I have putty on my computer and I run everything through a SOCKS proxy. I have Firefox, Thunderbird (no webmail for me) and iTunes all going through one of my few shells.
I occasionally surf between 0 and 3 hours a day: fark, slashdot, ebay, etc. Last year I received the highest rating that someone of my salary level could. My boss, my coworkers think I'm a magic man, when I'm asked to get something done I get it done as fast as possible. Techno &/or 80's music tends to set a rhythm for my coding, despite internet radio being frowned on (not officially banned). My parents are going through a divorce. I like to e-mail both of them and my siblings during the day, but I like to keep that off of corporate mail. Sometimes I want to win an auction during work and sometimes I just need a detox.
With all due respect, you and your company can go fuck themselves. If I got the lowest rating, then yes, there's a problem. But you and your company are automatically removing people like me because we get stuff done AND we have personal lives.
I'm the same way. It's not that I can't do rote memorization, it just takes longer (however once I do it, it's locked in for good.)
I can remember taking social studies tests in 7th grade. I could remember the page number, where the fact was located on the page, describe the pictures on the page in detail. Everything that was on the page *except* the important date. Same thing for anything that I've experienced. Anything that's happened in my life I can pretty much remember not quite down to what I wore or ate that day. Trust me, it doesn't help win any arguments with girlfriends.
Reading wise I could do this for about anything. In college we had some short story reading comprehension tests in English 101. I think I failed almost every single one. The teacher asked if I was reading the books. I told her every tiny detail about the story, what color shoes X was wearing on page Y. But I could never tell you the questions that she asked.
In my engineering classes, all the notes that I took were just so I could write down what the teacher said. I remember I had one class, statics, where I'd walk in and grab a few sheets out of the recycling bin on the way into class. I'd take notes and do the examples on the paper then on the way out I'd toss everything back out again. (I could argue that statics was one of the easiest BSME courses I've ever taken. It's just vector math and as long as you keep signs correct there were only 2 equations and they both summed to 0.)
Anyone know what the study of this stuff is? I'd love to do some reading up on different learning methods or take some tests just to see 'how' I learn.
BBEdit was it back in the day. Bees knees. But they're still stuck in a world of floating palettes and out of date syntax coloring.
Textmate.... is just amazing. I think I've only scraped the surface of 10% of what it can actually do. The best thing is, if I don't like a keystroke or a syntax coloring, I can change it. I wanted to start writing Matlab. Sure enough, someone has written a bundle for it. There's even a Bundle called 'GetBundle' that will automatically download and update my bundles.
Leaving Textmate off is more than a gross oversight. It invalidates the list:)
[~]:user@debian$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006" Sat Mar 25 09:00:00 CST 2006 [~]:user@debian$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007" Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 CDT 2007
I have dreamhost. What I get for the money is awesome.
Now they are down occasionally. I'm not talking a few hours a week or anything major. But from time to time my host times out. Sometimes it'll be up in a minute (and makes me wonder if it's even on my end). Sometimes I submit a ticket and it turns out to be a burned out NIC or something. I just use it as offsite backup and hosting for some pictures and personal stuff. I wouldn't put anything mission critical on there but they do their job.
They did rework how you can do 'catchall' addresses. You can't forward them to another provider because they were getting flagged for forwarding spam. So I had to come up with a creative work around.
This lets me do a few things: 1) I can set up catchalls. I have slashdot@dh.com. If a company ever starts to spam me I can always ask dream host to bounce all e-mails to an address. 2) Gmail catches a ton of the rest of the spam. Gmail has awesome spam filtering and I put it to work 3) Every e-mail I'll ever receive is archived at Gmail if I ever accidentally delete something I needed. 4) I can still use my imap client at dreamhost. I have a few laptops that I read mail on with a real client, so IMAP is good.
Let me know if you want to sign up, I can get a referral credit.
SFTP or Rsync. FTP is plain text. Even then, you're not out of the water. Everything will be plain text on dreamhost's servers incase your account gets hacked.
See my other post under the great-grandparent. I don't know if linux or windows have anything equivalent to encrypted disk images, but store important stuff like that encrypted.
Windows has an rsync port, but I've never used it, nor have I ever used automatic scheduling on windows. For linux you might be able to hash together a script to tar.bz2 then encrypt stuff (however linux does that sort of stuff), then send it out.
