Will, I bought the Loki Quake III 4 Linux - my self granted xmas present about this time last year along with a 3dfx card - it was up and running on RH60 in no time, had a blast, later got the cookie tin a-ok. After upgrading to RH62 (don't really know for sure that's the cause) it wouldn't run right - like 5 seconds per frame; of course the cinematics never did work but I didn't care about that. Was there a fix for that? Boot the old kernel, is that it? Just haven't taken the time to debug or hunt up a fix.
that is also dictates what you can do OFF the clock as well. Say a responsible user gets off work Fri night, goes to a concert or movie, smokes a joint, relaxes and has a great time. Monday morning, when your perfectly straight again, able to safely work with dangerous equipment, your going to test positive. Testing positive != stoned.
I'm just pissed (pun intended) because they just started random drug tests here - should I play employment roulette tonight? Current strategy - wait untill tested, then party like hell.
Checkout clerks will have to learn how to recompile the kernel.... they'll have to type complex heirogryphic looking commands to process an order... your POS software infrastructure will become fragmented...
But really, 90,000 terminals - assume the best Msft OEM volumn license deal is $19.95 per cpu - that's a savings of almost 1.8 million dollars (cha-ching!) PLUS your not beholding to the whims of a monopoly dictating where they want you to go today.
Best of luck to the engineers in these projects, and hopefully the rest of us will see some technological spinoffs from their experiences.
Akron, OH (Disassociated Press) - The Brimstone Tire and Rubber Company announced suprise plans today to enter the software market. In a press conferance held by company CYAO Jonathan Blowout, officials told startled stockholders, "In light of recent consumer product liability costs, we have reviewed our product positioning and concluded that the software market has a much better fit to our risk/reward profile. We will begin phasing out the tire sector and should announce our flagship product, Brimstone "Doors" and a compatible office suite very soon now. Consumers will soon be able to enjoy the same high quality of engineering they have come to expect from out automotive products on their personal computers." Analyst quickly upgraded the stock from "dump" to "sell", citing research indicating that, unlike the automobile parts sector where quality products usually achieve market dominance, the software industry has a long standing history of being dominated by shoddy, defective and incomplete products.
A former stockroom clerk, recently promoted to Systems Architect and speaking on terms of anonymity said, "Hell yeah! If a tire explodes and causes an accident killing a little child, you have a big problem. But if a database engine has a defect that deletes that same child's entire medical history and backup records, pfft, that's just too bad, you can't sue us! Besides, anytime that happens is a great time to remind consumers that a seperate, documented license, invoice and proof of purchase is required for each workstation per UCITA."
Brimstone closed at 3 1/4, down only 3/8.
is to try every means possible to get something for nothing - just like it's the business' duty to try to make as much profit as possible for as little expense as possible. An exciting, neverending battle of wits. Sometimes one side or the other will go too far and get spanked by the govt, and sometimes the govt goes too far and gets spanked by the people. Anyway, what's sometimes bad about 'push' ads is that for those of us still on 28.8 modems (pause for laughter to subside...) listening to streaming audio breaks up when the ads rotate. Broadcast.com tried to do that with WFMU. Realplayer was embedded in this window with ads that rotated every couple of minutes - and every couple of minutes the audio would break up, making it unlistenable. After bitchin' at WFMU they pointed me to a direct address, and all was fine again, sans ads.
If your contract with the Telco won't permit it, then that's bullshit. If it's their problem, then they should be taking the heat
It was a long standing joke where I used to work that the Telco never admits to having a problem. If a line is down, you call them to get a line repaired, they'll call back and say, "We checked the line and everything is working ok here" - yet it will mysteriously start working again.
