Why not blockbuster? Cause they dont have the following: Seasons 1 & 2 of Farscape, Bublegum Crissis Tokyo, Spirited Away, Star Trek Series, Buffy Series, Cowboy Bebop Series, Stargate Series, etc.
Sure blockbuster has the currently popular trash, but netflix has more hard to find sci-fi/anime videos.
You know you're a geek if your home network has two or more computers on it whose only connection is an ethernet cord. Unless you are running Power over Ethernet (not likley on a real computers system), this simply means you have some paperweights with a network connection, and no power source. (I know what you meant, but as a geek you should apreciate attention to detail.)
Exactly. It is portable, battery or generator powered, can tie into the standard phone system (using a repeater with the required capability), connect to a packet data service (with a laptop or desktop). It can even reach cost to cost if you do it right.
I think the only way the pope loses his job is if his boss calles him to the main office (ie he dies). But this is also a time when the users account should be deactivated. Dead popes don't log in. And if they try to, backtrack it, because I am betting that it is not a mirracle.
Dell does this (at least they do on the inspiron 8200 I have). And you can specify in the bios which drive to boot from. So buy a 40 gig laptop drive and a drive sled from them and just plug it into the extra bay. If you are going to do this though, you will probably want to get a combo cd-rw/dvd drive in the fixed slot since you won't be able to use the swapable slot if you have your root drive in it.
This is exactly what they need. No special characters, just plain ASCII test, that when viewed in a standard browser shows up as formated the way it was in word. The original post will need to find some way of converting the documents other than word though because word uses strange CSS extentions and proprietary fonts etc.
Because recording voicemail to caset is hard. Archiveing voicemail is easy. Believe me, I would record the voicemail if I could, but it is just not practical.
p.s. the reason nothing is capitalized here is that slashdot does not like postings that contain a large number of capitalized letters. quote: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
On my list of really bad ideas, it's right up there with reducing SPAM by blocking all mail from Korea and China.
If I don't want to receive email from those countries, then I block them. Which I've done on several on my accounts. I wouldn't implement it on a mailserver-wide though. Why would _I_ want to receive any mail from Korea or China? If people I know there want to send me email, they may ask me to give them a shellaccount on one of my machines, which they can send their mail from.
um.. I agree about blocking, but if you've blocked their email's they can't exactly email you and ask for a shell account now can they?:)
As a question how would you recomend someone contacting you. I don't usualy give out my phone or address, likewise I sure don't give out my fax. Any ideas?
This is entirely false. The computers and disk space are owned by the company, so they have the right to control what is on them, but they do not necessarily own the contents of the messages.
True.
The contents of the messages are property and copyright their respective authors or business if they were written in a business capacity. Tranfer of ownership requires compensation and contract.
First: regardless of what the message contains, or who or why it was writen, as long as it was writen on a company computer, sent over a company network, and/or sent via company emial, the company has a right to do the following: 1) view the message 2) save the message 3) archive the message 4) redistribute the message (i.e. asking the corp. lawyers to review the contets for breach of contract, or bringing the contents to the attention of law enforcment) 5) publish (i.e. put it up as an example of what not to do through company mail.) 6) edit (clearly they would have to say that they edited it, but for example 5 they might want to take out the names and dates or classified company data.) 7) claim ownership. (This is slightly "ify", but many companies claim ownership of everything that you create while you work for them, others only claim ownership of things created during work hours or on company equiptment. Ether one applies here.)
Now in this instance it was the CEO who asked, so there was a certian amount of authority there. If it had been VP of HR, or even VP of the Tech Dept I would say they did not have the authority. But, the CEO is charged with running the company and to a certian extent his word within the company is law, sort of like an old fashioned king. I would have required that the CEO give me a writen request as the CEO to remove the email, I would have attached a copy of the email (printed out) to the signed document, and then I would have deleted the document. Issue resolved, and my tail is covered.
The dell inspiron's power brick is rated at 90W. (Source: Bottom of power brick). Not 200W, but if we plan for the future I can see how it could happen.
Thanks for the reference, I have never seen Marathon Man, but I will add it to my to watch list.
I have also noted that you and I can't be alone. I see dental picks and wax molding equiptment (it can be hard to tell which is which sometimes) at army surplus, and event the acp swapmeet in orange county sometimes. If they are selling them, there must be a market.
YES! I am not the only one who finds these usefull. I get some strange looks when I pull them out to fix a problem. Event the local geeks think it is a little odd.
Not sure about formal studies but in general I have found that debian when installed with apt-cron and pointing the sources.list to an internal machine with custom packages. That way there is no difference between updateing 1 client and 100 clients.
