In my experience about 25% of Unix shops will not accept a PDF, ASCII or HTML resume at first. ASCII resumes will get skipped over frequently, and HTML formatting is very problematic on different systems.
The hiring manager could deal with the PDF/ASCII/HTML just fine, but you often need to deal with a recruiter, HR, or a big automated resume system in the middle first, and they frequently want an MS Word-formatted resume.
Sometimes the problem is simple "Oh, I was only looking for Word docs and missed your PDF", but other times the automated system will only accept MS Word formated resumes.
For example, UC Berkeley migrated to a new Peoplesoft resume system in 2003. The new system only accepted MS Word formatted resumes for 6 months. You could input everything by hand using a webform, but only if you removed large chunks of your resume. UCB has had a long association with Unix.
I know of two Fortune-50 companies who will only accept resumes in MS Word format, and they have many AIX & Unix systems.
Installing it is a pain in the ass if you run into any problems.
You should try again. The Linux install process for various distros has really improved-- I used to have all sorts of problems with common hardware (Scroll wheel on the mouse doesn't work, ATI video card not recognized, no USB support, etc).
Recently, I've installed Debian 3.1, Ubuntu 5.0.4 & Windows XP on several different computers.
The Unbuntu install was incredibly simple. Install the CD, boot, hit the enter key a couple times and it just worked. There are no problems on the machine-- the ATI Radeon was recognized, sound works fine, USB ports work, keyboard & mouse both work, network over DHCP was fine, etc. I clicked on the graphical upgrade tool, and Ubuntu upgraded all of my packages while I went and ate lunch. I came back, rebooted and everything worked. I am really impressed. I might want to give this to my parents, if it works with their scanner, color printer & digital camera.
Windows XP was actually be more difficult to install then Ubuntu. During this latest batch of installs, the Windows XP install failed once on each computer. I got a different, obscure error each time. And for each install attempt, I need to enter that darn cryptic product key and had to correct the frustrating typos each time (My brain just doesn't want to deal strange text like X123-IUYU-2314-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH). It's a headache.
Upgrading Windows XP to a secure, stable release requires 6+ reboots if you follow the Microsoft instructions, and I need to startup IE, go to the update website, click on the links, select the packages, etc. every single reboot which is a pain. Again, it's a headache. No lunchbreak for Stefan!
Debian install was fine-- MUCH improved over the 3.0 installation. It's a little technical for a novice user, but again all I had to do was hit enter a couple times; select the appropriate packages, and most everything configures itself-- but I can override the defaults if I want. Great work!
Google has a very different model then the traditional news sites.
Remember how the News companies work: Traditional news websites & TV stations, like CNN, MSNBC have news editors who pick their news tidbits as they see fit, either subconsciously or purposely, regardless of what the viewers find interesting. They pick the stories based on how much ad revenue the story will bring. This can be a very flawed analysis-- Sometimes they are right on, other times they are way off the mark. Do you ever watch the news and wonder why they spent 30 seconds on an important news story while discussing Star Wars for 3 minutes?
There is a disconnect between what the viewers find interesting, and what the news editors believes that the viewers will find interesting. It's a somewhat flawed model.
News.google.com and the Google Personalized Homepage works differently--there is no news editors. The top news stories make it to the top of the list because people find the stories more interesting, and click on those links more often. Google analyzes the viewer's behavior to determine which headlines should be at the top of the page. Everything is done programmatically, and some people claim it's more democratic.
For instance, the morning of the Spanish Train Bombings the Spanish Government first blamed the bombings on the Basque separatists. As such, the news was not very interesting to the news editors at CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, etc. The big news stations and news websites were mostly discussing results of American Idol and the Laci Peterson Murder Trial. Later, when Al Qaida entered the picture, the news stations started covering the Train Bombings nonstop. All of a
On the other hand, News.google.com always had the headlines in the correct order-- as the visitors selected the news-- Spanish Train Bombings were top topics, Laci Peterson & American Idol were way at the bottom of the list. Google's model works pretty well.
I remember this pretty clearly-- I could not find any news on the Train Bombings for an hour, except for one line of scrolling text at the bottom of the screen.
