There's a lot of talk here about using psychoactive medication. My advice is to get a psychologist, and a good one who's smarter than you. A Md. or Psychiatrist's job is going to be to manage medication for you, which has very little to do with actual results and monitoring the effects. Most people are pretty bad at doing this for them selves. I'm told I'm pretty self aware about these things and I still rely on a psychologist, and she helps me out a lot where the psychiatrist looks at only "is the problem fixed" the psychologist addresses the whole mental state.
The reason to use one would be to help monitor the changes the drugs cause in you. Many of the side effects are subtle and not well documented. The point in taking the medication is to alter your mental activity (help with concentration in the case of people with ADD/ADHD, but what else is it doing to you?
Personaly I don't like taking medication for mental health problems. There are times when I do, and times when I think anyone should, but it's a personal choice. Understand that while your mental activity is causing you problems consider the downsides to taking the drugs, and consider alternatives. A psychologist can help monitor the changes when going on/coming off a drug and help spot the subtle ones.
What alternatives? Everyone has a favorite. I don't like any solution that involves "take this pill", be it a psychoactive medication or a "natural" substance. Instead I look to factors that affect the mental states and adjust them to see the results. Some amazing results can happen when you change your diet. For example, instead of taking pills for Omega 3 fatty acids, try eating more fatty fish like tuna and salmon or Vietnamese cuisine where fish oil is heavily used. Guess where the Omega 3 pills come from......fish oil. Another thing to look at is physical activity. Try weight lifting three times a week. You don't have to list weights to build a huge body, but try doing enough to keep your activity level up. After a month of those two I found increadable changes in my mental state in areas ranging from attetion to mood. You will probably have different results, but see what they are.
If I had karma points and I hadn't posted in this thread, you'd get a +1 funny......yea, and I still think it's better than UNIX kernels. Granted, I don't think Linux is UNIX. FreeBSD's kernel rocks, but it doesn't roll yet (I'm waiting to pass judgement on 5.x).
I'm sure there's a lot of kernels out there that are better.
OS X is build on two parts, the core is a Mach kernel, which is not UNIX, but then is not bad either. It's better in a lot of ways than UNIX. The process portion of the OS from the init stage through to shell (bash, not the GUI) is mostly taken from FreeBSD. I'm not sure where the interfaces from the software to the kernel were modified to handle the Mach kernel as opposed to the FreeBSD kernel.
If you look at the SVID (System V Interface Definition??), BSD standards, or even Posix, there are standards for various levels of the OS from how device drivers work to how to interface with the kernel and devices to how your shell should work. OS X is different than BSD in the kernel area, which is the part of SYS V that SCO is complaining about. In order to determine if OS X would have any issues you need to look at the version of the Mach kernel and any modifications made by Apple to see if there's offending code that they might have borrowed from Linux.
Dizzy is a must have. I love his 75 Birthday live CD. There's a version of a Night In Tunisia to die for. The whole cd is just amazing, considering it's live.
I think for the sort of jazz the author mentioned I would recomend anything that has the original recording of Ko-Ko by Charlie Parker. For this recording Miles was on trumpet, Max Roach on drums and the piano player was in jail. Dizzy was checking out what his buddy from the Charlie Barnet Orchestra was doing during this recording and listening while a young Miles could not keep up. With the Piano player out Dizzy sat in to play piano. With Miles not keeping up he played Miles' trumpet! This is quite a feat as Dizzy normally only playes a bent trumpet and the song is fast (must have been, Miles couldn't play it). The piece is considered the first BeBop song recorded and was the start of something new.
Have you seen OnStar? People are paying for this technology them selves already! GPS, check. Map, check. Satellite communications, check. Sure, your not going to catch people running stop lights, but you can get them at stop signs, it's not a large leap to catch them with the stop lights and you sure can track when and where a car has been, and how fast they are moving.
"Your Honor, I was here at 5:45 and I was there at 6:30"
"Your Honor, This evidence from OnStar says he was here at 6:00 and there at 6:15"
"Guilty!"
How long 'till the police are tapped in to OnStar or other similar systems. We've already seen the case of black boxes used by car rental places to monitor the drivers for speeding. That one was overuled, but only because it wasn't the government who got to collect.
For a few years people have been doing research in to automated trafic control where central computer systems control the cars on the road. They will know where your car is and has been.
