a back handed insult is how you introduce somebody to a potential product? not a good salesman or a bit disgruntled? which is it?
airport benefit: I can explain to anybody where to pick one up [apple store, best buy, walmart, etc] -- and how to quickly / securely bring it online for them. It's 5pm right now. They need a working solution by 6pm. mikrotik won't cut it -- I'll certainly look at it for local installs though. thanks (!)
Go get some Apple AirPort Expresses. Note: I'm an Apple fanboy and heavily invested.:)
I've tried DLink, Linksys, Cisco [which works, but on the $$$ corporate level], a few others, and Zyxel. Zyxel came close -- but the configuration has to be specific [repeater talk to SSID w/ specific MAC id]. The default quick setup could leave the sub-routers chattering amongst themselves... But I digress.
The AirPort's at $99 pay for themselves in setup alone. And frankly, they "just work". Unlike all the others the AirPort DOES PROPERLY PASS ALONG MULTI-CAST THROUGHOUT THE NETWORK. All the other products sub-routers... dropped multi-cast. No more AirPrint, AirVideo, etc... Yeah -- there's a ton of iOS devices along with Mac's involved on my networks now.:)
They dynamically can be setup as a sub-sub-repeater. Wander the network rather seamlessly. I've just recently gone through this headache and with the AirPort's they will *OWN* the area I want to cover -- add AirPort's as needed to have signal strength / coverage. Just did a 6,000sq/ft house -- all three floors, my home, and the office at 18,000 sq/ft plus yard coverage [as the bay doors are opened:-].
Well -- others have told you what a robocall is. Difficult? VERY. Call-ID is trivial to spoof in the US now. Unless they call a toll-free number which passes 'ANI' for billing purposes [you're paying for the call] -- never found a way to spoof *that*.
I remember one day about 15 years ago -- at 5:01pm (one minute passed office close) the ENTIRE switchboard lit up at the same time. I saw that happen once before -- someone was killed on our job-site. Freaked me out when it happened -- and going from rattled to pissed off pretty quickly once I started answering the calls.
Unfortunately for them then I had easy access to more phone lines than they did. There was also a bug in their software which I took advantage of [they didn't properly hide their caller-id].
I programmed 20 or 30 lines to call them [let it run for a week or two]. Once the call was answered -- and it's not that they were answering calls... their system was picking up the line to make the next robocall which connected my inbound call. There's also another problem [for them] -- the caller "supervises" the line. Meaning once I got in a quick hang-up / pick-up [to make the next call] on their end would NOT WORK [the call was supervised by my end].
Within an hour I had our system providing the supervised calls fake dial-tones, listening [recording] the dialed attempt, and providing a fake busy signal back. Whatever they were selling for the next couple of weeks wasn't working too well.
Those victories to the phone spammers are few and very very far in-between...
Not that they simply stole money from me. To license their product on hardware that is 1) still running today and 2) never ran Windows, but still runs Linux. I can easily think of ~$4K they got from me -- money that I would have rather bought more ï£ stock with. That's roughly an additional $285,000 Bill Gates owes me I believe. Of course their antics are the reason I started looking at other companies and choosing the red or blue pill I'll leave for another day.
And as ingeniously stated previously, "karma's a bitch". And frankly I never forget.
Well.. *I* have recycled my old hard drives... The magnets in server class hard drives are phenomenal. They make absolutely wonderful tool holders -- as long as the tool can become magnetized (and they do) without being a problem for you. You find yourself buying metal things just so you can hang them up easily...:)
> There's no ignition system to worry about, no plugs and so on.
What does this mean? There has to be some sort of ignition system [to worry about:-]. I wonder how well this car will start in -20F weather.
> The downside is the soot that comes out the back when accelerating hard.
I always saw that as a PLUS. Usually don't accelerate _hard_, but when that idiot is riding you it's fun to "dust them" and with the torque... buh-bye.
Thank God for Apple stock (for me at least:). I remember in ~October of 1998 thinking of buying AAPL. It was floating around $5/share I believe. Everyone was telling me to buy Microsoft. By this point I was becoming a "ABM" system administrator. They're stock was floating right about where it is today (~$25/share)...
