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Because it's completely obvious that the location bar in an active dialog should be shown by pressing Ctrl-L. Even though there's no displayed shortcut key, or space for the control in the dialog. And because the only _possible_ label for it would be Location: (rather than, say, Path:, Address:, Open:, etc). I mean it's obvious that I want the dialog Left aligned (Office/OpenOffice "Ctrl-L").
Yes, Ctrl-L has functionality in IE (from the main window at least) but it opens the "Open" dialog which we're discussing. It doesn't display the location field in an existing "Open" dialog. Ctrl-L doesn't have any functionality in FF2 on Windows that I can see.
Note that even Office 2007 retains the ability for a user to type in the full location of a file (with auto-prompting too) without requiring invisible fields to be shown. Doesn't seem to have hampered users' ability to use Office applications, yet for some reason it's been removed from Gnome.
It might also be worth considering that the Mac has always been mouse-centric; thus the default OSX File-Open dialog is also mouse-centric.
Mod parent -1, "Doesn't comprehend that the Arctic and Antarctic circles are on the same damn planet".
If the Arctic shrinks and the Antarctic grows at a similar rate, the total amount of sea ice at the poles may well be [close to] constant. That's not to say that the planet's albedo doesn't change, or that ocean currents won't change, or that we're somehow safe.
BTW - the sibling article suggests that the rate of decline in the Arctic is higher than the rate of increase in the Antarctic. Unfortunately the sibling's link appears to be incorrect (there is an errant space between the date and page name).
Or you could realise that it will run fine on any existing IIS server you have (2000 and 2003 supported, IIRC), is completely free if you are licensed for Windows Server (one server only) and doesn't need CALs.
And if you set the policy right it takes about 10 minutes a month to administer.
How retarded is this idea? Now all the telemarketers can call you on your dime (or is it a quarter nowadays - being from the Antipodes I have no idea what an American phone call costs).
How does someone come up with such idiocy? Did they lock the people in a room after removing and pickling their brains, and tell them not to come out until they could prove that people are dumber than slugs?
<sarcasm>Yes, because illegal and immoral activities are perfectly fine when you're trying to find out whether someone is talking to the press about company secrets. Surely by now you know that company privacy is FAR more important than personal privacy.</sarcasm>
The story was about the lengths that investigators went to, and the types of "attack" made, and the types of information gathered on this person; the summary appears to support that.
BTW I notice that in the interests of your privacy you haven't given out your personal address, phone number (home and mobile/cell), email address, mother's maiden name, social security number, educational and employment history and phone records for the last 12 months. Maybe you should go ahead and post those up on your website.
One Disposable Building (Wood) filled with Dry Hay and Dried Cow Manure
One Hardwood Wooden Bench (Bolted to 5T Concrete Block under Building
One Vise with Removable Handle (Mounted on Bench)
One Hacksaw (Rusty and Blunt)
Tighten the vise on RIAA Lawyer's privates, remove handle. Pick up hacksaw. When lawyer begs you not to remove his privates with the rusty hacksaw, tell him, "I'm not cutting anything, I'm giving you the hacksaw. I'm just going to set the building on fire."
I wonder if my babies, as they grow up, will be taught in school to read analog clock faces at all? (I'll see to it that they learn, but I wonder if it won't fall out of public school curriculum.
No need to wonder. My step children could not read an analog clock until I taught them (at the ages of 12 and 15, respectively). No help from either of the school systems they've experienced (WA and NSW, Australia).
Well that's what SourceForge claims as registered projects but it's not necessarily sane.
Let's break it down a bit:
150832 total projects in the SourceForge Topic Map;
126119 projects stated on the SourceForge Home Page;
49641 projects appear to have any files to use;
At least 9582 projects are in Alpha or earlier stages of development;
21891 projects are in Beta status;
18168 projects are in Release status.
39,000 pieces of reasonably usable software (beta + release); in fact it's probably far fewer (considering many projects either duplicate or inherit functionality from other projects, or are no longer active). Hardly over 120,000 though.
I think that the comment is not that the coder's morals are unimportant, but that _all_ the coders that appear to be available for paid work porting or creating a Linux app expect not only that they will be paid, but that the company will _also_ OSS the code.
Subsets of this group then complain that "no commercial applications get ported to Linux", while the company says "We have commercial secrets embodied in code [perhaps patented or similar, or otherwise significantly better ways of doing X] and this gives us an advantage over our Windows competitors. If we give that away to our competitors we lose an advantage in a competitive market".
While I understand that some will say "Yes but you must compete by being better at what you do, the code is unimportant", in some cases the code is the being better bit. Why must the company give away one or more of its advantages (for which it has paid wages, or for right to use patents etc) to its competitors?
