That is: You can archive your Gmail account via IMAP.
You can use fetchmail, a UNIX/Linux command line tool to grab all of your email from your IMAP enabled Gmail account and archive it somewhere else. It can even keep headers intact so it doesn't look like you forwarded all of your email. I would suggest getting another IMAP enabled email server somewhere, whether on a webhost or elsewhere, and have fetchmail run in a daily or hourly cron job, grabbing all new email messages and forwarding them to your backup mail server.
As far as Google docs goes, you'll have to manually save each document to a file, as I don't know how to automate this. You should be able to do a calendar export from Google calendar into a file that can be imported by other calendar software.
Good luck! I still think Google is about 10 times less likely to lose my data than some cheap web hosting company, but they have been known to lose Gmail accounts before.
And don't think your "architect" job will be safe forever. Remember when we told the laid off manufacturing workers to "learn computers"? At least that lasted for 15 years or so.
I'll bet you the architects that designed said manufacturing plants still have work. What I'm saying is don't be the assembly line worker. Instead, design the assembly line. Then, even if all of the manufacturing jobs go to China, you can still design the factories they will work in.
How does somebody become such an expert, if he/she can not get an entry level jobs? In IT experience trumps everything, if you can get that experience, then how do you become such a high-level expert?
Study. Geek out and read tons of books. Pick something you enjoy doing. Sure, some of the high-end hardware may be tough to get your hands on, but if you want to be a software architect, all you need is a computer and the development framework of your choice. Write your own open source software and get it out there on the web.
You're 100 times more likely to be hired for a senior architect/engineer position if you have some published work out on the web you can show to people. 1000 times more likely if it's something that is very useful to a lot of people or closely aligns with the job you are trying to get.
While I appreciate that it can be hard to bootstrap your career from tech support to architect, the only way to do it is to study and learn (in your own time, or on the job) the skills of the job you want. It takes a lot of hard work, including geeking out at home and on the weekends, but the payoff is worth it in the end, if that's what you love doing.
There is a shortage of the top level people who can come up with compelling new ideas and get industry to buy into them. There is a shortage of the people who can conceptualise at the level needed to architect systems that actually achieve real benefits. These are the people who create jobs, and they have always been in short supply.
Amen, brother. I've found in my extensive IT experience that 90% of the people out there don't know how to perform the most simple of IT functions, or are too lazy to do their job. Meanwhile, those of us that are architects and senior engineers are designing and implementing systems that will keep the rest of those unqualified workers in jobs for the next several years performing basic maintenance.
If you want to be in demand, become an expert at architecture, whether it's software, systems, networks, or storage. Become an expert in one of these fields and you will be in demand.
Don't just be a low-level check-box clicker. Those people will never have job security. If it requires no skill to do it, it can be outsourced to someone who will do it for 1/10th your salary.
Why are you guys focusing on bashing the headline instead on the actual problem, which is that highly skilled people are working over time for nothing?
This IS a serious problem because, - It is so common in the industry that there aren't lots of alternatives. - The more they work the more others (even in other countries) are forced to work. - Quitting is not a serious option unless you are rich and work for sport.
Get over yourself. Nobody is forced to work overtime. People make bad job choices and end up with demanding managers that expect them to work overtime. Those same people, if they were qualified enough or in demand enough could go get a job that doesn't require them to work overtime. Hell, I work in IT and I've worked at shops that wanted me to work 60 hours a week. I quit those jobs and moved on to a job that doesn't expect me to work more than 40 hours a week, and compensates me if I'm on call or carrying a pager.
It's my experience that the ones that bitch the most about overtime are the ones that are underqualified for their current job, can't get another job that pays the same because they know they aren't qualified, and just want to complain. If you aren't happy at your job, quit! Get a better job and then quit. Don't complain to me about your long hours because I don't want to hear about it. It's a free country, if you think you can do better, put your resume out there and get a better job. Nobody is forcing you to be a slave...
1) Doing a bad job at something and allowing others to come to harm isn't enough. Essentially, you must be aware of the risk of your actions (or inaction), or you must intentionally allow yourself too little information to make a proper decision.
As I understand the case, the criminals installed network sniffers at the retail network headquarters of these companies, and simply sniffed the unencrypted cleartext credit card numbers going across the wire.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to prove that the engineers designing the system should have been aware that this was a major security risk and didn't take adequate steps to prevent it. This is negligence, plain and simple.
