The masterplan's near-term targets includes: 60% of all new servers able to run OSS operating systems...
What does this mean exactly? Haven't seen many servers that aren't capable of running OSS operating systems. Hope they're going for something more applicable to the job than a Sony Vaio laptop.
Not to mention that Painkiller and Far Cry were out at pretty much at the same time. Both main characters very much resembled each other, except one had a leather jacket and the other had a red Hawaiian shirt, so I wasn't surprised that I heard Cam Clarke's voice in both.
One of the things that comes to mind besides Leonardo is the English dub of Akira: "Tetsuooooooooo! Tetsuooooooooooooo!"
From what I read in the review, it looks more like a beginner's guide to network security. It could prove to be quite useful for someone fairly new to it. In the Air Force, quite a few people who deal with IT are pretty new to this stuff (a lot of people are straight out of high school), and even though most stuff we deal with is Windows-centric, we still need to know Unix for things such as firewalls. Looks like the book could be handy for both.
I destroy stickers trying to peel them off. Imaging a robotic arm doing the same. It would be more retarded-looking than those Skill Crane games at the bowling alley trying to pick stuff up.
I haven't had too much experience with devices that play back mp3s, but it always seems like it cuts the first and last 1/2 second of the song off (usually mp3 cd-rw players). Hopefully, that's not a problem for most players, so manufacturers can move on to other things.
I'd really like to see an option to eliminate silence from the beginning and end of tracks (for mp3s ripped from a CD that transition from track to track seamlessly), since mp3s round off to the nearest frame instead of an exact song length, adding extra milliseconds of blank space. The feature to eliminate that is one of my favorite features of Winamp.
Red Hat 8.0 was the very first time I used Linux, and the fact that they didn't even preconfigure XMMS to play back MP3s left a bad impression. However, I was a Google search away from fixing the problem.
Of course, SuSE (my current Linux OS) has its own issues. Its video playback is crippled for some reason and I was only able to get xine to play more than just MPEGs through some third party xinelib package I found. CSS decoding is also not there, but I haven't bothered with that yet. I watch DVDs on an actual player appliance.
Yes, 2.6 is very slow under VMWare (even in version 4.5), but the problem I ran into trying to run it was that FC2 selected a 16 bit color depth by default when VMWare won't accept anything but what matches the host desktop, which in my case was 24 bit (even if you're using 32 bit color). After editing/etc/X11/xorg.conf to make it run in 24 bit color, it started right up, as did the purty boot screen which also uses the same settings.
One day, I was drooling over the screenshots of Bluecurve from Fedora Core 2 and finally decided to install it. After using Mandrake 10.0 (and currently SuSE 9.1), it seems I still can't get used to the extremely fragmented set of config tools that come with GNOME and the system.
I swear, there's three different menus synonymous with "preferences". Not that you could reorganize the menu to make more sense to you, it won't let you change it. I hope the system-config tools adopt a layout such as YaST and hope GNOME gets their act together and come up with some kind of control center application to replace the fifty bajillion different small config tools.
It's nice to see that the NVIDIA drivers are 4kstacks compatible. When I installed FC2, I had to use some custom kernel RPM from Joe Blow that used 8k stacks....I couldn't adjust tone controls on my emu10k1 sound card...
I think the straw that broke the camel's back in making me get rid of FC2 was that it powered both my hard drives off when doing a warm reboot, which basically means the disks spin down, the computer restarts and the disks spin right back up again. I couldn't find a single entry on a Google search on the topic. I even mucked through the rc scripts myself.
Argh... I *hate* the way they aggressively push that damned ripoff service plan
There was an upside that only others besides me seemed to know about the service plan. What they would do is buy something with the $20 service plan and run the thing to the ground and return it the next month to get a brand new one.
I even had a friend who bought a set of Logitech Z-560 speakers without a service plan. After about four months, one day he was listening to Rezo Largul kinda loud and they popped. He returned the speakers and was able to buy a service plan post facto. I even swapped out my volume control module with his because mine had that obnoxious loose platic rattling inside, heheheh (I bought the same speakers the same day, but mine still work to this day). Hopefully his new Klipch 5.1 speakers are still working.
Oh, and did see the end of the "Demon Customers" segment on CNN and wondered what it was about until I saw this article.
Hey look! A netgear Wireless router sitting right there. I can make a first post without getting my IP ba...[Wireless Signal: Weak]..........[Wireless Signal: Good].......
There are certain military facilities I visit where I have to surrender my calculator "because it has memory and you might use it to remove classified communications."
I wonder if you'd lose your security clearance if you told us the classified information in question was "BOOBLESS"
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The masterplan's near-term targets includes: 60% of all new servers able to run OSS operating systems...
What does this mean exactly? Haven't seen many servers that aren't capable of running OSS operating systems. Hope they're going for something more applicable to the job than a Sony Vaio laptop.
...between English-speaking users of Goggle's orkut and the Portuguese-speaking users of Brazil...
Would it be offtopic to say I just bought a nice pair of novelty Beer Googles from the novelty shop yesterday?
All North Korea needs now is their own version of whitehouse.com
(Military joke, not a troll)
Not to mention that Painkiller and Far Cry were out at pretty much at the same time. Both main characters very much resembled each other, except one had a leather jacket and the other had a red Hawaiian shirt, so I wasn't surprised that I heard Cam Clarke's voice in both.
