Yeah, I had it up and running in 1993 on an AMD 386 DXL-40 mhz with 4mb ram. I had some problems with my P.O.S. Trident video card but I finally did ge Xwindows working. Since I only had 4mb of ram, I had to create an 8mb virtual memory swap file before i could even startX:) My 170mb hard drive was spinning out of control swapping xclock and some other xapp. It took a while to configure everything and there was no plug an play but everything ran fine w/o crashing. (once it was set) My Slackware came on a blue "distro" CD that I paid $10 for + shipping. (Back then even blank CDs costs $5 each so it was every penny, considering that I had a 14.4k modem and it cost me money to call Internet.
OK, so they may not make the most reliable cars in the world anymore (still most fun to drive) but at least they (Munich city hall linux story) chose the more stable and SECURE OS than US Homeland Security.
Their 1st task and possibly their primary task for years to come will be securing their own desktops from spyware (gator, bonzi,etc) and worms, viruses, trojans, etc.
I guess they will have to downlod service packs and hotfixes like everyone else.
I live in a condo that's located in an "urban" environment and I wish cops had access to something like this already. We had at least 6 Nissan Maximas broken into and xenon headlights taken out. While the police cannot prevent something like this, at least they would be able to trace their movement throughout the city. At least 3 times they were the same people and even used the same car. I am sure they did a few passes through the complex and neighborhood development before they actually began their "work". If cops had access to this, they could have eyewitnesses ID the car and have an alarm pop up on their monitor when the samecar entered the city. I don't know about you, but I would sleep better.
I have done some computer-related work for ESRB two years ago and here's what I saw: Three or more indpendent (meaning they don't work for ESRB) testers/viewers look at game footage and check-off presence or lack of different flags - like how many times vulgar language is used, nudity, realistic violence, etc. I can go on for hours describing what they look for, but the key is that it's people like you and me who come in and rate these games. They (testers) have no relationship with video game companies nor do they work for ESRB. Once they are done rating, another batch of outside people come in and rate other games.
ESRB gets paid by game companies that want their games rated. It's a small price to pay since it gets them off the hook since ESRB label clearly indicates what's inside the game and it's no one's fault but parents' if they fail to read the label. Some game companies WANT their rating raised to a higher level - if it's for older crowd, it must be good!? (well, not always but that's how most kids who ask they parents to buy these games think) Others will try to lower their rating so it's suited for a bigger audience. They may remove blood or make blood green instead of "realistic" red.
ESRB employees are pretty cool and love games. They are not there to prevent games from being released but work to assist parents with the purchases. Games are not like magazines. You can't just flip through the pages and determine in seconds if it's ok for your kid to read. And I don't know many parents who will play entire game just to see if it's ok for their kid before giving it to them.
Most libraries have children's sections where no "adult" books or material could be found. Parents could feel safe leaving their kids there to read or look at books that they may want to borrow. It just happens that I worked at a public library when I was in HS. We had a children's section AND we had stacks (basement section) where older books and adult material was kept. I am talking about Playboy and Penthouse here:) If you were an adult you could ask for them.
P.S. AO We had a small problem with homeless people borrowing Penthouse and other material and "reading" it in the bathroom.
"The fastest" desktop -- they mean the fastest desktop that is RUNNING Apple applications and Apple OS. AND since no one else can legally manaufacture Apple hardware, they win by default. Imagine how embarrassed Steve would have felt if some Taiwanese close mfg. came out w/ an Apple clone that was 30% faster and cost 30% less AND came out a week before their "fastest desktop" in the world launch...they wouldn't even be able to claim that it was the fastest Mac for a week.
Yeah, I know it's not going to glow if it's dead - that's how you would be able to tell if the fish is REALLY fresh. (was alive few minutes before it was served)
Oh, I want cool toys from Blade Runner as well.
Hmm, SCO has a real problem with "FREE" software. They even had to drag in "illegal export" comment in there. FYI, SCO, Linux is a world-wide effort that originated in Finland and doesn't fall under US export laws.
Instead of adapting and jumping on the Linux bandwagon they chose to ignore the whole thing (hoping it would go away) and now it's too late.
