Now if I could only kidnap Kevin Rose's g/f sarah
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Ahh Kevin Rose is at it again.
What I would really like to see is a The Broken video on how to construct a giant death ray. There are lots of things that eger hackers could do with giant death rays. It just so happens that my death ray plan involves mounting the sucker to the moon, targeting the tech-tv studios in San Francisco, and with a few well placed mirrors, frying Kevin. HA! Apprentice becomes the master.
Then I would use my sub-space tidal vortex to rock jump into the studio and steal his beautiful girlfriend Sarah. Then I would lock Sarah up in a castle in a have little bunny foo foo go on a Lan Party (powered by nVidia!) escapade through a land full of castles and easy to kill bosses only to find a stupid little mushroom twit telling you that the princess is in another castle... with me... and hot grits...lots of hot grits
If your reading Kevin, watch your back you incensitive clod.
One of the weirdest Microsoft experiments was Microsoft BOB. Its purpose was to make it easier to use your computer and manage your files. In order to do that, Microsoft decided to replace the desktop and explorer by a house with different rooms which contain certain objects, which you click to start programs. This article, for instance, is written in the Letter Writer program (at least until I got freaked out by the dog).
In total there are nine different applications: Calendar, which lets you set important events. It also had tips for every day, one telling you that you should open windows in your car when it gets hot instead of turning the air conditioning on. Another one is Geosafari, a program which tests you on your geographical knowledge of the world. The last one is the Household manager. In this program the user can manage certain aspects of his household, such as the raising of children. Besides the one I've named already, BOB also includes an e-mail program, a financial guide, an address book, a checkbook and a clock.
When I first ran BOB, I noticed the childish interface that had been chosen. I guessed that at this point in time the Microsoft team came up with an idea that led to the XP interface. Besides that, the user has a constant help standing on the right bottom of the screen. This made me think of the help that is used in the search menu of Windows XP. They both are dogs by default and very annoying, not to mention unneeded. I myself get distracted from my work by the constant barking and moving of Rover Retriever.
Another thing that bugged me about BOB is the load of questions one must answer in order to be able to use a program. Before I could start typing this article, I had to select a title, a border, the purpose of the letter, and so on. I really don't see any improvement in usability here.
One advantage of MS BOB is that it doesn't require a very powerful computer. Eight megabytes of RAM is enough in order to run it properly. It basically has the same requirements as windows 3.11, the operating system it was built for. On the other hand, it does need about 30 mb on your hard drive. This could well be a problem on older systems with limited disk space.
In my opinion, Microsoft didn't make usage of your system easier, but actually more complicated by making BOB. I don't think anyone would need this program in order to be more productive with their windows 3.x system. But fortunately, Microsoft realized this also and didn't continue with the development of this program.
Ohh! TLDs! Lets see how much useless crap we can come up with!:
.spam - everything thats spam .sex - all those pr0n sites .troll - because you know they'll stay in their own domain .h4x - let them h4x0r to themselves .blog - now we can exclude these from searches! .trek - for everything except Enterprise NX-01 .estaog - another great tld for your hosts file .net - just give it to M$'s marketing team already
. - one step closer to having www./.
Yay! More TLDs! Thats just what we need. I cant wait to exclude all these new TLDs from my Google searches just to find that there's nothing left on the net but www.BringBackThePorn.com
Oh god I'm afraid this might happen to me. While I may be a cheerful admin only a few years into the business I look around me and understand why they all said its good to have a "fresh" mind. I dont want to get rotten like the guy above. I'm in IT for passion not pay and while I've thought about what I would do if IT wasnt an option I seriously cant think of a thing that would excite me (except for maybe being Lord of Lego Land).
What can I do now to prevent spoiling, or as my SO calls it "workdefied".
The thing that brings me down the most being an admin at a medium size company is the answers to problems i have to sometimes give. for example, i get a call that pop3 keeps canceling halfway through and restarting on outlook. i check with M$ (not my choice) and find that the "solution" is to disable incoming anti-virus scan for email. I tell the user that this is the temporary solution while I beg and plead with M$ to give me a better answer than "Dont move your arm that way" while the user looks at me like i just told them to fuck off. How am I supposed to keep the users happy when MS cant keep the admin happy.
