Well, it screws up my Feng Shui, this big honkin' monster thing.
But, i'd rather have a 19" or 20+" flatscreen to get that cyclotron or magnet off my desk. 20" behind and 20" to the left of my partition sits the president, and if i fire up the monitor, it disrupts his LCD. He jokes, "Oh, my pace maker", sometimes. At least i keep it on energy save to shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Janitors... Not ALL of them, but just some. Here is a story.
A few years ago, when I was in a contract IT position, a co-worker told me how he was detained at a major phone company at which he worked around 1992 or 1993. Giant LCDs were being stolen, and security detained him as a suspect. He rode a MOTORCYCLE to and from work. Still, they suspected him and held him for a while. Eventually, they let him go and left him alone.
Turned out later they had thieves among their cleaning staff. They would take LCDs out with the garbage, then retrieve them later. As for laptops, they would hide them in the ceiling during the day, and recover them later when disposing of trash.
I'd heard of (or seen in writing somewhere) about thieves stealing from a highly-secure, expensive garments store. Thieves there rigged a chute at one of the windows and were jettisoning minks and other valuable clothing that way. They were caught in the day time when a manager or passerby observed unwrapped, new-looking garments landing into a truck beneath the window and chute.
"Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL"... something I constantly heard a US Marine Ssgt say in 1984, in San Diego, at NTC/SSC/BOOST...
(i'm one of those who read Sun Tzu, but i read it around 1989 or 1990, not in the late 90's with all the Johnny-come-latelies...)
But, this White Space spectrum thing reminds me of when advertisers tried to take the "microsoft" desktop in the fringe areas of the screen display. Then, microsoft went ape-shit and made the usual threats, rants, and eternal damnation speeches and got the competitors to relent.
On my old Gateway 2000 CrystalScan display here at work there is STILL a black border around the windoze desktop. Maybe Google should resurrect that old fight. Would be nice to see the courts reverse and ms lose that fight.
Hopefully, there'll be some good coming from Google going after the white space spectrum. It sounds to me like this was an awesome feint Google pulled or exploited. If it turns out the wss is actually useful and cheaper to use, then it will have served right all those other companies that spent BILLIONS to selfishly snatch up spectrum they'll likely dicker off anyway.
When i need to use VirtualBox and when i watch SOME DVDs, i have to use Fluxbox. i turned on some 3D effects in my profile and it keeps DVDs from appearing in KDE, so i have to use Fluxbox, or log in as another user account in which i did not mess with 3D.
When i use vista in VirtualBox, I sometimes do so in Fluxbox because of the amount of RAM KDE uses. I gave Virtual Box 1.3 GB of shared system RAM and some 380 MB for graphics. My CAD apps run spiffier/faster in Fluxbox than in KDE. But, when demonstrating Linux, I generally run KDE.
Shock Syndrome CORRECT Douche... He'd toxically shock them with a bill. After all, it's the abusers who are leaving him with the "bag". He's just making lemonade out of lemons from lemurs.
If *i* received threatening letters from lame-ass lawywers, i'd set up a business with some RU domain and give them 35% or 55% cut for dealing with such lawyers. Maybe, charge the companies misusing the donotreply.com name. i won't TELL the RU side what to do, but i am sure that once they feel "their profits" being withheld, they'll pay a visit to ALL those lazy slobs misusing "donotreply.com".
But, even if "my people" don't get directly in touch with "their people", just the sheer fear ALONE should force the US government to compel at least military contractors to CLEAN THEIR SHIT UP. Then, start pouncing on the other, non-DOD abusers. Of course, over time, i would eventually see a loss in profits as the cleanup ensued.
It has only VGA out (yep, no HDMI or DVI or other connectors). I have a separate LCD at home that I'd like to "span" or expand my desktop to, but I don't want a "single" screen simply duplicated to the LCD. I want to put on the external LCD any virtual desktop or app of my choosing.
A year or 2 ago, I thought I read in LXF about 2 or more Xserver options to edit by hand to achieve this. There were/are commercial implementations, too. But, I misplaced those mags and can't find the archives online.
My laptop currently is running PCLinux OS 2008, KDE 3.5.8.
Video controller information:
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Up to 384 MB of Dynamic Video Memory
The external LCD is recognized only if connected during boot up. After booting, if the LCD had not been connected, it simply is not recognized, doesn't light up, and I have to connect it and then power cycle if I want to use the external LCD
At some point before Sun took over Innotek, i had seen a page with pricing information about the "commercial" version of VirtualBox. I want to get that version's info because at work we may use it.
