It means your employer withheld too much of your pay. So your employer and the government got to keep it, gaining interest on it, until you file your taxes and get the check for ONLY the amount they owe you - they keep the interest.
It's best to have no refund, because it means that you got the money when you earned it, not several months later.
You must be new here - there've been dupes of articles that were still on the front page. The whining of Slashdotters when that happens is something to behold...
The "faulty hard disc" has been working fine ever since, several years later. There was something messed up in the FAT32 partition for that sector (go figure - a file error on a FAT32 partition...), I guess, and I couldn't get any Windows utility (chkdsk or whatever it is), command line or GUI, to correct the problem. After I formatted the partition it worked fine, and the drive is still running just fine. I thought I'd save myself some time by formatting it to NTFS but that's where Windows installer demanded FAT32. I don't know why.
No, but all the old meetings will be wrong! They installed the patch on our XP Pro machines at work the other day, and all of our meetings for those three weeks are now one hour later in our calendars. (Lotus Notes, by the way.) I'm not sure whom to blame - MS or Lotus - but it's pretty annoying and someone deserves a good slap across the face for that programming idiocy.
After they installed the patch I put another meeting in the calendar only to have it show up at the correct time those weeks. So now I've got a mix of both correct meeting times and wrong meeting times on the same screen and no way to discern between the two (other than the fact that I know when the meetings are supposed to be held).
Guess what? It couldn't even get more than about 20 seconds into the installation process! It got to a certain point checking the hardware if I remember correctly and just froze. I thought about digging up my old Red Hat discs I have somewhere that I have installed on the same machine sometime in the past but then ran out of time. Linux isn't to the point yet where I can dump Windows completely, it has A LOT of work left. Have you ever tried to install Windows?
When I installed XP on this machine (which runs Linux almost exclusively; I use Windows for those days when I telework, mainly), I had a miserable time. Far worse than ANY Linux installation I've ever done, and I've been using Slackware since its 3.x days. It kept writing some file to a bad sector or something on my hard drive, then the installer would crash and couldn't recover. So I formatted the drive to NTFS, only to find that the installer demands it to be FAT32. I spent HOURS fighting with it before I finally figured out that the right sequence of events was to format the drive to FAT32, install or copy something on it (I don't recall exactly what I had to do), then do the Windows XP installation...wherein the drive was converted to NTFS. Everyone likes to complain about how hard Linux can be to install, but I'd say their installer is better than Windows, because the Linux distributions *KNOW* people are going to be installing it themselves, not buying computers with it preinstalled.
Yes, I do occasionally have headaches getting hardware to work under Linux. But my experience has been that once I do get it working, I'm done - it simply keeps on working and I never have to worry about it again.
First, calm down. I didn't name any specific environmentalist group, nor did I say all of them.
There's an article in this month's Trains magazine about BNSF's Transcon line which is only one track in a certain section because environmentalists groups always sue to block its expansion to two tracks. The article isn't online, and their site requires registration, which of course you won't do. But it's in the April 2007 Trains magazine, in the article "Birthplace of the Transcon".
There's also the ongoing DM&E controversy over their plan to build a line to the Powder River Basin. The Mayo Clinic and a group calling themselves the "Rochester Coalition" has sued several times to block its construction. There is also at least one NIMBY group suing, as mentioned here.
Actually, railroads, at least in North America, are quite successful these days. Profits are up, track utilization is very high, and the industry is quite strong. They're pulling business from long-haul trucks, and moving containers by the thousands. Their biggest risk now is becoming victims of their own success, since they can't build enough new track to ease already overburdened lines (every time they try, environmentalist groups try to stop them).
Yeah, pretty much. I don't really care that I can't run the latest gee-whiz app on my phone, and have all the potential security issues and all that crap. I have one app installed: Tetris. I stick with Verizon because I've had very good luck with their coverage over the years. That is, after all, the main point of a cell phone: it can make and receive calls wherever you go.
There are two major types in the US: One like you describe (push the button and move the lever down), and like you said it does take some strength; most smaller cars have this. The other option is a pedal on the left side by the door; most larger cars and pickups/SUVs have something like this.
I'm not sure about this "stick under the steering wheel" you describe - sounds like the gear selector when it's in an automatic.
Excuse your hasty comments? This is Slashdot - we practically demand hasty comments.
When I first read the link to the author's comments, I noticed that he doesn't actually say what will be deleted. So I was thinking maybe he deletes something that disables his own program - which wouldn't be that outrageous to me; it'd be a hassle to reinstall all the time and would discourage pirated use.
It's mentioned in the older Slashdot story, though, that he's deleting home directories. That's bad.
Also, we should note in the interests of factual correctness (something Slashdot doesn't demand) that he would delete only for cases where a pirated key was used. It doesn't say anything about incorrectly entered keys, just pirated ones. That's a little better, but I still think he's going way too far.
I said that same thing years ago, here on Slashdot, and the answers I got back were, "Why should they? It's not that hard to find." In that case, maybe it wasn't, but they should still do it. It's a concept I like to call "responsible journalism".
