What?? I've been using my Model M's on numerous computers since I got the one back in 1989 and a second one in 2005. No problem with any of them. I've had more trouble with power issues which had me use UPSs on my systems for the past 10 years.
When I commented that I had received a raise and the company found out about it, the raise was rescinded. Others in the group didn't get a raise and were upset. There are other ways of dealing with folks who flap their lips as I discovered.
And to note, in general I'm cruising at normal speeds. The nice thing about being in Colorado is traffic isn't near the insane levels of metro areas (I used to live in the DC area). So no. I don't need to scoot around someone doing 1mph under the speed limit.
Yea, even slowing down to find a stopping place can get hairy with someone sitting so close you can count the veins standing out on their foreheads.
I like riding my bike, especially in the mountains. I don't take unnecessary chances, am cautious of other riders, cars, trucks, and even bicyclists. Still there'll be someone who didn't like that I passed them in a passing lane because they were going slower than the speed limit and sightseeing and decide to show me he can keep up by riding on my tailpipe.
Considering I ride a sport bike that can get to 170mph or more, that I only have the one snapshot pic in 130,000 miles on this bike should tell you something (other than, can't catch me).
I'm actually a pretty sane rider in my opinion. When on a motorcycle, I do tend to be a bit more offensive to be effectively defensive. Having an SUV tailgate me is not a fun experience and tends to be a little distracting. Since I _can_ get out of the way of the idiot who's in a hurry, I _do_. And when I'm out of the way, I'm back down to normal traffic speeds. Which if there was a cop who spotted me vs the camera, he would have seen and likely wouldn't have ticketed me for it.
The bad part about the cameras is they don't take into account conditions. I got speed camera'd when I escaped from a dangerous situation with a couple of larger SUVs coming down off a mountain road.
I've been pulled over by the police three times in the past 10 years. 57mph in a 55mph zone, got a warning ticket. Passing a county sheriff on a double yellow, verbal warning. 10mph over in front of a traffic control officer (left a light and didn't see him behind me, got me on the curve), warning. In all three, the police office was able to take into account conditions and make a judgement call.
(Note, all four of these were on Sport Bikes; I was surprised to get a verbal from the county sheriff though:) ).
Back in the day, I worked in the DC metro area and needed to drive to work. I had unexpectedly gotten out of the military (sorry, 5lbs overweight we won't let you re-up) and had a job. But it was cross county vs up to DC (so public transportation wasn't a good option and going from living on post and walking distance to off post and an hour from a new job). In looking for inexpensive cars that would be reliable, I finally had a choice at a rental car company selling their 100,000+ mile cars with prices I could afford. The choice was a Yugo and an old Pontiac Fiero. I naturally took the Fiero and had it repossessed once before getting it back. But I put some work into it to ensure it was reliable enough to drive from Stafford VA over to the airport daily until I was making enough money to afford a better car. Even so, I had to have it towed two or three times due to the fuseable link bailing out and once when I blew a piston.
The problem though is any man (or woman) who dares to question any feminist "facts" is labeled a MRA. It's almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion with either side to understand the facts without being called an MRA or a Feminist. I've been called both based on the assumptions I question at the time. It would be quite funny if it wasn't so tragic. The folks who actually are interested in equal opportunity are being herded to the MRA sites because of the toxic responses to questions.
I have a question about what you're saying here...
You're a misogynistic rapist scumbag and need to die in a fire.
Okaaayyy, maybe I'll head over here and ask instead...
You can't really believe that every single man who believes in "Men's Rights" is "dedicated to opposing introspection and protecting established norms at all costs."?
That's like believing that all women who are feminists believe 90% of men should be phased out.
Maybe not a regular character but at least the Physicist motorcycle rider appeared to be "normal" in a pick up girls, ride a motorcycle (vs Howard's "Hog":) ), etc. way. Heck, he was even a scumbag as most PUA's are portrayed:)
Yep. Been playing Starcraft and Brood War again. I'd love to see Command and Conquer get reissued to work on newer platforms (nothing like a tank rush at Plaid Speed:D ).
Really? A woman (or man) locked in a trunk doesn't come to mind? Sure the kidnapper should be taking the cell phone assuming there's only one but there's a chance it was missed or there's a second one. And yea, road noises would keep the attacker from hearing a conversation.
