Here's a hint. You are disposable. You aren't worth shit to your employer. Think you have a lot of in house knowledge or specialised skills that you've built up over many years? Doesn't mean shit. Management will crap all over you given half the chance and replace you with two workers each being paid half your wage. And then they'll get paid a bonus for doing it.
OK, I'll keep this short and sweet:
You need to get a new job. Alternatively, if this is the most recent job in a series of horrible ones, then you need to find out what it is about yourself that makes people want to treat you so poorly.
In other words, the only common factor in your history of bad employment is you. Maybe it's time you addressed that.
Because nothing says "freedom" quite like being told that it's illegal to pay someone as much as you want to. C.Os are employees. What the top-level management of a company wants to pay its own employees is between those two parties.
I'm a non-managing tech worker just like most of the other people here, so I'm not saying that for personal benefit. I just can't quite believe how quick people are to ask for new laws - just as long as the only affect other people.
What you meant to say is that the cost of living is much higher where you want to live than you'd like. Sorry, but that's life. I live about as far away from any high-tech meccas as you can get (gotta trust me on this), but I have a great job with good pay, excellent benefits, and a wonderful work environment. Know how much the dotcom debacle affected my city? Zero, because its economy and workforce was built on solid foundations.
I live two easy miles from work in a 4,500 square foot sub-$200,000 house inside the limits of a nice city. My gas prices went up as much yours, but that's a drop in the cost-of-living bucket. No, you've chosen to live someplace that's more expensive than you can afford. You have every right to that decision, but you can't complain about its direct consequences.
By the way, a coughing kid shouldn't be in an ER. Do your part to keep healthcare costs down and take him to a pediatrician or family practice doctor where he belongs. You'll get better treatment and won't be clogging up the emergency response system with non-emergency illnesses.
Save your harsh words for the realtors, man. All I'm trying to do is scrape by and take care of my family.
Look, I understand. I'm not trying to be a jerk. But if you want to really take care of your family, maybe you need to re-evaluate whether you're in the best place to do it. It sounds like you could maybe do better elsewhere.
Link a torrent, even their site says 5.4 is current and 6 is upcoming.
In FreeBSD parlance, version 5 is the "-STABLE" release. That is, it's the one most people should be using. Version 6 will be "-STABLE" in a couple of months, supposedly. 7 is "-CURRENT", which is the bleeding-edge development version, or what you get when you check out the "HEAD" version of the CVS tree.
You'll pretty much never see the -CURRENT release advertised anywhere. It's for developers and people who want to play around with expiremental stuff. 6 was -CURRENT before they branched it off to make a release. 5 was -CURRENT back when 4 was -STABLE. There will eventually be 7-STABLE and 8-CURRENT branches.
And all that is why I have FreeBSD 7 even though you don't see it on the front page of www.freebsd.org.
How is that different from the fact that I'm currently sitting at 1305 South 13th Street, (trailing "5" meaning I'm on the east side of the road)?
Yes, it's a nice system that many such cities use. I'm glad I live in one.
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Pretty much all cities in Utah do.
You misspelled "outside New England". I've always lived in states touching the Mississippi River or west of it and had assumed that every place assigned addresses logically. I never realized that some zipcodes use a cryptographically-strong PRNG to dole out house numbers until I met someone who'd lived in Boston.
It's the same littany every time - PostgreSQL is so much better, have they fixed the "Gotchas" yet, etc etc.
I also cringe whenever a MySQL story comes out because it seems like the conversation devolves into two opposing opinions:
Database administrators who understand DB theory, have managed terrabyte servers, and know what a real database looks like. This group hates MySQL.
People who used MySQL to implement a tiny pet project successfully. This group loves MySQL.
People in the latter group don't understand why anyone would dislike it - after all, their home-written blog software renders DB-backed pages in less than five seconds.
People in the former group can't imagine why anyone would put up with its many, many shortcomings when other faster, more capable, more Free databases are widely available. They don't understand why some people wouldn't want to use the best tool for the job when there's no legitimate reason in the world not to.
One of the big ones for me currently is that the query optimizer only uses one index in queries. I know you can have multi-column indexes, but I still see this being a problem for some of my more complex queries. Does PostgreSQL do this better?
I'm migrating my companies data from an old FoxPro setup to PostgreSQL. I don't have the option of normalizing the data (it would break too much legacy code, although I might look into making backward-compatible views sometime down the road), but selective indexing on columns (and functions on columns!) made 20-table joins work astoundingly well. Only one index per query? That would be completely and utterly unusable here. Yeah, PostgreSQL does that better.
