I've been on both sides of the fence, and i'm looking to jump back over market willing.
This year, I'm a developer. I'd have to say i'm exceedingly greatful that i have uber access to my own box. If i needed to get IT to install every last thing on my box, i'd never have a chance to try any software that might make my life easier.
I agree, there are infact some people that really need not have admin access to threir boxes, and when i was king of the hill (at one of those.com thingies) there were users and powerusers with rights granted appropriately. As always the story here isn't black or white. The company i work for now can easily have 90% ppl accessing admin over their own box's. The work behind keeping most worms and undesireables off the net is taken up by a decent firewall and vigilantly monitored antivirus.
now as far as a user not having rights to agree to a EULA, this is obviously true, but then again, A. will this EULA even hold up in court? B. If it held up in court would the user now then re responsible?
SOOO if they were stealing premuim cable with a blackbox, would the feds have confiscated their tv's?
I would imagine not.
this sort of thing i believe you'll only see from a small time bandwidth provider, sure it might have cost them a little extra $$, probably nothing too grand. larger providers would certainly just shrug it off and have kicked the users off.
i'd figure if they were reselling bandwidth via cable to customers, they prolly have multiple t1 or t3 line/s peered to some large network/networks (ATT SPRINT), I couldn't imagine a savy (or remotely inteligent) company would attempt to run such a network over partial or bandwidth limited lines. I mean you're already paying for service, paying for infrastructure, they'd probably have some form of BGP routing for a multipoint failsafe connection, nothing of this operation is cheap, why would they skimp on the pipes?
even (especially) if they do run over partial lines, i find it outlandish that they wouldn't watch their bandwidth in real time. What, did they not know they had leaks until they got their bill for that month? This isn't a water provider! This screams lacksidazical administration. Heh, i used to monitor my business' router with MRTG like i was paying for the companies bandwidth out of my own pocket.
I really have no sympathy for any company soo lax on security and bent on making examples out of it's customers. These guys don't deserve to be service providers. Bigger ISP's have bellied up. These guys can't be far behind. 250k my arse, that gets you multiple t3's for a year.
Don't get me wrong, if these users cracked their modems, they certainly deserve some form of punishment, Getting kicked off or fined. (one or the other not both mind you) If they want to prosecute them just do it, there was no reasonable cause to bring the feds in. Such a waste of time and federal money.
I still have yet to figure out why exactly all of these cable providers are limiting bandwidth via these DOCSIS modems, It can't possibly be cheaper to do it that way then over routers can it? Then again, I guess limits at the modem work much in the same way cable boxes do.
So, do you think that if these people would have been stealing cable with a blackbox, if the FBI would have taken their TV's? I've never heard of that happening. (then again i really don't know anyone who's gotten caught either) oh well i guess i have to end my rant and find something productive to do
"Even IF one makes it to earth, it somehow has to somehow land on the 30% of land mass. "
not quite, as a matter of fact, it would be much much worse for an asteroid (at any significant size and/or speed) to land in an ocean.
it would create a tsnuami that would wreak havoc and devastation to shores in all directions and depending on magnitude and location, cause quite a significantly devastating disaster.
but personally, i think we'll be the ones that wipe ourselves off the planet.
that's exactly what i was thinking, this seems to me not to be so big a deal you could not recreate the same effect detecting and recreating polarized light in your garage. i guess this should have fell in the some news is better than no news department.
these references will be all you will ever need to know about charging/discharging times, how many cycles to expect and to what extent you can discharge the batteries and still retain a viable performance.
pay specific attention to #12 (in the DC or 16 in the car faq) HOW CAN I REVIVE A SULFATED BATTERY?
for help in keeping costs down, it contains specific information to revive the battery by "cleansing it" and replacing electrolyte.
most everyone i know that lost their jobs in the.com crunch, is now working in the technical end of the medical field.
Baltimore is a big hopital town and that might have a lot to do with it.
it would seem that any field where technology can be enlisted to lower costs and improve productivity shows promise. There are still a lot of underutilized minds out there that could be coming up with creative solutions to old stagnant problems.
