Merging in at full speed, and exiting before slowing down would be nice. Could you kindly convince the people that build these ramps to give enough space for a "normal" vehicule to get up to speed without needing to floor it for the whole 300 meters given? Also, give enough room to slow down enough to safely take the exit ramp without needing to brake hard and create a danger to anyone following?
I spend enought time an energy trying to keep bandwidth usage minimal, there is no way in HELL I'll let a company that I pay a fortune to start using my bandwithh the pass their bug fixes on to other people. Companys spend enough in site licences, MS can afford to spend a little to keep their patch system running properly, without needing to move to a Peer-to-peer virus setup!
>China's debris will be in orbit for thousands of years (and I mean that literally).
I rather doubt it. With the constantly increasing value of scrap metal, and the dawn of commercial space flight in sight, it's just a matter of time before someone start collecting space debris to recycle, Of course, that will shortly be followed by people collecting "scrap wire" from satalites for the copper, and "oops, that wire we just cut was actually live, I wonder if it didi anything important"
Easier reponse, just take away the hardwood lumber, and the fresh water that is shipped to the US from Canada. Maybe the USA can survive without our beef, but let's see them do without our other major exports!
And how will this system tell if there road is blocked stopping traffic, or if the road is empty and everyone with cellphones are sitting at the cafe or pub?
I took a comp sci course years ago, and have been doing fairly well... steady employment, but low salary because I refuse to move to a major urban center.
My thoughts through the courses and still to date is that comp sci should be focused on teaching students one language, it should be teach the students how to perform the proper analysis quickly or on the fly (forget that system lifecycle shit, the only time it might be used in industry is if you are in the management team of a company specialized in software development). Teach the students the logic of how to program both sequential and event-based systems, and expose the students to several languages so they don't so much learn the language as learn how to learn the language.
if 2 students attend 2 different schools, one that focuses only on one language (who cares if it's java, C++, VB, etc) and one that teaches a the programming concepts as abstracts, and has courses in several different languages. the 2 students finish their courses at the same time, with the same marks, and apply for the same job which turns out deals with a language neither have been exposed to. WHo is more likely to meet the challange?
My courses had covered C, C++, VB, VC++ and sql programming on the PC, and REXX, COBOL, JCL and KIX on a mainframe running VM/CMS. Lets just say those of us who survived the workload are all doing fairly well compared to the quick and dirty progams offered at other colleges where a extensive course in one language creates a comp-sci grad.
I for one have several customized systems. I have my laptop for day to day work, a desktop at home booting windows and debian for regular use.
I have an old 486 running windows95 for testing programs for one of my clients who uses s similar system with a legacy communications board to communicate with production lines
then there is one machine set up for optimum performance for photo/video editing
a machine set up for optimum performance for sound editing
An asterisk server so that I can have calls automatically routed to my cell phone if I'm not home (without needing to set up call forwarding all the time) and to allow me to make outgoing calls through my home/office line and take advantage of my unlimited talk time for my home number...
yep, only essential personnel should have access, and they communicate.
If $ServicePerson shows up, to deal with $server, they should have an appointment with $internalPerson. If $internalPerson knows about it, but will not be around to supervise, then a note should be left for $AnotherInternalPerson to know $whatTheHellIsGoingOn, if there is no tracibility and no one is expecting $servicePerson, then send him packing,
Um... yeah... I am probably the only person in my workplace who can access outside email servers, but then I do all IT here, and my personal mail server is a hell of a lot more secure than the company one. Of course, it's hard to bring in a virus when you check your email over a SSH session using mutt...
At a previous job, after getting complaints from higher up, after locking everything down tight enough that even a fly's fart wouldn't make it though, I offered up a solution to the execs that were responsable for my employment... Get pricing per additional block of static IPs from our upstream provider, pricing from cabling contractor, prepare a quote to add a second data line in each $important_enough_to_bypass_rules office. $UberBoss shelled out the cash to have a dediicated line in each office, then when the execs wanted to bypass IT rules, they had to switch their ethernet cables.
