I think that to really find an order in your data, you need to be able to sort it without a PC. For example, think about your data as items of different size, and about your computer as a room. How would you divide your data? How would you store it? How would you sort and search it? By size? By type? By sender?
Once you figured that out, PC-sorting will be smooth.
given the current amount of hard disk storage, and the fact that HD prices are going down, I think that the best way to backup your sensitive data is to keep it on a separate machine, with a raid-1 (mirroring) storage system. I don't believe anybody could have more than a few gigs of relevant, personal data. if a disk fails, you get a new couple of one, change the failed one, reconstruct the mirror. Once the other has failed, you change it, reconstruct the mirror, and you have a bigger raid. You may have to work it out a little bit with LVM and other stuff but it works.
1. who are those 2 millions assholes? 2. if spam is really so "cheap" to send, what are those two millions jobs used for? counter-fighting lawsuits? 3. hope they will stard spamming each other because of that.
I may seem a little bit naive, but I think that given the trend that moved enterprises in the last years, this is the logical conclusion. The US worker is already underpaid, with much less free time than his/hers collegues in the rest of the "it" world. Big companies are making what they want of legislations. The law is the same for those who can afford the same lawyer - all the others don't have much choice. In practice, the US worker has been squeezed enough, now the big corporations are looking elsewhere to get what they want.
Let's hope oversea workers already know Dilbert and will avoid the Cubicle.
excuse me but I missed something.. once the fuel cell is over do we have to change it? or recharging it will do the job? also, how often will you have to change the fuel cell for a new one?
...consider please that it might not be true. or it might be almost true, or it might be "accurate" but not true.
what scares me most is the fact that people still believe to newspapers (ONE source of information) and to news like that. I want to see the trial first, or the sentence - THEN I'd say it's time to leave the US before they come to arrest you because you might decide to learn how to program in C and reverse-engineer some driver.
ok please... turn it off at least until you speak (a good 20 minutes will be fine). After that people will get bored and start surfing the net, so let them do it for a while, then make a break and stop the internet connection again. finish your class with a new topic, try to forus people's attention on something new that you haven't said before.
and yes, walk trough the classe once in a while (not when you're not talking)
...there's a world out there where the internet is NOT sponsorized by corporations and/or media giants, and where governments don't have things like MPAA and RIAA to fund them. Yes, it's not as-fast-as-in-the-US or bandwidth-is-not-as-cheap-as-in-the-US but it's still something better than the pure nothing that was before.
I'm not saying that in the US the 'net is faster, please - those are just 'common opinions' of the average netizen.
Anyway, I'm sorry if in the US things are going worse than ever. Really. The US were a great source of inspiration and knowledge. Time is passing, new countries are kicking in, and in those countries the government is not owned by whoever has the most beautiful logo (a.k.a. corporations).
Yes, I'm sarcastic. But please mod me down, otherwise you'll be marked un-patriothic forever.
let's put a webcam at every corner in public places, then put a sign under the webcam stating its ip address (maybe ipv6 would help). Now everybody with an internet connection can watch any webcam at any time. Since it would be impossible to know who is watching the camera that's above your head, everybody will become a good and productive dron^H^H^H^Hcitizen.
oh, and the paranoia that would arise shortly after will be defined as anti-American: if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have to worry about anything.
say welcome to the new Privacy era!
ps: this is supposed to be a joke. If you don't get it, don't care about it.
Maybe you're a lucky one whose skills are not common. But what would you do when kids will have the same skills that you have and will be paid less than you? Also, given the recent lack of jobs in the IT market in the US, I think that workers *are* interchangeable (because a lot of skilled workers are unemployed).
I'm not talking about you personally, of course... just think about it.
Of course I am willing because my company could be the next one. I can stand some zero-paid days because if my company decides to fire me *then* I'm in deep shit.
Talking about strikes, try to imagine a consumer care center that don't answer the phone.. or other people monitoring "crucial" activities (security centers, emergency restore services, high-availability et cetera) that won't work. Sure they can be fired but it will take time to replace them. In the mean time companies depending on their service will be really pissed off.
Companies are to fight with their same money - a lack of it, not a lack of people. I think.
I don't think a lawsuit would make a difference. Using a lawsuit is like fighting an enemy with a weapon/he/ designed. Wrong.
