Of course you can love what you do and still burnout due to bad leadership, bad environments, crappy salary, etc
Indeed. Several times I've told my manager that "I love my work, but some days I hate my job"
Most of the dis-satisfaction around here (big company, with big, entrenched burocracy) comed from the bullshit that imposes itself between me and my being able to do the best work that I know I am capable of.
Stuff like lack of materials, but I'm still held responsible for the project coming in late, and some project manager not getting his bonus. Or my performance is measured partly on "time to repair", but I'm not supplied with spare parts.
D'ya see that white "donut" just under the observation level? Well, it's a radome. Inside it are a bunch of antennas for Rogers (among others) existing cell system.
We are in the process of rolling them out to our ~200 field techs right now.
We need them to work in pretty much any weather that Canada can throw at us, both indoors and outside.
Also, these are the laptops that our local (Winnipeg.MB.CA) police have in their cars, and they seem happy with the laptops' ability to absorb abuse and resist... fluids.
On the other hand, the RCMP uses Toughbooks (the ruggedised version) and seem happy with them. Our field techs have also been using Toughbooks (standard, not the same level of hardening as the police ones) and in 5 years, there haven't been a lot of failures due to mechanical abuse (several hard drive and CD drive failures in the last year, though)
Asking for British, Canadian, and Mexican forces to lend a hand is a good idea as well.
Canada is ready to help, and the offer has been officially made. The Prime Minister was on the phone with Bush, and offered "whatever you need".
Now we're waiting to be asked to help out.
And we're trying to help minimise the side effects on the rest of us, as well.
investigators are typically poorly trained
Specifically, poorly trained in tech matters. (one would hope, not poorly trained in investigation/law enforcement and the kind of stuff that should be their "core competancies")
I work for a phone company, and often work with various police agencies' "special investigation" units. The officers that I deal with are usually 6-8 year veterans, and have been rotated into SI for a 3-4 year stint. When they have to deal with the interface hardware that they have at our locations, they are typically lost. They show up with dog-eared manuals, and a file full of notes from the last guy that had their job, and try to make sense of E&M signalling, or a serial interface on a Cisco box. Often these guys, while competent police officers, can't program their VCRs at home.
Fortunately, the IT guys at their offices are usually willing to help them out, and since we know that they are out of their depth, we lend a hand, as far as we are permitted (security reasons).
...Or reports to the authorities that your vehicle passed thru an area frequented by prostitutes a few times last week (due to, ferinstance, a construction detour - a fact that wasn't reported).
ip.access offers a basestation system that can easily integrate into existing core mobile networks. At the heart of the solution lies the nanoBTS, a picocellular basestation, that provides coverage and capacity where it is needed. These small units are connected to the basestation controller (BSC) via IP networks. In turn, the basestation controller connects over a standard A and Gb interface into the mobile switching centre (MSC) for voice traffic and to the SGSN for data calls.
The IP connection is just for backhaul to a BSC.
So, just like any other GSM base station, you need a BSC (Base Station Controller) and a gateway MSC (which Asterisk _might_ be able to manage with some hacking - does Asterisk speak SS7?)
The short answer to the OP, just hooking up a transciever isn't nearly enough. The audio->ddigital->rf->digital->audio is the least of the functions of the GSM base station transciever. There is tons of control and timing going on as well, and the base station is just an intermediary in much of that. Those functions are handled by the BSC. And while, in theory, you could read the GSM spec and program something up to do that, it'd get overwhelming real quick.
TuxMath. It is still under development, but it does work (the splash screen calls it "Alpha version", but it seems stable).
I was messing with it last night, and I (as the parent) want the option to slow it down a bit. It'll be good for older kids once it's got a few more Revs behind it.
Yes, but how many existing government web services require IE? How many existing government forms are in Word format? Do you know
nope
or care?
yup. I care. And I speak up when I think someone is willing to listen.
What counts is how many people use Firefox as their primary browser. Still around 10%, I think.
I just checked my web logs, and my most visited page is running about 15% Firefox in the last week.
And that page isn't targeted at geeks.
But how many of you have ever registered a copyright? If you haven't, isn't it a little disingenuous to write to the Copyright Office complaining?
That's not really relevant.
The objections are pointing out that the Copyright Office, as a Government entity, shouldn't be mandating any sort of restriction of access to Government services.
Absolutely. Burn off a bunch of copies, and hand them out while talking about the Free beer/speech concept.
For anyone who hasn't looked at the Open CD lately, it still has all the OSS for windows goodness it always had, and now it includes Ubuntu live on the same CD with the same apps installed there.
