Cox sent me a warning several months back that I had exceded my upload caps (a consequence of using bittorrent and running an occasional freenet node).
I pointed out to them that no upload (or download) cap had ever been mentioned when I signed up with them a couple of years back, and that I had never agreed to any such restriction in the time since. Although I'm not eager to, I'm perfectly willing to drag Cox through the mud and into court. I haven't heard from them since.
I would hope that even the majority of youth are over qualified to flip psuedo meat.
After having worked in a psuedo-fastfood restaurant kitchen for a few months (I practically had to beg the manager to give me a job because of the "over qualified" issue), I've learned that there are a great many youths who are underqualified to flip burgers, or even hamburger buns. Of course, having three BOH managers plus a FOH manager who were all engaged in power plays, micromanagement and pointless rule making didn't help.
I own an Archos Jukebox Recorder, 20GB or storage. 13GB of music on it (high quality VBR). All of it from CD's I own [1]. Most of them were bought while I was in college, which I paid for myself (part time job during the school year, full time on summers). My music collection was purchased almost exclusively via cdconnection.com, usually 8+ discs at a time (I'd save my money up, buy a bunch of CDs and repeat).
Don't know how representative that is, but there it is.
[1] Just ran `find/mnt/archos1/ -name "01*mp3" | wc -l`, comes up with 169 CDs.
If, as described, they were actual mainframes, the Customs people's statement that no sensitive info was lost/stolen might not be too far from the truth. In servers & other high end systems, it's not uncommon for the hard drives in the computer to contain only the OS & applications. The data used/created by the applications would be on a RAID attached to the computer. If that was the setup of the systems, the only actual data would system passwords and possibly temp data currently in use at the time of shutdown.
If, however, one or more of the systems was a RAID or some such data storage system, then the Custom's people are (as expected) lying through their teeth. The next question would be whether or not some form of encryption was in use (fs or application level).
Linksys wireless routers essentially do NAT for all computers connecting through them. Any connection protocol that requires the remote/server system to be able to establish a connection back to the wireless device[1] will fail.
[1] i.e. non-passive ftp, samba/windows shares, etc.
A couple of nights ago, I broke out the 8" SCT to look at Mars. After reading about this being its closest, and brightest, approach in a long, long, time, I figured there might be a few details visible.
Boy, was I wrong. It was big. It was really stinking bright (destroyed my night adaptation). It was a big, bright, orange/red blob. No details. There might have been a slight bit that was darker than the rest. That was it.
Now, granted, I don't spend much time viewing the planets. Jupiter and its moons, and the rings of Saturn are usually worth a few minutes each. I usually spend my time on the "deep-space" objects. I'm certainly no stranger to spending lots of time finding minute details. But, Mars has never really been worth bothering with, and I can't say this has changed my opinion.
Ah, well. It was probably covered by a giant dust storm or some such thing. What do I know. Such is life.
Either one would be enough to ruin it. Both, together? There are two possibilities: it'll stink worse than Daredevil, Swordfish & Gigli combined, or the combination of such evil crapiness will flip the "sucks" bit and Uma Thurman will cause it to not suck at all.
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Part of your problem is that you're dealing with a Siamese. All cats are psychotic, granted, (and I love cats), but Siamese cats really take the cake.
At my previous job, I started out with a handme down, Pentium Pro, test system (I was initially a coop, student, employee). It was barely able to run Windows NT, plus Windows is just annoying. So I brought a Redhat CD from home and installed it to dual-boot. Occasionally, I booted back to NT for Outlook (calendaring didn't work from Netscape Mail), but from then on Linux was my main OS even at work.
After a couple of years I was working only from Linux (discovered Exchange's web functions), and several other developers ran Linux most of the time. IT only found out about it when a new network admin did a check of the systems on the network. He was pretty cool about it, said as long as we didn't cause him problems, he didn't care.
Sure, but what's required in order to refine raw aluminum (or what ever you call the ore)? Lots and lots of electricity. How's that electricity produced? Power plants that: burn coal/natural gas (leading to air pollution), use nuclear fision (all sorts of nasty biproducts that we still haven't figured out what to do with, other than bury them), or hydroelectric dams (don't even get me started here).
Recycling aluminum & steel reduces the problem, but even that requires large amounts of energy (see above).
