i agree. i was married and there was tension over things the entire time because we didnt define things well to begin with. i suffered because she couldnt stick to a budget or do what she said shed do. if i had to do it again id have ONE joint bank account for paying bills, one join savings for whatever, with a determined amount or precentage of incomes to be deposited regularly. then separate accounts for miscellaneous stuff. the bitch i was married to wanted to eat out or go shopping at the worst times and it made it damn hard to pay the bills on time. id never deal with that again.
if you can get utilites and other recurring bills on joint accounts, do it, so if theres a problem one of you doesnt get stuck with it all. if not, then try to divide them equally. if thins work out, great, you have a system that works. if they dont, fine, itll be much easier to clean up.
i already wouldnt be able to use that keyboard without frustration. a customer i know has a 12" 700m and its god damn tiny already. im not *too* uncomfortable on my T40, but much smaller and i easily would be.
i had an rt73 based adapter that would work on open networks, and with WEP, and naught else. i now have a thinkpad t40 with an intel 802.11b adapter and while it works with WPA2, its iffy.
ive had daemonlog and syslog grow to almost 2gb each when the adapter was giving me a problem (they were limited by my / disk size) and it wont work with WPA2 with full ascii keys, just with alphanumeric keys. its better than WEP, but given the age and the support intel is supposed to have given for this....im not impressed. im glad it works, but i shouldnt have to be glad.
hell, i shouldnt have to be impressed. its just aggravating.
When I moved to a small town in Kansas and wanted to get AT&T DSL, neverminding that it first took *weeks* to get them to see if i could get service, when they asked what OS i was using I told them Linux.
"We cant support the Linux" they told me. over. and over. and over again.
I did manage, after a few minutes, to convince the woman that her company wanted my money, and I had gone through all the effort myself to try and give them my money, and that Id really appreciate it if they send the god damn modem and let me deal with it. She finally agreed.
So it comes in, with, of course, windows-only software to help create your account. I didnt yet have WINE installed (being that I had no internet connection, and didnt anticipate the following problems) so I looked in the booklet for a manual account creation process.
Aha! There it was....so I followed the directions, and tried creating an account. However, the Java buttons were all fucked up, and it would not let me. I ended up spending an hour and a half on the phone, again trying to convince someone that "the linux" would work fine with their DSL service. I could not convince her, and just demanded a tier 2 rep outright to help me. I finally got transferred, and spent another 20 minutes waiting while the guy got authorized to create my account for me, using internet explorer.
I wanted to stab them so bad, if only an internet connection wasnt like a rush of heroin i just might have...
Im also in Kansas and have DSL, as my understanding was the cable in this town is lousy. The DSL, through SBC/AT&T has been reliable, though getting it in the first place was a serious hassle.
I have the option of wireless internet, as I work for a WISP who just put up an ap about 6 blocks from my place. They offered me service but....meh, that stuff has lousy bandwidth in the 900mhz range;)
Or basic WISP equipment. Tranzeo has 4.9ghz systems that start at $433 per radio, and can do a good 5 miles or so. Each unit can act as a client, a bridge, or an AP (they sell directional units, and units with n-connectors so you can attach a direction or omni antenna) Ive installed their 2.4ghz radios as far as 5 miles from an AP. $1400 bucks for a pair of radios seems a bit much, IMO. Not that the article was heavy on details anyway.
ive got an inspiron 1000 that has taken a surprising beating, and is quite sturdy. *grabs it by the corner* yeah. no problem.
of course, its ugly as hell. and oldish, but it works fine and its been dropped 2 or 3 times without a problem. *shrugs* maybe i got lucky? i probably did, but, whatever, it works;)
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I say he should wait for Ubuntu Feisty to come out, ive heard *very* good things about it making non-free drivers and codecs and other software bits a cinch to install (currently in Edgy it takes a little fiddling around, not too much, but enough that it may put people off)
Personally, I use Debian Etch and plan to stick with it for a while, but it works for me, and I like having a light, custom install that *only* has on it what I want.
I can, however, add a productivity item: Network Profiles
Its easy enough to add them in/etc/networking/interfaces and go up and down with them, but the Gnome Network Admin (even though I use XFCE) saves me a *lot* of time from when i was using XP
I work for a Wireless ISP and each type of client-equipment I deal with is on a different subnet. So ive set up about a dozen different profiles that I can use and *click* its changed. This is not doable in XP, even XP Pro (it only, iirc, allows for one alternate IP config)
Just to keep from having to type in a different address all the time saves me alot of frustration
i dont know about it all....ive read some about it, but i dont expect it posted to slashdot. i expect *news* and this place gets worse and worse. if someone needs to know these things; theyll have a book already, or be googling for it.
whats next, samba configs for file sharing on a LAN?
ive been reading/. for years and only recently switched to using linux regularly. until a year or so ago, i was gaming often enough that linux just didnt cut it for me. i stopped, and switched like id always promised myself i would.
i wont be using windows again on any personal machine of mine, im certain of that.
