...why haven't any of the geeks at school racked it yet?
Change a straight-A student's grades to Fs, and see how quickly they implement better security measures.
I mean, hell, one would think that the administration would realize that when it comes to this sort of thing, some of their students are probably smarter than them.
For the same reason you probably don't want your ISP keeping permanent records of every site you've ever visited, ever. Privacy is a necessary component of intellectual freedom.
I work on two systems at my job. One's an actual PC, the other's a Wyse terminal. I can set my preferences on the PC, but I can't on the Wyse.
I've got Google set as my "autosearch" site on the PC (and in Mozilla at home, natch.) Sometimes, when I'm working on the Wyse, I forget that I'm stuck with the W2K defaults, and attempt to do an autosearch. I get MSN.
I've never seen a more piss poor excuse for a search engine in my life. Hell, I got better results with Altavista in 1996, back before AV even had their own domain name.
Results are king. Product integration is highly overrated.
Dunno... my girlfriend is kinda an HSN junkie, and she assures me that their return policy is the shit, if you're willing to call up and holler at them for awhile.
Not that I care, because I used her account to buy mine...
Use your mouse to find the teeny tiny spot on the Word form for whatever you need.
Save said (50K) form to your network drive.
Email supply department, with form attached.
That's business with.Net!
Why people think that that shit is somehow superior to [tab][tab][tab]Y[enter][enter] on a lightning fast dumb terminal is beyond me. And I was bottle-fed on Windows.
We're in the middle of migrating from an AS/400 office/custom library catalog system to MS Office + MS SQL on W2k.
I've been here five years, and I don't recall the AS/400 system ever going down. Terminal servers are down, Citrix servers are, Excahnge servers are down... three of four times a week.
Sure, I don't have to use Officevision any more, but still, I can work pretty fuckin fast with those old apps. I hope to god they keep payroll on them...
Yup.
I've had luck with Unix Shell Programming, by Lowell Jay Arthur (Wiley, 1990). It's got a pretty good intro to the various tools in addition to the meat on scripting. Oddly enough, it was the only book in the library on the topic, and I've been able to renew it for the past six months. I guess people are getting scared off by the publication date.
I'm gonna have to disagree with the contention that there needs to be a focus on the desktops as opposed to the command stuff.
I've been using RH8 almost exclusively since I first installed it on my notebook six months ago, and I'm of the opinion that Gnome and KDE should be no problem at all for the new user who's even mildly technically inclined.
On the other hand, I sure as hell could have used some clear, concise info on basic command line stuff, as well as a basic introduction to common multimedia tools. Most of the n00b guides seem to spend half the book on installation, a few chapters jumping around the terminal (usually with not-immediately-clear examples), then the remainder on the desktops and the totally frickin obvious apps. I mean, if I couln't figure out how to use Netscape on my own, a new OS is probably a bit outta my league, innit?
Anybody have any idea how much the CF 56k modems draw? Despite my comment above, I'll be trailing a 24' phone cord to the can for awhile. DSL and wireless are gonna have to wait till I'm smoke-free for three months...
Yeah... I meant a recorder.
I've got an MZR500 that my girlfriend bought me (right before the NetMD stuff came out and the R-series got discounted, natch.) Since 90% of my music collection is on vinyl, anyway, I use it mostly as a really cool cassette deck.
You know, I've often wondered why they haven't developed the ability to digitally transfer files from computer to minidisc, and minidisc to computer...
They do, though IIRC, you're limited to 1x. If you look at the release dates of some of those models, you'll note that MD-Data hasn't exactly been hot at Sony R&D for awhile.
Now, if only I could get a NetMD player to work in Linux...
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Change a straight-A student's grades to Fs, and see how quickly they implement better security measures.
I mean, hell, one would think that the administration would realize that when it comes to this sort of thing, some of their students are probably smarter than them.
See the Library Bill o' Rights for a more concise explanation than I could ever give.
--kotj.mf, para-professional library drone
I work on two systems at my job. One's an actual PC, the other's a Wyse terminal. I can set my preferences on the PC, but I can't on the Wyse.
I've got Google set as my "autosearch" site on the PC (and in Mozilla at home, natch.) Sometimes, when I'm working on the Wyse, I forget that I'm stuck with the W2K defaults, and attempt to do an autosearch. I get MSN.
I've never seen a more piss poor excuse for a search engine in my life. Hell, I got better results with Altavista in 1996, back before AV even had their own domain name.
Results are king. Product integration is highly overrated.
Not that I care, because I used her account to buy mine...
That's business with
Why people think that that shit is somehow superior to [tab][tab][tab]Y[enter][enter] on a lightning fast dumb terminal is beyond me. And I was bottle-fed on Windows.
You must work at the same place I do.
We're in the middle of migrating from an AS/400 office/custom library catalog system to MS Office + MS SQL on W2k.
I've been here five years, and I don't recall the AS/400 system ever going down. Terminal servers are down, Citrix servers are, Excahnge servers are down... three of four times a week.
Sure, I don't have to use Officevision any more, but still, I can work pretty fuckin fast with those old apps. I hope to god they keep payroll on them...
Yup.
I've had luck with Unix Shell Programming, by Lowell Jay Arthur (Wiley, 1990). It's got a pretty good intro to the various tools in addition to the meat on scripting. Oddly enough, it was the only book in the library on the topic, and I've been able to renew it for the past six months. I guess people are getting scared off by the publication date.
Thanks for the tip, Telex.
I'm gonna have to disagree with the contention that there needs to be a focus on the desktops as opposed to the command stuff.
I've been using RH8 almost exclusively since I first installed it on my notebook six months ago, and I'm of the opinion that Gnome and KDE should be no problem at all for the new user who's even mildly technically inclined.
On the other hand, I sure as hell could have used some clear, concise info on basic command line stuff, as well as a basic introduction to common multimedia tools. Most of the n00b guides seem to spend half the book on installation, a few chapters jumping around the terminal (usually with not-immediately-clear examples), then the remainder on the desktops and the totally frickin obvious apps. I mean, if I couln't figure out how to use Netscape on my own, a new OS is probably a bit outta my league, innit?
Thank god for linuxnewbie.org....
Anybody have any idea how much the CF 56k modems draw? Despite my comment above, I'll be trailing a 24' phone cord to the can for awhile. DSL and wireless are gonna have to wait till I'm smoke-free for three months...
Exactly. Slap a CF 802.11b card in there, and surf the web on the crapper. The Information Superhighway is truly upon us.
And if I drain the battery doing that, I've got more problems than I thought...
I've been trying to stream some ogg files at really low bitrates (24 nominal) on my site via straight .m3u, ie, no streaming server.
It works just peachy in xmms, but Winamp (2 and 3) just downloads the playlist and chokes; v3 will say it's trying to play a 300+ kbs, 12 sec file.
My host won't let me install a streaming server, and I'd really rather use ogg than mp3.
Anybody got any ideas? They don't seem to have any at #vorbis. Danke.
Plus, you've got TURBONEGRO.
Yeah... I meant a recorder. I've got an MZR500 that my girlfriend bought me (right before the NetMD stuff came out and the R-series got discounted, natch.) Since 90% of my music collection is on vinyl, anyway, I use it mostly as a really cool cassette deck.
Now, if only I could get a NetMD player to work in Linux...