Yea, we had to have a special network connection through the American Embassy in France so we could exchange e-mail without the French reading the emails. We put it into place when the French would ask about something that was only disclosed in the email.
As long as you don't have any unnecessary knocking, you can inject yourself with lower octanes. I prefer 85 octane but I'm a mile high so can use lower octane without worrying about knocking.
Two of the ones I punted this time were Ultra 60's. Back in 2004 when I moved, I got rid of an SLC I had for several years. This one is an Enterprise 250. I have to remove the power supplies in order to pick it up. It's fricking loud though.:)
I did that for a bit but when I got to seven computers sitting idle in the closet, I took them down to the electronics recycling bin. Heck, I'm even looking at my old Sun box and considering punting that one as well. That will leave me with 4 computers that are regularly in use plus the tablet and phone.
I'm with you there. I rediscovered my cousins, aunts, and uncles after 40 years through them finding me on Facebook. I keep up on their activities and assume they keep up on what I do based on the comments I've received. While they do have whacky beliefs (which are reflected in the occasional "Obama is declaring Martial Law on Oct 1st!111!11!!!!!!1" posting), it's still good to stay in touch.
But data collection (even though I keep my likes and details to myself), video ads, comment systems that require a Facebook account, and now this might be the tipping point.
I likely won't close the account. Most likely I'll just stop using it just like I've stopped going to several forums I used to frequent due to the number of crazy posts and responses.
At the moment we do. We have a moderately sized Oracle environment but the company owners have been annoyed with the Oracle support costs and started moving to MySQL several years ago. Considering our environment, we paid for MySQL enterprise licenses. When Oracle bought MySQL, the company started moving to Postgres. Same when Oracle killed Sun (the Oracle DB license fees kept us from upgrading our older Sun equipment so we moved to Linux on Dell and then virtual machines). Now we're using Redhat and Postgres (it's all in the pipeline so there are still mySQL deployments).
Why have testis outside the body, where they can be bashed easily
Because the sperm needs a temperature a bit lower than body temp in order to be generated. The muscle contracts when things are too cool and relaxes when things get too hot. That's also why tighty-whities causes a reduction in sperm count. Since relaxing the muscle doesn't permit the testes to move away from the excess heat, sperm are not created.
From wikipedia:
In the Middle Ages, men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed. This was because people believed that the right testicle made "boy" sperm and the left made "girl" sperm. As early as 330 BC, Aristotle prescribed the ligation (tying off) of the left testicle in men wishing to have boys.
Plus bringing up crappy video drivers brings all sorts of fanboi responses.
My dual AMDs were pretty much crap, blue screening on start pretty much from the start and even having the company check them found no issues with the hardware. One update bricked the system and required a full reinstall of Windows XP.
I finally replaced them with dual nVidias which also had crappy driver issues from the get go. I stumbled on a forum comment suggesting I use the 306 drivers and the system has been stable ever since (I'd get the 'driver has restarted' errors which would happen more often as I kept trying to upgrade the driver). The nVidia's are a tad slower than the AMDs but at least they're stable.
I don't use a screen protector. On the 3GS I just replaced, I only had a half shell (back) with a rubbery coating on it to improve the friction. Generally I'm not a dropper. What happens is something gets in the way (like a wall or table edge) and I hit the edge of the phone, knocking it out of my hand. I also have an Android with an Otter case provided by work. Same reason. Thin is all well and good but with my larger hands, the phones tend to be harder to grip. I have a full sized case for my iPad as well, same reason. I just want to make sure the $300 or $800 "computer" doesn't break until I want it to.
The bluetooth keyboard will hopefully keep me from bouncing mine. The initial crack was from bouncing it on the floor of the car because of my overly large fingers and the frustration with texting (I was the passenger so don't get too wound up:) ). The shattered screen from the second bounce was the same issue. Frustration with texting and my bulkier fingers (plus I knew I was getting a replacement so there was a bit of English on the phone the second time).
