The only thing turned off is essentially all outside connections to the internet, internal email within the DOI still works.
My father works for the Fish & Wildlife Service and he says these stints without email are some of his most productive times.
Imagine how much spam he's NOT getting:-)
On a funny note, the first time they shut him off they only blocked heavily used ports (http/pop/smtp, etc.) but they left open ports for things like AIM etc. So for a few weeks we chatted using AIM despite the fact that he couldn't surf the web. Eventually they got wise and blocked all ports to the outside.
I dunno, but this sounds to me like a very short term solution to a long term problem.
Considering I never drink I feel it would be a big inconvenience.
And why make new laws when we don't sufficiently enforce the ones we have? I'm now necessarily saying it's a bad idea, but it does seem that this legislation could be serious overkill.
I'm an amateur radio operator, and of the three radios I own, none of them require 110v power... the vast majority of radio's (especially 70cm through 10m) run off of 12v DC... which is.... a car battery. My most powerful radio puts out 70 watts off of 12 volt power (which is only about 6 amps) so there is plenty of room to spare in a car's electrical system.
So, power dies, but Hams are still using radios because all you need is a small generator with a 110vAC to 12vDC power supply... or a car. If the power goes out, I'd rather have a ham radio than a cell phone.
In my 375 level Intro to Marketing class I use an english paperback version of the textbook imported from India of all places... saved me about a bit of money. Brand new would have been over $100, I paid $35 on half.com
I won't share where I work, but my supervisor is an old friend, we're pretty close. He's spent his entire life as a landscaping architect, I just happen to be under him because no one else can handle our department (apparently we're too weird to report directly to a VP.) I've been in the workforce long enough to know what type of job I like. In my last job I was scared for my job more than once, but that was the environment during the.com boom. I now have a better, more important, and much more rewarding job than I ever have before. Plus I think I'm more likely to be struck by a trash truck being driven by a midget with one glass eye than I am to get laid off.
I do agree it's good for a boss to know, but sometimes - the boss just doesn't - that's why I write a lot of reports and proposals.
And according to that near-worthless performance review I just had he thinks I'm doing good - with the exception that I need to dress more professionally. Go figure.:-) Best Wishes- R-
What does it mean when your supervisor openly admits he has no clue what you do for 40 hours a week? I figure it's good job security for me... i think.
In secret though? craziness! My employer is too cheap to give me any training, so I doubt anyone else is either.
Best training I've ever done? An O'Reilly book... ANY O'Reilly book.
Am I correct to assume it's this students fault that sunncomm didn't make a foolproof product like they boasted they would? For goodness sakes, you don't even need a marker for this one! Maybe all that Arizona sunnnnn is getting to them.
It's actually close to "you don't even need to lift a finger" pathetic, simply pathetic.
So what do you do when you WANT to get a "domain cannot be found" error for troubleshooting purposes... I know it sounds weird, but this whole thing is very annoying.
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands. sheesh.
So are the hashes the RIAA is tracking bigger than normal MD5 sums? In RIAA numbers I probably have somewhere around 572,947 hashes on my computer. I'm a bad boy.
I personally would prefer to use an OS that has been refined over and over... and over.
It is very comforting to think that the OS I'm using has been improved by hundreds of thousands of people. Some of them have security in mind, some have performance in mind. I can hardly think that Microsoft has anything but the bottom line in mind. That's swell and all for the economy (kinda..?) but the bottom line doesn't help me sleep at night. The knowledge that I'm using an OS built by a generation, not a company helps me sleep.
As was stated in "Pirates of Silicoln Valley" - it wasn't that Microsoft did it best, they just did it first. Any CEO that would say that... whose best interest did HE have in mind???
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The only thing turned off is essentially all outside connections to the internet, internal email within the DOI still works.
:-)
My father works for the Fish & Wildlife Service and he says these stints without email are some of his most productive times.
Imagine how much spam he's NOT getting
On a funny note, the first time they shut him off they only blocked heavily used ports (http/pop/smtp, etc.) but they left open ports for things like AIM etc. So for a few weeks we chatted using AIM despite the fact that he couldn't surf the web. Eventually they got wise and blocked all ports to the outside.
R-
I dunno, but this sounds to me like a very short term solution to a long term problem.
Considering I never drink I feel it would be a big inconvenience.
And why make new laws when we don't sufficiently enforce the ones we have? I'm now necessarily saying it's a bad idea, but it does seem that this legislation could be serious overkill.
R-
just to pipe in, and not trying to be annoying.
