Call your state's labor department, with evidence that you were asked to do OT and you let them know such. The state will come down on them and force them to pay. A friend of mine got a very nice (10K+) check from the state for this very same situation.
Talk to your bank - USBank protects debit cards to the same standard that VISA does for credit cards (which, since USBank debit cards usually double as VISA-network cards, works out well). In fact, a lot of banks these days are stepping up to the plate and saying that they will not hold you accountable for fraudulent charges.
Actually, at my work we have licenses for Vista (thanks to Software Assurance!), and CDs for it (thanks to MSDN downloads!). Now, only us IT/IS people are getting it for the time being, but still. It *IS* out.
Wow... um... NO. If the transaction involves a bank or other financial institution, then they CAN require a valid SSN. Bush's terrorist laws allow for that now. I think the theory goes that a terrorist will actually USE their valid SSN and so allow them to track you. Personally, I think it's for tax-evasion purposes. However, to open an account of any kind they now require your SSN, if you have an existing account they'll have or get your existing account or drop it, and from then on they have it to report to the government.
My company is changing banks, and the entire board of directors had to give their SSNs for us to do it - all because of Bush's terrorist laws. Stupid. Particularly since they exchanged them by email - so any IT/IS person could search the archives (assuming they have the admin password) to get them...
Maybe because the heat created by electron resistance would be less if it was optical. Not that there aren't HUGE problems to overcome with optical interfaces, particularly if you don't just skip to using optical-based cores, instead of trying to interface electron-based cores with optical buses...
Or someone who wants a simple iCal-format calendar to work. My wife and I had MSN (yeah, yeah, anyways) and she saw the MSN calendar thing. Tried to use it. Now, I'm a paying customer (not for long!), and their calendar server was giving some error like "Subscriber account not found - contact service for support". So I called. And called. I've wasted, all told, over 4 hours with these guys. I've done several calls, and several tricks including two weirdo key presses to get their software to "reset" on my machine. Except it's NOT ON MY MACHINE. Stupid gits. My wife's family uses AOL, been using it forever, and my wife noticed that they had a calendar option.
Looking into it, she found that any member could create a calendar and SHARE it with others so that she could put her work schedule into her Palm, sync it with AOL, and her mom would know when she has to take her to work (she doesn't drive yet). It just worked. MSN's calendar STILL doesn't work, so I plan to cancel them.
We certainly don't like most of the AOL interface, and the ads and what not. But in the end, it works. (And yeah, I looked for an open-source iCal-style program, but Sunbird doesn't sync with Palms.)
Yes, and when some user clicks "Yes" to the "Do you want to install Gator (or some other program)" in IE, and we have to clean the computer, get your data off (because you didn't save it on the network, did you?), reformat, and then reinstall your apps. Oh, and if it had a virus, then our network is down. So no, if the machines are company owned, then the company gets to decide what you do with it. You can go screw up your home machine all you want.
(Network Admin of a small company that does occasionally get the... low-clue content user in as an employee.)
No open-source solution has shared calendars on the desktop. Oh, sure, if you want a separate web app, you can go to lots of apps. And email? IMAP allows sharing folders, no problem. LDAP takes care of contacts (so long as you're willing to hear your users complain that they can't update the LDAP directory themselves, or don't care to use umpteen billion tools which are badly UI designed in order to do so). But iCal/vCal, for whatever reason, just hasn't (yet) taken off as the protocol to store shared calendars on a common server. That's the only argument my CEO was able to give me that actually had water when he wanted to switch from Cyrus IMAP to Exchange 2000. And so he won.
Even these days, Evolution still doesn't seem to support having a calendar folder that's also stored on the server, although it does appear to at least support reading iCals (I think). And we do still run Windows, for the most part, here. I'm seriously looking to GroupWise as we are slowly migrating to Linux, and it'd be nice to have something cross-platform.
Yes, because Bush hasn't reigned in the FCC, which has stated there will be stiff fines (no thanks to Janet Jackson!). But Bush, being the President of the United States, is responsible for reigning his government in, and he's not doing it. So he shares in the blame.
I would have to disagree with you. We recently had an associate business want to host their site on our servers. Now, my network's secured, but the idea of people able to shell into a server on the inside of my network, a server that hosts our web site too (and the PHP on our site requires certain security checks disabled). So, I didn't want them on my web server. I've been thinking of using UML, to split out the DNS, SMTP, and web parts of the servers for quite awhile. VS doesn't do that, it just gives me apparent high availability, it doesn't segment. It does exactly the opposite of what I, and many security-minded sysadmins want - it makes several servers look like one (useful in some circumstances), I needed to make one server run multiple ones separately without needing to buy separate boxes.
