- Spilled and entire cup of coffee into a Sparc 20 which was tipped on it's side, the coffee ran into the vents nicely - and back out when I immediately flipped it over. Amazingly, the thing still ran, but smelled like burned coffee forever more. This was about 7 years ago when a 20 was a pretty expensive piece of equipment yet.
- While trouble-shooting a Hewlett Packard 386, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in while the thing was powered up. This apparently fried the motherboard.
- Accidentally nuked the/dev/ directory on a live server. This is particularly memorable, and the reason I don't use the "!" operator anymore.
First of all, I was programming in C and assembly language in the early 90's. Portability was a friggin nightmare. The idea of just taking a chunk of source code and plopping it into another compiler/assembler worked well in theory, but reality was a different story. The java system is such that one *CAN* take the same source code, plunk it down onto a completly different machine, architecture and OS and achieve the same functionality and results (within reason of course).
The ability to code on one platform and run your application on anything that there exists a java interpreter for is a wonderful thing. Especially with the upcoming Exodus from the Windows platform to Linux, there will be a big opportunity for java to close the gap on cross-platform solutions.
Due to the recent increase in usage of our competitors products, the Microsoft Security Response Team has made the following Prescriptive Guidance available for you:
Select "1" to download an increased dosage of your daily crack intake
Select "2" to increase your excersise by practice-nodding in addle minded agreement
Select "3" if you wish to make (receive) a charitable (bill) Donation (and) to (Melinda) your (foundation) favorite (now) non profit group (senator).
Transgaming is vaporware - at least in my experience. When I did finally get Yuri's Revenge running, it was so friggin slooooww I could hear the AT in the closet laughing at it.
Maybe it does the office crap better than the games, but then they should not pimp it as a gaming solution.
What I've done in the past is setup linux boxes for people with all outgoing access closed - with a script, the user entered the address they want to connect to (disney.com). The script then logs this, and allows outgoing access to the sight. This way, there isn't a lot of pre-setup stuff to do. With everyone understanding the usage is logged, it keeps them honest. Mom and dad can checkout the log with a web browser. Submitting content took some work to get figured out.... Not a perfect system, just a little different.
"Hundreds of people have put tens of thousands of hours into making a truly great picture, and the notion of having it stolen and sent out for free around the world is just plain wrong," said Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the film company behind "Spider-man 2."
And millions of people paying $70.00 for a 2 hour concert ticket, a $5.00 pepsi, or $15.00 movie ticket is not also robbery?
grab an x86 box, run voip and route all the incoming calls over a wap. You could provide jobs for the homeless by having them tote linux-laden backpacks all over the city as repeaters.
To 10 of your closest friends and recieve money from Microsoft and the FTC!! It really works!! I know you got email like this before, but this one is the real thing!
On the contrary, IE is coming up short of ammo in the "browser war" and slowly becoming irrelevant. Microsoft even gave up on it once (last year?) and then picked it up again. Microscoft needs to decide if it's customers best interest is going to be their future policy, or if they need to put capital gain in the forefront as it has historically proven.
Holy shit.. they need to upgrade their curiculum.. unless of course they are practing the chapter "how to find tone for fun and profit while in the Matrix"
This shit isn't going to go away. How long before I get just as much bullshit on my cell phone as I do in my Inbox?
"It would be cool to give people I know a 3 digit DTMF code or somethign to enter while the phone is ringing so I would know it's someone I know, and not some fucking telemarketer", He said, popping the back off his cell phone.....
> Motorola designed this sort of thing in 2000,
> and it's smaller.
Maybe someone should email Motorola and let them know:
You make no patent
You only claim to invent
Ha we make fuel cell
Sincerely,
Toshiba
I don't like the idea of my ISP fucking up a router, or DNS, and I can't make/recieve any phone calls.
Better yet, how about Al Q toasting a couple key locations and taking out all internet service/phone service for the whole country? We wouldn't be able to call 911, *OR* get any pr0n.
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You know, it sure is funny that when the higher ups at a military base dont trust what their told, it's
called "Safe and Secure"
When I don't trust what I'm told, it's called paranoia.
Wonder what those military types would think if Coke put an RFID chip in the fucking cans.
> The title is very misleading and is born of sloppy > reporting. The whole eye was NOT transplanted
where's the little combobox to mod down the insensitive clod that submitted the article....
- Spilled and entire cup of coffee into a Sparc 20 which was tipped on it's side, the coffee ran into the vents nicely - and back out when I immediately flipped it over. Amazingly, the thing still ran, but smelled like burned coffee forever more. This was about 7 years ago when a 20 was a pretty expensive piece of equipment yet.
/dev/ directory on a live server. This is particularly memorable, and the reason I don't use the "!" operator anymore.
