I just can't see much of a use for the product...I set it up and played for about 10 minutes, before I realized there wasn't anything I really wanted about it.
The centralized logging is a cool feature, I *like* that, but I don't really *need* it. And the egg-timers, also a cool feature, but I don't need it enough to justify having my conversations logged (because I don't need them logged anywhere than my local machine.)
If I needed remote access to logs on a regular basis, the service would be very interesting to me. For the few times I'm not at my desktop, I probably have a RDP session open into it anyways. Making the point invalid.
Very interesting concept but not useful enough for me right now. I would be *very* interested in a downloadable version of this I could run on my own system to get the personal secretary functionality. I find the logging better served by Trillian's own logging features, so I wouldn't need that.
Note that the downloadable version: I don't expect it to be open-source either. I have no interest in having the code or being able to extend it, since I'm not really a programmer. I'd pay about the same amount I paid for Trillian for this functionality. (Bonus if it was a Trillian plugin.)
I should *have* to delete my entire application profile, in order to upgrade the version?
I like Firefox...but the fact that the API for extensions breaks every version upgrade (hopefully that's done with, until 2.0???) coupled with the fact that it simply can't handle existing on the same machine as an older copy of itself really annoys me.
Those are the sort of things that prove to me that Open Source software just doesn't quite get it...they're almost there, but they miss the mark in the end.
Text-to-Columns alone has saved a company I consulted for thousands of dollars.
They had a list of data they needed imported from one database to another...and I had to clean it up.
First thing I did was construct the delimiters in the way the new database wanted: using Text-to-Columns.
They had hired some high schoolers to do manual data entry at $6 an hour -- but they were only able to do maybe 20 or 30 records an hour at most. It would have taken them 200 hours or so to process the entire database that way. So, for the minimum fee of $200, I used Excel to reorganize their data, into a more automatically-importable format. Saved them $1000, made myself $200.:)
"Hope they test a lot with my relatively rare soundcard..."
They don't have to.
That's what DirectX is for.
As long as your sound card can be used by the DirectSound API, which is a component of DirectX, it doesn't matter what model it is. Sure, it might not have A3D or EAX/EAX2, but those are things that are generally not enabled unless you tell it to in the first place. Thus, it's not Valve's responsibility at all to ensure compatibility...I (without looking) imagine it requires DirectX-compatible sound, or something. Or at least Sound Blaster compatible sound (the "least common denominator" for sound support, since sound cards really came out.)
I download illegally, only what I can't get through legal channels.
There was a distinct lack of music stores which sold music I wanted to listen to in my hometown (less so, here in Atlanta) and my legal online distro channel (www.allofmp3.com) which charges less than a dollar an album (electronic delivery in any format, no DRM) doesn't have a lot of things either.
So, I use private DC hubs with people in close geographic proximity to me to find songs I simply cannot purchase.
About half of my collection is purchased music; the rest downloaded (or ripped from a free webcast thereof.)
I have approximately 6,500 songs.
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Oddly enough, while "AD" is a proprietary technology, none of its components are.
Active Directory is a pretty standard LDAP database. The MS-specific stuff is even passed via option fields in queries; that's why my Linux clients can authenticate to an Active Directory domain and receive settings about networking, access control on network resources, etc. from them.
You can't apply GPOs to Linux boxes, obviously, but you can have them in the domain -- and have them work normally.
As the title says: You're not interesetd, trust me.
I almost ended up greek but ended up not following through with it...between the insane cost of dues, and the jumping through other people's hoops for no reason other than to "fit in" it just wasn't worth it.
Most of em were great guys, and it was a fun house (but it did kill my grades while I was there.) but I just couldn't see myself there for a lifetime.
Especially because I am switching majors and hopefully never studying computer science again after this year.
I marketed myself as a certified IT support service, for businesses too small to have a dedicated IT staff. (And, admittedly, "too small" to have an IT staff extended up to companies with 40-ish employees, in my experience.)
They paid an insane rate for me per-hour, around $50, *way* more than they were paying their regular employees -- but I only had maybe 1 call every 2 weeks from most places. I wore a lot of hats...Active Directory administrator at one place, Act! DBA at another, Filemaker DBA at a third, helpdesk at a fourth...was making a decent amount of money from it. (Was only part-time.)
This is the sort of thing that will never be outsourced, because it's too "Hands on" *to* be outsourced. Companies still need someone to be physically there, when something breaks such that a reboot just won't fix it. Or when they need complex tasks done for them.
an act in Congress making it a Felony to claim any measure, be it legal, technological, medical, etc. is to "protect the children" without statistically incontrovertible proof that children are being "harmed" in the first place.
