- Keep my resume up-to-date. Most resumes you do will be custom tailored for a potential employer, but keep a generic one on hand and update it. - Know what's going on in the job market. For me, that includes jobs in my hometown and network management (netcool, concord, cisco, etc) jobs anywhere in North America. - Apply for jobs even if you think that it may not be a good fit for you. At least it provides good experience in writing a resume and cover letter, and possibly interview experience as well. - Keep a minimum balance in a bank account, say $7000. These are emergency funds, and I think being laid off counts. - If your company has a share ownership plan, get out if it, or at least make routine transfers out to another account. If the company is considering layoffs, there is a good chance they are not performing well, and that includes stock price. The last thing you want is to be hit with a double whammy of being unemployed and seeing your retirement income evaporate. - Whatever training you can get at your current job, take it. - Lastly, try and stay positive. Enjoy life to the fullest outside of work.
Can't afford the CDs but have a decent connection? Then just stream it if you listen to music when you're computing. A radio station in my home town plays nothing but Jazz. You can find it here: Cool FM.
It'll at least help you decide what other CDs you might want to buy.
Ok, I know this is off-topic and will probably be modded down, but has anyone else had their topic icon beside each story on the frontpage disappear? I check my frontpage prefs and they are fine. It started on Saturday. It's been this way on 3 different machines, all running IE (yet another reason to mod me down I guess). I haven't seen anyone else comment on it, nor could I find anything when I did a search... which makes me think this could be an isolated issue.
"The iTunes Music Store is only available in the U.S."
Interesting how they say "in the U.S.", and not "to U.S. customers". Does this mean it does some sort of IP check and won't allow you to enter based on that?
Either way, Canadians are shut out yet again. Shit... first Tivo, now this.
I was really hoping Ray Liotta would get a nod for his role in this film. Jason Patric was solid too. The opening sequence with the foot chase was pretty heart-pounding, very well done with the unstable camera movement. The ending was a bit of a shocker too. I thought it was better (and edgier) than the somewhat similar Training Day from last year, and both main actors got nods in that one, with Denzel winning an award.
A bit of a snub if you ask me. Anyone else enjoy Narc as much as my fiance and I did?
Ok, I'll apologize ahead of time if this has already been asked (and I'm sure it has):
What interests me most in the Tivo and the Media Center PC is the program guide interface... it is unbelievably polished and quite detailed (ex. snippets about each show). What I would like to know is: Is there a Windows and/or OSX (I'll be buying an ibook shortly) equivalent program guide out there that can give me the same "look and feel" that the Tivo and Media Center provide? I don't care about recording features, nor do I care if the software would cost me money. I just want a program guide that looks as slick as that.
Geez, I'm getting sick of seeing so many damn Tivo stories on Slashdot... not because I think Tivo is crap, but because I would love to try one of these out, but I can't! The only thing that comes close up here is Bell Satellite with their PVR, which is something like $500-$600 up front I think.
And as many Tivo users have said, it's not the PVR functionality that kicks ass, but the service features such as Season Pass (hey, that rhymes). And from what I've seen the UI is really good. My fiance and I are dying to get one of these.
is Mario Party 4. Yes, it recieved ho-hum reviews, but man is it a blast to play with friends (and family)... the kind of game anyone can play, because the controls are simple.
I went to a house party last night and the main entertainment among us mid-twenty year old's was Mario Party.
The "Domination" mini-game is a blast for rapid fire button mashers. I watched someone last night score 142!
Can you say Abbott and Costello?
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It would be interesting to see how the conversation would turn out if you could program Alice1 to start off by asking:
Funny how this topic came up because just yesterday I sent a long-winded email to our LAN Support Admin practically begging for a more feasible (and responsible) way to use IM in the workspace.
The company I work for uses ICQcorp, which, AFAIK, is dead software and has sat in beta since it was released in 1999.
Now I won't get into most problems our company has had with instant messenging (the second biggest being users abusing their broadcasting rights), but I will dwelve on one...
ICQcorp is terribly insecure... well, at least the way it was implemented in our office environment. In my department, most people don't have a workstation they can call their own. When you get in, you pick an NT box, log in, and that's that. The problem is that anyone who used that particular box (and logged into ICQ) can have their history of messages viewed easily. The *.dat files can be opened through notepad, and sit locally on the C: drive in the ICQcorp folder. Albeit, the formatting is bad, but you can definitely read it. Since I've discovered this, I've really toned down my instant messenging to the point where it is pretty much all work related, and if I actually remember to do it, I'll delete my own.dat file on the computer before I log off.
