Never, ever, switch to a Fedora release until it has been out for at least 6 weeks.
I consider Fedora to be (at best) beta-test RHEL. I've been using it for years, and I can tell you, it *always* sucks at release. Always. Give it a month or two for the worst bugs to get addressed, then install it.
Despite its warts, I'll take Fedora 18 for $0 over Windows 8 any day.
2nd happiest: the day they get it installed. happiest: the day they get real cable.
I had uverse service for 10 days -- 9 days too long. Utter crap. The TV would not stay working, and when it did, the dolby digital would spuriously drop out. Internet? Even worse. crazy amounts of jitter -- when it worked -- which was not that often.
AT&T was unwilling to reconnect my 6 MB conventional DSL after this fiasco, so I advised them to go fuck themselves and took their wire off my house and buried it in the yard.
Comcast is expensive, expensive, but their customer service made AT&T's look bad (which is pretty remarkable.) I get 20+ MB/sec download speeds from them, regardless of how much TV is being watched.
That lady was from the People's Democratic Republic of Massachusetts, where the sales tax is 6.25%, that's a cool $1,000 of her $16,000.
That particular mall has an odd shape, one of the buildings has a missing corner, rather than square. The missing corner would have been in Mass., making purchases there liable for Mass sales tax. Look on Google Maps, it says it is the JC Penney Home Furnishings store.
I think this lady was in NH to dodge Mass sales tax, and probably buying up iphones to gray-market. I also think she knew that she was persona non grata in that store, and knew they asked her to leave, and pushed her luck way too far.
relying on ssl is not a good idea at all. All it takes is a man-in-the-middle attack with a fake cert and game over. Apparently the Iranians have done this to spy on people using gmail.
Any serious exec is going to use a throw-away laptop for travelling to China. A $400 special will keep you online abroad, and then it can be destroyed as a business expense. Cheap insurance against hacking.
What comes around, goes around. Or perhaps "as you sow, so shall you reap."
The problem for Apple is that Samsung's patents actually matter. If they get a reasonable jury (e.g. not in Apple's back yard with a highly biased foreman) there is a good chance that they should prevail. Apple used Samsung's tech without a license, then made the mistake to sue Samsung as a proxy for Google.
The same is true for Motorola's H.264 and 802.11 patents. Apple used the patented technology without a license, and they are going to end up paying.
If you can program your way out of a wet paper bag, you can get a job in this economy.
I was recently part of a team seeking a capable Java GWT programmer. We interviewed over 20 candidates. Many "Java Programmers" did not know word one about OOP -- it was frightening. Even more frightening was hearing the same lament from friends working for other companies -- one reported that only 5% of candidates could pass his company's Java OOP test that "was so easy it would make you cry."
I'd look at your resume, your skills, and your attitude. At least one is lacking.
While you are seeking work, learn something new. Write an Android app. Learn a new language or technology. Give your self something interesting and current to discuss when you get interviewed.
And yeah, A+ is a complete waste of time and money for you. Unless you want to work on the help desk.
Do this subversively, and get Bob to realize the benefit. Make him the biggest champion for the change!
How? Use the collaborative features of Google Docs, like allowing multiple people to simultaneously edit a spreadsheet. I expect his web-based system cannot do that, and after he uses it for a while, he may actually start to like it.
This is the beginning of the end for sales-tax evading commerce of all kinds, e-commerce, telephone ordering, and order by mail. It is the beginning of the end for the small and mid size non-store commerce businesses.
As every state, county, and other municipalities pile on to demanding these non-store merchants collect their sales taxes, the merchants are going to be faced with a very difficult task: keeping track of the tax rate where the purchase is delivered, and then remitting those funds to the appropriate government agency. Consider a city dwelling consumer, who is liable for city, county, and state sales taxes. The merchant must know how much to collect from each customer based on the delivery address, and will need to maintain separate accounting for every district that they must remit the collected taxes to.
This is going to be very expensive, and guess who pays? Mr. Customer. It will also be very damaging to small and medium size non-store retailers, who will not be able to afford the systems to administer collecting for tens of thousands of different tax regions.
There needs to be a better solution, one that can scale, one that is acceptable to both the merchants and the tax-collecting government.
The Art of Electronics is an approachable introduction to electronics, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's expensive, but IMHO worth it.
