Give me fibre channel hds and a gigabit network card! And how about some decent freaking cases? I'm sick of the old atx case that assumes you only need those 7 bays, I've got drives just standing in my case with no room left:( What about the weight? They ever going to make these things any lighter? lan parties are great but lugging around my box is a pain in the arse, and the monitor is well damn near impossible to get a stable hold on and weighs a ton.
Those flatscreens get any cheaper yet? I want a monitor that I can keep in my pocket and just roll it out when I need it, now that would be a real advance. On the p2 266 vs these p3 XXX super chips, take that $1000 you'd waste on a new board / p3 733 or whatever they're up to, buy yourself an adaptec 2940u2w and some scsi lvd harddrives, triple the performance of the box.
Thats what I did, I got a p2 400 for dirt cheap off ebay, and my machine out performs most of these $2000+ dells at college, I wonder why it's my case that always does all the hosting for games and why my box is stable as a rock and multiprocessing is easy even with apps that actually use a harddrive, try that one with your ide:) Copy 600 megs from 1 ide hd to another ide hd, and try to browse ebay, check your mail, and check your icq at the same time and let me know when you're done.
Scsi is well worth it. Why don't manufactors get with the program, it's not the central cpu thats the problem, it's the fact that the central cpu has to do everything, get the load off the damn cpu and into the peripherals themselves!!!!! (cough *winmodem* cough), if it's all software controlled they have to write more drivers, you get a shitty product that slows the box down in general and all around destroys the machine.
Peripherals need work! 4x AGP would be nice in my board, PCI could use some better speed.
I want a motherboard without ide anything, no floppy(whats the point), no isa (who needs it?), 4 usb ports(usb is kinda nice and their so small whats the problem?), ditch the parallel port (not 1989 anymore people, get usb), and 6 sdram memory slots or rimm slots but include sdram to rimm converters. Suspend to ram is a definate, dual bios for easy recovery, full chipset settings in a bios menu.
Ide is just a waste of space on the board.
Backwards compatibility had a place in the market, but really who needs support for isa anymore? what you got an awe64 soundcard still or something? yet you wanna put it with an athlon? earth to geniouses buyers of high end boards/cpus more then likely have up to date peripherals.
Maybe I'm just a dipshit, but I think focusing on how many mhz something has its complete foolishness. Off the shelf high end cooling systems would be nice, ie like a mini kryotech but one that doesn't add 80lbs to the box.
In general, how long till we get computers that are 21st century all around and not just in the cpus?
Bob Not Bob Rants again, mod me down see if I care, my karma might suck but at least I'm not an anonymous coward.
Standardized Testing always meant to me, everyone goes into a room fills in a bunch of dots which reveals nothing about who you are (except for the lovel question on your ethnicity, and how many of us are guilty of filling in the alaska indian for a day?), then filling out an extraordinary number of oddball questions and being told how stupid or intelligent you are 8 months later(true you would think the intelligent people who made the system could find the solution called computers to making the system faster).
Not being told ok your a dumb negro... go play with legos, ahh your a chicano go take the test in spanish with mexican standards of testing applied, oh your a white boy with middle class parents well shit get in this line and take 4000 questions, miss one and your life is over but all these other people can miss all the questions including their name and still get that 80,000 house with 16kids that you will work to support for the rest of your life.
If God told me to fix the problems of the world I would do the following: 1. Remove all the colors from the world 2. Remove all the sexes from the world 3. Remove all the mental and any remaining physical differences from the world 4. Educate all the exact same way 5. Give everyone the exact same upbringing.
Question 6: What do you get when these items are applied? A bunch of faceless hunks of grey walking around spitting 2+2 is 4 and my uncle did bad things to me and I'm going to go cry with my counselor in group help now.
Frankly if you keep whining we might as well just not be people anymore and start stamping out the next generation at the Pepsi cola plants.
Life with live, cause life is a bitch. You need to understand that you must compete in life and it's not a fair playing field, but why were u dumb enough to believe it should be fair? The smart person is the one who sold u the admission ticket to life for $300.
Wow you make me feel retarded with my 1210 Funny my highschool said get above a 1000 and you'll do fine. Maybe ohio is really that far behind in life.
I spent my Freshman/Sophmore years teching myself programming, linux, and everything else about computers that I could, gave up sleeping and ruined my life at one of those "college prep" schools and got drop kicked outta there. Then my local highschool thought I was a trouble case and said no, till we kept pushin and I took academic probation to get in and spent my junior year concentrating on just regulating my life.
