WOW, you are patient!
I would have gotten a new mouse after the first day. Of course, I am a big fan of Logitech mice.
Don't you just love how you have to purchase something else to get their inferior product to work properly?
HP had something similar with their Deskjet 1600. Apparently the paper rollers lose their grip, so you can purchase a "cleaner" which actually just roughs up the surface a bit. We found that an average emery board worked just as well.
I was in the process of archiving (tar/zip) a huge amount of files. I came back after lunch and checked on the progress to discover that someone or something had deleted all the directories I was tarring, plus a bunch I wasn't.
I called our (not so) help (ful) desk and after walking through all the obvious stuff, they said deep support would have to call me back.
I got an email an hour later, with a log of my activities on that machine attached. Apparently, the log showed that the last command I had executed prior to beginning my tar was make on a Makefile.
They very nicely suggested that this Makefile had a "clean" routine in it and that was probably what deleted all my files.
There were several problems with that line of reasoning:
1) I executed that Make command 6 months ago. If they had checked the compiled executable's date they would have seen that.
2) my so-called clean routine simply deleted any object files generated by the make (it was a C program).
3) Not only were my files all gone but EVERYTHING on that mount was gone!! I don't have the access to do anything as destructive as that.
As it turns out, another user that had pbrun (some kind of pseudo root) access had moved or deleted the files "as he saw fit".
They never even apologized. Sadly, they accused me of not handling the situation well and blasted me in an email that they also sent to my boss.
These are the same admins who were "not comfortable" granting me cron access on this machine.
I wonder which one of the gazillion cable or satellite channels will carry this competition?
Maybe it will be on ESPN9.
This may just be the one thing I was waiting for to justify the expense of expanded cable.
And who should we get to announce the action? I vote for Steve Ballmer (Monkey Boy), that will get the crowd going and cheer on their programming teams.
The team can use any compiler or interpreter (together with standard libraries), which is based on one of the following languages: Pascal, C, C++, Java, Basic, Smalltalk, Lisp, Logo, Perl, Python. ... If you want to use a compiler or interpreter based on language not listed, please, consult it with organizers during the registration process.
ASP, Bah!
Shell Scripting, So 70s
LISP, AWK, BASIC (Visual and DOS), Java, Javascript... all pale in comparison to HTML
I will SO join you. Lets show these so-called "real programmers" what some HTML magic can really do! You know I'm kidding right? right?!
Actually, Paypal was ONLY used for the purpose of raising funds to send the package to England.
The buyer had agreed to using an escrow service (a bogus one).
But the rest of your post is essentially correct. Since they went outside of eBay, there was no real contractural agreement as to what was being bought or sold.
I think this is a great story. Hooray to the brits for their stealth work. I know they were concerned because of the "dodginess" of the area, but it would have been cool to get a photo fo the guy. A James Bond like camera would have worked. Like the lighter sized one on thinkgeek.
I have both a Boblbee Megalopolis and a People's Delight. I have a small laptop so that's why I bought the People's Delight. I am always dropping or banging things. This, by far is the best case for a Laptop.
They are ergonomically designed so you barely feel the weight of the laptop. The straps are incredibly strong and it is very well built.
My whole family uses them for work and school.
Someone once said "If guns were illeagal then only criminals would have guns".
The idea of music swapping is old. I used to record songs off the radio onto cassette tape so I could take them with me. My friends and I would buy music and record it onto cassettes so we would all have the album at a fraction of the cost.
The difference now is that technology allows us to record things electronically and the internet allows us to have more friends to share it with.
The use model of today is that people want to be in control of their music. We want to take it with us. We want to order the music in different ways, mixing and matching artists and jenres on a single CD.
The RIAA really needs to get out of the stone age and get on board with technology. Other media has. Like my local newspaper.
I don't have to pay for the news they print, I can go to their website and read it at my leisure. I can even search the want ads for specifically what I want instead of poring over pages and pages of tiny text.
Most of the major magazines are also online. Sure, they charge for access to their archives, but most allow free access on the day of the publication.
We are a global, technological society. Businesses who don't climb aboard will be run over by this freight train.
I also think that their tactics, whereas technically legal, are extortion.
Why would anyone settle for $3,500 when they could possibly get awarded hundreds of thousands?
Normally, a person with a valid suit would never settle for that small an amount.
This is akin to, either we break your legs or you pay us.
Or to give a better analogy, the bully in the playground saying "give me your lunch money or I will kill you". That is more the scale and maturity of what they are doing.
Yes, it is indisputable that these people are technically breaking the law.