This happened recently when some additional lines were run out to a new building, that very same day the ISDN quit. After no less than 5 calls to the telco and ensuring them I had the correct spid, yes I've swapped in a known good interface, blah blah they finally sent a serviceman out. I went to talk with him in the wiring closet and the first thing he says is "It's probably your equipment" - fighting back the urge to pummel I left him with his line tester and later that day the ISDN comes back up. Guess our equipment magically healed itself.
very true amongst the laity - they see such issues as black/white "plutonium"/"no plutonium" instead of a range of concentrations from "naturally occuring background radiation" to "reactor core", reasonably acceptable risks and potential benefits, etc. I went back home once to find the local yocals were all up in arms about a new school w/ a furnace emitting "carbon monoxide". When I asked about "how much CO, what concentrations were measured" it was met with incomprehension and restating that "they found CO in that new school" - pointing out that there is CO in the air we're breathing now, just a very small amount, does no good either. The herd got spooked and were stampeding and the politicos had to man the media machines to restore calm and reason. Gawd, I'm glad I'm not the plumber in that hickville.
Oh no! If this trend keeps up, before long the Internet with be nothing but a bunch of boring scientific research projects, software development groups and device driver downloads!! Oh, NOooo!!!
People will continute to shop in real stores, spammers will give up and folks will have to go to pubs to socialize. What'll we do, what'll we DO?!?!
I just moved in a Pinball Machine - it's a blast. Lots of maintenance on games that use RealPhysics(tm) tho. Most all pins made after about 1977 are computer controlled anyway - this one's got a 6800, some 2716 ROMS, SCR's to drive the lights, interesting game play.
would be to get large bags of cash from the bank, go to the top of a tall building looming over lots of foot traffic and sprinkle it over the side. Video tape the ensuing madness for tax records. But again, it's probably illegal somehow. Maybe prearrange a 'cash drop' with the local authorities from a helocopter over a mall parking lot...
Pick a name at random out of the phone book, call 'em up and say, "Congratulations! You've just won $10,000!" and see how many think it's a telemarketing scam and hang up on you.
Or you could drop it in the bucket of one of those salvation army santa's, but something tells me the army will never see that santa again.
so I can spin vinyl while you guys are crying over your busted plastic boxes...:))
There was an episode of Gilligans Is.
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where some seeds washed ashore - everybody got real excited about being able to grow their favorite crops like carrots, corn, etc. instead of the usual staples of coconuts and fish. When their gardens started fruiting they got real strange looking vegatables, and when they ate them, they got superhuman powers, like the carrots gave Gilligan the ability to see ships way off in the distance, the spinach made the Skipper really strongs and could lift boulders, etc. Turns out the seeds were experimental irradiated mutant breeds. So if that's what happens, bring on the FrankenFood!
but I scrupulously avoid any article or advertisement that uses the word "relief" - that's the flag that indicates it's usually pretty gross and disgusting.
Don't know much about my CPU,
Don't know what a DIMM's supposed to do,
Don't know what a hard disk is for,
Don't know how to overclock my core;
But I do know that Microsoft rules,
'cuz that's what they taught us all in school,
Oh, What a Microsoft world it must be.
Don't know why my screen is always blue,
Don't know what these damn exceptions do,
Don't know why my modem runs so slow,
What it's sending out I just don't know;
But I do know what the salesman said,
Once I save enough to finally upgrade,
What a wonderful world it will be.
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Will, I bought the Loki Quake III 4 Linux - my self granted xmas present about this time last year along with a 3dfx card - it was up and running on RH60 in no time, had a blast, later got the cookie tin a-ok. After upgrading to RH62 (don't really know for sure that's the cause) it wouldn't run right - like 5 seconds per frame; of course the cinematics never did work but I didn't care about that. Was there a fix for that? Boot the old kernel, is that it? Just haven't taken the time to debug or hunt up a fix.
that is also dictates what you can do OFF the clock as well. Say a responsible user gets off work Fri night, goes to a concert or movie, smokes a joint, relaxes and has a great time. Monday morning, when your perfectly straight again, able to safely work with dangerous equipment, your going to test positive. Testing positive != stoned.
I'm just pissed (pun intended) because they just started random drug tests here - should I play employment roulette tonight? Current strategy - wait untill tested, then party like hell.
