Well that's good. Do you have time to go back and check whether the install completed, or are you just blindly running through the building? Who sets up the accounts? Are there enough machines in each building so that your drive-time doesn't eat into your profits?
Just curious. $130,000 is a good salary for a sysadmin, especially freelance, not hard to imagine at all. With a five-day workweek, that's 270 machines per day, or 34 per hour. Whew!
BTW you don't need RealPlayer to watch.rm files. You can use RealAlternative (and QTAlt as well) which has been my player of choice for all types of video. It looks like an old version of WMP but it's much more flexible.
And thank god for it too b/c I wouldn't install RealPlayer on my computer either.
Personally I think the best way to make solar electricity is through steam. Which is, coincidentally, the way that coal, gas, and nuclear plants work already.
Freedom to Facism looks like a good movie. As for Infowars, I *don't* believe the stuff about the U.N. These stories have been around for years, and Alex Jones offers no evidence except heated talk and quick pans over blurry documents.
If you want to take some stuff from Infowars about 9/11, that's something you can actually look into.
>Am I right in thinking that because this is the major I happened to finish with, this is what I get to work with for the rest of my life?
CS, if taught properly, is a management degree. Because the underlying concept is organization, down to the bit level. Thus, people who fully understand CS can lead any project. Since many CS'ers are antisocial types, I'm sure this is a poorly understood concept on both sides (the CS'ers and the managers), but it's still true.
There are also many people in society who didn't go to college at all. These people own houses, have families and drive nice cars. I think you'll find these people really don't care what you majored in. They have been living in the "real world" all along.
As for grad school, how long do you want to stay in the system? Do you respect your teachers enough to want to be judged/graded by them on a weekly basis?
I tend to think the idea that X+Y+Z+money is going to get you a job is a scam. Skills and initiative gets you jobs. College doesn't teach skills. You'll see when you go for an interview and you're like, "Hey, look at this program I spent three days working on in class!" and the interviewer rolls his eyes. Three days is a bare minimum of training for anything, and people in the "real world" know it. They talk about ten, fifteen, twenty years experience and the sooner you get started, the better.
Here you go. I've made a couple of these modified mouses in the past few years. It forces the hand into a more neutral position, removing the over-clenching that is a source of most problems.
I also stiffened the buttons by putting a stack of electrical tape closer to the fulcrum point. No joke, a couple weeks on this thing and your problems will be over. Then you can switch back if you like.
Keyboard: I'm hunting and pecking on a flat Qwerty right now (better for games), but when I do development work, I use a Kinesis+Dvorak+stiffer springs (I got the springs from a box of ballpoint pens).
Ergonomic input is all about a) tactile resistance and b) neutral (flat) hand position instead of clenching.
>if you start up Windows XP from scratch, what processes should be running?
Try running Win2000 sp4. It's barely different from XP, which is, from what I can tell, mostly Mac-like icons . W2k is the same thing without the glitter.
I'm very happy with W2K and I'll be trying it again when I get a 64-bit processor. Living in the past...it goes on forever, and keeps getting faster.
un1xl0ser writes to tell us Hacktivismo has released a new chat program known as ScatterChat. It is a friendly fork of GAIM that "provides end-to-end encryption, integrated onion-routing with Tor, secure file transfers, and easy-to-read documentation." This announcement was made at HOPE, where CDs were distributed. A torrent and several screenshots are also available."
It's funny that I have Tivo and I have no idea what this person is talking about.
>provides end-to-end encryption
OK good.
>This announcement was made at HOPE
Alright I'll wait. In the meantime, I'll be listening to.MOD songs from crackers.
>In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet" deleted.
Not sure why you would post AC, as this is an informative post. With NASA's terrestrial mission deleted, the agency is free to spend its money in "the blackness of space," where stars do not shine, and missions cannot be verified except as a stream of numbers on a computer terminal.
Interesting note, today I was watching a show about asteroid impacts. They said NASA's asteroid mission generated data that was "exactly what we were expecting," and Japan's Hayabusa probe was "completely different" and "raised more questions than it answered."
>Like the Pathfinder rovers that followed in 1997, Viking was expected to last but a short time -- only three months -- but instead continued to gather and return data for six years."
Right, because someone goes out at night and wipes the dust off the solar panels.
>I suppose the exception would be a cure for cancer, and a cure for AIDS.
