if they were discordian. penny hits the nail on the head. i have no idea what shoe squishing, churro munching jerry seinfeld is trying to sell, or for that matter what bill "wiggle-ass" gates has on the horizon besides hip displacia and a completely unrealistic scenario of him being spotted in the local mall by a million dollar celebrity.
pretty soon all media will become so encumbered and restricted no one will dare channel surf in any format. i think it would be a pretty good thing...might get kids to start reading again. then again, i watch alot of spongebob squarepants, so id expect some sort of underground bootleg network of pirates (a bay of sorts perhaps) to surface.
a small script written by any slashdotter that takes care of this debate once or twice a month, randomly. there are only two possible outcomes based on the jack.thompson randomizer, which decreases in value daily.
i might finally be able to play crysis on my vista ultimate machine? i mean, granted, my pc will look more like a LHC when im through with it...but a few black holes are worth it
ive rtfa, and ive followed up a bit (well, before the troll line anyhow) on the replies at the satanic linux site. distrowatch already has a devil linux listed. its not like devil linux is seriously unique.
they also have a christian ubuntu.
if satanic ubuntu doesnt get canonical on board i dont see how in the world they can make this distro anything near "official" enough to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
distrowatch is being a bunch of steadfast bigoted censors. i dont like the name (by it alone im not sure it will gain anymore ground than flamewar) but i stand by the GPL in that they have a right to do this, strong handed censorship tactics or not.
the lawyers will always have the last say. i think amazon has proven a company is willing to thrash endlessly against the proverbial drawing board to come up with silly and lame-brained patents designed to thwart the broken system.
not to sound like a total downer, but if you can influence the peer group you can influence the outcome.
i catch myself occasionally
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falling into the trap of hating the business i work for. its inevitable because IT is very rarely in line with the same goals management is (profit, corporate citizenship, etc... i could care less about.) IT just wants it to run right, and keep them out of the office on a saturday.
my old boss once insisted IT was a part of the business, lock stock and barrel. however I once read on slashdot that IT was a service to, not a function of most businesses. keeping myself aligned with "service" has helped me to avoid alot of workplace animosity.
Its all in how you spin it i suppose, but without a customer, none of us would be here. its tough to have visibility.
will heat up like the center of the sun, whir like a 747, weigh a metric ton and never be moved from the desk upon which it will sit, consume as much power as a low end desktop, and work for about 6 months to 1 year until thermal stress takes hold and it becomes worthless for any use. much like jumbo shrimp, conservative republican, and tactical nuclear weapon, this "gaming laptop" capable of running crysis for all of 20 minutes before thermaling out, is an oxymoron.
the gaming laptop was contrived as a marketing competition tool to push the limits of the laptop form-factor with complete disregard for longevity and end user functionality.
not certain how accurate the survey is, but i know for a fact my employer doesnt seem to care. as an example, I work for a fortune 500 and was told my fluorescent red mohawk was "unique" by my boss. in fact, i have a hard time believing most employers beyond 1/5th of them actually care enough about your personal life to peruse it on the internet. so long as a criminal check and a drug screen both come back OK, nobody has said anything to me about the russian industrial music or weird food for lunch.
i have a hard enough time finding technical and scientific articles already, and google has been a great help. the last thing i need to do is search for something like evolution and be presented with nothing but listing after listing of church websites and creationism links.
malicious, but im on the side of the ex employee. if the device is his, i hope he uses it. it seems like theres alot of incompetence and coverup going on at the sanfran city network. this story has stunk since they decided to imprison him for not giving the password. "unknown wireless device" just further confirms theres a good chance nobody know what the hell theyre doing, and this guy could have been right.
considered timewasters that drop by your office and do the same thing as an unwanted email? or that fundraiser envelope circulated around the workplace for janes son's little league team, or fscking avon mags that just sort of appear on desks.
for that matter, what about real mail? the vendor shwag and 'publications' we all see in our office mail?
I dont know if we can fault email entirely for our productivity lapse. remember, theres always dilbert.com and, uhm,/.
this stock sell was definitely the work of the Bolsheviks. why, have you heard what theyve been putting out on the Edison wax recording machine? its simply appalling! I've a mind to give old teddy a call straight away!
agreed. ive been a fedora/redhat user for over 10 years, and i like the fedora project. The vague disclosure and corporate shoosh time overlord mentality taken by redhat is deplorable.
this breech is obviously a larger problem, as the update servers have gone silent for the most part (i havent seen new packages in over 3 weeks.)
after fedora 9 neutering its xen, going production with buggy kde, and losing openGL support in Xorg, my favorite distro has become rather dull and aggravating. now theres a mysterious security breech that, even on fedora forums has been whitewashed to corporate zombiespeak?
this is the latest release from Jesse Keating at fedoraforum.com:
"In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting
mirrors. These updates are designed to transition users from our old
repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with
a new set of keys.
Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later
apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key.
The process to getting new updates is two stage.
Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a
small set of updates available in the next few hours/days. These
updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique
(for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered). These updates should be
applied as soon as possible.
Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools
(yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of
updates available. This is your new standard flow of updates, that will
continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress.
There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection
of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old
gpg key from rpm trust."
gimme a break. the root cause is a conglomerate of labels who arguably add nothing of value anymore to music, as online distribution has supplanted them almost entirely.
its not their fault. if you were about to be unceremoniously kicked off your pile of bloodmoney, you'd fight like hell too!
one more blackhearted sentiment from a seasoned IT guy. Microsoft has no business stating "five nines" of anything other than profit. not since Xenix.
the last fortune 500 i worked for had to have the exchange cluster failed over at least twice a month, each failover costing in the neighborhood of 15 minutes (if it worked, which half the time it didnt.)
the sharepoint server cluster routinely, with all the grace of a candelabra about the skull, would try to failover and fence but managed to fence more active nodes than dead ones. brings new meaning to STONITH.
im sure Red Hat is having a good laugh over this NYSE mess.
chances are we had the flying car, but after intense litigation it was reduced to a '75 datsun with no rear seats and a dozen helium balloons tied to the antenna. quantum teleportation is actually a workaround for regular teleportation, which as it turns out has been copywritten for over a century. it also requires a fat man in a gurdle with fake hair to operate properly.
then they wouldnt be spare cpu cycles then, would they?
and with processor frequency scaling, i admittedly have even less of these "spare" cycles to spare.
wouldnt it make more sense to use ACPI to power off my pc when im not using it? id be donating spare kw/hr's to research labs in the area. not to mention a bit of spare bandwidth.
let the politicians do the naming and drum-beating. scientists have more important things to do, like making sure they dont turn their first spacewalker into a floating corpse-cicle.
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because sequencing the DNA of a pile of hot dogshit is still more important than addressing the palistinian occupation.
if they were discordian. penny hits the nail on the head. i have no idea what shoe squishing, churro munching jerry seinfeld is trying to sell, or for that matter what bill "wiggle-ass" gates has on the horizon besides hip displacia and a completely unrealistic scenario of him being spotted in the local mall by a million dollar celebrity.
why go to all the trouble of building a large hadron collider if all we're going to do is teach everyone god is at the center?
the money may as well have been spent on restorations to big butter jesus.
pretty soon all media will become so encumbered and restricted no one will dare channel surf in any format. i think it would be a pretty good thing...might get kids to start reading again. then again, i watch alot of spongebob squarepants, so id expect some sort of underground bootleg network of pirates (a bay of sorts perhaps) to surface.
a small script written by any slashdotter that takes care of this debate once or twice a month, randomly. there are only two possible outcomes based on the jack.thompson randomizer, which decreases in value daily.
and i have no link to her site in the summary or article? hardly.
did linux stop working on cray?
i might finally be able to play crysis on my vista ultimate machine? i mean, granted, my pc will look more like a LHC when im through with it...but a few black holes are worth it
ive rtfa, and ive followed up a bit (well, before the troll line anyhow) on the replies at the satanic linux site. distrowatch already has a devil linux listed. its not like devil linux is seriously unique.
they also have a christian ubuntu.
if satanic ubuntu doesnt get canonical on board i dont see how in the world they can make this distro anything near "official" enough to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
distrowatch is being a bunch of steadfast bigoted censors. i dont like the name (by it alone im not sure it will gain anymore ground than flamewar) but i stand by the GPL in that they have a right to do this, strong handed censorship tactics or not.
the lawyers will always have the last say. i think amazon has proven a company is willing to thrash endlessly against the proverbial drawing board to come up with silly and lame-brained patents designed to thwart the broken system.
not to sound like a total downer, but if you can influence the peer group you can influence the outcome.
falling into the trap of hating the business i work for. its inevitable because IT is very rarely in line with the same goals management is (profit, corporate citizenship, etc... i could care less about.) IT just wants it to run right, and keep them out of the office on a saturday.
my old boss once insisted IT was a part of the business, lock stock and barrel. however I once read on slashdot that IT was a service to, not a function of most businesses. keeping myself aligned with "service" has helped me to avoid alot of workplace animosity.
