Kerry comes from the grand ol' liberal hell-hole called Massachusetts (where I used to live, BTW). Most dumbocrats that come from that state are not of the species homo sapiens, but rather from the species taxus spendus. The only reason that state isn't in nearly as much hot water as it could be are the fact that Governor Romney is a Republican, and that Central Mass is a constant thorn in the side of Boston, who would just assume have the rest of the state outside of Route 128 pay for all their programs inside 128.
Kerry's idea of fiscal responsibility is taxing the hell out of everyone here to pay for federal government.
I will not vote for John Kerry because he's trying to project himself as someone he's not. The most liberal man in the senate cannot pass himself off as a hunter and a champion for the second amendment. A man who cannot trust the people to defend themselves certainly has no business pretending he can defend me.
Re:It looks nifty, but its not a sniper rifle
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Actually, it sounds like a mighty fine way to get shot...granted moreso in some locales than others perhaps.
$6,000 in 1983 was enough to buy a brand new compact car. In fact, the previous year, my parents purchased a Chevrolet Citation X11 V6 for about $9k. (more of a 2-door sedan) American or Aussie dollars...doesn't matter...that was a lot of coin from back then.
Unfortunately, I can't find a good Internet link to new car prices from that era...and I don't have any of my dad's Kelley Blue Books from then either.
C'mon...even the distributed.net folks aren't gonna break that one anytime soon unless someone gets really lucky...which is why anyone involved in that project should really dump it an start running Predictor@Home or something useful.
I dunno about you...but the parent poster is using a DirecTiVo.
I haven't seen any particular hardware that advertises that it can pull down a signal off the DBS dishes that are so popular. This might work for people who use analog/digital cable or OTA, but I will not give Comcast so much as a dime.
If you can point me to some hardware that I can plug my dish into, then you can win me over. Until then, I'll pay my monthly Tivo fee.:) (please, someone point me to some hardware)
I know i've mentioned this before, but when I was a Massachusetts resident, we got these huge legal-sized sheets for our election ballots. To vote for the candidate/question of our choice, there was a black magic marker at the voting booth which we were supposed to use to complete the line between the arrows of who we wanted to vote for. This provides the paper trail that democracy needs.
Also, because we voted by drawing the black line, the ballots could very easily be scanned in and accurately tallied.
Nothing for nothing...this touchscreen stuff is a solution looking for a problem.
You read a little too deeep into the post dear coward.
The only thing I dreaded was the wireless test, which threw me for a huge loop...mostly due to the RF theory...which would have been much easier for a general-class ham operator.
The home network question was perfect. Back in that time, I had a cable modem, connected to a FreeBSD firewall with 3 NICs in the box...one public, and two private LANs...each with a/25 somewhere in RFC 1918 space. This is because at the time I had a 10baseT hub, and a 100baseTX hub...which the FreeBSD box routed between.
I can only assume you have sufficient experience to get through the HR wheels, which is good for you. We're all glad. But from your post, I assume you have no certifications because you can't read the question for what it really is.
In one aspect, we can all thank Microsoft for this one with their MCSE mills which turned out a bunch of talentless mouse jockeys. Mind you, not ALL are talentless...but a lot I knew from the boom were. This had the unfortunate effect of taining a bunch of people who really didn't care about much more than dollar signs.
Now, I know a lot of people who have, as a result of articles such as this, let their certifications expire...which I think is a bad idea in some cases.
The problem with certifications is that in many cases they have been overvalued by the people who get burned by hiring the talentless paper monkeys. Unfortunately, certifications are still required in many cases to get through the HR vortex.
However, if certification is used as a minimum baseline of knowledge, it can at least determine a minimum amount of knowledge required. It should be part of a set of tools used to gauge the quality of a candidate, and leveraged by the employer as part of a further interview process.
I'm standing in defense of certifications, partly because I renewed my CCDP and am working on my Solaris 9 certs. Exciting? Not really, but there is still a minimum amount of knowledge required, at least conceptually. To me, it's a validation of my experience that I can at least still learn something. At a minimum, I'm trainable...and familiar with concepts that the application/hardware vendor wants me to know.
