Most home users are not savy enough to be able to print their own stuff at home. And they fall to the marketing schemes used by Walmart/Costco/etc, to make them travel over there to print their photos.
Do people really need the haddock of wondering whether this piece of carp is going to wake up and take over the world? Would we know how to stop it? Or would we be like a...fish out of water?
...us techies always trying to over-engineer everything. You already keep everything that matters for identity in your wallet. Take everything else and stick it in zip lock bags. Keep an extra Zip lock or two for your wallet, etc. You really don't have to turn everything into electronic records.
In case of a natural disaster, FEMA will have no clue how to read a flash drive, nor will they care or be properly equiped for it. Anything other than an original Social Security card, drivers license, birth certificate, etc are useless.
Scan the important photos and put those on CD or something. Stash it all in one place and don't forget where it is.
By the way, in case of nuclear war, nothing electronic will work and you probably will be dead anyways, so it doesn't matter then.
That's a whole different discussion. If you have arguments with your spouse, over IM, while you are both in the same house....You might be a ubergeek.
If your wife installed a snmp managable toilet seat, so she can tell from a distance when you left the lid up....she might be an ubergeek.
If you habitually sign your name as "Firstname Lastname.com"...you might be an Ubergeek....
Aw heck, you young guys got it easy. I had to wrap my own copper cores and replace my own vacuum tubes. You damn kids with your transistors and "chips". If I want chips, I'll buy a bag of Doritos.
When I was a young tech, we had slide rulers, and we were grateful. None of these fancy dandy multifunction calculatin machines. We actually had to know what a log was.
1. Gas at around $2.60/gallon. I ain't drivin'.
2. Most movies are remakes of either old movies or old TV shows. As soon as a writer comes up with something good, I'm there. Please! The Dukes of Hazzard???
3. If you are lucky, a $20 bill might pay for a medium coke and a medium popcorn. Don't expect much change.
4. Crying babies, obnoxious adults, etc...
The heck with it, I'll wait for the DVD to come out. Assuming that Hollywood gets better writers and movie makers and starts making something worth watching while sober.
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She's a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Never, never
Slide it up
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen
Start it up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop
Never stop, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come
You, you make a dead man come
Can anyone figure out what the hell Microsoft Marketing was thinking when they selected this song?
At least the British who have this device installed should feel safer knowing that their government kows their every move, where they go, when they go, etc. Nice to know that if they get kidnapped, get lost, rob a bank or visit their mistress, someone will be able to track down their car, and get within 20 meters of it.
If you can afford it, a good way to store your files would be by using either a SCSI or Fibre Channel direct-attached disk array. Some people will say it's an overkill, but it all depends on how much you value your data. Dell sells a really good system, that depending on size and options, can cost as low as $999. Check out http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.a spx/das_storage?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Other than a disk array, I would suggest buying some huge SATA drives and a tape drive. Maybe setting up a home file server to store your data.
Not at all. Age has nothing to do with intelligence. Look at Bush.
Attitude is everything and life generally has a tendency to suck when left to it's own devices. And with your attitude, I figure you're going to be lonely, broke, and unemployed for a while. Go take a reality check pill and get back to us after you've grown up.
Is that company still around and are they hiring???
Has anyone noticed that there don't seem to be a lot of "radical fundamentalist _______" people over the age of 35?
I've been a IT consultant for many years. Unfortunately, to many customers, appearance still counts. And a conservative appearance never insulted anyone's frail ego. If looking like Donald Trump will cause the customer to pay the bill ontime, great! I got a mortage to pay and a family to feed.
In the movie Aliens 2, the LT uses similiar technology to track his military team as they enter the atmospheric conversion facility. Now if our military had the funding, this technology would totally rock as a military application. Even in the civilian world, clothes with this technology would beat the heck out of one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" buttons for the elderly. Unfortunately, as with any technology, someone is going to figure out how to screw someone else over with it, before they bother to figure out how to help someone with it. What a world we live in....
Yes, I am a Star Trek Fan and I am oversaturated by the BAD WRITTING and crappy plot twists. Enterprise had so much promise and they blew it. If the Enterprise series was written as well as the last six episodes, it would have had a chance. And the alternate timeline plot twists were not good.
Hey! How about we let real fiction writers take a stab at writing some episodes? Maybe Stephen King, the Law & Order writers and Johanna Lindsey would'nt mind taking a stab at an episode each! Can't be any worse than what Rick & company has produced!
I read all the books as they came out. I read the Radio scripts. I heard the radio series and watched the TV series. Hell, I even lived in England for 4 years. If I were Tony Blair, I would seriously consider a cruise missile attack on Disney Studios.
Overall, the movie had it's funny moments. The screenwriters who took over for Douglas Adams after he died didn't screw up the editing too badly. But after watching the movie (which just ended 49 minutes ago), I'm left with a sense of "WTF just happened?
It went by too quick. Some of the characters were plain and uninteresting (mis-cast). Marvin is supposed to be tall, thin and gold coloured. Zaphod is supposed to have cojones. Ford is supposed to look and act like a maniac. None of this shows in the movie.
I'm glad I saw it, so my H2G2 experience is complete, but I won't be buying the DVD.
"I'm so depressed..." - Marvin the Paranoid Android
Who has he been asking? Maybe he needs to hire better IT people to advise him? A CEOs knowledge level is only as good as the knowledge level of the people who advise him. We wouldn't expect the CEO of GM to be able to gap a spark plug or tune an engine!
Notice what he says: "Nobody really has a good answer." That should be your first clue that someone is falling down on the job and not giving the boss the right advice. Or maybe someone is afraid to tell the boss something he might not want to hear.
The comment "I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root." is another way of telling me to send him my resume. It's also a opportunity for a smart consultant out there to land themselves a nice contract.
