Eh? that page on how stuff works is certainly not "spiffy", misleading is more like it.
Those illustrations look nothing like the plugs I have in my house!
The "ungrounded" plugs thing is also midleading, the only place you may find one of those is in the bathroom, called a shaver socket and it may have a switch on it between 110 and 240.
The only things in the UK that have 2 pin plugs are shavers.
They are also out of scale, showing the 2 pin plug as larger than the 3 pin.
On a side note, my laptops both have no earth connector on them, they have the pin of course (they wouldn't plug in otherwise) but they are plastic.
I've got my system set up a little like that... let me explain.
I've got an ISDN line to Demon Internet, which has reasonably low ping times (still useless for games, but that's not the point) and a 1-way satellite Internet connection through netsystems.com.
I have a couple of squid caches here, one does all the caching ('cos it has a big drive dedicated to that) and one has the satellite "modem" in it.
So I use the proxies for http and ftp and the straight IDSN for interactive stuff.
Plus every other time I apt-get it comes straight from the squid cache!
Not perfect, but better than the ISDN alone, the latency used to go up something chronic when I was downloading anything.
Of course I'd switch to ADSL or cable in a heartbeat if anyone offered it to me, and the wireless co-op is looking challenging to say the least given the geography here!
So there's my quandary. It's possible to produce foie gras humanely, but it's not easy, and most farms don't do it that way. Instead, most farms do it the easy way to maximize profits at the expense of the birds' welfare.
I realise it's totally off topic to the original story, but why not buy only the "hard" produced foie gras and charge a premium? Thus supporting the humane producers, and I'd wager getting a better product in the process.
If you put "humanely produced foie gras" on the menu I would be more likely to choose it over "foie gras". A lot of people don't care, but a better product is a better product.
Just for example there's a company here in the UK called the Real Meat Company or something similar, all their meat is humanely produced, and they don't even like the term "organic" as it doesn't go far enough.
Their meat is fantastic, very expensive compared to the battery farmed shite you can buy in most supermarkets, but the flavour is not even comparable.
Sorry to be so off topic here, I was just interested that's all.
OSS advocates talk about wanting to be able to examine software. One person above said people will trust a more open process. I think we forget that this is only a small part of the picture. 99% of all voters won't be able to make heads or tails of the source and 99% won't care one way or the other
I think you've missed the point, if anyone can examine the source code, those people will most likely include professors of mathematics, or computer sciences, experts in cryptography and people who's coding skills I trust more than my own.
So whether or not I am able to or choose to audit the code myself, I know that it has had many, many skilled eyes on it.
It's also not limited to those people who have been "selected" to audit the source code by interested parties.
I STRONGLY believe that if anything should be open sourced it should be voting software.
The whole process should also be open to public scrutiny.
We still do full back ups every night (~50-100G) and don't want that clogging up our network
Why not stick a couple of extra network adaptors in the boxes, and run a seperate network for it then? You could even go Gigabit ethernet over copper for next to nothing.
Of course if you rsynced instead it wouldn't touch your network utilisation, but I don't know how well that fits in with your other software, and my second point.
We have fairly complex ACLs in some cases that don't map over to unix security all that well
So don't "map" it at all then, use XFS as your underlying FS and use a recent version of samba, it'll keep all your ACLs intact.
Your third point I don't know about so I'll decline to comment.
Re:when will someone develop the advanced technolo
on
Motorola's i95cl
·
· Score: 1
To be honest I'd hate that. I think I'ce only "heard" my new phone ring once since I bought it.
A tiny descreet "bleep" and the vibrate function going off usually works just fine for me.
Which is a shame, 'cos I've got some funky ringtones on there;-)
Not a bad idea per-se, but I was wondering how you are going to get billed for this. For example, I have to drive to London today, I recon it's going to take about 4 hours, that's 2 hours to reach the outskirts and another 2 to get to where I'm going.
Now I'd quite like to use public transport, however I shall be carrying a rackmount server, which I can just about carry, and a pile of hard drives, not something I want to try to lug on and off the tube!
This system isn't going to make a damn bit of difference for those people rich enough to drive in London anyway, I just wondered about the logistics of trying to bill me for my £5...
Not that I object to it that much... anything to make the roads less congested.
Heh, there's me talking and I used to drive a 1973 Landrover Series 3. Would actually reach 80 if you don't mind not hearing anything for the next few days... and of course would take about a mile to stop;-)
Erm... which countries in Europe have Government owned monopolies for their mobile phone networks then? The UK certainly doesn't, and AFAIK never had.
