I'm a little bit concerned that you're somehow implying the turd that killed Elvis had less musical talent than Elvis himself.
The man (Elvis) got his start being the 'white cover artist' for all the black music that the white kids wouldn't/couldn't listen to. I fight the 'great Elvis' battle all the time now that I live in a region where he's still revered for some awful reason.
Hell, even the legendary Jimi Hendrix used loads and loads of 'effect boxes' in his playing. Long before they became mainstream 'everybody has them' items, so he came off like a 'great artist' in part because of them. Some would say that the gear around him was a significant factor in his success.
An official Java VM wasn't available for Linux for ages and ages. I think you're wrong to act like a Linux/Java connection has ever been strong. Sun avoided Linux as long as they could. Some would say it hurt Java quite a bit.
Its amazing at this point in time what great Sun hardware you can get for pennies at University surplus auctions. I got a whole pile of SparcStations (19 of them) for $10 recently that way. A lot of them were SparcStation 2's, but there were four 5's. And I got three Ultra 1's for $12.50 each. Because nobody at all at the auction would spend a dime on them. They were all hustling and salivating over the Pentium II and Pentium III boxes.
Actually for Bill Gates' wedding, he leased an entire Hawaiian island, and then leased/tied-up every rental plane or boat that a journalist/voyeur would have used to spy on the wedding ceremony. It was, well, an invitation only event.
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Actually, all you've got to do to flush out the bullshit about diamonds being an 'investment' is challange the diamond huckster to reveal to you this fabled 'market' where you can cash in your cache of diamonds you've 'invested' in.
They'll give you five or ten cents on the dollar at the hock shop, if you're lucky. If stocks, bonds, and real estate had that pitiful a return nobody would be able to afford to waste paper printing up all the paperwork involved in dealing with them.
Actually, since the job market here where my wife comes from (and where I have moved) is rather thin, I've been living now for several years without having to have a job at all. I make enough money combined with my wife's store-clerk job to get by on by hawking stuff on eBay that I buy in (real life) auctions, and it's great. I guess I'd have to say there are some expenses to taking a wife, but it's more of a 'big change in the way the budget goes' than an increased expense.
My wife insisted that she detests expensive diamonds and wanted a nice Tanzenite ring, anyway. So that's what I got her, for under $200.
You're playing right into the de Beers bullshit by referring to the synthetic diamonds as 'fake.'
On the day when 'authentic' diamond merchants are frantically shipping their stones with a crappy little scrap of paper with a hologram on it, like an Franklin Mint ripoff item, life will be better for common sense people.
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Not hardly. If and when 'encryption' is publically adopted, it will be with a wobbly plug-in to Outlook Express or something similar. It'll become the new security nightmare.
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That's interesting. A formal registry of SMTP servers.
Will we soon be formally registering all people running an HTTPD in the same fashion?
Actually, it doesn't take most people very long to notice that Mr. Raymond is a little crazy. He immerses himself in a 'counter culture' as an act of denial, but the truth stands.
For a virus to do serious damage on a computer/network that is used for serious business purposes, all the virus needs permission to do is have write access to the actual data that the computer system is configured and set up to manipulate. A useful computer has that sort of data on it and it's in user-level writable storage areas.
Some of us grow tired of the 'everything that's important on the computer can be streamed off the install CD' mentality. That's the mentality of a self-important IT staffer. Think in those terms at your peril if you work in the real world.
If Suzy Opensource executes a Linux email virus, if such an animal existed in the wild for her to execute, it executes with Suzy's privileges. This means it most likely stays in its sandbox and doesn't make much trouble.
It just, say, deletes everything in Suzy's home directory, and everything in every writable network drive that Suzy has write access to.
That's simply wonderful. We all know that everything should always be backed up, but do we want to rely on those backups regularly?
The only important data on a system is inherently the most vulnerable to the kind of trojan attack we're discussing here. IT people often don't 'get this' at all because, ummm, they're like a photocopier repair person: more concerned with keeping the copier running than what revenue-producing work is dependent on the copies it makes.
It's a conspiracy by the angry 'Printer A/B' switch manufacturers, the biggest of whom incidentally is based in Florida. They're cut out of their main revenue stream whenever computers get networked together to share the printer.
I'll have to get going faster at turning all those spare machines here into an Amoeba cluster, like I was going to eventually anyway. It's all one big machine, in that case, even if the parts are tied together with ethernet cables...
....try to avoid using Light Emitting EPROMs, a problem I have had a few times in the past.
Basically, if you plug an EPROM into your circuit breadboard backwards after reprogramming it, it becomes a light emittind EPROM for a short period of time. It's hell on the firmware inside the EPROM and a strongly discouraged practice.
