I have such a Toshiba. I can edit the settings in the BIOS to run full speed on battery, or I can use a Win32 app to adjust the settings on the fly. Can't say if there are *nix ports yet or not, but they are editable.
I actually have seen two in my life here in Colorado. Once was about 5-6 years ago in a meteor shower and once this past Monday night. Both were a bright blue-greenish color and were amazing. The one a while back was accompanied by a loud boom (possibly sonic boom?). Not sure what the noise was back then, and nobody believed me when I tried to tell them so I couldn't get an answer out of em.
I like the fact that now they have the site switched to the new server and I'm getting the "Directory Listing Denied" proving that Windows may be easier to manage, but to manage it properly still takes effort. Apparently even for the Microsoft techs. I did the quick search for all the default/index pages and could not find the correct page, it appears to have been deleted/stopped or just flat out busted
I bought my first (store bought) CD yesterday in about 5 years. About 5 years ago, I quit my job as a DJ at a local club to start my programming career. I was forced to buy my own music because I did the job on my own. I hated paying 12-13 dollars (a lot for that time) for a CD when I only wanted one song and I couldn't find the single.
When Napster and Kazaa came out, I was excited to get my music again without paying an arm and a leg for it.
To be honest, if they dropped CD's back down to around $10, I would start buying them again. However, I am NOT going to pay near $20 for a CD, even if I cannot download the music. The only CD's I have bought in the past 5 years are directly from the artist by smaller Trance DJ's. I love the fact that I can buy a 15 CD set for $100 and he just burns it to CD and sends it to me. Hell, he was even advertising if I wanted his music, get it off Napster. His music WAS free, but I wanted to donate to his equipment/etc. Now if I go purchase a $100 box set for 5 cd's from a store, how much of that money is going back to the artist...the person who MADE me go buy the music. I don't think "Oh how great the RIAA is, I'll go buy a CD put out by them". Fuck that, I buy it for the artist.
Hell, this starts a whole nother conversation...unemployment.
About 10 months ago, I was a laid off web programmer. Rather then looking for a job, I saw a chance to make around $400 per week or every other week (Don't remember exact pay schedule.) Rather then going and looking for a job, I sat on my ass all day and played video games. At your expense. During this time of 2 months, I started talking to fellow unemployment bums. To this day, I have not met one person that has a legit reason to be on unemployment.
Granted, there are people who deserve unemployment, but looking back at the situation I realized I had money in the bank for living. I saved up my 3 months pay in case something happened. Everybody should do so. If you get laid off, then it should be on your back to figure it out. Not you, not me, not any tax paying american. I would MUCH rather take a job flipping burgers or bagging grocries for $5.50/hr then sit on unemployment again. If you need the unemployment, it means that your skillset is not applicable any longer, which means you need to expand your skills and broaden your horizon.
If I had my choice, I would get rid of unemployment and only support people willing to go to training courses for other career paths.
Not really sure how this applies to your post...but it's not stopping me!
My Panasonic DVD player has started to not recognize my DVD's. (The only DVD I have that plays correctly is Playboy's Freshman Class...) I will probably buy a Philips one this weekend just because of their stance.
I bought a Hitachi 43" HDTV last week for myself, and I love it so far. I hardly ever watch normal TV anymore, but the quality for my DVD and PS2 are insane. I bought the TV without the HDTV tuner because I knew I would never watch a HDTV show or if I did I wouldn't care to watch it in normal TV. Really depends on what you want to use it for.
And yes, I do think the HDTV is a _required_ upgrade for FFX *grin*
Keep in mind the only people they are stopping are the people who legally copy the tracks. For every 10 people that download MP3's, 1 will know what she/he is doing and will be able to rip these new cd's. The track is still going to get to the peer-peer networks. So only the legit copies will be banned.
If you ban guns, only the criminals will have the guns.
