Amen, brother! The worst part is if you do help someone (say a good friend), then they casually overhear that one of their good friends has a computer problem, you're going to be tapped to help that person, too. If I had a dollar for every friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend's computer I had to un-fsck-up, I'd be rich.
The worst part is that all these people are getting their kit fixed through that one friend as a proxy, and since you didn't charge them (because you were just being nice, really drunk, trying to get *ahem* "On her good side", etc.), you can't charge their social network of unwashed masses either.
I'm going to apply for a patent for software creation. This method involves generating a random string of characters, running them through a compiler. If there are no errors reported, I run the program, and see if it does anything useful. If not, we go on. The "random generation" of characters is sufficiently optimized so that strings of characters that are obviously not code are not generated (like starting a line with abcbabcb when a definition for abcbabcb doesnt already exist).
Now, eventually, I will create every software package that could possibly be created. It stands to reason that my "Thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters" (that's copyrighted, BTW) method will overcome human software development, and begin making discoveries before the "traditional" method of programming would.
Now, I will license this technology to anyone for a specified amount of money. May I remind you that the more people we have working on this, the faster we will discover our new killer app.
Better yet, We'll pack a bunch of random strings of bytes into a file, label it as.mp3, and run it through a human voice detector and see if it sounds like anything. We'll own the intellectual property to every new song released
Funny, in college, it usually worked for me like this:
Read boring electrical engineering book until you drift off. go to bed. Remember nothing in the morning except that you were reading the most boring book ever published, and wasted 3 hours time that you could have been sleeping doing it.
maybe too many of the bits escaped me...
Does this mean that when I wake up one morning 10 years down the road, I'll finally understand what a phase-locked-loop is?
my route was mostly collect. The first week I did it was the week of christmas. The guy who did the route before me had collected in advance. The way they had it set up, you would buy the papers from the company, and then collect from customers (to dodge child-labor laws).
My first paycheck was actually a bill. Yes, I paid to deliver papers on Christmas morning at 5am in blizzard conditions!
Ummm... I've got Mandrake 9.1 running on an eMachines M5305. If I remember right, the install found every device right out of the gate.
I also got it running on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-25 MKII. Everything works fine except for the PCMCIA slots will not recognize cardbus cards (they won't under any current version of Windows, either). Specs on this bad boy are Pentium 150Mhz, 48MB RAM, 4GB HDD, and it was mostly useable. Took forever to boot, and load apps.
Buddy of mine had it running on a Toshiba Satillite of some sort (low end P4). Uses it for war-driving among other things.
Another guy I used to work with "borrowed" a company laptop (IBM T30). Mandrake 9.1 worked quite well there, also.
Check out Linux-Laptop to see if someone has already de-Gates-ified your particular model.
You know, I'm not afraid of somebody exploiting my parents Windows 98 machine. I WOULD be afraid of somebody exploiting my parents machine if it were running WinXP or Win2K. Why? Because those machines would then have the tools on them to do really nasty things.
No tools necessary to use the box to bounce SPAM off of.
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If this was meant as a joke, it's pretty funny.
Amen, brother! The worst part is if you do help someone (say a good friend), then they casually overhear that one of their good friends has a computer problem, you're going to be tapped to help that person, too. If I had a dollar for every friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend's computer I had to un-fsck-up, I'd be rich.
The worst part is that all these people are getting their kit fixed through that one friend as a proxy, and since you didn't charge them (because you were just being nice, really drunk, trying to get *ahem* "On her good side", etc.), you can't charge their social network of unwashed masses either.
... there is no patch for human stupidity.
I almost got a killer deal on a miror universe one time. Some jerk outbid me, though.
But, here comes Microsoft. To have them involved usually means some proprietary standard pushed and all kinds of licensing costs.
'proprietary standard'
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Kinda like 'military intelligence'?
I'm going to apply for a patent for software creation. This method involves generating a random string of characters, running them through a compiler. If there are no errors reported, I run the program, and see if it does anything useful. If not, we go on. The "random generation" of characters is sufficiently optimized so that strings of characters that are obviously not code are not generated (like starting a line with abcbabcb when a definition for abcbabcb doesnt already exist).
.mp3, and run it through a human voice detector and see if it sounds like anything. We'll own the intellectual property to every new song released
Now, eventually, I will create every software package that could possibly be created. It stands to reason that my "Thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters" (that's copyrighted, BTW) method will overcome human software development, and begin making discoveries before the "traditional" method of programming would.
Now, I will license this technology to anyone for a specified amount of money. May I remind you that the more people we have working on this, the faster we will discover our new killer app.
Better yet, We'll pack a bunch of random strings of bytes into a file, label it as
Funny, since all the rover is doing at the moment is returning pings.
Funny, in college, it usually worked for me like this:
Read boring electrical engineering book until you drift off. go to bed. Remember nothing in the morning except that you were reading the most boring book ever published, and wasted 3 hours time that you could have been sleeping doing it.
maybe too many of the bits escaped me...
Does this mean that when I wake up one morning 10 years down the road, I'll finally understand what a phase-locked-loop is?
my route was mostly collect. The first week I did it was the week of christmas. The guy who did the route before me had collected in advance. The way they had it set up, you would buy the papers from the company, and then collect from customers (to dodge child-labor laws).
My first paycheck was actually a bill. Yes, I paid to deliver papers on Christmas morning at 5am in blizzard conditions!
You can put things in a jar.
I did this at the University of Illinois for 3 and a half years. Ah, memories...
My wife went to college for 4 and a half years to have the right to do this...
Ummm... I've got Mandrake 9.1 running on an eMachines M5305. If I remember right, the install found every device right out of the gate.
I also got it running on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-25 MKII. Everything works fine except for the PCMCIA slots will not recognize cardbus cards (they won't under any current version of Windows, either). Specs on this bad boy are Pentium 150Mhz, 48MB RAM, 4GB HDD, and it was mostly useable. Took forever to boot, and load apps.
Buddy of mine had it running on a Toshiba Satillite of some sort (low end P4). Uses it for war-driving among other things.
Another guy I used to work with "borrowed" a company laptop (IBM T30). Mandrake 9.1 worked quite well there, also.
Check out Linux-Laptop to see if someone has already de-Gates-ified your particular model.
You know, I'm not afraid of somebody exploiting my parents Windows 98 machine. I WOULD be afraid of somebody exploiting my parents machine if it were running WinXP or Win2K. Why? Because those machines would then have the tools on them to do really nasty things.
No tools necessary to use the box to bounce SPAM off of.