I just wish they'd use a better screen. Comparing Mac laptops to Windows laptops is like night and day, literally. The Mac laptops have such dim screens compared to the laptops that are available for Windows.
I didn't realize brightness == quality?
That said, this new iBook I'm using right now (not mine) seems plenty bright. . . I can't imagine the higher-end PowerBook could be worse.
I have been hunting for a PHP job too(well, I don't actually want to do PHP but I know there places that will pay me more than $10 an hour to do it)...
This is how the world ends up with PHBs. Guys who are perfectly happy doing one thing get greedy and fill another position, then they realize they're 40 years old with a big 401(k) and a bigger beer gut and they make their poor underlings' lives miserable. Do everyone a favor -- do what you like.
I work for a webhosting firm (URL withheld, but we're about 16k hosted clients strong plus colo or dedicated servers). I'm a Political Science major, but I *love* tech. . . worked at Staples and OfficeMax in the "Business Machines" department, do web design on the side. . . Really, these guys have it going on. We've got maybe 6 people who've been with the company since the beginning, a couple more who have been there for 3 years or so.
I was hired with little resume shine to my name; I had done phone support for an ISP like 5 years previous, but more than that we seemed to 'click' -- I commented positively on the Homestar Runner stuff in the office, all the Star Wars figurines, etc... They hired me because I seemed as if I would fit in and I wasn't an idiot.
When another position opened up, I recommended my roommate. He had even less experience than me, but as a mechanical engeneering major he is technically minded. They hired him gambling that he would be trainable. So far, so good.
For clarity's sake, we're a small office and try and run as much as we can here. We've all got root access and do I would say a good 80% of day-to-day administrative tasks here. We have a (REALLY good) admin who does the super-techie stuff, but for everything else, our office works. None of us were IT majors or certified in any way. We're just a bunch of guys who love technology and love to learn.
Microsoft's loss is Mozilla's loss
by tbo (35008) on Tuesday November 01, @06:08PM (#13927777) I say this as someone who is no fan of Microsoft, and who is actually a student at the University of California...
I work for a webhosting firm and almost monthly we get calls from old dudes with fishing websites asking why they used 500 Gigs of transfer and got an insane bill last month. Invariably it's because their ftp password was "cat" or some nonsense and somebody dumped a copy of dreamweaver, or a ton of MP3s, etc. on their account and linked it to a pirate site. But the first time I saw this happen, it made me think: piracy in general can have more economic impact that you realize at first.
For example, when the above happens, we usually do a one-time refund of the bandwidth charge, which is often considerable, and I'm sure we're not the exception. That means we eat the bandwidth bill for that person. Now, consider that all webhosts are likely to do the same and I wonder what the economic impact is across the board?
Interesting how there are facets you don't even realize exist.
But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.
Yeah, that's possible. It's also possible that I want to set up a huge-ass transmitter and saturate the neighborhood with radio waves. The type of thinking that's expressed in the summary assumes that everybody -- not "most people", but everybody -- will act ethically, at least in a utilitarian or "common good" sense. I say 'everybody' because (as many of us know) it only takes on rogue transmitter to pooch things up real good.
Don't get me wrong, a world in which everybody works together without regulation would be nice, but it's a fundamental problem of ethics.
Or, if you could have ensured that the beeps were being emmitted at precisely the same time, you could have worked out a way to calculate where you are given the lag in receiving the beeps
Received frequency and relative time:
Freq2: 0
Freq1: +0.0023
Freq3: +0.0001
Then you correlate that to a spot on your triangle-looking map and viola! Maybe. I think the kid in me likes to try and come up with ways to make kid experiments work.
Ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit
an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams
(``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a ``struct timeval''
and then an arbitrary number of ``pad'' bytes used to fill out the
packet.
Before: This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations...
After: This Intel-written whitepaper introduces a way to determine location...
I really thought I had suddenly become retarded and couldn't parse english anymore. Thankfully, and quick edit proved me wrong.
Really wierd to see revisions as they happen on the front page.
Try it on your cell phone but not on your un-shielded LCD display (digital camera)! That stuff is *sticky* and if you put it on a surface that's scratch-prone or has any sort of permeability, say goodbye.
A better idea is to use those static-cling clear sheets they (used to?) sell for PDA's. Think about it, the market already has solutions to screens being scratched - Stylus on PDA screen, hello?
I imagine they'd work great on an iPod, and no sticky mess.
THE MARK OF THE BEAST!! AHHHHH!!!!! *points and jumps up and down*
I work in web hosting...
on
Too Many Passwords
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
In the (California-based!) tech support center. You might be shocked at the number of people who have no idea how security works.
Prime example. When a customer wants to cancel their account, we direct them to an online form which asks for their registration # or domain name and their password to verify their identity. Invariably, the customer forgets their password and when we respond that we can't cancel their account without that information, they ALWAYS ask, "can you tell me my password?"
