All users of any system should be wary of updates. Granted, most updates are security fixes that keep your b0xen from being pwned and as such are vital to keeping a more secure system, but all software contains bugs. Sometimes the bug is in the patch, sometimes it's in the application that breaks because it makes an incorrect assumption about the OS that is changed by an otherwise valid bugfix. Either way, every patch to any running system has the potential to break functionality that end-users or sysadmins depend on. In reality the best thing you can do is probably just remove your system from the network. Barring that maybe just keep thorough backups.
Why does a set of products communicating over power lines need a battery? I've got lots of x10 switches in my house and haven't had any problems for years, its been pretty much install and forget for me. All of my x10 devices have rotary switches under the faceplate for unit/housecode. I use a linux box to drive the automation part of the system (doubles as a mythtv box), so my housecodes are stored on disk there. My remotes have the same rotary switches as the wall switches and outlets. I never had a motion detector though. In my setup simplicity wins, pretty much everything I need can be achieved through crontabs and shell scripts.
Re:Don't they know anything about SHARING?
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King Solomon and the baby is pop-religion, anyone who's at least mildly paid attention in their life has heard the story. Its an amusing anecdote. I refer you, ironically, to the Kevin Smith movie Dogma:
Tell a person that you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.
I too get my religious views from popular culture. Its more entertaining than a dry old book written in a very dated dialect, and people get the references at parties.
True, in this country we prefer that the citizens trust the government and corporations, and the government and corporations mistrust the citizens. Fall in line if you know what is good for you.
Why would carrying a pair of pliers/knife/screwdriver be illegal anywhere? And why would you be subject to personal search anyway unless in the commission of a crime? Tis a truly strange place you live. I've carried far more dangerous things into far more security oriented places stateside, and I thought homeland security was excessive here. A utility knife is part of my required tools list for most job sites I work at. How is anyone supposed to get any work done if tools are illegal? Do you have a 7 day waiting period at your hardware stores? I shake my head in bewilderment. Call me Wonko the Sane, I think I'll be building that asylum soon.
OT, but always near the topic in this pedantic place. Your sig has been informative to me. I hate to feed grammar trolls, but up until now I have always used its and it's backwards. I thought I knew the rule and I was wrong. I looked it up, and I have been enlightened. It's still a stupid rule, and I don't agree with it, but at least I know the convention now. Thanks for making me feel stupid.
On a completely unrelated side note, the United States is probably too geographically large and sparsely populated in great expanses of land for a small mobile carrier to compete on infrastructure with the big boys. We have a well entrenched oligopoly as any mobile phone customer support representative will let you know. First hand experience has shown me that they really don't care if the customers feel they are treated unfairly. Where else are they going to get a mobile phone without a 2 year contract? I quote: "Go ahead and look. You'll be back." As long as there are Americans willing to pay $2.99 per ringtone, we will never see a cheap mobile telephone for the masses.
Its possible that you're using a different meaning of addiction than the commonly held connotation. I believe that the term addiction is as you defined it, with the added constraint that consumption causes negative side-effects which are ignored by the user in favor of continued use. An example of this would be an alcoholic who loses his job because he was unable to perform his work function while under the influence, but continues to drink anyway and continues to suffer negative consequences. It comes down to priorities, and whether harm in the eyes of the individual occurs. If the above mentioned alcoholic was not fond of his job and did not need it financially, addiction might still be an open case. In my understanding, what you defined is closer to misuse or abuse in the scale of use, misuse, abuse, addiction. Addiction could also be defined as mislabling mentally something you WANT as something you NEED.
Support free open source drivers! At least make the interface to your hardware public. Let the *nix community in general support the hardware if it wants. Selling a piece of hardware with a proprietary/closed source binary driver that only works on one OS and fails mysteriously sometimes is in my opinion selling a defective product, and I won't pay for it. "We don't support Linux" is not a viable excuse. You support computers. Play fair and let the OS support your widget by publishing proper documentation. If you also want to make a driver yourself to help sell the product, that's fine.
Re:Jupiter a better choice than Saturn in 2001
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Ed's grand theory on life, the universe, and everything:
You are made out of the dust from a star that exploded a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Many stars actually. Some of this dust happened to be in the right spot at the right time and gravitated into a big ball of dust collectively known as Earth. Another ball of dust became known as the Sun. These dustballs are related and share a similar or common origin. Some day this dust will be somewhere else, possibly someone else too. Have fun using it while you're here.