Now, for the other tools...it depends on who really controls the interviews. Awhile ago in the network analysis team where I used to work, there was one particularly brilliant hardass. His only interview question was to hand the candidate a dry-erase marker and draw out their home network and explain how it worked, was addressed, and protected. As far as he was concerned, the group needed a net geek, and someone who didn't have their own network at home wouldn't be interested in the job enough to excel. Anyways, I digress...
The hardest test I've taken to date was the CWNA, which really threw me for a loop...and I dread the CWSP which I want to take by the end of the summer.
Take three candidates with roughly the same experience: one has nothing more than a high school diploma, another a college degree, and the other has a 4-year degree and some certifications...HR is likely going to pick the third candidate. Sorry folks...that's just how it is in the business world.
Firstly, there are no good LCD viewfinders...especially when we're talking about still frame quality of any kind. Secondly, there is no need for an SLR mechanism on a digital LCD viewfinder, since the picture is being fed from the imaging CCD anyways. Cameras such as the Canon D300, 10D or any other digital SLR don't use LCD viewfinders, because that's not what their customers really want or need...and it would defeat the purpose anyway.
When I was in the camera market, I was going for either the Digital Rebel or the gigantic Sony 8MP thing...and eventually settled on the rebel. (Okay, its was the EF Lens capability that won me over). I find that being able to make image adjustments is a lot easier when I'm looking at exactly what will be photographed, instead of some downsized representation. That, and I take good pictures from anywhere in the ballpark with an additional zoom lens.:) More or less, I can do more serious amateur photography without spending my entire livelihood on film/development/printing, which allows me to take many, many more pictures.
Granted, this works because I bought my camera to be a camera...not some kind of camcorder...which is one feature most LCD viewfinder cameras offer.
...there actually used to be a demo scene which really turned out some amazing stuff. My favorite demo group of all was the Future Crew, and Second Reality did some really pretty neat stuff on some pretty mediocre hardware. Though, the VLB card I ended up getting sped up significant portions of some of the more intensive portions of the demos (i.e. the concentric rings in Second Reality).
I used to leave it running in a loop at work so we could sell more computers.:)
That's funny...especially since my employer almost exclusively uses Xerox copiers. Imagine...if all those copiers were shut down on $5...I figure it'd take me about 30 minutes to visit each one and render all of them useless.:)
Actually...that was your ARP cache going to shit.
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I used to work for BBNPlanet, and there was no problem with traffic caused by customer data, but on a clunky old Cisco 2500 w/ 2 mb of RAM and a couple of class C's, a simple scan would always smoke the box.
The problem was that for each scanned IP that didn't have an ARP entry, the router would timeout and wait, then fill the cache with an "incomplete" entry. There wasn't much free memory to begin with, but that's probably where your RAM went.
I won't tell you about Code Red and the customer w/ a Class B attached to his Ethernet0 interface.:)
No...this actually has potential NOT to suck, especailly since it's a URL encoded in a 2D, non-proprietary format. It's also a plus that it's not locked up in some bullshit like the CueCat.
I'm curious just how large of a URL it can encode though...but I think this is pretty cool, and could end up being one of the killer apps for camera phones. It's about time something put that technology to good use.
That, and it's a bitch keying in a long-ass URL on a phone keypad.:)
Today's roomful of rack-mounted systems is tomorrow's server unit.
Today's server unit is tomorrow's workstation.
Today's workstation is tomorrow's desktop.
Todays's desktop to tomorrow's laptop.
Today's laptop is tomorrow's PDA.
Today's PDA is tomorrow's wristwatch.
I knew I should have waited until next week to buy that new server...
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I think it's that we need to wait for that credit card to clear, and find out that it's not actually a stolen number out of Eastern Europe.;)
Actually, Marius has stated before that one of the reasons the project can't go the GNU route is because there are elements in the software that are under NDA.
From the Feb. 1 Q&A in Marius' blog: "NetStumbler is not open source. Indeed it contains a lot of code that was developed under Non-Disclosure Agreements, and the source cannot be released to the general public - if I do so then several teams of lawyers will show up on my doorstep."
Personally, I'm thrilled that Atheros is now supported since stubling 802.11a with NDIS drivers leaves a lot to be desired.
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/ 1427228&tid=163&tid=139&tid=103
Do the editors work for the USPTO as well?
Who are you kidding??
