While I like your post, I think you got trolled. Here's a quote from GP:
I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture
books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is
improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the
technical."
Now go back and read the whole post, carefully... I could not help but think as I was reading it that the only way to be *so* bad grammatically and spelling-wise was to make a serious effort to screw every sentence up as horrifically as possible! I don't get the thrust of the troll, but I really don't think it was a serious post.
"On that note, some of the big things children learn K-8 are scocial skills and respect for other opinions."
Yes, this is what schools are for:
Social skills: pretend that it's ok that Timmy has 2 daddies.
Respect for others: If Ahmal's father chooses to blow up a building full of innocent children, we have to respect that as his own personal life choice.
Since the Mentos are also heavy enough to sink, they react with the soda all the way to the bottom.
Leads me to the next thing to try: irregularly-shaped Mentos that would spiral down through the soda, instead of falling straignt down. I assume that the guys in the video used 2-litre bottles in order to give the Mentos the greatest possible falling path? A spiral path would have the effect of using bottles 2 or 3 times larger. Just gotta call up Mentos and ask for their rejected candies!
"What practices and tools do you use to test your bandwidth speed and"
Download it here http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ From the website: "Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. "
Momma says " the solutions are things that don't solve the real problems in terms of security."
And she's exactly right. Pirates aren't defeated by DRM, but land lubbers trying to exercise their fair use rights are. Just as a f'rinstance, I just this weekend had to order a fresh copy of my favorite game (No One Lives Forever 2) because the CD got damaged. As an informed end user, I had long ago tried making a backup disk to use so as not to damage the original, but the backup disk didn't work. As a lilly-livered non-pirate type, I did not use a "no-cd" crack to circumvent the publishers wishes and violate DMCA. You can bet I will this next time around, though. What has the game publisher accomplished? They've turned an honest, paying customer into someone willing to download and use illegal cracks. Good job, guys.
"You'll end up with cycling passwords of "hello" and "password" every three weeks."
There needs to be a "whoosh" mod category. Can you guys at slashdot get working on that?
Grandparent knows that the password rotation scheme is common practice in *many* environments, and was pointing out the uselessness of such a strategy. It's called "illustrating absurdity with absurdity"
This is excellent advice! As to imaging software, I would add Acronis True Image to the list. If you want free imaging software, and are willing to work a little harder, there's also "ghost for linux" http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/. You should also use the "immunize" feature in Spybot. You can get Immunization Database updates offline to add to your installation before creating the working image. In addition to Spybot, I would install Spyware Blaster and Windows Defender. I've never found one spyware app to be adequate.
Uh, what are the odds that my DVD and my hard drive would fail at exactly the same time? As I said "as for me, I'll burn off that DVD, but I'll leave the raw video on the hard disk " If the house burns down, well, I guess I'm fucked, but aren't we all?
"People presently having fun with DV-cams burn their finished clips to DVD to keep space free on the HD for future editing."
They only do this until they discover that it doesn't take much at all to destroy that DVD. Bye-bye cousin Sally's wedding video! Accidents happen, and of course we've been reading about the short life of home-recorded optical media for a couple of years now. OK, 10 years or whatever may not sound short -- but are people really going to set a reminder in their calendar app (with a 10 year recurrence flag set, of course) to copy off all their DVDs? Nope -- as for me, I'll burn off that DVD, but I'll leave the raw video on the hard disk so I can burn it to the next popular format in a couple of years *and* have a good backup to that fragile DVD.
Oh! You reminded me of another reason I don't think a TB is very big! I have a half a TB in my desktop downstairs, and it's FULL! That's were I rip all my DVDs to. I just bought a 300 GB drive (for $99 at Staples, btw -- nice!) to add to it -- but that'll only get me another 70 DVD rips.
"A terabyte is a lot. It will be a lot 5 years later, and quite a lot even 10 years later."
