I have a strange track record. I don't *need* a linux box but I like to keep one running for web serving, ftp, a router, etc. This means that some times I have to pull hardware from the box for other necesities. Well, yesterday I finally got the box back up and running (and much more powerful then it was in its last conception). I installed and have throughly updated Redhat 7.2. Now, 7.3 comes out.
This has happened to me for every major . release since 6.0! I sware, if you want the next version of redhat, I just need to install it and update it. Pfft!
Remember that time when that kid dialed into NORAD and used that security exploit to get into the Thermo-nuclear war simulator and everyone thought it was real until he and the inventor were able to trick the computer into playing Tic-Tac-Toe? I see a LOT of bugs in the software there but no one ever seems to care about that...
With some songs, fuck gets on the radio because the lyrics sheet is something like "sofa king." Other times, it can be because the song is now considered a "classic." For example, Steve Miller Band - "All that funky shit goin down in the city" was, for as long as I have heard the song, all that funky KICKS goin down in the city. Recently on "classic rock" stations, shit has been put back in.
As for talk radio - there is a huge double standard and most of it is program director and radio manager specific. When it comes to what can and can not be said on the air, most of the time it falls on the station manager / program director. There have been many instances where one show can sya one thing and the other can not. Some shows that sell themselves as being on the edge can get away with a whole hell of a lot less. Stern, Don and Mike, OnA and the sports junkies all have been told they can not use penis, vagina, etc. even in a strict medical discussion, ie "What to do if your penis bleeds while urinating." However, Love Line, Dr. Laura, etc. get to say them. Even shows that are not medical related, like the G Gordon Liddy show - every so often a word or phrase makes it on the air there and its okay. ie He had some strippers in once and their background music was some rap where the dude said fuck, nigger, and cunt a few times - played under their talking but it went over the air with no penalties. A similar instance happened to Don and Mike where someone drove by a live broadcast and the word shit made it on the air and they caught hell for it.
I think when it comes to the talk shows, if some of these guys that go out over the same stations could get together and go against management, we the listeners would be all the better for it.
However, the FCC is a fucking bitch when it comes to the air-waves (not only in what I just discussed but also in selling of the spectrum, etc.)
I think it would be GREAT if shows like OnA, Stern, Don and Mike, etc. were simulcast over the internet SANS the dump button, so that when someone gets on and says fuckin faggots - you get to hear it live and unedited!
if you read the user comments they link to a few sites that sell OS-Less Laptops
Also, www.shackstore.com will sell you a laptop sans OS
and also Ive been told if you specifically ask for no os and order over the phone, Dell will sell it to you w/o an OS -- but IIRC there is no price discount.
Or student copies or copies that MS gives them for free @ conferences or full retail versions they can buy cheaper online then OEM versions or they transfer their win98 full retail lic over or a few other legit ways to get windows on a box cheap
There are a lot of FCC regulations on a lot of things. "Thats a fall back to those old radio days, - where you have to have station recognition every so often, etc." Why the hell do I now need to hear every 15 minutes (or whatever) that I am listening to KICT T-95.1, FM? Any good talk radio show or morning zoo show just fucking ignores that shitty rule. Thats where this comes into play (now wait for the radio-free internet tie in) - traditional radio is often bound by such really fucking retarded restraints. Im sure some poor pilot is in a storm and all hell is breaking loose and he is on channel 9 yelling may day, may day - need help landing... but everyone is listening to the morning zoo tell you its a beautiful may day and playing britney spears... and thats obviously a distress call!
It is pretty clear that itnernet radio has the ability to serve to just as wide of an audience (if not more) as does traditional broadcast radio. (Sure its world wide but computer use is not, but you can always be syndicated on something like Westwood One and be heard is such wonderful parts of the world as NYC, DC, Philly, and Burrlington Iowa!)
No one listening to public FM radio channels is going to think: Holy shit! They just played the new Britney Spears album and now their plane is crashing, time to help!... while at the same time someone on a CB is flying through a scary storm.
Also, the words May 1 and Radio were said. I put the two together. It would be similar to bringing up communism if an article about russia and open source were to be posted.
