Even if it turns out that it is, in fact, a pyramid, there's no reason to think it's related to the ones in Egypt. If you want to build a large structure using only neolithic or Copper Age tech a pyramid is about your only real choice. You don't have the materials or the tools to build large hollow structures or ones that will remain standing for centuries without repair. Yes, the Romans and Carthaginians built six and seven story apartment buildings, but where are they today? That's why you see pyramids in Mexico and Central America, and why the ziggaruts were roughly pyramidal in shape.
How many tech support reps do you know that could have found the files in the Recycling Bin through DOS, got them back where they belonged and renamed. (The files have arbatrary names in the Recycling Bin, not their original ones.) The day I did that there were well over 100 techs working. Of them, I knew of three who might have been able to figure out how I did it. Not one of them had a clue until I explained. This wasn't OEM support, it was ISP support and few, if any of the techs had enough interest in and knowlege of Windows Intternals to have pulled it off. It wasn't just using the resuce floppy, it was knowing what to do once you had the system booted from it. In the 7+ years I was there, I never heard of another case of a tech doing something like this. It may sound easy now, but remember: when I did it, I had to find out one step at a time what I had to work with and then work out what I could do with what I had. The real shame is, the caller never even thanked me.
If you need training as well, admin and tech positions are possibly the worst to train for. This is by far the most competitve market out there. Why? Because it mostly involves training and not that much critical thinking.
I take it you've either never done tech support, or you've only done it by reading one cheat-sheet after another by guess and by golly until one of them works. Yes, there are far too many "tech support reps" out there doing exactly that, but once you get into Tier II, it's a whole different ball game.
Senior positions in tech support are for those of us who understand the software, the hardware and the protocols involved. We have to look at the whole situation, see what the junior techs have done, and figure out why what they did failed. Sometimes, it's because they insisted on trying the same wrong thing over and over instead of Doing The right Thing. Often, it isn't. Then we have to find a solution on our own, without any cheat-sheets to guide us and make them work.
I once had a caller's Win98 box crash at exactly the wrong time when we were uninstalling/reinstalling Dial-up Networking, and it wouldn't boot. Not into Windows, not into Safe Mode, not into DOS. Normally, about the only thing you can do is have them reinstall Windows, and that's what a Tier I tech would have done. By luck, the caller had an emergency boot floppy. We were able to get into DOS, but even so, Windows wouldn't start. I talked her through getting into the directory containing the Recycling Bin, moving two deleted files back to where they belonged and giving them back their proper names. Now, we could get back into Windows and try again. This time, it went fine.
If I hadn't been skilled at critical thinking, I doubt I'd ever have come up with that, and the caller would have ended up wasting time reinstalling. Yes, that's an extreme case, but over the years I could probably come up with hundreds of stories where critical thinking was vital in my work.
Right now, I'm using Win98SE and Linux. I just upgraded from RedHat 9 to FC 5. Under either version, I can mount my Windows drive, but no matter what arguments I give mount, it's still read only. So far, I haven't been able to find the magic incantation to allow write access to my FAT32 partition from Linux. Yes, I can put the files on my flash drive if they'll fit, but I shouldn't have to.
Your point about registration providing timing is good, and I hadn't thought of it. However, I never wrote that you can't enforce your copyright in court without registration, just that it provides further proof and makes winning easier. I don't think there's any action you can't take to protect your work without it.
You don't even need to spend the $20. As soon as you complete a work, it's copyrighted. All registering it does is makes it easier to prove plagiarism in court.
Why bother? It still wouldn't hold up in court. There are too many precedents of it not being allowed for any judge to rule otherwise. Nice idea, though.
If your really worried about what you are working on and want it to becme public domain very cheaply, stick a copy of everythig into an envelope and mail it to your self, that way if a company tries to claim if for their own sue them and pull out the postmarked envelope as evidence and bam, thats all the proof any judge will need.
That's "the poor man's copyright," and it's not worth the cost of the stamp. There's no way of proving there was anything in the envelope when it was sealed; you could have mailed yourself an unsealed envelope and filled it later. If you try to use this, you'll be laughed out of court. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
One of the reasons I suggested Linux is that if a CD bootable Windows system used any of the hard disk's system software, it'd be compromised. I wasn't sure if there was a CD bootable XP (or 2000) system that was sufficiantly self-contained, but I knew there are Linux distros that can do it. Thanx for letting me know.
But as soon as the HR person is gone, the manager of the department says you don't get any breaks.
"May I have that in writing please?"
Most managers will back down at that point. If he/she is stupid enough to comply, make sure it's signed, then take it to HR. Either the manager is told to follow policy or you end up with a new, probably better manager.
S see no reason a Windows rootkit detector couldn't be written to run under Linux from a bootable CD. Then, you don't have to remove the hard drive. Not sure if it's proof against a rogue-flashed BIOS, but it should work against most of them.
Thank you, I sit corrected. I do know that until fairly recently these cards were problematical under Linux, but I don't have one and hadn't kept up with the issue.
Yes, stumbled, while looking for some ordinary, every-day, garden-variety pr0n. I clicked on a picture, and the site it lead to had kiddy porn instead of adult. What's wrong with that?
