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  1. It sounds like the English department on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1

    is in equally bad shape.

  2. Actually... on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1

    you made several errors, and your writing style is atrocious. In light of this post, I am going to assume that you are a bit of an asshole as well.

  3. I pray that you are not an English teacher on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1
    Be that as it may, the change is not going to come from the teachers. Hell, we've got the teachers on tighter leashes than the students!

    Wanna know what you can do? Quit your job and open your own school called "School That Isn't Mismanaged Like Your Local Public School". Push for school vouchers so parents can afford to send their kids to your school. Teach something useful so the kids don't resent you for wasting their time. ... Profit!

  4. Re:Editor .. on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 1
    vim is on the install CD, but I don't think it's part of the stage one tarball, tho. So once you chroot, you lose it.

    But it's been a while since I've done a gentoo install, so they could have changed it.

  5. Huh? on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 2, Informative
    etc # gcc --version
    gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.3, ssp-3.4.3-0, pie-8.7.6.6)
    Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
    Any more questions?
  6. In fairness... on Gentoo Linux Releases 2004.3 · · Score: 1

    when you run emerge it tells you exactly what commands to run in order to update your symlink. You can copy/paste if that makes you happy.

  7. Not Anymore on Techies Migrate in Search of Work · · Score: 1
    I've received three DC job offers where they would get me a clearance. I refuse full time employment, so it didn't help much, but just FYI, they will get you clearance now.

    But why should I take a massive paycut just to get a clearance? Not gonna happen.

  8. Supreme Court and taxes on FCC Rules States Can't Regulate VoIP · · Score: 1
    I know you're the only person who's gonna read this, but I thought I'd help so you don't continue spout off bullshit.

    Supreme Court justices are not doing this for the money. Salary for Chief Justice Rehnquist is $202,900 and the Associate Justices make $194,200. I'm not sure if you are familiar with how much lawyers make, but let's say that those are good salaries for a first-year associate at a top law firm. Any of those justices could work half as hard and pull in 7 figures in private practice. So your argument that they affirmed the constitutionality of the federal income tax for personal financial gain is on shaky ground.

    Also, remember that SCOTUS predates the federal income tax. The Supreme Court was funded just fine before the federal income tax.

    HTH. HAND.

  9. Productivity? on Asterisk and Linux to Build Secure VoIP Connection · · Score: 1

    I bet you have no problems maintaining productivity levels with an X-box on everybody's desks...

  10. Windows naming Intuitive? on Making the 'Best' Desktop Linux System · · Score: 1
    Internet Explorer is an intuitive name
    As are Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath, OneNote, and of course, Visio.

    Wait a minute. What the fuck is a Visio?

    And let's not forget .NET and SharePoint. And Quicken. How about Encarta or Acrobat?

    I think the only aptly named Windows program might just be Internet Explorer (probably more accurate would be World Wide Web Explorer... don't get me started).

    Of course, in Linux, if I want to mail lorcha@lorcha.com, I type mail lorcha@lorcha.com.

    Damn, that was hard. In Windows.... what do I do? Outlook? Eudora? Microsoft Mail (if there is such a thing)?

  11. I'd drop you in a heartbeat on Caller ID Spoofing for the Masses · · Score: 1
    My company uses different providers for incoming and outgoing VoIP calls. One was cheaper for outgoing calls and the other cheaper for incoming calls, so we just set the CID on outgoing calls to be our DID on the incoming provider.

    In addition, we used to have a salesperson who wanted his outgoing CID info from inside the office to be his cellphone CID since he was out of the office so much.

    If you didn't let me do this, I'd drop you in a heartbeat. There are legitimate reasons to change your CID.

  12. Don't be so sure on Kerry's Record On Electronic And Civil Rights · · Score: 1
    In that case, you're also likely to be someone for whom there's no doubt that Kerry will be at least a marginal improvement.
    I was a solid Kerry supporter but then I read an article a while back that made the same points as this one. I am now voting for Michael Badnarik.

    John Kerry thinks he can win this election by simply not being George Bush. He is in for a big surprise.

  13. Funny you should mention raid on Updates From Debian · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I just installed it this morning. It went something like this:
    apt-get install raidtools2
    vi /etc/raidtab
    echo "raid5" >> /etc/modules
    modprobe raid5
    mkraid /dev/md0
    Then go get a cup of coffee.

    As a bonus, I didn't even wind up getting a 2.2.x kernel. I guess I was careful.

  14. apt-get install mysql-server on MySQL AB Calls v4.1.7 Production Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting
    will give you a mysql installation with "skip-networking" in my.cnf. In other words, no one is going to hack you remotely without your explicitly enabling networking.

    I'm not sure what the other distros do. I do remember that the mysql install doc tells you to change your root password.

    Or maybe your "coworker" did not read the docs?

  15. Statistics on Medical Care Gets Outsourced Too · · Score: 1
    Costs are high because of several factors, first is the medical billing system. In our country we have countless carriers and each has a different form and another person you have to higher in order to understand what they will and what they won't pay for. This can add up to about 40% of a hospital's operating budget.
    And 76.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

    Or did you have a source for that?

