One thing that I need to consider at my current job is that you can NOT trust employees computers at home, even if you can trust employees - if they are running Windows, they are potential virus and worm vectors, and needs to be shielded off, so a simple VPN-solution is no solution.
You can't trust the corporate network either. The one and only time a virus/worm successfully got into my home was Blaster this summer when I was VPN'd into the office. Systems in the office infected the laptop I had brought home via that connection in part because it tunneled right through my own firewall (by design).
No timeclock to punch but I do have to log my hours on a web-based timesheet (SAP) twice a week. Let it go past 2 days and you tend to forget what you worked on. Then there's the managers who pull reports mid-period then get on your case because you aren't up to the second or the "no hours report" (note: not "short" hours but "no" hours) that you show up on when you come up 15 minutes short one pay period because you decided to take some comp time for the 10 hours of OT you pulled the previous one.
A friend bought his wife a Prius a couple years ago. Figure in the battery replacement costs, extra up-front cost, etc. and he determined it would take 500,000 miles to break even vs. buying a conventional car of the comparable size & capacity (at a given, constant gas price).
And I still I think C&H could make a killer cartoon in the right hands
It was a killer cartoon because it was in the right hands. I'm glad Watterson did things his own way. It's gone now but I'm happy with the memories I have of the stip; bringing it back now in anyone's hands but Watterson's would jsut cheapen it.
As for the Hobbes plush...<aol>ME TOO!</aol>
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Watterson went way out on a limb with that decision but he felt it was the right thing to do - and he was very right! He lost space in a lot of papers (my parents got both of the big local Sunday papers and I'd always go for one in particular because they printed C&H properly - large) and lost some papers altogether, but the art was worth the sacrifice.
I still have the final C&H strip tucked away in my high school yearbook. Yeah, it was a little cheezy. So what.
I too miss C&H but I'm glad that Watterson went out on top instead of letting the stories get recycled and old. He left on his terms at a point where we could never say "hey, C&H was great until...", unlike other cartoons featuring an orange feline which should have been put to rest a long time ago.
Does that include adhering to any relevant W3C standards? IE6 doesn't even get CSS1 right (or complete). CSS2 and plenty of other stuff just isn't even close, forcing me to use JavaScript or to skip things altogether.
He probably submitted it while it was still August.
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No Win95 was Chicago. Cairo was supposed to be NT4, then it devolved into a loose collection of technologies for future MS OSes, some of which have seen the light of the day, a couple which have not.
I jsut returned from a 9-hour trip to my sister's dorm to fix her computer (2.5 hours each way drive time). When she moved in last weekend, the "restech" dorks said that no one could get on the network (have their port turned on) until a CD was put in their drive to "patch" the system. My sister, feeling like she was over a barrel, let them do it, not knowing what was on the CD.
This CD was supposed to patch everyone to prevent the recent MS worms from going around.
Thursday, she told me she was having an SSH problem, so I had her install TightVNC so I could check it out myself. The connection sucked, so I asked her to disabled ZoneAlarm, thinking it was the cause. Within 10 minutes, she had W32.Welchia infecting her computer.
Then we discovered that somehow something got hosed such that she couldn't get into Windows Update. At the same time, I had her running Symantec's FixWelch. It found and cleaned the sucker, but within 5 minutes she was hit again.
At this point I said "turn the thing off, I'll be there Saturday morning." I collected everything I could (patches, Win2000 SP4, etc.) and drove down. Whatever "restech" had done to her computer was seriously f'd up, something I have been afraid of happening for 2 years (since we got her the computer) and my reason for telling her when we gave it to her "no one but me messes with this thing in an administrative capacity."
This CD that everyone had to install had various cleaning utilities from Symantec (Fix*.exe) and McAfee (stinger.exe), a few Windows hotfixes and Win2000 SP4 on it. Clearly whatever it did wasn't enough. I went through, cleaned everything up, installed all her patches, enabled automatic updates, did it all. But I still don't trust the installation - on her fall break, she'll be bringing the computer here, she'll hang out with my fiancee and I'll spend 4 days wiping the system and reinstalling.
Then I checked her ZoneAlarm log. This campus is CRAWLING with whatever the MS-RPC/DCOM/whatever worm du jour is (Welchia I'm guessing, since that's what she got) and hammering everyone. Which explains the shit connections I was getting on TightVNC and my inability to even traceroute a single hop.
So, even though "restech" tried to take pre-emptive measures, the effort was futile. Hosts are still infected and the campus network is flooded. And even if they do clean it all up, it'll just happen again. IMHO, as soon as the university is installing anything on your desktop, they're accepting responsibility (or should be) for whatever happens. But I don't see that happening.
It's too damn hot for that, unless you've got a swimming pool. And if you do have a swimming pool, and you're doing that and don't know when the filters will come on, eeeeewwww.
7-7:30 on the east coast. But regardless of your timezone (except for the west coast maybe), Futurama probably got shafted by football games regardless.
Fox is far from perfect, I'm no fanboy, but the other big networks don't tolerate stuff like Family Guy and Futurama. Fox stuck with the show through four years of poor ratings, and with Family Guy through three years or so of dismal ratings.
Both of which Fox sabotaged. Futurama moreso than Family Guy. Futurama was put in a timeslot where at least 10 weeks a year (7 PM Sunday - NFL games run to 7:30 regularly), it would be pre-empted, and Fox knew that when they put it in that timeslot.
Family Guy - when it was on Fox, I never knew when it was airing. Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Friday? They kept moving it, so they were never able to snare a viewer base.
At the university I attended, IIRC, they got students from the business school to head up a lot of that stuff for SunRayce. It let the engineering students focus on building the damn thing. Actually had students from several areas of study in the university involved with the project.