Listen to your favorite radio stations on May-Day. For a VERY long time the DeeJays could not say the words "may day" together such as "Its may-day." Thats a fall back to those old radio days, - where you have to have station recognition every so often, etc. Who knows - but get on the radio waves tomorrow and just yell "ITS MAY-DAY! MAY-DAY!"
According to information released by the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, an even more detailed list (requires Adobe Acrobat) was issued by the FAA in February that helpfully advises passengers not to bother trying to bring automatic weapons, hand grenades, blasting caps, or meat cleavers. Also banned are corkscrews and toy transformer robots.
I only do this since I know an angelfire page will get/. and reach bandwidth limits fast! However, there is a pretty excel chart on there so bookmark and come back much later.
Web Decay by Scott Ennis 4/26/2002 Knowing how anxious most companies are to keep their web content "fresh," I was curious how "fresh" the web itself was.
In order to come up with a freshness rating for the web you need to sample a very large number of pages. Not wanting to do this, I opted to use the Google search engine as a method for reviewing the web as a whole.
My hypothesis is this: By searching Google using some common english phrases and returning results at various time points, a baseline can be reached for the common rate of freshness of overall web content.
I took the total number of pages found for each given phrase at 3, 6, and 12 months. I calculated a percentage for each of these points based on the total number of results found with no date specified.
Note: This method excludes any pages which are not text and more specifically, not English text. This method relies on a random sampling of phrases. Using this methodology I determined that the average rate of decay of the web follows a 60-70-80 percent decline at 3, 6, and 12 months.
Therefore, If a company wants to maintain a freshness rate on par with the web as a whole, their site content should be updated at the inverse rate. In other words: 60% of the site should change every 3 months 70% of the site should change every 6 months 80% of the site should change every 12 months The only way to do this effectively is to either have a very small site, or have a site with dynamically generated information.
The following graph shows the decay rate for a few phrases. I selected these phrase to display because of their unique characteristics. bill gates sucks--This phrase had the lowest decay rate of any phrases I searched. life's short play hard--This phrase had the greatest decay rate of any I searched (note: this search was also very small). blessed are the cheesemakers--This phrase was relatively small, but demonstrates that quantity of pages may not be important in determining decay rate. late at night--This phrase returned the highest number of results of any I searched and yet it also adheres closely to the 60-70-80 rule.
Conclusion:
Web content decays at a uniform, determinable rate. Sites wanting to optimize their content freshness need to maintain a rate of freshness that corresponds to the rate of web decay.
Olathe is a burb of Kansas City and is not far at all from KU and KSU. Also, a drive from Wichita is not totally out of the question (see my post). Thus, the market is there. I guess you just found a person who was willing to invest. Bill Warren is the Wichita, KS movie goon and he runs most of the theatres here in town and is a pure cock-sucker. He underpays his workers and over-charges on the tickets. Anyways, he got a grant from the city to build a new theatre and on the grant application it promised revolutionary new digital projection and sound that would draw people to see big block busters to THAT theatre, aposed to others. Guess what never happened...
I am there! Okay, so the drive up from wichita for a movie is kind of "re-damn-diculous" but Ill go catch some lame weekday show that no one will be at. I will probably see it opening weekend here in Wichita and then drive up w/in the next week or two (cant wait too long cause they may/may not pull it from digital, and that would suck dickitydick).
I will be very bummed if it is no different from the regular ol projector that Ill be seeing it at here in town.
One company I work with has an intra-company tech support for all the agents. The problem is the tech support sucks POO POO. The hold times are insane. Once you actually get a person, it is just a level one tech who can just look at the 10 page trouble shooting manual. If its not there, you get a problem number and a level two tech will call you back. Sometimes, that can takes DAYS. One time I was told a level 2 tech would call back by 5 our time, we waited till 7, called back and found out everyone had gone home. Teh support also will lie to you as well, which is always fun.
Being tech oriented, I try to avoid calling tech support like the PLAUGE. However, some times I have to and it drives me bonkos. There needs to be a code word that lets the person know, "Okay, he doesnt need to hear: Click Start, Settings, Control Panel."
