I manage a craft forum and use an RSS plug in to retrieve craft related blog posts and post them in a special forum for the membership. It works pretty well and other members who might not know about the blogs get exposed to new content.
Well, they're not really putting the site on a new domain but one some guys Windows box that's now part of some botnet.
The botnet masters are warring to put up sites and take down sites on other botnet managed systems so that's why there are 57,000 per week.
Since they're linking to images from the real sites, they only need a bit of text also hijacked from the site. The answer is saved in a bit of data which the botnet masters retrieve at their leisure.
I image there's some guy in China with a 30" monitor watching credentials scroll by rubbing his hands.
Let's see, I have a second gen iPod, iPhone 3GS, iPad, Mac Powerbook G4 and am planning on a Mac Pro. I also have a Sun Enterprise 250, two Sun Ultra 60's, a Gateway PC with Windows 98 SE, built four systems with Mandrake, Ubuntu (recently Windows XP Home), OpenBSD, and Windows 7 (recently Windows XP Pro), have an OpenBSD AMD server, and run two Ubuntu desktops at work along with a Windows XP Pro laptop. (Wife has a Dell laptop with Vista and an iPhone 3GS.)
I block all the Facebook games so I don't see the "I have a cow for you" postings:rolleyes:
Fortunately work blocks Facebook (and thousands of other sites). We can still get ESPN but we can't get a stable long term connection for large downloads:more rolleyes:
I was using Norton Desktop on my Windows 3.1 box before Windows 95 came out. Nice clean interface and I didn't have to have a bunch of windows open. When 95 came out, it removed the need for Norton as it incorporated many of the features into the Windows shell.
I do know that Windows 95 killed my desire to muck with the system. With Windows 3.1 I was researching performance techniques and improving my config. I had a friend with a faster system however my Windows install was faster than his (he ranted a bit about it:) ).
But Windows 3.1 killed my desire to program until I got into Unix. I spent a lot of time reading the Petzold books and I understood how to write code for Windows but it was more complicated than I wanted to deal with for the hobby stuff I was doing.
Work just provided the Strengths Finder 2.0 book to employees (don't know what the distribution was, certainly in our area of the company).
In the book it claims to have polled 10 million people with regards to their workplace and how they feel about work.
The main claim seems to be that you have your strengths and weaknesses when you're young and you keep them throughout your life. The book is proposing that we stop trying to strengthen our weaknesses but work in our strengths where we already do a great job.
I found the test (which took 30 minutes with timed (20 seconds per question) answers) to be pretty black or white. Several questions had to be answered neutral because neither had answers I could pick over the other.
The results were interesting but I didn't think they were as accurate as the Insights tests for example. There were items that were spot on, but there were others that I had to scratch my head over.
We used it to run games but it got so overwhelmed we'd have to create new Waves every 50 or so posts. So I'd have a In Character 1, In Character 2, Table Talk 1, GM to Player 1, GM to Player 2, etc... At one point we had 30 or so different Waves.
Oh man, and I loved my mechanical drawing, drafting and architectural drawing classes. It got me into the graphic arts for a job and from there to a computerized typesetter where I learned more about the typesetter in 6 months than the guy I took over from, and then to a computer and where I am today (Sr Unix Admin).
Hell, I still have all my old gear from the 70's and 80's.
Oh let's see. When I try to buy tickets as soon as the website "opens" it's virtually impossible. If I do happen to get in, the ticket is in the nosebleed section. Yet scalpers seem to have boatloads of primo seats for sale at some outrageous markup.
The way I fixed it is that I don't go to big name concerts much and will hit the local clubs instead where I don't have to worry so much about some scumbag asswipe with a big pipe slurping up all the great seats.
Yea, at 53 I've been gaming in one manner or another all my life. I have a pretty good idea of the montage I want to show the constant and lifelong interest in gaming I've had. It'll never be complete as things change but it'll be such that I'll be able to add to it when I want.