I would leave this position. I would make my reasons clear, and I would leave in such a way that a reaonable person would consider hiring me again (as opposed to burning bridges).
I think we have our selves to blame when we can't afford to do this, and I've been guilty of it in the past, which is why I changed my habits. You see, I generally can afford to quit a job, and I've done it before. By having saved for more than just those days when I stop working for good I was able to quit. By being sucked in to the consumer machine we spend and spend without thought to consequences. While many of us save for retirement and a rainy day, not to many save six months to a year of living expenses so that we can be in control of our work day.
This company believes they have you. For most of the poeple there they probably do. You can't afford to quit long enough to find a new job, so they will do to you what they can. If you can't afford to leave the job, at least use it as a reminder next time your looking at that new CD or adding 20 new cable channels you will never watch, or upgrading that computer you bought last year. There's a deeper price to pay than the money. That money is your freedom. Freedom from control.
When you shop, when you buy things, when you use the credit card, think about it. Think about what you could do if you could afford to take a year off to find the perfect job. Think about what you could do if you could take a year off to get a consulting business off the ground. Think about what you could do if you have the choice to do it. Money gives you that choice. When I'm working my goals are to get one year salary saved, seperate from retirement and savings for other things like a new car or home, and it's worked. When a previous company was going the wrong direction I was able to simply walk in to my managers office and hand him a polite letter saying that I was leaving for personal reasons and planned to take some time off.
Definetly there are a lot of applications where wireless is better than landline, but the physics of the problem are such that by the time you can engineer a cheaper wireless solution, someone's going to be pushing data faster. OC-3072 (160Gbit/sec) is the fastest SONET speeds I've found.
I've still got a lot of hope for a LEO solution to telco landlines. I'd like to see all residential service cut off the telco grid. There's no reason why even broadband internet service can't be wireless (other than the politics...).
1) Were you using the fastest speeds available to transmit data from cellphone conversations? I've lost track of the fastest fiber speeds somewhere after OC-192, but if you took the fastest available fiber optic system and priced it out against a wireless equivelent, guess who wins.
2) Who's paying for the "special" equipment to bridge the distance between one place and the next. In any case, my statement was that it's not suburbs all the way up to illustrate a simple point. The extreme example is, what do you do from one guys house in Texas to the next? You can drive for hours and go from nowhere to nowhere. There's a lot of open land out there.
3) Sure, my writing here's not great because it's off the cuff, this one I'd have misread. A midsized datacenter could do 3-4Gbit. Large datacenters do more. Your not going to put that out on a wireless signal that everyone and anyone can pick up easily.
The comments were all in the context of the original article.
1) it's always cheaper to run landline for the highest speeds available.
2) There are great distances between areas where people live. Despite apperances you can't go from DC to Boston through suburbs all the way.
3) Data has to be served from somewhere, and you have to connect that to everyone somehow. Your not going to do multi Gigabit out of a medium sized Data center let alone the big ones.
4) I can count.
6) Even if we got rid of all the companies and did everything as a "community" project people would end up running things and those people would fight for power and the little guy would get charged to much in the end anyway.
True on what makes you good on a game being partly circumstances, but even in LAN games, There's always those three or four people who blow away everyone else, and the 20 who blow away most everyone else and "the rest". I usually can fall within the 20.
I don't know that the social component is "good" or "bad" but it does exist. Your going to do much beter in a game where you can get a bunch of people to join you in the fight. If your virtual social skills are non existant, your not going to do as well.
I'll give you that there's a lot of book learning going on in some games. My own personal favorite, Diablo, is about as hard to learn as 52 card pickup. Mostly it's about thinking far enough ahead not to get surrounded, and being able to pick the enemy off. Not very hard, but then if I play deep thinking games I get sucked in to easily. I do play Bridge, that's my thinking game.
I'd say the MM online games have more opportunity to showcase game playing skills. If the game is good it will reward those people. I don't play AO, so I can't say how well it does this.
Now, where did Pindleskin go, I need better armor.
First, not every 12 yr old is a great gamer. I know I've got better skills than most of my friends, but a few of them will blow me out of the water in most any game (GT3 being the exception), but there's always been a group of players who will always blow my doors off in any game I try. There is a skill component. Sure the 12 yr olds can play them, but play them well?
