Just to second what thomas.galvin wrote. I downloaded and reinstalled JEdit which was fine since there was a new version out (4.2pre9). This took away the annoying error message every time I loaded JEdit.
If your doctor friend had used a good Bayesian filter like the one that comes with SpamAssassin, this problem would likely take care of itself. The filter would learn that, say, "Viagra" is 75% likely to be not spam, whereas "V!@G.RA" is 100% likely to be spam.
I completely agree with you. The only thing I really HATE about SQL Server is that it only runs on Windows Operating Systems. As I "only" have about 6 years of experience managing database servers, I find Oracle very frustrating to develop for and maintain. My databases aren't THAT huge (maybe 75-80 million records) and SQL Server works great. Of course, my main client is only now switching from v.7 to 2000 so I don't think this delayed release will affect me that much. I can do all my ColdFusion and Java development and hosting in Mac/Linux so SQL Server is the only thing forcing me to keep a Windows box in my closet (which of course was locked up when I tried to use it this morning).
I do hope they can somehow do a better job with security with the next release, although that may be asking too much.:-( Last time I had to reinstall SQL Server 2000, the whole subnet was down with the SQL Slammer worm before I even had a chance to configure the server and download the patches from Microsoft. Ouch. You have to download the patches ahead of time, pull the server off the internet, install SQL Server and all the patches, change the default port (and obviously make sure your sa password is not blank, duh) and only THEN go back online. Wow.
I won't call you a troll, but I WILL call you a karma whore for posting a comment like this requiring absolutely no brain cell activity a mere 1 minute after the story posted.
Good job, I say.
You're right. I once had a crazy woman pee on the floor right in front of me on a city bus. That was some social interaction I could have done without. Really.
Had I had an iPod at the time, I'm sure it would have made the situation much more pleasant.
And what a great example of "freedom" this is. Linus Torvalds, like most of the rest of us, is free to use the software he chooses to use. The good folk at Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, etc. are all free to choose which version of XFree86 they'll support... and I'm free to use LFS, Mac OS X or Windows 95 for that matter.
What I'd like, that apparently doesn't exist yet, is a "natural" bluetooth keyboard.
I'd also like a bluetooth mouse that can be used with either hand equally well. It looks like all the bluetooth mice in this review are right-hand mice, although it could just be the angle in the photographs.
This is a good distinction you make. I often wonder what would happen if a management team of a publicly traded company did nothing to directly manipulate or affect their stock price, but instead focused on growing the company, making a profit, providing quality products at a reasonable price, etc. My thesis is that over the long term this would provide more value than any direct concern over the stock price could provide.
Maybe if I ever get a PhD in Economics (haha) I'll research this. Actually there are probably many companies where this is already happening, but by design you aren't as likely to hear about this.
Sprint and Verizon offer the same thing, but I think you'll find their service is significantly faster as they both run on 1xRTT. IIRC Verizon's hits around 2Mbps in Washington DC and San Diego.
T-Mobile, on the other hand, offers speeds around 70kpbs but it only costs around $30/month. I believe it uses the same GSM network technology as Cingular.
One of my clients has been with Annex.com for about 2.5 years. Traffic on that site is pretty steady so I don't know how they handle large spikes, but I can say that their service has been exceptional. You might want to take a look there.
I can totally understand links in the average article getting slashdotted, but dude you linked to an article on your own site and STILL couldn't keep the site up? Harsh.
I'll bet if you posted on/. that you're looking for a competent system administrator, you'd find one.
I bought a Swiss Army Websak about 2 1/2 years ago for my laptop and I still love it. It's a very sturdy backpack. I used to commute on a motorcycle and the bag worked out well.
The only thing I wish it had was a hip strap, but I guess you can't have everything. The great thing about Swiss Army luggage is the lifetime warranty. Pretty much all of our luggage now is Swiss Army. They do follow through on their warranty claims and are well worth the seemingly higher up-front costs. I highly recommend them.
At the company I used to work for we built a prefab online CD sales store in 1999. I think our client got around 60 clients running the site before they went belly up. It was a fun project - all the sites were run off a single data/code base with a syndicated industry information populating templates so each site had the same content but looked completely different.
But back to business ideas: it seems the first wave was taking an existing idea (music stores) and putting "internet" in front of it. Now the idea is taking an existing "internet" idea (online music stores) and making it "digital" (digital online music store).
1. Equip your motorcyle with a GPS unit and bluetooth (or something like that). Get manufacturers to add a bit of software to their bluetooth/GPS/LCD-equipped new cars to provide a warning beacon (with direction, distance, etc.) of motorcyclists (and bicyclists too!) nearby them. The problem with this of course is the would-be murderers in their vehicles who for some reason actually TRY to kill you when you're on a motorcycle or bicycle. Yes this happens, for those of you who are good souls and have trouble believing it.
