Amanda is the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software. Amanda allows system administrators to set up a single server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system over the network.
3. Hippies. Champagne-socialists governments so obsessed about political correctness and not upsetting people that it would be political suicide to even consider building a new nuclear power station.
"Wireless" in the United Kingdom means wifi - wireless networks, whereas "Mobile" means cellular phones. It's damned confusing when mobile phones are referred to using the single word "wireless". My initial instincts were to question what differences there would be between a web page received over a wireless connection versus a normal wired connection.
The first thing I ever do with a new vendor system after I have unpacked it and switched it on is remove the malaise of pre-installed rubbish that comes with it. This isn't just restricted to Dell either, Sony are terrible for it, dozens of programs all vying to be your default $whatever player/reader/editor and sneaky programs that don't tell you that they're time-limited trial versions until you've been through the setup and configuration steps and actually try to run it for the first time.
Norton "Password Manager" needs a password before it will uninstall, and you have to enter a password in order to get that password, and is that password provided anywhere? Is it fuck. But please register now!
The UK government plays an environmental card as part of its arsenal of reasons as to why we shouldn't exceed 50/70mph (depending on the road). It used to be true that most cars were most fuel-efficient when they were driven at 56mph.
However, this is no longer true. Cars that are manufactured primarily for the European market (so you're talking VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Fiat, etc.) are these days tuned so that they are most efficient when driven at between 80 and 90mph, which is roughly the speed limit on the vast majority of motorways and highways on the continent.
So the government can cunt off with their environmental argument, frankly.
I wonder, considering your comment, how many of those 2,567,899,110 *other* hottest languages are actually languages, and not groups of existing technologies working together.
AJAZ isn't a language, just like DHTML isn't a language either.
No, Patrick did that VERY reluctantly. Basically, everyone was comparing Slackware against other distros by their version numbers.
"Slackware's on 3.6, but RedHat's on 8.0! That must mean that Redhat is 4.4 versions better than Slackware!"
Eventually he tired of explaining to people that it was actually the other distros that have seriously abused the traditional software release version numbering system, and so rather than try to beat them, he joined them.
Slackware is a MAN's Linux distro. RRaaaaaarrrggghhh!
I've always used Slackware, since 1995. It teaches you how to be a real system administrator, with no giant 24-bit 200x200 pixel "click here to be teh unix expert!!!11" buttons that other distros seem to have. You have to get your hands dirty, which subsequently means you learn a lot more about your system that you would with the more "automated" distros.
I'll always use it.
Stuii!
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my dad has been in the computer biz "since the beginning"
Come on, let's put this into perspective here. We've got a bunch of huge greedy megacorps suing another huge greedy megacorp over something as inane and banal as whose billboards appears in their damned overhyped movie. I say let them, it doesn't hurt anyone else, let them burn their lawyer dollars, it's not as if they're skint or anything.
If a little guy or even a medium guy was going to get burnt by this, such as one of the "independant" movie producers, then I'd be upset, but frankly when we've got Huge Monolith Corp #1 suing Huge Media Corp #2, I frankly don't give a shit.
I use names of planets in Elite. There are 255 planets per galaxy, and 8 galaxies = 2,040 names. One of the nice things about Elite planets is that there are many "pairs", ie. planets with similar names. These lend themselves for use by your twin mail servers, or your twin web servers, etc.
And they're all dead cool too. The only drawback is that some of them are hard to spell and pronounce.
Okay, I'm afraid that NO AMERICAN can EVER complain about fuel taxes. Only when you're paying $4.32 a gallon for petrol will you then have the right to grumble about it.
Does anyone *not* see those records being used to disprove a criminal's alibi within about 2 months of its rollout?
While I would normally agree with you, Britain also has terrific problems with criminals not being brought to justice these days, and this would probably really help.
Privacy is one thing, but if you've got nothing to hide what are you worrying about?
Stuii!
