Disclaimer: IANATBIWTOE (I am not a Trekkie, but I watch the occasional episode.)
There was an episode of ST:TNG where some Americans are woken up after being in a deep-space deep-freeze for a few hundred years. When one of the guys asks an Enterprise crewmember about TV, he is told that in the 21st century people began to lose interest in TV and it went away.
With all of these ridiculous restrictions being put in place, I really can see TV going the way of the dodo.
For about $30, you can sort of give an IR remote the ability to work through walls. There are various manufacturers. You get one device (usually cone-shaped) that receives your IR signal and transmits it over 900MHz. The other device gets placed near your TV, receives the 900Mhz signal and converts it back to infrared.
My SO & I use one to control the cable box in our living room from the bedroom. In turn, we have a wireless AV transmitter beaming the cable box signal into the bedroom. It's received by an AV receiver that gets plugged into the TV's rca jacks.
And for god's sake, if you're buying something that you suspect may be fraudulent goods, put it on your credit card and dispute the charges if the store won't take the disc back. Credit card companies don't like it when their merchants commit fraud.
I hope you put that CD on your credit card. If the store won't take it back, tell the store manager you're going to call the credit card company on your cell phone (assuming you have one handy) that very minute and dispute the charges because you were sold defective/fraudulent merchandise. Rinse and repeat.
If things got that bad in this country, you can bet your ass that the military would split up eight ways to Sunday, in which case you would have access to the hardware you can only use today in Counterstrike and TFC matches. Same thing happened in the civil war in the 1860s.
So far, I've gotten one spam that I believe came from an alias address being posted in an unobfuscated manner on OSNews.com's message forum. The message was from some toy train company. I told them I'd charge them my hourly professional rate of ($_00) an hour for the time taken to delete their spam if it happens again. They took me off their list and I obfuscated my email address on the message forum. None of my other aliases (oxyfresh, borders, et. al) have had troubles.
No one was forced to buy Cisco products when they first appeared. Now Cisco 0wn5 the router market. However, they aren't taking active measures to punish companies that use alternative products as MS is doing.
"One of the reasons that BE failed was that it did not have a big enough company behind it that sold preinstalled be systems."
Are Dell and Hitachi big enough for you? They were lined up to sell systems with BeOS in a dual-boot fashion with Windows until MicroSoft threatened them with retaliation (via licensing fees probably). That's why Be is suing MS in a civil case.
My current working space is a large office (our old library actuall) that has been partitioned into two large ovular cubicles with a walk way in between.
I'm happy with it because my deskspace wraps around my entire area giving me tons of room to spread-out and keep organized. I'm also able to ask my co-worker questions (mostly vice versa) if I need to, without having to get up or pick up the phone. And, since there is someone nearby, it sort of keeps me from dozing off or just surfing the web all day.
The best part, of course, is that we have a large picture window looking out into the woods. I cannot express how important it is to have access to a window with sunlight. My previous office was a "real" office all to myself with a door and everything. However, it had no windows. No amount of artificial lighting could make up for how depressed I was working in that dark little hole.
I don't think it's a coincidence that my productivity (and more importantly, billing$) doubled when I moved to my current, open office.
I've accessed our company's Exchange web interface from Mozilla, Netscape 6, Galeon and Konqueror under Linux and it works great.
However, I don't know if it's just our Exchange server or if they all do this, but there is no "logout" button on the web interface (doesn't come up under IE, either). I just close the browser window.
I emailed Yahoo! a week ago asking for this feature, which I'd gladly pay for, but they don't offer it. Here it goes...
I run my own mail server (POP/SMTP). Right now for email I use Pine by SSH'ing into the shell. Don't get me wrong, I love Pine; it was my email client in college. However, I really like the Yahoo! Mail interface, which I use (obviously) with my Yahoo! account.
What I want to do is this: I want to use Yahoo!'s web mail as a client only, and use my mail server for sending and receiving mail. I know Yahoo! has a service where they'll run the mail service for your domain, but I'm already paying for my mail server.
As an analogy: Let's say you use Eudora as your mail client to access your ISP's mail server.
Eudora mail client==Yahoo! web mail client IPS's mail server==my mail server
I told them I'd pay up to $20 a year to do this, but they told me they don't offer it. When Yahoo! offers this ability, I will gladly pay them for it. Of course, I would expect the web mail session to be run over https, since I'm accustomed to SSH's into Pine now.
An AC posted this at Score 0, but it is very insightful:
"I've been self-employed for years, so I don't have to deal with inane office drone policies (anymore)
Clearly you don't need to be a part of this discussion, then.
