Does anyone know if there's a way to keep directory structure and metadata from data disks saved to a local computer so you can search them or browse them in a regular file browser without physically going through discs?
Oh god, that reminded me of the recent update to the Portland area transit, the Westside Express Service.
The use of Federal funds meant that they had to buy trains from a American manufacturer, unlike the Candian and European trains used on the other local systems. The American trains suck, and the company went out of business after delivering the units to WES. Should have gone with Bombardier instead...
Also, they mandated use of an annoyingly loud horn throughout its travel, like a fucking freight train. This made those living near the tracks complain and limited the times the train can be used.
I suppose the Feds are part of why American rail fails.
"I heard how much money there was going to be in these 'computer' things, so I actually started my company before I had ever seen a computer.
At first I thought it was some kind of fruit since people were talking about these 'Apple computers', and I spent a year researching orchard management before learning that computers were actually not a fruit.
Then I went through my 'cow phase' when I saw the Gateway 2000 boxes, and I spent another year researching livestock management, thinking computers were a type of livestock that you could ship directly to consumers.
Eventually, I learned that they were beige boxes that cost a lot of money, so I went to the local dumpster, got a bunch of old cardboard boxes and spent over $10 on paint to make them computers.
We were listed in the Fortune 500 the year after."
I'm not against the concept of nuclear power per se, but eveything I've read about the industry and its practices makes me think they're rather untrustworthy and greedy.
Maybe the French industry is different, I don't know.
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So we will soon see an RMS-like figure demand that they call it the equivalent of "GNU/Occupy Wallstreet"? Demand they use Identica instead of Twitter?
Maybe Jesse Jackson can come demand they call it the "Rainbow Occupation" or something.
I haven't gone down there myself, but friends of mine that work for the city tell me
He hasn't been down there, but he seems to have been modded to +5 at this time anyways. Let's see if my reply to him will, given that I HAVE been there.
I suspect that anything that doesnt mesh with people's conception of "rag tag group of oppressed and innocent protesters" will never get modded up Apparently not. Look at the MS or Apple threads, there are always people who get modded up for having a contrarian view.
Not an occupier, but have been down there at Occupy Portland on and off almost since it began.
>Drug overdoses in the camp went from none, to one per week, to multiple per week. This could be true. It reflects Portland's general drug problems, and is not really high for the number of people there. Trying to pin it on the protest is not really honest.
>Reports of sexual assaults in the tents and makeshift structures were coming out almost daily. Were these reports from within the camp, or from opponents outside of it? We are talking about regular camping tents set up in a public space, not really the kind of place where sexual assault would go easily unnoticed.
>Vandalism to the parks and surrounding businesses went out of control I saw one spray paint graffiti on a wall, which is unfortunate but not out of character for the area. The protesters brought plenty of cardboard to make signs with, and almost all the messages and art were done on boards, not surrounding structures.
>I haven't gone down there myself Well, that explains a lot
>the parks will require major repairs and some businesses were closed The grass in the park died due to the tents, and I think the restrooms were clogged. However, the occupation did set up a fund to pay for that, I have no idea whether they have paid out of it though. As for businesses, I don't know of any that closed, though the 7-11 reported some shoplifting.
>The last straw was the elements in the camp seeking confrontation stock piling shields and weapons including molatov cocktails, rocks, sticks and homemade frag grenades made with glass and fireworks. Where did you hear this, on Fox News? I did not see anything of that sort going on. The fuel for the generators was placed in a locked cage at the suggestion of the fire marshal a couple of weeks ago.
>I heard people starting to talk about forming an angry mob with their own sticks and rocks to go down and confront the camps if the police didn't do anything. Do your friends beat up homeless people for fun?
>The mayor was/is sympathetic to the protesters but simply had to go with the national effort to crack down because a mutiny in his own police department and community was brewing. The mayor and powers that be are simply trying to sweep problems of the city under the rug, or disperse them where they don't have to see them. The homeless problem, the drug problem, the unemployment problem are all problems of the city as a whole, but they want to be able to ignore that so they don't want a single, highly visible concentration of it.
