Posts by cor 253 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Aug 2006
.. and finally got seduced by Ubuntu, cos FC7 registered itself as 6.9 and refused to update anymore (with ANY package manager). Even though this was a trivial issue to fix, I was just so annoyed at the idiocy of it, and left it all behind.
I do miss FC/Red Hat. I will be trying FC10, but if I can't get my nVidias running and my laptop's non-intel wifi without jiggery-pokery, then I will need the 10-foot pole to push it away.
x)
I can reassure parties on both sides of the chickenwire that nobody will 'burn' in the event of a (software) penetration.
SCADA *is* used at gas refineries, I should know, I've installed and operated these things years ago. However, the Oil and Gas industry is not always as high tech in these matters and actually has a healthy distrust of non-mechanical safety systems (rightly so). The worst-case of software failure would mean an ESD (emergency shut down) and everything would need to be restarted. There are no inherent processes in a gas refinery that depend solely on software to maintain *safety*.
Luckily for us all, the law prevents them being constructed in such a manner.
So everyone chill, at worst, you may have to endure a cold shower in the morning....
BTW I don't work in the petrochemical industry anymore, nor have I for many years. I'm a regular Open Source hugging hack these days. ;P
"where we all suffocate from the Hydrogen Sulphide produced from the anaerobic decomposition of the oceanic biome."
Yeah. What he said.
You mean that the sea will stink of rotten eggs instead of rotten fish?
BTW: H2S does not suffocate, but is is lethally poisonous over 4 ppm.
</pedantic mode>
PH : well because scoring under 7 means she's an acid.
..I'm gettin' me tinfoil hat out.
Anyways if this oversized astral pebble 'spends most of its time behind the sun', why don't we nuke it there?
Better still, wrap it up in 2011, see if her theory works. Why wait until the shit is getting caught in the grating of the ventilator?
Ban overweight Americans from planes.
Ban chatty people from planes.
Ban terrorists from planes.
Ban bachelor parties from planes.
Ban under 12 y.o. from planes.
Ban whiners and clappers from planes.
Ban undeservedly vain, rude staff from planes.
Ban excess luggage carriers from planes.
Ban no legroom from planes.
Ban livestock from planes (you know who you are, Mr. 'mind-my-goat-while-I-have-a-leak' down in Angola).
Ban EasyJet customers from airports.
Ban one-door-for-all planes (Aeroflot).
No coat for me - I'm donning the last working parachute.
“ ...this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that white is black, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. ”
—Orwell, 1984
Whilst it is a valid point that cropfuels can't provide enough fuel to run a small percentage of the daily UK requirements, surely the deduction is: There is so much (non sustainable) fuel being burnt each day that even harvesting the entire UK production is not enough to replace it.
I don't have the answer, but efficiency seems to be the key to 'start' with.
Bought a Dyson online 6 years ago. After 3 years intensive service (dog, kids, forest nearby etc) the on/off switch got stuck. Sent an e-mail to Dyson customer services, Dyson was picked up next day and returned after 6 days, fault repaired.
Cost : nothing.
It still works fine.
<end shameless plug for a good UK product>
Sellafield/Windscale/Whatever-the-spindoctors-rename-it-to has been disposing of radioactive waste via the sea for decades now. However due to spoilsport eco-types, they now package it and put it on ships.
Funny enough (not laughing) I drove past a convoy of 9 trucks carrying UN 2909-161 packages last week on my way to work. They were 6-8 m long 1.5 - 2 m diameter white caskets, mounted atop 'sketeton' trailers normally used for container transport. Being round, they were wedged between the parallel chassis beams. Nice thick blue nylon rachet-straps held them in place.
I felt really assured, by the presence of a traffic jam and the absence of any (visible) police. In fairness, I have no idea how dangerous this stuff is, but if you need to spread the load over nine 40-tonners, then quantity may suffice in the absence of quality.
I took an alternative route as soon as I could. Not paranoid, just not curious enough to hang around...
Ah, so they saw penguins in Redmond...
Can't be having that commie OS being delivered mainstream...
I know from experience that WinCE licenses cost more than desktop, so MS is prolly subsidising the insertion of its bloatware.
Ironic, so soon after the final demise of Netscape, that MS adopts its 'IE uber alles' tactic once again.
"There's nothing in the Statue's decree that says "sneak in, under the cover of darkness, carrying diseases, drugs and weapons". Nothing says "send me your criminals you kicked out of your jails, your saboteurs and terrorists, who long to kill so that their leaders may control this land"."
