I've always thought that was silly. I've been to Canada on pleasure (Victoria, BC) via the ferry from Pt. Washington and there was no drama (pre-9/11 though). I don't understand the beef either of our governments have with going to other country for a week of work.
That explains that. I bought some "airport friendly" Ecco shoes at the beginning of this year and breezed through a couple of times. Then the new metal detectors started going in and I started beeping whenever they wanded my shoes. It turns out my orthotics (got flat feet) set them off. The shoes thing is my biggest gripe with flying, but I fly around for a living - so I now take the path of least resistance and remove my shoes everytime.
For you all and all other past and present screeners. For the most part you guys and gals are doing your jobs and are nice about it. You have a tough job. I can't say the same thing about the old system. I've seen passengers give screeners a hard time and almost told one lady she was welcome to leave our country and go back home if she had a problem with our security. She is lucky that screener didn't have her dealt with.
My biggest beefs with the current system are there don't seem to be any uniform policies and procedures. Every so often, some cowboy screener makes up a new rule. I travel weekly all over the country, so I generally know what to do. TSA would make all of our lives easier if they would enforce uniform policies and procedures. That way, I can breeze through and the screeners have more time to deal with the amateur traveler who doesn't have a clue.
My other beef is the shoe thing. Taking your shoes off adds time to the whole process. I take my shoes and go put them on inside the terminal. I'm in the minority. Most people back the lines up by putting them on right there at the X-Ray. I don't want some nut job causing a problem in-flight with their shoes, but I hope there is active work being done to, at a minimum, keep frequent travlers like myself from having to remove their shoes.
I have one final comment. I'm a frequent traveler. You should know when I travel (my details are in your computers). I don't fit the profile of a bad guy. Concentrate your attention on those you don't know anything about and a couple of things will result. You won't peeve me off (and that will keep the airlines happy - my fellow business travelers and myself are what is keeping them in business - although they seem to forget that). You will have more time to spend on people you don't know about (non-frequent travelers, and genuine bad folks). The whole process will be more efficient. The result is enhanced security, not window dressing.
Since you are Canadian I have to ask this question. I travel a lot myself for business to work on customer sites. I have been told that if I have to go to Canada to always say I'm traveling for pleasure otherwise I'm going to get grilled and have an unpleasant experience with your Immigration chaps. I'm a U.S. citizen. Is it the same way if you are coming here to work for a week? If not, whats up with your Immigration chaps?
Typing was the best class I took in High School and the skills learned in it I use daily. I too learned on a Selectric. It would be a shame if people think it is not a worthwhile course. Watching hunt and peck "typists" drives me up the wall.
I like having my 200+ CD's on my 3rd Gen 40G iPod. I can listen to whatever I feel like at the time. I rip with LAME using VBR, and still have half the iPod free for more music.
One other thing... You can use your iPod as a hard drive in Windows. However, you really shouldn't try to muck around with your music. They are in hidden directories. The database is an XML file. I like the iPod because it has a great form factor, is easy to use, and is a no-brainer with iTunes for Windows. Different strokes for different folks.
When you hook your iPod up to your XP machine and run the iPod updater you will reformat the hard drive on the iPod to FAT32. This pre-supposes you are goin to use iTunes (which I do).
Now that I have moved from consulting into engineering, yet still do onsite work at customers I have found that having 1G of RAM in my laptop is not sufficient to run what I really need. I need 2G of RAM. So, while the size and of this would be great for this Road Warrior, unless it can hold 2G of memory, it won't help me.
I understand. However, I belong to that class of traveler known as the Road Warrior. It doesn't matter what the ticket costs when I have to be onsite at a customer at 9am tomorrow. In fact, I normally book full fare. It allows me the flexibility I need (such as when I got extended onsite last week) to make changes. I'm in the minority that keeps the airlines afloat. I wish they would remember that and cater to me more. It sounds selfish, but I don't really care. If you travel weekly you'll understand where I'm coming from. If not, you won't understand and that's OK too.
Speaking of that, I just moved over to Engineering at my company after being in Consulting for several years. I was supposed to work onsite with a customer for Engineering. I also worked at this customer when I was in Consulting and in a previous job. They declined to have me work with them. It doesn't break my heart, but you sometimes you don't mesh with a company. No problem for me, I've got plenty to keep me busy.
And your tale is my big heartburn with outsourcing in general (and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir). You (and I mean your company) no longer have "skin in the game." All your company cares about now is increasing revenue, never mind what the actual cost is. In other words you are no longer taking care of your customers (the subscribers) and this will eventually come back to haunt the paper that outscourced you (personally).
This reminds me of someone I knew in 1996. He was a high-end developer/DBA type. He kept his resume on his Apple Newton. He joked (but was serious) that if he got let go, by the time he hit the front door he would have faxed/emailed his resume out to numerous headhunters.
So, I suggest the scapegoat had better have their resume up-to-date and ready to go.
Don't take this personal, but yeah, if my needs are being met by the airlines you can bugger off. I'm tired of amateur travelers increasing queue lengths getting through security. But what torques me off more than amateurs, is TSA. They know travel is picking up, but they aren't doing anything about it. They still insist on window dressing, feel good security. How does taking my shoes off increase security??? Those long queues getting through security are a bigger security problem IMO, if you catch my drift.
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I've always thought that was silly. I've been to Canada on pleasure (Victoria, BC) via the ferry from Pt. Washington and there was no drama (pre-9/11 though). I don't understand the beef either of our governments have with going to other country for a week of work.
That explains that. I bought some "airport friendly" Ecco shoes at the beginning of this year and breezed through a couple of times. Then the new metal detectors started going in and I started beeping whenever they wanded my shoes. It turns out my orthotics (got flat feet) set them off. The shoes thing is my biggest gripe with flying, but I fly around for a living - so I now take the path of least resistance and remove my shoes everytime.
