Likewise. Apparently there was such an option on the applications I filed, but I never saw one. Actually, on the second, I left the SSN field blank. Chaos ensued.
As for that incident, I ended up having two university accounts, they signed me up for health insurance despite my declining it, etc etc. Basically, they manually merged the two accounts using default options for everything. This after complaining to the registrar's office and such... I assume it occurred because the financial aid office had my SSN and that account was being used. It's all taken care of now. 901-xx-xxxx. Completely invalid. (900's don't work.)
The other incident was at Michigan Technological University -- saw no option to not have my SSN as my everything-number. In this instance, I gave it because I didn't want to risk not being accepted. Later, I went to the registrar's office to try and get the so-called "M" number that they gave in place of SSNs. At the time I was told that I could only do it if I declared my account confidential -- have to show photo ID, everything done through the mail and so forth; a real pain in the ass. I put that off, but went back a month later with the intent to declare my account confidential. Lo and behold, magically, I no longer had to declare my account confidential and walked out with an M number. M0026xxxx. Still remember it, two years later, even. There's something about numbers...
But, those're my stories. Really, you CAN change from your SSN after the fact. Many people have bitched, "That's the trouble when you don't stick with your SSN" and such, but I just start talking to them as though they're stupid. That's because they are.
Go tomorrow, get it changed; keep your confidential data confidential.
I hope you don't mean to imply that _only_ windows XP SP2 has this:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<GUID>\Software\Mic ro soft\Outlook Express\5.0\Read in Plain Text Only = dword, 0x1.
That's a little key I found one day while browsing the registry... outlook express version 6.00.2800.1123, windows 2k SP4. It has the effect of removing image displays (spam comes up as a lot of ugly, random characters most of the time, often text saying "click here if you can't see the image," etc). It may work with other versions, but I can't say.
Oddly, I don't believe I've found a way to turn off HTML (backgrounds and such in e-mails, ugly font colors, etc) in Thunderbird.
This seems like a pretty good idea. One thought that came to my head, however, was to make it more practical for them -- don't try and say, "You can make _this_ *show of open office* if you put your mind to it." It's completely alienating. Show the simple programs that everyone can use in math class that are TI-basic programs. Show some of the games for the TI-calcs.
Likewise, someone mentioned cell phone programming.. that seems to be quite simple as well. Perhaps put together a small checkers/tic-tac-toe thing and throw it on a (tethered-to-the-bench) cell phone for people to play with. Have the source code printed out right beside it for people to look at. Use as descriptive variable names as possible (no for (int i = 0; i < 10... but rather, for (int BoardIndex = 1; BoardIndex < 10; BoardIndex = BoardIndex + 1) {...) and perhaps put short descriptions of loops and major portions (_not_ every line) beside the code. Note that for this, shorter lines would be better as you could perhaps fit them on the same page. Consider non-monospace font, perhaps easier to read for non-geeks (where the difference between ( and [ wouldn't matter so much in this case).
Another thought I had would be putting a program side-by-side with an essay paper of perhaps three pages. Show what can be done with three pages, put it beside an essay of three pages, and point out that the program is much less dense. Then have that program running on screen beside the comparison. ("You can do _this_ in less writing that takes to complete a paper.") Use whatever length of paper seems about average.. feel free to take someone's paper from a class, if they volunteer it. Of course, longer is better for the program, so long as it can be kept within a reasonable highschool paper.
More programs, mostly smaller things to run the programs. I'm thinking phones, calcs, gameboy (|advanced|DS|Color) demos, playstation demos, etc etc. It may be easier to start with computer programming, but it sure isn't so appealing to write a script to move 1000 files in a certain way as it is to make a demo for a game system.
Just some thoughts, I think there were more but I'll leave it at this point. Try to make it interesting, try to leave menial, boring junk out of it and show how fun it can really be. It seems that's the key to getting people other than computer geeks, and the key to getting through to people that think it's too hard or too time consuming. It seems like you want to appeal to as many people as possible.. so do so. Realize, however, that like so many other things, you'll be boring and quite possibly alienating the computer geeks. But then, the computer geeks likely already know all this anyway, and so it wouldn't matter a whole lot to them anyway.
