Well, make it FAT32 for me. The default. I don't know about Ext3, I never really liked it for it's ability to forget my files' existence. but It seems to me that ReiserFS probably thrashes drives which could not be that good on flash media.
Maybe JFS could be "soft" enough and has been pretty stable on other drives for me.
I'm contacting you in the name of the office of the Ministery of Transport, Pidgeons and Communications of South Africa. Recently, the former minister has been abducted by aliens and therefore considered Missing In Action. He has left a huge fortune that is to be placed in a bet in a pidgeon running against a telecom. For that, we come asking for your help, as we need a second bank account to transfer the money, since we are unable to do it directly because the minister used strange passwords. I kindly request your account number so we can the amount needed. In the process, you will receive 10% of the amount, making you a turkish millionaire.
In WEB we believe. Best regards.
(PS: yes, I know "turkish" and "South Africa" have nothing to do with each other.)
I agree. 3D technology for games has been out for quite a while and so far, the adoption seems far from a reality. The games industry is one of the industries that pushes more interface technologies into the wild and I'm yet to see a "best played in 3D" label on a game.
3D has been on movie theaters already. Where I live, almost all theaters are already 3D capable (using polarized glasses). At least a bit of distortion is noticeable and it's not easy to immediately get accustomed to it, but it's usable.
On the other hand, a 3D TV is the start of a possible mass adoption. Remember that when Marx said "religion is the people's opiate", he didn't know about the television. And the regular television also had it's rough start and poor quality and eventually evolved.
And, now, people can see the world's problems in another angle...
I'm contacting you in the name of the office of the Ministery of Transport, Pidgeons and Communications of South Africa. Recently, the former minister has been abducted by aliens and therefore considered Missing In Action. He has left a huge fortune that is to be placed in a bet in a pidgeon running against a telecom. For that, we come asking for your help, as we need a second bank account to transfer the money, since we are unable to do it directly because the minister used strange passwords. I kindly request your account number so we can the amount needed. In the process, you will receive 10% of the amount, making you a turkish millionaire.
In WEB we believe. Best regards.
(PS: yes, I know "turkish" and "South Africa" have nothing to do with each other.)
Where I live, all the carriers have at least on plan where all SMS's are free for numbers in the same carrier. There used to be plans where there we were allowed to send 1500 free sms's a week within the same carrier, only calls were paid (and, comparing to the US, calls were quite cheap). And believe me, a lot of people I know would spend all the 1500 sms.
Well, I can only remember one geek killing someone, and it was recent. So, if it is one every X tens of years, then Childs won't probably be the next one, since the last one was pretty recent, actually...
not where I live. they're two different beasts. they start with the same subjects and then they have different branches of the same course and different degrees and all.
As I said: I'm not judging his ability to choose the best method of action, which most likely is somehow impaired, but his intentions, which were clearly shown to be good, although improperly applied.
no, it was a network that had him as the "caretaker". Despite the methods, from what has been said, what he was doing was trying to protect the network. As a "caretaker", it's his job to do what he must to protect the network. Of course, there are proper methods and limits, but I don't see why what he did would justify 14 months in jail and $5M bail. They've had the passwords for over a year, for God sake. If he wanted the network to get stuffed, he could have very well also let the passwords somewhere else or with someone else to do the job for him in case anything happened to him, so they could hold the network hostage. Did that happened? Childs seems to be a guy to smart to NOT do something like this if his intentions were less than honorable (regardless of the methods).
but they've only been proven wrong now? he's been in jail for 14 months! how long does it take to prove that? even if he was proven wrong, they were all assuming what he told was a lie when he attacked the competence of the other sysadmins. And does it prove the competence of the other sysadmins?
Einstein said: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." If they haven't fscked up yet, maybe it is just because they didn't have to do anything on the network as admins yet.
and why would he? that would just make his life worse. from what I read, it appears that he was responsible for the networking running as smooth as it was. If I'm not mistaken, he's the one that planned the network and set it up right. And one of the first things that came to light when this bubble bursted, was that despite the missing passwords, the network was running pretty well.
this is preposterous. basically they're condemning him for being arrogant while competent. he always stated that he was only refusing to hand out the passwords because he didn't trust the competence of the people that were still working there.
what harm could he now do to the city network? he was fired, the password has already been disclosed to the mayor about a year ago... or have they forgotten to change the passwords?
and if he did have backdoors, it's already time they had them fixed. if he uses them, then, yeah, he's provoking the wrath of law, but... 5 million?
each year he spends on the jail probably means about 10 years he looses from his lifespan from physical and emotional distress. fsck the fscking judges and DAs.
Robin Williams said it right:
"You know, I heard scientists are now using lawyers instead of mice for experiments, for two reasons: one, scientists grow less attached to lawyers and two, there are somethings that even mice won't do."
(but anyway, I still think everyone got what I meant - and please don't be too harsh on a non native english speaker, which everybody here seems to assume everybody else always is.)
I'm currently in the process of developing a few websites. IE is a pain in the nikta because of the way it renders the stuff. However, it has been quite more pleasing in some javascript details (doing client based XSLT transformations, for example, is working better in IE than in Firefox, which fscks up everything and adds elements not in the XML or the XSL).
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Well, make it FAT32 for me. The default. I don't know about Ext3, I never really liked it for it's ability to forget my files' existence. but It seems to me that ReiserFS probably thrashes drives which could not be that good on flash media.
Maybe JFS could be "soft" enough and has been pretty stable on other drives for me.
These guys have no sense of humor. Since when making a joke about the context of the story is offtopic? Besides, pidgeons can carry 419 spam too.