How many of you have photocopied pictures or text from a book and got sued for copyright infringment? It is essentially the same thing.
The publishing industry isn't placing survellience cameras at Kinkos.
I think the RIAA is cutting off their noses and there will be a backlash once a critical mass has been reached.
I personally cannot wait for this to happen:)
Yes, or there is a security problem and Hackers go in and rewrite some of the books without anyone knowing it.
This is a scary thought:)
I also agree that an open source format would be best. Maybe the slashdot community can start working on that. It could be a community project.
After all.... It takes a village, people!
Riiight...
Likr the majority matters with our current administration?
Maybe we should take the human factor out of it all together. Let statistics and polling take it's place.
Just because a technology exists, doesn't mean it has to be used.
Also, does it not concern anyone that one of the most fundamental rights we have is to a democratic society but some 14 year old could sway the vote by hacking into one of these systems, just to be "kewl" or "leet".
Tis a scary worls these days:(
Agreed, Why should we do their work for them. Besides, isn't it a violation of state and maybe federal law to photocopy your official ID.
I have an idea, let's all get fake ID's of some well know person, like politicians, and send those in:)
Maybe that will encourage our lawmakers to wake up and realize that the RIAA is no better than any other price fixing monopoly and should not be allowed to stomp all over our civil rights.
For instance, smoking pot n the privacy of your own home is tecnically against the law but only if you get caught. It is unlawful for the police to snoop in our houses in the hopes that they will catch someone doing something illegally
The RIAA needs to get with the 21st century and realize that they don't hold all the cards anymore.
I really wish people would not include links to articles that are ads to get me to sign up for some news service.
Thank you to the person who posted the entire article. Althogh some of it was left out with a comment. I wonder what was in that section????
How right you are! I am an IT professional. I am currently working on our company's product data storage and delivery system.
Guess what, Since 9-11, our government has clamped down hard on information sharing with certain countries... India and China included. What I do, a programmer or support person in India cannot do. It is a federal violation to allow an Indian national to access this information. That includes Indian nationals who are based in the US. While it is painful to sometimes deal with help desk people who work off of a script, It's a job I don't want. I prefer face to face troubleshooting "interesting" problems. I'm not concerned with my job going away, it will just look different in the future. Who knows, maybe even more interesting...
I agree completely. Even many of the manufacturing jobs are of the same formula... Here are the step by steps...Foloow them. If amything goes wrong or is different they are lost. Except now, as they get more comfortable, they try to innovate with sometimes disastrous results. Like saving money by not using the correct amount of solder or epoxy and the thing fails within a year.
Our help desk calls go to non-IT folks using a script. Because of this, It may take a half hour before they get past all the stuff you've already tried because you are not the average user. (This really happened to me recently). These folks are lost without their scripts. If you get to the end of them and your problem is not resolved, they send you to a "deep support" person. Usually this person is the guy down the aisle that you used to go to directly before. This month it took me 3 weeks to get a UNIX login to a different server in our company. It only takes me 3 minutes when talking directly to a sysadmin. Companies will not be able to continue to support the incredible downtimes that their workers experience and still meet their deliveries.
True there are fewer women than men in this field. In our team of 7 there are 2 of us (women).
I found the author's use of the feminine pronoun interesting. It did not trivialize the article for me in any way, it was just interesting.
My colleagues are always trying to be inclusive when we go out anywhere. Like they hesitate to go to a sports bar when we are all together in case the "grlz" won't enjoy it. Not PC enough.
This is also interesting. It does not change my opinions or respect for them as colleagues. I have no issue with being a woman. I am proud to be a woman. I find the whole PC thing to be incredibly amusing. It actually tends to have the opposite affect that was intended. I sometimes feel excluded because my colleagues will alter their behavior and conversation when I am around, just to be PC. Or after a long day of coding, the boys go out and don't invite us "grlz".
I just want to be viewed as an equal. I want to be a part of the team. A person first...
I have been programming on a project for my company for 2 years. It requires not only programming and database skills but a good working knowledge of our company's business and systems.
My co-workers think of me as eccentric and a little odd.
It's especially odd to them when they get email from me timestamped at 2:00am.
I thought all programmers did that until I started working with this group. Our technical lead works exactly 8 hours (regular hours imagine that) and then he is gone...
Our company has been going through several restructurings so I am now staying at home to work, I'm actually running something now.
It's comfy, cozy, quiet and best of all... You gotta find me to bother me.
BTW, I shower 1 to 2 times a day and my ideas come in the shower and right before I'm about to fall asleep.
This is correct and not just heresay.
