Also, remember that they haven't actually stolen anything until they go through the door, even if they put something under their shirt.
in some states there are laws to deal with this. i forget what they're called, but they deal with the intent to steal. since there's really no logical reason to put an expensive piece of equipment under your shirt as you walk to the door (not through the checkout lanes either), it can be shown that you have the intent to steal it, even if they stop you before you get outside.
if i were gonna give my girlfriend a stuffed animal with electronics inside, it wouldn't just consist of a hub. there'd definately be some "imaging" equipment too..
i've found that sometimes the restore CD from the manufacturer contains specific drivers that are either hard to find or impossible to install correctly. took me a week to figure out which order to the drivers on my NT laptop before so that it would be stable.
i used to have an old subaru wagon. when i first went to get the brakes changed i was amazed at how much they wanted for it. being a poor college student, i decided to go to a shade-tree mechanic instead, because he said he could do it for like half the price. when i got there and he had it up on his lift, he realized why the other guys wanted to charge me so much. the subarus required a special set of tools to remove the brakes. luckily he had them, but he said it was the hardest #@$%$ brake job he'd done in a long time..
hurt yourself with tools and parts with sharp edges
i can't tell you how many times i cut my hands up trying to unplug an IDE cable from a hard drive on those stupid HP Vectra's at my first tech job. any work inside those computer usually involved at least one cut on my hands from the unfinished metal inside..
sounds like a pipe dream in my area. libraries are lucky to have enough funding to replace the aging books, i don't think they'll have enough money to install burners.
some of the suburbs around here are pretty well off, but they are also home to the people who have no problems buying the xp upgrade when it comes out.
i think that if something is zoned one thing, it's inclusive of any lower "zones"..so if in a city you're zoned as a business, you can have a residence there instead, but not the other way around.
when i first got connected, i had a hell of a time getting my linux box to work on it, finally figured out that it had to have the proper "computer name" (hostname) setup or the DHCP server wouldn't recognize it and send it an IP..
i'd almost suggest splitting the migration into two parts. the first would concern servers, stuff the average user wouldn't necessarily see. the second would be the pc's in the labs that most of the students would end up using at one point or another.
i'm sure there are plenty of guides to migrating over to servers, so i won't blab about it here, but for the lab migration i'd think about doing it one lab at a time, maybe taking the second most used lab and switching it, and then seeing what goes wrong/right with it. then use that as a kind of planner for how to migrate the other labs.
if we have #2 and #3, we'll also have people claiming that it's spyware, complaining that they want to know what you're blocking. as such, the people who know how to block stuff will turn the logging off, and the people who don't know how to block stuff will leave the logging on. so analyzing the logs wouldn't do much good, would it?
yeah, i've heard of some letter grade systems (used by companies, not schools or anything) that use more than just A-F, I think they go up (or down) to H or so, in which case the gov't systems getting an F wouldn't be as bad (still bad, just not as bad) as we think.
simple economics: How many 18 year olds can they hire for the salary you require >30? two. but how many pairs of 18 year olds have 12 years experience each, and can integrate their knowledge to get the job done in half the time?
upgrade path: What is the "step-up" from sysadmin? Do you still want to be a sysadmin when you are >50? i'd love to, but the upgrade path (assuming you're fairly decent with office politics) would be to IT Director, maybe VP, who knows. sure, you wouldn't be getting much hands on work at 40/50+, but you'd have the experience and background to know what's going to work (assuming you keep up with the technology).
the job: Sysadmins are associated with their failures rather than their successes. You may perform the most amazing technical feats, but you only get noticed when something fails. but, if you do your job right, either a) nothing will fail, or b)when it does fail, you'll have a backup to whatever failed. this assumes you have enough in your budget to buy what you need to backup everything, which i did at my last admin job. and when stuff failed, it was noted that it wasn't my fault, and also that i did a good job of being able to recover relativly quickly. i was commended and the higher ups noted that i was worth at least what i was paid.
