Yeah... i'm doin that tech support thing that seems all programers do atleast once during university... gotta get it out of my system. I know what you are goin through, as some support people have never even got a solid week of training.
I deal with lusers and their digital cameras, but got alot more training (as per the services requirements) and have a bit more of a chance getting someone to call back to arrange another session to learn. joy... anyway, I had this person call... 5 times, and each call started with "My camera died (again). What keeps happening?" This happens every 12 or 13 days... And every time, I would say: "How long has it been since you last changed your batteries." She would say: "about 12 days. When you last called." Then I would say: "OK, there is a chance that your batteries are dead. Do you have any fresh ones we can try out?". She would comply, and promptly end her call. I cant wait till next tuesday... after a long weekend, and she'll be ready to go with some more dead batteries.
oh well... not much i can say other than. replace your batteries.
p.s. I know it's the same woman... the VoIp system needs a login (easy website...) and pass... its great, but there are some stupid stupid people out there.
Yep... but i wanna see you install, configure and maintain a firewall in Debian... Out of the box ones are okay, but the built in kernel firewall in LINUX tends to kill people at random.
i was just saying that there is a reason for the law... and some people can't see that... I guess thats kewl, but they will "grow up" soon and see my ways... we were all kids once and we knew it sucked.
one thing windows lets us do is install firewalls, and block certain internet sites. But... one thing I realized was if you talk to them and act mature about it, tell them that the illicit content they are looking at it designed for more mature people, and inform them that you are going to block those sites. If you do that, then their ball is in their corner. They have 2 options: 1, realize you are right and keep off the pr0n, or 2, they override yer countermeasures and you catch them.
Even the most Cyber Baby'esque child in your house can't totally remove the logs of internet traffic.
Basically, if you cant trust yer kids to keep off the pr0n, don't let them have internet in their room... or put the computer in the living room and only let them use it when yer home. If yer kid is looking at pr0n in the living room and masturbating in the relative public of that place, illicit internet use is the least of your worries.
Laytex is the best thing to make pdfs. we use this at my university for creating pdf's that have large amounts of special characters and odd formatting. Im not too sure where to get it, but i do know its cross platform compatable and really sw33t in a *nix enviroment.
Around home, We seperate into 3 types: Compost (We live in the country, so that stuff is golden for the garden), Returnables / Recyclables like pop cans and beer bottles, and then other... thats like... well everything else.
Around school, (Acadia University) we have an extensive program of recycling and sorting, but if the janitors see one bit of non mal-sorted trash, like a bottle in with the papers, they won't fish it out, but infact, throw it in the garbage, and won't recycle it all.
I agree that aluminum cans and bottles should be returned, but what can they do with the other stuff than bury it in the ground or burn it in a furnace.
As for the tree issues, and the paper issue under that, the mills that make the pulp and the paper are quite efficient. There is little waist when they make pulp and less when they press it to paper. If a person would want to save a single tree, they would need an approximatly equal amount of paper. The logistics to save 1 acre of "old growth forests" would amount to millions upon millions of pounds of paper, and then you are burning up fossil fuels and poluting the air with exhaust.
Basically, the earth was here for hundreds of millions of years before humans, and it will be here for hundreds of millions of years after us. It is only human ignorance that makes us think that if 10% of our population recycles, we can make a difference. These people should put their brains to better use and find cures for dieseases, super conductors, the never ending beer, and many more things that would accelerate our society into a better and bigger future... not holding us back because mother earth has a few boo-boos.
Hold on, the future is coming if you want it to or not... there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. Just sit down, hold on, and enjoy the rids. See you if things calm down.
yeah... i do things like take apart the cd drive to make new switches and face plates. but i built my comptuer FTDU (from the desk up) and there is no warrenty... but i am an electrical engineer, so anything i can't fix, can't be fixed.
Basically if you are sending something... no matter what, it is broken down into packets and sent. Your computer does not care what it is, just where it is going. It is the job of the receiver to understand it. The reason yer SFTP is slow is because yer internet connection is throttled for non HTTP packets. This is common in large networks and schools.
What I would do is burn it onto a CD and snail mail it to the person. If the file is to large to put onto one cd, then probabally it is too large to send in one sitting.
