OK, getting away from all the Xenophobes around here, I've got some real advice for you: it's bloody difficult. I've been trying every avenue I can find, and keep hitting brick walls, and I'm from NZ so I have a head start on most nationalities (nobody hates us:-). There's this woman, see... Yep, old story, but she's The One. I can't get a Work Permit for her country (Belgium), and I won't be some sponge taking advantage of her, nor will I do it illegally, and it's way too early to be talking of tying the knot, so for now I'm stuck over in Australia trying to reach the ONLY way I've found to get myself in.
Anyway, being only English speaking (but working on my Dutch:-), I'm targeting the UK. I'm over 30, so working holidays are out. I'm in IT, so fast track visas or standard sponsorships are out. That leaves the UK Skilled Migrants program. Bascially if you have a bachelors degree, 5 years experience in a job requiring that degree, and earned over GBP40,000 in the last 12 months, then you get a Migrants Visa with no sponsorship or guaranteed job required and no restrictions on whom you work for while in the UK. I'm 7 months towards the earning my 40k, only 5 months to go...
You don't say what your occupation is, I'm guessing you're IT as well, but if you or your wife were a teacher or a nurse or a doctor, then you could write your own ticket to just about any country on the planet. Check out the other Shortage Occupations for the UK to see who can be fast-tracked.
If you insist on Southern Europe, language is a HUGE problem, if you don't speak the local, don't expect to be welcomed with open arms. Pick a country, learn the lingo, visit their embassy to quiz the staff, and keep your eyes open for any opportunity that comes your way, not just normal work (charity volunteer, study programs, etc).
As I used to joke with a mate of mine who scored a Greek passport through his parents, an unemployable goat-herder from the Greek islands can move anywhere in EU he likes to beg on the streets, but a highly skilled, motivated, committed, tax-paying, law-abiding want-to-be-a-citizen like me can't even get a foot in the door...
Get a normal job first for 5 years, get experience, PROVE you're worth the money you are going to be asking for, and build up a list of reputable people with industry connections who are willing to stake their reputations on recommending you.
Otherwise, you're just another chump working for loose change and I wouldn't touch you wth a barge pole.
John. (Current independent contractor at the top of my niche, so I know what I'm talking about)
I had my TV card in an old Celeron 400, running the MythTV server in LiveTV mode, watching from my laptop over a 802.11b connection. This setup was only capable of a low resolution, and it stuttered fairly regularly, so make sure you have enough power. A 1GHz server will allow recording and streaming at MPEG2 resolution, but you may need 802.11g to stream wirelessly at that resolution. As always, the more power and bandwidth the better.
It has a built in program guide, PVR functionality, and many more features besides. And best of all it's free:-)
There's a key difference here that the MS people seem to miss. MS think a distro is like them selling MS Windows including MS IE, MS Outlook, MS Media Player, MS Visual Studio, MS etc, etc, etc. Instead, it's really like MS deciding to sell MS Windows with Opera browser, Eudora e-mail, Real media player, Borland Delphi, etc, etc. The difference is that they are COMPETING products, giving users the choice of what they want to use, not bind them ever tighter to MS.
Geez, why can't these lazy buggers do a google for themselves (hell, he has a GMail account after all), took me all of 2 minutes effort to find this out for myself when I wanted the same thing for my home network... It was quicker than filling out an Ask Slashdot and waiting for it to be accepted:-) And why do these lame-o's NEVER say what OS and or hardware they have??? Or if they want free stuff vs being willing to pay???
Anyway, to answer the question, if you have Linux, try MythTV with all it's nice features, otherwise go for VideoLAN.
Hmmm, so you would rather go with the official / corporate line of "no big deal, we had it under control all along, we did everythng right, there was no risk, nothing to see here, move along please" because they wouldn't have any reason to spin to us now would they????
"Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Where Atlas holds up the heavens"
Exactly. And guess how many places there are in the ancient world that caried the name of "The Pillars of Hercules"? The Straits of Gibralter were the most popular, hence the inference by most that it's somewhere in the Atlantic. But there were "Pillars of Hercules" all over the place...