Where is all this mystical child porn anyway? I'm online all day and I've never seen any.
You don't want to. I've stumbled on some a few times (and updated my hosts file to make sure I never reach those sites again) and believe me, you really, really don't want to!
My computer doesn't have any weird stuff, and the video card is a nvidia 5500, which I would consider fairly mainstream, yet it took me 2 nights dicking around to make it work (in 3D, at least).
I'm not a Linux guru, but I do know why you had so much trouble. Nvidia drivers are proprietary and Windows only. People are working on reverse-engineering them, and have (more-or-less) working drivers, but the project is still going on. If they had access to the specs (Not the code, mind you, just the specs.) things would go a lot faster, but even those are closed. They'll have them working, eventually, but until they do, getting those cards working with any Linux distro is going to be hard. If you want to complain, and you should, do so to the OEM. If enough customers do, they might be more cooperative, although I doubt it.
This is plainly and simply wrong. While no one way may be intrinsically any better than the others, making things different just for the sake of it adds no value at all and smacks of developer arrogance to me. All it does is confuse users - which no doubt feeds that arrogance and sense of being "733t".
And that, ladies, gentlemen, geeks and geekettes is the great value of the Microsoft "look and feel." All Winderz programs have their menus in the same place, in the same order, and the keyboard shortcuts are all the same. If you know how to use Winderz at all, you can probably find your way around any Winderz program well enough to get started using it.
Say what you want about the Evil Empire of Redomond, they do Get Things Right on occasion, and this was one of them.
To me, this is almost as bad as the stupid myth that two photons cannot pass eachother at relative velocity greater than C.
It's obvious you know so little about Relativity that you have no idea how ignorant you are. Velocities don't add by simple arithmatic at relativistic speeds; they add in such a way that the total never exceeds c. Thus, two photons, each travelling at c in opposite directions have a relative velocity of c, no matter how counter-intuitive it seems.
In my opinion, the fact that they measured a difference confirms my suspicion that they will not necessarily be the same.
Your ignorant opinion is wrong. As red shift is a function of velocity, all the lines in a hydrogen atom's spectrum will be shifted by exactly the same ammount. I realize this is Slashdot, but try to learn something about the subject before you post.
Please, don't fall prey to this very clever scheme. I'll bet you really are still conservative, and your boss was just plain loony. By the way, the L folks are just as guilty but not quite as good at this particular game.
Actually, at the time I just thought I wasn't quite as conservative as I thought. It was only years later that I took an on-line test that showed me to be a moderate. Thinking it over, it seems reasonable, as I have some views that are considered liberal, slightly more conservative, and most rather middle-of-the-road. However, you were right one one thing: my boss was a loony.
Thank you, I hadn't seen that. However, there's a check box marked "Repeat my answer every time this occurs" and checking that might stop it from asking. Of course, the average computer user wouldn't have noticed it any more than the reviewer did.
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Even if it turns out that it is, in fact, a pyramid, there's no reason to think it's related to the ones in Egypt. If you want to build a large structure using only neolithic or Copper Age tech a pyramid is about your only real choice. You don't have the materials or the tools to build large hollow structures or ones that will remain standing for centuries without repair. Yes, the Romans and Carthaginians built six and seven story apartment buildings, but where are they today? That's why you see pyramids in Mexico and Central America, and why the ziggaruts were roughly pyramidal in shape.
How many tech support reps do you know that could have found the files in the Recycling Bin through DOS, got them back where they belonged and renamed. (The files have arbatrary names in the Recycling Bin, not their original ones.) The day I did that there were well over 100 techs working. Of them, I knew of three who might have been able to figure out how I did it. Not one of them had a clue until I explained. This wasn't OEM support, it was ISP support and few, if any of the techs had enough interest in and knowlege of Windows Intternals to have pulled it off. It wasn't just using the resuce floppy, it was knowing what to do once you had the system booted from it. In the 7+ years I was there, I never heard of another case of a tech doing something like this. It may sound easy now, but remember: when I did it, I had to find out one step at a time what I had to work with and then work out what I could do with what I had. The real shame is, the caller never even thanked me.
I take it you've either never done tech support, or you've only done it by reading one cheat-sheet after another by guess and by golly until one of them works. Yes, there are far too many "tech support reps" out there doing exactly that, but once you get into Tier II, it's a whole different ball game.
Senior positions in tech support are for those of us who understand the software, the hardware and the protocols involved. We have to look at the whole situation, see what the junior techs have done, and figure out why what they did failed. Sometimes, it's because they insisted on trying the same wrong thing over and over instead of Doing The right Thing. Often, it isn't. Then we have to find a solution on our own, without any cheat-sheets to guide us and make them work.
I once had a caller's Win98 box crash at exactly the wrong time when we were uninstalling/reinstalling Dial-up Networking, and it wouldn't boot. Not into Windows, not into Safe Mode, not into DOS. Normally, about the only thing you can do is have them reinstall Windows, and that's what a Tier I tech would have done. By luck, the caller had an emergency boot floppy. We were able to get into DOS, but even so, Windows wouldn't start. I talked her through getting into the directory containing the Recycling Bin, moving two deleted files back to where they belonged and giving them back their proper names. Now, we could get back into Windows and try again. This time, it went fine.
