At a place I used to work the sysadmins would first disable people's accounts, then they would walk the person to a terminal, ask them what personal files they want to keep, burn a CD, and delete the rest. That was for people who resigned voluntarily. For those who were fired the accounts were just deleted without warning.
I was having a lot of trouble understanding this article. Basically, I hit the part where they were talking about a booth babe named Hecubah. Well, I couldn't proceed any until I had some imagery to work with. Found some too. Thanks Google!
As long as you're on the sidewalk or in the street, that would be true. But if you step foot on my property, that's not allowed. At that point I would have the power to stop you from yelling, and it wouldn't be a violation of the right to free speech.
Why don't you come over here and yell your advertising out of my window? Yes, just stick your head right in that window right there. A little further to the left....a little out. OK. Hold it right there.
(/me grabs window and WHAM! closes it on your head)
Do you still feel that you have some kind of right to yell whatever you want out of a window that belongs to me?
I realize that you were trolling, but it's still useful to point out that you can yell whatever you want out of your own window. If you yell out of my window I will close it on your head.
My dogs don't seem to pay any attention to music at all. They seem completely oblivious to any music playing at all from any source. Maybe this is because they don't have the parts of the brain needed to figure out that certain sounds are related through pitch and duration.
I fly American Airlines and all their planes have a 12 volt cigarette lighter power plug under the seats. I carry an inverter with me and run my laptop the whole flight.
If you're got problems with pop-ups or advertising on your desktop, you don't own it. Microsoft or Apple owns it and they leased it to you.
So, quit your bitching and download an operating system of your very own already. As long as you're borrowing someone elses' why should you expect to control what it does?
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You complain about ignoramouses electrocuting ourselves, but what about the crappy design of our electric plugs?
Who the hell designed a plug that makes it possible to put your fingers into contact with a live piece of metal as you insert it into a socket? I'm an adult now, so I don't have any trouble with it. But when I was a kid, my little tiny fingers would slip off the plug and accidentally contact the metal prongs as I was inserting it into the socket. Ouch!
There are much better plug designs out there - Why don't we use them?
A few years ago, there was a company named Jostens that examined their IT costs. Jostens is in the class ring business. If you've got a high school ring or college ring, chances are that you bought it from Jostens.
Anyway, somebody at Jostens took a look at their IT department and had a brilliant idea: everything these fools in IT did came out as a debit somewhere on the company spreadsheet, so why not try to turn that around? Make those slackers earn their keep? So, Jostens became a class ring AND consulting company.
I said this was to be a tale of woe and heartbreak, and I did not lie to you. Jostens found that the consulting business was MUCH different than the class ring business, and that they weren't any good at it. Jostens lost a lot of money, and their silliness was splashed across papers such as the Wall Street Journal. So, Jostens learned the hard way that sometimes what accountants like to call a debit really isn't such a thing at all. Many manager types learned for the first time that IT adds value to an organization and that domination of the class ring market doesn't automatically mean success in another market.
So what does this have to do with anything? It seems to me someone at Gateway took a look at their accounting spreadsheets, noticed that the company owns a lot of PC's that aren't being used for ANYTHING. All they do is sit in the stores, and cost money. Bright idea: let's actually USE those computers for something - make them earn their keep! The rest of the Gateway story doesn't need to be related here. Essentially Dell lives happily ever after.
That's what I have my website for. I post on/. because the masses actually love me, worship me, and eagerly look forward to the posting by their beautiful leader, which would be me.
I think a hearty fuck you to the cable industry is a good way to burn karma. I always thought they were the most unresponsive of companies, even worse than phone companies.
And now they give me another reason to hate them. I'll never buy anything from a cable company as long as I live. Satellite is far better in every way.
Slashdot Story Coolness Index Up, It's a good day.
Holland, MI (Reuters) - Slashdot posted stories about new blah blah blah and nobody beatched about anything. Also, not a single story was a duplicate. Geeks passing out everywhere from sheer joy of being alive.
