They're not so bad, either. Forwarded calls are simply charged at whatever airtime rate applies. So if you forward during peak hours, you deplete your peak minutes.
If you forward during nights or weekends, it's free.
Heh. No, it didn't catch it. I just thought it would be funny to say that it did.
You would never be able to email me with that sig, though! I've never tried sending both eicar and gtube in the same message, but I'm guessing SA would score it pretty high. Higher than 10, which is my reject threshold.;)
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None of these require the vehicle to be crashed before using. In fact, most would be utterly useless if the vehicle is inoperable.
Oh, and OnStar is exactly like a cellphone. See #4 above. You subscribe with Verizon Wireless for X number of minutes. This sounds dangerously similar to my cellphone. It is exactly like "a cell phone with speaker phone enabled", but you say it is not.
I sound like a motherfucking OnStar commercial. Really, I don't care about OnStar. Just wanted to make you look like a moron.
Normal contracts go for a certain length of time and must be renewed or renegotiated. Your contract may not be valid in your jurisdiction. Here is what I would do in your situation:
See if your client would be willing to hire you fulltime (assuming you like your client, otherwise skip to step #2). Frame it is a win-win value prop.
See if your client will work with you on ending your contract so you can seek a fulltime salaried position. Seriously, a contract is just a piece of paper. The paper contract may be what is enforceable, but the real contract is the meeting of the minds between you and your client.
If the above do not work, call a lawyer who is familiar with employment and contract law.
It amazes me how much value people put in a piece of paper at the expense of negotiating. I'm currently buying a property and the purchase contract expired months ago. Am I worried that I won't get the property? No. Because the seller and I have a meeting of the minds, and we both want the transaction to take place. Of course, I have structured the deal so that I'm not out any money if the seller walks, but you get the idea.
Paper is just paper. It's the people involved who make the decisions.
Having started two successful companies and working on my third, I can tell you what that special something is: balls. Nothing more, nothing less.
You need the balls drop everything and to act and do what you believe you can. The balls to go outside your comfort zone and ask someone for his/her business. The balls to ignore your "helpful" friends and relatives who would make you think that you can't be successful.
Write all the products or services you are going to offer? I sure as fuck didn't know that when I started out. I still don't know.
List 25 benefits for each service? What the fuck customer is going to read that?
One terrabyte of portable storage? What the fuck client would let you hook up your storage array to their network? What the fuck use could that serve other than to rape the client of every piece of intellectual property you an get your hands on?
Who the fuck lets you bill 2 hours for a 5 minute question? Not even my lawyer would dare try that.
Seriously, I doubt you have ever started a successful company of any sort. I have started two and am working on my third. The best piece of advice you can get on starting any business: Immediately perform the activities that make you money, and do not let stupid shit get in your way of making money.
That means you may not know every stupid little detail about your business before you start. That means making some mistakes. But I can tell you one thing. If you get yourself caught up in the details of corporate entity structure and keeping minutes and having annual meetings and 25 benefits for each service you think you might provide, never mind that you are probably wrong at this point regarding what services you actually are going to provide, you will never, I repeat, you will never make any money.
Here is how I started my consulting business:
I filed Articles of Incorporation for S-Corp (your CPA will tell you why this is better than an LLC for your consulting business)
I called everyone I knew who was in a position to hire me and just talked about their technology woes.
I called literally every other person I had contact info for and told them about my technical consulting practice.
My first gig came from a guy I had worked with a few years earlier whose contact info I just happened to still have. He didn't have anything for me, but he knew someone who knew someone who desperately needed me. Ever since that first client, I have had more work than I can handle and I have to subcontract it out.
To this day I still don't own a terrabyte storage array.
is caused by not having ports 6969 and 6881-6999 forwarded by your router
Why is it necessary to have 6969 forwarded to your client? Isn't it only necessary to have outbound 6969 enabled? Please correct me if I'm wrong here. If he didn't have outbound 6969, it would have taken him a lot longer than 5 days to download anything.;)
If you don't use CVS or SVN for your multimedia files, how do you find a change that was made weeks ago? Watch the multimedia file 50 times until you see your change?
