>> as a result when I run the patcher, it pretty much seems to disable my internet access until it's done (web pages time out, pings timeout on first hop.
Forget patching, BattleNet does the same thing when I just try to play on it. Too bad there wasn't an open source BattleNet.
I've actually had this happen once with an older Ford - Punched it around a corner and the throttle stuck wide open with a new SUV parked crossways 40 feet away. Didn't touch Nuetral. Went from drive to 1st, 1st to park and stopped about 3 feet from the truck. The kid standing beside it nearly died of fright.
I expect doing this with any car made in the last 20 years would leave your transmission in little itty bits...
>> You do that on a linux box and see how stable it is after 6 months abuse.
O.K., let me know when there is a port for comet cursor, and all the other *crap* that infects you average Windows user's box and we will do a side by side test with a *nix machine.
I think your argument here really boils down to suggesting the OS is solid, but your average windows user not having an effing clue and I don't think that's entirely true.
You do get more idiots running the windows brand on the desktop, but it doesn't mean their server OS is better by comaprison.
"If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less spam now that..."
That's funny. If spammers had any way of figuring out what state recipient email landed in, and they actually gave a sh*t, they'd send to everywhere but their own jurisdiction..
Since walmart can seem to ship half its' product line from China and still make a profit, I expect this would work.
Used desktops go _retail_ single unit cost from CAD $19 (crappy P1) to $89 (1 ghz PIII) around here, minus the monitor. Purchase by the tractor trailer and it gets much cheaper...
>> You get them interested by getting them to create their own games. That's how my college professor did it.
haha you had a good prof, then.
My first CS instructor wasn't impressed to find me working on a game during "class-time". He eventually booted me from the course... what a stick-in-the-@ss he was. This was circa 1980 when "x" and "temp" were good names for variables and our computers were "business machines". Times change, thankfully
You seem pretty pleased about that. speaking as someone who periodically gets badly designed and badly written applications "dropped on my desk" I have trouble seeing the joy.
Working with someone else's garbage, sans design docs or even commented code is a shitty job. Nearly as bad is explaining to PHB why it will take an extra n weeks to fix the application that is "already finished".
FWIW India has no corner of the bad programmer market. All the "cr-applications" I see are written by homegrown North American talent.
Not much, but what I saw from reading the article: The second cheapest one includes a flat screen and is _small_. The next model up has wireless capacity. Sounds like a PDA to me.
When I can buy obsolete desktops that have hard drives etc for pretty much scrap value I don't get why this is viable.
That might be the right hand of Satan, I think. My last interaction with them ended with the customer service(?!) rep, politely and helpfully informing me that they could not help me, and that if the manager of the store where the phone was purchased would not act, my only option was to write the governing body to complain (CRTC).
Thanks Telus, for a phone that goes out of service in downtown Toronto, In rural Ontario, in my living room, in... you get the Idea.
>> I don't even give Dell a look when considering PC purchases. No AMD cpus.
AC managed to get a "Troll" mod but what he's saying is relevant.
I know Dell would lose their sweetheart deal with Intel if they sold AMDs, but how much is that really worth? They must be throwing away a lot of home-user business here
Yes, Dells are really cheap, but not offering similar AMD boxes has to lose them market share...
That's about the only reason I can see for doing security. - If you're doing everything else as well.
>> Guns are sexy. No delusion needed. If you disagree with that, hey no problem.
I didn't always disagree with that, but I do now. FWIW I'm pro gun ownership, have ample experience with them (courtesy my fine government) but don't even own one now. Handguns in particular I view as tools for a job I never ever want. I guess we'll have to disagree about them being sexy. Thanks for a polite and well reasoned answer though.
>> I regularly had to chase crackheads, as well as hookers with their Johns off of our back steps.
Where I work we have security. They deal with unwelcome visitors... it's a job I'm happy to leave to the folks trained and paid for it.
