Wrt to your attempt to troll atheists, many of the founders were Deists, which is more similar to Atheism than it is to Christianity (both deny revealed religion).
Even the Diests of the day were more Christian than most `Christians' of today.
Revealed diety or not, most of the Founders were Creationists, another way in which they were more Christian than many of today's `Christians', and less Atheist than you'd have us all believe.
Speaking of which, I note with some amusement that in addition to the confirmation of Robert Gentry's pleochroic halos, and recent variations on and amplifications of those halos, he's now been vindicated on his helium and lead decay products in hot Zircon crystals too. Bit of a poser for Atheism. And Halton Arp's found some fellow travellers.
Meanwhile yet more hairy dnosaurs have been found, declared to be proto-birds, and - alas - are again found to be `younger' than the bird, Archeopteryx. You'd almost think someone had a point they wanted proven there, wouldn't you? I wonder where December's `ape-man of the month, for a month' will come from?
It's becoming steadily more obvious that Atheism is prophetless speculation.
If they treat it that way I swear to all that is good I'll write my own.
Please do.
Boy, the free-software ideal seems more and more attractive with every day that passes.
It will also help existing suck^H^H^H^Hcustomers if you let Intuit know you're doing that, and why ('You made me do it; if you'd treated your customers decently there would be no free QuickBooks clone'). And call your OSS package something like `QuackBooks' to drive the point home. (-:
It largely depends on how many BeOS users are active and willing to contribute.
Not just BeOs. gobeProductive does basically what Microsoft have been dreaming about doing with OLE for about twenty years, and have only managed to bandaid-and-string together with any success at all in about the last five.
If GoBe do go kerplonk, I hope someone's brave enough to slap `GPL' on the openable parts and kick it out the door before that door slams. It would be an excellent legacy to bequeath.
You can download the latest version free from www.linux.org
Er, no. You can download it from http://www.kernel.org/ though.
OpenOffice.org does not use coding from Sun MicrosystemsSuns product
Yes, it does. Sun bought StarDivision and with it the then-proprietary StarOffice 5.2. OpenOffice is an open-sourced and tarted-up version of SO5.2; Sun then re-developed or ported the extra componets from SO5.2 (like WordPerfect files, macro record/replay and grammer checking) that couldn't be (or weren't for political reasons) opened across to OOo, and the result is SO6.
Better still, go to your local Scientologist "personality assessment" centre, fill one in using his name (remember to act rich and stupid) and let them spam and sue each other!
Scientologists and spammers - a marriage made by Moonies!
...that really spanged my wazzometer! (-:
My sister and I visited one of said centers together, a very long time ago (OTToMH, maybe 17 years) while we were killing some time down town waiting for an appointment. I scanned the questions like I'd been told not to, and it was pretty obvious that they were after totally ruthless mercenaries. No problem, donned my ruthless-mercenary personality and answered away. Nearly finished the damn thing as well, which alarmed them no end. They marked it, came back and said in awed tones, `You did really well, actually, but we still think we can help you...' my sister, the bleeding heart (bless hers) was in tears and had scored really badly. They gave her a book - she was crying so hard they couldn't bear it - and ushered both of us out again. I read the book, and it looks like a poor copy of Transactional Analysis.
Buy a cheap paperback called What do you say after you say hello? by Eric Berne and you'll know more than at least the first $50,000 of their courses will ever teach you - except about being a ruthless mercenary, of course.
I have a mate who has all of their course materials, E-meter, forbidden one-at-a-time-in-locked-room tapes, the lot. Amazing stuff. If you admitted to doing some of the things they insist that you do, the authorities would lock you in a padded room before a squirrel buried you. Shriners look jober as a sudge by comparison.
If he has no cameras, anonymise and print out all of the spam you get, seal it with dilute Liquid Nails, and occasionally stick it to his house in the dead of night. Starting with the front door. Return to sender...
Can you see his house from yours? Good moneymaking enterprise there (THIS REALLY WORKS!!!!)...
Also, can you (anonymously) post his licence plates or any other useful details? Pictures would be great, but doing that anonymously might be hard. The names and other details of computery looking service vehicles would be good, too. Keep a log handy for the next story...
Oh, and tell the local JW and LDS depots that they need to visit him. Regularly.
Ralston's lawyer's technical contact (and ISP) appears to be Alex "Drestin Black" Boge, AKA ABZ899 and Loser Extraordinaire - or possibly some other poor unfortunate with the same moniker. Chew on that, spambots! Chew! Chew! Wanna bet on Ralston's own technical contact? Anyone local to Southfield, MI want to call and ask?
It's so much more satisfactory knowing that they're paying to receive a nice, solid paving brick than a flimsy sheet of paper. And if they repeat offend, I use a real brick. I've not had to use a Besser Block or paving slab yet, but I'm sure the day will come. (-:
You have to be rich, though. It takes a lot of glue to be sure the reply-paid envelope (or ReturnToSender with addressee suitably obliterated) stays attached to a paving brick. And about half a day for it to dry.