I used to thing mandatory licensing for IT workers, similar to the way we license plumbers or electricians was a bad thing, but the more I work in the IT industry and see the incompetence of the average worker, I think it's a necessity. At least it would give consumers a recourse when things like this happened:
"Where your IT professionals licensed?"
"In order to be licensed, isn't it required that you learn how to safeguard data in transit across a network through encryption?"
Judge: "Case closed, awarding punitive damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $x million."
Because seriously, how is allowing these data breaches to occur any less serious than allowing an unlicensed electrician to install faulty wiring? Sure, nobody will die because of a data breach, but if you count those millions of consumers and the hours each one must spend to clear their credit history of fraud, you're talking several lifetimes worth of lost time. You might as well kill a few people and the outcome would be the same.
If you can have a 5 year employee making $35k/yr, and a starting employee making $75k/yr, and another making over $100k/yr, all doing the same job, with the same workload, then there's something seriously wrong with the pay scheme. If you believe a position is worth $75k/yr, then that's what the base salary is for the position, and there should be adjustments for time with the company (10%/yr), performance bonuses, incentives, etc.
Here's a newsflash for you: Your salary depends on your ability to negotiate and sell yourself to your employer. It's a free market. If you don't like your salary, quit, and find a better job. Personally, I'm happy that I'm allowed to negotiate a decent salary because all the poor schmucks that are happy to make less than six figures can suck it. I make six figures because I'm worth it and the company better pay me that or I'll pack up shop and head somewhere else. That's the reality in today's marketplace. Make yourself worth the salary you want to get and then demand it. Don't expect somebody to magically wave a wand and presto chango your salary is based on "time with the company", etc., etc... You want my services? Pay the market rate or I'll go to your competitor. That is the way the market works and you can adapt, or be content making piddly $50k or less a year.
No offense, but if you have trouble walking 2 miles in a couple of hours, you should probably use every opportunity to get some exercise.
No offense to you, but you probably haven't been to a large technology convention before. I just went to the HP technology forum in June, in Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. I wasn't lucky enough to get a room in the hotel, so I had a room at the Luxor a couple blocks down. They have indoor walkways between the hotels, but one thing you should understand is that it's still at least 1 - 2 miles round trip to walk to and from the convention center.
Now, classes run in mornings, afternoons, and they have exhibitor booths in the evenings. The distance between classes regularly runs half a mile. Take a 2 mile walk, do that in the morning to get to your morning classes. Another mile walking between morning classes, walk back to your hotel at lunch, walk back to your classes in the afternoon, walk back to your hotel to get ready for the evening's festivities and the exhibitor booths. Walk back to the convention for that, then back to the hotel at night.
I easily walked 15-20 miles a day during that convention. I'm very fit and in shape, and even for me it was very excessive. I got blisters on my feet because I wasn't wearing running shoes; instead I was trying to wear business casual. Segways would be perfect for this environment.
And no, I'm not fat. Like I said, I'm fit and physically in great shape. It doesn't matter what type of shape you're in... 15 - 20 miles a day of walking is a bit much.
It would be computationally infeasible to come up with a corrupted data block that still matches the SHA-256 checksum.
Computationally infeasible, yes, but the interesting ways I've seen data get corrupted I can only imagine that I would be that one in a quintillion chance that it goes undetected... I seem to have bad luck with data.
People being held liable for unsollicited traffic they cannot control is criminally absurd, and if their regulatory bodies refuse to crush it in the womb, then I say billing phone companies for their time is an excellent proactive demonstration of, and against, that absurdity.
The worst part is that some of these phone companies actually send unsolicited SMS spam themselves, to their own customers! How nice is it to receive a spam asking you to "Sign up for e-billing and save a tree" when it comes from your own cellphone company? Great, now I can pay them for the spam they just sent me, and save them money by letting them off the hook for sending me a paper summary of my monthly cellphone spam...err charges.
No, it's not as simple. I could do a one time exception very easily in FF2. Now it's easier to give a permanent exception.
And this is actually more secure, because the permanent exception will become invalid if the certificate changes, i.e. if you're being attacked by a man-in-the-middle. How many of us use to use FF2 to connect to our self-signed administration websites and always just click "trust for this session" without verifying that the key didn't change? I know I for one actually feel more secure with FF3 because it allows you to easily make a permanent exception. FF2 had the annoying problem that if you make a permanent exception and 2 different administration websites you use had the same self-signed cert, they would conflict with each other and FF2's cert database/store would get corrupted.
The author is proposing an easier flow to accepting self-signed certificates. How could that defeat the purpose of having a CA?
