You might want to check out weatherunderground.com
They have some useful weather info there, and I think it's contributed to by individuals as well.
Perhaps you have a neighbor that's reporting to it.
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I predict you will be unemployed within a couple of years.
The Business world is NOT akin to the IT world. IT is an operations device. I really hate to break it to you, but IT people make poor businessmen. IT guys put little value on the seemingly 'insignificant' things: appearance, hygiene, etc. The reality is that in the real world, those things are be critically important - albeit from a different viewpoint. In the world of sales and marketing (highly critical for any business), your appearance makes or breaks your deals. IT guys love to think they are all-important and that they get paid the 'big bucks' because they have tremendous power and because they control the corporate information infrastructure. Yet, IT guys are incorrect in this thinking. Sales guys typically make about 30% more than you. You _are_ a PIMP for making $65k a year - but don't become too self-important. The sales guys are making between $85k and $120k a year.
I'm not saying this applies to every company, but I can guarantee you that if your CEO shows up at Noon, dresses like a high-schooler and convinces you that "the internet means we don't have to adhere to the 'normal' business world" - his business will fail.
And as a further note, if he replies to a Slashdot post, his/your business has already failed - you just don't know it yet. Any CEO/Executive that has time to reply (reading is ok) to trivial posts such as this one, is failing their role in his/her company. Being an Executive is a 24/7 job, and not easily condusive to "browsing the web".
Having said all that, I completely agree that being happy at a job is very important; however, in this [US] economy I would focus more on longevity; not how cool my boss or his/her thinking is.
What is so difficult to understand about: "The Genie is out of the bottle." ?!
These companies/products can try and try to force DRM onto people, but unless people elect to use it, they will fail.
I buy music on iTunes because it's legal/guilt-free, and affordable (and because I can afford to buy music these days).
The only people that pirate music are high-school kids that can't afford to buy music. The record labels are crying because they can no longer take advantage of these kids. Adults still purchase music, just as they did before, and there have been numerous studies to suggest this.
Record companies can rot in hell. I was once a poor high school kid that could only buy one CD a week. Now I'm a well to do Adult and I can buy a complete CD on iTunes without even thinking twice about the purchase.
I feel even more comfortable knowing that the Artist is getting more of the revenue as well.
You work in a hosting company? Ever think you were just "hax0red" and the rootkits didn't install properly on your 0wn3d box?
Viruses on linux are severly limited in their damage potential because of the permissions structure. If you run mozilla as root, which you've been told not to do 99% of the time if you use linux, you deserve what you get.
An ordinary user account can't modify files in/bin.
Agreed. Even a polite snail mail letter would have potential lawsuit written all over it. Corporate figureheads would immediately go on the defensive (not security wise), and would not take kindly to being told that you were snooping around/outside their network.
It's similar to the old saying about going around seeing if front doors to homes are unlocked. If you reach in and lock the door for them, the vast majority of people wouldn't notice; but the 1 guy that caught you in the act would rearrange your face for trying to "help him".
I'm with you here, except for the new computer shipping with Vista. My next work computer will be shipping with OS X.
OS X makes complete sense in any administrative *nix environment; and I've just recently been able to justify it to my employer financially. Words can't express how welcome the lower TCA is going to be.
Oh wait, am I taking thunder away from Vista? Sorry - that OS will probably be cool too [for some people].
Good luck getting this kind of policy enforced with the sales drones. They are an entirely different breed, and I guarantee that if a sales guy can't get to texanholdmpokr.com, it will be your fault.
He just has to say, "I cant get to the internet and make my deals/leads", and your policy will become the problem. The boss hears, "IT is keeping me from doing my job".
This problem goes much deeper than some simple policy changes.
I'm sure Vista isn't just about introducing a new OS. I'm sure it's about all the strategic partnerships that are happening RIGHT NOW, that we won't know about until Vista ships. If Paypal+eBay and Amazon and MSN stopped answering requests for non-IE browsers, everyone non-IE/MSFT would be fscked - period.
1) utilize existing monopoly powers to yield power and force partnerships 2) exploit partnerships (Paypal, Amazon) 3) profit!
If paypal/ebay/amazon/etc. stopped accepting payments from Firefox browsers, it would all but destroy any non-IE/MS options. Look at the pages that are served up when you browse, all of the important ones are becoming.ASP, etc...
Firefox is OPEN SOURCE! That means the file formats are OPEN. Microsoft IE is CLOSED SOURCE, meaning you need to reverse engineer everything to figure out where stuff lives.
