..is up again. Let them morons play their game, I'm playing mine:-).
Most important thing with SCO is, of course, not to forget to short the fucker when the time comes, which is made time consuming by the sheer amount of news about the stupid case you have to skim through to be on top of it.
Anyone who has ever driven with a radar detector knows just how useful a simple detector can be. The LED-based WiFi finders probably react to microwave ovens and cordless phones just like your radar detector reacts to McDonalds door openers. I wouldn't even waste half an hour to try one.
The canary, on the other hand, has a proper receiver, and a computer capable of parsing the broadcast packets, which puts it in a class of its own. I'd wait until they fix the problem with undetected routers, and make the thing a little smaller, and then I'd buy one. Would be also nice if it could detect if the network required login, though, and whether it was MAC-blocked.
It's full of liquid sodium, lithium, and what not, just like the Chernobyl reactor. If you blow up a hole in the cooling system, the whole thing will burn the fuck up, dispersing several tons of radioactive oxides all over the place, also like the Chernobyl reactor. The Chernobyl dead zone is hundreds of miles across, but even a tiny reactor core getting dispersed in the middle of a city would shut down that city for several hundred years. No matter how large the city and how small the reactor. The radioisotopes in hospitals have a lot less curies in them than even a small reactor core, and a shorter half-life too.
I can't understand why places like the ukraine and the USA have made this process more difficult than it should be.
On purpose. If an evel candidate seems to be taking over a precinct, despite his evelness, the precinct official can adjust the voting machine to correct for the injustice done by the evel voters of the evel candidate. You can't do that with paper ballots.
Of course, the Soviet Russia solution was even better - they simply put only one candidate on the ballot. Just ONE. This way there was no way for any evel candidate to take the election, ever, because he simply wasn't on the ballot.
Even though it's not DDoS, it's an attack on people's sites, which is probably illegal. The spammers could sue them. I mean, DDoSing SCO must have seemed like a good idea too, at least to the people who did it, but it was illegal!
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Wasn't there an IE exploit where you could make one URL show up like another URL in the address bar?
No, I think MS is going in the opposite direction. I was going through the company's supply closet once, looking for a 5" floppy disk (don't ask), and I found an old box that said on it "Microsoft Mouse - Microsoft Windows Included". Don't remember the version though, it could've been pre-3.0.
Where the wack did you pull "optical" out of? Is "optical" a buzzword so buzzy it starts to buzz for you before anyone actually invoked it? Wacom thingy is a goddamn tablet, for creeps sake. The only piece of optical technology in it is the power LED.
In case you're wondering, the mouse has nothing on its bottom, nothing at all. No ball, no lense, no little wheels.. Amazing!
SD is more expensive than other types of flash memory.
I actually went to the trouble of getting the $15 price off pricewatch (no URL for you, figure it out for yourself). Surprizingly, 128MB SD, MMC and CF all start at $15, and 1GB sizes show only about 5% price difference. So, your information is outdated.
*ducks*
Than, again, my girlfriend got a 128MB SD card at RadioShack, two weeks ago, for $79.95. Good deal, if you ask me (for RadioShack).
My Wacom Graphire came with a mouse like that, wireless, but had to be used on the pad only. That was, what, only 10 years ago. Glad to see something just like it finally make the fucking news! Oh, wait, it's not news, it's slashdot...
It's the ones that you see on TV that tend to be complete morons. Which tells you that the police can only really catch complete morons. Which tells you something about the police in general, but not about criminals in general. It also tells you that if you are a non-moron (though how would you know, really, until you try?), you might have a good chance at being successful as a crook.
I've programmed for both. MS design is better. Palm got too entangled with its "Zen of Palm" concept, and was late to adopt to faster processors and larger memories. As a result, the darn things have a nasty kludge for a filesystem, which makes programming anything but organizer-type applications a nightmare.
This lack of proper filesystem is what Palm is trying to patch now, but the original design is so inappropriate that fixing it only puts more kludges on top of other kludges. Which is where the current Treo bug really comes from.
I don't know if the Palm is dead, or not, but it would take a good system architect to fix PalmOS. I kinda wonder if Palm would hire me; i'd enjoy the challenge.
AOL is not sending their CDs fast enough for this trick, it would take years to collect enough.
There was this CD factory that we ran across once, and there was a large box of defective CDs on the sidewalk next to the garbage. We saved the CDs, and eventually got tired of the smell of microwaved polycarbonate, when it hit us - hey, don't we have a glue gun somewhere?
The best CDs are the ones with no paint around the hole. If you layer those up, two or three layers, make sure that what you see through the holes of the top layer is the shiny parts of the bottom layer - that way the whole wall is shiny, with no visible paint or anything.
