This story is most timely for me! I know this will not relate well to many of you, but perhaps there are others like me.
I retired from an industrial electrician's job in January 2018. My body was too tired to maintain the pace of a maintenance department setting. I did not want to finish my working days by being fired. So, I announced my retirement, and, on to a Social Security check I went. I truly thought I was done. I was at peace with this.
Three weeks ago, completely unsolicited, I was contacted by a curriculum manager of a regional technical college. They had found my LinkedIn page. They want me to teach!
There are still things that could go wrong with this, however, I am to report for my first day of work in about 32 hours from now.
Whether or not this works out, it's been an exciting three weeks. If I don't cut it, I can just go back to being that quiet retiree. I owe this opportunity, at least in part, to that LinkedIn page I never took down.
Yes, I know this does not address other well known issues with LinkedIn. I'm not going to be complaining for a while just yet!
Best regards to you all.
For less than the budget mentioned, I recently bought a seven year old business class / "durable build" name brand laptop. I installed the current mint distro, allowing it to completely replace the obsolete version of MS windows that was on it. This worked out so well that I bought a second, and bought Win 10 for it. I wound up with 2 shiny aluminum clad business laptops with my two favorite operating systems. They even came with extra batteries. I know this is not what you asked for, but, I felt, worthy of consideration, and a good hobby computing experience. One last perk: although they had adequate memory, I found that the memory sticks are cheap for these older machines, so stuffed 'em! All good fun and my best regards to the Slashdot community.
This may speak more about a possible personal failure to seek out the best sources of information than it does about the quality of our current day Slashdot web site, nonetheless, I saw this first on Slashdot. An old web-haunt of mine, drawing an increasingly rough crowd, has once again proved it's worth to me.
With Wikimedia / Wikipedia being perceived by me to be one of the Internet's greatest enduring assets, and, this, despite it's shortcomings, any news concerning turbulence in those waters weighs greatly upon me. I will do what I can to follow up, and, act according to my perceptions and beliefs. My thanks to the OP.
Probably a fascinating find no matter what it turns out to actually have been used for! The topic brings me recall of a long held fantasy wish I held from boyhood until the first decades of my adulthood, that I could somehow find a forgotten WW2 or similar asset and find a vintage transmitter or other "cool stuff".A young and unsophisticated fantasy of course. Anything of the sort found today would likely claimed by the powers that be and some of it hopefully wind up in a museum. Happy New Year fellow slashdotters!
Dear Mr. Linus Torvalds: I may not like your personality profanity, attitude, etc, but, completely agree with your stance on the "desktop". I am also a fan of your baseline achievement: creation of "LINUX".
The "distributions", based on your work, continue to be a valuable component of my overall approach to PC survivability. I feel that I OWE you, and it does not matter whether or not I "LIKE" you, based on some comments posted somewhere on the web.
You have a permanent "ally" in me, if you should ever need one at my level. Godspeed, and good health. Sincerely, Robert I. Baker.
Not only British soldiers, but, British engineering gave a much needed boost to the allied war effort. Think about the difference it would have made if we did not have the British Merlin engine, or the British radar tube, I think they called it the Magnetron...
With my employer recently making an unexpected decision to modernize it's entire supervisory control and data acquisition system, it appears even we electricians will be learning to work with the RSLogix5000 development environment. And we are ripping out analog control wiring and replacing it with cat 5 all over the place!
Keep watching those movies Wild Dog! Every effort needs it's supporters. Maybe also write your representatives in Washington and tell them you think space is important. Then you will have helped with a real problem: paying for space research. My apologies to the community for taking this discussion further off topic. Average people are important too IMO.
Now think of how much bone idleness stands between that and:
FBI’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center heavily implies this [tinkering being suspicious behavior], suggesting that individuals engaged in certain technical activities should be regarded as “suspicious” and specifically mentioning people who "download or transfer files with ‘how-to’ content, such as [] information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters/receivers.”
