I've been in a recent presentation about HP wireless hotspot hardware(well, networking in general, we were checking out their switches, but the guy wanted to get our attention on some other stuff too) and they had a setup that used a centralised device to manage everything, and local hardware to run a wireless network with roaming on. It looked to be designed to be put into an exsisting environment, and just work, but we have not really bothered to check it out, as none of our custmers need it. You might want to give you closes HP supplier a call, if only to see the tech, they like to try to sell stuff, so it should cost you nothing.
OK, he cannot afford to buy a benchmark, but he has a trio of top of the line Intel systems to play with! WTF? Either he has a weird idea of money well spent, or someone has a lucrative agreement with the hardware vendors. I'm guessing the latter, and really wish I could write well enough to sucker them into sending me cool hardware to play with.
I'll live with my 2800+(2.133Ghz) AMD MP(only one for now, I'll upgrade when I need it) I'm running Seti, playing music, encoding DVD's and sometimes messing with the UT2004 demo and not even noticing it...
On another note, when do the PCI express test systems come out? I'd love to see some benchmarks on those as the pci performance for my secondary and tertiary video cards is below par. PCI express is supposed to allow multiple high speed video cards.
I've seen it on XP, where it truely believe that there are two processors, but luckily xp pro comes with a 2 cpu licence. But of course, just for the hell of it I tried it on a dual HT server and it bitched and moaned about something, I was sorta spending too much time doing something productive to take note... mayhe I'll try again tomorrow and see if it's because of the processors...
During the boom, I didn't have to try, I just applied and they gave me the job, so what if I "forgot" to sign the NDA... then needed people.
Now the economy sucks, I was unemployed for about 18 months, and spent most of my job search time online. If I'd only known, or even thought to check...
My current job was found by the old standby, the classified section of the paper. I e-mailed them, it bounced off the spam filter, I routed around and got the interview and the job.
Now we are hiring for another person for the same job, we put one ad in the saturday paper a week or 2 back and have over 500 resumes in our e-mail. Some are such complete and utter garbage that it's funny, some of the spelling mistakes are now office jokes and some of the claims are great.(Don't claim that your call center job had more responsibility and greater user of a skill set then it really did, there just might be someone there that worked at that call center too).
We narrowed it down to about 15 to do a phone interview, and some of those will be dropped too... I know the job market is desperate, but please, show you can work and put in the effort. But it's also good to see that people still check the classified.
I wonder how much it cost us for that ad, probably some insanely low number compared to other options, and we probably will have the exact person we need. I think I'm to the point of "who needs online job sites? not me", maybe someone else does, but in the future, I'll only consider them if the prospects go up above 3.6%...
Nah, less then a Gig of pron, I either don't keep it around or put it on CD more reliably then the other stuff.
About 80Gig of *** files, 10Gig was all of *** *****, 15Gig was all of ***** ******, 20Gig was a lot of ****** ***, 10Gig was some of *******, add in some ***** and some ******, maybe a few gigs of *-***** and you have my collection of random stuff...(sorry, gotta watch out for people out to get me, the *'s are not replacing any version of the idea of porn...)
And then the oil fired water heater decides to have a fit, throws a lot of soot in to the air, gums up an already meta-stable system and bang... 3 hard drive are in varied states of disrepair...
I really think now that the "-S" switch to mkfs.ext3 should be labeled the "last chance before you give up, so you might as well use it" option, it worked where fsck, tune2fs and debugfs could not...
I used knoppix and it's variants to recover about 180Gig of data just in the last week.
Another one I've found is the BartPE that was here the other day. I build one from a Win2k3 server install disk and tested it, it works reasonable well considering it's a hack ontop of a hack...
The true utility of BartPE is the 3rd party(non-ms and non-bartpe) utils that can be added to it for recovery, AV and cleanup purposes.
Of course, I was rather amazed that it found my network card... but oh well.
Try BartPE if you have to troubleshoot windows systems, you might like it.
