* R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
* E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
* I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
* S: Sync all mounted filesystems
* U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
* B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing
You don't need to hold the REISUB keys, so you can use your left hand to hold Alt, your right one to hold SysRq and use the free fingers to type REISUB.
Aww, really? The other day I got a flat tire, but I don't live near any repair shop. However, there's a car dealer just next to my house and they sell the same model I have. Are you saying I can't buy a new car and return everything except one of the wheels? That sucks...
Bad looking videos look like nothing but JPEG artifacts.
True.
I tried it in HD, they look ok, but worse than a good divx dvdrip. The biggest problem for me is the slowness of full-screen playback, when playing on full HD resolution (1080p). It totally sucks! To avoid that, I have to stream the video with the help of a video player with FLV support, like VLC or SMPlayer. Too much of a hassle, for me...
Yes, I see your point and agree with you. Besides, it would be easy for the janitor to end up on the local Oprah-wannabe complaining about radiations at the workplace. That would be terrible for the school reputation. At least the network admins just growl at a corner, suck it up and move on;-).
I really find it hard to believe that two or three blinking LED stuck in the ceiling of a well lit room during daylight can trigger epileptic reactions. Unless she climbed into a stair and spent all day with her eyes 1 cm away from them...
Everyone has headaches, once in a while. Apparently, hers were recurring. However, there are many more probable causes that would explain it. Lack of sleep, tiredness, myopia, menopause...
I mean, if blinking LED triggered epileptic seizures that would be widely known. How about the millions of epileptics who use computers? They would certainly have a hard time with the blinking disk access LED, no? I can't find any info on google about anything related to this.
I really doubt that. We're talking about tiny LED on plain daylight, stuck near the ceiling on a well lit room.
I had headaches with CRT monitors before, too, but that's something we spend quite a lot of time directly looking at. As for fluorescents, they illuminate a room only by themselves. I don't see how that can compare with two or three blinking LED.
It was there to provide wireless to the area around that room, where the classrooms are located. It's a really tiny room, used mostly for storage, with big glass windows on all sides. It was inside the room to protect against the weather.
Agreed. There was a case on my university that I found very interesting.
We have access points (AP) distributed all around the campus, meaning we get wireless connectivity pretty much everywhere. One particular AP was located inside a small room used by janitors, adjacent to an interior garden. Being inside a room, it was safe from the weather and would still provide coverage for the area.
However, one day, one of the janitors complained she was getting headaches, and claimed that the AP was the culprit. The network managers, skeptical of it, decided to test her theory and switched off it's radio interface, not telling her anything about it. Although the AP stopped emitting radio waves, the status LED and Ethernet LED still blinked constantly. For the common person, not familiar with network devices, that is enough to assume the access point is working as usual.
Unsurprisingly, the headaches didn't go away and the whining continued. Despite the technical expertise and scientific knowledge of the network staff, the school directors decided to ignore all of the advisory they provided and sided with the janitor, ordering for the AP to be moved out of the janitor's room.
Now, the funny thing is that they moved the access point around two meters from the original position, so that it was on the other side of the wall, enclosed on an opaque, weather resistant box. Radio interface was brought up and then, mysteriously, the headaches went away...
Secondly, I could be doing something funky, like, I dunno, running an ftp server to share photos and video between people in a design shop.
Some ISP forbid that in their TOS, at least mine does. They have a clause that says this:
"The client can't use the Internet access service to connect to the Internet WWW, FTP, IRC, Chat, MUD, MOO or similar servers, also not being able to use the service to run bots."
I doubt this has ever been enforced and believe it is only there to route companies to their enterprise oriented sister company, but still it would give them grounds to terminate the service. Stupid, I know...
Ha, what a coincidence. Today I had a talk with a college friend of mine about that exact problem, and I have to implement a variant of it soon. I guess that name will stuck around here, too:-).
If you have 3 things that needs to be done and committed by tomorrow, then there's going to be a tendency towards hackery. If you've got one thing that the company wants you to work on until it's finished, then you need to be more of a thinker.
I bet Duke Nukem Forever team members are all philosophers, by now...
Wool provides a good thermal insulation, keeping you warm in the winter and fresh in the summer. I don't know if goat's fur has the same properties, but even if it does you have to kill the goat to get it. I suppose its use is also dependent on the climate you live in.
Cheese made from sheep's milk can be really delicious and pretty valuable, on the market. Goat's cheese is good, too, but I don't think it even compares.
Mutton would have the sheep killed, then no more ruminants to mow for you... I thought that was damn obvious, what the hell were you thinking about?!
DigiShaman: a flock of sheep is often considered a poor man's harim.
If you really want to use ruminants to mow for you, sheep are a much better choice than goats.
Agreed, and then there's the associated pleasures that come with sheep, if ya know what I mean:-). Not that goats are bad, but it's a different stuff all together, though that also depends on your local climate, I guess...
I didn't explain well. I meant to say that happened at the time of the implementation of Bologna, not a direct consequence of it. They had to reformulate the courses at that time and it seems they took the chance to introduce MS stuff on the curriculum.
Apparently he has very good connections there and has managed to infiltrate his software there with offers and promotions and whatever else he can promise.
That's correct. Besides MSDNAA and other goodies, I know a couple of teachers have managed to get access to windows source code.
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I actually use Alt - SysRq - R + E + I + S + U + B:
* R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
* E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
* I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
* S: Sync all mounted filesystems
* U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
* B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing
You don't need to hold the REISUB keys, so you can use your left hand to hold Alt, your right one to hold SysRq and use the free fingers to type REISUB.
No, that's Sara Chan. New Here is this guy.
