I just dont auto hide the taskbar anymore. I just use a higher resolution / bigger monitor. That popping up of the taskbar all the time finally made me give in.
hell, I will be astounded to see $2.00 / gallon again. Thinking hard about making my next car purchase a hybrid. Lucky for me it is only a 10 minute drive to work.
IMHO, religion was created to provide an organizational structure that could endure language barriers, and to establish and centralize power over conquered people through the "fear of God", and as a way to generate revenue through tithes in Catholicism and zakat in Islam, etc,to support the infrastructure and stimulate growth. Decent business model, actually.
I have to agree with you.They arent handling this in a very organized manner as of yet. When hurricane Isabel hit us in the NC-VA region(only a category 2, but huge! I could not imagine a cat 4 or 5 rolling thru here...), we were without power for weeks. Ice was a rare commodity, as was clean drinking water. Most places sold out quickly, I had to drive 45 minutes to find water. (having about 15-20 large stores locally, all sold out.) The company I work for is matching contributions for aid, so I for one will be contributing what I can. I have a whole 1 gallon jar full of change, probably $350.00 in there just collecting dust...
A robot won't complain about the lack of oxygen or food. I can see how this mini lunar lander would prove to be quite useful for negotiating rough terrain and extended work hours.
same goes for Red Hat certification. Multiple choice only accounts for like 40% of the whole certification. The rest is hands on labs, where they either break the machine and you fix it, or you have to configure something from scratch.
also consider the price of maintenance and repairs, and having to pay someone to take care of the cluster. Not to mention the cost associated with powering, cooling, and securing a cluster.
I have to agree with you on the X10 quality. Every piece of X10 hardware I have bought has failed, and unfortunately, this occured outside of the one year warranty OTOH, I know people who have things (security cameras, etc) from X10 that have worked for 3 or so years now. An upside to X10 is that they run specials on their website often, sometimes where you can get six items for the price of one. So if you want to set it up cheap, you can start off with X10, and replace with better components as they fail.
not to mention that the biblical Noah story was a rip off of the original Sumerian tale, in which the name of the legendary hero was Ziusudra, a king of Sumeria. And that the great flood was nothing more than an exaggeration. The Euphrates was flooded, but not the whole planet.
a simple home router doesn't need that horsepower or memory. we're talking about very meager amounts of data, very little CPU usage, and very little buffering.
You're right about routing only firewalls, if thats all you want it to do. I had a linksys router a while ago, but it seemed after a few months, it's performance started degrading. I personally like having the ability to customize logging of dropped packets and watch 1337 h4x0r$ when they try to connect to my system. And I like being able to run a tftp boot service and nfs shares for doing "nothing but net" installs, dhcp with dynamic dns, openvpn tunnels to my servers and networks, nagios checks, apache, snort, and a voicemail server for my land line. My games hardly ever drop off, unless it is a problem with the cable modem connection.
it does _everything_ I need it to do (at work), out of the box, and on the cheap. My windows machine had a disk failure, and it was 2 months before I could be bothered to fix it.
I agree, I think that linux is for uber types, and that the herd should continue to play roller coaster tycoon on M$ windows. UT 2k4 runs quite well on linux for me, and it seems there are more and more games trickling in that can be played on a linux OS. With the amount of people out there who run windows on broadband with no firewall... could you imagine if they were running a real server OS for a desktop, attached directly to the internet, and leave it up to those people to update their systems? Joe average, IMHO, is the one who is not ready for linux. Not until AOL comes out with a linux distro... *shudders*
anything that can't handle 32plyr multiplayr isnt worth playing as a multiplayer game.Battlefield 2 rocks! Up to 64 players with maps that scale according to the number of players.
Forgot one...
China baffled by 'alien' pyramidBEIJING, China -- A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space.
I wonder what ever became of that expedition...
For starters, linux, Postgresql , and ODBC or.Net Data Provider for a database with M$ connectivity. Openldap, Samba, freeradius for your authentication / vpn needs.
Yeah, kinda makes me feel like some sort of uber geek... Linux isn't for everyone. Then again, computers aren't for everyone. (@GP)If anyone wants to learn some linux, start off with a live cd distro so you don't have to trash your hard drive. It took me a few years to get to the level of linux usability I have now. Linux in the home can be quite useful as a firewall, voice mail system, streaming audio player for the living room, file server.... many, many uses.
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ah yes, you are correct sir. I havent put it on my treo 650 yet... but I feel that will be coming soon now that you remind me :)
Legend of Zelda was a pretty kick ass game. Too bad it is only on Game Cube.