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What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
We had one of these in my school, but in order to use it you had to "book out" the discs 5 days in advance, and a teacher or other member of library staff had to carry the disks over to the machine and sit with you while you used it.
As a result, nobody ever used it.
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Any child that got killed like that would involve the parents being arrested for negligence
Ho ho ho, not in this country. Being bad parents seems to be more or less rewarded over here, parents can more or less get away with anything, and therefore, so can their damned kids. It would be anyone's fault but the parents, mark my words.
London has had something very similar to this, although on a larger scale, for some years now.
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is like the London Underground in its design, except the trains generally run on tracks that are raised above roads and go through buildings. The trains are similar to normal Underground trains, but are much shorter, and most importantly, are driverless (at least, most of the time, they normally have at least one person on board looking after things, but mainly its to make sure the passengers don't tear the train to bits).
The system serves the "docklands" area of east-central London, starting at Bank station in the centre of town, and reaching out as far as Stratford, Lewisham and Beckton in east London. It's very accessible as a lot of stations connect with traditional Underground lines.
Granted, it's definately more train than taxi, but it's a good example of the sort of effective urban railway systems that can be retrofitted to a town. In south London, there's a new Tramway system that serves an area from Wimbledon to Croydon, which took years to build but is now very popular. It's a normal "buses on tracks" thing, nothing particularly special, but of course trams get right of way in all traffic situations so they're always a lot faster than buses.
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took untill XP for windows not to need to be restarted to change tcp/ip settings
Untrue, Windows 2000 did it too.
From TFA:
Amanda is the world's most popular open source backup and recovery software. Amanda allows system administrators to set up a single server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system over the network.
Or am I missing something?
3. Hippies. Champagne-socialists governments so obsessed about political correctness and not upsetting people that it would be political suicide to even consider building a new nuclear power station.
> the major barrier being that about half of the population is against them.
I don't remember ever having been asked, myself. No doubt they used another "focus group".
"Wireless" in the United Kingdom means wifi - wireless networks, whereas "Mobile" means cellular phones. It's damned confusing when mobile phones are referred to using the single word "wireless". My initial instincts were to question what differences there would be between a web page received over a wireless connection versus a normal wired connection.
The first thing I ever do with a new vendor system after I have unpacked it and switched it on is remove the malaise of pre-installed rubbish that comes with it. This isn't just restricted to Dell either, Sony are terrible for it, dozens of programs all vying to be your default $whatever player/reader/editor and sneaky programs that don't tell you that they're time-limited trial versions until you've been through the setup and configuration steps and actually try to run it for the first time.
Norton "Password Manager" needs a password before it will uninstall, and you have to enter a password in order to get that password, and is that password provided anywhere? Is it fuck. But please register now!
> See this? http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_ Started
> it's a tutorial. In the AJAX LANGUAGE
From the top of the referenced page:
"AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a newly coined term for two powerful browser features that have been around for years,"
All I can see on that page is JavaScript, sorry. There is no AJAX "language"
Insert angry GNU/ranting here, if that's what you want.
The UK government plays an environmental card as part of its arsenal of reasons as to why we shouldn't exceed 50/70mph (depending on the road). It used to be true that most cars were most fuel-efficient when they were driven at 56mph.
However, this is no longer true. Cars that are manufactured primarily for the European market (so you're talking VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, Fiat, etc.) are these days tuned so that they are most efficient when driven at between 80 and 90mph, which is roughly the speed limit on the vast majority of motorways and highways on the continent.
So the government can cunt off with their environmental argument, frankly.
> better still, speed limit the cars.
:)
Some are. My BMW is limited to 155mph
*AJAX
I wonder, considering your comment, how many of those 2,567,899,110 *other* hottest languages are actually languages, and not groups of existing technologies working together.
AJAZ isn't a language, just like DHTML isn't a language either.
Jonathan Zdziarski has been fighting spam since before the first MIT spam conference in 2003
Big deal, I've been fighting spam since 1995.
No, Patrick did that VERY reluctantly. Basically, everyone was comparing Slackware against other distros by their version numbers.
