Secure Internet Live Conferencing:: It's a snap to install, has support in GAIM but also has a very decent client of it's own...not sure why this wheel needs to be re-invented.
Many thanks, Miklos. I'm growing quite fond of the Caracal as well. I came across the crunchy goodness that is the Medium Shield Booster last night (loot from an NPC pirate) and am ticked at myself for not looking at getting one sooner. I'll probably need more skills to get the inv.field (once I can find one for sale), but I'm not sure how many heavy missile launchers I'll be able to fit since one shot up power and cpu usage quite heavily (again, more skills==more power/cpu available).
I like the basic thought here, tho: be able to take a pounding while giving one as well.
Presently, I have one heavy launcher, two malkuth standard launchers and two rocket launchers in the highslots.
The medium slots have a med-shield-boost, 10MN afterburner (I hate going slowly) extra capacitor battery and a sensor disruptor (do all of the targeting/sensor disruptors just plain rot, or it it - again - a skills thing?).
The lowslots have a reactor control and one other thing (i forget).
I'll definitely take your suggestions and C0rinthian's suggestions into play tonight. (there goes yet another night of coding...and the new kid is due to arrive at the end of the month...so much for open source the next 2 quarters)...
Are there any Corps that are better to join? (or, are there ones I should really stay clear of?)
Also, would it make sense to start a corp if there are like 4-5 folks who want to mine and have me fly 'round to protect or is it better to all be in our own corps and just gang when necessary (ok, so I'm pestering @ this point...apologies again)
Cool, an fellow EVE-universe resident I can pester with relentless questions!
OK, how 'bout just a few:
1. I *really* like the Kestrel (Caldari, as you know doubt know). Great missile ship, but no capacitance and pathetic power/cpu. It's great for NPC pirates, but that is not good for those fights you're talking about, right? (or, would better skills/implants make it more useful by upping the values a bit)
2. My current ship - a Caracal (sp?) seems to have enough highslots and power/cpu/capacitance, but one of the higher level NPC's (~65,000 ISK bounty) managed to reduce my shields to 0 in like 4 shots and I barely scratched him. I'm upgrading to a medium shield booster and also training for a shield recharger, but that might not even work so well.
3. Are there sytems were the PvP action is a bit more "balanced"? One of the times I got podded *and* podkilled (in one of the higher frigates, not a Caracal, but similar in features) was when I was just passing through a 0.3 system. Two or three of the smart bombs reduced me to almost nothing. I made the jump to a station, but had no speed and the dude found me and finished the job. It just seems like it would be hard to get a balanced fight "randomly'.
sorry for bugging you and also apologies to the/. crowd for getting way off topic
We've (wife & I) just started playing EVE (been about a month or so).
The time-between-doing-things-requiring-immediate-acti on is one of the features we actually like.
While she mines in her huge, freakin' mining ship (lotsa shields, not much in offense) I guard with my cruiser/frigate/destroyer and whack the NPC pirates and ensure the real-life pilots mind their manners (we stay in 0.5 systems still, but that will change when I get everything to tech level 2).
In a couple hours, we pull in 1-3M ISKs between ore and space-junk left after blowin' up ships. During those hours, I hack on some code, catch up on news, play with the kids, cook, read, etc. It's the ability to not have to commit 100% of real-life to the game that makes it fun (at least for us). I think the time-factor helps weed out the people who want to just gang together and shoot at you. Don't get me wrong, I've been reduced to a pod and/or pod-killed 4x so-far, but it was my own fault for delving into 0.3 space. The ability to buy insurance makes the ship losses much more amenable.
Because we're ganged, we both benefit from a decent secuity status due to all the bounty kills.
If she chooses to go into a relatively high-level system, I'll do agent missions and usually net 150K-200K ISKs a piece for each (good standings/ratings with them).
