The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
Well, i don't know about downhill, but when coming up to red lights, i've been told that for modern cars it's actually more economic to not press the clutch or take the gear to neutral, but instead to just let go of the gas pedal. There is a thing called "fuel cut-off in the overrun", which for some uses less fuel than plain idling.
And don't engine brake because that is poor form and is retarded. Use your damn brakes.
But not too long and not too often, or they might overheat and fail.
I can say most of my unhappiness with being a security consultant comes from dealing with colleagues, having to explain why certain things are prohibited by a security policy. They want things to work and do not care if ActiveX or connecting a server to the internet poses a threat to security.
Dealing with their "why does it not work", "i NEED this to work" and "it works at $home, why not $here" is not always easy.
I live in Germany where boxes like this are everywhere, at least in bigger cities and nobody seems to give a damn, they are accepted just like traffic signs or street lights. I'm pretty sure they predate "fast internet for everybody" and where there for POTS and ISDN.
While/. headlines are often called inaccurate, this time it's not the fault of the contributor. Both versions (English and German) of the article at ccc.de claim the data was "lost". The article on heise.de referencing this does not mention any losses.
And i thought, that the memories of the Staatssicherheit (Stasi) in the German Democratic Republic made sure we would never allow this bullshit again. The surveillance methods and the sheer amount of data accumulated (analog and on paper!) of that ministry was enormous. We'll see what Stasi 2.0 will bring.
Don't say that to Bavarians. They prefer to be known as the northernmost state of Italy.
Actually, i never heard that. What is said, though, is that Munich is the northernmost city of Italy.
Because of the flair of the city and not only during the second weekend of Oktoberfest.
You're so totally right! Shining Recut was great, but i really laughed my ass of on "Top Gun Recut". And i wasn't convinced yet, watching "The Ring Recut" would have done it. Turning one of the scariest movies i've seen in recent years into a romantic drama about a dying mother... Hilarious.
I had to read that topic about five times, before i understood what it was trying to tell me. "IDs" is just a very bad choice for a verb. I mean, every noun is verbable, but "IDs"? Why put those two letters in upper case, like in DVDs, or CDs? What's wrong with "identify"?
Okay, "EOL" was inaccurate. Indeed i was referring to the end of availability, not about end of support.
While big companies have volume licenses and the power to make manufacturers sell them business laptops with XP, smaller companies might not have that choice. Or, as an example, a customer where i was working until April has several branch offices in South America, India, South East Asia. These offices must adhere to company standards, but also must buy hard- and software locally. I don't know how they are going to solve that problem.
Virtualisation is nice for server consolidation, but are you really proposing having some non-computer-savvy person run XP inside Vista on a notebook?
With WinXP Prof EOL this year June, what's the alternative to Vista?
At my last customer job, XP was still the set OS, with no Vista supported or even allowed. For the notebooks they buyed in Germany, the supplier still offered XP, but we had inquiries from South America, where the only OS available was Vista. I wonder what they will do, if the only notebooks available will no longer work with XP due to new hardware and no XP-drivers.
Even if a criminal case was warranted, what right do they have to receive information that was gained during investigation of that case?
IANAL, but as far as i understand, when a criminal charge is filed against somebody, the state attorney has to investigate, but the one who charged does not have any special rights to inquire about the findings of that investigation, at least while it's not yet before a court.
We use Notes in different localizations and apparently the admins never succeeded or never cared to prevent those stupid cascades shown in the Subject:
Also i hate those childish and early-90ties-ugly icons that Notes allows to be put into the top of the mails.
I try it. I really do. But more often than not i get negative responses for it, because people do no longer recognize the old reply-style i learned in the early nineties. They expect my text on top of theirs and don't even look below the quoted lines for additional lines.
OTOH, their's a lot of fun in reading the bottom of mails you got forwarded, because sometimes there's information hidden that wasn't intended for you, but nobody cared to delete it (or, to look for classified information and delete it, if necessary).
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Walk up to somebody in your local [insert supermarket here]. Ask them if they use Linux. Ask them if they've HEARD of Linux.
In Switzerland, the answer would probably be "yes".
See http://www.roesch-swiss.ch/?id=1159&prod_id=33 and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_(Waschmittel)
No joke, i've seen a bottle of it myself.
It would have been even more funny had you said "... being like Brian from Nazareth."
