Well, I for one have never even heard of Gattaca. So, I'm not sure how it ended up on the list at all. Every one of the other movies I've actually seen. Being a movie fan is certainly not the central point of my existence, but I am a pretty big SciFi fan when it comes to books. So I tend to see and/or pay more attention to SciFi movies that come out. I'm not saying that simply because I've never heard of it is it sux, but you'd think I would have at least known of it's existence.
Why does that sound like a bad B movie? Oh well. Hey kid! Get yer ass to school. When yer done, enventually you get to be a suspender wearing, bearded, long haired old curmudgeon like me. School is the best place to learn how to do bongs of various sorts (both beer and pot), have your pick of more lucsious young firm jiggly females than I can even remember, and maybe, if you're lucky, learn about how the world works. I went through the school of hard knocks myself, luckily I learned enough to get into a cushy state job. It can be done, but really, your best bet is to at least get a bacheloers degree.
Sorry, dude, ther's no way in hell I could ever consider someone scratching records a musician. As a practicing musician (guitar, drums) I'm actually personally insulted by being compared to these DJ's. It takes years of practice to become even presentable to the public with an instrument. It takes even longer to master it. I've been playing for over 20 years and I still don't consider myself a master of the guitar. I have seen truly good DJ's by the way. They can make some interesting noises that contain rythmic value, but they're making those noises using music that a musician made, not creating their own musical reality. I view them at most as a form of percussionist. Thank grep that this rap-rock thing is (hopefully) almost over.
How many interfaces do you have in the front that it's causing such a mess? Anyway, I would go with the 1u rack mount option like the guy above. There's a ton of small rack boxes, I use one for my solid state guitar rig. I plan on buying a 1u rack mount case and building a custom PC for recording and for holding synth hardware. Otherwise, learn how to use that dremel you mentioned.
Ok, I'll bite. Which side wins your proposed gene counting, Mac or PC? As a recent purchaser of a new dual-1ghz Mac, I thought I was getting a reasonably fast machine. I m satisfied with what I've got and I'm enjoying the hell out of learning this beautiful new OS along with grinning from ear to ear as I cat foo | grep oof in the terminal.app.
Chill out Bruce, I'll get this one for ya. Errr, Dolly_Llama, do you have any idea how much evangelizing Bruce has done for Linux? He's literally up there with Alan Cox and Linus. Plus, he works at HP. Thus, I'd say that he uniquely positioned to report on how the integration team is doing it's work. On the other hand, if this is a troll or a joke, not very good either way.
I've been doing a simple analysis about switching us from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I came to the conclusion that, except for some of our GIS apps and data, we could recoup the cost of our licenses within 2 years. The cost involved with PostgreSQL would be training and re-writing vertical apps. Not paying license fees to Oracle *should* cover that additional cost and pain of migrating and re-writing. The whole reason I'm thinking about this is because of the California scandal. Those guys should really be tied to a post and whipped (not by expensive hookers either). Anyway, I'm actually going to do a more formal analysis of this starting today. Has anybody out there had any experience doing a migratin of this sort, for a enterprise of about 3500 PCs?
If Internet Explorer is so tightly integrated into Windows, how come you can upgrade it? I just upgraded the browser on my NT workstation here at the office from Internet Explorer 5.5 to Internet Explorer 6.0. Does that mean I also upgraded my operating system? Do I get better performance reading large files? Can I crunch data faster? Is there better communication between my hard drive controller and my memory sub-system? Microsoft is SO full of shit.
Great, here come the thought police. For fsck's sake, when will politicians get something even close to resembling a clue? How the hell do they think they'll be able to monitor petabytes of information, in thousands of different encryption formats, being chaoticilly strewn about the world's networks? I think that such a thing is literally impossible. I for one will do everything I can to derail such notions. Dumbasses.
You realize, of course, that M$ bought hotmail? That it still runs on FreeBSD, except for a few front-end Win2K machines so it looks like they're eating their own dogfood? And it sure as hell isn't out of the goodness of their heart, they sell add space on it. So, what part about hotmail is benevolent?