The company I work for has IP's assigned from a few of the major US networks (CW, UUNet, etc) and we have BGP4 to allow any of the IP's assigned to us to use any of our backbones. This can cause problems with peering of backbone providers and has caused a few headaches here.
CW recently changed their structure so you can tell them how to advertise your networks to their peers. This resolves most of the problems we have had with multi-homing.
Keep in mind we are a fairly small network with under 100 routing/switching devices on our network. So to say it can not be done means it is time to hire a new network admin.
You have to remember, how it SHOULD be done and how it IS done are two completly different things. Larger sites such as Amazon and Barnes n Noble may have elaberate systems set up, but for the average small time e-commerce site securtiy is normally fairly lax. I have worked for companies that put un-encrypted credit card numbers in the database and rely on database security to keep hackers out. Granted the machine may be behind a firewall to block netbios/trojans/etc but when you open the ports to do database administration remotly, you're just asking for trouble. None of the companies have had any problems that I am aware of, but it's a timebomb waiting to happen.
I manage a Cold Fusion web server that we allow clients to post their own websites to. Recently, their programmer accidentally made a link to the admin section. Google found that link and proceeded into the admin secion and indexed all the "delete item" links as well. I found it quite amusing when they asked to see a copy of the logs complaining the website was hacked and I discovered GoogleBot deleted every single database entry for them.
I am showing the domain battlebots.org was created on August 28th of last year. And Battlebots.com was created on March 3rd of 1999. Are you sure you registered it before they had the trademark?
Battlebots.org
CORE Registrar: CORE-80
Record created: 2000-08-28 06:52:41 UTC by CORE-80
Record expires: 2002-08-28 01:59:40 UTC
Battlebots.com
Record last updated on 14-Mar-2001.
Record expires on 03-Mar-2003.
Record created on 03-Mar-1999.
I am using a Toshiba 2805-S503 right now at the office. It's a 900MHz, 20G HD, 128M memory, DVD with GeForce2 Go video. All in a package for $1999. Fairly cheap for it's game. The only disavantage is, you cannot dock it. But I use it at the office for work and can take it around with me to game at friend's places. The GeForce2 makes it a pretty decent gaming machine. Runs Everquest just fine! Now I don't have to leave the office in a hurry to go home, just stick around till traffic dies down.
I've only ran FreeBSD in a VMWare session, so I cannot say how it runs them on the hardware. I've heard rumors it works just fine.
If you spend about 500-600 more you can get 1GHz, 30G, 256M, DVD/CD-RW, GeForce2. I wish I would have had the money to upgrade.
I'm 20 and work for a company that develops online e-commerce packages. I'm the second lead developer and know our software like I know my own family. Being 20, I still get the raw end of every deal and don't get a lot of the credit I deserve. I have 4.5 years of professional programming experience behind me. When I talk to clients I try not to give my age away and I always try to advoid face to face meetings because the client always gets the wrong impression based on my age and starts to take me less seriously. Experience and skills may be a lot of the issue, but age still matters. I remember working part time doing programming for an online catalog and the client asked to be switched to another programmer because he wasn't confident in my skills. He didn't see my portfolio or the work I was currently doing. He saw me face to face and didn't want to work with a 17 year old. At the time I was the best cold fusion developer for the company.
I do have to agree with the argument about "How old your boss is" however. At one point, I was working for a company where all the employees were 27 or under. All the developers were 23 or younger. (I was 18 at the time). We built very robust online catalogs (including nice design, functionality and administrative backend). The team worked very well together and the trust was incredible. A great example of a young team working together. The marketing experience got us and we were soon bought out however.
In other words, yes, age matters. Something I have done in the past is, give my ideas to a co-worker I got along with and he would pass them on. It's foolish, but if you want your say in your work, you have to go around the politics.
I own a Panasonic DVD player that will play CD's, DVD's AND CD-RW's, but not CD-R's. So anytime I want to burn a movie and watch it, I just burn it on a CD-RW.
