I've been working that same schedule for the last year or so and love it. Every week I have Thursday morning through Sunday evening off, and every other week I get Wednesday off as well.
It's actually 36 and 48 for an average of 42 hours/week. However, I very much enjoy having that "long weekend" every weekend.
I'm currently doing remodeling work around the house and having a full day or two during the "workweek" to do these projects is almost crucial. I couldn't imagine accomplishing running wire and drywall in the evening after dinner and a bit more on Sunday when some of the stores close early.
On any job I've worked where I worked the "9-5, M-F" deal, I always hated getting of work and finding that various offices/banks/stores were closed. So many errands stack to get done "by noon on Saturday". If I couldn't do a flexible (4x10) schedule, I would try to shift my hours to earlier (7am-3pm) so I could do stuff in the afternoon.
When I was younger, I tried shifting my work schedule to later in the day: 10-8 or 11-9. I liked it at first because I like sleeping in and staying up late, but I soon discovered that I didn't have time for anything. I stayed up all night by myself and then slept till it was time to go to work. Once I forced myself to get up for a 7am shift a few times, I got used to it.
On a side note, I do Linux admin work at a 24x7 data-center and doing the home repair adds a nice sense of balance.
As guest I can create folders and files well beyond my account folder (admittedly, some folders like C:\Program Files are protected). I can load yahoo and write to the registry, saving my password and having yahoo (or theoretically any other program) start up on login. I can change the background, enable a web style desktop, do lots of things.
As administrator, I can turn the guest account off, reboot and turn guest account back on. When I log back in, all files and folder created in the guest account (ie, my documents, desktop) are still there. The background changes are still there. Yahoo still automatically logs in as me. Ahh you say I need to delete Guest's folder and clean out his registry entries. We're getting into a lot of work though, at least for windows.
As administrator, I can create a low-level account with no password and if I delete that account, I have the option of deleting their folder by clicking a button. And I know when I delete a regular user, their user specific registry entries get deleted.
If you really want to lock down windows, learn how to use gpedit.msc, or even further, editing policy files directly and using some batch scripts to lock/unlock the the computer by copying these policy files into the appropriate directory. Even then, you can still get spyware.
I've tried several times to find a solution to the startup values in the registry. There are some programs I've found that monitor the registry for startup changes, but none of them work as advertised. Yahoo messenger is a great example of this. You open it up, it adds itself to your user's registry startup list. You have to log in with a valid user/pass in order to uncheck boxes so it won't startup next time. But the very next time you start yahoo messenger, it still creates those entries. As administrator, you can't access another user's registry entries. They don't appear until you log in as that user. This just a messenger client... malware has much nastier methods. It's like the registry is designed to facilitate malware. If someone has come across a solution to prevent a user/user-level programs from modifying the registry at all, I am all ears.
So why don't we just put an entire human inside of some nutrient sack. One may not be enough, but an entire field of such humans can generate enough power from sugar water. And we can hook their minds into a virtual world so they can live their happy life. We won't be able to make this world perfect though, they will reject it. It's quite easy to envision whole fields of power generating humans, all maintained by robots. We can call.. "The Matrix".
In early times, tax collectors were brutes that went around... collecting taxes from people. This hasn't changed too much over time.
The US (and several other countries) adopted a voluntary tax filing system where people would voluntarily file and pay their taxes, thus eliminating the need to send out tax collectors to the entire population. However, they still will send out tax collectors to the percentage of the population that don't voluntarily file and pay taxes.
Of course, there is a huge number of people that just don't appear on their list, and the irs can wait 3 years (or more) of non-filing before they start thinking about sending someone out.
BTW, this kind of scheme has been around for a long time and if you're getting away with not paying for now, good on you. Maybe they'll catch up with you, maybe they won't. I won't even argue about if you're completely right or wrong. However, unless you've got the money to fend off court action from the IRS, I think you're a sitting duck. Sure, some people have won cases in the past, but the IRS hasn't stopped taking people to court over past due taxes, and they've won quite a few cases themselves. I can imagine that the court costs alone are more than enough to offset my tax savings.
