The RBOCs have good accountants. It's very easy to make the 'cost for delivery' include upgrade costs. I'll also say that I have no idea who says if the 'cost for delivery' is legit. It's entirely possible that the local service commision can say to the baby bells "Bullshit, it doesn't cost that much".
Which, if I had read the next paragraph, you as much as admit:)
What about when the RBOC HAS upgraded, but still won't give you DSL? I had Northpoint at home. Had really good speed (just a hair less than my cable modem now). They went under. Verizon would not provide DSL at any speed at any cost. At the time, Comcast had not yet upgraded us for cable modem usage. Verizon could have switched those of us on Northpoint for just a few dollars (and let us keep our existing equipment) and been entrenched by the time Comcast showed up to the party.
Bankruptcy law in the US would allow companies to fail gracefully. If one of the Baby Bells were to declar bankruptcy (which is complete and utter shit. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen) then they would either be liquidated or their debts reorganized. The latter is fairly obvious. The more interesting case is the former. Someone (a collection of RBOC's, Microsoft, co-ops?) would buy out whatever the Baby Bell had. Probably at auction, and probably cheap. Whoever backed the bonds is fucked, but the customer probably isn't.
I wonder about the future of land lines for residential customers. I'm sorely tempted to drop mine in favor of cell service. Well, I'd keep just enough service to get 911 dial out.
I agree that entire systems needed to be in place for the telcos to be useful. However, I disagree that this is the cause of their current woes. The vast majority of these systems were in place decades ago. Everything lately has been upgrades. The upgrades or replacements would have occured in any event as equipment broke down.
Part of this has already been answered. If you just pick x86 (or PPC or Alpha etc.) the size does not change that much. The vast majority of the kernel is not architecture specific. That's a good thing!
I don't know of any sites, but let me say a few things. First, your distro probably has a binary package with almost everything either compiled in or a module. Barring that, when I used to be stuck on dialup, I'd get the most recent kernel and then download the patch each time. It was a pain in the butt, but not as bad as downloading the full sources each time.
I'm in a similar situation. Right now, there are four of us who are playing hot potato about who will be the compliance officer. Since I'm in the office least of us, I'll probably be stuck with it (since I won't be able to protest when the paper is sent in:) I suggest a simple method of dealing with the problem: get a job in another industry. I understand there are many openings for 'drug mule' listed in the Miami Papers.
Seriously though, trudge through it. There's no easy way. Threats of beatings and sacking is a good place to start (and yes, that's serious).
I read through many comments saying "why haven't you done this already" and "there's nothing to worry about." Bullshit. First, the regulations STILL aren't cast in stone. This is hitting a moving target. Second, there are things to worry about, both from patients, doctors, and affiliated companies (where I would place suppliers of DME). There are going to be a myriad of subtle changes. Our current reading of the regulations is that we can no longer call patients the day before an appointment to remind them. Well, we can call, but if they don't answer, tough shit. Can't leave it on the machine anymore. Similar with callbacks for lab results.
The 'privacy' improvements will be neglible, particularly compared to the extra hassles. Since I won't be able to say it at work, I'll say it here: folks, you asked for it. You begged your congresspeople to do something. Well, they did. And it sucks ass. I'm going to pay for it, and so are you. But when you bitch about all the hoops and extra forms you have to sign, just remember: you asked for it. When we have to raise prices (which won't help, since insurance, medicare, and medicaid won't pay any more) to pay for capital improvements, just remember: you asked for it.
A special note for the people who literally asked for it (HIPAA, that is): I hope you die, painfully, bleeding to death on the street, waiting for some medical info to get to your location, but it can't because of some form you didn't fill out properly.
I'm not a people person. I would have an awful bedside manner. That's why I'm in IT. That's why I get called in when HR has to do something shitty. Because I don't give a damn. I have seen the light, and it is the Scorched Earth Party.
