I use megapath.net
they are hideously expensive ($79 a month for 144K IDSL). But they are just wonderful.
Firstoff, in chicago, they colocate their conenction at exodus.net's facility... so thats my regional gateway/POP... and Slashdot (also on exodus.net) is veery few hops away, adn very fast.
I also get amazing ping times. TO other local chicago Counter strike servers, I ping as low as 20ms. Yeah. 20, on IDSL.:-) Only reason I got IDSL is because I am 23,000 feet way from the CO.
I've had about 4 hours of downtime since april.. and Their customer service is phenoimenal, NO server restirctions, NO bandwidth restrictions.. and they hand out IP's like candy, if you're willing to shell out and extra $5 to $10 a month.
Yes, they are very expensive... all they offer is RADSL, and SDSL products.. and they target the "power" user.. but.. If you can bark up $100+ a month for the higheer speeds, you get what you pay for.. Amazing customer support, rock solid connections.. and latentcy that is sooo low that you'll weep with pleasure in Quake3.
Advantage: If I have the time and the Patience, I can mount this sucker on my RV, and get broadband in the middle of the damn Death Valley if I wish.:-)
(Yes, there's the whole aiming, etc to worry about.. But screw that, I'm patient)
Now don't tell my bosss I can get 768K per sec when I go vacationing... But he might not care.. esp since telnet will be lagged to fuck.
Owell I see farmers, and others in the boonies buying this, and loving this. If I was in Bublefarq Ks, and this was my only option than 28.8 dial up.. I'd take it.. in a heartbeat
Today is National SysAdmin appreciation day. Yes, a day devoted to the countless geeks like me, who help you work better on our computers.
We do your backups, chmod those fules, and even fix the DB2 server for you.. All the while, slowly but surely losing our sanity.
If you wish to show your appreciation by contributing a "gift" I have crafted a list of recommended items below:
-Copy of Diablo 2 -Any Nerf Weapon -Iced Mocha from Mojo's coffee in Austin Tx. -Mt. Dew -Palm Pilot (Palm V or VII only please.) -Geforce 2 video card -22" LCD monitor
Please feel free to deposit all gifts, in the "syadmin appreciation gift basket" Located inside my cubicle.
I seond this review... I've hooked up myself @IDSL speeds) and and 5 others to Megapath in the last 5 months, and the experience has been AMAZING.
They are top notch, kick-ass, etc. WE're talking low pings for your Quake3/Counterstrike/Tribes games, regional peering points into the net. (So if you live in chicago, then your data hits a chicago router first, not going out to SiLi Valley)
I've had ONE outage in 4 months on my own line.. It lasted 15 minutes. I called, and was on hold for aobut 30secs, adn they told me it was regional, it would be fixed asap.
Plus Megapath has the scret bonus of No contract. Thats right, other dsl provs. makes you sign up for one year, and charge you $200-$500 is you bail out early. Megapath is Month to month.. No early disconnect fees etc.
The only negative is that when you get their DSL service, you have to buy the router. But not from them! They will tell you whichi model to get, and you can go to Ebay/Shopper.com to buy it.
Ahrrrg... I always knew something was worng with it back in what.. 83 or so when I watched... I figured itwas Canadian.... Maybe Austrailian.. or something similar.. But French!!!! No!... That simply cannot be.. Arg.. my Whole view of reality was shattered... I mean... It tooks me a few years to figure out that Danger Mouse Was British... (Yes I was a slow child..)
Great article Jon.. I'm hasppy that you did take the time to travel to the "belly Of the beast" to talk to them.. Although I am sorry that the Pinketon folks proved tru to corporate sterotypes... And Thanks to Slashdot for funding your trip, an honorable task indeed.
So for those of us like myself who thin kall of this WAVE stuff is just pointless/stupid.. what next? So we write to the goverment of North Carolina, and tell them we dont want our tax dollars wasted on this?
Boycott Pinkerton? Create an alternative website, disseminate more accurate information? Create a controversy over this? (We all know that goverments and Comapnies try to back the hell away from a controversy)
Seriously... THis thing just encourages software/mp3 piracy.. it makes it so easy that every little -joe-suburban-14-year-old-retard can now leech their very own copy of a Matrix Rip.
It has the the potential to take the warez/piracy scene from it's quasi-underground status (IRC, FTP's, some web sites) and shove it down anyones throat that wants anything.
PLus I'm more than a bit disturbed that I kept on seeing many many many searches for "britney spears naked" showing up on my search monitor..
Sheesh.. damn kids today... frickin' raging perverts/warez jockeys, thats all they are...
