My favorite is The Big U. It does such a good job of depicting a major University. It's even back in print, so you don't have to read a copy you got on eBay for $275.
I mean retarded like 'we will prepend a 'k' onto the front of a previously independent freestanding project, and now you'll have to install QT to run it.'
I guess it's happened one or two times too many and it gets annoying. It's almost a 'borg' thing in a way.
But old farts who prefer fvwm and to not install tons of croft just need to face the new ways of the world, I guess...
99 percent of the people who 'encrypt' their/home directory have never handled sensitive data, either. At least, not more sensitive than the utility bill, that sits out in their mailbox for half a day, 12 times a year.
It's just fun to play 'stealth' and be 'secure' from the prying eyes of their 12 year old brother.
If I pull the plug, unless I give out the password, the disk is just a piece of metal-junk to anybody else.
No it's not. It's a fresh new hard drive with random garbage on it, and can be formatted and used just fine.
How many people care what's on your/home partition in the first place? I'd rather just have the drive.
You've made it far more difficult for a third party who discovers your drive/info in a ditch somewhere to identify it and give it back. Your choise, I guess.
Well, if you want to mince over details, it's the "moderate media" myth. And it's not a myth. There are politically 'moderate' forces that DO have powerful control over the US Media. They block access from the near-right and the far-left. We're only allowed to hear the positions of Algore-style moderates on the mainstream media.
There are far-left organizations like this and like this who never get their views heard. But the views from the non-moderate right are never heard either.
The country with the largest population has socialism imposed on it's population. By a government with strong internal police forces, and who are known for exterminating people who wander off the ideological boundaries said government establishes.
And then there are the socialist 'one man, one vote, one time' countries like Zimbabwe (the political track certain forces in Nicaragua hoped to travel down).
I buy machines all the time, for a few dollars per system, that have 3C905 cards. Either plugged in or on the motherboard. I doubt I'll ever use anything else (certainly not anything 'cheaper') ever again for 100BaseT. If you're going to run Taiwanese junk hardware you're going to be limited in what software you can run on it.
I'll assume you're using Linux here, since I don't see a price factored for a windows OS.
And it's now a common assumption that MacOS X users are well conditioned to pony over $120 or so per year for the latest bugfixes and fresh eye-candy called an 'Update'.
There hasn't been an OS that fully exploits the x86 processor family since a few proprietary UNIX box vendors made them for the 80286 processor way back. The features of the '286 pointed on into a robust protected mode environment, but at the time all the market would bear was a 'faster box to run DOS on.' Intel tried to push the software 'envelope' back then, but have since just ridden along as a piece in the Wintel monopoly.
Solaris x86 is a nice piece of work. I've installed it on one of my older systems (a Dell Optiplex GX1 box) and it looks great, and about any apps you need are available for it, for many purposes. Sun more and more embraces the GNU freeware all the time, and distribute a nicely packaged GNU toolchain that installs like any other package into their system. With the Gnome desktop, you're not even bound to OpenLook or CDE anymore.
It's an option well worth checking out. For those of us with a stable of boxes on a 4 way KVM switch, it's worth having a machine on hand that runs Solaris x86.
Firing that guy will probably improve employee morale overall at the worksite.
He was the one people suspected of leaving the Aliens are coming tracts wedged between the rolls of toilet paper in the restroom stalls. In both the mens' and ladies' room; which was really bumming people out.
I also note that the website has virtually NO email communication points.
Indeed, and what with the way slashbots are now scouring that organization's online presence to find ways to 'sock it to them' for abusing a fellow SETI-head, it was probably a wise decision for them to have a fairly restrictive web-based feedback portal rather than a published email address.
Though I'm sure there are tards right now coding up Python scripts to hammer the feedback portal...
Likewise, would you say "if you don't want people punching out the LCD readout on the photocopier machine with one of those automatic (spring loaded) center punches, you deny them access to the room the photocopier is in" ??
How about busting the urinal off the wall in the restroom with a cinder block?
Employees are 'given the ability' to do many things that they can and should be fired for doing.
Many designs take an embedded hardware clock that will run in standby mode, and wake the chip up, say, every few seconds.
I know it is possible with the NEC 75000 series parts, which probably have morphed into some other product line since I worked with it. We set it up that way and the bosses demanded a lot of tweaking and adjustment to get 'quiescent' current down to the minimum possible.
Now you're sounding like one of those 'we salute you' beer commercials.
These guys aren't the MLK Jrs.
Nader might be. Why was he smart enough not to try to crash the gate as part of this stunt?
Would this even have been mentioned on the Slashdot main page if it were a Nader story? (a little mouse told me the left-liberal cheerleaders who run this site don't give Nader any screenspace)
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Hello. The year 1997 called and they want their bullshit jargon back.
My favorite is The Big U. It does such a good job of depicting a major University. It's even back in print, so you don't have to read a copy you got on eBay for $275.
I mean retarded like 'we will prepend a 'k' onto the front of a previously independent freestanding project, and now you'll have to install QT to run it.'
I guess it's happened one or two times too many and it gets annoying. It's almost a 'borg' thing in a way.
But old farts who prefer fvwm and to not install tons of croft just need to face the new ways of the world, I guess...
99 percent of the people who 'encrypt' their /home directory have never handled sensitive data, either. At least, not more sensitive than the utility bill, that sits out in their mailbox for half a day, 12 times a year.