Actually, I haven't "paid" taxes in several years... my business deductions have always put my tax owed in the negative. That will probably change in the next year or so as business is picking up, but I consider that a Good Thing(tm).
That's my personal opinion on the requirement to pay taxes (I had researched this a few years ago when I came across the idea of not paying taxes), but here's what the IRS has compiled on the matter.
After all, if someone brought down all those linux servers they use for their website, it would be a bad thing (for them and their customers).
(Yes, I know that they only use linux for caching severs, but they still rely on them to handle the amount of traffic their website receives. And yes, I know it's a local one, so you'd need an account on the caching servers to do it... I'm just saying that I'm sure some execs at MS are probably a bit concerned.)
On a side note, I wonder how people with massive collections of high profile linux machines (like akamai) feel about a local exploit like this.
Not to start an argument, but how is that really different than what I said? I mean, I see you added the line "because that's what it's best suited for" which is true, but doesn't contradict what I said.
As I said, linux (in which I'm referring to the kernel) supports most modern hardware, so with the exception of writing a module or two and compiling it, support for whatever hardware they've shoehorned into a small package is already there.
I didn't mention anything about a server, I said applications. Plenty of applications already exist for linux, which implies they don't have to develop it themselves, which you stated yourself.
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I'm trying to figure out what you mean when you say I'm wrong. I could be wrong... it happens. But when you tell me I'm wrong and then repeat most of what I just said without negating anything I said, I have to dig deeper, so I may unlearn my wrongness and learn the rightness.
I am also confused why it is a linux PDA, yet you have to have windoze or a mac to sync with the thing. That sucks. If I am a linux guy I want a linux PDA that will work with my computer...
It's a linux pda because quite frankly, linux simultaneously supports just about all modern hardware known to man while having a massive amount of applications already written for it. Furthermore, it has an extremely attractive price per seat licensing arrangement (roughly free).
So yes, they used linux, but probably aren't so concerned about the linux crowd, as this is not their primary audience.
The statement was that cell chips will cost more. The rebuttal was that they were cheaper to make. The rebuttal to that was about yield. You asked about the relevance of "yield".
yield: A profit obtained from an investment; a return.
So, yield is relevant because for the companies that are investing in this product to get a high yield, they will have to sell at a high price. And that is highly relevant.
We all know that any automated solution will fail... spammers will find a way to beat the system. However, a human can always tell. Especially me.
Give me some time to whip up a psuedo anonymous system where all of your email is forwarded to my machine and I will read the subject line and the beginning of the message. From this, I will determine if it is spam or not. If I approve it, it goes to your inbox, otherwise it goes to your spam box. Headers from spam-marked messages will get automatically passed on to select spam-fighting associations. Whitelisted addresses will bypass me completely.
You may be trading off some privacy, but think of the benefits of a clean inbox. Don't worry... you can trust me with all of your email. And besides... it's not different than sending your email through an automated scanner like postini... any admin there can read your mail anyways. For that matter, your email can be read by any mail server administrator anywhere along the way to your inbox. In postfix, I could just add a line "always_bcc" and receive a copy of any email coming or going through my server. At least this way, you KNOW your mail is getting read... no questions about it.
If you need any more persuasion, try this: "C'mon! Just do it already! You know you like the idea!".
Apparently Mars also creates a doppler effect. When the rover was moving towards Mars, it shifted the spectrum to the blue end. All of our pictures of a red mars proves that Mars is actually moving away from us.
I don't think Intel would do that. The wintel alliance is nowhere near what it once was, if it's truly still there.
Intel has been leaning towards linux quite readily in recent years and definitely recognizes the value of supporting linux and oss. Intel also has competitors that recognize the same, and Intel knows this.
I doubt Microsoft will produce a key feature that only works on brand new hardware that no one has, and I doubt that Intel will allow itself to be forced into produce hardware that only works with one operating system.
