Yes it can, suprisingly. Unfortunatly if I take the monitor off of it my boss may no longer recognize it as a computer and request that I turn it into something utterly ridiculous, like when he asked if I could splice the power adapter on his laptop so that he could use the AC adapter from his walkman to recharge the battery. I sincerely wish I worked for sane people, really.
They're both in the billing office. I tried making them lethal so no one would touch them, espcially considering the boss's kids seem to think the 2000 server should be used for chatting up their friends via AIM and has no other purpose. Unfortunatly, reguardless of the mass of cables running in to the hub next to it and the fact I attempt to hid any interface devices they still seem to muck with it whenever they have a half day from school. I think I'll just set up a mine field around it and call it a day.
Luckily they've never found a use for the SCO box other than looking at it with a wrinkled nose. I do too, mind you, but for entirely different reasons I would guess.
I have more mp3s than that as it is. I could get this as a juke box, but then what the hell am I supposed to do with my pr0n and episodes of Serial Experiments Lain?
Oh, wait, my graphics card has TV out, and I can run audio from my PC to my stereo, and switch between the two. Nevermind.
C'mon buddy! I know you haven't coded in a while, but I'm easy! Seriously, just a few subs and you'll be back at it, I garuntee! C'mon man, just a few lines, whattayasay? Eh? Eh?
HAHAHAHAHHA NOOB YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE A DECENT ARRAY ANYMORE!!! WORTHLESS!
All apologies to the CGI geniuses out there, but there is no way in hell your graphics will match the insanity that was Akira.
Akira isn't just a movie, it's a work of art. There are just some things that don't translate from comic books to live action, and at the bottom of that list is Akira.
Somebody go get a bunch of patents on anti-piracy googaws and then claim prior-art on all the companies attempting to put stuff like this in place. When it ends up costing them more money in legal fees than they would allegedly recoop from the stop of piracy, they'll just give up. Hopefully.
Better yet, the Linux machines would cost less and have more up-time, thus giving an increased benefit. Unfortunatly, you could only get it to work if your Geek trait was up past 5 bars.
Hell, it's bigger than the 2 bedroom I live in now, and 25k for living quarters is pretty cheap. My first thought was "I wonder if these things have running water."
I love Mandrake. It never gave me any problems with the install, it works incredibly well for all of my normal desktop needs, and it helps me with my Calc homework. I've also heard it works well in the server environment, which I never get to try out since I live in a backwards hick town that has little use for anything other than Windows.
If Mandrake says they had problems with a third-party management team, I believe them. They have yet to give me a reason not to.
...rise and fall (not naming names) you have two choices:
1. Sell out. Write some pop songs and cut a new demo. Send that to the labels. Y'know how The Hives are all popular right now? Try to sound as much like them as possible. When the next trend comes, try to sound as much like that as possible if it doesn't work this time. If your boys are as good as you say they are, this should be no problem.
2. Keep your integrity, and hope to hell the band is eventually recognized by elitist music journalists as an influence on something, at which point you will be able to quit your day jobs for a little while and do a reunion tour.
I really wish it wasn't this way, but the music biz is all about moving product, not about music. Just because you've been able to sell a few hundred disks over your website (most probably to Tool fans who are completeists) does NOT mean you will be able to sell a damn thing at the local Sam Goody no matter how much PR the label does for you.
My job isn't so bad, I manage a small UNIX network and a small MS network, and do general fix this fix that PC work. I also do some networking for various clients, nothing too heavy and I am generally unsupervised.
The bitch of it is, the one guy who I have the most contact besides my boss is a jerk. He's a copier tech, and he knows where to get drivers and such if I need to network a copier or fax machine for a client. All I ever hear out of this guy is how my job is the easiest job ever and how he could do it blindfolded with one hand behind his back. My job isn't exactly rough, but this guy screwed up installing his CD-ROM drive and had to bring it in to me. He views opening up a folder on another PC on the network to be the extent of managing a network. I hate this guy. If it weren't for him, and the whole "You have to wear a tie" bit, this job would be great. 15 minutes of this dude and I'm on dice.com looking for prospects.
My Tandy 1000 SX still runs, with all the original parts (plus a couple upgrades). Unlike my 486dx, Pentium 266, and PII 400. All of those eventually had mobos/procs/hard drives die on me.
Of course, the best I can do with it is play Bard's Tale. But hey...
As much as the British seem to get along with their cameras, I can not help but feel that we are heading down a long, dark road to a totalitarian state. How long before some executive official makes a decree shutting down democracy as we know it in the interest of national security? How long will it take before voicing dissention toward federal policy becomes a federal crime? How many of you actually think anyone can or will do anything to stop it?
Interesting times here, people. One day the system will fall, and we might just be around to see it happen.
