I know win98 doesn't support smp. That's what's so irritating about the whole thing.
Unfortunately, I can't steal it. It goes against my ethics. Besides, I would almost surely get caught since I would have to carry out a computer past several dozen people through two or three security doors. And no, I can't wait until after hours. I'm not authorized to work overtime and my security badge won't open the doors after a certain time (and it's needed to exit the building, too).
In this area (close to Silicon Valley), there are plenty of Linux people who would donate time to help the schools. I would. They aren't all that interested, unfortunately.
I considered that -- not possible, however, as security would probably question me walking out with a computer. It's not like I could hide it under my shirt. Besides, it would be stupid to risk my job for an old computer. I need the work (the San Fransisco Bay area tech job market sucks at the moment).
I'm contracting at a major corporation (one of the world's largest producers of wine). They are currently replacing hundreds of older machines, about 400Mhz, without brand new high end systems. All these older boxes are being donated to charity (public schools, I think). Unfortunately, the charities will want to run Windoze. They would barely get by with win98. If they try to run anything newer they won't be happy.
If they would just switch to Linux and run one of the "lighter" (e.g. not KDE 3) desktop managers, they would get much better performance and save a fortune on software licenses.
On an annoying note, today a 400Mhz dual processor system was tossed onto the charity pile. I want it. It would be a great replacement for my aging server, but they not only do not have a system for anyone to purchase old equipment, they actively discourage people from asking! That's just plain stupid. The school that ends up with that box probably won't even know what it is and will deploy it as all the others - with win98! ARRRRGGGHHH!
Anything they can pass of as "promotions" is charged to the artists' potentional royalty payments. Oddly enough, this usually eats up ALL royalties due.
The artists should start counting every single expense of a tour as promoting the album and demand credit for it.
Communism has killed about 20 million people. Twice as much as Nazi Germany. What does it take to meet your definition of evil?
We'll stop building 5 billion dollar mega war machines when the world stops building terrorists intent on blowing everyone up who disagrees with them in the slightest way.
American Express pulled out of Hungary a few years ago due to credit card fraud. They only recently returned. I understand our own F.B.I. sent a team over to Hungary to help train the rendõrség (police).
I have extensive experience with the Hungarian Post. I would NEVER send anything of value through it. The postal workers are so poorly paid and overworked that some supplement their meager incomes with "lost packages". Last Christmas, our entire shipment to Aunt Zsuzsi was lost this way. I no longer complain about the quality of the U.S. Postal never. I now realize how good it is compared to most of the rest of the world.
BTW, what district do you live in, or are you outside of Budapest?
No, that's not correct. Doing this would reduce the sales of Microsoft software, and Microsoft's goal is to sell more software rather than less.
Microsoft products will automatically be "trusted", so people will go with the safe bet and buy only Microsoft. Thus, more Microsoft sales and a whole lot fewer choices.
I work at a pure Windows shop. I don't like it, but it's the only work available. They have very strict "policies" on their computer network. Most people are not allowed to install or uninstall any software. Most people can't even make changes to their task bar. All internet connections must go through their rather strict proxy (kernel.org is considered inappropriate!). Most internet ports are blocked (21, 22, 23, 6667, and 7000 are definately blocked). Not that it has stopped me. I figured out how to bypass the proxy my first day there.
This is what trusted computing will be like. But instead of your employer limiting you at work, it will be Microsoft limiting you at home. "Where the fuck do you think you're going!?"
Good point. Unfortunately, as long as you can't get credit of any sort without giving up your SSN, companies will continue to demand it.
As for insurance companies requiring it, I tell them it's none of their business. They say they need it as an account number. So what, was my response, make something up.
A SSN is a number granted to an individual by the government for the purposes of identifying that person to the government.
You almost got it right. You should have said, "A SSN is a number granted by the government for the purposes of identifying that person the the Social Security Administration."
By law, the SSN can not be used for any other purpose. Of course, when has a mere law stopped the government or businesses for doing whatever they want?
All anyone really has to do is do a credit check on you, claiming to be a possible employer and such.
Not in California. A potential employer must have signed permission from the prospective employee to run a credit check. The one time the form was included in the employment package I tossed it. I was hired anyway.
We need to be absolutely sure that genetically engineered products, such as grains, don't reach human mouths.
That's the attitude they're taking in Africa. Tons of grain sent by the U.S. government for famine relief have been refused because it might be GM. They don't want the people dying from starvation getting sick from this dangerous stuff!
That gets it out of the logs, but doesn't really deal with the problem. I configured my server to automatically slap an iptables DROP on ip addresses attempting codered, nimda, and a few other exploits. It also deals with evil harvesting bots that ignore robots.txt exclusions. Because the vast majority of this crap is from dynamic ip addresses, the blocks are only temporary. Details are here.
And there is where you are wrong. Freedom is not overrated. Freedom is the single most important thing you could strive for. The only people who say freedom is overrated are fascists and despots.
The problem with the European Convention on Human Rights is they included loopholes for just about everything so even the most despotic government can stifle all freedom and still abide by that piece of paper.
You should read it sometime. It's a masterpiece of absolute EU bureaucratic bullshit - promising everything, delivering nothing.
