I am in the software industry. But these sorts of comments alienate me. In fact, I considered not even looking at the comments for this article, because I knew I'd see plenty that would be alienating / saddening / just plain (c)rude. It doesn't keep me out of the industry - but it sends a clear "you, because you are female, are not one of us" message. You get that enough in the community, you start avoiding the community, or you just dread getting involved. And that creates a boys' club of networking and information sharing.
So I wade into slashdot, dailywtf, etc with a clothespin on my nose, donning metaphorical armor every time, steeling myself against the inevitable comments that, if they don't explicitly say I'm a crap coder because I have ovaries, at least make it clear that the presumed audience is entirely male, and I don't belong.
If you think it would be neat to have more women in the software community - or at least don't want to be a dick - consider whether your post is implicitly addressed to other men, and therefore sends the message that women aren't part of your community.
Some of my co-workers are running windows 7, and if they log into their workstations using remote desktop, it can cause the system to become unresponsive, and they have to force a reboot. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone have a workaround? I run windows 7 at home, but have no interest in running it at work if I'll have this same problem.
If you don't think raiding is important and, even if you did want to raid, your work schedule won't allow you to participate in a particular guild's raids, why do you care whether or not they'd want you in the guild? Don't you get it? It's like complaining that a particular chess team won't let you join just because you can't attend any of their competitions and you actually prefer backgammon, anyway. Or complaining that a competitive racing team won't let you join just because your only bike is a Huffy that you ride 2-3 miles around the neighborhood every other weekend.
I was the recruiter for an uberguild back in the EQ days. It was amazing how many people had your attitude. Loathed raiding, raiders, and our obviously crippled personalities and inadequate lives, but felt insulted that they wouldn't be invited into the group they hated.
But all those cop shows make it glaringly obvious that convincing you to talk without your lawyer is just another tactic to get you in trouble. At least, that's what I've gotten from watching them.
It's nice to say that the OP should get the roommate out of the house for activities, but I don't know if it's possible.
When I was in the worst part of my EQ addiction, I did still hold down a job. But I also kept playing *while a friend came to my apartment, cleaned my kitchen for me, and made me dinner.* I just couldn't find a good time to log off.
People invited me out all the time, but the thing was, in every case I already had in-game plans. "Sorry, I already told Foo that I was going to Dungeon X with him that day."
Hopefully you've got a router. Using the built-in firewall, block the ports that the game requires. on and off for five minutes at a time. So he has to keep logging in and never makes any progress (well, even less than normal...), but doesn't realize you're fiddling with it.
If you can't place a linux box as router without being suspicious, you might be able set up a cron job on cheapo laptop you connect to automatically keep changing the commodity router's settings.
Aside from moral qualms about screwing with the guy, this actually isn't a bad idea. I was finally able to kick EQ when I moved into a new place that was supposed to have some sort of decent bandwidth, but didn't. 80 person raids, including raid spam, plus modem meant that if I ever turned to look at what was going on, I got disco'd. Constant disconnects broke my will to play pretty quickly.
People now use google for searches because it's familiar and a habit. But it's not the first search engine to dominate the market. For a long time, altavista was the familiar habit. When google appeared, it took a while for people to decide, "Hey, this is a lot better; I'm going to switch from using altavista to using google." But who uses altavista now? (Apparently it does still exist; I just checked.)
It's not nearly as hard to switch search engines as it is desktop applications or operating systems. It's not enough to be the familiar habit; you need to keep providing good service, too.
I know this may not be relevant to the OP, but can you run ssh on the n810, and if so, can you enter commands like "ctrl+a+4" to switch terminals in screen? It looks like you have to use function keys to type the number.
Of course, that only difference has a big implication -- taxation without representation. People who live in DC get taxed, but they don't have representation in the house or the senate. At least, I seem to recall DC residents upset about this when I lived in Virginia.
The problem I have is, I think, a common one: I don't like Bush. I don't really like Kerry either, but I'm afraid that if I vote independent, I'll just help Bush win. I particularly don't like the way the Democrats have been hounding Nader to keep his name off the ballot wherever they can. You'd think that Democrats would rather see Nader in office than Bush, but sometimes it seems like they spend more time vilifying their next of kin than they do the Republicans...
