Same here. I never ever want to be given a peice of paper ever! There is e-mail for a reason.
I've also made it known that voice mail -- the little flashing light on the phone -- will be rudely ignored for at least 24 hours. But email will receive an immediate response. I can't "reply" to a voice mail--even though there is a "reply" function in our voice mail server it is not in anyway the sames or nearly as convenient.
Oh, even though we have a web-enabled corporate email system (*not* Exchange) our top execs still--this is gross--use their AOL accounts. Hey, I know AOL owns Netscape who sponsors Mozilla, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
I do pay for the $60 support contract and I do use the RHN download server but I still have been unable to get any kind of decent speed on my otherwise wideopen cable modem connection at home.
I'll just wait until the rush is over and the critical patches are out.:)
In my office I regularly receive printouts of webpages placed in my mailslot from other executive management (I'm the CTO) wanting to show me something they think I may be interested in seeing. Drives me bonkers!
The same people are more likely to print a Word doc and fax it than send an email...
as heavy as a talent [between fifty and sixty pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people; and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail, so very great was [the torture] of that plague. (Revelation 16:21)
Trust me; Fundamentalist sermons will be referring to this story for a long time to come.
Jump the revision to IV. The major improvements are in the IO blocking and VM subsystem. That's the excuse... but the real reason would be to benefit from the press explaining the numbering revision and what it means--that's the ploy Microsoft, Intel, and IBM have used to manipulate free press about their products ever since, well, the IBM AT and IBM PS/2. Heck, even Apple does it.
Linux IV, becuase Free software needs free press, too.
Break out the emerency navigation supplies (IIRC everyone's still required to carry traditional navigation supplies) and see about rowing back to shore. If there's still sail material, rig a sail using whatever wood and lashing material can be found.
You should read the Navy's comments in the stories...he did know where he was and what the date was (time is easy, so I assume he knew that). Also, he did have a makeshift mast from what he could scrounge together.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems a bit unfair to dismiss this man's plight so succinctly as you have done.
I'm in Southern California and have read and heard a lot of comments from seasoned sailors regarding Van Pham's plight. Nothing I've heard criticized him for failing to control his vessel--only failing to coordinate with others his sailing plans. Yes, these sailors may just be deciding to politely avoid embarrassing the gentleman for spending "alot more time seeing how much he could eat than getting his ass back to land," but it is more likely that you're just being hypercritical. Or, perhaps, you have special insight into sailing with damaged vessels... In any regard, you come off a tad bit insulting and arrogant.
No kidding. Did you see the real-life survivor story this week about the Long Beach, CA man sailing his small sailboat to Catalina Island (truly a "three hour tour") but a storm rose and rendered his ship uncontrollable? He drifted for 3 1/2 months living on sea turtles, birds and fish until a San Diego-based warship found him near the coast of Costa Rica. He was healthy, though thinner, and even knew where he was and what the date was. Oh, did I mention he's 62 years old?
Sure, he's a moron for not filing a cruise plan (er, the boating equivalent of a flight plan...whatever it's called) with the Coast Guard (but then, who really wants to voluntarily tell the gov't their every move?), or telling friends where he was going and when he'd be back...but he was a true survivor.
And,. although he was very happy to see the US warship, he wasn't looking for a free ride home: he asked them to repair his mast and he would sail home on his own. That's freakin' impressive.
(I may have munged some of te details of the story, but that's why I linked to news.google.com, an awsome resource, for you to follow and be cleansed of my gross inaccuracies.)
I *did* switch to using a TiBook G4550 w/ 768MB RAM as my primary laptop. This worked well until my web development went from general public-access sites to b2b sites that had standardized on Win/IE[56]. The result--I switched back to Win2k on my Toshiba 2805. Supporting a Windows world via MacOSX is not pleasant.
There were other reasons why I wasn't ultimately satisified with OSX (pre Jaguar...I never did see Jaguar), so
see my journal on the subject for more info.
