Actually, your comment makes me wonder how technically savvy YOU are. I went and read the article and she sounds fairly competent to me. Throwing around terms like "pipe", knowing that FC2 f*cked up XFree86Config, and browsing message boards to find solutions to technical problems.
Trust me, my wife is someone who is *NOT* computer-savvy, and when she talks its nothing like Dee-Ann. Instead its phrases like "The thingy wouldn't do the stuff."
Incidently, I'm also fascinated that many of the comments in this story refer to sexism. I've been reading these comments and I haven't seen any that use gender as a reason for the author's problems.
Does it really take "years" to learn a foreign language? I only lived in Germany for a year, but by the end I was able to speak enough to get around. The international students who come to the US seem to pick up English in only a few months. Granted, its not necessarily "fluent" but its enough to get by.
Besides, for US soliders (note: not intelligence, just the standard security-patrol GI) s/he only needs enough to basically communicate with the Iragi nationals s/he comes into contact with on the street. That's not a requirement for fluency, just the same amount a tourist would need.
Its probably too late for this post to get modded up enough for anyone to see it, but I've been at home sick so I didn't check Slashdot every 20 minutes like I usually do.
Based upon marketing hype, my management chain insists on using ISS's Internet Scanner (www.iss.net) to perform site-wide security scans and do vulnerability assessments. Nessus just simply isn't as feature rich as Internet Scanner. IS searches for thousands of vulnerabilities, and they are constantly adding new checks that can be dynamically loaded into the scan tool. The scans are highly customizable. The only problems are the tool can only run on a Windows server (i.e it can scan any network device including unix, printers, and Cisco), its a huge resource hog, and GUI only.
I'd love a nice, easy command-line based unix based system that has all the functionality of ISS, including the nice HTML output. The problem is, of course, that ISS has a huge head start.
I always hear this when I'm reading stories about working overseas, but since I've never done it I don't totally understand it. So if you work overseas it works out differently on your 1040? If an American company pays you don't you just fill out a W-2 like everyone else? What is the "enormous tax break" that you get? Anyone with experience know?
I don't want to sound like a snob, but is 120K/year all they are offering? The mean salaries for a reasonably experienced SysAdmin is in the 70s-80s (http://newweb.sage.org/salsurv/). Is 40K more really that much? Its not like you could come back after a year and suddenly buy a new house with cash or anything.
I regularly participate in triathlons, strictly amateur. Someone once asked me what my least-favorite part is. I quickly answered, the cycling.
With running and swimming technology doesn't help much. Its all about your personal skill. But with biking people can have very distinct advantages. I bought my bike for $200 at Target. The winner at the last tri I ran had a custom-built bike that cost hime more than $5000. Money literally bought him an advantage.
Um, Yahoo clearly states that mail in the "Bulk" (SPAM) folder does not couny against your upper limit.
I actually think that Yahoo's spam filtering is very good. I only get a few false positives a month. And there is also a mailbox-specific domain blocker that you have control over.
Pretty good service for free, methinks.
P.S. Thanks for Slahdotting mail.yahoo.com guys! Now I can't check my mail!
Check out Eric Allman (http://qgeeks.org/2004-ek.html). I've met him several times at various Usenix conferences...he's not quite brilliant, but very, very sharp. And as the author of sendmail, has obviously had a significant impact on the internet of today.
Or you can always just wait until she goes to bed to start playing.
Despite all the "But that's where you should REALLY be playing" jokes that appeared in reply to this, I have some (married) friends at work that use this technique quite well.
They all meet up on EverCrak at about 10PM AFTER the kids have gone to bed and the sex is done and the wives are asleep. I asked my friend in amazement about this and his reply is that their group gaming time is more important than a few hours' sleep. They game from 10PM till 1AM or so then grab six hours before going to work.
I personally think its nuts to sacrifice sleep, but I guess it depends on how serious you are about your gaming.
Sometimes the "cute fluffy" ones ARE the right games. The hard part is if she's not already a gamer then you need to find the games that tickle her fancy.
For me, the PopCap and iWon flash games, along with a MAME setup, worked great! The only problem is now she's on the computer so much I had to quit Battlefield 1942 and now play more console games.
But seriously...if you'd rather play videogames than hit it with your girlfriend then you need to seriously consider if you really want her for a girlfiend at all!
Disclaimer: I did not RTFA but I did read a lot of the comments, and I'm hearing a lot of self-masturbatory, "I'm better than you because I don't like mainstram", blah blah crap.
Its very simple. Listen to what you want. If it makes you smile, cry, laugh, clap, then its good FOR YOU! No one else (not even a poster on Slashdot) can tell you what you are going to personally enjoy.