The problem is that Mozilla is trying to balance the needs of non-educated consumers who have been the victims of these sophisticated phishing attacks against the needs of more educated geeks like ourselves who know what we're doing when we setup self-signed certificates.
This is a legitimate question... How much security do we need? I think they've struck the right balance.
There is no conspiracy here. Mozilla is not trying to put your "free" website out of business. It's perfectly valid for them to give a lot of warnings, and I think their method of adding a self-signed certificate and then never being bothered about it again is highly usable, and easier to use than the previous method in Firefox 2.
Now if only they'd fix the 100% CPU syslogd problem that's been around since Leopard's release. leopard syslogd I don't use TimeMachine at all, so most people's theories implicating TM is probably not accurate.
Dude, that problem has been around since October of 2007, when Leopard was first released. It's been fixed and I think it's related to spotlight trying to index your syslog files. Seriously, if it's still bothering you that much, google for a fix or call Apple tech support.
I'm sure the guy who added binary capabilities to Usenet had "inappropriate" material in mind. Every great multimedia technological advance achieved wide adoption from porn.
It wasn't that binary support was so much added, as it was "hacked on". People would uuencode binary files, a conversion process which would turn 8-bit ASCII into 7-bit text that wouldn't get mangled, then stick it in the body of a message. It used to be you had to run a binary file through a uuencode binary program, then pipe the output into a mail message text file, but modern newsgroup readers now do this for you. Also, most people use mime encoding now as it allows you to encode a little more efficiently than 7-bit text. Then, they came up with ways to split large binary files across multiple messages, since there are size limits on individual messages.
Binary compatibility was a hack, bolted on to usenet, and I'm sure the original designers probably cringed to think that people were stuffing so much data in their nifty little text messaging protocol...
You have some pretty good advice generally, but I take exception to the "No Fats" rule. Sure, you want your protein sources to be very lean, and don't want saturated fats, but you also need to make sure you get a good supply of healthy fats. There is a difference between good and bad fats, and healthy fats that are mostly from vegetable sources like flax seeds, avocados, and also omega 3s from salmon and other fish oil are very important. Your body needs these healthy fats because they help build the tissue that supports important things like arteries and blood vessels. So, if you're doing weight training, cardio, or any type of exercise designed to build or strengthen the muscles in your body, be sure to get a good supply of healthy fats. It should be 20-30% of your caloric intake.
Just stay away from saturated fats like what you find in red meat (always eat lean red meat), fried foods, and especially trans fats. These are all bad fats.
Personally, I like to gorge myself on the occasional homemade guacamole, nuts like almonds and walnuts, and a few servings a week of salmon. I don't eat a bowl of guacamole every day, but fats like that are good for your body. There is far too much misinformation out there that "Fat = Bad". This is just not true. Some fats are bad, but some fats are incredibly healthy.
For a real world example, look at the Alaskan eskimo population. They have ridiculously long lifespans, some living over 100 years, without the benefit of modern medicine. It turns out the majority of their diet was fish, especially a lot of salmon and other fish with high concentrations of omega 3 fatty acids. The health benefits to the entire body, but especially the cardiovascular system, are amazing.
I for one have noticed that food packaging, while usually having truthful nutrition facts labels, have downright false of misleading front of package portion numbers, the worst offender was 'great value' brand products, their microwave bacon claims the same number of ounces as their competitor, hormel, yet if you go by the nutrition facts label, and do the math you wind up with double the number of grams of meat as on the front of the package. if you go by calories per gram, and multiply by the front of the package, you'd only come up with 50% of the actual calories.
While I don't know for a fact this is the case, you might try reading the fine print on the package to ensure that the Nutrition Facts are not listing "cooked weight" or cooked serving size where the package is listing uncooked weight. I've noticed this on microwave popcorn packaging. They have to list the ounces of uncooked weight, but the Nutrition Facts are based on what the product is like right before consuming it (after being popped). Some foods will list both sets of information in the Nutrition Facts.
Also, in the US the FDA is very strict about the Nutrition Facts label being on all foods, and being fairly accurate. While it doesn't have a lot of information about chemical and preservative content and won't tell you if the product has MSG, I've found them to be fairly reliable indicators of the caloric, fat, and carb content in most foods.
Is anyone else homicidally enraged by the new "adaptive volume control" that seems to be standard in new cars these days? Speed up, the radio gets louder, slow down the radio gets quieter.
I've driven in some cars where it's semi-bearable...I don't quite notice it for a while because it's gradual. And I've driven in others where the volume goes up and down like a cracked out kangaroo to the point where I end up having to stomp on the brakes, whip off the road and punch the radio until it stops.
