In my region, the good looking ladies tend to be professional, and carreer oriented, leaving the heavy breeding to the welfare recipients who are on average fat and ugly, but have low standards and know that the more dependants they have, the better their monthly checks will look. I see this every day when I look out the office window at the budget housing across the street...
In my office, anyone using company equipment for a prank (when it affects system integrety) is in for hell! using spare equipment like a power supply to electrify a door handle is acceptable, as long as I'm well insulated (of course, I'm usually the one rigging the door handle, mostly to keep others out of the server room!
I constantly have alcohol brewing, and it's carbon negative!
My fermentation tank releases carbon that came from plant matter, which aquired the carbon from the atmosphere (carbon neutral)
the CO2 is then piped into my aquariums, where some bubbles out into the atmosphere, but most is consumed by the plants in the aquarium. The plants are trimmed on a monthly basis, and some are sold to other aquarium owners, while most of the trimmings are composted creating fertalizer to help other plants grow and capture more carbon from the atmosphere.
Also, commercial breweries that I've been to capture/ scrub the CO2 out of the tank exhaust, and fill those lovely CO2 cylenders to make additional profit, leaving the production process itself carbon neutral, and just the transport... but then if people were drinking bottled water instead, it would probably produce as much carbon through transport.
I get by fairly easily with 1 email address (well, it's several, but only one account). Between blacklists, header checks, and baysean filters my server filters out 99.999% of the spam, and anything that slips through goes to train the filters. I might see 1 or 2 spam per week. Of course, there is still the bandwidth being used by my server, but through the header checks and blacklists I only download a small portion of the spam, and the server is paid for by clients hosting websites or paying to have their email pass through my filters, so in the end, I'm only loosing a couple hours a month, and some small change profit. *this opinion is subject to change when the next wave of spam in a new format starts*
I hate those automated Voice Recognition telephone systems as well. I have a very low voice, and they never seem to understand me. With the Windows XP telephone actication, I can usually get to block A, then I have to say Continue several times before it decides to move on the B!
wouldn't be much different for me, except that I might actually only need one remote... I have 3 universal remotes that all fail to work with the other devices. #1 for TV and an antique VCR (probably one of the first ones to hit the market that supported remotes), #2 for 2nd VCR (because the other one can't receive anything above chanel 13), #3 for the DVR.
Usually while I'm watching TV, I have the smartphone in my hands anyway checking facebook, or reading emails.
Been there, done that. A couple years ago, I was driving along a secondary road (70k/h zone) and a car cut me off, causing me to brake and turn off the cruse control. I didn't reset the cruse because the arse couldn't keep his speed close to constant. 3 other cars passed on a double line, and a few seconds later I see the flashing lights, so I pull off the road. I got the ticket because I was pulled over and stopped. I contested the ticket, and the judge let me off with a "Severe warning" that even doing 1 km/h over the limit is against the law.
I live close to the boarder, and often have roaming enabled. I need it for work, and am happy (well, may not quite so happy) to pay roaming bills. My provider USUALLY sends me a SMS to say I've entered a US zone, but sometimes I don't get the message. Almost every month as I run through the roaming charges, I'll notice 2 or 3 calls that I can definatly remember where I was when I made it. A quick call, and they'll credit me without question. Of course, it's fairly obvious that I'm telling them the truth since I'm often asking for them to credit $10 out of $80 roaming...
Well, there are always the NOVEL boxes... OS2 boxes, WINDOWS ME boxes... I just wish I could gather the muscle th throw the old AS400 off the roof... (Some PHB decided to expand the offices, and basically built a new wing on the building, so we have no way of removing that POS that is good for nothing. Maybe I can gut the HDD cabinets and put the new rack of servers inside...
>Not everyone wants (or needs) to be available to take a call all the time.
uh what about those of us who work on call? I need my phone to work 24/7 because I never know in advance when a client is going to drop a database at 2AM and need it restored, or when the router will fail at 7:45 when I'm in a bar, or the 5am power failure that outlasts the UPS by 5 minutes, and requires someone to go in and pull the plugs, reset the breaker, and then bring the servers on one at a time so that the system doesn't overload again...