As far as I know Novell still holds the Unix (tm) rights and not SCO. Depending on whom you listen to, they (novell) either still own it or don't.
I am self-employed and I pay $500-something per year for this mandated Workers Compansation (disability/unemployment) insurance. All companies that have employees are required to have it. This insurance entitles me to collect, should I become disabled (on the job) or if my subcontractor or company that I work at decides to screw me over.
However, If I quit on my own I shouldn't be entitled to any compensation. Saying that this money ($500) would go into my pocket is correct in MY case but hypothetical for others. My $500 that I would have saved would be taxed by Fed and state, so I wouldn't actually get the $500. More like $300. Same goes for big companies with thousands of employees. I think $300 is a small price to pay for this kind of insurance.
How on earth did you come up with "The average employer pays about $1.35 to $1.50 per $1.00 that the employee receives"? According to your sentence, company would be paying $45k in taxes, benefits, insurance,etc. on top of $30k salary that a typical secretary makes. This is absolutely incorrect and not even close.75k total compensation? I don't think so.
Perhaps you meant to say that 30% of employer's cost per employee goes to government, insurance,etc. "$1.50 per $1.00" is 150% and not 30.
Walking out is dumb especially when you consider crappy economy, number of foreign workers who ARE willing to work for less and put in more hours.
Back in the IPO-crazy days people had no problems working 70, 80-hour weeks. Now that we are back to reality, why do you ask for something that you will never get back - time. Time that you could have spent with your family, friends, etc. is worth more (to me) than extra 10k that you can probably squeeze out of the Co.
Why don't you negotiate flex time schedule for ALL IT people in your group.
Either ask for more vacation time or Summer Hours schedule where you get to leave earlier on Fridays, like 1 or 2pm. If they won't give you more money, the least they can do is give you more vacation time and more personal days.
$1000 laptop w/ DVD drive. Not only can you use it to type those long term papers but you can also watch movies. Also get one of those security locks from Kensington. It may not prevent someone with bolt cutters but it WILL prevent an occasional thief (like pizza delivery dude or soon-to-be-drop-out) from walking away with your loot.
Oh, and DO back up your data; "I lost 5 years worth of docs and my thesis because my pc crashed" won't fly with your professor.
Even if they get one subscriber out of 500 people who read that article on/. it's still better than no press and no new subscribers.
I haven't heard of SB until today and I was still playing RPGs like everquest, I would definitely check it out.
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and it ain't Jennifer Garner:) Jayson Blair is CIA's newest hire. He comes from liberal, yet shrewd and intelligent NY Times where he was a "hands-on" reporter("All the News That's Fit to Print") George Tenet personally welcomed Jayson and introduced him as ~The man who will cut CIA's travel budget in half and will bring honesty, diversity and precision to our organization~
George also mentioned that he came across Jayson's resume on dice.com; (leading online provider of online recruiting services for technology professionals) Blair's resume was simply stellar~ said Tenet, ~With his experience and skills he should be twice as old!~
My neighbor just finished building a battlebot that looks a lot like a Segway. When I confronted him, he said it "fell of a truck"; I don't believe him:)
Re:CD is the problem, not wma, mp3 or ogg
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you read my post too fast. I was comparing LIVE music, as in concert on a stage, to processed and stamped onto a CD. Same for analog studio vs CD. Vinyl is only mentioned to illustrate a point - just because it's analog it doesn't mean it's better. CD-to-mp3-to-record will sound horrible and not much worse than cd-to-mp3-to-cd. I agree 100% with Norton_I that once mastering engineers are done compressing and tweaking, audio cd sounds nowhere near the original.
I also mention that "older" audiophiles don't know what they are talking about. There were some horrible transfers to CD that actually DO sound worse than their vinyl counterparts. And YES, it has nothing to do with bandwidth avail and everything to do with method used to format the source to fit it on the cd.
I am glad Apple is digging up master reels, even if it's only for a handful of albums.
Oh, and I missed "they" in a sentence. I guess I am sentence-dyslexic
Hey, I see nothing wrong with sipping cappuchinos at the café, ogling at well-endowed waitresses and reading the latest slashdot article on my tablet..AND gettting paid for doing remote desktop support:)
On Fridays substitute coffee with cheap red wine.
