Armed only with an overhead projector and slides, I was once seriously accused of hacking into a university network.
Do you have the rest of this story posted somewhere? I've seen your.sig a number of times and wondered what happened. Sounds like a run-in with some pretty dumb PHB types.
Shouldn't you care that your government is doing some shady stuff and exploiting other people and other countries for their sake only?
I never said that I approve. I never said that I'd make the same decisions. In fact, I said the opposite, that I probably wouldn't have made the same decisions.
Since I can't do anything about what's already been done, I console myself with the thought (hope!) that we did what we did for well-thought-out reasons, based on information that the general public doesn't have access to. I don't believe that all information should be free, and that there is a place for secrets in governments.
Come 2004, I won't be voting Bush. I don't agree with his economic/environmental agenda. On the other hand, I have to wonder what Gore would have done, if he'd taken office. I wonder what sort of response we'd have seen to 9/11, and I wonder if Afghanistan would still be squirming under the thumb of the Taliban, and if Iraq would still be suffering the depredations of Saddam and his monster sons.
OK, so you're uncomfortable with what our government has been doing. What are you doing about it, besides posting on/.? Are you forming a militia? Planning a violent overthrow of the government? Or are you shaking your head and thinking about what to do in 2004? I realize that I am making a possibly incorrect assumption here. If you're not a US citizen, are you planning an invasion to oust the imperialist dogs?
Besides, the Executive branch has more power now than they have had in the past 100 years at least. The unbalance of power is just as bad as having terrible president alone.
I repeat: what are you doing about it? Just because I don't waste energy by working myself into a froth over something I can't do anything about, it doesn't mean that I am happy with the current state of things. There is a process in this country by which we the people may elect our leaders. If more people understood what power they had and gave a shit about something besides trying to get that big house and SUV, we'd see our representatives doing their jobs, instead of pandering to the highest bidders.
I'm just as sceptical of government as the next guy. But not all government policy can be cleared by the public.
Wow! True insight on/.! I happen to agree with your thinking quite a bit. There were probably very few WMDs left in Iraq by the time we invaded, and the humanitarian photo-op stuff is nice PR. The real deal is that we get a nice base of operations in the area (right next to our pals Iran and Syria, no less!), and an easier time keeping an eye on the shenanigans over there.
At least, that's what I hope. I have very strong doubts about GWB's intellect, but the fact is that he is not the government. He's just a figurehead, mostly. He's got a lot of smart people working for him, and while I don't necessarily feel that they make the decisions I would make in their position, I don't think they're idiots, either.
I just keep telling myself that there's lots of information we the public are not privy to, and that Bush & co. made sound (if aggressive) decisions based on that information. It's better than sitting in a corner rocking and mumbling, right?
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Didn't work for Eazel, unfortunately.
Or a bazillion other companies with stupid business plans... I don't doubt that people put a lot of effort into Nautilus, and it's sorta nice for those few times that I want to look at a directory listing with thumbnails (I know other people use it extensively), but to build a company around it? With some sort of goofy software distribution pipeline hacked into it?
Looks silly, is definitely rough at first, is always potentially dangerous, but is a lot of fun. I hate going to the gym, and don't feel like devoting more than an hour to fitness. Do a 20-40 minute workout with one of these suckers every few days and you'll feel much better. I strongly recommend that you get the book, though, because otherwise you'll hurt yourself.
I haven't yet managed to hurt myself, other than the blisters which turned into calluses. *knocks on wood*
this is in the netherlands, ( which is probably different from Pennsylvania )
LOL! Give this man the understatement of the year award!
Do you have to buy your booze at a premium in state-run stores? Are you forced to buy decent beer by the case instead of convenient six-packs? Is.nl crawling with old people who should have had their driving licenses revoked a decade or more ago (my brother and his family were nearly killed by some old crone in a caddy... my niece is still in physical therapy two years later)? Do your legislators have their heads up their asses (OK, well, that's pretty universal)? Are your roads so bad that you can tell when you've re-entered the state just by the ridiculous amount of road noise that starts up?
