You choose your operating system to work with your apps, not the other way around.
You don't run a corperation on bleeding edge, which is why RedHat Advanced server,seen as lowly by slashdot, is really a lot more appropriate for the corperate server room.
IBM hasn't updated their apps. This is normal. Unless there is something in the new version that Justifies it, or that version is EOLed by the vender, nor should they.
In spite of that, a "Service Pack" shouldn't break applications. To Sun, IBM, HP, Linux users, a "Service Pack" is a cluster of patches. To Microsoft, a "Service Pack" is whole lot of shit to foister on the clients without given them the option to install only what they need.
This is one reason why MS truly isn't ready for the datacenter.
If katie J loses her domain, she should write a book about being fucked-over on the internet by a giant penguin (ie, the truth), and publish it as penguin.com.
Such a low accuracy score would have got me sacked from the typing pool, but with the backspace key every present, its more than enough for typing reports, assignments, scripts, slashdot posts etc.
I've never had a formal typing lesson, tho I've tried a couple of the "Mavis Beacon" things years and years ago. (Never stuck with it. Too boring). This is obvious to anybody trained when they look at some of my funky cross-hand boogie techniques.
The more you use a keyboard, the faster you get.
Even though I'll easily be beaten by a trained typists two hands, I can usually do better than them while typing one handed, and have the other hand free for doing more pleasurable things......like holding the icecream
> What I do not understand is how these people sleep at night.
Easily.
The explanation is that they do not give a fuck about anybody else. Simple, really.
They were born to rule. The earth and everything on it, including their own citizens, is there to be exploited for profit. The proof? The condemnation of the Phillipine government when they elected to pull troops out of Iraq to save one of their citizens from having his head chopped of on tele.
Compassion? What compassion?
Until somebody holds a gun to Howard's fat-arse daughter's head, the fucker won't realise a thing.
I just wish I could vote (I was kicked off the electoral role for being in the Bolivian rain-forest last election, and unable to get in contact with the closest embassy over 5000km away in Santiago, Chile).
> It will be even easier to bug a computer, just > drop a survailiance device in it, or near it
And how are you going to interpret the signals? Humm?
The idea is to replace the physical pins with capacitive coupling in order to _increase_ the desity. Ok, so we are already talking about several hundred pins on a modern CPU. If this technology works, that will jump up to a solid thousand. Then you start stacking them.
So, even if your radio could detect a signal designed to be picked up by an adjacent recieve mere millimetres away, inside a computer case shielded to prevent external interference, it would pick up a mix of several thousand signals, all driven at a multiple or sub-multiple of the system clock and thus unable to be separated by frequency.
How the hell are you going to get a decodable signal out of that??
> It would be nice if all those National Geo's > would vaporize after a set period.
C'mon. If you'd said "HQ", "Popular Mechanics" or "PC World" I'd agree with you, but National Geographic is one of the few magazines that's worth hanging onto (along with Scientific American). The photography is incredible, and the stories usually contain a good whack of history, so even once we know the answers to questions such as "will the native tuzita tribe be wiped out by the new hydroelectric scheme?", we have a memory of who they were, and what they looked like, before their villiage moved to the bottom of a lake.
If you don't want your old NGs, donate them to a school... or to me.
I think we are all pretty much in agreement here... the principle limitation is the hardware.
My wants:
It must be as good as a "real" book:
Bookmarks. The nice thing about a "real" book is that you can bookmark 3 or 4 pages with various fingers and flick between them. Obviously bookmarking is easy in an electronic format, but the interface must be quick, intuitive and conviente.
It must be readable. High resolution, high contrast, varible brightness. It must be readable in daylight and not cause eyestrain. I'd say a minimum size would be A 10" diagonal, which could be used portrait (displaying one page) or landscape (2 pages).
Weight. It must be light enough to hold over ones head for an extended period of time. Think 300gm, maximum.
Durability. You drop a book from 2 meters, you still have a book. You drop an electronic device from 2 meters, you have an expensive repair bill.
But the "book killer" will be those features that a "real" book doesn't have:
a) See weight. Anybody who has tried to read an advanced University text in bed knows what I'm talking about.
b) Able to notate/highlight passages. The advantage over a real book is that you can turn the notes on or off, thus allowing other people to read your book without the distraction of your notes. In general, once you've highlighted a "real" book passage, its hightlighted for ever. So we a talking about something with a stylus here.
c) Readable in the dark. Often my fiancee or myself feels like reading in bed while the other wants to sleep. Even a low reading light can be distracting to the other person.
d) Readable in the bath. Yep. It must survive splashes, and maybe the odd immersion. At the moment I read Newspapers and trashy novels in the bath because I don't care if I destroy them. However, the ability to read something a bit more valued would be nice.
e) PDF compatible. It must be able to read what is effectively the standard for online books. Most of what I read isn't novels, but news papers and technical books.