Well, nothing stopping you from re-recording all those hits other than the fact that you don't own them. In most cases, the studio/publisher does. If you've managed to annoy them sufficiently (why leave otherwise), perhaps they'll decide they don't want you to re-record those songs.
I don't trust most businesses because they are there to make money. It's always easier to cut a few corners to do a crappy job. And most non-profit organizations aren't any better - would you want the Jehovah's Witnesses in charge of building permits?
Not that we'd take the job, but I challenge you to find a more efficient and honest organization anywhere in the world.
In mid-Jan 2002, LSI Wichita laid-off somewhere between 100-150 employees (never saw any final numbers). The ten person development group I was with lost four (including me) and our manager was reassigned to report to management located in the Boston area (internal politics played a heavy hand in that bit). I've seen a couple of postings for positions in the RAID division (that's probably who was at KSU). The Host Adapters group (who I worked with) haven't spent much time at college career fairs in the past.
Over all, LSI's not too bad a company to work for; no different than any other large international corporation whose primary goal is to hit 2+ billion in gross profits (they'd hit 1 billion not too long before the layoffs).
Heck, I'd just about get down on my knees and grovel for a 50k a year job. I have the misfortune of living in Wichita, KS, where software development/IT jobs having been shriveling up and blowing away for over a year, Boeing, Raytheon, Cessna etc have already done large layoffs (and Cessna's getting ready to do another), and highschool kids can't find work because the unskilled work's been taken by laid-off IT and aircraft workers.
If anyone's looking for a Unix and network applications developer or a device driver developer, my resume's here (html) and here (PDF).
Don't much care if it's in Wichita; I've been trying to get out for some time, but everybody I talk to elsewhere is "only considering local candidates."
I gave up on WordPerfect after v8 for Linux stopped working on up-to-date distributions (it's a libc v5 app). The only product at Corel that I still have an interest in is Painter (started its life as Fractal Design Painter) for the Mac. It'd be a real shame if it went down the tubes with Corel.
The problem with that is Ian hasn't released source or algorithms. So whoever wants to do a GPL clone will either have to reverse engineer the search and connection code, or develop their own algorithms that perform just as well. There've been losts of very smart people trying to develop P2P systems that are faster and more robust than the current crop; we're still waiting.
I'd be glad to see a GPL version, especially one that's not encumbered by a runtime system controlled by Microsoft.
As RMS (or was it Linus) pointed out, part of the power of Free software is to lower the price that can be charged for software "products." Where there's powerful, robust, Free competition, proprietary vendors can't rely only on the high prices of competitors to keep their profit margins up.
Well, I don't celebrate Christmas, and I'm unemployed at the moment, so this really isn't any different than the past several weeks (other than the grocery store being closed). Even if neither of the first two were true, I just ripped my left big-toe nail off while moving furnature this morning, so I'm not doing much of anything besides enjoying the blissfull glow of endorphines.
Can't speak for the poster, but here in the Wichita, KS (US) area, my cable modem can sustain downloads of 350+ KB/s (2.7+ Mb/s)[1]. The cause for concern on my part is that the cable company has never made any sort of guarantee as to what caps they place on the units. I could wake up one morning and find that they've capped me at 128 KB/s and have no recourse.
[1] Being a cable modem, my transfer speeds are asyncronous. My max upload speed is only around 28 KB/s. I'd be interested in seeing whether or not the powerline broadband in HK is async or syncronous.
Now, I'm not suprised to hear that one of Disney's lawyers (or any lawyer paid by a large corp/interest group/gov) would behave in such a way. That said, it'd be nice to see, oh, the email, or confirmation by someone who would know. I didn't see such material in any of the links in the article.
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Well, assuming anyone even bothered to cap it, it could easily take a day or two to encode it to DiVX;-) or SVCD (VCD generally doesn't take very long). Then you have to add in the time to post/upload it. I'd give it a couple of days.
Everyone I've talked to says this (responding to ads almost never works). The method, apparently, is to get work by having/developing contacts that have inside info on and/or influence over the hiring process. I can't say that they're wrong. The problem is what to do if you have no real contacts other than with the people you used to work with.
Well, there were the points about participating in relevent mailing-lists/forums in a meaningful way and on making your resume show up in search engines such as Google.
I personally found the suggestions on search engines helpful.
Oh, you mean like that incredibly moronic Andromeda episode, "Slipfighter the dogs of war?" `Course, Andromeda doesn't air on Fox last time I checked (syndicated), but still.