Funny, yes, but an interesting question. In this case, probably not. But there are certain medications that are only useful in the treatment of ONE condition, or a narrow enough collection that merely the knowledge that you are taking (and I'm 100% guessing here) insulin means you are a diabetic.
Not sure of the details (luckily, others are handling them:) but the April deadline is firm for some things. Luckily, 100% of those who ask for extensions are getting them. 100%.
Our current plan is monthly training sessions from here on out. The idea is for everyone in the company to know as much as possible.
Have seen others recommend immediate firing (for cause!) and will probably take up that discussion at my workplace.
Any names for ins. cos. that provide HIPAA compliance insurance? Might want to run it by our broker.
I haven't looked into it, but I suspect that vendors who receive HIPAA compliance certs. (or claim compliance) are much like NT being a C2 operating system: it is, but only if you disable functionality to the point of uselessness.
I feel your pain. I work in a clinical environment, I can only imagine the extra amount of shit you hospital guys have to do for this. Right now, I'm trying my damnedest to avoid being appointing HIPAA officer:)
One of our problems is that many EMR 'solutions' are inextricably tied to an Exchange backend.
The problem is that the HIPAA guidelines will not lessen the liklihood that someone will pilfer your medical data. Those most likely to want it and get it are researchers and insurance companies (for the latter, I'm thinking life insurance). In both instances, if they want it, they can get it. You've probably already signed forms to that effect. If I have to submit a diagnosis code to get reimbursed by your insurance company, they have the information. It will churn around until it gets to the correct place. All the regs do is require an extra slip of paper here and there.
Now suppose you are in a messy marriage, and want to find out what that discharge was that your wife complained of. Simple: you give a guy on the cleaning crew a c-note, and you'll have her chart in minutes.
HIPAA rules are barely one step above security through obscurity.
Any chance of shooting me a copy of the code? email address above.
(Sorry, with a score of 26, I'm fucked up enough to be interested, but not fucked up enough to do it. Also, fucked up enough to not have the attention span to do it.)
I've looked at it, but nothing is really jumping out at me. Due to maturity of 2.4 and business reluctance to upgrade, I think that adoption of 2.6 may be the slowest yet.
Um... no offense, but do you maybe mean "1337"?;-)
Just goes to show I'm not 1337 enough.
If you set your computer to get its IP info from DHCP, and no DHCP server is available, the computer will fall back to a self-assigned IP address.
Is this part of the RFC, or is it something that the implementers of various dhcp programs implemented? On a few linux boxes I have that get address via dhcp, they don't go for one of those addresses.
I hope the various PC laptop makers have come to the realization by now that Ethernet is important enough to build in.
My mother bought a Jetta last year. Ethernet port. I got one this year, Ethernet port. I looked at several others, all Ethernet ports. Now the really interesting thing is that I was looking at a few laptops the other day, and see that some of them are coming with 802.11b built in, like the TiBooks. The one that caught my eye was an IBM. One thing I noticed is that the smaller manufacturers were more likely to compete on features, whereas the big names competed on... their names.
I'm happy with my choice, but would have been just as happy with an iBook or TiBook (the former with the a smaller screen, the latter much more expensive.)
I just got a laptop a few months ago. I don't remember seeing a single one WITHOUT ethernet in my shopping.
Why would they be using the 169.254 subnet? I thought it would be 192.168 or 172.mumblemumble or 10.x.x.x subnets?
But to get to the original question, I have to agree that ethernet is the way to go. Even if the PC laptop doesn't have a ethernet jack, it's trivial (read: cheap) to get a pc card ethernet adapter. This IR jazz just seems to be a bit of a cluster fuck to show how 733+ this guy and his buddy are.
The question is, why bother? I have yet to see a compelling need to switch to 2.5/6. Hell, without improved USB and journalling filesystems, what was the point in 2.4? I read the kt digest, but I'm really not seeing any new wonderful things. Perhaps there are others in a similar situation?
