It is not often that a society slips backwards. In this day and age, having many societies allows for a populus movement. If you cannot stand it, move.
Whoa there, chief!
Not often that societies slip backwards, eh? To you I submit:
The Roman Empire
The Ancient Egyptians
Czarist Russia/The former Soviet Union
That's probably enough.... Societies routinely rise and fall. Every single one of them.
In this day and age, having many societies allows for a populus movement. If you cannot stand it, move.
Maybe I'm thick, but I can't even begin to make any sense of this statement, unless you mean leaving the planet entirely (not likely an option for anybody anytime soon). Do you mean a populist movement? And if so, following your own logic, why would it matter, where I am?
The two U.S. and Russian astronauts on the International Space Station had to rely on a candy-laden diet for five weeks because their predecessors raided the pantry. "Both of us ended up losing a few pounds," U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao said in a news conference from the station on Wednesday.
I guess we know which option they probably wouldn't be selecting in the poll at this point.
1) I'm guessing you may have some role other than 'the IT guy' at your office, or that you're the only tech they have for an operation that size. Switch your userbase to Firefox if you haven't already. It can save you unbelievable amounts of time you'd otherwise spend cleaning spyware/adware off your workstations. You can help smooth the trasition from IE using the IEView and Googlebar extensions in Firefox. Get them hooked on the extensions and they'll never look back. There are some truly useful tools there that have no analog in IE.
2) Check to see if your local university or community college has a Linux Users Group (LUG). You'll meet other people with an interest in Linux who may even be willing to help you with design and implementation. They can also help you choose a Linux distro appropriate for what you are doing. I personally like Debian, if for no other reason than dselect, its package management system. You can get Samba, Sendmail, CUPS, Bind, Apache, etc. for it as mentioned above in other posts.
It's probably not much of a stretch to assume they're running this on less-than-state-of-the-art hardware. Most of the non-profits where I know people in similar situations are a version or two back on their server OS and running it on hardware with which they couldn't take up to Win2K even if they could afford the licenses.
If their remote users are using any of these boxes for RDP or VNC, I'd be wondering how they get along with just 6.
I've been asked this same question by at least 6 of my friends who work in or manage a non-profit. They have varying levels of technical sophistication but none are experts. Most have little or no money. They all have an abiding sense of compassion for their fellow man; dedication to causes most of us would like to forget about; a knack for networking and fundraising; etc. They're not simple people.
Not all non-profits are the EFF though.
Don't be a dickhead. You know who you are, AC. Now go put your fuzzy slippers on and get back to daytrading on your Mom's WebTV. It clear you don't have the social skills required to formulate a proper response anyway.
The idea that some other undersocialized loser modded you insightful just removed any hestancy I had in going off on you. Perfect.
Do what you will mods. I could care less if I have 'Excellent' karma with a room full of asshats like this.
That's about as deep into it as I wanted to get too. I can always use a new hobby, but I don't need another job. It's nice to be able to break out something like homebrew/baked-from-scratch/etc. when you have dinner guests.
To what degree would you say your results are better than good commercial coffee? My results from homebrewing (beer) often blow the doors off of decent craft brews, even. Does 'homeroast' compare similarly?
I'm going in a few months, tico. We're going to be near Liberia for most of the time. Is there any place in particular you would recommend for getting pounds of the good stuff to take back to the US, or can you get it just about anywhere there? Have you ever had problems with customs coming back? CR peaberry is one of my favorites. I wanna stock up.
All of this, of course, presumes you're correct in your assumption that there is an afterlife in the first place.
I agree, more or less, with the weight of importance you give to learning from mistakes and the pain that maybe associated with making them. However, there is no prima facia requirement to accept the framework of an organized religion or the existence of a superior being to be a "good person," capable of making moral and right descisions.
Would you say there is no suffering to be had in the world outside of what our various religious conflicts create for us? I've certainly benefitted from making mistakes and learning from them without banking up bonus righteousity points in the bargain.
Before you start pitying me for a lost soul who has never known the love of God, you should know I've arrived at my present state of thinking after growing up in a Christian home (and truly trying to believe); taking part in years of intensive biblical study; and further pursuing the study of Christianity and other religions in college course work. I intended to enter the seminary at one point even.
I'm not quite foolish enough to discount completely the concept of a higher power solely based on lack of evidence and my own skepticism. However, I'm even less inclined to take up religion as we know it simply out of fear of what I (or you, or anyone else) cannot know (the "mind of God," exisitence of an "afterlife"). The trade offs are not worth it. I am not willing to take part in fostering the continuance of age old sectarian conflicts in trade for feeling better about dying someday, or having answers to questions we cannot understand in the first place.
