I used to have the same problem. I found I couldn't study without drifting off onto some, more interesting topic. I dropped out of college after 3 years, and I discovered that when I got a job, I didn't have those problems anymore. I work as the CTO for a company that provides extended long distance service in Georgia, and I've found that if I feel the task at hand is actually accomplishing something then I have no problem concentrating on it. If I consider a task to be pointless or unnecessecary, then I have a real problem putting my mind to the task. I think I had such a hard time concentrating in school because I thought then and still do that it was a waste of my time. It appears I was right at least in some respects. So maybe your problem isn't that you have a hard time concentrating in general, maybe its that you think (maybe subconciously) that its a waste of your time.
Hey, at least I've got the GUTS to put my real name on the Internet. You, as well as all of your stupid anti-spam friends, are so SCARED, you are such weenies, that you can't even post your email address. You are AFRAID of EMAIL! Do you know how STUPID that is?! If I EVER meet you, by god I'm going to lay your ass out on the god damn pavement. I'm sick and GOD DAMN tired of your whiny, ass-biter attitudes. I used to think techies were cool people. Apparently I'm wrong. None of you have a SINGLE SHRED of common sense. You all hide behind your terminals and anonymity like the ANONYMOUS COWARDS you are.
Until very recently I worked for an ISP in North East Georgia called WhiteLion.Net. I'll admit, our revenues were getting low, and we had the opportunity to colocate servers for a company that did bulk emailing. They paid us a lot of cash for this. The company is now out of business due to unrelated things. However, during our spam stint, we got placed on a number of blacklists, including one called SPEWS. We removed the servers about 3 months ago when UUnet threatened to cut our lines. *NO* spam has originated from our network since then, but, even though I have notified SPEWS of this, they either don't care, don't believe me, or something. Any way, they STILL have WhiteLion.Net's IP blocks banned, as well as some IP blocks that didn't even belong to it. I posted a remove request on the newsgroup that the SPEWS faq said to post on and got a whole slew of really hateful replies. My point is this: these blacklists are not a way to prevent spam so much as a way to punish ISPs for spamming or open-relays. If they were really about stopping spam, then the block should be removed when the spam stops. Instead they leave them up. I'll admit, there are probably people out there who say they don't do such things any more and are lying their ass off, but instead of taking each case individually and dealing with the offenders one at a time, they all get lumped together regardless of the level of offense, or the level of repentance. If you want to read some REAL crap, just go on to google groups and search for 'Chad Singer'.;)
Why does everyone hate spam? Do you send emails to the hosts of every spam message you recieve? Do you sit down and write letters to the company of every piece of junk mail you get? HIT THE BLOODY DELETE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm the Net Admin for a WISP in the North East Georgia Mountains, and Cringly spent WAY too much for his gear / connection. He could have used some $400 Teletronics APs and two $80 25db Grid antennas to accomplish the same thing for just about $560.
Don't do it! I've seen many individuals fall prey to the evil ISP syndrome. ITS A WASTE OF TIME! You've got to have MEGA-CASH. IT SUCKS LEAVE IT! START A COMMUNE OR SOMETHING!
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So are plane crashes. Yet you don't see the 3rd anniversary of every little plane that goes down killing 3 people do you?!
I hate to say it, but $27,500 isn't a whole lot of money. If they consider a telecommunications giant a company that is able to come up with that cash, then I'd hate to see the state of the small company.
Well, I'm the Network Administrator of a Medium Sized ISP, and speaking for all of here, we LOVE open source. It's great, I can't see how anyone could not like free stuff.
You all saw right through the cold fusion one, yet nobody seems to recall its april 1st on this article. Geez, its a joke! metalab would NEVER go down, its a fixture in the ether, its never going away.