The ARRL Handbook has a soup-to-nuts electronics education in it, and the added bonus of a lot of other practical information and projects. This book has the added bonus of possibly inspiring your friend to become a radio amateur, where you get to tinker with all kinds of interesting stuff. I know a couple mechanics who greatly enjoy their amateur radio hobby.
DirecTV's one-way service was very interesting and high-tech in 1995.
However, "broadband" Internet penetration has rendered this technology obsolete except in remote, rural areas.
Comcast knows this, which is why they have invested heavily in Hulu. (The new) AT&T also knows this, which is why their UVerse service is another IPTV implementation)
Like many other posters have written, why pay so much for satellite or cable TV, when you can pay a lot less to (legally) stream, to watch what you want, when you want it?
Apparently all he did was put up a web site that had a collections of links to pirated content apparently owned by American companies.
This is quite a bit different than actually hosting the content.
IANAL, but I don't believe the copyright infringement claims will be proven, and I doubt O'Dwyer will be convicted.
I think this is being done as a strategic prosecution, the DOJ will not prevail; but O'Dwyer will be forced into an expensive and life-changing defense to make an example of him, which is wrong.
I also think he will be extradited to the US, there's a small matter of international treaty involved here.
Concerned Americans would be better served by protesting the prosecution of O'Dwyer rather than the extradition.
The evidence indicates that our elected officials on D.C. are not capable of dealing with much at all. The evidence indicates they are mostly interested in political grandstanding (ala facebook passwords) and getting re-elected.
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on your car, you have "brakes". if the brakes break, then you have big problems.
Kindly consult the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Duuuh.
Never, ever, switch to a Fedora release until it has been out for at least 6 weeks.
I consider Fedora to be (at best) beta-test RHEL. I've been using it for years, and I can tell you, it *always* sucks at release. Always. Give it a month or two for the worst bugs to get addressed, then install it.
Despite its warts, I'll take Fedora 18 for $0 over Windows 8 any day.
The two happiest days of a uverse user:
2nd happiest: the day they get it installed.
happiest: the day they get real cable.
I had uverse service for 10 days -- 9 days too long. Utter crap. The TV would not stay working, and when it did, the dolby digital would spuriously drop out. Internet? Even worse. crazy amounts of jitter -- when it worked -- which was not that often.
AT&T was unwilling to reconnect my 6 MB conventional DSL after this fiasco, so I advised them to go fuck themselves and took their wire off my house and buried it in the yard.
Comcast is expensive, expensive, but their customer service made AT&T's look bad (which is pretty remarkable.) I get 20+ MB/sec download speeds from them, regardless of how much TV is being watched.
Never again.
That lady was from the People's Democratic Republic of Massachusetts, where the sales tax is 6.25%, that's a cool $1,000 of her $16,000.
That particular mall has an odd shape, one of the buildings has a missing corner, rather than square. The missing corner would have been in Mass., making purchases there liable for Mass sales tax. Look on Google Maps, it says it is the JC Penney Home Furnishings store.
I think this lady was in NH to dodge Mass sales tax, and probably buying up iphones to gray-market. I also think she knew that she was persona non grata in that store, and knew they asked her to leave, and pushed her luck way too far.
OTOH, those cops are pansies. Taser? Girly-men.
I'd say meet the new boss, same as the old boss, except it is the same damned boss.
So much for the Democrats protecting our civil liberties. More like Obama using the Constitution like a roll of Charmin.
This is an interesting article: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/computer_securi_2.html and highly relevant to this discussion... Read the linked article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html?_r=0 ) and all the comments.
relying on ssl is not a good idea at all. All it takes is a man-in-the-middle attack with a fake cert and game over. Apparently the Iranians have done this to spy on people using gmail.
Any serious exec is going to use a throw-away laptop for travelling to China. A $400 special will keep you online abroad, and then it can be destroyed as a business expense. Cheap insurance against hacking.
RFIDs don't react well to the microwave oven. I'm just sayin'.
What comes around, goes around. Or perhaps "as you sow, so shall you reap."
The problem for Apple is that Samsung's patents actually matter. If they get a reasonable jury (e.g. not in Apple's back yard with a highly biased foreman) there is a good chance that they should prevail. Apple used Samsung's tech without a license, then made the mistake to sue Samsung as a proxy for Google.
The same is true for Motorola's H.264 and 802.11 patents. Apple used the patented technology without a license, and they are going to end up paying.
I'm calling bullshit on this.
If you can program your way out of a wet paper bag, you can get a job in this economy.