Checkout clerks will have to learn how to recompile the kernel .... they'll have to type complex heirogryphic looking commands to process an order ... your POS software infrastructure will become fragmented ...
But really, 90,000 terminals - assume the best Msft OEM volumn license deal is $19.95 per cpu - that's a savings of almost 1.8 million dollars (cha-ching!) PLUS your not beholding to the whims of a monopoly dictating where they want you to go today.
Best of luck to the engineers in these projects, and hopefully the rest of us will see some technological spinoffs from their experiences.
Akron, OH (Disassociated Press) - The Brimstone Tire and Rubber Company announced suprise plans today to enter the software market. In a press conferance held by company CYAO Jonathan Blowout, officials told startled stockholders, "In light of recent consumer product liability costs, we have reviewed our product positioning and concluded that the software market has a much better fit to our risk/reward profile. We will begin phasing out the tire sector and should announce our flagship product, Brimstone "Doors" and a compatible office suite very soon now. Consumers will soon be able to enjoy the same high quality of engineering they have come to expect from out automotive products on their personal computers." Analyst quickly upgraded the stock from "dump" to "sell", citing research indicating that, unlike the automobile parts sector where quality products usually achieve market dominance, the software industry has a long standing history of being dominated by shoddy, defective and incomplete products.
A former stockroom clerk, recently promoted to Systems Architect and speaking on terms of anonymity said, "Hell yeah! If a tire explodes and causes an accident killing a little child, you have a big problem. But if a database engine has a defect that deletes that same child's entire medical history and backup records, pfft, that's just too bad, you can't sue us! Besides, anytime that happens is a great time to remind consumers that a seperate, documented license, invoice and proof of purchase is required for each workstation per UCITA."
Brimstone closed at 3 1/4, down only 3/8.
about nobody actually 'dials' a number anymore, at least not many people. Ok, what's the proper term for using a touch tone pad?
"FCC Considering 10 digit punching"
"FCC Considering 10 digit entering" ?????
is to try every means possible to get something for nothing - just like it's the business' duty to try to make as much profit as possible for as little expense as possible. An exciting, neverending battle of wits. Sometimes one side or the other will go too far and get spanked by the govt, and sometimes the govt goes too far and gets spanked by the people. Anyway, what's sometimes bad about 'push' ads is that for those of us still on 28.8 modems (pause for laughter to subside...) listening to streaming audio breaks up when the ads rotate. Broadcast.com tried to do that with WFMU. Realplayer was embedded in this window with ads that rotated every couple of minutes - and every couple of minutes the audio would break up, making it unlistenable. After bitchin' at WFMU they pointed me to a direct address, and all was fine again, sans ads.
If your contract with the Telco won't permit it, then that's bullshit. If it's their problem, then they should be taking the heat
It was a long standing joke where I used to work that the Telco never admits to having a problem. If a line is down, you call them to get a line repaired, they'll call back and say, "We checked the line and everything is working ok here" - yet it will mysteriously start working again.
This happened recently when some additional lines were run out to a new building, that very same day the ISDN quit. After no less than 5 calls to the telco and ensuring them I had the correct spid, yes I've swapped in a known good interface, blah blah they finally sent a serviceman out. I went to talk with him in the wiring closet and the first thing he says is "It's probably your equipment" - fighting back the urge to pummel I left him with his line tester and later that day the ISDN comes back up. Guess our equipment magically healed itself.
very true amongst the laity - they see such issues as black/white "plutonium"/"no plutonium" instead of a range of concentrations from "naturally occuring background radiation" to "reactor core", reasonably acceptable risks and potential benefits, etc. I went back home once to find the local yocals were all up in arms about a new school w/ a furnace emitting "carbon monoxide". When I asked about "how much CO, what concentrations were measured" it was met with incomprehension and restating that "they found CO in that new school" - pointing out that there is CO in the air we're breathing now, just a very small amount, does no good either. The herd got spooked and were stampeding and the politicos had to man the media machines to restore calm and reason. Gawd, I'm glad I'm not the plumber in that hickville.
