Ah, yeah. I had to grab some files off my PC at work, I opened a VPN connection there, went Start->Run , typed (for example) \\10.10.10.20\myfiles.
More than a meg of traffic went over that VPN before the windows was populated with (ten) icons.
SMB SUCKS. It's terribly ineffient. You might as well convert the binary to ASCII, ie 1010110110101 and then XML it, ie <BinaryDigit Value="1"/><BinaryDigit Value="0"/>... and then FTP it. You'd still be more efficient than SMB.
What suburb are you in? (if you don't mind me asking). I've got a mate in Remuera using whoosh, latency is enough that VOIP between us is usable, but only just. Oh yeah, every time a train goes past he drops a few packets too, oh well.
Over here in New Zealand, I guess most of our road maintenance contractors don't know how much copper's worth, so they don't steal it. Doesn't stop 'em from ripping it up, but they still leave it right there.
You'd get more entropy out of my ashtray than the mainboard sensors. Dunno about you but the temperatures and voltages in my case stay more or less constant once it's warmed up, hardly what I'd call 256 bits of entropy per second.
I remember putting together a boot-from-flash Linux system to run on a VIA C3, and I couldn't compile anything above 486 instruction-set for it. It might have been a particular revision of this chip, I dunno, haven't got one anymore.
but really, if they were, they would have bought something already.
Exactly. A REAL customer is one who _wants_ to buy something from you, not one who only does so when you require.
I'm not a cafe owner, but to be honest I can't believe there are people so shameless they'll bowl on up to a cafe and hop on the lan before getting a drink.
"Just because I can!"?? Fuck you. I just spilt a long-long-long black in your crotch. Just because I can.
I used to work at a video shop, pre 2000. We had a policy, if you didn't like a film, for whatever reason, tell us, we'll let you hire another (of same or lesser price bracket) no charge. No ifs or buts. Sure we'll ask you why you didn't like the film, but any reason was good enough for us.
Why wasn't it abused? Because people were reasonable. Nobody seemed to have the gall to return day after day to say "nah, didn't like that either". Try that sort of thing now...
People only get modded "Funny" so their karma can burn, don't you know about the broken funny mod?
If you see a joke that's not funny, mod it funny. Then wait for a prozac-deprived mod to come along and slap and "Overrated" on it, fzzzt, one point of Karma burn. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's what you're seeing with the "Offtopic" mods.
As a result of Taco & co breaking the funny mod (great idea guys, great!) you'll see most of the 'good' jokes getting an "Insightful" or something, wheras make a joke, and the karma burn you can suffer is literally limitless, every time you get modded up funny, it doesn't count toward your karma, but still increases your liability to get burned as you're modded down. More great thinking from Taco & team.
Actually I should say where you're actually removing whole pieces of functionality, as they to with XP Home, you'd probably not compile in those secions of code at all, but then it's Microsoft, XP Home may indeed have all the domain membership code lying around somewhere, just begging to be unlocked. Anybody know?
Uh huh, software does the same too. Case in point, Microsoft Exchange. Available in Standard and Enterprise editions (maybe others too). Standard Edition, limited to one store, and that's limited to 32G. Enterprise Edition, no such limitations. It's not like they'd rewritten the software at all. Just open a header file, change a couple of constants, and recompile.
Probably exactly the same for XP Pro vs Home, SQLServer vs MSDE etc.
Slashdot love doing things to their site, not announcing it, and then waiting around the corner with a sackful of "Offtopic" mods for those that discuss it, but anyway:
Since they got crapflooded a couple of weeks back, they have an whaddyacallit on the comment post page for everyone except those with excellent karma. So AC's and ratbags have to do it every time they post.
While I'm at it, M1 is a joke, and to actually M2 properly requires more time than folk are willing to spend if you ask me. How come you don't have to read at -1 if you've got mod points? What a joke.
Sort of funny, but sort of serious as well. I remember about two years ago when I was stupid enough to get talked into learning Dvorak, I pryed all the keys off, and put them back on, only to notice on some keyboards, the QWERTY row keys have different profiles to the ASDFG row, and different again for the ZXCVB row, so they had to all go back on as QWERTY again.
Okay, so it wouldn't be that hard to get them back on after you'd painted them, but still
I got really good at Dvorak, or at least as fast as I was at QWERTY, until I resigned myself to the fact that I'll always be dealing primarly with QWERTY keyboards (I use my own computer the least), I never managed to get my Sun Openboot mapped otherwise, hotkey combinations became unusable (notice how cut, copy and paste were all next to each other in QWERTY), and just couldn't be bothered remapping the vi keymappings so hjkl movement worked.
Sure Dvorak is a good design, I won't argue with that at all, but that's not the topic anyway.
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200 grit sandpaper did a great job for me. I used it to sand the tops of F13-F15 on my old Apple Extended keyboard, to draw my own symbols on there.
Only a little bit of sanding was necessary, you can't tell I've used sandpaper (apart from the glyphs being missing) and ink stuck straight to the surface.
But then, depending on what you let them do through sudo, your root p/w might end up being irrelevant, as the administrators passwords can be used to do potentially nasty things.
But if you've locked sudo down to only a handful of carefully considered commands, then fine.
Now so many people send HTML email around with lovely (read: badly jpegged text, tacky looking) signatures, background patters (to impede readability) and animated smilies scattered around the letter (to make you look even less mature) it's actually a big deal to keep all these letters. Where the text doesn's sum up to more than 1k, we've got a 100k email that all my users want to keep on our poor exchange server FOR SEVEN YEARS.
