I believe it's related to the file systems used, and I think (will check) that USB drives use FAT, since they are portable to various OSes. And I've tested writing to a USB drive and unplugging it, it does work reliably.
Not in any religious sense, but just from the tedium of managing a PC park.
Like many techies, I help friends and family with their PCs. I've started saying, "it's Linux or nothing", and we install a nice distro like Xandros or Knoppix on the PCs. No device problems, no viruses or spywarez, no calls to the "help desk".
The only problem is that people are used to just switching off their machines, and don't shut down correctly. This seems to have caused a couple of machines to loose configurations. So I'm looking at using a pure CD-based install like Knoppix with a USB key for/home.
Auctions are an interesting way to do this but I expect that as usual with auctions the hype will cause the price to jump higher than it might otherwise. Then it will fall to a "normal" level (at which point I will buy some stock if I have any money left from selling my second Porsche), before gradually climbing up to dizzy heights (at which point I will sell my stock and buy three new Porsches).
And you must be an Australian! Blimey, one that can read and almost type! Welcome, matey, and feel free to ask for help if you ever want to attempt a coherent sentence.
This is surely not a major issue... IIRC the only instances of known IP in Australia is "Waltzing Matilda" and "Crocodile Dundee", and the latter was really done in the US.
Oh, right, TV soaps...! and beer...?:-) Sorry, mate!
It's just coincidence that "class" in the US is so closely tied to "ethnic origin", and that innovations like this will create a kind of apartheid at airports (and why not elsewhere?) where the brown and black masses have to wait for hours at sordid, noisy, stressful security checks while the high-ranking officials and pale-skinned VIPs flash through with their "I'm so rich I can't be a terrorist" badges. Kindof like Kinshasa airport.
This whole "all men are created equal" business was really much to naive anyhow. It's much more realistic to understand that the wealthy ownz us, and we ownz the poor, and that's the way it should be. Apartheid was, after all, designed as a compasionate system, for the benefit of the black man, who's fragile economic and social structures weren't up to full competition with those of the white man.
Excellent idea, and frankly I think there should simply be separate airports for all those who can be considered a "security risk". Starting with single mothers, anyone with ancestors from Africa or Asia.
Those carrying portable nuclear missiles get to travel via the VIP airlines, of course. Think Concorde. Boom!
This is where I stick messages that SpamAssassin flags. My sysadmin was saying 'hey, your spam box is getting kinda large'.
33,600 messages. About 1 months' worth. And I have to check them individually to make sure that there are not real messages in there, and yes, there were some.
Spam is a _real_ problem. At the least it means that the level of reliability of normal email is dropping from perhaps 99.9% to about 97% today. At the worst it means hours spent every week cleaning out the junk.
Think about a lorry-load of unwanted paper post arriving in your hallway every week.
Eg, please name me ONE other country that isn't paranoid/anti nuclear power, cuz I don't know of any.
Uhm, France and Belgium (where I live) jump to mind. The Japanese nuclear industry is not unsafe because they underinvest or have poor technology but because they are unable to admit fault. You simply don't get this kind of cover-up happening in Europe: the nuclear industry is tightly inspected and quite tolerated by the public. (So long as it's stuck in isolated corners like Normandy). (And the Normans don't like it. But they're a minority).
My PC is powered by nuclear power, as is most of Belgium, and frankly I'm not up on the nuclear industry at all: it's potentially the only way to keep living in cold climates where hydro power is not an option (and forget solar power in Belgium:)
And if something goes badly wrong, is anyone really going to trek through the snow and ice to check things out? Just kidding.
While the Japanese nuclear "industry" is one of the worst in the world in terms of safety, it's impressive that reactors are this small, and maybe this will eventually come to be the standard for electricity generation in places where the other fossil-friendly alternative - namely hydroelectric power - is not an option.
Sounds cool. But AFAIK the average lifespan of nightclub owners is pretty short. Also, it's like working in a PC shop. Eventually the nice bodywork all looks the same.
Since it only restricts access at a certain point in the process, handicapped (e.g. blind) users will need help at that point, but not later. It's a problem only if you look at it as such: in most cases blind people need quite a lot of help in accessing the wider parts of society, and when seen positively this is a way of bringing them into contact with others, as those people help them.
