Most things I need to be transportable get emailed to a web-accessible account and are accessed from a client's workstation. Things that are too large get uploaded for FTP access later. Motto: Save paper.
What is the big deal? I've been on to these supply cost gorging jerks for quite some time now...starting with the LaserJet II or so. Don't play the game, and they will have to redo the Biz Plan.
So you buy this really cool old car: '68 Cadillac, for example. The air conditioning's compressor takes a hike. Remove belt. Replace with shorter belt. Done deal. Removing the compressor is optional. (That also goes for a 1976-8x 240d Benz). I know this because I've owned both and had to do just that.
The point is, you are not crippled, except on a really hot day. Same goes for radio, electric seats, and this list could go on - but you get the gist of it.
The only argument against my point is that someone needs to understand dependencies - and the mechanically challenged might have to take the car into the shop to have these things performed. Big deal.
Bottom line: these blathering greedy idiots are slowly but surely sinking into the very *shit* they've been producing, and I (as a MCSE) am truly enjoying the irony; albeit humor! It's all good...
The fine print above my license's stripes says "Information contained in the barcode and magnetic stripe is limited to date of birth, license/ID number and expiration date.
Still, this article's theme provokes some thoughts:
What will change in 2004 when it has to be renewed?
If I could read either stripe, would I find that the privacy statement was inaccurate?
After all, we've had a Republican governor here for way too many years.....
While I agree with previous comments that taking out the offending sites would being more effective, just the maintenance of the list and filter(s) will probably drive up the cost of getting online for the end users.
And at the end of the Salon story:
A South Dakota law merely requires employees of ISPs to report any child pornography to law-enforcement officials, while South Carolina has a law requiring the same of computer-repair technicians.
When someone's computer is on my bench, I'll be damned if I'd snoop around for anything - Who has time - what would I tell the client? "Sure I told you two hours - the extra time is for checking every file you have for porn, and then deciding how old the "models" are...."
In the mid-70s, I was accepted at MIT, MSU, U of M, and later U of C @ La Holla.
But, instead, I got a job smuggling. Ahh, the choices. And, I should have gone to Harvard and met King Bill....no regrets.
About the bear and the prestige of MIT, don't be so hard on the story, posters. It "bears" some cleverness, but I could add that it does not "bear repeating".
I agree mostly with the parent post here, in that IPv4 is embedded into lots of hardware, and that it's a hell of a lot easier to remember a 32 bit addy than this proposed 128 bit one. Kinda like a phone number.
I can admit I don't use Netmeeting (yet) but can easily see the overhead increasing. So, as the other post suggests that this be responded to rather than moderated, I agree, and am responding. Bravo. I have many clients using NAT and it works just fine.
The smarter thing to do rather than IPv6 would (in the interim) be to re-allocate some of the address blocks assigned to.gov and.edu, as well as.mil for that matter.
Hell, even re-allocate a chode of network 10, as well as 192.168.x.x - who really needs that large of a block in a "private" network? And, while you're at it, take back the 169.(whatever - the autoconfig thingy) that I keep having to flush out of Windoze boxes having brain farts.;-)
There was a short-sighted assignment in the infancy of the web, IMHO. We should strive to remedy that, and leave IPv6 to the more distant future, while still planning for it in a more practical way.
And for the moderator that gave the parent a Troll rating, shame, shame, shame! (That's -3 Karma....hehe)
The company also expects its water-cooling system to be a de facto standard throughout the industry and is currently in talks with several component manufacturers for licensing, Uchiyama says
This License/Patent bullshit is just crazy. Who's got the patent on radiators in frikkin' automobiles? Guess I could look it up, but I have a leak in mine, and need to fix it!
And I never even checked to see what the copy of WinAmp 2.73 is phoning home about me. All I know is it lets me know when the AT&T cable network is having problems, and at the same time gives me commercial-free music to listen to. Uses the RealPlayer if you are stupid enough to comply, but I see no foul play via this version. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've run sniffing SW to check.
