We (I) just replaced the 15 workstations in my small office here with these. Gateways. P4 1.2's. 20 GB HD's. 128 MB of mem. $600. Even comes with a monitor ($70 less without). XP Pro installed, so no windows licensing issues. And your supporting all those artists, dude!
That's not a lot, by a friggin longshot. I know Taco is in a unique situation, where people would put him on a list for paybacks or vendettas or whatever form of agression they are taking for not having their story accepted. Me, in a position where I really, really try to keep spam out of my inbox by only giving it to places I deem worthy, and removing myself from lists where I believe that will do me any good, I still get about 15 a day. Filtering out 90% helps, which might make it to 1400 spams a year that reach my inbox. But whoever is doing this study must really know how to repevent the uncolicited crap away If 4 a day is too much for them to handle.
I'm in pretty much the exact same situation. Except ASP instead of CF (sorry/. crowd).
We've got about 15 people here, and generally, the way we do it, it we have project specific production folders on the network, and those folder get backed up at important points in time (delivery, every month, depends on the project and it's timeline). Thos CD's are stored in categorized drawer, which has an accompying spreadsheet available to everyone on the network. This spreadsheet is (or should) be updated every time a cd is put in the drawer. Most workstations have a cdr built in, plus we have a machine for just burning cd's, plus a USB drive for those unfortunate who don't have an internal, and too lazy to go into the other room.
We also have a paper system, where all relevant materials, such as proposals, vital emails, as well as hand written stuff, goes into hanging file folders in a file cabinet. 3 months after final work is done on a project, the folder gets archived to the basement where we do all our file storage.
And of course, the gratuitous entire nightly netowrk backup, which is kept off site, in case any of those cd's ended up kaput.
It works for us, like I said 15 (which is generally our max, last summer we were down to 7) production employees, including programmers, designers, QA, and project managers (that list isn't exclusive, most of us where a few hats).
This is not at all like the periodic table in chemistry. If you know anything about the periodic table, you can predict the existence of elements because of slots that a certain number of protrons and neutrons fill. Biology is much more complex and harder to predict.
When you ask a question like this, people are going to tell you 1 of/or 2 things:
1. The specs for a good site. Such as file types, plug ins, hi/lo bandwidth, etc.
2. What doesn't make for good web design. Most everyone can look at a site and say "This is bad". Even fewer can look at a site and say "This is what makes this bad". And the fewest, smalllest group of people can look at a site and say "This is what makes this site good."
Good web design is, like any design, very open to interpretation. Although bad web design is a much easier subject to discuss.
I believe apple.slashdot.org and bsd.slashdot.org are just using filters that you could set in your user account. If you really wnated to, you could set your account up to only see Apple or BSD or MS stories. The cute URL is just for shuts and guggles.
I don't know where else to post this, but has anyone been experiencing problems with Slashdot? More specifically, cookie problem, such as not being logged in when you vist the site? For the past three days, I've had to log into Slashdot multiple times thoughout the day. I've also gotten errors on the site that force the cookie to be written to the screen. Is there any place where we can see/post bugs/bugfixes for the site? Or a thread where we can see status on the site in general? I enjoy reading the site too much to get fed up with small problems.
When the machine was first debuted on Good Morning America, the two hosts were offered to ride them. It appeared they didn't have any practice before going on camera and mount this thing, and from what I saw, two non-athletic, non-techie white bread Americans hopped on and were doing pretty much everything the device could do. Kamen said, and the two hosts confirmed, that the thing just does what you want it to do. "You think left, it goes left." Unless this was more rigged than it seemed to be, Joe Couch Potato will have no problem gaining more weight due to his daily excersize of walking from house to car and car to job.
I could see an eBook as well as dead tree version, but no way in hell as an exclusive release. On a book scheduled to make millions (and millions) for the publisher, author, printer, and everyone and anyone associate with books, there is way too much at stake to lose with such a "radical" idea.
Winner of the First annual Google Programming Contest creates greatest porn spider ever.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 11, 2001 - Google Inc., developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced it's first winner of the Annual Google Programming Contest. Winner I. C. Porno has created a program to help catalog and organize google cache of the Internet, also refered to as the World Wide Web of Porn.