That may work for a one-time per year programming fair, rather than some computer/technology club.
Setting that to false, I believe, will cause the disk cache to not be used. My university provides 5MB for the entire windows profile, of which 2.5MB is used by the registry (684k on my home machine; I dunno what they're doing on the lab machines).
The end result seems to be that, while browsing, I will get space warnings -- it seems to write files to the disk and delete on exit, maybe. Once I exit, I need to wait 30 seconds for it to clean up and everything will go over just fine.
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory -- "Directory in which to store cache files"
I think I may've changed this at one point in an effort to keep the application data space free. The problem there is that my university storage (40 MB) is completely full (it's compressed, even) with things I need (Moz Firebird -- 6.4MB, etc). So I believe I ended up removing that, but I'm pretty sure it would work too.
But, as you may've noticed, I have Moz Firebird (old) on there. The reason for this is I can't store _anything_ in registry (resets each time, as far as I can tell) and FireFox won't install without registry writing ability. I haven't tried the 1.0 release, however. Nor have I tried the zip version, which I've seen only on the FTP... hmm.
Beyond these two configuration keys, there's a mobile firefox, iirc, which can run simply off a flash drive; all settings must be stored in the app directory or something. That's something worth checking out, perhaps. Good luck with it all.
Merriam Webster: Main Entry: gruntle Pronunciation: 'gr&n-t&l Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): gruntled; gruntling/'gr&nt-li[ng], 'gr&n-t&l-i[ng]/ Etymology: back-formation from disgruntle : to put in a good humor
So, a gruntled worker is one who is cared for, possibly given some of those play-things for breaks and such. Someone happy is a gruntled worker. Course, it seems to have come from "disgruntled" (to make ill-humored or discontented).
All I really have to say is: you're a complete fool.
www.m-w.com: Main Entry: theft Pronunciation: 'theft Function: noun Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief 1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking
So I suppose you're correct... assuming you're not speaking English. Perhaps your own language. Note that, in American and, most likely, British English, theft implies a victim.
As for "taking", it pretty much fits the "leave with less than was there before":
1 : to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: as a : to seize or capture physically b : to get possession of (as fish or game) by killing or capturing c (1) : to move against (as an opponent's piece in chess) and remove from play (2) : to win in a card game
So therefore, you are a fool. You don't seem to know the meaning of the words you are using. (note with the tricks, there's less tricks than there were before, in some sense. Though that is more figurative. It's not like they're selling one less piece of software because I pirated it.. I'd never have bought it anyway.)
One thing I've been thinking of working on (though haven't started and wouldn't do it as well as machine learning could) is caching.
For dialup, caching is a big part of everything. As far as I'm aware current browser caches go, they'll cache for a while and dump it after a while. I'd propose using machine learning based on how often/frequently new sites are visited to determine how long to hold something in cache.
As for implementation, one could try certain things:
A slashdot link. Cache it for _maybe_ a day. Less, depending on how long the user normally spends at that link. With links off slashdot I'd say there's not a good chance it would be looked at twice, so it may not even be effective to write the data to the hard drive.
A site visited once per week or so: the cached data may be overwritten before the site is revisited, causing it to all be redownloaded again. The week, two week, etc intermission should be noted as the visits occur more. Likewise, for sites visited repeatedly, it might work to cache everything until the visits are broken after a multiple of the frequency that the user has been visiting sites (a visit every other day for 3 months (a webcomic), wait two weeks without a visit and at that point delete everything relating to it).
With that, it'd be worthwhile to determine _what_ to cache -- take the (megatokyo) webcomic... the main image you may set to a cache for a couple days, or, if it's been observed that the user doesn't go back before the next comic is due up, don't write the image to disk. But at the same time, the majority of the images will never be changed on the site; don't let those die in the cache (until there's some significant break in the visit frequency).
