This far in, this post will probably not get read but...I just landed a 4-month contract that will yield a considerable amount of cash. When I was going through the sale, the client told me that they saw similar applications for less than 1000. They wanted to know why I was asking for 30,000.
The old line "you get what you pay for" is still very valid. You will find that companies are still very much willing to pay for good work. Granted, they're not paying $200/hr, but there is still money to be made. The bottom line is that you have to convince your potential client that you are offering them quality. Quality, support, and personalization in the development of the software. If you can show them why the job cost as much as it does (through a detailed Statement of Work), it'll be much easier for them to accept it.
But this is not the true purpose of my post. To be sure, this is a very scary time for many people and I am very sympathetic. Finding new jobs is very difficult, but there are a couple of things that you can do.
First, let me just say that I hate sales. I don't know anyone that enjoys selling, but you have to do it. Now, I have an edge as I have been an independent contractor for over 10 years. But anyone can do it on their own.
The key to being successful is networking. Quick tip for those with a bit of free time. Pick up a networking book such as Masters of Networking. Figure out who you know and who you can sell to. Put yourself in situations where you are forced to meet new people - preferably 10 a day. This is not selling in the pure sense. It's not cold calling. Just go and get involved in activities that involve other business people.
2) Join a social group that attracts business people. I recommend Toast Masters. As an added bonus, you will learn to present yourself better.
3) Every one is freaking out over the SoBig virus right now. Similarly, a lot of people want to go wireless in their homes but, with always-on broadband connections, are afraid of getting "0wn3d". Print up some flyers, walk around your neighborhood, *personally* meet with every neighbor, and offer, for *free* to help check their PCs for viruses (virii if you're so inclined), configure their firewalls, recommend a router. This will get you in front of people, generate goodwill, and let your neighbors know of your availability.
One of the most powerful ways to find new work is through referrals. I haven't made a cold call in my life. All of my new clients come to me through referrals. Word-of-mouth and a personal recommendation can do a lot more for you than any marketing brochure or telemarketing script could ever do. Go over a list of people that you have worked for and with in the past 5 years. Call them up, catch up on lost time, work in that you're available, meet for lunch. Don't turn it into a sales pitch, just keep it friendly. They'll get the idea. And you'll get out of the house.
Find ways to get yourself in front of people and let them know that you are here. It's not easy, that's true. I was extremely shy when I started. Now, I speak at tech conferences in front of more than 7,000 people. I carry a stack of business cards with me at all times. I find opportunities to start conversations with people.
I didn't start out knowing how to "work a room" and I still have a long way to go. But, I am making a living. Not as much as a couple of years ago, but my bills are getting paid and I am sleeping at night.
Consider this. When you see a job posting, there are over 1000 applicants that you are competing with. As you might guess, most HR/recruiters do not have the time to read through all of them. They'll go through the first
I could be wrong about this but here is my understanding, at least where Sprint is concerned. Yes, the phone has an IP address but they are on an internal subnet belonging to the carrier. All surfing is done through a proxy, thus the phone is not visible to the outside Internet for random attacks. On my Sanyo 4900, applications (the browser being on of them) do not have any access to the phone book, nor the dialing function. As long as the phone manufacturers continue to maintain this level of data separation, the worm scenario is not likely.
You may now proceed with the obligatory MS-bashing and speculating how Outlook for Smartphones(tm) will obliterate this protection level and allow VBScript full access to the address book and dialer. Cause you know it's coming!;)
Alternatively, you can just check your credit card statement each month for suspicious activity. Since you have practically no liability for fradulent charges (the Fed mandates a maximum liability of $50 but many banks have set it to $0), you should worry too much about the number getting out. Sure, it's a pain to have to get a new card issued, but it's a small price to pay to not be liable for things that are out of your control anyway.
The monitors all share the same video feed. All of the monitors have to use the same resolution and, if there's a lower-end 15" lcd on the chain, it brings down the rest of the displays. They also have to use the same refresh rate, which is why the text is so fuzzy on the larger displays. I'm jonesing for a 21" lcd but I won't buy one until I can see how well the thing looks when it's set up properly. They shouldn't be at 640x480, tho. Usually, it's 1024x768 @ 70hz.
You obviously have no idea as to what the political position is of anyone in office. Democrats are just as "guilty" of poorly thought-out legistlation as Republicans. Members of both parties are given to rash, ill-advised, and hasty decisions made in the name of "National Security." A little education might be in order before you go making such blanket statements as the one above. I suggest you start here, here or here.