Second, in a MM online game there's a social component.
Third, the value of the game is in it's dificulty. How much more do you have to think to do better in it? (This is a problem I have with Diablo, as it gets harder you just need better items and the ability to draw your opponents away one at a time, but it's my fix...).
Fourth, if you could wipe your ass with one square no matter how messy, someone would interview you.
I always wondered why the game creators don't support people like this more often. I don't imagine that they would have to pay him a lot. Him and others obviously help keep people interested in the game, and he'd have more time to devote to it. Give him responsibility within his profession or class and some duties to perform, the goal of which would be to keep people playing. People like him obviously play an important part in the game.
Um, the difference is that theres more effective methods to deal with it. When I compare all the server side and IP address based techniques versus content based techniques content based techniques were soooo much better.
I wonder how much of this kind of stuff would stop if we
1. blocked spam at the client based on content, not by blocking IP addresses
2. let people spam.
If we know who and where the spammers are and let them have their own little space in the world, and didn't outright reject talking to them, they wouldn't be doing this sort of thing. The biggest problem is that the cost to download is a large multiple of the cost to upload, since you can send to a whole lot of people in one shot, but there's an easy technical solution to that (don't let people send an email to 5000 people at your server in one shot).
Maybe it's time to treat them like the parts of the porn industry who works with filtering companies to identify them selves. Give them their own little sandbox to play in, don't threaten to shut them off, and then block them at the client side, or once they are in the mailbox, because what we are doing to fight them isn't working (as evidenced by my pile of spam despite all possilbe server side filtering techniques) and they are going to fight dirty if they can't have a chance fighting fair.
Consider that their Global Services group provides services to a lot of large companies and you see where the IP addresses go. Plus I bet IBM has one of the largest computer to employee ratios in the world. Plus their mainframes can run a few thousand instances of an OS so there's a bunch of IP addresses.
I recall that Gates (via Microsoft) really was behind the creation of the BSA because he wasn't getting along with the SPA (Software Piracy Association) (?? memory is bad on this one), who used to go hunting for pirates but wasn't good enough for Billy Boy.
It depends on how much you rely on RedHat after you install the product, and how much the company wants to continue to do that.
First remember to think in terms of the company. While you and your fellow admins might be uber-gurus you might not be with the company forever. Will they find other slashdot reading uber-gurus to replace you, or will they be left with less capable people?
Then consider what you do on your own. Do you install RPMs from RedHat, or do you "use the source"? Do you update your own kernel? What do you do if there's a security flaw or bug in a software package? Do you use the source or the RPM.
RedHat offers an attractive model for companies who don't want to depend on having "Bob the admin" around and would rather depend on the idea that "RedHat" will be around (the former usually isn't there as long as is around.)
Everyone company has a different culture and answer, those are some of the questions to consider.
LPVHF and LPUHF similar to LPFM! I know the costs are going to keep a lot more people out, but I think it could be used for community broadcasting with ranges similar to that of LPFM (around a few miles radius). People could start hundreds of little TV stations all over the place as a vehicle for communicating to the people in their neighborhood.
How expensive would it be to setup a TV station that can be viewed at 5 miles?
I'm always amazed when people get in to business deals, the deal turns out badly, they are forced to move on (for personal convictions, or through corporate moves) and they are amazed and suprised!
Frankel sold out to AOL. He made a LOT of money doing it, but he should (and maybe did) understand the price of that money is freedom. AOL controls Winamp, and as long as he's an employee they control much of his actions and ability to publish.
Were I him I would have not published anything new until the contract requirements to stay with the company were over, then I'd leave and start a new company with all the money. I'm sure his share of 86 million, after taxes could start a new company to do new things.
If you value your life based on what you have done, then investors and selling out is often a bad idea. You are selling control over the products you have created. If on the other hand you value your life based on what your able to do going forward, take the 86 million, walk away from one software product and do something new. Sure, it's a PITA, but 86 million funds a lot of new things. If nothing else you could probably manage a half million a year from investment (even in this market) and live off that while writing new software and paying a buddy or two to write with you. There's bound to be a new idea in there somewhere that will start another company that sells for twice as much, which gives you more allowance, and so on.
