25 dollars a day for weekdays
50 dollars a day for weekends
100 (plus daily amount) for any issue that requires you to come into work
we're not the biggest of companies, so the odds of us being needed on the weekend are slim, so the amount isn't a whole lot. but, it's better than nothing. we still have a few bugs to work out though, this just started.
well, after speaking with the battlemail folks (due to some fun i had with their game) it turns out the basis was exactly what i'd been saying for a long time...paper-rock-scissors. anyway on to the "exploit:"
when you register for the battlemail game you enter your username and e-mail address you want challenges to be sent to, nothing more. so, if you get bored and wanna be up near the top, go surf their web forums, pick a few random e-mails, check for the usernam they fight with in the "league tables" and then sign up as them. send yourself a few hundred/thousand challenges, all using the same combination of attacks and blocks. then, add/remove the software and sign up as yourself. hell, tell them your name is r0y or b0b, they'll love you for that (and wombferret will e-mail me again...asking me to stop). anyway, fight all of the challenges, win perfectly and beat out the top contenders and their stupid little clans (play with spycho30's head, he's fun). and regardless of what anyone on that board tells you, yes...i was the first one to figure that out (it was hard too...took all of about 30 seconds). have fun at their expense, i keep telling them they take it all waaaaay too seriously...just remember to say r0y or b0b sent you.
i use windows on two of my machines at work, i got hit. linux users don't always have a choice about whether or not they get to run linux 100% of the time. hell, if i didn't have to maintain parts of this damned network, i wouldn't run windows. but, i do have to, so i do.
I was able to get a look at this at some Press thing at Comex. What they were actually showing off was their MrSID program, which is what's needed to view the images. Aside from thr fact that they were pulling from a server in Seattle off of a T1, it was still pretty impressive as to what they could do with their images. You could "zoom in" on small sections of images and check them out with amazing clarity. While impressive, the need for such things isn't all that broad. I discussed possible uses for their new format and they told me they were targeting e-store types of places. Say you wanna buy a blanket from a store online, but you're not too sure about the quality, since you can't get an upclose of the blanket...just zoom in. I thought it was fairly impressive.
Well, lucky for whoever, the original quote was wrong and it wasn't ias.com. That page is awful. But still, iam.com seems to be done with a decent level of skill but no thought to real useability. Websites with home pages that lead only to popup navigational windows and then to more popup windows are shitty.
This seems very odd to me. Where I work (IT for Efficient Networks, Inc.), we just got a new (ughh) COMPAQ box with dual piii-xeons. But, we didn't get it today, we got it early last week....
first off, i'd like to acknowledge a good point someone mad: you've had this for two years and not done a damn thing with it. if you really were the activist type, you'd have had something going soon after you acquired the domain. i don' mean to badmouth your plight, i myself had a friend who died, mostly due to an addiction to meth. i understand that you purchased the domian with good intentions, but you don' seem to have done much with it and it will probably cause you more trouble than it's worth. another thing that you could have done would have been to register coke-addict.xxx or coke-addiction.xxx, which probably would have gotten you more of the traffic you were aiming for. like others, i also hate the big fish trying to overpower the little fish, but it might solve a lot of problems for you just to give it up or sell it to coca-cola. undoubtedly, if this did make it to court, any reasonable jury would feel for you and not make you give it up, but i just don' think it's worth all the hassle (mostly due to the fact that there's nothing there). there's my two cents....take it as you like it.
for the most part, random drops in download/upload speeds are due to the fact that you are not on an independent line. when you sign up for DSL, you need to find out one important thing first, if the line is shared or not. pac bell and a few others run one line per area. with circumstances like that, every person along your route, signed up for DSL, will be sharing a limited amount of bandwidth. if you are looking towards DSL as an option, look towards a company like Covad, which gives independent lines. the initial cost is more, but the overall value is there.
-junk ps-anything i've said incorrectly can be attributed to my mother. she works at flowpoint and has no technical knowledge at all, but she can spout this shit out like it's nothin'
Know what? I don't think AOL has any right to the phrase "You've got mail." Millions of stupid little kids have been saying it around 2:00, when the Mailman comes and drops off his goodies. Since when does AOL get to be the owner of a poorly constructed phrase? I still remember my grandfather bitching about it every day. "Every time I hear that, it makes me cringe." Lucky for him, it's just a.wav file installed with the AOL software and I showed him how to chenge it. I think that every AOL user should do something along those lines, change their AOL to a much more intellectual version. We already have enough public schools contributing to the dumbing down of America, ISPs shouldn't be doing it too.
