meh. Back in the 80s when I had a VCR, unless there was a timed program I wanted to watch, I didn't consider the time worth my while. To dig out the manual, or to try and figure out the programming of the device. Total waste of time when I was learning a new assembler language, as opposed to IBM's assembler. Obligatory: Get off my lawn!
Once upon a time, I saw an old drunk piss on a bus's tire at a transfer point/bus stop where I lived, while middle and high school kids were around. Grossed everyone out and he was arrested. Sex offendor? not imho but needed a long time away from kids until he learned appropriate behaviour in public. Lifelong sentence? Perhaps, if it happened multiple times.
Well, technically, you can sue the federal government for anything, such as losing welfare benefits, or not getting as much social security as you think you deserve, or for the color of George Bush's hair annoying you for that matter. A lawyer will happily take lots of your money, tell you it's pointless, and if you insist, he might file the case. But the courts will throw it out.
the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 prohibits collection of personal information cable subscribers, except for very limited purposes:
47 USC 551
"(b) Collection of personally identifiable information using cable system
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a cable operator shall not use the cable system to collect personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned.
(2) A cable operator may use the cable system to collect such information in order to--
(A) obtain information necessary to render a cable service or other service provided by the cable operator to the subscriber; or
(B) detect unauthorized reception of cable communications."
DITTO might pre-date IEFBR14 (I know I used DITTO first). But although I'm sure it's been updated since, it's likely an old version is in use in an old installation in a 3rd world type country. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ditto/about.html
actually, they are about 4 feet tall. I worked with them for 3.5 years in the 90s. 8 CPUs and each hard drive had 3 mirrors iirc. When we lost power once, it didn't completely go down. Think we were down to 1 or 2 CPUs though. No problem re-powering it up. Weird OS too lol, made AIX boxes look like they made sense:)
after a weekend of no real news on slashdot, now I have alot to read. I wish life allowed me the time to read and digest the stuff./shrug and I'l look at it when I have the time. (and Bruce's stuff is always important to see)
I can see the use for USB drives in government. Each department probably has it's own LAN, available only to it's own departmental employees. So a DCF employee needs to go over to say, Department of Transportation, to give a Powerpoint presentation on why they need more parking. The PPS goes onto the USB drive. Silly example, but that's how it works in my state, for those people without laptops. And there are many departments with confidential information, that need to communicate confidential information. (Although from what I've seen, CDs are normally used, and done on only certain machines with writeable drives, not USB drives).
I don't change my clocks, only my watches. The clocks are just for the minutes, and I add or subtract hours as needed. Saves me the hassles of trying to figure out how to reset digital clocks that I've lost the manuals for.
Where I work, If the application is CPU intensive, it goes to a X86 server (Unix, Windows, Linux). This is because yes, some X86 CPUs are faster. If it's IO intensive, it goes to the mainframe. That is where the mainframe is a killer, so Oracle DBs for instance are ideal. And if we want an app to be 24x7 with 100% uptime it goes to the mainframe. Our main website runs on the mainframe, (using UNIX services) and hasn't been down in years. And with the ability to turn on another engine on the fly, the mainframe can scale up quickly. We actually run z/OS, Linux, and have UNIX services all running at the same time, on the same box. And all the legacy stuff is still supported and runs just fine, so why change it?
Abends can be caused by started tasks which have no job card. And some users are just plugging in parms and have their jobs auto-magically submitted (via a script or whatever).
I contacted my brother in San Diego via email to his work. I had read San Diego was having the cell phone network getting overloaded. And found out he expects his home in Rancho Bernardo burned down, since they evacuated as the flames came up the canyon. Once things settle down there, I'm going to find out if his company used a DR plan and how it went. He has a very technology dependent company, where his employees are encouraged to work from home. Maybe I can use some of his DR plan, and the response, for where I work.
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Nunavut is almost exactly three times as big as Texas. Nunavut is 808,190 square miles according to wikipedia, and Texas is 268,820 square miles.
meh. Back in the 80s when I had a VCR, unless there was a timed program I wanted to watch, I didn't consider the time worth my while. To dig out the manual, or to try and figure out the programming of the device. Total waste of time when I was learning a new assembler language, as opposed to IBM's assembler. Obligatory: Get off my lawn!
Once upon a time, I saw an old drunk piss on a bus's tire at a transfer point/bus stop where I lived, while middle and high school kids were around. Grossed everyone out and he was arrested. Sex offendor? not imho but needed a long time away from kids until he learned appropriate behaviour in public. Lifelong sentence? Perhaps, if it happened multiple times.