The laws on labeling changed about 5-10 years ago. The manufacturer I worked for at the time had to replace the labels we put on our PC boards from "Made in USA" to "Made in USA of foreign and domestic parts". This tripled the length of the label and it had to be wider. It was a challenge on some of the boards to find a place to put the label where it would fit.
Slashdot Mirror
WOW, you are patient!
I would have gotten a new mouse after the first day. Of course, I am a big fan of Logitech mice.
Don't you just love how you have to purchase something else to get their inferior product to work properly?
HP had something similar with their Deskjet 1600. Apparently the paper rollers lose their grip, so you can purchase a "cleaner" which actually just roughs up the surface a bit. We found that an average emery board worked just as well.
I called our (not so) help (ful) desk and after walking through all the obvious stuff, they said deep support would have to call me back.
I got an email an hour later, with a log of my activities on that machine attached. Apparently, the log showed that the last command I had executed prior to beginning my tar was make on a Makefile.
They very nicely suggested that this Makefile had a "clean" routine in it and that was probably what deleted all my files.
There were several problems with that line of reasoning:
1) I executed that Make command 6 months ago. If they had checked the compiled executable's date they would have seen that.
2) my so-called clean routine simply deleted any object files generated by the make (it was a C program).
3) Not only were my files all gone but EVERYTHING on that mount was gone!! I don't have the access to do anything as destructive as that.
As it turns out, another user that had pbrun (some kind of pseudo root) access had moved or deleted the files "as he saw fit".
They never even apologized. Sadly, they accused me of not handling the situation well and blasted me in an email that they also sent to my boss.
These are the same admins who were "not comfortable" granting me cron access on this machine.
Maybe it will be on ESPN9.
This may just be the one thing I was waiting for to justify the expense of expanded cable.
And who should we get to announce the action? I vote for Steve Ballmer (Monkey Boy), that will get the crowd going and cheer on their programming teams.
The team can use any compiler or interpreter (together with standard libraries), which is based on one of the following languages: Pascal, C, C++, Java, Basic, Smalltalk, Lisp, Logo, Perl, Python.
... If you want to use a compiler or interpreter based on language not listed, please, consult it with organizers during the registration process.
We need special permission to use HTML :(
ASP, Bah! ... all pale in comparison to HTML
Shell Scripting, So 70s
LISP, AWK, BASIC (Visual and DOS), Java, Javascript
I will SO join you. Lets show these so-called "real programmers" what some HTML magic can really do!
You know I'm kidding right? right?!
Actually, Paypal was ONLY used for the purpose of raising funds to send the package to England. The buyer had agreed to using an escrow service (a bogus one). But the rest of your post is essentially correct. Since they went outside of eBay, there was no real contractural agreement as to what was being bought or sold. I think this is a great story. Hooray to the brits for their stealth work. I know they were concerned because of the "dodginess" of the area, but it would have been cool to get a photo fo the guy. A James Bond like camera would have worked. Like the lighter sized one on thinkgeek.
I have both a Boblbee Megalopolis and a People's Delight. I have a small laptop so that's why I bought the People's Delight. I am always dropping or banging things. This, by far is the best case for a Laptop. They are ergonomically designed so you barely feel the weight of the laptop. The straps are incredibly strong and it is very well built. My whole family uses them for work and school.
Someone once said "If guns were illeagal then only criminals would have guns". The idea of music swapping is old. I used to record songs off the radio onto cassette tape so I could take them with me. My friends and I would buy music and record it onto cassettes so we would all have the album at a fraction of the cost. The difference now is that technology allows us to record things electronically and the internet allows us to have more friends to share it with. The use model of today is that people want to be in control of their music. We want to take it with us. We want to order the music in different ways, mixing and matching artists and jenres on a single CD. The RIAA really needs to get out of the stone age and get on board with technology. Other media has. Like my local newspaper. I don't have to pay for the news they print, I can go to their website and read it at my leisure. I can even search the want ads for specifically what I want instead of poring over pages and pages of tiny text. Most of the major magazines are also online. Sure, they charge for access to their archives, but most allow free access on the day of the publication. We are a global, technological society. Businesses who don't climb aboard will be run over by this freight train. I also think that their tactics, whereas technically legal, are extortion. Why would anyone settle for $3,500 when they could possibly get awarded hundreds of thousands? Normally, a person with a valid suit would never settle for that small an amount. This is akin to, either we break your legs or you pay us. Or to give a better analogy, the bully in the playground saying "give me your lunch money or I will kill you". That is more the scale and maturity of what they are doing. Yes, it is indisputable that these people are technically breaking the law. How many of you have photocopied pictures or text from a book and got sued for copyright infringment? It is essentially the same thing. The publishing industry isn't placing survellience cameras at Kinkos. I think the RIAA is cutting off their noses and there will be a backlash once a critical mass has been reached. I personally cannot wait for this to happen :)
Yes, or there is a security problem and Hackers go in and rewrite some of the books without anyone knowing it. This is a scary thought :)
I also agree that an open source format would be best. Maybe the slashdot community can start working on that. It could be a community project.