Lawsuits are just too powerful in the US, and a corporation by definition *has* the power to manage all kind of lawsuits - it has money. Instead, a strike would be an excellent thing to do. Try to imagine the tech support at sun answering the phone like that:
"hello this is Sun Microsystem. I am sorry I canno t answer the phone because they are replacing me with a willing-to-be-paid-less guy coming from another country. So I got fired because I tried to stand for my right. Good luck with your system administration, you have my deepest sympathy. ps: do you have any job opening at your place?"
or something like that.
Oh, that quote was a joke. But it could make the idea sound clear.
I think your answer (besides NOT being a flamebait, IMHO) hits the point. IT is the new front-line industry, and therefore it is attracting corporations (after pioneers, just like it was for the transportation industry).
Those companies are definitively tough, but life was even tougher back then in the 1800s - they were used to/beat/ people trying to form unions.
So I think that it could be done with less effort than it was needed 150 years ago. Now the question is: how could such IT-union avoid the same mistakes that others union made?...any idea?
yes it's a hard problem but it's the biggest power and biggest weakness of unions. Without a complete agreement of all workers, they are useless. Plus, a powerful company *has* the power to fsck any union (see McDonalds, which don't hire workers that are part of unions, and moves away when workers are unionizing...)
oh well, I hope it gets done, because a union in IT can give protection for its subscribers, but also knowledge to them (think about system administration courses held by IT unions by some very-good system administrator.. ).
I understand your concerns. However, I think that a union can guarantee that people do not get dumped and replaced with "young and cheap" guys from other countries. Please note - I'm not saying that hiring people from other countries is wrong. Right now to hire someone from another country you have to "prove" that he is the only one who can do that job in that area However, this "proof" is done just by paying a lawyer enough to get a visa for that guy. My question is: since those guys from India are "replacing" people, why should they be paid less? Either they are not doing the same job (thus there's no need to replace them) or they are paid less (which is unfair). I think a union may help in clearing that situation.
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I think that to really find an order in your data, you need to be able to sort it without a PC. For example, think about your data as items of different size, and about your computer as a room. How would you divide your data? How would you store it? How would you sort and search it? By size? By type? By sender?
Once you figured that out, PC-sorting will be
smooth.
more info available here, changelog here. Use your local mirror please.
...making windows completely reliable. and the only blue screen will display a huge "42".
given the current amount of hard disk storage, and the fact that HD prices are going down, I think that the best way to backup your sensitive data is to keep it on a separate machine, with a raid-1 (mirroring) storage system. I don't believe anybody could have more than a few gigs of relevant, personal data. if a disk fails, you get a new couple of one, change the failed one, reconstruct the mirror. Once the other has failed, you change it, reconstruct the mirror, and you have a bigger raid. You may have to work it out a little bit with LVM and other stuff but it works.
two millions jobs? Now,
1. who are those 2 millions assholes?
2. if spam is really so "cheap" to send, what are those two millions jobs used for? counter-fighting lawsuits?
3. hope they will stard spamming each other because of that.
...but for the sun that the US attacked Iraq. Now it all makes sense to me..
...will be illegal and a sign of terrorism?
I may seem a little bit naive, but I think that given the trend that moved enterprises in the last years, this is the logical conclusion. The US worker is already underpaid, with much less free time than his/hers collegues in the rest of the "it" world.
Big companies are making what they want of legislations.
The law is the same for those who can afford the same lawyer - all the others don't have much choice.
In practice, the US worker has been squeezed enough, now the big corporations are looking elsewhere to get what they want.
Let's hope oversea workers already know Dilbert and will avoid the Cubicle.
really. I tried
defacers-challenge.com,
deface-challenge.com
I tried searching for them on google. nothing.
are we sure that it is not a big joke? I couldn't even find the DNS entry for that domain! And I haven't see a working link anywhere.
But maybe I'm wrong..
excuse me but I missed something.. once the fuel cell is over do we have to change it? or recharging it will do the job?
also, how often will you have to change the fuel cell for a new one?
...consider please that it might not be true. or it might be almost true, or it might be "accurate" but not true.
what scares me most is the fact that people still believe to newspapers (ONE source of information) and to news like that. I want to see the trial first, or the sentence - THEN I'd say it's time to leave the US before they come to arrest you because you might decide to learn how to program in C and reverse-engineer some driver.
Of course the US army will get Microsoft software! It's clear that linux is communism! [quoting Steve Ballmer]
ok please... turn it off at least until you speak (a good 20 minutes will be fine). After that people will get bored and start surfing the net, so let them do it for a while, then make a break and stop the internet connection again. finish your class with a new topic, try to forus people's attention on something new that you haven't said before.
and yes, walk trough the classe once in a while (not when you're not talking)
with a bunch of small video cameras on one side, and the panels on the other, you can accomplish invisibility.
