Long ago I worked for a company that made headsets. Everone had one as well. We used to network game over an internal confrence call. Even if its just for communications its still a fun toy.
Bottom line is I tried to get one of these about in january. No one stocked them. I scoured the web and again no one had them. I called XM themselves and they gave me 3 vendors who didnt even have them in catalog of items to order.
They probably pulled the line cause it wasnt selling well. They didnt market it well. Unfortunatly if theres no marketing for a product it dies.
Oh well, now I have an XM portable radio sitting on top of my computer and it works fine for my need.
The RIAA's (and Valenti's) idea of what is right is even more twisted than that. They have stated that making a copy of a CD for one's car is wrong. In their eyes, each and every stereo should have a seperate purchased copy.
There views have always been convuluted. They tried originally to ban cassette tape recorders and (well before my time) the music industry (not sure if they were the RIAA then) tried to ban player pianos because they put artists out of work.
You need to get some old MFM/RLL drives instead. they really had the variety of noises better suited to the task.
Flashback: Manually spinning the cylinders on a pair of Seagate ST251 so the system would start up. Stiction was fun. Thank god it was a BBS machine and only needed a restart every month or so.
Actually the problem is religions going over the line. While they do talk about witchcraft and cast spells there none of the religious stuff from wicca. The problem is fueled by ignorant people making decisions about material they know little to nothing about.
My mother hates the thought of Harry Potter. Says its evil and promotes witchcraft(no matter how many times I wave my wand I cant get it to do the dishes). My kids are christians as are my wife and I and we love the books and movies.
The problem most of the time with banned books is the decisions are made by people that haven't read the material.
PS: I miss "Black Sambo" also banned cause its not african sambo.
9. Metallica wants the government to police the internet, they want congress to bring out new laws against this, and they think what they're doing is for the good of all artists, they clearly stated their goal, to put Napster out of business. Actally the goverment policing the Internet has nothing to do with being good for the artists. To date if you get a Degree in programming is a Bachelors of Arts. Its just a different kind of art. All they care about is selling alblums. Obviously because they are a dying band and getting past there prime and wont be able to afford to get there next fix.
I think you miss what they lost. They lost the ability to play music you already own. You have to make your own copies of your cd's to take with you which by the way is illegal as well according to the morons at the recording industry. They havent been told people cant download music. They have been told that people cant use the IMHO stupid but should be legal my.mp3.com which catalogs there cds and allows anyone with the user and password to that account to play them anywhere.
The mob had it right. If lawyers got in the way they simply warned them. If that didnt work a broken arm or leg or some cement shoes and a trip to the east river were enough to solve the problem. I think perhaps we should switch tactics.
>Video games emulate all the behavior without the >experience. Ya, you can blow away 20 aliens in >one minute, but do you experience the pain? Do >the aliens cry out? Do you see pictures of their >parents grief-stricken?
You can blow away that many aliens only when in god mode. Sometimes the dragon wins. In full motion 56 frame per second 3dfx horror. If you arent hearing the aliens cry out maybe you need a new sound card. And yes we there grief stricken parents at the end of the level. We put them out of there misery and listen to the sound of them crying out in pain as the blood is splayed in high speed 3d.
I was thinking that poor Kurt@thepope.org might need some utilities for counting the number of emails recieved. Maybe even some for graphing them. Maybe we could do this for him next time.
Simpler solution would be to require spammers to set there priority to bulk. Then anyone with half a brian could just filter bulk priority mail. I at one point used to stamp snail mail spam return to sender and drop it in post office mailboxes to inconvienance them. There is also a snail mail opt out list. Telephone spammers must by law put you on there opt out list if you ask but theres not global mechanism like with snail mail spam. Bulk priority solves that problem. Even for windows users you can create a outlook/eudora filter in to dump it automaticly.
Theres no such thing in my opinion as legitmate buisness spam. AT&T spammed me so I switched to MCI. Its that simple. Zero tolerance. However several spammers as of late have bulk prioritity'd there mail to me. Wether by design or the fact that they havent got a clue how to configure majordomo I dont know but im greatfull for the simple filter rule which stomps 50% of my spam.