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I agree.. I loved the movie.... Ti didif eel a little bit "split" at the end, and from reading their websites, and postings, etc.. it is evident that ALOT of stuff was cut from the end...
(Supposedly, when god's body was in the hospital, the Stygian Triplets (rollerBladers) were supposed to make yet another appearence... and Silent bob had to fight them)
And.. Something about Alanis Being god just weirded me out... It wasn't bad.. but it just seemed nto tally on the spot... I dunno...
But on a final note.. I used to Live In Mchenry Illinois.. We actually don't have an abortion clinic here... and Wisconsin? Specifically kenosha?.. (having lived there) Yes.. Wisconsin is hell on earth.;-)
They said: --- Actually, one of the guys that comes to our regular lan parties is in the same boat as you. A few games of q3 or halflife and he's about to hurl. What he uses is an elastic band that fits around your wrist and has a plastic bit that presses on a presssure point that alleviates your motion sickeness. You can probably find them in a drugstore. I don't have a specific name of brand. Hope that helps. --- End They
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I've always had that problem with Descent, Freespace, and other games like that... The ones with the full 3D range of movement in all directions... And for some reason to a limited extent, I think Tomb Raider on the PSX.
But Never in Wolfie, Doom, or Quake or HalfLife.. But definitly try the plastic wrist-pressure-point band thing... I think I've seen them in Walgreens and in some of the bigger chain drugstores...
Well, a certain postmaster in a certain town decided they wanted to skim off money, so they took the money paid for insured shipments, didn't insure the items, used the cash to purchase USPS money orders, and flew. They was nailed, though, hardcore
And that's a federal crime.. BTW: don't fuck with the postal police.
Amen to that... Back when I was a wee lad, and in Sunday School, my Sundat school teacher was alos a postal inspector/Mail Cop... He would often keep us psellbound with stories of how his faith in the lord above (snort:-) helped him nab people who would steal mail...
As an interesting followup... Sevral years later, (around the age 14-16) Some friends of mine had the wounderful idea to hang out near certain wealtyh apartment complexes after school... the logic being.. since the neighborhood was good, and the complexes were easy to get into, they could easily lift postal, and other packages left by the front doors...
The end result, my old sunday school teacher busts 2 friends of mine... (I always chickened out about going, so I got off free) and the 2 friends each got 30 days in the Juvie hall, 2+ years of probation... Indeed... Do not Fuck with the postal service...
(What's really sad is that these morons tole about 30+ packages, and they never ever found anything remotly valuable to themselves... Except one of them kept the antique Tea set....?)
Or well, if you're local To Austin Texas... You can try the infamous All-Tex Electronics... Slightly highly priced.. But they have just amamzing amounts of electronic crap....
At one point I was able to find a 13W3 (Sun) to VGA adaptor dongle... which was great, I was then able to slap my trinitron mon onto my Indy box...
Another neato Austin, TX based electronics/parts dealer is Tinker Tronics... Not sure of the addry.. But it has an equal impressive array of electrnoics crap at affordable prices, in very cramped (and disorganized) quarters.
Sadly, I don't live In Austin anymore, but the local (Chicagland area) substiute is Northwest electronics/electrical... It's offa route 14 in/near Mt. Prospect.. tre' good prcing...
And for the final.. Ain't it weird mention... I was in home Depot the Over day, and they had CAT5 cable in their wiring section.. good quality bulk 250ft roll sof PVC and Plenum type.. No crimp on RJ45 connectors, but I still bought 250ft of PVC type. As a side note, another Home Depot in Chicago.. (deerfield?) also had Cat5 cable.. so if you're hard up to wire your home lan, and you don't want to mail-order.. look into home depot.;-)
Sometimes it's not the allure of IPO's...
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I dunno... Sometimes one does get into insane jobs.. but not for the supposed gold of stock options... Sometimes you see something as the next freakin' wave, and you just want to ride it.
My Sordid tale begins in Late 1994.... Presently working at a computer repair shop, turning wrenches, and setting up computers.. Life was good, if only for 20 hours a week @ 9 an hour... But I was still in community college, and the wages were ample for my needs.
Sometime around mid 1995.. The internet really started rearing it's big ugly head to the *rest* of the world... I repsonded with a yawn.. I had a shell account since 1992.. This was nothing new to me.. but to everyone else... they started acting like it was the next big thing... Being more than a bit intrigued, and doubly worried.. (Did I want Joe Moron, reading my Favorite Usenet groups?) I eventually started discussing all of this with a friend....
