Neat. I have a couple old phones laying around, and the local collection point is where I pay my cell phone bill each month (Cingular store..). I'll be sure to take them with me next time I go.
My school, Ball State University, gives free computers to freshman that are admitted to the Honors college.. This year they got a choice of a normal Windows PC (made by OmniTech, P4 1.8GHz, 20GB HD, 256MB RAM, printer, blah blah) or an LCD iMac. For $700 more, they can upgrade to a Gateway or Apple laptop (iBook).
Starting next fall, all freshman in the Teacher's College will be required to have iBooks. They have some plan to have them develop a "digital portfolio" during their time here.. Webpage w/ resume, video of them student teaching, etc.
Friend of mine was at Wake Forest the first year they gave laptops to students.. I think he said tuition went up about $1200 that year, and got a new laptop every two years.
I got to Best Buy around 6:30 AM, saw the parking lot, and people parking across the street, turned right around and went back home.
Went back later in the day, all the "good" stuff was gone. Then I went to Circuit City and picked up a 256MB stick of PC133 for free after rebate. Had the rebate in the mail on Saturday.
Bought a new parka online from REI Outlet on Sunday, using a 20% off coupon I found at FatWallet. I had been shopping for one for a few weeks and really couldn't find anything locally that I really liked.
My boss doesn't only not mind it, she enjoys some of the spam she gets. She reads through each and every one looking for something interesting to buy... Wouldn't surprise me if she read the "HOT ANAL sex" emails too.
She was on vacation in July and I had to read her email looking for things that people wanted done. I deleted all the junk, and she got kinda upset about it when she got back.
Don't think she's ever bought anything due to a piece of spam... yet.
I administer a mailing list server for a car club. It's on a AMD K6/3+ 350 (I think), 128MB RAM, 3gig hard drive (upgrading to a 10gig RAID1 setup in a week or two) using RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.18, Apache, Sendmail, Majordomo, Wilma, MHonArc, Glimpse, and ircd (gotta chat don't ya know?). The server sits in a friend's basement acting as a NAT box for his cable modem as well.
We have 360+ users on the list at last check, around 230 on direct mail, 130 on digest. Searchable archives back 3 years. I do have MajorCool setup for a web interface, but I only use that for doing remote admin stuff, I don't let the subscribers know about it.
The only troubles we have are people that can't figure out how to authenticate their subscription with Majordomo, and those that can't figure out how to unsubscribe from the list (despite the tagline at the bottom saying to go here for how a list faq).
Really no other troubles. There was one big problem a few weeks back when rr.com servers in Texas decided to puke up several weeks worth of messages and they somehow got the header right so that our server thought they were new messages and resent them. Then the occasional virus related to Outlook that generates a few messages from corporate webservers telling us the message was quarantines. Once or twice a month someone will fill their mailbox and go over the quota and bounce messages back to the list owners. No problems with spammers signing on and spamming nonstop.
Really not too much maintance related to the server. It chugs along and keeps quiet. uptime is at 35 days now because we upgraded the processor from a 233.
While not exactly a community server, it does serve our little car community quite well. Less signal to noise ratio than on web forums (UBB, et. al) and less trolls. I'd say teach the individual list admins how to work the list properly and let them deal directly with the users only coming to you when there is some sort of technical trouble. The less work for you the better.
I just passed the second Linuxgruven test on Friday, about 3pm. It was business as usual at the Atlanta office, classes going on, testing, etc. Of course, that article was dated 17:30 EST, so maybe they canned everyone after I left. Who knows. But what concerns me is that I'm supposed to turn in paperwork to begin the hiring process on Monday. Will anyone be there to take the paperwork? If not, I guess I'll carry my happy ass on down to the court house, then right back home to start searching for a job (anyone hiring in Atlanta;)
I would go drown my sorrows in a few gallons of my favorite brew, not sure I can afford it now that it looks like my future job may be in jeopardy.
Well, they already knew I used that address since I used it to order stuff from boo.com.
I normally don't reply to those stupid spam messages. This was actually the first one I'd replied to ever. I knew where they got my address from, I had kind of actually expected the (spam) email, so I decided to go to the URL.
But all those other spams that I get, just to to/dev/null. No sense in responding to them, because I'll just 50 more in exchange.
I know first hand that boo.com sold their information. I got some spam from the company that they sold the info to. At least there was a URL to remove my name from the mailing list, which I promptly did. Hopefully, that'll be the end of it, and none of my other info will get out.
I run a discussion list with about 350 subscribers (225 in 'direct mail', another 125 in digest) that gets about 100 messages from subscribers per day. It runs on sendmail & majordomo on an AMD K6-233 w/ 64MB RAM running RedHat 6.1.