But, that's just us, and this is our first MMO (not interested in being whacked by a 13 year old in Counter Strike and don't need to hang around poorly rendered half-naked elf chicks in Guild Wars, WoW, EQ, etc). The quality and (for the most part) maturity of folks on the social-part of EVE is also refreshing, especially if folks kinda stay in-character.
We're still tentative about the whole corporation-thing, but we'll most likely join one just to see if there really are any benefits (any decent corps recruiting that anyone knows of pls post a reply here...and if there are any we should stay away from, that would be cool info as well).
I used to swear by Java. I finally got over my "ugh - requires indentation!" bias and am absolutely amazed at how quickly one can build quality, multi-platform apps with decent GUIs.
If you know a little bit of perl/php/Java/C/C++ (and, yes, lisp helps), then you should pick up python quickly. If you know a bit of Java Swing, then wx should jump right out of the proverbial box.
You can make great Windows apps from the combo (with py2exe), including services. The apps can have status bar icons, etc. Plus, you can use the full Win32 API if you need to. Python makes it pretty straightforward to wrap external libraries if you need to access specific functions in DLLs.
If you really need it compiled down, the wxWidgets libs work great under C++ and python makes a great RAD testbed which can easily be translated back down to C++.
I never expected to become a python fanboy, but there it is.
Which BASIC stamp kit do you have? I've got the ed board from Parallax. Never seem to have enough time to do more than add LEDs, tho.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with my father-in-law's PC as well. He's got XP Home as well and I really don't feel like having him pay any more to Microsoft, but also do not want to risk him being on Home after December. His PC is fine for his interests (geneaology and light web stuff), but I doubt I can convert him to Linux/BSD. It'll probably be cheaper to get a cheep Dell with Vista than it would to "upgrade" to Vista or XP Pro.
*Note*: _No_ mainstream support for XP Home Edition after December 31 *this* year (2006). That means no *security* patches. Hope that machine likes being a spam/zombie/proxy host.
I have to agree. It took about 3 minutes to get up and running after the download on my linux box. Those just starting out will probably need a bit more time. A setup program would be in order, either via browser or just on the command-line.
Definitely more eye candy than SquirrelMail - www.squirrelmail.org - (which hasn't had a real update in how long?), but the initial hit on the IMAP server did go quite slowly. I'm running UW IMAP and it looks like the RoundCube backend doesn't know enough (not a dig at all) to limit the scope of the traversal (since it goes through every file and folder in my local account and then identifies which files/folders contain mailboxes).
No configurable refresh interval (from the GUI, anyway). Login options need to be more site-customizable (yes, it's OSS, so I could write it and contribute, thank you for asking). Didn't try it on a PDA, but it should also be able to work somewhat on a limited platform (SquirrelMail is quite functional on a PocketPC browser).
It writes files to local directories, and I didn't do a check to see if they are easily moved (i.e. out of the web docs tree)..htaccess files are nice, and all, but I'd rather they not be near a bot or a malicious moron at all. Adding an option to log to a DB as well (or just to a DB) would be nice.
It doesn't look like global address books are available.
And, it defaults the "FROM" to be you@whatever-you-entered-for-your-imap-server.thin g. Gak.
Overall, I'm really impressed with it and I, too, will definitely be keeping an eye on future releases. I'll be keeping SquirrelMail for the time being, tho.
Argh. The guy's ego isn't big enough already. No. We have to post a link to yet another musing and then have the/. crowd provide hits to the site *and* discuss it, almost providing legitimacy to the whacky statements.
Don't get me wrong, he's an *awsome* cryptographer, but he tends to post either the blatantly obvious or (as in this case) the blatantly stupid on most any other subject.
The iTunes program has a freakin' "backup" command in the menu! I'd like it, too, if Apple kept track of the songs, but how hard is it to actually do a backup? Buy a cheap external drive and just copy over the music folder if you don't want to keep feeding writable DVDs/CDs to the iTunes backup program. Yes, it increases the cost-per-song, but hard drives do crash, so it is a factor one needs to consider when making the conscious choice to buy songs from the iTunes store.