Kerry comes from the grand ol' liberal hell-hole called Massachusetts (where I used to live, BTW). Most dumbocrats that come from that state are not of the species homo sapiens, but rather from the species taxus spendus. The only reason that state isn't in nearly as much hot water as it could be are the fact that Governor Romney is a Republican, and that Central Mass is a constant thorn in the side of Boston, who would just assume have the rest of the state outside of Route 128 pay for all their programs inside 128.
Kerry's idea of fiscal responsibility is taxing the hell out of everyone here to pay for federal government.
I will not vote for John Kerry because he's trying to project himself as someone he's not. The most liberal man in the senate cannot pass himself off as a hunter and a champion for the second amendment. A man who cannot trust the people to defend themselves certainly has no business pretending he can defend me.
Actually, it sounds like a mighty fine way to get shot...granted moreso in some locales than others perhaps.
$6,000 in 1983 was enough to buy a brand new compact car. In fact, the previous year, my parents purchased a Chevrolet Citation X11 V6 for about $9k. (more of a 2-door sedan) American or Aussie dollars...doesn't matter...that was a lot of coin from back then.
Unfortunately, I can't find a good Internet link to new car prices from that era...and I don't have any of my dad's Kelley Blue Books from then either.
It is the dawn of a newer and better age! And to think all the stories weren't dupes either!
So I need to wear my tinfoil hat AND dark sunglasses!
// karmaburn - Start
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C'mon...even the distributed.net folks aren't gonna break that one anytime soon unless someone gets really lucky...which is why anyone involved in that project should really dump it an start running Predictor@Home or something useful.
Good news for Intel indeed, but wouldn't the same deployment with AMD Opterons been cheaper AND faster??
Cute...but this helps DirecTV subscribers...how??
I dunno about you...but the parent poster is using a DirecTiVo.
:) (please, someone point me to some hardware)
I haven't seen any particular hardware that advertises that it can pull down a signal off the DBS dishes that are so popular. This might work for people who use analog/digital cable or OTA, but I will not give Comcast so much as a dime.
If you can point me to some hardware that I can plug my dish into, then you can win me over. Until then, I'll pay my monthly Tivo fee.
I know i've mentioned this before, but when I was a Massachusetts resident, we got these huge legal-sized sheets for our election ballots. To vote for the candidate/question of our choice, there was a black magic marker at the voting booth which we were supposed to use to complete the line between the arrows of who we wanted to vote for. This provides the paper trail that democracy needs.
Also, because we voted by drawing the black line, the ballots could very easily be scanned in and accurately tallied.
Nothing for nothing...this touchscreen stuff is a solution looking for a problem.
...in 5...4...3...2...
Sector not found on Drive C:\
Abort, Retry, Ignore?
You read a little too deeep into the post dear coward.
/25 somewhere in RFC 1918 space. This is because at the time I had a 10baseT hub, and a 100baseTX hub...which the FreeBSD box routed between.
The only thing I dreaded was the wireless test, which threw me for a huge loop...mostly due to the RF theory...which would have been much easier for a general-class ham operator.
The home network question was perfect. Back in that time, I had a cable modem, connected to a FreeBSD firewall with 3 NICs in the box...one public, and two private LANs...each with a
I can only assume you have sufficient experience to get through the HR wheels, which is good for you. We're all glad. But from your post, I assume you have no certifications because you can't read the question for what it really is.
In one aspect, we can all thank Microsoft for this one with their MCSE mills which turned out a bunch of talentless mouse jockeys. Mind you, not ALL are talentless...but a lot I knew from the boom were. This had the unfortunate effect of taining a bunch of people who really didn't care about much more than dollar signs.
Now, I know a lot of people who have, as a result of articles such as this, let their certifications expire...which I think is a bad idea in some cases.
The problem with certifications is that in many cases they have been overvalued by the people who get burned by hiring the talentless paper monkeys. Unfortunately, certifications are still required in many cases to get through the HR vortex.
However, if certification is used as a minimum baseline of knowledge, it can at least determine a minimum amount of knowledge required. It should be part of a set of tools used to gauge the quality of a candidate, and leveraged by the employer as part of a further interview process.
I'm standing in defense of certifications, partly because I renewed my CCDP and am working on my Solaris 9 certs. Exciting? Not really, but there is still a minimum amount of knowledge required, at least conceptually. To me, it's a validation of my experience that I can at least still learn something. At a minimum, I'm trainable...and familiar with concepts that the application/hardware vendor wants me to know.