I just recieved a response back from LAN support and it wasn't very encouraging:
" There are no other departments... that use any type of instant messaging and the justification for changing this system has not been met."
I think it's time I maybe had a chat with Corporate Security. Do you guys agree?
P.S. On a totally unrelated note... anyone else experience unbelievable slowness with/. the last 2 days? My dsl connection seems fine everywhere else. Did a traceroute but didn't see any noticeable jump.
Don't confuse Outlook Express for Outlook 2000. OE is the worm attractor. OL2K, though somewhat vulnerable, is nowhere near as problematic as OE. It's kind of surprising considering how much more OL2K does.
Doesn't Outlook 2k require OE to run though? I've removed OE when I had Outlook 2000 installed and it doesn't run... says it requires OE.
So, is OE like a backend to Outlook 2000? If so, how can Outlook be less vulnerable?
I don't mean this question to be rhetorical. I acutally would like to know.:)
Er, Airmiles and Hotmail work fine for me. The IGN website has the same problem you listed. I can't verify the last one, though. Are you using an ancient version of the browser, or something? This is Mozilla 1.0.1 and half of your pages work as they are intended.
Couldn't comment on Moz when it comes to the first 2 sites... they just didn't load in Phoenix. I did have probs in Moz (1.0.1) on the last 2... ditto for Netscape 7 (I guess they're all pretty much the same in a way).
Might be my ISP's intercepting proxy that's causing a little havoc, but that's a little farfetched as IE seems to work fine on those. It also could've been the imported links. From what I remember, I only tried those 2 sites using the imported links from IE.
I'll give it another go today perhaps. I miss tabbed browsing already.
- Don't know about Hotmail since I don't have a Hotmail account. Go figure...:-) But how does it not allow you to login? It gave me a friendly "please re-enter your password" when I typed in some bogus info. Does it do that for you, or does something else happen?
Just hangs... nevers refreshes into my hotmail welcome screen. Just stays on the login screen. Myabe I tested that site at a bad time. I know my Employee site doesn't work. That site I've tried under Netscape 7 and Moz at different times. Nada on all 3. I'll see if there is someone I can talk to about that... as I said earlier, I would like to use Phoenix.
Just looking at my link to airmiles... try this link to see if it works:
Here's why I won't use it
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I'll probably get called an IE Zealot and modded down for this...
I've ran Phoenix 0.2, and I really tried to like it. Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, custimized toolbar, and it doesn't have the bloatedness of Moz. Stable too for a 0.2 release. BUT...
IT DOESN'T RENDER THE PAGES I WANT TO VIEW PROPERLY! I ran into the same problem with Netscape 7 and Moz 1.
Sites that I couldn't load properly in Phoenix:
Airmiles.ca - Couldn't load the front page. Hotmail - Loaded front page but couldn't log in. IGN Cube - This goes for all IGN game sites... the articles that are locked for subscribers have an 'i' beside them. This does not show up in Phoenix. My Employers Self Serve site - I can log in but the page hangs on the welcome screen.
I only have about 15 sites bookmarked, and the above 4 don't work. Who knows how many other sites are out there.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, maybe I have to configure something (If so, let me know please!), but the bottom line is that these sites load fine in IE.
I don't want to hear people say "These websites aren't following a standard". Tell me something I don't know.
I want a browser that lets me view the pages I want to see, thankyouverymuch. Until there's an alternative that does this, I'm sticking with IE along with its swiss cheese security.
There was a story about Microsoft buying rare in the Sci/Tech section that was linked from nytimes.com... I didn't need to log in! It just took me to the new story.
Yeah - F1, the one we both agree is dull today...Ironically, all these restrictions were brought in to help the smaller teams who had no budget. They are much further off the pace today than they were at the technological heyday.
I agree 100%. Look what happened this year in Formula 1. Michael Schumacher has won the drivers' championship by a landslide (see stats here), yet most critics are saying that it wasn't because of his abilities, it was because of his car, which was built by Ferrari. No competition makes it just plain boring to watch F1 now.
The Tragically Hip started their "Hip Club" back in June. Buy the CD, get a membership card that contains a PIN number, and get access to the Hip Club.
don't know if anyone reads this far down into a Slashdot thread but... The last post was correct. The Turbo Grafx 16 game system (or the PCEngine in Japan) was produced by NEC, with some significant Hudson Soft development effort.
I owned a TurboGrafx 16. It was a pretty cool system. I bought it after I sold my NES, then subsequently sold the TG16 for a Sega Genesis. Some cool games on that system. I owned Keith Courage (came with the system), Double Dungeons, Takin' it to the Hoop, and TV Sports Hockey.