- While trouble-shooting a Hewlett Packard 386, I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in while the thing was powered up. This apparently fried the motherboard.
- Accidentally nuked the
First of all, I was programming in C and assembly language in the early 90's. Portability was a friggin nightmare. The idea of just taking a chunk of source code and plopping it into another compiler/assembler worked well in theory, but reality was a different story. The java system is such that one *CAN* take the same source code, plunk it down onto a completly different machine, architecture and OS and achieve the same functionality and results (within reason of course).
The ability to code on one platform and run your application on anything that there exists a java interpreter for is a wonderful thing. Especially with the upcoming Exodus from the Windows platform to Linux, there will be a big opportunity for java to close the gap on cross-platform solutions.
Due to the recent increase in usage of our competitors products, the Microsoft Security Response Team has made the following Prescriptive Guidance available for you:
Select "1" to download an increased dosage of your daily crack intake
Select "2" to increase your excersise by practice-nodding in addle minded agreement
Select "3" if you wish to make (receive) a charitable (bill) Donation (and) to (Melinda) your (foundation) favorite (now) non profit group (senator).
sounds like the check bounced to the Dutch Parliament
"a seasoned Washington politician, having served as a Kansas representative and agriculture secretary under President Clinton. "
It's nice to keep the political kissass people close to the money. It expedites the payoffs.
Transgaming is vaporware - at least in my experience. When I did finally get Yuri's Revenge running, it was so friggin slooooww I could hear the AT in the closet laughing at it.
Maybe it does the office crap better than the games, but then they should not pimp it as a gaming solution.
What I've done in the past is setup linux boxes for people with all outgoing access closed - with a script, the user entered the address they want to connect to (disney.com). The script then logs this, and allows outgoing access to the sight. This way, there isn't a lot of pre-setup stuff to do. With everyone understanding the usage is logged, it keeps them honest. Mom and dad can checkout the log with a web browser. Submitting content took some work to get figured out.... Not a perfect system, just a little different.
"Colonel Look, A whole stack of Pentium 4s!"
"Good work private. We've finally found those WMDS."
"Hundreds of people have put tens of thousands of hours into making a truly great picture, and the notion of having it stolen and sent out for free around the world is just plain wrong," said Jeff Blake, vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the film company behind "Spider-man 2."
And millions of people paying $70.00 for a 2 hour concert ticket, a $5.00 pepsi, or $15.00 movie ticket is not also robbery?
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Looks just like my blue screen at home =)
grab an x86 box, run voip and route all the incoming calls over a wap. You could provide jobs for the homeless by having them tote linux-laden backpacks all over the city as repeaters.
To 10 of your closest friends and recieve money from Microsoft and the FTC!! It really works!! I know you got email like this before, but this one is the real thing!
On the contrary, IE is coming up short of ammo in the "browser war" and slowly becoming irrelevant. Microsoft even gave up on it once (last year?) and then picked it up again. Microscoft needs to decide if it's customers best interest is going to be their future policy, or if they need to put capital gain in the forefront as it has historically proven.
have always been in the sticker range of mpg (going from memory here..).
- dakota 4x4 ~ 17
- grand am ~ 25
- nissan 4x4 ~ 23
- rsx ~ 30
This is mixed driving. Just average beating around and checking the odometer/gallons on every tankful for awhile.
Holy shit.. they need to upgrade their curiculum.. unless of course they are practing the chapter "how to find tone for fun and profit while in the Matrix"
I see Scott McNealy stopped by to moderate.
Sun: Overpowered applications for underpowered hardware.
> That is partly because pop3 makes a poor replacement for an exchange server.
...are referring to the difficulty in porting the viri, or the added complexity in trying to be a personal information manager with vendor lockin?
erm
Experts are finding drug abuse, particularly crack, is rising in the scientific and technology fields.
This shit isn't going to go away. How long before I get just as much bullshit on my cell phone as I do in my Inbox?
"It would be cool to give people I know a 3 digit DTMF code or somethign to enter while the phone is ringing so I would know it's someone I know, and not some fucking telemarketer", He said, popping the back off his cell phone.....
> Motorola designed this sort of thing in 2000, > and it's smaller. Maybe someone should email Motorola and let them know: You make no patent You only claim to invent Ha we make fuel cell Sincerely, Toshiba
I don't like the idea of my ISP fucking up a router, or DNS, and I can't make/recieve any phone calls.
Better yet, how about Al Q toasting a couple key locations and taking out all internet service/phone service for the whole country? We wouldn't be able to call 911, *OR* get any pr0n.
That big ass heatsink is reminiscent of old Sun hardware. Perhaps I should go drag those Sparc 2s out of the dumpster.