There's a slight problem with this. The numbers have nothing to do with how mail is routed and delivered. The zip code and street address get mail delivered to your door. A system that does not take in to consideration how the mail system in various areas work will have a hard time to get accepted. If it cuts a current zip code in half, or merges parts of two zip codes handled by different post offices then what do you do?
The reality is, despite our best efforts to cut the world up in to nice tiny squares and declare them "property" these systems have nothing to do with the way people live.
For an example when area codes are created they are often created along county lines. When 813 was split to create 727 it was split along a county line, however some homes in one county were served by a switch in the other. While we wanted to split the phone system up along neat lines, the reality of the situation was, it didn't happen.
In this case, they can split the world up all they want, but it doesn't mean my address will become
Not only can it affect what someone can "hear" when they listen to your wireless, it's access control. If I'm a terrorist and I want to post something to the internet for my friends somewhere else to get, I'm going to find an open wireless access point, since that's easiest, but lacking one of those, I can just listen for any, and once I've found one using WEP only for security I can crack it and use it.
What's your point? The point is, if the "evildoers" use your wireless access point to transmit information guess who's hosue the Department of Homeland Security shows up at. Even if they don't haul you off to jail, having them show up at your house is not fun.
There is a misconception that because your not a large company or other visable target that your not going to be targeted. The problem is that people don't have to target you to abuse your network. They simply look for any network easy to abuse, and there's enough people looking to abuse networks that someone will stumble on to yours given enough time and a pringles can.
This is the same as companies I've been to who feel they aren't an "eBusiness company" and their access to the Internet is not public (there's no public website) so they aren't going to get hacked. They got hacked.
Because while the day is 86400.002 seconds long (on average) it's getting longer. About 170 years ago the day averaged 86400.000 seconds long. In 170 years it shoudl be about 86400.004, though the slowing down is caused by the moon, which is moving away from us, so it's effect will get less and less (though probably not that fast) but it could be as little as 86400.003. The point is, the second is defined by one measure and the day another, and we are trying to cram the two measures together when they don't have a linear relationship.
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There's a lot of talk here about using psychoactive medication. My advice is to get a psychologist, and a good one who's smarter than you. A Md. or Psychiatrist's job is going to be to manage medication for you, which has very little to do with actual results and monitoring the effects. Most people are pretty bad at doing this for them selves. I'm told I'm pretty self aware about these things and I still rely on a psychologist, and she helps me out a lot where the psychiatrist looks at only "is the problem fixed" the psychologist addresses the whole mental state.
...fish oil. Another thing to look at is physical activity. Try weight lifting three times a week. You don't have to list weights to build a huge body, but try doing enough to keep your activity level up. After a month of those two I found increadable changes in my mental state in areas ranging from attetion to mood. You will probably have different results, but see what they are.
The reason to use one would be to help monitor the changes the drugs cause in you. Many of the side effects are subtle and not well documented. The point in taking the medication is to alter your mental activity (help with concentration in the case of people with ADD/ADHD, but what else is it doing to you?
Personaly I don't like taking medication for mental health problems. There are times when I do, and times when I think anyone should, but it's a personal choice. Understand that while your mental activity is causing you problems consider the downsides to taking the drugs, and consider alternatives. A psychologist can help monitor the changes when going on/coming off a drug and help spot the subtle ones.
What alternatives? Everyone has a favorite. I don't like any solution that involves "take this pill", be it a psychoactive medication or a "natural" substance. Instead I look to factors that affect the mental states and adjust them to see the results. Some amazing results can happen when you change your diet. For example, instead of taking pills for Omega 3 fatty acids, try eating more fatty fish like tuna and salmon or Vietnamese cuisine where fish oil is heavily used. Guess where the Omega 3 pills come from...
If you want Omega 3, do it the fun way, tell 'em you have to eat Sushi three times a week and load up on the smoked salmon and tuna!
If I had karma points and I hadn't posted in this thread, you'd get a +1 funny... ...yea, and I still think it's better than UNIX kernels. Granted, I don't think Linux is UNIX. FreeBSD's kernel rocks, but it doesn't roll yet (I'm waiting to pass judgement on 5.x).
I'm sure there's a lot of kernels out there that are better.
OS X is build on two parts, the core is a Mach kernel, which is not UNIX, but then is not bad either. It's better in a lot of ways than UNIX. The process portion of the OS from the init stage through to shell (bash, not the GUI) is mostly taken from FreeBSD. I'm not sure where the interfaces from the software to the kernel were modified to handle the Mach kernel as opposed to the FreeBSD kernel.