If I hadn't been skilled at critical thinking, I doubt I'd ever have come up with that, and the caller would have ended up wasting time reinstalling. Yes, that's an extreme case, but over the years I could probably come up with hundreds of stories where critical thinking was vital in my work.
The other suggestion I was given didn't work, but this one did. Thanx!
No, it didn't do any better than -w did. Thanx anyway...
That's two possible fixes. Will try. Again, thanx.
I've tried -t msdos -w and -t vfat -w but not that. Next time I'm in Linux, I will. Who knows, it might owrk! Thanx.
This is exactly why my desktop still uses Win98 SE.
Right now, I'm using Win98SE and Linux. I just upgraded from RedHat 9 to FC 5. Under either version, I can mount my Windows drive, but no matter what arguments I give mount, it's still read only. So far, I haven't been able to find the magic incantation to allow write access to my FAT32 partition from Linux. Yes, I can put the files on my flash drive if they'll fit, but I shouldn't have to.
Your point about registration providing timing is good, and I hadn't thought of it. However, I never wrote that you can't enforce your copyright in court without registration, just that it provides further proof and makes winning easier. I don't think there's any action you can't take to protect your work without it.
You don't even need to spend the $20. As soon as you complete a work, it's copyrighted. All registering it does is makes it easier to prove plagiarism in court.
Why bother? It still wouldn't hold up in court. There are too many precedents of it not being allowed for any judge to rule otherwise. Nice idea, though.
That's "the poor man's copyright," and it's not worth the cost of the stamp. There's no way of proving there was anything in the envelope when it was sealed; you could have mailed yourself an unsealed envelope and filled it later. If you try to use this, you'll be laughed out of court. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
One of the reasons I suggested Linux is that if a CD bootable Windows system used any of the hard disk's system software, it'd be compromised. I wasn't sure if there was a CD bootable XP (or 2000) system that was sufficiantly self-contained, but I knew there are Linux distros that can do it. Thanx for letting me know.
"May I have that in writing please?"
Most managers will back down at that point. If he/she is stupid enough to comply, make sure it's signed, then take it to HR. Either the manager is told to follow policy or you end up with a new, probably better manager.
S see no reason a Windows rootkit detector couldn't be written to run under Linux from a bootable CD. Then, you don't have to remove the hard drive. Not sure if it's proof against a rogue-flashed BIOS, but it should work against most of them.
Thank you, I sit corrected. I do know that until fairly recently these cards were problematical under Linux, but I don't have one and hadn't kept up with the issue.
Yes, stumbled, while looking for some ordinary, every-day, garden-variety pr0n. I clicked on a picture, and the site it lead to had kiddy porn instead of adult. What's wrong with that?
You don't want to. I've stumbled on some a few times (and updated my hosts file to make sure I never reach those sites again) and believe me, you really, really don't want to!
I'm not a Linux guru, but I do know why you had so much trouble. Nvidia drivers are proprietary and Windows only. People are working on reverse-engineering them, and have (more-or-less) working drivers, but the project is still going on. If they had access to the specs (Not the code, mind you, just the specs.) things would go a lot faster, but even those are closed. They'll have them working, eventually, but until they do, getting those cards working with any Linux distro is going to be hard. If you want to complain, and you should, do so to the OEM. If enough customers do, they might be more cooperative, although I doubt it.
And that, ladies, gentlemen, geeks and geekettes is the great value of the Microsoft "look and feel." All Winderz programs have their menus in the same place, in the same order, and the keyboard shortcuts are all the same. If you know how to use Winderz at all, you can probably find your way around any Winderz program well enough to get started using it.
Say what you want about the Evil Empire of Redomond, they do Get Things Right on occasion, and this was one of them.
We are the Vogons. Resistance is *USELESS!*
It's obvious you know so little about Relativity that you have no idea how ignorant you are. Velocities don't add by simple arithmatic at relativistic speeds; they add in such a way that the total never exceeds c. Thus, two photons, each travelling at c in opposite directions have a relative velocity of c, no matter how counter-intuitive it seems.
In my opinion, the fact that they measured a difference confirms my suspicion that they will not necessarily be the same.
Your ignorant opinion is wrong. As red shift is a function of velocity, all the lines in a hydrogen atom's spectrum will be shifted by exactly the same ammount. I realize this is Slashdot, but try to learn something about the subject before you post.
Actually, at the time I just thought I wasn't quite as conservative as I thought. It was only years later that I took an on-line test that showed me to be a moderate. Thinking it over, it seems reasonable, as I have some views that are considered liberal, slightly more conservative, and most rather middle-of-the-road. However, you were right one one thing: my boss was a loony.
Thank you, I hadn't seen that. However, there's a check box marked "Repeat my answer every time this occurs" and checking that might stop it from asking. Of course, the average computer user wouldn't have noticed it any more than the reviewer did.