Anyway, that's been some of my thoughts on the caching matter. It'd be nice to visit a page gone to frequently and just have everything _there_. No nonsense about querying for a newer image before loading (or load first, query and change if needed, perhaps show a checking for new image placeholder). And of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't know how the current cache system in Firefox works. So to all those working on it, this is my idea.
You didn't search for the grammar used by PHB's. The correct answer is 237; the 96 you got above would have to be others, more knowledgeable, talking about their experiences.
If I can keep the MS in the company I'd have no problem starting him at the helpdesk.
From earlier, however: Easier for me to just put their resume in the 'do not hire' pile
Oops, I guess they just don't even get a chance. Sad, really.
I don't know how many masters you actually have applying, but many may stay with the company. This number can be increased by promoting them to the second tier faster. As a way out, you could provide a one month trial period; state that as they are masters, you expect more out of them, and tell them some exemplary support that has gotten other, non second tier support personell promoted.
If possible, offer the chance of promotion out of support in general and on to design teams -- these people with _masters degrees_ now have a significant amount of experience selving real world problems, know what the customer expects and what they don't, etc. Really, it's seeming like a good idea to higher higher degrees for tech support -- just make sure they know the opportunities available to them, and increase expected minimums. If they apply for a 30k$/year job, give them a chance at it.
Whaaat??? Come on, man.. think cluster.. get a couple thousand of these 206 mhz, 64 meg ram, compact flash storage parking meters hooked together via wireless mesh network (that is all of them working with all the others to bounce data to wherever it needs to go, correct?) and you could have some sort of acceptable cluster.
Really, this seems very much like the concept of.Hack//Sign.
That game takes place in a massively multiplayer online RPG; the events unfold through happenings in the world, posts to the message board and e-mail. It seems like this "novel" is very much the same thing, but perhaps more in depth.
In either case, as far as literature goes, there's no need to have people clicking around to get to the next part. That, to me, says "game". This can just as easily be accomplished in a book with a bit of narration.. it seems just an attempt to shift the style of narration.
I must say... wrong. One CPU hour. My distributed.net client has 226 hours in... my comp's been up for 1 week, 2 days, 15 hours (it's a windows box:-/). Now, mirc has been running 99.99% of that time... it's cpu time is 11 minutes 24 seconds. Winamp, up for the last four days and playing music for approximately 10 hours, 9 seconds cpu time. Bittorrent, up for most of the week with about two clients going, four minutes.
The point is, it's _hard_ to rack up a cpu hour. With this spam coming through, you're basically hosting a proxy. Even if they completely saturate your connection and run non stop, it'll be a very long time before they manage to take up one CPU hour. Further, if they managed to take up one CPU hour every hour, your system would be utterly unusable and you'd have to have the connection of a large ISP.
So really.. besides this not being worth it, they're not even giving the expected. Unless the website uses terms incorrectly, they'll be paying you about 1$ a year... and in that time, billions of spam messages can be sent. Not worth it in any measure. My cpu hour is worth far more than 1$.
Now... I'd say that _all_ e-mail services keep users' e-mail. Think backups. Think of how e-mail has been kept at corporations for _years_ and come back to haunt people. Is this not done in any way with commercial e-mail accounts? is the outgoing mail not recorded, for law enforcement purposes? is the e-mail people received not backed up for a considerable time? This privacy stuff seems _way_ overblown to me, and it seems like what google's planning on doing is already being done everywhere else. It's just that they're telling you about it.
As for keeping the mail forever, I can't say I know what they're going to do with it, but I highly doubt anyone else would be able to access your e-mail. Perhaps there would be something between data mining and selling advertising, but I don't know about this either. Perhaps they're simply removing references to it; the filesystem, being as large as it seems like it will be, may not have the capability to even delete data. It may just contiguously allocate everything and never look back.
My big thing is that e-mail is already stored for a _long time_. Is this not the case with the likes of Hotmail, Yahoo, etc?