It's one thing to play a copy of a Michael Jackson CD and enjoy it.
If you politely explain your situation to Clear Channel, I'm sure they'd be happy to open a Station For 20-Year Coma Victims in your area.
Alternatively, you may wish to consider exploring parts of your the spectrum not allocated to NPR. One or two new artists have come along since Mr. Jackson's fall from the musical spotlight of two decades ago.
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You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Site so long as the link does not portray MBFS, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.
But, honestly I do find it hard to understand what the basis was for thinking he would make a good president.
Honestly, I thought he would be the least-bad president. I'm a conservative and not very pleased at all with Bush's spending, but I disagreed far more with Kerry's ideas and opinions. I wish there was a candidate that I could've been thrilled to vote for, but there wasn't, so I picked the one I thought most likely to get us through the next four years without screwing up to badly.
For what it's worth, I still think I picked correctly. However, don't mistake that for blanket approval.
Same here. I'm smart, pretty well informed, watched the debates, and voted for Bush.
You know, it's possible for someone to see the same facts as you and interpret them differently. That doesn't imply stupidity on either part, just different perspectives.
I wonder how GWB's stance on emissions would be affected if a storm were to dismantle his ranch in Crawford?
Since Crawford is about 250 miles inland, if circumstances were such that a hurricane powerful enough to level it came about, then he'd be too busy dying with the rest of the world to have time to think about it. Same reason I don't have flood insurance on my house: if I ever actually needed it, I'd be too busy building an ark to care.
I've switched a lot of my bulbs over to the CFs available at my local home store (Feit Electric; their websites down right now or I'd link it). The problems I have with them:
Most of them start nearly instantly, but dimly. They get brighter as they go, usually peaking after a minute or so.
At least half of them smell like magic smoke when you get close to them. One of them had me looking for an electrical fire inside my walls until I figured it out.
Once they're up and running, they're bright, nicely colored, and cool to the touch. But having to wait a full minute for the stairwell bulb to get bright is pretty suboptimal.
Are these "features" of all CF bulbs, or is the brand I've been buying really crummy?
For the record, I wish DST were in effect all year long. I'd especially like it in the winter when the days are too short as it is. Give me an extra hour at the end of the workday, I could care less whether or not I drive to work in the dark.
I hate those "it's for the children!" arguments as much as everyone else, but it this case it's pretty much true. My city is pretty close to the western edge of its timezone, and pretty far north (same latitude as Boston (south of Minnesota, north of the majority of the country)). The chilluns have some long, dark mornings as they make their way to school.
I wouldn't make a decision solely on that, but it's something to consider.
Could I possibly have sounded more pompous when I wrote that?
Let me try again:
Your dying bird analogy is OK, because that's pretty much how it acts. But they say a router is "flapping" because its routing tables are flailing about aimlessly like maps to the Superdome.
So, it describes what's actually happening, not how it compares to something your cat's trying to eat.
I'm sure you know this, but for the rest: "flapping" is the common term for when a router's routing tables
rapidly cycle between two invalid states. The dead bird analogy is pretty descriptive, but the term "flapping" has technical and not allegorical origins.
The time in winter is standard time, so you ought to be happy about Daylight Saving Time being extende since it makes it lighter in the morning during winter.
If you didn't have it exactly 100% backward, I'd probably agree with you. DST shifts the clock forward, so that when it would ordinarily be 7:00AM, my clock says 8:00AM.
DST gives you darker mornings in exchange for lighter evenings. If your spot in the world has plenty of morning to spare, then it might be a good deal. My location doesn't have an extra morning light that I'm willing to part with, but we'll be losing it anyway.
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It's an acknowledgment that gamers love their patches. You l4m3 if you're not running client v4.5235.432.2minutesago. Want gamers to check your site early and often? Hint that they might be able to find patches there at some nebulous future date and they'll make it their homepage.
I live in the western end of a timezone in a northern latitude. The sun won't be rising here until 10 minutes before my kids have to leave for school and I have to head to work.
Now, I'm not about to get ready in the cold, uncaffeinated dark. Instead, my furnace will now be kicking in at the absolute coldest part of the day, and every light in the house will be glaring. The only, ONLY difference between this and my summer routine is that I'll be spending more energy dollars in the morning than I would otherwise.
Yay, DST - a dark drive to the office with absolutely nothing to show for it.
To my neighbors to the north: I'm sorry about all this, really. Most of us realize this is a stupid idea, too, and we apologize for inflicting this on you.
