I use logmein for the same purpose, and I must say I might have considered signing up for pro, but the zero-notice cancellation of the free account has left a major bad taste in my mouth. It's a pretty blatant attempt to rush people into signing up for the paid program, because hey, give people a month's notice to evaluate alternatives and the might find something else they like. For that reason, there is zero chance I'll sign up for logmein pro.
Same here. What's really crappy about this (and may be intentional) is that I can't use Logmein Free to log into my remote clients and install an alternative tool. Which means I will have to walk each and every one of them through this by phone. Eesh.
Well.... yeah, because we're generally talking about consumer Windows. I was working in *nix support at a large company in 1996 when they migrated to Windows 95, and it was a ghastly experience. Something about every PC wanting to be a catalog master... or something like that... I don't remember the term exactly, but it caused horrible things to happen on the network, and the single Windows admin (they only had one, because Windows manages itself...) was tearing his hair out. He actually complained to upper management that us Unix guys were sabotaging the rollout. (Our reply: We don't need to. He's doing it to himself.) It was very entertaining.
We needed to run Windows on something because email was all Windows based (whatever was before Outlook... msmail?) but we (the Unix group) found that this new thing called NT 4.0 looked a lot like Win95, except, you know, it worked. And Hummingbird would work on it, so we had access to our *nix boxes, which is all we cared about.
When the rest of the company went to 98, the Unix group waited a bit, and then bought our own copies of 2000 and did our own upgrades. All the time I was working there, the most stable Windows installations were the ones not under the care of the Windows admin. I really like Windows 2000.
The Windows admin eventually quit. In fairness, he was laboring under policies that were forced upon him by upper management who got them from the Microsoft salescreatures, including the incredibly stupid idea that a couple hundred PCs plus Backoffice could be managed by one person. It was definitely a lose-lose situation.
You're right, but it's still a down economy, and often you get tens of viable IT candidates for one or two openings. Candidates tend to be cut fewer breaks.
If the candidate was very promising except for one off answer, the hiring manager would be irresponsible not to explore it. But the bar gets raised in proportion to the candidate per opening ratio.
You have a point. When my old A/V receiver popped and fizzled, I decided it was time to move up to something that supported HDMI. I calculated the number and type of connections, and started my search......and found I had to reluctantly remove from consideration any receiver where a photo of the backside or comprehensive description of I/O was not available. So yes, there is a time when you need to look on the back and you can't always, online. But that's an artifact, I think, that will be fixed when vendors realize they're losing sales.
You can also convince the HOA to extort everyone in the neighborhood to share the costs. Sometimes works.
That was tried when we went to banks of locked mailboxes. We got enough people to contribute to get it done, but to this day there are still four houses on my block with those old dome shaped boxes with the red flag.
Yes. But it's pacifist in the right way, by forcing the other person think about what they're doing. It worked for Gandhi (although in his situation there were special circumstances).
Yep. Members of my HOA were harassed by the board of directors back when minidishes started popping up. We invoked the 1996 telecommunication act and dared them to take us to court. They dropped the issue.
WISP will get you the mesh, but you still need a big pipe to the internet. If the neighborhood is close enough to an area that does have broadband, maybe you can work something out with them. Set up a LLC and become your own ISP.
I would be reluctant to blow up an interview just because there aren't that many people in my field, and no matter how ridiculous this particular interview, I might run into these people in some other environment where I *wanted* the job.
But this calls to mind a time I was trying to get an associate a job, who had been out of work more than two years. I had aced the interview, but we could not agree on price (they were offering a little less than what I was currently making) so we parted on good terms. I got in touch with them later, told them I personally vouched for another IT professional who would be a good fit for the position. They called him in for the interview. A few questions in, this happened:
"Describe a good work day."
"Well, I suppose that'd be a day when I haven't killed anyone."
It used to bother me, Amazon and the like causing the gradual downfall of physical stores, but for a large part, there is precious little differentiation. Whatever gadget I am interested in is often sealed in hard plastic so there's no way to interact with it, to do anything, really, besides look at it and read the specs, which I could do at Amazon (and there are customer reviews). I used to buy higher priced gear at brick and mortar stores because there was usually someone knowledgeable who could answer detailed questions, but that doesn't seem to be true anymore either. I suspect there will be a time when stores will only be for impulse purposes, and even for that we may go the direction they're going in Japan, where practically anything can be purchased from a vending machine.
