Sheesh, after being out of a regular job for the better part of 3 years, (I've had 4 short-term IT contracts and I scrape enough together each month to keep it going but just barely.)
I'd jump at the chance for a minimum-wage job. I'm always left out because my resume puts me out of the running. End result? I find no job.
I decided last summer that I'd forget working in IT and just settle for whatever I could find. No luck so far, guess I'll have to stop using my resume and forget to mention my education. About the only job I haven't applied for is at the lcoal car wash.
My thoughts exactly. Looks very similar to the IIGS keyboard indeed. The same keyboard I HATED!
And a single-button mouse? I mean, who among us would go back to a single-button mouse? I guess my hopes for a two-button PowerBook trackpad will never be realized.
Anyone have a replacement trackpad in the works? It'd sure be cool not to have to plug in my Logitech two-button all the time.
Here's an interesting quandry. When (not if) SCO's stock bottoms out at $1 or so, how many of us will be buying up shares in order to force a change at SCO?
The upside is that Apple is taking it on the chin for statements made before OS X shipped that ALL G3 models would be supported. The downside is that they no doubt will get beat up for making such an admission.
Oh, and I've got a Wallstreet PowerBook and a Lime iMac that I bought OS X for. Looks like I won't be worrying about the money for a Panther upgrade. I'll gladly send in my disks for the refund.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Barratry \Bar"ra*try\, n. [Cf. F. baraterie, LL. barataria. See
Barrator, and cf. Bartery.]
1. (Law) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits
and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] --Coke. Blackstone.
Has anyone else made a conscious effort to Slashdot SCO's web site and servers? I mean, who among us with broadband doesn't need to download their entire ftp site each and every day?
The first thing I thought of when I read this was "How are mail list posts handled?" The first message from your underwater basket weaving list comes in, Mailblocks sends out it's challenge, it's sent to the entire mail list but the actual user never sees the challenge because Mailblocks won't let posts from the mail list through.
And I thought the people who have vacation responders on their email accounts were bad. Talk about a vicious circle.
I've never even HEARD of a unit with a PS failure.
Good God, have you forgotten about all the 128s, 512Ks, and Pluses with their sub-par power supplies? I worked at an Apple dealership for a good part of the nineties and we replaced 4 to 5 of them a week until the new Macs finally completely replaced them.
The new machines definitely have a more robust power supply but those original Macs were really pushing the envelope of unreliableness.
When buying my first CDs in 1984, I recall certain titles costing as much as $75 each. Most were $60.00. As most CDs are now under $20, they most certainly have come down.
Not as low as I'd like but still down. I can go to my local used CD shop and buy 10 discs and walk out for under $60.
After reading this and laughing (I know a guy that got seriously burned after unplugging his DirecTV's phone line for awhile) I decided to take a look at raymond917's eBay Feedback rating.
He's got a pair of shades next to his rating. Make me wonder if he'll change his moniker after this.
What I found interesting is how much an average person such as myself can find out about someone just by looking at their eBay Feedback and any of the still available auciton listings. This guy likes kickboxing movies, in fact he's bought a number of them since January 1st. He bought a Gunman Chronicles/Survival/Alcatraz mulit-pack at the end of February that he's selling already.
SWAP in Madison, WI always has an interesting selection of stuff ranging from desktop PCs to copiers to surplus lab equipment (think cool stuff for your Halloween Haunted House) to office furnishings.
All of the stuff comes from the various University of Wisconsin campuses statewide. SWAP does have an online inventory but there's no substitute for taking a couple of hours to look through all of it.
Also, note that SWAP's hours are kinda goofy so don't head out until you've checked their hours of operation.
I went to wrox and grabbed not only the code for this book but also for every other PHP title they publish. All without registering. Yes, they do ask you to register but it does not appear to be a requirement yo get the code itself.
Reuters February 27, 2003, 4:47 AM PT URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-986244.html
TAIPEI--Microsoft will cut software prices in Taiwan by 26.7 percent to settle an investigation into unfair trade practices, the island's competition watchdog said Thursday.