The EU certainly does not throw money around willy-nilly, they leave this to private enterprise. It is exactly the long and complex procedure required to extract funds that turn organizations which use those funds into specialists at extracting funds. And that leaves little energy for the real thing.
The differences between men and women are not the results of "over thinking" but the results of a million-plus years of evolution.
Show me women who build skyscrapers.
And the penis thing is a "metaphor".
And women have a sex drive and it's just different from the male one. Acceptability has very little to do with it. Women simply aren't excited by naked bodies of the opposite sex. They get their kicks from cute outfits, complete with matching shoes and handbags. And this is not my opinion, it's what my girlfriend tells me.
So enough of the knee-jerk "society makes us act this way" bullshit. People by and large act exactly as they please and their acts are by and large a pure expression of their nature.
EU involvement in Open Source is like your mother-in-law taking a keen interest in your pornography collection.
The European institutions are about throwing large amounts of money at people who's only real skill is to be good candidates for large subsidies. I once spent a day in Luxembourg getting information on various EU projects for IT research and development. _Never_ _again_.
Large sums of money, or even the remote promises of large sums of money, do not produce good software nor do they promote good practice.
I noticed this in downtown Brussels: tall town houses, built for the rich burghers of the early 20th century. _Tall_ houses, with first floors way too high for times without good insulation or central heating.
And interestingly, the heights of the buildings correlate with the dates of construction: the first houses on a street are modest, then each new construction adds a little to each level, just enough to appear more important without being vulgar. When the street is full, the last construction is the most impressive, it towers over the older houses.
Of course then the whole community runs out of cash and they have to live in the cold drafty boxes they built.
I detected a similar pattern in medieval castles, and this scyskraper (sic) is a good example of the same principle at work today.
Basically, it's a bunch of boys comparing penises and sticking penis-sheaths onto them to make them look longer.
How about a remote control: as I walk into the room I zap my PC and it wakes up and says "Hi Heirony!"
Or, proximity sensors tuned to my DNA. C'mon, just five minutes with a soldering iron, some capacitors, and a steady hand.
But the ultimate, and I am seriously working towards this goal, is one's own personal PC assistant. "Good morning, Mr Heirony," says PC assistant 1 (I have a backup, but she's doing her nails this morning), "I saw you coming up the drive so I booted your Mandrake 9.2, did a quick apt-update and I've made you a coffee. Would you like the neck massage now, or later when Sue " (this is her colleague) "gets back...?"
...while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.
Yes, this is the sad story of my life. One of the problems is that us tallish people tend to be more modest, since we don't have to keep over compensating. So when the pretty girls launch themselves at us we often say, "hey, lady, what the heck are you doing?!" Plus, women never actually throw themselves, they tend to play themselves like smart hooks going after fish. After a while, all that confusingly attractive and yet frustratingly complex female company all blurs and frankly, a Napolean complex is not such a bad alternative.
Except that the pay, as a tall person, is better. Gotta say that's a plus. And the conference thing. That's cool too, once you learn how to put more than one sylable together into a sentence.
Both Java and PHP scale because they run on scalable hardware, and this is the real key. Can you create instant resource pools using stuff like OpenMosix, or do you have to glue your servers painfully together following the "standard" clustering models?
If you can scale your hardware, and if your framework follows suit (by nicely splitting work over many processes and handling the database correctly) then of course you can scale the application.
It's not magic: the more portable your underlying framework, the more you can scale.
Again, this is not a language or framework issue except insofar as they hamper portability. Like, yes,.NET.
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I believe it's related to the file systems used, and I think (will check) that USB drives use FAT, since they are portable to various OSes. And I've tested writing to a USB drive and unplugging it, it does work reliably.
Not in any religious sense, but just from the tedium of managing a PC park.
/home.
Like many techies, I help friends and family with their PCs. I've started saying, "it's Linux or nothing", and we install a nice distro like Xandros or Knoppix on the PCs. No device problems, no viruses or spywarez, no calls to the "help desk".
