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On the other hand I feel better working on my vehicles myself. I know that I put the extra bit of attention in to make sure that things are right. I don't know that the mechanic I bring my vehicle to be worked on has payed as close attention, especially since he's more likely being pushed to get the job done as quickly as possible. Pro mechanics do screw things up all the time as well. If you do it yourself, taking your time and paying attention, your likely going to do as good or better then they will.
Engines really arn't that hard to understand. As with anything you've just got to jump in and do it to learn it.
oh-ya, AND the indicator lights should be on the side mirrors, so you at least have to look at the mirror. IE: make it easiest to do the correct thing.
YES! Make it only turn on in reverse and with the turn signals. Then if people want to use the radar they'll be forced to signal.
As far as #3 goes, how is the car supposed to tell the difference between a lane change and a curve in the highway? #3 is not possible without other sensing equiptment so the car knows if it's in a lane or not.
Also, as others have said, it should only lite-up when it's ok to change lanes, not when there's a car there, this way it fails safe.
The price certainly is right, and the company I set up with it is still using it. Hopefully I'll be able to eventually transition them to something running on OFBiz, and then integrate it with more of their business, but it all takes time. I guess I'm just too much of a perfectionist, it frustrates me when systems don't work the way they should.
I've used TUTOS and it looks great from the user side, but I don't like the code at all. I set it up for a small manufacturing company and then imported all of there customer data into it. It can't handle the dataset. If you do a search for companies that returns too many items then you get an out of memory error, even though it only displays 10 or so at a time, and doesn't return any results.
Adding new entries is semi time-consuming as well and it tooks some time for the users to really grasp what was going on. There needs toi be an entry screen that'll let you setup a company/address/location all from one screen for first time contacts with a company, then add pieces later as well.
I've never really used runlevels at all, so I don't care much about that. What I do like is DJB's/service setup. It's easy to control daemons with the svc command, and if they ever crash they'll automatically be restarted. For a short time I as applying this system to as much of the system as possible. It was very nice but it was alot of work so I've not used it recently except for qmail and friends.
Slackware's bsd-style init scripts were also good.
Actually, I think it'd be more analogous to having one of the door hidden in the bookcase things that you might see in the movies. You don't even know the door is there unless you remove the correct book, or know to pull on the torch next to the bookcase or whatever. Then behind that you have a normal locked door.
The door doesn't bounce around at all, it's right in front of your nose, you just need to know how to make it visible.
In this case it's more useful to a hacker then a normal sysadmin. a hacker really doesn't want his backdoor to be bound to a port all the time because he doesn't want it to show up in netstat and the like. If your installing a ligitimate service then you could more easily do things like listen on another port for a password before opening this port, or send a few packets to a UDP port that's listening but never responds (scanners wont pick it up, but netstat would), or if you have any public services listening (http, smtp, whatever) on the same machine, then just make it wait for some sort of "secret" request to one of those. Any of these ways of obscuring whatever service you want should be just as effective for the admin who is authorized to do so. Although I think I agree with the guy who effectively said that your time would be better spend just making SSH ask for 2 different passwords/keys/whatever before letting you in.
On the other hand I ALWAYS give my cell number to companies that might sell my name. It's illegal for telemarketers to call a cell phone, and I haven't gotten one sales call on it yet.
Undertaker: Bringout your dead! Microsoft: Here's one for you Unix: I'm not dead yet! Undertaker: What was that? Microsoft: What? I didn't hear anything. ...etc...
so does this mean drives that conform to the Mt Fuji specs will now be considered an illegal circumvation device?
"Why are you taking me to jail?"
"You have an illegal cd-rom"
it sounds like they didn't even rebuild the server after it was cracked. they just installed patches and took the hacker's word for it that he didn't do anything else (install backdoors or whatever). very trusting of them.
actually, I just bought a PDQ and have been quite happy with it so far.
there is more integration than just the dial feature (the call history is tracked in a palm program and can automatically put calls into the expense program with a setable rate/min for example)
and they've got a documented API for accessing the phone features with your own palm programs.
all of the phone's settings are even set through the PalmOS Preferences program.
I just hope this Motorola version doesn't make me wish I waited..
it IS big though, but actually is' not quite as wide as my Palm IIIx, but it's twice the depth, and about an inch or 2 taller.
I'd much prefer chloriphil (I know, I can't spell)
sure, green skin wouldn't be all that great.. but then you could actually make energy from the monitor glow... put a plant-lamp over the desk and never need to sleep again.. Make your own oxegen too.. hmm, mabie you'd be able to do without breathing then??
of course it'd probably never work, but it'd be cool if it did...
What good is it to be able to share files and information anonymously if you can't search it to find what your looking for??
