To which Bill replied: 'I'll have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.
This pretty much explains everything. They're going to do what they did with IE7 to IE8, they're going to F*** -it up!
-goran
I have to side with teaching the concepts rather than focusing on the software. One of my biggest complaints about most people that enter the workforce is that they think they know everything because they know how to use a piece of software. Dreamweaver is one of those things that really is a pain in my side. All too often I see "programmers" that claim to know how to program, but if it isn't preloaded in Dreamweaver they're dead in the water because they can't write code for Sh*t.
I know that it's a useful program but to base a career on the use of a single program is nuts. Every company I've worked for has had a different software package that they used. By all means the theory and concepts over the software is the best choice.
What about all those movie story lines where they show them on a pay-phone or in a phone booth?
Talk about an end of an era!
It was bad enough when Superman lost his changing room, but now to have lost them all together...
Now where are people going to steal phone book pages from?!
I stumbled across this one day walking through Best Buy. (www.mirra.com)
Its a simple box that plugs into your network and makes copies of any folder that you designate as being copied to the mirra drive. Included in the price of the drive is one disaster recovery of data which is nice should the drive ever fail. It also allows you to access your data through their web interface so you can always have your data even when you're not home.
Cost was well within my budget and has never been a problem.
However I remember hearing something about their data being so well backed up that even in case of a direct nuclear strike they stated they would only be down for a day or two at most.
I just wish my bank had such a good game plan.
It still takes them 3-9 days to post a check I deposit and have all the money available to me.
As odd as it sounds a "pay as you go" phone like TracFone might be just what you're looking for. (http://www.tracfone.com/) Its a prepaid wireless phone you can find in stores like Target. The coverage is average but the cell life is great. I needed a phone but didn't want any long term contracts and didn't want/need all the rest of the fud. There are several models, but I got the Motorola V170. Works great and since I don't use it that much, (hardly ever) the 120 minutes I bought with the phone lasted almost four months. Mostly its a way for my wife to reach me when I'm not home (leash) or in case of emergency. Check it out. It might solve the problem for you.
-Goran
Okay, so he admits one or more of his kids "broke the law" and downloaded music "illegally."
He then says that a "after a stern talking-to, his children have suffered the full consequences of their actions."
What I want to know is are they still listening to the music they downloaded or did they replace the illegal copies with legit ones?
As a parent myself, I can talk to my kid till I'm blue in the face but unless I take away the offending toy he's still going to play with it. I think its pretty safe to say that his kid(s) is/are still listening to the illegal downloads. Just goes to show that if you have money and power you get a different version of justice applied to you.
Seems to me that if I did the same as Mr. Bronfman, I'd be looking at a lawsuit.
My gut reaction is one of, "Shut up, suck it up, and do the job. Morals have no business in the workplace. You are a paid employee/droid that is given a task to complete. So do it. Have your morals on your time not the company's."
On the other hand, when I found myself in a moral dilemma seeing one account executive stealing supplies, software, and property from the company, an account supervisor rigging a winning spot in a contest for her niece that our company ran for a large restaurant chain, I made the choice to stand up and speak out. While they thanked me for speaking up, and "looked into the matter", it became clear that I wasted my breath.
That is until I was "downsized", and a couple of months later so was the thief. The account supervisor got her hands slapped and was taken off that account.
So it's really your choice. For me, I'd love to go back and tell myself to STFU and keep my head down.
When the mail server gets an incoming email, it sends a request back to the "sending" email server listed in the headers. Since most spam is sent with falsified headers, the reply from the "sending" email server will respond that no mail was sent. Then my host mail server simply dev/nulls the spam. In the case of real mail, the sending server responds that it did indeed send the mail and my host then delivers it.
The only troubles I've run into are servers that don't support "sender verify". If the email doesn't get a verification message, its returned to the sender. Oddly enough, of the servers I've found that don't support "sender verify" they have been IIS servers. While there are still other IIS servers that do support it, I find it interesting that most of the servers not running IIS seem to have this feature turned on.
The nice thing about it is 90% of the spam never reaches a mailbox, and the filters from Spam Assassin catch the rest. This also removes the image only spam.
I worked for a small website design company (60 employees) a few years back taking care of site statistics and site updates for a number of our clients. As we were upgrading to a new stats package I needed access to the server room to configure the package directly. While doing so I came across a cron job set up by the sysadmin for the owner of the company. At several times each day the server would reach out to every employees email client and download their mail box (eudora). There was another cron that would then burn a copy of the downloaded mailboxs to CD. Everyday I saw the sysadmin take the CD's and hand them over to the owner.