I knew it was asking for FUBAR machines, but hey, they all had laptops, and would do the exact same things at home.
>Speed limits are arbitrary, and (specifically on the highways between Brisbane and Melbourne) designed to make money, not save lives.
I'll agree with that. I have 2 possible routes on my commute to work, one all highways with 90km/h limits almost all the way, the other is secondary roads, with one straight stretch for about 15 km in the middle of nowhere that has a 50km/h limit. Now, this road is highway quality, and driving at 50, or even 60 feels like you are just sitting there. Several times I have turned on my GPS to verify that I was actually going 50! Of course, I get passed all the time on that road, by city folks who have seen it on the map and think it's a good shortcut, but I don't really care, I know exactally where the cops will be sitting (either in a yard waiting, or on the road with someone pulled over). If the speed was increased to 80, which would be perfectly safe for that road, it would make the drive more comfortable, and cut a couple minutes off my drive.
Even 6 years ago, possibly. My partner and I had spent a couple long evenings eating pizza and drinking beer while developing a buisness plan (which has long since been scrappped), and coming up with possible company names with domain names available. Since neither of us had any cash to spare, we just settled on possibilities until the incorporation process was complete and we could get a company credit card. In the month that it took to resolve all legalities and get our equipment up and running, the domain had been registered! I ended up hyphenating the 2 words that created our name, and we have been reasonably satisfied ever since. Worst part is the original domain is still taken, and I have never seen anything done with it!
3 days would be a killer for me. I have agreements with one of my clients that in the event of a major fault, I will arrive onsite at their main office within 1 hour, and their remote offices within 24 hours. Several planes leave to the cities hosting their remote offices every day so if I can't get a ticket on one, I'm usually on the next. if I had to book 3 days in advance, then I would loose the contract with the remote offices.
yeah, I noticed a huge spike lastweek, over 300% spam increase (up from one message received to 4). Makes me want to check my mail server logs to see what I haven't received...
could also generate significant energy in my office by replacing all the coasters in the office with pads made of these things... Coffee cup goes up, coffee cup goes down... repeat this all day long... Also a floor pad along the corridor leading to the coffee machine, and the back door where everyone goes to smoke...
well, after I pull into the parking lot, my morning routine consists mostly of:
1) get coffee
2) unlock sever room, and check status of all machines
3) set up laptop on desk, and power up
3) have a smoke
4) get another coffee
5) check email
6) begin whatever tasks are ligned up for the day
I simply put a proxy server between the AP and the rest of the network, along with a small database of username/passwords, and a redirect to a login webpage if the MAC address/IP combo has not been validated within 4 hours. Basic rule is no valid IP/MAC combo, everything but port 80 is dropped, and all port 80 reqests ae redirected to the login page. I know a lot of hotels in my area use this sort of method, and that's actually where I got the idea from... just took a few hours of coding to get it working.
I tried myself to have in in-house server for the small buisnesses run by myself and my parents, but none of the ISPs in my area will allow servers of any kind, and activly block ports to make trying a PITA. I ended up settling down with a CO-LO datacenter, and my own server in their racks. Power is very stable, the connections are solid, their support is excellent (as long as I only need them to reboot the server for some reason, or I can talk them through disabling the firewall rule that blocked me out...) The distance to the datacenter is the only downside for me (over an hour drive if I need to do onsite mainteneance.), other than that, they just ask me to drop my pants and bend over for them every 3 months (well, that's what it feels like writing them their checks anyways...)
I do contract work for several companies, and have internal email accounts that I access via IMAP, but most of the connections I work from have port 25 blocked, so I simply set up a secondary SMTP port on the servers I want to send mail through. (it's good to have control over servers that are important to you!)
My theory as well, except that I'm still on win2K. It runs all the apps I need reasonably fast, and is VERY stable. I have machines dedicated to special tasks that still run windows 98 because of the minimal overhead
I have a 2003 civic hybrid, with 140,000 KM on it, and the batteries are still going strong. They charge up, and last pretty much like the day I bought the car.
I compared the car with several other vehicules when I bought it, and it give much better acceleration than any non-hybrid I tried that had a similar fuel rating.