I am 20 years old and have been in computers since I was 6 years old. Started programming in basic at 7. Growing up I can say I was not anti-social throughout my school years but I cannot say I was popular. I never got hasseled because I was smart with computers. I remember in my C programming class I was trading homework with a straight A student. He would do my math homework and I would do his programming homework. I got along with the 'Cool' group and even infuenced some of them to take up computing. One ended up getting a job as a programmer after high school. As for the other crowds, I was almost welcome anywhere, no enimies. I listened to the hard rock so I was welcome with the 'losers' and 'goth' crowd and because of my big head back then I was welcome with the Jocks.
However it was often difficult for me to find where I belonged, because I was welcome in all the groups I suffered a major identity crisis and changed who I hung out with almost weekly. In the end I attached to the teachers and caused me to mature quickly. With that under by belt it caused me to almost ignore my senior class and only showed up to school for the paper at the end. So when he says that geeks have not become doctors, just have moved up a notch, it was not true in my case...we just don't get hassled like we used to.<br><br>
And the point I originally was going to post on - I'm a geek who uses linux, bsd, etc... and I listen to hip-hop and rap. It's not my main choice of music but if I'm in the mood nothing can beat it =c)
Last I heard we had the human genome completed. Why all of a sudden move on to the plant. We were all hyped with what the discovery could do to medicine and how it would change our lives. It seems as if they just filed it away and moved on. I for one would like to see some real life applications to what these scientists are doing. It would be as if I wrote a program that could recover ANY windows crash and just saved it on cd and threw it in my filing cabinet.
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I'm not the author, but was involved in this bit. Spammer was sent to prison, escapes and killed himself and his family.
http://wildernessvagabonds.com/zp/index.php?p=news&title=Daily-Writing-The-Spam-King-Tragedy
Sooner than you may think! NSFW
http://www.avclub.com/articles/caligula-director-to-bring-audiences-38ddd-in-3d,37651/
Screw Pi day, come on Steak-n-BJ Day!
I have such a Toshiba. I can edit the settings in the BIOS to run full speed on battery, or I can use a Win32 app to adjust the settings on the fly. Can't say if there are *nix ports yet or not, but they are editable.
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/eta_c etids.html
I actually have seen two in my life here in Colorado. Once was about 5-6 years ago in a meteor shower and once this past Monday night. Both were a bright blue-greenish color and were amazing. The one a while back was accompanied by a loud boom (possibly sonic boom?). Not sure what the noise was back then, and nobody believed me when I tried to tell them so I couldn't get an answer out of em.
I like the idea of having my stats sold. Maybe in the long run the cell companies will start making money off this and drop the price of my bill!
I went to the 12:01 showing and was sick at the time. Thanks to staying up late, I got real sick the next day and didn't go to work.
I like the fact that now they have the site switched to the new server and I'm getting the "Directory Listing Denied" proving that Windows may be easier to manage, but to manage it properly still takes effort. Apparently even for the Microsoft techs. I did the quick search for all the default/index pages and could not find the correct page, it appears to have been deleted/stopped or just flat out busted
I bought my first (store bought) CD yesterday in about 5 years. About 5 years ago, I quit my job as a DJ at a local club to start my programming career. I was forced to buy my own music because I did the job on my own. I hated paying 12-13 dollars (a lot for that time) for a CD when I only wanted one song and I couldn't find the single.
When Napster and Kazaa came out, I was excited to get my music again without paying an arm and a leg for it.
To be honest, if they dropped CD's back down to around $10, I would start buying them again. However, I am NOT going to pay near $20 for a CD, even if I cannot download the music. The only CD's I have bought in the past 5 years are directly from the artist by smaller Trance DJ's. I love the fact that I can buy a 15 CD set for $100 and he just burns it to CD and sends it to me. Hell, he was even advertising if I wanted his music, get it off Napster. His music WAS free, but I wanted to donate to his equipment/etc. Now if I go purchase a $100 box set for 5 cd's from a store, how much of that money is going back to the artist...the person who MADE me go buy the music. I don't think "Oh how great the RIAA is, I'll go buy a CD put out by them". Fuck that, I buy it for the artist.