From that experience of my frosh/soph years I gained enough practical experience that places me far ahead of the idiots who sat around listening to a teacher tell them for 3 weeks how they should format their code instead of actually learning a real life practical and usefull style. I got a 5 on the AP Computer Science Exam in Pascal then in C++ meanwhile not doing a thing in any of my computer courses. Are grades and classes a real measure of success? I think not. Show me 300 people who can get an A in a computer science course and lets say 3 of them were self taught and just took the course because it was required. I'm willing to bet those 3 can produce a higher quality, better product in less time then any of the class taught students. Real experience is real knowledge, book knowledge is just what it says it is a book which is useless unless you have loose table legs.
I'm 18 and do perl based programming for several companies while being a full time college student and I can tell you this much technically wise I'm dissapointed by my peers. My peers frankly should be in business school and not computer science, now there are a good 5-15% that are worth a darn but the rest are incompetent in technical areas. You shouldn't need to be taught simplistic concepts by the time your a senior in college, I'm a freshman in classes with seniors and still passing out from pure boredum while thinking to myself why am I in college again? Ah yes all the good little people in the world have a college degree, I wonder did it take a college degree to be taught that moronic concept? Business experience teaches you more in life then 300 classes ever would.
I hate the old idea that you must be taught how to do things, did it ever occur to anyone that the original inventor of these ideas was not taught them by god? It's called inginuity and intelligence which frankly have been left behind in this modern age where people are spoon fed from day 1 with every fact that they should need and are then dropped kicked into a business situation where they are supposed to be applying it.
The only thing I've learned at college is that it's not technically knowledge that you need but a courses in how to deal with the incompetance of your business partners, associates, and your fellow "technicians."
I'm disgusted at the idea that we are craddling along another "misfortunate" person in life who couldn't make it out of their neighborhood so they decided to make it worse and then whine how bad it sucks so now we'll let them play with legos to get into college? A chimpanzee, wait no a gorilla could figure out how to make that robot given enough pieces and enough tries.
Just my 2 cents as I go to sleep. Night all, if it sounds like I'm ranting it's because I'm half passed out.
Coke rules, pepsi = sugar water some fat guy took a piss in and slapped a dollar price tag on
Pepsi for the next generation of brain dead idiots, from the same people who invented the crap they call rap.
Think it's all a conspiracy? Ebonics + Pepsi + Rap = The Henchman of the Evil Empire of Stupid People Who Really Need Jobs Badly even though American companies are at a shortfall for labor.
We can get both, but then again our machines are always broken, and over priced.
The softdrinks here are extremely watered down, when I buy a coke I expect it to be to coca cola's specifications on the percentage of water, carbonation, etc... not 99.98% water and.01% coke and.01% crap that was gummed up in the machine.
It would be nice if softdrink fountains were regulated to ensure we get what we pay for. I have to opt for the $1 a piece 20oz bottles just so I can get something that tastes right.
I go to Miami University in Oxford, OH The university is in the same area code (513) as Cincinnati, OH which is 20 - 30 minutes from here, but they use a different telephone company (GTE), and part of the town of oxford uses that same company, now I can frankly take a piss as far as it's long distance from here. Last month they made another 30 extensions become long distance. I'm fairly sure Miami is making a nice cut on that forced long distance they got.
I use my cell phone with "free" long distance, which is registered back in cincinnati of course so I can actually make calls at a decent phone rate. I'm surprised the university doesn't charge to call 1-800 numbers. Food service is just as proprietary. Internet access, if you want it live in a dorm, if you want adsl run a line from cincinnati cause your not getting it here at school nor are you getting cable.
The university makes sure that everyone except for the big frats pretty much gets stuck living in the dorm due to the costs of cable tv + internet access which is a crappy 56k modem. So instead we live in concrete boxes with desks that force us to hurt our eyes by sitting 3 inches from our monitors.
Universities are out for profit, nothing more. They don't give a damn about student rights or student housing conditions.
The last dorm they built here I think was 1969 or early 70s, they're doing a big remodelling job which involves the grand scheme of lets give them mobile furniture to simulate more space. I dunno bout you but I hate my roommate already and I really don't want a bunk bed so I can sleep underneath the *ucker.
Clemson is doing just what every university is doing, protecting their interests with Microsoft Style tactics, if we can't do it constitutionally well then we'll ignore their constitutional rights and do it anyways.