True, this is something the Mexicans should have on their side facing north.
:P
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your *huddled masses* yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Bunch of Arse (TM)
@Solomon "Open Source is good for the market because you get lots of really talented people to design products for free - then you run them off and take the work for peanuts! It's hard to beat a cheap product - big profit business plan."
I guess you've never read the GPL v1-3? A few corporations have found out the hard way that this is just not true: Cisco, TomTom, Verizon, Motorola....
The application of jaded old-fashioned business plans may be tempting to old hacks who have not caught up with current methods. But be assured that the new generation is only too aware of what can be achieved by applying new strategies. Ask General Motors how they ended up sh1t creek, while Porsche are still making more money than they can count.
@ Brian "If you want to play in their sandbox, its their rules"
- Yes but you don't have to play the ostrich. There are enough senior execs with their heads in the sand.
"Just keep in mind that the POP email protocol sends your email password across the net in plain text..."
Possibly so by default, but you can use encrypted pop3 if you are savvy enough to click on the box/button. (Or is that something not available on Windows? I use the demon Linux). Obviously your ISP must support this too, if they don't, they need to be swapped out.
"Many public facing computers have ping response turned off for that reason.."
Yeah, spoilsports. That's why we have "$ nmap -P0 <address>"
;P
You make a valid point about RTFM'ing the legislation before whining on about the unfairness of it all. That much is certainly true.
But (and I mean this genuinely) how does this relate to, say, pinging an ip address?
As I'm sure you know, if you ping an address you are requiring the other machine to perform an action. Even if it rejects ping responses, it still has to read the packet.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Amy.
Amy who?
Amy going to jail for knocking on yer door?
Paris? Well she would find it hard to fathom too..
This may clear up a lot of grey area.
What if I lived in a semi-detached house, sharing a wall with my neighbours livingroom/bedroom etc. Now, I am a stingy b45t3rd and I keep my heating set at 17 deg, whilst next door they maintain 23 deg all day. Clearly there will always be some heat transfer to my house, effectively costing the neighbour more money than if I also kept my rooms at 23 deg. Must I pay compensation, go to jail?
It's not as clear cut as many might think....
Cruizin tha Googlenet I found this LOL:
"When looking for somewhere to stay in Berwick we consulted Trip Advisor and decided to go for the number one ranked B&B in Berwick.
Well the place certainly lived up to expectations!
I cant praise the Old Vicarage enough. From the gorgeous little touches like homemade cakes on the tea tray in the room to the superb choice of breakfasts. What a delight.
The bed was supremely comfortable with lovely high quality bed linen and fluffy white towels. It really was like home from home.
Great value for money (especially as the price includes free wifi internet access).
The breakfasts were superb too.
I wouldnt think of staying anywhere else in Berwick!"
See for yourselves if you like :
<link> : www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g504038-d620173-r10036172-Old_Vicarage_Guest_House-Berwick_upon_Tweed_Northumberland_England.html
So the 'Polis' found them out?
Did they intercept their datastream? That is far more serious than hitching a ride on an unsecured WiFi.
My laptop has its wifi interface set to 'roaming' and dhcp. I work in an office location where I regularly move from my desk to a colleague at the other end of the building, or a conference room. I often stay in a hotel with wifi... etc.
So if I leave my laptop on and it inadvertantly uses someone else's a.p. then I could be arrested? Don't make me laugh (or cry, seeing how pathetic this is).
I will be watching the courts' ruling with great interest...
"Five per cent fewer" :
Wow Chris, my English teacher would be so proud of you! Kudos.
Meanwhile I refuse to join any of these soc. net. sites.
I am a member of an online network that is strictly for (new) business contacts, and does not pretend otherwise. Plus we can exchange professional answers to members' (IT) questions., etc.
Interestingly, the ads there are minimal.
..an Open Source format for DNA storage? Think about it, the gov. is always going on about "...if you have nothing to hide then ..blah blah.." - So why hide their horde of indiscriminate blanket acquisition of profiles?
I'm not propagating this idea, I'd rather they just left us alone and used intelligence to track down criminals. However if they're going to tag us anyway, why not transparently?
Methinks Joey knows Linux from using Putty...?
"...not something to pull birds with. For that you need something a bit flashier."
Ooooooo.... <sharp intake of air> who... has.... the.... flashiest... of... flash... eye... candy... 3D desktops....?
Beryl/Compiz anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM
Q.E.D.
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