It turned out that the owner went through everyones mail at night and used the information to either promote, suspend or fire employees. She was a real peach of an employer. After a small "accident" in the server room it seemed that the entire process was removed from the server as well as the back-up tapes (ooops!). Knowing that someone and found out what was going on, a different approach to grab the email was set-up. Most of us had enough sense to use other email accounts to talk openly and to avoid having anything in our email that might cost us our jobs.
Over the last 6 years the company has shrunk down to less than 12 employees and half of them only work 3-4 days a week.
Personally I think that any employer that has to stoop this low to spy on their employees should go out of business. But if this sort of tactic is needed to protect the company and it's products, a third party company should be the ones reading the mail and making the call about what is or isn't "actionable" conduct.
Frankly this doesn't bother me. I try not to use the USPS whenever possible. With the troubles I've had with my mail carrier and the amount of mail that has simply gone missing it wouldn't break my heart if they lost enough money to be put out of business or sold off to a private company.
In the last five years, my carrier goes home if the weather gets bad. This includes rain, wind and snow. When I asked at the local post office about the policy of quitting service in bad weather, I was told by the postmaster that "He doesn't feel that safety of his carriers should be put at risk just to deliver mail."
I would much rather see FedEx, DSL, or UPS begin a general mail service and compete with the USPS. If one of them did, I know of one route that would jump at the chance to switch.
Goran
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I was learning how to code and learning my craft when I filed for divorce back in 1997 after nine years of marrige. But then I was also married to a golddigging, lying, cheating bitch at the time so I don't know if that had anything to do with it either. Wife number two is a gazillion times better and my partner in the graphics and webdesign company we now run out of our home. She does the pretty artwork, and I make it into a working website. It's the best of both worlds. I get to work at a job I love, with my wife and I don't have to put up with the usual office politics and bullsh**. Frankly, my stress level is nearly zero and I have time for my son (with #2, none with #1 thank the gods!).
Just my two bits on the subject
Goran
I heard about this kind of armor 10 years ago. Only it was found in high-priced motorcycle clothing. One of my friends had just bought a new zoom-splat, and was excited buy the new "geek biker" clothes he had also bought. The jacket and gloves he bought had a similar putty inside them that would harden on impact.
We offered to test the system by beating on him with a bat, but he declined.
-Goran
(even people who are otherwise upstanding citizens, but just ask some of the wrong questions)
What would be an example of a "wrong question" that would result in an "otherwise upstanding citizen" not being sold a gun?
"What is the most effective gun for killing people?" or "What guns can penetrate body armor?"
Shouldn't the question be more like "What is the most effective Amunition for killing people" and "What Amunition can penetrate body armor?" After all its the bullet coming out of the gun and not just the gun.
If you will remember, I said I only work about 3 hours a day. Most days I work a little more than that. But far less than a regular job, and having to put in 8 hours or more. Frankly, having a work day only take up part of the day makes for a very restful life and far less stress. I also spend some time on weekends working since many of my clients are small businesses and they only are able meet with me on the weekends.
I got "laid-off" (canned) in July of 2004 from my $45K job for a ad agency in Milwaukee where I worked as a web developer. I spent a couple months looking for work for another company before I hung out my shingle and started working for myself. Before I got paid about $20/hour, now I charge $80/hour and snap up the clients my former employer turns away because "they don't have the budget" that can afford their $120-160/hour.
I should hit $100k this year, and I only have to work about 3hours a day to make it work. I spend tons of time with my son, wife, and get to do all the home improvement projects I want. Take it from me, break the chains and go work for yourself. Getting "laid-off" was the best promotion I ever got.
Ballmer has been a jackass for more than 15 years. Big surprise. I did notice that the price for windows was $99.00USD. Nice to see that they've held firm to one price structure for the last 15 years. (:p)
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This pretty much explains everything. They're going to do what they did with IE7 to IE8, they're going to F*** -it up!
-goran
I have to side with teaching the concepts rather than focusing on the software. One of my biggest complaints about most people that enter the workforce is that they think they know everything because they know how to use a piece of software. Dreamweaver is one of those things that really is a pain in my side. All too often I see "programmers" that claim to know how to program, but if it isn't preloaded in Dreamweaver they're dead in the water because they can't write code for Sh*t.
I know that it's a useful program but to base a career on the use of a single program is nuts. Every company I've worked for has had a different software package that they used. By all means the theory and concepts over the software is the best choice.
-Goran
What about all those movie story lines where they show them on a pay-phone or in a phone booth?
Talk about an end of an era!
It was bad enough when Superman lost his changing room, but now to have lost them all together...
Now where are people going to steal phone book pages from?!
