i guy i used to work with at another job was a fan of one particular artist (can't/won't remember the name now). back in the late 90's when burners were just about beginning to be affordable he started asking me for help with buying one, setting it up, etc. turns out he was part of some group that would trade bootlegs of this artist's concerts, and these other fans asked no money or anything. all the postage came out of their own pockets. only cost to you was return postage and cost of the media you wanted to copy it too. anyway, i happened to listen to some of these once he'd burned them to CD, and the quality was outstanding.
not every bootleg recorder out there is a guy with a cheap mini-cassette recorder.
i quite enjoyed the specs of the computer he wanted:
The concept is an under $5K workstation. 68000 based with 256K standard. 15 inch 35mhz video Bit mapped 720x560 display. 120x56 in landscape mode 90x72 in portrait mode Two serial ports. One omninet interface (1mbps serial rs422) Detached Keyboard with lots of extra keys.
15-inch display? is there any real need for a monitor that big?
there is no subistitute, in my opinion, for playing live as much as is humanly possible...
watch out for saturation. if i go to a bar every weekend and hear the same band playing the same songs it gets old, no matter how good you are. if you are going to saturate yourself in an area, rotate your songs a bit.
some of us are old enough (sadly) to have learned to be paranoid about magnets in the mid-eighties...i'm sure there are others that learned it even earlier..hard drive? what's that?
Moz doesn't try, it expects the designer to do things correctly.
i don't think that's completely true. i've found that netscape would always bomb out when i forgot a tag or something like that, but mozilla and IE both guessed what i should have put there, and did it for me. only reason i test my pages with netscape is cause i know for sure it'll catch most of the crap i usually forget anyway, even when it looks fine in IE/mozilla.
i could be wrong though..
Re:google is VERY democratic in nature...
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right, when search engines started up, there were tons to choose from. and i learned by using them which ones would return results that actually mattered to me. google was and still is the only one that consistantly helps me find wierd stuff that i look for.
Re:RPG's $10 and are extraordinarily widespread
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there are very few weapons that can destroy one (espically the A2 variant) in one shot.
i believe in one of his non-fiction books tom clancy told a story of an Abrams tank that had gotten stuck somehow in the sand during desert storm. they couldn't get it out right away, and had to keep moving so they decided to destroy it. after several direct hits by their own guns, they still hadn't destroyed it enough to leave, so they finally waited for a towtank. it was towed back, and once they replaced the main hatch and the electronics inside it was fine.
i don't think so. leaving a car with the keys in it in a parking lot for thieves to steal isn't entrapment. i've seen cops do that before, this is pretty much the same thing...
i know i've had some problems with cassette adapters though. occasionally if the tape deck was too hot (or cold) the adapter would get ejected after about 3 seconds of play. took me awhile to find the adapter that wouldn't do that, athough it was the same brand/model as three others that did.
one trick of schemers is to find a product that'll ring up with a description close to that of an expensive item, and cut the barcode off that, stick it on the expensive item, and then go to a cashier who isn't paying attention/doesn't care/ is in on it and boom, you get a "PS2 GAME SYS" at the "PS2 GAME GRA" price ("ps2 game system/ps2 game grand theft auto3")
i believe norton utilities 95 allowed you to make a rescue disk from removable media. the choices i remember were zip and jaz disk. if you booted the machine with either of these disks in their drive, it would assume you had crashed and would let you restore from the zip/jaz.
Every owner I've ever dealt with who tried to design or engineer their own facilities has been dissatisfied with the result.
a friend of mine works for a company that just bought a new building. while they didn't have quite that much equipment, they were still able to design a nice center on their own without hiring someone. they had to do some research, but if you want to not pay money, you gotta get the knowledge somehow.
i saw it too, looks damn nice and works great too.
Re:A QBASIC story. How embarassing.
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i had a program i was doing for a final project back in 8th grade. it was in basic and for some reason i couldn't get it to work. it followed the same basic frame i'd used all semester, but it would error out at some point (i don't remember where, that was too long ago). i had my teacher look at it and a friend of mine also. neither of them could see where it went wrong. i debugged it for hours. i ripped it apart and threw it back together. i printed it out and rewrote the whole thing. i never found out what it was doing wrong. my teacher even gave me an 'A' on it cause he thought it had no reason for not working and couldn't figure it out.
i used to work as a cashier and i know that every time amex or another of the cc companies tried to force ID checking or something like that, there was always a large percentage of customers who would complain that they didn't have to show ID at the other stores, why should they show it at this one?
