I think we agree that different riders like different bikes for different reasons. I don't think I'd ever own a BMW bike but every time I see one on the street, I say "Nice bike!". The same goes for crotch rockets. I can't see myself on one but if someone wants to ride a bike that sounds like it has a weedeater for an engine and you have to lay down on the gas tank to ride it, go right ahead. Harley owners ride Harleys because they want to be "cool" and they have too much money in their checking account. Hee hee hee!:^)
I wanted to let you know that I changed the exhaust pipe on my VTX (the single "sewer pipe") last summer. I'm not sure what the big deal is in your comment about not being able to change the exhaust pipe. There are lots of aftermarket exhausts for the VTX 1300 and 1800.
I agree that you should be able to drive what you want. But the manufacturers may not produce bikes that won't be purchased by a LOT of consumers. You may have noticed that since the debut of the VTX in the summer of 2001 (which is when I picked-up my model year 2002), the other bike manufacturers have started building "big cruisers" like the VTX.
In the name of customizing, I also have a "fuel computer" that I have to install on my VTX (it's on my weekend To Do list). True, it's not as fun as putting new jets in a carb and tuning things but it still gives me some control over how the bike performs. It will also make those Harleys (some of which cost twice what I paid for the VTX) disappear in the rear view mirror that much quicker.:^)
My antique bike can be fixed with a few simple hand tools I can carry on my bike in a small tool pouch. It's simple enough that I can fix it, maintain it, by the side of the road if necessary. If I really want to travel long distances I can carry an extra chain and belt, set of points and some baling wire and deal with about 90% of all contingencies.
Dude, good luck with carrying that mobile parts store with you while you are out riding. I see a lot of guys like you standing along the shoulder of the road, cellphone in hand, calling a buddy to come pick them up.
From the tone of your comment, you are quite happy with your antique bike. I'm happy for you. But you won't catch me on one of those bikes. My 2002 VTX 1800 (the first model year for the VTX 1800) is a fuel-injected, shaft-driven joy to ride. It has always started on the first press of the starter button and my only visits to the dealer are for routine maintenance.
In your other post, you said that "many people buy a bike to modify it." Well, I'd say that many people buy a bike to ride it. When the warm weather hits, I want a reliable bike that I can take on a long ride without worrying about it breaking down.
Using a proxy to access a website that I have blocked with Websense is a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy that each and every employee (at my shop) has signed.
In an educational environment, you might be able to sneak past Websense for a while and then get a slap on the wrist when you are caught. In the corporate world, if we catch you using a proxy website or some other method (tunneling through SSH, etc) to access a website that is blocked, you will be looking for a new job.
The other thing I've noticed is that not everyone has the technical skills to locate and use a proxy website. If I had 100 people going to Myspace before I blocked it with Websense, only one or two of those people would know how to find a proxy and use it after I add that site to Websense. So I've greatly reduced the number of employees using "company resources" to access Myspace (even though the block was not 100% effective).
Ditto for my shop. Websense tracks approx 2500 unique web surfers on our network. I could find no business-related reason for someone to access *.myspace.com from our network so it is now blocked by Websense. Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) graphs since then show that our Internet pipes are a little less busy during the day.
- Load an application that would have the laptop occasionally contact a server to see if it's been reported stolen, and if it has been, start reporting IP and MAC addresses it hears on WiFi
Can you provide details on how this information would help you locate the stolen laptop? Especially if the laptop is used behind a wireless router that uses a RFC1918 address range for the local systems? You'd get a table of strange MAC addresses (which are useless) and "192.168.1.20, 192.168.1.22, etc." How would you use this information to locate your stolen laptop?
Record the WiFi MAC address of the PC and sniff for it once it's stolen.
So you are going to wander around the city "wardriving" in an attempt to find your laptop? If you are not within 100 feet of your stolen laptop, you'll never find it by its MAC address. This is truly like a needle in a haystack. Do you expect the people who stole the laptop to sit down and start using the laptop at the same place they stole it from you?
DECnet Plus was a day late and a dollar short. It was a solution looking for a problem. It was an "enterprise" version of DECnet inroduced when most VMS shops were already running TCP/IP stacks (Multinet, TCPware, etc.) on their VAXen and AlphaServers.
I would guess that the most popular DECnet Plus calls to the CSC (or submitted via DSNlink) were:
1) What the fuck are all of these new OPCOM messages?
2) How do I turn off all these new gdamn OPCOM messages?