I was also going to suggest GnuWin as well, but they seem to be in limbo at the moment. Maybe put together your own disk of OSS apps based on their list, which has several good titles that the Open CD doesn't have. The two compliment each other fairly nicely.
Yeah, he replaced the panel with a larger one. And he said more than once don't do this unless you know exactly what you are doing
It seems that he feels that he does know what he is doing.
As someone who has installed/replaced considerable amounts of home and industrial wiring, I don't see anything in what he wrote that is inconsistant with him "knowing what he is doing".
The current transducers are actually really small and they clip on to the wiring
The power monitoring system is not connected dsirectly to the wiring. It is using inductive sampling.
I serioisly doubt that having an inductive device near the conductor (outside the insulation) has any impact on the overall safety of his house's wiring.
Or, if you "warwalk" your office, NetStumbler will tell you the manufacturer of any access points it finds (unless the owner has intentinaly masked it), then go looking in the MAC address tables for those manufacturers, and block any MACs that don't belong.
If you have managed switches, you should be able to get the physical port number, then take a walk to the wiring closet, and find out what's patched to that switch port.
Hopefully you have some documentation of what desk is at the other end of your patch panel.
the fact that it was sold early is a contractual dispute between the publisher and the retailer and is absolutely no concern to me.
And should not be of any concern to the government or the courts*. I can't understand on what grounds that injunction was granted.
If someone bought the book at a mass-market retailer, what they do with that book is of no concern to anyone (copyright notwithstanding).
* The contract between the retailer and the publisher is a matter for the courts, but has nothing to do with the end purchaser who acted legitimately and in good faith.
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I'm guessing that you are in a different country than they are. (I'll refrain from speculating on which country you live in)
Company info from the first page foound by Googling "Matalan".
They're strictly for developing countries.
Then again, so were the FreePlay (crank power) radios when they first came out.
Of course you can love what you do and still burnout due to bad leadership, bad environments, crappy salary, etc
Indeed. Several times I've told my manager that "I love my work, but some days I hate my job"
Most of the dis-satisfaction around here (big company, with big, entrenched burocracy) comed from the bullshit that imposes itself between me and my being able to do the best work that I know I am capable of.
Stuff like lack of materials, but I'm still held responsible for the project coming in late, and some project manager not getting his bonus. Or my performance is measured partly on "time to repair", but I'm not supplied with spare parts.
If content or expression is well within accepted community standards
Which community?
Orlando?
San Fransisco?
Fargo?
Salt Lake City?
Or are they going to enforce this based on hundreds of local community standards?
Of course, we can just go back to importing Scanadinavian porn, just like our fathers did back in the 60's.
Ummm.. You're talking about Rogers Cable. Rogers Wireless operates in all provinces, from coast to coast
Actually, you're right.
D'ya see that white "donut" just under the observation level? Well, it's a radome. Inside it are a bunch of antennas for Rogers (among others) existing cell system.
The Itronix GoBooks look pretty good.
... fluids.
We are in the process of rolling them out to our ~200 field techs right now.
We need them to work in pretty much any weather that Canada can throw at us, both indoors and outside.
Also, these are the laptops that our local (Winnipeg.MB.CA) police have in their cars, and they seem happy with the laptops' ability to absorb abuse and resist
On the other hand, the RCMP uses Toughbooks (the ruggedised version) and seem happy with them. Our field techs have also been using Toughbooks (standard, not the same level of hardening as the police ones) and in 5 years, there haven't been a lot of failures due to mechanical abuse (several hard drive and CD drive failures in the last year, though)
It's Louisiana. It's New Orleans. Skin color is what everything is about down there.
I've been there. That's not the vibe that I got. At least not any more than anywhere else in the USA.
Still, even if everyone around me is classifying and judging people based on their skin colour, that doesn't mean I have to, nor do I have to like it.
Asking for British, Canadian, and Mexican forces to lend a hand is a good idea as well.
Canada is ready to help, and the offer has been officially made. The Prime Minister was on the phone with Bush, and offered "whatever you need".
Now we're waiting to be asked to help out.
And we're trying to help minimise the side effects on the rest of us, as well.
It doesn't have a GOD DAMN thing to do with black vs. white
Mod +5 insightful, please.
Just what I was thinking.