Now, for the other tools...it depends on who really controls the interviews. Awhile ago in the network analysis team where I used to work, there was one particularly brilliant hardass. His only interview question was to hand the candidate a dry-erase marker and draw out their home network and explain how it worked, was addressed, and protected. As far as he was concerned, the group needed a net geek, and someone who didn't have their own network at home wouldn't be interested in the job enough to excel. Anyways, I digress...
The hardest test I've taken to date was the CWNA, which really threw me for a loop...and I dread the CWSP which I want to take by the end of the summer.
Take three candidates with roughly the same experience: one has nothing more than a high school diploma, another a college degree, and the other has a 4-year degree and some certifications...HR is likely going to pick the third candidate. Sorry folks...that's just how it is in the business world.
(CCNP - CCDP - CWNA - A+/Net+)
Firstly, there are no good LCD viewfinders...especially when we're talking about still frame quality of any kind. Secondly, there is no need for an SLR mechanism on a digital LCD viewfinder, since the picture is being fed from the imaging CCD anyways. Cameras such as the Canon D300, 10D or any other digital SLR don't use LCD viewfinders, because that's not what their customers really want or need...and it would defeat the purpose anyway.
:) More or less, I can do more serious amateur photography without spending my entire livelihood on film/development/printing, which allows me to take many, many more pictures.
When I was in the camera market, I was going for either the Digital Rebel or the gigantic Sony 8MP thing...and eventually settled on the rebel. (Okay, its was the EF Lens capability that won me over). I find that being able to make image adjustments is a lot easier when I'm looking at exactly what will be photographed, instead of some downsized representation. That, and I take good pictures from anywhere in the ballpark with an additional zoom lens.
Granted, this works because I bought my camera to be a camera...not some kind of camcorder...which is one feature most LCD viewfinder cameras offer.
...there actually used to be a demo scene which really turned out some amazing stuff. My favorite demo group of all was the Future Crew, and Second Reality did some really pretty neat stuff on some pretty mediocre hardware. Though, the VLB card I ended up getting sped up significant portions of some of the more intensive portions of the demos (i.e. the concentric rings in Second Reality).
:)
I used to leave it running in a loop at work so we could sell more computers.
That's funny...especially since my employer almost exclusively uses Xerox copiers. Imagine...if all those copiers were shut down on $5...I figure it'd take me about 30 minutes to visit each one and render all of them useless. :)
I used to work for BBNPlanet, and there was no problem with traffic caused by customer data, but on a clunky old Cisco 2500 w/ 2 mb of RAM and a couple of class C's, a simple scan would always smoke the box.
:)
The problem was that for each scanned IP that didn't have an ARP entry, the router would timeout and wait, then fill the cache with an "incomplete" entry. There wasn't much free memory to begin with, but that's probably where your RAM went.
I won't tell you about Code Red and the customer w/ a Class B attached to his Ethernet0 interface.
That's just the way it is. I want my open-source, patent-free, DRM-free codec.
I thought GST was an acronym for Gag & Strangle Tax.
Hrm...I learn something new every day!
No...this actually has potential NOT to suck, especailly since it's a URL encoded in a 2D, non-proprietary format. It's also a plus that it's not locked up in some bullshit like the CueCat.
:)
I'm curious just how large of a URL it can encode though...but I think this is pretty cool, and could end up being one of the killer apps for camera phones. It's about time something put that technology to good use.
That, and it's a bitch keying in a long-ass URL on a phone keypad.
I think it's that we need to wait for that credit card to clear, and find out that it's not actually a stolen number out of Eastern Europe. ;)
Umm...Ogg is already DRMless, multichannel, and pretty much maturized.
Why repeat ourselves??
Actually, Marius has stated before that one of the reasons the project can't go the GNU route is because there are elements in the software that are under NDA.
From the Feb. 1 Q&A in Marius' blog: "NetStumbler is not open source. Indeed it contains a lot of code that was developed under Non-Disclosure Agreements, and the source cannot be released to the general public - if I do so then several teams of lawyers will show up on my doorstep."
Personally, I'm thrilled that Atheros is now supported since stubling 802.11a with NDIS drivers leaves a lot to be desired.