Why would anybody want to carry a credit card 3x the size of their other cards?
Re:this SMTP server vs Qmail and Sendmail
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Postfix 2.1 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I still don't like the license - but it is damn fine software.
It may be damn fine software, but its creator has decided that he doesn't like the existing init systems on linux/BSD and so has written his own. That right there took qmail out of consideration. I don't care if he is right or wrong, I have no intention of installing a second init system just so I can run his software. The creators of Postfix integrate beautifully with linux standards, Redhat even provides a well integrated postfix package (install the rpm's then run 'redhat-switch-mail'). Not to mention the awesome 'mailgraph' utility - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/ for charting stats!
And best of all, its wicked fast. I can handle 100's of msg per minute on a 500Mhz box, which I learned the hard way that sendmail can't.
However, it must have gotten someone at Microsoft scared, else they wouldn't have settled it.
I'm not sure. They may have just as well want Minnesota to sign a document with terms that they never would have agreed to under normal circumstances. MN gets a cash payout, but inadvertently indemifies MS against all future action, lest they have to pay back the money. We all know MS can be sneaky about the fine print.
play count field in itune somehow confirms this as some song are played more often then others and in some case, some song will not get selected at all. if a truly random shuffling, it would guess all song has the same chance of being played.
Sorry grasshopper, you lack understanding of true randomness. Once song A has been played (hence has a playcount of 1) It is just as likely to be chosen as any other song, and therefore the odds of acheiving a playcount of two are double those of any song not yet played.
Really, if the playcount was even it would either indicate the player was tracking "played songs", commonly called "without replacement" since that song won't be in the pool of songs eligible to be played untill all remaining songs have been played. Which really isn't random, because once song A is played you know it wont be played again for a while. Which isn't very random now, is it?
Think of it this way. Craps is random, because after you set the point by rolling a six, the odds of rolling a six are the same as they were before you set the point. Blackjack is not random, because once the dealer gives me the queen of hearts no once else is can get that card (unless its a multi-deck shoe is used, and then it still affects the odds)
You don't think a large glass case full of possibly colored clear liquid bubbling away like mad while you're working would look cool?
I'm thinking more of a Chemestry set environment. The fluid boils off then condenses into those cool spiral glass tubes (a glass radiator, in effect) then drips back down into the resevoir.
Actually I think most people will believe the computer records and think altering them is prohibively complex requiring advanced technical skills to acomplish.
I think that you've missed the point. We're not talking about hand editing log files, adjusting time stamps, or anything complex here. Almost all of these store systems have a menu item for "adjust employee time" for the reasons I've mentioned. Ideally they log all the changes, so a manager that changed almost every entry might get flagged, but it has been made intentionally easy for managers to adjust time. It has to be, because it is something they are expected to do, sometimes folks make mistakes.
Given that the ease of adjusting employee time could be demostrated for the court, it comes down to a simple he said / she said. They say their records are right, you say your records are right. Somebody needs to have some corraborating evidence, preferably you since a manager is more "believable" than a disgruntled employee.
But realistically, why screw around with it? Nobody wants to hire a whistle blower, even honest employers. Report the problem to the head office, tell them you are concerned he's exposing the company to the risk of a lawsuit. Then find a new job.
why crush them when you could just sell them to cover the fine.
You'd have to sue for ownership of the vehicle, wait for court dates, and even then you'll be luck to get wholesale on a car some guy didnt want enough to pick up.
Crush it and he still retains ownership of the vehicle, its just easier to store.
Re:Red Hat's Going on
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Red Hat Recap
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· Score: 2, Informative
What you can't do is buy one copy, install it on 500 machines, and expect RedHat to support all 500: that was slaughtering their Linux tech support.
Folks with 500 systems don't bother RH's tech support, except possibly with kickstart issues to automate their rollouts. I've gone and bought copies so I could call and ask questions (well, once, I learned my lesson after that). They help with basic install issues only. Redhat's Bugzilla system is a far more useful means of getting support, but at that level I'm more assisting with bugfixes than asking for support.
Now, they claim to help with setup of services under RHEL, I haven't tried. But the big service they offer is "Up2date", which lets you easily manage and update packages on all you systems. Its cool, but $700/year value it is not.