The only stock I'm interested in is companies I believe in that produce something I like. Day trading in some chemistry company I know nothing about does not Interest me.
I hesitated (and was second guessing myself in those days). I could have tripled my money in that one year with AAPL. In that same year there was a MSFT split AND they nearly doubled their price. They've been dead since...
Bottom line -- a decade later and both companies have each had two splits. My $15 APPL stock is worth over $315 (today) while MSFT is still at ~$25/share. There is a reason for this. Microsoft has forced people to use their crap and those days are seriously numbered. Apple, OTOH, gives their customers what they want. Thus they become foaming at the mouth Apple loyalists like myself. I understand now (and am laughing all the way to the bank).
In looking at these two companies Apple has pretty much always been innovative and led the pack. No floppies with a Mac? People laughed. See many floppies today? Microsoft has historically always been a "me too" company (with very few exceptions).
The ONLY product that Microsoft has done that makes me shake my head and wonder why Apple didn't do it is the KIN. Cool idea. Problem: WHERE is Apple's gaming console???
I want your commute, just not your job. You work 52 weeks a year? No vacation, holidays, or sick days? Heck, I want my old commute back. 5 minutes each way. ~40 minute commute for the entire year Now it is 47 * 5 * 2 = 470 free hours. Almost twenty days a year just sitting in the car. Blech.
http://youropenbook.org/ is still very much up. Look up "vacation" and be amazed. Found a guy on there the other day letting everyone know he was going to Disney World for the next 11 days. He lived in NH and had a listed phone number...
I agree w/ you 100% Regardless of positions the moment Novell agreed to get in bed w/ Microsoft was the day I 1) shutdown and remaining Novell servers and 2) sold my stock in their company.
I don't believe this is a mistake. They themselves are ordinary people. I am a extraordinary geek and am not scared by a compiler. Programming, however, is not "my job" or a hobby. I don't have the developer license to get the compiler to compile it, but guess what? I feel that I can (and probably won't). It would be much cheaper for me (or my mom) to just buy the packaged game.
No different than me buying the packaged Redhat distribution I like -- some of it with really OLD code. Code that when originally written the coders probably never imaged their code would still be in use, much less sold 20 years later.
My mom has complete access, freely, and easily to a [Intel / AMD] based Linux system which also happens to have the compiler installed (I use it:). She's never even seen code, much less would understand it and would find compiling any program a unattainable task (most likely). Thus I guess any GPL'd (or otherwise) source code useless?
Per the GPL, and in my opinion, their app IS "free as in beer" and yes, they should feel completely absolved of any "wrong doing" (there was none). legally or morally.
I hope they make a TON of money selling the app. Far exceeding covering their costs. More power to them!
Why ask, when it does look like you already answered your own question: "Money really doesn't mean much to us as long as we can do whatever we want while excelling at our passions."
Too boot you stated that when your project goes gold you're estimating to make even more money than what is being offered. Keep the project. Do what you enjoy while excelling your abilities and knowledge on your time and your rules.
I have had another idea [yes, patent pending:-]... why not a pyramid cone shaped cover protecting the air intake? The cone would extend enough to allow adequate air intake (from now the sides). I'm doing the math to determine if at the top of the cone it should be solid (not open) as that area of intake would be affecting air flow over the top of the wing (thus screwing with lift). Keep in mind that the air intake (where ever it happens) has nothing to do with being able to fly -- nor does the output (thrust). It is the airflow over the wings that gives lift. Just a patented thought (with no obvious implementation [prior art] that I've found yet).
It was Bulldog (Firewall or Linux) if I remember correctly. I can't find reference to their history / challenges. The only link I can barely find is (which may not be the one I'm thinking of): http://tanaya.net/BullDog/index.shtml
Slashdot Mirror
obligatory Nelson Muntz finger pointing, "haha"
a back handed insult is how you introduce somebody to a potential product? not a good salesman or a bit disgruntled? which is it?
airport benefit: I can explain to anybody where to pick one up [apple store, best buy, walmart, etc] -- and how to quickly / securely bring it online for them. It's 5pm right now. They need a working solution by 6pm. mikrotik won't cut it -- I'll certainly look at it for local installs though. thanks (!)
Go get some Apple AirPort Expresses. :)
Note: I'm an Apple fanboy and heavily invested.
