I used to work for a POS Helpdesk for an *unnamed* gas station/c-store. We could always dig through the log files to read what sort of input was recorded from a cardswipe on a CC#. There are actually several (usually 2 readable) tracks on your average CC.
The data on the MS of your major CCs are usually <15-16 digits - ala your CC #>=<exp date>
The company I had previously worked for, we did a fair amount of "easy and basic" database manipulation. We had used the Informix db on our servers at our various sites, and it had a very easy to use text-based (possibly curses, is my guess) front-end. I don't remember the front-end having any other names, and I don't personally use informix, so I don't know if the front-end ships standard with informix or not?
I can't say the front-end was the most powerful thing in the world, but for our needs, it got everything done for us. . . After doing a little snooping around with it, it seems like it has a lot of functions that any basic - mid level user would need in order to manipulate a database.
This has been going on for years, and I bet if every college/university had an online newspaper publication you could find hundreds of related stories to this.
The story, as it goes with me -- personal experience -- If I ever drop a class, early in the semester after buying a book, I can rarely sell it back to my bookstore, due to a couple possible problems but most commonly they already have too many books of the same title in their used section. It is cool that many university bookstores often have a buy-back or a used section, but that generally only helps when you buy the book. You have a little bit of a chance to sell your book back, but not very likely.
You also always have to deal with the situation of when your professor changes books from semester to semester, and the only books available are brand new books, as opposed to 2 year old books (a good majority of classes/books will allow for well over 2 years, before any major changes take place that an old book can handle).
There is a student organization that is put together where you can actually barter/trade/sell/buy or whatever books you have with other students. This is probably the best idea that anyone has come up with as far as books go at my University.
Yup, from my president, who will talk "shoot from the hip" and hosestly with me about things, we were talking about employees, and he says that all the companies he has worked with, that HR usually estimates around wages + 25-30%. He usually estimates the cost of employees as wages + 30-35%. I think these are realistic numbers for a professional company.
I'd probably post as "Anonymous Coward" too, if my first song downloaded was "Belive - By Cher". I can't see any self-respecting man/nerd, posting that.
Taking a similar class at my school, what is the problem with using a textbook, that contains a CD (legally done by the publisher) of selected works? In my music appreciation class, our literature for the class included 4 CDs (or 4 tapes for that matter). And if you purchase the book, you purchase the CDs that come along with it.
Ummm. . . Maybe they should land in New York instead? No, if you're not familiar with Utah, S. Utah, and S/W Utah is just pretty barren desert, the military has a weapons range on the West side of Utah (central all the way down to southern Utah). And it would make for excellent location to land/crashland a device, and who knows, if it has some crazy funky radiation, people would be a little bit safe, considering that it is a barren military weapon bombing spot.
I have a couple boxes on my network, one of which is a linux box that is "always-on". I have the SSH port (port 22) open to incoming connections from outside the network, and I have a VNC port open able to get to from outside the network, on the windows machine. I just ssh into my linux box, and run a simple perl script (I already recorded the NICs MAC address) to send the magic packet to the windows machine, give it a couple minutes, and then VNC on in to my windows machine. ..
While I consider myself a pickier sort of computer (and computer equipment) user, I honestly have no complaints with using the scroll wheel as a middle button. When I had an IBM PS/2 (8086) I had a Logitech Mouseman with the 3 buttons (and an ergonomic slope). Anymore I am more than happy with using the scroll button as a 3rd button. As I said, being a picky computer equipment user, I really like my Logitech MX500 I think it treats me about as well as any mouse has.
I like to think that my blood has a lower freezing point than others; it generally has a higher alcohol content than the average person's blood. I like to think that by drinking I would be able to survive some pretty extremely cold situations.
On another note: "Hello everyone. . . My name is Mike. . . I'm an alcoholic"
I must say, I'm pretty damn disappointed in everybody's choice of "games" for a company party! You guys are acting like it is like a junior high slumber party. Why don't you play:
Spin the bottle
7 minutes in heaven
Truth or Dare
I can't picture playing any of these games at a company party, and I am in a very relaxed workplace, with very relaxed co-workers.
This game makes absolutely no sense to me. What sort of interrogation questions would people ask one another to find out if someone was mafia or not? There is definetely a missing element to this game, that you haven't shared with us.
UN == US, I fail to see what difference this makes.
I disagree with this whole-heartedly, I don't know what country you come from, or whatver, but I must disagree with you in saying that the UN == US. The UN is made up of hundreds of countries, of which, 5 control the main security of the UN, of which, US is one of the 5. By no means is UN == US.
