Not all hearing aids work for all ears. It sounds like the people next to your parents have a very moderate hearing loss whereas your father has a level higher than that. I wear a BTE in one ear (other ear is just there for looks these days...doesn't work at all) because the inside-the-canal HA's simply aren't strong enough for me. If I had to guess, and this is purely a guess, it was a perfect situation of your hotel-mates didn't need stronger HA's and your father does. Neither one had a need to know of the other options available because the option THEY needed was the one that suited them.
You, sir or madam, are ignorant. Most insurance plans don't cover hearing aids. And try to get one of these digital hearing aids through the gummint. Ain't gonna happen.
True on the insurance part, not so much on the gov't part. I get a digital hearing aid for 100% free (thank you, taxpayers) every two years from the VA. They rolled to full digital HA's a long time ago.
How about fail2ban? We use it to block multiple SSH attempts. It blacklists IP's for a user-defined amount of time and then unblocks them again. Works like a charm, every time. Hell, it's even locked me out on more than one time (because I didn't update the whitelist file for my workstation's IP).
"Fail2ban scans log files like/var/log/pwdfail or/var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address."
They already paid for your time in class and the expense FOR the class. Their obligation is done. You should be doing it for yourself. Don't expect it to all be handed to you.
Ask your interviewers how long they've been with the company, and why do they stay? The second one is more important if you're in a current "hot" field where people jump ship quite a bit. It tends to give a little more insight into the corporate culture and those you'll be working with, in my experiences.
>Talking on a cell phone has become nearly impossible.
Which models have you tried? Verizon is very good about offering cell phones for the hearing impaired, and you can try nearly evey phone in their store before purchasing. I lost my hearing 7 years ago to illness (while active duty USAF, no less) and was left profoundly deaf. Left ear is completely gone, right ear works just enough for a high-powered hearing aid (100% deaf medically speaking). I use a digital Phonak, and previously an analog, with my cell phones. I've been using cell phones as my main landline for 6+ years. First a Kyrocera, then a Samsung, and now a Treo 700. Its not always the easiest thing to do, but 90% of the conversation goes fine. Mentally I can fill in the gaps or ask them to repeat if needed.
Keep trying the cell phones. It'll get easier over time. You'll learn how to hold it for the best sound, ect. Make sure you do your homework first too: Hearing Aid compatible phones.
Yes... I speak from first-hand experience with all this. I'm really, REALLY deaf.
HP era. Less the 2 years old for all of them. The G3's are the oldest at the far end of that range. The G4 models are typically less then 6-8 months old. We have quite a few problems right out of the box.
The oldest ones (the G3's) are approximately 2 years old. All the G4's, about 75% of the total, are less then 1 year old and to get even more specific, less than 6 months old. We purchase them 15-25 racks at a time and there's 15-18 per rack.
I can accept disk failures when there's 6 disks per box multiplied by the number of boxes we have. When scaled, it's understandable there's always going to be something wrong. But to have an entire SCSI backplane crap out 2 weeks after plugging it in (on multiple occaisions) is unacceptable. As is having a fair share show up with video cards broken (headless anyway, but still), iLO cards non-functioning, dead drives upon delivery, ect. is completely unacceptable.
The DL360? These completely non-redundant machines are the worst things you can use for a production server.
Sounds as though you've never had the pleasure of maintaining the DL380 (G3 and G4). I've got ~1,200 of them under my control and damn if they aren't crap; each and every last one of them. Nary a day goes by without losing a few DIMMS, disk controllers, backplanes, PSUs,... the list goes on. Our RedHat installs run fine, so it's not the OS.
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I'm retired USAF and this is easily one of the most ignorant posts I've ever read.
To write off one or two ex-military for the reasons you describe, ok, I'll go along with that. When you look at all of them that way, that tells me your management style needs work.
There's a reason why many companies give preference, and in fact, actively seek out former military and it's the complete opposite of your logic.
It's not them buddy, it's you. It's not their work ethic, it's yours.
