It is obvious from reading your post, and a quick look through your blog, that you have not worked in the IT field, and thus -- do not know what you're talking about. Me working for peanuts is not good for me, and I can't imagine how a low-wage earner of any career is good for the economy (except for banks). Also, I've noticed that when I reduce my rate, people not hire me, even if I'm starving. Crank the rate back up, and I find myself consistantly employed.
I don't like being treated like a slave laborer, either.
Can't wait to be able to sue spammers from here in Pittsburgh. There isn't much we can do, other than track spam, and ask them to stop. Lots of spam that I see comes from Russia, or China, and there isn't much that can be done about it. THe biggest majority of those I get are zipfile attachments with some bogus message -- viruses or whatnot. I'd like a procmail script that turns each spam message into a unique lawsuit -- any takers?
You see, I had none of that. No chemistry, no calc, no trig. Instead, I got random insignifigant battles, simple science things that were wrong (blood cells break open on the sharp edges of broken vessels to clot), no physics, no astronomy. I did have some random teachers that were sense-making, and actually educational -- I've read Shakespeare, and some classics that stuck. Lots of teachers stressing memorization, which I found useless.
I tell my SO that I would've been fine coming out of 6th grade, and going off to college. I wasn't some special smarty wizz kid, but a normal interested human. I found my education at 8 different schools a bit lacking, and left to get my GED when I was legally allowed.
Rock-on. The file actually may be munged, though, so I wouldn't put any faith in the type of format that it is in. That file has survived so many crashes, disk failures, mediums, and operating systems. I keep meaning to transcode it...
Noone said anthing about heat! I once cooked a burrito on an old 4g Seagate Barracuda. You know the one I'm talking about, with the big metal grille on the front. You see, I was at work, and tinkering with my Sparc 5 workstation, when I realized the fan in the external drive had failed, but not my home directory, upon which it lived. Well, of course I had a burrito handy, and figured that once I did a nice fsck -- twice -- that I'd be reasonably okay, so I put the burrito in the front of the bezel, where the faceplate is supposed to go, bounced the workstation, and started the fsck. Then I went outside to smoke cigarettes. After smoking for a while, and socializing with people, the burrito was no longer frozen, but HOT! Voila, instant sysadmin lunch. Ramen noodles are just as easy, simply take...
No, but schools all across the country (US).
Catholic school, while probably better than the ghetto-kid-storage school, didn't give me much of an education. I was also scolded alot for asking the wrong kinds of questions. Now I have a GED, and I know more than some college grads I've met. What a bizarre world we live in.
I find Wikipedia quite informative, and easy to get to. I don't see what the problem is, or why those people want to class-action Wikipedia. I've learned a bunch of things by browsing, and investigating things mentioned in the articles.
Even if Wikipedia were a little bit innacurate, it would certainly beat out my first 8 years of education, where I've found almost all of the science I've learned is actually wrong (by talking to scientists, and reading books, and wikipedia).
I just got myself a Canon A620 -- Macro is fabulous, and I think the minimum distance is less than 1cm!
My previous camera is still my phone, a Nokia 3650. I was very frustrated with having to be at least 9 inches from the subject for it to be in focus. Very annoying while shooting hand-sized objects.
Sometimes you want to take a picture of something small. If you don't have a zoom, you just have to hold it closer!
Where are the mods when you need 'em. There aren't very many posts here, it looks like most people are out having a good time on a Friday nite. Cheers to y'all! =_)
Makes you wonder about the responses from our current political administration, and wheter or not it would be best to start using things like fire, or actually showing up en masse to explain all at once.
Here's one from me, I came-up with this pretty much on the fly, but I guess it was in response to someone's question in a conversation:
Vacation is the distance between jobs.
A long time ago, a friend of mine and I took the lid off the top of a 10g full-height MFM hard disk. We used some disk-testing software to get the heads to flip back and forth in some sort of testing pattern. While it was doing this, we managed to pour lighter-fluid into the unit, and set it on fire. I still have the video somewhere, I should dig it up -- I recorded it using a parallel-port B/W Quickcam. Ah, good times, good times.