And corner cases exist for lengthy picky discussions:)
A woman hiding under the bed or in a closet with an attacker in the house comes to mind.
I think the main problem is the younger generation has been brought up on smart phones and internet so expect to be able to text to 911. The text 2 911 product is being made available so the folks who do text will actually get an answer.
And the nice thing about texting to 911 is you can send images to 911 as well where calling just gets you a voice.
Plus texting to 911 does get a response from the service. It's not sending it into the ether hoping someone sees it like Facebook. The PSAPs that purchase the product will have someone manning the text 2 911 console.
We deal with highly available systems and we have a very good team dynamic so we are somewhat picky but yea, these are some of the questions we ask and some answers we've been given. Mostly in the followup fact to fact interview. A majority don't even get past the simpler phone interview.
What software uses the following common ports: 20/21, 22, 24, 25, 80, 443 or we'd ask the reverse, what port is dns on, tcp or udp? What port is http (we've received 8080 for this one). Worse the followup question is, okay if you don't know what the port is where would you find it? A recent interview had the guy providing Google first then looking it up in his Network+ book.
The biggest issue we have I think is our offices are in North Denver and the Tech Center is in South Denver. So most tech folks are in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Aurora, and around those areas. So commuting would be north through Denver. We do have IBM and Boulder up here so we should get some folks.
I think most admins might either be happy where they are, don't want to deal with the commute, or perhaps are looking at something beyond Unix Administration like VMWare, SAN, and the like.
We've interviewed folks from other states (Washington, Maryland, Ohio, New York) without much luck. We did bring one guy in for a face to face but he failed that (I wasn't in town for that one).
All the comments here seem to be related to programming but IT is more than just that. We manage over 1,000 servers and can't seem to find a Unix admin in the area that is interested enough in Unix to dig into how things actually work. I mean, if your response to "how do you make a network interface persistent" is "first I click on the menu", we'll likely knock a point or two off. We've had prospective Unix admins admit they're afraid of soft links. We do a lot of scripting so telling me you don't know how to script is likely to knock a point or two off. And it'd be nice if you knew how to disable programs from starting up by understanding how the files are set up in/etc/rc* vs using chkconfig. Sure it works, but we're more than a Linux shop.
There are a couple of problems from our (Operations) perspective.
1. The infrastructure needs to be supported as well. If the various necessary agents (backups, monitoring, application distribution) only work on Red Hat (or CentOS) then Red Hat is what's acceptable in the production environment.
2. The staff needs to be in place to support it. We have three major Operating Systems we support (team of 5 admins). Solaris, HP-UX, and Red Hat/CentOS. With almost 1,100 systems, environments outside our expertise are difficult to manage. Of those 1,100 systems a very very small percentage are Ubuntu (and Suse, Fedora, Mint) and they aren't supported to the level of the primary systems.
Sir, I think you need to step back and take a breath.
Since we haven't exchanged a single word until now, I don't see how I'm being argumentative. I'm asking a simple question.
I would hope any man or anyone would stop it should it be happening in front of them. If I happened to be in a bar (I don't drink so it's unlikely) and saw someone pour a strange chemical into a drink, I hope I would say something.
Depending on the circumstances, I would most likely help a person. But I am also quite wary of scams, having been the victim of a couple (which I escaped with only a loss of money) perpetrated by women.
Certainly I personally am not going to drug a woman's drink.
But I'm already doing this. And I'm reasonably sure a majority of guys are doing this. It sounds like you want us to do something about the guys who are doing this. I'm with you, brother because just you and me and the rest of the guys who aren't doing it, doesn't appear to be fixing the problem since we're still discussing this and there are still rapes.
Is there something more we should or even could be doing? It's an honest question. Should we all wear buttons that say "Don't Rape Other People"?
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What?? I've been using my Model M's on numerous computers since I got the one back in 1989 and a second one in 2005. No problem with any of them. I've had more trouble with power issues which had me use UPSs on my systems for the past 10 years.
[John]
It's been a while and I simply quit, taking a better job at Johns Hopkins APL. Longer commute and a stepping stone to an even better job at NASA.