And quite expensive, even in this day with large quantities of cheap used EPROMs available on eBay.
The ceiling fan's light socket in one of the tallest ceilings in our house burned out a few months ago, though. The fixture burned out, though, not just the light bulb itself. In fact, the lamp is probably still fine. That's what I get for putting a 200 watt lamp into a 100 watt max socket, though. The socket seems to be fused open and thus non-functioning. And there's a pile of gear, i.e. a Floor Standing HP plotter, some 17" (heavy!) Sun monitors and assorted other crap in the way. 'Changing the light' on that particular socket is going to be a hell of a lot of work.
Basically, the 'slide down into the mud' occurred when they started letting the accountants trump the engineers in product design. If you look at a nice piece of test equipment, i.e. a Tektronix oscilloscope from about 1964 and compare it to the crap produced now (even the Tek equipment, sad to say), the old gear is amazingly high quality.
Accountants came on the scene and their criticism is: "if it lasts more than a short amount of time past the warranty period, you spent too much producing it. Lower the production cost a little by thinning down the robustness of the design." Sadly, people buy 'cheap' and forget all about the long term cost of their choice.
Hard drives, for example, could be getting more and more reliable at the same cost, instead of higher capacity and less reliable, which is the present state of affairs.
Yes, a ten year migration sounds about right, considering how bloody expensive those small screw-in fluorescent lights are in the store. One or two at a time puts a dent in the budget.
Our cats are only about 17% effective, considering we have six cats and only one is a 'mouser.' Houses with a smaller sample size (i.e. houses with only one cat) might suffer from a 0% effectivity depending on their particular feline content.
As far as I can tell, a 'virtual PC' is one of those cardboard faux computers they put on the display desks at office supply stores.
Maybe I'm incorrect. Are there simulated PCs in some of the games I haven't played? Now that I think about it, there's a computer in one room in 'Day of the Tentacle' that you can walk up to and play Maniac Mansion on.
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I feel that having a 'great voice' at least in part means having skill in controlling it, i.e. being able to sing in pitch.
Otherwise all that 'great voice' means is that the singer's head cavities resonate nicely.
I'm a little bit concerned that you're somehow implying the turd that killed Elvis had less musical talent than Elvis himself.
The man (Elvis) got his start being the 'white cover artist' for all the black music that the white kids wouldn't/couldn't listen to. I fight the 'great Elvis' battle all the time now that I live in a region where he's still revered for some awful reason.
Hell, even the legendary Jimi Hendrix used loads and loads of 'effect boxes' in his playing. Long before they became mainstream 'everybody has them' items, so he came off like a 'great artist' in part because of them. Some would say that the gear around him was a significant factor in his success.
An official Java VM wasn't available for Linux for ages and ages. I think you're wrong to act like a Linux/Java connection has ever been strong. Sun avoided Linux as long as they could. Some would say it hurt Java quite a bit.
Its amazing at this point in time what great Sun hardware you can get for pennies at University surplus auctions. I got a whole pile of SparcStations (19 of them) for $10 recently that way. A lot of them were SparcStation 2's, but there were four 5's. And I got three Ultra 1's for $12.50 each. Because nobody at all at the auction would spend a dime on them. They were all hustling and salivating over the Pentium II and Pentium III boxes.
Actually for Bill Gates' wedding, he leased an entire Hawaiian island, and then leased/tied-up every rental plane or boat that a journalist/voyeur would have used to spy on the wedding ceremony. It was, well, an invitation only event.
Actually, all you've got to do to flush out the bullshit about diamonds being an 'investment' is challange the diamond huckster to reveal to you this fabled 'market' where you can cash in your cache of diamonds you've 'invested' in.
They'll give you five or ten cents on the dollar at the hock shop, if you're lucky. If stocks, bonds, and real estate had that pitiful a return nobody would be able to afford to waste paper printing up all the paperwork involved in dealing with them.
Actually, since the job market here where my wife comes from (and where I have moved) is rather thin, I've been living now for several years without having to have a job at all. I make enough money combined with my wife's store-clerk job to get by on by hawking stuff on eBay that I buy in (real life) auctions, and it's great. I guess I'd have to say there are some expenses to taking a wife, but it's more of a 'big change in the way the budget goes' than an increased expense.
My wife insisted that she detests expensive diamonds and wanted a nice Tanzenite ring, anyway. So that's what I got her, for under $200.
You're playing right into the de Beers bullshit by referring to the synthetic diamonds as 'fake.'
On the day when 'authentic' diamond merchants are frantically shipping their stones with a crappy little scrap of paper with a hologram on it, like an Franklin Mint ripoff item, life will be better for common sense people.