After looking at it, it definitly seems jaded. Required packages list has lots of optionals. bash for example, while it seems to be the standard linux shell it is not the most common unix shell and there are lots of other shells out there. One could install ksh or csh or tcsh instead. Maybe ash or zsh if you want to be really wierd. Vim? Taking into account there are a about 20 vi clones out there why is vi required? I like vi personally but ed is sufficiant to build the system. Bzip? Perl? These arent required, ive been a unix admin for 14 years now and Ive never used bzip other then a brief test to determine that it did give better compression but was to far deviated from the norm for standard deployment. This is definitly an opinionated document. Some decent info but watch for those "Touting the party line" things like bash as required.
Ill drop my rant here as a solaris internals person. If you need a document telling you how to do this dont even try. If you think you have enough spare time to build your own resonable distro your either going to busy for a long time or just flat out wrong. Every once in a while I see something like this and it scares me. Enableing users who know a little or even alot to do something beyond the normal scope of there abilities. Im not saying that there arent people around here can do it but I am saying there arent alot.
Well you guys made a bad mistake pointing out that you can browse by rating. Ive now seen several posts mentioning it. Gonna be alot less reading of crap. I know I had to go figure out how to do it right after.
Well actually for what phantom menace was it was pretty on the ball. It was mainly plot building. Alot of people missed alot of the subtle things like Senator Palpatine. If you pay close attention to the later movies you notice somehow he becomes Emperer Palpatine. It was a plot builder and thats about it. Meet the characters. When viewed alot it was fairly mediocre but when thought of as a prolugue its alot better. Granted had the whole series been started with PM it probably would have flopped, the middle 3 books as they call them were a much better way to start. If you have ever read the book Shogun you can see a shining example of this. The first 250 pages basicly suck ass. After that it gets good for 750+ more pages. Id venture to say after recently reading the terry books novel Phantom menace that the movie stayed true to form and that we were just watching the prologue. Personally I think Jar jar was pretty cool although he probably should have had a joint hanging out his mouse and hung out with Jedi Elder Bob Marley instead.
Well a simple solution is to buy a dvd player and catch up. Many people didnt own CD players in 85-88 yet that didnt stop the record companys from supporting the format. It was obviously superior and significantly more difficult, at the time, to copy. The same applys for dvd, Much better format and much harder to copy. A signal amplifier on my coxial can take care of copy protection and all i got do is watch the movie once and record at the same time and its copied with VHS. With dvd on a p333 it takes about 10 hours to convert one. You cant rent everything on DVD yet but the way I look at it, as a married individual, It costs 7.50 each for my wife and I to see the movie + more if the kids are seeing it. Add popcorn and drinks and your in the 30-40 dollar range at a theator. Video store is about 5 bucks, knowing myself and most truely technical people I know are about the same, A bit quirky, by the time you get done playing the 5 bucks and the 5-10 bucks in late fees your back at 15 bucks. Its the cost of buying the movie on DVD. My wife decreed that if I didnt see it in the theator and I didnt rent it I could buy it so I've completely stopped seeing theator movies and renting videos. Gone are the days of 70 dollar first run videos. Even Disney got around to dropping there 30 dollar DVD's to 20. I dont have to work hard to buy a subtitled version of DAS Boot. Just jump onto dvdexpress.com or buy.com and order the thing and it comes a day or three later.
I havent owned a single cassette tape since about 87 and I have thrown out most of my VHS. I have a few odds and ends that arent available on dvd yet which I dont want to lose but the minute I see them come out on dvd I'll replace them. You will always be penalized for owning obsolete technology. You just have to go with the flow and update your equipment. Thats like saying I own a 386sx 16 because I dont really need the speed of a pentium. Sure linux runs fine on a 386 16 but do you really want to? Id been penalized for years because my sun was only an old Sparc 5 but eventually I was forced to upgrade. I didnt immediatly throw out the 5 but now it makes a nice Xterm for my new machine which doesnt have a frame buffer. Upgrading is a way of life. When the technology expands beyond your capabilities you become obsolete. Its just part of life.
I marked my fathers retirement 2 years ago as the end of the executives who didnt know how to read email. He was obsolete, It was time to go. There will always be a few hold outs and theres alot of nostalgia out there on old stuff. I bought an apple ][ at a garage sale not long ago for 10 bucks cause I thought it would be fun to play with since I used one for years. Wasnt worth the 10 bucks. In another 10 years someone will say the same for VHS. Sometimes this fails of course. While I dont own a single cassette player in my house the one in my truck gets used to play books on tape. Why? Well the library has them, most of which were donated by people who got rid of there casettes in favor of cd. Of course anyone whos ever tried to look up anything current in there local library on computers knows its a losing battle. They are never current, just part of life. On the flip side if i need to remember how to program that apple 2 I can go down to the library and get an applesoft basic book. Librarys are basicly museums of one form or another, VHS belongs in one such museum as is evidenced by the fact that you can now check out VHS movies in the local library. Mines even started to offer a few DVD's.
