I just finished setting up a Citrix server that addressed just that. Based on group membership, we can restrict what executable you launch with file security, i.e. you have to be a member of the Office Professional group in order to run Power Point or Publisher. With a simple login script, we add the desktop and start menu shortcuts to apps that they have permissions to run, and remove them if they don't have permissions. For the client side, we are using Thinstation to PXE boot the diskless clients and automatically launch a Citrix desktop session.
You must have picked the wrong creationist. Not all of us are hate-spewing, narrow-minded, rhetoric quoting hypocrites. It really is a shame that a significant percentage of the Christians in this country fall into the above classification.
That being said, the Bible is approximately 5000 years old, not 2000. I am also interested in your proof of revisions, and a reference for the alleged stoning of disobedient children. In all honesty, that is a new one for me, and I have been a Christian for almost 30 years. If you need a good online Bible for researching this, you can go here
As far as evolution goes, I have one really burning question. Given that it is theoretically possible that The Big Bang really happened and that everything in the universe has undergone successive iterations to end up where we are now, where did all the "stuff" come from so that The Big Bang could happen? Was it always just there, or did it come from somewhere (or something)else? Where is the ultimate origin?
I choose to believe in a Supreme Being that transcends time and space, who always was and always will be, who is all knowing and all powerful. I choose to put my faith in Him, as opposed to putting my faith in Naturalism. No one will ultimately prove or disprove evolution, so there has to be at least a small portion of faith involved in believing either side. You can either put your faith in God, or in evolution. I choose to believe in God, and to submit my life to him, instead of trying to be my own god (I've tried it, and it doesn't work). We all try to be our own gods, because that is human nature. We are inherently stubborn and refuse to submit to something that we cannot see. That is why man has been trying to disprove God, or declare him dead, for a very long time.
When you are tired of fighting him, you might actually come to the place where you Need Him I know that I do.
I have service thru AT&T Wireless and receive between 15 and 30 spam SMS messages a day. I opted out of text messaging, which means that I can't SEND text messages. I called and requested that it be turned off entirely. The tech informed me that I wouldn't receive any voice mail or other types of notification. I said, "Fine. Turn it off." I still get the same number of messages. The only other alternative offered to me was to change my number.
I find it a bit hard to believe that they can't filter outside traffic from the other internal notification messages. All the messages that I receive is email addressed to @wireless.att.net. How hard would it be to filter that out? Tech support claims that there isn't anything they can do.
I won't be renewing my contract. You can count on that.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual salary for a general practititioner in the greater Chicagoland area is only $128,060. This statement would be correct if you were comparing the average INDIAN CS salary, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the mean annual salary for all Computer and Mathematical Occupations for the greater Chicagoland area is $63,550.
Another area to consider is that all practicing physicians are required to carry professional liability insurance. Premium rates can exceed $100,000 annually for high risk specialties [1], and still run in the $1000's annually for the average MD.
There are many in the medical profession who are much better off financially than the mean, but to make a blanket statement that all practicing physicians make $400K - 800K is just not true.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. " -Robert Cringley
I don't remember which version it was, but in early 1998 I downloaded the floppy disk sets and installed on my brand new Cyrix MediaGX 180 with 24 MB of ram and a 6 gig HD. It was almost a year later before the integrated graphics of the MediaGX were supported in X. I was so eager for a linux GUI that I even tried ggi.
Ahh, the memories. All because I was far too green for dselect.
A severance package? How kind. I was downsized from my last position on a Wednesday at 4:15 PM in the middle of July. I got an email from my boss at 3:30 to see him in his office. They paid me for time worked and remaining accrued vacation time, and not a nickel more. Thanks for the three and a half years. Bye, bye.
BTW, does anyone need a Delphi programmer in Chicago or Detroit?
Rack up another one for newegg. Most of my component purchases have been from newegg. Price, selection, shipping, support, they do it all very well. The only other suggestions would be Mushkin for RAM, and to buy the heavy stuff locally. If you have a local Microcenter, they are pretty good for cases.
I agree. Delphi/Kylix gives you cross platform compatibility, is a very nice human readable language, and sports the fastest compiler for x86 on the planet. Just be sure to turn on the "show compiler progress" option, or you might think that nothing happend. When I started working with Delphi, I stopped looking for anything else.