Notbob, Ranting and raving all over slashdot again, there goes my karma:(
Dorm Life Bites! The net access is nice and the huge lan is kinda cool at times, but I frankly prefer my dsl at home where I don't have to get stuck living with someone who's a complete alcoholic and literally grows mold as his side of the room rots away, and the rap at 4am is always enjoyable.
I want to move out but this gay ass university (miami university in oxford, oh) requires frosh to live in the dorms. I dunno maybe it's some political agenda to promote diversity or just plain ignorance that people having to live together don't typically get along when they have nothing in common like we get stuck with here.
Highspeed draws me to stay here as this hick shit town the college is in has no cable or dsl, but it's also made me think of switching colleges back to the city where I can live in the bliss of adsl in my own place instead of this 3ft box with a dipshit and a decent connection.
On the rapant spread of warez etc..., yes it happens at college alot, but several people have been arrested here for everything from warez servers to sending threats on aim (then again they're dumb enough to use aim in the first place).
I hate college, the cs department is mentally inferior and the dorm life just plain sucks.
NotBob, college ain't the good life.... business and fun outside of college is the life, who the f' wants a degree if it requires living in this shit for 4 years? I hate college!
Why didn't you just colocate the box or boxes on a different isp with like a 3 month contract while you settled up shit with the old isp? Wouldn't that have been smarter then watching the whole company go down in flames?
So you change the magnetic field of a wire eh? Now correct me if I'm wrong but don't all the wires from your neighborhoods kinda link up and become those huge wires on the towers? Now if this is so, does it mean when grandma mosses down the street plays scrabble online she's changing the magnetic field of the wire so I can't play quake? I don't see how the hell they plan to make this actually work and keep the signals from getting crossed? We're talking power lines that they plan to screw with for internet connection? Hrmm god damn I hope my lights don't get packet loss from this.
Are they going to do another brilliant move and move the files out of/opt/kde again? It's the most annoying thing in the world to get redhat rpm's and watch them put it in a f'd up location, true switchdesk is nice and all but leave it where it was intended by the programmers!
I know RedHat likes to make everything customized, but jesus leave it alone. I like RedHat overall and their new installer is damned nice (esp. compared to the old 4.2 which is so archaic it's almost funny), but the damn thing formats / without asking unless you select custom install. Thats crazy, and annoying as hell, done that twice to me, oh well thank god for 4 harddrives.
True coppermine's will still have their 440bx, oh yippie use an old core on an old board, but where is my athlon boards period? We haven't seen boards coming out of anyone but the original 3??? I want to upgrade but I don't want a shitty mother board, I want a quality board for a quality cpu. Asus makes some of the best boards, and they refused to comment on Athlon?!@#@!#
Also whats with kryotech's bloat prices? Why is a "Cool ATHLON 900" costing $2200? Where the components are a ton cheaper then that? Doesn't make much sense, I would buy the cool 900 if it was half reasonable and actually said which motherboard it shipped with.
At 4 in the morning when a projects due by 9 am there is no replacement for some Metallica / NiN, to keep me from thinking or falling asleep, I just use my roommates head phones and crank it all the way, that usually does the trick. If I put on dave mathews band to program by I would be asleep in under 5 minutes.
We wouldn't need Linux certified machines if companies would stop using crappy winmodems instead of full blown modems, and nice creative labs sound blasters instead of these shitty rip offs they drop in their "name brand" pos laptops. I'd love to have linux on the go, but I deal with morons on a daily basis who shit their pants if it dont say microshaft certified so it must run that evilness of '95. Just a thought from a guy who hates "name brand" hardware with 3rd country rate parts.
Could it be that we dont enjoy the same type of 'social events' as others do?
The fact that we talk to most of our friends via online forms of communication: IRC, ICQ, E-Mail, etc... instead of constantly calling them up and leaving annoying messages on awkward answering machines? True I do like the way voicemail works on my cell, but icq is still cheaper:P
I like LAN Parties and hanging out with other technical people who I have something to talk to about. I personally don't drink or smoke, and I really dont enjoy many parties where I spend half the night defending the fact that I don't drink and the other half trying to figure out what they keep trying to place in my drink.
I think it's really a matter of style, how many people who look back on the 4 or 5 years they spent either in high school or college drunk off their asses can say it was really worth it? I'd say if I had to venture a guess maybe half of them, the ones who got lucky and didn't get sued for sexual harassment or something else stupid while they were drunk or didn't get arrested.
