Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but sattelite radio is an excellent alternative. You get to listen to what they pick on each channel, but there is lots of interesting content.
I picked up a Sirius radio a couple of months ago and I love it. 60 channels of commercial free music, and 40 channels of talk/news (including the Discovery channel). XM is a couple of dollars less per month, but XM is mostly owned by ClearChannel (aka Satan), and they have commercials. A friend of mine has XM, and she says it gets pretty repetitive. I haven't noticed any repetition with Sirius.
I just took a several hundred mile trip, and it's the first time I didn't bring any CD's with. I didn't need them, the satellite radio worked perfectly and had plenty of content to keep me happy.
Another cool thing you'll notice about it is that you hear music and find out about artists you otherwise wouldn't have heard of. I've purchased a lot of music from the iTunes music store because of this.
How are VoIP phones more expensive than wiring for Cat3 and *still* buying phones that work with your PBX?
The Cisco VoIP phones can be had for around $400 each, a phone for a Definity PBX is $480. Plus, with VoIP, you don't have the added expense of running more wire, you just use your network. 3com makes a system that is dirt cheap and works excellent. Office of about 25 people, it uses the existing network, and cost about $7k, much less than any Nortel or Siemens PBX would run.
Just make sure you go voice over IP. It sounds like you'll be the one supporting it, and being a sysadmin, you'll be much more at home supporting a VoIP system. This seems to be where the industry is moving anyway.
Asterisk is not that complicated, and it's nice because you can pretty much use any VoIP phone with it you want. There used to be another one out there, opensource. The project was started by a Cisco voip engineer, but I couldn't find it about a month or so ago when I was looking for something for home to play with my 802.11b voip phone. The story about it was posted on slashdot sometime last year or the year before, does anyone remember what it was?
When are they going to make the dock useful like the windowmaker dock? It has some neat visual effects, but all it really does is act like a half-assed task bar right now.
Yes, there is a frontend, and the GUI for PPTP and IPSec both support SecurID. However, it appears that NAT-T is *not* supported.
Don't know about the search in Mail.app. But the threading support is half-baked. It only groups based on subject, so all those emails you have with a subject of "RE: hey" get grouped together, whether they are part of the same conversation or not.
X11 is still as standalone as it was before. It would be nice if it started automatically if it detected a program trying to use X.
Many of my geek friends are into cars, including me. It can get very expensive. Once you start squeezing more power out of your motor, you don't want to stop.
Most people I know have DSM's (Eclipses and Talons). Although, some of them have been buying VW GTI's, and I just bought an S4. German car parts are about 6 times more expensive than parts for the DSM, it's insanity.
But, there's a lot of theory behind making your turbocharged car go faster, and there is a lot of cool things you can come up with to get more power.
As far as hair coloring goes, I used to frost mine heavily, and it didn't seem to affect the type of jobs I was able to get, including one with a stuffy financial institution.
Visible tattoo's and piercings though... The only places I've seen people with those hired are trendy companies (ad agencies and web companies, both places where I've worked). The stuffy corporate places seem to frown upon that sort of thing, mostly because of the HR dept. I would assume any company that has the HR dept interview you would be likely to not like body art.
Ad agencies and web companies are definitely a different sort of environment and for the most part don't seem to care. Maybe they just like cool people.
It makes sense that a company would look for people that fit in. Most people who work for big corporate places are married, kids, mid 30's to early 50's. Ad agencies and web companies seem to be mostly 20 somethings.
As a mathematician, you would likely have more options at a big corporate empire. You could hold off on the body art until you get hired, and then bust out the needle and ink once you get your nice cozy corporate cubicle of hell. Or, you could do it now, but expect some prejudice when interviewing.
So sitting in front of my monitor until 10pm is like going to bed at 2am. Now when my employer makes me work late and I'm more tired than I should be the next day, I can blame it on them.:)
Ice cream is churned for a long time because it breaks down the membrane surrounding the fat globules. By making it in 30 seconds, it's not breaking down the membrane producing just frozen dairy slush.
