10. Paper shredder 9. presidential intern 8. respiratory infection nurse 7. experimental microbiologist 6. teacher (never makes any list, except for lowest paid/hardest working) 5. suicide bomber 4. Real World participant 3. political leader 2. President of Accounting and the number 1 thing that didn't make the list...
1. bank manager for offshore accounts (not FDIC insurred)
the only problem is the small number of people taking up ham radio. there's much more of a push from businesses to implement some sort of wireless solution. ham radio technology has not changed drastically in many many years. maybe it's due for a technological overhaul. anyone with $30 can go down to the local wal-mart and get a couple of FRS radios, but real ham radios are left to small kits from radio shack.
i think the whole wavelength segregation the FCC controls needs to be reworked. there no reason for ham radio operators to have precedence over anyone just because they were there first. the USA is based on consumer acceptance of a product. as soon as wireless really starts showing up at your grandma's house, you'll notice ham radio dying off much quicker.
maybe someone should write some code or build some hardware so 802.11 can contribute to ham radio, by acting as a repeater.
Q: what do you do if it's 3am, and you just got called in to work because your work's mail server cpu fan decided to die?
A: you haul your ass down to wal-mart, pick up the best microtel machine you can put on your credit card, and take it up to work. switch out the drives and maybe the network card, and you're back in business. figure about 2 hours total work.
scsi is: 1) much much louder 2) much much hotter 3) less energy conservative 4) much more expensive 5) less chance of failure
ide has a much better price/performance ratio compared to scsi. scsi is a time-tested option. scsi drives rarely have the problem that IBM recently had, where a whole brand of hard drives turns up bad. the same people that get scsi are the ones that still order T1's. the people that get ide for everything are the ones getting DSL.
... a kernel module we could load in linux that would allow a certain percentage of cpu usage (determined by the Makefile) would be allocated to distributed services. distributed services would be the program that runs that gives your cpu, network connection, or/and disk space allocate a part of that gives those percentages to a global p2p network, like freenet.
i would also like to say that anywhere where there are a few comptuers networked, there are plenty of mp3s shared. this includes bingo parlors, airports, and schools from around 8th grade and up. what would the charge be if they had not settled out of court? would they have to add up all of the costs of every song on every cd? having 3000 mp3s would mean around 4500 different cds by different bands. 4500 different cds time the average in this area of $18 per cd is $81,000. that's lots cheaper than the $1,000,000. a company with that much community would probably be able to chip in and pay that off. a company that gives their employees that type of perk will attract much more business as they get plenty of free advertisement, for a minimal cost. i think the IIS were fools for paying that much. they just didn't do the math.
given the code of an open source application, it should be pretty easy to just comment out the part that expires. if you have the software checking a server or something to see if it's still valid software, just comment out that stuff and then recompile. seems like a waste of time, but i am sure someone has implemented it before.
it's not necessarily the only business the spammers do. usually they buy a list from a reputable company (or not) and then just spam the customers of another company. since there is no real (easy) way to track who you got the mail from, you can't tell the company that sold your e-mail address to stop it. the best way to do it is to setup a real e-mail account with a filter that bounces all the mail back to the owner. that way, when someone spams it, they get the spam back. with forged headers though, it's an empty victory.
actually, you're wrong. the cost of sending 100 e-mails is the same as sending 100,000 or 1,000,000 e-mails. i can write up some crappy scam right now, that would cost me only 5 minutes of my time, and then send it out to a million random addresses. if one person sends me anything, that is all profit. sure, if that person didn't send me anything, i didn't make any money, but there's always a sucker out there. for the low price of $10 i can make it so you don't receive any spam.
redundant, but true. the second you distribute software, you become responsible for the entire end users's computer. if that program goes wild and deletes something that it wasn't supposed to (like upgrading netscape from 4.7 to 6 and it deletes your e-mail), you are responsible for that loss.
i've worked for isps that do both, provide software(had to back in the win3.1 days) and not provide software. you would really be suprised how many newbies can't even get the software installed correctly. you'll spend more time doing software installation tech support than is necessary. make sure if you are in the position to decide what software you support, that you make a short list and stick to that list. i can't tell you how often even 2 years ago we were getting support calls about a newbie that got our cd, and tried installing Trumpet Winsock on Windows 98.
no shit man. it used to just be screaming babies. now it's cell phones, beepers, and lazer lights. in 10 years it'll be someone playing "Duke Nukem in Space" on their microsoft governmental approved wifi-macintosh over the network with a remote movie theater patron watching the same movie in some other town.
you would actually be suprised. i've known quite a few MCSE-types that know nothing of unix. most of these people are the ones that i demonize in my original post. their motto seems to be: There is only one way, and it is the Microsoft way.
i keep seeing these on ebay. they have what looks like a 486-100mhz with 32 megs of ram. it looks like a lcd monitor without a base, but that's the whole computer. not a bad little device for less than $200 used.
getting certified should not be a goal, getting a good job with enough pay to make you happy should be the goal. if your goal is to get certified, then once you get a job with that certification, expect your productivity to go down fast. sure if you have a CCIE you probably get paid a lot, but if you are not interested in the work in the first place, you will not like your job.