I'm at college now, and alot of people think I'm nuts because I enjoy an afternoon of chilling out listening to cds, watching movies, or playing video games while their 'out' doing shit. Then I walk outside and see the great fun event their all doing... sitting around being porch monkies in the sun. Not what I would consider fun, maybe I just dont understand the concept of baking my way into cancer on a saturday afternoon and consider myself cool for doing so.
Take it as ya like, but I dont agree with a good 40% of the social norms out there of things to do.
I was always nervous around women and really stumbled on my words badly because I was always worried about what dumbass thing I was going to say next.
(please read the below part before laughing)
My friends took me to the nudie bar, and after the initial being scared shitless of the situation and such I started spending some of that easily earned coding money. I had my friend ask the woman for my first lap dance, once I got past the initial phobia of the entire thing I had a blast and found most of my tensions were relieved about being around them.
It might not work for everyone but I have no problem talking to girls anymore, and find that life is a little easier without that stress. And we all make more then enough doing this shit so why not spend a hundred bucks and experiment it might help ya. Just a thought that what you really need is a "culture shock" and have a fun time outside for a change believe me it's well worth the money for the stress relief.
Yeah I know you're thinking god this guy is pathetic, but I'd rather be over that problem in life then be stuck scared to talk to them.
Another thing to try, is getting stuck doing a job that forces you to talk to people, ie. technical support. I worked for an isp doing tech, was a easy and somewhat fun job at times, sucks for pay but it's a good experience.
Don't try to become a social king over night, but do get out when you can.
I myself suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, just ask the guy I work with. Could it be possibly a link between the abilities/skills necessary to be a geek and the disorders that many of us suffer from?
I've always wondered what people did back in the middle ages and such who had these problems? Just a thought what did our type of people do before the advent of the computer?
I myself suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, just ask the guy I work with. Could it be possibly a link between the abilities/skills necessary to be a geek and the disorders that many of us suffer from? I've always wondered what people did back in the middle ages and such who had these problems? Just a thought what did our type of people do before the advent of the computer?
It just seems a very complicated system designed to keep out those who are like me and have made large profits on work in short amounts of time and haven't had the time to spend 10 years investing, or are under 40 and really haven't settled down enough to make all the large investments to get in on these things. We all know redhat will soar, and whats wrong with individuals being able to get in on it? After 30 days? hrmm doesn't sound like there's a chance for any short term profit at that point and that makes long term profit really far out there.
yeah I would like to make both a short term gain from the stock but I support redhat and their products and would like to be in it for the long run also.
The other big question on my mind: If you have money... who cares who the hell you are? Hasn't it always been the point of companies to get the cash? If you have the money cleared and in your account to cover the number of shares you want why do they want you to have at bare minimum a half million in your account?
If this is an improvement over the previous system I fear the thought of what the old system is like.
It appears that many people who have absolutely nothing to do with this industry are getting rich off of us through these soaring stocks in internet companies, while those of us who really make the place run get screwed.
I dont plan to make a living off of stocks, but I want to invest in RedHat, I have no desire of dumping all of my money into the stock market, god help me if I spend my life waiting for a 1/8th gain that turns to a 3/4ths lost by the end of the day.
Thanks for the help/response Cyberdeck. The idea of software to run it all would probably end up with us being sued by billion dollar companies to run us into the ground and broke, I can live on coke and rice crispies treats if I have to while developing it, how about you?
My god thats the exact same thing I was planning to do but prolly with 400 or 500 shares depending on if I get my payment for this last job in before it was too late.
Is it just me or does that sound a little illegal on e*trade's side? They have no right to withhold your finances. I would cancel the original check sent to them personally and frankly they can go screw themselves for that kind of customer relations.
E*Trade is just kicking themselves in the ass by not letting many of us in on it. Many of us make more then most "average" non-technical americans do.
We mount up cash at an alarming rate, yet we're not allowed to invest it? I'm sure microsoft would have no trouble being allowed to buy up almost all the shares if they felt like it.
The stock market is a very f'd up system, it leaves no room for those who care about the company, only those who have money and are 50 years old sitting in florida hanging out with all the other people who dont really need to be investing in a company that we support.
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Give me fibre channel hds and a gigabit network card! :(
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And how about some decent freaking cases?
I'm sick of the old atx case that assumes you only need those 7 bays, I've got drives just standing in my case with no room left
What about the weight? They ever going to make these things any lighter? lan parties are great but lugging around my box is a pain in the arse, and the monitor is well damn near impossible to get a stable hold on and weighs a ton.
