Like any job you do 8 hours a day 5 days a week, there are going to be times when it is tedious. But it is usually the peripheral parts that are tedious. Meetings, restructures, office politics, come-to-jesus meetings, and so on ad nauseum. Programming would be much more enjoyable without all that garbage, but they are part of having a job. So you put up with them.
I work Java all day at work, and when I get home I spend my spare time working in Python and Zope. I enjoy both in different ways, and both can be old and tedious at times.
Go to any Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowes, or comparable store on a busy weekend. Count how many people bring out more stuff than they have room for in their car. Be it one large item or just too many small ones, I see this happen all the time.
Um, I'm not sure what you mean by highlighting, but I know that Photoshop certainly highlights the area you are dragging it around. How the hell else would you know what you've lassoed?
I would've rated them slightly differently, but with the same spread between them ("Definitive" getting 7, Meloni's book getting 5). McKay's book is a must have for anyone doing anything with plone, and will really be useful for anyone using Zope that plans on moving to Z3 when it arrives, as CMF is the new interface to Zope with 3.0.
Meloni's book is largely targeted at content managers and site administrators, developers won't find it to be as useful.
If your backup was unshared and secure it wouldn't have been overwritten. Keeping a backup on the same machine is the same as not having a backup. I would argue that keeping a backup on the same subnet is the same as not having a backup.
I worked at a financial services firm for many years. As most of our clients were older, we had to deal with this kind of issue fairly often (several times per year at least). Get an official copy of the death cert and a notarized copy of the will (if there is one) or living trust (even better, paperwork wise) or durable power of attorney (best of all). That would be enough for us to provide account information without upsetting the SEC, who are fairly strict about privacy issues.
Barring that, it shouldn't be terribly hard to get a court order, and we all know how eager ISP's are to comply with those when law enforcement come knocking. There's nothing of any particular interest on my machine that anyone other than me would care about (except the MP3s). My wife already knows my passwords, which makes this not a problem anyway.
A year ago? Try a decade ago. The vast majority of the TV and movie industry content today is retreads of stuff that's 30 years old or more. They don't even vary the story lines anymore. Half the time they just 'remake' something from the 60's/70's, and do so very poorly. Did we really need a "Gilligan's Island REALITY SHOW REMAKE?!?!?!".
There is no creativity left in mainstream mass media. Deal with it. Games were already headed this way, and now it will just happen faster.
Hear hear! I've had similar experiences with friends and family in the past. During the.com days I got calls all the time "can you come undo the stupid shit I did to my computer?" One of the biggest selling points of linux, to me, is that for four years I've not had to fix a single computer for software related issues. None of my computers has had any problems I didn't create myself (like accidentally deleting the home tree). The calls started tapering off real fast when I started saying "I don't use Windows, so I'm not up to date on what to do to fix it."
The sad part was realizing how many people were friends solely because I could fix their computers. Once I stopped being their free 24/7 tech support line they disappeared.
Man, I certainly hope that with the money from the sales of their PC business IBM can finally afford to get a spell checker.
I'm four chapters into this book. While there's a lot of great information and ideas, it reads like a rough draft. Given that I haven't seen a story on cnn.com with FEWER than 3 major spelling or grammar issue (most frequent error on cnn: Sentences that missing word! (yes, that's intentional)) in years, I suppose this book is not all that terrible. There are several pages so far that have not had any significant ones...
There are logs all over the place. Your isp/employer will have logs of when you connected, checked mail, etc. I've done forensics on hack attempts on web sites and had to compare our logs with those of the ISP for the attacker in order to have what was considered meaningful evidence. An IP address is meaningless without context, as you say. A preponderance of evidence from multiple unrelated sources gives sufficient context.
The "synergies" aren't meant to benefit the consumer. They are to benefit the investors and the corporate executives. Consumers benefit from competition in the marketplace, mergers of this scale are reductive of competition.
The point is to reduce costs, increase profits, and give all that extra money to the hard working execs and the hard working wall street types who make the deal happen, and let enough dribble down to the investors so that they don't make a stink. Screw everyone else.
Health Management Organization. A bureacracy that takes all medical expertise out of the equation and just looks at the dollar cost of doing procedure X versus the perceived value of having it done. If they think it makes more sense financially to not cover a procedure, then they deny treatment.
You're clearly not familiar with HMO's. The purpose of doctors in that context is to minimize the expense of caring for people, not to do everything reasonably possible to nurse them back to health.
I think it's great that we've taken the tricky work of medical care out of the hands of doctors and given accountants the authority to make all the life and death decisions.
I agree about the foosball and game systems, but sitting at a screen for 10-14 hours a day 5-6 days a week really screems for a comfortable chair. Needn't be an Aeron, but the crappy $40 Office Depot special of the week doesn't cut it.
"This sounds to me like a complaint of a competitor desperately trying to stop progress."
Ummm, there have been over *200 incidents* in the past few months. During the dotcom days in Colorado when Qworst had their Big Yellow Cablefinders out for twelve hour days even on weekends the whole region didn't see that many breakages in the four years I was there. On a side note, when it did happen it was considered pretty entertaining that they were generally tearing through their own cables.
