You'd have a much better shot getting a job as a sysadmin with a multinational bank or other financial institution. I don't see a lot of demand for foreign programmers unless you have a unique skill in a high-demand field.
If you're serious about working in Japan, marry a Japanese citizen. It makes so many things easier I can't even begin to tell you.
But your forgetting that 3 of the last 4 US presidents were all governors with no experience in national politics.
George Bush was the only one who wasn't and he had a resume that was even more impressive than Gore's (Ambassador to China, Head of CIA, Congress, Senate, Vice President) and he ended up being a one termer.
We had two relatively successful presidents Reagan and Clinton from that pool. Clinton defeated both George Bush and Bobe Dole (another career spent in Washington)
By the measure of recent history and in a lot of American's minds experience in Washington doesn't always equal what we look for in a president.
Call us stupid, call us backwards, call us anything you like, but this is our election, not yours.
I'm a sysadmin for about 1000 seats on an Exchange system with servers that are geographically spread out. We also have a Unix sendmail/pop3/imap system in place for a smaller subset of our users. Both systems work well. Many of our users on the Unix system are using Outlook to access their email.
If you are getting pressure from users about using Outlook, then an Outlook front end to an IMAP back end is probably the best of both worlds.
Using this combination you can get 95%+ of the functionality without having to commit yourself to running NT/Exchange. Most of the cool Outlook features are client functionality and not based on the server.
Everybody thinks that you need Exchange server to schedule, but this is absolutely false. The meeting invitations and accepts/refusals are all just emails. The format may be some MS proprietary thing, but if both sides are running Outlook, then the email transport doesn't matter. The only thing that is server based is the ability to view free busy time and Microsoft kindly included a mechanism to publish and view free/busy times at a URL. This functionality was intended to allow free/busy exchanges between organizations across a public network like the internet, but it works just fine inside a company as well.
The downside to using this combo is that you need to buy a copy of Outlook for everybody who is going to use it.
The upside is that you already seem to have a high-performance, high-functionality, and high-availability system in place. Why mess with that when you can simply change the front end, while still providing a choice of access methods for those that don't want/need Outlook.
The downside to using Exchange are the licensing costs, the fact that all users on a single server are using a single giant database (this is also a strength of the product), and vendor lock-in.
I'd be curious to know what you are using for email virus scanning on your exisiting email system. We are currently using some homebrew filters and they are not that easy to maintain. The antivirus stuff on the Exchange side works well and is reasonably flexible (i.e. we can filter stuff even if it isn't in the current virus definition files)
Actually, a guy named Cask (sp?) who is the #2 guy at the Florida Division of Elections said that in the 5 years he's been there recounts haven't changed the count at all. The computer counts get it right the first time.
This was during a live interview on CNN at about 4am Eastern this morning.
What will change the counts (but perhaps not the outcome) will be the absentee ballots. They can arrive up to 10 days after the election as long as the postmark is on or before November 7.
Are there any other alternative x86 compatibles that don't cook your legs while you are working on a notebook?
I'm interested in the Transmeta just because I'm looking for a subnotebook that has better than average battery life and runs cool. I'm waiting for some real products to debut in the US. (I don't like the Sony Picturebook's screen size.)
I may end up with an iBook, but I really want x86 compatibility.
Anybody have a suggestion?
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Also, crank your resolution down to 640x480. On my system I was able to get it down to.10 but at 1024x768 the best I could manage was a.22
My theory is it was taking longer to fill the screen.
I used Server Magic for the first time the other day and had a bad experience.
I resized a 34GB NTFS partition, adding another 7GB or so.
You have to reboot, so I did and when the system came up it started the resize process. It got to 54% complete almost immediately, then sat there for about 50 minutes doing nothing as far as I could tell (almost no disk activity). The finally, it rocketed up to 94% and then failed with a "too many clusters" error?
So I rebooted thinking that I was going to have to restore the damn thing. It came up ok. but changed the drive letter.
I've learned my lesson. I should have know better than to trust the crapshoot known as 3rd party tools on Windows.
Set up a primary and secondary WINS server. Ideally they should be on separate subnets.
