I did until I got laid off last week.:) And a few things justify it.. 1)My fiancee has a good job that is less than 5 miles away. 2)Her son goes to school less than 1 mile away. 3)My fiancee's cat is kind of old...
It would be very disruptive to move from where we are now. Traffic is just a way of life in the Bay Area. Public transportation is simply not an option.. it takes 3 hours each way. And yes, housing prices are WAY out of control in this area.. average home price is like $550,000. I think they're way inflated...
I can get from Walnut Creek to Mountain View via 680 & 242 in less than an hour. That's a 55 mile commute! Getting home is usually an hour to an hour and a half, depending on how many traffic catastrophes have occured on 680.:)
I thought they had an app that would let you start a compile (or something) on one machine, and if it got busy that machine would go to other Sun boxes on the network and say "Oi! Can I borrow some CPU time?" If the other boxes weren't too busy, they'd share the job.
Maybe this is what Xgrid is doing now, I didn't read the article too well.;)
I don't have anything besides the stock tape deck in my car, and radio in the SF Bay Area sucks.
So, before I leave, I fire up Winamp, queue up a ton of mp3s, click 'play' and drive off with the laptop sitting on the front seat, 3/4 closed. It's not a distraction, it's merely an audio device.
Just saunter up to the screening station almost butt naked. Last time I flew, I put *everything* in the plastic bucket and was wearing nothing but my Teva sandals, some sweatshorts, and a really cruddy wife-beater tank top. I looked like I was nearly homeless. They barely gave me a second look. Fortunately, I had packed *nice* clothes in my carry-on and changed as soon as I could.
" Was it the Amstrad PC1512? 5,25" disk drives, EGA-type graphics, AA size batteries under monitor for the real-time clock. Almost PC-compatible, but not quite. Ran GEM and had a fucking ugly mouse with a non-standard connector."
Yes, I do believe that it was it.. the mouse was f-ugly..
an 8088 made by "Amstrad" or some company that was doomed. See, when I was a kid, my parents insisted that everything you buy at Costco was an unbeatable deal. It was a choice between the Amstrad POS and the Apple IIgs. We ended up with the PC and regretted it from then on.
It had a non-Windows GUI ("Geoworks" or something like that) and was generally a slow, unresponsive, clunky, piece of crap.
I hated it. It's now sitting in my sister's garage, covered in dust.
An added bonus is that we haven't had to turn on the heater all winter and all of the blinking lights are great for when I want to get some water at 2am.;)
Get cabinets like mine - the easy part is getting the cabinets. The hard part is getting your significant other to agree to let them live in the living room.:)
Do notice that I have a few shelves on the relay rack. The ServerIron (switch) is a bit heavy in the back, so I have a book shoved between it and the Sparc 5 directly below it.:P The rack is also anchored to the wall.
That's where I used to work. 475 Ellis St. Now I work at NASA, literally down the street from the Netscape/AOL campus.
AOL took the "Netscape" logo OFF of the signs facing the street. The Netscape flag is gone. The parking lots are almost always empty and there are several "FOR LEASE" signs dotting the campus.
Meanwhile, the *old* Netscape building houses Verisign and the old Netscape fountain has the %$#@! Verisign logo on it.
I see someone else has mentioned that the chair of the PUC was on KGO, but he misquoted her - she said that "the company" has a *THREE* day lag - the poster said two. So, it's worse than people think.:D
The Media actually leaked that it was Siebel before I did.;)
I actually changed my service to metroPCS - unlimited airtime, $35/mo - and they're supposedly adding data services soon. It's been great for me so far.:D
A lot of the stuff that went on at corporate AT&T doesn't take place at AT&T Wireless - they are, in fact, totally seperate companies.
Oddly enough, when I worked at AT&T Wireless, we would do our best to *not* screw customers over. I would go out of my way to hook people up as best as I could - we were empowered to make "good company decisions" as customer care reps, and I took advantage of that. The reason I quit my job there? I got a job in IT again that paid more.
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They're going to wait for spammers to harvest the addresses and then call in air strikes on Alan Ralsky. :P
I did until I got laid off last week. :) And a few things justify it..
1)My fiancee has a good job that is less than 5 miles away.
2)Her son goes to school less than 1 mile away.
3)My fiancee's cat is kind of old...
It would be very disruptive to move from where we are now. Traffic is just a way of life in the Bay Area.
Public transportation is simply not an option.. it takes 3 hours each way.
And yes, housing prices are WAY out of control in this area.. average home price is like $550,000. I think they're way inflated...
I can get from Walnut Creek to Mountain View via 680 & 242 in less than an hour. That's a 55 mile commute! :)
Getting home is usually an hour to an hour and a half, depending on how many traffic catastrophes have occured on 680.
In lovely Utah.
:P
Might as well be dead, it already looks like a barren wasteland.
