If this robot could be modified to feed on cat feces, urine and furballs, I could kill 2 birds with one stone: clean up the mess they make, and save myself a lot of nasty work.
Of course if it fed on cats, my problems would be gone forever.
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Much like the roughly ten-pound ceramic frog that was kidnapped from a yard in Rhode Island and taken around the world for nine months in 1998
Up here in Canada there was (is?)a group that went around at night "liberating" lawn jockeys. They saw them as "enslaved" blacks that needed to be freed, I saw it as pretty funny, and a decent social statement.
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Going far means returning
Yeah, but it's a bit nippy FLAMEBAIT MODE ON Please, show more ignorance, it merely confirms what all Canadians know already, Americans are ignorant and apathetic, someone tried to explain it to them once, but they all said "we don't know, and we don't care" FLAMEBAIT MODE OFF Seriously, given our geographical positioning on the planet, we do have more extremes of weather than a good part of the US, but your northern plain states are easily as frigid as southern ontario. and if you like rainforest, living west of the coast mountains places you in a climatic zone where flowers bloom year-round, some of the finest smoking herb in the world is grown, and life can be good. I hope to move out that way myself one day.
Other pluses of living in Canada: No one in the world can make fun of their own politicians as well as Candians. Not only that, we do a damn fine job of making fun of America as well (watch This Hour Has 22 Minutes if you don't believe me, it is the finest political satire in the world today). While we have the same serious crime problems as other major North American Cities, the downtown areas of *most* large canadian urban centers are not vacant wastelands, but vibrant neighbourhoods (I live in one of the oldest in Toronto, Cabbagetown - though honestly, if I go about 3 blocks south of my house, it is pretty scary). Toronto is well known (at least to me) as being the most culturally diverse city on the PLANET. oh, and our medicare (crappy as it may be) is FREE. and lastly, although I am sure (and know to a certain extent) that parts of the US posses wonderous natural beauty, Canda is a vast land largely uninhabited, the beauty of which is rivaled by few nations of the world. We have it all, from ancient mountain coasts (the Gaspe) to some of the finest temperate rainforest remaining on earth (Haida Gwaii), with a whole lot of forest plains and most of the fresh water in the world water in between. My name is John, and I *am* Canadian.
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god and Santa Claus. I have been praying for peace on earth and putting it at the top of christmas list for about 37 years, and once again, I look under the tree, up in the heavens, and on the nightly news, and I see no sign of it. *sigh*
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I make Copernic use them for me. hmmm, do they have a linux version? I am too busy to look. Okay, so I had to check, seems they don't, but hey, it's a Canadian company;-)
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What are they using for the link? Packet Radio? Satellite? Native Drummers?
I will never live out my dream of having a live-on boat until there is at least DSL comparable, afordable, wireless networking available worldwide.
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Note: this applies to contracted support for proivate clients, so is not at all like an ISP_ helpdesk...
I have users who "demand" to speak with my "manager" when they are unhappy with our service. I tell them my manager knows almost nothing about the account I work on, the clients I support, or how I support them; he just "manages" our team. Then I ask what I can do to help them resolve their problem, 'cause there ain't anybody else who can. Once they understand that, we are usualy okay. If they are really unhappy, I have them complain to their management. Usually its in cases where we will not do what the client wants us to due to policy.
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Going far means returning
I almost peed myself laughing as I read the article, as much for satire as the amusing recollection of the "vibrating" footbal field. That particular toy reminded me way too much of some fictional company that is a lot like the management at the company I work for...(does that wording save my but when the boss reads this post?).
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...seems they are called Euclidian Consulting, and offer such services as, hmm, this is odd, the DNS for this site is dns.homepc.org, and oh, wait, that's registered to the same personas euclidian! hmmm, that coupled with the @home port scans being #1 on this list leads to the conclusion, all this is being run out of someone's basement, using an @home connection. Wow, and here I was waiting to save up enough money to buy a real "business" network, but heck, I can just use my cable connection to run my soon to IPO thingy...
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lol....almost made me wet my pants! however, I have a correction: Shipping is warned to avoid the slick as several ships have already gone down in the area....should read "Shipping is warned to avoid the slick as several ships have already been gone down on in the area, and are now sleeping somewhere offshore."
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a partnership with these folks and the highly prized (or is that priced?) Natalie Portman model (Marketing slogan: you don't have to fall down for it to get you up!)