I prefer to continue disabusing myself of bad and mistaken beliefs. Assuming God == truth, I'll get closer my way than I ever will blindly accepting prefabbed tenets of Mankind's highly skewed concept of God.
My heart and mind are open in ways that those of self-righteous religios' will never be. I'm looking for truth... but I still haven't found what I'm looking for. That's fine. If I never find it, that's fine too. There is value in the struggle (as you pointed out yourself). If eternal blackness is my reward for being rational, I don't mind. The alternative is what gave us our present condition, as I see it.
Why do you believe what you believe? Please don't tell me you're yet another one of those people who can't decide if God really exists or not and therefore you're hedging your bets. I find that position to be the most gutless of copouts.
If it's "paper-captured," you can search, copy it, paste it somewhere else, etc. Depends on what they used to generate the pdf.
As far as Adobe products go, you can generate it with the PDF Writer (which will give you a pdf with embedded text) or you can use the distiller, which just produces a pdf image (i.e no text, especially not text-text).
This concept exists in (US at least) Trademark law. You have to prove you're using it to keep it in force/keep from letting your brand name get diluted. I'm having trouble thinking of any famous marks that have been lost because they weren't enforced at the moment. But that's why you have to do the little "is Pepsi(tm) okay" dance with waitresses in half the restaurants where you order a coke.
Xerox had a tough time with this too. People wanted to make "xeroxes" of everything for a long time until they managed to get "photocopy" to replace it through a lot of marketing.
Use it or lose it. It's not quite that simple, but almost.
I'm not sure why there isn't an analogue to this in patent law. It'd make too much sense, I guess.
I wish they'd give my $2 back and take it from some willing ESPN subscriber. It really irks me as a broadband Internet fan that part of my bill is paying for the continuation of pointless sporting events.
Wow. I know you're a lame-ass idiot troll, but I can't resist responding to this. I hope you never find yourself in chronic pain from a disease nobody can identify. If he's in anything like the pain I'm imagining he's in, it's rather amazing he was able to tell his story so clearly and rationally.
I've been there -- so desparate I'd ask slashdot for help if I thought it could possibly provide any -- it's not a fun spot to be in.
All he's asked for is help thinking through the predicament and perhaps expedited treament by those who are in a position to lend a hand.
Since you clearly have no intention of helping him to either, why don't you shut the fuck up.
"I don't want a union; unions are for blue-collar workers."
"I don't want to wear a condom; only people with STDs wear those."
Whoa! Calm down crazy anology guy!
Your post shows no sign of any actual thought process. No, strike that. Your post was so mind-numbingly stupid that it made me bleed ou of my ears.
It shows signs of my experience with unions. And for that matter, I don't think unions are for blue collar people either. I recall experiences of people close to me which amounted routine buggering of union members by their union; wasted time, money and paperwork to support a layer of buerocracy which amounted to entitlement pimping; excusers and rewarders of bad behavior and poor workmanship. But you couldn't opt out.
Let me try to approximate what you're saying: "Do you want to live in an ordered state like Singapore, or a hell-hole like Mexico City? Only societies with crime need police, so if we got a police force crime would go up."
(Note that, in addition to capturing your idiotic logic, my analogy also duplicates your inadequate grasp of the facts. Singapore employs quite a large number of policemen -- just like doctors, lawyers, and college professors have unions.)
Thanks, but I don't need your help. In fact, I don't want it, which is more or less the point. It doesn't approximate what I'm saying very well anyway. I'd like something between Singapore and Mexico City. I don't want your order, your ordered society, or your orders. I can take care of myself just fine, thanks. I don't need you, so I don't care about you. I wouldn't enjoy your police state utopia. Got it?
What exactly did anything I say have to do with crime anyway?
It was an intersting display of psychotic behavior, if not analysis, in any case.
Fine. You can work for the rest of us who would rather continue seeing IT go the way of a new profession.
Don't get me wrong, unions on the whole have done a lot to improve everyone's working lives that could never have happened without them. However, do you aspire to information work that is akin to factory work, or construction, or truck driving? That's what an IT workers' union will turn our budding profession into.
I personally want to see our gig rise to the level of doctor, lawyer, professor, etc. I want to do meaningful, creative work. Not cookie-cutter, templatized, stoop-labor.
