Alternatively, form an agreement based on trust rather than on a carefully worded policy. I never have any trouble convincing my insurer to pay for claims. They believe what I claim and pay out in a timely and helpful manner. The reason they do this is that they are basically a nice bunch of people. I may pay more than the cheapest insurer offers, but my counter-argument to that is what is the point of insurance you cannot rely on? Also my insurer is quite restrictive about who they allow as customers and I know some people feel that background checks and the like violate their privacy. Personally I just see it as the same due dillegience anybody should do. Finally, I imagine that if you abuse the trust then they would boot you off as a customer very quickly too, possibly with litigation to boot if the dollars involved were particularly high.
Moral of the story: a good relationship is a much better assurance of good treatment than a watertight contract. This extends to most other areas of life too. In corporate America it is standard practice for two companies involved in a deal to have long complex contracts. In corporate Japan the contracts will be short and simple because each company would only have entered the deal if they believed the other company's reputation would prevent them being screwed over. If they didn't trust the other company they would either not do a deal or use the American approach.
70 degrees!? Assuming your drive is reporting correctly, you need to do something to cool that down - fans, adjusted airflow, passive cooling, etc. Anything over 40 degrees cuts down drive life and anything over 50 degrees is just asking for trouble. Peaking at 70, I'm surprised your drives are still running at all.
Create an array 1000x1000 or whatever depending on the resolution you want your final plot to be Calculate the x,y point. Scale that point to an x',y' point in the graph (1000x1000 or whatever) Add one to every point near point near x',y'. If you're feeling flash, give a weighting to closer points. Save the resulting array to a file plot the resulting array using your favourite plotting tool (I used gnuplot).
The whole thing was just a couple hundred lines of C. I imagine it would've been easy to make it shorter if there had been a need. A good chunk of that code is the curses progress 'bar'
Tearing down a firewall is getting rid of it, and letting people access the internet freely. Circumventing a firewall is sneaking past it and hoping you don't get noticed.
To use a Berlin Wall analogy, what TFA is proposing is sneaking across to the West during the 80s and hoping to not be shot in the process. That contrasts quite strongly to tearing down the wall, which would be granting unrestricted access without fear of recrimination, as happened in Berlin in '89.
Yah, sorta... NZ has 14 day EPG via DVB-T thanks to TVNZ. Unfortunately the bozos that run TVNZ cannot generate valid EPG data to save themselves, making the data somewhat useless. Sky (no idea if it is the same company as Sky in the UK) can be picked up via DVB-S which will give you fairly decent unencrypted EPG and unencrypted FTA channels (and lots of encrypted channels).
TVNZ does send free EPG data over DVB-T (only available in Akl IIRC). Unfortunately, it is crap.
Sky however, sends unencrypted EPG over DVB-S that is of quite high quality. The reason that you cannot get it on your system is that it is copyright by sky so the people with it (anyone with a DVB-S card) cannot share it for long before sky shuts it down. However, any mythtv system with a DVB-S card in it can get sky's EPG data legally.
Sadly, you cannot decrypt sky using your DVB-S card because that breaks your licence agreement with sky... Even though you need a valid sky CAM card/account to be able to decrypt it. Pathetic huh?:-(
The testers decided to set every fan to maximum. Unsurprisingly then, the biggest, gruntiest fan had the best cooling while being 'too loud'. The winning fans were basically the ones with a lower maximum.
I have a suggestion for the testers: Next time you're trying to compromise between noise and temperature, don't turn every fan on to maximum. Instead, decide a set temperature and measure noise levels when the CPU reaches that temperature.
Having used both Linspire and Gentoo, I can assure you that the setup Linspire gives you out-of-the-box is a LOT easier than you could achieve with Gentoo (short of rewriting practically everything). I think that Linspire is significantly easier to use than Ubuntu, though the ease-of-use does kill flexibility in a way it doesn't for Ubuntu (or Gentoo, naturally)
You have to think back to when sendmail was written.
There are many different protocols that it supported which are simply not used now. Sure, you can write a SMTP server in fewer lines of code, but I doubt you'd be able to write something that could handle all of the crazy protocols in use at the time (and was flexible enough to be modified for protocols not invented yet).
The grandparent's post already deals with the issues you raised. The diagrams, and the photos, are not porn because their primary role is not sexual arousal.
The painting could well be porn - just particularly artistic and abstract porn.
Commercials likewise are very unlikely to be porn because their primary purpose is almost certainly to sell you (non-porn).