Sure, you can do that too. I'm just suggesting one way to make the order unique across multiple systems. But if you just use the customer ID + the transaction ID, it is possible you will end up with two identical UIDs. It's incredibly unlikely in the submitter's scenario.
I wasn't suggesting that someone would need to parse the input of 01.1000... it was just a way to make the number unique based on the system. The facility number would be listed elsewhere.
Whatever solution you choose, be sure to give each DB entry a unique identifier that is unique across systems, and make sure the identifier does not change (E.g. Don't use the customer's name, phone number or any other changeable information).
One such solution: Each customer transaction has an internal ID number, like "Order #1000". Each system prepends it's own identifier to the order number, so order #1000 made on System 03 will have a UID of 03.1000. 03.1000 won't conflict with order #1000 made on system 02, because the latter UID is 02.1000.
Using a unique internal UID also lets you keep all order history around. If th customer wants to cancel their order and retry, you simply mark 03.1000 as cancelled, and start a new order with 03.1001.
This may seem obvious to you, but I can't tell you how many times I've seen a product fail because the development team decided to use the customer's name/phone number/address as the UID, which meant the customer couldn't change their name/phone number/address without breaking the index or other features in the DB. Not sure why, but this seems to be a common problem in databases.
Simple! You simply log into the access point and type 'eject' at the command prompt. Then look for the Access Point with the CD-Tray open...
Hey, if it works for a maze of Linux machines:)
But in all hoestly, you probably want a directional antenna as the other posters are suggesting. However, I suggest you get 2-3 volunteers, each with their own directional antenna. It will be easier to triangulate the signal if you have 3 folks coming in from 3 different angles.
As the owner of GmailTips.com, I'm sure you will appreciate the irony of my post:)
I've known a couple family groups who ended up using Yahoo Groups for this very purpose. It was the cheapest and simplest solution. Do you really want to host a web/email service and provide technical support to your family? (Not that there's anything wrong with that):)
I've run two dozen different lists through them for a variety of groups (Work alumni groups, self-help groups for job seekers, geographically dispersed groups, etc). Each time we debated what services to use, Yahoo Groups won out because it had the most complete feature set and was the easiest to use. Nobody really cared about having a full-fledged CMS--they just wanted to be able to post stories, comments via email or the web.
Yahoo Groups is good enough, with a few caveats.
Yahoo groups supports comments & stories as regular old posts, photos & calendars. The group members can receive the posts via email or on the web, which makes it simple if they just want to use their regular email.
It doesn't have a good secure interface, the default login screen is HTTP, but you can log in via HTTPS as well. The groups can be invisible to outsiders, closed to non-subscribers, etc. Not sure if that's what you meant by a 'secure interface'.
The solution is not open-source, it's not something you can custom host, they have ads, and you need a Yahoo account to use the advanced features (I think).
The BBC granted you a 7-day, non-exclusive licence to download this Beethoven Experience audio.
You may not copy, reproduce, edit, adapt, alter, republish, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use this audio in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
Obviously these new safety measures aren't safe enough!
I hearby propose that NASA create a new covering to cover the existing "window-cover", to ensure that the existing "window-cover" isn't damaged while it's protecting the actual window.
I love my Gorilla Rack workbench. Hard to find a better workbench for $99. Mine was American made, which is rare these days.
Home Depot sells a similar workbench for $150, and it's crap. Sharp corners, sharp sheet-metal. Ouch!
When I got the workbench, I was a missing part (Orchard Supply's fault, not Gorilla Rack). I didn't know what it looked like but they worked with me to figure it out. Gorilla Rack's customer support was fast, helpful & courteous-- I was really amazed considering this is just a workbench.
The steel parts are quite solid. There are no sharp edges on the sheet metal, and the corners are all rounded. The composition-board tabletop and shelftop are good enough (a little weak) and easy to replace if/when they get ruined.
The workbench is easy to assemble once you get a hold of a rubber mallet. Took less then an hour.
However, unless you have a ton of computer equipment, their shelving systems are probably overkill. Do you really have that much stuff?
I have no problem with sports in public school. Exercise is good, and sports makes exercise fun for many people. I know other people don't enjoy it, and that's fine too.