Might want to investigate menu options more closely and avoid condescending tones next time (the latter is one of the only reasons I bothered posting). Some of us read/. with major troll filtering in place soas not to see these types of exchanges - and I haven't seen much in this sub-thread beyond some of your stuff and the reply your ranting against. It's a shame some of the posts got modded up enough to make this type of crap visible when the *real* thing that we should all be bantering about is how absolutely crappy the article link was and that it's a shame their site got as many hits as it did today from the/. crowd.
BGII soaked up hours, nay - weeks, of family time. We had four PCs going at some points, with all of us (mom, dad and kids) dealing out justice to those that would harm the innocent.
To this day we constantly quote lines (mostly Minsc's) during "normal" conversations. When playing hide and seek with my son (who was not old enough to even view the screen well during the many gaming sessions we had), if he cannot find me witin a decent period of time, I'll even go so far as to shout "I am out of sight of others!".
ToB kinda killed the whole "offspring of an evil deity" story line pretty well (a bit tedious). And I really, *really* hate vamipres.
I'm playing DS II now and if there were only some cool characters (i.e. on the level of Minsc and Yoshimo) and a slighly more developled and expanded storyline it would be a kick ass game (note: I hated DS I, but overall enjoy playing DS II for some reason).
I realize Neverwinter is kinda the sequel to the BG stuff, but we'd buy expansion packs or even new games that used the good ol' BG II engine. You young whippersnappers can keep your 3D. Give me adventure in glorious, well-made 2D any day!
So, kudos once again to the BG II team on the fifth anniversary of one of the most entertaining series of games I've ever played.
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Most die-hard firefox users will know this, but since Taco threw down the gauntlet, those mere firefox mortals who wish to muck with the CSS and "win a prize!" can take a look at: Jesse Ruderman's page on using local style sheets (good links there) and there's always the style sheet chooser plus add on (yeah, the site's in French and I haven't tried that extension in a while since I use Safari mostly, but it should work).
Great sig. NetScreen firewalls are rock solid. We've got a plan slated to replace a good number of the cisco pix-ie dust boxes with them next year. Stupid, crappy connection table limits.
You aren't kidding about it being saturated. The "big" vendors hit me up at least 1x/wk and I'm *constantly* getting pinged by small outfits (who at least seem more capable than these folks).
Guess it's all those CISSP "cram sessions" that made all these _fine_ security engineers.
We're most systems administrators, and not business admin, nor lawyers, and we're all have worked on big companies and most of the time the job to be performed was just passed on to us.
Perhaps you "IT Professionals" might want to consider a few tech writing courses to help you beef up on grammar and, I suspect, spelling. If you approached my company with an cover letter that contained sentences like the one I just quoted, your firm would be placed near the bottom of the pile.
The scope of the work we're about to perform will be security related, so how do you approach a customer in this kind of business? Do you wait for them to come and ask you to test their firewall? Or do you go scanning and discovering holes on other's network for you to offer them your solution? Do write a letter/email or do you propose a meeting? What works?
Do you have a security background or did you just manage to apt-get or rpm Nessus and nmap successfully? Are you certified (SANS, CISSP, MSIA, etc)? If you just plan on handing someone a default Nessus report, please - don't!
As far as "getting the sale", what worked for salespeople that sold goods/services - security or otherwise - to your previous company/companies? That might be a good place to start. If you were never brought into sales-discussions, you might want to ask yourselves "why not?".
What you *definitely* want to do is perform unauthorized scans and/or penetration attempts on a potential customer's external firewalls and/or servers. That will most assuredly endear you to them. Why, they might even ask to have a police escort for you!
One of the last things you should do is approach a new career in security consulting without really knowing that part of the IT world like the back of your hand (and not just the tech bits).
