I've had a similar issue where I've not been able to run searches of the documents. Xerox has a solution, that is pretty handy, webenabled, but very very expensive
In my experience I've provided a few small stress saving perks to my team in highly stressfull workplaces.
One hour a day to read any O'Riley and Associtates book you want. - I've found that, this not only relaxes most of the team. At its worst gives them that much needed mid day nap, or some comapny time to brush up and polish their skill set. With this one hour I had a macintosh desktop guy teach himself unix in a year and get promoted to unix admin.
In a perfect situation I would give each employee 10 days training on any related technology every 90 days, though try getting a CEO or CFO to agree to this.
No days longer than 12 hours, NO MATTER WHAT!
- after 12 hours at work, you are working at a negitive preformance ratio, and falling to sleep on keyboards does more damage than good. When the project is at risk of being fsck'ed by a sleepy worker, the project can wait. Yes this does piss off the MBA types, however, their job is at the expense of your technology.
Every 24 hours of overtime is rewarded with one complimentary day off. - In a perfect world this would fly at most companies.
Weekly Team Building events - dinner, movie, video games, whatever, just get out with the team and blow off some steam.
Open Door Policy - keep open desk hours, and nothing that you are doing is so important that you cant clear your desk for your team.
LISTEN TO YOUR STAFF - sometimes i myself have been so overworked that the sanity came from my team, sometimes it did not, however its all about perspective and as long as you and your team share a common perspective on things, you've done 50% of your work.
Be a minute manager - go get the book 'minute manager' and memorize it. Spend a minute giving the instruction. Check back with your employee when the deadline has come. Spend a minute praising or criticising their work. Your teammate should be encouraged to come to you if they have issues or a need, and give them that minute, and spend the other minute it takes to help them....and with reliable team mates, you'll have spent a whole three minutes per project.
Know your, and your team limits and never cross them, if you do it once, it will be expected from you every time thereon. Your team will feel that you sold them out.
Exercise! - there is no greater way to reduce stress than jumping rope, and punching the bag an hour a day.
..hope these small tidbits help, this is what I have done in the past, during my 0% voulentary atrrition rate management roles.
A good manager serves his staff as well as they both serve the company. (but dont be a pushover)
This box is great and all, but for $299 you hardly get anything.
Why not get the $399 NLX special at http://www.booksizedpc.com and get 2 pci slots and a drive, cdrom, zip, floppy, IRDA, and the rest of the stuff they offer!?
Check out This for photos of my linux router/firewall.
chris
hah, and i own a 9000il us, 9110/eu, and a 9000/eu. ( i travel ALOT), and frankly they arent *that* expensive, and with a generic omnipoint account for $19.95 a month does the minimal.
Bandwidth enabled folks - PLEASE PUT UP MIRRORS!
I've logged over 400 downloads today from my puny 1040kbps sdsl line of the acoustic version.
Feel free to use these mirrors:
Acoustic Version
Mirror A or Mirror B Electrified Version
Mirror A or Mirror B
chris
'is that Code rock? turn it up man!'
heh, you would probably like the nokia 9110/9000 series phones.
There is an application that will allow you to send your phone into diagnostic mode and do some pretty silly things; like traingulate your position between three known transmitter towers, pick and choose local transmiter towers, and a plethora of other fun things. I think it still can be found at http://www.yaws.dk/communicator/ Though you'll need to hack yourself a nokia cable to make it work...
christopher
I had the luxury of having a 7110 phone while doing some WAP development, and all I have to say is; DUH! 50% of all wml pages out there crash that under-powered POS.
Each and every packet has a bit of empty space, ie: a bit of overhead. I encourage you to hack your drivers to place snippets of code in that empty space to be written out of your host in sequential order with every packet you send out.
Reassembly would probably be a beast, though the MPAA is not capable of suing the owners of every network transport host on the net.
...something tells me that if the MPAA wouldnt stand a chance against the big Network Service Providers and Telecom corps of the world.
Historicaly speaking there used to be laws on the books disallowing the education of african american slaves. This lack of education maintained the slave-masters power and the kept the uneducated subject to their will.
This EULA on educational materials coupled with the DMCA appears to me to be a method of maintianing and controling a captive audience, as well as granting liscense to the brokers of information th pick and choose who can and cannot legally garner an education.
If we tie this into the World Intelectual Property Organization's attempts to make FACTS copyrightable, we've a real doozey of legal information monopoly that could, in theory, bring the Open Source 'movement' to a grinding halt.