I am comparing it to VMWare's offerings. Personally, on my own laptop I use VirtualBox because it's the godsend that liberated me from the vagaries (that I experienced) with Win4Lin and kernel dependencies, because I was on OLD W4L and had not intention of buying XP or Vista or 2K JUST to get virtualization. Now that buying a laptop steered me to vista, and since VB was free for what I am doing, it made sense to not totally resist vista.
Back to the first para.... does anyone know of a URL that has pricing? I a few weeks ago searched Innotek's site and Google and had no luck. Are they forcing us to have to correspond to get the information they previously and seemingly posted freely?
Instead of filling up the jails with and virtually permanently seizing computers and bills and correspondence from many people, why not black-hole the the known kiddie porn sites instead of setting up fake ones that will catch first-timers and non-first-timers.
There is too much risk of even a so-called friend or sibbling surfing that crap and getting one's property seized and freedom hijacked.
As for the guy who says he's not worried because he's in China.... BZZZT! WRONG! The US and several governments -- if they determine their citizens are traveling abroad to avoid laws punishing people for sex with minors or non-adults, you CAN be arrested upon setting foot back in your country if it enforces those laws.
a damned disclaimer. Every era's populace has its hardier, take-no-bullshit-just-cuz-they're-in-power types. Should the Boston Tea Party be apologized for? Maybe not against the government, but definitely it should apologize to the indigenous peoples.
The French Resistance had its element. Hell, some might say David Koresh and Randy Weaver at some point stood up for "right", despite their ideological issues/failings. Heck, Harriet Tubman and others might have been labeled as terrorists.
As far as I'm concerned, Terrorism is the result when those controlling seats at the negotiating table flat out refuse to address the grievances of those marginalized.
We only have this "experiment", the USA, because multiple boatloads of our ancestors were to feeble, too feckless, to chickenshit to behead their own corrupt monarchy. Had they had the intestinal fortitude to say "ENOUGH, BITCH, you're THROUGH! DOWN WITH YOU!" then the world might be a different place. There might not have been slavery propagated to the North American continent. Chinese might have been spared the Boxer Rebellions. Japan might have been spared Commodore Perry, and might not have been spooked by the growing, threatening, looming USA. Vietnam might have not been colonized by the French. We could probably go on and on, but had the English/British embraced a little good ole domestic TERRORISM, a LOT of shit would likely never have happened for the worse.
fondled/caressed/gaw-gawed over/under the Cylon Raider Tyrol was figuring out? She was humming a nursery/lullaby-like tune. Maybe she was activating on another phase/level.
I hope not everyone is a Cylon, though. It could get messy if they all start acting like ass-swishy Kirk when Janice Lester body-jacked him. Imagine Adama filing his nails, and Sharon taking on a deep-toned voice...
There's "Vista Ready" and "Vista Capable". Why is there not a "UL-Equivalent"? Because it keeps the barrier to entry high against not only fraudulent manufacturers but also legit manufacturers who have to pay a very very high price to get a UL Cert. Restaurant machinery can be very expensive because of that "coveted" UL designation. City healthy or inspection departments can pretty much compel (and almost all do compel) restaurant operators to use ONLY UL-marked equipment. Many won't even TELL entrepreneurs what equipment IS permitted and not for given scenarios, and that leads some inexperienced operators to waste money on equipment and on inspection fees.
i once asked a city inspection department why they don't post the approvals and fails of given equipment for given restaurant scenarios and they wouldn't give a clear answer. It was almost as if they WANT entrepreneurs to exactly spend time and waste money on inspections, equipment, and procedures.
If a European coffee grinder or espresso machine manufacturer of great repute simply has no UL certs, but thousands of their products sell with no history (known or covered up) of involvement in electrocution, fire, or injury, then why cannot the less expensive products be used in the work place? It can mean the difference between moms and pops saving or wasting TENS of thousands of dollars. Seems like a kickback/racket, to me.
Sounds like a Stevie's Wonder Machine... I wonder if your box will have to learn sign languages... and will it need shades... and THEN will it be Jammin'
ilians? Other cops can turn on them, too. Just look at the book about the LAPD, in which the author wrote because his fellow LAPD cops decided he was a risk to their clandestine, domestic-CIA-like ops. They shot up his house from a moving motorcycle, sent him messages to conform, and so on.