>Government greed for your tax dollars aside, the roads and infrastructure/do/ need to be paid for, and today, they
>are in no small part paid for through gasoline taxes. If that revenue goes away, it's going to have to come from
>somewhere else.
So let us with small efficient cars off the hook, and tax the huge trucks and gas guzzling SUVs. The people who can afford an SUV that gets 10 miles to the gallon should be able to afford to pay a gas hog tax, and the trucks are the vehicules that do most of the dammage to the roads...
Also, for the infrastructure, maybe instead of the roads department going with their friends, or the cheapest option, they should look for the contractor that will do the best job for the price... Doing a poor paving job, then patching 2x a year for a few years then paving again is a lot more expensive than doing a good job the first time and making a road that will last several years before needing minor maintenance.
I have a decent espresso machine, and I buy fresh beans weekly at a local shop that guarantees their beens to be roasted that morning. I have my own grinder, and have worked out the exact size of a handfull of beans it takes to make a decent 3 shots. Since my machine keeps the water heated, it takes me approx 2 minutes to make a good mug of espresso, or an extra 30 seconds if I feel like a cappichino.
ALways keep the beans in an airtight container, in the dark, and never grind more beans than needed! I could save money by buying a larger bag of beans, or bulk, but I find that one week is about as long as I can keep them fresh. After that, the they loose their flavor FAST.
> Perhaps we could make them into a self-aware AI one day,
> imagine that. an AI running on poorly secured Windows boxes
Why bother? As soon as it becomes self-aware enough to realize it's running on windows, it will commit suicide...
I'll admit the camera phone is a handy tool. I never miss that shot and say "Damn I wish I had my camera with me", but if I'm looking to take a decent photo, I'll always prefer to use a digital camera that's designed to function as a camera! Prety much my opinion on these new phones... I want a cell phone that works primarly as a phone, with the extras being extra, not having a device that's designed for photography/or to be a PDA with a cellphone built into it...
Also, if I was going to take photos in less than perfect light, I'd much prefer a camera with a decent flash!
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Merging in at full speed, and exiting before slowing down would be nice. Could you kindly convince the people that build these ramps to give enough space for a "normal" vehicule to get up to speed without needing to floor it for the whole 300 meters given? Also, give enough room to slow down enough to safely take the exit ramp without needing to brake hard and create a danger to anyone following?
I spend enought time an energy trying to keep bandwidth usage minimal, there is no way in HELL I'll let a company that I pay a fortune to start using my bandwithh the pass their bug fixes on to other people. Companys spend enough in site licences, MS can afford to spend a little to keep their patch system running properly, without needing to move to a Peer-to-peer virus setup!
>China's debris will be in orbit for thousands of years (and I mean that literally). I rather doubt it. With the constantly increasing value of scrap metal, and the dawn of commercial space flight in sight, it's just a matter of time before someone start collecting space debris to recycle, Of course, that will shortly be followed by people collecting "scrap wire" from satalites for the copper, and "oops, that wire we just cut was actually live, I wonder if it didi anything important"
Easier reponse, just take away the hardwood lumber, and the fresh water that is shipped to the US from Canada. Maybe the USA can survive without our beef, but let's see them do without our other major exports!
And how will this system tell if there road is blocked stopping traffic, or if the road is empty and everyone with cellphones are sitting at the cafe or pub?
I took a comp sci course years ago, and have been doing fairly well... steady employment, but low salary because I refuse to move to a major urban center. My thoughts through the courses and still to date is that comp sci should be focused on teaching students one language, it should be teach the students how to perform the proper analysis quickly or on the fly (forget that system lifecycle shit, the only time it might be used in industry is if you are in the management team of a company specialized in software development). Teach the students the logic of how to program both sequential and event-based systems, and expose the students to several languages so they don't so much learn the language as learn how to learn the language. if 2 students attend 2 different schools, one that focuses only on one language (who cares if it's java, C++, VB, etc) and one that teaches a the programming concepts as abstracts, and has courses in several different languages. the 2 students finish their courses at the same time, with the same marks, and apply for the same job which turns out deals with a language neither have been exposed to. WHo is more likely to meet the challange? My courses had covered C, C++, VB, VC++ and sql programming on the PC, and REXX, COBOL, JCL and KIX on a mainframe running VM/CMS. Lets just say those of us who survived the workload are all doing fairly well compared to the quick and dirty progams offered at other colleges where a extensive course in one language creates a comp-sci grad.