The GP might not be the perfect definition of porn, but it looks like a very good one to me. I think your prinicpal concern with it (as raised by your advertising example) is that you're really after a filter on age-restricted content rather than a filter on porn.
I would much rather back up to DVD than tapes, and while various backup programs support this I have yet to find one that will cope if I want to back up more than 4.4GB.
I don't want anything fancy - just full and incremental backup. Yet every product seems to be designed either for single users backing up key documents to a single CD, or for enterprise users backing up terabytes of documents to expensive tape drives!
Most people want a pretty box, and many of the mini ITX cases meet that description. I think the mATX is quite small enough, but standard ATX just looks bulky. The last one I built used a Silverstone LC11M and I would say that's borderline too big.
500MHz - 1GHz is arguably a little slow, especially for the OSD. If you're recording a lot of TV, you might not be able to transcode overnight with that CPU either. I tend to use a 754-based sempron which is overkill but offers nice power features.
For the video card, it is quite handy if the card does xvmc - especially if you're still planning on going with a 1GHz CPU. It is essential that it does xv. This restricts it to a midrange geforce 4 or better. I really need to get around to checking if the 6150 does xvmc...
IR varies a whole heap in price depending on how pretty it is - a budget setup costs as little as $20 (you can even spend about $20 extra on your PVR150 to get the non OEM version with IR). Often the prettier cases, such as the aforementioned LC11M, have built in IR too. The Microsoft remote is $100 for a three pack from memory. Another alternative is the ATI which uses radio instead of IR. If you're feeling rich, then something like the logitech harmony will set you back $250.
test.c:1:9: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or test.c: In function 'main': test.c:4: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
There's this thing called packages.... they bundle software together to prevent clobbering files. Very handy. I wonder if windows will ever support them?
While Nvidia's closed-source drivers are clearly better than ATI's, the opposite is true of the open-source drivers. If you are looking to build a system without binary drivers, or are using non-x86 and so cannot use the provided drivers, then you're better off going with ATI.
I imagine this is no coincidence, how many people can be bothered working on the nv driver when the nvidia driver works so well... But it does worry me how easily we have come to accept binary drivers now that they work so reliably for 90% of the users.
Given the bandwidth and reliability of bluetooth, why not instead blanket the building with wifi accesspoints and use them to route local voice traffic? It is a) easier, b) cheaper and c) more reliable.
Every bluetooth device I have (dynalink adaptor, linksys adaptor, treo, sony phone, apple keyboard, microsoft mouse, headset) has stuffed up on numerous occasions. The computer wakes from sleep, and the keyboard cannot be reconnected; the bluetooth settings stuff up, and you have to use the mouse to fix them; the 100m range turns out to be less than 10m at times; every second sync on my treo results in 'port in use'; and the headset is fairly reliable, but not 100%.
Overall, bluetooth looks to me like a protocol that just isn't working yet. Maybe the new bluetooth 2.0 will be better, or maybe I'll have to wait for wifi-LP (I just made that up). Certainly, I wouldn't want to base a company's telephone infrastructure on it.
Now, having technical skills is helpful, especially in order to pick up on slackers in the IT staff and avoid getting suckered by sales reps. However, his principal role is to keep you lot solving the problems. That's why MBAs have managed to survive in fields they know nothing about.
Since your boss will be less aware of technical implications, you will need to practice keeping him informed at a largely non-technical level. Consider it good practice for you next job where you're the IT boss and you're reporting to people who don't know IT.
Basically, as long as he's ok to work with, it doesn't matter. Or, as another poster said "Leave, now!" -- oh, and what's your boss's phone number?;-)
I've still got mine discoverable. I hesitated about it, but it does save a bit of hassle every time I want to peer with another computer and nothing has abused it yet... The main abuse is in detecting it, and since I keep it in my pocket, I can't see how knowing which particular model of cellphone I have will really help people.
My wife's cellphone also has it enabled because that was the default and I didn't feel like explaining the potential security risks to her.
Besides, bluetooth is practically broken on the treo 650. It only manages to sync with a computer right next to it half the time, so I can't imagine it causing many problems:-/
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Alternatively, form an agreement based on trust rather than on a carefully worded policy. I never have any trouble convincing my insurer to pay for claims. They believe what I claim and pay out in a timely and helpful manner. The reason they do this is that they are basically a nice bunch of people. I may pay more than the cheapest insurer offers, but my counter-argument to that is what is the point of insurance you cannot rely on? Also my insurer is quite restrictive about who they allow as customers and I know some people feel that background checks and the like violate their privacy. Personally I just see it as the same due dillegience anybody should do. Finally, I imagine that if you abuse the trust then they would boot you off as a customer very quickly too, possibly with litigation to boot if the dollars involved were particularly high.
