umm... if they didn't do anything wrong, you can't win a judgement. i can't go and sue because a video game machine wouldn't let me play because i didn't put in money, can i?
the suv which was formerly mine (sold it, because of college being in milwaukee, and it being in california) passed smog tests as late as last summer, and it had neither a functional check engine light, nor a catalytic converter...
it did fail once because the gas cap didn't seal though. (although there is no way in hell that the gas cap sealing made any difference in the actual operation of the vehicle (as opposed to the seal on the seal tester device))
of course, it was a '78 international scout.... so the emissions requirements are a little different than on a '91:)
fifty emails a day is only 5 hours of sending 10 emails an hour. depending on what they're doing, and how many people in the household that is a pitifully low amount of email.
i would think fifty per hour would be a reasonable limit; but simply indicating that SPAM is unacceptable; and that SPAM is defined as unsolicited email of a non-personal nature which is objected to by the reciever. Specifying numerical limits on anything in a TOS is generally not a good idea; since then when the numbers are no longer reasonable the TOS needs to be updated. If you specify that the user may only send a reasonable amount; the TOS automatically updates; and if the user cares they can request the number be specified.
you said: liked the idea of a multi-use unit in my entertainment center that didn't have a fan, didn't look like ass, and could do reasonable streaming MP3's.
Of course, the dreamcast does not fit this description, since it is has a fan... in fact i believe it was the first home game system with a fan.
I think he wants to sense the position of the pendulum by having a led in front of the pendulum and an receiver in back, placed in such a way that the pendulum does not always block the signal... with some signal conditioning, you would have a nice digital signal that says 'the pendulum is here/not here'
i wouldn't classify that as an opto-isolator type circuit, but i suppose you might
"For example the number '562' is transliterated as 'five hundred and sixty two'..."
Actually the number "500.62" is transliterated as "five hundred and sixty two"... the number "562" is transliterated as "five hundred sixty two" Don't they teach this is elementry school anymore?
i've used two compaq laptops, and while they weren't very noisy, they weren't extremely quiet either. Between the fan going, the hard drive clicking every so often, and the strange noises some parts make for no apparent reason...
Also, laptops run very close to thermal limits... most modern laptops are not very comfortable to have on your laptop anymore.
Desktops tend to be about half the price of equivilent laptops, and most parts are easily exchangable. For instance, you can change a video card in a desktop, but a laptop with a dead video card is pretty much dead. The connectors required for this take up more space than using surface mount chips...
looking at debian's security alert list, they've had no more than one security update to the kernel in a year. I wouldn't run a linux server that needs to be stable on anything but debian stable. I'm not about to look through the last several years of kernel security issues and see if they just didn't lead to a security update in debian, but I'm willing to bet that the slow uptake of kernels in debian means most of the security issues in a given kernel version are caught before that version enters stable.
for the sys c: equivilent, go to a recovery console, and do fixmbr...
you're still stuck w/ the permissions thing, maybe you can convince tar to store permissions info, and use one of the ntfs's thats writable from linux to restore. Depending on your available network resources, you might consider having the user directores be remoately mounted (for ease of backup), so then you would only need to restore the os and installed programs if the hard drive fails.
OS's like windows also allow you to change your mac address. I think you can do it w/ macs through the open firmware thing. Depending on your windows driver, you can do it through advanced driver settings, or you may have to poke in the registry.
of course, if somebody signs something w/ an electronic signature, you'ld want some assurance that the signature is valid; such assurance could be made through registered mail:)
if your isp isn't egress filtering on port 25 (which a lot of them do), you might want to talk to the mail admins and see if they can setup authenticated smtp so you can use their servers from off campus to send your mail, if you configure your client to authenticate.
they've got exchange setup for that here, and it works great, except when exchange decides it wants to lose some of the mail (yay!)
the point of CC'ing to the boss is precisely to piss the boss off. it is important to make clear (to the boss) that the reason the boss is pissed off is because his subordinate is an incompetent twit. At which point the boss gets out the clue stick, and beats the subordinate with it, and then the subordinate does the reasonable thing you asked of them 2 weeks ago.
I could see potentially setting up an auto mirror bot w/ a subscribed user id. You could then split the $15 or so a year cost amongst 10 of your friends and read the linked articles pretty quickly (assuming your server doesn't suck more than the other guys/.ed one)
AC said: Who said they wanted to sell anything, fucktard? He said he's doing this for a school project. Since when do students normally sell their projects?
I think the original poster did when he said: "I make a video project for school each year, and this year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it.
i've worked with an intel 1u server (intel proc, intel mboard, intel bios) that had support for accessing the bios via serial... and it even somewhat worked.
i don't know from experience if they'll let you eject from linux, but i can't imagine them not taking advantage of the eject commands in the atapi command set
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umm... if they didn't do anything wrong, you can't win a judgement. i can't go and sue because a video game machine wouldn't let me play because i didn't put in money, can i?
it caused me harm... i was bored for a while
the suv which was formerly mine (sold it, because of college being in milwaukee, and it being in california) passed smog tests as late as last summer, and it had neither a functional check engine light, nor a catalytic converter...