Yes, and in windows you also get taskbar clutter. I've been using tabbed browsing all over now for a while, and any time I have to go back to IE(some sites hate anything but IE) or a site even opens a new window on click, I get annoyed at having more windows open. I have one taskbar icon for each task I do on my computer. E-Mail, Calendar, Terminal, Accounting, Browsing and that's generally it.
Just out of curiosity, I just thought of this now and have no clue if anyone has throught of/done it, is there something out there like a cross between apt-get and bittorrent? Allowing bandwidth savings for the debian group(even thou I've never had slowdowns from there, probably due to apt-get running in the middle of the night.) and letting that money be put to better use...
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled... um... something...
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Does that also mean that a coporation, as a person, could run for president down there? Please assume the truth: I don't really have a clue about american law.
I can see it now: "Yes president Microsoft, we will definatly have no problem outlawing open source software. Senator SCO's bill to attack all OSS developers around the world with Marines appears to be going well."
The article is great, but anyone who thinks that VB is a great language for anything has some work to do... I know it can be made to do anything, I coded in it back in high school, but writing virus' in it? I'd rather code in assembly using a terminal for the blind...
Ah well, I guess I don't get it, not being a virus writer and all...
I agree that we should build a 2.7 kernel leading to a 2.8, but I also think that a 2.9 leading to 3.0 should be started, with the idea of cleaning up some of the ugly stuff that may have started to creep in there. With a 3.0 version the emphasis should not be on compatibility as much as on speed, security and features. It may break compatibility, and there may be a need to a layer to keep some older programs working, but I think that a version started now that really pushes for some reworking at all levels, from the ground up would be a good thing for the future of the operating system.
I read plenty of books, not all sci-fi or fantasy(and no porn). I have an active social life and I maybe watch abou 2-4 hours ot TV a week(sometimes none). I'm on the net around 15-20 hours a week. This article sounds like me.
But!
Both my friends(inc. GF) and myself consider me to be a Geek.
I guess the image really is changing.
So what do we start calling the people who spend all their waking time in a dark basement on their computers, either gaming or otherwise distracted? What about the difference between ones makeing money(or not needing to make money due to previous wealth(no mommy and daddy)) and the ones who are leaching off society(mommy and daddy or the government)? (Yes I live at home, and I pay rent to do so, my parent profit from me being here, and I really want out but have to kill debt first)
We need a better term for those who used to be what we called Geeks, as Geeks are becoming too much mainstream. Everyone needs to feel special.
I agree, I recently watched the entire series and really want to see more, esp since they left the seriese sorta hanging there...
And the website has said that the movie would be in progress for a while now. But no updates have been done, anyone done any research on this and know the real current story on this one>
Unfortunatly, I do live at home again, only due to financial requirements(unemployment sucked). I'm probably moving out in the next few months with some friends(And GF). So what do I do then? The GF works shift work, so could be away at any given hour(paramedic) and the friends work weird hours too(computer store and student)... So that all fails to be reliable.
I'm probably doing things wrong myself... but I go with the two clock setting.
The first is set to the local country music station, I have to turn it off before I get a song stuck in my head(I don't like most country, no offense, just me). I get up, shower and crawl back under the warm covers again for about 10 minutes.
The second alarm is unreachable from my bed, and is set half way between the local "new rock" station and the christian music station, so that you can hear both clearly on top of the other. If nothing else, that will get you out of bed in the morning quickly...
And I'm out the door within 10 minutes of the second one going off.
No joke, I interviewed with them to setup and run their Tech Support department. I was totally underqualified(but might have succeded anyway) so it's probably good that I did not get it...
Sorry, the friday after new years is slow, I'm the only person in the office and basically have to be here all day because a client could call. After work I am headed out to have dinner with the GF, tomorrow night I'm taking her to a hockey game(go sens!), and I do martial arts 3 nights a week...
And Why am I in the games section, well, I do play them sometimes. I played a game for at least 1 hour last night(first time in a few weeks, just to kill some time). My friend just moved and held a week long lan party, I showed up for an evening there too( operation flashpoint, great game for team play.) And yes, I think my point apply to some of my friends too.