Oh no! If this trend keeps up, before long the Internet with be nothing but a bunch of boring scientific research projects, software development groups and device driver downloads!! Oh, NOooo!!!
People will continute to shop in real stores, spammers will give up and folks will have to go to pubs to socialize. What'll we do, what'll we DO?!?!
Read the FAQ.
Are they sure it wasn't just some fungus spores that went along on the probe that are now surviving on the red planet?
BTW, I think it would be very cool to innoculate Mars with some hearty bacteria/fungus from earth and let it evolve - imho.
Now I'll go read the article....
then you probably already know rec.games.pinball is a great group.
1) in a bed
2) in the john
3) yes, it's a 4 player machine - more fun w/ friends.
I just moved in a Pinball Machine - it's a blast. Lots of maintenance on games that use RealPhysics(tm) tho. Most all pins made after about 1977 are computer controlled anyway - this one's got a 6800, some 2716 ROMS, SCR's to drive the lights, interesting game play.
Hmmmm, my informant at Reuters claims they got it from slashdot.
Maybe GWB will push to get the death penalty for piracy? That should deter anyone about to plug & rip, "Man, I could get the chair for doing this!".
Ready for the new, improved dark ages.
June, 1992: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates receives a National Medal of Technology for Technical Achievement from US President George Bush.
right Here, but if you have to ask how much....
would be to get large bags of cash from the bank, go to the top of a tall building looming over lots of foot traffic and sprinkle it over the side. Video tape the ensuing madness for tax records. But again, it's probably illegal somehow. Maybe prearrange a 'cash drop' with the local authorities from a helocopter over a mall parking lot...
Pick a name at random out of the phone book, call 'em up and say, "Congratulations! You've just won $10,000!" and see how many think it's a telemarketing scam and hang up on you.
Or you could drop it in the bucket of one of those salvation army santa's, but something tells me the army will never see that santa again.
so I can spin vinyl while you guys are crying over your busted plastic boxes... :))
where some seeds washed ashore - everybody got real excited about being able to grow their favorite crops like carrots, corn, etc. instead of the usual staples of coconuts and fish. When their gardens started fruiting they got real strange looking vegatables, and when they ate them, they got superhuman powers, like the carrots gave Gilligan the ability to see ships way off in the distance, the spinach made the Skipper really strongs and could lift boulders, etc. Turns out the seeds were experimental irradiated mutant breeds. So if that's what happens, bring on the FrankenFood!
If only real life had good script writers...
but I scrupulously avoid any article or advertisement that uses the word "relief" - that's the flag that indicates it's usually pretty gross and disgusting.
Vote for your favorite OSS project:
O <--- Linux
Darwin ---> O
O <--- xBSD
Gnu/HURD ---> O
O <--- XFree86
Apache ---> O
O <--- Perl
BIND ---> O
O <--- Sendmail
Voting ends at 7PM EST and results should be tabulated no later than 7AM the next day.
NOTE: 'Dimpled' chad does NOT count.
Well, if it was on a bathroom reader it must be true!
Looky here for another description - the best description only mentions 'fowl' and another from 20 years later specifically mentions wild turkeys.
you can't rearrange the letters of "Jon Katz" to spell anything else! That's quite unusual. Try it.
Sung to the tune of (What a) Wonderful world:
(What a) Microsoft World
------------------------
Don't know much about my CPU,
Don't know what a DIMM's supposed to do,
Don't know what a hard disk is for,
Don't know how to overclock my core;
But I do know that Microsoft rules,
'cuz that's what they taught us all in school,
Oh, What a Microsoft world it must be.
Don't know why my screen is always blue,
Don't know what these damn exceptions do,
Don't know why my modem runs so slow,
What it's sending out I just don't know;
But I do know what the salesman said,
Once I save enough to finally upgrade,
What a wonderful world it will be.