Wouldn't svn log be easier? It's hard to diff a video.
What if at the end of the day you forget to do a tarball?
What do you do when you want to find a change to a file and you're currently on project-3.216.197 and you're not sure when or why you changed foo.c's logic and you want to change it back but you don't know what you're going to break in the process? I use cvs log. What do you do? Open up hundreds of tarballs trying to find your one silly change? I know you said you don't look at old code, but that's probably because it's too tedious for you to examine all the tarballs.
Others have already answered your questions. Backing up CVS is trivial (read the docs... it's not too much unlike your tarball method), CVS clients play nicely together in my experience, what are you talking about patching your CVS server? You mean upgrading CVS? Just upgrade it. I'm not sure what you mean by that.
The benefits are too numerous to list. Read the Cederqvist. It's not very long, and you can decide for yourself if you want it. Basically, it's good for when shit goes wrong (helps answer the question of where, when, and why), when you want to experiment (create a branch... what do you do when you want to experiment? Make two nightly tarballs?), collaborate (I know you said you work alone, but that will not always be the case hopefully), and many more.
The point isn't whether or not your analogy was 100% perfect. The point is you attempted to pass off a false statement as fact, and from there on I could no longer read your message. How do I know what other errors of fact are going to be there?
All I'm saying is that if you are trying to persuade someone to accept your argument, you had better not destroy your credibility by making a totally false statement.
I'll assume you own a home and pay for fire insurance. I would even bet that your state or local government requires that you purchase fire insurance.
That's the dumbest thing I've read today. Don't say stupid shit that is obviously false if you want people to take you seriously. I just bought 5 properties last month and I didn't have to take out a hazard insurance policy. Of course I did take out such a policy, because I am not a moron, but it was not a condition of my purchase.
Oh, and Social Security does not resemble insurance at all. It's better compared with an annuity.
Even evidence that is not admissable at your trial can be used to satisfy "reasonable suspicion" or "probable cause" requirements to investigate you further and come up with something that is admissable
That doesn't address what happens at the recipient's ISP. The email sits on their hard disk.
For the love of god, encrypt your sensitive email and quit bitching about your ISP.
Your concerns about email sitting on your ISP's disk are trivial at best. Route your encrypted email through their MTA and quit belly-aching.
And it can also be used to explain to young women entering high school why they shouldn't be taking advanced math courses.
Young women in high school are very capable of telling people like that to shove it. The following is an approximation of a conversation between her and her female high school guidance counselor, during a review of her senior year course selections:
Counselor: I couldn't help but notice that you have signed up for 6 AP courses. Wife: Yes. Counselor: You need to take fewer AP courses. Wife: Excuse me? Counselor: Only our very top students take that many AP courses. Wife: Have you looked at my class rank? [Counselor actually looks at her transcript this time, and sees a class rank of "1"] Counselor: Oh. Wife: Do you have any further excellent suggestions regarding my education, or may I leave now?
My point being that people who are smart do not listen to stupid suggestions like that. They do what they know is right and don't let ignorant folk stand in the way.
It is a different thing to say to a single person, "You are bad at math," vs. saying, "On average, women perform worse than men on standardized mathematics exams." Any reasonable person ought to understand that averages are nothing more than averages, and any individual ought to be able to perform better than the average for men or women or any other grouping. Of course, someone who is bad at math you may not understand that.;)
Like I said before, I am above average in math (unless the average person is now taking 3 semesters of calc, linear algebra, and numerical computation), but there are many women who are far more mathematically inclined and skilled than me. I have a hard time believing that women who are in that skilled category would be hampered by the notion of how the average man, woman, or whatever performs. A person of that caliber would be motivated to achieve his/her highest level of success.
I mean, seriously, when you were in school, did you look to the 50th percentile as a measure for how you could perform? Chances are you were so much higher than the 50th percentile that you never even stopped to think about what it meant to be "average". I never thought about it. My wife sure as hell never thought about it (she is the academic of the family).
The smart people who I know don't really give much consideration to what average people do. They already know that more is expected of them, so averages have no personal implications.