I am not joking. People call in all the time wanting their login information without being able to verify a thing. By the way, when this happens, there are two options - the "forgot password" form which mails the info to the admin address on record, or providing the billing CC# (you pay the bill, you get the key)
But I digress. Ultimately, the general public couldn't care less about passwords because they don't truly understand their function other than "it gets me where I need to be"
Right, I hear what you're saying. I think an LCARS-type system would be really useful. You buy an appliance that has a "best purpose", but is compatible with other purposes.
For example, developers like you and I might get a 31" wide-screen display with a tablet whose "best purpose" is developing. We can log in, run Photoshop 9000, etc, but also check email and do word processing.
Grandma on the other hand, buys a 15" terminal with a webcam so she can chat with the grandkids. Could she run the developer's programs? Of course, her terminal just isn't ideal for it.
I honestly stole that idea from LCARS (other real-life applications may exist), but wouldn't it be cool? A common library of apps with different terminals which are best suited to a category of them?
You might want to recheck that. It's been done before, and it will be done again. (Use test:test for user/pass.)
I mean, i guess that's ok if you don't really want to do anything. Show me web-based Photoshop, or even the Gimp, Illustrator, or Matlab and then I'll be impressed.
The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another. I very much doubt the web will be a viable platform anytime soon, for bandwidth reasons if nothing else.
I think about how I use programs like photoshop and flashmx when i'm developing web sites. There's no way those huge-ass programs are going to be hosted and downloaded/run on demand. On the other hand, I need connectivity to upload my work to the web and test/publish it. The internet facilitates a good deal of things we do, but there's no way it could be a platform anytime in my lifetime.
It's like the relationship vehicles and highways have. Everyone owns their own vehicle, and they're responsible for the good running condition of that vehicle, and the highway facilitates the usefulness of that vehicle.
Slashdot Mirror
+5, Sad but true
Personally, I would have gone for a less blatant discount, or refrained from visiting the same store so soon afterwards.
Personally, I would have been honest.
I just wish they'd use a better screen. Comparing Mac laptops to Windows laptops is like night and day, literally. The Mac laptops have such dim screens compared to the laptops that are available for Windows.
I didn't realize brightness == quality?
That said, this new iBook I'm using right now (not mine) seems plenty bright. . . I can't imagine the higher-end PowerBook could be worse.
I have been hunting for a PHP job too(well, I don't actually want to do PHP but I know there places that will pay me more than $10 an hour to do it)...
This is how the world ends up with PHBs. Guys who are perfectly happy doing one thing get greedy and fill another position, then they realize they're 40 years old with a big 401(k) and a bigger beer gut and they make their poor underlings' lives miserable. Do everyone a favor -- do what you like.
I work for a webhosting firm (URL withheld, but we're about 16k hosted clients strong plus colo or dedicated servers). I'm a Political Science major, but I *love* tech. . . worked at Staples and OfficeMax in the "Business Machines" department, do web design on the side. . . Really, these guys have it going on. We've got maybe 6 people who've been with the company since the beginning, a couple more who have been there for 3 years or so.
I was hired with little resume shine to my name; I had done phone support for an ISP like 5 years previous, but more than that we seemed to 'click' -- I commented positively on the Homestar Runner stuff in the office, all the Star Wars figurines, etc... They hired me because I seemed as if I would fit in and I wasn't an idiot.
When another position opened up, I recommended my roommate. He had even less experience than me, but as a mechanical engeneering major he is technically minded. They hired him gambling that he would be trainable. So far, so good.
For clarity's sake, we're a small office and try and run as much as we can here. We've all got root access and do I would say a good 80% of day-to-day administrative tasks here. We have a (REALLY good) admin who does the super-techie stuff, but for everything else, our office works. None of us were IT majors or certified in any way. We're just a bunch of guys who love technology and love to learn.
"My Documents...sponsored by Coca-Cola!"
and, "My Videos... sponsored by Vivid!"
show announcements by displaying PowerPoint slides (using the free viewer)
That'd be fantastic with ad-supported windows.
[PowerPoint slide transitions in]
Church Potluck, 2pm
Last Name A-J, Salad
Last Name....
[popup]
ENLARG3 Y0UR P3N1S N0W!!!!111
funny, I'm like 15 minutes from you in Davis. small world.
Microsoft's loss is Mozilla's loss
by tbo (35008) on Tuesday November 01, @06:08PM (#13927777)
I say this as someone who is no fan of Microsoft, and who is actually a student at the University of California...
You must be one old fratboy...!
I think you meant:
Microsoft gets to get it's own medicine shoved up its ass, in the same fashion they've been administering it for years.
Doesn't the target go after the flags? e.g. rm -Rf /
...
# man rm
RM(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual RM(1)
NAME
rm, unlink -- remove directory entries
SYNOPSIS
rm [-dfiPRrvW] file
Not that I've tried it your way (or my way for that matter!)
rm
preferably with the -Rf options.
