It's just nice seeing a linux article (featuring Iraqis ) that doesn't paint Linux users as terrorists. Don't let Didio interview them, she'll spin an article like "Iraqi Terrorists create KJihad which is what we knew all those Linux users were up to anyways. "
Nice blurb. Hope Iraq recovers just to face the same job market as over here. Sorry... Yes, someone already peed in my cornflakes. -B
Anyone who's eaten MREs for a substantial amount of time will tell you that MREs really stand for Meals Refusing To Exit. If you picked a food that actually digested and could be evacuated properly, you will see some fuel gain from waste disposal.
MREs are evil. Eat ONE hamburger after a week of MREs and get ready to poop a weeks worth.
If only they had self destructing movies. Gigli or The Hulk shouldn't have lasted more than 48 hours once the can was opened. StarWars Ep 1 was also an excellent candidate.
Price it both ways - Comcast High Speed Internet Only (No basic cable TV) and High Speed Internet with Basic TV. I think the price is about $1 off. They can't filter out the TV signal, they know you're going to figure it out, so they're charging you for basic cable regardless.
One thing alone will kill this idea... Licensing costs per proc. Linux really shines when you want to keep the TCO down due to the fact that you can get away with doing it and have zero licensing costs. (Note the get away with - I know that most HPC/Grids are installed and supported and there is support costs but that's another arguement.....
Imagine if Google had to pay Microsoft a recurring license for their server farm and be forced to keep in lockstep with Microsoft's Licensing costs. Think there'd be a higher push for advertising and more intrusive ads? I do.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the IP address page and find the light blue chart link - It leads to here which is a dutch? page statistic application.. As of 6:30 EST it had 46250 pageviews... The article was posted at 2:30 AM, I'm kinda curious about the morning traffic to see if it takes another slashdotting...
-B
"The system has no video buffer, the total code size cannot exceed 4K and can only use 128 bytes of RAM"... "the Atari 2600 requires 100 percent Assembler coding".. Wow. You gotta really love it or love challenges in order to constrain yourself so. In the age of bigger and faster machines, I think a lot of the bloat is due to the fact that people never understood or learned the inner workings of the processor and the code isn't as tight as it could be. I'm not recommending that assembly be required, but I think anyone that develops should be cognisant of what happens behind the curtain.
Still- Developing and making fun games from this tiny system is incredible. I have every platform I've ever owned since the 2600/Intellivision era and the 2600 has definately sat unused in the past few years... Maybe it's time to dust it off...
They're also being exploited by the motion picture industry-- When I saw the picture I thought it was funny.. but later on when I found out that it endangered them.. I felt really sad...
Directed By
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS 6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS 142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS 14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA) REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON 76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
I thought we were pro Apple! It should be avoid the robots, break down gates, and make the robots crash into each other.. I know what you're thinking... Lets the robots crash into the gates... It hard keeping the gates up, they tend to crash by themself...
Does it come with media fearmongering "THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW. DETAILS AT 8" addons? Seriously. Every single damn weather event is a showstopper. If my team blew everything out of proportion like the media did, I'd sack em. Also speaking of weather... They can't even get the 3 days forecast even close much less years out.
Interested in weather, love/hate to watch tornados and hurricanes.. trouble is the news makes it out like "The Perfect Storm" is about to happen.. -B
The OJ case brought us extreme media saturation, and everybody was cognisant of the circumstances and facts around the case. This is different.. computer media shills trumpeted the virtues of SCO's case and the national magazines pickup up the shill's cries and gave them flight.
Well, I am really glad that PJ's work has become pivotal in illuminating the real facts behind SCO's "case". It's an excellent central point of information against SCo's disinformation campaign. Excellent work PJ. Congrats on 1 year;)
Seeing how the entire TV spectrum is pretty much vacant, this means good things and more bandwidth! Let the porno webcams commence! Out with the bad air, in with the sexually explicit bad air!
"Engineering education needs to emphasize not only technical skills, but also teamwork, global awareness, entrepreneurship, cross-disciplinary thinking and other non-technical skills needed in a global economy."
Yeah.. really bone up on those non-technical skills so you can manage your offshore help. Make sure you've taken Xerox Machine Repair 101 so you will have some "added value" in the office. Take some medical classes so when your help complains about eating and sleeping disorders, you can help out and give the "caring, compassionate" look.
Flamebait? fuckit..this is tongue in cheek. Offshoring coders is utter bullshit.