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CDs have flat sound to begin with when compared to analog masters. So in order to get "better than CD" quality you would have to rip from the master tape. Also, file size would have to be less than 60mb per song. (size of a 5 minute uncompressed song from a CD) While most master-to-CD transfers sound fine, classical music tends to lose its "warmth." I am no audiophile but I noticed a big difference when I listened to Crux Shadows live and on CD. Speaking of audiophiles, by the time they can afford to buy their must-have equipment, they've already lost their hearing. Give them 128kps mp3 file stamped on vinyl and will swear it sounds better than your original CD:)
Unless you are rackmounting servers every single day, there is absolutely no reason for you to be in there. (to do day-to-day administration) Get your company to spend $20k on a Raritan remote KVM switch to control all your servers remotely. You can connect "consoles" up to few hundred feet away and I think there's a module for remote administration (dial-up) as well. OR Get VNC software. it's free and it works. AND it doesn't blue-screen your servers. l8r
very true. Sanctions don't really work. If they did, US troops would not have been able to find over $2 billion in cash hidden behind fake walls and at top "leaders'" houses.
Stalin killed over 20 million of his own citizens and was by far the worst dictator that has ever lived. It's no wonder that Hitler had a cakewalk taking over most of Russia/Soviet Union. Most generals and other top ranking military people, who actually knew what they were doing, were sent to Siberia or executed. Same goes for normal hard working people. Anyone could be locked up for anything. My grandmother told me their neighbor was sent to Siberia because he hid 20 pounds of flour under his roof. I guess feeding your family was against Soviet beliefs.
When things became worse, people were eating bark off trees and anything else they could get their hands on. My grandmother was fortunate because her dad took entire family to Georgia where they had fruits and vegetables.
I mean cryotank. Support open Internet or I won't be able to come back into being (as cyberchrist) Your high-speed links are vital for my neural net and my omnipresence. (insert more techno-babble here) OK, ok, Ghost in the Shell and Matrix are going back on the shelf:)
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redundant my ass. there were 2 posts when I typed my msg and I read both of them before posted.
[some of us type slower than others]
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Yeah, I had it up and running in 1993 on an AMD 386 DXL-40 mhz with 4mb ram. I had some problems with my P.O.S. Trident video card but I finally did ge Xwindows working. Since I only had 4mb of ram, I had to create an 8mb virtual memory swap file before i could even startX :) My 170mb hard drive was spinning out of control swapping xclock and some other xapp. It took a while to configure everything and there was no plug an play but everything ran fine w/o crashing. (once it was set)
My Slackware came on a blue "distro" CD that I paid $10 for + shipping. (Back then even blank CDs costs $5 each so it was every penny, considering that I had a 14.4k modem and it cost me money to call Internet.
OK, so they may not make the most reliable cars in the world anymore (still most fun to drive)
but at least they (Munich city hall linux story) chose the more stable and SECURE OS than US Homeland Security.
Their 1st task and possibly their primary task for years to come will be securing their own desktops from spyware (gator, bonzi,etc) and worms, viruses, trojans, etc.
I guess they will have to downlod service packs and hotfixes like everyone else.
I live in a condo that's located in an "urban" environment and I wish cops had access to something like this already. We had at least 6 Nissan Maximas broken into and xenon headlights taken out. While the police cannot prevent something like this, at least they would be able to trace their movement throughout the city. At least 3 times they were the same people and even used the same car. I am sure they did a few passes through the complex and neighborhood development before they actually began their "work". If cops had access to this, they could have eyewitnesses ID the car and have an alarm pop up on their monitor when the samecar entered the city. I don't know about you, but I would sleep better.
nt
I have done some computer-related work for ESRB two years ago and here's what I saw: :) If you were an adult you could ask for them.
Three or more indpendent (meaning they don't work for ESRB) testers/viewers look at game footage and check-off presence or lack of different flags - like how many times vulgar language is used, nudity, realistic violence, etc. I can go on for hours describing what they look for, but the key is that it's people like you and me who come in and rate these games. They (testers) have no relationship with video game companies nor do they work for ESRB. Once they are done rating, another batch of outside people come in and rate other games.