2. Turn carpool lanes into motorcycle-only lanes. I know this sounds crazy and will never happen, but I live in Los Angeles County California, and it rains here like 10 days a year and never snows so it SHOULD be motorbike heaven. The roads are wide and totally clogged with traffic. I had a motorbike in San Diego but here in LA drivers are evil and since by bike broke down I haven't replaced it, but that's OT. If they turned 1 lane one every major freeway into a motorcycle-only lane, and offered tax incentives to ride a motorbike, and mandated safety classes and educated drivers about watching for motorcycles, I think it could go a long way toward solving traffic problems. If even 10% of drivers got a bike and rode it to work, it would help a LOT.
Why am I asking this? Well, I believe that in the future, the ethics of a company will greatly impact on their bottom line. What's good for our customers is good for us, and customers will be drawn to us BECAUSE of it.
I'm sure this isn't the ONLY reason you want to be ethical, but it's a little disconcerting that you cite it as your main one. I'm not saying I'm the MOST ethical person out there, but I do believe in an absolute standard for what is right and wrong, and I believe that a person should adhere to those standards regardless of wether it makes more or less money.
I do believe that the ethics of a company will have an impact on its bottom line. However, at times you may be tempted to suspect that good ethics are having a negative impact. It's at those times when, if your ethics are fundamentally based on economics rather than unshakeable principles of what is good and evil, you may lose your way.
I have Verizon, but Sprint has a plan that allows you to roam on Verizon's digital and analog networks WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE. So you get Sprint's digital & analog, and Verizon's too. It might be an extra $5/month or something, I dunno.
BTW, the people in the Sprint stores might tell you it doesn't exist, but it does.
If you have a Kyocera 7135, you can subscribe to their all-you-can-eat 1xRTT data plan for $40/month instead of the $80 they charge you with a PCMCIA card. This plan doesn't come off your minutes, so I guess it depends on what phone you have, and how often you need it.
Well first, for some reason the line that limits the size didn't get added:
* < 256000
Second, this doesn't dump email larger than 256k. It just tells spamassassin not to process it. It still goes through into the user's mailbox, but it doesn't get marked as spam/not spam.
On another topic, I've only received one spam larger than 256k since setting up spamassassin. Somebody recently sent me a 1MB PDF file. I responded to her, thanking her for it and sending back 3 copies for her to mail on to other people. I guess it was mean to the internet but it did give me a sense of satisfaction...
I had an interview like this. I dressed up, drove 1/2 an hour to the office, showed up and the secretary at the front desk handed me a stack of papers and told me to answer the coding questions inside. I walked out.
I think finding out a programmer's programming skill is a reasonable thing to do during an interview. If you're doing it the way it sounds like you're doing it, you'll probably insult anybody skilled enough to answer your questions though. For another job, I was asked to write some perl scripts, and I did it. They asked me to do it after a second interview, and I knew if I spent the time and did it well I'd probably get the job. I stayed up most of the night doing the programs, and sent them in. The interviewer looked at what I did and realized what he'd asked me to do was way harder than he'd thought. He was very impressed at my work and my work ethic, and I got the job. Despite the fact that what I produced ended up taking about 4x as long as he initially thought it should.
The point is, maybe you're only highlighting one aspect of your job search, but if not, you might want to reconsider your interview process.
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I'm pretty sure they came up with "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance" on their own though. What do you know, another Slashdot-reading Tourniquet fan :-)
Just to second what thomas.galvin wrote. I downloaded and reinstalled JEdit which was fine since there was a new version out (4.2pre9). This took away the annoying error message every time I loaded JEdit.
If your doctor friend had used a good Bayesian filter like the one that comes with SpamAssassin, this problem would likely take care of itself. The filter would learn that, say, "Viagra" is 75% likely to be not spam, whereas "V!@G.RA" is 100% likely to be spam.
I do hope they can somehow do a better job with security with the next release, although that may be asking too much. :-( Last time I had to reinstall SQL Server 2000, the whole subnet was down with the SQL Slammer worm before I even had a chance to configure the server and download the patches from Microsoft. Ouch. You have to download the patches ahead of time, pull the server off the internet, install SQL Server and all the patches, change the default port (and obviously make sure your sa password is not blank, duh) and only THEN go back online. Wow.
I just keep wondering what a "proxy-relay trojan server" is...
I won't call you a troll, but I WILL call you a karma whore for posting a comment like this requiring absolutely no brain cell activity a mere 1 minute after the story posted. Good job, I say.
Had I had an iPod at the time, I'm sure it would have made the situation much more pleasant.
And what a great example of "freedom" this is. Linus Torvalds, like most of the rest of us, is free to use the software he chooses to use. The good folk at Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, etc. are all free to choose which version of XFree86 they'll support ... and I'm free to use LFS, Mac OS X or Windows 95 for that matter.
