I went to UCLA in the 80s/90s and have called twice this morning and both times their hotline database was offline. Of course they say "uh, I think... yeah, the database is being updated, please call back in 10-15 minutes..." but when I worked at a call center "database is being updated" = "BROKEN!"
Great pictures! I love nixie tubes though I've never done electronics. I just like the look of them. It's nice to see the "ugly" electronic truth behind all these lovely pixels.
I expect there are some I.T. workers here that have such incredibly valuable skills they can switch jobs easily.
That's not the case for everyone. We're not "patsys" we just don't have as many options. Not everyone lives in a good I.T. job market.
So when employers oblige you to work overtime for free, you do it. There is always another guy willing to take your job and do what the boss wants, but there is not always another job available for you where you will not have to do that.
So you make the best of it and try to find alternatives. But it's not as easy as "oh you don't like it? just get another one, patsy!"
"OnTrack claims it rescued the data in all cases. Jim Reinert, senior director of software and services for the company, said it pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good."
The daylight saving time is embedded in millions of devices/systems. An example would be the elevator system in my office building. It's used to control access times for secured floors. There is no patch for this, the control system will have to be completely replaced.
Our phone system has the change encoded. It will require a full software upgrade to fix this.
No matter how many times I've checked out SL it leaves the same impression: crap
Considering how powerful video cards and PCs have become it's unforgivable for a product like this to have such ugly graphics and such poor performance. The flexibility is really interesting but to what end? People blundering with choppy video about in an empty looking 3d world with as much visual depth as a Mario game?
Second Life is a test bed, that's it. It is far too crappy to be significant.
This idea is so crazy I can't come up with anything clever to say.
Being accused of a sex crime can destroy an innocent person's life and this law appears to create a process to make the accusation alone enough for official status as a sex criminal.
I can't comprehend how anyone could think this is a good idea.
I built a simple asset/inventory tracker and trouble ticket combo in FileMaker. It works fine in small environments. It's nice to be able to pull up a serial number and see the history of a piece of equipment, who used it, what problems it has had, etc.
Recently someone got fired and refused to return their laptop. I hopped on the system pulled up the serial number, date of purchase, date it was transferred to the employee, etc. Should make the lawyers happy.
I am in partial agreement with the poster. I am an I.T. Manager and have been amazed at th elast minute requests that come in not from co-workers, but from people who want to sell us something!
Forget projectors, some people don't even bring laptops! There's no preparation, no calls to make sure a resource will be available. They just show up and say "Oh, can't I just connect to that falt panel?" No DVI output on your laptop? Then, you can't.
But we do have a projector, but... it's been taken offsite for a client meeting.
Hope you're good at shadow puppets.//preparation impresses me more than hardware///so frickin' prepare if you want me to give you my money!
I don't have enough money to be unemployed for more than a few weeks so I have to stick it out until I can transition directly into something I hope is better. Crazy bosses make work really hard.
At my workplace management has so many conflicting opinions on internal security it's laughable. When I was brought in as IT Manager I couldn't even get admin access to anything because my boss didn't know who I was (even though he's the one that hired me.)
Instead he let the outside I.T. consultants have complete control. My experience and professional references were to no avail. It was three months before I got a key to the server room, and this is in a small, 50 person insignificant business. All the while the outside consultants (who retain full remote access to all systems and networking equipment) could do whatever they want.
The network drives were wide open among departments. No restrictions. Performance reviews, salary spreadsheets were all available to the entire staff with the thought that "no one knows the files are there so it's okay" was good enough.
When I suggested that we could start locking down departmental network folders to restrict access to sensitive data it set off a freakish firestorm of discussion about who could be trusted for these special folders. But... the whole time they'd been wide open! Now suddenly it was an emergency to lock them down and no one could be trusted with the data.
Later on my boss was working on a business pitch in Word. He'd brought in a temp to help with the layout and now he wanted to give it his own special touch. But he was having formatting issues. He wanted my help, but.... I couldn't look at the document!