I believe someone mentioned on here in the past that they were working on a free cookbook.... I searched for the name of the person I was talking to (Matt Balmer), found a link from wikibooks to: http://www.randomdata.net/osc/downloads/OSCOOKBOOK.txt, The Open Source Cookbook: Fuel For Geeks.
Seems kinda small, but it also seems to have quite a few recipes. Enjoy.
Agreed. I've noticed the likliness of getting one side based on the orientation of the coin since I was seven years old or so... just from watching a _few_ (I never sat around flipping coins). Is this really that new to everyone else out there? But then, the only fair decisions based on coin tosses I ever see are computer simulation examples where fairness is assumed.
"Lets flip on it." *looks at the coin before toss and prepares to call it in the air*
But alternatively, if they flip it and put it on the back of the hand, and you don't know about that before hand, it's somewhat of a gamble.
I confess.. I diffed the MS version of libpng (1.0 ver 0.88 beta 2) with that which came from a gnu source (kindly provided in a zip in the same directory).
Now I wonder, would it be appropriate to show the changes here? Did they ever distribute this in any way, does anyone know? A simple diff file I could post, 333 lines and 8k, with labels of the files being compared. With it the source could be reconstructed, I assume.
As for changes, they include their own header that defines a couple items and includes standard include files... commented out said std includes as they were already included in some files, commented out provided declarations and "windowized" various calls for items such as writing. That and changed var names and a couple types of allotted memory.
I feel this was vague enough to not merit any taintedness, but is a MS GNU compliance review due? there are changes, that may or may not have been contributed (doubtful they were, but I don't know), and also the code may have never been distributed or used in any way.
But really, I've been reading and seeing things about useful or even presents in general. Since when is Valentines day about spending money on people? It would seem the marketters really are having an impact.
When I want presents, though, I want something I'm going to use. I don't want something I may use once or twice and then will shove out of the way somewhere and that I would feel guilty about throwing away... useful, so I can think of where it came from often and it's never "in the way". It's only in a convenient location.
"The Government must play a greater role in punishing those who conceal their identities online, particularly when they do so in furtherance of a serious federal criminal offense or in violation of a federally protected intellectual property right," Smith said at a hearing on the topic today.
Yes.. it looks to me like they really do only care about the criminal intentions behind false information. Notice the first part, and then it says especially, but not _specifically_ when they do it to commit a crime. That rep is lucky he's not from my state, as I'd go out and vote simply to vote against him.
Yes. Think about it. This virus has mass e-mailing capabilities. Obviously, the sco DoS was simply to make it look like it wasn't coming from a spammer. That's my thought, at least. I feel the mass mailing is far greater of a benefit to _someone_ than is dossing SCO, sco just being a convenient coverup. This is assuming, of course, that there's no one in the open source community that supports spammers. After all, so many tools against and only a few of the slashdot commentors, even, don't completely condemn them.
So really, spam is _yet again_ associated with terrorism.
With this, why did they even seize cables (power cables, misc wires, as put on the receipt) and obviously pressed cd's (music to massage to...)? Further, why did this guy post his win XP product key (or possibly ME) on the web?;-)
Weathered the largest DDoS on record? where is this record? And besides that, they didn't take their certificate servers being accessed by a great many people very well... I suppose one can only hope they do better with rfid.
Slashdot Mirror
Likewise. Apparently there was such an option on the applications I filed, but I never saw one. Actually, on the second, I left the SSN field blank. Chaos ensued.
As for that incident, I ended up having two university accounts, they signed me up for health insurance despite my declining it, etc etc. Basically, they manually merged the two accounts using default options for everything. This after complaining to the registrar's office and such... I assume it occurred because the financial aid office had my SSN and that account was being used. It's all taken care of now. 901-xx-xxxx. Completely invalid. (900's don't work.)
