40C is barely above body temperature. I would be quite comfortable prancing around the server room wearing nothing. Throw some cedar on the rack and call it a sauna. You could make your employees pay a membership fee.
Of course this will do nothing to correct the tech gender divide.
So if you die an early death, then chances are you are more likely to have not messed things up.
You are assuming that a christian's only purpose in life is to die and be judged. A christian that believes s/he would like to accomplish things in this life before moving on would of course not artificially end his/her life and expect the Judge to let it slide.
Oh, and then there's that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing.
I thought original sin was a catholic idea. Granted, catholics outnumber other christians in most places, but it still warrants pointing out that they are not representative in this regard.
My core2quad machine with 3 SATA disk RAID runs for about 20 minutes on a tiny APC UPS I bought from newegg for less than $100.
Sure, but that's assuming you can save your work in all open applications without power to your display. Me, I like a UPS with a little more juice so I can reap the fullness of my 52" plasma while cleaning up and shutting down.
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's that today's lockin is tomorrow's lockout. The day MS decides that ActiveX no longer serves their purposes is the day that every site requiring ActiveX is out of luck.
Open Source software was part of the Green Party's very thorough and thoughtful election campaign. Too bad most Canadians never bothered to read it.
I see it still features on their web site as a current issue. With a minority government in power and the threat of a coalition or vote of non-confidence always looming, it's hard to say how much pull the Greens really have, having failed yet again to win a seat in parliament.
1. Write an operating system and spend seven minutes making it secure
2. Sell it to a bunch of VPs, CTOs and OEMs from arm's length.
3....
4. Offer seven minutes worth of earnings to whoever catches "the bastard" that tried to rain on their parade
5. Profit!
I live ~500 miles from the US border as the crow flies (Washington or Alaska). In a town of 3000 I have the choice of DSL up to 6 mbps, cable (much slower, but nobody seems to know), or 4 wireless providers up to 1 mbps.
Those speeds aren't stellar, but consider that something like 98% of the Canadian population lives south of me, and well over 80% live in bigger centres. It's amazing on one hand that my internet is on par with the US average, and on the other hand that it's so far behind what is offered in places like Finland and Sweden.
your wife or kid has someone at home who actually knows how to use Linux
This is not the case nearly as much as it used to be. I visited my parents over Christmas, 1100km away. I've been telling my mom for years to switch to linux. Not because I think that everybody should use linux, but because she has some long-standing issues with her computer that don't affect linux. She has so far refused, simply out of fear of having to learn computers all over again.
My dad, on the other had, needed a computer for his business (an automotive shop). I told him I could put one together for x dollars, and add $110 if he wants it to run Windows. "Why would I want it to run Windows?" he asked. Honest question, but I didn't have an answer, since I'd already verified that the applications he would be using were web-based. He's been running xubuntu since Christmas and I never hear about it.
Compare that with my sister and her five young kids, 1800km away. My brother Tyler wanted to put together a budget computer for them four years ago and asked my help. We partitioned the hard disk in half, put windows on one and ubuntu on the other (because I thought that everybody should use linux). He also gave them a cheap lexmark printer that didn't work in ubuntu, so they chose to run windows. Two years later I found out that the printer is long dead and they've all taken to booting into ubuntu because their internet music and videos work better that way.
Compare that with my two brothers Ray and Rick, 500 km away. I helped them both upgrade computers in the last six months. Ray reused his windows xp from the old computer. Rick didn't have an xp disk, so I put an unactivated copy of xp on one partition and ubuntu on the other. I showed him how to dual-boot and told him he could probably find an xp crack if he wanted. He never booted into Windows.
Ray and Rick both have XBOX 360s and both have spent the last month or two trying to get media to stream. Both have had limited success. To Rick, running ubuntu I sent some links to ubuntuforums.org discussing media server options. For Ray, running windows I had to instruct him to install vnc and open ports on his router so I could get in and eventually figure out that some necessary system services weren't running. I dug up a batch file off the internet requiring an ecclectic mix of programs. I spent hours installing these and duct-taping them all together on his system and things still don't work as they should.
Rick's brother-in-law had a laptop that pooped out its hard disk. It didn't come with a windows install disk, and he was too cheap to buy one, so Rick, on my advice, bought a replacement hard disk and installed ubuntu for him. He called once to ask about printer compatibility, but that is the sum total of support given to him for this computer in the past year.