If your company didn't hire janitorial staff, would you clean the toilets too? Seriously, if you're a qualified admin why would you do security work? If it's because you have some hollywood delusions about how sexy guns are, you really shouldn't carry one.
>> especially if this slashdot post causes many people to buy them.
Dude. You're talking about the crowd that "buys" things via BitTorrent. The/. crowd might melt their web server but it won't take all their stock, unless there is a way to download it without paying...
You're talking about adding items (posts) to a recordset (slashdot thread). The items are static but the recordset is not. It changes frequently.
The caching they're talking about involves a recordset that seldom changes, and would therefore be suited to storage outside a database and rebuilt as it changes - IE one trip to the database per change rather than one trip per view. This wouldn't make sense with something like a slashdot thread where records are added non-stop...
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>> as a result when I run the patcher, it pretty much seems to disable my internet access until it's done (web pages time out, pings timeout on first hop.
Forget patching, BattleNet does the same thing when I just try to play on it. Too bad there wasn't an open source BattleNet.
Sweet mother of God, what an ugly page. View source and it gets even scarier...
I need to wash my eyes now.
>> Personally, I was really annoyed by Code Red's spamming of my apache logs ;)
Personally, I wanted to hurt the little bitch who wrote it, after it hosed my IIS box.
The difference between apache boxes and IIS seems to be "continual amused annoyance" vs. "continual fear of sudden, unexpected Pwnag3"...
>> ...announced his engagement to long term partner Melinda Gebbie...
G.P. is just jealous cuz a guy who writes comic books is getting some and he isn't...
>>Brave new waves as a podcast
I was thinking the same thing. Brave new waves, DNTO, and "madly off" would be cool. Quirks and Quarks is a good start though.
Hopefully they extend the pilot
>> Shifted into neutral
I've actually had this happen once with an older Ford - Punched it around a corner and the throttle stuck wide open with a new SUV parked crossways 40 feet away. Didn't touch Nuetral. Went from drive to 1st, 1st to park and stopped about 3 feet from the truck. The kid standing beside it nearly died of fright.
I expect doing this with any car made in the last 20 years would leave your transmission in little itty bits...
>>>> but can it run linux
>> No, these rodents weren't desig^H^H^H^H^Hevolved in that way.
Just makes the 'platform' harder to port to... Perhaps NetBSD?
>> You do that on a linux box and see how stable it is after 6 months abuse.
O.K., let me know when there is a port for comet cursor, and all the other *crap* that infects you average Windows user's box and we will do a side by side test with a *nix machine.
I think your argument here really boils down to suggesting the OS is solid, but your average windows user not having an effing clue and I don't think that's entirely true.
You do get more idiots running the windows brand on the desktop, but it doesn't mean their server OS is better by comaprison.
"If you live in Massachusetts, you'll be happy to hear you'll be getting less spam now that..."
That's funny. If spammers had any way of figuring out what state recipient email landed in, and they actually gave a sh*t, they'd send to everywhere but their own jurisdiction..
Since walmart can seem to ship half its' product line from China and still make a profit, I expect this would work.
Used desktops go _retail_ single unit cost from CAD $19 (crappy P1) to $89 (1 ghz PIII) around here, minus the monitor. Purchase by the tractor trailer and it gets much cheaper...
>> 'x' isn't a good name for a variable?
:-]
Not unless you're a bitter and retentive high school CS teacher.
>> how about 'i'?
'i' through 'r' are exempt from my derision when used as loop counters.
>> our short attention span kicks in and we
I'm sorry. I missed the first part of your comment. I looked kind of long and had words and stuff, so I skipped to the end. What were you saying?
>> You get them interested by getting them to create their own games. That's how my college professor did it.
haha you had a good prof, then.