And how you got modded as Informative and not as a Troll is beyond me. Makes me wish that I hadn't burned up my mod points yesterday.
All in all, I have been very disappointed with SprintPCS Vision. I wish that I could claim the same speed and satisfaction, but in the NY/PA metro area, Vision sucks to high hell. Assuming that you can even get on to the network, it's slow as balls and very error-prone. Navigating with a Sanyo 4900 and it's built-in browser is an excercise in futility. Signal strength has nothing to do with it. For calls, I get great service and reception all over the place. But, even with a full signal, I ahve a difficult time logging into the Vision network.
As for messaging, who in their right mind came up with the brillant idea to take something as quick and easy as SMS and replace it with Web-based messaging? In order to send a message or email, you must log on to the Vision network and use their messaging website. It's painfully slow, cumbersome and prone to "Page Read" errors. What really amazes me is that the phone *IS* capable of SMS. When you receive a notification that you have a text message (which you have to go to the website to read), it comes through as SMS. What's more, you can have messages sent directly to the phone, something that Sprint does not tell you. Using the address ######@messaging.sprintpcs.com where ##### is your phone number, you can get around the website requirement. No way to respond to the messages, tho.
I use the phone for business and I have had the same number for six years. As soon as the FCC gets off its ass and pushes the requirement for the telcos to transfer phone numbers, I'm switching to Verizon.
Sad to say, the wireless (cell-phone-based) Web just isn't there yet for Sprint.
hmmm....very interesting. I'm curious, tho. Of those 9 linux vulnerabilities, how many required a national alert from the US Government's Office of Homeland Security? And not just one but TWO.
Do the cameras take your picture if you put the item *back* on the shelf? There have been times when shopping that I have taken something off of a shelf, walked around the store, changed my mind, and put it back. By my math, at least, this would make the store think that I now had *two* packs in my possession.
Not that I shop at this particular store, but the first time my grocer stops me and accuses me of shoplifting in this type of scenario, is the last time I will shop at his store.
Coming into the WiFi game a little later than most, I was under the mistaken impression that filtering by MAC address was secure. Then I followed a link from this thread to the Kismet site and realized just how idiotic that belief was. Encrypted or not, the TCP stack is going to carry the MAC of the sender.
In the end, I guess it's very much like locking your car door. It'll disuade the casual thief but if someone really wants to get in, they're going to get in.
>> MAC address filtering is a joke since I can easily change the what MAC address my airport card uses under linux.
Correct me if I am wrong but, unless you already have access to the WiFi controller and know what MAC addresses have been explicitly granted permission, it doesn't matter that you can change your MAC address.
29.99 list, less 40% (NYTimes bestsellers are discounted 40%), less 15% B&N coupon that B&N members get in the mail, less 10% B&N member general discount = $13.75.
>> Using a program (which i'd strongly reccomend to you if i could remember what/where it was)
Fortunately, I can.;)
One tool that does what you describe is called "Process Explorer" and is available from SysInternals. Free.
The trojan that you found sounds like one of the many mIRC replacement programs that are used for botting and DDoS attacks. We found one on our network and were able to trace it's introduction back to a website. It used an exploit in IE that allows the installation of applications without the approval or awareness of the user.
Just one more reason to not allow the use of IE in the workplace...
Tell you what. Go out and start a business. Pour thousands, if not millions, of dollars in to promoting that business. Accept the majority of your business' transactions over the phone. Make sure that every one out there memorizes your telephone number. Ingrain it into the subconcious of the consumer. Build your entire branding campaign around your phone number.
Now, let the phone company hand the phone number over to me, permitting me to take over your business with no reparation to you. No recourse. No obligation as the trustee of the phone number to protect and ensure that the ownership, the possession on that number, is compromised.
Not even a social security card. The correct analogy would be a forged check. It's fraud, plain and simple and, yes, the bank would have a legal responsibility.
What galls me is that Verisign has successfully implanted into the justice system the belief that a domain name is not physical property. This, to me at least, is an asinine assertion devised only to alleviate themselves of professional liability.
While they apparently have no legal responsibility, there is still the professional responsibility of verifying a claim to transfer of ownership. Verisign's inaction encourages fraud, plain and simple, and it is corporate irresponsibility such as this that leads to draconian government regulation of public assets, such as the Internet. If business is not willing to regulate itself responibly, government will step in and do it for them. Invariably, as has happened in the past, the two never have the same agenda.
