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I had this crazy idea to cash in on the SARS paranoia when my roommate went to Toronto to visit a friend. I took a surgical mask I used for my Holloween costume and wrote on it:
My roommate went to Toronto and all I got was this surgical mask.
I could have made tonnes o' bucks but unfortunately, with the SARS scare over, my opportunity was lost.
That should be the next question in this chain: How many of you bring (or acquire via company funds) your favorite keyboard to the workplace to replace the standard Dell/compaq/HP, etc?
In my office, you try not to piss off the secretary, that would be me, and I would ensure that it gets on the next office supply order.
A can remember a fairly simialar thread on Slashdot a few years ago. Back then there was a strong "GUI is for weenies" mentality and it was the Slackware fans that were the true hardcore Linux crowd (whatever happened to Slackware?).
It's here. As far as I can tell, it is going strong. Slack9.0 was released in March and is as modern as any other GNU/Linux distro.
I hate to admit it, but in comparison to other cities, the bus system in Ottawa is not that bad if you are a government drone. (I have little else to compare it to as I have only ever lived in Ottawa, Windsor ON, and Dearborn MI-US). There are special bus-only roads, and there are quite the number of busses coming from the suburbs in the morning and from downtown at night.
It is a pain in the ass if you live downtown and commute the suburbs (especially the west end, like Kanata). As Ottawa grows due to tech growth and urban sprawl, the needs for better urban transit are changing and unfortunately, we're still in a 1970s model.
The solution, as mentioned earlier, would be I guess, live closer to your work if you can afford it.
There is a good reason for this. If you are somewhat tech savvy at all, you probably don't want to be a treated like shit by clients and employer for $10.00 an hour, be called into work on no notice, sent home when it's quiet and get shitty hours when you challenge it.
I did tech support for 6 months, hated every minute of it. I was in the middle of a call with a client, put him on hold, when it was a job offer for twice as much money, regular 9-5 hours and a decent management, I hung up, walked away from my desk, came back a few days later to get my last paycheque and turn in my building pass.
I guess to summarise, it's hard to get good phone tech support because anybody with any aptitude has little difficulty finding anything else. I would assume that it is still the case now as it was in 1999/2000.
It's even more frustrating when you work in a government. I work for the Canadian Department of Justice. Our domain is justice.gc.ca. It makes sense like the US version is justice.gov. However, when trying to get information from provincial Departments of Justice, it gets confusing. There is no consistency.
Newfoundland - http://www.gov.nl.ca/just/
PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/oag/index.php3
New Brunswick - http://www.gnb.ca/0062/index-e.asp
Nova Scotia - http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/
Quebec - justice.gouv.qc.ca (gov.qc.ca is an alias for gouv.qc.ca)
Ontario - attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca
Manitoba - gov.mb.ca/justice/
Saskatchewan - saskjustice.gov.sk.ca/
Alberta - http://www4.gov.ab.ca/just/
BC - gov.bc.ca/ag/
Nunavut - http://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut
NWT - justice.gov.nt.ca
Yukon - justice.gov.yk.ca/
What is so hard about being consistent? Why can't it be justice.PROVINCE/GC.ca? So much time is wated digging. If we can't do it here, I can't imagine the US being able to to it with 9 times the population and 3-1/2 times more federal divisions.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra
Does this apply to all educational institutions or some? If I want to work at home rather than at the lab, I will need some MS software. Getting it at bargain prices is better than getting warez as MS has to make the effort to get it to me.
If you don't use latex, you can also print the file to postscript. Then go to the website http://www.ps2pdf.com and upload the postscript file, and get back a pdf. The site is fast and really useful.
If I had the skill to write cgi-scripts, I would write one myself. I think it just uses ghostscript.
I am offering my comments because my ego just can't stop me. I did my bachelor's degree in the early 90s in Social Science and now I am doing a programming diploma at a community college. Although, it may be hard to make too many comparisons between the two episodes of post-secondary education, I can honestly say that the laptop is making a big difference in my programme. It is a serious timesaver. An ftp server at home helps too.
I work full-time and go to school at night. At lunch, I'll grab my laptop and transcribe my disorganised messy writing into something intelligible and will intersperse the notes with stuff I picked up from the text(s). The server at home means I have access to all my documents whether I am working on the desktop at home/lab/or at work. Since I can plug into the Ethernet at work and 802.11b on campus, I can download docs/ assignments to the laptop to work on them. I am pondering getting audacious enough to bring the laptop to class to cut out a step.