Jeeze. I don't compare salaries with my coworkers so I have no idea what they're making. I look for a good job that I'll enjoy and salary that provides adequate compensation. I've had the chance to work at $70,000 jobs and turned them down. Back in 2004 I was making lower 6 figures in the DC area. I bailed on the hectic area and work environment even though I liked the challenge. We moved to the midwest and had to take a cut in pay because the cost of living is lower. Life's much better now and while it took a few years, I'm back in 6 figures again. But not by taking a $70k job. I thought I deserved more than that so declined the offer and waited in the hell that is IBM for another year and got the much higher paying job that's a bicycle ride from home.
You're responsible for your salary. Perhaps applicants aren't understanding what they're worth on the job market. Maybe they're trying to get in the door in order to get out of a toxic company and undervaluing their abilities.
How's the salary compared in different job markets? How about between races? Is an African American generally making less than Caucasians? Hell, are Indians in the US making less than Caucasians? How about age? Is there a breakdown between the ages with similar experience?
When I applied to my current job, the salary was advertised at a certain number. But before making the job offer, HR asked if I would take $3,000 less. Because of IBM and the salary was closer to what I wanted, I went ahead and accepted even though it was similar to what I was getting at IBM. So if HR made that suggestion to me, I'm sure they'd make the same suggestion to other applicants. And if two applications are equally qualified but one will take $3,000 less, then what are the chances the offer will be made to one who'll accept less? With less women in IT, there's less of a chance of one going the same job as a man. If you're taking less then yea, on average one group of people will make less than another.
As to the rest of the article, as an IT professional with 30 years of experience, I honestly don't recall any woman in a sysadmin type position being disrespected in that manner. Anecdotal of course as it's just my experience and IT is a pretty broad field.
My vehicle will do at least 170 (fastest I've gone) and a modified version holds several open wheel and faired speed records including a recent one at 262 and 274 miles per hour. A dual engined one broke the land speed record (which was broken again a few hours later).:D
And this is my answer too. I will not be buying new eBooks for any of my readers (I have an iPad and iPhone). When I go into a Brick and Mortar, I browse the available books. Coloring, the picture, the back text, even the feel tells me whether I want to spend the $10 or so for the book. With a physical book, I'll take a chance because if nothing else, I can go to the used book store and trade it in on credit or a handful of other books. I won't experiment with eBooks because if I don't like it, well tough. So I'll be a lot more cautious.
There are authors that I'll get every book on so eBooks is a good choice for personally established authors. Same with my older books. I've been getting the eBook equivalent of the older books I have. Tolkien, McCaffery, Zimmer-Bradley, Farmer, and whichever others I really like and continue to read over and over.
I'd gladly pay $15 a month (like Netflix) to read books. Three eBooks checked out at a time (or five or ten). An option to buy (for a discount; it is used:D ) or just check it back in.
Maybe the public library will provide the same sort of service. I know our local library has an app that lets us check out the eBooks they have.
Obviously you've never been to either as there are many beautiful spots in both states.
Montana has the freeway you're thinking about. Speed limit was noted but always with the note that it had to be reasonable and prudent. In recent years, due to the Feds pulling highway funding, the state has started enforcing the limit.
Still, Bear Tooth Pass, Glacier National Park, Sawtooth Mountains, Coeur d'Alene, Craters of the Moon, Snake River basin, Snake River canyon. You need to go for a visit.
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox on Ubuntu. Neither of my workstations, well work:) Works with Firefox on my Windows laptop and Safari on the same box. A coworker couldn't get it working on Firefox on Windows but it worked on IE.
But that's Javascript:)
Thanks for the snippit though. A game magazine a few months back had a Zombie flow chart that I turned into a php/javascript page. For the Status Management app I wrote, I added in the konami.js bits which call that page. Cool stuff:)
Well, three types. While I use ABP and NoScript on my computers, on the iPad and iPhone it's not so easy. So occasionally I'll drag a finger somewhere or take too long and *boop*, I'm on some ad site.
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, I'm still using Mandrake. It's my firewall but still, I haven't had any problems.
[John]
I manage a craft forum and use an RSS plug in to retrieve craft related blog posts and post them in a special forum for the membership. It works pretty well and other members who might not know about the blogs get exposed to new content.
[John]
You don't have to have a Nook to lend or read an ebook. Just the nook reader app. A friend loaded me Daemon from his iPhone to my iPad.
[John]
"If you don't knock it off, we'll buy you too."