As a couple of people here pointed out make sure you get these guarantees: 1. You should get to pick the training and the method. This makes sure that you don't have to take classes from the mangers cousin.
2. You should also make sure that you could spend some of the 50K on computers/books/network equipment to use in experimentation / learning / self-training (at your home/work/whatever). And you should own outright any equipment you buy with the funds.
3. Make sure that you can spend that money on travel to get to the training. It's great that they provide 50k for training but if all the classes you want are on the other coast you could end up spending 25k just to get your training. Also there should be not limit on the cost of hotel, otherwise you may end up still forking out a lot of your money to get a decent hotel.
4. The debt should be pro rated on a daily/monthly basis. (i.e. after 1 year you only owe 2/3 of the amount you spent)
5. This should clearly not be a loan to you, it should be a training budget. It should be considered sort of like an expense account, but for training.
6. It should be clearly stated that there will be no interest, adjustment for inflation, or other form of upward movement in the total amount that you owe them.
7. If they fire you / lay you off / downsize you, you owe them nothing (and it should be explicitly stated that the training package should not, in any way influence your severance package).
8. If they cut your salary, you own them nothing.
9. If they require you to move to a new office / location to remain employed, you owe them nothing.
10. If they require you to change positions (go from programmer to manager, or programmer to janitor), you owe them nothing. Note the only problem here is if you want to get promoted.
11. If they cause a significant change in your job description (i.e. you go from working 40 hours per week to working 60 hours per week, or if you suddenly become the only Sys Admin who's main tasks are scrubbing toilets, emptying trash cans, and moping floors), you owe them nothing.
12. If they get acquired by another company, you owe them nothing.
13. If they go bankrupt, you owe them nothing (and they forgive your dept).
14. If your union causes you to go on strike it should not affect your training or payment schedule (if you strike for 25 days then 25 days get added to the end date of the training plan).
15. If you separate from the company due to injury (regardless of if it was work related or not), you owe them nothing.
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I to can hear these little boxes. Fortunately I do not suffer from pain when I am near them; rather I hear them as an annoying high-pitched whine.
Oh, and yes I am a homo-sapient.
Why not blockbuster? Cause they dont have the following:
Seasons 1 & 2 of Farscape,
Bublegum Crissis Tokyo,
Spirited Away,
Star Trek Series,
Buffy Series,
Cowboy Bebop Series,
Stargate Series,
etc.
Sure blockbuster has the currently popular trash, but netflix has more hard to find sci-fi/anime videos.
You know you're a geek if your home network has two or more computers on it whose only connection is an ethernet cord.
Unless you are running Power over Ethernet (not likley on a real computers system), this simply means you have some paperweights with a network connection, and no power source.
(I know what you meant, but as a geek you should apreciate attention to detail.)
Exactly. It is portable, battery or generator powered, can tie into the standard phone system (using a repeater with the required capability), connect to a packet data service (with a laptop or desktop). It can even reach cost to cost if you do it right.
Property taxes that is.
Except where the government can raise the taxes to surpase any hope of you being able to pay them.
Thanks for pointing this out. I always thought that being the pope was for life. I will now do more research to correct this error in my knowledge.
I think the only way the pope loses his job is if his boss calles him to the main office (ie he dies).
But this is also a time when the users account should be deactivated. Dead popes don't log in. And if they try to, backtrack it, because I am betting that it is not a mirracle.
Dell does this (at least they do on the inspiron 8200 I have). And you can specify in the bios which drive to boot from. So buy a 40 gig laptop drive and a drive sled from them and just plug it into the extra bay. If you are going to do this though, you will probably want to get a combo cd-rw/dvd drive in the fixed slot since you won't be able to use the swapable slot if you have your root drive in it.
This is exactly what they need. No special characters, just plain ASCII test, that when viewed in a standard browser shows up as formated the way it was in word. The original post will need to find some way of converting the documents other than word though because word uses strange CSS extentions and proprietary fonts etc.
Because recording voicemail to caset is hard. Archiveing voicemail is easy. Believe me, I would record the voicemail if I could, but it is just not practical.
Where can I subscribe? I could use a good laugh.
www != irc.
internet = irc + www + ftp + ssh + telnet + etc...
p.s. the reason nothing is capitalized here is that slashdot does not like postings that contain a large number of capitalized letters. quote:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
On my list of really bad ideas, it's right up there with reducing SPAM by blocking all mail from Korea and China.
If I don't want to receive email from those countries, then I block them. Which I've done on several on my accounts. I wouldn't implement it on a mailserver-wide though. Why would _I_ want to receive any mail from Korea or China? If people I know there want to send me email, they may ask me to give them a shellaccount on one of my machines, which they can send their mail from.
um.. I agree about blocking, but if you've blocked their email's they can't exactly email you and ask for a shell account now can they?