Cops who are problems to other cops sometimes get dispatched to an "upcoming shootout" radioed as a domestic disturbance or petty theft or 2-11 in progress, or something. If s/he's riding alone, it's easier to take him out. The shoot out starts, s/he agonizingly awaits non-arriving backup, and other radios and their freqs are blacked out or knowingly ignored until it's pretty certain that s/he's a a gonner.
i've sometimes tell people that the Rodney King incident would NOT have happened had things been different. Oh, you ask, "what?" Well, as i understand (read/heard from a source), it was a FEMALE CHP officer in pursuit, but she was (purportedly) bullied by LAPD officers assisting in the pursuit. If this is true, then since CHP has authority to pursue and arrest just about ANYwhere in the state, whereas local LE has to make a courtesy request (can't have Rosemead police running over Glendale or Burbank pedestrians or crashing into property outside PD jurisdiction...), she recalled the history of "The Jungle's" PD (LAPD) and knowing she was outnumbered and could be felled, she likely assented to their demand to take him into custody themselves. Likely THEY wanted him because he had a history with them.
So, had SHE taken custody of him, the LA Riots might VERY WELL not have happened.
A rate-my-cop system might very well have weeded out overly-aggressive cops and forced them to resign or STAY undercover instead of interacting with the general public. I'm not for "rooting out and endangering" u/c cops. I'm just saying, just as in war and spying, they KNOW the risks/statistics when putting on the uniform, taking/making the oath, and hitting the beat or warrant task. I'm not trying to be inhumane. It's a dirty, dangerous job at times. Not one I'd rather do, mainly because i'm not one for suppressing corruption and malfeasance if I see it. So, DEFINITELY, i'd be set up for a fall, most likely, if I were a cop in a PD of over, say, 2 officers.
Slashdot Mirror
"Yelling at the Teller Fee: $15.00"
"Complaining before being asked a question: $23.75"
"Stamping around and huffing at the product speed: $63.55"
"Asking for features and embarrassing the company in the process: 75.55"
Well, it screws up my Feng Shui, this big honkin' monster thing.
But, i'd rather have a 19" or 20+" flatscreen to get that cyclotron or magnet off my desk. 20" behind and 20" to the left of my partition sits the president, and if i fire up the monitor, it disrupts his LCD. He jokes, "Oh, my pace maker", sometimes. At least i keep it on energy save to shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Janitors... Not ALL of them, but just some. Here is a story.
A few years ago, when I was in a contract IT position, a co-worker told me how he was detained at a major phone company at which he worked around 1992 or 1993. Giant LCDs were being stolen, and security detained him as a suspect. He rode a MOTORCYCLE to and from work. Still, they suspected him and held him for a while. Eventually, they let him go and left him alone.
Turned out later they had thieves among their cleaning staff. They would take LCDs out with the garbage, then retrieve them later. As for laptops, they would hide them in the ceiling during the day, and recover them later when disposing of trash.
I'd heard of (or seen in writing somewhere) about thieves stealing from a highly-secure, expensive garments store. Thieves there rigged a chute at one of the windows and were jettisoning minks and other valuable clothing that way. They were caught in the day time when a manager or passerby observed unwrapped, new-looking garments landing into a truck beneath the window and chute.
"Where there's a WAY, there's a WILL"... something I constantly heard a US Marine Ssgt say in 1984, in San Diego, at NTC/SSC/BOOST...
has to be stolen .... Hire MORE security...
wait... reminds me of "When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight Bumper Strip Magnet.", which I think came from:
"When it ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY has to be there overnight..."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=1jE&q=When+it+ABSOLUTELY%2C+POSITIVELY+has+to+be+destroyed&btnG=Search
"Vista... the best thing that ever happened to Linux..."
(i'm one of those who read Sun Tzu, but i read it around 1989 or 1990, not in the late 90's with all the Johnny-come-latelies...)
But, this White Space spectrum thing reminds me of when advertisers tried to take the "microsoft" desktop in the fringe areas of the screen display. Then, microsoft went ape-shit and made the usual threats, rants, and eternal damnation speeches and got the competitors to relent.
On my old Gateway 2000 CrystalScan display here at work there is STILL a black border around the windoze desktop. Maybe Google should resurrect that old fight. Would be nice to see the courts reverse and ms lose that fight.
Hopefully, there'll be some good coming from Google going after the white space spectrum. It sounds to me like this was an awesome feint Google pulled or exploited. If it turns out the wss is actually useful and cheaper to use, then it will have served right all those other companies that spent BILLIONS to selfishly snatch up spectrum they'll likely dicker off anyway.
OTOH, i may be proven wrong...
CATch...
Deep, dark, and wet. is itt a thruster or an auger, a tapper or a slapper?
When i need to use VirtualBox and when i watch SOME DVDs, i have to use Fluxbox. i turned on some 3D effects in my profile and it keeps DVDs from appearing in KDE, so i have to use Fluxbox, or log in as another user account in which i did not mess with 3D.
