way down, and it would be nice to profit a bit from all this built up anger i've had regarding this fiasco.
your response is well written and very informative.
keep in mind that the W3C is there to protect the interests of the consumer. instead of a peice, big corporations want to take this entire web pie. the W3C is there to help enforce some sort of ruleset to the fiasco.
but, ask yourself this: if the web services MS is trying to incorporate as web standards were open, then MS wouldn't be having a problem, thus, they wouldn't be calling current web standards 'immature', either.
Rob Helms, research director for Directions on Microsoft, says this: .Net platform itself has been hampered by immature Web service standards.
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excuse me Mr. Helms, but what's wrong with the world not wanting to standardize on proprietary web services? just because web services are 'open' doesn't mean they're immature.
This is obviously just a cheap shot at open standards.
Ok, now we need to answer the question of which games teach what.
one thing that I am sure most action games help with is peripheral vision.
when you play Galaga, do don't stare at your ship while firing and moving, you typically stare at the center of the screen and let your periphery take care of the rest.
I've played tons of action games as a kid (atari 2600, c-64) and my peripheral vision is incredible; I can take in most of my surroundings while looking straight ahead.
Sending Millionaires up in space has nothing to do with science !!!!
So the ISS is not about science.
how is this insightful? it is obviously very flawed logic. i suggest that the parent poster take a logic course and reconsider his/her thoughts before posting.
I don't think it's entirely because Linus doesn't speak english natively
have you ever been to Helsinki? I am an American and most of the people i spoke with in Helsinki has a better grasp of the English language than my friends back home.
Linus' first language is Swedish, although he is a Finn.