something like this or if I remember there was some cool ones on here a year or two ago that rotated and you climbed into like going into a space capsule, but those were around $5,000-USD so...
Anyway, I think having a good desk is very important.
I work for directnic.com (intercosmos media group) in the zipa.com group (datacenter) rent is cheap, houses (two story, four-room) can rent for $700/mo crime is bad, but if you have *any* street smarts and can keep your wits about you when you are wasted (i.e. don't do stupid stuff) you won't have any issues, I have been here four years and never had a problem. Weather is great, hot but mainly only during the summer however the heat is usually broken up with afternoon rains, this is the sub-tropics.. as far as tech work, well.. the building I work in here has three entire floors of all techs. and there are more moving in all the time (cheaper than most larger cities). You could probably look around, big oil is down here in force, so there are always networks to wire up.
cheers
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umm.. actually, I am moving to NY but I already have a job and have had one (and yes, above my payrate in the year 2000) working for a dotcom. people complaining about "dotbombs" in my opinion most likely had job titles that included the word "guru" or some other such nonsense.
The reality, the companies that went bust never had anything in the first place and were hiring farm kids out of Iowa who had had made one page in Frontpage or some other junk and paying them 80k.. Now they are bitching because they are back working at Walmart or some fastfood joint. This industry _was_ hurt.. not saying it wasn't, but it is good to see it grow up and slough off the deadwood we were collecting./rant
yea, brilliant plan huh? I know, lets standardize on windows and outlook so that my company can get a contract for doing anti-virus stuff for the government.
Sheesh.. MS might as well buy Symantec now and finalize it borgification of the government.
I personally think we are just seeing the tip of the proverbial iceberg for p2p.. a lot of companies would love to be able to use processing power of millions of computers (i.e. what kazaa did with their leech-ware product).. Seti@home has proved that people are willing to donate computer time and energy, I mean, look at the battles that rage over the number one through ten slots at seti. (people even trying to cheat). I think you will start seeing p2p system for searching, archival and scientific pop up all over in the next few years. In addition, games like Everquest and Lineage pass off most of the processing to the client computers, so in effect it is a large p2p network (albeit obviously not so, but you get my drift). Anyway, there are a lot of things that p2p is good for (besides the obvious pirate-ware). And there are ways around it as well for pirates. i.e. here is an idea: yenc a file and split it, store various chunks of it hidden within html on freehosting around the globe, you could easily write a script that would put everything back together and un-yencode the file to it's original state. If this was done on a massive scale you could have release groups dropping rebuild files instead of actual files. What would happen then? (especially if redundancy was part of the system). That is one alternative to what is currently being done. I think right now the RIAA is just doing the fly-swatting routine and p2p is just the one they are currently after, next it will be IRC and IM servies.. Anyway, yes.. p2p will be here for a long time to come.
from the article.. umm.. then why were they buying equipment that specifically caters to "pirates"? Seems like these guys are just huffy that they got caught to me.
:) it is.. a lot of the "readers" are non-techs, you cannot blanket say that there is some magic average of "techiness" on this site when I know for a fact that a lot of middle-mngt (who know how to use ms-word and that excel.. and know a few options in outlook) read here to see what is "hot" etc.. This *is* (or was) the center to get linux news and events. As a user who works 100% on linux system and runs it at home and has not run windows in years (I don't have time to play games much these day) dealing with the "average" windows user is more of a chore than anything. Again.. note my word choice of "average"..
The target audience for this book would probably be a little less technical than myself or the average Slashdot reader
Have you seen the stats? 90% of slashdot users use windows or mac's..
Not saying that nobody here is a tech, but honestly, the majority are actually not really techs.
I read it.. but the deal is.. blocking can be dynamic.. i.e. your/etc/hosts.deny file does not have to be an IP.. you can add ALL: *.anonymizer.com or add in a whole class B if you wanted.. unless anonymizer has a huge number of IP's in various blocks then this would be pretty easy to block..
unless they are doing something totally wacky.. but I am sure they won't release details on exactly how they plan to keep the proxy alive..
blocking works.. just watch what happens when SPEWS gets ahold of a larger domain..
whatever, what on earth can a license from them accomplish anyway?
Perhaps I have been using open source software for too long and am out of the loop, but do these things honestly matter in hardware.. You get a warranty, that is all I care about..
Maybe I am missing something here, but to agree with these stupid licenses on websites that all state they can be changed at any time for any reason would be the legal equiv of suicide in the real business world..
Guess I am just agreeable.. too much floride in my water or something..
They are already working around it.. I get calls still.. it is ridiculous that it is so bad that one sixth of the entire country is so pissed about it they have signed up and now they are working around it and changing their lead-ins...
*sigh* . and I have noticed a marked increase in "physical" spam in my mailbox as well..
Slashdot Mirror
something like this or if I remember there was some cool ones on here a year or two ago that rotated and you climbed into like going into a space capsule, but those were around $5,000-USD so... Anyway, I think having a good desk is very important.
I work for directnic.com (intercosmos media group) in the zipa.com group (datacenter)
rent is cheap, houses (two story, four-room) can rent for $700/mo
crime is bad, but if you have *any* street smarts and can keep your wits about you when you are wasted (i.e. don't do stupid stuff) you won't have any issues, I have been here four years and never had a problem.
Weather is great, hot but mainly only during the summer however the heat is usually broken up with afternoon rains, this is the sub-tropics..
as far as tech work, well.. the building I work in here has three entire floors of all techs. and there are more moving in all the time (cheaper than most larger cities).
