From what I understand almost all distros now have their startup commands in/etc/init.d./etc/init.d usually ends up being a symlink to whatever the actual rc.d directory is.
The only thing which is different is the actual service name. Take Apache for example, on redhat/fedora its/etc/init.d/httpd, on Debian its/etc/init.d/apache{1,2} etc.
Hence, ASBOS. Yes, they are there to work around the original justice system. Cry me a fucking river. *You* are sitting in a country that has effective law enforcement (of street-level crime, at least). *I* am sitting in a country where if you ride a bicycle through a town at midnight on a Friday you're liable to get glassed, and if you do, everyone will consider it to be really your fault for not cowering at home blaming Society and The Establishment the way real English people do.
So what you are saying is that laws outside the justice system is a good thing?
This looks to me like your police force needs to start doing their job better by actually arresting and prosecuting the people who commit crime than think of more ways to defeat the laws which are made to protect the people's rights.
Actually SGI had cooler looking workstations than Apple did. The Blue and white G3s and later started the whole looking cool trend for apple. Some of their older machines just looked horrible.
However NeXT machines especially the cube looked the best of them all:)
You are right. I have no idea what your qualifications are. Just as you have no idea about the qualifications of people working in India or China or wherever else in the world they may be. Yet you did make the statement that your skills give you an advantage over people elsewhere.
I don't know about H1B visas for lawyers, but similar visas do exist for doctors, nurses, auto mechanics (though its easier to get a green card as a specialized mechanic than a visa). I assume that its probably not as practical for lawyers as laws differ from country to country. But a human body is a human body regardless to a doctor, and a mercedes sold here can be worked on by a mechanic just as easily as a mercedes sold in Russia and a programming language in India will be the same as the same programming language in the US.
You said your skills are in high demand, so this means inflated costs. Such as the inflated $250k salary you think you deserve. Like I said, I don't know what your skills are and what kind of work you do. But from what I have seen of IT people,most like to stroke their ego and inflate their worth.
Someone might be worth 250k and the market might not be willing to pay it
Who determines these rates? Hell I think I should be paid $100 per hour to do data entry because my time is worth that much to me. That doesn't make me worth that money. The market usually determines what the going salaries are in that region. And it can be for better or worse.
And I disagree with you. You may think you are hot shit worth $250,000 per year but the market does not think so. Just because you were educated in the US does not mean your skills,work ethic etc are in any way superior to anyone else.
If anything, you seem to have a highly inflated sense of your capabilities just from the comment you made. When you stop walking with your nose up in the air you will understand what I mean.
If you want to blame anyone for losing your job to outsourcing, blame your employer. Employers want to make a profit and they will always go with what is cheaper. But on the flip side, as India's economy gets stronger, it will not be so cheap anymore. And then the outsourcing will go to a different place.
I'm not an Ubuntu fan by any means, but I have a broadcom card for which I had to use ndiswrapper to get running. Took me all of 5 minutes.
As far as cameras are concerned, me and my gf have the Canon SD400 which works great. Just plug it in, start F-Spot and voila all the pictures are imported:)
Ubuntu did make me say whoa just for the ease of installation factor. Hopefully more wireless cards come with better driver support.
After installing Ubunu I have had to use the CLI for the following reasons: 1. To compile ndiswrapper for my wireless card 2. To install the official ATI drivers 3. To use vim
I'm very impressed by the polish of the Ubuntu distribution and will recommend it to others:)
'The whole office was relying on one domain controller which was dying.'
I dont believe that a large corporation like PWC will use only one domain controller. Hell when I worked for a small 40 employee company we had a backup domain controller as well. Hell if you use OpenBSD or Linux or Solaris and you dont setup any redundacy you will end up in a quagmire.
What is he going to say next? That he had SQLServer installation and the databases all in the C: drive as well?
In the end its not what OS/platform you use, but how well the system architects and administrators know their job.
By using the definition of censorship you have posted, SBC is not _censoring_ anything. If you absolutely MUST have erotica with the word teen i it, get it from somewhere else. If they blocked you from accessing the same material from another source using their service, then yes it would be censoring.
If you go to your friend's house and he has a huge pr0n collection, but he doesnt have any pr0n concerning rubber ducks, then is he censoring material that you want to view ?
but I can't even imagine playing these MMORPG games.
Then dont play. Noone is twisting your arm.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
The only thing people expect of you as an adult is that you can support yourself. Noone cares What you do to entertain yourself (provided you dont harm others), whether you play computer games, climb mountains or stare off into space with drool dripping from your mouth.
