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Like all metrics, employee monitoring would be used as indicators to alert if there is indeed something unusual happening. Certainly many metrics are innocuous, but they allow the administrator to know to take a closer look. For example, if the alert triggers on "Dirty Pages" then it may indeed be as innocent as a Java overflow, but if the employee is continuously reading and dirtying pages, there's probably something worth investigating.
I see your point, and it is valid, but respectfully disagree.
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This is really a non-issue. Every so often we hear that there's a new problem or new approach to solving a problem. Names change but solutions remain the same. Whether it's grid technology or cloud or distributed computing or what have you, the "paradigm" may change but many times the technology is relatively unchanged.
For monitoring employees the obvious solution, though perhaps no longer a "hot" tech, is to install SNMP on each employee. If privacy is a concern, ensure that SNMPDv3 is used. This solves not only the more general problem of availability, but the beauty of SNMP is that it can be customized for each employee. You can now easily report back on CPU (i.e., brain) utilization, idle percentage (coffee breaks), etc.. SNMP also allows a "write back" so that the monitoring station can send information back to the client/employee.
Why isn't the memory card formatted and completely blank?
Because it's getting more convenient for the user if the manufacturer ships the software on the device. Many laptops do not have CDROM drives. It can also save on packing costs not just for one unit, but for thousands of units. It allows more recent software to be shipped since and update doesn't require another CD manufacturing run..
No, companies should stop selling memory cards with unnecessary crap installed.
Ah screw it, spell checkers have made spelling obsolete anyway.
Say that to the manager I knew who had to transcribe ideas from a brainstorming session onto a whiteboard. It was embarrassing to watch him struggle.
The Asian mentality is very different from Western mentality in my experience. Though most everyone loves and wants their kids to succeed, Asians seem to put aside personal wants in order to provide more to their kids. I'm not sure if this comes from the generally American love of individuality, but I think Americans are fulfilled more by what they experience than other nationalities. For example, some Asian parents would wonder why I'd want to take a barista position at a local coffee shop just to have the experience. They'd say, "but you can read how to do it in a book." Or, "I've already done that. Let me tell you how." It seems odd to them that one would struggle to learn something when the knowledge can be gained more easily on other ways.
One of my colleagues mentioned this a while back. According to his religion, words are powerful. It's part of devotion to ensure that prayers are read and copied *exactly*. In some other cultures it's a different approach, where the meaning is more important than the words. I don't know if this affects how well their spelling ability, but I imagine that it does.
Congratulations for being a stereotypical American who wastes his life at work, thinking that it defines him/her and makes him/her more valuable.
Hahhaah....Thank you...that is one of the biggest chuckles I've had in a while. I do my work, and do it well, but work is just that: work. It something I choose to do to enable the things I want to do.
I was around 22 years old when I realized that the corporate gig wasn't for me. But the gig is a means to an end.
I drink, on average, 10 cups of moderately strong coffee per day (that's relative though; it's American coffee, which is not normally as strong as other coffees). I drink mostly "breakfast blend" which has a milder taste, but more of a caffeine kick. On some days I don't drink any coffee and occasionally get headaches. I assume this is the withdrawal effect.
And yes. I don't sleep well at all. On average I sleep 4 hours a day (go to bed at 1:30AM, wake up at 5:30AM). And sometimes I don't sleep so much as wait either... Sort of a vicious cycle too... I drink coffee in the morning because I don't feel quite human until I had that first cup. It's more of a routine than an actual need for caffeine though. It's just something I do that's a rote action until my brain starts functioning normally. Others may do a morning run but I see that as akin to eating an egg-white omelet.
I'm allergic to alcohol, BTW. It makes me very red and very nauseous.
And to prove your point.. It's 8:44PM here now. I've been at the office since 9AM... So almost a 12 hour day...