Good point. I should have read a little closer.
Here's one
20.1" 1600x1200 LCD, MSRP $999.99
I'd also like a bluetooth mouse that can be used with either hand equally well. It looks like all the bluetooth mice in this review are right-hand mice, although it could just be the angle in the photographs.
This is a good distinction you make. I often wonder what would happen if a management team of a publicly traded company did nothing to directly manipulate or affect their stock price, but instead focused on growing the company, making a profit, providing quality products at a reasonable price, etc. My thesis is that over the long term this would provide more value than any direct concern over the stock price could provide.
Maybe if I ever get a PhD in Economics (haha) I'll research this. Actually there are probably many companies where this is already happening, but by design you aren't as likely to hear about this.
Sprint and Verizon offer the same thing, but I think you'll find their service is significantly faster as they both run on 1xRTT. IIRC Verizon's hits around 2Mbps in Washington DC and San Diego.
T-Mobile, on the other hand, offers speeds around 70kpbs but it only costs around $30/month. I believe it uses the same GSM network technology as Cingular.
One of my clients has been with Annex.com for about 2.5 years. Traffic on that site is pretty steady so I don't know how they handle large spikes, but I can say that their service has been exceptional. You might want to take a look there.
I'll bet if you posted on /. that you're looking for a competent system administrator, you'd find one.
The only thing I wish it had was a hip strap, but I guess you can't have everything. The great thing about Swiss Army luggage is the lifetime warranty. Pretty much all of our luggage now is Swiss Army. They do follow through on their warranty claims and are well worth the seemingly higher up-front costs. I highly recommend them.
Has anyone used any of these VOIP products over satellite internet access? I wonder if the latency and/or upstream bandwidth might be too restrictive.
But back to business ideas: it seems the first wave was taking an existing idea (music stores) and putting "internet" in front of it. Now the idea is taking an existing "internet" idea (online music stores) and making it "digital" (digital online music store).
Go figure.
2. Turn carpool lanes into motorcycle-only lanes. I know this sounds crazy and will never happen, but I live in Los Angeles County California, and it rains here like 10 days a year and never snows so it SHOULD be motorbike heaven. The roads are wide and totally clogged with traffic. I had a motorbike in San Diego but here in LA drivers are evil and since by bike broke down I haven't replaced it, but that's OT. If they turned 1 lane one every major freeway into a motorcycle-only lane, and offered tax incentives to ride a motorbike, and mandated safety classes and educated drivers about watching for motorcycles, I think it could go a long way toward solving traffic problems. If even 10% of drivers got a bike and rode it to work, it would help a LOT.
OK I'm off my soapbox.
I'm sure this isn't the ONLY reason you want to be ethical, but it's a little disconcerting that you cite it as your main one. I'm not saying I'm the MOST ethical person out there, but I do believe in an absolute standard for what is right and wrong, and I believe that a person should adhere to those standards regardless of wether it makes more or less money.
I do believe that the ethics of a company will have an impact on its bottom line. However, at times you may be tempted to suspect that good ethics are having a negative impact. It's at those times when, if your ethics are fundamentally based on economics rather than unshakeable principles of what is good and evil, you may lose your way.
BTW, the people in the Sprint stores might tell you it doesn't exist, but it does.
If you have a Kyocera 7135, you can subscribe to their all-you-can-eat 1xRTT data plan for $40/month instead of the $80 they charge you with a PCMCIA card. This plan doesn't come off your minutes, so I guess it depends on what phone you have, and how often you need it.
Well first, for some reason the line that limits the size didn't get added:
* < 256000
Second, this doesn't dump email larger than 256k. It just tells spamassassin not to process it. It still goes through into the user's mailbox, but it doesn't get marked as spam/not spam.
# spamassassin
:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* | spamc -f
will only scan files less than 256000 bytes.
On another topic, I've only received one spam larger than 256k since setting up spamassassin. Somebody recently sent me a 1MB PDF file. I responded to her, thanking her for it and sending back 3 copies for her to mail on to other people. I guess it was mean to the internet but it did give me a sense of satisfaction...
I think finding out a programmer's programming skill is a reasonable thing to do during an interview. If you're doing it the way it sounds like you're doing it, you'll probably insult anybody skilled enough to answer your questions though. For another job, I was asked to write some perl scripts, and I did it. They asked me to do it after a second interview, and I knew if I spent the time and did it well I'd probably get the job. I stayed up most of the night doing the programs, and sent them in. The interviewer looked at what I did and realized what he'd asked me to do was way harder than he'd thought. He was very impressed at my work and my work ethic, and I got the job. Despite the fact that what I produced ended up taking about 4x as long as he initially thought it should.
The point is, maybe you're only highlighting one aspect of your job search, but if not, you might want to reconsider your interview process.