Why hello there, Mr. Moderator with off-topic selected. How are you today? That's a nice hat you're wearing. On a related note, I can't believe my post got a +5 informative.
I think snu-snu is just sex. The punishment was "death by snu-snu". That implies that snu-snu does not always involve death, sort of like how "death by misadventure" doesn't imply that misadventure always leads to death.
Last week, my house was without power for two days. When the power finally came back on, it was 44 degrees F (7 C) inside my house. When I turned on the computer at that temperature, the hard drive was screaming - sort of a high-pitched wail. The computer didn't even boot the first time - I don't have a monitor hooked to it (I use it as a server), but I think it never made it past the BIOS screen, and my guess is that the hard drive was the culprit. After 20 minutes or so of trying to figure out if it was a network problem or a system problem, I turned it off and restarted it. That time the computer was warmer and booted completely normally. I definitely will think twice before starting a computer that's at that temperature again.
Yeah, none of that is going to help...(this message contains replies to all the replies I've seen so far, not just Kirrilian's post).
Our IT area is huge, so I can't just call a buddy in IT and hope it works out. Besides I really don't know anyone in that area. I can envision how that call will go: "So you don't want us to fix her speakers? I'll open a ticket..."
Also, we have the Remark voice mail system that plays messages through the PC. It's a pretty convenient setup. The biggest problem is that the messages play quietly, causing her to turn her speakers up, and she doesn't turn them back down. Snipping speaker wires or otherwise disabling them means she'll just have them replaced so she can hear messages. I have actually gone into her cubicle and turned down her speakers when she wasn't around, but of course she turns them up next time she has a message.
She was, I'm told, a cheerleader in high school - and it really doesn't surprise me. But she's not dumb or incompetent; her work is excellent. And I certainly wouldn't want to hurt her - she took a project I absolutely HATED off my hands, and if something did happen to her it'd probably land right back on my desk.
I finally remembered to take my headphones in this week so I could listen to Sirius radio online. Of course, I have them turned up so loud (to block her voice out) people really have to work to get my attention.
(We haven't gotten to the technology of optical mice at work yet. I keep meaning to take one in to replace the piece-o-crap Dell mouse I have now.)
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Do you have any idea what a refund is?
It means your employer withheld too much of your pay. So your employer and the government got to keep it, gaining interest on it, until you file your taxes and get the check for ONLY the amount they owe you - they keep the interest.
It's best to have no refund, because it means that you got the money when you earned it, not several months later.
You must be new here - there've been dupes of articles that were still on the front page. The whining of Slashdotters when that happens is something to behold...
Yeah, we're here, but we already installed the update without fanfare and are now chuckling at the angst in some of the posts in this article. :)
In fact, my server is still running 10.2 and Patrick has released a patch for that version as well, and probably a few others.
Be sure to use PHP with a MySQL backend for ultimate security.
Times change. In this case, literally. Computers must be able to adapt.
The "faulty hard disc" has been working fine ever since, several years later. There was something messed up in the FAT32 partition for that sector (go figure - a file error on a FAT32 partition...), I guess, and I couldn't get any Windows utility (chkdsk or whatever it is), command line or GUI, to correct the problem. After I formatted the partition it worked fine, and the drive is still running just fine. I thought I'd save myself some time by formatting it to NTFS but that's where Windows installer demanded FAT32. I don't know why.
Nope, retail XP installation disc. Try again. I haven't bought a computer from a vendor in almost a decade.
It was a 10 gigabyte partition on the hard disc.
I don't know why but the damn thing would not accept it being an NTFS volume when I tried it.
No, but all the old meetings will be wrong! They installed the patch on our XP Pro machines at work the other day, and all of our meetings for those three weeks are now one hour later in our calendars. (Lotus Notes, by the way.) I'm not sure whom to blame - MS or Lotus - but it's pretty annoying and someone deserves a good slap across the face for that programming idiocy.
After they installed the patch I put another meeting in the calendar only to have it show up at the correct time those weeks. So now I've got a mix of both correct meeting times and wrong meeting times on the same screen and no way to discern between the two (other than the fact that I know when the meetings are supposed to be held).
When I installed XP on this machine (which runs Linux almost exclusively; I use Windows for those days when I telework, mainly), I had a miserable time. Far worse than ANY Linux installation I've ever done, and I've been using Slackware since its 3.x days. It kept writing some file to a bad sector or something on my hard drive, then the installer would crash and couldn't recover. So I formatted the drive to NTFS, only to find that the installer demands it to be FAT32. I spent HOURS fighting with it before I finally figured out that the right sequence of events was to format the drive to FAT32, install or copy something on it (I don't recall exactly what I had to do), then do the Windows XP installation...wherein the drive was converted to NTFS. Everyone likes to complain about how hard Linux can be to install, but I'd say their installer is better than Windows, because the Linux distributions *KNOW* people are going to be installing it themselves, not buying computers with it preinstalled.
Yes, I do occasionally have headaches getting hardware to work under Linux. But my experience has been that once I do get it working, I'm done - it simply keeps on working and I never have to worry about it again.