1. Coasters
2. Microwave for a few seconds to create new and interesting abstract art pieces.
3. Eclipse viewer
4. Signal mirror when you are lost in the woods
5. Y'know when you're driving and some creep right behind you has their brights on? Use the shiny side to send their light right back at them
6. Take some string, some cork, some glue, and an even number of CDs : Yo-Yo
7. String up a bunch of them together and give them to a small child to keep them entertained.
8. Glue as many as you can to a black body suit and go to the next holloween party as a disco ball.
9. Bookmark for any hardbound book.
10. Frisbees for children or expert frisbee throwers.
11. With two of them you can make Elton John sized mirror shades.
12. Balance a table with uneven legs
13. Give your parakeet a friend
14. Practice throwing stars for young ninjas.
15. Throwing small pieces of pottery
16. At work, keep the bathroom key in an easy to find location by attaching it to a CD.
17. Astonomy: Glue two halves of a sphere to both sides of a tennis ball and model Saturn.
18. Practice skipping stones indoors.
19. Glue it to your pet mouse so it doesn't chew on an injured leg
20. Wind chimes
21. Christmas tree ornaments.
22. Make your own platinum album
23. Shields for your GI Joes
24. The AOL Mini-CD would also work as part of a lance for him
25....Or make a really strange hat.
26. Vanity mirror for Barbie
27. Make your Gi Joe's stand up properly
28. Glue them to the outside of your house and bounce all of the sunlight off. Cut your cooling costs
29. They say that there is no intelligent life out there. Glue them to a 4x8 board, grab a xylophone, and start signaling.
30. Tape a few strategically to the walls of your house so that no matter where you are you can us the remote control.
31. Glue one to your computer monitor so you can see whose behind you.
32. Give them to your kid when they have to make a diarama of the final scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Think of the rotating knives)
33. At your next party, give every guest their own personal tray of oe'deuvres.
34. Get four of them and jack up your hot wheels.
35. Diarama idea #2 : The Pit and the Pendulum
36. Kill time by working out the Towers of Hanoi problem
37. Nueveau wall paper.
38. Snow shoes for dogs.
39. Bicycle reflectors.
40. Roadside and driveway reflectors.
41. Laser defraction grating material for experiments.
42. Toaster demonstrations.
43. Put one behind each christmas light on your outdoors string of lights.
44. Large fender washers
45. Edward CD hands
46. Replace those old playing cards on the bike as noise makers against the spokes.
47. Furniture coasters
48. Solar mirror for concentrating heat into a fresnel lens solar oven
49. Glue several together into a parabolic shape for spy listening device
50. Same as above for satellite dishes
51. Make a house for the fish in your aquarium.
52. Collect thousands and make an artifical reef.
53. Use two for your snow boarding chicken
54. Fishing lures for marlin
55. Jack up your roller skates
56. Tie some to strings and attach them in front ot the air conditioner vent. Watch them dance.
57. Experts estimate that it would take about 10 to 12 of them to make a skeet pidgeon.
58. Make a grinding wheel for your pocket knife.
59. Add some straw between two of them and your pets can work out with you.
60. New For Christmas:The CD ROM Christmas Tree
61. This is for Windows 98 CD's, but we can do the same with AOL CDs: Launch Win98
62. Use a hot knife to carefully fold them into various shapes. I'd like to see the platonic solids, myself.
63. A reader named Kevin pointed out that they make great candle holders. Why didn't I think of that? (6-10-02)
64. Another reader suggests taking six of them and glueing them together to form a box. Might be tricky, this one.
65. They also suggest cutting them in half to form the legs of a rocking chair for dolls or stuffed animals.
66. And the very obvious Disco Ball, which I only have alluded to as a halloween costume.
67. New on 10-12-02: Get an old satellite dish (big one) line the dish with them point it at the sun and you have one hell of a cigarette lighter. This would probably do a lot of damage to my pipe.
68. Or have the focused energy hit a metal tube to heat water. Boy, that would save on the electric bill, wouldn't it? Great ideas.
69. Another suggestion for the upcomming holiday parties. Dan wrote in:"If you have helium balloons but you don't want them to be sideways on your ceiling during aparty, simply attach a CD to the end of them. Take some rope and tie it around the end of the balloon. Then attach the other end of the rope to the CD. Make sure the rope is long enough to go all the way down to the ground. Not only will the CD's act as weights but will create a nicerainbow effect on your ceiling to make the party even more spectacular."
70. New on 12-2-02: Replacement "patty stacker" dividers!
You see, my house is located on the side of a hill, and it's actually lower in elevation than the sewer line on the street. I use an ejection pump to move the shit from a storage tank into the sewer. There is a valve in the sewer line just up from the ejection pump that prevents poo from the sewer from flowing the wrong way and erupting from the toilets. I wouldn't be very happy if a little sewer robot was going along saying "OK, 6513 is next to get a fiber connection. Hey? What's this? I'll just prop this little door open while I run the fiber line."