I'm sorry, but I really think you're mistaken. I and those in my field are caught in a seemingly unending storage excalation war. We provide 500 megabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. We provide 50 gigabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. We provide 500 gigabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. Sure, they're wasting A LOT of space, and we could slow down the rate of growth by running scripts to delete MP3s or whatever every night, but that's a stopgap measure, and in the end is probably more expensive in terms of costly technician time than the cost of just slapping more drives in our Promise array. Currently we're backing up all of our servers to a 6.5 TB array via rsync -- and it's getting full. Give me a petabyte disk, please!
I've been a big ebook fan for some years now. As a Palm user, I'm pretty much limited to Adobe ebooks (at least when I comes to mainstream purchases from places like Amazon). Well, Adobe associates my purchases with whatever computer I happen to be using at the time of purchase. I get a new laptop and a new Palm about once per year, and I just found out that I've exceeded the number of computers I can activate under Adobe rules. I wasted a whole day trying to find a solution to my problem (I just bought Stephen King's new "CELL" and found I cannot read it -- locked out by Adobe's DRM). I finally found a number at Adobe that led me to one of those, what do you call it, "human beings." I explained my situation to him. I stressed that I'd been a loyal Adobe customer for years, and had my Amazon receipts to prove it. I mentioned all the rage I'd read on forums discussing other people's utter frustration with Adobe's hairbrained DRM scheme. I asked him to help me. He put me on hold (for about 3 days, I think) then came back and informed me that I was out of luck. Nothing he could do about it. I swear I'm not making this next part up: he then said "thank you for calling Adobe today, Mr. Eggenberger. Are you satisfied with the service I've provided you?" I chuckled, then informed him that yes, I was very happy! I couldn't imagine a better customer service experience, thanks! So here's where I am now - I've got hundreds of dollars worth of ebooks that I cannot read on my new laptop. I did not steal these books, as Abbie Hoffman might have encouraged me to do. I paid hard earned money for them, and now they sit on my hard drive as useless, steaming little piles of encrypted gibberish. Congrats, Adobe, you turned a paying customer into an active participant in the downloading and distributing of illegal e-books. Hope you don't miss the money I used to spend on your e-books!
In the end, maybe it just maybe the time to move on...or better still start something on your own.
When I didn't get the raise I wanted, I didn't get all pissed off; I didn't even go look somewhere else. I just started my own computer repair/networking/etc. business on the side. It's been over a year now, and it's been a huge blessing both monetarily and in other, less tangible ways. There's probably not a person reading this that couldn't do the same. There's always more money to be found out there. Before I had my current skill set, if we started having trouble making ends meet, I'd just take on another shitty dishwasher-type job for a while. Thankfully now I'm able to be a little more entrepreneurial about it. Just wish I had the balls to do it full time...
And I was a rabidly loyal subject. For years, each new Palm I bought was exponentially better than the last. I went from the Pilot, to the III, to the V -- and then things started getting shitty. They'd still put kick-ass feature upgrades into each new rev, the Tungsten C being a very dramatic example, but the quality was going down at an even faster rate. We bought maybe 20 Tungsten C's, and the failure rate within 6 months was maybe 33%. Then we moved on to the Life Drive (again, STELLAR feature set) and I had mine replaced 3 times in the first 2 months. With quality control like that, it doesn't matter at all if everyone still wants to go the PDA route -- they're gonna go the way of the dinosaurs anyway. Oh, let's not forget the constantly shrinking support model. From ever tinier initial warranty periods, to ever larger repair costs, to the inevitable move of tech support to India, they totally betrayed us in the support realm. Goodbye, Palm, we hardly knew ye.
I started buying games about 9 years ago. I have less than 30. I have a few favorite games that i play religiously for a long time. I'd call anyone who buys 6 games per year hardcore, yeah.
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Merit is still a HUGE Internet (and Internet2) player in Michigan and surrounding states. Check out their newest (well, coolest-newest) project here: http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0508&L=msunag &D=1&T=0&O=D&P=131. I'd love to set up a LAN party on that baby!
and the telcos used their lobbying dollars to CRUSH the effort. Good luck Washtenaw!
While I like your post, I think you got trolled. Here's a quote from GP:
I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the technical."
Now go back and read the whole post, carefully... I could not help but think as I was reading it that the only way to be *so* bad grammatically and spelling-wise was to make a serious effort to screw every sentence up as horrifically as possible! I don't get the thrust of the troll, but I really don't think it was a serious post.