Those flatscreens get any cheaper yet?
I want a monitor that I can keep in my pocket and just roll it out when I need it, now that would be a real advance.
On the p2 266 vs these p3 XXX super chips, take that $1000 you'd waste on a new board / p3 733 or whatever they're up to, buy yourself an adaptec 2940u2w and some scsi lvd harddrives, triple the performance of the box.
Thats what I did, I got a p2 400 for dirt cheap off ebay, and my machine out performs most of these $2000+ dells at college, I wonder why it's my case that always does all the hosting for games and why my box is stable as a rock and multiprocessing is easy even with apps that actually use a harddrive, try that one with your ide
Copy 600 megs from 1 ide hd to another ide hd, and try to browse ebay, check your mail, and check your icq at the same time and let me know when you're done.
Scsi is well worth it.
Why don't manufactors get with the program, it's not the central cpu thats the problem, it's the fact that the central cpu has to do everything, get the load off the damn cpu and into the peripherals themselves!!!!! (cough *winmodem* cough), if it's all software controlled they have to write more drivers, you get a shitty product that slows the box down in general and all around destroys the machine.
Peripherals need work!
4x AGP would be nice in my board, PCI could use some better speed.
I want a motherboard without ide anything, no floppy(whats the point), no isa (who needs it?), 4 usb ports(usb is kinda nice and their so small whats the problem?), ditch the parallel port (not 1989 anymore people, get usb), and 6 sdram memory slots or rimm slots but include sdram to rimm converters. Suspend to ram is a definate, dual bios for easy recovery, full chipset settings in a bios menu.
Ide is just a waste of space on the board.
Backwards compatibility had a place in the market, but really who needs support for isa anymore? what you got an awe64 soundcard still or something? yet you wanna put it with an athlon? earth to geniouses buyers of high end boards/cpus more then likely have up to date peripherals.
Maybe I'm just a dipshit, but I think focusing on how many mhz something has its complete foolishness. Off the shelf high end cooling systems would be nice, ie like a mini kryotech but one that doesn't add 80lbs to the box.
In general, how long till we get computers that are 21st century all around and not just in the cpus?
Bob Not Bob Rants again, mod me down see if I care, my karma might suck but at least I'm not an anonymous coward.
how do u force it to use a socket instead of tcp/ip in the perl modules?
Standardized Testing always meant to me, everyone goes into a room fills in a bunch of dots which reveals nothing about who you are (except for the lovel question on your ethnicity, and how many of us are guilty of filling in the alaska indian for a day?), then filling out an extraordinary number of oddball questions and being told how stupid or intelligent you are 8 months later(true you would think the intelligent people who made the system could find the solution called computers to making the system faster).
Not being told ok your a dumb negro... go play with legos, ahh your a chicano go take the test in
spanish with mexican standards of testing applied, oh your a white boy with middle class parents well shit get in this line and take 4000 questions, miss one and your life is over but all these other people can miss all the questions including their name and still get that 80,000 house with 16kids that you will work to support for the rest of your life.
If God told me to fix the problems of the world I would do the following:
1. Remove all the colors from the world
2. Remove all the sexes from the world
3. Remove all the mental and any remaining physical differences from the world
4. Educate all the exact same way
5. Give everyone the exact same upbringing.
Question 6: What do you get when these items are applied? A bunch of faceless hunks of grey walking around spitting 2+2 is 4 and my uncle did bad things to me and I'm going to go cry with my counselor in group help now.
Frankly if you keep whining we might as well just not be people anymore and start stamping out the next generation at the Pepsi cola plants.
Life with live, cause life is a bitch.
You need to understand that you must compete in life and it's not a fair playing field, but why were u dumb enough to believe it should be fair? The smart person is the one who sold u the admission ticket to life for $300.
f**k you
What about the fact I'm from Ohio, does that mean I get a test of throwing cow shit at a wall to get into college?
I bet I can code circles and firewalls around your SAT score all 8 err... 7 err... 4 days of the week!
Wow you make me feel retarded with my 1210
Funny my highschool said get above a 1000 and you'll do fine. Maybe ohio is really that far behind in life.
I spent my Freshman/Sophmore years teching myself programming, linux, and everything else about computers that I could, gave up sleeping and ruined my life at one of those "college prep" schools and got drop kicked outta there.
Then my local highschool thought I was a trouble case and said no, till we kept pushin and I took academic probation to get in and spent my junior year concentrating on just regulating my life.