Because rouges are OP
It dropped like a rock after news (from 2002) ended up online. Google and the Tribune Co. say each other is at fault. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-moneyblog9-2008sep09,0,1609687.story What next? A news story about Pearl Harbor being attacked?
I have mod points, but thought I'd refer you to the FAQ http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed700
Well, technically, you can sue the federal government for anything, such as losing welfare benefits, or not getting as much social security as you think you deserve, or for the color of George Bush's hair annoying you for that matter. A lawyer will happily take lots of your money, tell you it's pointless, and if you insist, he might file the case. But the courts will throw it out.
having a warlock main, I think they should nerf rouges :)
the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 prohibits collection of personal information cable subscribers, except for very limited purposes: 47 USC 551 "(b) Collection of personally identifiable information using cable system (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a cable operator shall not use the cable system to collect personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned. (2) A cable operator may use the cable system to collect such information in order to-- (A) obtain information necessary to render a cable service or other service provided by the cable operator to the subscriber; or (B) detect unauthorized reception of cable communications."
DITTO might pre-date IEFBR14 (I know I used DITTO first). But although I'm sure it's been updated since, it's likely an old version is in use in an old installation in a 3rd world type country. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ditto/about.html
actually, they are about 4 feet tall. I worked with them for 3.5 years in the 90s. 8 CPUs and each hard drive had 3 mirrors iirc. When we lost power once, it didn't completely go down. Think we were down to 1 or 2 CPUs though. No problem re-powering it up. Weird OS too lol, made AIX boxes look like they made sense :)
Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournelle had "Hot Fudge Tuesday" http://www.nss.org/resources/books/fiction/SF_018_lucifershammer.html
took me 8 seconds (I'm old and slow ;)
after a weekend of no real news on slashdot, now I have alot to read. I wish life allowed me the time to read and digest the stuff. /shrug and I'l look at it when I have the time. (and Bruce's stuff is always important to see)
I can see the use for USB drives in government. Each department probably has it's own LAN, available only to it's own departmental employees. So a DCF employee needs to go over to say, Department of Transportation, to give a Powerpoint presentation on why they need more parking. The PPS goes onto the USB drive. Silly example, but that's how it works in my state, for those people without laptops. And there are many departments with confidential information, that need to communicate confidential information. (Although from what I've seen, CDs are normally used, and done on only certain machines with writeable drives, not USB drives).
Kittens are cute when they're young
I don't change my clocks, only my watches. The clocks are just for the minutes, and I add or subtract hours as needed. Saves me the hassles of trying to figure out how to reset digital clocks that I've lost the manuals for.
Where I work, If the application is CPU intensive, it goes to a X86 server (Unix, Windows, Linux). This is because yes, some X86 CPUs are faster. If it's IO intensive, it goes to the mainframe. That is where the mainframe is a killer, so Oracle DBs for instance are ideal. And if we want an app to be 24x7 with 100% uptime it goes to the mainframe. Our main website runs on the mainframe, (using UNIX services) and hasn't been down in years. And with the ability to turn on another engine on the fly, the mainframe can scale up quickly. We actually run z/OS, Linux, and have UNIX services all running at the same time, on the same box. And all the legacy stuff is still supported and runs just fine, so why change it?
Actually, IBM doesn't usually use MIPS. Usually, the mainframe systems people use MSU as the performance measurement (Millions of Service Units). http://www.itjungle.com/big/big061306-story01.html
Abends can be caused by started tasks which have no job card. And some users are just plugging in parms and have their jobs auto-magically submitted (via a script or whatever).
IBM mainframes had multiple processors in 1994 it looks like: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/435/spainhower.html Although I didn't work with them until 2000 or so.
But the bosses kept uninstalling it because it could crash the mainframe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)
Here's a link to the news story http://www.channel3000.com/news/14916807/detail.html
I contacted my brother in San Diego via email to his work. I had read San Diego was having the cell phone network getting overloaded. And found out he expects his home in Rancho Bernardo burned down, since they evacuated as the flames came up the canyon. Once things settle down there, I'm going to find out if his company used a DR plan and how it went. He has a very technology dependent company, where his employees are encouraged to work from home. Maybe I can use some of his DR plan, and the response, for where I work.
What's annoying is when you have a real low ID and can't remember the password ;)