Funny thing - I don't know if it's been mentioned already. Grabbing the model name, pumping it into Google and after "feeling Lucky", the first thing I see is:
As a lowly emplyee, I highly respect the fact you are doing this. Congrats!
I've been at the same job for 3 1/2 years and three years ago I received about $400 I believe, and then $0 and $0, even though I got 'promoted' and we're making more money. It's a small company and I feel like shit because I also probably haven't received a raise in that long as well. Anyways,/end rant
Correct! I mean, I thought that just through my normal buying habits I would come across it eventually (DVD Player, Remote Controls, Cell phones(all-end, not just high-end), printers, cameras, etc. But it turns out that my first bluetooth device I bought (not to mention the only) is the HP iPaq that I purchased TWO WEEKS ago!!
Please don't tell me it's dead, I haven't even had a chance to use the damn protocol yet!
I have friends who design embedded systems that showed be some cool bluetooth-enabled devices back in 2000 and they said that as far as manufactuing goes, it's cheap like borscht(sp?) to include, so what's the problem? Why haven't I 'naturally' acquired this technology up to now like I did USB? It sounds great and always has! (remember that I only own ONE device, so I can't even use it yet)/end rant.
well just for the hell of it I called SCO (Or S.C.O. according to their switchboard) do the usual, press here for product or purchasing info, press there for a representative....
Well when I got the guy, I basically inquired about the 'sco/linux' licenses that I keep hearing about on the news.
him: "What do you need to know?" him: "Have you read the press release?" him: "Have you seen the lawsuit information?"
Me: "I don't have internet access, I just wanted to know what I need to buy so I don't get in trouble. Can you please mail(snail) me the license agreement, some product information, and purchasing information so I can send you a cheque?"
Him: "...?"
EOF
He didn't know what to say. Apparently a sales rep will call me back, but all I want is something on paper that says what this license _is_.
How come if you called anyone else and said "I want to purchase a license for this software" They would jump on it and get your CC# when all SCO is doing is going on and on about lawsuits? This has to be a joke.
Not peanut butter, but if it smells like burnt peanuts, then it's most likely a blown capacitor. Burnt peanuts smell nothing like peanut butter, so I don't think you should be in a hurry to open 'er up. but you never know...
Well then they better change the ads. On every page, there's a big animated gif ad for 'American Singles' asking ARE YOU SINGLE? Yes! Of course I'm single! I'm reading this fscking article! Do they think I could get a date? hrmmph.
Agreed. If you are directing signals at my head then telling me to pay $uch and $uch per month, FUCK YOU! I can either do that, (for ease of use, additional benefits, etc) or I can make my own equipment (or use my buddies) and decode it inside my house. If I paid shipping for a card that allows me to decode these signals beaming to my house from above, then who's to stop me? If some guy sends me a card and software to 'test', then what are you going to do to him? ARGHHHH... end rant
ok. I've bene busted for stealing cable a few times. My point was this: "$40/mth and 200 houses on my street? I don't think they'll care" Well, it worked fine, for three years after that fateful night of crawling up the pole, we had cable. Free cable. a couple of months ago, when the people downstairs bought cable to get pay-per-view (we were feeding them free cable) all hell broke loose. I came home to a stack of cable service brochures. $80/mth for this, $50/mth for that, Bull Shit. Now they wanted me to pay for something I had for free the last couple of years.
Long RANTING story short, I kept splicing the cable line going downstairs and removing the splitter 'blocker', but every three days they'd come by and check the line. Before getting the cops invoved, my roomies actually bought cable. Moral of the story? I was fuckign with their lines. On the poles. I'll be the first to admit that its a crime (and yes, when I move, I WILL do it again) ubt decoding cable signals that are beaming into my house from sattelites? c'mon, give me a break. I don't care how many people they were distributing the hard/software to.
"Do you OSS folks actually read through every line of source before you build something big like Apache or Squid or SAMBA, just to make sure noone has altered the code?"
No. But I do check the md5 checksums that I get from at least 2 or 3 different sources. Especially with server software like Apache, Squid or SAMBA.
Do you Closed-Sourced folks trust whatever gets shoved down your throat?
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I'm with you man. For the better part of a decade, my signature on /. has been the following:
I will take my chances. You can ride your bike.
What's the quality of the copies like?
Don't worry. Just be content that your story made it to the front page. Some people will bitch about articles regardless.
I can see the tweets now.
Wow. Mod parent up - Informative.
Just download the latest version of LOIC and join the fun.
I just purchased it. Mostly for the reasons you mentioned.
I'm more interested in the rings.
Funny thing - I don't know if it's been mentioned already. Grabbing the model name, pumping it into Google and after "feeling Lucky", the first thing I see is:
C ompaq+nx5000&btnG=Google+Search 6 0_na/11860_na.HTML
/. article.
HP recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional
See for yourself:
Google result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=HP+
Hp's page:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/118
It's funny how you only notice these things after reading a relevant
As a lowly emplyee, I highly respect the fact you are doing this. Congrats!