"Drugs are like education; the more you hvae, the better off you are." -junk ($me)
i agree, the issue shouldn't be thrown into a confusing battle of classes. i'm not a jock, i'm kinda a nerd, but i'm also one of those "true problem kids, those who didn't care about school or athletics, just wanted to get stoned or drunk." although i do have my academic goals (shit, i got 1340 on my SATs with a mild hangover), i'd rather be doing something worthwhile than dealing with the repetition of school.
but, for the topic at hand, there are much larger issues that need to be dealt with. the main thing that we need to work on is improving the level of compassion that people have for those outside of the mainstream. forunately, i go to a school with a fairly high level of tolerance and haven't seem much of the current reprocussions of the colorado massacre (i hate using that word, but that's what it was). we need to get the word out to the media, to the schools and to our government officials. if everyone who feels some kind of compassion for these two would just send out an e-mail to everyone they can, maybe it could help the current situation. make someone do a story with some sorrow for Eric and Dylan and not just the ones they hurt.
lastly, i'd like to show you all something that the San Jose Mercury News printed this morning in it's front page. this is just a part of the story they wrote, but it's the part that hurt me the most:
It is on the hilltop that 15 large crosses have been erected. Each bears the name of the deceased, all but three accompanied by this message across the horizontal beam: "Sleep Baby Sleep." The exceptions are for Sanders, the teacher, abd the two gunmen. The presence of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris on the hill is a point of controversy reflected in the writings on their crosses. "No one is to blame," reads one on Harris' cross. Just alongside it: "You will never be forgiven." On the back side, somebody named brittany has written the truth. "Your lives were lost long before this ever happened. Shame to all of us for never noticing."
My name is Glenn Tucker. Luckily for me, I've never really been too much of a social outcast. Although I have been able to meld myslef into all the mainstream BS. But, I've never really felt myself to be in the right place when I'm around preppies. When I was in Junior High, I did have a lot of problems with social interaction. I remember going home and listening to the most depressing music I could and thinking about how much people hated me. I got to the point where I was pretty much saying "fuck everything." I even tried to kill myself on a few occasions (although, i never really had the guts).
Even though I'm no longer on the recieving end of all the torture and torment, this is the side of the story that has been pissing me off. Not because I don't have compassion for it, but because no one seems to want to pay attention to it. Luckily, I have a way to get my voice out and I'm willing to put in as many other voices as possible. I write for a high school newspaper in Sunnyvale, CA and we distribute it throughout the district and a few other places. If you would like to throw some comments into my article, or if you have written something yourself, I'll put in as much as I can. You can e-mail me at the above address or gonzo420@hotmail.com (hit that one more, hempseed is fucked a lot). I appreciate all comments you send and I feel for everyone who has had to go through the torment of being a misfit after this tragedy.
Glenn Tucker aka: junk Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, CA) the Phoenix =-that's the paper
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you can't donate blood if you're a smoker, can you? i really wanted to, but i think i've been told before that i can't.
whoever's on call gets this:
25 dollars a day for weekdays
50 dollars a day for weekends
100 (plus daily amount) for any issue that requires you to come into work
we're not the biggest of companies, so the odds of us being needed on the weekend are slim, so the amount isn't a whole lot. but, it's better than nothing. we still have a few bugs to work out though, this just started.
well, after speaking with the battlemail folks (due to some fun i had with their game) it turns out the basis was exactly what i'd been saying for a long time...paper-rock-scissors. anyway on to the "exploit:"
when you register for the battlemail game you enter your username and e-mail address you want challenges to be sent to, nothing more. so, if you get bored and wanna be up near the top, go surf their web forums, pick a few random e-mails, check for the usernam they fight with in the "league tables" and then sign up as them. send yourself a few hundred/thousand challenges, all using the same combination of attacks and blocks. then, add/remove the software and sign up as yourself. hell, tell them your name is r0y or b0b, they'll love you for that (and wombferret will e-mail me again...asking me to stop). anyway, fight all of the challenges, win perfectly and beat out the top contenders and their stupid little clans (play with spycho30's head, he's fun). and regardless of what anyone on that board tells you, yes...i was the first one to figure that out (it was hard too...took all of about 30 seconds). have fun at their expense, i keep telling them they take it all waaaaay too seriously...just remember to say r0y or b0b sent you.
i use windows on two of my machines at work, i got hit. linux users don't always have a choice about whether or not they get to run linux 100% of the time. hell, if i didn't have to maintain parts of this damned network, i wouldn't run windows. but, i do have to, so i do.
--Tucker
I was able to get a look at this at some Press thing at Comex. What they were actually showing off was their MrSID program, which is what's needed to view the images. Aside from thr fact that they were pulling from a server in Seattle off of a T1, it was still pretty impressive as to what they could do with their images. You could "zoom in" on small sections of images and check them out with amazing clarity. While impressive, the need for such things isn't all that broad. I discussed possible uses for their new format and they told me they were targeting e-store types of places. Say you wanna buy a blanket from a store online, but you're not too sure about the quality, since you can't get an upclose of the blanket...just zoom in. I thought it was fairly impressive.
Well, lucky for whoever, the original quote was wrong and it wasn't ias.com. That page is awful. But still, iam.com seems to be done with a decent level of skill but no thought to real useability. Websites with home pages that lead only to popup navigational windows and then to more popup windows are shitty.
my 2 cents
This seems very odd to me. Where I work (IT for Efficient Networks, Inc.), we just got a new (ughh) COMPAQ box with dual piii-xeons. But, we didn't get it today, we got it early last week....
