I can confirm for you, there were indeed no torrents downloading. The only software running on the machine was Firefox, and that was idling. This wasn't a primary machine at the time.
It seems to be a wireless vs. wired problem. On the cable, no problems. However, I did have a problem last night during an update, which was after the review was written. That seemed to be more of a CPU time issue than network connectivity.
P. Schoonveld schoonveld (apestaartje) ostg.com (the damnable ad guy)
I'm not sure if the resolution is tight enough for your needs, but this sort of problem is frequency used in large agri-businesses. Many of the larger operations use fixed position repeaters to increase the resolution of GPS and keep track of yields and soil conditions while planting, tilling, or harvesting.
After college, I picked up with a Dutch software firm and went over. The connection was made by a history prof of mine who knew the HR director. It was a funny situation, but it worked out well.
It was the best thing I ever did. However, I found that switching jobs was damn near impossible due to language and permit issues. I worked for an international firm that worked in English and, as a result, had decent conversational Dutch, but poor technical Dutch.
I recommend you look into your wife regaining citizenship in Italy. If for no other reason that the US allows dual citizenships and your kids will probably thank you for it.
That also means you have a lot easier time of finding work over there.
I think you are running in the wrong direction. As someone else already posted, running an air conditioner is horrifically energy inefficient. Consider the alternative that is commonly using in Lousiana or other places, a swamp cooler.
A swamp cooler is typically a large tank on the roof of a house with a fan sucking air out of the house, across the tank, cooling it, and then forcing the chilled air back into the house.
Buddy of mine was laid off a year and a piece ago. He had significant cash in the bank and the dole (FL style) paying out more than his mortgage.
He had always dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Come layoff, he freaked out. "Got to get a job got to get a job..."
Here's a guy with an annual salary in cash on hand. Three months later he's working at a job paying quite a bit less. Why? They were offering to pay. That's it.
Moron. One of my best, smartest friends. Moron. Says it himself "Stupidest move ever."
Go travel. Run lean, and see what happened. I left college, took a gig halfway around the world for half of what my local offers were. Actually, I never figured that out until this week. 4 years ago I left the United States to seek fame, fortune and adventure. I spend two years making half of what I had been offered before I left. You know what? Best money I ever spent.
Live in MI and just getting finished building my father's new house. My cousin, a licensed electrician, did all the electrical and I did the data. Low voltage in MI, at least, requires no permit, no inspection and no license.
What this story is about is a guy who didn't bother to get along with the GC and was probably buying a spec house, not a custom build.
I am an American who got a bike license in the Netherlands. I wrecked my 95 Honda VFR750 two years ago, nearly to the day, on the north side of Hilversum, NL.
I was going about 45 mph, which isn't terribly quick, and things went awry. I was wearing a Clover textile jacket (hard armour, not unlike what the Ukraine girl was wearing with Kawa green). Triple stitched Carhartt jeans were covering my posterior.
The hard armour and the jacket saved me from a broken arm. My leather gloves kept my hands clean, and the jeans split at the center seam.
The results we a broken tailbone and a tiny bit of rash on my ace. I skidded over 25 ft and it's amazing what jeans will protect you from.
I walked away. The bike was totaled, despite me riding it home. You'd be amazed at what it really takes to cause serious damage.
This is 100% true. I work for a staffing agency and in the last two weeks, we can't get people on site fast enough. The client I work at needs to hire 3 people, got about 2 resumes for each position from 6 local agencies. Selected a bunch of people to interview and called the agencies. Most of the people, including the ones from my agency had already been placed.
3/4 weeks ago, before the holiday shutdowns that many manufacturing firms have, there was nothing. Now things are hopping and will probably continue to do so for another month or so.
A few other people commented that networking is what the difference is. I can't reinforce that more. I lived in Europe for a couple years, working for a medium sized software firm. The reason I had that job (and the two other offers at the time) was because I networked. A history prof from my university happened to have a friend of his wife's who was the HR director of the software firm.
When it came time to leave that firm, I was unable to find anything in that country. The reason was that I didn't network enough to find someone willing to take the chance on a foreigner w/o citizenship or a work permit.
I returned to the US and continued networking and relied on my old contacts to keep me working. It has made all the difference.
Being an expat is tough. Being an expat w/o contacts or a right to work is nearly impossible.
You are better off to do what someone else suggested here and take a 'lesser' position, get some work experience, meet and impress as many people as possible.
It used to be a little known clause in Best Buy's store policies that any item purchased as Open Box was given a free 4 year warranty. A lot of times the sales guys would try not to give it out, but when reminded of the policy, they would.