Nope, those aren't the best exceptions to cite. Your immune system is an extremely potent cancer fighter, especially for younger patients and chemically induced cancers (pollution, cigarette smoking, etc.) And I would hazard a guess that toxins/pollution account for nearly all cases of cancer, the remainder is age-related and a slim margin are genetic.
AIDS...lol. Same exact thing. You should look into it.
Both of these represent failures of the immune system. The "cure" for both diseases is clean living. Even bird flu epidemics tend to correlate with urban squalor, cholera, ditto.
The exception is a bullet hole in the gut. THAT needs curing.
Meanwhile, the FBI is still running the story that their computer system is screwed up. They've been running this story for 10 years. Is that believable in the context of this rollout?
I think it's *supposed* to be the shadow. It is the longest, darkest, most pronounced shadow I have seen. Over 29 miles of jet black pixels all the way into the ocean.
Also, doesn't the shuttle fly upside-down? Why is it drifting towards its belly direction during flight?
>For a residential customer using 500 kWh per month, that would add $20 to the monthly electric bill
Also,
>For every kilowatt-hour requested by customers and provided by a Vermont farm, CVPS will pay the farmer the market price for energy plus the Cow Power charge of 4 cents for the environmental benefits of the generation.
Scott Thompson, chief deputy coroner in Pitkin County, Colo., said Lay died of natural causes. Dr. Robert Kurtzman, Mesa County coroner in Grand Junction, Colo., said an autopsy showed Lay died of heart disease. He said there was evidence that Lay had also suffered a previous heart attack.
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Well that's good. Do you have time to go back and check whether the install completed, or are you just blindly running through the building? Who sets up the accounts? Are there enough machines in each building so that your drive-time doesn't eat into your profits?
Just curious. $130,000 is a good salary for a sysadmin, especially freelance, not hard to imagine at all. With a five-day workweek, that's 270 machines per day, or 34 per hour. Whew!
Well that's excellent then.
.rm files. You can use RealAlternative (and QTAlt as well) which has been my player of choice for all types of video. It looks like an old version of WMP but it's much more flexible.
BTW you don't need RealPlayer to watch
And thank god for it too b/c I wouldn't install RealPlayer on my computer either.
Personally I think the best way to make solar electricity is through steam. Which is, coincidentally, the way that coal, gas, and nuclear plants work already.
Maybe that's the problem. ABC, CNN etc. want to tell you who won before the election is over.
Freedom to Facism looks like a good movie. As for Infowars, I *don't* believe the stuff about the U.N. These stories have been around for years, and Alex Jones offers no evidence except heated talk and quick pans over blurry documents.
If you want to take some stuff from Infowars about 9/11, that's something you can actually look into.
>Am I right in thinking that because this is the major I happened to finish with, this is what I get to work with for the rest of my life?
CS, if taught properly, is a management degree. Because the underlying concept is organization, down to the bit level. Thus, people who fully understand CS can lead any project. Since many CS'ers are antisocial types, I'm sure this is a poorly understood concept on both sides (the CS'ers and the managers), but it's still true.
There are also many people in society who didn't go to college at all. These people own houses, have families and drive nice cars. I think you'll find these people really don't care what you majored in. They have been living in the "real world" all along.
As for grad school, how long do you want to stay in the system? Do you respect your teachers enough to want to be judged/graded by them on a weekly basis?
I tend to think the idea that X+Y+Z+money is going to get you a job is a scam. Skills and initiative gets you jobs. College doesn't teach skills. You'll see when you go for an interview and you're like, "Hey, look at this program I spent three days working on in class!" and the interviewer rolls his eyes. Three days is a bare minimum of training for anything, and people in the "real world" know it. They talk about ten, fifteen, twenty years experience and the sooner you get started, the better.
Here you go. I've made a couple of these modified mouses in the past few years. It forces the hand into a more neutral position, removing the over-clenching that is a source of most problems.
http://liquidctv.com/mousecrop.jpg
What's required: Cloth, glue gun.
I also stiffened the buttons by putting a stack of electrical tape closer to the fulcrum point. No joke, a couple weeks on this thing and your problems will be over. Then you can switch back if you like.
Keyboard: I'm hunting and pecking on a flat Qwerty right now (better for games), but when I do development work, I use a Kinesis+Dvorak+stiffer springs (I got the springs from a box of ballpoint pens).
Ergonomic input is all about a) tactile resistance and b) neutral (flat) hand position instead of clenching.
>if you start up Windows XP from scratch, what processes should be running?