I've deleted IE from my mac. Now I need it for testing and don't want to re-install the OS. Would someone post it to their iDrive and email me about it?
You are correct. I think it kinda sux that I pay > $3000.00 for a new computer and don't get the same app bundle that a person paying $899 does. Oh well..
I'm really glad to see Apple pushing the Unix side of Mac OS X though, the first day I got my new box I installed fink and XFree86. Bitchin!
I will never, ever buy anything again from Best Buy. This is were a boycott can work. The RIAA won't notice us, but I'm pretty sure Best Buy will notice that we've gone elsewhere for our games and stuff. I've been getting close to giving up on them anyway, all they seem to be now is a front end for M$ to dump their shit. What's important is to let them know, from the store manager to the COO. I'll be writing letters tonight.
I'll just about be able to afford it by then. I've started to assemble the parts to build my home studio and I really didn't want to be stuck using a wintel box for that. Now, all I need is a mixer, a high end audio card, some nearfield speakers, mic stands for my guitars, a drum kit, a midi controller for my valveFX, a midi keyboard... Ya know, I'm starting to think this will be just a little bit more expensive than just being a gamer dude. sigh... Does anyone have any good Cubase tutorials online?
If we weren't intended to eat animals, why are they made out of meat? *ducks*
I think Gateway is trying to get some goodwill among geeks, along with educating the public and of course advertising their wares. I say good for them. We need more tech companies bitching about this insidious bill.
>>"It's a lot easier to create a natural monopoly by simply selling a better product(ala Microsoft) than to create a monopoly by buying up all of your competitors." Sorry Sheldon, Microsoft in no way has a superior product. None of it's products are "best of breed". Furthermore, Microsoft illegally created and leverages it's monopoly. It's also continuing to try and grow into other markets by buying other companies. Never forget, Microsoft *never* invents anything, it either steals it or buys it.
I just moved to a small town outside of Madison, WI. called Cottage Grove. We have Verizon as the primary ILEC. It feels like jumping out of the pot into the fire. Moving out of an SBC (Amerithell^h^h^h^htech) territory and into Verizon's has done zip to improve customer service. We finally decided to simply eacvh have acell phone and not even bother to get a land line for the house. Anyways, I can verify that SBC is a _very_ abusive monopoly, at least within it's territory. I have friends that are SBC techs and they tell me stories about how they have "accidentily" disconnected other telcos equipment, or how they would lose work orders for other telcos DSL DSLAM installs. It really burns my ass hearing that kinda shit. On the other hand, Micro$hit is probably the worst monopolistic company in history. Thank god for alternatives.
Welcome to the Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative Association
The Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative Association ("the
Coop") is a member-owned and operated provider of high-speed Internet
connectivity to homes in the Ruby Ranch
neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado.
The Coop was founded in 2001 because no one offered DSL or cable modem
Internet access in our neighborhood, and because the voice telephone service to
the neighborhood is of such poor quality that it is not possible to get modem
connections faster than about 26K bits per second. The Coop is a
Colorado nonprofit corporation and is federally tax-exempt under 501(c)(12).
The Coop's Progress
The Coop has by now accomplished almost everything that is needed to be able
to launch service. The Coop has obtained a DSLAM (DSL
access multiplexer) and the subscribers have their DSL
modems. The Coop has tested the DSL equipment and has confirmed that it
will do what we need. A point-to-point microwave
link needed to connect the DSLAM to a frame relay T1 line has been
designed, constructed, and placed into service. Cabinets and protective
equipment have been installed in a barn where the DSLAM will
be located. You can see a system diagram and
description. Nearly all of the subscribers have
arranged for inside wiring work as well as installation of DSL modems and DSL
routers, and several subscribers have installed local area networks permitting
two or more computers to share the DSL connection. The DSLAM and associated
routers have been configured and a block of IP addresses has been obtained and
routed. A monitoring system has been set up to monitor the DSL connections, and
a second monitoring system has been set up to monitor the UPS (uninterruptable
power supply) and the cabinets. The Coop has acquired spares for some of its
equipment, with the goal of reducing down-time in the event of equipment
failure.
