This is desired administration behavior. The Win2k disc can't deal with the WinXP registry properly, so it goes straight to recovery mode. Recovery mode is pretty much useless to begin with, and you can't really do anything to a system in recovery mode
Besides, if you can physically walk up to the computer in question and boot it from a CD in your pocket, your security problem doesn't come from Windows - it either comes from a BIOS that doesn't support changing the boot order, or it comes from between your ears.
The DC power supplied by your car only in the region of 12v. It's riddled with power spikes that will be damaging to the motherboard's electronics. This is the main reason why you're supposed to use a power inverter on anything that wasn't specifically designed to be powered by a car's DC outlet.
A DC adapter can't effectively smooth off the spikes. On the other hand, switching the current to AC using an inverter and then converting it back to DC with an AC-DC adapter will supply power that isn't dirty.
You can get a decent 300 watt power inverter at a truckstop for 30 or 40 bucks if you look around. It would certainly be a lot cheaper than having to replace a fried motherboard.
The things that bloggers forget are probably often the kinds of things that weren only fleetingly interesting to begin with. The cool stuff will probably be remembered, or the blogger in question will write it on a napkin for blogging when he/she gets home.
With the advent of moblogging, I predict that the quality of blogs will go down as bloggers start saying random shit whenever something seems interesting for a moment. Blogs will become watered down by passing distractions, people will lose interest, and blogs will go the way of the narccicistic "this is me, this is 8,000 pictures of me, here are my favorite movies, blah blah blah" sites.
Hmm. . . maybe that's not so bad after all. I'm sure natural selection could use some help in the world of blogs.
Mathemeticians have been working on numerical approximations of functions (DiffEq, for example), and have been dealing with trying to reduce the error in approximations for centuries, with all the problems involving the approximation getting worse as you leave the starting point and all that.
Yet it took until the 1960's for someone to figure out that subtle errors at any point in the use of a model of a complex system can cause problems?
You can't get anything stronger than a theory. Contrary to popular belief, a law isn't a theory that has become ironclad because it can't be disproved - laws are outside the 'speculation-conjecture-hypothesis-theory' hierarchy.
everything is theoretically disprovable. Maybe some day off in the future the theory of neutrons will be replaced by a new one, and neutrons will be viewed as a primitive but workable explanation of a natural phenomenon, the same way Newtonian physics came to be viewed after the advent of relativity.
You know how to an 8-year-old boy, his dad's favorite sports team is the greatest thing in the world, able to turn lepers to supermodels and bath beads into geltabs? It's basically the same phenomenon.
It stops being amusing after a couple years reading the/. GNU/Linux crowd do the same thing.
This afforded me the chance to be both a popular kid and an unpopular kid. In all cases, I was just as nerdy as I am now (i.e., I did succeed in spending large amounts of time programming in assembly language and building things while being popular), the only difference was how I approached people when I first showed up at a given school.
Granted, my first high school, at which I was fairly roundly despised by most people, was in the school system where I skipped the sixth grade. That's about the only spot where I see a correlation between smart and popular - that one act sent me into a two year period of basically having no friends. So it wasn't really being smart, it was a specific thing I did that was understandably a guaranteed way to make people not like me.
&& I don't think that being in the popular crowd is the only way to be well-liked. I can remember people who were part of the popular crowd that everyone, even the popular kids, agreed were assholes. I can also remember people who weren't members of the popular crowd but who were liked by most everyone and could move freely among at least a few of the tribes.
Also, I don't think popularity had anything to do with my general happiness at any given time. When I was at the high school where I was very roundly a member of the 'in' crowd, I also spent some time in a psych. unit for trying to commit suicide.
I agree that the school hierarchy system is real, but I think all the stigma and rationalization people attatch to it is mostly a product of hormonally unbalanced minds stuck in a confusing limbo between childhood and adulthood that most people don't get a chance to go back and re-analyze because by the time you are emotionally stable and mentally mature enough to look at the situation with a clear head, high school is closed to you.
b) It's not all that flimsy. If it's too hot during some seasons for CO2 to stay frozen, the ice caps wouldn't stay frozen during those seasons if they were mostly CO2.
(I realize the above is a troll, but I'm bored at work so I'll bite at it.)
1) SGI has not swapped out Irix and MIPS. They sell Linux/x86 and NT/x86 equipment in addition to Irix and MIPS. If you want the good stuff, you still gotta use Irix.
2) Openstep is NOT a Unix. It's a programming toolkit, just like GTK+ and Cocoa. (heck, Cocoa basically is Openstep.
Even if you were to argue that Nextstep was the most advanced Unix at the time, you would have an uphill battle. Its GUI was the best ever made, but things under the hood weren't as beautiful - I would use a NeXT as a workstation, but never a server.
3) Apple has NOT filled the gap made by SGI. Cheap ass x86 hardware has.
4) Back to OpenStep - OpenStep isn't Mac OS X. Mac OS X's API is based on OpenStep, and they both use a Mach kernel. Virtually everything else is different.
