I took advantage of my company's downsizing auction and bought a pile of Pentium II laptops to replace the loud, hot Pentium desktops I've been running. Nice and quiet. They run pretty cool as well.
Now I'm actively trying to kick people off of projects based on whether that have laptops. Maybe by July I can upgrade my web server to a nice quiet P3-500.
These aren't all factories, but they're some of the more interesting places I've seen along those lines. Vehicle assembly buildings at Cape Kennedy. CNN Studio tour in Atlanta. USS Alabama (and the USS Drum, a WWII sub) in Mobile. Air museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Delorme (map company) headquarters near Portland, Maine.
My tour would be to see all of the publically displayed SR-71s.
One hotspot is Flash cartoons. oddtodd.com is an example of someone making a living (if you call that living) from Flash cartoons. There are numerous books on the subject.
Yes yes yes. This is exactly the comment I would make.
People that worry about losing jobs to H1Bs making 80% of the salary of a citizen need to worry more about losing the jobs to offshore workers making 10% of the salary of a citizen. Two companies ago, we (Americans) were the cheaper offshores for a large German company. My last company farms quite a bit of work out to India. It's only a matter of time, especially for Java-based development.
There are other read-only options. A boot floppy (not likely today, especially in a tablet), a bootable image on CD-R (hard to create, apparently can't work with NT/2000/XP but can work with 95/98/Me and of course, Linux/BSD), a hard drive rigged to be read-only, or a flash/rom memory disk.
'Your computer is broadcasting an internet IP Address...'
Am I the only person that thinks this is funny? I torture the crap out of our IS guys with it. We'll be getting to the end of a marathon meeting and I'll ask them if they finally stopped broadcasting our IP addresses for just anyone to see and connect to.
I think they're getting back at me with some weird HTTP proxy filter. For some reason, when I go to Slashdot, I see every story twice.
Call the local Red Cross, if you haven't already. Most chapters deal with house fires all the time and hopefully have some cleaning advice, as well as other services.
Call a restoration company. If you can't afford it, still call them. They're usually willing to give free advice if you're obviously not going to hire them. Sometimes they do free jobs too. Beg.
Trisodium phosphate (TSP), which can be found in the paint section of Home Depot and other stores, is the heavy-duty cleaner of choice. I wouldn't soak electronics in it though. Also, search for it on the web and you'll find all sorts of sites with real information on cleaning after fires.
Give it time, lots of air, and keep wiping down the surfaces.
Get renter's insurance. It's cheaper than you think.
Get a smoke detector. They're often available free from your local fire department. Don't bullshit yourself by thinking you'll smell the smoke and wake up.
Don't smoke in bed. Don't burn candles. Get that $20 halogen lamp out of the kids room and away from the curtains. Don't cook french fries at home.
No, but especially down in Florida, old geezers are always coming in wanting their free battery. It's probably the closest to the inverse of the "can I have your phone number" question.
I knew I had it made the day my sniffer (which we use for actual work) logged a bunch of traffic to a porn site and we tracked the IP back to the IS head.
This is funny. I mentioned that Exodus was still in business at the office, and I found out why. We, probably like all their customers that are still in business, still pay them for the long-term contract we signed. But we don't have anything there since we're afraid they'll shut the doors. So they probably get a good bit of no-cost revenue like that.
Which lead to a debate about using that space. All kinds of ideas. Badge some homeless people and let them live there. Use it as a remote office. Fill it with junk. Shoot a porno. Etc.
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Has anyone tried letting their kids build the car?
I took advantage of my company's downsizing auction and bought a pile of Pentium II laptops to replace the loud, hot Pentium desktops I've been running. Nice and quiet. They run pretty cool as well.
Now I'm actively trying to kick people off of projects based on whether that have laptops. Maybe by July I can upgrade my web server to a nice quiet P3-500.
As opposed to the crap they dump into the bay every time it rains hard?
For customers that size, we've never been able to top what Yahoo! Store offers.
My tour would be to see all of the publically displayed SR-71s.
For what it's worth, the brewery tour at Busch Gardens Tampa was decent. They closed the brewery there a few years ago though.
One hotspot is Flash cartoons. oddtodd.com is an example of someone making a living (if you call that living) from Flash cartoons. There are numerous books on the subject.
People that worry about losing jobs to H1Bs making 80% of the salary of a citizen need to worry more about losing the jobs to offshore workers making 10% of the salary of a citizen. Two companies ago, we (Americans) were the cheaper offshores for a large German company. My last company farms quite a bit of work out to India. It's only a matter of time, especially for Java-based development.
The free bacon that never came.
There are other read-only options. A boot floppy (not likely today, especially in a tablet), a bootable image on CD-R (hard to create, apparently can't work with NT/2000/XP but can work with 95/98/Me and of course, Linux/BSD), a hard drive rigged to be read-only, or a flash/rom memory disk.
Learn HIPPA and get con-sulting. It's the new Y2K.
I got free pizza when we worked all weekend. Oh, and we all got our pre-Christmas vacations cancelled.
Written by a man that's never had to sysadmin a Solaris box.
Am I the only person that thinks this is funny? I torture the crap out of our IS guys with it. We'll be getting to the end of a marathon meeting and I'll ask them if they finally stopped broadcasting our IP addresses for just anyone to see and connect to.
I think they're getting back at me with some weird HTTP proxy filter. For some reason, when I go to Slashdot, I see every story twice.
I didn't buy a single thing except for groceries all four days.
No, but especially down in Florida, old geezers are always coming in wanting their free battery. It's probably the closest to the inverse of the "can I have your phone number" question.
You mean the Dilberito.
I knew I had it made the day my sniffer (which we use for actual work) logged a bunch of traffic to a porn site and we tracked the IP back to the IS head.
No, the fact that they were going to create the book is further evidence. The more elaborate the story is, the more likely it is to be a lie.
Which lead to a debate about using that space. All kinds of ideas. Badge some homeless people and let them live there. Use it as a remote office. Fill it with junk. Shoot a porno. Etc.
OpenBSD is one of the easiest installers. Try FreeBSD or even worse, Solaris. Then come back to OpenBSD.
Holy crap! Exodus is still in business?
Two stories mentioning the C64 in a row? Someone please turn down the Improbability Drive a bit.
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