PS. maybe some of the reason it takes so long to get anywhere in the US is that everyone drives so slow! Disclaimer: This information comes completely from "Americas Fastest Car Chases" or some other such guff, where the presenter gets all excited about the speed the cars are travelling, and they haven't even reached average motorway speed here.
No actually it's very different. As different as different could be, you need a special driver board to make it work, that's contained in the laptop, and most likely non-removable.
Which is exactly what the previous poster said, so why are you contradicting someone on a subject you obviously know nothing about?
The opposite is quite true as well... Once, back in school, the PE dept. decided that we all had to play Tennis, which was fine, except that I played badminton regularly, of course if you play a badminton shot with a tennis ball, it doesn't really go where you meant!
A few shots actually cleared 3 tennis courts, before I adapted.
Bloody ISDN is worse... The only thing I can get here (12miles from a major city and 1/2 a mile from the exchange[1]) that's faster than 56k and less than a grand a month is ISDN.
£19.99 a month to Demon. [2]
£19.99 a month to BT for Anytime.
~£26 a month for ISDN line rental.
Absolute fucking ripoff - can't wait til I move...
[1] You can almost see it from the window in my office.
[2] Yes I know there's cheaper ISP's , but they're shite. I know I've tried them.
Slashdot Mirror
Products? You had Products?
Wow, that must put you in the top 1% of all the dotcoms then!
Eh? that page on how stuff works is certainly not "spiffy", misleading is more like it.
Those illustrations look nothing like the plugs I have in my house!
The "ungrounded" plugs thing is also midleading, the only place you may find one of those is in the bathroom, called a shaver socket and it may have a switch on it between 110 and 240.
The only things in the UK that have 2 pin plugs are shavers.
They are also out of scale, showing the 2 pin plug as larger than the 3 pin.
On a side note, my laptops both have no earth connector on them, they have the pin of course (they wouldn't plug in otherwise) but they are plastic.
I think Apple might have something to say about it too...
I've got my system set up a little like that... let me explain.
I've got an ISDN line to Demon Internet, which has reasonably low ping times (still useless for games, but that's not the point) and a 1-way satellite Internet connection through netsystems.com.
I have a couple of squid caches here, one does all the caching ('cos it has a big drive dedicated to that) and one has the satellite "modem" in it.
So I use the proxies for http and ftp and the straight IDSN for interactive stuff.
Plus every other time I apt-get it comes straight from the squid cache!
Not perfect, but better than the ISDN alone, the latency used to go up something chronic when I was downloading anything.
Of course I'd switch to ADSL or cable in a heartbeat if anyone offered it to me, and the wireless co-op is looking challenging to say the least given the geography here!
OK, good point.
:-)
Can I come to your Restaurant please? I'm feeling hungry now
So there's my quandary. It's possible to produce foie gras humanely, but it's not easy, and most farms don't do it that way. Instead, most farms do it the easy way to maximize profits at the expense of the birds' welfare.
I realise it's totally off topic to the original story, but why not buy only the "hard" produced foie gras and charge a premium? Thus supporting the humane producers, and I'd wager getting a better product in the process.
If you put "humanely produced foie gras" on the menu I would be more likely to choose it over "foie gras". A lot of people don't care, but a better product is a better product.
Just for example there's a company here in the UK called the Real Meat Company or something similar, all their meat is humanely produced, and they don't even like the term "organic" as it doesn't go far enough.
Their meat is fantastic, very expensive compared to the battery farmed shite you can buy in most supermarkets, but the flavour is not even comparable.
Sorry to be so off topic here, I was just interested that's all.
Well getting a credit card if you're under 21 is not an option.
:-P
That depends where you are in the world.
I had my first card at 16 (debit, though not credit).
Then credit cards at 18.
Of course I live in the UK, a country where you can legally get drunk before you're signed into the old folks home
OK, I think you're right, and we were arguing the same point from different ends.
I really shouldn't post when drunk!
I think you've missed the point, if anyone can examine the source code, those people will most likely include professors of mathematics, or computer sciences, experts in cryptography and people who's coding skills I trust more than my own.
So whether or not I am able to or choose to audit the code myself, I know that it has had many, many skilled eyes on it.
It's also not limited to those people who have been "selected" to audit the source code by interested parties.
I STRONGLY believe that if anything should be open sourced it should be voting software. The whole process should also be open to public scrutiny.
These guys are complete bastards. (The forms are exactly the same as the Domain Registry Of America.)
