No, i'm not thinking of j, I said i, like in math. Not j, like in electrical engineering. Because i was already used for current. Which doesn't make it any easier, becuas when many people write i and j, they don't look that much different. Even in this monospace font that i'm typing in right now (which will turn into arail after I post), they don't look that different.
That's because all the KDE libraries are already loaded once you log in. Try loggin into gnome and starting up Konquerer and see how much extra memory gets used just from running that one application.
Yeah, but that's just forcing students to write on 2 topics per week. I've had english classes where you had to hand in a journal or two every week. This is pretty much the same, it gives students a nice chance to write whatever they want, while practicing their writing skills. Not sure if putting it out on the internet makes any difference. The only difference I could see is that students write about different things when its on a blog where everyone can see it as opposed to on a paper that only the teacher sees.
IT and computer people are usually introverted and aren't used to conversing with people of the opposite gender (and lots of times with people of the same gender)
I strongly disagree with that. When I was in university, I found that the "IT and computer people" were often way less introverted, and will to talk to others than people pursuing other careers. When you go into the engineering building, you see people huddled around the table, discussing the latest assignments and test. You go to the liberal arts building, and you see people huddled in corners, with their face burried in books. The people in my class often got together to go out and have fun away from school, and we still do hang out a bit, even though we're all graduated and working. whereas, I didn't know that many people in other programmes who went out with people in their classes in large groups, and most of them didn't talk to anybody who was in their class, apart from a few close friends.
Perhaps there really is no clique. I mean, are they telling you they don't want to talk to you? Do they completely ignore you whenever you try to talk to them? Or is it just that they have completely different interests, and don't talk about the same things as you. If all the guys at work talk about the previous night's baseball game every day, then try to watch it, or at least the highlights, or at least figure out who played and what the score was. They're not going to stop talking about the game, or start watching Star Trek instead, just because one employee doesn't like baseball. Where I work, most of us have kids, and talk about them. However there's people who don't have kids, and probably feel left out of the conversations, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are going to change our conversations just to suit them. However, if they start up an interesting topic, there's no reason we won't join in.
That seems to be the standard way of firing somebody from a job such as you describe. Don't fire them, just reduce their hours down to 0, or 1 shift a week. They will eventually leave. It's not like most people would stick around. Unless it specifically says in your contract you will get x hours, then they don't have to give them to you. I think the problem is, is that workers rights and unions often make it way to hard for the company to fire you, so they get around it by making you want to quit.
However, if they don't like the Wiimote, then the standard GC controllers work just fine on the Wii. Also, i've heard a lot more stuff about the PS3 being hard to develop for with the cell processor than i've heard of problems with programming for the Wiimote.
I guess the problem is, is that somebody could bruteforce your password if you never changed it. Changing it that often means that they won't have time to brute force it before it changes. Although, I think that if you're going to do something like this, you should just have an RSA token or something for logging in. Makes it easier for the people who should have access to log in, without having to remember 30 different passwords that change every 90 days.
Oh, and what's so wrong with writing it down and putting the paper in your wallet? You keep your credit card in there. And i'm sure that you probably wouldn't want that stolen either.
It really depends on what you call a party school. I know schools where the partiers are the ones who are either drunk or high 75% of the time, and don't go to class, and basically waste all their student loan money on partying. Most of them consider it a good time, but after they drop out and have been working crap jobs for a while, they don't think it was such a good idea. I'm all for having fun at university, but people should know where to draw the line.
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That only holds true of you're holding the same amount of data on both the larger and smaller drive. If you fill them up to the same percentage, you should notice no difference in lifetime.
I'm guessing that it's probably just a VB or.Net app that uses the IE browser control to act as a browser. Which means that not only is it open to all the regular IE exploits, but we can't really be sure of what's being recorded and where. Did you know there's a file called Index.dat that stores all your browser history, as well as a bunch of other stuff. It isn't deleted when you delete your browser history, and can only be deleted if you boot into safe mode, or in some other operating system.
But what about the stuff it stores in memory? presumably if you're using a non-encrypted swap partition, there's lots of data left in there after you close your browser. The sites which you need the most privacy on are the ones you need to log into. If you don't retain any cookies or other information, how does it maintain your session?
I haven't had history turned on in years. You can never find what you want in there anyway, unless you only visit 5 web pages a day, and in that case, you're probably better off using book marks. Does anybody else think we need to increase the usefulness of the history feature now that broadband exists, and it's easy to browse hundreds of pages in a day?