texas has that law, double the fine if it's a work zone, but i've noticed that recently they've been adding a sign to the bottom of the warnings that says "when work crews are present".
classics like danny dunn series...i loved those books. the "invisible boy" one was the best, although i was at an age where i thought of more interesting uses for it...
hope they'll reprint those too.
but no former CEO would catch himself dead flipping burgers or working retail, even though they're perfectly good jobs for anything...but its a freaking INCOME.
i hate to say it, but this applies to more than just former CEO's. My sister's boyfriend was without a job for 4 years because of a dislike of any work in the "food service" industry (flippin' burgers). the only job interviews he'd go to were for jobs he couldn't possibly get, but he refused to "demean" himself by settling for anything less. so instead, my sister got the lovely job of supporting his lazy ass until i convinced her to make him get a job, any job, anything at all.
every fast food place i go to nowadays has signs up looking for employees. i know it's not a lot, but its got to be better than nothing. most of them claim to start at a minimum of $7-8 an hour.
i was under the impression that in japan the employees were expected to spend their entire carrer working for the same company, and that since they earn their way up the ladder by learning everything about the field, they would be of great value to another company.
i had a friend who worked at verizon during the merger and before the name change. there were rumors about how the company had already bought newnamesucks.com, and.net, and a bunch of other ones like it, even before the name had been announced.
i like throwing my laptop (with TV out) next to the TV to listen to MP3's, it's nice and relaxing sometimes to let it run with some of the cooler winamp visualization plugins. plus, for music i'm trying out that i haven't listened to before i can have it pop the artist/name up on the TV when a song starts so i can know who/what i'm listening to.
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Also, remember that they haven't actually stolen anything until they go through the door, even if they put something under their shirt.
in some states there are laws to deal with this. i forget what they're called, but they deal with the intent to steal. since there's really no logical reason to put an expensive piece of equipment under your shirt as you walk to the door (not through the checkout lanes either), it can be shown that you have the intent to steal it, even if they stop you before you get outside.
i've found that cryptome is a great source of intelligence info
if i were gonna give my girlfriend a stuffed animal with electronics inside, it wouldn't just consist of a hub. there'd definately be some "imaging" equipment too..
I wonder how that'd affect the chick magnet factor
won't the magnets screw up the switch?
:>
i've found that sometimes the restore CD from the manufacturer contains specific drivers that are either hard to find or impossible to install correctly. took me a week to figure out which order to the drivers on my NT laptop before so that it would be stable.
i agree that dave berry isn't funny, but personally, i think dave barry is hilarious..
i used to have an old subaru wagon. when i first went to get the brakes changed i was amazed at how much they wanted for it. being a poor college student, i decided to go to a shade-tree mechanic instead, because he said he could do it for like half the price. when i got there and he had it up on his lift, he realized why the other guys wanted to charge me so much. the subarus required a special set of tools to remove the brakes. luckily he had them, but he said it was the hardest #@$%$ brake job he'd done in a long time..
hurt yourself with tools and parts with sharp edges
i can't tell you how many times i cut my hands up trying to unplug an IDE cable from a hard drive on those stupid HP Vectra's at my first tech job. any work inside those computer usually involved at least one cut on my hands from the unfinished metal inside..
sounds like a pipe dream in my area. libraries are lucky to have enough funding to replace the aging books, i don't think they'll have enough money to install burners.
some of the suburbs around here are pretty well off, but they are also home to the people who have no problems buying the xp upgrade when it comes out.
i think that if something is zoned one thing, it's inclusive of any lower "zones"..so if in a city you're zoned as a business, you can have a residence there instead, but not the other way around.
i think..
or it could be the bacon talking..
when i first got connected, i had a hell of a time getting my linux box to work on it, finally figured out that it had to have the proper "computer name" (hostname) setup or the DHCP server wouldn't recognize it and send it an IP..