[John]
Well, they're not really putting the site on a new domain but one some guys Windows box that's now part of some botnet.
The botnet masters are warring to put up sites and take down sites on other botnet managed systems so that's why there are 57,000 per week.
Since they're linking to images from the real sites, they only need a bit of text also hijacked from the site. The answer is saved in a bit of data which the botnet masters retrieve at their leisure.
I image there's some guy in China with a 30" monitor watching credentials scroll by rubbing his hands.
[John]
Let's see, I have a second gen iPod, iPhone 3GS, iPad, Mac Powerbook G4 and am planning on a Mac Pro. I also have a Sun Enterprise 250, two Sun Ultra 60's, a Gateway PC with Windows 98 SE, built four systems with Mandrake, Ubuntu (recently Windows XP Home), OpenBSD, and Windows 7 (recently Windows XP Pro), have an OpenBSD AMD server, and run two Ubuntu desktops at work along with a Windows XP Pro laptop. (Wife has a Dell laptop with Vista and an iPhone 3GS.)
I think I'm skewing the average a bit :)
[John]
I block all the Facebook games so I don't see the "I have a cow for you" postings :rolleyes:
Fortunately work blocks Facebook (and thousands of other sites). We can still get ESPN but we can't get a stable long term connection for large downloads :more rolleyes:
[John]
I was using Norton Desktop on my Windows 3.1 box before Windows 95 came out. Nice clean interface and I didn't have to have a bunch of windows open. When 95 came out, it removed the need for Norton as it incorporated many of the features into the Windows shell.
I do know that Windows 95 killed my desire to muck with the system. With Windows 3.1 I was researching performance techniques and improving my config. I had a friend with a faster system however my Windows install was faster than his (he ranted a bit about it :) ).
But Windows 3.1 killed my desire to program until I got into Unix. I spent a lot of time reading the Petzold books and I understood how to write code for Windows but it was more complicated than I wanted to deal with for the hobby stuff I was doing.
[John]
Work just provided the Strengths Finder 2.0 book to employees (don't know what the distribution was, certainly in our area of the company).
In the book it claims to have polled 10 million people with regards to their workplace and how they feel about work.
The main claim seems to be that you have your strengths and weaknesses when you're young and you keep them throughout your life. The book is proposing that we stop trying to strengthen our weaknesses but work in our strengths where we already do a great job.
I found the test (which took 30 minutes with timed (20 seconds per question) answers) to be pretty black or white. Several questions had to be answered neutral because neither had answers I could pick over the other.
The results were interesting but I didn't think they were as accurate as the Insights tests for example. There were items that were spot on, but there were others that I had to scratch my head over.
[John]
We used it to run games but it got so overwhelmed we'd have to create new Waves every 50 or so posts. So I'd have a In Character 1, In Character 2, Table Talk 1, GM to Player 1, GM to Player 2, etc... At one point we had 30 or so different Waves.
[John]
Oh man, and I loved my mechanical drawing, drafting and architectural drawing classes. It got me into the graphic arts for a job and from there to a computerized typesetter where I learned more about the typesetter in 6 months than the guy I took over from, and then to a computer and where I am today (Sr Unix Admin).
Hell, I still have all my old gear from the 70's and 80's.
[John]
Oh let's see. When I try to buy tickets as soon as the website "opens" it's virtually impossible. If I do happen to get in, the ticket is in the nosebleed section. Yet scalpers seem to have boatloads of primo seats for sale at some outrageous markup.
The way I fixed it is that I don't go to big name concerts much and will hit the local clubs instead where I don't have to worry so much about some scumbag asswipe with a big pipe slurping up all the great seats.
[John]
Makes me rethink what "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" might actually mean.
O_o
[John]
Yea, at 53 I've been gaming in one manner or another all my life. I have a pretty good idea of the montage I want to show the constant and lifelong interest in gaming I've had. It'll never be complete as things change but it'll be such that I'll be able to add to it when I want.
[John]
Damn. Now I have to close my account.