If all your traffic is local though, like still on the same LAN or WAN, or (taking a large leap) Metropolitan Area Network, the transfer rates should be no problem.
One other thing. If your institution is using extremley large images or files, generally your sys admins are nice enough to allow you to tansfer them at generally astronomical speeds. If yours are being little trolls holing their bandwidth and crushing the boned of all who cross their path is seek of the precious BW, might i suggest a Knight in Shining Armor, or their boss.
I installed a turbo charger on my 71 charger... my computer got a little left out so i designed and fabricated a blower for the top of the case and 2 smallish fans to drive air into my case. My next step is to find the same paint that i used on my car and paint my case. Midnight blue... that looks great with the blower and RAM cooler...
the easiest way I can see is having a converter from a 110 wall outlet to a 12 / 5 molex plug. then you can connect that to yer cd drive and bobs yer mothers brother. you can even put a Y connector on the molex to connect to yer other PSU so you can select the source. Now that you have power, just run a line off the bottom (get the specs and solder a line there (its not that hard)) and you can have the line run anywhere. I would take one of the front panels to the case and botch it to the front of the cd drive then solder another set of leads to the opening button (on the bottom (also not hard)) this way it is hidden and looks sleek. I have something similar in my case, but with only one PSU. I have a series of switches that allow me to turn on specific pieces of hardware or lights. its kinda kewl but i have to not forget to turn somethings on before others, or else I get quite the mess.
Anyway, have some luck with the project, and modding is about 2 things. Coming up with something new, and Voiding the Warrenty.
I mark first year JAVA in university, and you would be amazed with the people who cheat on the simplest of programs. All we do is give them -100% on the assignment, which means 0 on 2 assignments for the first time and the second time they cheat, they are kicked out of the course. Plain and simle.
also, in another course, if you get less than 50% on yer assignments, or 40% on the midterm or 50% on the final you fail. No matter what.
yeah... he'll have to "hack" a few banks to pay that one off... who in their right minds would think a guy who has the brain to sit and spoof 160000 emails would have 117 mill, and a lifespan of 471 years? I mean they may as well kill the guy...
At Acadia Univeristy in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada, all students are provided with a laptop for their studies. The Music Technology students use their laptops for all their recording and their music editing. The laptops arent stellar but they get the job done and are protable enough to record anything anywhere.
When the students work on the movie projects, they do their editing on the school's network of 10 G4s in the music lab.
If you use a very wide bandwidth to the signal, then you can have wireless transmitters in the studio... but why is it now that we must take a method that works and change it so? I mean we all remember those dials they used in America's Funniest home videos.
Also, for Candian Idol, they let people vote via text messaging on their mobile phones. That worked well and they got better voter turn out than our federal elections.
Cheers.
I am a Computer Science student at Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada, and we were the first university in the world to have LAN and intenet access in each students dorm room, and to issue an IBM laptop to each student.
For most of my classes, I have the traditional text book, but even in the time that I started here, (Last year;)), my costs have gone down because most professors will give you URLs for sites with the text or references on them. This cuts my bills in half, but because we have laptops and OC3 internet connections, we have the highest tuition of any university in canada, coming in at just under 15,000 CDN (about 26,000 CDN for international students).
I just like the laptop, because I personally can't stand reading an EBook on my PDA all day... my eyes cant take it... i'm used to the laptop screen.
I think that we are never going to get out of this paper addiciton that we got ourselves into. Even with the wide spread usage of computer, we are using more paper than ever.
I think its great that someone out there is taking another look at the PDA world... If we start thinking that Windows for PDAs is the only thing out there, then we are only exploring a small portion of this universe.
Also, there are literally millions of programs I would want to put on my linux based PDA... just think... a mobile version of the GNU C Compilier. That would make my lifetime.
I'm just waiting for the day my friend's windows based PDA gets a blue screen of death. "Where's the CTRL + ALT + DEL!!?!??!"
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Yeah... i'm doin that tech support thing that seems all programers do atleast once during university... gotta get it out of my system. I know what you are goin through, as some support people have never even got a solid week of training.