"This announcement is an important step in Google's ongoing effort to provide search services that are fast, easy to use, and that help people find the information they need," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of Products. "To search our collection of 3 billion documents for porn by hand, it would take 5,707 years, searching twenty-four hours per day, at one minute per document. With I. C.'s new program, it takes less than a second."
World's Largest Collection of Porn
Google users now have the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of porn right at their fingertips and can immediately primal urges using the following services:
Google Web Porn Search: The company's newest search service now offers more than 2 billion documents - 25 percent of which are non-English language web pages. Google Web Search also offers users the ability to search for numerous non-HTML files such as PDF, Microsoft Office, and Corel documents. Google's powerful and scalable technology searches this comprehensive set of information and delivers a list of relevant porno in less than half-a-second.
Google Porn Groups: This 20-year archive of Usenet porn conversations is the largest of its kind and can serve as a powerful reference tool, while offering more porno than the Internet. Google Groups was released from beta today with 700 million postings in more than 35,000 topical porno categories.
Google Image Search: Comprising more than 330 million nude images, Google Image Search enables users to quickly and easily find porn images relevant to a wide variety of topics, including pictures of celebrities and popular travel destinations. Advanced features include search by image size, format (JPEG and/or GIF), coloration, and the ability to restrict searches to specific genre's of porn.
About Google Inc.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. More information about Google can be found on the Google site at http://www.google.com.
If you think about it, WINDOWS hasn't had any major bugs or security holes lately. It's been Outlook and IIS who's been the victims of the Big Media holes and trojans. It might be a valid claim to say Windows (2K, XP), as an OS, is more secure than Linux, but not as an enviroment.
I'm in the same position, except Opposite. I started working at the company I'm with when I was 18, as an intern. I eventually was hired on full time, as a junior programmer/IT staffer (I'm at a 15 employee company). Eventually, my senior guy left, leaving me as the senior guy. I had worked with him for over a year and a half, so I could basically do everything he could. And the boss loved this fact. Since I'm youger, and have less experience, I demand less of a salaray then he did. Funny thing is, now that I've been the senior guy here for two years, we just got another intern, who is training to do everything I do. So if I leave, I'd imagine everything would fall into his lap. It's a vicous cycle. But my company is small, so they bosses need to make some sacrifices.
From reading these posts and linked websites, I think I have some advice. I understand PayPal could be a great way to accept payment over the Internet, but there are some things companies need to do if the absolutely rely on PayPal for commerce.
First, have your PayPal checking account seperate from your company's checking account. This will be good for several reasons. If they dispute your account, and freeze your funds, your main checking account will be fine. Next, if you transfer all funds from you PayPal account to it's associated checking account (nightly, hourly whenever), and then from that checking account to your checking main account, the money will be safe. And since most banks nowadays let you manage your account online, this becomes very simple.
Second. If you are relying on PayPal, have more than 1 account. This is called redundancy. I'm sure most of you have heard it. If your main paypal account goes down, fall back to your secondary. And if you have 3 or 4 accounts, this only makes you more protected. Having these multiple accounts, you will need a quick and easy way to change from one to the next in your ordering procees.
Now, I've never dealt commercially with PayPal, only buying a few ebay items, and making my monthly donations to PennyArcade.com. I don't even know if what I said abaove is "allowed" in PayPal's TOS (or TOU, where U = Use), but if they aren't, and all these problem occur as often as I've read, then PayPal isn't something you should be relying on anyways as a company.
But Dynasty Warriors 3 is out for the PS2. It's a third person slasher, set in medieval japan, where three clans and their warlords battle it out in actual historical settings.
The cool part is it's 2 person co-op (or vs., if you swing that way) so you and you buddy can go can lay the smacketh down in stereo. This was a staple last summer with my friends, each of us taking a turn per stage in DW2, but now it's twice the fun. I HIGHLY recommmend this to anyone with, um, friends...
