The FasrTrack BIOS updates are for people who purchased FasTrack cards (repeat until cognition (oops, I used a Clamism, but it fits)). It is not for people who bought the non-RAID card and modified it.
Just because you can access it from their FTP server does NOT make it yours to do with as you please.
That reminds me of a story I read in one of the big Far Side compliations by Gary Larson.
One day he got an angy call from The Jane Goodall (sp?) Foundation about a Far Side cartoon showing a female gorilla grooming a male gorilla and she's found a blond hair on his back and she's saying something like: "Another blond hair? You've been hanging around that Jane Goodal tramp, haven't you?"
Mr. Larson called Jane Goodal to apologize for offending her with the cartoon only to find out that no one at The Foundation had bothered to ask her about it; she thaought it was very funny.
A few years ago I noticed that "drugs" (for me it was booze and pot) severly impaired my ability to do anything with my computer than stare at the screen for hours on end and get nothing done.
My company just uograded our sneaker net to ethernet a few months ago. The first thing that I pushed for was a "network use policy". One of those policies is that end users can not install ANY software, period. IS does that, and no one else.
People who install AOL at work should be fired. Period. AOL is for personal use, not business use.
I work for a financial institution who provides our customers with (among other things) credit cards. AOL will continue to place charges against a credit card even after a customer has cnacelled their account, including placing charges on cards that have been closed!
Never, EVER, pay your AOL charges with a credit card. Their billing department is more tenatious, and about as intellegent, as a Jahovah's Witness pitbull.
What I really wish would happen is that the AmigaOS would be released to Open Source so that if there is anything still usefull or interesting in the code, it can be used for things such as window managers, etc.
You know, that's one of the things that really bothers me about the "Open-Source Uber Alles" crowd here; the basic assumption that anything cool or powerful developed by anybody should be open so we can pick it apart for the crown jewels like Apple did to PARC.
I work in a small "financial institution" and we started our Y2K testing back in late 1997.
We saw our first Y2K problems in 1998, with some venders being unable to process credit cards with "00" expiration dates.
Believe it or not, but that, and Netscape 3.x's inablility to handle secure citer certificates as on 01/01/00, has been the worst problem our customers have had to face.
Why? Because we started early and hauled ass on getting our equipment and software upgraded to Y2K compliance. All of our "production" software (all running in Unix) had to be upgraded. Most of our workstations were replaced in the last year (they needed to be, anyway, but this gave us a reason we could take to the board).
Y2K was not the disaster that it could have been, but we're nor done with it yet. We still don;t know how it will affect business at the end of this month. If everyone was on the ball it should be no more than a few minor headaches.
A lot of people here are not open minded at all. "Alternative" minded, but not open minded.
Look at how many bash BeOS just because it's not Open Source. Look at how many bash FreeBSD because it's not Linux. Look how many bash space exploration because abstract knowledge is "useless".
They may use a non-MS OS, but luddites is luddites.
The comment about the check was a joke. I really doubt that he is expecting a really big check.
The idea is that he really doesn't care about getting paid back, if the check only covers his expenses he'll frame it and put it on the wall. If it's a huge amount of money he'd cash it beacause he'd be a fool not to.
PageRank ensures that the most important, relevant pages always come up first and that your users will always find what they are looking for.
Hah! Look up "mud wrestling" on Google. What do you see on the first page? "Vatican Mud Wrestling", a (really) short piece a few freinds and I did way back in college.
I really doubt that most of the people referred by Google to my site are looking for what they find on my page.
No, I will NOT buy the VHS or the DVD! I wouldn't pollute my house with that garbage! And I WON'T be going to see the next two, either (unless at least six people who'se opinions I can trust tell me their better).
Lucas can kiss my hairy ass. PM sucked. It was just a lot of expensive CG animation wrapped around a turd of a movie.
I'm sorry, but Episode one was a piece of crap. It was a pretty piece of crap, but it was still a piece of crap. To Quote Butthead: "A ploished turd is still a turd, Beavis."
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Let's not forget that they also were teh first to: 1. Put a woman into space 2. Land a probe on venus
We beat them to the moon, but that's about all, so far.
I love that kinda stuff. You ask where life on earth originated and they say "from outer space!". Okay, where did life start then? If not here, where? It had to start somewhere. Seeing that this is the only world that we know life does exist on, doesn't it seem reasonable that earth life originated here?
It's like the idea that the earth is a flat disk held by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle. What's the turtle standing on?
The point is not that life at the geothermal vents developed independantly of the rest of life on Earth, but that all life on Earth started at the gerothermal vents.
Anarobic (sp?) bacteria ruled the Earth for what, about a billion (1,000,000,000) years before the oxygen they peed out as a waste product put created the atmosphere that would allow oxygen using life to take over.
And what about the next time? It does NOT matter WHAT information is getting sent about MY system. What DOES matter is that I did not agree to it and I never saw any notice about it.
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And I thought Lyndon LaRouche (sp?) was a nut!
I gave up reading Dune on the fourth page describing how fat the Barron was. I mean, jsut say:
"He was so huge that small children were sucked into orbit around him"
and get on with it!
I enjoyed the movie better than the book.
I enjoyed National Lampoons' "DOON" better. They did in 150 pages what took Herbet 1,000.
You still don't get it, do you?
