Anyone who's read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy will remember Arthur asking a stinky old cave dwelling lady for advice. She gave him some photocopied pages about all the important decisions she had made in her life and suggested that he do the opposite, lest he wind up stinky and living in a cave.
When getting advice, it would indeed be wise to look at the person giving you advice.
No seriously... I own desktop and laptop computers. None of them are shut down on anything like a regular basis. They both are put to sleep quite frequently, the desktop with a keystroke command (that could also be a menu-driven command) and the laptop by just shutting the lid.
me too. I don't shut the lid as that screws up the second monitor configuration - always standby then shut lid, but otherwise the same deal. If the battery runs down while it's in the carry bag it wakes up and hibernates itself, although that is rarely required.
This new laptop (still XP) was giving me grief though. Winlogon was leaking handles horribly (eventually holding up to nearly 30000 instead of a few hundred) every time it went through a standby->resume cycle. I uninstalled the craptastic HP fingerprint scanner / credential manager thing and the problem seems to have gone away.
On the occasions where I have had to shut down though, it's normally as a last resort to fix a problem and I normally want it to happen fast so I can get back to work. The latest one is it the cwd is on the CDROM drive in a command prompt and I remove the CD, the command prompt hangs and even task manager won't kill it, and the OS starts falling apart from there until the next reboot.
Is UAC under Windows 7 the same as Vista? If so, then I already hate it:)
I run XP on my laptop, so the only exposure I have to Vista is on other peoples computers, and then only because it's broken and I'm called in to fix it. As such, I get the popups every time I want to edit file permissions, edit the registry, or do any of the things I need to do to get it going again. It becomes a very tedious exercise - just think about how many times you have to click things in explorer when you try and examine permissions on files that normal users don't have access to.
I do think it's a great idea to save users from themselves though, although some articles i've read say it doesn't even do that very well...
Whowever designed this has obviously never worn progressive lenses.
Your eyes will still do the 'fine tuning' of the focus. This would just be the coarse adjustment.
All this reading about people's problems with eyesight remind me how lucky I am to not have needed glasses so far. Last time I got my eyes checked I was told i'd probably need them for reading in a year or two, but so far so good. I'm reminded that I can't focus quite as near as I used to all the time when the kids want to show me something and put it right up to my eyeball "dad look at this!":)
well... i screwed up and got my threading mixed up so I thought you'd replied to a different post. d'oh.
All I was saying is that based on recent discussions on xen-devel concerning TSC synchronisation when physical CPU's are scheduled into virtual CPU's in a VM, the value might as well be a random number for the amount of use that it is. I assumed you were making a joke about that, but obviously you were replying to a different post than I thought you were.
meaning, this could be an old strain of aids. by "old" i mean it could have been in the human population for a long time
Of course. Because 62 year old post menopausal women who don't need to worry about getting pregnant anymore don't engage in behavior that might increase the risk of transmission of STD's, so obviously she's had it for years and it's been circulating in the community for years and we're just hearing about it now.
Or maybe you read the article and I didn't and I'm wrongly chastising you for making the assumption that she must have acquired it long ago because she's 'past it' now... either way is good for me:)
What happens to the lead when it absorbs the radiation? If it's fusion then there aren't a lot of neutrons let off but does it still remain stable (ie remain lead) over a long period?
So...it was successfully pitched to Fox because...it will involve the human race? Only Fox greenlights movies involving humans? Or do they always greenlight movies involving humans?
It's not that they _won't_ go ahead with movies without humans in it, but the contract between Kang/Kodos and Fox is very specific about their dietary requirements and it's just easier that way.
I saw about 30 seconds of some werewolf movie at a friends house when I was about 6 and had nightmares for weeks. I think the movie in question was supposed to be a comedy but I was an impressionable 6 year old with a vivid imagination.
At about that time, a bunch of kids at school were talking about this alien movie and I felt like I was missing out. I think my parents knew what they were doing though.
I love horror movies but my wife doesn't particularly fancy them, and we have 4 young kids so I can only watch them late at night. By myself.
I hope it doesn't. I think all 4 so far were watchable (haven't seen alien vs predator so i'm not counting that), although the first two were by far the best, and for different reasons.
One of the things I loved about the first movie was the untold story of the alien spaceship. Reminded me of various Stephen King stories where a whole lot of stuff went unexplained (the black blob in the Raft in particular - it was just 'there'). If they tell that story badly then I think the first movie will actually be worse for it - it takes away some of the mystery.
There is speculation that the appendix acts as a backup store of 'good' gut bacteria so the gut can be repopulated faster in the event of a bout of gastro or something. It was a while ago that I read that so it may well have been debunked since then.