Bought a tv, vcr, stereo, speakers, car gear of the same and a couple other random things that way from them a few years back. Never got a chance to use the warranties.
Or maybe that you were actually committed to the learning process and wanted to focus on that. Just saying "I took four years off work to get a degree" doesn't show the whole picture.
Saying: "I wanted to chill for four years, drink cheap beer and chase skirts. Oh, and by the by, I picked up a Business Admin degree" is probably not going to work.
Mentioning the projects you were involved in, the groups you were a part of, etc, on the other hand, show a whole other set of skills that the employer can exploit (and that you can get paid for).
As well, compare law school. Not very many top law schools offer a program for "working professionals." They expect you to put the world on hold for 3 years and concentrate on the law. Check out US News and World Report's law school comparison. The people who come out of those have higher bar exam pass rates, a higher level of compensation, etc etc. That isn't the rule, just the statistical advantage.
If mathematics, economics, philosophy, history, and computer science can be taught at a distance, than so can anything else. Pretty much the whole gamut has been covered by that list.
Anything can be taught at a distance. All of the disciplines will be better for having hands-on experience. All disciplines have the potential for greater understanding through more contact with people who are experienced in the field.
The point being that book learning has a limit, in any field.
Many people have mentioned being managers and only caring if the job gets done. Which is what I think most managers really care about. Except when it comes down to it, you will never get the opportunity to show you can do the job unless something about your resume or background strikes them are particularly applicable.
My boss has an MBA from U of M. One of his profs said that it doesn't matter which school you go to in terms of what you learn. Instead you pay for the school with the most strict admissions. Potential employers know a rigorous school such as U of M B-school, Harvard, Yale, etc will have a much larger expenditure on their admissions dept. Phoenix U will take anyone with the money. Yale will only take you if you meet their stringent requirements and have the money.
Might as well pay for the best label. Not too mention, a number of respectable schools have online course structures.
Although you might not be a better person for going to a given school, if the guy thinking about hiring you is impressed, it will be worth the extra time/hassle/money.
I lived abroad for a couple of years and worked for a local company. My former employer (US) would occassionally contact me with questions/issues/new dev and pay me as a contractor for that time.
On top of that, I moved back and forth in the middle of the year. Hence, I earned half my income in the foreign country and the other half here. Other than them (foreign IRS) stiffing me for my tax refund (1500 EUR) when I moved back to the US, I had no issues.
My US money was taxed in the US and my foreign in that country. No sense in wasting time figuring out the details and legal technicalities. US taxes are generally lower and I'm sure this person has a CA or other US address. That's where you 'live', that's where you get paid, and that's where the US can believe you to be.
At YAPC::Europe (Amsterdam) in 2001, vroom of perlmonk's fame appeared and we took the place by storm. Bumped into a 17 yr old NL hacker (of US parentage) we knew from perlmonks & IRC. He drank too much, missed his last train and ended up crashing on the floor of my house (45 min away from A'dam, in the wrong direction). The next day he was nearly taken to Belgium to continue to the drunken debauchery, except his girlish whining meant he got left at the first train station to find his way home.
That, my friend, is what I wish I had done in high school.
And then there was the time at HAL2001 (also in NL) where the sys admin of sealand enjoyed some very wacky substances and his antics amused us all. But, that is another tale.
If that were the case, your bike battery wouldn't recharge. Your generator produces AC, the it is regulated and rectified down to ~12v DC.
You have a 12v DC system that will have a tendency to fluctuate within a couple volts of 12. So, high RPMs will give you ~13-14v (depending on the regulator) and low will hopefully not drop below 10.
Considering you have a 1cyl bike, that means relatively low rpms (unlike my 4 cyl sport bike, which redlines at 14k), so hopefully the cycles won't be as bad as that.
I would add a second battery as the another poster mentioned to guarantee ~12v, not too mention it is damn handy. My bike died after having the lights on for a 45min traffic jam in Barcelona; 2500km from home. Thankfully, I had a friend and a busy tourist alley (Las Ramblas!) to push start. grin.
Hook the laptop to the second battery.
Also, having traveled extensively on a bike, I would highly recommend getting one of those super small laptops. The 800x400 display isn't nice to work on full time, but the extra space is priceless.
You can't be serious. The place is a dumpster. A hell on earth filled with ignorant rubes (Klan members, the lot) who can't drive (55 in a 65 zone in the far left lane, EACH AND EVERY TIME).
