My original 17" LCD didn't have the ability to be turned sideways so I bought a second model and intended on stacking them to have a very tall LCD screen. The software that came with the second exact same monitor did support turning the LCD on its side. So now I have one turned on its side for pdf's and one sitting normally for log watching, various directories, and things like that. The center monitor is the SSH session.
And I can't get stuff working right. Our monitoring solution (OpenSpew) is managed by a central group so we don't have the ability to know if our changes are being made. So we don't get pages when we need them and we get pages from 2 weeks ago at all hours. When we ask for additional features, we're told it'll cost $20,000 and there's no money in the budget.
As a result, the other groups have set up their own monitoring solution and shoot alerts to OpenView. And now we're getting ready to implement our own monitoring and stats solution (Nagios and RRDTool).
Admin decided to find and install rexx and wrote a script to do something with e-mail (forget now what it was). After he left, I had to understand what he did and rewrite it in perl.
Another admin was a Python advocate. Once he was gone, all the stuff he did in Python continued to run, until we needed to make a change. At first minor changes weren't a problem but eventually it got so cumbersome to figure out how to make the corrections, we either dropped the script entirely or rewrote it in perl.
I don't see black snow but I do see a black rip or snake with criss-crossed lines from time to time. It starts with a bit of a strain and a small dot in my vision. The dot grows and widens turning into the rip while the rest of my vision gets brighter and washes out. The snake generally heads down my vision until it's gone. It is snake like in that it curves, sometimes like a question mark or 'S'.
I've been to the eye doctors a couple of times. Examinations don't find anything and their conclusion is that it's an Ocular Migraine caused by the eye strain and a reduction in oxygen to the optic nerve.
Usually it happens after some heavy sessions with the computer. When I was younger, I'd get an eyeball shake. A twitch or jitter after reading for several hours.
Since I was hired to help understand the systems better, I spend a lot of time poking around and seeing what's what. Generally I find more work (like drives that have been complaining for 2 years).
I also document and help others on the team document their knowledge.
There's nothing worse than wanting to advance in the company and not being able to because you're the only one that knows the super secret way everything works together (or you're hit by a bus:) ).
I do a lot of reading as well. Slashdot being one but I also have a subscription to Safari so I can keep up on books without having to overload my library.
But I also pop out to hobby forums or read non-work related text. I have pdfs of most of my RPG books so I can have it open in the background and poke around in there. I also work on my web site from time to time. Since it's somewhat technical anyway, I can generally get away with it although I try not to be too obvious about it:)
I was working as a Typesetter on a CompuGraphic Editwriter 2600. A service repair guy came out for some reason and provided an 8" floppy with several games on it including Pong and Mastermind. I was already playing RPGs and because of the Editwriter and gaming, I bought a Sinclair ZX80 to write programs on. I actually learned to program using the Basic book that came with the Radio Shack Color Computer.
I helped my grandma. She had polio and was paralyzed from the neck down. She was in an adjustable bed. My aunt and uncle would come by with my mom and dad. I'd stand on the platform next to her bed where she had a tray with slots for cards. I'd put the cards in the tray and she'd tell me which ones to discard.
I played Rack-o and that was the first game that I owned that I was careful about collecting cards and making sure it was all back in place before putting the game away.
Battle ship, monopoly, chess.
Then Outdoor Survival. I picked up more A/H games like Richthofen's War, and Wooden Ships & Iron Men which were my favorites.
No argument there. I think an unfair advantage over the computer AI would help me win at least one of the matches. I can get through the canned games without any problem but the StarCraft AI kicks my butt every time in the head to head games:)
Yep. I've done that. I haven't tried it with C&C3 just yet though. I'll have to bring it up and see how it goes. I'm playing Red Alert right now (the original one:) ).
Hey, thanks for modifying the quote to add your own little cynical observation.
I wasn't interested in cheating. Just seeing more real estate. How is being able to see the entire screen (not uncloak or "wallhack", just have it visible) cheating? It's the same screen I'd see by scrolling around, just not all at once.
I guess you play a lot on-line. I don't have the time to spend honing my skills to the level to even offer a decent game to the guys who spend all their time on line. Back when these were hot, I'd log in and within 10 or 15 minutes I'd be dead so I pretty much just play against the AI.
So honestly, I would just like these sorts of games to be able to display on all available monitors. I think it'd be cool to be able to see a lot more of the battlefield.
And that's the $64,000 question. I have three screens at home running on two adapters (512M video ram). It'd be nice to be able to use all the extra real estate to see more of a battlefield (StarCraft or Command and Conquer for example).
The three screens work great for my programming projects though.
Pretty funny. While I don't look over spams that I receive, a quick grep of the past month shows that the one site I did go to isn't there.
The only time I've ever seen the site listed was here on Slashdot a few years back. I visited and liked what I saw. When they locked it down a bit further so all I could see were blurred out images, I paid my couple of bucks for a few months and downloaded all I could ever use. It's been a year and I haven't "used up" any of the downloads.
Heck, I may be good until I die or my drive crashes (I do have back ups though:) ).
