On the more practical end: If you use broadband at home anyways, then don't sweat it. On the other hand, if the primary use of broadband at home is to service work, I'd cut it and let the employer deal with it. Similarly with cell phones and pagers. If they aren't paying for it, I'd say they have no right to demand it.
Exactly. Go back to dialup, and then when you submit your overtime logbook (or whatever), explain why it took you three hours of remote access to fix $PROBLEM instead of just 30 minutes...).
My first job (at a school not far from where I live) had me starting out by upgrading a PC. Simple enough!
I pulled the two HDDs out of the old PC, dumped them in the new one. Of course, one of the major reasons for the upgrade was because it was badly out of disk space, so I decided to ghost the first (smaller) drive onto the new computer's relatively large drive.
Simple enough. Either Ghost screwed up or I did, not sure, but it ended up that the computer wouldn't read any of the drives... the two old ones both contained un-backed-up, fairly important data and custom-installed apps.
Erk.
I did what I could at the time, but couldn't get it working again before I left that afternoon - it was my school formal! I was told I shouldn't come in the next day, but really wanted to cover up my screwup (lest anyone try to use the semi-upgraded computer), so I came in as early as I could the next day - trusty Linux BBC in hand...
After much examination, I found that the data itself was intact, but the partition table was utterly screwed. I copied the disk wholesale using dd (onto the larger disk) and tried creating a new table using fdisk - nup, didn't work.
I scratched my head for a while before realising the solution - I used dd and it's "skip=" parameter to copy the disk starting at the beginning of the actual filesystem (skipping the partition table). A quick search in a hex-editor gave me the offset, and a few minutes later I had a few-GBs worth of filesystem in a file.
One loop-back mount later, and the data was recovered. I shuffled things around for a while, but the end result was that I'd saved my ass and no-one ever had to know!:)
I'm not so sure that we will ever be rid of bundling (all the time cable is around, anyway;).
I mean, it'll be illegal to force you to buy all of the channels, but they'd probably just spread their shows over more channels... instead of having [n] good shows on (say) UPN, you'd get the spread over UPN#1, UPN#2,...UPN#[n] or whatever.
(I just picked UPN cos its the only one I can think of right now... I'm a cable-less Aussie anyway;)
Running an iBook (I don't know about the G4 one but the ones prior to it) with the lid closed is -not- supported, but it is supported on the PowerBooks.
iBooks doo a lot of cooling through their keyboards, from memory, so you'd kill your screen.
If your father was going to work in a work van, it makes sense that his work can cover it, since he's only driving (and thus putting himself unknowingly at risk of a crash) because of them.
If he wasn't working that day and drove his own car somewhere and it happened, he would be liable.
Employers have to accept responsibility for work-related accidents that happen... if it happens at work itself or just around the corner, it's still "work-related", even if the connection is a bit vague...
>...they automatically go to sleep when you close the lid...
Minor nitpick: that's not usually hardware-controlled, and I don't want it to be.
It's OS-controlled - under Linux you have to have the pmud daemon running before it'll suspend automatically, and I believe you can tell it to ignore lid-closed events.
They're probably less likely to release Red Dwarf than, say, Dr Who - at least to begin with.
Remember it's some of their catalogue. Not all. Certainly not anything that's raking in money. I'm betting they'll start with stuff from the 50s and work their way forwards - by the time they get to Red Dwarf, it'll be old hat:)
Evolution is good with images in html mail... it'll show them, but only if they're attatched to the email itself. Otherwise, you have to use a menu item to load the images for that message.
Brian Rothery, a former IBM systems engineer who has been researching Jack's claims, pointed out that a significant portion of the images and URLs cited in the arrest papers are from fairly tame nudist sites, as well as adult sites that do not contain illegal materials.
Right - so this guy was paid to check out porn. Maybe I should get that written into my contract too!;)
By these arguments though, any format can be considered lossy because it doesn't support, say, 128-bit colour. Or 256-bit, etc.
You wouldn't say that saving a DVD as PNG sequences is lossy because the soundtrack isn't stored... it's not what that format is for! You have to remove or ignore that data before you save.
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On the more practical end: If you use broadband at home anyways, then don't sweat it. On the other hand, if the primary use of broadband at home is to service work, I'd cut it and let the employer deal with it. Similarly with cell phones and pagers. If they aren't paying for it, I'd say they have no right to demand it.
Exactly. Go back to dialup, and then when you submit your overtime logbook (or whatever), explain why it took you three hours of remote access to fix $PROBLEM instead of just 30 minutes...).
Right...
:-)
1. Invent something
2. ???
3. Don't Profit.
Got it!
Seeing how many of these were submitted by bluedrop90, I'm just glad I'm not him!
;-)
I mean, that's almost as bad as posting on Slashdot...
Aw crap.
Heh I voted against my country becoming a train wreck. Thanks to our "preferential"* system though we've ended up with a train wreck anyway.
.au - my comment is IMHO obviously!)
;-)
(* I'm in
I wish both countries luck in the next election!
My first job (at a school not far from where I live) had me starting out by upgrading a PC. Simple enough!