Really the question is this. What the hell is deep linking. Is it the ability to link to some page not at the root of another site or is it the ability to tag some individual resource like a gif? If i were operating a ticket site and tickets.com linked to a page on my site since they didnt have it available and I got my banner impression I'd be happy about that. On the flip side if they are linking to a gif on my site trying to sell tickets to the same event and using my pictures and bandwidth Id be pissed. This of course assumes that I have a ticket site or even care about about ticket sites which I dont. Bandwidth costs money. When you link to a site that has a 50 meg demo on it may not seem like a big deal but that company is shelling our for the cost of the transfer. I think personally its only fair to link to there download page so they can at least show a banner ad once to make up for that cost.
Actually a friend of mine runs a site and found that another site was using a image, which they had simply linked too on my friends site. My friends solution was simple. He changed his site to point at the image somewhere else and dropped an ad for his site in place. For 24 hours the site which was bleeding his bandwidth displayed an ad for my friends site. In the end bandwidth costs money. Its one thing to have a link which loads a page, its completely different to use someones image. I dont think it should be illegal but you get what you pay for. In this case justice was served. To date I have seen no reason the courts or the lawyers need to be on the Internet. We can police ourselves easy enough.
Im sorry mister artist, you have to get a real job now. Geez, As one of the wannabe musicians mentioned in the article who doesnt really think its worth it to join the record industry Id just like to say "Get a frickin job". I work in a normal job and I play in my spare time. My friends enjoy it, my family enjoys it, hell, Ive even made a few mp3s of stuff ive given to friends.
Im sick of this whineing. In reality most of these musicians can make plenty of money on tours. There just worried they can't have there 30 bedroom house. Well I personally work pretty damn hard 5 days a week and at least pretend to work on some weekends. Ive earned my house and they toys I have. If there that worried about the money then there in the wrong industry. Starving artists is a word that has been around since the begining of time.
What makes them think they deserve more then a Doctor, a Teacher, or a Network Engineer? Everyone puts in there input. Ive written alot of apps which Ive put out for download and expect nothing back. Ive been payed to speak on security on several occasions because im a specialist in the field. I dont try and record and sell the information. Ive had people with recorders in the room and I dont go ranting about how they are killing my profits.
On the whole ive found that most of the major bands, rock bands in paticular, are the largest group of whiners that ever existed. People who believe the world is owed to them on a silver platter. Its not, get over it, get a job if you cant handle touring for money.
If there really that concerned with making a profit put it on a website and sell a frickin banner. Thats what the rest of the world does.
Im using paymybills.com with good sucess. They sent me address change labels, Everything. Really easy. Its like 8 bucks a month for 25 transactions and 50 cents for each additional. I can just let the junk mail pile up in my mailbox. Makes life simple. I highly recommend it. If i want to see the bills they provide them in pdf. Makes life easy.
I really find that a degree is useless. Being almost 30 and being one the 100K+ sysadmins I've found it to not be a hinderance. I Used to fix pc's for people when I was in high school. When I was 16 one of the guys offered me a job in his new company setting up and network and I took it. Nothing beats work experiance. I Find most people wil compsci degrees generally incompetent with some exceptions. Usually its people with totaly unrealted degrees, Most talented NT person, and the most talented Webmaster I know both have degrees in History. Most talented Network engineer I know is a Nuculear physics person. In the end when I interview people I dont even looking at schooling. I was 6 to 10 years working experiance or equivelent experiance (My department is an engineering department). We've hired alot of talented individuals and one is even 17 (no not an intern).
My point if I have any, is as a Director I believe that 1 year experiance is better then a 4 year degree. You can really only learn theory in college but until your into the fray and neck deep in the daily crap you really dont learn much. On the flip side for my department I wont bring on a 0 experiance person. Instead I'll pass the resume along to the NOC manager. They hire entry level people and its usually a good fit. I have to fight for my recs.
