Why not setup a really secure firewall? Say a PF OpenBSD one. Disable ssh and everthing else you can live without if the machine is at your house. I don't see how that could interfere with any business needs?
Ofcourse a firewall like that will not protect you from your own stupidity (if that is a factor, ie opening emailed viruses etc) or certain windows flaws, but as far as a firewall can go in security enhancement, you can't go wrong with a properly setup PF wall.
I was planning on buying a new beefed up game station when D3 comes out. But if there isn't going to be any COOP mode on the PC, I think I might just stick with my xbox instead. Don't you think ID might release a COOP patch later for the PC version though? I really wan't a good excuse for burning a couple of k:s on that new machine:)
yeah why not? I need to download isos, play quake online with LOW ping and pr0nsurf fast, so if that means everyone will have to start dressing in tinfoil, then so be it!
Its easy for people who lives in areas where dsl or cable or something even better is available, that BPL is bad, it will interfere with ham and wifi stuff and whatnot. Personally I can't say I will be too sad if my neighbour can't play with his ham radio anymore, if that means that I can ditch my modem (with the crappy lines out here, 28k8 max). Yay FCC, for once.
I'm a layman in the area, but if the interference is WAY too bad, can't they install some sort of noisereducing filters on the repeaters? Or will the actual lines emit just as much interference?
Back in '95 (or was it '96?) a friend in my high school class said he downloaded this new cool thing (he didn't really know what it was, but its.nfo said it was hellof cool) from some pirate BBS. It turned out it was an early mp3-encoder. The.nfo detailed how to rip and encode mp3s with it. So I ripped away, "Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time" was my first subject. So my first mp3s where actually legal since I owned the CD:)
I was baffled by being able to get the size of the soundfiles down by about 90% but still being only barely able to tell the difference from them quality wise.
If Dell can't offer support to certain groups, such as hillbillies, one could argue they couldn't sell computers, atleast not the ones that comes bundled with support to this group. If I was Dell I'd rather loose the indian support team than loose a bunch of customers.
How about shares or options? Given that your company is stock:ed ofcourse. Its a great way to give something to your employees and at the same time coach them to do even better in the future, since company progress means their shares rise.
The same could be said about a contract based on a task list - you will probably be responsible for setting up many part goals and how much money you think they are worth. The buyer of your product could then just as easily think that you set up too easy goals if you finish them too fast etc.
Also working by a tasklist may soon have you doing loads of extra hours everyday to keep up a good payrate.
Definately much better to work and charge by the hour. If the buyer thinks your working to slow, you will simply have to explain what it is you are doing and why it has to take the time it takes. Let him know that your software needs its time to mature in your lab, rushing it out the door will only bring problems further on. 'Bugs' is a word even most CEOs understand.
I seem to remember reading something sometime about someone who had made a vi-plugin for mozilla? So that any actually spawned a vi-instance, bringing you all the excellent vi-feats. Anyone else remember seeing this? Perhaps it was someones wish-feature, as I can't seem to find anything about it on google:p
...that either don't have the time / money to go after people like this, such as the webhotel I'm involved in in my sparetime, I'd recommend firewalling. Simply block all incoming connections from over zealous monitor-companies.
Ofcourse this doesn't do anything to fix the bad reputation they may have given you by flooding your servers, but its a quick and easy antidote against future problems.
Seriously, I would love to get paid for playing paintball with my friends too. Just as for quake players, there are paintball torunaments on which you can win some money, but not more than petty cash once divided up among your team members.
The key, if you want to get paid more, is to make your sport fun to watch for ordinary people. If the general public thought it was as cool to watch paintball as to watch football, they would pay admission etc to come and see it, and some of that money would surely find its way to the players. But until someone figures out a way to attract the people to come watch, noone playing paintball will get paid much more than what all competing teams throw in as admission fees to the competitons themselves. And the same goes for Quake:ing. Except for that atleast the computergame tournaments gets some money from hw-manufacturers atleast.
Sorry to break anyones bubble, but Joe Bob and his brother will never even consider going to see, even less pay to see, a couple of quakers gib each other.
I use scsi (raids) only at our production servers (sysadmin for a medium sized company in the UK). We run a database intensive website serving up to a 100k ppl per day.
While these drives may be expensive (15k rpm / 18 gb / 4-6 per machine) they definately dust the arena with any IDE-raid I've ever seen. But then again I've used only one IDE raid (something cheapo) for one other productionserver, and other than that just talked to friends who run it.
What really would be interesting to see would be the latest and greatest from the IDE/raid-scene pitted against dito in the SCSI/raid-scene. All along with prices for controllers and disks ofcourse, to show how much more you have to cough up to get the scsi solution.
Hey why don't y'all paypal me 10 pounds each and I'll put a test like this online in a few days!:)
Gah. Who ever said this earth was put here for the humans pleasure? Even if we could produce food enough for 50 times as many of us as there already are, would that justify us taking over even more of the earth?
There are many less intelligent commentaries about the article not counting the arctic areas or the deserts. Big wonder, these areas are more or less of no use for both us and most animals and plants due to their extreme climates. Also, counting the 'green' areas, as in fertile, the humans exploit _way_ more than 50%.
Its not about the actual percent of the earths WHOLE surface area, its about the percent of the earths fertile, for most species USABLE areas.
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Why not setup a really secure firewall? Say a PF OpenBSD one. Disable ssh and everthing else you can live without if the machine is at your house. I don't see how that could interfere with any business needs?
