This is all true. Was it Churchill who said that Democracy is the worst system of Government, apart form all the others? What is it, about 65% of people did not vote for the current UK government, what kind of a mandate is that? Of course, it's all the people's own fault, they can't be arsed to vote any more.
Can you imagine what it must be like to be the Queen though? The temptation to tell Blair to just fuck right off... You gotta admire her restraint. Perhaps she's saving it for Brown? "I have decided upon careful consideration that, with the devolution of Scotland, it would not be right to appoint a Prime Minister with a constituency there, so I will not invite you to form a Government."
Exactly right, even leaving aside the whole issue of how bad what he did really is, it is way too easy for the US to get someone extradited from the UK. They could put him in Guantanamo Bay for all we know...
I'm proud to be a subject of Her Majesty, and accept my responsibilities under her laws - but how come I have to accept rulings from a judge in Brussels or the US? I'm sure they're all very nice people, but they're nto the boss of me. Or at least they shouldn't be.
Heh, that sounds like a guy I used to work for. For 5 years, every time I estimated how long a repair would take, I doubled it. He thought I was some sort of miracle worker!
Yes, an old IT sweat's skill that is now sadly died out - taking afloppy that has failed, recovering the data, and then breaking it to bits in front of the user so they don't use it ever again.
You're right there. The flat I live in has, for some bizarre reason, no ceiling lights in the main bedroom. (And people wonder why, when I'm looking at a potential new flat, I go around counting light fittings while muttering "not goiong to get me ths time you bastard")
Now, although there is no ceiling light, there is a light switch. Maybe there used to be a light, who knows. There's a secret door to the communal laundry room at the back of one of the bedrooms wardrobes, for goodness sake. It's a mad flat, that's all.
Anyhow, I've lived there for about 3 years now, and still, every single time I go into that room: I turn the light switch on.
Back in my first support job at University, everyone carried 3.5" floppys around with their stuff on them. Naturally they assumed these were tougher than 5 1/4" disks, so they dumped them in their bags, where paper etc. would get between the sliding cover and the floppy, bending it open just enough that, once you put it into a drive, it wouldn't eject.
I was glad when I omved onto a job where I didn't need to carry pliers everywhere, although of course I'm not really a hardware person.
The interesting thing is that he intends to launch in 2010, not so much that he's going to run it out of Scotland. I mean, he was likely to have at least one launch point in the UK if it was technically feasable, and it was never likely to be Heathrow.;-)
Because "SourceForge is made by the other arm of the company that owns Slashdot, VA Software", I imagine. though it seems to me that no moderator could be sure that the poster didn't just really not like SourceForge.
Nothing to do with compression (although that may help); it's about one big file being faster to copy than lot's of small files that add up to the same size. Even if you zip them up without compressing (it'll be an option somewhere) then this will help.
Another thing is that even without looking at third party tools, you should be using XCOPY in preference to windows explorer.
There is an Exchange server utility that is optimised for moving gigantic files very fast; doubtless you can find similar programs about.
i'm sure you know what your dad is doing, but what if you had 17,142,198 dads? That's how many internet users there were in Spain the last time Nielsen counted them.
(P.S. i've heard of having two mommies, but 17 million dads is excessive.)
Why are any of these people supposed to matter in the first place?
Ballmer can't do much to change Microsoft's direction. Their internal inertia is huge. The only reason any CEO of a huge public company would matter is that when they do manage a tiny change, it has a relatively large effect becaus eof the comapny size. But by that criteria Ballmer does matter, even though he doesn't do anything interesting.
Of course, another factor is that he's not as famous as Gates, but that's only because Gates is an interesting "nerd becomes billionaire" sterotype the media like.
As for Rob, well, he never really mattered at all, did he? Slashdot is what would matter. And it doesn't! It's a community, it doesn't matter. If everyone goes off to Digg, who cares? (Well, People who work for slashdot and their advertisers would, but never mind that). Anyhow, can you really say that Digg is competing with Slashdot? It's different enough that lots of people use both equally.
Lastly, Linus. Well, he deliberately tries not to matter, so I don't think that counts.
Reading the article, doesn't look like there is a charge; they've just arrested him, and now are trying to figure out if he broke any laws. I'm not sure that it's meant to work that way....
Easy enough with an asterisk box to program in an emergency over-ride code that you let's authorised people over-ride the standard call-handling.
For example, there is no problem defining a dialplan that, if someone calls you and enters 31415 or whatever at the "leave a message" prompt, skips the mailbox and rings every phone you posess until someone answers.
You may sneer, but you gotta remember that the only unique selling point that has any chance of making it into Vista is that Vista is, and I quote, "slightly less fucked than XP". The marketing people have to work with what they have.
Ah, I am responsible for IT systems in a large number of countries, so all my passwords are chosen to only include characters that are in the same position on every langauge of keyboard.
The muscle memory one is not so good if you have lots of passwords, of course; in that case.
I have three, and manage withouot a card - my password, my root password, and an insecure password I use on web sites etc. where I won't loose any critical data (and where obviously i don't want the web site to have my real password) Oh, and a variant on my insecure password for sites that have more complex password rules than my insecure password meets.
Of course, this means that CmdrTaco could hijack my Flickr account, but I'm prepared to live with that risk.
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This is all true. Was it Churchill who said that Democracy is the worst system of Government, apart form all the others? What is it, about 65% of people did not vote for the current UK government, what kind of a mandate is that? Of course, it's all the people's own fault, they can't be arsed to vote any more.
Can you imagine what it must be like to be the Queen though? The temptation to tell Blair to just fuck right off... You gotta admire her restraint. Perhaps she's saving it for Brown? "I have decided upon careful consideration that, with the devolution of Scotland, it would not be right to appoint a Prime Minister with a constituency there, so I will not invite you to form a Government."