It truly is a sad day indeed.
-Goran
How long will it be before a student hacks their laptop and either makes it dual boot or launches their own DDOS attack against their classmates?
Should we begin the online pool?
-Goran
Was the test given before or after the students had a kegger?
It might explain the chimps score.
I stumbled across this one day walking through Best Buy. (www.mirra.com)
Its a simple box that plugs into your network and makes copies of any folder that you designate as being copied to the mirra drive. Included in the price of the drive is one disaster recovery of data which is nice should the drive ever fail. It also allows you to access your data through their web interface so you can always have your data even when you're not home.
Cost was well within my budget and has never been a problem.
-Goran
I'd love to have them lose my records.
However I remember hearing something about their data being so well backed up that even in case of a direct nuclear strike they stated they would only be down for a day or two at most.
I just wish my bank had such a good game plan.
It still takes them 3-9 days to post a check I deposit and have all the money available to me.
-Goran
This explains my ex-wife and her parents!
I knew there was something different about them!
-Goran
His computer dual booted to four distros of Linux and no Win OS.
His web browser was Firefox.
His mail program was gmail.
His Office suite was Star Office.
His personal website ran PHP and Apache on a Sun box.
His cell phone was an iPhone.
He told Ballmer he was "just a stupid little panty waste".
I figure any one of those would get you canned...
As odd as it sounds a "pay as you go" phone like TracFone might be just what you're looking for. (http://www.tracfone.com/) Its a prepaid wireless phone you can find in stores like Target. The coverage is average but the cell life is great. I needed a phone but didn't want any long term contracts and didn't want/need all the rest of the fud. There are several models, but I got the Motorola V170. Works great and since I don't use it that much, (hardly ever) the 120 minutes I bought with the phone lasted almost four months. Mostly its a way for my wife to reach me when I'm not home (leash) or in case of emergency. Check it out. It might solve the problem for you. -Goran
Does this mean I can go and have printed and bound, a book of vintage porn?
Just wondering...
-Goran
Okay, so he admits one or more of his kids "broke the law" and downloaded music "illegally."
He then says that a "after a stern talking-to, his children have suffered the full consequences of their actions."
What I want to know is are they still listening to the music they downloaded or did they replace the illegal copies with legit ones?
As a parent myself, I can talk to my kid till I'm blue in the face but unless I take away the offending toy he's still going to play with it. I think its pretty safe to say that his kid(s) is/are still listening to the illegal downloads. Just goes to show that if you have money and power you get a different version of justice applied to you.
Seems to me that if I did the same as Mr. Bronfman, I'd be looking at a lawsuit.
-Goran
My gut reaction is one of, "Shut up, suck it up, and do the job. Morals have no business in the workplace. You are a paid employee/droid that is given a task to complete. So do it. Have your morals on your time not the company's."
On the other hand, when I found myself in a moral dilemma seeing one account executive stealing supplies, software, and property from the company, an account supervisor rigging a winning spot in a contest for her niece that our company ran for a large restaurant chain, I made the choice to stand up and speak out. While they thanked me for speaking up, and "looked into the matter", it became clear that I wasted my breath.
That is until I was "downsized", and a couple of months later so was the thief. The account supervisor got her hands slapped and was taken off that account.
So it's really your choice. For me, I'd love to go back and tell myself to STFU and keep my head down.
That's my two cents.
-Goran
They use "sender verify" on the mail server.
When the mail server gets an incoming email, it sends a request back to the "sending" email server listed in the headers. Since most spam is sent with falsified headers, the reply from the "sending" email server will respond that no mail was sent. Then my host mail server simply dev/nulls the spam. In the case of real mail, the sending server responds that it did indeed send the mail and my host then delivers it.
The only troubles I've run into are servers that don't support "sender verify". If the email doesn't get a verification message, its returned to the sender. Oddly enough, of the servers I've found that don't support "sender verify" they have been IIS servers. While there are still other IIS servers that do support it, I find it interesting that most of the servers not running IIS seem to have this feature turned on.
The nice thing about it is 90% of the spam never reaches a mailbox, and the filters from Spam Assassin catch the rest. This also removes the image only spam.
-Goran
I wonder if anyone would notice or complain if Cowboy Neal suddenly won all the political races... Just a thought.
I worked for a small website design company (60 employees) a few years back taking care of site statistics and site updates for a number of our clients. As we were upgrading to a new stats package I needed access to the server room to configure the package directly. While doing so I came across a cron job set up by the sysadmin for the owner of the company. At several times each day the server would reach out to every employees email client and download their mail box (eudora). There was another cron that would then burn a copy of the downloaded mailboxs to CD. Everyday I saw the sysadmin take the CD's and hand them over to the owner.