Hmmm, really? Last few studies I saw put the % of Mesoamerican "pyramids" that were used as tombs at variously between 20 and 40%, where-as Egyptian pyramids run somewhere close to 100%. There may be more by absolute number, but then that would be because there are more Meso "pyramids"...
But you do get it right about about the diversity of building style and use.
In general: 1) Meso pyramids were primarially used as temples, with some being used as tombs. Egyptian pyramids are almost exclusively tombs. 2) Meso pyramids started as earth mounds or shaped hills, with new layers being added on top by successive rulers. Egyptian pyramids were built in 1 go for 1 purpose for 1 ruler. And the construction tecniques are radically different. 3) The similar shape is, as the grandparent noted, a simple consequence of gravity and available building materials.
Nah, talk to the geoarchaeologists, they've pretty much discarded the tidal wave theory. There is a total lack of evidence for a tidal wave hitting Crete, and the timing is totally out of wack. Thera did explode, but had far less impact than originally thought. The Minoan collapse more likely came from internal pressures.
Read Eberhard Zanegger in "The Future of the Past" for a good scientifically based read on Thera, Atlantis (= Troy in his opinion), and several other current controversies.
Actually, the best theory I've read is by a German geoarchaeologist called Eberhard Zanegger in his book "The Future of the Past", where he identified Atlantis as really being Troy, distorted through the myths of time. When you read both Aristotle and Homer side-by-side, the parallels are striking.
Geez, if I was a doco maker, I'd be on the next plane over to film a guided tour with Elana. You wouldn't need to do much in the way of voiceovers or editing, just her and the remaining locals telling it like it is.
Exactly! I was so wanting PJ to use his LOTR millions to buy up the rights to the classics like WOTW and HG2G and make versions had had some integrity and imagination.
But then I'm biased, being a Kiwi and all and living just down the road...
Notice it's detected attacks? Perhaps it's because the Linux tools are better at detecting and defeating attacks than Windows? How many of those attacks were successful and only detected AFTER the damage was done? Not many, I bet...
Would this be your first time leading a project? If yes, then you should decline the bad project, as it could be more of a career killer than declining it. Your company should have enough savvy to know better anyway, that troubled projects need experienced troubleshooters to pull them out of the muck. If they don't see that, explain it to them, laying out it would better for you to cut your teeth on something better.
I've seen this happen to a good mate, he took on a real mess, struggled heroically, but ultimately failed and it cost him. Then I've also seen a great troubleshooter come in and rescue the most terminally ill project ever. The difference being experience, which is ony gained from working the good projects first and then moving "up" to the bad ones.
Then again, if you do take it on and pull it off, your reputation is made. Its just a very high risk manouvre...
Let me get this right. A guy physically residing in the States is earning money from a service whose primary and almost sole intent is to facilitate the commission of a crime. How long before the feds are on his arse? Just because the company is in Vanuatu, doen't mean he can't be done for living off illegal earnings or some-such law designed to put away mobsters and drug barons.
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OK, stupid, lets take this slowly. 185F is the recommended SERVING temperature, i.e. for the coffee to come out of the coffee machine, or to store the coffee so it keeps best up to the point of SERVING. SERVE != DRINK. Drinking temperature is considerably less, unless your name happens to be de Sade and you get your rocks off on 3rd degree burns.
I'd like to see your scull a whole fresh-poured cup of 185F coffee. Like you already said earlier, people sip until it passes the tounge temperature test. The thing about a sip is that it is a small amount, and will cause a minimum of damage before cooling to an acceptable temperature, minimising the risk. Any med student will tell you that pouring 185F liquid onto human skin has a 100% burn risk factor.
You, in fact, are using one of the favourite tactics of those scum-bag lawyers you say you so detest, keep repeating a single fact that happens to be true ad-nasuem no matter that IT DOESN'T APPLY HERE!!!
Go away.