I deal with lusers and their digital cameras, but got alot more training (as per the services requirements) and have a bit more of a chance getting someone to call back to arrange another session to learn. joy... anyway, I had this person call... 5 times, and each call started with "My camera died (again). What keeps happening?" This happens every 12 or 13 days... And every time, I would say: "How long has it been since you last changed your batteries." She would say: "about 12 days. When you last called." Then I would say: "OK, there is a chance that your batteries are dead. Do you have any fresh ones we can try out?". She would comply, and promptly end her call. I cant wait till next tuesday... after a long weekend, and she'll be ready to go with some more dead batteries.
oh well... not much i can say other than. replace your batteries.
p.s. I know it's the same woman... the VoIp system needs a login (easy website...) and pass... its great, but there are some stupid stupid people out there.
Yep... but i wanna see you install, configure and maintain a firewall in Debian... Out of the box ones are okay, but the built in kernel firewall in LINUX tends to kill people at random.
Windows just makes it easy to do everything.
wow...
i was just saying that there is a reason for the law... and some people can't see that... I guess thats kewl, but they will "grow up" soon and see my ways... we were all kids once and we knew it sucked.
one thing windows lets us do is install firewalls, and block certain internet sites. But... one thing I realized was if you talk to them and act mature about it, tell them that the illicit content they are looking at it designed for more mature people, and inform them that you are going to block those sites. If you do that, then their ball is in their corner. They have 2 options: 1, realize you are right and keep off the pr0n, or 2, they override yer countermeasures and you catch them.
Even the most Cyber Baby'esque child in your house can't totally remove the logs of internet traffic.
Basically, if you cant trust yer kids to keep off the pr0n, don't let them have internet in their room... or put the computer in the living room and only let them use it when yer home. If yer kid is looking at pr0n in the living room and masturbating in the relative public of that place, illicit internet use is the least of your worries.
whatever... trust, or force... its all good.
Laytex is the best thing to make pdfs. we use this at my university for creating pdf's that have large amounts of special characters and odd formatting. Im not too sure where to get it, but i do know its cross platform compatable and really sw33t in a *nix enviroment.
good luck mano
aren't we all??? yeah man thats kewl... heh
oh... my bad... whatever... everyone has their own views and stuff... i TRY to respect that.... sometimes i fail miserabally
can a cute little bunny fix yer car? can a cute fuzzy animal perform the heimleich?
didn't think so.
Around home, We seperate into 3 types: Compost (We live in the country, so that stuff is golden for the garden), Returnables / Recyclables like pop cans and beer bottles, and then other... thats like... well everything else.
Around school, (Acadia University) we have an extensive program of recycling and sorting, but if the janitors see one bit of non mal-sorted trash, like a bottle in with the papers, they won't fish it out, but infact, throw it in the garbage, and won't recycle it all.
I agree that aluminum cans and bottles should be returned, but what can they do with the other stuff than bury it in the ground or burn it in a furnace.
As for the tree issues, and the paper issue under that, the mills that make the pulp and the paper are quite efficient. There is little waist when they make pulp and less when they press it to paper. If a person would want to save a single tree, they would need an approximatly equal amount of paper. The logistics to save 1 acre of "old growth forests" would amount to millions upon millions of pounds of paper, and then you are burning up fossil fuels and poluting the air with exhaust.
Basically, the earth was here for hundreds of millions of years before humans, and it will be here for hundreds of millions of years after us. It is only human ignorance that makes us think that if 10% of our population recycles, we can make a difference. These people should put their brains to better use and find cures for dieseases, super conductors, the never ending beer, and many more things that would accelerate our society into a better and bigger future... not holding us back because mother earth has a few boo-boos.
Hold on, the future is coming if you want it to or not... there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. Just sit down, hold on, and enjoy the rids. See you if things calm down.
yeah... i do things like take apart the cd drive to make new switches and face plates. but i built my comptuer FTDU (from the desk up) and there is no warrenty... but i am an electrical engineer, so anything i can't fix, can't be fixed.
Basically if you are sending something... no matter what, it is broken down into packets and sent. Your computer does not care what it is, just where it is going. It is the job of the receiver to understand it. The reason yer SFTP is slow is because yer internet connection is throttled for non HTTP packets. This is common in large networks and schools.