I thought they had an app that would let you start a compile (or something) on one machine, and if it got busy that machine would go to other Sun boxes on the network and say "Oi! Can I borrow some CPU time?" If the other boxes weren't too busy, they'd share the job.
;)
Maybe this is what Xgrid is doing now, I didn't read the article too well.
popup blocker in IE. Finally!
:D
It ASKS YOU before installing random crap in the background and at least notes that "Some software could be harmful"
Good. Step in the right direction.
I get that crap all the time, but it's correctly identified as spam. Spammers think that they're clever, but they're really just a bunch of dickheads.
:P
SpamAssassin 0wns j00 spammer punks.
I don't have anything besides the stock tape deck in my car, and radio in the SF Bay Area sucks.
So, before I leave, I fire up Winamp, queue up a ton of mp3s, click 'play' and drive off with the laptop sitting on the front seat, 3/4 closed. It's not a distraction, it's merely an audio device.
Guess I can't do *that* anymore. =/
Just saunter up to the screening station almost butt naked.
Last time I flew, I put *everything* in the plastic bucket and was wearing nothing but my Teva sandals, some sweatshorts, and a really cruddy wife-beater tank top. I looked like I was nearly homeless.
They barely gave me a second look. Fortunately, I had packed *nice* clothes in my carry-on and changed as soon as I could.
" Was it the Amstrad PC1512? 5,25" disk drives, EGA-type graphics, AA size batteries under monitor for the real-time clock. Almost PC-compatible, but not quite. Ran GEM and had a fucking ugly mouse with a non-standard connector."
Yes, I do believe that it was it.. the mouse was f-ugly..
an 8088 made by "Amstrad" or some company that was doomed. See, when I was a kid, my parents insisted that everything you buy at Costco was an unbeatable deal. It was a choice between the Amstrad POS and the Apple IIgs. We ended up with the PC and regretted it from then on.
It had a non-Windows GUI ("Geoworks" or something like that) and was generally a slow, unresponsive, clunky, piece of crap.
I hated it. It's now sitting in my sister's garage, covered in dust.
right here! - just in case the other 5 mirrors aren't good enough. :)
This guy/girl did something quite entertaining, even though it probably violates countless fire codes.
I wonder if it's still up..
Since there were so many %^$$@#! TV-ish commercials before our showing of LOTR:ROTK, it was kind of hard to distinguish. :P
I, for one, am sick of seeing commercials before movies. Especially 15 minutes worth.
They have - article came out shortly after the October 7th recall election in California.
I know of 3 people that have done just that and only one of them has a job, after a 6 month unpaid "internship"
Pharmacy jobs are also being outsourced to India/China! Quite simple to fill pill bottles in another country and ship the drugs via FedEx.
An added bonus is that we haven't had to turn on the heater all winter and all of the blinking lights are great for when I want to get some water at 2am. ;)
Wow. I did get screwed then.. they insisted that it was for new subscribers only.
Damn, retail stores suck. =/
Jack & the MPAA goons would either ban the pigeons or shoot them down in the name of "copyright protection" ;)
Get cabinets like mine - the easy part is getting the cabinets. The hard part is getting your significant other to agree to let them live in the living room. :)
:P
Do notice that I have a few shelves on the relay rack. The ServerIron (switch) is a bit heavy in the back, so I have a book shoved between it and the Sparc 5 directly below it.
The rack is also anchored to the wall.
Yeah, that's if you're a new subscriber. if not, the cost is a lot more.
And Best Buy never seems to have those units in stock. Hrm. I got mine at Circuit City.
That's where I used to work. 475 Ellis St. Now I work at NASA, literally down the street from the Netscape/AOL campus.
AOL took the "Netscape" logo OFF of the signs facing the street. The Netscape flag is gone. The parking lots are almost always empty and there are several "FOR LEASE" signs dotting the campus.
Meanwhile, the *old* Netscape building houses Verisign and the old Netscape fountain has the %$#@! Verisign logo on it.
It's really sad and depressing.
BAN deer hunting licenses. Issue spammer hunting licenses instead.
Tell everyone that there's no limit.
Tell everyone that the season just opened.
Spam will vanish in about a month.
Shoot the damn spammers
Ah, so I see :D
:D
I see someone else has mentioned that the chair of the PUC was on KGO, but he misquoted her - she said that "the company" has a *THREE* day lag - the poster said two. So, it's worse than people think.
The Media actually leaked that it was Siebel before I did. ;)
:D
I actually changed my service to metroPCS - unlimited airtime, $35/mo - and they're supposedly adding data services soon. It's been great for me so far.
A lot of the stuff that went on at corporate AT&T doesn't take place at AT&T Wireless - they are, in fact, totally seperate companies.
Oddly enough, when I worked at AT&T Wireless, we would do our best to *not* screw customers over. I would go out of my way to hook people up as best as I could - we were empowered to make "good company decisions" as customer care reps, and I took advantage of that.
The reason I quit my job there? I got a job in IT again that paid more.