LibraryThing works great for inventory purposes, especially with a library as large as the querent states he has. (I personally have over 2000 books entered into LT at this point.) Using tags for location purposes is another great idea, and there are a good many LT users already doing that. As for open format, no, the software running it isn't open, but a CSV datadump of one's personal library is available. I have a spreadsheet on the home computer and on the PDA so I can make sure I don't buy books twice.
However, the poster's still going to have a mess of books. Taking them all off the shelf to catalog the things is a good start, but he needs to know where to find them. I'd sort them on the shelves by subject matter, then size, then by author and title. Then use LT or whatever tag-supporting cataloging software to tag locations of the books once they are on the shelf.
I admit I was using OpenBiblio before, which does meet the OP's requirements for an open program and will do all those nifty cataloging and locating things except, perhaps, for cooperation with the barcode scanner--but it's more for actual library use and may just be a bit too in-depth for your home user.
I worked in accounts receivable for Lucent back in 1998, dealing with small business accounts. It's simply amazing how many of these business customers never bothered reading their bills. The only thing we found effective on getting customers to stop leasing or paying maintenance contracts on old, outdated equipment (including rotary phones) was by raising the monthly rate to the point where the customer would call in. We'd point them over to sales and ask them if they'd prefer to buy the equipment they already had (I have no idea what they were charged, if anything), upgrade to a new system, or continue the lease.
Surprisingly, there were customers who chose to continue the overpriced lease on outdated equipment.
I also encountered a few cases where some customer or another would be paying maintenance fees on rotary phones, and then the company would finally get someone to look at the books or they'd rotate in a new IT person, and we'd get a call. "What's this? Maintenance on a rotary phone? We threw those out back in '89 when we moved." "I'm sorry, ma'am, I can remove it from the account but I can't refund the charges." I could see where they were coming from, but they should have been READING THE BILL for the past 10 years.
I'd have to say that Avaya will probably get hit with a lot of the charges from this settlement, as Lucent doesn't really deal with telephones anymore...I worked for the division that later became Avaya. Of course, by that point, my contract was up and I was long gone, just like the rest of the permanent employees at our office.
And then, to replace people that decided to jump ship before the end of the six or so months, some companies hire contract workers, who end up doing the bulk of the work.
Yes, I've been there...I would have liked to call these people "lazy" but then again, I felt the same way when my term of employment ended up mysteriously shortened...the company decided to open up the new location early and let everyone go 4 months before the original date given.
Actually, I didn't, my co-workers did over the last weekend, for our supervisor's birthday. She was none too pleased, especially since she has a latex allergy.
I got stuck with the job of deflating most of the balloons. Next year, I'm suggesting packing peanuts ^_^
After seeing this article, I got rather curious about registering a.us domain (I had thought about it 3 years ago, and really should have done it then-seemed easier.)
Well, according to the handy-dandy guide at http://www.nic.us, the US domain registry can't take care of it for me, because the town subdomain is delegated. Unfortunately, the company it's delegated to is no longer doing business under the same name, and the contact address is for the postmaster. I'm too tired to mail them now, but in my past dealings with company in question all I've received is a letter on the proper place to forward spam.
Is it no wonder the locality in question gave up on ci.town-name.mn.us and went over to town-name.org?
So my question is-anyone manage to register a.us successfully? (Especially in Minnesota?)
Card Captor Sakura's been showing on WB for about a month or two. Unfortunately, they renamed the series to Cardcaptors and cut out a lot of the episodes focusing on Sakura. Check out http://www.anipike.com/lastexit/lexit2.html for more info (only good for 4 more days, it's the July issue)
The unofficial gopher hosted at Point Loma University is still running and actively maintained, and even has a list of new Gophers for 1999 and other still-functioning Gophers. The Privacy Forum Gopher was updated just 2 weeks ago.
MediaOne system-swapped with AT&T Broadband in Chicago about a year ago...ATT got Chicago, and M1 got something else that I can't remember. Think it was in the Miami area.
(Caveat: I haven't been out of North America, but my friends have.)