The other answer is because I am subscribed to all sections on slashdot for those days when work is slow, like today. Usually I would not respond to an article like this.
Put the consoles in a convenient closet, no power needed. Put all the controllers neatly wrapped in their cables on top of the consoles or in their respective boxes. Then simply stop playing games and go out into the big blue room...
Want to shoot at things, you can learn to use a gun and try some real skill, even in a shooting range(not my thing thou). Want beat the crap out of things with your excellent ninja skills, go learn some asian martial arts(no me either). Want to just beat people over the head with a longsword and watch the sparks fly when you parry a strike, learn european martial arts(more my thing, lookup aemma or something similar). Want to race, many speedways allow people to race stock and modified cars in drag and other races on certain days(I know one nearby that does stock drags).
Basically, I've never seen the need for a computer game except in a few random areas where it just ain't going to happen( conquering the universe in just a couple of hours ) or it's basically the same experience (solitair anyone?).
Put the games away and go have some fun, probably cost you the same doing it, and trust me, real life is better then virtual in all things except death.
I know this may not be what you expected the answer to be...
The company I work for(in no way represented by this posting, or any other I make.) sells firewalls made by Zyzel, so we get their ads in the mail too.
Recently we recieved once for a simple hotspot setup: it was a wireless ap and a small bill printer. You walked in and pressed the button, and then could access the network, when you were done, you pressed the button again and it gave you your bill to pay(or free if wanted). I don't know the details on it, but look it up: Zyzel ZyAIR it's not too expensive and should "just work".
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Well, I guess the Bastard will have to see about suing some more people. I may have to see about a lawsuit myself....
Enjoy!
I've been in a recent presentation about HP wireless hotspot hardware(well, networking in general, we were checking out their switches, but the guy wanted to get our attention on some other stuff too) and they had a setup that used a centralised device to manage everything, and local hardware to run a wireless network with roaming on. It looked to be designed to be put into an exsisting environment, and just work, but we have not really bothered to check it out, as none of our custmers need it. You might want to give you closes HP supplier a call, if only to see the tech, they like to try to sell stuff, so it should cost you nothing.
Well, even thou it's modded troll...
Sure it's got problems, but that's where my paycheque comes from. I'd rather support linux.
And I made the comment to highlight that windows sees it as two logical processors, not one.
OK, he cannot afford to buy a benchmark, but he has a trio of top of the line Intel systems to play with! WTF? Either he has a weird idea of money well spent, or someone has a lucrative agreement with the hardware vendors. I'm guessing the latter, and really wish I could write well enough to sucker them into sending me cool hardware to play with.
I'll live with my 2800+(2.133Ghz) AMD MP(only one for now, I'll upgrade when I need it) I'm running Seti, playing music, encoding DVD's and sometimes messing with the UT2004 demo and not even noticing it...
On another note, when do the PCI express test systems come out? I'd love to see some benchmarks on those as the pci performance for my secondary and tertiary video cards is below par. PCI express is supposed to allow multiple high speed video cards.
Anyway.
I've seen it on XP, where it truely believe that there are two processors, but luckily xp pro comes with a 2 cpu licence. But of course, just for the hell of it I tried it on a dual HT server and it bitched and moaned about something, I was sorta spending too much time doing something productive to take note... mayhe I'll try again tomorrow and see if it's because of the processors...
During the boom, I didn't have to try, I just applied and they gave me the job, so what if I "forgot" to sign the NDA... then needed people.
Now the economy sucks, I was unemployed for about 18 months, and spent most of my job search time online. If I'd only known, or even thought to check...
My current job was found by the old standby, the classified section of the paper. I e-mailed them, it bounced off the spam filter, I routed around and got the interview and the job.
Now we are hiring for another person for the same job, we put one ad in the saturday paper a week or 2 back and have over 500 resumes in our e-mail. Some are such complete and utter garbage that it's funny, some of the spelling mistakes are now office jokes and some of the claims are great.(Don't claim that your call center job had more responsibility and greater user of a skill set then it really did, there just might be someone there that worked at that call center too).