As a bonus,it tells me if my connection to VA is bad while my connection to CA is OK. The playlist comes from Paradise, CA, while the mp3 feed is from VA (shoutcast). Go figger.
I started doing dBase programming on CP/M in the early 80s - then M$ stole OS code from Digital Research (whatever - I believe the stories), then I started programming on FoxPro on the "stolen" MS-DOS, and what did they do? Bought Fox and basically ruined it.
Then M$ shoved DOS 4,5, and Windoze down our throats - under which FoxPro was (natively) worthless. I still have a shrinkwrapped copy of the M$ FoxWin runtime - anybody want to buy it cheap? (to be fair, DOS 6 was OK for the purpose.)
Still, I made a living, barely. I could not bring myself to overcharge clients for putting a stable version of whichever M$OS on their boxen, because I'm just that kind of guy. By now I'm stuck. So, I plod along being honest (sorry, [insert client name here] I'll give you a break on this, because it's really M$'s fault)...countless non-billable hours.
Then like a brainwashed moonie, I continue the saga:
I get MCSE Certified, give up 45 clients when I go to work for a certain accounting firm's startup computer store here in the boonies for the MSCSP "prestige" (the "partners" were so greedy I spent a third of my time explaining the billing...and the rest repairing registries and replacing perfectly good Novell server installs with NT).
So - I quit. Now, here I sit reading Slashdot, licking my wounds, wishing that I'd learned a 'NIX OS and been out of the consumer OS loop all along (or maybe I should have stayed in the band...)
Ask Slashdot: Who knows a good pro-bono lawyer? (a portion of above rants courtesy of too many hours on/.)
I knew I had read something very similar to this in a dead-tree copy of Wired Magazine a couple of years back...it made me wish I was rich enough to do this with my aging mutt.
I must differ in the term "strangers" - although I did not even know of Kathleen, I have had the honor to be personally flamed by Rob in response to an email (I probably deserved it...).
We are a community, and that's a *good thing* - we may not all be best buds, but in our daily reading and posting here, we all know each other, IMHO.
Interestingly, I hurt my eyes when reading the associated story - on the cdrinfo.com site:
After reading such interesting news we decided to test the Cactus Data Shield 200 protection and found out how effective is or not!
- What does the indrustry state?
So glad you have reinforced what has bugged me for over a year. I have been cringing not at just Taco's stuff, but at almost all other "cover" stories that come through here.
Whilst one does not even have to point out the comparative vs. temporal reasoning, the general public needs to be more aware of stupid shit like this to keep us on our toes grammatically.
I have a geek kid who can code circles around me, but when he says "alias" he pronounces it to make me think of the Big Boy Restaurant. Go figger. To his credit: He can remember "righty-tighty, lefty-loosy"
I am only an honorary linux user, but on my boxen by telnet, it shows only the actual keystrokes *physically* typed, and not the user's telnet session.
So I guess it would work for those who sit at the console...?
After finally getting to see the rome.ro site, I see that he has ISDN and satellite access in the "boonies". Even a cheap bastard like me would not try to host a website on that!
OTOH, even the Ebay link was slashdotted for at least a half hour...
A Gateway "Essential" pc sits in my computer hospital - waiting on a power supply transplant - just a year old! This PIII 866 machine depends on a fan that can't possibly (by design) cool the components inside. A really stupid design all around, IMHO.
My client had no clue that the fan had failed, and my task was to clean off WinME (evil) and load 98se (less evil) because of the spurious errors occurring. That will have to wait until I can keep the little monster running long enough for an install...and a PCI NIC will have to be hacked to back it up over the network, won't fit in with the standard bracket.
BTW - Gateway has discontinued this line, I'm told - go figger! Whaddya bet too many returns?
it's nice to see the original posted story be corrected as to the spelling of Carpal instead of Carpel. I 'd have posted this sooner but have had to hit backspace so often because of this pain in my wrists....
I does seem that a search for things that I'm sure I recall that a friend told me that a friend was sure they saw... well, I just can't find it.
