If you bought a NEAX2000 off of a folded dot.com, NEC still rakes in the $$ from the service contract on the system you need to purchase in order to administer the damned system. That is where most of the money is.
What got me with Das Boot was the Vangelis-esque soundtrack. Great movie, but the music didn't quite fit--I would expect music more like that in Hunt for Red October than Blade Runner.
I have a friend that commutes 2.5 hours EACH WAY from NH to Boston for work. What does she do for work? She's a recruiter for a tech staffing firm on Boylston Street.
2.5 Hours each way is 25 hours a week in cummuting alone. My commute is 50 minutes door to door (walk to local train, wait for train, ride train, walk from N. Station to office, take elevator to floor, enter office, look at clock)
However, she says that it's all worth it when she gets home and can see the stars and hear the wild life. I couldn't do it, but I do understand what she is saying.
My life plan is to make enough money to retire and build a house on a chunk of land outside of Bangor, ME and live.
The interest on that $7,000,000,000,000 in debt is going to hard working Japanese people who find the returns on T-Bills to be a lot higher than what they could get at their local bank.
Go to American Sattelite and look at their DirecTV with Tivo packages. That's who I used and am very happy with my DirecTV service and my DirecTiVO. 40 hours is 40 hours as the TiVO records the DirecTV stream and decodes it when you watch it so there is no decode-encode-decode problem that you have with standalone TiVO. Packages start at $80 equipment and install included.
If you popped the lid off there was a switch you could hit to make reset Apple-RESET (or whatever the mod key was) or just plain RESET. Plus the reset button had a pretty tight spring in it to keep it from being rolled over by a finger.
Cool. Many Starbucks have wireless LANs. However, you don't want to use Starbucks' WLAN as they are large, faceless, and only out to make money--the bastards. Instead, look around for another coffee shop close to the Starbucks--they may have installed WIFI as well to compete with the large, faceless, and only out to make money--the bastards Starbucks.
Go inside, buy a large coffee and a muffin, and then sit in your car and browse away. You don't have to eat the muffin or drink the coffee--that's just to keep you from feeling guilty stealing from Ma and Pa and that tattooed and pierced freak behind the independent coffee shop's counter.
I live in a small town of 13,000 people just north of Boston. Our top two cops were paid over $110,000 each last year. More than half was for OT.
Toll collectors on the NJTP routinely make $90,000+/year including OT. Granted, that really is shit work.
My staff worked a boatload more hours than normal this past summer moving the large company we work for to a new building without OT. They are all salaried, exempt from OT.
Did it suck? Yes. Is anyone still bitching about it? No. Did we abuse the employees? No.
Do I have a point? No. I'm having a bout of insomnia now and an basically rambling on.
Still, the point is you can log in as the user without having the user's password and see things like they're going to see them when they attach to the network.
you're missing the point. sometimes you need to logon as the user. the only way to do this in windows is to know the user's password or have enough rights to change it. in os x, if you're an admin you can login as the user without knowing their password or having to change it. that would be very useful feature for techs troubleshooting profile-specific issues.
This was actually a feature in ASIP 5.x too. It freaked me out one day when I was logging into the server from a client machine. I had forgotten to change the username, entered the admin password and was presented with limited volumes in the AppleShare window.
Now I run the PC Support team at a large company and wish this were a feature in windows. Having to chase down users to get their passwords (eventhough they're not supposed to give them out to anyone or write them down) to config their machines gets annoying and old and slows the team down.
I just replaced 4 21" Sony monitors 500 and 520 series, don't remember the letters, at a client site. The client was nice enough to donate these still working monitors to a friend of mine whose child is close to blind. 640x480 @ 75Hz on a 21" monitor is perfect for my friend's son. The monitors were manufactured in 1995 or 1996 and they're still going strong.
I have a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron (I think)from 1999 or 2000 on my G5 at home. The monitor still looks great. I can get 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz.
BULLSHIT. MS purchased $150M of NON-VOTING STOCK in Apple. Apple didn't need the $150M at the time, really, it didn't. They still had $2B in cash at the time.