If I had any more points, I'd mod ya up just for the nostalgia.:)
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- Keep my resume up-to-date. Most resumes you do will be custom tailored for a potential employer, but keep a generic one on hand and update it.
- Know what's going on in the job market. For me, that includes jobs in my hometown and network management (netcool, concord, cisco, etc) jobs anywhere in North America.
- Apply for jobs even if you think that it may not be a good fit for you. At least it provides good experience in writing a resume and cover letter, and possibly interview experience as well.
- Keep a minimum balance in a bank account, say $7000. These are emergency funds, and I think being laid off counts.
- If your company has a share ownership plan, get out if it, or at least make routine transfers out to another account. If the company is considering layoffs, there is a good chance they are not performing well, and that includes stock price. The last thing you want is to be hit with a double whammy of being unemployed and seeing your retirement income evaporate.
- Whatever training you can get at your current job, take it.
- Lastly, try and stay positive. Enjoy life to the fullest outside of work.
in effectively securing Windows XP systems
Anyone else first read this as "ineffectively securing..." ?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030 613/168/4ds7k.html 0 612/170/4dnhg.html
:)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/03
I hear those things are a bitch to ride.
It should be the running theme with Linux:
Linux Network Administrators Guide 2nd ed
O'Reilly Linux Command Reference
Can't afford the CDs but have a decent connection? Then just stream it if you listen to music when you're computing. A radio station in my home town plays nothing but Jazz. You can find it here: Cool FM.
It'll at least help you decide what other CDs you might want to buy.
Ok, I know this is off-topic and will probably be modded down, but has anyone else had their topic icon beside each story on the frontpage disappear? I check my frontpage prefs and they are fine. It started on Saturday. It's been this way on 3 different machines, all running IE (yet another reason to mod me down I guess). I haven't seen anyone else comment on it, nor could I find anything when I did a search... which makes me think this could be an isolated issue.
Thanks in advance.
Quote from the website:
"The iTunes Music Store is only available in the U.S."
Interesting how they say "in the U.S.", and not "to U.S. customers". Does this mean it does some sort of IP check and won't allow you to enter based on that?
Either way, Canadians are shut out yet again. Shit... first Tivo, now this.
L.O.R.D., FidoNet, and ascii porn.
Good times, good times.
I was really hoping Ray Liotta would get a nod for his role in this film. Jason Patric was solid too. The opening sequence with the foot chase was pretty heart-pounding, very well done with the unstable camera movement. The ending was a bit of a shocker too. I thought it was better (and edgier) than the somewhat similar Training Day from last year, and both main actors got nods in that one, with Denzel winning an award.
A bit of a snub if you ask me. Anyone else enjoy Narc as much as my fiance and I did?
Ok, I'll apologize ahead of time if this has already been asked (and I'm sure it has):
What interests me most in the Tivo and the Media Center PC is the program guide interface... it is unbelievably polished and quite detailed (ex. snippets about each show). What I would like to know is: Is there a Windows and/or OSX (I'll be buying an ibook shortly) equivalent program guide out there that can give me the same "look and feel" that the Tivo and Media Center provide? I don't care about recording features, nor do I care if the software would cost me money. I just want a program guide that looks as slick as that.
I would really appreciate any responses to this.
Thanks in advance.
I saved a link from an earlier story posted on Slashdot about a year ago.
It may be cruel to say, but every time I read that article, I feel pretty good about my current job position.
Geez, I'm getting sick of seeing so many damn Tivo stories on Slashdot... not because I think Tivo is crap, but because I would love to try one of these out, but I can't! The only thing that comes close up here is Bell Satellite with their PVR, which is something like $500-$600 up front I think.
And as many Tivo users have said, it's not the PVR functionality that kicks ass, but the service features such as Season Pass (hey, that rhymes). And from what I've seen the UI is really good. My fiance and I are dying to get one of these.
Damn you, Yankees! Damn you, eh!
is Mario Party 4. Yes, it recieved ho-hum reviews, but man is it a blast to play with friends (and family)... the kind of game anyone can play, because the controls are simple.
I went to a house party last night and the main entertainment among us mid-twenty year old's was Mario Party.
The "Domination" mini-game is a blast for rapid fire button mashers. I watched someone last night score 142!
It would be interesting to see how the conversation would turn out if you could program Alice1 to start off by asking:
"Who's on first?"
Funny how this topic came up because just yesterday I sent a long-winded email to our LAN Support Admin practically begging for a more feasible (and responsible) way to use IM in the workspace.
.dat file on the computer before I log off.