If anyone has any knowledge of any omissions (in attachments, especially) - Please reply to this thread. I have nothing but (how do you say - ) *historical* interest, of course...
That way - I can tell when a fan is failing well before the situation is critical - there's nothing like the noise from 3 or four boxen in close proximity, and to hear the HDs (two to four per box) as they recalibrate, seemingly from old age. Surround-Sound in a natural occurrence...
And the fans - (one to two per processor) complement this ambience with a critical indicator to health - ie: they usually start making a hell of a racket when starting to fail - along with the power supplies' fans. Time to start checking things out before your sense of smell takes over!
Adaptability seems to be valuable in the real world. My son was at the console of an Atari 600xl at age 3, PC clone at 8, and online scripting MUD games at 12.
The scripting/MUD had a twofold benefit: scripting == intro to programming, and interactive MUD == extreme typing skills.
He has quadrupled his starting pay rate since doing tech support/html coding at 18. He's now 20, and his current employer's appreciation for his skills and flexibility has been responsible for tripling of his starting rate with them in 1.5 years.
Your mileage may vary - this company is not *typical* corp-style with PHBs at every turn, rather a family owned bunch of ex-musicians. But my boy is MIS at LARGE midwestern ISP/Telco. Oh, did I mention he did that on a G.E.D?
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What is the big deal? I've been on to these supply cost gorging jerks for quite some time now...starting with the LaserJet II or so. Don't play the game, and they will have to redo the Biz Plan.
The point is, you are not crippled, except on a really hot day. Same goes for radio, electric seats, and this list could go on - but you get the gist of it.
The only argument against my point is that someone needs to understand dependencies - and the mechanically challenged might have to take the car into the shop to have these things performed. Big deal.
Bottom line: these blathering greedy idiots are slowly but surely sinking into the very *shit* they've been producing, and I (as a MCSE) am truly enjoying the irony; albeit humor! It's all good...
Still, this article's theme provokes some thoughts:
What will change in 2004 when it has to be renewed?
If I could read either stripe, would I find that the privacy statement was inaccurate?
After all, we've had a Republican governor here for way too many years.....
Both my girlfriend and I have been "fixed". Will it work for us?
And at the end of the Salon story: A South Dakota law merely requires employees of ISPs to report any child pornography to law-enforcement officials, while South Carolina has a law requiring the same of computer-repair technicians.
When someone's computer is on my bench, I'll be damned if I'd snoop around for anything - Who has time - what would I tell the client? "Sure I told you two hours - the extra time is for checking every file you have for porn, and then deciding how old the "models" are...."
But, instead, I got a job smuggling. Ahh, the choices. And, I should have gone to Harvard and met King Bill....no regrets.
About the bear and the prestige of MIT, don't be so hard on the story, posters. It "bears" some cleverness, but I could add that it does not "bear repeating".
Did I really say that?
As well as my favorite internet radio ...
I can admit I don't use Netmeeting (yet) but can easily see the overhead increasing. So, as the other post suggests that this be responded to rather than moderated, I agree, and am responding. Bravo. I have many clients using NAT and it works just fine.
The smarter thing to do rather than IPv6 would (in the interim) be to re-allocate some of the address blocks assigned to .gov and .edu, as well as .mil for that matter.
Hell, even re-allocate a chode of network 10, as well as 192.168.x.x - who really needs that large of a block in a "private" network? And, while you're at it, take back the 169.(whatever - the autoconfig thingy) that I keep having to flush out of Windoze boxes having brain farts.;-)
There was a short-sighted assignment in the infancy of the web, IMHO. We should strive to remedy that, and leave IPv6 to the more distant future, while still planning for it in a more practical way.
And for the moderator that gave the parent a Troll rating, shame, shame, shame! (That's -3 Karma....hehe)
This License/Patent bullshit is just crazy. Who's got the patent on radiators in frikkin' automobiles? Guess I could look it up, but I have a leak in mine, and need to fix it!
Damn Priorities.....
As a bonus,it tells me if my connection to VA is bad while my connection to CA is OK. The playlist comes from Paradise, CA, while the mp3 feed is from VA (shoutcast). Go figger.