We narrowed it down to about 15 to do a phone interview, and some of those will be dropped too... I know the job market is desperate, but please, show you can work and put in the effort. But it's also good to see that people still check the classified.
I wonder how much it cost us for that ad, probably some insanely low number compared to other options, and we probably will have the exact person we need. I think I'm to the point of "who needs online job sites? not me", maybe someone else does, but in the future, I'll only consider them if the prospects go up above 3.6%...
Anyway...
Nah, less then a Gig of pron, I either don't keep it around or put it on CD more reliably then the other stuff.
About 80Gig of *** files, 10Gig was all of *** *****, 15Gig was all of ***** ******, 20Gig was a lot of ****** ***, 10Gig was some of *******, add in some ***** and some ******, maybe a few gigs of *-***** and you have my collection of random stuff...(sorry, gotta watch out for people out to get me, the *'s are not replacing any version of the idea of porn...)
And then the oil fired water heater decides to have a fit, throws a lot of soot in to the air, gums up an already meta-stable system and bang... 3 hard drive are in varied states of disrepair...
I really think now that the "-S" switch to mkfs.ext3 should be labeled the "last chance before you give up, so you might as well use it" option, it worked where fsck, tune2fs and debugfs could not...
Anyway...
I used knoppix and it's variants to recover about 180Gig of data just in the last week.
Another one I've found is the BartPE that was here the other day. I build one from a Win2k3 server install disk and tested it, it works reasonable well considering it's a hack ontop of a hack...
The true utility of BartPE is the 3rd party(non-ms and non-bartpe) utils that can be added to it for recovery, AV and cleanup purposes.
Of course, I was rather amazed that it found my network card... but oh well.
Try BartPE if you have to troubleshoot windows systems, you might like it.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Oh, Ive edited the ID string, but some sites use very IE specific Java code to run, Esp some of my supplier sites, no names thou...
I've asked them to fix it, and the response is "it works for us"...
Not a huge problem, I'd drop them if we could and it was my call, but we can't and I can't make the call so I use IE once or twice a day...
Yes, and in windows you also get taskbar clutter. I've been using tabbed browsing all over now for a while, and any time I have to go back to IE(some sites hate anything but IE) or a site even opens a new window on click, I get annoyed at having more windows open. I have one taskbar icon for each task I do on my computer. E-Mail, Calendar, Terminal, Accounting, Browsing and that's generally it.
Just out of curiosity, I just thought of this now and have no clue if anyone has throught of/done it, is there something out there like a cross between apt-get and bittorrent? Allowing bandwidth savings for the debian group(even thou I've never had slowdowns from there, probably due to apt-get running in the middle of the night.) and letting that money be put to better use...
... um ... something ...
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled
Does that also mean that a coporation, as a person, could run for president down there? Please assume the truth: I don't really have a clue about american law.
I can see it now: "Yes president Microsoft, we will definatly have no problem outlawing open source software. Senator SCO's bill to attack all OSS developers around the world with Marines appears to be going well."
OI.
The article is great, but anyone who thinks that VB is a great language for anything has some work to do... I know it can be made to do anything, I coded in it back in high school, but writing virus' in it? I'd rather code in assembly using a terminal for the blind...
Ah well, I guess I don't get it, not being a virus writer and all...
I agree that we should build a 2.7 kernel leading to a 2.8, but I also think that a 2.9 leading to 3.0 should be started, with the idea of cleaning up some of the ugly stuff that may have started to creep in there. With a 3.0 version the emphasis should not be on compatibility as much as on speed, security and features. It may break compatibility, and there may be a need to a layer to keep some older programs working, but I think that a version started now that really pushes for some reworking at all levels, from the ground up would be a good thing for the future of the operating system.
I read plenty of books, not all sci-fi or fantasy(and no porn). I have an active social life and I maybe watch abou 2-4 hours ot TV a week(sometimes none). I'm on the net around 15-20 hours a week. This article sounds like me.
But!
Both my friends(inc. GF) and myself consider me to be a Geek.