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Be sure to let id know that you bought the Windows package in order to install it on your Linux box. I know id are good guys (as evidenced by how quickly this came out), but it never hurts to let them know exactly how much we appreciate it.
Just as well that populations committing genocide hasn't happened in Europe in the last 100 years.
I seem to remember something about some Allies fighting a massive war to stop it, too. News flash: there will always be evil people. The only question is how we'll respond to them.
I hate the way Africans are portrayed on the Western media.
Me too. I've seen murdered people on the streets in Kenya, and Somalian refugee camps where violence is law. Even though entire populations are busy genociding each other, the Western media portrays it as a land of simple bush-people. Sure, there are pockets of civilization, but all we hear is "people are starving - send money!" when the reality is that greedy warlords are killing their own citizenry out of sheer meanness and for personal profit.
So it seems we agree on something, but probably not for the same reasons.
First, you neglected to mention which OS(es) you're targetting, so we'll just have to guess.
Anyway, you were on track with the WebDAV server. I use Apache 2's built-in mod_dav to host several calendars, and view/edit them with Sunbird (Windows) and Korganizer (Unix). I think your time would be better served debugging your first attempt than starting over from scratch.
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OK, I'll keep this short and sweet:
You need to get a new job. Alternatively, if this is the most recent job in a series of horrible ones, then you need to find out what it is about yourself that makes people want to treat you so poorly.
In other words, the only common factor in your history of bad employment is you. Maybe it's time you addressed that.
I'm a non-managing tech worker just like most of the other people here, so I'm not saying that for personal benefit. I just can't quite believe how quick people are to ask for new laws - just as long as the only affect other people.
I live two easy miles from work in a 4,500 square foot sub-$200,000 house inside the limits of a nice city. My gas prices went up as much yours, but that's a drop in the cost-of-living bucket. No, you've chosen to live someplace that's more expensive than you can afford. You have every right to that decision, but you can't complain about its direct consequences.
By the way, a coughing kid shouldn't be in an ER. Do your part to keep healthcare costs down and take him to a pediatrician or family practice doctor where he belongs. You'll get better treatment and won't be clogging up the emergency response system with non-emergency illnesses.
Save your harsh words for the realtors, man. All I'm trying to do is scrape by and take care of my family.
Look, I understand. I'm not trying to be a jerk. But if you want to really take care of your family, maybe you need to re-evaluate whether you're in the best place to do it. It sounds like you could maybe do better elsewhere.
Link a torrent, even their site says 5.4 is current and 6 is upcoming.
In FreeBSD parlance, version 5 is the "-STABLE" release. That is, it's the one most people should be using. Version 6 will be "-STABLE" in a couple of months, supposedly. 7 is "-CURRENT", which is the bleeding-edge development version, or what you get when you check out the "HEAD" version of the CVS tree.
You'll pretty much never see the -CURRENT release advertised anywhere. It's for developers and people who want to play around with expiremental stuff. 6 was -CURRENT before they branched it off to make a release. 5 was -CURRENT back when 4 was -STABLE. There will eventually be 7-STABLE and 8-CURRENT branches.
And all that is why I have FreeBSD 7 even though you don't see it on the front page of www.freebsd.org.
Yes, it's a nice system that many such cities use. I'm glad I live in one.
You misspelled "outside New England". I've always lived in states touching the Mississippi River or west of it and had assumed that every place assigned addresses logically. I never realized that some zipcodes use a cryptographically-strong PRNG to dole out house numbers until I met someone who'd lived in Boston.
I also cringe whenever a MySQL story comes out because it seems like the conversation devolves into two opposing opinions:
People in the latter group don't understand why anyone would dislike it - after all, their home-written blog software renders DB-backed pages in less than five seconds.
People in the former group can't imagine why anyone would put up with its many, many shortcomings when other faster, more capable, more Free databases are widely available. They don't understand why some people wouldn't want to use the best tool for the job when there's no legitimate reason in the world not to.
One of the big ones for me currently is that the query optimizer only uses one index in queries. I know you can have multi-column indexes, but I still see this being a problem for some of my more complex queries. Does PostgreSQL do this better?
I'm migrating my companies data from an old FoxPro setup to PostgreSQL. I don't have the option of normalizing the data (it would break too much legacy code, although I might look into making backward-compatible views sometime down the road), but selective indexing on columns (and functions on columns!) made 20-table joins work astoundingly well. Only one index per query? That would be completely and utterly unusable here. Yeah, PostgreSQL does that better.
If you politely explain your situation to Clear Channel, I'm sure they'd be happy to open a Station For 20-Year Coma Victims in your area.
