I remember once many years ago I was a member of a "guerilla" Linux installation group of about three people, which was offically sanctioned, and given a kind of "research" carte-blanche. The rest of the systems ran on NetWare using IP/IPX tunnel; occasionally, we'd run X servers on these boxes and deploy our favourite applications to the Windows-based teaching rooms, and it used to amuse us when the paid admins asked why we just pumped 40 Mb through their server in one go.
Then one day we decided to flood ping a machine on the other side of the campus, knowing that at that time there was only one 10 megabit fibre connection between the two buildings. We let it go for about 30 seconds, after which we weren't willing to gamble that the sysadmins would spot something was amiss and come running to us to get us to sort the problem.
thnx 4 installing teh linux on the computaz! we iz LUVVIN it!!!
just the otha day i woz finkin how totally 1337 it wud b 4 the skool 2 move 2 3 software. like cutin costs n shit! i sed to our Mynds, propriatary solushuns was not da way fowward, and that impartiality and freedum from corprut influnce in da edukashun system cood only be inshured throo open sours. yeh, that's wot gary the geek said anyway.
yeh. and mynds wuz just sayin how good it woz to write up her gcse pole dansin coursework wiv LaTeX and not dat mingin Word shit!!! i fink she fancys gary coz he knows ALL DA TRIX! she said to me that she wood backslash his curly braces any time of da munf.
i finks its GREAT that my kids gonna grow up in a world were software is free and it don't affect your benefits, and maybe they cood do the same 4 nappys coz my weekend job at teh off-licens^Hc^H^W booz r us pays shit and vodafone keep aksin me 2 pay 200 quid for those 4000 txts i sent. 2 ton? get out of heer!
ur teh shit!!!!!
sara xxxxx
ps. sorry bout my speling and grammer and punctual^H^Hati^H^H^H^H^Hhuashun, teh inglish teeching is crap
The Government switches off mobiles in London automatically in any state of emergency (terror-related or otherwise) to keep the spectrum free for the emergency services. (See, for example, the Channel 4 documentary Mark Thomas's Secret Map of Britain.)
The point I was trying to make is that the kind of downtime associated with an information system would be longer than that required for the brain to starve of oxygen.
I've been through failure of my own meagre information systems, and that downtime was pretty painful. I hope, therefore, to never suffer a heart attack.
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The software and hardware that drives my heart and lungs require 100% uptime.
I sat through a concert of Messiaen's organ works at my church, the Livre d'Orgue was one of the pieces played. 47 minutes of atonal, disjointed crap.
Thanks for that! It sounds really interesting. Tonality is over-rated. I'll have to take another trip to the university's "reference-only" music resource room. With my laptop. Most of Messaien is an "acquired taste". Turangalila-Symphonie sounds like a mess when you first listen to it, but after about five goes your brain starts to make sense of it.
For the ADHD crowd, no, it's not Nine Inch Nails and yes, it really is that long.
OK, you can diss Messaien all you like, but leave those exceedingly long fasteners alone! I mean, what next? "The melody of Ayers, Everall and Harris's Mesmeric Enabling Device was saturated with late-eighties cheeze, evocative of Pete Waterman snorting parmezan off the black keys of a Casio?"
How right you are! I used to listen to Classic FM, until it became the Beethoven and Mozart channel --- pop classical stuff. Then I turned to Radio 3, and discovered things like Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Ligeti (you mentioned), John Adams, and... Olivier Messaien.
Please note (lest the worst ever be inferred) that I would never begrudge anyone their faith. My point was that one is (at least in the UK) free to choose one's religion; this is in contrast to race, sexuality, etc. Incitement to the hatred of the latter two is, as Atkinson says, irrational and deplorable. Maybe I carried an abstraction a bit too far.
I think that in a free society, the overall message of the law should be criticism and ridicule of ideas (of which I count lifestyle choices as a subset) is acceptable. Practitioners of these ideas are free to answer criticism, counter-ridicule, or simply walk away and carry on unhindered, as per their human rights. According to Atkinson,
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
What is unacceptable is bullying: be it in the name of race, sexuality, religion, or something as seemingly trivial as choice of hobby.
Spot on. For those posters who don't understand, this MP isn't making a mockery of Parliament or taking the mick. He's pointing out stupidity in currently proposed legislation that would make a crime of "incitement to religious hatred". A lot of people here in the UK are quite rightly worried that this will put religions (which, let us not forget are lifestyle choices and private members' clubs) beyond questionability, and allow New Labour to cry "yoink" on yet another freedom.
Regardless of my views on the wisdom of Greenpeace, the bombing of Rainbow Warrior by the French DGSE in New Zealand waters was an act of outright terrorism. Not only should've the perpetrators been brought to book, but the French government should've been keel-hauled (either at the UN or elsewhere): turning a blind eye to terrorist training in one's country is one thing, but isn't ordering a bombing in another country an act of war? And if not, why not?! If they'd done it these days in a U.S. port, would Bush be invading France?
Ahh... Drop the Dead Donkey... they don't write 'em like that anymore! Reminds me of that episode of Bottom where Eddie and Richie got hold of a "home video" made by the Prime Minister.
