The first fricken thing I ever get on a hospital meal tray is a cup of coffee!!! And I have been in the hospital enough to have a good spectrum of meals. Coffee, no matter what is else on the tray, there is always Coffee!
I already have diabetes, and my wife and I have decided not to have kids. So, it appears I would be a guinea pig for this one. Hey, I will take 50% more longevity. It will give me more time to download and test various linux distros, and various other open source software products. Not to mention, more time on the xbox, gaming, and trolling slashdot!
That Sony model is primarily intended for the home user or dorm user that wishes to have more integration of their computer components and entertainment system devices. It acts as PVR and has software for that. Large hard drive, some of those models run windows media center. Its got a small foot print but it is not intended to be lugged around. Not to say you couldn't. I have seen people lug some massive heavy equipment glady to and from all the LAN parties my friends and I would throw, etc.
Anyhow that Sony is really intended to be the core of the living room and controll the entertainment center.
the Trophy wife. I always had to shop for snazzy, top of the line laptops for the vice pees and the pee. THey had more powerful mobiles than our heavy number crunchers or programmers and all they did was surf and check email.
I am going to call the number a few days after the auction is over and ask whomever answers WHY???? At this rate the person will be paying the equivalent of a year's salary for an entry level support person. I suggest that everyone call once and say hi. It isn't a prank if you actually intend to have a semi-intelligent converstation...
I agree it is ashame that everyone's favorite mascot, Fleshy Necrotising fasciitis of the foot, lovingly known as Fleshy was left off the poll. Never was there a more recognized and loved lethal infection than Fleshy.
I am an ENFJ. I have a master's in music degree and performed for a decade prossionally when I became disenchanted with the orchestral world and politics and gave it all up. I have no certifications or formal experience but I quickly moved up the way from a Network Operator to a Net Tech, on to another job to the SysAdmn and Network Admn. I loved that job but the company like many had interesting acounting practices and had to sell and the buyer was way far away for corporate. I was offerred to continue on with them but I did not wish to relocate. I then worked for 2.5 years at a public Uni doing Technical Analyst and support.
I burned out on an insane chaotic poorly managed environment and I let it impact my health (I guess that is the F for feeling showing through). I quit in September.
Given this brief account of my history, and that I am an ENFJ what advice do you have for me in looking for the next gig? I would like to be a part of team and do systems admin. work.
awwww give me a break AC! I would bother to spell check, review, and have others assist in proofing important documents. Casual posts to slashdot I make a best effort submission of my ideas but I do not spell check them per se.
wheeeeee spell check trolled by an AC *rolls eyes*
exactly, these messages are such a big source of confusion...instead of assisting the support structure they end up overburdening it. Your support analysts end up trying to explain the messages instead of being deployed to shut down the offending boxes and educate the moronic repeat offenders...
At my last job at a public uni, obviously any and all worms and viruses slammed us hard. It was soon apparent to make support calls more mangeable as well as the lessen the pure amount of crap on the network that we had to configure our mail server virus package to send those announcement "you have or were sent an infection" messages to/dev/null. Some users might not get the warning they needed I suppose but quickly one message would turn into thousands just for one infected user. To the bit bucket with them! It helps.
Yesh, wot you say is quite right. BUT STILL *child showing through* this seems FUN!!! I have that impulse urge. Luckily I won't be able to act on it right now as tomorrow I am going out with my wife to get her a new computer system. We are going to pop for a sony vaio desktop with lots of warranty I think. I want her to have a kick ass system. You know my life is very very blessed having a kick ass gamerz0r wife who is rocking with her gamevoice headset on shouting "cum get sum biotch!!! gib this n00b!"/etc;D
anyhow, its a console, its a dvd system, its hackable, and its not too pricey...that is why I am considering an xbox.
The advice seems very balanced and well-thought out. I RTFA and enjoyed it a lot. I want to encorporate these ideas as I start to look for a new job as I recently burned out at my support job and quit for sanity's sake. This is good stuff.
Totally. If the games you want are not available on the xbox then you won't be happy no matter what kind of geek goodness you can get from the hardware. But I am primarily a computer gamer and have not really done much console gaming since I bought my Playstation. I am in the market for a console and a dvd player and the xbox will let me do both. My wife and I are both avid PC gamers, both are the founding members of our online gaming clan, and I can see us sitting side by side on the couch headsets and controllers locked and loaded using xbox live to game with our fellow clan members when on "Console night". But our primary gaming experience will still come from IRC and RTCW, E. Terrirtory, NWN, etc etc.So for us a console that can serve as our dvd system too really seems like pure goodness.
The comparisson leads me to believe the xbox is the way to go because for an already decent price at 160.00 you get the fastest cpu for consoles, a good sized hard drive, dvd player, and it can be hackz0red to do more stuff...
I, too, live in Cincinnati. Though there a few good things that keep me here, it is mostly a drab existence in a violent ass city with cruel ass cops and a conservative slightly dull or perhaps just "slow" populace....
