Note the correction, turning a false and ridiculous statement into a true one. I guess he's from abroad, he might even be Dutch. *cough* What you wrote was what he meant to say, so the 'false and ridiculous' statement was more a 'strange and improvable' statement. There. Now get back on topic please.
my oldest to become old enough to be trusted with his own hardware.
And then we''ll play some nice games
Which he won't care about at all...
Well, he keeps asking about them games, it's just that I don't think he's old enough to play games involving a lot of warfare and stuff. In the mean time he has his DS and internet-games. Worst case scenario: I get to play with the games, with my youngest:)
There are dozens of boxes of games in one of my closets that only run under OS 9 (or 8, for that matter). Some of them launch under Classic but mostly not without issues: graphics are 'bad', mouse-pointer is 'weird', sound volume switches from normal to full. So yes, I still have a 7300/200 en a G3/233 in that closet as well, waiting for my oldest to become old enough to be trusted with his own hardware.
And then we''ll play some nice games, really looking forward to it:)
I'd have to disagree. I've lived in other countries - Holland, Belgium and the USA. I might add that I can follow Dutch language tv. I resent been forced to pay a licence for the BBC and the adverts in the USA are too frequent, which is why I had TiVo there. Got one here too.
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On the other hand: I for one am glad to be able to get the extra BBC-channels into my home, even while it costs me 60 pounds a year extra. Yes, in Holland the BBC-channels are widely appreciated, and sometimes better valued than the Dutch counterparts.
Premise 1: Ian Huntley was a socially awkward person.
Premise 2: Ian Huntley was a child-killer
Conclusion: Socially awkward people are child-killers.
Logic 101, anybody?
If he was breast-fed, then... breast-fed people are child-killers.
Free and open wi-fi access vs cellphone account with account charged per fucking byte.
Yeah... I'll take Wi-Fi thank you very much. Fuck the cellphone companies and their insane nickel-and-dime fees.
Well, Wireless Leiden (http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/) is still going strong since 2002. Althought their access is free, it's a bit limited in services: not highest speed, no POP-mail (IACRecallCorrectly). It's mainly targeted at people inbetween own highspeed ISP's, people not needing accessibility guarantees, very casual users et cetera, I hope you'll catch my drift. It's free, it works, it's highly appreciated, but no replacement for an own 'internets'.
(No I don't live there, but I know people who did, and they loved it)
but here in The Netherlands, many "computer engineers" (I don't know how broad they take that term) working for a *contractor* drive a lease-car. When "we" have an accident, it is common practice to file the complete claim, because "we" don't have to pay a dime.
I can imagine that *most* people with their own cars will scratch their heads once or twice before filing the claim, as doing so could deprive them from no-claim bonus of said insurance company.
Detachering, you mean? 'ICT-secondments' would fit the description, but i don't know if it's a word. Yay for foreign languages.
I think practicing around on ground-level is good, but one of the mayor problems is getting the buggers there safely on the ground. I'd practice them to land.
Prostitutes are against my marital status: the free sex provided by my wife threatens the free market, in that prostitues have very little chance of selling their services to me. 'It is essential for the future of independent sexual services that a fair price can be charged for sex to people who value it,' says a spokeswoman.
I would much rather have people being rabid fundamentalists about the US Constitution than most of the 'real' religions in the world today.
The Constitution can (and has) changed over the years. It's not the 'same' document from 200 years ago, but mostly is. Most of the principles that were instilled into it are still relevant today, though there were things in the Constitution that the founding fathers probably never dreamed would happen (I'm pretty sure '90 years past the death of the author' as a copyright term would probably fall under their definition of 'unreasonably long'.).
The problem with changing the Constitution is that it takes a huge amount of effort and a large majority of the population needs to be behind it. This is a double-edged sword. It means that the Constitution doesn't just get changed on a 'whim' of the current political ideas, but it also means that there are some very good ideas that should probably be inserted into the Constitution that don't even get mentioned because of the general-public's apathy towards any political isn't that isn't religiously or emotionality charged.
Concluding that:
most of the people agree with the constitution
most of the people agree with what they think what is in the constitution
most of the people do not care
most of the people do not know how to change the constitution
Our government is shite as well (religious coorporate right) but at least it's the government that we deserve, by election. I guess the same goes for the constitution: it is as it is, because people somehow want it to be that way.
Okay, people, I give up. Can someone please explain why the guy I responded to was funny and what the joke is?
I thought that overwriting everything with zeroes or ones and zeroes was a standard way to "sanitize" a drive, and that these forensic specialists often find data recovery a trivial matter even after doing such a wipe.
I've reread the guy's post several times and am still not seeing what caused the funny bit to be set. (Blame insufficient sleep for this perhaps?)
Okay, cause you seem like a nice guy, with just a bit too little sleep: on average, in a binary system, ALL data consists of evenly distributed zeroes and ones. So yes, he could, on a disk that was zeroed, recover of 50% of the data. Without any effort:) He'd point at zero's en he'd be 50% right if he stated that the original data was recovered.
