The Guru link was a bit of a dud. I spent 20 minutes getting through their registration to find that their best contract resource was a link to the Nolo Press book. I already knew that one.:)
TechRepublic was much more useful. They had a template contract that I feel adapts quite well for use as a SysAdmin contract.
Since I would be a troll if I didn't contribute to a thread that I started, here is my current revision of a SysAdmin Contract.
I have been tracking an aquantances domain name that expired over five months ago, and yet NSI won't release it in the database. If they can't properly expire domains, how can we trust them to sell ones that haven't expired yet?
Yes, the software that comes with the DM2 does leave a little to be desired, but the full version of Mixman Studio Pro 4.0 (after patching) supports the DM2.
http://www.mixman.com/software/
Sorry I can't give you a direct link to Studio Pro... All that Flash wasn't MY idea.:)
-Chris
ps. I may not have worked onthe DM2, but I'm in the credits for Studio Pro.:)
I moved from California to Florida last year. On each of my businees trips back to California I would ship a little more of the gear I had to leave behind on my moving trip. I generally used UPS, but UPS will not ship a complete computer unless it is in its original packaging. Like most people on Slashdot, I build my own computers; and the packaging a case comes in was not designed for a fully loaded computer. So this last trip I used FedEx Ground, shipping on my personal account with them. Two days after shipping I knew I had a problem when my tracking numbers yielded no results on their web site.
Three of the packages left the Oakland FedEx depot with someone else's name and address on them, and one went back to the depot. Someone had stuck NEW tracking numbers over the old ones AFTER my paperwork had been completed and given back to me with tracking stickers affixed.
It took nearly a week of harassing FedEx Ground Tracking to locate the packaged. I resorted to harassment when the first day of calls yielded nothing more than "Those are not valid tracking numbers according to the system, so I can not help you." I was never 'offered' to speak to a manager, I had to demand it.
My packages were finally located by matching the WEIGHTS(!) of my boxes to boxes that left the depot on the same day. One had to be intercepted before it was delivered to someone else.
In the end it turned out well, but not without a lot of aggrivation and phone calls.
I wish anyone well who ships anything valuable. Nobody will care for your posessions the way you would.
"Everyone else in the real world has to use real age verification systems (be is visual "hmm, he looks like a 11 year old" or "ID please") when it comes to things that can be deemed "harmful" to minors, so why shouldn't online systems?"
You have obviously never had a child dial a 900 number in your home... No age verification required.
Why are internet based system subject to restrictions that telephone based systems are not?
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc.
From: John Polstra
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Update to fix CVSup timestamp bug
Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG
This morning a bug was discovered in most versions of CVSup up to and including SNAP_16_1c. The bug causes all newly-updated files to receive incorrect timestamps. Usually the files receive timestamps from early in 1970. This bug has been present for a very long time, but it only began to have an effect when the Unix representation of
the date and time passed 1,000,000,000. That occurred on 9 September 2001 at 01:46:40 UTC. Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed to produce an S1G bug.
I have fixed the bug and have released a new snapshot of CVSup, SNAP_16_1d. I have also created binary packages for FreeBSD-4.x which
can be installed using "pkg_add". For information about updating your CVSup installation, look here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/
To fix the bug, both the client and the server need to be upgraded to SNAP_16_1d. The FreeBSD mirror site maintainers have been working feverishly to upgrade their installations. Many of them are already upgraded, and the rest will be upgraded soon. Meanwhile, all CVSup users should upgrade their CVSup installations.
I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and thank you in advance for your patience.
John Polstra
This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce.
The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities,
important events and project milestones.
See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org
I work in San Francisco, and I telecommute from Tampa Florida. I found my Tampa house on-line from San Francsico using www.realtor.com. The agent had posted a 'virtual tour' that included some horridly distoreed 360 degree views, but otherwise the listing was very accurate and useful. I had my family check it out and after that I flew out to see it personally. Three weeks later I signed the papers and moved in.
All in all, it was a pretty good experience.
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WW II is over! Germany is defeated! Encryption helped us win this way!