Then M$ shoved DOS 4,5, and Windoze down our throats - under which FoxPro was (natively) worthless. I still have a shrinkwrapped copy of the M$ FoxWin runtime - anybody want to buy it cheap? (to be fair, DOS 6 was OK for the purpose.)
Still, I made a living, barely. I could not bring myself to overcharge clients for putting a stable version of whichever M$OS on their boxen, because I'm just that kind of guy. By now I'm stuck. So, I plod along being honest (sorry, [insert client name here] I'll give you a break on this, because it's really M$'s fault)...countless non-billable hours.
Then like a brainwashed moonie, I continue the saga: I get MCSE Certified, give up 45 clients when I go to work for a certain accounting firm's startup computer store here in the boonies for the MSCSP "prestige" (the "partners" were so greedy I spent a third of my time explaining the billing...and the rest repairing registries and replacing perfectly good Novell server installs with NT).
So - I quit. Now, here I sit reading Slashdot, licking my wounds, wishing that I'd learned a 'NIX OS and been out of the consumer OS loop all along (or maybe I should have stayed in the band...)
Ask Slashdot: Who knows a good pro-bono lawyer? (a portion of above rants courtesy of too many hours on /.)
*sigh*
This site has details, and appears to be sponsored by the same organization.
I must differ in the term "strangers" - although I did not even know of Kathleen, I have had the honor to be personally flamed by Rob in response to an email (I probably deserved it...).
We are a community, and that's a *good thing* - we may not all be best buds, but in our daily reading and posting here, we all know each other, IMHO.
Many Happy Returns, Kids!
After reading such interesting news we decided to test the Cactus Data Shield 200 protection and found out how effective is or not! - What does the indrustry state?
Whilst one does not even have to point out the comparative vs. temporal reasoning, the general public needs to be more aware of stupid shit like this to keep us on our toes grammatically.
I have a geek kid who can code circles around me, but when he says "alias" he pronounces it to make me think of the Big Boy Restaurant. Go figger. To his credit: He can remember "righty-tighty, lefty-loosy"
So I guess it would work for those who sit at the console...?
OTOH, even the Ebay link was slashdotted for at least a half hour...
My client had no clue that the fan had failed, and my task was to clean off WinME (evil) and load 98se (less evil) because of the spurious errors occurring. That will have to wait until I can keep the little monster running long enough for an install...and a PCI NIC will have to be hacked to back it up over the network, won't fit in with the standard bracket.
BTW - Gateway has discontinued this line, I'm told - go figger! Whaddya bet too many returns?
it's nice to see the original posted story be corrected as to the spelling of Carpal instead of Carpel. I 'd have posted this sooner but have had to hit backspace so often because of this pain in my wrists....
I does seem that a search for things that I'm sure I recall that a friend told me that a friend was sure they saw... well, I just can't find it.
If anyone has any knowledge of any omissions (in attachments, especially) - Please reply to this thread. I have nothing but (how do you say - ) *historical* interest, of course...
And the fans - (one to two per processor) complement this ambience with a critical indicator to health - ie: they usually start making a hell of a racket when starting to fail - along with the power supplies' fans. Time to start checking things out before your sense of smell takes over!
Of course, your mileage may vary.
The scripting/MUD had a twofold benefit: scripting == intro to programming, and interactive MUD == extreme typing skills.
He has quadrupled his starting pay rate since doing tech support/html coding at 18. He's now 20, and his current employer's appreciation for his skills and flexibility has been responsible for tripling of his starting rate with them in 1.5 years.
Your mileage may vary - this company is not *typical* corp-style with PHBs at every turn, rather a family owned bunch of ex-musicians. But my boy is MIS at LARGE midwestern ISP/Telco. Oh, did I mention he did that on a G.E.D?
Pity the sad soul who cashes his paycheck at the local EuroOneStop or whatever - only to find he can't use the bills...;-()
Ya Well - I'd pay a hundred for one that's solar-powered, or otherwise somewhat batteryless.