Production I.G forums had details on this back in Aug of 2002. http://www.productionig.com/Forums/index.ph p?s=2a9 2fa94f9ae51b2d8894e60596c01cf&act=ST&f=14&t=202&st =0
I worked at the economics department back in july of 2001. I started working with 5 other northeastern university students in the systems administration department. One of which was Chris Tresco, the member of DoD.
They all were a great bunch of people, really friendly, and down-to-earth. Summer is pretty slow at MIT because not too much goes on besides grad student work.
The first day of work i went through an "initiation" in which we went out to eat at the "Cheesecake Factory" resturant in Cambridge, a very posh resturant. My initiation was to select the appetizers for the rest of the department, if they liked my choices then i would become a part of the group, otherwise... i don't know. The talk around the table focused on our manager Lisa talking about an ex-employee who used to screw around with rather ugly women, and how he was a man-whore, etc. Very casual, even almost vulgar conversation. I felt very at ease, they were close, and quickly became friendly towards me. The bill was quite expensive, but of course MIT paid. This was monday.
Later that day Chris and the other guys showed me the systems, and explained what each machine did, and the basic design of the network. I noticed a rather large file server, and when i asked what it did, Chris explained that it was his own machine. I browsed the web
Tuesday rolled around and I was updating different professors homepages with a new design template. Not too much really, i finished the job quickly. Later in the afternoon, the manager Lisa came into our office and asked us "Do you guys need anything?". Chris turned and said "I could use a beer." another guy said "How about a foot massage?", i turned and said "I could use a back rub." She laughed and returned to her office. I spent the rest of the day updaing the website, and watching the guys messaround with the mp3 server, and the music one guy was making with Cubase.
I had yet to fill out any working papers as it was only my 2nd day working.
Wednesday rolled around, and the day started as normal. Chris showed me his computer, and i noticed the 3+ terabytes of disk space it had. He casually informed me that it was a DoD "Drop box", and that if i created a directory with the name of a software, or mp3 title, that in the directory the next day it would appear there, almost like magic.
Later in the afternoon, the manager called me into her office, i thought she was going to have me fill out some forms for work. Once i was in her office, she had me sit down.
"About that joke you made yesterday..." she said.
"Umm, which one was that..." I replied
"The one about the back rub.... i didn't appreciate that, it was a direct insult to my authority." She said.
"Oh, that one.... I'm sorry, but i didn't really mean anything by it, the other guys were joking around as well, and i didn't think anything of it. I replied, suprised.
"Well i didn't think it was very professional, and with the Professors and expensive equipment we have here at MIT, i expeceted a higher level of professionalism from you." She said.
"Oh.... well you guys all seemed to be pretty relaxed. With no dress code, and you're down-to-earth, and friendly personalities, you all seemed like a bunch of bar-mates, and just happen to work together. I thought my comment was right at home. I'm sorry, but i guess i shouldn't have said that afterall." I said shocked.
"Well, i'm sorry, but i'm going to have to let you go." She said quickly.
"You mean i'm fired? Don't i get any warning, or second chance or anything? I mean... i didn't really mean anything by it, it was just friendly banter. I said be wildered.
"I'm sorry, but i feel that it upsurped my authority, and we expect a high level of professionalism here. She said.
"Well thats funny, because with the conversation at lunch on monday, the birkenstock sandals, t-shirts, shorts, and most of all, the warez server in the other room, i didn't really see a high level of professionalism, if any whatsoever." I snapped.
"I'm sorry, my decision is final, you can leave now if you like. Or finish out the rest of the day..." She said, and looked away.
I got paid for the rest of the week, and left. Then I heard this story.
I guess she'll not be working long after this, it was right under her nose. Good managering i guess.
I remember back in 1991 when I didn't play "computer games". I played "Video games". I also didn't "Surf the web". I "bbsed". Back then things were more simple. ASCII art, a time when Microsoft wasn't evil, no obscure linux-related jokes, hell, no linux. That was when i played outside too, climbed trees, and didn't have a job (because i was 11).