It seems to rant about how linux brought about the reunification of unix but working for one the largest ISPs and colocations I can provide this statisic. 70% of our machines are NT, 20% Solaris, 8% HPUX, 2% Linux. Granted the ISP I work for while generally though well of from wall streets sucks the big one in technical minds what im trying to demonstrate is the Wall street buy in on the Linux. Gates is a still a marketing monster and has there ear and Sun continues to dominate the "big coperate" networks. If I had my way the datacenter would be a mix of linux and solaris but on the flip side windows I believe is a nessecary evil. Linux will survive better when Wall street understands its. Right now its generally viewed by Wall street as Flash in the pan IPO material and thats about it. We have no coperate longetivity and with the exception of RedHat have no real voice to the market. Yeah some other ipos happened and did well but those were recent. Maybe in a few years they will mean something.
Is it me or does anyone else here think the whole dispute policy is lame? IMHO we should just limit people to a small number of domains per person or organization, maybe 2 or 3 max and make it first come first serve. If companies didnt know they needed a domain 3 years ago it is not my fault. I was forced to file trademark for my domain just to protect it from these corperate weenies who thing they somehow have more rights to a name then we do. For me this wasnt a major expense but it was a pain in the ass and really uncalled for. I dont care if coca cola is a long existing company. They originally fought for cococola.com which is not there company name. If they really wanted there company name then they should have filed cococolacompany.com which is.
Now you have the corperate lawyers going "Well if you dont like consult the law makers." IMHO if they lawmakers cant be bothered to answer there email in person then they are not the best people to deal with technical situations. The counter argument to this is that they get a few hundred emails a day. So do I and I take the time to answer them when they have valid questions. The system has failed, its dead, just no one has bothered to bury it or tell the repulicans.
We found that squid did remarqably well on a HP LPR with dual 550's and half a gig of ram. It was our number 2 preformer. Number one was a Vendor know as Cacheflow.
First id like to say that i dont read the paper on the web or on phsyical paper. I do use my yahoo which gives me a low down on real news. I lived in san jose for a long time and occasionaly would view there website, but they ask me to fill a web form out which to me means spam. New york times and Wall street journal do the same. Washington post (i live near there now) doesnt so I occasionally will read an article there but to be honest most of the journalists dont seem to get the real issues. In every circle that effects the public with the exception of the media there is a removal mechanism. Political officers can be removed, Doctors can have there medical license revoked, and Lawyers can be disbarred (not that the later happens nearly enough). The press is pretty much free to report whatever they want with no checks or balances. One would argue you need a press card but I have one and im not part of the press. Maybe if there was some check system in place the media would have more appeal. In the end i want to get my news but i dont want to wade through hundreds of pages of stuff I dont want. I want it tailored to me, I want a limit on the ads, I want thought and actual research into articles and perhaps occasionally both sides of the story. Most of the time I see a paper with "Hackers did this and it is evil" without even a thought to motivation. Sure it may be illegal but most of the time no one is harmed and a few people had smiles on there faces like when the white house had the flowered panties (think jenifer flowers) and clinton singing "getting sticky with it". I laughed a long time and the hackers were only making a statement. Of course the papers just dismissed it as evil hackers. I have seen some good articles like a recent one i found a link to off here. That was a well thought out article by someone who obviously is aware of whats going on in the world and the net. And lastly. I want a reply button, I read news here because I can reply to it. I dont really care if anyone reads it but if something sets me off or irks me or enlightens me I want to be able to respond.
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Long ago I worked for a company that made headsets. Everone had one as well. We used to network game over an internal confrence call. Even if its just for communications its still a fun toy.
Bottom line is I tried to get one of these about in january. No one stocked them. I scoured the web and again no one had them. I called XM themselves and they gave me 3 vendors who didnt even have them in catalog of items to order.
They probably pulled the line cause it wasnt selling well. They didnt market it well. Unfortunatly if theres no marketing for a product it dies.
Oh well, now I have an XM portable radio sitting on top of my computer and it works fine for my need.
The RIAA's (and Valenti's) idea of what is right is even more twisted than that. They have stated that making a copy of a CD for one's car is wrong. In their eyes, each and every stereo should have a seperate purchased copy.
There views have always been convuluted. They tried originally to ban cassette tape recorders and (well before my time) the music industry (not sure if they were the RIAA then) tried to ban player pianos because they put artists out of work.
You need to get some old MFM/RLL drives instead.
they really had the variety of noises better suited to the task.
