>Yeah, let me just pack up my family, sell my house and all of my belongings, kiss off my friends, and break every tie that I have by deserting my country so I can go work for $12 an hour.
Well, that summarizes how my ancestors came to Canada from Dumfries. Of course it was more like 12 cents a day rather than 12 dollars an hour.
>Thanks for opening my eyes. I'll take my chances here in the US.
Your choice, and nothing wrong with that. My choice too. However, I see immigrants as very brave people who have chosen a very tough and scary path.
> Unless the person hiring you has an account at Sluts-R-us.com, and loves your work.
Of course, as sysadmin at Sluts-R-Us.com you would know about that account, and you could mention discretely that hiring you might be a way of ensuring that said account stayed unknown to Mrs. Hiring Person. Just a thought.... You are supposed to prepare for an interview, after all. Research is important to success in life.
It's all in how you write your resume. "Commercial internet based multi-media provideer" sounds much better than "systems administrator for Sluts-R-Us.com."
Mdk 10 is here but will miss these:
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It's hard to make a "splash" when the code is so old!
This machine is running Mandrake 9.1 and will for a while, probably until MDK 10.1 is available. My home box runs 9.2 upgraded from 8.2. They run reliably and do exactly what I want.
Besides, the servers were already hammered before getting slashdotted. By the time one can get easy access, 10.1 will be out, and I can always install Gimp 2.0 by itself.
Just another case of France trying to impose its laws on an American company.
Except, of course, in this case Apple is actually selling Ipods in France, to French citizens, for Euros (mostly ones with the French logos on them), under the jurisdiction of the French commercial code. I don't think Apple or McDonalds are going to get away with claiming extraterritoriality for their stores, especially the French-owned ones. Conversely, I'm pretty sure Mandrake complies with US law relating to their US sales activities.
Drive/DoubleSpace is a driver that gets loaded at boot. Your data is actually inside one big.CVF file...
This was very good except for a few things:
I used this utility both under MS-DOS and DR-DOS. It worked, but had a few issues. Like all compression schemes, you got better compression on data files than on compiled executables.
The important thing was to balance the risk with the gains. I used it happily when a new boss gave me a POS H-P with a 5MB hard drive in 1993. Now, given the extemely low cost of mass storage, I wouldn't mess with it on a bet.
>Those are not 1984 haircuts....Flock of Seagulls had 1984 haircuts....these are the haircuts of people that don't give a lot of wattage to personal apperance.
I'll probably pay dearly for this, but some of our network guys look just like that... and not the old ones. 'Course they do have Ipods to go with the hair and glasses.
I'm not old, but I do remember lists of stuff you could do while your C64 booted
How about an RFID Reader Card for your laptop or PDA? You can get one for $150.00ish US from Syscan International (http://www.syscan.com). It fits a CF slot or PCMCIA with an adapter.
From an article in RFID Journal http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3 93/1/1/ "The read range is just five to 10 cm (two to four inches). But Striefler says the company is working to extend that. 'We hope to increase the power of the chip to improve its read range.'... The reader can record changes in temperature, time and other data. The initial reader that Syscan is producing works with 13.56 MHz tags based on the ISO15693 and ISO14443 standards. The company is working to produce versions for the ISO 14443A and ISO 14443B standards. It will also create readers for the Sony FeliCa RFID chip, and 125 kHz and 134 kHz frequencies. "
Looks like a bold new frontier for interacting creatively with corporate computer systems.
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>Tools needed: (1) Wiha 1.5mm flat head screwdriver (1) Wiha Philips #000 screwdriver (1) Needle nose pliers or medical (Kelly type) hemostats (1) Hair dryer
Given the outcome, this list is obviously not necessary and sufficient.
>Or how long will it take them to release a service pack to fix the anti-virus program?
Never let it be said that I pass up the chance to bash Microsoft, but Symantec and McAfee don't win any prizes here either. My Soyo motherboard came with Norton AntiVirus, which crashed everything from video drivers to Word. Had to format C: and reinstall everything to clean up the mess. McAfee is better, but not by much. At least it runs without thinking I need to be in 640x480 video mode.
If Microsoft can build a virus scanner that is compatible with their own operating system, great. I think I'll try to get an early bet down on "NO", however.
>Unfortunately, there's no appreciable difference betwixt the two, so we're condemned to continue down the slippery slope.
If you think there is no difference between the judicial appointments made by the Shrub and those made by Clinton, you'd better hope you never have any kind of civil rights or first ammendment case go up on appeal. There are very real differences between the two parties in their approach to civil rights, the environment, education, and how many cameras Ashcroft gets to put in your bedroom.
I don't know what kind of field strengths you would expect from ordinary electrical devices but they might get farily high near the devices close to the 60Hz currents.
The stuff that goes near your head contains, typically, single-phase synchronous motors. The magnetic field is going to be wrapped around that pretty tightly. I didn't see anything wrong with their methodology, but I am concerned about extrapolation from this to real-world situations.
Don't do that. You'll triple your chances of being struck by a meteorite!