Now look at us. I'm sitting here, reading news on a website named after some punctuation, and worrying about if i can talk about the newest Microsoft internet explorer to my boss, or risk being fired, and turned to the police because i know too much.
When Apple came out with the Newton, it did well at first, then flopped over time. It was well ahead of its time, but there wasn't a big enough market to support it.
"Why are people so obsessed with the idea of Apple releasing a PDA, anyway?"
When the Newton came out, techies were amazed at its handwriting recognition software, and general ease of use. What they were also amazed at was its price tag.
Both the NeXT and the Newton were ahead of the market, but very nice products. It seems the hype about this new device is possibly the fact that Apple tends to release new products that are ahead of the market, but are none-the-less fantastic.
Just from browsing that site briefly, I noticed a few things. Obviously "Midori" is the japanese word for green. Then the logo for the product is a typical techno-anime-girl. The looks very similar to the main character from the Bungee/Microsoft game "Oni".
Who exactly are they marketing this new distro to? Anime fans?.
My Kinesis is my best friend. Its my lover. We code late at night together. I have a MS Natural next to it, but its just not as warm, and loveable as the kinesis.
I would like to know what law he broke, did he make a program that copies DVD's or breaks the copyright protection. If it copies the CD's then yea, maybe its a bad thing. But even in doing that, can't we make copies of a DVD that we own, for lets say "Backup reasons".
Now lets say his program source simply broke the encryption to just allow the data to be read, and another program, or function in the program could copy the information to say, a hard drive. Isn't the DVD yours to begin with? Even though there is copyright protection, you do own the DVD, since when do we buy things that we don't totally own.
The wool has been pulled over our eyes somewhere along the line. If i buy a CD, and i want to smash it, i can right? If i want to listen to it i can, right? What if i want to copy it and make copies for myself? is that illegal? What if i give these copies away to friends. It is my CD after all. And if it was a toothpick or something it would be ok, but this media is different. We no longer own it. We just own the rights to listen to it. If i pay for it, i want all my rights too it.
I've got gnome and e, and if i change themes, then holding the alt button, and clicking anywhere in a window will not move it. This is a problem if the window dosen't have a border. Any way to fix this, please email me, i don't check back on posts. eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu ---- eclip5e eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!" www.ccs.neu.edu
One way I could see working is one of the strangist exercising devices i've seen on TV. It worked by the user stepping into "stirrups", and the person walks, and the stirrips swing with the legs. Thing of a Cage which the person stands in. Then there are 2 poles that hang down from the center, which have a foothold which the user stands on. As the person walks, the footholds swing with the person.
As the person turns, his feet will slowly change degrees. The angle degree the foot turns with rotate the picture infront of the user. And the stirrups with rotate with the foot.
This would require a highly modified version of the exercise machine, but anyone with any tools could fix it up. My description is weak, but i have the ideas in my head. Maybe i'll draw a picture.
---- eclip5e eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!" www.ccs.neu.edu
I'm going to be a proud robosexual when they are released in the near future. I didn't find that joke funny.... sorry:( ---- eclip5e eclip5e@ici.net ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!" home.ici.net/~eclip5e/
If anyone else noticed, when Bender was first met by Fry, he was in the bar drinking his pains away. But did you notice his drink of choice?...... ... ... yep you guessed it, ye ol' Fortran, our favorite archaic computer language! ---- eclip5e eclip5e@ici.net ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!" home.ici.net/~eclip5e/
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Production I.G forums had details on this back in Aug of 2002.h p?s=2a9 2fa94f9ae51b2d8894e60596c01cf&act=ST&f=14&t=202&st =0
http://www.productionig.com/Forums/index.p
When i first saw that image i first thought of the beginning level of Half-Life.
Writing a virus is considered Freedom of Speech. By posting your virus code online, that is considered distribution.