If you look at the SVID (System V Interface Definition??), BSD standards, or even Posix, there are standards for various levels of the OS from how device drivers work to how to interface with the kernel and devices to how your shell should work. OS X is different than BSD in the kernel area, which is the part of SYS V that SCO is complaining about. In order to determine if OS X would have any issues you need to look at the version of the Mach kernel and any modifications made by Apple to see if there's offending code that they might have borrowed from Linux.
Dizzy is a must have. I love his 75 Birthday live CD. There's a version of a Night In Tunisia to die for. The whole cd is just amazing, considering it's live.
I think for the sort of jazz the author mentioned I would recomend anything that has the original recording of Ko-Ko by Charlie Parker. For this recording Miles was on trumpet, Max Roach on drums and the piano player was in jail. Dizzy was checking out what his buddy from the Charlie Barnet Orchestra was doing during this recording and listening while a young Miles could not keep up. With the Piano player out Dizzy sat in to play piano. With Miles not keeping up he played Miles' trumpet! This is quite a feat as Dizzy normally only playes a bent trumpet and the song is fast (must have been, Miles couldn't play it). The piece is considered the first BeBop song recorded and was the start of something new.
Good point, though this gets me thinking, how dificult would it be to get the signal out of the air, or get access to the satellite?
Have you seen OnStar? People are paying for this technology them selves already! GPS, check. Map, check. Satellite communications, check. Sure, your not going to catch people running stop lights, but you can get them at stop signs, it's not a large leap to catch them with the stop lights and you sure can track when and where a car has been, and how fast they are moving.
"Your Honor, I was here at 5:45 and I was there at 6:30"
"Your Honor, This evidence from OnStar says he was here at 6:00 and there at 6:15"
"Guilty!"
How long 'till the police are tapped in to OnStar or other similar systems. We've already seen the case of black boxes used by car rental places to monitor the drivers for speeding. That one was overuled, but only because it wasn't the government who got to collect.
For a few years people have been doing research in to automated trafic control where central computer systems control the cars on the road. They will know where your car is and has been.
I would leave this position. I would make my reasons clear, and I would leave in such a way that a reaonable person would consider hiring me again (as opposed to burning bridges).
I think we have our selves to blame when we can't afford to do this, and I've been guilty of it in the past, which is why I changed my habits. You see, I generally can afford to quit a job, and I've done it before. By having saved for more than just those days when I stop working for good I was able to quit. By being sucked in to the consumer machine we spend and spend without thought to consequences. While many of us save for retirement and a rainy day, not to many save six months to a year of living expenses so that we can be in control of our work day.
This company believes they have you. For most of the poeple there they probably do. You can't afford to quit long enough to find a new job, so they will do to you what they can. If you can't afford to leave the job, at least use it as a reminder next time your looking at that new CD or adding 20 new cable channels you will never watch, or upgrading that computer you bought last year. There's a deeper price to pay than the money. That money is your freedom. Freedom from control.
When you shop, when you buy things, when you use the credit card, think about it. Think about what you could do if you could afford to take a year off to find the perfect job. Think about what you could do if you could take a year off to get a consulting business off the ground. Think about what you could do if you have the choice to do it. Money gives you that choice. When I'm working my goals are to get one year salary saved, seperate from retirement and savings for other things like a new car or home, and it's worked. When a previous company was going the wrong direction I was able to simply walk in to my managers office and hand him a polite letter saying that I was leaving for personal reasons and planned to take some time off.
Definetly there are a lot of applications where wireless is better than landline, but the physics of the problem are such that by the time you can engineer a cheaper wireless solution, someone's going to be pushing data faster. OC-3072 (160Gbit/sec) is the fastest SONET speeds I've found.
I've still got a lot of hope for a LEO solution to telco landlines. I'd like to see all residential service cut off the telco grid. There's no reason why even broadband internet service can't be wireless (other than the politics...).
1) Were you using the fastest speeds available to transmit data from cellphone conversations? I've lost track of the fastest fiber speeds somewhere after OC-192, but if you took the fastest available fiber optic system and priced it out against a wireless equivelent, guess who wins.