Which lead to me meeting the future president of a ISP in Illinois... Grand plans, Low Cash, and my brain on overdrive menat I started werking.. for Less $ than I was making, and for more hours... But the plan was magnificent.. And the users hadn't gotten too stupid yet...
I almost got pigeonholed into being an onsite installer of internet software.. But after the desturction of the bosses mini-van (He should change his own damn oil, and not expect someone borrowing it to check the oil..Doh) I was moved back to Tech support/Jr Admin Wanker.
that's when the hell began, life took a turn further down, as I was exploited by the drooling, unwashed, PPP-ignorant masses.. I started to dred work... Luckily, I was moved to 3rd shift, where the masses were slightly less braindead, and the oppurtunities to play Quake were quite abundant..
But all good things to come to a fiery crashing end... Eventually life started to suck even on the magical late shifft, and I made it worse by coming in late for work, more than a few times.. And eventually, I was dropped... thankfully..
The moral is? 2 years of my life almost.. No stock options, less than $12 an hour, and I learned only how to verbally spar with morons on the phone... Phah.. Netslave? Perhaps... But now I make about 4 times that rate.. and it's only 3.5 years later...;-)
I never finished more than a year of college.. (I only regret it because I wanted to party more) and I have no certs aside from A+... So I guess the moral is.. Eventually you'l get a decent salary, adn a nice job, if you don't sweat the small crappy stuff... yeah, right.
---All Spellng erors intentional ---Do not taunt Starvo, the happy fun admin ---May cause leprosy, or gingivitis
I enjoy being a contactor... There's nothing like guranteed overtime @ double my Rate to really make up for having t be onsite for more than 40 hours a week.
I've done both slary, and Contract (1099, and W2) and I'll always like contracting more.. Usually less tress, more rewarding, and with my current contracting company, training is free.. So now I get get all of the sundry little resume fodder (CCNA, MSCE+I) done, and done for free.
The slight negatives are No Health Insurance, and no 401K... But those are negated for me, since I've always kept independant Health insurance, and Have had my own set of Stocks, IRA's and mutual funds.
I personally don't give a crap out Life insurance, because my only my cat survives me.. ;-)
---- All Spelling errors are intentional Do not point Happy Fun Starvo at face May couse Leprosy ----
This is wrong... The kid is essentially praised for his story, and then the administration turns on him, and puts him in Juvee Detention for it... I'm not one to advocate needless legal action, but he should at least threaten them witha alaw suit, if only to make them sweat about it... (an Eye for an Eye?;-)
Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with writing stories about killing people... Back in HS, (7 years ago) I had dyed blue hair, I wore black, listened to Metal/goth music, and I was skinny, and frail looking.. My NickName (Baptised on me form the Jocks) Was Faggy... And I would often spend ample study halls, carefully illustrating in my notebook, about what I wouldn't mind doing to them.. it usually involved electric cattle prods, chinese water torture, and sevral knives.;-)
But none of it was serious, and I wish no ill-will on them today... I get other gratification.. mostly from having dropped out of School, and now making Uber bucks... While the college bound jocks with the schlorships? They're working at Mcdonalds, and the local lumber yard.. and another was arrested for stealing a camera at Wal-Mart.
Once we can work past all of the security/paranoia issues associated with it, I tend to think that Internet voting is a great thing.
For the most part, I only vote on the yearly elections, and even then, I am loathe to wander down to the local polling place.. Why? Because I don't like to stand in line for 1/2 an hour, and have to deal with crazy little punch card forms.
Now.. If I could Internet vote.. and have notificiations of Elections emailed to me.. Then I could happily cast my cote during my lunch hour at work, or perhaps between my evening Quake3 Game.
It's all about conveinience And if we can consider the drooling masses that hey, this is safe/secure and convienient, then we've got a winner on our hands.
Truth be told... I never got terribly into the original series.. Oh, I've managed to see pretty much all of tehm, but for me the love started when i saw the first movie...
And I've been at every trek movie on opening day ever since... For me, the voyage home shall always remain my favourite.. tongue in cheek that it is.. saving the whales, and Kirk and Spock wandering about San Fran.. very cute.:-)
I also dug the TNG, and rabidly watched it from the 2nd season onward.. and I transferred my affection to DS9.. but It never "held" my interest.. Always on that dern space station...
As far as Voyager goes.. I never have been able to get into it.. The charectors seem forgetable, and it just doesn't grab me anymore.
Maybe we need to have the series killed off... Wait a few years (2002?) and have anoterh movie.. Slap Kirk, and Spock, and picard together, for something... Be it a last hurrah, or a transition to some new TV series (hint hint).
