I hate their tactics, prices, schemes, and business practices. I am personally responsible for registering THOUSANDS of domains with them over the years, and I am treated like dirt by their service teams when I have trouble. Bastards rot in hell.
Seriously. It's $10 cheaper to order Comcast cable Internet with basic cable. THis is how they getcha -- basic cable only has like 20 channels, 5 of those are religeous, 5 are shopping channels. We do get the Outdoor Hick Network, but not the Discovery Channel. Pretty much only useful for recording Enterprise with my MythTV box.
I actually like Fedora. I've been a Red Hat fan since 4.2 sparc (IIRC, MHILAS). Relatively consistant installation process, sensemaking install dirs, and RPMs have been slightly more fun than building source for this non-developer.
Currently I use FC3 for a desktop, and FC2 for a GIS workstation. I have installed Red Hat at dotcoms, small businesses, hosting facilities, and mega-corporations. Of course, I'm familiar with it, and I remember making a DNS server from junk broken Windows box to full function in 20 minutes.
I have been considering contributing to their package, I guess now I can.
...and at one point was looking for work as a security administrator.
So, what does one do when looking for employment, and nothing is found? You start starving, and looking harder. Eventually, you get so pissed off at not having any income, that you'll either contribute to Open Source of FS, or you TURN TO THE DARK SIDE!
QUite useful, of course! We could distribute spatial-data, and Wi-Fi locations to PDAs and laptops in this way. There are metric tons of useful applications for BT and K.
So, in total for 2003 I had part of one month of employment. PART OF ONE MONTH.
So far it's looking better, I've worked 4 months in 2004, and this is my first month of 2005.
I expect to find another slot, tho, megacorp lifestyle is not for me. Here's to sticking things out, and nose to the grindstone.
This is the first post I've seen here about Verizon. People from Europe specify to get a prepaid phone, or to get unlimited text messaging, but if you have verizon, they charge you quite a bit.
I had Verizon for a month, and my bill was $340. I made local calls, occasional text messages. I had a $40 plan. Apparently, I blew through my minutes in the first week and a half, and they started charging me $.50/minute on the phone. I can't imagine how much money they would have charged me. Then when I call to cancel (already pretty irate), I was charged another $170 for cancellation fee.
I've had AT&T for quite a while now, and as long as you rotate your plan every other quarter, they've been okay. Cingular's support seems to be superior, and I welcome our new cellular telephone overlords.
I have thought about drawing outlets on our maps, but we haven't set that up yet. Would this be useful for our mobile users looking for access AND power?
I believe I will have another martini, please. Up, Sapphire, extra olives, and go easy on the vermouth.
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Of course, this is what makes Google an alluring place to work, doesn't it?
It certainly isn't the money anymore why I still fight in the Technology Arena. Contracts for me have been few and far between, in spite of my experience. Like some of us, I am driven inexplicably to waste so much of my time fiddling with computers for varying ends. I am dissatisfied with that which is handed me, enough to actually do something about it. This is 2005, I want my flying cars, conversational gizmos, Dick Tracy watches, and instant knowledge. Google might be a a company that could empower me to do some of the things I am quite good at, and so I think about that.
Could I work at Microsoft? Prolly not, I am not what they're looking for. I'd be shown the door in under a year.
Any Google recruiters out there? I do not have a degree, but I am self-taught. Whom else is more aptly suited to figure things out when given few resources?
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I hate their tactics, prices, schemes, and business practices. I am personally responsible for registering THOUSANDS of domains with them over the years, and I am treated like dirt by their service teams when I have trouble. Bastards rot in hell.
Kismet is an excellent wardriving tool for Linux, which will even run on your PDA.
For those of us interested in maps of what wardrivers have found in your neighborhood, check out WiFiMaps.com.
I only have Basic Cable, you insensitive clod!
Seriously. It's $10 cheaper to order Comcast cable Internet with basic cable. THis is how they getcha -- basic cable only has like 20 channels, 5 of those are religeous, 5 are shopping channels. We do get the Outdoor Hick Network, but not the Discovery Channel. Pretty much only useful for recording Enterprise with my MythTV box.
I actually like Fedora. I've been a Red Hat fan since 4.2 sparc (IIRC, MHILAS). Relatively consistant installation process, sensemaking install dirs, and RPMs have been slightly more fun than building source for this non-developer.