He said it was sensitive and he didn't want me to see it but at the same time I had to diagnose his formatting problem and tell him how to straighten it out. So it was okay for a one-day temp to see it, but not the IT Manager that he himself hired that has responsibility for protecting all of his data.
A few more months and I'm out of here. It's the craziest place I've worked, and I used to work at an urban police department so I've seen crazy.
This is a general thanks to all the sysadmins out there that have helped me get better at managing my own systems. Don't get lazy because I will always have another dumb question for you!:)
Hey I actually PREVENTED the building from burning to the ground. The power cord from our primary UPS was defective and was starting to melt. For some reason only my nose could pick up the faint plastic smell, and I was able to track it all the way to the back of the server rack, right to the plug. Damn thing was already burning when I got everything shut down.
Did not get even a single mmumbled "thanks" from my boss. He looked terrified during the event though so I guess that's as good as it's going to get, watching him sweat his ass off.
This sticker covers only two states: 1. Unripe 2. Ripe
So in essence this is not a sticker to tell you a fruit is ripe, it's a sticker to tell you that it is not unripe.
This is a step in the right direction but does not seem worth it without the full range. Consumers will just use whatever method they prefer to test ripeness when they learn the stickers cannot be trusted.
I will become a world citizen when people from other "political boundaries" stop targetting me because I live in a "political boundary" they don't like.
If someone rents/buys ANYTHING and does not use it there is no connection to the supply method. It's a user issue.
I've been using Netflix for almost six years now and do not have this problem. I rent things I want to watch and when they arrive... I watch them.
It's that simple.
I used to have the "three at a time" plan but wound up switching to "two at a time" and have found a balance between having movies to watch on the weekend and the ability to keep the queue stocked with things I'm interested in.
If you're renting movies you don't want to watch, or renting more movies at one time than you can watch then you need to alter your approach.
If this kid shot his teacher (or fellow students) and after the fact this story came up people wouldn't be talking about free speech. They would be amazed that such a blatant "warning sign" was ignored.
I'm glad it did not develop into actual violence but I wonder what's going on in that kid's head. I disliked teacher's when i was a kid but did not feel strongly enough to express it graphically and so bluntly.
It's not protected speech. It's a stupid, violent statement that would not be laughed off by the/. crowd if they were the target of this kid's anger. It's not funny, it's creepy.
Equating the need for sleep with the need for drugs just shows that logic is not something you're going to recognize.
It's not just his business. Being a drug addict means he is prone to irresponsible behavior that will impact other people. Addiction (to anything) means that you are no longer in control of what you do. The addiction is going to drive your actions.
I am not interested in "saving" people from themselves. I am however interested in saving OTHER people from them. If he doesn't want help and wants to destroy himself I would have no problem with it, except the impact is never restricted to just the addicted invididual. It affects his family, his friends and the people around him. The affects are emotional as well as physical. Drugs (even high-quality) can have incredibly destructive side affects.
The effects of drug abuse go far beyond thieving to support the habit. You are so deeply buried in your little world that there's nothing I can post, no matter how well-supported by facts and common-sense that will get through to you. Intelligence does not protect you or anyone else from becoming addicted to a drug.
This is one of the biggest lies of drug addicts: that they can monitor their usage.
In the middle of your clarion call to the rest of us you forgot something: YOU ARE A DRUG ADDICT.
Drug addicts all believe they can self-monitor. They believe they can responsibly adjust their dosage and avoid all the pitfalls that everyone else succumb to. Drug addiction distorts one's perceptions which is why the toothless, diseased crack-head thinks they are doing just as well as you in monitoring their usage.
Just because you are not currently destroying your life does not change the fact that you are a drug addict. Stop fooling yourself and get some help.
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I went to UCLA in the 80s/90s and have called twice this morning and both times their hotline database was offline. Of course they say "uh, I think... yeah, the database is being updated, please call back in 10-15 minutes..." but when I worked at a call center "database is being updated" = "BROKEN!"
Great pictures! I love nixie tubes though I've never done electronics. I just like the look of them. It's nice to see the "ugly" electronic truth behind all these lovely pixels.
