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Last year I did a lot of international job searching. This problem is particularly harder than a one-country search for two major reasons: 1) My CV and cover letter were in more than one language; 2) countries have different preferred formats for CV, and content for cover letters.

I used the tool called LEO ( http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html ) and an organized directory structure to keep my applications under control. LEO is, among other things, an easy-to-use outlining editor. The structure was simple: a level for each country and a level for each company I applied to. If I applied for more than one position, there were further sub-levels. Under each company I had links to the CV and cover letter I sent, a copy of the original job posting, and links to any other relevant communication.

Also important was having easy-to-see markings on the company-level items: when did I apply, had a gotten a response, was it good or bad, etc. I just developed a few short codes to denote that information.

The system worked out well; I applied to positions in about 8 different countries in two languages (English and German); I'm not sure how many positions I applied for. Using LEO, I was able to get a quick overview of the status of all my applications. I could search to find out if I'd applied for a position before, or a similar position, or not at all. The process was, I felt, well-organized. It took about 2 months to get a job.

I know I could have used LEO more effectively (i.e. I could have use LEO to hold the documents, rather than just refereces to places on the filesystem) but I didn't want to take time to learn it that deeply.

Leo hasn't been mentioned, but may be useful along these lines. Also, cscope, cbrowser, codeviz, ncc, ctags(sorry, no links; use google). Sourcenav was already mentioned.

After further analysis and applying advanced image enhancement techniques, this image will make clear what the cause of this is. http://webpages.charter.net/gohome/strange_pryde_b ig.jpg

I have proof!

Pictures are an invitation to disaster

you mean like this ?

This means that I'm stuck with being required to have a POTS line, unless I want to dump DSL and go back to cable where the service is so bad the administrators can't manage to keep DHCP servers online (and have been having trouble with them for two years running). So much for the utility of VOIP for me.

i think you need a bananaphone for that...

I've used KeyTweak (freeware) to remap the control key on my old Toshiba laptop.
It is extremely useful for non-standard keyboard layouts.

You can download it at http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

> I can't use the right shift key to sprint.

If you find no better solution, use something like KeyTweak to map right shift to left shift. Note, however, that the mapping will be global to Windows.

Where is the roadmap I want?

Here is one. A 25W mobile Athlon 64 should be a good candidate for a low power desktop system with very modest air cooling.

Ever since I switched from Perl and PHP to Python I've been looking for the perfect Python IDE. Kokodo 3.0 looks interesting. I think ActiveState does a nice job and the folks there put together what I think are the best Perl and Python installations for Windows (although I don't normally use Windows). I like the Komodo Tcl based designer for the the cross platform abilities but the resulting apps always look too "old". If Komodo used XUL and Mozilla to create gui apps then I would be really impressed.

So I have yet to find the perfect Python IDE but here's a start.

Kdevelop is very robust but is more focussed C++.
Leo isn't pretty but the outlining features are very cool.
BoaConstructor hold lots of promise for better cross platform support, zope support, a debugger and form designer but the project seems to have stalled.
Eric might be my best bet with project mgt, CVS/Subversion and Qt-Designer but I've encountered stability problems.

Actually I wish I could have something with the feature set of Eric with the stability, speed and maturity of Kdevelop plus Leo's outlining abilities. Oh yea, and I'd really like an form designer that uses XUL and Mozilla for building cross platform GUIs. ;-)

Your job has been outsourced to a GNOME!

The three todo-list programs/methods that I really like are:

• Wiki
• OmniOutliner (MacOS X only)
• Leo -- hierarchical outlining editor for programmers

although not specifically a time management app, i store my TODO, along with just about everything else, in Leo.

Leo is really the most important tool in my toolbox. i find i can't work without it anymore. If you are not familiar with leo, check it out. there is not enough room here to explain everything that leo does, but if you have information of any kind to store, or if you are a programmer who's source consists of more then one file (which *is* most of us ... non?) i'm sure you'll find leo to be the best for doing what it does.

Leo is really unique in that it lets you organize your data in your own way, and then 'tangle' the result to create your actual source files. i use it for web-sites as and html template system, and in just about every program i write as an IDE. it interfaces with your favorite editor and has a host of great plugins.