With the prices we're paying for gas right now, they'd sell like freakin' hot cakes.
Yeah, that was one of the reasons for the huge influx of Japanese diesel cars here in New Zealand in the 90's. They go so popular so quickly...that our government threw the price of diesel up about 55% to make up for it.
Hooray if you use Diesel gennies / tractors a lot.
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Any decent helpdesk operator has very little trouble getting the greenest of noobs installing Stored Procedures on SQLServers, for instance.
Not that I'm saying talking jellyfish through an administrative task on a database is a good idea in my opinion, but I've seen it happen.
Ah, yeah. I had to grab some files off my PC at work, I opened a VPN connection there, went Start->Run , typed (for example) \\10.10.10.20\myfiles.
More than a meg of traffic went over that VPN before the windows was populated with (ten) icons.
SMB SUCKS. It's terribly ineffient. You might as well convert the binary to ASCII, ie 1010110110101 and then XML it, ie <BinaryDigit Value="1"/><BinaryDigit Value="0"/>... and then FTP it. You'd still be more efficient than SMB.
What suburb are you in? (if you don't mind me asking). I've got a mate in Remuera using whoosh, latency is enough that VOIP between us is usable, but only just. Oh yeah, every time a train goes past he drops a few packets too, oh well.
Over here in New Zealand, I guess most of our road maintenance contractors don't know how much copper's worth, so they don't steal it. Doesn't stop 'em from ripping it up, but they still leave it right there.
No, parents are responsible for their minors, including all of their posessions and money.
Fair enough, but if you let your domain expire, or whoever you've appointed to keep it current, you've got even bigger problems, obviously.
I remember putting together a boot-from-flash Linux system to run on a VIA C3, and I couldn't compile anything above 486 instruction-set for it. It might have been a particular revision of this chip, I dunno, haven't got one anymore.
We've already established that there's now a class of people who aren't bothered even slightly by that....
Exactly. A REAL customer is one who _wants_ to buy something from you, not one who only does so when you require.
I'm not a cafe owner, but to be honest I can't believe there are people so shameless they'll bowl on up to a cafe and hop on the lan before getting a drink.
"Just because I can!"?? Fuck you. I just spilt a long-long-long black in your crotch. Just because I can.
I used to work at a video shop, pre 2000. We had a policy, if you didn't like a film, for whatever reason, tell us, we'll let you hire another (of same or lesser price bracket) no charge. No ifs or buts. Sure we'll ask you why you didn't like the film, but any reason was good enough for us.
Why wasn't it abused? Because people were reasonable. Nobody seemed to have the gall to return day after day to say "nah, didn't like that either". Try that sort of thing now...
If you see a joke that's not funny, mod it funny. Then wait for a prozac-deprived mod to come along and slap and "Overrated" on it, fzzzt, one point of Karma burn. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's what you're seeing with the "Offtopic" mods.
As a result of Taco & co breaking the funny mod (great idea guys, great!) you'll see most of the 'good' jokes getting an "Insightful" or something, wheras make a joke, and the karma burn you can suffer is literally limitless, every time you get modded up funny, it doesn't count toward your karma, but still increases your liability to get burned as you're modded down. More great thinking from Taco & team.
Actually I should say where you're actually removing whole pieces of functionality, as they to with XP Home, you'd probably not compile in those secions of code at all, but then it's Microsoft, XP Home may indeed have all the domain membership code lying around somewhere, just begging to be unlocked. Anybody know?
Probably exactly the same for XP Pro vs Home, SQLServer vs MSDE etc.
Since they got crapflooded a couple of weeks back, they have an whaddyacallit on the comment post page for everyone except those with excellent karma. So AC's and ratbags have to do it every time they post.
While I'm at it, M1 is a joke, and to actually M2 properly requires more time than folk are willing to spend if you ask me. How come you don't have to read at -1 if you've got mod points? What a joke.
Okay, so it wouldn't be that hard to get them back on after you'd painted them, but still
I got really good at Dvorak, or at least as fast as I was at QWERTY, until I resigned myself to the fact that I'll always be dealing primarly with QWERTY keyboards (I use my own computer the least), I never managed to get my Sun Openboot mapped otherwise, hotkey combinations became unusable (notice how cut, copy and paste were all next to each other in QWERTY), and just couldn't be bothered remapping the vi keymappings so hjkl movement worked.
Sure Dvorak is a good design, I won't argue with that at all, but that's not the topic anyway.
Only a little bit of sanding was necessary, you can't tell I've used sandpaper (apart from the glyphs being missing) and ink stuck straight to the surface.
But if you've locked sudo down to only a handful of carefully considered commands, then fine.
I'm even offering a $250,000 reward!
Laden or unladen?
Thanks, I obviously didn't know that. I knew the VW didn't use water cooling, but clearly know nothing else about the engine.
Yeah, that was one of the reasons for the huge influx of Japanese diesel cars here in New Zealand in the 90's. They go so popular so quickly...that our government threw the price of diesel up about 55% to make up for it.
Hooray if you use Diesel gennies / tractors a lot.
If you say so. Would you kindly tell me, first, how you "change cylinders", short of replacing the entire block? Or was it pistons you meant?
It's possible, though, and I hope they succeed.