In my webserver logs, AOL users come thru any number of AOL proxies....
Could be difficult to map those users back to a geographical area-->other than the fact that they are likely in the U.S. (America OnLine) ---
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We've got an E10k that is split into three domains (I am the DBA for two of the domains) and other than the occasional memory problem that results in a kernel panic, they perform well.
The chances of me taking one of them down and trying to load linux on it are pretty slim, though... ---
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As CoCo "classic" hacker/programmer, I'm not proud to say that I used to 'rip' Coco games and cartridges onto tape and floppy.
But these were some fine (and fun) games.
I quit breaking copy protection on games when a buddy of mine came back from the east coast with over 100 floppies for me to checkout/break...90% of them had already been broken--by me. (I was on the west coast)
Any former CoCo users remember my nick? it was on the 'splash' page that loaded on every game that was broken by me. ---
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With Kathrine Harris's certification of George W. Bush as the winner of the Florida presidential election, anything that Al Gore, Jr. does from here on out will be a blatent attempt to overturn, and yes 'steal', the election.
Al Gore and the Democrats have given it the old college try, but now they are done.
The election is over, so now we can focus on more important matters, such as investigating the backgrounds of Republican Electoral College voters for anything that could be used to blackmail them into changing their votes. ---
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of course it is Deep Blue...Deep thoughts are from Jack Handy.
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I
went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.
or
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good
reason.
I run a small, text only, website that covers the Colorado Lotto games. We get a good number of visits per day (nothing like slashdot, but we try--and no ads, either!).
Anyways, we get comments from a wide range of folks on the technology ladder, but one thing that many of them have in common is the desire to play/gamble online.
People consistantly ask if they can plunk down their $$ to play state lotteries...We don't offer that, but I was surprised at the number of people who ask about it.
So, I don't think that the "rich" (being computer users) are abstaining from playing the lottery. If anything, they have more information at their disposal and probably derive more entertainment value from playing lotteries. ---
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I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent 'I'm going to patent something obvious'"""" stupid comments on/.
in '77 when I was a kid, there was an eclipse of the sun on the west coast of the United States.
My sister and I were psyched about it, and our parents talked to us about how to view the eclipse and we made pin-hole viewers, etc...
To make a long story even longer, my sister looked at the eclipse several times--trying to focus on the sun to see the eclipse better.
That day she had a blind spot form right in the center of her vision. She didn't tell anyone about it, hoping that it would go away. Finally after several days she 'fessed up about the blind spot and she went to an eye doctor.
The doctor had been inundated by people with stories similar to hers...he said that she should consider herself lucky that she hadn't blinded herself.
Imagine how tough it would be to have a blind spot directly in the center of your vision. It is a dark spot that you can't look around. Imagine trying to focus on someone's face and seeing nothing.
So, Yes, looking at the sun IS really bad ---
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I have several good friends and have known many co-workers (note the spelling) who were over here on H1B visas. They were all 'trapped' by their H1B sponsors and were paid below-average salaries. Many of them were/are extremly talented and could have taken any spot that they desired, except that they were locked in with their H1B sponsors.
so, what did they do? they played the game, jumped thru the hoops, waited in lines and finally got their green cards. Every last one of them.
Yes, it was work--and a PITA, I helped several of them and couldn't believe all of the hoops that they had to go thru, but they now work for who they want, and command premium salaries.
So, I wonder about those who's visas are expiring? When did they start the process of applying for their green card? ---
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Check out the "cost to advertiser" link under the top 'N' results on GoTo.com...
usually it is just a couple of cents, but I've seen some site pay more than a US$ dollar for your click-through.
Makes me wonder if they knew what they were doing when they submitted their bid...
hey--what's the difference between 2 and.02 anyway ---
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This is only an issue if you install MS-SQL server. And if you do, then you won't just "plug it in and forget it", because you would need to know, or have someone who knows, enough about the SQL server to add users/create databases, tables, procs, etc.
Granted, these items aren't very difficult, but each time that you login as the system administrator to do the above items it might occur to you that "hey--I just logged in without a password" maybe I should change my 'sa' password.
It is well known by anyone who uses/installs/admins Sybase or MS-SQl servers that the default password is blank and that the first thing that one should do after installing a new server is issue the following command
sp_password null,"my_new_password","sa" ---
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Sybase and it's derivitive, Microsoft SQL, have always shipped with a default sys-admin password of blank, or nothing. ---
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in 1981 I had a computer instructor (ok, a math teacher) who had us write a program to input a word phrase and then check to see if the input was a palindrome.
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Slashdot Mirror
HOV stands for High Occupancy Vehicle.
HOVs are vehicles uch as buses, carpool vans, and yes, vehicles with two (2) people in them.
In Colorado, motorcycles also qualify as High Occupancy Vehicles, even with only one rider.
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The link to the bot story is here. No free registration is required :)
Although, the other page was a Hoot!
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The real reason he decided not to put a webserver on his pinball machines is:
Too many hits will tilt the damn things!
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In my webserver logs, AOL users come thru any number of AOL proxies....
Could be difficult to map those users back to a geographical area-->other than the fact that they are likely in the U.S. (America OnLine)
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I work on them just fine :)
We've got an E10k that is split into three domains (I am the DBA for two of the domains) and other than the occasional memory problem that results in a kernel panic, they perform well.
The chances of me taking one of them down and trying to load linux on it are pretty slim, though...