I noticed this in my 2006 Jetta TDI and it drives me nuts. My girlfriend doesn't notice it, but I do. Every time I pull off the freeway and am sitting on an offramp my stereo turns down. If I wanted to turn the volume down, I would reach out and turn the frickin' volume knob.
For people like me that want to listen to music at loud volumes all of the time, not just at freeway speeds, it is annoying.
If YOU knew the first thing about VMWare ESX YOU'D know that they use almost unmodified Linux drivers, and any device supported by the driver will work under ESX and ESXi just as well as it will work under Linux.
Sorry, this isn't VMware ESX server. This is their ESXi product, which doesn't use standard Linux drivers. It's more of an embedded OS. How do you think you could fit a Linux kernel, hypervisor, and drivers for all the storage devices that ESX supports in 32MB?
I also have to correct you about using unmodified Linux drivers. VMware does a pretty extensive certification process for their drivers on ESX, and they modify quite a few of them to remove bugs, increase stability and performance, etc. If you try to just hack any source tarball and compile it on ESX, you're in for a rude awakening. It probably won't work, and even if it does, it won't be supported by VMware so you're essentially running an unsupported configuration. For any production VMware system, you don't want to be unsupported, trust me.
Whoa there, this statement IS NOT a fact. Public works projects can help a slumping economy, but only if the public works project is needed, and absolutely helps expand the economy.
Actually, this isn't true. It is pretty much agreed on by everyone that the New Deal ended the great depression of the 30s. Some of the public works projects were of questionable need as well. Building national parks? Hello? People are starving to death and unemployed and you want to build national parks. The fact is, putting people to work helps the economy in ways you obviously don't understand.
For example, if the government hired 10,000 people to dig a giant ditch, and than hired another 10,000 people to fill in the ditch, jobs would be created, but would it help the economy? The government doesn't magically have money, they need to obtain it somewhere. In this instance they've created 20,000 jobs, but added nothing to the economy.
Your argument completely falls apart here. Even though they just dug a ditch and filled it back in again, contributing nothing useful to society, those 20,000 workers drew a salary, paid taxes back to the government on that salary, and more importantly, purchased goods and services such as food, energy, housing, and labor from their local communities. That, my friend, is what stimulates the economy. The jobs by themselves don't do much other than keep people from becoming lawless thugs. It is the paychecks they draw that stimulate the economy.
So, if we're going to start "public works" programs of dubious merit in order to bolster our failing economy, we might as well have them working on something that everyone agrees is necessary: energy independence. Digging ditches is pretty much a waste, but energy independence is a very valuable goal.
You should learn a little more about economics before you start disparaging public works projects as not contributing anything to the economy.
So I went out and bought an XPS M1530 - 2GB ram, Core2Duo T7500. It came with Vista Home Premium. SP1 got put on as soon as the laptop hit my desk.
I too have noticed that Vista 64 Home Premium SP1 runs fine on top of the line hardware, such as your workstation class notebook. I have it running on an Intel Q6600 quad core, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GT, and it runs admirably.
The people having problems with Vista seem to have only 1GB RAM or less, and ancient older computers without dedicated graphics cards.
I won't fault them for hating an OS that runs like molasses when XP runs just fine on anything with 1GB of RAM.
For those of us that have really top of the line PCs like you and I, sure, we can run it just fine, and for the most part, still have no major problems with it (except I still wonder why it takes 2-3 minutes to delete a lot of files... what the hell is it doing all that time?).
For the vast majority of PC users that don't upgrade every year and don't need top of the line equipment, there is a night and day difference between XP and Vista.
Oh, and by the way, I did have to spend about 4 hours turning off every single unnecessary service, background indexing, and hacking the registry to make it decent to play games in, but that was long ago and I've mostly forgotten about all of that effort...
Actually, I believe the only way to break this law is to make it impossible for the government to prosecute. Everyone should just become basement "artists" and publish IP on the web. Put blogs up, and then force the government to prosecute Google, Yahoo, MSN search, for indexing your blog. Use automation to file copyright complaints in the millions against every index on the web. Overburden the courts with so many fake lawsuits that the government has no choice but to back down.
Our legislators have proven that they're bought and paid for by the lobbyists. It's past the point of them representing the people.
It's time for civil disobedience, and I think they'll find that there is no such thing as enforceable IP on the web.
I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel.