Have you seen their latest slogan??? "Birthplace of Aviation" What the hell is this? The Wright brothers were born there and this is Ohio's greatest claim to fame. THE PLANE NEVER FLEW IN OHIO!! Kitty Hawk, NC!!!
Every time I am forced to pass through Ohio I have to dodge the over-zealous cops trying to enforce the ridiciously slow speed limits on the asinine loops of expressway. In the mean time, I can't get up to speed because of the buffoons getting on the expressway and cutting across two lanes to get in the left "in case a truck is coming behind [them] quickly!" An actual quote from an Ohio native.
Seceed Michigan: It's time to free ourselves of the tyranny of our terrible neighbors: OH, IN & WI.
At the moment, lots of companies are selling aftermarket fuel injection kits for older engines. These things include direct interfaces to laptops where you can tinker to your hearts content. Rebuild the engine to understand the internals or just slap on a new manifold and fuel rail. It really isn't that tough. One of my pals converted his '90 Tahoe to multi-point EFI. More power, more efficiency, and sometime later this week it will be for sale on ebay. He needs a new vehicle to tinker with.
This will never get mod'd high enough for anyone to see it... but, I lived abroad for a couple of years and toured all over Europe and S. Africa. Motorcycling the Pyrenees, drinking beer with elephants, and exploring the castles of Prague never could compare with the wonder of the Parisian sewers. Les Musee d' le Egouts, about a block from the Eiffel Tower takes you through a live working sewer. They had a ton of cool info on how during the 19th century London and other cities had the same thing.
It was without a doubt the coolest thing I've seen thus far. And my female companion didn't even get disgusted. Mostly grey water from sinks and whatnot anyway.
I'm sure Slashdot mentioned this years ago, but the serious option is the Poof chair. They are like bean bags, but filled with a higher quality foam. Damn comfortable. Check out http://poofchair.com or http://notabeanbag.com
I think they recently renamed to "fuf" chairs, whatever the hell that means.
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I can confirm for you, there were indeed no torrents downloading. The only software running on the machine was Firefox, and that was idling. This wasn't a primary machine at the time.
It seems to be a wireless vs. wired problem. On the cable, no problems. However, I did have a problem last night during an update, which was after the review was written. That seemed to be more of a CPU time issue than network connectivity.
P. Schoonveld
schoonveld (apestaartje) ostg.com
(the damnable ad guy)
Not so ancient, but I have been spending a lot of time with my TIG welder lately. Built an entertainment center out of aluminum and oak ply.
I started by making a welding bench out of steel and have kept doing more and more projects with it.
I'm not sure if the resolution is tight enough for your needs, but this sort of problem is frequency used in large agri-businesses. Many of the larger operations use fixed position repeaters to increase the resolution of GPS and keep track of yields and soil conditions while planting, tilling, or harvesting.
After college, I picked up with a Dutch software firm and went over. The connection was made by a history prof of mine who knew the HR director. It was a funny situation, but it worked out well.
It was the best thing I ever did. However, I found that switching jobs was damn near impossible due to language and permit issues. I worked for an international firm that worked in English and, as a result, had decent conversational Dutch, but poor technical Dutch.
I recommend you look into your wife regaining citizenship in Italy. If for no other reason that the US allows dual citizenships and your kids will probably thank you for it.
That also means you have a lot easier time of finding work over there.
I think you are running in the wrong direction. As someone else already posted, running an air conditioner is horrifically energy inefficient. Consider the alternative that is commonly using in Lousiana or other places, a swamp cooler.
A swamp cooler is typically a large tank on the roof of a house with a fan sucking air out of the house, across the tank, cooling it, and then forcing the chilled air back into the house.
Low power usage, coolish air.
Buddy of mine was laid off a year and a piece ago. He had significant cash in the bank and the dole (FL style) paying out more than his mortgage.
He had always dreamed of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Come layoff, he freaked out. "Got to get a job got to get a job..."
Here's a guy with an annual salary in cash on hand.
Three months later he's working at a job paying quite a bit less. Why? They were offering to pay. That's it.
Moron. One of my best, smartest friends. Moron. Says it himself "Stupidest move ever."
Go travel. Run lean, and see what happened. I left college, took a gig halfway around the world for half of what my local offers were. Actually, I never figured that out until this week. 4 years ago I left the United States to seek fame, fortune and adventure. I spend two years making half of what I had been offered before I left. You know what? Best money I ever spent.
Live in MI and just getting finished building my father's new house. My cousin, a licensed electrician, did all the electrical and I did the data. Low voltage in MI, at least, requires no permit, no inspection and no license.