Sorry. I'm a little ambivalent about moving back there. I just keep telling myself that it's only temporary... Just until I can find a house in a nearby state.
Pennsylvania. The broadband sucks, the roads suck, the tech job market sucks, and we're swimming in old people(tm).
Woohoo! Go PennDOT! I'm actually moving back to PA to run a dialup ISP after five years of living in MA. I'm happy because the money's good, but I'm shaking my head because we actually have a viable business model in PA. It's a combination of those oldsters who don't want/can't afford broadband, and everyone else who can't get it (the vast majority of people, even those in and around major urban areas).
Bell Atl^H^H^H^H^H^HVerizon is the same bunch of incompetent boobs they were before I left, so I'm not too worried about them doing anything to hurt our business any time soon. What will be interesting is to see whether or not WiFi becomes a realistic alternative to DSL/Cable.
Home users can get awesome bandwidth extremely cheap, but businesses that want to get T-x bandwidth pay thru the nose for it.
That's because there is an assumption on the part of the bandwidth provider as to the usage patterns of home users versus business users.
Businesses are more likely to use large amounts of bandwidth for longer periods of time than average home users (p2p leeches excepted). Therefore, the bandwidth provider has to have more upstream bandwidth to service X business customers than they would with X home users.
The other part of the picture is that business customers usually get SLAs as part of their contract. Home users don't. It costs money to meet those SLAs (staffing, infrastructure, etc.), and it costs the bandwidth provider money when they don't meet their SLAs.
As a business customer, I can call my upstream ISP and scream bloody murder when their half of the EtherPoint connection to my company goes blip (and watch them scramble to make me happy). When my home DSL connection goes blip, I can choose to either wait on the phone for some first-tier tech monkey who tells me to power-cycle my 'DSL Modem' even after I tell them I've done that, or I can wait until they get their shit together and fix things (which admittedly doesn't happen but rarely any more).
Since you're using vim, why not just do it this way:
:set ff=unix :w
The advantage is that you learn more ways to use the tool. It would be kludgy to reverse the process your way, but my way, you'd just do this:
:set ff=dos :w
Aren't you supposed to turn your car off for those carwashes? It's not like the wipers are going to run when your car is off.
Nah, at every one I've been to the monkey running it has just asked me to put it in Neutral and keep my foot off of the brake. How else would I listen to the cd player?:)
NOTE TO/. COMMUNITIY: THIS IS HOW ONE SPELLS THE WORD FOR THE PEDAL NEXT TO THE ACCELERATOR!!! There has never been a 'Break' pedal in any car I've driven. Sorry, I've just seen that too many times in the comments for this story.
BTW, the wipers in the above movie activate automatically when the windshield gets wet...
Most modern cars with nice accessory packages have rain-sensitive wipers. In my wife's car, though, I have to turn them on first. I'd much rather have to remember to turn them on, than to have to remember to turn them off. For example, think about going through an automatic car wash... Probably wouldn't be good for your wipers to be going when the big brush thing is rumbling over your windshield.
If you're lucky, there are already modules written to handle the formats you're importing from and exporting to. If you're not, you'll just have to spend a little more time on it.
I'm going to install my laptop today, and were going for Debian unstable.
Having been running unstable on my Thinkpad T30 for about 6 months now, I would highly recommend installing sarge (testing) instead of unstable. I have had GNOME get pretty screwed up a few times while the maintainers sorted out packaging issues.
About a month ago I changed my apt sources to grab testing instead of unstable, and I think testing has mostly caught up to where unstable was when I switched. I'm still thinking about starting anew with sarge (don't really like the way I partitioned this disk).
Its always good to see people stand up for their rights.
Are you offering to foot their legal bills?
Didn't think so. The image has been archived and mirrored, and nothing AG's laywers can do will be able to stop people from finding the image, even if it's not at the PA site.
