Isn't there an African language that doen't use vowels at all? Not even when spoken? I forget which one it was right now, might be Hausa, but I'm not certain. Could also be a myth too. Anyone here a linguistics expert??
Does anyone have any idea what the Popular Commercial Cache Appliance is? The PDF doesn't say and we have a few cache appliances at my office (intranet and internet). I'd like to know just vunerable we are to this type of thing.
Just be sure to leave the FOLDERS that are in there alone. Otherwise Windows will have to redo part of the install and it will take forever to load it.
All I know is that I'm not too excited about this. I work in upper level tech support for the High speed internet division here in Buffalo NY. Let me tell you, this last year since the bankruptcy was announced haven't been pretty. With all the uncertainty surrounding the bankruptcy we have been hemorraging people like crazy. Most of our best talent has bailed for other companies and/or other states. It's only within the last 3 months that things have really begun to improve as many long needed network upgrades have taken place, and we FINALLY got some more people here at level 2 support to help with the call load.
If this deal is indeed final (no offical word from the courts yet), I suspect that the talent bleed will begin anew since we will probably only have about 6 more months of employment at that point. The worst part about it is that the economy is so poor in the Buffalo area (despite having more IT infrastructure in place than many IT 'capitols' like Austin Texas) That for many of us, getting work in IT will be next to impossible locally. This means that we will have to try and sell our houses in a sinking housing market and make a jump to another area of the country. Alternately, we could make a bid for Self-Employment in one of the most business unfriendly states in the union, or up and quit the IT field altogether and start a new carreer in a new field. Frankly, I'm not excited about any of those prospects. Working for myself is by far the most enticing, but trying to create a sucessful small business in this state is alot like trying to "chop down the greatest tree in the forest with a herring." In other words, darn near impossible. At any rate, it's gonna be ugly. Darn ugly. I suspect that I will probably ride it out to the end, as we will probably be receiving good severance packages. But I would imagine that many others will be leaving as soon as they are able to get other work. Wish us all luck. we're gonna need it.
BTW, I will probably be commenting more about this in my blog http://www.wearyman.blogspot.com/ feel free to stop by. Just don't expect any real insider info. I won't be putting my severance package at risk just for a blog post!
All I know is that as a Tech Support Engineer for an ISP, I spend quite a bit of my time migrating our customers over to Firefox from IE. I find they are most receptive right after they have had a major spyware/virus infestation and we helped get them cleaned up, or at least sent to someone who can clean them up (depending on the extent of the damage).
KevinIsOwn, Consider yourself lucky I have no mod points currently. That was the biggest TROLL I have seen in quite some time.
Someone makes a valid point and provides a good example to back up that point, and the first words out of your mouth are "wow, idiot" Which is then folowed up by one of the most nonsensical paragraphs I have ever heard. Perhaps you don't understand this, so I will clarify for you.
The words people say mean things beyond the dictionary definition of the words themselves. This is based on the context, order, and emphasis placed on those words.
The example given by the parent post was a brilliant one, because it happens all the time. Reporters (and other members of the news media) frequently engage in this type of phraseology specifically because it has exactly the effect that the parent post mentioned. And it happens on both sides of the ideological spectrum too. Although more frequently from the left side, partly because there are more left-leaning news media members than right-leaning (by thier own admission, not my accusation). But also because left-leaning news media members seem to be more willing to manipulate thier stories to push thier agenda (Dan Rather, anyone?). So I am sorry. The parent was correct, and made a valid point. You are just a troll.
I don't want any robot from Microsoft in my house. I have a hard enough time justifying OSes from Microsoft. Now, if it looked like this, I might not complain all that much.:)
Are these the same people who scream about having their PIN Numbers stolen at the ATM Machines?