It will also sell the components of its Office XP suite of software separately and share its closely guarded source code for the Windows operating system with the government, the cabinet's Fair Trade Commission said.
"Microsoft Taiwan's concrete action to lower prices of Microsoft products is exactly in line with the Fair Trade Commission's goals of maintaining orderly trade, consumer benefits, fair competition and economic prosperity," the commission said in a statement.
It said Microsoft would cut prices by an average of 26.7 percent as part of a settlement to an investigation launched after a consumer backlash against government crackdowns on software piracy.
Consumers said they had been forced to turn to illegal copies because Microsoft had used its virtual monopoly to inflate prices.
They also complained that Microsoft forced buyers to purchase expensive bundles of software rather than picking only the products they desired.
The settlement requires Microsoft to sell the components of Office XP individually, including the widely used Excel spreadsheet and Word word processor.
Microsoft will also share its Windows source code as part of its Government Security Program, which allows governments to adapt the software and test its ability to fend off hackers.
Russia was the first country to take advantage of the program in January. The source code--blueprints of Microsoft's dominant operating systems--is one of the world's most tightly protected corporate secrets.
Slashdot Mirror
Sheesh, after being out of a regular job for the better part of 3 years, (I've had 4 short-term IT contracts and I scrape enough together each month to keep it going but just barely.)
I'd jump at the chance for a minimum-wage job. I'm always left out because my resume puts me out of the running. End result? I find no job.
I decided last summer that I'd forget working in IT and just settle for whatever I could find. No luck so far, guess I'll have to stop using my resume and forget to mention my education. About the only job I haven't applied for is at the lcoal car wash.
I'm not sure how to use Distributed John on OS X. Anyone else care to try it?
I don't know that running a test will do any good at this point as john needs to have Xgrid support added.
It's running on my home network of 2 desktop G4s and one PowerBook G4. Looks and works great.
--
d a v e
Hilarious. Here's a link to the largest file in the directory, I suggest everyone download it once or twice for off-site archival purposes. And I do mean everyone. http://linuxupdate.sco.com/scolinux/SRPMS/ldp-2001 0328-4.src.rpm
My thoughts exactly. Looks very similar to the IIGS keyboard indeed. The same keyboard I HATED!
And a single-button mouse? I mean, who among us would go back to a single-button mouse? I guess my hopes for a two-button PowerBook trackpad will never be realized.
Anyone have a replacement trackpad in the works? It'd sure be cool not to have to plug in my Logitech two-button all the time.
Sourceforge.net only lists 2.0b4 and a binary compiled for Panther. But no updated binary for 1.0Pre1 yet.
Here's an interesting quandry. When (not if) SCO's stock bottoms out at $1 or so, how many of us will be buying up shares in order to force a change at SCO?
How many shares are out there?
That statement made no sense, what was I thinking?
The upside is that Apple is taking it on the chin for statements made before OS X shipped that ALL G3 models would be supported. The downside is that they no doubt will get beat up for making such an admission.
Oh, and I've got a Wallstreet PowerBook and a Lime iMac that I bought OS X for. Looks like I won't be worrying about the money for a Panther upgrade. I'll gladly send in my disks for the refund.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Barratry \Bar"ra*try\, n. [Cf. F. baraterie, LL. barataria. See
Barrator, and cf. Bartery.]
1. (Law) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits
and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] --Coke. Blackstone.
Has anyone else made a conscious effort to Slashdot SCO's web site and servers? I mean, who among us with broadband doesn't need to download their entire ftp site each and every day?
is brought to you by the letters "G" and " ", and the number 3 and 7.
(Apologies to Sesame Street)
Here's a link to an interesting article that's relatd to this discussion:
Grip2Ed.com
It discusses SpamArrest and some of the snakiness it's pulling when unknowing users respond to their clients mail. Kinda scary.
The first thing I thought of when I read this was "How are mail list posts handled?" The first message from your underwater basket weaving list comes in, Mailblocks sends out it's challenge, it's sent to the entire mail list but the actual user never sees the challenge because Mailblocks won't let posts from the mail list through.