...brings new meaning to the notion of 'Thought Crimes'
christopher
http://www.neitzert.com/~chris/descramble.mp3
I can think of a few things that online voting will solve.
1)Potlitical Action Commite Payola.
Its easy for PACs to get 100 people in their pockets, try that with 250 million.
2) Corruption.
On this large a scale, it will be impossible for big business to scuttle a law that is harmfull to them, but good for the people/planet with blackmail, extortion, payoffs, etc.
3) True Representation.
Just about every American is told from childhood that their vote makes a difference; This is not true in our current 'once removed representational democracy'. It would be true in an online setting where one voice = one vote.
It is possible at this moment to rid ourselves of the corrupt body politic with some well written software, high quality security (biometrics anyone?), and a distributed forum and polling engine....just take a look at slashdot.
Every time i get within a block of the Verizon Building at 42nd Street and 6th Ave in Manhattan NYC my Voicestream/Omnipoint GSM Phone (Ericcson i888) goes dead and refuses to pick up a network connection untill i leave the area and power cycle it.
Aside from their exorbatant rates and crappy phones, this is about all I know about Verizon....Voicestream's Customer Service doesnt seem to give a damn about this issue either.
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Currently I've seen no software that does what the Tivo Does. Which is; Obtain a TV-Guide like listing, Record shows that you tell it to record, Record shows similar to what you like by genre, thespian, director, etc.
I agree that the TV-tuner card will obsolete the Tivo in the long haul. Conversely we'll need to see some well developed agent-ware designed for the cards, as well as get our heads out of the one-box-one-function frame of mind the average consumer is renowned for.
As for the TV box, what i do with my Tivo is, use the dump to tape function to archive stuff to my 'set-top-box' (piii/256MB-RAM/75GB EIDE/500mhz/haupage-win-tv/100mbps ether/dvd-ram/winbloze98) and write it to dvd-ram in playable format(avi/mpg/asf), or squirt it up the lan to my Sun Ultra-1 w/ 500GB array for future viewing purposes. This process is far from being automated.
Thanks for the info on 'hacking the tivo' 30hours of "crap quality video" or 9 hours of tolerable quality is just not enough space for somone who catches a weeks worth of science fiction and news every saturday...
Back to the Clipper arguement...*again* What law enforcement is unable to realize or admit is that a majority of their targets CANNOT mask their physical doings and that because we have new tools of surveilence, it does not make the old tools entirely obsolete. (atleast untill one can transport bombs and drugs up the wire)...just another excuse for the two party corporate government to tighten the thumb screws on their socalled constituentcy. people over policy!
You probably shouldnt give them the root password. What you should do is ask them to create an ssh key, where they can use the ssh key to login as root, that way you can atleast tell, provided your logging is set up correctly, when, where, and how they login as 'root'
I'd like to hear of this vendor as well. I've spent the better part of the past five years working with some seriously custom equipment and I have yet to hear of a company that does custom jobs like that...
the one company i've used for custom portable devices is BSI who are at http://www.industrial-portable.com . Although they dont do uber-custom spec builds on portables, they do build to spec provided they, as a sales dude put it, 'get the parts into the case'
I'd like to hear who this company is as well, it would save me ALOT of soldering...
A few years back I met Paul Garamond, who runs a site and nameservice called name.space with the intent to do just this; end the tld monopoly and be "the dot everything" people The idea they have been running with is a 'register your own tld' and put us in your/etc/resolv.conf. Aside from the management hell one might face in dealing with multiple root-servers, this seems like a pretty cool idea that would remove ICANN's monopoly and big business's obsessive grasp on naming scheme.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had a similar issue where I've not been able to run searches of the documents. Xerox has a solution, that is pretty handy, webenabled, but very very expensive
the omnibot in the 80s was called the Omni-Photovore.
i still have mine, though i havent let it run amok in my house since the cat tried to eat it.
One hour a day to read any O'Riley and Associtates book you want. - I've found that, this not only relaxes most of the team. At its worst gives them that much needed mid day nap, or some comapny time to brush up and polish their skill set. With this one hour I had a macintosh desktop guy teach himself unix in a year and get promoted to unix admin.
In a perfect situation I would give each employee 10 days training on any related technology every 90 days, though try getting a CEO or CFO to agree to this.
