...synthetic pillows in regular use between several months and 20 years...
I just want to know where they found a pillow that has been in use for 20 years. Anyone who has been using the same one for 20 years obviously has some kind of weird attachment to their pillow, so how would you get it away from them?? Or did they just hang around the morgue all day until a "death by diseased pillow" case comes in?
Me three: I have been using a machine to help with the apnea for awhile, but it seems to lead to an increased number of throat infections (even after cleaning it like a madman). I may try revisiting the doctor to see if I can get stuff whacked out to clear the old airways....
One solution would be to sell flashdrives with a builtin lcd monitor and keyboard; not only would they be hard to lose but the extra functionality would be awesome!
That would probably keep anyone from stealing the paper however. Plus reaching down your pants to get the paper would be a great way to get people to avert their gaze while you type in your password.
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Or what I often do is have some short random string (for example "C@5") which I could prepend before all passwords. The upside is even if someone gets the card, and by some miracle they figure out what it is, they still don't have my passwords. Unless they can read my mind, in which case they will also realize I have a negative bank balance and will go find someone else to steal money from.
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Becoming tired of remembering passwords, I wrote a little perl program to randomly generate a matrix like this:
I then print this, laminate it, and put it in my wallet (a backup copy somewhere isn't a bad idea either). Then, for every password I just remember a word (maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw
Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password:-) ).
Actually I haven't touched our IIS server at all in months. Thankfully I haven't needed to since I turned it off after replacing it with the new apache server a few months back.
What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue?
Certainly you can think of something to plant on his computer to get him fired? Of course you might get an even bigger idiot for a boss, so you may want to take that into consideration. On second thought maybe just sending in the secretary to show him how to fix things will humiliate him enough to figure things out on his own.
And thus we see the need to make people work better as heatsinks. This is the excuse I use to fly naked (plus the full body cavity searches at the security checkpoints go faster).
Aside from giving a bunch of lucky Australians access (and who knows how man 'roos:-) ) Why did Intel pick Australia? Was it something to do with the 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz licensed bands being availble there now and not in the US, or something else entirely?
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I think they meant they would be making piles of money by gouging morons and providing almost nothing of value in return.
Personally I am going to wait awhile and get a used one off of ebay. I am sure whatever life that is pre-recorded on it will be better than mine anyway.
...it demonstrated the amount of computer bandwidth (1 gigabyte/second) needed by the Australia and California research groups...
Now I know what I can add to my proposal to upgrade our network at work:With our new gigabit network, it will now be possible to offer remote lasik operations for all employees. Sweet.
Yes indeed, the sexbot that won't punch holes through you or set you on fire from too much friction is now one step closer. Thank you oh lords of technology!
Naw, just alter the trajectory of an icy comet and bingo, instant big pond. You would probably want to do this before setting up a mars base, unless someone else beat you to a prime spot already.
Perhaps offer every document as a pdf (there are plenty of conversion tools out there, such as ps2pdf, which you can use after printing the document to a postscript file), as well as offer it in whatever format was sent to you?
Just post your email address and I can send you the informative unsolicited email I just got: "Join the ru$h to $ue $pammer$! All the information you will need to collect million$!!! Only $9.95 for our handy how-to information packet!!!! Order your$ today!!!!!!"
I wonder how long until there is a "remote travel" industry? Imagine walking through a museum while sitting in your chair thousands of miles away. Or stepping out in traffic in England and getting virtually hit because you looked the wrong way.
Luckily all the old games for the old xbox will probably be cheaper. Heck I might even splurge for an old xbox after the new one comes out. I can't wait until the PS3 comes out in force so I can get great deals on used PS2 games once all the people with money to burn get rid of all their old stuff. Then again, the higher price point for new games means they will eventually start charging more for used games too:-(
Actually we have been running all of the tools without too many problems under Fedora core 2/3. If we did have problems however they won't give us any support (sorry we only support really old versions of the OS). One tool will only run on Redhat 7.2-8.0 because it uses a custom kernal module to talk to specialized hardware; it would probably work fine under Fedora core but they won't give us the module to compile and they won't compile it with a newer version of gcc:-|
There's no *good* way of delivering commercial software to a Linux system. (I know, I've tried.)
Just use rpm and force people to use version 7.1 of Redhat. That seems to be the ploy that some vendors (*cough* Cadence and Synopsis *cough*) are using. When I asked one support guy what happens if I want to use a machine that isn't four years old to run their software his response was, "Do you have a solaris box?". I felt like saying, "no, we can't afford one because we spent all our money buying your software."
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I just want to know where they found a pillow that has been in use for 20 years. Anyone who has been using the same one for 20 years obviously has some kind of weird attachment to their pillow, so how would you get it away from them?? Or did they just hang around the morgue all day until a "death by diseased pillow" case comes in?
Because they are still waiting for their campaign contributions from God, while the Pfizers of the world are all paid up?
