I went to an all-male high school -- it was a Jesuit school, and those typically exclude female students. While there were positives and negatives, it seems that my high school years were relatively free of the social drama and bullshit that many of my friends at coed institutions went through.
The curriculum was a lot more hardcore as well, though I attribute that more to the traditional Jesuit pedagogy than to any conscious attempt to appeal to male learning styles.
But regardless of the reboot, it's good to watch over the hardware that runs the servers. It's generally a good idea to make sure all the servers have green lights. Ensure there are no drive failures, check disk space, check the SANS for failed drives, etc....
That's the truth. I get compliments on my presentations all the time, which I make with OpenOffice Impress. And heavens knows that's not a piece of effortless, smooth software on par with Keynote.
I just picked up a Mobile Computing m1300 on eBay for a few hundred bucks -- it's one of the "slate" style tablets, essentially just a big PDA. If you're missing the Newton, you might want to check out something like this.
As long as we're boosting our cities, how about Buffalo, NY? The winters aren't really as bad as you've heard -- that's just the only time we get on TV. All the same good points as Pittsburgh (art, food, museums), affordable housing, plenty of colleges and universities, and you can buy a nice house in a safe neighborhood for under 100k.
My commute is under ten minutes. On a bike. And it's cheap enough to live here that my wife is staying home with our kids. How awesome is that?
I'm typing this on an Apple Extended Keyboard II hooked up to my computer with an ADB-USB converter. Even better than a Model M. And it always sounds like I'm making airline reservations.
Why do people on the "left", to use the typical paradigm, assume that everyone else is too stupid and benighted to do their own research? Isn't it possible that the "most people" who don't agree with you simply don't agree with you? Is it really necessary to assume that they're morons who are just incapable of seeing things in the proper way?
Again, I'm a Green Party-voting city dweller, but I find the unbelievable arrogance of other liberals breathtaking sometimes.
We've got something similar here in Buffalo. Members can check out a bike from the web site and return it to any of the "hubs" around town, and then check it back in.
The biggest thing people always worry about is theft, but since the work is all done by volunteers and the bikes are all donations or cheapies from police auction, someone would have to steal a half-dozen bikes a year to eclipse their $15 membership fee.
Yeah, it's always a lot better to make sure that you taint the conversation.
This is an excellent example of the juvenile "us vs. them" mentality that national US politics has devolved into. I'm a bicycle-riding urbanite liberal stereotype, I still find this sort of idiocy appalling. Let people make up their own minds and hunt for their own information.
I worked for Bell Atlantic DSL support, later renamed Verizon DSL support. It was the worst job I've ever had, or ever will have. I wasn't even all that upset when they fired us all to move our jobs to Canada.
And I did help a lot of Linux users, since I was one of the few people there who used it at home.
To be fair, the vast (VAST) majority of the US is perfectly safe. I live in a mid-sized American city, and I don't know anyone who's ever been shot either. Most of the posters on here just have heads full of Hollywood action movies.
As a Buffalo resident, I'd like to ask that we get traded to Ontario in this deal. I'm sick of crossing the Peace Bridge every time I want to go to a decent strip joint.
Oh, and North Dakota is more properly known as "Southskatchewan". Doesn't that sound more tropical?
I'd love to, if there were some reasonably-priced broadband adapters available somewhere. I love *nix on weird hardware as much as the next guy (hell, I've got an IRIX box at home) but I can't justify spending 150+ dollars on an ethernet adapter for a game system that cost me twenty bucks.
I haven't tried to use Japanese text (I don't know the language, so it's really never been an issue) but slide templates have always worked fine for me. Odd. What distro were you having problems with? I'm just curious... I run a really simple WindowMaker on Debian desktop, and I don't seem to get bitten by a lot of the application bugs that people complain about.
Really? Problems with Impress? I've used it for all of my course slides when I teach, and also for presentations at a couple of conferences, and never had a problem.
I'm using pretty simple formatting and stuff, though; mostly text, the occasional static.png file, no transitions or sounds or anything. How are you killing it?
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I went to an all-male high school -- it was a Jesuit school, and those typically exclude female students. While there were positives and negatives, it seems that my high school years were relatively free of the social drama and bullshit that many of my friends at coed institutions went through.
The curriculum was a lot more hardcore as well, though I attribute that more to the traditional Jesuit pedagogy than to any conscious attempt to appeal to male learning styles.
My two cents.
--saint
But regardless of the reboot, it's good to watch over the hardware that runs the servers. It's generally a good idea to make sure all the servers have green lights. Ensure there are no drive failures, check disk space, check the SANS for failed drives, etc....
Install Nagios. Then go fishing.