You want a Macbook-air thin wireless touch screen tablet device for $200? I want world peace, Dick Cheney's head on a pike, and a pony... good luck with that!
Here's the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too.
I'll admit what they are talking about sounds really cool, but the real world limitations of battery technology, thin electronics, and design prowess that only companies like Apple seem to have will make this thing cost $2000-3000 when it's finally done. Sorry, you just can't cram all of that good stuff into a 0.5 inch enclosure for $200.
I call BS. You may have a "higher" monthly bill if you always pay late and get hit with a $5 late fee on every single bill, but it still wouldn't be that much.
I have an original iPhone, on the basic plan ($39.99 for 450 anytime minutes, rollover, and $20.00 for iPhone 2G data plan + 200 text messages). My total is $59.99, and with taxes and fees I pay about $65 a month.
If I messed up and paid late, it would be over $70, but at $65 a month, I can live with it.
No, I won't be upgrading to iPhone 3G. Sure, GPS is nice, and faster data is nice, but my iPhone still works great, wifi is everywhere nowadays, and 3G battery life sucks. As it is, I only need to charge my iPhone every other night. Battery life is still great after 1 year of heavy use.
I'll upgrade next year, maybe, when my contract runs out and I have some more negotiating power with AT&T.
Tip: If you want a really expensive, shiny, new smartphone, wait until you are no longer on a contract, then tell them you're going to switch carriers. You'd be surprised how much they will bend over trying to keep your business. Without a contract, you have all the power in the world to get special deals. Tell them you are ready to cancel your service, and they usually transfer you to a special "customer retention" department that has more power to negotiate a deal with you. You'll probably find that new $199 iPhone might just cost you a lot less than $199.
I met GWB in Bedford NH when he was campaigning in 2000, shook his hand and had a little chat (before he was elected.) I'm guessing mine goes GWB - some Army General - Army guy that found Saddam - Hussein = 4.
Totally off-topic, but it goes GWB->Donald Rumsfeld->Saddam Hussein. Only 3 degrees. There are pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking SH's hand. I wouldn't be surprised if GWB met SH personally, so there might only be 1 degree.
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You can use fetchmail, a UNIX/Linux command line tool to grab all of your email from your IMAP enabled Gmail account and archive it somewhere else. It can even keep headers intact so it doesn't look like you forwarded all of your email. I would suggest getting another IMAP enabled email server somewhere, whether on a webhost or elsewhere, and have fetchmail run in a daily or hourly cron job, grabbing all new email messages and forwarding them to your backup mail server.
As far as Google docs goes, you'll have to manually save each document to a file, as I don't know how to automate this. You should be able to do a calendar export from Google calendar into a file that can be imported by other calendar software.
Good luck! I still think Google is about 10 times less likely to lose my data than some cheap web hosting company, but they have been known to lose Gmail accounts before.
I'll bet you the architects that designed said manufacturing plants still have work. What I'm saying is don't be the assembly line worker. Instead, design the assembly line. Then, even if all of the manufacturing jobs go to China, you can still design the factories they will work in.
Study. Geek out and read tons of books. Pick something you enjoy doing. Sure, some of the high-end hardware may be tough to get your hands on, but if you want to be a software architect, all you need is a computer and the development framework of your choice. Write your own open source software and get it out there on the web.
You're 100 times more likely to be hired for a senior architect/engineer position if you have some published work out on the web you can show to people. 1000 times more likely if it's something that is very useful to a lot of people or closely aligns with the job you are trying to get.
While I appreciate that it can be hard to bootstrap your career from tech support to architect, the only way to do it is to study and learn (in your own time, or on the job) the skills of the job you want. It takes a lot of hard work, including geeking out at home and on the weekends, but the payoff is worth it in the end, if that's what you love doing.
Amen, brother. I've found in my extensive IT experience that 90% of the people out there don't know how to perform the most simple of IT functions, or are too lazy to do their job. Meanwhile, those of us that are architects and senior engineers are designing and implementing systems that will keep the rest of those unqualified workers in jobs for the next several years performing basic maintenance.
If you want to be in demand, become an expert at architecture, whether it's software, systems, networks, or storage. Become an expert in one of these fields and you will be in demand.
Don't just be a low-level check-box clicker. Those people will never have job security. If it requires no skill to do it, it can be outsourced to someone who will do it for 1/10th your salary.
Get over yourself. Nobody is forced to work overtime. People make bad job choices and end up with demanding managers that expect them to work overtime. Those same people, if they were qualified enough or in demand enough could go get a job that doesn't require them to work overtime. Hell, I work in IT and I've worked at shops that wanted me to work 60 hours a week. I quit those jobs and moved on to a job that doesn't expect me to work more than 40 hours a week, and compensates me if I'm on call or carrying a pager.