getting an MCSE just because you want a tech job is a lousy excuse. getting an MCSE because you use the technology and you like Windows administration will be the best benefit. if you don't know or like windows to begin with, getting a certification in windows, and then working in that field will not make you like it any more.
personally, the only certification i have is for unsupervised radiation handling, but that doesn't do much for this thread, and it also doesn't help me get a job.
i used to have ricochet, and i'll tell ya, there's nothing cooler than streaming real audio christmas songs while driving down the freeway, or getting a map from maps.yahoo.com when you're lost.
look, if you're going to be burning copies of your kenny G cd and then selling them to little kids in china, you would be better spending your time encoding them to mp3 and then telling them about how you bought an expensive 10-cd burner and built it all yourself, but now you just burn your one cd a year for the lectures. just about everything sold now as a consumer cd player also understand mp3s as well. it would be an interesting project to set it up and script it. i would like to see the load when it was 100% busy. but other than a novelty i can't believe you would need one of those unless you were making tons of $$$ to do it which means it's probably illegal also.
no it doesn't. the calories that are related as heating up a certain amount of water one degree, are the REAL calories. in food, they are really kilocalories (1000 calories = 1 foor calorie). i believe the formula was 1 calorie = 1 cm^3, 1 degree C, at 1 ATM pressure. for food people, you have to add a factor of 1000. so, since 3500 calories equals one pound of weight, you'd have to warm up 3,500,000 cm^3 of water to lose a single pound. i could be wrong on this, i took a nutirition class in college, and the professor didn't even know that equation above.
i think the main difference between the linux bug/exploits is that problems with the linux kernel will almost never give you any kind of root access. the problems in linux you described are with userland programs that have nothing to do directly with linux. sure, those programs run on linux, but they also run on solaris, hp/ux, and about every other operating system out there, windows included.
do you have to be a passport member to get this patch? if you do, this could be just another attempt to make every man, woman, and child a passport member.
it wouldn't be that hard for the gubment to get a free netzero account (or any other isp account/ip address)and scan you from there. maybe the could run a squid proxy on their carnivore servers.
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i don't think on a device such as this that any kind of skip protection is important. if it's got a hard drive, and the head comes in contact with the platter, you got some major physical damage. no skip protection can replace a broken or misaligned head.
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nothing in that article will happen with the current "business-friendly" presidential administration.
10. Paper shredder
9. presidential intern
8. respiratory infection nurse
7. experimental microbiologist
6. teacher (never makes any list, except for lowest paid/hardest working)
5. suicide bomber
4. Real World participant
3. political leader
2. President of Accounting
and the number 1 thing that didn't make the list...
1. bank manager for offshore accounts (not FDIC insurred)
the only problem is the small number of people taking up ham radio. there's much more of a push from businesses to implement some sort of wireless solution. ham radio technology has not changed drastically in many many years. maybe it's due for a technological overhaul. anyone with $30 can go down to the local wal-mart and get a couple of FRS radios, but real ham radios are left to small kits from radio shack.
i think the whole wavelength segregation the FCC controls needs to be reworked. there no reason for ham radio operators to have precedence over anyone just because they were there first. the USA is based on consumer acceptance of a product. as soon as wireless really starts showing up at your grandma's house, you'll notice ham radio dying off much quicker.
maybe someone should write some code or build some hardware so 802.11 can contribute to ham radio, by acting as a repeater.
Q: what do you do if it's 3am, and you just got called in to work because your work's mail server cpu fan decided to die?
A: you haul your ass down to wal-mart, pick up the best microtel machine you can put on your credit card, and take it up to work. switch out the drives and maybe the network card, and you're back in business. figure about 2 hours total work.
scsi is:
1) much much louder
2) much much hotter
3) less energy conservative
4) much more expensive
5) less chance of failure
ide has a much better price/performance ratio compared to scsi. scsi is a time-tested option. scsi drives rarely have the problem that IBM recently had, where a whole brand of hard drives turns up bad. the same people that get scsi are the ones that still order T1's. the people that get ide for everything are the ones getting DSL.
... a kernel module we could load in linux that would allow a certain percentage of cpu usage (determined by the Makefile) would be allocated to distributed services. distributed services would be the program that runs that gives your cpu, network connection, or/and disk space allocate a part of that gives those percentages to a global p2p network, like freenet.
i would also like to say that anywhere where there are a few comptuers networked, there are plenty of mp3s shared. this includes bingo parlors, airports, and schools from around 8th grade and up. what would the charge be if they had not settled out of court? would they have to add up all of the costs of every song on every cd? having 3000 mp3s would mean around 4500 different cds by different bands. 4500 different cds time the average in this area of $18 per cd is $81,000. that's lots cheaper than the $1,000,000. a company with that much community would probably be able to chip in and pay that off. a company that gives their employees that type of perk will attract much more business as they get plenty of free advertisement, for a minimal cost. i think the IIS were fools for paying that much. they just didn't do the math.