Neither myself, nor the guy who actually owns the machine, are sendmail experts, so our problems stem from sendmail taking so long to deliver messages to places having trouble recieving mail. Creates a small backlog, but messages are delivered to subscribers in under an hour usually. Subscription requests and admin things by email usually take under a minute to get confirmation.
We also keep archives using MHonArc and glimpse, searching is a little slow, but that's to be expected considering the machine speed, and tens of thousands of messages.
It really isn't a bad setup, considering all the software is free, the machine was sitting in the basement collecting dust, and it's run off a static IP cable modem.
I still want a two Furbies. I wanna teach them all kinds of words that describe fornication. Get them to try to pick each other up. Would be more fun than watching 3 hours straight of headline news.
I have a similar problem. I have a few friends that want to remaind somewhat anonymous when sending mail. They don't want their school's IP to show up when sending mail. I volunteered to give them SMTP services but they aren't saavy enough to login via ssh to my box to use pine to send email. If they login, it will be via a free ISP, and allowing relaying from those domains opens a HUGE can of worms. Is there a way to limit "From" domains from the senders?
Sure, you can see the great wall of China from Space. Not an urban legend. Check out this link from Nasa. There is a very detailed 20MB photo on there.
You'd be surprised what some schools require. Georgia Tech, for instance, requires Win98 or MAC to be run on the computers of incoming freshman. Or at least they strongly reccomend it.
I've been using a HP LaserJet 6L for the past two years. It's been doing just fine, and I've printed about 2300 pages on it over that time. Haven't even had to replace the toner on it yet (knock on wood).
The main reason I got it was because it got pretty good reviews from everywhere. And because of the HP name. I'd gone through two HP Deskjets before, and was very impressed with both of them. Gave the last one (HP 660C, IIRC) to my sister and she's still using it. That thing is probably 5 or 6 years old by now.
This 6L is wonderful. It can print 5 or 6 PPM, plenty fast for me. It does work under Linux, though I'm not sure how well since I have it shared using Samba and print from the various Windows machines. Graphics are nice and crisp. Economode is great for printing out stuff off the net that I won't be turning in to anyone. High quality mode makes text look really professional, my friends even use it to print their resume`s on everynow and then.
I forget how much I paid originally, but I see em going for $300 on www.pricewatch.com right now. $8MB memory upgrades for about $40, toner for about $45.
I go to that big engineering school in Atlanta. Lived in the dorm for my first year, and really hated it. I wasn't in one of those new apartments that was built for the Olympics (started there the year of the Olympics), but some crappy, run down building. Mice and roaches should have been forced to pay as much for housing as I did. Didn't like the idea of sharing a bathroom with 40 other guys. And the school didn't like 18 y/o freshman drinking in the dorm either (really put a damper on our parties, but we still managed to have a few keg parties throughout the year:)
Moved off campus after my first year. It was a deal maker. I was prepared to leave the school and head back home to live with my mother if she had not agreed to let me live off campus. Put up with a modem connection for the next 2.5 years before getting ADSL in my apartment about 5 miles from campus.
I got my own bedroom (master suite at that), two closests (the smallest being 2x as big as the one in the dorm), and my own bathroom. Internet connectivity really didn't matter to me, the dorms where such sh*tholes. But now that we have ADSL here, I'm as happy as a clam, and can never see myself living in another college dorm either.
I did meet my 2 roommates living in my Freshman only dorm, but that is the only good thing that came out of it. The Housing Dept probably still has a file on me and all of my floor-mates and how anti-social we are and should never be allowed to live in another dorm again, etc etc.
OTOH, my sister just started college this year at Univ of MD and loves the dorm. I guess she doesn't mind living in a high-rise with no cable service -- they elected to get Ethernet over cable for some odd reason. Don't think that the dorm as AC either.
And who's to say that etoys.com isn't violating on the rights of etoy.com. What if I had heard of etoy offline and wanted to go see their website. Being forgetful, I may accidentally go to etoys.com and be presented with a bunch of Legos that I want to order.
I buy too many Legos and go backrupt (hey, I'm in college, a few hundred dollars of Legos could do that!), all because some low lives put up a toy store using a name similar to that of a group of starving artists.
What's up with the wave of computers/monitors built into one case nowadays? Gateway has em now, iMac craze, any others? The idea has been around for quite a while. No, not the old Macs with 3" monitors or whatever they were. We had a Compaq 486/25 (think it was a Presario model, I don't remember) with the monitor and computer in one. 14" monitor I think it was. 4mb RAM, ~200MB hard disk. No high speed serial port so I had to install a serial card to get that external 14.4 modem working. No CD-ROM, no sound, but this was around 92 or 93. I don't see the big attraction to having everything built into one box. But that's just me.