Now I can record the 20 minutes of commercials an hour and the same 4 songs that are repeated all day long. Now the only question that remains is... Which station do I want to record the same 4 songs from?
How is this any different from turning valves on a bigger than design carborator? Give me a break. If you program your computer wrong, your engine won't work, but I doubt it will explode or burn up.
If you program your fuel curves too lean, you WILL burn holes in your pistons. I've seen several guys do it on their DSM's and 3000GT's. Additionally, when modifying turbocharged cars, you need to be careful that you don't run out of fuel because of small injectors or a weak fuel pump. The Eclipse can run up to about 14psi of boost before you need to replace the fuel pump, but the stock turbo will supply somewhere around 21psi. I ran 19psi on mine, but I had an aftermarket fuel pump.
Anyway, trust me, running your engine too lean will burn holes in your pistons. Just search the mail archives on dsm.org or the 3s mailing list.
Litestep is interesting, but I've had more problems with it than anything else. I haven't used it for about a year and a half, but I tried to find it a month or two ago, and I couldn't find a download site. It looked as if development on it had stopped for some time and was getting started up again. Maybe I'll try it again, but I've been trying to ditch windows completely and move to linux on my work machine. Unfortunately, I have to use so many custom apps (time tracking, ticketing systems, etc) that it's hard for me to get away from windows completely. Most of it is changing to web based apps, so this shouldn't be much of an issue anymore.
The pager in FVWM is the epitome of how a pager should be.
FVWM was the first WM I ever used (on SunOS back in the early 90's). I absolutely hated the pager, but I didn't know how to turn it off. After about 2 weeks of it, I can't live without it now. All of my boxes, OSX (VirtualDesktop), Windows(JSPager), Linux(crappy KDE pager), they all have one now. But, none of them even come close to fvwm's.
Couldn't you just set up a second ip on your box and use ipfw to NAT incoming connections to it? That way it will look like the streaming request is coming from your local server. Isn't technology neat?
When I moved into my house, there were mice everywhere. After about a month of the cats ripping everything out of my kitchen cupboards every night, there are no more mice. Good kitty.
My parents live on a farm, and in high school I had a ferret. His name was Jaws. Jaws liked to run around in the yard and explore all of the buildings. The mice quickly disappeared from there also. Except, I think an owl or a hawk got Jaws one day because he never came back. Now there are mice again. Maybe the cat got him too, but they always seemed all buddy-buddy when I was around them. Maybe it was like when I beat up on my little brother and my parents walked in, we pretended to be best friends, and as soon as they left I would start torturing him again.
Certifications are BS for the most part, but people looking through resumes and doing the hiring don't know any better, so it looks great on your resume.
I was unemployed for 3 months, and I wish I would have taken the time to get my CCIE. I'm studying for it right now, and it's a pain in the ass between that and work.
Other than that, I spent an hour or two each morning looking for jobs to apply for, and spent the rest of each hanging out with my other unemployed friends at coffee shops and did some people watching. I read some books, I cleaned my house, worked on my yard, and relaxed.
You only get probably a couple of chances in life to really enjoy yourself, and this is one of those times. Just make sure you actually spend a bit of time each day looking for another job, because if your unemployment runs out, the fun is all over.
The spanish flu kill something like 15 million people, and it's mortality rate was around 2.5%. SARS mortality rate is more than 4%, even with our modern medicine and technology. If a cure/vaccination isn't found for it, it has the potential to spread as rampantly as the spanish flu did and have an even worse death toll. There are more densely populated areas now than there were in the early 1900's also, so it will likely spread to many more people than the spanish flu did, especially when you take into account how much more travelling people do now than they did almost 100 years ago.
The only reason it hasn't spread that fast now is because we recognized the threat fairly early on and are trying to contain it as best as possible. That's not really working as it's still spreading, and it is very likely that we will reach a point where it can no longer be contained. We need to find a cure or a vaccination before this happens.
I read an article awhile back, don't remember where, but it said that the vikings inhabited Iceland a long time ago. The climate there at the time was warm enough for them to have large field of grapes and they ran wineries.