Let's say I take my $1500, and instead buy a real nice rig with all the goodies, including a couple big hard drives, say 80 gig each. Maybe even a raid, so I can add more later easily. And I have a TV in card. Is there software that acts like a Tivo, where I can reocrd stuff on a schedule? More importantly, is there software that acts as a reciever box, so I can not only schedule a time, but a channel as well? I don't think there is. But imagine the hemmoraging that would happen if someone cracked the directv reciever, not just the h-card stuff, so that some software would act as the the receiver box. It'd be the ultimate Tivo, a fully functional pc (linux or otherwise) that performed tivo operations, then you could take those shows or movies you enjoyed, and either archive them, or burn them onto DVD's. I think I just started a law suit.
I have this, and I love it. You can add/remove buttons, but not make your own buttons. The LCD is split into a grid, and each grid box has about 4 different labels. You can set a button by basically pointing your real remote at this remote, and hitting the button you want to program on the universal remote, and then hitting the button you want to use on your real remote. Besides the number pad and the arrow keys, every other button is programable, even the volume buttons, such as I can set the volume buttons for the sattelite box to use the tv volume. Also, each piece of equipment can have 2 "pages" of buttons. So say you dvd remote has more buttons than the lcd screen has, there is a "secondary" button on the top left corner that swap back and forther for that device. I have my TV, Sattelite, DVD, VCR and Stereo hooked up to use this, and I'd be lost without it.
If you're that worried about being tracked and monitored on your computer, don't use one. Don't use a PC, use credit cards as little as possible, and stay away from any "networked technology". Join the manual labor work force, and dig a ditch. That's probably the only way you'll be able to avoid the upcoming onslaught of "anti-"privacy issues and legislation from Ashcroft and Congress. Oh yeah, don't get your picture taken, and especially don't commit any crimes, cuz then you're mugshot will be plastered across face recognition software everywhere.
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We (I) just replaced the 15 workstations in my small office here with these. Gateways. P4 1.2's. 20 GB HD's. 128 MB of mem. $600. Even comes with a monitor ($70 less without). XP Pro installed, so no windows licensing issues. And your supporting all those artists, dude!
That's not a lot, by a friggin longshot. I know Taco is in a unique situation, where people would put him on a list for paybacks or vendettas or whatever form of agression they are taking for not having their story accepted. Me, in a position where I really, really try to keep spam out of my inbox by only giving it to places I deem worthy, and removing myself from lists where I believe that will do me any good, I still get about 15 a day. Filtering out 90% helps, which might make it to 1400 spams a year that reach my inbox. But whoever is doing this study must really know how to repevent the uncolicited crap away If 4 a day is too much for them to handle.
I'm in pretty much the exact same situation. Except ASP instead of CF (sorry /. crowd).
We've got about 15 people here, and generally, the way we do it, it we have project specific production folders on the network, and those folder get backed up at important points in time (delivery, every month, depends on the project and it's timeline). Thos CD's are stored in categorized drawer, which has an accompying spreadsheet available to everyone on the network. This spreadsheet is (or should) be updated every time a cd is put in the drawer. Most workstations have a cdr built in, plus we have a machine for just burning cd's, plus a USB drive for those unfortunate who don't have an internal, and too lazy to go into the other room.
We also have a paper system, where all relevant materials, such as proposals, vital emails, as well as hand written stuff, goes into hanging file folders in a file cabinet. 3 months after final work is done on a project, the folder gets archived to the basement where we do all our file storage.
And of course, the gratuitous entire nightly netowrk backup, which is kept off site, in case any of those cd's ended up kaput.
It works for us, like I said 15 (which is generally our max, last summer we were down to 7) production employees, including programmers, designers, QA, and project managers (that list isn't exclusive, most of us where a few hats).
You spelled "innovation" wrong. Although given that it was a GWB quote, perhaps you were quoting him accurately.
It's a compound word. As in "no innovation".
This is not at all like the periodic table in chemistry. If you know anything about the periodic table, you can predict the existence of elements because of slots that a certain number of protrons and neutrons fill. Biology is much more complex and harder to predict.
--avandesande
Who's willing to put down some money that TurnItIn.com is the front end to a research paper selling service?
"Give us your work. We'll use it to make sure no is using it (without paying us first)"
Maybe not, but I'd get a kick and a chuckle out of it...
