Plugging your own shit....Wow! that I'd have to see. I subscribe to one of the linux magazines and get to play with a new distro almost every month. They're all broken. The trick is to use the one you have to fix least and can live with once it's working.
MMM yes... Branson.... 'revolutionary' train ran for about an hour then broke down, several near disastrous trips in a balloon, hardly a sound judge of the new technology. Don't think I'll book a trip to space just yet.
A 5 year university programme. That's a couple of years longer than a BSc in the UK. So roughly equivalent to BSc Hons plus a year postGrad. They ought to be bloody good. When did this pgramme start? Are there any graduates? It's not exactly a secret, is it? How come South Korea has only just noticed?
It's hard to think how that term could be used legally here in the UK. It's harder still to imagine why anyone, anywhere in the english-speaking world, would want to use it except as an insult.
This story used to surface regularly in the Sunday papers in the silly season but eventually , even they wouldn't use it. Must have been a quiet day at the beeb. As I understand it, the bombs are far too unstable to move so there is nothing to be done.
As a daytime villain and evening peeping tom, I am amazed at the lack of precautions people take to stop the likes of me doing what I do. Sometimes all I need is a simple periscope. No infra-red, no extending ladder.I don't know what else I can do to make people close their curtains. Sometimes I feel like just giving up completely.
Two points here. First, A council worker can be handed a brand new machine and a CD. One hour later, that machine will be working to its full capacity. It will be on-line, it will have WI-FI, ethernet and it will be printing, scanning, using a web-cam or digital camera of any make you care to mention. Second, the council know that updates, patches etc. will be delivered and installed automatically. If something really bad goes wrong, they know who to go to. There is no chance that any time in the future some company they have never heard of, will demand that they buy a licence for this software. May I also take this opportunity to apologise to the citizens of Kalamazoo and Chattanooga for the very strange name of this borough.
At some time in the programming process it is necessary to type the bloody thing into the machine. Anything which reduces the time spent on this boring task just has to be a good thing. The guy I envied most of all at college was a Navy trained typist who spent most of his lab time watching all us two finger schmucks.
Thieves and fraudsters have been stealing from shops and workplaces since way back when. In what way is this relevant to a news for geeks site?
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When I upgraded from Suse8 to Suse9, I experienced the same thing. I have purchased every major upgrade since 5.3, and have seen this distro go from arguably the best, to distinctly average. In my case the support I needed but didn't get was for ADSL broadband. The rigmarole you have to go through to obtain support is tortuous in the extreme. If I didn't know better, I might think that it was intended to make it all too much trouble. That is what happened in my case. I am using Mandrake 9 at the moment and Suse is lying unused in its box alongside the pounds of documentation. I should warn the original poster that this is the sort of posting which will result in his/her karma being slashed.Er... you do know never to praise MS don't you?
It's interesting to see all the different takes on this. Like one of the contributors, I can remember when you couldn't sell a PC if it wasn't described as IBM compatible.I suspect that when it's all over, say a couple of years down the line, MS will still be there and still fighting.
My XP home cost about 90. My latest Linux (SuSe 9.0) cost about 75. XP does what it says on the box. Linux is a bit of a 'Curate's egg', some of it works but some of it doesn't. Trouble is, some of the bits that don't work are crucial. For instance, I can't get online. It's not the only distro which is dodgy in that respect. I can't get Mandrake10 online either. Now, I daresay that given total use of my free time for long enough, I could persuade one of my Linux boxes to connect to the net. The point is, I installed XP on a pentium IV system with everything plugged in, Scanner,USB ADSL modem,Webcam, printer etc. After reset, EVERYTHING worked. CORRECTLY. NO TWEAKING. I also have XP Pro on an AMD system. Same story. Now you tell me which is giving value for money.
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In UK these have been used by police and army for several years to open cars, detonate bombs etc. etc. Used frequently in Northern Ireland.
Plugging your own shit....Wow! that I'd have to see. I subscribe to one of the linux magazines and get to play with a new distro almost every month. They're all broken. The trick is to use the one you have to fix least and can live with once it's working.
MMM yes... Branson.... 'revolutionary' train ran for about an hour then broke down, several near disastrous trips in a balloon, hardly a sound judge of the new technology. Don't think I'll book a trip to space just yet.