Word of warning: If you plan on doing web development, stay far away from Web Snap (found in Delphi 6 Enterprise). Most people think it's crap. I tend to agree. Try IntraWeb from AtoZed Software
Everyone loves a good parody, especially something as familiar as Star Wars. If I recall correctly, I saw Star Wars Intellectual Property being parodied on a recent Celebrity Death Match. It's not that big of a leap from CDM to anime porn. Besides, I wasn't the only one who lusted over the Princess when I was twelve. This had to happen sooner or later.
On my @Home network, my upload speed is capped at 128Kb. I'm lucky if I see 75% of that on a regular basis. I'm surely not going to share that bandwidth with a neighbor for free. Even if I charge them, I still get the short end of it when they have Morpheus or Bear Share running 24/7.
A co-worker of mine turned me on to Mood Logic. It is a program that allows the profiling of an MP3 file based on its sonic signature. Profiling is done via user input. Auto profiliing via net database of profiled songs. A user it then able to filter their MP3 collection by tempo, mood, artist, date, genre, or a collection of the above criteria. ID3 tag fixing is another perk. Very nice integration with WinAmp.
OK, now for the drawbacks.
1.) No ogg support, although it has been requested and acknowledged.
2.) Windows only.
3.) Proprietary sonic profiling algorithm.
I have been using this on a Win98 machine at home and I am impressed so far.
What about the Shuttle SV24 previously discussed here? A barebones system for $250 (Get it with a free floppy drive from newegg). Add a cpu, RAM, hard drive, dvd with decoder, wireless keyboard and mouse.
Approximate cost for add ons -
Celeron 800 - $40
128MB PC100 - $8 (or $15 if you want name brand)
40GB hard drive - $73
DVD w/ DXR3 - $127
Wireless Keyboard - $55
for an approximate grand total with shipping of $400. I surely won't be forking out $1500 for one of these.
we gave up on locking down and went back to rebuilding the systems nightly...
When I was attending Purdue in the mid '90s, all the computer lab machines would reload a disk image over the network after every reboot. It only took about 10 - 15 minutes to get a login after starting a reload, and you were guaranteed a completely fresh environment. It sucked if you only needed to print out a file from a floppy for that class that started three minutes ago. On the other hand, you never had to worry about malicious code. No viruses, trojans, password sniffers, etc. It made maintaining the machines that much easier. Each lab had its own master image and any updates could be tested on an admin workstation before the updates were published. Once the image was published, every machine was updated at the next reload.
I bought the SMC Barricade 4-port router, and it worked flawlessly right out of the box. I found it for $85.
SMC regularly updates the software and the features are fairly advanced: NAT, port forwarding, DHCP, supports full C class network, special application port access (trigger outbound port opens specific inbound ports, used in online gaming, pc to phone, etc), DMZ zone (set up an IP compeltely out in the open), Access control lists (block/open ports based on IP/MAC address for up to 3 different groups), full logging, drop WAN side ping packets, remote administration, and more.
The real distinguishing part from all of the other routers is the built in print server. Connect Win/Mac/Linux machines to the same printer on your network..
Since I needed a hub anyway, I couldn't pass up on this one. I can't see anyone wanting to set up a NAT, firewall, DHCP and print server all in one box on old, cheap hardware. And mine weighs less than a pound. Use the cheap hardware for your personal web/ftp/mp3 server.
I once knew a professor at Purdue University named Aldo Giorgini. He was an amazing man who was equally talanted in Engineering and Art. He was a Civil Engineering Professor until 1994 when he lost his battle with brain cancer. He was also a pioneer in computer generated art in the late '60s and early '70s, and some of his artwork is on display at the Smithsonian Institute. Unfortunately, there isn't much on the web about him. If you are near West Lafayette, IN, you should go to Potter Hall on the Purdue Campus to view some of his work.
I appreciate your zeal to blast everyone into the 21st century, but there are still many entities that cannot think outside of the "dead trees in a metal box" box.
Who, you ask? Dealing substantially with the public sector, I would have to say government agencies. They still view computers as a way to streamline form and report generation, provided that they even use computers at all. To boot, government is just now getting the "it's gotta be on the web" bug. Their bottom line is "...and if it doesn't come in triplicate so that I can stuff it into a filing cabinet, I can't use it."
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I just finished setting up a Citrix server that addressed just that. Based on group membership, we can restrict what executable you launch with file security, i.e. you have to be a member of the Office Professional group in order to run Power Point or Publisher. With a simple login script, we add the desktop and start menu shortcuts to apps that they have permissions to run, and remove them if they don't have permissions. For the client side, we are using Thinstation to PXE boot the diskless clients and automatically launch a Citrix desktop session.