From that experience of my frosh/soph years I gained enough practical experience that places me far ahead of the idiots who sat around listening to a teacher tell them for 3 weeks how they should format their code instead of actually learning a real life practical and usefull style. I got a 5 on the AP Computer Science Exam in Pascal then in C++ meanwhile not doing a thing in any of my computer courses. Are grades and classes a real measure of success? I think not. Show me 300 people who can get an A in a computer science course and lets say 3 of them were self taught and just took the course because it was required. I'm willing to bet those 3 can produce a higher quality, better product in less time then any of the class taught students. Real experience is real knowledge, book knowledge is just what it says it is a book which is useless unless you have loose table legs.
I'm 18 and do perl based programming for several companies while being a full time college student and I can tell you this much technically wise I'm dissapointed by my peers. My peers frankly should be in business school and not computer science, now there are a good 5-15% that are worth a darn but the rest are incompetent in technical areas.
You shouldn't need to be taught simplistic concepts by the time your a senior in college, I'm a freshman in classes with seniors and still passing out from pure boredum while thinking to myself why am I in college again? Ah yes all the good little people in the world have a college degree, I wonder did it take a college degree to be taught that moronic concept? Business experience teaches you more in life then 300 classes ever would.
I hate the old idea that you must be taught how to do things, did it ever occur to anyone that the original inventor of these ideas was not taught them by god? It's called inginuity and intelligence which frankly have been left behind in this modern age where people are spoon fed from day 1 with every fact that they should need and are then dropped kicked into a business situation where they are supposed to be applying it.
The only thing I've learned at college is that it's not technically knowledge that you need but a courses in how to deal with the incompetance of your business partners, associates, and your fellow "technicians."
I'm disgusted at the idea that we are craddling along another "misfortunate" person in life who couldn't make it out of their neighborhood so they decided to make it worse and then whine how bad it sucks so now we'll let them play with legos to get into college? A chimpanzee, wait no a gorilla could figure out how to make that robot given enough pieces and enough tries.
Just my 2 cents as I go to sleep.
Night all, if it sounds like I'm ranting it's because I'm half passed out.
Coke rules, pepsi = sugar water some fat guy took a piss in and slapped a dollar price tag on
Pepsi for the next generation of brain dead idiots, from the same people who invented the crap they call rap.
Think it's all a conspiracy? Ebonics + Pepsi + Rap = The Henchman of the Evil Empire of Stupid People Who Really Need Jobs Badly even though American companies are at a shortfall for labor.
(Come on Someone moderate this Funny)
We can get both, but then again our machines are always broken, and over priced.
.01% coke and .01% crap that was gummed up in the machine.
The softdrinks here are extremely watered down, when I buy a coke I expect it to be to coca cola's specifications on the percentage of water, carbonation, etc... not 99.98% water and
It would be nice if softdrink fountains were regulated to ensure we get what we pay for.
I have to opt for the $1 a piece 20oz bottles just so I can get something that tastes right.
I go to Miami University in Oxford, OH
:(
The university is in the same area code (513) as Cincinnati, OH which is 20 - 30 minutes from here, but they use a different telephone company (GTE), and part of the town of oxford uses that same company, now I can frankly take a piss as far as it's long distance from here. Last month they made another 30 extensions become long distance.
I'm fairly sure Miami is making a nice cut on that forced long distance they got.
I use my cell phone with "free" long distance, which is registered back in cincinnati of course so I can actually make calls at a decent phone rate.
I'm surprised the university doesn't charge to call 1-800 numbers. Food service is just as proprietary. Internet access, if you want it live in a dorm, if you want adsl run a line from cincinnati cause your not getting it here at school nor are you getting cable.
The university makes sure that everyone except for the big frats pretty much gets stuck living in the dorm due to the costs of cable tv + internet access which is a crappy 56k modem. So instead we live in concrete boxes with desks that force us to hurt our eyes by sitting 3 inches from our monitors.
Universities are out for profit, nothing more. They don't give a damn about student rights or student housing conditions.
The last dorm they built here I think was 1969 or early 70s, they're doing a big remodelling job which involves the grand scheme of lets give them mobile furniture to simulate more space. I dunno bout you but I hate my roommate already and I really don't want a bunk bed so I can sleep underneath the *ucker.
Clemson is doing just what every university is doing, protecting their interests with Microsoft Style tactics, if we can't do it constitutionally well then we'll ignore their constitutional rights and do it anyways.