By far the biggest challenge faced by the Coop, a challenge that dwarfed any
of the Coop's technical and financial challenges, was gaining access to
subloops from Qwest under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (The subloops are
needed to connect the DSLAM to the subscriber homes. The buried telephone cable
in our neighborhood has some three times as many subloops as are actually
needed for voice service, and the subloops we wish to rent are among the
hundreds of spare subloops which otherwise would generate no revenue for
Qwest.) The course of negotiations was such that the Coop found it necessary to
file an informal complaint with the Federal Communications
Commission and subsequently found it necessary to pursue
arbitration before the Colorado Public Service
Commission ("CoPUC"). In the arbitration, the CoPUC found that
"all of [the Coop's] proposed equipment is compatible with the Qwest
network," and that "Qwest is technically able to accommodate [the
Coop's] proposal." The CoPUC found that the Coop is entitled to pay
"wholesale" rates for the subloops rather than much higher retail
rates. Finally, the CoPUC found that because the Coop will be providing only
data services (not voice services) and because the Coop will be offering its
services to everyone in its service area, the Coop does not need to be a
CoPUC-licensed telephone company. (This is very good news, since being a
licensed telephone company would impose prohibitive accounting and
record-keeping burdens.) After the CoPUC's arbitration decision there were
further negotiations with Qwest, and a signed Interconnect Agreement between
the Coop and Qwest has now been submitted to the CoPUC
for approval.
What remains to be done
The chief remaining action items are:
Burying cable between the barn and the cross-connect
box, also called a Feeder Distribution Interface (FDI) or Serving Area
Interface (SAI).
Working with Qwest to get a
Field
Connection Point (FCP) installed at the cross-connect box. Qwest is
obligated to have it ready for service no later than Friday, June 21, 2002, but
has agreed to make best efforts to have it installed sooner.
Working with Qwest to get subloops connected between the FCP and subscriber
homes.
Barring unforeseen difficulties, the Coop expects to be able to launch
service by June 1, 2002, and perhaps sooner.
It was the antartic. They used, IIRC, big Toyota Land Cruisers with very fat tires set to something like 4psi. They also had these really long extension bars front and back to keep the from falling into bottomless ice cracks. For the most part it looked no much worse than a simple drive to the store, at least like a drive to the store here in Wisconsin...
It looks like a fun adventure crossing the Bering Strait. I really like the screw propulsion. I don't think those guys are going to have any real issues, other than politcal.
Thanx, I found the "screen" adjustment on the left side after taking the cover off. I was able to make it much brighter. Should be usable for another coupla years.
Will be an LCD. I'm planning on buying an Apple Cinema 23" to go with my Dual G4. Then I get to move my 19" Viewsonic CRT to the game box and finally get rid of that old, dim dingy Sony Trinitron. Unless of course someone knows how to make it brighter again. I want the Viewsonic on the game machine because I've yet to see an LCD that can keep up with a fast paced game. I do understand that the OLED's that might be coming out soon will be very close. Now if there was a way to hook up one of those 60" plasma screens (and afford one...).
Where's my mod points today. This is the most insightful comment I've seen in a while. It simply shows that the marketing droids got the techs to move the domainto a new server, one that runs that abomination of a web sieve^h^h^h^herver IIS. Why is this whole thing so hard to grasp? Obviously M$ and Unisys were caught with their pants down, fondling each other. We all know that Apache on an OSS OS is the RIGHT THING, so let's just laugh at the corporate imbeciles and get on with undermining the evil empire.
On a different topic, I just got a Neoware EON4000S terminal client along with about 6 other terminal brands for an eval I'm doing. Does anyone know what Linux distro they run on the Neoware terminals? I haven't been able to get to the command line on my test terminal yet. All of the other terminals are running NTe or CE. Yuck'o'rama.
