If you are with someone who needs to spend $1000/mo to keep up her appearance, find a hotter chick! Geez. My wife hasn't spent $1000 on makeup in her entire life.
And a gf who needs $6,000 in gifts annually needs an attitude adjustment.
But he hinted that they are in China. By my watch, midnight-ish EST is early afternoon in China. Certainly before 5.
Or did you think that the entire world was on EST?
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for some reason, we're treated as if we're some kind of endangered species. Doesn't it occur to anyone that we might not like that treatment? Doesn't it occur to anyone that we just want to be treated like ordinary human beings, no matter what's between our legs? I mean, I'm not going to refuse if somebody throws money at me for having a vagina and using a computer
You can't have your pussy and eat it too. Unfortunately, you don't have a choice in the matter. You were born a recognized minority and have to suffer the consequences of affirmative action.
But congratulations on figuring out at such a young age how harmful affirmative action is to those who it is supposedly protecting. You're right to be upset that every time you make a mistake somebody is rationalizing it based on the fact that you are female and were only put in that position to fail because of affirmative action. You're right to be upset at the burden that is placed on you to perform twice as well as any man performs in your position so that you can earn the recognition that you deserve rather than just being thought of as a "token female".
Probably the most delicious irony of it all is to watch minority leaders such as Jesse Jackson clamoring for more affirmative action. "You can't take away affirmative action! Minorities won't be able to compete on a level playing field!" Puh-leeze. Maybe he could give the people whose interests he supposedly represents just a little more credit.
Unfortunately, I don't have any advice for you. You could spend your time campaigning against affirmative action, but you alone will probably never change the system. Perhaps your only recourse would be to perform at such a high level, way higher than any man, that it is unquestionable that you have earned the right to be in whatever position you are in. Of course, you probably will always have to deal with the fact that some outsider somewhere who doesn't know you will probably write you off as an affirmative action case.
Maybe it is that many women get bored with a single, repetitive task easily
Any smart person, male or female, is going to get bored with single, repetitive tasks.
If I had to hazard a guess as to why women are trending away from IT it would be that, on average (so don't come back and say, "I'm an exception to your rule, you bonehead!"... I don't care... I'm saying on average here) women value stability more highly than men and the IT industry is going through some rough times right now. There is no telling when any one of our jobs is going to be eliminated or offshored. Just getting back from maternity leave? Sure, your job still exists. In Bangalore. Your plane leaves tomorrow morning. What? You quit? I'm shocked!
Incidentally, I do think it's a shame if the trend of women leaving IT is true. Some of the traits that will be missed are:
Better focus. "Yes, Bob, I'm aware that there are 267 complicated yet valid ways to solve this problem. Now could we please just discuss the 2 or 3 most practical solutions?"
Less ego-driven thickheadedness. "Yes, Bob, I'm aware that you like your $1 bill, but I'm pretty sure my $50 bill is more valuable. Yes, I can see yours has George Washingon on it while mine only has Ulysses S. Grant."
Women don't read so much slashdot when they are supposed to be working.
Current state: I have an email solution that meets my requirements.
I could:
Spend time learning how to instal a new MTA.
Spend more time learning how to configure a new MTA
Spend more time tweaking that configuration so that it meets my requirements (multiple domains/accounts, IMAP, spam and virus filtering with rejection during the SMTP session, SMTP AUTH)
Spend more time testing my new configuration
Realize a week later that something doesn't work the way I thought it did
GOTO 3.
The end result would be: I have an email solution that meets my requirements.
I am not in the email hosting business, and frankly I don't find email delivery to be that interesting. Qmail sucks balls--everything you want it to do requires the selection, application, and testing of a patch. If I had it to do over there is no way in hell I would have chosen it. But I have no time to dedicate to replacing it.
If you think qmail can be made to do anything useful through mere coercing, then you know nothing about Dan J. Bernstein. Nothing short of a thorough bitchslapping will cause qmail to perform correctly.
Thank you for that insightful and well-substantiated message. I will spend the next 3 days figuring out how to bitchslap qmail into doing all those things for me before running clam and SA on incoming mail.