Notbob,
Ranting and raving all over slashdot again, there goes my karma
Dorm Life Bites!
The net access is nice and the huge lan is kinda cool at times, but I frankly prefer my dsl at home where I don't have to get stuck living with someone who's a complete alcoholic and literally grows mold as his side of the room rots away, and the rap at 4am is always enjoyable.
I want to move out but this gay ass university (miami university in oxford, oh) requires frosh to live in the dorms. I dunno maybe it's some political agenda to promote diversity or just plain ignorance that people having to live together don't typically get along when they have nothing in common like we get stuck with here.
Highspeed draws me to stay here as this hick shit town the college is in has no cable or dsl, but it's also made me think of switching colleges back to the city where I can live in the bliss of adsl in my own place instead of this 3ft box with a dipshit and a decent connection.
On the rapant spread of warez etc..., yes it happens at college alot, but several people have been arrested here for everything from warez servers to sending threats on aim (then again they're dumb enough to use aim in the first place).
I hate college, the cs department is mentally inferior and the dorm life just plain sucks.
NotBob, college ain't the good life.... business and fun outside of college is the life, who the f' wants a degree if it requires living in this shit for 4 years? I hate college!
Why didn't you just colocate the box or boxes on a different isp with like a 3 month contract while you settled up shit with the old isp? Wouldn't that have been smarter then watching the whole company go down in flames?
So you change the magnetic field of a wire eh?
Now correct me if I'm wrong but don't all the wires from your neighborhoods kinda link up and become those huge wires on the towers?
Now if this is so, does it mean when grandma mosses down the street plays scrabble online she's changing the magnetic field of the wire so I can't play quake?
I don't see how the hell they plan to make this actually work and keep the signals from getting crossed? We're talking power lines that they plan to screw with for internet connection? Hrmm god damn I hope my lights don't get packet loss from this.
You dumbass!
Coke, the true Cola.
Pepsi = a can of sugar some fat guy took a piss in
Coke = real flavor in a can.
Are they going to do another brilliant move and move the files out of /opt/kde again?
It's the most annoying thing in the world to get redhat rpm's and watch them put it in a f'd up location, true switchdesk is nice and all but leave it where it was intended by the programmers!
I know RedHat likes to make everything customized, but jesus leave it alone. I like RedHat overall and their new installer is damned nice (esp. compared to the old 4.2 which is so archaic it's almost funny), but the damn thing formats / without asking unless you select custom install. Thats crazy, and annoying as hell, done that twice to me, oh well thank god for 4 harddrives.
True coppermine's will still have their 440bx, oh yippie use an old core on an old board, but where is my athlon boards period? We haven't seen boards coming out of anyone but the original 3???
I want to upgrade but I don't want a shitty mother board, I want a quality board for a quality cpu. Asus makes some of the best boards, and they refused to comment on Athlon?!@#@!#
Also whats with kryotech's bloat prices?
Why is a "Cool ATHLON 900" costing $2200?
Where the components are a ton cheaper then that? Doesn't make much sense, I would buy the cool 900 if it was half reasonable and actually said which motherboard it shipped with.
Amen to that.
You need music so loud/strong that it keeps you from thinking about how half passed out you are.
At 4 in the morning when a projects due by 9 am there is no replacement for some Metallica / NiN, to keep me from thinking or falling asleep, I just use my roommates head phones and crank it all the way, that usually does the trick.
If I put on dave mathews band to program by I would be asleep in under 5 minutes.
We wouldn't need Linux certified machines if companies would stop using crappy winmodems instead of full blown modems, and nice creative labs sound blasters instead of these shitty rip offs they drop in their "name brand" pos laptops. I'd love to have linux on the go, but I deal with morons on a daily basis who shit their pants if it dont say microshaft certified so it must run that evilness of '95. Just a thought from a guy who hates "name brand" hardware with 3rd country rate parts.
Could it be that we dont enjoy the same type of 'social events' as others do?
:P
The fact that we talk to most of our friends via online forms of communication: IRC, ICQ, E-Mail, etc... instead of constantly calling them up and leaving annoying messages on awkward answering machines? True I do like the way voicemail works on my cell, but icq is still cheaper
I like LAN Parties and hanging out with other technical people who I have something to talk to about. I personally don't drink or smoke, and I really dont enjoy many parties where I spend half the night defending the fact that I don't drink and the other half trying to figure out what they keep trying to place in my drink.