My first CS instructor wasn't impressed to find me working on a game during "class-time". He eventually booted me from the course... what a stick-in-the-@ss he was. This was circa 1980 when "x" and "temp" were good names for variables and our computers were "business machines". Times change, thankfully
>> and it usually ends up on my desk
You seem pretty pleased about that. speaking as someone who periodically gets badly designed and badly written applications "dropped on my desk" I have trouble seeing the joy.
Working with someone else's garbage, sans design docs or even commented code is a shitty job. Nearly as bad is explaining to PHB why it will take an extra n weeks to fix the application that is "already finished".
FWIW India has no corner of the bad programmer market. All the "cr-applications" I see are written by homegrown North American talent.
>> What makes this one any different?
Not much, but what I saw from reading the article: The second cheapest one includes a flat screen and is _small_. The next model up has wireless capacity. Sounds like a PDA to me.
When I can buy obsolete desktops that have hard drives etc for pretty much scrap value I don't get why this is viable.
>> Canadians seem fine with their government picking their pockets
>> Would never happen here in the USA anyway
Because it's just too hard to pick pockets when you're holding hands with Saudi royalty?
I think the word limit is hardcoded in the legislator's brains. Afer about 100 words they stop reading...
>> Telus on the other hand...
That might be the right hand of Satan, I think. My last interaction with them ended with the customer service(?!) rep, politely and helpfully informing me that they could not help me, and that if the manager of the store where the phone was purchased would not act, my only option was to write the governing body to complain (CRTC).
Thanks Telus, for a phone that goes out of service in downtown Toronto, In rural Ontario, in my living room, in... you get the Idea.
>> The "home-user business/hobbyist/geek" shit isn't anything compared to...
Hands down, the institutional accounts are where the bucks are at, but not all the bucks. The hobbyist market is worth pursuing.
>> people STILL DON'T CARE what's inside the box
If selling AMDs means Joe average gets a faster/cheaper comp without knowing why, all the better.
>> You're wrong
Sometimes I am, but not this time...
>> I don't even give Dell a look when considering PC purchases. No AMD cpus.
AC managed to get a "Troll" mod but what he's saying is relevant.
I know Dell would lose their sweetheart deal with Intel if they sold AMDs, but how much is that really worth? They must be throwing away a lot of home-user business here
Yes, Dells are really cheap, but not offering similar AMD boxes has to lose them market share...
>> We did clean the toilets.
That's about the only reason I can see for doing security. - If you're doing everything else as well.
>> Guns are sexy. No delusion needed. If you disagree with that, hey no problem.
I didn't always disagree with that, but I do now. FWIW I'm pro gun ownership, have ample experience with them (courtesy my fine government) but don't even own one now. Handguns in particular I view as tools for a job I never ever want. I guess we'll have to disagree about them being sexy. Thanks for a polite and well reasoned answer though.
>> I regularly had to chase crackheads, as well as hookers with their Johns off of our back steps.
Where I work we have security. They deal with unwelcome visitors... it's a job I'm happy to leave to the folks trained and paid for it.
If your company didn't hire janitorial staff, would you clean the toilets too? Seriously, if you're a qualified admin why would you do security work? If it's because you have some hollywood delusions about how sexy guns are, you really shouldn't carry one.
>> and everyone else at the company carry Glock 19's?
Please excuse my asking, oh well-armed-one, but WTF for?
The glock is a fine weapon, and being an admin for an ISP is a fine job, but I can't quite see the relationship between the two things...
>> especially if this slashdot post causes many people to buy them.
/. crowd might melt their web server but it won't take all their stock, unless there is a way to download it without paying...
Dude. You're talking about the crowd that "buys" things via BitTorrent. The
>> posts here in Slashdot?
Apples and oranges.
You're talking about adding items (posts) to a recordset (slashdot thread). The items are static but the recordset is not. It changes frequently.
The caching they're talking about involves a recordset that seldom changes, and would therefore be suited to storage outside a database and rebuilt as it changes - IE one trip to the database per change rather than one trip per view. This wouldn't make sense with something like a slashdot thread where records are added non-stop...