The thing is, for its size, there's a pretty large amount of commerce going through NJ. If you look at a map, you can see that its situated on some rather heavily used trade routes. Frankly, New Jersey isn't well managed, and the rights of the citizens are seriously abbridged, but it doesn't matter because of its location. As for comparing growth to neighboring states, have a look at Pennsylvania, a much freer state. This is of course assuming that the economy is everything, which it sadly is.
DC power is easier to deal with for backup redundant systems than AC. Simply put a battery (or 100 - as many as you like) in parallel and you're done. This is how telephony has always worked. Ampacity is your main concern. There are no frequency/phase angle/power factor related issues. DC is simpler than AC. The -48v in common use(actually closer to 52v, but who's counting) is safe to touch with your bare hands (although you can arc weld a screwdriver with it - melted metal==ouch). The major inconvenience is you just can't send it through a transformer. The added bonus is the internal capacitance of the batteries in parallel makes for a very stable power supply with a nice buffer for spikes/brownouts. The market for this equipment is pretty large and mature, since the entire PSTN(including all dsl service) runs on it already, and the big cable companies are migrating this way as well.
Being blind is different than being ignorant or stupid, and in any case is no excuse for not knowing your surroundings. Many people in the slashdot community make our living charging a fee for knowing more about computers, the internet or technology in general than the people we sell our services to. This knowledge comes from a significant investment in time and intellectual resources. Of all the things in the world that are or ought to be free, time is not one of them.
What good is a post like this if you're just going to post AC? You have a viewpoint, so show some backbone and show your face. Comments like this, while inflamatory and ignorant, would at least be quasi-interesting if the poster cared enough to leave his name. As it is, to me its just line noise. Anonymous opinions are rarely worth the pixels they're painted on.
Why would it need to? Simply write your brainfuck webserver to talk to standard I/O, and let inetd talk to the operating system network calls. You only need to get your program to speak HTTP (and optionally produce some coherent output in HTML) This is not impossible, just insanely difficult and masochistic.
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I'm Keith Hernandez. You insensitive clod!
All users of any system should be wary of updates. Granted, most updates are security fixes that keep your b0xen from being pwned and as such are vital to keeping a more secure system, but all software contains bugs. Sometimes the bug is in the patch, sometimes it's in the application that breaks because it makes an incorrect assumption about the OS that is changed by an otherwise valid bugfix. Either way, every patch to any running system has the potential to break functionality that end-users or sysadmins depend on. In reality the best thing you can do is probably just remove your system from the network. Barring that maybe just keep thorough backups.
del c:\windows\system32\verclsid.exe
It works.
2 cents?
Why does a set of products communicating over power lines need a battery? I've got lots of x10 switches in my house and haven't had any problems for years, its been pretty much install and forget for me. All of my x10 devices have rotary switches under the faceplate for unit/housecode. I use a linux box to drive the automation part of the system (doubles as a mythtv box), so my housecodes are stored on disk there. My remotes have the same rotary switches as the wall switches and outlets. I never had a motion detector though. In my setup simplicity wins, pretty much everything I need can be achieved through crontabs and shell scripts.
True, in this country we prefer that the citizens trust the government and corporations, and the government and corporations mistrust the citizens. Fall in line if you know what is good for you.
Why would carrying a pair of pliers/knife/screwdriver be illegal anywhere? And why would you be subject to personal search anyway unless in the commission of a crime? Tis a truly strange place you live. I've carried far more dangerous things into far more security oriented places stateside, and I thought homeland security was excessive here. A utility knife is part of my required tools list for most job sites I work at. How is anyone supposed to get any work done if tools are illegal? Do you have a 7 day waiting period at your hardware stores? I shake my head in bewilderment. Call me Wonko the Sane, I think I'll be building that asylum soon.
OT, but always near the topic in this pedantic place. Your sig has been informative to me. I hate to feed grammar trolls, but up until now I have always used its and it's backwards. I thought I knew the rule and I was wrong. I looked it up, and I have been enlightened. It's still a stupid rule, and I don't agree with it, but at least I know the convention now. Thanks for making me feel stupid. On a completely unrelated side note, the United States is probably too geographically large and sparsely populated in great expanses of land for a small mobile carrier to compete on infrastructure with the big boys. We have a well entrenched oligopoly as any mobile phone customer support representative will let you know. First hand experience has shown me that they really don't care if the customers feel they are treated unfairly. Where else are they going to get a mobile phone without a 2 year contract? I quote: "Go ahead and look. You'll be back." As long as there are Americans willing to pay $2.99 per ringtone, we will never see a cheap mobile telephone for the masses.
