The only excuse for code bloat is laziness; we should have better software now in 2004 than what we had in 1974, we don't, and not by a large margin.
That's exactly why I always try to stick to FreeBSD when it comes to those under-funded, but badly needed, projects. More than once I have had to salvage a P2 400 to turn into a server. Aside from burnt out fans, those systems are likely still littered about a few companies I worked for.
I'm actually using one for my firewally/proxy+adzapper/IDS/shell box on my DSL line, it's got a gig of ram and ultra2 scsi because I was out of lesser parts. I was very impressed that it went for about a year with a broken CPU fan and still chugs along. It's reward was a new dual-fan + sink combo.:)
I am considering such a thing. I was born to do IT, and I could care less about staying in the US. Especially with the War on Terror, and all the other crap going on.
Plus, for Xmas, I can have my parents send $500 instead of buying a gift. I'd live like a king for a while on that type of dough.
Do share your entire system's specs. I promise not to make fun, I'm just curious as to what is possible with 4MB nowadays.
I bought my first 16MB for ~$1000 at store cost for my 486DX33 many years ago. I recall Doom2 running great and I was the envy of my friends for the next year. Before that, I had 2MB.
2MB ran Renegade BBS really well, since you could actually use 512kb for SmartDrv. Paired up with a 420MB drive, life was good.
It matters less to me because I am always getting new music, so I'll be copying things over every few days.
If I had a static library that never change, more storage might be worth consideration. But you aren't going to listen to 4GB of music in a day or two.
I was so happy when I got to level 12 and killed the dragon. It was a long journey, as I kept being assulted in my sleep because I was too cheap to get a hotel room, thus slept in the fields.
4GB isn't really enough storage for a music collection (unless you record at low bitrates/quality). So you are either syncing constantly and rotating music out or you have stale music that you're tired of.
You are making a funny, right? 4GB is a shit-ton of mp3's. That's anywhere from 1000-2500 mp3s or days worth of audio books.
Anyway, a portable mp3 player should not be your primary home for music. Of course you will upload files to it. Not much of a problem with 400mbps firewire. Drag, drop, wait a few seconds, hit the road.
I swear, kids these days would not have made it through the 1980's. They bitch when they have to spend 30 seconds syncing their mp3 player every few days.
Perhaps you have a crappy one? This is the A1048, according to the label on the bottom.
I have three IBM keyboards and a Compaq multi-media edition. Accessing the CTRL and ALT keys on those feels completely different than on the one I am using at the moment.
I just wish I knew how to map the power and multimedia keys to something useful in XP or Linux.
Also, there was no discussion of the debate between those of us that believe that the e-voting systems should be required to use Open Source software vs. folks at Diebold and other vendors, who foist off the "trust us, we know what we're doing" line on the public.
No kidding. The Diebold ATM machines across from my apartment and down the street seem to have a blue screen of death more often than they are functional.
I get the feeling the push for electronic voting has little to do with stream-lining the system. Combine this issue with the voting fiasco that took place when GWB took the office, and the tin-foil hat club starts holding some merit.
"It's a computer, that's what it is. It's got menus and menus. I have to consult a manual anytime I try other features and then I forget how to do it," Sherby said. "If it takes that much effort to learn what to do, forget it."
That's why you take the low-tech approach and write the steps down on a little memo pad. Keep this pad in your pocket until you are ready to go it alone. See how easy that was? You don't have to crack open that manual to do the specific tasks you wanted or needed from your device.
This all reminds me of the morons who would call technical support, over a self-created problem, every week, wanting to be walked through the same exact steps as every other call they made. They would go so far as to pretend to write the steps down when suggested. Other people would actually take this advice and you would never hear from them again.
The people who can't handle hi-tech gadgets are simply those who refuse to demonstrate any logical thinking outside of what they are forced to deal with. I don't care if you have a PHD and can re-attach nerve endings under a microscope, if you can't do the most simple, self-saving steps to prevent confusion in your personal life, you sir, are an idiot.
Concerning doctors, I picked a real geek doctor who plays FPS games online and loves technology. I know, with this guy, I will never have to worry about him using some antique procedure because he's quick to embrace new things. Something to think about when selecting services so critical to your health.
I read somewhere today that the lowest common denominators of our society begin breeding at an average age of 15 and have twice the number of offspring that a typical college graduate, who on average, begins reproducing at the average age of 30.
Just think about all the people on wellfare and living on our handouts. The numbers have been growing at an alarming rate, and will continue to do so until our current system is crippled.