You can have firefox clear out all private information every time you shut it down. It's one of the standard options. Not sure what the procedure is if it crashes, but then again, when has firefox ever crashed?:P
However, you're probably not allowed to have a pet wolf, or a pet tiger. What happens if you raise a wolf from a cub? Can you make it tame? I bet you couldn't. Not to the point where you would feel safe letting it roam around free in a room next to your new baby. Different breeds of dogs have different tendencies towards hurting people/other animals. It has been shown that pit bulls, without excessive training otherwise, will tend to be pretty vicious. You can train them to not be, but it takes more time than most people are willing to spend on their dogs. I guess we shouldn't exterminate the whole lot, but maybe there should be a licensing program specifically for this type of dog, to show that the owners understand the dangers, and that they are taking proper care to make sure the dogs don't attack people. If you want to train them for fighting, that's probably your own business, but you had better make sure you have a proper cage to keep them in.
However, now that this stuff is illegal, they may make in mandatory for your ISP to report you if they detect you going to sites with violent pornography on them. I'm sure they already do it with child porn. You could probably find a lot of people downloading violent porn and arrest a lot of people. And just what constitutes "violent"?
No, it also becomes a problem with users. Because windows and Mac OS are different enough that even users, not just administrators will have to be retrained, or people who know how to operate Mac will have to be hired instead. I used the Admin example, because they should be more familiar with computers and more able to move to another operating systems than other users (or this is the way it should be, i've seen plenty of incompetant admins in my day), who have no idea what's going on half the time in an operating system they are used to. However with users it takes even more retraining than it does with admins.
OSX is a potential solution to anyone using Windows who doesn't like it. It's more secure, more stable, and doesn't require the technical retraining (or rehiring) that a migration to Linux would.
I don't think this is true at all. OSX is different enough from windows that your usual run-of-the-mill Windows admin would go crazy trying to admin it. Even the usually desktop admin stuff is so different than windows, not even getting into the differences in server administration. Notice i'm saying it's different, and not that it's difficult. I believe that Mac OS, and Linux, are no harder to operate than Windows, but that they are different, and do require different training. Also, if you admin is capable of admining Mac OS, then they could probably do a pretty good job with a modern Linux distro. With modern Linux distros, it's no harder to operate than Mac OS. If you think it is, then you haven't familiarized yourself enough with Linux.
I've had this problem with VCRs in the past, recording a show on one player, and then playing it on another would usually yield poor results. Or sometimes one movie I had bought would play fine in one player, but would be very bad quality in another. I assumed it was due to differences in read head alignment or something. On the other hand, I don't know how this could happen with DVDs. Because everything is digital, the output should be the same no matter which player/recorder you use. I've never experienced this problem with DVDs, even with home movies that were recorded onto DVD, they play fine in all the players I've tried them in.
I'm not exactly sure how things work in the US, but in Canada they have to give you 2 weeks notice (or pay in lieu) for firing you without a good reason. That's the minimum. If you've worked there a couple years, then case law says you are entitled to more notice (or pay). On the other hand, you can leave your job with no notice, no matter how long you have worked there. It's customary to give a couple weeks notice so you don't lose all hope of using the employer as a reference in the future.
We had that a long time ago. It was called nibbles:P
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My only gripe with manpages is that they often leave out examples for the most common tasks, or don't list any examples at all. It sometimes takes a long time read through the 72 options for a command to figure out where the file name goes on certain command.
The reason that I don't like to put my stuff on other people's servers is that I don't trust it to be available when I really need it. This is why when I was in school, and I went to print off a document, I usually FTP'd it to my school account, brought a copy on floppy disk, and put another copy on my web hosting service. This is just to ensure that if anything went wrong, I could still get access to the document and print it out. I guess i'm a little paranoid, with 3 copies, but it seems to me that often enough 1 of those copies would have something wrong with it, like the floppy drives wouldn't be working that day. And I always had two different file formats, MSWord and PDF, because you never knew when the 1 available school computer would fail to work, and you'd have to print from one of the 5 year old sun unix machines.
You could probably get the same hardware for much cheaper, and get a local artist to custom paint it to make it look nice. I'd much rather have a custom painted case than something I bought off the shelf. It's kind of like all those "modded" cases you can buy that are pre-modded. It's not a mod unless you actually "modify" it yourself.