It's my experience that the ones that bitch the most about overtime are the ones that are underqualified for their current job, can't get another job that pays the same because they know they aren't qualified, and just want to complain. If you aren't happy at your job, quit! Get a better job and then quit. Don't complain to me about your long hours because I don't want to hear about it. It's a free country, if you think you can do better, put your resume out there and get a better job. Nobody is forcing you to be a slave...
As I understand the case, the criminals installed network sniffers at the retail network headquarters of these companies, and simply sniffed the unencrypted cleartext credit card numbers going across the wire.
I don't think it would be unreasonable to prove that the engineers designing the system should have been aware that this was a major security risk and didn't take adequate steps to prevent it. This is negligence, plain and simple.
I used to thing mandatory licensing for IT workers, similar to the way we license plumbers or electricians was a bad thing, but the more I work in the IT industry and see the incompetence of the average worker, I think it's a necessity. At least it would give consumers a recourse when things like this happened:
"Where your IT professionals licensed?"
"In order to be licensed, isn't it required that you learn how to safeguard data in transit across a network through encryption?"
Judge: "Case closed, awarding punitive damages to the plaintiffs in the amount of $x million."
Because seriously, how is allowing these data breaches to occur any less serious than allowing an unlicensed electrician to install faulty wiring? Sure, nobody will die because of a data breach, but if you count those millions of consumers and the hours each one must spend to clear their credit history of fraud, you're talking several lifetimes worth of lost time. You might as well kill a few people and the outcome would be the same.
Here's a newsflash for you: Your salary depends on your ability to negotiate and sell yourself to your employer. It's a free market. If you don't like your salary, quit, and find a better job. Personally, I'm happy that I'm allowed to negotiate a decent salary because all the poor schmucks that are happy to make less than six figures can suck it. I make six figures because I'm worth it and the company better pay me that or I'll pack up shop and head somewhere else. That's the reality in today's marketplace. Make yourself worth the salary you want to get and then demand it. Don't expect somebody to magically wave a wand and presto chango your salary is based on "time with the company", etc., etc... You want my services? Pay the market rate or I'll go to your competitor. That is the way the market works and you can adapt, or be content making piddly $50k or less a year.
No offense to you, but you probably haven't been to a large technology convention before. I just went to the HP technology forum in June, in Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. I wasn't lucky enough to get a room in the hotel, so I had a room at the Luxor a couple blocks down. They have indoor walkways between the hotels, but one thing you should understand is that it's still at least 1 - 2 miles round trip to walk to and from the convention center.
Now, classes run in mornings, afternoons, and they have exhibitor booths in the evenings. The distance between classes regularly runs half a mile. Take a 2 mile walk, do that in the morning to get to your morning classes. Another mile walking between morning classes, walk back to your hotel at lunch, walk back to your classes in the afternoon, walk back to your hotel to get ready for the evening's festivities and the exhibitor booths. Walk back to the convention for that, then back to the hotel at night.
I easily walked 15-20 miles a day during that convention. I'm very fit and in shape, and even for me it was very excessive. I got blisters on my feet because I wasn't wearing running shoes; instead I was trying to wear business casual. Segways would be perfect for this environment.
And no, I'm not fat. Like I said, I'm fit and physically in great shape. It doesn't matter what type of shape you're in... 15 - 20 miles a day of walking is a bit much.
Computationally infeasible, yes, but the interesting ways I've seen data get corrupted I can only imagine that I would be that one in a quintillion chance that it goes undetected... I seem to have bad luck with data.
The worst part is that some of these phone companies actually send unsolicited SMS spam themselves, to their own customers! How nice is it to receive a spam asking you to "Sign up for e-billing and save a tree" when it comes from your own cellphone company? Great, now I can pay them for the spam they just sent me, and save them money by letting them off the hook for sending me a paper summary of my monthly cellphone spam...err charges.
And this is actually more secure, because the permanent exception will become invalid if the certificate changes, i.e. if you're being attacked by a man-in-the-middle. How many of us use to use FF2 to connect to our self-signed administration websites and always just click "trust for this session" without verifying that the key didn't change? I know I for one actually feel more secure with FF3 because it allows you to easily make a permanent exception. FF2 had the annoying problem that if you make a permanent exception and 2 different administration websites you use had the same self-signed cert, they would conflict with each other and FF2's cert database/store would get corrupted.