I've got friends that work the whole 9-5 deal, and I often make more in one service call than they do in a week, so thanks but I'll stick with the wierd schedules, and being tethered to a cell phone. I might only work 10 hours in a week, but I can pay my bills and still afford strippers
Well, here in quebec, we had the big Ice Storm of 98 which left a good portion of the province without power for a week or more (some places for more than a month). If was an inconvienience, but not a complete disaster. We recovers, and resumed buisness as usual in a short period of time. I had several neighbours move in while the power was out to take advantage of my water supply (well dug in basement, accessible by bucket), working plumbing (just pour bucket of water into toilet tank and it'll flush again), heat (wood stove) and occasional power (generator fired for 2 hours at a time 3x per day).
For me the biggest annoyance was dragging desiel from our storage tanks to the generator 3x/day.
I was set for food with 2 LARGE freezers full or pork, beef, and frozen vegetables
I've had about 30 machines pass through my shop with AV009... AVG did an excellent job at clearing it out on every machine (well, after ripping out the HDD, and attaching it to my test station, and running AVG on the CLEAN machine...). I love USB HDD enclosures.
Same here. I work, I get paid, anything else is extra.
Last year was nice, a bonus that was almost 2x my regular paycheck and a company paid dinner.
This year looks bad for bonuses (but if they do give anything I'll know when I check my bank statement on monday) and we are having a company dinner today, which we have to pay for...
I really don't care about the bonus, it just goes to MasterCard anyway... the only annoyance is knowing what my cousin gave away at his company's christmas party. 2 LARGE plasma TVs, and a high quality DVD player to each person that didn't get a TV! I'm thinking I should give up this computer gig and go to work as a mechanic.
I previous did an analysis at an engineering firm, and agree with the $75/year savings on power, however their systems had no scheduled wakeup, plus some engineers worked wierd hours. Because of this, if machines were shut down at night it would take about 4 minutes per day to boot the machines (and no one presses the power button BEFORE going for their coffee...) that totals up to 20 min/week, or approx 1.5 hours/month per employee 18 hours/year @ $25+/hour doesn't come close of making a $75 saving worthwhile. Standby doesn't completely cut power consumption, but it is the optimum savings for both time and energy.
I don't even remember what my background image is. I've ALWAYS got an email program or 2 running, as well as several web browser windows, and various programming tools, so the desktop is never seen. If they painted their annoyance nag scren on TOP of everything else, I would be in the store purchasing a new copy immediatly.
The computer would probably have trouble holding down the deadman's brake. Even the human drivers have trouble with it, and usually just put their lunchbox on it...
>Even admitting to using or owning Unixware is
>like admitting to using or owning Windows ME.:)
Come on, I own Windows ME. I gave someone a $30 rebate to recycle (strip the parts that still work, drop the case at the scrap dealers, and dead / usless parts at the local dump where they recycle electronics) I found the CD in the drive, and through it on my pile of cd's t that will probably never be found again let alone used...
I installed a new computer for a client a while ago, and their old system was non-recoverable. Everything went smoothly up to the point of setting up their email account. No suprise, the had lost the documentation, and didn't know their pop server (and crappy ISP has about 15 to choose from), so instead of dealing with the annoyance of going through them to try the account on each, I called the support line.
me: Yes, hello. I'm Garwain, calling on behalf of $client, with the username $id. The phone number is ###-###-####. All I need is the pop server name for this account.
tech: OK, open up outlook express
me: It's already open.
tech: please close all programs and then open outlook express
me: ok, outlook express is open... could you please just tell me the POP server
tech: sir, setting up an email is a complicated task. at the top of the screen, do you see a tools menu?
me: yes...
in the end, I had to dumb down to follow the script, and a question that should have taken 1 minute to verify the user, and give the information took nearly 10 minutes while he walked through the script.
Of course, I never left the account setup screen, and simply waited for him to give the server number, then had the email successfully checked by the time he said "Click send/receive"...
Then when trying to wrap up, he had the nerve to ask if there was any way they could improve the customer support services...