Great, the laser pulses will probably be DRM encoded so that only authorized chips are used and vendors that insert the appropriate smart card can perform service on them...
Or even worse, they'll only ignite a certain brand of petrol:)
If I had an access point that could reliably do virtual SSIDs (sadly the WRT54GL won't - it can do virtual SSIDs but they have to share the same address which confuses too many clients), I would likely set up a separate open network that used a transparent proxy to do logging so that anyone could use it.
I haven't tried it yet, but one of the changelogs for 8.09.1 is "fix multi-ssids with WPA on Broadcom (#4777, r15200, r15204) ". Not sure what Broadcom they are talking about but it would be nice if it was the chipset in the WRT54GL!
Last time I checked the Nintendo DS could talk wireless, but only WEP. So there are likely a few places around with WEP instead of WPA for that reason (although I'm not sure what you'd actually do with a DS if you got it online...)
For the record, operating an insecure wifi AP is not illegal, this is just a helpful initiative.
I agree, but are the cops just following a script? An access point with no WPA isn't necessarily insecure from intruders - it could have a captive portal or something behind it (it is insecure from sniffers but that's a problem that shouldn't be solved at the wireless level anyway).
If the police in the state where I live try this, will I get a knock on my door and have to explain to them that my network is secured via alternate means? Maybe I should prepare some finger puppets and rehearse the explanation... "And Mr Network Packet goes through the unlocked door of the Wireless Access Point house and finds himself staring down the barrel of Mr Goatse... As he averts his gaze away from the horror he is met with a tidal wave of Ms Tubgirl. Yes officer, I'll come quietly"
(No I don't really have such redirections in place, but it would make for an interesting conversation:)
I'm changing my SSID to 'impugn', so the conversation goes like this [ knock, knock ] - Hello - Hello, are you the owner of the WLAN 'impugn' - Could you spell that please? - I.. M... P... - Ha ha you said you are Pee
Or maybe change it to "I'm a stupid cop any I have a big butt and my butt smells" (if only SSID's could be that long), and ask them to repeat it several times
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Anyone who's read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy will remember Arthur asking a stinky old cave dwelling lady for advice. She gave him some photocopied pages about all the important decisions she had made in her life and suggested that he do the opposite, lest he wind up stinky and living in a cave.
When getting advice, it would indeed be wise to look at the person giving you advice.
No seriously... I own desktop and laptop computers. None of them are shut down on anything like a regular basis. They both are put to sleep quite frequently, the desktop with a keystroke command (that could also be a menu-driven command) and the laptop by just shutting the lid.
me too. I don't shut the lid as that screws up the second monitor configuration - always standby then shut lid, but otherwise the same deal. If the battery runs down while it's in the carry bag it wakes up and hibernates itself, although that is rarely required.
This new laptop (still XP) was giving me grief though. Winlogon was leaking handles horribly (eventually holding up to nearly 30000 instead of a few hundred) every time it went through a standby->resume cycle. I uninstalled the craptastic HP fingerprint scanner / credential manager thing and the problem seems to have gone away.
On the occasions where I have had to shut down though, it's normally as a last resort to fix a problem and I normally want it to happen fast so I can get back to work. The latest one is it the cwd is on the CDROM drive in a command prompt and I remove the CD, the command prompt hangs and even task manager won't kill it, and the OS starts falling apart from there until the next reboot.
Is it only me that finds UAC useful in Windows 7?
Is UAC under Windows 7 the same as Vista? If so, then I already hate it :)
I run XP on my laptop, so the only exposure I have to Vista is on other peoples computers, and then only because it's broken and I'm called in to fix it. As such, I get the popups every time I want to edit file permissions, edit the registry, or do any of the things I need to do to get it going again. It becomes a very tedious exercise - just think about how many times you have to click things in explorer when you try and examine permissions on files that normal users don't have access to.
I do think it's a great idea to save users from themselves though, although some articles i've read say it doesn't even do that very well...
Water based glasses that are currently vaporware... would that make them steam based eyeglasses that are perpetually fogged up?
Your eyes will still do the 'fine tuning' of the focus. This would just be the coarse adjustment.
All this reading about people's problems with eyesight remind me how lucky I am to not have needed glasses so far. Last time I got my eyes checked I was told i'd probably need them for reading in a year or two, but so far so good. I'm reminded that I can't focus quite as near as I used to all the time when the kids want to show me something and put it right up to my eyeball "dad look at this!" :)
Maybe next time they'll think before running a subject called "How to sue people for profit"
well... i screwed up and got my threading mixed up so I thought you'd replied to a different post. d'oh.
All I was saying is that based on recent discussions on xen-devel concerning TSC synchronisation when physical CPU's are scheduled into virtual CPU's in a VM, the value might as well be a random number for the amount of use that it is. I assumed you were making a joke about that, but obviously you were replying to a different post than I thought you were.