No, not guilty != innocent. Not guilty means the prosecutor couldn't get you convicted beyond a reasonable doubt based on the evidence. The defendant isn't charged with proving their innocence. The defendant usually tries to poke holes in the prosection's case or possibly offers alternative scenarios to what the prosecution offers (in the hope of achieving reasonable doubt -- remember OJ and their contention of another, unidentified murderer?).
Someone may be prosecuted for a crime of which they are innocent; they may be found not guilty, but they are not found innocent. It's simply not an option. And there is a big difference between the two.
On the flipside, plenty of guilty scumbags get away with crimes because a key piece of evidence was excluded at trial for some reason... and they are found not guilty. Would you say not guilty = innocent in that case?
Something that's always fascinated me with regard to the "innocent until proven guilty" concept: You're innocent until you're tried, then you're either guilty or not guilty. It's a situation of "innocence lost" regardless of the outcome.
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Why 6 through 10? Who really expects this to not suck enough for anyone to really be clamoring for it in the first place?
Whoa there, chief! Not often that societies slip backwards, eh? To you I submit:
The Roman Empire
The Ancient Egyptians
Czarist Russia/The former Soviet Union
That's probably enough.... Societies routinely rise and fall. Every single one of them.
Maybe I'm thick, but I can't even begin to make any sense of this statement, unless you mean leaving the planet entirely (not likely an option for anybody anytime soon). Do you mean a populist movement? And if so, following your own logic, why would it matter, where I am?I guess we know which option they probably wouldn't be selecting in the poll at this point.
Or aimed one beam through a decent rifle scope.
2) Check to see if your local university or community college has a Linux Users Group (LUG). You'll meet other people with an interest in Linux who may even be willing to help you with design and implementation. They can also help you choose a Linux distro appropriate for what you are doing. I personally like Debian, if for no other reason than dselect, its package management system. You can get Samba, Sendmail, CUPS, Bind, Apache, etc. for it as mentioned above in other posts.
Good luck!
If their remote users are using any of these boxes for RDP or VNC, I'd be wondering how they get along with just 6.
Not all non-profits are the EFF though.
Don't be a dickhead. You know who you are, AC. Now go put your fuzzy slippers on and get back to daytrading on your Mom's WebTV. It clear you don't have the social skills required to formulate a proper response anyway.
The idea that some other undersocialized loser modded you insightful just removed any hestancy I had in going off on you. Perfect.
Do what you will mods. I could care less if I have 'Excellent' karma with a room full of asshats like this.
To what degree would you say your results are better than good commercial coffee? My results from homebrewing (beer) often blow the doors off of decent craft brews, even. Does 'homeroast' compare similarly?
I'm going in a few months, tico. We're going to be near Liberia for most of the time. Is there any place in particular you would recommend for getting pounds of the good stuff to take back to the US, or can you get it just about anywhere there? Have you ever had problems with customs coming back? CR peaberry is one of my favorites. I wanna stock up.
Don't worry, they'll be featured on the main page again soon. This is /. afterall. :-D
That sounds good. I never even considered it really. Thanks! For the record: I have a two-pot-a-day habit. I might have to try your suggestion.
Grocery store checkers around here are 'tarded slow.
Take a few minutes, grind your own at home. Have real coffee. Better and, wait for it... still faster!
All of this, of course, presumes you're correct in your assumption that there is an afterlife in the first place.
I agree, more or less, with the weight of importance you give to learning from mistakes and the pain that maybe associated with making them. However, there is no prima facia requirement to accept the framework of an organized religion or the existence of a superior being to be a "good person," capable of making moral and right descisions.
Would you say there is no suffering to be had in the world outside of what our various religious conflicts create for us? I've certainly benefitted from making mistakes and learning from them without banking up bonus righteousity points in the bargain.
Before you start pitying me for a lost soul who has never known the love of God, you should know I've arrived at my present state of thinking after growing up in a Christian home (and truly trying to believe); taking part in years of intensive biblical study; and further pursuing the study of Christianity and other religions in college course work. I intended to enter the seminary at one point even.
I'm not quite foolish enough to discount completely the concept of a higher power solely based on lack of evidence and my own skepticism. However, I'm even less inclined to take up religion as we know it simply out of fear of what I (or you, or anyone else) cannot know (the "mind of God," exisitence of an "afterlife"). The trade offs are not worth it. I am not willing to take part in fostering the continuance of age old sectarian conflicts in trade for feeling better about dying someday, or having answers to questions we cannot understand in the first place.