After I'm through with that, my server will go from humming along at a 0.00 load average to humming along at a 0.00 load average.
Too much work. I only get about 1000 emails per day at my email server, so I just skip to step 6 (SA+ClamAV).
That's why we buy machines. To do our work for us. I mean, come on. Filtering HELOs? On what criteria? And why do I care? How do I even make qmail do that? Why would I care how? And then you go straight to DNS BLs? Which ones? And what do you do if there is a match? On one BL? On two BLs? When do you reject? Do you then let SA repeat the effort down in step 6?
spamd and clamd do not consume as many resources as people whine about. If you get under 100,000 emails per day at your server, I wouldn't even bother with anything else. A poorly tuned celeron would handle that load just fine.
Every time that I have flown since 9/11 I have intentionally covered up my picture on my license with my thumb. About 10% of the time they actually ask me to move my thumb.
Incidentally, I heard an ad to be a TSA screener on the radio a few months ago. No high school diploma required.
Why would he file a bug report when it's already listed as a requirement? It's not as if grokking Outlook invites is some crazy newfangled idea. The Moz Calendar folks know it needs to be done before Sunbird could be construed to be even remotely useful.
If I call a cellphone, it costs the same as if I call a land line phone (costs nothing for a local call). So only one person pays for the call: the receiver.
When both caller and receiver are cellphones and they are both on the same network, normally nobody pays.
The sipXvxml project combined with OpenVXI v2.0, sipXportLib, sipXmediaLib, and sipXtackLib produces the SIP voicexml engine used to power the sipXpbx's project's voicemail and autoattendant features.
License
sipXvxml is distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Documentation
Coming soon!
Riiiiiiiiiggghhhhtttt. Cute, guys. Wake me up when you've written some fucking docs.
If you hardly print color, why the fuck do you have a color printer?
I have the (laser) Brother MFC-9700 and I am very happy with it. For those rare occasions that I actually need to print something in color, I just go to kinkos.
My understanding of the new law was that you could still file class-action against a company in state court as long as it was on the company's home turf. HP is a CA-based company. California courts are decidedly not friendly to class-action defendants.
I just found this out. I don't really have a remote server that I can rsnapshot to, so I can just go
> tar -cf offiste050222.tar/var/cache/rsnapshot > gpg -c offiste050222.tar
Dump the gpg file to a CD (or DVD... I don't know how much you like to backup) and bring the media to a remote location. Because GNU tar can do hardlinks (and gpg will compress your data), your tarball will be only a little bit larger than what rsnapshot du reports, and your gpg file will be... well.. depends on your data, but mine is about 40% of what is in my rsnapshot directory.
P.S. Take note that I used symmetric cypher encryption with gpg. Yeah, it's less secure, but if you hose your data, chances are elevated that your private key is now gone as well!
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And a gf who needs $6,000 in gifts annually needs an attitude adjustment.
Just gotta find the right woman.
Do they offer free incoming calls on their local DIDs or just unlimited channels?
What is the deal with the $0.02 connection charge they talk about on their website?
Are you happy with the quality?
I'd really appreciate it if you have that information. I'm looking to replace my landline and I'm trying to choose between a few different options. :)
Or did you think that the entire world was on EST?
But congratulations on figuring out at such a young age how harmful affirmative action is to those who it is supposedly protecting. You're right to be upset that every time you make a mistake somebody is rationalizing it based on the fact that you are female and were only put in that position to fail because of affirmative action. You're right to be upset at the burden that is placed on you to perform twice as well as any man performs in your position so that you can earn the recognition that you deserve rather than just being thought of as a "token female".
Probably the most delicious irony of it all is to watch minority leaders such as Jesse Jackson clamoring for more affirmative action. "You can't take away affirmative action! Minorities won't be able to compete on a level playing field!" Puh-leeze. Maybe he could give the people whose interests he supposedly represents just a little more credit.
Unfortunately, I don't have any advice for you. You could spend your time campaigning against affirmative action, but you alone will probably never change the system. Perhaps your only recourse would be to perform at such a high level, way higher than any man, that it is unquestionable that you have earned the right to be in whatever position you are in. Of course, you probably will always have to deal with the fact that some outsider somewhere who doesn't know you will probably write you off as an affirmative action case.