[John]
Jeeze. I don't compare salaries with my coworkers so I have no idea what they're making. I look for a good job that I'll enjoy and salary that provides adequate compensation. I've had the chance to work at $70,000 jobs and turned them down. Back in 2004 I was making lower 6 figures in the DC area. I bailed on the hectic area and work environment even though I liked the challenge. We moved to the midwest and had to take a cut in pay because the cost of living is lower. Life's much better now and while it took a few years, I'm back in 6 figures again. But not by taking a $70k job. I thought I deserved more than that so declined the offer and waited in the hell that is IBM for another year and got the much higher paying job that's a bicycle ride from home.
You're responsible for your salary. Perhaps applicants aren't understanding what they're worth on the job market. Maybe they're trying to get in the door in order to get out of a toxic company and undervaluing their abilities.
How's the salary compared in different job markets? How about between races? Is an African American generally making less than Caucasians? Hell, are Indians in the US making less than Caucasians? How about age? Is there a breakdown between the ages with similar experience?
When I applied to my current job, the salary was advertised at a certain number. But before making the job offer, HR asked if I would take $3,000 less. Because of IBM and the salary was closer to what I wanted, I went ahead and accepted even though it was similar to what I was getting at IBM. So if HR made that suggestion to me, I'm sure they'd make the same suggestion to other applicants. And if two applications are equally qualified but one will take $3,000 less, then what are the chances the offer will be made to one who'll accept less? With less women in IT, there's less of a chance of one going the same job as a man. If you're taking less then yea, on average one group of people will make less than another.
As to the rest of the article, as an IT professional with 30 years of experience, I honestly don't recall any woman in a sysadmin type position being disrespected in that manner. Anecdotal of course as it's just my experience and IT is a pretty broad field.
[John]
My vehicle will do at least 170 (fastest I've gone) and a modified version holds several open wheel and faired speed records including a recent one at 262 and 274 miles per hour. A dual engined one broke the land speed record (which was broken again a few hours later). :D
[John]
And this is my answer too. I will not be buying new eBooks for any of my readers (I have an iPad and iPhone). When I go into a Brick and Mortar, I browse the available books. Coloring, the picture, the back text, even the feel tells me whether I want to spend the $10 or so for the book. With a physical book, I'll take a chance because if nothing else, I can go to the used book store and trade it in on credit or a handful of other books. I won't experiment with eBooks because if I don't like it, well tough. So I'll be a lot more cautious.
There are authors that I'll get every book on so eBooks is a good choice for personally established authors. Same with my older books. I've been getting the eBook equivalent of the older books I have. Tolkien, McCaffery, Zimmer-Bradley, Farmer, and whichever others I really like and continue to read over and over.
I'd gladly pay $15 a month (like Netflix) to read books. Three eBooks checked out at a time (or five or ten). An option to buy (for a discount; it is used :D ) or just check it back in.
Maybe the public library will provide the same sort of service. I know our local library has an app that lets us check out the eBooks they have.
[John]
I'm with you there. I do ride a high speed sportbike though. The bike feels a lot more stable at 80mph or so.
[John]
Obviously you've never been to either as there are many beautiful spots in both states.
Montana has the freeway you're thinking about. Speed limit was noted but always with the note that it had to be reasonable and prudent. In recent years, due to the Feds pulling highway funding, the state has started enforcing the limit.
Still, Bear Tooth Pass, Glacier National Park, Sawtooth Mountains, Coeur d'Alene, Craters of the Moon, Snake River basin, Snake River canyon. You need to go for a visit.
[John]
Hell, I remember standing up to do the pledge before watching movies at the theater. My dad was military and we'd watch movies on base.
[John]
The Fing is a Kink!
Excellent comic.
[John]
You misspelled "possess" in your sig. :D
[John]
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox on Ubuntu. Neither of my workstations, well work :) Works with Firefox on my Windows laptop and Safari on the same box. A coworker couldn't get it working on Firefox on Windows but it worked on IE.
But that's Javascript :)
Thanks for the snippit though. A game magazine a few months back had a Zombie flow chart that I turned into a php/javascript page. For the Status Management app I wrote, I added in the konami.js bits which call that page. Cool stuff :)
[John]
Well, three types. While I use ABP and NoScript on my computers, on the iPad and iPhone it's not so easy. So occasionally I'll drag a finger somewhere or take too long and *boop*, I'm on some ad site.
[John]