I thought only a court injunction can prevent publication of material in the UK, and judges are often loathed to issue these except where personal privacy or safety is at stake. As far as I understand, there isn't even a Government mechanism to legally force newspapers to keep quiet over military secrets; the "D-notice" mechanism is an advisory system, based upon mutual agreement.
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On a Win32 platform, you could try a lethal code injection.
Well, which way would you like it? It's not unique, e.g.,
A parrot that counts 0 blue blocks is all fine and dandy. But can he count --3 red balls? Or 5i yellow chips?
See, you're not so smart are you, eh, bird-brain?
You see, there's this little thing called "jealousy"...
I remember once many years ago I was a member of a "guerilla" Linux installation group of about three people, which was offically sanctioned, and given a kind of "research" carte-blanche. The rest of the systems ran on NetWare using IP/IPX tunnel; occasionally, we'd run X servers on these boxes and deploy our favourite applications to the Windows-based teaching rooms, and it used to amuse us when the paid admins asked why we just pumped 40 Mb through their server in one go.
Then one day we decided to flood ping a machine on the other side of the campus, knowing that at that time there was only one 10 megabit fibre connection between the two buildings. We let it go for about 30 seconds, after which we weren't willing to gamble that the sysadmins would spot something was amiss and come running to us to get us to sort the problem.
Amen.
The Government switches off mobiles in London automatically in any state of emergency (terror-related or otherwise) to keep the spectrum free for the emergency services. (See, for example, the Channel 4 documentary Mark Thomas's Secret Map of Britain.)
The point I was trying to make is that the kind of downtime associated with an information system would be longer than that required for the brain to starve of oxygen.
I've been through failure of my own meagre information systems, and that downtime was pretty painful. I hope, therefore, to never suffer a heart attack.
The software and hardware that drives my heart and lungs require 100% uptime.
Oh, Vienna!
Simple. Eat two hot Bangalore phaals a night for three consecutive days. Your back end will be more open and more sore than ever.
"Hi, Grandma. What's that? You're having trouble running Quicken? ...Are you laundering money again?"
Thanks for that! It sounds really interesting. Tonality is over-rated. I'll have to take another trip to the university's "reference-only" music resource room. With my laptop. Most of Messaien is an "acquired taste". Turangalila-Symphonie sounds like a mess when you first listen to it, but after about five goes your brain starts to make sense of it.
OK, you can diss Messaien all you like, but leave those exceedingly long fasteners alone! I mean, what next? "The melody of Ayers, Everall and Harris's Mesmeric Enabling Device was saturated with late-eighties cheeze, evocative of Pete Waterman snorting parmezan off the black keys of a Casio?"
How right you are! I used to listen to Classic FM, until it became the Beethoven and Mozart channel --- pop classical stuff. Then I turned to Radio 3, and discovered things like Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Ligeti (you mentioned), John Adams, and... Olivier Messaien.
It's times like these you don't just need a tin-foil hat, but a whacking great Kraftwerk stage costume.
Please note (lest the worst ever be inferred) that I would never begrudge anyone their faith. My point was that one is (at least in the UK) free to choose one's religion; this is in contrast to race, sexuality, etc. Incitement to the hatred of the latter two is, as Atkinson says, irrational and deplorable. Maybe I carried an abstraction a bit too far.
I think that in a free society, the overall message of the law should be criticism and ridicule of ideas (of which I count lifestyle choices as a subset) is acceptable. Practitioners of these ideas are free to answer criticism, counter-ridicule, or simply walk away and carry on unhindered, as per their human rights. According to Atkinson,
What is unacceptable is bullying: be it in the name of race, sexuality, religion, or something as seemingly trivial as choice of hobby.
No, that's just Cornwall.
Spot on. For those posters who don't understand, this MP isn't making a mockery of Parliament or taking the mick. He's pointing out stupidity in currently proposed legislation that would make a crime of "incitement to religious hatred". A lot of people here in the UK are quite rightly worried that this will put religions (which, let us not forget are lifestyle choices and private members' clubs) beyond questionability, and allow New Labour to cry "yoink" on yet another freedom.
Regardless of my views on the wisdom of Greenpeace, the bombing of Rainbow Warrior by the French DGSE in New Zealand waters was an act of outright terrorism. Not only should've the perpetrators been brought to book, but the French government should've been keel-hauled (either at the UN or elsewhere): turning a blind eye to terrorist training in one's country is one thing, but isn't ordering a bombing in another country an act of war? And if not, why not?! If they'd done it these days in a U.S. port, would Bush be invading France?
A smidgen of Semtex under the HDD's spindle does a pretty good job too. I should imagine there's an hdparm switch to trigger the detonators...
Ahh... Drop the Dead Donkey... they don't write 'em like that anymore! Reminds me of that episode of Bottom where Eddie and Richie got hold of a "home video" made by the Prime Minister.
It's worse than that; Blair is Dubya's lap dancer.
I thought only a court injunction can prevent publication of material in the UK, and judges are often loathed to issue these except where personal privacy or safety is at stake. As far as I understand, there isn't even a Government mechanism to legally force newspapers to keep quiet over military secrets; the "D-notice" mechanism is an advisory system, based upon mutual agreement.