The article abstract states that a field strenth of 0.01 mT (millitesla) applied over 24 hours caused a significant increease in DNA strand breaks.
The Earth has a magnetic field with a strength that varies between 20,000 nT and 70,000 nT (nanotesla, the unit usually used.) Converting nT to mT using my few undamaged brain cells gives a background field strength for the planetary magnetic field of 0.02-0.07 mT. The lower numbers are found near the equator and increase with latitude.
Using an electic shaver or hair dryer for five minutes a day would increase exposure by a factor o 0.0007, given the ranges for them found on several sites. You might be better off leaving the Earth's magnetic field altogether except for that nasty cosmic radiation it protects you from.
There is law, and then there is enforcement. I'm sure there is still a no-jaywalking law in New York City. Does anyone care? No, because there is no penalty. When some spammer does Kevin Mitnick-style time for his crime, the law will mean something.
Why would I buy Viagra from someone who can't spell it?
Rummy's wet dream: fully armed and armored high school dropouts jacked up into an amphetamine-induced paranoid killing frenzy sweeping through Baghdad, Tehran, Paris.... Frightening, sort of like Oakland on Saturday night.
>> Aaah...it seems Dell is going after the coveted gamers-who-leave-the-basement demographic... > Which is approximately, what, 0.05% of the gaming population?
Surely I'm not the only one playing wireless Total Annihilation during those endless delays at SFO?
"Eat these missiles Core Scum." Hmm... could get entertaining if a TSA packet sniffer picks that up.
IMG of a boothbabe wearing Linux t-shirt shuffed with Tux dolls...
Sorry, must go take medication.....
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It also makes sense because providing the internet feed is dirt cheap, while trying to meter it and collect fees is NOT.
Tangentially related thought... If I stay at a hotel costing over $150/night, local calls from the room cost $1.50 each, and high speed internet access costs $10-15 per day. If I stay at a motel costing $45/night, local calls and internet are free. It's not so much the cost of providing the service, but what people, particularly those on expense accounts, are willing to pay.
The future of pay wi-fi providers such as T-Mobile seems limited.
Sorry, but natural selection (the strong survive) has been shown over and over (which gives us confidence in it). Evolution, OTOH, has never been demonstrated or shown in an experiment. To demonstrate evolution would require watching a planet from start to finish, which we have not yet done.
Natural selection is obvious, and, sorry, you're wrong about evolution. Evolution has been demonstrated repeatedly in both the lab and in the field. New species have been created in the lab and observ ed to evolve in the field. What definitin of evolution are you using? It is not necessary to watch the life of a planet from start to finish to demonstrate evolution any more than it is necessary to watch every movie ever made, or even watch one all the way through, to know that movies exist
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>Yeah, let me just pack up my family, sell my house and all of my belongings, kiss off my friends, and break every tie that I have by deserting my country so I can go work for $12 an hour.
Well, that summarizes how my ancestors came to Canada from Dumfries. Of course it was more like 12 cents a day rather than 12 dollars an hour.>Thanks for opening my eyes. I'll take my chances here in the US.
Your choice, and nothing wrong with that. My choice too. However, I see immigrants as very brave people who have chosen a very tough and scary path.
> Unless the person hiring you has an account at Sluts-R-us.com, and loves your work.
Of course, as sysadmin at Sluts-R-Us.com you would know about that account, and you could mention discretely that hiring you might be a way of ensuring that said account stayed unknown to Mrs. Hiring Person. Just a thought.... You are supposed to prepare for an interview, after all. Research is important to success in life.It's all in how you write your resume. "Commercial internet based multi-media provideer" sounds much better than "systems administrator for Sluts-R-Us.com."
I can get it for you wholesale.
Mdk 10 is here but will miss these:
This machine is running Mandrake 9.1 and will for a while, probably until MDK 10.1 is available. My home box runs 9.2 upgraded from 8.2. They run reliably and do exactly what I want.[snip]
It's hard to make a "splash" when the code is so old!
Besides, the servers were already hammered before getting slashdotted. By the time one can get easy access, 10.1 will be out, and I can always install Gimp 2.0 by itself.
Just another case of France trying to impose its laws on an American company.
Except, of course, in this case Apple is actually selling Ipods in France, to French citizens, for Euros (mostly ones with the French logos on them), under the jurisdiction of the French commercial code. I don't think Apple or McDonalds are going to get away with claiming extraterritoriality for their stores, especially the French-owned ones. Conversely, I'm pretty sure Mandrake complies with US law relating to their US sales activities.They don't call them French Fries in France
Drive/DoubleSpace is a driver that gets loaded at boot. Your data is actually inside one big .CVF file...
This was very good except for a few things:
I used this utility both under MS-DOS and DR-DOS. It worked, but had a few issues. Like all compression schemes, you got better compression on data files than on compiled executables.The important thing was to balance the risk with the gains. I used it happily when a new boss gave me a POS H-P with a 5MB hard drive in 1993. Now, given the extemely low cost of mass storage, I wouldn't mess with it on a bet.
This is your hard drive on drugs.
>Those are not 1984 haircuts....Flock of Seagulls had 1984 haircuts....these are the haircuts of people that don't give a lot of wattage to personal apperance.