A 5 year university programme. That's a couple of years longer than a BSc in the UK. So roughly equivalent to BSc Hons plus a year postGrad. They ought to be bloody good. When did this pgramme start? Are there any graduates? It's not exactly a secret, is it? How come South Korea has only just noticed?
Will it hurt my already bad Karma to point out, firstly, it doesn't work, secondly, WinXP does all this automatically.
I think they will have cheaper accidents.
It's hard to think how that term could be used legally here in the UK. It's harder still to imagine why anyone, anywhere in the english-speaking world, would want to use it except as an insult.
This story used to surface regularly in the Sunday papers in the silly season but eventually , even they wouldn't use it. Must have been a quiet day at the beeb. As I understand it, the bombs are far too unstable to move so there is nothing to be done.
As a daytime villain and evening peeping tom, I am amazed at the lack of precautions people take to stop the likes of me doing what I do. Sometimes all I need is a simple periscope. No infra-red, no extending ladder.I don't know what else I can do to make people close their curtains. Sometimes I feel like just giving up completely.
Two points here. First, A council worker can be handed a brand new machine and a CD. One hour later, that machine will be working to its full capacity. It will be on-line, it will have WI-FI, ethernet and it will be printing, scanning, using a web-cam or digital camera of any make you care to mention. Second, the council know that updates, patches etc. will be delivered and installed automatically. If something really bad goes wrong, they know who to go to. There is no chance that any time in the future some company they have never heard of, will demand that they buy a licence for this software. May I also take this opportunity to apologise to the citizens of Kalamazoo and Chattanooga for the very strange name of this borough.
So the company which is still rehashing a ten year old game would like to try something new. Might I suggest battleships or chess?
At some time in the programming process it is necessary to type the bloody thing into the machine. Anything which reduces the time spent on this boring task just has to be a good thing. The guy I envied most of all at college was a Navy trained typist who spent most of his lab time watching all us two finger schmucks.
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I've had a look, can't see a skull but I can see a sphinx, three pyramids and a partridge in a pear tree.
Is there anything to stop someone else from heaving it back?
If you arrest 120000 people at random in any country you would expect to catch a few terrorists, murderers, thieves, you name it.
Thieves and fraudsters have been stealing from shops and workplaces since way back when. In what way is this relevant to a news for geeks site?
When I upgraded from Suse8 to Suse9, I experienced the same thing. I have purchased every major upgrade since 5.3, and have seen this distro go from arguably the best, to distinctly average. In my case the support I needed but didn't get was for ADSL broadband. The rigmarole you have to go through to obtain support is tortuous in the extreme. If I didn't know better, I might think that it was intended to make it all too much trouble. That is what happened in my case. I am using Mandrake 9 at the moment and Suse is lying unused in its box alongside the pounds of documentation. I should warn the original poster that this is the sort of posting which will result in his/her karma being slashed.Er... you do know never to praise MS don't you?
It's interesting to see all the different takes on this. Like one of the contributors, I can remember when you couldn't sell a PC if it wasn't described as IBM compatible.I suspect that when it's all over, say a couple of years down the line, MS will still be there and still fighting.
I don't suppose I am the first with the news, but BBC is reporting successful launch. (19.00BST)
As an inhabitant of the world, might one enquire as to where you are leading us?
Never mind all this high-tech namby pamby crap, sheer terror and sickening violence made me the man I am today.
So Professor Steven Hawkings is about as useless a human as you could get. I'd need to think about that.
Ah yes I can see it now. " Say buddie I happen to have just connected half a zillion PCs together, don't suppose you have a problem to throw at it?"
My XP home cost about 90. My latest Linux (SuSe 9.0) cost about 75. XP does what it says on the box. Linux is a bit of a 'Curate's egg', some of it works but some of it doesn't. Trouble is, some of the bits that don't work are crucial. For instance, I can't get online. It's not the only distro which is dodgy in that respect. I can't get Mandrake10 online either. Now, I daresay that given total use of my free time for long enough, I could persuade one of my Linux boxes to connect to the net. The point is, I installed XP on a pentium IV system with everything plugged in, Scanner,USB ADSL modem,Webcam, printer etc. After reset, EVERYTHING worked. CORRECTLY. NO TWEAKING. I also have XP Pro on an AMD system. Same story. Now you tell me which is giving value for money.