AMEN! Some people also blame apple too much. The recently had a Airport update and some peopl eclaimed it was teh cause of their non connectivity when they were only getting like 3-4 lights in Internet Connect in teh first place! While I am sure the software affect them, they ignored the fact that maybe they need another AP on thier network. They completely blamed apple even though they were well in control of fixing the problem and when the fix comes out their network would be even more reliable.
Well, and another problem I saw was it was bitch to read the caps soemtimes. Another problem was that they only let you enter 10 a day. I guess they don't like my practice of ferreting them out of trash cans (we are a pepsi campus). I plan on getting a Xbox this way as well thanks to DewU. If I fail to get 550 points, I will get a minifridge for my desk.
This is when you go and find a new church. Not all Churches are suited for everyone. My church, for example, does not care whaty you wear to church. They invite anyone to come in and worship. Also, they don't out their foot down and say you must be in church every sunday. They say you should be in churchm but if you miss one and come back, then you are welcome back with open arms. While there were some in the church that used to not follow the way we do things and did not like the changes the church had to go through because of people leaving, causing more to leave. The changes were purely budgetary. Every year, we used to have a superbowl party for the men of the church and the church decided that the money used for this could better be used elsewhere. Some did not like this but others saw it as the church just going through change. Somepeople would find the rock music we play in church offensive while I think it's a modern way of praising our Lord and Savior, Jesus! Basically, you find a church that suits you. My church encourages the bible study griups and home groups, but if your schedule does not allow it, then they understand. This is one reason the church is trying to expand it's home groups. Maybe get someone who is interested in starting a study group for those who work late and do not get off of work until 8 or 9 a night. Also starting saturday family groups. I am personally excited with what the Lord is doing in our church. That's the kind of church everyone sh9uld try and find. One that suits them!:D
Disabling telnet....man I would love to do this. My main problem though is the crappy product we bought through a political decision and that I have to sysadmin requires telnet. I SHIT YOU NOT! A product released in this CENTURY no less! I have no choice. We have our servers vlanned to heck and back as well. PLUS the product REQUIRES Oracle to be set up in such a way (with out the role based security they just rolled out) that anyoen with Access or any ODBC compliant driver tobe able to alter, add and drop tables! This is the CRAPPY software that our higher ups BOUGHT and continue to ask us to support! Their patches, er enhancements are so intense, we have no time to even look at OS patches (we do get the important ones however). The print system on this baby is out of the 80's. I have to use a proprietary Xerox product to config the printers and do things like inline graphics.....
The amount of bullshit people have to put up with in a educational institution is mind boggling. One example that is called a showstopper is one that the system, as delivered, prints AmEx on the payment form and we do not accept Amex. They want to print these on a HP printer and all of our other printers are Xerox and are using VIPP. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! Ok I am going to quite venting now....
Point is, sysadmins in universities and colleges have alot of nasty political bullshit they have to put up with thanks to the feds, the state and that asshole in the corner office. That asshole in the corner office has every right to come and tell you you can't have that outage you want so you can patch. Oh well....no skin off our back!
I can agree with you on who will make more of a real and tangible difference. I mean, except for bringing out that he took andro, what has Mark MacGuire did for humanity? On the other hand, being ABLE to throw a football 70 yards and being MENTALLY able to be smart enough to know you don't throw to the guy with 3 of the other team surrounding him even if he's your favorite target is quite another. I know everyone likes to say that jocks are dumb and there are some that are, but that QB better have some smarts otherwise they ain't going to make it in the NFL or anywhere else. Same goes for NASCAR drivers. Ryan Newman one of the best drivers in the NEXTEL Cup has a degree in engineering from Purdue. He and his crew cheif know enough physics that they can make a car that can consistently be able to be put on the pole. Also people who say these guys ain't athletes have never had to driver a car 600 Miles, very fast, in 98 plus degrees with occasionaly problems with power steering pumps and other things and also NO AIR CONDITIONING! Driving in the NEXTEL racing series needs alot of athleticism that people just aren't aware how good of shape some of these drivers are. They are also very intelligent, even if they do sound like hicks. Atheletes can be geeks too but they are geeked about things other then computers and it doesn't make them any less smart then a computer geek.
You mean like ye olde and departed Jennicam? I mean except for like 5 years ago when she was hot and had sex on a regular basis with someone who did not look like a fat sasquatch!