Sucks, don't it?
If I had to hazard a guess as to why women are trending away from IT it would be that, on average (so don't come back and say, "I'm an exception to your rule, you bonehead!"... I don't care... I'm saying on average here) women value stability more highly than men and the IT industry is going through some rough times right now. There is no telling when any one of our jobs is going to be eliminated or offshored. Just getting back from maternity leave? Sure, your job still exists. In Bangalore. Your plane leaves tomorrow morning. What? You quit? I'm shocked!
Incidentally, I do think it's a shame if the trend of women leaving IT is true. Some of the traits that will be missed are:
- Better focus. "Yes, Bob, I'm aware that there are 267 complicated yet valid ways to solve this problem. Now could we please just discuss the 2 or 3 most practical solutions?"
- Less ego-driven thickheadedness. "Yes, Bob, I'm aware that you like your $1 bill, but I'm pretty sure my $50 bill is more valuable. Yes, I can see yours has George Washingon on it while mine only has Ulysses S. Grant."
- Women don't read so much slashdot when they are supposed to be working.
Ahh well.I could:
- Spend time learning how to instal a new MTA.
- Spend more time learning how to configure a new MTA
- Spend more time tweaking that configuration so that it meets my requirements (multiple domains/accounts, IMAP, spam and virus filtering with rejection during the SMTP session, SMTP AUTH)
- Spend more time testing my new configuration
- Realize a week later that something doesn't work the way I thought it did
- GOTO 3.
The end result would be: I have an email solution that meets my requirements.I am not in the email hosting business, and frankly I don't find email delivery to be that interesting. Qmail sucks balls--everything you want it to do requires the selection, application, and testing of a patch. If I had it to do over there is no way in hell I would have chosen it. But I have no time to dedicate to replacing it.
But at the end of the day, who makes more money? Budweiser or Budvar?
Discrimination is allowed for companies up to a certain size. Sexual Harassment is not.
Nice sig.
After I'm through with that, my server will go from humming along at a 0.00 load average to humming along at a 0.00 load average.
Thank you for helping me to see the light!
Of course not.
That's why we buy machines. To do our work for us. I mean, come on. Filtering HELOs? On what criteria? And why do I care? How do I even make qmail do that? Why would I care how? And then you go straight to DNS BLs? Which ones? And what do you do if there is a match? On one BL? On two BLs? When do you reject? Do you then let SA repeat the effort down in step 6?
spamd and clamd do not consume as many resources as people whine about. If you get under 100,000 emails per day at your server, I wouldn't even bother with anything else. A poorly tuned celeron would handle that load just fine.
Debunked here (and many other places)
Incidentally, I heard an ad to be a TSA screener on the radio a few months ago. No high school diploma required.
Why would he file a bug report when it's already listed as a requirement? It's not as if grokking Outlook invites is some crazy newfangled idea. The Moz Calendar folks know it needs to be done before Sunbird could be construed to be even remotely useful.
I don't think it's intentional not to integrate. If it were, then why is it listed in the Sunbird requirements?
Seriously, are outlook meeting invites so complicated that they cannot be read outside of outlook? I hate outlook.
When both caller and receiver are cellphones and they are both on the same network, normally nobody pays.
Where are you, Herndon? See if you can get Verizon FIOS. 5Mbps down/2Mbps up for $34.95/mo.
Tell me again why I'm supposed to be pissed at them and why I would rather be Canadian? It sure as hell isn't for the accent.
I have the (laser) Brother MFC-9700 and I am very happy with it. For those rare occasions that I actually need to print something in color, I just go to kinkos.
My understanding of the new law was that you could still file class-action against a company in state court as long as it was on the company's home turf. HP is a CA-based company. California courts are decidedly not friendly to class-action defendants.
P.S. Take note that I used symmetric cypher encryption with gpg. Yeah, it's less secure, but if you hose your data, chances are elevated that your private key is now gone as well!