The standard day-to-day drop doesn't seem to bother either phones. I do note that I had a lot of dead pixels on the 3GS towards the end.
Heck, since I (and many others) typically encase the phones in all manner of protective cases (I have an Otter case for my iPhone 5 and will be replacing it with a BlueTooth keyboard case soon), a plastic case isn't all that big an issue assuming reasonably similar devices (functionality, not tech specs). If you're giving your kid a phone, you might go with the C and put it in a hard shell of some sort. I've bounced mine, banged against walls, or put things on top of it that a hard case of some sort is necessary.
At least as far as eBooks are concerned (from Amazon), the purchases are one click. I find a book I want to read, click the 'one click' button and I'm presented with a book on my Kindle app and bunch of different but related books.
I don't think that works well with physical stuff since you have a 'cart' and have to select shipping options, gift stuff, etc.
Maybe the One Click thing was for electronic media (eBooks for me, perhaps movies and.mp3's too).
Good point actually. I'm able to download and read quite a few eBooks that I might have hesitated to actually put money down for and read in public in the past due to societal pressures. I'm actually talking about the anti-feminist movement/men's rights type of books as getting the actual physical book at the local book seller leads to some embarrassment since they're generally women at the counters. With Amazon, I can "one-click" the eBook and read it pretty much anywhere.
Did you see the guys from CU that redirected the flow with sandbags and plywood? The fire department told them to knock it off since they were increasing the speed of the flow and potentially destroying stuff that would be able to manage a more reduced flow.
I guess these guys don't play D&D (10 dice fireball in a 10x10 dungeon corridor anyone?:) )
I live and work in Boulder County (Longmont). The St. Vrain is a pretty minor stream that runs through the center of Longmont however yesterday it had jumped the banks and split the town in half. I work in the south side but live on the north side. While I rode my motorcycle to work yesterday morning, my manager essentially told me to catch a ride with a coworker to get home. We went way over on the east side of town to get over the river and back to my place.
I've had a little water seepage at my place but I did learn that I had an outdoor sump pump that was keeping the basement mostly dry. A good thing.
I did have to break down my computer gear and bring it up stairs so I could continue to access the 'net. I also evacuated half the room and used a wetvac to suck up the water (about 10 gallons since yesterday).
There are a lot of people worse off than I am though and I'm hoping they get through it ok. I'm keeping up with friends and family via facebook (nyah) and working from home so keeping busy.
It's going to take a bit to get things back to normal though. Lots of places are washed out or inaccessible (Lyons is just a few miles away from me and Estes Park is about 20 miles up in the mountains) and of course lots of road and bridge damage.
"Squid"? Do you understand the meaning of the term? Some guy on his Duc on a track is absolutely not a squid since track requirements are pretty strict. I have a one piece leather suit, full face helmet, gloves past the wrists and boots past the ankles when I hit the track on my 'busa or SV in addition to taped up lights and non-slippery coolant (no 'anti-freeze' allowed).
The only douchebag here are the ACs showing their ignorance.
Yea, I created the 'Classroom Door' for BBS's back in the 80's. It was a display of 12 or 16 virtual desks with space for 10 or so lines. So you could post a short, 2 line message on your desk or put messages on friends' desks. The older messages would scroll off the virtual desk as new ones were posted.
Until they link my aliases up from the various forums (you don't think 'BigButt' is my real name, do you?), they won't know for sure who I am. In checking, I can see they have fairly broad information and are missing quite a few things like kids, education, religion. And politics is wrong. Nothing about my primary interests. Several generic interests that are just wild guesses it seems (gardening? not really).
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Yea, we had to have a special network connection through the American Embassy in France so we could exchange e-mail without the French reading the emails. We put it into place when the French would ask about something that was only disclosed in the email.
[John]
As long as you don't have any unnecessary knocking, you can inject yourself with lower octanes. I prefer 85 octane but I'm a mile high so can use lower octane without worrying about knocking.
[John]
...both sexes are always interested in sex.
Until marriage.