I've even been guilty of it myself everytime i gave my cc to my girlfriend to buy something at the corner store and she wasn't asked for ID, i'd wonder how much i could get taken for if my wallet got lost and i didn't realize it. but then when i go shopping at that same store i used to work at they now require that i actually pull out my driver's license to show it to them, and i get annoyed at the inconvenience of it all..
when signing the credit slip a friend of mine usually takes his pen and scratches out all but the last four digits if they're showing before handing the slip back to the merchant.
i personally went to the extreme measure of having horrible credit, so potential identity theft is usually stopped when the thief realizes they wouldn't be able to get a card in my name.
Re:A GREAT movie, no "bad guy overkill"
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It's much more interesting seeing a killer try to justify what he did
that's one of the reasons i enjoyed "The Rock", Ed Harris's character wasn't an evil guy, and he even says towards the end of the movie that he had no intention of firing the missles into San Francisco. He wanted to get the govt's attention, and after failing to legitimately do it, he decides he has to do some thing drastic.
yeah, well i've worked with a few people who did go to college and still don't have that "got to get it done no matter what" attitude. they don't have several of the qualities that make a good sysadmin, but because they have a degree, they keep getting jobs where they don't really know what they are doing (and end up leaving those jobs before they can get fired).
in response to the actual question, college can help, and so can "real world" experience. i work with a friend of mine who makes about the same as i do, doing the same job. he's got a degree, i don't. we both have experience though, and that was what counted when we were hired. college is nice to have, it's not for everybody, but it can be nice to have a somewhat broader knowledge of the world around you that college "forces" you to have, but for me personally, it wasn't the right choice. that doesn't mean i'm an idiot, because i still make it a point to read books about things i'm not familiar with, so i can better understand them.
it all depends on what you really want to do, and how you want to do it, there isn't really a one-size-fits all solution.
i remember on some radio commercial i heard (or maybe a talk show on the radio, i dunno) some lady was saying that with her busy schedule, if it weren't for her cell phone she'd never get a chance to talk to her kids.
i thought that was so sad, that a parent didn't have enough time to have a simple face-to-face talk with their own children, instead relying on a cell phone to call while she's doing something else. deep down, doesn't the kid start thinking that they aren't important enough for mom or dad to stop by their room and chat, instead of calling home real quick to make sure they knew to heat up the leftovers in the fridge? my parents both worked full time, but there was ALWAYS a time during the day that my dad would annoy the hell out of me by asking what i'd done that day or was planning on doing, and he wouldn't take vague answers either. if he didn't know where i was going to be or how to contact me, i wasn't going. how hard is it for a parent to take a genuine interest in their kids? and if they really don't have the time, why did they bother having them in the first place?
is is better than nothing though? if you see a stream of data that's obviously encrypted, aren't you going to look at it harder than the rest of the stuff? i would...of course assuming you can tell its encrypted...
i had a cobra soldier whose band inside had busted, i used him for the really cool explosions. i'd have his legs on one side of the battle and him trying to situp on the otherside..it was awesome..
i had the exact opposite problem. every time i tried to load linux (rh7.x) on my tecra 8000, i couldn't work on it for more than an hour before it started to flake out. mouse would jump, slow performance, finally it would lock up. i tried reloading redhat several times, with different options to see if there was something i was loading that was doing it, but nothing worked. i finally redid it with 98se, and it works fine. no overheating, no mouse funny business, nothing. same thing on my thinkpad 390x. linux ran fine on my dell latitude though, but with the smaller screen i'm having to stick with the thinkpad and windows. for now.
my young nephew may not know how to tell time, but he loved the 'indiglo' watch i got him for his birthday last year. he used the lightup feature all the time to amaze his friends.
just cause you give a kid (or a techie) something like a watch doesn't mean they'll use it for the intended purpose, right?