I just dont auto hide the taskbar anymore. I just use a higher resolution / bigger monitor. That popping up of the taskbar all the time finally made me give in.
hell, I will be astounded to see $2.00 / gallon again. Thinking hard about making my next car purchase a hybrid. Lucky for me it is only a 10 minute drive to work.
IMHO, religion was created to provide an organizational structure that could endure language barriers, and to establish and centralize power over conquered people through the "fear of God", and as a way to generate revenue through tithes in Catholicism and zakat in Islam, etc,to support the infrastructure and stimulate growth. Decent business model, actually.
sich heil! das ist so offtopic.
I have to agree with you.They arent handling this in a very organized manner as of yet. When hurricane Isabel hit us in the NC-VA region(only a category 2, but huge! I could not imagine a cat 4 or 5 rolling thru here...), we were without power for weeks. Ice was a rare commodity, as was clean drinking water. Most places sold out quickly, I had to drive 45 minutes to find water. (having about 15-20 large stores locally, all sold out.) The company I work for is matching contributions for aid, so I for one will be contributing what I can. I have a whole 1 gallon jar full of change, probably $350.00 in there just collecting dust...
a robot body... with the strength of 5 gorillas?
A robot won't complain about the lack of oxygen or food. I can see how this mini lunar lander would prove to be quite useful for negotiating rough terrain and extended work hours.
same goes for Red Hat certification. Multiple choice only accounts for like 40% of the whole certification. The rest is hands on labs, where they either break the machine and you fix it, or you have to configure something from scratch.
also consider the price of maintenance and repairs, and having to pay someone to take care of the cluster. Not to mention the cost associated with powering, cooling, and securing a cluster.
I have to agree with you on the X10 quality. Every piece of X10 hardware I have bought has failed, and unfortunately, this occured outside of the one year warranty OTOH, I know people who have things (security cameras, etc) from X10 that have worked for 3 or so years now. An upside to X10 is that they run specials on their website often, sometimes where you can get six items for the price of one. So if you want to set it up cheap, you can start off with X10, and replace with better components as they fail.
sheesh... only semi off-topic... lighten up effers!
LMAO... /.'d already
Unable to connect to DB - Too many connections
time to beef up teh servers
not to mention that the biblical Noah story was a rip off of the original Sumerian tale, in which the name of the legendary hero was Ziusudra, a king of Sumeria. And that the great flood was nothing more than an exaggeration. The Euphrates was flooded, but not the whole planet.
(not) actually... they do have power cells.
a simple home router doesn't need that horsepower or memory. we're talking about very meager amounts of data, very little CPU usage, and very little buffering.
You're right about routing only firewalls, if thats all you want it to do. I had a linksys router a while ago, but it seemed after a few months, it's performance started degrading. I personally like having the ability to customize logging of dropped packets and watch 1337 h4x0r$ when they try to connect to my system. And I like being able to run a tftp boot service and nfs shares for doing "nothing but net" installs, dhcp with dynamic dns, openvpn tunnels to my servers and networks, nagios checks, apache, snort, and a voicemail server for my land line. My games hardly ever drop off, unless it is a problem with the cable modem connection.
I can hear it now... "what, there are a whole lot of W's, S's, A's, and D's in the program I am writing."
it does _everything_ I need it to do (at work), out of the box, and on the cheap. My windows machine had a disk failure, and it was 2 months before I could be bothered to fix it.
I agree, I think that linux is for uber types, and that the herd should continue to play roller coaster tycoon on M$ windows. UT 2k4 runs quite well on linux for me, and it seems there are more and more games trickling in that can be played on a linux OS. With the amount of people out there who run windows on broadband with no firewall... could you imagine if they were running a real server OS for a desktop, attached directly to the internet, and leave it up to those people to update their systems? Joe average, IMHO, is the one who is not ready for linux. Not until AOL comes out with a linux distro... *shudders*
anything that can't handle 32plyr multiplayr isnt worth playing as a multiplayer game.Battlefield 2 rocks! Up to 64 players with maps that scale according to the number of players.
Forgot one... China baffled by 'alien' pyramid BEIJING, China -- A team of Chinese scientists is to head out to the far west of the country to investigate a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space.
I wonder what ever became of that expedition...
I heard they shut down the cell phone network because the bombs were detonated by cell.
For starters, linux, Postgresql , and ODBC or .Net Data Provider for a database with M$ connectivity. Openldap, Samba, freeradius for your authentication / vpn needs.
Yeah, kinda makes me feel like some sort of uber geek... Linux isn't for everyone. Then again, computers aren't for everyone. (@GP)If anyone wants to learn some linux, start off with a live cd distro so you don't have to trash your hard drive. It took me a few years to get to the level of linux usability I have now. Linux in the home can be quite useful as a firewall, voice mail system, streaming audio player for the living room, file server.... many, many uses.