Try running Win2000 sp4. It's barely different from XP, which is, from what I can tell, mostly Mac-like icons . W2k is the same thing without the glitter.
I'm very happy with W2K and I'll be trying it again when I get a 64-bit processor. Living in the past...it goes on forever, and keeps getting faster.
un1xl0ser writes to tell us Hacktivismo has released a new chat program known as ScatterChat. It is a friendly fork of GAIM that "provides end-to-end encryption, integrated onion-routing with Tor, secure file transfers, and easy-to-read documentation." This announcement was made at HOPE, where CDs were distributed. A torrent and several screenshots are also available."
.MOD songs from crackers.
It's funny that I have Tivo and I have no idea what this person is talking about.
>provides end-to-end encryption
OK good.
>This announcement was made at HOPE
Alright I'll wait. In the meantime, I'll be listening to
Good question. Keep in mind this is the "hackers conference." You might be hacked, right now. I give these people a decent amount of respect.
I'm in NY, I'll try to listen. I've listened to WBAI before.
>Conference founder Emmanuel Goldstein said organizers were trying to figure out where the FBI had taken Rambam,
Emmanuel Goldstein is the antagonist of the novel 1984. Is this an online handle?
>In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet" deleted.
Not sure why you would post AC, as this is an informative post. With NASA's terrestrial mission deleted, the agency is free to spend its money in "the blackness of space," where stars do not shine, and missions cannot be verified except as a stream of numbers on a computer terminal.
Interesting note, today I was watching a show about asteroid impacts. They said NASA's asteroid mission generated data that was "exactly what we were expecting," and Japan's Hayabusa probe was "completely different" and "raised more questions than it answered."
Which one sounds like space exploration?
Yeah, did Slashdot actually read their own posts and edit/condense them? Wow. Maybe not the first time, but the first time I've seen it done.
Somebody at Slashdot may actually care about the material, and not just filling their topics with reams of comments to sell ad revenue.
>Like the Pathfinder rovers that followed in 1997, Viking was expected to last but a short time -- only three months -- but instead continued to gather and return data for six years."
Right, because someone goes out at night and wipes the dust off the solar panels.
>I suppose the exception would be a cure for cancer, and a cure for AIDS.
Nope, those aren't the best exceptions to cite. Your immune system is an extremely potent cancer fighter, especially for younger patients and chemically induced cancers (pollution, cigarette smoking, etc.) And I would hazard a guess that toxins/pollution account for nearly all cases of cancer, the remainder is age-related and a slim margin are genetic.
AIDS...lol. Same exact thing. You should look into it.
Both of these represent failures of the immune system. The "cure" for both diseases is clean living. Even bird flu epidemics tend to correlate with urban squalor, cholera, ditto.
The exception is a bullet hole in the gut. THAT needs curing.
Meanwhile, the FBI is still running the story that their computer system is screwed up. They've been running this story for 10 years. Is that believable in the context of this rollout?
Thank you, the article would have been better if it contained those two lines of text only (32bit and 128bit).
>Not sure which video you're referring to (several have been linked) but at a guess - the sun.
Go back to your Pokemon cards. The sun is not elongated with 2 bulbous points.
You're a loser.
I think it's *supposed* to be the shadow. It is the longest, darkest, most pronounced shadow I have seen. Over 29 miles of jet black pixels all the way into the ocean.
Also, doesn't the shuttle fly upside-down? Why is it drifting towards its belly direction during flight?
You like being taxed at 40%?
>For a residential customer using 500 kWh per month, that would add $20 to the monthly electric bill
Also,
>For every kilowatt-hour requested by customers and provided by a Vermont farm, CVPS will pay the farmer the market price for energy plus the Cow Power charge of 4 cents for the environmental benefits of the generation.
What a scam.
Scott Thompson, chief deputy coroner in Pitkin County, Colo., said Lay died of natural causes. Dr. Robert Kurtzman, Mesa County coroner in Grand Junction, Colo., said an autopsy showed Lay died of heart disease. He said there was evidence that Lay had also suffered a previous heart attack.
R /Ex-Enron-CEO-Lay-Maintained-Innocence-Until-Death .xhtml
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/q0yIIhGFSQ1TG
Also, if you search Google News for "kenneth lay natural causes," you can search the links to see they have been edited to remove natural causes.
Yep, and he died of "severe coronary artery disease," not natural causes!
How can the author confuse artherosclerosis with natural causes, unless he wants to?