But in most high schools, the football & basketball programs receive MUCH more money then the other programs.
How about we just get rid of this unequal funding. It's totally unfair that a school will build a new, expensive football stadium but will cancel the music & arts programs due to 'lack of funding'.
Maybe the football players should hold a bake sale or do other fundraisers-- that's what we had to do for the band class & the track program. The football players never had to do that.
The funding should be balanced between the programs.
For the record: I was pretty bad in sports, but I was in track. I did it for fun. I was picked on by some football jocks, and was friends with others.
He's only giving up the border firewall...
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It's a rather sensationalist headline. He's not really ditching his firewall, he's replacing the one border firewall with multiple firewalls in the internal network, and is keeping the production environment isolated from the non-production (Office & Development) networks.
He removed the firewall between the Production Environment and the Internel, and is replacing it with several firewalls on the internal network. I count 4 firewalls-- One between the Webservers & Application server, a second firewall between the Application server and DB server, a third firewall between the production environment and non-production environments; and he discusses using ACLs to isolate subnets -- that's conceptually the same thing as a firewall.
But that's not a very new concept, and even with his plan, it still seems like you'd be more secure if you have an external firewall on the added network.
What's the harm in adding one more firewall and only allowing traffic on the HTTP port, HTTPS port and possibly VPN? It's cheap insurance just in case someone made a mistake and left some services running on one of the machines.
managers never looked at any of the computer files that were logged.
So if they were keylogging, but weren't looking at the logs what were they looking at? Number of keystrokes? Counting keystokes isn't a great way to measure performance, because it penalizes people who are more proficient at the keyboard.
We don't know the details of the case, but it seems like the employeers said that they were using a keylogger to measure performance. This is doubtful, because there are many better ways to measure performance (Did the job get done?).
It's more likely that they were trying to monitor the actual activites of the employee.
I was looking at this a few weeks ago (Using Subversion 1.2).
This official document says that SVN only supports a subset of WebDAV & DeltaV. Has that hindered your usage at all? I'm not sure if the document is up-to-date
I know that WebDAV support was greatly enhanced with the 1.2 version, but I haven't had a chance to do much research yet.
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Well sometimes...
But for certain other effects, you may need to right click on "My Computer", select Manage, expand "Visual Effects" in the left-hand panel, and then right click on the appropriate effect in the right hand panel, select properties, click the appropriate Tab on top, and THEN disable the effect.
No, you are the front lines army. The backup army was the reason you were paying the annual fees. Without those annual fees, there is no backup army.
Well, sometimes even with the annual fees there is no backup army.
In my experience with small to mid-sized businesses, external vendors can't support much beyond the core product. If you customize the site beyond a minimum level, the vendor can't support it well (But they will still take your money).
In Google's case, they made the choice to optimize their product at the expense of external support. In their case, I don't see why they would trust their core busines to an external vendor.
eBay went a different route. They use a large amount of external support for their product. However, look at the news for eBay or talk to an eBay engineer-- they constantly have technical problems, the site occasionally has major user-facing bugs, it's not unusual for 1000 customers to get eaten up in a server crash.
eBay & Google are in two different markets. Google was a latecomer to the highly-competitive Search arena, and is facing off against giants like Yahoo & Microsoft. They need to have a maximum-optimized quality product, which you can only get with internal support.
eBay is the only large online auction vendor, and has no competitors that are as threatening as Google's competitors. This means that they can use external support to save money, but it means a lower quality technical product.
i.e.If you can't get it right, there's no one else to come in and fix it for you.
I suggest we change the name to "Low-Cost" software, as in "It's a lower cost to your freedoms", or "Sure, you can use Microsoft Windows, but their anti-piracy software spy on you and demand a high-cost in freedom".
And I mean, it's less pedantic then saying "GNU" or "Free" right?
The issue is that you're working without a safety net. If things go really wrong, there's no backup army of specially trained techs to run in and fix things.
Well, there is a backup Army, and it's you.
Google can have a 4000-node Linux cluster because they have enough staff to maintain and optimize the system (Keep an eye on their job pages to get an idea).