(Have you considered starting up a Starbucks franchise instead?)
talk.google.com pretty much didn't work (delivered a google error page). you can now go to talk.google.com and d/l its *WIndows* only client (sigh...again with the single platform software).
to get a secure login with iChat I have to go through port redirections . guess i'll stick with other services until google either gets with the program and writes cross platform software or makes it more compatible with existing s/w.
I've been bug reporting and complaining about the SSL performance in Safari for almost two years. Folks here and on other Mac forums have dismissed me as some type of loon (they are more right than I'd like to admit most of the time). Apple finally does something about it (though, we'll see if it really helps...I'm installing it now).
That's exactly my fear for here in the US. They keep hinting at replacing the income tax with a consumption-based tax, but I know deep down they'll try to keep both.
Me *choosing* to contribute to organizations that can actually do good for my fellow citizens (which I do, despite flushing way too many other dollars down the hole in taxes) is *way* different than mandatory taxes - which wind up benefitting almost noone that really needs help.
You obviously have no clue about energy source development, so I'll not even bother attempting to educate you.
I'm also not dragging this down further into a war discussion. You started that. I'll just say that we should have stopped at Afganistan if all you wanted as retribution for 9/11.
Consumption-based taxes actually "hurt" everyone equally since the $1 million house bought by a Goooogle employee ends up costing much more for them than no taxes on rent in a city apartment for a middle-class city dweller.
And, finally, you gave it up at the end. Your last statement pretty much says that the Goooogle folks (or anyone who is successful) didn't earn their income and status by hard work and determination...it was just handed to them - and from tax money (of all places). What a freakin' crock.
I'll give you the last word if you really need it, but AFAIC, the thread's done.
Precisely. (I just assumed a US-centric argument given that the Goooogle folks will be/would have been paying US taxes). My biggest fear is that the govt here will do both income and consumption taxes and we'll all be royallty screwed.
It makes lots of sense, tho. Those that buy the huge SUVs in America will be paying more in taxes for them and some of that should go towards things like alternative energy sources (I'm, unfortunately, big on that this past decade).
It's gotta be a bad Saturday. I'm actually replying to the reply of a troll.
crack thing: Exactly my point. The leeches of society are the ones *not* paying taxes. The addicts, freeloaders and miscreants of society. Also the ones who somehow think "life" owes them somehow.
My tax dollars going to fight a war is sad since there's a ton of other worthwhile things to spend money on, like alternative energy sources. I try to elect representatives who will do the right thing. The good ones are few and far between.
I don't know about where *you* live, by my firetrucks and responder staff are paid for in large part by community donations, so I directly contribute. Lots of places that have police do not use Income Tax money to pay for them. Kinda shallow points to make. I also can't tell you the last time I called the police or firehouse.
The reason why *everyone* pays more taxes is that the government is made up of a bunch of people who spend like money is water (which, unfortunately is also becoming as scarce, better make that "money is like sand" - lots of that).
Freedom is "expensive" because of folks with same same attitude as yours. Keep your hands off my money. If I choose to support causes that help people: fine. I dont' trust the government to do so on my behalf.
Finally, why would I need to pay money to be represented at any political level? It's that like buying representation. Something like bribing or legalzed graft.
Face it, we pay taxes to pay for the tax-and-spend Democrats who begat tax-and-spend Republicans who all begat our ridiculous national debt.
Now, replace your notions of "income"-based tax with a consumption-based one and we might not be having this "friendly discussion" at all. A society based on capitalism should have a tax system (provided there needs to be one at all) based on consumption since capitalism only works properly with the free exchange of goods and services (and a solid moral foundation).
A consumption-based framework (with as few or preferably no exemptions/loopholes/caveats/deductions as possible) would have our Gooooogle friends paying lots of those precious taxes you want. And those societal miscreants would be paying practially no taxes.
But it still won't stop the idiots from buying big guns and starting wars. That's a whole different topic.
Fair share? They should pay more so someone can sit on the street and do crack (which was earned by stealing the money anyway)?