Even libraries have at least a cardfile to point you in the right direction..
they give you a url.. but then they'll stop you from speading the url the same way they'd stop you from speading the file before, so the system's useless...
you have to keep in mind that napster users were split across several servers, and the servers didn't communicate between each other (unless they changed it in the past 3-4 months since I've used it). so it was already kinda diluted on napster.. the number of options is probably still low enough that the popular ones shouldn't be too diluted imho.. of course, only time will tell..
I don't think this would work well for military use (if I'm understanding correctly) because all the enemy would have to do to break-down communications (which at times could be almost as good as monitoring them) would be to tap the line.. so you hide a bug somewhere between the 2 sites and it could take them quite awhile to find it.. and the whole time it's there it'll be corrupting all attempts to pass the keys, effectively eliminating that form of communication.. knowing that someone's listening is not enough, getting your message across is extremely importaint too.. or am I totally off-base here?
ok, this may be a bit redundant.. as couple of the above posts were from females doing overclocking.. so there are women who do it.. personally I'm a guy and I don't overclock because I want my system to be as rock-solid as possible.. and I figure if I overclock it'll probably be ok, but you've always got those times when you have problems with the system (especially when running windows, or, as I tend to do sometimes, use a couple of pieces of old hardware that may be a little flakey), and I don't want to be wondering if overclocking is the/part of the problem, or if it's totally something else.. so I don't overclock and I eliminated one possible cause for every problem I have with my system.. it's definatly worth it for my piece of mind.. so I think it has less to do with your sex and more to do with your priorities (speed or stability?)..
yes they would give almost give away their software, especially to students/teachers/schools. the more people the can firmiliarize with their software early on the more loyal users they will have. if you go to a school that has all MS products b/c they were real cheap, and they require you to use/learn on those programs, then (assuming your just starting to learn computers at school) that's all you'll know, and so that'll be what you'll stick with.. most people hate having to learn different software.. Just because a company is a monopoly doesn't mean they will stay that way forever, they still have to do _something_ to keep customers...
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On the other hand I feel better working on my vehicles myself. I know that I put the extra bit of attention in to make sure that things are right. I don't know that the mechanic I bring my vehicle to be worked on has payed as close attention, especially since he's more likely being pushed to get the job done as quickly as possible.
Pro mechanics do screw things up all the time as well. If you do it yourself, taking your time and paying attention, your likely going to do as good or better then they will.
Engines really arn't that hard to understand. As with anything you've just got to jump in and do it to learn it.
If it's Friday the 13th when your reading this, then it's Friday the 13th.
Wow!
But if your still searching for hidden levels in old games then your not buying new games.
Isn't it in their best interest to buy games that hook you long enough so you buy it, but not much longer so you'll go buy the next one soon after?
oh-ya, AND the indicator lights should be on the side mirrors, so you at least have to look at the mirror.
IE: make it easiest to do the correct thing.
YES!
Make it only turn on in reverse and with the turn signals. Then if people want to use the radar they'll be forced to signal.
As far as #3 goes, how is the car supposed to tell the difference between a lane change and a curve in the highway? #3 is not possible without other sensing equiptment so the car knows if it's in a lane or not.
Also, as others have said, it should only lite-up when it's ok to change lanes, not when there's a car there, this way it fails safe.
The price certainly is right, and the company I set up with it is still using it. Hopefully I'll be able to eventually transition them to something running on OFBiz, and then integrate it with more of their business, but it all takes time.
I guess I'm just too much of a perfectionist, it frustrates me when systems don't work the way they should.
I've used TUTOS and it looks great from the user side, but I don't like the code at all. I set it up for a small manufacturing company and then imported all of there customer data into it. It can't handle the dataset. If you do a search for companies that returns too many items then you get an out of memory error, even though it only displays 10 or so at a time, and doesn't return any results.
Adding new entries is semi time-consuming as well and it tooks some time for the users to really grasp what was going on. There needs toi be an entry screen that'll let you setup a company/address/location all from one screen for first time contacts with a company, then add pieces later as well.
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It's not a complete solution yet. But it has an excellent framework and a quite active group of programmers behind it.
I've never really used runlevels at all, so I don't care much about that. What I do like is DJB's /service setup. It's easy to control daemons with the svc command, and if they ever crash they'll automatically be restarted.
For a short time I as applying this system to as much of the system as possible. It was very nice but it was alot of work so I've not used it recently except for qmail and friends.
Slackware's bsd-style init scripts were also good.
Actually, I think it'd be more analogous to having one of the door hidden in the bookcase things that you might see in the movies. You don't even know the door is there unless you remove the correct book, or know to pull on the torch next to the bookcase or whatever. Then behind that you have a normal locked door.
The door doesn't bounce around at all, it's right in front of your nose, you just need to know how to make it visible.