Google also has some highly specalized needs-- some machines only crunch data for the DB, other machines only serve webpages, etc. It's in their interest to optimize the Kernel, OS, Database & Web applications as much as possible. Take a tweak which gains a 1% performance gain, multiply that against 4000 machines, and it's quite an advantage.
There isn't a vendor in the world that can totally support their infrastructure, so Google does it themselves.
Thanks for the correction. It was faster then an Amtrak train, and faster then the BART regional trains in the San Francisco region, which go up to 130kph in some places.
Although, there is a playground on most Amtrak double-decker trains. It usually takes up 1/2 of the lower deck, and has a couple play structures.
Your solution took 3 hours before it became effective!
I found a better solution. It cost a little more then the Adaptive Packet Destructive Filter, but it worked instantly. And there is no risk of electrocution, but I still suggest thick leather gloves, especially if you're heading to the datacenter.
And applying the solution felt really good-- I'm much more relaxed now.
A nation-wide bullet train system might be hard to achieve, but I definately think that high-speed rail service in some smaller regions could be a good thing. Trains certainly aren't perfect, but I would seriously consider a fast train over a plane or driving any day.
I live on the West Coast, and could definately see people using high-speed rail from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, LA to San Francisco and/or Sacramento. SF to Portland & Seattle.
I've ridden on some high-speed rail lines in Germany, Swizerland & Austria, and I would be thrilled if we could get some similar service here in the States. The whole experience was efficient and relaxing. I buy a first-class ticket for $150, walk onto the train, find my reserved seat. The seats are comforatable, I have a ton of room to stretch out, I can get up and walk around at any time, and I have a great view from the large window. The staff are polite, the train is quiet and smooth.
For 8 Euros, I buy a beer, some delicious cooked pork and a candy bar for 8 Euros. My wife & I sit & relax for 5 hours on a trip from Vienna to Frankfurt. It takes less then 5 minutes to get off the train and get my luggage.
I recently flew from Oakland to Seattle & back. The whole experience was a stress-filled nightmare. I had to wait in line for 45 minutes so I could get a ticket from a computer terminal (there were 3 people in front of us). Then we wait another hour in the security line. The flight itself is only 1 hour, but you spend another another 45 minutes strapped to your seat take-off and landing.
I got a teeny bag of pretels & a small cup of orange juice. They sell Budweiser for $4. A can of "import beer" (Heineken) or a bottle wine costs $5.
The seat in front of me is 8 inches from my nose. The fluorescent light above us flickers for the whole flight. The staff yell at the passengers.
It takes 20 minutes to get off the plane, an an hour to get my luggage, all of which has been opened and inspected by Security.
but building fenced lines with elevated crossings would be an astronomical expense.
Maintaining the US road system is also an astronomical expense, but we still do it.
I travelled in Germany & Austria a few years back. The majority of the rail lines were completely un-fenced, or had a simple barbed wire fence keeping the trails seperate from the train rails. I only saw fencing & elevated crossings in the denser areas. They also had a sytem of blinking lights and sirens to warn you of a coming train.
It wasn't unusual to go for a hike or bike ride next to some train tracks, and have a high-speed ICE train flying by at 200kph.
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I remember that Lucas drove a hard bargain, and got a really good deal from San Francisco. The deal was pretty controversial, but most people seem happy with with the deal today.
There was a big competition between several Bay Area cities (and Marin County) to get Lucas to move to their Area. Each City made sweet offers-- cheap rent, pay for some of the upgrades, give Lucas alot of freedom to do what he wanted, etc.
I think SF actually did ask Lucas to help wire parts of the Presidio, but he said no-- and threatened to close the other studio in San Francisco and move to another are altogether.
SF was looking for a large business to redevelop the abandoned land and boost the economy in the area. They actually had trouble getting bids for that particular site for a variety of reasons.
The site where the studio now stands was occupied by Letterman Hospital: a big abandoned, ugly asbestos-filled hospital which wasn't up to earthquake standards, and a large unused parking lot.
I was born in Letterman Hospital, and worked next door to the site for 3 years-- we ran the only T-1 into the Presidio for several years.
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In my experience about 25% of Unix shops will not accept a PDF, ASCII or HTML resume at first. ASCII resumes will get skipped over frequently, and HTML formatting is very problematic on different systems.
