I went through one of those wilderness survival programs, where we first hiked using packs we fashioned out of a poncho, sleeping bag, parachute cord, and seatbelt strap, then collectively pushed/pulled a wooden hand cart with all our gear (through mud, over rocks, in the snow, etc), and finally hiked the tough trails with 80lb packs. Not once the whole time did I touch one electronic device or set foot inside any kind of permanent structure.
You certainly get to know the people you're with, as well as yourself, and get quite a connection to nature and the environment around you. Drinking only water that you find in streams, lakes, and if you're thirsty enough, green, tadpole filled sludge that's collected in the bottom of a rock canyon will really give you an appreciation for tap water. That, and I can start a bow drill fire with just a shoelace and items found in nature (a rock, sage, a stick).
It was a memorable once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Why would 4X the GPUs require 65X the cooling?
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service in it's infancy. Telephone's not a perfect mechanism for emergency communications, why not just cut the telephone lines of everyone who gets infected? They shouldn't be betting on the telephone company's reliability in an emergency anyway, right?
1 OpenBSD firewall (w/ DSL modem, built-in wireless)
1 FreeBSD file server
1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (domain controller)
1 UltraSparc 10 Elite3D, running Solaris 10
1 UltraSparc 10, unused
1 Windows XP gaming machine
1 Gentoo/XP box for general computing
1 PC, unused
3 Accounts on co-located boxen: 1 Linux, 2 Windows Server (the way I use them, they're very much "on my home network")
And 1 Mac Mini, as soon as I can comfortably afford it (might have to wait 'till I leave Black Rock City)
I consider this a minimalist approach, they all have their uses.
1 OpenBSD firewall (w/ DSL modem, built-in wireless)
1 FreeBSD file server
1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (domain controller)
1 UltraSparc 10 Elite3D, running Solaris 10
1 UltraSparc 10, unused
1 Windows XP gaming machine
1 Gentoo/XP box for general computing
1 PC, unused
3 Accounts on co-located boxen: 1 Linux, 2 Windows Server (the way I use them, they're very much "on my home network")
And 1 Mac Mini, as soon as I can comfortably afford it (might have to wait 'till I leave Black Rock City)
I consider this a minimalist approach, they all have their uses.
For what it's worth, one reason that HTML email is more widely accepted is that many clients turn off image rendering and javascript and other "bad" things by default. This leaves the remaining message pretty benign.
...and pretty UGLY. Text that doesn't line up, placeholder boxes for missing imges, pretty much something I'd delete immediately 100 times out of 100.
I had several hard drives and a few PCI cards go bad in a short period of time, and since I'm running a UPS I know it's not over/undervoltage problems. I replaced the $10 power supply with a decent one by Sparkle that puts out ~600 watts, and I haven't had a problem since. If you use the power supply that came with your case, or paid less than $40 for a new one, it probably sucks.
That issue aside, I prefer WD Raptors when possible (their SCSI heritage gives them double the MTBF), and WD JB drives otherwise.
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The way it was stated was more like, "Why would you write a crappy time travel story which nobody likes, instead of writing something just like Harry Potter, which is great because it's popular."
What do you mean "if I want to be taken seriously"? What, taken seriously by anonymous Slashdot readers? That's not exactly high on my priority list. I just stated my reaction and opinion of someone's post, being "taken seriously" doesn't really enter the equation.
PC users had to wait almost a year. It's not possible to complete PC and Mac versions of software at the exact same time, and they would lose money for every day they wait in order to make the releases concurrent. Windows = majoriy = more profit.
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Yeah, just like when slashdot interviews an author and everyone asks, "Why do you write fiction when there's so much more money in technical manuals." It's so respectful to the artist.
Robbie the Robot was by far the most unique and clever video game controller of the era. A robot that balances spinning gyroscopes on the buttons? That's just dope.
I don't know, links2 seems to work better than lynx in my experience. But I do still make sure that the few web pages I code are text browser friendly.
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I love those Monkey Island style adventure games. They're some of the most fun ever.
It was mostly "troubled" (for a various reasons) kids from California.