Haha. I'm of Chinese descent and some of the Chinese medicines are poisonous and can kill you. I've found, however, that people will listen quite intently to whatever bullshit I can make up on the spot. And believe me, if you knew me, you'd know that I can make up some really deep bullshit on the spur of the moment. But, because of the mere fact that one of my ancestors lived somewhere in China, people believe that I'm privy to all sorts of ethnic wisdom and they believe me. Try some of these:
1) Rub a coin on your elbow to cure a headache. 2) A urine bath is an effective treatment for poor eyesight. 3) Eating hatchling eagles increases libido. 4) Eating tiger gonads increases manliness. 5) Grinding dragon bones into a paste then ingesting cures arthritis.
Now I love Chinese cuisine. I'm not talking that rubbish that you get at the local Dragon Bowl, but real cuisine. And lots of the other stuff that's just unpalatable to Westerners... Like frog and duck and chicken feet and dried shrimp and preserved eggs... But the next time some old Chinese lady tells me to save up some pee in a bottle for my next bath or try a bit of this thing that looks like a meatball but clearly isn't, I'll send her your way.
I understand the sentiment. And yes, I love books. God, I love books. I have shelves and shelves of them and sometimes I consider them almost a literal (haha) barrier to stupidity. No kidding, but I think some people get scared when they see my books and fell uneasy standing amongst them. There is rarely any greater pleasure for me than to sit in my library and read.
And yet eBooks are tempting. My love of gadgetry aside, the ability to large portions of my library with me at all times would be Nirvana. Years ago I used to carry around a Walkman. That device was the size of a large paperback book. Along with it I carried a case that held two or three cassette tapes. All told, I had about four hours of music with me. Of course, batteries didn't last quite four hours so you could expect about two hours of listening. That was barely enough to get me through History 101. Now I carry a thumb-sized iPod that holds 24 hours or so of music and 8-10 hour battery life. Imagine if books were the same way?
But we can't.. Unlike the History of Art text I keep on my shelf and occasionally browse, I can't assume that a year from now it will still be accessible. The publisher may yank my "permission" to read it, or change the text, or remove it entirely. Sure, there will be free texts, but because we don't control the reader device we can't even be sure that our free documents will not one day be yanked. Maybe a publisher will claim some exclusive rights to publish Shakespeare's sonnets and suddenly my open version gets yanked. Seems far fetched and a corner case, but in the days when we would hover over the record button on our cassette players no one imagined that recording a song off the airwaves could be considered infringement.
Many Slashdot users can benefit from such a technology. There are medical conditions whose sufferers cannot detect sarcasm. This leads to social ostracism and can cause reduced productivity and in very extreme cases, depression. People may scoff, but imagine if we could provide this technology on a portable device for those victims of the spectrum of diseases that cause anxieties? There are times when I have been the goat because I misunderstood "Yes, I'll have the work completed by Monday" to mean that the coming Monday, the work would be completed. My sarcasm detector did not fire to alert me that the cable installer was being sarcastic. I would like to see this sarcasm detector available for handheld devices. When a girl responded, "Yeah, I'll go out with you," I could then check my iPhone or Droid and know immediately she was making an attempt at humor.
I hate cockroaches. Hate them, hate them, hate them.
Once while working a high school construction job in the Florida Keys, I stayed in the unfinished and very *open* hotel being renovated. In the middle of the night Nature started calling so I got up and started walking down the hallway. The hallway was actually completely open to the outdoors, having only wood beams and no actual wall. At the end of the hallway was a finished wall. As I got closer I noticed something strange -- it looked like there was a curtain blowing in the wind (I have very bad eyesight and at night it's even worse). Then I got closer... When I got about five feet away it was too late. It looked like about five hundred billion cockroaches were on the wall. Then they started flying towards me. The fuckers looked like birds. I screamed. Ran 40yds in about 1 second.
So this is a construction site.. And fellow construction workers being such wonderful souls, they had a good laugh when I woke them up.
Of course the next night they decide to put a live cockroack on my face while I slept.
But the mere fact that creative projects were created with open and freely available tools is a good thing, regardless of the quality AT THIS TIME.
What this is demonstrating are possibilities, proof of concepts. When the Mind's Eye or Pixar pushed out shorts they weren't anything spectacular from a story point of view. In fact, they were nothing that couldn't have been told better with real actors. People scoffed then and said similar things. But look at what happened with CGI....
