As the owner of a 17" Formac, I have to agree with one caveat: Formac's customer service is less than stellar. Their panels are beautiful, but a bit pricey. They also need to make a panel larger than 20".
You didn't say how old your children are, but you implied that they are between 15-17 years old. If you think that 17 year olds aren't well informed about sex (by their peers and by experience), you don't get out much. Expecting a movie to teach or reinforce values is a joke. That's what parents are for.
Besides, with logic like this:
And, finally, if you really believe (especially American) society is growing up with any discernable fears and inhibitions, I guess you don't get out much. From what I see, it's a bit too unafraid and uninhibited.
It's not hard to see why kids have trouble in this world. You'd rather have kids grow up paranoid and afraid? I'd rather my kids grow up educated, confident, and grounded in morals that I've encouraged by thoughtful debate, not by sheltering them from the reality of the world.
Have you used Office V.x? IMHO, it's far better than any Windows version of Office I've used. That runs the gamut from Office 97 up to OfficeXP/2002. The only flaw is the lack of Outlook for those who have to integrate with an Exchange server. And Entourage will shortly remedy this.
I think your math is off. 20 million subscribers at $150/year comes out to $3 Billion dollars. I could be wrong, but I don't think the BBC brings in that much payola.
Actually the IBM Microdrives are quite sensitive to environmental factors such as excessive vibration and shock. If you drop a Microdrive from waist high onto a hard floor, it'll probably be toast. That's why so many of he professional photographers who've adopted digicams shun Microdrives for flash based memory storage.
Besides, isn't it painful to find that a Majority of Americans do support Bush? Kind of a kick in the gonads to the left wing intelligentsia* in America.
* (I used to think Military Intelligence was a good example of an oxymoron. Now I think this is far superior.)
"Tabbed windows are a terrible idea; on those occasions when I use Chimera, I avoid them. With tabbed windows one cannot view two pages side-by-side at the same time. That's the only reason I ever have more than one browser window open at once, so tabbed windows are of no use to me."
In that case simply open another Chimera window and compare the two sites side by side. At least with Chimera you have the option of using tabbed windows. Just because you don't use a feature, doesn't mean it's not a valid feature. Where I work, I haven't found one person who doesn't give up IE for Moz/Chimera/Phoenix once they see tabbed browsing. And, we're largely a MS shop.
If you don't like Ghost's DOS foundation, checkout Acronis's True Image. It allows you to copy a drive image while it's still running. It actually uses unix type tools to do this...
Actually, those scenes were filmed, but never, never, were in any theater run. This is a common folk tale.
Also, the prologue to Star Wars, The First Saga of The Journal of The Whills, wasn't written by Leia Organa. She simply has a quote attached at the end.
Hehe, educating users. Right. I work at a dying dot.bomb that started out with very lax policies. By the time I arrived and tried to clean things up, everyone was used to installing their own software, had admin rights on their boxes, etc. After the first software audit, we patiently educated everyone about licensing, shareware, etc. 6 months later, things are just as bad as when I arrived. Made me come up with 3 rules:
1. Users don't care about security or licensing audits. Don't consult them, or consider their arguments. 2. Management only cares about liability. Use that to your benefit. 3. No one likes a security nazi. If you want to be liked, get out of admin work.
See, that's the great thing about Slashdot, the web, and information in general. If you don't want to hear about the towers, DON'T CLICK ON THE ARTICLE! Otherwise, STFU
Actually, You're off by a large margin regarding the AK-74's rate of fire. It can pump out between 600-640 rds/min. 10 rds/min is almost as slow as a trained infantryman could do back in the day with a bolt action rifle like the Gewehr 98 or the Springfield '03.
Have a lottery each month, with a guaranteed winner per drawing. Each ticket will cost $5. If 20 million tickets are sold for the drawing, the pool is $100mil for the launch service, be it NASA, the Russians, or a private company. I don't know how much extra it cost Russia to send up the billionaire, but I'd estimate 5-10 million. So that would generate $90mil/month of profit, less the expenses of setting up the lottery.