For those too timid to enter binary codes into the windows registry, there's a program out there called KeyTweak for you. Thats for win2k/xp, nearly everyone else can head here.

that's kinda the way i look at it... from my home page (title: Microsoft can't keep up):

Microsoft has extended product support from 7 years to 10. remember when they were going to drop support for 98, then backpedaled somewhat? this is similar to that, except that they're planning ahead this time. instead of saying, "we're going to drop support...oh, wait, no we're not...not yet anyway," they're now saying, "we can't seem to convince people to upgrade to the newest, minty freshiest versions as easily as we used to, since the PC market is now at a saturation point and people aren't as willing as they used to be to buy new PCs just because our newest OS release requires a Cray to power the eye candy and the adware that bog^H^H^H^H^enhance the overall computing ordea^H^H^H^H^H^experience."

Perhaps this is the game you are looking for...

The Nintendo image: http://pocketmedia.ign.com/pocket/image/nescollect ion_032604_000.jpg

I missed labeling the A and B buttons, but other than that, they look pretty similar. I like mine better though :-)

The town I used to live in (and hope to move back to very soon) built a city-wide group of fiber links (22 nodes for a town of 20,000) that is working out rather quite well - you can get teevee if that's your wish - not mine, but hey, scifi is cool sometimes - or DOCSYS to the curb for 5 megs down or so... the upstream used to be one until the college kids saturated the network with p2p and the admin responded by capping upload. Cost for your 5 meg connection is about 30 bucks a month depending on which ISP you choose.

On the education front, the school district which I work for has 6 locations in three different municipalities. We were linked together by T1 lines that really were pretty terrible - bad connections which were weather-sensitive (not such a good thing in Oregon!), and slow even when they were running at full speed. We were approached by a local (and reputable) company which offered to build out and give us 2 dark fibers to each location and a pair of fibers to our upstream provider (thereby giving us glass all the way to the NOC), all for the price we were paying for our T1 line. Sounds too good to be true? Nope. We put out an RFP, the guys who made the original proposal won the bidding by miles, they did all the hanging from poles, trenching, etc, gave us our glass, we put media converters in, and voila! we've got screaminig connection between locations - all for the price of that cruddy T1 that we were apparently paying too much for.

The moral of this story? I guess there isn't one, except to say that what they're talking about in the lead story is real, and works. As a slashdot-friendly aside, Paul Allen, in his role of higher-up for the local cable pigopoly, swore to the City Council that he'd do everything in his power to sink the fiber project since they weren't using his Borg-infested kit to do it, preferring instead to use local people and companies. This threat occurred about 5 years ago, and the fiber network is still doing OK. Sorry, Paul =P

Please be kind on this server: MIRROR

There was a thread on SlickDeals' Forums, linking to a scan of an upcoming post-Thanksgiving special at Wal-Mart. $80 USD for GameCube, Zelda game and a game carrying case... oh how the temptation rises!

On the other hand, there are other approaches just as destructive.

I run an outbound SMTP server for my own personal use, in part because my ISP's SMTP server sucks.

At times, it could take 30 or more minutes to relay an email to myself.

One of the problems with this is that apparently I got listed on some kind of dial-up user block list, and my mother's ISP blocks those users from sending to its users.

The downside is that my mother's ISP also blocks my ISP's SMTP server.

Isn't that useful.

On the other hand, there are other approaches just as destructive.

I run an outbound SMTP server for my own personal use, in part because my ISP's SMTP server sucks.

At times, it could take 30 or more minutes to relay an email to myself.

One of the problems with this is that apparently I got listed on some kind of dial-up user block list, and my mother's ISP blocks those users from sending to its users.

The downside is that my mother's ISP also blocks my ISP's SMTP server.

Isn't that useful.

very interesting... also worth reading is this interpretation

This I think looks very much like the quality of the renderings from Myst 3(especially that one amusment park age) but it is actually a screenshot from Half-Life 2. The video it came from("Docks"(torrent)) is probally the most visualy stunning of the videos released to date.

...can be found here.

So far, I've just parsed McBride's SEC filings, but the rest of the SCO crew -- Broughton, Bench, Olson, Wilson, Hunsaker, and Opinder -- will be joining him on the page shortly.

One thing protracted litigation -- and can there be any other kind with Boies on one side and IBM on the other? -- does for McBride is keep the market buzz around SCOX going. Each additional month of FUD puts another 8,333 price-inflated shares in his pocket. That number jumps to 12,500 a month in April of 2004. The FUD also gives his executive staff an opportunity to dump options that were essentially worthless a year before. Reginald Broughton, for example, has moved $670,000 (55,000 shares) of SCOX since June 20th.

