No, monthlies do not kill your finances: they enable you to plan ahead. What you need to do is proper financial planning, a.k.a. making a budget and then see what is really not valuable to you. Example: you pay 100/month for cable (frankly, that sounds like a lot... it's 80€ bi-yearly for me) and that is because you have some premium movie channels. Do you really watch that much TV? Isn't it cheaper to rent a DVD from time to time if you fancy a movie? Based on the answers of these questions, you cancel your cable (or the premium package) and save money.
Yeah, perhaps in the early days I had a cellphone. That would be in 1996. These days, I have this nice plan: pay for what you actually use. No base fee (as in 0€), and only pay 0.09€ per minute (or per SMS). (No, it's not a prepaid card) Sure, when roaming it gets a bit more expensive, but not the end of the world. I set apart exactly 10 per month for cellphone calls (meaning nearly 2 hours calling) and I never break that barrier.
No way a cellphone is going to ruin me... The reason is evident: just look at the currency I use....
Avec le petit problème que je n'habite pas la France et que je n'ai jamais enseigné en France. De plus: en France les enseignants sont mal payés, ici on gagne beaucoup plus quand on travaille pour l'état que dans le privé. (Du jamais vu dans quasiment toute l'Europe)
Mais, en effet, après mon excursion dans l'éducation nationale de mon pays, je suis complètement d'accord avec toi: le système scolaire de mon pays est nul!
They didn't teach you spelling there, though;-) Indeed, that was the point I was trying to make. A school selling "programming" as "computer science" is just not the kind of school you want to attend. (Unless you only want to know how to program)
Alas, today, pretty much anything to do with computers is "sold" as "computer science". Now, while not at a University, I have been a teacher at a high school. I didn't expect to teach them computational complexity because that has no place in high school. I did however hope to teach programming. I ended up teaching Word and Excel in courses that were called "Informatique" (which is the French for Computer Science). It sucked to no end and the kids couldn't care less... I quit. That's not what I wanted to do. I only regret that I have is that I now earn 1000€ less per month, but that's a particularity of my country...:-(
The odd thing was: the exam I had to take to become a teacher was 100% pure computer science. To this day, I do not understand why they need computer scientists to teach Office products.
So you are telling me that Universities that teach Computer Science don't teach about the programming paradigms anymore? No computational theory? No proofs of correctness? They don't even give you projects in Haskell or Prolog? (I suck totally at Prolog, but I loved Haskell) Wow, they dropped all that since I graduated 10 years ago?
If you haven't heard of anything I just wrote, you have proof that you didn't have a computer science curriculum, but a programming class. *sigh* Kids these days....
Yes, I did that too...You always get tons of mails saying they are new but they are not... and with gmail it doesn't work at all. Mails marked as read are not resent...
IMAP is superior... Try it for a while, and you'll see the light. Not so long ago, I thought the same thing...
Hey, I'm talking about a 5 user system.... INBOX works fine for that. 100++ users should use a database, but that's simply overkill for my situation. I'm not saying that INBOX is a good solution, but 16MB mailbox is a bit small... Ever a moderatly big database can cope much more
I won't start to enumerate all that is wrong with POP but consider my simple configuration: I have my own mailserver. Now if I would use POP, I would be constrained to one single machine. This does not reflect reality, we have one laptop and two desktops. Now, if I check my mail on my wifes computer (it's the one that is always on), and a good friend sends me email. Alas, I don't have time to reply at that moment. Later, my wife is shopping at amazon on her computer and I think it's a good idea to reply to that friend. Ooops... Mail gone. Wife, can you please do your amazon shopping on one of the other two computers because I need to reply to that friend.
IMAP gives you your email on every computer regardless what one it its. POP is fine for single-computer usage and the world have moved beyond that.
I understand that, but that falls in the category "dial-up".... On a LAN, the network lag should be insignificant. Sure, that 10M powerpoint from my boss, won't open immediately, but with POP it would take ages to download it in the first place. I just delete it without opening it;-)
16MB? Wow... That's suckitude pure... My personal mailserver can cope 2Gig, and that's only because the/var is a separate partition of 2Gig. I don't know what it is at work, but I haven't reached it yet.... I get those funny videos all the time, but I delete them at once, so my space usage isn't all that big. Haven't heard complaints of the management types yet, so I think that the limits are very reasonable.
Frankly, tell IT to buy a few disks.... 16MB is about what I had as a student at the University computer in 1994.
Now, nothing against educating management... but POP? POP doesn't belong in the enterprise. Even at home I have my own IMAP server. POP is a relic of the dialup-time where you only had access to your own computer and nobody else (seemed) to have one.