If traditional buyers of MS products see they get almost (but not quite) all of that "key feature" to work on existing hardware, most will go that route. The ones that would want that final security of hardware DRM would purchase the hardware, but how big is that market? Is it big enough for motherboard manufacturers to switch from their current bios supplier to Intel so they can bundle drm with their motherboards, motherboards that will only work with one os?
No, I feel confident in using linux (or more likely these days, bsd) on new, retail-level hardware for years to come. I also think that for DRM to succeed, it has to work in a corporate environment, one that has things like Oracle, SAP, Unix, Linux, and BSD. Microsoft would be blind to think it can get corporations to convert from something they already have paid for that works reasonably well, seems reasonably secure, and handles a bigger load than what Microsoft is offering.
The concept of Grokker seems very cool. If they come up with a Linux or BSD client, I would like to try it out. I don't like the having to pay for it facet though. Google does a good job of placing ads and it seems to pay their bills and the advertisers are pleased as well. If google starting charging for search results, it would get unpopular, real quick.
However, back to Grokker, the circle concept is good... it's a better visualization of how we classify sites on the internet. If I search on "poptop freebsd port" and find a circle of mailing list results, a circle of "official" documentation, a circle of download sites, and a circle of site devoted to top pop hits at the port, I will know where to go immediately.
If I thought I could get the same results, I would try the push-up bra technique. However, being a flat-chested male, I wouldn't even know which size to purchase.
Slashdot Mirror
This shift seems to be rather popular with data centers for some reason.
Wouldn't be a data center in VA?
I've been working that same schedule for the last year or so and love it. Every week I have Thursday morning through Sunday evening off, and every other week I get Wednesday off as well.
It's actually 36 and 48 for an average of 42 hours/week. However, I very much enjoy having that "long weekend" every weekend.
I'm currently doing remodeling work around the house and having a full day or two during the "workweek" to do these projects is almost crucial. I couldn't imagine accomplishing running wire and drywall in the evening after dinner and a bit more on Sunday when some of the stores close early.
On any job I've worked where I worked the "9-5, M-F" deal, I always hated getting of work and finding that various offices/banks/stores were closed. So many errands stack to get done "by noon on Saturday". If I couldn't do a flexible (4x10) schedule, I would try to shift my hours to earlier (7am-3pm) so I could do stuff in the afternoon.
When I was younger, I tried shifting my work schedule to later in the day: 10-8 or 11-9. I liked it at first because I like sleeping in and staying up late, but I soon discovered that I didn't have time for anything. I stayed up all night by myself and then slept till it was time to go to work. Once I forced myself to get up for a 7am shift a few times, I got used to it.
On a side note, I do Linux admin work at a 24x7 data-center and doing the home repair adds a nice sense of balance.
I think that really sums up the difference between working with a Linux server and working with a Windows server.
Microsoft technicians have been hired to configure the security of this network.
Please note that when a company obtaina code signing certificate
obtaina?
when a "company obtaina code signing certficate" does what?
I'm lost.
(Relax... it's less stressful that way)
As guest I can create folders and files well beyond my account folder (admittedly, some folders like C:\Program Files are protected). I can load yahoo and write to the registry, saving my password and having yahoo (or theoretically any other program) start up on login. I can change the background, enable a web style desktop, do lots of things.
As administrator, I can turn the guest account off, reboot and turn guest account back on. When I log back in, all files and folder created in the guest account (ie, my documents, desktop) are still there. The background changes are still there. Yahoo still automatically logs in as me.
Ahh you say I need to delete Guest's folder and clean out his registry entries. We're getting into a lot of work though, at least for windows.
As administrator, I can create a low-level account with no password and if I delete that account, I have the option of deleting their folder by clicking a button. And I know when I delete a regular user, their user specific registry entries get deleted.
If you really want to lock down windows, learn how to use gpedit.msc, or even further, editing policy files directly and using some batch scripts to lock/unlock the the computer by copying these policy files into the appropriate directory. Even then, you can still get spyware.