But only slightly less well known, is never go head to head with IBM.
Only if you have a Model-M.
Exactly how do you pronounce it anyway?
Oh, that seems much easier. 1. Create Browser 2. Create Google workalike global information service 3. Profit!
Its possible that you're using a different meaning of addiction than the commonly held connotation. I believe that the term addiction is as you defined it, with the added constraint that consumption causes negative side-effects which are ignored by the user in favor of continued use. An example of this would be an alcoholic who loses his job because he was unable to perform his work function while under the influence, but continues to drink anyway and continues to suffer negative consequences. It comes down to priorities, and whether harm in the eyes of the individual occurs. If the above mentioned alcoholic was not fond of his job and did not need it financially, addiction might still be an open case. In my understanding, what you defined is closer to misuse or abuse in the scale of use, misuse, abuse, addiction. Addiction could also be defined as mislabling mentally something you WANT as something you NEED.
Support free open source drivers! At least make the interface to your hardware public. Let the *nix community in general support the hardware if it wants. Selling a piece of hardware with a proprietary/closed source binary driver that only works on one OS and fails mysteriously sometimes is in my opinion selling a defective product, and I won't pay for it. "We don't support Linux" is not a viable excuse. You support computers. Play fair and let the OS support your widget by publishing proper documentation. If you also want to make a driver yourself to help sell the product, that's fine.
Ed's grand theory on life, the universe, and everything:
You are made out of the dust from a star that exploded a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Many stars actually. Some of this dust happened to be in the right spot at the right time and gravitated into a big ball of dust collectively known as Earth. Another ball of dust became known as the Sun. These dustballs are related and share a similar or common origin. Some day this dust will be somewhere else, possibly someone else too. Have fun using it while you're here.
The thing is, for its size, there's a pretty large amount of commerce going through NJ. If you look at a map, you can see that its situated on some rather heavily used trade routes. Frankly, New Jersey isn't well managed, and the rights of the citizens are seriously abbridged, but it doesn't matter because of its location. As for comparing growth to neighboring states, have a look at Pennsylvania, a much freer state. This is of course assuming that the economy is everything, which it sadly is.
Food, electricity, gas, bah! If I were the engineers I'd start working on Mr. Fusion.
Maybe, but I thought they smelled bad... on the outside!
DC power is easier to deal with for backup redundant systems than AC. Simply put a battery (or 100 - as many as you like) in parallel and you're done. This is how telephony has always worked. Ampacity is your main concern. There are no frequency/phase angle/power factor related issues. DC is simpler than AC. The -48v in common use(actually closer to 52v, but who's counting) is safe to touch with your bare hands (although you can arc weld a screwdriver with it - melted metal==ouch). The major inconvenience is you just can't send it through a transformer. The added bonus is the internal capacitance of the batteries in parallel makes for a very stable power supply with a nice buffer for spikes/brownouts. The market for this equipment is pretty large and mature, since the entire PSTN(including all dsl service) runs on it already, and the big cable companies are migrating this way as well.
Being blind is different than being ignorant or stupid, and in any case is no excuse for not knowing your surroundings. Many people in the slashdot community make our living charging a fee for knowing more about computers, the internet or technology in general than the people we sell our services to. This knowledge comes from a significant investment in time and intellectual resources. Of all the things in the world that are or ought to be free, time is not one of them.
Yeah, and the nazis had pieces of flare too. Hey my comment is just as relevant as yours!
Theah is sahmthing wrong with youah sense of humah circuit. Perhaps You need more powah!!!
What good is a post like this if you're just going to post AC? You have a viewpoint, so show some backbone and show your face. Comments like this, while inflamatory and ignorant, would at least be quasi-interesting if the poster cared enough to leave his name. As it is, to me its just line noise. Anonymous opinions are rarely worth the pixels they're painted on.
Why would it need to? Simply write your brainfuck webserver to talk to standard I/O, and let inetd talk to the operating system network calls. You only need to get your program to speak HTTP (and optionally produce some coherent output in HTML) This is not impossible, just insanely difficult and masochistic.