I'm a rackspace customer and I've got to say the live chat feature is awesome. I went to rackspace.com once looking into getting an SSL certificate for my server. I chatted with the sales guy for a minute and while he couldnt direct me to a page with more information on the SSL certificates he was able to pull up my account information and give me a phone number to call and an extension to speak with. I did not however purchase the SSL certificate from rackspace as they wanted something like $850/3 years for a 40 bit cert while Instantssl.com was able to provide me with a 128bit cert for 3 years for only $150, albeit without the "fanatical" support that rackspace offers. In my opinion Rackspace has done a tremendous job of supporting our server and while their prices for add-ons like the above mentioned SSL certificate are high the overall support is superb.
The one thing I would like to rant about is the fact that when we signed up for rackspace managed hosting and configured our server we were given the option for AMD or Intel. Being an AMD guy I choose the AMD option. Upon logging into our server for the first time I was unplesantly suprised to find that the processor was infact an AMD duron. This was not apparent when signing up for the service.
I've been seeing advertisements on TechTV for a place called serverbeach.com which offers dedicated hosting for only $99/mo as opposed to rackspace's $400/mo (for our server configuration at least) but since we're happy with rackspace i dont think ill be making a switch any time soon. Has anyone else had any experience with serverbeach? Sounds reasonable for something like a dedicated game server.
And what about people with multiple personalities? Could you imagine having a PDA in your pocket logging all the unspoken text only to come home and read the internal arguements.
Not my site, saw it on another/.'ers signature. Very cool idea, kinda slow SQL database, but best of all its PHP. Wait, oh, back to the pr0n, yeah, its good, lets you do a search like teen AND asian AND NOT lesbian, if thats your sort of thing ya know?
whereas everyone learning a neutral language will help in every situation
Why dont we all learn binary and get it over with. Yeah, so the Binars in TNG got a little cray and stole the Enterprise once, but that doesnt exactly make them bad people.
Or you could just make your own interface, whats to stop you. I've made a quick little WML page for my phone that just shows a text input field and a go button that searches the google.com/palm site. sure, it doesnt say google at the top and (c) 2004 at the bottom but thats the best part.
You joke, but I actually use a freeware TTS tool to read slashdot comments because the voice can speak faster than I can read. I follow along as the computer reads to me and its actually helped me to read faster. My friends however cant understand a word the computer is speaking, it all sounds like gibberish to them. It took a bit to get used to, each day speeding it up slightly, but now I love it. Actually, I cant speed it up anymore and wish I could. Oh, and the ability to select a HTML table cell in mozilla by holding CTRL (pinky-mouse-button) and clicking in the area (comment area) and hitting ctrl-c (thumb-mouse-button) cuts my slashdot reading sessions in half. Serious about this.
I cant agree with you more. Actually, for me its not the flipping the bird thing, or the bigger penis thing, but the one thing i do know is western digital is the one make out on this. Hell even our fileserver at 1/2 a terr is almost full.
I feel like a homeless lady with a shopping cart full of crap i dont need. Horray.
I'd hope the general public would hold out for something a bit less environmentally unpleasant.
The general public doesnt hold out, the general public is fed whatever crap the marketing guys and gals can push down our throats. Just wait until those disposable DVDs (as mentioned on slashdot) that only play 2-3 times hit the market.
Dont even get me started on AOL discs.
But lets not forget the biodegradable cd-rs made from corn. Yummy.
Have you seen that new IBM commercial about WiFi? Couple guys sitting a bar/diner. One guy mentions how he sees people with laptops everywhere. Another guy goes on a short little rant about how it started as 1 hotspot and then grew to millions, and now theses billions of dollars flying around the air. "Watch your head".
I give it a 4 out of 6. Yes my scale goes to 6. 6 is reserved for those IBM / Linux commercials with the "orphan boy who was adopted by the world"
PS: My MythPC is down for repair, I'm just dealing with these 30 second annoyances for now. Would have missed these cool IBM Linux and Wireless commercials though. Maybe there should be a PVR filter for cool commercials:)
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Ahh Kevin Rose is at it again.
What I would really like to see is a The Broken video on how to construct a giant death ray. There are lots of things that eger hackers could do with giant death rays. It just so happens that my death ray plan involves mounting the sucker to the moon, targeting the tech-tv studios in San Francisco, and with a few well placed mirrors, frying Kevin. HA! Apprentice becomes the master.
Then I would use my sub-space tidal vortex to rock jump into the studio and steal his beautiful girlfriend Sarah. Then I would lock Sarah up in a castle in a have little bunny foo foo go on a Lan Party (powered by nVidia!) escapade through a land full of castles and easy to kill bosses only to find a stupid little mushroom twit telling you that the princess is in another castle... with me... and hot grits...lots of hot grits
If your reading Kevin, watch your back you incensitive clod.
considering the trailing "." at the end of the TLD (ok I knew this one, . is the parent of all TLDs) the address would be:
HTTP:///. or you could just ommit the . and have it HTTP:///
Technically, if . was a TLD, the address would be http:///...