Haven't seen any Bad Driver profiling being proposed!
Sure you have, they're called insurance companies, and everyone uses em. Higher rates for males under 25 -- we're wreckless drivers, but when we turn 25, we somehow become better. Get married? Rates go down again.
Cops profile drivers (and cars) as well. Drive a car with an aftermarket exhaust? Cops look at you a little longer. Windows tinted? Gotta be a drug dealer.
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Neat. I have a couple old phones laying around, and the local collection point is where I pay my cell phone bill each month (Cingular store..). I'll be sure to take them with me next time I go.
One of my favorites, though it hasn't been updated to include Mozilla yet, is here. Index dot HTML and Index dot CSS.
My school, Ball State University, gives free computers to freshman that are admitted to the Honors college.. This year they got a choice of a normal Windows PC (made by OmniTech, P4 1.8GHz, 20GB HD, 256MB RAM, printer, blah blah) or an LCD iMac. For $700 more, they can upgrade to a Gateway or Apple laptop (iBook).
Starting next fall, all freshman in the Teacher's College will be required to have iBooks. They have some plan to have them develop a "digital portfolio" during their time here.. Webpage w/ resume, video of them student teaching, etc.
Friend of mine was at Wake Forest the first year they gave laptops to students.. I think he said tuition went up about $1200 that year, and got a new laptop every two years.
I got to Best Buy around 6:30 AM, saw the parking lot, and people parking across the street, turned right around and went back home.
Went back later in the day, all the "good" stuff was gone. Then I went to Circuit City and picked up a 256MB stick of PC133 for free after rebate. Had the rebate in the mail on Saturday.
Bought a new parka online from REI Outlet on Sunday, using a 20% off coupon I found at FatWallet. I had been shopping for one for a few weeks and really couldn't find anything locally that I really liked.
My boss doesn't only not mind it, she enjoys some of the spam she gets. She reads through each and every one looking for something interesting to buy... Wouldn't surprise me if she read the "HOT ANAL sex" emails too.
She was on vacation in July and I had to read her email looking for things that people wanted done. I deleted all the junk, and she got kinda upset about it when she got back.
Don't think she's ever bought anything due to a piece of spam... yet.
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I could write a damn essay on how to handle college. But I won't. Just don't do what I did, and you'll be alright!
I administer a mailing list server for a car club. It's on a AMD K6/3+ 350 (I think), 128MB RAM, 3gig hard drive (upgrading to a 10gig RAID1 setup in a week or two) using RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.18, Apache, Sendmail, Majordomo, Wilma, MHonArc, Glimpse, and ircd (gotta chat don't ya know?). The server sits in a friend's basement acting as a NAT box for his cable modem as well.
We have 360+ users on the list at last check, around 230 on direct mail, 130 on digest. Searchable archives back 3 years. I do have MajorCool setup for a web interface, but I only use that for doing remote admin stuff, I don't let the subscribers know about it.
The only troubles we have are people that can't figure out how to authenticate their subscription with Majordomo, and those that can't figure out how to unsubscribe from the list (despite the tagline at the bottom saying to go here for how a list faq).
Really no other troubles. There was one big problem a few weeks back when rr.com servers in Texas decided to puke up several weeks worth of messages and they somehow got the header right so that our server thought they were new messages and resent them. Then the occasional virus related to Outlook that generates a few messages from corporate webservers telling us the message was quarantines. Once or twice a month someone will fill their mailbox and go over the quota and bounce messages back to the list owners. No problems with spammers signing on and spamming nonstop.
Really not too much maintance related to the server. It chugs along and keeps quiet. uptime is at 35 days now because we upgraded the processor from a 233.
While not exactly a community server, it does serve our little car community quite well. Less signal to noise ratio than on web forums (UBB, et. al) and less trolls. I'd say teach the individual list admins how to work the list properly and let them deal directly with the users only coming to you when there is some sort of technical trouble. The less work for you the better.
Sure you can upload via satellite. Check out www.direcpc.com.. Been out for several months now.
I would go drown my sorrows in a few gallons of my favorite brew, not sure I can afford it now that it looks like my future job may be in jeopardy.
I normally don't reply to those stupid spam messages. This was actually the first one I'd replied to ever. I knew where they got my address from, I had kind of actually expected the (spam) email, so I decided to go to the URL.
But all those other spams that I get, just to to /dev/null. No sense in responding to them, because I'll just 50 more in exchange.
I know first hand that boo.com sold their information. I got some spam from the company that they sold the info to. At least there was a URL to remove my name from the mailing list, which I promptly did. Hopefully, that'll be the end of it, and none of my other info will get out.