P.S. Not that I have any sympathy with the woman concerned, what kind of moron sits a hot cup of coffee in a dodgy styrofoam cup between their legs... Oh, yeah, that would be me:-) No, for real, I did exactly the same thing once (with a REAL coffee, mind you, not that McD's crap), but did I sue??? No, I accepted that I was a moron and got on with my life...
Ahem. Ever heard of this thing called the Industrial Revolution, started in the mid 1700's? They started building these things called Factories that burned lots of stuff called Coal to make lots of Things for people to consume...
My point being that it's not just cars that pump out the so-called Greenhouse Gases, so your supposed counter-argument is entirely specious. Go read a few books first if you want to hold an intelligent debate...
Read Ansels's book "The Negative". His basic philosophy was to get the negative the best it could be, that way you minimise the fooling around afterwards in the darkroom. He WAS a master in the darkroom, but that was only to fix-up the print where his negative wasn't up to scratch for representing What He Saw. He was into honesty of image, so all those digital manipulation tricks, moving, enhancing, "perfecting" nature would horrify him.
He would mess around with digital to see what it could do, and as an artistic medium in its own right, much as he did with polaroids, but i doubt it would replace his first love of View+50ISO.
Well, duh, Extended Edition won't just be theatrical + 7 mins of Chris Lee, there will be OTHER footage added which will give it context...
Gees mate, there's some right drongos here today.
P.S. Where me and PJ come from, we prefer sheep and weed to ho's and coke...
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Perry: Your Honour, in response to SCO's motion to dismiss, I call Darl McBride...
[Darl takes the stand as is sworn in.]
Perry: Mr McBride, your company claims its IP is illegally in Linux, and wishes to collect license fees to compensate for this alleged theft?
Darl: Yes.
Perry: And Red Hat is the biggest distributor of this Linux?
Darl: Yes.
Perry: So you would like to collect license fees from Red Hat and their customers for their alleged illegal use of your IP?
[Darl hesitates as he slowly realises the yawning abyss about to open in frront of him, but a No answer would let Red Hat off the hook so...]
Darl: Errr, yes, we would...
Perry: And so what would you do if Red Hat refuses to pay those fees? Would you seek to sue them, or just let them get away with it?
[At this point Darl goes white as a sheet, Boise starts madly shuffling papers to find something to object to and Perry Mason smiles broadly as his trap slams shut on SCO's greedy little fingers...]
You really have to puch clock? No, seriously, I've NEVER heard of clocking in at ANY professional level company. If you're salaried, then all that crap goes out the window and expectations move from "working the required hours" to "working the hours required", if you catch the subtle difference. Funny how it always works in their favour, they never acknowledge the extra hours we put in at the end of the day to actually get the job done. So use it against them.
As someone has noted above, read your contract, get some legal advice (join a union, they're good at that sort of thing), then sit down in a quiet, friendly chat with your manager who says you are on flexi-time and explain your concerns and point out whatever favourable legal stuff you find in your contract. Point out politely that if the company insists on you clocking in at precisely 7:30am, then you will insist in clocking out precisely X hours later, as per the exact terms of your contract. If/when management caves in, get it in writing from the highest possible person, counter-signed by someone high up in HR and get a notarised copy lodged somewhere safe. Worst case scenario is you piss them off a bit and miss a few bonuses and promotions, but your job is 100% safe unless they can pin some other crap on you. Then you sue their arse...
John.
P.S. If you're looking for examples, IBM has a flexi policy that so long as you're in by 10 and don't leave before 3, and make your hours for the week, no questions are asked. For those on call, hours worked the night before count to your weeks total and can be used against that days core hours. I've seen DBA's crawl in at 1pm and leave an hour later after a really bad night. Hell, my manager NEVER arrived before 10am, sometimes 11am...
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OK, getting away from all the Xenophobes around here, I've got some real advice for you: it's bloody difficult. I've been trying every avenue I can find, and keep hitting brick walls, and I'm from NZ so I have a head start on most nationalities (nobody hates us :-). There's this woman, see... Yep, old story, but she's The One. I can't get a Work Permit for her country (Belgium), and I won't be some sponge taking advantage of her, nor will I do it illegally, and it's way too early to be talking of tying the knot, so for now I'm stuck over in Australia trying to reach the ONLY way I've found to get myself in.
