My wife didn't want a diamond. She didn't feel comfortable wearing something that expensive. I got her a three piece claddagh with a nice green stone. The first part has the clasping hands, which stands for us being together. The second part was the heart, which held the stone setting which stands for the engagement, and the last part is a plain gold band that we used for the wedding ring.
She loves irish stuff, and that meant more to her than any diamond.
It's the edge of space. To protect yourself at this altitude you use essentially a space suit. This gets past all the issues of lack of oxygen, decompression etc.
You're right there is a reverse effect at high altitude. Climbers need to acclimatize properly otherwise they risk problems from oxgen deprivation and a rather nasty problem where the brain swells.
In standard parachute jumping though the exposure is not long enough for these problems to be apparent. The only time problems occur is when you go from the altitude metioned here. Instant death from lack of oxygen, and freezing is pretty assured if you tried going from this height without some protection.
We had to go for the NT solution because the company that won the bid did NT. They did have a unix option but it was about 2 versions behind the NT solution. I think the experience with NT killed off managements brief love affair with Microsoft products.
It's marketing was actually very good, but its image to customers was one of a mainframe. Clunky and overpowered, and the marketing never got that fixed.
The solution was brilliant. We bought an Alpha/VMS solution. An engineer arrived, unpacked it, did the VMS install and configured it. Installed the database software. In total it took about 9 hours. We moved the database that weekend, and the users never even noticed. Uptime on that system averaged about 1 year. Mostly we took it down once a year to test and/or replace the UPS.
Later we were forced to buy a Compaq/Win NT solution. An engineer arrived and unpacked. Started the NT Install. Applied the service packs. Installed MS SQL. Ran the configuration tools and got a blue screen. Formatted. Installed NT again. Installed SQL. Installed Service packs. SQL blue screened. Installed SQL. Worked. Discovered that SQL couldn't handle clustering, despite written assurance that solution would allow clustering. Total time to get a working NT solution - 6 weeks. Server still needs to be rebooted about every other week. Still waiting on a rewrite of the software so that we can use the latest MS SQL that does support clustering.
DEC had gone into corporate senility I think. They had been selling off bits and pieces of themself long before the hostile takeover. Networking was sold to Cabletron, most of thier big software packages were sold off to smaller developers.
By the time Compaq bought them there was very little of the original DEC left; probably just VMS and the Alpha technology.
I felt like swinging past DEC offices to see if management had put up garage sale signs, but I think CPQ beat me to it.
Quote: "With the virus attacks of late and the numbers of those and how vicious those attacks have been... it's incumbent on Microsoft, being in the leadership position we're in, to help drive forward the industry in this area," Brian Valentine, senior vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft, said in an interview
They have to drive forward the industry? They are playing catchup. They are implimenting security features that have been in Apache for years at this stage, and setting defaults that should have been set at day one. It's typical of Microsoft to try and fix things up once they have totally broken, then try to sell it as a feature, and to try and say "Look what good things we've done in combating this problem", when all along there should never have been a problem in the first place.
Anyone remember that the NSA years ago weakened the DES algorithm. People suggested that this was done to allow the NSA a good chance at cracking DES encryption.
Quite likely it will get to the stage where anyone sending emails with strong encryption will be deemed suspect and put on a watchlist.
I used SmartDoc, but now I've been using gutenpalm a lot more. I like it because I can get a more compression with books. It's at http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/
It uses it's own format currently, but it should start supporting palmdoc soon. It's opensource, and it's pretty good.
This whole ebook/sklyarov/adobe thing reminds me of Ray Bradburys novel about the authorities trying to ban books, and forcing people to use different ways to ensure the survival of litrature.
I agree. I'm an avid reader, and typically read 3 or 4 books a week. I don't buy ebooks because they are locked into one device, and the ebook readers are way too heavy, bulky and expensive. I prefer ebooks on my Palm. I can fit in 7 or 8 book, and I can read them at any time, anywhere. Before I got my Palm III, I would usually carry a paper back around with me, now I just use my palm.
I would buy ebooks if publishers would just market for palm, rather than for stupid formats such as adobe and microsoft that are bulky, stupid and ill-concieved, and limited to PC's.
I agree. It goes to show that if you are a police officer then the law doesn't apply to you. Of course the whole drink driving law is fucked up. If you knock back a bottle of Jack Daniels and plow into a crowded sidewalk in your SUV and kill a dozen people you'll lose your license, and serve a few years in prison. Try doing the same thing with a revolver and you'll get life in prison or the death penalty. Whats the difference? a dozen people are still dead. I think drunk drivers should be prosecuted for murder just same as if they took a weapon and killed someone.
The DMCA is about laws that protect corporate stupidity. If I was running a company that wrote software as badly as Adobe et al did, I'd shake Dmitri's hand, and go and write software with proper encryption. It's a stupid law passed by stupid politicians, enforced by stupid companies that dictate to showboating law officials what should be done.
This country is really starting to piss me off. A hundred years ago the US was where people came to get away from things like this. Now it's become a country where those who pay the most win.
