How often did the phone network go out? How often does your Internet connection go out. I can't remember a single time when the phone system was out without there being a huge disaster in the area, but in the last year, I have probably had almost a month of total downtime, twice the length of downtime was almost a week. I don't live in the boondocks either, my ISP, a national cable provider here is based in the city I live in.
Downtime and access to 911 is a huge potential problem, and I suspect that while people are happy to work around a Internet blackout, the first time it happens to their phone line, they'll drop the service.
Think of it this way. With this settlement between Novell and Microsoft, Novell no longer has a problem with whatever MS was doing, they just settle it after all. Therefore, as an acknowledgement of that fact they withdraw all their ations against Microsoft. Nothing illegal has occured and only people who look for excuses to proclaim MS evil will see anything wrong with that.
There is a difference between what is allowed and what is company policy. Microsoft is attempting to avoid even the appearance of taking code improperly. I can understand why, and I think that its a good idea.
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I know its been said, but you do know that the programmers don't write the story except in the smallest of game projects right? Just like the actor doesn't usually write their lines, there is a professional writer or team of writers making this up.
Good comedy is not funny just once. How often will you throw in a comedy into the vcr/dvd you've seen a hundred times and laugh just as hard as you did the first time? If it was well written and done write, you'll do it every time. Most games do not fall into the well written category.
Then instead of being impressed with these 'reasonable' prices for a system with a free OS compared to one with a non-free OS, wouldn't it be more surprising that they don't offer them at lower prices since they didn't have to pay anything for the OS, lowering their costs?
FF Tactics, parts of X and X-2 were not done by Uematsu but the atmosphere did not suffer at all. Personally I feel that Tactics was one of the best in the series, and the change in the style of the music went well with the change in game play. Square has shown that they can find good people to continue on with what they've built up, so I doubt there is much to worry about.
ATA and I believe SATA as well are rated at the burst speed for sending data. That means that the x MB/s they are rated at is not what it is going to sustain for large transfers. SCSI on the other hand will sustain very close to what its rated at for transfer speed. So when you just need a colossal amount of data to be stored, you can get a way with a RAID 5 of ATA/SATA drives, since they also have a tendency to fail more often. However if your doing something thats going to be accessed a whole lot and sending data, esp large amounts of data, say something like roaming profiles, you use a SCSI based solution.
I believe it was because the BSD Daemon is more closely associated with FreeBSD and the NetBSD team wanted something that was more their own. Some one also pointed out the 'raising the flag over iwo jima' might have been a touchy point for some people, especially as NetBSD moves more and more into corporate environments around the world.
BTW some people that believe in the Bible and are Christians actually do have a sense of humour. I personally painted the little devil guy onto my FreeBSD system.
Explain to me how you could be the Security admin if you did not have authority to enforce the security policy? How would you you get users to use 8 character alpha-numeric passwords if you didn't have the power to click that checkbox? How would you limit Internet traffic if you couldn't alter the firewall/proxy rules. How would you scan for viruses if you don't have the authority to scan incoming email? To actually do the job of Security Admin, you must have the authority to enforce all security related policies, and obviously you would either be the one setting those policies, or you would have to be a member of the group that does. An IT department that does not have authority to make changes or enforce procedures is useless.
Its a joke, but since you feel like taking it seriously...
...and it's stupid. It's insulting to the hard work by the <insert car manufacturer> to imply that a) <insert car manufacturer> is the only car manufacturer that has a few vocal-but-clueless users mixed in with the friendly, intelligent, and helpful ones, and that b) just because these vocal-but-cluesless(sic) users don't have a good reason for using <insert car manufacturer> means that there is none.
See I can make the same argument for ricers. Except ricers are idiots because its all for show and they think that it makes them something special. In the same vein, your 'vocal-but-cluesless users'(sic) are also idiots because not only are they simply doing this for show because they thing it makes them 31337, but they have somehow convinced themselves that they are the only people who have the right to use Linux, and they are very loud about spreading that. So yes, the very vocal gentoo users are not just clueless, they're also complete idiots, and have a great deal in common with ricers. Did you actually read some of those comments?
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Why? Exactly what problem does broadband solve that not having it is such a problem?
No dependencies was actually the whole reason I switched to Slackware in the first place, but more importantly does Vector have PAM by default or did they follow Slacks lead on this too and not include PAM?
I don't see how simply having a centralized 'This app needs Admin access' form makes it any harder to write malware for a system, any app could trigger that function and make the request. Windows also has a single Ask for Admin form, all you have to do to trigger it is name an application setup.exe and it will ask if you want to run it as Administrator or not and I'm sure thats not the only way.
Malware is hard to code on Linux and *BSD not because of some standard or non-standard way of asking for access, but because of years of very intelligent people asking themselves how can we safely do that. OS X's polished GUI functions are over and above that to present the nice base OS in a non-threatening way.
I thought FFX was a lot of fun to play, and the story made a lot more sense then 7's did, so I don't see why you'd say FFX fell far short. I've only just finished one chapter of X-2, and while I haven't had the same level of interest as I did playing X, its still a good Final Fantasy game.
This is what I used to install Solaris from a Slackware system. The instructions are for Solaris 8 and if I remember there was a little problem, but between this and the script that is on the install CD to setup a Solaris Netboot server, you should have enough documentation to get it running.
KDE-Look.org is what your looking for. KDE icons, window manager themes, karamba themes, wallpapers, splash screens and a bunch of other stuff for customizing the look of KDE past the default thats included, there are pages upon pages of Icon themes. If you don't find anything you like, are you sure your not just trying hard to hate KDE to be part of the elite 'I don't like KDE its for n00bs' club.