Well done modern society, you made your visionaries and future inventors criminals in order to help the establishment to even more money.
Wonderful comment about the FBI. Now every amateur radio operator in the country is a suspect? Wonderful stuff for sure...
I'm not as worthy a geek as many you'l meet on SDOT but....try checking the main processor's heatsink and fan for dust build up or bad fan bearings. The cpu may be throttling back when things get warm. While you are in
there, visually inspect any electrolytic capacitors for signs of swelling or leaks. I have an extra mobo like that, still works, but throttles down & up & down again due to bad caps.
I was born and raised in Newark, as were both of
my parents. Places like Springfield Ave, 18th.
Ave, Lilly Street, were mine to deal with.
I attended public school there. Also a county
operated vocational & technical high school in the
bordering town of Irvington, a short walk from
the Newark border. After 54 years, I've only left the area for good, as of January, of this year. Putting aside issues like privacy & rights just
briefly (though they are important to me), I Want to remind you all that there is a deeply entrenched inter-generational culture of crime, fraud, and, corruption in some of our many demographic groups. My perceptions concerning this culture are that it's driven by a
belief that there will never be a realistic
chance for prosperity or equality, is enhanced by the feeling that there's nothing much to lose, rewarded (even when convicted and jailed) by the sense of having earned "street-cred", and, hopelessly complicated by the relatively accurate but woefully incomplete historical accounts of slavery and oppression that many people hold.
There are parents here that actually teach their
children the ways of the criminal and on
a fairly advanced level. More commonly however, these skills are learned on the street and fill a cultural void left by broken and dysfunctional homes and families.
Many of the people these cameras are to monitor
welcome the chase and the gunfight. They are further educated in their trade within the very prison walls we use to "correct" them. When they are killed, they are remembered and the "taggers" spray-paint their praises...
They could care less about being on camera.
If it is determined that we will tolerate such intervention at all, (and I guess we are...) then maybe the camera should be on parent and child from birth through adolescence?...oh...WAIT...deep packet sniffing...$10. dial up
accounts that work fine with bittorrent...massive AI based archiving and tracking...reports of back doors in the leading P.C. operating system...We're part-way there already, aren't we?
(OK people, rip me up, this be Slashdot and I'll love it, not leave it!)
Hey 'Bender, How far from the transmitters are you? I've had really good luck using a very simple homemade "log periodic" antenna. I'm in a first floor apartment in Burlington NJ. Transmitters are in Philly. There's a fair amount of ground clutter, although not the likes of say, NYC or some such. I'm only about 6 to 10 feet above sea level and the antenna is inside my apartment on a cheap musician's - type speaker stand. I went from about 8 digital channels & sub-channels with my "rabbit ears" (a dipole) to a solid 25 with the log periodic and it is not even really properly constructed! I simply took an ordinary outdoor tv roof antenna, a small one with 5 VHF elements and a small UHF reflector, removed the reflector and cut all the VHF elements waaaay back to about 6 1/2 inches in back and tapering down to about 2 1/2 inches in front. I did leave the grounded front "director" array as - is and did not even change the spacing of the VHF elements from their original positions!
I did break the small plastic tabs that held the elements in a forward "swept" position and move them out to a right - angle position (90 Deg. off the center boom). The antenna is out of the way because the speaker stand lets me put it up very near the ceiling of the room. I've even used it for very low power UHF transmissions and as a scanner antenna. You should be able to build an even better version with wood and wire from Home Depot or some such. Classic antenna science implies this should not work, but it's working great for me! Good luck.
I was waiting for this comment! Read the book MANY years ago. I remember one guy fooling a second, much superior "Bolo" into crossing a bridge that would not support it. Probably only worked because both robots had been commandeered by human operators at that point.