Gulf War: $80G (2002-USD plus many times that in total by others)
This does not include the cost of rebuilding these places, or even address things like the thousands and thousands of civilian lives taken or ruined. Everyone from your workmate to your neighbour's baby. Even so, we're well on our way to a trillion spondoolies. A Terabuck.
A trillion dollars spent on Energia-style launches and equipment to launch with them would have bought the USA a real space presence, an L5 or similar colony, and the ability to drop rocks on anyone who annoys them. So even from an aggressive, miltaristic PoV, the USA has really gone about this the wrong way.
A mere $10G - one measley percent - spent right now on a space elevator would yield even better returns. Instead of murdering more Iraqi citizens, how about offering them a seat on it? If they're rich, and their wealth is firmly tied to the West, they'll deal with the terrorists themselves to protect that.
I've just spent 3 years with Auburn University designing an experiment for the ISS which could allow certain heavy industries to cut losses from $10 billion PER YEAR to less than $5 billion per year
Don't account your chickens before they hatch. `Could save' and `does save' are not synonymous.
That said, I believe that Fred could have got this far for a small fraction of the cost, but even at $40G is almost certainly worthwhile. If you could account for the value of all of the tech spinoffs, they alone would probably pay for it.
The other question is: would we have been better of spending a trillion (ie 25x as much) and whacking together an L5 colony? Certainly, the $200G earmarked for razing Iraq after the S&M experts have finished playing with it would be better directed towards such an enterprise. There are much cheaper, more permanent and more effective ways of defanging Iraq, none of them involving explosives, poisons or bioweapons.
The OWNER option on CREATE TABLE, for example, will save a lot of fidgeting around. Some of the deeper changes show that they really do have a handle on their code. I expect them to surpass Oracle in every respect bar bloatedness and management-as-a-career by Christmas 2003. (-:
I do note a *lot* of `breakme' changes like integers no longer accepting an empty string as equivalent to zero. I guess this is where we find how portably we really wrote our code.
MS SQL allows you to use your current windows credentials as the authentication to the SQL server. This is nice because then the users don't have to enter/remember another password. Can I do this in Postgre?
I don't think there is any way you can do that in the PosgreSQL ODBC driver - you could rewire the ODBC link on the fly though. Another login is a pain in the ass, but nobody seems to care. It may be possible to get this to work with a Linux server through PAM - if you can get PostgreSQL to work though PAM. I don't know, though.
Even if not, this is Unix. A simple glue script to fetch the necessaries from Samba and push them into the Postgres authentication table(s) should do the trick.
When it works, make a hero of yourself, re-render it in C or something at least a little more robust than BASH or whatever you prototyped it in, and throw it at Postgres' contribs.
They were actually proposed for the Stanford Torus particularly for cosmic ray shielding, but the side-effects and added difficulty in docking etc with an object charged up to a bazillion volts made them impractical.
Even so, if I were attacking one I'd give my two-can rocket a slight opposing charge, and dispense with anything reminiscent of a guidance system.
AMD did, they recently announced that they're diversifying (away from bigger heatsinks and a microwave on your motherboard). Actually figuring out what customers need? Inconcievable! (-:
My wife's machine matches yours (except Celeron/450 instead of P3/350) and is running KDE 3.0.3 (from Mandrake 9.0). Everything in it was autodetected correctly, it runs some things faster than my Athlon 1800 (bodgy MSI motherboard), and it's dead peaceful even with a copy of StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 6.0 (don't ask) and Mozilla and XChat loaded and doing stuff (like Flash, in the case of Mozilla, 'coz #1son (3yo) likes Bob The Builder). It also found a nice Yamaha sound card when I plugged it in, and drives an Epson C41UX printer, Sony DSC-F707 camera and a second (Swann) USB mouse (for little hands).
RedHat has been notorious for starting un-necessary services, although I gather that they've improved on that a lot in recent distros. A listing of/etc/rc.d/rc5.d might be instructive.
What does `top b' look like on that machine once it's got (say) a copy of OpenOffice.org started?
I agree with NDPTAL85 on the musicians (let natural selection deal with those) but otherwise the idea is interesting... `I've got a little list - they'll none of them be missed.'
I'd put some restrictions on lawyers, too. We had a local one just hammer a spammer into the ground recently (and the spammer bailed out of the appeal, too - go, Jeremy!). Hey - let's send the spammers! Tell them they get great bandwidth up there and can downlink to anywhere on Earth.
since an elevator would be tethered, does this affect the minimum stable height?