English not being my primary language, I hope it was sufficient.
We simply use UserName_SocialSecurityNumber_Room#_DayOfWeek
For example: JaneDoe_123456789_314A_Thursday
Since the day of the week tends to change, we have simple startup scripts which fix the workstation name each morning, assuming they shut down the previous evening.
So the machine-name contains a name and the accompanying SSN? Sounds like a security-issue, why not use the date of birth, eventually with an affix?
Nuclear fuel != Weapon grade nuclear fuel. You cannont build a bomb with the stuff you put in a nuclear power plant. Why did the Russians have to fuck everything up for the entire world. Couldn't they have just build a radiation shield, written some rules. We would be going to pluto and back in a year with something like ORION launched from orbit by now except for the fact that saying 'nuclear' makes people crap their pants and hippies whip out the protest signs.
The movie was practically completely unrelated to the book, but I agree with you: the movie was better. Not great, but better.
The book is basically just a script for a military action movie. The movie actually shows a little bit of human insight into our fascist tendencies, and does so in a pretty creepy and believable way. Other than that, there's not much of interest in the movie, and it makes little sense in lots of places, but that one bit of insight is still more than most movies have these days.
In the book it becomes much more clear that the humans and the arachnids are very much the same: 8 eyes, jumping capabilities, things that the film did/could not show.
doing a quick install using the COA numbers on the case stickers.
Did you read and agree to the EULA on these? I'd be pretty surprised if those COAs were legal to use except on the original hardware by the original customer.
Total cost to us: ~$45 and 4 hours
Total profit: ~$155
When the -knock- comes at your door... you can use that profit to hire a lawyer to tell you that you're screwed. 155/4 = $38.75/hour, which is not going to be high enough to get more than an hour or two of lawyer time.
So let me get this straight: suppose I purchase two computers, and resell one to my parents. That makes the COA illegal for them to use? http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/content.aspx?pg=coa is not really informative, could you explain why I would need a lawyer?
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I guess he's from abroad, he might even be Dutch. *cough* What you wrote was what he meant to say, so the 'false and ridiculous' statement was more a 'strange and improvable' statement. There. Now get back on topic please.
;o)
I thought that the source of that meme was lost in the infinite data-stream that is the net
I prefer Nietsche as an original source, as in: "When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you." That is, if the translation is correct.
Which he won't care about at all...
Well, he keeps asking about them games, it's just that I don't think he's old enough to play games involving a lot of warfare and stuff. In the mean time he has his DS and internet-games. Worst case scenario: I get to play with the games, with my youngest :)
Give up radio and telly? Do they radiate much then?
And then we''ll play some nice games, really looking forward to it :)
I'd have to disagree. I've lived in other countries - Holland, Belgium and the USA. I might add that I can follow Dutch language tv. I resent been forced to pay a licence for the BBC and the adverts in the USA are too frequent, which is why I had TiVo there. Got one here too.
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On the other hand: I for one am glad to be able to get the extra BBC-channels into my home, even while it costs me 60 pounds a year extra. Yes, in Holland the BBC-channels are widely appreciated, and sometimes better valued than the Dutch counterparts.
And repeat that again.
Premise 1: Ian Huntley was a socially awkward person. Premise 2: Ian Huntley was a child-killer Conclusion: Socially awkward people are child-killers. Logic 101, anybody?
If he was breast-fed, then... breast-fed people are child-killers.
Free and open wi-fi access vs cellphone account with account charged per fucking byte.
Yeah... I'll take Wi-Fi thank you very much. Fuck the cellphone companies and their insane nickel-and-dime fees.
Well, Wireless Leiden (http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/) is still going strong since 2002. Althought their access is free, it's a bit limited in services: not highest speed, no POP-mail (IACRecallCorrectly). It's mainly targeted at people inbetween own highspeed ISP's, people not needing accessibility guarantees, very casual users et cetera, I hope you'll catch my drift. It's free, it works, it's highly appreciated, but no replacement for an own 'internets'.
(No I don't live there, but I know people who did, and they loved it)
but here in The Netherlands, many "computer engineers" (I don't know how broad they take that term) working for a *contractor* drive a lease-car. When "we" have an accident, it is common practice to file the complete claim, because "we" don't have to pay a dime. I can imagine that *most* people with their own cars will scratch their heads once or twice before filing the claim, as doing so could deprive them from no-claim bonus of said insurance company.
Detachering, you mean? 'ICT-secondments' would fit the description, but i don't know if it's a word. Yay for foreign languages.
Oh I just can HEAR the nasal pronounciation. Excellent!
I know I'm probably going to get modded down for this, but what the hell. I've got lots of karma. Gray is the new black.
Well, karma to burn, and I'll probably gonna need it: White is the new iBlack.
