Turn on the Share my real name option to select which friends you want to see your real name: Press the Xbox button to open the guide. Select System > Settings > Account > Privacy & online safety. Select Xbox Live privacy > View details & customize. Select Profile, and then scroll right to You can share your real name.
"As of September 14 (2011), Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes.
Thanks again to all of our users. It’s been a fun journey.
I always thought that the people who got to add urls to the kiddie / work filters would have an interesting job.
It's been said before. There are things you just can't un-see. How much would you pay someone to surf the nastiest content on the net? Would you really hire people who enjoy it?
It also helps if they have a good picture to begin with. I'm surprised that this wasn't passed by Virginia given the funny ass drivers licenses that you can get there!
-B
When I was a kid at Six Flags I used to yell MOM! at the top of my lungs until I got towards the front of the line. Worked like a champ. I've changed it to calling out my kids names and asking if someone has seen my 8 year old, about yea high, etc etc... Sometimes I get called on it but it's usually worth the risk.
If you're losing hair around the temples, you're a lover If you're losing hair in the back of your head, you're a thinker And if you've lost all the hair on top of your head, you just think you're a lover.
Yeah I lost my hair 15 years ago and am sporting the Bruce Willis bald-hawk. Kinda enjoy not having to maintain my hair. Hate it when I sunburn because it looks like I have dandruff that even head & shoulders can't take care of.
Me for one - I'm not going to miss it. Comcast limited you to a 1G ( I think they raised it to 2G in the last year) and I'm usually warming up about that point. Switched over to maximumusenet.com and haven't looked back. So now I can read 50G of articles for their well thought out commentary and in-depth analysis. Helped me complete my mame rom set, all the drm free mp3's and no sneaky mediasentry to worry about!
Here's the real story. Just in case you missed it. Diebold has already accidentally leaked the 2008 election results. Warning - Stupid non-skip 10 second ad before story. -b
<booradley> I'd like to perform a one act play I call, "Creative screwed me like a bitch"
<booradley> <audigy> Buy me! I'm ever so sexy
<booradley> <boo> ok. come home with me and we'll play among the stars
<booradley> <audigy> tee hee! I love you, boo!
<booradley> <boo> I love you too, audigy
<booradley>:: later::
<booradley> <boo> there, you're all installed. how do you feel?
<neshura> down in front!
<booradley> <audigy> LET JESUS FUCK YOU! VRAAAGH!
* audience gasps.
<booradley> * audigy is putting noise across your PCI channels
<booradley> <hard drive> Mein leben!
<booradley> * hard drive has died
<booradley> <audigy> Blaaah! blaaaugh! your mother sucks cocks in hell! graaagh!
<booradley> <modem> aaieee
<booradley> *modem has died
<booradley> and the new modem I got connects at 32k tops
<Shendal> By far, that's the best one-act IRC play I've read this season. Do I smell a Tony award?
I can tell you this based on my direct experience as a Stinger gunner.
Shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles are built primarily to shoot combat jets out of the sky. The amount of explosives (less than a pound of something like HT3) is negligible. The missile's primary objective is to rip the skin open of the wings/fuselage, having the explosive go off inside the jet is a bonus. The sheer air friction of a torn fuselage will rip a small jet apart.
Apply this to a commercial airliner. Most missiles will hit the fuselage, and lets assume a gaping hole was created. The most that will happen will be rapid decompression (at altitude), significant flight handling differences, and maybe some people will get sucked out of the plane. More than likely a commercial airliner would land after being hit with a shoulder fired SAM. The only chance of taking out a significant chunk of the plane would be to hit it just after takeoff and get the fuel tanks, but you can't exactly pick where you want the missile to hit the plane.
They should invest the research funds towards making better baggage scanners. -B
"Every phone call or trip to an employee's cubicle is an 'event' or 'activity' that needs to be documented, even if just with a sentence fragment (Asked Jane to reboot her workstation and call back if further errors.)"
Be careful with this - Next thing you know Jane's computer is havening problems.
Ahhhh good old George.
That's what we do in our shop although we do a few tweaks as well. On the weekends, we nuke our test and dev environments and then copy production back to test and dev. We then apply all outstanding data & ddl logs to test and dev in order to get the database back to where it should be.
Developers have DBA rights on Dev and are locked out of our Prod instances. Developers script all changes so that their work can be reapplied with the same results on every instance. We also log object changes so we can quickly identify which version of DDL was applied to each object. It's a lot of overhead, but we're a large shop and have dedicated DBAs.
It's a really good way to keep the instances managed. The developers know that they can do their dangerous work on Fridays because if they make a serious mistake, it'll be clean on Monday.
I used to be a police officer, and once someone has their credit cards fraudulently charged, the victim is no longer the complainant, but the credit card company. As of the late 90's I could tell you that the major cc's had no interest in enforcing any cases. They would probably lose money on the sub $1000 fraudulent charges, so I bet they made it policy not to enforce.
I was pleased to see that American Express would prosecute. The others didn't give a damn.