The other incident was at Michigan Technological University -- saw no option to not have my SSN as my everything-number. In this instance, I gave it because I didn't want to risk not being accepted. Later, I went to the registrar's office to try and get the so-called "M" number that they gave in place of SSNs. At the time I was told that I could only do it if I declared my account confidential -- have to show photo ID, everything done through the mail and so forth; a real pain in the ass. I put that off, but went back a month later with the intent to declare my account confidential. Lo and behold, magically, I no longer had to declare my account confidential and walked out with an M number. M0026xxxx. Still remember it, two years later, even. There's something about numbers...
But, those're my stories. Really, you CAN change from your SSN after the fact. Many people have bitched, "That's the trouble when you don't stick with your SSN" and such, but I just start talking to them as though they're stupid. That's because they are.
Go tomorrow, get it changed; keep your confidential data confidential.
-DrkShadow
I hope you don't mean to imply that _only_ windows XP SP2 has this:
c ro soft\Outlook Express\5.0\Read in Plain Text Only = dword, 0x1.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\<GUID>\Software\Mi
That's a little key I found one day while browsing the registry... outlook express version 6.00.2800.1123, windows 2k SP4. It has the effect of removing image displays (spam comes up as a lot of ugly, random characters most of the time, often text saying "click here if you can't see the image," etc). It may work with other versions, but I can't say.
Oddly, I don't believe I've found a way to turn off HTML (backgrounds and such in e-mails, ugly font colors, etc) in Thunderbird.
-DrkShadow
This seems like a pretty good idea. One thought that came to my head, however, was to make it more practical for them -- don't try and say, "You can make _this_ *show of open office* if you put your mind to it." It's completely alienating. Show the simple programs that everyone can use in math class that are TI-basic programs. Show some of the games for the TI-calcs.
Likewise, someone mentioned cell phone programming.. that seems to be quite simple as well. Perhaps put together a small checkers/tic-tac-toe thing and throw it on a (tethered-to-the-bench) cell phone for people to play with. Have the source code printed out right beside it for people to look at. Use as descriptive variable names as possible (no for (int i = 0; i < 10... but rather, for (int BoardIndex = 1; BoardIndex < 10; BoardIndex = BoardIndex + 1) {...) and perhaps put short descriptions of loops and major portions (_not_ every line) beside the code. Note that for this, shorter lines would be better as you could perhaps fit them on the same page. Consider non-monospace font, perhaps easier to read for non-geeks (where the difference between ( and [ wouldn't matter so much in this case).
Another thought I had would be putting a program side-by-side with an essay paper of perhaps three pages. Show what can be done with three pages, put it beside an essay of three pages, and point out that the program is much less dense. Then have that program running on screen beside the comparison. ("You can do _this_ in less writing that takes to complete a paper.") Use whatever length of paper seems about average.. feel free to take someone's paper from a class, if they volunteer it. Of course, longer is better for the program, so long as it can be kept within a reasonable highschool paper.
More programs, mostly smaller things to run the programs. I'm thinking phones, calcs, gameboy (|advanced|DS|Color) demos, playstation demos, etc etc. It may be easier to start with computer programming, but it sure isn't so appealing to write a script to move 1000 files in a certain way as it is to make a demo for a game system.
Just some thoughts, I think there were more but I'll leave it at this point. Try to make it interesting, try to leave menial, boring junk out of it and show how fun it can really be. It seems that's the key to getting people other than computer geeks, and the key to getting through to people that think it's too hard or too time consuming. It seems like you want to appeal to as many people as possible.. so do so. Realize, however, that like so many other things, you'll be boring and quite possibly alienating the computer geeks. But then, the computer geeks likely already know all this anyway, and so it wouldn't matter a whole lot to them anyway.
That may work for a one-time per year programming fair, rather than some computer/technology club.
-DrkShadow
browser.cache.disk.enable
Setting that to false, I believe, will cause the disk cache to not be used. My university provides 5MB for the entire windows profile, of which 2.5MB is used by the registry (684k on my home machine; I dunno what they're doing on the lab machines).
The end result seems to be that, while browsing, I will get space warnings -- it seems to write files to the disk and delete on exit, maybe. Once I exit, I need to wait 30 seconds for it to clean up and everything will go over just fine.