I suppose that/. should offer a free sub to 'disadvantaged geeks' for every 5 subs purchased by those geeks fortunate enough to be able to pay for them?
Gimme a freakin' break and a big three cheers for the Gooooooogle founder...
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Secure Internet Live Conferencing :: It's a snap to install, has support in GAIM but also has a very decent client of it's own...not sure why this wheel needs to be re-invented.
Many thanks, Miklos. I'm growing quite fond of the Caracal as well. I came across the crunchy goodness that is the Medium Shield Booster last night (loot from an NPC pirate) and am ticked at myself for not looking at getting one sooner. I'll probably need more skills to get the inv.field (once I can find one for sale), but I'm not sure how many heavy missile launchers I'll be able to fit since one shot up power and cpu usage quite heavily (again, more skills==more power/cpu available).
I like the basic thought here, tho: be able to take a pounding while giving one as well.
Presently, I have one heavy launcher, two malkuth standard launchers and two rocket launchers in the highslots.
The medium slots have a med-shield-boost, 10MN afterburner (I hate going slowly) extra capacitor battery and a sensor disruptor (do all of the targeting/sensor disruptors just plain rot, or it it - again - a skills thing?).
The lowslots have a reactor control and one other thing (i forget).
I'll definitely take your suggestions and C0rinthian's suggestions into play tonight. (there goes yet another night of coding...and the new kid is due to arrive at the end of the month...so much for open source the next 2 quarters)...
Are there any Corps that are better to join? (or, are there ones I should really stay clear of?)
Also, would it make sense to start a corp if there are like 4-5 folks who want to mine and have me fly 'round to protect or is it better to all be in our own corps and just gang when necessary (ok, so I'm pestering @ this point...apologies again)
Cool, an fellow EVE-universe resident I can pester with relentless questions!
/. crowd for getting way off topic
OK, how 'bout just a few:
1. I *really* like the Kestrel (Caldari, as you know doubt know). Great missile ship, but no capacitance and pathetic power/cpu. It's great for NPC pirates, but that is not good for those fights you're talking about, right? (or, would better skills/implants make it more useful by upping the values a bit)
2. My current ship - a Caracal (sp?) seems to have enough highslots and power/cpu/capacitance, but one of the higher level NPC's (~65,000 ISK bounty) managed to reduce my shields to 0 in like 4 shots and I barely scratched him. I'm upgrading to a medium shield booster and also training for a shield recharger, but that might not even work so well.
3. Are there sytems were the PvP action is a bit more "balanced"? One of the times I got podded *and* podkilled (in one of the higher frigates, not a Caracal, but similar in features) was when I was just passing through a 0.3 system. Two or three of the smart bombs reduced me to almost nothing. I made the jump to a station, but had no speed and the dude found me and finished the job. It just seems like it would be hard to get a balanced fight "randomly'.
sorry for bugging you and also apologies to the
We've (wife & I) just started playing EVE (been about a month or so).
i on is one of the features we actually like.
The time-between-doing-things-requiring-immediate-act
While she mines in her huge, freakin' mining ship (lotsa shields, not much in offense) I guard with my cruiser/frigate/destroyer and whack the NPC pirates and ensure the real-life pilots mind their manners (we stay in 0.5 systems still, but that will change when I get everything to tech level 2).
In a couple hours, we pull in 1-3M ISKs between ore and space-junk left after blowin' up ships. During those hours, I hack on some code, catch up on news, play with the kids, cook, read, etc. It's the ability to not have to commit 100% of real-life to the game that makes it fun (at least for us). I think the time-factor helps weed out the people who want to just gang together and shoot at you. Don't get me wrong, I've been reduced to a pod and/or pod-killed 4x so-far, but it was my own fault for delving into 0.3 space. The ability to buy insurance makes the ship losses much more amenable.
Because we're ganged, we both benefit from a decent secuity status due to all the bounty kills.