That said, I wonder what would prevent someone from creating a wireless fileserver and embedding it behind their drywall. Using an NFSmount or Share, an evildoer's PC wouldn't hold anything evil when the FED's nabbed it.
Realistically I bet it would though - They can do some pretty amazing things with Forensics these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if they could take a ram chip and see previous states of 0's and 1's.
Man, what's with all these people and their useless replies? What ever happened to people that actually ADDRESSED THE COMMENT and it's point?
The parent poster clearly [no pun intended] has either bad phone reception or a bad cell provider; or he lives in a very rural area. I'm not saying that my service is better because I have 7 million neighbors in my town, but I am implying that bigger cities have more phun.;)
You're an LFS Linux user ("Linux-from-scratch like" Linux user as you put it), and you're concerned about upgrading your kernel?
Since you cross-compiled and built your libraries, compiler, toolchain, etc from scratch, why are you worried about upgrading your kernel? Surely, you know that it's trivial to modify your boot loader so you can boot multiple kernels and try them out without consequence to your system.
Second, why are you interested in using a Vanilla 2.6 kernel if you built your entire Linux system from scratch?
Please pardon me if I'm mistaken, but you certainly don't sound like a 'tweaker'. Your question is analogous to: "I'm a die hard car tuner, I've modded my hotrod and tweaked my cam's, changed my gear ratios and added 2 inches to my manifold: Should I use premium gasoline in my new Hot Rod?"
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You might want to check out weatherunderground.com
They have some useful weather info there, and I think it's contributed to by individuals as well.
Perhaps you have a neighbor that's reporting to it.
I predict you will be unemployed within a couple of years.
The Business world is NOT akin to the IT world. IT is an operations device. I really hate to break it to you, but IT people make poor businessmen. IT guys put little value on the seemingly 'insignificant' things: appearance, hygiene, etc. The reality is that in the real world, those things are be critically important - albeit from a different viewpoint. In the world of sales and marketing (highly critical for any business), your appearance makes or breaks your deals. IT guys love to think they are all-important and that they get paid the 'big bucks' because they have tremendous power and because they control the corporate information infrastructure. Yet, IT guys are incorrect in this thinking. Sales guys typically make about 30% more than you. You _are_ a PIMP for making $65k a year - but don't become too self-important. The sales guys are making between $85k and $120k a year.
I'm not saying this applies to every company, but I can guarantee you that if your CEO shows up at Noon, dresses like a high-schooler and convinces you that "the internet means we don't have to adhere to the 'normal' business world" - his business will fail.
And as a further note, if he replies to a Slashdot post, his/your business has already failed - you just don't know it yet. Any CEO/Executive that has time to reply (reading is ok) to trivial posts such as this one, is failing their role in his/her company. Being an Executive is a 24/7 job, and not easily condusive to "browsing the web".
Having said all that, I completely agree that being happy at a job is very important; however, in this [US] economy I would focus more on longevity; not how cool my boss or his/her thinking is.
What is so difficult to understand about: "The Genie is out of the bottle." ?!
These companies/products can try and try to force DRM onto people, but unless people elect to use it, they will fail.
I buy music on iTunes because it's legal/guilt-free, and affordable (and because I can afford to buy music these days).
The only people that pirate music are high-school kids that can't afford to buy music. The record labels are crying because they can no longer take advantage of these kids. Adults still purchase music, just as they did before, and there have been numerous studies to suggest this.
Record companies can rot in hell. I was once a poor high school kid that could only buy one CD a week. Now I'm a well to do Adult and I can buy a complete CD on iTunes without even thinking twice about the purchase.
I feel even more comfortable knowing that the Artist is getting more of the revenue as well.
Why not take this a step farther and create an engraved document? Or perhaps a marble etching or stamped steel plate?
If the majority of us were all erased (not mentally, but physically) from the Earth, at least something would remain for future civilizations...
Isn't PNG or XPM similar?
How exactly do they plan on making money now?
You work in a hosting company? Ever think you were just "hax0red" and the rootkits didn't install properly on your 0wn3d box?
/bin.
Viruses on linux are severly limited in their damage potential because of the permissions structure. If you run mozilla as root, which you've been told not to do 99% of the time if you use linux, you deserve what you get.
An ordinary user account can't modify files in
This is clearly an inside tale, but I can't help but wonder if it's some new form of marketing.
Pretend you're a badguy insider, develop a following, and then you can mitigate rumours/leaked info/etc.