What this story is about is a guy who didn't bother to get along with the GC and was probably buying a spec house, not a custom build.
I am an American who got a bike license in the Netherlands. I wrecked my 95 Honda VFR750 two years ago, nearly to the day, on the north side of Hilversum, NL.
I was going about 45 mph, which isn't terribly quick, and things went awry. I was wearing a Clover textile jacket (hard armour, not unlike what the Ukraine girl was wearing with Kawa green). Triple stitched Carhartt jeans were covering my posterior.
The hard armour and the jacket saved me from a broken arm. My leather gloves kept my hands clean, and the jeans split at the center seam.
The results we a broken tailbone and a tiny bit of rash on my ace. I skidded over 25 ft and it's amazing what jeans will protect you from.
I walked away. The bike was totaled, despite me riding it home. You'd be amazed at what it really takes to cause serious damage.
Here is a nifty Cringely article about just that.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200108
This is 100% true. I work for a staffing agency and in the last two weeks, we can't get people on site fast enough. The client I work at needs to hire 3 people, got about 2 resumes for each position from 6 local agencies. Selected a bunch of people to interview and called the agencies. Most of the people, including the ones from my agency had already been placed.
3/4 weeks ago, before the holiday shutdowns that many manufacturing firms have, there was nothing. Now things are hopping and will probably continue to do so for another month or so.
A few other people commented that networking is what the difference is. I can't reinforce that more. I lived in Europe for a couple years, working for a medium sized software firm. The reason I had that job (and the two other offers at the time) was because I networked. A history prof from my university happened to have a friend of his wife's who was the HR director of the software firm.
When it came time to leave that firm, I was unable to find anything in that country. The reason was that I didn't network enough to find someone willing to take the chance on a foreigner w/o citizenship or a work permit.
I returned to the US and continued networking and relied on my old contacts to keep me working. It has made all the difference.
Being an expat is tough. Being an expat w/o contacts or a right to work is nearly impossible.
You are better off to do what someone else suggested here and take a 'lesser' position, get some work experience, meet and impress as many people as possible.
It used to be a little known clause in Best Buy's store policies that any item purchased as Open Box was given a free 4 year warranty. A lot of times the sales guys would try not to give it out, but when reminded of the policy, they would.
Bought a tv, vcr, stereo, speakers, car gear of the same and a couple other random things that way from them a few years back. Never got a chance to use the warranties.
Googling for "bash tcsh differences" yields:
h ell-diff erences
"UNIX shell differences and how to change your shell"
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/s
Google "bash tcsh differences" yields:
"UNIX shell diferences and how to change your shell."
Or maybe that you were actually committed to the learning process and wanted to focus on that. Just saying "I took four years off work to get a degree" doesn't show the whole picture.
Saying: "I wanted to chill for four years, drink cheap beer and chase skirts. Oh, and by the by, I picked up a Business Admin degree" is probably not going to work.
Mentioning the projects you were involved in, the groups you were a part of, etc, on the other hand, show a whole other set of skills that the employer can exploit (and that you can get paid for).
As well, compare law school. Not very many top law schools offer a program for "working professionals." They expect you to put the world on hold for 3 years and concentrate on the law. Check out US News and World Report's law school comparison. The people who come out of those have higher bar exam pass rates, a higher level of compensation, etc etc. That isn't the rule, just the statistical advantage.
If mathematics, economics, philosophy, history, and computer science can be taught at a distance, than so can anything else. Pretty much the whole gamut has been covered by that list.
Anything can be taught at a distance. All of the disciplines will be better for having hands-on experience. All disciplines have the potential for greater understanding through more contact with people who are experienced in the field.
The point being that book learning has a limit, in any field.
Many people have mentioned being managers and only caring if the job gets done. Which is what I think most managers really care about. Except when it comes down to it, you will never get the opportunity to show you can do the job unless something about your resume or background strikes them are particularly applicable.
My boss has an MBA from U of M. One of his profs said that it doesn't matter which school you go to in terms of what you learn. Instead you pay for the school with the most strict admissions. Potential employers know a rigorous school such as U of M B-school, Harvard, Yale, etc will have a much larger expenditure on their admissions dept. Phoenix U will take anyone with the money. Yale will only take you if you meet their stringent requirements and have the money.
Might as well pay for the best label. Not too mention, a number of respectable schools have online course structures.
Although you might not be a better person for going to a given school, if the guy thinking about hiring you is impressed, it will be worth the extra time/hassle/money.