Is music dead? Absolutely not. I hate to say this, but this is one reason why the p2p is good (no...wait...I didn't mean that!...). I can listen to lots of EVERYTHING! If I hear about some musician, I can go check out their stuff. If its good I buy their album. If it sucks I don't listen to them any more.
So don't tell me that there are no good, innovative musicians anymore. They exist. Find them. Go to clubs. Read websites. Download mp3s. But for Bob's sake, if you find an artist you like, BUY THEIR ALBUM! Otherwise they will never make another one.
Interesting, and sad, that the only responses you get to your post are negative.
It's also sad that there is nothing available to help you. I don't know what country you live in, but is it possible that there is some government program that can help you with getting the proper medication?
Man, Little Caesar's. I was a manager there for 4 years. My favorite damn pizza out of the "fast food" chains (Dominos, PizzaHut, PapaJohns, Hungry Howies).
Unfortunately, where I live they were all bought out by Merlin's. No more LC for me.:-(
So now I don't order delivery "fast food" pizza anymore. My wife and I go search out the "hole-in-the-wall" joints. The pizza at those places is far, far superior.
Or I just make my own at home. She bought me a pizza stone for Christmas last year, its great!
This reminds me of an old PC Accelerator article (anyone remember them....didn't think so) where they went to E3 and specifically went to the "corners" and looked at the tiny, insignificant developers and publishers.
If I recall correctly, most of the stuff they found at the "small" booths was crap. The reason is simple...no money for big-budget resources.
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Actually, your comment makes me wonder how technically savvy YOU are. I went and read the article and she sounds fairly competent to me. Throwing around terms like "pipe", knowing that FC2 f*cked up XFree86Config, and browsing message boards to find solutions to technical problems.
Trust me, my wife is someone who is *NOT* computer-savvy, and when she talks its nothing like Dee-Ann. Instead its phrases like "The thingy wouldn't do the stuff."
Incidently, I'm also fascinated that many of the comments in this story refer to sexism. I've been reading these comments and I haven't seen any that use gender as a reason for the author's problems.
But then again, I browse at +3.
Does it really take "years" to learn a foreign language? I only lived in Germany for a year, but by the end I was able to speak enough to get around. The international students who come to the US seem to pick up English in only a few months. Granted, its not necessarily "fluent" but its enough to get by.
Besides, for US soliders (note: not intelligence, just the standard security-patrol GI) s/he only needs enough to basically communicate with the Iragi nationals s/he comes into contact with on the street. That's not a requirement for fluency, just the same amount a tourist would need.
But perhaps I should RTFA before posting....
Its probably too late for this post to get modded up enough for anyone to see it, but I've been at home sick so I didn't check Slashdot every 20 minutes like I usually do.
Based upon marketing hype, my management chain insists on using ISS's Internet Scanner (www.iss.net) to perform site-wide security scans and do vulnerability assessments. Nessus just simply isn't as feature rich as Internet Scanner. IS searches for thousands of vulnerabilities, and they are constantly adding new checks that can be dynamically loaded into the scan tool. The scans are highly customizable. The only problems are the tool can only run on a Windows server (i.e it can scan any network device including unix, printers, and Cisco), its a huge resource hog, and GUI only.
I'd love a nice, easy command-line based unix based system that has all the functionality of ISS, including the nice HTML output. The problem is, of course, that ISS has a huge head start.
I always hear this when I'm reading stories about working overseas, but since I've never done it I don't totally understand it. So if you work overseas it works out differently on your 1040? If an American company pays you don't you just fill out a W-2 like everyone else? What is the "enormous tax break" that you get? Anyone with experience know?
I don't want to sound like a snob, but is 120K/year all they are offering? The mean salaries for a reasonably experienced SysAdmin is in the 70s-80s (http://newweb.sage.org/salsurv/). Is 40K more really that much? Its not like you could come back after a year and suddenly buy a new house with cash or anything.
I second that notion about bikes.
I regularly participate in triathlons, strictly amateur. Someone once asked me what my least-favorite part is. I quickly answered, the cycling.
With running and swimming technology doesn't help much. Its all about your personal skill. But with biking people can have very distinct advantages. I bought my bike for $200 at Target. The winner at the last tri I ran had a custom-built bike that cost hime more than $5000. Money literally bought him an advantage.
Just out of curiosity, how many Linux users out there even use the GUI features?
/etc/sysconfig/* stuff instead of using the GUI tool.
I use Linux every day, but all I use GNOME for is to open a bunch of terminals.
Even system configurations, I edit
March 28, 20005
Looks like I have plenty of time to prepare...
YMMV...I've had my e-mail account at Yahoo since 1998 and the SPAM filter catches 99% of my SPAM.