I recently got interested in this and started using rss2email in a cron job. I get info from slashdot, the washington post, thinkgeek, and a few others I can't recall.
I was getting some jewelry appraised when the gemologist mentioned he was having trouble with his computer. I removed the nasty app that was embedding itself into IE, changing his home page, etc., and showed him how to use adaware. In exchange, though I tried to decline it, I got a discount on the appraisal.
I don't know if this guy was extremely naive or what... he said that he was looking for information on Tiffany's products and found that searching on "tiffany" didn't have quite the desired results!
When I was still an extreme linux newbie, I remember paying my grad student friends in pizza whenever I trashed my system somehow...
My philosophy minor has been a great asset to me, even though my employers don't really notice it. It's amazing to me how often I realize that communication glitches relate back to a certain some theory or puzzle that I studied in college. The philosophy background makes it easier for me to see things from another person's perspective and put it to them in terms that they will understand or be willing to receive.
Yeah; I'm paying $18 at pair for the "advanced" account. I had webmaster but suddenly realized that I had no need for it.
So I can't really speak to the high volume stuff. I can speak to their tech support, though. They are much more techy and supportive than most tech support I've dealt with, and head, shoulders, and belly buttons over every other hosting company I've had to interact with.
There are some really gawd-awful hosting companies out there. They buy a redhat saturday night special, never upgrade or secure the sucker, don't understand the applications they do have installed, and implement draconian policies in an attempt to instill security through fear. (One friend of mine had his shell access revoked at a really lame place because, on reboot, his bash history file showed that he'd typed 'ls/etc'!!) Hint: if your/etc directory is wide-open enough that you're afraid of people looking at it, you're already compromised.
I use pair for my vanity site... I don't find it to be expensive when you consider the shell access, the wide variety of installed tools, and most especially the extremely helpful phone (!!!) and email support. What plan are you looking at, out of curiosity?
"you can't use a computer on standardized tests, and without it, little Johnny's going to be lost."
Well, the year I took the AP Calc BC exam was the first year they had a graphing calculator section... I hadn't bothered learning any of my calculator's advanced functions, preferring to really understand the material... and found that without knowing how to push the right buttons, I couldn't do the problems in the time allotted. Blah.
If computers become common enough in classrooms, computers will not only be allowed on tests; they'll be required. Like it or not.
It's too bad that you never really got a chance to play.
I played Rifts (yeah, yeah) for years; I was introduced to role playing by my then-bf and his friends. It was a lot of fun. My being female was never an issue, except with our parents -- I wasn't allowed to sleep over on the really late nights. So I'd go home at 4am and come back at 10 for pancakes. Silly, but non-fatal.
BTW, I'm married and have a great life, too =P Role playing never had a negative effect on my quality of life. EverCrack did, but that's another story...
I have the same dilemma; my server has a mishmash of 128 to 256 kbps mp3s. According to find and du, 5104 songs taking up 38 gigs. The "number of songs you can store" metric is completely useless.
I suppose I could keep low-quality versions of everything around, but... ick!... Although, I did just look at lame's options, and it can downsample mp3s, so it would merely be a waste of space, not time.
Talking about "right" and "wrong" here misses the point. I don't think that most people consider pot to be morally wrong. An unsavory habit, maybe.
I'll meet you part way, though. I don't think it's that people don't care -- it's that they don't care *as much* about legalizing pot as they do about other issues. I think most people will vote with their abortion views before they'll vote with their drug views, for example.
I've never smoked pot. But I do hope that, in my lifetime, I'll be able to legally smoke a joint. I hope that, in my lifetime, our tax dollars will be spent on something more useful than this "drug war."
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Er. They *can* fire you for living in a blue house with yellow flowers.
I am in the software industry. But these sorts of comments alienate me. In fact, I considered not even looking at the comments for this article, because I knew I'd see plenty that would be alienating / saddening / just plain (c)rude. It doesn't keep me out of the industry - but it sends a clear "you, because you are female, are not one of us" message. You get that enough in the community, you start avoiding the community, or you just dread getting involved. And that creates a boys' club of networking and information sharing.