Almost all of the insider trades this year have been made pursuant to 10b5-1 plans, which purport to insulate insiders from liability by disposing of stock according to a fixed, predetermined schedule. My guess -- and that's all it is -- is that these plans were put in place recently, in anticipation of exactly what has transpired. It doesn't take an MBA to figure out that SCO's current course of action would generate an increase in the price of SCOX. For whatever reason, investors seem to respond to the sizzle first, and check to see if it's steak later. If that's the case, SCO's executives are gaming the system, and doing a pretty good job of it.

All in all, the whole mess reeks of stock manipulation, but, given the current regulatory climate (whatever happened to Kenny Lay?), the relatively small amounts of money involved, and the steps the principals have taken to protect themselves, I doubt if there's much the SEC can or will do about it.

This new Zaurus hasn't promised a thing, thus it breaks no promises...it's just a little better than the previous. I'm waiting for the YOPY to arrive on the market; it will be my next purchase! My GeForceFX is more promising. Why? Not because it was slower at first release... Look at it [GeForceFX] a different way, can your mother^H^H^H^H^H^Honly girl you know use a Zaurus to do this with her hair? Or can a Zaurus clean your neighborhood?

I rest my unmodded case...

This new Zaurus hasn't promised a thing, thus it breaks no promises...it's just a little better than the previous. I'm waiting for the YOPY to arrive on the market; it will be my next purchase! My GeForceFX is more promising. Why? Not because it was slower at first release... Look at it [GeForceFX] a different way, can your mother^H^H^H^H^H^Honly girl you know use a Zaurus to do this with her hair? Or can a Zaurus clean your neighborhood?

I rest my unmodded case...

I'm waiting for YOPY!

Until then, I'll be in my front yard blowing the leaves away with my GeForceFX

The sig inaccurately describes the article it links to. That aricle says nothing to demonstrate that "Matrix within Matrix" is wrong. In fact, it takes that as a given, "Foundations of Criticism #2".

This is an example of begging the question.

I don't believe the final movie will reveal nested Matrices myself. However I think it's reasonable to say that at least some of the characters are lying, particularly when their statements correspond with their personality, but conflict with other facts.

Here is another altered image from iraq. Photo

Mmmmm... convergent evolution... I'm under the impression that Dollo's Law refers to organisms evolving the exact same pathways to solve the same problem twice. When species evolve convergently, or even when one species re-evolves a trait, the same problem is usually solved in very different ways.
This site has the best definition that I was able to find, but I'm not sure how much stock I would place in its accuracy.

Ah, freakin' crap, I forgot to HREF it...

http://webpages.charter.net/ezahurak/idea.html

Imagine how much more you could get out of a mobo like this if you replaced the ps/2 ports, the parallel port, and the serial port with, say, 6 usb and 2 firewire ports. Again, why not?

I use a Via Epia motherboard in my MAME cabinet. Between the need to hook up a keyboard encoder, and the fact that it's running FreeDOS, using USB would not be an option.

These would also make great platforms for car audio and home theater machines, where you're likely to want to run a small LCD or VFD display, most of which will need a serial port. There are still plenty of good reasons to keep the legacy ports, and if you need that many USB ports, you can get a USB hub.

The influence of mallcore -- the "nu-metal" genre of detuned guitars with alternating rapped and screamed lyrics -- upon the modern music scene is truly revolutionary; so much so that many of the metalposeurs' (non-mallcore "metal" fans) favorite bands, who keep it real and don't adhere stingily to the bleak past, have become part of the movement. These bands from the past know that the future of music lies in mallcore, and those who deny it are simply denying the future. Anyone who turns their back on the now-mallcore Gods of the past are too soft and weak, closed-minded, and pretentious to join in listening to mallcore, the ultimate form of music.

These bands include but are not limited to:

Danzig - Glenn Danzig, former punk legend of the Misfits and Samhain now lends his Elvis/Morrison-like voice and idiosyncratic style to his own brand of mallcore with 777 I Luiceferi.

Helloween - Borrowed mallcore styles with The Dark Ride, but failed miserably, since they're too soft for the genre.

In Flames - Considered Gods by many metal fans alike, these Swedes have quit playing their "gay" melodies and showed their hard side by turning into an excellent Mallcore band with Reroute to Remain, and are now metal enough to tour with the mighty Slipknot.

