Most shops have a boneyard of old monitors and adapters. Surely you can scrounge enough stuff to do your own trial. If you can't find it at work, there's usually surplus shops around that can sell you what you need for about the price of an upscale lunch.
Go down to the courthouse (I know, it's harder than posting your question on slashdot) and ask the cleck to show you the lien form. Read it over, determine whether or not signing it would constitute perjury, and do the right thing.
First of all, pretend you are in the Army. Your platoon sargent give you an order. It may be stupid, unethical, or illogical but you still carry it out as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva convention rules of warfare. Once you've carried it out, you are free to question the order up through the chain of command.
That is what you should have done. The order was not illegal and you should have done it first and questioned your boss about the ethics later.
Second point. Your boss screwed up big time. He did not explain the above to you beforehand and he did not patch things up with the executive that fired you.
That's his job. You'd still have yours if after deleting the email he had immediately gone to the executive and explained that you were just trying to do the right thing for the company, and that he had set you straight.
What you did was idealistic and perhaps foolish, but you should not have been fired for it. And I'd put a lot of blame on your boss.
By Joseph Weizenbaum. A beautifully written book on differences between human thought and the fuction of computers. It may be a bit more abstract than what you are looking for, but it is still a classic read.
From the dust jacket:
"Computer Power and Human Reason is a searching examination of what computers can do, what they cannot do, and what they should not be used to do. It is, above all, an eloquent argument for the sanctity of the human spirit."
The article said that the reactor explains why the poles flip every 200k years, not why they exist.
The story is only 26 years old, a new record
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The story was originally covered in Scientific American, July 1976. It was a great read then and now. Highly recommended. There has also been talk about a second natural reactor (not in the center of the earth), but I can't put my finger on a source right now.
"I do not agree with their stance on this issue and I believe I have a right to design, implement, and make available such a service."
Sorry pal, but not until you buy the bandwidth, the cable, the servers and the big Cisco box do you have the right. It's their network and they make the rules, even if it is make-it-up-as-you-go-along.
Shut down your server, say you're sorry, get your degree, earn lots of money and buy your own network. Then you'll have the right to tell people what services they can run.
This sounds like the basic child-raising dilema. You tell you kid what he can't do, he goes ahead and does something similar, but technically not the same. You find out about it and confront him, he says "but I didn't do that" and you say "you know what I mean" and smack him.
You should have known that snooping around for Windows shares would get you in trouble sooner or later. Tell them that you didn't violate their agreement, offer to write up what you did so they can modify the agreement and promise not to do it again.
A telco central office simulator. Ring-it http://www.digitalproductsco.com/ringit.htm lets you plug 2 modems or 2 faxes together and simulates the telco system. Excellent for debugging lan fax systems or getting ppp dialup to work.
A couple of old laptops, set to boot dos and run a terminal emulator. Use them all the time.
Dos boot disks with Aefdsk, fdisk, format and debug.
Jumpers and paper clips to jumper pins 2-3 of RS-232 connectors to loopback signals.
A lineman's handset, preferably obtained in the traditional way.
RJ-45 and RJ-11 crimper, connectors and cable.
Extra ethernet hub, patch cables and crossover cables.
Spare SDRAM modules
Everyone else's username and password.
They claim "patent pending" which means they've applied for a patent. And hopefully, the examiners will have enough sense to reject it because of prior art.
You are the one who doesn't understand how a corporation works. The corp is an entity onto itself. The CEO is *not* personally responsible for the actions of the corp unless there has been some serious misconduct on his/her part that would "pierce the corporate veil" Do a google search on the phrase for more information.
As for the web page, of course there is someone responsible for it. But that person is not getting sued, the corporation is.
Correction, I should have said "A trivial amount of *power* to dissipate".
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"to get 100 kilowatts of light out, you've got to put a megawatt of electrical power in, so somewhere along the way you've got to deal with 900 kilowatts of cooling,"
This sentence means nothing to an engineer. Here's why: 900 kilowatts over 1 millisecond is 1/4 of a watthour. A trivial amount of energy to dissipate. Over 1 second, it's 250 watthours, no big deal, but not trivial. Over 1 hour, it's 900 kilowatt hours, a very big deal. Without time, it's just big impressive numbers for the ignorant masses.
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Herpies. Every time I've done a several day burnout project, I've ended up with a painful patch of herpies. Stress reaction or something.
Timesheets and vacation days for 20 people and it's always thrashing hard? Give me a break. You could do that with windoze shares and excel.
Most shops have a boneyard of old monitors and adapters. Surely you can scrounge enough stuff to do your own trial. If you can't find it at work, there's usually surplus shops around that can sell you what you need for about the price of an upscale lunch.
