Woah there moderators! Finish reading before you fire at me:
I've HAD three or four different maladies related to finger-hand-wrist related movement over the last, (oh god, has it been that long?) 15 years.
In all cases, the ones that were _computer_ related were cured by altering the work environment.
The one situation that eventually required surgery, and that was initially thought to be work related, wasn't. It was a Sports related injury. The fact that myself, the office Clinician, and the Workers Comp specified specialist didn't catch it as that is irrelevant. When the _hand_ specialist reviewed it, he stated it was a totally different problem (Intersection Syndrome, not Dequarvains Tendonitis) and not caused by lumping along at a keyboard during the work week.
That's not to say a company isn't liable for providing a safe environment for its employees, It is. But I wouldn't characterise CT as a modern equivalent of lead poisoning.
As much as people would like to blame a PC classification and turn things in to a 'sue'-able situation. Sometimes people just don't like you.
Finding a work environment where everybody gets along, and there are no politics, and everybody has the same goals is a rare and wonderful find.
Working in a political environment also takes a little thickness of skin. It's _very_ easy to take everything that happens as a personal sleight, but being a non-management employee means you're necessarily isolated from the decisions that make a company run. You may be passed over for a position, not because you're young, but because another person has been working there longer. I'm sure you're not the only person there that is expecting compensation (in the form of salary or promotions) for their work.
The freezing of the box made them loose the game because they can't open it without power unless they risk damaging it by prying it open thus voiding any warrente. Its not easy to get the game back once you ship it to Microsoft to fix.
Spoken like a true Target employee...dija happen to notice the pinhole on the front of the device that's the MANUAL EJECT ACCESS?
I disagree. Excercise increases muscle mass. Which increases calorie burn at rest.
It also makes you less hungry. On the days I work out, I come home STARVED. I hit the gym and by the time I get home, I'm not that hungry.
This assists in creating a calorie deficit, which allows you to lose weight.
I work out twice a week for an hour at a time. I weigh the same as I did when I was 'fat', but I'm in a helluva lot better shape (literally and figureatively.)
What did it? What's my secret? A persistent NAGGING repeating alarm for Mondays and Wednesdays that said "Go work out".
IF I hurt, i stopped. If I didn't feel like working out on Wednesday, I didn't. But I didn't remove the alarms. So I kept working out.
The best no bullshit description of the process can be found here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm
After reading throug 30 odd messages that a) slammed Exchange/Outlook/Microsoft or b) said 'Hey, NBD, they're just kids!'
Here's a little bit of the flipside:
Our Exchange server weathered it just fine. Why? Because it's running Trend Micro's scanner, and it punts everything but TXT and ZIP files.
The last three virii that ran through the net DIDN'T affect us. We've got 1200 workstations, 60 odd servers, and _6_ admins. (and a 6 member Help Desk)
A Microsoft shop CAN be protected, it CAN avoid this crap, and you CAN run an enterprise on these products with a small staff.
CRIPES!
Further, the poor little kid is just playing around. Bullshit. There are a bunch of businesses having a hard enough time STAYING IN BUSINESS. They SHOULDN'T HAVE to deal with the financial burden of bouncing and disinfecting their infrastructure.
I'd MUCH RATHER have a GOOD factory security system than a botched aftermarket one. (I've had 4 cars that had aftermarket systems installed by previous owners. ALL of them have caused more headaches than the 'security' they provided.)
Having any kind of security system will not likely prevent the really serious fella trying to seal your car. While you CAN buy LOJACK et al, they pretty much ensure you get back the bits and pieces you DON'T care about. By the time somebody recovers the professionally stolen car, all the nifty doodads have been stripped or broken.
I own Corvettes. (That my, ahem, other hobby) One's an 89 and the other's a 98 (OBD I and III) yeah they're more difficult to work on than the 76 Pontiac I _just_ got rid of, but no more so than working on computers. Often, that 'technological B$' folks complain about actually HELPS in diagnosing the problem.
If you aren't willing to spend time learning how to work on something, you probably oughtn'ta go at it uneducated.
As far as installing the remote starter, it didn't sound like you wanted it bad enough. IMHO, the one thing it MIGHT give you (remote starting) isn't worth the things you MIGHT get (wiring issues, intermittent gremlins, connections that don't AGE well.)