So is UniSys so until recently WSU wouldn't have been able to create a.gif image of their work (just don't transfer the images outside of the U.S. where the patent still stands for several more months)
You haven't travelled much have you? Obviously you have never been through Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, or a number of other states, and to call Utah the most desolate is pretty sad.
But then again, I may be misunderstanding the statement you made because of the quality typing ability of the author.
Heh, in the Weber State computer science building, you can't even get a wireless connection if you're not on the same floor as the hub. And the building is only two freaking floors, and only has about 10 classrooms!
And people think I'm trolling when I say that the campus wide wireless network sucks. ..
I was there last year when Ken finally decided to upgrade the TBE (technical and business education) building classrooms from their 10 mbit hubs, to 10/100 switches. Thank god, too bad it brought the building down for several days, not necessarily a seamless upgrade.
. . . These kids are really at home with UHF and microwave radios!
I'm going to go ahead and take it that you have never listened to KWCR 88.1 FM -- The college's radio station. You can't pick up a signal from the radio station once you're 10 miles away from the school!
No!!! In a bold move WSU students elected to use a used Tupperware dish as opposed to the more popular "fruit can". Maybe that is the secret to their success!!!
Do you think that they did use a large "fruit can" (8" long x 4" diameter) in this test? Or do you think they modified it from the original posting on how to make a 802.11b receiver from an old primestar satellite dish?
If there has ever been one government department that I haven't cared for (excl. IRS), it would be the ATF. I think that the ATF is probably one of the more corrupt government agencies that we have, and it absolutely frightens me that the director of the ATF is now headed on over to the RIAA.
I guess only the future will tell of what is going to happen with the RIAA, and their relentless battle against pirates.
Will you teach me? I think the Dewey Decimal System is an awful method for finding books. Which brings up a point, does the robot have any links to the Dewey System, or is it ran by a different preset, like the library's book isle, I'm curious now to how the robot works. Time to dive a little deeper into the article.
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I used to work for a POS Helpdesk for an *unnamed* gas station/c-store. We could always dig through the log files to read what sort of input was recorded from a cardswipe on a CC#. There are actually several (usually 2 readable) tracks on your average CC.
The data on the MS of your major CCs are usually <15-16 digits - ala your CC #>=<exp date>
The company I had previously worked for, we did a fair amount of "easy and basic" database manipulation. We had used the Informix db on our servers at our various sites, and it had a very easy to use text-based (possibly curses, is my guess) front-end. I don't remember the front-end having any other names, and I don't personally use informix, so I don't know if the front-end ships standard with informix or not?
I can't say the front-end was the most powerful thing in the world, but for our needs, it got everything done for us. . . After doing a little snooping around with it, it seems like it has a lot of functions that any basic - mid level user would need in order to manipulate a database.
This has been going on for years, and I bet if every college/university had an online newspaper publication you could find hundreds of related stories to this.
The story, as it goes with me -- personal experience -- If I ever drop a class, early in the semester after buying a book, I can rarely sell it back to my bookstore, due to a couple possible problems but most commonly they already have too many books of the same title in their used section. It is cool that many university bookstores often have a buy-back or a used section, but that generally only helps when you buy the book. You have a little bit of a chance to sell your book back, but not very likely.
You also always have to deal with the situation of when your professor changes books from semester to semester, and the only books available are brand new books, as opposed to 2 year old books (a good majority of classes/books will allow for well over 2 years, before any major changes take place that an old book can handle).
There is a student organization that is put together where you can actually barter/trade/sell/buy or whatever books you have with other students. This is probably the best idea that anyone has come up with as far as books go at my University.
Yup, from my president, who will talk "shoot from the hip" and hosestly with me about things, we were talking about employees, and he says that all the companies he has worked with, that HR usually estimates around wages + 25-30%. He usually estimates the cost of employees as wages + 30-35%. I think these are realistic numbers for a professional company.
I'd probably post as "Anonymous Coward" too, if my first song downloaded was "Belive - By Cher". I can't see any self-respecting man/nerd, posting that.
Taking a similar class at my school, what is the problem with using a textbook, that contains a CD (legally done by the publisher) of selected works? In my music appreciation class, our literature for the class included 4 CDs (or 4 tapes for that matter). And if you purchase the book, you purchase the CDs that come along with it.