I work for a webhosting firm and almost monthly we get calls from old dudes with fishing websites asking why they used 500 Gigs of transfer and got an insane bill last month. Invariably it's because their ftp password was "cat" or some nonsense and somebody dumped a copy of dreamweaver, or a ton of MP3s, etc. on their account and linked it to a pirate site. But the first time I saw this happen, it made me think: piracy in general can have more economic impact that you realize at first.
For example, when the above happens, we usually do a one-time refund of the bandwidth charge, which is often considerable, and I'm sure we're not the exception. That means we eat the bandwidth bill for that person. Now, consider that all webhosts are likely to do the same and I wonder what the economic impact is across the board?
Interesting how there are facets you don't even realize exist.
But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.
Yeah, that's possible. It's also possible that I want to set up a huge-ass transmitter and saturate the neighborhood with radio waves. The type of thinking that's expressed in the summary assumes that everybody -- not "most people", but everybody -- will act ethically, at least in a utilitarian or "common good" sense. I say 'everybody' because (as many of us know) it only takes on rogue transmitter to pooch things up real good.
Don't get me wrong, a world in which everybody works together without regulation would be nice, but it's a fundamental problem of ethics.
Or, if you could have ensured that the beeps were being emmitted at precisely the same time, you could have worked out a way to calculate where you are given the lag in receiving the beeps
Received frequency and relative time:
Freq2: 0
Freq1: +0.0023
Freq3: +0.0001
Then you correlate that to a spot on your triangle-looking map and viola! Maybe. I think the kid in me likes to try and come up with ways to make kid experiments work.
Aren't pings by definition time-stamped?
Ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway. ECHO_REQUEST datagrams (``pings'') have an IP and ICMP header, followed by a ``struct timeval'' and then an arbitrary number of ``pad'' bytes used to fill out the packet.
Before: This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations...
After: This Intel-written whitepaper introduces a way to determine location...
I really thought I had suddenly become retarded and couldn't parse english anymore. Thankfully, and quick edit proved me wrong.
Really wierd to see revisions as they happen on the front page.
how's that insightful?
... or any version that I can remember.
Brakes are a necessary component of a car -- you cannot operate a car without them.
Compression was not a necessary component of DOS 6.0
Bottom line: Compression's optional. Brakes aren't.
Try it on your cell phone but not on your un-shielded LCD display (digital camera)! That stuff is *sticky* and if you put it on a surface that's scratch-prone or has any sort of permeability, say goodbye.
A better idea is to use those static-cling clear sheets they (used to?) sell for PDA's. Think about it, the market already has solutions to screens being scratched - Stylus on PDA screen, hello?
I imagine they'd work great on an iPod, and no sticky mess.
I was completely expecting the HA! HA! guy from fark. /don't mod if you don't know what I'm talking about //where'd the ha ha guy go?
tiny RFID tags under the skin
THE MARK OF THE BEAST!! AHHHHH!!!!! *points and jumps up and down*
In the (California-based!) tech support center. You might be shocked at the number of people who have no idea how security works.
Prime example. When a customer wants to cancel their account, we direct them to an online form which asks for their registration # or domain name and their password to verify their identity. Invariably, the customer forgets their password and when we respond that we can't cancel their account without that information, they ALWAYS ask, "can you tell me my password?"
I am not joking. People call in all the time wanting their login information without being able to verify a thing. By the way, when this happens, there are two options - the "forgot password" form which mails the info to the admin address on record, or providing the billing CC# (you pay the bill, you get the key)
But I digress. Ultimately, the general public couldn't care less about passwords because they don't truly understand their function other than "it gets me where I need to be"
Right, I hear what you're saying. I think an LCARS-type system would be really useful. You buy an appliance that has a "best purpose", but is compatible with other purposes.
For example, developers like you and I might get a 31" wide-screen display with a tablet whose "best purpose" is developing. We can log in, run Photoshop 9000, etc, but also check email and do word processing.
Grandma on the other hand, buys a 15" terminal with a webcam so she can chat with the grandkids. Could she run the developer's programs? Of course, her terminal just isn't ideal for it.
I honestly stole that idea from LCARS (other real-life applications may exist), but wouldn't it be cool? A common library of apps with different terminals which are best suited to a category of them?
You might want to recheck that. It's been done before, and it will be done again. (Use test:test for user/pass.)
I mean, i guess that's ok if you don't really want to do anything. Show me web-based Photoshop, or even the Gimp, Illustrator, or Matlab and then I'll be impressed.
The web is an infrastructure that lets our individual machines communicate with one another. I very much doubt the web will be a viable platform anytime soon, for bandwidth reasons if nothing else.
I think about how I use programs like photoshop and flashmx when i'm developing web sites. There's no way those huge-ass programs are going to be hosted and downloaded/run on demand. On the other hand, I need connectivity to upload my work to the web and test/publish it. The internet facilitates a good deal of things we do, but there's no way it could be a platform anytime in my lifetime.
It's like the relationship vehicles and highways have. Everyone owns their own vehicle, and they're responsible for the good running condition of that vehicle, and the highway facilitates the usefulness of that vehicle.