No offense, but you sir, have no idea what you are talking about. Just ignoring the fact that MDMA inducing an OOB in a way comparable to the dissociatives (DXM, K, PCP) is damn near ridiculous and only makes it clear that you've wanted to use it alot more than you've actually used it - just ignoring that, the psychiatric uses of MDMA had jack shit to do with OOBs. The preminent psychiatric value of MDMA is in it's ability to induce empathy and openess while still maintaining a relatively coherent attachment to the 'normal' world. A very valuable tool when it comes to therapy.
Sounds like you could use a hit of "empathy and openess" inducing MDMA right about now...:)
I made the switch you are referring to in March 2002, with my purchase of a Titanium PowerbookG4 550. I planned to use it for web application development and all my business writing, etc. Everything. But a couple weeks ago I "Switched Back", as explained in my journal of that title.
Slightly off-topic, but since you are thinking of switching, I encourage you to read about my experience and why I eventually switched back. Hopefully you won't run into the same situations I found myself in.
I love how her "it's kinda like..." trails ad if waiting for the Apple logo before completing with "a bummer". So, the words "a bummer" become somewhat a caption for the logo...
Adobe getting hit with DMCA problems, Verizon and the RIAA going at it over DMCA, eBay with patent problems. If enough large and publicly traded companies get hurt by this sort of stuff it could be a good thing. In the long run.
Actually, it strikes me as proper that a patent would be used to protect an individual's invention (in this case, a business process, which is allowed under current rules) against a large and otherwise unasailable (sp?) u:berCompany.
If we have patents I'd rather that they be used to help the weak than to buttress the strong.
Quit working for a slave driver. In fact, go into business for yourself. Set your own hours, get your own customers, be your own boss.
One small side effect (that will definitely affect you): your work hours will go out the window -- 15 hour days will be normal and 18 hour days common. Sad thing about being in business for yourself--your boss will be a real prick.
Second option: ask your boss/owner (strange that you call him the 'owner') to set a tangible goal to work 15 hour days towards. Set an endpoint for the excess work. If it's indefinite, find another job. But if there are push periods and then relative slack periods you'd be more motivated...
Personally, when I've had 8 hour/day jobs I hated them and would spend 8 hours (outside of the 8 work hours) picking up other skills to advance my career/marketability. Now I'm the boss over technology for my company but I still put in more than 12 hours per day, six days a week. I just like it.
Having read the article, I noted that the author requires one to "score" a PIX flash card and obtain from a Warez buddy the PIX OS. Two counts of theft (unless PIX flash cards are available individually; if so, only one count) promoted by the article.
mix of Open Source (or perhaps cheap to legally license) software,
instructions on building and configuring and
benchmarks against a Cisco-branded product.
Instead I found what you decried: an article which basically says only CISCO can develop this firewall, you'll have to "score" the pieces. "Props", indeed.
My job wasn't to analyze their network, security, or HIPAA compliance. My relationship with the clinic was on a totally different level. I reported my findings to manangement. It's up to them to contact the responsible parties. I was more of a witness to a crime than a policeman, victim, prosecutor, judge or perp. Why the attitude, dude?
Wow - I need my coffee...the fragment because it didn't have a firewall, should have been because it didn't have a cdrom, but I was thinking, while typing, about the office managers question regarding their network: "But we have a firewall!" which protected them, somewhat, from intrusion from China, say, but not from Chinese agents in their ^%$%##^ parking lot. (They had been "hacked" by Chinese hackers, say they, before getting the new system which included a firewall. I didn't bother testing the firewall). This was a case of my fingers typing my immediate thoughts instead of my intended thoughts.
Speaking of IM... I was at a clinic the other day getting a tour of the newest "state of the art" HIPAA compliant workstations: Compaq Legacy-Free machines, which have no floppy or any traditional ports, besides USB. The unit I saw, for processing prescriptions, didn't even have a CD-ROM. Everyone was so proud that there was no floppy or zip disk to download coipes of patient or prescriber data.
