I was part of a company's recent reclassification exercise so I made myself familiar with the FLSA. IFAIK, punitive damages are not even a possibility with the FLSA. If it is found that you are supposed to be classified as non-exempt, you are entitled to two years of overtime back pay, three years for willful infringement on the part of the employer.
The worst that you would be charged with for openning an unlocked door might be tresspassing, but turning a knob would not be considered "asking for authorization."
With open wifi, one could argue DHCP has authorized them to use the network since the wifi router grants access after a request for an address has been made. In effect, the owner of the wifi router has authorized you for access by proxy.
If you put all the stuff in your house on the sidewalk and setup a sign that says, "Free Stuff", I think that is the equivalent of a wife router with SSID broadcasts and DHCP enabled (obviously with no encryption and MAC filtering).
... especially if this was a large company. When you work in a large company, 95% of the people in the building are strangers. Just about all the people in other buildings or other divisions (or outsourced services, like repairmen) are strangers.
In large companies where you regularly have to work with "strangers" one always wants to be a team player.
The IT industry does tend to overuse the term "engineer" a bit too much. I have had that term applied to myself and I am not an engineer; it still bugs the crap out of me.
Now why didn't you mention the NOAA has a time machine in the first place.... That's a much more impressive story to talk about than boring "Global Warming."
Actually, the authors of Linux own the code; each developer owns the code he wrote. The GPL just defines how others may use it.
This is why it would be so much trouble to relicense the Linux codebase under GPL3. Every developer would have to agree to relicense their own code. Also the reason why MySQL can license MySQL under two licenses; they own all the code.
... more and more jobs require a degree to just "weed out candidates," meaning it has no real value other than just obtaining the paper (purely from a employment perspective, of course), then you will have situations like this. People will do everything in their power to get that paper, in as little time as possible.
I am in no way saying a degree is not valuable, but there are many employers out there requiring a degree for positions that have no need of a degree.
This is really only a problem if you define your self-image/worth by what others think about you (which we all do to some extent). Unless you hang out with a bunch of 13 year olds, most people will not ostracize you just because you like something that is not a mutual interest. If you are not being yourself, then you are clone; a "poser," if you will.
All of this hinges on the fact that your interest is morally/socially/legally acceptable.
A booster like that could fix the problem if downstream signal is the problem, however, it could also exacerbate another problem. I believe the Motorola device is a booster with a passive return that allows the signal from your cable modem to be sent back to Comcast. The problem is getting the signal to Comcast....
I have this problem in my situation. I bought a signal booster with a passive return mostly to clean up my CATV picture. It succeeded in that respect, however, the decrease in upstream signal was causing my signal back to Comcast to become 'choppy'. The Motorola device will decrease upstream signal, notice the 3db insertion loss. A passive return amp only boosts the signal in a single direction: downstream. I would never lose sync on my cable modem, but I was experiencing packet loss. If one is having downstream signal problems, you would almost certainly be having upstream problems.
The only way to fix this problem would be to get a booster with an "active return". Active return just means that it will boost your upstream signal back to your ISP.
If the customer is important enough then try to see the problems from their perspective; give them the benefit of the doubt. Assign a customer-oriented, technical person to be onsite to see the "problem" first-hand. See if it really is a problem (bug or implementation) or just an expectation problem. The absolute worst thing to do is dismiss it outright.
If it is too much trouble for your organization, give your customer the names of some competing product or another product that will fit the task and send them on their way.
You forgot to mention the other space saving feature of the IBM Notes mail system. The IBM mail template auto-deletes messages after 3 months. You can set different expiration dates per message, but you cannot do it en masse (no Select All -> change expiration date).
... the better your spelling, the more likely people will believe and listen to you (even if you have no idea what your are talking about).
All joking aside, SEO sounds evil, but for the most part, is not that bad. It is really better to look at SEO as not just a way of making your ranking higher on most SEs, but really finding out why your ranking is lower than what it could be.
Generally, when Linux is used, it is because someone wants to use it. This immediately puts people on the defensive when criticized about their decision. When Windows is used, it is usually because someone has to use it or does not care.
In many ways, this makes their zealotry a simple defense mechanism which will cause them to become unrealistic and unobjective for no reason other than they see criticism of Linux as an attack on themselves.
It's called a null modem cable and a serial console. (You're SOL with Windows)
Most commercial unix boxes/OSs never actually need a keyboard and monitor as you can get even get directly to the BIOS from a serial console. There's a few PC boxes that can do that (without an extra card), but those are few and far between.
How about a Lotus Notes client for Linux? You cannot completely migrate to Linux even if you work for IBM.
WINE is not the answer. I say this from experience. NUL (Notes under Linux) is complete crap. IBM does not even offer the web based solutions internally.
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> Vista = Customer Satisfaction?
As long as it is written in Perl.
I was part of a company's recent reclassification exercise so I made myself familiar with the FLSA. IFAIK, punitive damages are not even a possibility with the FLSA. If it is found that you are supposed to be classified as non-exempt, you are entitled to two years of overtime back pay, three years for willful infringement on the part of the employer.
The worst that you would be charged with for openning an unlocked door might be tresspassing, but turning a knob would not be considered "asking for authorization."
With open wifi, one could argue DHCP has authorized them to use the network since the wifi router grants access after a request for an address has been made. In effect, the owner of the wifi router has authorized you for access by proxy.