Or maybe it was Greenland. Either way, that sort of climate was definitely warmer than it is now. It's kind of interesting to see all of the viking heritage stuff in Iceland. I strongly suggest taking a trip there if you haven't before. Plane tix and hotels are cheap (food and drink is not though), and the people are amazingly friendly. I had an excellent time there.
Umm, even with a 40% discount, Cisco is quite high on their pricing, and this is going to raise their prices even more.
Take a look around, check out some specs on other manufacturers hardware. You'll be surprised at what you find.
I still buy Cisco, because it's not my money I'm spending. However, you bet your ass that if it was, I'd be looking elsewhere. I bought some non-cisco equipment before and it was nicer to use, cheaper, and performed much better.
Check out some of the Extreme and Foundry equipment. Foundry is dirt cheap for their upper end equipment, and is right on par performance-wise with Cisco. There's some firewall company started by some ex-cisco guys and some intel guys. I forgot the name now, but I remember looking at them and they were way better than the PIX.
Why would anyone but government agencies see this eavesdropping stuff as a feature and want to pay for it?
You work in the IT industry, it doesn't mean you have a ton of cash, but it's likely you're doing well. Hire yourself a money manager.
You probably work long hours, and the last thing you want to do is spend your weekends pouring over paperwork and crunching numbers. Pay someone else to do it, go enjoy your life.
I don't have one yet, but I will soon. I've signed up for paytrust.com and they handle all of my bills and such, I haven't even seen a bill in my mailbox for 3 years. It really helped a ton. Plus, you'll notice that your stress level goes way down when you don't have to worry about the stuff.
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Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but sattelite radio is an excellent alternative. You get to listen to what they pick on each channel, but there is lots of interesting content.
I picked up a Sirius radio a couple of months ago and I love it. 60 channels of commercial free music, and 40 channels of talk/news (including the Discovery channel). XM is a couple of dollars less per month, but XM is mostly owned by ClearChannel (aka Satan), and they have commercials. A friend of mine has XM, and she says it gets pretty repetitive. I haven't noticed any repetition with Sirius.
I just took a several hundred mile trip, and it's the first time I didn't bring any CD's with. I didn't need them, the satellite radio worked perfectly and had plenty of content to keep me happy.
Another cool thing you'll notice about it is that you hear music and find out about artists you otherwise wouldn't have heard of. I've purchased a lot of music from the iTunes music store because of this.
How are VoIP phones more expensive than wiring for Cat3 and *still* buying phones that work with your PBX?
The Cisco VoIP phones can be had for around $400 each, a phone for a Definity PBX is $480. Plus, with VoIP, you don't have the added expense of running more wire, you just use your network. 3com makes a system that is dirt cheap and works excellent. Office of about 25 people, it uses the existing network, and cost about $7k, much less than any Nortel or Siemens PBX would run.
Why do all of their antennas have a white flag on them?
Holy Christ! It's fucking pop-up hell. That's annoying. Once you close all of the damn pop-ups, it's a nice site though. :)
Just make sure you go voice over IP. It sounds like you'll be the one supporting it, and being a sysadmin, you'll be much more at home supporting a VoIP system. This seems to be where the industry is moving anyway.
Asterisk is not that complicated, and it's nice because you can pretty much use any VoIP phone with it you want. There used to be another one out there, opensource. The project was started by a Cisco voip engineer, but I couldn't find it about a month or so ago when I was looking for something for home to play with my 802.11b voip phone. The story about it was posted on slashdot sometime last year or the year before, does anyone remember what it was?
When are they going to make the dock useful like the windowmaker dock? It has some neat visual effects, but all it really does is act like a half-assed task bar right now.
Yes, there is a frontend, and the GUI for PPTP and IPSec both support SecurID. However, it appears that NAT-T is *not* supported.
Don't know about the search in Mail.app. But the threading support is half-baked. It only groups based on subject, so all those emails you have with a subject of "RE: hey" get grouped together, whether they are part of the same conversation or not.