Whatever happens.. I don't want Trek to die... I hope they keep doing movies until I have kids, and they can then watch it, and muse about the cheesy old "Tng" series... Yeah..:-)
Philly... The city that Loves you Back? (Shudders) Thank the gods I got the hell out of there many years ago... ewwwww....
But back to the original topic... I think it's just another sign of another state trying to prove that they are "on top" of this whole internet thing. Out here In the Land of Lincoln (Illinois) We have some corridor of Industrail parks/offfices off of the Interstate nick named "the Silicon Prarie" (Yes, I gag everytime I hear that term)
Honestly, there are better ways to attract high tech firms to your state.. you don't need some corny-assed slogan/nickname.. (Or websites..:-)
While maybe the concept sounds good... I'm just afraid it will turn out to be some uber-campy mess... But then again, I tend to think that I have repressed bad memories about the dern cartoon.;-)
I'm also of the herd that beleives a Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance movie would be good... I mean why not use some of the uber-Matrix-effects on creating the charector Drizzt Do-Urden from the realms???;-)
Hrmmm Methinks we should have another Slashdot Poll... Does Anyone here still play AD&D or D7D alot?
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Why IP? Lets Invent a new Protocol...
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True.. We could Run out of IPv4 Space By 2010... But since we're going to have to freaking upgrade every router, adn networked piece of software.. do we really want to stick with IP?
I mean, I wonder if there's Some folks out there.. working on a good replacement protocol.. something that does all that Ip does.. But faster, Lower on memory, and easier?
Maybe IPv6 Isn't the answer.. Maybe We'll end up using Some weird Child of Banyan Vines.. Oor Ipx.. Or maybe there will be an open sourced Protocol.. Or maybe We will all fall under the Sway of Mr. Gates. and us MicrosoftIP-2000
-Warning I'm too lazy to spellcheck--- -And I could be making all of this up- -So Take it all with a grain of Salt.-
I'm not sure who the real Hack/Crack(Insert term)'ers are now... But I have this gut feeling that whatever real hackers thee are out thee.. they're laughing whenever they see site such as Anti, etc...
Awell... Praise the internet for easy access to information.. No don't mind me, I'm about to drift out, and dream about the olden day's of BBS'ing... ahh sweet sweet 1990 and Telegard, and PcBoard..:-)
So, Now we have a 128K Upload limit... My reaction... I saw it coming.. you can't sell High-Speed internet service, without expecting to have some dumb-fucking kids with warez sites abuse it... So.. Thanks to a few really stupid in DUHviduals, everyone else has to suffer... Yeah, it really fucking sucks.. but Alot of the blame is placed on Johnny 14-yeard old running a WarFTP server off of his mommy's Compaq Deskpro.
What TCI should/could/needs to do is start tracking down the assholes who run Warez/mp3/porn(Insert Illegal stuff here) Servers, and prosecute the little fuckers.. or make the bastards pay some $$$ for the amount of bandwidth they abused.. Make the little bastards learn not to abuse a system, and ruin it for everyone else... Stupid Fucking Children, ruined it for everyone else.
I know that DejaNews has part of their operations based in Austin... (In the arboretum) And I also know that they are looking for some really highly skilled/hardcore Linux Admins... Plus People that are godlike with INN. Ya might want to check out their employment link on their website...
Anywho.. Austin Does have a decent amount of *nix jobs.. but for folks like me (Crazy NT admins) I'm actaully having to relocate to Milwaukee to get a decent paying NT Admin job.:-/
Is there an EASY/Possible wat to migrate about 150+ Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Emailboxes/clients to A linux box running sendmail/Qmail?
Obviously.. There's a few Gotchas.. That I can spew out off hand: -Lost mail that is stored on teh Echnage server -Password/user verification.. How do I keep The same username/pass combo on the linux box synced with what's on the NT boxes/PDC -MS Exchange public Folders... Can I port/convert these over to Some other format/Program? Something like WWWThreads 3.0 would replace it just fine... But I would Lose all of the old Data, and I would run into more password verification problems... (How to Sync some public folder/message board system with the existing NT PDC/Boxen)
So... That's more than a few annoying problems to deal with, when considering to go from a Microsoft Exchange Server to a Sendmail or Qmail setup. Ach.
But the benfits are many... for one thing.. I don't think a Ppro-200 W/ 128megs of ram would CHOKE running Sendmail with 150 Mailboxes..
Our NT box.. (THe above mentioned Ppro-200) routinly CHOKES quite severely on 150 Users)
Ack... Any advice/etc to move all those users to Sendmail?
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I use megapath.net
:-) Only reason I got IDSL is because I am 23,000 feet way from the CO.
they are hideously expensive ($79 a month for 144K IDSL). But they are just wonderful.
