I've got a Thinkpad i1450 (an AWESOME Linux machine by the way. 11th commandment: Thou shalt lust after no other laptop other than a Thinkpad - heh heh.
Anyway, the Track Point stopped working for me, even when I don't run X (plain old gpm). Under Windows it works perfectly. I've been using Linux with an external mouse. That's OK, but I prefer the Track Point.
Is this the bug that this version of X fixes? I sure hope so. I was going to send my laptop in to have the hardware checked.
In my opinion security of this microwave link is irrelevant.
If your business is not important, then you don't need security. Mostly people will use this for surfing, and downloading the lastest release of Debian.
If you are doing something that requires security, then you have no business sending your data out without encrypting it first. This applies to a fiber T1, or to a microwave connection equally.
If you're worried about security then you must implement it yourself, on your own servers. The whole point is that you cannot trust anyone to handle security for you. Just as soon as you trust somebody, then you don't have any security!
When credit cards modify their agreements they always give you the option of finishing up a certain period of time (like 1 year) under the terms of the old contract. After that point if you don't want the new contract, then your business arrangement is ended.
We loaded up slashdot just so we could read an article in wired about slashdot, and then we popped the stack back to slashdot and wrote a message about wired's article about slashdot, which we read by going to slashdot and reading a wired article about slashdot, and then we popped...
Of course, I write a message about your message about wired's article about slashdot which you found out from slashdot...
I love it!
(I wonder, will you write a message about my message which is about your message which is about wired's story about slashdot which HOSTS ALL THESE MESSAGES?????)
OK, I'll stop now. I agree with you though, we're definitely into meta journalism.
I agree that this is a great thing to do. My network at home uses the same numbers as a network at a company I used to work at.
They are behind a firewall, I connect from a modem using PPP. Everything works great. There would be a problem if I had to telnet to a machine at the company with the same IP as a machine on my local network, but I would never do that anyway.
Oh this brings back a good one that my buddy did. He was working at one of those quick change oil places and he did the lights and windshield wiper check on a lady's car. When she saw that her blinker light was out she asked him if he could change it for her. Of course he could, and that was his job to do that. But instead he told her that she was out of blinker fluid and she had to go to the dealership to get the right fluid for her car.
I believe you that you heard the story first hand from an African Storyteller.
But, I have to believe that the African Storyteller was just --- [are you ready for this?] --- telling you a story!
The reason is that the glitter story is an old and well-known urban legend. Usually in the story the doctor doesn't laugh and run out of the room though. The comment is usually "My you look fancy today" or something similar, and the person discovers later on at home that they glitter all over their pudenda.
Carmen Electra told the exact story on the Conan O'Brien show just a couple months ago, but she claimed that it happened to her! Last I checked, she was an actress, which is a sort of a storyteller.
The difference is that the people can also own their own cameras, not just the gub'ment.
Who has been royally screwed by cameras the most so far? The rich and powerful, especially those in the gub'ment.
So why are we worried about cameras? I'm going to go out and get a camera myself and point it at the street. Every time a police car goes by higher than the speed limit and he's not chasing someone, UP on the web page he goes.
I was surprised too. When I answered the question I thought back to the good old days (1992) when I was using Borland C++ v2.0
I had some code like this:
float foo;
foo = 4.0 foo += 2.0
After running this code the value of foo was 4.0. I called Borland and asked for help and they blew me off. Then I dumped out the assembler and discovered that the compiler had a bug in it. Then I called Borland back and they admitted their bug.
So, never again Borland! Open source only, thank you very much. I don't give companies that treat me like that a second chance. If you release as open source I don't *have* to trust you.
Dr. Turing was a genius of integrity. He was more responsible than any other single person for saving England during the war. This fact could have gotten him out of jail and stopped the barbaric treatment of his homosexuality. Instead he honored his promise to keep secret things secret and paid a high personal price.
You'd like that kind of half-knowlege? I can make a really good case that you already have a good supply of half-knowlege. The wrong half, that is.
Do you know what an ion is?
I'm smart enough to know what you actually meant with your above comment. It scares the hell out of me that you're not smart enough to say what you actually mean.