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory -- "Directory in which to store cache files"
I think I may've changed this at one point in an effort to keep the application data space free. The problem there is that my university storage (40 MB) is completely full (it's compressed, even) with things I need (Moz Firebird -- 6.4MB, etc). So I believe I ended up removing that, but I'm pretty sure it would work too.
But, as you may've noticed, I have Moz Firebird (old) on there. The reason for this is I can't store _anything_ in registry (resets each time, as far as I can tell) and FireFox won't install without registry writing ability. I haven't tried the 1.0 release, however. Nor have I tried the zip version, which I've seen only on the FTP... hmm.
Beyond these two configuration keys, there's a mobile firefox, iirc, which can run simply off a flash drive; all settings must be stored in the app directory or something. That's something worth checking out, perhaps. Good luck with it all.
http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html
-DrkShadow
Merriam Webster: /'gr&nt-li[ng], 'gr&n-t&l-i[ng]/
Main Entry: gruntle
Pronunciation: 'gr&n-t&l
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): gruntled; gruntling
Etymology: back-formation from disgruntle
: to put in a good humor
So, a gruntled worker is one who is cared for, possibly given some of those play-things for breaks and such. Someone happy is a gruntled worker. Course, it seems to have come from "disgruntled" (to make ill-humored or discontented).
-DrkShadow
Perhaps you'd be interested to know that XIII shows up on the partial list of "protected" games:
http://www.boycottstarforce.org/games/
So... it looks like you were had. Better find that removal tool (link on site).
-DrkShadow
See the Tabbrowser plugin. It does it via tab groups.
s .html.en#download
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextension
Also read the features. It has just about everything you could want relating to tabs. Really.
-DrkShadow
Signature: Software piracy is victimless theft.
All I really have to say is: you're a complete fool.
www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: theft
Pronunciation: 'theft
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief
1 a : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking
So I suppose you're correct... assuming you're not speaking English. Perhaps your own language. Note that, in American and, most likely, British English, theft implies a victim.
As for "taking", it pretty much fits the "leave with less than was there before":
1 : to get into one's hands or into one's possession, power, or control: as a : to seize or capture physically b : to get possession of (as fish or game) by killing or capturing c (1) : to move against (as an opponent's piece in chess) and remove from play (2) : to win in a card game
So therefore, you are a fool. You don't seem to know the meaning of the words you are using. (note with the tricks, there's less tricks than there were before, in some sense. Though that is more figurative. It's not like they're selling one less piece of software because I pirated it.. I'd never have bought it anyway.)
-DrkShadow
One thing I've been thinking of working on (though haven't started and wouldn't do it as well as machine learning could) is caching.
For dialup, caching is a big part of everything. As far as I'm aware current browser caches go, they'll cache for a while and dump it after a while. I'd propose using machine learning based on how often/frequently new sites are visited to determine how long to hold something in cache.
As for implementation, one could try certain things:
A slashdot link. Cache it for _maybe_ a day. Less, depending on how long the user normally spends at that link. With links off slashdot I'd say there's not a good chance it would be looked at twice, so it may not even be effective to write the data to the hard drive.
A site visited once per week or so: the cached data may be overwritten before the site is revisited, causing it to all be redownloaded again. The week, two week, etc intermission should be noted as the visits occur more. Likewise, for sites visited repeatedly, it might work to cache everything until the visits are broken after a multiple of the frequency that the user has been visiting sites (a visit every other day for 3 months (a webcomic), wait two weeks without a visit and at that point delete everything relating to it).
With that, it'd be worthwhile to determine _what_ to cache -- take the (megatokyo) webcomic... the main image you may set to a cache for a couple days, or, if it's been observed that the user doesn't go back before the next comic is due up, don't write the image to disk. But at the same time, the majority of the images will never be changed on the site; don't let those die in the cache (until there's some significant break in the visit frequency).