No days longer than 12 hours, NO MATTER WHAT! - after 12 hours at work, you are working at a negitive preformance ratio, and falling to sleep on keyboards does more damage than good. When the project is at risk of being fsck'ed by a sleepy worker, the project can wait. Yes this does piss off the MBA types, however, their job is at the expense of your technology.
Every 24 hours of overtime is rewarded with one complimentary day off. - In a perfect world this would fly at most companies.
Weekly Team Building events - dinner, movie, video games, whatever, just get out with the team and blow off some steam.
Open Door Policy - keep open desk hours, and nothing that you are doing is so important that you cant clear your desk for your team.
LISTEN TO YOUR STAFF - sometimes i myself have been so overworked that the sanity came from my team, sometimes it did not, however its all about perspective and as long as you and your team share a common perspective on things, you've done 50% of your work.
Be a minute manager - go get the book 'minute manager' and memorize it. Spend a minute giving the instruction. Check back with your employee when the deadline has come. Spend a minute praising or criticising their work. Your teammate should be encouraged to come to you if they have issues or a need, and give them that minute, and spend the other minute it takes to help them. ...and with reliable team mates, you'll have spent a whole three minutes per project.
Know your, and your team limits and never cross them, if you do it once, it will be expected from you every time thereon. Your team will feel that you sold them out.
Exercise! - there is no greater way to reduce stress than jumping rope, and punching the bag an hour a day.
..hope these small tidbits help, this is what I have done in the past, during my 0% voulentary atrrition rate management roles.
A good manager serves his staff as well as they both serve the company. (but dont be a pushover)
christopher
This box is great and all, but for $299 you hardly get anything.
Why not get the $399 NLX special at http://www.booksizedpc.com and get 2 pci slots and a drive, cdrom, zip, floppy, IRDA, and the rest of the stuff they offer!?
Check out This for photos of my linux router/firewall.
chris
DUH! nokia 9xx0 series pda-phones.
Rumor has it that nokia is releasing a newer Triband/Colour/WAP/PalmOS version of the 9110i.
I own one of each and despite the maxwell smart form factor, its damn handy.
hah, and i own a 9000il us, 9110/eu, and a 9000/eu. ( i travel ALOT), and frankly they arent *that* expensive, and with a generic omnipoint account for $19.95 a month does the minimal.
the specs are:
9110 - 486sx 16mbs ram
9000 - 386 8mbs ram.
linux? hell yeah!
chris
Bandwidth enabled folks - PLEASE PUT UP MIRRORS!
I've logged over 400 downloads today from my puny 1040kbps sdsl line of the acoustic version.
Feel free to use these mirrors:
Acoustic Version Mirror A or Mirror B
Electrified Version Mirror A or Mirror B chris 'is that Code rock? turn it up man!'
naah the T38m with bluetooth wireless headset kicks some serious ass.... ..now if they'd release it in the states i'd save myself the airfare...
heh, you would probably like the nokia 9110/9000 series phones. There is an application that will allow you to send your phone into diagnostic mode and do some pretty silly things; like traingulate your position between three known transmitter towers, pick and choose local transmiter towers, and a plethora of other fun things. I think it still can be found at http://www.yaws.dk/communicator/ Though you'll need to hack yourself a nokia cable to make it work... christopher
I had the luxury of having a 7110 phone while doing some WAP development, and all I have to say is; DUH! 50% of all wml pages out there crash that under-powered POS.
...get a real phone, go ericsson or nokia 9110!
Each and every packet has a bit of empty space, ie: a bit of overhead. I encourage you to hack your drivers to place snippets of code in that empty space to be written out of your host in sequential order with every packet you send out.
Reassembly would probably be a beast, though the MPAA is not capable of suing the owners of every network transport host on the net.
...something tells me that if the MPAA wouldnt stand a chance against the big Network Service Providers and Telecom corps of the world.
chris
This is very alarming.
Historicaly speaking there used to be laws on the books disallowing the education of african american slaves. This lack of education maintained the slave-masters power and the kept the uneducated subject to their will.
This EULA on educational materials coupled with the DMCA appears to me to be a method of maintianing and controling a captive audience, as well as granting liscense to the brokers of information th pick and choose who can and cannot legally garner an education.
If we tie this into the World Intelectual Property Organization's attempts to make FACTS copyrightable, we've a real doozey of legal information monopoly that could, in theory, bring the Open Source 'movement' to a grinding halt.