3) How do I uninstall Decnet Plus and go back to DECnet Phase IV?
Digital/Compaq should have spent more time working the bugs out of UCX instead of building DECnet Plus.
Regardless of my distaste for DECnet Phase V, your post is correct.
For all you young whippersnappers who don't recognize anything I said in this post, go back to updating your Myspace account.:^)
When you are in the "sleep lab", they can also check for sleep apnea's evil brother: Restless Leg Syndrome.
I don't have sleep apnea but I do have RLS. Doctors were puzzled for years and years why I was always so tired. A sleep study revealed I was moving a LOT while I was asleep. I was waking up 22 times per hour (not fully conscious but changing from deep sleep to being just barely asleep). Fortunately, there are medications to treat RLS. After starting one of them last summer, I lost a bunch of weight, added a lot of muscle (at the gym) and was much easier to get along with.
Morale of the story: If you are tired all the time and the docs can't tell you why, have your primary care physician get you in for a sleep study at a sleep lab.
Not making light of your mom's passing, but how does one die of breast cancer? Are you saying that the cancer spread to other parts of her body after being first detected in her breast tissue?
Had a gf that was successfully treated *before* it spread past the lymph nodes and into the rest of the body.
Dude, if you think you need to "brace yourself" before looking at myRedbook, you have definitely not seen the nasty stuff that lives in the dark corners of the Internet.
I've seen some pretty wierd, nasty shit online that makes myRedbook look as bland as reading an issue of TV Guide.
I've been exposed to the "nasty stuff" because a few of my co-workers can not resist the urge to look at this stuff on company time, using a company PC, on the company Internet connection. I monitor the firewall and Websense logs to catch the people who are looking at the truly nasty stuff while they are at work.
While the X-Fry and X-Bender quotes are nice, where are the X-Zoydberg zingers?
"What? My mother was a saint!"
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Registering for a new account on BitMeTV seems to be un-possible at this moment:
Open sign-up limit (22,000) has been reached. Invites only. If you are lucky you might have a friend who wants to invite you:) We just wanna see how much cheaters will start respecting their accounts after they realize they cant just come back in a get another one >:). Keep this in mind if you are already a member and you invite a known cheater, and you knew about it in the first place both yours and the person you invited are disabled. You will have to come talk to us to get your account reenstated. If you want an invite and you know someone who has one its up to them to give you an invite.
It sounds like this guy (the owner of Collins Road Theatres) really has his act together. I took a look at the webpage for the theatre and I think the "big boys" (the chain cinemas) could learn a few lessons from him.
Movies for $4??? Only at Collins Road!
We are Cedar Rapids area's only locally-owned movie theatre. We bring you movies that haven't otherwise been available in the Cedar Rapids area in the past and also the best in second-run hits. We do it CHEAPER and BETTER than any of the full-priced theatres in town.
All of the prices are cheaper, not just tickets. We won't gouge you at the concession stand, either. Everything is cheaper, we have a much better selection and it's the ONLY theatre in town where you can get REAL BUTTER, and it's self-serve!
So, if we are charging less, then we must be skimping somewhere, right? Not a bit! We've got top of the line sound systems, custom artwork in the lobby, completely remodeled, and the BEST customer service you will find!
You're dealing with so many patients that the hospitals won't have room to stack them, let alone time to look up their records.
Ok, I'll give you that. When it gets *really* bad, things are going to get out-of-hand.
But how do I know when I need to stop reporting for work? Is someone going to announce the official start of the pandemic on CNBC or CNN?
What is the "high water mark" that I need to watch for so I know that it's time to stay home?
A local school was closed today because hundreds of students and dozens of staff have the flu (true story). Is this the start of the pandemic or just another flu bug making its rounds? I went to work today just like any other day to keep shoveling coal into the boilers.
But what about those of us who work in the I.T. depts of healthcare providers? Wouldn't you want us to go to work during the "pandemic" to make sure that things keep running to handle the large influx of patients at clinics and hospitals?
Somebody's got to be at work to make sure that when you or a relative shows up at the hospital, your electronic records can be accessed, imaging applications are working correctly and medications can be dispensed.
an overzealous ISP had removed all newsgroups with the word "sex" in them from their feed after some scandal was blown out of proportion by the yellow press.
Did they zap alt.navigation.sextant?
Did they block alt.siblings.sextuplets?
Did they deny alt.music.charlie_sexton?