2) Who's paying for the "special" equipment to bridge the distance between one place and the next. In any case, my statement was that it's not suburbs all the way up to illustrate a simple point. The extreme example is, what do you do from one guys house in Texas to the next? You can drive for hours and go from nowhere to nowhere. There's a lot of open land out there.
3) Sure, my writing here's not great because it's off the cuff, this one I'd have misread. A midsized datacenter could do 3-4Gbit. Large datacenters do more. Your not going to put that out on a wireless signal that everyone and anyone can pick up easily.
The comments were all in the context of the original article.
1) it's always cheaper to run landline for the highest speeds available.
2) There are great distances between areas where people live. Despite apperances you can't go from DC to Boston through suburbs all the way.
3) Data has to be served from somewhere, and you have to connect that to everyone somehow. Your not going to do multi Gigabit out of a medium sized Data center let alone the big ones.
4) I can count.
6) Even if we got rid of all the companies and did everything as a "community" project people would end up running things and those people would fight for power and the little guy would get charged to much in the end anyway.
7) Whoops, I can't count.
8) Have a nice day
True on what makes you good on a game being partly circumstances, but even in LAN games, There's always those three or four people who blow away everyone else, and the 20 who blow away most everyone else and "the rest". I usually can fall within the 20.
I don't know that the social component is "good" or "bad" but it does exist. Your going to do much beter in a game where you can get a bunch of people to join you in the fight. If your virtual social skills are non existant, your not going to do as well.
I'll give you that there's a lot of book learning going on in some games. My own personal favorite, Diablo, is about as hard to learn as 52 card pickup. Mostly it's about thinking far enough ahead not to get surrounded, and being able to pick the enemy off. Not very hard, but then if I play deep thinking games I get sucked in to easily. I do play Bridge, that's my thinking game.
I'd say the MM online games have more opportunity to showcase game playing skills. If the game is good it will reward those people. I don't play AO, so I can't say how well it does this.
Now, where did Pindleskin go, I need better armor.
First, not every 12 yr old is a great gamer. I know I've got better skills than most of my friends, but a few of them will blow me out of the water in most any game (GT3 being the exception), but there's always been a group of players who will always blow my doors off in any game I try. There is a skill component. Sure the 12 yr olds can play them, but play them well?
Second, in a MM online game there's a social component.
Third, the value of the game is in it's dificulty. How much more do you have to think to do better in it? (This is a problem I have with Diablo, as it gets harder you just need better items and the ability to draw your opponents away one at a time, but it's my fix...).
Fourth, if you could wipe your ass with one square no matter how messy, someone would interview you.
I always wondered why the game creators don't support people like this more often. I don't imagine that they would have to pay him a lot. Him and others obviously help keep people interested in the game, and he'd have more time to devote to it. Give him responsibility within his profession or class and some duties to perform, the goal of which would be to keep people playing. People like him obviously play an important part in the game.
Um, the difference is that theres more effective methods to deal with it. When I compare all the server side and IP address based techniques versus content based techniques content based techniques were soooo much better.
I wonder how much of this kind of stuff would stop if we
1. blocked spam at the client based on content, not by blocking IP addresses
2. let people spam.
If we know who and where the spammers are and let them have their own little space in the world, and didn't outright reject talking to them, they wouldn't be doing this sort of thing. The biggest problem is that the cost to download is a large multiple of the cost to upload, since you can send to a whole lot of people in one shot, but there's an easy technical solution to that (don't let people send an email to 5000 people at your server in one shot).
Maybe it's time to treat them like the parts of the porn industry who works with filtering companies to identify them selves. Give them their own little sandbox to play in, don't threaten to shut them off, and then block them at the client side, or once they are in the mailbox, because what we are doing to fight them isn't working (as evidenced by my pile of spam despite all possilbe server side filtering techniques) and they are going to fight dirty if they can't have a chance fighting fair.
You may now mod this down.
Consider that their Global Services group provides services to a lot of large companies and you see where the IP addresses go. Plus I bet IBM has one of the largest computer to employee ratios in the world. Plus their mainframes can run a few thousand instances of an OS so there's a bunch of IP addresses.
I recall that Gates (via Microsoft) really was behind the creation of the BSA because he wasn't getting along with the SPA (Software Piracy Association) (?? memory is bad on this one), who used to go hunting for pirates but wasn't good enough for Billy Boy.