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In my region, the good looking ladies tend to be professional, and carreer oriented, leaving the heavy breeding to the welfare recipients who are on average fat and ugly, but have low standards and know that the more dependants they have, the better their monthly checks will look. I see this every day when I look out the office window at the budget housing across the street...
only if you spend time in shark infested waters. I however work in tall buildings, and never go near the ocean
In my office, anyone using company equipment for a prank (when it affects system integrety) is in for hell! using spare equipment like a power supply to electrify a door handle is acceptable, as long as I'm well insulated (of course, I'm usually the one rigging the door handle, mostly to keep others out of the server room!
I constantly have alcohol brewing, and it's carbon negative! My fermentation tank releases carbon that came from plant matter, which aquired the carbon from the atmosphere (carbon neutral) the CO2 is then piped into my aquariums, where some bubbles out into the atmosphere, but most is consumed by the plants in the aquarium. The plants are trimmed on a monthly basis, and some are sold to other aquarium owners, while most of the trimmings are composted creating fertalizer to help other plants grow and capture more carbon from the atmosphere. Also, commercial breweries that I've been to capture/ scrub the CO2 out of the tank exhaust, and fill those lovely CO2 cylenders to make additional profit, leaving the production process itself carbon neutral, and just the transport... but then if people were drinking bottled water instead, it would probably produce as much carbon through transport.
I get by fairly easily with 1 email address (well, it's several, but only one account). Between blacklists, header checks, and baysean filters my server filters out 99.999% of the spam, and anything that slips through goes to train the filters. I might see 1 or 2 spam per week. Of course, there is still the bandwidth being used by my server, but through the header checks and blacklists I only download a small portion of the spam, and the server is paid for by clients hosting websites or paying to have their email pass through my filters, so in the end, I'm only loosing a couple hours a month, and some small change profit. *this opinion is subject to change when the next wave of spam in a new format starts*
I hate those automated Voice Recognition telephone systems as well. I have a very low voice, and they never seem to understand me. With the Windows XP telephone actication, I can usually get to block A, then I have to say Continue several times before it decides to move on the B!
wouldn't be much different for me, except that I might actually only need one remote... I have 3 universal remotes that all fail to work with the other devices. #1 for TV and an antique VCR (probably one of the first ones to hit the market that supported remotes), #2 for 2nd VCR (because the other one can't receive anything above chanel 13), #3 for the DVR. Usually while I'm watching TV, I have the smartphone in my hands anyway checking facebook, or reading emails.
Been there, done that. A couple years ago, I was driving along a secondary road (70k/h zone) and a car cut me off, causing me to brake and turn off the cruse control. I didn't reset the cruse because the arse couldn't keep his speed close to constant. 3 other cars passed on a double line, and a few seconds later I see the flashing lights, so I pull off the road. I got the ticket because I was pulled over and stopped. I contested the ticket, and the judge let me off with a "Severe warning" that even doing 1 km/h over the limit is against the law.
I live close to the boarder, and often have roaming enabled. I need it for work, and am happy (well, may not quite so happy) to pay roaming bills. My provider USUALLY sends me a SMS to say I've entered a US zone, but sometimes I don't get the message. Almost every month as I run through the roaming charges, I'll notice 2 or 3 calls that I can definatly remember where I was when I made it. A quick call, and they'll credit me without question. Of course, it's fairly obvious that I'm telling them the truth since I'm often asking for them to credit $10 out of $80 roaming...
Well, there are always the NOVEL boxes... OS2 boxes, WINDOWS ME boxes... I just wish I could gather the muscle th throw the old AS400 off the roof... (Some PHB decided to expand the offices, and basically built a new wing on the building, so we have no way of removing that POS that is good for nothing. Maybe I can gut the HDD cabinets and put the new rack of servers inside...
>Not everyone wants (or needs) to be available to take a call all the time. uh what about those of us who work on call? I need my phone to work 24/7 because I never know in advance when a client is going to drop a database at 2AM and need it restored, or when the router will fail at 7:45 when I'm in a bar, or the 5am power failure that outlasts the UPS by 5 minutes, and requires someone to go in and pull the plugs, reset the breaker, and then bring the servers on one at a time so that the system doesn't overload again... I've got friends that work the whole 9-5 deal, and I often make more in one service call than they do in a week, so thanks but I'll stick with the wierd schedules, and being tethered to a cell phone. I might only work 10 hours in a week, but I can pay my bills and still afford strippers
Well, here in quebec, we had the big Ice Storm of 98 which left a good portion of the province without power for a week or more (some places for more than a month). If was an inconvienience, but not a complete disaster. We recovers, and resumed buisness as usual in a short period of time. I had several neighbours move in while the power was out to take advantage of my water supply (well dug in basement, accessible by bucket), working plumbing (just pour bucket of water into toilet tank and it'll flush again), heat (wood stove) and occasional power (generator fired for 2 hours at a time 3x per day). For me the biggest annoyance was dragging desiel from our storage tanks to the generator 3x/day. I was set for food with 2 LARGE freezers full or pork, beef, and frozen vegetables
or they are only counting the ones that MS has received reports about... I have cleaned about 30 machines of this evilness in the last few weeks.