I'm at work as I type this. I make 23k/year doing small time network stuff(UNIX and Windows), PC repair, and whatever else Mista Bossman wants me to do. 23k/year is enough to pay my rent and bills, as I don't live in a posh neighborhood or have such things as cable tv(I do however have DSL. You have to prioritize, dammit). The question that come up in my mind from time to time is, if this where 2 years ago, would I be making this little? Probably not, no. I'd probably be making 40k, like they where paying the three people they hired to take over half of my job when the company I was laid off from last year split in half. It ammuses me that the half I got seperated from paid out 120K/year to cover half of my duties. It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I am lucky. I have employment, and am able to support myself. I am not rich beyond my wildest dreams, but that was never really my goal anyway. My goal is to go back to school, finish my CS degree, and attempt to find work as a code monkey. I am well on my way to that goal, and at least now I have something I can doctor up on a resume.
Tonight, I will go home, take off this tie, and relax in front of the warm glow of my very own 17" CRT and be secure in the fact that, while I'm not some high-paid tech wiz kid with a salary that rivals that of an MLB player, I'm not doin' too freakin' bad either. Unlike the tools who where getting paid an outrageous sum at my old company. Last I heard, they where still seeking Employment. One of which has found employment in the form of Asst. Manager at an Arby's. Make of this what you will.
Sounds like this dude took these bots and just modded a few to feed off the others. I encourage anyone who has an interest in robotics, even just a passing fancy, to check out that link. They are incredible fun.
1. A book on how not to smash the SCO box in the next room with an axe whenever I type in a command that is supposed to be there, that there is a man page for, yet the command comes up not found.
2. A book on why I suck at the Debian installs.
Also, dead trees please. I dun wanna get caught without an O'Reily refrence at some point because I'm a dumbash and forgot to replace/recharge the batteries on my palm. Books never run low on batteries.
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Yes it can, suprisingly. Unfortunatly if I take the monitor off of it my boss may no longer recognize it as a computer and request that I turn it into something utterly ridiculous, like when he asked if I could splice the power adapter on his laptop so that he could use the AC adapter from his walkman to recharge the battery. I sincerely wish I worked for sane people, really.
They're both in the billing office. I tried making them lethal so no one would touch them, espcially considering the boss's kids seem to think the 2000 server should be used for chatting up their friends via AIM and has no other purpose. Unfortunatly, reguardless of the mass of cables running in to the hub next to it and the fact I attempt to hid any interface devices they still seem to muck with it whenever they have a half day from school. I think I'll just set up a mine field around it and call it a day.
Luckily they've never found a use for the SCO box other than looking at it with a wrinkled nose. I do too, mind you, but for entirely different reasons I would guess.
I have more mp3s than that as it is. I could get this as a juke box, but then what the hell am I supposed to do with my pr0n and episodes of Serial Experiments Lain?
Oh, wait, my graphics card has TV out, and I can run audio from my PC to my stereo, and switch between the two. Nevermind.
C'mon buddy! I know you haven't coded in a while, but I'm easy! Seriously, just a few subs and you'll be back at it, I garuntee! C'mon man, just a few lines, whattayasay? Eh? Eh?
HAHAHAHAHHA NOOB YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE A DECENT ARRAY ANYMORE!!! WORTHLESS!
All apologies to the CGI geniuses out there, but there is no way in hell your graphics will match the insanity that was Akira.
Akira isn't just a movie, it's a work of art. There are just some things that don't translate from comic books to live action, and at the bottom of that list is Akira.
Somebody go get a bunch of patents on anti-piracy googaws and then claim prior-art on all the companies attempting to put stuff like this in place. When it ends up costing them more money in legal fees than they would allegedly recoop from the stop of piracy, they'll just give up. Hopefully.
Yes, I know it's a pipe dream. So what.
It's 2002 people. If we don't get laser weaponry and gauss rifles soon, all of my hopes for the future will be crushed.
Better yet, the Linux machines would cost less and have more up-time, thus giving an increased benefit. Unfortunatly, you could only get it to work if your Geek trait was up past 5 bars.
Hell, it's bigger than the 2 bedroom I live in now, and 25k for living quarters is pretty cheap. My first thought was "I wonder if these things have running water."
I love Mandrake. It never gave me any problems with the install, it works incredibly well for all of my normal desktop needs, and it helps me with my Calc homework. I've also heard it works well in the server environment, which I never get to try out since I live in a backwards hick town that has little use for anything other than Windows.
If Mandrake says they had problems with a third-party management team, I believe them. They have yet to give me a reason not to.