I've tried DLink, Linksys, Cisco [which works, but on the $$$ corporate level], a few others, and Zyxel. Zyxel came close -- but the configuration has to be specific [repeater talk to SSID w/ specific MAC id]. The default quick setup could leave the sub-routers chattering amongst themselves... But I digress.
The AirPort's at $99 pay for themselves in setup alone. And frankly, they "just work". Unlike all the others the AirPort DOES PROPERLY PASS ALONG MULTI-CAST THROUGHOUT THE NETWORK. All the other products sub-routers ... dropped multi-cast. No more AirPrint, AirVideo, etc... Yeah -- there's a ton of iOS devices along with Mac's involved on my networks now. :)
They dynamically can be setup as a sub-sub-repeater. Wander the network rather seamlessly. I've just recently gone through this headache and with the AirPort's they will *OWN* the area I want to cover -- add AirPort's as needed to have signal strength / coverage. Just did a 6,000sq/ft house -- all three floors, my home, and the office at 18,000 sq/ft plus yard coverage [as the bay doors are opened :-].
Amazing product.
Well -- others have told you what a robocall is.
Difficult? VERY. Call-ID is trivial to spoof in the US now. Unless they call a toll-free number which passes 'ANI' for billing purposes [you're paying for the call] -- never found a way to spoof *that*.
I remember one day about 15 years ago -- at 5:01pm (one minute passed office close) the ENTIRE switchboard lit up at the same time. I saw that happen once before -- someone was killed on our job-site. Freaked me out when it happened -- and going from rattled to pissed off pretty quickly once I started answering the calls.
Unfortunately for them then I had easy access to more phone lines than they did. There was also a bug in their software which I took advantage of [they didn't properly hide their caller-id].
I programmed 20 or 30 lines to call them [let it run for a week or two]. Once the call was answered -- and it's not that they were answering calls ... their system was picking up the line to make the next robocall which connected my inbound call. There's also another problem [for them] -- the caller "supervises" the line. Meaning once I got in a quick hang-up / pick-up [to make the next call] on their end would NOT WORK [the call was supervised by my end].
Within an hour I had our system providing the supervised calls fake dial-tones, listening [recording] the dialed attempt, and providing a fake busy signal back. Whatever they were selling for the next couple of weeks wasn't working too well.
Those victories to the phone spammers are few and very very far in-between...
Because maybe his job sucks and his wife is a little hottie and banging her is, well, FUN. It's called life... :)
It's the syllables. 3 is so 1900's and too many.
Not that they simply stole money from me. To license their product on hardware that is 1) still running today and 2) never ran Windows, but still runs Linux. I can easily think of ~$4K they got from me -- money that I would have rather bought more ï£ stock with. That's roughly an additional $285,000 Bill Gates owes me I believe. Of course their antics are the reason I started looking at other companies and choosing the red or blue pill I'll leave for another day.
And as ingeniously stated previously, "karma's a bitch". And frankly I never forget.
Microwho? Troll
Well .. *I* have recycled my old hard drives... The magnets in server class hard drives are phenomenal. They make absolutely wonderful tool holders -- as long as the tool can become magnetized (and they do) without being a problem for you. You find yourself buying metal things just so you can hang them up easily... :)
You'll spend more time in the POST than you will booting the OS up...
> There's no ignition system to worry about, no plugs and so on.
What does this mean? There has to be some sort of ignition system [to worry about :-]. I wonder how well this car will start in -20F weather.
> The downside is the soot that comes out the back when accelerating hard.
I always saw that as a PLUS. Usually don't accelerate _hard_, but when that idiot is riding you it's fun to "dust them" and with the torque ... buh-bye.
I am living in a police state.
You've already ticked me off by wasting my time.
Link to the print version next time: http://www.infoworld.com/print/151276
I prefer my password. It's just a PITA that changes daily. alias s='sudo -i'
Same result as "su -" but with less typing.
Yes, root's password was set / changed. It's insanely long. I like it that way.
PS: this /. interface sucks now :wq
Thank God for Apple stock (for me at least :).
I remember in ~October of 1998 thinking of buying AAPL. It was floating around $5/share I believe.