On each subnet designate two machines to be the browse masters. These should be rebooted as little as possible and should definitely NOT BE user workstations. They should be running NT or a recent version of Samba and the Browser must be turned on. Also, the Computer Browser should be running on all domain controllers.
On _every_ other machine, turn off the computer browser. Also, set each machine to be a P-node. The easiest way to accomplish this is to assign IP's using DHCP and set the Netbiod Node Type to 0x2. Make sure all of these systems have the primary and secondary WINS servers assigned.
You must strictly control all new machines that come onto the network and make sure that no new browsers are allowed to come up on the network.
If you go to all of this trouble, the reward you will receive is extremely fast and reliable network browsing across subnets. I know because I've done it on a 1500 node WAN. It takes a lot of discipline that most IT departments don't have or can't enfore but it's worth the trouble in my opinion.
I have been regularly trying beta versions of KDE2 (precompiled binaries) and my impression up until now was that it was fast but extremely buggy. KDE1 seemed to much more solid prior to it's release.
I just loaded up KDE2-RC2 and it seems to be very slow to launch apps on my underpowered test box(P133, 128MB) but looks a lot more stable in the hour or so I've been able to play with it. Once a program gets launched it runs fine.
Can't wait to try this out on my other machine (P3-500, 256MB)
I have AT&T LD at home. I was recently slammed onto MCI. Aparently somebody filled out an offer for a Blockbuster coupon and used my name and address. So much for MCI's 3rd party verification procedures. They aren't the only telco with this loophole. Sprint has offers that they don't verify either.
It was fairly easy to switch back and then instruct my local telco (Ameritech) to block switching unless they did it. I did have to spend about an hour on the phone total, spread out over several weeks to make sure that everything was credited fairly.
The really shitty part is having to talk to MCI people who want to know why I left MCI. Sucks to be them since I honestly enjoy going to town on the poor bastards.
Seriously - have the Telco block LD switching. Being able to switch your service on the fly because some LD provider calls with a deal that sounds great isn't a necessity.
My wife just got her green card. We got married in early 1997. There is definitely at least a 3 year wait in the Cleveland, Ohio office. It's better in some areas and worse in others.
ACPI is the sucessor to APM and is the new power management standard. Power savings aren't usually a big deal on SMP boxes, but when you're talking about a dual system for home use it may be important to you.
If I recall correctly, APM support was basically undefined under the SMP specification (MPS) so it's a crapshoot anyway.
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In the grand scheme of things, all operating systems are fads.
It's not a cult thing as far as I'm concerned. I want to buy a subnotebook that can go for at least 4 hours on a charge. I'd also like it to run cool enough that I can use it on my lap. I'm hoping one or another of these Transmeta devices will fit the bill.
I've currently got a IBM Workpad z50 and it's got almost everything I want except a hard drive and the software availability sucks rocks so I'm thinking Transmeta might be the way to go. If these don't pan out, I'll take another look at the iBook.
I'm using RR in the Northeast Ohio area and a few weeks ago the machine that hosts the personal pages died for some reason or another.
It took them a few hours to restore, but they had it back online same day. They even took a few minutes to throw up a page explaining the problem for people who tried to hit the server.
Generally, I won't call RR tech support for anything other than my modem being down becuase the support is so pathetic, but I thought they did a decent job on this one.
Does anybody know if the TiVO can support digital audio either input or output?
I have a nice 5.1 setup at home and I get digital from my cable box. I hate giving that up when I use VHS and I was wondering if the Tivo does it better
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Speaking from experience here...
You'd have a much better shot getting a job as a sysadmin with a multinational bank or other financial institution. I don't see a lot of demand for foreign programmers unless you have a unique skill in a high-demand field.
If you're serious about working in Japan, marry a Japanese citizen. It makes so many things easier I can't even begin to tell you.
Dude, don't bother. NT 4 on older PPC chips sucks hard. Think of NT running on a pentium 133 and you get the idea.
But your forgetting that 3 of the last 4 US presidents were all governors with no experience in national politics.
George Bush was the only one who wasn't and he had a resume that was even more impressive than Gore's (Ambassador to China, Head of CIA, Congress, Senate, Vice President) and he ended up being a one termer.