Then I gave my analysis: it's connected to the office LAN via wide-open 802.11b (using DHCP, so I was able to attach to their network from the parking lot -- with full green bars as signal strength -- and get on their LAN, browse the wide-open shares...), each computer is loaded with standard XP Pro, including Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger...all which give capacity to export data, screen shots, whatever from the desktop to any computer on the Internet (yes, it's on the Internet). As a matter of fact, because it didn't have a firewall, I was using my laptop's cdrom to install some software on the legacy-free pc (without the optional cdrom) and I pointed out that I could just as easily push data on to my CD-R/CD-RW drives as pull it.
Of course, it was the lawyers who had approved the purchase...
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- Same here. I never ever want to be given a peice of paper ever! There is e-mail for a reason.
I've also made it known that voice mail -- the little flashing light on the phone -- will be rudely ignored for at least 24 hours. But email will receive an immediate response. I can't "reply" to a voice mail--even though there is a "reply" function in our voice mail server it is not in anyway the sames or nearly as convenient.Oh, even though we have a web-enabled corporate email system (*not* Exchange) our top execs still--this is gross--use their AOL accounts. Hey, I know AOL owns Netscape who sponsors Mozilla, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
I'll just wait until the rush is over and the critical patches are out. :)
The same people are more likely to print a Word doc and fax it than send an email...
- Wasnt the bible written thousands of years ago? Why is this passage
It wasn't written in English. How well do you read Common Greek of, say, 2000 years ago? But you knew that and were trying to make a funny...© Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation?
It has started:
as heavy as a talent [between fifty and sixty pounds],
of immense size, fell from the sky on the people;
and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail,
so very great was [the torture] of that plague.
(Revelation 16:21)
Trust me; Fundamentalist sermons will be referring to this story for a long time to come.
- Your problem with OS X not having a "proper" app launcher is your own fault.
Hi! It's nice to meet an apologist for Apple. My name is Robert. What's yours?Linux IV, becuase Free software needs free press, too.
- Break out the emerency navigation supplies (IIRC everyone's still required to carry traditional navigation supplies) and see about rowing back to shore. If there's still sail material, rig a sail using whatever wood and lashing material can be found.
You should read the Navy's comments in the stories...he did know where he was and what the date was (time is easy, so I assume he knew that). Also, he did have a makeshift mast from what he could scrounge together.Unless I'm missing something, it seems a bit unfair to dismiss this man's plight so succinctly as you have done.
I'm in Southern California and have read and heard a lot of comments from seasoned sailors regarding Van Pham's plight. Nothing I've heard criticized him for failing to control his vessel--only failing to coordinate with others his sailing plans. Yes, these sailors may just be deciding to politely avoid embarrassing the gentleman for spending "alot more time seeing how much he could eat than getting his ass back to land," but it is more likely that you're just being hypercritical. Or, perhaps, you have special insight into sailing with damaged vessels... In any regard, you come off a tad bit insulting and arrogant.
Sure, he's a moron for not filing a cruise plan (er, the boating equivalent of a flight plan...whatever it's called) with the Coast Guard (but then, who really wants to voluntarily tell the gov't their every move?), or telling friends where he was going and when he'd be back...but he was a true survivor.
And,. although he was very happy to see the US warship, he wasn't looking for a free ride home: he asked them to repair his mast and he would sail home on his own. That's freakin' impressive.
There were other reasons why I wasn't ultimately satisified with OSX (pre Jaguar...I never did see Jaguar), so see my journal on the subject for more info.
Use this to provide an alternate sound track for Wizard of Oz: Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon. trippin'...
- No offense, but you sir, have no idea what you are talking about. Just ignoring the fact that MDMA inducing an OOB in a way comparable to the dissociatives (DXM, K, PCP) is damn near ridiculous and only makes it clear that you've wanted to use it alot more than you've actually used it - just ignoring that, the psychiatric uses of MDMA had jack shit to do with OOBs. The preminent psychiatric value of MDMA is in it's ability to induce empathy and openess while still maintaining a relatively coherent attachment to the 'normal' world. A very valuable tool when it comes to therapy.