My former roommate is from Chennai in India and she told me that there are Internet kiosks and shops all over India, where one can rent a computer for small intervals of time. Seems to me that this can work in more than just India. I've used kiosks in the US when I didn't have a functional computer. For checking email or catching up with friends, they're great.
If you're using IE5 at least (I don't usually, but it's in front of me, so I know where to find things) there are two ways of defeating cookies. Both involve going to Internet Options (under the Tools menu.)
First is general cookie handling. When in Internet Options, click on the Advanced tab, and there should be an option there to either disable all cookies, accept all cookies, or be prompted to accept a cookie. I don't have the exact because the IE settings are disabled on the computer I'm currently using.
The second option is to manage cookies by security zones. Click on the Security tab. You can select global settings for the Internet zone (all the Internet) by clicking on Internet, and then clicking on Custom Level. There are two methods of cookie management: "Allow cookies that are stored on your computer" and "Allow per-session cookies." Options are Disable, Enable, and Prompt. You can also set servers to be put into Restricted zones, where you can select different cookie options for those servers as opposed to the general Internet zone. I have DoubleClick in Restricted and am not troubled by their cookies. IP addresses can be put into Restricted.
FrontPage does, by default, only put file name and file size in an ALT tag, but that can be fixed by either going into the image properties (by right-clicking on the image) or by editing the source directly in FP. The only problem I've seen with FP and ALT tags is that it's impossible to create a blank ALT by using ALT="" ; FP98 renders this as ALT= . I have no idea if it's been fixed in FP2K.
The ARIN whois at http://www.arin.net/whois lists many separate owners of 24.x.x.x addresses. Yes, many of them do belong to cable companies like Videotron, Time Warner and MediaOne (Road Runner) and @Home Networks, but some don't, like those for Blazenet and its customers.
Seems to me that the original poster mentioned that downloading data at community colleges was horribly slow. I attend a community college and I do know, for what all the politicians in this country talk about "lifetime learning", CC students and faculty aren't exactly first in line for resources.
So for all I2 is supposed to be an academic network, there are going to be a lot of schools that need a higher bandwidth option and aren't going to see one.
(Of course, what I'd like to see is states accounting more monies to get rid of all the 386s and 486s in the programming lab-or at least not run Windows on them. That would be the first step in modernization.)
Correct. Burnt lasagna is not dinner. Neither are oddly-colored corn chips. (Christmas colors? Whose wacko idea was that?) The good thing is that my employer had drawings for prizes for the people who worked. I won some sort of radio, which I keep forgetting to pick up because I am too stressed out and sick.
Nothing happened. I left at 2:30 AM and nearly got my car crashed into by a Green & White cab traveling at exceedingly high speeds. I didn't see a single police car out at night, although I saw about 6 just on a two-mile trip to the grocery at 3 PM. I just don't get it.
I seem to remember a "Super Mario Bros." cartoon that was out about 10 years ago. It also featured Legend of Zelda shorts. There aren't any new episodes being made, but gamers are playing new releases of Mario and Zelda games. Final Fantasy games inspired several animated films. We're on FF8 right now, right?
So the TV show is over, and the toys won't be popular Christmas 2000. If the past proves predictive, we'll be looking forward to more Pokemon gaming excitement for the next 10 years-no matter if there's an anime attached or not.
One of the big cost issues with cable-modem tech support is truck rolls. There are quite a few customers who just want a cable guy to come out to the house, they aren't willing to troubleshoot over the phone and will just say "it doesn't work, it doesn't work" to the helpdesk person so they can get a trouble call.
There is a lot of gatekeeping going on and this is why-truck rolls are really really expensive, especially when it turns out the reason we went out is because the user didn't have his modem plugged in, or some other easy-to-solve problem.
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LibraryThing works great for inventory purposes, especially with a library as large as the querent states he has. (I personally have over 2000 books entered into LT at this point.) Using tags for location purposes is another great idea, and there are a good many LT users already doing that. As for open format, no, the software running it isn't open, but a CSV datadump of one's personal library is available. I have a spreadsheet on the home computer and on the PDA so I can make sure I don't buy books twice.