The real story is that the barrier to entry has been lowered. And yes, when you lower the barrier to entry the first folks who use the tools are perhaps not the best storytellers or best writers or best mathematicians. But because the tools are now available to many more, the pool of talent grows. And this means that the products become better. And yes, free tools are not yet at the level of commercial tools, and may never be but the mere fact that free tools exist means that everything gets better (rising tide floats all boats).
Gosh, this is going to come of as a bit of lunacy, but sometimes zero tolerance policies are the only way to repeal bad laws.
Laws tend to beget other laws. For example, in my workplace gym there used to be people who would stay on the treadmills for hours at a time and prevent others from using them. So they put up a sign that requested people limit their treadmill time to 20 minutes. So people started setting the timer for twenty minutes. When that was up, they'd reset it. Pretty soon I expect to see another sign telling people to limit their total time per day to twenty minutes.
In the real world I'm torn between having lots of very specific laws or a few broad laws. When the laws are too broad it leads to abuse by the people who make or enforce the laws. When laws are too narrow they are effectively meaningless.
In this case we have a law that is relatively new and thus has no real guidelines. It is subject to abuse.
By instituting a zero tolerance policy, my hope is that some people will see the current failings of the law and either repeal the law or clarify the loopholes. If there were no ZTP, then the law could be selectively enforced based on arbitrary and unwritten guidelines.
I'm posting this as I stare at all the different keys and key chain items I carry around. They include my own house keys (3), my neighbor's keys (2), car keys (3), car alarm fob (2), RSA SecurID token, trigger lock keys (4), ThinkPad dock key (1), padlock keys (2). These are only the primary keys as the backups are stored elsewhere. Add to this the optional items such as a couple Leatherman Squirt S4s and Micra, Gerber Clutch and Shortcut, keychain flashlights, and assorted carabiners and I can understand your plight. After losing a set of keys after the disengagable clip came apart somewhere along Ft. Lauderdale beach, I looked for alternatives.
First, separate all your keys based on need. I carry around my Leatherman Micra, main house key, ignition and car alarm fob on one ring. On your second ring, add the garage key, car trunk key, Shell Gas RFID fob. On the third ring, place your firearm trigger lock key, the docking station key, and padlock keys. On the fourth ring, place the remainder.
Next, acquire a locking carabiner. Don't opt for the spring loaded ones you get for $5 for a 6 pack at WalMart. You need climbing gear biners. These can be had from Altrec or Eddie Bauer or even Home Depot. Attach the primary key ring set to this carabiner.
You'll then need to purchase a pair of cargo pants, and -- this is important -- make sure that it has belt loops that can accomodate at least a 2" leather belt.
Purchase a durable and reinforced leather belt. Along with this, pick up a belt-attachable key minder. Black leather ones are cool, but nothing says rugged like camo. You can attach the second and third rings to this belt. It will also have plenty of room for your cell phone holster, your Leatherman Wave, binoculars, primary flashlight, and optionally a spool of 550 paracord.
Finally, you'll need to purchase a MOLLE vest. These can be had for $60 used at an army surplus store but new ones can run into the hundreds of dollars. An ALICE capable vest is an option, but I prefer the MOLLE attachments. With this vest you can add several key rings and similar attachment devices.
Just wanted to clarify some of the misconceptions about the Turbo Boost...
The technology is fairly simple. At it's most level, we take the exhaust from the CPU fan and route it back into the intake of the system. If you're using Linux you can see the RPM increase by running 'top' (google Linux RPM for more information).
The turbo itself is a fairly simple technology. As you're aware, we can use pipes to stream the outputs of different applications together. In the case of Linux, we pipe the stdout stream to the stdin (the intake) of the turbo (tr) which increases the speed and feeds it into a different application. For example, we can increase the throughput of dd as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero | tr rpm | tee/proc/cpuinfo
This will increase the CPU speed by feeding output from dd into the turbo (and increasing the rpm) and finally pumping it back into the CPU.