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a beowulf cluster of these things in a kiddie pool with thousands of Pillsbury dough boys jumping in and out of the water?
Seriously, I have been fascinated with the potential to tap into the energy of tides and waves for some time, even visited a Tidal Energy Project down east last year and this summer I was amazed to pass by one of the largest wind farms in Canada, I only wish our timing was such that I had been able to visit the site. I tell you, coming around a bend in the coastal highway to the site of these huge wind turbines seemingly marching across the hills beside the ocean was quite something!
I am glad to see things like this (and hybrid cars, etc) getting more and more attention. Here in Canada natural gas prices have skyrocketed in the last year. Why? Well, a banker buddy of mine tells me it is a matter of supply and demand (I knew I should taken at least one econimics course) and most of the demand is for electrical generation....can you beleive that? burning gas to make sparks...how ridiculous....now, if only I could find a link to that nutty idea of putting solar collectors on the moon, and microwaving it down to earth.
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that a country which worships Jerry Lewis as the god of comedy would make this kind of ruling. Heck, if it weren't for the fine wines, spirits and cheeses which come from France, I would say nuke the idiots!
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
recalling some stuff about "dark fibre". Read the article, you know you want to, even though it is like 8 years old now, it addresses issues even more prevelant today.
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...so my experience is rather different. I work a support desk that is open 7am to 9pm mon Friday. My shift is 10am to 9pm 4 days a week. Initially this came about due to our lack of staffing, coupled with a requirement we have french coverage during core hours (which menat our frnach analysts could not work the late shift).
Our manager implmented a plan to cross-train less technical analysts to cover the night shift, but found they just don't have the skills to provide the support required by our clients.
At first I thought my skills were being wasted, and not used at all on Fridays, but I realized due to the lack of skill in our cross-trained analysts, having me there during most of the core hours (to take calls and assist other analysts), plus having me there to cover 6-9pm mon-thur solo means our clients get good support.
Do I mind? Not really, though I get a bit burnt out by thursday evening, I get to recharge Friday, and enjoy the weekend.
Is this really flex-time? I dunno, not very flex really I suppose, as I didn't choose it. Still, offers another perspective on somewhat non-traditional staffing.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
well, not that it's gonna hit the mainstream press that hard, but neat to see them mention linux workstations a couple of times...and on sych an ambitious project!
What I have seen of the "trailers" the effects look spectacular...vast in both scope and detail
...is this gonna be the greatest film for nerds since Star Wars? I know I will line up for 6 months to get my ticket to the Toronto premier....hrm, that means I need to be wealthy enough not to work for 6 months, in less than 7....arg!
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Jon, would you consider writting a "Think Unix"-like book on Linux security? As a real Linux (but not computer) newbie, I am frustrated that I have to struggle to understand what the heck is going on, whereas in other OS's I pretty much understand. What I uderstand of your book "Think Unix", it gives the reader a fundamental understanding of what is going on, sort of a modern "Inside the IBM PC" (by Peter Norton, a book that really helped me understand PC's in the DOS days...).
As someone who installed Linux for the first trime just a few days ago, you *know* I am gonna have to grab your Bastille tool, tonite in fact....thanks!
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Going far means returning
I once got a peek inside that *secret* briefcase carried by one of the President's aides, you know the thing they call "the football". Guess what...all it had inside was a can of coke, some chips, and Gameboy with Duke Nuk'em Ver 1.
along with: .info (that's helpful!) .site (oh, and I thought it was a domain?) .spot (every dog has it's domain) .surf (what about the hydophobic?) .web (spiders are insects too!)
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The funniest to me is the Canadian who wants there to be a.kids and.xxx (hmmmm, makes you wonder what kind of sites they want to put up).
As you can see, they are skipping PDA's at NASA, and going right for PSA's. Imagine one of these connected to the web. Actually, I have heard they are considering web access from the space station, and that a Universal Wide Web is in the works, but for the life of me, can't find anything about it on the NASA Sites.