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I think we agree that different riders like different bikes for different reasons. I don't think I'd ever own a BMW bike but every time I see one on the street, I say "Nice bike!". The same goes for crotch rockets. I can't see myself on one but if someone wants to ride a bike that sounds like it has a weedeater for an engine and you have to lay down on the gas tank to ride it, go right ahead. Harley owners ride Harleys because they want to be "cool" and they have too much money in their checking account. Hee hee hee! :^)
:^)
I wanted to let you know that I changed the exhaust pipe on my VTX (the single "sewer pipe") last summer. I'm not sure what the big deal is in your comment about not being able to change the exhaust pipe. There are lots of aftermarket exhausts for the VTX 1300 and 1800.
I agree that you should be able to drive what you want. But the manufacturers may not produce bikes that won't be purchased by a LOT of consumers. You may have noticed that since the debut of the VTX in the summer of 2001 (which is when I picked-up my model year 2002), the other bike manufacturers have started building "big cruisers" like the VTX.
In the name of customizing, I also have a "fuel computer" that I have to install on my VTX (it's on my weekend To Do list). True, it's not as fun as putting new jets in a carb and tuning things but it still gives me some control over how the bike performs. It will also make those Harleys (some of which cost twice what I paid for the VTX) disappear in the rear view mirror that much quicker.
My antique bike can be fixed with a few simple hand tools I can carry on my bike in a small tool pouch. It's simple enough that I can fix it, maintain it, by the side of the road if necessary. If I really want to travel long distances I can carry an extra chain and belt, set of points and some baling wire and deal with about 90% of all contingencies.
Dude, good luck with carrying that mobile parts store with you while you are out riding. I see a lot of guys like you standing along the shoulder of the road, cellphone in hand, calling a buddy to come pick them up.
From the tone of your comment, you are quite happy with your antique bike. I'm happy for you. But you won't catch me on one of those bikes. My 2002 VTX 1800 (the first model year for the VTX 1800) is a fuel-injected, shaft-driven joy to ride. It has always started on the first press of the starter button and my only visits to the dealer are for routine maintenance.
In your other post, you said that "many people buy a bike to modify it." Well, I'd say that many people buy a bike to ride it. When the warm weather hits, I want a reliable bike that I can take on a long ride without worrying about it breaking down.
Using a proxy to access a website that I have blocked with Websense is a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy that each and every employee (at my shop) has signed.
In an educational environment, you might be able to sneak past Websense for a while and then get a slap on the wrist when you are caught. In the corporate world, if we catch you using a proxy website or some other method (tunneling through SSH, etc) to access a website that is blocked, you will be looking for a new job.
The other thing I've noticed is that not everyone has the technical skills to locate and use a proxy website. If I had 100 people going to Myspace before I blocked it with Websense, only one or two of those people would know how to find a proxy and use it after I add that site to Websense. So I've greatly reduced the number of employees using "company resources" to access Myspace (even though the block was not 100% effective).
We blocked MySpace a few weeks ago
Ditto for my shop. Websense tracks approx 2500 unique web surfers on our network. I could find no business-related reason for someone to access *.myspace.com from our network so it is now blocked by Websense. Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/) graphs since then show that our Internet pipes are a little less busy during the day.
Good riddance!
or even better: Touché
:^)
ALT+0233 on the keypad.
If you are posting to Slashdot from a VT100, you may have trouble finding the Alt key.
- Load an application that would have the laptop occasionally contact a server to see if it's been reported stolen, and if it has been, start reporting IP and MAC addresses it hears on WiFi
Can you provide details on how this information would help you locate the stolen laptop? Especially if the laptop is used behind a wireless router that uses a RFC1918 address range for the local systems? You'd get a table of strange MAC addresses (which are useless) and "192.168.1.20, 192.168.1.22, etc." How would you use this information to locate your stolen laptop?
Record the WiFi MAC address of the PC and sniff for it once it's stolen.
So you are going to wander around the city "wardriving" in an attempt to find your laptop? If you are not within 100 feet of your stolen laptop, you'll never find it by its MAC address. This is truly like a needle in a haystack. Do you expect the people who stole the laptop to sit down and start using the laptop at the same place they stole it from you?
DECnet Phase V
:^)
DECnet Plus was a day late and a dollar short. It was a solution looking for a problem. It was an "enterprise" version of DECnet inroduced when most VMS shops were already running TCP/IP stacks (Multinet, TCPware, etc.) on their VAXen and AlphaServers.
I would guess that the most popular DECnet Plus calls to the CSC (or submitted via DSNlink) were:
1) What the fuck are all of these new OPCOM messages?