You must have picked the wrong creationist. Not all of us are hate-spewing, narrow-minded, rhetoric quoting hypocrites. It really is a shame that a significant percentage of the Christians in this country fall into the above classification.
That being said, the Bible is approximately 5000 years old, not 2000. I am also interested in your proof of revisions, and a reference for the alleged stoning of disobedient children. In all honesty, that is a new one for me, and I have been a Christian for almost 30 years. If you need a good online Bible for researching this, you can go here
As far as evolution goes, I have one really burning question. Given that it is theoretically possible that The Big Bang really happened and that everything in the universe has undergone successive iterations to end up where we are now, where did all the "stuff" come from so that The Big Bang could happen? Was it always just there, or did it come from somewhere (or something)else? Where is the ultimate origin?
I choose to believe in a Supreme Being that transcends time and space, who always was and always will be, who is all knowing and all powerful. I choose to put my faith in Him, as opposed to putting my faith in Naturalism. No one will ultimately prove or disprove evolution, so there has to be at least a small portion of faith involved in believing either side. You can either put your faith in God, or in evolution. I choose to believe in God, and to submit my life to him, instead of trying to be my own god (I've tried it, and it doesn't work). We all try to be our own gods, because that is human nature. We are inherently stubborn and refuse to submit to something that we cannot see. That is why man has been trying to disprove God, or declare him dead, for a very long time.
When you are tired of fighting him, you might actually come to the place where you Need Him I know that I do.
Maybe Apache would have been a better choice?
W orkerRequest wr) +148
.NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573
Stack Trace:
[HttpException (0x80004005): Server Too Busy]
System.Web.HttpRuntime.RejectRequestInternal(Http
Version Information: Microsoft
I have service thru AT&T Wireless and receive between 15 and 30 spam SMS messages a day. I opted out of text messaging, which means that I can't SEND text messages. I called and requested that it be turned off entirely. The tech informed me that I wouldn't receive any voice mail or other types of notification. I said, "Fine. Turn it off." I still get the same number of messages. The only other alternative offered to me was to change my number.
I find it a bit hard to believe that they can't filter outside traffic from the other internal notification messages. All the messages that I receive is email addressed to @wireless.att.net. How hard would it be to filter that out? Tech support claims that there isn't anything they can do.
I won't be renewing my contract. You can count on that.
I'm sure it was an honest error. All the other patent applications were from Microsoft.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual salary for a general practititioner in the greater Chicagoland area is only $128,060. This statement would be correct if you were comparing the average INDIAN CS salary, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the mean annual salary for all Computer and Mathematical Occupations for the greater Chicagoland area is $63,550.
Another area to consider is that all practicing physicians are required to carry professional liability insurance. Premium rates can exceed $100,000 annually for high risk specialties [1], and still run in the $1000's annually for the average MD.
There are many in the medical profession who are much better off financially than the mean, but to make a blanket statement that all practicing physicians make $400K - 800K is just not true.
I just couldn't resist
News flash! Google changes name to "Minister of Information"
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. " -Robert Cringley
I don't remember which version it was, but in early 1998 I downloaded the floppy disk sets and installed on my brand new Cyrix MediaGX 180 with 24 MB of ram and a 6 gig HD. It was almost a year later before the integrated graphics of the MediaGX were supported in X. I was so eager for a linux GUI that I even tried ggi.
Ahh, the memories. All because I was far too green for dselect.
A severance package? How kind. I was downsized from my last position on a Wednesday at 4:15 PM in the middle of July. I got an email from my boss at 3:30 to see him in his office. They paid me for time worked and remaining accrued vacation time, and not a nickel more. Thanks for the three and a half years. Bye, bye.
BTW, does anyone need a Delphi programmer in Chicago or Detroit?
Rack up another one for newegg. Most of my component purchases have been from newegg. Price, selection, shipping, support, they do it all very well. The only other suggestions would be Mushkin for RAM, and to buy the heavy stuff locally. If you have a local Microcenter, they are pretty good for cases.
I agree. Delphi/Kylix gives you cross platform compatibility, is a very nice human readable language, and sports the fastest compiler for x86 on the planet. Just be sure to turn on the "show compiler progress" option, or you might think that nothing happend. When I started working with Delphi, I stopped looking for anything else.
