No matter what they give you for phone compensation, you shoule be able to write off the balance of your bills from your tax return. The shortcoming is that you'd lose the money in the short term, but get it later, with no interest.
On the other hand, get the 1 cent special, and use the phone yourself. Keep it turned off unless you want to make a call, or refuse to carry it if your company doesn't pay for the expense.
I've got a good friend who can't wait to get this. I just emailed him the./ link but inserted that cable and dsl give better bandwidth with lower latency. Sucker.
I'm gonna avoid like the plague, this kind of service(?) which is closely related to Microshaft, Compaq, and RadioShack. The first two will never get anymore of my money. RadioShack is a good friend of mine.
I don't want an internet service which is subject to the weatherman's cloudcover prediction, or solarflares. My cable company has worked hard enough to keep their service up when the wind blows.
So, given that we'll be on a phased array, geosynchronous satellite network (this really sounds cool), the communication is lagged by the high latency. Wasn't broadband created so we can have fast transfers without the high latency? Surely they can do better than 500/150 kbps. I get 1500/300 kpbs with my cable service which is 3x/2x as fast with probably less cost and one tenth the latency.
I'm gonna skip this thing. I can already see it coming down with Iridium. Or M$ will sell it off to keep their financials in the black.
With all that processing power the MPAA and RIAA might be able to calculate a clue. But they've already bought legislation to outlaw that, didn't they?
sucks in any industry. I work in the paper industry for a major automation supplier. We have a 24/7 call number in case anything happens to our system, critical or not-so-critical. If our customer can't make paper due to our system failing, it potentially can cost $100K/hour in production.
Someone carries the pager for one week and must respond within 30 minutes.
For compensation I earn roughly half a weeks' salary in either cash or comp-time. I decide how I receive the compensation.
The pro's probably equal the con's in that some weeks are quieter than others. Sometimes the pager never goes off and sometimes it goes off at 3am. Like when someone has a new e-machine and needs the manuals and calls a number and goes through three levels of menus and product lines to get to technical support for a computer we don't support. I didn't return the call.
But the cash is worth it to a certain extent in that when I get it I can upgrade parts of my home system.
Heck, I downloaded 1.8 Gb the other day trying to get FreeBSD 4.1.1.
When RedHat and FreeBSD were released in the same week we could all suffer on download limits. I'd rather pay the flat-rate with unlimited use of my line than be bounded by cost.
But then perhaps, consider if your local DOT/DMV would let you pay an additional $49.95 so you could legally go 90+ mph on your favorite stretch of interstate. How many of us would do that?
I got my Sinclair free from a friend a few months ago. I'm holding it for posterity... to show my kids what got me into computers. Heck, I don't even have kids yet... they'll appreciate it anyway.
My better memories of early computing is my cousin first saw it advertised in Popular Mechanics. He sold enough of my grandfather's tomatoes on the street to buy one in a few days. He had a plan.
It was cool, too. Biorythms and the flight simulator bring back memories. He had the 16k rampack. After a long while the thing would wear out the TV though....
I just did an install of RH6.2 this evening for a friend of mine. It was amazing how much crap gets activated when you select 'everything' during the installation! He wanted everything, so he got it.
Needless to say, I turned off all listening daemons and promptly installed OpenSSH.
I see absolutely no need whatsoever to run telnet or ftp servers anymore. And my friend didn't need to have them running anyway on a dialup connection so I got rid of them. And even if he wasn't on the 'net, he still didn't need telnet, ftp, nfs, etc... running.
I agree that a good half hour of cleanup is required after any linux installation. Even if RH is a 'newbie-ized' linux distro, all the NFS, rpc, apmd, pcmcia, sendmail, etc... services should be turned off until the sysadmin turns them on.
I like the idea that I have a fully configurable, highly powered, and fully functional (free) OS. but dammit(!) let me turn the stuff on!
No newbie should be faced with NFS or identd on their first day. Let them learn the power of GNU/Linux. Don't blind them like a deer in the headlights, but give them turn up the dimmer switch.
Remember the book Fahrenheit 451? It was about a fireman whose job it was to start fires and burn books! Whole families lost their homes just because they had books!
The main character, IIRC, met several hobos that memorized the great works of Plato, Shakespeare, et. al., just because the books were banned. The hobos, in fact, had become walking libraries. They also were very well aware that the government they lived under banned those very books and in response committed the writings to memory. Knowledge = Power.
If the knowledge came from books, then burn the books. The MPAA is trying to do this very thing by restricting access to DeCSS code. However, books aren't illegal (yet), and I'm sure many people could commit DeCSS to memory. I'd rather read it freely without fearing having my house burned or ransacked while the MPAA gestapo trys to remove it from my personal property. Perhaps it's time to join the NRA to protect my home.
Fahrenheit 451...It's been so long since I last read it, it might just be worth another read. And I got one of those EFF shirts before it was slashdotted.
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No matter what they give you for phone compensation, you shoule be able to write off the balance of your bills from your tax return. The shortcoming is that you'd lose the money in the short term, but get it later, with no interest.
On the other hand, get the 1 cent special, and use the phone yourself. Keep it turned off unless you want to make a call, or refuse to carry it if your company doesn't pay for the expense.
Friday at 4:50PM, huh? Good.
I'm at the bar by 3:30PM.
Sure the dinosaurs held their necks horizontal, but did they look up and fall over backwards when a teradactyl squacked overhead?
