Sorry, not all. In August, 2001 Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar bought tickets on Amaerican Flight 77 (which flew into the Pentagon) using their real names. At the time, both were on a State Department/INS watch list called TIPOFF. Both were being sought by the FBI and CIA as suspected terrorists because they had been observed at a terrorist meeting in Malaysia. (Info taken from The Assault on Reason by Al Gore).
Pfft, that's nothing! This cop in Australia was charged with driving near 240 kph (150 mph) in a fully marked car with no lights or sirens not responding to any incient - he was driving that fast to show off his driving skills to other cops!
I asked this question. Sorry for not being able to write to the thread but it was posted up on Slashdot throughout the night. I tried to get to the point in my summary but I can see that it wasn't really enough info.
Some history: My job is to do all of the computer work for our company. This ranges from a 40 page catalog I designed from scratch, online buying website, computer and network tech support, computer training, artwork, and a whole bunch of other things. Before I came here 4 years ago, they had basically noone with any real idea about computers, and I've worked very hard to try and bring them upto speed with the limited resources I have. When I came, they didn't even have a networked printer. When something needed printing, they would take the file to the computer with the printer by hand and use that persons computer just to print something.
Since coming, I've significantly upgraded their computers (to MACOS10.4 with G5 iMacs), reworked their network, setup a website with online buying, made them a catalog etc. Within the past week I have also setup a wiki, but we haven't had time to fill it in yet. Not surprisingly my task list can be enomous, just a quick count of tasks that haven't been started sits at 35, which is spred over 5 pages. At my previus company, we used RT which I thought was quite brilliant. For the past 4 years, I've been trying to get the issue tracking system idea onto everyone that it would be a great idea, and in the past 9 months I finally got the go ahead (althought since it was priorities so low, I never really got to work on it much). It would really improve our effeciency a lot, but it's hard to change people sometimes...
Anyway, I had no real training in a lot of the work I do. I've had to learn on the job a lot of what I do just from researching online. I've done a few units at University on computer science but that's about it, the rest self taught. Now when it came to RT, I purchased a linux box (the first non mac computer in the companies history), and spent 3 days installing several versions of linux, and trying to get RT installed. I received quite a bit of help on the RT mailing list (of which I am still a member and read Jesse's emails and some others), but after all this trying I just couldn't get it to work. The other problem I could see was getting the email working correctly with RT (but I never got to that stage). I did purchase the RT Essentials book as well. In the end after 3 days work, the boss told me to give up and consider something else.
This is why I asked for a simple to use program, and one that could be used from anywhere on the web when someone is out of the office travelling. I even asked my host (who provides the hosting with cPanel) if they could install RT for me, but no go. I'm really now just looking for something that can be easily installed like osCommercerce on our existing hosting, so the hosting would not cost any more.
So it was put on the back burner for the next 7-8 months and now I finally have some spare time to get this going again. The main idea for using the software would be 2 fold
a) Monitor personal tasks, and be able to add info when things come into my mind (like a website link I may come across) at any time, and have a record of it.
b) An example I'll use: Customer service takes a customer request and logs a ticket. Ticket gets transferred to Art department for work (me), gets done, gets transferred to purchasing (also does the accounting) who can purchase the neccessary materials for the job, when that's completed the ticket is transferred to production (same person does shipping) then they run the job, it gets shipped, and the ticket is completed.
After I gave up on RT, I had to look for another source. But after spending 6 hours at home on a weekend just taking a preliminary look at some of the programs available, it was just so overwhelming that I decided to look for help from the Slashdot community. Lastly, I happened to stumble across a program
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Sorry, not all. In August, 2001 Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar bought tickets on Amaerican Flight 77 (which flew into the Pentagon) using their real names. At the time, both were on a State Department/INS watch list called TIPOFF. Both were being sought by the FBI and CIA as suspected terrorists because they had been observed at a terrorist meeting in Malaysia. (Info taken from The Assault on Reason by Al Gore).
here's a previous slashdot story on the same thing. And here's another.
been done already :)
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check here http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/21
correct. been discussed on /. before here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 27/2054231
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and some comparisons here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel#Yields_of_
about 10,000 at the moment, with further development should see 20,000 gal/acre
Pfft, that's nothing! This cop in Australia was charged with driving near 240 kph (150 mph) in a fully marked car with no lights or sirens not responding to any incient - he was driving that fast to show off his driving skills to other cops!
Hi everyone,
I asked this question. Sorry for not being able to write to the thread but it was posted up on Slashdot throughout the night. I tried to get to the point in my summary but I can see that it wasn't really enough info.
Some history: My job is to do all of the computer work for our company. This ranges from a 40 page catalog I designed from scratch, online buying website, computer and network tech support, computer training, artwork, and a whole bunch of other things. Before I came here 4 years ago, they had basically noone with any real idea about computers, and I've worked very hard to try and bring them upto speed with the limited resources I have. When I came, they didn't even have a networked printer. When something needed printing, they would take the file to the computer with the printer by hand and use that persons computer just to print something.
Since coming, I've significantly upgraded their computers (to MACOS10.4 with G5 iMacs), reworked their network, setup a website with online buying, made them a catalog etc. Within the past week I have also setup a wiki, but we haven't had time to fill it in yet. Not surprisingly my task list can be enomous, just a quick count of tasks that haven't been started sits at 35, which is spred over 5 pages. At my previus company, we used RT which I thought was quite brilliant. For the past 4 years, I've been trying to get the issue tracking system idea onto everyone that it would be a great idea, and in the past 9 months I finally got the go ahead (althought since it was priorities so low, I never really got to work on it much). It would really improve our effeciency a lot, but it's hard to change people sometimes...
Anyway, I had no real training in a lot of the work I do. I've had to learn on the job a lot of what I do just from researching online. I've done a few units at University on computer science but that's about it, the rest self taught. Now when it came to RT, I purchased a linux box (the first non mac computer in the companies history), and spent 3 days installing several versions of linux, and trying to get RT installed. I received quite a bit of help on the RT mailing list (of which I am still a member and read Jesse's emails and some others), but after all this trying I just couldn't get it to work. The other problem I could see was getting the email working correctly with RT (but I never got to that stage). I did purchase the RT Essentials book as well. In the end after 3 days work, the boss told me to give up and consider something else.
This is why I asked for a simple to use program, and one that could be used from anywhere on the web when someone is out of the office travelling. I even asked my host (who provides the hosting with cPanel) if they could install RT for me, but no go. I'm really now just looking for something that can be easily installed like osCommercerce on our existing hosting, so the hosting would not cost any more.
So it was put on the back burner for the next 7-8 months and now I finally have some spare time to get this going again. The main idea for using the software would be 2 fold
a) Monitor personal tasks, and be able to add info when things come into my mind (like a website link I may come across) at any time, and have a record of it.
b) An example I'll use: Customer service takes a customer request and logs a ticket. Ticket gets transferred to Art department for work (me), gets done, gets transferred to purchasing (also does the accounting) who can purchase the neccessary materials for the job, when that's completed the ticket is transferred to production (same person does shipping) then they run the job, it gets shipped, and the ticket is completed.
After I gave up on RT, I had to look for another source. But after spending 6 hours at home on a weekend just taking a preliminary look at some of the programs available, it was just so overwhelming that I decided to look for help from the Slashdot community. Lastly, I happened to stumble across a program