Rumor has it that the cash was to settle some patent infringment issues and another bit of payment that Apple demanded of MS for Apple dropping their claims was that MS had to commit to 5 years of development for Mac Office.
MS also had to hold the stock for two or more years. MS did so and made a shitload of money.
Good advice. The quit-when-you-have-a-week-off method is good because you break your routine. I don't dip at home, only at work. I took two weeks off and didn't dip at all. My job drives me to the nicotine. I guess I need a new job...
It's really all about the routine. When I quit smoking, I stopped going to the places where I'd be tempted (bars, etc.). One the routine was broken I was able to go to my old stoping grounds and not smoke.
Try Skoal. A pinch between the cheek and gum and you're all set. You don't even need to go outside. The cleaning people may get pissed and dumping spitters or trash cans half-filled with spit. They get used to it, besides, they don't speak English, so who will believe their complaints...
If he's trying to escape the Boy Scouts of America, why is he going out into the woods? The BSA live in the woods! I wonder if there is a merit badge for Open Source Programming yet? Nah, stinky nerd tracking, maybe.
Good point there. Use the offsite for disaster recovery and local backup for risk mitigation. What I never understood with the offsite solution is the time. Most smaller companies only have a 1.5Mbps connection. That first backup's going to be massive as will the daily e-mail incrementals. Is there enough time off-hours to backup all of the data?
Take WG's suggestion one step further and have your machine call your cell phone every hour if the temp drops below a certain point (say 55 degrees F) until you log in and clear the alert.
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If you bought a NEAX2000 off of a folded dot.com, NEC still rakes in the $$ from the service contract on the system you need to purchase in order to administer the damned system. That is where most of the money is.
--Mike
Let me think of such a company...
Oh yeah, Fidelity Investments.
The Olympics will be broadcast on plenty of GE/NBC/Universal's stations simultaneously.
NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, USA
That leaves only three tuners for PORN.
What got me with Das Boot was the Vangelis-esque soundtrack. Great movie, but the music didn't quite fit--I would expect music more like that in Hunt for Red October than Blade Runner.
--Mike
I have a friend that commutes 2.5 hours EACH WAY from NH to Boston for work. What does she do for work? She's a recruiter for a tech staffing firm on Boylston Street.
2.5 Hours each way is 25 hours a week in cummuting alone. My commute is 50 minutes door to door (walk to local train, wait for train, ride train, walk from N. Station to office, take elevator to floor, enter office, look at clock)
However, she says that it's all worth it when she gets home and can see the stars and hear the wild life. I couldn't do it, but I do understand what she is saying.
My life plan is to make enough money to retire and build a house on a chunk of land outside of Bangor, ME and live.
--Mike
I love that part of VA--it's so beautiful. Hell, in Louisa, you could commute to Charlottesville or Richmond, too if pressed.
How far are you from Goochland?
The interest on that $7,000,000,000,000 in debt is going to hard working Japanese people who find the returns on T-Bills to be a lot higher than what they could get at their local bank.
Go to American Sattelite and look at their DirecTV with Tivo packages. That's who I used and am very happy with my DirecTV service and my DirecTiVO. 40 hours is 40 hours as the TiVO records the DirecTV stream and decodes it when you watch it so there is no decode-encode-decode problem that you have with standalone TiVO. Packages start at $80 equipment and install included.
If you popped the lid off there was a switch you could hit to make reset Apple-RESET (or whatever the mod key was) or just plain RESET. Plus the reset button had a pretty tight spring in it to keep it from being rolled over by a finger.
--Mike
Cool. Many Starbucks have wireless LANs. However, you don't want to use Starbucks' WLAN as they are large, faceless, and only out to make money--the bastards. Instead, look around for another coffee shop close to the Starbucks--they may have installed WIFI as well to compete with the large, faceless, and only out to make money--the bastards Starbucks.
Go inside, buy a large coffee and a muffin, and then sit in your car and browse away. You don't have to eat the muffin or drink the coffee--that's just to keep you from feeling guilty stealing from Ma and Pa and that tattooed and pierced freak behind the independent coffee shop's counter.