It pisses me off that people always seem to need to drag skin colour into an already emotionally charged discussion.
investigators are typically poorly trained
Specifically, poorly trained in tech matters. (one would hope, not poorly trained in investigation/law enforcement and the kind of stuff that should be their "core competancies")
I work for a phone company, and often work with various police agencies' "special investigation" units. The officers that I deal with are usually 6-8 year veterans, and have been rotated into SI for a 3-4 year stint. When they have to deal with the interface hardware that they have at our locations, they are typically lost. They show up with dog-eared manuals, and a file full of notes from the last guy that had their job, and try to make sense of E&M signalling, or a serial interface on a Cisco box. Often these guys, while competent police officers, can't program their VCRs at home.
Fortunately, the IT guys at their offices are usually willing to help them out, and since we know that they are out of their depth, we lend a hand, as far as we are permitted (security reasons).
...Or reports to the authorities that your vehicle passed thru an area frequented by prostitutes a few times last week (due to, ferinstance, a construction detour - a fact that wasn't reported).
Ummm...
Wasn't the Army Corps of Engineers' messing around with the Mississippi's natural course a contributing factor to the mess that New Orleans is in now?
Ummm... Yeah, except (from TFLinked site):
ip.access offers a basestation system that can easily integrate into existing core mobile networks. At the heart of the solution lies the nanoBTS, a picocellular basestation, that provides coverage and capacity where it is needed. These small units are connected to the basestation controller (BSC) via IP networks. In turn, the basestation controller connects over a standard A and Gb interface into the mobile switching centre (MSC) for voice traffic and to the SGSN for data calls.
The IP connection is just for backhaul to a BSC.
So, just like any other GSM base station, you need a BSC (Base Station Controller) and a gateway MSC (which Asterisk _might_ be able to manage with some hacking - does Asterisk speak SS7?)
The short answer to the OP, just hooking up a transciever isn't nearly enough. The audio->ddigital->rf->digital->audio is the least of the functions of the GSM base station transciever. There is tons of control and timing going on as well, and the base station is just an intermediary in much of that. Those functions are handled by the BSC. And while, in theory, you could read the GSM spec and program something up to do that, it'd get overwhelming real quick.
TuxMath. It is still under development, but it does work (the splash screen calls it "Alpha version", but it seems stable).
I was messing with it last night, and I (as the parent) want the option to slow it down a bit. It'll be good for older kids once it's got a few more Revs behind it.
Yes, but how many existing government web services require IE? How many existing government forms are in Word format? Do you know
nope
or care?
yup. I care. And I speak up when I think someone is willing to listen.
What counts is how many people use Firefox as their primary browser. Still around 10%, I think.
I just checked my web logs, and my most visited page is running about 15% Firefox in the last week.
And that page isn't targeted at geeks.
But how many of you have ever registered a copyright? If you haven't, isn't it a little disingenuous to write to the Copyright Office complaining?
That's not really relevant.
The objections are pointing out that the Copyright Office, as a Government entity, shouldn't be mandating any sort of restriction of access to Government services.
Does your city have any local vendors who put together systems for just this use?
Hasn't x10.com contacted you already?
Absolutely. Burn off a bunch of copies, and hand them out while talking about the Free beer/speech concept.
For anyone who hasn't looked at the Open CD lately, it still has all the OSS for windows goodness it always had, and now it includes Ubuntu live on the same CD with the same apps installed there.
I was also going to suggest GnuWin as well, but they seem to be in limbo at the moment. Maybe put together your own disk of OSS apps based on their list, which has several good titles that the Open CD doesn't have. The two compliment each other fairly nicely.
Yeah, he replaced the panel with a larger one. And he said more than once don't do this unless you know exactly what you are doing
It seems that he feels that he does know what he is doing.
As someone who has installed/replaced considerable amounts of home and industrial wiring, I don't see anything in what he wrote that is inconsistant with him "knowing what he is doing".
From TFA:
The current transducers are actually really small and they clip on to the wiring
The power monitoring system is not connected dsirectly to the wiring. It is using inductive sampling.
I serioisly doubt that having an inductive device near the conductor (outside the insulation) has any impact on the overall safety of his house's wiring.
Or, if you "warwalk" your office, NetStumbler will tell you the manufacturer of any access points it finds (unless the owner has intentinaly masked it), then go looking in the MAC address tables for those manufacturers, and block any MACs that don't belong.
If you have managed switches, you should be able to get the physical port number, then take a walk to the wiring closet, and find out what's patched to that switch port.
Hopefully you have some documentation of what desk is at the other end of your patch panel.
And should not be of any concern to the government or the courts*.
I can't understand on what grounds that injunction was granted.
If someone bought the book at a mass-market retailer, what they do with that book is of no concern to anyone (copyright notwithstanding).
* The contract between the retailer and the publisher is a matter for the courts, but has nothing to do with the end purchaser who acted legitimately and in good faith.