Actually, isn't reiser4 up in the air WRT if it will show up in the next stable release? I thought Hans said he might/might not have it ready in time for feature freeze at end of month. (Speaking of the announced feature freeze, did it not make/., or did I just miss it?)
No, you don't need modules for the wheelmouse. I don't know 'bout GPM, as I don't use it, but for X, I think it's only one extra line indicating which buttons for the Z axis.
And insmod is for real men. Us wimps use modprobe:)
A good number of HOWTO's say something along the lines of "RedHat stock kernels already have ability FOO compiled in". One thing that might be helpful is a command that let's you see if there is a module named FOO already (probably a modprobe option, but I don't know). That way, the various HOWTOs could say 'lookformod FOO'. If you get something, you are good. If not, THEN you might have to recompile your kernel.
Is there any use for anything other than anonymous ftp? I use scp for everything that matters. Then SMB to get the stuff on a Windows box (does PuTTY have scp? I'm pretty sure cygwin does) Last time I looked, there were a few ftp daemons that ONLY did anonymous ftp. That's the way to go.
Likewise, our major application (initial unemployment registration) can be accessed with an Ipaq IR connected to a nokia cellphone and works well (enough) at 9600 baud.
Sounds like someone's clients got caught up in the dot-bomb. Are there that many people on unemployment with Ipaq's and nokia cellphones?
See the sig. That's why screen readers are not a panacea.
Vanilla web pages with the formatting done with CSS are a much better solution. Let me (or my wife, actually:) get the page, ditch the CSS, and pipe it into a braille TTY via lynx.
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The RBOCs have good accountants. It's very easy to make the 'cost for delivery' include upgrade costs. I'll also say that I have no idea who says if the 'cost for delivery' is legit. It's entirely possible that the local service commision can say to the baby bells "Bullshit, it doesn't cost that much".
Which, if I had read the next paragraph, you as much as admit:)
What about when the RBOC HAS upgraded, but still won't give you DSL? I had Northpoint at home. Had really good speed (just a hair less than my cable modem now). They went under. Verizon would not provide DSL at any speed at any cost. At the time, Comcast had not yet upgraded us for cable modem usage. Verizon could have switched those of us on Northpoint for just a few dollars (and let us keep our existing equipment) and been entrenched by the time Comcast showed up to the party.
Bankruptcy law in the US would allow companies to fail gracefully. If one of the Baby Bells were to declar bankruptcy (which is complete and utter shit. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen) then they would either be liquidated or their debts reorganized. The latter is fairly obvious. The more interesting case is the former. Someone (a collection of RBOC's, Microsoft, co-ops?) would buy out whatever the Baby Bell had. Probably at auction, and probably cheap. Whoever backed the bonds is fucked, but the customer probably isn't.
I wonder about the future of land lines for residential customers. I'm sorely tempted to drop mine in favor of cell service. Well, I'd keep just enough service to get 911 dial out.
I agree that entire systems needed to be in place for the telcos to be useful. However, I disagree that this is the cause of their current woes. The vast majority of these systems were in place decades ago. Everything lately has been upgrades. The upgrades or replacements would have occured in any event as equipment broke down.
Screw this guy. Will you marry me?
That works. Screw me, marry you. Everybody is happy. 'Cept maybe Kathy.
About the marriage, not the screwing. I guarantee.
Part of this has already been answered. If you just pick x86 (or PPC or Alpha etc.) the size does not change that much. The vast majority of the kernel is not architecture specific. That's a good thing!
I don't know of any sites, but let me say a few things. First, your distro probably has a binary package with almost everything either compiled in or a module. Barring that, when I used to be stuck on dialup, I'd get the most recent kernel and then download the patch each time. It was a pain in the butt, but not as bad as downloading the full sources each time.
I'm in a similar situation. Right now, there are four of us who are playing hot potato about who will be the compliance officer. Since I'm in the office least of us, I'll probably be stuck with it (since I won't be able to protest when the paper is sent in:) I suggest a simple method of dealing with the problem: get a job in another industry. I understand there are many openings for 'drug mule' listed in the Miami Papers.