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i guy i used to work with at another job was a fan of one particular artist (can't/won't remember the name now). back in the late 90's when burners were just about beginning to be affordable he started asking me for help with buying one, setting it up, etc. turns out he was part of some group that would trade bootlegs of this artist's concerts, and these other fans asked no money or anything. all the postage came out of their own pockets. only cost to you was return postage and cost of the media you wanted to copy it too. anyway, i happened to listen to some of these once he'd burned them to CD, and the quality was outstanding.
not every bootleg recorder out there is a guy with a cheap mini-cassette recorder.
i quite enjoyed the specs of the computer he wanted:
The concept is an under $5K workstation.
68000 based with 256K standard.
15 inch 35mhz video
Bit mapped 720x560 display.
120x56 in landscape mode
90x72 in portrait mode
Two serial ports.
One omninet interface (1mbps serial rs422)
Detached Keyboard with lots of extra keys.
15-inch display? is there any real need for a monitor that big?
there is no subistitute, in my opinion, for playing live as much as is humanly possible...
watch out for saturation. if i go to a bar every weekend and hear the same band playing the same songs it gets old, no matter how good you are. if you are going to saturate yourself in an area, rotate your songs a bit.
some of us are old enough (sadly) to have learned to be paranoid about magnets in the mid-eighties...i'm sure there are others that learned it even earlier..hard drive? what's that?
Moz doesn't try, it expects the designer to do things correctly.
i don't think that's completely true. i've found that netscape would always bomb out when i forgot a tag or something like that, but mozilla and IE both guessed what i should have put there, and did it for me. only reason i test my pages with netscape is cause i know for sure it'll catch most of the crap i usually forget anyway, even when it looks fine in IE/mozilla.
i could be wrong though..
right, when search engines started up, there were tons to choose from. and i learned by using them which ones would return results that actually mattered to me. google was and still is the only one that consistantly helps me find wierd stuff that i look for.
there are very few weapons that can destroy one (espically the A2 variant) in one shot.
i believe in one of his non-fiction books tom clancy told a story of an Abrams tank that had gotten stuck somehow in the sand during desert storm. they couldn't get it out right away, and had to keep moving so they decided to destroy it. after several direct hits by their own guns, they still hadn't destroyed it enough to leave, so they finally waited for a towtank. it was towed back, and once they replaced the main hatch and the electronics inside it was fine.
i don't think so. leaving a car with the keys in it in a parking lot for thieves to steal isn't entrapment. i've seen cops do that before, this is pretty much the same thing...
i know i've had some problems with cassette adapters though. occasionally if the tape deck was too hot (or cold) the adapter would get ejected after about 3 seconds of play. took me awhile to find the adapter that wouldn't do that, athough it was the same brand/model as three others that did.
one trick of schemers is to find a product that'll ring up with a description close to that of an expensive item, and cut the barcode off that, stick it on the expensive item, and then go to a cashier who isn't paying attention/doesn't care/ is in on it and boom, you get a "PS2 GAME SYS" at the "PS2 GAME GRA" price ("ps2 game system/ps2 game grand theft auto3")
i've used my computer to repel women for years...
i believe norton utilities 95 allowed you to make a rescue disk from removable media. the choices i remember were zip and jaz disk. if you booted the machine with either of these disks in their drive, it would assume you had crashed and would let you restore from the zip/jaz.
Every owner I've ever dealt with who tried to design or engineer their own facilities has been dissatisfied with the result.
a friend of mine works for a company that just bought a new building. while they didn't have quite that much equipment, they were still able to design a nice center on their own without hiring someone. they had to do some research, but if you want to not pay money, you gotta get the knowledge somehow.
i saw it too, looks damn nice and works great too.
i had a program i was doing for a final project back in 8th grade. it was in basic and for some reason i couldn't get it to work. it followed the same basic frame i'd used all semester, but it would error out at some point (i don't remember where, that was too long ago). i had my teacher look at it and a friend of mine also. neither of them could see where it went wrong. i debugged it for hours. i ripped it apart and threw it back together. i printed it out and rewrote the whole thing. i never found out what it was doing wrong. my teacher even gave me an 'A' on it cause he thought it had no reason for not working and couldn't figure it out.