I keep saying I am going to move back to NC...and then I remember the trailers...
is the grass greener anywhere nowadays? *sarcastic genXer sigh*
looks like the mighty http request engine that is/. has gotten it already, else something is poopoo in my packet path...
Aside from that I would say I do actually feel some guilt from not running Linux as my primary OS on my laptop. I am to be hated I guess because I have a vaio so I am running the dreaded xp. I think that a laptop is all about convenience so the fact that my wireless card wasn't automatically supported by my distro choice (Mandrake 9.2) caused me to scrap my shot to run only Linux on this laptop. I was impressed how much was supported right from the default install. But without a wireless card, what's the point. I will totally to admit to being too lazy to do the leg work to find/build/make drivers.
Don't hate me all the way through and through though, I have a Mandrake Club membership so I am paying some to help the cause out, and I run it as a dual boot on my workstation, and solely on my home network server.
I did Mac support at a Uni until I got sick of the work environment there and long story quit. OS X was a joy to use and support. I had to invoke Apple Care often enough to say you will indeed get some flawed hardware from Apple.
Miami U in Oxford, Oh... I quit that job fairly recently (support analyst for the central IT of the Uni) for today's market with the benies it pays ok, a tad low but ok...
I understand and agree with you., It is kind of funny though if you take a step back from the pragmatic goals of a business especially with the history of Apple. Basically they are treating a computing community with the same "harsh" pragmatism that Microsoft has show them. There choice can be justified from business practice where dollars and cents are the bottom line but some businesses consider moral and ethical concerns occassional and had Apple done the same it sure would have made a story line.
It is odd to me that with iTunes Apple has made it available to their historic "cross-town rivalvy" and yet have not made iTunes available for use in some other OSes. You'd think they'd even have packages for.deb's and.rpm's.
And how ironic would be it they decided that there wasn't enough linux users to be worth the effort. You'd think they would have hard feelings about that sort of thing.
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The first fricken thing I ever get on a hospital meal tray is a cup of coffee!!! And I have been in the hospital enough to have a good spectrum of meals. Coffee, no matter what is else on the tray, there is always Coffee!
mmmmmmm
oh my god, i am so sorry,
I meant write, not right, holy TIAs!
You know? You are right! We better right a simple message to ourselves that we can send through the Stargate sent at its on address during a sunstorm!
I already have diabetes, and my wife and I have decided not to have kids. So, it appears I would be a guinea pig for this one. Hey, I will take 50% more longevity. It will give me more time to download and test various linux distros, and various other open source software products. Not to mention, more time on the xbox, gaming, and trolling slashdot!
har har har =-)
That Sony model is primarily intended for the home user or dorm user that wishes to have more integration of their computer components and entertainment system devices. It acts as PVR and has software for that. Large hard drive, some of those models run windows media center. Its got a small foot print but it is not intended to be lugged around. Not to say you couldn't. I have seen people lug some massive heavy equipment glady to and from all the LAN parties my friends and I would throw, etc.
Anyhow that Sony is really intended to be the core of the living room and controll the entertainment center.
the Trophy wife. I always had to shop for snazzy, top of the line laptops for the vice pees and the pee. THey had more powerful mobiles than our heavy number crunchers or programmers and all they did was surf and check email.
I am going to call the number a few days after the auction is over and ask whomever answers WHY???? At this rate the person will be paying the equivalent of a year's salary for an entry level support person. I suggest that everyone call once and say hi. It isn't a prank if you actually intend to have a semi-intelligent converstation...
I agree it is ashame that everyone's favorite mascot, Fleshy Necrotising fasciitis of the foot, lovingly known as Fleshy was left off the poll. Never was there a more recognized and loved lethal infection than Fleshy.
Three cheers for Necrotising fasciitis!
I am an ENFJ. I have a master's in music degree and performed for a decade prossionally when I became disenchanted with the orchestral world and politics and gave it all up. I have no certifications or formal experience but I quickly moved up the way from a Network Operator to a Net Tech, on to another job to the SysAdmn and Network Admn. I loved that job but the company like many had interesting acounting practices and had to sell and the buyer was way far away for corporate. I was offerred to continue on with them but I did not wish to relocate. I then worked for 2.5 years at a public Uni doing Technical Analyst and support.
I burned out on an insane chaotic poorly managed environment and I let it impact my health (I guess that is the F for feeling showing through). I quit in September.
Given this brief account of my history, and that I am an ENFJ what advice do you have for me in looking for the next gig? I would like to be a part of team and do systems admin. work.
awwww give me a break AC! I would bother to spell check, review, and have others assist in proofing important documents. Casual posts to slashdot I make a best effort submission of my ideas but I do not spell check them per se.
wheeeeee spell check trolled by an AC
*rolls eyes*
exactly, these messages are such a big source of confusion...instead of assisting the support structure they end up overburdening it. Your support analysts end up trying to explain the messages instead of being deployed to shut down the offending boxes and educate the moronic repeat offenders...
ooooooooooo! Nice! /me reads
Bookmarked, will read more and give this real thought...
much appreciated!