Gabe and Tycho might win a legal battle after spending lots of time and money they don't really have or want to spend, but that seems like a Pyrrhic victory to me, and to them, I think. Tycho said as much in the latest post.
Just ask yourself when was the last time that the US was actually threatened. I'm not talking small incidents (like 9/11), I'm talking threats to the nation's existence; the last time I can think of is WWII.
Er... How about that little thing known as the Cold War? Or are you too young for it to have made much of an impression on you?
There might not have had outright attacks on US soil like Pearl Harbor, but the soviet doctrine of expansion was a real threat. Declaration of war or no, the US government was defending its (and by extension, sometimes a long extension, its peoples') best interests.
people on slashdot continuously say windows is unstable, when it is actually the hardware drivers causing problems 99% of the time.
Well... The NT family is pretty stable, software-wise. I have a win2k installation at home on good hardware, and it's rock-solid for games and stuff. On the other hand, the Win9x (including ME) family mostly just blows goats. Win95b is actually relatively stable, and I know of lots of companies which have standardized on it for corporate desktops. Win98 and WinME are nightmares of instability, regardless of the hardware they run on.
So I think it's fair to say linux is unstable, even if it's the drivers fault.
I don't see how that follows, logically. Have you ever used Linux? I don't think anyone here would argue that Linux is somehow endowed with Magic Pixie Stability Dust that fixes poorly-coded apps so that they don't crash. I'm reasonably certain the that 'stability problems' people are encountering with the NWN server on Linux are not due to the underlying OS crashing.
The fact is, the same program, running on windows on linux... runs better on windows.
... But it's not the same program. You do understand the concept of a port, right? Linux doesn't provide the same underlying APIs as Win32, so while the game engine may be largely the same, all the interfaces have to be changed to 'talk' to Linux instead of win32. Network, disk, etc. etc. etc. If the developers aren't as proficient at programming in a Linux environment, the application isn't going to be as stable.
I'm guessing that you're just trolling, but I figured I'd respond anyhow, in case you really are as ignorant to the reality of how software works as you seem.
What's with the affected stuttering? I've happend upon a few of your posts and have noticed that you randomly 'stutter' some words. Are you trying to call attention to a condition, or are you just living up to your nickname?
Methinks it's much better to arrange things so you do not have problems to be solved.
Sure, and it's better to not get into car accidents, but they happen, sometimes no matter what you do to avoid them.
When you do have problems, it's probably much more important to understand what the problem is than the skill at solving a problem.
Well, in the real world, sysadmins get paid to fix problems when they arise, not to understand the problem and publish a paper about it or something.
Solving the problem you don't have isn't going to help very much.
What do you think emergency procedures are for? You try to anticipate problems before they arise and have a solution to them so that you don't have to waste time thinking of a solution in a crisis.
it was 3 lanes - two on the pavement, and one on the streetcar tracks.
Heh. Sounds like you were on Huntington Ave., which is right by my place. That's part of the fun of driving in Boston... There aren't as many pesky lines and signs to cramp your style as there are in other places. Technically speaking, the tracks are legit for driving on, because the double-yellow is in-between the two sets of tracks.
The dumpster thing is wild. Haven't seen that one.
I offer this advice to anyone doing any driving in or around Boston: Expect people to cut you off, jaywalk, and stop at random places. Just expect it, because it happens so much that I don't even notice it anymore except in really egregious cases. Don't take it personally. This city is so dense and poorly laid-out that people really just have to be assholes to get anywhere. Your blood pressure will go down, and you'll be a happier driver. Oh, and don't expect to get anywhere in a hurry, especially around rush hour. One last thing: get a street map of the city and the surrounding area. Invaluable, even when you've been here for years, because the streets do not follow ANY logical pattern.
We ended up parking outside the city and using mass transit.
Yeah, that was my solution, the first time I came here and a few years before I moved to the city.