Not that I'm Anti-Redhat. They have helped stabilize and legitimaize all sorts of packages, the Redhat Package Manager (RPM) works great, even if I need something custom compiled I'll tend to rebuild an RPM rather than manually compile and install. By providing vendors a widespread and tested distribution, they allowed vendors to build apps and drivers that didn't involve publishing a bunch of source code and giving away trade secrets (no matter how lame).
So you can sue and use your journal as evidence? Who's going to believe that it is more reliable than the computer records?
Unless there is an audit trail every time the manager edits the time, I'd say most folks would believe the handwritten records. Only if there was no easy way to "adjust" hours would computer record be more credible.
Problem is, many folks will forget to punch in or out, punch in before they change, or otherwise try to game the system in their favor. Therefore a manager needs a easy method to account for this, wether it is done for simple forgetfulness or in an outright attempt to defraud the employer.
What we have here is folks seeking a technology solution to an HR problem. Even if you find a perfect technology solution, a manager can still intimidate employees into punching out early, working off the clock, etc. so long as there folks desparate for work, employers of last resort will try this; note that this ensures they get the cruft of the labor pool, will offer poor service, have employee theft problem. Turns into a vicious cycle, since this will reinforce their view that employyees are a shifty lot that deserve this abuse....
Star Trek style Transporters. The government has them in secret underground bases, but the aliens dont want us to know about them, so they force the government to keep them hidden.
And remember not to flash your headlights at idiots who dont have their headlights on at night because they might really be gang memebers who will follow you home and kill you.
While this wouldn't the the first time Apple products were targeted by theives, it has the funny sound of geurrilla marketing by Dell or some other competitor. "Yeah, we'll spread a rumor that their product causes cancer! No, they wont buy that. I know, muggers, no NY City muggers will come to your town and kill you for your iPod."
I remember it was a "non-violent" game (the "movie" was non-violent as well. I remember Mike running around and spraying bad guys with what we called "magic fairy dust" (it was from the movie appearantly); Im not sure but I think it made the bad guys dance so you could walk around them; then at some point there was a big dance off were everybody ended up leaning way over, but only Mike could hold it.
We need more people willing to face the consequences of their actions.
So what we need is a world where criminals stop by the police station and turn themselves in? Or are they free to wait till the police nab them, whereupon they are supposed to meekly surrender and plead guilty? No wait, its ok to plea bargain, so they should maintain their innocence until procescutors offer a good plea baragin package.
News flash Dan, this is how 90% of cases go. Outside of a few fruitcakes, most folks cop pleas, sometimes even when they are innocent, to avoid the risks and costs that a jury trial brings. How sure are you those 7 to 12 people aren't just going to decide finding you guilty is the fastest way to get home to their kids? That you just look guilty. That somebody did this to their sister and now you're going to pay.
Personally, if I'm charged with a crime I don't care wether he's scummy or not, I just want hime to get me off. If he gets me off on a technicality, what do I care? I will get no satisfaction sitting in jail knowing I was innocent and my lawyer was kind and good hearted individual who spent too much time waiting for innocent people to search him out, and not enough time in court gaining experience.
Personally I like the folks who think they have a photographic menu, but don't. They argue for hours that I said or did something that just plain insane when you know the background that they don't.
So personally, I think most people who claim to have "photographic" memories are full o' crap. Maybe you remember a few things really clearly, but unless you can repeat a conversation VERBATUM and I can match it to a recording made without your knowledge, then I might start to believe Photographic memories are for real, and not the product of arogant pricks who insist only THEY remember conversations correctly
In fact, I would wager that there are more newsgroup users now than in '85
You'd win that bet in a landslide. Usenet doubles about every two years at least, last I saw. In 1985 I doubt there were many more than 40k internet users, now there are that many newsgroups.
Sorry if this sounds like an ad for Sony, but I have been very happy with my Sony mp3 cd player
Thats because you got a Sony MP3 player, and were not misled by the salesman to buy a Sony Digital Music Player instead. My one upside is that I paid a third of the selling price because it was open box; I might not have realized it wasn't an MP3 player until it was too late to return it because the lame software was Win95 only and couldn't access my MP3 collection stored in Win2k NTFS. Of course, I'm now stuck with a lame Digital Music Player that looks real cool but is too big a pin in the arse to change the music on regularly
policy about accidents while in violation of safety code is still in place to this day.