The hiring manager could deal with the PDF/ASCII/HTML just fine, but you often need to deal with a recruiter, HR, or a big automated resume system in the middle first, and they frequently want an MS Word-formatted resume.
Sometimes the problem is simple "Oh, I was only looking for Word docs and missed your PDF", but other times the automated system will only accept MS Word formated resumes.
For example, UC Berkeley migrated to a new Peoplesoft resume system in 2003. The new system only accepted MS Word formatted resumes for 6 months. You could input everything by hand using a webform, but only if you removed large chunks of your resume. UCB has had a long association with Unix.
I know of two Fortune-50 companies who will only accept resumes in MS Word format, and they have many AIX & Unix systems.
Installing it is a pain in the ass if you run into any problems.
You should try again. The Linux install process for various distros has really improved-- I used to have all sorts of problems with common hardware (Scroll wheel on the mouse doesn't work, ATI video card not recognized, no USB support, etc).
Recently, I've installed Debian 3.1, Ubuntu 5.0.4 & Windows XP on several different computers.
The Unbuntu install was incredibly simple. Install the CD, boot, hit the enter key a couple times and it just worked. There are no problems on the machine-- the ATI Radeon was recognized, sound works fine, USB ports work, keyboard & mouse both work, network over DHCP was fine, etc. I clicked on the graphical upgrade tool, and Ubuntu upgraded all of my packages while I went and ate lunch. I came back, rebooted and everything worked. I am really impressed. I might want to give this to my parents, if it works with their scanner, color printer & digital camera.
Windows XP was actually be more difficult to install then Ubuntu. During this latest batch of installs, the Windows XP install failed once on each computer. I got a different, obscure error each time. And for each install attempt, I need to enter that darn cryptic product key and had to correct the frustrating typos each time (My brain just doesn't want to deal strange text like X123-IUYU-2314-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH). It's a headache.
Upgrading Windows XP to a secure, stable release requires 6+ reboots if you follow the Microsoft instructions, and I need to startup IE, go to the update website, click on the links, select the packages, etc. every single reboot which is a pain. Again, it's a headache. No lunchbreak for Stefan!
Debian install was fine-- MUCH improved over the 3.0 installation. It's a little technical for a novice user, but again all I had to do was hit enter a couple times; select the appropriate packages, and most everything configures itself-- but I can override the defaults if I want. Great work!
there something else going on?
Google has a very different model then the traditional news sites.
Remember how the News companies work: Traditional news websites & TV stations, like CNN, MSNBC have news editors who pick their news tidbits as they see fit, either subconsciously or purposely, regardless of what the viewers find interesting. They pick the stories based on how much ad revenue the story will bring. This can be a very flawed analysis-- Sometimes they are right on, other times they are way off the mark. Do you ever watch the news and wonder why they spent 30 seconds on an important news story while discussing Star Wars for 3 minutes?
There is a disconnect between what the viewers find interesting, and what the news editors believes that the viewers will find interesting. It's a somewhat flawed model.
News.google.com and the Google Personalized Homepage works differently--there is no news editors. The top news stories make it to the top of the list because people find the stories more interesting, and click on those links more often. Google analyzes the viewer's behavior to determine which headlines should be at the top of the page. Everything is done programmatically, and some people claim it's more democratic.
For instance, the morning of the Spanish Train Bombings the Spanish Government first blamed the bombings on the Basque separatists. As such, the news was not very interesting to the news editors at CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, etc. The big news stations and news websites were mostly discussing results of American Idol and the Laci Peterson Murder Trial. Later, when Al Qaida entered the picture, the news stations started covering the Train Bombings nonstop. All of a
On the other hand, News.google.com always had the headlines in the correct order-- as the visitors selected the news-- Spanish Train Bombings were top topics, Laci Peterson & American Idol were way at the bottom of the list. Google's model works pretty well.
I remember this pretty clearly-- I could not find any news on the Train Bombings for an hour, except for one line of scrolling text at the bottom of the screen.
Sure, you can do that too. I'm just suggesting one way to make the order unique across multiple systems. But if you just use the customer ID + the transaction ID, it is possible you will end up with two identical UIDs. It's incredibly unlikely in the submitter's scenario.