I expect there are some I.T. workers here that have such incredibly valuable skills they can switch jobs easily.
That's not the case for everyone. We're not "patsys" we just don't have as many options. Not everyone lives in a good I.T. job market.
So when employers oblige you to work overtime for free, you do it. There is always another guy willing to take your job and do what the boss wants, but there is not always another job available for you where you will not have to do that.
So you make the best of it and try to find alternatives. But it's not as easy as "oh you don't like it? just get another one, patsy!"
"OnTrack claims it rescued the data in all cases. Jim Reinert, senior director of software and services for the company, said it pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good."
This "slashvertisement" crap has gone too far.
The daylight saving time is embedded in millions of devices/systems. An example would be the elevator system in my office building. It's used to control access times for secured floors. There is no patch for this, the control system will have to be completely replaced.
Our phone system has the change encoded. It will require a full software upgrade to fix this.
So... it's a bummer!
If Slashdot is just going to post made up shit as news they're going to have to change their slogan.
May I suggest "DUMB SHIT WE FOUND ON THE INTERNET... FOR NERDS"
No matter how many times I've checked out SL it leaves the same impression: crap
Considering how powerful video cards and PCs have become it's unforgivable for a product like this to have such ugly graphics and such poor performance. The flexibility is really interesting but to what end? People blundering with choppy video about in an empty looking 3d world with as much visual depth as a Mario game?
Second Life is a test bed, that's it. It is far too crappy to be significant.
Wikipedia members were not amused... ... and neither were Slashdot readers who don't speak German!
This idea is so crazy I can't come up with anything clever to say.
Being accused of a sex crime can destroy an innocent person's life and this law appears to create a process to make the accusation alone enough for official status as a sex criminal.
I can't comprehend how anyone could think this is a good idea.
I built a simple asset/inventory tracker and trouble ticket combo in FileMaker. It works fine in small environments. It's nice to be able to pull up a serial number and see the history of a piece of equipment, who used it, what problems it has had, etc.
Recently someone got fired and refused to return their laptop. I hopped on the system pulled up the serial number, date of purchase, date it was transferred to the employee, etc. Should make the lawyers happy.
I am in partial agreement with the poster. I am an I.T. Manager and have been amazed at th elast minute requests that come in not from co-workers, but from people who want to sell us something!
//preparation impresses me more than hardware ///so frickin' prepare if you want me to give you my money!
Forget projectors, some people don't even bring laptops! There's no preparation, no calls to make sure a resource will be available. They just show up and say "Oh, can't I just connect to that falt panel?" No DVI output on your laptop? Then, you can't.
But we do have a projector, but... it's been taken offsite for a client meeting.
Hope you're good at shadow puppets.
I don't have enough money to be unemployed for more than a few weeks so I have to stick it out until I can transition directly into something I hope is better. Crazy bosses make work really hard.
At my workplace management has so many conflicting opinions on internal security it's laughable. When I was brought in as IT Manager I couldn't even get admin access to anything because my boss didn't know who I was (even though he's the one that hired me.)
Instead he let the outside I.T. consultants have complete control. My experience and professional references were to no avail. It was three months before I got a key to the server room, and this is in a small, 50 person insignificant business. All the while the outside consultants (who retain full remote access to all systems and networking equipment) could do whatever they want.
The network drives were wide open among departments. No restrictions. Performance reviews, salary spreadsheets were all available to the entire staff with the thought that "no one knows the files are there so it's okay" was good enough.
When I suggested that we could start locking down departmental network folders to restrict access to sensitive data it set off a freakish firestorm of discussion about who could be trusted for these special folders. But... the whole time they'd been wide open! Now suddenly it was an emergency to lock them down and no one could be trusted with the data.
Later on my boss was working on a business pitch in Word. He'd brought in a temp to help with the layout and now he wanted to give it his own special touch. But he was having formatting issues. He wanted my help, but.... I couldn't look at the document!
He said it was sensitive and he didn't want me to see it but at the same time I had to diagnose his formatting problem and tell him how to straighten it out. So it was okay for a one-day temp to see it, but not the IT Manager that he himself hired that has responsibility for protecting all of his data.