Please move along, sir."
It has nothing to do with being safe, phony or sterile. In a professional environment where you have all sorts of people, everybody has to make some compromises. Since you're self-employed, you're free to do what you want in your place of business; but for a large community of employees it's a different context.
"Can you say, "Can you say 'Sexual embarassment != Sexual harassment'?" There's a difference."
I think you've been watching too much of "The Man Show." Flipping through my employee handbook reveals that the law defines harassment (sexual or otherwise) as creating an uncomfortable or hostile environment. It has nothing to do with physical assault.
And the fact is, that in any business environment, your "human nature" argument is shit. When you're at work, everyone has to draw a line and have some consideration for the tastes of others...the fact that you may have no taste or sensibility does not preclude others from having it.
Heck, even as a male, I would be very unsettled dealing with any idiot that put pr0n wallpaper on their screen.
...you might as well add a key and ignition switch to power it up. Radio shack sells SPST switches that involve putting a key into a switch and turning it. However, I don't know if they are momentary switches or not. Momentary switches are basically "soft buttons" that you just touch.
If you have an AT power supply, you wouldn't want a momentary switch. If you have an ATX power supply, you want a momentary switch, otherwise your computer will shut down 4 seconds or so after you turn the key.
"I see your point... At work everyone probably gets confused as to the purpose of the machine, whereas names like Optimus would have made it all clear. ???"
Optimus is only a meaningful server name to me. For work, we'd have to go with names that relate to farming equipment and different Chevrolet models. As you might have guessed, we're a financial services firm.
Our two W2K servers at work are named...brace yourself...fileserver and exchange. Fsck, might as well paint the whole building beige while they're at it.
At home, where I run the show, I like to use the names of Transformers characters, with Optimus being my Linux-based firewall/dhcp server/proxy.
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"Another way to go blind!"
RTFA, they're porting games, not pr0n.
Disclaimer: IANATBIWTOE (I am not a Trekkie, but I watch the occasional episode.)
There was an episode of ST:TNG where some Americans are woken up after being in a deep-space deep-freeze for a few hundred years. When one of the guys asks an Enterprise crewmember about TV, he is told that in the 21st century people began to lose interest in TV and it went away.
With all of these ridiculous restrictions being put in place, I really can see TV going the way of the dodo.
For about $30, you can sort of give an IR remote the ability to work through walls. There are various manufacturers. You get one device (usually cone-shaped) that receives your IR signal and transmits it over 900MHz. The other device gets placed near your TV, receives the 900Mhz signal and converts it back to infrared.
My SO & I use one to control the cable box in our living room from the bedroom. In turn, we have a wireless AV transmitter beaming the cable box signal into the bedroom. It's received by an AV receiver that gets plugged into the TV's rca jacks.
Every year he could pull the bubble out of the back of the closet and go trick-or-treating as a bubble boy.
And for god's sake, if you're buying something that you suspect may be fraudulent goods, put it on your credit card and dispute the charges if the store won't take the disc back. Credit card companies don't like it when their merchants commit fraud.
I read about those, too. Couldn't sworn /. covered it at one point. They come in a covered container to help retain moisture.
My fiance has given me permission to post that she likes to use Huggies Supreme Care Baby Wipes.
I hope you put that CD on your credit card. If the store won't take it back, tell the store manager you're going to call the credit card company on your cell phone (assuming you have one handy) that very minute and dispute the charges because you were sold defective/fraudulent merchandise. Rinse and repeat.
If things got that bad in this country, you can bet your ass that the military would split up eight ways to Sunday, in which case you would have access to the hardware you can only use today in Counterstrike and TFC matches. Same thing happened in the civil war in the 1860s.
So far, I've gotten one spam that I believe came from an alias address being posted in an unobfuscated manner on OSNews.com's message forum. The message was from some toy train company. I told them I'd charge them my hourly professional rate of ($_00) an hour for the time taken to delete their spam if it happens again. They took me off their list and I obfuscated my email address on the message forum. None of my other aliases (oxyfresh, borders, et. al) have had troubles.
No one was forced to buy Cisco products when they first appeared. Now Cisco 0wn5 the router market. However, they aren't taking active measures to punish companies that use alternative products as MS is doing.
"One of the reasons that BE failed was that it did not have a big enough company behind it that sold preinstalled be systems."