By the way: Here's one example, from Sierra Club's own site.
Another Sierra Club action against a railroad: Here's one
First, calm down. I didn't name any specific environmentalist group, nor did I say all of them.
There's an article in this month's Trains magazine about BNSF's Transcon line which is only one track in a certain section because environmentalists groups always sue to block its expansion to two tracks. The article isn't online, and their site requires registration, which of course you won't do. But it's in the April 2007 Trains magazine, in the article "Birthplace of the Transcon".
There's also the ongoing DM&E controversy over their plan to build a line to the Powder River Basin. The Mayo Clinic and a group calling themselves the "Rochester Coalition" has sued several times to block its construction. There is also at least one NIMBY group suing, as mentioned here.
Who said anything about passenger railroads?
Actually, railroads, at least in North America, are quite successful these days. Profits are up, track utilization is very high, and the industry is quite strong. They're pulling business from long-haul trucks, and moving containers by the thousands. Their biggest risk now is becoming victims of their own success, since they can't build enough new track to ease already overburdened lines (every time they try, environmentalist groups try to stop them).
Yeah, pretty much. I don't really care that I can't run the latest gee-whiz app on my phone, and have all the potential security issues and all that crap. I have one app installed: Tetris. I stick with Verizon because I've had very good luck with their coverage over the years. That is, after all, the main point of a cell phone: it can make and receive calls wherever you go.
There are two major types in the US: One like you describe (push the button and move the lever down), and like you said it does take some strength; most smaller cars have this. The other option is a pedal on the left side by the door; most larger cars and pickups/SUVs have something like this.
I'm not sure about this "stick under the steering wheel" you describe - sounds like the gear selector when it's in an automatic.
Excuse your hasty comments? This is Slashdot - we practically demand hasty comments.
When I first read the link to the author's comments, I noticed that he doesn't actually say what will be deleted. So I was thinking maybe he deletes something that disables his own program - which wouldn't be that outrageous to me; it'd be a hassle to reinstall all the time and would discourage pirated use.
It's mentioned in the older Slashdot story, though, that he's deleting home directories. That's bad.
Also, we should note in the interests of factual correctness (something Slashdot doesn't demand) that he would delete only for cases where a pirated key was used. It doesn't say anything about incorrectly entered keys, just pirated ones. That's a little better, but I still think he's going way too far.
I said that same thing years ago, here on Slashdot, and the answers I got back were, "Why should they? It's not that hard to find." In that case, maybe it wasn't, but they should still do it. It's a concept I like to call "responsible journalism".
I love it - "Linux reliability - a liberal myth!"
I think snu-snu is just sex. The punishment was "death by snu-snu". That implies that snu-snu does not always involve death, sort of like how "death by misadventure" doesn't imply that misadventure always leads to death.
(That's one of my favorite episodes.)
Last week, my house was without power for two days. When the power finally came back on, it was 44 degrees F (7 C) inside my house. When I turned on the computer at that temperature, the hard drive was screaming - sort of a high-pitched wail. The computer didn't even boot the first time - I don't have a monitor hooked to it (I use it as a server), but I think it never made it past the BIOS screen, and my guess is that the hard drive was the culprit. After 20 minutes or so of trying to figure out if it was a network problem or a system problem, I turned it off and restarted it. That time the computer was warmer and booted completely normally. I definitely will think twice before starting a computer that's at that temperature again.
Ah, okay. I didn't catch that distinction. Sorry - I'm just bitter from the thousands of messages I've had to clean up, including a mailbomb or two.
I like to REJECT (not bounce!) spam, so when you accidentally mark good stuff as spam, the sender has a chance to get the message to you later.
Yeah, thanks. Then when someone fakes my email address as the return address, I get thousands of bounce messages.
Hard Hat Mack, Music Construction Set, Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer... so many hours killed with those!
Yeah, none of that is going to help...(this message contains replies to all the replies I've seen so far, not just Kirrilian's post).
Our IT area is huge, so I can't just call a buddy in IT and hope it works out. Besides I really don't know anyone in that area. I can envision how that call will go: "So you don't want us to fix her speakers? I'll open a ticket..."
Also, we have the Remark voice mail system that plays messages through the PC. It's a pretty convenient setup. The biggest problem is that the messages play quietly, causing her to turn her speakers up, and she doesn't turn them back down. Snipping speaker wires or otherwise disabling them means she'll just have them replaced so she can hear messages. I have actually gone into her cubicle and turned down her speakers when she wasn't around, but of course she turns them up next time she has a message.
She was, I'm told, a cheerleader in high school - and it really doesn't surprise me. But she's not dumb or incompetent; her work is excellent. And I certainly wouldn't want to hurt her - she took a project I absolutely HATED off my hands, and if something did happen to her it'd probably land right back on my desk.
I finally remembered to take my headphones in this week so I could listen to Sirius radio online. Of course, I have them turned up so loud (to block her voice out) people really have to work to get my attention.
(We haven't gotten to the technology of optical mice at work yet. I keep meaning to take one in to replace the piece-o-crap Dell mouse I have now.)