Yeah. But Windows application programmers have to do a consious non-trivial effort to make the program uninstall cleanly. Guess what - this is very low on the list priorities for most developers. If they don't, the program leaves crap behind - files, registry entries, etc. Entries with obscure names, scattered around several system directories, each with several tens of thousands of entries with even more obscure names. A luser can't deal with that! You, a knowledgeble person, can't really deal with it either, unless you have too much free time on your hands.
This system is really easy to fix. All you need is, well, something like RPM, that manages contents of installation packages without effort on the part of the app developer. Unfortunately, a good installation system is not high on Microsoft's list of priorities either. Also, I'm not sure the shit in HKCR could be made easy to get rid of without a complete system overhaul.
What do they use for settings on Mac? Hope they don't have a registry..
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be done as well or better by a Mac or Linux?
Are you a graphics designer, or something:-?. We, developers, get hired to work on Windows software sometimes, and then we HAVE to use Windows. Some of us we also use tools that are only Windows-hosted, because the people who make the tool can only afford supporting one platform.
It's not just the color, it's the actual spectrum. Use a CD as a diffraction grating (look at a reflection of the bulb in the shiny side, at an angle), and you will notice how the bulb produces several rather narrow spectral lines. The combined color seems a decent approximation of white to the human eye, but the pigments in the paint and dyes have their own spectral anomalities, so some colors change in weird ways when lit up with fluorescent light. Some fluorescents have a better, more even, spectrum, though. They might be less efficient and more expensive.
I always do the CD test before buying bulbs a non-trivial quantity. And, besides, I usually get them for $1 or $2 at Walmart, so I'm not interested in a $80 LED bulb for that reason.
Now, white LED's spectrum has a narrowish blue line from the LED itselt, and a very wide line across the yellow part of the spectrum, from coumarin-6, which is dye they coat the blue LED with to make a white LED out of it. Definitely better than cheap fluorescents, but not quite there yet.
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..is up again. Let them morons play their game, I'm playing mine:-).
Most important thing with SCO is, of course, not to forget to short the fucker when the time comes, which is made time consuming by the sheer amount of news about the stupid case you have to skim through to be on top of it.
Anyone who has ever driven with a radar detector knows just how useful a simple detector can be. The LED-based WiFi finders probably react to microwave ovens and cordless phones just like your radar detector reacts to McDonalds door openers. I wouldn't even waste half an hour to try one.
The canary, on the other hand, has a proper receiver, and a computer capable of parsing the broadcast packets, which puts it in a class of its own. I'd wait until they fix the problem with undetected routers, and make the thing a little smaller, and then I'd buy one. Would be also nice if it could detect if the network required login, though, and whether it was MAC-blocked.
It's full of liquid sodium, lithium, and what not, just like the Chernobyl reactor. If you blow up a hole in the cooling system, the whole thing will burn the fuck up, dispersing several tons of radioactive oxides all over the place, also like the Chernobyl reactor. The Chernobyl dead zone is hundreds of miles across, but even a tiny reactor core getting dispersed in the middle of a city would shut down that city for several hundred years. No matter how large the city and how small the reactor. The radioisotopes in hospitals have a lot less curies in them than even a small reactor core, and a shorter half-life too.
I can't understand why places like the ukraine and the USA have made this process more difficult than it should be.
On purpose. If an evel candidate seems to be taking over a precinct, despite his evelness, the precinct official can adjust the voting machine to correct for the injustice done by the evel voters of the evel candidate. You can't do that with paper ballots.
Of course, the Soviet Russia solution was even better - they simply put only one candidate on the ballot. Just ONE. This way there was no way for any evel candidate to take the election, ever, because he simply wasn't on the ballot.
I know: let's send Bush to Paris, in a blob of melted down AOL demo CDs.
I don't know how this will affect evolution, but I will definitely be more careful to check labels on the meat I buy from now on..
It's a unix thing that found its way into Windows:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Even though it's not DDoS, it's an attack on people's sites, which is probably illegal. The spammers could sue them. I mean, DDoSing SCO must have seemed like a good idea too, at least to the people who did it, but it was illegal!
Wasn't there an IE exploit where you could make one URL show up like another URL in the address bar?
No, I think MS is going in the opposite direction. I was going through the company's supply closet once, looking for a 5" floppy disk (don't ask), and I found an old box that said on it "Microsoft Mouse - Microsoft Windows Included". Don't remember the version though, it could've been pre-3.0.
Great! Now they have more money to sue people with!
Where the wack did you pull "optical" out of? Is "optical" a buzzword so buzzy it starts to buzz for you before anyone actually invoked it? Wacom thingy is a goddamn tablet, for creeps sake. The only piece of optical technology in it is the power LED.
In case you're wondering, the mouse has nothing on its bottom, nothing at all. No ball, no lense, no little wheels.. Amazing!