Sounds like you could use a hit of "empathy and openess" inducing MDMA right about now...see how bad the editors are, they've already broken the new rule in that heading...
Slightly off-topic, but since you are thinking of switching, I encourage you to read about my experience and why I eventually switched back. Hopefully you won't run into the same situations I found myself in.
I love how her "it's kinda like..." trails ad if waiting for the Apple logo before completing with "a bummer". So, the words "a bummer" become somewhat a caption for the logo...
Neat.
- Adobe getting hit with DMCA problems, Verizon and the RIAA going at it over DMCA, eBay with patent problems. If enough large and publicly traded companies get hurt by this sort of stuff it could be a good thing. In the long run.
Actually, it strikes me as proper that a patent would be used to protect an individual's invention (in this case, a business process, which is allowed under current rules) against a large and otherwise unasailable (sp?) u:berCompany.If we have patents I'd rather that they be used to help the weak than to buttress the strong.
One small side effect (that will definitely affect you): your work hours will go out the window -- 15 hour days will be normal and 18 hour days common. Sad thing about being in business for yourself--your boss will be a real prick.
Second option: ask your boss/owner (strange that you call him the 'owner') to set a tangible goal to work 15 hour days towards. Set an endpoint for the excess work. If it's indefinite, find another job. But if there are push periods and then relative slack periods you'd be more motivated...
Personally, when I've had 8 hour/day jobs I hated them and would spend 8 hours (outside of the 8 work hours) picking up other skills to advance my career/marketability. Now I'm the boss over technology for my company but I still put in more than 12 hours per day, six days a week. I just like it.
Having read the article, I noted that the author requires one to "score" a PIX flash card and obtain from a Warez buddy the PIX OS. Two counts of theft (unless PIX flash cards are available individually; if so, only one count) promoted by the article.
- off-the-shelf components and
- mix of Open Source (or perhaps cheap to legally license) software,
- instructions on building and configuring and
- benchmarks against a Cisco-branded product.
Instead I found what you decried: an article which basically says only CISCO can develop this firewall, you'll have to "score" the pieces. "Props", indeed.A worthless, insulting article this one is.
You couldn't plan that better!
My job wasn't to analyze their network, security, or HIPAA compliance. My relationship with the clinic was on a totally different level. I reported my findings to manangement. It's up to them to contact the responsible parties. I was more of a witness to a crime than a policeman, victim, prosecutor, judge or perp.
Why the attitude, dude?
Wow - I need my coffee...the fragment because it didn't have a firewall, should have been because it didn't have a cdrom, but I was thinking, while typing, about the office managers question regarding their network: "But we have a firewall!" which protected them, somewhat, from intrusion from China, say, but not from Chinese agents in their ^%$%##^ parking lot. (They had been "hacked" by Chinese hackers, say they, before getting the new system which included a firewall. I didn't bother testing the firewall). This was a case of my fingers typing my immediate thoughts instead of my intended thoughts.
Then I gave my analysis: it's connected to the office LAN via wide-open 802.11b (using DHCP, so I was able to attach to their network from the parking lot -- with full green bars as signal strength -- and get on their LAN, browse the wide-open shares...), each computer is loaded with standard XP Pro, including Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger...all which give capacity to export data, screen shots, whatever from the desktop to any computer on the Internet (yes, it's on the Internet). As a matter of fact, because it didn't have a firewall, I was using my laptop's cdrom to install some software on the legacy-free pc (without the optional cdrom) and I pointed out that I could just as easily push data on to my CD-R/CD-RW drives as pull it.
Of course, it was the lawyers who had approved the purchase...
- Those who do not read newspapers are closer to the truth as are those who know nothing are closer to the truth than those who know a lie
As one whose fate is closely tied to HIPAA, seeing this topic on Slashdot was pretty disturbing, to say the least....