Wichita State University ( www.wichita.edu ) is INFAMOUS for this. WSU has a VERY high arab student population. In fact, most of those news stories you heard about student visas included profiling our school. One of first WTC bombing guys had an expired WSU student Visa (never came to WSU, just got accepted and the visa to get in the US). Rumor has it that one of the 9/11 pilots did the same, however that is un-confirmed. That, however is beside the point. The point is that a heavy minority of the student population does not speak native english, and ESL (English as a Second Language - which I do TA for Spanish -> English) is not flying. Example:
I started out as a CS major. First college class: Calc I. I had looked at calc stuff before, had a basic understanding - but was ready to learn. My teacher was a jack-ass who normally only taught grad-courses but taught calc once every 3 years "to stay fresh." Luckily, we have a "math-lab" (always sounds like meth-lab) for students. Problem: You can not understand the god damned tutor. I polietly asked him to repeate himself time and time again, and I still had no fucking clue. For the 6 weeks I was in Calc, before I dropped and changed majors, we had 3 subs - one russian, two arabs of some sort. I could not understand one fucking word that came out of their mouths. Reminder: I am a spanish major and I am pretty good at listening and picking things out. My boss at the time had a stroke and I could understand him.
Anyways, simulate having such a small pool of elligable profesors to where you have to put people who can not "speaka da english" and then you have a winner. (I would not play it, but I would not play Sims and thats a best seller - who the fuck knows. I cant wait for the sim where you sim playing sims!)
Yea - this microsoft conference I went to back right before win98 came out (and the guy was running nt5 on his laptop, ha) - they had REALLY good cookies
I mean DAMN DAMN DAMN good cookies! Probably, these were the greatest cookies I had ever had
but they wanted me to fill out a card... so I did - Mike Hunt, 669 S. Dameon St.
I do not think so. Quite a few people in my family are RNs (Nurses). Quite a few of them are former RNs (Ex-Nurses). All of them joined because they enjoyed the field and liked helping people. They enjoyed for years the many fields and benefits of being a nurse. However, they are slowly starting to burn out. Wether it is my mother who has a broken back thanks to hospital mis-management, or my aunt who is now working a nursing home (again due to hospital mis-management) -- the family trade is hitting burn out FAST. They still love nursing - however the conditions are not right for them to be working on the floor. In my mother's case, she is now physically un-able to do her job or any other job due to her job. (PS - since she is the grin and bare it type, the hospital refuses to pay her anything, even though the XRays are conclusive).
I enjoy the computer work I do. I don't do it for the money (or I would sure as hell not waste my time on the interneche). I enjoy the money, but I do it because its like second nature to me and I love to help others out -- I just can not stand the smell of hospitals... I guess I got the down side of the schwartz. I do see burn out in my future if I continue doing the comp work I do today for my life -- that is why I am picking up a language degree, so my choices will be open. I will probably be doing computer work until the grave unless I get forced to do it 7-6 M-S. If that happens, fuck technology!
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This story has become so huge that unless you are already in a thread, its pointless - but thats because the actual story itself is HUGE
but I read all the +5 comments and its interesting to see so much more support for the people and against best buy then I saw before this arrest (people just saying everyone was trying to rip off best buy, etc)
I also give Steve@Hypothermia props for keeping up on all this, esp working with the DA offices in many states
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Since this does not have Gnome 2.0 or anything big, and I just got done installing Ximian - Im just gonna stick with 7.2
Also, Ive always been early adopters of the . releases and stuff is always broken
I have a strange track record. I don't *need* a linux box but I like to keep one running for web serving, ftp, a router, etc. This means that some times I have to pull hardware from the box for other necesities. Well, yesterday I finally got the box back up and running (and much more powerful then it was in its last conception). I installed and have throughly updated Redhat 7.2. Now, 7.3 comes out.