The Physicist who made the announcement was named Kent. If this is the same Dr. Kent that I've heard of before, he is a real researcher, and he's somewhat famous.
It is a logical fallacy to believe that just because the announcement was made by Dr. Kent that it must be true. Dr. Kent could possibly be releasing a bogus announcement to have a joke on the rest of us.
But, knowing the stature of Dr. Kent I can reasonably presume that Dr. Kent is most likely NOT having a joke on us, so any suggestions that this is bogus science should be withheld for now.
Yes! This is a great use for old computers. My old laptop is a Thinkpad 486/33 with 12 megs ram. It's got Redhat 4.0 installed on it and Samba, and nothing else. It runs all the time, uses less power than an equivalent desktop computer, and it fits right underneath my printer in the paper rack.
That little beast has absolutely no trouble at all printing graphics files that are megabytes huge, and it's even doing a magical conversion from postscript to HPII printer language. For a while it was even a puny distributed.net client! 45,000 keys a second isn't really worth it though.
From the stellar print server performance of that machine I have NO DOUBT AT ALL that even an old 386/20 computer would perform just as well as a print server. Just for laughs give it a try. I bet you'll find that that old slow box and Linux/Samba will be more than up to the job.
I'm a contractor with IBM and everyone here loves Linux. I've discussed it briefly with some management people and there was NEVER a snicker or even a hint that they thought Linux was a toy.
My last stint was at (unnamed travel and charge card company), and if I mentioned Linux the first thing out of the managers' pieholes was "how can we make money using Linux?" All of them thought that if Microsoft couldn't make money off Linux, then neither could they. Silly little me thought that (company) was in the traveller check business, not the operating system sales business. Heh heh!
The difference between those two jobs is night and day. IBM really gets it, and it's truly a pleasure working for a company that is on the right track.
Red Hat is not Linux, and analysts are thinking about Linux the same way that they think about other industries.
The next time we hear from analysts it will be something like "Massive flamewar on Slashdot worries analysts who are concerned that this could destroy the cooperative mood that has been a feature of the Linux community."
This is a C++ analyst function:
NormalEvent molehill; Conclusion *mountain;
// contruct new mountain object from molehill mountain = new Conclusion (molehill);
Do you know *anything* at all? If something hits Cassini nothing at all will happen.
You watch too many B movies, and you worry about things too much.
If you're really worried, please take a look at some useful web sites like www.nasa.gov, www.jamesrandi.com, and www.snopes.com and you will learn that Cassini isn't going to hurt you and you can't believe everything you heard in the checkout line at the grocery store.
You should be able to buy in time to make about 20% on the first day. I've watched IPO's happen realtime, and that's what it usually comes down to.
It's true that you will get in late and close to the top, but if the stock has good momentum it will go up a bit more. You really need to watch closely though.
I haven't done this with real money though, so your mileage may vary.
Buy on the IPO day and watch the price. It should shoot up dramatically.
Keep hitting reload on the stock price. Make sure you are on a realtime quote site, not a 20 minutes delayed site.
Watch for the top of the curve. It should happen pretty soon after the stock starts trading, maybe within a couple hours. Once you see the top of the curve, sell everything you have.
Then, wait two weeks and buy as many shares back as you can.
Even if you don't get in on the bottom price you might be able to make 20% on the first day of trading. After the first day, the stock price will fall a lot, but after a couple weeks it might start climbing again.
If you lose money doing this, don't blame me, I heard it somewhere else and I have no idea how it will work.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll second that question.
I've got a Thinkpad i1450 (an AWESOME Linux machine by the way. 11th commandment: Thou shalt lust after no other laptop other than a Thinkpad - heh heh.
Anyway, the Track Point stopped working for me, even when I don't run X (plain old gpm). Under Windows it works perfectly. I've been using Linux with an external mouse. That's OK, but I prefer the Track Point.
Is this the bug that this version of X fixes? I sure hope so. I was going to send my laptop in to have the hardware checked.
In my opinion security of this microwave link is irrelevant.
If your business is not important, then you don't need security. Mostly people will use this for surfing, and downloading the lastest release of Debian.