Thus making this illegal is an infringement of my first.
I worked at the economics department back in july of 2001. I started working with 5 other northeastern university students in the systems administration department. One of which was Chris Tresco, the member of DoD.
They all were a great bunch of people, really friendly, and down-to-earth. Summer is pretty slow at MIT because not too much goes on besides grad student work.
The first day of work i went through an "initiation" in which we went out to eat at the "Cheesecake Factory" resturant in Cambridge, a very posh resturant. My initiation was to select the appetizers for the rest of the department, if they liked my choices then i would become a part of the group, otherwise... i don't know. The talk around the table focused on our manager Lisa talking about an ex-employee who used to screw around with rather ugly women, and how he was a man-whore, etc. Very casual, even almost vulgar conversation. I felt very at ease, they were close, and quickly became friendly towards me. The bill was quite expensive, but of course MIT paid. This was monday.
Later that day Chris and the other guys showed me the systems, and explained what each machine did, and the basic design of the network. I noticed a rather large file server, and when i asked what it did, Chris explained that it was his own machine. I browsed the web
Tuesday rolled around and I was updating different professors homepages with a new design template. Not too much really, i finished the job quickly. Later in the afternoon, the manager Lisa came into our office and asked us "Do you guys need anything?". Chris turned and said "I could use a beer." another guy said "How about a foot massage?", i turned and said "I could use a back rub." She laughed and returned to her office. I spent the rest of the day updaing the website, and watching the guys messaround with the mp3 server, and the music one guy was making with Cubase.
I had yet to fill out any working papers as it was only my 2nd day working.
Wednesday rolled around, and the day started as normal. Chris showed me his computer, and i noticed the 3+ terabytes of disk space it had. He casually informed me that it was a DoD "Drop box", and that if i created a directory with the name of a software, or mp3 title, that in the directory the next day it would appear there, almost like magic.
Later in the afternoon, the manager called me into her office, i thought she was going to have me fill out some forms for work. Once i was in her office, she had me sit down.
"About that joke you made yesterday..." she said.
"Umm, which one was that..." I replied
"The one about the back rub.... i didn't appreciate that, it was a direct insult to my authority." She said.
"Oh, that one.... I'm sorry, but i didn't really mean anything by it, the other guys were joking around as well, and i didn't think anything of it. I replied, suprised.
"Well i didn't think it was very professional, and with the Professors and expensive equipment we have here at MIT, i expeceted a higher level of professionalism from you." She said.
"Oh.... well you guys all seemed to be pretty relaxed. With no dress code, and you're down-to-earth, and friendly personalities, you all seemed like a bunch of bar-mates, and just happen to work together. I thought my comment was right at home. I'm sorry, but i guess i shouldn't have said that afterall." I said shocked.
"Well, i'm sorry, but i'm going to have to let you go." She said quickly.
"You mean i'm fired? Don't i get any warning, or second chance or anything? I mean... i didn't really mean anything by it, it was just friendly banter. I said be wildered.
"I'm sorry, but i feel that it upsurped my authority, and we expect a high level of professionalism here. She said.
"Well thats funny, because with the conversation at lunch on monday, the birkenstock sandals, t-shirts, shorts, and most of all, the warez server in the other room, i didn't really see a high level of professionalism, if any whatsoever." I snapped.
"I'm sorry, my decision is final, you can leave now if you like. Or finish out the rest of the day..." She said, and looked away.
I got paid for the rest of the week, and left. Then I heard this story.
I guess she'll not be working long after this, it was right under her nose. Good managering i guess.
I'm glad i got fired.
I remember back in 1991 when I didn't play "computer games". I played "Video games". I also didn't "Surf the web". I "bbsed". Back then things were more simple. ASCII art, a time when Microsoft wasn't evil, no obscure linux-related jokes, hell, no linux. That was when i played outside too, climbed trees, and didn't have a job (because i was 11).