Only those who need the money to put NIC cards into thier computers
Actually, it's not likely the states WILL go after the very wealthy. And not for the Class-Envy reasons some people here might think. They will do what they always do, go after the middle class. Why? Because the persons in the middle class have enough money to pay a tax of questionable legality, but not enough money to fight it in court. Governments almost always go after the easiest target, those who can't fight back.
Wait. You mean a repeat criminal might NOT WANT TO GET CAUGHT? OMGWTFBBQ! How can we let this happen? The poor unsuspecting bad guys might get offended! We should stop this right away!
/sarcasm
Seriously, OF COURSE they are going to work harder to try and get away AFTER commiting thier 3rd offense if they know the penalty will be more severe. I mean, who WANTS to go to prison? The fact that they are willing to be even more violent just to get away only proves that they need to be seperated from society and that they are NOT REFORMABLE. 3 Strikes is a good setup. It should be used in MORE places around the world. Not less.
Bad guys are bad guys. Just because something addictive is legal does not mean that it will stop crime related to the possesion of that product. The type of crime will just change. So the whole, "Legalize drugs, it will stop crime" argument is bogus just on the face of it. Now stop trying to use unrelated Slashdot stories to push your personal political agenda.
I got Digital Cable just shortly after the aquisition of Tech TV by G4. At first i really liked it. I loved shows like "The Screen Savers" even though I new most of the stuff they were talking about already. But the programming changed so rapidly to be all games all the time. Now I like games as much as the next person, but all games all the time? BORING! When they changed the name in the digital Guide listings to just G4TV I knew it was over and removed it from may favorites list on my remote. Good job you G4 morons. You lost a viewer who makes an income of over $80,000.00 a year and has large amounts of that as discretionary spending money. I'm sure I'm not the only one either.
Actually, neither Mandrake nor SUSE default install with a C compiler. I should know, I experienced it firsthand. Ran into the same problem with both ditros. Installed the default Mandrake workstation setup and didn't have a C compiler. I had to go back and install the development pakages off the CD or re-install the OS with the development packages selected. I also tried out SUSE personal 9.1 before I tried Mandrake, and I couldn't install a functional C compiler AT ALL! It wasn't in the install package selections, and I couldn't get an RPM install of gcc to compile anything properly.:( Of course, It could be that I'm just a big old n00b when it comes to Linux, but as a n00b, I found it very frustrating to not be able to do some of the basics I had learned already, like installing from tarball.
Just because they CAN tap into you communications doesn't mean the WILL. Law enforcement is still required to get a court order to tap into your communications. That means they have to have probable cause. Whichmeans there is a good chance you are doing something you shouldn't be. I don't see the problem here. Do we NOT wnat to havbe the bad guys taken down? Or should we all just get out the tinfoil hats because "This means the those wascally wepublicans will eavesdrop on my porn line calls! Oh No3s!!"
I know I'm going to get modded down for this but...
Can I ask WHY you aren't using a Corporate Key for your copy of XP? It's not like they are hard to get either. Do a google search for magical jelly bean keyfinder. Nifty little utility that pulls the CD Key from any running logged in copy of windows. Slap it on a USB Thumb drive. Walk into any corporation (or your job, plug in the thumb drive. XP will install it, then just run the app, and save the results to a text file on the thumb drive. Presto! One Coporate key! Use to you heart's delight as often as you wish! Of course, it's completely ILLEGAL to do this, so you didn't hear it from me. *wink* *wink* *nod* *nod*.
If I had any clue how to give Mod points, I would mod you up a fiver just for the live journal link! Nothin like a good stripper story to brighten my day! I especially loved your response to the one woman that commented on your story. "Oh, yeah. A cute naked woman showing me her goods up close and personal is always worth a buck." ROFL!
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The force is strong with this Torrent...
Isn't there an African language that doen't use vowels at all? Not even when spoken? I forget which one it was right now, might be Hausa, but I'm not certain. Could also be a myth too. Anyone here a linguistics expert??
Umm... How would I even KNOW about PCCA if I HADN'T read the white paper? duh.