On other platforms there are some proprietary solutions. For example, take the output of Adobe AIR to HyperV to PCSpeedup! then back into the processor.
If they provided the laptop, even as "personal property" then they are probably within rights to request that you install certain software.
If you connect to their network they are probably within rights to request that you install certain software. But they can't force you to install software on your personal machine if you don't connect.
Given my horrible experience with disk encryption software, I understand your pain. It was required on my company provided laptop and until it was removed company-wide, we had many problems with crashes, slowness, weird behaviour, etc..
If it was me, I'd pick up a $150 P4 machine with 10G of hard drive space and have them install it there. Then call their support desk at 3AM when you check your email. Make sure you escalate to the persons who pushed this requirement.
The Town Clerk and Town Accountant believe that since.66 * 206 is less than 136, the vote passes.
Wow. Haven't RTFA because it would scare me, but if the summary is even halfway correct then we may as well say 2/3 is just 0.6. They'd only need 123 votes to pass...
They're free, they work, and they're *good enough* for me. I.e., if I want/need something more, I'll fork out the money and buy it. I did this with *gasp* Adobe Premiere because the freely available tools were either buggy or lacked the features I needed.
I dunno, I like a lot of the Jos Whedon characters and shows. Firefly was one of my favorites, as was BtVS and Angel. I enjoy the dialogue more than anything, and certainly don't equate revenues with "success". I rarely feel any empathy towards any characters, but the characters in Firefly and BtVS resonated with me.
Oh crud.
Actually I just watched for Bad Willow and Bad Fred and Saffron. And Eve. Oh Eve.
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Like all metrics, employee monitoring would be used as indicators to alert if there is indeed something unusual happening. Certainly many metrics are innocuous, but they allow the administrator to know to take a closer look. For example, if the alert triggers on "Dirty Pages" then it may indeed be as innocent as a Java overflow, but if the employee is continuously reading and dirtying pages, there's probably something worth investigating.
I see your point, and it is valid, but respectfully disagree.
This is really a non-issue. Every so often we hear that there's a new problem or new approach to solving a problem. Names change but solutions remain the same. Whether it's grid technology or cloud or distributed computing or what have you, the "paradigm" may change but many times the technology is relatively unchanged.
For monitoring employees the obvious solution, though perhaps no longer a "hot" tech, is to install SNMP on each employee. If privacy is a concern, ensure that SNMPDv3 is used. This solves not only the more general problem of availability, but the beauty of SNMP is that it can be customized for each employee. You can now easily report back on CPU (i.e., brain) utilization, idle percentage (coffee breaks), etc.. SNMP also allows a "write back" so that the monitoring station can send information back to the client/employee.
I'm disappointed that this was not mentioned.
In my humble opinion, "twit" seems a perfectly cromulent word for senders of Twitter messages.
Why isn't the memory card formatted and completely blank?
Because it's getting more convenient for the user if the manufacturer ships the software on the device. Many laptops do not have CDROM drives. It can also save on packing costs not just for one unit, but for thousands of units. It allows more recent software to be shipped since and update doesn't require another CD manufacturing run..
No, companies should stop selling memory cards with unnecessary crap installed.
No argument there.
This will last a while, til things get rotten enough, then the purge-and-replace cycle begins again.
If only it were so simple. It's relatively easy to pass a law. It's a lot more difficult to repeal them.
Ah screw it, spell checkers have made spelling obsolete anyway.
Say that to the manager I knew who had to transcribe ideas from a brainstorming session onto a whiteboard. It was embarrassing to watch him struggle.
The Asian mentality is very different from Western mentality in my experience. Though most everyone loves and wants their kids to succeed, Asians seem to put aside personal wants in order to provide more to their kids. I'm not sure if this comes from the generally American love of individuality, but I think Americans are fulfilled more by what they experience than other nationalities. For example, some Asian parents would wonder why I'd want to take a barista position at a local coffee shop just to have the experience. They'd say, "but you can read how to do it in a book." Or, "I've already done that. Let me tell you how." It seems odd to them that one would struggle to learn something when the knowledge can be gained more easily on other ways.