You couldn't indulge in a great deal of shortening by supporting the thing from below. You would increase the tension along much of its length, requiring it to be thicker there. OTOH having it under tension may be a useful safety feature (the upper lengths would tend to head skyward rather than practicing S&M on the planet if the elecator snapped).
You could shorten it a lot by nailing a sizeable asteroid to the other end (just beyond geosync), but that has a few technical hazards of its own (e.g. wouldn't want to be on the Moon if it came loose - billiards, anyone?). If you found and refined the carbon (or anything else) in space, that might be useful employment for the slag.
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Even the Diests of the day were more Christian than most `Christians' of today.
Revealed diety or not, most of the Founders were Creationists, another way in which they were more Christian than many of today's `Christians', and less Atheist than you'd have us all believe.
Speaking of which, I note with some amusement that in addition to the confirmation of Robert Gentry's pleochroic halos, and recent variations on and amplifications of those halos, he's now been vindicated on his helium and lead decay products in hot Zircon crystals too. Bit of a poser for Atheism. And Halton Arp's found some fellow travellers.
Meanwhile yet more hairy dnosaurs have been found, declared to be proto-birds, and - alas - are again found to be `younger' than the bird, Archeopteryx. You'd almost think someone had a point they wanted proven there, wouldn't you? I wonder where December's `ape-man of the month, for a month' will come from?
It's becoming steadily more obvious that Atheism is prophetless speculation.
Sounds reasonable: all of ours but one are. That one was either right-handed or achiral, I can't remember which.
Please do.
It will also help existing suck^H^H^H^Hcustomers if you let Intuit know you're doing that, and why ('You made me do it; if you'd treated your customers decently there would be no free QuickBooks clone'). And call your OSS package something like `QuackBooks' to drive the point home. (-:
And snatches them back some control, generally without the attendant liability.
Not just BeOs. gobeProductive does basically what Microsoft have been dreaming about doing with OLE for about twenty years, and have only managed to bandaid-and-string together with any success at all in about the last five.
If GoBe do go kerplonk, I hope someone's brave enough to slap `GPL' on the openable parts and kick it out the door before that door slams. It would be an excellent legacy to bequeath.
Er, no. You can download it from http://www.kernel.org/ though.
Yes, it does. Sun bought StarDivision and with it the then-proprietary StarOffice 5.2. OpenOffice is an open-sourced and tarted-up version of SO5.2; Sun then re-developed or ported the extra componets from SO5.2 (like WordPerfect files, macro record/replay and grammer checking) that couldn't be (or weren't for political reasons) opened across to OOo, and the result is SO6.
The guy's name is Mandy.
...that really spanged my wazzometer! (-:
My sister and I visited one of said centers together, a very long time ago (OTToMH, maybe 17 years) while we were killing some time down town waiting for an appointment. I scanned the questions like I'd been told not to, and it was pretty obvious that they were after totally ruthless mercenaries. No problem, donned my ruthless-mercenary personality and answered away. Nearly finished the damn thing as well, which alarmed them no end. They marked it, came back and said in awed tones, `You did really well, actually, but we still think we can help you...' my sister, the bleeding heart (bless hers) was in tears and had scored really badly. They gave her a book - she was crying so hard they couldn't bear it - and ushered both of us out again. I read the book, and it looks like a poor copy of Transactional Analysis.
Buy a cheap paperback called What do you say after you say hello? by Eric Berne and you'll know more than at least the first $50,000 of their courses will ever teach you - except about being a ruthless mercenary, of course.
I have a mate who has all of their course materials, E-meter, forbidden one-at-a-time-in-locked-room tapes, the lot. Amazing stuff. If you admitted to doing some of the things they insist that you do, the authorities would lock you in a padded room before a squirrel buried you. Shriners look jober as a sudge by comparison.
...and had 103,000 as at today.
Unsurprisingly, you can get there by typing "aol cds" into Google and clicking "I'm Feeling Lucky".
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If he has no cameras, anonymise and print out all of the spam you get, seal it with dilute Liquid Nails, and occasionally stick it to his house in the dead of night. Starting with the front door. Return to sender...
Can you see his house from yours? Good moneymaking enterprise there (THIS REALLY WORKS!!!!)...
Also, can you (anonymously) post his licence plates or any other useful details? Pictures would be great, but doing that anonymously might be hard. The names and other details of computery looking service vehicles would be good, too. Keep a log handy for the next story...
Oh, and tell the local JW and LDS depots that they need to visit him. Regularly.
OBTW...
Any others...? His pizza shop, local council, garbage collectors? Federal and state attorneys? Local police station? Local Klan offices?
It's so much more satisfactory knowing that they're paying to receive a nice, solid paving brick than a flimsy sheet of paper. And if they repeat offend, I use a real brick. I've not had to use a Besser Block or paving slab yet, but I'm sure the day will come. (-:
You have to be rich, though. It takes a lot of glue to be sure the reply-paid envelope (or ReturnToSender with addressee suitably obliterated) stays attached to a paving brick. And about half a day for it to dry.