From the article (I know, I did RTFA and should be chastised for doing so) it sounds like the massive volumes of complaints to the city had a little more to do with this than any of Verizons' competitors.
Several thousand, actually, most of which are technical instructions on how to get [x] running on a particular Thinkpad model. Remarkably detailed, I've never had any trouble running linux on Thinkpads.
There are several other posts with this same idea "Why not just fine them?". While this is more effective than jail for most non-violent criminals, particular classes of white collar criminals are not bothered by such fines at all. They move their assets into their spouses name, declare personal bankruptcy, and don't pay a penny of the fines. This amounts to not being punished at all.
I doubt anyone based in reality thinks that the irregularities would change the outcome of the election. The point most people are trying to make is that these machines need a lot of improvement, particularly a paper trail and real auditability.
Not really true. Many Presidents have tried to limit people's rights. Not necessarily by amending the constitution, but through the Alien and Sedition Acts, suspension of civil rights during wartime (War of 1812, Civil War, WW1 and WW2 mostly), internment of Japanese in WW2 in particular, operations against leftist groups by the FBI and CIA (illegally, in their case) throughout the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and still going on.
The purpose of government is to restrict the rights of individuals to some degree or another in the interest of the greater good. I'm no Bush fan, and he's certainly been more actively hostile towards liberty, freedom, and individual rights than any president in recent memory, but saying he's the only one to try to limit rights is overly simplistic.
I've often been criticised by fellow liberals when I espouse the idea that you should have to take a test before being allowed to vote. A simple fact based test e.g.
Amendment x will do which of the following: a - change the wording of the state constitution regarding property tax b - require me to sign over my firstborn child c - change the wording of the state constitution regarding employment rules
If they can't get that right, they don't get to vote on that issue, move on to the next one.
While WebFear certainly has holes in it you could float an aircraft carrier through, we've had zero problems with support over the past three years. Call in a pr, explain the issue to the drone in India on the phone, tell them the problem is in a production environment and you get a call back within a few hours from an actual engineer. I've gotten support for them on an unsupported OS and their fixes worked (running WSAD on Fedora Core 2).
You can use iKeyman to figure out what certs you're using, btw. Just use the right iKeyman...
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Like any job you do 8 hours a day 5 days a week, there are going to be times when it is tedious. But it is usually the peripheral parts that are tedious. Meetings, restructures, office politics, come-to-jesus meetings, and so on ad nauseum. Programming would be much more enjoyable without all that garbage, but they are part of having a job. So you put up with them.
I work Java all day at work, and when I get home I spend my spare time working in Python and Zope. I enjoy both in different ways, and both can be old and tedious at times.
Fortunately, most people have the good sense not to believe the Washington Times.
Go to any Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowes, or comparable store on a busy weekend. Count how many people bring out more stuff than they have room for in their car. Be it one large item or just too many small ones, I see this happen all the time.
"Your first time being root is much the same as loosing your virginity only with less humilation."
Not if you manage to combine the right balance of arrogance and incompetence it's not.
Um, I'm not sure what you mean by highlighting, but I know that Photoshop certainly highlights the area you are dragging it around. How the hell else would you know what you've lassoed?
I realize that it's against proper protocol to RTFA, but it does explicitly state that the relationship with MSN will continue.
I would've rated them slightly differently, but with the same spread between them ("Definitive" getting 7, Meloni's book getting 5). McKay's book is a must have for anyone doing anything with plone, and will really be useful for anyone using Zope that plans on moving to Z3 when it arrives, as CMF is the new interface to Zope with 3.0.
Meloni's book is largely targeted at content managers and site administrators, developers won't find it to be as useful.
If your backup was unshared and secure it wouldn't have been overwritten. Keeping a backup on the same machine is the same as not having a backup. I would argue that keeping a backup on the same subnet is the same as not having a backup.
I worked at a financial services firm for many years. As most of our clients were older, we had to deal with this kind of issue fairly often (several times per year at least). Get an official copy of the death cert and a notarized copy of the will (if there is one) or living trust (even better, paperwork wise) or durable power of attorney (best of all). That would be enough for us to provide account information without upsetting the SEC, who are fairly strict about privacy issues.
Barring that, it shouldn't be terribly hard to get a court order, and we all know how eager ISP's are to comply with those when law enforcement come knocking. There's nothing of any particular interest on my machine that anyone other than me would care about (except the MP3s). My wife already knows my passwords, which makes this not a problem anyway.
A year ago? Try a decade ago. The vast majority of the TV and movie industry content today is retreads of stuff that's 30 years old or more. They don't even vary the story lines anymore. Half the time they just 'remake' something from the 60's/70's, and do so very poorly. Did we really need a "Gilligan's Island REALITY SHOW REMAKE?!?!?!".
There is no creativity left in mainstream mass media. Deal with it. Games were already headed this way, and now it will just happen faster.