So I wade into slashdot, dailywtf, etc with a clothespin on my nose, donning metaphorical armor every time, steeling myself against the inevitable comments that, if they don't explicitly say I'm a crap coder because I have ovaries, at least make it clear that the presumed audience is entirely male, and I don't belong.
If you think it would be neat to have more women in the software community - or at least don't want to be a dick - consider whether your post is implicitly addressed to other men, and therefore sends the message that women aren't part of your community.
Some of my co-workers are running windows 7, and if they log into their workstations using remote desktop, it can cause the system to become unresponsive, and they have to force a reboot. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone have a workaround? I run windows 7 at home, but have no interest in running it at work if I'll have this same problem.
This over-30 female would be very happy if Farmville would just DIAF.
If you don't think raiding is important and, even if you did want to raid, your work schedule won't allow you to participate in a particular guild's raids, why do you care whether or not they'd want you in the guild? Don't you get it? It's like complaining that a particular chess team won't let you join just because you can't attend any of their competitions and you actually prefer backgammon, anyway. Or complaining that a competitive racing team won't let you join just because your only bike is a Huffy that you ride 2-3 miles around the neighborhood every other weekend.
I was the recruiter for an uberguild back in the EQ days. It was amazing how many people had your attitude. Loathed raiding, raiders, and our obviously crippled personalities and inadequate lives, but felt insulted that they wouldn't be invited into the group they hated.
But all those cop shows make it glaringly obvious that convincing you to talk without your lawyer is just another tactic to get you in trouble. At least, that's what I've gotten from watching them.
It's nice to say that the OP should get the roommate out of the house for activities, but I don't know if it's possible.
When I was in the worst part of my EQ addiction, I did still hold down a job. But I also kept playing *while a friend came to my apartment, cleaned my kitchen for me, and made me dinner.* I just couldn't find a good time to log off.
People invited me out all the time, but the thing was, in every case I already had in-game plans. "Sorry, I already told Foo that I was going to Dungeon X with him that day."
Hopefully you've got a router. Using the built-in firewall, block the ports that the game requires. on and off for five minutes at a time. So he has to keep logging in and never makes any progress (well, even less than normal...), but doesn't realize you're fiddling with it.
If you can't place a linux box as router without being suspicious, you might be able set up a cron job on cheapo laptop you connect to automatically keep changing the commodity router's settings.
Aside from moral qualms about screwing with the guy, this actually isn't a bad idea. I was finally able to kick EQ when I moved into a new place that was supposed to have some sort of decent bandwidth, but didn't. 80 person raids, including raid spam, plus modem meant that if I ever turned to look at what was going on, I got disco'd. Constant disconnects broke my will to play pretty quickly.
People now use google for searches because it's familiar and a habit. But it's not the first search engine to dominate the market. For a long time, altavista was the familiar habit. When google appeared, it took a while for people to decide, "Hey, this is a lot better; I'm going to switch from using altavista to using google." But who uses altavista now? (Apparently it does still exist; I just checked.)
It's not nearly as hard to switch search engines as it is desktop applications or operating systems. It's not enough to be the familiar habit; you need to keep providing good service, too.
Out of curiosity, does it block http://www.scarleteen.com/ ? That's a great site for teens (and beyond) looking for info about sex and their bodies.
I know this may not be relevant to the OP, but can you run ssh on the n810, and if so, can you enter commands like "ctrl+a+4" to switch terminals in screen? It looks like you have to use function keys to type the number.
You wouldn't be able to drop or truncate a replicated table on MS SQL Server ... you'd have to run a delete command. I don't know about other systems.
Of course, that only difference has a big implication -- taxation without representation. People who live in DC get taxed, but they don't have representation in the house or the senate. At least, I seem to recall DC residents upset about this when I lived in Virginia.
try adding "&num=0" to the search url.