Sadly, it appears that UML still crashes when the guest OS does things like access the HW clock or just throws a bad sleep() call... So for now they get their own box.
I work for a non-profit, the schedule is very flexible, the deadlines don't exist, if I want to suddenly take the afternoon off, that's ok, and I'm salaried (and they know that I know that it technically works both ways). I do, every other month, go in on the weekends to reboot servers and what not, and sometimes I'll VPN in early / late to apply Windows Security Patches, but I do that from home, and my wife's happy enough (EverQuest makes her happy, makes me happy). The work is OK (we do data/fund/quality management of Colorado area alcohol/drug treatment providers, so it's not necessarily very "moral" or "uplifting" work, per se, but it's work, and usually I like it alot), the benefits are pretty good, and the people I work with are all great, we get along well (for the most part, in fact, i'm about to leave for our local six flags park for a "Day in the Park" thing with my co workers). I don't plan to leave this place for awhile, although we're small enough (9.5 FTE) that it's not quite as stable as I'd like.
I do NOT recommend Bynari's product. We deployed it, and after about 2 weeks started getting "sync errors", and all of the messages in the folders would start to duplicate. Then duplicate again (including the duplicates). They bred like rabbits. It was unreal, I had to pull the plug completely, and broke down and got Exchange. What a waste of my time and money!
You MUST be kidding about Remote Desktop. It often (between my XP Home desktop at home and my PX Pro desk at work, or from that work desktop to my Win2K and Win2K3 servers) stops working, crashes on the client desktop. X is *much* faster than Remote Desktop, but it doesn't do sound. And X is native - Remote Desktop is a MS hack onto their video system - try playing a game (even Spider) on it. *shudder*. VNC isn't any better, but still..
Only those who have been forced to upgrade. I still have my nice CDMA phone on me, and they'll pry it from my cold dead fingers!
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A quarter?! What state do you live in? Qwest states have had to pay two quarters for awhile now... (That's assuming you can FIND a pay phone - they're not installing new ones anymore that I can find, just quietly taking down broken ones and not replacing them...)
Actually, it IS as easy as sending email - most cellular phones also have an email address (for example, to send to an ATT mobile phone, use ##########@mobile.att.net)
I get TONS of spam, and the ONLY company I have EVER given that number to - MSN Alerts. Hmmmm....
Ah, but try to pull a file you deleted off of you NT/2000 server across the network out of the Recycle Bin. Recycle bin only works for local files - network files get deleted immediately. I wish that MS would finally implement a networked-Recycle Bin on servers, or at least mark them in some way so that they don't REALLY get deleted, just marked for deleted (perhaps put in the server's recycle bin). Novell, OTOH, can undelete, reliably. It even comes with the OS - no 3rd party program to break with the newest SP...
Ugh... insight's connector is... less than spectacular. Indeed, we use it at my work, and we are constantly having to remind people to "sync" their folders they just created (default is only to sync when you go in the folder, so if you put stuff there afterwards, you have to leave, and come back, and there's minimum wait period too...). No way to click a button and sync all folders...
simple. Characters 0 - 127 have the 1st (or 8th) byte OFF (ie. a space (32) = 0x00100000). Now, character 129 would be 0x10000001. In ASCII (or so-called "8-bit ASCII"), that would be fine. In UTF-8, though, the high bit indicates it's a multi-byte character, and the next byte ALSO has to have that high-bit turned on.
So, for chars 0-127, UTF-8 is a great way to use Unicode. For European languages, they just have an extra byte. But for unicode chars that would have the high byte turned OFF, you have a problem, and it takes more bytes to encode them.
Basically, UTF-8 is a great way to move to Unicode, but don't consider it the destination. Use UTF-16, if you can.
Except that all the custom-CD machine's producer needs to do is simply "play" into an analog signal, and then record that onto an audio CD. Really, if a human can see/hear something, being analog as we are, it can be re-recorded with minimal loss. I wish companies would figure this out - even my MOM (who is in NO way a techie) knows that if she bought that one machine see saw in the store, she could make custom CDs on her own (instead of coming to me, and having me use my stereo and my sound card's Line In jack).