If you're going to refer to anything you should be quoting versions. Hell, when I write customer documentation I quote version numbers and release dates on related documents. If you want a coherent view you have to tell the reader everything they need to know about finding the document in the form you saw it.
You see apart from the sun there's this big gravity well in the centre of the solar system - oh, wait, it IS the sun! So as long as it makes earth orbit (ie we can get it outside _Earth_'s gravity well), and it gets fired directly towards the sun (think slow burn or compressed gases or similar), I doubt it can miss, even if it takes a few years to get there. We know how to do the calculations to handle planetary interference.
And let's face it, we don't care if we miss the Sun and hit Mercury anyway.
Oh, and if you think we can't fire it hard enough to leave orbit, there are some NASA engineers who got Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and their relatives up who'd like to talk to you.
I don't know how ready the service is for use yet. I've just tried to create a project for hosting the stuff I presently use a VM for at home, and twice it's failed. Each time I get a 502 error; when I attempt to redo the creation, I'm told I can't use the name I had previously picked (presumably it's partially in use).
Anyone had success in the last hour or so, creating a project?
<rant>Hmph - at least you CAN pump gas. I'm on a business trip in Portland, OR (I'm an Australian native) and I was told today that "You can't pump your own gas in Oregon it's illegal". Say WHAT?!
So instead I have to wait for the SINGLE GUY looking after 8 pumps to get back to me, and having asked first time for a full tank and second time for "fill it up as much as you can" I get about 15 gal in the 18 gal tank. Yeah that will sure make it easier for me. NOT!</rant>
This is one case where self service is far easier and definitely preferred, (but I agree about the Marketing Dweebs).
Why would the HVAC be on the battery units instead of being fed directly from the generators via the transfer switch?
Because if the generators aren't ready to run it can take 5-10 minutes to get a stable waveform to supply to the HVAC (I have NO idea how stable it actually needs to be but cutover to generator is usually not instantaneous). In a large DC, with (say) blade servers etc, each rack might be dissipating 10-14kW of heat - cooling this is hard enough without having a ten minute gap in cooling because the generators are still being spun up.
I've actually experienced a computer room (no more than 30 servers so it's not a DC:-) ) rise 20 degrees F in 10 minutes when the compressor in the room unit failed. We had less than 1/5th the power density I've proposed above.
Would you care to look back to see how many open source projects still in alpha get coverage here?
That's probably because it seems to me that 90% or more of the open source stuff out there never makes it past the pre-alpha stage - so alphas are progress, betas are pseudo-miracles and release code is almost non-existent. [*]
Here's an example, (for a project I want to find time and money to work on): http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsitarget/ - iSCSI target software for Linux. 5 years old; still beta but few updates. I just don't have the skills to contribute code; contributing bugs etc is of limited value if no-one can fix the code.
* Look, obviously the successful projects do follow good practices and achieve good releases - the Linux kernel, Firefox/Mozilla et al, and so forth. I'm just saying there's a mountain of code out there that no-one wants to touch, the originator doesn't care about any more and it's shoved onto sourceforge as an OSS project so that someone else can do something with it.
Possibly, but I'm certain you could add iSCSI target software to this and you get the benefit of multiple spindles and SAN-like behaviour with cheap disks, clustering and shared storage, heterogenous host systems (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc), single point of backup...
And here I was salivating over 24 spindles in 4RU... damn!
You have a small spelling mistake in your last sentence there... Microsoft sells you a legit version in exchange for ratting out the retailer who sold you the bogus setup.
I think you will find that a lot of mods will rate a comment Insightful rather than funny so that the poster gets Karma for the post. Funny generates no karma.
Um, no, most of the vendors will not give a simple solution for letting their programs work without having to disable the firewall they'll add "Disable your firewall" into the Level 1 droid checklist, much as they do for antivirus today.
It's far easier to blame the antivirus and firewall software when things don't work; after all, their code is perfect </sarcasm>
Also, you get the call closed quicker, you can make more money in the call centre by beating time targets, using less people to answer more calls, etc, etc ad nauseam
Of course, you could always route those messages through your ISP's server. Postfix and sendmail can do it, Exchange on Windows can do it, hell even the SMTP connector for MS Mail did it.
Unless you're trying to say that your ISP is now blocking people from sending email at all?
Sorry, 4Kb is 4 Kilobits, not Kilobytes. Bytes is abbreviated with a capital B to distinguish from bits - so we are looking at 4KB sectors (32Kb).
On the other hand, don't you just love the fact that capacity is in powers of 2 when dealing at the sector level, but powers of 10 at the device level - and this from the same organisations!