...brings new meaning to the notion of 'Thought Crimes'
christopher
http://www.neitzert.com/~chris/descramble.mp3
Joe is having some problems with his upstream provider, so with his permission I have mirrored copies of the song here and here.
The only real changes about IBM WebSphere Applicaion Server SE are the liscensing.
I had the blessed experience of developing a global intranet based on WebSphere, and it was practicaly decidedly Open Source two years ago...
neitzert
I can think of a few things that online voting will solve.
...just take a look at slashdot.
1)Potlitical Action Commite Payola.
Its easy for PACs to get 100 people in their pockets, try that with 250 million.
2) Corruption.
On this large a scale, it will be impossible for big business to scuttle a law that is harmfull to them, but good for the people/planet with blackmail, extortion, payoffs, etc.
3) True Representation.
Just about every American is told from childhood that their vote makes a difference; This is not true in our current 'once removed representational democracy'. It would be true in an online setting where one voice = one vote.
It is possible at this moment to rid ourselves of the corrupt body politic with some well written software, high quality security (biometrics anyone?), and a distributed forum and polling engine.
Every time i get within a block of the Verizon Building at 42nd Street and 6th Ave in Manhattan NYC my Voicestream/Omnipoint GSM Phone (Ericcson i888) goes dead and refuses to pick up a network connection untill i leave the area and power cycle it. Aside from their exorbatant rates and crappy phones, this is about all I know about Verizon. ...Voicestream's Customer Service doesnt seem to give a damn about this issue either.
Currently I've seen no software that does what the Tivo Does. Which is; Obtain a TV-Guide like listing, Record shows that you tell it to record, Record shows similar to what you like by genre, thespian, director, etc.
I agree that the TV-tuner card will obsolete the Tivo in the long haul. Conversely we'll need to see some well developed agent-ware designed for the cards, as well as get our heads out of the one-box-one-function frame of mind the average consumer is renowned for.
As for the TV box, what i do with my Tivo is, use the dump to tape function to archive stuff to my 'set-top-box' (piii/256MB-RAM/75GB EIDE/500mhz/haupage-win-tv/100mbps ether/dvd-ram/winbloze98) and write it to dvd-ram in playable format(avi/mpg/asf), or squirt it up the lan to my Sun Ultra-1 w/ 500GB array for future viewing purposes. This process is far from being automated.
Thanks for the info on 'hacking the tivo' 30hours of "crap quality video" or 9 hours of tolerable quality is just not enough space for somone who catches a weeks worth of science fiction and news every saturday...
Back to the Clipper arguement...*again* What law enforcement is unable to realize or admit is that a majority of their targets CANNOT mask their physical doings and that because we have new tools of surveilence, it does not make the old tools entirely obsolete. (atleast untill one can transport bombs and drugs up the wire) ...just another excuse for the two party corporate government to tighten the thumb screws on their socalled constituentcy. people over policy!
The real deal/lesson in this is;
Know what business you are in.
If Amtrak/Conrail understood that they were in the transportation business, you would be flying the 'metroliner' from NYC to Paris.
The MPAA is in the Motion Picture business, not the software, encryption, or Intelectual Property Business and hopefully the courts will agree.
I applaud Judge Kaplan and the code poets everywhere for stridently thinking in a sane direction.
You probably shouldnt give them the root password.
What you should do is ask them to create an ssh key, where they can use the ssh key to login as root, that way you can atleast tell, provided your logging is set up correctly, when, where, and how they login as 'root'
love
christopher
heya folks, although this IS slashdot, and flaming is inevitable, check out this url:
http://www.fringeweb.com/laptops.html#Indexes
have fun stormin da castle!
chris
I'd like to hear of this vendor as well.
I've spent the better part of the past five years working with some seriously custom equipment and I have yet to hear of a company that does custom jobs like that...
the one company i've used for custom portable devices is BSI who are at http://www.industrial-portable.com . Although they dont do uber-custom spec builds on portables, they do build to spec provided they, as a sales dude put it, 'get the parts into the case'
I'd like to hear who this company is as well, it would save me ALOT of soldering...
chris
A few years back I met Paul Garamond, who runs a site and nameservice called name.space with the intent to do just this; end the tld monopoly and be "the dot everything" people
The idea they have been running with is a 'register your own tld' and put us in your
Aside from the management hell one might face in dealing with multiple root-servers, this seems like a pretty cool idea that would remove ICANN's monopoly and big business's obsessive grasp on naming scheme.
Flames to /dev/null
christopher