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  1. flyingferret
    That's awesome! My girlfriend has a couple 'prairies' they are pretty cute, but freaking mean sometimes. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  2. flyingferret
    Ok, so what if you jump then? That would be even better endorphins, right? -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  3. flyingferret
    Actually.... I mix hot chocolate or mocha when i have it with my coffee. Ask dave about our Frappacino roadtrips.....like 4 in a day. It reads like that MRE story. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  4. flyingferret
    Agreed, and I hope you are right....just sauing rebutting is a bad way to start a sales pitch. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  5. flyingferret
    And it has more caffiene per pound than coffee. I knew that much. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  6. flyingferret
    Yeah, it's a good idea, and perfectly legal. BUT I bet you are a lot of bad feedback. If you don't I would be thrilled. But you tend to get a lot of "No you can't that is illegal" there was some thread in here jsut the other day where Bill Von was saying as much that it was legal, and everyone had a hard time believing it. The problem is these days, noone really knows, they just believe what would make sense based on the corporate advertising baked into their head. That being said, are you just configuring WAPs or clients too? If you are configuring the clients, you better not charge a flat fee. Compiling a hundred MACs, then entering them, and setting up wep on each one, is a lot worse than a small network of 5. And what happens when they get a new machine? do you they call you? or are they competent enough to access the router and add a MAC? -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  7. flyingferret
    Could someone explain the chocolate part? It is true...I know from experience, but why? What does it do for you? -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  8. flyingferret
    Mayo on fries is good! And diet soda sucks! It has that nasty pucker to it.... But some people drink it cause they are diabetic and stuff...lots of reasons. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  9. flyingferret
    Funny...my dad jumped at Casa Grande when he was 18 in 1960 (If I have the story straight). Now that you mention it, I don't remember him every saying anything about altimeters, in fact a lot of just plain hop and pops were pretty common. Back then, he said they would go to air shows to get free jumps, regardless of your experience level. He had a JM with like 75 jumps, that would pack his main with laundry and use his belly wart for a spectacle at airshows. Not that that has a lot to do with altimeters, but given the stories and mindset, I bet most people then did not have one. Even now, I jump without one sometimes, and sometimes I have it and never look at it. I find myself at a point, where I know what the sight picture looks like at 3K, and flying camera, I try to never pull below there. I usually don't think about this unless my dytter is out, and I pull instinctively; it is usually dead on. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  10. flyingferret
    Ha! Very true. I had a prof like that. Named John Gurke. Great guy! Private pilot, HAM operator. Had worked for in the oil industry then TI for years. Started as a maht major, before CS existed. He ALWAYS wore khakis and cowboy boots, and his hair looked like it had been up all night coding or he flew in without a canopy cover. He knew his shit! He used to write stuff on the board, and then half way through say "What the hell am I doing" and rewrite. He could care less about testing, or the book. He would sit and discuss for hours, and if you failed the test, he would let you retake a similar, until you learned the point of the exercise. This was the man that taught me Turbo Pascal and C. Funny enough, it was in my two years Grayson County College on all expenses $600 scholarship. After two years, I went to a 4 year 'university' and never saw that caliber prof EVER again. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  11. flyingferret
    Couldn't agree more, although I am not a girl, hope the opinion still counts It all depends on your head. Dave and I have huge hatsizes, yet I jump convertors, and wish, the bottom edge coverage was just a bit more. I love them, and I ride my motorcycle with them (with and without windshield) and jump in them exclusively now and they work well for it all. They simply dont seal against my cheek quite as well as my Oakleys did. But then again, I chose the frame for itnerchangeable lens, not shape. So...really try to find a dealer and go try on every frame. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  12. flyingferret
    Good assessment. Be that as it may, I know more programmers writing .net than anything else, followed by php and c, then maybe Java. In relation to online develop, all the complaints I have heard indicated the server side java is way more intensive than php. And for anything short of large stuff, php works fine. Your comments on c coders doing 90% are kind of funny, having been there, and have gotten no guidance from profs. Maybe we should be taught by people with experience, novel idea, I know. In reality, in any language school is a pretty trivial experience. I guess perhaps Java just makes it hard to eat up memory when you don't have experience. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  13. flyingferret