This has happened to me for every major . release since 6.0! I sware, if you want the next version of redhat, I just need to install it and update it. Pfft!
i might read it and I hate chemistry
but I hate chem due to my asshole science teacher
He purposly tried to fail me (losing assignments, giving me no credit for a test)
but I got even
Remember that time when that kid dialed into NORAD and used that security exploit to get into the Thermo-nuclear war simulator and everyone thought it was real until he and the inventor were able to trick the computer into playing Tic-Tac-Toe? I see a LOT of bugs in the software there but no one ever seems to care about that...
That is fucking rich
I am truely impressed here
What happened to that 2600 story about Turner exce calling PVR users theives??
Please, go back to english 101, understand clauses and then read that again and Im sure you can noodle it through!
The radio standards are not that
With some songs, fuck gets on the radio because the lyrics sheet is something like "sofa king." Other times, it can be because the song is now considered a "classic." For example, Steve Miller Band - "All that funky shit goin down in the city" was, for as long as I have heard the song, all that funky KICKS goin down in the city. Recently on "classic rock" stations, shit has been put back in.
As for talk radio - there is a huge double standard and most of it is program director and radio manager specific. When it comes to what can and can not be said on the air, most of the time it falls on the station manager / program director. There have been many instances where one show can sya one thing and the other can not. Some shows that sell themselves as being on the edge can get away with a whole hell of a lot less. Stern, Don and Mike, OnA and the sports junkies all have been told they can not use penis, vagina, etc. even in a strict medical discussion, ie "What to do if your penis bleeds while urinating." However, Love Line, Dr. Laura, etc. get to say them. Even shows that are not medical related, like the G Gordon Liddy show - every so often a word or phrase makes it on the air there and its okay. ie He had some strippers in once and their background music was some rap where the dude said fuck, nigger, and cunt a few times - played under their talking but it went over the air with no penalties. A similar instance happened to Don and Mike where someone drove by a live broadcast and the word shit made it on the air and they caught hell for it.
I think when it comes to the talk shows, if some of these guys that go out over the same stations could get together and go against management, we the listeners would be all the better for it.
However, the FCC is a fucking bitch when it comes to the air-waves (not only in what I just discussed but also in selling of the spectrum, etc.)
I think it would be GREAT if shows like OnA, Stern, Don and Mike, etc. were simulcast over the internet SANS the dump button, so that when someone gets on and says fuckin faggots - you get to hear it live and unedited!
if you read the user comments they link to a few sites that sell OS-Less Laptops
Also, www.shackstore.com will sell you a laptop sans OS
and also Ive been told if you specifically ask for no os and order over the phone, Dell will sell it to you w/o an OS -- but IIRC there is no price discount.
Or student copies or copies that MS gives them for free @ conferences or full retail versions they can buy cheaper online then OEM versions or they transfer their win98 full retail lic over or a few other legit ways to get windows on a box cheap
Its not always about the piracy, g
There are a lot of FCC regulations on a lot of things. "Thats a fall back to those old radio days, - where you have to have station recognition every so often, etc." Why the hell do I now need to hear every 15 minutes (or whatever) that I am listening to KICT T-95.1, FM? Any good talk radio show or morning zoo show just fucking ignores that shitty rule. Thats where this comes into play (now wait for the radio-free internet tie in) - traditional radio is often bound by such really fucking retarded restraints. Im sure some poor pilot is in a storm and all hell is breaking loose and he is on channel 9 yelling may day, may day - need help landing ... but everyone is listening to the morning zoo tell you its a beautiful may day and playing britney spears ... and thats obviously a distress call!
It is pretty clear that itnernet radio has the ability to serve to just as wide of an audience (if not more) as does traditional broadcast radio. (Sure its world wide but computer use is not, but you can always be syndicated on something like Westwood One and be heard is such wonderful parts of the world as NYC, DC, Philly, and Burrlington Iowa!)
See - it all comes together
No one listening to public FM radio channels is going to think: Holy shit! They just played the new Britney Spears album and now their plane is crashing, time to help! ... while at the same time someone on a CB is flying through a scary storm.
Also, the words May 1 and Radio were said. I put the two together. It would be similar to bringing up communism if an article about russia and open source were to be posted.