The laptop is not a super expensive one either. It is a 1998 vintage 300mHz Dell Latitude with a 4Gb hard drive. I have Slackware 9.0 running on it and it is snappy and all that. The hard drive is too small to dual boot and I miss having MS Word. I'd use WP for Linux, but for some reason, I haven't been able to get it to install since the Slack 7.1 days. Abiword would probably do fine if it didn't crash all the time. One concern I do have is that not using Windows may become a problem in the future when I do the MS Visual{C++, Basic} courses.
I guess what I am saying is that a crappy old laptop and a more useful desktop in one instance has worked well and allowed me so far to make efficient use of a very tight schedule. The money I saved by not buying a new laptop allowed me to build a pretty powerful desktop.
In my office, I am the secretary. I have a 2.4GHz P4. Do I need it? No, but my employer thought I could use it as I am the researcher. Do you need a P4 to search google, QL and other internal databases? I am also becoming a programmer and have written databses and small VB "programs". Does that mean I need a P4? No. It's just wated money.
Most of the other employees have 733mHz, 866mHz and 1GHz. P3s. If they only knew how much money they wasted upgrading....
I'll have to agree. I signed up for Yahoo and Hotmail (pre-msn) accounts in 1997. I've only ever used them for on-line storage storage of email when I had only a pop account at my ISP and recently for IM. When I check my yahoo after a month or so of not using it, it is empty. When I check hotmail, if I have security on, but at the level just below whitelisting, I get 10 spams a day, most of them so crude they would make a sailor blush.
It's been 25 years (late 77) since Canada went officially metric and 33 years since the law was passed. Today we measure long distances, like distances we drive in metres, but measure small things like height in feet & inches. We measure temperature outside in Celcius, but cook using a fahrenheit scale. We buy milk by the litre but beer by the 12 ounce bottle or Imperial pint. We still use Imperial dimensions for building houses and my boyfriend makes me keep metric and Imperial tools in my car in case he has to fix things. For cultural reasons, I think that the Imperial and US measuring systems will exist in English speaking countries for a long long time. I'm sure other countries that have moved to metric have similar experiences, like Australia, which I think went earlier and Ireland which went metric later.
Oh no. The first program I ever wrote in C had that. Please don't give SCO my address. I think In the future I'll just modify it to "void main(void){" and cross my fingers.
I don't think he's too concerned. If he doesn't get enough votes next year, he can just count on corrupt election officials in Florida to smooth things over.
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My roommate went to Toronto and all I got was this surgical mask.
I could have made tonnes o' bucks but unfortunately, with the SARS scare over, my opportunity was lost.
That should be the next question in this chain: How many of you bring (or acquire via company funds) your favorite keyboard to the workplace to replace the standard Dell/compaq/HP, etc? In my office, you try not to piss off the secretary, that would be me, and I would ensure that it gets on the next office supply order.
I'm confused. How does marketing cause the card to run slower?
It's here. As far as I can tell, it is going strong. Slack9.0 was released in March and is as modern as any other GNU/Linux distro.
When is mocking the Slashdot clichées going to become a clichée too?
Look at the story
It is a pain in the ass if you live downtown and commute the suburbs (especially the west end, like Kanata). As Ottawa grows due to tech growth and urban sprawl, the needs for better urban transit are changing and unfortunately, we're still in a 1970s model.
The solution, as mentioned earlier, would be I guess, live closer to your work if you can afford it.
I was in the middle of a call with a client,
Here should be, "my cell phone rang. I put the client on hold,"
put him on hold,
I did tech support for 6 months, hated every minute of it. I was in the middle of a call with a client, put him on hold, when it was a job offer for twice as much money, regular 9-5 hours and a decent management, I hung up, walked away from my desk, came back a few days later to get my last paycheque and turn in my building pass.
I guess to summarise, it's hard to get good phone tech support because anybody with any aptitude has little difficulty finding anything else. I would assume that it is still the case now as it was in 1999/2000.
