"There is absolutely no reason in this day and age of spam to run a legit mail server off of a dynamic IP address.:-)"
I can't get a static IP from comcast and I'm too far away to get DSL. I suppose I could get a static dialup or ISDN if I want to pay alot more for much slower speed.
I like having my incoming mail server accept attachments of any size. I'm not limited to the mailbox size comcast chooses. It's easier then educating family members about it.
My mailbox space limit isn't mixed w/ comcast's web site space limit.
My mailbox never runs out of space w/o my knowing about it.
I can do my own filtering. I can monitor my service & know what's up.
I don't need to expose my password to fetch my mail from comcast's IMAP server.
Some of these apply to outgoing mail too. As many ISPs are blocking dynamic IPs, I find myself redirecting stuff through comcast's SMTP server. I'll probably have to switch everything through it eventually.
Try applying for jobs w/o using word format. Yes, I know it can be done. When I apply for jobs, I don't want to eliminate/alienate even 1% of my audience.
Many of the HR dept and recruiters have automated resume handling. They can tear apart a word document. They can't do that w/ PDF. The non word doc goes to/dev/null or set aside for special ignor^H^H^H^H^Hhandling. They're getting lots of other resumes and the job needs to get filled soon.
As a hiring manager or HR person, I'm probabaly using word and might not have acrobat installed. I probably live & breathe word. I can't imagine someone else not using it. I'm not going to hire someone who I can't understand. Or who is defiant during the application process. Toss it. I've got a hundred resumes to go through & I need someone this week.
As an applicant, my resume is in word *sigh*. The people hiring are looking for ways to whittle down that stack of resumes and anything that doesn't fit into the workflow gets tossed. I don't want to get tossed. I want that interview.
I also send it in PDF so they can see how it looks when *I* print it, if they care. Some find that helpful but most ignore it. It doesn't harm me so I include it.
With NetBSD and OpenBSD the sparc ports are as up to date as the i386 versions. In fact, with OpenBSD at least, they can do some security stuff on the sparc that couldn't be done on the '386.
If you're not running linux on a '386, you're a step behind. With the BSDs, you're up to date.
In 1987 I was using LaTeX to do my Mech Eng lab reports in college.
I had a Zenith Z100 (NOT a PC clone but ran MS-DOS) w/ 2 floppies (360k) and 768k RAM (not a PC clone). I edited, ran LaTeX to get my DVI, then previewed on the screen. I could print it to a 9 pin dot matrix, but that was a *bit* slow so I'd upload the DVI to the VAX & print to the postscript printer.
There were free versions of LaTeX out there for DOS and a large document (200 pages) with lots of math equations could run on a tiny DOS system. And you could run the same source on a Mac, or VAX or Unix. Try that with any other system!
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This is exactly what I see in the photo magazines. The camera is a tool. And many pros carry compact cameras for shooting snapshots.
One magazine recently reviewed the Canon 1Ds and compared it against a Canon film camera w/ the same lense and iso 100 film. They blew up a section showing a sign w/ lettering. You could read it on digital, not on the film version.
I'm learning alot w/ my D100 that I'd never do with my wife's N80. I'm never afraid to take a bad photo or too many because it's not going to cost me anything. I get more good pictures when I do candids, bird photos, etc because of it.
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White balance is useful to JPEG shooters, useless to RAW shooters. I don't have a RAW converter on linux. (pointers welcome)
I use a D100. It has almost the same interface as my wife's N80 film camera. Except it adds ISO, stuff dealing w/ the LCD and the memory card.
The feel is pretty much the same especially 4 and 5.
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If it has a fixed lense, it's a snapshot camera. I love my D100 DLSR. I got to use all my wife's Nikon lenses on it too.
>Wine (when it works at all) is of no help. It >runs only apps, not drivers. Even VMware, when >the host OS is Linux, is of no help.
I'm sure wine wouldn't work. Same with win4lin. But a VMware host on Linux running a windows guest doesn't work?
How is the scanner connected?
I have the following devices w/o linux drivers: sipix stylecam digital camera Memorex scanner canon i250 printer
all USB and they all work in vmware 3.x. SCSI is also supposed to work, but I can use all my SCSI in linux just fine so I haven't tested.