Honestly, a Nerd complaining about complexity on Slashdot...who'da thunk?
"Let's say one in 10 of the 5 million U.S. cable modem subscribers are
usurping IP addresses without paying the $4.95 per month fee that's typically
charged (beyond a pre-specified limit, which varies MSO to MSO.) Right off
that bat, that's just shy of $30 million lost, annually"
I'd like a little more concrete numbers there. ANYBODY can pick a number and
make a horrific sounding cost analysys out of it. It's a lot like saying 'A CD
costs $17, and a DVD costs $19, therefore, all that video and extra features
only costs two bucks!'
At my LAST job, we had plenty of 'Employee appreciation' type BBQ's that were really strained. It was rather obvious that the sentiment wasn't genuine and it came from some Management cookbook to increase productivity. The staff saw through it easily. (But we still ate the donuts.)
At my current job, there's a much better morale, a camaraderie if you will (Kum-ba-ya) While we don't usually get together on the weekends, there are more than enough employeee sponsored Potlucks during the holidays to seriously impact my wasteline. We've had Beer's in the Bar after work, and folks pretty regularly bring in food in the morning. All this is pretty funny as the IT department is a vacuum of calm in an otherwise really f*cked up government entity.
(That and they're taking the troops to breakfast this morning. Yum!)
Yeah, it's all about the hack, I know. But the current tech will give you a) a 5" picture frame at $500 that isn't very flat, or b) a room fill of picture theming for BillGatesMoney(tm).
I've got the X10 stuff, I had the plans of setting the 'light mood', but it never happened. It's a great idea, but I ran out of time/interest in it.
Until there's a color Gyricon type product, it's not going to be a very satisfying hack.
I never understood the draw for digital picture frames. When they're GIVING away photo quality printers with computer purchases and a full resolution printout amortises to about $2 a page, the only thing that DPF gives you is a wipe to another picture...and a power reuirement.
Buy a $60 dollar printer, and when the cartridges dry up, pitch it. You're out less money, and the pictures work everywhere but in the dark. (Okay, TWO benefits to a digital picture frame.)
Pick the right paper, and the photos will last a heckuva lot longer than the DPF will.
I'm finding that as I purchase parts piecemeal, I'd be much happier buying a computer in one fell swoop. Speaking as someone who started out with a motherboard/cpu upgrade, then got dragged from 100 to 133 memory, then needing an improved case, then a new video card, and finally a new harddisk to get current generation performance, I think I'll end up buying a whole system in the future.
How does this relate? If I buy a whole system next time, and it's got a googolplex bus, then chances are, it'll have a gplex Harddisk, Video card, and margarita maker. It won't matter how the standards change independant of that purchase. (ignoring for the moment what happens when you need to replace that Micro-Channel device when Micro-Channel gets supplanted)
Last I checked, I paid $120 a month for 18 months for ISDN as it was all that was available in the area...
Um, ISDN's NOT an option if cost is a motivating factor.
I'm paying $46 for @home. If I had to pay for the second phoneline ($20), and an ISP (a REAL NON advertising ISP) at $20 a month, that's $6 for always on gobs of bandwidth...
...and I do have GOBS of bandwidth. Of course, now that I've said that, it'll crap out. But I've had it for more than a year with only one real failure. - And THAT was the October blizzard last year that sumped 22 odd inches of snow!
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I thought a Q-rayon was a particle made up in Star Trek: TNG episode #4-127 to escape the BumpyHeaded Alien du-jour.
It also got Wesley laid, and gave Geordie sight for 12 minutes.
Woah there moderators! Finish reading before you fire at me:
I've HAD three or four different maladies related to finger-hand-wrist related movement over the last, (oh god, has it been that long?) 15 years.
In all cases, the ones that were _computer_ related were cured by altering the work environment.
The one situation that eventually required surgery, and that was initially thought to be work related, wasn't. It was a Sports related injury. The fact that myself, the office Clinician, and the Workers Comp specified specialist didn't catch it as that is irrelevant. When the _hand_ specialist reviewed it, he stated it was a totally different problem (Intersection Syndrome, not Dequarvains Tendonitis) and not caused by lumping along at a keyboard during the work week.