"On that note, some of the big things children learn K-8 are scocial skills and respect for other opinions."
Yes, this is what schools are for:
Social skills: pretend that it's ok that Timmy has 2 daddies.
Respect for others: If Ahmal's father chooses to blow up a building full of innocent children, we have to respect that as his own personal life choice.
"You've had your shit stolen four times?!?! What kind of loser are you?!?!"
Then I looked around, realized I had no wood to knock on, and decided to just say, "Best of luck, brother," instead.
And I can't find a well-supported torrent. Anyone wanna help out? Thanks!
Cool.
Since the Mentos are also heavy enough to sink, they react with the soda all the way to the bottom.
Leads me to the next thing to try: irregularly-shaped Mentos that would spiral down through the soda, instead of falling straignt down. I assume that the guys in the video used 2-litre bottles in order to give the Mentos the greatest possible falling path? A spiral path would have the effect of using bottles 2 or 3 times larger. Just gotta call up Mentos and ask for their rejected candies!
"What practices and tools do you use to test your bandwidth speed and"
Download it here http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ From the website: "Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss. "
"These rented songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees"
Oh reeeeely? We'll see.
Momma says " the solutions are things that don't solve the real problems in terms of security."
And she's exactly right. Pirates aren't defeated by DRM, but land lubbers trying to exercise their fair use rights are. Just as a f'rinstance, I just this weekend had to order a fresh copy of my favorite game (No One Lives Forever 2) because the CD got damaged. As an informed end user, I had long ago tried making a backup disk to use so as not to damage the original, but the backup disk didn't work. As a lilly-livered non-pirate type, I did not use a "no-cd" crack to circumvent the publishers wishes and violate DMCA. You can bet I will this next time around, though. What has the game publisher accomplished? They've turned an honest, paying customer into someone willing to download and use illegal cracks. Good job, guys.
"ten percent of the users in Asia were happy to be chipped and have done with it."
Is being "chipped" biometrics at all? Or am I being a semantics Nazi?
"You'll end up with cycling passwords of "hello" and "password" every three weeks."
There needs to be a "whoosh" mod category. Can you guys at slashdot get working on that?
Grandparent knows that the password rotation scheme is common practice in *many* environments, and was pointing out the uselessness of such a strategy. It's called "illustrating absurdity with absurdity"
This is excellent advice! As to imaging software, I would add Acronis True Image to the list. If you want free imaging software, and are willing to work a little harder, there's also "ghost for linux" http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/. You should also use the "immunize" feature in Spybot. You can get Immunization Database updates offline to add to your installation before creating the working image. In addition to Spybot, I would install Spyware Blaster and Windows Defender. I've never found one spyware app to be adequate.
Recursive patching at last!
Uh, what are the odds that my DVD and my hard drive would fail at exactly the same time? As I said "as for me, I'll burn off that DVD, but I'll leave the raw video on the hard disk " If the house burns down, well, I guess I'm fucked, but aren't we all?
"People presently having fun with DV-cams burn their finished clips to DVD to keep space free on the HD for future editing."
They only do this until they discover that it doesn't take much at all to destroy that DVD. Bye-bye cousin Sally's wedding video! Accidents happen, and of course we've been reading about the short life of home-recorded optical media for a couple of years now. OK, 10 years or whatever may not sound short -- but are people really going to set a reminder in their calendar app (with a 10 year recurrence flag set, of course) to copy off all their DVDs? Nope -- as for me, I'll burn off that DVD, but I'll leave the raw video on the hard disk so I can burn it to the next popular format in a couple of years *and* have a good backup to that fragile DVD.
Oh! You reminded me of another reason I don't think a TB is very big! I have a half a TB in my desktop downstairs, and it's FULL! That's were I rip all my DVDs to. I just bought a 300 GB drive (for $99 at Staples, btw -- nice!) to add to it -- but that'll only get me another 70 DVD rips.
"A terabyte is a lot. It will be a lot 5 years later, and quite a lot even 10 years later."