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How often did the phone network go out? How often does your Internet connection go out. I can't remember a single time when the phone system was out without there being a huge disaster in the area, but in the last year, I have probably had almost a month of total downtime, twice the length of downtime was almost a week. I don't live in the boondocks either, my ISP, a national cable provider here is based in the city I live in.
Downtime and access to 911 is a huge potential problem, and I suspect that while people are happy to work around a Internet blackout, the first time it happens to their phone line, they'll drop the service.
I believe that singles were often 45's.
/Too young to remember.
Think of it this way. With this settlement between Novell and Microsoft, Novell no longer has a problem with whatever MS was doing, they just settle it after all. Therefore, as an acknowledgement of that fact they withdraw all their ations against Microsoft. Nothing illegal has occured and only people who look for excuses to proclaim MS evil will see anything wrong with that.
I don't know about this on, but with the Shuttle SFF PC's you can get beefier power supplies if your setup requires it.
There is always a need to be secure.
There is a difference between what is allowed and what is company policy. Microsoft is attempting to avoid even the appearance of taking code improperly. I can understand why, and I think that its a good idea.
I know its been said, but you do know that the programmers don't write the story except in the smallest of game projects right? Just like the actor doesn't usually write their lines, there is a professional writer or team of writers making this up.
Good comedy is not funny just once. How often will you throw in a comedy into the vcr/dvd you've seen a hundred times and laugh just as hard as you did the first time? If it was well written and done write, you'll do it every time. Most games do not fall into the well written category.
Then instead of being impressed with these 'reasonable' prices for a system with a free OS compared to one with a non-free OS, wouldn't it be more surprising that they don't offer them at lower prices since they didn't have to pay anything for the OS, lowering their costs?
FF Tactics, parts of X and X-2 were not done by Uematsu but the atmosphere did not suffer at all. Personally I feel that Tactics was one of the best in the series, and the change in the style of the music went well with the change in game play. Square has shown that they can find good people to continue on with what they've built up, so I doubt there is much to worry about.
ATA and I believe SATA as well are rated at the burst speed for sending data. That means that the x MB/s they are rated at is not what it is going to sustain for large transfers. SCSI on the other hand will sustain very close to what its rated at for transfer speed. So when you just need a colossal amount of data to be stored, you can get a way with a RAID 5 of ATA/SATA drives, since they also have a tendency to fail more often. However if your doing something thats going to be accessed a whole lot and sending data, esp large amounts of data, say something like roaming profiles, you use a SCSI based solution.
I believe it was because the BSD Daemon is more closely associated with FreeBSD and the NetBSD team wanted something that was more their own. Some one also pointed out the 'raising the flag over iwo jima' might have been a touchy point for some people, especially as NetBSD moves more and more into corporate environments around the world.
BTW some people that believe in the Bible and are Christians actually do have a sense of humour. I personally painted the little devil guy onto my FreeBSD system.
Explain to me how you could be the Security admin if you did not have authority to enforce the security policy? How would you you get users to use 8 character alpha-numeric passwords if you didn't have the power to click that checkbox? How would you limit Internet traffic if you couldn't alter the firewall/proxy rules. How would you scan for viruses if you don't have the authority to scan incoming email? To actually do the job of Security Admin, you must have the authority to enforce all security related policies, and obviously you would either be the one setting those policies, or you would have to be a member of the group that does. An IT department that does not have authority to make changes or enforce procedures is useless.
Why? Exactly what problem does broadband solve that not having it is such a problem?
No dependencies was actually the whole reason I switched to Slackware in the first place, but more importantly does Vector have PAM by default or did they follow Slacks lead on this too and not include PAM?
Probably get more work done.
Maybe they hope that if they say it enough, one year they might be right and they can hold themselves up as visionaries or something.
Same things I did on it before I was connected to the internet.
I don't see how simply having a centralized 'This app needs Admin access' form makes it any harder to write malware for a system, any app could trigger that function and make the request. Windows also has a single Ask for Admin form, all you have to do to trigger it is name an application setup.exe and it will ask if you want to run it as Administrator or not and I'm sure thats not the only way.
Malware is hard to code on Linux and *BSD not because of some standard or non-standard way of asking for access, but because of years of very intelligent people asking themselves how can we safely do that. OS X's polished GUI functions are over and above that to present the nice base OS in a non-threatening way.
the interesting thing about Titan is that the cloud cover which should be methane seems to be composed of something else, altogether
the interesting thing about Titan is that the cloud cover which should be methane seems to be composed of something else
I thought FFX was a lot of fun to play, and the story made a lot more sense then 7's did, so I don't see why you'd say FFX fell far short. I've only just finished one chapter of X-2, and while I haven't had the same level of interest as I did playing X, its still a good Final Fantasy game.
This is what I used to install Solaris from a Slackware system. The instructions are for Solaris 8 and if I remember there was a little problem, but between this and the script that is on the install CD to setup a Solaris Netboot server, you should have enough documentation to get it running.
Where exactly do you work?
Bahamut's a lawyer? Wow, didn't see that coming.
KDE-Look.org is what your looking for. KDE icons, window manager themes, karamba themes, wallpapers, splash screens and a bunch of other stuff for customizing the look of KDE past the default thats included, there are pages upon pages of Icon themes. If you don't find anything you like, are you sure your not just trying hard to hate KDE to be part of the elite 'I don't like KDE its for n00bs' club.