If you put all the stuff in your house on the sidewalk and setup a sign that says, "Free Stuff", I think that is the equivalent of a wife router with SSID broadcasts and DHCP enabled (obviously with no encryption and MAC filtering).
"I can get any girl I want, anytime I want. I'm just too busy."
... especially if this was a large company. When you work in a large company, 95% of the people in the building are strangers. Just about all the people in other buildings or other divisions (or outsourced services, like repairmen) are strangers.
In large companies where you regularly have to work with "strangers" one always wants to be a team player.
I'll admit to using MS intellectual property if they give me a couple hundred million dollars so they don't sue me.
The IT industry does tend to overuse the term "engineer" a bit too much. I have had that term applied to myself and I am not an engineer; it still bugs the crap out of me.
>>> Here's a pretty picture for your convenience.
Now why didn't you mention the NOAA has a time machine in the first place.... That's a much more impressive story to talk about than boring "Global Warming."
Actually, the authors of Linux own the code; each developer owns the code he wrote. The GPL just defines how others may use it.
This is why it would be so much trouble to relicense the Linux codebase under GPL3. Every developer would have to agree to relicense their own code. Also the reason why MySQL can license MySQL under two licenses; they own all the code.
... more and more jobs require a degree to just "weed out candidates," meaning it has no real value other than just obtaining the paper (purely from a employment perspective, of course), then you will have situations like this. People will do everything in their power to get that paper, in as little time as possible.
I am in no way saying a degree is not valuable, but there are many employers out there requiring a degree for positions that have no need of a degree.
This is really only a problem if you define your self-image/worth by what others think about you (which we all do to some extent). Unless you hang out with a bunch of 13 year olds, most people will not ostracize you just because you like something that is not a mutual interest. If you are not being yourself, then you are clone; a "poser," if you will.
All of this hinges on the fact that your interest is morally/socially/legally acceptable.
Actually, Commodores had a composite connector.
A booster like that could fix the problem if downstream signal is the problem, however, it could also exacerbate another problem. I believe the Motorola device is a booster with a passive return that allows the signal from your cable modem to be sent back to Comcast. The problem is getting the signal to Comcast....
I have this problem in my situation. I bought a signal booster with a passive return mostly to clean up my CATV picture. It succeeded in that respect, however, the decrease in upstream signal was causing my signal back to Comcast to become 'choppy'. The Motorola device will decrease upstream signal, notice the 3db insertion loss. A passive return amp only boosts the signal in a single direction: downstream. I would never lose sync on my cable modem, but I was experiencing packet loss. If one is having downstream signal problems, you would almost certainly be having upstream problems.
The only way to fix this problem would be to get a booster with an "active return". Active return just means that it will boost your upstream signal back to your ISP.
If the customer is important enough then try to see the problems from their perspective; give them the benefit of the doubt. Assign a customer-oriented, technical person to be onsite to see the "problem" first-hand. See if it really is a problem (bug or implementation) or just an expectation problem. The absolute worst thing to do is dismiss it outright.
If it is too much trouble for your organization, give your customer the names of some competing product or another product that will fit the task and send them on their way.
I keep forgetting to check that first....
You forgot to mention the other space saving feature of the IBM Notes mail system. The IBM mail template auto-deletes messages after 3 months. You can set different expiration dates per message, but you cannot do it en masse (no Select All -> change expiration date).
... the better your spelling, the more likely people will believe and listen to you (even if you have no idea what your are talking about).
All joking aside, SEO sounds evil, but for the most part, is not that bad. It is really better to look at SEO as not just a way of making your ranking higher on most SEs, but really finding out why your ranking is lower than what it could be.
You mean like DIBS? http://www.csu.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/dibs /index.html
http://www.yournetpod.com/
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Searching for stolen code...."
while [ 1 ]; do {
#Make HDD LED go nuts
dd if=/dev/zero count=10000000 of=5gbfile.out
rm -f 5gbfile.out
echo "No stolen code found."
} done
Generally, when Linux is used, it is because someone wants to use it. This immediately puts people on the defensive when criticized about their decision. When Windows is used, it is usually because someone has to use it or does not care.
In many ways, this makes their zealotry a simple defense mechanism which will cause them to become unrealistic and unobjective for no reason other than they see criticism of Linux as an attack on themselves.
The only thing anybody should ever learn from reading posts on Slashdot is that almost nobody actually knows what they are talking about.
Read mine; that's all the proof you'll need.
>>> 10 light years = 631000 times Earth-Sun distance...
:-)
>>> you mean more like 39420000 times the distance from us to the sun. (roughly).
>>> Therefore 10 light years is actually 6.57x10^6 times the distance from us to the sun.
>>> 10 light years is around 632,428.7 times as far from Earth as Sol is.
The people on slashdot sound so smart.
It's called a null modem cable and a serial console. (You're SOL with Windows)
Most commercial unix boxes/OSs never actually need a keyboard and monitor as you can get even get directly to the BIOS from a serial console. There's a few PC boxes that can do that (without an extra card), but those are few and far between.
How about a Lotus Notes client for Linux? You cannot completely migrate to Linux even if you work for IBM.
WINE is not the answer. I say this from experience. NUL (Notes under Linux) is complete crap. IBM does not even offer the web based solutions internally.