...that we can't get the IRS to audit the pump-n-dump scammers - I doubt they are reporting their income from these scams. The IRS has got to be good for something.
Remember, Al Capone was finally brought down for tax evasion.
Its not just Seattle, here in Spokane all three lanes of I-90 from Argonne to Sprague during morning rush hour is usually brought to a halt due to idiots on the Sprague westbound onramp gunning it to 60 and expecting people to stop and let them merge at the end of the lane instead of properly merging when people open up space for them.
If you ever meet a televison crew (I have one for coworkers), you'd know that media folks can't spell - especially your min. wage Chyron operator. They'll put things on-air exactly how the rundown and graphics are given to them.
You can take night shots that are equal to what you see, but you'll have to learn how to shoot manually instead of using the "auto mode". And low light lenses are your friend (i.e the Nikkor 50mm 1.8D), instead of the slow kit zooms.
....take a good look at the comments by some in this thread, it almost sounds like a bunch of Farkers looking at a boobies picture.
Once upon a time, I dabbled with Linux and considered making a place for it on the network that I managed, but putting up with a bunch of horny dorks trying to hit on me in the communities got a little old after a while. Why the heck would I want to get involved in a group that is predomantly male and have to deal with all that crap all over again?
...there's a TV news station here in Spokane if you put their ratings (third place) on their wikipedia article, someone from that station will remove it.
asides from Seattle, try two spots on the map just a few miles west of Seattle - Bangor (west coast Trident subbase) and Bremerton (large nuclear handling naval shipyard)
...the students from the small town schools in my region have to attend remedial education classes if they plan on attending university. Why? A "basic education" is all those districts can afford to teach and it is not enough to get them through today's college.
The state board of education and the state legislature has some funny ideas as to what university entrance requirements are and what the state will fund K-12 wise.
My personal experience in these matters, may not be applicable since I work in an entirely different world.
A few months ago, I was given my choice of IT positions with three diferent state agencies and a half-dozen well-paying urban school districts. At the time I was working for a rural class A school district with a boss who is the sterotypical school teacher dumped into an IT manager position - basically he couldn't manage his way out of a paperbag. His brillant idea was that I was going to stick around until the end of the school year and look for a job than. Yea right, I really wasn't going to stay, if I wasn't "importaint enough" to be paid a decent salary and to be treated with some basic respect, I wasn't "importaint enough" to stick around that long.
For that, his and some of my collegues's attitudes over the past years, and other reasons I rather not get into....after negoiating my start date with my new boss, I handed in my notice to the supt timed so that I was gone days before semester changeover when the place turns into a clusterfuck with pissy schoolteachers demanding the world.
Five months later, my ex-collegues in my old department still will not speak to me...personally, I think they got what they deserved. Just because I am female doesn't mean I'm an instant secretary, nor does it mean I'm physically unable to pick up a computer and move the damned thing....there is a fine line between being nice and being an insulting asshole.
It is nice when you can escape a workplace that causes you to live on antacids.
And karma can be a bitch sometimes....that district is on the verge of imploding on itself with their new superitendent coming onboard who is not well-liked enough by both the old-guard and younger staff members that they are looking at leaving.
Hi Steve Z if you are reading this, we all know you hang out on./
I worked for years in the public school system before I went to the ESD, and one thing I will say is that school teachers and district IT staff are usually not the brightest when it comes to technology. All they see it as a box to babysit their students and to do their grades on. The majority of the teaches I know are too afraid to experiment with their systems unless they hear from somewhere that "such and such app is cool and they have to try it out". The same applies to many building and district level techs that I know.
As an interesting side note, those stats started to climb after WSIPC gave the go ahead that Mozilla/Firefox was supported to run Skyward (Skyward is an online student managment app that the state is migrating towards).
If you are curious as to exactly what kind of discounts Microsoft gives to WSIPC members, you can go to http://www.wsipc.org/ and choose services > purchasing services for the Microsoft contract and price list.
I work for a Washington State agency. The majority of the vistors to our main site are K-12 related (teachers, parents, students, etc). Microsoft products are quite popular around this area due to the steep discounts that Microsoft hands out to K-12 schools and their related state agencies. However, the 2004 stats for my employer's main site are quite interesting.
Operating Systems (Top 10) Operating Systems Hits Percent Windows 1589512 94.8 % Macintosh 62935 3.7 % Unknown 22019 1.3 % Linux 967 0 % WebTV 65 0 % FreeBSD 42 0 % Irix 11 0 % Sun Solaris 8 0 % AmigaOS 4 0 % Unknown Unix system 3 0 % Others 3 0 %
Browsers (Top 10) Browsers Grabber Hits Percent MS Internet Explorer No 1185077 70.7 % Firefox No 437908 26.1 % Mozilla No 21460 1.2 % Unknown ? 12121 0.7 % Safari No 9478 0.5 % Netscape No 8534 0.5 % Opera No 651 0 % Konqueror No 172 0 % Firebird (Old Firefox) No 71 0 % WebTV browser No 65 0 %
I now work for a public agency in the State of Washington, the home of Microsoft and friends. This agency's website is most defiently not a destination for geeks and computer-savvy folks.