A shame that gmail doesn't support IMAP, I'd prefer it that way instead of that poor POP3 hack they use...
Anyway, it turns out the Windows auto-install script set this thing up with no protection what-so-ever. It was only after I read the HOWTO's on the internet that I was able to go back and secure my router for both Linux and Windows.
I know it's always hip to bash Windows on slashdot, but to be fair: in Windows XP the applet that handles wireless connections says "unsecured wireless connection" right there in the dialog. The problem here is the software that comes with these access points: they are braindead. If you are using Windows XP, you do not need a CD to install your wireless access point. Never...
At max you need the CD to install the drivers of your wireless card, but that has nothing to do with your access point.
For some reason people think that you need to insert a CD whenever you buy new hardware. That's why so many people run Logitech Mouse drivers that work just fine without those drivers. (An example amongst many) In many cases, it's easier to configure hardware by ignoring all CDs.
Access point manufacturers should just make the CD autorun to http://192.168.0.254/login.html and then let them in with the default user/password combo. The first thing it should do after that is force the changing of the password. The second its forcing the choice of an SSID and then enable WPA-PSK... After that the wireless connection will break, Windows will detect the new SSID and want to login and you'll just have to type in the password you just defined.
If you really can't remember, there is nothing wrong with taping the password to the bottom of your router. If the attacker can gain physical access to your router you have a much bigger problem that wireless security.
You shouldn't do this at your workplace, but at home it is acceptable...
I don't do this, I know the (strong) password of my Access Point
if they are admitting you can't do ANY real work on a 'modern processor' with 512M memory and that you will suffer until you get a dual core machine with 2GB memory and a 256MB video, that just about kills off most of the upgrade market, especially in corporate America.
I have a dual core laptop with 1Gig RAM and a 256MB video card (okay, integrated graphics: I can set it to use 256Meg, out of the box it was 128Meg) and it is merely marked as "Vista Capable". Bought it a few weeks ago on sale.
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No, monthlies do not kill your finances: they enable you to plan ahead. What you need to do is proper financial planning, a.k.a. making a budget and then see what is really not valuable to you. Example: you pay 100/month for cable (frankly, that sounds like a lot... it's 80€ bi-yearly for me) and that is because you have some premium movie channels. Do you really watch that much TV? Isn't it cheaper to rent a DVD from time to time if you fancy a movie? Based on the answers of these questions, you cancel your cable (or the premium package) and save money.
At least link to the Userfriendly comic strip, will ya?
Ruin financially?
Yeah, perhaps in the early days I had a cellphone. That would be in 1996. These days, I have this nice plan: pay for what you actually use. No base fee (as in 0€), and only pay 0.09€ per minute (or per SMS). (No, it's not a prepaid card) Sure, when roaming it gets a bit more expensive, but not the end of the world. I set apart exactly 10 per month for cellphone calls (meaning nearly 2 hours calling) and I never break that barrier.
No way a cellphone is going to ruin me... The reason is evident: just look at the currency I use....
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Avec le petit problème que je n'habite pas la France et que je n'ai jamais enseigné en France. De plus: en France les enseignants sont mal payés, ici on gagne beaucoup plus quand on travaille pour l'état que dans le privé. (Du jamais vu dans quasiment toute l'Europe)
Mais, en effet, après mon excursion dans l'éducation nationale de mon pays, je suis complètement d'accord avec toi: le système scolaire de mon pays est nul!
I'd say it depends on where you go to scool.
They didn't teach you spelling there, though ;-) Indeed, that was the point I was trying to make. A school selling "programming" as "computer science" is just not the kind of school you want to attend. (Unless you only want to know how to program)
Alas, today, pretty much anything to do with computers is "sold" as "computer science". Now, while not at a University, I have been a teacher at a high school. I didn't expect to teach them computational complexity because that has no place in high school. I did however hope to teach programming. I ended up teaching Word and Excel in courses that were called "Informatique" (which is the French for Computer Science). It sucked to no end and the kids couldn't care less... I quit. That's not what I wanted to do. I only regret that I have is that I now earn 1000€ less per month, but that's a particularity of my country... :-(
The odd thing was: the exam I had to take to become a teacher was 100% pure computer science. To this day, I do not understand why they need computer scientists to teach Office products.
although it may smell that way at times
Nah, that's just the smelly coder in the corner ;-)
So you are telling me that Universities that teach Computer Science don't teach about the programming paradigms anymore? No computational theory? No proofs of correctness? They don't even give you projects in Haskell or Prolog? (I suck totally at Prolog, but I loved Haskell) Wow, they dropped all that since I graduated 10 years ago?
If you haven't heard of anything I just wrote, you have proof that you didn't have a computer science curriculum, but a programming class. *sigh* Kids these days....
