I used it to de-uglify a bmp logo for a client. It looked like it had been run through Microsoft Paint with lots of jagged lines and such. Find a program called autotrace on sourceforge that converted the bitmap to svg. Edited the xml file to remove the objects that I didn't want (based on colour). Then loaded it into inkscape and cleaned it up and recolored it. Client was impressed. His graphics person had been unable to do it without recreating the whole thing. It only took me 1 hour.
This is no troll. I have more knowledge about BPL than you Mr. Moderator. I spent 6 months in close contact with one of the main BPL equipment manufacturers and their complete lack of ethics and outright lying about interference to other HF radio services got me off the band wagon pretty quick. This technology needs to die, fast.
This is one company that needs to go under. They treat there workers very poorly with low pay and no or costly benefits.
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If you work in the corporate environment you should remember that you don't matter. What you do doesn't matter. You should be ready and willing to do anything...anything for the corporate bottom line.
The stock holders must be paid first, the CE0, the board, everybody with VP in their title second, and --- if there is anything left --- you.
That doesn't mean they won't take your stapler and forget to pay you. It means that you are nothing to them, all those times you supported the Republician party because you believed in lower taxes and less government, lies. Your pay has decreased since they took (and I really mean took) office. Sure, the price of your home as gone up, but the bank still owns it and you pay even more in property taxes and insurance costs. Oh, and don't use that insurance. Too many claims (and by too many I mean one) and you are off looking to the state for help, because no one will insure your castle. And you now that government help is bad. You don't want to be a welfare queen do you?
So, follow my advice. When the corporation tells you to bend over and take it up the arse. Just do it. Then, head straight for the nearest pub. You will need a good pint and this may be the last time you can afford one.
Dont' get me started on securitymetrics. They are one of those run nmap/nessus scans ding your credit card type companies. There scans don't prove anything and if you call that risk management then I have some ocean front property in Utah to sell you, cheap.
You don't get it. It is like the Linux vs Windows battle. If everyone starts using cacert and the free browsers (firefox,safari,opera,konqurer) include it as a trusted CA then those prompts GO AWAY. Suddenly the SSL cert market doesn't look so good, prices drop.
I think cacert has a very good program. You want a real cert then someone local has to verify your ID. It takes the money out and puts the trust back into SSL.
SOX is like.NET nobody really understands what it is. I like to think of it has a way to keep people from really knowing what the accounts are actually doing by locking everybody who could potentially whistle blow out of the system.
I completely disagree. The enterprise needs a cheap, stable database that runs everywhere. Right now they use Microsoft SQL Sever with whole teams of DBA's to run it. MySQL is a setup and forget database that meets the needs of probably 90% of the piss-ant corporate databases in use today.
On Saturday 09 October 2004 4:23 am, John Burrowy wrote: > > http://www.newsnet5.com/news/3793629/detail.html >
Actually, he wasn't a programmer. He was a database application specialist (Oracle). And it wasn't just a server. It was a 4 processor LPAR running on an IBM p690, with 6GB of RAM assigned. I've known about the SETI project, but who would have guessed that they made an AIX version?
And contrary to his claim about the system not being used on the weekend, he was discovered precisely because some of the other developers were complaining about the reduced performance on the system.
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But, I still have friends who say that they don't know what is wrong with their computer. They run spyware this and it finds one thing and spyware that and it finds another. They are just clueless. I ask them if they realize that they could make there computer spyware free, monopoly/big corporation free (most are flaming liberals), fully functional and they still don't get it. It is just said.
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No troll, idiot /. moderator. Threating to kill a person or a group of people should be taken seriously.
He made a death threat against everyone at Google. He should be in jail.
First thing tomorrow morning, get on co-workers workstation. Obviously his is more fun than mine.
I used it to de-uglify a bmp logo for a client. It looked like it had been run through Microsoft Paint with lots of jagged lines and such. Find a program called autotrace on sourceforge that converted the bitmap to svg. Edited the xml file to remove the objects that I didn't want (based on colour). Then loaded it into inkscape and cleaned it up and recolored it. Client was impressed. His graphics person had been unable to do it without recreating the whole thing. It only took me 1 hour.