I know some of the people doing the Occupy Portland livestream, so I would like to hear your or any other person's criticisms of it. Is it the video or audio quality? Camerawork? Lighting? Choice of subjects? What people are choosing to say?
PETA dudes must have been Sonic fans who swallowed Sega propaganda about freeing animals from evil Dr. Robotnic who only wanted to cure diseases with animal testing.
One wonders if Richard Feynman could work there now if he were still alive, given his hobby of safecracking and lockpicking to leave prank notes. But hey, it's not like they were doing anything important, right?
As a WebOS user on the Palm phone, I will be sad if it dies. It seems a decent OS, and the only complaint I have about the phone is its hardware (bad keyboard, short battery life).
But you have to remember that it was the '90s, when people didn't have smartphones or laptops with wifi to log in from anywhere.
Also, I was in high school, so checking in to webmail was not high on my priority list, especially when my nerd friends and I did most of our chatting on IRC or ICQ, and my non-nerd friends didn't use email.
Unlike many here, I have been to one of the actual camps (Portland, OR) so I will add my own observations, not the editorializing of those who haven't been there.
Sanitary conditions are good, considering they have about 200 people camped out in a park. They were using the park latrines, but have gone to porta potties that they rented because the park latrines could not handle the load.
They have people regularly sweeping the trash, and recycle/compost/trash bins set up.
They have a kitchen that has been serving people for almost a month, and no reported cases of food poisoning.
It is definitely dirtier than if 200 people were not camped at the park, but it is a relatively clean place, and the people seem to be doing a pretty good job of managing the park itself. Whether their movement is on the right track is a separate issue.
Given Slashdot's predilections, it is certain that the ones Slashdot likes the most will be the least likely to get elected.
So, come join us on Slashdot to see who WON'T be the next president!
Let us whine together about how awful and broken the system is! Let us propose reforms to the election system that will never be implemented! Let us ask obscure technical questions of candidates to the highest office in the land!
I had a Hotmail account in the 90s, since before MS took it over. Wasn't it basically the first free webmail?
But alas, I lost my account after MS decided that not logging in for 30 days meant you lose the account. Stupid policy, and I lost all my mail up to that point. Yes, it's a free service, but to cut you off for NOT using it, and making you lose your data? Fuck MS, that is actually the worst thing MS has done to me thus far and I still hate them for it.
The best part is that I think that address might still be used by someone, as I found out recently that hotmail recycles old addresses. Signed up for a throwaway Hotmail account to use for a signup for Youtube, and was told "that address is already assosciated with an account" by Youtube.
Anyways, left Hotmail for Yahoo in the late 90s or early 2ks, and have been satisfied since. Has Hotmail improved since then?
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone know if there's a way to keep directory structure and metadata from data disks saved to a local computer so you can search them or browse them in a regular file browser without physically going through discs?
In Windows or Linux.
Oh god, that reminded me of the recent update to the Portland area transit, the Westside Express Service.
The use of Federal funds meant that they had to buy trains from a American manufacturer, unlike the Candian and European trains used on the other local systems. The American trains suck, and the company went out of business after delivering the units to WES. Should have gone with Bombardier instead...
Also, they mandated use of an annoyingly loud horn throughout its travel, like a fucking freight train. This made those living near the tracks complain and limited the times the train can be used.
I suppose the Feds are part of why American rail fails.
Can someone explain how it is crowded countries like Japan or Germany can manage to get land for high speed rail, but the US can't?
Especially since Japan seems to have such problems getting land for airports that they have to build artificial islands just to house them.
Factoid: "Factoid" was a term invented by CNN to refer to random short facts that were displayed on the screen.
In common usage, it refers to a short, factual phrase.
