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I know.. and I'm guessing you're like many of us that had no idea that it was going to be $30. I didn't see any mention of it anywhere.. until I went to the LWE website to register for the exhibits-only pass and noticed the price. It was only $10 before a certain date, but again, we all thought it would be free still. A letdown, for sure..I wish that I had checked the site before.
Setting up a hot dog cart/coffee shop/etc is by no means cheap. I'd love to be able to drop my job and set up a coffee shop.
I hardly feel sorry for anyone that got laid off from a $125,000/yr job anyway. Chances are he's got huge amounts of $$ sitting in the bank collecting interest while he has his relaxing job with his hot dog cart.
Interesting to see that the Slashdot booth went from the huge right-next-to-the-front-door booth with piles of beanbag chairs and the PT Cruiser to.. well, as Taco said, no booth at all.
I wonder if SGI will be there at all. They used to have cool booths. The free t-shirt count has dwindled too. Kind of sad to see Linux World Expo shrinking year after year.
There's one in Milpitas, not too far from where LWE *USED* to be.. in the Silicon Valley.
Why it's moved to SF, I have no idea. It looks lame when it fills up the small part of the Moscone Center while a psychology conference fills up the other half..
Great, the same people that let Microsoft get away with a monopoly are now going to go after people trading mp3s. I wonder if we should even worry quite yet.
My old art teacher ("Stelarc) in high school was doing this kind of stuff in the late 1970's. here is a photo of him with it. This arm would fully duplicate whatever one of his own arms was doing.
I've got one of these hooked up betwen my old ass G3/233 (with Mac OS X 10.1.5 and a combo USB/Firewire card, which works great) and my XP box. Plug commonly used devices into the extra ports on the front, like my Epson printer and my Handspring Visor, and it's good to go. I haven't had one single problem with the unit so far, and there was even a $20 rebate, so it was under $100 too.:-)
I have a T68 and I get people asking me "Hey, that's COOL! Where'd you get that phone? What else can it do?" all the time.
I wish Ericsson would pay *ME* for such encounters.:P
I don't think this would really create a "fake buzz" because the T68 really is a pretty cool phone. The accessories (like the camera or the mp3 player) are a bit pricey, though.
The power supply isn't proprietary. I cobbled together a G4/400 in a B&W G3 case a few years back from parts found around the building when I worked at Apple. The power supply was a plain old ATX unit.. nothing proprietary about it at all.
..at least there will be one less empty booth this year. *shrug* Don't tell me that it's getting "more refined" or anything. Fact is, the LinuxWorld Expo has become much smaller. Yet again, it's being filled with sales/marketing drones with the "Have your people talk to my people and we'll see how much money we can make with this Linux thing" types.
Years ago, it was fun and full of geeks. Nowadays? It's big money and marketing.
The Moscone center kind of sucks, too. Don't EVER eat at that "Jollibee" burger joint across the street. The organizers oughta move it to the Sacramento Convention Center.. not too far from SF, easy to get to, ample parking, and the fact that thousands of state IT geeks from dozens of government organizations would be coming over on their lunch breaks. Great chance to show off Linux to government agencies. The yearly Government Technology Conference expos are another way. Linux has absolutely NO presence at that expo. Past 5 years.. nothing at all. It wouldn't be that bad for SuSE or someone to rent a booth at an expo like that and show off what Open Source software can (and might already be doing) in a government environment.
Call 611 and ask to be removed from the text message list. It's really THAT simple. AT & T Wireless doesn't charge you to receive text messages, either. Simply call 611 or 1-800-888-7600 from a landline phone and ask that they remove you from the text message advertisement list.
They also use the text message list to inform customers of service outages that might affect them, service changes, etc. It's not only for "spam."
If the "higher ups" aren't fixing the issue, it's really easy for you to fix yourself.
First of all, it's "Sacramento." If you're going to talk about it, spell it right. Second off, I don't know where you're getting the idea that electricity is cheap in Sacramento. My SMUD bill (yes, I live here. I'm 2 blocks from the Capitol building.) is most certainly not cheap. Have you noticed all of the idiot protesters outside that vote DOWN power plants? How about the Sierra Club? The "NIMBY" folks? Deregulation has ceased to exist. It's over.
Also, there have been quite a few power plants built. In fact, SMUD has one on McClellan Air Force Base that just opened up about a year ago. Where the hell did you get the idea that not a single new power plant has been built?