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No, i'm not thinking of j, I said i, like in math. Not j, like in electrical engineering. Because i was already used for current. Which doesn't make it any easier, becuas when many people write i and j, they don't look that much different. Even in this monospace font that i'm typing in right now (which will turn into arail after I post), they don't look that different.
I guess we know what the "i" stands for in UltraSpark IIIi. It's for imaginary. Like in math.
That's because all the KDE libraries are already loaded once you log in. Try loggin into gnome and starting up Konquerer and see how much extra memory gets used just from running that one application.
Yeah, but that's just forcing students to write on 2 topics per week. I've had english classes where you had to hand in a journal or two every week. This is pretty much the same, it gives students a nice chance to write whatever they want, while practicing their writing skills. Not sure if putting it out on the internet makes any difference. The only difference I could see is that students write about different things when its on a blog where everyone can see it as opposed to on a paper that only the teacher sees.
IT and computer people are usually introverted and aren't used to conversing with people of the opposite gender (and lots of times with people of the same gender)
I strongly disagree with that. When I was in university, I found that the "IT and computer people" were often way less introverted, and will to talk to others than people pursuing other careers. When you go into the engineering building, you see people huddled around the table, discussing the latest assignments and test. You go to the liberal arts building, and you see people huddled in corners, with their face burried in books. The people in my class often got together to go out and have fun away from school, and we still do hang out a bit, even though we're all graduated and working. whereas, I didn't know that many people in other programmes who went out with people in their classes in large groups, and most of them didn't talk to anybody who was in their class, apart from a few close friends.
Perhaps there really is no clique. I mean, are they telling you they don't want to talk to you? Do they completely ignore you whenever you try to talk to them? Or is it just that they have completely different interests, and don't talk about the same things as you. If all the guys at work talk about the previous night's baseball game every day, then try to watch it, or at least the highlights, or at least figure out who played and what the score was. They're not going to stop talking about the game, or start watching Star Trek instead, just because one employee doesn't like baseball. Where I work, most of us have kids, and talk about them. However there's people who don't have kids, and probably feel left out of the conversations, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are going to change our conversations just to suit them. However, if they start up an interesting topic, there's no reason we won't join in.
That seems to be the standard way of firing somebody from a job such as you describe. Don't fire them, just reduce their hours down to 0, or 1 shift a week. They will eventually leave. It's not like most people would stick around. Unless it specifically says in your contract you will get x hours, then they don't have to give them to you. I think the problem is, is that workers rights and unions often make it way to hard for the company to fire you, so they get around it by making you want to quit.
However, if they don't like the Wiimote, then the standard GC controllers work just fine on the Wii. Also, i've heard a lot more stuff about the PS3 being hard to develop for with the cell processor than i've heard of problems with programming for the Wiimote.
I guess the problem is, is that somebody could bruteforce your password if you never changed it. Changing it that often means that they won't have time to brute force it before it changes. Although, I think that if you're going to do something like this, you should just have an RSA token or something for logging in. Makes it easier for the people who should have access to log in, without having to remember 30 different passwords that change every 90 days.
Oh, and what's so wrong with writing it down and putting the paper in your wallet? You keep your credit card in there. And i'm sure that you probably wouldn't want that stolen either.
It really depends on what you call a party school. I know schools where the partiers are the ones who are either drunk or high 75% of the time, and don't go to class, and basically waste all their student loan money on partying. Most of them consider it a good time, but after they drop out and have been working crap jobs for a while, they don't think it was such a good idea. I'm all for having fun at university, but people should know where to draw the line.
That only holds true of you're holding the same amount of data on both the larger and smaller drive. If you fill them up to the same percentage, you should notice no difference in lifetime.
I'm guessing that it's probably just a VB or .Net app that uses the IE browser control to act as a browser. Which means that not only is it open to all the regular IE exploits, but we can't really be sure of what's being recorded and where. Did you know there's a file called Index.dat that stores all your browser history, as well as a bunch of other stuff. It isn't deleted when you delete your browser history, and can only be deleted if you boot into safe mode, or in some other operating system.
But what about the stuff it stores in memory? presumably if you're using a non-encrypted swap partition, there's lots of data left in there after you close your browser. The sites which you need the most privacy on are the ones you need to log into. If you don't retain any cookies or other information, how does it maintain your session?
I haven't had history turned on in years. You can never find what you want in there anyway, unless you only visit 5 web pages a day, and in that case, you're probably better off using book marks. Does anybody else think we need to increase the usefulness of the history feature now that broadband exists, and it's easy to browse hundreds of pages in a day?