It depends on how much you rely on RedHat after you install the product, and how much the company wants to continue to do that.
First remember to think in terms of the company. While you and your fellow admins might be uber-gurus you might not be with the company forever. Will they find other slashdot reading uber-gurus to replace you, or will they be left with less capable people?
Then consider what you do on your own. Do you install RPMs from RedHat, or do you "use the source"? Do you update your own kernel? What do you do if there's a security flaw or bug in a software package? Do you use the source or the RPM.
RedHat offers an attractive model for companies who don't want to depend on having "Bob the admin" around and would rather depend on the idea that "RedHat" will be around (the former usually isn't there as long as is around.)
Everyone company has a different culture and answer, those are some of the questions to consider.
LPVHF and LPUHF similar to LPFM! I know the costs are going to keep a lot more people out, but I think it could be used for community broadcasting with ranges similar to that of LPFM (around a few miles radius). People could start hundreds of little TV stations all over the place as a vehicle for communicating to the people in their neighborhood.
How expensive would it be to setup a TV station that can be viewed at 5 miles?
I'm always amazed when people get in to business deals, the deal turns out badly, they are forced to move on (for personal convictions, or through corporate moves) and they are amazed and suprised!
Frankel sold out to AOL. He made a LOT of money doing it, but he should (and maybe did) understand the price of that money is freedom. AOL controls Winamp, and as long as he's an employee they control much of his actions and ability to publish.
Were I him I would have not published anything new until the contract requirements to stay with the company were over, then I'd leave and start a new company with all the money. I'm sure his share of 86 million, after taxes could start a new company to do new things.
If you value your life based on what you have done, then investors and selling out is often a bad idea. You are selling control over the products you have created. If on the other hand you value your life based on what your able to do going forward, take the 86 million, walk away from one software product and do something new. Sure, it's a PITA, but 86 million funds a lot of new things. If nothing else you could probably manage a half million a year from investment (even in this market) and live off that while writing new software and paying a buddy or two to write with you. There's bound to be a new idea in there somewhere that will start another company that sells for twice as much, which gives you more allowance, and so on.
It's all personal values.
There's a slight problem with this. The numbers have nothing to do with how mail is routed and delivered. The zip code and street address get mail delivered to your door. A system that does not take in to consideration how the mail system in various areas work will have a hard time to get accepted. If it cuts a current zip code in half, or merges parts of two zip codes handled by different post offices then what do you do?
The reality is, despite our best efforts to cut the world up in to nice tiny squares and declare them "property" these systems have nothing to do with the way people live.
For an example when area codes are created they are often created along county lines. When 813 was split to create 727 it was split along a county line, however some homes in one county were served by a switch in the other. While we wanted to split the phone system up along neat lines, the reality of the situation was, it didn't happen.
In this case, they can split the world up all they want, but it doesn't mean my address will become
238b-6 or some such.
Yes, it does matter.
Not only can it affect what someone can "hear" when they listen to your wireless, it's access control. If I'm a terrorist and I want to post something to the internet for my friends somewhere else to get, I'm going to find an open wireless access point, since that's easiest, but lacking one of those, I can just listen for any, and once I've found one using WEP only for security I can crack it and use it.
What's your point? The point is, if the "evildoers" use your wireless access point to transmit information guess who's hosue the Department of Homeland Security shows up at. Even if they don't haul you off to jail, having them show up at your house is not fun.
There is a misconception that because your not a large company or other visable target that your not going to be targeted. The problem is that people don't have to target you to abuse your network. They simply look for any network easy to abuse, and there's enough people looking to abuse networks that someone will stumble on to yours given enough time and a pringles can.
This is the same as companies I've been to who feel they aren't an "eBusiness company" and their access to the Internet is not public (there's no public website) so they aren't going to get hacked. They got hacked.
Because while the day is 86400.002 seconds long (on average) it's getting longer. About 170 years ago the day averaged 86400.000 seconds long. In 170 years it shoudl be about 86400.004, though the slowing down is caused by the moon, which is moving away from us, so it's effect will get less and less (though probably not that fast) but it could be as little as 86400.003. The point is, the second is defined by one measure and the day another, and we are trying to cram the two measures together when they don't have a linear relationship.
Why do I find this wildly humourous considering your run stonehenge.com... ...just move the rocks around a bit.