You've got two extra dots in there, what are you trying to do, go up one level?! -snicker-
Now if we can get unicode domains why cant we let all ascii and ansi characters (255) be domain names. I want the smiley face domain name (alt-135?).
Just incase of /.ing
http://www.oldos.org/msbob.php
One of the weirdest Microsoft experiments was Microsoft BOB. Its purpose was to make it easier to use your computer and manage your files. In order to do that, Microsoft decided to replace the desktop and explorer by a house with different rooms which contain certain objects, which you click to start programs. This article, for instance, is written in the Letter Writer program (at least until I got freaked out by the dog).
In total there are nine different applications: Calendar, which lets you set important events. It also had tips for every day, one telling you that you should open windows in your car when it gets hot instead of turning the air conditioning on. Another one is Geosafari, a program which tests you on your geographical knowledge of the world. The last one is the Household manager. In this program the user can manage certain aspects of his household, such as the raising of children. Besides the one I've named already, BOB also includes an e-mail program, a financial guide, an address book, a checkbook and a clock.
When I first ran BOB, I noticed the childish interface that had been chosen. I guessed that at this point in time the Microsoft team came up with an idea that led to the XP interface. Besides that, the user has a constant help standing on the right bottom of the screen. This made me think of the help that is used in the search menu of Windows XP. They both are dogs by default and very annoying, not to mention unneeded. I myself get distracted from my work by the constant barking and moving of Rover Retriever.
Another thing that bugged me about BOB is the load of questions one must answer in order to be able to use a program. Before I could start typing this article, I had to select a title, a border, the purpose of the letter, and so on. I really don't see any improvement in usability here.
One advantage of MS BOB is that it doesn't require a very powerful computer. Eight megabytes of RAM is enough in order to run it properly. It basically has the same requirements as windows 3.11, the operating system it was built for. On the other hand, it does need about 30 mb on your hard drive. This could well be a problem on older systems with limited disk space.
In my opinion, Microsoft didn't make usage of your system easier, but actually more complicated by making BOB. I don't think anyone would need this program in order to be more productive with their windows 3.x system. But fortunately, Microsoft realized this also and didn't continue with the development of this program.
Ohh! TLDs! Lets see how much useless crap we can come up with!:
.spam - everything thats spam
.sex - all those pr0n sites
.troll - because you know they'll stay in their own domain
.h4x - let them h4x0r to themselves
.blog - now we can exclude these from searches!
.trek - for everything except Enterprise NX-01
.estaog - another great tld for your hosts file
.net - just give it to M$'s marketing team already
. - one step closer to having www./.
Yay! More TLDs! Thats just what we need. I cant wait to exclude all these new TLDs from my Google searches just to find that there's nothing left on the net but www.BringBackThePorn.com
Did I miss any?
Oh god I'm afraid this might happen to me. While I may be a cheerful admin only a few years into the business I look around me and understand why they all said its good to have a "fresh" mind. I dont want to get rotten like the guy above. I'm in IT for passion not pay and while I've thought about what I would do if IT wasnt an option I seriously cant think of a thing that would excite me (except for maybe being Lord of Lego Land).
What can I do now to prevent spoiling, or as my SO calls it "workdefied".
I'm a cheerful first year admin but...
The thing that brings me down the most being an admin at a medium size company is the answers to problems i have to sometimes give. for example, i get a call that pop3 keeps canceling halfway through and restarting on outlook. i check with M$ (not my choice) and find that the "solution" is to disable incoming anti-virus scan for email. I tell the user that this is the temporary solution while I beg and plead with M$ to give me a better answer than "Dont move your arm that way" while the user looks at me like i just told them to fuck off. How am I supposed to keep the users happy when MS cant keep the admin happy.
I'm a rackspace customer and I've got to say the live chat feature is awesome. I went to rackspace.com once looking into getting an SSL certificate for my server. I chatted with the sales guy for a minute and while he couldnt direct me to a page with more information on the SSL certificates he was able to pull up my account information and give me a phone number to call and an extension to speak with. I did not however purchase the SSL certificate from rackspace as they wanted something like $850/3 years for a 40 bit cert while Instantssl.com was able to provide me with a 128bit cert for 3 years for only $150, albeit without the "fanatical" support that rackspace offers. In my opinion Rackspace has done a tremendous job of supporting our server and while their prices for add-ons like the above mentioned SSL certificate are high the overall support is superb.