Insulated from the state problems.. hardly. I walk downtown every single day and see our state problems right in front of me. The politicians walk around and see the same exact problems. Whether they do anything about it is another story.
"The New York Times on the Web has required registration since the site launched in January 1996. The Times has topped 10 million active registered users."
....6 million came from Slashdot articles and 2 million came from people that re-registered after blasting their stored passwords in Internet Explorer.
heh, believe it or not, the 61xx class machines are DNS servers running QuickDNS. Haven't had a single problem with either of them, they're fast (they both have Sonnet G3 cards in them) and they've been rock solid.
You're right. There's a G3 (AppleShare IP server) and a 7200 that used to be running NNTP software, but my upstream news server sucks, so now it just sits there.:)
Some of them are co-located, but others are web servers/etc... typical stuff.
Of course I read the article. I said they're making it a flat 256kbps across the board. People complained when they capped downstream at 1.5mbit, and I'm sure a few articles about the upstream were submitted but rejected.
Feel free to make a fuss. Capping bandwidth at 1.5mbit down/384kbps up certainly wouldn't hurt. It'd make it more attractive to current DSL users, that's for sure.
AT&T Broadband *increased* upstream transfer rates for many customers. They're making it a flat 256kbps across the board. Funny to see how the articles about bow AT&T Broadband is screwing people make big news, but when they increase the piddly upstream cap that people bitch about constantly, nobody seems to care.
What sucks is when an employer 1)won't do an ergonomic evaluation and/or says it's too expensive, ineffective based on their studies, or some other excuse and 2)won't let you bring in your own keyboard/mouse and make yourself comfortable.
Fortunately that hasn't happened to me, but I know some people that are in very uncomfortable situations. OSHA doesn't care. Bush struck down the law that made employers actually *do* stuff. It's a pain sometimes..no pun intended
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Anybody remember Paul, from the Diamond Center? He'll get you the best price and the best financing in town!
:-)
See? Nothing to worry about.
I know.. and I'm guessing you're like many of us that had no idea that it was going to be $30. I didn't see any mention of it anywhere.. until I went to the LWE website to register for the exhibits-only pass and noticed the price. It was only $10 before a certain date, but again, we all thought it would be free still.
A letdown, for sure..I wish that I had checked the site before.
Setting up a hot dog cart/coffee shop/etc is by no means cheap. I'd love to be able to drop my job and set up a coffee shop.
I hardly feel sorry for anyone that got laid off from a $125,000/yr job anyway. Chances are he's got huge amounts of $$ sitting in the bank collecting interest while he has his relaxing job with his hot dog cart.
Oh, the agony he must be going through. *snort*
Interesting to see that the Slashdot booth went from the huge right-next-to-the-front-door booth with piles of beanbag chairs and the PT Cruiser to.. well, as Taco said, no booth at all.
I wonder if SGI will be there at all. They used to have cool booths.
The free t-shirt count has dwindled too. Kind of sad to see Linux World Expo shrinking year after year.
There's one in Milpitas, not too far from where LWE *USED* to be.. in the Silicon Valley.
Why it's moved to SF, I have no idea. It looks lame when it fills up the small part of the Moscone Center while a psychology conference fills up the other half..
Great, the same people that let Microsoft get away with a monopoly are now going to go after people trading mp3s. I wonder if we should even worry quite yet.
My old art teacher ("Stelarc) in high school was doing this kind of stuff in the late 1970's. here is a photo of him with it. This arm would fully duplicate whatever one of his own arms was doing.
Yes, that might be true, but only in Japan can you find a THREE LITRE JUG OF BEER in a *vending machine* :P
Gah, I vaguely remember many nights that started out with those..
I've got one of these hooked up betwen my old ass G3/233 (with Mac OS X 10.1.5 and a combo USB/Firewire card, which works great) and my XP box. Plug commonly used devices into the extra ports on the front, like my Epson printer and my Handspring Visor, and it's good to go. I haven't had one single problem with the unit so far, and there was even a $20 rebate, so it was under $100 too. :-)
I have a T68 and I get people asking me "Hey, that's COOL! Where'd you get that phone? What else can it do?" all the time.
:P
I wish Ericsson would pay *ME* for such encounters.
I don't think this would really create a "fake buzz" because the T68 really is a pretty cool phone. The accessories (like the camera or the mp3 player) are a bit pricey, though.