Teradactyls could have been a contributing factor in the death of dinosaurs.
I've got a good friend who can't wait to get this. I just emailed him the ./ link but inserted that cable and dsl give better bandwidth with lower latency. Sucker.
I'm gonna avoid like the plague, this kind of service(?) which is closely related to Microshaft, Compaq, and RadioShack. The first two will never get anymore of my money. RadioShack is a good friend of mine.
I don't want an internet service which is subject to the weatherman's cloudcover prediction, or solarflares. My cable company has worked hard enough to keep their service up when the wind blows.
So, given that we'll be on a phased array, geosynchronous satellite network (this really sounds cool), the communication is lagged by the high latency. Wasn't broadband created so we can have fast transfers without the high latency? Surely they can do better than 500/150 kbps. I get 1500/300 kpbs with my cable service which is 3x/2x as fast with probably less cost and one tenth the latency.
I'm gonna skip this thing. I can already see it coming down with Iridium. Or M$ will sell it off to keep their financials in the black.
Tell them to "Fsck Off!"
With all that processing power the MPAA and RIAA might be able to calculate a clue. But they've already bought legislation to outlaw that, didn't they?
.sig. My $.02. I win.
Crap.
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I usually require > 150 fps if I'm on a heavy duty, super caffeinated drink. Everything else looks like I'm on 'ludes, or something.
Pit them against each other on Celebrity Deathmatch. The card would read: Larry "Shogun" Ellison vs. Bill "BSOD" Gates
If it's been done before, I'd like to see the vidcaps.
sucks in any industry. I work in the paper industry for a major automation supplier. We have a 24/7 call number in case anything happens to our system, critical or not-so-critical. If our customer can't make paper due to our system failing, it potentially can cost $100K/hour in production.
Someone carries the pager for one week and must respond within 30 minutes.
For compensation I earn roughly half a weeks' salary in either cash or comp-time. I decide how I receive the compensation.
The pro's probably equal the con's in that some weeks are quieter than others. Sometimes the pager never goes off and sometimes it goes off at 3am. Like when someone has a new e-machine and needs the manuals and calls a number and goes through three levels of menus and product lines to get to technical support for a computer we don't support. I didn't return the call.
But the cash is worth it to a certain extent in that when I get it I can upgrade parts of my home system.
Ask for the additional compensation.
I didn't like having the daemon run anyway, so I disabled it. Sorta glad I did. I got the updated package anyway, though.
And this topic is important why??
Heck, I downloaded 1.8 Gb the other day trying to get FreeBSD 4.1.1.
When RedHat and FreeBSD were released in the same week we could all suffer on download limits. I'd rather pay the flat-rate with unlimited use of my line than be bounded by cost.
But then perhaps, consider if your local DOT/DMV would let you pay an additional $49.95 so you could legally go 90+ mph on your favorite stretch of interstate. How many of us would do that?
My dogs like the computers.... They're geek dogs, too.
I got my Sinclair free from a friend a few months ago. I'm holding it for posterity... to show my kids what got me into computers. Heck, I don't even have kids yet... they'll appreciate it anyway.
My better memories of early computing is my cousin first saw it advertised in Popular Mechanics. He sold enough of my grandfather's tomatoes on the street to buy one in a few days. He had a plan.
It was cool, too. Biorythms and the flight simulator bring back memories. He had the 16k rampack. After a long while the thing would wear out the TV though....
way cool
I just did an install of RH6.2 this evening for a friend of mine. It was amazing how much crap gets activated when you select 'everything' during the installation! He wanted everything, so he got it.
Needless to say, I turned off all listening daemons and promptly installed OpenSSH.
I see absolutely no need whatsoever to run telnet or ftp servers anymore. And my friend didn't need to have them running anyway on a dialup connection so I got rid of them. And even if he wasn't on the 'net, he still didn't need telnet, ftp, nfs, etc... running.
I agree that a good half hour of cleanup is required after any linux installation. Even if RH is a 'newbie-ized' linux distro, all the NFS, rpc, apmd, pcmcia, sendmail, etc... services should be turned off until the sysadmin turns them on.
I like the idea that I have a fully configurable, highly powered, and fully functional (free) OS. but dammit(!) let me turn the stuff on!
No newbie should be faced with NFS or identd on their first day. Let them learn the power of GNU/Linux. Don't blind them like a deer in the headlights, but give them turn up the dimmer switch.
eof
Remember the book Fahrenheit 451? It was about a fireman whose job it was to start fires and burn books! Whole families lost their homes just because they had books!
The main character, IIRC, met several hobos that memorized the great works of Plato, Shakespeare, et. al., just because the books were banned. The hobos, in fact, had become walking libraries. They also were very well aware that the government they lived under banned those very books and in response committed the writings to memory. Knowledge = Power.
If the knowledge came from books, then burn the books. The MPAA is trying to do this very thing by restricting access to DeCSS code. However, books aren't illegal (yet), and I'm sure many people could commit DeCSS to memory. I'd rather read it freely without fearing having my house burned or ransacked while the MPAA gestapo trys to remove it from my personal property. Perhaps it's time to join the NRA to protect my home.
Fahrenheit 451...It's been so long since I last read it, it might just be worth another read. And I got one of those EFF shirts before it was slashdotted.
The grits are better in the South. But I'd prefer hot sex over grits.