One of my colleagues mentioned this a while back. According to his religion, words are powerful. It's part of devotion to ensure that prayers are read and copied *exactly*. In some other cultures it's a different approach, where the meaning is more important than the words. I don't know if this affects how well their spelling ability, but I imagine that it does.
Congratulations for being a stereotypical American who wastes his life at work, thinking that it defines him/her and makes him/her more valuable.
Hahhaah....Thank you...that is one of the biggest chuckles I've had in a while. I do my work, and do it well, but work is just that: work. It something I choose to do to enable the things I want to do.
I was around 22 years old when I realized that the corporate gig wasn't for me. But the gig is a means to an end.
I drink, on average, 10 cups of moderately strong coffee per day (that's relative though; it's American coffee, which is not normally as strong as other coffees). I drink mostly "breakfast blend" which has a milder taste, but more of a caffeine kick. On some days I don't drink any coffee and occasionally get headaches. I assume this is the withdrawal effect.
And yes. I don't sleep well at all. On average I sleep 4 hours a day (go to bed at 1:30AM, wake up at 5:30AM). And sometimes I don't sleep so much as wait either... Sort of a vicious cycle too... I drink coffee in the morning because I don't feel quite human until I had that first cup. It's more of a routine than an actual need for caffeine though. It's just something I do that's a rote action until my brain starts functioning normally. Others may do a morning run but I see that as akin to eating an egg-white omelet.
I'm allergic to alcohol, BTW. It makes me very red and very nauseous.
And to prove your point.. It's 8:44PM here now. I've been at the office since 9AM... So almost a 12 hour day...
Haha. I'm of Chinese descent and some of the Chinese medicines are poisonous and can kill you. I've found, however, that people will listen quite intently to whatever bullshit I can make up on the spot. And believe me, if you knew me, you'd know that I can make up some really deep bullshit on the spur of the moment. But, because of the mere fact that one of my ancestors lived somewhere in China, people believe that I'm privy to all sorts of ethnic wisdom and they believe me. Try some of these:
1) Rub a coin on your elbow to cure a headache.
2) A urine bath is an effective treatment for poor eyesight.
3) Eating hatchling eagles increases libido.
4) Eating tiger gonads increases manliness.
5) Grinding dragon bones into a paste then ingesting cures arthritis.
Now I love Chinese cuisine. I'm not talking that rubbish that you get at the local Dragon Bowl, but real cuisine. And lots of the other stuff that's just unpalatable to Westerners... Like frog and duck and chicken feet and dried shrimp and preserved eggs... But the next time some old Chinese lady tells me to save up some pee in a bottle for my next bath or try a bit of this thing that looks like a meatball but clearly isn't, I'll send her your way.
I understand the sentiment. And yes, I love books. God, I love books. I have shelves and shelves of them and sometimes I consider them almost a literal (haha) barrier to stupidity. No kidding, but I think some people get scared when they see my books and fell uneasy standing amongst them. There is rarely any greater pleasure for me than to sit in my library and read.
And yet eBooks are tempting. My love of gadgetry aside, the ability to large portions of my library with me at all times would be Nirvana. Years ago I used to carry around a Walkman. That device was the size of a large paperback book. Along with it I carried a case that held two or three cassette tapes. All told, I had about four hours of music with me. Of course, batteries didn't last quite four hours so you could expect about two hours of listening. That was barely enough to get me through History 101. Now I carry a thumb-sized iPod that holds 24 hours or so of music and 8-10 hour battery life. Imagine if books were the same way?
But we can't.. Unlike the History of Art text I keep on my shelf and occasionally browse, I can't assume that a year from now it will still be accessible. The publisher may yank my "permission" to read it, or change the text, or remove it entirely. Sure, there will be free texts, but because we don't control the reader device we can't even be sure that our free documents will not one day be yanked. Maybe a publisher will claim some exclusive rights to publish Shakespeare's sonnets and suddenly my open version gets yanked. Seems far fetched and a corner case, but in the days when we would hover over the record button on our cassette players no one imagined that recording a song off the airwaves could be considered infringement.