Not hardly. If and when 'encryption' is publically adopted, it will be with a wobbly plug-in to Outlook Express or something similar. It'll become the new security nightmare.
That's interesting. A formal registry of SMTP servers.
Will we soon be formally registering all people running an HTTPD in the same fashion?
Sun has had 64 bit desktop boxes since long before Apple was producing anything more than a 'cooperative multitasking' joke OS that people laughed at.
And I bought three 64 bit machines (Sun Ultra 1's) at auction a few weeks ago for $12.50 each. Not stripped boxes, either.
I worked at a place for awhile that had whole floors of people using U1 Sparcs as desktop machines, too.
Actually, it doesn't take most people very long to notice that Mr. Raymond is a little crazy. He immerses himself in a 'counter culture' as an act of denial, but the truth stands.
For a virus to do serious damage on a computer/network that is used for serious business purposes, all the virus needs permission to do is have write access to the actual data that the computer system is configured and set up to manipulate. A useful computer has that sort of data on it and it's in user-level writable storage areas.
Some of us grow tired of the 'everything that's important on the computer can be streamed off the install CD' mentality. That's the mentality of a self-important IT staffer. Think in those terms at your peril if you work in the real world.
If Suzy Opensource executes a Linux email virus, if such an animal existed in the wild for her to execute, it executes with Suzy's privileges. This means it most likely stays in its sandbox and doesn't make much trouble.
It just, say, deletes everything in Suzy's home directory, and everything in every writable network drive that Suzy has write access to.
That's simply wonderful. We all know that everything should always be backed up, but do we want to rely on those backups regularly?
The only important data on a system is inherently the most vulnerable to the kind of trojan attack we're discussing here. IT people often don't 'get this' at all because, ummm, they're like a photocopier repair person: more concerned with keeping the copier running than what revenue-producing work is dependent on the copies it makes.
It's a conspiracy by the angry 'Printer A/B' switch manufacturers, the biggest of whom incidentally is based in Florida. They're cut out of their main revenue stream whenever computers get networked together to share the printer.
Yep. That must be it.
I'll have to get going faster at turning all those spare machines here into an Amoeba cluster, like I was going to eventually anyway. It's all one big machine, in that case, even if the parts are tied together with ethernet cables...
....try to avoid using Light Emitting EPROMs, a problem I have had a few times in the past.
Basically, if you plug an EPROM into your circuit breadboard backwards after reprogramming it, it becomes a light emittind EPROM for a short period of time. It's hell on the firmware inside the EPROM and a strongly discouraged practice.
And quite expensive, even in this day with large quantities of cheap used EPROMs available on eBay.
The ceiling fan's light socket in one of the tallest ceilings in our house burned out a few months ago, though. The fixture burned out, though, not just the light bulb itself. In fact, the lamp is probably still fine. That's what I get for putting a 200 watt lamp into a 100 watt max socket, though. The socket seems to be fused open and thus non-functioning. And there's a pile of gear, i.e. a Floor Standing HP plotter, some 17" (heavy!) Sun monitors and assorted other crap in the way. 'Changing the light' on that particular socket is going to be a hell of a lot of work.
Basically, the 'slide down into the mud' occurred when they started letting the accountants trump the engineers in product design. If you look at a nice piece of test equipment, i.e. a Tektronix oscilloscope from about 1964 and compare it to the crap produced now (even the Tek equipment, sad to say), the old gear is amazingly high quality.
Accountants came on the scene and their criticism is: "if it lasts more than a short amount of time past the warranty period, you spent too much producing it. Lower the production cost a little by thinning down the robustness of the design." Sadly, people buy 'cheap' and forget all about the long term cost of their choice.
Hard drives, for example, could be getting more and more reliable at the same cost, instead of higher capacity and less reliable, which is the present state of affairs.
I've been doing this for almost 10 years now.
Yes, a ten year migration sounds about right, considering how bloody expensive those small screw-in fluorescent lights are in the store. One or two at a time puts a dent in the budget.
Our cats are only about 17% effective, considering we have six cats and only one is a 'mouser.' Houses with a smaller sample size (i.e. houses with only one cat) might suffer from a 0% effectivity depending on their particular feline content.
As far as I can tell, a 'virtual PC' is one of those cardboard faux computers they put on the display desks at office supply stores.
Maybe I'm incorrect. Are there simulated PCs in some of the games I haven't played? Now that I think about it, there's a computer in one room in 'Day of the Tentacle' that you can walk up to and play Maniac Mansion on.
Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?
And the same is true of any Operating System.
If you're not aware of that fact, you're asking for trouble.