Firstoff, in chicago, they colocate their conenction at exodus.net's facility... so thats my regional gateway/POP... and Slashdot (also on exodus.net) is veery few hops away, adn very fast.
I also get amazing ping times. TO other local chicago Counter strike servers, I ping as low as 20ms. Yeah. 20, on IDSL.
I've had about 4 hours of downtime since april.. and Their customer service is phenoimenal, NO server restirctions, NO bandwidth restrictions.. and they hand out IP's like candy, if you're willing to shell out and extra $5 to $10 a month.
Yes, they are very expensive... all they offer is RADSL, and SDSL products.. and they target the "power" user.. but.. If you can bark up $100+ a month for the higheer speeds, you get what you pay for.. Amazing customer support, rock solid connections.. and latentcy that is sooo low that you'll weep with pleasure in Quake3.
;-)
Advantage: If I have the time and the Patience, I can mount this sucker on my RV, and get broadband in the middle of the damn Death Valley if I wish. :-)
(Yes, there's the whole aiming, etc to worry about.. But screw that, I'm patient)
Now don't tell my bosss I can get 768K per sec when I go vacationing... But he might not care.. esp since telnet will be lagged to fuck.
Owell I see farmers, and others in the boonies buying this, and loving this. If I was in Bublefarq Ks, and this was my only option than 28.8 dial up.. I'd take it.. in a heartbeat
Dear Users,
Today is National SysAdmin appreciation day. Yes, a day devoted to the countless geeks like me, who help you work better on our computers.
We do your backups, chmod those fules, and even fix the DB2 server for you.. All the while, slowly but surely losing our sanity.
If you wish to show your appreciation by contributing a "gift" I have crafted a list of recommended items below:
-Copy of Diablo 2
-Any Nerf Weapon
-Iced Mocha from Mojo's coffee in Austin Tx.
-Mt. Dew
-Palm Pilot (Palm V or VII only please.)
-Geforce 2 video card
-22" LCD monitor
Please feel free to deposit all gifts, in the "syadmin appreciation gift basket" Located inside my cubicle.
Thank you.
(Yes, my weary attempt at humour)
I seond this review... I've hooked up myself @IDSL speeds) and and 5 others to Megapath in the last 5 months, and the experience has been AMAZING.
They are top notch, kick-ass, etc. WE're talking low pings for your Quake3/Counterstrike/Tribes games, regional peering points into the net. (So if you live in chicago, then your data hits a chicago router first, not going out to SiLi Valley)
I've had ONE outage in 4 months on my own line.. It lasted 15 minutes. I called, and was on hold for aobut 30secs, adn they told me it was regional, it would be fixed asap.
Plus Megapath has the scret bonus of No contract. Thats right, other dsl provs. makes you sign up for one year, and charge you $200-$500 is you bail out early. Megapath is Month to month.. No early disconnect fees etc.
The only negative is that when you get their DSL service, you have to buy the router. But not from them! They will tell you whichi model to get, and you can go to Ebay/Shopper.com to buy it.
Megapath is good.
I follow this film site.. they have ahd a few blurbs here N There about HHGTTG movie..r sguide.html
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/hitchhike
hope this helps/hinders.
Starv.
Wait... a second...
Inspector gadget was french?
Ahrrrg... I always knew something was worng with it back in what.. 83 or so when I watched... I figured itwas Canadian.... Maybe Austrailian.. or something similar.. But French!!!! No!... That simply cannot be.. Arg.. my Whole view of reality was shattered... I mean... It tooks me a few years to figure out that Danger Mouse Was British... (Yes I was a slow child..)
Great article Jon.. I'm hasppy that you did take the time to travel to the "belly Of the beast" to talk to them.. Although I am sorry that the Pinketon folks proved tru to corporate sterotypes... And Thanks to Slashdot for funding your trip, an honorable task indeed.
So for those of us like myself who thin kall of this WAVE stuff is just pointless/stupid.. what next? So we write to the goverment of North Carolina, and tell them we dont want our tax dollars wasted on this?
Boycott Pinkerton? Create an alternative website, disseminate more accurate information? Create a controversy over this? (We all know that goverments and Comapnies try to back the hell away from a controversy)
What should we do next?
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Seriously... THis thing just encourages software/mp3 piracy.. it makes it so easy that every little -joe-suburban-14-year-old-retard can now leech their very own copy of a Matrix Rip.
It has the the potential to take the warez/piracy scene from it's quasi-underground status (IRC, FTP's, some web sites) and shove it down anyones throat that wants anything.