In this case it's more useful to a hacker then a normal sysadmin. a hacker really doesn't want his backdoor to be bound to a port all the time because he doesn't want it to show up in netstat and the like. If your installing a ligitimate service then you could more easily do things like listen on another port for a password before opening this port, or send a few packets to a UDP port that's listening but never responds (scanners wont pick it up, but netstat would), or if you have any public services listening (http, smtp, whatever) on the same machine, then just make it wait for some sort of "secret" request to one of those. Any of these ways of obscuring whatever service you want should be just as effective for the admin who is authorized to do so. Although I think I agree with the guy who effectively said that your time would be better spend just making SSH ask for 2 different passwords/keys/whatever before letting you in.
The cat's out of the bag! Google's buying Adobe!
There will also be trademark confusion when trucking companies start using autopilots for their long haul routes. You'll see Macs driving Mack Trucks.
But why would they switch to Macs when the Navitron Autodrive already works so well?
On the other hand I ALWAYS give my cell number to companies that might sell my name. It's illegal for telemarketers to call a cell phone, and I haven't gotten one sales call on it yet.
So, when a major power outtage occurs do you hear the collective screams of a million rejected packets, and then silenced?
Actually I see it more like:
Undertaker: Bringout your dead!
Microsoft: Here's one for you
Unix: I'm not dead yet!
Undertaker: What was that?
Microsoft: What? I didn't hear anything.
...etc...
so does this mean drives that conform to the Mt Fuji specs will now be considered an illegal circumvation device?
"Why are you taking me to jail?"
"You have an illegal cd-rom"
2001/03/19 8:38:00 :)
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it sounds like they didn't even rebuild the server after it was cracked. they just installed patches and took the hacker's word for it that he didn't do anything else (install backdoors or whatever). very trusting of them.
actually, I just bought a PDQ and have been quite happy with it so far.
there is more integration than just the dial feature (the call history is tracked in a palm program and can automatically put calls into the expense program with a setable rate/min for example)
and they've got a documented API for accessing the phone features with your own palm programs.
all of the phone's settings are even set through the PalmOS Preferences program.
I just hope this Motorola version doesn't make me wish I waited..
it IS big though, but actually is' not quite as wide as my Palm IIIx, but it's twice the depth, and about an inch or 2 taller.
I'd much prefer chloriphil (I know, I can't spell)
sure, green skin wouldn't be all that great.. but then you could actually make energy from the monitor glow... put a plant-lamp over the desk and never need to sleep again.. Make your own oxegen too.. hmm, mabie you'd be able to do without breathing then??
of course it'd probably never work, but it'd be cool if it did...
What good is it to be able to share files and information anonymously if you can't search it to find what your looking for??
Even libraries have at least a cardfile to point you in the right direction..
they give you a url.. but then they'll stop you from speading the url the same way they'd stop you from speading the file before, so the system's useless...
you have to keep in mind that napster users were split across several servers, and the servers didn't communicate between each other (unless they changed it in the past 3-4 months since I've used it). so it was already kinda diluted on napster.. the number of options is probably still low enough that the popular ones shouldn't be too diluted imho.. of course, only time will tell..
I don't think this would work well for military use (if I'm understanding correctly) because all the enemy would have to do to break-down communications (which at times could be almost as good as monitoring them) would be to tap the line.. so you hide a bug somewhere between the 2 sites and it could take them quite awhile to find it.. and the whole time it's there it'll be corrupting all attempts to pass the keys, effectively eliminating that form of communication.. knowing that someone's listening is not enough, getting your message across is extremely importaint too.. or am I totally off-base here?
ok, this may be a bit redundant.. as couple of the above posts were from females doing overclocking.. so there are women who do it.. personally I'm a guy and I don't overclock because I want my system to be as rock-solid as possible.. and I figure if I overclock it'll probably be ok, but you've always got those times when you have problems with the system (especially when running windows, or, as I tend to do sometimes, use a couple of pieces of old hardware that may be a little flakey), and I don't want to be wondering if overclocking is the/part of the problem, or if it's totally something else.. so I don't overclock and I eliminated one possible cause for every problem I have with my system.. it's definatly worth it for my piece of mind.. so I think it has less to do with your sex and more to do with your priorities (speed or stability?)..
:)
...and women tend to call us men sexist...
yes they would give almost give away their software, especially to students/teachers/schools. the more people the can firmiliarize with their software early on the more loyal users they will have. if you go to a school that has all MS products b/c they were real cheap, and they require you to use/learn on those programs, then (assuming your just starting to learn computers at school) that's all you'll know, and so that'll be what you'll stick with.. most people hate having to learn different software.. Just because a company is a monopoly doesn't mean they will stay that way forever, they still have to do _something_ to keep customers...