I don't do anything at all for friends, either for money or for free. Just my computer and my wife's.
Once, my wife told a colleague that I could take a quick look at her computer. She had forgotten my rule that I don't work on anybody's computers but my own. Well, I did her a favor and looked at it.
Typical Windows machine, with its share of installation problems and cruft. I fixed the one thing I had to fix (which took WAY longer than my wife thought it would take - she was waiting for me a long time) and declined to fix anything else as graciously as I could.
What if I had accidentally deleted something important? What if I fried an internal component? These are risks that I don't want to take, thank you very much. I'm not insured nearly enough to compensate someone if I destroyed important data. And what would happen to the working relationship between my wife and her colleague? Things like that are not work risking over a printer driver installation. Now she understands why it's best to just tell everyone to take it to a good computer shop and pay them to look at it, or figure it out yourself.
I live in Austin TX, not rural, but it's in the hills. The streets run along the tops of the hills in my neighborhood. In between the streets there's at least 1/4 mile of valley where there are no houses. So, the radius increase in my neighborhood would only get you about 3 -4 houses further along the street.
But you're thinking of the increase from the *phone companies* point of view. From their standpoint, you are right that a 600 foot increase from their CO would bring a shitload more houses into their customer base.
I agree that this is a big yawner. I was out of range of the central office until about 10 months ago when I got DirectTV DSL. Apparently there is some kind of DSLAM installation that they do outside the central office. That's a much better way to get more DSL coverage - 600 feet is nothing. That's less than 3 or 4 houses I would guess. And with my downlink speed at 1500kbps, I wouldn't notice if they went up to 1550kbps.
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At a place I used to work the sysadmins would first disable people's accounts, then they would walk the person to a terminal, ask them what personal files they want to keep, burn a CD, and delete the rest. That was for people who resigned voluntarily. For those who were fired the accounts were just deleted without warning.
I was having a lot of trouble understanding this article. Basically, I hit the part where they were talking about a booth babe named Hecubah. Well, I couldn't proceed any until I had some imagery to work with. Found some too. Thanks Google!
Hecubah, the booth babe from the article:
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Just post your story and links right here in the text, and we'll respond to it as if it were a real live story.
As long as you're on the sidewalk or in the street, that would be true. But if you step foot on my property, that's not allowed. At that point I would have the power to stop you from yelling, and it wouldn't be a violation of the right to free speech.
How did I miss this? I found it from a link on Kuro5hin.
Let me say that when they put you up against the wall I will proud to be standing right beside you.
Why don't you come over here and yell your advertising out of my window? Yes, just stick your head right in that window right there. A little further to the left....a little out. OK. Hold it right there.
(/me grabs window and WHAM! closes it on your head)
Do you still feel that you have some kind of right to yell whatever you want out of a window that belongs to me?
I realize that you were trolling, but it's still useful to point out that you can yell whatever you want out of your own window. If you yell out of my window I will close it on your head.
My dogs don't seem to pay any attention to music at all. They seem completely oblivious to any music playing at all from any source. Maybe this is because they don't have the parts of the brain needed to figure out that certain sounds are related through pitch and duration.
I fly American Airlines and all their planes have a 12 volt cigarette lighter power plug under the seats. I carry an inverter with me and run my laptop the whole flight.
If you're got problems with pop-ups or advertising on your desktop, you don't own it. Microsoft or Apple owns it and they leased it to you.
So, quit your bitching and download an operating system of your very own already. As long as you're borrowing someone elses' why should you expect to control what it does?
You complain about ignoramouses electrocuting ourselves, but what about the crappy design of our electric plugs?
Who the hell designed a plug that makes it possible to put your fingers into contact with a live piece of metal as you insert it into a socket? I'm an adult now, so I don't have any trouble with it. But when I was a kid, my little tiny fingers would slip off the plug and accidentally contact the metal prongs as I was inserting it into the socket. Ouch!
There are much better plug designs out there - Why don't we use them?
A few years ago, there was a company named Jostens that examined their IT costs. Jostens is in the class ring business. If you've got a high school ring or college ring, chances are that you bought it from Jostens.
Anyway, somebody at Jostens took a look at their IT department and had a brilliant idea: everything these fools in IT did came out as a debit somewhere on the company spreadsheet, so why not try to turn that around? Make those slackers earn their keep? So, Jostens became a class ring AND consulting company.