It's just fun to play 'stealth' and be 'secure' from the prying eyes of their 12 year old brother.
Shit. That cardboard box on my back porch is a 'media outlet' whenever I take another box of 3-1/2" floppy diskettes out of it.
How do I fuck Gullible, too? Is she pretty, and good in bed?
indymedia is an open publishing system.
Possibly that could be said, for certain definitions of the term 'open.'
They're kinda cliquish, though. You say it right there in the end of your comment: "not excercising enough editorial control."
I suspect a lot of the 'indy' submissions are filtered away.
Hear, hear. Indymedia should be used as part of a 'feedback' mechanism to insure more efficient, less detectable, secret police forces.
I tried to look up 'real Riot' but all I found were joke sites.
I guess we better contact mIndymedia.
A little kid knows why his hand was slapped (it was in the cookie jar) even if it isn't explicitly explained to him by his mother.
If I pull the plug, unless I give out the password, the disk is just a piece of metal-junk to anybody else.
/home partition in the first place? I'd rather just have the drive.
No it's not. It's a fresh new hard drive with random garbage on it, and can be formatted and used just fine.
How many people care what's on your
You've made it far more difficult for a third party who discovers your drive/info in a ditch somewhere to identify it and give it back. Your choise, I guess.
Well, if you want to mince over details, it's the "moderate media" myth. And it's not a myth. There are politically 'moderate' forces that DO have powerful control over the US Media. They block access from the near-right and the far-left. We're only allowed to hear the positions of Algore-style moderates on the mainstream media.
There are far-left organizations like this and like this who never get their views heard. But the views from the non-moderate right are never heard either.
The country with the largest population has socialism imposed on it's population. By a government with strong internal police forces, and who are known for exterminating people who wander off the ideological boundaries said government establishes.
And then there are the socialist 'one man, one vote, one time' countries like Zimbabwe (the political track certain forces in Nicaragua hoped to travel down).
Anyway....
Well, damn, that would suck. That stack of Dell Optiplexes out in the garage that I am gradually selling on eBay just became VERY expensive to store.
I buy machines all the time, for a few dollars per system, that have 3C905 cards. Either plugged in or on the motherboard. I doubt I'll ever use anything else (certainly not anything 'cheaper') ever again for 100BaseT. If you're going to run Taiwanese junk hardware you're going to be limited in what software you can run on it.
I'll assume you're using Linux here, since I don't see a price factored for a windows OS.
And it's now a common assumption that MacOS X users are well conditioned to pony over $120 or so per year for the latest bugfixes and fresh eye-candy called an 'Update'.
There hasn't been an OS that fully exploits the x86 processor family since a few proprietary UNIX box vendors made them for the 80286 processor way back. The features of the '286 pointed on into a robust protected mode environment, but at the time all the market would bear was a 'faster box to run DOS on.' Intel tried to push the software 'envelope' back then, but have since just ridden along as a piece in the Wintel monopoly.
Solaris x86 is a nice piece of work. I've installed it on one of my older systems (a Dell Optiplex GX1 box) and it looks great, and about any apps you need are available for it, for many purposes. Sun more and more embraces the GNU freeware all the time, and distribute a nicely packaged GNU toolchain that installs like any other package into their system. With the Gnome desktop, you're not even bound to OpenLook or CDE anymore.
It's an option well worth checking out. For those of us with a stable of boxes on a 4 way KVM switch, it's worth having a machine on hand that runs Solaris x86.
And it dissipates 100 watts more of power. Which is clearly 'wear and tear' on the hardware.
And there's probably yet more.
Firing that guy will probably improve employee morale overall at the worksite.
He was the one people suspected of leaving the Aliens are coming tracts wedged between the rolls of toilet paper in the restroom stalls. In both the mens' and ladies' room; which was really bumming people out.
How can you say that? Both are forms of frivolous nerd entertainment.
I also note that the website has virtually NO email communication points.
Indeed, and what with the way slashbots are now scouring that organization's online presence to find ways to 'sock it to them' for abusing a fellow SETI-head, it was probably a wise decision for them to have a fairly restrictive web-based feedback portal rather than a published email address.
Though I'm sure there are tards right now coding up Python scripts to hammer the feedback portal...
Likewise, would you say "if you don't want people punching out the LCD readout on the photocopier machine with one of those automatic (spring loaded) center punches, you deny them access to the room the photocopier is in" ??
How about busting the urinal off the wall in the restroom with a cinder block?
Employees are 'given the ability' to do many things that they can and should be fired for doing.
Yikes. Calling me a name, are you?
Depends on what you mean by 'not turned on.'
Many designs take an embedded hardware clock that will run in standby mode, and wake the chip up, say, every few seconds.
I know it is possible with the NEC 75000 series parts, which probably have morphed into some other product line since I worked with it. We set it up that way and the bosses demanded a lot of tweaking and adjustment to get 'quiescent' current down to the minimum possible.
I truly offer you the salute that you,
Now you're sounding like one of those 'we salute you' beer commercials.
These guys aren't the MLK Jrs.
Nader might be. Why was he smart enough not to try to crash the gate as part of this stunt?
Would this even have been mentioned on the Slashdot main page if it were a Nader story? (a little mouse told me the left-liberal cheerleaders who run this site don't give Nader any screenspace)