Nothing like being in the middle of typing an email and getting a popup like "Would you like to install this unsigned control from xxyyz.com?" just before you press enter.
Yes, you can. "Asshole" is not a protected class of people. Now, if we decided not to hire someone because I found out about medical problems, a divorce, their religion, etc., then they'd have a case. But if someone has had raging flamewars on usenet, then I have to question their ability to get along with the collection of jerks we have here. And if they're posting with their own name since Dejanews came along, I have to question their intelligence / sanity. Personally, I've scrubbed as many of my postings as I can from Google Groups (and Deja before that). I got lucky in a way because someone with the same name became a minor international news item a few years ago so searching for me by name is now much harder.
Do what I do. Get someone else to scribble something in the signature part and wherever your name has to be printed. To top it off, have someone else put it in interoffice mail or just drop it on a desk so you have no ties to the "signed" document.
Or type your own document and format it to look the same. Except for the title and the first sentence or two, just make it legal-sounding gibberish. Then sign that.
If it's like our company, the HR person won't even look at it, it'll just go in your file, and you'll get a checkmark for that task.
The last time we had a round of that at work, about 1/3rd of us refused to sign and they never pursued it.
All are important. I try to drink a lot of water so I have to get up on a regular basis to pee. It helps your circulation. Plus the water is better for you than coffee.
In my case, I try to take 1-2 breaks a day to play ping-pong in our break room. I'm sure you could find something similar like stairs, basketball, flogging the dolphin, whatever.
I try to get outside for 15 minute breaks during the day. I'll take a code listing or an architectural diagram outside and work on it in the sun. Or go eat lunch outside. That 15-minute conversation you have with a buddy about ${local sports team}? Have it outside. A group of us used to take smoke breaks outside once in a while and none of us smoke.
Of course, watch your diet. Stop eating anything that comes out of a snack machine or anything that they bring in like doughnuts, pastries, pizza, etc. Buy a bag of carrots, grapes, etc. for snacks.
Sleeping is the hard part with your schedule but it's huge. Don't fall asleep reading or watching tv. That's supposed to reduce the restfulness of your sleep. Personally, I use half of an over-the-counter sleep aid pill from time to time when things are insane. It gives me about 4-6 solid hours of deeper sleep without the grogginess that a full tablet gives me. Not a great solution, but better than tossing and turning.
And here's one that'll probably set some people off. Pray. Let God run your daily calendar and you'll have time for everything you need to do.
I'd pay my company money to telecommute. Less gas, less wear and tear on the car, less lunches out, less clothing requirements, less stress from the commute (and office politics), ability to start cooking dinner early, etc. It'd save me $100/week easily.
Our few guys that work offsite generally bill us for their cable/DSL and a phone, landline or cell, for about $100/month. We don't pay for home office space and we don't pay for mobile WiFi connections (except for the executives). We provide the laptop and other machines and they can expense a few things here and there, like a switch or router or KVM, but everyone can do that.
Did they get rid of that annoying audio file? It turns what's otherwise a class act live cd into something that reminds everyone of trekkies living in their parent's basement.
I've carried a Leatherman Supertool for about 8 years now and haven't found anything that makes me really want to replace it. Better wire stripping is about the only thing I really long for.
I did a little surgery on my Supertool case and it also holds a 1-AAA MagLite and a tiny Victorinox swiss army knife (scissors, tweezers, toothpick). I also carry a PocketWrench II behind my Supertool, which gives me a solid pry-bar and a second wrench when I need it.
I always carry a primary knife (unless I have to go through a security checkpoint that day) like a Spyderco Delica or a larger Benchmade liner-lock.
Ditto on the Antec Sonata. I built my new box with one and sometimes I think it's off when it's not. It's much quieter than my old machine, which has some quiet 80mm fans.
The loudest thing by far is the fan on the video card. Still looking to replace the heatsink combo on that.
I'm looking at my LaserJet 4P (with the Postscript upgrade to make it essentially a 4MP). Still going strong after what, 10 or 11 years? A little slow and curls the paper a bit, but it's 600 DPI.
are they going to write a COBOL interface from 3270?
It doesn't have to be COBOL. We write a lot of C/C++ code on the mainframe and you can call it from COBOL. That'd get you bought quick though, if you built a MQSeries competitor that took any sort of bite out of the mainframe licenses.
that uses my Palm? My phone book is on my cell especially now that I have a phone without IR and I can't beam to it. My calendar is on Exchange/Outlook at work, but I keep my personal cal on my Palm. I use todo's and keep a lot of notes on the Palm because it replaces the 20 little scraps of paper I normally carry. If I need to remember something, I can even take a snapshot of it instead of taking the time to write it down. I read ebooks on my Palm whenever I'm waiting for a meeting, a car repair, the workday to end, or a corn-eyed brown trout. It's much smaller than even a single paperback and gives me the choice between reading Lord of the Rings or Thinking in Java. I can work on my pathetic chess skills or just stare at a photo of Gabrielle Reese on it.