Seriously though, trudge through it. There's no easy way. Threats of beatings and sacking is a good place to start (and yes, that's serious).
I read through many comments saying "why haven't you done this already" and "there's nothing to worry about." Bullshit. First, the regulations STILL aren't cast in stone. This is hitting a moving target. Second, there are things to worry about, both from patients, doctors, and affiliated companies (where I would place suppliers of DME). There are going to be a myriad of subtle changes. Our current reading of the regulations is that we can no longer call patients the day before an appointment to remind them. Well, we can call, but if they don't answer, tough shit. Can't leave it on the machine anymore. Similar with callbacks for lab results.
The 'privacy' improvements will be neglible, particularly compared to the extra hassles. Since I won't be able to say it at work, I'll say it here: folks, you asked for it. You begged your congresspeople to do something. Well, they did. And it sucks ass. I'm going to pay for it, and so are you. But when you bitch about all the hoops and extra forms you have to sign, just remember: you asked for it. When we have to raise prices (which won't help, since insurance, medicare, and medicaid won't pay any more) to pay for capital improvements, just remember: you asked for it.
A special note for the people who literally asked for it (HIPAA, that is): I hope you die, painfully, bleeding to death on the street, waiting for some medical info to get to your location, but it can't because of some form you didn't fill out properly.
I'm not a people person. I would have an awful bedside manner. That's why I'm in IT. That's why I get called in when HR has to do something shitty. Because I don't give a damn. I have seen the light, and it is the Scorched Earth Party.
Funny, yes, but an interesting question. In this case, probably not. But there are certain medications that are only useful in the treatment of ONE condition, or a narrow enough collection that merely the knowledge that you are taking (and I'm 100% guessing here) insulin means you are a diabetic.
Not sure of the details (luckily, others are handling them:) but the April deadline is firm for some things. Luckily, 100% of those who ask for extensions are getting them. 100%.
Our current plan is monthly training sessions from here on out. The idea is for everyone in the company to know as much as possible.
Have seen others recommend immediate firing (for cause!) and will probably take up that discussion at my workplace.
Any names for ins. cos. that provide HIPAA compliance insurance? Might want to run it by our broker.
I haven't looked into it, but I suspect that vendors who receive HIPAA compliance certs. (or claim compliance) are much like NT being a C2 operating system: it is, but only if you disable functionality to the point of uselessness.
I feel your pain. I work in a clinical environment, I can only imagine the extra amount of shit you hospital guys have to do for this. Right now, I'm trying my damnedest to avoid being appointing HIPAA officer:)
One of our problems is that many EMR 'solutions' are inextricably tied to an Exchange backend.
The problem is that the HIPAA guidelines will not lessen the liklihood that someone will pilfer your medical data. Those most likely to want it and get it are researchers and insurance companies (for the latter, I'm thinking life insurance). In both instances, if they want it, they can get it. You've probably already signed forms to that effect. If I have to submit a diagnosis code to get reimbursed by your insurance company, they have the information. It will churn around until it gets to the correct place. All the regs do is require an extra slip of paper here and there.
Now suppose you are in a messy marriage, and want to find out what that discharge was that your wife complained of. Simple: you give a guy on the cleaning crew a c-note, and you'll have her chart in minutes.
HIPAA rules are barely one step above security through obscurity.
Helms AND Thurmond are both retiring this go round? I thought it was only Thurmond. (Who is doing his damnedest to get his son elected in his stead)
I'm not interested in proposing marriage: I already have a wife. But would you be interested in a position as 'the other woman'?
Respond privately if you want.
Any chance of shooting me a copy of the code? email address above.
(Sorry, with a score of 26, I'm fucked up enough to be interested, but not fucked up enough to do it. Also, fucked up enough to not have the attention span to do it.)
I've looked at it, but nothing is really jumping out at me. Due to maturity of 2.4 and business reluctance to upgrade, I think that adoption of 2.6 may be the slowest yet.