Moral of the story: a good relationship is a much better assurance of good treatment than a watertight contract. This extends to most other areas of life too. In corporate America it is standard practice for two companies involved in a deal to have long complex contracts. In corporate Japan the contracts will be short and simple because each company would only have entered the deal if they believed the other company's reputation would prevent them being screwed over. If they didn't trust the other company they would either not do a deal or use the American approach.
70 degrees!? Assuming your drive is reporting correctly, you need to do something to cool that down - fans, adjusted airflow, passive cooling, etc. Anything over 40 degrees cuts down drive life and anything over 50 degrees is just asking for trouble. Peaking at 70, I'm surprised your drives are still running at all.
Create an array 1000x1000 or whatever depending on the resolution you want your final plot to be
Calculate the x,y point.
Scale that point to an x',y' point in the graph (1000x1000 or whatever)
Add one to every point near point near x',y'. If you're feeling flash, give a weighting to closer points.
Save the resulting array to a file
plot the resulting array using your favourite plotting tool (I used gnuplot).
The whole thing was just a couple hundred lines of C. I imagine it would've been easy to make it shorter if there had been a need. A good chunk of that code is the curses progress 'bar'
Tearing down a firewall is getting rid of it, and letting people access the internet freely. Circumventing a firewall is sneaking past it and hoping you don't get noticed.
To use a Berlin Wall analogy, what TFA is proposing is sneaking across to the West during the 80s and hoping to not be shot in the process. That contrasts quite strongly to tearing down the wall, which would be granting unrestricted access without fear of recrimination, as happened in Berlin in '89.
Yah, sorta... NZ has 14 day EPG via DVB-T thanks to TVNZ. Unfortunately the bozos that run TVNZ cannot generate valid EPG data to save themselves, making the data somewhat useless. Sky (no idea if it is the same company as Sky in the UK) can be picked up via DVB-S which will give you fairly decent unencrypted EPG and unencrypted FTA channels (and lots of encrypted channels).
Also a NZ Mythtv user...
:-(
TVNZ does send free EPG data over DVB-T (only available in Akl IIRC). Unfortunately, it is crap.
Sky however, sends unencrypted EPG over DVB-S that is of quite high quality. The reason that you cannot get it on your system is that it is copyright by sky so the people with it (anyone with a DVB-S card) cannot share it for long before sky shuts it down. However, any mythtv system with a DVB-S card in it can get sky's EPG data legally.
Sadly, you cannot decrypt sky using your DVB-S card because that breaks your licence agreement with sky... Even though you need a valid sky CAM card/account to be able to decrypt it. Pathetic huh?
The testers decided to set every fan to maximum. Unsurprisingly then, the biggest, gruntiest fan had the best cooling while being 'too loud'. The winning fans were basically the ones with a lower maximum.
I have a suggestion for the testers: Next time you're trying to compromise between noise and temperature, don't turn every fan on to maximum. Instead, decide a set temperature and measure noise levels when the CPU reaches that temperature.
$200/Mbis/month.
Actually, that's a pretty good rate, better than is offered here.
The geeks
Having used both Linspire and Gentoo, I can assure you that the setup Linspire gives you out-of-the-box is a LOT easier than you could achieve with Gentoo (short of rewriting practically everything). I think that Linspire is significantly easier to use than Ubuntu, though the ease-of-use does kill flexibility in a way it doesn't for Ubuntu (or Gentoo, naturally)
You have to think back to when sendmail was written.
There are many different protocols that it supported which are simply not used now. Sure, you can write a SMTP server in fewer lines of code, but I doubt you'd be able to write something that could handle all of the crazy protocols in use at the time (and was flexible enough to be modified for protocols not invented yet).
The grandparent's post already deals with the issues you raised. The diagrams, and the photos, are not porn because their primary role is not sexual arousal.
The painting could well be porn - just particularly artistic and abstract porn.
Commercials likewise are very unlikely to be porn because their primary purpose is almost certainly to sell you (non-porn).
The GP might not be the perfect definition of porn, but it looks like a very good one to me. I think your prinicpal concern with it (as raised by your advertising example) is that you're really after a filter on age-restricted content rather than a filter on porn.
Because there isn't a moderation category 'joke-bait'
I would much rather back up to DVD than tapes, and while various backup programs support this I have yet to find one that will cope if I want to back up more than 4.4GB.