Listen to your favorite radio stations on May-Day. For a VERY long time the DeeJays could not say the words "may day" together such as "Its may-day." Thats a fall back to those old radio days, - where you have to have station recognition every so often, etc. Who knows - but get on the radio waves tomorrow and just yell "ITS MAY-DAY! MAY-DAY!"
When I sync with my palm - sometimes I get this, sometimes I do not - I can not quite find a rhyme or a reason!
Personally I would just turn it off, but I can not seem to find said option
but then again, they took away netfolders in Outlook 2k2 so fuck um anyways
I thought you couldnt make toy guns that realistic anymore after all those stories of cops shooting kids that pulled "guns" on them?
Tell me this is a joke!~
As seen on this slate article:
According to information released by the Dallas Fort Worth Airport, an even more detailed list (requires Adobe Acrobat) was issued by the FAA in February that helpfully advises passengers not to bother trying to bring automatic weapons, hand grenades, blasting caps, or meat cleavers. Also banned are corkscrews and toy transformer robots.
I only do this since I know an angelfire page will get /. and reach bandwidth limits fast! However, there is a pretty excel chart on there so bookmark and come back much later.
Web Decay
by Scott Ennis
4/26/2002
Knowing how anxious most companies are to keep their web content "fresh," I was curious how "fresh" the web itself was.
In order to come up with a freshness rating for the web you need to sample a very large number of pages. Not wanting to do this, I opted to use the Google search engine as a method for reviewing the web as a whole.
My hypothesis is this: By searching Google using some common english phrases and returning results at various time points, a baseline can be reached for the common rate of freshness of overall web content.
I took the total number of pages found for each given phrase at 3, 6, and 12 months. I calculated a percentage for each of these points based on the total number of results found with no date specified.
For example: Phrase 3 mos. 6 mos. 12 mos. Total
buy low sell high 4700 5470 6200 7830
60% 70% 79% 100%
Note:
This method excludes any pages which are not text and more specifically, not English text.
This method relies on a random sampling of phrases.
Using this methodology I determined that the average rate of decay of the web follows a 60-70-80 percent decline at 3, 6, and 12 months.
Therefore, If a company wants to maintain a freshness rate on par with the web as a whole, their site content should be updated at the inverse rate. In other words:
60% of the site should change every 3 months
70% of the site should change every 6 months
80% of the site should change every 12 months
The only way to do this effectively is to either have a very small site, or have a site with dynamically generated information.
The following graph shows the decay rate for a few phrases. I selected these phrase to display because of their unique characteristics.
bill gates sucks--This phrase had the lowest decay rate of any phrases I searched.
life's short play hard--This phrase had the greatest decay rate of any I searched (note: this search was also very small).
blessed are the cheesemakers--This phrase was relatively small, but demonstrates that quantity of pages may not be important in determining decay rate.
late at night--This phrase returned the highest number of results of any I searched and yet it also adheres closely to the 60-70-80 rule.
Conclusion:
Web content decays at a uniform, determinable rate. Sites wanting to optimize their content freshness need to maintain a rate of freshness that corresponds to the rate of web decay.
Olathe is a burb of Kansas City and is not far at all from KU and KSU. Also, a drive from Wichita is not totally out of the question (see my post). Thus, the market is there. I guess you just found a person who was willing to invest. Bill Warren is the Wichita, KS movie goon and he runs most of the theatres here in town and is a pure cock-sucker. He underpays his workers and over-charges on the tickets. Anyways, he got a grant from the city to build a new theatre and on the grant application it promised revolutionary new digital projection and sound that would draw people to see big block busters to THAT theatre, aposed to others. Guess what never happened...
I am there! Okay, so the drive up from wichita for a movie is kind of "re-damn-diculous" but Ill go catch some lame weekday show that no one will be at. I will probably see it opening weekend here in Wichita and then drive up w/in the next week or two (cant wait too long cause they may/may not pull it from digital, and that would suck dickitydick).
I will be very bummed if it is no different from the regular ol projector that Ill be seeing it at here in town.