I was developing a prototype database system for a client. The code was very pre-alpha, but there was a copying running at the client site. The specs kept changing every other week as the client and my manager came up with ideas during meetings.
I was on site one day to load in the new batch of changes when I looked up and standing there was the management of the company, ceo's from 2 other companies and a few other unidentified people.
I was asked "When is the demo due to start?". Internally I paniced, but I replied, "Well I've just installed the new system, and it will take me about 15 minutes to get it ready".
They went off for coffee and I hid in an office and rang my manager. "They want me to do a demo!" I screamed.
There was a few seconds silence from the other end of the phone, and my manager said "I knew there was something I forgot to tell you"
I can't remember much about the demo, apart from a few well covered-up crashes. The other programmer who had come along to fix another problem on the site said it was the best demo he'd ever seen.
That demo made the company it's only sales for about 2 years and kept it afloat in the middle of the 80's recession.
I see this a lot in my current job. I work for a large chip manufacturing company, and I do linux stuff for them. Trying to get specs internally is next to impossible if I need to write a driver to support a new card. I can't imagine how hard it will be for someone else to get specs to allow a device to work.
Testing hardware here I've found that there are 5 types of hardware manufacturers
1) Companies that supply Linux drivers with their hardware
2) Companies that supply Linux drivers as an afterthought on thier web site
3) Companies that mention Linux support then direct you to a 3rd party website
4) Companies that release a product with Windows drivers and hope that someone will write a linux driver.
5) Companies that refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists
Just because you can see source doesn't mean that it is open source. Microsoft won't let you change the source code or build your own version of w2k. They will (for a large fee) let you look at the source to make your code work better, but they have so many rules and restrictions on the code that it next to impossible to do anything useful after you've seen the code.
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Actually this is probably one of those questions that TLA's like to use to see if you are paying attention
1) If you answer no:
So you have smoked pot then?
2) If you answer yes:
Well good luck then
3) I have never used drugs:
Bravo. Look at this guy who reads the questions
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a cracker.
Then they came for the white hats
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a white hat.
Then they came for the file swappers
and I did not speak out -- because I was not a file swapper.
Then they came for me -- and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
With apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller
My wife didn't want a diamond. She didn't feel comfortable wearing something that expensive. I got her a three piece claddagh with a nice green stone. The first part has the clasping hands, which stands for us being together. The second part was the heart, which held the stone setting which stands for the engagement, and the last part is a plain gold band that we used for the wedding ring.
She loves irish stuff, and that meant more to her than any diamond.
It's the edge of space. To protect yourself at this altitude you use essentially a space suit. This gets past all the issues of lack of oxygen, decompression etc.
You're right there is a reverse effect at high altitude. Climbers need to acclimatize properly otherwise they risk problems from oxgen deprivation and a rather nasty problem where the brain swells.
In standard parachute jumping though the exposure is not long enough for these problems to be apparent. The only time problems occur is when you go from the altitude metioned here. Instant death from lack of oxygen, and freezing is pretty assured if you tried going from this height without some protection.
We had to go for the NT solution because the company that won the bid did NT. They did have a unix option but it was about 2 versions behind the NT solution. I think the experience with NT killed off managements brief love affair with Microsoft products.
It's marketing was actually very good, but its image to customers was one of a mainframe. Clunky and overpowered, and the marketing never got that fixed.
The solution was brilliant. We bought an Alpha/VMS solution. An engineer arrived, unpacked it, did the VMS install and configured it. Installed the database software. In total it took about 9 hours. We moved the database that weekend, and the users never even noticed. Uptime on that system averaged about 1 year. Mostly we took it down once a year to test and/or replace the UPS.
Later we were forced to buy a Compaq/Win NT solution. An engineer arrived and unpacked. Started the NT Install. Applied the service packs. Installed MS SQL. Ran the configuration tools and got a blue screen. Formatted. Installed NT again. Installed SQL. Installed Service packs. SQL blue screened. Installed SQL. Worked. Discovered that SQL couldn't handle clustering, despite written assurance that solution would allow clustering. Total time to get a working NT solution - 6 weeks. Server still needs to be rebooted about every other week. Still waiting on a rewrite of the software so that we can use the latest MS SQL that does support clustering.
Both solutions were bought from DEC/Compaq.
DEC had gone into corporate senility I think. They had been selling off bits and pieces of themself long before the hostile takeover. Networking was sold to Cabletron, most of thier big software packages were sold off to smaller developers.
By the time Compaq bought them there was very little of the original DEC left; probably just VMS and the Alpha technology.
I felt like swinging past DEC offices to see if management had put up garage sale signs, but I think CPQ beat me to it.
The cluster is at #385
They have to drive forward the industry? They are playing catchup. They are implimenting security features that have been in Apache for years at this stage, and setting defaults that should have been set at day one. It's typical of Microsoft to try and fix things up once they have totally broken, then try to sell it as a feature, and to try and say "Look what good things we've done in combating this problem", when all along there should never have been a problem in the first place.