Um, Yahoo clearly states that mail in the "Bulk" (SPAM) folder does not couny against your upper limit.
I actually think that Yahoo's spam filtering is very good. I only get a few false positives a month. And there is also a mailbox-specific domain blocker that you have control over.
Pretty good service for free, methinks.
P.S. Thanks for Slahdotting mail.yahoo.com guys! Now I can't check my mail!
Someone's been reading their Anthony, I see...
Check out Eric Allman (http://qgeeks.org/2004-ek.html). I've met him several times at various Usenix conferences...he's not quite brilliant, but very, very sharp. And as the author of sendmail, has obviously had a significant impact on the internet of today.
Also, he is openly gay.
Dilbert: "But what if we turn this on without testing and its doesn't work? Won't the results be catastrophic?"
Ratbert the consultant: "Let me check my contract...nope, I still get paid the same."
Dilbert: "Me, too."
Paul Andrews, a Seattle Times columnist, author of How the Web Was Won, a book about Microsoft, and co-author of the biography Gates
...
Andrews hasn't upgraded his PC from Windows 98 or Office 2000
Is this person REALLY qualified to be speaking about technology, much less writing books about it?
Talk about schlock journalism...
Or you can always just wait until she goes to bed to start playing.
Despite all the "But that's where you should REALLY be playing" jokes that appeared in reply to this, I have some (married) friends at work that use this technique quite well.
They all meet up on EverCrak at about 10PM AFTER the kids have gone to bed and the sex is done and the wives are asleep. I asked my friend in amazement about this and his reply is that their group gaming time is more important than a few hours' sleep. They game from 10PM till 1AM or so then grab six hours before going to work.
I personally think its nuts to sacrifice sleep, but I guess it depends on how serious you are about your gaming.
Sometimes the "cute fluffy" ones ARE the right games. The hard part is if she's not already a gamer then you need to find the games that tickle her fancy.
For me, the PopCap and iWon flash games, along with a MAME setup, worked great! The only problem is now she's on the computer so much I had to quit Battlefield 1942 and now play more console games.
But seriously...if you'd rather play videogames than hit it with your girlfriend then you need to seriously consider if you really want her for a girlfiend at all!
Disclaimer: I did not RTFA but I did read a lot of the comments, and I'm hearing a lot of self-masturbatory, "I'm better than you because I don't like mainstram", blah blah crap.
Its very simple. Listen to what you want. If it makes you smile, cry, laugh, clap, then its good FOR YOU! No one else (not even a poster on Slashdot) can tell you what you are going to personally enjoy.
Is music dead? Absolutely not. I hate to say this, but this is one reason why the p2p is good (no...wait...I didn't mean that!...). I can listen to lots of EVERYTHING! If I hear about some musician, I can go check out their stuff. If its good I buy their album. If it sucks I don't listen to them any more.
So don't tell me that there are no good, innovative musicians anymore. They exist. Find them. Go to clubs. Read websites. Download mp3s. But for Bob's sake, if you find an artist you like, BUY THEIR ALBUM! Otherwise they will never make another one.
"Fame" You call Baby Geniuses a claim to *FAME*?
I can't believe that the cite you use for Kathleen Turner is Baby Geniuses. There was a time when she made really good movies.
Romancing the Stone
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Accidental Tourist
Interesting, and sad, that the only responses you get to your post are negative.
It's also sad that there is nothing available to help you. I don't know what country you live in, but is it possible that there is some government program that can help you with getting the proper medication?
In any case, best of luck my friend.
Well, there's also the slight problem that the Americans who are over there to help rebuild keep getting killed, kidnapped, beheaded, etc...
Otto, I wish I could mod you up +100
Actually, this made me start thinking.
Free for 1 year service. 29.95 * 12 = 359.40
That's a pretty cheap Linux PC, I'd say. Can I crack the case open and load Red Hat?
Man, Little Caesar's. I was a manager there for 4 years. My favorite damn pizza out of the "fast food" chains (Dominos, PizzaHut, PapaJohns, Hungry Howies).
:-(
Unfortunately, where I live they were all bought out by Merlin's. No more LC for me.
So now I don't order delivery "fast food" pizza anymore. My wife and I go search out the "hole-in-the-wall" joints. The pizza at those places is far, far superior.
Or I just make my own at home. She bought me a pizza stone for Christmas last year, its great!
Go here and download the "no cliff racers" mod.
m od s_full.asp
http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind/modcontrols/
This reminds me of an old PC Accelerator article (anyone remember them....didn't think so) where they went to E3 and specifically went to the "corners" and looked at the tiny, insignificant developers and publishers.
If I recall correctly, most of the stuff they found at the "small" booths was crap. The reason is simple...no money for big-budget resources.