    Bill is well educated here, as usuall. The FCC regs read exactly like that, and it has been challenged at multiple schools, libraries, etc. And they stand! It is broadcast radio. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  14. flyingferret
    So how can I learn? How hard is it? I gave up snowboarding after 4 days of ground pounding on a front edge, and went back to skis, where I could go where I want. I am guessing water is not as bad, but I have heard learn to wake can be a beotch. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  15. flyingferret
    I learned: Turbo Pascal C C++ Assembly VB COBOL Java in that order. Part of my hate was my personal situation. I was two years through school, and was right at that point where you dont think to program any more. The logic was second nature, and I am proud to say I never debugged an assembler project, cause I wrote them all right the first time, seriously. Even VB did not really mess me it, it was just a dumbed down C, kinda of annoying but useful. Then came two semesters of COBOL, and just killed my c fluency. I guess I could have tried to maintain it, but in school you really don't have the time if it is not coursework. For the record, I hated Java too, a lot was probably the prof and teaching environment. But if you are not using it specifically for secure stuff, it was a big waste of recursive lengthy function (method whatever) calling, that was much easier in c -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  16. flyingferret
    So how much altitude and yo ureally get and land? Can you hit 50 feet and bring it back down? Seems way less control lines than our canopies. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  17. flyingferret
    nah, just use c. much better to learn, and much more portable to anything modern, like ++, java, .net, etc. COBOL uses rules all its own, you will never see them again...ever. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  18. flyingferret
    Yeah, well I will knock as I had 2 semesters of it It KILLED my then fluency in c/c++ After a transfer I had to take it a legacy IS intensive school. They had a CIS program that had made the college of business back in the early ninties and they loved COBOL. In fact their teaching of all other languages was kind of behind the curve. I hated COBOL. the only language I have ever used that actually cares about column spacing. Very heavy. It is good for repeititive record processing, that is about it. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  19. flyingferret
    Damn? Any idea what the origin of that is? I started looking because my girlfriend send me a pic that was unreal, it really does look photoshopped on enlargement, of a jump like 50feet up out at sea. I was thinking it was not possible, but ok, if it is, how the crap do they land it? Obviously the guy in that video did not. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  20. flyingferret
    Kitesurfing happens to have my attention today. thinking about going to the velocity games in corpus this year. Anyway, I found a ton of videos, these guys are more into video that we are. Anyone have recommendations on what DVD to order? http://www.actionsportsvideos.com/kitesurf.html -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  21. flyingferret
    Yeah, it really all depends, I work for a small company with an as needed IT budget. So, that means once it is needed, the damage is done. I agree with you, and if I had my way I would use a VXA-2 autoloader from Exabyte, and then a NAS solution for client laptop backups. BUT...I dont have $4K to blow, some I am weighing some odds. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  22. flyingferret
    Has anyone actually seen them seperately? -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  23. flyingferret
    Agreed, but for multiple reasons, cannot quite dump NT yet. It is in the plan over the next year, that box will probalby be replaced with a new PDC, then upgraded to become a BDC. In the mean time, my current AIT is being flaky, making me nervous, and my CEO is interested in backing up his laptop. And of course we want to spend no money. I am trying to decide how much I value off site tapes, and where exactly off site would be. Other than that I really like the idea of RAID NAS -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  24. flyingferret
    For the geeks in the room: I am thinking about implementing network attached storage backup routines. Right now I have an AIT tape routine in a Compaq ML380 server. The tape drivers is starting to be flaky, plus the server is NT4 6a, and the Veritas is an OLD version (6.4I think) I inherited the whole setup and don't really like it. I am thinking about going with an Iomega NAS 200m or 300m, which gives me: rack mount, RAID 1 (and 5 on the 300m), etc, etc. To me this seems like a better solution, and at least as fault tolerant as tape, excepting an inceneration event anyway. Anyone have any experience with them, particularly the backup software used. A handy 'plugin' for quick client backups as well as server backups would be nice. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.
  25. flyingferret
    Dude, RedvsBlue ROCKS! If you have ever played first person shooter games, the humor is SO applicable. The whole first season is on DVD now. Check out : http://www.redvsblue.com/home.php Rooster labs also has a new machina series based on the SIMs: http://www.redvsblue.com/home.php Machina is the genre of video created using scripted gaming engines. -- All the flaming and trolls of wreck dot with a pretty GUI.