"Slackware's on 3.6, but RedHat's on 8.0! That must mean that Redhat is 4.4 versions better than Slackware!"
Eventually he tired of explaining to people that it was actually the other distros that have seriously abused the traditional software release version numbering system, and so rather than try to beat them, he joined them.
Stuii!
Slackware is a MAN's Linux distro. RRaaaaaarrrggghhh!
I've always used Slackware, since 1995. It teaches you how to be a real system administrator, with no giant 24-bit 200x200 pixel "click here to be teh unix expert!!!11" buttons that other distros seem to have. You have to get your hands dirty, which subsequently means you learn a lot more about your system that you would with the more "automated" distros.
I'll always use it.
Stuii!
my dad has been in the computer biz "since the beginning"
Dude, your Dad is Charles Babbage? Respect.
No, perhaps most of you 'code no graphics geeks' don't like Flash, but 90% of the rest of us do
Presumably you simply forgot to provide the evidence you doubtlessly have to back this claim up?
Stuii!
Come on, let's put this into perspective here. We've got a bunch of huge greedy megacorps suing another huge greedy megacorp over something as inane and banal as whose billboards appears in their damned overhyped movie. I say let them, it doesn't hurt anyone else, let them burn their lawyer dollars, it's not as if they're skint or anything.
If a little guy or even a medium guy was going to get burnt by this, such as one of the "independant" movie producers, then I'd be upset, but frankly when we've got Huge Monolith Corp #1 suing Huge Media Corp #2, I frankly don't give a shit.
Stuii!
What a grim site
I use names of planets in Elite. There are 255 planets per galaxy, and 8 galaxies = 2,040 names. One of the nice things about Elite planets is that there are many "pairs", ie. planets with similar names. These lend themselves for use by your twin mail servers, or your twin web servers, etc.
And they're all dead cool too. The only drawback is that some of them are hard to spell and pronounce.
Stuii!
Okay, I'm afraid that NO AMERICAN can EVER complain about fuel taxes. Only when you're paying $4.32 a gallon for petrol will you then have the right to grumble about it.
Period.
Stuii!
Does anyone *not* see those records being used to disprove a criminal's alibi within about 2 months of its rollout?
While I would normally agree with you, Britain also has terrific problems with criminals not being brought to justice these days, and this would probably really help.
Privacy is one thing, but if you've got nothing to hide what are you worrying about?
Stuii!
What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
Here's some advice: Never move to the UK
Stuii!
We had one of these in my school, but in order to use it you had to "book out" the discs 5 days in advance, and a teacher or other member of library staff had to carry the disks over to the machine and sit with you while you used it.
As a result, nobody ever used it.
Stuii!
Any child that got killed like that would involve the parents being arrested for negligence
Ho ho ho, not in this country. Being bad parents seems to be more or less rewarded over here, parents can more or less get away with anything, and therefore, so can their damned kids. It would be anyone's fault but the parents, mark my words.
Stuii!
London has had something very similar to this, although on a larger scale, for some years now.
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is like the London Underground in its design, except the trains generally run on tracks that are raised above roads and go through buildings. The trains are similar to normal Underground trains, but are much shorter, and most importantly, are driverless (at least, most of the time, they normally have at least one person on board looking after things, but mainly its to make sure the passengers don't tear the train to bits).
The system serves the "docklands" area of east-central London, starting at Bank station in the centre of town, and reaching out as far as Stratford, Lewisham and Beckton in east London. It's very accessible as a lot of stations connect with traditional Underground lines.
Granted, it's definately more train than taxi, but it's a good example of the sort of effective urban railway systems that can be retrofitted to a town. In south London, there's a new Tramway system that serves an area from Wimbledon to Croydon, which took years to build but is now very popular. It's a normal "buses on tracks" thing, nothing particularly special, but of course trams get right of way in all traffic situations so they're always a lot faster than buses.
Well there you are you see.
Stuii!