Dear Sir
I'm contacting you in the name of the office of the Ministery of Transport, Pidgeons and Communications of South Africa. Recently, the former minister has been abducted by aliens and therefore considered Missing In Action. He has left a huge fortune that is to be placed in a bet in a pidgeon running against a telecom. For that, we come asking for your help, as we need a second bank account to transfer the money, since we are unable to do it directly because the minister used strange passwords. I kindly request your account number so we can the amount needed. In the process, you will receive 10% of the amount, making you a turkish millionaire.
In WEB we believe. Best regards.
(PS: yes, I know "turkish" and "South Africa" have nothing to do with each other.)
I agree. 3D technology for games has been out for quite a while and so far, the adoption seems far from a reality. The games industry is one of the industries that pushes more interface technologies into the wild and I'm yet to see a "best played in 3D" label on a game.
3D has been on movie theaters already. Where I live, almost all theaters are already 3D capable (using polarized glasses). At least a bit of distortion is noticeable and it's not easy to immediately get accustomed to it, but it's usable.
On the other hand, a 3D TV is the start of a possible mass adoption. Remember that when Marx said "religion is the people's opiate", he didn't know about the television. And the regular television also had it's rough start and poor quality and eventually evolved.
And, now, people can see the world's problems in another angle...
Dear Sir
I'm contacting you in the name of the office of the Ministery of Transport, Pidgeons and Communications of South Africa. Recently, the former minister has been abducted by aliens and therefore considered Missing In Action. He has left a huge fortune that is to be placed in a bet in a pidgeon running against a telecom. For that, we come asking for your help, as we need a second bank account to transfer the money, since we are unable to do it directly because the minister used strange passwords. I kindly request your account number so we can the amount needed. In the process, you will receive 10% of the amount, making you a turkish millionaire.
In WEB we believe. Best regards.
(PS: yes, I know "turkish" and "South Africa" have nothing to do with each other.)
I wish I could mod the girls down.
My money is on the pidgeon.
from the looks of the other comments, it seems he nailed it.
Where I live, all the carriers have at least on plan where all SMS's are free for numbers in the same carrier. There used to be plans where there we were allowed to send 1500 free sms's a week within the same carrier, only calls were paid (and, comparing to the US, calls were quite cheap). And believe me, a lot of people I know would spend all the 1500 sms.
With Linus it would be "Glaciar Party 2.6.31-rc8-git2"
it was just a joke, for hdparm's sake...
Well, I can only remember one geek killing someone, and it was recent. So, if it is one every X tens of years, then Childs won't probably be the next one, since the last one was pretty recent, actually...
anyway, you can mod that few last words of my post "redundant", then -.-
not where I live. they're two different beasts. they start with the same subjects and then they have different branches of the same course and different degrees and all.
As I said: I'm not judging his ability to choose the best method of action, which most likely is somehow impaired, but his intentions, which were clearly shown to be good, although improperly applied.
no, it was a network that had him as the "caretaker". Despite the methods, from what has been said, what he was doing was trying to protect the network. As a "caretaker", it's his job to do what he must to protect the network. Of course, there are proper methods and limits, but I don't see why what he did would justify 14 months in jail and $5M bail. They've had the passwords for over a year, for God sake. If he wanted the network to get stuffed, he could have very well also let the passwords somewhere else or with someone else to do the job for him in case anything happened to him, so they could hold the network hostage. Did that happened? Childs seems to be a guy to smart to NOT do something like this if his intentions were less than honorable (regardless of the methods).
but they've only been proven wrong now? he's been in jail for 14 months! how long does it take to prove that? even if he was proven wrong, they were all assuming what he told was a lie when he attacked the competence of the other sysadmins.
And does it prove the competence of the other sysadmins?
Einstein said: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." If they haven't fscked up yet, maybe it is just because they didn't have to do anything on the network as admins yet.
and why would he? that would just make his life worse. from what I read, it appears that he was responsible for the networking running as smooth as it was. If I'm not mistaken, he's the one that planned the network and set it up right. And one of the first things that came to light when this bubble bursted, was that despite the missing passwords, the network was running pretty well.
this is preposterous. basically they're condemning him for being arrogant while competent. he always stated that he was only refusing to hand out the passwords because he didn't trust the competence of the people that were still working there.
what harm could he now do to the city network? he was fired, the password has already been disclosed to the mayor about a year ago... or have they forgotten to change the passwords?
and if he did have backdoors, it's already time they had them fixed. if he uses them, then, yeah, he's provoking the wrath of law, but... 5 million?
each year he spends on the jail probably means about 10 years he looses from his lifespan from physical and emotional distress. fsck the fscking judges and DAs.
Robin Williams said it right:
"You know, I heard scientists are now using lawyers instead of mice for experiments, for two reasons: one, scientists grow less attached to lawyers and two, there are somethings that even mice won't do."
add "judges" to that, will you?
better than "my dog ate my euro symbol"
Thank you for the correction.
(but anyway, I still think everyone got what I meant - and please don't be too harsh on a non native english speaker, which everybody here seems to assume everybody else always is.)
Well, it's a new different kind of bullying.
Always seemed to me this was not much more than a witch hunt. Why else would them set a bail higher than for killers and rapists?
So true.
I'm currently in the process of developing a few websites. IE is a pain in the nikta because of the way it renders the stuff. However, it has been quite more pleasing in some javascript details (doing client based XSLT transformations, for example, is working better in IE than in Firefox, which fscks up everything and adds elements not in the XML or the XSL).
Yeah, stand up for the bastards. Tiny tiny replicators that can't defend themselves.