:)
it did fail once because the gas cap didn't seal though. (although there is no way in hell that the gas cap sealing made any difference in the actual operation of the vehicle (as opposed to the seal on the seal tester device))
of course, it was a '78 international scout.... so the emissions requirements are a little different than on a '91
fifty emails a day is only 5 hours of sending 10 emails an hour. depending on what they're doing, and how many people in the household that is a pitifully low amount of email.
i would think fifty per hour would be a reasonable limit; but simply indicating that SPAM is unacceptable; and that SPAM is defined as unsolicited email of a non-personal nature which is objected to by the reciever. Specifying numerical limits on anything in a TOS is generally not a good idea; since then when the numbers are no longer reasonable the TOS needs to be updated. If you specify that the user may only send a reasonable amount; the TOS automatically updates; and if the user cares they can request the number be specified.
you said: liked the idea of a multi-use unit in my entertainment center that didn't have a fan, didn't look like ass, and could do reasonable streaming MP3's.
Of course, the dreamcast does not fit this description, since it is has a fan... in fact i believe it was the first home game system with a fan.
thanks, i am now more educated.
I think he wants to sense the position of the pendulum by having a led in front of the pendulum and an receiver in back, placed in such a way that the pendulum does not always block the signal... with some signal conditioning, you would have a nice digital signal that says 'the pendulum is here/not here'
i wouldn't classify that as an opto-isolator type circuit, but i suppose you might
wow, don't i look like an idiot...
make that last stinging statement "Don't they teach this in elementary school anymore?"
"For example the number '562' is transliterated as 'five hundred and sixty two' ..."
Actually the number "500.62" is transliterated as "five hundred and sixty two"... the number "562" is transliterated as "five hundred sixty two" Don't they teach this is elementry school anymore?
since this story is crap anyhow, i just wanted to point out that i enjoyed your .sig
i've used two compaq laptops, and while they weren't very noisy, they weren't extremely quiet either. Between the fan going, the hard drive clicking every so often, and the strange noises some parts make for no apparent reason...
Also, laptops run very close to thermal limits... most modern laptops are not very comfortable to have on your laptop anymore.
Desktops tend to be about half the price of equivilent laptops, and most parts are easily exchangable. For instance, you can change a video card in a desktop, but a laptop with a dead video card is pretty much dead. The connectors required for this take up more space than using surface mount chips...
looking at debian's security alert list, they've had no more than one security update to the kernel in a year. I wouldn't run a linux server that needs to be stable on anything but debian stable. I'm not about to look through the last several years of kernel security issues and see if they just didn't lead to a security update in debian, but I'm willing to bet that the slow uptake of kernels in debian means most of the security issues in a given kernel version are caught before that version enters stable.
for the sys c: equivilent, go to a recovery console, and do fixmbr ...
you're still stuck w/ the permissions thing, maybe you can convince tar to store permissions info, and use one of the ntfs's thats writable from linux to restore. Depending on your available network resources, you might consider having the user directores be remoately mounted (for ease of backup), so then you would only need to restore the os and installed programs if the hard drive fails.
OS's like windows also allow you to change your mac address. I think you can do it w/ macs through the open firmware thing. Depending on your windows driver, you can do it through advanced driver settings, or you may have to poke in the registry.
i dont' see why you can't do the same thing with win2k/xp?
you can connect to win2k/xp with smb just as easily as win95/98
what is the problem?
if you're looking for 24/7 customer uptime, why are you updating to every kernel release?
Unless the new kernel offers something you or your customers need; theres no need.
of course, if somebody signs something w/ an electronic signature, you'ld want some assurance that the signature is valid; such assurance could be made through registered mail :)
if your isp isn't egress filtering on port 25 (which a lot of them do), you might want to talk to the mail admins and see if they can setup authenticated smtp so you can use their servers from off campus to send your mail, if you configure your client to authenticate.
they've got exchange setup for that here, and it works great, except when exchange decides it wants to lose some of the mail (yay!)
what makes you think you have the right to make them use it?
since we were talking about government offices, the taxpayers (should) have quite a bit of say in what the government uses
the point of CC'ing to the boss is precisely to piss the boss off. it is important to make clear (to the boss) that the reason the boss is pissed off is because his subordinate is an incompetent twit. At which point the boss gets out the clue stick, and beats the subordinate with it, and then the subordinate does the reasonable thing you asked of them 2 weeks ago.
I could see potentially setting up an auto mirror bot w/ a subscribed user id. You could then split the $15 or so a year cost amongst 10 of your friends and read the linked articles pretty quickly (assuming your server doesn't suck more than the other guys /.ed one)
sure you can... cd systems can load network drivers...
:)
all your customers have network cards in their pcs, right?
i didn't realize silberschatz and etc covered anything in detail in that book.
(after reading the first several chapters, i stopped reading though, cause i felt i was having negative knowledge flow)
AC said: Who said they wanted to sell anything, fucktard? He said he's doing this for a school project. Since when do students normally sell their projects?
I think the original poster did when he said: "I make a video project for school each year, and this year we want to produce it on DVD and sell it.
i've worked with an intel 1u server (intel proc, intel mboard, intel bios) that had support for accessing the bios via serial... and it even somewhat worked.
ls120 drives can eject disks via software
i don't know from experience if they'll let you eject from linux, but i can't imagine them not taking advantage of the eject commands in the atapi command set