I'd love to an nice ebook reader that fills the above requirements, and would be willing to pay for it. Think on the order of $300 - $400.
Wayne Fucking Mansfield. aka T3 Marketting aka Business Services Australia.
As far as I know, this guy only sent his crap to Australian (.au) email addresses, but by God he was a pain in the arse.
He flogs "How to be a winner" type management seminars, but at one point I was getting a dozen messages from him a day. I (and several hundred, if not thousand other poeple) reported him to the Anti-spam group and, in my case at least, the Spam has stopped.
This guy honestly believes that what he is doing is legitimate... Otherwise how else can you explain the inclusion of his real name, address and PHOTO (right ugly bastard too) in his emails.
Tell you what, I've got that photo saved, and given that I'll be in Perth towards the end of the year, I was planning to pay him a visit. Now I reckon I wont need to bother.
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> they failed to udpate thier OWN INTERNAL APPS.
You choose your operating system to work with your apps, not the other way around.
You don't run a corperation on bleeding edge, which is why RedHat Advanced server,seen as lowly by slashdot, is really a lot more appropriate for the corperate server room.
IBM hasn't updated their apps. This is normal. Unless there is something in the new version that Justifies it, or that version is EOLed by the vender, nor should they.
In spite of that, a "Service Pack" shouldn't break applications. To Sun, IBM, HP, Linux users, a "Service Pack" is a cluster of patches. To Microsoft, a "Service Pack" is whole lot of shit to foister on the clients without given them the option to install only what they need.
This is one reason why MS truly isn't ready for the datacenter.
> William Shatner... Ron Jeremy
Thanks. Shatner doing porn with The Hedgehog. Just the image I needed at lunchtime.
Then make your own!
Alternatively, do a google images search for pornstar "Ebony Green".
> He's a roll model
Yep. Every time he takes off his shirt, he models his rolls.
> In the meantime, if someone wants to convince
> the lawyer that she should back down:
Dude,
We'll know she's backing down when we hear the "wide load" reversing beeps.
What's your biggest summer beauty blunder?
Where's the Cowboy Neil option?
Better still, fax her!
If katie J loses her domain, she should write a book about being fucked-over on the internet by a giant penguin (ie, the truth), and publish it as penguin.com.
Like this one?
Did anybody else notice that Parry Aftab and Tubgirl could be twins?
(Links not posted because its lunchtime).
And have you ever seen Tubgirl and Parry Aftab in the same room? Maybe we've had it wrong all this time, and the site is actually tAbgirl.
Only a slashdotter would coordinate a BLUEtooth with and ORANGE gun.
Why not go for LIME GREEN socks and PURPLE sandles to really make a fashion statement.
I didn't realise that Microsoft's security division designed anything.
After all, they are part of the Marketting department.
> Can you really create anything substantial by just clicking?
Two words
Visual fucking basic.
Oh.. you said substantial...
I type at around 70wpm with 85% accuracy.
...like holding the icecream
Such a low accuracy score would have got me sacked from the typing pool, but with the backspace key every present, its more than enough for typing reports, assignments, scripts, slashdot posts etc.
I've never had a formal typing lesson, tho I've tried a couple of the "Mavis Beacon" things years and years ago. (Never stuck with it. Too boring). This is obvious to anybody trained when they look at some of my funky cross-hand boogie techniques.
The more you use a keyboard, the faster you get.
Even though I'll easily be beaten by a trained typists two hands, I can usually do better than them while typing one handed, and have the other hand free for doing more pleasurable things...
(dirty dirty slashdotters)
Are you sure you didn't mean:
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I've "met" four finnish girls.
Three were named Ana
One was named Heidi
I've met one Finnish guy, and his name was Mark.
Go figure.
> What I do not understand is how these people sleep at night. Easily. The explanation is that they do not give a fuck about anybody else. Simple, really. They were born to rule. The earth and everything on it, including their own citizens, is there to be exploited for profit. The proof? The condemnation of the Phillipine government when they elected to pull troops out of Iraq to save one of their citizens from having his head chopped of on tele. Compassion? What compassion? Until somebody holds a gun to Howard's fat-arse daughter's head, the fucker won't realise a thing. I just wish I could vote (I was kicked off the electoral role for being in the Bolivian rain-forest last election, and unable to get in contact with the closest embassy over 5000km away in Santiago, Chile).