SD is more expensive than other types of flash memory.
I actually went to the trouble of getting the $15 price off pricewatch (no URL for you, figure it out for yourself). Surprizingly, 128MB SD, MMC and CF all start at $15, and 1GB sizes show only about 5% price difference. So, your information is outdated.
*ducks*
Than, again, my girlfriend got a 128MB SD card at RadioShack, two weeks ago, for $79.95. Good deal, if you ask me (for RadioShack).
*unducks*
Some hot fucking news!
My Wacom Graphire came with a mouse like that, wireless, but had to be used on the pad only. That was, what, only 10 years ago. Glad to see something just like it finally make the fucking news! Oh, wait, it's not news, it's slashdot...
..many criminals tend to be complete morons..
It's the ones that you see on TV that tend to be complete morons. Which tells you that the police can only really catch complete morons. Which tells you something about the police in general, but not about criminals in general. It also tells you that if you are a non-moron (though how would you know, really, until you try?), you might have a good chance at being successful as a crook.
Is it bleeding because your Treo 650 didn't quite fit along with your new free SD card, or are you offtopic?
I've programmed for both. MS design is better. Palm got too entangled with its "Zen of Palm" concept, and was late to adopt to faster processors and larger memories. As a result, the darn things have a nasty kludge for a filesystem, which makes programming anything but organizer-type applications a nightmare.
This lack of proper filesystem is what Palm is trying to patch now, but the original design is so inappropriate that fixing it only puts more kludges on top of other kludges. Which is where the current Treo bug really comes from.
I don't know if the Palm is dead, or not, but it would take a good system architect to fix PalmOS. I kinda wonder if Palm would hire me; i'd enjoy the challenge.
* Treo 650 - $599
* 128 MB SD card - $15
* Staisfaction from having been given the $15 card for free - priceless.
AOL is not sending their CDs fast enough for this trick, it would take years to collect enough.
There was this CD factory that we ran across once, and there was a large box of defective CDs on the sidewalk next to the garbage. We saved the CDs, and eventually got tired of the smell of microwaved polycarbonate, when it hit us - hey, don't we have a glue gun somewhere?
The best CDs are the ones with no paint around the hole. If you layer those up, two or three layers, make sure that what you see through the holes of the top layer is the shiny parts of the bottom layer - that way the whole wall is shiny, with no visible paint or anything.
Next time I'll do my ceiling:-).
..If they actually have nothing against gays, then I would say the number is zero.
Have you seen goatse.cx?
Not nearly comparable to a lazy developer that leaves harmless (but annoying) remnants of a program behind.
In other words, there are, indeed, evel people in this world:-). Who would've though!
Yeah, homophobia is pretty nauseating.
How many people, you think, who have nothing against gays, still get nauseated from looking at pictures of guys porking each other up the arse?
Yeah. But Windows application programmers have to do a consious non-trivial effort to make the program uninstall cleanly. Guess what - this is very low on the list priorities for most developers. If they don't, the program leaves crap behind - files, registry entries, etc. Entries with obscure names, scattered around several system directories, each with several tens of thousands of entries with even more obscure names. A luser can't deal with that! You, a knowledgeble person, can't really deal with it either, unless you have too much free time on your hands.
This system is really easy to fix. All you need is, well, something like RPM, that manages contents of installation packages without effort on the part of the app developer. Unfortunately, a good installation system is not high on Microsoft's list of priorities either. Also, I'm not sure the shit in HKCR could be made easy to get rid of without a complete system overhaul.
What do they use for settings on Mac? Hope they don't have a registry..
What computing JOB can be done in Windows that can't be done as well or better by a Mac or Linux?
Are you a graphics designer, or something:-?. We, developers, get hired to work on Windows software sometimes, and then we HAVE to use Windows. Some of us we also use tools that are only Windows-hosted, because the people who make the tool can only afford supporting one platform.
It's not just the color, it's the actual spectrum. Use a CD as a diffraction grating (look at a reflection of the bulb in the shiny side, at an angle), and you will notice how the bulb produces several rather narrow spectral lines. The combined color seems a decent approximation of white to the human eye, but the pigments in the paint and dyes have their own spectral anomalities, so some colors change in weird ways when lit up with fluorescent light. Some fluorescents have a better, more even, spectrum, though. They might be less efficient and more expensive.
I always do the CD test before buying bulbs a non-trivial quantity. And, besides, I usually get them for $1 or $2 at Walmart, so I'm not interested in a $80 LED bulb for that reason.
Now, white LED's spectrum has a narrowish blue line from the LED itselt, and a very wide line across the yellow part of the spectrum, from coumarin-6, which is dye they coat the blue LED with to make a white LED out of it. Definitely better than cheap fluorescents, but not quite there yet.