One company I work with has an intra-company tech support for all the agents. The problem is the tech support sucks POO POO. The hold times are insane. Once you actually get a person, it is just a level one tech who can just look at the 10 page trouble shooting manual. If its not there, you get a problem number and a level two tech will call you back. Sometimes, that can takes DAYS. One time I was told a level 2 tech would call back by 5 our time, we waited till 7, called back and found out everyone had gone home. Teh support also will lie to you as well, which is always fun.
Being tech oriented, I try to avoid calling tech support like the PLAUGE. However, some times I have to and it drives me bonkos. There needs to be a code word that lets the person know, "Okay, he doesnt need to hear: Click Start, Settings, Control Panel."
Wichita State University ( www.wichita.edu ) is INFAMOUS for this. WSU has a VERY high arab student population. In fact, most of those news stories you heard about student visas included profiling our school. One of first WTC bombing guys had an expired WSU student Visa (never came to WSU, just got accepted and the visa to get in the US). Rumor has it that one of the 9/11 pilots did the same, however that is un-confirmed. That, however is beside the point. The point is that a heavy minority of the student population does not speak native english, and ESL (English as a Second Language - which I do TA for Spanish -> English) is not flying. Example:
I started out as a CS major. First college class: Calc I. I had looked at calc stuff before, had a basic understanding - but was ready to learn. My teacher was a jack-ass who normally only taught grad-courses but taught calc once every 3 years "to stay fresh." Luckily, we have a "math-lab" (always sounds like meth-lab) for students. Problem: You can not understand the god damned tutor. I polietly asked him to repeate himself time and time again, and I still had no fucking clue. For the 6 weeks I was in Calc, before I dropped and changed majors, we had 3 subs - one russian, two arabs of some sort. I could not understand one fucking word that came out of their mouths. Reminder: I am a spanish major and I am pretty good at listening and picking things out. My boss at the time had a stroke and I could understand him.
Anyways, simulate having such a small pool of elligable profesors to where you have to put people who can not "speaka da english" and then you have a winner. (I would not play it, but I would not play Sims and thats a best seller - who the fuck knows. I cant wait for the sim where you sim playing sims!)
Yea - this microsoft conference I went to back right before win98 came out (and the guy was running nt5 on his laptop, ha) - they had REALLY good cookies
... so I did - Mike Hunt, 669 S. Dameon St.
I mean DAMN DAMN DAMN good cookies! Probably, these were the greatest cookies I had ever had
but they wanted me to fill out a card
Never give out your info
Might I side recomend SmartFTP (www.smartftp.com) -- I stopped using WS_FTP ages ago for Cute and dropped cute for smart
I do not think so. Quite a few people in my family are RNs (Nurses). Quite a few of them are former RNs (Ex-Nurses). All of them joined because they enjoyed the field and liked helping people. They enjoyed for years the many fields and benefits of being a nurse. However, they are slowly starting to burn out. Wether it is my mother who has a broken back thanks to hospital mis-management, or my aunt who is now working a nursing home (again due to hospital mis-management) -- the family trade is hitting burn out FAST. They still love nursing - however the conditions are not right for them to be working on the floor. In my mother's case, she is now physically un-able to do her job or any other job due to her job. (PS - since she is the grin and bare it type, the hospital refuses to pay her anything, even though the XRays are conclusive).
I enjoy the computer work I do. I don't do it for the money (or I would sure as hell not waste my time on the interneche). I enjoy the money, but I do it because its like second nature to me and I love to help others out -- I just can not stand the smell of hospitals... I guess I got the down side of the schwartz. I do see burn out in my future if I continue doing the comp work I do today for my life -- that is why I am picking up a language degree, so my choices will be open. I will probably be doing computer work until the grave unless I get forced to do it 7-6 M-S. If that happens, fuck technology!
This story has become so huge that unless you are already in a thread, its pointless - but thats because the actual story itself is HUGE
but I read all the +5 comments and its interesting to see so much more support for the people and against best buy then I saw before this arrest (people just saying everyone was trying to rip off best buy, etc)
I also give Steve@Hypothermia props for keeping up on all this, esp working with the DA offices in many states