ESRB gets paid by game companies that want their games rated. It's a small price to pay since it gets them off the hook since ESRB label clearly indicates what's inside the game and it's no one's fault but parents' if they fail to read the label. Some game companies WANT their rating raised to a higher level - if it's for older crowd, it must be good!? (well, not always but that's how most kids who ask they parents to buy these games think) Others will try to lower their rating so it's suited for a bigger audience. They may remove blood or make blood green instead of "realistic" red.
ESRB employees are pretty cool and love games. They are not there to prevent games from being released but work to assist parents with the purchases. Games are not like magazines. You can't just flip through the pages and determine in seconds if it's ok for your kid to read. And I don't know many parents who will play entire game just to see if it's ok for their kid before giving it to them.
Most libraries have children's sections where no "adult" books or material could be found. Parents could feel safe leaving their kids there to read or look at books that they may want to borrow. It just happens that I worked at a public library when I was in HS. We had a children's section AND we had stacks (basement section) where older books and adult material was kept. I am talking about Playboy and Penthouse here
P.S. AO
We had a small problem with homeless people borrowing Penthouse and other material and "reading" it in the bathroom.
I wonder if they will charge us extra for tech support, now that it's not supported anymore.
"The fastest" desktop -- they mean the fastest desktop that is RUNNING Apple applications and Apple OS. AND since no one else can legally manaufacture Apple hardware, they win by default.
Imagine how embarrassed Steve would have felt if some Taiwanese close mfg. came out w/ an Apple clone that was 30% faster and cost 30% less AND came out a week before their "fastest desktop" in the world launch...they wouldn't even be able to claim that it was the fastest Mac for a week.
Yeah, I know it's not going to glow if it's dead - that's how you would be able to tell if the fish is REALLY fresh. (was alive few minutes before it was served)
Oh, I want cool toys from Blade Runner as well.
Hmm, SCO has a real problem with "FREE" software. They even had to drag in "illegal export" comment in there. FYI, SCO, Linux is a world-wide effort that originated in Finland and doesn't fall under US export laws.
Instead of adapting and jumping on the Linux bandwagon they chose to ignore the whole thing (hoping it would go away) and now it's too late.
As far as I know Novell still holds the Unix (tm) rights and not SCO. Depending on whom you listen to, they (novell) either still own it or don't.
I am self-employed and I pay $500-something per year for this mandated Workers Compansation (disability /unemployment) insurance. All companies that have employees are required to have it. This insurance entitles me to collect, should I become disabled (on the job) or if my subcontractor or company that I work at decides to screw me over. ,etc. "$1.50 per $1.00" is 150% and not 30.
However, If I quit on my own I shouldn't be entitled to any compensation. Saying that this money ($500) would go into my pocket is correct in MY case but hypothetical for others. My $500 that I would have saved would be taxed by Fed and state, so I wouldn't actually get the $500. More like $300. Same goes for big companies with thousands of employees. I think $300 is a small price to pay for this kind of insurance.
How on earth did you come up with "The average employer pays about $1.35 to $1.50 per $1.00 that the employee receives"?
According to your sentence, company would be paying $45k in taxes, benefits, insurance,etc. on top of $30k salary that a typical secretary makes. This is absolutely incorrect and not even close.75k total compensation? I don't think so.
Perhaps you meant to say that 30% of employer's cost per employee goes to government, insurance
Walking out is dumb especially when you consider crappy economy, number of foreign workers who ARE willing to work for less and put in more hours.
Back in the IPO-crazy days people had no problems working 70, 80-hour weeks. Now that we are back to reality, why do you ask for something that you will never get back - time. Time that you could have spent with your family, friends, etc. is worth more (to me) than extra 10k that you can probably squeeze out of the Co.
Why don't you negotiate flex time schedule for ALL IT people in your group.
Either ask for more vacation time or Summer Hours schedule where you get to leave earlier on Fridays, like 1 or 2pm. If they won't give you more money, the least they can do is give you more vacation time and more personal days.
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$1000 laptop w/ DVD drive. Not only can you use it to type those long term papers but you can also watch movies. Also get one of those security locks from Kensington. It may not prevent someone with bolt cutters but it WILL prevent an occasional thief (like pizza delivery dude or soon-to-be-drop-out) from walking away with your loot.