I lived abroad for a couple of years and worked for a local company. My former employer (US) would occassionally contact me with questions/issues/new dev and pay me as a contractor for that time.
On top of that, I moved back and forth in the middle of the year. Hence, I earned half my income in the foreign country and the other half here. Other than them (foreign IRS) stiffing me for my tax refund (1500 EUR) when I moved back to the US, I had no issues.
My US money was taxed in the US and my foreign in that country. No sense in wasting time figuring out the details and legal technicalities. US taxes are generally lower and I'm sure this person has a CA or other US address. That's where you 'live', that's where you get paid, and that's where the US can believe you to be.
At YAPC::Europe (Amsterdam) in 2001, vroom of perlmonk's fame appeared and we took the place by storm. Bumped into a 17 yr old NL hacker (of US parentage) we knew from perlmonks & IRC. He drank too much, missed his last train and ended up crashing on the floor of my house (45 min away from A'dam, in the wrong direction). The next day he was nearly taken to Belgium to continue to the drunken debauchery, except his girlish whining meant he got left at the first train station to find his way home.
That, my friend, is what I wish I had done in high school.
And then there was the time at HAL2001 (also in NL) where the sys admin of sealand enjoyed some very wacky substances and his antics amused us all. But, that is another tale.
If that were the case, your bike battery wouldn't recharge. Your generator produces AC, the it is regulated and rectified down to ~12v DC.
You have a 12v DC system that will have a tendency to fluctuate within a couple volts of 12. So, high RPMs will give you ~13-14v (depending on the regulator) and low will hopefully not drop below 10.
Considering you have a 1cyl bike, that means relatively low rpms (unlike my 4 cyl sport bike, which redlines at 14k), so hopefully the cycles won't be as bad as that.
I would add a second battery as the another poster mentioned to guarantee ~12v, not too mention it is damn handy. My bike died after having the lights on for a 45min traffic jam in Barcelona; 2500km from home. Thankfully, I had a friend and a busy tourist alley (Las Ramblas!) to push start. grin.
Hook the laptop to the second battery.
Also, having traveled extensively on a bike, I would highly recommend getting one of those super small laptops. The 800x400 display isn't nice to work on full time, but the extra space is priceless.
Good luck.
You can't be serious. The place is a dumpster. A hell on earth filled with ignorant rubes (Klan members, the lot) who can't drive (55 in a 65 zone in the far left lane, EACH AND EVERY TIME).
Have you seen their latest slogan??? "Birthplace of Aviation" What the hell is this? The Wright brothers were born there and this is Ohio's greatest claim to fame. THE PLANE NEVER FLEW IN OHIO!! Kitty Hawk, NC!!!
Every time I am forced to pass through Ohio I have to dodge the over-zealous cops trying to enforce the ridiciously slow speed limits on the asinine loops of expressway. In the mean time, I can't get up to speed because of the buffoons getting on the expressway and cutting across two lanes to get in the left "in case a truck is coming behind [them] quickly!" An actual quote from an Ohio native.
Seceed Michigan: It's time to free ourselves of the tyranny of our terrible neighbors: OH, IN & WI.
For no other reason than their motto: Live free or die.
Alternatively, Vermont, where they have no concealed weapons permits. Instead, everyone has the implicit right to carry.
At the moment, lots of companies are selling aftermarket fuel injection kits for older engines. These things include direct interfaces to laptops where you can tinker to your hearts content. Rebuild the engine to understand the internals or just slap on a new manifold and fuel rail. It really isn't that tough. One of my pals converted his '90 Tahoe to multi-point EFI. More power, more efficiency, and sometime later this week it will be for sale on ebay. He needs a new vehicle to tinker with.
This will never get mod'd high enough for anyone to see it... but, I lived abroad for a couple of years and toured all over Europe and S. Africa. Motorcycling the Pyrenees, drinking beer with elephants, and exploring the castles of Prague never could compare with the wonder of the Parisian sewers. Les Musee d' le Egouts, about a block from the Eiffel Tower takes you through a live working sewer. They had a ton of cool info on how during the 19th century London and other cities had the same thing.
It was without a doubt the coolest thing I've seen thus far. And my female companion didn't even get disgusted. Mostly grey water from sinks and whatnot anyway.
I'm sure Slashdot mentioned this years ago, but the serious option is the Poof chair. They are like bean bags, but filled with a higher quality foam. Damn comfortable. Check out http://poofchair.com or http://notabeanbag.com
I think they recently renamed to "fuf" chairs, whatever the hell that means.