When i use vista in VirtualBox, I sometimes do so in Fluxbox because of the amount of RAM KDE uses. I gave Virtual Box 1.3 GB of shared system RAM and some 380 MB for graphics. My CAD apps run spiffier/faster in Fluxbox than in KDE. But, when demonstrating Linux, I generally run KDE.
Quarter Pounder, Stuff/Stuffing, Big Mac.... interesting....
Shock Syndrome CORRECT Douche... He'd toxically shock them with a bill. After all, it's the abusers who are leaving him with the "bag". He's just making lemonade out of lemons from lemurs.
main.
If *i* received threatening letters from lame-ass lawywers, i'd set up a business with some RU domain and give them 35% or 55% cut for dealing with such lawyers. Maybe, charge the companies misusing the donotreply.com name. i won't TELL the RU side what to do, but i am sure that once they feel "their profits" being withheld, they'll pay a visit to ALL those lazy slobs misusing "donotreply.com".
But, even if "my people" don't get directly in touch with "their people", just the sheer fear ALONE should force the US government to compel at least military contractors to CLEAN THEIR SHIT UP. Then, start pouncing on the other, non-DOD abusers. Of course, over time, i would eventually see a loss in profits as the cleanup ensued.
bang?
If there is a "white dwarf", is there a opposite, "black giant"? If these two commingled, would there be an undulating, cosmic orgas... umm, wait...
I'm using a Gateway 2000 P6301:
http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2007/Godzilla/1014776R/1014776Rsp2.shtml
It has only VGA out (yep, no HDMI or DVI or other connectors). I have a separate LCD at home that I'd like to "span" or expand my desktop to, but I don't want a "single" screen simply duplicated to the LCD. I want to put on the external LCD any virtual desktop or app of my choosing.
A year or 2 ago, I thought I read in LXF about 2 or more Xserver options to edit by hand to achieve this. There were/are commercial implementations, too. But, I misplaced those mags and can't find the archives online.
My laptop currently is running PCLinux OS 2008, KDE 3.5.8.
Video controller information:
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Up to 384 MB of Dynamic Video Memory
The external LCD is recognized only if connected during boot up. After booting, if the LCD had not been connected, it simply is not recognized, doesn't light up, and I have to connect it and then power cycle if I want to use the external LCD
Currently, I'm looking at:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-mltihed/index.html
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/9/2/153902
Can you offer me any xorg or advice?
Thanks!
At some point before Sun took over Innotek, i had seen a page with pricing information about the "commercial" version of VirtualBox. I want to get that version's info because at work we may use it.
I am comparing it to VMWare's offerings. Personally, on my own laptop I use VirtualBox because it's the godsend that liberated me from the vagaries (that I experienced) with Win4Lin and kernel dependencies, because I was on OLD W4L and had not intention of buying XP or Vista or 2K JUST to get virtualization. Now that buying a laptop steered me to vista, and since VB was free for what I am doing, it made sense to not totally resist vista.
Back to the first para.... does anyone know of a URL that has pricing? I a few weeks ago searched Innotek's site and Google and had no luck. Are they forcing us to have to correspond to get the information they previously and seemingly posted freely?
Instead of filling up the jails with and virtually permanently seizing computers and bills and correspondence from many people, why not black-hole the the known kiddie porn sites instead of setting up fake ones that will catch first-timers and non-first-timers.
There is too much risk of even a so-called friend or sibbling surfing that crap and getting one's property seized and freedom hijacked.
As for the guy who says he's not worried because he's in China.... BZZZT! WRONG! The US and several governments -- if they determine their citizens are traveling abroad to avoid laws punishing people for sex with minors or non-adults, you CAN be arrested upon setting foot back in your country if it enforces those laws.
a damned disclaimer. Every era's populace has its hardier, take-no-bullshit-just-cuz-they're-in-power types. Should the Boston Tea Party be apologized for? Maybe not against the government, but definitely it should apologize to the indigenous peoples.
The French Resistance had its element. Hell, some might say David Koresh and Randy Weaver at some point stood up for "right", despite their ideological issues/failings. Heck, Harriet Tubman and others might have been labeled as terrorists.
As far as I'm concerned, Terrorism is the result when those controlling seats at the negotiating table flat out refuse to address the grievances of those marginalized.
We only have this "experiment", the USA, because multiple boatloads of our ancestors were to feeble, too feckless, to chickenshit to behead their own corrupt monarchy. Had they had the intestinal fortitude to say "ENOUGH, BITCH, you're THROUGH! DOWN WITH YOU!" then the world might be a different place. There might not have been slavery propagated to the North American continent. Chinese might have been spared the Boxer Rebellions. Japan might have been spared Commodore Perry, and might not have been spooked by the growing, threatening, looming USA. Vietnam might have not been colonized by the French. We could probably go on and on, but had the English/British embraced a little good ole domestic TERRORISM, a LOT of shit would likely never have happened for the worse.