We had two relatively successful presidents Reagan and Clinton from that pool. Clinton defeated both George Bush and Bobe Dole (another career spent in Washington)
By the measure of recent history and in a lot of American's minds experience in Washington doesn't always equal what we look for in a president.
Call us stupid, call us backwards, call us anything you like, but this is our election, not yours.
I'm a sysadmin for about 1000 seats on an Exchange system with servers that are geographically spread out. We also have a Unix sendmail/pop3/imap system in place for a smaller subset of our users. Both systems work well. Many of our users on the Unix system are using Outlook to access their email.
If you are getting pressure from users about using Outlook, then an Outlook front end to an IMAP back end is probably the best of both worlds.
Using this combination you can get 95%+ of the functionality without having to commit yourself to running NT/Exchange. Most of the cool Outlook features are client functionality and not based on the server.
Everybody thinks that you need Exchange server to schedule, but this is absolutely false. The meeting invitations and accepts/refusals are all just emails. The format may be some MS proprietary thing, but if both sides are running Outlook, then the email transport doesn't matter. The only thing that is server based is the ability to view free busy time and Microsoft kindly included a mechanism to publish and view free/busy times at a URL. This functionality was intended to allow free/busy exchanges between organizations across a public network like the internet, but it works just fine inside a company as well.
The downside to using this combo is that you need to buy a copy of Outlook for everybody who is going to use it.
The upside is that you already seem to have a high-performance, high-functionality, and high-availability system in place. Why mess with that when you can simply change the front end, while still providing a choice of access methods for those that don't want/need Outlook.
The downside to using Exchange are the licensing costs, the fact that all users on a single server are using a single giant database (this is also a strength of the product), and vendor lock-in.
I'd be curious to know what you are using for email virus scanning on your exisiting email system. We are currently using some homebrew filters and they are not that easy to maintain. The antivirus stuff on the Exchange side works well and is reasonably flexible (i.e. we can filter stuff even if it isn't in the current virus definition files)
Konqueror is pretty close. It's damn close to being the real deal.
As long as Netscape is paying developers to work on Mozilla, who cares what they do with their browser.
It's totally obvious that the Netscape browser "experience" is an complete waste of time.
Try using Konqueror, Mozilla, Galeon, or Opera. Heck, nobody's forcing you to use NS6. Just keep using 4.77 and turn off Java.
With so many other decent choices why even has this discussion.
Here in Ohio, Ameritech does offer pay-as-you go cell service. They have for a couple of years.
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http://www.ameritechwireless.com/sbc/promotions
> Gore easily won the exit polls in Florida
The exit poll CNN has up was 48.94% for Gore and 48.14% for Bush.
What exit poll are you referring to?
Actually, a guy named Cask (sp?) who is the #2 guy at the Florida Division of Elections said that in the 5 years he's been there recounts haven't changed the count at all. The computer counts get it right the first time.
This was during a live interview on CNN at about 4am Eastern this morning.
What will change the counts (but perhaps not the outcome) will be the absentee ballots. They can arrive up to 10 days after the election as long as the postmark is on or before November 7.
Are there any other alternative x86 compatibles that don't cook your legs while you are working on a notebook?
I'm interested in the Transmeta just because I'm looking for a subnotebook that has better than average battery life and runs cool. I'm waiting for some real products to debut in the US. (I don't like the Sony Picturebook's screen size.)
I may end up with an iBook, but I really want x86 compatibility.
Anybody have a suggestion?
Also, crank your resolution down to 640x480. On my system I was able to get it down to .10 but at 1024x768 the best I could manage was a .22
My theory is it was taking longer to fill the screen.
If that is the case, then why does Office overwrite .DLL files that were originally installed as part of the operating system?
I used Server Magic for the first time the other day and had a bad experience.
I resized a 34GB NTFS partition, adding another 7GB or so.
You have to reboot, so I did and when the system came up it started the resize process. It got to 54% complete almost immediately, then sat there for about 50 minutes doing nothing as far as I could tell (almost no disk activity). The finally, it rocketed up to 94% and then failed with a "too many clusters" error?
So I rebooted thinking that I was going to have to restore the damn thing. It came up ok. but changed the drive letter.
I've learned my lesson. I should have know better than to trust the crapshoot known as 3rd party tools on Windows.