That's not to say a company isn't liable for providing a safe environment for its employees, It is. But I wouldn't characterise CT as a modern equivalent of lead poisoning.
I do. [fanboy]I bought it even AFTER playing with a PS2 for a weekend[/fanboy]
No one here is asking the big question:
What does this 'Homestation' have that the Xbox doesn't?
Storage? Just have'em include some kind of SMB support and the Xbox has EVERYTHING a homestation would need.
(At this point is occurs to me that M$ wants the PC to be the home server...hmm, lots of storage there.)
You've seen the Homestation already. It's the leftmost game console over at Target, next to the PS2 and the Gameboy. All it needs is the _software_.
(IANAL) When do I get my cut of the Civil Suit?
Obviously SOMEBODY is making $4000 every week while they sleep with Barely Legal Lolitas and loose weight.
Make this comment for Napster, get modded up as 'Insightful', make the exact same comment on Ogg Vorbis, get modded down as a troll. :)
(Ask me how I know.)
Finding a work environment where everybody gets along, and there are no politics, and everybody has the same goals is a rare and wonderful find.
Working in a political environment also takes a little thickness of skin. It's _very_ easy to take everything that happens as a personal sleight, but being a non-management employee means you're necessarily isolated from the decisions that make a company run. You may be passed over for a position, not because you're young, but because another person has been working there longer. I'm sure you're not the only person there that is expecting compensation (in the form of salary or promotions) for their work.
Spoken like a true Target employee...dija happen to notice the pinhole on the front of the device that's the MANUAL EJECT ACCESS?
Poke it with a paperclip. Learn something.
X-eyes.
I disagree. Excercise increases muscle mass. Which increases calorie burn at rest.
It also makes you less hungry. On the days I work out, I come home STARVED. I hit the gym and by the time I get home, I'm not that hungry.
This assists in creating a calorie deficit, which allows you to lose weight.
I work out twice a week for an hour at a time. I weigh the same as I did when I was 'fat', but I'm in a helluva lot better shape (literally and figureatively.)
What did it? What's my secret? A persistent NAGGING repeating alarm for Mondays and Wednesdays that said "Go work out".
IF I hurt, i stopped. If I didn't feel like working out on Wednesday, I didn't. But I didn't remove the alarms. So I kept working out.
The best no bullshit description of the process can be found here: http://www.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm
After reading throug 30 odd messages that a) slammed Exchange/Outlook/Microsoft or b) said 'Hey, NBD, they're just kids!'
Here's a little bit of the flipside:
Our Exchange server weathered it just fine. Why? Because it's running Trend Micro's scanner, and it punts everything but TXT and ZIP files.
The last three virii that ran through the net DIDN'T affect us. We've got 1200 workstations, 60 odd servers, and _6_ admins. (and a 6 member Help Desk)
A Microsoft shop CAN be protected, it CAN avoid this crap, and you CAN run an enterprise on these products with a small staff.
CRIPES!
Further, the poor little kid is just playing around. Bullshit. There are a bunch of businesses having a hard enough time STAYING IN BUSINESS. They SHOULDN'T HAVE to deal with the financial burden of bouncing and disinfecting their infrastructure.
Naw, Then it's just a writeoff. :)
(Oh boy, FINALLY a topic I know something about!)
I'd MUCH RATHER have a GOOD factory security system than a botched aftermarket one. (I've had 4 cars that had aftermarket systems installed by previous owners. ALL of them have caused more headaches than the 'security' they provided.)
Having any kind of security system will not likely prevent the really serious fella trying to seal your car. While you CAN buy LOJACK et al, they pretty much ensure you get back the bits and pieces you DON'T care about. By the time somebody recovers the professionally stolen car, all the nifty doodads have been stripped or broken.
I own Corvettes. (That my, ahem, other hobby) One's an 89 and the other's a 98 (OBD I and III) yeah they're more difficult to work on than the 76 Pontiac I _just_ got rid of, but no more so than working on computers. Often, that 'technological B$' folks complain about actually HELPS in diagnosing the problem.
If you aren't willing to spend time learning how to work on something, you probably oughtn'ta go at it uneducated.
As far as installing the remote starter, it didn't sound like you wanted it bad enough. IMHO, the one thing it MIGHT give you (remote starting) isn't worth the things you MIGHT get (wiring issues, intermittent gremlins, connections that don't AGE well.)