Anyway, that's been some of my thoughts on the caching matter. It'd be nice to visit a page gone to frequently and just have everything _there_. No nonsense about querying for a newer image before loading (or load first, query and change if needed, perhaps show a checking for new image placeholder). And of course, this is coming from someone who doesn't know how the current cache system in Firefox works. So to all those working on it, this is my idea.
-DrkShadow
Requirement met: www.google.com, type in tabbrowser extension. First link is a mozilla plugin that has that as an option.
s .html.en#download
Actually, it was the third link. http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextension
Click the third link down on that page at that area (Download Tabbrowser Extensions [tabextensions_en.xpi]" and there ya go.
-DrkShadow
You didn't search for the grammar used by PHB's. The correct answer is 237; the 96 you got above would have to be others, more knowledgeable, talking about their experiences.
Proof.
-DrkShadow
If I can keep the MS in the company I'd have no problem starting him at the helpdesk.
From earlier, however:
Easier for me to just put their resume in the 'do not hire' pile
Oops, I guess they just don't even get a chance. Sad, really.
I don't know how many masters you actually have applying, but many may stay with the company. This number can be increased by promoting them to the second tier faster. As a way out, you could provide a one month trial period; state that as they are masters, you expect more out of them, and tell them some exemplary support that has gotten other, non second tier support personell promoted.
If possible, offer the chance of promotion out of support in general and on to design teams -- these people with _masters degrees_ now have a significant amount of experience selving real world problems, know what the customer expects and what they don't, etc. Really, it's seeming like a good idea to higher higher degrees for tech support -- just make sure they know the opportunities available to them, and increase expected minimums. If they apply for a 30k$/year job, give them a chance at it.
-DrkShadow
But does it work with Linux? have you tried? any quirks to making it work? This one really is off-topic, but it is a question nonetheless.
-DrkShadow
Whaaat??? Come on, man.. think cluster.. get a couple thousand of these 206 mhz, 64 meg ram, compact flash storage parking meters hooked together via wireless mesh network (that is all of them working with all the others to bounce data to wherever it needs to go, correct?) and you could have some sort of acceptable cluster.
-DrkShadow
Really, this seems very much like the concept of .Hack//Sign.
That game takes place in a massively multiplayer online RPG; the events unfold through happenings in the world, posts to the message board and e-mail. It seems like this "novel" is very much the same thing, but perhaps more in depth.
In either case, as far as literature goes, there's no need to have people clicking around to get to the next part. That, to me, says "game". This can just as easily be accomplished in a book with a bit of narration.. it seems just an attempt to shift the style of narration.
-DrkShadow
I must say... wrong. One CPU hour. My distributed.net client has 226 hours in... my comp's been up for 1 week, 2 days, 15 hours (it's a windows box :-/). Now, mirc has been running 99.99% of that time... it's cpu time is 11 minutes 24 seconds. Winamp, up for the last four days and playing music for approximately 10 hours, 9 seconds cpu time. Bittorrent, up for most of the week with about two clients going, four minutes.
The point is, it's _hard_ to rack up a cpu hour. With this spam coming through, you're basically hosting a proxy. Even if they completely saturate your connection and run non stop, it'll be a very long time before they manage to take up one CPU hour. Further, if they managed to take up one CPU hour every hour, your system would be utterly unusable and you'd have to have the connection of a large ISP.
So really.. besides this not being worth it, they're not even giving the expected. Unless the website uses terms incorrectly, they'll be paying you about 1$ a year... and in that time, billions of spam messages can be sent. Not worth it in any measure. My cpu hour is worth far more than 1$.
-DrkShadow
Now... I'd say that _all_ e-mail services keep users' e-mail. Think backups. Think of how e-mail has been kept at corporations for _years_ and come back to haunt people. Is this not done in any way with commercial e-mail accounts? is the outgoing mail not recorded, for law enforcement purposes? is the e-mail people received not backed up for a considerable time? This privacy stuff seems _way_ overblown to me, and it seems like what google's planning on doing is already being done everywhere else. It's just that they're telling you about it.