Are Dell and Hitachi big enough for you? They were lined up to sell systems with BeOS in a dual-boot fashion with Windows until MicroSoft threatened them with retaliation (via licensing fees probably). That's why Be is suing MS in a civil case.
My current working space is a large office (our old library actuall) that has been partitioned into two large ovular cubicles with a walk way in between.
I'm happy with it because my deskspace wraps around my entire area giving me tons of room to spread-out and keep organized. I'm also able to ask my co-worker questions (mostly vice versa) if I need to, without having to get up or pick up the phone. And, since there is someone nearby, it sort of keeps me from dozing off or just surfing the web all day.
The best part, of course, is that we have a large picture window looking out into the woods. I cannot express how important it is to have access to a window with sunlight. My previous office was a "real" office all to myself with a door and everything. However, it had no windows. No amount of artificial lighting could make up for how depressed I was working in that dark little hole.
I don't think it's a coincidence that my productivity (and more importantly, billing$) doubled when I moved to my current, open office.
I've accessed our company's Exchange web interface from Mozilla, Netscape 6, Galeon and Konqueror under Linux and it works great.
However, I don't know if it's just our Exchange server or if they all do this, but there is no "logout" button on the web interface (doesn't come up under IE, either). I just close the browser window.
Because I heard that the day they make products that don't suck is when they start making vacuum cleaners. :-)
if you can integrate this little guy into your CD dupe project.
I emailed Yahoo! a week ago asking for this feature, which I'd gladly pay for, but they don't offer it. Here it goes...
I run my own mail server (POP/SMTP). Right now for email I use Pine by SSH'ing into the shell. Don't get me wrong, I love Pine; it was my email client in college. However, I really like the Yahoo! Mail interface, which I use (obviously) with my Yahoo! account.
What I want to do is this: I want to use Yahoo!'s web mail as a client only, and use my mail server for sending and receiving mail. I know Yahoo! has a service where they'll run the mail service for your domain, but I'm already paying for my mail server.
As an analogy: Let's say you use Eudora as your mail client to access your ISP's mail server.
Eudora mail client==Yahoo! web mail client
IPS's mail server==my mail server
I told them I'd pay up to $20 a year to do this, but they told me they don't offer it. When Yahoo! offers this ability, I will gladly pay them for it. Of course, I would expect the web mail session to be run over https, since I'm accustomed to SSH's into Pine now.
I'd hate to live a life having this image burned into my vision forever.
An AC posted this at Score 0, but it is very insightful:
"I've been self-employed for years, so I don't have to deal with inane office drone policies (anymore)
Clearly you don't need to be a part of this discussion, then.
Please move along, sir."
It has nothing to do with being safe, phony or sterile. In a professional environment where you have all sorts of people, everybody has to make some compromises. Since you're self-employed, you're free to do what you want in your place of business; but for a large community of employees it's a different context.
"Can you say, "Can you say 'Sexual embarassment != Sexual harassment'?" There's a difference."
I think you've been watching too much of "The Man Show." Flipping through my employee handbook reveals that the law defines harassment (sexual or otherwise) as creating an uncomfortable or hostile environment. It has nothing to do with physical assault.
And the fact is, that in any business environment, your "human nature" argument is shit. When you're at work, everyone has to draw a line and have some consideration for the tastes of others...the fact that you may have no taste or sensibility does not preclude others from having it.
Heck, even as a male, I would be very unsettled dealing with any idiot that put pr0n wallpaper on their screen.
Apple Computer - Apple Records
You can have the same name for two commercial ventures if they operate in different businesses.
Showtime - a movie
Showtime - a softcore porn channel
I would also like my Slashdot ID # and karma points etched into my stone.
...you might as well add a key and ignition switch to power it up. Radio shack sells SPST switches that involve putting a key into a switch and turning it. However, I don't know if they are momentary switches or not. Momentary switches are basically "soft buttons" that you just touch.
If you have an AT power supply, you wouldn't want a momentary switch. If you have an ATX power supply, you want a momentary switch, otherwise your computer will shut down 4 seconds or so after you turn the key.
"I see your point... At work everyone probably gets confused as to the purpose of the machine, whereas names like Optimus would have made it all clear. ???"
Optimus is only a meaningful server name to me. For work, we'd have to go with names that relate to farming equipment and different Chevrolet models. As you might have guessed, we're a financial services firm.
Our two W2K servers at work are named...brace yourself...fileserver and exchange. Fsck, might as well paint the whole building beige while they're at it.
At home, where I run the show, I like to use the names of Transformers characters, with Optimus being my Linux-based firewall/dhcp server/proxy.