I said this was to be a tale of woe and heartbreak, and I did not lie to you. Jostens found that the consulting business was MUCH different than the class ring business, and that they weren't any good at it. Jostens lost a lot of money, and their silliness was splashed across papers such as the Wall Street Journal. So, Jostens learned the hard way that sometimes what accountants like to call a debit really isn't such a thing at all. Many manager types learned for the first time that IT adds value to an organization and that domination of the class ring market doesn't automatically mean success in another market.
So what does this have to do with anything? It seems to me someone at Gateway took a look at their accounting spreadsheets, noticed that the company owns a lot of PC's that aren't being used for ANYTHING. All they do is sit in the stores, and cost money. Bright idea: let's actually USE those computers for something - make them earn their keep! The rest of the Gateway story doesn't need to be related here. Essentially Dell lives happily ever after.
Well back in my day we had to count on appendages. Women could count to 2^20 and men could count twice as high as that. It was just OK.
That's what I have my website for. I post on /. because the masses actually love me, worship me, and eagerly look forward to the posting by their beautiful leader, which would be me.
I think a hearty fuck you to the cable industry is a good way to burn karma. I always thought they were the most unresponsive of companies, even worse than phone companies.
And now they give me another reason to hate them. I'll never buy anything from a cable company as long as I live. Satellite is far better in every way.
So a good day is now defined by what is on /.?
I can see it now:
Slashdot Story Coolness Index Up, It's a good day.
Holland, MI (Reuters) - Slashdot posted stories about new blah blah blah and nobody beatched about anything. Also, not a single story was a duplicate. Geeks passing out everywhere from sheer joy of being alive.
1. Coasters ...Or make a really strange hat.
2. Microwave for a few seconds to create new and interesting abstract art pieces.
3. Eclipse viewer
4. Signal mirror when you are lost in the woods
5. Y'know when you're driving and some creep right behind you has their brights on? Use the shiny side to send their light right back at them
6. Take some string, some cork, some glue, and an even number of CDs : Yo-Yo
7. String up a bunch of them together and give them to a small child to keep them entertained.
8. Glue as many as you can to a black body suit and go to the next holloween party as a disco ball.
9. Bookmark for any hardbound book.
10. Frisbees for children or expert frisbee throwers.
11. With two of them you can make Elton John sized mirror shades.
12. Balance a table with uneven legs
13. Give your parakeet a friend
14. Practice throwing stars for young ninjas.
15. Throwing small pieces of pottery
16. At work, keep the bathroom key in an easy to find location by attaching it to a CD.
17. Astonomy: Glue two halves of a sphere to both sides of a tennis ball and model Saturn.
18. Practice skipping stones indoors.
19. Glue it to your pet mouse so it doesn't chew on an injured leg
20. Wind chimes
21. Christmas tree ornaments.
22. Make your own platinum album
23. Shields for your GI Joes
24. The AOL Mini-CD would also work as part of a lance for him
25.
26. Vanity mirror for Barbie
27. Make your Gi Joe's stand up properly
28. Glue them to the outside of your house and bounce all of the sunlight off. Cut your cooling costs
29. They say that there is no intelligent life out there. Glue them to a 4x8 board, grab a xylophone, and start signaling.
30. Tape a few strategically to the walls of your house so that no matter where you are you can us the remote control.
31. Glue one to your computer monitor so you can see whose behind you.
32. Give them to your kid when they have to make a diarama of the final scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Think of the rotating knives)