--saint
That's the truth. I get compliments on my presentations all the time, which I make with OpenOffice Impress. And heavens knows that's not a piece of effortless, smooth software on par with Keynote.
--saint
So's the Coast Guard. Fuck those guys, too.
--saint
I just picked up a Mobile Computing m1300 on eBay for a few hundred bucks -- it's one of the "slate" style tablets, essentially just a big PDA. If you're missing the Newton, you might want to check out something like this.
--saint
As long as we're boosting our cities, how about Buffalo, NY? The winters aren't really as bad as you've heard -- that's just the only time we get on TV. All the same good points as Pittsburgh (art, food, museums), affordable housing, plenty of colleges and universities, and you can buy a nice house in a safe neighborhood for under 100k.
My commute is under ten minutes. On a bike. And it's cheap enough to live here that my wife is staying home with our kids. How awesome is that?
--saint
I'm typing this on an Apple Extended Keyboard II hooked up to my computer with an ADB-USB converter. Even better than a Model M. And it always sounds like I'm making airline reservations.
--saint
Why do people on the "left", to use the typical paradigm, assume that everyone else is too stupid and benighted to do their own research? Isn't it possible that the "most people" who don't agree with you simply don't agree with you? Is it really necessary to assume that they're morons who are just incapable of seeing things in the proper way?
Again, I'm a Green Party-voting city dweller, but I find the unbelievable arrogance of other liberals breathtaking sometimes.
--saint
We've got something similar here in Buffalo. Members can check out a bike from the web site and return it to any of the "hubs" around town, and then check it back in.
The biggest thing people always worry about is theft, but since the work is all done by volunteers and the bikes are all donations or cheapies from police auction, someone would have to steal a half-dozen bikes a year to eclipse their $15 membership fee.
--saint
Yeah, it's always a lot better to make sure that you taint the conversation.
This is an excellent example of the juvenile "us vs. them" mentality that national US politics has devolved into. I'm a bicycle-riding urbanite liberal stereotype, I still find this sort of idiocy appalling. Let people make up their own minds and hunt for their own information.
--saint
Western New York. Buffalo is a great city to live in, and it's cheap. And there's FIOS. What's not to love?
--saint
You're welcome.
I worked for Bell Atlantic DSL support, later renamed Verizon DSL support. It was the worst job I've ever had, or ever will have. I wasn't even all that upset when they fired us all to move our jobs to Canada.
And I did help a lot of Linux users, since I was one of the few people there who used it at home.
--saint
I thought they called it "maize". At least, that's what my 7th grade Global Studies teacher always said.
--saint
I had a Powermac 5200 all-in-one with a remote control AND a TV tuner.
http://www.roadflares.org/howtos/macos_television.html
I agree, Apple should have kept this idea going.
--saint
To be fair, the vast (VAST) majority of the US is perfectly safe. I live in a mid-sized American city, and I don't know anyone who's ever been shot either. Most of the posters on here just have heads full of Hollywood action movies.
--saint
*claps*
Bravo. That was beautiful.
--saint
I didn't realise that public speaking was an IT skill.
That's odd, given your obvious social skills.
--saint
As a Buffalo resident, I'd like to ask that we get traded to Ontario in this deal. I'm sick of crossing the Peace Bridge every time I want to go to a decent strip joint.
Oh, and North Dakota is more properly known as "Southskatchewan". Doesn't that sound more tropical?
--saint
What does TSA stand for, anyway? Techno Stasi of America?
"Taxes Standing Around". The most useless motherfuckers in government who don't have the word "fish" in the department name.
--saint
I think he looks more like Kevin Spacey's creepy older brother, myself.
--saint
Honestly, the one thing that's keeping me from learning about him is how god damn annoying his supporters are.
Sort of like Apple, the Greatful Dead, and Jesus.
--saint
I'd love to, if there were some reasonably-priced broadband adapters available somewhere. I love *nix on weird hardware as much as the next guy (hell, I've got an IRIX box at home) but I can't justify spending 150+ dollars on an ethernet adapter for a game system that cost me twenty bucks.
Any leads?
--saint
I haven't tried to use Japanese text (I don't know the language, so it's really never been an issue) but slide templates have always worked fine for me. Odd. What distro were you having problems with? I'm just curious... I run a really simple WindowMaker on Debian desktop, and I don't seem to get bitten by a lot of the application bugs that people complain about.
--saint
Really? Problems with Impress? I've used it for all of my course slides when I teach, and also for presentations at a couple of conferences, and never had a problem.
.png file, no transitions or sounds or anything. How are you killing it?
I'm using pretty simple formatting and stuff, though; mostly text, the occasional static
--saint
Me too -- I heard about this site from a couple of my fellow slaves in the Verizon Call Center Salt Mines in sunny Buffalo. What a shit job that was.
--saint