PLus I'm more than a bit disturbed that I kept on seeing many many many searches for "britney spears naked" showing up on my search monitor..
Sheesh.. damn kids today... frickin' raging perverts/warez jockeys, thats all they are...
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I agree.. I loved the movie....
;-)
Ti didif eel a little bit "split" at the end, and from reading their websites, and postings, etc.. it is evident that ALOT of stuff was cut from the end...
(Supposedly, when god's body was in the hospital, the Stygian Triplets (rollerBladers) were supposed to make yet another appearence... and Silent bob had to fight them)
And.. Something about Alanis Being god just weirded me out... It wasn't bad.. but it just seemed nto tally on the spot... I dunno...
But on a final note.. I used to Live In Mchenry Illinois.. We actually don't have an abortion clinic here... and Wisconsin? Specifically kenosha?.. (having lived there) Yes.. Wisconsin is hell on earth.
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Actually, one of the guys that comes to our regular lan parties is in the same boat as you. A few games of q3 or halflife and he's about to hurl. What he uses is an elastic band that fits around your wrist and has a plastic bit that presses on a presssure point that alleviates your motion sickeness. You can probably find them in a drugstore. I don't have a specific name of brand. Hope that helps.
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I've always had that problem with Descent, Freespace, and other games like that... The ones with the full 3D range of movement in all directions... And for some reason to a limited extent, I think Tomb Raider on the PSX.
But Never in Wolfie, Doom, or Quake or HalfLife.. But definitly try the plastic wrist-pressure-point band thing... I think I've seen them in Walgreens and in some of the bigger chain drugstores...
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Well, a certain postmaster in a certain town decided they wanted to skim off money, so they took the money paid for insured shipments, didn't insure the items, used the cash to purchase USPS money orders, and flew. They was nailed, though, hardcore
:-) helped him nab people who would steal mail...
And that's a federal crime.. BTW: don't fuck with the postal police.
Amen to that... Back when I was a wee lad, and in Sunday School, my Sundat school teacher was alos a postal inspector/Mail Cop... He would often keep us psellbound with stories of how his faith in the lord above (snort
As an interesting followup... Sevral years later, (around the age 14-16) Some friends of mine had the wounderful idea to hang out near certain wealtyh apartment complexes after school... the logic being.. since the neighborhood was good, and the complexes were easy to get into, they could easily lift postal, and other packages left by the front doors...
The end result, my old sunday school teacher busts 2 friends of mine... (I always chickened out about going, so I got off free) and the 2 friends each got 30 days in the Juvie hall, 2+ years of probation... Indeed... Do not Fuck with the postal service...
(What's really sad is that these morons tole about 30+ packages, and they never ever found anything remotly valuable to themselves... Except one of them kept the antique Tea set....?)
Or well, if you're local To Austin Texas... You can try the infamous All-Tex Electronics... Slightly highly priced.. But they have just amamzing amounts of electronic crap....
;-)
At one point I was able to find a 13W3 (Sun) to VGA adaptor dongle... which was great, I was then able to slap my trinitron mon onto my Indy box...
Another neato Austin, TX based electronics/parts dealer is Tinker Tronics... Not sure of the addry.. But it has an equal impressive array of electrnoics crap at affordable prices, in very cramped (and disorganized) quarters.
Sadly, I don't live In Austin anymore, but the local (Chicagland area) substiute is Northwest electronics/electrical... It's offa route 14 in/near Mt. Prospect.. tre' good prcing...
And for the final.. Ain't it weird mention... I was in home Depot the Over day, and they had CAT5 cable in their wiring section.. good quality bulk 250ft roll sof PVC and Plenum type.. No crimp on RJ45 connectors, but I still bought 250ft of PVC type. As a side note, another Home Depot in Chicago.. (deerfield?) also had Cat5 cable.. so if you're hard up to wire your home lan, and you don't want to mail-order.. look into home depot.
I dunno... Sometimes one does get into insane jobs.. but not for the supposed gold of stock options... Sometimes you see something as the next freakin' wave, and you just want to ride it.
My Sordid tale begins in Late 1994.... Presently working at a computer repair shop, turning wrenches, and setting up computers.. Life was good, if only for 20 hours a week @ 9 an hour... But I was still in community college, and the wages were ample for my needs.
Sometime around mid 1995.. The internet really started rearing it's big ugly head to the *rest* of the world... I repsonded with a yawn.. I had a shell account since 1992.. This was nothing new to me.. but to everyone else... they started acting like it was the next big thing... Being more than a bit intrigued, and doubly worried.. (Did I want Joe Moron, reading my Favorite Usenet groups?) I eventually started discussing all of this with a friend....
