Those boxes look like they're no more than one layer thick.
You need to use something with some burst strength. Find a friend who is a tech, or go down to the nearst clone house and get a monitor box.
A few minutes with the ginzu, and you can make just about any monitor foam fit any monitor.
If you want your data to survive, pull the drives, wrap them in antistatic bags, roll them in something soft, and put them in your carryon.
DSL I like. GTE was a cool company. But Verizon sucks ass.
Lately, they can't keep PTR records in place for their mail servers, and my mail is getting refused.
Apparently they're also careless enough to get blacklisted for running an open relay.
Don't even bother trying to contact tech support. I've called or emailed them 4 times so far, and they still don't seem to understand what is going on. Morons.
I think the anarchists have been pissing on the phones around here. Nothing more annoying to step upto a phone and realize that the thing stinks to high heaven. And who actually puts cash into payphones anymore? With cheap disposable pre-paid calling cards being so common, and 1-800 numbers being free, I'm suppried they make any money at all.
I guess at least BSDi wasn't bought by WindOws. I wish they'd pick up the company that makes the LVM tools too. It'd be cool to be able to run with softupdates, vinum, GFS, and the LVM tools.
Hope they are ready for some massive spam. I know at least a dozen people I'm going to fink on. None of them have actually done anything, but when does that ever stop the legal system?
I'd never consider downloading illegal copies of Harlan's work. His stuff isn't worth the trouble.
If your criterion for "good" science fiction is boredom, then I'd agree with your choices. Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, and the like all have numerous movies make from their work. If you seek their work, there is plenty of old film to be had. I prefer to see the works of living authors made into films. But to each his own.
A technically proficient generation of people, disenfranchised by software institutions, is changing the face of computing. Open hardware has become a commodity. Open operating systems have become a commodity. The company that offers the largest opportunity to the largest number of people is going to be most involved in the revolution. How big can an organism become before it can't bear its own weight, or drowns in its own waste products?
Apple's children will live on. Their user interface lives on in Windows. But not all of their children are viable. The BSD/Mach based OS X is too big of a mutation to live. It is a mule.
GNU is a virus, it cannot live without a host. (Linux) It can spread without limit, but it is not by itself viable.
BSD, in turn, is a bacteria. You find it in the gut of other creatures, but it isn't all that impressive by itself.
AIX on the other hand, hopes to become the home for parasites looking to leave Linux in favor of a larger host. But sometimes parasites kill the host.
What is the end result? No one knows. But it won't be like anything alive today.
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Welcome a new state to the digital third world.
Once the initial business surge is over, providers are going to be reluctant to fork over the bandwidth.
If customers aren't careful, we're going to end up back on 53k modems.
Those boxes look like they're no more than one layer thick.
You need to use something with some burst strength. Find a friend who is a tech, or go down to the nearst clone house and get a monitor box.
A few minutes with the ginzu, and you can make just about any monitor foam fit any monitor.
If you want your data to survive, pull the drives, wrap them in antistatic bags, roll them in something soft, and put them in your carryon.
DSL I like. GTE was a cool company. But Verizon sucks ass.
Lately, they can't keep PTR records in place for their mail servers, and my mail is getting refused.
Apparently they're also careless enough to get blacklisted for running an open relay.
Don't even bother trying to contact tech support. I've called or emailed them 4 times so far, and they still don't seem to understand what is going on. Morons.
John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy, W.S.B.
Put anything you need to touch on USB, and put the system in a cooled location preferably on the other side of some sheetrock.
Put the big servers in the garage, so that the sound doesn't bother anyone.
At work, I would love to get rid of the droning of the HD in my Ultra 5 or the fan noise from my PC.
Damn it Wil, you have to drive out to the valley and round up Dolby and Torvalds. (Yeah, I know that Dolby is getting old, but who else is there?)
You guys could start a company and teach the chief freaks at Sun, Apple, and MicroSoft just how far they're off their game.
Maybe even ressurect the Amiga?
If you don't do it, don't come whining to me when we're both retired and wishing we'd done something else.
Please combine the subscription offer with a t-shirt or hat. That way I can offer some small financial and moral support to slashdot.
Or maybe a coffee mug.
No drive company is without its lemons. What do you expect? When a large capacity drive sells for so little money, they have to scrimp somewhere.
There are also fewer and fewer companies actually making this stuff. I wouldn't be supprised if IBM stops selling IBM drives in their own equipment.
Would IBM make more money if they started selling everyone elses drives with their sticker on top? Hard to say.
Don't install curl on anything you don't want crashed. BSODs for everyone.
The license looks like another get rich quick scheme.
Sorry, its windows only.
Is this a new company?
I think the anarchists have been pissing on the phones around here.
Nothing more annoying to step upto a phone and realize that the thing stinks to high heaven.
And who actually puts cash into payphones anymore? With cheap disposable pre-paid calling cards being so common, and 1-800 numbers being free, I'm suppried they make any money at all.
Add Cartoon Network, and I'd be happy with that list.
Running a system without its case shows about as much class as driving your car around with the hood off.
Why is venting RFI considered acceptable?
I wonder how many of these problems stem from running on Windows?
I guess at least BSDi wasn't bought by WindOws.
I wish they'd pick up the company that makes the LVM tools too. It'd be cool to be able to run with softupdates, vinum, GFS, and the LVM tools.
He has the one qualification that all professional writers need, he's been published!
Hope they are ready for some massive spam. I know at least a dozen people I'm going to fink on. None of them have actually done anything, but when does that ever stop the legal system?
I'd never consider downloading illegal copies of Harlan's work. His stuff isn't worth the trouble.
Cool, its time for Scooby Doo!
I ... can't ... remember!
How about a link to a review of the Abit VP6?
I'll tell you the story of my life.
Fifteen, clumsy, and shy.
Or TrustedBSD.
Or the eclipse OS.
No, "unlink memory".
No
If your criterion for "good" science fiction is boredom, then I'd agree with your choices.
Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, and the like all have numerous movies make from their work. If you seek their work, there is plenty of old film to be had.
I prefer to see the works of living authors made into films.
But to each his own.
A technically proficient generation of people, disenfranchised by software institutions, is changing the face of computing.
Open hardware has become a commodity. Open operating systems have become a commodity. The company that offers the largest opportunity to the largest number of people is going to be most involved in the revolution.
How big can an organism become before it can't bear its own weight, or drowns in its own waste products?
Apple's children will live on. Their user interface lives on in Windows. But not all of their children are viable. The BSD/Mach based OS X is too big of a mutation to live. It is a mule.
GNU is a virus, it cannot live without a host. (Linux) It can spread without limit, but it is not by itself viable.
BSD, in turn, is a bacteria. You find it in the gut of other creatures, but it isn't all that impressive by itself.
AIX on the other hand, hopes to become the home for parasites looking to leave Linux in favor of a larger host. But sometimes parasites kill the host.
What is the end result? No one knows. But it won't be like anything alive today.