I've seen dust devils in the desert pick up small tents and fly them through the air to the amusement of us who knew how to stake our tents.
Guess he has his own ideas. I gave this morning when I got up. They were at about 20 donations at the time.
That's a nice offer. I gave them 25 euros. You should probably get on the freenode #drupal channel and make the offer.
When you cancelled did you remember to send your $12 to avoid the collection calls?
This is no troll. I have more knowledge about BPL than you Mr. Moderator. I spent 6 months in close contact with one of the main BPL equipment manufacturers and their complete lack of ethics and outright lying about interference to other HF radio services got me off the band wagon pretty quick. This technology needs to die, fast.
I will never let BPL work anywhere I live. Every see those sneakers thrown across the wires. Imagine them filled with small HF transmitters. Fuck BPL.
This is one company that needs to go under. They treat there workers very poorly with low pay and no or costly benefits.
If you work in the corporate environment you should remember that you don't matter. What you do doesn't matter. You should be ready and willing to do anything...anything for the corporate bottom line.
The stock holders must be paid first, the CE0, the board, everybody with VP in their title second, and --- if there is anything left --- you.
That doesn't mean they won't take your stapler and forget to pay you. It means that you are nothing to them, all those times you supported the Republician party because you believed in lower taxes and less government, lies. Your pay has decreased since they took (and I really mean took) office. Sure, the price of your home as gone up, but the bank still owns it and you pay even more in property taxes and insurance costs. Oh, and don't use that insurance. Too many claims (and by too many I mean one) and you are off looking to the state for help, because no one will insure your castle. And you now that government help is bad. You don't want to be a welfare queen do you?
So, follow my advice. When the corporation tells you to bend over and take it up the arse. Just do it. Then, head straight for the nearest pub. You will need a good pint and this may be the last time you can afford one.
You submitted photos to a mens magazine and you think they were rejected!?! I've got some beach front property in Colorado to sell you son.
Dont' get me started on securitymetrics. They are one of those run nmap/nessus scans ding your credit card type companies. There scans don't prove anything and if you call that risk management then I have some ocean front property in Utah to sell you, cheap.
is a pile of smelly first time php coder garbage. Yes, it worked, but try doing something useful with it other than pushing elephant talk.
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Does that include a /. subscription?
this really /. or a clever spoof that will steal my credit-card numbers, drain my bank accounts and kill my grandma?
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh......
You don't get it. It is like the Linux vs Windows battle. If everyone starts using cacert and the free browsers (firefox,safari,opera,konqurer) include it as a trusted CA then those prompts GO AWAY. Suddenly the SSL cert market doesn't look so good, prices drop.
I think cacert has a very good program. You want a real cert then someone local has to verify your ID. It takes the money out and puts the trust back into SSL.
SOX is like .NET nobody really understands what it is. I like to think of it has a way to keep people from really knowing what the accounts are actually doing by locking everybody who could potentially whistle blow out of the system.
I completely disagree. The enterprise needs a cheap, stable database that runs everywhere. Right now they use Microsoft SQL Sever with whole teams of DBA's to run it. MySQL is a setup and forget database that meets the needs of probably 90% of the piss-ant corporate databases in use today.
Microsoft Access is in the enterprise. Are you saying that Access is better than MySQL?
On Saturday 09 October 2004 4:23 am, John Burrowy wrote:
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> http://www.newsnet5.com/news/3793629/detail.html
Actually, he wasn't a programmer. He was a database application specialist
(Oracle). And it wasn't just a server. It was a 4 processor LPAR running on
an IBM p690, with 6GB of RAM assigned. I've known about the SETI project,
but who would have guessed that they made an AIX version?
And contrary to his claim about the system not being used on the weekend, he
was discovered precisely because some of the other developers were
complaining about the reduced performance on the system.
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But, I still have friends who say that they don't know what is wrong with their computer. They run spyware this and it finds one thing and spyware that and it finds another. They are just clueless. I ask them if they realize that they could make there computer spyware free, monopoly/big corporation free (most are flaming liberals), fully functional and they still don't get it. It is just said.