I'm sure Dan is a nice guy, but his work (Qmail) has made me pull my long hair out by the handful. I prefer, that when I install stuff onto a UNIX machine, that the package I am installing doesn't EAT MY COMPUTER. Every time I've succombed to people's opinions about Qmail, and how great it is, and want to give it a try, I am again reminded that sendmail already works, is already installed, and already configured, and that I've just fucked up everything by installing Qmail. As an added bonus, qmail generates a constant stream of errors, enough to render the machine unusable.
TinyDNS is another story, and I've seen this work properly in some situations. However, I think BIND works okay, and I am perfectly happy with my DNS the way it is. DNS works, why do people and government organizations want to fuck it up?
For starters, not pissing off other countries, by having abusive/manipulative policies. I'm sure there are other ways to ward off an attack of any sort, and the easiest way is to not have that enemy in the first place!
Actually, my problem is that there is no music I am interested in on broadcast radio in this particular geographic region. I use when I have net, but in the car?
What is considered "pop" music is not what I'm interested in.
We'll be lucky if that's the case. I don't personally need to compete with ClearChannel, but it would be nice to be able to play some of my (personally made) music, do talk-shows with people, or whatever. Yet another reason for "distributed microcasting", to avoid the crackdown from the FCC.
Actually, I think it is cheaper to have a TV station license, that a radio station license. I sure wish the FCC would grant us some of those unused channels. What a perfect way to make use of old TV sets -- tune in to local content.
It is seemingly too expensive to get one's own radio station, though I'd like to do this in my area -- in the same way that people are blogging or podcasting. There used to be Radio Carson here in Pittsburgh, which had some great (and not so great) electronic music. Now what do we have? Right-wing propoganda, 3 classic rock stations, and the usual dirth of lite-rock and wannabe-rock. Best thing going for broadcast radio is WRCT from CMU.
What about a geek-propoganda radio station?
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It is obvious from reading your post, and a quick look through your blog, that you have not worked in the IT field, and thus -- do not know what you're talking about. Me working for peanuts is not good for me, and I can't imagine how a low-wage earner of any career is good for the economy (except for banks). Also, I've noticed that when I reduce my rate, people not hire me, even if I'm starving. Crank the rate back up, and I find myself consistantly employed. I don't like being treated like a slave laborer, either.
Can't wait to be able to sue spammers from here in Pittsburgh. There isn't much we can do, other than track spam, and ask them to stop. Lots of spam that I see comes from Russia, or China, and there isn't much that can be done about it. THe biggest majority of those I get are zipfile attachments with some bogus message -- viruses or whatnot. I'd like a procmail script that turns each spam message into a unique lawsuit -- any takers?
Hay, only six years left!
You see, I had none of that. No chemistry, no calc, no trig. Instead, I got random insignifigant battles, simple science things that were wrong (blood cells break open on the sharp edges of broken vessels to clot), no physics, no astronomy. I did have some random teachers that were sense-making, and actually educational -- I've read Shakespeare, and some classics that stuck. Lots of teachers stressing memorization, which I found useless. I tell my SO that I would've been fine coming out of 6th grade, and going off to college. I wasn't some special smarty wizz kid, but a normal interested human. I found my education at 8 different schools a bit lacking, and left to get my GED when I was legally allowed.
Rock-on. The file actually may be munged, though, so I wouldn't put any faith in the type of format that it is in. That file has survived so many crashes, disk failures, mediums, and operating systems. I keep meaning to transcode it...
Noone said anthing about heat! I once cooked a burrito on an old 4g Seagate Barracuda. You know the one I'm talking about, with the big metal grille on the front. You see, I was at work, and tinkering with my Sparc 5 workstation, when I realized the fan in the external drive had failed, but not my home directory, upon which it lived. Well, of course I had a burrito handy, and figured that once I did a nice fsck -- twice -- that I'd be reasonably okay, so I put the burrito in the front of the bezel, where the faceplate is supposed to go, bounced the workstation, and started the fsck. Then I went outside to smoke cigarettes. After smoking for a while, and socializing with people, the burrito was no longer frozen, but HOT! Voila, instant sysadmin lunch. Ramen noodles are just as easy, simply take...
Eew, Goopra sounds like a either an adhesive, sanitizer, or Thundercats comic-relief!