I guess the image really is changing.
So what do we start calling the people who spend all their waking time in a dark basement on their computers, either gaming or otherwise distracted? What about the difference between ones makeing money(or not needing to make money due to previous wealth(no mommy and daddy)) and the ones who are leaching off society(mommy and daddy or the government)? (Yes I live at home, and I pay rent to do so, my parent profit from me being here, and I really want out but have to kill debt first)
We need a better term for those who used to be what we called Geeks, as Geeks are becoming too much mainstream. Everyone needs to feel special.
Nah, I've got all that running, but the firewall is running linux. Other then that, they all work fine together.
I agree, I recently watched the entire series and really want to see more, esp since they left the seriese sorta hanging there...
And the website has said that the movie would be in progress for a while now. But no updates have been done, anyone done any research on this and know the real current story on this one>
Simple rule, no computers in the bedroom...
My rule too, I had to fight my previous GF to keep them out, she wanted to bring one in...
OI
Unfortunatly, I do live at home again, only due to financial requirements(unemployment sucked). I'm probably moving out in the next few months with some friends(And GF). So what do I do then? The GF works shift work, so could be away at any given hour(paramedic) and the friends work weird hours too(computer store and student)... So that all fails to be reliable.
Other options?
I'm probably doing things wrong myself... but I go with the two clock setting.
The first is set to the local country music station, I have to turn it off before I get a song stuck in my head(I don't like most country, no offense, just me). I get up, shower and crawl back under the warm covers again for about 10 minutes.
The second alarm is unreachable from my bed, and is set half way between the local "new rock" station and the christian music station, so that you can hear both clearly on top of the other. If nothing else, that will get you out of bed in the morning quickly...
And I'm out the door within 10 minutes of the second one going off.
No joke, I interviewed with them to setup and run their Tech Support department. I was totally underqualified(but might have succeded anyway) so it's probably good that I did not get it...
I still like the company thou.
Um... Jenga?
Sorry, the friday after new years is slow, I'm the only person in the office and basically have to be here all day because a client could call. After work I am headed out to have dinner with the GF, tomorrow night I'm taking her to a hockey game(go sens!), and I do martial arts 3 nights a week...
And Why am I in the games section, well, I do play them sometimes. I played a game for at least 1 hour last night(first time in a few weeks, just to kill some time). My friend just moved and held a week long lan party, I showed up for an evening there too( operation flashpoint, great game for team play.) And yes, I think my point apply to some of my friends too.
The other answer is because I am subscribed to all sections on slashdot for those days when work is slow, like today. Usually I would not respond to an article like this.
Put the consoles in a convenient closet, no power needed. Put all the controllers neatly wrapped in their cables on top of the consoles or in their respective boxes. Then simply stop playing games and go out into the big blue room...
Want to shoot at things, you can learn to use a gun and try some real skill, even in a shooting range(not my thing thou). Want beat the crap out of things with your excellent ninja skills, go learn some asian martial arts(no me either). Want to just beat people over the head with a longsword and watch the sparks fly when you parry a strike, learn european martial arts(more my thing, lookup aemma or something similar). Want to race, many speedways allow people to race stock and modified cars in drag and other races on certain days(I know one nearby that does stock drags).
Basically, I've never seen the need for a computer game except in a few random areas where it just ain't going to happen( conquering the universe in just a couple of hours ) or it's basically the same experience (solitair anyone?).
Put the games away and go have some fun, probably cost you the same doing it, and trust me, real life is better then virtual in all things except death.
Enjoy!
I know this may not be what you expected the answer to be...
The company I work for(in no way represented by this posting, or any other I make.) sells firewalls made by Zyzel, so we get their ads in the mail too.
Recently we recieved once for a simple hotspot setup: it was a wireless ap and a small bill printer. You walked in and pressed the button, and then could access the network, when you were done, you pressed the button again and it gave you your bill to pay(or free if wanted). I don't know the details on it, but look it up: Zyzel ZyAIR it's not too expensive and should "just work".
Enjoy!