As a question how would you recomend someone contacting you. I don't usualy give out my phone or address, likewise I sure don't give out my fax. Any ideas?
This is entirely false. The computers and disk space are owned by the company, so they have the right to control what is on them, but they do not necessarily own the contents of the messages.
True.
The contents of the messages are property and copyright their respective authors or business if they were written in a business capacity. Tranfer of ownership requires compensation and contract.
First: regardless of what the message contains, or who or why it was writen, as long as it was writen on a company computer, sent over a company network, and/or sent via company emial, the company has a right to do the following:
1) view the message
2) save the message
3) archive the message
4) redistribute the message (i.e. asking the corp. lawyers to review the contets for breach of contract, or bringing the contents to the attention of law enforcment)
5) publish (i.e. put it up as an example of what not to do through company mail.)
6) edit (clearly they would have to say that they edited it, but for example 5 they might want to take out the names and dates or classified company data.)
7) claim ownership. (This is slightly "ify", but many companies claim ownership of everything that you create while you work for them, others only claim ownership of things created during work hours or on company equiptment. Ether one applies here.)
Now in this instance it was the CEO who asked, so there was a certian amount of authority there. If it had been VP of HR, or even VP of the Tech Dept I would say they did not have the authority. But, the CEO is charged with running the company and to a certian extent his word within the company is law, sort of like an old fashioned king. I would have required that the CEO give me a writen request as the CEO to remove the email, I would have attached a copy of the email (printed out) to the signed document, and then I would have deleted the document. Issue resolved, and my tail is covered.
The dell inspiron's power brick is rated at 90W. (Source: Bottom of power brick).
Not 200W, but if we plan for the future I can see how it could happen.
OK, sounds good. how do we get a copy?
Thanks for the reference, I have never seen Marathon Man, but I will add it to my to watch list.
I have also noted that you and I can't be alone. I see dental picks and wax molding equiptment (it can be hard to tell which is which sometimes) at army surplus, and event the acp swapmeet in orange county sometimes. If they are selling them, there must be a market.
YES! I am not the only one who finds these usefull. I get some strange looks when I pull them out to fix a problem. Event the local geeks think it is a little odd.
Not sure about formal studies but in general I have found that debian when installed with apt-cron and pointing the sources.list to an internal machine with custom packages. That way there is no difference between updateing 1 client and 100 clients.
Has anyone got a mirror up and running yet?
If not send me the file and I will be willing to mirror it (up to the bandwith cap on my ftp account).
Please provide links to a sign up location for the listed mailing list. some are obvious( i.e bugtraq) but some like nanog are not.
Where do you get a reconditioned PowerBook?
I have been considering doing the same thing for the same reason.
Who offered the mail order classes? Where they any good?
As a couple of people here pointed out make sure you get these guarantees:
1. You should get to pick the training and the method. This makes sure that you don't have to take classes from the mangers cousin.
2. You should also make sure that you could spend some of the 50K on computers/books/network equipment to use in experimentation / learning / self-training (at your home/work/whatever). And you should own outright any equipment you buy with the funds.
3. Make sure that you can spend that money on travel to get to the training. It's great that they provide 50k for training but if all the classes you want are on the other coast you could end up spending 25k just to get your training. Also there should be not limit on the cost of hotel, otherwise you may end up still forking out a lot of your money to get a decent hotel.
4. The debt should be pro rated on a daily/monthly basis. (i.e. after 1 year you only owe 2/3 of the amount you spent)
5. This should clearly not be a loan to you, it should be a training budget. It should be considered sort of like an expense account, but for training.
6. It should be clearly stated that there will be no interest, adjustment for inflation, or other form of upward movement in the total amount that you owe them.
7. If they fire you / lay you off / downsize you, you owe them nothing (and it should be explicitly stated that the training package should not, in any way influence your severance package).
8. If they cut your salary, you own them nothing.
9. If they require you to move to a new office / location to remain employed, you owe them nothing.
10. If they require you to change positions (go from programmer to manager, or programmer to janitor), you owe them nothing. Note the only problem here is if you want to get promoted.
11. If they cause a significant change in your job description (i.e. you go from working 40 hours per week to working 60 hours per week, or if you suddenly become the only Sys Admin who's main tasks are scrubbing toilets, emptying trash cans, and moping floors), you owe them nothing.
12. If they get acquired by another company, you owe them nothing.
13. If they go bankrupt, you owe them nothing (and they forgive your dept).
14. If your union causes you to go on strike it should not affect your training or payment schedule (if you strike for 25 days then 25 days get added to the end date of the training plan).
15. If you separate from the company due to injury (regardless of if it was work related or not), you owe them nothing.