And "I would imagine a few Slashdotters would dispute that." tells me he is smart enough to get the user community talking about this problem and seeing what solutions come out of the woodwork. Once he hears a good idea, it's time to get "his people working on that" and come out with a new product without paying royalties for the idea. Just another way to do low-cost research. Not the first time it's been done.
Slashdot Mirror
Most home users are not savy enough to be able to print their own stuff at home. And they fall to the marketing schemes used by Walmart/Costco/etc, to make them travel over there to print their photos.
Do people really need the haddock of wondering whether this piece of carp is going to wake up and take over the world? Would we know how to stop it? Or would we be like a...fish out of water?
In case of a natural disaster, FEMA will have no clue how to read a flash drive, nor will they care or be properly equiped for it. Anything other than an original Social Security card, drivers license, birth certificate, etc are useless.
Scan the important photos and put those on CD or something. Stash it all in one place and don't forget where it is.
By the way, in case of nuclear war, nothing electronic will work and you probably will be dead anyways, so it doesn't matter then.
That's a whole different discussion. If you have arguments with your spouse, over IM, while you are both in the same house....You might be a ubergeek. If your wife installed a snmp managable toilet seat, so she can tell from a distance when you left the lid up....she might be an ubergeek. If you habitually sign your name as "Firstname Lastname.com"...you might be an Ubergeek....
When I was a young tech, we had slide rulers, and we were grateful. None of these fancy dandy multifunction calculatin machines. We actually had to know what a log was.
Heck and tarnation, you kids got it easy!
What are the IP address ranges so I can block them on my firewall??? Does anyone know and care to share?
1. Gas at around $2.60/gallon. I ain't drivin'.
2. Most movies are remakes of either old movies or old TV shows. As soon as a writer comes up with something good, I'm there. Please! The Dukes of Hazzard???
3. If you are lucky, a $20 bill might pay for a medium coke and a medium popcorn. Don't expect much change.
4. Crying babies, obnoxious adults, etc...
The heck with it, I'll wait for the DVD to come out. Assuming that Hollywood gets better writers and movie makers and starts making something worth watching while sober.
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got,
you got I can't compete with the riders in the other heats If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She's a mean, mean machine
Start it up
If start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Never, never
Slide it up
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen
Start it up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop
Never stop, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come
You, you make a dead man come
Can anyone figure out what the hell Microsoft Marketing was thinking when they selected this song?
At least the British who have this device installed should feel safer knowing that their government kows their every move, where they go, when they go, etc. Nice to know that if they get kidnapped, get lost, rob a bank or visit their mistress, someone will be able to track down their car, and get within 20 meters of it.
We already have that device. It's called a "mother-in-law in the back seat".
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Other than a disk array, I would suggest buying some huge SATA drives and a tape drive. Maybe setting up a home file server to store your data.
Just my two cents worth.
Ah Grasshopper, misconception is in the eye of the beholder...Only by unraveling others misconceptions, will we be able to understand our own. LOL
I worked for one of those! The spectacular rise and fall of SanOne...LOL
Not at all. Age has nothing to do with intelligence. Look at Bush. Attitude is everything and life generally has a tendency to suck when left to it's own devices. And with your attitude, I figure you're going to be lonely, broke, and unemployed for a while. Go take a reality check pill and get back to us after you've grown up.
Is that company still around and are they hiring??? Has anyone noticed that there don't seem to be a lot of "radical fundamentalist _______" people over the age of 35?
Let me guess. You are 18-25 years old, single, and currently between jobs.
I've been a IT consultant for many years. Unfortunately, to many customers, appearance still counts. And a conservative appearance never insulted anyone's frail ego. If looking like Donald Trump will cause the customer to pay the bill ontime, great! I got a mortage to pay and a family to feed.
In the movie Aliens 2, the LT uses similiar technology to track his military team as they enter the atmospheric conversion facility. Now if our military had the funding, this technology would totally rock as a military application. Even in the civilian world, clothes with this technology would beat the heck out of one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" buttons for the elderly. Unfortunately, as with any technology, someone is going to figure out how to screw someone else over with it, before they bother to figure out how to help someone with it. What a world we live in....
Hey! How about we let real fiction writers take a stab at writing some episodes? Maybe Stephen King, the Law & Order writers and Johanna Lindsey would'nt mind taking a stab at an episode each! Can't be any worse than what Rick & company has produced!
Overall, the movie had it's funny moments. The screenwriters who took over for Douglas Adams after he died didn't screw up the editing too badly. But after watching the movie (which just ended 49 minutes ago), I'm left with a sense of "WTF just happened?
It went by too quick. Some of the characters were plain and uninteresting (mis-cast). Marvin is supposed to be tall, thin and gold coloured. Zaphod is supposed to have cojones. Ford is supposed to look and act like a maniac. None of this shows in the movie.
I'm glad I saw it, so my H2G2 experience is complete, but I won't be buying the DVD.
"I'm so depressed..." - Marvin the Paranoid Android
Not necesarily. If people don't have to be in a particular part of the spacecraft, why waste air having atmosphere?
Notice what he says: "Nobody really has a good answer." That should be your first clue that someone is falling down on the job and not giving the boss the right advice. Or maybe someone is afraid to tell the boss something he might not want to hear.
The comment "I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root." is another way of telling me to send him my resume. It's also a opportunity for a smart consultant out there to land themselves a nice contract.
And "I would imagine a few Slashdotters would dispute that." tells me he is smart enough to get the user community talking about this problem and seeing what solutions come out of the woodwork. Once he hears a good idea, it's time to get "his people working on that" and come out with a new product without paying royalties for the idea. Just another way to do low-cost research. Not the first time it's been done.
Just my 3.14 cents worth.
I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that supernovas are industrial accidents. That'll teach those aliens to install Windows!