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Because it's completely obvious that the location bar in an active dialog should be shown by pressing Ctrl-L. Even though there's no displayed shortcut key, or space for the control in the dialog. And because the only _possible_ label for it would be Location: (rather than, say, Path:, Address:, Open:, etc). I mean it's obvious that I want the dialog Left aligned (Office/OpenOffice "Ctrl-L").
Yes, Ctrl-L has functionality in IE (from the main window at least) but it opens the "Open" dialog which we're discussing. It doesn't display the location field in an existing "Open" dialog. Ctrl-L doesn't have any functionality in FF2 on Windows that I can see.
Note that even Office 2007 retains the ability for a user to type in the full location of a file (with auto-prompting too) without requiring invisible fields to be shown. Doesn't seem to have hampered users' ability to use Office applications, yet for some reason it's been removed from Gnome.
It might also be worth considering that the Mac has always been mouse-centric; thus the default OSX File-Open dialog is also mouse-centric.
Oh for mod points ...
Mod parent -1, "Doesn't comprehend that the Arctic and Antarctic circles are on the same damn planet".
If the Arctic shrinks and the Antarctic grows at a similar rate, the total amount of sea ice at the poles may well be [close to] constant. That's not to say that the planet's albedo doesn't change, or that ocean currents won't change, or that we're somehow safe.
BTW - the sibling article suggests that the rate of decline in the Arctic is higher than the rate of increase in the Antarctic. Unfortunately the sibling's link appears to be incorrect (there is an errant space between the date and page name).
Or you could realise that it will run fine on any existing IIS server you have (2000 and 2003 supported, IIRC), is completely free if you are licensed for Windows Server (one server only) and doesn't need CALs.
...
And if you set the policy right it takes about 10 minutes a month to administer.
Nice piece of FUD there
Oh. My. God.
How retarded is this idea? Now all the telemarketers can call you on your dime (or is it a quarter nowadays - being from the Antipodes I have no idea what an American phone call costs).
How does someone come up with such idiocy? Did they lock the people in a room after removing and pickling their brains, and tell them not to come out until they could prove that people are dumber than slugs?
<sarcasm>Yes, because illegal and immoral activities are perfectly fine when you're trying to find out whether someone is talking to the press about company secrets. Surely by now you know that company privacy is FAR more important than personal privacy.</sarcasm>
The story was about the lengths that investigators went to, and the types of "attack" made, and the types of information gathered on this person; the summary appears to support that.
BTW I notice that in the interests of your privacy you haven't given out your personal address, phone number (home and mobile/cell), email address, mother's maiden name, social security number, educational and employment history and phone records for the last 12 months. Maybe you should go ahead and post those up on your website.
Wait ... you expected privacy? WTF?
You can stop the "PC Speaker Beep" too -- "sc stop beep".
You can even disable it with "sc config beep start= disabled"
And "sc start beep" works for making it go again, and "sc config beep start= auto" re-enables it after a disable.
Nah, we need:
Tighten the vise on RIAA Lawyer's privates, remove handle. Pick up hacksaw. When lawyer begs you not to remove his privates with the rusty hacksaw, tell him, "I'm not cutting anything, I'm giving you the hacksaw. I'm just going to set the building on fire."
No need to wonder. My step children could not read an analog clock until I taught them (at the ages of 12 and 15, respectively). No help from either of the school systems they've experienced (WA and NSW, Australia).
What the hell world do you live on where you have more than one August in a year!?
"No no, it was the 1st of the SECOND August, not the second of the FIRST!"
Well that's what SourceForge claims as registered projects but it's not necessarily sane.
Let's break it down a bit:
39,000 pieces of reasonably usable software (beta + release); in fact it's probably far fewer (considering many projects either duplicate or inherit functionality from other projects, or are no longer active). Hardly over 120,000 though.
I think that the comment is not that the coder's morals are unimportant, but that _all_ the coders that appear to be available for paid work porting or creating a Linux app expect not only that they will be paid, but that the company will _also_ OSS the code.
Subsets of this group then complain that "no commercial applications get ported to Linux", while the company says "We have commercial secrets embodied in code [perhaps patented or similar, or otherwise significantly better ways of doing X] and this gives us an advantage over our Windows competitors. If we give that away to our competitors we lose an advantage in a competitive market".
While I understand that some will say "Yes but you must compete by being better at what you do, the code is unimportant", in some cases the code is the being better bit. Why must the company give away one or more of its advantages (for which it has paid wages, or for right to use patents etc) to its competitors?
You're kidding me ... $300 for a 2 INCH TREE?!
