She said they can't check to see if I can get dsl without me first getting phone service!
Although it's lame, that's because they don't know where your line will terminate if you don't have a line. Your DSL eligibility depends on which CO you go to, and how far from that CO you are. Without having a line to check, they don't really know where you are.
Maybe not for the initial system, but after you upgrade and re-use your cooling system on the new motherboard & CPU, then you've saved some money.
Some of the stuff I learned about contracting
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I've been both an employee and a contractor. In fact, I've been both for the same project at the same company once. Here's some thoughts.
I doubt that you'll actually get converted, because that's a second headache for them. If it turns out they love you, maybe, but not normally.
It's a lot more money; maybe 50% more than the guy sitting next to you doing the same job, particularly if you're an independent, rather than going through a contracting company. However, there is some added work and expense; you need to figure out how to pay your taxes, and you need to get biz. insurance, and so on. The best thing to do it find an accountant that other contractors in your area use, go to him and say "what do I do?" You might even wind up starting a corporation to accept the checks, which is easier than it sounds.
If you start your own corporation, you can setup a retirement plan for yourself called an SEP, which works just like a 401(k). You can contribute whatever you want to it, and buy mutual funds and so on.
To figure your hourly rate, what you want to do is divide the employee version of the job by 1000. Like, if you'd make $100,000 as an employee, you'd like to charge about $100 an hour. You might not get quite that much, but that's the goal.
One thing about your salary goal--it's not quite as much more than an employee as it first seems, because of the biz. expenses an employee doesn't have (accountant, taxes, etc). But it's still pretty good.
Another way to figure your hourly rate is to divide your yearly salary goal by 1840 hours. That's about 46 weeks, which is about how many you can work...you don't have any paid holiday or vacation days or sick days, so need to figure those in. 6 weeks of non-work is pretty safe. When I was a contractor, I found it hard to take a day off because of all the money I was loosing.:-)
Finally, there's health insurance. If you don't have some other coverage (like from your spouse), it costs a bundle...maybe $10K. I didn't have to do that, because my wife's plan covered me, so I don't know much about it.
I'd never heard of shred, so I checked it out, and found this interesting tidbit in the man page:
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption:
that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional
way to do things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy
this assumption. The following are examples of filesystems on which
shred is not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS,
Ext3, etc.)
* filesystems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes fail, such as RAID-based filesystems
* filesystems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server
* filesystems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3 clients
While I agree with this post, I'd like to point out that the boredom of space travel makes it a perfect subject for Kubrick. Kubrick can make *anything* boring; he seems to love the esthetic of disinterest. Check out some of his other movies; nothing ever happens in any of them, but it happens very slowly and lovingly.
If you like that, he rocks. Me, I like The Maltese Falcon.
combination that produces the same hash as the one given to them, but that does not mean it is the right answer
You are mistaken, sir. A combo that produces the same hash is indeed the right answer.
This is something most people never think about. You actually could have several passwds that work for a given account...anything that hashes to the same thing is a working passwd.
Since there are so many posts about how horrible 3rd party Apple dealers are, I just thought I'd mention that I had a really good experience with Tekserve, an Apple shop in New York City. I bought their last lcloseout TiBook last January, and they were very savy and easy to deal with.
As long as the system is engineered to carry away enough heat from the second CPU, this will work fine. In cars, the coolent goes to the various cylinder heads serially, and it's okay.
Am I the only person that has found people with this "college doesn't prove anything, punk" attitude typically got bad grades at crummy schools, and have had a chip on their shoulder about it ever since?
I can see it now: a couple of 8-drive HDD external bays, with each slot housing full systems!
That's been possible for a while. Terrasoft Solutions, the people who port Redhat to the PPC, sell a computer that come in a 5.25" CD-ROM-style enclosure.
The answer to that is long, and RMS has done a
better job explaining it than I could.
In involves beliefs that people have a moral obligation to help each other, and that software is a significant resource in society.
The world of software is changing.... It used to be you included R&D and patent development costs into your license add your costs and a markup and you could make a living. We relied on cross-licensing, licensing, and innovation, and our ability to prevent other people from copying our work without permission. Now things are shifting, but I am not certain anybody has completely figured out this new model, and if you think it is just any one company that is concerned about this, you are wrong.
Hmmm...maybe it'll go back to the way it was before people could get rich on software.
That's what RMS was originally after, all those years ago
I've been prowling around Sun's site on this, and apparently it isn't like the old IBM 360 VM thing (or VMWare, or any of the many other Virtual
Machine stuff people have mentioned). Zones aren't a VM that you run different kernels in, they're "application containers" running under a given kernel.
It sounds to me more like a Java Servlet container model than a VM. There's even a "global zone" that can see all the others.
The way this one works is you have a computer you dedicate as a file server. It has all the mp3s on its disk. On that machine you run software called SlimServer.
That piece of software is the MP3 Server. It's written in Perl and it runs on most OSes (Windows, Linux, Mac).
It can talk to a number of clients, including a piece of hardware you can buy called Squeezebox.
The Squeezebox runs some onboard software that acts as a client to the Slim Server. It has jacks so it can plug into your audio system, just like a tape deck or cd player. I
This is definitely the correct architecture for this problem.