Flashback: Manually spinning the cylinders on a pair of Seagate ST251 so the system would start up. Stiction was fun. Thank god it was a BBS machine and only needed a restart every month or so.
Actually the problem is religions going over the line. While they do talk about witchcraft and cast spells there none of the religious stuff from wicca. The problem is fueled by ignorant people making decisions about material they know little to nothing about.
My mother hates the thought of Harry Potter. Says its evil and promotes witchcraft(no matter how many times I wave my wand I cant get it to do the dishes). My kids are christians as are my wife and I and we love the books and movies.
The problem most of the time with banned books is the decisions are made by people that haven't read the material.
PS: I miss "Black Sambo" also banned cause its not african sambo.
9. Metallica wants the government to police the internet, they want congress to bring out new laws against this, and they think what they're doing is for the good of all artists, they clearly stated their goal, to put Napster out of business. Actally the goverment policing the Internet has nothing to do with being good for the artists. To date if you get a Degree in programming is a Bachelors of Arts. Its just a different kind of art. All they care about is selling alblums. Obviously because they are a dying band and getting past there prime and wont be able to afford to get there next fix.
The mob had it right. If lawyers got in the way they simply warned them. If that didnt work a broken arm or leg or some cement shoes and a trip to the east river were enough to solve the problem. I think perhaps we should switch tactics.
You can blow away that many aliens only when in god mode. Sometimes the dragon wins. In full motion 56 frame per second 3dfx horror. If you arent hearing the aliens cry out maybe you need a new sound card. And yes we there grief stricken parents at the end of the level. We put them out of there misery and listen to the sound of them crying out in pain as the blood is splayed in high speed 3d.
I was thinking that poor Kurt@thepope.org might need some utilities for counting the number of emails recieved. Maybe even some for graphing them. Maybe we could do this for him next time.
Theres no such thing in my opinion as legitmate buisness spam. AT&T spammed me so I switched to MCI. Its that simple. Zero tolerance. However several spammers as of late have bulk prioritity'd there mail to me. Wether by design or the fact that they havent got a clue how to configure majordomo I dont know but im greatfull for the simple filter rule which stomps 50% of my spam.
After looking at it, it definitly seems jaded. Required packages list has lots of optionals. bash for example, while it seems to be the standard linux shell it is not the most common unix shell and there are lots of other shells out there. One could install ksh or csh or tcsh instead. Maybe ash or zsh if you want to be really wierd. Vim? Taking into account there are a about 20 vi clones out there why is vi required? I like vi personally but ed is sufficiant to build the system. Bzip? Perl? These arent required, ive been a unix admin for 14 years now and Ive never used bzip other then a brief test to determine that it did give better compression but was to far deviated from the norm for standard deployment. This is definitly an opinionated document. Some decent info but watch for those "Touting the party line" things like bash as required.
Ill drop my rant here as a solaris internals person. If you need a document telling you how to do this dont even try. If you think you have enough spare time to build your own resonable distro your either going to busy for a long time or just flat out wrong. Every once in a while I see something like this and it scares me. Enableing users who know a little or even alot to do something beyond the normal scope of there abilities. Im not saying that there arent people around here can do it but I am saying there arent alot.
Well you guys made a bad mistake pointing out that you can browse by rating. Ive now seen several posts mentioning it. Gonna be alot less reading of crap. I know I had to go figure out how to do it right after.
Well actually for what phantom menace was it was pretty on the ball. It was mainly plot building. Alot of people missed alot of the subtle things like Senator Palpatine. If you pay close attention to the later movies you notice somehow he becomes Emperer Palpatine. It was a plot builder and thats about it. Meet the characters. When viewed alot it was fairly mediocre but when thought of as a prolugue its alot better. Granted had the whole series been started with PM it probably would have flopped, the middle 3 books as they call them were a much better way to start. If you have ever read the book Shogun you can see a shining example of this. The first 250 pages basicly suck ass. After that it gets good for 750+ more pages. Id venture to say after recently reading the terry books novel Phantom menace that the movie stayed true to form and that we were just watching the prologue. Personally I think Jar jar was pretty cool although he probably should have had a joint hanging out his mouse and hung out with Jedi Elder Bob Marley instead.