Megadeth - Megadeth briefly joined the mallcore scene with their album Risk, then sold out with World Needs A Hero. Karma afflicted Mustaine greatly, and the band soon broke up for turning their backs on mallcore.

Metallica - After some of their earlier garage band releases, they put out the Black Album, their rough first real album. After that, they joined the party and produced some excellent heavy metal with Load and Reload. Metallica now takes the stage with Ja Rule and creates heavy rap-metal.

Ozzy Osbourne - The Alpha and Omega of metal, creating the genesis of all things metal with Black Sabbath, Ozzy has switched his style entirely to detuned, minimalist mallcore with Down to Earth and now tours with only the best at Ozzfest -- bands such as Drowning Pool, Flaw, Adema, and POD.

Sepultura - After abandoning their lackadaisical 80's metal, Brazillians Sepultura went on to put out some excellent mallcore albums in the early days of the mallcore underground. After breaking up, lead singer Max Cavalera went on to form the very talented and tight Soulfly.

Slayer - They have put out their own brand of mallcore with God Hates Us All, abandoned their tired thrash metal sound and acknowledged Slipknot's superiority, and are now touring with Hatebreed.

Steve Vai - What some used to call "The Greatest Guitarist of All Times" before guitarists like Munky, Mick, and Wayne Static took over has bowed before the all-mighty fathers of mallcore, KoRn, when interviewed. In the same interview, Yngwie Malmsteen dared not to put up a rebuttal of any kind, thus submitting to the superior mallcore genius and technical abilities of Korn.

Cyanide facts:

There are 0.6 mg/g hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in dried apple seeds. Cite

Natural cyanide is called Amygdalin, chemically it is bonded to a glucose and readily converts to hydrogen cyanide in the body. Herbal places sell it as a miracle cure for cancer. "Amygdalin Tablets & Ampoules www.cytopharma.com" This was an ad that came up during a google search related to cyanide.

50 to 100 mg of cyanide is a lethal dose. Cite

This is about a half-cup to a full cup (80-160grams) of dried apple seeds.

An interesting site on cyanide.

Related:
Smoking of cigarettes commonly releases cyanide. Tobacco smokers have a mean blood cyanide level of 0.4 mcg/cc, which is 2.5 times greater than the level in nonsmokers. Cite

...he's very very good. Feeble excuse!

I'm not sure what's more impressive in this picture: the cake or the stack of lego boxes behind it...

Several paranormal investigators have claimed exactly this, but the subject has, despite plenty of research, been laughed out of "serious" academic circles. A good summary on this flavor of research can be found here:

link

When people like Michael Persinger do serious research in "paranormal" areas (and it looks like he came pretty damn close to nailing this neurological/OOBE phenomenon on the head) they get tossed into the "kook" bin.

The typical reaction from skeptics to people reporting OOBEs is to a priori refute the claim, usually stating the subject simply imagined it, or was dreaming, or offering other less satisfying explanations. The reasoning never gets to the point of examining whether the subjects have actually extra-located their consciousnesses or only sincerely believe they have done so, because OOBE's don't exist.

But apparently now they do.

-dameron

The boys an NASA pointed the Hubble space telescope at our 'third moon' today to confirm or deny the concept that it is space junk rather than a celestial body. The image hubble returned shocked the scientific community. Dr. Steven Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute ( which carries out the scientific mission of the Hubble Space Telescope ), was quoted as saying, "My God, it's full of stars."

It's really interesting that in the last couple years lo-fi synthesis and reworking of old systems has made more progress than hardware synthesis (I'm aware of all the advances in software such as Scanned, Fourier, etc but none of them have made it to hardware yet. We've seen C64 SID chips make a comeback in the form of the SIDstation, and two great Gameboy synthesizers, Nanoloop, and Little Sound DJ all three of which are incredibly useful and have interesting and unique sounds. The kind of DIY synthesizers we'll find in 10 years is going to be fascinating.

I hope the guy that is manufacturing the carts doesn't get overly slashdotted so I can get mine! :)

On the positive side, I was able to find a transistor that needed replacing on my Gorf machine's amplifier board at Radio Hack. So, keep it in mind as the place to go for 20+ year old technology.

I did painted my computer in a dbz theme featuring Vegeta. I know the debate is out about as to the mod requirement of a working computer, but I don't know if painting qualifies as a mod job?

Link

(Meanwhile, Lik-sang have recently denied a credit card payment because of some peice of information that Australian banks don't give out.)