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Three years folks. Just because most of the folk here had missed/forgotten this one doesn't make it 'news'.
IE: a department store, cannot pick out a specific individuals and claim they are trespassing while allowing the rest of the public free access.
This is completely FALSE. Perhaps you have never seen one of the signs that state "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."?
Department stores use video surveilance and eject from the premesis known and suspected shoplifters.
Casinos are known for ejecting 'professional' gamblers.
Is a 'thief of content' any better than a shoplifter? Not in my book. I reserve the right to refuse access to anyone I choose. And I have. My server rejects requests from several content scanning agencies who do not provide public search services.
One of the coolest tools I have used for adding audio to websites is Beatnik, and I wish there was a port of the Beatnik Player and Authoring Tools for Linux.
Not true. There have been several groups making requests to the SETI@Home folks to add processor optimizations. The 3DNOW camp of AMD zealots even rewrote the transformation routine used by S@H and submitted it for inclusion, and the S@H dolts refused the help.
There are some who would cheat, and there are others who want to show how 'their' processor excels. You can't drop someone in either group without reviewing their code.
I recently backed down from having LASIK performed to correct my vision. I was not happy with the vagueness of the expected result, and the incredibly long list of possible side effects they wanted me to sign off on.
For $2500 I want a guarantee. Since that isn't possible I want a guarantee that they will 'make things right' if there is a problem. Since I couldn't get that I backed off.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks itwerx!
The Guru link was a bit of a dud. I spent 20 minutes getting through their registration to find that their best contract resource was a link to the Nolo Press book. I already knew that one. :)
TechRepublic was much more useful. They had a template contract that I feel adapts quite well for use as a SysAdmin contract.
Since I would be a troll if I didn't contribute to a thread that I started, here is my current revision of a SysAdmin Contract.
I would love to get some feedback on it.
Thanks!
-Chris
I have been tracking an aquantances domain name that expired over five months ago, and yet NSI won't release it in the database. If they can't properly expire domains, how can we trust them to sell ones that haven't expired yet?
-Chris
Yes, the software that comes with the DM2 does leave a little to be desired, but the full version of Mixman Studio Pro 4.0 (after patching) supports the DM2.
:)
:)
http://www.mixman.com/software/
Sorry I can't give you a direct link to Studio Pro... All that Flash wasn't MY idea.
-Chris
ps. I may not have worked onthe DM2, but I'm in the credits for Studio Pro.
They have converted your domains to the new system, and failed to email you a password. In my case, they munged my contact information as well.
I had to call them, and their answer was that I had to fax a letter to them requesting a password change.
I moved my domains instead.
NSI/Verisign sucks.
-Chris
I moved from California to Florida last year. On each of my businees trips back to California I would ship a little more of the gear I had to leave behind on my moving trip. I generally used UPS, but UPS will not ship a complete computer unless it is in its original packaging. Like most people on Slashdot, I build my own computers; and the packaging a case comes in was not designed for a fully loaded computer. So this last trip I used FedEx Ground, shipping on my personal account with them. Two days after shipping I knew I had a problem when my tracking numbers yielded no results on their web site.
Three of the packages left the Oakland FedEx depot with someone else's name and address on them, and one went back to the depot. Someone had stuck NEW tracking numbers over the old ones AFTER my paperwork had been completed and given back to me with tracking stickers affixed.
It took nearly a week of harassing FedEx Ground Tracking to locate the packaged. I resorted to harassment when the first day of calls yielded nothing more than "Those are not valid tracking numbers according to the system, so I can not help you." I was never 'offered' to speak to a manager, I had to demand it.
My packages were finally located by matching the WEIGHTS(!) of my boxes to boxes that left the depot on the same day. One had to be intercepted before it was delivered to someone else.
In the end it turned out well, but not without a lot of aggrivation and phone calls.
I wish anyone well who ships anything valuable. Nobody will care for your posessions the way you would.
-Chris
"Everyone else in the real world has to use real age verification systems (be is visual "hmm, he looks like a 11 year old" or "ID please") when it comes to things that can be deemed "harmful" to minors, so why shouldn't online systems?"