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Well, I for one have never even heard of Gattaca. So, I'm not sure how it ended up on the list at all. Every one of the other movies I've actually seen. Being a movie fan is certainly not the central point of my existence, but I am a pretty big SciFi fan when it comes to books. So I tend to see and/or pay more attention to SciFi movies that come out. I'm not saying that simply because I've never heard of it is it sux, but you'd think I would have at least known of it's existence.
"I was a teenage sysadmin"
Why does that sound like a bad B movie? Oh well. Hey kid! Get yer ass to school. When yer done, enventually you get to be a suspender wearing, bearded, long haired old curmudgeon like me. School is the best place to learn how to do bongs of various sorts (both beer and pot), have your pick of more lucsious young firm jiggly females than I can even remember, and maybe, if you're lucky, learn about how the world works. I went through the school of hard knocks myself, luckily I learned enough to get into a cushy state job. It can be done, but really, your best bet is to at least get a bacheloers degree.
Sorry, dude, ther's no way in hell I could ever consider someone scratching records a musician. As a practicing musician (guitar, drums) I'm actually personally insulted by being compared to these DJ's. It takes years of practice to become even presentable to the public with an instrument. It takes even longer to master it. I've been playing for over 20 years and I still don't consider myself a master of the guitar. I have seen truly good DJ's by the way. They can make some interesting noises that contain rythmic value, but they're making those noises using music that a musician made, not creating their own musical reality. I view them at most as a form of percussionist. Thank grep that this rap-rock thing is (hopefully) almost over.
How many interfaces do you have in the front that it's causing such a mess? Anyway, I would go with the 1u rack mount option like the guy above. There's a ton of small rack boxes, I use one for my solid state guitar rig. I plan on buying a 1u rack mount case and building a custom PC for recording and for holding synth hardware. Otherwise, learn how to use that dremel you mentioned.
Ok, I'll bite. Which side wins your proposed gene counting, Mac or PC? As a recent purchaser of a new dual-1ghz Mac, I thought I was getting a reasonably fast machine. I
m satisfied with what I've got and I'm enjoying the hell out of learning this beautiful new OS along with grinning from ear to ear as I cat foo | grep oof in the terminal.app.
Chill out Bruce, I'll get this one for ya. Errr, Dolly_Llama, do you have any idea how much evangelizing Bruce has done for Linux? He's literally up there with Alan Cox and Linus. Plus, he works at HP. Thus, I'd say that he uniquely positioned to report on how the integration team is doing it's work. On the other hand, if this is a troll or a joke, not very good either way.
I've been doing a simple analysis about switching us from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I came to the conclusion that, except for some of our GIS apps and data, we could recoup the cost of our licenses within 2 years. The cost involved with PostgreSQL would be training and re-writing vertical apps. Not paying license fees to Oracle *should* cover that additional cost and pain of migrating and re-writing. The whole reason I'm thinking about this is because of the California scandal. Those guys should really be tied to a post and whipped (not by expensive hookers either). Anyway, I'm actually going to do a more formal analysis of this starting today. Has anybody out there had any experience doing a migratin of this sort, for a enterprise of about 3500 PCs?
If Internet Explorer is so tightly integrated into Windows, how come you can upgrade it? I just upgraded the browser on my NT workstation here at the office from Internet Explorer 5.5 to Internet Explorer 6.0. Does that mean I also upgraded my operating system? Do I get better performance reading large files? Can I crunch data faster? Is there better communication between my hard drive controller and my memory sub-system? Microsoft is SO full of shit.
Great, here come the thought police. For fsck's sake, when will politicians get something even close to resembling a clue? How the hell do they think they'll be able to monitor petabytes of information, in thousands of different encryption formats, being chaoticilly strewn about the world's networks? I think that such a thing is literally impossible. I for one will do everything I can to derail such notions. Dumbasses.
Yep, it's dead. I'm currently downloading the video at 271 BYTES per second. If it ever finishes, I'll post a mirror here.