If you set a minimum of $30mil in ticket sales for each lottery, you would could predictably generate $20mil profit. If the winner was unable to pass the appropriate physicals, he/she could sell the ticket.
Over a year, this could generate in the area of $1 Billion for whoever decides to do this. The ancillary benefits would be more launches, more interest in space, and mankind eventually getting off this rock.
Exactly! I have a co-worker who views Microsoft as his ticket to $$$. He installed Win2k Server at home and was surprised that IIS was CR'ed in minutes. Yet when I tell him we need to migrate to Apache he whines about "the cost of migrating" all his precious.asp drivelcode.
Yet because he's a pushy, prima donna in a company of tech illiterates, he's viewed as "visionary". I pity the next company he works for, as he'll stamp out any OSS he finds. Luckily, I can at least mitigate the damage at our company...
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Commercial support for Snort is available from both SiliconDefense (http://www.silicondefense.com) and Sourcefire (http://www.sourcefire.com) Martin Roesch's company. This may allay your boss's fear about vendor support...
I changed careers at the age of 32, and became *shudder* an MCSE. Took a entry level job at a dot.bomb, and from there moved into better jobs. Started in with BSD after a coworker introduced me to the daemon, and I've never looked back. Learned two of the BSDs, Solaris, and some Linux, as well as kept in touch with the Windows stuff.
While I can't say I love every part of my job, I do look forward to it almost every day. More than any other job I've held.
If you really love it, your best bet is to try and get a job as a Windows admin. It's easy to do, and you can work *nix into the work environment. Then as you gain experience, you'll be able to move to a more narrow focused position. I love having the variety of 10+ operating systems to work on.
I also am the sole administrator at the company, so I get to run things largely my way. I doubt that you'll end up this lucky, but I'd rather do something I love than make 3x doing something dull.
In a previous life, I worked as a teller at a bank. Not only are most tellers underpaid, they are continually dumped on by rude customers. Anyways, for giggles, some tellers would go to the cabinet/closet where our ATM was housed, and when someone put a card in, they'd pull it into the reject bin. They'd do this when the bank was closed, so the luser would have to come into the branch the following morning to get the card back. Pretty funny to watch peoples faces on the camera when they realize their card isn't going to pop back out...
I work in a small dot.bomb, that has managed to survive over the last two years. I have one other support person, who shares in supporting about 20 servers, and 40 desktops. Our number one responsibility is to make sure that everyone in the company can do their job, not impose draconian , BOFH policies.
BOFH is a good read, but try it and everyone will hate you. Then they'll hand you a pink slip.
Our policy is to allow everyone, (even secretaries) local admin rights on their boxes. We give them network shares for stuff that needs to be backed up. Then we do something novel, like get off our duffs, and train them to use their computers. Some don't get it, but at least they know they can always get one of us to help if they get over their heads.
If you treat your fellow employees like lusers, they'll act like lusers. Expect them to act like professionals, give them the tools and the training, and they improve over time.
And developers? Let them have any tool they can get approved, and help them use it. Otherwise you'll miss out on a lot of cool tech that doesn't necessarily show up on slash... Or is surfing and checking out amihotornot.com more important?
I'd be careful using Ghost or the like with NT. If you Ghost an OEM license, you void the license. This was straight from an MS Licensing Rep. Unless you have an Enterprise or Select license, you may be setting yourself up for trouble.
Actually, most Universities don't pay anything to MS, but the other way around. MS views student sales as a way of planting the seeds in a lot of students. Kind of like drug dealers giving away samples to get kids hooked. We have quite a few new programmers straight out of college who are so lost when confronted with a CLI because of this indoctrination.
Trust me. I hired him to implement the first firewall solution (using OpenBSD) and then signed off on the switch to Freebsd. I believe that Jim was avoiding a long lecture on firewall theory and installation.
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As the owner of a 17" Formac, I have to agree with one caveat: Formac's customer service is less than stellar. Their panels are beautiful, but a bit pricey. They also need to make a panel larger than 20".