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Armed only with an overhead projector and slides, I was once seriously accused of hacking into a university network.
.sig a number of times and wondered what happened. Sounds like a run-in with some pretty dumb PHB types.
Do you have the rest of this story posted somewhere? I've seen your
Shouldn't you care that your government is doing some shady stuff and exploiting other people and other countries for their sake only?
/.? Are you forming a militia? Planning a violent overthrow of the government? Or are you shaking your head and thinking about what to do in 2004? I realize that I am making a possibly incorrect assumption here. If you're not a US citizen, are you planning an invasion to oust the imperialist dogs?
I never said that I approve. I never said that I'd make the same decisions. In fact, I said the opposite, that I probably wouldn't have made the same decisions.
Since I can't do anything about what's already been done, I console myself with the thought (hope!) that we did what we did for well-thought-out reasons, based on information that the general public doesn't have access to. I don't believe that all information should be free, and that there is a place for secrets in governments.
Come 2004, I won't be voting Bush. I don't agree with his economic/environmental agenda. On the other hand, I have to wonder what Gore would have done, if he'd taken office. I wonder what sort of response we'd have seen to 9/11, and I wonder if Afghanistan would still be squirming under the thumb of the Taliban, and if Iraq would still be suffering the depredations of Saddam and his monster sons.
OK, so you're uncomfortable with what our government has been doing. What are you doing about it, besides posting on
Besides, the Executive branch has more power now than they have had in the past 100 years at least. The unbalance of power is just as bad as having terrible president alone.
I repeat: what are you doing about it? Just because I don't waste energy by working myself into a froth over something I can't do anything about, it doesn't mean that I am happy with the current state of things. There is a process in this country by which we the people may elect our leaders. If more people understood what power they had and gave a shit about something besides trying to get that big house and SUV, we'd see our representatives doing their jobs, instead of pandering to the highest bidders.
I'm just as sceptical of government as the next guy. But not all government policy can be cleared by the public.
/.! I happen to agree with your thinking quite a bit. There were probably very few WMDs left in Iraq by the time we invaded, and the humanitarian photo-op stuff is nice PR. The real deal is that we get a nice base of operations in the area (right next to our pals Iran and Syria, no less!), and an easier time keeping an eye on the shenanigans over there.
Wow! True insight on
At least, that's what I hope. I have very strong doubts about GWB's intellect, but the fact is that he is not the government. He's just a figurehead, mostly. He's got a lot of smart people working for him, and while I don't necessarily feel that they make the decisions I would make in their position, I don't think they're idiots, either.
I just keep telling myself that there's lots of information we the public are not privy to, and that Bush & co. made sound (if aggressive) decisions based on that information. It's better than sitting in a corner rocking and mumbling, right?
I have a link for you: Definition of Sarcasm.
Enjoy your newfound sense of humor!
Didn't work for Eazel, unfortunately.
Or a bazillion other companies with stupid business plans... I don't doubt that people put a lot of effort into Nautilus, and it's sorta nice for those few times that I want to look at a directory listing with thumbnails (I know other people use it extensively), but to build a company around it? With some sort of goofy software distribution pipeline hacked into it?
Whatever.
http://www.dragondoor.com/kettlebells/
Looks silly, is definitely rough at first, is always potentially dangerous, but is a lot of fun. I hate going to the gym, and don't feel like devoting more than an hour to fitness. Do a 20-40 minute workout with one of these suckers every few days and you'll feel much better. I strongly recommend that you get the book, though, because otherwise you'll hurt yourself.
I haven't yet managed to hurt myself, other than the blisters which turned into calluses. *knocks on wood*
this is in the netherlands, ( which is probably different from Pennsylvania )
.nl crawling with old people who should have had their driving licenses revoked a decade or more ago (my brother and his family were nearly killed by some old crone in a caddy... my niece is still in physical therapy two years later)? Do your legislators have their heads up their asses (OK, well, that's pretty universal)? Are your roads so bad that you can tell when you've re-entered the state just by the ridiculous amount of road noise that starts up?