-R
Hell, this starts a whole nother conversation...unemployment.
About 10 months ago, I was a laid off web programmer. Rather then looking for a job, I saw a chance to make around $400 per week or every other week (Don't remember exact pay schedule.) Rather then going and looking for a job, I sat on my ass all day and played video games. At your expense. During this time of 2 months, I started talking to fellow unemployment bums. To this day, I have not met one person that has a legit reason to be on unemployment.
Granted, there are people who deserve unemployment, but looking back at the situation I realized I had money in the bank for living. I saved up my 3 months pay in case something happened. Everybody should do so. If you get laid off, then it should be on your back to figure it out. Not you, not me, not any tax paying american. I would MUCH rather take a job flipping burgers or bagging grocries for $5.50/hr then sit on unemployment again. If you need the unemployment, it means that your skillset is not applicable any longer, which means you need to expand your skills and broaden your horizon.
If I had my choice, I would get rid of unemployment and only support people willing to go to training courses for other career paths.
Not really sure how this applies to your post...but it's not stopping me!
My Panasonic DVD player has started to not recognize my DVD's. (The only DVD I have that plays correctly is Playboy's Freshman Class...) I will probably buy a Philips one this weekend just because of their stance.
I bought a Hitachi 43" HDTV last week for myself, and I love it so far. I hardly ever watch normal TV anymore, but the quality for my DVD and PS2 are insane. I bought the TV without the HDTV tuner because I knew I would never watch a HDTV show or if I did I wouldn't care to watch it in normal TV. Really depends on what you want to use it for.
And yes, I do think the HDTV is a _required_ upgrade for FFX *grin*
Keep in mind the only people they are stopping are the people who legally copy the tracks. For every 10 people that download MP3's, 1 will know what she/he is doing and will be able to rip these new cd's. The track is still going to get to the peer-peer networks. So only the legit copies will be banned.
If you ban guns, only the criminals will have the guns.
The company I work for has IP's assigned from a few of the major US networks (CW, UUNet, etc) and we have BGP4 to allow any of the IP's assigned to us to use any of our backbones. This can cause problems with peering of backbone providers and has caused a few headaches here.
CW recently changed their structure so you can tell them how to advertise your networks to their peers. This resolves most of the problems we have had with multi-homing.
Keep in mind we are a fairly small network with under 100 routing/switching devices on our network. So to say it can not be done means it is time to hire a new network admin.
You have to remember, how it SHOULD be done and how it IS done are two completly different things. Larger sites such as Amazon and Barnes n Noble may have elaberate systems set up, but for the average small time e-commerce site securtiy is normally fairly lax. I have worked for companies that put un-encrypted credit card numbers in the database and rely on database security to keep hackers out. Granted the machine may be behind a firewall to block netbios/trojans/etc but when you open the ports to do database administration remotly, you're just asking for trouble. None of the companies have had any problems that I am aware of, but it's a timebomb waiting to happen.
I manage a Cold Fusion web server that we allow clients to post their own websites to. Recently, their programmer accidentally made a link to the admin section. Google found that link and proceeded into the admin secion and indexed all the "delete item" links as well. I found it quite amusing when they asked to see a copy of the logs complaining the website was hacked and I discovered GoogleBot deleted every single database entry for them.
I am showing the domain battlebots.org was created on August 28th of last year. And Battlebots.com was created on March 3rd of 1999. Are you sure you registered it before they had the trademark?
Battlebots.org
CORE Registrar: CORE-80
Record created: 2000-08-28 06:52:41 UTC by CORE-80
Record expires: 2002-08-28 01:59:40 UTC
Battlebots.com
Record last updated on 14-Mar-2001.