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Newfoundland - http://www.gov.nl.ca/just/
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PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/oag/index.php3
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New Brunswick - http://www.gnb.ca/0062/index-e.asp
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Nova Scotia - http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/
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Quebec - justice.gouv.qc.ca (gov.qc.ca is an alias for gouv.qc.ca)
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Ontario - attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca
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Manitoba - gov.mb.ca/justice/
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Saskatchewan - saskjustice.gov.sk.ca/
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Alberta - http://www4.gov.ab.ca/just/
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BC - gov.bc.ca/ag/
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Nunavut - http://www.gov.nu.ca/Nunavut
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NWT - justice.gov.nt.ca
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Yukon - justice.gov.yk.ca/
What is so hard about being consistent? Why can't it be justice.PROVINCE/GC.ca? So much time is wated digging. If we can't do it here, I can't imagine the US being able to to it with 9 times the population and 3-1/2 times more federal divisions.Damn you Commodore! I don't adore my 64 anymore.
Does this apply to all educational institutions or some? If I want to work at home rather than at the lab, I will need some MS software. Getting it at bargain prices is better than getting warez as MS has to make the effort to get it to me.
Wow, when they renamed the Palladium in Ottawa to the Corel Centre, I never realised how much of a change it really was. I don't feel safe any more
You could also use avantgo to sync the course webpages to your palm and have the notes relatively up-to-date.
If I had the skill to write cgi-scripts, I would write one myself. I think it just uses ghostscript.
I work full-time and go to school at night. At lunch, I'll grab my laptop and transcribe my disorganised messy writing into something intelligible and will intersperse the notes with stuff I picked up from the text(s). The server at home means I have access to all my documents whether I am working on the desktop at home/lab/or at work. Since I can plug into the Ethernet at work and 802.11b on campus, I can download docs/ assignments to the laptop to work on them. I am pondering getting audacious enough to bring the laptop to class to cut out a step.
The laptop is not a super expensive one either. It is a 1998 vintage 300mHz Dell Latitude with a 4Gb hard drive. I have Slackware 9.0 running on it and it is snappy and all that. The hard drive is too small to dual boot and I miss having MS Word. I'd use WP for Linux, but for some reason, I haven't been able to get it to install since the Slack 7.1 days. Abiword would probably do fine if it didn't crash all the time. One concern I do have is that not using Windows may become a problem in the future when I do the MS Visual{C++, Basic} courses.
I guess what I am saying is that a crappy old laptop and a more useful desktop in one instance has worked well and allowed me so far to make efficient use of a very tight schedule. The money I saved by not buying a new laptop allowed me to build a pretty powerful desktop.
In my office, I am the secretary. I have a 2.4GHz P4. Do I need it? No, but my employer thought I could use it as I am the researcher. Do you need a P4 to search google, QL and other internal databases? I am also becoming a programmer and have written databses and small VB "programs". Does that mean I need a P4? No. It's just wated money. Most of the other employees have 733mHz, 866mHz and 1GHz. P3s. If they only knew how much money they wasted upgrading....
I'll have to agree. I signed up for Yahoo and Hotmail (pre-msn) accounts in 1997. I've only ever used them for on-line storage storage of email when I had only a pop account at my ISP and recently for IM. When I check my yahoo after a month or so of not using it, it is empty. When I check hotmail, if I have security on, but at the level just below whitelisting, I get 10 spams a day, most of them so crude they would make a sailor blush.
It's been 25 years (late 77) since Canada went officially metric and 33 years since the law was passed. Today we measure long distances, like distances we drive in metres, but measure small things like height in feet & inches. We measure temperature outside in Celcius, but cook using a fahrenheit scale. We buy milk by the litre but beer by the 12 ounce bottle or Imperial pint. We still use Imperial dimensions for building houses and my boyfriend makes me keep metric and Imperial tools in my car in case he has to fix things. For cultural reasons, I think that the Imperial and US measuring systems will exist in English speaking countries for a long long time. I'm sure other countries that have moved to metric have similar experiences, like Australia, which I think went earlier and Ireland which went metric later.
Oh no. The first program I ever wrote in C had that. Please don't give SCO my address. I think In the future I'll just modify it to "void main(void){" and cross my fingers.
There is a set of rules that clearly define what is write and wrong.
I doubt you could have used a homonym in a more wrong place.
Our Parliament can generate enough hot air so that we can export. Any buyers?
The 18c coin could just be a Canadian Quarter (now that the dollar is worth 72c US).
I don't think he's too concerned. If he doesn't get enough votes next year, he can just count on corrupt election officials in Florida to smooth things over.
Don't get both a penis and breast enlagements at the same time guy, you will hav people looking down, then up, then down, then up.