Looking at the stats for my employer's homepage for the year of 2004...while 94.8% of our visitors run MS Windows, the FireFox percentage is currently at 26.1%
Could this be a cover for NASA to give money to the Russian space program without Congressional outcry to keep all those scientists employed instead of them drifting off to less than-honorable gigs to actually make money to keep their families fed?
Just a little story before you get caught in the same trap as these children with your school.
Once upon a time at a school district I once worked for, one of the technology classes wanted to hold a LAN party as an end-of-semester celebration. They wanted to host it in the high school building since the building was fully wired with switched 100 MB drops and had power and space.
Their teacher agreed to supervise this all-night party and parental agreement slips were signed by all the students parents. The IT department signed off on allowing students to bring in their own equipment as long as they followed a few simple rules that the IT department put in place.
The party turned out to be a disaster. The teacher went to the staff lounge and was asleep for most of the night (don't you just love security cameras) and left 20 teenage boys all alone with their games.
Well a couple of the boys decided that exploring the network and trying to use the 'sploit of the week against the network systems was much more fun than playing games.
The next morning, the IT department browsed thru the logs and found that a few boys have spent the entire night trying to crack into both the Linux and Windows servers without avail. As a result of this sudden lost of trust of the IT department, LAN parties are officially banned on the school district network as declared from the superintendent and the board of education.
Moral of the story, if the HS lets you host the LAN party, make sure your friends are supervised and they don't do anything stupid. That one bit of trust can be lost forever if one of your friends takes the trust they were given and wastes it away in order to "change my grades".
I'm sure the Moz team will have a fix out soon, but I seriously doubt Microsoft will have one out fast enough for us poor slobs that have networks full of stupid users who use IE (sorry, Moz won't cut it unless you can manage it with Group Policies...)
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Well I guess I'm screwed since I was searching for ammonia sulphate fertilizer rates for the bed of egyptian onions I planted last weekend
Spokane appears to not be on the hit list from using the Store Locater on their site
Which is nice since I won't have to drive out to the Valley to go to Best Buy to grab a small part for work.
...that we can't get the IRS to audit the pump-n-dump scammers - I doubt they are reporting their income from these scams. The IRS has got to be good for something.
Remember, Al Capone was finally brought down for tax evasion.
Its not just Seattle, here in Spokane all three lanes of I-90 from Argonne to Sprague during morning rush hour is usually brought to a halt due to idiots on the Sprague westbound onramp gunning it to 60 and expecting people to stop and let them merge at the end of the lane instead of properly merging when people open up space for them.
...Please look up RCW 42.56.030 and read it. You can look it up at http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/
Its been Washington State law since 1977.
If you ever meet a televison crew (I have one for coworkers), you'd know that media folks can't spell - especially your min. wage Chyron operator. They'll put things on-air exactly how the rundown and graphics are given to them.
Learn how to use your camera.
You can take night shots that are equal to what you see, but you'll have to learn how to shoot manually instead of using the "auto mode". And low light lenses are your friend (i.e the Nikkor 50mm 1.8D), instead of the slow kit zooms.
My neighbor's neutered dog was going at it with my siberian the other day.
Most of those links are 404'ed now.
Hey man, we've been called "the Soviet of Washington" since the early 1930's.
California ain't got nuttin on us.
KING-TV
....take a good look at the comments by some in this thread, it almost sounds like a bunch of Farkers looking at a boobies picture.
Once upon a time, I dabbled with Linux and considered making a place for it on the network that I managed, but putting up with a bunch of horny dorks trying to hit on me in the communities got a little old after a while. Why the heck would I want to get involved in a group that is predomantly male and have to deal with all that crap all over again?
...there's a TV news station here in Spokane if you put their ratings (third place) on their wikipedia article, someone from that station will remove it.
asides from Seattle, try two spots on the map just a few miles west of Seattle - Bangor (west coast Trident subbase) and Bremerton (large nuclear handling naval shipyard)
...the students from the small town schools in my region have to attend remedial education classes if they plan on attending university. Why? A "basic education" is all those districts can afford to teach and it is not enough to get them through today's college.
The state board of education and the state legislature has some funny ideas as to what university entrance requirements are and what the state will fund K-12 wise.
My personal experience in these matters, may not be applicable since I work in an entirely different world.
