Also, I found out that if you're in a train and sit close enough to the engineer(? the person who operates the train..) and switch on the jammer while the train is at the station, the train won't move anymore because you're blocking the signal used by the train to communicate with the station. Was kind of funny at first, but then too many people came in asking questions and being upset... Also, I was getting late for work and people complaining about their phone not working was worse than when they were quietly texting.
Indeed. Take for example my startpage iGoogle, which is now going to be abandoned. And they have the nerve to shut it down with only 1.5 years prior warning. Bastards.
So after removing my MSN account from Pidgin, I can now remove my Google Talk account? Great, so only a private Jabber server remains. Unless I'm willing to have 3 separate IM clients running... Bah. Anyone knows of a universal Linux client that can handle at least skype and jabber?
Flu shots are a hoax. I've worked in a hospital where about half of the people chose to have the flu shot. Most of them got sick immediately afterwards and there was no evidence that having taken the shot, would prevent them from getting the flu later that year. People who never took the shot got sick just as much as the people who did.
I remember getting quite a few releases from IMAGiNE back in the days where I still had lots of FTP accounts. Nowadays I don't really know/care who releases it as I just grab it from usenet.
Over here in Holland, we rarely see people wearing such helmets. Actually the only ones who wear them are some children, and that's only because they tend to be more reckless and/or can't estimate the dangers too well. After the age of 8-9, they too stop wearing them. Almost everybody here knows how to ride a bike and if you see how we do that; driving through busy traffic, together with cars, buses etc. on the same lane, all without helmets. Sure, accidents happen, but I can't remember one incident where a helmet would've proven useful. Most of the times a protective suit like you wear on a motorcycle would've been better:)
Yep. I also remember paying close to 20 guilders (let's see.. that's about 8 euro.. or 9-10 dollars?) for a 650M CD recordable. Not to mention the re-writables that costed me twice that amount.
Yep. This is how I connect to things if I'm on a public network. Just 'ssh your-host -D 1080' , configure your firefox/whatever to use a SOCKS proxy on port 1080 and you're good to go.
Gluster can't be told where to store something. So even in a gigantic cluster you still run into the problem that 2 duplicates of a file can be located on two storage nodes that are physically near to eachother. Let's say right where your fire begins..
You're so right. The company I work for allows you to buy a Dell laptop for a certain budget. I can't choose anything else, even if I wanted to. So my new laptop was a Precision M4500 which has Windows pre-installed. I changed Windows to Linux and all was well. Until after a few weeks the battery would no longer charge. Fine, small problem and one call to CS ensured a new battery was shipped the next day. Then a few weeks later the keyboard malfunctioned. Okay, that was replaced as well. And then the charger failed on me. And then the harddisk. And meanwhile I discovered the nvidia card was having problems (doesn't want to refresh the screen sometimes, leaving you editing a file in vim in the wrong place) but they didn't want to swap the mainboard because I couldn't show that the card was running fine in Windows.
Right now everything works fine again, but I won't be surprised if next month I'll have to contact CS again. It's good that I have a 3yr warranty but it would be better if I never had to use it. Hopefully the company's policy will change and I can buy something else.
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"A religiously-motivated Moroccan"
Pleonasm.
Wonderful H2G2 quote! :-)
In Russia .. oh, never mind.
Also, I found out that if you're in a train and sit close enough to the engineer(? the person who operates the train ..) and switch on the jammer while the train is at the station, the train won't move anymore because you're blocking the signal used by the train to communicate with the station. Was kind of funny at first, but then too many people came in asking questions and being upset ... Also, I was getting late for work and people complaining about their phone not working was worse than when they were quietly texting.
I'm almost tempted to figure out where the option to unhide your signature is
Indeed. Take for example my startpage iGoogle, which is now going to be abandoned. And they have the nerve to shut it down with only 1.5 years prior warning. Bastards.
Not to mention a chance of finding some interesting data on those discarded harddrives.
So after removing my MSN account from Pidgin, I can now remove my Google Talk account? Great, so only a private Jabber server remains. Unless I'm willing to have 3 separate IM clients running ... Bah. Anyone knows of a universal Linux client that can handle at least skype and jabber?
/me queues Kool and the Gang - Celebration ..... on mpd that runs on this r-pi
What an amazing piece of hardware!
Fedora is made by a group of people, some working for RH, some not.
Flu shots are a hoax. I've worked in a hospital where about half of the people chose to have the flu shot. Most of them got sick immediately afterwards and there was no evidence that having taken the shot, would prevent them from getting the flu later that year. People who never took the shot got sick just as much as the people who did.
I remember getting quite a few releases from IMAGiNE back in the days where I still had lots of FTP accounts. Nowadays I don't really know/care who releases it as I just grab it from usenet.
This is an interesting, albeit long read. I must say, it does wonders for those with an SSD.
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
Perhaps it's your nick that triggers those responses.
Over here in Holland, we rarely see people wearing such helmets. Actually the only ones who wear them are some children, and that's only because they tend to be more reckless and/or can't estimate the dangers too well. After the age of 8-9, they too stop wearing them. Almost everybody here knows how to ride a bike and if you see how we do that; driving through busy traffic, together with cars, buses etc. on the same lane, all without helmets. Sure, accidents happen, but I can't remember one incident where a helmet would've proven useful. Most of the times a protective suit like you wear on a motorcycle would've been better :)
Yep. I also remember paying close to 20 guilders (let's see .. that's about 8 euro .. or 9-10 dollars?) for a 650M CD recordable. Not to mention the re-writables that costed me twice that amount.
Yep. This is how I connect to things if I'm on a public network. Just 'ssh your-host -D 1080' , configure your firefox/whatever to use a SOCKS proxy on port 1080 and you're good to go.
Boa sorte!
Gluster can't be told where to store something. So even in a gigantic cluster you still run into the problem that 2 duplicates of a file can be located on two storage nodes that are physically near to eachother. Let's say right where your fire begins ..
Pfff .. fitting on a CD, how last century.
Some dude called L. Torvalds let that through IIRC. He's probably new, cut him some slack.
Exactly. Just leave the stupid code in or make it something like B166357B00B135
You really need to get out more often ;)
There were a lot of f*ck and sh!t references in the kernel code not too long ago. A lot of them directed at Sun (engineers) too.
You're so right. The company I work for allows you to buy a Dell laptop for a certain budget. I can't choose anything else, even if I wanted to. So my new laptop was a Precision M4500 which has Windows pre-installed. I changed Windows to Linux and all was well. Until after a few weeks the battery would no longer charge. Fine, small problem and one call to CS ensured a new battery was shipped the next day. Then a few weeks later the keyboard malfunctioned. Okay, that was replaced as well. And then the charger failed on me. And then the harddisk. And meanwhile I discovered the nvidia card was having problems (doesn't want to refresh the screen sometimes, leaving you editing a file in vim in the wrong place) but they didn't want to swap the mainboard because I couldn't show that the card was running fine in Windows.
Right now everything works fine again, but I won't be surprised if next month I'll have to contact CS again. It's good that I have a 3yr warranty but it would be better if I never had to use it. Hopefully the company's policy will change and I can buy something else.