I havent owned a single cassette tape since about 87 and I have thrown out most of my VHS. I have a few odds and ends that arent available on dvd yet which I dont want to lose but the minute I see them come out on dvd I'll replace them. You will always be penalized for owning obsolete technology. You just have to go with the flow and update your equipment. Thats like saying I own a 386sx 16 because I dont really need the speed of a pentium. Sure linux runs fine on a 386 16 but do you really want to? Id been penalized for years because my sun was only an old Sparc 5 but eventually I was forced to upgrade. I didnt immediatly throw out the 5 but now it makes a nice Xterm for my new machine which doesnt have a frame buffer. Upgrading is a way of life. When the technology expands beyond your capabilities you become obsolete. Its just part of life.
I marked my fathers retirement 2 years ago as the end of the executives who didnt know how to read email. He was obsolete, It was time to go. There will always be a few hold outs and theres alot of nostalgia out there on old stuff. I bought an apple ][ at a garage sale not long ago for 10 bucks cause I thought it would be fun to play with since I used one for years. Wasnt worth the 10 bucks. In another 10 years someone will say the same for VHS. Sometimes this fails of course. While I dont own a single cassette player in my house the one in my truck gets used to play books on tape. Why? Well the library has them, most of which were donated by people who got rid of there casettes in favor of cd. Of course anyone whos ever tried to look up anything current in there local library on computers knows its a losing battle. They are never current, just part of life. On the flip side if i need to remember how to program that apple 2 I can go down to the library and get an applesoft basic book. Librarys are basicly museums of one form or another, VHS belongs in one such museum as is evidenced by the fact that you can now check out VHS movies in the local library. Mines even started to offer a few DVD's.
Really the question is this. What the hell is deep linking. Is it the ability to link to some page not at the root of another site or is it the ability to tag some individual resource like a gif? If i were operating a ticket site and tickets.com linked to a page on my site since they didnt have it available and I got my banner impression I'd be happy about that. On the flip side if they are linking to a gif on my site trying to sell tickets to the same event and using my pictures and bandwidth Id be pissed. This of course assumes that I have a ticket site or even care about about ticket sites which I dont. Bandwidth costs money. When you link to a site that has a 50 meg demo on it may not seem like a big deal but that company is shelling our for the cost of the transfer. I think personally its only fair to link to there download page so they can at least show a banner ad once to make up for that cost.
Actually a friend of mine runs a site and found that another site was using a image, which they had simply linked too on my friends site. My friends solution was simple. He changed his site to point at the image somewhere else and dropped an ad for his site in place. For 24 hours the site which was bleeding his bandwidth displayed an ad for my friends site. In the end bandwidth costs money. Its one thing to have a link which loads a page, its completely different to use someones image. I dont think it should be illegal but you get what you pay for. In this case justice was served. To date I have seen no reason the courts or the lawyers need to be on the Internet. We can police ourselves easy enough.
Im sorry mister artist, you have to get a real job now. Geez, As one of the wannabe musicians mentioned in the article who doesnt really think its worth it to join the record industry Id just like to say "Get a frickin job". I work in a normal job and I play in my spare time. My friends enjoy it, my family enjoys it, hell, Ive even made a few mp3s of stuff ive given to friends.
Im sick of this whineing. In reality most of these musicians can make plenty of money on tours. There just worried they can't have there 30 bedroom house. Well I personally work pretty damn hard 5 days a week and at least pretend to work on some weekends. Ive earned my house and they toys I have. If there that worried about the money then there in the wrong industry. Starving artists is a word that has been around since the begining of time.
What makes them think they deserve more then a Doctor, a Teacher, or a Network Engineer? Everyone puts in there input. Ive written alot of apps which Ive put out for download and expect nothing back. Ive been payed to speak on security on several occasions because im a specialist in the field. I dont try and record and sell the information. Ive had people with recorders in the room and I dont go ranting about how they are killing my profits.
On the whole ive found that most of the major bands, rock bands in paticular, are the largest group of whiners that ever existed. People who believe the world is owed to them on a silver platter. Its not, get over it, get a job if you cant handle touring for money.
If there really that concerned with making a profit put it on a website and sell a frickin banner. Thats what the rest of the world does.
Im using paymybills.com with good sucess. They sent me address change labels, Everything. Really easy. Its like 8 bucks a month for 25 transactions and 50 cents for each additional. I can just let the junk mail pile up in my mailbox. Makes life simple. I highly recommend it. If i want to see the bills they provide them in pdf. Makes life easy.