  16. RTFA on VoIP Gets a New P2P Routing Protocol (DUNDi) · · Score: 1
    From TFA:
    DUNDi is not itself a Voice over IP signalling or media protocol. Instead, it publishes routes which are in turn accessed via industry standard protocols such as IAX(TM), SIP and H.323.
    No one is going to be spam-calling you through DUNDi. It's basically a distributed "white pages" with no single point of failure.

    Hell, you couldn't even be bothered to read the name before sticking your foot in your mouth. DUNDi stands for "Distributed Universal Number Discovery".

  17. Cute, but not true on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1
    In Canada, if you are wealthy, you can just fly down to Minnesota and get treated immediately. Sure, you have to pay for it, but when the alternative is death while waiting for heart surgery, you might want to just fork over the cash.

    Lots of wealthy Canadians go to Mpls hospitals (and Mayo, of course) to get heart surgery because they don't feel like dying in Canada. I have total sympathy for them, as well. I mean, could you imagine being under Socialized health care and just be left to die while waiting for treatment? Such a sad state of affairs.

  18. Why wait? on Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens · · Score: 1
    If you're wealthy, you can just make a quick trip down south to the US and be seen immediately. I grew up in Minnesota, and can tell you that plenty of wealthy Canadians came down to Minneapolis for heart surgery because if they would have waited for treatment in Canada, they would have been very, very dead.

    There are several top-notch Minnesota hospitals for you to choose from, and if you need an excellent orthapedist, I'd be happy to recommend the one that I used when I lived there and was actually active. Now I sit behind a desk all day. :-\

  19. No bounces! on DSPAM v3.2 Released · · Score: 1
    Just say no to bounces! Bounces suck when some spammer decides to use your domain as a return address and you get all these stupid bounces. Ditto with all those stupid "your email was rejected 'cuz of a virus" when someone else was impersonating my email address.

    What you should do, however, is reject the message in the SMTP session. My mail server issues a 554 during SMTP if you send me a spam or a virus. That way, legitamate senders will still get a notification of the delivery failure (generated by their own MTA, not mine!), and I am not sending misdirected bounces all over the place.

    Of course, the 554 says why the email was rejected: "554 mail server permanently rejected message: message contained VIRUS (#5.3.0)" for a virus, similar message for spam. That way the sender knows what's up.

  20. Debt is not always bad on Advice on Becoming an Independent Contractor? · · Score: 1
    We're prolly 300k in debt (welcome to homeownership) and I guess I'm unclear as to why this is bad. We're paying less in a mortgage payment on our house than we were paying in rent on a smaller place plus we are building equity.

    Regarding your business... GROW! Get some peons er..sorry.. subcontractors.. under you. Start marketing solutions instead of skills. Grow that business! There are two types of businesses: those that are growing and those that are dying. Which one is yours?

    I could never be anyone's employee again. Been out in the wild too long.

  21. Heh, I really fucked up then on Advice on Becoming an Independent Contractor? · · Score: 1
    I went independent after buying a house and getting married. You can see my tale of woe, here.

    I do agree that you are going to have extra obstacles to overcome if you have many responsibilites. But if you have a supportive partner (read: wife), that can really help you out.

    The best time to start a business is when you have a dream, a desire, and the right attitude and high confidence. When you have all of those, nothing can stop you.

    Also, when you retire into this "life of comfort", as you say, why the hell would you be chasing after postmenapausal women? Pull a Billy Joel, man!

  22. OT: Starteam on Advice on Becoming an Independent Contractor? · · Score: 1
    How you listed Starteam as good is a total mystery to me. That thing crashes more than Billy Joel and makes it too easy to, say, delete all the source code.

    I hope I never have a client on starteam again.

  23. Heh. Cute. on Will VoIP Kill the PBX? · · Score: 1
    But, seriously. If you don't have redundant systems, you deserve what you get. If you can spend $2k on a kick-ass asterisk server, certainly you can spend another $1k on a mediocre, but usable hot backup. ;) Still cheaper than a $50k PBX!

    Obviously "phones will be going down for a reboot" is totally unacceptable. But you already knew that.

  24. I don't understand the excitement bidders on Biggest Console System Collection on eBay · · Score: 1
    I was looking for a particular bottle of cologne yesterday that retails for $40. There were three people selling it at auction, and 3 people selling it "buy it now" at their "ebay store", whatever the hell that is.

    Anyhow, the auctions were all bid up to about $26-28 with $6-9 shipping. Someone was selling it buy it now for $25 with $5 shipping. Gee whiz, guess which one I bid on?

    Why do people bid up an item when the exact same item is selling on the exact same website for less?

  25. HAHAHAHAHHAH FUNNY!!!!!! on Subversion 1.1 Released · · Score: 1
    If you really want to check out a working copy of the master sources:
    $ svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk subversion
    HTH. HAND.