Which lead to me meeting the future president of a ISP in Illinois... Grand plans, Low Cash, and my brain on overdrive menat I started werking.. for Less $ than I was making, and for more hours... But the plan was magnificent.. And the users hadn't gotten too stupid yet...
I almost got pigeonholed into being an onsite installer of internet software.. But after the desturction of the bosses mini-van (He should change his own damn oil, and not expect someone borrowing it to check the oil..Doh) I was moved back to Tech support/Jr Admin Wanker.
that's when the hell began, life took a turn further down, as I was exploited by the drooling, unwashed, PPP-ignorant masses.. I started to dred work... Luckily, I was moved to 3rd shift, where the masses were slightly less braindead, and the oppurtunities to play Quake were quite abundant..
But all good things to come to a fiery crashing end... Eventually life started to suck even on the magical late shifft, and I made it worse by coming in late for work, more than a few times.. And eventually, I was dropped... thankfully..
The moral is? 2 years of my life almost.. No stock options, less than $12 an hour, and I learned only how to verbally spar with morons on the phone... Phah.. Netslave? Perhaps... But now I make about 4 times that rate.. and it's only 3.5 years later...
I never finished more than a year of college.. (I only regret it because I wanted to party more) and I have no certs aside from A+... So I guess the moral is.. Eventually you'l get a decent salary, adn a nice job, if you don't sweat the small crappy stuff...
yeah, right.
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I enjoy being a contactor... There's nothing like guranteed overtime @ double my Rate to really make up for having t be onsite for more than 40 hours a week.
I've done both slary, and Contract (1099, and W2) and I'll always like contracting more.. Usually less tress, more rewarding, and with my current contracting company, training is free.. So now I get get all of the sundry little resume fodder (CCNA, MSCE+I) done, and done for free.
The slight negatives are No Health Insurance, and no 401K... But those are negated for me, since I've always kept independant Health insurance, and Have had my own set of Stocks, IRA's and mutual funds.
I personally don't give a crap out Life insurance, because my only my cat survives me..
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This is wrong... The kid is essentially praised for his story, and then the administration turns on him, and puts him in Juvee Detention for it... I'm not one to advocate needless legal action, but he should at least threaten them witha alaw suit, if only to make them sweat about it... (an Eye for an Eye?
Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with writing stories about killing people... Back in HS, (7 years ago) I had dyed blue hair, I wore black, listened to Metal/goth music, and I was skinny, and frail looking.. My NickName (Baptised on me form the Jocks) Was Faggy... And I would often spend ample study halls, carefully illustrating in my notebook, about what I wouldn't mind doing to them.. it usually involved electric cattle prods, chinese water torture, and sevral knives.
But none of it was serious, and I wish no ill-will on them today... I get other gratification.. mostly from having dropped out of School, and now making Uber bucks... While the college bound jocks with the schlorships? They're working at Mcdonalds, and the local lumber yard.. and another was arrested for stealing a camera at Wal-Mart.
Yes, what goes around DOES come around!
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Once we can work past all of the security/paranoia issues associated with it, I tend to think that Internet voting is a great thing.
For the most part, I only vote on the yearly elections, and even then, I am loathe to wander down to the local polling place.. Why? Because I don't like to stand in line for 1/2 an hour, and have to deal with crazy little punch card forms.
Now.. If I could Internet vote.. and have notificiations of Elections emailed to me.. Then I could happily cast my cote during my lunch hour at work, or perhaps between my evening Quake3 Game.
It's all about conveinience And if we can consider the drooling masses that hey, this is safe/secure and convienient, then we've got a winner on our hands.
Truth be told... I never got terribly into the original series.. Oh, I've managed to see pretty much all of tehm, but for me the love started when i saw the first movie...
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And I've been at every trek movie on opening day ever since... For me, the voyage home shall always remain my favourite.. tongue in cheek that it is.. saving the whales, and Kirk and Spock wandering about San Fran.. very cute.
I also dug the TNG, and rabidly watched it from the 2nd season onward.. and I transferred my affection to DS9.. but It never "held" my interest.. Always on that dern space station...
As far as Voyager goes.. I never have been able to get into it.. The charectors seem forgetable, and it just doesn't grab me anymore.
Maybe we need to have the series killed off... Wait a few years (2002?) and have anoterh movie.. Slap Kirk, and Spock, and picard together, for something... Be it a last hurrah, or a transition to some new TV series (hint hint).
Whatever happens.. I don't want Trek to die... I hope they keep doing movies until I have kids, and they can then watch it, and muse about the cheesy old "Tng" series... Yeah..
