Ahh I always wondered what people were complaining about here (I always browse slashdot in low graphical mode, which is ironic considering my current signature).
The best part is you can pretend to know the family, since you know all their names, what they look like, etc. "Yeah is JimBob there? Oh they already went on vacation huh?"
Burglar goes down to airport and watches family get on a plane to Europe. He grabs your name, and from that gets your home address. Then he can go rob your house while you and family are out of town. Certainly makes scoping out houses much easier; your house could be cleaned out before you even reach your destination.
What I want is a way to turn off any and all confirmation windows complaining about an SSL certificate once I click the "accept this forever" button. Well I mean aside from buy a real certificate......
You might look at Unison, which runs under Linux and Windows. It has been working great with our Linux laptops (used to sync up user home directories). It is nice because it allows work to happen in two places, and then when you sync up it copies stuff everywhere it should go (and gives you an opportunity to manage conflicts). And I agree on the whole backup deal; I am planning on another machine soon with sufficient diskspace to mirror all the data I care about, plus 2 removeable drives, the most current of which I can store at work.
Linux: Oh man the harddrive must have died (or the power supply if there is visible smoke). Windows: I need to reinstall one of these days. Seriously, the only time I have had a linux box crash lately is if the harddrive died or some other hardware (power supply, bad simm) problem. My frigid home Windows 2000 box however is begging me to reinstall soon; it keeps randomly freezing up on me.
Crappy power supplies and dead CPU fans are the other ones I have run into. I have noticed that newer disks seems to junk out more often than older disks. I still have tons of older working drives, but the new ones seem to drop like flies. And this is why RAID is such a nice thing. Once we go beyond moving parts maybe PCs will run forever.
I am guessing they could never get the melted laptop parts off of the important bits of the fryer. Then again, with deepfried food maybe the extra plastic flavor wouldn't be easy to notice.
My reaction depends on which machine we are talking about:
My desktop at work: I do a dance of joy! Finally I get a new linux machine. Thankfully all my data is on the server so my desktop is no loss.
My home computer that hasn't been backed up in ages: I smack my head until I pass out. When I wake up I smack some more. I gnash my teeth as I lament the demise of my Diablo2 level 46 druid! Oh and all the pictures of both my kids.
The server at work: I start with a huge sigh as I restore data followed by snarls at users bugging me asking every ten minutes when the server will be back up.
The server at work that has bad backups that never got verified because everyone but me thinks the tapedrive is a magic box that never makes bad backups and I never get time allocated to manually verify them or time/money to come up with a better solution: I start smiling at the users as I fervently start hoping my home computer doesn't crash before I get home and print my resume. Where are the good backup tapes the users ask? Oh yeah, I took them home for offsite safekeeping, let me clean out my desk and go home to get them.....
At least until companys start moving out of state because it costs too much to hire local people, as the cheaper non-local people find jobs elsewhere as a now sizeable portion of their paycheck is drained by NY taxes.
You forgot to include several lines explaining that you were joking, and by light you meant "light as in not heavy". All good comedians take ten minutes to explain every joke don't they?
I keep looking in my mailbox, but there are no Blockbuster DVDs there. The ad shows random people pulling DVDs out of their mailboxes; this is clearly a case of false advertising!
How long until the GTA dev team starts adding characters into new versions, like a Hillary Clinton hooker hanging out with gay male hookers that look suspiciously like Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum?
I can't wait to see scenes of their youth, like Kirk giving Spock a wedgie in gym class as well as the true origin of McCoy's nickname (something about him and a knothole in a fence next to the soccer field).
What better time for an all nude student protest? You can write catchy slogans like "Keep your hands off my Bits" and "Save My Torrent!" on your protest signs/naked parts.
Only if the person dies by explosive decompression. I don't know why I like that term so much, it is just so darn descriptive, and just rolls off the tongue.
As much as I trust TV and the essentially random guesses made by people about something that has been dead for millions of years, I am not sure I want to stand still while being chased by a really big meat-eating dinosaur unless I am reeeaaally extra sure that it won't see me. On the upside I only have to run past the other people who have seen Jurassic Park and are standing still to test if this theory is true or not. If it runs past them I simply freeze, otherwise I can escape while it chomps on the first few unlucky souls to hold still.
The ages of the characters will be upped by 5 or so...
This is why I think they should just animate the movie instead. CGI has progressed really well, I wonder if Pixar could get the contract after they escape the grip of Disney.... Plus the battleroom scenes (which will probably be cut:-( ) would be easier with CGI. As far as worrying about Peter, don't, since he will probably be nearly totally excised as well. I am hoping they will keep "Buggers" as the term for the enemy, but they will probably use Formics instead. Silly OSC, who cares that it is a naughty word across the pond?:-)
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Ahh I always wondered what people were complaining about here (I always browse slashdot in low graphical mode, which is ironic considering my current signature).
Does firefox have a plugin that reminds me to either put clothes on or turn off my camera before loading a flash plugin?