This does not include the cost of rebuilding these places, or even address things like the thousands and thousands of civilian lives taken or ruined. Everyone from your workmate to your neighbour's baby. Even so, we're well on our way to a trillion spondoolies. A Terabuck.
A trillion dollars spent on Energia-style launches and equipment to launch with them would have bought the USA a real space presence, an L5 or similar colony, and the ability to drop rocks on anyone who annoys them. So even from an aggressive, miltaristic PoV, the USA has really gone about this the wrong way.
A mere $10G - one measley percent - spent right now on a space elevator would yield even better returns. Instead of murdering more Iraqi citizens, how about offering them a seat on it? If they're rich, and their wealth is firmly tied to the West, they'll deal with the terrorists themselves to protect that.
Don't account your chickens before they hatch. `Could save' and `does save' are not synonymous.
That said, I believe that Fred could have got this far for a small fraction of the cost, but even at $40G is almost certainly worthwhile. If you could account for the value of all of the tech spinoffs, they alone would probably pay for it.
The other question is: would we have been better of spending a trillion (ie 25x as much) and whacking together an L5 colony? Certainly, the $200G earmarked for razing Iraq after the S&M experts have finished playing with it would be better directed towards such an enterprise. There are much cheaper, more permanent and more effective ways of defanging Iraq, none of them involving explosives, poisons or bioweapons.
The OWNER option on CREATE TABLE, for example, will save a lot of fidgeting around. Some of the deeper changes show that they really do have a handle on their code. I expect them to surpass Oracle in every respect bar bloatedness and management-as-a-career by Christmas 2003. (-:
I do note a *lot* of `breakme' changes like integers no longer accepting an empty string as equivalent to zero. I guess this is where we find how portably we really wrote our code.
PiT rollbacks, multi-master and the like are coming down the 'chute too but are too much mucking around to be worth the bother just yet.
I don't think there is any way you can do that in the PosgreSQL ODBC driver - you could rewire the ODBC link on the fly though. Another login is a pain in the ass, but nobody seems to care. It may be possible to get this to work with a Linux server through PAM - if you can get PostgreSQL to work though PAM. I don't know, though.
Even if not, this is Unix. A simple glue script to fetch the necessaries from Samba and push them into the Postgres authentication table(s) should do the trick.
When it works, make a hero of yourself, re-render it in C or something at least a little more robust than BASH or whatever you prototyped it in, and throw it at Postgres' contribs.
They were actually proposed for the Stanford Torus particularly for cosmic ray shielding, but the side-effects and added difficulty in docking etc with an object charged up to a bazillion volts made them impractical.
Even so, if I were attacking one I'd give my two-can rocket a slight opposing charge, and dispense with anything reminiscent of a guidance system.
AMD did, they recently announced that they're diversifying (away from bigger heatsinks and a microwave on your motherboard). Actually figuring out what customers need? Inconcievable! (-:
My wife's machine matches yours (except Celeron/450 instead of P3/350) and is running KDE 3.0.3 (from Mandrake 9.0). Everything in it was autodetected correctly, it runs some things faster than my Athlon 1800 (bodgy MSI motherboard), and it's dead peaceful even with a copy of StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice 6.0 (don't ask) and Mozilla and XChat loaded and doing stuff (like Flash, in the case of Mozilla, 'coz #1son (3yo) likes Bob The Builder). It also found a nice Yamaha sound card when I plugged it in, and drives an Epson C41UX printer, Sony DSC-F707 camera and a second (Swann) USB mouse (for little hands).
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d might be instructive.
RedHat has been notorious for starting un-necessary services, although I gather that they've improved on that a lot in recent distros. A listing of
What does `top b' look like on that machine once it's got (say) a copy of OpenOffice.org started?
I agree with NDPTAL85 on the musicians (let natural selection deal with those) but otherwise the idea is interesting... `I've got a little list - they'll none of them be missed.'
I'd put some restrictions on lawyers, too. We had a local one just hammer a spammer into the ground recently (and the spammer bailed out of the appeal, too - go, Jeremy!). Hey - let's send the spammers! Tell them they get great bandwidth up there and can downlink to anywhere on Earth.
You couldn't indulge in a great deal of shortening by supporting the thing from below. You would increase the tension along much of its length, requiring it to be thicker there. OTOH having it under tension may be a useful safety feature (the upper lengths would tend to head skyward rather than practicing S&M on the planet if the elecator snapped).
You could shorten it a lot by nailing a sizeable asteroid to the other end (just beyond geosync), but that has a few technical hazards of its own (e.g. wouldn't want to be on the Moon if it came loose - billiards, anyone?). If you found and refined the carbon (or anything else) in space, that might be useful employment for the slag.