However, the poster's still going to have a mess of books. Taking them all off the shelf to catalog the things is a good start, but he needs to know where to find them. I'd sort them on the shelves by subject matter, then size, then by author and title. Then use LT or whatever tag-supporting cataloging software to tag locations of the books once they are on the shelf.
I admit I was using OpenBiblio before, which does meet the OP's requirements for an open program and will do all those nifty cataloging and locating things except, perhaps, for cooperation with the barcode scanner--but it's more for actual library use and may just be a bit too in-depth for your home user.
I worked in accounts receivable for Lucent back in 1998, dealing with small business accounts. It's simply amazing how many of these business customers never bothered reading their bills. The only thing we found effective on getting customers to stop leasing or paying maintenance contracts on old, outdated equipment (including rotary phones) was by raising the monthly rate to the point where the customer would call in. We'd point them over to sales and ask them if they'd prefer to buy the equipment they already had (I have no idea what they were charged, if anything), upgrade to a new system, or continue the lease.
Surprisingly, there were customers who chose to continue the overpriced lease on outdated equipment.
I also encountered a few cases where some customer or another would be paying maintenance fees on rotary phones, and then the company would finally get someone to look at the books or they'd rotate in a new IT person, and we'd get a call. "What's this? Maintenance on a rotary phone? We threw those out back in '89 when we moved." "I'm sorry, ma'am, I can remove it from the account but I can't refund the charges." I could see where they were coming from, but they should have been READING THE BILL for the past 10 years.
I'd have to say that Avaya will probably get hit with a lot of the charges from this settlement, as Lucent doesn't really deal with telephones anymore...I worked for the division that later became Avaya. Of course, by that point, my contract was up and I was long gone, just like the rest of the permanent employees at our office.
25- Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold (SF) 31- A Caress of Twilight, Laurell K. Hamilton (fantasy)
It may not make top 10, but it's there...
And then, to replace people that decided to jump ship before the end of the six or so months, some companies hire contract workers, who end up doing the bulk of the work.
Yes, I've been there...I would have liked to call these people "lazy" but then again, I felt the same way when my term of employment ended up mysteriously shortened...the company decided to open up the new location early and let everyone go 4 months before the original date given.
It also seems like all the call centers got fed the "best in the country" line when the ax fell...
Actually, I didn't, my co-workers did over the last weekend, for our supervisor's birthday. She was none too pleased, especially since she has a latex allergy.
I got stuck with the job of deflating most of the balloons. Next year, I'm suggesting packing peanuts ^_^
After seeing this article, I got rather curious about registering a .us domain (I had thought about it 3 years ago, and really should have done it then-seemed easier.)
.us successfully? (Especially in Minnesota?)
Well, according to the handy-dandy guide at http://www.nic.us, the US domain registry can't take care of it for me, because the town subdomain is delegated. Unfortunately, the company it's delegated to is no longer doing business under the same name, and the contact address is for the postmaster. I'm too tired to mail them now, but in my past dealings with company in question all I've received is a letter on the proper place to forward spam.
Is it no wonder the locality in question gave up on ci.town-name.mn.us and went over to town-name.org?
So my question is-anyone manage to register a
Card Captor Sakura's been showing on WB for about a month or two. Unfortunately, they renamed the series to Cardcaptors and cut out a lot of the episodes focusing on Sakura. Check out http://www.anipike.com/lastexit/lexit2.html for more info (only good for 4 more days, it's the July issue)
http://www.redrival.com/moonbrat/c herryblossoms/ looks like a pretty good site for analysis of the American dub.
Every day, at 3:00 Central, on Cartoon Network in the US. DIC is no longer dubbing them, the American division of Toei is.
The unofficial gopher hosted at Point Loma University is still running and actively maintained, and even has a list of new Gophers for 1999 and other still-functioning Gophers. The Privacy Forum Gopher was updated just 2 weeks ago.
MediaOne system-swapped with AT&T Broadband in Chicago about a year ago...ATT got Chicago, and M1 got something else that I can't remember. Think it was in the Miami area.
55% of voting share according to the annual report.
Without remotes and receivers, mine's about $38 in MN. Without tax and franchise fee (eww!) it's about $31. Where the heck do you live?!
USWest bought Continental Cablevision, turned it into USWest Media Group, and spun it off a few years later into MediaOne.