If she chooses to go into a relatively high-level system, I'll do agent missions and usually net 150K-200K ISKs a piece for each (good standings/ratings with them).
But, that's just us, and this is our first MMO (not interested in being whacked by a 13 year old in Counter Strike and don't need to hang around poorly rendered half-naked elf chicks in Guild Wars, WoW, EQ, etc). The quality and (for the most part) maturity of folks on the social-part of EVE is also refreshing, especially if folks kinda stay in-character.
We're still tentative about the whole corporation-thing, but we'll most likely join one just to see if there really are any benefits (any decent corps recruiting that anyone knows of pls post a reply here...and if there are any we should stay away from, that would be cool info as well).
I used to swear by Java. I finally got over my "ugh - requires indentation!" bias and am absolutely amazed at how quickly one can build quality, multi-platform apps with decent GUIs.
If you know a little bit of perl/php/Java/C/C++ (and, yes, lisp helps), then you should pick up python quickly. If you know a bit of Java Swing, then wx should jump right out of the proverbial box.
You can make great Windows apps from the combo (with py2exe), including services. The apps can have status bar icons, etc. Plus, you can use the full Win32 API if you need to. Python makes it pretty straightforward to wrap external libraries if you need to access specific functions in DLLs.
If you really need it compiled down, the wxWidgets libs work great under C++ and python makes a great RAD testbed which can easily be translated back down to C++.
I never expected to become a python fanboy, but there it is.
Which BASIC stamp kit do you have? I've got the ed board from Parallax. Never seem to have enough time to do more than add LEDs, tho.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with my father-in-law's PC as well. He's got XP Home as well and I really don't feel like having him pay any more to Microsoft, but also do not want to risk him being on Home after December. His PC is fine for his interests (geneaology and light web stuff), but I doubt I can convert him to Linux/BSD. It'll probably be cheaper to get a cheep Dell with Vista than it would to "upgrade" to Vista or XP Pro.
*sigh*
*Note*: _No_ mainstream support for XP Home Edition after December 31 *this* year (2006). That means no *security* patches. Hope that machine likes being a spam/zombie/proxy host.
What a way to *drive* the competition out of business...
Thank you. I'm here 'til Thursday. Try the veal!
I have to agree. It took about 3 minutes to get up and running after the download on my linux box. Those just starting out will probably need a bit more time. A setup program would be in order, either via browser or just on the command-line.
.htaccess files are nice, and all, but I'd rather they not be near a bot or a malicious moron at all. Adding an option to log to a DB as well (or just to a DB) would be nice.
n g. Gak.
Definitely more eye candy than SquirrelMail - www.squirrelmail.org - (which hasn't had a real update in how long?), but the initial hit on the IMAP server did go quite slowly. I'm running UW IMAP and it looks like the RoundCube backend doesn't know enough (not a dig at all) to limit the scope of the traversal (since it goes through every file and folder in my local account and then identifies which files/folders contain mailboxes).
No configurable refresh interval (from the GUI, anyway). Login options need to be more site-customizable (yes, it's OSS, so I could write it and contribute, thank you for asking). Didn't try it on a PDA, but it should also be able to work somewhat on a limited platform (SquirrelMail is quite functional on a PocketPC browser).
It writes files to local directories, and I didn't do a check to see if they are easily moved (i.e. out of the web docs tree).
It doesn't look like global address books are available.
And, it defaults the "FROM" to be you@whatever-you-entered-for-your-imap-server.thi
Overall, I'm really impressed with it and I, too, will definitely be keeping an eye on future releases. I'll be keeping SquirrelMail for the time being, tho.
Argh. The guy's ego isn't big enough already. No. We have to post a link to yet another musing and then have the /. crowd provide hits to the site *and* discuss it, almost providing legitimacy to the whacky statements.
Don't get me wrong, he's an *awsome* cryptographer, but he tends to post either the blatantly obvious or (as in this case) the blatantly stupid on most any other subject.