I just downloaded the new Safari, and the installer made
me reboot. I'm still a Mac newbie, so can anyone tell me
why upgrading a browser requires a reboot of a UNIX box?
Overally, I'm pretty impressed with the Mac--it's the first
machine I've used that makes me think there really is something
to all this UI hooey. But a reboot for a new browser? Please.
And what's up with only being able to resize from the bottom
right corner? Is there really a justification for that?
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I bet you could get a bundle for that on eBay.
You've missed the logical conclusion: Become a government contractor.
You could also buy a T1; your phone company will be able to tell you how much that would cost. :-)
Although it's lame, that's because they don't know where your line will terminate if you don't have a line. Your DSL eligibility depends on which CO you go to, and how far from that CO you are. Without having a line to check, they don't really know where you are.
You've got something against Emacs?
Maybe not for the initial system, but after you upgrade and re-use your cooling system on the new motherboard & CPU, then you've saved some money.
I've been both an employee and a contractor. In fact, I've been both for the same project at the same company once. Here's some thoughts.
I doubt that you'll actually get converted, because that's a second headache for them. If it turns out they love you, maybe, but not normally.
It's a lot more money; maybe 50% more than the guy sitting next to you doing the same job, particularly if you're an independent, rather than going through a contracting company. However, there is some added work and expense; you need to figure out how to pay your taxes, and you need to get biz. insurance, and so on. The best thing to do it find an accountant that other contractors in your area use, go to him and say "what do I do?" You might even wind up starting a corporation to accept the checks, which is easier than it sounds.
If you start your own corporation, you can setup a retirement plan for yourself called an SEP, which works just like a 401(k). You can contribute whatever you want to it, and buy mutual funds and so on.
To figure your hourly rate, what you want to do is divide the employee version of the job by 1000. Like, if you'd make $100,000 as an employee, you'd like to charge about $100 an hour. You might not get quite that much, but that's the goal.
One thing about your salary goal--it's not quite as much more than an employee as it first seems, because of the biz. expenses an employee doesn't have (accountant, taxes, etc). But it's still pretty good.
Another way to figure your hourly rate is to divide your yearly salary goal by 1840 hours. That's about 46 weeks, which is about how many you can work...you don't have any paid holiday or vacation days or sick days, so need to figure those in. 6 weeks of non-work is pretty safe. When I was a contractor, I found it hard to take a day off because of all the money I was loosing. :-)
Finally, there's health insurance. If you don't have some other coverage (like from your spouse), it costs a bundle...maybe $10K. I didn't have to do that, because my wife's plan covered me, so I don't know much about it.
Good luck, brother contractor.
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of filesystems on which shred is not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.)
* filesystems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes fail, such as RAID-based filesystems
* filesystems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server
* filesystems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3 clients
* compressed filesystems
Jeez, he should have been happy in 1978, then.
If you like that, he rocks. Me, I like The Maltese Falcon.
Yeah, they look really cool when Keanu fires one at an Agent.
You are mistaken, sir. A combo that produces the same hash is indeed the right answer.
This is something most people never think about. You actually could have several passwds that work for a given account...anything that hashes to the same thing is a working passwd.
Since there are so many posts about how horrible 3rd party Apple dealers are, I just thought I'd mention that I had a really good experience with Tekserve, an Apple shop in New York City. I bought their last lcloseout TiBook last January, and they were very savy and easy to deal with.
No, "freedom" here means "free as in beer," not "free as in speech." :-)
As long as the system is engineered to carry away enough heat from the second CPU, this will work fine. In cars, the coolent goes to the various cylinder heads serially, and it's okay.
Microsoft Windows doesn't cause the blue screen of death, badly written drivers do.
But then you can outsource his work to an Indian Temple Monkey
On top of which, it'll be some kind of liquid-based cooling system, maybe using a heat pipe.
Am I the only person that has found people with this "college doesn't prove anything, punk" attitude typically got bad grades at crummy schools, and have had a chip on their shoulder about it ever since?
That's been possible for a while. Terrasoft Solutions, the people who port Redhat to the PPC, sell a computer that come in a 5.25" CD-ROM-style enclosure.
The answer to that is long, and RMS has done a better job explaining it than I could. In involves beliefs that people have a moral obligation to help each other, and that software is a significant resource in society.
My favorite essay of his on this subject is here
Hmmm...maybe it'll go back to the way it was before people could get rich on software. That's what RMS was originally after, all those years ago
It sounds to me more like a Java Servlet container model than a VM. There's even a "global zone" that can see all the others.
Here's a post about it.
Here's Sun's page on it
It can talk to a number of clients, including a piece of hardware you can buy called Squeezebox.
The Squeezebox runs some onboard software that acts as a client to the Slim Server. It has jacks so it can plug into your audio system, just like a tape deck or cd player. I
This is definitely the correct architecture for this problem.
Overally, I'm pretty impressed with the Mac--it's the first machine I've used that makes me think there really is something to all this UI hooey. But a reboot for a new browser? Please.
And what's up with only being able to resize from the bottom right corner? Is there really a justification for that?