One of the things that comes to mind besides Leonardo is the English dub of Akira: "Tetsuooooooooo! Tetsuooooooooooooo!"
I'm sure 2004 is the year of Linux on the Desktop!
Lisa: "A gay Republican president by 2084?"
Gay Republican: "We're realistic."
Hahaha!
How about this?
All they need now is a moderation system so that they get modded -1 any time they mention their colonoscopy they had a week ago.
From what I read in the review, it looks more like a beginner's guide to network security. It could prove to be quite useful for someone fairly new to it. In the Air Force, quite a few people who deal with IT are pretty new to this stuff (a lot of people are straight out of high school), and even though most stuff we deal with is Windows-centric, we still need to know Unix for things such as firewalls. Looks like the book could be handy for both.
In other news, Microsoft is nearing the release of their two newest products: Microsoft Combover and Microsoft Penis Car
I destroy stickers trying to peel them off. Imaging a robotic arm doing the same. It would be more retarded-looking than those Skill Crane games at the bowling alley trying to pick stuff up.
In other news, NASA plans on visiting all 3,158 Starbucks locations on Mars.
This man has inspired me. I shall now visit every H&R Block in the country!
Assuming he bought a frappucino one during each visit, let's see:
4,000 visits x $23.50 for one Starbucks brand frappucino = $58,000 spent
Some people have expensive hobbies...
You got pwn3d! Now you have two cocks!
Great, the world gets better every day.
I haven't had too much experience with devices that play back mp3s, but it always seems like it cuts the first and last 1/2 second of the song off (usually mp3 cd-rw players). Hopefully, that's not a problem for most players, so manufacturers can move on to other things.
I'd really like to see an option to eliminate silence from the beginning and end of tracks (for mp3s ripped from a CD that transition from track to track seamlessly), since mp3s round off to the nearest frame instead of an exact song length, adding extra milliseconds of blank space. The feature to eliminate that is one of my favorite features of Winamp.
...not having that damn annoying Encyclopedia Britannica kid around.
Guybrush Threepwood: "Look! A four-headed computer!"
(Cannibal turns around)
According to New Scientist, evolutionary algorithms could make many network caches twice as efficient.
That's easy, just cache 4 boobs at a time instead of two
Red Hat 8.0 was the very first time I used Linux, and the fact that they didn't even preconfigure XMMS to play back MP3s left a bad impression. However, I was a Google search away from fixing the problem.
Of course, SuSE (my current Linux OS) has its own issues. Its video playback is crippled for some reason and I was only able to get xine to play more than just MPEGs through some third party xinelib package I found. CSS decoding is also not there, but I haven't bothered with that yet. I watch DVDs on an actual player appliance.
Yes, 2.6 is very slow under VMWare (even in version 4.5), but the problem I ran into trying to run it was that FC2 selected a 16 bit color depth by default when VMWare won't accept anything but what matches the host desktop, which in my case was 24 bit (even if you're using 32 bit color). After editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make it run in 24 bit color, it started right up, as did the purty boot screen which also uses the same settings.
One day, I was drooling over the screenshots of Bluecurve from Fedora Core 2 and finally decided to install it. After using Mandrake 10.0 (and currently SuSE 9.1), it seems I still can't get used to the extremely fragmented set of config tools that come with GNOME and the system.
...I couldn't adjust tone controls on my emu10k1 sound card...
I swear, there's three different menus synonymous with "preferences". Not that you could reorganize the menu to make more sense to you, it won't let you change it. I hope the system-config tools adopt a layout such as YaST and hope GNOME gets their act together and come up with some kind of control center application to replace the fifty bajillion different small config tools.
It's nice to see that the NVIDIA drivers are 4kstacks compatible. When I installed FC2, I had to use some custom kernel RPM from Joe Blow that used 8k stacks.
I think the straw that broke the camel's back in making me get rid of FC2 was that it powered both my hard drives off when doing a warm reboot, which basically means the disks spin down, the computer restarts and the disks spin right back up again. I couldn't find a single entry on a Google search on the topic. I even mucked through the rc scripts myself.
At least it looked good....
Argh... I *hate* the way they aggressively push that damned ripoff service plan
There was an upside that only others besides me seemed to know about the service plan. What they would do is buy something with the $20 service plan and run the thing to the ground and return it the next month to get a brand new one.
I even had a friend who bought a set of Logitech Z-560 speakers without a service plan. After about four months, one day he was listening to Rezo Largul kinda loud and they popped. He returned the speakers and was able to buy a service plan post facto. I even swapped out my volume control module with his because mine had that obnoxious loose platic rattling inside, heheheh (I bought the same speakers the same day, but mine still work to this day). Hopefully his new Klipch 5.1 speakers are still working.
Oh, and did see the end of the "Demon Customers" segment on CNN and wondered what it was about until I saw this article.
Hey look! A netgear Wireless router sitting right there. I can make a first post without getting my IP ba...[Wireless Signal: Weak]..........[Wireless Signal: Good].......
crap! Failed it!
There are certain military facilities I visit where I have to surrender my calculator "because it has memory and you might use it to remove classified communications."
I wonder if you'd lose your security clearance if you told us the classified information in question was "BOOBLESS"
Great, now "Doing it for Allah" now comprises of shaking up a Coke can and handing it to a buddy.
FIZZZZZZZZ!....."Haha, you just got jihaded!"