The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
Well, i don't know about downhill, but when coming up to red lights, i've been told that for modern cars it's actually more economic to not press the clutch or take the gear to neutral, but instead to just let go of the gas pedal. There is a thing called "fuel cut-off in the overrun", which for some uses less fuel than plain idling.
And don't engine brake because that is poor form and is retarded. Use your damn brakes.
But not too long and not too often, or they might overheat and fail.
Amiga OS had Stefan Becker's Toolmanager since at least 1991 http://www.memphisamigagroup.net/diskmags/199109-04/ToolManager/
Arghrr, you made me read the parent post.
Dealing with their "why does it not work", "i NEED this to work" and "it works at $home, why not $here" is not always easy.
I live in Germany where boxes like this are everywhere, at least in bigger cities and nobody seems to give a damn, they are accepted just like traffic signs or street lights. I'm pretty sure they predate "fast internet for everybody" and where there for POTS and ISDN.
it makes MS and closed source look bad [...]
People who would care about these things already use Firefox/Opera/whatever.
People who care about closed source looking bad use Opera?
Was that by any chance "iprmoetnt"? I stumbled on this, and i think it's because i had to reconstruct it to "iprmoatnt".
Why waste your time playing a game that isn't worth your money?
How do you know it isn't worth buying until you try it?
What the GP said:
I could get it for free so why pay for it? Even if it was a crappy game, I'd still get a cracked version and play it.
And that was exactly what i was thinking, why play a crappy game?
While /. headlines are often called inaccurate, this time it's not the fault of the contributor. Both versions (English and German) of the article at ccc.de claim the data was "lost".
The article on heise.de referencing this does not mention any losses.
And i thought, that the memories of the Staatssicherheit (Stasi) in the German Democratic Republic made sure we would never allow this bullshit again. The surveillance methods and the sheer amount of data accumulated (analog and on paper!) of that ministry was enormous. We'll see what Stasi 2.0 will bring.
Don't say that to Bavarians. They prefer to be known as the northernmost state of Italy.
Actually, i never heard that. What is said, though, is that Munich is the northernmost city of Italy. Because of the flair of the city and not only during the second weekend of Oktoberfest.
While i cannot cite a link for the above, google produced this article. Basically, A&F sued people importing A&F-ware themselves and selling the stuff on ebay.
http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/abercrombie-fitch-saeubert-deutschen-markt;1019558
(1) Technically she was not really sued, but IANAL, so i don't know the exact term.
At least Mac OS X has OmniGraffle, which apart from the silly name is a viable alternative for Visio, i have been told.
You're so totally right! Shining Recut was great, but i really laughed my ass of on "Top Gun Recut". And i wasn't convinced yet, watching "The Ring Recut" would have done it. Turning one of the scariest movies i've seen in recent years into a romantic drama about a dying mother ... Hilarious.
I had to read that topic about five times, before i understood what it was trying to tell me. "IDs" is just a very bad choice for a verb. I mean, every noun is verbable, but "IDs"? Why put those two letters in upper case, like in DVDs, or CDs? What's wrong with "identify"?
While big companies have volume licenses and the power to make manufacturers sell them business laptops with XP, smaller companies might not have that choice. Or, as an example, a customer where i was working until April has several branch offices in South America, India, South East Asia. These offices must adhere to company standards, but also must buy hard- and software locally. I don't know how they are going to solve that problem.
Virtualisation is nice for server consolidation, but are you really proposing having some non-computer-savvy person run XP inside Vista on a notebook?
With WinXP Prof EOL this year June, what's the alternative to Vista?
At my last customer job, XP was still the set OS, with no Vista supported or even allowed. For the notebooks they buyed in Germany, the supplier still offered XP, but we had inquiries from South America, where the only OS available was Vista. I wonder what they will do, if the only notebooks available will no longer work with XP due to new hardware and no XP-drivers.
... and nobody told me, or somebody in Germany has demanded to block youtube, too. Just timeouts here.
IANAL, but as far as i understand, when a criminal charge is filed against somebody, the state attorney has to investigate, but the one who charged does not have any special rights to inquire about the findings of that investigation, at least while it's not yet before a court.
about this. Last time they sued the one trying to use Kinder-Something.
Also i hate those childish and early-90ties-ugly icons that Notes allows to be put into the top of the mails.
OTOH, their's a lot of fun in reading the bottom of mails you got forwarded, because sometimes there's information hidden that wasn't intended for you, but nobody cared to delete it (or, to look for classified information and delete it, if necessary).