... it was just a way to make the number unique based on the system. The facility number would be listed elsewhere.
I wasn't suggesting that someone would need to parse the input of 01.1000
Whatever solution you choose, be sure to give each DB entry a unique identifier that is unique across systems, and make sure the identifier does not change (E.g. Don't use the customer's name, phone number or any other changeable information).
One such solution: Each customer transaction has an internal ID number, like "Order #1000". Each system prepends it's own identifier to the order number, so order #1000 made on System 03 will have a UID of 03.1000. 03.1000 won't conflict with order #1000 made on system 02, because the latter UID is 02.1000.
Using a unique internal UID also lets you keep all order history around. If th customer wants to cancel their order and retry, you simply mark 03.1000 as cancelled, and start a new order with 03.1001.
This may seem obvious to you, but I can't tell you how many times I've seen a product fail because the development team decided to use the customer's name/phone number/address as the UID, which meant the customer couldn't change their name/phone number/address without breaking the index or other features in the DB. Not sure why, but this seems to be a common problem in databases.
Simple! You simply log into the access point and type 'eject' at the command prompt. Then look for the Access Point with the CD-Tray open...
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Hey, if it works for a maze of Linux machines
But in all hoestly, you probably want a directional antenna as the other posters are suggesting. However, I suggest you get 2-3 volunteers, each with their own directional antenna. It will be easier to triangulate the signal if you have 3 folks coming in from 3 different angles.
As the owner of GmailTips.com, I'm sure you will appreciate the irony of my post :)
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I've known a couple family groups who ended up using Yahoo Groups for this very purpose. It was the cheapest and simplest solution. Do you really want to host a web/email service and provide technical support to your family? (Not that there's anything wrong with that)
I've run two dozen different lists through them for a variety of groups (Work alumni groups, self-help groups for job seekers, geographically dispersed groups, etc). Each time we debated what services to use, Yahoo Groups won out because it had the most complete feature set and was the easiest to use. Nobody really cared about having a full-fledged CMS--they just wanted to be able to post stories, comments via email or the web.
Yahoo Groups is good enough, with a few caveats.
Yahoo groups supports comments & stories as regular old posts, photos & calendars. The group members can receive the posts via email or on the web, which makes it simple if they just want to use their regular email.
It doesn't have a good secure interface, the default login screen is HTTP, but you can log in via HTTPS as well. The groups can be invisible to outsiders, closed to non-subscribers, etc. Not sure if that's what you meant by a 'secure interface'.
The solution is not open-source, it's not something you can custom host, they have ads, and you need a Yahoo account to use the advanced features (I think).
Where are they now?
They're busy running a very big church, according to some folks.
BBC has these interesting Terms of Use here. Obviously they can't enforce these Terms, so I wonder what their purpose was:
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The BBC granted you a 7-day, non-exclusive licence to download this Beethoven Experience audio.
You may not copy, reproduce, edit, adapt, alter, republish, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use this audio in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use.
Obviously these new safety measures aren't safe enough!
I hearby propose that NASA create a new covering to cover the existing "window-cover", to ensure that the existing "window-cover" isn't damaged while it's protecting the actual window.
I love my Gorilla Rack workbench. Hard to find a better workbench for $99. Mine was American made, which is rare these days.
Home Depot sells a similar workbench for $150, and it's crap. Sharp corners, sharp sheet-metal. Ouch!
When I got the workbench, I was a missing part (Orchard Supply's fault, not Gorilla Rack). I didn't know what it looked like but they worked with me to figure it out. Gorilla Rack's customer support was fast, helpful & courteous-- I was really amazed considering this is just a workbench.
The steel parts are quite solid. There are no sharp edges on the sheet metal, and the corners are all rounded. The composition-board tabletop and shelftop are good enough (a little weak) and easy to replace if/when they get ruined.
The workbench is easy to assemble once you get a hold of a rubber mallet. Took less then an hour.
However, unless you have a ton of computer equipment, their shelving systems are probably overkill. Do you really have that much stuff?
GET RID of Sports.
I have no problem with sports in public school. Exercise is good, and sports makes exercise fun for many people. I know other people don't enjoy it, and that's fine too.