I've been using TDWaterhouse (recently merged with Ameritrade, previously recommended in earlier post) for a couple years now and have never had a problem.
Sourcefire (makers of SNORT) could probably give some advice on how they went about charging for a free product. Good article in the latest Howard Business Monthly (Sourcefire is based out of Columbia, MD... abt 10 mins from house, which is in Howard County, MD)
I've always wondered why nobody's taken the effort to really go through the books and figure out what can REALLY get tossed these days, case in point being that Boston-Indian law. Even if it's just an ongoing project for a law school in the area, every semester the prof hands out a few chapters to everyone and at the end of the year give it to the lawmakers to weed crap out. Rough brainstorm, but something along those lines.
Personally, like many others, I feel there's way too many laws out there restricting us. Should I ever run for office of any type, my platform will be "make a law, take one off the books". If you REALLY want that law passed, take one out first.
I tend to read this as being for people who just want to help out or are "looking for something to do" and not neccessarily for the money. Sure, major enhancements could be funded more, but most of them looked pretty minor and a good way to help out the OSS community.
I used MusicBrainz to completely overhaul my mp3s. If it can't figure out the name of your song exactly (through id3 or otherwise, it'll compare hashes to songs in it's database and provide the closet matches.
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Not all hearing aids work for all ears. It sounds like the people next to your parents have a very moderate hearing loss whereas your father has a level higher than that. I wear a BTE in one ear (other ear is just there for looks these days...doesn't work at all) because the inside-the-canal HA's simply aren't strong enough for me. If I had to guess, and this is purely a guess, it was a perfect situation of your hotel-mates didn't need stronger HA's and your father does. Neither one had a need to know of the other options available because the option THEY needed was the one that suited them.
You, sir or madam, are ignorant. Most insurance plans don't cover hearing aids. And try to get one of these digital hearing aids through the gummint. Ain't gonna happen.
True on the insurance part, not so much on the gov't part. I get a digital hearing aid for 100% free (thank you, taxpayers) every two years from the VA. They rolled to full digital HA's a long time ago.
How about fail2ban? We use it to block multiple SSH attempts. It blacklists IP's for a user-defined amount of time and then unblocks them again. Works like a charm, every time. Hell, it's even locked me out on more than one time (because I didn't update the whitelist file for my workstation's IP).
"Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address."
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>If they skimmed money the traditional way (bribes and scams) would we call them a "financegang"?
No, we'd probably call them "Congressman".
They already paid for your time in class and the expense FOR the class. Their obligation is done. You should be doing it for yourself. Don't expect it to all be handed to you.
Ask your interviewers how long they've been with the company, and why do they stay? The second one is more important if you're in a current "hot" field where people jump ship quite a bit. It tends to give a little more insight into the corporate culture and those you'll be working with, in my experiences.
I can't be the only one that uses !$ all day long. I love that little bash trick to reference your last used statement.
cat foo
vi !$
fsck -y /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
mount !$
Audio cues are more important than ever, and the better your sound system the more next-gen this will feel."
That's great, considering I'm deaf. Oh well. Win some, lose some.
>Talking on a cell phone has become nearly impossible.
.
Which models have you tried? Verizon is very good about offering cell phones for the hearing impaired, and you can try nearly evey phone in their store before purchasing. I lost my hearing 7 years ago to illness (while active duty USAF, no less) and was left profoundly deaf. Left ear is completely gone, right ear works just enough for a high-powered hearing aid (100% deaf medically speaking). I use a digital Phonak, and previously an analog, with my cell phones. I've been using cell phones as my main landline for 6+ years. First a Kyrocera, then a Samsung, and now a Treo 700. Its not always the easiest thing to do, but 90% of the conversation goes fine. Mentally I can fill in the gaps or ask them to repeat if needed.
Keep trying the cell phones. It'll get easier over time. You'll learn how to hold it for the best sound, ect. Make sure you do your homework first too: Hearing Aid compatible phones
Yes... I speak from first-hand experience with all this. I'm really, REALLY deaf.
