This is how the wife unit does it. She has a short, brutish commute (CA4 Antioch-Martinez), so the day's respite is especially welcome, every other Monday off.
If Linux can't do the job of a Mac, they're SOL. If Linux can't do the job of a Windows PC, they are only out the cost of the integration, assuming they bought "Vista-Ready". I think a few, proprietary OS boxes in the labs are enough for the actual needs. 1:1 wouldn't cost much if the good stuff was for geeks only. All the squids get cheaper hardware with Free software to text each other with.
Much like "real life", we are all "suffering fools" (anonymous cowards with mod points). I, for one, would not be lurking here if the MAJORITY of/.ers did not embrace science. Perhaps we are enduring a September-like influx. All things must pass, YMMV.
I too, could live without the {expletive deleted} who post that kind of stuff. You've heard of the "slippery slope"? Well, this is why my friend Charlie Artman supported the "Filthy Speech Movement". Who are you going to designate to discern for you? I browse wide open, and see some shit that anybody could do without, but that is my choice, and frankly, its not the worst abuse that I bring down on myself. I was just thinking this morning, about a "-2 Troll" setting to preserve decorum &c., but I reckon that things are working good enough already, so I don't sweat it too much. I'd like it, personally if I myself got fewer "off topic" and "Troll" mods on my well thought out and on-topic (and humorous) comments, but ANYONE can get mod points, and I'm actually not as funny as I'd like to be.
I am not a doctor, YMMV, and all the doctors I've discussed this ANECDOTE with have dismissed it. When you know in advance that your blood pressure is going to be driven up by some sort of CHICKENSHIT, take an aspirin. No substitutes, aspirin. I've found it has therapeutic effects to reduce the pounding in the ears, &c. that occur when I'm forced to deal civilly with someone who properly needs euthanisation, or when I am working with Microsoft products.
I knew it. I like to use shellac for primer when I paint walls &c. For the past few years it's been nearly impossible to get denatured alcohol at the local Lowe's or Home Depot. I also noticed the acetone spot was always empty, but the clerk assured me that a lot of cosmetologists were getting that for some reason. I'm talking Pallet loads gone before I can make it to the store. Sold out week after week. Fucking tweakers.
If ten% reflects the firms that actually proved that inadequate backup could be an error, then I think I can see where the rest of them would sweat. Wild Ass Guess? Ten "I tried to tell you"s equals fifty or sixty who still can't convince the PHBs that TWO generations of (tested) back-up are wanted. cheap bastards.
Maybe it was hardware, I don't know, I had to re-format twice to install once, and then it promptly BSOD'd and then locked on the next boot, I gave up. My only prior experience was with Win2K so I hadn't been properly inured to the re-boot routine like a Win98 Veteran. I subsequently went out and got a couple Win98 licenses so my kid could play games, as Win2K didn't seem to support some of them. Win98 seemed okay, not so stable like Win2K but certainly not the failure that was ME
Sounds like they think they've almost got it. I'm due to upgrade, Maybe I'll try it instead of waiting for Win8 {code name vapor-ware}. I still have a couple XP64 licenses I haven't used, just in case.
I haven't even RTFA yet, that headline was so egregious I had to comment. I never even tried doing anything with ME, got some bad advice and bought a copy, but while installing it came to realize my error. I think I was re-formatting to go back to Win2K within a half-hour. Maybe 15 minutes.
Hey, I'm not anticipating a "Road Warrior" future, but neither do I believe we can sustain things to a "Coruscant" or even "Blade Runner" world. Something will seriously fail prior to that. Some of us won't make it, surely, but in my analysis when the dust settles, those who remain will have realized the importance of having a life-sustaining planet, and won't want to squander energy illuminating empty space. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I am trying not to let the bastards get me down.