But in most high schools, the football & basketball programs receive MUCH more money then the other programs.
How about we just get rid of this unequal funding. It's totally unfair that a school will build a new, expensive football stadium but will cancel the music & arts programs due to 'lack of funding'.
Maybe the football players should hold a bake sale or do other fundraisers-- that's what we had to do for the band class & the track program. The football players never had to do that.
The funding should be balanced between the programs.
For the record: I was pretty bad in sports, but I was in track. I did it for fun. I was picked on by some football jocks, and was friends with others.
It's a rather sensationalist headline. He's not really ditching his firewall, he's replacing the one border firewall with multiple firewalls in the internal network, and is keeping the production environment isolated from the non-production (Office & Development) networks.
He removed the firewall between the Production Environment and the Internel, and is replacing it with several firewalls on the internal network. I count 4 firewalls-- One between the Webservers & Application server, a second firewall between the Application server and DB server, a third firewall between the production environment and non-production environments; and he discusses using ACLs to isolate subnets -- that's conceptually the same thing as a firewall.
But that's not a very new concept, and even with his plan, it still seems like you'd be more secure if you have an external firewall on the added network.
What's the harm in adding one more firewall and only allowing traffic on the HTTP port, HTTPS port and possibly VPN? It's cheap insurance just in case someone made a mistake and left some services running on one of the machines.
managers never looked at any of the computer files that were logged.
So if they were keylogging, but weren't looking at the logs what were they looking at? Number of keystrokes? Counting keystokes isn't a great way to measure performance, because it penalizes people who are more proficient at the keyboard.
We don't know the details of the case, but it seems like the employeers said that they were using a keylogger to measure performance. This is doubtful, because there are many better ways to measure performance (Did the job get done?).
It's more likely that they were trying to monitor the actual activites of the employee.
I was looking at this a few weeks ago (Using Subversion 1.2).
This official document says that SVN only supports a subset of WebDAV & DeltaV. Has that hindered your usage at all? I'm not sure if the document is up-to-date
I know that WebDAV support was greatly enhanced with the 1.2 version, but I haven't had a chance to do much research yet.
Well sometimes...
But for certain other effects, you may need to right click on "My Computer", select Manage, expand "Visual Effects" in the left-hand panel, and then right click on the appropriate effect in the right hand panel, select properties, click the appropriate Tab on top, and THEN disable the effect.
Got that?
No, you are the front lines army. The backup army was the reason you were paying the annual fees. Without those annual fees, there is no backup army.
Well, sometimes even with the annual fees there is no backup army.
In my experience with small to mid-sized businesses, external vendors can't support much beyond the core product. If you customize the site beyond a minimum level, the vendor can't support it well (But they will still take your money).
In Google's case, they made the choice to optimize their product at the expense of external support. In their case, I don't see why they would trust their core busines to an external vendor.
eBay went a different route. They use a large amount of external support for their product. However, look at the news for eBay or talk to an eBay engineer-- they constantly have technical problems, the site occasionally has major user-facing bugs, it's not unusual for 1000 customers to get eaten up in a server crash.
eBay & Google are in two different markets. Google was a latecomer to the highly-competitive Search arena, and is facing off against giants like Yahoo & Microsoft. They need to have a maximum-optimized quality product, which you can only get with internal support.
eBay is the only large online auction vendor, and has no competitors that are as threatening as Google's competitors. This means that they can use external support to save money, but it means a lower quality technical product.
i.e.If you can't get it right, there's no one else to come in and fix it for you.
I absolutely agree.
I suggest we change the name to "Low-Cost" software, as in "It's a lower cost to your freedoms", or "Sure, you can use Microsoft Windows, but their anti-piracy software spy on you and demand a high-cost in freedom".
And I mean, it's less pedantic then saying "GNU" or "Free" right?
No, honestly. I have a few friends who develop open-source software...
The issue is that you're working without a safety net. If things go really wrong, there's no backup army of specially trained techs to run in and fix things.
Well, there is a backup Army, and it's you.
Google can have a 4000-node Linux cluster because they have enough staff to maintain and optimize the system (Keep an eye on their job pages to get an idea).