When you ask a question like this, people are going to tell you 1 of/or 2 things:
1. The specs for a good site. Such as file types, plug ins, hi/lo bandwidth, etc.
2. What doesn't make for good web design. Most everyone can look at a site and say "This is bad". Even fewer can look at a site and say "This is what makes this bad". And the fewest, smalllest group of people can look at a site and say "This is what makes this site good."
Good web design is, like any design, very open to interpretation. Although bad web design is a much easier subject to discuss.
Is anyone else surprised that ZDnet has the com.com URL? I thought NSI kept all those. Maybe they offered up the right price.
It's the Copyright Royalty Arbitration Panel.
I believe apple.slashdot.org and bsd.slashdot.org are just using filters that you could set in your user account. If you really wnated to, you could set your account up to only see Apple or BSD or MS stories. The cute URL is just for shuts and guggles.
I don't know where else to post this, but has anyone been experiencing problems
with Slashdot? More specifically, cookie problem, such as not being logged in
when you vist the site? For the past three days, I've had to log into Slashdot
multiple times thoughout the day. I've also gotten errors on the site that force
the cookie to be written to the screen. Is there any place where we can see/post
bugs/bugfixes for the site? Or a thread where we can see status on the site in
general? I enjoy reading the site too much to get fed up with small problems.
When the machine was first debuted on Good Morning America, the two hosts were offered to ride them. It appeared they didn't have any practice before going on camera and mount this thing, and from what I saw, two non-athletic, non-techie white bread Americans hopped on and were doing pretty much everything the device could do. Kamen said, and the two hosts confirmed, that the thing just does what you want it to do. "You think left, it goes left." Unless this was more rigged than it seemed to be, Joe Couch Potato will have no problem gaining more weight due to his daily excersize of walking from house to car and car to job.
At 82 years old, this man should a lot about prior art.
Go Old People!
I could see an eBook as well as dead tree version, but no way in hell as an exclusive release. On a book scheduled to make millions (and millions) for the publisher, author, printer, and everyone and anyone associate with books, there is way too much at stake to lose with such a "radical" idea.
Google Contest Winner Offers Better Porn Searches
Winner of the First annual Google Programming Contest creates greatest porn spider ever.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 11, 2001 - Google Inc., developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced it's first winner of the Annual Google Programming Contest. Winner I. C. Porno has created a program to help catalog and organize google cache of the Internet, also refered to as the World Wide Web of Porn.
"This announcement is an important step in Google's ongoing effort to provide search services that are fast, easy to use, and that help people find the information they need," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of Products. "To search our collection of 3 billion documents for porn by hand, it would take 5,707 years, searching twenty-four hours per day, at one minute per document. With I. C.'s new program, it takes less than a second."
World's Largest Collection of Porn
Google users now have the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of porn right at their fingertips and can immediately primal urges using the following services:
Google Web Porn Search: The company's newest search service now offers more than 2 billion documents - 25 percent of which are non-English language web pages. Google Web Search also offers users the ability to search for numerous non-HTML files such as PDF, Microsoft Office, and Corel documents. Google's powerful and scalable technology searches this comprehensive set of information and delivers a list of relevant porno in less than half-a-second.
Google Porn Groups: This 20-year archive of Usenet porn conversations is the largest of its kind and can serve as a powerful reference tool, while offering more porno than the Internet. Google Groups was released from beta today with 700 million postings in more than 35,000 topical porno categories.
Google Image Search: Comprising more than 330 million nude images, Google Image Search enables users to quickly and easily find porn images relevant to a wide variety of topics, including pictures of celebrities and popular travel destinations. Advanced features include search by image size, format (JPEG and/or GIF), coloration, and the ability to restrict searches to specific genre's of porn.
About Google Inc.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. More information about Google can be found on the Google site at http://www.google.com.
BOFH 2001
BOFH 2000
Ancient BOFH
If you think about it, WINDOWS hasn't had any major bugs or security holes lately. It's been Outlook and IIS who's been the victims of the Big Media holes and trojans. It might be a valid claim to say Windows (2K, XP), as an OS, is more secure than Linux, but not as an enviroment.