Seem odd to anyone?
first off, i'd like to acknowledge a good point someone mad: you've had this for two years and not done a damn thing with it. if you really were the activist type, you'd have had something going soon after you acquired the domain. i don' mean to badmouth your plight, i myself had a friend who died, mostly due to an addiction to meth. i understand that you purchased the domian with good intentions, but you don' seem to have done much with it and it will probably cause you more trouble than it's worth. another thing that you could have done would have been to register coke-addict.xxx or coke-addiction.xxx, which probably would have gotten you more of the traffic you were aiming for. like others, i also hate the big fish trying to overpower the little fish, but it might solve a lot of problems for you just to give it up or sell it to coca-cola. undoubtedly, if this did make it to court, any reasonable jury would feel for you and not make you give it up, but i just don' think it's worth all the hassle (mostly due to the fact that there's nothing there). there's my two cents....take it as you like it.
for the most part, random drops in download/upload speeds are due to the fact that you are not on an independent line. when you sign up for DSL, you need to find out one important thing first, if the line is shared or not. pac bell and a few others run one line per area. with circumstances like that, every person along your route, signed up for DSL, will be sharing a limited amount of bandwidth.
if you are looking towards DSL as an option, look towards a company like Covad, which gives independent lines. the initial cost is more, but the overall value is there.
-junk
ps-anything i've said incorrectly can be attributed to my mother. she works at flowpoint and has no technical knowledge at all, but she can spout this shit out like it's nothin'
Know what? I don't think AOL has any right to the phrase "You've got mail." Millions of stupid little kids have been saying it around 2:00, when the Mailman comes and drops off his goodies. Since when does AOL get to be the owner of a poorly constructed phrase? .wav file installed with the AOL software and I showed him how to chenge it. I think that every AOL user should do something along those lines, change their AOL to a much more intellectual version. We already have enough public schools contributing to the dumbing down of America, ISPs shouldn't be doing it too.
I still remember my grandfather bitching about it every day. "Every time I hear that, it makes me cringe." Lucky for him, it's just a
"Drugs are like education; the more you hvae, the better off you are." -junk ($me)
i agree, the issue shouldn't be thrown into a confusing battle of classes. i'm not a jock, i'm kinda a nerd, but i'm also one of those "true problem kids, those who didn't care about school or athletics, just wanted to get stoned or drunk." although i do have my academic goals (shit, i got 1340 on my SATs with a mild hangover), i'd rather be doing something worthwhile than dealing with the repetition of school.
but, for the topic at hand, there are much larger issues that need to be dealt with. the main thing that we need to work on is improving the level of compassion that people have for those outside of the mainstream. forunately, i go to a school with a fairly high level of tolerance and haven't seem much of the current reprocussions of the colorado massacre (i hate using that word, but that's what it was). we need to get the word out to the media, to the schools and to our government officials. if everyone who feels some kind of compassion for these two would just send out an e-mail to everyone they can, maybe it could help the current situation. make someone do a story with some sorrow for Eric and Dylan and not just the ones they hurt.
lastly, i'd like to show you all something that the San Jose Mercury News printed this morning in it's front page. this is just a part of the story they wrote, but it's the part that hurt me the most:
It is on the hilltop that 15 large crosses have been erected. Each bears the name of the deceased, all but three accompanied by this message across the horizontal beam: "Sleep Baby Sleep."
The exceptions are for Sanders, the teacher, abd the two gunmen. The presence of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris on the hill is a point of controversy reflected in the writings on their crosses.
"No one is to blame," reads one on Harris' cross.
Just alongside it: "You will never be forgiven."
On the back side, somebody named brittany has written the truth. "Your lives were lost long before this ever happened. Shame to all of us for never noticing."
My name is Glenn Tucker. Luckily for me, I've never really been too much of a social outcast. Although I have been able to meld myslef into all the mainstream BS. But, I've never really felt myself to be in the right place when I'm around preppies. When I was in Junior High, I did have a lot of problems with social interaction. I remember going home and listening to the most depressing music I could and thinking about how much people hated me. I got to the point where I was pretty much saying "fuck everything." I even tried to kill myself on a few occasions (although, i never really had the guts).
Even though I'm no longer on the recieving end of all the torture and torment, this is the side of the story that has been pissing me off. Not because I don't have compassion for it, but because no one seems to want to pay attention to it. Luckily, I have a way to get my voice out and I'm willing to put in as many other voices as possible. I write for a high school newspaper in Sunnyvale, CA and we distribute it throughout the district and a few other places. If you would like to throw some comments into my article, or if you have written something yourself, I'll put in as much as I can. You can e-mail me at the above address or gonzo420@hotmail.com (hit that one more, hempseed is fucked a lot). I appreciate all comments you send and I feel for everyone who has had to go through the torment of being a misfit after this tragedy.
Glenn Tucker
aka: junk
Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, CA)
the Phoenix =-that's the paper