So I'm confused. Bush ended the "lockout" and sent the Union back to work. Did Bush order them to stop obeying the safety regs? Did they fire those democratic union boys and hire a bunch of non-union scabs who would ignore the safety regulations?
Or did they maintain the policy about the safety codes and hire enough people to do the work? I'm just not sure why there is a problem with people obeying the safety regulations religiously; while sure nobody had died yet from poor quality work, why should the company wait until 4 guys returning from lunch get squashed by a shipping container to take strong measures enforcing the rules? Hard hats really wont help much when a 10 ten shipping container lands on your head.
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Why would anybody want to carry a credit card 3x the size of their other cards?
It may be damn fine software, but its creator has decided that he doesn't like the existing init systems on linux/BSD and so has written his own. That right there took qmail out of consideration. I don't care if he is right or wrong, I have no intention of installing a second init system just so I can run his software. The creators of Postfix integrate beautifully with linux standards, Redhat even provides a well integrated postfix package (install the rpm's then run 'redhat-switch-mail'). Not to mention the awesome 'mailgraph' utility - http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~dws/software/mailgraph/ for charting stats!
And best of all, its wicked fast. I can handle 100's of msg per minute on a 500Mhz box, which I learned the hard way that sendmail can't.
uhh...no, they don't.
These aren't the droids you're looking for...
I'm not sure. They may have just as well want Minnesota to sign a document with terms that they never would have agreed to under normal circumstances. MN gets a cash payout, but inadvertently indemifies MS against all future action, lest they have to pay back the money. We all know MS can be sneaky about the fine print.
Sorry grasshopper, you lack understanding of true randomness. Once song A has been played (hence has a playcount of 1) It is just as likely to be chosen as any other song, and therefore the odds of acheiving a playcount of two are double those of any song not yet played.
Really, if the playcount was even it would either indicate the player was tracking "played songs", commonly called "without replacement" since that song won't be in the pool of songs eligible to be played untill all remaining songs have been played. Which really isn't random, because once song A is played you know it wont be played again for a while. Which isn't very random now, is it?
Think of it this way. Craps is random, because after you set the point by rolling a six, the odds of rolling a six are the same as they were before you set the point. Blackjack is not random, because once the dealer gives me the queen of hearts no once else is can get that card (unless its a multi-deck shoe is used, and then it still affects the odds)
I'm thinking more of a Chemestry set environment. The fluid boils off then condenses into those cool spiral glass tubes (a glass radiator, in effect) then drips back down into the resevoir.
Space efficent? No.
Cool? You Betcha.
Don't blame Jar-Jar on the actor. He played a part he was paid to play, he didn't design the offensive character or write the inane dialogue.
I think that you've missed the point. We're not talking about hand editing log files, adjusting time stamps, or anything complex here. Almost all of these store systems have a menu item for "adjust employee time" for the reasons I've mentioned. Ideally they log all the changes, so a manager that changed almost every entry might get flagged, but it has been made intentionally easy for managers to adjust time. It has to be, because it is something they are expected to do, sometimes folks make mistakes.
Given that the ease of adjusting employee time could be demostrated for the court, it comes down to a simple he said / she said. They say their records are right, you say your records are right. Somebody needs to have some corraborating evidence, preferably you since a manager is more "believable" than a disgruntled employee.
But realistically, why screw around with it? Nobody wants to hire a whistle blower, even honest employers. Report the problem to the head office, tell them you are concerned he's exposing the company to the risk of a lawsuit. Then find a new job.
You'd have to sue for ownership of the vehicle, wait for court dates, and even then you'll be luck to get wholesale on a car some guy didnt want enough to pick up.
Crush it and he still retains ownership of the vehicle, its just easier to store.
Folks with 500 systems don't bother RH's tech support, except possibly with kickstart issues to automate their rollouts. I've gone and bought copies so I could call and ask questions (well, once, I learned my lesson after that). They help with basic install issues only. Redhat's Bugzilla system is a far more useful means of getting support, but at that level I'm more assisting with bugfixes than asking for support.
Now, they claim to help with setup of services under RHEL, I haven't tried. But the big service they offer is "Up2date", which lets you easily manage and update packages on all you systems. Its cool, but $700/year value it is not.