Or just get a Mac and put everything sensitive on an encrypted disk image:)
E-mails, Photos, Writings are saved unencrypted. I'm sure if I ran for president some of the drunken photos could be incriminating, but I'm not to concerned about those.
Taxes, Finances, other important stuff is saved on an encrypted compressed disk image. Sure there is a bit of overhead because if anything changes the whole disk image has to change.
I forget how many bits it is, but I think I set it to the max that Disk Utility.app allowed me to.
I also don't have the password stored in key chain, so every time I want to open these I have to enter my password anyway.
I get: 225.3 GB plus an additional 1GB every week. 2671 GB plus an additional 16GB every week.
In addition I have a home server.
3 times a day my laptop rsyncs everything irreplaceable to the server. 2 times a day the server rsyncs things to other hard drives internally. 1 time a day the server rsyncs everything to my host.
My laptop could be run over tomorrow and I'd only lose maybe a few photos at most. My house could burn down tomorrow and everything I really care about (Family Pictures, College Pictures, Stuff I've Written) will be on my host.
Granted, I don't my host's backup policy. So there is a possibility of global nuclear war, but family photos are the least of my worries.
I'm an "Associate Engineer". I graduated in May 06 with a BSME.
I'm in a rotational program where I will be a glorified intern for 2 years and 'see' the company so that it will help me when I get back to my real job. (It's working. I want to kill some engineers now that I'm in marketing. I will always try to think downstream when I design stuff.)
I grew up with computers from a very young age and I was torn between EE, CS and ME. I took numerous CS and EE electives, but not enough for a minor. However I am working in a Mechatronics / Controls group.
With all the big 3 OSes I'm somewhere in between power user and expert. I, my no means, know as much as those guys that set up the massive servers that work uses. But I do know how to read a HTTP header and know why Firefox is showing me HTML.
My personal nemesis is the layers of abstraction you have from someone that actually knows something and the mentality of those people.
My laptop at work continuously reboots. I ran a memtest on it and narrowed it down to a bad memory chip. IT wants me to send in my laptop. I'm sorry. I don't have time to deal with that down time, so I just put up with it restarting.
The most annoying one is when they redid a few dozen internal webservers. All of a sudden the redirect didn't work (If you went to an internal site and it had been X minutes it redirected you to Corporate Web Login).
I did some research on my own and found that when they upgraded to the newest webserver someone forgot to bring along the configuration. All the redirect websites were being sent out as plain/text. Firefox correctly rendered it as... plain text. When I e-mailed IT about it I got a nice form letter about "Firefox isn't supported, we use IE, etc".
I then copy and pasted curl -v logs of all the websites that were broken. I didn't just tell them what was broken, I told them HOW to fix it. I never got a reply back and everything magically worked within a week.
Sometimes there ARE users out there who know what we're talking about. I'm not asking for admin rights or root access. But I do want to be able to do my job and when your fuckups impede that, it does tick me off. The IT people I know are the ones that seem to have the hardest time saying the two 3 word phrases that every engineer (in my opinion) must learn before leaving college: "I don't know." and "I was wrong."
In the mean time I wrote a greasemonkey script that when it saw the redirect page it sent me to the correct website.
There will come a time when eventually enough people will get fed up with how we are being treated and go back and follow the words of our own fore fathers:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
However, I think that that document will be ruled contraband long before that happens.
Get back to me when men aren't interested in breasts.
That being said, I would say around 3-4 generations (90 - 120 years). There was once a time when a full figured woman with curves was 'attractive'. It showed you were child bearing and rich (since food wasn't as easy to come by.) In most cultures it still is in. It just seems to be in 1st world countries that 'thin is in'.
I can guarantee you that my thermostat is working perfectly.
If you would like to take a look at http://forums.tdiclub.com/ you will see that this is a common "problem". Larger engines sometimes will run a high idle when they're at truck stops, but getting to operating temps from just idling takes quite a while. This is also why larger diesel vehicles will sometimes have a cover to go over their radiator. The engines don't produce enough heat to keep themselves warm in the winter.
Yes. I do know what I'm talking about. I've had a TDI for 5 years and a I work for a small diesel engine company, Cat.
No. Not at all how cars work. There is no heat exchanger in the exhaust. The only time the exhaust is used is for turbos (and some BMW prototype engines).