It turned out that the owner went through everyones mail at night and used the information to either promote, suspend or fire employees. She was a real peach of an employer. After a small "accident" in the server room it seemed that the entire process was removed from the server as well as the back-up tapes (ooops!). Knowing that someone and found out what was going on, a different approach to grab the email was set-up. Most of us had enough sense to use other email accounts to talk openly and to avoid having anything in our email that might cost us our jobs.
Over the last 6 years the company has shrunk down to less than 12 employees and half of them only work 3-4 days a week.
Personally I think that any employer that has to stoop this low to spy on their employees should go out of business. But if this sort of tactic is needed to protect the company and it's products, a third party company should be the ones reading the mail and making the call about what is or isn't "actionable" conduct.
Just my two cents on the subject.
- Goran
Frankly this doesn't bother me. I try not to use the USPS whenever possible. With the troubles I've had with my mail carrier and the amount of mail that has simply gone missing it wouldn't break my heart if they lost enough money to be put out of business or sold off to a private company. In the last five years, my carrier goes home if the weather gets bad. This includes rain, wind and snow. When I asked at the local post office about the policy of quitting service in bad weather, I was told by the postmaster that "He doesn't feel that safety of his carriers should be put at risk just to deliver mail." I would much rather see FedEx, DSL, or UPS begin a general mail service and compete with the USPS. If one of them did, I know of one route that would jump at the chance to switch. Goran
I was learning how to code and learning my craft when I filed for divorce back in 1997 after nine years of marrige. But then I was also married to a golddigging, lying, cheating bitch at the time so I don't know if that had anything to do with it either. Wife number two is a gazillion times better and my partner in the graphics and webdesign company we now run out of our home. She does the pretty artwork, and I make it into a working website. It's the best of both worlds. I get to work at a job I love, with my wife and I don't have to put up with the usual office politics and bullsh**. Frankly, my stress level is nearly zero and I have time for my son (with #2, none with #1 thank the gods!). Just my two bits on the subject Goran
I heard about this kind of armor 10 years ago. Only it was found in high-priced motorcycle clothing. One of my friends had just bought a new zoom-splat, and was excited buy the new "geek biker" clothes he had also bought. The jacket and gloves he bought had a similar putty inside them that would harden on impact. We offered to test the system by beating on him with a bat, but he declined. -Goran
I for one applaud the efforts of our FBI Overlords and welcome more news like this in the future.
-Goran
(even people who are otherwise upstanding citizens, but just ask some of the wrong questions)
What would be an example of a "wrong question" that would result in an "otherwise upstanding citizen" not being sold a gun?
"What is the most effective gun for killing people?" or "What guns can penetrate body armor?"
Shouldn't the question be more like "What is the most effective Amunition for killing people" and "What Amunition can penetrate body armor?" After all its the bullet coming out of the gun and not just the gun.
Just my two cents.
-Goran
If you will remember, I said I only work about 3 hours a day. Most days I work a little more than that. But far less than a regular job, and having to put in 8 hours or more. Frankly, having a work day only take up part of the day makes for a very restful life and far less stress. I also spend some time on weekends working since many of my clients are small businesses and they only are able meet with me on the weekends.
-Goran
I got "laid-off" (canned) in July of 2004 from my $45K job for a ad agency in Milwaukee where I worked as a web developer. I spent a couple months looking for work for another company before I hung out my shingle and started working for myself. Before I got paid about $20/hour, now I charge $80/hour and snap up the clients my former employer turns away because "they don't have the budget" that can afford their $120-160/hour.
I should hit $100k this year, and I only have to work about 3hours a day to make it work. I spend tons of time with my son, wife, and get to do all the home improvement projects I want. Take it from me, break the chains and go work for yourself. Getting "laid-off" was the best promotion I ever got.
-Goran
This was written a few years ago by a friend of mine . He thought it was a great way to express the business plan of the company we both worked for.
We often joked about using it in real work. Has anyone ever used something similar to show job dissatisfaction?
function develop (newIdea);
if (newIdea == yourIdea && newIdea > jorisIdea){
get (swiftKickInTheAss);
} else if (newIdea.mentioned (toJori) && newIdea != jorisIdea){
get (swiftKickInTheAss);
selfWorth = null;
set var (newIdea) = jorisIdea;
delete spine;
develop (newIdea){ ? (yourJob = CompanyName);
}
-Goran
Ballmer has been a jackass for more than 15 years. Big surprise. I did notice that the price for windows was $99.00USD. Nice to see that they've held firm to one price structure for the last 15 years. (:p)
-Goran