--Hey, regarding your sig - "Cash paid for your spare CPU cycles [randyrandy.net]. " what the hell kind of data are they processing, anyway? Their website doesn't say, and the "cash payments" look too small to be worthwhile.
--Agreed. First there was the outsourcing article on Thu, and now this. HP lost my business back when my parents bought a 500MHz "desktop" system from them - POS.
--Now if they had chosen in their initial response to say something like, "we're incredibly sorry, some intern mistyped the number and it accidentally got into the ad" that MIGHT give them some grace. But they didn't, and now the whole world knows they suck that much more.
> communications with Earth would be received within seconds rather than 10-20 minutes compared with Mars
--Just you wait, eventually someone will try to play Halo or UT with someone on the Moon, and bang-o they will *have* to invent FTL communications then.
--This is why you flip the write-protection thingy on your originals, and always test the first copy before continuing./me nods wisely and posts from 20/20 HINDSIGHT
--I did the same exact thing a couple of months ago, trying to create a Knoppix bootfloppy for my parent's system. Was able to stop it and reinstall Win98 from backups.
--Don't tell him to shut up, the ' rm ' command has needed a basic SANITY CHECK for decades.
--If what you're deleting is going to significantly affect the system, it should at least calc the amount of data that will be scrammed - as well as the paths involved - and warn you. Anything over 5MB / 20 files should get a y/n message, altho those defaults should be user-changeable as well.
--I get away with being-root-yet-not-hosing-the-system by using ' mc ' for all deletions > 1 file.
--But from the article intro: > they also say that our entire universe may reside within a giant gravastar
--I'm sorry, but this just *smacks* of $clueless-scientist throwing out some $random-bullshit to try and explain things they don't understand**. IOW, it sounds like a nonsensical and unprovable "theory" thrown out as a straw man, to act as a sounding board.
**or things that simply have no explanation.
--Of course I could be wrong tho. That was just my initial impression.
--You know, if this had happened to Joe Private Citizen, the police / FBI would likely have done... Absolutely Nothing. Or at least, not in time to meet the extortion deadline. Maybe they'd send a guy around and get to it in a month... or six... or maybe not.
--But since it's Best Buy (big corporation) the Issue gets Handled.
--I think your ' x32 ' may be a bit off. IIRC I heard somewhere that color only goes up to 24bpp, and the supposed 32-bit color is just a "salesman's math"-ing of it.
> Any clown that can't become familiar enough with 20-30 MAC addresses that are legit to memorize them, thus indentifying unwelcome intruders by looking at this screen... doesn't belong in IT.
--Oh, COME OFF IT man. Some of us have better things to do / suck at memorization. I get admin emails in Knoppix saying which MAC addresses have flipflopped or changed anyway, and I don't even have plans to run wireless.
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--Hey, regarding your sig - "Cash paid for your spare CPU cycles [randyrandy.net]. " what the hell kind of data are they processing, anyway? Their website doesn't say, and the "cash payments" look too small to be worthwhile.
--Agreed. First there was the outsourcing article on Thu, and now this. HP lost my business back when my parents bought a 500MHz "desktop" system from them - POS.
--Now if they had chosen in their initial response to say something like, "we're incredibly sorry, some intern mistyped the number and it accidentally got into the ad" that MIGHT give them some grace. But they didn't, and now the whole world knows they suck that much more.
--Eh, she gets hers in the end. Even the stoners came out ok in that story. ;)
[Colonel Sanders pops out of his grave and goes, "WTF?!" - then goes back to spinning]
+2 rotflmao
--That reminded me of a "Young Ones" episode, as well.
+1 I enjoyed that. :)
> communications with Earth would be received within seconds rather than 10-20 minutes compared with Mars
--Just you wait, eventually someone will try to play Halo or UT with someone on the Moon, and bang-o they will *have* to invent FTL communications then.
--This is why you flip the write-protection thingy on your originals, and always test the first copy before continuing. /me nods wisely and posts from 20/20 HINDSIGHT
--I did the same exact thing a couple of months ago, trying to create a Knoppix bootfloppy for my parent's system. Was able to stop it and reinstall Win98 from backups.
;)
--Needless to say I'm more careful now
Alternate suggestion:
' mkdir tmpdel '
' mv -f -v *~ tmpdel '
--Now you can do 2 things:
o ' mc tmpdel ' and select all the files, F8 to delete
OR
o create a cron script that deletes everything in tmpdel every few hours or $interval.
--Much safer, imho.
--Don't tell him to shut up, the ' rm ' command has needed a basic SANITY CHECK for decades.
--If what you're deleting is going to significantly affect the system, it should at least calc the amount of data that will be scrammed - as well as the paths involved - and warn you. Anything over 5MB / 20 files should get a y/n message, altho those defaults should be user-changeable as well.
--I get away with being-root-yet-not-hosing-the-system by using ' mc ' for all deletions > 1 file.
--Oh, go pound sand you hater. Looks like you forgot to post AC this time.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article
--But from the article intro:
> they also say that our entire universe may reside within a giant gravastar
--I'm sorry, but this just *smacks* of $clueless-scientist throwing out some $random-bullshit to try and explain things they don't understand**. IOW, it sounds like a nonsensical and unprovable "theory" thrown out as a straw man, to act as a sounding board.
**or things that simply have no explanation.
--Of course I could be wrong tho. That was just my initial impression.
+1 Terry Pratchett mnemonic
--Not only does Jesus save, he makes nightly offsite backups and only takes half damage! I tell you d00d, Jesus is root!
--You prolly need to ' apt-get install typewriting-monkeys/stable '. Unstable may be experiencing randomness.
:b
--Perhaps; I'm willing to admit to that being a possibility. In my view / experience, the System has not been shown / known to work.
+1 Nice Hack
--It may be a simple question of population density.
;)
--IOW, if you have 2 ppl in town and 1 of them is tapped, you have a new record for per-capita (50%).
--You know, if this had happened to Joe Private Citizen, the police / FBI would likely have done... Absolutely Nothing. Or at least, not in time to meet the extortion deadline. Maybe they'd send a guy around and get to it in a month... or six... or maybe not.
--But since it's Best Buy (big corporation) the Issue gets Handled.
--Respond, don't mod pls.
--I think your ' x32 ' may be a bit off. IIRC I heard somewhere that color only goes up to 24bpp, and the supposed 32-bit color is just a "salesman's math"-ing of it.
"Louie, Louie, oh no - we gotta go!" == Motorhead
l ou ie.htm
http://www.geocities.com/ironwallcoleman/songs/
--Yah, I did follow it around. I'm in IL, USA tho. :(
--'Stoo bad, it sounds like participating would be a lot of fun.
> Any clown that can't become familiar enough with 20-30 MAC addresses that are legit to memorize them, thus indentifying unwelcome intruders by looking at this screen ... doesn't belong in IT.
--Oh, COME OFF IT man. Some of us have better things to do / suck at memorization. I get admin emails in Knoppix saying which MAC addresses have flipflopped or changed anyway, and I don't even have plans to run wireless.
--Not very likely. Although they did do a limited-edition Knoppix DVD over the summer.