2) How do I turn off all these new gdamn OPCOM messages?
3) How do I uninstall Decnet Plus and go back to DECnet Phase IV?
Digital/Compaq should have spent more time working the bugs out of UCX instead of building DECnet Plus.
Regardless of my distaste for DECnet Phase V, your post is correct.
For all you young whippersnappers who don't recognize anything I said in this post, go back to updating your Myspace account.
have yourself checked for sleep apnea
When you are in the "sleep lab", they can also check for sleep apnea's evil brother: Restless Leg Syndrome. I don't have sleep apnea but I do have RLS. Doctors were puzzled for years and years why I was always so tired. A sleep study revealed I was moving a LOT while I was asleep. I was waking up 22 times per hour (not fully conscious but changing from deep sleep to being just barely asleep). Fortunately, there are medications to treat RLS. After starting one of them last summer, I lost a bunch of weight, added a lot of muscle (at the gym) and was much easier to get along with.
http://www.restlesslegs.com/
Morale of the story: If you are tired all the time and the docs can't tell you why, have your primary care physician get you in for a sleep study at a sleep lab.
Am I the only one who finds humor in the name Harvey Mudd College?
r acter/bio/1071405.html
An engineering school named after one of the funniest characters in the original Star Trek series? C'mon! What could be more natural?
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/cha
she died of breast cancer
Not making light of your mom's passing, but how does one die of breast cancer? Are you saying that the cancer spread to other parts of her body after being first detected in her breast tissue?
Had a gf that was successfully treated *before* it spread past the lymph nodes and into the rest of the body.
if my wife and I die together, like in a car wreck, and my mother in law cleaning out our stash....
if you are both dead, then why would you give a fuck who finds what?
...multiple-use rags.
+1, Informative???
How about 'Score: -1, Made me hurl at the thought of handling these on "wash day"'?
Brace yourselves and check out myRedbook.
Dude, if you think you need to "brace yourself" before looking at myRedbook, you have definitely not seen the nasty stuff that lives in the dark corners of the Internet.
I've seen some pretty wierd, nasty shit online that makes myRedbook look as bland as reading an issue of TV Guide.
I've been exposed to the "nasty stuff" because a few of my co-workers can not resist the urge to look at this stuff on company time, using a company PC, on the company Internet connection. I monitor the firewall and Websense logs to catch the people who are looking at the truly nasty stuff while they are at work.
'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'
;^)
I guess he should have bought the thermometer that goes to '11'.....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/
While the X-Fry and X-Bender quotes are nice, where are the X-Zoydberg zingers?
"What? My mother was a saint!"
Oh c'mon! Give this cheesehead a break. I thought I would get modded-up, not down, for being FP. :^)
Go Packers! Go Badgers!
Hell, it costs $4 just for a medium soda at the local theatres around here (http://www.marcustheatres.com/)
No, no they don't. You'd do no good.
You're dealing with so many patients that the hospitals won't have room to stack them, let alone time to look up their records.
Ok, I'll give you that. When it gets *really* bad, things are going to get out-of-hand.
But how do I know when I need to stop reporting for work? Is someone going to announce the official start of the pandemic on CNBC or CNN?
What is the "high water mark" that I need to watch for so I know that it's time to stay home?
A local school was closed today because hundreds of students and dozens of staff have the flu (true story). Is this the start of the pandemic or just another flu bug making its rounds? I went to work today just like any other day to keep shoveling coal into the boilers.
If there is a pandemic, you don't go to work.
But what about those of us who work in the I.T. depts of healthcare providers? Wouldn't you want us to go to work during the "pandemic" to make sure that things keep running to handle the large influx of patients at clinics and hospitals?
Somebody's got to be at work to make sure that when you or a relative shows up at the hospital, your electronic records can be accessed, imaging applications are working correctly and medications can be dispensed.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dilemmay
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=subpoena
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=artiller
You forgot to include the links for people to get the truth on the conspiracy:
:^)
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/info/callin.html
You're welcome.
so they will arrest you and look inside your trunk.
;^)
And after they get done with that, they'll search your vehicle.
an overzealous ISP had removed all newsgroups with the word "sex" in them from their feed after some scandal was blown out of proportion by the yellow press.
;^)
Did they zap alt.navigation.sextant?
Did they block alt.siblings.sextuplets?
Did they deny alt.music.charlie_sexton?
Enquiring minds want to know...