Is your scanner a parallel connected one? VMware doesn't support that AFAIK. USB scanners are cheaper nowadays. Probably cheaper then a copy of VMware.
btw - the printer: $50 and $50 rebate = $0 scanner same kind of thing so I got it for $10.
How about automatic organ donor if you don't wear a seat belt?
Personally, I think not wearing helmets *reduces* the cost to the state if you get in an accident. If you're wearing a helmet, you're going to live. No helmet, you're more likely to die.
Me, I paid over $500 for my helmet and $1100 for my motorcycle.....
I agree with you. I also want real screwdrivers, not one with changable bits.
However, I can fit a Victroenix (sp) Cybertool into my pocket. The screwdriver w/ bits feels enough like a real screwdriver that I don't bother getting a real one. I like it better then most of the interchangable bit screwdrivers too. I only wish they'd swap the screwdriver's position so it was centered in the handle.
The curvy design is annoying, and it's fallen on the ground so much because of the odd shape...
Hear hear! It's very difficult to rest on anything but a flat surface. Once it starts to slide, it keeps sliding.
However, I do like the button layout.
However, I find I like the UI of GNOME or KDE and its xterms better. I like the workspaces. I need them. At the end of the week I have about 80 windows open on my desktop.
I wasn't able to find a decent workspace application for MacOS X that let me run xterms. I don't like the windows UI either for much the same reason.
Other then that, I like MacOS.
Maybe the UI works for some. System 7 worked well for me back when I lived spreadsheets, but as a sysadmin, it's not for me.
Sun switched to PCI because it was faster then SBUS (in the config sun uses).
The last time I had a Sun as a desktop was 2 years ago. I would have gladly traded it for a 700MHz PC running linux. Easier maintenance of the OS, more stuff available w/o recompiling & possibly porting.
> Okay, it would be different if the plow drivers >were driving their private snowplows, but while >driving a $100k plow that belongs to a company, >then there's no issue.
My brother in law plows for the state of Massachusetts. He owns his own plow. And the state pays him in August.
Massachusetts doesn't pay the operators until 6 months to a year later. My bother in law does plowing & sanding. It fits in nicely with his real job (masonry) because he can't do that when there's a heavy snow. I doubt he gets more then $10k per year from it. Most operators don't do the sanding & get called out *much* less often.
Last year (or year before) there wasn't much snow & many operators had to sell thier plows because they were idle all winter.
It's *not* something you do to earn money you need. You do it to get some mad money.
A business with thousands of users each getting 5 spams each is alot of mail. That all has to come through the mail gateway which needs to be beefier as a result. Client side solutions won't reduce that cost.
A whole county at a time is great for finding the backroads. I can zoom in and trace across towns, etc. It fits in my palm and doesn't cost much either. There are also free version with less detail.
Hercules 720x348 2 colors MDA text only CGA 4 colors 320x200 VGA 640x480 x16(?) also Square pixels I think XGA could do 256 colors too PGA was about VGA era.
> The thing about Manga is that the story is far > far more involved and logical than most US > commics.
> Thing is that Manga is generaly story based > while US comics are action based. Bang, Pow, > Boom, they all get old fast. Good stories last.
As a generalization, this may be true, but I don't agree. I've read alot of Manga (Lone Wolf and Cub, Kamui, Mai, Ranma 1/2, anything by Rumiko Takahashi) and am a fan.
I also read Batman, Legion of Super Heros, Sandman, Hellblazer, Love & Rockets, Astro City.
I've been reading the Batman and LoSH since 1970. It's been an involved story. Many of the Batman story arcs ran over a year. And the story of "Batman" is decades old.
I think you're not reading the right 'merkin comics.
And a motorcycle wouldn't need a sticker at all. Uses less gas, *much* lower vehicle weight and wear and tear on the road surface, take up less space on the road during the commute and *much* less space parking.
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"There is absolutely no reason in this day and age of spam to run a legit mail server off of a dynamic IP address. :-)"
I can't get a static IP from comcast and I'm too far away to get DSL. I suppose I could get a static dialup or ISDN if I want to pay alot more for much slower speed.
I like having my incoming mail server accept attachments of any size. I'm not limited to the mailbox size comcast chooses. It's easier then educating family members about it.
My mailbox space limit isn't mixed w/ comcast's web site space limit.
My mailbox never runs out of space w/o my knowing about it.
I can do my own filtering. I can monitor my service & know what's up.