Well, I'd like to agree with you, but nearly everything you could do could be ported if the geek out there wants to do it. Case in point, the GIMP. The gimp was ported so well that you don't even need a X server (UNLIKE the Mac OS X Port). It waas ported because the negative scanner that the main developer owned was not supported under Linux (Minolta Dimage). The only way that Linux can compete is if IBM or some big, powerful OEM starts showing new users what Linux can do for the, Essentially, a distro of Linux has to be made very similarly to the way Mac OS X is made. Do that, and I bet the new users would go for it.
COBOL Still has MORE users then Visual Basic any day. Only reason it is as high as it is is because the ease of whipping out a program and teh fact every Windows user has a least one app and probably more that was written in Visual Basic. COBOL still runs the back end of many banks, Fortune 500 companies and other stalwarts. In fact, there are probable still more lines of COBOL then Vis Basic in production. The fact is, if the old 20-30 year old COBOL program (that has been tweaked over that 30 years) still works, why replace it? To get pretty pictures instead of a terminal windows???
I do packages when available and use whatever package management system available be it apt, fink, darwinports or whatever and I use whatever format for the packages that the management system needs if there is one. I have used rpm, darwinports,deb and llp(AIX). Packages with a management system allow you to easily install and uninstall items when you need to. They also ease upgrades.
I agree with you on this and it could only get worse. When things just started to get out of control is when Napster was pinched. My Dad just started looking at Napster and WinMX at that point. Now he doesn't dowload anything because of the whole napster thing. If this truely had moved beyond us geeks, the potential for damage to the music industry would be much greater. Don't fool yourselves....P2P will affect revenue and it IS stealing. That said, don't make it hard for me to listen to my CD on my MP3 player.
They taught Assembly first here. Learn low level then you understand the higher level languages so much better. That and it works GREAT as a weedout course.
100 year renewals could be good...if the deal is right. An example of a case where this could be good is a state run college. It isn't going to go away and many state run and alot of private schools have been around ALOT longer the 100 years. It also, again if the deal is right, is a good way to make sure you don't ever forget to renew.
This is easy. You don't even have to use ebay. USB ones are freely available. Most of them just use the HID Keyboard driver. I bet they even work under Linux.
I have NEVER had a teller cold sell me on things. I have recently begun visiting the teller as my bank saw the err of their ways and removed their "fee" to actually see a human. Although 90 percent of the time I do hit the ATM, sometimes you want to visit a teller (like if you have a chacek and want some cash as well as depositing a certain amount).
Microsoft would just be buying AOL. The content AOL has may not go with it if that happens.....not tha AOL does not have anything that can't be had elsewhere.
Thisis just crap. I have a similar site that is trying to take money in after years and years of just asking for donations. If you can't pay the bills, don't try to make people pay for whaqt your giving once it's been given for free for a long time. PERIOD. This arguement doesn't do it for me. If the project is so financially straped, they need to find a school, a company or someone who values the project enough to take care of the bills. Case in point, IBM. IBM could host all of the open source projects and be able to afford the ah bills. It's like this.....once you have had fine wine for free, you feel you should not have to pay for it. Donations are always accepted, but never required. When a donation starts to be required, then it;s not really a donation any more. Having to pay the bils is just an excuse. Is Mozilla a project that deserves money? Sure. Do I feel like donating? Maybe. Would I pay to download it or pay an exhorbitant fee to buy a shirt? Never. If the folks who are organizing Mozilla.org are desparate enough to control who uses their logo, then maybe they should pass the baton to someone else and give up.
It's idotic reasons like this that c an cause a Open Source implosion. What are we, the users, supposed to think? I think Mozilla seems to forget that to get users, they need to get the browser in front of eyes. Linux distros using Mozilla Firefox as the default browser can expose lots of users to the browser. Same goes for people making t-shirts. People can ask...what is that symbol for and the wearer can say te best damn drowser in the world! That is FREE publicity. Also, last I checked, Mozilla was considered open source. Anyone can download it. It's not like the Mozilla project is there to MAKE money unlike Microsoft and IE.
Funny. Was it a clogged fuel filter? My old 1980 Old's Cutlass Supreme woud stutter and stall when going over 35. I replaced the PCV valve and other things and low and behold I tried replacing the fuel filter and the thing would run like a top again. I miss that car.