(Caveat: I haven't been out of North America, but my friends have.)
My former roommate is from Chennai in India and she told me that there are Internet kiosks and shops all over India, where one can rent a computer for small intervals of time. Seems to me that this can work in more than just India. I've used kiosks in the US when I didn't have a functional computer. For checking email or catching up with friends, they're great.
If you're using IE5 at least (I don't usually, but it's in front of me, so I know where to find things) there are two ways of defeating cookies. Both involve going to Internet Options (under the Tools menu.)
First is general cookie handling. When in Internet Options, click on the Advanced tab, and there should be an option there to either disable all cookies, accept all cookies, or be prompted to accept a cookie. I don't have the exact because the IE settings are disabled on the computer I'm currently using.
The second option is to manage cookies by security zones. Click on the Security tab. You can select global settings for the Internet zone (all the Internet) by clicking on Internet, and then clicking on Custom Level. There are two methods of cookie management: "Allow cookies that are stored on your computer" and "Allow per-session cookies." Options are Disable, Enable, and Prompt. You can also set servers to be put into Restricted zones, where you can select different cookie options for those servers as opposed to the general Internet zone. I have DoubleClick in Restricted and am not troubled by their cookies. IP addresses can be put into Restricted.
There's lots of interesting SF information available at the Science Fiction Foundation Collection site, which is hosting the Wyndham archive.
FrontPage does, by default, only put file name and file size in an ALT tag, but that can be fixed by either going into the image properties (by right-clicking on the image) or by editing the source directly in FP. The only problem I've seen with FP and ALT tags is that it's impossible to create a blank ALT by using ALT="" ; FP98 renders this as ALT= . I have no idea if it's been fixed in FP2K.
The ARIN whois at http://www.arin.net/whois lists many separate owners of 24.x.x.x addresses. Yes, many of them do belong to cable companies like Videotron, Time Warner and MediaOne (Road Runner) and @Home Networks, but some don't, like those for Blazenet and its customers.
My car is OK, but I'm still sick. I have the other Y2K bug, and so does most of the office. Flu and its actalike viruses are not fun.
Seems to me that the original poster mentioned that downloading data at community colleges was horribly slow. I attend a community college and I do know, for what all the politicians in this country talk about "lifetime learning", CC students and faculty aren't exactly first in line for resources.
So for all I2 is supposed to be an academic network, there are going to be a lot of schools that need a higher bandwidth option and aren't going to see one.
(Of course, what I'd like to see is states accounting more monies to get rid of all the 386s and 486s in the programming lab-or at least not run Windows on them. That would be the first step in modernization.)
Correct. Burnt lasagna is not dinner. Neither are oddly-colored corn chips. (Christmas colors? Whose wacko idea was that?) The good thing is that my employer had drawings for prizes for the people who worked. I won some sort of radio, which I keep forgetting to pick up because I am too stressed out and sick.
Nothing happened. I left at 2:30 AM and nearly got my car crashed into by a Green & White cab traveling at exceedingly high speeds. I didn't see a single police car out at night, although I saw about 6 just on a two-mile trip to the grocery at 3 PM. I just don't get it.
I seem to remember a "Super Mario Bros." cartoon that was out about 10 years ago. It also featured Legend of Zelda shorts. There aren't any new episodes being made, but gamers are playing new releases of Mario and Zelda games. Final Fantasy games inspired several animated films. We're on FF8 right now, right?
So the TV show is over, and the toys won't be popular Christmas 2000. If the past proves predictive, we'll be looking forward to more Pokemon gaming excitement for the next 10 years-no matter if there's an anime attached or not.
One of the big cost issues with cable-modem tech support is truck rolls. There are quite a few customers who just want a cable guy to come out to the house, they aren't willing to troubleshoot over the phone and will just say "it doesn't work, it doesn't work" to the helpdesk person so they can get a trouble call.
There is a lot of gatekeeping going on and this is why-truck rolls are really really expensive, especially when it turns out the reason we went out is because the user didn't have his modem plugged in, or some other easy-to-solve problem.
It came up just fine, although slow. It's 19 hops away from me, so that could be a reason...