The loss of Verisign would not bring about the end of the Internet any more than the loss of MGM would bring about the end of Hollywood or United Airlines would eliminate the travel industry.
It's time that corporations be held accountable for their actions or, as is the case here, inactions.
Somebody please mod this up a bit. He's referring to John Popper from the Blues Travelers. Nice work, Artemis. Btw, is your name a reference to Pink World?
The impression that I got was that each screen represented one possible way that Neo could develop and progress. Remember, he's part of the Matrix, fulfilling a prophecy, exhibiting "supernatural" abilities. He's a program, as we've been told by the Architect, with a pre-determined outcome. Prophecies *are* foretold, after all.
Each screen started out with Neo at birth and began to progress through all the various different possibilities that would exist in his life. Each possibility was determined by the choices that he made along each life. We're told, tho, that the free-will within the Matrix is an illusion. That it's programmed in. Each person might be making their own decisions, but those decisions are still within the boundaries and constraints of the system that they are in.
Further proof that the outcome is predetermined is seen when each of his "lives" lead up to the meeting with the Architect and fall into sync.
It never mattered which pill Neo took. The outcome would have been the same.
The encryption is really good but what makes it ideal for multi-part posting is that if one of the files gets lost (which happens often on newsgroups -- so I'm told..;) the accompanying "par" files can be used to re-create the missing file. This also works for repairing corrupted files.
My response was to the AC that said "Oh, so it's just Java. Who cares..." and not to ParamonKreel's comment above. Just thought I should point that out to keep the fuzzies nice and warm.
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This far in, this post will probably not get read but...I just landed a 4-month contract that will yield a considerable amount of cash. When I was going through the sale, the client told me that they saw similar applications for less than 1000. They wanted to know why I was asking for 30,000.
The old line "you get what you pay for" is still very valid. You will find that companies are still very much willing to pay for good work. Granted, they're not paying $200/hr, but there is still money to be made. The bottom line is that you have to convince your potential client that you are offering them quality. Quality, support, and personalization in the development of the software. If you can show them why the job cost as much as it does (through a detailed Statement of Work), it'll be much easier for them to accept it.
But this is not the true purpose of my post. To be sure, this is a very scary time for many people and I am very sympathetic. Finding new jobs is very difficult, but there are a couple of things that you can do.
First, let me just say that I hate sales. I don't know anyone that enjoys selling, but you have to do it. Now, I have an edge as I have been an independent contractor for over 10 years. But anyone can do it on their own.
The key to being successful is networking. Quick tip for those with a bit of free time. Pick up a networking book such as Masters of Networking. Figure out who you know and who you can sell to. Put yourself in situations where you are forced to meet new people - preferably 10 a day. This is not selling in the pure sense. It's not cold calling. Just go and get involved in activities that involve other business people.
A couple of thing that I have done recently:
1) Join a business network group, such as BNI.
2) Join a social group that attracts business people. I recommend Toast Masters. As an added bonus, you will learn to present yourself better.
3) Every one is freaking out over the SoBig virus right now. Similarly, a lot of people want to go wireless in their homes but, with always-on broadband connections, are afraid of getting "0wn3d". Print up some flyers, walk around your neighborhood, *personally* meet with every neighbor, and offer, for *free* to help check their PCs for viruses (virii if you're so inclined), configure their firewalls, recommend a router. This will get you in front of people, generate goodwill, and let your neighbors know of your availability.
One of the most powerful ways to find new work is through referrals. I haven't made a cold call in my life. All of my new clients come to me through referrals. Word-of-mouth and a personal recommendation can do a lot more for you than any marketing brochure or telemarketing script could ever do. Go over a list of people that you have worked for and with in the past 5 years. Call them up, catch up on lost time, work in that you're available, meet for lunch. Don't turn it into a sales pitch, just keep it friendly. They'll get the idea. And you'll get out of the house.
Find ways to get yourself in front of people and let them know that you are here. It's not easy, that's true. I was extremely shy when I started. Now, I speak at tech conferences in front of more than 7,000 people. I carry a stack of business cards with me at all times. I find opportunities to start conversations with people.
I didn't start out knowing how to "work a room" and I still have a long way to go. But, I am making a living. Not as much as a couple of years ago, but my bills are getting paid and I am sleeping at night.