Aww, really? The other day I got a flat tire, but I don't live near any repair shop. However, there's a car dealer just next to my house and they sell the same model I have. Are you saying I can't buy a new car and return everything except one of the wheels? That sucks...
Redundant? Speak for yourself, Mr. Mod. I sure wouldn't get bored.
Oh, porn would be so awesome with that!
Yeah. That and the funny toilet design with water to the top. Who the hell thought that was a good idea?!
Bad looking videos look like nothing but JPEG artifacts.
True.
I tried it in HD, they look ok, but worse than a good divx dvdrip. The biggest problem for me is the slowness of full-screen playback, when playing on full HD resolution (1080p). It totally sucks! To avoid that, I have to stream the video with the help of a video player with FLV support, like VLC or SMPlayer. Too much of a hassle, for me...
You forgot to point at yourself while saying it.
:-)
Yes, I see your point and agree with you. Besides, it would be easy for the janitor to end up on the local Oprah-wannabe complaining about radiations at the workplace. That would be terrible for the school reputation. At least the network admins just growl at a corner, suck it up and move on ;-).
I really find it hard to believe that two or three blinking LED stuck in the ceiling of a well lit room during daylight can trigger epileptic reactions. Unless she climbed into a stair and spent all day with her eyes 1 cm away from them...
Everyone has headaches, once in a while. Apparently, hers were recurring. However, there are many more probable causes that would explain it. Lack of sleep, tiredness, myopia, menopause...
I mean, if blinking LED triggered epileptic seizures that would be widely known. How about the millions of epileptics who use computers? They would certainly have a hard time with the blinking disk access LED, no? I can't find any info on google about anything related to this.
I really doubt that. We're talking about tiny LED on plain daylight, stuck near the ceiling on a well lit room.
I had headaches with CRT monitors before, too, but that's something we spend quite a lot of time directly looking at. As for fluorescents, they illuminate a room only by themselves. I don't see how that can compare with two or three blinking LED.
It was there to provide wireless to the area around that room, where the classrooms are located. It's a really tiny room, used mostly for storage, with big glass windows on all sides. It was inside the room to protect against the weather.
Agreed. There was a case on my university that I found very interesting.
We have access points (AP) distributed all around the campus, meaning we get wireless connectivity pretty much everywhere. One particular AP was located inside a small room used by janitors, adjacent to an interior garden. Being inside a room, it was safe from the weather and would still provide coverage for the area.
However, one day, one of the janitors complained she was getting headaches, and claimed that the AP was the culprit. The network managers, skeptical of it, decided to test her theory and switched off it's radio interface, not telling her anything about it. Although the AP stopped emitting radio waves, the status LED and Ethernet LED still blinked constantly. For the common person, not familiar with network devices, that is enough to assume the access point is working as usual.
Unsurprisingly, the headaches didn't go away and the whining continued. Despite the technical expertise and scientific knowledge of the network staff, the school directors decided to ignore all of the advisory they provided and sided with the janitor, ordering for the AP to be moved out of the janitor's room.
Now, the funny thing is that they moved the access point around two meters from the original position, so that it was on the other side of the wall, enclosed on an opaque, weather resistant box. Radio interface was brought up and then, mysteriously, the headaches went away...
Or a bicycle while wearing shorts. Ouch, the memories...
Secondly, I could be doing something funky, like, I dunno, running an ftp server to share photos and video between people in a design shop.
Some ISP forbid that in their TOS, at least mine does. They have a clause that says this:
"The client can't use the Internet access service to connect to the Internet WWW, FTP, IRC, Chat, MUD, MOO or similar servers, also not being able to use the service to run bots."
I doubt this has ever been enforced and believe it is only there to route companies to their enterprise oriented sister company, but still it would give them grounds to terminate the service. Stupid, I know...
Ha, what a coincidence. Today I had a talk with a college friend of mine about that exact problem, and I have to implement a variant of it soon. I guess that name will stuck around here, too :-).
If you have 3 things that needs to be done and committed by tomorrow, then there's going to be a tendency towards hackery. If you've got one thing that the company wants you to work on until it's finished, then you need to be more of a thinker.
I bet Duke Nukem Forever team members are all philosophers, by now...
Actually, I was referring to wool and cheese.
Wool provides a good thermal insulation, keeping you warm in the winter and fresh in the summer. I don't know if goat's fur has the same properties, but even if it does you have to kill the goat to get it. I suppose its use is also dependent on the climate you live in.
Cheese made from sheep's milk can be really delicious and pretty valuable, on the market. Goat's cheese is good, too, but I don't think it even compares.
Mutton would have the sheep killed, then no more ruminants to mow for you... I thought that was damn obvious, what the hell were you thinking about?!
DigiShaman: a flock of sheep is often considered a poor man's harim.
WTF?! You sick people! Go fix yourselves!
If you really want to use ruminants to mow for you, sheep are a much better choice than goats.
Agreed, and then there's the associated pleasures that come with sheep, if ya know what I mean :-). Not that goats are bad, but it's a different stuff all together, though that also depends on your local climate, I guess...
* This is a joke, and in no way represents an actual occurrence.
That's what she said!
Couldn't agree more!
Oh... Duh, silly me... Sorry about that.
From wikipedia:
"Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions".
Also worth checking: open-source Van Eck phreaking implementation.
Well, I got totally drunk last night and I surely don't remember having any of those symptoms...
I didn't explain well. I meant to say that happened at the time of the implementation of Bologna, not a direct consequence of it. They had to reformulate the courses at that time and it seems they took the chance to introduce MS stuff on the curriculum.
Apparently he has very good connections there and has managed to infiltrate his software there with offers and promotions and whatever else he can promise.
That's correct. Besides MSDNAA and other goodies, I know a couple of teachers have managed to get access to windows source code.