Its all in how you spin it i suppose, but without a customer, none of us would be here. its tough to have visibility.
will heat up like the center of the sun, whir like a 747, weigh a metric ton and never be moved from the desk upon which it will sit, consume as much power as a low end desktop, and work for about 6 months to 1 year until thermal stress takes hold and it becomes worthless for any use. much like jumbo shrimp, conservative republican, and tactical nuclear weapon, this "gaming laptop" capable of running crysis for all of 20 minutes before thermaling out, is an oxymoron.
the gaming laptop was contrived as a marketing competition tool to push the limits of the laptop form-factor with complete disregard for longevity and end user functionality.
i hate this country more and more each day.
is there any room left in canada?
not certain how accurate the survey is, but i know for a fact my employer doesnt seem to care. as an example, I work for a fortune 500 and was told my fluorescent red mohawk was "unique" by my boss. in fact, i have a hard time believing most employers beyond 1/5th of them actually care enough about your personal life to peruse it on the internet. so long as a criminal check and a drug screen both come back OK, nobody has said anything to me about the russian industrial music or weird food for lunch.
i have a hard enough time finding technical and scientific articles already, and google has been a great help. the last thing i need to do is search for something like evolution and be presented with nothing but listing after listing of church websites and creationism links.
malicious, but im on the side of the ex employee. if the device is his, i hope he uses it. it seems like theres alot of incompetence and coverup going on at the sanfran city network. this story has stunk since they decided to imprison him for not giving the password. "unknown wireless device" just further confirms theres a good chance nobody know what the hell theyre doing, and this guy could have been right.
considered timewasters that drop by your office and do the same thing as an unwanted email? or that fundraiser envelope circulated around the workplace for janes son's little league team, or fscking avon mags that just sort of appear on desks.
/.
for that matter, what about real mail? the vendor shwag and 'publications' we all see in our office mail?
I dont know if we can fault email entirely for our productivity lapse. remember, theres always dilbert.com and, uhm,
this stock sell was definitely the work of the Bolsheviks. why, have you heard what theyve been putting out on the Edison wax recording machine? its simply appalling! I've a mind to give old teddy a call straight away!
what is there to question about creationism? its not science. in fact, its right up there with scientology as far as im concerned.
heck, opening a can of beans does just as much to call creationism into question as this scientist.
agreed. ive been a fedora/redhat user for over 10 years, and i like the fedora project. The vague disclosure and corporate shoosh time overlord mentality taken by redhat is deplorable.
this breech is obviously a larger problem, as the update servers have gone silent for the most part (i havent seen new packages in over 3 weeks.)
after fedora 9 neutering its xen, going production with buggy kde, and losing openGL support in Xorg, my favorite distro has become rather dull and aggravating. now theres a mysterious security breech that, even on fedora forums has been whitewashed to corporate zombiespeak?
this is the latest release from Jesse Keating at fedoraforum.com: "In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting mirrors. These updates are designed to transition users from our old repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with a new set of keys. Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key.
The process to getting new updates is two stage.
Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a small set of updates available in the next few hours/days. These updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered). These updates should be applied as soon as possible.
Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of updates available. This is your new standard flow of updates, that will continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress.
There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old gpg key from rpm trust."
gimme a break. the root cause is a conglomerate of labels who arguably add nothing of value anymore to music, as online distribution has supplanted them almost entirely.
its not their fault. if you were about to be unceremoniously kicked off your pile of bloodmoney, you'd fight like hell too!
one more blackhearted sentiment from a seasoned IT guy. Microsoft has no business stating "five nines" of anything other than profit. not since Xenix.
the last fortune 500 i worked for had to have the exchange cluster failed over at least twice a month, each failover costing in the neighborhood of 15 minutes (if it worked, which half the time it didnt.)
the sharepoint server cluster routinely, with all the grace of a candelabra about the skull, would try to failover and fence but managed to fence more active nodes than dead ones. brings new meaning to STONITH.
im sure Red Hat is having a good laugh over this NYSE mess.
thank goodness we can pre-patent the future.
chances are we had the flying car, but after intense litigation it was reduced to a '75 datsun with no rear seats and a dozen helium balloons tied to the antenna. quantum teleportation is actually a workaround for regular teleportation, which as it turns out has been copywritten for over a century. it also requires a fat man in a gurdle with fake hair to operate properly.
then they wouldnt be spare cpu cycles then, would they?
and with processor frequency scaling, i admittedly have even less of these "spare" cycles to spare.
wouldnt it make more sense to use ACPI to power off my pc when im not using it? id be donating spare kw/hr's to research labs in the area. not to mention a bit of spare bandwidth.
let the politicians do the naming and drum-beating. scientists have more important things to do, like making sure they dont turn their first spacewalker into a floating corpse-cicle.