... that use any type of instant messaging and the justification for changing this system has not been met."
/. the last 2 days? My dsl connection seems fine everywhere else. Did a traceroute but didn't see any noticeable jump.
The company I work for uses ICQcorp, which, AFAIK, is dead software and has sat in beta since it was released in 1999.
Now I won't get into most problems our company has had with instant messenging (the second biggest being users abusing their broadcasting rights), but I will dwelve on one...
ICQcorp is terribly insecure... well, at least the way it was implemented in our office environment. In my department, most people don't have a workstation they can call their own. When you get in, you pick an NT box, log in, and that's that. The problem is that anyone who used that particular box (and logged into ICQ) can have their history of messages viewed easily. The *.dat files can be opened through notepad, and sit locally on the C: drive in the ICQcorp folder. Albeit, the formatting is bad, but you can definitely read it. Since I've discovered this, I've really toned down my instant messenging to the point where it is pretty much all work related, and if I actually remember to do it, I'll delete my own
I just recieved a response back from LAN support and it wasn't very encouraging:
" There are no other departments
I think it's time I maybe had a chat with Corporate Security. Do you guys agree?
P.S.
On a totally unrelated note... anyone else experience unbelievable slowness with
Doesn't Outlook 2k require OE to run though? I've removed OE when I had Outlook 2000 installed and it doesn't run... says it requires OE.
So, is OE like a backend to Outlook 2000? If so, how can Outlook be less vulnerable?
I don't mean this question to be rhetorical. I acutally would like to know.
Couldn't comment on Moz when it comes to the first 2 sites... they just didn't load in Phoenix. I did have probs in Moz (1.0.1) on the last 2... ditto for Netscape 7 (I guess they're all pretty much the same in a way).
Might be my ISP's intercepting proxy that's causing a little havoc, but that's a little farfetched as IE seems to work fine on those. It also could've been the imported links. From what I remember, I only tried those 2 sites using the imported links from IE.
I'll give it another go today perhaps. I miss tabbed browsing already.
Just hangs... nevers refreshes into my hotmail welcome screen. Just stays on the login screen. Myabe I tested that site at a bad time. I know my Employee site doesn't work. That site I've tried under Netscape 7 and Moz at different times. Nada on all 3. I'll see if there is someone I can talk to about that... as I said earlier, I would like to use Phoenix.
Just looking at my link to airmiles... try this link to see if it works:
airmiles
I'll probably get called an IE Zealot and modded down for this...
I've ran Phoenix 0.2, and I really tried to like it. Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, custimized toolbar, and it doesn't have the bloatedness of Moz. Stable too for a 0.2 release. BUT...
IT DOESN'T RENDER THE PAGES I WANT TO VIEW PROPERLY! I ran into the same problem with Netscape 7 and Moz 1.
Sites that I couldn't load properly in Phoenix:
Airmiles.ca
- Couldn't load the front page.
Hotmail
- Loaded front page but couldn't log in.
IGN Cube
- This goes for all IGN game sites... the articles that are locked for subscribers have an 'i' beside them. This does not show up in Phoenix.
My Employers Self Serve site
- I can log in but the page hangs on the welcome screen.
I only have about 15 sites bookmarked, and the above 4 don't work. Who knows how many other sites are out there.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, maybe I have to configure something (If so, let me know please!), but the bottom line is that these sites load fine in IE.
I don't want to hear people say "These websites aren't following a standard". Tell me something I don't know.
I want a browser that lets me view the pages I want to see, thankyouverymuch. Until there's an alternative that does this, I'm sticking with IE along with its swiss cheese security.
People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups:
* Can't afford it
* Don't know what it is
* Don't watch TV.
* Live in Canada.
There was a story about Microsoft buying rare in the Sci/Tech section that was linked from nytimes.com ... I didn't need to log in! It just took me to the new story.
Sweet.
I agree 100%. Look what happened this year in Formula 1. Michael Schumacher has won the drivers' championship by a landslide (see stats here), yet most critics are saying that it wasn't because of his abilities, it was because of his car, which was built by Ferrari.
No competition makes it just plain boring to watch F1 now.
The Tragically Hip started their "Hip Club" back in June. Buy the CD, get a membership card that contains a PIN number, and get access to the Hip Club.
More info Here.
I owned a TurboGrafx 16. It was a pretty cool system. I bought it after I sold my NES, then subsequently sold the TG16 for a Sega Genesis. Some cool games on that system. I owned Keith Courage (came with the system), Double Dungeons, Takin' it to the Hoop, and TV Sports Hockey.
If I had any more points, I'd mod ya up just for the nostalgia.