How odd to see posts that try to blame the open source movement for this decline! Surely the outsourcing to overseas concerns of some of these jobs is having more of an impact? My perception, however flawed it may be, is that people need to decide whether or not they like the idea of allowing the less developed countries to draw work away from the more developed ones and if they do not, find ways to put the pressure on those making the outsourcing decisions. Perhaps in this regard the open source developers are more of a solution than a problem. Even Microsoft can't compete with "free" and we in the west get to maintain a ready pool of IT professionals bad economy or not.
A strange statement to make actually, Yesterday I came home from a nationally known computer chain store with a copy of SuSe 9.1 Professional. I paid the list price for it too. Why? Mainly the good old American concept of convenience.
It comes down to items such as ready printed installation and administration guides, professionally made disks, support of a major Linux distro house, and Novell's involvement (I think I remember that it's SuSe they bought, Am I right?). This all means a lot to people like me who are long time Windows users but who have heard the recent case for operating system diversity vs. the "monoculture" effect.
It takes a number of different commercial concerns to put ANY shrink-wrapped software product out on the shelf of the big stores.
Employment!
Profit!
There used to be a technology for using two modems on two phone lines together as one connection....I think one was called "shotgun" or some such? If no longer available from the usual Wintel gang sources then maybe there is a Linux / open source solution? Granted a second line costs money but might be much more affordable than satellite and not suffer from the "lag time" of getting data down from a satellite. Anyone have info on any of this? Thanks in advance._BB
I'm a former dance DJ from the '70's & '80's era and maintain the 12 West tribute web pages found at http://home.att.net/~playguitar1/12west.html (warning....special interest). I want to thank all who have posted concerning this subject as you have mentioned many different software and hardware solutions that I have not previously heard of. As for the Hercules product itself, I was in the market for a USB based audio solution anyhow and was about to buy the SB Audigy. Now I will wait and see if this may be more appropriate. I do hope that the maker consider a ruggedized version running on a more trustworthy OS for nightclub use.
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This story is most timely for me! I know this will not relate well to many of you, but perhaps there are others like me. I retired from an industrial electrician's job in January 2018. My body was too tired to maintain the pace of a maintenance department setting. I did not want to finish my working days by being fired. So, I announced my retirement, and, on to a Social Security check I went. I truly thought I was done. I was at peace with this. Three weeks ago, completely unsolicited, I was contacted by a curriculum manager of a regional technical college. They had found my LinkedIn page. They want me to teach! There are still things that could go wrong with this, however, I am to report for my first day of work in about 32 hours from now. Whether or not this works out, it's been an exciting three weeks. If I don't cut it, I can just go back to being that quiet retiree. I owe this opportunity, at least in part, to that LinkedIn page I never took down. Yes, I know this does not address other well known issues with LinkedIn. I'm not going to be complaining for a while just yet! Best regards to you all.
For less than the budget mentioned, I recently bought a seven year old business class / "durable build" name brand laptop. I installed the current mint distro, allowing it to completely replace the obsolete version of MS windows that was on it. This worked out so well that I bought a second, and bought Win 10 for it. I wound up with 2 shiny aluminum clad business laptops with my two favorite operating systems. They even came with extra batteries. I know this is not what you asked for, but, I felt, worthy of consideration, and a good hobby computing experience. One last perk: although they had adequate memory, I found that the memory sticks are cheap for these older machines, so stuffed 'em! All good fun and my best regards to the Slashdot community.
This may speak more about a possible personal failure to seek out the best sources of information than it does about the quality of our current day Slashdot web site, nonetheless, I saw this first on Slashdot. An old web-haunt of mine, drawing an increasingly rough crowd, has once again proved it's worth to me. With Wikimedia / Wikipedia being perceived by me to be one of the Internet's greatest enduring assets, and, this, despite it's shortcomings, any news concerning turbulence in those waters weighs greatly upon me. I will do what I can to follow up, and, act according to my perceptions and beliefs. My thanks to the OP.
Be a scientist? Look at the data? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki... Glad I could fix that for you.