:-), I'm targeting the UK. I'm over 30, so working holidays are out. I'm in IT, so fast track visas or standard sponsorships are out. That leaves the UK Skilled Migrants program. Bascially if you have a bachelors degree, 5 years experience in a job requiring that degree, and earned over GBP40,000 in the last 12 months, then you get a Migrants Visa with no sponsorship or guaranteed job required and no restrictions on whom you work for while in the UK. I'm 7 months towards the earning my 40k, only 5 months to go...
Anyway, being only English speaking (but working on my Dutch
You don't say what your occupation is, I'm guessing you're IT as well, but if you or your wife were a teacher or a nurse or a doctor, then you could write your own ticket to just about any country on the planet. Check out the other Shortage Occupations for the UK to see who can be fast-tracked.
If you insist on Southern Europe, language is a HUGE problem, if you don't speak the local, don't expect to be welcomed with open arms. Pick a country, learn the lingo, visit their embassy to quiz the staff, and keep your eyes open for any opportunity that comes your way, not just normal work (charity volunteer, study programs, etc).
As I used to joke with a mate of mine who scored a Greek passport through his parents, an unemployable goat-herder from the Greek islands can move anywhere in EU he likes to beg on the streets, but a highly skilled, motivated, committed, tax-paying, law-abiding want-to-be-a-citizen like me can't even get a foot in the door...
John.
Get a normal job first for 5 years, get experience, PROVE you're worth the money you are going to be asking for, and build up a list of reputable people with industry connections who are willing to stake their reputations on recommending you.
Otherwise, you're just another chump working for loose change and I wouldn't touch you wth a barge pole.
John.
(Current independent contractor at the top of my niche, so I know what I'm talking about)
Grab Mandrake 10, upgrade to the PLF version of freetype2 (extra patented goodness turned on), install the MSFonts and run KDE.
Done.
Oh, and use a CRT for demo's: LCD + NVidia + XFree can take a bit of tweaking to get right.
John.
I second that.
:-)
I had my TV card in an old Celeron 400, running the MythTV server in LiveTV mode, watching from my laptop over a 802.11b connection. This setup was only capable of a low resolution, and it stuttered fairly regularly, so make sure you have enough power. A 1GHz server will allow recording and streaming at MPEG2 resolution, but you may need 802.11g to stream wirelessly at that resolution. As always, the more power and bandwidth the better.
It has a built in program guide, PVR functionality, and many more features besides. And best of all it's free
John.
There's a key difference here that the MS people seem to miss. MS think a distro is like them selling MS Windows including MS IE, MS Outlook, MS Media Player, MS Visual Studio, MS etc, etc, etc. Instead, it's really like MS deciding to sell MS Windows with Opera browser, Eudora e-mail, Real media player, Borland Delphi, etc, etc. The difference is that they are COMPETING products, giving users the choice of what they want to use, not bind them ever tighter to MS.
Geez, why can't these lazy buggers do a google for themselves (hell, he has a GMail account after all), took me all of 2 minutes effort to find this out for myself when I wanted the same thing for my home network... It was quicker than filling out an Ask Slashdot and waiting for it to be accepted:-) And why do these lame-o's NEVER say what OS and or hardware they have??? Or if they want free stuff vs being willing to pay???
Anyway, to answer the question, if you have Linux, try MythTV with all it's nice features, otherwise go for VideoLAN.
Hmmm, so you would rather go with the official / corporate line of "no big deal, we had it under control all along, we did everythng right, there was no risk, nothing to see here, move along please" because they wouldn't have any reason to spin to us now would they????
"Beyond the Pillars of Hercules. Where Atlas holds up the heavens"
Exactly. And guess how many places there are in the ancient world that caried the name of "The Pillars of Hercules"? The Straits of Gibralter were the most popular, hence the inference by most that it's somewhere in the Atlantic. But there were "Pillars of Hercules" all over the place...
John.