Here in Portland we just call that 'Tuesday'.
Then a few weeks ago another unit on the industrial was torched -- arson. I have finally pursuaded them ...
Ahhh yes, the old "Nice data you have there, be a shame if something happened to it" trick.
No need to explain, friend, we all know what happened there.
I am curious if you did the deed yourself or contracted it out to a professional, though. ;)
I've always wondered if /. bothers to back up the stories and posts...
Anyone here know?
How about for other 'trivial' sites, like reddit, youtube, etc?
The real story:
"I heard how much money there was going to be in these 'computer' things, so I actually started my company before I had ever seen a computer.
At first I thought it was some kind of fruit since people were talking about these 'Apple computers', and I spent a year researching orchard management before learning that computers were actually not a fruit.
Then I went through my 'cow phase' when I saw the Gateway 2000 boxes, and I spent another year researching livestock management, thinking computers were a type of livestock that you could ship directly to consumers.
Eventually, I learned that they were beige boxes that cost a lot of money, so I went to the local dumpster, got a bunch of old cardboard boxes and spent over $10 on paint to make them computers.
We were listed in the Fortune 500 the year after."
"Give us more money"
I'm not against the concept of nuclear power per se, but eveything I've read about the industry and its practices makes me think they're rather untrustworthy and greedy.
Maybe the French industry is different, I don't know.
So we will soon see an RMS-like figure demand that they call it the equivalent of "GNU/Occupy Wallstreet"? Demand they use Identica instead of Twitter?
Maybe Jesse Jackson can come demand they call it the "Rainbow Occupation" or something.
They invented this watch, unfortunately they patented it and drove all competitors out of business before collapsing themselves ;-)
Thankfully, 2,100 years later their patents and copyrights have expired, so we can open-source it.
Assuming, of course, Hublot hasn't patented it themselves.
Read his post again,
I haven't gone down there myself, but friends of mine that work for the city tell me
He hasn't been down there, but he seems to have been modded to +5 at this time anyways. Let's see if my reply to him will, given that I HAVE been there.
I suspect that anything that doesnt mesh with people's conception of "rag tag group of oppressed and innocent protesters" will never get modded up
Apparently not. Look at the MS or Apple threads, there are always people who get modded up for having a contrarian view.
Not an occupier, but have been down there at Occupy Portland on and off almost since it began.
>Drug overdoses in the camp went from none, to one per week, to multiple per week.
This could be true. It reflects Portland's general drug problems, and is not really high for the number of people there. Trying to pin it on the protest is not really honest.
>Reports of sexual assaults in the tents and makeshift structures were coming out almost daily.
Were these reports from within the camp, or from opponents outside of it? We are talking about regular camping tents set up in a public space, not really the kind of place where sexual assault would go easily unnoticed.
>Vandalism to the parks and surrounding businesses went out of control
I saw one spray paint graffiti on a wall, which is unfortunate but not out of character for the area. The protesters brought plenty of cardboard to make signs with, and almost all the messages and art were done on boards, not surrounding structures.
>I haven't gone down there myself
Well, that explains a lot
>the parks will require major repairs and some businesses were closed
The grass in the park died due to the tents, and I think the restrooms were clogged. However, the occupation did set up a fund to pay for that, I have no idea whether they have paid out of it though. As for businesses, I don't know of any that closed, though the 7-11 reported some shoplifting.
>The last straw was the elements in the camp seeking confrontation stock piling shields and weapons including molatov cocktails, rocks, sticks and homemade frag grenades made with glass and fireworks.
Where did you hear this, on Fox News? I did not see anything of that sort going on. The fuel for the generators was placed in a locked cage at the suggestion of the fire marshal a couple of weeks ago.
>I heard people starting to talk about forming an angry mob with their own sticks and rocks to go down and confront the camps if the police didn't do anything.
Do your friends beat up homeless people for fun?