[John]
My daughter started when she was 8 using Logo and turtle graphics (IBM Logo) on my PC. She's 35 and a DBA in New York now :)
[John]
Fricking dumbasses can't even read the article. Oh yea, I'm on Slashdot. Who RTFA nowadays?
[John]
I was just out there looking to replenish some supplies for a project I'm working on. Cool beans :)
[John]
Remove the last character from the link.
[John]
Two of the ones I punted this time were Ultra 60's. Back in 2004 when I moved, I got rid of an SLC I had for several years. This one is an Enterprise 250. I have to remove the power supplies in order to pick it up. It's fricking loud though. :)
[John]
I did that for a bit but when I got to seven computers sitting idle in the closet, I took them down to the electronics recycling bin. Heck, I'm even looking at my old Sun box and considering punting that one as well. That will leave me with 4 computers that are regularly in use plus the tablet and phone.
[John]
I'm with you there. I rediscovered my cousins, aunts, and uncles after 40 years through them finding me on Facebook. I keep up on their activities and assume they keep up on what I do based on the comments I've received. While they do have whacky beliefs (which are reflected in the occasional "Obama is declaring Martial Law on Oct 1st!111!11!!!!!!1" posting), it's still good to stay in touch.
But data collection (even though I keep my likes and details to myself), video ads, comment systems that require a Facebook account, and now this might be the tipping point.
I likely won't close the account. Most likely I'll just stop using it just like I've stopped going to several forums I used to frequent due to the number of crazy posts and responses.
[John]
At the moment we do. We have a moderately sized Oracle environment but the company owners have been annoyed with the Oracle support costs and started moving to MySQL several years ago. Considering our environment, we paid for MySQL enterprise licenses. When Oracle bought MySQL, the company started moving to Postgres. Same when Oracle killed Sun (the Oracle DB license fees kept us from upgrading our older Sun equipment so we moved to Linux on Dell and then virtual machines). Now we're using Redhat and Postgres (it's all in the pipeline so there are still mySQL deployments).
[John]
Why have testis outside the body, where they can be bashed easily
Because the sperm needs a temperature a bit lower than body temp in order to be generated. The muscle contracts when things are too cool and relaxes when things get too hot. That's also why tighty-whities causes a reduction in sperm count. Since relaxing the muscle doesn't permit the testes to move away from the excess heat, sperm are not created.
From wikipedia:
In the Middle Ages, men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed. This was because people believed that the right testicle made "boy" sperm and the left made "girl" sperm. As early as 330 BC, Aristotle prescribed the ligation (tying off) of the left testicle in men wishing to have boys.
Yoinks!!
[John]
Plus bringing up crappy video drivers brings all sorts of fanboi responses.
My dual AMDs were pretty much crap, blue screening on start pretty much from the start and even having the company check them found no issues with the hardware. One update bricked the system and required a full reinstall of Windows XP.
I finally replaced them with dual nVidias which also had crappy driver issues from the get go. I stumbled on a forum comment suggesting I use the 306 drivers and the system has been stable ever since (I'd get the 'driver has restarted' errors which would happen more often as I kept trying to upgrade the driver). The nVidia's are a tad slower than the AMDs but at least they're stable.
[John]
I don't use a screen protector. On the 3GS I just replaced, I only had a half shell (back) with a rubbery coating on it to improve the friction. Generally I'm not a dropper. What happens is something gets in the way (like a wall or table edge) and I hit the edge of the phone, knocking it out of my hand. I also have an Android with an Otter case provided by work. Same reason. Thin is all well and good but with my larger hands, the phones tend to be harder to grip. I have a full sized case for my iPad as well, same reason. I just want to make sure the $300 or $800 "computer" doesn't break until I want it to.
The bluetooth keyboard will hopefully keep me from bouncing mine. The initial crack was from bouncing it on the floor of the car because of my overly large fingers and the frustration with texting (I was the passenger so don't get too wound up :) ). The shattered screen from the second bounce was the same issue. Frustration with texting and my bulkier fingers (plus I knew I was getting a replacement so there was a bit of English on the phone the second time).