The FasrTrack BIOS updates are for people who purchased FasTrack cards (repeat until cognition (oops, I used a Clamism, but it fits)). It is not for people who bought the non-RAID card and modified it.
Just because you can access it from their FTP server does NOT make it yours to do with as you please.
No THAT was damned funny!
That reminds me of a story I read in one of the big Far Side compliations by Gary Larson.
One day he got an angy call from The Jane Goodall (sp?) Foundation about a Far Side cartoon showing a female gorilla grooming a male gorilla and she's found a blond hair on his back and she's saying something like:
"Another blond hair? You've been hanging around that Jane Goodal tramp, haven't you?"
Mr. Larson called Jane Goodal to apologize for offending her with the cartoon only to find out that no one at The Foundation had bothered to ask her about it; she thaought it was very funny.
Not to turn this troll fest into a productive conversation, but anyone know what good groupware products this guy might have been referring to?
Any that run on NT? (I use what the boss tells me, deal with it.)
A few years ago I noticed that "drugs" (for me it was booze and pot) severly impaired my ability to do anything with my computer than stare at the screen for hours on end and get nothing done.
Guess what? You are still going to die. Sure, a copy of your brain might live on, but you are still dead.
Any immortality that does not preserve your brain is no immortality at all.
My company just uograded our sneaker net to ethernet a few months ago. The first thing that I pushed for was a "network use policy". One of those policies is that end users can not install ANY software, period. IS does that, and no one else.
People who install AOL at work should be fired. Period. AOL is for personal use, not business use.
Here's another cute AOL feature:
I work for a financial institution who provides our customers with (among other things) credit cards. AOL will continue to place charges against a credit card even after a customer has cnacelled their account, including placing charges on cards that have been closed!
Never, EVER, pay your AOL charges with a credit card. Their billing department is more tenatious, and about as intellegent, as a Jahovah's Witness pitbull.
Add a few wires, a weird and useless left-hand prostethis (speled wrong, bite me) and you've got Borg dolls!
How fitting.
You know, that's one of the things that really bothers me about the "Open-Source Uber Alles" crowd here; the basic assumption that anything cool or powerful developed by anybody should be open so we can pick it apart for the crown jewels like Apple did to PARC.
I work in a small "financial institution" and we started our Y2K testing back in late 1997.
We saw our first Y2K problems in 1998, with some venders being unable to process credit cards with "00" expiration dates.
Believe it or not, but that, and Netscape 3.x's inablility to handle secure citer certificates as on 01/01/00, has been the worst problem our customers have had to face.
Why? Because we started early and hauled ass on getting our equipment and software upgraded to Y2K compliance. All of our "production" software (all running in Unix) had to be upgraded. Most of our workstations were replaced in the last year (they needed to be, anyway, but this gave us a reason we could take to the board).
Y2K was not the disaster that it could have been, but we're nor done with it yet. We still don;t know how it will affect business at the end of this month. If everyone was on the ball it should be no more than a few minor headaches.
A lot of people here are not open minded at all. "Alternative" minded, but not open minded.
Look at how many bash BeOS just because it's not Open Source. Look at how many bash FreeBSD because it's not Linux. Look how many bash space exploration because abstract knowledge is "useless".
They may use a non-MS OS, but luddites is luddites.
The comment about the check was a joke. I really doubt that he is expecting a really big check.
The idea is that he really doesn't care about getting paid back, if the check only covers his expenses he'll frame it and put it on the wall. If it's a huge amount of money he'd cash it beacause he'd be a fool not to.
Read for comprehension.
Hah! Look up "mud wrestling" on Google. What do you see on the first page? "Vatican Mud Wrestling", a (really) short piece a few freinds and I did way back in college.
I really doubt that most of the people referred by Google to my site are looking for what they find on my page.
Please, read the book? Prolong the agony?
If you have to read the book to understand the movie then the movie is a failure.
No, I will NOT buy the VHS or the DVD! I wouldn't pollute my house with that garbage! And I WON'T be going to see the next two, either (unless at least six people who'se opinions I can trust tell me their better).
Lucas can kiss my hairy ass. PM sucked. It was just a lot of expensive CG animation wrapped around a turd of a movie.
I saw that when I was a kid. It was a lot better than "Phantom Menace". I mean, the special effects were nto as good, but the story was better.
Come to think of it, so was that lame direct to video movie about the kid on Endor.
I'm sorry, but Episode one was a piece of crap. It was a pretty piece of crap, but it was still a piece of crap. To Quote Butthead: "A ploished turd is still a turd, Beavis."
Let's not forget that they also were teh first to:
1. Put a woman into space
2. Land a probe on venus
We beat them to the moon, but that's about all, so far.
Damnit! I was eating! Now I've got to mop the puke out of the keyboard.
Please, never, ever bring HER uo again.
It's like the idea that the earth is a flat disk held by four elephants standing on the back of a turtle. What's the turtle standing on?
Anarobic (sp?) bacteria ruled the Earth for what, about a billion (1,000,000,000) years before the oxygen they peed out as a waste product put created the atmosphere that would allow oxygen using life to take over.
And what about the next time? It does NOT matter WHAT information is getting sent about MY system. What DOES matter is that I did not agree to it and I never saw any notice about it.
THAT is why I care.