Word of warning: If you plan on doing web development, stay far away from Web Snap (found in Delphi 6 Enterprise). Most people think it's crap. I tend to agree. Try IntraWeb from AtoZed Software
Everyone loves a good parody, especially something as familiar as Star Wars. If I recall correctly, I saw Star Wars Intellectual Property being parodied on a recent Celebrity Death Match. It's not that big of a leap from CDM to anime porn. Besides, I wasn't the only one who lusted over the Princess when I was twelve. This had to happen sooner or later.
On my @Home network, my upload speed is capped at 128Kb. I'm lucky if I see 75% of that on a regular basis. I'm surely not going to share that bandwidth with a neighbor for free. Even if I charge them, I still get the short end of it when they have Morpheus or Bear Share running 24/7.
A co-worker of mine turned me on to Mood Logic. It is a program that allows the profiling of an MP3 file based on its sonic signature. Profiling is done via user input. Auto profiliing via net database of profiled songs. A user it then able to filter their MP3 collection by tempo, mood, artist, date, genre, or a collection of the above criteria. ID3 tag fixing is another perk. Very nice integration with WinAmp.
OK, now for the drawbacks.
1.) No ogg support, although it has been requested and acknowledged.
2.) Windows only.
3.) Proprietary sonic profiling algorithm.
I have been using this on a Win98 machine at home and I am impressed so far.
What about the Shuttle SV24 previously discussed here? A barebones system for $250 (Get it with a free floppy drive from newegg). Add a cpu, RAM, hard drive, dvd with decoder, wireless keyboard and mouse.
Approximate cost for add ons -
Celeron 800 - $40
128MB PC100 - $8 (or $15 if you want name brand)
40GB hard drive - $73
DVD w/ DXR3 - $127
Wireless Keyboard - $55
for an approximate grand total with shipping of $400. I surely won't be forking out $1500 for one of these.
Finally, a celebrity I'm proud to share a birthday with.
we gave up on locking down and went back to rebuilding the systems nightly...
When I was attending Purdue in the mid '90s, all the computer lab machines would reload a disk image over the network after every reboot. It only took about 10 - 15 minutes to get a login after starting a reload, and you were guaranteed a completely fresh environment. It sucked if you only needed to print out a file from a floppy for that class that started three minutes ago. On the other hand, you never had to worry about malicious code. No viruses, trojans, password sniffers, etc. It made maintaining the machines that much easier. Each lab had its own master image and any updates could be tested on an admin workstation before the updates were published. Once the image was published, every machine was updated at the next reload.
Borland has already hinted that other OS/platforms would be supported in the future.
Let it be known that you just committed a felony for implying a threat on the life of President Bush. Think before you submit.
I bought the SMC Barricade 4-port router, and it worked flawlessly right out of the box. I found it for $85.
SMC regularly updates the software and the features are fairly advanced: NAT, port forwarding, DHCP, supports full C class network, special application port access (trigger outbound port opens specific inbound ports, used in online gaming, pc to phone, etc), DMZ zone (set up an IP compeltely out in the open), Access control lists (block/open ports based on IP/MAC address for up to 3 different groups), full logging, drop WAN side ping packets, remote administration, and more.
The real distinguishing part from all of the other routers is the built in print server. Connect Win/Mac/Linux machines to the same printer on your network..
Since I needed a hub anyway, I couldn't pass up on this one. I can't see anyone wanting to set up a NAT, firewall, DHCP and print server all in one box on old, cheap hardware. And mine weighs less than a pound. Use the cheap hardware for your personal web/ftp/mp3 server.
I once knew a professor at Purdue University named Aldo Giorgini. He was an amazing man who was equally talanted in Engineering and Art. He was a Civil Engineering Professor until 1994 when he lost his battle with brain cancer. He was also a pioneer in computer generated art in the late '60s and early '70s, and some of his artwork is on display at the Smithsonian Institute. Unfortunately, there isn't much on the web about him. If you are near West Lafayette, IN, you should go to Potter Hall on the Purdue Campus to view some of his work.
Then use hemp paper. Tree based paper has been around for less than a hundred years.
I appreciate your zeal to blast everyone into the 21st century, but there are still many entities that cannot think outside of the "dead trees in a metal box" box.
Who, you ask? Dealing substantially with the public sector, I would have to say government agencies. They still view computers as a way to streamline form and report generation, provided that they even use computers at all. To boot, government is just now getting the "it's gotta be on the web" bug. Their bottom line is "...and if it doesn't come in triplicate so that I can stuff it into a filing cabinet, I can't use it."