HTH
(OT i know, but i had to mention it)
a friend of mine found that hotmail/microsoft was at one point offering @myhouse.com, so he grabbed "ididyourmama@myhouse.com"..
i'd almost suggest splitting the migration into two parts. the first would concern servers, stuff the average user wouldn't necessarily see. the second would be the pc's in the labs that most of the students would end up using at one point or another.
i'm sure there are plenty of guides to migrating over to servers, so i won't blab about it here, but for the lab migration i'd think about doing it one lab at a time, maybe taking the second most used lab and switching it, and then seeing what goes wrong/right with it. then use that as a kind of planner for how to migrate the other labs.
if we have #2 and #3, we'll also have people claiming that it's spyware, complaining that they want to know what you're blocking. as such, the people who know how to block stuff will turn the logging off, and the people who don't know how to block stuff will leave the logging on. so analyzing the logs wouldn't do much good, would it?
yeah, i've heard of some letter grade systems (used by companies, not schools or anything) that use more than just A-F, I think they go up (or down) to H or so, in which case the gov't systems getting an F wouldn't be as bad (still bad, just not as bad) as we think.
simple economics: How many 18 year olds can they hire for the salary you require >30?
two. but how many pairs of 18 year olds have 12 years experience each, and can integrate their knowledge to get the job done in half the time?
upgrade path: What is the "step-up" from sysadmin? Do you still want to be a sysadmin when you are >50?
i'd love to, but the upgrade path (assuming you're fairly decent with office politics) would be to IT Director, maybe VP, who knows. sure, you wouldn't be getting much hands on work at 40/50+, but you'd have the experience and background to know what's going to work (assuming you keep up with the technology).
the job: Sysadmins are associated with their failures rather than their successes. You may perform the most amazing technical feats, but you only get noticed when something fails.
but, if you do your job right, either a) nothing will fail, or b)when it does fail, you'll have a backup to whatever failed. this assumes you have enough in your budget to buy what you need to backup everything, which i did at my last admin job. and when stuff failed, it was noted that it wasn't my fault, and also that i did a good job of being able to recover relativly quickly. i was commended and the higher ups noted that i was worth at least what i was paid.
if you're interested in replica paintball guns, check out this site. i'd love to get the mp5, and the m60 is awesome..
Perhaps you should consider looking for positive uses, rather than concentrating only on the bad possibilities?
if only he could use his trolling for good instead of evil...
not yet, but i think right now it's in a bit of a bind trying to make tea..
texas has that law, double the fine if it's a work zone, but i've noticed that recently they've been adding a sign to the bottom of the warnings that says "when work crews are present".
classics like danny dunn series...i loved those books. the "invisible boy" one was the best, although i was at an age where i thought of more interesting uses for it... hope they'll reprint those too.
but no former CEO would catch himself dead flipping burgers or working retail, even though they're perfectly good jobs for anything...but its a freaking INCOME.
i hate to say it, but this applies to more than just former CEO's. My sister's boyfriend was without a job for 4 years because of a dislike of any work in the "food service" industry (flippin' burgers). the only job interviews he'd go to were for jobs he couldn't possibly get, but he refused to "demean" himself by settling for anything less. so instead, my sister got the lovely job of supporting his lazy ass until i convinced her to make him get a job, any job, anything at all.
every fast food place i go to nowadays has signs up looking for employees. i know it's not a lot, but its got to be better than nothing. most of them claim to start at a minimum of $7-8 an hour.
i was under the impression that in japan the employees were expected to spend their entire carrer working for the same company, and that since they earn their way up the ladder by learning everything about the field, they would be of great value to another company.
*shrug* different country, different culture...
i had a friend who worked at verizon during the merger and before the name change. there were rumors about how the company had already bought newnamesucks.com, and .net, and a bunch of other ones like it, even before the name had been announced.
i like throwing my laptop (with TV out) next to the TV to listen to MP3's, it's nice and relaxing sometimes to let it run with some of the cooler winamp visualization plugins. plus, for music i'm trying out that i haven't listened to before i can have it pop the artist/name up on the TV when a song starts so i can know who/what i'm listening to.