20 Miles east of Albuquerque (wife and I work at the lab), we're paying $946.00/mo for a three bedroom house on 2 acres. Yeah, there's the commute, but there's only 3 lights the entire way. 'Course, together, we both only take home $90k total. Still, for a place where we can have horses, know the neighbors and don't have bars on the windows, it's worth it.
Yeah. After posting, I also noticed that this map doesn't include flooding. Adds a whole 'nother color to it all. Pissed my home server's down. Have a great map I found online and can't find any more. Wonder why they're hiding it? Oh well, will post it later, after work.
After 2004 hurricane season in Florida (we had a bit of roof damage and some trees/fences down), I did a bit of research (have a much better natural disaster map at home buy my server's down; D'oh!) and we've resettled in the central New Mexico area. The only thing we have to worry about is mild chance of earth quakes and volcanos. We're close enough to the mountains that tornadoes don't form, far enough away to miss wild fires and heavy snow fall and there's no chance of flood, assuming someone doesn't drop a dino killer in the Indian ocean. We're also at high enough altitude that we don't have cockroaches, fleas, ticks, or fire ants. We do have bees, wasps, snakes and scorpions but that's about it for ouchy critters. Oh yeah, the year we moved out there, there was a lion hunting around our area, taking goats and chickens but there hasn't been a human killed by mountain lion since early 70's, though there was that kid that was attacked by something, hiking in the mountains. Still, with dogs, guns, and 40 acres of land outside of town, I feel pretty safe. Now, just have to get started on the bomb shelter.
That would be soooo coooool! If there was an ice storm on the ground, would be even better. All these SUV's all screeching towards each other and then sliding around trying to avoid crashes and cows why some are being picked up and slammed around!
Yeah and I'll admit, after finally moving in to our new house, after building it for two years, we don't want to move again. Luckily, we're in a tech heavy area so, even if we end up having to commute (wife and I both work in same department) further, it'll be worth it to stay put. And yeah, daughter's getting old enough that moving/leaving friends is now a big deal.
I've been a low level tech grunt for almost 20 years. Nice thing is, I'll always have work. Am the 21st C. equivalent of a general auto mechanic. Nice thing is, I've been able to make a decent living and pretty much pick my work environment. Have never been afraid to pick up and leave, even with family. What's funny is, there are several younger guys in my shop and they are chafing at the work. They don't like the hands on stuff and are just bitching and moaning, hoping to get a team lead position. Only one guy is doing anything about it, going to school for his MBA. Hopefully, he'll retain some sense of just what can and can't be accomplished via IT and won't become a bone headed manager.
I think they had an outage when someone (not in IT), with access to server room, decided to plug a laser printer into an orange outlet. Just bad planning being laid over good.
As for that carpet, a bunch of us showed up on a Saturday and busted our collective asses scraping that shit up. Was glued to slab!
...general managers think any IT guy can fit the bill.
I'll step away from the tech, but only for 6 figures. Nothing less will get me to wear a tie or have to put up with so many BS meetings. Not to mention having to tell people to get off their ass and do their jobs. They're adults, ain't they? Why should someone have to tell them to work instead of jacking off at work?/get off my lawn!
New small college data center (in new library) had some of it's design features changed from what ITS requested. The two big ones were 1. Getting rid of the raised floor and putting in carpeting and 2. putting fire sprinkler and building alarm controls behind locked server room door. There was a bit of a political struggle in the college, with the head of the library asserting his authority over IT, since they were in his building. He decided on the changes, as a way of saving money and freeing up 'unneeded space' by not having a separate building controls room. Small school politics are the worst.
Ooh, that mosaic screen saver in OS X 10.5, on 30" monitors (hung vertical), showing various portraits of computing pioneers and cool computers/tech. Why should and IT department have static old school images?
Heh. BFA here, but I started fixing computers in the school labs (one lab had a cute manager!) and then computers at print shops, when I was trying to get stuff produced. I now do tech support at a national lab. The unix system admin's degree is History. Is surprising just how many folks involved with tech are into left brain stuff as well.
Now, knowing the history of computing, so one could play off of it, yeah, that would be different.
Maybe some pics illustrating the 30's Gernsback Continuum. That would be cool!
Head of IT at my last job asked us what we wanted (we had new building and were budgeted some $$$ that had to be spent on art. We all said Despair Posters and he agreed. Coolest boss, eveh!
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20 Miles east of Albuquerque (wife and I work at the lab), we're paying $946.00/mo for a three bedroom house on 2 acres. Yeah, there's the commute, but there's only 3 lights the entire way. 'Course, together, we both only take home $90k total. Still, for a place where we can have horses, know the neighbors and don't have bars on the windows, it's worth it.
Yeah. After posting, I also noticed that this map doesn't include flooding. Adds a whole 'nother color to it all. Pissed my home server's down. Have a great map I found online and can't find any more. Wonder why they're hiding it? Oh well, will post it later, after work.