When I worked in retail sales in the early nineties, Computer printers were making good enough images to encourage some idiots to try passing home-made bills as real. One easy way to distinguish the fakes was by rubbing a piece of white paper over the "bill", then checking the paper for ink transfer. Treasury ink never fully dries, and even old funky bills will transfer a little green smudge to the white paper. Brand new bills, like the Twos that we stocked in the slot between the Ones and Fives, would make a major smear if you tried that, even though most of them we had were printed in 1976. I learned how fun it was to baffle the ignorant with the unfamiliar money, and usually get $100 or so in Twos when I get cash from my bank. I think they are especially useful for tipping service providers, it seems to help them remember me favorably on subsequent interactions.
TFA makes the point that for most of us, a wipe or a hammer job is adequate to deter the schmoogs. The web is full of various tests of redox reactions to destroy the platters, if your data is in a glowing puddle of molten aluminium, it's probably secure.
I guess I was thinking about how swell it would be if street lamps were restricted to specific frequencies of output, to improve the abilities of light-filtering astronomical equipment. Not likely in this world, just a thought. LEDs will be feasible soon enough, human will is less likely to meet the need.
Conventional street lamps all require Warm-up time to reach full brightness, so no good on motion sensors yet. With the cost of energy going up and LEDs becoming more affordable, this problem could be nearing a favorable resolution.
One of the phenomena I observed while enjoying the Northridge Earthquake of '94 was a starry sky over Los Angeles. It'd be nice if the engineers could sell new lights to our cities that would allow that again.
IIRC an astronomer at Lick Observatory told me once that the High Pressure Sodium lamps caused worse problems than the Mercury Vapor lamps, but the cities were switching over (back in the '60s) to get more lumens per watt of electricity. Those fucking tweakers are amazing aren't they? Here I think they carry nail-pullers.
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This is how the wife unit does it. She has a short, brutish commute (CA4 Antioch-Martinez), so the day's respite is especially welcome, every other Monday off.
That's only 72 hours.
Slacker.
In a world where greater than >85% of users can barely click on an email, only 15% of students will need real computers. The rest want an appliance.
If Linux can't do the job of a Mac, they're SOL. If Linux can't do the job of a Windows PC, they are only out the cost of the integration, assuming they bought "Vista-Ready". I think a few, proprietary OS boxes in the labs are enough for the actual needs. 1:1 wouldn't cost much if the good stuff was for geeks only. All the squids get cheaper hardware with Free software to text each other with.
I thought that was the million trained monkeys with typewriters that we'd always heard about, and they were finally getting some results.
I don't feel too creepy looking at houses I used to live in, to see how they've aged.
Much like "real life", we are all "suffering fools" (anonymous cowards with mod points). I, for one, would not be lurking here if the MAJORITY of /.ers did not embrace science. Perhaps we are enduring a September-like influx. All things must pass, YMMV.
I too, could live without the {expletive deleted} who post that kind of stuff. You've heard of the "slippery slope"? Well, this is why my friend Charlie Artman supported the "Filthy Speech Movement". Who are you going to designate to discern for you? I browse wide open, and see some shit that anybody could do without, but that is my choice, and frankly, its not the worst abuse that I bring down on myself. I was just thinking this morning, about a "-2 Troll" setting to preserve decorum &c., but I reckon that things are working good enough already, so I don't sweat it too much. I'd like it, personally if I myself got fewer "off topic" and "Troll" mods on my well thought out and on-topic (and humorous) comments, but ANYONE can get mod points, and I'm actually not as funny as I'd like to be.
I am not a doctor, YMMV, and all the doctors I've discussed this ANECDOTE with have dismissed it. When you know in advance that your blood pressure is going to be driven up by some sort of CHICKENSHIT, take an aspirin. No substitutes, aspirin. I've found it has therapeutic effects to reduce the pounding in the ears, &c. that occur when I'm forced to deal civilly with someone who properly needs euthanisation, or when I am working with Microsoft products.
You mentioned illegal. Are you working on an H1B visa or something?