I went through one of those wilderness survival programs, where we first hiked using packs we fashioned out of a poncho, sleeping bag, parachute cord, and seatbelt strap, then collectively pushed/pulled a wooden hand cart with all our gear (through mud, over rocks, in the snow, etc), and finally hiked the tough trails with 80lb packs. Not once the whole time did I touch one electronic device or set foot inside any kind of permanent structure.
You certainly get to know the people you're with, as well as yourself, and get quite a connection to nature and the environment around you. Drinking only water that you find in streams, lakes, and if you're thirsty enough, green, tadpole filled sludge that's collected in the bottom of a rock canyon will really give you an appreciation for tap water. That, and I can start a bow drill fire with just a shoelace and items found in nature (a rock, sage, a stick).
It was a memorable once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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It would probably translate into a game better than the movie (although I liked the movie, too).
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service in it's infancy. Telephone's not a perfect mechanism for emergency communications, why not just cut the telephone lines of everyone who gets infected? They shouldn't be betting on the telephone company's reliability in an emergency anyway, right?
It's not nearly difficult enough to get a good tech job yet.
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is being pedantic.
it's there mostly so I can stay in practice, since my job requires fixing them.
1 OpenBSD firewall (w/ DSL modem, built-in wireless)
1 FreeBSD file server
1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (domain controller)
1 UltraSparc 10 Elite3D, running Solaris 10
1 UltraSparc 10, unused
1 Windows XP gaming machine
1 Gentoo/XP box for general computing
1 PC, unused
3 Accounts on co-located boxen: 1 Linux, 2 Windows Server (the way I use them, they're very much "on my home network")
And 1 Mac Mini, as soon as I can comfortably afford it (might have to wait 'till I leave Black Rock City)
I consider this a minimalist approach, they all have their uses.
1 OpenBSD firewall (w/ DSL modem, built-in wireless) 1 FreeBSD file server 1 Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (domain controller) 1 UltraSparc 10 Elite3D, running Solaris 10 1 UltraSparc 10, unused 1 Windows XP gaming machine 1 Gentoo/XP box for general computing 1 PC, unused 3 Accounts on co-located boxen: 1 Linux, 2 Windows Server (the way I use them, they're very much "on my home network") And 1 Mac Mini, as soon as I can comfortably afford it (might have to wait 'till I leave Black Rock City) I consider this a minimalist approach, they all have their uses.
If they wanted to pay for every little function, they'd be running Windows. That's (partially) the point behind F/OSS.
You're doing it wrong. That's a 10 minute job.
Other than that, I agree with you.
I had several hard drives and a few PCI cards go bad in a short period of time, and since I'm running a UPS I know it's not over/undervoltage problems. I replaced the $10 power supply with a decent one by Sparkle that puts out ~600 watts, and I haven't had a problem since. If you use the power supply that came with your case, or paid less than $40 for a new one, it probably sucks. That issue aside, I prefer WD Raptors when possible (their SCSI heritage gives them double the MTBF), and WD JB drives otherwise.
When you have 100 times more servers and users, you'll probably have ~100 times more problems and security breaches.
The article says they also tested against "one chaos-generating physical machine".
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Crossstitch is the / of all evil!
The way it was stated was more like, "Why would you write a crappy time travel story which nobody likes, instead of writing something just like Harry Potter, which is great because it's popular."
What do you mean "if I want to be taken seriously"? What, taken seriously by anonymous Slashdot readers? That's not exactly high on my priority list. I just stated my reaction and opinion of someone's post, being "taken seriously" doesn't really enter the equation.
PC users had to wait almost a year. It's not possible to complete PC and Mac versions of software at the exact same time, and they would lose money for every day they wait in order to make the releases concurrent. Windows = majoriy = more profit.
Yeah, just like when slashdot interviews an author and everyone asks, "Why do you write fiction when there's so much more money in technical manuals." It's so respectful to the artist.
Robbie the Robot was by far the most unique and clever video game controller of the era. A robot that balances spinning gyroscopes on the buttons? That's just dope.
I don't know, links2 seems to work better than lynx in my experience. But I do still make sure that the few web pages I code are text browser friendly.