Agreed. Even a polite snail mail letter would have potential lawsuit written all over it. Corporate figureheads would immediately go on the defensive (not security wise), and would not take kindly to being told that you were snooping around/outside their network.
It's similar to the old saying about going around seeing if front doors to homes are unlocked. If you reach in and lock the door for them, the vast majority of people wouldn't notice; but the 1 guy that caught you in the act would rearrange your face for trying to "help him".
I'd say to let people come to you on this one.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you ... ... And then I'd have to bury you ... ... in my backyard.
Or somewhereabouts there.
http://www.dashpc.com
It's been seen on here before, but since it's relevant, I'll post it again.
I'm with you here, except for the new computer shipping with Vista. My next work computer will be shipping with OS X.
OS X makes complete sense in any administrative *nix environment; and I've just recently been able to justify it to my employer financially. Words can't express how welcome the lower TCA is going to be.
Oh wait, am I taking thunder away from Vista? Sorry - that OS will probably be cool too [for some people].
My ex-wife.
He must be running XP and he must have agreed to the EULA.
That's the only way they could legally know that he wasn't being a good user^H^H^H^H citizen.
Wrong.
Good luck getting this kind of policy enforced with the sales drones. They are an entirely different breed, and I guarantee that if a sales guy can't get to texanholdmpokr.com, it will be your fault.
He just has to say, "I cant get to the internet and make my deals/leads", and your policy will become the problem. The boss hears, "IT is keeping me from doing my job".
This problem goes much deeper than some simple policy changes.
In reverse. The belts turn the motor, which generates electricity.
Don't you mean miniature 5.25" Hard Disk Bay?
...am I dating myself here?
Err, wait...
Ok, yes I once owned 5.25" 4MB MFM RLL drives. Shut up.
Why did they pick a Defense contractor for this and why was it open only to Harris and Lockheed, and not other technology companies?
Also, is the implication here that the historical archives of our country (I'm in the US) are now controlled by the department of Homeland Security?
And you don't have to use minutes that way, if you use a bluetooth headset.
BT headset + BT dongle/laptop = skype fun.
Heres how they can do it:
.ASP, etc...
eBay + Paypal + Amazon + MSN == trouble for non-IE browsers
I'm sure Vista isn't just about introducing a new OS. I'm sure it's about all the strategic partnerships that are happening RIGHT NOW, that we won't know about until Vista ships. If Paypal+eBay and Amazon and MSN stopped answering requests for non-IE browsers, everyone non-IE/MSFT would be fscked - period.
1) utilize existing monopoly powers to yield power and force partnerships
2) exploit partnerships (Paypal, Amazon)
3) profit!
If paypal/ebay/amazon/etc. stopped accepting payments from Firefox browsers, it would all but destroy any non-IE/MS options. Look at the pages that are served up when you browse, all of the important ones are becoming
They were clearly long overdue for something new and creative. I'm glad I haven't given up hope for Bill and the gang!
Actually, the price depends on who unzips.
Firefox is OPEN SOURCE! That means the file formats are OPEN. Microsoft IE is CLOSED SOURCE, meaning you need to reverse engineer everything to figure out where stuff lives.
That said, I wonder what would prevent someone from creating a wireless fileserver and embedding it behind their drywall. Using an NFSmount or Share, an evildoer's PC wouldn't hold anything evil when the FED's nabbed it.
Realistically I bet it would though - They can do some pretty amazing things with Forensics these days, and I wouldn't be surprised if they could take a ram chip and see previous states of 0's and 1's.
Man, what's with all these people and their useless replies? What ever happened to people that actually ADDRESSED THE COMMENT and it's point?
;)
The parent poster clearly [no pun intended] has either bad phone reception or a bad cell provider; or he lives in a very rural area. I'm not saying that my service is better because I have 7 million neighbors in my town, but I am implying that bigger cities have more phun.
You're an LFS Linux user ("Linux-from-scratch like" Linux user as you put it), and you're concerned about upgrading your kernel?
Since you cross-compiled and built your libraries, compiler, toolchain, etc from scratch, why are you worried about upgrading your kernel? Surely, you know that it's trivial to modify your boot loader so you can boot multiple kernels and try them out without consequence to your system.
Second, why are you interested in using a Vanilla 2.6 kernel if you built your entire Linux system from scratch?
Please pardon me if I'm mistaken, but you certainly don't sound like a 'tweaker'. Your question is analogous to: "I'm a die hard car tuner, I've modded my hotrod and tweaked my cam's, changed my gear ratios and added 2 inches to my manifold: Should I use premium gasoline in my new Hot Rod?"