2. Is there an end to these things?
Yes, it ends when you decide to stop playing. That of course depends on the maturity of the gamer and his ability to prioritize.
I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended.
You dont sound too confident about your will/self control.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
I have a job and I play a few hours per week and I seem to do fine. Hell I even go out on the weekends and do other things. Maybe its because I play to have fun and not worry about how far other people have gotten in game. In short learn to prioritize.
You point would make sense if the contractors were 1099s instead of W2s to the contracting company.
As someone who has worked as a contract employee for many companies, I can tell you that I do not sign ANYTHING with the client company. All my employment contracts, payrates, benefits etc are with the contracting company.
Which also seems to be the case with the people in Boise. If they want benefits etc, they should take it up with their contracting company and not HP.
If you play online games, comcast is probably not the best choice for you. Many comcast customers ( at least on the west coast ) have terrible routing.
For example: A Friend of mine lives in Issaquah. He used to get an average ping of around 30-40ms to servers in Northern California when it was still AT&T broadband. Once comcast took over, he would get automagically rerouted to Northern California servers *through* Chicago 10-20 times a day. It gets annoying when you are playing an online multiplayer game where latency matters ( q3, cs, aa etc ).
Another friend of mine who lives in Sac area has a very inconsistent ping to almost any server he plays on. His latency ranges from 20ms to 100ms. When he does a traceroute, the number of hops he has to go through varies from 13 to over 20. He is switching to SBC DSL in the next week.
Other people who I have spoken to have also had similar experiences. Comcast service is perfect for gaming for a day or 2 and then terrible for another 2 days.
Its quite possible that they oversell or their bandwidth limiters just make it a terrible service for gaming. I dont know if anyone in other areas have the same problem but here on the West Coast, its a terrible service.
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From what I understand almost all distros now have their startup commands in /etc/init.d. /etc/init.d usually ends up being a symlink to whatever the actual rc.d directory is.
o re-generic/LSB-Core-generic/etc.html
/etc/init.d/httpd, on Debian its /etc/init.d/apache{1,2} etc.
According to LSB: http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-C
The only thing which is different is the actual service name. Take Apache for example, on redhat/fedora its
If the police tell you that, then well I guess you need to have your community fight and get your police chief or commissioner replaced.
So what you are saying is that laws outside the justice system is a good thing?
This looks to me like your police force needs to start doing their job better by actually arresting and prosecuting the people who commit crime than think of more ways to defeat the laws which are made to protect the people's rights.
Actually SGI had cooler looking workstations than Apple did. The Blue and white G3s and later started the whole looking cool trend for apple. Some of their older machines just looked horrible.
:)
However NeXT machines especially the cube looked the best of them all
Thanks.
As an Indian living in the US, it was quite a morning for me as I tried to get in touch with relatives in Mumbai to make sure that they are all right.
Kind of scary too, as when I am in Mumbai I almost always take the trains there.
True, I graduated from high school 2 months before my 17th birthday.
You are right. I have no idea what your qualifications are. Just as you have no idea about the qualifications of people working in India or China or wherever else in the world they may be. Yet you did make the statement that your skills give you an advantage over people elsewhere.
I don't know about H1B visas for lawyers, but similar visas do exist for doctors, nurses, auto mechanics (though its easier to get a green card as a specialized mechanic than a visa). I assume that its probably not as practical for lawyers as laws differ from country to country. But a human body is a human body regardless to a doctor, and a mercedes sold here can be worked on by a mechanic just as easily as a mercedes sold in Russia and a programming language in India will be the same as the same programming language in the US.
You said your skills are in high demand, so this means inflated costs. Such as the inflated $250k salary you think you deserve. Like I said, I don't know what your skills are and what kind of work you do. But from what I have seen of IT people,most like to stroke their ego and inflate their worth.
Someone might be worth 250k and the market might not be willing to pay it
Who determines these rates? Hell I think I should be paid $100 per hour to do data entry because my time is worth that much to me. That doesn't make me worth that money. The market usually determines what the going salaries are in that region. And it can be for better or worse.
And I disagree with you. You may think you are hot shit worth $250,000 per year but the market does not think so. Just because you were educated in the US does not mean your skills,work ethic etc are in any way superior to anyone else.
If anything, you seem to have a highly inflated sense of your capabilities just from the comment you made. When you stop walking with your nose up in the air you will understand what I mean.
If you want to blame anyone for losing your job to outsourcing, blame your employer. Employers want to make a profit and they will always go with what is cheaper. But on the flip side, as India's economy gets stronger, it will not be so cheap anymore. And then the outsourcing will go to a different place.