You realize, of course, that M$ bought hotmail? That it still runs on FreeBSD, except for a few front-end Win2K machines so it looks like they're eating their own dogfood? And it sure as hell isn't out of the goodness of their heart, they sell add space on it. So, what part about hotmail is benevolent?
I've deleted IE from my mac. Now I need it for testing and don't want to re-install the OS. Would someone post it to their iDrive and email me about it?
You are correct. I think it kinda sux that I pay > $3000.00 for a new computer and don't get the same app bundle that a person paying $899 does. Oh well..
I'm really glad to see Apple pushing the Unix side of Mac OS X though, the first day I got my new box I installed fink and XFree86. Bitchin!
I will never, ever buy anything again from Best Buy. This is were a boycott can work. The RIAA won't notice us, but I'm pretty sure Best Buy will notice that we've gone elsewhere for our games and stuff. I've been getting close to giving up on them anyway, all they seem to be now is a front end for M$ to dump their shit. What's important is to let them know, from the store manager to the COO. I'll be writing letters tonight.
I'll just about be able to afford it by then. I've started to assemble the parts to build my home studio and I really didn't want to be stuck using a wintel box for that. Now, all I need is a mixer, a high end audio card, some nearfield speakers, mic stands for my guitars, a drum kit, a midi controller for my valveFX, a midi keyboard... Ya know, I'm starting to think this will be just a little bit more expensive than just being a gamer dude. sigh... Does anyone have any good Cubase tutorials online?
If we weren't intended to eat animals, why are they made out of meat? *ducks*
I think Gateway is trying to get some goodwill among geeks, along with educating the public and of course advertising their wares. I say good for them. We need more tech companies bitching about this insidious bill.
>>"It's a lot easier to create a natural monopoly by simply selling a better product(ala Microsoft) than to create a monopoly by buying up all of your competitors."
Sorry Sheldon, Microsoft in no way has a superior product. None of it's products are "best of breed". Furthermore, Microsoft illegally created and leverages it's monopoly. It's also continuing to try and grow into other markets by buying other companies. Never forget, Microsoft *never* invents anything, it either steals it or buys it.
I just moved to a small town outside of Madison, WI. called Cottage Grove. We have Verizon as the primary ILEC. It feels like jumping out of the pot into the fire. Moving out of an SBC (Amerithell^h^h^h^htech) territory and into Verizon's has done zip to improve customer service. We finally decided to simply eacvh have acell phone and not even bother to get a land line for the house. Anyways, I can verify that SBC is a _very_ abusive monopoly, at least within it's territory. I have friends that are SBC techs and they tell me stories about how they have "accidentily" disconnected other telcos equipment, or how they would lose work orders for other telcos DSL DSLAM installs. It really burns my ass hearing that kinda shit. On the other hand, Micro$hit is probably the worst monopolistic company in history. Thank god for alternatives.
Welcome to the Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative Association The Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative Association ("the Coop") is a member-owned and operated provider of high-speed Internet connectivity to homes in the Ruby Ranch neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado.
- contact information
- information for Ruby
Ranch subscribers and potential subscribers
About the CoopThe Coop was founded in 2001 because no one offered DSL or cable modem Internet access in our neighborhood, and because the voice telephone service to the neighborhood is of such poor quality that it is not possible to get modem connections faster than about 26K bits per second. The Coop is a Colorado nonprofit corporation and is federally tax-exempt under 501(c)(12).
The Coop's ProgressThe Coop has by now accomplished almost everything that is needed to be able to launch service. The Coop has obtained a DSLAM (DSL access multiplexer) and the subscribers have their DSL modems. The Coop has tested the DSL equipment and has confirmed that it will do what we need. A point-to-point microwave link needed to connect the DSLAM to a frame relay T1 line has been designed, constructed, and placed into service. Cabinets and protective equipment have been installed in a barn where the DSLAM will be located. You can see a system diagram and description. Nearly all of the subscribers have arranged for inside wiring work as well as installation of DSL modems and DSL routers, and several subscribers have installed local area networks permitting two or more computers to share the DSL connection. The DSLAM and associated routers have been configured and a block of IP addresses has been obtained and routed. A monitoring system has been set up to monitor the DSL connections, and a second monitoring system has been set up to monitor the UPS (uninterruptable power supply) and the cabinets. The Coop has acquired spares for some of its equipment, with the goal of reducing down-time in the event of equipment failure.