LOL! Give this man the understatement of the year award!
Do you have to buy your booze at a premium in state-run stores? Are you forced to buy decent beer by the case instead of convenient six-packs? Is
Sorry. I'm a little ambivalent about moving back there. I just keep telling myself that it's only temporary... Just until I can find a house in a nearby state.
Pennsylvania. The broadband sucks, the roads suck, the tech job market sucks, and we're swimming in old people(tm).
Woohoo! Go PennDOT! I'm actually moving back to PA to run a dialup ISP after five years of living in MA. I'm happy because the money's good, but I'm shaking my head because we actually have a viable business model in PA. It's a combination of those oldsters who don't want/can't afford broadband, and everyone else who can't get it (the vast majority of people, even those in and around major urban areas).
Bell Atl^H^H^H^H^H^HVerizon is the same bunch of incompetent boobs they were before I left, so I'm not too worried about them doing anything to hurt our business any time soon. What will be interesting is to see whether or not WiFi becomes a realistic alternative to DSL/Cable.
Home users can get awesome bandwidth extremely cheap, but businesses that want to get T-x bandwidth pay thru the nose for it.
That's because there is an assumption on the part of the bandwidth provider as to the usage patterns of home users versus business users.
Businesses are more likely to use large amounts of bandwidth for longer periods of time than average home users (p2p leeches excepted). Therefore, the bandwidth provider has to have more upstream bandwidth to service X business customers than they would with X home users.
The other part of the picture is that business customers usually get SLAs as part of their contract. Home users don't. It costs money to meet those SLAs (staffing, infrastructure, etc.), and it costs the bandwidth provider money when they don't meet their SLAs.
As a business customer, I can call my upstream ISP and scream bloody murder when their half of the EtherPoint connection to my company goes blip (and watch them scramble to make me happy). When my home DSL connection goes blip, I can choose to either wait on the phone for some first-tier tech monkey who tells me to power-cycle my 'DSL Modem' even after I tell them I've done that, or I can wait until they get their shit together and fix things (which admittedly doesn't happen but rarely any more).
LOL
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Maybe it's the rum talking, but that's one of the funniest replies I've ever read on
Since you're using vim, why not just do it this way:
:set ff=unix
:w
The advantage is that you learn more ways to use the tool. It would be kludgy to reverse the process your way, but my way, you'd just do this:
:set ff=dos
:w
Eh. Just a thought.
Nah, at every one I've been to the monkey running it has just asked me to put it in Neutral and keep my foot off of the brake. How else would I listen to the cd player? :)
NOTE TO /. COMMUNITIY: THIS IS HOW ONE SPELLS THE WORD FOR THE PEDAL NEXT TO THE ACCELERATOR!!! There has never been a 'Break' pedal in any car I've driven. Sorry, I've just seen that too many times in the comments for this story.
Most modern cars with nice accessory packages have rain-sensitive wipers. In my wife's car, though, I have to turn them on first. I'd much rather have to remember to turn them on, than to have to remember to turn them off. For example, think about going through an automatic car wash... Probably wouldn't be good for your wipers to be going when the big brush thing is rumbling over your windshield.
Perl is your friend.
If you're lucky, there are already modules written to handle the formats you're importing from and exporting to. If you're not, you'll just have to spend a little more time on it.
Having been running unstable on my Thinkpad T30 for about 6 months now, I would highly recommend installing sarge (testing) instead of unstable. I have had GNOME get pretty screwed up a few times while the maintainers sorted out packaging issues.
About a month ago I changed my apt sources to grab testing instead of unstable, and I think testing has mostly caught up to where unstable was when I switched. I'm still thinking about starting anew with sarge (don't really like the way I partitioned this disk).
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
<genie voice>I GRANT YOU YOUR WISH.</genie voice>
Hmm... This needs a -1 (Dumbass) moderation.