Hear hear! I've had similar experiences with friends and family in the past. During the .com days I got calls all the time "can you come undo the stupid shit I did to my computer?" One of the biggest selling points of linux, to me, is that for four years I've not had to fix a single computer for software related issues. None of my computers has had any problems I didn't create myself (like accidentally deleting the home tree). The calls started tapering off real fast when I started saying "I don't use Windows, so I'm not up to date on what to do to fix it."
The sad part was realizing how many people were friends solely because I could fix their computers. Once I stopped being their free 24/7 tech support line they disappeared.
Man, I certainly hope that with the money from the sales of their PC business IBM can finally afford to get a spell checker.
I'm four chapters into this book. While there's a lot of great information and ideas, it reads like a rough draft. Given that I haven't seen a story on cnn.com with FEWER than 3 major spelling or grammar issue (most frequent error on cnn: Sentences that missing word! (yes, that's intentional)) in years, I suppose this book is not all that terrible. There are several pages so far that have not had any significant ones...
There are logs all over the place. Your isp/employer will have logs of when you connected, checked mail, etc. I've done forensics on hack attempts on web sites and had to compare our logs with those of the ISP for the attacker in order to have what was considered meaningful evidence. An IP address is meaningless without context, as you say. A preponderance of evidence from multiple unrelated sources gives sufficient context.
The "synergies" aren't meant to benefit the consumer. They are to benefit the investors and the corporate executives. Consumers benefit from competition in the marketplace, mergers of this scale are reductive of competition.
The point is to reduce costs, increase profits, and give all that extra money to the hard working execs and the hard working wall street types who make the deal happen, and let enough dribble down to the investors so that they don't make a stink. Screw everyone else.
Health Management Organization. A bureacracy that takes all medical expertise out of the equation and just looks at the dollar cost of doing procedure X versus the perceived value of having it done. If they think it makes more sense financially to not cover a procedure, then they deny treatment.
You're clearly not familiar with HMO's. The purpose of doctors in that context is to minimize the expense of caring for people, not to do everything reasonably possible to nurse them back to health.
I think it's great that we've taken the tricky work of medical care out of the hands of doctors and given accountants the authority to make all the life and death decisions.
I agree about the foosball and game systems, but sitting at a screen for 10-14 hours a day 5-6 days a week really screems for a comfortable chair. Needn't be an Aeron, but the crappy $40 Office Depot special of the week doesn't cut it.
"This sounds to me like a complaint of a competitor desperately trying to stop progress."
Ummm, there have been over *200 incidents* in the past few months. During the dotcom days in Colorado when Qworst had their Big Yellow Cablefinders out for twelve hour days even on weekends the whole region didn't see that many breakages in the four years I was there. On a side note, when it did happen it was considered pretty entertaining that they were generally tearing through their own cables.
From the article (I know, I did RTFA and should be chastised for doing so) it sounds like the massive volumes of complaints to the city had a little more to do with this than any of Verizons' competitors.
There are no money shots on the spice channel. Not that I watch it. I've heard there are no money shots on the spice channel.
Several thousand, actually, most of which are technical instructions on how to get [x] running on a particular Thinkpad model. Remarkably detailed, I've never had any trouble running linux on Thinkpads.
8 NT8D.html.
See also IBM Products Certified for use with Linux: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4
There are several other posts with this same idea "Why not just fine them?". While this is more effective than jail for most non-violent criminals, particular classes of white collar criminals are not bothered by such fines at all. They move their assets into their spouses name, declare personal bankruptcy, and don't pay a penny of the fines. This amounts to not being punished at all.
I doubt anyone based in reality thinks that the irregularities would change the outcome of the election. The point most people are trying to make is that these machines need a lot of improvement, particularly a paper trail and real auditability.
Forgive us for wanting to improve the process.
Not really true. Many Presidents have tried to limit people's rights. Not necessarily by amending the constitution, but through the Alien and Sedition Acts, suspension of civil rights during wartime (War of 1812, Civil War, WW1 and WW2 mostly), internment of Japanese in WW2 in particular, operations against leftist groups by the FBI and CIA (illegally, in their case) throughout the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and still going on.
The purpose of government is to restrict the rights of individuals to some degree or another in the interest of the greater good. I'm no Bush fan, and he's certainly been more actively hostile towards liberty, freedom, and individual rights than any president in recent memory, but saying he's the only one to try to limit rights is overly simplistic.
I've often been criticised by fellow liberals when I espouse the idea that you should have to take a test before being allowed to vote. A simple fact based test e.g.
Amendment x will do which of the following:
a - change the wording of the state constitution regarding property tax
b - require me to sign over my firstborn child
c - change the wording of the state constitution regarding employment rules
If they can't get that right, they don't get to vote on that issue, move on to the next one.
While WebFear certainly has holes in it you could float an aircraft carrier through, we've had zero problems with support over the past three years. Call in a pr, explain the issue to the drone in India on the phone, tell them the problem is in a production environment and you get a call back within a few hours from an actual engineer. I've gotten support for them on an unsupported OS and their fixes worked (running WSAD on Fedora Core 2).
You can use iKeyman to figure out what certs you're using, btw. Just use the right iKeyman...