The host CPU's TSC register would probably be an excellent source.
Actually, if 636086 reads the xen mailing lists then it's probably a subtle joke.
Interesting that both Dilbert (years ago) and xkcd (more recently) both contain a comic with a similar joke...
"w00t" is what I imagine the geek would be thinking.
the woman was 62 when she was diagnosed in 2004
meaning, this could be an old strain of aids. by "old" i mean it could have been in the human population for a long time
Of course. Because 62 year old post menopausal women who don't need to worry about getting pregnant anymore don't engage in behavior that might increase the risk of transmission of STD's, so obviously she's had it for years and it's been circulating in the community for years and we're just hearing about it now.
Or maybe you read the article and I didn't and I'm wrongly chastising you for making the assumption that she must have acquired it long ago because she's 'past it' now... either way is good for me :)
What happens to the lead when it absorbs the radiation? If it's fusion then there aren't a lot of neutrons let off but does it still remain stable (ie remain lead) over a long period?
Are you saying that Spider-Man 2 was actually correct about its physics?
It was correct about everything else wasn't it? Why would the physics side of it be any different?
So...it was successfully pitched to Fox because...it will involve the human race? Only Fox greenlights movies involving humans? Or do they always greenlight movies involving humans?
It's not that they _won't_ go ahead with movies without humans in it, but the contract between Kang/Kodos and Fox is very specific about their dietary requirements and it's just easier that way.
I saw about 30 seconds of some werewolf movie at a friends house when I was about 6 and had nightmares for weeks. I think the movie in question was supposed to be a comedy but I was an impressionable 6 year old with a vivid imagination.
At about that time, a bunch of kids at school were talking about this alien movie and I felt like I was missing out. I think my parents knew what they were doing though.
I love horror movies but my wife doesn't particularly fancy them, and we have 4 young kids so I can only watch them late at night. By myself.
The sequels really needed to continue the genre change to be successful. Aliens 3 should have been a romantic comedy.
You're thinking of Aliens 4
I hope it doesn't. I think all 4 so far were watchable (haven't seen alien vs predator so i'm not counting that), although the first two were by far the best, and for different reasons.
One of the things I loved about the first movie was the untold story of the alien spaceship. Reminded me of various Stephen King stories where a whole lot of stuff went unexplained (the black blob in the Raft in particular - it was just 'there'). If they tell that story badly then I think the first movie will actually be worse for it - it takes away some of the mystery.
For failing to release the code under GPL for a period of 5 months after they were notified of the violation? Will the SFLC do anything about it?
Who would that benefit, aside from the lawyers?
A wise person once said "sometimes it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission". I think that we are seeing that phrase in action.
There is speculation that the appendix acts as a backup store of 'good' gut bacteria so the gut can be repopulated faster in the event of a bout of gastro or something. It was a while ago that I read that so it may well have been debunked since then.
Or even worse, they'll only ignite a certain brand of petrol :)
Doesn't worry me though. My car is diesel.
I haven't tried it yet, but one of the changelogs for 8.09.1 is "fix multi-ssids with WPA on Broadcom (#4777, r15200, r15204) ". Not sure what Broadcom they are talking about but it would be nice if it was the chipset in the WRT54GL!
Now i'll have to download it and find out :)
Last time I checked the Nintendo DS could talk wireless, but only WEP. So there are likely a few places around with WEP instead of WPA for that reason (although I'm not sure what you'd actually do with a DS if you got it online...)
I agree, but are the cops just following a script? An access point with no WPA isn't necessarily insecure from intruders - it could have a captive portal or something behind it (it is insecure from sniffers but that's a problem that shouldn't be solved at the wireless level anyway).
If the police in the state where I live try this, will I get a knock on my door and have to explain to them that my network is secured via alternate means? Maybe I should prepare some finger puppets and rehearse the explanation... "And Mr Network Packet goes through the unlocked door of the Wireless Access Point house and finds himself staring down the barrel of Mr Goatse... As he averts his gaze away from the horror he is met with a tidal wave of Ms Tubgirl. Yes officer, I'll come quietly"
(No I don't really have such redirections in place, but it would make for an interesting conversation :)
I'm changing my SSID to 'impugn', so the conversation goes like this
[ knock, knock ]
- Hello
- Hello, are you the owner of the WLAN 'impugn'
- Could you spell that please?
- I.. M... P...
- Ha ha you said you are Pee
Or maybe change it to "I'm a stupid cop any I have a big butt and my butt smells" (if only SSID's could be that long), and ask them to repeat it several times
Or redirect everything to tubgirl
And so on...