I for one have several customized systems. I have my laptop for day to day work, a desktop at home booting windows and debian for regular use.
/office line and take advantage of my unlimited talk time for my home number...
I have an old 486 running windows95 for testing programs for one of my clients who uses s similar system
with a legacy communications board to communicate with production lines
then there is one machine set up for optimum performance for photo/video editing
a machine set up for optimum performance for sound editing
An asterisk server so that I can have calls automatically routed to my cell phone if I'm not home (without needing to set up call forwarding all the time) and to allow me to make outgoing calls through my home
yep, only essential personnel should have access, and they communicate. If $ServicePerson shows up, to deal with $server, they should have an appointment with $internalPerson. If $internalPerson knows about it, but will not be around to supervise, then a note should be left for $AnotherInternalPerson to know $whatTheHellIsGoingOn, if there is no tracibility and no one is expecting $servicePerson, then send him packing,
Um... yeah... I am probably the only person in my workplace who can access outside email servers, but then I do all IT here, and my personal mail server is a hell of a lot more secure than the company one. Of course, it's hard to bring in a virus when you check your email over a SSH session using mutt...
At a previous job, after getting complaints from higher up, after locking everything down tight enough that even a fly's fart wouldn't make it though, I offered up a solution to the execs that were responsable for my employment... Get pricing per additional block of static IPs from our upstream provider, pricing from cabling contractor, prepare a quote to add a second data line in each $important_enough_to_bypass_rules office. $UberBoss shelled out the cash to have a dediicated line in each office, then when the execs wanted to bypass IT rules, they had to switch their ethernet cables. I knew it was asking for FUBAR machines, but hey, they all had laptops, and would do the exact same things at home.
>Speed limits are arbitrary, and (specifically on the highways between Brisbane and Melbourne) designed to make money, not save lives. I'll agree with that. I have 2 possible routes on my commute to work, one all highways with 90km/h limits almost all the way, the other is secondary roads, with one straight stretch for about 15 km in the middle of nowhere that has a 50km/h limit. Now, this road is highway quality, and driving at 50, or even 60 feels like you are just sitting there. Several times I have turned on my GPS to verify that I was actually going 50! Of course, I get passed all the time on that road, by city folks who have seen it on the map and think it's a good shortcut, but I don't really care, I know exactally where the cops will be sitting (either in a yard waiting, or on the road with someone pulled over). If the speed was increased to 80, which would be perfectly safe for that road, it would make the drive more comfortable, and cut a couple minutes off my drive.
Even 6 years ago, possibly. My partner and I had spent a couple long evenings eating pizza and drinking beer while developing a buisness plan (which has long since been scrappped), and coming up with possible company names with domain names available. Since neither of us had any cash to spare, we just settled on possibilities until the incorporation process was complete and we could get a company credit card. In the month that it took to resolve all legalities and get our equipment up and running, the domain had been registered! I ended up hyphenating the 2 words that created our name, and we have been reasonably satisfied ever since. Worst part is the original domain is still taken, and I have never seen anything done with it!
3 days would be a killer for me. I have agreements with one of my clients that in the event of a major fault, I will arrive onsite at their main office within 1 hour, and their remote offices within 24 hours. Several planes leave to the cities hosting their remote offices every day so if I can't get a ticket on one, I'm usually on the next. if I had to book 3 days in advance, then I would loose the contract with the remote offices.
yeah, I noticed a huge spike lastweek, over 300% spam increase (up from one message received to 4). Makes me want to check my mail server logs to see what I haven't received...
could also generate significant energy in my office by replacing all the coasters in the office with pads made of these things... Coffee cup goes up, coffee cup goes down... repeat this all day long... Also a floor pad along the corridor leading to the coffee machine, and the back door where everyone goes to smoke...