I've sliped into the generation end of the print on demand industry. The print inductry is nototious for utilizing tons of people to churn out a product that could be reasonably well automated. Our tech department is made of of %95 ex -.com'ers.
it seems everytime i get a new computer 12 times faster than my old one, i want to run a process that takes 15 times as long:(
good point! Though, i believe it depends on your perspective of winning and losing. I'd have to believe (from my own perspective) that if he is being %50 underpaid, right now he is at a loss. It would appear the comapany is keeping him at that pay level as long as they can. (in their own interest therefore winning)
his battle isn't necessarily won if his old company wins their battle. he becomes a higher payed individual and likely the first to be let go in a $$$ crunch. he's shown that he is willing to jump ship. these circumstances might play out poorly for the individual given time.
i'd say that he's probably not dealing with a company that has his interests in mind and that would be enough for me to suggest that he should move on even for a modest pay increase.
too much "in it for their own interests", too much turmoil inside that organization, not exactly a stable work enviroment, in the end i guess it will all boil down to his wants, needs, allegiances and pay.
you're missing the whole point! he needs to tell the hiring company he got a counter offer and play them in to giving him more $$$. His old company is satisfied that they tried to keep him, the new company is paying a little more for "quality",he's getting even more $$$ and dosen't have to worry about his old companies trust!
medatate long on this you must!
at least if you're gonna sell out to the highest bidder you should make everyone as happy as possible.
just tried the mod out, works great on my Studio 20, of course the UI has quite a bit till it's up to the current archos build, but it's good to see someone making progress.
the cool thing about these players it you don't have to actually flash the rom, they boot off of the internal rom for a second and immediately look for a file in the root for updates, if the file's not there they just continue to boot from hardware.
i'll give you floppy disks with pgp keys, but don'cha think maybe free pseudo anonymous email might be tracked?
especially containing large blocks of heavily encrypted PGP text. i'f it were my job (and it's not) i'd have backbone sniffers all over hotmail server sites (yahoo,aol too) and anything US incoming or outgoing.
I'd be holding on to anything that resembled an encrypted email. Capturing the data is easy, sorting through it automatically and sending back only pertinant data would be the tough part.
The fact that the portable device is generating that much heat means you're loosing a lot of your precious battery to resistance, not a very good use of your battery life.
they should be mainly concerning themselves with lessening energy consumption and keeping the same performance if they really want to make something worthwhile. unless of course someone wants to come out with a dual processor notbook, batter life would then infact be a moot point.
yeah, i've heard that one before, "next month, we'll be back to normal, because x and y and z" it's really easy to look at what they;re saying and go yeah, things will get better, then they'll make up for all this poo and we'll be in great shape, they'll give us all a big bonus and . . .
unfortunately, any company getting towards not making salary is dangerously close to failing, all it would take is a lease holder to decide that they don't trust the companies financial position and demand immediate payment on the balance due, there are an infinite number of things that can happen completely out of the grasp of you or anyone working there. you'd be wise to make sure you have connections in the job market and do some looking, just in case so you don't get caught with you pants down for too long should anything go awry. i speak from experience, my old employer kept us going for quite some time, i knew it was wrong to keep going so hard on their word, i just couldn;t concieve that they'd never make good:P
take care and best of luck! --Meat
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simple, just add some anti-freeze! it'll further "enhance" the taste!
here in the states years ago and commercially available to boot. It was the self heating dinner (not a drink) just like the MRE. i saw them at a truck stop, they were "dinty moore" if my memory serves me correctly. i'm not too sure these would catch on to well in the states, people seem to be pretty perticular about their coffee.
but it dosen't sound like anything a good buffing kit could't take off. sorta refreshing, get away from all those firmware hacks and region code cracks, market the machine as a cd/dvd cleaner:)
maybe there aren't enough people like my but i'd pay $120 a month for 2-3 static ips, unlimited bandwidth 1mb down 512 up. that price would easily cover that cross section of a t3 split amongst other members, i'm not even looking for garunteed bandwith i'd settle for average speeds. (within reason) sooner or later hopefully someone will provide that. (unfortunately at this rate it might well be a cell phone provider)
True from the bottom, but have you ever droped one on their top?
The laminent and paint on the surface (non-readable) side is almost non-existant. This of course would constitute misuse, but you could give a vhs style tape to a two year old to play with for a while and i'd come out ok*.
*barring attacks with food or water
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But you see, it's not solely about advertising after all.
Companies like AOL spend billions a year on getting their name out there. One of the ways to get your companies name out there is Branding. You want your name all over your product and you want you product to get in front of as many faces as often as you can and branding is gonna be a big part of this for them.
Let's say that Trillian (*yay Go Trillian*) stands unobstructed, it's a better client than aim, it's more useful to a LOT of people and has some really nice functionality not offered by AIM. So everyone starts using it. (except for AOL users) All of a sudden there's no more AIM on everyones boxes, no more AOL banners, AOL tracking, AOL propaganda. The most valuable feature to them of their IM client is the fact that they get to spatter their name on everyones desktops.