They already do this. I can go find parts for my Kia and my old Saturn we used to have that are not made by Saturn. I can even find some that are better then the stock components. Car's are a bit different. People want to fix them. We're not going to try and make our own Saturn or Chevy by pounding out metal and pouring our own engin block with loast foam. We would just like to be able to fix the thing. Companioes who make parts are not going ot make money Copying the stock part. They will make money on parts that are better then stock and even the ones that also add performance. My main beef is if I change a batetry, I should not have to know anything to get things like my stereo working again but I had one case where I had to take it back to the dealer just because I did not know the code I set for the stereo 3 years ago when I bought the car. Also, I can fix things like the O2 sensor (very common code....ran into it on several vehicles) very easily and much cheaper then if I actually could find out what the code was (O2 code). O2 sensors are real easy to replace. I don't even think you need a tool on some cars.
I have used over the last 4 years about 10 different gateway machines (soem mine, some not) with no issues. I have NOT heard of alot of people having issues with Gateway. Making a business decision on a burn me once shame on me burn me twice shame on you deal is just as dumb as never looking at anyone else but Dell. SHOW ME THE FAILURE numbers then I will not buy. Show me anecdotal evidence and I will take it with a large grain of salt. I DON'T here from a large amount of Gateway users (except geeks) about failures. This is so unlike buzz I heard about Packard Bell. EVERYONE...and I do mean eveyrone....even the people trying to sell them thought they were pure crap. Strange I don't hear this from anyone but geeks.
This article is so true....
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Nevermind that you suspended belief for about a half an hour each of these came on. These shows were cool...even if....
A 70's Dodge Charger was never capable of those jumps
The Semi used in Knight Rider looked normal on the outside, but was a large garage once they switched inside.
That they tried the SAME crap with TKR (Team Knight Rider) in the late ninety's.
That the A Team could never get caught by the best army in the world.
We watched them anyway. The best parts of the A Team were the Plan or gadget of the week and how they figured out hoe to get BA on the plane. Making a armored vehicle out of a late model sedan or just doign the simple stuff to stay alive it was all good, if not terribly believable.
The BEST shows though live on. Star Trek. If you sit and watch the original, the effects look cheesy as hell yet the story still works. Try that on Knight Rider. The effects were still cheesy, yet it was popular and in som eplaces far more then in the US. I remember when Baywatch had more viewers in Europe then they did in all of the US. Thats what kept that syndicated piece of junk around far longer then needed. Well, that and Pam Anderson's Boobs.
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AMEN! Some people also blame apple too much. The recently had a Airport update and some peopl eclaimed it was teh cause of their non connectivity when they were only getting like 3-4 lights in Internet Connect in teh first place! While I am sure the software affect them, they ignored the fact that maybe they need another AP on thier network. They completely blamed apple even though they were well in control of fixing the problem and when the fix comes out their network would be even more reliable.
Well, and another problem I saw was it was bitch to read the caps soemtimes. Another problem was that they only let you enter 10 a day. I guess they don't like my practice of ferreting them out of trash cans (we are a pepsi campus). I plan on getting a Xbox this way as well thanks to DewU. If I fail to get 550 points, I will get a minifridge for my desk.
The previews do not work in Safari. I guess I will just use iTunes.
This is when you go and find a new church. Not all Churches are suited for everyone. My church, for example, does not care whaty you wear to church. They invite anyone to come in and worship. Also, they don't out their foot down and say you must be in church every sunday. They say you should be in churchm but if you miss one and come back, then you are welcome back with open arms. While there were some in the church that used to not follow the way we do things and did not like the changes the church had to go through because of people leaving, causing more to leave. The changes were purely budgetary. Every year, we used to have a superbowl party for the men of the church and the church decided that the money used for this could better be used elsewhere. Some did not like this but others saw it as the church just going through change. Somepeople would find the rock music we play in church offensive while I think it's a modern way of praising our Lord and Savior, Jesus! Basically, you find a church that suits you. My church encourages the bible study griups and home groups, but if your schedule does not allow it, then they understand. This is one reason the church is trying to expand it's home groups. Maybe get someone who is interested in starting a study group for those who work late and do not get off of work until 8 or 9 a night. Also starting saturday family groups. I am personally excited with what the Lord is doing in our church. That's the kind of church everyone sh9uld try and find. One that suits them! :D
Disabling telnet....man I would love to do this. My main problem though is the crappy product we bought through a political decision and that I have to sysadmin requires telnet. I SHIT YOU NOT! A product released in this CENTURY no less! I have no choice. We have our servers vlanned to heck and back as well. PLUS the product REQUIRES Oracle to be set up in such a way (with out the role based security they just rolled out) that anyoen with Access or any ODBC compliant driver tobe able to alter, add and drop tables! This is the CRAPPY software that our higher ups BOUGHT and continue to ask us to support! Their patches, er enhancements are so intense, we have no time to even look at OS patches (we do get the important ones however). The print system on this baby is out of the 80's. I have to use a proprietary Xerox product to config the printers and do things like inline graphics.....