You could say that autos use 'waste heat' in the same way that lightbulbs are great heaters by using 'waste' heat from lighting the bulb.
The heat is ICE inefficiencies. This is why diesel engines (Like my TDI) take forever to heat up on the road and will never warm up at idle. They're much more efficient than gasoline engines.
Get 2. It wont hurt a thing. I have 2 in my MBP. I had 2 in my old G4.
I give Windows 1 GB when I boot into Parallels.
Just don't buy from Apple. I personally like http://www.dealram.com/ I've used it for a few years.
If you're looking for some good deals, you can check out their sister site dealmac.com. Legally (I think) vendors can't sell Macs cheaper than Apple, however some have bundles going for the same price. Warranty and all that work still go through Apple.
2 stroke diesel engines are extremely efficient. That's why they're used in extremely large engines. eg, The ones that power ships.
They're also less polluting than their gasoline counterparts.
2 stroke gasoline engines the oil is mixed with the fuel, this means you can use a gasoline 2 stroke in any orientation without oil starvation. (Weedeaters, Chainsaws, etc). They also have a very high power-weight ratio which makes them ideal for these applications.
2 stroke diesel engines have crankcase oil. Lubricating oil isn't mixed with fuel oil. Turbo/Super chargers force old air out.
At the same time 2 stroke diesel engines aren't something that are practical for small scale use. Some of these engines have cylinders that you can stand in. They run at well under 1000 RPM, even for max speed.
Slashdot Mirror
I am one such "Moderately Bright Chap".
I have putty on my computer and I run everything through a SOCKS proxy. I have Firefox, Thunderbird (no webmail for me) and iTunes all going through one of my few shells.
I occasionally surf between 0 and 3 hours a day: fark, slashdot, ebay, etc. Last year I received the highest rating that someone of my salary level could. My boss, my coworkers think I'm a magic man, when I'm asked to get something done I get it done as fast as possible. Techno &/or 80's music tends to set a rhythm for my coding, despite internet radio being frowned on (not officially banned). My parents are going through a divorce. I like to e-mail both of them and my siblings during the day, but I like to keep that off of corporate mail. Sometimes I want to win an auction during work and sometimes I just need a detox.
With all due respect, you and your company can go fuck themselves. If I got the lowest rating, then yes, there's a problem. But you and your company are automatically removing people like me because we get stuff done AND we have personal lives.
Content filter the secretary not the MSMEs.
I'm the same way. It's not that I can't do rote memorization, it just takes longer (however once I do it, it's locked in for good.)
I can remember taking social studies tests in 7th grade. I could remember the page number, where the fact was located on the page, describe the pictures on the page in detail. Everything that was on the page *except* the important date. Same thing for anything that I've experienced. Anything that's happened in my life I can pretty much remember not quite down to what I wore or ate that day. Trust me, it doesn't help win any arguments with girlfriends.
Reading wise I could do this for about anything. In college we had some short story reading comprehension tests in English 101. I think I failed almost every single one. The teacher asked if I was reading the books. I told her every tiny detail about the story, what color shoes X was wearing on page Y. But I could never tell you the questions that she asked.
In my engineering classes, all the notes that I took were just so I could write down what the teacher said. I remember I had one class, statics, where I'd walk in and grab a few sheets out of the recycling bin on the way into class. I'd take notes and do the examples on the paper then on the way out I'd toss everything back out again. (I could argue that statics was one of the easiest BSME courses I've ever taken. It's just vector math and as long as you keep signs correct there were only 2 equations and they both summed to 0.)
Anyone know what the study of this stuff is? I'd love to do some reading up on different learning methods or take some tests just to see 'how' I learn.
Textmate:BBEdit::OSX:OS9
:)
BBEdit was it back in the day. Bees knees. But they're still stuck in a world of floating palettes and out of date syntax coloring.
Textmate.... is just amazing. I think I've only scraped the surface of 10% of what it can actually do. The best thing is, if I don't like a keystroke or a syntax coloring, I can change it. I wanted to start writing Matlab. Sure enough, someone has written a bundle for it. There's even a Bundle called 'GetBundle' that will automatically download and update my bundles.
Leaving Textmate off is more than a gross oversight. It invalidates the list
Hurray for debian:
[~]:user@debian$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2006"
Sat Mar 25 09:00:00 CST 2006
[~]:user@debian$ date --date="Mar 25 15:00:00 UTC 2007"
Sun Mar 25 10:00:00 CDT 2007
I have dreamhost. What I get for the money is awesome.
