Legos are an interesting species. They nest in laundry baskets, too. I've found whole colonies of them living in the bottom of the laundry basket in the kids' bathroom.
Also, I think that the more mundane legos use the really special and "important" pieces for food, because the special pieces disappear as the others multiply.
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I've been using the Perl DBI for about two years now, and recently convinced a cow-worker to look into using DBI/DBD instead of parsing thru flat files.
I gave him a pointer to Symbolstone's DBI website, showed him a couple of small routines that he could get started with, and he was off and running!
He was so excited about DBI that he rushed out and bought the O'Reily book, but after reading it he was very dissapointed in the book, and said that the resources that I gave him were much more useful, and timely.
In any case, I checked out the book and found that it was fairly full of "fluff".
Upon reflection, I think that it would be difficult to put together enough material on DBI programming to make a book-
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Say you wanted to attack 'System X.com', someone who has large pipes and is difficult to flood, etc.
You could initiate an attack against other machines who are known to "hack back", spoofing your packets to look like they are coming from 'System X.com'.
'System X.com' then suffers from a distributed denial of service attack originating from those systems where the syadmins think they are "hacking back".
At NASA Dryden Flight Test Facility (now it has been promoted to a Center) , I was running slackware (installed from ~30 floppies) before Windows NT came out.
I can still remember the MS developers showing the real-time/MPX/Unix programmers all of the "innovation" that windows NT was going to bring to the computing world.
We had a good laugh at their expense when they were defining/explaing "new" OS terms that Microsoft was going to provide starting with NT.
Terms such as: Multitasking Memory protection Priv/Unpriv code sections
etc...
so, don't worry about OS availability way back when...Linux was there---and don't forget about alternative OS'es such as DrDOS---whatever happened to that?
Is it just me, or does everyone else find it difficult to get vendors to sell you memory at the prices that they advertise on pricewatch?
Statements such as "on-line orders only" and "must mention pricewatch" are great, but most of them don't give you a place on the order form to mention pricewatch. So, you must call, and half the time the customer service rep will say something like "that price is for online orders only, but I'll honor that price THIS time. Next time, please order online at www.excessmicro.com, etc....
As far as Slashdot posting stories such as this--I have no problem with it, even if young Emmett DOES sell memory on the side to suppliment his Andover.net income!
anyways, just wanted to vent here--
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One of the best ways to level the OS playing field would be to take the $40-80 price of the O/S and make it an add-on. That $600 pc would now be $560 before the Microsoft 'tax'. People would be able to chose to purchase a system without an O/S, or with Linux, BSD, Solaris or MS Windows on it.
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I firmly believe that the best thing that Judge Jackson could do is to rule that the O/S price must be broken out as a line item in the cost of a system.
Currently, most large PC vendors are required to include the "microsoft tax" on all of their systems, even those that ship without a Microsoft O/S.
If people were to see that $70 of the price of their $800 system was for Windows, they might look at alternatives that cost less.
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Uh, the nearest star IS approx. eight light-minutes away. Some call it SOL, you might call it the sun, and our soon to be friends over near Alpha Centauri might call it the 'Puppy Star" or something similar.
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Slashdot performance metrics exposed!
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I didn't submit this in time to be included in this week's quickies, and it looks like it doesn't warrant being an article by itself:
I've been monitoring Slashdot's main page download time for about a week now--it just so happens that they went thru a major server move/upgrade during the monitoring period.
I have spent quite a bit of time in South America, and I was very happy with ATT Worldnet's service. They have local numbers in most cities (at least all the cities that I visited).
Sometimes the bitrate wasn't the best that I've seen (21kbps), but heck, it worked just fine.
In this Yahoo article, Microsoft corp. Denies That Gates Offered to Open Windows Code
``Bill did not make any of the comments attributed to him about the settlement,'' Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said. ''The comments they said Bill made are just not true.''
so--where did these comments come from?
I am Bill of Borg--we will be assimilated.
oh wait--I mean 'you' will be assimilated. not we...
Really, comparing the before and after of ATA and Serial ATA?
Parallel ATA picture-lots of ribbon cables and power supply cables, looks like your typical floppy, CD, single hard drive setup.
Serial ATA picture-just a single serial(two or four conductor wire) for each drive. No power. I guess that those Serial ATA drives (floppy too?) won't require 5v and 12v power. or at least will only pull 40mAh or so...
oh well, it is a nice concept, but the pictures are a bit misleading.
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Just wondering how the new "public" ICANN at large group fits into this.
We obviously have a say, but will our voices be heard?
Will we have a vote? naw....
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My dual pentium pro (running at 233mhz) takes three minutes to do the MEMORY TEST on a cold boot...
Three minutes to boot to a prompt would be great.
but, it has been been 79 days since it was last rebooted (power failure)
$uptime
4:58pm up 79 days, 3:34, 1 user, load average: 2.29, 2.08, 2.02
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Legos are an interesting species. They nest in
laundry baskets, too. I've found whole colonies of
them living in the bottom of the laundry basket in
the kids' bathroom.
Also, I think that the more mundane legos use the
really special and "important" pieces for food,
because the special pieces disappear as the others
multiply.
You didn't know that legos were cannibals, did you?
---
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My sister says there there is no need to purchase Legos in bulk as they reproduce on their own.
Her son will swear that he only left one or two Legos out at night, but in the morning there are hundreds!
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I've been using the Perl DBI for about two years now, and recently convinced a cow-worker to look into using DBI/DBD instead of parsing thru flat files.
I gave him a pointer to Symbolstone's DBI website, showed him a couple of small routines that he could get started with, and he was off and running!