I really find that a degree is useless. Being almost 30 and being one the 100K+ sysadmins I've found it to not be a hinderance. I Used to fix pc's for people when I was in high school. When I was 16 one of the guys offered me a job in his new company setting up and network and I took it. Nothing beats work experiance. I Find most people wil compsci degrees generally incompetent with some exceptions. Usually its people with totaly unrealted degrees, Most talented NT person, and the most talented Webmaster I know both have degrees in History. Most talented Network engineer I know is a Nuculear physics person. In the end when I interview people I dont even looking at schooling. I was 6 to 10 years working experiance or equivelent experiance (My department is an engineering department). We've hired alot of talented individuals and one is even 17 (no not an intern).
My point if I have any, is as a Director I believe that 1 year experiance is better then a 4 year degree. You can really only learn theory in college but until your into the fray and neck deep in the daily crap you really dont learn much. On the flip side for my department I wont bring on a 0 experiance person. Instead I'll pass the resume along to the NOC manager. They hire entry level people and its usually a good fit. I have to fight for my recs.
It seems to rant about how linux brought about the reunification of unix but working for one the largest ISPs and colocations I can provide this statisic. 70% of our machines are NT, 20% Solaris, 8% HPUX, 2% Linux. Granted the ISP I work for while generally though well of from wall streets sucks the big one in technical minds what im trying to demonstrate is the Wall street buy in on the Linux. Gates is a still a marketing monster and has there ear and Sun continues to dominate the "big coperate" networks. If I had my way the datacenter would be a mix of linux and solaris but on the flip side windows I believe is a nessecary evil. Linux will survive better when Wall street understands its. Right now its generally viewed by Wall street as Flash in the pan IPO material and thats about it. We have no coperate longetivity and with the exception of RedHat have no real voice to the market. Yeah some other ipos happened and did well but those were recent. Maybe in a few years they will mean something.
Is it me or does anyone else here think the whole dispute policy is lame? IMHO we should just limit people to a small number of domains per person or organization, maybe 2 or 3 max and make it first come first serve. If companies didnt know they needed a domain 3 years ago it is not my fault. I was forced to file trademark for my domain just to protect it from these corperate weenies who thing they somehow have more rights to a name then we do. For me this wasnt a major expense but it was a pain in the ass and really uncalled for. I dont care if coca cola is a long existing company. They originally fought for cococola.com which is not there company name. If they really wanted there company name then they should have filed cococolacompany.com which is.
Now you have the corperate lawyers going "Well if you dont like consult the law makers." IMHO if they lawmakers cant be bothered to answer there email in person then they are not the best people to deal with technical situations. The counter argument to this is that they get a few hundred emails a day. So do I and I take the time to answer them when they have valid questions. The system has failed, its dead, just no one has bothered to bury it or tell the repulicans.
We found that squid did remarqably well on a HP LPR with dual 550's and half a gig of ram. It was our number 2 preformer. Number one was a Vendor know as Cacheflow.
First id like to say that i dont read the paper on the web or on phsyical paper. I do use my yahoo which gives me a low down on real news. I lived in san jose for a long time and occasionaly would view there website, but they ask me to fill a web form out which to me means spam. New york times and Wall street journal do the same. Washington post (i live near there now) doesnt so I occasionally will read an article there but to be honest most of the journalists dont seem to get the real issues. In every circle that effects the public with the exception of the media there is a removal mechanism. Political officers can be removed, Doctors can have there medical license revoked, and Lawyers can be disbarred (not that the later happens nearly enough). The press is pretty much free to report whatever they want with no checks or balances. One would argue you need a press card but I have one and im not part of the press. Maybe if there was some check system in place the media would have more appeal. In the end i want to get my news but i dont want to wade through hundreds of pages of stuff I dont want. I want it tailored to me, I want a limit on the ads, I want thought and actual research into articles and perhaps occasionally both sides of the story. Most of the time I see a paper with "Hackers did this and it is evil" without even a thought to motivation. Sure it may be illegal but most of the time no one is harmed and a few people had smiles on there faces like when the white house had the flowered panties (think jenifer flowers) and clinton singing "getting sticky with it". I laughed a long time and the hackers were only making a statement. Of course the papers just dismissed it as evil hackers. I have seen some good articles like a recent one i found a link to off here. That was a well thought out article by someone who obviously is aware of whats going on in the world and the net. And lastly. I want a reply button, I read news here because I can reply to it. I dont really care if anyone reads it but if something sets me off or irks me or enlightens me I want to be able to respond.