I think they just put in the "no webservers" clauses so they have teeth to shut down abusers who post commercial websites and high bandwidth sites on the service. I know tons of people who run servers on ISP's that supposedly ban them and are never bothered about it.
I think that you are absolutely right, but I would add one more point: most ISPs offer business packages that cost more money and allow for server hosting. They don't want to shut down commercial websites, they merely want to extract more money from them.
That's a dumb reason to dump them. Even if they opened port outbound 25 for you, they could still read your email since you are still using their network. Further, even if your ISP wasn't reading your email, what's to stop the recipient's ISP from reading your email? It makes no difference if port 25 outbound is blocked for you or not.
If you don't want third parties to read your email, you're going to need to encrypt it. There is no way around that. Get used to it.
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... if it's alrady a feature.
If you forward during nights or weekends, it's free.
It sounds more like when I worked at a "Big 5" consulting firm.
You would never be able to email me with that sig, though! I've never tried sending both eicar and gtube in the same message, but I'm guessing SA would score it pretty high. Higher than 10, which is my reject threshold. ;)
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- Hands-Free Voice-Activated Calling: Most OnStar-equipped vehicles include a fully integrated, hands-free wireless phone that is voice-activated so you can drive with your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.
None of these require the vehicle to be crashed before using. In fact, most would be utterly useless if the vehicle is inoperable.Oh, and OnStar is exactly like a cellphone. See #4 above. You subscribe with Verizon Wireless for X number of minutes. This sounds dangerously similar to my cellphone. It is exactly like "a cell phone with speaker phone enabled", but you say it is not.
I sound like a motherfucking OnStar commercial. Really, I don't care about OnStar. Just wanted to make you look like a moron.
My Norton just barfed all over your sig.
- See if your client would be willing to hire you fulltime (assuming you like your client, otherwise skip to step #2). Frame it is a win-win value prop.
- See if your client will work with you on ending your contract so you can seek a fulltime salaried position. Seriously, a contract is just a piece of paper. The paper contract may be what is enforceable, but the real contract is the meeting of the minds between you and your client.
- If the above do not work, call a lawyer who is familiar with employment and contract law.
It amazes me how much value people put in a piece of paper at the expense of negotiating. I'm currently buying a property and the purchase contract expired months ago. Am I worried that I won't get the property? No. Because the seller and I have a meeting of the minds, and we both want the transaction to take place. Of course, I have structured the deal so that I'm not out any money if the seller walks, but you get the idea.Paper is just paper. It's the people involved who make the decisions.
You need the balls drop everything and to act and do what you believe you can. The balls to go outside your comfort zone and ask someone for his/her business. The balls to ignore your "helpful" friends and relatives who would make you think that you can't be successful.
The rest you pick up along the way.
- Get an S Corp and an LLC? What the fuck for?
- Write all the products or services you are going to offer? I sure as fuck didn't know that when I started out. I still don't know.
- List 25 benefits for each service? What the fuck customer is going to read that?
- One terrabyte of portable storage? What the fuck client would let you hook up your storage array to their network? What the fuck use could that serve other than to rape the client of every piece of intellectual property you an get your hands on?
- Who the fuck lets you bill 2 hours for a 5 minute question? Not even my lawyer would dare try that.
Seriously, I doubt you have ever started a successful company of any sort. I have started two and am working on my third. The best piece of advice you can get on starting any business: Immediately perform the activities that make you money, and do not let stupid shit get in your way of making money.That means you may not know every stupid little detail about your business before you start. That means making some mistakes. But I can tell you one thing. If you get yourself caught up in the details of corporate entity structure and keeping minutes and having annual meetings and 25 benefits for each service you think you might provide, never mind that you are probably wrong at this point regarding what services you actually are going to provide, you will never, I repeat, you will never make any money.
Here is how I started my consulting business:
- I filed Articles of Incorporation for S-Corp (your CPA will tell you why this is better than an LLC for your consulting business)
- I called everyone I knew who was in a position to hire me and just talked about their technology woes.
- I called literally every other person I had contact info for and told them about my technical consulting practice.