You didn't say how old your children are, but you implied that they are between 15-17 years old. If you think that 17 year olds aren't well informed about sex (by their peers and by experience), you don't get out much. Expecting a movie to teach or reinforce values is a joke. That's what parents are for.
Besides, with logic like this:
And, finally, if you really believe (especially American) society is growing up with any discernable fears and inhibitions, I guess you don't get out much. From what I see, it's a bit too unafraid and uninhibited.
It's not hard to see why kids have trouble in this world. You'd rather have kids grow up paranoid and afraid? I'd rather my kids grow up educated, confident, and grounded in morals that I've encouraged by thoughtful debate, not by sheltering them from the reality of the world.
Have you used Office V.x? IMHO, it's far better than any Windows version of Office I've used. That runs the gamut from Office 97 up to OfficeXP/2002. The only flaw is the lack of Outlook for those who have to integrate with an Exchange server. And Entourage will shortly remedy this.
I think your math is off. 20 million subscribers at $150/year comes out to $3 Billion dollars. I could be wrong, but I don't think the BBC brings in that much payola.
Actually the IBM Microdrives are quite sensitive to environmental factors such as excessive vibration and shock. If you drop a Microdrive from waist high onto a hard floor, it'll probably be toast. That's why so many of he professional photographers who've adopted digicams shun Microdrives for flash based memory storage.
I invoke Godwin's law.
Besides, isn't it painful to find that a Majority of Americans do support Bush? Kind of a kick in the gonads to the left wing intelligentsia* in America.
* (I used to think Military Intelligence was a good example of an oxymoron. Now I think this is far superior.)
Twirlip of the Mists wrote:
"Tabbed windows are a terrible idea; on those occasions when I use Chimera, I avoid them. With tabbed windows one cannot view two pages side-by-side at the same time. That's the only reason I ever have more than one browser window open at once, so tabbed windows are of no use to me."
In that case simply open another Chimera window and compare the two sites side by side. At least with Chimera you have the option of using tabbed windows. Just because you don't use a feature, doesn't mean it's not a valid feature. Where I work, I haven't found one person who doesn't give up IE for Moz/Chimera/Phoenix once they see tabbed browsing. And, we're largely a MS shop.
If you don't like Ghost's DOS foundation, checkout Acronis's True Image. It allows you to copy a drive image while it's still running. It actually uses unix type tools to do this...
Bzzt! Try again. 480p isn't HD. Only 720p and 1080i (and above) qualify.
Bzzz! Try again. Projection systems are so far past monitors in terms of home theaters it's not even funny.
Actually, those scenes were filmed, but never, never, were in any theater run. This is a common folk tale.
Also, the prologue to Star Wars, The First Saga of The Journal of The Whills, wasn't written by Leia Organa. She simply has a quote attached at the end.
Hehe, educating users. Right. I work at a dying dot.bomb that started out with very lax policies. By the time I arrived and tried to clean things up, everyone was used to installing their own software, had admin rights on their boxes, etc. After the first software audit, we patiently educated everyone about licensing, shareware, etc. 6 months later, things are just as bad as when I arrived. Made me come up with 3 rules:
1. Users don't care about security or licensing audits. Don't consult them, or consider their arguments.
2. Management only cares about liability. Use that to your benefit.
3. No one likes a security nazi. If you want to be liked, get out of admin work.
In my day, we learned to spell words properly when composing sentences.
See, that's the great thing about Slashdot, the web, and information in general. If you don't want to hear about the towers, DON'T CLICK ON THE ARTICLE! Otherwise, STFU
Or better yet, vi
Actually, You're off by a large margin regarding the AK-74's rate of fire. It can pump out between 600-640 rds/min. 10 rds/min is almost as slow as a trained infantryman could do back in the day with a bolt action rifle like the Gewehr 98 or the Springfield '03.
Here's the way into space...
