I got an XM Roady for Christmas. I have a 12 hour drive between my Oklahoma City appartment, and my parent's home in El Paso. I also have a 6 hour drive between OKC and my other home in Austin. (The one that I don't visit often enough.)
Yesterday, my dad and I installed the system in my car. (We also installed his identical system in his truck.) Both systems activated, and I spent the 12 hour drive today giving it a thorough workout. (About five hours of the drive between El Paso and OKC is out of range of any FM radio station.)
I never turned it off for the entire drive. I was switching between Channels 44, 47, 22, and the news channels for the entire drive. I'm not a big media junkie. I don't have cable, and my TV is still in the moving box where it's resided for six months. I'm thoroughly enjoying this service though. It has a good variety, and so what if some of the stations have short playlists? There are just as many others with very long and varied playlists. (Just stay out of Ch. 20-29.)
If you spend a lot of time on travel like I do, this can be a God-send. I can also pull the system out of my car and take it with me out of town. If you spend lots of time in the car, it's great. And finally, if you're a news junkie like I am, you have a choice between CNN, CNN Headline, ABC, FoxNews, BBC, and a couple of others.
When you put this in perspective, this really didn't take that long. It took us almost two decades to catch the Unibomber, and three or four years to catch Eric Rudolph. This is a lot like the Rudolph case, where he turned up exactly where they'd been looking for him.
Now we just need to catch that other jerk, Bin Laden.
I work for a government agency in the U.S., and as you can imagine, it's saturated with sysadmins who watch over security, resource allocations, etc. Our solution was to build our own network infrastructure. We purchased two servers, cross-trained about six of us to work as admins on those servers, and completely bypassed the regular admins. The result is that we're one of the most productive organizations in our industry, because we were willing to put in a little extra effort to get around the problem.
A friend of mine got a power bill from OOG&E a couple of months ago for over $350. When she called to ask about the rather glaring overcharge, she was informed that it would take a $50 fee to send someone out to re-read her power-meter. So, they left her with a choice of dealing with a mistake, or paying extra to the power company to fix their own mistake.
Find a good coffee shop with Wi-Fi internet access, and do some work there part of the week. If you need access to your home network, buy the cheap VPN router from Linksys.
A Democrat did try to do the same thing. All of the provisions in Patriot I & II were originally asked for by Reno and Company to combat domestic terrorism.
"And it might not be a good idea if you tried it against a high-profile person -- for example, George is currently visiting here in London at the moment; the reaction from the police and Secret Service is unlikely to be favourable..."
The response from the Secret Service is likely to be lethal.
To further your point, how are they going to assess a tax on mail sent from an overseas server. Moving overseas is already a common tactic to skirt telemarketing laws, and a lot of spam already comes from off-shore.
I like more creative tactics, like the time that a bunch of people signed up a spammer for every mailing list and catalog possible, basically causing a denial of service attack on his physical address.
Did anybody notice that it's located in Alberta. That means that the crappy pay rate is in Canadian Dollars and is probably the equivalent of about 13-15 US Dollars.
Okay, probably not, but I do worry over the implications that this kind of breakthrough will have on us. I'm sure that there are lots of beneficial appliccations yada yada, blah blah blah, but the unintended consequences have the potential to be devastating.
O'Reilly has a book out by Karim Yaghmour called "Building Embedded Linux Systems". (ISBN number: 0-596-00222-X) I'm about half way through it now, and it has answers to most of the stupid mistakes I made early on involving tool-chain setup. The book's worth the price just for that chapter.
I'm also in the early stages of a project using Linux in an embedded system. I'll probably be going with either a PC/104 or ARM7 based solution.
When I first read the headline, my dislexia kicked in and I thought they said that Sauron had been cut from the third movie. My first thought was that he was being replaced by a little white rabbit with very sharp teeth.
Where do they think they'll find chip-design engineers who will work on Windows? I wouldn't do that type of work on that platform, and all the others I know will only use a Unix based system for their engineering work. Does this mean that MS will be installing a new Linux network to develop their new ASICs?
I'm sure it's possible, but designing ICs requires some serious software and hardware tools, and an OS that won't get in the engineers way.
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I got an XM Roady for Christmas. I have a 12 hour drive between my Oklahoma City appartment, and my parent's home in El Paso. I also have a 6 hour drive between OKC and my other home in Austin. (The one that I don't visit often enough.)
Yesterday, my dad and I installed the system in my car. (We also installed his identical system in his truck.) Both systems activated, and I spent the 12 hour drive today giving it a thorough workout. (About five hours of the drive between El Paso and OKC is out of range of any FM radio station.)