I'm sitting here in front of my PC with a G4 Mac keyboard and 6 button MX700 wireless logitech mouse.;-)
PSA -- Mac keyboards are very handy on a PC. They will detect in XP as a Mac USB Keyboard, and will run without having to install any additional drivers.
The only unfortunate thing, Mac designed them for little girl's fingers, so there are no gaps between the function keys. But the feedback is amazingly light, lighter than any PC keyboard I tried during my visits to CompUSA and MicroCenter. Not bad, at all, for $60. There is also no funky side-crunch. You know, like on the MS ergonomic keyboards from a couple of years ago. You can hit any part of the key and it still presses silently and smoothly.
My next plan is to put a couple of blue LEDs under the acrylic on the bottom. Since it's clear, it should illuminate very well.
If they would have done a google search on him, they just would have found news articles.
His new home address didn't show up, nothing about his new home was there. This was pretty much left for anyone who had just met him to give 'em the google to find out he's in trouble.
What this article demonstrates is quite easily summed up in one phrase: ignorant sensationalism
decaying writes "With the amount of virus-laden emails flying about due to the latest virus, Australian ISP Optus have started selectively blocking port 25 outbound. Optus say they are acting in accordance with their "Terms of use", quoting that they reserve the right to restrict access to any TCP/IP port. The only option is to use Optus' SMTP server and nothing else. Community site Whirlpool has an on-going discussion about the issue."
That's not even worth mentioning. There is no good reason for the average user to need access to SMTP servers besides the one at their ISP.
Years back, when I did technical support, the ISP I worked for had just implemented such a filter. The number of spammers who used our services immediately found new ISPs. The only fallout were a few customers who needed email clients reconfigured for non-local mailboxes, as they were using the other ISPs smtp server.
I do recall a few knuckle-heads (NT4/Linux wannabe super geeks) whine excessively over the issue, as they felt some right of theirs had been infringed. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.
For anyone who is considering Technical Support for a living, just hang up the phone as soon as you find out someone is from Boca Raton, Florida. I swear, everybody I've talked to from that place thought thought they were some guru, but usually had no clue. My point, if you are such a damn brilliant administrator, then you shouldn't be calling technical support whining about your messe d up copy of enduroo.;-)
Back to the topic at hand, there is no excuse for any ISP who houses an smtp server to allow it's customers access to just anywhere on port 25. I know it's a subject that will cause some flames, but someone has to compensate for the insecure, broken nature of SMTP.
I welcome anything AOL or Microsoft can bring to the table concerning this matter. I definitely don't see the community doing anything about it except for yelling at people to add more filters. This does little in regards to the bandwidth costs and server time (not to mention my client's cpu time wasted filtering) associated with massive amounts of spam.
I was also considering the cost to the american workforce while well paid engineers and coders waste their time answering a $25 question for some hack.
I set up a FW bridge between two of my boxes in less than 5 minutes of pecking around in the systems control panels. It's Windows and Macs, for pete's sake. This is ok, next, next, finish type stuff.
I'd suggest going with the parent's suggestion. You aren't going to like it once you get it set up. Sure, save money now but it'll cost you later in electricity, sanity, etc.
Good legal representation would bring in a senior IT consultant (or two) to explain how it would be completely negligent not to have a bullet-proof procedure for protecting such assets.
Just as legal teams call in doctors, engineers, pilots, mechanics, etc depending on what type of issue is being dealt with in a courtroom.
All a judge needs to know, is how to give a verdict after analyzing the information given to him. They aren't any smarter than anyone else.:)
Working for a Fortune 500 company, I can say this is no excuse. Typically, source files for any major company is kept off-site by a 3rd party backup/vault company.
If you lose your company's source code, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
There's a minimum expected responsibility put forth by shareholders, and this would fall into that category.
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These bozos in control of the planet really think the common man is as dumbassed as in the 11th century, get a clue Dr Evil!
In regards to the evolutionary advancement in humans, it is likely the man from the 11th century has a greater base intelligence than today.
In the 11th century, there was not wellfare to reward the incapible with food and clothing. Thus, many died off before reproductive age.
Sure, we know more 'things' than before, but we aren't any smarter.
Once Google goes public, expect greedy investors to destroy the things we like about it.
I predict the technical side of Google will be outsourced to India within two years of it's IPO.
Go ahead and waste your mod points silencing this post. It's not a troll, but happens to be what I think.
Yup. I used to hate dealing with DNS issues at the ISP I worked at. We'd force 7, tyically.
The only excuse for code bloat is laziness; we should have better software now in 2004 than what we had in 1974, we don't, and not by a large margin.