Age and experience will shorten your fuse.
I knew it. I like to use shellac for primer when I paint walls &c. For the past few years it's been nearly impossible to get denatured alcohol at the local Lowe's or Home Depot. I also noticed the acetone spot was always empty, but the clerk assured me that a lot of cosmetologists were getting that for some reason. I'm talking Pallet loads gone before I can make it to the store. Sold out week after week. Fucking tweakers.
If ten% reflects the firms that actually proved that inadequate backup could be an error, then I think I can see where the rest of them would sweat. Wild Ass Guess? Ten "I tried to tell you"s equals fifty or sixty who still can't convince the PHBs that TWO generations of (tested) back-up are wanted. cheap bastards.
Maybe it was hardware, I don't know, I had to re-format twice to install once, and then it promptly BSOD'd and then locked on the next boot, I gave up. My only prior experience was with Win2K so I hadn't been properly inured to the re-boot routine like a Win98 Veteran. I subsequently went out and got a couple Win98 licenses so my kid could play games, as Win2K didn't seem to support some of them. Win98 seemed okay, not so stable like Win2K but certainly not the failure that was ME
Sounds like they think they've almost got it. I'm due to upgrade, Maybe I'll try it instead of waiting for Win8 {code name vapor-ware}. I still have a couple XP64 licenses I haven't used, just in case.
Oh the irony.
I haven't even RTFA yet, that headline was so egregious I had to comment. I never even tried doing anything with ME, got some bad advice and bought a copy, but while installing it came to realize my error. I think I was re-formatting to go back to Win2K within a half-hour. Maybe 15 minutes.
Hey, I'm not anticipating a "Road Warrior" future, but neither do I believe we can sustain things to a "Coruscant" or even "Blade Runner" world. Something will seriously fail prior to that. Some of us won't make it, surely, but in my analysis when the dust settles, those who remain will have realized the importance of having a life-sustaining planet, and won't want to squander energy illuminating empty space. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I am trying not to let the bastards get me down.
When I worked in retail sales in the early nineties, Computer printers were making good enough images to encourage some idiots to try passing home-made bills as real. One easy way to distinguish the fakes was by rubbing a piece of white paper over the "bill", then checking the paper for ink transfer. Treasury ink never fully dries, and even old funky bills will transfer a little green smudge to the white paper. Brand new bills, like the Twos that we stocked in the slot between the Ones and Fives, would make a major smear if you tried that, even though most of them we had were printed in 1976. I learned how fun it was to baffle the ignorant with the unfamiliar money, and usually get $100 or so in Twos when I get cash from my bank. I think they are especially useful for tipping service providers, it seems to help them remember me favorably on subsequent interactions.
TFA makes the point that for most of us, a wipe or a hammer job is adequate to deter the schmoogs. The web is full of various tests of redox reactions to destroy the platters, if your data is in a glowing puddle of molten aluminium, it's probably secure.
I guess I was thinking about how swell it would be if street lamps were restricted to specific frequencies of output, to improve the abilities of light-filtering astronomical equipment. Not likely in this world, just a thought. LEDs will be feasible soon enough, human will is less likely to meet the need.
Conventional street lamps all require Warm-up time to reach full brightness, so no good on motion sensors yet. With the cost of energy going up and LEDs becoming more affordable, this problem could be nearing a favorable resolution.
One of the phenomena I observed while enjoying the Northridge Earthquake of '94 was a starry sky over Los Angeles. It'd be nice if the engineers could sell new lights to our cities that would allow that again.
IIRC an astronomer at Lick Observatory told me once that the High Pressure Sodium lamps caused worse problems than the Mercury Vapor lamps, but the cities were switching over (back in the '60s) to get more lumens per watt of electricity. Those fucking tweakers are amazing aren't they? Here I think they carry nail-pullers.
Perhaps the rest of you could finally kill each other off so I can enjoy the night sky. Its a sacrifice I'm willing to make.