Why doesn't AMEX make it harder?
i used to work as a cashier and i know that every time amex or another of the cc companies tried to force ID checking or something like that, there was always a large percentage of customers who would complain that they didn't have to show ID at the other stores, why should they show it at this one?
I've even been guilty of it myself everytime i gave my cc to my girlfriend to buy something at the corner store and she wasn't asked for ID, i'd wonder how much i could get taken for if my wallet got lost and i didn't realize it. but then when i go shopping at that same store i used to work at they now require that i actually pull out my driver's license to show it to them, and i get annoyed at the inconvenience of it all..
when signing the credit slip a friend of mine usually takes his pen and scratches out all but the last four digits if they're showing before handing the slip back to the merchant.
i personally went to the extreme measure of having horrible credit, so potential identity theft is usually stopped when the thief realizes they wouldn't be able to get a card in my name.
It's much more interesting seeing a killer try to justify what he did
that's one of the reasons i enjoyed "The Rock", Ed Harris's character wasn't an evil guy, and he even says towards the end of the movie that he had no intention of firing the missles into San Francisco. He wanted to get the govt's attention, and after failing to legitimately do it, he decides he has to do some thing drastic.
yeah, well i've worked with a few people who did go to college and still don't have that "got to get it done no matter what" attitude. they don't have several of the qualities that make a good sysadmin, but because they have a degree, they keep getting jobs where they don't really know what they are doing (and end up leaving those jobs before they can get fired).
in response to the actual question, college can help, and so can "real world" experience. i work with a friend of mine who makes about the same as i do, doing the same job. he's got a degree, i don't. we both have experience though, and that was what counted when we were hired. college is nice to have, it's not for everybody, but it can be nice to have a somewhat broader knowledge of the world around you that college "forces" you to have, but for me personally, it wasn't the right choice. that doesn't mean i'm an idiot, because i still make it a point to read books about things i'm not familiar with, so i can better understand them.
it all depends on what you really want to do, and how you want to do it, there isn't really a one-size-fits all solution.
i remember on some radio commercial i heard (or maybe a talk show on the radio, i dunno) some lady was saying that with her busy schedule, if it weren't for her cell phone she'd never get a chance to talk to her kids.
i thought that was so sad, that a parent didn't have enough time to have a simple face-to-face talk with their own children, instead relying on a cell phone to call while she's doing something else. deep down, doesn't the kid start thinking that they aren't important enough for mom or dad to stop by their room and chat, instead of calling home real quick to make sure they knew to heat up the leftovers in the fridge? my parents both worked full time, but there was ALWAYS a time during the day that my dad would annoy the hell out of me by asking what i'd done that day or was planning on doing, and he wouldn't take vague answers either. if he didn't know where i was going to be or how to contact me, i wasn't going. how hard is it for a parent to take a genuine interest in their kids? and if they really don't have the time, why did they bother having them in the first place?
is is better than nothing though? if you see a stream of data that's obviously encrypted, aren't you going to look at it harder than the rest of the stuff? i would...of course assuming you can tell its encrypted...
i had a cobra soldier whose band inside had busted, i used him for the really cool explosions. i'd have his legs on one side of the battle and him trying to situp on the otherside..it was awesome..
i had the exact opposite problem. every time i tried to load linux (rh7.x) on my tecra 8000, i couldn't work on it for more than an hour before it started to flake out. mouse would jump, slow performance, finally it would lock up. i tried reloading redhat several times, with different options to see if there was something i was loading that was doing it, but nothing worked. i finally redid it with 98se, and it works fine. no overheating, no mouse funny business, nothing. same thing on my thinkpad 390x. linux ran fine on my dell latitude though, but with the smaller screen i'm having to stick with the thinkpad and windows. for now.
"Managing Dummies for Dummies"
my young nephew may not know how to tell time, but he loved the 'indiglo' watch i got him for his birthday last year. he used the lightup feature all the time to amaze his friends.
just cause you give a kid (or a techie) something like a watch doesn't mean they'll use it for the intended purpose, right?
reminds me of mad magazine's take on smurfs, they had drunk smurf, violent smurf, etc..