Go ahead. Mod me down. I can take it.
The iTunes program has a freakin' "backup" command in the menu! I'd like it, too, if Apple kept track of the songs, but how hard is it to actually do a backup? Buy a cheap external drive and just copy over the music folder if you don't want to keep feeding writable DVDs/CDs to the iTunes backup program. Yes, it increases the cost-per-song, but hard drives do crash, so it is a factor one needs to consider when making the conscious choice to buy songs from the iTunes store.
/. with major troll filtering in place soas not to see these types of exchanges - and I haven't seen much in this sub-thread beyond some of your stuff and the reply your ranting against. It's a shame some of the posts got modded up enough to make this type of crap visible when the *real* thing that we should all be bantering about is how absolutely crappy the article link was and that it's a shame their site got as many hits as it did today from the /. crowd.
Might want to investigate menu options more closely and avoid condescending tones next time (the latter is one of the only reasons I bothered posting). Some of us read
A den of STINKing evil. Cover your nose, Boo! We will leave NO CREVICE UNTOUCHED!
BGII soaked up hours, nay - weeks, of family time. We had four PCs going at some points, with all of us (mom, dad and kids) dealing out justice to those that would harm the innocent.
To this day we constantly quote lines (mostly Minsc's) during "normal" conversations. When playing hide and seek with my son (who was not old enough to even view the screen well during the many gaming sessions we had), if he cannot find me witin a decent period of time, I'll even go so far as to shout "I am out of sight of others!".
ToB kinda killed the whole "offspring of an evil deity" story line pretty well (a bit tedious). And I really, *really* hate vamipres.
I'm playing DS II now and if there were only some cool characters (i.e. on the level of Minsc and Yoshimo) and a slighly more developled and expanded storyline it would be a kick ass game (note: I hated DS I, but overall enjoy playing DS II for some reason).
I realize Neverwinter is kinda the sequel to the BG stuff, but we'd buy expansion packs or even new games that used the good ol' BG II engine. You young whippersnappers can keep your 3D. Give me adventure in glorious, well-made 2D any day!
So, kudos once again to the BG II team on the fifth anniversary of one of the most entertaining series of games I've ever played.
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Most die-hard firefox users will know this, but since Taco threw down the gauntlet, those mere firefox mortals who wish to muck with the CSS and "win a prize!" can take a look at: Jesse Ruderman's page on using local style sheets (good links there) and there's always the style sheet chooser plus add on (yeah, the site's in French and I haven't tried that extension in a while since I use Safari mostly, but it should work).
Point well taken.
Great sig. NetScreen firewalls are rock solid. We've got a plan slated to replace a good number of the cisco pix-ie dust boxes with them next year. Stupid, crappy connection table limits.
You aren't kidding about it being saturated. The "big" vendors hit me up at least 1x/wk and I'm *constantly* getting pinged by small outfits (who at least seem more capable than these folks).
Guess it's all those CISSP "cram sessions" that made all these _fine_ security engineers.
I hear theres good money in long haul trucking!
As far as "getting the sale", what worked for salespeople that sold goods/services - security or otherwise - to your previous company/companies? That might be a good place to start. If you were never brought into sales-discussions, you might want to ask yourselves "why not?".
What you *definitely* want to do is perform unauthorized scans and/or penetration attempts on a potential customer's external firewalls and/or servers. That will most assuredly endear you to them. Why, they might even ask to have a police escort for you!
One of the last things you should do is approach a new career in security consulting without really knowing that part of the IT world like the back of your hand (and not just the tech bits).
(Have you considered starting up a Starbucks franchise instead?)
talk.google.com pretty much didn't work (delivered a google error page). you can now go to talk.google.com and d/l its *WIndows* only client (sigh...again with the single platform software).
to get a secure login with iChat I have to go through port redirections . guess i'll stick with other services until google either gets with the program and writes cross platform software or makes it more compatible with existing s/w.