Heh.. Hope he's got an advanced plan... 20 GB Bandwidth is $99/year for the most expensive advanced plan, and if the slashdot effect holds true, he's gonna use his bandwidth up umm.. today? 12000 bytes to load the page... 1.67 million hits... I'm really on the fence on this one.... Windows 98 users should know that their products are EOL'd, but then again this guy is giving back freely (albeit in an un-authorized and non-authoritaive manner). Nah, Alper.. thanks but no thanks.. Your effort is admirable. If my laptop crashes and burns it'll be my last Windows system to go and it won't be a day too soon.
I've found that if I dress badly, act angry, yell at my computer, and do really weird stuff that people tend to leave me alone. Granted I can get away with this because I get the job done in record time and I've never missed a deadline. Also - listen to music in headphones (it increases your personal space theres an article around here but it's too early and I've only had a sip of coffee). It's entirely up to you to defend your personal space and to repel the cube invaders. I don't officially take a lunch ( it's in my desk drawer), so my work mates never see me take lunch. Use the phrases "Under the gun", "there's no time for that" a lot. Really create the image that you're too damn busy for their petty shit. Read slashdot between your sandwiches;) Sit with your back to the cube door but have a reflective surface where you can see in back of you so you can detect cube invaders. You really only have two options.. deal with them on your terms, or on their terms.
I've found that reducing the petty bullshit makes life easier. -B
Heh. Look closely at the NYT article again.. Every major company has a hyperlink to their stock market index except for SCO. I'm not sure if it's automatically done by the back end, but it's a funny oversight. -B
As an owner of a VW Beetle (wife's), I thought I'd be happy to own something that should have been as easy (and cheap) to fix as my 1983 Rabbit. Recently, it ran rough, hard to keep idle, stalled under load. After an oxygen sensor ($180), a mass air flow sensor ($60), a new set of spark plug wies ($120), she was running as good as it gets. These are just *part* prices - No labor. It's insane. This is a damn 4 cylinder, most of em should pass emissions pretty easily. Squeezing the last drop of horsepower out of an engine had made it nothing but costly and unreliable when something breaks. I used to pull and rebore/rebuild engines back in the day, got a BsCsci, and even I'm hesitant/reluctant/afraid to touch anything on the emissions/electrical/ecm system. WTF?
What really gets me going is that I took it to VW to get the ECm re-flashed because emissions is coming up for me. Told em to do warranty repair/recall work only. They did it, but they "checked the car" because it's been a while since it's been to the VW dealerships. They found that the coolant and brake line fluid's PH balance was off (I can't even make this up!) They were more than happy to perform the fluid flush ($220).
HEY! While you're at it check my headlight fluid and don't skimp on the halogen fluid!
"as part of his official duties, Detective Frank Warchol of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Department signed on to a chat room on America Online, posing as a fourteen-year-old girl"Okay, repeat after me.. There are few horny women in chat rooms. There are fewer horny non-male women in channel. The are even fewer horny non-male under 50 years of age women in channel. Okay.. that leaves 1 left..
I don't know about your workplace environment, but my company has locked down shares and peering due to the fact that this an infection vector. I think peering/collaboration is the way to go, but this is becoming increasingly difficult thanks to the lax default permissions that was inside windows (yeah I'm not a windows admin, and the default share was always set at world full access). The knee jerk reaction was to disallow *all* peer/sharing.
I'll probably get ripped and modded to hell for this but I was looking forward to the "hive" type setups that MS was proposing for peering(for work this would be a godsend, I wouldn't do this at home tho). My concern was their security model.
Just how in the hell can this be done when virii explicitly target this functionality? CVS / Subversion is not an answer for business/end users... B
Yeah but he's spewing this crap.. "Everyday new code is added to Linux in Russia, China and elsewhere throughout the world. Everyday that code is incorporated into our command, control, communications and weapons systems. This must stop."... Cmon he has a vested interest... His own company puts out it's own RTOS Go to that link. Now. Read the TOP of the middle column "Real-Time Operating Systems Must be Highly Reliable" Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Unix, and Linux often crash, lock up, or go crazy. They indicate this condition by displaying a sad face, an exploding bomb, a red X, a blue screen of death, or by simply refusing to respond to mouse-clicks or keyboard input.
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It's just nice seeing a linux article (featuring Iraqis ) that doesn't paint Linux users as terrorists. Don't let Didio interview them, she'll spin an article like "Iraqi Terrorists create KJihad which is what we knew all those Linux users were up to anyways. "
Nice blurb. Hope Iraq recovers just to face the same job market as over here. Sorry... Yes, someone already peed in my cornflakes.