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Cox sent me a warning several months back that I had exceded my upload caps (a consequence of using bittorrent and running an occasional freenet node).
I pointed out to them that no upload (or download) cap had ever been mentioned when I signed up with them a couple of years back, and that I had never agreed to any such restriction in the time since. Although I'm not eager to, I'm perfectly willing to drag Cox through the mud and into court. I haven't heard from them since.
After having worked in a psuedo-fastfood restaurant kitchen for a few months (I practically had to beg the manager to give me a job because of the "over qualified" issue), I've learned that there are a great many youths who are underqualified to flip burgers, or even hamburger buns. Of course, having three BOH managers plus a FOH manager who were all engaged in power plays, micromanagement and pointless rule making didn't help.
I own an Archos Jukebox Recorder, 20GB or storage. 13GB of music on it (high quality VBR). All of it from CD's I own [1]. Most of them were bought while I was in college, which I paid for myself (part time job during the school year, full time on summers). My music collection was purchased almost exclusively via cdconnection.com, usually 8+ discs at a time (I'd save my money up, buy a bunch of CDs and repeat).
/mnt/archos1/ -name "01*mp3" | wc -l`, comes up with 169 CDs.
Don't know how representative that is, but there it is.
[1] Just ran `find
If, as described, they were actual mainframes, the Customs people's statement that no sensitive info was lost/stolen might not be too far from the truth. In servers & other high end systems, it's not uncommon for the hard drives in the computer to contain only the OS & applications. The data used/created by the applications would be on a RAID attached to the computer. If that was the setup of the systems, the only actual data would system passwords and possibly temp data currently in use at the time of shutdown.
If, however, one or more of the systems was a RAID or some such data storage system, then the Custom's people are (as expected) lying through their teeth. The next question would be whether or not some form of encryption was in use (fs or application level).
Linksys wireless routers essentially do NAT for all computers connecting through them. Any connection protocol that requires the remote/server system to be able to establish a connection back to the wireless device[1] will fail.
[1] i.e. non-passive ftp, samba/windows shares, etc.
Huh. I'll give it a shot. It'd be shame to miss the opportunity.
A couple of nights ago, I broke out the 8" SCT to look at Mars. After reading about this being its closest, and brightest, approach in a long, long, time, I figured there might be a few details visible.
Boy, was I wrong. It was big. It was really stinking bright (destroyed my night adaptation). It was a big, bright, orange/red blob. No details. There might have been a slight bit that was darker than the rest. That was it.
Now, granted, I don't spend much time viewing the planets. Jupiter and its moons, and the rings of Saturn are usually worth a few minutes each. I usually spend my time on the "deep-space" objects. I'm certainly no stranger to spending lots of time finding minute details. But, Mars has never really been worth bothering with, and I can't say this has changed my opinion.
Ah, well. It was probably covered by a giant dust storm or some such thing. What do I know. Such is life.
A - also) It's got Ben Affleck in it.
Either one would be enough to ruin it. Both, together? There are two possibilities: it'll stink worse than Daredevil, Swordfish & Gigli combined, or the combination of such evil crapiness will flip the "sucks" bit and Uma Thurman will cause it to not suck at all.
Part of your problem is that you're dealing with a Siamese. All cats are psychotic, granted, (and I love cats), but Siamese cats really take the cake.
At my previous job, I started out with a handme down, Pentium Pro, test system (I was initially a coop, student, employee). It was barely able to run Windows NT, plus Windows is just annoying. So I brought a Redhat CD from home and installed it to dual-boot. Occasionally, I booted back to NT for Outlook (calendaring didn't work from Netscape Mail), but from then on Linux was my main OS even at work.
After a couple of years I was working only from Linux (discovered Exchange's web functions), and several other developers ran Linux most of the time. IT only found out about it when a new network admin did a check of the systems on the network. He was pretty cool about it, said as long as we didn't cause him problems, he didn't care.
Sure, but what's required in order to refine raw aluminum (or what ever you call the ore)? Lots and lots of electricity. How's that electricity produced? Power plants that: burn coal/natural gas (leading to air pollution), use nuclear fision (all sorts of nasty biproducts that we still haven't figured out what to do with, other than bury them), or hydroelectric dams (don't even get me started here).
Recycling aluminum & steel reduces the problem, but even that requires large amounts of energy (see above).