Isn't that kind of like not using a condom because all the women you sleep with are professionals, so they must be clean, so you must be safe?
I've had about 30 machines pass through my shop with AV009... AVG did an excellent job at clearing it out on every machine (well, after ripping out the HDD, and attaching it to my test station, and running AVG on the CLEAN machine...). I love USB HDD enclosures.
Same here. I work, I get paid, anything else is extra. Last year was nice, a bonus that was almost 2x my regular paycheck and a company paid dinner. This year looks bad for bonuses (but if they do give anything I'll know when I check my bank statement on monday) and we are having a company dinner today, which we have to pay for... I really don't care about the bonus, it just goes to MasterCard anyway... the only annoyance is knowing what my cousin gave away at his company's christmas party. 2 LARGE plasma TVs, and a high quality DVD player to each person that didn't get a TV! I'm thinking I should give up this computer gig and go to work as a mechanic.
I previous did an analysis at an engineering firm, and agree with the $75/year savings on power, however their systems had no scheduled wakeup, plus some engineers worked wierd hours. Because of this, if machines were shut down at night it would take about 4 minutes per day to boot the machines (and no one presses the power button BEFORE going for their coffee...) that totals up to 20 min/week, or approx 1.5 hours/month per employee 18 hours /year @ $25+/hour doesn't come close of making a $75 saving worthwhile. Standby doesn't completely cut power consumption, but it is the optimum savings for both time and energy.
I don't even remember what my background image is. I've ALWAYS got an email program or 2 running, as well as several web browser windows, and various programming tools, so the desktop is never seen. If they painted their annoyance nag scren on TOP of everything else, I would be in the store purchasing a new copy immediatly.
The computer would probably have trouble holding down the deadman's brake. Even the human drivers have trouble with it, and usually just put their lunchbox on it...
>This feature would probably be most useful if you know >the person can't be disturbed Then why call? just send an email
I would think they are more suited for the handling of male bovine excrament...
>Even admitting to using or owning Unixware is >like admitting to using or owning Windows ME. :)
Come on, I own Windows ME. I gave someone a $30 rebate to recycle (strip the parts that still work, drop the case at the scrap dealers, and dead / usless parts at the local dump where they recycle electronics) I found the CD in the drive, and through it on my pile of cd's t that will probably never be found again let alone used...
If you don't understand metric, it takes about 10 seconds to locate a conversion program on google.
I installed a new computer for a client a while ago, and their old system was non-recoverable. Everything went smoothly up to the point of setting up their email account. No suprise, the had lost the documentation, and didn't know their pop server (and crappy ISP has about 15 to choose from), so instead of dealing with the annoyance of going through them to try the account on each, I called the support line. me: Yes, hello. I'm Garwain, calling on behalf of $client, with the username $id. The phone number is ###-###-####. All I need is the pop server name for this account. tech: OK, open up outlook express me: It's already open. tech: please close all programs and then open outlook express me: ok, outlook express is open... could you please just tell me the POP server tech: sir, setting up an email is a complicated task. at the top of the screen, do you see a tools menu? me: yes ...
in the end, I had to dumb down to follow the script, and a question that should have taken 1 minute to verify the user, and give the information took nearly 10 minutes while he walked through the script.
Of course, I never left the account setup screen, and simply waited for him to give the server number, then had the email successfully checked by the time he said "Click send/receive"...
Then when trying to wrap up, he had the nerve to ask if there was any way they could improve the customer support services...
The same way you can buy a spool of Cat5E, and a package of connectors for the same price as a 50' prefab cable...