Do your work and submit your claim for overtime pay.
If you are in California, they MUST pay it, nor can they get you to sign an agreement to waive overtime compensation. After submitting your overtime claim, if they fail to pay you the proper amount on the next paycheck, submit your claim to the Labor Board. If they fire you, great, now they also owe you big bucks for illegal termination.
Oh, IANAL, so you might want to verify this information.
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I know win98 doesn't support smp. That's what's so irritating about the whole thing.
Unfortunately, I can't steal it. It goes against my ethics. Besides, I would almost surely get caught since I would have to carry out a computer past several dozen people through two or three security doors. And no, I can't wait until after hours. I'm not authorized to work overtime and my security badge won't open the doors after a certain time (and it's needed to exit the building, too).
In this area (close to Silicon Valley), there are plenty of Linux people who would donate time to help the schools. I would. They aren't all that interested, unfortunately.
I considered that -- not possible, however, as security would probably question me walking out with a computer. It's not like I could hide it under my shirt. Besides, it would be stupid to risk my job for an old computer. I need the work (the San Fransisco Bay area tech job market sucks at the moment).
I'm contracting at a major corporation (one of the world's largest producers of wine). They are currently replacing hundreds of older machines, about 400Mhz, without brand new high end systems. All these older boxes are being donated to charity (public schools, I think). Unfortunately, the charities will want to run Windoze. They would barely get by with win98. If they try to run anything newer they won't be happy.
If they would just switch to Linux and run one of the "lighter" (e.g. not KDE 3) desktop managers, they would get much better performance and save a fortune on software licenses.
On an annoying note, today a 400Mhz dual processor system was tossed onto the charity pile. I want it. It would be a great replacement for my aging server, but they not only do not have a system for anyone to purchase old equipment, they actively discourage people from asking! That's just plain stupid. The school that ends up with that box probably won't even know what it is and will deploy it as all the others - with win98! ARRRRGGGHHH!
When you signed your contract with Lucifer, did you actually have to sign in blood or is that just a myth?
Anything they can pass of as "promotions" is charged to the artists' potentional royalty payments. Oddly enough, this usually eats up ALL royalties due.
The artists should start counting every single expense of a tour as promoting the album and demand credit for it.
er, I meant 100 million, not 20 millions. Far more than the Nazis.
Oops, don't know what I was thinking when I wrote 20 million - I know better. Thanks for the correction.
Communism has killed about 20 million people. Twice as much as Nazi Germany. What does it take to meet your definition of evil?
We'll stop building 5 billion dollar mega war machines when the world stops building terrorists intent on blowing everyone up who disagrees with them in the slightest way.
On the other hand, communism has only killed about 20 million people. Perhaps we should give it another chance?
American Express pulled out of Hungary a few years ago due to credit card fraud. They only recently returned. I understand our own F.B.I. sent a team over to Hungary to help train the rendõrség (police).
I have extensive experience with the Hungarian Post. I would NEVER send anything of value through it. The postal workers are so poorly paid and overworked that some supplement their meager incomes with "lost packages". Last Christmas, our entire shipment to Aunt Zsuzsi was lost this way. I no longer complain about the quality of the U.S. Postal never. I now realize how good it is compared to most of the rest of the world.
BTW, what district do you live in, or are you outside of Budapest?
I work at a pure Windows shop. I don't like it, but it's the only work available. They have very strict "policies" on their computer network. Most people are not allowed to install or uninstall any software. Most people can't even make changes to their task bar. All internet connections must go through their rather strict proxy (kernel.org is considered inappropriate!). Most internet ports are blocked (21, 22, 23, 6667, and 7000 are definately blocked). Not that it has stopped me. I figured out how to bypass the proxy my first day there.
This is what trusted computing will be like. But instead of your employer limiting you at work, it will be Microsoft limiting you at home. "Where the fuck do you think you're going!?"
Blizzard is in California. Noncompetes are not enforceable in this jurisdiction.
I bet Homeland Security (aka the Gestapo) won't allow these on a flight.
Good point. Unfortunately, as long as you can't get credit of any sort without giving up your SSN, companies will continue to demand it.
As for insurance companies requiring it, I tell them it's none of their business. They say they need it as an account number. So what, was my response, make something up.
He who dies with the most toys wins.
That gets it out of the logs, but doesn't really deal with the problem. I configured my server to automatically slap an iptables DROP on ip addresses attempting codered, nimda, and a few other exploits. It also deals with evil harvesting bots that ignore robots.txt exclusions. Because the vast majority of this crap is from dynamic ip addresses, the blocks are only temporary. Details are here.
The problem with the European Convention on Human Rights is they included loopholes for just about everything so even the most despotic government can stifle all freedom and still abide by that piece of paper.
You should read it sometime. It's a masterpiece of absolute EU bureaucratic bullshit - promising everything, delivering nothing.
- Do your work and submit your claim for overtime pay.
If you are in California, they MUST pay it, nor can they get you to sign an agreement to waive overtime compensation. After submitting your overtime claim, if they fail to pay you the proper amount on the next paycheck, submit your claim to the Labor Board. If they fire you, great, now they also owe you big bucks for illegal termination. Oh, IANAL, so you might want to verify this information.