The best part is you can pretend to know the family, since you know all their names, what they look like, etc. "Yeah is JimBob there? Oh they already went on vacation huh?"
Burglar goes down to airport and watches family get on a plane to Europe. He grabs your name, and from that gets your home address. Then he can go rob your house while you and family are out of town. Certainly makes scoping out houses much easier; your house could be cleaned out before you even reach your destination.
Actually I was trying to be humorous but apparently failed miserably. If you can't pick on the anarchists, who can you pick on?
What I want is a way to turn off any and all confirmation windows complaining about an SSL certificate once I click the "accept this forever" button. Well I mean aside from buy a real certificate......
Pissing off people who read stuff like this and who are quite possibly nuts does seem like a valid concern.
You might look at Unison, which runs under Linux and Windows. It has been working great with our Linux laptops (used to sync up user home directories). It is nice because it allows work to happen in two places, and then when you sync up it copies stuff everywhere it should go (and gives you an opportunity to manage conflicts). And I agree on the whole backup deal; I am planning on another machine soon with sufficient diskspace to mirror all the data I care about, plus 2 removeable drives, the most current of which I can store at work.
Did he get the death penalty or just life in prison?
Linux: Oh man the harddrive must have died (or the power supply if there is visible smoke).
Windows: I need to reinstall one of these days.
Seriously, the only time I have had a linux box crash lately is if the harddrive died or some other hardware (power supply, bad simm) problem. My frigid home Windows 2000 box however is begging me to reinstall soon; it keeps randomly freezing up on me.
Crappy power supplies and dead CPU fans are the other ones I have run into. I have noticed that newer disks seems to junk out more often than older disks. I still have tons of older working drives, but the new ones seem to drop like flies. And this is why RAID is such a nice thing. Once we go beyond moving parts maybe PCs will run forever.
I am guessing they could never get the melted laptop parts off of the important bits of the fryer. Then again, with deepfried food maybe the extra plastic flavor wouldn't be easy to notice.
My desktop at work: I do a dance of joy! Finally I get a new linux machine. Thankfully all my data is on the server so my desktop is no loss.
My home computer that hasn't been backed up in ages: I smack my head until I pass out. When I wake up I smack some more. I gnash my teeth as I lament the demise of my Diablo2 level 46 druid! Oh and all the pictures of both my kids.
The server at work: I start with a huge sigh as I restore data followed by snarls at users bugging me asking every ten minutes when the server will be back up.
The server at work that has bad backups that never got verified because everyone but me thinks the tapedrive is a magic box that never makes bad backups and I never get time allocated to manually verify them or time/money to come up with a better solution: I start smiling at the users as I fervently start hoping my home computer doesn't crash before I get home and print my resume. Where are the good backup tapes the users ask? Oh yeah, I took them home for offsite safekeeping, let me clean out my desk and go home to get them.....
At least until companys start moving out of state because it costs too much to hire local people, as the cheaper non-local people find jobs elsewhere as a now sizeable portion of their paycheck is drained by NY taxes.
You forgot to include several lines explaining that you were joking, and by light you meant "light as in not heavy". All good comedians take ten minutes to explain every joke don't they?
I keep looking in my mailbox, but there are no Blockbuster DVDs there. The ad shows random people pulling DVDs out of their mailboxes; this is clearly a case of false advertising!
How long until the GTA dev team starts adding characters into new versions, like a Hillary Clinton hooker hanging out with gay male hookers that look suspiciously like Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum?
Ayiieeee, what are you doing to the goatse man??????
I can't wait to see scenes of their youth, like Kirk giving Spock a wedgie in gym class as well as the true origin of McCoy's nickname (something about him and a knothole in a fence next to the soccer field).
What better time for an all nude student protest? You can write catchy slogans like "Keep your hands off my Bits" and "Save My Torrent!" on your protest signs/naked parts.
Only if the person dies by explosive decompression. I don't know why I like that term so much, it is just so darn descriptive, and just rolls off the tongue.
As much as I trust TV and the essentially random guesses made by people about something that has been dead for millions of years, I am not sure I want to stand still while being chased by a really big meat-eating dinosaur unless I am reeeaaally extra sure that it won't see me. On the upside I only have to run past the other people who have seen Jurassic Park and are standing still to test if this theory is true or not. If it runs past them I simply freeze, otherwise I can escape while it chomps on the first few unlucky souls to hold still.
This is why I think they should just animate the movie instead. CGI has progressed really well, I wonder if Pixar could get the contract after they escape the grip of Disney.... Plus the battleroom scenes (which will probably be cut :-( ) would be easier with CGI. As far as worrying about Peter, don't, since he will probably be nearly totally excised as well. I am hoping they will keep "Buggers" as the term for the enemy, but they will probably use Formics instead. Silly OSC, who cares that it is a naughty word across the pond? :-)
I was planning on going, but sadly I forgot which day it was on.
Or you could think Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades (alphabetical). One less thing to "remember" :-)