My reading of that piece indicates that you could get a "Return Service Requested" stamp, stamp that on the AOL CD, and then it would go back to them?
I'm sure that it's probably illegal for one reason or another, but would this work?
Um... no offense, but do you maybe mean "1337"? ;-)
Just goes to show I'm not 1337 enough.
If you set your computer to get its IP info from DHCP, and no DHCP server is available, the computer will fall back to a self-assigned IP address.
Is this part of the RFC, or is it something that the implementers of various dhcp programs implemented? On a few linux boxes I have that get address via dhcp, they don't go for one of those addresses.
I hope the various PC laptop makers have come to the realization by now that Ethernet is important enough to build in.
My mother bought a Jetta last year. Ethernet port. I got one this year, Ethernet port. I looked at several others, all Ethernet ports. Now the really interesting thing is that I was looking at a few laptops the other day, and see that some of them are coming with 802.11b built in, like the TiBooks. The one that caught my eye was an IBM. One thing I noticed is that the smaller manufacturers were more likely to compete on features, whereas the big names competed on... their names.
I'm happy with my choice, but would have been just as happy with an iBook or TiBook (the former with the a smaller screen, the latter much more expensive.)
802.11b cards cost ~$50 and up.
I just got a laptop a few months ago. I don't remember seeing a single one WITHOUT ethernet in my shopping.
Why would they be using the 169.254 subnet? I thought it would be 192.168 or 172.mumblemumble or 10.x.x.x subnets?
But to get to the original question, I have to agree that ethernet is the way to go. Even if the PC laptop doesn't have a ethernet jack, it's trivial (read: cheap) to get a pc card ethernet adapter. This IR jazz just seems to be a bit of a cluster fuck to show how 733+ this guy and his buddy are.
The question is, why bother? I have yet to see a compelling need to switch to 2.5/6. Hell, without improved USB and journalling filesystems, what was the point in 2.4? I read the kt digest, but I'm really not seeing any new wonderful things. Perhaps there are others in a similar situation?
Actually, isn't reiser4 up in the air WRT if it will show up in the next stable release? I thought Hans said he might/might not have it ready in time for feature freeze at end of month. (Speaking of the announced feature freeze, did it not make /., or did I just miss it?)
No, but if an application is 'accessible', it's accessible to a LOT of things, not just IE 6.XX
Yeah, I realized right after hitting the 'post' button that this would be a rather odd case that would go a long way to proving accesibility.
I should have smilied the original post.
No, you don't need modules for the wheelmouse. I don't know 'bout GPM, as I don't use it, but for X, I think it's only one extra line indicating which buttons for the Z axis.
And insmod is for real men. Us wimps use modprobe:)
A good number of HOWTO's say something along the lines of "RedHat stock kernels already have ability FOO compiled in". One thing that might be helpful is a command that let's you see if there is a module named FOO already (probably a modprobe option, but I don't know). That way, the various HOWTOs could say 'lookformod FOO'. If you get something, you are good. If not, THEN you might have to recompile your kernel.
Is there any use for anything other than anonymous ftp? I use scp for everything that matters. Then SMB to get the stuff on a Windows box (does PuTTY have scp? I'm pretty sure cygwin does) Last time I looked, there were a few ftp daemons that ONLY did anonymous ftp. That's the way to go.
Likewise, our major application (initial unemployment registration) can be accessed with an Ipaq IR connected to a nokia cellphone and works well (enough) at 9600 baud.
Sounds like someone's clients got caught up in the dot-bomb. Are there that many people on unemployment with Ipaq's and nokia cellphones?
See the sig. That's why screen readers are not a panacea.
Vanilla web pages with the formatting done with CSS are a much better solution. Let me (or my wife, actually:) get the page, ditch the CSS, and pipe it into a braille TTY via lynx.
If letting a bunch of niggers eat in my diner is important, I'll do it.
I heard someone last night on CNBC claim that the AOL stock would be valued at -$4.