given the code of an open source application, it should be pretty easy to just comment out the part that expires. if you have the software checking a server or something to see if it's still valid software, just comment out that stuff and then recompile. seems like a waste of time, but i am sure someone has implemented it before.
it's not necessarily the only business the spammers do. usually they buy a list from a reputable company (or not) and then just spam the customers of another company. since there is no real (easy) way to track who you got the mail from, you can't tell the company that sold your e-mail address to stop it. the best way to do it is to setup a real e-mail account with a filter that bounces all the mail back to the owner. that way, when someone spams it, they get the spam back. with forged headers though, it's an empty victory.
actually, you're wrong. the cost of sending 100 e-mails is the same as sending 100,000 or 1,000,000 e-mails. i can write up some crappy scam right now, that would cost me only 5 minutes of my time, and then send it out to a million random addresses. if one person sends me anything, that is all profit. sure, if that person didn't send me anything, i didn't make any money, but there's always a sucker out there. for the low price of $10 i can make it so you don't receive any spam.
redundant, but true. the second you distribute software, you become responsible for the entire end users's computer. if that program goes wild and deletes something that it wasn't supposed to (like upgrading netscape from 4.7 to 6 and it deletes your e-mail), you are responsible for that loss.
i've worked for isps that do both, provide software(had to back in the win3.1 days) and not provide software. you would really be suprised how many newbies can't even get the software installed correctly. you'll spend more time doing software installation tech support than is necessary. make sure if you are in the position to decide what software you support, that you make a short list and stick to that list. i can't tell you how often even 2 years ago we were getting support calls about a newbie that got our cd, and tried installing Trumpet Winsock on Windows 98.
yes the box is small
but the video card sucks
at least they look cool
HA...
no shit man. it used to just be screaming babies. now it's cell phones, beepers, and lazer lights. in 10 years it'll be someone playing "Duke Nukem in Space" on their microsoft governmental approved wifi-macintosh over the network with a remote movie theater patron watching the same movie in some other town.
you would actually be suprised. i've known quite a few MCSE-types that know nothing of unix. most of these people are the ones that i demonize in my original post. their motto seems to be: There is only one way, and it is the Microsoft way.
i keep seeing these on ebay. they have what looks like a 486-100mhz with 32 megs of ram. it looks like a lcd monitor without a base, but that's the whole computer. not a bad little device for less than $200 used.
...but that doesn't mean you'll like the job.
getting certified should not be a goal, getting a good job with enough pay to make you happy should be the goal. if your goal is to get certified, then once you get a job with that certification, expect your productivity to go down fast. sure if you have a CCIE you probably get paid a lot, but if you are not interested in the work in the first place, you will not like your job.
getting an MCSE just because you want a tech job is a lousy excuse. getting an MCSE because you use the technology and you like Windows administration will be the best benefit. if you don't know or like windows to begin with, getting a certification in windows, and then working in that field will not make you like it any more.
personally, the only certification i have is for unsupervised radiation handling, but that doesn't do much for this thread, and it also doesn't help me get a job.
waiting........
patiently......
i used to have ricochet, and i'll tell ya, there's nothing cooler than streaming real audio christmas songs while driving down the freeway, or getting a map from maps.yahoo.com when you're lost.
look, if you're going to be burning copies of your kenny G cd and then selling them to little kids in china, you would be better spending your time encoding them to mp3 and then telling them about how you bought an expensive 10-cd burner and built it all yourself, but now you just burn your one cd a year for the lectures. just about everything sold now as a consumer cd player also understand mp3s as well. it would be an interesting project to set it up and script it. i would like to see the load when it was 100% busy. but other than a novelty i can't believe you would need one of those unless you were making tons of $$$ to do it which means it's probably illegal also.
no it doesn't. the calories that are related as heating up a certain amount of water one degree, are the REAL calories. in food, they are really kilocalories (1000 calories = 1 foor calorie). i believe the formula was 1 calorie = 1 cm^3, 1 degree C, at 1 ATM pressure. for food people, you have to add a factor of 1000. so, since 3500 calories equals one pound of weight, you'd have to warm up 3,500,000 cm^3 of water to lose a single pound. i could be wrong on this, i took a nutirition class in college, and the professor didn't even know that equation above.
explain to me how a bug in the linux kernel can be used remotely to gain access to the system.
i think the main difference between the linux bug/exploits is that problems with the linux kernel will almost never give you any kind of root access. the problems in linux you described are with userland programs that have nothing to do directly with linux. sure, those programs run on linux, but they also run on solaris, hp/ux, and about every other operating system out there, windows included.
do you have to be a passport member to get this patch? if you do, this could be just another attempt to make every man, woman, and child a passport member.
my momma always told me, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
it wouldn't be that hard for the gubment to get a free netzero account (or any other isp account/ip address)and scan you from there. maybe the could run a squid proxy on their carnivore servers.
i don't think on a device such as this that any kind of skip protection is important. if it's got a hard drive, and the head comes in contact with the platter, you got some major physical damage. no skip protection can replace a broken or misaligned head.