We could just block Korea & China and reduce spam by 80% :P
"An off switch! They'll get *years* for that.."
-Max Headroom episode.. mid 80's..
The power supply isn't proprietary. I cobbled together a G4/400 in a B&W G3 case a few years back from parts found around the building when I worked at Apple. The power supply was a plain old ATX unit.. nothing proprietary about it at all.
Years ago, it was fun and full of geeks. Nowadays? It's big money and marketing.
The Moscone center kind of sucks, too. Don't EVER eat at that "Jollibee" burger joint across the street. The organizers oughta move it to the Sacramento Convention Center.. not too far from SF, easy to get to, ample parking, and the fact that thousands of state IT geeks from dozens of government organizations would be coming over on their lunch breaks. Great chance to show off Linux to government agencies. The yearly Government Technology Conference expos are another way. Linux has absolutely NO presence at that expo. Past 5 years.. nothing at all. It wouldn't be that bad for SuSE or someone to rent a booth at an expo like that and show off what Open Source software can (and might already be doing) in a government environment.
Call 611 and ask to be removed from the text message list. It's really THAT simple. AT & T Wireless doesn't charge you to receive text messages, either. Simply call 611 or 1-800-888-7600 from a landline phone and ask that they remove you from the text message advertisement list.
They also use the text message list to inform customers of service outages that might affect them, service changes, etc. It's not only for "spam."
If the "higher ups" aren't fixing the issue, it's really easy for you to fix yourself.
First of all, it's "Sacramento." If you're going to talk about it, spell it right. Second off, I don't know where you're getting the idea that electricity is cheap in Sacramento. My SMUD bill (yes, I live here. I'm 2 blocks from the Capitol building.) is most certainly not cheap. Have you noticed all of the idiot protesters outside that vote DOWN power plants? How about the Sierra Club? The "NIMBY" folks? Deregulation has ceased to exist. It's over.
Also, there have been quite a few power plants built. In fact, SMUD has one on McClellan Air Force Base that just opened up about a year ago. Where the hell did you get the idea that not a single new power plant has been built?
Insulated from the state problems.. hardly. I walk downtown every single day and see our state problems right in front of me. The politicians walk around and see the same exact problems. Whether they do anything about it is another story.
"The New York Times on the Web has required registration since the site launched in January 1996. The Times has topped 10 million active registered users."
....6 million came from Slashdot articles and 2 million came from people that re-registered after blasting their stored passwords in Internet Explorer.
You probably have more closet space than I. My apartment seriously lacks storage space. ;)
;)
cable MISmanagement is more fun.
heh, believe it or not, the 61xx class machines are DNS servers running QuickDNS. Haven't had a single problem with either of them, they're fast (they both have Sonnet G3 cards in them) and they've been rock solid.
:)
You're right. There's a G3 (AppleShare IP server) and a 7200 that used to be running NNTP software, but my upstream news server sucks, so now it just sits there.
Some of them are co-located, but others are web servers/etc... typical stuff.
You filled up a closet? My girlfriend filled them all with shoes. I put the computers in the living room instead. :-)
It's a bit loud, but we got used to it..
How could the /. crowd forget bbs.ufies.org? :-)
Of course I read the article. I said they're making it a flat 256kbps across the board. People complained when they capped downstream at 1.5mbit, and I'm sure a few articles about the upstream were submitted but rejected.
Feel free to make a fuss. Capping bandwidth at 1.5mbit down/384kbps up certainly wouldn't hurt. It'd make it more attractive to current DSL users, that's for sure.
AT&T Broadband *increased* upstream transfer rates for many customers. They're making it a flat 256kbps across the board. Funny to see how the articles about bow AT&T Broadband is screwing people make big news, but when they increase the piddly upstream cap that people bitch about constantly, nobody seems to care.
Article here
What sucks is when an employer 1)won't do an ergonomic evaluation and/or says it's too expensive, ineffective based on their studies, or some other excuse and 2)won't let you bring in your own keyboard/mouse and make yourself comfortable.
Fortunately that hasn't happened to me, but I know some people that are in very uncomfortable situations.
OSHA doesn't care. Bush struck down the law that made employers actually *do* stuff. It's a pain sometimes..no pun intended
She's the one that played "Wild Night" with John Cougar Mellencamp (or whatever HE is called these days) several years ago.
Decent bass player, she is.