Probably a fascinating find no matter what it turns out to actually have been used for! The topic brings me recall of a long held fantasy wish I held from boyhood until the first decades of my adulthood, that I could somehow find a forgotten WW2 or similar asset and find a vintage transmitter or other "cool stuff".A young and unsophisticated fantasy of course. Anything of the sort found today would likely claimed by the powers that be and some of it hopefully wind up in a museum. Happy New Year fellow slashdotters!
Dear Mr. Linus Torvalds: I may not like your personality profanity, attitude, etc, but, completely agree with your stance on the "desktop". I am also a fan of your baseline achievement: creation of "LINUX". The "distributions", based on your work, continue to be a valuable component of my overall approach to PC survivability. I feel that I OWE you, and it does not matter whether or not I "LIKE" you, based on some comments posted somewhere on the web. You have a permanent "ally" in me, if you should ever need one at my level. Godspeed, and good health. Sincerely, Robert I. Baker.
Not only British soldiers, but, British engineering gave a much needed boost to the allied war effort. Think about the difference it would have made if we did not have the British Merlin engine, or the British radar tube, I think they called it the Magnetron...
Sorry, but it's those bloody VK's fooling around again...
They got sick of the QRM and rudeness on 20m and decided to have some real fun.
C'mon, mates, 'fess up!!
QRZ OM? This is a loosely run net, but...
With my employer recently making an unexpected decision to modernize it's entire supervisory control and data acquisition system, it appears even we electricians will be learning to work with the RSLogix5000 development environment. And we are ripping out analog control wiring and replacing it with cat 5 all over the place!
Never confront a Bolo without an Electropass!
Keep watching those movies Wild Dog! Every effort needs it's supporters. Maybe also write your representatives in Washington and tell them you think space is important. Then you will have helped with a real problem: paying for space research. My apologies to the community for taking this discussion further off topic. Average people are important too IMO.
Now think of how much bone idleness stands between that and:
FBI’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center heavily implies this [tinkering being suspicious behavior], suggesting that individuals engaged in certain technical activities should be regarded as “suspicious” and specifically mentioning people who "download or transfer files with ‘how-to’ content, such as [] information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters/receivers.”
Well done modern society, you made your visionaries and future inventors criminals in order to help the establishment to even more money.
Wonderful comment about the FBI. Now every amateur radio operator in the country is a suspect? Wonderful stuff for sure...
It wasn't all bad: Hope this link works
I'm not as worthy a geek as many you'l meet on SDOT but....try checking the main processor's heatsink and fan for dust build up or bad fan bearings. The cpu may be throttling back when things get warm. While you are in there, visually inspect any electrolytic capacitors for signs of swelling or leaks. I have an extra mobo like that, still works, but throttles down & up & down again due to bad caps.
I was born and raised in Newark, as were both of my parents. Places like Springfield Ave, 18th. Ave, Lilly Street, were mine to deal with. I attended public school there. Also a county operated vocational & technical high school in the bordering town of Irvington, a short walk from the Newark border. After 54 years, I've only left the area for good, as of January, of this year. Putting aside issues like privacy & rights just briefly (though they are important to me), I Want to remind you all that there is a deeply entrenched inter-generational culture of crime, fraud, and, corruption in some of our many demographic groups. My perceptions concerning this culture are that it's driven by a belief that there will never be a realistic chance for prosperity or equality, is enhanced by the feeling that there's nothing much to lose, rewarded (even when convicted and jailed) by the sense of having earned "street-cred", and, hopelessly complicated by the relatively accurate but woefully incomplete historical accounts of slavery and oppression that many people hold. There are parents here that actually teach their children the ways of the criminal and on a fairly advanced level. More commonly however, these skills are learned on the street and fill a cultural void left by broken and dysfunctional homes and families. Many of the people these cameras are to monitor welcome the chase and the gunfight. They are further educated in their trade within the very prison walls we use to "correct" them. When they are killed, they are remembered and the "taggers" spray-paint their praises... They could care less about being on camera. If it is determined that we will tolerate such intervention at all, (and I guess we are...) then maybe the camera should be on parent and child from birth through adolescence? ...oh...WAIT...deep packet sniffing...$10. dial up
accounts that work fine with bittorrent...massive AI based archiving and tracking...reports of back doors in the leading P.C. operating system...We're part-way there already, aren't we?