Funny. I'm one of them with the one-time-use e-mails. As soon as I started getting spammed, I had to do some searching to figure out just why I was getting spammed. I sent an e-mail off to the company identified by the e-mail to let them know they may have been hacked. I also mentioned that I didn't know why I was all of a sudden getting spammed. After a few e-mails, he asked if I'd subscribed to a porn site for a few months last year. Heh, I thanked him as they'd apparently used a "brown paper bag" company name to process the subscription, gave him a month or so to see if they could do anything and then blocked the e-mail.
No CTS yet. Started as a typesetter on a dedicated computer, then a ZX81 to CoCo to IBM PC.
I had a brush with it when I was playing one of the games (Command and Conquer or Starcraft, I forget). I got so intense and devoted a lot of time in completing the game that my right wrist was really getting irritated with me. I switched to a marble mouse and that seemed to fixed the problem.
I'm a Unix geek so I type a lot and I screw around with web pages and mysql and I'm a documentation geek. I was hired at my current job specifically because I'm good with Unix and have a liking for documentation.
I wouldn't mind setting up a decent webmail server for my wife however I haven't been able to find something that's simple and easy to manage without leaving the front door wide open. I haven't looked recently though. Maybe it's time to surf again and see what's out there.
So you went to the fake site? I don't even do that as I figure it's a totally hostile site and could infect, inject, neglect, and do all sorts of mean nasty ugly things to my system. Assuming main system usage vs a sandbox box of course.
I actually have the source content on a local OpenBSD box. When I make updates, I do it locally and then rsync it to the remote server. I also retrieve a copy of the remote server's/etc,/var, and/home directories and also snag a "find / -print" so I know what got installed that may not be in the three directories I retrieve.
A month or so back the hard drive failed on the remote server, the service replaced the disk and I pushed all the content back. Took a couple days for it all to get uploaded and another day to get stuff configured again.
1. Advertise $199, pay $299. 2. 50% either don't send in rebate forms, they are lost in the mail (or dumpster), or are disallowed. 3. 5% don't bother to come in (bait and switch, address harvesting, etc...) 4. Profit!
Slashdot Mirror
Then call the police. In the mean time, I'm going to lock my doors and windows to keep the thieves out.
[John]
Thanks.
[John]
My original 17" LCD didn't have the ability to be turned sideways so I bought a second model and intended on stacking them to have a very tall LCD screen. The software that came with the second exact same monitor did support turning the LCD on its side. So now I have one turned on its side for pdf's and one sitting normally for log watching, various directories, and things like that. The center monitor is the SSH session.
[John]
And I can't get stuff working right. Our monitoring solution (OpenSpew) is managed by a central group so we don't have the ability to know if our changes are being made. So we don't get pages when we need them and we get pages from 2 weeks ago at all hours. When we ask for additional features, we're told it'll cost $20,000 and there's no money in the budget.
As a result, the other groups have set up their own monitoring solution and shoot alerts to OpenView. And now we're getting ready to implement our own monitoring and stats solution (Nagios and RRDTool).
[John]
Didn't proofread it again, did you :)
[John]
You're replying to the wrong news article. You'll need to go back one or two to find the one about Google ads within ads :)
[John]
Yep, same here.
Admin decided to find and install rexx and wrote a script to do something with e-mail (forget now what it was). After he left, I had to understand what he did and rewrite it in perl.
Another admin was a Python advocate. Once he was gone, all the stuff he did in Python continued to run, until we needed to make a change. At first minor changes weren't a problem but eventually it got so cumbersome to figure out how to make the corrections, we either dropped the script entirely or rewrote it in perl.
Carl
I don't see black snow but I do see a black rip or snake with criss-crossed lines from time to time. It starts with a bit of a strain and a small dot in my vision. The dot grows and widens turning into the rip while the rest of my vision gets brighter and washes out. The snake generally heads down my vision until it's gone. It is snake like in that it curves, sometimes like a question mark or 'S'.
I've been to the eye doctors a couple of times. Examinations don't find anything and their conclusion is that it's an Ocular Migraine caused by the eye strain and a reduction in oxygen to the optic nerve.
Usually it happens after some heavy sessions with the computer. When I was younger, I'd get an eyeball shake. A twitch or jitter after reading for several hours.
[John]
Since I was hired to help understand the systems better, I spend a lot of time poking around and seeing what's what. Generally I find more work (like drives that have been complaining for 2 years).
:) ).
:)
I also document and help others on the team document their knowledge.
There's nothing worse than wanting to advance in the company and not being able to because you're the only one that knows the super secret way everything works together (or you're hit by a bus
I do a lot of reading as well. Slashdot being one but I also have a subscription to Safari so I can keep up on books without having to overload my library.
But I also pop out to hobby forums or read non-work related text. I have pdfs of most of my RPG books so I can have it open in the background and poke around in there. I also work on my web site from time to time. Since it's somewhat technical anyway, I can generally get away with it although I try not to be too obvious about it
[John]
I was working as a Typesetter on a CompuGraphic Editwriter 2600. A service repair guy came out for some reason and provided an 8" floppy with several games on it including Pong and Mastermind. I was already playing RPGs and because of the Editwriter and gaming, I bought a Sinclair ZX80 to write programs on. I actually learned to program using the Basic book that came with the Radio Shack Color Computer.