And finally, compare these with my brother Tyler again, 1800 km away, who two years ago bought a mac because he is technologically challenged and wanted something point and click. This morning he emailed me to ask if I would recommend putting Ubuntu on his client's computer, currently running Windows Malware Edition(R). He is burning the xubuntu iso as I write this.
Yeah, none of these linux installs would have happened without my initial intervention, but that's a PR thing. None of these people are computer geeks, not even close. Technically speaking, I've done less support for my linux-using family than I have for my windows-using family. Your opinion is at best 2 years out of date.
I'm in the same boat, although Firefox is not blocked by the evil ISA server, I just have to tell Firefox to use the divinely-appointed proxy. In my case telling FF to automatically detect the proxy does the trick.
Of course they didn't permit me to install Firefox, I have to run it portable from a USB stick or from my network share.
Two calls from an unsolicited number is all I ever get. After the second call the number simply gets screened and the incoming call gets forwarde--guess where--back to itself. Sometimes I get giddy imagining the telemarketer reciting her pitch to the person in the next cubicle.
Of course, callers with the caller ID of "000-000-0000" or "10" simply get forwarded to the Rejection Hotline.
I'm on primus, but I imagine other voip providers have similar functionality, as would asterisk and its ilk.
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If I ever command authority to clean up...
You won't.
an entire bowel of free after dinner mints
What a terrible image!
Without Mozilla the IE developers would have had to find another job. The cake was borne of sincere gratitude.
I for one welcome our new sweaty sysadmins.
What are you going to do with the old ones?
but you reach a limit on what you can take off.
40C is barely above body temperature. I would be quite comfortable prancing around the server room wearing nothing. Throw some cedar on the rack and call it a sauna. You could make your employees pay a membership fee.
Of course this will do nothing to correct the tech gender divide.
So if you die an early death, then chances are you are more likely to have not messed things up.
You are assuming that a christian's only purpose in life is to die and be judged. A christian that believes s/he would like to accomplish things in this life before moving on would of course not artificially end his/her life and expect the Judge to let it slide.
Oh, and then there's that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing.
I thought original sin was a catholic idea. Granted, catholics outnumber other christians in most places, but it still warrants pointing out that they are not representative in this regard.
Our article tagger knows about tags like "dupe" or "typo".
Use the "typo" tag. Don't type "typo" and hit enter though, as it will default to the "typoinsummary" tag, which the FAQ makes no mention of.
My core2quad machine with 3 SATA disk RAID runs for about 20 minutes on a tiny APC UPS I bought from newegg for less than $100.
Sure, but that's assuming you can save your work in all open applications without power to your display. Me, I like a UPS with a little more juice so I can reap the fullness of my 52" plasma while cleaning up and shutting down.
The sticking point will be what Microsoft does about compatibility for ActiveX apps.
How sticky are we talking? Sticky like trying to make PlaysForSure compatible with the Zune? Sticky like ongoing support for MSN Music?
If Microsoft has taught us anything, it's that today's lockin is tomorrow's lockout. The day MS decides that ActiveX no longer serves their purposes is the day that every site requiring ActiveX is out of luck.
yes
The cow-colored boxes was Gateway, not Dell.
That's a matter of opinion.
All its resources are used for ME
Seriously, upgrade to XP.
Open Source software was part of the Green Party's very thorough and thoughtful election campaign. Too bad most Canadians never bothered to read it.
I see it still features on their web site as a current issue. With a minority government in power and the threat of a coalition or vote of non-confidence always looming, it's hard to say how much pull the Greens really have, having failed yet again to win a seat in parliament.
1. Write an operating system and spend seven minutes making it secure ...
2. Sell it to a bunch of VPs, CTOs and OEMs from arm's length.
3.
4. Offer seven minutes worth of earnings to whoever catches "the bastard" that tried to rain on their parade
5. Profit!
What about a story that matters?
Do you make a point of posting in every story that doesn't matter to you? Or was it "cue the douchebag" that you couldn't resist responding to?
You lead a very fatiguing existence, don't you?
He's not the only one.
I'll throw in another 5.
I live ~500 miles from the US border as the crow flies (Washington or Alaska). In a town of 3000 I have the choice of DSL up to 6 mbps, cable (much slower, but nobody seems to know), or 4 wireless providers up to 1 mbps.