(OK people, rip me up, this be Slashdot and I'll love it, not leave it!)
Hey 'Bender, How far from the transmitters are you? I've had really good luck using a very simple homemade "log periodic" antenna. I'm in a first floor apartment in Burlington NJ. Transmitters are in Philly. There's a fair amount of ground clutter, although not the likes of say, NYC or some such. I'm only about 6 to 10 feet above sea level and the antenna is inside my apartment on a cheap musician's - type speaker stand. I went from about 8 digital channels & sub-channels with my "rabbit ears" (a dipole) to a solid 25 with the log periodic and it is not even really properly constructed! I simply took an ordinary outdoor tv roof antenna, a small one with 5 VHF elements and a small UHF reflector, removed the reflector and cut all the VHF elements waaaay back to about 6 1/2 inches in back and tapering down to about 2 1/2 inches in front. I did leave the grounded front "director" array as - is and did not even change the spacing of the VHF elements from their original positions! I did break the small plastic tabs that held the elements in a forward "swept" position and move them out to a right - angle position (90 Deg. off the center boom). The antenna is out of the way because the speaker stand lets me put it up very near the ceiling of the room. I've even used it for very low power UHF transmissions and as a scanner antenna. You should be able to build an even better version with wood and wire from Home Depot or some such. Classic antenna science implies this should not work, but it's working great for me! Good luck.
I was waiting for this comment! Read the book MANY years ago. I remember one guy fooling a second, much superior "Bolo" into crossing a bridge that would not support it. Probably only worked because both robots had been commandeered by human operators at that point.
How odd to see posts that try to blame the open source movement for this decline! Surely the outsourcing to overseas concerns of some of these jobs is having more of an impact? My perception, however flawed it may be, is that people need to decide whether or not they like the idea of allowing the less developed countries to draw work away from the more developed ones and if they do not, find ways to put the pressure on those making the outsourcing decisions. Perhaps in this regard the open source developers are more of a solution than a problem. Even Microsoft can't compete with "free" and we in the west get to maintain a ready pool of IT professionals bad economy or not.
A strange statement to make actually, Yesterday I came home from a nationally known computer chain store with a copy of SuSe 9.1 Professional. I paid the list price for it too. Why? Mainly the good old American concept of convenience. It comes down to items such as ready printed installation and administration guides, professionally made disks, support of a major Linux distro house, and Novell's involvement (I think I remember that it's SuSe they bought, Am I right?). This all means a lot to people like me who are long time Windows users but who have heard the recent case for operating system diversity vs. the "monoculture" effect. It takes a number of different commercial concerns to put ANY shrink-wrapped software product out on the shelf of the big stores. Employment! Profit!
There used to be a technology for using two modems on two phone lines together as one connection....I think one was called "shotgun" or some such? If no longer available from the usual Wintel gang sources then maybe there is a Linux / open source solution? Granted a second line costs money but might be much more affordable than satellite and not suffer from the "lag time" of getting data down from a satellite. Anyone have info on any of this? Thanks in advance._BB
I'm a former dance DJ from the '70's & '80's era and maintain the 12 West tribute web pages found at http://home.att.net/~playguitar1/12west.html (warning....special interest). I want to thank all who have posted concerning this subject as you have mentioned many different software and hardware solutions that I have not previously heard of. As for the Hercules product itself, I was in the market for a USB based audio solution anyhow and was about to buy the SB Audigy. Now I will wait and see if this may be more appropriate. I do hope that the maker consider a ruggedized version running on a more trustworthy OS for nightclub use.