Hmmm, really? Last few studies I saw put the % of Mesoamerican "pyramids" that were used as tombs at variously between 20 and 40%, where-as Egyptian pyramids run somewhere close to 100%. There may be more by absolute number, but then that would be because there are more Meso "pyramids"...
But you do get it right about about the diversity of building style and use.
In general:
1) Meso pyramids were primarially used as temples, with some being used as tombs. Egyptian pyramids are almost exclusively tombs.
2) Meso pyramids started as earth mounds or shaped hills, with new layers being added on top by successive rulers. Egyptian pyramids were built in 1 go for 1 purpose for 1 ruler. And the construction tecniques are radically different.
3) The similar shape is, as the grandparent noted, a simple consequence of gravity and available building materials.
John.
Doh, make that Plato... Too many Greek philosophers sitting on the bedside table...
Nah, talk to the geoarchaeologists, they've pretty much discarded the tidal wave theory. There is a total lack of evidence for a tidal wave hitting Crete, and the timing is totally out of wack. Thera did explode, but had far less impact than originally thought. The Minoan collapse more likely came from internal pressures.
Read Eberhard Zanegger in "The Future of the Past" for a good scientifically based read on Thera, Atlantis (= Troy in his opinion), and several other current controversies.
John.
Actually, the best theory I've read is by a German geoarchaeologist called Eberhard Zanegger in his book "The Future of the Past", where he identified Atlantis as really being Troy, distorted through the myths of time. When you read both Aristotle and Homer side-by-side, the parallels are striking.
John.
Geez, if I was a doco maker, I'd be on the next plane over to film a guided tour with Elana. You wouldn't need to do much in the way of voiceovers or editing, just her and the remaining locals telling it like it is.
Be the best anti-nuke power film ever.
John.
Exactly! I was so wanting PJ to use his LOTR millions to buy up the rights to the classics like WOTW and HG2G and make versions had had some integrity and imagination.
But then I'm biased, being a Kiwi and all and living just down the road...
Notice it's detected attacks? Perhaps it's because the Linux tools are better at detecting and defeating attacks than Windows? How many of those attacks were successful and only detected AFTER the damage was done? Not many, I bet...
Obviously, M$ must have some kind of Bluetooth-like short range wireless connectivity thingy coming out soon.
The only reason I've ever found to read Enderle is to see what M$ is thinking...
Simply the best out there, I love mine:
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CD-R/RW/MP3/Ogg/WMA/FM tuner/Flash upgrades/etc....
Would this be your first time leading a project? If yes, then you should decline the bad project, as it could be more of a career killer than declining it. Your company should have enough savvy to know better anyway, that troubled projects need experienced troubleshooters to pull them out of the muck. If they don't see that, explain it to them, laying out it would better for you to cut your teeth on something better.
I've seen this happen to a good mate, he took on a real mess, struggled heroically, but ultimately failed and it cost him. Then I've also seen a great troubleshooter come in and rescue the most terminally ill project ever. The difference being experience, which is ony gained from working the good projects first and then moving "up" to the bad ones.
Then again, if you do take it on and pull it off, your reputation is made. Its just a very high risk manouvre...
Let me get this right. A guy physically residing in the States is earning money from a service whose primary and almost sole intent is to facilitate the commission of a crime. How long before the feds are on his arse? Just because the company is in Vanuatu, doen't mean he can't be done for living off illegal earnings or some-such law designed to put away mobsters and drug barons.
OK, stupid, lets take this slowly. 185F is the recommended SERVING temperature, i.e. for the coffee to come out of the coffee machine, or to store the coffee so it keeps best up to the point of SERVING. SERVE != DRINK. Drinking temperature is considerably less, unless your name happens to be de Sade and you get your rocks off on 3rd degree burns.
:-) No, for real, I did exactly the same thing once (with a REAL coffee, mind you, not that McD's crap), but did I sue??? No, I accepted that I was a moron and got on with my life...