I never turned it off for the entire drive. I was switching between Channels 44, 47, 22, and the news channels for the entire drive. I'm not a big media junkie. I don't have cable, and my TV is still in the moving box where it's resided for six months. I'm thoroughly enjoying this service though. It has a good variety, and so what if some of the stations have short playlists? There are just as many others with very long and varied playlists. (Just stay out of Ch. 20-29.)
If you spend a lot of time on travel like I do, this can be a God-send. I can also pull the system out of my car and take it with me out of town. If you spend lots of time in the car, it's great. And finally, if you're a news junkie like I am, you have a choice between CNN, CNN Headline, ABC, FoxNews, BBC, and a couple of others.
That's not much better.
Now, can someone please make a television that shows something worth watching?
Yes, the red light is supposed to be on one of the wings, not the nose.
When you put this in perspective, this really didn't take that long. It took us almost two decades to catch the Unibomber, and three or four years to catch Eric Rudolph. This is a lot like the Rudolph case, where he turned up exactly where they'd been looking for him.
Now we just need to catch that other jerk, Bin Laden.
No, we went to the Sys admin classes, got certified, and we're using Sun systems. Not that windows crap.
I work for a government agency in the U.S., and as you can imagine, it's saturated with sysadmins who watch over security, resource allocations, etc. Our solution was to build our own network infrastructure. We purchased two servers, cross-trained about six of us to work as admins on those servers, and completely bypassed the regular admins. The result is that we're one of the most productive organizations in our industry, because we were willing to put in a little extra effort to get around the problem.
A friend in College ran over his HP48 with a car. It looked bad, but the display was fine, and all the keys still worked.
A friend of mine got a power bill from OOG&E a couple of months ago for over $350. When she called to ask about the rather glaring overcharge, she was informed that it would take a $50 fee to send someone out to re-read her power-meter. So, they left her with a choice of dealing with a mistake, or paying extra to the power company to fix their own mistake.
I'll loan you all you want at 20% APR.
Find a good coffee shop with Wi-Fi internet access, and do some work there part of the week. If you need access to your home network, buy the cheap VPN router from Linksys.
Just tell them that it's not a technical term and that it applies to an "alternative lifestyle" and the freaks will back off immediately.
A Democrat did try to do the same thing. All of the provisions in Patriot I & II were originally asked for by Reno and Company to combat domestic terrorism.
"And it might not be a good idea if you tried it against a high-profile person -- for example, George is currently visiting here in London at the moment; the reaction from the police and Secret Service is unlikely to be favourable..."
The response from the Secret Service is likely to be lethal.
If I just set up a private server for me and my friends to use, I can dodge this stupid scheme, and the government would be none the wiser.
To further your point, how are they going to assess a tax on mail sent from an overseas server. Moving overseas is already a common tactic to skirt telemarketing laws, and a lot of spam already comes from off-shore.
I like more creative tactics, like the time that a bunch of people signed up a spammer for every mailing list and catalog possible, basically causing a denial of service attack on his physical address.
No, the people in Greenpeace are common-sense free, life-free and intelligence-free.
Raising your family is good. That's a worthy ambition, but working a dead-end job forever isn't a requirement for it.
Did anybody notice that it's located in Alberta. That means that the crappy pay rate is in Canadian Dollars and is probably the equivalent of about 13-15 US Dollars.
Okay, let's not get too picky. You know what I meant.
Okay, probably not, but I do worry over the implications that this kind of breakthrough will have on us. I'm sure that there are lots of beneficial appliccations yada yada, blah blah blah, but the unintended consequences have the potential to be devastating.
O'Reilly has a book out by Karim Yaghmour called "Building Embedded Linux Systems". (ISBN number: 0-596-00222-X) I'm about half way through it now, and it has answers to most of the stupid mistakes I made early on involving tool-chain setup. The book's worth the price just for that chapter.
I'm also in the early stages of a project using Linux in an embedded system. I'll probably be going with either a PC/104 or ARM7 based solution.
When I first read the headline, my dislexia kicked in and I thought they said that Sauron had been cut from the third movie. My first thought was that he was being replaced by a little white rabbit with very sharp teeth.
Mayor Daily is probably asking "What's the Problem? Don't you always vote seventy times in an election?"
Where do they think they'll find chip-design engineers who will work on Windows? I wouldn't do that type of work on that platform, and all the others I know will only use a Unix based system for their engineering work. Does this mean that MS will be installing a new Linux network to develop their new ASICs?
I'm sure it's possible, but designing ICs requires some serious software and hardware tools, and an OS that won't get in the engineers way.
It's even worse than driving to El Paso after dark, and there's nothing out there.