Cost of gas, cost of insurance, a shift in culture from interacting with other teens in person to pounding an xbox controller, greater difficulty for teens to enter the workforce (a high minimum wage drying up entry level jobs), an "entitled" mindset and dying work ethic, and a down economy. There are probably other factors, but those are probably the major ones.
There are a number of pacifists who would disagree with you on that point.
So would anyone who takes Christianity seriously. Jesus Christ said something about "turning the other cheek" in the face of aggression. Or is that not supposed to be taken literally?
I guess it's not surprising how many people don't understand this. From the wiki:
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> [...] at the time of Jesus, striking someone deemed to be of a lower class with the back of the hand was used to assert authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma. The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. An alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality. Thus, by turning the other cheek the persecuted was demanding equality.
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Turning the other cheek isn't supposed to signify a grim determination to be meek no matter what. It's in fact the root of any protest or movement that starts with "you will first treat me as an equal".
As to whether we should all be Christ-like and forgive all things up to and including rape and murder, I'm reminded of the words of a wise man.
This is such undiluted hypocrisy, given her reaction to the Snowden saga. It would be funny, if it was not so very sad.
Very true. But I am still changing my will so I will be buried with my ice skates. Hell has frozen over. Diane Feinstein has finally found an expansion of government authoritarianism that she is unwilling to support. Wow.
Yes. She represents the polar opposite of everything I hold dear, but I found myself grudgingly agreeing with this one position. I quickly checked myself for signs of stroke.
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Aw man I hadn't even thought of that. I'm an Ignition user also, and it's become useless now.
I use logmein for the same purpose, and I must say I might have considered signing up for pro, but the zero-notice cancellation of the free account has left a major bad taste in my mouth. It's a pretty blatant attempt to rush people into signing up for the paid program, because hey, give people a month's notice to evaluate alternatives and the might find something else they like. For that reason, there is zero chance I'll sign up for logmein pro.
Same here. What's really crappy about this (and may be intentional) is that I can't use Logmein Free to log into my remote clients and install an alternative tool. Which means I will have to walk each and every one of them through this by phone. Eesh.
Windows 98 SE was pretty good. It's still used today in legacy embedded systems. Agree, Windows ME borked it.
Also slightly off topic, Office 2000 still runs under Windows 7.
Well.... yeah, because we're generally talking about consumer Windows. I was working in *nix support at a large company in 1996 when they migrated to Windows 95, and it was a ghastly experience. Something about every PC wanting to be a catalog master... or something like that... I don't remember the term exactly, but it caused horrible things to happen on the network, and the single Windows admin (they only had one, because Windows manages itself...) was tearing his hair out. He actually complained to upper management that us Unix guys were sabotaging the rollout. (Our reply: We don't need to. He's doing it to himself.) It was very entertaining.
We needed to run Windows on something because email was all Windows based (whatever was before Outlook ... msmail?) but we (the Unix group) found that this new thing called NT 4.0 looked a lot like Win95, except, you know, it worked. And Hummingbird would work on it, so we had access to our *nix boxes, which is all we cared about.
When the rest of the company went to 98, the Unix group waited a bit, and then bought our own copies of 2000 and did our own upgrades. All the time I was working there, the most stable Windows installations were the ones not under the care of the Windows admin. I really like Windows 2000.
The Windows admin eventually quit. In fairness, he was laboring under policies that were forced upon him by upper management who got them from the Microsoft salescreatures, including the incredibly stupid idea that a couple hundred PCs plus Backoffice could be managed by one person. It was definitely a lose-lose situation.
We've discussed this. Briefly, (a) you shouldn't have to, and (b) you can't at work.
You're right, but it's still a down economy, and often you get tens of viable IT candidates for one or two openings. Candidates tend to be cut fewer breaks.
If the candidate was very promising except for one off answer, the hiring manager would be irresponsible not to explore it. But the bar gets raised in proportion to the candidate per opening ratio.