Everyone was telling me to buy Microsoft. By this point I was becoming a "ABM" system administrator. They're stock was floating right about where it is today (~$25/share)...
The only stock I'm interested in is companies I believe in that produce something I like. Day trading in some chemistry company I know nothing about does not Interest me.
I hesitated (and was second guessing myself in those days). I could have tripled my money in that one year with AAPL.
In that same year there was a MSFT split AND they nearly doubled their price. They've been dead since...
Bottom line -- a decade later and both companies have each had two splits. My $15 APPL stock is worth over $315 (today) while MSFT is still at ~$25/share. There is a reason for this. Microsoft has forced people to use their crap and those days are seriously numbered. Apple, OTOH, gives their customers what they want. Thus they become foaming at the mouth Apple loyalists like myself. I understand now (and am laughing all the way to the bank).
In looking at these two companies Apple has pretty much always been innovative and led the pack. No floppies with a Mac? People laughed. See many floppies today? Microsoft has historically always been a "me too" company (with very few exceptions).
The ONLY product that Microsoft has done that makes me shake my head and wonder why Apple didn't do it is the KIN. Cool idea. Problem: WHERE is Apple's gaming console???
Looks more like an endorsement for proposition 19.
I want what he's smoking!
I want your commute, just not your job. You work 52 weeks a year? No vacation, holidays, or sick days?
Heck, I want my old commute back. 5 minutes each way. ~40 minute commute for the entire year
Now it is 47 * 5 * 2 = 470 free hours. Almost twenty days a year just sitting in the car. Blech.
http://youropenbook.org/ is still very much up. Look up "vacation" and be amazed. Found a guy on there the other day letting everyone know he was going to Disney World for the next 11 days. He lived in NH and had a listed phone number...
Let me guess. You work for Toyota?
I agree w/ you 100% Regardless of positions the moment Novell agreed to get in bed w/ Microsoft was the day I 1) shutdown and remaining Novell servers and 2) sold my stock in their company.
Simply a dumb idea. NeXT.
I couldn't find one person in a compromising position or act.
~27.5 million dump trucks (+/-2%:) worth.
Which sadly is easily filled with last years equipment...
I don't believe this is a mistake. They themselves are ordinary people. I am a extraordinary geek and am not scared by a compiler. Programming, however, is not "my job" or a hobby. I don't have the developer license to get the compiler to compile it, but guess what? I feel that I can (and probably won't). It would be much cheaper for me (or my mom) to just buy the packaged game.
No different than me buying the packaged Redhat distribution I like -- some of it with really OLD code. Code that when originally written the coders probably never imaged their code would still be in use, much less sold 20 years later.
My mom has complete access, freely, and easily to a [Intel / AMD] based Linux system which also happens to have the compiler installed (I use it :). She's never even seen code, much less would understand it and would find compiling any program a unattainable task (most likely). Thus I guess any GPL'd (or otherwise) source code useless?
Per the GPL, and in my opinion, their app IS "free as in beer" and yes, they should feel completely absolved of any "wrong doing" (there was none). legally or morally.
I hope they make a TON of money selling the app. Far exceeding covering their costs. More power to them!
Why ask, when it does look like you already answered your own question:
"Money really doesn't mean much to us as long as we can do whatever we want while excelling at our passions."
Too boot you stated that when your project goes gold you're estimating to make even more money than what is being offered. Keep the project. Do what you enjoy while excelling your abilities and knowledge on your time and your rules.
NeXT
Hopefully they have "finds Subway repulsive" on file for me.
They do now...
I have had another idea [yes, patent pending :-] ... why not a pyramid cone shaped cover protecting the air intake? The cone would extend enough to allow adequate air intake (from now the sides). I'm doing the math to determine if at the top of the cone it should be solid (not open) as that area of intake would be affecting air flow over the top of the wing (thus screwing with lift). Keep in mind that the air intake (where ever it happens) has nothing to do with being able to fly -- nor does the output (thrust). It is the airflow over the wings that gives lift. Just a patented thought (with no obvious implementation [prior art] that I've found yet).
It was Bulldog (Firewall or Linux) if I remember correctly.
I can't find reference to their history / challenges.
The only link I can barely find is (which may not be the one I'm thinking of): http://tanaya.net/BullDog/index.shtml