5) What in the @$#@(#@$&@!$@#% does Quicktime have to do with servers?
6) They need higher-end hardware to meet the exhaustive demands Aqua is more like it.
but I agree with the McDonald's lawsuit. I'm veggie, and think that McDonald's attempted to decieve vegetarian customers. McDonald's had changed their ingredients list for their friench fries so that any mention of animal products was replaced by 'natural flavors' while leaving the beef products in. A lot of vegetarians and people who don't eat beef for religious reasons were duped into thinking that McDonald's fries were now safe to eat.
I think it's fair for McDonald's to be sensitive to such things.
Unless those anti-cloning zealots are also militant vegans, I'm going to laugh heartily when they start with damning speeches about the euthanasia of sheep.
how does this revenge-of-the-nerds effect help me if I won't be able to get a date until I'm losing my hair, impotent, and too crotchety to feel like dealing with a signifigant other, anyway?
Typical patron of Coincidence Design's plan for how this will all work out:
Him (smoking cigarette after sex in backseat of car): Honey, we've been together for a few hours now, and I really really like you. I need to come clean about this - it's been eating at me and I can't handle the dishonesty anymore.
Her: What is it, love?
Him: You know how I met you on the side of the road with the tire on your car shot out by some psychopath, and I gave you a ride to this park?
Her: Yes --?
Him: The whole thing was a sham. I had it engineered by Coincidence Designs.
Her: That means -- ?
Him: Yes.
Her: You spent $80,000 dollars for a chance to get me in the sack?
(He looks sheepish)
Her: Honey, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard! I love you! You're such a stallion! Let's get married!
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I use my superior wit and lack of qualms about homosexuality to cause disorder within their ranks by seducing their frat brothers.
What would you put to him, in that position?
I don't know. . . stuff. Nothing grandiose or complicated - just simple things like leg irons, hot pokers, thumbscrews. . .
or at least get them from the grocery store instead of collecting them out in the forest.
That should solve the problem quick.
This isn't a security flaw.
This is desired administration behavior. The Win2k disc can't deal with the WinXP registry properly, so it goes straight to recovery mode. Recovery mode is pretty much useless to begin with, and you can't really do anything to a system in recovery mode
Besides, if you can physically walk up to the computer in question and boot it from a CD in your pocket, your security problem doesn't come from Windows - it either comes from a BIOS that doesn't support changing the boot order, or it comes from between your ears.
The DC power supplied by your car only in the region of 12v. It's riddled with power spikes that will be damaging to the motherboard's electronics. This is the main reason why you're supposed to use a power inverter on anything that wasn't specifically designed to be powered by a car's DC outlet.
A DC adapter can't effectively smooth off the spikes. On the other hand, switching the current to AC using an inverter and then converting it back to DC with an AC-DC adapter will supply power that isn't dirty.
You can get a decent 300 watt power inverter at a truckstop for 30 or 40 bucks if you look around. It would certainly be a lot cheaper than having to replace a fried motherboard.
. . .for me to poop on!
The things that bloggers forget are probably often the kinds of things that weren only fleetingly interesting to begin with. The cool stuff will probably be remembered, or the blogger in question will write it on a napkin for blogging when he/she gets home.
With the advent of moblogging, I predict that the quality of blogs will go down as bloggers start saying random shit whenever something seems interesting for a moment. Blogs will become watered down by passing distractions, people will lose interest, and blogs will go the way of the narccicistic "this is me, this is 8,000 pictures of me, here are my favorite movies, blah blah blah" sites.
Hmm. . . maybe that's not so bad after all. I'm sure natural selection could use some help in the world of blogs.
Mathemeticians have been working on numerical approximations of functions (DiffEq, for example), and have been dealing with trying to reduce the error in approximations for centuries, with all the problems involving the approximation getting worse as you leave the starting point and all that.
Yet it took until the 1960's for someone to figure out that subtle errors at any point in the use of a model of a complex system can cause problems?
I've always thought that was strange. . .
EVERYTHING in science is 'just a theory.'
You can't get anything stronger than a theory. Contrary to popular belief, a law isn't a theory that has become ironclad because it can't be disproved - laws are outside the 'speculation-conjecture-hypothesis-theory' hierarchy.
everything is theoretically disprovable. Maybe some day off in the future the theory of neutrons will be replaced by a new one, and neutrons will be viewed as a primitive but workable explanation of a natural phenomenon, the same way Newtonian physics came to be viewed after the advent of relativity.
It was called the Boomerang nebula because it was first observed with a much lower resolution telescope in which it really did look like a boomerang.
Yeah, but you try finding a satisfactory explanation of an asymptote to put in an article meant for the general public.
I don't see any long-term winners here, other than those selling Connectix's assets
If there's a Hell, they are only short-term winners.
. . . just naive and inexperienced.
/. GNU/Linux crowd do the same thing.
You know how to an 8-year-old boy, his dad's favorite sports team is the greatest thing in the world, able to turn lepers to supermodels and bath beads into geltabs? It's basically the same phenomenon.