Answering your question would be a violation of the DMCA. Sorry, ask Jack and Hillary.
Go down to the courthouse (I know, it's harder than posting your question on slashdot) and ask the cleck to show you the lien form. Read it over, determine whether or not signing it would constitute perjury, and do the right thing.
First of all, pretend you are in the Army. Your platoon sargent give you an order. It may be stupid, unethical, or illogical but you still carry it out as long as it doesn't violate the Geneva convention rules of warfare. Once you've carried it out, you are free to question the order up through the chain of command. That is what you should have done. The order was not illegal and you should have done it first and questioned your boss about the ethics later. Second point. Your boss screwed up big time. He did not explain the above to you beforehand and he did not patch things up with the executive that fired you. That's his job. You'd still have yours if after deleting the email he had immediately gone to the executive and explained that you were just trying to do the right thing for the company, and that he had set you straight. What you did was idealistic and perhaps foolish, but you should not have been fired for it. And I'd put a lot of blame on your boss.
By Joseph Weizenbaum. A beautifully written book on differences between human thought and the fuction of computers. It may be a bit more abstract than what you are looking for, but it is still a classic read. From the dust jacket: "Computer Power and Human Reason is a searching examination of what computers can do, what they cannot do, and what they should not be used to do. It is, above all, an eloquent argument for the sanctity of the human spirit."
The article said that the reactor explains why the poles flip every 200k years, not why they exist.
The story was originally covered in Scientific American, July 1976. It was a great read then and now. Highly recommended. There has also been talk about a second natural reactor (not in the center of the earth), but I can't put my finger on a source right now.
That we'll never see a Beowulf cluster of Minix machines?
"I do not agree with their stance on this issue and I believe I have a right to design, implement, and make available such a service." Sorry pal, but not until you buy the bandwidth, the cable, the servers and the big Cisco box do you have the right. It's their network and they make the rules, even if it is make-it-up-as-you-go-along. Shut down your server, say you're sorry, get your degree, earn lots of money and buy your own network. Then you'll have the right to tell people what services they can run.
This sounds like the basic child-raising dilema. You tell you kid what he can't do, he goes ahead and does something similar, but technically not the same. You find out about it and confront him, he says "but I didn't do that" and you say "you know what I mean" and smack him. You should have known that snooping around for Windows shares would get you in trouble sooner or later. Tell them that you didn't violate their agreement, offer to write up what you did so they can modify the agreement and promise not to do it again.
A telco central office simulator. Ring-it http://www.digitalproductsco.com/ringit.htm lets you plug 2 modems or 2 faxes together and simulates the telco system. Excellent for debugging lan fax systems or getting ppp dialup to work.
Mine says "Western Electric - Not For Sale"
A couple of old laptops, set to boot dos and run a terminal emulator. Use them all the time. Dos boot disks with Aefdsk, fdisk, format and debug. Jumpers and paper clips to jumper pins 2-3 of RS-232 connectors to loopback signals. A lineman's handset, preferably obtained in the traditional way. RJ-45 and RJ-11 crimper, connectors and cable. Extra ethernet hub, patch cables and crossover cables. Spare SDRAM modules Everyone else's username and password.
They claim "patent pending" which means they've applied for a patent. And hopefully, the examiners will have enough sense to reject it because of prior art.
That would almost be erotic if you're female.
You are the one who doesn't understand how a corporation works. The corp is an entity onto itself. The CEO is *not* personally responsible for the actions of the corp unless there has been some serious misconduct on his/her part that would "pierce the corporate veil" Do a google search on the phrase for more information. As for the web page, of course there is someone responsible for it. But that person is not getting sued, the corporation is.
Would you get full-up server apps or would it be some silly workstation configuration?
It's just all the geeks trying to download Redhat 8.0 ISO's
I couldn't find rackshack listed in any of the "approved" signing sources for mozzila or netscape.
My programming text editor is still Wordstar in a DOS box. Full Screen.
Correction, I should have said "A trivial amount of *power* to dissipate".
"to get 100 kilowatts of light out, you've got to put a megawatt of electrical power in, so somewhere along the way you've got to deal with 900 kilowatts of cooling," This sentence means nothing to an engineer. Here's why: 900 kilowatts over 1 millisecond is 1/4 of a watthour. A trivial amount of energy to dissipate. Over 1 second, it's 250 watthours, no big deal, but not trivial. Over 1 hour, it's 900 kilowatt hours, a very big deal. Without time, it's just big impressive numbers for the ignorant masses.
Larry Elison announces Oracle is now to be called "Cost-Effective Oracle"
Autodesk announces Autocad is now to be called "All Pervasive Autocad"
Adobe anounces that Acrobat is now to be called "Universal Acrobat"