./
A few months ago, I was given my choice of IT positions with three diferent state agencies and a half-dozen well-paying urban school districts. At the time I was working for a rural class A school district with a boss who is the sterotypical school teacher dumped into an IT manager position - basically he couldn't manage his way out of a paperbag. His brillant idea was that I was going to stick around until the end of the school year and look for a job than. Yea right, I really wasn't going to stay, if I wasn't "importaint enough" to be paid a decent salary and to be treated with some basic respect, I wasn't "importaint enough" to stick around that long.
For that, his and some of my collegues's attitudes over the past years, and other reasons I rather not get into....after negoiating my start date with my new boss, I handed in my notice to the supt timed so that I was gone days before semester changeover when the place turns into a clusterfuck with pissy schoolteachers demanding the world.
Five months later, my ex-collegues in my old department still will not speak to me...personally, I think they got what they deserved. Just because I am female doesn't mean I'm an instant secretary, nor does it mean I'm physically unable to pick up a computer and move the damned thing....there is a fine line between being nice and being an insulting asshole.
It is nice when you can escape a workplace that causes you to live on antacids.
And karma can be a bitch sometimes....that district is on the verge of imploding on itself with their new superitendent coming onboard who is not well-liked enough by both the old-guard and younger staff members that they are looking at leaving.
Hi Steve Z if you are reading this, we all know you hang out on
I worked for years in the public school system before I went to the ESD, and one thing I will say is that school teachers and district IT staff are usually not the brightest when it comes to technology. All they see it as a box to babysit their students and to do their grades on. The majority of the teaches I know are too afraid to experiment with their systems unless they hear from somewhere that "such and such app is cool and they have to try it out". The same applies to many building and district level techs that I know.
As an interesting side note, those stats started to climb after WSIPC gave the go ahead that Mozilla/Firefox was supported to run Skyward (Skyward is an online student managment app that the state is migrating towards).
If you are curious as to exactly what kind of discounts Microsoft gives to WSIPC members, you can go to http://www.wsipc.org/ and choose services > purchasing services for the Microsoft contract and price list.
I work for a Washington State agency. The majority of the vistors to our main site are K-12 related (teachers, parents, students, etc). Microsoft products are quite popular around this area due to the steep discounts that Microsoft hands out to K-12 schools and their related state agencies. However, the 2004 stats for my employer's main site are quite interesting.
You want a gloat about FireFox?
I now work for a public agency in the State of Washington, the home of Microsoft and friends. This agency's website is most defiently not a destination for geeks and computer-savvy folks.
Looking at the stats for my employer's homepage for the year of 2004...while 94.8% of our visitors run MS Windows, the FireFox percentage is currently at 26.1%
Could this be a cover for NASA to give money to the Russian space program without Congressional outcry to keep all those scientists employed instead of them drifting off to less than-honorable gigs to actually make money to keep their families fed?
1998 Report suggesting giving Russia Space Program bailout
...we'll be seeing this all over the roads?
boiler explosion
Just a little story before you get caught in the same trap as these children with your school.
Once upon a time at a school district I once worked for, one of the technology classes wanted to hold a LAN party as an end-of-semester celebration. They wanted to host it in the high school building since the building was fully wired with switched 100 MB drops and had power and space.
Their teacher agreed to supervise this all-night party and parental agreement slips were signed by all the students parents. The IT department signed off on allowing students to bring in their own equipment as long as they followed a few simple rules that the IT department put in place.
The party turned out to be a disaster. The teacher went to the staff lounge and was asleep for most of the night (don't you just love security cameras) and left 20 teenage boys all alone with their games.
Well a couple of the boys decided that exploring the network and trying to use the 'sploit of the week against the network systems was much more fun than playing games.
The next morning, the IT department browsed thru the logs and found that a few boys have spent the entire night trying to crack into both the Linux and Windows servers without avail. As a result of this sudden lost of trust of the IT department, LAN parties are officially banned on the school district network as declared from the superintendent and the board of education.
Moral of the story, if the HS lets you host the LAN party, make sure your friends are supervised and they don't do anything stupid. That one bit of trust can be lost forever if one of your friends takes the trust they were given and wastes it away in order to "change my grades".
I live in Eastern Washington where it is cloudy most of the winter and my house is 2/3rds solar (kitchen, family room and furnace).
I get by just fine when the power goes out for days at a time.
I'm sure the Moz team will have a fix out soon, but I seriously doubt Microsoft will have one out fast enough for us poor slobs that have networks full of stupid users who use IE (sorry, Moz won't cut it unless you can manage it with Group Policies...)
...I don't see Firefox making any large-scale penetration onto the corporate networks unless you can manage it with Group Policies.