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Philly... The city that Loves you Back?
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(Shudders) Thank the gods I got the hell out of there many years ago... ewwwww....
But back to the original topic... I think it's just another sign of another state trying to prove that they are "on top" of this whole internet thing. Out here In the Land of Lincoln (Illinois) We have some corridor of Industrail parks/offfices off of the Interstate nick named "the Silicon Prarie" (Yes, I gag everytime I hear that term)
Honestly, there are better ways to attract high tech firms to your state.. you don't need some corny-assed slogan/nickname.. (Or websites..
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While maybe the concept sounds good... I'm just afraid it will turn out to be some uber-campy mess... But then again, I tend to think that I have repressed bad memories about the dern cartoon.
I'm also of the herd that beleives a Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance movie would be good... I mean why not use some of the uber-Matrix-effects on creating the charector Drizzt Do-Urden from the realms???
Hrmmm Methinks we should have another Slashdot Poll... Does Anyone here still play AD&D or D7D alot?
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True.. We could Run out of IPv4 Space By 2010...
But since we're going to have to freaking upgrade every router, adn networked piece of software.. do we really want to stick with IP?
I mean, I wonder if there's Some folks out there.. working on a good replacement protocol.. something that does all that Ip does.. But faster, Lower on memory, and easier?
Maybe IPv6 Isn't the answer.. Maybe We'll end up using Some weird Child of Banyan Vines.. Oor Ipx.. Or maybe there will be an open sourced Protocol.. Or maybe We will all fall under the Sway of Mr. Gates. and us MicrosoftIP-2000
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-And I could be making all of this up-
-So Take it all with a grain of Salt.-
Amen to that rant. :-)
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I'm not sure who the real Hack/Crack(Insert term)'ers are now... But I have this gut feeling that whatever real hackers thee are out thee.. they're laughing whenever they see site such as Anti, etc...
Awell... Praise the internet for easy access to information.. No don't mind me, I'm about to drift out, and dream about the olden day's of BBS'ing... ahh sweet sweet 1990 and Telegard, and PcBoard..
So, Now we have a 128K Upload limit...
My reaction... I saw it coming.. you can't sell High-Speed internet service, without expecting to have some dumb-fucking kids with warez sites abuse it... So.. Thanks to a few really stupid in DUHviduals, everyone else has to suffer... Yeah, it really fucking sucks.. but Alot of the blame is placed on Johnny 14-yeard old running a WarFTP server off of his mommy's Compaq Deskpro.
What TCI should/could/needs to do is start tracking down the assholes who run Warez/mp3/porn(Insert Illegal stuff here) Servers, and prosecute the little fuckers.. or make the bastards pay some $$$ for the amount of bandwidth they abused.. Make the little bastards learn not to abuse a system, and ruin it for everyone else... Stupid Fucking Children, ruined it for everyone else.
I know that DejaNews has part of their operations based in Austin... (In the arboretum) And I also know that they are looking for some really highly skilled/hardcore Linux Admins... Plus People that are godlike with INN. Ya might want to check out their employment link on their website...
:-/
Anywho.. Austin Does have a decent amount of *nix jobs.. but for folks like me (Crazy NT admins) I'm actaully having to relocate to Milwaukee to get a decent paying NT Admin job.
Is there an EASY/Possible wat to migrate about
150+ Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Emailboxes/clients
to A linux box running sendmail/Qmail?
Obviously.. There's a few Gotchas.. That I
can spew out off hand:
-Lost mail that is stored on teh Echnage server
-Password/user verification.. How do I keep
The same username/pass combo on the linux box
synced with what's on the NT boxes/PDC
-MS Exchange public Folders... Can I port/convert
these over to Some other format/Program?
Something like WWWThreads 3.0 would replace
it just fine... But I would Lose all of the old
Data, and I would run into more password
verification problems... (How to Sync some
public folder/message board system with the
existing NT PDC/Boxen)
So... That's more than a few annoying problems
to deal with, when considering to go from a
Microsoft Exchange Server to a Sendmail or
Qmail setup. Ach.
But the benfits are many... for one thing.. I don't think a Ppro-200 W/ 128megs of ram would
CHOKE running Sendmail with 150 Mailboxes..
Our NT box.. (THe above mentioned Ppro-200) routinly CHOKES quite severely on 150 Users)
Ack... Any advice/etc to move all those users to Sendmail?
Aww yes... Thank you VERY much? :-)
You on ADSL or cable? (or work?
My little ADSL line is maxing out right now...
~120K per sec... Thank you!