[John]
When I commented that I had received a raise and the company found out about it, the raise was rescinded. Others in the group didn't get a raise and were upset. There are other ways of dealing with folks who flap their lips as I discovered.
[John]
And to note, in general I'm cruising at normal speeds. The nice thing about being in Colorado is traffic isn't near the insane levels of metro areas (I used to live in the DC area). So no. I don't need to scoot around someone doing 1mph under the speed limit.
[John]
Yea, even slowing down to find a stopping place can get hairy with someone sitting so close you can count the veins standing out on their foreheads.
I like riding my bike, especially in the mountains. I don't take unnecessary chances, am cautious of other riders, cars, trucks, and even bicyclists. Still there'll be someone who didn't like that I passed them in a passing lane because they were going slower than the speed limit and sightseeing and decide to show me he can keep up by riding on my tailpipe.
[John]
Considering I ride a sport bike that can get to 170mph or more, that I only have the one snapshot pic in 130,000 miles on this bike should tell you something (other than, can't catch me).
I'm actually a pretty sane rider in my opinion. When on a motorcycle, I do tend to be a bit more offensive to be effectively defensive. Having an SUV tailgate me is not a fun experience and tends to be a little distracting. Since I _can_ get out of the way of the idiot who's in a hurry, I _do_. And when I'm out of the way, I'm back down to normal traffic speeds. Which if there was a cop who spotted me vs the camera, he would have seen and likely wouldn't have ticketed me for it.
[John]
57 and I ride a sport bike.
"Well, be a little careful around here in the future."
"Yes sir, thanks!"
I think they're just happy you don't run :D
[John]
The bad part about the cameras is they don't take into account conditions. I got speed camera'd when I escaped from a dangerous situation with a couple of larger SUVs coming down off a mountain road.
I've been pulled over by the police three times in the past 10 years. 57mph in a 55mph zone, got a warning ticket. Passing a county sheriff on a double yellow, verbal warning. 10mph over in front of a traffic control officer (left a light and didn't see him behind me, got me on the curve), warning. In all three, the police office was able to take into account conditions and make a judgement call.
(Note, all four of these were on Sport Bikes; I was surprised to get a verbal from the county sheriff though :) ).
[John]
Back in the day, I worked in the DC metro area and needed to drive to work. I had unexpectedly gotten out of the military (sorry, 5lbs overweight we won't let you re-up) and had a job. But it was cross county vs up to DC (so public transportation wasn't a good option and going from living on post and walking distance to off post and an hour from a new job). In looking for inexpensive cars that would be reliable, I finally had a choice at a rental car company selling their 100,000+ mile cars with prices I could afford. The choice was a Yugo and an old Pontiac Fiero. I naturally took the Fiero and had it repossessed once before getting it back. But I put some work into it to ensure it was reliable enough to drive from Stafford VA over to the airport daily until I was making enough money to afford a better car. Even so, I had to have it towed two or three times due to the fuseable link bailing out and once when I blew a piston.
[John]
The problem though is any man (or woman) who dares to question any feminist "facts" is labeled a MRA. It's almost impossible to have an intelligent discussion with either side to understand the facts without being called an MRA or a Feminist. I've been called both based on the assumptions I question at the time. It would be quite funny if it wasn't so tragic. The folks who actually are interested in equal opportunity are being herded to the MRA sites because of the toxic responses to questions.
I have a question about what you're saying here ...
You're a misogynistic rapist scumbag and need to die in a fire.
Okaaayyy, maybe I'll head over here and ask instead ...
[John]
You can't really believe that every single man who believes in "Men's Rights" is "dedicated to opposing introspection and protecting established norms at all costs."?
That's like believing that all women who are feminists believe 90% of men should be phased out.
Get some perspective.
[John]
Concrete Poisoning
[John]
Maybe not a regular character but at least the Physicist motorcycle rider appeared to be "normal" in a pick up girls, ride a motorcycle (vs Howard's "Hog" :) ), etc. way. Heck, he was even a scumbag as most PUA's are portrayed :)
[John]
Yep. Been playing Starcraft and Brood War again. I'd love to see Command and Conquer get reissued to work on newer platforms (nothing like a tank rush at Plaid Speed :D ).
[John]
Not in the .pdf. I am curious as well though.