:)
That's exactly why I always try to stick to FreeBSD when it comes to those under-funded, but badly needed, projects. More than once I have had to salvage a P2 400 to turn into a server. Aside from burnt out fans, those systems are likely still littered about a few companies I worked for.
I'm actually using one for my firewally/proxy+adzapper/IDS/shell box on my DSL line, it's got a gig of ram and ultra2 scsi because I was out of lesser parts. I was very impressed that it went for about a year with a broken CPU fan and still chugs along. It's reward was a new dual-fan + sink combo.
I am considering such a thing. I was born to do IT, and I could care less about staying in the US. Especially with the War on Terror, and all the other crap going on.
;)
Plus, for Xmas, I can have my parents send $500 instead of buying a gift. I'd live like a king for a while on that type of dough.
Not to mention, Indian women are beautiful.
Oh, don't leave me hanging with that one. :)
Do share your entire system's specs. I promise not to make fun, I'm just curious as to what is possible with 4MB nowadays.
I bought my first 16MB for ~$1000 at store cost for my 486DX33 many years ago. I recall Doom2 running great and I was the envy of my friends for the next year. Before that, I had 2MB.
2MB ran Renegade BBS really well, since you could actually use 512kb for SmartDrv. Paired up with a 420MB drive, life was good.
It matters less to me because I am always getting new music, so I'll be copying things over every few days.
If I had a static library that never change, more storage might be worth consideration. But you aren't going to listen to 4GB of music in a day or two.
But I thought LoRD was writtin in 1987??
I was so happy when I got to level 12 and killed the dragon. It was a long journey, as I kept being assulted in my sleep because I was too cheap to get a hotel room, thus slept in the fields.
Oh.. LoTR. Nevermind.
4GB isn't really enough storage for a music collection (unless you record at low bitrates/quality). So you are either syncing constantly and rotating music out or you have stale music that you're tired of.
You are making a funny, right? 4GB is a shit-ton of mp3's. That's anywhere from 1000-2500 mp3s or days worth of audio books.
Anyway, a portable mp3 player should not be your primary home for music. Of course you will upload files to it. Not much of a problem with 400mbps firewire. Drag, drop, wait a few seconds, hit the road.
I swear, kids these days would not have made it through the 1980's. They bitch when they have to spend 30 seconds syncing their mp3 player every few days.
(Not a big deal on developer machines with 512 MB.)
512MB is for grandma's E-machine. Give me 2 gigs for a dev box any day.
Perhaps you have a crappy one? This is the A1048, according to the label on the bottom.
I have three IBM keyboards and a Compaq multi-media edition. Accessing the CTRL and ALT keys on those feels completely different than on the one I am using at the moment.
I just wish I knew how to map the power and multimedia keys to something useful in XP or Linux.
Also, there was no discussion of the debate between those of us that believe that the e-voting systems should be required to use Open Source software vs. folks at Diebold and other vendors, who foist off the "trust us, we know what we're doing" line on the public.
No kidding. The Diebold ATM machines across from my apartment and down the street seem to have a blue screen of death more often than they are functional.
I get the feeling the push for electronic voting has little to do with stream-lining the system. Combine this issue with the voting fiasco that took place when GWB took the office, and the tin-foil hat club starts holding some merit.
"It's a computer, that's what it is. It's got menus and menus. I have to consult a manual anytime I try other features and then I forget how to do it," Sherby said. "If it takes that much effort to learn what to do, forget it."
That's why you take the low-tech approach and write the steps down on a little memo pad. Keep this pad in your pocket until you are ready to go it alone. See how easy that was? You don't have to crack open that manual to do the specific tasks you wanted or needed from your device.
This all reminds me of the morons who would call technical support, over a self-created problem, every week, wanting to be walked through the same exact steps as every other call they made. They would go so far as to pretend to write the steps down when suggested. Other people would actually take this advice and you would never hear from them again.
The people who can't handle hi-tech gadgets are simply those who refuse to demonstrate any logical thinking outside of what they are forced to deal with. I don't care if you have a PHD and can re-attach nerve endings under a microscope, if you can't do the most simple, self-saving steps to prevent confusion in your personal life, you sir, are an idiot.
Concerning doctors, I picked a real geek doctor who plays FPS games online and loves technology. I know, with this guy, I will never have to worry about him using some antique procedure because he's quick to embrace new things. Something to think about when selecting services so critical to your health.
I read somewhere today that the lowest common denominators of our society begin breeding at an average age of 15 and have twice the number of offspring that a typical college graduate, who on average, begins reproducing at the average age of 30.