The standard day-to-day drop doesn't seem to bother either phones. I do note that I had a lot of dead pixels on the 3GS towards the end.
[John]
Heck, since I (and many others) typically encase the phones in all manner of protective cases (I have an Otter case for my iPhone 5 and will be replacing it with a BlueTooth keyboard case soon), a plastic case isn't all that big an issue assuming reasonably similar devices (functionality, not tech specs). If you're giving your kid a phone, you might go with the C and put it in a hard shell of some sort. I've bounced mine, banged against walls, or put things on top of it that a hard case of some sort is necessary.
[John]
Condoms? What was she afraid of? Pickles??
[John]
At least as far as eBooks are concerned (from Amazon), the purchases are one click. I find a book I want to read, click the 'one click' button and I'm presented with a book on my Kindle app and bunch of different but related books.
I don't think that works well with physical stuff since you have a 'cart' and have to select shipping options, gift stuff, etc.
Maybe the One Click thing was for electronic media (eBooks for me, perhaps movies and .mp3's too).
[John]
Good point actually. I'm able to download and read quite a few eBooks that I might have hesitated to actually put money down for and read in public in the past due to societal pressures. I'm actually talking about the anti-feminist movement/men's rights type of books as getting the actual physical book at the local book seller leads to some embarrassment since they're generally women at the counters. With Amazon, I can "one-click" the eBook and read it pretty much anywhere.
[John]
Did you see the guys from CU that redirected the flow with sandbags and plywood? The fire department told them to knock it off since they were increasing the speed of the flow and potentially destroying stuff that would be able to manage a more reduced flow.
I guess these guys don't play D&D (10 dice fireball in a 10x10 dungeon corridor anyone? :) )
[John]
I live and work in Boulder County (Longmont). The St. Vrain is a pretty minor stream that runs through the center of Longmont however yesterday it had jumped the banks and split the town in half. I work in the south side but live on the north side. While I rode my motorcycle to work yesterday morning, my manager essentially told me to catch a ride with a coworker to get home. We went way over on the east side of town to get over the river and back to my place.
I've had a little water seepage at my place but I did learn that I had an outdoor sump pump that was keeping the basement mostly dry. A good thing.
I did have to break down my computer gear and bring it up stairs so I could continue to access the 'net. I also evacuated half the room and used a wetvac to suck up the water (about 10 gallons since yesterday).
There are a lot of people worse off than I am though and I'm hoping they get through it ok. I'm keeping up with friends and family via facebook (nyah) and working from home so keeping busy.
It's going to take a bit to get things back to normal though. Lots of places are washed out or inaccessible (Lyons is just a few miles away from me and Estes Park is about 20 miles up in the mountains) and of course lots of road and bridge damage.
Stay safe.
[John]
"Squid"? Do you understand the meaning of the term? Some guy on his Duc on a track is absolutely not a squid since track requirements are pretty strict. I have a one piece leather suit, full face helmet, gloves past the wrists and boots past the ankles when I hit the track on my 'busa or SV in addition to taped up lights and non-slippery coolant (no 'anti-freeze' allowed).
The only douchebag here are the ACs showing their ignorance.
[John]
That's why there are so many fiber cuts (backhoe outages).
[John]
You misspelled misspelled.
And Alsee misspelled Einstein (unless of course he knows who the AC is). :)
[John]
Yea, I created the 'Classroom Door' for BBS's back in the 80's. It was a display of 12 or 16 virtual desks with space for 10 or so lines. So you could post a short, 2 line message on your desk or put messages on friends' desks. The older messages would scroll off the virtual desk as new ones were posted.
Precursor to Twitter maybe? Facebook?
[John]
Until they link my aliases up from the various forums (you don't think 'BigButt' is my real name, do you?), they won't know for sure who I am. In checking, I can see they have fairly broad information and are missing quite a few things like kids, education, religion. And politics is wrong. Nothing about my primary interests. Several generic interests that are just wild guesses it seems (gardening? not really).
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[John]