Most everyone I know, knows what AIM is even if they don't use it. AOL isn't about to gonna give up their userbase's clients to a third party that's gonna advertise them at the same level as icq, yahoo and msn. all of a sudden they're left holding the login bag without branding or advertisement sales.
they spent the money and devd the servers, they spent the $$ and devd the clients, they should have the right not to have outside programs connect to the server and use their resources for free if they choose not to.
but also notice that the aim client is very stale, no decent changes in years, they own aol and icq, you'd expect that it would not kill them to make a client that wraps aim and icq together if a user chooses to do so? If their product wasn't obviously lacking, Trillian would not be able to get a foothold as easily on the market.
I'll sit back and root for Trillian 'till the cows come home' but i expeect that they'll eventually get beat down. AOL is tough competition, and they take their rights seriously.
Wonder how long it will be until someone comes up with a client that attaches to oscar through the AIM client program itself to connect in?
nope have the $200 panasonic phone totally blasts my wireless if i'm more than 20ft away from it. (indoors ymmv) i'm going to get another ap and run ethernet into the living room (the only room far enough away that i loose connectivity.
but Comcast wired my complex with fiber to each building, they offer telephony, cable and cablemodem to each apartment. The telco service is cool enough, it has all the same features as the Bell(verizon), it's a few bucks less and i've never had any problems with it.(knock on wood)
The real depressing thing is that 90% of this community is retired, (not that retired people can;t use bandwidth) but there aren't many teenagers or young couples. I doubt that their utilization in this complex has really inspired them to do this in other neighborhoods. On the upside i'm the only one on my pipe in my building. *grins*
How about the 20GB studio mp3 player from archos (archos.com) 20GB usb hard drive/mp3 player, plays for 12 hours straight on 1 charge, the studio model even records.
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I've been on both sides of the fence, and i'm looking to jump back over market willing.
.com thingies) there were users and powerusers with rights granted appropriately. As always the story here isn't black or white. The company i work for now can easily have 90% ppl accessing admin over their own box's. The work behind keeping most worms and undesireables off the net is taken up by a decent firewall and vigilantly monitored antivirus.
This year, I'm a developer. I'd have to say i'm exceedingly greatful that i have uber access to my own box. If i needed to get IT to install every last thing on my box, i'd never have a chance to try any software that might make my life easier.
I agree, there are infact some people that really need not have admin access to threir boxes, and when i was king of the hill (at one of those
now as far as a user not having rights to agree to a EULA, this is obviously true, but then again, A. will this EULA even hold up in court? B. If it held up in court would the user now then re responsible?
SOOO if they were stealing premuim cable with a blackbox, would the feds have confiscated their tv's?
I would imagine not.
this sort of thing i believe you'll only see from a small time bandwidth provider, sure it might have cost them a little extra $$, probably nothing too grand. larger providers would certainly just shrug it off and have kicked the users off.
i'd figure if they were reselling bandwidth via cable to customers, they prolly have multiple t1 or t3 line/s peered to some large network/networks (ATT SPRINT), I couldn't imagine a savy (or remotely inteligent) company would attempt to run such a network over partial or bandwidth limited lines. I mean you're already paying for service, paying for infrastructure, they'd probably have some form of BGP routing for a multipoint failsafe connection, nothing of this operation is cheap, why would they skimp on the pipes?
even (especially) if they do run over partial lines, i find it outlandish that they wouldn't watch their bandwidth in real time. What, did they not know they had leaks until they got their bill for that month? This isn't a water provider! This screams lacksidazical administration. Heh, i used to monitor my business' router with MRTG like i was paying for the companies bandwidth out of my own pocket.
I really have no sympathy for any company soo lax on security and bent on making examples out of it's customers. These guys don't deserve to be service providers. Bigger ISP's have bellied up. These guys can't be far behind. 250k my arse, that gets you multiple t3's for a year.
Don't get me wrong, if these users cracked their modems, they certainly deserve some form of punishment, Getting kicked off or fined. (one or the other not both mind you) If they want to prosecute them just do it, there was no reasonable cause to bring the feds in. Such a waste of time and federal money.
I still have yet to figure out why exactly all of these cable providers are limiting bandwidth via these DOCSIS modems, It can't possibly be cheaper to do it that way then over routers can it? Then again, I guess limits at the modem work much in the same way cable boxes do.