Actually, try it with lubricant. It simulates the real thing better. It is a bit more messy though....
Thanks for the laugh man, I just linked to the article without reading it... That's gold comedy... Thanks!
You have no idea how much that comment made me laugh.... Mod this guy up Funny, okay?
My wife plays the lottery, my bets are on total annihilation before she wins....
Look at the bright side: we won't need to fix the Unix date overflow ;-)
We have some drilling to do!
Yes, I did that too...You always get tons of mails saying they are new but they are not... and with gmail it doesn't work at all. Mails marked as read are not resent...
IMAP is superior... Try it for a while, and you'll see the light. Not so long ago, I thought the same thing...
Hey, I'm talking about a 5 user system.... INBOX works fine for that. 100++ users should use a database, but that's simply overkill for my situation. I'm not saying that INBOX is a good solution, but 16MB mailbox is a bit small... Ever a moderatly big database can cope much more
Not married, no children, eh?
I won't start to enumerate all that is wrong with POP but consider my simple configuration: I have my own mailserver. Now if I would use POP, I would be constrained to one single machine. This does not reflect reality, we have one laptop and two desktops. Now, if I check my mail on my wifes computer (it's the one that is always on), and a good friend sends me email. Alas, I don't have time to reply at that moment. Later, my wife is shopping at amazon on her computer and I think it's a good idea to reply to that friend. Ooops... Mail gone. Wife, can you please do your amazon shopping on one of the other two computers because I need to reply to that friend.
IMAP gives you your email on every computer regardless what one it its. POP is fine for single-computer usage and the world have moved beyond that.
I understand that, but that falls in the category "dial-up".... On a LAN, the network lag should be insignificant. Sure, that 10M powerpoint from my boss, won't open immediately, but with POP it would take ages to download it in the first place. I just delete it without opening it ;-)
16MB? Wow... That's suckitude pure... My personal mailserver can cope 2Gig, and that's only because the /var is a separate partition of 2Gig. I don't know what it is at work, but I haven't reached it yet.... I get those funny videos all the time, but I delete them at once, so my space usage isn't all that big. Haven't heard complaints of the management types yet, so I think that the limits are very reasonable.
Frankly, tell IT to buy a few disks.... 16MB is about what I had as a student at the University computer in 1994.
SMTP and POP
Now, nothing against educating management... but POP? POP doesn't belong in the enterprise. Even at home I have my own IMAP server. POP is a relic of the dialup-time where you only had access to your own computer and nobody else (seemed) to have one.
A shame that gmail doesn't support IMAP, I'd prefer it that way instead of that poor POP3 hack they use...
Anyway, it turns out the Windows auto-install script set this thing up with no protection what-so-ever. It was only after I read the HOWTO's on the internet that I was able to go back and secure my router for both Linux and Windows.
I know it's always hip to bash Windows on slashdot, but to be fair: in Windows XP the applet that handles wireless connections says "unsecured wireless connection" right there in the dialog. The problem here is the software that comes with these access points: they are braindead. If you are using Windows XP, you do not need a CD to install your wireless access point. Never...
At max you need the CD to install the drivers of your wireless card, but that has nothing to do with your access point.
For some reason people think that you need to insert a CD whenever you buy new hardware. That's why so many people run Logitech Mouse drivers that work just fine without those drivers. (An example amongst many) In many cases, it's easier to configure hardware by ignoring all CDs.
Access point manufacturers should just make the CD autorun to http://192.168.0.254/login.html and then let them in with the default user/password combo. The first thing it should do after that is force the changing of the password. The second its forcing the choice of an SSID and then enable WPA-PSK... After that the wireless connection will break, Windows will detect the new SSID and want to login and you'll just have to type in the password you just defined.
That's all they need to do... It's that simple...
If you really can't remember, there is nothing wrong with taping the password to the bottom of your router. If the attacker can gain physical access to your router you have a much bigger problem that wireless security.
You shouldn't do this at your workplace, but at home it is acceptable...
I don't do this, I know the (strong) password of my Access Point
if they are admitting you can't do ANY real work on a 'modern processor' with 512M memory and that you will suffer until you get a dual core machine with 2GB memory and a 256MB video, that just about kills off most of the upgrade market, especially in corporate America.
I have a dual core laptop with 1Gig RAM and a 256MB video card (okay, integrated graphics: I can set it to use 256Meg, out of the box it was 128Meg) and it is merely marked as "Vista Capable". Bought it a few weeks ago on sale.
May be true, but when I was a kid, I asked my parents/grandparents to buy me a CD as a gift. See the difference?
Exactly!
*sigh*