The only problem is that people are used to just switching off their machines, and don't shut down correctly. This seems to have caused a couple of machines to loose configurations. So I'm looking at using a pure CD-based install like Knoppix with a USB key for
1. The sub parks vertically, which is easy.
2. The Porsche comes in nicer colors.
3. Both the Porsche and the sub have convertible options you only want to try in _really_ nice weather.
4. The sub handles better in those deep dark puddles.
5. The Porsche gets you dates. The sub gets you exotic fish for dinner.
6. With the sub you can join the "mile deep" club.
7. The sub looks much more impressive outside your home. But the Porsche is more practical for shopping trips.
8. The Porsche is cheaper.
9. No-one is going to burst into song when they see your Porsche.
10. The Porsche won't let you start a successful smuggling venture.
Auctions are an interesting way to do this but I expect that as usual with auctions the hype will cause the price to jump higher than it might otherwise. Then it will fall to a "normal" level (at which point I will buy some stock if I have any money left from selling my second Porsche), before gradually climbing up to dizzy heights (at which point I will sell my stock and buy three new Porsches).
From "almost half a megabit" to 66kb?
500,000 bits is 62,500 bytes.
I hope they meant 0.5 megabytes.
And you must be an Australian! Blimey, one that can read and almost type! Welcome, matey, and feel free to ask for help if you ever want to attempt a coherent sentence.
Dude, this is what the other fish are thinking all the time!
Hong Kong dude was just being one with the fish.
This is surely not a major issue... IIRC the only instances of known IP in Australia is "Waltzing Matilda" and "Crocodile Dundee", and the latter was really done in the US.
:-) Sorry, mate!
Oh, right, TV soaps...! and beer...?
It's just coincidence that "class" in the US is so closely tied to "ethnic origin", and that innovations like this will create a kind of apartheid at airports (and why not elsewhere?) where the brown and black masses have to wait for hours at sordid, noisy, stressful security checks while the high-ranking officials and pale-skinned VIPs flash through with their "I'm so rich I can't be a terrorist" badges. Kindof like Kinshasa airport.
This whole "all men are created equal" business was really much to naive anyhow. It's much more realistic to understand that the wealthy ownz us, and we ownz the poor, and that's the way it should be. Apartheid was, after all, designed as a compasionate system, for the benefit of the black man, who's fragile economic and social structures weren't up to full competition with those of the white man.
Excellent idea, and frankly I think there should simply be separate airports for all those who can be considered a "security risk". Starting with single mothers, anyone with ancestors from Africa or Asia.
Those carrying portable nuclear missiles get to travel via the VIP airlines, of course. Think Concorde. Boom!
This is where I stick messages that SpamAssassin flags. My sysadmin was saying 'hey, your spam box is getting kinda large'.
33,600 messages. About 1 months' worth. And I have to check them individually to make sure that there are not real messages in there, and yes, there were some.
Spam is a _real_ problem. At the least it means that the level of reliability of normal email is dropping from perhaps 99.9% to about 97% today. At the worst it means hours spent every week cleaning out the junk.
Think about a lorry-load of unwanted paper post arriving in your hallway every week.
Eg, please name me ONE other country that isn't paranoid/anti nuclear power, cuz I don't know of any.
:)
Uhm, France and Belgium (where I live) jump to mind. The Japanese nuclear industry is not unsafe because they underinvest or have poor technology but because they are unable to admit fault. You simply don't get this kind of cover-up happening in Europe: the nuclear industry is tightly inspected and quite tolerated by the public. (So long as it's stuck in isolated corners like Normandy). (And the Normans don't like it. But they're a minority).
My PC is powered by nuclear power, as is most of Belgium, and frankly I'm not up on the nuclear industry at all: it's potentially the only way to keep living in cold climates where hydro power is not an option (and forget solar power in Belgium
Alaskan homes need a lot of heating.
And if something goes badly wrong, is anyone really going to trek through the snow and ice to check things out? Just kidding.
While the Japanese nuclear "industry" is one of the worst in the world in terms of safety, it's impressive that reactors are this small, and maybe this will eventually come to be the standard for electricity generation in places where the other fossil-friendly alternative - namely hydroelectric power - is not an option.
Sounds cool. But AFAIK the average lifespan of nightclub owners is pretty short. Also, it's like working in a PC shop. Eventually the nice bodywork all looks the same.
Sigh. I should be so unlucky.