I'd like to see your scull a whole fresh-poured cup of 185F coffee. Like you already said earlier, people sip until it passes the tounge temperature test. The thing about a sip is that it is a small amount, and will cause a minimum of damage before cooling to an acceptable temperature, minimising the risk. Any med student will tell you that pouring 185F liquid onto human skin has a 100% burn risk factor.
You, in fact, are using one of the favourite tactics of those scum-bag lawyers you say you so detest, keep repeating a single fact that happens to be true ad-nasuem no matter that IT DOESN'T APPLY HERE!!!
Go away.
P.S. Not that I have any sympathy with the woman concerned, what kind of moron sits a hot cup of coffee in a dodgy styrofoam cup between their legs... Oh, yeah, that would be me
Ahem. Ever heard of this thing called the Industrial Revolution, started in the mid 1700's? They started building these things called Factories that burned lots of stuff called Coal to make lots of Things for people to consume...
My point being that it's not just cars that pump out the so-called Greenhouse Gases, so your supposed counter-argument is entirely specious. Go read a few books first if you want to hold an intelligent debate...
Read Ansels's book "The Negative". His basic philosophy was to get the negative the best it could be, that way you minimise the fooling around afterwards in the darkroom. He WAS a master in the darkroom, but that was only to fix-up the print where his negative wasn't up to scratch for representing What He Saw. He was into honesty of image, so all those digital manipulation tricks, moving, enhancing, "perfecting" nature would horrify him.
He would mess around with digital to see what it could do, and as an artistic medium in its own right, much as he did with polaroids, but i doubt it would replace his first love of View+50ISO.
John.
Well, duh, Extended Edition won't just be theatrical + 7 mins of Chris Lee, there will be OTHER footage added which will give it context...
Gees mate, there's some right drongos here today.
P.S. Where me and PJ come from, we prefer sheep and weed to ho's and coke...
Perry: Your Honour, in response to SCO's motion to dismiss, I call Darl McBride...
[Darl takes the stand as is sworn in.]
Perry: Mr McBride, your company claims its IP is illegally in Linux, and wishes to collect license fees to compensate for this alleged theft?
Darl: Yes.
Perry: And Red Hat is the biggest distributor of this Linux?
Darl: Yes.
Perry: So you would like to collect license fees from Red Hat and their customers for their alleged illegal use of your IP?
[Darl hesitates as he slowly realises the yawning abyss about to open in frront of him, but a No answer would let Red Hat off the hook so...]
Darl: Errr, yes, we would...
Perry: And so what would you do if Red Hat refuses to pay those fees? Would you seek to sue them, or just let them get away with it?
[At this point Darl goes white as a sheet, Boise starts madly shuffling papers to find something to object to and Perry Mason smiles broadly as his trap slams shut on SCO's greedy little fingers...]
You really have to puch clock? No, seriously, I've NEVER heard of clocking in at ANY professional level company. If you're salaried, then all that crap goes out the window and expectations move from "working the required hours" to "working the hours required", if you catch the subtle difference. Funny how it always works in their favour, they never acknowledge the extra hours we put in at the end of the day to actually get the job done. So use it against them.
As someone has noted above, read your contract, get some legal advice (join a union, they're good at that sort of thing), then sit down in a quiet, friendly chat with your manager who says you are on flexi-time and explain your concerns and point out whatever favourable legal stuff you find in your contract. Point out politely that if the company insists on you clocking in at precisely 7:30am, then you will insist in clocking out precisely X hours later, as per the exact terms of your contract. If/when management caves in, get it in writing from the highest possible person, counter-signed by someone high up in HR and get a notarised copy lodged somewhere safe. Worst case scenario is you piss them off a bit and miss a few bonuses and promotions, but your job is 100% safe unless they can pin some other crap on you. Then you sue their arse...
John.
P.S. If you're looking for examples, IBM has a flexi policy that so long as you're in by 10 and don't leave before 3, and make your hours for the week, no questions are asked. For those on call, hours worked the night before count to your weeks total and can be used against that days core hours. I've seen DBA's crawl in at 1pm and leave an hour later after a really bad night. Hell, my manager NEVER arrived before 10am, sometimes 11am...