My company wouldn't touch my personal PC's, but we have an A/V site license that allows us to use the software on any machine that connects to our network, so the net effect is free A/V for my windows machine. My company will provide me a laptop should I have a justifyable business reason for working at home.
As the "hardcore" technical guy in my department, I get to help managers out on occasion when their kids open up the firewalls, enable sweeping ranges of port forwarding, and proceed to make the house a zombie home.
I wouldn't wish this kind of service upon any support group. Clueless employees with moderately locked down installs are hard enough to clean up after, much less their entire home kit.
And submit the results to Peep research. This is such an old site, and I'm surprised that nobody's posted it..... The funniest is when they see what happens when peeps smoke and drink.....
From my expierience - The people who are subject matter experts in their field (outside of computers) and typically don't have the time to perform all of the data entry. So you have to get an ETL / Miner to do all of the work for you. ETL and data mining are *NOT* the sexiest jobs in the industry by a long shot. Auditing data makes you want to gouge your eyes out after the fourth day straight of reviewing loads.
"I can clean up corruptions or load old backups because I know exactly how the server reads the data." You need take a serious look at you backup and recovery plans. The last thing I would ever want to hear is that a DBA is using khexedit on raw database files.
"Database servers just keep running on some server and are forgotten"- Sure fire path to disaster and reinforces my first point.
"If you run an ancient version of Oracle, you are stuffed" On a 9i to 10g migration, one of the options is to just upgrade the instance directly. Anyone that has ever done or heard of someone upgrading Windows versions will tell you that you should nuke the disk and do a clean install. In the case with Oracle this is handled through exp(ort)/imp(ort).
If your database is critical to your business, you should be taking much better care of it PERIOD. Open Source or Proprietary, it should be periodically maintained.
All I can say is how about doing something original instead of copying Maddox's 2004 "oh my little sister updated my webpage OMG LOL CUTE!" and then posting the emails that he got from people that thought his site was hacked.
Slashdot Mirror
From Xbox -
Turn on the Share my real name option to select which friends you want to see your real name:
Press the Xbox button to open the guide.
Select System > Settings > Account > Privacy & online safety.
Select Xbox Live privacy > View details & customize.
Select Profile, and then scroll right to You can share your real name.
Idiot shared his real name on Xbox........
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/ - I know you can still find it and install, but still, I wish that it was still living on......
"As of September 14 (2011), Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes.
Thanks again to all of our users. It’s been a fun journey.
Posted by the Google Desktop Team"
I always thought that the people who got to add urls to the kiddie / work filters would have an interesting job.
It's been said before. There are things you just can't un-see. How much would you pay someone to surf the nastiest content on the net? Would you really hire people who enjoy it?
-B
It also helps if they have a good picture to begin with. I'm surprised that this wasn't passed by Virginia given the funny ass drivers licenses that you can get there! -B
I used to be a cop ( Officer of the year for a Metro Atlanta law enforcement agency during the Olympics) and a Marine Corps Staff Sergeant.
Yes I am a dick thankyouverymuch. What's your point?
When I was a kid at Six Flags I used to yell MOM! at the top of my lungs until I got towards the front of the line. Worked like a champ. I've changed it to calling out my kids names and asking if someone has seen my 8 year old, about yea high, etc etc... Sometimes I get called on it but it's usually worth the risk.
If you're losing hair around the temples, you're a lover
If you're losing hair in the back of your head, you're a thinker
And if you've lost all the hair on top of your head, you just think you're a lover.
Yeah I lost my hair 15 years ago and am sporting the Bruce Willis bald-hawk. Kinda enjoy not having to maintain my hair. Hate it when I sunburn because it looks like I have dandruff that even head & shoulders can't take care of.
Not sure if I would go for "the cure".
B e s u r e t o d r i n k y o u r O v a l t i n e.
Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!
And the secret to their state jelly! It's kind of bland but the tube makes it so easy to spread on the bread!
"I read USENET for the great articles"
s/USENET/PlayBoy/
Me for one - I'm not going to miss it. Comcast limited you to a 1G ( I think they raised it to 2G in the last year) and I'm usually warming up about that point. Switched over to maximumusenet.com and haven't looked back. So now I can read 50G of articles for their well thought out commentary and in-depth analysis. Helped me complete my mame rom set, all the drm free mp3's and no sneaky mediasentry to worry about!
Thanks for nothing Comcast.
I've used these wireless extension cords and they don't have the throbbing noise. Just don't walk between them.....
Here's the real story. Just in case you missed it. Diebold has already accidentally leaked the 2008 election results. Warning - Stupid non-skip 10 second ad before story.
-b
Shamelessly stolen from bash.org
:: later ::
<booradley> I'd like to perform a one act play I call, "Creative screwed me like a bitch"
<booradley> <audigy> Buy me! I'm ever so sexy
<booradley> <boo> ok. come home with me and we'll play among the stars
<booradley> <audigy> tee hee! I love you, boo!
<booradley> <boo> I love you too, audigy
<booradley>
<booradley> <boo> there, you're all installed. how do you feel?