Currently I use FC3 for a desktop, and FC2 for a GIS workstation. I have installed Red Hat at dotcoms, small businesses, hosting facilities, and mega-corporations. Of course, I'm familiar with it, and I remember making a DNS server from junk broken Windows box to full function in 20 minutes.
I have been considering contributing to their package, I guess now I can.
And I was not allowed to use computers at age 13 -- prolly for similar reasons.
It is difficult to communicate with a person at Google -- Hay, Google, Hire me, I'm interested in working there.
Give us your flesh, and a new world awaits you. We demand it.
...and at one point was looking for work as a security administrator.
So, what does one do when looking for employment, and nothing is found? You start starving, and looking harder. Eventually, you get so pissed off at not having any income, that you'll either contribute to Open Source of FS, or you TURN TO THE DARK SIDE!
Uh, that's siphon vortex.
You could also view maps of which neighbors are interfering with your access point, and negotiate in personover a beer while comparing the gadgets attached to your belts. Y'know, build some community with your locals, and become part of the oldest P2P system.
I've met a bunch of people in my neighborhood at the local hotspot coffee shop. Of course, I'm a dork like that. Start a MeetUp.
QUite useful, of course! We could distribute spatial-data, and Wi-Fi locations to PDAs and laptops in this way. There are metric tons of useful applications for BT and K.
YOu can search for SSIDs, MACs, and cities and states at WiFiMaps.com. Funniest ones I've seen:
hellostumbler - Framingham, MA
buyclamsonline.com - Pittsburgh, PA
I just had to say it. =_)
DO I need to mention marijuana to keep from being labeled a -1 troll?
I welcome our new criminalizing and imprisoning overlords. Can't wait until I am declared a criminal, though I do nothing different. Kudos!
So, in total for 2003 I had part of one month of employment. PART OF ONE MONTH.
So far it's looking better, I've worked 4 months in 2004, and this is my first month of 2005. I expect to find another slot, tho, megacorp lifestyle is not for me. Here's to sticking things out, and nose to the grindstone.
This is the first post I've seen here about Verizon. People from Europe specify to get a prepaid phone, or to get unlimited text messaging, but if you have verizon, they charge you quite a bit.
I had Verizon for a month, and my bill was $340. I made local calls, occasional text messages. I had a $40 plan. Apparently, I blew through my minutes in the first week and a half, and they started charging me $.50/minute on the phone. I can't imagine how much money they would have charged me. Then when I call to cancel (already pretty irate), I was charged another $170 for cancellation fee.
I've had AT&T for quite a while now, and as long as you rotate your plan every other quarter, they've been okay. Cingular's support seems to be superior, and I welcome our new cellular telephone overlords.
Pictures from my 3650
Me too, sounds kinda neat now! Of course, I had fun finding the limits of my Furby (read: abusing) -- y'know, just to test the limits of the device.
I live in Pittsburgh, tried this and failed. I think I should move to a more metropolitan City, like Mumbai!
I have thought about drawing outlets on our maps, but we haven't set that up yet. Would this be useful for our mobile users looking for access AND power?
You could perhaps take pictures of the areas you are wardriving with your camera. Go figure, it's the obligatory wardriving post.
I believe I will have another martini, please. Up, Sapphire, extra olives, and go easy on the vermouth.
Of course, this is what makes Google an alluring place to work, doesn't it?
It certainly isn't the money anymore why I still fight in the Technology Arena. Contracts for me have been few and far between, in spite of my experience. Like some of us, I am driven inexplicably to waste so much of my time fiddling with computers for varying ends. I am dissatisfied with that which is handed me, enough to actually do something about it. This is 2005, I want my flying cars, conversational gizmos, Dick Tracy watches, and instant knowledge. Google might be a a company that could empower me to do some of the things I am quite good at, and so I think about that.
Could I work at Microsoft? Prolly not, I am not what they're looking for. I'd be shown the door in under a year.
Any Google recruiters out there? I do not have a degree, but I am self-taught. Whom else is more aptly suited to figure things out when given few resources?
Right-on! I believe that this ADD phenominon is us adapting to our environment, or preemptively adapting in some way to this big Internet thing.
Too bad those who can't keep up aren't tossed by the wayside, tho. Economics supercede all laws.
Yeah, totally. SOmething serious needs to happen before anything will be fixed with our government. 100 million dead? Okay, I'll bite.