:)
almost.
cool
...there's a world out there where the internet is NOT sponsorized by corporations and/or media giants, and where governments don't have things like MPAA and RIAA to fund them. Yes, it's not as-fast-as-in-the-US or bandwidth-is-not-as-cheap-as-in-the-US but it's still something better than the pure nothing that was before.
I'm not saying that in the US the 'net is faster, please - those are just 'common opinions' of the average netizen.
Anyway, I'm sorry if in the US things are going worse than ever. Really. The US were a great source of inspiration and knowledge. Time is passing, new countries are kicking in, and in those countries the government is not owned by whoever has the most beautiful logo (a.k.a. corporations).
Yes, I'm sarcastic. But please mod me down, otherwise you'll be marked un-patriothic forever.
let's put a webcam at every corner in public places, then put a sign under the webcam stating its ip address (maybe ipv6 would help).
Now everybody with an internet connection can watch any webcam at any time.
Since it would be impossible to know who is watching the camera that's above your head, everybody will become a good and productive dron^H^H^H^Hcitizen.
oh, and the paranoia that would arise shortly after will be defined as anti-American: if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have to worry about anything.
say welcome to the new Privacy era!
ps: this is supposed to be a joke. If you don't get it, don't care about it.
...does it mean that their db really works? (at least, until now..)
Maybe you're a lucky one whose skills are not common. But what would you do when kids will have the same skills that you have and will be paid less than you?
Also, given the recent lack of jobs in the IT market in the US, I think that workers *are* interchangeable (because a lot of skilled workers are unemployed).
I'm not talking about you personally, of course... just think about it.
Of course I am willing because my company could be the next one. I can stand some zero-paid days because if my company decides to fire me *then* I'm in deep shit.
Talking about strikes, try to imagine a consumer care center that don't answer the phone.. or other people monitoring "crucial" activities (security centers, emergency restore services, high-availability et cetera) that won't work. Sure they can be fired but it will take time to replace them. In the mean time companies depending on their service will be really pissed off.
Companies are to fight with their same money - a lack of it, not a lack of people. I think.
However, thank you for you answer.
I don't think a lawsuit would make a difference. Using a lawsuit is like fighting an enemy with a weapon /he/ designed. Wrong.
Lawsuits are just too powerful in the US, and a corporation by definition *has* the power to manage all kind of lawsuits - it has money. Instead, a strike would be an excellent thing to do. Try to imagine the tech support at sun answering the phone like that:
"hello this is Sun Microsystem. I am sorry I canno t answer the phone because they are replacing me with a willing-to-be-paid-less guy coming from another country. So I got fired because I tried to stand for my right. Good luck with your system administration, you have my deepest sympathy. ps: do you have any job opening at your place?"
or something like that.
Oh, that quote was a joke. But it could make the idea sound clear.
I think your answer (besides NOT being a flamebait, IMHO) hits the point. IT is the new front-line industry, and therefore it is attracting corporations (after pioneers, just like it was for the transportation industry).
/beat/ people trying to form unions.
...any idea?
Those companies are definitively tough, but life was even tougher back then in the 1800s - they were used to
So I think that it could be done with less effort than it was needed 150 years ago. Now the question is: how could such IT-union avoid the same mistakes that others union made?
yes it's a hard problem but it's the biggest power and biggest weakness of unions. Without a complete agreement of all workers, they are useless. Plus, a powerful company *has* the power to fsck any union (see McDonalds, which don't hire workers that are part of unions, and moves away when workers are unionizing...)
oh well, I hope it gets done, because a union in IT can give protection for its subscribers, but also knowledge to them (think about system administration courses held by IT unions by some very-good system administrator.. ).
I understand your concerns. However, I think that a union can guarantee that people do not get dumped and replaced with "young and cheap" guys from other countries.
Please note - I'm not saying that hiring people from other countries is wrong. Right now to hire someone from another country you have to "prove" that he is the only one who can do that job in that area However, this "proof" is done just by paying a lawyer enough to get a visa for that guy.
My question is: since those guys from India are "replacing" people, why should they be paid less? Either they are not doing the same job (thus there's no need to replace them) or they are paid less (which is unfair).
I think a union may help in clearing that situation.
thanks for your answer
this would be the right time for it.
I was confused, too.
So, it seems that I'm not the only one who's expecting it?