Oh, and DO back up your data; "I lost 5 years worth of docs and my thesis because my pc crashed" won't fly with your professor.
Even if they get one subscriber out of 500 people who read that article on /. it's still better than no press and no new subscribers.
I haven't heard of SB until today and I was still playing RPGs like everquest, I would definitely check it out.
and it ain't Jennifer Garner :)
Jayson Blair is CIA's newest hire. He comes from liberal, yet shrewd and intelligent NY Times where he was a "hands-on" reporter("All the News That's Fit to Print")
George Tenet personally welcomed Jayson and introduced him as ~The man who will cut CIA's travel budget in half and will bring honesty, diversity and precision to our organization~
George also mentioned that he came across Jayson's resume on dice.com; (leading online provider of online recruiting services for technology professionals) Blair's resume was simply stellar~ said Tenet, ~With his experience and skills he should be twice as old!~
p.s.
troll alert!
My neighbor just finished building a battlebot that looks a lot like a Segway. :)
When I confronted him, he said it "fell of a truck"; I don't believe him
you read my post too fast. I was comparing LIVE music, as in concert on a stage, to processed and stamped onto a CD. Same for analog studio vs CD.
Vinyl is only mentioned to illustrate a point - just because it's analog it doesn't mean it's better. CD-to-mp3-to-record will sound horrible and not much worse than cd-to-mp3-to-cd. I agree 100% with Norton_I that once mastering engineers are done compressing and tweaking, audio cd sounds nowhere near the original.
I also mention that "older" audiophiles don't know what they are talking about. There were some horrible transfers to CD that actually DO sound worse than their vinyl counterparts. And YES, it has nothing to do with bandwidth avail and everything to do with method used to format the source to fit it on the cd.
I am glad Apple is digging up master reels, even if it's only for a handful of albums.
Oh, and I missed "they" in a sentence. I guess I am sentence-dyslexic
Hey, I see nothing wrong with sipping cappuchinos at the café, ogling at well-endowed waitresses and reading the latest slashdot article on my tablet..AND gettting paid for doing remote desktop support :)
On Fridays substitute coffee with cheap red wine.
CDs have flat sound to begin with when compared to analog masters. So in order to get "better than CD" quality you would have to rip from the master tape. Also, file size would have to be less than 60mb per song. (size of a 5 minute uncompressed song from a CD) :)
While most master-to-CD transfers sound fine, classical music tends to lose its "warmth." I am no audiophile but I noticed a big difference when I listened to Crux Shadows live and on CD. Speaking of audiophiles, by the time they can afford to buy their must-have equipment, they've already lost their hearing. Give them 128kps mp3 file stamped on vinyl and will swear it sounds better than your original CD
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Unless you are rackmounting servers every single day, there is absolutely no reason for you to be in there. (to do day-to-day administration) Get your company to spend $20k on a Raritan remote KVM switch to control all your servers remotely. You can connect "consoles" up to few hundred feet away and I think there's a module for remote administration (dial-up) as well.
OR
Get VNC software. it's free and it works. AND it doesn't blue-screen your servers.
l8r
very true. Sanctions don't really work. If they did, US troops would not have been able to find over $2 billion in cash hidden behind fake walls and at top "leaders'" houses.
Stalin killed over 20 million of his own citizens and was by far the worst dictator that has ever lived. It's no wonder that Hitler had a cakewalk taking over most of Russia/Soviet Union. Most generals and other top ranking military people, who actually knew what they were doing, were sent to Siberia or executed. Same goes for normal hard working people. Anyone could be locked up for anything. My grandmother told me their neighbor was sent to Siberia because he hid 20 pounds of flour under his roof. I guess feeding your family was against Soviet beliefs.
When things became worse, people were eating bark off trees and anything else they could get their hands on. My grandmother was fortunate because her dad took entire family to Georgia where they had fruits and vegetables.
I mean cryotank. Support open Internet or I won't be able to come back into being (as cyberchrist) Your high-speed links are vital for my neural net and my omnipresence. (insert more techno-babble here) :)
OK, ok, Ghost in the Shell and Matrix are going back on the shelf