...rise and fall (not naming names) you have two choices:
1. Sell out. Write some pop songs and cut a new demo. Send that to the labels. Y'know how The Hives are all popular right now? Try to sound as much like them as possible. When the next trend comes, try to sound as much like that as possible if it doesn't work this time. If your boys are as good as you say they are, this should be no problem.
2. Keep your integrity, and hope to hell the band is eventually recognized by elitist music journalists as an influence on something, at which point you will be able to quit your day jobs for a little while and do a reunion tour.
I really wish it wasn't this way, but the music biz is all about moving product, not about music. Just because you've been able to sell a few hundred disks over your website (most probably to Tool fans who are completeists) does NOT mean you will be able to sell a damn thing at the local Sam Goody no matter how much PR the label does for you.
Sorry, duder.
As long as there is an electronics club at every highschool there will always be nerds, friend.
If you put an MRE heater in a snapple bottle full of water and screw the lid back on the snapple bottle will explode.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go irradiate a spider and coax it to bite me.
My job isn't so bad, I manage a small UNIX network and a small MS network, and do general fix this fix that PC work. I also do some networking for various clients, nothing too heavy and I am generally unsupervised.
The bitch of it is, the one guy who I have the most contact besides my boss is a jerk. He's a copier tech, and he knows where to get drivers and such if I need to network a copier or fax machine for a client. All I ever hear out of this guy is how my job is the easiest job ever and how he could do it blindfolded with one hand behind his back. My job isn't exactly rough, but this guy screwed up installing his CD-ROM drive and had to bring it in to me. He views opening up a folder on another PC on the network to be the extent of managing a network. I hate this guy. If it weren't for him, and the whole "You have to wear a tie" bit, this job would be great. 15 minutes of this dude and I'm on dice.com looking for prospects.
My Tandy 1000 SX still runs, with all the original parts (plus a couple upgrades). Unlike my 486dx, Pentium 266, and PII 400. All of those eventually had mobos/procs/hard drives die on me.
Of course, the best I can do with it is play Bard's Tale. But hey...
What happens if you put a cloned cat in the box? The cosmic implications are mind boggling.
As much as the British seem to get along with their cameras, I can not help but feel that we are heading down a long, dark road to a totalitarian state. How long before some executive official makes a decree shutting down democracy as we know it in the interest of national security? How long will it take before voicing dissention toward federal policy becomes a federal crime? How many of you actually think anyone can or will do anything to stop it?
Interesting times here, people. One day the system will fall, and we might just be around to see it happen.
It makes you as dorky as that freak whose parents bought him the calculator watch for his birthday in third grade.
Hey, I thought that kid was cool!
Oh... wait...
I'm a freakin' dork, I forgot.
There goes my will to live. What the hell am I supposed to watch now, not having cable and such? Andromeda? Yeah, right.
I'm at work as I type this. I make 23k/year doing small time network stuff(UNIX and Windows), PC repair, and whatever else Mista Bossman wants me to do. 23k/year is enough to pay my rent and bills, as I don't live in a posh neighborhood or have such things as cable tv(I do however have DSL. You have to prioritize, dammit). The question that come up in my mind from time to time is, if this where 2 years ago, would I be making this little? Probably not, no. I'd probably be making 40k, like they where paying the three people they hired to take over half of my job when the company I was laid off from last year split in half. It ammuses me that the half I got seperated from paid out 120K/year to cover half of my duties. It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I am lucky. I have employment, and am able to support myself. I am not rich beyond my wildest dreams, but that was never really my goal anyway. My goal is to go back to school, finish my CS degree, and attempt to find work as a code monkey. I am well on my way to that goal, and at least now I have something I can doctor up on a resume.
Tonight, I will go home, take off this tie, and relax in front of the warm glow of my very own 17" CRT and be secure in the fact that, while I'm not some high-paid tech wiz kid with a salary that rivals that of an MLB player, I'm not doin' too freakin' bad either. Unlike the tools who where getting paid an outrageous sum at my old company. Last I heard, they where still seeking Employment. One of which has found employment in the form of Asst. Manager at an Arby's. Make of this what you will.
Sounds like this dude took these bots and just modded a few to feed off the others. I encourage anyone who has an interest in robotics, even just a passing fancy, to check out that link. They are incredible fun.
1. A book on how not to smash the SCO box in the next room with an axe whenever I type in a command that is supposed to be there, that there is a man page for, yet the command comes up not found.
2. A book on why I suck at the Debian installs.
Also, dead trees please. I dun wanna get caught without an O'Reily refrence at some point because I'm a dumbash and forgot to replace/recharge the batteries on my palm. Books never run low on batteries.
Um... this has to be a mistake, but apparently Best Buy is letting you Pre-Order these little slices of heaven for $129.00
Check it out.
You are my new hero. Please send me one of your business cards so that I may show my friends what I aspire to be. Thank you.