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If this robot could be modified to feed on cat feces, urine and furballs, I could kill 2 birds with one stone: clean up the mess they make, and save myself a lot of nasty work. Of course if it fed on cats, my problems would be gone forever.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Much like the roughly ten-pound ceramic frog that was kidnapped from a yard in Rhode Island and taken around the world for nine months in 1998
Up here in Canada there was (is?)a group that went around at night "liberating" lawn jockeys. They saw them as "enslaved" blacks that needed to be freed, I saw it as pretty funny, and a decent social statement.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Yeah, but it's a bit nippy
FLAMEBAIT MODE ON
Please, show more ignorance, it merely confirms what all Canadians know already, Americans are ignorant and apathetic, someone tried to explain it to them once, but they all said "we don't know, and we don't care"
FLAMEBAIT MODE OFF
Seriously, given our geographical positioning on the planet, we do have more extremes of weather than a good part of the US, but your northern plain states are easily as frigid as southern ontario. and if you like rainforest, living west of the coast mountains places you in a climatic zone where flowers bloom year-round, some of the finest smoking herb in the world is grown, and life can be good. I hope to move out that way myself one day.
Other pluses of living in Canada: No one in the world can make fun of their own politicians as well as Candians. Not only that, we do a damn fine job of making fun of America as well (watch This Hour Has 22 Minutes if you don't believe me, it is the finest political satire in the world today).
While we have the same serious crime problems as other major North American Cities, the downtown areas of *most* large canadian urban centers are not vacant wastelands, but vibrant neighbourhoods (I live in one of the oldest in Toronto, Cabbagetown - though honestly, if I go about 3 blocks south of my house, it is pretty scary).
Toronto is well known (at least to me) as being the most culturally diverse city on the PLANET.
oh, and our medicare (crappy as it may be) is FREE.
and lastly, although I am sure (and know to a certain extent) that parts of the US posses wonderous natural beauty, Canda is a vast land largely uninhabited, the beauty of which is rivaled by few nations of the world. We have it all, from ancient mountain coasts (the Gaspe) to some of the finest temperate rainforest remaining on earth (Haida Gwaii), with a whole lot of forest plains and most of the fresh water in the world water in between.
My name is John, and I *am* Canadian.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
god and Santa Claus. I have been praying for peace on earth and putting it at the top of christmas list for about 37 years, and once again, I look under the tree, up in the heavens, and on the nightly news, and I see no sign of it. *sigh*
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Going far means returning
...and to help the lazy this is the page describing the collection, which is rather impressive indeed!
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I make Copernic use them for me. hmmm, do they have a linux version? I am too busy to look. ;-)
Okay, so I had to check, seems they don't, but hey, it's a Canadian company
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Going far means returning
Hahaha. Smoke signals serve as a router
Oh, I thought that was the firewall...
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What are they using for the link? Packet Radio? Satellite? Native Drummers?
I will never live out my dream of having a live-on boat until there is at least DSL comparable, afordable, wireless networking available worldwide.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Note: this applies to contracted support for proivate clients, so is not at all like an ISP_ helpdesk...
I have users who "demand" to speak with my "manager" when they are unhappy with our service. I tell them my manager knows almost nothing about the account I work on, the clients I support, or how I support them; he just "manages" our team. Then I ask what I can do to help them resolve their problem, 'cause there ain't anybody else who can. Once they understand that, we are usualy okay. If they are really unhappy, I have them complain to their management. Usually its in cases where we will not do what the client wants us to due to policy.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
I almost peed myself laughing as I read the article, as much for satire as the amusing recollection of the "vibrating" footbal field. That particular toy reminded me way too much of some fictional company that is a lot like the management at the company I work for...(does that wording save my but when the boss reads this post?).
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
...seems they are called Euclidian Consulting, and offer such services as, hmm, this is odd, the DNS for this site is dns.homepc.org, and oh, wait, that's registered to the same personas euclidian! hmmm, that coupled with the @home port scans being #1 on this list leads to the conclusion, all this is being run out of someone's basement, using an @home connection. Wow, and here I was waiting to save up enough money to buy a real "business" network, but heck, I can just use my cable connection to run my soon to IPO thingy...
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
lol....almost made me wet my pants! however, I have a correction:
Shipping is warned to avoid the slick as several ships have already gone down in the area....should read "Shipping is warned to avoid the slick as several ships have already been gone down on in the area, and are now sleeping somewhere offshore."
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
a partnership with these folks and the highly prized (or is that priced?) Natalie Portman model (Marketing slogan: you don't have to fall down for it to get you up!)
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
a beowulf cluster of these things in a kiddie pool with thousands of Pillsbury dough boys jumping in and out of the water?