*sigh* This is ridiculous. Jews aren't trying to conquer the world, indeed, the world has certainly tried to smash Jews out of it. And why? Because Jews have morals and ethics. Are there Jews who break the law? Yeah, but not many. We remind the world that you CAN live a life within the law, not even jaywalking, and be happy. That you don't NEED to steal from others to live a life that is good. Am I against Napster? No, not really. I don't feel it really affected the artists. In fact, I program two open-source apps, myself. (Geheimnis and previous pgp4pine (C version).)
Personally, just leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone. That's pretty much the Jewish way of things. We just want Israel, the land promised to us. We don't want America (and with the crime here, are you crazy to want it yourself??), or Russia, or any other country. We just want to study our Torah (Bible) and live in Israel. Y'all can have the rest of the world as far as I care.
Sadly, I found when I was on a Debian system for quite awhile that Debian never issued updates for their versions. I had a production system that had to be RedHat because I needed to know that I could easily retrieve the updated packages and plug them in without breaking package dependancies. I couldn't do that on Debian from 2.0 through 2.2, just before which I switched at home from Debian to RedHat. Simply put, waiting over a year for a package to get updated on stable isn't realistic, and I could not put a version labeled 'Unstable' on a production server - my boss would have had my head on a platter for it.
If this were to happen, let's say the Hackmeister hacks the secret code to my [ video card | monitor ], and so new movies made won't play on it/them. Does this mean they think I'm going to UPGRADE because some hacker/cracker somewhere got the code to the card/monitor!? I don't *think* so...
Python is almost as bad a C! Basic is meant to be just that: BASIC. Very simple. It should take about 10 lines of code for a simple calculator, not almost 100... At one point, I was working on a C-based Basic interpreter on sourceforge (although it was called qtbasic, as originally I was going to use QT, being as I'm more familiar with it, however, I decided to use glib for it's module capabilities - allowing the language to be easily extended), however, my new job doesn't really let me have much extra time on the side.:(
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Call your state's labor department, with evidence that you were asked to do OT and you let them know such. The state will come down on them and force them to pay. A friend of mine got a very nice (10K+) check from the state for this very same situation.
Talk to your bank - USBank protects debit cards to the same standard that VISA does for credit cards (which, since USBank debit cards usually double as VISA-network cards, works out well). In fact, a lot of banks these days are stepping up to the plate and saying that they will not hold you accountable for fraudulent charges.
Actually, at my work we have licenses for Vista (thanks to Software Assurance!), and CDs for it (thanks to MSDN downloads!). Now, only us IT/IS people are getting it for the time being, but still. It *IS* out.
Wow... um... NO. If the transaction involves a bank or other financial institution, then they CAN require a valid SSN. Bush's terrorist laws allow for that now. I think the theory goes that a terrorist will actually USE their valid SSN and so allow them to track you. Personally, I think it's for tax-evasion purposes. However, to open an account of any kind they now require your SSN, if you have an existing account they'll have or get your existing account or drop it, and from then on they have it to report to the government.
My company is changing banks, and the entire board of directors had to give their SSNs for us to do it - all because of Bush's terrorist laws. Stupid. Particularly since they exchanged them by email - so any IT/IS person could search the archives (assuming they have the admin password) to get them...
Maybe because the heat created by electron resistance would be less if it was optical. Not that there aren't HUGE problems to overcome with optical interfaces, particularly if you don't just skip to using optical-based cores, instead of trying to interface electron-based cores with optical buses...
Or someone who wants a simple iCal-format calendar to work. My wife and I had MSN (yeah, yeah, anyways) and she saw the MSN calendar thing. Tried to use it. Now, I'm a paying customer (not for long!), and their calendar server was giving some error like "Subscriber account not found - contact service for support". So I called. And called. I've wasted, all told, over 4 hours with these guys. I've done several calls, and several tricks including two weirdo key presses to get their software to "reset" on my machine. Except it's NOT ON MY MACHINE. Stupid gits. My wife's family uses AOL, been using it forever, and my wife noticed that they had a calendar option.
Looking into it, she found that any member could create a calendar and SHARE it with others so that she could put her work schedule into her Palm, sync it with AOL, and her mom would know when she has to take her to work (she doesn't drive yet). It just worked. MSN's calendar STILL doesn't work, so I plan to cancel them.