[John]
Oh yea. I moved in to lots of other games after that and am now running Shadowrun 4th and Paranoia XP.
[John]
I helped my grandma. She had polio and was paralyzed from the neck down. She was in an adjustable bed. My aunt and uncle would come by with my mom and dad. I'd stand on the platform next to her bed where she had a tray with slots for cards. I'd put the cards in the tray and she'd tell me which ones to discard.
I played Rack-o and that was the first game that I owned that I was careful about collecting cards and making sure it was all back in place before putting the game away.
Battle ship, monopoly, chess.
Then Outdoor Survival. I picked up more A/H games like Richthofen's War, and Wooden Ships & Iron Men which were my favorites.
From there it was original D&D.
[John]
No argument there. I think an unfair advantage over the computer AI would help me win at least one of the matches. I can get through the canned games without any problem but the StarCraft AI kicks my butt every time in the head to head games :)
[John]
Yep. I've done that. I haven't tried it with C&C3 just yet though. I'll have to bring it up and see how it goes. I'm playing Red Alert right now (the original one :) ).
[John]
Hey, thanks for modifying the quote to add your own little cynical observation.
I wasn't interested in cheating. Just seeing more real estate. How is being able to see the entire screen (not uncloak or "wallhack", just have it visible) cheating? It's the same screen I'd see by scrolling around, just not all at once.
I guess you play a lot on-line. I don't have the time to spend honing my skills to the level to even offer a decent game to the guys who spend all their time on line. Back when these were hot, I'd log in and within 10 or 15 minutes I'd be dead so I pretty much just play against the AI.
So honestly, I would just like these sorts of games to be able to display on all available monitors. I think it'd be cool to be able to see a lot more of the battlefield.
[John]
And that's the $64,000 question. I have three screens at home running on two adapters (512M video ram). It'd be nice to be able to use all the extra real estate to see more of a battlefield (StarCraft or Command and Conquer for example).
The three screens work great for my programming projects though.
[John]
Pretty funny. While I don't look over spams that I receive, a quick grep of the past month shows that the one site I did go to isn't there.
:) ).
The only time I've ever seen the site listed was here on Slashdot a few years back. I visited and liked what I saw. When they locked it down a bit further so all I could see were blurred out images, I paid my couple of bucks for a few months and downloaded all I could ever use. It's been a year and I haven't "used up" any of the downloads.
Heck, I may be good until I die or my drive crashes (I do have back ups though
[John]
Funny. I'm one of them with the one-time-use e-mails. As soon as I started getting spammed, I had to do some searching to figure out just why I was getting spammed. I sent an e-mail off to the company identified by the e-mail to let them know they may have been hacked. I also mentioned that I didn't know why I was all of a sudden getting spammed. After a few e-mails, he asked if I'd subscribed to a porn site for a few months last year. Heh, I thanked him as they'd apparently used a "brown paper bag" company name to process the subscription, gave him a month or so to see if they could do anything and then blocked the e-mail.
[John]
No CTS yet. Started as a typesetter on a dedicated computer, then a ZX81 to CoCo to IBM PC.
I had a brush with it when I was playing one of the games (Command and Conquer or Starcraft, I forget). I got so intense and devoted a lot of time in completing the game that my right wrist was really getting irritated with me. I switched to a marble mouse and that seemed to fixed the problem.
I'm a Unix geek so I type a lot and I screw around with web pages and mysql and I'm a documentation geek. I was hired at my current job specifically because I'm good with Unix and have a liking for documentation.
[John]
I wouldn't mind setting up a decent webmail server for my wife however I haven't been able to find something that's simple and easy to manage without leaving the front door wide open. I haven't looked recently though. Maybe it's time to surf again and see what's out there.
[John]
So you went to the fake site? I don't even do that as I figure it's a totally hostile site and could infect, inject, neglect, and do all sorts of mean nasty ugly things to my system. Assuming main system usage vs a sandbox box of course.
[John]
Huh, that explains my pay. Shush though. Just a few more payments and my villa is paid off :D
[John]
I do have a couple of different books from ROC with the same ISBN.
0-451-45302-6 - Shadowplay by Nigel Findley
0-451-45302-6 - Nosferatu by Carl Sargent & Marc Gascoigne
(Both are Shadowrun setting books)
[John]
I actually have the source content on a local OpenBSD box. When I make updates, I do it locally and then rsync it to the remote server. I also retrieve a copy of the remote server's /etc, /var, and /home directories and also snag a "find / -print" so I know what got installed that may not be in the three directories I retrieve.
A month or so back the hard drive failed on the remote server, the service replaced the disk and I pushed all the content back. Took a couple days for it all to get uploaded and another day to get stuff configured again.
[John]
1. Advertise $199.
2. 100% pay $199.
or
1. Advertise $199, pay $299.
2. 50% either don't send in rebate forms, they are lost in the mail (or dumpster), or are disallowed.
3. 5% don't bother to come in (bait and switch, address harvesting, etc...)
4. Profit!
Sounds like a no-brainer.
[John]