As for keeping the mail forever, I can't say I know what they're going to do with it, but I highly doubt anyone else would be able to access your e-mail. Perhaps there would be something between data mining and selling advertising, but I don't know about this either. Perhaps they're simply removing references to it; the filesystem, being as large as it seems like it will be, may not have the capability to even delete data. It may just contiguously allocate everything and never look back.
My big thing is that e-mail is already stored for a _long time_. Is this not the case with the likes of Hotmail, Yahoo, etc?
-DrkShadow
I believe someone mentioned on here in the past that they were working on a free cookbook.... I searched for the name of the person I was talking to (Matt Balmer), found a link from wikibooks to:K .txt, The Open Source Cookbook: Fuel For Geeks.
http://www.randomdata.net/osc/downloads/OSCOOKBOO
Seems kinda small, but it also seems to have quite a few recipes. Enjoy.
-DrkShadow
Agreed. I've noticed the likliness of getting one side based on the orientation of the coin since I was seven years old or so... just from watching a _few_ (I never sat around flipping coins). Is this really that new to everyone else out there? But then, the only fair decisions based on coin tosses I ever see are computer simulation examples where fairness is assumed.
"Lets flip on it." *looks at the coin before toss and prepares to call it in the air*
But alternatively, if they flip it and put it on the back of the hand, and you don't know about that before hand, it's somewhat of a gamble.
-DrkShadow
I confess.. I diffed the MS version of libpng (1.0 ver 0.88 beta 2) with that which came from a gnu source (kindly provided in a zip in the same directory).
Now I wonder, would it be appropriate to show the changes here? Did they ever distribute this in any way, does anyone know? A simple diff file I could post, 333 lines and 8k, with labels of the files being compared. With it the source could be reconstructed, I assume.
As for changes, they include their own header that defines a couple items and includes standard include files... commented out said std includes as they were already included in some files, commented out provided declarations and "windowized" various calls for items such as writing. That and changed var names and a couple types of allotted memory.
I feel this was vague enough to not merit any taintedness, but is a MS GNU compliance review due? there are changes, that may or may not have been contributed (doubtful they were, but I don't know), and also the code may have never been distributed or used in any way.
Do post comments.
AC
I'll recommend something cute. Ya know all those beanie babies? Well, something along those lines:
FreeBSD Plush Daemon
Or, if you must and he's much more of a linux geek:
Tux Stuffed... Thing
But really, I've been reading and seeing things about useful or even presents in general. Since when is Valentines day about spending money on people? It would seem the marketters really are having an impact.
When I want presents, though, I want something I'm going to use. I don't want something I may use once or twice and then will shove out of the way somewhere and that I would feel guilty about throwing away... useful, so I can think of where it came from often and it's never "in the way". It's only in a convenient location.
-DrkShadow
Yes.. it looks to me like they really do only care about the criminal intentions behind false information. Notice the first part, and then it says especially, but not _specifically_ when they do it to commit a crime. That rep is lucky he's not from my state, as I'd go out and vote simply to vote against him.
-DrkShadow
Yes. Think about it. This virus has mass e-mailing capabilities. Obviously, the sco DoS was simply to make it look like it wasn't coming from a spammer. That's my thought, at least. I feel the mass mailing is far greater of a benefit to _someone_ than is dossing SCO, sco just being a convenient coverup. This is assuming, of course, that there's no one in the open source community that supports spammers. After all, so many tools against and only a few of the slashdot commentors, even, don't completely condemn them.
So really, spam is _yet again_ associated with terrorism.
-DrkShadow
With this, why did they even seize cables (power cables, misc wires, as put on the receipt) and obviously pressed cd's (music to massage to...)? Further, why did this guy post his win XP product key (or possibly ME) on the web? ;-)
-DrkShadow
Weathered the largest DDoS on record? where is this record? And besides that, they didn't take their certificate servers being accessed by a great many people very well... I suppose one can only hope they do better with rfid.
-DrkShadow