If you are doing something that requires security, then you have no business sending your data out without encrypting it first. This applies to a fiber T1, or to a microwave connection equally.
If you're worried about security then you must implement it yourself, on your own servers. The whole point is that you cannot trust anyone to handle security for you. Just as soon as you trust somebody, then you don't have any security!
I think he's writing poetry.
But they're not quite Haikus though.
Slashdot and Babel
Fighting with one another
The victor: Slashdot!
Babel is a fish
Slashdot is a big server.
Penguins eat sushi!
etc.
When credit cards modify their agreements they always give you the option of finishing up a certain period of time (like 1 year) under the terms of the old contract. After that point if you don't want the new contract, then your business arrangement is ended.
The person making the claim has to come up with the proof. If someone claims Bill said that, then they need to prove it.
The default position is not to believe.
And this article is meta-meta journalism.
We loaded up slashdot just so we could read an article in wired about slashdot, and then we popped the stack back to slashdot and wrote a message about wired's article about slashdot, which we read by going to slashdot and reading a wired article about slashdot, and then we popped...
Of course, I write a message about your message about wired's article about slashdot which you found out from slashdot...
I love it!
(I wonder, will you write a message about my message which is about your message which is about wired's story about slashdot which HOSTS ALL THESE MESSAGES?????)
OK, I'll stop now. I agree with you though, we're definitely into meta journalism.
Too bad it's a hoax and Bill never actually said it!
I agree that this is a great thing to do. My network at home uses the same numbers as a network at a company I used to work at.
They are behind a firewall, I connect from a modem using PPP. Everything works great. There would be a problem if I had to telnet to a machine at the company with the same IP as a machine on my local network, but I would never do that anyway.
Oh this brings back a good one that my buddy did. He was working at one of those quick change oil places and he did the lights and windshield wiper check on a lady's car. When she saw that her blinker light was out she asked him if he could change it for her. Of course he could, and that was his job to do that. But instead he told her that she was out of blinker fluid and she had to go to the dealership to get the right fluid for her car.
Ho ho! It still makes me laugh.
I believe you that you heard the story first hand from an African Storyteller.
But, I have to believe that the African Storyteller was just --- [are you ready for this?] --- telling you a story!
The reason is that the glitter story is an old and well-known urban legend. Usually in the story the doctor doesn't laugh and run out of the room though. The comment is usually "My you look fancy today" or something similar, and the person discovers later on at home that they glitter all over their pudenda.
Carmen Electra told the exact story on the Conan O'Brien show just a couple months ago, but she claimed that it happened to her! Last I checked, she was an actress, which is a sort of a storyteller.
The African storyteller is the daughter of Carmen Electra? Wow! I didn't know that she was African. You learn something new every day. (or maybe not).
[Folks, go read www.snopes.com]
The personal computer is 24 years old now. It is the most important technology of the 20th century.
People who do not know about computers after all this time DESERVE to be mocked.
At least, that is an opinion that I heard a couple days ago.
Who invented the polio vaccine?
Who invented pre-stressed concrete?
>Who invented plate glass?
Al Gore
>Who invented SCUBA equipment?
Al Gore
>Who invented L.E.D's?
Al Gore
>What was the first jet engine called?
TipperJet
>What was the first steamship called and who >invented it?
TipperTanic, Al Gore
>Who invented the telegraph (hint, NOT the electric telegraph, the one before that)
Al Gore
The cameras are coming people!
The difference is that the people can also own their own cameras, not just the gub'ment.
Who has been royally screwed by cameras the most so far? The rich and powerful, especially those in the gub'ment.
So why are we worried about cameras? I'm going to go out and get a camera myself and point it at the street. Every time a police car goes by higher than the speed limit and he's not chasing someone, UP on the web page he goes.
You can fight back!
I was surprised too. When I answered the question I thought back to the good old days (1992) when I was using Borland C++ v2.0
I had some code like this:
float foo;
foo = 4.0
foo += 2.0
After running this code the value of foo was 4.0. I called Borland and asked for help and they blew me off. Then I dumped out the assembler and discovered that the compiler had a bug in it. Then I called Borland back and they admitted their bug.