:)
I pulled the two HDDs out of the old PC, dumped them in the new one. Of course, one of the major reasons for the upgrade was because it was badly out of disk space, so I decided to ghost the first (smaller) drive onto the new computer's relatively large drive.
Simple enough. Either Ghost screwed up or I did, not sure, but it ended up that the computer wouldn't read any of the drives... the two old ones both contained un-backed-up, fairly important data and custom-installed apps.
Erk.
I did what I could at the time, but couldn't get it working again before I left that afternoon - it was my school formal! I was told I shouldn't come in the next day, but really wanted to cover up my screwup (lest anyone try to use the semi-upgraded computer), so I came in as early as I could the next day - trusty Linux BBC in hand...
After much examination, I found that the data itself was intact, but the partition table was utterly screwed. I copied the disk wholesale using dd (onto the larger disk) and tried creating a new table using fdisk - nup, didn't work.
I scratched my head for a while before realising the solution - I used dd and it's "skip=" parameter to copy the disk starting at the beginning of the actual filesystem (skipping the partition table). A quick search in a hex-editor gave me the offset, and a few minutes later I had a few-GBs worth of filesystem in a file.
One loop-back mount later, and the data was recovered. I shuffled things around for a while, but the end result was that I'd saved my ass and no-one ever had to know!
I'm not so sure that we will ever be rid of bundling (all the time cable is around, anyway ;).
...UPN#[n] or whatever.
;)
I mean, it'll be illegal to force you to buy all of the channels, but they'd probably just spread their shows over more channels... instead of having [n] good shows on (say) UPN, you'd get the spread over UPN#1, UPN#2,
(I just picked UPN cos its the only one I can think of right now... I'm a cable-less Aussie anyway
Snow?
Damn... we don't get snow here...
*moves house*
Running an iBook (I don't know about the G4 one but the ones prior to it) with the lid closed is -not- supported, but it is supported on the PowerBooks.
;)
iBooks doo a lot of cooling through their keyboards, from memory, so you'd kill your screen.
(Not that it stops some people
If your father was going to work in a work van, it makes sense that his work can cover it, since he's only driving (and thus putting himself unknowingly at risk of a crash) because of them.
If he wasn't working that day and drove his own car somewhere and it happened, he would be liable.
Employers have to accept responsibility for work-related accidents that happen... if it happens at work itself or just around the corner, it's still "work-related", even if the connection is a bit vague...
> ...they automatically go to sleep when you close the lid...
Minor nitpick: that's not usually hardware-controlled, and I don't want it to be.
It's OS-controlled - under Linux you have to have the pmud daemon running before it'll suspend automatically, and I believe you can tell it to ignore lid-closed events.
Except of course Wine still doesn't handle running x86 on non-x86 platforms.
Until someone links it with Bochs anyway, which I hear is going to happen...
Didn't MacGyver work in a think tank?
*suddenly gets scared*
I don't want to be killed by a nuclear weapon made out of my watch, a paperclip, and a pocket-knife, thankyou-very-much!
What, only one?
:-).
I have about six - mostly for testing-use on MSN Messenger (though I use Jabber these days as much as I can
Jabber + Thunderbird? Someone's working on it!
From the Jabberzilla homepage:
This project has the goal to integrate Jabber instant messaging into the Mozilla Thunderbird mail client.
If you want to save a non-standard extension in notepad from Win9x and up, surround the full name in quotes.
:)
Instead of:
foo.c
Write:
"foo.c"
That should fix that problem
Anyone else having trouble with these spams?
;-)
Surely it's the people who aren't having this problem that you want to hear from - they're the ones with good spam filtering
half-life... 2. Half-life, x 2. Life!
:)
Life imprisonment!
Dude, don't talk about Tyr Anasazi, I haven't seen all of S4 of Andromeda yet ;)
Everybody does it, it's just that nobody talks about it, silly!
So it's like a secret society?
Uhyuh.
Cool! Secret society, secret society...
They're probably less likely to release Red Dwarf than, say, Dr Who - at least to begin with.
:)
Remember it's some of their catalogue. Not all. Certainly not anything that's raking in money. I'm betting they'll start with stuff from the 50s and work their way forwards - by the time they get to Red Dwarf, it'll be old hat
Wabbit! A Wascawwy Wabbit!
Evolution is good with images in html mail... it'll show them, but only if they're attatched to the email itself. Otherwise, you have to use a menu item to load the images for that message.
You know it took me a good couple of mintues to work out what you meant by that? :-)
"V and N" is "Verb and Noun".
Brian Rothery, a former IBM systems engineer who has been researching Jack's claims, pointed out that a significant portion of the images and URLs cited in the arrest papers are from fairly tame nudist sites, as well as adult sites that do not contain illegal materials.
Right - so this guy was paid to check out porn. Maybe I should get that written into my contract too!
By these arguments though, any format can be considered lossy because it doesn't support, say, 128-bit colour. Or 256-bit, etc.
You wouldn't say that saving a DVD as PNG sequences is lossy because the soundtrack isn't stored... it's not what that format is for! You have to remove or ignore that data before you save.