I keep reading the name of the bill as "Privacy Deterance and Education" instead of piracy. Not entirely unfitting.
Well, nothing stopping you from re-recording all those hits other than the fact that you don't own them. In most cases, the studio/publisher does. If you've managed to annoy them sufficiently (why leave otherwise), perhaps they'll decide they don't want you to re-record those songs.
Not that we'd take the job, but I challenge you to find a more efficient and honest organization anywhere in the world.
In mid-Jan 2002, LSI Wichita laid-off somewhere between 100-150 employees (never saw any final numbers). The ten person development group I was with lost four (including me) and our manager was reassigned to report to management located in the Boston area (internal politics played a heavy hand in that bit). I've seen a couple of postings for positions in the RAID division (that's probably who was at KSU). The Host Adapters group (who I worked with) haven't spent much time at college career fairs in the past.
Over all, LSI's not too bad a company to work for; no different than any other large international corporation whose primary goal is to hit 2+ billion in gross profits (they'd hit 1 billion not too long before the layoffs).
Heck, I'd just about get down on my knees and grovel for a 50k a year job. I have the misfortune of living in Wichita, KS, where software development/IT jobs having been shriveling up and blowing away for over a year, Boeing, Raytheon, Cessna etc have already done large layoffs (and Cessna's getting ready to do another), and highschool kids can't find work because the unskilled work's been taken by laid-off IT and aircraft workers.
If anyone's looking for a Unix and network applications developer or a device driver developer, my resume's here (html) and here (PDF).
Don't much care if it's in Wichita; I've been trying to get out for some time, but everybody I talk to elsewhere is "only considering local candidates."
I gave up on WordPerfect after v8 for Linux stopped working on up-to-date distributions (it's a libc v5 app). The only product at Corel that I still have an interest in is Painter (started its life as Fractal Design Painter) for the Mac. It'd be a real shame if it went down the tubes with Corel.
The problem with that is Ian hasn't released source or algorithms. So whoever wants to do a GPL clone will either have to reverse engineer the search and connection code, or develop their own algorithms that perform just as well. There've been losts of very smart people trying to develop P2P systems that are faster and more robust than the current crop; we're still waiting.
I'd be glad to see a GPL version, especially one that's not encumbered by a runtime system controlled by Microsoft.
As RMS (or was it Linus) pointed out, part of the power of Free software is to lower the price that can be charged for software "products." Where there's powerful, robust, Free competition, proprietary vendors can't rely only on the high prices of competitors to keep their profit margins up.
Well, I don't celebrate Christmas, and I'm unemployed at the moment, so this really isn't any different than the past several weeks (other than the grocery store being closed). Even if neither of the first two were true, I just ripped my left big-toe nail off while moving furnature this morning, so I'm not doing much of anything besides enjoying the blissfull glow of endorphines.
Can't speak for the poster, but here in the Wichita, KS (US) area, my cable modem can sustain downloads of 350+ KB/s (2.7+ Mb/s)[1]. The cause for concern on my part is that the cable company has never made any sort of guarantee as to what caps they place on the units. I could wake up one morning and find that they've capped me at 128 KB/s and have no recourse.
[1] Being a cable modem, my transfer speeds are asyncronous. My max upload speed is only around 28 KB/s. I'd be interested in seeing whether or not the powerline broadband in HK is async or syncronous.
Now, I'm not suprised to hear that one of Disney's lawyers (or any lawyer paid by a large corp/interest group/gov) would behave in such a way. That said, it'd be nice to see, oh, the email, or confirmation by someone who would know. I didn't see such material in any of the links in the article.
Well, assuming anyone even bothered to cap it, it could easily take a day or two to encode it to DiVX;-) or SVCD (VCD generally doesn't take very long). Then you have to add in the time to post/upload it. I'd give it a couple of days.
Everyone I've talked to says this (responding to ads almost never works). The method, apparently, is to get work by having/developing contacts that have inside info on and/or influence over the hiring process. I can't say that they're wrong. The problem is what to do if you have no real contacts other than with the people you used to work with.
Well, there were the points about participating in relevent mailing-lists/forums in a meaningful way and on making your resume show up in search engines such as Google.
I personally found the suggestions on search engines helpful.
Oh, you mean like that incredibly moronic Andromeda episode, "Slipfighter the dogs of war?" `Course, Andromeda doesn't air on Fox last time I checked (syndicated), but still.