Record expires on 03-Mar-2003.
Record created on 03-Mar-1999.
I am using a Toshiba 2805-S503 right now at the office. It's a 900MHz, 20G HD, 128M memory, DVD with GeForce2 Go video. All in a package for $1999. Fairly cheap for it's game. The only disavantage is, you cannot dock it. But I use it at the office for work and can take it around with me to game at friend's places. The GeForce2 makes it a pretty decent gaming machine. Runs Everquest just fine! Now I don't have to leave the office in a hurry to go home, just stick around till traffic dies down.
I've only ran FreeBSD in a VMWare session, so I cannot say how it runs them on the hardware. I've heard rumors it works just fine.
If you spend about 500-600 more you can get 1GHz, 30G, 256M, DVD/CD-RW, GeForce2. I wish I would have had the money to upgrade.
I'm 20 and work for a company that develops online e-commerce packages. I'm the second lead developer and know our software like I know my own family. Being 20, I still get the raw end of every deal and don't get a lot of the credit I deserve. I have 4.5 years of professional programming experience behind me. When I talk to clients I try not to give my age away and I always try to advoid face to face meetings because the client always gets the wrong impression based on my age and starts to take me less seriously. Experience and skills may be a lot of the issue, but age still matters. I remember working part time doing programming for an online catalog and the client asked to be switched to another programmer because he wasn't confident in my skills. He didn't see my portfolio or the work I was currently doing. He saw me face to face and didn't want to work with a 17 year old. At the time I was the best cold fusion developer for the company.
I do have to agree with the argument about "How old your boss is" however. At one point, I was working for a company where all the employees were 27 or under. All the developers were 23 or younger. (I was 18 at the time). We built very robust online catalogs (including nice design, functionality and administrative backend). The team worked very well together and the trust was incredible. A great example of a young team working together. The marketing experience got us and we were soon bought out however.
In other words, yes, age matters. Something I have done in the past is, give my ideas to a co-worker I got along with and he would pass them on. It's foolish, but if you want your say in your work, you have to go around the politics.
-Ryan
I own a Panasonic DVD player that will play CD's, DVD's AND CD-RW's, but not CD-R's. So anytime I want to burn a movie and watch it, I just burn it on a CD-RW.
Well poop, forgot to select html formatted =cP
I am 20 years old and have been in computers since I was 6 years old. Started programming in basic at 7. Growing up I can say I was not anti-social throughout my school years but I cannot say I was popular. I never got hasseled because I was smart with computers. I remember in my C programming class I was trading homework with a straight A student. He would do my math homework and I would do his programming homework. I got along with the 'Cool' group and even infuenced some of them to take up computing. One ended up getting a job as a programmer after high school. As for the other crowds, I was almost welcome anywhere, no enimies. I listened to the hard rock so I was welcome with the 'losers' and 'goth' crowd and because of my big head back then I was welcome with the Jocks.
However it was often difficult for me to find where I belonged, because I was welcome in all the groups I suffered a major identity crisis and changed who I hung out with almost weekly. In the end I attached to the teachers and caused me to mature quickly. With that under by belt it caused me to almost ignore my senior class and only showed up to school for the paper at the end. So when he says that geeks have not become doctors, just have moved up a notch, it was not true in my case...we just don't get hassled like we used to.<br><br>
And the point I originally was going to post on - I'm a geek who uses linux, bsd, etc... and I listen to hip-hop and rap. It's not my main choice of music but if I'm in the mood nothing can beat it =c)
Last I heard we had the human genome completed. Why all of a sudden move on to the plant. We were all hyped with what the discovery could do to medicine and how it would change our lives. It seems as if they just filed it away and moved on. I for one would like to see some real life applications to what these scientists are doing. It would be as if I wrote a program that could recover ANY windows crash and just saved it on cd and threw it in my filing cabinet.
So we should sue AOL because they provide the software to PLAY the pirated music in addition to Gnutella!!