X11 is still as standalone as it was before. It would be nice if it started automatically if it detected a program trying to use X.
I thought it said PornPorn for a second. Then all of hopes were dashed.
At first, I was like "Sweet! I've always wanted a furry little animal with a long tail and monkey-like qualities!"
But then I realized I was thinking about a Lemur. When will someone release a Lemur machine?
Many of my geek friends are into cars, including me. It can get very expensive. Once you start squeezing more power out of your motor, you don't want to stop.
Most people I know have DSM's (Eclipses and Talons). Although, some of them have been buying VW GTI's, and I just bought an S4. German car parts are about 6 times more expensive than parts for the DSM, it's insanity.
But, there's a lot of theory behind making your turbocharged car go faster, and there is a lot of cool things you can come up with to get more power.
As far as hair coloring goes, I used to frost mine heavily, and it didn't seem to affect the type of jobs I was able to get, including one with a stuffy financial institution.
Visible tattoo's and piercings though... The only places I've seen people with those hired are trendy companies (ad agencies and web companies, both places where I've worked). The stuffy corporate places seem to frown upon that sort of thing, mostly because of the HR dept. I would assume any company that has the HR dept interview you would be likely to not like body art.
Ad agencies and web companies are definitely a different sort of environment and for the most part don't seem to care. Maybe they just like cool people.
It makes sense that a company would look for people that fit in. Most people who work for big corporate places are married, kids, mid 30's to early 50's. Ad agencies and web companies seem to be mostly 20 somethings.
As a mathematician, you would likely have more options at a big corporate empire. You could hold off on the body art until you get hired, and then bust out the needle and ink once you get your nice cozy corporate cubicle of hell. Or, you could do it now, but expect some prejudice when interviewing.
So sitting in front of my monitor until 10pm is like going to bed at 2am. Now when my employer makes me work late and I'm more tired than I should be the next day, I can blame it on them. :)
Ice cream is churned for a long time because it breaks down the membrane surrounding the fat globules. By making it in 30 seconds, it's not breaking down the membrane producing just frozen dairy slush.
Now I can record the 20 minutes of commercials an hour and the same 4 songs that are repeated all day long. Now the only question that remains is... Which station do I want to record the same 4 songs from?
How is this any different from turning valves on a bigger than design carborator? Give me a break. If you program your computer wrong, your engine won't work, but I doubt it will explode or burn up.
If you program your fuel curves too lean, you WILL burn holes in your pistons. I've seen several guys do it on their DSM's and 3000GT's. Additionally, when modifying turbocharged cars, you need to be careful that you don't run out of fuel because of small injectors or a weak fuel pump. The Eclipse can run up to about 14psi of boost before you need to replace the fuel pump, but the stock turbo will supply somewhere around 21psi. I ran 19psi on mine, but I had an aftermarket fuel pump.
Anyway, trust me, running your engine too lean will burn holes in your pistons. Just search the mail archives on dsm.org or the 3s mailing list.
Litestep is interesting, but I've had more problems with it than anything else. I haven't used it for about a year and a half, but I tried to find it a month or two ago, and I couldn't find a download site. It looked as if development on it had stopped for some time and was getting started up again. Maybe I'll try it again, but I've been trying to ditch windows completely and move to linux on my work machine. Unfortunately, I have to use so many custom apps (time tracking, ticketing systems, etc) that it's hard for me to get away from windows completely. Most of it is changing to web based apps, so this shouldn't be much of an issue anymore.
The pager in FVWM is the epitome of how a pager should be.
FVWM was the first WM I ever used (on SunOS back in the early 90's). I absolutely hated the pager, but I didn't know how to turn it off. After about 2 weeks of it, I can't live without it now. All of my boxes, OSX (VirtualDesktop), Windows(JSPager), Linux(crappy KDE pager), they all have one now. But, none of them even come close to fvwm's.
Couldn't you just set up a second ip on your box and use ipfw to NAT incoming connections to it? That way it will look like the streaming request is coming from your local server. Isn't technology neat?
