If you are interested in pursuing more of the management side vs. the technical side, consider rounding out your skill-set. Certifications such as CISA (Certified Information System Auditor) from ISACA and CIPP/IT (Certified Information Privacy Professional in IT) would provide a different perspective from what you may be used to. Both are self-study and are more practical than technical.
I use the Clear program and was very disappointed when it was shut down. You're basically paying an annual fee to not wait in line with everyone else. The clear line is a seperate queue that moves very quickly and then they walk you to the front of the normal security screening line. This regularly saved me the time and frustration of traveling with people who are not experienced with the security procedures.
Apparently if you click yes you get the following:
Intent To Export
You noted you will be exporting this order outside the United States. Please complete the following information to continue checkout.
Product End-User Information First Name MI Last Name
Country -List of Countries-
Intended Use In what country will the product be used? -List of Countries-
This product is for use in
Home
Commercial
Government/Civilian
Government/Military
Will the product be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, i.e. nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?
Yes
No
Is the product to be used to upgrade an existing system?
Yes
No
Doesn't Dell ask you to affirm that you will not export the computer from the United States as part of their checkout process?
From Dell's shopping cart:
Export Intent
I WILL NOT export this order outside the United States.
I WILL export this order outside the United States.
The export of any product and software purchased from Dell must be made in accordance with all relevant laws of the United States, including and without limitation, the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. This may require that you obtain a formal export license or make certain declarations to the United States Government regarding product(s) to be exported, their destination or their end-use.
Ship-To Prohibitions: Please be informed that your designated ship to address must reflect the address of the ultimate end-user. Dell will not process any order which specifies an address of a freight forwarder, warehouse, distribution center, airport, hotel or PO box.
I thought of doing that, but realized I pay for the electricity in our apartment and it may not be a wise choice to have a pluthera (sp?) of old machines running all day and all night eating up juice. That and they'd be really loud.:)
I see where they say that they give you the full prize money (right on their front page), but where do you get that their clients are faster? I searched their site high and low with no luck validating your statement. In the future please give reference points.
Wouldn't that be the decision maker on whether to run dcypher or distributed's clients?
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Mind sharing what you switched to?
If you are interested in pursuing more of the management side vs. the technical side, consider rounding out your skill-set. Certifications such as CISA (Certified Information System Auditor) from ISACA and CIPP/IT (Certified Information Privacy Professional in IT) would provide a different perspective from what you may be used to. Both are self-study and are more practical than technical.
I use the Clear program and was very disappointed when it was shut down. You're basically paying an annual fee to not wait in line with everyone else. The clear line is a seperate queue that moves very quickly and then they walk you to the front of the normal security screening line. This regularly saved me the time and frustration of traveling with people who are not experienced with the security procedures.
Maybe it's a Geocaching or other outdoors / technology related activity. Many of the Geocaching organizations reguarily hold events.
Apparently if you click yes you get the following:
Intent To Export
You noted you will be exporting this order outside the United States. Please complete the following information to continue checkout.
Product End-User Information
First Name MI Last Name
Country
-List of Countries-
Intended Use
In what country will the product be used?
-List of Countries-
This product is for use in
Home
Commercial
Government/Civilian
Government/Military
Will the product be used in connection with weapons of mass destruction, i.e. nuclear applications, missile technology, or chemical or biological weapons purposes?
Yes
No
Is the product to be used to upgrade an existing system?
Yes
No
Doesn't Dell ask you to affirm that you will not export the computer from the United States as part of their checkout process?
From Dell's shopping cart:
Export Intent
I WILL NOT export this order outside the United States.
I WILL export this order outside the United States.
The export of any product and software purchased from Dell must be made in accordance with all relevant laws of the United States, including and without limitation, the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. This may require that you obtain a formal export license or make certain declarations to the United States Government regarding product(s) to be exported, their destination or their end-use.
Ship-To Prohibitions: Please be informed that your designated ship to address must reflect the address of the ultimate end-user. Dell will not process any order which specifies an address of a freight forwarder, warehouse, distribution center, airport, hotel or PO box.
1 Kilobyte does not equal 1000 bytes, it equals 1024 bytes. Go figure.
Funny, looks a lot like that Alienware case they are using in their new Media Center.
Now you really can build your own, assuming Microsoft would allow us to purchase that version of XP directly.
How is this News for Nerds, Stuff that matters? We need to make a case-mod category so I can filter it out.
What's the deal with requiring quicktime pro to view the large format trailer?!
Alas, you're correct. I bow to your wisdom.
It was the printer from the beginning of the movie that kept reading "Form Feed" on the LCD.
I thought of doing that, but realized I pay for the electricity in our apartment and it may not be a wise choice to have a pluthera (sp?) of old machines running all day and all night eating up juice. That and they'd be really loud. :)
Hey, if you want a computer in a keg, be sure to team up with this guy who already has a head start!
He's got one that's already sawed in half!
- Dekaner
I see where they say that they give you the full prize money (right on their front page), but where do you get that their clients are faster? I searched their site high and low with no luck validating your statement. In the future please give reference points.
Wouldn't that be the decision maker on whether to run dcypher or distributed's clients?
- Dekaner
Are you kidding me? Not only does Dell's phone support rock, they're online support is even better!!
Here, I found the information for you, and it took me all of about 1 minute.
http://support.dell.com/docs/dt a/4XXLV/00000001.htm