No more "Family Movies Act of 2004" banning skipping of commercials. No more COPPA Act, keeping kids off the Internet. etc.
Shouldn't be too difficult...some VCRs have auto-commercial-remove, that works by detecting the different timecodes in the commercial as opposed to the feature.
When you have 460TB of data, how the hell do you even begin to search it?
Seems like they'd need to license map-reduce from google or something. (That's a distributed data correlation engine. With extremely high fault tolerence, to boot.)
I'd like to see more businesses supporting work-from-home.
Things like, call centers, could easily be distributed. VPN (or Internet)-based helpdesk app for support, paid per call handled. While you're "logged in", calls to the company PBX line for helpdesk are forwarded to a random selection of your phone numbers.
With people being able to do their jobs with lower overhead (transportation costs, etc.) wages can be lower, meaning (1) more profit for corporation and (2) because less of the wage is tied up in overhead, higher useable income for the worker, despite having a lower absolute wage.
I was interested in getting a HAM license, so I could legally play around with antenna configurations and power output modifications and such, in the WiFi band.
Then I learned that it's illegal to broadcast encrypted data over it. (No WEP, no WPA, no HTTPS even.)
The Olympus turbofans were some of the most powerful ones ever produced, that saw use outside of the space shuttle and such. (Yes, I'm aware the space shuttle doesn't use turbofans...but it's the same idea.)
Imagine if they mounted those engines on a fighter or something.
Using the more granular control of C's malloc functions, it seems to me you could force a linked list type deal to be allocated in contigious memory, then use pointer arithmatic (i.e. arrays) to access it.
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I just can't see much of a use for the product...I set it up and played for about 10 minutes, before I realized there wasn't anything I really wanted about it.
The centralized logging is a cool feature, I *like* that, but I don't really *need* it. And the egg-timers, also a cool feature, but I don't need it enough to justify having my conversations logged (because I don't need them logged anywhere than my local machine.)
If I needed remote access to logs on a regular basis, the service would be very interesting to me. For the few times I'm not at my desktop, I probably have a RDP session open into it anyways. Making the point invalid.
Very interesting concept but not useful enough for me right now. I would be *very* interested in a downloadable version of this I could run on my own system to get the personal secretary functionality. I find the logging better served by Trillian's own logging features, so I wouldn't need that.
Note that the downloadable version: I don't expect it to be open-source either. I have no interest in having the code or being able to extend it, since I'm not really a programmer. I'd pay about the same amount I paid for Trillian for this functionality. (Bonus if it was a Trillian plugin.)
I should *have* to delete my entire application profile, in order to upgrade the version?
I like Firefox...but the fact that the API for extensions breaks every version upgrade (hopefully that's done with, until 2.0???) coupled with the fact that it simply can't handle existing on the same machine as an older copy of itself really annoys me.
Those are the sort of things that prove to me that Open Source software just doesn't quite get it...they're almost there, but they miss the mark in the end.
Mozilla Quality Feedback Agent doesn't work for me.
It won't send reports, keeps popping up when I don't want it to; I have to delete my crash event and make it go away.
Nailer, a few comments above me, says you can apply GPOs to *nix boz:
"with Vintela, you can apply GPOs to Linux boxes.
Conversely, with a product from PADL, you can store group policies for Windows clients on a Linux LDAP server."
I was half-correct, I suppose.
Text-to-Columns alone has saved a company I consulted for thousands of dollars.
:)
They had a list of data they needed imported from one database to another...and I had to clean it up.
First thing I did was construct the delimiters in the way the new database wanted: using Text-to-Columns.
They had hired some high schoolers to do manual data entry at $6 an hour -- but they were only able to do maybe 20 or 30 records an hour at most. It would have taken them 200 hours or so to process the entire database that way. So, for the minimum fee of $200, I used Excel to reorganize their data, into a more automatically-importable format. Saved them $1000, made myself $200.
"Hope they test a lot with my relatively rare soundcard..."
They don't have to.
That's what DirectX is for.
As long as your sound card can be used by the DirectSound API, which is a component of DirectX, it doesn't matter what model it is. Sure, it might not have A3D or EAX/EAX2, but those are things that are generally not enabled unless you tell it to in the first place. Thus, it's not Valve's responsibility at all to ensure compatibility...I (without looking) imagine it requires DirectX-compatible sound, or something. Or at least Sound Blaster compatible sound (the "least common denominator" for sound support, since sound cards really came out.)
I download illegally, only what I can't get through legal channels.