Honestly, a Nerd complaining about complexity on Slashdot...who'da thunk?
Am I the only person that thinks Music Match sucks? (From freeware experience and my RCA Lyra...don't get me STARTED on the Lyra.)
(lost some karma with THAT subject.)
.txt or .zip?
Is it so tough to punt all attachments that arent
nimda aside (which go in here on developer's IIS boxes) Doing the above will prevent 99% of the stuff hitting outlook in an enterprise.
(And having a really good virus scanner on the exchange server helps, too)
I pay AT&T for my service. An AT&T truck came out (or rather a subcontractor), and AT&T has been my only contact on the one time I had problems.
I thought Exite only provided the 'high bandwidth added content' portal homepage (oh, which I never used)
So the default homepage goes dark, they can't redirect it to msn.com? (erm, how bout aol.com?....slashdot.org?)
I'd like a little more concrete numbers there. ANYBODY can pick a number and make a horrific sounding cost analysys out of it. It's a lot like saying 'A CD costs $17, and a DVD costs $19, therefore, all that video and extra features only costs two bucks!'
That's what they thought three years into the Atari2600...and PSone, and Gameboy
All of which showed they had quite a bit more optimization left by creative coders
And when this stuff becomes comodity hardware, Quake can have a Real Quantum Effects Railgun(tm)!
At my LAST job, we had plenty of 'Employee appreciation' type BBQ's that were really strained. It was rather obvious that the sentiment wasn't genuine and it came from some Management cookbook to increase productivity. The staff saw through it easily. (But we still ate the donuts.)
At my current job, there's a much better morale, a camaraderie if you will (Kum-ba-ya) While we don't usually get together on the weekends, there are more than enough employeee sponsored Potlucks during the holidays to seriously impact my wasteline. We've had Beer's in the Bar after work, and folks pretty regularly bring in food in the morning. All this is pretty funny as the IT department is a vacuum of calm in an otherwise really f*cked up government entity.
(That and they're taking the troops to breakfast this morning. Yum!)
Yeah, it's all about the hack, I know. But the current tech will give you a) a 5" picture frame at $500 that isn't very flat, or b) a room fill of picture theming for BillGatesMoney(tm).
I've got the X10 stuff, I had the plans of setting the 'light mood', but it never happened. It's a great idea, but I ran out of time/interest in it.
Until there's a color Gyricon type product, it's not going to be a very satisfying hack.I never understood the draw for digital picture frames. When they're GIVING away photo quality printers with computer purchases and a full resolution printout amortises to about $2 a page, the only thing that DPF gives you is a wipe to another picture...and a power reuirement.
Buy a $60 dollar printer, and when the cartridges dry up, pitch it. You're out less money, and the pictures work everywhere but in the dark. (Okay, TWO benefits to a digital picture frame.)
Pick the right paper, and the photos will last a heckuva lot longer than the DPF will.
I'm finding that as I purchase parts piecemeal, I'd be much happier buying a computer in one fell swoop. Speaking as someone who started out with a motherboard/cpu upgrade, then got dragged from 100 to 133 memory, then needing an improved case, then a new video card, and finally a new harddisk to get current generation performance, I think I'll end up buying a whole system in the future.
How does this relate? If I buy a whole system next time, and it's got a googolplex bus, then chances are, it'll have a gplex Harddisk, Video card, and margarita maker. It won't matter how the standards change independant of that purchase. (ignoring for the moment what happens when you need to replace that Micro-Channel device when Micro-Channel gets supplanted)
Factoid: It's been mentioned that this is the third larges public uprising behind the 55mph speed limit and prohibition.
(I believe the above is attributed to Clay Shirkey)
Last I checked, I paid $120 a month for 18 months for ISDN as it was all that was available in the area... Um, ISDN's NOT an option if cost is a motivating factor.
I'm paying $46 for @home. If I had to pay for the second phoneline ($20), and an ISP (a REAL NON advertising ISP) at $20 a month, that's $6 for always on gobs of bandwidth...
...and I do have GOBS of bandwidth. Of course, now that I've said that, it'll crap out. But I've had it for more than a year with only one real failure. - And THAT was the October blizzard last year that sumped 22 odd inches of snow!