I don't want anything fancy - just full and incremental backup. Yet every product seems to be designed either for single users backing up key documents to a single CD, or for enterprise users backing up terabytes of documents to expensive tape drives!
Disclaimer: I sell mythtv boxes
Most people want a pretty box, and many of the mini ITX cases meet that description. I think the mATX is quite small enough, but standard ATX just looks bulky. The last one I built used a Silverstone LC11M and I would say that's borderline too big.
500MHz - 1GHz is arguably a little slow, especially for the OSD. If you're recording a lot of TV, you might not be able to transcode overnight with that CPU either. I tend to use a 754-based sempron which is overkill but offers nice power features.
For the video card, it is quite handy if the card does xvmc - especially if you're still planning on going with a 1GHz CPU. It is essential that it does xv. This restricts it to a midrange geforce 4 or better. I really need to get around to checking if the 6150 does xvmc...
IR varies a whole heap in price depending on how pretty it is - a budget setup costs as little as $20 (you can even spend about $20 extra on your PVR150 to get the non OEM version with IR). Often the prettier cases, such as the aforementioned LC11M, have built in IR too. The Microsoft remote is $100 for a three pack from memory. Another alternative is the ATI which uses radio instead of IR. If you're feeling rich, then something like the logitech harmony will set you back $250.
Seems gcc has got smarter
test.c:1:9: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or
test.c: In function 'main':
test.c:4: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
There's this thing called packages.... they bundle software together to prevent clobbering files. Very handy. I wonder if windows will ever support them?
Yep, drop the monitor and add XP home... you'll end up paying more than a mac... http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ppleStore.woa/72802/wo/gE3NJN0RNT3g3jgMuIi1a9vd3vy /2.?p=0
I guess Macintosh computers are cheaper than even the ultimate budget box now...
While Nvidia's closed-source drivers are clearly better than ATI's, the opposite is true of the open-source drivers. If you are looking to build a system without binary drivers, or are using non-x86 and so cannot use the provided drivers, then you're better off going with ATI.
I imagine this is no coincidence, how many people can be bothered working on the nv driver when the nvidia driver works so well... But it does worry me how easily we have come to accept binary drivers now that they work so reliably for 90% of the users.
They're available, just look for 'class 1' radio devices instead of 'class 2'. This is the one I got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16833124143
there is one out already! Good specs, nice looking. Pretty much everything you want in a cell-phone.
NEC makes it, the N91 or something, I forget the model number.
It won't be sold outside Japan.
Given the bandwidth and reliability of bluetooth, why not instead blanket the building with wifi accesspoints and use them to route local voice traffic? It is a) easier, b) cheaper and c) more reliable.
Every bluetooth device I have (dynalink adaptor, linksys adaptor, treo, sony phone, apple keyboard, microsoft mouse, headset) has stuffed up on numerous occasions. The computer wakes from sleep, and the keyboard cannot be reconnected; the bluetooth settings stuff up, and you have to use the mouse to fix them; the 100m range turns out to be less than 10m at times; every second sync on my treo results in 'port in use'; and the headset is fairly reliable, but not 100%.
Overall, bluetooth looks to me like a protocol that just isn't working yet. Maybe the new bluetooth 2.0 will be better, or maybe I'll have to wait for wifi-LP (I just made that up). Certainly, I wouldn't want to base a company's telephone infrastructure on it.
Not to have technical skills...
;-)
Now, having technical skills is helpful, especially in order to pick up on slackers in the IT staff and avoid getting suckered by sales reps. However, his principal role is to keep you lot solving the problems. That's why MBAs have managed to survive in fields they know nothing about.
Since your boss will be less aware of technical implications, you will need to practice keeping him informed at a largely non-technical level. Consider it good practice for you next job where you're the IT boss and you're reporting to people who don't know IT.
Basically, as long as he's ok to work with, it doesn't matter. Or, as another poster said "Leave, now!" -- oh, and what's your boss's phone number?
I've still got mine discoverable. I hesitated about it, but it does save a bit of hassle every time I want to peer with another computer and nothing has abused it yet ... The main abuse is in detecting it, and since I keep it in my pocket, I can't see how knowing which particular model of cellphone I have will really help people.
:-/
My wife's cellphone also has it enabled because that was the default and I didn't feel like explaining the potential security risks to her.
Besides, bluetooth is practically broken on the treo 650. It only manages to sync with a computer right next to it half the time, so I can't imagine it causing many problems
Most web users now seem to tolerate PDF files, and exporting from word to PDF is much more reliable than exporting from word to HTML.
As a solution goes, it is pretty crude. However, it works quickly and easly, and produces nice looking output.