What I would do is burn it onto a CD and snail mail it to the person. If the file is to large to put onto one cd, then probabally it is too large to send in one sitting.
If all your traffic is local though, like still on the same LAN or WAN, or (taking a large leap) Metropolitan Area Network, the transfer rates should be no problem.
One other thing. If your institution is using extremley large images or files, generally your sys admins are nice enough to allow you to tansfer them at generally astronomical speeds. If yours are being little trolls holing their bandwidth and crushing the boned of all who cross their path is seek of the precious BW, might i suggest a Knight in Shining Armor, or their boss.
I installed a turbo charger on my 71 charger... my computer got a little left out so i designed and fabricated a blower for the top of the case and 2 smallish fans to drive air into my case. My next step is to find the same paint that i used on my car and paint my case. Midnight blue... that looks great with the blower and RAM cooler...
the easiest way I can see is having a converter from a 110 wall outlet to a 12 / 5 molex plug. then you can connect that to yer cd drive and bobs yer mothers brother. you can even put a Y connector on the molex to connect to yer other PSU so you can select the source. Now that you have power, just run a line off the bottom (get the specs and solder a line there (its not that hard)) and you can have the line run anywhere. I would take one of the front panels to the case and botch it to the front of the cd drive then solder another set of leads to the opening button (on the bottom (also not hard)) this way it is hidden and looks sleek. I have something similar in my case, but with only one PSU. I have a series of switches that allow me to turn on specific pieces of hardware or lights. its kinda kewl but i have to not forget to turn somethings on before others, or else I get quite the mess.
Anyway, have some luck with the project, and modding is about 2 things. Coming up with something new, and Voiding the Warrenty.
I mark first year JAVA in university, and you would be amazed with the people who cheat on the simplest of programs. All we do is give them -100% on the assignment, which means 0 on 2 assignments for the first time and the second time they cheat, they are kicked out of the course. Plain and simle.
also, in another course, if you get less than 50% on yer assignments, or 40% on the midterm or 50% on the final you fail. No matter what.
Cheers
yeah... he'll have to "hack" a few banks to pay that one off... who in their right minds would think a guy who has the brain to sit and spoof 160000 emails would have 117 mill, and a lifespan of 471 years? I mean they may as well kill the guy...
George Orwell was right. and major league baseball is spying on us allready.
At Acadia Univeristy in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada, all students are provided with a laptop for their studies. The Music Technology students use their laptops for all their recording and their music editing. The laptops arent stellar but they get the job done and are protable enough to record anything anywhere.
When the students work on the movie projects, they do their editing on the school's network of 10 G4s in the music lab.
Cheers.
Andrew
If you use a very wide bandwidth to the signal, then you can have wireless transmitters in the studio... but why is it now that we must take a method that works and change it so? I mean we all remember those dials they used in America's Funniest home videos. Also, for Candian Idol, they let people vote via text messaging on their mobile phones. That worked well and they got better voter turn out than our federal elections. Cheers.
I am a Computer Science student at Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada, and we were the first university in the world to have LAN and intenet access in each students dorm room, and to issue an IBM laptop to each student.
;)), my costs have gone down because most professors will give you URLs for sites with the text or references on them. This cuts my bills in half, but because we have laptops and OC3 internet connections, we have the highest tuition of any university in canada, coming in at just under 15,000 CDN (about 26,000 CDN for international students).
For most of my classes, I have the traditional text book, but even in the time that I started here, (Last year
I just like the laptop, because I personally can't stand reading an EBook on my PDA all day... my eyes cant take it... i'm used to the laptop screen.
I think that we are never going to get out of this paper addiciton that we got ourselves into. Even with the wide spread usage of computer, we are using more paper than ever.
I think its great that someone out there is taking another look at the PDA world... If we start thinking that Windows for PDAs is the only thing out there, then we are only exploring a small portion of this universe.
Also, there are literally millions of programs I would want to put on my linux based PDA... just think... a mobile version of the GNU C Compilier. That would make my lifetime.
I'm just waiting for the day my friend's windows based PDA gets a blue screen of death. "Where's the CTRL + ALT + DEL!!?!??!"
would these be a set of african bongo drums? or a set of mechanical digital drums?