My first gig came from a guy I had worked with a few years earlier whose contact info I just happened to still have. He didn't have anything for me, but he knew someone who knew someone who desperately needed me. Ever since that first client, I have had more work than I can handle and I have to subcontract it out.To this day I still don't own a terrabyte storage array.
That way you get paid for that type of work.
I can think of 100 safe ways to handle new installations. Opening up an unpassworded root@% account is certainly not one of them.
Who really creates an unpassworded root@% superuser account?
I agree with you about 6881-6999, tho.
My instinct tells me that you are completely full of it, so I shall now call you on it: Where do you find these "16 year old sluts", as you say?
Wouldn't svn log be easier? It's hard to diff a video.
- What if at the end of the day you forget to do a tarball?
- What do you do when you want to find a change to a file and you're currently on project-3.216.197 and you're not sure when or why you changed foo.c's logic and you want to change it back but you don't know what you're going to break in the process? I use cvs log. What do you do? Open up hundreds of tarballs trying to find your one silly change? I know you said you don't look at old code, but that's probably because it's too tedious for you to examine all the tarballs.
Others have already answered your questions. Backing up CVS is trivial (read the docs... it's not too much unlike your tarball method), CVS clients play nicely together in my experience, what are you talking about patching your CVS server? You mean upgrading CVS? Just upgrade it. I'm not sure what you mean by that.The benefits are too numerous to list. Read the Cederqvist. It's not very long, and you can decide for yourself if you want it. Basically, it's good for when shit goes wrong (helps answer the question of where, when, and why), when you want to experiment (create a branch... what do you do when you want to experiment? Make two nightly tarballs?), collaborate (I know you said you work alone, but that will not always be the case hopefully), and many more.
All I'm saying is that if you are trying to persuade someone to accept your argument, you had better not destroy your credibility by making a totally false statement.
Oh, and Social Security does not resemble insurance at all. It's better compared with an annuity.
Also, it is extremely expensive.
- Wiretaps are available with a court order
- Even evidence that is not admissable at your trial can be used to satisfy "reasonable suspicion" or "probable cause" requirements to investigate you further and come up with something that is admissable
- That doesn't address what happens at the recipient's ISP. The email sits on their hard disk.
- For the love of god, encrypt your sensitive email and quit bitching about your ISP.
Your concerns about email sitting on your ISP's disk are trivial at best. Route your encrypted email through their MTA and quit belly-aching.Counselor: I couldn't help but notice that you have signed up for 6 AP courses.
Wife: Yes.
Counselor: You need to take fewer AP courses.
Wife: Excuse me?
Counselor: Only our very top students take that many AP courses.
Wife: Have you looked at my class rank?
[Counselor actually looks at her transcript this time, and sees a class rank of "1"]
Counselor: Oh.
Wife: Do you have any further excellent suggestions regarding my education, or may I leave now?
My point being that people who are smart do not listen to stupid suggestions like that. They do what they know is right and don't let ignorant folk stand in the way.
- What kind of company turns over their "decent sized" code repository to someone who has to ask slashdot how to administer it?
- Why are you wiping the repository clean and starting fresh? Who determined that would be necessary? You?
- If you are wiping clean, as others have suggested, see if switching to subversion will fly.
Good luck, man!Like I said before, I am above average in math (unless the average person is now taking 3 semesters of calc, linear algebra, and numerical computation), but there are many women who are far more mathematically inclined and skilled than me. I have a hard time believing that women who are in that skilled category would be hampered by the notion of how the average man, woman, or whatever performs. A person of that caliber would be motivated to achieve his/her highest level of success.
I mean, seriously, when you were in school, did you look to the 50th percentile as a measure for how you could perform? Chances are you were so much higher than the 50th percentile that you never even stopped to think about what it meant to be "average". I never thought about it. My wife sure as hell never thought about it (she is the academic of the family).
The smart people who I know don't really give much consideration to what average people do. They already know that more is expected of them, so averages have no personal implications.
If you don't want third parties to read your email, you're going to need to encrypt it. There is no way around that. Get used to it.