-B
Anyone who's eaten MREs for a substantial amount of time will tell you that MREs really stand for Meals Refusing To Exit. If you picked a food that actually digested and could be evacuated properly, you will see some fuel gain from waste disposal.
MREs are evil. Eat ONE hamburger after a week of MREs and get ready to poop a weeks worth.
If only they had self destructing movies. Gigli or The Hulk shouldn't have lasted more than 48 hours once the can was opened. StarWars Ep 1 was also an excellent candidate.
Yoousa DVD gonna die?
-B
Price it both ways - Comcast High Speed Internet Only (No basic cable TV) and High Speed Internet with Basic TV. I think the price is about $1 off. They can't filter out the TV signal, they know you're going to figure it out, so they're charging you for basic cable regardless.
Check it out for yourself
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One thing alone will kill this idea... Licensing costs per proc. Linux really shines when you want to keep the TCO down due to the fact that you can get away with doing it and have zero licensing costs. (Note the get away with - I know that most HPC/Grids are installed and supported and there is support costs but that's another arguement.....
Imagine if Google had to pay Microsoft a recurring license for their server farm and be forced to keep in lockstep with Microsoft's Licensing costs. Think there'd be a higher push for advertising and more intrusive ads? I do.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the IP address page and find the light blue chart link - It leads to here which is a dutch? page statistic application.. As of 6:30 EST it had 46250 pageviews...
The article was posted at 2:30 AM, I'm kinda curious about the morning traffic to see if it takes another slashdotting... -B
"The system has no video buffer, the total code size cannot exceed 4K and can only use 128 bytes of RAM"... "the Atari 2600 requires 100 percent Assembler coding".. Wow. You gotta really love it or love challenges in order to constrain yourself so. In the age of bigger and faster machines, I think a lot of the bloat is due to the fact that people never understood or learned the inner workings of the processor and the code isn't as tight as it could be. I'm not recommending that assembly be required, but I think anyone that develops should be cognisant of what happens behind the curtain.
Still- Developing and making fun games from this tiny system is incredible. I have every platform I've ever owned since the 2600/Intellivision era and the 2600 has definately sat unused in the past few years... Maybe it's time to dust it off...
They're also being exploited by the motion picture industry-- When I saw the picture I thought it was funny.. but later on when I found out that it endangered them.. I felt really sad...
Directed By
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS
6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS
142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS
14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS (CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)
REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON
76000 BATTERY LLAMAS FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS LTD. NEAR PARAGUAY
and
TERRY GILLIAM & TERRY JONES
Sad. Tragic.
I thought we were pro Apple! It should be avoid the robots, break down gates, and make the robots crash into each other.. I know what you're thinking... Lets the robots crash into the gates... It hard keeping the gates up, they tend to crash by themself...
Does it come with media fearmongering "THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW. DETAILS AT 8" addons? Seriously. Every single damn weather event is a showstopper. If my team blew everything out of proportion like the media did, I'd sack em. Also speaking of weather... They can't even get the 3 days forecast even close much less years out.
..
Interested in weather, love/hate to watch tornados and hurricanes.. trouble is the news makes it out like "The Perfect Storm" is about to happen
-B
The OJ case brought us extreme media saturation, and everybody was cognisant of the circumstances and facts around the case. This is different.. computer media shills trumpeted the virtues of SCO's case and the national magazines pickup up the shill's cries and gave them flight.
;)
Well, I am really glad that PJ's work has become pivotal in illuminating the real facts behind SCO's "case". It's an excellent central point of information against SCo's disinformation campaign. Excellent work PJ. Congrats on 1 year
-B
Seeing how the entire TV spectrum is pretty much vacant, this means good things and more bandwidth! Let the porno webcams commence! Out with the bad air, in with the sexually explicit bad air!
"Engineering education needs to emphasize not only technical skills, but also teamwork, global awareness, entrepreneurship, cross-disciplinary thinking and other non-technical skills needed in a global economy."
Yeah.. really bone up on those non-technical skills so you can manage your offshore help. Make sure you've taken Xerox Machine Repair 101 so you will have some "added value" in the office. Take some medical classes so when your help complains about eating and sleeping disorders, you can help out and give the "caring, compassionate" look.
Flamebait? fuckit..this is tongue in cheek. Offshoring coders is utter bullshit.
Heh.. Hope he's got an advanced plan... 20 GB Bandwidth is $99/year for the most expensive advanced plan, and if the slashdot effect holds true, he's gonna use his bandwidth up umm.. today? 12000 bytes to load the page... 1.67 million hits...
