--Yep, I have no cable TV at my house; only broadband Internet and Netflix DVD service.
--I hope Netflix reads this Slashdot thread and realizes that some of us are VERY loyal to them, and hope that they *never* do away with DVD and Blu-ray mail shipping. The convenience of having the next item(s) in your Q delivered automatically, without having to worry about broadband caps or ISP outages, is -much- better than having to go to Blockbuster all the time and browse.
What happened to this guy - in front of his family, no less! - is absolutely inexcusable. Someone needs to get ahold of the top people that represent Mcdonald's in France and START some shit rolling downhill! All 3 people deserve to lose their jobs, #1 - (if not the whole franchise location getting shutdown due to the bad publicity) and for destroying his documents and physically assaulting the guy, 30 days in jail *minimum.*
Note that this reads existing content on the drive, writes a randomized pattern, reads it back, and writes the original content back. With modern high-capacity over-500GB drives, you should plan on leaving this running overnight. You can do this from pretty much any linux livecd, AFAIK. If running your own distro, you can monitor the disk I/O with ' iostat -k 5 '.
From ' man badblocks ' -n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non-destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined with the -w option, as they are mutually exclusive.
--What, you never heard of Vmware? I run 64-bit Linux Mint on my 6-core beast, and my USB Lexmark X2500 is not supported in Linux. Yet I print from it regularly using various 32-bit XP guests, running the native Lexmark 32-bit XP driver.
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--If they would have more levels to the Prime plan, say $50 for the free shipping for a year, I would go for it.
--Yep, I have no cable TV at my house; only broadband Internet and Netflix DVD service.
--I hope Netflix reads this Slashdot thread and realizes that some of us are VERY loyal to them, and hope that they *never* do away with DVD and Blu-ray mail shipping. The convenience of having the next item(s) in your Q delivered automatically, without having to worry about broadband caps or ISP outages, is -much- better than having to go to Blockbuster all the time and browse.
--Ever heard of 4DOS? They updated the product for Windows as a CMD replacement:
http://jpsoft.com/index.php
I use the free version, but I'm really happy with it. I'm more of a Linux guy these days, or I would prolly pay for the full version.
--Oooh, I love the Scotch idea :) That would really make the re-opening event something to look forward to!
--Absolutely. If I get around to buying a laptop $soon, I will remember this and look closely at Lenovo.
--He probably thought you might be working for " the competition ", and didn't want to get into a pricewar.
--What this country needs to do, is get the Hell out of Afghanistan - and have us another Space Race.
--It would 1) Be more fun, and 2) Be more PROFITABLE in the long run!!
To reiterate a famous quote:
" An armed society is a polite society. "
What happened to this guy - in front of his family, no less! - is absolutely inexcusable. Someone needs to get ahold of the top people that represent Mcdonald's in France and START some shit rolling downhill! All 3 people deserve to lose their jobs, #1 - (if not the whole franchise location getting shutdown due to the bad publicity) and for destroying his documents and physically assaulting the guy, 30 days in jail *minimum.*
--Does this have anything to do with the three seashells??
/ Auto-inflate, dammit!
Actually I swear by Nomachine NX - it has the best display speed EVAR for remote X connections.
It has sadly fallen out of current development for Freebsd, however - or I would have it installed on my ZFS backup server. :(
--I'm just curious, is this true for Cygwin as well?
I can definitely see the market for the Cone of Silence(TM) ramping up... Along with lessons in speaking Yiddish...
/ Get Smart - Get Silence!
...and don't forget Cygwin:
http://www.cygwin.com/
God, if I had mod points today... Although I can't decide whether to give you +2 Funny, or +5 Insightful ;-)
0d00d, no wai // harshin the mellow, man :b
root ~/bin # cat scandisk
#!/bin/bash
# RW scan of HD
argg='/dev/'$1
# if IDE (old kernels)
hdparm -c1 -d1 -u1 $argg
# Speedup I/O - also good for USB disks
blockdev --setra 16384 $argg
blockdev --getra $argg
#time badblocks -f -c 20480 -n -s -v $argg
#time badblocks -f -c 16384 -n -s -v $argg
time badblocks -f -c 10240 -n -s -v $argg
exit;
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Note that this reads existing content on the drive, writes a randomized pattern, reads it back, and writes the original content back. With modern high-capacity over-500GB drives, you should plan on leaving this running overnight. You can do this from pretty much any linux livecd, AFAIK. If running your own distro, you can monitor the disk I/O with ' iostat -k 5 '.
From ' man badblocks '
-n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non-destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined with the -w option, as they are mutually exclusive.
--Actually, if you forget nohup, you can still use " disown "... FYI ;-)
--How about Knoppix ? Live-cd, you get the best of both worlds and can access command-line only stuff.
--If only we had some kind of central computer for voting... Something like... MULTIVAC ?
/ Asimov fan
Everyone in the UK needs to go watch " V for Vendetta " immediately -- and FIGHT this conspiracy!
They could always go Covenant-style and develop plasma-based " glass'em " weapons...
If you have ~100+ tabs opening every time you restart your web browser, I highly recommend using a Squid proxy.
Good place to start is here - self-contained virtual machine, power on and go:
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1887680
--What, you never heard of Vmware? I run 64-bit Linux Mint on my 6-core beast, and my USB Lexmark X2500 is not supported in Linux. Yet I print from it regularly using various 32-bit XP guests, running the native Lexmark 32-bit XP driver.
--I really liked sawfish as well. If you like minimalist WMs, I can recommend trying Fluxbox.
Of interest: (Teh Funnay)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T64U_rMKTIc&list=FL3Zsx4XG4hkee3Z4hLQE3NQ&index=6&feature=plpp_video