You CAN stop payment on a cashier's check. I don't know about all cashier's checks but if you get it from your bank, it's not a problem.
I recently had to stop payment on a cashier's check for a payment I made to an ebay seller. The bank charged me around $7 to stop payment but it's much better than losing $100+.
However the most negative
single feature of TCPA and Palladium is the nature of Palladium and the
philosophy that has driven Microsoft's development and promotion of
Palladium.
I think this is probably the scariest part of the whole deal. They recognize what could happen but they press forward regardless.
I had LASIK performed over a year ago and have had obvious side-effects. My night vision is the same as it was prior to the surgery. I had 20/100 vision in both eyes and now they're both almost 20/20. I consider it a modern day miracle. I can actually see the alarm clock in the morning!
I would definitely leave it on your resume. The faster you get the first few years under your belt the better. When a potential employer contacts your former employer there are only certain bits of info that your former can legally give (in the U.S.) and reason for termination isn't one of them. If asked, you don't (and shouldn't) go in to detail about it but focus on what you've learned from the negative experience and how it will help you increase your value to your potential employer.
This might seem a bit backwards but I think the thing that really keep StarOffice from competing with MS Office is it's lack of support for MS formats. Unfortunately, the MS formats have become one of the standards used. While SO claims to be able to support formats such as.doc, they really don't. In addition, SO introduced it's own format. That's just what we all need...Another format to attempt to comply with.
Since when have the 'powers that be' been able to control any content on the Internet. I can see it now... You have a safe 'kid' browser that will allow kids to visit sites such as http://naked.young.kids and http://nude.neighborhood.kids
Just what the world needs, another TLD to further confuse the masses that refuse to believe that there is anything besides.com.
This is true. I use @Home and have been very pleased with the available bandwidth. I don't think this is another reason to switch to DSL, I think it's another reason to move to a older neighborhood. I've found that old folks don't have broadband. (Hey, don't pretend that your not a big enough geek that you wouldn't move just to get better access.)
At first I thought this guy was full of it until I realized that I was just scanning the article. As I got closer to the bottom it turned more into a vicious scroll rather than a scan. While I think the author has a valid point I think that there is less and less information that actually merits attention. With all the wealth of information available in the 'information age', how much of it is actually worth reading?
They work a purely 9-5 day, and schedule any system work for deep off-hours.
Man, where do you work? Are they hiring? I haven't worked less than 60hrs in months. In the company I work for, it's the exact opposite. In fact, I think they should make the admins work all weekend. I've never understood how they couldn't keep things running. (Disclamer: The previous statement only applies to Unix-based systems...) For the most part, if you set it up correctly and are thourough in your duties, things should rarely break.
Much sympathy on the early-morning or late-night upgrades though. That sucks.
I think this idea would be instant death to anyone who tried it. I think we can all agree that we hate commercials on TV and I'm sure some of us would even pay more for commercial-free TV. The difference is that with TV, you either watch it or you don't. There isn't any real way to avoid commercials right now. There are however, possibly thousands of alternatives to a web site. If you are going to make your users pay to not see anoying ads, then I know I would just go somewhere else.
I wrote one of these back when I was in your situation. It's pretty user friendly and will allow a user to browse thier filesystem, view/edit/delete files, create/delete directories, password protect directories, configure mail forwarding, can hook into a support help system, and plugs into webalizer to view stats.
The interface is more or less a template-based system and can be modified rather easily to fit your hosting site. It's more that just a series of 'Forms' like Communitech's control panel. It actually has some semblance of a GUI. There are also a couple of other considerations like how sendmail is setup and the format of your httpd.conf file.
It's open-source and I'd be glad to talk to anyone interested in more details. If you're interested, please contact me at mr_jasoncox@yahoo.com. By the way, it will only work on Unix/Linux with Apache/Mod_PHP. It could be modified to use Perl though. --jason
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You CAN stop payment on a cashier's check. I don't know about all cashier's checks but if you get it from your bank, it's not a problem.