>The mayor was/is sympathetic to the protesters but simply had to go with the national effort to crack down because a mutiny in his own police department and community was brewing.
The mayor and powers that be are simply trying to sweep problems of the city under the rug, or disperse them where they don't have to see them. The homeless problem, the drug problem, the unemployment problem are all problems of the city as a whole, but they want to be able to ignore that so they don't want a single, highly visible concentration of it.
I know some of the people doing the Occupy Portland livestream, so I would like to hear your or any other person's criticisms of it. Is it the video or audio quality? Camerawork? Lighting? Choice of subjects? What people are choosing to say?
I will pass on any comments you have.
If you would like to see it, it is at
http://occupyportland.org/livestreammedia/
PETA dudes must have been Sonic fans who swallowed Sega propaganda about freeing animals from evil Dr. Robotnic who only wanted to cure diseases with animal testing.
It's only natural they hate Mario and NintenDON'T
One wonders if Richard Feynman could work there now if he were still alive, given his hobby of safecracking and lockpicking to leave prank notes. But hey, it's not like they were doing anything important, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#The_Manhattan_Project
Anyone know if there are any eccentrics left at the labs, or has it really been purged of 'weird people' like Feynman?
Is it a bad sign that I saw 'Job' and thought 'Not another Steve Jobs story...'? :P
At least the Jobs frenzy seems to be dying down lately.
Well, at least it's not likely to get mixed with sewage to make lard for human consumption like in China.
One hopes so, at least.
As a WebOS user on the Palm phone, I will be sad if it dies. It seems a decent OS, and the only complaint I have about the phone is its hardware (bad keyboard, short battery life).
Any other users here?
Late reply, sorry.
But you have to remember that it was the '90s, when people didn't have smartphones or laptops with wifi to log in from anywhere.
Also, I was in high school, so checking in to webmail was not high on my priority list, especially when my nerd friends and I did most of our chatting on IRC or ICQ, and my non-nerd friends didn't use email.
I shall make sure that any reference to Finland shall contain a reference to this war heroine before any posts about some open-source hacker.
Unlike many here, I have been to one of the actual camps (Portland, OR) so I will add my own observations, not the editorializing of those who haven't been there.
Sanitary conditions are good, considering they have about 200 people camped out in a park. They were using the park latrines, but have gone to porta potties that they rented because the park latrines could not handle the load.
They have people regularly sweeping the trash, and recycle/compost/trash bins set up.
They have a kitchen that has been serving people for almost a month, and no reported cases of food poisoning.
It is definitely dirtier than if 200 people were not camped at the park, but it is a relatively clean place, and the people seem to be doing a pretty good job of managing the park itself. Whether their movement is on the right track is a separate issue.
Given Slashdot's predilections, it is certain that the ones Slashdot likes the most will be the least likely to get elected.
So, come join us on Slashdot to see who WON'T be the next president!
Let us whine together about how awful and broken the system is!
Let us propose reforms to the election system that will never be implemented!
Let us ask obscure technical questions of candidates to the highest office in the land!
Yes, I have been here during elections before.
In b4 Ron Paul
That makes me wonder, what is the most geologically dead/stable area on Earth? Is there such a thing as a place that experiences no earthquakes?
I had a Hotmail account in the 90s, since before MS took it over. Wasn't it basically the first free webmail?
But alas, I lost my account after MS decided that not logging in for 30 days meant you lose the account. Stupid policy, and I lost all my mail up to that point. Yes, it's a free service, but to cut you off for NOT using it, and making you lose your data? Fuck MS, that is actually the worst thing MS has done to me thus far and I still hate them for it.
The best part is that I think that address might still be used by someone, as I found out recently that hotmail recycles old addresses. Signed up for a throwaway Hotmail account to use for a signup for Youtube, and was told "that address is already assosciated with an account" by Youtube.
Anyways, left Hotmail for Yahoo in the late 90s or early 2ks, and have been satisfied since. Has Hotmail improved since then?