Neither myself, nor the guy who actually owns the machine, are sendmail experts, so our problems stem from sendmail taking so long to deliver messages to places having trouble recieving mail. Creates a small backlog, but messages are delivered to subscribers in under an hour usually. Subscription requests and admin things by email usually take under a minute to get confirmation.
We also keep archives using MHonArc and glimpse, searching is a little slow, but that's to be expected considering the machine speed, and tens of thousands of messages.
It really isn't a bad setup, considering all the software is free, the machine was sitting in the basement collecting dust, and it's run off a static IP cable modem.
Right.. 2.6GB on one side of the disc, 2.6GB on the other side. I've also heard that Best Buy may sell those for $299.
I still want a two Furbies. I wanna teach them all kinds of words that describe fornication. Get them to try to pick each other up. Would be more fun than watching 3 hours straight of headline news.
I have a similar problem. I have a few friends that want to remaind somewhat anonymous when sending mail. They don't want their school's IP to show up when sending mail. I volunteered to give them SMTP services but they aren't saavy enough to login via ssh to my box to use pine to send email. If they login, it will be via a free ISP, and allowing relaying from those domains opens a HUGE can of worms. Is there a way to limit "From" domains from the senders?
Lots of other interesting photos are here .
You'd be surprised what some schools require. Georgia Tech, for instance, requires Win98 or MAC to be run on the computers of incoming freshman. Or at least they strongly reccomend it.
I've been using a HP LaserJet 6L for the past two years. It's been doing just fine, and I've printed about 2300 pages on it over that time. Haven't even had to replace the toner on it yet (knock on wood).
The main reason I got it was because it got pretty good reviews from everywhere. And because of the HP name. I'd gone through two HP Deskjets before, and was very impressed with both of them. Gave the last one (HP 660C, IIRC) to my sister and she's still using it. That thing is probably 5 or 6 years old by now.
This 6L is wonderful. It can print 5 or 6 PPM, plenty fast for me. It does work under Linux, though I'm not sure how well since I have it shared using Samba and print from the various Windows machines. Graphics are nice and crisp. Economode is great for printing out stuff off the net that I won't be turning in to anyone. High quality mode makes text look really professional, my friends even use it to print their resume`s on everynow and then.
I forget how much I paid originally, but I see em going for $300 on www.pricewatch.com right now. $8MB memory upgrades for about $40, toner for about $45.
Moved off campus after my first year. It was a deal maker. I was prepared to leave the school and head back home to live with my mother if she had not agreed to let me live off campus. Put up with a modem connection for the next 2.5 years before getting ADSL in my apartment about 5 miles from campus.
I got my own bedroom (master suite at that), two closests (the smallest being 2x as big as the one in the dorm), and my own bathroom. Internet connectivity really didn't matter to me, the dorms where such sh*tholes. But now that we have ADSL here, I'm as happy as a clam, and can never see myself living in another college dorm either.
I did meet my 2 roommates living in my Freshman only dorm, but that is the only good thing that came out of it. The Housing Dept probably still has a file on me and all of my floor-mates and how anti-social we are and should never be allowed to live in another dorm again, etc etc.
OTOH, my sister just started college this year at Univ of MD and loves the dorm. I guess she doesn't mind living in a high-rise with no cable service -- they elected to get Ethernet over cable for some odd reason. Don't think that the dorm as AC either.
And who's to say that etoys.com isn't violating on the rights of etoy.com. What if I had heard of etoy offline and wanted to go see their website. Being forgetful, I may accidentally go to etoys.com and be presented with a bunch of Legos that I want to order.
I buy too many Legos and go backrupt (hey, I'm in college, a few hundred dollars of Legos could do that!), all because some low lives put up a toy store using a name similar to that of a group of starving artists.
Sheesh.
What's up with the wave of computers/monitors built into one case nowadays? Gateway has em now, iMac craze, any others? The idea has been around for quite a while. No, not the old Macs with 3" monitors or whatever they were. We had a Compaq 486/25 (think it was a Presario model, I don't remember) with the monitor and computer in one. 14" monitor I think it was. 4mb RAM, ~200MB hard disk. No high speed serial port so I had to install a serial card to get that external 14.4 modem working. No CD-ROM, no sound, but this was around 92 or 93. I don't see the big attraction to having everything built into one box. But that's just me.
Sure you have, they're called insurance companies, and everyone uses em. Higher rates for males under 25 -- we're wreckless drivers, but when we turn 25, we somehow become better. Get married? Rates go down again.
Cops profile drivers (and cars) as well. Drive a car with an aftermarket exhaust? Cops look at you a little longer. Windows tinted? Gotta be a drug dealer.
Driver profiling has been going on for years.