/., but jesus that was a thoughtless post.
Think before you post. I know this is
Are you offering to foot their legal bills?
Didn't think so. The image has been archived and mirrored, and nothing AG's laywers can do will be able to stop people from finding the image, even if it's not at the PA site.
Gabe and Tycho might win a legal battle after spending lots of time and money they don't really have or want to spend, but that seems like a Pyrrhic victory to me, and to them, I think. Tycho said as much in the latest post.
Just ask yourself when was the last time that the US was actually threatened.
I'm not talking small incidents (like 9/11), I'm talking threats to the nation's existence; the last time I can think of is WWII.
Er... How about that little thing known as the Cold War? Or are you too young for it to have made much of an impression on you?
There might not have had outright attacks on US soil like Pearl Harbor, but the soviet doctrine of expansion was a real threat. Declaration of war or no, the US government was defending its (and by extension, sometimes a long extension, its peoples') best interests.
Which bank do you use? I have used a couple of banks which offered online banking, and haven't seen that setup before.
Well... The NT family is pretty stable, software-wise. I have a win2k installation at home on good hardware, and it's rock-solid for games and stuff. On the other hand, the Win9x (including ME) family mostly just blows goats. Win95b is actually relatively stable, and I know of lots of companies which have standardized on it for corporate desktops. Win98 and WinME are nightmares of instability, regardless of the hardware they run on.
So I think it's fair to say linux is unstable, even if it's the drivers fault.
I don't see how that follows, logically. Have you ever used Linux? I don't think anyone here would argue that Linux is somehow endowed with Magic Pixie Stability Dust that fixes poorly-coded apps so that they don't crash. I'm reasonably certain the that 'stability problems' people are encountering with the NWN server on Linux are not due to the underlying OS crashing.
The fact is, the same program, running on windows on linux... runs better on windows.
I'm guessing that you're just trolling, but I figured I'd respond anyhow, in case you really are as ignorant to the reality of how software works as you seem.
requires several local users
Better to just run everything as root, right?
What's with the affected stuttering? I've happend upon a few of your posts and have noticed that you randomly 'stutter' some words. Are you trying to call attention to a condition, or are you just living up to your nickname?
Umm... What world do you live in?
Methinks it's much better to arrange things so you do not have problems to be solved.
Sure, and it's better to not get into car accidents, but they happen, sometimes no matter what you do to avoid them.
When you do have problems, it's probably much more important to understand what the problem is than the skill at solving a problem.
Well, in the real world, sysadmins get paid to fix problems when they arise, not to understand the problem and publish a paper about it or something.
Solving the problem you don't have isn't going to help very much.
What do you think emergency procedures are for? You try to anticipate problems before they arise and have a solution to them so that you don't have to waste time thinking of a solution in a crisis.
it was 3 lanes - two on the pavement, and one on the streetcar tracks.
Heh. Sounds like you were on Huntington Ave., which is right by my place. That's part of the fun of driving in Boston... There aren't as many pesky lines and signs to cramp your style as there are in other places. Technically speaking, the tracks are legit for driving on, because the double-yellow is in-between the two sets of tracks.
The dumpster thing is wild. Haven't seen that one.
I offer this advice to anyone doing any driving in or around Boston: Expect people to cut you off, jaywalk, and stop at random places. Just expect it, because it happens so much that I don't even notice it anymore except in really egregious cases. Don't take it personally. This city is so dense and poorly laid-out that people really just have to be assholes to get anywhere. Your blood pressure will go down, and you'll be a happier driver. Oh, and don't expect to get anywhere in a hurry, especially around rush hour. One last thing: get a street map of the city and the surrounding area. Invaluable, even when you've been here for years, because the streets do not follow ANY logical pattern.
We ended up parking outside the city and using mass transit.
Yeah, that was my solution, the first time I came here and a few years before I moved to the city.