I'm in the same position, except Opposite. I started working at the company I'm with when I was 18, as an intern. I eventually was hired on full time, as a junior programmer/IT staffer (I'm at a 15 employee company). Eventually, my senior guy left, leaving me as the senior guy. I had worked with him for over a year and a half, so I could basically do everything he could. And the boss loved this fact. Since I'm youger, and have less experience, I demand less of a salaray then he did. Funny thing is, now that I've been the senior guy here for two years, we just got another intern, who is training to do everything I do. So if I leave, I'd imagine everything would fall into his lap. It's a vicous cycle. But my company is small, so they bosses need to make some sacrifices.
From reading these posts and linked websites, I think I have some advice. I understand PayPal could be a great way to accept payment over the Internet, but there are some things companies need to do if the absolutely rely on PayPal for commerce.
First, have your PayPal checking account seperate from your company's checking account. This will be good for several reasons. If they dispute your account, and freeze your funds, your main checking account will be fine. Next, if you transfer all funds from you PayPal account to it's associated checking account (nightly, hourly whenever), and then from that checking account to your checking main account, the money will be safe. And since most banks nowadays let you manage your account online, this becomes very simple.
Second. If you are relying on PayPal, have more than 1 account. This is called redundancy. I'm sure most of you have heard it. If your main paypal account goes down, fall back to your secondary. And if you have 3 or 4 accounts, this only makes you more protected. Having these multiple accounts, you will need a quick and easy way to change from one to the next in your ordering procees.
Now, I've never dealt commercially with PayPal, only buying a few ebay items, and making my monthly donations to PennyArcade.com. I don't even know if what I said abaove is "allowed" in PayPal's TOS (or TOU, where U = Use), but if they aren't, and all these problem occur as often as I've read, then PayPal isn't something you should be relying on anyways as a company.
Just My 2x10^(-2) Dollars
But Dynasty Warriors 3 is out for the PS2. It's a third person slasher, set in medieval japan, where three clans and their warlords battle it out in actual historical settings.
The cool part is it's 2 person co-op (or vs., if you swing that way) so you and you buddy can go can lay the smacketh down in stereo. This was a staple last summer with my friends, each of us taking a turn per stage in DW2, but now it's twice the fun. I HIGHLY recommmend this to anyone with, um, friends...
Let's say I take my $1500, and instead buy a real nice rig with all the goodies, including a couple big hard drives, say 80 gig each. Maybe even a raid, so I can add more later easily. And I have a TV in card. Is there software that acts like a Tivo, where I can reocrd stuff on a schedule? More importantly, is there software that acts as a reciever box, so I can not only schedule a time, but a channel as well? I don't think there is. But imagine the hemmoraging that would happen if someone cracked the directv reciever, not just the h-card stuff, so that some software would act as the the receiver box. It'd be the ultimate Tivo, a fully functional pc (linux or otherwise) that performed tivo operations, then you could take those shows or movies you enjoyed, and either archive them, or burn them onto DVD's. I think I just started a law suit.
I thought Gang Bangers already made websites...
like http://www.porn.com, http://www.sex.com, http://www.gigantichooters.com
Oh, THOSE Gang Bangers...
This can't be true, just look at historical fact. When did KIT ever start crying because Michael Knight was being shot at?
I have this, and I love it. You can add/remove buttons, but not make your own buttons. The LCD is split into a grid, and each grid box has about 4 different labels. You can set a button by basically pointing your real remote at this remote, and hitting the button you want to program on the universal remote, and then hitting the button you want to use on your real remote. Besides the number pad and the arrow keys, every other button is programable, even the volume buttons, such as I can set the volume buttons for the sattelite box to use the tv volume. Also, each piece of equipment can have 2 "pages" of buttons. So say you dvd remote has more buttons than the lcd screen has, there is a "secondary" button on the top left corner that swap back and forther for that device. I have my TV, Sattelite, DVD, VCR and Stereo hooked up to use this, and I'd be lost without it.
If you're that worried about being tracked and monitored on your computer, don't use one. Don't use a PC, use credit cards as little as possible, and stay away from any "networked technology". Join the manual labor work force, and dig a ditch. That's probably the only way you'll be able to avoid the upcoming onslaught of "anti-"privacy issues and legislation from Ashcroft and Congress. Oh yeah, don't get your picture taken, and especially don't commit any crimes, cuz then you're mugshot will be plastered across face recognition software everywhere.