There was a distinct lack of music stores which sold music I wanted to listen to in my hometown (less so, here in Atlanta) and my legal online distro channel (www.allofmp3.com) which charges less than a dollar an album (electronic delivery in any format, no DRM) doesn't have a lot of things either.
So, I use private DC hubs with people in close geographic proximity to me to find songs I simply cannot purchase.
About half of my collection is purchased music; the rest downloaded (or ripped from a free webcast thereof.)
I have approximately 6,500 songs.
Oddly enough, while "AD" is a proprietary technology, none of its components are.
Active Directory is a pretty standard LDAP database. The MS-specific stuff is even passed via option fields in queries; that's why my Linux clients can authenticate to an Active Directory domain and receive settings about networking, access control on network resources, etc. from them.
You can't apply GPOs to Linux boxes, obviously, but you can have them in the domain -- and have them work normally.
As the title says: You're not interesetd, trust me.
I almost ended up greek but ended up not following through with it...between the insane cost of dues, and the jumping through other people's hoops for no reason other than to "fit in" it just wasn't worth it.
Most of em were great guys, and it was a fun house (but it did kill my grades while I was there.) but I just couldn't see myself there for a lifetime.
Especially because I am switching majors and hopefully never studying computer science again after this year.
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Information about the service menu?
My phone's snap noise annoys the shit out of me, and totally kills the ability to take quick pictures of things.
email jkoebel@nospam.gmail.com if you don't wanna post it here.
You've hit on the niche market I was involved in.
I marketed myself as a certified IT support service, for businesses too small to have a dedicated IT staff. (And, admittedly, "too small" to have an IT staff extended up to companies with 40-ish employees, in my experience.)
They paid an insane rate for me per-hour, around $50, *way* more than they were paying their regular employees -- but I only had maybe 1 call every 2 weeks from most places. I wore a lot of hats...Active Directory administrator at one place, Act! DBA at another, Filemaker DBA at a third, helpdesk at a fourth...was making a decent amount of money from it. (Was only part-time.)
This is the sort of thing that will never be outsourced, because it's too "Hands on" *to* be outsourced. Companies still need someone to be physically there, when something breaks such that a reboot just won't fix it. Or when they need complex tasks done for them.
yeah....my thermometer says it's about to ice over.
course I'm only a recreational slashdotter.
an act in Congress making it a Felony to claim any measure, be it legal, technological, medical, etc. is to "protect the children" without statistically incontrovertible proof that children are being "harmed" in the first place.
No more "Family Movies Act of 2004" banning skipping of commercials. No more COPPA Act, keeping kids off the Internet. etc.
Shouldn't be too difficult...some VCRs have auto-commercial-remove, that works by detecting the different timecodes in the commercial as opposed to the feature.
dd /dev/diskdevice | grep "some thing that is inside of a gnucash file"
to see if it even exists on the disk.
There's someone who had a similar dilemma in this thread, I'm very sure. Ask him.
When you have 460TB of data, how the hell do you even begin to search it?
Seems like they'd need to license map-reduce from google or something. (That's a distributed data correlation engine. With extremely high fault tolerence, to boot.)
We don't need to invest in our children...poor children should be put to work building things for the rest of society.
I'd like to see more businesses supporting work-from-home.
Things like, call centers, could easily be distributed. VPN (or Internet)-based helpdesk app for support, paid per call handled. While you're "logged in", calls to the company PBX line for helpdesk are forwarded to a random selection of your phone numbers.
With people being able to do their jobs with lower overhead (transportation costs, etc.) wages can be lower, meaning (1) more profit for corporation and (2) because less of the wage is tied up in overhead, higher useable income for the worker, despite having a lower absolute wage.
I was interested in getting a HAM license, so I could legally play around with antenna configurations and power output modifications and such, in the WiFi band.
Then I learned that it's illegal to broadcast encrypted data over it. (No WEP, no WPA, no HTTPS even.)
And decided I wasn't interested any more.
Interesting piece of trivia:
The Concorde's Olympus engines put out more thrust (169 kN beak) than Project Pluto's nuclear powered ramjet did (156 kN peak)
Hah.
The Olympus turbofans were some of the most powerful ones ever produced, that saw use outside of the space shuttle and such. (Yes, I'm aware the space shuttle doesn't use turbofans...but it's the same idea.)
Imagine if they mounted those engines on a fighter or something.
I'm not scared by very many technological things.
That, however, was one of them.
Somebody or everybody should start the process for transferring icann.org out from under them.
Using the more granular control of C's malloc functions, it seems to me you could force a linked list type deal to be allocated in contigious memory, then use pointer arithmatic (i.e. arrays) to access it.
I may be totally wrong on this, however.