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I used to have the same problem. I found I couldn't study without drifting off onto some, more interesting topic. I dropped out of college after 3 years, and I discovered that when I got a job, I didn't have those problems anymore. I work as the CTO for a company that provides extended long distance service in Georgia, and I've found that if I feel the task at hand is actually accomplishing something then I have no problem concentrating on it. If I consider a task to be pointless or unnecessecary, then I have a real problem putting my mind to the task. I think I had such a hard time concentrating in school because I thought then and still do that it was a waste of my time. It appears I was right at least in some respects. So maybe your problem isn't that you have a hard time concentrating in general, maybe its that you think (maybe subconciously) that its a waste of your time.
Did you not read the post? WhiteLion.Net is dead and gone, along with 4 of the hardest working years of my life. So fudge on you all.
Hey, at least I've got the GUTS to put my real name on the Internet. You, as well as all of your stupid anti-spam friends, are so SCARED, you are such weenies, that you can't even post your email address. You are AFRAID of EMAIL! Do you know how STUPID that is?! If I EVER meet you, by god I'm going to lay your ass out on the god damn pavement. I'm sick and GOD DAMN tired of your whiny, ass-biter attitudes. I used to think techies were cool people. Apparently I'm wrong. None of you have a SINGLE SHRED of common sense. You all hide behind your terminals and anonymity like the ANONYMOUS COWARDS you are.
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Chad
You, my fine friend, are a first rate cock.
First a disclaimer: I don't like blacklists.
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Until very recently I worked for an ISP in North East Georgia called WhiteLion.Net. I'll admit, our revenues were getting low, and we had the opportunity to colocate servers for a company that did bulk emailing. They paid us a lot of cash for this. The company is now out of business due to unrelated things. However, during our spam stint, we got placed on a number of blacklists, including one called SPEWS. We removed the servers about 3 months ago when UUnet threatened to cut our lines. *NO* spam has originated from our network since then, but, even though I have notified SPEWS of this, they either don't care, don't believe me, or something. Any way, they STILL have WhiteLion.Net's IP blocks banned, as well as some IP blocks that didn't even belong to it. I posted a remove request on the newsgroup that the SPEWS faq said to post on and got a whole slew of really hateful replies. My point is this: these blacklists are not a way to prevent spam so much as a way to punish ISPs for spamming or open-relays. If they were really about stopping spam, then the block should be removed when the spam stops. Instead they leave them up. I'll admit, there are probably people out there who say they don't do such things any more and are lying their ass off, but instead of taking each case individually and dealing with the offenders one at a time, they all get lumped together regardless of the level of offense, or the level of repentance. If you want to read some REAL crap, just go on to google groups and search for 'Chad Singer'.
Why does everyone hate spam? Do you send emails to the hosts of every spam message you recieve? Do you sit down and write letters to the company of every piece of junk mail you get? HIT THE BLOODY DELETE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoops, total is $960..
bleh. I failed math.
I'm the Net Admin for a WISP in the North East Georgia Mountains, and Cringly spent WAY too much for his gear / connection. He could have used some $400 Teletronics APs and two $80 25db Grid antennas to accomplish the same thing for just about $560.
Don't do it! I've seen many individuals fall prey to the evil ISP syndrome. ITS A WASTE OF TIME! You've got to have MEGA-CASH. IT SUCKS LEAVE IT! START A COMMUNE OR SOMETHING!
So are plane crashes. Yet you don't see the 3rd anniversary of every little plane that goes down killing 3 people do you?!
Could these nanotubes be made to wear? What's the length limit?
I hate to say it, but $27,500 isn't a whole lot of money. If they consider a telecommunications giant a company that is able to come up with that cash, then I'd hate to see the state of the small company.
Well, I'm the Network Administrator of a Medium Sized ISP, and speaking for all of here, we LOVE open source. It's great, I can't see how anyone could not like free stuff.
You all saw right through the cold fusion one, yet nobody seems to recall its april 1st on this article. Geez, its a joke! metalab would NEVER go down, its a fixture in the ether, its never going away.