You could probably look around, big oil is down here in force, so there are always networks to wire up.
cheers
umm.. actually, I am moving to NY but I already have a job and have had one (and yes, above my payrate in the year 2000) working for a dotcom.
/rant
people complaining about "dotbombs" in my opinion most likely had job titles that included the word "guru" or some other such nonsense.
The reality, the companies that went bust never had anything in the first place and were hiring farm kids out of Iowa who had had made one page in Frontpage or some other junk and paying them 80k.. Now they are bitching because they are back working at Walmart or some fastfood joint.
This industry _was_ hurt.. not saying it wasn't, but it is good to see it grow up and slough off the deadwood we were collecting.
In the spirit of showing off desks..
:)
here is My desk
Yes.. I have a fabulous view of the buildings in downtown New Orleans.. and sometimes if I look down I see random parades
Server Error
The server encountered an error and could not complete your request.
If the problem persists, please mail google@google.com and mention this error message and the query that caused it.
Here is an image of my browser which managed to make it to the webserver in the last minute before Galileo crashed into Jupiter.
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/g.jpg
It is kind of sad..
and I don't know why.
oh.. here is a link about the intarwebh p?term=int arweb
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p
fabulous..
simply fabulous..
I put a disclaimer:
(you may need to be familiar with somethingaweful to understand the above statement)
yea, brilliant plan huh?
I know, lets standardize on windows and outlook so that my company can get a contract for doing anti-virus stuff for the government.
Sheesh.. MS might as well buy Symantec now and finalize it borgification of the government.
Maybe this guy will help get rid of all those nasty worms on the intarweb
(you may need to be familiar with somethingaweful to understand the above statement)
I personally think we are just seeing the tip of the proverbial iceberg for p2p.. a lot of companies would love to be able to use processing power of millions of computers (i.e. what kazaa did with their leech-ware product) .. Seti@home has proved that people are willing to donate computer time and energy, I mean, look at the battles that rage over the number one through ten slots at seti. (people even trying to cheat). I think you will start seeing p2p system for searching, archival and scientific pop up all over in the next few years. In addition, games like Everquest and Lineage pass off most of the processing to the client computers, so in effect it is a large p2p network (albeit obviously not so, but you get my drift).
Anyway, there are a lot of things that p2p is good for (besides the obvious pirate-ware).
And there are ways around it as well for pirates.
i.e. here is an idea:
yenc a file and split it, store various chunks of it hidden within html on freehosting around the globe, you could easily write a script that would put everything back together and un-yencode the file to it's original state. If this was done on a massive scale you could have release groups dropping rebuild files instead of actual files. What would happen then? (especially if redundancy was part of the system). That is one alternative to what is currently being done. I think right now the RIAA is just doing the fly-swatting routine and p2p is just the one they are currently after, next it will be IRC and IM servies..
Anyway, yes.. p2p will be here for a long time to come.
slashdot will be selling ads...
oh.
wait a minute..
hrm..
from the article..
umm.. then why were they buying equipment that specifically caters to "pirates"?
Seems like these guys are just huffy that they got caught to me.
:) it is..
a lot of the "readers" are non-techs, you cannot blanket say that there is some magic average of "techiness" on this site when I know for a fact that a lot of middle-mngt (who know how to use ms-word and that excel.. and know a few options in outlook) read here to see what is "hot" etc..
This *is* (or was) the center to get linux news and events. As a user who works 100% on linux system and runs it at home and has not run windows in years (I don't have time to play games much these day) dealing with the "average" windows user is more of a chore than anything.
Again.. note my word choice of "average"..
cheers
on a linux-centric site...
I shouldn't have to.
The target audience for this book would probably be a little less technical than myself or the average Slashdot reader
Have you seen the stats? 90% of slashdot users use windows or mac's
Not saying that nobody here is a tech, but honestly, the majority are actually not really techs.
I read it.. /etc/hosts.deny file does not have to be an IP.. you can add
but the deal is.. blocking can be dynamic..
i.e. your
ALL: *.anonymizer.com
or add in a whole class B if you wanted..
unless anonymizer has a huge number of IP's in various blocks then this would be pretty easy to block..
unless they are doing something totally wacky.. but I am sure they won't release details on exactly how they plan to keep the proxy alive..
blocking works.. just watch what happens when SPEWS gets ahold of a larger domain..
WMD's?
yea.. saying we can't find any in Iraq lets go find them someplace else..
sheesh..
if they just block the service that will take care of the issue right then and there..
hahahahaha..
yea.. the accent is usally enough to make you wonder where they found those people..
*apu* Drood youvve gets dellr.. yes you doo
all I can say is "press yes" or "I agree"
hey.. I always agree..
whatever, what on earth can a license from them accomplish anyway?
Perhaps I have been using open source software for too long and am out of the loop, but do these things honestly matter in hardware.. You get a warranty, that is all I care about..
Maybe I am missing something here, but to agree with these stupid licenses on websites that all state they can be changed at any time for any reason would be the legal equiv of suicide in the real business world..
Guess I am just agreeable.. too much floride in my water or something..
well that would explain it..
hrm..
guess they are trying to get in as many of those last calls as they can then..
They are already working around it..
I get calls still..
it is ridiculous that it is so bad that one sixth of the entire country is so pissed about it they have signed up and now they are working around it and changing their lead-ins...
*sigh* . and I have noticed a marked increase in "physical" spam in my mailbox as well..
hrm..
what is funny is that someone "interviewed" him and asked that question..
that must have been awkward..
just imagine how that went..
Is the Things 'thing' made of rock as well?