Does anyone have any idea what the Popular Commercial Cache Appliance is? The PDF doesn't say and we have a few cache appliances at my office (intranet and internet). I'd like to know just vunerable we are to this type of thing.
Just be sure to leave the FOLDERS that are in there alone. Otherwise Windows will have to redo part of the install and it will take forever to load it.
All I know is that I'm not too excited about this. I work in upper level tech support for the High speed internet division here in Buffalo NY. Let me tell you, this last year since the bankruptcy was announced haven't been pretty. With all the uncertainty surrounding the bankruptcy we have been hemorraging people like crazy. Most of our best talent has bailed for other companies and/or other states. It's only within the last 3 months that things have really begun to improve as many long needed network upgrades have taken place, and we FINALLY got some more people here at level 2 support to help with the call load.
If this deal is indeed final (no offical word from the courts yet), I suspect that the talent bleed will begin anew since we will probably only have about 6 more months of employment at that point. The worst part about it is that the economy is so poor in the Buffalo area (despite having more IT infrastructure in place than many IT 'capitols' like Austin Texas) That for many of us, getting work in IT will be next to impossible locally. This means that we will have to try and sell our houses in a sinking housing market and make a jump to another area of the country. Alternately, we could make a bid for Self-Employment in one of the most business unfriendly states in the union, or up and quit the IT field altogether and start a new carreer in a new field. Frankly, I'm not excited about any of those prospects. Working for myself is by far the most enticing, but trying to create a sucessful small business in this state is alot like trying to "chop down the greatest tree in the forest with a herring." In other words, darn near impossible. At any rate, it's gonna be ugly. Darn ugly. I suspect that I will probably ride it out to the end, as we will probably be receiving good severance packages. But I would imagine that many others will be leaving as soon as they are able to get other work. Wish us all luck. we're gonna need it.
BTW, I will probably be commenting more about this in my blog http://www.wearyman.blogspot.com/ feel free to stop by. Just don't expect any real insider info. I won't be putting my severance package at risk just for a blog post!
All I know is that as a Tech Support Engineer for an ISP, I spend quite a bit of my time migrating our customers over to Firefox from IE. I find they are most receptive right after they have had a major spyware/virus infestation and we helped get them cleaned up, or at least sent to someone who can clean them up (depending on the extent of the damage).
KevinIsOwn, Consider yourself lucky I have no mod points currently. That was the biggest TROLL I have seen in quite some time.
Someone makes a valid point and provides a good example to back up that point, and the first words out of your mouth are "wow, idiot" Which is then folowed up by one of the most nonsensical paragraphs I have ever heard. Perhaps you don't understand this, so I will clarify for you.
The words people say mean things beyond the dictionary definition of the words themselves. This is based on the context, order, and emphasis placed on those words.
The example given by the parent post was a brilliant one, because it happens all the time. Reporters (and other members of the news media) frequently engage in this type of phraseology specifically because it has exactly the effect that the parent post mentioned. And it happens on both sides of the ideological spectrum too. Although more frequently from the left side, partly because there are more left-leaning news media members than right-leaning (by thier own admission, not my accusation). But also because left-leaning news media members seem to be more willing to manipulate thier stories to push thier agenda (Dan Rather, anyone?). So I am sorry. The parent was correct, and made a valid point. You are just a troll.
I don't want any robot from Microsoft in my house. I have a hard enough time justifying OSes from Microsoft. Now, if it looked like this, I might not complain all that much. :)
The most important part of any scam:
No matter how outrageous your claim, if you make it believeable, people will fall for it.
Nicely done gentlemen, nicely done indeed.
Are these the same people who scream about having their PIN Numbers stolen at the ATM Machines? Only those who need the money to put NIC cards into thier computers
Actually, it's not likely the states WILL go after the very wealthy. And not for the Class-Envy reasons some people here might think. They will do what they always do, go after the middle class. Why? Because the persons in the middle class have enough money to pay a tax of questionable legality, but not enough money to fight it in court. Governments almost always go after the easiest target, those who can't fight back.