;-)
Because of them I had a client call me BEFORE 9AM! in a panic about their domain.
Even I had to look closely at their letter before I realised exactly what they do, probably because it was early in the morning.
We still do full back ups every night (~50-100G) and don't want that clogging up our network
Why not stick a couple of extra network adaptors in the boxes, and run a seperate network for it then? You could even go Gigabit ethernet over copper for next to nothing.
Of course if you rsynced instead it wouldn't touch your network utilisation, but I don't know how well that fits in with your other software, and my second point.
We have fairly complex ACLs in some cases that don't map over to unix security all that well
So don't "map" it at all then, use XFS as your underlying FS and use a recent version of samba, it'll keep all your ACLs intact.
Your third point I don't know about so I'll decline to comment.
To be honest I'd hate that.
;-)
I think I'ce only "heard" my new phone ring once since I bought it.
A tiny descreet "bleep" and the vibrate function going off usually works just fine for me.
Which is a shame, 'cos I've got some funky ringtones on there
Not a bad idea per-se, but I was wondering how you are going to get billed for this.
For example, I have to drive to London today, I recon it's going to take about 4 hours, that's 2 hours to reach the outskirts and another 2 to get to where I'm going.
Now I'd quite like to use public transport, however I shall be carrying a rackmount server, which I can just about carry, and a pile of hard drives, not something I want to try to lug on and off the tube!
This system isn't going to make a damn bit of difference for those people rich enough to drive in London anyway, I just wondered about the logistics of trying to bill me for my £5...
Not that I object to it that much... anything to make the roads less congested.
I shouldn't have to pay more money for my call, because someone else decides to use a more expensive service. They should pay the difference.
If someone wants to call me, they usually want something from me, therefore they pay for it.
Really?
That sucks.
In the UK it's not.
Heh, there's me talking and I used to drive a 1973 Landrover Series 3. ;-)
Would actually reach 80 if you don't mind not hearing anything for the next few days...
and of course would take about a mile to stop
Erm... which countries in Europe have Government owned monopolies for their mobile phone networks then?
The UK certainly doesn't, and AFAIK never had.
PS. maybe some of the reason it takes so long to get anywhere in the US is that everyone drives so slow!
Disclaimer: This information comes completely from "Americas Fastest Car Chases" or some other such guff, where the presenter gets all excited about the speed the cars are travelling, and they haven't even reached average motorway speed here.
No actually it's very different.
As different as different could be, you need a special driver board to make it work, that's contained in the laptop, and most likely non-removable.
Which is exactly what the previous poster said, so why are you contradicting someone on a subject you obviously know nothing about?
Assuming the CARP crap doesn't kill you before your bandwidth bills do...
Here's a question for you, has SomaFM considered providing links to online stores (like amazon.com) who pay referal fees?
I mean I would have bought loads of these CD's that I'm hearing if all it took was a click and a credit card...
Or am I missing something important about why that wouldn't work?
Yes of course, you are totally correct.
If you get all your "information" about how biometric systems work from films.
Most finger print scanners work by measuring blood flow under the skin, rather than the prints themselves.
Unless this was meant to be a joke, in which case I guess I should pity you.
The opposite is quite true as well...
Once, back in school, the PE dept. decided that we all had to play Tennis, which was fine, except that I played badminton regularly, of course if you play a badminton shot with a tennis ball, it doesn't really go where you meant!
A few shots actually cleared 3 tennis courts, before I adapted.
Fuckwit moderators again, How is this post redundant when the only other post I can see about the macrovision was posted 5 minutes afterwards...
And they probably won't even be bitch slapped by the meta moderation 'cos they won't see the other post... Makes me mad...
They aren't that quiet!
I have watched a couple of DVDs on my friend's and was horrified at how much noise it made...
I much prefer my (multi region) stand alone dvd player.. Hell it play's VCDs, SVCDs, CDRs and CDRWs, and mp3s, just plug it in and turn it on...
I'm sure you can build a quieter PC if you make it netbooting... I'm doing that now, as a mp3 jukebox, and maybe a divx player.
Bloody ISDN is worse... The only thing I can get here (12miles from a major city and 1/2 a mile from the exchange[1]) that's faster than 56k and less than a grand a month is ISDN.
£19.99 a month to Demon. [2]
£19.99 a month to BT for Anytime.
~£26 a month for ISDN line rental.
Absolute fucking ripoff - can't wait til I move...
[1] You can almost see it from the window in my office.
[2] Yes I know there's cheaper ISP's , but they're shite. I know I've tried them.