Consider this. When you see a job posting, there are over 1000 applicants that you are competing with. As you might guess, most HR/recruiters do not have the time to read through all of them. They'll go through the first
Yup! Now, do you remember what SYS49152 did? =)
Shouldn't that be "C64 SP 64738"? ;)
I could be wrong about this but here is my understanding, at least where Sprint is concerned. Yes, the phone has an IP address but they are on an internal subnet belonging to the carrier. All surfing is done through a proxy, thus the phone is not visible to the outside Internet for random attacks. On my Sanyo 4900, applications (the browser being on of them) do not have any access to the phone book, nor the dialing function. As long as the phone manufacturers continue to maintain this level of data separation, the worm scenario is not likely.
;)
You may now proceed with the obligatory MS-bashing and speculating how Outlook for Smartphones(tm) will obliterate this protection level and allow VBScript full access to the address book and dialer. Cause you know it's coming!
>> I wonder what'll happen when Microsoft's numbering system overflows...
;)
Credit MS with a little bit of insight. They increase the data type for the numbering to a double a long time ago.
Alternatively, you can just check your credit card statement each month for suspicious activity. Since you have practically no liability for fradulent charges (the Fed mandates a maximum liability of $50 but many banks have set it to $0), you should worry too much about the number getting out. Sure, it's a pain to have to get a new card issued, but it's a small price to pay to not be liable for things that are out of your control anyway.
The monitors all share the same video feed. All of the monitors have to use the same resolution and, if there's a lower-end 15" lcd on the chain, it brings down the rest of the displays. They also have to use the same refresh rate, which is why the text is so fuzzy on the larger displays. I'm jonesing for a 21" lcd but I won't buy one until I can see how well the thing looks when it's set up properly. They shouldn't be at 640x480, tho. Usually, it's 1024x768 @ 70hz.
>> You obviously vote Republican.
You obviously have no idea as to what the political position is of anyone in office. Democrats are just as "guilty" of poorly thought-out legistlation as Republicans. Members of both parties are given to rash, ill-advised, and hasty decisions made in the name of "National Security." A little education might be in order before you go making such blanket statements as the one above. I suggest you start here, here or here.
And how you got modded as Informative and not as a Troll is beyond me. Makes me wish that I hadn't burned up my mod points yesterday.
All in all, I have been very disappointed with SprintPCS Vision. I wish that I could claim the same speed and satisfaction, but in the NY/PA metro area, Vision sucks to high hell. Assuming that you can even get on to the network, it's slow as balls and very error-prone. Navigating with a Sanyo 4900 and it's built-in browser is an excercise in futility. Signal strength has nothing to do with it. For calls, I get great service and reception all over the place. But, even with a full signal, I ahve a difficult time logging into the Vision network.
As for messaging, who in their right mind came up with the brillant idea to take something as quick and easy as SMS and replace it with Web-based messaging? In order to send a message or email, you must log on to the Vision network and use their messaging website. It's painfully slow, cumbersome and prone to "Page Read" errors. What really amazes me is that the phone *IS* capable of SMS. When you receive a notification that you have a text message (which you have to go to the website to read), it comes through as SMS. What's more, you can have messages sent directly to the phone, something that Sprint does not tell you. Using the address ######@messaging.sprintpcs.com where ##### is your phone number, you can get around the website requirement. No way to respond to the messages, tho.
I use the phone for business and I have had the same number for six years. As soon as the FCC gets off its ass and pushes the requirement for the telcos to transfer phone numbers, I'm switching to Verizon.
Sad to say, the wireless (cell-phone-based) Web just isn't there yet for Sprint.
hmmm....very interesting. I'm curious, tho. Of those 9 linux vulnerabilities, how many required a national alert from the US Government's Office of Homeland Security? And not just one but TWO.
And there were certainly more than just 2 windows vulnerabilities in the . Nice FUD, but you might want to check against Microsoft's own security list
*nix, of course. ;)
Provided, of course, that its beautiful visage has not been marred by the visual afront that is Bash.
Do the cameras take your picture if you put the item *back* on the shelf? There have been times when shopping that I have taken something off of a shelf, walked around the store, changed my mind, and put it back. By my math, at least, this would make the store think that I now had *two* packs in my possession.
Not that I shop at this particular store, but the first time my grocer stops me and accuses me of shoplifting in this type of scenario, is the last time I will shop at his store.
Not all technical innovations are good.