I'm really on the fence on this one.... Windows 98 users should know that their products are EOL'd, but then again this guy is giving back freely (albeit in an un-authorized and non-authoritaive manner).
Nah, Alper.. thanks but no thanks.. Your effort is admirable. If my laptop crashes and burns it'll be my last Windows system to go and it won't be a day too soon.
Yeah! Don't copy that floppy!!
Wrong Arc! This one is Noah's.. not the Arc of covenant!
"the grass is always greener on the other side". Well jump sides. Guess what.. "The grass is always greener" happens again.
I personally don't care if the grass is always greener, I just want a field with less bullshit in it.
-B
I've found that if I dress badly, act angry, yell at my computer, and do really weird stuff that people tend to leave me alone. Granted I can get away with this because I get the job done in record time and I've never missed a deadline. Also - listen to music in headphones (it increases your personal space theres an article around here but it's too early and I've only had a sip of coffee). It's entirely up to you to defend your personal space and to repel the cube invaders. I don't officially take a lunch ( it's in my desk drawer), so my work mates never see me take lunch. Use the phrases "Under the gun", "there's no time for that" a lot. Really create the image that you're too damn busy for their petty shit. Read slashdot between your sandwiches ;) Sit with your back to the cube door but have a reflective surface where you can see in back of you so you can detect cube invaders.
You really only have two options.. deal with them on your terms, or on their terms.
I've found that reducing the petty bullshit makes life easier.
-B
Heh. Look closely at the NYT article again.. Every major company has a hyperlink to their stock market index except for SCO. I'm not sure if it's automatically done by the back end, but it's a funny oversight.
-B
As an owner of a VW Beetle (wife's), I thought I'd be happy to own something that should have been as easy (and cheap) to fix as my 1983 Rabbit. Recently, it ran rough, hard to keep idle, stalled under load. After an oxygen sensor ($180), a mass air flow sensor ($60), a new set of spark plug wies ($120), she was running as good as it gets. These are just *part* prices - No labor. It's insane. This is a damn 4 cylinder, most of em should pass emissions pretty easily. Squeezing the last drop of horsepower out of an engine had made it nothing but costly and unreliable when something breaks. I used to pull and rebore/rebuild engines back in the day, got a BsCsci, and even I'm hesitant/reluctant/afraid to touch anything on the emissions/electrical/ecm system. WTF?
What really gets me going is that I took it to VW to get the ECm re-flashed because emissions is coming up for me. Told em to do warranty repair/recall work only. They did it, but they "checked the car" because it's been a while since it's been to the VW dealerships. They found that the coolant and brake line fluid's PH balance was off (I can't even make this up!) They were more than happy to perform the fluid flush ($220).
HEY! While you're at it check my headlight fluid and don't skimp on the halogen fluid!
Goddamn I hate these new cars.
-B
"as part of his official duties, Detective Frank Warchol of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Department signed on to a chat room on America Online, posing as a fourteen-year-old girl "Okay, repeat after me..
There are few horny women in chat rooms.
There are fewer horny non-male women in channel.
The are even fewer horny non-male under 50 years of age women in channel.
Okay.. that leaves 1 left..
MOM! WTF are you doing online!!!
I don't know about your workplace environment, but my company has locked down shares and peering due to the fact that this an infection vector.
I think peering/collaboration is the way to go, but this is becoming increasingly difficult thanks to the lax default permissions that was inside windows (yeah I'm not a windows admin, and the default share was always set at world full access). The knee jerk reaction was to disallow *all* peer/sharing.
I'll probably get ripped and modded to hell for this but I was looking forward to the "hive" type setups that MS was proposing for peering(for work this would be a godsend, I wouldn't do this at home tho). My concern was their security model.
Just how in the hell can this be done when virii explicitly target this functionality? CVS / Subversion is not an answer for business/end users...
B
Yeah but he's spewing this crap.. "Everyday new code is added to Linux in Russia, China and elsewhere throughout the world. Everyday that code is incorporated into our command, control, communications and weapons systems. This must stop." ... Cmon he has a vested interest... His own company puts out it's own RTOS Go to that link. Now. Read the TOP of the middle column "Real-Time Operating Systems Must be Highly Reliable"
Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Unix, and Linux often crash, lock up, or go crazy. They indicate this condition by displaying a sad face, an exploding bomb, a red X, a blue screen of death, or by simply refusing to respond to mouse-clicks or keyboard input.
This is FUD and he does have a vested interest.
Quake players and their rail guns...
Tunnelling
Rail driving?
Say, didn't you just hit a badger? There goes our proxy server!