We certainly don't like most of the AOL interface, and the ads and what not. But in the end, it works. (And yeah, I looked for an open-source iCal-style program, but Sunbird doesn't sync with Palms.)
Yes, and when some user clicks "Yes" to the "Do you want to install Gator (or some other program)" in IE, and we have to clean the computer, get your data off (because you didn't save it on the network, did you?), reformat, and then reinstall your apps. Oh, and if it had a virus, then our network is down. So no, if the machines are company owned, then the company gets to decide what you do with it. You can go screw up your home machine all you want.
... low-clue content user in as an employee.)
(Network Admin of a small company that does occasionally get the
Simple. Shared calendars.
No open-source solution has shared calendars on the desktop. Oh, sure, if you want a separate web app, you can go to lots of apps. And email? IMAP allows sharing folders, no problem. LDAP takes care of contacts (so long as you're willing to hear your users complain that they can't update the LDAP directory themselves, or don't care to use umpteen billion tools which are badly UI designed in order to do so). But iCal/vCal, for whatever reason, just hasn't (yet) taken off as the protocol to store shared calendars on a common server. That's the only argument my CEO was able to give me that actually had water when he wanted to switch from Cyrus IMAP to Exchange 2000. And so he won.
Even these days, Evolution still doesn't seem to support having a calendar folder that's also stored on the server, although it does appear to at least support reading iCals (I think). And we do still run Windows, for the most part, here. I'm seriously looking to GroupWise as we are slowly migrating to Linux, and it'd be nice to have something cross-platform.
Yes, because Bush hasn't reigned in the FCC, which has stated there will be stiff fines (no thanks to Janet Jackson!). But Bush, being the President of the United States, is responsible for reigning his government in, and he's not doing it. So he shares in the blame.
I would have to disagree with you. We recently had an associate business want to host their site on our servers. Now, my network's secured, but the idea of people able to shell into a server on the inside of my network, a server that hosts our web site too (and the PHP on our site requires certain security checks disabled). So, I didn't want them on my web server. I've been thinking of using UML, to split out the DNS, SMTP, and web parts of the servers for quite awhile. VS doesn't do that, it just gives me apparent high availability, it doesn't segment. It does exactly the opposite of what I, and many security-minded sysadmins want - it makes several servers look like one (useful in some circumstances), I needed to make one server run multiple ones separately without needing to buy separate boxes.
Sadly, it appears that UML still crashes when the guest OS does things like access the HW clock or just throws a bad sleep() call... So for now they get their own box.
I work for a non-profit, the schedule is very flexible, the deadlines don't exist, if I want to suddenly take the afternoon off, that's ok, and I'm salaried (and they know that I know that it technically works both ways). I do, every other month, go in on the weekends to reboot servers and what not, and sometimes I'll VPN in early / late to apply Windows Security Patches, but I do that from home, and my wife's happy enough (EverQuest makes her happy, makes me happy). The work is OK (we do data/fund/quality management of Colorado area alcohol/drug treatment providers, so it's not necessarily very "moral" or "uplifting" work, per se, but it's work, and usually I like it alot), the benefits are pretty good, and the people I work with are all great, we get along well (for the most part, in fact, i'm about to leave for our local six flags park for a "Day in the Park" thing with my co workers). I don't plan to leave this place for awhile, although we're small enough (9.5 FTE) that it's not quite as stable as I'd like.
I do NOT recommend Bynari's product. We deployed it, and after about 2 weeks started getting "sync errors", and all of the messages in the folders would start to duplicate. Then duplicate again (including the duplicates). They bred like rabbits. It was unreal, I had to pull the plug completely, and broke down and got Exchange. What a waste of my time and money!
You MUST be kidding about Remote Desktop. It often (between my XP Home desktop at home and my PX Pro desk at work, or from that work desktop to my Win2K and Win2K3 servers) stops working, crashes on the client desktop. X is *much* faster than Remote Desktop, but it doesn't do sound. And X is native - Remote Desktop is a MS hack onto their video system - try playing a game (even Spider) on it. *shudder*. VNC isn't any better, but still..
Only those who have been forced to upgrade. I still have my nice CDMA phone on me, and they'll pry it from my cold dead fingers!
A quarter?! What state do you live in? Qwest states have had to pay two quarters for awhile now... (That's assuming you can FIND a pay phone - they're not installing new ones anymore that I can find, just quietly taking down broken ones and not replacing them...)