Wait. You mean a repeat criminal might NOT WANT TO GET CAUGHT? OMGWTFBBQ! How can we let this happen? The poor unsuspecting bad guys might get offended! We should stop this right away!
/sarcasm
Seriously, OF COURSE they are going to work harder to try and get away AFTER commiting thier 3rd offense if they know the penalty will be more severe. I mean, who WANTS to go to prison? The fact that they are willing to be even more violent just to get away only proves that they need to be seperated from society and that they are NOT REFORMABLE. 3 Strikes is a good setup. It should be used in MORE places around the world. Not less.
Two most commonly stolen items in convenience store robberies (other than money, of course)
1. Alcohol (legal product)
2. Tobacco (legal product)
Bad guys are bad guys. Just because something addictive is legal does not mean that it will stop crime related to the possesion of that product. The type of crime will just change. So the whole, "Legalize drugs, it will stop crime" argument is bogus just on the face of it. Now stop trying to use unrelated Slashdot stories to push your personal political agenda.
Perhaps someone should mirror his site, as it is already slowing down.
I got Digital Cable just shortly after the aquisition of Tech TV by G4. At first i really liked it. I loved shows like "The Screen Savers" even though I new most of the stuff they were talking about already. But the programming changed so rapidly to be all games all the time. Now I like games as much as the next person, but all games all the time? BORING! When they changed the name in the digital Guide listings to just G4TV I knew it was over and removed it from may favorites list on my remote. Good job you G4 morons. You lost a viewer who makes an income of over $80,000.00 a year and has large amounts of that as discretionary spending money. I'm sure I'm not the only one either.
You forgot the Prismiq media player, and the soon to be launched Prismiq media center. http://www.prismiq.com/ http://www.prismiq.org/
Actually, neither Mandrake nor SUSE default install with a C compiler. I should know, I experienced it firsthand. Ran into the same problem with both ditros. Installed the default Mandrake workstation setup and didn't have a C compiler. I had to go back and install the development pakages off the CD or re-install the OS with the development packages selected. I also tried out SUSE personal 9.1 before I tried Mandrake, and I couldn't install a functional C compiler AT ALL! It wasn't in the install package selections, and I couldn't get an RPM install of gcc to compile anything properly. :( Of course, It could be that I'm just a big old n00b when it comes to Linux, but as a n00b, I found it very frustrating to not be able to do some of the basics I had learned already, like installing from tarball.
Just because they CAN tap into you communications doesn't mean the WILL. Law enforcement is still required to get a court order to tap into your communications. That means they have to have probable cause. Whichmeans there is a good chance you are doing something you shouldn't be. I don't see the problem here. Do we NOT wnat to havbe the bad guys taken down? Or should we all just get out the tinfoil hats because "This means the those wascally wepublicans will eavesdrop on my porn line calls! Oh No3s!!"
I know I'm going to get modded down for this but...
Can I ask WHY you aren't using a Corporate Key for your copy of XP? It's not like they are hard to get either. Do a google search for magical jelly bean keyfinder. Nifty little utility that pulls the CD Key from any running logged in copy of windows. Slap it on a USB Thumb drive. Walk into any corporation (or your job, plug in the thumb drive. XP will install it, then just run the app, and save the results to a text file on the thumb drive. Presto! One Coporate key! Use to you heart's delight as often as you wish! Of course, it's completely ILLEGAL to do this, so you didn't hear it from me. *wink* *wink* *nod* *nod*.
If I had any clue how to give Mod points, I would mod you up a fiver just for the live journal link! Nothin like a good stripper story to brighten my day! I especially loved your response to the one woman that commented on your story. "Oh, yeah. A cute naked woman showing me her goods up close and personal is always worth a buck." ROFL!