By far the biggest challenge faced by the Coop, a challenge that dwarfed any of the Coop's technical and financial challenges, was gaining access to subloops from Qwest under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (The subloops are needed to connect the DSLAM to the subscriber homes. The buried telephone cable in our neighborhood has some three times as many subloops as are actually needed for voice service, and the subloops we wish to rent are among the hundreds of spare subloops which otherwise would generate no revenue for Qwest.) The course of negotiations was such that the Coop found it necessary to file an informal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission and subsequently found it necessary to pursue arbitration before the Colorado Public Service Commission ("CoPUC"). In the arbitration, the CoPUC found that "all of [the Coop's] proposed equipment is compatible with the Qwest network," and that "Qwest is technically able to accommodate [the Coop's] proposal." The CoPUC found that the Coop is entitled to pay "wholesale" rates for the subloops rather than much higher retail rates. Finally, the CoPUC found that because the Coop will be providing only data services (not voice services) and because the Coop will be offering its services to everyone in its service area, the Coop does not need to be a CoPUC-licensed telephone company. (This is very good news, since being a licensed telephone company would impose prohibitive accounting and record-keeping burdens.) After the CoPUC's arbitration decision there were further negotiations with Qwest, and a signed Interconnect Agreement between the Coop and Qwest has now been submitted to the CoPUC for approval.
What remains to be doneThe chief remaining action items are:
Barring unforeseen difficulties, the Coop expects to be able to launch service by June 1, 2002, and perhaps sooner.
This page is http://www.rric.net .
Do you have a reference? I don't even remember where I found that quote. I'm just curious about it's origins now. Who is Steven Wright?
I got one to, here's the site. Have you figured out how to disconnect from the internet yet? I got online exactly once and got hit with a one hour charge. Other than that, I absolutely love mine. I came damn close to buying a Treo, but I really like this form better. Now, all I need to do is find an mp3 player for it.
It was the antartic. They used, IIRC, big Toyota Land Cruisers with very fat tires set to something like 4psi. They also had these really long extension bars front and back to keep the from falling into bottomless ice cracks. For the most part it looked no much worse than a simple drive to the store, at least like a drive to the store here in Wisconsin...
It looks like a fun adventure crossing the Bering Strait. I really like the screw propulsion. I don't think those guys are going to have any real issues, other than politcal.
Thanx, I found the "screen" adjustment on the left side after taking the cover off. I was able to make it much brighter. Should be usable for another coupla years.
Will be an LCD. I'm planning on buying an Apple Cinema 23" to go with my Dual G4. Then I get to move my 19" Viewsonic CRT to the game box and finally get rid of that old, dim dingy Sony Trinitron. Unless of course someone knows how to make it brighter again. I want the Viewsonic on the game machine because I've yet to see an LCD that can keep up with a fast paced game. I do understand that the OLED's that might be coming out soon will be very close. Now if there was a way to hook up one of those 60" plasma screens (and afford one...).
Where's my mod points today. This is the most insightful comment I've seen in a while. It simply shows that the marketing droids got the techs to move the domainto a new server, one that runs that abomination of a web sieve^h^h^h^herver IIS. Why is this whole thing so hard to grasp? Obviously M$ and Unisys were caught with their pants down, fondling each other. We all know that Apache on an OSS OS is the RIGHT THING, so let's just laugh at the corporate imbeciles and get on with undermining the evil empire.
On a different topic, I just got a Neoware EON4000S terminal client along with about 6 other terminal brands for an eval I'm doing. Does anyone know what Linux distro they run on the Neoware terminals? I haven't been able to get to the command line on my test terminal yet. All of the other terminals are running NTe or CE. Yuck'o'rama.