For you all and all other past and present screeners. For the most part you guys and gals are doing your jobs and are nice about it. You have a tough job. I can't say the same thing about the old system. I've seen passengers give screeners a hard time and almost told one lady she was welcome to leave our country and go back home if she had a problem with our security. She is lucky that screener didn't have her dealt with.
My biggest beefs with the current system are there don't seem to be any uniform policies and procedures. Every so often, some cowboy screener makes up a new rule. I travel weekly all over the country, so I generally know what to do. TSA would make all of our lives easier if they would enforce uniform policies and procedures. That way, I can breeze through and the screeners have more time to deal with the amateur traveler who doesn't have a clue.
My other beef is the shoe thing. Taking your shoes off adds time to the whole process. I take my shoes and go put them on inside the terminal. I'm in the minority. Most people back the lines up by putting them on right there at the X-Ray. I don't want some nut job causing a problem in-flight with their shoes, but I hope there is active work being done to, at a minimum, keep frequent travlers like myself from having to remove their shoes.
I have one final comment. I'm a frequent traveler. You should know when I travel (my details are in your computers). I don't fit the profile of a bad guy. Concentrate your attention on those you don't know anything about and a couple of things will result. You won't peeve me off (and that will keep the airlines happy - my fellow business travelers and myself are what is keeping them in business - although they seem to forget that). You will have more time to spend on people you don't know about (non-frequent travelers, and genuine bad folks). The whole process will be more efficient. The result is enhanced security, not window dressing.
Since you are Canadian I have to ask this question. I travel a lot myself for business to work on customer sites. I have been told that if I have to go to Canada to always say I'm traveling for pleasure otherwise I'm going to get grilled and have an unpleasant experience with your Immigration chaps. I'm a U.S. citizen. Is it the same way if you are coming here to work for a week? If not, whats up with your Immigration chaps?
No, the claim is a supercomputer generally outperforms a cluster. The fact that Linux is running on either/both/neither has no relevancy.
If you had RTA you would have learned that these new Cray systems run Linux as their OS.
I was already a Unix geek in the mid '80's and that is how my fellow Unix geeks felt. Except we felt if it wasn't X11 we didn't want to touch it.
So, does this mean you could run VMware with Solaris x86 as the host os? That would be interesting for me.
Typing was the best class I took in High School and the skills learned in it I use daily. I too learned on a Selectric. It would be a shame if people think it is not a worthwhile course. Watching hunt and peck "typists" drives me up the wall.
SMS incoming is free for AT&T Wireless (probably depending on your plan). Send to you_cell_number@mobile.att.net.
This is a desktop replacement. Think of that battery as a built-in UPS.
I like having my 200+ CD's on my 3rd Gen 40G iPod. I can listen to whatever I feel like at the time. I rip with LAME using VBR, and still have half the iPod free for more music.
One other thing... You can use your iPod as a hard drive in Windows. However, you really shouldn't try to muck around with your music. They are in hidden directories. The database is an XML file. I like the iPod because it has a great form factor, is easy to use, and is a no-brainer with iTunes for Windows. Different strokes for different folks.
When you hook your iPod up to your XP machine and run the iPod updater you will reformat the hard drive on the iPod to FAT32. This pre-supposes you are goin to use iTunes (which I do).
Now that I have moved from consulting into engineering, yet still do onsite work at customers I have found that having 1G of RAM in my laptop is not sufficient to run what I really need. I need 2G of RAM. So, while the size and of this would be great for this Road Warrior, unless it can hold 2G of memory, it won't help me.
Ummmm... MacOS X is NOT Linux.
Codeweavers uses Wine, and is the way to go if you don't want to hack on Wine.
I understand. However, I belong to that class of traveler known as the Road Warrior. It doesn't matter what the ticket costs when I have to be onsite at a customer at 9am tomorrow. In fact, I normally book full fare. It allows me the flexibility I need (such as when I got extended onsite last week) to make changes. I'm in the minority that keeps the airlines afloat. I wish they would remember that and cater to me more. It sounds selfish, but I don't really care. If you travel weekly you'll understand where I'm coming from. If not, you won't understand and that's OK too.
Speaking of that, I just moved over to Engineering at my company after being in Consulting for several years. I was supposed to work onsite with a customer for Engineering. I also worked at this customer when I was in Consulting and in a previous job. They declined to have me work with them. It doesn't break my heart, but you sometimes you don't mesh with a company. No problem for me, I've got plenty to keep me busy.
And your tale is my big heartburn with outsourcing in general (and I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir). You (and I mean your company) no longer have "skin in the game." All your company cares about now is increasing revenue, never mind what the actual cost is. In other words you are no longer taking care of your customers (the subscribers) and this will eventually come back to haunt the paper that outscourced you (personally).
This reminds me of someone I knew in 1996. He was a high-end developer/DBA type. He kept his resume on his Apple Newton. He joked (but was serious) that if he got let go, by the time he hit the front door he would have faxed/emailed his resume out to numerous headhunters. So, I suggest the scapegoat had better have their resume up-to-date and ready to go.
As usual I'm different... I go for Contemporary Christian.
That is what I said.
Don't take this personal, but yeah, if my needs are being met by the airlines you can bugger off. I'm tired of amateur travelers increasing queue lengths getting through security. But what torques me off more than amateurs, is TSA. They know travel is picking up, but they aren't doing anything about it. They still insist on window dressing, feel good security. How does taking my shoes off increase security??? Those long queues getting through security are a bigger security problem IMO, if you catch my drift.
Immediate shipping for phone order vs. waiting 2-3 weeks for it to hit the store shelves.