A few more months and I'm out of here. It's the craziest place I've worked, and I used to work at an urban police department so I've seen crazy.
This is a general thanks to all the sysadmins out there that have helped me get better at managing my own systems. Don't get lazy because I will always have another dumb question for you! :)
Hey I actually PREVENTED the building from burning to the ground. The power cord from our primary UPS was defective and was starting to melt. For some reason only my nose could pick up the faint plastic smell, and I was able to track it all the way to the back of the server rack, right to the plug. Damn thing was already burning when I got everything shut down.
Did not get even a single mmumbled "thanks" from my boss. He looked terrified during the event though so I guess that's as good as it's going to get, watching him sweat his ass off.
The consumer is concerned with three states:
1. Unripe
2. Ripe
3. Overripe
This sticker covers only two states:
1. Unripe
2. Ripe
So in essence this is not a sticker to tell you a fruit is ripe, it's a sticker to tell you that it is not unripe.
This is a step in the right direction but does not seem worth it without the full range. Consumers will just use whatever method they prefer to test ripeness when they learn the stickers cannot be trusted.
I will become a world citizen when people from other "political boundaries" stop targetting me because I live in a "political boundary" they don't like.
A man trap lets you into a vestibule but does NOT let you into the main area without authentication of some kind.
If someone rents/buys ANYTHING and does not use it there is no connection to the supply method. It's a user issue.
I've been using Netflix for almost six years now and do not have this problem. I rent things I want to watch and when they arrive... I watch them.
It's that simple.
I used to have the "three at a time" plan but wound up switching to "two at a time" and have found a balance between having movies to watch on the weekend and the ability to keep the queue stocked with things I'm interested in.
If you're renting movies you don't want to watch, or renting more movies at one time than you can watch then you need to alter your approach.
That is simply false. I've had many jobs, mostly in office type environments in the U.S. and have never seen this in any policy manual.
If this kid shot his teacher (or fellow students) and after the fact this story came up people wouldn't be talking about free speech. They would be amazed that such a blatant "warning sign" was ignored.
/. crowd if they were the target of this kid's anger. It's not funny, it's creepy.
I'm glad it did not develop into actual violence but I wonder what's going on in that kid's head. I disliked teacher's when i was a kid but did not feel strongly enough to express it graphically and so bluntly.
It's not protected speech. It's a stupid, violent statement that would not be laughed off by the
I have an iBook G4 I've been using as my primary home machine since 2003.
No discoloration. Not even a little bit.
I hardly ever use it and PayPal is too big a target with too poor security, and almost nonexistent procedures for recovery after fraud.
Equating the need for sleep with the need for drugs just shows that logic is not something you're going to recognize.
It's not just his business. Being a drug addict means he is prone to irresponsible behavior that will impact other people. Addiction (to anything) means that you are no longer in control of what you do. The addiction is going to drive your actions.
I am not interested in "saving" people from themselves. I am however interested in saving OTHER people from them. If he doesn't want help and wants to destroy himself I would have no problem with it, except the impact is never restricted to just the addicted invididual. It affects his family, his friends and the people around him. The affects are emotional as well as physical. Drugs (even high-quality) can have incredibly destructive side affects.
The effects of drug abuse go far beyond thieving to support the habit. You are so deeply buried in your little world that there's nothing I can post, no matter how well-supported by facts and common-sense that will get through to you. Intelligence does not protect you or anyone else from becoming addicted to a drug.
This is one of the biggest lies of drug addicts: that they can monitor their usage.
In the middle of your clarion call to the rest of us you forgot something: YOU ARE A DRUG ADDICT.
Drug addicts all believe they can self-monitor. They believe they can responsibly adjust their dosage and avoid all the pitfalls that everyone else succumb to. Drug addiction distorts one's perceptions which is why the toothless, diseased crack-head thinks they are doing just as well as you in monitoring their usage.
Just because you are not currently destroying your life does not change the fact that you are a drug addict. Stop fooling yourself and get some help.