I've tried several times to find a solution to the startup values in the registry. There are some programs I've found that monitor the registry for
startup changes, but none of them work as advertised. Yahoo messenger is a great example of this. You open it up, it adds itself to your user's registry startup list. You have to log in with a valid user/pass in order to uncheck boxes so it won't startup next time. But the very next time you start yahoo messenger, it still creates those entries. As administrator, you can't access another user's registry entries. They don't appear until you log in as that user. This just a messenger client... malware has much nastier methods. It's like the registry is designed to facilitate malware. If someone has come across a solution to prevent a user/user-level programs from modifying the registry at all, I am all ears.
So why don't we just put an entire human inside of some nutrient sack. One may not be enough, but an entire field of such humans can generate enough power from sugar water. And we can hook their minds into a virtual world so they can live their happy life. We won't be able to make this world perfect though, they will reject it. It's quite easy to envision whole fields of power generating humans, all maintained by robots. We can call.. "The Matrix".
Awesome.
They are here to protect you from the terrible secret of space...
Do not trust the pusher robot...
In early times, tax collectors were brutes that went around... collecting taxes from people. This hasn't changed too much over time.
The US (and several other countries) adopted a voluntary tax filing system where people would voluntarily file and pay their taxes, thus eliminating the need to send out tax collectors to the entire population. However, they still will send out tax collectors to the percentage of the population that don't voluntarily file and pay taxes.
Of course, there is a huge number of people that just don't appear on their list, and the irs can wait 3 years (or more) of non-filing before they start thinking about sending someone out.
BTW, this kind of scheme has been around for a long time and if you're getting away with not paying for now, good on you. Maybe they'll catch up with you, maybe they won't. I won't even argue about if you're completely right or wrong. However, unless you've got the money to fend off court action from the IRS, I think you're a sitting duck. Sure, some people have won cases in the past, but the IRS hasn't stopped taking people to court over past due taxes, and they've won quite a few cases themselves. I can imagine that the court costs alone are more than enough to offset my tax savings.
Actually, I haven't "paid" taxes in several years... my business deductions have always put my tax owed in the negative. That will probably change in the next year or so as business is picking up, but I consider that a Good Thing(tm).
That's my personal opinion on the requirement to pay taxes (I had researched this a few years ago when I came across the idea of not paying taxes), but here's what the IRS has compiled on the matter.
After all, if someone brought down all those linux servers they use for their website, it would be a bad thing (for them and their customers).
(Yes, I know that they only use linux for caching severs, but they still rely on them to handle the amount of traffic their website receives. And yes, I know it's a local one, so you'd need an account on the caching servers to do it... I'm just saying that I'm sure some execs at MS are probably a bit concerned.)
On a side note, I wonder how people with massive collections of high profile linux machines (like akamai) feel about a local exploit like this.
Not to start an argument, but how is that really different than what I said? I mean, I see you added the line "because that's what it's best suited for" which is true, but doesn't contradict what I said.
As I said, linux (in which I'm referring to the kernel) supports most modern hardware, so with the exception of writing a module or two and compiling it, support for whatever hardware they've shoehorned into a small package is already there.
I didn't mention anything about a server, I said applications. Plenty of applications already exist for linux, which implies they don't have to develop it themselves, which you stated yourself.
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I'm trying to figure out what you mean when you say I'm wrong. I could be wrong... it happens. But when you tell me I'm wrong and then repeat most of what I just said without negating anything I said, I have to dig deeper, so I may unlearn my wrongness and learn the rightness.
So, AC, what did I say that you disagree with?
It's a linux pda because quite frankly, linux simultaneously supports just about all modern hardware known to man while having a massive amount of applications already written for it. Furthermore, it has an extremely attractive price per seat licensing arrangement (roughly free).
So yes, they used linux, but probably aren't so concerned about the linux crowd, as this is not their primary audience.
Ever hear of something called "logic"?