There are a variety of 7" size USB monitors available now, can't remember the company who makes them...Would be perfect for running shell only.
http://www.hetmag.nl/nieuws/gadgets/953-mimo-usb-displays sells them, 'cute' displays but not quite functional (yes i want one).
I think practicing around on ground-level is good, but one of the mayor problems is getting the buggers there safely on the ground. I'd practice them to land.
Prostitutes are against my marital status: the free sex provided by my wife threatens the free market, in that prostitues have very little chance of selling their services to me. 'It is essential for the future of independent sexual services that a fair price can be charged for sex to people who value it,' says a spokeswoman.
I would much rather have people being rabid fundamentalists about the US Constitution than most of the 'real' religions in the world today.
The Constitution can (and has) changed over the years. It's not the 'same' document from 200 years ago, but mostly is. Most of the principles that were instilled into it are still relevant today, though there were things in the Constitution that the founding fathers probably never dreamed would happen (I'm pretty sure '90 years past the death of the author' as a copyright term would probably fall under their definition of 'unreasonably long'.).
The problem with changing the Constitution is that it takes a huge amount of effort and a large majority of the population needs to be behind it. This is a double-edged sword. It means that the Constitution doesn't just get changed on a 'whim' of the current political ideas, but it also means that there are some very good ideas that should probably be inserted into the Constitution that don't even get mentioned because of the general-public's apathy towards any political isn't that isn't religiously or emotionality charged.
Concluding that:
Our government is shite as well (religious coorporate right) but at least it's the government that we deserve, by election. I guess the same goes for the constitution: it is as it is, because people somehow want it to be that way.
Those "no-longer restricted videos" have as much to do with teaching sex as a monster truck rally has to do with teaching you how to drive.
Brilliant sir, truly grand! I bow in awe!!
What are the most common last words of a redneck?
"That's not how a man handles a shotgun!! Gimmedat!"
Okay, people, I give up. Can someone please explain why the guy I responded to was funny and what the joke is?
I thought that overwriting everything with zeroes or ones and zeroes was a standard way to "sanitize" a drive, and that these forensic specialists often find data recovery a trivial matter even after doing such a wipe.
I've reread the guy's post several times and am still not seeing what caused the funny bit to be set. (Blame insufficient sleep for this perhaps?)
Okay, cause you seem like a nice guy, with just a bit too little sleep: on average, in a binary system, ALL data consists of evenly distributed zeroes and ones. So yes, he could, on a disk that was zeroed, recover of 50% of the data. Without any effort :) He'd point at zero's en he'd be 50% right if he stated that the original data was recovered.
English not being my primary language, I hope it was sufficient.
Where can a US citizen such as I sign up to do so? My wife has always wanted to live in France for 3 months (at least).
http://www.expatforum.com/expats/france-expat-forum-expats-living-france/
http://www.jobsabroad.com/France.cfm
Mac addresses are a bad idea - one system board replacement for any issue, and the name changes.
Without a company property number, just use an incrementing one.
But then again: how often do system boards need replacement? Once a year every hundred pc's? Probably less.
We simply use UserName_SocialSecurityNumber_Room#_DayOfWeek For example: JaneDoe_123456789_314A_Thursday Since the day of the week tends to change, we have simple startup scripts which fix the workstation name each morning, assuming they shut down the previous evening.
So the machine-name contains a name and the accompanying SSN? Sounds like a security-issue, why not use the date of birth, eventually with an affix?
Nuclear fuel != Weapon grade nuclear fuel. You cannont build a bomb with the stuff you put in a nuclear power plant. Why did the Russians have to fuck everything up for the entire world. Couldn't they have just build a radiation shield, written some rules. We would be going to pluto and back in a year with something like ORION launched from orbit by now except for the fact that saying 'nuclear' makes people crap their pants and hippies whip out the protest signs.
Sorry, the US of A fucked up BEFORE the Chernobyl incident, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island, and other countries did a good job at fucking up too.
The movie was practically completely unrelated to the book, but I agree with you: the movie was better. Not great, but better.
The book is basically just a script for a military action movie. The movie actually shows a little bit of human insight into our fascist tendencies, and does so in a pretty creepy and believable way. Other than that, there's not much of interest in the movie, and it makes little sense in lots of places, but that one bit of insight is still more than most movies have these days.
In the book it becomes much more clear that the humans and the arachnids are very much the same: 8 eyes, jumping capabilities, things that the film did/could not show.
Did you read and agree to the EULA on these? I'd be pretty surprised if those COAs were legal to use except on the original hardware by the original customer.
When the -knock- comes at your door ... you can use that profit to hire a lawyer to tell you that you're screwed. 155/4 = $38.75/hour, which is not going to be high enough to get more than an hour or two of lawyer time.
So let me get this straight: suppose I purchase two computers, and resell one to my parents. That makes the COA illegal for them to use? http://www.microsoft.com/howtotell/content.aspx?pg=coa is not really informative, could you explain why I would need a lawyer?