The amount of bullshit people have to put up with in a educational institution is mind boggling. One example that is called a showstopper is one that the system, as delivered, prints AmEx on the payment form and we do not accept Amex. They want to print these on a HP printer and all of our other printers are Xerox and are using VIPP. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! Ok I am going to quite venting now....
Point is, sysadmins in universities and colleges have alot of nasty political bullshit they have to put up with thanks to the feds, the state and that asshole in the corner office. That asshole in the corner office has every right to come and tell you you can't have that outage you want so you can patch. Oh well....no skin off our back!
I can agree with you on who will make more of a real and tangible difference. I mean, except for bringing out that he took andro, what has Mark MacGuire did for humanity? On the other hand, being ABLE to throw a football 70 yards and being MENTALLY able to be smart enough to know you don't throw to the guy with 3 of the other team surrounding him even if he's your favorite target is quite another. I know everyone likes to say that jocks are dumb and there are some that are, but that QB better have some smarts otherwise they ain't going to make it in the NFL or anywhere else. Same goes for NASCAR drivers. Ryan Newman one of the best drivers in the NEXTEL Cup has a degree in engineering from Purdue. He and his crew cheif know enough physics that they can make a car that can consistently be able to be put on the pole. Also people who say these guys ain't athletes have never had to driver a car 600 Miles, very fast, in 98 plus degrees with occasionaly problems with power steering pumps and other things and also NO AIR CONDITIONING! Driving in the NEXTEL racing series needs alot of athleticism that people just aren't aware how good of shape some of these drivers are. They are also very intelligent, even if they do sound like hicks. Atheletes can be geeks too but they are geeked about things other then computers and it doesn't make them any less smart then a computer geek.
You mean like ye olde and departed Jennicam? I mean except for like 5 years ago when she was hot and had sex on a regular basis with someone who did not look like a fat sasquatch!
Well, I'd like to agree with you, but nearly everything you could do could be ported if the geek out there wants to do it. Case in point, the GIMP. The gimp was ported so well that you don't even need a X server (UNLIKE the Mac OS X Port). It waas ported because the negative scanner that the main developer owned was not supported under Linux (Minolta Dimage). The only way that Linux can compete is if IBM or some big, powerful OEM starts showing new users what Linux can do for the, Essentially, a distro of Linux has to be made very similarly to the way Mac OS X is made. Do that, and I bet the new users would go for it.
COBOL Still has MORE users then Visual Basic any day. Only reason it is as high as it is is because the ease of whipping out a program and teh fact every Windows user has a least one app and probably more that was written in Visual Basic. COBOL still runs the back end of many banks, Fortune 500 companies and other stalwarts. In fact, there are probable still more lines of COBOL then Vis Basic in production. The fact is, if the old 20-30 year old COBOL program (that has been tweaked over that 30 years) still works, why replace it? To get pretty pictures instead of a terminal windows???
I wonder if it would worked if you crammed like 3 tins of penguins in your mouth all at once (without tin of course! :D) and then started to crunch!
I do packages when available and use whatever package management system available be it apt, fink, darwinports or whatever and I use whatever format for the packages that the management system needs if there is one. I have used rpm, darwinports,deb and llp(AIX). Packages with a management system allow you to easily install and uninstall items when you need to. They also ease upgrades.
I agree with you on this and it could only get worse. When things just started to get out of control is when Napster was pinched. My Dad just started looking at Napster and WinMX at that point. Now he doesn't dowload anything because of the whole napster thing. If this truely had moved beyond us geeks, the potential for damage to the music industry would be much greater. Don't fool yourselves....P2P will affect revenue and it IS stealing. That said, don't make it hard for me to listen to my CD on my MP3 player.
They taught Assembly first here. Learn low level then you understand the higher level languages so much better. That and it works GREAT as a weedout course.
100 year renewals could be good...if the deal is right. An example of a case where this could be good is a state run college. It isn't going to go away and many state run and alot of private schools have been around ALOT longer the 100 years. It also, again if the deal is right, is a good way to make sure you don't ever forget to renew.
This is easy. You don't even have to use ebay. USB ones are freely available. Most of them just use the HID Keyboard driver. I bet they even work under Linux.
I have NEVER had a teller cold sell me on things. I have recently begun visiting the teller as my bank saw the err of their ways and removed their "fee" to actually see a human. Although 90 percent of the time I do hit the ATM, sometimes you want to visit a teller (like if you have a chacek and want some cash as well as depositing a certain amount).