/end rant
I've been at the same job for 3 1/2 years and three years ago I received about $400 I believe, and then $0 and $0, even though I got 'promoted' and we're making more money. It's a small company and I feel like shit because I also probably haven't received a raise in that long as well. Anyways,
$1500 sounds awsome!
Correct! I mean, I thought that just through my normal buying habits I would come across it eventually (DVD Player, Remote Controls, Cell phones(all-end, not just high-end), printers, cameras, etc. But it turns out that my first bluetooth device I bought (not to mention the only) is the HP iPaq that I purchased TWO WEEKS ago!!
/end rant.
Please don't tell me it's dead, I haven't even had a chance to use the damn protocol yet!
I have friends who design embedded systems that showed be some cool bluetooth-enabled devices back in 2000 and they said that as far as manufactuing goes, it's cheap like borscht(sp?) to include, so what's the problem? Why haven't I 'naturally' acquired this technology up to now like I did USB? It sounds great and always has! (remember that I only own ONE device, so I can't even use it yet)
;) hehe,
You're asking someone who just walked in 32 minutes late; yet still has time to post to slashdot.
gotta go.
well just for the hell of it I called SCO (Or S.C.O. according to their switchboard) do the usual, press here for product or purchasing info, press there for a representative....
Well when I got the guy, I basically inquired about the 'sco/linux' licenses that I keep hearing about on the news.
him: "What do you need to know?"
him: "Have you read the press release?"
him: "Have you seen the lawsuit information?"
Me: "I don't have internet access, I just wanted to know what I need to buy so I don't get in trouble. Can you please mail(snail) me the license agreement, some product information, and purchasing information so I can send you a cheque?"
Him: "...?"
EOF
He didn't know what to say. Apparently a sales rep will call me back, but all I want is something on paper that says what this license _is_.
How come if you called anyone else and said "I want to purchase a license for this software" They would jump on it and get your CC# when all SCO is doing is going on and on about lawsuits? This has to be a joke.
Ok. end rant.
I can't believe your favourites are 'Ruby Orange' or 'Mutley Sleeps'. If I was you, I'd definately be telling people to google for the Tit Tree
Dang.
Not peanut butter, but if it smells like burnt peanuts, then it's most likely a blown capacitor. Burnt peanuts smell nothing like peanut butter, so I don't think you should be in a hurry to open 'er up. but you never know...
"Has anyone else been bitten by antisocial hardware?"
Yup. Two(ish) words:
Win.Modems
These don't happen to be the same environmentalists that made us recycle everything in the first place, do they?
end rant
fheeeww! When I saw '46 of 58 comments', I was hoping someone would crack a Roswell joke.
Props to you.
Thanks Cliff, now everyone knows Osama's slashdot nick.
This should work, but it probably goes against several RFC's..
;)
hehe.. That's my favourite quote. The tasks I'm given at work require that I say that every other day. I thought I was the only one.
Well then they better change the ads. On every page, there's a big animated gif ad for 'American Singles' asking ARE YOU SINGLE? Yes! Of course I'm single! I'm reading this fscking article! Do they think I could get a date? hrmmph.
Damn Marketers.
Agreed. If you are directing signals at my head then telling me to pay $uch and $uch per month, FUCK YOU! I can either do that, (for ease of use, additional benefits, etc) or I can make my own equipment (or use my buddies) and decode it inside my house. If I paid shipping for a card that allows me to decode these signals beaming to my house from above, then who's to stop me? If some guy sends me a card and software to 'test', then what are you going to do to him? ARGHHHH... end rant
ok. I've bene busted for stealing cable a few times. My point was this: "$40/mth and 200 houses on my street? I don't think they'll care" Well, it worked fine, for three years after that fateful night of crawling up the pole, we had cable. Free cable. a couple of months ago, when the people downstairs bought cable to get pay-per-view (we were feeding them free cable) all hell broke loose. I came home to a stack of cable service brochures. $80/mth for this, $50/mth for that, Bull Shit. Now they wanted me to pay for something I had for free the last couple of years.
Long RANTING story short, I kept splicing the cable line going downstairs and removing the splitter 'blocker', but every three days they'd come by and check the line. Before getting the cops invoved, my roomies actually bought cable. Moral of the story? I was fuckign with their lines. On the poles. I'll be the first to admit that its a crime (and yes, when I move, I WILL do it again) ubt decoding cable signals that are beaming into my house from sattelites? c'mon, give me a break. I don't care how many people they were distributing the hard/software to.
I need a beer. I doubt any of that made sense.
Ok. I think I figured it out.
.CA
.COM
.ORG?
Microsoft puts the "." in
Sun puts the "." in
PostgreSQL puts the "E_fatalError - Database error" in
I have a test on this tomorrow, so I just wanted to make sure.
laugh.
"Do you OSS folks actually read through every line of source before you build something big like Apache or Squid or SAMBA, just to make sure noone has altered the code?"
No. But I do check the md5 checksums that I get from at least 2 or 3 different sources. Especially with server software like Apache, Squid or SAMBA.
Do you Closed-Sourced folks trust whatever gets shoved down your throat?