That's why I won't buy a Kindle.
I disable their logins.
Haha...taking a page from the FOX News playbook.. Play sarcasm straight..
FYI: Sarcasm, Lies, and Little White Lies are not the same things.
Oh, really? Thank you for sharing that.
Many Slashdot users can benefit from such a technology. There are medical conditions whose sufferers cannot detect sarcasm. This leads to social ostracism and can cause reduced productivity and in very extreme cases, depression. People may scoff, but imagine if we could provide this technology on a portable device for those victims of the spectrum of diseases that cause anxieties? There are times when I have been the goat because I misunderstood "Yes, I'll have the work completed by Monday" to mean that the coming Monday, the work would be completed. My sarcasm detector did not fire to alert me that the cable installer was being sarcastic. I would like to see this sarcasm detector available for handheld devices. When a girl responded, "Yeah, I'll go out with you," I could then check my iPhone or Droid and know immediately she was making an attempt at humor.
I hate cockroaches. Hate them, hate them, hate them.
Once while working a high school construction job in the Florida Keys, I stayed in the unfinished and very *open* hotel being renovated. In the middle of the night Nature started calling so I got up and started walking down the hallway. The hallway was actually completely open to the outdoors, having only wood beams and no actual wall. At the end of the hallway was a finished wall. As I got closer I noticed something strange -- it looked like there was a curtain blowing in the wind (I have very bad eyesight and at night it's even worse). Then I got closer... When I got about five feet away it was too late. It looked like about five hundred billion cockroaches were on the wall. Then they started flying towards me. The fuckers looked like birds. I screamed. Ran 40yds in about 1 second.
So this is a construction site.. And fellow construction workers being such wonderful souls, they had a good laugh when I woke them up.
Of course the next night they decide to put a live cockroack on my face while I slept.
Fuckers.
Yes, haha, you make joke...
But the mere fact that creative projects were created with open and freely available tools is a good thing, regardless of the quality AT THIS TIME.
What this is demonstrating are possibilities, proof of concepts. When the Mind's Eye or Pixar pushed out shorts they weren't anything spectacular from a story point of view. In fact, they were nothing that couldn't have been told better with real actors. People scoffed then and said similar things. But look at what happened with CGI....
The real story is that the barrier to entry has been lowered. And yes, when you lower the barrier to entry the first folks who use the tools are perhaps not the best storytellers or best writers or best mathematicians. But because the tools are now available to many more, the pool of talent grows. And this means that the products become better. And yes, free tools are not yet at the level of commercial tools, and may never be but the mere fact that free tools exist means that everything gets better (rising tide floats all boats).
Oh.. Ball "lightning".
I thought it was something painful involving bleach or scissors.
Gosh, this is going to come of as a bit of lunacy, but sometimes zero tolerance policies are the only way to repeal bad laws.
Laws tend to beget other laws. For example, in my workplace gym there used to be people who would stay on the treadmills for hours at a time and prevent others from using them. So they put up a sign that requested people limit their treadmill time to 20 minutes. So people started setting the timer for twenty minutes. When that was up, they'd reset it. Pretty soon I expect to see another sign telling people to limit their total time per day to twenty minutes.
In the real world I'm torn between having lots of very specific laws or a few broad laws. When the laws are too broad it leads to abuse by the people who make or enforce the laws. When laws are too narrow they are effectively meaningless.
In this case we have a law that is relatively new and thus has no real guidelines. It is subject to abuse.
By instituting a zero tolerance policy, my hope is that some people will see the current failings of the law and either repeal the law or clarify the loopholes. If there were no ZTP, then the law could be selectively enforced based on arbitrary and unwritten guidelines.