I was recently part of a team seeking a capable Java GWT programmer. We interviewed over 20 candidates. Many "Java Programmers" did not know word one about OOP -- it was frightening. Even more frightening was hearing the same lament from friends working for other companies -- one reported that only 5% of candidates could pass his company's Java OOP test that "was so easy it would make you cry."
I'd look at your resume, your skills, and your attitude. At least one is lacking.
While you are seeking work, learn something new. Write an Android app. Learn a new language or technology. Give your self something interesting and current to discuss when you get interviewed.
And yeah, A+ is a complete waste of time and money for you. Unless you want to work on the help desk.
It's crossing a line to ask a candidate how old they are. Get a better lawyer.
Do this subversively, and get Bob to realize the benefit. Make him the biggest champion for the change!
How? Use the collaborative features of Google Docs, like allowing multiple people to simultaneously edit a spreadsheet. I expect his web-based system cannot do that, and after he uses it for a while, he may actually start to like it.
It's been nothing but downhill since iTunes 4. Every update since has progressively sucked more.
When my iPod dies, I'm looking elsewhere for a music player. The hardware is good, but using iTunes is now a miserable experience. Blechhh.
This is the beginning of the end for sales-tax evading commerce of all kinds, e-commerce, telephone ordering, and order by mail. It is the beginning of the end for the small and mid size non-store commerce businesses.
As every state, county, and other municipalities pile on to demanding these non-store merchants collect their sales taxes, the merchants are going to be faced with a very difficult task: keeping track of the tax rate where the purchase is delivered, and then remitting those funds to the appropriate government agency. Consider a city dwelling consumer, who is liable for city, county, and state sales taxes. The merchant must know how much to collect from each customer based on the delivery address, and will need to maintain separate accounting for every district that they must remit the collected taxes to.
This is going to be very expensive, and guess who pays? Mr. Customer. It will also be very damaging to small and medium size non-store retailers, who will not be able to afford the systems to administer collecting for tens of thousands of different tax regions.
There needs to be a better solution, one that can scale, one that is acceptable to both the merchants and the tax-collecting government.
They are so getting sued by Apple...
They can't call it air* or *pod. Oh no.
"One Billyon Dollars"
There are two kinds of riches.
One is the big house, the fancy new car, all the toys.
The other is time with your family, friends, time for yourself.
I've worked the crazy hours, made a ton of money, and I'd go home and I did not know the people there -- my wife and daughter.
Decide what you want. Make trade-offs for work/life balance.
You can get another job pretty easily. You cannot get new family or friends so easily.
Are 12 to 16 hour work days productive? Yes, if you only care about the money.
who gives a shit about Klout except Klout?
This is plain an simple marketing, and it is below the former editorial standards of Slashdot.
Boo! Hiss!
+1 for both books.
The Art of Electronics is an approachable introduction to electronics, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's expensive, but IMHO worth it.
The ARRL Handbook has a soup-to-nuts electronics education in it, and the added bonus of a lot of other practical information and projects. This book has the added bonus of possibly inspiring your friend to become a radio amateur, where you get to tinker with all kinds of interesting stuff. I know a couple mechanics who greatly enjoy their amateur radio hobby.
Oh really?
Ever hear of NBC Universal?
Broadcasting is dying, especially TV broadcasting
DirecTV's one-way service was very interesting and high-tech in 1995.
However, "broadband" Internet penetration has rendered this technology obsolete except in remote, rural areas.
Comcast knows this, which is why they have invested heavily in Hulu. (The new) AT&T also knows this, which is why their UVerse service is another IPTV implementation)
Like many other posters have written, why pay so much for satellite or cable TV, when you can pay a lot less to (legally) stream, to watch what you want, when you want it?
Apparently all he did was put up a web site that had a collections of links to pirated content apparently owned by American companies.
This is quite a bit different than actually hosting the content.
IANAL, but I don't believe the copyright infringement claims will be proven, and I doubt O'Dwyer will be convicted.
I think this is being done as a strategic prosecution, the DOJ will not prevail; but O'Dwyer will be forced into an expensive and life-changing defense to make an example of him, which is wrong.
I also think he will be extradited to the US, there's a small matter of international treaty involved here.
Concerned Americans would be better served by protesting the prosecution of O'Dwyer rather than the extradition.
The evidence indicates that our elected officials on D.C. are not capable of dealing with much at all. The evidence indicates they are mostly interested in political grandstanding (ala facebook passwords) and getting re-elected.
Maybe you've forgotten about this:
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