Google also has some highly specalized needs-- some machines only crunch data for the DB, other machines only serve webpages, etc. It's in their interest to optimize the Kernel, OS, Database & Web applications as much as possible. Take a tweak which gains a 1% performance gain, multiply that against 4000 machines, and it's quite an advantage.
There isn't a vendor in the world that can totally support their infrastructure, so Google does it themselves.
Thanks for the correction. It was faster then an Amtrak train, and faster then the BART regional trains in the San Francisco region, which go up to 130kph in some places.
Although, there is a playground on most Amtrak double-decker trains. It usually takes up 1/2 of the lower deck, and has a couple play structures.
I have a laptop & wireless, you insensitive clod!
Your solution took 3 hours before it became effective!
I found a better solution. It cost a little more then the Adaptive Packet Destructive Filter, but it worked instantly. And there is no risk of electrocution, but I still suggest thick leather gloves, especially if you're heading to the datacenter.
And applying the solution felt really good-- I'm much more relaxed now.
A nation-wide bullet train system might be hard to achieve, but I definately think that high-speed rail service in some smaller regions could be a good thing. Trains certainly aren't perfect, but I would seriously consider a fast train over a plane or driving any day.
I live on the West Coast, and could definately see people using high-speed rail from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, LA to San Francisco and/or Sacramento. SF to Portland & Seattle.
I've ridden on some high-speed rail lines in Germany, Swizerland & Austria, and I would be thrilled if we could get some similar service here in the States. The whole experience was efficient and relaxing. I buy a first-class ticket for $150, walk onto the train, find my reserved seat. The seats are comforatable, I have a ton of room to stretch out, I can get up and walk around at any time, and I have a great view from the large window. The staff are polite, the train is quiet and smooth.
For 8 Euros, I buy a beer, some delicious cooked pork and a candy bar for 8 Euros. My wife & I sit & relax for 5 hours on a trip from Vienna to Frankfurt. It takes less then 5 minutes to get off the train and get my luggage.
I recently flew from Oakland to Seattle & back. The whole experience was a stress-filled nightmare. I had to wait in line for 45 minutes so I could get a ticket from a computer terminal (there were 3 people in front of us). Then we wait another hour in the security line. The flight itself is only 1 hour, but you spend another another 45 minutes strapped to your seat take-off and landing.
I got a teeny bag of pretels & a small cup of orange juice. They sell Budweiser for $4. A can of "import beer" (Heineken) or a bottle wine costs $5.
The seat in front of me is 8 inches from my nose. The fluorescent light above us flickers for the whole flight. The staff yell at the passengers.
It takes 20 minutes to get off the plane, an an hour to get my luggage, all of which has been opened and inspected by Security.
but building fenced lines with elevated crossings would be an astronomical expense.
Maintaining the US road system is also an astronomical expense, but we still do it.
I travelled in Germany & Austria a few years back. The majority of the rail lines were completely un-fenced, or had a simple barbed wire fence keeping the trails seperate from the train rails. I only saw fencing & elevated crossings in the denser areas. They also had a sytem of blinking lights and sirens to warn you of a coming train.
It wasn't unusual to go for a hike or bike ride next to some train tracks, and have a high-speed ICE train flying by at 200kph.
I remember that Lucas drove a hard bargain, and got a really good deal from San Francisco. The deal was pretty controversial, but most people seem happy with with the deal today.
There was a big competition between several Bay Area cities (and Marin County) to get Lucas to move to their Area. Each City made sweet offers-- cheap rent, pay for some of the upgrades, give Lucas alot of freedom to do what he wanted, etc.
I think SF actually did ask Lucas to help wire parts of the Presidio, but he said no-- and threatened to close the other studio in San Francisco and move to another are altogether.
SF was looking for a large business to redevelop the abandoned land and boost the economy in the area. They actually had trouble getting bids for that particular site for a variety of reasons.
The site where the studio now stands was occupied by Letterman Hospital: a big abandoned, ugly asbestos-filled hospital which wasn't up to earthquake standards, and a large unused parking lot.
I was born in Letterman Hospital, and worked next door to the site for 3 years-- we ran the only T-1 into the Presidio for several years.