You have a point. When my old A/V receiver popped and fizzled, I decided it was time to move up to something that supported HDMI. I calculated the number and type of connections, and started my search. .....and found I had to reluctantly remove from consideration any receiver where a photo of the backside or comprehensive description of I/O was not available. So yes, there is a time when you need to look on the back and you can't always, online. But that's an artifact, I think, that will be fixed when vendors realize they're losing sales.
You can also convince the HOA to extort everyone in the neighborhood to share the costs. Sometimes works.
That was tried when we went to banks of locked mailboxes. We got enough people to contribute to get it done, but to this day there are still four houses on my block with those old dome shaped boxes with the red flag.
Yes. But it's pacifist in the right way, by forcing the other person think about what they're doing. It worked for Gandhi (although in his situation there were special circumstances).
Yep. Members of my HOA were harassed by the board of directors back when minidishes started popping up. We invoked the 1996 telecommunication act and dared them to take us to court. They dropped the issue.
WISP will get you the mesh, but you still need a big pipe to the internet. If the neighborhood is close enough to an area that does have broadband, maybe you can work something out with them. Set up a LLC and become your own ISP.
Thats a legitimate description of a good day from someone who is ex-military.
I would be reluctant to blow up an interview just because there aren't that many people in my field, and no matter how ridiculous this particular interview, I might run into these people in some other environment where I *wanted* the job.
But this calls to mind a time I was trying to get an associate a job, who had been out of work more than two years. I had aced the interview, but we could not agree on price (they were offering a little less than what I was currently making) so we parted on good terms. I got in touch with them later, told them I personally vouched for another IT professional who would be a good fit for the position. They called him in for the interview. A few questions in, this happened:
"Describe a good work day."
"Well, I suppose that'd be a day when I haven't killed anyone."
Interview over.
Sigh. You just can't help some people.
It used to bother me, Amazon and the like causing the gradual downfall of physical stores, but for a large part, there is precious little differentiation. Whatever gadget I am interested in is often sealed in hard plastic so there's no way to interact with it, to do anything, really, besides look at it and read the specs, which I could do at Amazon (and there are customer reviews). I used to buy higher priced gear at brick and mortar stores because there was usually someone knowledgeable who could answer detailed questions, but that doesn't seem to be true anymore either. I suspect there will be a time when stores will only be for impulse purposes, and even for that we may go the direction they're going in Japan, where practically anything can be purchased from a vending machine.
Cost of gas, cost of insurance, a shift in culture from interacting with other teens in person to pounding an xbox controller, greater difficulty for teens to enter the workforce (a high minimum wage drying up entry level jobs), an "entitled" mindset and dying work ethic, and a down economy. There are probably other factors, but those are probably the major ones.
There are a number of pacifists who would disagree with you on that point.
So would anyone who takes Christianity seriously. Jesus Christ said something about "turning the other cheek" in the face of aggression. Or is that not supposed to be taken literally?
I guess it's not surprising how many people don't understand this. From the wiki:
---
> [...] at the time of Jesus, striking someone deemed to be of a lower class with the back of the hand was used to assert authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma. The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. An alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality. Thus, by turning the other cheek the persecuted was demanding equality.
---
Turning the other cheek isn't supposed to signify a grim determination to be meek no matter what. It's in fact the root of any protest or movement that starts with "you will first treat me as an equal".
As to whether we should all be Christ-like and forgive all things up to and including rape and murder, I'm reminded of the words of a wise man.
Mercy is the mark of a great man.
(stab)
Guess I'm just a good man.
(stab)
Well, I'm all right.
This is such undiluted hypocrisy, given her reaction to the Snowden saga. It would be funny, if it was not so very sad.
Very true. But I am still changing my will so I will be buried with my ice skates. Hell has frozen over. Diane Feinstein has finally found an expansion of government authoritarianism that she is unwilling to support. Wow.
Yes. She represents the polar opposite of everything I hold dear, but I found myself grudgingly agreeing with this one position. I quickly checked myself for signs of stroke.
> There we are, tens of thousands of years of evolution and we're still killing our own kind for revenge...
Aaaaaand there ceases any possibility of a rational discussion. Good day.
Woosh?
> 1) A private enterprise will store secret data: What could possibly go wrong?
Um, offshore admin?
Yes. I Am Satisfied. Totally. (ishestilllookingatme?)
Or as I like to say, cream isn't the only thing that rises to the top.