Guess Darl might sue LIC now :-)
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While RedHat is not an evil company by any means, they are similar to Microsoft in one way. Many Linux users hate them.
I for one, dont see any reason to. They have supported a lot of projects and put a lot of effort into Fedora which is a great distro IMO.
I'm not an Ubuntu fan by any means, but I have a broadcom card for which I had to use ndiswrapper to get running. Took me all of 5 minutes.
:)
As far as cameras are concerned, me and my gf have the Canon SD400 which works great. Just plug it in, start F-Spot and voila all the pictures are imported
Ubuntu did make me say whoa just for the ease of installation factor. Hopefully more wireless cards come with better driver support.
17 days ?
Must have been bad hardware.
After installing Ubunu I have had to use the CLI for the following reasons:
:)
1. To compile ndiswrapper for my wireless card
2. To install the official ATI drivers
3. To use vim
I'm very impressed by the polish of the Ubuntu distribution and will recommend it to others
'The whole office was relying on one domain controller which was dying.'
I dont believe that a large corporation like PWC will use only one domain controller. Hell when I worked for a small 40 employee company we had a backup domain controller as well. Hell if you use OpenBSD or Linux or Solaris and you dont setup any redundacy you will end up in a quagmire.
What is he going to say next? That he had SQLServer installation and the databases all in the C: drive as well?
In the end its not what OS/platform you use, but how well the system architects and administrators know their job.
By using the definition of censorship you have posted, SBC is not _censoring_ anything. If you absolutely MUST have erotica with the word teen i it, get it from somewhere else. If they blocked you from accessing the same material from another source using their service, then yes it would be censoring.
If you go to your friend's house and he has a huge pr0n collection, but he doesnt have any pr0n concerning rubber ducks, then is he censoring material that you want to view ?
but I can't even imagine playing these MMORPG games.
Then dont play. Noone is twisting your arm.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
The only thing people expect of you as an adult is that you can support yourself. Noone cares What you do to entertain yourself (provided you dont harm others), whether you play computer games, climb mountains or stare off into space with drool dripping from your mouth.
2. Is there an end to these things?
Yes, it ends when you decide to stop playing. That of course depends on the maturity of the gamer and his ability to prioritize.
I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended.
You dont sound too confident about your will/self control.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
I have a job and I play a few hours per week and I seem to do fine. Hell I even go out on the weekends and do other things. Maybe its because I play to have fun and not worry about how far other people have gotten in game. In short learn to prioritize.
The bar on the top is TitanBar and the User frame is Perl's UserFrame
Blender started out on IRIX AFAIK, not BeOS.
Most idiotic idea ever. You want to limit someone else's gameplay just so you can catch up?
I really dont understand how some people have decent machines but bad performance.
I dont have a beast of a machine. Its a dual P3 550Mhz, 512megs of ram, 64meg GF3 Ti500 card and gnome and kde BOTH run very smoothly on my machine.
The only time my machine ever runs sluggish is when I view flash in a pre 1.0 version of firefox. or when I play games ( 9fps in America's Army )
You point would make sense if the contractors were 1099s instead of W2s to the contracting company.
As someone who has worked as a contract employee for many companies, I can tell you that I do not sign ANYTHING with the client company. All my employment contracts, payrates, benefits etc are with the contracting company.
Which also seems to be the case with the people in Boise. If they want benefits etc, they should take it up with their contracting company and not HP.
My loki games still work. At the most I have had to create a symlink to a certain version of SDL.
If you play online games, comcast is probably not the best choice for you. Many comcast customers ( at least on the west coast ) have terrible routing.
For example:
A Friend of mine lives in Issaquah. He used to get an average ping of around 30-40ms to servers in Northern California when it was still AT&T broadband. Once comcast took over, he would get automagically rerouted to Northern California servers *through* Chicago 10-20 times a day. It gets annoying when you are playing an online multiplayer game where latency matters ( q3, cs, aa etc ).
Another friend of mine who lives in Sac area has a very inconsistent ping to almost any server he plays on. His latency ranges from 20ms to 100ms. When he does a traceroute, the number of hops he has to go through varies from 13 to over 20. He is switching to SBC DSL in the next week.
Other people who I have spoken to have also had similar experiences. Comcast service is perfect for gaming for a day or 2 and then terrible for another 2 days.
Its quite possible that they oversell or their bandwidth limiters just make it a terrible service for gaming. I dont know if anyone in other areas have the same problem but here on the West Coast, its a terrible service.
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