>> With this dongle there's a mathematically much smaller chance of fraud
Ever hear of AutoCad? They used a dongle, too. They don't work.
Coming into the WiFi game a little later than most, I was under the mistaken impression that filtering by MAC address was secure. Then I followed a link from this thread to the Kismet site and realized just how idiotic that belief was. Encrypted or not, the TCP stack is going to carry the MAC of the sender.
In the end, I guess it's very much like locking your car door. It'll disuade the casual thief but if someone really wants to get in, they're going to get in.
>> MAC address filtering is a joke since I can easily change the what MAC address my airport card uses under linux.
Correct me if I am wrong but, unless you already have access to the WiFi controller and know what MAC addresses have been explicitly granted permission, it doesn't matter that you can change your MAC address.
Hmm...I got my copy from B&N for $13.75.
29.99 list, less 40% (NYTimes bestsellers are discounted 40%), less 15% B&N coupon that B&N members get in the mail, less 10% B&N member general discount = $13.75.
It really pays to get those discount cards.
>> Using a program (which i'd strongly reccomend to you if i could remember what/where it was)
;)
Fortunately, I can.
One tool that does what you describe is called "Process Explorer" and is available from SysInternals. Free.
The trojan that you found sounds like one of the many mIRC replacement programs that are used for botting and DDoS attacks. We found one on our network and were able to trace it's introduction back to a website. It used an exploit in IE that allows the installation of applications without the approval or awareness of the user.
Just one more reason to not allow the use of IE in the workplace...
>> Please note that there is currently no FLAC software for any Mac OS prior to OS X.
Tell you what. Go out and start a business. Pour thousands, if not millions, of dollars in to promoting that business. Accept the majority of your business' transactions over the phone. Make sure that every one out there memorizes your telephone number. Ingrain it into the subconcious of the consumer. Build your entire branding campaign around your phone number.
Now, let the phone company hand the phone number over to me, permitting me to take over your business with no reparation to you. No recourse. No obligation as the trustee of the phone number to protect and ensure that the ownership, the possession on that number, is compromised.
Now, tell me how that differs from a domain name.
Not even a social security card. The correct analogy would be a forged check. It's fraud, plain and simple and, yes, the bank would have a legal responsibility.
What galls me is that Verisign has successfully implanted into the justice system the belief that a domain name is not physical property. This, to me at least, is an asinine assertion devised only to alleviate themselves of professional liability.
While they apparently have no legal responsibility, there is still the professional responsibility of verifying a claim to transfer of ownership. Verisign's inaction encourages fraud, plain and simple, and it is corporate irresponsibility such as this that leads to draconian government regulation of public assets, such as the Internet. If business is not willing to regulate itself responibly, government will step in and do it for them. Invariably, as has happened in the past, the two never have the same agenda.
The loss of Verisign would not bring about the end of the Internet any more than the loss of MGM would bring about the end of Hollywood or United Airlines would eliminate the travel industry.
It's time that corporations be held accountable for their actions or, as is the case here, inactions.
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Somebody please mod this up a bit. He's referring to John Popper from the Blues Travelers. Nice work, Artemis. Btw, is your name a reference to Pink World?
** spoilers ahead **
The impression that I got was that each screen represented one possible way that Neo could develop and progress. Remember, he's part of the Matrix, fulfilling a prophecy, exhibiting "supernatural" abilities. He's a program, as we've been told by the Architect, with a pre-determined outcome. Prophecies *are* foretold, after all.
Each screen started out with Neo at birth and began to progress through all the various different possibilities that would exist in his life. Each possibility was determined by the choices that he made along each life. We're told, tho, that the free-will within the Matrix is an illusion. That it's programmed in. Each person might be making their own decisions, but those decisions are still within the boundaries and constraints of the system that they are in.
Further proof that the outcome is predetermined is seen when each of his "lives" lead up to the meeting with the Architect and fall into sync.
It never mattered which pill Neo took. The outcome would have been the same.
The encryption is really good but what makes it ideal for multi-part posting is that if one of the files gets lost (which happens often on newsgroups -- so I'm told.. ;) the accompanying "par" files can be used to re-create the missing file. This also works for repairing corrupted files.
My response was to the AC that said "Oh, so it's just Java. Who cares..." and not to ParamonKreel's comment above. Just thought I should point that out to keep the fuzzies nice and warm.
Yes, it's just Java.
In the same way that Quake is just C.
Don't be a tool.