The one thing I would like to rant about is the fact that when we signed up for rackspace managed hosting and configured our server we were given the option for AMD or Intel. Being an AMD guy I choose the AMD option. Upon logging into our server for the first time I was unplesantly suprised to find that the processor was infact an AMD duron. This was not apparent when signing up for the service.
I've been seeing advertisements on TechTV for a place called serverbeach.com which offers dedicated hosting for only $99/mo as opposed to rackspace's $400/mo (for our server configuration at least) but since we're happy with rackspace i dont think ill be making a switch any time soon. Has anyone else had any experience with serverbeach? Sounds reasonable for something like a dedicated game server.
Oh come on its a fcc'in joke, laugh
Its bad enough ABC has LOL Fridays whats next Spike TV's WTF Thursdays
OMFG WTF is this...
yeah I didnt RTFA
ROFL
And what about people with multiple personalities? Could you imagine having a PDA in your pocket logging all the unspoken text only to come home and read the internal arguements.
autopr0n.com
/.'ers signature. Very cool idea, kinda slow SQL database, but best of all its PHP. Wait, oh, back to the pr0n, yeah, its good, lets you do a search like teen AND asian AND NOT lesbian, if thats your sort of thing ya know?
Not my site, saw it on another
whereas everyone learning a neutral language will help in every situation Why dont we all learn binary and get it over with. Yeah, so the Binars in TNG got a little cray and stole the Enterprise once, but that doesnt exactly make them bad people.
from now on all my posts will be in binary
1001
0110
0110
1001
1001011001101001 0110100110010110 0110100110010110 1001011001101001
4. You can't provide free software with the sole purpose at killing your competitor.
So OpenOffice.org is a no go? Seriously now, put yourself in MS's shoes.
In Soviet Russia software steals you
Or you could just make your own interface, whats to stop you. I've made a quick little WML page for my phone that just shows a text input field and a go button that searches the google.com/palm site. sure, it doesnt say google at the top and (c) 2004 at the bottom but thats the best part.
You joke, but I actually use a freeware TTS tool to read slashdot comments because the voice can speak faster than I can read. I follow along as the computer reads to me and its actually helped me to read faster. My friends however cant understand a word the computer is speaking, it all sounds like gibberish to them. It took a bit to get used to, each day speeding it up slightly, but now I love it. Actually, I cant speed it up anymore and wish I could. Oh, and the ability to select a HTML table cell in mozilla by holding CTRL (pinky-mouse-button) and clicking in the area (comment area) and hitting ctrl-c (thumb-mouse-button) cuts my slashdot reading sessions in half. Serious about this.
Anyone else practice this?
I cant agree with you more. Actually, for me its not the flipping the bird thing, or the bigger penis thing, but the one thing i do know is western digital is the one make out on this. Hell even our fileserver at 1/2 a terr is almost full.
I feel like a homeless lady with a shopping cart full of crap i dont need. Horray.
I'd hope the general public would hold out for something a bit less environmentally unpleasant.
The general public doesnt hold out, the general public is fed whatever crap the marketing guys and gals can push down our throats. Just wait until those disposable DVDs (as mentioned on slashdot) that only play 2-3 times hit the market.
Dont even get me started on AOL discs.
But lets not forget the biodegradable cd-rs made from corn. Yummy.
Have you seen that new IBM commercial about WiFi? Couple guys sitting a bar/diner. One guy mentions how he sees people with laptops everywhere. Another guy goes on a short little rant about how it started as 1 hotspot and then grew to millions, and now theses billions of dollars flying around the air. "Watch your head".
:)
I give it a 4 out of 6. Yes my scale goes to 6. 6 is reserved for those IBM / Linux commercials with the "orphan boy who was adopted by the world"
PS: My MythPC is down for repair, I'm just dealing with these 30 second annoyances for now. Would have missed these cool IBM Linux and Wireless commercials though. Maybe there should be a PVR filter for cool commercials
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5120" 327680x245760 - Almost enough for that 16 megapixel 360' panaramic shot I'm not working on.
I would love to do this on my home wireless LAN. Can anyone point me to an free and/or open source way of doing this?
Did anyone else read it "Ars Technica Interviews Robot Lore" and get excited? Now that would kick Data into having emotions, instant jealousy.
Damn my slashdot-dyslexia.
Ahh, google. The one place we cant slashdot
if I'm faced with a tough programming problem, I'll hit Slashdot or go take a walk
Yeah, I was faced with a tough PHP problem so I hit slashdot. That was 6 months ago and I am still hitting F5 on the homepage. Damn you slashdot!