I'm sorry, but I really think you're mistaken. I and those in my field are caught in a seemingly unending storage excalation war. We provide 500 megabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. We provide 50 gigabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. We provide 500 gigabytes -- the users fill it up and demand more. Sure, they're wasting A LOT of space, and we could slow down the rate of growth by running scripts to delete MP3s or whatever every night, but that's a stopgap measure, and in the end is probably more expensive in terms of costly technician time than the cost of just slapping more drives in our Promise array. Currently we're backing up all of our servers to a 6.5 TB array via rsync -- and it's getting full. Give me a petabyte disk, please!
that will hold almost half of my porn!
Take a peek at his website: http://simonsingh.net/. As a math enthusiast, I really liked "Fermat's Last Theorem."
I've been a big ebook fan for some years now. As a Palm user, I'm pretty much limited to Adobe ebooks (at least when I comes to mainstream purchases from places like Amazon). Well, Adobe associates my purchases with whatever computer I happen to be using at the time of purchase. I get a new laptop and a new Palm about once per year, and I just found out that I've exceeded the number of computers I can activate under Adobe rules. I wasted a whole day trying to find a solution to my problem (I just bought Stephen King's new "CELL" and found I cannot read it -- locked out by Adobe's DRM). I finally found a number at Adobe that led me to one of those, what do you call it, "human beings." I explained my situation to him. I stressed that I'd been a loyal Adobe customer for years, and had my Amazon receipts to prove it. I mentioned all the rage I'd read on forums discussing other people's utter frustration with Adobe's hairbrained DRM scheme. I asked him to help me. He put me on hold (for about 3 days, I think) then came back and informed me that I was out of luck. Nothing he could do about it. I swear I'm not making this next part up: he then said "thank you for calling Adobe today, Mr. Eggenberger. Are you satisfied with the service I've provided you?" I chuckled, then informed him that yes, I was very happy! I couldn't imagine a better customer service experience, thanks! So here's where I am now - I've got hundreds of dollars worth of ebooks that I cannot read on my new laptop. I did not steal these books, as Abbie Hoffman might have encouraged me to do. I paid hard earned money for them, and now they sit on my hard drive as useless, steaming little piles of encrypted gibberish. Congrats, Adobe, you turned a paying customer into an active participant in the downloading and distributing of illegal e-books. Hope you don't miss the money I used to spend on your e-books!
In the end, maybe it just maybe the time to move on...or better still start something on your own.
When I didn't get the raise I wanted, I didn't get all pissed off; I didn't even go look somewhere else. I just started my own computer repair/networking/etc. business on the side. It's been over a year now, and it's been a huge blessing both monetarily and in other, less tangible ways. There's probably not a person reading this that couldn't do the same. There's always more money to be found out there. Before I had my current skill set, if we started having trouble making ends meet, I'd just take on another shitty dishwasher-type job for a while. Thankfully now I'm able to be a little more entrepreneurial about it. Just wish I had the balls to do it full time...
If your area doesn't have cable modem service, it probably doesn't have cable TV service. You sure no one's using these towers?
And I was a rabidly loyal subject. For years, each new Palm I bought was exponentially better than the last. I went from the Pilot, to the III, to the V -- and then things started getting shitty. They'd still put kick-ass feature upgrades into each new rev, the Tungsten C being a very dramatic example, but the quality was going down at an even faster rate. We bought maybe 20 Tungsten C's, and the failure rate within 6 months was maybe 33%. Then we moved on to the Life Drive (again, STELLAR feature set) and I had mine replaced 3 times in the first 2 months. With quality control like that, it doesn't matter at all if everyone still wants to go the PDA route -- they're gonna go the way of the dinosaurs anyway. Oh, let's not forget the constantly shrinking support model. From ever tinier initial warranty periods, to ever larger repair costs, to the inevitable move of tech support to India, they totally betrayed us in the support realm. Goodbye, Palm, we hardly knew ye.
I started buying games about 9 years ago. I have less than 30. I have a few favorite games that i play religiously for a long time. I'd call anyone who buys 6 games per year hardcore, yeah.