After 2004 hurricane season in Florida (we had a bit of roof damage and some trees/fences down), I did a bit of research (have a much better natural disaster map at home buy my server's down; D'oh!) and we've resettled in the central New Mexico area. The only thing we have to worry about is mild chance of earth quakes and volcanos. We're close enough to the mountains that tornadoes don't form, far enough away to miss wild fires and heavy snow fall and there's no chance of flood, assuming someone doesn't drop a dino killer in the Indian ocean. We're also at high enough altitude that we don't have cockroaches, fleas, ticks, or fire ants. We do have bees, wasps, snakes and scorpions but that's about it for ouchy critters. Oh yeah, the year we moved out there, there was a lion hunting around our area, taking goats and chickens but there hasn't been a human killed by mountain lion since early 70's, though there was that kid that was attacked by something, hiking in the mountains. Still, with dogs, guns, and 40 acres of land outside of town, I feel pretty safe. Now, just have to get started on the bomb shelter.
Let's look at the big picture: Natural Disaster Map.
Basically, looks like we're all screwed, trailer or not.
In its current state it can guess the location of a photo to within 200km, 16% of the time â" extremely accurate given the complexity of the problem."
60% of the time, it works every time. They've tested it.
That would be soooo coooool! If there was an ice storm on the ground, would be even better. All these SUV's all screeching towards each other and then sliding around trying to avoid crashes and cows why some are being picked up and slammed around!
My God, it will be beautiful!
Yeah, but that bfwa.com server is also timing out. Something's up with their server, too.
Hopefully, anatomy includes the epidermis. I'm pretty shallow and just like to view the largest human organ.
It's all in how well you use it.
And besides, when you get right down to it, if it works for you and you feel good, who cares how far you penetrate?
Yeah and I'll admit, after finally moving in to our new house, after building it for two years, we don't want to move again. Luckily, we're in a tech heavy area so, even if we end up having to commute (wife and I both work in same department) further, it'll be worth it to stay put. And yeah, daughter's getting old enough that moving/leaving friends is now a big deal.
I've been a low level tech grunt for almost 20 years. Nice thing is, I'll always have work. Am the 21st C. equivalent of a general auto mechanic. Nice thing is, I've been able to make a decent living and pretty much pick my work environment. Have never been afraid to pick up and leave, even with family. What's funny is, there are several younger guys in my shop and they are chafing at the work. They don't like the hands on stuff and are just bitching and moaning, hoping to get a team lead position. Only one guy is doing anything about it, going to school for his MBA. Hopefully, he'll retain some sense of just what can and can't be accomplished via IT and won't become a bone headed manager.
I wonder what the temperature is, at 20,000 feet? Why isn't Nepal the server capital of the world?
I think they had an outage when someone (not in IT), with access to server room, decided to plug a laser printer into an orange outlet. Just bad planning being laid over good.
As for that carpet, a bunch of us showed up on a Saturday and busted our collective asses scraping that shit up. Was glued to slab!
...general managers think any IT guy can fit the bill.
/get off my lawn!
I'll step away from the tech, but only for 6 figures. Nothing less will get me to wear a tie or have to put up with so many BS meetings. Not to mention having to tell people to get off their ass and do their jobs. They're adults, ain't they? Why should someone have to tell them to work instead of jacking off at work?
Private Usenet Server.
'nuff said.
New small college data center (in new library) had some of it's design features changed from what ITS requested. The two big ones were 1. Getting rid of the raised floor and putting in carpeting and 2. putting fire sprinkler and building alarm controls behind locked server room door. There was a bit of a political struggle in the college, with the head of the library asserting his authority over IT, since they were in his building. He decided on the changes, as a way of saving money and freeing up 'unneeded space' by not having a separate building controls room. Small school politics are the worst.
I d/l'd the Mac version and it says v3.0 release 3. Is this the latest/greatest?
Dude! That's some kind of .exe. WTF?!!!
.dmg?
Where's the
Ooh, that mosaic screen saver in OS X 10.5, on 30" monitors (hung vertical), showing various portraits of computing pioneers and cool computers/tech. Why should and IT department have static old school images?
Heh. BFA here, but I started fixing computers in the school labs (one lab had a cute manager!) and then computers at print shops, when I was trying to get stuff produced. I now do tech support at a national lab. The unix system admin's degree is History. Is surprising just how many folks involved with tech are into left brain stuff as well.
Now, knowing the history of computing, so one could play off of it, yeah, that would be different.
Maybe some pics illustrating the 30's Gernsback Continuum. That would be cool!
See if you can get some large format prints of Steampunk Star Wars.
Throw a challenge to the art department: Represent modern computing.
Head of IT at my last job asked us what we wanted (we had new building and were budgeted some $$$ that had to be spent on art. We all said Despair Posters and he agreed. Coolest boss, eveh!
Was there ever a USB Godzilla Hub? I think not.
Firewire rules!
I don't feel myself rotating.