Now look at us. I'm sitting here, reading news on a website named after some punctuation, and worrying about if i can talk about the newest Microsoft internet explorer to my boss, or risk being fired, and turned to the police because i know too much.
When Apple came out with the Newton, it did well at first, then flopped over time. It was well ahead of its time, but there wasn't a big enough market to support it.
"Why are people so obsessed with the idea of Apple releasing a PDA, anyway?"
When the Newton came out, techies were amazed at its handwriting recognition software, and general ease of use. What they were also amazed at was its price tag.
Both the NeXT and the Newton were ahead of the market, but very nice products. It seems the hype about this new device is possibly the fact that Apple tends to release new products that are ahead of the market, but are none-the-less fantastic.
The paths are quite similar to NeXT if you've ever used it.
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Just from browsing that site briefly, I noticed a few things. Obviously "Midori" is the japanese word for green. Then the logo for the product is a typical techno-anime-girl. The looks very similar to the main character from the Bungee/Microsoft game "Oni".
Who exactly are they marketing this new distro to? Anime fans?.
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My Kinesis is my best friend. Its my lover. We code late at night together. I have a MS Natural next to it, but its just not as warm, and loveable as the kinesis.
I highly recomend it.
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eclip5e
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
ICQ #2567792
I would like to know what law he broke, did he make a program that copies DVD's or breaks the copyright protection. If it copies the CD's then yea, maybe its a bad thing. But even in doing that, can't we make copies of a DVD that we own, for lets say "Backup reasons".
Now lets say his program source simply broke the encryption to just allow the data to be read, and another program, or function in the program could copy the information to say, a hard drive. Isn't the DVD yours to begin with? Even though there is copyright protection, you do own the DVD, since when do we buy things that we don't totally own.
The wool has been pulled over our eyes somewhere along the line. If i buy a CD, and i want to smash it, i can right? If i want to listen to it i can, right? What if i want to copy it and make copies for myself? is that illegal? What if i give these copies away to friends. It is my CD after all. And if it was a toothpick or something it would be ok, but this media is different. We no longer own it. We just own the rights to listen to it. If i pay for it, i want all my rights too it.
Doesn't anyone else agree?
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eclip5e
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
ICQ #2567792
I've got gnome and e, and if i change themes, then holding the alt button, and clicking anywhere in a window will not move it. This is a problem if the window dosen't have a border. Any way to fix this, please email me, i don't check back on posts.
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
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eclip5e
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!"
www.ccs.neu.edu
One way I could see working is one of the strangist exercising devices i've seen on TV. It worked by the user stepping into "stirrups", and the person walks, and the stirrips swing with the legs. Thing of a Cage which the person stands in. Then there are 2 poles that hang down from the center, which have a foothold which the user stands on. As the person walks, the footholds swing with the person.
As the person turns, his feet will slowly change degrees. The angle degree the foot turns with rotate the picture infront of the user. And the stirrups with rotate with the foot.
This would require a highly modified version of the exercise machine, but anyone with any tools could fix it up. My description is weak, but i have the ideas in my head. Maybe i'll draw a picture.
----
eclip5e
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!"
www.ccs.neu.edu
I'm 19 years old, and i'm showing signs of symtoms as well. Is it possible to get it at this age?
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eclip5e
eclip5e@ccs.neu.edu
ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!"
www.ccs.neu.edu
I'm going to be a proud robosexual when they are released in the near future. I didn't find that joke funny.... :(
sorry
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eclip5e
eclip5e@ici.net
ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!"
home.ici.net/~eclip5e/
If anyone else noticed, when Bender was first met by Fry, he was in the bar drinking his pains away. But did you notice his drink of choice?......
...
...
yep you guessed it, ye ol' Fortran, our favorite archaic computer language!
----
eclip5e
eclip5e@ici.net
ICQ #2567792
"I can't wait until Windows 1900 comes out!"
home.ici.net/~eclip5e/