I think it's really a matter of style, how many people who look back on the 4 or 5 years they spent either in high school or college drunk off their asses can say it was really worth it? I'd say if I had to venture a guess maybe half of them, the ones who got lucky and didn't get sued for sexual harassment or something else stupid while they were drunk or didn't get arrested.
I'm at college now, and alot of people think I'm nuts because I enjoy an afternoon of chilling out listening to cds, watching movies, or playing video games while their 'out' doing shit. Then I walk outside and see the great fun event their all doing... sitting around being porch monkies in the sun. Not what I would consider fun, maybe I just dont understand the concept of baking my way into cancer on a saturday afternoon and consider myself cool for doing so.
Take it as ya like, but I dont agree with a good 40% of the social norms out there of things to do.
I was always nervous around women and really stumbled on my words badly because I was always worried about what dumbass thing I was going to say next.
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My friends took me to the nudie bar, and after the initial being scared shitless of the situation and such I started spending some of that easily earned coding money. I had my friend ask the woman for my first lap dance, once I got past the initial phobia of the entire thing I had a blast and found most of my tensions were relieved about being around them.
It might not work for everyone but I have no problem talking to girls anymore, and find that life is a little easier without that stress. And we all make more then enough doing this shit so why not spend a hundred bucks and experiment it might help ya. Just a thought that what you really need is a "culture shock" and have a fun time outside for a change believe me it's well worth the money for the stress relief.
Yeah I know you're thinking god this guy is pathetic, but I'd rather be over that problem in life then be stuck scared to talk to them.
Another thing to try, is getting stuck doing a job that forces you to talk to people, ie. technical support. I worked for an isp doing tech, was a easy and somewhat fun job at times, sucks for pay but it's a good experience.
Don't try to become a social king over night, but do get out when you can.
Just some thoughts from a fellow
I myself suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, just ask the guy I work with. Could it be possibly a link between the abilities/skills necessary to be a geek and the disorders that many of us suffer from?
I've always wondered what people did back in the middle ages and such who had these problems? Just a thought what did our type of people do before the advent of the computer?
I myself suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, just ask the guy I work with. Could it be possibly a link between the abilities/skills necessary to be a geek and the disorders that many of us suffer from? I've always wondered what people did back in the middle ages and such who had these problems? Just a thought what did our type of people do before the advent of the computer?
It just seems a very complicated system designed to keep out those who are like me and have made large profits on work in short amounts of time and haven't had the time to spend 10 years investing, or are under 40 and really haven't settled down enough to make all the large investments to get in on these things.
We all know redhat will soar, and whats wrong with individuals being able to get in on it?
After 30 days? hrmm doesn't sound like there's a chance for any short term profit at that point and that makes long term profit really far out there.
yeah I would like to make both a short term gain from the stock but I support redhat and their products and would like to be in it for the long run also.
The other big question on my mind:
If you have money... who cares who the hell you are?
Hasn't it always been the point of companies to get the cash? If you have the money cleared and in your account to cover the number of shares you want why do they want you to have at bare minimum a half million in your account?
If this is an improvement over the previous system I fear the thought of what the old system is like.
It appears that many people who have absolutely nothing to do with this industry are getting rich off of us through these soaring stocks in internet companies, while those of us who really make the place run get screwed.
I dont plan to make a living off of stocks, but I want to invest in RedHat, I have no desire of dumping all of my money into the stock market, god help me if I spend my life waiting for a 1/8th gain that turns to a 3/4ths lost by the end of the day.
Thanks for the help/response Cyberdeck.
The idea of software to run it all would probably end up with us being sued by billion dollar companies to run us into the ground and broke, I can live on coke and rice crispies treats if I have to while developing it, how about you?
My god thats the exact same thing I was planning to do but prolly with 400 or 500 shares depending on if I get my payment for this last job in before it was too late.
This whole system is f'd up!
Is it just me or does that sound a little illegal on e*trade's side?
They have no right to withhold your finances.
I would cancel the original check sent to them personally and frankly they can go screw themselves for that kind of customer relations.
E*Trade is just kicking themselves in the ass by not letting many of us in on it. Many of us make more then most "average" non-technical americans do.
We mount up cash at an alarming rate, yet we're not allowed to invest it? I'm sure microsoft would have no trouble being allowed to buy up almost all the shares if they felt like it.
The stock market is a very f'd up system, it leaves no room for those who care about the company, only those who have money and are 50 years old sitting in florida hanging out with all the other people who dont really need to be investing in a company that we support.