--Mike
I live in a small town of 13,000 people just north of Boston. Our top two cops were paid over $110,000 each last year. More than half was for OT.
Toll collectors on the NJTP routinely make $90,000+/year including OT. Granted, that really is shit work.
My staff worked a boatload more hours than normal this past summer moving the large company we work for to a new building without OT. They are all salaried, exempt from OT.
Did it suck? Yes. Is anyone still bitching about it? No. Did we abuse the employees? No.
Do I have a point? No. I'm having a bout of insomnia now and an basically rambling on.
Sorry.
Still, the point is you can log in as the user without having the user's password and see things like they're going to see them when they attach to the network.
you're missing the point. sometimes you need to logon as the user. the only way to do this in windows is to know the user's password or have enough rights to change it. in os x, if you're an admin you can login as the user without knowing their password or having to change it. that would be very useful feature for techs troubleshooting profile-specific issues.
This was actually a feature in ASIP 5.x too. It freaked me out one day when I was logging into the server from a client machine. I had forgotten to change the username, entered the admin password and was presented with limited volumes in the AppleShare window.
Now I run the PC Support team at a large company and wish this were a feature in windows. Having to chase down users to get their passwords (eventhough they're not supposed to give them out to anyone or write them down) to config their machines gets annoying and old and slows the team down.
I just replaced 4 21" Sony monitors 500 and 520 series, don't remember the letters, at a client site. The client was nice enough to donate these still working monitors to a friend of mine whose child is close to blind. 640x480 @ 75Hz on a 21" monitor is perfect for my friend's son. The monitors were manufactured in 1995 or 1996 and they're still going strong.
I have a 19" Mitsubishi Diamondtron (I think)from 1999 or 2000 on my G5 at home. The monitor still looks great. I can get 1600x1200 @ 85 Hz.
--Mike
There's a difference between "not doing well" and "not doing as well as Microsoft."
Apple and Microsoft aren't technically in the same market. Apple = Hardware, Microsoft = Software.
--Mike
BULLSHIT. MS purchased $150M of NON-VOTING STOCK in Apple. Apple didn't need the $150M at the time, really, it didn't. They still had $2B in cash at the time.
Rumor has it that the cash was to settle some patent infringment issues and another bit of payment that Apple demanded of MS for Apple dropping their claims was that MS had to commit to 5 years of development for Mac Office.
MS also had to hold the stock for two or more years. MS did so and made a shitload of money.
--Mike
Good advice. The quit-when-you-have-a-week-off method is good because you break your routine. I don't dip at home, only at work. I took two weeks off and didn't dip at all. My job drives me to the nicotine. I guess I need a new job...
It's really all about the routine. When I quit smoking, I stopped going to the places where I'd be tempted (bars, etc.). One the routine was broken I was able to go to my old stoping grounds and not smoke.
Try Skoal. A pinch between the cheek and gum and you're all set. You don't even need to go outside. The cleaning people may get pissed and dumping spitters or trash cans half-filled with spit. They get used to it, besides, they don't speak English, so who will believe their complaints...
--Mike
If he's trying to escape the Boy Scouts of America, why is he going out into the woods? The BSA live in the woods! I wonder if there is a merit badge for Open Source Programming yet? Nah, stinky nerd tracking, maybe.
--Mike
Now that I've looked at the site I understand a bit better. However, the time required is still bothering me...
Good point there. Use the offsite for disaster recovery and local backup for risk mitigation. What I never understood with the offsite solution is the time. Most smaller companies only have a 1.5Mbps connection. That first backup's going to be massive as will the daily e-mail incrementals. Is there enough time off-hours to backup all of the data?
Lucas wrote the whole Star Wars saga a long time ago
Don't you mean a long long time ago?
Did they send the bill to whitehouse.gov or whitehouse.com?
Take WG's suggestion one step further and have your machine call your cell phone every hour if the temp drops below a certain point (say 55 degrees F) until you log in and clear the alert.