At my last job at a public uni, obviously any and all worms and viruses slammed us hard. It was soon apparent to make support calls more mangeable as well as the lessen the pure amount of crap on the network that we had to configure our mail server virus package to send those announcement "you have or were sent an infection" messages to /dev/null. Some users might not get the warning they needed I suppose but quickly one message would turn into thousands just for one infected user. To the bit bucket with them! It helps.
that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the URL... will they survive the insanse http request engine that is the DOT...
we shall see
Yesh, wot you say is quite right. BUT STILL *child showing through* this seems FUN!!! I have that impulse urge. Luckily I won't be able to act on it right now as tomorrow I am going out with my wife to get her a new computer system. We are going to pop for a sony vaio desktop with lots of warranty I think. I want her to have a kick ass system. You know my life is very very blessed having a kick ass gamerz0r wife who is rocking with her gamevoice headset on shouting "cum get sum biotch!!! gib this n00b!" /etc ;D
anyhow, its a console, its a dvd system, its hackable, and its not too pricey...that is why I am considering an xbox.
The advice seems very balanced and well-thought out. I RTFA and enjoyed it a lot. I want to encorporate these ideas as I start to look for a new job as I recently burned out at my support job and quit for sanity's sake. This is good stuff.
Totally. If the games you want are not available on the xbox then you won't be happy no matter what kind of geek goodness you can get from the hardware. But I am primarily a computer gamer and have not really done much console gaming since I bought my Playstation. I am in the market for a console and a dvd player and the xbox will let me do both. My wife and I are both avid PC gamers, both are the founding members of our online gaming clan, and I can see us sitting side by side on the couch headsets and controllers locked and loaded using xbox live to game with our fellow clan members when on "Console night". But our primary gaming experience will still come from IRC and RTCW, E. Terrirtory, NWN, etc etc.So for us a console that can serve as our dvd system too really seems like pure goodness.
The comparisson leads me to believe the xbox is the way to go because for an already decent price at 160.00 you get the fastest cpu for consoles, a good sized hard drive, dvd player, and it can be hackz0red to do more stuff...
damn, now I have the urge to splurge...
I, too, live in Cincinnati. Though there a few good things that keep me here, it is mostly a drab existence in a violent ass city with cruel ass cops and a conservative slightly dull or perhaps just "slow" populace....
I keep saying I am going to move back to NC...and then I remember the trailers...
is the grass greener anywhere nowadays?
*sarcastic genXer sigh*
I followed your link to real dolls. I found the FAQ amusing. Here is a bit:
Question: Does the silicone flesh have a foul odor?
No. REALDOLL's silicone flesh is very nearly odorless. You can detect a very mild odor: a pleasant and fruit-like fragrance.
Question: Does the silicone flesh have a foul flavor?
No. REALDOLL's flesh has no noticeable flavor.
TOO FUNNY
looks like the mighty http request engine that is /. has gotten it already, else something is poopoo in my packet path...
Aside from that I would say I do actually feel some guilt from not running Linux as my primary OS on my laptop. I am to be hated I guess because I have a vaio so I am running the dreaded xp. I think that a laptop is all about convenience so the fact that my wireless card wasn't automatically supported by my distro choice (Mandrake 9.2) caused me to scrap my shot to run only Linux on this laptop. I was impressed how much was supported right from the default install. But without a wireless card, what's the point. I will totally to admit to being too lazy to do the leg work to find/build/make drivers.
Don't hate me all the way through and through though, I have a Mandrake Club membership so I am paying some to help the cause out, and I run it as a dual boot on my workstation, and solely on my home network server.
I did Mac support at a Uni until I got sick of the work environment there and long story quit. OS X was a joy to use and support. I had to invoke Apple Care often enough to say you will indeed get some flawed hardware from Apple.
Miami U in Oxford, Oh...
I quit that job fairly recently (support analyst for the central IT of the Uni) for today's market with the benies it pays ok, a tad low but ok...
I do not know how but I have a quick suggestion in case you haven't tried:
Check the vendor's web site for a BIOS update that may make this possible.
If not, get in touch with vendor's tech supp and see if they can help you.
Hoping this helps...
I understand and agree with you., It is kind of funny though if you take a step back from the pragmatic goals of a business especially with the history of Apple. Basically they are treating a computing community with the same "harsh" pragmatism that Microsoft has show them. There choice can be justified from business practice where dollars and cents are the bottom line but some businesses consider moral and ethical concerns occassional and had Apple done the same it sure would have made a story line.
Ah well...
It is odd to me that with iTunes Apple has made it available to their historic "cross-town rivalvy" and yet have not made iTunes available for use in some other OSes. You'd think they'd even have packages for .deb's and .rpm's.
And how ironic would be it they decided that there wasn't enough linux users to be worth the effort. You'd think they would have hard feelings about that sort of thing.