<neshura> down in front!
<booradley> <audigy> LET JESUS FUCK YOU! VRAAAGH!
* audience gasps.
<booradley> * audigy is putting noise across your PCI channels
<booradley> <hard drive> Mein leben!
<booradley> * hard drive has died
<booradley> <audigy> Blaaah! blaaaugh! your mother sucks cocks in hell! graaagh!
<booradley> <modem> aaieee
<booradley> *modem has died
<booradley> and the new modem I got connects at 32k tops
<Shendal> By far, that's the best one-act IRC play I've read this season. Do I smell a Tony award?
"IBM's iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired "
.. aka.. the "Show Me" state.
It's kinda odd picking Missouri for the project name
Call it what it REALLY is - A C.ompact L.aptop I.nterface T.ool
-B
I can tell you this based on my direct experience as a Stinger gunner.
Shoulder fired anti aircraft missiles are built primarily to shoot combat jets out of the sky. The amount of explosives (less than a pound of something like HT3) is negligible. The missile's primary objective is to rip the skin open of the wings/fuselage, having the explosive go off inside the jet is a bonus. The sheer air friction of a torn fuselage will rip a small jet apart.
Apply this to a commercial airliner. Most missiles will hit the fuselage, and lets assume a gaping hole was created. The most that will happen will be rapid decompression (at altitude), significant flight handling differences, and maybe some people will get sucked out of the plane. More than likely a commercial airliner would land after being hit with a shoulder fired SAM. The only chance of taking out a significant chunk of the plane would be to hit it just after takeoff and get the fuel tanks, but you can't exactly pick where you want the missile to hit the plane.
They should invest the research funds towards making better baggage scanners.
-B
"Every phone call or trip to an employee's cubicle is an 'event' or 'activity' that needs to be documented, even if just with a sentence fragment (Asked Jane to reboot her workstation and call back if further errors.)"
Be careful with this - Next thing you know Jane's computer is havening problems. Ahhhh good old George.
That's what we do in our shop although we do a few tweaks as well. On the weekends, we nuke our test and dev environments and then copy production back to test and dev. We then apply all outstanding data & ddl logs to test and dev in order to get the database back to where it should be.
Developers have DBA rights on Dev and are locked out of our Prod instances. Developers script all changes so that their work can be reapplied with the same results on every instance. We also log object changes so we can quickly identify which version of DDL was applied to each object. It's a lot of overhead, but we're a large shop and have dedicated DBAs.
It's a really good way to keep the instances managed. The developers know that they can do their dangerous work on Fridays because if they make a serious mistake, it'll be clean on Monday.
But where does the spam snot and phlegm go?
-B
I used to be a police officer, and once someone has their credit cards fraudulently charged, the victim is no longer the complainant, but the credit card company. As of the late 90's I could tell you that the major cc's had no interest in enforcing any cases. They would probably lose money on the sub $1000 fraudulent charges, so I bet they made it policy not to enforce.
I was pleased to see that American Express would prosecute. The others didn't give a damn.
My company wouldn't touch my personal PC's, but we have an A/V site license that allows us to use the software on any machine that connects to our network, so the net effect is free A/V for my windows machine. My company will provide me a laptop should I have a justifyable business reason for working at home.
As the "hardcore" technical guy in my department, I get to help managers out on occasion when their kids open up the firewalls, enable sweeping ranges of port forwarding, and proceed to make the house a zombie home.
I wouldn't wish this kind of service upon any support group. Clueless employees with moderately locked down installs are hard enough to clean up after, much less their entire home kit.
And submit the results to Peep research. This is such an old site, and I'm surprised that nobody's posted it..... The funniest is when they see what happens when peeps smoke and drink.....
From my expierience - The people who are subject matter experts in their field (outside of computers) and typically don't have the time to perform all of the data entry. So you have to get an ETL / Miner to do all of the work for you. ETL and data mining are *NOT* the sexiest jobs in the industry by a long shot. Auditing data makes you want to gouge your eyes out after the fourth day straight of reviewing loads.
"I can clean up corruptions or load old backups because I know exactly how the server reads the data."
You need take a serious look at you backup and recovery plans. The last thing I would ever want to hear is that a DBA is using khexedit on raw database files.
"Database servers just keep running on some server and are forgotten"- Sure fire path to disaster and reinforces my first point.
"If you run an ancient version of Oracle, you are stuffed"
On a 9i to 10g migration, one of the options is to just upgrade the instance directly. Anyone that has ever done or heard of someone upgrading Windows versions will tell you that you should nuke the disk and do a clean install. In the case with Oracle this is handled through exp(ort)/imp(ort).
If your database is critical to your business, you should be taking much better care of it PERIOD. Open Source or Proprietary, it should be periodically maintained.
All I can say is how about doing something original instead of copying Maddox's 2004 "oh my little sister updated my webpage OMG LOL CUTE!" and then posting the emails that he got from people that thought his site was hacked.
April fools is a lot more fun than this.