You have obviously never had a child dial a 900 number in your home... No age verification required.
Why are internet based system subject to restrictions that telephone based systems are not?
-Chris
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 13:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc.
From: John Polstra
To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Update to fix CVSup timestamp bug
Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG
This morning a bug was discovered in most versions of CVSup up to and including SNAP_16_1c. The bug causes all newly-updated files to receive incorrect timestamps. Usually the files receive timestamps from early in 1970. This bug has been present for a very long time, but it only began to have an effect when the Unix representation of
the date and time passed 1,000,000,000. That occurred on 9 September 2001 at 01:46:40 UTC. Yes, other people had Y2K bugs, but I managed to produce an S1G bug.
I have fixed the bug and have released a new snapshot of CVSup, SNAP_16_1d. I have also created binary packages for FreeBSD-4.x which
can be installed using "pkg_add". For information about updating your CVSup installation, look here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/
To fix the bug, both the client and the server need to be upgraded to SNAP_16_1d. The FreeBSD mirror site maintainers have been working feverishly to upgrade their installations. Many of them are already upgraded, and the rest will be upgraded soon. Meanwhile, all CVSup users should upgrade their CVSup installations.
I apologize for the inconvenience caused by this bug, and thank you in advance for your patience.
John Polstra
This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce.
The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities,
important events and project milestones.
See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org
I live in Tampa, and telecommute to my job in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris "Hack Naked" Knight
I work in San Francisco, and I telecommute from Tampa Florida. I found my Tampa house on-line from San Francsico using www.realtor.com. The agent had posted a 'virtual tour' that included some horridly distoreed 360 degree views, but otherwise the listing was very accurate and useful. I had my family check it out and after that I flew out to see it personally. Three weeks later I signed the papers and moved in.
All in all, it was a pretty good experience.
WW II is over! Germany is defeated! Encryption helped us win this way!
Three years folks. Just because most of the folk here had missed/forgotten this one doesn't make it 'news'.
-ck
I have done nothing, can I get my free rings now?
sales@ariston.com bounces.
OpenNIC supports the .oss domain, whose intent is for open source projects.
For more info, goto:
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/
IE: a department store, cannot pick out a specific individuals and claim they are trespassing while allowing the rest of the public free access.
This is completely FALSE. Perhaps you have never seen one of the signs that state "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."?
Department stores use video surveilance and eject from the premesis known and suspected shoplifters.
Casinos are known for ejecting 'professional' gamblers.
Is a 'thief of content' any better than a shoplifter? Not in my book. I reserve the right to refuse access to anyone I choose. And I have. My server rejects requests from several content scanning agencies who do not provide public search services.
I don't see this as an attack of moral values. I see this as an attack on an organization that attempts to force its moral values on others.
There is a difference.
Personally, I like Pimp-Speak.
I for one am adding schwartz-nystrom.com to my sendmail filters with the message "500 Electronic legalese filter: REJECT"
Maybe if we all wrote to Support at Beatnik?
-ck
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/10/1118237.shtm l
It still hasn't shipped, two months past the release date stated in November.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/10/1118237.s
I never buy the fastest chip at any given moment. I buy behind the curve and save a fortune.
I tried to write the owner of the domain to offer free mirror space, but it seems that his ISP has cut off email as well as web services.
-ck
Not true. There have been several groups making requests to the SETI@Home folks to add processor optimizations. The 3DNOW camp of AMD zealots even rewrote the transformation routine used by S@H and submitted it for inclusion, and the S@H dolts refused the help.
There are some who would cheat, and there are others who want to show how 'their' processor excels. You can't drop someone in either group without reviewing their code.
-ck
I recently backed down from having LASIK performed to correct my vision. I was not happy with the vagueness of the expected result, and the incredibly long list of possible side effects they wanted me to sign off on.
For $2500 I want a guarantee. Since that isn't possible I want a guarantee that they will 'make things right' if there is a problem. Since I couldn't get that I backed off.
After seeing this site I'm glad I backed off.
http://www.surgicaleyes.org/