Those speeds aren't stellar, but consider that something like 98% of the Canadian population lives south of me, and well over 80% live in bigger centres. It's amazing on one hand that my internet is on par with the US average, and on the other hand that it's so far behind what is offered in places like Finland and Sweden.
look at how much Paint has improved if you think that this is a simple minor release
I've read that argument a hundred and sixty-seven times, and it keeps getting funnier every time I read it!
--With apologies to Beetlejuice
your wife or kid has someone at home who actually knows how to use Linux
This is not the case nearly as much as it used to be. I visited my parents over Christmas, 1100km away. I've been telling my mom for years to switch to linux. Not because I think that everybody should use linux, but because she has some long-standing issues with her computer that don't affect linux. She has so far refused, simply out of fear of having to learn computers all over again.
My dad, on the other had, needed a computer for his business (an automotive shop). I told him I could put one together for x dollars, and add $110 if he wants it to run Windows. "Why would I want it to run Windows?" he asked. Honest question, but I didn't have an answer, since I'd already verified that the applications he would be using were web-based. He's been running xubuntu since Christmas and I never hear about it.
Compare that with my sister and her five young kids, 1800km away. My brother Tyler wanted to put together a budget computer for them four years ago and asked my help. We partitioned the hard disk in half, put windows on one and ubuntu on the other (because I thought that everybody should use linux). He also gave them a cheap lexmark printer that didn't work in ubuntu, so they chose to run windows. Two years later I found out that the printer is long dead and they've all taken to booting into ubuntu because their internet music and videos work better that way.
Compare that with my two brothers Ray and Rick, 500 km away. I helped them both upgrade computers in the last six months. Ray reused his windows xp from the old computer. Rick didn't have an xp disk, so I put an unactivated copy of xp on one partition and ubuntu on the other. I showed him how to dual-boot and told him he could probably find an xp crack if he wanted. He never booted into Windows.
Ray and Rick both have XBOX 360s and both have spent the last month or two trying to get media to stream. Both have had limited success. To Rick, running ubuntu I sent some links to ubuntuforums.org discussing media server options. For Ray, running windows I had to instruct him to install vnc and open ports on his router so I could get in and eventually figure out that some necessary system services weren't running. I dug up a batch file off the internet requiring an ecclectic mix of programs. I spent hours installing these and duct-taping them all together on his system and things still don't work as they should.
Rick's brother-in-law had a laptop that pooped out its hard disk. It didn't come with a windows install disk, and he was too cheap to buy one, so Rick, on my advice, bought a replacement hard disk and installed ubuntu for him. He called once to ask about printer compatibility, but that is the sum total of support given to him for this computer in the past year.
And finally, compare these with my brother Tyler again, 1800 km away, who two years ago bought a mac because he is technologically challenged and wanted something point and click. This morning he emailed me to ask if I would recommend putting Ubuntu on his client's computer, currently running Windows Malware Edition(R). He is burning the xubuntu iso as I write this.
Yeah, none of these linux installs would have happened without my initial intervention, but that's a PR thing. None of these people are computer geeks, not even close. Technically speaking, I've done less support for my linux-using family than I have for my windows-using family. Your opinion is at best 2 years out of date.
the one that was closest to supporting it at that time was... IE
What does that mean, exactly? I think they're probably still the closest to supporting it, while modern browsers actually support it.
I'm in the same boat, although Firefox is not blocked by the evil ISA server, I just have to tell Firefox to use the divinely-appointed proxy. In my case telling FF to automatically detect the proxy does the trick.
Of course they didn't permit me to install Firefox, I have to run it portable from a USB stick or from my network share.
portableapps.com
Two calls from an unsolicited number is all I ever get. After the second call the number simply gets screened and the incoming call gets forwarde--guess where--back to itself. Sometimes I get giddy imagining the telemarketer reciting her pitch to the person in the next cubicle.
Of course, callers with the caller ID of "000-000-0000" or "10" simply get forwarded to the Rejection Hotline.
I'm on primus, but I imagine other voip providers have similar functionality, as would asterisk and its ilk.
I'm so tired of slashdot's support of buzzwords articles and think tank mentality
And yet you're still here. Doesn't that make you a troll?