I'd imagine that they would just send a signal to your receiving equipment telling it to shut off until you pay up again.
Digital satellite TV works a bit like that.
I think it was moving physical location/ip address etc
Anyone remember that the NSA years ago weakened the DES algorithm. People suggested that this was done to allow the NSA a good chance at cracking DES encryption.
Quite likely it will get to the stage where anyone sending emails with strong encryption will be deemed suspect and put on a watchlist.
I used SmartDoc, but now I've been using gutenpalm a lot more. I like it because I can get a more compression with books. It's at http://gutenpalm.sourceforge.net/
It uses it's own format currently, but it should start supporting palmdoc soon. It's opensource, and it's pretty good.
This whole ebook/sklyarov/adobe thing reminds me of Ray Bradburys novel about the authorities trying to ban books, and forcing people to use different ways to ensure the survival of litrature.
Maybe another sci-fi story may become reality...
I agree. I'm an avid reader, and typically read 3 or 4 books a week. I don't buy ebooks because they are locked into one device, and the ebook readers are way too heavy, bulky and expensive. I prefer ebooks on my Palm. I can fit in 7 or 8 book, and I can read them at any time, anywhere. Before I got my Palm III, I would usually carry a paper back around with me, now I just use my palm.
I would buy ebooks if publishers would just market for palm, rather than for stupid formats such as adobe and microsoft that are bulky, stupid and ill-concieved, and limited to PC's.
I think if you were sober it would. DUI is a whole other story.
Of course the gun lobby is better armed....
I agree. It goes to show that if you are a police officer then the law doesn't apply to you. Of course the whole drink driving law is fucked up. If you knock back a bottle of Jack Daniels and plow into a crowded sidewalk in your SUV and kill a dozen people you'll lose your license, and serve a few years in prison. Try doing the same thing with a revolver and you'll get life in prison or the death penalty. Whats the difference? a dozen people are still dead. I think drunk drivers should be prosecuted for murder just same as if they took a weapon and killed someone.
yep. Too pissed off to preview.
Dmitri should be free. It's a violation of human rights in my opinion.
I moved to the US to get away from things like this. In Northern Ireland in the early 1970's they passed an . This was just like the DMCA in that it was very badly worded and horribly abused; it was meant to stop violence but just created worse problems instead. Internment meant imprisonment without trail for people just suspected of terrorism. In the loyalist thinking of that time, it meant anyone who was catholic and outspoken.
The DMCA is about laws that protect corporate stupidity. If I was running a company that wrote software as badly as Adobe et al did, I'd shake Dmitri's hand, and go and write software with proper encryption. It's a stupid law passed by stupid politicians, enforced by stupid companies that dictate to showboating law officials what should be done.
This country is really starting to piss me off. A hundred years ago the US was where people came to get away from things like this. Now it's become a country where those who pay the most win.
I was developing a prototype database system for a client. The code was very pre-alpha, but there was a copying running at the client site. The specs kept changing every other week as the client and my manager came up with ideas during meetings.
I was on site one day to load in the new batch of changes when I looked up and standing there was the management of the company, ceo's from 2 other companies and a few other unidentified people.
I was asked "When is the demo due to start?". Internally I paniced, but I replied, "Well I've just installed the new system, and it will take me about 15 minutes to get it ready".
They went off for coffee and I hid in an office and rang my manager. "They want me to do a demo!" I screamed.
There was a few seconds silence from the other end of the phone, and my manager said "I knew there was something I forgot to tell you"
I can't remember much about the demo, apart from a few well covered-up crashes. The other programmer who had come along to fix another problem on the site said it was the best demo he'd ever seen.
That demo made the company it's only sales for about 2 years and kept it afloat in the middle of the 80's recession.
Yep. The wierdest one that got me was this place where I'm working. It's got a lot of linux drivers available, but one network card is not supported.
Why? Well it has a co-processor on board, and they won't release the documentation on that to anyone. Even internally. It's so stupid.
I see this a lot in my current job. I work for a large chip manufacturing company, and I do linux stuff for them. Trying to get specs internally is next to impossible if I need to write a driver to support a new card. I can't imagine how hard it will be for someone else to get specs to allow a device to work.
Testing hardware here I've found that there are 5 types of hardware manufacturers
1) Companies that supply Linux drivers with their hardware
2) Companies that supply Linux drivers as an afterthought on thier web site
3) Companies that mention Linux support then direct you to a 3rd party website
4) Companies that release a product with Windows drivers and hope that someone will write a linux driver.
5) Companies that refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists
Ummm... It *is* closed.
Just because you can see source doesn't mean that it is open source. Microsoft won't let you change the source code or build your own version of w2k. They will (for a large fee) let you look at the source to make your code work better, but they have so many rules and restrictions on the code that it next to impossible to do anything useful after you've seen the code.
One way is to have her browse via a proxy server (eg squid). This would allow you to keep aware of where she surfs. This only tracks web sites though.