I prefer to continue disabusing myself of bad and mistaken beliefs. Assuming God == truth, I'll get closer my way than I ever will blindly accepting prefabbed tenets of Mankind's highly skewed concept of God.
My heart and mind are open in ways that those of self-righteous religios' will never be. I'm looking for truth... but I still haven't found what I'm looking for. That's fine. If I never find it, that's fine too. There is value in the struggle (as you pointed out yourself). If eternal blackness is my reward for being rational, I don't mind. The alternative is what gave us our present condition, as I see it.
Why do you believe what you believe? Please don't tell me you're yet another one of those people who can't decide if God really exists or not and therefore you're hedging your bets. I find that position to be the most gutless of copouts.
Good thread, BTW.
Religion is a construct of mankind that now causes it endless trouble in blind trade for comfort.
More trouble than it's worth? I think so.
If we could find him, we should put God on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. "God is not a repsector of man," indeed.
I'd believe I'd be going to Hell for this if it existed. :^P
As far as Adobe products go, you can generate it with the PDF Writer (which will give you a pdf with embedded text) or you can use the distiller, which just produces a pdf image (i.e no text, especially not text-text).
Thank you.
Xerox had a tough time with this too. People wanted to make "xeroxes" of everything for a long time until they managed to get "photocopy" to replace it through a lot of marketing.
Use it or lose it. It's not quite that simple, but almost.
I'm not sure why there isn't an analogue to this in patent law. It'd make too much sense, I guess.
Firefox & Thunderbird. That'll more or less handle everything.
Yeah, it's great out here. Money is rolling in. Homeland Security is hiring a lot of people right now.
I wish they'd give my $2 back and take it from some willing ESPN subscriber. It really irks me as a broadband Internet fan that part of my bill is paying for the continuation of pointless sporting events.
I've been there -- so desparate I'd ask slashdot for help if I thought it could possibly provide any -- it's not a fun spot to be in.
All he's asked for is help thinking through the predicament and perhaps expedited treament by those who are in a position to lend a hand.
Since you clearly have no intention of helping him to either, why don't you shut the fuck up.
Jackass.
"I don't want to wear a condom; only people with STDs wear those."
Whoa! Calm down crazy anology guy!
Your post shows no sign of any actual thought process. No, strike that. Your post was so mind-numbingly stupid that it made me bleed ou of my ears.
It shows signs of my experience with unions. And for that matter, I don't think unions are for blue collar people either. I recall experiences of people close to me which amounted routine buggering of union members by their union; wasted time, money and paperwork to support a layer of buerocracy which amounted to entitlement pimping; excusers and rewarders of bad behavior and poor workmanship. But you couldn't opt out.
Let me try to approximate what you're saying: "Do you want to live in an ordered state like Singapore, or a hell-hole like Mexico City? Only societies with crime need police, so if we got a police force crime would go up."
(Note that, in addition to capturing your idiotic logic, my analogy also duplicates your inadequate grasp of the facts. Singapore employs quite a large number of policemen -- just like doctors, lawyers, and college professors have unions.)
Thanks, but I don't need your help. In fact, I don't want it, which is more or less the point. It doesn't approximate what I'm saying very well anyway. I'd like something between Singapore and Mexico City. I don't want your order, your ordered society, or your orders. I can take care of myself just fine, thanks. I don't need you, so I don't care about you. I wouldn't enjoy your police state utopia. Got it?
What exactly did anything I say have to do with crime anyway?
It was an intersting display of psychotic behavior, if not analysis, in any case.
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I'll waste no time reading it.
Don't get me wrong, unions on the whole have done a lot to improve everyone's working lives that could never have happened without them. However, do you aspire to information work that is akin to factory work, or construction, or truck driving? That's what an IT workers' union will turn our budding profession into.
I personally want to see our gig rise to the level of doctor, lawyer, professor, etc. I want to do meaningful, creative work. Not cookie-cutter, templatized, stoop-labor.
Someone may be prosecuted for a crime of which they are innocent; they may be found not guilty, but they are not found innocent. It's simply not an option. And there is a big difference between the two.
On the flipside, plenty of guilty scumbags get away with crimes because a key piece of evidence was excluded at trial for some reason... and they are found not guilty. Would you say not guilty = innocent in that case?
Something that's always fascinated me with regard to the "innocent until proven guilty" concept: You're innocent until you're tried, then you're either guilty or not guilty. It's a situation of "innocence lost" regardless of the outcome.