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
As CoCo "classic" hacker/programmer, I'm not proud to say that I used to 'rip' Coco games and cartridges onto tape and floppy.
But these were some fine (and fun) games.
I quit breaking copy protection on games when a buddy of mine came back from the east coast with over 100 floppies for me to checkout/break...90% of them had already been broken--by me. (I was on the west coast)
Any former CoCo users remember my nick? it was on the 'splash' page that loaded on every game that was broken by me.
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
That should read 'chip-failure' -Paper
The Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper initially reported on the chip-failure
Looking for tickets to the Broncos/Seahawks game on Dec 10th at Mile High?
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With Kathrine Harris's certification of George W. Bush as the winner of the Florida presidential election, anything that Al Gore, Jr. does from here on out will be a blatent attempt to overturn, and yes 'steal', the election.
Al Gore and the Democrats have given it the old college try, but now they are done.
The election is over, so now we can focus on more important matters, such as investigating the backgrounds of Republican Electoral College voters for anything that could be used to blackmail them into changing their votes.
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
of course it is Deep Blue...Deep thoughts are from Jack Handy.
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I
went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.
or
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good
reason.
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
I run a small, text only, website that covers the Colorado Lotto games. We get a good number of visits per day (nothing like slashdot, but we try--and no ads, either!).
Anyways, we get comments from a wide range of folks on the technology ladder, but one thing that many of them have in common is the desire to play/gamble online.
People consistantly ask if they can plunk down their $$ to play state lotteries...We don't offer that, but I was surprised at the number of people who ask about it.
So, I don't think that the "rich" (being computer users) are abstaining from playing the lottery. If anything, they have more information at their disposal and probably derive more entertainment value from playing lotteries.
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
you mean like all of the warnings that come with a "Happy Fun Ball"?
best one by far is: Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball
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Oh yeah?
Infinity times infinity.
ha ha
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I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent "I'm going to patent 'I'm going to patent something obvious'"""" stupid comments on /.
Inifinity.....
so there
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Ok, I'll bite on this one.
in '77 when I was a kid, there was an eclipse of the sun on the west coast of the United States.
My sister and I were psyched about it, and our parents talked to us about how to view the eclipse and we made pin-hole viewers, etc...
To make a long story even longer, my sister looked at the eclipse several times--trying to focus on the sun to see the eclipse better.
That day she had a blind spot form right in the center of her vision. She didn't tell anyone about it, hoping that it would go away. Finally after several days she 'fessed up about the blind spot and she went to an eye doctor.
The doctor had been inundated by people with stories similar to hers...he said that she should consider herself lucky that she hadn't blinded herself.
Imagine how tough it would be to have a blind spot directly in the center of your vision. It is a dark spot that you can't look around. Imagine trying to focus on someone's face and seeing nothing.
So, Yes, looking at the sun IS really bad
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
I have several good friends and have known many co-workers (note the spelling) who were over here on H1B visas. They were all 'trapped' by their H1B sponsors and were paid below-average salaries. Many of them were/are extremly talented and could have taken any spot that they desired, except that they were locked in with their H1B sponsors.
so, what did they do? they played the game, jumped thru the hoops, waited in lines and finally got their green cards. Every last one of them.
Yes, it was work--and a PITA, I helped several of them and couldn't believe all of the hoops that they had to go thru, but they now work for who they want, and command premium salaries.
So, I wonder about those who's visas are expiring? When did they start the process of applying for their green card?
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
GoTo and some other sites already do this.
.02 anyway
Check out the "cost to advertiser" link under the top 'N' results on GoTo.com...
usually it is just a couple of cents, but I've seen some site pay more than a US$ dollar for your click-through.
Makes me wonder if they knew what they were doing when they submitted their bid...
hey--what's the difference between 2 and
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RMS on the GPLing of Qt and More
I would have thought that `more` would have been placed under the GPL long ago...
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This is only an issue if you install MS-SQL server. And if you do, then you won't just "plug it in and forget it", because you would need to know, or have someone who knows, enough about the SQL server to add users/create databases, tables, procs, etc.
Granted, these items aren't very difficult, but each time that you login as the system administrator to do the above items it might occur to you that "hey--I just logged in without a password" maybe I should change my 'sa' password.
or not...
---
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It is well known by anyone who uses/installs/admins Sybase or MS-SQl servers that the default password is blank and that the first thing that one should do after installing a new server is issue the following command
sp_password null,"my_new_password","sa"
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This is nothing new--
Sybase and it's derivitive, Microsoft SQL, have always shipped with a default sys-admin password of blank, or nothing.
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Check out Netcraft, they aren't just "american", but do have info on a good portion of the internet.
.com, .net, .org be more interesting?
Why are you interested in stats on the *.us domains? Wouldn't
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What the hell is "replace", can't find it in any SQL standard books.
Try looking under "update".
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Don't blame the original poster for confusing VPN and ip masq, blame Roblimo.
The op-ed stuff at the end of the story is clearly Roblimo's opinion, not cwilson's opinion.
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As Linux zealots are beginning to find out, it's a lot easier to masquerade as a better product than it is to go out and be one.
Wanna bet that Mr. Moody has never used Linux?
he better be able to DUCK! He has surely got a lot of flak coming his way now, hehe.
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in 1981 I had a computer instructor (ok, a math teacher) who had us write a program to input a word phrase and then check to see if the input was a palindrome.
That should keep them busy for a while...at least for three minutes or so.
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