i had a windows tool, i cant remember it right now, that could recover *everything* deleted, for nada, with no restrictions. i found this tool after my brother stupidly shorted the "erase" pins on his hard drive, instead of switching from slave to cable-select.
so i put his drive in my pc, ran the utility....and it found everything. except, of course,all the filenames and data were gone (this was his mp3 storage drive) and i told him "Well, either you re-burn all your cds with the CDDB info automatically generated, or you play *every* file one at a time, rename it, and re-enter the ID3 tags"
he re-burned
cant recall the name of the tool right now, however. it was a windows tool that could read from FAT16/32 partitions only, iirc. meh
christ. i work for a wirless isp doing installations, part of which often involves configuring a static ip and dns servers. simple enough, but often infuriating.
one today had a new dell they had hardly ever turned on. it showed. 4 programs popped-up when windows started, nagging the fuck out of me, and norton popped up while i tried to setup their email account in outlook, and something else popped up when the connection was active and i opened a browser to demonstrate the service to the customer. meh.
or they want it for backup. ive done a little satellite work over the last few months, and ive seen *alot* of people with a tv tower in their yard and a satellite dish. their logic? if the satellite goes out, say, in lousy weather or a part goes out, they can still watch tv. because, christ forbid, you go without it for a day or two.
i, myself, didnt get cable when i moved into my apartment a few months ago. i watch too much of it. an internet connection i *do* have, as well as a netflix subscription. but i didnt get cable or satellite. not having regular tv doesnt bother me that much.
i love RP and saw the notice on their website yesterday. someone pointed me to it weeks ago and i listen to it *alot* id hate to see them shut down over this:/
enough of society feels that way about gay marriage that they havent been able to pass an amendment banning it yet. though its a bit troubling that theres enough support for it that more and more state constitutions are banning it, and enough support to keep bringing it up in the senate to start with.
i had no idea. but i dont find it interesting, either. i may have if it had been a nintendo power article 15 years ago, but since i couldnt tell you the last time i played super mario brothers 2....i dont really care.
The hard bit is propagating the knowledge that the certificate is revoked across an infrastructure of a.mil or.gov size. The main reason is that some portions of the infrastructure are offline most of the time and some are mandated be able to work in offline mode.
reminds me of a story i read, i think over at fark, a month or two ago, about an army officer who had been retired for a number of years. someone who got his SSN was able to get a military id in the guys name (despite his having been retired, when i read it, he still wasnt sure how the man was issued an active ID for a retired officer, and i dont know anything about the system myself) and use it to get a number of credit cars and destroy the officers credit.
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i agree. i was married and there was tension over things the entire time because we didnt define things well to begin with. i suffered because she couldnt stick to a budget or do what she said shed do. if i had to do it again id have ONE joint bank account for paying bills, one join savings for whatever, with a determined amount or precentage of incomes to be deposited regularly. then separate accounts for miscellaneous stuff. the bitch i was married to wanted to eat out or go shopping at the worst times and it made it damn hard to pay the bills on time. id never deal with that again.
if you can get utilites and other recurring bills on joint accounts, do it, so if theres a problem one of you doesnt get stuck with it all. if not, then try to divide them equally. if thins work out, great, you have a system that works. if they dont, fine, itll be much easier to clean up.
i decided to say i lol'd instead of modding you funny. sorry; its probably the rum.
still for 200 bucks. i might be interested :)
i had an rt73 based adapter that would work on open networks, and with WEP, and naught else. i now have a thinkpad t40 with an intel 802.11b adapter and while it works with WPA2, its iffy.
ive had daemonlog and syslog grow to almost 2gb each when the adapter was giving me a problem (they were limited by my / disk size) and it wont work with WPA2 with full ascii keys, just with alphanumeric keys. its better than WEP, but given the age and the support intel is supposed to have given for this....im not impressed. im glad it works, but i shouldnt have to be glad.
hell, i shouldnt have to be impressed. its just aggravating.
the lack of creativity is astounding.
"We cant support the Linux" they told me. over. and over. and over again.
I did manage, after a few minutes, to convince the woman that her company wanted my money, and I had gone through all the effort myself to try and give them my money, and that Id really appreciate it if they send the god damn modem and let me deal with it. She finally agreed.
So it comes in, with, of course, windows-only software to help create your account. I didnt yet have WINE installed (being that I had no internet connection, and didnt anticipate the following problems) so I looked in the booklet for a manual account creation process.
Aha! There it was....so I followed the directions, and tried creating an account. However, the Java buttons were all fucked up, and it would not let me. I ended up spending an hour and a half on the phone, again trying to convince someone that "the linux" would work fine with their DSL service. I could not convince her, and just demanded a tier 2 rep outright to help me. I finally got transferred, and spent another 20 minutes waiting while the guy got authorized to create my account for me, using internet explorer.
I wanted to stab them so bad, if only an internet connection wasnt like a rush of heroin i just might have...