I'll probably pay dearly for this, but some of our network guys look just like that... and not the old ones. 'Course they do have Ipods to go with the hair and glasses.I'm not old, but I do remember lists of stuff you could do while your C64 booted
> Is there such a thing as an RFID tag locator?
How about an RFID Reader Card for your laptop or PDA? You can get one for $150.00ish US from Syscan International (http://www.syscan.com). It fits a CF slot or PCMCIA with an adapter.From an article in RFID Journal
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/
"The read range is just five to 10 cm (two to four inches). But Striefler says the company is working to extend that. 'We hope to increase the power of the chip to improve its read range.'
Looks like a bold new frontier for interacting creatively with corporate computer systems.
>Tools needed: (1) Wiha 1.5mm flat head screwdriver (1) Wiha Philips #000 screwdriver (1) Needle nose pliers or medical (Kelly type) hemostats (1) Hair dryer
Given the outcome, this list is obviously not necessary and sufficient.Nifty business idea though.
besides the moderation, the article is a DUPE!!!
For some of these d00dz every day is a new day.>Or how long will it take them to release a service pack to fix the anti-virus program?
Never let it be said that I pass up the chance to bash Microsoft, but Symantec and McAfee don't win any prizes here either. My Soyo motherboard came with Norton AntiVirus, which crashed everything from video drivers to Word. Had to format C: and reinstall everything to clean up the mess. McAfee is better, but not by much. At least it runs without thinking I need to be in 640x480 video mode.If Microsoft can build a virus scanner that is compatible with their own operating system, great. I think I'll try to get an early bet down on "NO", however.
>Unfortunately, there's no appreciable difference betwixt the two, so we're condemned to continue down the slippery slope.
If you think there is no difference between the judicial appointments made by the Shrub and those made by Clinton, you'd better hope you never have any kind of civil rights or first ammendment case go up on appeal. There are very real differences between the two parties in their approach to civil rights, the environment, education, and how many cameras Ashcroft gets to put in your bedroom.Voters are citizens. All others are residents
I don't know what kind of field strengths you would expect from ordinary electrical devices but they might get farily high near the devices close to the 60Hz currents.
The stuff that goes near your head contains, typically, single-phase synchronous motors. The magnetic field is going to be wrapped around that pretty tightly. I didn't see anything wrong with their methodology, but I am concerned about extrapolation from this to real-world situations.Don't do that. You'll triple your chances of being struck by a meteorite!
The article abstract states that a field strenth of 0.01 mT (millitesla) applied over 24 hours caused a significant increease in DNA strand breaks.
The Earth has a magnetic field with a strength that varies between 20,000 nT and 70,000 nT (nanotesla, the unit usually used.) Converting nT to mT using my few undamaged brain cells gives a background field strength for the planetary magnetic field of 0.02-0.07 mT. The lower numbers are found near the equator and increase with latitude.
Using an electic shaver or hair dryer for five minutes a day would increase exposure by a factor o 0.0007, given the ranges for them found on several sites. You might be better off leaving the Earth's magnetic field altogether except for that nasty cosmic radiation it protects you from.
Magnetic field, gamma radiation, take your pick.
There is law, and then there is enforcement. I'm sure there is still a no-jaywalking law in New York City. Does anyone care? No, because there is no penalty. When some spammer does Kevin Mitnick-style time for his crime, the law will mean something.
Why would I buy Viagra from someone who can't spell it?
>Uh..I mean peed skills.
That would be the idea, yes?
Rummy's wet dream: fully armed and armored high school dropouts jacked up into an amphetamine-induced paranoid killing frenzy sweeping through Baghdad, Tehran, Paris.... Frightening, sort of like Oakland on Saturday night.
>> Aaah...it seems Dell is going after the coveted gamers-who-leave-the-basement demographic...
> Which is approximately, what, 0.05% of the gaming population?
Surely I'm not the only one playing wireless Total Annihilation during those endless delays at SFO?
"Eat these missiles Core Scum." Hmm... could get entertaining if a TSA packet sniffer picks that up.
>and it called MARKETING!!!
IMG of a boothbabe wearing Linux t-shirt shuffed with Tux dolls...
Sorry, must go take medication.....
It also makes sense because providing the internet feed is dirt cheap, while trying to meter it and collect fees is NOT.
Tangentially related thought... If I stay at a hotel costing over $150/night, local calls from the room cost $1.50 each, and high speed internet access costs $10-15 per day. If I stay at a motel costing $45/night, local calls and internet are free. It's not so much the cost of providing the service, but what people, particularly those on expense accounts, are willing to pay.
The future of pay wi-fi providers such as T-Mobile seems limited.
Natural selection is obvious, and, sorry, you're wrong about evolution. Evolution has been demonstrated repeatedly in both the lab and in the field. New species have been created in the lab and observ ed to evolve in the field. What definitin of evolution are you using? It is not necessary to watch the life of a planet from start to finish to demonstrate evolution any more than it is necessary to watch every movie ever made, or even watch one all the way through, to know that movies exist
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