Just think about all the people on wellfare and living on our handouts. The numbers have been growing at an alarming rate, and will continue to do so until our current system is crippled.
I just hope they don't eat us for our braainz.
4.25 USD is 5.57 AUD.
$8.50 AUD equates to $6.48 USD, for those who were wondering.
I'm sitting here in front of my PC with a G4 Mac keyboard and 6 button MX700 wireless logitech mouse. ;-)
PSA -- Mac keyboards are very handy on a PC. They will detect in XP as a Mac USB Keyboard, and will run without having to install any additional drivers.
The only unfortunate thing, Mac designed them for little girl's fingers, so there are no gaps between the function keys. But the feedback is amazingly light, lighter than any PC keyboard I tried during my visits to CompUSA and MicroCenter. Not bad, at all, for $60. There is also no funky side-crunch. You know, like on the MS ergonomic keyboards from a couple of years ago. You can hit any part of the key and it still presses silently and smoothly.
My next plan is to put a couple of blue LEDs under the acrylic on the bottom. Since it's clear, it should illuminate very well.
If they would have done a google search on him, they just would have found news articles.
His new home address didn't show up, nothing about his new home was there. This was pretty much left for anyone who had just met him to give 'em the google to find out he's in trouble.
What this article demonstrates is quite easily summed up in one phrase: ignorant sensationalism
decaying writes "With the amount of virus-laden emails flying about due to the latest virus, Australian ISP Optus have started selectively blocking port 25 outbound. Optus say they are acting in accordance with their "Terms of use", quoting that they reserve the right to restrict access to any TCP/IP port. The only option is to use Optus' SMTP server and nothing else. Community site Whirlpool has an on-going discussion about the issue."
;-)
That's not even worth mentioning. There is no good reason for the average user to need access to SMTP servers besides the one at their ISP.
Years back, when I did technical support, the ISP I worked for had just implemented such a filter. The number of spammers who used our services immediately found new ISPs. The only fallout were a few customers who needed email clients reconfigured for non-local mailboxes, as they were using the other ISPs smtp server.
I do recall a few knuckle-heads (NT4/Linux wannabe super geeks) whine excessively over the issue, as they felt some right of theirs had been infringed. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.
For anyone who is considering Technical Support for a living, just hang up the phone as soon as you find out someone is from Boca Raton, Florida. I swear, everybody I've talked to from that place thought thought they were some guru, but usually had no clue. My point, if you are such a damn brilliant administrator, then you shouldn't be calling technical support whining about your messe d up copy of enduroo.
Back to the topic at hand, there is no excuse for any ISP who houses an smtp server to allow it's customers access to just anywhere on port 25. I know it's a subject that will cause some flames, but someone has to compensate for the insecure, broken nature of SMTP.
I welcome anything AOL or Microsoft can bring to the table concerning this matter. I definitely don't see the community doing anything about it except for yelling at people to add more filters. This does little in regards to the bandwidth costs and server time (not to mention my client's cpu time wasted filtering) associated with massive amounts of spam.
blasphemy!
I was also considering the cost to the american workforce while well paid engineers and coders waste their time answering a $25 question for some hack.
I set up a FW bridge between two of my boxes in less than 5 minutes of pecking around in the systems control panels. It's Windows and Macs, for pete's sake. This is ok, next, next, finish type stuff.
I'd suggest going with the parent's suggestion. You aren't going to like it once you get it set up. Sure, save money now but it'll cost you later in electricity, sanity, etc.
Directory of C:\WINNT
06/19/2003 11:05a 243,472 explorer.exe
1 File(s) 243,472 bytes
Directory of C:\PROGRA~1\Internet Explorer
08/29/2002 06:14a 91,136 IEXPLORE.EXE
1 File(s) 91,136 bytes
Funny, they appear to be separate executables.
Not at all, the judge doesn't need to know these.
:)
Good legal representation would bring in a senior IT consultant (or two) to explain how it would be completely negligent not to have a bullet-proof procedure for protecting such assets.
Just as legal teams call in doctors, engineers, pilots, mechanics, etc depending on what type of issue is being dealt with in a courtroom.
All a judge needs to know, is how to give a verdict after analyzing the information given to him. They aren't any smarter than anyone else.
Working for a Fortune 500 company, I can say this is no excuse. Typically, source files for any major company is kept off-site by a 3rd party backup/vault company.
If you lose your company's source code, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
There's a minimum expected responsibility put forth by shareholders, and this would fall into that category.
I have never had a problem with it.
:)
The people interviewing me felt they were as smart as you feel you are.
Perhaps my reading skills are just above average?