Ummm. . . Maybe they should land in New York instead? No, if you're not familiar with Utah, S. Utah, and S/W Utah is just pretty barren desert, the military has a weapons range on the West side of Utah (central all the way down to southern Utah). And it would make for excellent location to land/crashland a device, and who knows, if it has some crazy funky radiation, people would be a little bit safe, considering that it is a barren military weapon bombing spot.
Apparently, this was similar to his feelings about movies too. Have you seen some of those Henry Rollins' monstrosities (sp?).
Genetically engineered Herpes now fights HIV. . . Ghonnerria (sp?) now fights crabs. . .
Now back to your regularly scheduled news. . .
I have a couple boxes on my network, one of which is a linux box that is "always-on". I have the SSH port (port 22) open to incoming connections from outside the network, and I have a VNC port open able to get to from outside the network, on the windows machine. I just ssh into my linux box, and run a simple perl script (I already recorded the NICs MAC address) to send the magic packet to the windows machine, give it a couple minutes, and then VNC on in to my windows machine. . .
While I consider myself a pickier sort of computer (and computer equipment) user, I honestly have no complaints with using the scroll wheel as a middle button. When I had an IBM PS/2 (8086) I had a Logitech Mouseman with the 3 buttons (and an ergonomic slope). Anymore I am more than happy with using the scroll button as a 3rd button. As I said, being a picky computer equipment user, I really like my Logitech MX500 I think it treats me about as well as any mouse has.
I like to think that my blood has a lower freezing point than others; it generally has a higher alcohol content than the average person's blood. I like to think that by drinking I would be able to survive some pretty extremely cold situations.
On another note: "Hello everyone. . . My name is Mike. . . I'm an alcoholic"
I must say, I'm pretty damn disappointed in everybody's choice of "games" for a company party! You guys are acting like it is like a junior high slumber party. Why don't you play:
I can't picture playing any of these games at a company party, and I am in a very relaxed workplace, with very relaxed co-workers.
This game makes absolutely no sense to me. What sort of interrogation questions would people ask one another to find out if someone was mafia or not? There is definetely a missing element to this game, that you haven't shared with us.
UN == US, I fail to see what difference this makes.
I disagree with this whole-heartedly, I don't know what country you come from, or whatver, but I must disagree with you in saying that the UN == US. The UN is made up of hundreds of countries, of which, 5 control the main security of the UN, of which, US is one of the 5. By no means is UN == US.
So is UniSys so until recently WSU wouldn't have been able to create a .gif image of their work (just don't transfer the images outside of the U.S. where the patent still stands for several more months)
You haven't travelled much have you? Obviously you have never been through Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana, or a number of other states, and to call Utah the most desolate is pretty sad.
But then again, I may be misunderstanding the statement you made because of the quality typing ability of the author.
Heh, in the Weber State computer science building, you can't even get a wireless connection if you're not on the same floor as the hub. And the building is only two freaking floors, and only has about 10 classrooms!
And people think I'm trolling when I say that the campus wide wireless network sucks. . .
I was there last year when Ken finally decided to upgrade the TBE (technical and business education) building classrooms from their 10 mbit hubs, to 10/100 switches. Thank god, too bad it brought the building down for several days, not necessarily a seamless upgrade.
. . . These kids are really at home with UHF and microwave radios!
I'm going to go ahead and take it that you have never listened to KWCR 88.1 FM -- The college's radio station. You can't pick up a signal from the radio station once you're 10 miles away from the school!
No!!! In a bold move WSU students elected to use a used Tupperware dish as opposed to the more popular "fruit can". Maybe that is the secret to their success!!!
Do you think that they did use a large "fruit can" (8" long x 4" diameter) in this test? Or do you think they modified it from the original posting on how to make a 802.11b receiver from an old primestar satellite dish?
Seems amazing especially because of the close by mountain range.
Now can someone explain to me why I have such difficulty connecting to their wireless network while I'm on campus?
If there has ever been one government department that I haven't cared for (excl. IRS), it would be the ATF. I think that the ATF is probably one of the more corrupt government agencies that we have, and it absolutely frightens me that the director of the ATF is now headed on over to the RIAA.
I guess only the future will tell of what is going to happen with the RIAA, and their relentless battle against pirates.
Will you teach me? I think the Dewey Decimal System is an awful method for finding books. Which brings up a point, does the robot have any links to the Dewey System, or is it ran by a different preset, like the library's book isle, I'm curious now to how the robot works. Time to dive a little deeper into the article.
SSI; almost GNU and PHP like.