Here's what you do.
Set up a primary and secondary WINS server. Ideally they should be on separate subnets.
On each subnet designate two machines to be the browse masters. These should be rebooted as little as possible and should definitely NOT BE user workstations. They should be running NT or a recent version of Samba and the Browser must be turned on. Also, the Computer Browser should be running on all domain controllers.
On _every_ other machine, turn off the computer browser. Also, set each machine to be a P-node. The easiest way to accomplish this is to assign IP's using DHCP and set the Netbiod Node Type to 0x2. Make sure all of these systems have the primary and secondary WINS servers assigned.
You must strictly control all new machines that come onto the network and make sure that no new browsers are allowed to come up on the network.
If you go to all of this trouble, the reward you will receive is extremely fast and reliable network browsing across subnets. I know because I've done it on a 1500 node WAN. It takes a lot of discipline that most IT departments don't have or can't enfore but it's worth the trouble in my opinion.
I put RC2 on a RH7 box today and did not need any extra.
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
My box was originally installed using a workstation install, selecting only GNOME, no KDE1 and no GAMES.
The only adjustment I made was to set DESKTOP="KDE" in
Thanks for this info.
I have been regularly trying beta versions of KDE2 (precompiled binaries) and my impression up until now was that it was fast but extremely buggy. KDE1 seemed to much more solid prior to it's release.
I just loaded up KDE2-RC2 and it seems to be very slow to launch apps on my underpowered test box(P133, 128MB) but looks a lot more stable in the hour or so I've been able to play with it. Once a program gets launched it runs fine.
Can't wait to try this out on my other machine (P3-500, 256MB)
I have AT&T LD at home. I was recently slammed onto MCI. Aparently somebody filled out an offer for a Blockbuster coupon and used my name and address. So much for MCI's 3rd party verification procedures. They aren't the only telco with this loophole. Sprint has offers that they don't verify either.
It was fairly easy to switch back and then instruct my local telco (Ameritech) to block switching unless they did it. I did have to spend about an hour on the phone total, spread out over several weeks to make sure that everything was credited fairly.
The really shitty part is having to talk to MCI people who want to know why I left MCI. Sucks to be them since I honestly enjoy going to town on the poor bastards.
Seriously - have the Telco block LD switching. Being able to switch your service on the fly because some LD provider calls with a deal that sounds great isn't a necessity.
The passengers, of course!
INS does have that much of a backlog.
My wife just got her green card. We got married in early 1997. There is definitely at least a 3 year wait in the Cleveland, Ohio office. It's better in some areas and worse in others.
INS is the pit of despair.
ACPI is the sucessor to APM and is the new power management standard. Power savings aren't usually a big deal on SMP boxes, but when you're talking about a dual system for home use it may be important to you.
If I recall correctly, APM support was basically undefined under the SMP specification (MPS) so it's a crapshoot anyway.
In the grand scheme of things, all operating systems are fads.
It's not a cult thing as far as I'm concerned. I want to buy a subnotebook that can go for at least 4 hours on a charge. I'd also like it to run cool enough that I can use it on my lap. I'm hoping one or another of these Transmeta devices will fit the bill.
I've currently got a IBM Workpad z50 and it's got almost everything I want except a hard drive and the software availability sucks rocks so I'm thinking Transmeta might be the way to go. If these don't pan out, I'll take another look at the iBook.
I'm using RR in the Northeast Ohio area and a few weeks ago the machine that hosts the personal pages died for some reason or another.
It took them a few hours to restore, but they had it back online same day. They even took a few minutes to throw up a page explaining the problem for people who tried to hit the server.
Generally, I won't call RR tech support for anything other than my modem being down becuase the support is so pathetic, but I thought they did a decent job on this one.
You got that right.
I tried the beta today. It's pretty much around AIM 2.0 level of functiolity (read: spartan).
On the other hand, the Japanese localized version of AIM is stuck at the same crappy level of functionality.
Shows you where AOL priorities are.
I'm sticking with GAIM for now.
Does anybody know if the TiVO can support digital audio either input or output?
I have a nice 5.1 setup at home and I get digital from my cable box. I hate giving that up when I use VHS and I was wondering if the Tivo does it better