So, do you think that if these people would have been stealing cable with a blackbox, if the FBI would have taken their TV's? I've never heard of that happening. (then again i really don't know anyone who's gotten caught either) oh well i guess i have to end my rant and find something productive to do
--Meat
profit
not quite, as a matter of fact, it would be much much worse for an asteroid (at any significant size and/or speed) to land in an ocean.
it would create a tsnuami that would wreak havoc and devastation to shores in all directions and depending on magnitude and location, cause quite a significantly devastating disaster.
but personally, i think we'll be the ones that wipe ourselves off the planet.
where are my mod points when i need them?
that's exactly what i was thinking, this seems to me not to be so big a deal you could not recreate the same effect detecting and recreating polarized light in your garage. i guess this should have fell in the some news is better than no news department.
this is a great resource for deepcell batteries
http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/dcfaq.htm
also one almost identical for car/motorcycle batteries
http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/carfaq.htm
these references will be all you will ever need to know about charging/discharging times, how many cycles to expect and to what extent you can discharge the batteries and still retain a viable performance.
pay specific attention to
#12 (in the DC or 16 in the car faq) HOW CAN I REVIVE A SULFATED BATTERY?
for help in keeping costs down, it contains specific information to revive the battery by "cleansing it" and replacing electrolyte.
Good luck!
--Meat
most everyone i know that lost their jobs in the .com crunch, is now working in the technical end of the medical field.
.com'ers.
:(
Baltimore is a big hopital town and that might have a lot to do with it.
it would seem that any field where technology can be enlisted to lower costs and improve productivity shows promise. There are still a lot of underutilized minds out there that could be coming up with creative solutions to old stagnant problems.
I've sliped into the generation end of the print on demand industry. The print inductry is nototious for utilizing tons of people to churn out a product that could be reasonably well automated. Our tech department is made of of %95 ex -
it seems everytime i get a new computer 12 times faster than my old one, i want to run a process that takes 15 times as long
good point! Though, i believe it depends on your perspective of winning and losing. I'd have to believe (from my own perspective) that if he is being %50 underpaid, right now he is at a loss. It would appear the comapany is keeping him at that pay level as long as they can. (in their own interest therefore winning)
:)
his battle isn't necessarily won if his old company wins their battle. he becomes a higher payed individual and likely the first to be let go in a $$$ crunch. he's shown that he is willing to jump ship. these circumstances might play out poorly for the individual given time.
i'd say that he's probably not dealing with a company that has his interests in mind and that would be enough for me to suggest that he should move on even for a modest pay increase.
too much "in it for their own interests", too much turmoil inside that organization, not exactly a stable work enviroment, in the end i guess it will all boil down to his wants, needs, allegiances and pay.
medatate long on this, he must
no no no,
,he's getting even more $$$ and dosen't have to worry about his old companies trust!
you're missing the whole point! he needs to tell the hiring company he got a counter offer and play them in to giving him more $$$. His old company is satisfied that they tried to keep him, the new company is paying a little more for "quality"
medatate long on this you must!
at least if you're gonna sell out to the highest bidder you should make everyone as happy as possible.
just tried the mod out, works great on my Studio 20, of course the UI has quite a bit till it's up to the current archos build, but it's good to see someone making progress.
the cool thing about these players it you don't have to actually flash the rom, they boot off of the internal rom for a second and immediately look for a file in the root for updates, if the file's not there they just continue to boot from hardware.
i'll give you floppy disks with pgp keys, but don'cha think maybe free pseudo anonymous email might be tracked?
especially containing large blocks of heavily encrypted PGP text. i'f it were my job (and it's not) i'd have backbone sniffers all over hotmail server sites (yahoo,aol too) and anything US incoming or outgoing.
I'd be holding on to anything that resembled an encrypted email. Capturing the data is easy, sorting through it automatically and sending back only pertinant data would be the tough part.
--Mike
The fact that the portable device is generating that much heat means you're loosing a lot of your precious battery to resistance, not a very good use of your battery life.
they should be mainly concerning themselves with lessening energy consumption and keeping the same performance if they really want to make something worthwhile. unless of course someone wants to come out with a dual processor notbook, batter life would then infact be a moot point.
yeah, i've heard that one before, "next month, we'll be back to normal, because x and y and z" it's really easy to look at what they;re saying and go yeah, things will get better, then they'll make up for all this poo and we'll be in great shape, they'll give us all a big bonus and . . .