If you're going to refer to anything you should be quoting versions. Hell, when I write customer documentation I quote version numbers and release dates on related documents. If you want a coherent view you have to tell the reader everything they need to know about finding the document in the form you saw it.
Nice troll, but I'll feed you anyway.
You see apart from the sun there's this big gravity well in the centre of the solar system - oh, wait, it IS the sun! So as long as it makes earth orbit (ie we can get it outside _Earth_'s gravity well), and it gets fired directly towards the sun (think slow burn or compressed gases or similar), I doubt it can miss, even if it takes a few years to get there. We know how to do the calculations to handle planetary interference.
And let's face it, we don't care if we miss the Sun and hit Mercury anyway.
Oh, and if you think we can't fire it hard enough to leave orbit, there are some NASA engineers who got Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and their relatives up who'd like to talk to you.
I don't know how ready the service is for use yet. I've just tried to create a project for hosting the stuff I presently use a VM for at home, and twice it's failed. Each time I get a 502 error; when I attempt to redo the creation, I'm told I can't use the name I had previously picked (presumably it's partially in use).
Anyone had success in the last hour or so, creating a project?
<rant>Hmph - at least you CAN pump gas. I'm on a business trip in Portland, OR (I'm an Australian native) and I was told today that "You can't pump your own gas in Oregon it's illegal". Say WHAT?!
So instead I have to wait for the SINGLE GUY looking after 8 pumps to get back to me, and having asked first time for a full tank and second time for "fill it up as much as you can" I get about 15 gal in the 18 gal tank. Yeah that will sure make it easier for me. NOT!</rant>
This is one case where self service is far easier and definitely preferred, (but I agree about the Marketing Dweebs).
Why would the HVAC be on the battery units instead of being fed directly from the generators via the transfer switch?
Because if the generators aren't ready to run it can take 5-10 minutes to get a stable waveform to supply to the HVAC (I have NO idea how stable it actually needs to be but cutover to generator is usually not instantaneous). In a large DC, with (say) blade servers etc, each rack might be dissipating 10-14kW of heat - cooling this is hard enough without having a ten minute gap in cooling because the generators are still being spun up.
I've actually experienced a computer room (no more than 30 servers so it's not a DC :-) ) rise 20 degrees F in 10 minutes when the compressor in the room unit failed. We had less than 1/5th the power density I've proposed above.
That's probably because it seems to me that 90% or more of the open source stuff out there never makes it past the pre-alpha stage - so alphas are progress, betas are pseudo-miracles and release code is almost non-existent. [*]
Here's an example, (for a project I want to find time and money to work on):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iscsitarget/ - iSCSI target software for Linux. 5 years old; still beta but few updates. I just don't have the skills to contribute code; contributing bugs etc is of limited value if no-one can fix the code.
* Look, obviously the successful projects do follow good practices and achieve good releases - the Linux kernel, Firefox/Mozilla et al, and so forth. I'm just saying there's a mountain of code out there that no-one wants to touch, the originator doesn't care about any more and it's shoved onto sourceforge as an OSS project so that someone else can do something with it.
Possibly, but I'm certain you could add iSCSI target software to this and you get the benefit of multiple spindles and SAN-like behaviour with cheap disks, clustering and shared storage, heterogenous host systems (Windows, Linux, Unix, etc), single point of backup ...
And here I was salivating over 24 spindles in 4RU ... damn!
You have a small spelling mistake in your last sentence there ... Microsoft sells you a legit version in exchange for ratting out the retailer who sold you the bogus setup.
I think you will find that a lot of mods will rate a comment Insightful rather than funny so that the poster gets Karma for the post. Funny generates no karma.
Um, no, most of the vendors will not give a simple solution for letting their programs work without having to disable the firewall they'll add "Disable your firewall" into the Level 1 droid checklist, much as they do for antivirus today.
It's far easier to blame the antivirus and firewall software when things don't work; after all, their code is perfect </sarcasm>
Also, you get the call closed quicker, you can make more money in the call centre by beating time targets, using less people to answer more calls, etc, etc ad nauseam
Of course, you could always route those messages through your ISP's server. Postfix and sendmail can do it, Exchange on Windows can do it, hell even the SMTP connector for MS Mail did it. Unless you're trying to say that your ISP is now blocking people from sending email at all?
Yes, it is. My comment about ignoring IEEE's interference in our well defined measurements got lost in one of my edits.
Sorry, 4Kb is 4 Kilobits, not Kilobytes. Bytes is abbreviated with a capital B to distinguish from bits - so we are looking at 4KB sectors (32Kb).
On the other hand, don't you just love the fact that capacity is in powers of 2 when dealing at the sector level, but powers of 10 at the device level - and this from the same organisations!