Im also in Kansas and have DSL, as my understanding was the cable in this town is lousy. The DSL, through SBC/AT&T has been reliable, though getting it in the first place was a serious hassle.
;)
I have the option of wireless internet, as I work for a WISP who just put up an ap about 6 blocks from my place. They offered me service but....meh, that stuff has lousy bandwidth in the 900mhz range
Or basic WISP equipment. Tranzeo has 4.9ghz systems that start at $433 per radio, and can do a good 5 miles or so. Each unit can act as a client, a bridge, or an AP (they sell directional units, and units with n-connectors so you can attach a direction or omni antenna) Ive installed their 2.4ghz radios as far as 5 miles from an AP. $1400 bucks for a pair of radios seems a bit much, IMO. Not that the article was heavy on details anyway.
of course, its ugly as hell. and oldish, but it works fine and its been dropped 2 or 3 times without a problem. *shrugs* maybe i got lucky? i probably did, but, whatever, it works ;)
I say he should wait for Ubuntu Feisty to come out, ive heard *very* good things about it making non-free drivers and codecs and other software bits a cinch to install (currently in Edgy it takes a little fiddling around, not too much, but enough that it may put people off)
/etc/networking/interfaces and go up and down with them, but the Gnome Network Admin (even though I use XFCE) saves me a *lot* of time from when i was using XP
;)
Personally, I use Debian Etch and plan to stick with it for a while, but it works for me, and I like having a light, custom install that *only* has on it what I want.
I can, however, add a productivity item: Network Profiles
Its easy enough to add them in
I work for a Wireless ISP and each type of client-equipment I deal with is on a different subnet. So ive set up about a dozen different profiles that I can use and *click* its changed. This is not doable in XP, even XP Pro (it only, iirc, allows for one alternate IP config)
Just to keep from having to type in a different address all the time saves me alot of frustration
me likey.
i dont know about it all....ive read some about it, but i dont expect it posted to slashdot. i expect *news* and this place gets worse and worse. if someone needs to know these things; theyll have a book already, or be googling for it.
whats next, samba configs for file sharing on a LAN?
ive been reading /. for years and only recently switched to using linux regularly. until a year or so ago, i was gaming often enough that linux just didnt cut it for me. i stopped, and switched like id always promised myself i would.
i wont be using windows again on any personal machine of mine, im certain of that.
i had a windows tool, i cant remember it right now, that could recover *everything* deleted, for nada, with no restrictions. i found this tool after my brother stupidly shorted the "erase" pins on his hard drive, instead of switching from slave to cable-select.
so i put his drive in my pc, ran the utility....and it found everything. except, of course,all the filenames and data were gone (this was his mp3 storage drive) and i told him "Well, either you re-burn all your cds with the CDDB info automatically generated, or you play *every* file one at a time, rename it, and re-enter the ID3 tags"
he re-burned
cant recall the name of the tool right now, however. it was a windows tool that could read from FAT16/32 partitions only, iirc. meh
everyone here saw the Bullshit! episode on recycling, this is just silly talk ;)
one today had a new dell they had hardly ever turned on. it showed. 4 programs popped-up when windows started, nagging the fuck out of me, and norton popped up while i tried to setup their email account in outlook, and something else popped up when the connection was active and i opened a browser to demonstrate the service to the customer. meh.
or they want it for backup. ive done a little satellite work over the last few months, and ive seen *alot* of people with a tv tower in their yard and a satellite dish. their logic? if the satellite goes out, say, in lousy weather or a part goes out, they can still watch tv. because, christ forbid, you go without it for a day or two. i, myself, didnt get cable when i moved into my apartment a few months ago. i watch too much of it. an internet connection i *do* have, as well as a netflix subscription. but i didnt get cable or satellite. not having regular tv doesnt bother me that much.
i love RP and saw the notice on their website yesterday. someone pointed me to it weeks ago and i listen to it *alot* id hate to see them shut down over this :/
i know that cant be "LightSpeed University" but i got internet access as a teenager and that was the first thing that entered my mind when i saw LSU
could have left out "Until this happens" because i cant believe youre ever going to see it.
enough of society feels that way about gay marriage that they havent been able to pass an amendment banning it yet. though its a bit troubling that theres enough support for it that more and more state constitutions are banning it, and enough support to keep bringing it up in the senate to start with.
funny, when i daydream its about hot women and ferraris and trips to europe...
i had no idea. but i dont find it interesting, either. i may have if it had been a nintendo power article 15 years ago, but since i couldnt tell you the last time i played super mario brothers 2....i dont really care.
reminds me of a story i read, i think over at fark, a month or two ago, about an army officer who had been retired for a number of years. someone who got his SSN was able to get a military id in the guys name (despite his having been retired, when i read it, he still wasnt sure how the man was issued an active ID for a retired officer, and i dont know anything about the system myself) and use it to get a number of credit cars and destroy the officers credit.
go army!?
so all these years ive been aborting life by the liter?
god damn right. ive known a few enlisted men and women, a number indeed.