No, but schools all across the country (US). Catholic school, while probably better than the ghetto-kid-storage school, didn't give me much of an education. I was also scolded alot for asking the wrong kinds of questions. Now I have a GED, and I know more than some college grads I've met. What a bizarre world we live in.
Thank you for clarifying, and posting the links!
I find Wikipedia quite informative, and easy to get to. I don't see what the problem is, or why those people want to class-action Wikipedia. I've learned a bunch of things by browsing, and investigating things mentioned in the articles. Even if Wikipedia were a little bit innacurate, it would certainly beat out my first 8 years of education, where I've found almost all of the science I've learned is actually wrong (by talking to scientists, and reading books, and wikipedia).
Just like all of these devices, from CueCats to disposable DV recorders, will be hacked. Bring 'em on!
I just got myself a Canon A620 -- Macro is fabulous, and I think the minimum distance is less than 1cm! My previous camera is still my phone, a Nokia 3650. I was very frustrated with having to be at least 9 inches from the subject for it to be in focus. Very annoying while shooting hand-sized objects. Sometimes you want to take a picture of something small. If you don't have a zoom, you just have to hold it closer!
Where are the mods when you need 'em. There aren't very many posts here, it looks like most people are out having a good time on a Friday nite. Cheers to y'all! =_)
Makes you wonder about the responses from our current political administration, and wheter or not it would be best to start using things like fire, or actually showing up en masse to explain all at once.
Here's one from me, I came-up with this pretty much on the fly, but I guess it was in response to someone's question in a conversation: Vacation is the distance between jobs.
Dude, you rock! Thanks for the tips, I haven't seen this video play, prolly since I made it!
Sorry, it's been a while! I did mean to say m, not g, as in megabyte. Here's the vid. It is in a format of which I have no idea: http://www.zhrodague.net/~drew/images/fire2.avi
A long time ago, a friend of mine and I took the lid off the top of a 10g full-height MFM hard disk. We used some disk-testing software to get the heads to flip back and forth in some sort of testing pattern. While it was doing this, we managed to pour lighter-fluid into the unit, and set it on fire. I still have the video somewhere, I should dig it up -- I recorded it using a parallel-port B/W Quickcam. Ah, good times, good times.
Oops! And here I thought I was Spock -- er, spot-on. =_)
"What does god want with a starship?" -Spock
I'm sure Dan is a nice guy, but his work (Qmail) has made me pull my long hair out by the handful. I prefer, that when I install stuff onto a UNIX machine, that the package I am installing doesn't EAT MY COMPUTER. Every time I've succombed to people's opinions about Qmail, and how great it is, and want to give it a try, I am again reminded that sendmail already works, is already installed, and already configured, and that I've just fucked up everything by installing Qmail. As an added bonus, qmail generates a constant stream of errors, enough to render the machine unusable. TinyDNS is another story, and I've seen this work properly in some situations. However, I think BIND works okay, and I am perfectly happy with my DNS the way it is. DNS works, why do people and government organizations want to fuck it up?
For starters, not pissing off other countries, by having abusive/manipulative policies. I'm sure there are other ways to ward off an attack of any sort, and the easiest way is to not have that enemy in the first place!
Actually, my problem is that there is no music I am interested in on broadcast radio in this particular geographic region. I use when I have net, but in the car? What is considered "pop" music is not what I'm interested in.
We'll be lucky if that's the case. I don't personally need to compete with ClearChannel, but it would be nice to be able to play some of my (personally made) music, do talk-shows with people, or whatever. Yet another reason for "distributed microcasting", to avoid the crackdown from the FCC. Actually, I think it is cheaper to have a TV station license, that a radio station license. I sure wish the FCC would grant us some of those unused channels. What a perfect way to make use of old TV sets -- tune in to local content.
It is seemingly too expensive to get one's own radio station, though I'd like to do this in my area -- in the same way that people are blogging or podcasting. There used to be Radio Carson here in Pittsburgh, which had some great (and not so great) electronic music. Now what do we have? Right-wing propoganda, 3 classic rock stations, and the usual dirth of lite-rock and wannabe-rock. Best thing going for broadcast radio is WRCT from CMU. What about a geek-propoganda radio station?