Yeah, I know hindsight is 20/20.
fondled/caressed/gaw-gawed over/under the Cylon Raider Tyrol was figuring out? She was humming a nursery/lullaby-like tune. Maybe she was activating on another phase/level.
I hope not everyone is a Cylon, though. It could get messy if they all start acting like ass-swishy Kirk when Janice Lester body-jacked him. Imagine Adama filing his nails, and Sharon taking on a deep-toned voice...
Yeh, but will they be able to reproduce the episode "Space Rockers"?
http://www.tv.com/buck-rogers-in-the-25th-century/show/2724/trivia.html
That was ONE rightiously FUNKY episode MAN!
"misunderestimated me" comes to mind...
Ms Barbara Walters...
BW: You oughtta be HUNG!
Seq: You DAMNED RIGHT me hung... Like a BUFFALO!
For details:
http://www.anvari.org/shortjoke/Best_Jokes/950_barbara-walters-was-doing-a-documentary-on-the-customs-of-the-american-indians.html
I wonder if "Sequoia" "pines" to be the lone "supplier" to the governments...
There's "Vista Ready" and "Vista Capable". Why is there not a "UL-Equivalent"? Because it keeps the barrier to entry high against not only fraudulent manufacturers but also legit manufacturers who have to pay a very very high price to get a UL Cert. Restaurant machinery can be very expensive because of that "coveted" UL designation. City healthy or inspection departments can pretty much compel (and almost all do compel) restaurant operators to use ONLY UL-marked equipment. Many won't even TELL entrepreneurs what equipment IS permitted and not for given scenarios, and that leads some inexperienced operators to waste money on equipment and on inspection fees.
i once asked a city inspection department why they don't post the approvals and fails of given equipment for given restaurant scenarios and they wouldn't give a clear answer. It was almost as if they WANT entrepreneurs to exactly spend time and waste money on inspections, equipment, and procedures.
If a European coffee grinder or espresso machine manufacturer of great repute simply has no UL certs, but thousands of their products sell with no history (known or covered up) of involvement in electrocution, fire, or injury, then why cannot the less expensive products be used in the work place? It can mean the difference between moms and pops saving or wasting TENS of thousands of dollars. Seems like a kickback/racket, to me.
Sounds like a Stevie's Wonder Machine... I wonder if your box will have to learn sign languages... and will it need shades... and THEN will it be Jammin'
get Ring Around the Cawh-lur?
ilians? Other cops can turn on them, too. Just look at the book about the LAPD, in which the author wrote because his fellow LAPD cops decided he was a risk to their clandestine, domestic-CIA-like ops. They shot up his house from a moving motorcycle, sent him messages to conform, and so on.
Cops who are problems to other cops sometimes get dispatched to an "upcoming shootout" radioed as a domestic disturbance or petty theft or 2-11 in progress, or something. If s/he's riding alone, it's easier to take him out. The shoot out starts, s/he agonizingly awaits non-arriving backup, and other radios and their freqs are blacked out or knowingly ignored until it's pretty certain that s/he's a a gonner.
i've sometimes tell people that the Rodney King incident would NOT have happened had things been different. Oh, you ask, "what?" Well, as i understand (read/heard from a source), it was a FEMALE CHP officer in pursuit, but she was (purportedly) bullied by LAPD officers assisting in the pursuit. If this is true, then since CHP has authority to pursue and arrest just about ANYwhere in the state, whereas local LE has to make a courtesy request (can't have Rosemead police running over Glendale or Burbank pedestrians or crashing into property outside PD jurisdiction...), she recalled the history of "The Jungle's" PD (LAPD) and knowing she was outnumbered and could be felled, she likely assented to their demand to take him into custody themselves. Likely THEY wanted him because he had a history with them.
So, had SHE taken custody of him, the LA Riots might VERY WELL not have happened.
A rate-my-cop system might very well have weeded out overly-aggressive cops and forced them to resign or STAY undercover instead of interacting with the general public. I'm not for "rooting out and endangering" u/c cops. I'm just saying, just as in war and spying, they KNOW the risks/statistics when putting on the uniform, taking/making the oath, and hitting the beat or warrant task. I'm not trying to be inhumane. It's a dirty, dangerous job at times. Not one I'd rather do, mainly because i'm not one for suppressing corruption and malfeasance if I see it. So, DEFINITELY, i'd be set up for a fall, most likely, if I were a cop in a PD of over, say, 2 officers.