I don't need to expose my password to fetch my mail from comcast's IMAP server.
Some of these apply to outgoing mail too. As many ISPs are blocking dynamic IPs, I find myself redirecting stuff through comcast's SMTP server. I'll probably have to switch everything through it eventually.
Try applying for jobs w/o using word format. Yes, I know it can be done. When I apply for jobs, I don't want to eliminate/alienate even 1% of my audience.
/dev/null or set aside for special ignor^H^H^H^H^Hhandling. They're getting lots of other resumes and the job needs to get filled soon.
Many of the HR dept and recruiters have automated resume handling. They can tear apart a word document. They can't do that w/ PDF. The non word doc goes to
As a hiring manager or HR person, I'm probabaly using word and might not have acrobat installed. I probably live & breathe word. I can't imagine someone else not using it. I'm not going to hire someone who I can't understand. Or who is defiant during the application process. Toss it. I've got a hundred resumes to go through & I need someone this week.
As an applicant, my resume is in word *sigh*. The people hiring are looking for ways to whittle down that stack of resumes and anything that doesn't fit into the workflow gets tossed. I don't want to get tossed. I want that interview.
I also send it in PDF so they can see how it looks when *I* print it, if they care. Some find that helpful but most ignore it. It doesn't harm me so I include it.
With NetBSD and OpenBSD the sparc ports are as up to date as the i386 versions. In fact, with OpenBSD at least, they can do some security stuff on the sparc that couldn't be done on the '386.
If you're not running linux on a '386, you're a step behind. With the BSDs, you're up to date.
In 1987 I was using LaTeX to do my Mech Eng lab reports in college.
I had a Zenith Z100 (NOT a PC clone but ran MS-DOS) w/ 2 floppies (360k) and 768k RAM (not a PC clone). I edited, ran LaTeX to get my DVI, then previewed on the screen. I could print it to a 9 pin dot matrix, but that was a *bit* slow so I'd upload the DVI to the VAX & print to the postscript printer.
There were free versions of LaTeX out there for DOS and a large document (200 pages) with lots of math equations could run on a tiny DOS system. And you could run the same source on a Mac, or VAX or Unix. Try that with any other system!
This is exactly what I see in the photo magazines. The camera is a tool. And many pros carry compact cameras for shooting snapshots.
One magazine recently reviewed the Canon 1Ds and compared it against a Canon film camera w/ the same lense and iso 100 film. They blew up a section showing a sign w/ lettering. You could read it on digital, not on the film version.
I'm learning alot w/ my D100 that I'd never do with my wife's N80. I'm never afraid to take a bad photo or too many because it's not going to cost me anything. I get more good pictures when I do candids, bird photos, etc because of it.
White balance is useful to JPEG shooters, useless to RAW shooters. I don't have a RAW converter on linux. (pointers welcome)
I use a D100. It has almost the same interface as my wife's N80 film camera. Except it adds ISO, stuff dealing w/ the LCD and the memory card.
The feel is pretty much the same especially 4 and 5.
If it has a fixed lense, it's a snapshot camera. I love my D100 DLSR. I got to use all my wife's Nikon lenses on it too.
I just noticed you said "Film scanner". That's a much different beast then a flatbed scanner and you can't get *those* for $10!
I'd guess it's SCSI or firewire? I don't imagine VMware supports firewire yet.
>Wine (when it works at all) is of no help. It
>runs only apps, not drivers. Even VMware, when
>the host OS is Linux, is of no help.
I'm sure wine wouldn't work. Same with win4lin. But a VMware host on Linux running a windows guest doesn't work?
How is the scanner connected?
I have the following devices w/o linux drivers:
sipix stylecam digital camera
Memorex scanner
canon i250 printer
all USB and they all work in vmware 3.x. SCSI is also supposed to work, but I can use all my SCSI in linux just fine so I haven't tested.
Is your scanner a parallel connected one? VMware doesn't support that AFAIK. USB scanners are cheaper nowadays. Probably cheaper then a copy of VMware.
btw - the printer: $50 and $50 rebate = $0
scanner same kind of thing so I got it for $10.
How about automatic organ donor if you don't wear a seat belt?
Personally, I think not wearing helmets *reduces* the cost to the state if you get in an accident. If you're wearing a helmet, you're going to live. No helmet, you're more likely to die.