Have a lottery each month, with a guaranteed winner per drawing. Each ticket will cost $5. If 20 million tickets are sold for the drawing, the pool is $100mil for the launch service, be it NASA, the Russians, or a private company. I don't know how much extra it cost Russia to send up the billionaire, but I'd estimate 5-10 million. So that would generate $90mil/month of profit, less the expenses of setting up the lottery.
If you set a minimum of $30mil in ticket sales for each lottery, you would could predictably generate $20mil profit. If the winner was unable to pass the appropriate physicals, he/she could sell the ticket.
Over a year, this could generate in the area of $1 Billion for whoever decides to do this. The ancillary benefits would be more launches, more interest in space, and mankind eventually getting off this rock.
Exactly! I have a co-worker who views Microsoft as his ticket to $$$. He installed Win2k Server at home and was surprised that IIS was CR'ed in minutes. Yet when I tell him we need to migrate to Apache he whines about "the cost of migrating" all his precious .asp drivelcode.
Yet because he's a pushy, prima donna in a company of tech illiterates, he's viewed as "visionary". I pity the next company he works for, as he'll stamp out any OSS he finds. Luckily, I can at least mitigate the damage at our company...
Commercial support for Snort is available from both SiliconDefense (http://www.silicondefense.com) and Sourcefire (http://www.sourcefire.com) Martin Roesch's company. This may allay your boss's fear about vendor support...
I changed careers at the age of 32, and became *shudder* an MCSE. Took a entry level job at a dot.bomb, and from there moved into better jobs. Started in with BSD after a coworker introduced me to the daemon, and I've never looked back. Learned two of the BSDs, Solaris, and some Linux, as well as kept in touch with the Windows stuff.
While I can't say I love every part of my job, I do look forward to it almost every day. More than any other job I've held.
If you really love it, your best bet is to try and get a job as a Windows admin. It's easy to do, and you can work *nix into the work environment. Then as you gain experience, you'll be able to move to a more narrow focused position. I love having the variety of 10+ operating systems to work on.
I also am the sole administrator at the company, so I get to run things largely my way. I doubt that you'll end up this lucky, but I'd rather do something I love than make 3x doing something dull.
Good Luck
In a previous life, I worked as a teller at a bank. Not only are most tellers underpaid, they are continually dumped on by rude customers. Anyways, for giggles, some tellers would go to the cabinet/closet where our ATM was housed, and when someone put a card in, they'd pull it into the reject bin. They'd do this when the bank was closed, so the luser would have to come into the branch the following morning to get the card back. Pretty funny to watch peoples faces on the camera when they realize their card isn't going to pop back out...
I work in a small dot.bomb, that has managed to survive over the last two years. I have one other support person, who shares in supporting about 20 servers, and 40 desktops. Our number one responsibility is to make sure that everyone in the company can do their job, not impose draconian , BOFH policies.
BOFH is a good read, but try it and everyone will hate you. Then they'll hand you a pink slip.
Our policy is to allow everyone, (even secretaries) local admin rights on their boxes. We give them network shares for stuff that needs to be backed up. Then we do something novel, like get off our duffs, and train them to use their computers. Some don't get it, but at least they know they can always get one of us to help if they get over their heads.
If you treat your fellow employees like lusers, they'll act like lusers. Expect them to act like professionals, give them the tools and the training, and they improve over time.
And developers? Let them have any tool they can get approved, and help them use it. Otherwise you'll miss out on a lot of cool tech that doesn't necessarily show up on slash... Or is surfing and checking out amihotornot.com more important?
I'd be careful using Ghost or the like with NT. If you Ghost an OEM license, you void the license. This was straight from an MS Licensing Rep. Unless you have an Enterprise or Select license, you may be setting yourself up for trouble.
Actually, most Universities don't pay anything to MS, but the other way around. MS views student sales as a way of planting the seeds in a lot of students. Kind of like drug dealers giving away samples to get kids hooked. We have quite a few new programmers straight out of college who are so lost when confronted with a CLI because of this indoctrination.
Trust me. I hired him to implement the first firewall solution (using OpenBSD) and then signed off on the switch to Freebsd. I believe that Jim was avoiding a long lecture on firewall theory and installation.