I'm also Australian, and I'm coming home this year after three years in latin america.
Dude, Where's my country?
Finland is nice. Bloody cold and dark, but there are a lot of warm Finnish girls named "Ana" who will help you with that.
> It will be even easier to bug a computer, just
> drop a survailiance device in it, or near it
And how are you going to interpret the signals? Humm?
The idea is to replace the physical pins with capacitive coupling in order to _increase_ the desity. Ok, so we are already talking about several hundred pins on a modern CPU. If this technology works, that will jump up to a solid thousand. Then you start stacking them.
So, even if your radio could detect a signal designed to be picked up by an adjacent recieve mere millimetres away, inside a computer case shielded to prevent external interference, it would pick up a mix of several thousand signals, all driven at a multiple or sub-multiple of the system clock and thus unable to be separated by frequency.
How the hell are you going to get a decodable signal out of that??
ie. Sysadmins look cute and Cuddly, but if you disturb them when they are sleeping or eating, they'll tear the skin off your face?
This is slashdot.
:)
There will be _somebody_ who wants your old copies of AmigaWorld
Personally, I never found Byte particularly worthwhile, even when bought new. You could always use it at the bottom of the parakeet cage.
> It would be nice if all those National Geo's
> would vaporize after a set period.
C'mon. If you'd said "HQ", "Popular Mechanics" or "PC World" I'd agree with you, but National Geographic is one of the few magazines that's worth hanging onto (along with Scientific American). The photography is incredible, and the stories usually contain a good whack of history, so even once we know the answers to questions such as "will the native tuzita tribe be wiped out by the new hydroelectric scheme?", we have a memory of who they were, and what they looked like, before their villiage moved to the bottom of a lake.
If you don't want your old NGs, donate them to a school... or to me.
> others are just fun to read during long hours in the train.
What hardware are you reading them on? How would you rate it?
I think we are all pretty much in agreement here... the principle limitation is the hardware.
My wants:
It must be as good as a "real" book:
Bookmarks. The nice thing about a "real" book is that you can bookmark 3 or 4 pages with various fingers and flick between them. Obviously bookmarking is easy in an electronic format, but the interface must be quick, intuitive and conviente.
It must be readable. High resolution, high contrast, varible brightness. It must be readable in daylight and not cause eyestrain. I'd say a minimum size would be A 10" diagonal, which could be used portrait (displaying one page) or landscape (2 pages).
Weight. It must be light enough to hold over ones head for an extended period of time. Think 300gm, maximum.
Durability. You drop a book from 2 meters, you still have a book. You drop an electronic device from 2 meters, you have an expensive repair bill.
But the "book killer" will be those features that a "real" book doesn't have:
a) See weight. Anybody who has tried to read an advanced University text in bed knows what I'm talking about.
b) Able to notate/highlight passages. The advantage over a real book is that you can turn the notes on or off, thus allowing other people to read your book without the distraction of your notes. In general, once you've highlighted a "real" book passage, its hightlighted for ever. So we a talking about something with a stylus here.
c) Readable in the dark. Often my fiancee or myself feels like reading in bed while the other wants to sleep. Even a low reading light can be distracting to the other person.
d) Readable in the bath. Yep. It must survive splashes, and maybe the odd immersion. At the moment I read Newspapers and trashy novels in the bath because I don't care if I destroy them. However, the ability to read something a bit more valued would be nice.
e) PDF compatible. It must be able to read what is effectively the standard for online books. Most of what I read isn't novels, but news papers and technical books.
I'd love to an nice ebook reader that fills the above requirements, and would be willing to pay for it. Think on the order of $300 - $400.
Wayne Fucking Mansfield.
aka T3 Marketting
aka Business Services Australia.
As far as I know, this guy only sent his crap to Australian (.au) email addresses, but by God he was a pain in the arse.
He flogs "How to be a winner" type management seminars, but at one point I was getting a dozen messages from him a day. I (and several hundred, if not thousand other poeple) reported him to the Anti-spam group and, in my case at least, the Spam has stopped.
This guy honestly believes that what he is doing is legitimate... Otherwise how else can you explain the inclusion of his real name, address and PHOTO (right ugly bastard too) in his emails.
Tell you what, I've got that photo saved, and given that I'll be in Perth towards the end of the year, I was planning to pay him a visit. Now I reckon I wont need to bother.