Ok, I'm a geek and I love to have the Internet wherever I am but why in the kitchen?
I never understood this either. Until I had kids. Now the "media center" is taken up with Telly Tubbies or other crap, I can't work from my desk without having two kids in there pushing buttons and pulling cords, and having my laptop on the couch or chair just provides a few more interactive toys in the form of the cd-rom eject button and the pc card eject button. So we almost always have an old laptop sitting on the kitchen counter for checking email or quick web browsing. It's the only spot that's both out of reach and in the middle of the house.
Amen. That is the kiss of death. I interviewed three guys today and busted one guy on two different "keywords" he slipped on his resume but didn't know. We shot him down and told the placement agency that his skills didn't match his resume.
I don't know anyone making a living off of eBay, but I don't know anyone doing it fulltime. It's just not that much fun. I do know a guy that makes some significant money through eBay, enough for a car payment or maybe his rent. His primary eBay income comes from bidding on large lots, like say 8 printers or 5 Pocket PCs, then reselling them individually on eBay. The best deal for me on eBay is parting out old laptops that my company gives away or sells for scrap, but I have a limited supply of those.
So one day I double-click on an MP3 file. Windows Media Player launches and asks if I'd like to install the update that's available. Sure, why not? Partway through the install it locks up. The machine freezes. Nothing. I reboot. Blue screen. Over and over. I boot in safe mode. Blue screen. I boot Knoppix. No problem. I copied my important files off to another box. I take the laptop to IS. They try rescuing it with an XP cd. Blue screen. They try an outdated version of Sysinternals ERD. Blue screen. They run memtest or something like it. No problems. They give it back to me. I boot Knoppix and copy the rest of everything I might possibly want off of it. An hour with Google and trying to copy Windows Media Player files from a working box gives me nothing but the same blue screen. I get a *ahem* trial version of Sysinternals latest ERD. Bluescreen. I gave it to IS to re-Ghost.
If it wasn't for Knoppix, I'd have sworn that I had a hardware problem. It definately impressed the Windows-heads in IS.
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Nothing like being in the middle of typing an email and getting a popup like "Would you like to install this unsigned control from xxyyz.com?" just before you press enter.
Yes, you can. "Asshole" is not a protected class of people. Now, if we decided not to hire someone because I found out about medical problems, a divorce, their religion, etc., then they'd have a case. But if someone has had raging flamewars on usenet, then I have to question their ability to get along with the collection of jerks we have here. And if they're posting with their own name since Dejanews came along, I have to question their intelligence / sanity. Personally, I've scrubbed as many of my postings as I can from Google Groups (and Deja before that). I got lucky in a way because someone with the same name became a minor international news item a few years ago so searching for me by name is now much harder.
All the linux IBM'ers I deal with are SUSE now. They dropped RedHat. I dunno if I see a buyout, but with IBM backing them they'll be a player.
Do what I do. Get someone else to scribble something in the signature part and wherever your name has to be printed. To top it off, have someone else put it in interoffice mail or just drop it on a desk so you have no ties to the "signed" document.
Or type your own document and format it to look the same. Except for the title and the first sentence or two, just make it legal-sounding gibberish. Then sign that.
If it's like our company, the HR person won't even look at it, it'll just go in your file, and you'll get a checkmark for that task.
The last time we had a round of that at work, about 1/3rd of us refused to sign and they never pursued it.
All are important. I try to drink a lot of water so I have to get up on a regular basis to pee. It helps your circulation. Plus the water is better for you than coffee.
In my case, I try to take 1-2 breaks a day to play ping-pong in our break room. I'm sure you could find something similar like stairs, basketball, flogging the dolphin, whatever.
I try to get outside for 15 minute breaks during the day. I'll take a code listing or an architectural diagram outside and work on it in the sun. Or go eat lunch outside. That 15-minute conversation you have with a buddy about ${local sports team}? Have it outside. A group of us used to take smoke breaks outside once in a while and none of us smoke.
Of course, watch your diet. Stop eating anything that comes out of a snack machine or anything that they bring in like doughnuts, pastries, pizza, etc. Buy a bag of carrots, grapes, etc. for snacks.
Sleeping is the hard part with your schedule but it's huge. Don't fall asleep reading or watching tv. That's supposed to reduce the restfulness of your sleep. Personally, I use half of an over-the-counter sleep aid pill from time to time when things are insane. It gives me about 4-6 solid hours of deeper sleep without the grogginess that a full tablet gives me. Not a great solution, but better than tossing and turning.
And here's one that'll probably set some people off. Pray. Let God run your daily calendar and you'll have time for everything you need to do.
I'd pay my company money to telecommute. Less gas, less wear and tear on the car, less lunches out, less clothing requirements, less stress from the commute (and office politics), ability to start cooking dinner early, etc. It'd save me $100/week easily.