I turn off my hearing aid when I go into my server room.
No, seriously.
Being deaf ain't half bad sometimes.
--Dave
HP era. Less the 2 years old for all of them. The G3's are the oldest at the far end of that range. The G4 models are typically less then 6-8 months old. We have quite a few problems right out of the box.
The oldest ones (the G3's) are approximately 2 years old. All the G4's, about 75% of the total, are less then 1 year old and to get even more specific, less than 6 months old. We purchase them 15-25 racks at a time and there's 15-18 per rack.
I can accept disk failures when there's 6 disks per box multiplied by the number of boxes we have. When scaled, it's understandable there's always going to be something wrong. But to have an entire SCSI backplane crap out 2 weeks after plugging it in (on multiple occaisions) is unacceptable. As is having a fair share show up with video cards broken (headless anyway, but still), iLO cards non-functioning, dead drives upon delivery, ect. is completely unacceptable.
The DL360? These completely non-redundant machines are the worst things you can use for a production server.
Sounds as though you've never had the pleasure of maintaining the DL380 (G3 and G4). I've got ~1,200 of them under my control and damn if they aren't crap; each and every last one of them. Nary a day goes by without losing a few DIMMS, disk controllers, backplanes, PSUs,... the list goes on. Our RedHat installs run fine, so it's not the OS.
I'm retired USAF and this is easily one of the most ignorant posts I've ever read.
To write off one or two ex-military for the reasons you describe, ok, I'll go along with that. When you look at all of them that way, that tells me your management style needs work.
There's a reason why many companies give preference, and in fact, actively seek out former military and it's the complete opposite of your logic.
It's not them buddy, it's you. It's not their work ethic, it's yours.
>a OBP specialist
:)
Never hire this guy. I've always said that if someone knows too much about the OBP it's because his boxes are down too much
--Dave
I always like "How long have you been with $COMPANY? What keeps you with $COMPANY?"
Someone else already did the legwork...
XAMPP... It's a prerolled LAMP server. Unzip, install, customize.
XAMMP - LAMP
--Dave
I've been using TDWaterhouse (recently merged with Ameritrade, previously recommended in earlier post) for a couple years now and have never had a problem.
root@somebox# cat rename.patch
/usr/sbin/satan /usr/sbin/santa
#!/bin/sh
# Idiots getting their panties in a bunch of a friggin' program name!
# Fine, here:
mv
echo "Happy now?!"
I can barely remember my phone number most of the time :)
--Dave
Sourcefire (makers of SNORT) could probably give some advice on how they went about charging for a free product. Good article in the latest Howard Business Monthly (Sourcefire is based out of Columbia, MD... abt 10 mins from house, which is in Howard County, MD)
http://www.bizmonthly.com/6_2005/1.shtml
Perhaps you can convince the Powers That Be that they can charge for it *and* still release it to the world for free.
--Dave
I've always wondered why nobody's taken the effort to really go through the books and figure out what can REALLY get tossed these days, case in point being that Boston-Indian law. Even if it's just an ongoing project for a law school in the area, every semester the prof hands out a few chapters to everyone and at the end of the year give it to the lawmakers to weed crap out. Rough brainstorm, but something along those lines.
Personally, like many others, I feel there's way too many laws out there restricting us. Should I ever run for office of any type, my platform will be "make a law, take one off the books". If you REALLY want that law passed, take one out first.
I tend to read this as being for people who just want to help out or are "looking for something to do" and not neccessarily for the money. Sure, major enhancements could be funded more, but most of them looked pretty minor and a good way to help out the OSS community.
--Dave
I used MusicBrainz to completely overhaul my mp3s. If it can't figure out the name of your song exactly (through id3 or otherwise, it'll compare hashes to songs in it's database and provide the closet matches.
http://www.musicbrainz.org/
--Dave
up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,b,a,start!
15 yrs later and I can still remember giving my Contra players 30 lives. Good times.