Alternatively, you may wish to consider exploring parts of your the spectrum not allocated to NPR. One or two new artists have come along since Mr. Jackson's fall from the musical spotlight of two decades ago.
Asshats.
Honestly, I thought he would be the least-bad president. I'm a conservative and not very pleased at all with Bush's spending, but I disagreed far more with Kerry's ideas and opinions. I wish there was a candidate that I could've been thrilled to vote for, but there wasn't, so I picked the one I thought most likely to get us through the next four years without screwing up to badly.
For what it's worth, I still think I picked correctly. However, don't mistake that for blanket approval.
Same here. I'm smart, pretty well informed, watched the debates, and voted for Bush.
You know, it's possible for someone to see the same facts as you and interpret them differently. That doesn't imply stupidity on either part, just different perspectives.
Since Crawford is about 250 miles inland, if circumstances were such that a hurricane powerful enough to level it came about, then he'd be too busy dying with the rest of the world to have time to think about it. Same reason I don't have flood insurance on my house: if I ever actually needed it, I'd be too busy building an ark to care.
Once they're up and running, they're bright, nicely colored, and cool to the touch. But having to wait a full minute for the stairwell bulb to get bright is pretty suboptimal.
Are these "features" of all CF bulbs, or is the brand I've been buying really crummy?
Thanks, man. But you still have LaTeX on your resume (I also have a long memory). :-)
Actually, the second post didn't work so well. I was hoping for a Funny, but got the dreaded Not Interested instead.
I hate those "it's for the children!" arguments as much as everyone else, but it this case it's pretty much true. My city is pretty close to the western edge of its timezone, and pretty far north (same latitude as Boston (south of Minnesota, north of the majority of the country)). The chilluns have some long, dark mornings as they make their way to school.
I wouldn't make a decision solely on that, but it's something to consider.
Let me try again:
Your dying bird analogy is OK, because that's pretty much how it acts. But they say a router is "flapping" because its routing tables are flailing about aimlessly like maps to the Superdome.
So, it describes what's actually happening, not how it compares to something your cat's trying to eat.
I'm sure you know this, but for the rest: "flapping" is the common term for when a router's routing tables rapidly cycle between two invalid states. The dead bird analogy is pretty descriptive, but the term "flapping" has technical and not allegorical origins.
If you didn't have it exactly 100% backward, I'd probably agree with you. DST shifts the clock forward, so that when it would ordinarily be 7:00AM, my clock says 8:00AM.
DST gives you darker mornings in exchange for lighter evenings. If your spot in the world has plenty of morning to spare, then it might be a good deal. My location doesn't have an extra morning light that I'm willing to part with, but we'll be losing it anyway.
It's an acknowledgment that gamers love their patches. You l4m3 if you're not running client v4.5235.432.2minutesago. Want gamers to check your site early and often? Hint that they might be able to find patches there at some nebulous future date and they'll make it their homepage.
I live in the western end of a timezone in a northern latitude. The sun won't be rising here until 10 minutes before my kids have to leave for school and I have to head to work.
Now, I'm not about to get ready in the cold, uncaffeinated dark. Instead, my furnace will now be kicking in at the absolute coldest part of the day, and every light in the house will be glaring. The only, ONLY difference between this and my summer routine is that I'll be spending more energy dollars in the morning than I would otherwise.
Yay, DST - a dark drive to the office with absolutely nothing to show for it.
To my neighbors to the north: I'm sorry about all this, really. Most of us realize this is a stupid idea, too, and we apologize for inflicting this on you.
Be sure to let id know that you bought the Windows package in order to install it on your Linux box. I know id are good guys (as evidenced by how quickly this came out), but it never hurts to let them know exactly how much we appreciate it.
I seem to remember something about some Allies fighting a massive war to stop it, too. News flash: there will always be evil people. The only question is how we'll respond to them.
Me too. I've seen murdered people on the streets in Kenya, and Somalian refugee camps where violence is law. Even though entire populations are busy genociding each other, the Western media portrays it as a land of simple bush-people. Sure, there are pockets of civilization, but all we hear is "people are starving - send money!" when the reality is that greedy warlords are killing their own citizenry out of sheer meanness and for personal profit.
So it seems we agree on something, but probably not for the same reasons.
If the only evidence against them is the output of a black box, then how certain are you that they were the rapists?
Anyway, you were on track with the WebDAV server. I use Apache 2's built-in mod_dav to host several calendars, and view/edit them with Sunbird (Windows) and Korganizer (Unix). I think your time would be better served debugging your first attempt than starting over from scratch.