You can have firefox clear out all private information every time you shut it down. It's one of the standard options. Not sure what the procedure is if it crashes, but then again, when has firefox ever crashed? :P
However, you're probably not allowed to have a pet wolf, or a pet tiger. What happens if you raise a wolf from a cub? Can you make it tame? I bet you couldn't. Not to the point where you would feel safe letting it roam around free in a room next to your new baby. Different breeds of dogs have different tendencies towards hurting people/other animals. It has been shown that pit bulls, without excessive training otherwise, will tend to be pretty vicious. You can train them to not be, but it takes more time than most people are willing to spend on their dogs. I guess we shouldn't exterminate the whole lot, but maybe there should be a licensing program specifically for this type of dog, to show that the owners understand the dangers, and that they are taking proper care to make sure the dogs don't attack people. If you want to train them for fighting, that's probably your own business, but you had better make sure you have a proper cage to keep them in.
However, now that this stuff is illegal, they may make in mandatory for your ISP to report you if they detect you going to sites with violent pornography on them. I'm sure they already do it with child porn. You could probably find a lot of people downloading violent porn and arrest a lot of people. And just what constitutes "violent"?
No, it also becomes a problem with users. Because windows and Mac OS are different enough that even users, not just administrators will have to be retrained, or people who know how to operate Mac will have to be hired instead. I used the Admin example, because they should be more familiar with computers and more able to move to another operating systems than other users (or this is the way it should be, i've seen plenty of incompetant admins in my day), who have no idea what's going on half the time in an operating system they are used to. However with users it takes even more retraining than it does with admins.
OSX is a potential solution to anyone using Windows who doesn't like it. It's more secure, more stable, and doesn't require the technical retraining (or rehiring) that a migration to Linux would.
I don't think this is true at all. OSX is different enough from windows that your usual run-of-the-mill Windows admin would go crazy trying to admin it. Even the usually desktop admin stuff is so different than windows, not even getting into the differences in server administration. Notice i'm saying it's different, and not that it's difficult. I believe that Mac OS, and Linux, are no harder to operate than Windows, but that they are different, and do require different training. Also, if you admin is capable of admining Mac OS, then they could probably do a pretty good job with a modern Linux distro. With modern Linux distros, it's no harder to operate than Mac OS. If you think it is, then you haven't familiarized yourself enough with Linux.
I've had this problem with VCRs in the past, recording a show on one player, and then playing it on another would usually yield poor results. Or sometimes one movie I had bought would play fine in one player, but would be very bad quality in another. I assumed it was due to differences in read head alignment or something. On the other hand, I don't know how this could happen with DVDs. Because everything is digital, the output should be the same no matter which player/recorder you use. I've never experienced this problem with DVDs, even with home movies that were recorded onto DVD, they play fine in all the players I've tried them in.
I'm not exactly sure how things work in the US, but in Canada they have to give you 2 weeks notice (or pay in lieu) for firing you without a good reason. That's the minimum. If you've worked there a couple years, then case law says you are entitled to more notice (or pay). On the other hand, you can leave your job with no notice, no matter how long you have worked there. It's customary to give a couple weeks notice so you don't lose all hope of using the employer as a reference in the future.
We had that a long time ago. It was called nibbles :P
My only gripe with manpages is that they often leave out examples for the most common tasks, or don't list any examples at all. It sometimes takes a long time read through the 72 options for a command to figure out where the file name goes on certain command.
The reason that I don't like to put my stuff on other people's servers is that I don't trust it to be available when I really need it. This is why when I was in school, and I went to print off a document, I usually FTP'd it to my school account, brought a copy on floppy disk, and put another copy on my web hosting service. This is just to ensure that if anything went wrong, I could still get access to the document and print it out. I guess i'm a little paranoid, with 3 copies, but it seems to me that often enough 1 of those copies would have something wrong with it, like the floppy drives wouldn't be working that day. And I always had two different file formats, MSWord and PDF, because you never knew when the 1 available school computer would fail to work, and you'd have to print from one of the 5 year old sun unix machines.
You could probably get the same hardware for much cheaper, and get a local artist to custom paint it to make it look nice. I'd much rather have a custom painted case than something I bought off the shelf. It's kind of like all those "modded" cases you can buy that are pre-modded. It's not a mod unless you actually "modify" it yourself.