I'm posting this as I stare at all the different keys and key chain items I carry around. They include my own house keys (3), my neighbor's keys (2), car keys (3), car alarm fob (2), RSA SecurID token, trigger lock keys (4), ThinkPad dock key (1), padlock keys (2). These are only the primary keys as the backups are stored elsewhere. Add to this the optional items such as a couple Leatherman Squirt S4s and Micra, Gerber Clutch and Shortcut, keychain flashlights, and assorted carabiners and I can understand your plight. After losing a set of keys after the disengagable clip came apart somewhere along Ft. Lauderdale beach, I looked for alternatives.
First, separate all your keys based on need. I carry around my Leatherman Micra, main house key, ignition and car alarm fob on one ring. On your second ring, add the garage key, car trunk key, Shell Gas RFID fob. On the third ring, place your firearm trigger lock key, the docking station key, and padlock keys. On the fourth ring, place the remainder.
Next, acquire a locking carabiner. Don't opt for the spring loaded ones you get for $5 for a 6 pack at WalMart. You need climbing gear biners. These can be had from Altrec or Eddie Bauer or even Home Depot. Attach the primary key ring set to this carabiner.
You'll then need to purchase a pair of cargo pants, and -- this is important -- make sure that it has belt loops that can accomodate at least a 2" leather belt.
Purchase a durable and reinforced leather belt. Along with this, pick up a belt-attachable key minder. Black leather ones are cool, but nothing says rugged like camo. You can attach the second and third rings to this belt. It will also have plenty of room for your cell phone holster, your Leatherman Wave, binoculars, primary flashlight, and optionally a spool of 550 paracord.
Finally, you'll need to purchase a MOLLE vest. These can be had for $60 used at an army surplus store but new ones can run into the hundreds of dollars. An ALICE capable vest is an option, but I prefer the MOLLE attachments. With this vest you can add several key rings and similar attachment devices.
Just wanted to clarify some of the misconceptions about the Turbo Boost...
The technology is fairly simple. At it's most level, we take the exhaust from the CPU fan and route it back into the intake of the system. If you're using Linux you can see the RPM increase by running 'top' (google Linux RPM for more information).
The turbo itself is a fairly simple technology. As you're aware, we can use pipes to stream the outputs of different applications together. In the case of Linux, we pipe the stdout stream to the stdin (the intake) of the turbo (tr) which increases the speed and feeds it into a different application. For example, we can increase the throughput of dd as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero | tr rpm | tee /proc/cpuinfo
This will increase the CPU speed by feeding output from dd into the turbo (and increasing the rpm) and finally pumping it back into the CPU.
On other platforms there are some proprietary solutions. For example, take the output of Adobe AIR to HyperV to PCSpeedup! then back into the processor.
Hope this helps...
If they provided the laptop, even as "personal property" then they are probably within rights to request that you install certain software.
If you connect to their network they are probably within rights to request that you install certain software. But they can't force you to install software on your personal machine if you don't connect.
Given my horrible experience with disk encryption software, I understand your pain. It was required on my company provided laptop and until it was removed company-wide, we had many problems with crashes, slowness, weird behaviour, etc..
If it was me, I'd pick up a $150 P4 machine with 10G of hard drive space and have them install it there. Then call their support desk at 3AM when you check your email. Make sure you escalate to the persons who pushed this requirement.
The Town Clerk and Town Accountant believe that since .66 * 206 is less than 136, the vote passes.
Wow. Haven't RTFA because it would scare me, but if the summary is even halfway correct then we may as well say 2/3 is just 0.6. They'd only need 123 votes to pass...
God, I hope it goes the way of Gimp and Blender.
They're free, they work, and they're *good enough* for me. I.e., if I want/need something more, I'll fork out the money and buy it. I did this with *gasp* Adobe Premiere because the freely available tools were either buggy or lacked the features I needed.
I dunno, I like a lot of the Jos Whedon characters and shows. Firefly was one of my favorites, as was BtVS and Angel. I enjoy the dialogue more than anything, and certainly don't equate revenues with "success". I rarely feel any empathy towards any characters, but the characters in Firefly and BtVS resonated with me.
Oh crud.
Actually I just watched for Bad Willow and Bad Fred and Saffron. And Eve. Oh Eve.