Looks like they're not even in it this year. Not really surprising, actually. The program was going downhill while I was a student there (didn't work on the project myself).
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Yes, everything at the office runs Windows.
I'd hate to be anywhere near that closet when the power goes out. My single APC UPS is intolerable enough.
No timeclock to punch but I do have to log my hours on a web-based timesheet (SAP) twice a week. Let it go past 2 days and you tend to forget what you worked on. Then there's the managers who pull reports mid-period then get on your case because you aren't up to the second or the "no hours report" (note: not "short" hours but "no" hours) that you show up on when you come up 15 minutes short one pay period because you decided to take some comp time for the 10 hours of OT you pulled the previous one.
Viruses have found their way onto "shrink-wrapped" CDs too.
Is that Canadian dollars? If so, I think I hear a road trip calling my name.
A friend bought his wife a Prius a couple years ago. Figure in the battery replacement costs, extra up-front cost, etc. and he determined it would take 500,000 miles to break even vs. buying a conventional car of the comparable size & capacity (at a given, constant gas price).
No, not to rat them out. I want out of the company, I'm just hoping to do it on my own terms.
When nail clippers are considered a weapon, pretty much anything is fair game.
As for the Hobbes plush...<aol>ME TOO!</aol>
Watterson went way out on a limb with that decision but he felt it was the right thing to do - and he was very right! He lost space in a lot of papers (my parents got both of the big local Sunday papers and I'd always go for one in particular because they printed C&H properly - large) and lost some papers altogether, but the art was worth the sacrifice.
I still have the final C&H strip tucked away in my high school yearbook. Yeah, it was a little cheezy. So what.
I too miss C&H but I'm glad that Watterson went out on top instead of letting the stories get recycled and old. He left on his terms at a point where we could never say "hey, C&H was great until...", unlike other cartoons featuring an orange feline which should have been put to rest a long time ago.
Does that include adhering to any relevant W3C standards? IE6 doesn't even get CSS1 right (or complete). CSS2 and plenty of other stuff just isn't even close, forcing me to use JavaScript or to skip things altogether.
He probably submitted it while it was still August.
No Win95 was Chicago. Cairo was supposed to be NT4, then it devolved into a loose collection of technologies for future MS OSes, some of which have seen the light of the day, a couple which have not.
I jsut returned from a 9-hour trip to my sister's dorm to fix her computer (2.5 hours each way drive time). When she moved in last weekend, the "restech" dorks said that no one could get on the network (have their port turned on) until a CD was put in their drive to "patch" the system. My sister, feeling like she was over a barrel, let them do it, not knowing what was on the CD.
This CD was supposed to patch everyone to prevent the recent MS worms from going around.
Thursday, she told me she was having an SSH problem, so I had her install TightVNC so I could check it out myself. The connection sucked, so I asked her to disabled ZoneAlarm, thinking it was the cause. Within 10 minutes, she had W32.Welchia infecting her computer.
Then we discovered that somehow something got hosed such that she couldn't get into Windows Update. At the same time, I had her running Symantec's FixWelch. It found and cleaned the sucker, but within 5 minutes she was hit again.
At this point I said "turn the thing off, I'll be there Saturday morning." I collected everything I could (patches, Win2000 SP4, etc.) and drove down. Whatever "restech" had done to her computer was seriously f'd up, something I have been afraid of happening for 2 years (since we got her the computer) and my reason for telling her when we gave it to her "no one but me messes with this thing in an administrative capacity."
This CD that everyone had to install had various cleaning utilities from Symantec (Fix*.exe) and McAfee (stinger.exe), a few Windows hotfixes and Win2000 SP4 on it. Clearly whatever it did wasn't enough. I went through, cleaned everything up, installed all her patches, enabled automatic updates, did it all. But I still don't trust the installation - on her fall break, she'll be bringing the computer here, she'll hang out with my fiancee and I'll spend 4 days wiping the system and reinstalling.
Then I checked her ZoneAlarm log. This campus is CRAWLING with whatever the MS-RPC/DCOM/whatever worm du jour is (Welchia I'm guessing, since that's what she got) and hammering everyone. Which explains the shit connections I was getting on TightVNC and my inability to even traceroute a single hop.
So, even though "restech" tried to take pre-emptive measures, the effort was futile. Hosts are still infected and the campus network is flooded. And even if they do clean it all up, it'll just happen again. IMHO, as soon as the university is installing anything on your desktop, they're accepting responsibility (or should be) for whatever happens. But I don't see that happening.
SCO: Choice of STFU and STFD (shut the F up and sit the F down) or be blasted into tiny shards.
IBM: Will continue with business as normal.
I was thinking of the can and thought "sardines come in that can."
Sardine oil, of course.
It's too damn hot for that, unless you've got a swimming pool. And if you do have a swimming pool, and you're doing that and don't know when the filters will come on, eeeeewwww.
7-7:30 on the east coast. But regardless of your timezone (except for the west coast maybe), Futurama probably got shafted by football games regardless.
Family Guy - when it was on Fox, I never knew when it was airing. Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Friday? They kept moving it, so they were never able to snare a viewer base.
Yeah but most residents get confused and try to combine them. And leaving a "core dump" on a running computer isn't good.
Sounds more like Bittorrent to me.
At the university I attended, IIRC, they got students from the business school to head up a lot of that stuff for SunRayce. It let the engineering students focus on building the damn thing. Actually had students from several areas of study in the university involved with the project.
Looks like they're not even in it this year. Not really surprising, actually. The program was going downhill while I was a student there (didn't work on the project myself).
Easy to clean up? Hardly. I had to use mine once for a kitchen fire and it was a mess to clean up.