Exactly right, even leaving aside the whole issue of how bad what he did really is, it is way too easy for the US to get someone extradited from the UK. They could put him in Guantanamo Bay for all we know...
I'm proud to be a subject of Her Majesty, and accept my responsibilities under her laws - but how come I have to accept rulings from a judge in Brussels or the US? I'm sure they're all very nice people, but they're nto the boss of me. Or at least they shouldn't be.
Well, first time I found it, I was kinda hoping it would go to Narnia instead of the laundry room. But it's a start.
u gs_and_sockets#Type_D_.28Old_British_3-pin.29
I've tested the regular sockets and it doesn't do anything to them. It might be controlling the other sockets - the room still has a couple of the old type D sockets - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_pl
OK, you win.
Heh, that sounds like a guy I used to work for. For 5 years, every time I estimated how long a repair would take, I doubled it. He thought I was some sort of miracle worker!
Well, I kinda figured it wasn't Richard Nixon...
Yes, an old IT sweat's skill that is now sadly died out - taking afloppy that has failed, recovering the data, and then breaking it to bits in front of the user so they don't use it ever again.
Is it wrong that your third story has turned me on?
You're right there. The flat I live in has, for some bizarre reason, no ceiling lights in the main bedroom. (And people wonder why, when I'm looking at a potential new flat, I go around counting light fittings while muttering "not goiong to get me ths time you bastard")
Now, although there is no ceiling light, there is a light switch. Maybe there used to be a light, who knows. There's a secret door to the communal laundry room at the back of one of the bedrooms wardrobes, for goodness sake. It's a mad flat, that's all.
Anyhow, I've lived there for about 3 years now, and still, every single time I go into that room: I turn the light switch on.
Back in my first support job at University, everyone carried 3.5" floppys around with their stuff on them. Naturally they assumed these were tougher than 5 1/4" disks, so they dumped them in their bags, where paper etc. would get between the sliding cover and the floppy, bending it open just enough that, once you put it into a drive, it wouldn't eject.
I was glad when I omved onto a job where I didn't need to carry pliers everywhere, although of course I'm not really a hardware person.
The interesting thing is that he intends to launch in 2010, not so much that he's going to run it out of Scotland. I mean, he was likely to have at least one launch point in the UK if it was technically feasable, and it was never likely to be Heathrow. ;-)
Because "SourceForge is made by the other arm of the company that owns Slashdot, VA Software", I imagine. though it seems to me that no moderator could be sure that the poster didn't just really not like SourceForge.
Nothing to do with compression (although that may help); it's about one big file being faster to copy than lot's of small files that add up to the same size. Even if you zip them up without compressing (it'll be an option somewhere) then this will help.
Another thing is that even without looking at third party tools, you should be using XCOPY in preference to windows explorer.
There is an Exchange server utility that is optimised for moving gigantic files very fast; doubtless you can find similar programs about.
Yes, it's pretty good for software released in 1902.
i'm sure you know what your dad is doing, but what if you had 17,142,198 dads? That's how many internet users there were in Spain the last time Nielsen counted them.
(P.S. i've heard of having two mommies, but 17 million dads is excessive.)
Why are any of these people supposed to matter in the first place?
Ballmer can't do much to change Microsoft's direction. Their internal inertia is huge. The only reason any CEO of a huge public company would matter is that when they do manage a tiny change, it has a relatively large effect becaus eof the comapny size. But by that criteria Ballmer does matter, even though he doesn't do anything interesting.
Of course, another factor is that he's not as famous as Gates, but that's only because Gates is an interesting "nerd becomes billionaire" sterotype the media like.
As for Rob, well, he never really mattered at all, did he? Slashdot is what would matter. And it doesn't! It's a community, it doesn't matter. If everyone goes off to Digg, who cares? (Well, People who work for slashdot and their advertisers would, but never mind that). Anyhow, can you really say that Digg is competing with Slashdot? It's different enough that lots of people use both equally.
Lastly, Linus. Well, he deliberately tries not to matter, so I don't think that counts.
The poor bugger's homeless and you just slashdotted him!
Reading the article, doesn't look like there is a charge; they've just arrested him, and now are trying to figure out if he broke any laws. I'm not sure that it's meant to work that way....
Easy enough with an asterisk box to program in an emergency over-ride code that you let's authorised people over-ride the standard call-handling.
For example, there is no problem defining a dialplan that, if someone calls you and enters 31415 or whatever at the "leave a message" prompt, skips the mailbox and rings every phone you posess until someone answers.
Classic example is the Roman Catholic Church. Huge organisation, does an enormous ammount of complex work, and has precisely 5 ranks:
Pope
Cardinal
Bishop
Priest
Deacon
In fact, technicaly a Cardinal is just a particular kind of Bishop, so it's close to 4 ranks.
You may sneer, but you gotta remember that the only unique selling point that has any chance of making it into Vista is that Vista is, and I quote, "slightly less fucked than XP". The marketing people have to work with what they have.
Extraordinary, it's almost as if this piece was written by some twit in marketing, and not by the Microsoft Security Team....
Ah, I am responsible for IT systems in a large number of countries, so all my passwords are chosen to only include characters that are in the same position on every langauge of keyboard.
The muscle memory one is not so good if you have lots of passwords, of course; in that case.
I have three, and manage withouot a card - my password, my root password, and an insecure password I use on web sites etc. where I won't loose any critical data (and where obviously i don't want the web site to have my real password) Oh, and a variant on my insecure password for sites that have more complex password rules than my insecure password meets.
Of course, this means that CmdrTaco could hijack my Flickr account, but I'm prepared to live with that risk.
I guess it's all in the choice of paper. Or you could invest in a credit-card sized laminator, they're fun.