I've been bug reporting and complaining about the SSL performance in Safari for almost two years. Folks here and on other Mac forums have dismissed me as some type of loon (they are more right than I'd like to admit most of the time). Apple finally does something about it (though, we'll see if it really helps...I'm installing it now).
It's nice to be right...
That's exactly my fear for here in the US. They keep hinting at replacing the income tax with a consumption-based tax, but I know deep down they'll try to keep both.
Me *choosing* to contribute to organizations that can actually do good for my fellow citizens (which I do, despite flushing way too many other dollars down the hole in taxes) is *way* different than mandatory taxes - which wind up benefitting almost noone that really needs help.
You obviously have no clue about energy source development, so I'll not even bother attempting to educate you.
I'm also not dragging this down further into a war discussion. You started that. I'll just say that we should have stopped at Afganistan if all you wanted as retribution for 9/11.
Consumption-based taxes actually "hurt" everyone equally since the $1 million house bought by a Goooogle employee ends up costing much more for them than no taxes on rent in a city apartment for a middle-class city dweller.
And, finally, you gave it up at the end. Your last statement pretty much says that the Goooogle folks (or anyone who is successful) didn't earn their income and status by hard work and determination...it was just handed to them - and from tax money (of all places). What a freakin' crock.
I'll give you the last word if you really need it, but AFAIC, the thread's done.
Precisely. (I just assumed a US-centric argument given that the Goooogle folks will be/would have been paying US taxes). My biggest fear is that the govt here will do both income and consumption taxes and we'll all be royallty screwed.
It makes lots of sense, tho. Those that buy the huge SUVs in America will be paying more in taxes for them and some of that should go towards things like alternative energy sources (I'm, unfortunately, big on that this past decade).
It's gotta be a bad Saturday. I'm actually replying to the reply of a troll.
crack thing: Exactly my point. The leeches of society are the ones *not* paying taxes. The addicts, freeloaders and miscreants of society. Also the ones who somehow think "life" owes them somehow.
My tax dollars going to fight a war is sad since there's a ton of other worthwhile things to spend money on, like alternative energy sources. I try to elect representatives who will do the right thing. The good ones are few and far between.
I don't know about where *you* live, by my firetrucks and responder staff are paid for in large part by community donations, so I directly contribute. Lots of places that have police do not use Income Tax money to pay for them. Kinda shallow points to make. I also can't tell you the last time I called the police or firehouse.
The reason why *everyone* pays more taxes is that the government is made up of a bunch of people who spend like money is water (which, unfortunately is also becoming as scarce, better make that "money is like sand" - lots of that).
Freedom is "expensive" because of folks with same same attitude as yours. Keep your hands off my money. If I choose to support causes that help people: fine. I dont' trust the government to do so on my behalf.
Finally, why would I need to pay money to be represented at any political level? It's that like buying representation. Something like bribing or legalzed graft.
Face it, we pay taxes to pay for the tax-and-spend Democrats who begat tax-and-spend Republicans who all begat our ridiculous national debt.
Now, replace your notions of "income"-based tax with a consumption-based one and we might not be having this "friendly discussion" at all. A society based on capitalism should have a tax system (provided there needs to be one at all) based on consumption since capitalism only works properly with the free exchange of goods and services (and a solid moral foundation).
A consumption-based framework (with as few or preferably no exemptions/loopholes/caveats/deductions as possible) would have our Gooooogle friends paying lots of those precious taxes you want. And those societal miscreants would be paying practially no taxes.
But it still won't stop the idiots from buying big guns and starting wars. That's a whole different topic.
I'm responding to a troll. Wow. I should be shot.
/. should offer a free sub to 'disadvantaged geeks' for every 5 subs purchased by those geeks fortunate enough to be able to pay for them?
Fair share? They should pay more so someone can sit on the street and do crack (which was earned by stealing the money anyway)?
I suppose that
Gimme a freakin' break and a big three cheers for the Gooooooogle founder...