After all.... It takes a village, people!
Riiight... Likr the majority matters with our current administration? Maybe we should take the human factor out of it all together. Let statistics and polling take it's place. Just because a technology exists, doesn't mean it has to be used. Also, does it not concern anyone that one of the most fundamental rights we have is to a democratic society but some 14 year old could sway the vote by hacking into one of these systems, just to be "kewl" or "leet". Tis a scary worls these days :(
Agreed, Why should we do their work for them. Besides, isn't it a violation of state and maybe federal law to photocopy your official ID. I have an idea, let's all get fake ID's of some well know person, like politicians, and send those in :)
Maybe that will encourage our lawmakers to wake up and realize that the RIAA is no better than any other price fixing monopoly and should not be allowed to stomp all over our civil rights.
For instance, smoking pot n the privacy of your own home is tecnically against the law but only if you get caught. It is unlawful for the police to snoop in our houses in the hopes that they will catch someone doing something illegally
The RIAA needs to get with the 21st century and realize that they don't hold all the cards anymore.
I really wish people would not include links to articles that are ads to get me to sign up for some news service. Thank you to the person who posted the entire article. Althogh some of it was left out with a comment. I wonder what was in that section????
How right you are! I am an IT professional. I am currently working on our company's product data storage and delivery system. Guess what, Since 9-11, our government has clamped down hard on information sharing with certain countries... India and China included. What I do, a programmer or support person in India cannot do. It is a federal violation to allow an Indian national to access this information. That includes Indian nationals who are based in the US. While it is painful to sometimes deal with help desk people who work off of a script, It's a job I don't want. I prefer face to face troubleshooting "interesting" problems. I'm not concerned with my job going away, it will just look different in the future. Who knows, maybe even more interesting ...
I agree completely. Even many of the manufacturing jobs are of the same formula... Here are the step by steps...Foloow them. If amything goes wrong or is different they are lost. Except now, as they get more comfortable, they try to innovate with sometimes disastrous results. Like saving money by not using the correct amount of solder or epoxy and the thing fails within a year. Our help desk calls go to non-IT folks using a script. Because of this, It may take a half hour before they get past all the stuff you've already tried because you are not the average user. (This really happened to me recently). These folks are lost without their scripts. If you get to the end of them and your problem is not resolved, they send you to a "deep support" person. Usually this person is the guy down the aisle that you used to go to directly before. This month it took me 3 weeks to get a UNIX login to a different server in our company. It only takes me 3 minutes when talking directly to a sysadmin. Companies will not be able to continue to support the incredible downtimes that their workers experience and still meet their deliveries.
I found the author's use of the feminine pronoun interesting. It did not trivialize the article for me in any way, it was just interesting.
My colleagues are always trying to be inclusive when we go out anywhere. Like they hesitate to go to a sports bar when we are all together in case the "grlz" won't enjoy it. Not PC enough.
This is also interesting. It does not change my opinions or respect for them as colleagues.
I have no issue with being a woman. I am proud to be a woman. I find the whole PC thing to be incredibly amusing. It actually tends to have the opposite affect that was intended. I sometimes feel excluded because my colleagues will alter their behavior and conversation when I am around, just to be PC. Or after a long day of coding, the boys go out and don't invite us "grlz".
I just want to be viewed as an equal. I want to be a part of the team. A person first...
Just my 2 cents :-)
My co-workers think of me as eccentric and a little odd.
It's especially odd to them when they get email from me timestamped at 2:00am.
I thought all programmers did that until I started working with this group. Our technical lead works exactly 8 hours (regular hours imagine that) and then he is gone...
Our company has been going through several restructurings so I am now staying at home to work, I'm actually running something now.
It's comfy, cozy, quiet and best of all... You gotta find me to bother me.
BTW, I shower 1 to 2 times a day and my ideas come in the shower and right before I'm about to fall asleep.
This is correct and not just heresay. The laws on labeling changed about 5-10 years ago. The manufacturer I worked for at the time had to replace the labels we put on our PC boards from "Made in USA" to "Made in USA of foreign and domestic parts". This tripled the length of the label and it had to be wider. It was a challenge on some of the boards to find a place to put the label where it would fit.