The problem I have is, I think, a common one: I don't like Bush. I don't really like Kerry either, but I'm afraid that if I vote independent, I'll just help Bush win. I particularly don't like the way the Democrats have been hounding Nader to keep his name off the ballot wherever they can. You'd think that Democrats would rather see Nader in office than Bush, but sometimes it seems like they spend more time vilifying their next of kin than they do the Republicans ...
I recently got interested in this and started using rss2email in a cron job. I get info from slashdot, the washington post, thinkgeek, and a few others I can't recall.
Yeah, but who gives a rat's ass about weight? Diet without exercise, and you'll just be a light fatty. Fewer pounds, but still 100% fat.
If you're not exercising, you're not healthy. Weight is just a number -- it doesn't tell the whole story.
I was getting some jewelry appraised when the gemologist mentioned he was having trouble with his computer. I removed the nasty app that was embedding itself into IE, changing his home page, etc., and showed him how to use adaware. In exchange, though I tried to decline it, I got a discount on the appraisal.
... he said that he was looking for information on Tiffany's products and found that searching on "tiffany" didn't have quite the desired results!
...
I don't know if this guy was extremely naive or what
When I was still an extreme linux newbie, I remember paying my grad student friends in pizza whenever I trashed my system somehow
My philosophy minor has been a great asset to me, even though my employers don't really notice it. It's amazing to me how often I realize that communication glitches relate back to a certain some theory or puzzle that I studied in college. The philosophy background makes it easier for me to see things from another person's perspective and put it to them in terms that they will understand or be willing to receive.
Yeah; I'm paying $18 at pair for the "advanced" account. I had webmaster but suddenly realized that I had no need for it.
/etc'!!) Hint: if your /etc directory is wide-open enough that you're afraid of people looking at it, you're already compromised.
So I can't really speak to the high volume stuff. I can speak to their tech support, though. They are much more techy and supportive than most tech support I've dealt with, and head, shoulders, and belly buttons over every other hosting company I've had to interact with.
There are some really gawd-awful hosting companies out there. They buy a redhat saturday night special, never upgrade or secure the sucker, don't understand the applications they do have installed, and implement draconian policies in an attempt to instill security through fear. (One friend of mine had his shell access revoked at a really lame place because, on reboot, his bash history file showed that he'd typed 'ls
I use pair for my vanity site ... I don't find it to be expensive when you consider the shell access, the wide variety of installed tools, and most especially the extremely helpful phone (!!!) and email support. What plan are you looking at, out of curiosity?
"you can't use a computer on standardized tests, and without it, little Johnny's going to be lost."
... I hadn't bothered learning any of my calculator's advanced functions, preferring to really understand the material ... and found that without knowing how to push the right buttons, I couldn't do the problems in the time allotted. Blah.
Well, the year I took the AP Calc BC exam was the first year they had a graphing calculator section
If computers become common enough in classrooms, computers will not only be allowed on tests; they'll be required. Like it or not.
It's too bad that you never really got a chance to play.
...
I played Rifts (yeah, yeah) for years; I was introduced to role playing by my then-bf and his friends. It was a lot of fun. My being female was never an issue, except with our parents -- I wasn't allowed to sleep over on the really late nights. So I'd go home at 4am and come back at 10 for pancakes. Silly, but non-fatal.
BTW, I'm married and have a great life, too =P Role playing never had a negative effect on my quality of life. EverCrack did, but that's another story
I have the same dilemma; my server has a mishmash of 128 to 256 kbps mp3s. According to find and du, 5104 songs taking up 38 gigs. The "number of songs you can store" metric is completely useless.
... ick! ... Although, I did just look at lame's options, and it can downsample mp3s, so it would merely be a waste of space, not time.
I suppose I could keep low-quality versions of everything around, but
Talking about "right" and "wrong" here misses the point. I don't think that most people consider pot to be morally wrong. An unsavory habit, maybe.
I'll meet you part way, though. I don't think it's that people don't care -- it's that they don't care *as much* about legalizing pot as they do about other issues. I think most people will vote with their abortion views before they'll vote with their drug views, for example.
I've never smoked pot. But I do hope that, in my lifetime, I'll be able to legally smoke a joint. I hope that, in my lifetime, our tax dollars will be spent on something more useful than this "drug war."