Me three: I have been using a machine to help with the apnea for awhile, but it seems to lead to an increased number of throat infections (even after cleaning it like a madman). I may try revisiting the doctor to see if I can get stuff whacked out to clear the old airways....
The hardest part will be developing the hardware that is able to recursively index the Google data itself an infinite number of times.
One solution would be to sell flashdrives with a builtin lcd monitor and keyboard; not only would they be hard to lose but the extra functionality would be awesome!
That would probably keep anyone from stealing the paper however. Plus reaching down your pants to get the paper would be a great way to get people to avert their gaze while you type in your password.
Or what I often do is have some short random string (for example "C@5") which I could prepend before all passwords. The upside is even if someone gets the card, and by some miracle they figure out what it is, they still don't have my passwords. Unless they can read my mind, in which case they will also realize I have a negative bank balance and will go find someone else to steal money from.
Becoming tired of remembering passwords, I wrote a little perl program to randomly generate a matrix like this:
:-) ).
a-E9 b-?p c-&m
d-6K e-aY f-eP
g-!S h-gn i-D=
j-Hd k-vw l-Cb
m-W5 n-4$ o-R3
p-x% q-7M r-NF
s-+2 t-s* u-Ay
v-fL w-zG x-Zu
y-cX z-Qr
I then print this, laminate it, and put it in my wallet (a backup copy somewhere isn't a bad idea either). Then, for every password I just remember a word (maybe "bank" for my bank for example) which gives me a password of: ?pE94$vw
Hard to guess, easy for me to "remember". If someone gets my paper (say I lose my wallet), it is still not simple to figure out what my passwords are, or even what the heck that little paper is. Shoulder surfing doesn't work too well either, unless you can memorize the whole card and then figure out which word I am using (it would be easier to try to watch me type the password on the keyboard then get it off the paper. Luckily I type fast and get annoyed when people stand over me while I type a password
Actually I haven't touched our IIS server at all in months. Thankfully I haven't needed to since I turned it off after replacing it with the new apache server a few months back.
Certainly you can think of something to plant on his computer to get him fired? Of course you might get an even bigger idiot for a boss, so you may want to take that into consideration. On second thought maybe just sending in the secretary to show him how to fix things will humiliate him enough to figure things out on his own.
And thus we see the need to make people work better as heatsinks. This is the excuse I use to fly naked (plus the full body cavity searches at the security checkpoints go faster).
Aside from giving a bunch of lucky Australians access (and who knows how man 'roos :-) ) Why did Intel pick Australia? Was it something to do with the 3.5 GHz and 2.3 GHz licensed bands being availble there now and not in the US, or something else entirely?
I think they meant they would be making piles of money by gouging morons and providing almost nothing of value in return.
Personally I am going to wait awhile and get a used one off of ebay. I am sure whatever life that is pre-recorded on it will be better than mine anyway.
Now I know what I can add to my proposal to upgrade our network at work:With our new gigabit network, it will now be possible to offer remote lasik operations for all employees. Sweet.
They now also hold the record for the biggest and most obnoxious ad at the top of their webpage.
Yes indeed, the sexbot that won't punch holes through you or set you on fire from too much friction is now one step closer. Thank you oh lords of technology!
Naw, just alter the trajectory of an icy comet and bingo, instant big pond. You would probably want to do this before setting up a mars base, unless someone else beat you to a prime spot already.
Perhaps offer every document as a pdf (there are plenty of conversion tools out there, such as ps2pdf, which you can use after printing the document to a postscript file), as well as offer it in whatever format was sent to you?
Just post your email address and I can send you the informative unsolicited email I just got: "Join the ru$h to $ue $pammer$! All the information you will need to collect million$!!! Only $9.95 for our handy how-to information packet!!!! Order your$ today!!!!!!"
I wonder how long until there is a "remote travel" industry? Imagine walking through a museum while sitting in your chair thousands of miles away. Or stepping out in traffic in England and getting virtually hit because you looked the wrong way.
Luckily all the old games for the old xbox will probably be cheaper. Heck I might even splurge for an old xbox after the new one comes out. I can't wait until the PS3 comes out in force so I can get great deals on used PS2 games once all the people with money to burn get rid of all their old stuff. Then again, the higher price point for new games means they will eventually start charging more for used games too :-(
Oh and 1973 called and it wants you back :-)
Actually we have been running all of the tools without too many problems under Fedora core 2/3. If we did have problems however they won't give us any support (sorry we only support really old versions of the OS). One tool will only run on Redhat 7.2-8.0 because it uses a custom kernal module to talk to specialized hardware; it would probably work fine under Fedora core but they won't give us the module to compile and they won't compile it with a newer version of gcc :-|
Just use rpm and force people to use version 7.1 of Redhat. That seems to be the ploy that some vendors (*cough* Cadence and Synopsis *cough*) are using. When I asked one support guy what happens if I want to use a machine that isn't four years old to run their software his response was, "Do you have a solaris box?". I felt like saying, "no, we can't afford one because we spent all our money buying your software."