Actually, it IS as easy as sending email - most cellular phones also have an email address (for example, to send to an ATT mobile phone, use ##########@mobile.att.net)
I get TONS of spam, and the ONLY company I have EVER given that number to - MSN Alerts. Hmmmm....
Ah, but try to pull a file you deleted off of you NT/2000 server across the network out of the Recycle Bin. Recycle bin only works for local files - network files get deleted immediately. I wish that MS would finally implement a networked-Recycle Bin on servers, or at least mark them in some way so that they don't REALLY get deleted, just marked for deleted (perhaps put in the server's recycle bin). Novell, OTOH, can undelete, reliably. It even comes with the OS - no 3rd party program to break with the newest SP...
Ugh... insight's connector is... less than spectacular. Indeed, we use it at my work, and we are constantly having to remind people to "sync" their folders they just created (default is only to sync when you go in the folder, so if you put stuff there afterwards, you have to leave, and come back, and there's minimum wait period too...). No way to click a button and sync all folders...
I have a problem with that sig:
If IE's Windows integration is a monopoly, then I'm all for the removal of Konqueror from KDE.
KDE is a desktop (and browser). IE is a desktop (and browser).
Windows (OS) REQUIRES IE (desktop/browser) to function.
Linux/FreeBSD (OS) does NOT require KDE (desktop)or Konqueror (browser) to function.
simple. Characters 0 - 127 have the 1st (or 8th) byte OFF (ie. a space (32) = 0x00100000). Now, character 129 would be 0x10000001. In ASCII (or so-called "8-bit ASCII"), that would be fine. In UTF-8, though, the high bit indicates it's a multi-byte character, and the next byte ALSO has to have that high-bit turned on.
So, for chars 0-127, UTF-8 is a great way to use Unicode. For European languages, they just have an extra byte. But for unicode chars that would have the high byte turned OFF, you have a problem, and it takes more bytes to encode them.
Basically, UTF-8 is a great way to move to Unicode, but don't consider it the destination. Use UTF-16, if you can.
Except that all the custom-CD machine's producer needs to do is simply "play" into an analog signal, and then record that onto an audio CD. Really, if a human can see/hear something, being analog as we are, it can be re-recorded with minimal loss. I wish companies would figure this out - even my MOM (who is in NO way a techie) knows that if she bought that one machine see saw in the store, she could make custom CDs on her own (instead of coming to me, and having me use my stereo and my sound card's Line In jack).
*sigh* This is ridiculous. Jews aren't trying to conquer the world, indeed, the world has certainly tried to smash Jews out of it. And why? Because Jews have morals and ethics. Are there Jews who break the law? Yeah, but not many. We remind the world that you CAN live a life within the law, not even jaywalking, and be happy. That you don't NEED to steal from others to live a life that is good. Am I against Napster? No, not really. I don't feel it really affected the artists. In fact, I program two open-source apps, myself. (Geheimnis and previous pgp4pine (C version).)
Personally, just leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone. That's pretty much the Jewish way of things. We just want Israel, the land promised to us. We don't want America (and with the crime here, are you crazy to want it yourself??), or Russia, or any other country. We just want to study our Torah (Bible) and live in Israel. Y'all can have the rest of the world as far as I care.
Sadly, I found when I was on a Debian system for quite awhile that Debian never issued updates for their versions. I had a production system that had to be RedHat because I needed to know that I could easily retrieve the updated packages and plug them in without breaking package dependancies. I couldn't do that on Debian from 2.0 through 2.2, just before which I switched at home from Debian to RedHat. Simply put, waiting over a year for a package to get updated on stable isn't realistic, and I could not put a version labeled 'Unstable' on a production server - my boss would have had my head on a platter for it.
If this were to happen, let's say the Hackmeister hacks the secret code to my [ video card | monitor ], and so new movies made won't play on it/them. Does this mean they think I'm going to UPGRADE because some hacker/cracker somewhere got the code to the card/monitor!? I don't *think* so...
Python is almost as bad a C! Basic is meant to be just that: BASIC. Very simple. It should take about 10 lines of code for a simple calculator, not almost 100... At one point, I was working on a C-based Basic interpreter on sourceforge (although it was called qtbasic, as originally I was going to use QT, being as I'm more familiar with it, however, I decided to use glib for it's module capabilities - allowing the language to be easily extended), however, my new job doesn't really let me have much extra time on the side. :(