Since it only restricts access at a certain point in the process, handicapped (e.g. blind) users will need help at that point, but not later. It's a problem only if you look at it as such: in most cases blind people need quite a lot of help in accessing the wider parts of society, and when seen positively this is a way of bringing them into contact with others, as those people help them.
The EU certainly does not throw money around willy-nilly, they leave this to private enterprise. It is exactly the long and complex procedure required to extract funds that turn organizations which use those funds into specialists at extracting funds. And that leaves little energy for the real thing.
...sexually aroused by female apparel
I did not say "sexual arousal", I said "kick".
The differences between men and women are not the results of "over thinking" but the results of a million-plus years of evolution.
Show me women who build skyscrapers.
And the penis thing is a "metaphor".
And women have a sex drive and it's just different from the male one. Acceptability has very little to do with it. Women simply aren't excited by naked bodies of the opposite sex. They get their kicks from cute outfits, complete with matching shoes and handbags. And this is not my opinion, it's what my girlfriend tells me.
So enough of the knee-jerk "society makes us act this way" bullshit. People by and large act exactly as they please and their acts are by and large a pure expression of their nature.
Oh, didn't you know?
We already are.
EU involvement in Open Source is like your mother-in-law taking a keen interest in your pornography collection.
The European institutions are about throwing large amounts of money at people who's only real skill is to be good candidates for large subsidies. I once spent a day in Luxembourg getting information on various EU projects for IT research and development. _Never_ _again_.
Large sums of money, or even the remote promises of large sums of money, do not produce good software nor do they promote good practice.
I noticed this in downtown Brussels: tall town houses, built for the rich burghers of the early 20th century. _Tall_ houses, with first floors way too high for times without good insulation or central heating.
And interestingly, the heights of the buildings correlate with the dates of construction: the first houses on a street are modest, then each new construction adds a little to each level, just enough to appear more important without being vulgar. When the street is full, the last construction is the most impressive, it towers over the older houses.
Of course then the whole community runs out of cash and they have to live in the cold drafty boxes they built.
I detected a similar pattern in medieval castles, and this scyskraper (sic) is a good example of the same principle at work today.
Basically, it's a bunch of boys comparing penises and sticking penis-sheaths onto them to make them look longer.
Bon amusement, mes gars!
I mean, a perforated phone card is kind of sad.
How about a remote control: as I walk into the room I zap my PC and it wakes up and says "Hi Heirony!"
Or, proximity sensors tuned to my DNA. C'mon, just five minutes with a soldering iron, some capacitors, and a steady hand.
But the ultimate, and I am seriously working towards this goal, is one's own personal PC assistant. "Good morning, Mr Heirony," says PC assistant 1 (I have a backup, but she's doing her nails this morning), "I saw you coming up the drive so I booted your Mandrake 9.2, did a quick apt-update and I've made you a coffee. Would you like the neck massage now, or later when Sue " (this is her colleague) "gets back...?"
Yes, it sure beats a phone card.
...while attractice girls fling themselves at them and they command undue attention in a conference room.
Yes, this is the sad story of my life. One of the problems is that us tallish people tend to be more modest, since we don't have to keep over compensating. So when the pretty girls launch themselves at us we often say, "hey, lady, what the heck are you doing?!" Plus, women never actually throw themselves, they tend to play themselves like smart hooks going after fish. After a while, all that confusingly attractive and yet frustratingly complex female company all blurs and frankly, a Napolean complex is not such a bad alternative.
Except that the pay, as a tall person, is better. Gotta say that's a plus. And the conference thing. That's cool too, once you learn how to put more than one sylable together into a sentence.
Compared to chimps, this is already pretty much the case.
Tall people earn more.
Good looking people earn more.
Good genes are more successful.
Good genes seek good genes.
Short men get ugly women.
And vice-versa.
Tall geeks still stand a chance.
But this is old news...
Scaling is not a language or framework issue.
.NET.
Both Java and PHP scale because they run on scalable hardware, and this is the real key. Can you create instant resource pools using stuff like OpenMosix, or do you have to glue your servers painfully together following the "standard" clustering models?
If you can scale your hardware, and if your framework follows suit (by nicely splitting work over many processes and handling the database correctly) then of course you can scale the application.
It's not magic: the more portable your underlying framework, the more you can scale.
Again, this is not a language or framework issue except insofar as they hamper portability. Like, yes,