33. At your next party, give every guest their own personal tray of oe'deuvres.
34. Get four of them and jack up your hot wheels.
35. Diarama idea #2 : The Pit and the Pendulum
36. Kill time by working out the Towers of Hanoi problem
37. Nueveau wall paper.
38. Snow shoes for dogs.
39. Bicycle reflectors.
40. Roadside and driveway reflectors.
41. Laser defraction grating material for experiments.
42. Toaster demonstrations.
43. Put one behind each christmas light on your outdoors string of lights.
44. Large fender washers
45. Edward CD hands
46. Replace those old playing cards on the bike as noise makers against the spokes.
47. Furniture coasters
48. Solar mirror for concentrating heat into a fresnel lens solar oven
49. Glue several together into a parabolic shape for spy listening device
50. Same as above for satellite dishes
51. Make a house for the fish in your aquarium.
52. Collect thousands and make an artifical reef.
53. Use two for your snow boarding chicken
54. Fishing lures for marlin
55. Jack up your roller skates
56. Tie some to strings and attach them in front ot the air conditioner vent. Watch them dance.
57. Experts estimate that it would take about 10 to 12 of them to make a skeet pidgeon.
58. Make a grinding wheel for your pocket knife.
59. Add some straw between two of them and your pets can work out with you.
60. New For Christmas:The CD ROM Christmas Tree
61. This is for Windows 98 CD's, but we can do the same with AOL CDs: Launch Win98
62. Use a hot knife to carefully fold them into various shapes. I'd like to see the platonic solids, myself.
63. A reader named Kevin pointed out that they make great candle holders. Why didn't I think of that? (6-10-02)
64. Another reader suggests taking six of them and glueing them together to form a box. Might be tricky, this one.
65. They also suggest cutting them in half to form the legs of a rocking chair for dolls or stuffed animals.
66. And the very obvious Disco Ball, which I only have alluded to as a halloween costume.
67. New on 10-12-02: Get an old satellite dish (big one) line the dish with them point it at the sun and you have one hell of a cigarette lighter. This would probably do a lot of damage to my pipe.
68. Or have the focused energy hit a metal tube to heat water. Boy, that would save on the electric bill, wouldn't it? Great ideas.
69. Another suggestion for the upcomming holiday parties. Dan wrote in:"If you have helium balloons but you don't want them to be sideways on your ceiling during aparty, simply attach a CD to the end of them. Take some rope and tie it around the end of the balloon. Then attach the other end of the rope to the CD. Make sure the rope is long enough to go all the way down to the ground. Not only will the CD's act as weights but will create a nicerainbow effect on your ceiling to make the party even more spectacular."
70. New on 12-2-02: Replacement "patty stacker" dividers!
After Natalie Portman has been turned to stone, she will not have to trouble herself with changing cosmetics brands.
You see, my house is located on the side of a hill, and it's actually lower in elevation than the sewer line on the street. I use an ejection pump to move the shit from a storage tank into the sewer. There is a valve in the sewer line just up from the ejection pump that prevents poo from the sewer from flowing the wrong way and erupting from the toilets. I wouldn't be very happy if a little sewer robot was going along saying "OK, 6513 is next to get a fiber connection. Hey? What's this? I'll just prop this little door open while I run the fiber line."
But my cheapo Linux box has proven itself as a very long lasting and trustworthy machine.
So, explain just one more time why I should spend 4 times the cost of an X86 box just to run an ARM architecture processor?
I don't do anything at all for friends, either for money or for free. Just my computer and my wife's.
Once, my wife told a colleague that I could take a quick look at her computer. She had forgotten my rule that I don't work on anybody's computers but my own. Well, I did her a favor and looked at it.
Typical Windows machine, with its share of installation problems and cruft. I fixed the one thing I had to fix (which took WAY longer than my wife thought it would take - she was waiting for me a long time) and declined to fix anything else as graciously as I could.
What if I had accidentally deleted something important? What if I fried an internal component? These are risks that I don't want to take, thank you very much. I'm not insured nearly enough to compensate someone if I destroyed important data.
And what would happen to the working relationship between my wife and her colleague? Things like that are not work risking over a printer driver installation. Now she understands why it's best to just tell everyone to take it to a good computer shop and pay them to look at it, or figure it out yourself.
That's right. If it were the same thing, every drunk that pissed on the subway wall would set the alarm off.
Hey AC, Look out behind you there is a va....
**munch**
Oh well, better you than me!
Just because Mr. Royko is dead isn't a reason to take his socks off the list. Presumably, he was buried with some.
I live in Austin TX, not rural, but it's in the hills. The streets run along the tops of the hills in my neighborhood. In between the streets there's at least 1/4 mile of valley where there are no houses. So, the radius increase in my neighborhood would only get you about 3 -4 houses further along the street.
But you're thinking of the increase from the *phone companies* point of view. From their standpoint, you are right that a 600 foot increase from their CO would bring a shitload more houses into their customer base.
I agree that this is a big yawner. I was out of range of the central office until about 10 months ago when I got DirectTV DSL. Apparently there is some kind of DSLAM installation that they do outside the central office. That's a much better way to get more DSL coverage - 600 feet is nothing. That's less than 3 or 4 houses I would guess. And with my downlink speed at 1500kbps, I wouldn't notice if they went up to 1550kbps.