He was so excited about DBI that he rushed out and bought the O'Reily book, but after reading it he was very dissapointed in the book, and said that the resources that I gave him were much more useful, and timely.
In any case, I checked out the book and found that it was fairly full of "fluff".
Upon reflection, I think that it would be difficult to put together enough material on DBI programming to make a book-
DBI programming really isn't all that complicated
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Say you wanted to attack 'System X.com', someone who has large pipes and is difficult to flood, etc.
You could initiate an attack against other machines who are known to "hack back", spoofing your packets to look like they are coming from 'System X.com'.
'System X.com' then suffers from a distributed denial of service attack originating from those systems where the syadmins think they are "hacking back".
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
At NASA Dryden Flight Test Facility (now it has been promoted to a Center) , I was running slackware (installed from ~30 floppies) before Windows NT came out.
I can still remember the MS developers showing the real-time/MPX/Unix programmers all of the "innovation" that windows NT was going to bring to the computing world.
We had a good laugh at their expense when they were defining/explaing "new" OS terms that Microsoft was going to provide starting with NT.
Terms such as:
Multitasking
Memory protection
Priv/Unpriv code sections
etc...
so, don't worry about OS availability way back when...Linux was there---and don't forget about alternative OS'es such as DrDOS---whatever happened to that?
oh yeah--squashed like a bug by MS
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Is it just me, or does everyone else find it difficult to get vendors to sell you memory at the prices that they advertise on pricewatch?
Statements such as "on-line orders only" and "must mention pricewatch" are great, but most of them don't give you a place on the order form to mention pricewatch. So, you must call, and half the time the customer service rep will say something like "that price is for online orders only, but I'll honor that price THIS time. Next time, please order online at www.excessmicro.com, etc....
As far as Slashdot posting stories such as this--I have no problem with it, even if young Emmett DOES sell memory on the side to suppliment his Andover.net income!
anyways, just wanted to vent here--
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Check out colotto.com
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One of the best ways to level the OS playing field would be to take the $40-80 price of the O/S and make it an add-on. That $600 pc would now be $560 before the Microsoft 'tax'. People would be able to chose to purchase a system without an O/S, or with Linux, BSD, Solaris or MS Windows on it.
---
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check out colotto.com
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Wow--this makes me feel so much better knowing that my ASUS dual PIII box will work now.
The machine has only been up and running linux, apache and sybase for over a year at this point.
Whew--what's next, an announcement that the Pentium Pro can be used in an SMP environment as well?
What is the reasoning behind this? Something to distinguish the PIII from the Celeron or (more likely) the Athlon?
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I firmly believe that the best thing that Judge Jackson could do is to rule that the O/S price must be broken out as a line item in the cost of a system.
Currently, most large PC vendors are required to include the "microsoft tax" on all of their systems, even those that ship without a Microsoft O/S.
If people were to see that $70 of the price of their $800 system was for Windows, they might look at alternatives that cost less.
---
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Check out colotto.com
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Uh, the nearest star IS approx. eight light-minutes away.
Some call it SOL, you might call it the sun, and our soon to be friends over near Alpha Centauri might call it the 'Puppy Star" or something similar.
Interested in the Colorado Lottery?
Check out colotto.com
---
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I didn't submit this in time to be included in this week's quickies, and it looks like it doesn't warrant being an article by itself:
I've been monitoring Slashdot's main page download time for about a week now--it just so happens that they went thru a major server move/upgrade during the monitoring period.
Check out the results here.
Does this chart represent your user experience with Slashdot before/after the upgrade?
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this is a most worthwhile and excellent effort!
Thanks be to the folks behind this site!
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I have spent quite a bit of time in South America, and I was very happy with ATT Worldnet's service.
They have local numbers in most cities (at least all the cities that I visited).
Sometimes the bitrate wasn't the best that I've seen (21kbps), but heck, it worked just fine.
and no, I'm not affiliated, etc...
any time, pal. Thanks for your concise and informative post.
It is great that we are getting more insight into the physiology of dinosaurs. The discovery of a prehistoric animal's organs is amazing!
This could lend major credence to the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs, since modern day birds have four chambered hearts.
so, do all of todays (and yesterdays) first person shooter games owe everything to Castle Wolfenstein?
Remember Battlestar Galactica? now there was a realistic space show--excellent acting, special effects--and swearing, too!
what the frack?
very nice...but remember:
I ain't gettin in no plane, sucka!
All these worlds are yours - except Europa, attempt no landings there.
In this Yahoo article, Microsoft corp.
Denies That Gates Offered to Open Windows Code
``Bill did not make any of the comments attributed to him about the settlement,'' Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said. ''The comments they said Bill made are just not true.''
so--where did these comments come from?
I am Bill of Borg--we will be assimilated.
oh wait--I mean 'you' will be assimilated. not we...
Really, comparing the before and after of ATA and Serial ATA?
Parallel ATA picture-lots of ribbon cables and power supply cables, looks like your typical floppy, CD, single hard drive setup.
Serial ATA picture-just a single serial(two or four conductor wire) for each drive. No power. I guess that those Serial ATA drives (floppy too?) won't require 5v and 12v power. or at least will only pull 40mAh or so...
oh well, it is a nice concept, but the pictures are a bit misleading.
So, Katz was behind your personal DoS (Denial of Sleep) attack!
The whole situation just seems so asinine.
"530-There are too many users. Please try to download at a later time. Thank You."
BTW, I'm looking for gullible investors for my latest project-->LinuxToo
LinuxToo is a company that thrives on people who say "you run linux? me too!"