The statement was that cell chips will cost more. The rebuttal was that they were cheaper to make. The rebuttal to that was about yield.
You asked about the relevance of "yield".
yield: A profit obtained from an investment; a return.
So, yield is relevant because for the companies that are investing in this product to get a high yield, they will have to sell at a high price. And that is highly relevant.
We all know that any automated solution will fail... spammers will find a way to beat the system. However, a human can always tell. Especially me.
Give me some time to whip up a psuedo anonymous system where all of your email is forwarded to my machine and I will read the subject line and the beginning of the message. From this, I will determine if it is spam or not. If I approve it, it goes to your inbox, otherwise it goes to your spam box. Headers from spam-marked messages will get automatically passed on to select spam-fighting associations. Whitelisted addresses will bypass me completely.
You may be trading off some privacy, but think of the benefits of a clean inbox. Don't worry... you can trust me with all of your email. And besides... it's not different than sending your email through an automated scanner like postini... any admin there can read your mail anyways. For that matter, your email can be read by any mail server administrator anywhere along the way to your inbox. In postfix, I could just add a line "always_bcc" and receive a copy of any email coming or going through my server. At least this way, you KNOW your mail is getting read... no questions about it.
If you need any more persuasion, try this: "C'mon! Just do it already! You know you like the idea!".
It has been confirmed:
3 76 48-2004Feb12.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
hang on let me check... ahh.. 127.0.0.1
That they feel threatened by a one-man software website? Do they think that he could come up with a better version of their products?
That might be exactly what they are fearing. It seems that everyone else has.
I am officially* collecting donations for IBM and Intels' defense fund. Send your paypal payments to me.
* Disclaimer: Not officially connected in any way to IBM or Intel. I'm just trying to swindle you out of your money.
Apparently Mars also creates a doppler effect. When the rover was moving towards Mars, it shifted the spectrum to the blue end. All of our pictures of a red mars proves that Mars is actually moving away from us.
It's so simple.
Native or did you switch, like John?
I don't think Intel would do that. The wintel alliance is nowhere near what it once was, if it's truly still there.
Intel has been leaning towards linux quite readily in recent years and definitely recognizes the value of supporting linux and oss. Intel also has competitors that recognize the same, and Intel knows this.
I doubt Microsoft will produce a key feature that only works on brand new hardware that no one has, and I doubt that Intel will allow itself to be forced into produce hardware that only works with one operating system.
If traditional buyers of MS products see they get almost (but not quite) all of that "key feature" to work on existing hardware, most will go that route. The ones that would want that final security of hardware DRM would purchase the hardware, but how big is that market? Is it big enough for motherboard manufacturers to switch from their current bios supplier to Intel so they can bundle drm with their motherboards, motherboards that will only work with one os?
No, I feel confident in using linux (or more likely these days, bsd) on new, retail-level hardware for years to come. I also think that for DRM to succeed, it has to work in a corporate environment, one that has things like Oracle, SAP, Unix, Linux, and BSD. Microsoft would be blind to think it can get corporations to convert from something they already have paid for that works reasonably well, seems reasonably secure, and handles a bigger load than what Microsoft is offering.
Lol... yes, what division do you work at? Oh, and what's your badge number/employee id? Just curious... ;}
The concept of Grokker seems very cool. If they come up with a Linux or BSD client, I would like to try it out. I don't like the having to pay for it facet though. Google does a good job of placing ads and it seems to pay their bills and the advertisers are pleased as well. If google starting charging for search results, it would get unpopular, real quick.
However, back to Grokker, the circle concept is good... it's a better visualization of how we classify sites on the internet. If I search on "poptop freebsd port" and find a circle of mailing list results, a circle of "official" documentation, a circle of download sites, and a circle of site devoted to top pop hits at the port, I will know where to go immediately.
Assuming of course, the technology works.
If I thought I could get the same results, I would try the push-up bra technique. However, being a flat-chested male, I wouldn't even know which size to purchase.