So, never again Borland! Open source only, thank you very much. I don't give companies that treat me like that a second chance. If you release as open source I don't *have* to trust you.
Dr. Turing was a genius of integrity. He was more responsible than any other single person for saving England during the war. This fact could have gotten him out of jail and stopped the barbaric treatment of his homosexuality. Instead he honored his promise to keep secret things secret and paid a high personal price.
You'd like that kind of half-knowlege? I can make a really good case that you already have a good supply of half-knowlege. The wrong half, that is.
Do you know what an ion is?
I'm smart enough to know what you actually meant with your above comment. It scares the hell out of me that you're not smart enough to say what you actually mean.
The Physicist who made the announcement was named Kent. If this is the same Dr. Kent that I've heard of before, he is a real researcher, and he's somewhat famous.
It is a logical fallacy to believe that just because the announcement was made by Dr. Kent that it must be true. Dr. Kent could possibly be releasing a bogus announcement to have a joke on the rest of us.
But, knowing the stature of Dr. Kent I can reasonably presume that Dr. Kent is most likely NOT having a joke on us, so any suggestions that this is bogus science should be withheld for now.
Yes! This is a great use for old computers. My old laptop is a Thinkpad 486/33 with 12 megs ram. It's got Redhat 4.0 installed on it and Samba, and nothing else. It runs all the time, uses less power than an equivalent desktop computer, and it fits right underneath my printer in the paper rack.
That little beast has absolutely no trouble at all printing graphics files that are megabytes huge, and it's even doing a magical conversion from postscript to HPII printer language. For a while it was even a puny distributed.net client! 45,000 keys a second isn't really worth it though.
From the stellar print server performance of that machine I have NO DOUBT AT ALL that even an old 386/20 computer would perform just as well as a print server. Just for laughs give it a try. I bet you'll find that that old slow box and Linux/Samba will be more than up to the job.
I'm a contractor with IBM and everyone here loves Linux. I've discussed it briefly with some management people and there was NEVER a snicker or even a hint that they thought Linux was a toy.
My last stint was at (unnamed travel and charge card company), and if I mentioned Linux the first thing out of the managers' pieholes was "how can we make money using Linux?" All of them thought that if Microsoft couldn't make money off Linux, then neither could they. Silly little me thought that (company) was in the traveller check business, not the operating system sales business. Heh heh!
The difference between those two jobs is night and day. IBM really gets it, and it's truly a pleasure working for a company that is on the right track.
Red Hat is not Linux, and analysts are thinking about Linux the same way that they think about other industries.
// contruct new mountain object from molehill
The next time we hear from analysts it will be something like "Massive flamewar on Slashdot worries analysts who are concerned that this could destroy the cooperative mood that has been a feature of the Linux community."
This is a C++ analyst function:
NormalEvent molehill;
Conclusion *mountain;
mountain = new Conclusion (molehill);
Do you know *anything* at all? If something hits Cassini nothing at all will happen.
You watch too many B movies, and you worry about things too much.
If you're really worried, please take a look at some useful web sites like www.nasa.gov, www.jamesrandi.com, and www.snopes.com and you will learn that Cassini isn't going to hurt you and you can't believe everything you heard in the checkout line at the grocery store.
You should be able to buy in time to make about 20% on the first day. I've watched IPO's happen realtime, and that's what it usually comes down to.
It's true that you will get in late and close to the top, but if the stock has good momentum it will go up a bit more. You really need to watch closely though.
I haven't done this with real money though, so your mileage may vary.
Buy on the IPO day and watch the price. It should shoot up dramatically.
Keep hitting reload on the stock price. Make sure you are on a realtime quote site, not a 20 minutes delayed site.
Watch for the top of the curve. It should happen pretty soon after the stock starts trading, maybe within a couple hours. Once you see the top of the curve, sell everything you have.
Then, wait two weeks and buy as many shares back as you can.
Even if you don't get in on the bottom price you might be able to make 20% on the first day of trading. After the first day, the stock price will fall a lot, but after a couple weeks it might start climbing again.
If you lose money doing this, don't blame me, I heard it somewhere else and I have no idea how it will work.
And the Feistel who invented the Feistel network was an IBM researcher.