And I thought the people who have vacation responders on their email accounts were bad. Talk about a vicious circle.
Which G4 has USB 2.0?
I've never even HEARD of a unit with a PS failure.
Good God, have you forgotten about all the 128s, 512Ks, and Pluses with their sub-par power supplies? I worked at an Apple dealership for a good part of the nineties and we replaced 4 to 5 of them a week until the new Macs finally completely replaced them.
The new machines definitely have a more robust power supply but those original Macs were really pushing the envelope of unreliableness.
When buying my first CDs in 1984, I recall certain titles costing as much as $75 each. Most were $60.00. As most CDs are now under $20, they most certainly have come down.
Not as low as I'd like but still down. I can go to my local used CD shop and buy 10 discs and walk out for under $60.
After reading this and laughing (I know a guy that got seriously burned after unplugging his DirecTV's phone line for awhile) I decided to take a look at raymond917's eBay Feedback rating.
He's got a pair of shades next to his rating. Make me wonder if he'll change his moniker after this.
What I found interesting is how much an average person such as myself can find out about someone just by looking at their eBay Feedback and any of the still available auciton listings. This guy likes kickboxing movies, in fact he's bought a number of them since January 1st. He bought a Gunman Chronicles/Survival/Alcatraz mulit-pack at the end of February that he's selling already.
Things like this with eBay make you go hmmm.
Hmmm....
A Windows vulnerability is discovered and it takes a week or more to get it taken care of.
The Linux kernel has a vulnerability and the patch is available immediately.
Who's a sysadmin to trust?
The Open Firmware web site is hosted on bananajr6000.apple.com. Which obviously harkens back to a time when Apple had a sense of humor.
SWAP in Madison, WI always has an interesting selection of stuff ranging from desktop PCs to copiers to surplus lab equipment (think cool stuff for your Halloween Haunted House) to office furnishings.
All of the stuff comes from the various University of Wisconsin campuses statewide. SWAP does have an online inventory but there's no substitute for taking a couple of hours to look through all of it.
Also, note that SWAP's hours are kinda goofy so don't head out until you've checked their hours of operation.
I went to wrox and grabbed not only the code for this book but also for every other PHP title they publish. All without registering. Yes, they do ask you to register but it does not appear to be a requirement yo get the code itself.
Taiwan forces MS to slash prices
Reuters
February 27, 2003, 4:47 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-986244.html
TAIPEI--Microsoft will cut software prices in Taiwan by 26.7 percent to settle an investigation into unfair trade practices, the island's competition watchdog said Thursday.
It will also sell the components of its Office XP suite of software separately and share its closely guarded source code for the Windows operating system with the government, the cabinet's Fair Trade Commission said.
"Microsoft Taiwan's concrete action to lower prices of Microsoft products is exactly in line with the Fair Trade Commission's goals of maintaining orderly trade, consumer benefits, fair competition and economic prosperity," the commission said in a statement.
It said Microsoft would cut prices by an average of 26.7 percent as part of a settlement to an investigation launched after a consumer backlash against government crackdowns on software piracy.
Consumers said they had been forced to turn to illegal copies because Microsoft had used its virtual monopoly to inflate prices.
They also complained that Microsoft forced buyers to purchase expensive bundles of software rather than picking only the products they desired.
The settlement requires Microsoft to sell the components of Office XP individually, including the widely used Excel spreadsheet and Word word processor.
Microsoft will also share its Windows source code as part of its Government Security Program, which allows governments to adapt the software and test its ability to fend off hackers.
Russia was the first country to take advantage of the program in January. The source code--blueprints of Microsoft's dominant operating systems--is one of the world's most tightly protected corporate secrets.
Did Newton owners choose wrong or were they simply ahead of the curve?
Remember, Grafitti was developed by Palm for Newton. Their device did not exist at that time.
Without Newton, the technology and the marketplace for handhelds would not be what it is today.
The fact that Newton was only available for five years and has had five more years of life post-Apple is the real story.