:P
unfortunately, any company getting towards not making salary is dangerously close to failing, all it would take is a lease holder to decide that they don't trust the companies financial position and demand immediate payment on the balance due, there are an infinite number of things that can happen completely out of the grasp of you or anyone working there. you'd be wise to make sure you have connections in the job market and do some looking, just in case so you don't get caught with you pants down for too long should anything go awry. i speak from experience, my old employer kept us going for quite some time, i knew it was wrong to keep going so hard on their word, i just couldn;t concieve that they'd never make good
take care and best of luck!
--Meat
simple, just add some anti-freeze! it'll further "enhance" the taste!
here in the states years ago and commercially available to boot. It was the self heating dinner (not a drink) just like the MRE. i saw them at a truck stop, they were "dinty moore" if my memory serves me correctly. i'm not too sure these would catch on to well in the states, people seem to be pretty perticular about their coffee.
dell inspiron 8100 (PC)
just makes it, you can't do much else afterwards but ou can watch a DVD movie on a single batt.
but it dosen't sound like anything a good buffing kit could't take off. sorta refreshing, get away from all those firmware hacks and region code cracks, market the machine as a cd/dvd cleaner :)
maybe there aren't enough people like my but i'd pay $120 a month for 2-3 static ips, unlimited bandwidth 1mb down 512 up. that price would easily cover that cross section of a t3 split amongst other members, i'm not even looking for garunteed bandwith i'd settle for average speeds. (within reason) sooner or later hopefully someone will provide that. (unfortunately at this rate it might well be a cell phone provider)
True from the bottom, but have you ever droped one on their top?
The laminent and paint on the surface (non-readable) side is almost non-existant. This of course would constitute misuse, but you could give a vhs style tape to a two year old to play with for a while and i'd come out ok*.
*barring attacks with food or water
But you see, it's not solely about advertising after all.
Companies like AOL spend billions a year on getting their name out there. One of the ways to get your companies name out there is Branding. You want your name all over your product and you want you product to get in front of as many faces as often as you can and branding is gonna be a big part of this for them.
Let's say that Trillian (*yay Go Trillian*) stands unobstructed, it's a better client than aim, it's more useful to a LOT of people and has some really nice functionality not offered by AIM. So everyone starts using it. (except for AOL users) All of a sudden there's no more AIM on everyones boxes, no more AOL banners, AOL tracking, AOL propaganda. The most valuable feature to them of their IM client is the fact that they get to spatter their name on everyones desktops.
Most everyone I know, knows what AIM is even if they don't use it. AOL isn't about to gonna give up their userbase's clients to a third party that's gonna advertise them at the same level as icq, yahoo and msn. all of a sudden they're left holding the login bag without branding or advertisement sales.
they spent the money and devd the servers, they spent the $$ and devd the clients, they should have the right not to have outside programs connect to the server and use their resources for free if they choose not to.
but also notice that the aim client is very stale, no decent changes in years, they own aol and icq, you'd expect that it would not kill them to make a client that wraps aim and icq together if a user chooses to do so? If their product wasn't obviously lacking, Trillian would not be able to get a foothold as easily on the market.
I'll sit back and root for Trillian 'till the cows come home' but i expeect that they'll eventually get beat down. AOL is tough competition, and they take their rights seriously.
Wonder how long it will be until someone comes up with a client that attaches to oscar through the AIM client program itself to connect in?
110 a month,
cablemodem = 40
phone = 20
cable = 40
an extra 20 for true high speed and extra phonelines, not to bad. throw in a static ip or 5 and i'm in. then again i AM a geek.
nope have the $200 panasonic phone totally blasts my wireless if i'm more than 20ft away from it. (indoors ymmv) i'm going to get another ap and run ethernet into the living room (the only room far enough away that i loose connectivity.
but Comcast wired my complex with fiber to each building, they offer telephony, cable and cablemodem to each apartment. The telco service is cool enough, it has all the same features as the Bell(verizon), it's a few bucks less and i've never had any problems with it.(knock on wood)
The real depressing thing is that 90% of this community is retired, (not that retired people can;t use bandwidth) but there aren't many teenagers or young couples. I doubt that their utilization in this complex has really inspired them to do this in other neighborhoods. On the upside i'm the only one on my pipe in my building. *grins*
How about the 20GB studio mp3 player from archos (archos.com) 20GB usb hard drive/mp3 player, plays for 12 hours straight on 1 charge, the studio model even records.
muhahahahah!
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