I worked at a company where a hallway smelled like an open sewer for several weeks. What made it mysterious was that no sewer line went through that part of the building, leaving the building architect and plumber puzzled. The smell came from leaking batteries inside a UPS in a network closet. Since no one bothered to plugin in the monitoring cable, the one guy who did I.T. for the company didn't know that the UPS stopped working a long time ago. Now that was one hell of a stinker.
I had an old IBM AT (286) computer that could have run Windows 3.1 but wasn't worth the trouble. I didn't build my first gaming PC until after I got a tech job in 1997.
The last time I used pine was 20 years ago. Those were the days. A 56K dial-up account on a UNIX server to browse the Internet in a text-based web browser called Lynx. The Internet was blazingly fast back then. No need to wait for Flash content, every social media icon, and the kitchen sink to load.
Rocks can vaporize into atoms by falling into the sun. Every simulation of the sun turning into a red giant star shows the inner planets being engulfed. It's unknown if an expanding sun will push the planets outward into different orbits.
Except in four billion years when the sun has expanded into a red giant star, where the inner planets are toast and Jupiter is the new Mercury, and the Milky Way galaxy is starting to merge with the Andromeda galaxy.
Probably because Fox News hyped the hell out of The New York Times article that implied that Hillary Clinton was under criminal investigation by federal investigators, which the newspaper later — and somewhat reluctantly — retracted. Despite the retraction, Fox News went on and on with the original NYT article like a dog with a chew toy..
I'm periodically annoyed by some people who still respond to emails that I wrote 15 years ago as if it was only yesterday. Delete the old emails and move on in life.
You must have replied to the wrong comment, as your comment makes no sense. The girl in my example was guilty of being black AND smart. Hence, no picture on Fox News to remind those angry old white viewers that the 1950's — or the 1850's, in some cases — were long gone.
Fox News reported earlier this year that a New York City school student won a prestigious prize without showing the student's picture. Every other news outlet ran the student's picture, who just happened to be black.
My roommate is paying for a 50Mb connection from Comcast. If he speed test with most external test servers, he gets 50Mb or better. If he speed test with a Comcast test server, he gets 175Mb. Something fishy is going on here.
The characters didn't repeat, which narrows down the number of possibilities. Thanks for reminding me. The algorithm and printout were submitted as text files on a floppy disk.
Most of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at that had a shared user account still required a password with a minimum of eight characters, one upper character, one lower character, and one symbol. The ESA examples shows no minimum requirements whatsoever.
My college instructor for Linux Admin informed the class that the password to his Redhat Linux server was 26 characters long, doesn't start with the letter 'a' and doesn't end with the letter 'z'. Bonus points for creating an algorithm that prints out all the possible variations with permissible characters. Automatic expulsion if anyone attempts to login into server. During his ten years of teaching Linux, only one student took him up on the challenge to write an algorithm and his password was in the resulting printout.
The video game was a flagship product. Both management and the developer needed to get it out the door to protect their respective companies. A public legal spat would have ruined everything for everyone.
Actually, the developer wanted the lead tester fired for having a weak password on the bug database. That developer got fired after the product shipped.
Black box testing has a learning curve. Once you're familiar with the black box, you can refine your testing methodology. This happened to me as a lead video game tester. Nintendo is notorious for keeping all information about their hardware — including the dev kits — as proprietary. I found out a through a third-party development website that holding down two buttons on the dev console would dump debug info to the screen. Once I informed the rest of the department, we had an easier time getting Nintendo to accept our titles on the first pass.
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I worked at a company where a hallway smelled like an open sewer for several weeks. What made it mysterious was that no sewer line went through that part of the building, leaving the building architect and plumber puzzled. The smell came from leaking batteries inside a UPS in a network closet. Since no one bothered to plugin in the monitoring cable, the one guy who did I.T. for the company didn't know that the UPS stopped working a long time ago. Now that was one hell of a stinker.