The problem is that Mozilla is trying to balance the needs of non-educated consumers who have been the victims of these sophisticated phishing attacks against the needs of more educated geeks like ourselves who know what we're doing when we setup self-signed certificates.
This is a legitimate question... How much security do we need? I think they've struck the right balance.
There is no conspiracy here. Mozilla is not trying to put your "free" website out of business. It's perfectly valid for them to give a lot of warnings, and I think their method of adding a self-signed certificate and then never being bothered about it again is highly usable, and easier to use than the previous method in Firefox 2.
Dude, that problem has been around since October of 2007, when Leopard was first released. It's been fixed and I think it's related to spotlight trying to index your syslog files. Seriously, if it's still bothering you that much, google for a fix or call Apple tech support.
It wasn't that binary support was so much added, as it was "hacked on". People would uuencode binary files, a conversion process which would turn 8-bit ASCII into 7-bit text that wouldn't get mangled, then stick it in the body of a message. It used to be you had to run a binary file through a uuencode binary program, then pipe the output into a mail message text file, but modern newsgroup readers now do this for you. Also, most people use mime encoding now as it allows you to encode a little more efficiently than 7-bit text. Then, they came up with ways to split large binary files across multiple messages, since there are size limits on individual messages.
Binary compatibility was a hack, bolted on to usenet, and I'm sure the original designers probably cringed to think that people were stuffing so much data in their nifty little text messaging protocol...
You have some pretty good advice generally, but I take exception to the "No Fats" rule. Sure, you want your protein sources to be very lean, and don't want saturated fats, but you also need to make sure you get a good supply of healthy fats. There is a difference between good and bad fats, and healthy fats that are mostly from vegetable sources like flax seeds, avocados, and also omega 3s from salmon and other fish oil are very important. Your body needs these healthy fats because they help build the tissue that supports important things like arteries and blood vessels. So, if you're doing weight training, cardio, or any type of exercise designed to build or strengthen the muscles in your body, be sure to get a good supply of healthy fats. It should be 20-30% of your caloric intake.
Just stay away from saturated fats like what you find in red meat (always eat lean red meat), fried foods, and especially trans fats. These are all bad fats.
Personally, I like to gorge myself on the occasional homemade guacamole, nuts like almonds and walnuts, and a few servings a week of salmon. I don't eat a bowl of guacamole every day, but fats like that are good for your body. There is far too much misinformation out there that "Fat = Bad". This is just not true. Some fats are bad, but some fats are incredibly healthy.
For a real world example, look at the Alaskan eskimo population. They have ridiculously long lifespans, some living over 100 years, without the benefit of modern medicine. It turns out the majority of their diet was fish, especially a lot of salmon and other fish with high concentrations of omega 3 fatty acids. The health benefits to the entire body, but especially the cardiovascular system, are amazing.
While I don't know for a fact this is the case, you might try reading the fine print on the package to ensure that the Nutrition Facts are not listing "cooked weight" or cooked serving size where the package is listing uncooked weight. I've noticed this on microwave popcorn packaging. They have to list the ounces of uncooked weight, but the Nutrition Facts are based on what the product is like right before consuming it (after being popped). Some foods will list both sets of information in the Nutrition Facts.
Also, in the US the FDA is very strict about the Nutrition Facts label being on all foods, and being fairly accurate. While it doesn't have a lot of information about chemical and preservative content and won't tell you if the product has MSG, I've found them to be fairly reliable indicators of the caloric, fat, and carb content in most foods.
I'm tagging this article "irony" because it is the very definition of the word...
I noticed this in my 2006 Jetta TDI and it drives me nuts. My girlfriend doesn't notice it, but I do. Every time I pull off the freeway and am sitting on an offramp my stereo turns down. If I wanted to turn the volume down, I would reach out and turn the frickin' volume knob.
For people like me that want to listen to music at loud volumes all of the time, not just at freeway speeds, it is annoying.
Sorry, this isn't VMware ESX server. This is their ESXi product, which doesn't use standard Linux drivers. It's more of an embedded OS. How do you think you could fit a Linux kernel, hypervisor, and drivers for all the storage devices that ESX supports in 32MB?
I also have to correct you about using unmodified Linux drivers. VMware does a pretty extensive certification process for their drivers on ESX, and they modify quite a few of them to remove bugs, increase stability and performance, etc. If you try to just hack any source tarball and compile it on ESX, you're in for a rude awakening. It probably won't work, and even if it does, it won't be supported by VMware so you're essentially running an unsupported configuration. For any production VMware system, you don't want to be unsupported, trust me.