Not that I'm Anti-Redhat. They have helped stabilize and legitimaize all sorts of packages, the Redhat Package Manager (RPM) works great, even if I need something custom compiled I'll tend to rebuild an RPM rather than manually compile and install. By providing vendors a widespread and tested distribution, they allowed vendors to build apps and drivers that didn't involve publishing a bunch of source code and giving away trade secrets (no matter how lame).
Unless there is an audit trail every time the manager edits the time, I'd say most folks would believe the handwritten records. Only if there was no easy way to "adjust" hours would computer record be more credible.
Problem is, many folks will forget to punch in or out, punch in before they change, or otherwise try to game the system in their favor. Therefore a manager needs a easy method to account for this, wether it is done for simple forgetfulness or in an outright attempt to defraud the employer.
What we have here is folks seeking a technology solution to an HR problem. Even if you find a perfect technology solution, a manager can still intimidate employees into punching out early, working off the clock, etc. so long as there folks desparate for work, employers of last resort will try this; note that this ensures they get the cruft of the labor pool, will offer poor service, have employee theft problem. Turns into a vicious cycle, since this will reinforce their view that employyees are a shifty lot that deserve this abuse....
You can try to hide the Dulce Base conspiracy all you want. Just tell me, are you working for the government or for the aliens?
Note they are related but distinct from the alt.chrome.the.moon crowd.
Asphalt, not concrete. Concrete requires expansion joints, which can cause problems at 300+mph, even in hypercars. Read the FAQ.
Star Trek style Transporters. The government has them in secret underground bases, but the aliens dont want us to know about them, so they force the government to keep them hidden.
Its hard to imagine, because Police Chiefs are never fooled
While this wouldn't the the first time Apple products were targeted by theives, it has the funny sound of geurrilla marketing by Dell or some other competitor. "Yeah, we'll spread a rumor that their product causes cancer! No, they wont buy that. I know, muggers, no NY City muggers will come to your town and kill you for your iPod."
Definately mega weird.
So what we need is a world where criminals stop by the police station and turn themselves in? Or are they free to wait till the police nab them, whereupon they are supposed to meekly surrender and plead guilty? No wait, its ok to plea bargain, so they should maintain their innocence until procescutors offer a good plea baragin package.
News flash Dan, this is how 90% of cases go. Outside of a few fruitcakes, most folks cop pleas, sometimes even when they are innocent, to avoid the risks and costs that a jury trial brings. How sure are you those 7 to 12 people aren't just going to decide finding you guilty is the fastest way to get home to their kids? That you just look guilty. That somebody did this to their sister and now you're going to pay.
So personally, I think most people who claim to have "photographic" memories are full o' crap. Maybe you remember a few things really clearly, but unless you can repeat a conversation VERBATUM and I can match it to a recording made without your knowledge, then I might start to believe Photographic memories are for real, and not the product of arogant pricks who insist only THEY remember conversations correctly
You'd win that bet in a landslide. Usenet doubles about every two years at least, last I saw. In 1985 I doubt there were many more than 40k internet users, now there are that many newsgroups.
Is there no end to its miracle powers?
Thats because you got a Sony MP3 player, and were not misled by the salesman to buy a Sony Digital Music Player instead. My one upside is that I paid a third of the selling price because it was open box; I might not have realized it wasn't an MP3 player until it was too late to return it because the lame software was Win95 only and couldn't access my MP3 collection stored in Win2k NTFS. Of course, I'm now stuck with a lame Digital Music Player that looks real cool but is too big a pin in the arse to change the music on regularly
I'm very wary of buying Sony products now.
So I'm confused. Bush ended the "lockout" and sent the Union back to work. Did Bush order them to stop obeying the safety regs? Did they fire those democratic union boys and hire a bunch of non-union scabs who would ignore the safety regulations?
Or did they maintain the policy about the safety codes and hire enough people to do the work? I'm just not sure why there is a problem with people obeying the safety regulations religiously; while sure nobody had died yet from poor quality work, why should the company wait until 4 guys returning from lunch get squashed by a shipping container to take strong measures enforcing the rules? Hard hats really wont help much when a 10 ten shipping container lands on your head.