When I moved into my house, there were mice everywhere. After about a month of the cats ripping everything out of my kitchen cupboards every night, there are no more mice. Good kitty.
My parents live on a farm, and in high school I had a ferret. His name was Jaws. Jaws liked to run around in the yard and explore all of the buildings. The mice quickly disappeared from there also. Except, I think an owl or a hawk got Jaws one day because he never came back. Now there are mice again. Maybe the cat got him too, but they always seemed all buddy-buddy when I was around them. Maybe it was like when I beat up on my little brother and my parents walked in, we pretended to be best friends, and as soon as they left I would start torturing him again.
Certifications are BS for the most part, but people looking through resumes and doing the hiring don't know any better, so it looks great on your resume.
I was unemployed for 3 months, and I wish I would have taken the time to get my CCIE. I'm studying for it right now, and it's a pain in the ass between that and work.
Other than that, I spent an hour or two each morning looking for jobs to apply for, and spent the rest of each hanging out with my other unemployed friends at coffee shops and did some people watching. I read some books, I cleaned my house, worked on my yard, and relaxed.
You only get probably a couple of chances in life to really enjoy yourself, and this is one of those times. Just make sure you actually spend a bit of time each day looking for another job, because if your unemployment runs out, the fun is all over.
D-link makes a video conferencing device. No link now, but they reviewed it on Ars Technica awhile back. Go look, it's neat, and only $300 or so.
Polycom units work great, but they are expensive. Make sure you use QoS in your routers or you're going to have problems.
The spanish flu kill something like 15 million people, and it's mortality rate was around 2.5%. SARS mortality rate is more than 4%, even with our modern medicine and technology. If a cure/vaccination isn't found for it, it has the potential to spread as rampantly as the spanish flu did and have an even worse death toll. There are more densely populated areas now than there were in the early 1900's also, so it will likely spread to many more people than the spanish flu did, especially when you take into account how much more travelling people do now than they did almost 100 years ago.
The only reason it hasn't spread that fast now is because we recognized the threat fairly early on and are trying to contain it as best as possible. That's not really working as it's still spreading, and it is very likely that we will reach a point where it can no longer be contained. We need to find a cure or a vaccination before this happens.
I read an article awhile back, don't remember where, but it said that the vikings inhabited Iceland a long time ago. The climate there at the time was warm enough for them to have large field of grapes and they ran wineries.
Or maybe it was Greenland. Either way, that sort of climate was definitely warmer than it is now. It's kind of interesting to see all of the viking heritage stuff in Iceland. I strongly suggest taking a trip there if you haven't before. Plane tix and hotels are cheap (food and drink is not though), and the people are amazingly friendly. I had an excellent time there.
Umm, even with a 40% discount, Cisco is quite high on their pricing, and this is going to raise their prices even more.
Take a look around, check out some specs on other manufacturers hardware. You'll be surprised at what you find.
I still buy Cisco, because it's not my money I'm spending. However, you bet your ass that if it was, I'd be looking elsewhere. I bought some non-cisco equipment before and it was nicer to use, cheaper, and performed much better.
Check out some of the Extreme and Foundry equipment. Foundry is dirt cheap for their upper end equipment, and is right on par performance-wise with Cisco. There's some firewall company started by some ex-cisco guys and some intel guys. I forgot the name now, but I remember looking at them and they were way better than the PIX.
Why would anyone but government agencies see this eavesdropping stuff as a feature and want to pay for it?
You work in the IT industry, it doesn't mean you have a ton of cash, but it's likely you're doing well. Hire yourself a money manager.
You probably work long hours, and the last thing you want to do is spend your weekends pouring over paperwork and crunching numbers. Pay someone else to do it, go enjoy your life.
I don't have one yet, but I will soon. I've signed up for paytrust.com and they handle all of my bills and such, I haven't even seen a bill in my mailbox for 3 years. It really helped a ton. Plus, you'll notice that your stress level goes way down when you don't have to worry about the stuff.