I'm an amateur radio operator, and of the three radios I own, none of them require 110v power... the vast majority of radio's (especially 70cm through 10m) run off of 12v DC... which is.... a car battery. My most powerful radio puts out 70 watts off of 12 volt power (which is only about 6 amps) so there is plenty of room to spare in a car's electrical system.
So, power dies, but Hams are still using radios because all you need is a small generator with a 110vAC to 12vDC power supply... or a car. If the power goes out, I'd rather have a ham radio than a cell phone.
Cheers-
R-
That's gunna leave a mark.
right on brutha... keep the peace rollin'
R-
True,
I guess I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
regardless.
Well, my town has 5 stoplights, so I'm probably safe. But I'd hate to still be living in DC :-P
Wait... that sounded a lot like "As long as the landfill isn't in MY backyard."
hmm.
R-
In my 375 level Intro to Marketing class I use an english paperback version of the textbook imported from India of all places... saved me about a bit of money. Brand new would have been over $100, I paid $35 on half.com
:-)
I'm all about it
I can't say that I'm amazed at all.
No way... it's not timeless enough to count as a DOS program. :-P
R-
I won't share where I work, but my supervisor is an old friend, we're pretty close. He's spent his entire life as a landscaping architect, I just happen to be under him because no one else can handle our department (apparently we're too weird to report directly to a VP.) I've been in the workforce long enough to know what type of job I like. In my last job I was scared for my job more than once, but that was the environment during the .com boom. I now have a better, more important, and much more rewarding job than I ever have before. Plus I think I'm more likely to be struck by a trash truck being driven by a midget with one glass eye than I am to get laid off.
:-)
I do agree it's good for a boss to know, but sometimes - the boss just doesn't - that's why I write a lot of reports and proposals.
And according to that near-worthless performance review I just had he thinks I'm doing good - with the exception that I need to dress more professionally. Go figure.
Best Wishes-
R-
At work the Dbase program that tracks the locksets and keys runs in DOS on a 386.
At home the oldest piece I use is a 266 AMD K6 for Freesco. But I do still have a few sub-100mhz pentiums around here somewhere.
R-
Here's another happy OpenOffice user! R-
What does it mean when your supervisor openly admits he has no clue what you do for 40 hours a week? I figure it's good job security for me... i think.
In secret though? craziness! My employer is too cheap to give me any training, so I doubt anyone else is either.
Best training I've ever done? An O'Reilly book... ANY O'Reilly book.
cheers-
I guess there's a subtle reason for why I've never been fond of Nokia phones. Anyone ever had a Samsung SCH series phone explode?
But what if it exploded next to your head?
yikes.
R-
Am I correct to assume it's this students fault that sunncomm didn't make a foolproof product like they boasted they would? For goodness sakes, you don't even need a marker for this one! Maybe all that Arizona sunnnnn is getting to them.
It's actually close to "you don't even need to lift a finger" pathetic, simply pathetic.
R-
credit card? read closer.
I'm a ham - I could care less.
So what do you do when you WANT to get a "domain cannot be found" error for troubleshooting purposes... I know it sounds weird, but this whole thing is very annoying.
R-
I just want to see more 12-year-old girls get sued. I mean, you can't BUY publicity like that!
"How can we attract attention??? hmm... I dunno.. I've got it! Let's inadvertantly sue a pre-teen-daughter-of-a-single-mom!"
Brilliant. But so very stupid at the same time.
Whoever came up with that should be promoted. Just think, you can get someone else to screw over Microsoft on your behalf.
God Bless the USA!
R-
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands. sheesh.
So are the hashes the RIAA is tracking bigger than normal MD5 sums? In RIAA numbers I probably have somewhere around 572,947 hashes on my computer. I'm a bad boy.
I personally would prefer to use an OS that has been refined over and over... and over.
It is very comforting to think that the OS I'm using has been improved by hundreds of thousands of people. Some of them have security in mind, some have performance in mind. I can hardly think that Microsoft has anything but the bottom line in mind. That's swell and all for the economy (kinda..?) but the bottom line doesn't help me sleep at night. The knowledge that I'm using an OS built by a generation, not a company helps me sleep.
As was stated in "Pirates of Silicoln Valley" - it wasn't that Microsoft did it best, they just did it first. Any CEO that would say that... whose best interest did HE have in mind???
R-
The problem is that XP does have the auto-download and install feature of windows updating. But they bury it where no one looks???
It is frustrating, I'll give you that!
And the funniest part... we pay THEM to use Windows!?
Sometimes it really concerns me when my computers have more "MS Hotfixes" installed than actual programs.
Hmm... I guess the more you install the better it runs. That sure sounds odd.
Exactly...
No one wants to give in.
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