Our few guys that work offsite generally bill us for their cable/DSL and a phone, landline or cell, for about $100/month. We don't pay for home office space and we don't pay for mobile WiFi connections (except for the executives). We provide the laptop and other machines and they can expense a few things here and there, like a switch or router or KVM, but everyone can do that.
Did they get rid of that annoying audio file? It turns what's otherwise a class act live cd into something that reminds everyone of trekkies living in their parent's basement.
GNU/Windows. WinXP with Cygwin.
I've carried a Leatherman Supertool for about 8 years now and haven't found anything that makes me really want to replace it. Better wire stripping is about the only thing I really long for. I did a little surgery on my Supertool case and it also holds a 1-AAA MagLite and a tiny Victorinox swiss army knife (scissors, tweezers, toothpick). I also carry a PocketWrench II behind my Supertool, which gives me a solid pry-bar and a second wrench when I need it. I always carry a primary knife (unless I have to go through a security checkpoint that day) like a Spyderco Delica or a larger Benchmade liner-lock.
Ditto on the Antec Sonata. I built my new box with one and sometimes I think it's off when it's not. It's much quieter than my old machine, which has some quiet 80mm fans.
The loudest thing by far is the fan on the video card. Still looking to replace the heatsink combo on that.
In Philly? Before they get to potholes, how about picking up all the stripped, burned-out shells of stolen cars? And the piles of bricks.
I'm looking at my LaserJet 4P (with the Postscript upgrade to make it essentially a 4MP). Still going strong after what, 10 or 11 years? A little slow and curls the paper a bit, but it's 600 DPI.
Everyone's asking "Why?" and debating the technical bits. I'll tell you why. So they can get a deep discount on MQSeries from IBM.
It doesn't have to be COBOL. We write a lot of C/C++ code on the mainframe and you can call it from COBOL. That'd get you bought quick though, if you built a MQSeries competitor that took any sort of bite out of the mainframe licenses.
that uses my Palm? My phone book is on my cell especially now that I have a phone without IR and I can't beam to it. My calendar is on Exchange/Outlook at work, but I keep my personal cal on my Palm. I use todo's and keep a lot of notes on the Palm because it replaces the 20 little scraps of paper I normally carry. If I need to remember something, I can even take a snapshot of it instead of taking the time to write it down. I read ebooks on my Palm whenever I'm waiting for a meeting, a car repair, the workday to end, or a corn-eyed brown trout. It's much smaller than even a single paperback and gives me the choice between reading Lord of the Rings or Thinking in Java. I can work on my pathetic chess skills or just stare at a photo of Gabrielle Reese on it.
So I can dump my carts to disk then have a big ole bonfire with them and play the copies legally. Or just throw them in the trash.
I never understood this either. Until I had kids. Now the "media center" is taken up with Telly Tubbies or other crap, I can't work from my desk without having two kids in there pushing buttons and pulling cords, and having my laptop on the couch or chair just provides a few more interactive toys in the form of the cd-rom eject button and the pc card eject button. So we almost always have an old laptop sitting on the kitchen counter for checking email or quick web browsing. It's the only spot that's both out of reach and in the middle of the house.
Now can you write some decent drivers for WiFi cards?
Same Tim
ANSI isn't old-school. TTY art is old-school.
I can't find one within 50 miles at any of the big box chains.
Amen. That is the kiss of death. I interviewed three guys today and busted one guy on two different "keywords" he slipped on his resume but didn't know. We shot him down and told the placement agency that his skills didn't match his resume.
I don't know anyone making a living off of eBay, but I don't know anyone doing it fulltime. It's just not that much fun. I do know a guy that makes some significant money through eBay, enough for a car payment or maybe his rent. His primary eBay income comes from bidding on large lots, like say 8 printers or 5 Pocket PCs, then reselling them individually on eBay. The best deal for me on eBay is parting out old laptops that my company gives away or sells for scrap, but I have a limited supply of those.
So one day I double-click on an MP3 file. Windows Media Player launches and asks if I'd like to install the update that's available. Sure, why not? Partway through the install it locks up. The machine freezes. Nothing. I reboot. Blue screen. Over and over. I boot in safe mode. Blue screen. I boot Knoppix. No problem. I copied my important files off to another box. I take the laptop to IS. They try rescuing it with an XP cd. Blue screen. They try an outdated version of Sysinternals ERD. Blue screen. They run memtest or something like it. No problems. They give it back to me. I boot Knoppix and copy the rest of everything I might possibly want off of it. An hour with Google and trying to copy Windows Media Player files from a working box gives me nothing but the same blue screen. I get a *ahem* trial version of Sysinternals latest ERD. Bluescreen. I gave it to IS to re-Ghost.
If it wasn't for Knoppix, I'd have sworn that I had a hardware problem. It definately impressed the Windows-heads in IS.
So what is it with all these dead drives? Why are they all giving up? Stop smoking.