I recently had to stop payment on a cashier's check for a payment I made to an ebay seller. The bank charged me around $7 to stop payment but it's much better than losing $100+.
However the most negative single feature of TCPA and Palladium is the nature of Palladium and the philosophy that has driven Microsoft's development and promotion of Palladium. I think this is probably the scariest part of the whole deal. They recognize what could happen but they press forward regardless.
I meant to say "have NOT had and obvious side-effects". Sorry about that.
I had LASIK performed over a year ago and have had obvious side-effects. My night vision is the same as it was prior to the surgery. I had 20/100 vision in both eyes and now they're both almost 20/20. I consider it a modern day miracle. I can actually see the alarm clock in the morning!
I would definitely leave it on your resume. The faster you get the first few years under your belt the better. When a potential employer contacts your former employer there are only certain bits of info that your former can legally give (in the U.S.) and reason for termination isn't one of them. If asked, you don't (and shouldn't) go in to detail about it but focus on what you've learned from the negative experience and how it will help you increase your value to your potential employer.
Anyone have an idea why they chose FreeBSD over other alternatives?
This might seem a bit backwards but I think the thing that really keep StarOffice from competing with MS Office is it's lack of support for MS formats. Unfortunately, the MS formats have become one of the standards used. While SO claims to be able to support formats such as .doc, they really don't. In addition, SO introduced it's own format. That's just what we all need...Another format to attempt to comply with.
Yeah, but most times the bundled software is out of date. I usually end up grabbing the tarballs and installing them anyway.
Since when have the 'powers that be' been able to control any content on the Internet. I can see it now... You have a safe 'kid' browser that will allow kids to visit sites such as http://naked.young.kids and http://nude.neighborhood.kids Just what the world needs, another TLD to further confuse the masses that refuse to believe that there is anything besides .com.
This is true. I use @Home and have been very pleased with the available bandwidth. I don't think this is another reason to switch to DSL, I think it's another reason to move to a older neighborhood. I've found that old folks don't have broadband. (Hey, don't pretend that your not a big enough geek that you wouldn't move just to get better access.)
At first I thought this guy was full of it until I realized that I was just scanning the article. As I got closer to the bottom it turned more into a vicious scroll rather than a scan. While I think the author has a valid point I think that there is less and less information that actually merits attention. With all the wealth of information available in the 'information age', how much of it is actually worth reading?
They work a purely 9-5 day, and schedule any system work for deep off-hours.
Man, where do you work? Are they hiring? I haven't worked less than 60hrs in months. In the company I work for, it's the exact opposite. In fact, I think they should make the admins work all weekend. I've never understood how they couldn't keep things running. (Disclamer: The previous statement only applies to Unix-based systems...) For the most part, if you set it up correctly and are thourough in your duties, things should rarely break.
Much sympathy on the early-morning or late-night upgrades though. That sucks.
I think this idea would be instant death to anyone who tried it. I think we can all agree that we hate commercials on TV and I'm sure some of us would even pay more for commercial-free TV. The difference is that with TV, you either watch it or you don't. There isn't any real way to avoid commercials right now. There are however, possibly thousands of alternatives to a web site. If you are going to make your users pay to not see anoying ads, then I know I would just go somewhere else.
I wrote one of these back when I was in your situation. It's pretty user friendly and will allow a user to browse thier filesystem, view/edit/delete files, create/delete directories, password protect directories, configure mail forwarding, can hook into a support help system, and plugs into webalizer to view stats.
The interface is more or less a template-based system and can be modified rather easily to fit your hosting site. It's more that just a series of 'Forms' like Communitech's control panel. It actually has some semblance of a GUI. There are also a couple of other considerations like how sendmail is setup and the format of your httpd.conf file.
It's open-source and I'd be glad to talk to anyone interested in more details. If you're interested, please contact me at mr_jasoncox@yahoo.com. By the way, it will only work on Unix/Linux with Apache/Mod_PHP. It could be modified to use Perl though. --jason