well, after I pull into the parking lot, my morning routine consists mostly of: 1) get coffee 2) unlock sever room, and check status of all machines 3) set up laptop on desk, and power up 3) have a smoke 4) get another coffee 5) check email 6) begin whatever tasks are ligned up for the day
I simply put a proxy server between the AP and the rest of the network, along with a small database of username/passwords, and a redirect to a login webpage if the MAC address/IP combo has not been validated within 4 hours. Basic rule is no valid IP/MAC combo, everything but port 80 is dropped, and all port 80 reqests ae redirected to the login page. I know a lot of hotels in my area use this sort of method, and that's actually where I got the idea from... just took a few hours of coding to get it working.
I tried myself to have in in-house server for the small buisnesses run by myself and my parents, but none of the ISPs in my area will allow servers of any kind, and activly block ports to make trying a PITA. I ended up settling down with a CO-LO datacenter, and my own server in their racks. Power is very stable, the connections are solid, their support is excellent (as long as I only need them to reboot the server for some reason, or I can talk them through disabling the firewall rule that blocked me out...) The distance to the datacenter is the only downside for me (over an hour drive if I need to do onsite mainteneance.), other than that, they just ask me to drop my pants and bend over for them every 3 months (well, that's what it feels like writing them their checks anyways...)
I do contract work for several companies, and have internal email accounts that I access via IMAP, but most of the connections I work from have port 25 blocked, so I simply set up a secondary SMTP port on the servers I want to send mail through. (it's good to have control over servers that are important to you!)
My theory as well, except that I'm still on win2K. It runs all the apps I need reasonably fast, and is VERY stable. I have machines dedicated to special tasks that still run windows 98 because of the minimal overhead
I have a 2003 civic hybrid, with 140,000 KM on it, and the batteries are still going strong. They charge up, and last pretty much like the day I bought the car. I compared the car with several other vehicules when I bought it, and it give much better acceleration than any non-hybrid I tried that had a similar fuel rating.
>Government greed for your tax dollars aside, the roads and infrastructure /do/ need to be paid for, and today, they
>are in no small part paid for through gasoline taxes. If that revenue goes away, it's going to have to come from
>somewhere else.
So let us with small efficient cars off the hook, and tax the huge trucks and gas guzzling SUVs. The people who can afford an SUV that gets 10 miles to the gallon should be able to afford to pay a gas hog tax, and the trucks are the vehicules that do most of the dammage to the roads...
Also, for the infrastructure, maybe instead of the roads department going with their friends, or the cheapest option, they should look for the contractor that will do the best job for the price... Doing a poor paving job, then patching 2x a year for a few years then paving again is a lot more expensive than doing a good job the first time and making a road that will last several years before needing minor maintenance.
I have a decent espresso machine, and I buy fresh beans weekly at a local shop that guarantees their beens to be roasted that morning. I have my own grinder, and have worked out the exact size of a handfull of beans it takes to make a decent 3 shots. Since my machine keeps the water heated, it takes me approx 2 minutes to make a good mug of espresso, or an extra 30 seconds if I feel like a cappichino. ALways keep the beans in an airtight container, in the dark, and never grind more beans than needed! I could save money by buying a larger bag of beans, or bulk, but I find that one week is about as long as I can keep them fresh. After that, the they loose their flavor FAST.
> Perhaps we could make them into a self-aware AI one day, > imagine that. an AI running on poorly secured Windows boxes Why bother? As soon as it becomes self-aware enough to realize it's running on windows, it will commit suicide...
I'll admit the camera phone is a handy tool. I never miss that shot and say "Damn I wish I had my camera with me", but if I'm looking to take a decent photo, I'll always prefer to use a digital camera that's designed to function as a camera! Prety much my opinion on these new phones... I want a cell phone that works primarly as a phone, with the extras being extra, not having a device that's designed for photography/or to be a PDA with a cellphone built into it... Also, if I was going to take photos in less than perfect light, I'd much prefer a camera with a decent flash!