Now they are down occasionally. I'm not talking a few hours a week or anything major. But from time to time my host times out. Sometimes it'll be up in a minute (and makes me wonder if it's even on my end). Sometimes I submit a ticket and it turns out to be a burned out NIC or something. I just use it as offsite backup and hosting for some pictures and personal stuff. I wouldn't put anything mission critical on there but they do their job.
They did rework how you can do 'catchall' addresses. You can't forward them to another provider because they were getting flagged for forwarding spam. So I had to come up with a creative work around.
catchall@dh.com -> redirect@dh.com -> user@gmail.com -> user@dh.com.
This lets me do a few things:
1) I can set up catchalls. I have slashdot@dh.com. If a company ever starts to spam me I can always ask dream host to bounce all e-mails to an address.
2) Gmail catches a ton of the rest of the spam. Gmail has awesome spam filtering and I put it to work
3) Every e-mail I'll ever receive is archived at Gmail if I ever accidentally delete something I needed.
4) I can still use my imap client at dreamhost. I have a few laptops that I read mail on with a real client, so IMAP is good.
Let me know if you want to sign up, I can get a referral credit.
Dreamhost.
I even use aliases and hosts to make my life simpler.
alias send="rsync -a -z -e ssh --partial --progress --stats"
So I have document X.jpg I want to send to my dreamhost.
send X.jpg dh:
It comes in great handy when moving files quickly.
NO.
:)
SFTP or Rsync. FTP is plain text. Even then, you're not out of the water. Everything will be plain text on dreamhost's servers incase your account gets hacked.
See my other post under the great-grandparent. I don't know if linux or windows have anything equivalent to encrypted disk images, but store important stuff like that encrypted.
Windows has an rsync port, but I've never used it, nor have I ever used automatic scheduling on windows. For linux you might be able to hash together a script to tar.bz2 then encrypt stuff (however linux does that sort of stuff), then send it out.
Or just get a Mac and put everything sensitive on an encrypted disk image
Yes and No.
E-mails, Photos, Writings are saved unencrypted. I'm sure if I ran for president some of the drunken photos could be incriminating, but I'm not to concerned about those.
Taxes, Finances, other important stuff is saved on an encrypted compressed disk image. Sure there is a bit of overhead because if anything changes the whole disk image has to change.
I forget how many bits it is, but I think I set it to the max that Disk Utility.app allowed me to.
I also don't have the password stored in key chain, so every time I want to open these I have to enter my password anyway.
Agreed.
I get:
225.3 GB plus an additional 1GB every week.
2671 GB plus an additional 16GB every week.
In addition I have a home server.
3 times a day my laptop rsyncs everything irreplaceable to the server.
2 times a day the server rsyncs things to other hard drives internally.
1 time a day the server rsyncs everything to my host.
My laptop could be run over tomorrow and I'd only lose maybe a few photos at most. My house could burn down tomorrow and everything I really care about (Family Pictures, College Pictures, Stuff I've Written) will be on my host.
Granted, I don't my host's backup policy. So there is a possibility of global nuclear war, but family photos are the least of my worries.
And even more people die when all systems work perfectly.
I'm an "Associate Engineer". I graduated in May 06 with a BSME.
I'm in a rotational program where I will be a glorified intern for 2 years and 'see' the company so that it will help me when I get back to my real job. (It's working. I want to kill some engineers now that I'm in marketing. I will always try to think downstream when I design stuff.)
I grew up with computers from a very young age and I was torn between EE, CS and ME. I took numerous CS and EE electives, but not enough for a minor. However I am working in a Mechatronics / Controls group.
With all the big 3 OSes I'm somewhere in between power user and expert. I, my no means, know as much as those guys that set up the massive servers that work uses. But I do know how to read a HTTP header and know why Firefox is showing me HTML.
My personal nemesis is the layers of abstraction you have from someone that actually knows something and the mentality of those people.
My laptop at work continuously reboots. I ran a memtest on it and narrowed it down to a bad memory chip. IT wants me to send in my laptop. I'm sorry. I don't have time to deal with that down time, so I just put up with it restarting.
The most annoying one is when they redid a few dozen internal webservers. All of a sudden the redirect didn't work (If you went to an internal site and it had been X minutes it redirected you to Corporate Web Login).