Seriously, I have been fascinated with the potential to tap into the energy of tides and waves for some time, even visited a Tidal Energy Project down east last year and this summer I was amazed to pass by one of the largest wind farms in Canada, I only wish our timing was such that I had been able to visit the site. I tell you, coming around a bend in the coastal highway to the site of these huge wind turbines seemingly marching across the hills beside the ocean was quite something!
I am glad to see things like this (and hybrid cars, etc) getting more and more attention. Here in Canada natural gas prices have skyrocketed in the last year. Why? Well, a banker buddy of mine tells me it is a matter of supply and demand (I knew I should taken at least one econimics course) and most of the demand is for electrical generation....can you beleive that? burning gas to make sparks...how ridiculous....now, if only I could find a link to that nutty idea of putting solar collectors on the moon, and microwaving it down to earth.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
that a country which worships Jerry Lewis as the god of comedy would make this kind of ruling. Heck, if it weren't for the fine wines, spirits and cheeses which come from France, I would say nuke the idiots!
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
how the heck did you get copywrite symbols to take the place of all your periods? heck, if you can do that, you can have any TLD you want....
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
recalling some stuff about "dark fibre". Read the article, you know you want to, even though it is like 8 years old now, it addresses issues even more prevelant today.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
news like this makes me glad I live in Canada.
Here in Toronto, rather than be held for days with a huge bond, the cops just take you to the boonies, beat you up, and take your shoes.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
...so my experience is rather different. I work a support desk that is open 7am to 9pm mon Friday. My shift is 10am to 9pm 4 days a week. Initially this came about due to our lack of staffing, coupled with a requirement we have french coverage during core hours (which menat our frnach analysts could not work the late shift).
Our manager implmented a plan to cross-train less technical analysts to cover the night shift, but found they just don't have the skills to provide the support required by our clients.
At first I thought my skills were being wasted, and not used at all on Fridays, but I realized due to the lack of skill in our cross-trained analysts, having me there during most of the core hours (to take calls and assist other analysts), plus having me there to cover 6-9pm mon-thur solo means our clients get good support.
Do I mind? Not really, though I get a bit burnt out by thursday evening, I get to recharge Friday, and enjoy the weekend.
Is this really flex-time? I dunno, not very flex really I suppose, as I didn't choose it. Still, offers another perspective on somewhat non-traditional staffing.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
well, not that it's gonna hit the mainstream press that hard, but neat to see them mention linux workstations a couple of times...and on sych an ambitious project!
What I have seen of the "trailers" the effects look spectacular...vast in both scope and detail
...is this gonna be the greatest film for nerds since Star Wars? I know I will line up for 6 months to get my ticket to the Toronto premier....hrm, that means I need to be wealthy enough not to work for 6 months, in less than 7....arg!
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Jon, would you consider writting a "Think Unix"-like book on Linux security? As a real Linux (but not computer) newbie, I am frustrated that I have to struggle to understand what the heck is going on, whereas in other OS's I pretty much understand. What I uderstand of your book "Think Unix", it gives the reader a fundamental understanding of what is going on, sort of a modern "Inside the IBM PC" (by Peter Norton, a book that really helped me understand PC's in the DOS days...).
As someone who installed Linux for the first trime just a few days ago, you *know* I am gonna have to grab your Bastille tool, tonite in fact....thanks!
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
I once got a peek inside that *secret* briefcase carried by one of the President's aides, you know the thing they call "the football".
Guess what...all it had inside was a can of coke, some chips, and Gameboy with Duke Nuk'em Ver 1.
Going on means going far
along with:
.info (that's helpful!)
.site (oh, and I thought it was a domain?)
.spot (every dog has it's domain)
.surf (what about the hydophobic?)
.web (spiders are insects too!)
.kids and .xxx (hmmmm, makes you wonder what kind of sites they want to put up).
Applied for by: JVTeam, LLC
The funniest to me is the Canadian who wants there to be a
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I read the cat exercise one ages ago, it's part of the obscure patent gallery...it's not news. Though it is funny.
Going on means going far
As you can see, they are skipping PDA's at NASA, and going right for PSA's. Imagine one of these connected to the web. Actually, I have heard they are considering web access from the space station, and that a Universal Wide Web is in the works, but for the life of me, can't find anything about it on the NASA Sites.
Going on means going far