[John]
Really? A woman (or man) locked in a trunk doesn't come to mind? Sure the kidnapper should be taking the cell phone assuming there's only one but there's a chance it was missed or there's a second one. And yea, road noises would keep the attacker from hearing a conversation.
And corner cases exist for lengthy picky discussions :)
[John]
I forget...
[John]
80 mph in eastern Wyoming. :)
[John]
A woman hiding under the bed or in a closet with an attacker in the house comes to mind.
I think the main problem is the younger generation has been brought up on smart phones and internet so expect to be able to text to 911. The text 2 911 product is being made available so the folks who do text will actually get an answer.
And the nice thing about texting to 911 is you can send images to 911 as well where calling just gets you a voice.
Plus texting to 911 does get a response from the service. It's not sending it into the ether hoping someone sees it like Facebook. The PSAPs that purchase the product will have someone manning the text 2 911 console.
[John]
We deal with highly available systems and we have a very good team dynamic so we are somewhat picky but yea, these are some of the questions we ask and some answers we've been given. Mostly in the followup fact to fact interview. A majority don't even get past the simpler phone interview.
What software uses the following common ports: 20/21, 22, 24, 25, 80, 443 or we'd ask the reverse, what port is dns on, tcp or udp? What port is http (we've received 8080 for this one). Worse the followup question is, okay if you don't know what the port is where would you find it? A recent interview had the guy providing Google first then looking it up in his Network+ book.
The biggest issue we have I think is our offices are in North Denver and the Tech Center is in South Denver. So most tech folks are in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Aurora, and around those areas. So commuting would be north through Denver. We do have IBM and Boulder up here so we should get some folks.
I think most admins might either be happy where they are, don't want to deal with the commute, or perhaps are looking at something beyond Unix Administration like VMWare, SAN, and the like.
We've interviewed folks from other states (Washington, Maryland, Ohio, New York) without much luck. We did bring one guy in for a face to face but he failed that (I wasn't in town for that one).
[John]
All the comments here seem to be related to programming but IT is more than just that. We manage over 1,000 servers and can't seem to find a Unix admin in the area that is interested enough in Unix to dig into how things actually work. I mean, if your response to "how do you make a network interface persistent" is "first I click on the menu", we'll likely knock a point or two off. We've had prospective Unix admins admit they're afraid of soft links. We do a lot of scripting so telling me you don't know how to script is likely to knock a point or two off. And it'd be nice if you knew how to disable programs from starting up by understanding how the files are set up in /etc/rc* vs using chkconfig. Sure it works, but we're more than a Linux shop.
[John]
I used a program called Megabasic back in the mid 80's that used paren'd colons to slice up a string.
[John]
There are a couple of problems from our (Operations) perspective.
1. The infrastructure needs to be supported as well. If the various necessary agents (backups, monitoring, application distribution) only work on Red Hat (or CentOS) then Red Hat is what's acceptable in the production environment.
2. The staff needs to be in place to support it. We have three major Operating Systems we support (team of 5 admins). Solaris, HP-UX, and Red Hat/CentOS. With almost 1,100 systems, environments outside our expertise are difficult to manage. Of those 1,100 systems a very very small percentage are Ubuntu (and Suse, Fedora, Mint) and they aren't supported to the level of the primary systems.
[John]
But what about Q?
[John]
Sir, I think you need to step back and take a breath.
Since we haven't exchanged a single word until now, I don't see how I'm being argumentative. I'm asking a simple question.
I would hope any man or anyone would stop it should it be happening in front of them. If I happened to be in a bar (I don't drink so it's unlikely) and saw someone pour a strange chemical into a drink, I hope I would say something.
Depending on the circumstances, I would most likely help a person. But I am also quite wary of scams, having been the victim of a couple (which I escaped with only a loss of money) perpetrated by women.
Certainly I personally am not going to drug a woman's drink.
But I'm already doing this. And I'm reasonably sure a majority of guys are doing this. It sounds like you want us to do something about the guys who are doing this. I'm with you, brother because just you and me and the rest of the guys who aren't doing it, doesn't appear to be fixing the problem since we're still discussing this and there are still rapes.
Is there something more we should or even could be doing? It's an honest question. Should we all wear buttons that say "Don't Rape Other People"?
[John]