I did some research on my own and found that when they upgraded to the newest webserver someone forgot to bring along the configuration. All the redirect websites were being sent out as plain/text. Firefox correctly rendered it as... plain text. When I e-mailed IT about it I got a nice form letter about "Firefox isn't supported, we use IE, etc".
I then copy and pasted curl -v logs of all the websites that were broken. I didn't just tell them what was broken, I told them HOW to fix it. I never got a reply back and everything magically worked within a week.
Sometimes there ARE users out there who know what we're talking about. I'm not asking for admin rights or root access. But I do want to be able to do my job and when your fuckups impede that, it does tick me off. The IT people I know are the ones that seem to have the hardest time saying the two 3 word phrases that every engineer (in my opinion) must learn before leaving college: "I don't know." and "I was wrong."
In the mean time I wrote a greasemonkey script that when it saw the redirect page it sent me to the correct website.
How unfortunate we are that the Constitution will not stand up in court.
Huh? I guess I don't get it.
Professor Farnsworth is a fictional character on Futurama. (He was no doubt named after the Real Farnsworth).
His tagline anytime he thinks of something is "Good News Everybody."
There will come a time when eventually enough people will get fed up with how we are being treated and go back and follow the words of our own fore fathers:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
However, I think that that document will be ruled contraband long before that happens.
Good news everybody...
Get back to me when men aren't interested in breasts.
That being said, I would say around 3-4 generations (90 - 120 years). There was once a time when a full figured woman with curves was 'attractive'. It showed you were child bearing and rich (since food wasn't as easy to come by.) In most cultures it still is in. It just seems to be in 1st world countries that 'thin is in'.
Breasts however... are still in.
I can guarantee you that my thermostat is working perfectly.
If you would like to take a look at http://forums.tdiclub.com/ you will see that this is a common "problem". Larger engines sometimes will run a high idle when they're at truck stops, but getting to operating temps from just idling takes quite a while. This is also why larger diesel vehicles will sometimes have a cover to go over their radiator. The engines don't produce enough heat to keep themselves warm in the winter.
Yes. I do know what I'm talking about. I've had a TDI for 5 years and a I work for a small diesel engine company, Cat.
True. I wouldn't say that they actually used exhaust air. The exchangers sat over the headers...
I had a scraper on the INSIDE of my '65 when I drove it in HS. Just so that I could scrape off the inside.
My dad said that his first one had an auxiliary heater.
Next winter I'm definitely getting a coolant heater.
No. Not at all how cars work. There is no heat exchanger in the exhaust. The only time the exhaust is used is for turbos (and some BMW prototype engines).
You could say that autos use 'waste heat' in the same way that lightbulbs are great heaters by using 'waste' heat from lighting the bulb.
The heat is ICE inefficiencies. This is why diesel engines (Like my TDI) take forever to heat up on the road and will never warm up at idle. They're much more efficient than gasoline engines.
And while getting that degree you probably missed numerous episodes of Futurama
Get 2. It wont hurt a thing. I have 2 in my MBP. I had 2 in my old G4.
I give Windows 1 GB when I boot into Parallels.
Just don't buy from Apple. I personally like http://www.dealram.com/ I've used it for a few years.
If you're looking for some good deals, you can check out their sister site dealmac.com. Legally (I think) vendors can't sell Macs cheaper than Apple, however some have bundles going for the same price. Warranty and all that work still go through Apple.
As much as I hate to admit this. Excel has 1 feature that I've found has saved me personally at least a week.
Pivot Tables.
Until something comes along to rival pivot tables, Excel isn't going anywhere.
2 stroke GASOLINE engines.
2 stroke diesel engines are extremely efficient. That's why they're used in extremely large engines. eg, The ones that power ships.
They're also less polluting than their gasoline counterparts.
2 stroke gasoline engines the oil is mixed with the fuel, this means you can use a gasoline 2 stroke in any orientation without oil starvation. (Weedeaters, Chainsaws, etc). They also have a very high power-weight ratio which makes them ideal for these applications.
2 stroke diesel engines have crankcase oil. Lubricating oil isn't mixed with fuel oil. Turbo/Super chargers force old air out.
At the same time 2 stroke diesel engines aren't something that are practical for small scale use. Some of these engines have cylinders that you can stand in. They run at well under 1000 RPM, even for max speed.