I had an old IBM AT (286) computer that could have run Windows 3.1 but wasn't worth the trouble. I didn't build my first gaming PC until after I got a tech job in 1997.
I had a DOS box at the time. If I wanted to browse the Internet, I had to dial up the UNIX account and run Lynx.
The last time I used pine was 20 years ago. Those were the days. A 56K dial-up account on a UNIX server to browse the Internet in a text-based web browser called Lynx. The Internet was blazingly fast back then. No need to wait for Flash content, every social media icon, and the kitchen sink to load.
Rocks can vaporize into atoms by falling into the sun. Every simulation of the sun turning into a red giant star shows the inner planets being engulfed. It's unknown if an expanding sun will push the planets outward into different orbits.
Except in four billion years when the sun has expanded into a red giant star, where the inner planets are toast and Jupiter is the new Mercury, and the Milky Way galaxy is starting to merge with the Andromeda galaxy.
Probably because Fox News hyped the hell out of The New York Times article that implied that Hillary Clinton was under criminal investigation by federal investigators, which the newspaper later — and somewhat reluctantly — retracted. Despite the retraction, Fox News went on and on with the original NYT article like a dog with a chew toy..
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/07/24/ny-times-walks-back-flimsy-report-on-probe-into/204576
But I was replying to YOUR post, not the OP post which didn't make sense. I gave you one example on how Fox News distort the news.
Making the A.I. more snarky, less homicidal.
I'm periodically annoyed by some people who still respond to emails that I wrote 15 years ago as if it was only yesterday. Delete the old emails and move on in life.
You must have replied to the wrong comment, as your comment makes no sense. The girl in my example was guilty of being black AND smart. Hence, no picture on Fox News to remind those angry old white viewers that the 1950's — or the 1850's, in some cases — were long gone.
Check out the Anti Cheese Edit of the Star Wars prequel movies with 98% less Jar-Jar and 90% less cheese. Much better movies.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+wars+anti+cheese+edit
Fox News reported earlier this year that a New York City school student won a prestigious prize without showing the student's picture. Every other news outlet ran the student's picture, who just happened to be black.
The Confederate battle flag was a dead giveaway.
My roommate is paying for a 50Mb connection from Comcast. If he speed test with most external test servers, he gets 50Mb or better. If he speed test with a Comcast test server, he gets 175Mb. Something fishy is going on here.
You're probably right. Most of those math-challenged students became Java programmers.
That probably explains why only one student ever attempted to write the algorithm.
Ronald Wilson Reagan contains six letters each (666). Coincidence?
The characters didn't repeat, which narrows down the number of possibilities. Thanks for reminding me. The algorithm and printout were submitted as text files on a floppy disk.
The student submitted his algorithm and the resulting printout in text files on a floppy disk. No trees were sacrifice for this academic exercise.
Most of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at that had a shared user account still required a password with a minimum of eight characters, one upper character, one lower character, and one symbol. The ESA examples shows no minimum requirements whatsoever.
My college instructor for Linux Admin informed the class that the password to his Redhat Linux server was 26 characters long, doesn't start with the letter 'a' and doesn't end with the letter 'z'. Bonus points for creating an algorithm that prints out all the possible variations with permissible characters. Automatic expulsion if anyone attempts to login into server. During his ten years of teaching Linux, only one student took him up on the challenge to write an algorithm and his password was in the resulting printout.
The video game was a flagship product. Both management and the developer needed to get it out the door to protect their respective companies. A public legal spat would have ruined everything for everyone.
Actually, the developer wanted the lead tester fired for having a weak password on the bug database. That developer got fired after the product shipped.
Black box testing has a learning curve. Once you're familiar with the black box, you can refine your testing methodology. This happened to me as a lead video game tester. Nintendo is notorious for keeping all information about their hardware — including the dev kits — as proprietary. I found out a through a third-party development website that holding down two buttons on the dev console would dump debug info to the screen. Once I informed the rest of the department, we had an easier time getting Nintendo to accept our titles on the first pass.