Microsoft would just be buying AOL. The content AOL has may not go with it if that happens.....not tha AOL does not have anything that can't be had elsewhere.
Thisis just crap. I have a similar site that is trying to take money in after years and years of just asking for donations. If you can't pay the bills, don't try to make people pay for whaqt your giving once it's been given for free for a long time. PERIOD. This arguement doesn't do it for me. If the project is so financially straped, they need to find a school, a company or someone who values the project enough to take care of the bills. Case in point, IBM. IBM could host all of the open source projects and be able to afford the ah bills. It's like this.....once you have had fine wine for free, you feel you should not have to pay for it. Donations are always accepted, but never required. When a donation starts to be required, then it;s not really a donation any more. Having to pay the bils is just an excuse. Is Mozilla a project that deserves money? Sure. Do I feel like donating? Maybe. Would I pay to download it or pay an exhorbitant fee to buy a shirt? Never. If the folks who are organizing Mozilla.org are desparate enough to control who uses their logo, then maybe they should pass the baton to someone else and give up.
It's idotic reasons like this that c an cause a Open Source implosion. What are we, the users, supposed to think? I think Mozilla seems to forget that to get users, they need to get the browser in front of eyes. Linux distros using Mozilla Firefox as the default browser can expose lots of users to the browser. Same goes for people making t-shirts. People can ask...what is that symbol for and the wearer can say te best damn drowser in the world! That is FREE publicity. Also, last I checked, Mozilla was considered open source. Anyone can download it. It's not like the Mozilla project is there to MAKE money unlike Microsoft and IE.
The layout was good, but that font they used in TNG and onward was HORRIBLE! Everything was squished all together, or looked that way.
Funny. Was it a clogged fuel filter? My old 1980 Old's Cutlass Supreme woud stutter and stall when going over 35. I replaced the PCV valve and other things and low and behold I tried replacing the fuel filter and the thing would run like a top again. I miss that car.
Engine blocks are generally different as are body panels.
They already do this. I can go find parts for my Kia and my old Saturn we used to have that are not made by Saturn. I can even find some that are better then the stock components. Car's are a bit different. People want to fix them. We're not going to try and make our own Saturn or Chevy by pounding out metal and pouring our own engin block with loast foam. We would just like to be able to fix the thing. Companioes who make parts are not going ot make money Copying the stock part. They will make money on parts that are better then stock and even the ones that also add performance. My main beef is if I change a batetry, I should not have to know anything to get things like my stereo working again but I had one case where I had to take it back to the dealer just because I did not know the code I set for the stereo 3 years ago when I bought the car. Also, I can fix things like the O2 sensor (very common code....ran into it on several vehicles) very easily and much cheaper then if I actually could find out what the code was (O2 code). O2 sensors are real easy to replace. I don't even think you need a tool on some cars.
I have used over the last 4 years about 10 different gateway machines (soem mine, some not) with no issues. I have NOT heard of alot of people having issues with Gateway. Making a business decision on a burn me once shame on me burn me twice shame on you deal is just as dumb as never looking at anyone else but Dell. SHOW ME THE FAILURE numbers then I will not buy. Show me anecdotal evidence and I will take it with a large grain of salt. I DON'T here from a large amount of Gateway users (except geeks) about failures. This is so unlike buzz I heard about Packard Bell. EVERYONE...and I do mean eveyrone....even the people trying to sell them thought they were pure crap. Strange I don't hear this from anyone but geeks.
Nevermind that you suspended belief for about a half an hour each of these came on. These shows were cool...even if....
A 70's Dodge Charger was never capable of those jumps
The Semi used in Knight Rider looked normal on the outside, but was a large garage once they switched inside.
That they tried the SAME crap with TKR (Team Knight Rider) in the late ninety's.
That the A Team could never get caught by the best army in the world.
We watched them anyway. The best parts of the A Team were the Plan or gadget of the week and how they figured out hoe to get BA on the plane. Making a armored vehicle out of a late model sedan or just doign the simple stuff to stay alive it was all good, if not terribly believable.
The BEST shows though live on. Star Trek. If you sit and watch the original, the effects look cheesy as hell yet the story still works. Try that on Knight Rider. The effects were still cheesy, yet it was popular and in som eplaces far more then in the US. I remember when Baywatch had more viewers in Europe then they did in all of the US. Thats what kept that syndicated piece of junk around far longer then needed. Well, that and Pam Anderson's Boobs.