It stops being amusing after a couple years reading the
I went to four high schools in total.
This afforded me the chance to be both a popular kid and an unpopular kid. In all cases, I was just as nerdy as I am now (i.e., I did succeed in spending large amounts of time programming in assembly language and building things while being popular), the only difference was how I approached people when I first showed up at a given school.
Granted, my first high school, at which I was fairly roundly despised by most people, was in the school system where I skipped the sixth grade. That's about the only spot where I see a correlation between smart and popular - that one act sent me into a two year period of basically having no friends. So it wasn't really being smart, it was a specific thing I did that was understandably a guaranteed way to make people not like me.
&& I don't think that being in the popular crowd is the only way to be well-liked. I can remember people who were part of the popular crowd that everyone, even the popular kids, agreed were assholes. I can also remember people who weren't members of the popular crowd but who were liked by most everyone and could move freely among at least a few of the tribes.
Also, I don't think popularity had anything to do with my general happiness at any given time. When I was at the high school where I was very roundly a member of the 'in' crowd, I also spent some time in a psych. unit for trying to commit suicide.
I agree that the school hierarchy system is real, but I think all the stigma and rationalization people attatch to it is mostly a product of hormonally unbalanced minds stuck in a confusing limbo between childhood and adulthood that most people don't get a chance to go back and re-analyze because by the time you are emotionally stable and mentally mature enough to look at the situation with a clear head, high school is closed to you.
Chronic heart disease is pretty damn slow and agonizing, too.
And morphine won't help you with the shortness of breath that comes from your lungs filling up with fluid.
I think that M$ will never be able to recover from these stigmata
Microsoft is our savior =D
a) flimsy temperature evidence makes better news
b) It's not all that flimsy. If it's too hot during some seasons for CO2 to stay frozen, the ice caps wouldn't stay frozen during those seasons if they were mostly CO2.
(I realize the above is a troll, but I'm bored at work so I'll bite at it.)
1) SGI has not swapped out Irix and MIPS. They sell Linux/x86 and NT/x86 equipment in addition to Irix and MIPS. If you want the good stuff, you still gotta use Irix.
2) Openstep is NOT a Unix. It's a programming toolkit, just like GTK+ and Cocoa. (heck, Cocoa basically is Openstep.
Even if you were to argue that Nextstep was the most advanced Unix at the time, you would have an uphill battle. Its GUI was the best ever made, but things under the hood weren't as beautiful - I would use a NeXT as a workstation, but never a server.
3) Apple has NOT filled the gap made by SGI. Cheap ass x86 hardware has.
4) Back to OpenStep - OpenStep isn't Mac OS X. Mac OS X's API is based on OpenStep, and they both use a Mach kernel. Virtually everything else is different.
5) What in the @$#@(#@$&@!$@#% does Quicktime have to do with servers?
6) They need higher-end hardware to meet the exhaustive demands Aqua is more like it.
I agree that a lot of veggie groups are nuts. . .
but I agree with the McDonald's lawsuit. I'm veggie, and think that McDonald's attempted to decieve vegetarian customers. McDonald's had changed their ingredients list for their friench fries so that any mention of animal products was replaced by 'natural flavors' while leaving the beef products in. A lot of vegetarians and people who don't eat beef for religious reasons were duped into thinking that McDonald's fries were now safe to eat.
I think it's fair for McDonald's to be sensitive to such things.
I am a sad clone.
Why do people hate me so?
I am human too.
The sheep was useful,
but reporters stopped coming.
Then we got hungry.
Millions of dollars
of research grants is a lot
to spend for haggis.
The girl is not her
mom, The scientists, just baked
Scientologists.
Unless those anti-cloning zealots are also militant vegans, I'm going to laugh heartily when they start with damning speeches about the euthanasia of sheep.
how does this revenge-of-the-nerds effect help me if I won't be able to get a date until I'm losing my hair, impotent, and too crotchety to feel like dealing with a signifigant other, anyway?
Has anyone ever told you that you are one paranoid sunnuvabiscut?
Typical patron of Coincidence Design's plan for how this will all work out:
Him (smoking cigarette after sex in backseat of car): Honey, we've been together for a few hours now, and I really really like you. I need to come clean about this - it's been eating at me and I can't handle the dishonesty anymore.
Her: What is it, love?
Him: You know how I met you on the side of the road with the tire on your car shot out by some psychopath, and I gave you a ride to this park?
Her: Yes --?
Him: The whole thing was a sham. I had it engineered by Coincidence Designs.
Her: That means -- ?
Him: Yes.
Her: You spent $80,000 dollars for a chance to get me in the sack?
(He looks sheepish)
Her: Honey, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard! I love you! You're such a stallion! Let's get married!
I see two possibilities:
1) It was done for hack value, not vandalism.
2) With how many Windows computers there are out there, a simple worm has the ability to cause more than enough trouble.
As for Slammer not having a payload, that's because it was designed to fit in a single 505-byte UDP packet. There wasn't room for a payload.