Me, I paid over $500 for my helmet and $1100 for my motorcycle.....
I used to change my user agent to say it was running IE on CP/M-86.....
I agree with you. I also want real screwdrivers, not one with changable bits.
However, I can fit a Victroenix (sp) Cybertool into my pocket. The screwdriver w/ bits feels enough like a real screwdriver that I don't bother getting a real one. I like it better then most of the interchangable bit screwdrivers too. I only wish they'd swap the screwdriver's position so it was centered in the handle.
The curvy design is annoying, and it's fallen on the ground so much because of the odd shape... Hear hear! It's very difficult to rest on anything but a flat surface. Once it starts to slide, it keeps sliding. However, I do like the button layout.
I agree, Mac OS X is sweet. But it's not right *for me*. I had an iBook for work. I'm a Unix admin.
I need lots of workspaces & Xterms. I counted 70 xterms on my desktop one friday.
The best for me seems to be a dual screen desktop running linux, but that's me...
Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity is forever.
I ran MacOS X for a bit. It's very nice.
However, I find I like the UI of GNOME or KDE and its xterms better. I like the workspaces. I need them. At the end of the week I have about 80 windows open on my desktop.
I wasn't able to find a decent workspace application for MacOS X that let me run xterms. I don't like the windows UI either for much the same reason.
Other then that, I like MacOS.
Maybe the UI works for some. System 7 worked well for me back when I lived spreadsheets, but as a sysadmin, it's not for me.
Sun switched to PCI because it was faster then SBUS (in the config sun uses).
The last time I had a Sun as a desktop was 2 years ago. I would have gladly traded it for a 700MHz PC running linux. Easier maintenance of the OS, more stuff available w/o recompiling & possibly porting.
For a server, I like the Sun just fine though.
> Okay, it would be different if the plow drivers >were driving their private snowplows, but while >driving a $100k plow that belongs to a company, >then there's no issue.
My brother in law plows for the state of Massachusetts. He owns his own plow. And the state pays him in August.
Massachusetts doesn't pay the operators until 6 months to a year later. My bother in law does plowing & sanding. It fits in nicely with his real job (masonry) because he can't do that when there's a heavy snow. I doubt he gets more then $10k per year from it. Most operators don't do the sanding & get called out *much* less often.
Last year (or year before) there wasn't much snow & many operators had to sell thier plows because they were idle all winter.
It's *not* something you do to earn money you need. You do it to get some mad money.
My brother in law plows for the state of MA. He supplies his own truck, plow, fuel, registration, etc. This ain't a cheap investment.
The state pays him for his labour 6 months to a year later. They used to pay in August only, but now I think they also pay mid winter also.
It's not something you do to make money. If there's no snow, like in past years, you don't get paid and might have to sell your truck.
My brother in law sees it as extra $$ to buy that harley or other toy.
Personally, I think the state screws the plow operators, but then I don't have to supply my own computer and software when I go to work as a Sysadmin.
A business with thousands of users each getting 5 spams each is alot of mail. That all has to come through the mail gateway which needs to be beefier as a result. Client side solutions won't reduce that cost.
A whole county at a time is great for finding the backroads. I can zoom in and trace across towns, etc. It fits in my palm and doesn't cost much either. There are also free version with less detail.
Hercules 720x348 2 colors
MDA text only
CGA 4 colors 320x200
VGA 640x480 x16(?) also Square pixels
I think XGA could do 256 colors too
PGA was about VGA era.
> The thing about Manga is that the story is far
> far more involved and logical than most US
> commics.
> Thing is that Manga is generaly story based
> while US comics are action based. Bang, Pow,
> Boom, they all get old fast. Good stories last.
As a generalization, this may be true, but I don't agree. I've read alot of Manga (Lone Wolf and Cub, Kamui, Mai, Ranma 1/2, anything by Rumiko Takahashi) and am a fan.
I also read Batman, Legion of Super Heros, Sandman, Hellblazer, Love & Rockets, Astro City.
I've been reading the Batman and LoSH since 1970. It's been an involved story. Many of the Batman story arcs ran over a year. And the story of "Batman" is decades old.
I think you're not reading the right 'merkin comics.
And a motorcycle wouldn't need a sticker at all. Uses less gas, *much* lower vehicle weight and wear and tear on the road surface, take up less space on the road during the commute and *much* less space parking.
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