Actually, this isn't true. It is pretty much agreed on by everyone that the New Deal ended the great depression of the 30s. Some of the public works projects were of questionable need as well. Building national parks? Hello? People are starving to death and unemployed and you want to build national parks. The fact is, putting people to work helps the economy in ways you obviously don't understand.
Your argument completely falls apart here. Even though they just dug a ditch and filled it back in again, contributing nothing useful to society, those 20,000 workers drew a salary, paid taxes back to the government on that salary, and more importantly, purchased goods and services such as food, energy, housing, and labor from their local communities. That, my friend, is what stimulates the economy. The jobs by themselves don't do much other than keep people from becoming lawless thugs. It is the paychecks they draw that stimulate the economy.
So, if we're going to start "public works" programs of dubious merit in order to bolster our failing economy, we might as well have them working on something that everyone agrees is necessary: energy independence. Digging ditches is pretty much a waste, but energy independence is a very valuable goal.
You should learn a little more about economics before you start disparaging public works projects as not contributing anything to the economy.
I too have noticed that Vista 64 Home Premium SP1 runs fine on top of the line hardware, such as your workstation class notebook. I have it running on an Intel Q6600 quad core, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GT, and it runs admirably.
The people having problems with Vista seem to have only 1GB RAM or less, and ancient older computers without dedicated graphics cards.
I won't fault them for hating an OS that runs like molasses when XP runs just fine on anything with 1GB of RAM.
For those of us that have really top of the line PCs like you and I, sure, we can run it just fine, and for the most part, still have no major problems with it (except I still wonder why it takes 2-3 minutes to delete a lot of files... what the hell is it doing all that time?).
For the vast majority of PC users that don't upgrade every year and don't need top of the line equipment, there is a night and day difference between XP and Vista.
Oh, and by the way, I did have to spend about 4 hours turning off every single unnecessary service, background indexing, and hacking the registry to make it decent to play games in, but that was long ago and I've mostly forgotten about all of that effort...
Actually, I believe the only way to break this law is to make it impossible for the government to prosecute. Everyone should just become basement "artists" and publish IP on the web. Put blogs up, and then force the government to prosecute Google, Yahoo, MSN search, for indexing your blog. Use automation to file copyright complaints in the millions against every index on the web. Overburden the courts with so many fake lawsuits that the government has no choice but to back down.
Our legislators have proven that they're bought and paid for by the lobbyists. It's past the point of them representing the people.
It's time for civil disobedience, and I think they'll find that there is no such thing as enforceable IP on the web.
You want a Macbook-air thin wireless touch screen tablet device for $200? I want world peace, Dick Cheney's head on a pike, and a pony... good luck with that!
I'll admit what they are talking about sounds really cool, but the real world limitations of battery technology, thin electronics, and design prowess that only companies like Apple seem to have will make this thing cost $2000-3000 when it's finally done. Sorry, you just can't cram all of that good stuff into a 0.5 inch enclosure for $200.
I call BS. You may have a "higher" monthly bill if you always pay late and get hit with a $5 late fee on every single bill, but it still wouldn't be that much.
I have an original iPhone, on the basic plan ($39.99 for 450 anytime minutes, rollover, and $20.00 for iPhone 2G data plan + 200 text messages). My total is $59.99, and with taxes and fees I pay about $65 a month.
If I messed up and paid late, it would be over $70, but at $65 a month, I can live with it.
No, I won't be upgrading to iPhone 3G. Sure, GPS is nice, and faster data is nice, but my iPhone still works great, wifi is everywhere nowadays, and 3G battery life sucks. As it is, I only need to charge my iPhone every other night. Battery life is still great after 1 year of heavy use.
I'll upgrade next year, maybe, when my contract runs out and I have some more negotiating power with AT&T.
Tip: If you want a really expensive, shiny, new smartphone, wait until you are no longer on a contract, then tell them you're going to switch carriers. You'd be surprised how much they will bend over trying to keep your business. Without a contract, you have all the power in the world to get special deals. Tell them you are ready to cancel your service, and they usually transfer you to a special "customer retention" department that has more power to negotiate a deal with you. You'll probably find that new $199 iPhone might just cost you a lot less than $199.
Totally off-topic, but it goes GWB->Donald Rumsfeld->Saddam Hussein. Only 3 degrees. There are pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking SH's hand. I wouldn't be surprised if GWB met SH personally, so there might only be 1 degree.