Ofcourse a firewall like that will not protect you from your own stupidity (if that is a factor, ie opening emailed viruses etc) or certain windows flaws, but as far as a firewall can go in security enhancement, you can't go wrong with a properly setup PF wall.
I was planning on buying a new beefed up game station when D3 comes out. But if there isn't going to be any COOP mode on the PC, I think I might just stick with my xbox instead. :)
Don't you think ID might release a COOP patch later for the PC version though? I really wan't a good excuse for burning a couple of k:s on that new machine
...the software controlling them do!
yeah why not? I need to download isos, play quake online with LOW ping and pr0nsurf fast, so if that means everyone will have to start dressing in tinfoil, then so be it!
Its easy for people who lives in areas where dsl or cable or something even better is available, that BPL is bad, it will interfere with ham and wifi stuff and whatnot.
Personally I can't say I will be too sad if my neighbour can't play with his ham radio anymore, if that means that I can ditch my modem (with the crappy lines out here, 28k8 max). Yay FCC, for once.
I'm a layman in the area, but if the interference is WAY too bad, can't they install some sort of noisereducing filters on the repeaters? Or will the actual lines emit just as much interference?
Back in '95 (or was it '96?) a friend in my high school class said he downloaded this new cool thing (he didn't really know what it was, but its .nfo said it was hellof cool) from some pirate BBS. .nfo detailed how to rip and encode mp3s with it. :)
It turned out it was an early mp3-encoder. The
So I ripped away, "Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time" was my first subject. So my first mp3s where actually legal since I owned the CD
I was baffled by being able to get the size of the soundfiles down by about 90% but still being only barely able to tell the difference from them quality wise.
ah yes, ofcourse. Thanks.
ehrm, what word is it you think I spelled incorrectly?
If Dell can't offer support to certain groups, such as hillbillies, one could argue they couldn't sell computers, atleast not the ones that comes bundled with support to this group.
If I was Dell I'd rather loose the indian support team than loose a bunch of customers.
Why not get a notebook? Not much more expensive than a PDA, but SO much better for ssh:ing, working or whatnot.
How about shares or options? Given that your company is stock:ed ofcourse. Its a great way to give something to your employees and at the same time coach them to do even better in the future, since company progress means their shares rise.
The same could be said about a contract based on a task list - you will probably be responsible for setting up many part goals and how much money you think they are worth. The buyer of your product could then just as easily think that you set up too easy goals if you finish them too fast etc.
Also working by a tasklist may soon have you doing loads of extra hours everyday to keep up a good payrate.
Definately much better to work and charge by the hour. If the buyer thinks your working to slow, you will simply have to explain what it is you are doing and why it has to take the time it takes. Let him know that your software needs its time to mature in your lab, rushing it out the door will only bring problems further on.
'Bugs' is a word even most CEOs understand.
...So that any TEXTAREA actually spawned a vi-instance...
Bad slashcode for removing anything in square brackets when in 'Plain Old Text' mode, hrmpf!
I seem to remember reading something sometime about someone who had made a vi-plugin for mozilla? So that any actually spawned a vi-instance, bringing you all the excellent vi-feats. :p
Anyone else remember seeing this? Perhaps it was someones wish-feature, as I can't seem to find anything about it on google
...that either don't have the time / money to go after people like this, such as the webhotel I'm involved in in my sparetime, I'd recommend firewalling. Simply block all incoming connections from over zealous monitor-companies.
Ofcourse this doesn't do anything to fix the bad reputation they may have given you by flooding your servers, but its a quick and easy antidote against future problems.
Denmark is part of scandinavia, you nut.
Seriously, I would love to get paid for playing paintball with my friends too. Just as for quake players, there are paintball torunaments on which you can win some money, but not more than petty cash once divided up among your team members.
The key, if you want to get paid more, is to make your sport fun to watch for ordinary people. If the general public thought it was as cool to watch paintball as to watch football, they would pay admission etc to come and see it, and some of that money would surely find its way to the players. But until someone figures out a way to attract the people to come watch, noone playing paintball will get paid much more than what all competing teams throw in as admission fees to the competitons themselves.
And the same goes for Quake:ing. Except for that atleast the computergame tournaments gets some money from hw-manufacturers atleast.
Sorry to break anyones bubble, but Joe Bob and his brother will never even consider going to see, even less pay to see, a couple of quakers gib each other.
I use scsi (raids) only at our production servers (sysadmin for a medium sized company in the UK). We run a database intensive website serving up to a 100k ppl per day.
:)
While these drives may be expensive (15k rpm / 18 gb / 4-6 per machine) they definately dust the arena with any IDE-raid I've ever seen. But then again I've used only one IDE raid (something cheapo) for one other productionserver, and other than that just talked to friends who run it.
What really would be interesting to see would be the latest and greatest from the IDE/raid-scene pitted against dito in the SCSI/raid-scene. All along with prices for controllers and disks ofcourse, to show how much more you have to cough up to get the scsi solution.
Hey why don't y'all paypal me 10 pounds each and I'll put a test like this online in a few days!
Gah.
Who ever said this earth was put here for the humans pleasure? Even if we could produce food enough for 50 times as many of us as there already are, would that justify us taking over even more of the earth?
There are many less intelligent commentaries about the article not counting the arctic areas or the deserts. Big wonder, these areas are more or less of no use for both us and most animals and plants due to their extreme climates.
Also, counting the 'green' areas, as in fertile, the humans exploit _way_ more than 50%.
Its not about the actual percent of the earths WHOLE surface area, its about the percent of the earths fertile, for most species USABLE areas.