heh. I have 2/23's from about the mid-90's and I believe they're in the same position... I always assumed they were worth nothing. They're worth something to me though.
My original iphone2g was recently replaced by an iphone4. The old 2g is still working fine, it has had, I dunno a couple thousand charge cycles and now my son uses it as a handheld gaming device / ipod... He seems to recharge it every day as well... It doesn't get used as a phone anymore but the games and wifi are probably a bigger power drain anyway.
I can't remember when I got it but it must be getting close to 4 years ago now...
Seriously, bear with me a second... Non-technical in-the-box thinking hippies can have their walled-off iphone and probably not get into a lot of trouble. Techies like me can have our iphone, jailbreak it, and with cydia install some additional stuff to placate us; we can ssh into our phone, etc... If I pickup some malware, that's fine, it probably came from a 3rdparty source via Cydia and I have myself to blame and I'm probably not going to end up being some "Man shoots own foot" media sensation...
If you let any old weenor with an android install any old random shit on it by just tapping 'accept' on some dialog that he or she doesn't really understand (err, Windows, anyone?), then of course you're going to wind up with stories like this.
I've run my own mail server since the.UUCP domain and comp.mail.maps. For a very long time now, we have not been accepting MUA->MTA mail on port 25. We have been using port 587 for MUA->MTA. MTA->MTA is port 25 and has been for a very long time. However, you don't try to connect to anyone else's port 25 from your cable or DSL modem unless you have setup some sort of non-home internet access and signed an AUP... Even then, chances are your cableco or telco will insist you relay through their mail server and I agree with their motives for doing so.
My mail server (a VPS on panix.com running postfix) has no trouble sending mail to anyone; including hotmail. I won't trust my cableco to relay my mail for me; ever.
There are a few cydia apps that I have installed and they are mostly unremarkable... The one I use _all_ the time was Wififofum... Such a thing used to be on the itunes app store but it disappeared and nothing took it's place. Wififofum is a wifi scanner and connection manager that lets you connect to access points that are quieter than what Apple's wifi manager will report... Sometimes it's the quiet ones that are open access points... Since I choose not to pay for a data plan, I rely on occasionally getting Wifi access... I can quite often get connected using Wififofum where I wouldn't be able to if I just used Apple's connection manager.
There's another one called Wifipass which is good if you want to tell a friend the Wifi password of some restaurant that you happened to get last time you were there from a friendly waitress... It prints out all of your wifi passwords.
I also use the synergy client but I can do without that.
I would love a MythTV plugin for this... I've been slowly amassing hi-res images to put on our livingroom TV as a slow slideshow for when we have people over... I'd been looking for a trove of good resolution fine 'art'...
Chrome at home on OSX because Firefox had this nasty habit of beachballing whenever I clicked a link. I debugged as much as I could; disabled the 3 extensions I had installed, watched processes with top, watched disk stats, etc... Beachball for about 500ms whenever I clicked a link. Watching a flash video, it would pause about every 4 seconds for about 500ms... It was unusable... Couldn't figure it so switched to chrome...
Firefox at work on Ubuntu. Firefox is hateful because you can't remap any of the keys... What retard decided that 'copy' and 'paste' shortcuts should use ascii characters which means a different key sequence to copy/paste between your terminal and your browser; and what retard decided that Firefox should not allow you to override those keys? The Alt key is designed for keyboard shortcuts... Why can you not consistantly use the Alt key modifier on Linux seamlessly across all applications?
At least OSX has it right. Firefox and Chrome both have fairly consistant keyboard mappings on OSX. So I can use ALT-{C,V,N,T,A,Q} in my terminals and browsers consistantly...
You joke...
When I was a kid, my 300 baud acoustic coupler had a little lever you had to lift up and pivot to simultaneously clamp down the handset and if you lifted it further, it would initiate outgoing carrier instead of listening for carrier... The contacts on the second level were trashed by some previous knucklehead so if you were trying to initiate a dialup session with someone calling you (a friend to trade some Apple-][ warez), I couldn't get my coupler to initiate... So I had to figure out how to whistle the 300baud carrier to get the other modem to start.. Then I could clamp down my handset and start xmodem...
Get off my lawn.
The problem is that us guys without degrees and who are good at what we do, never go into HR. Our resume's are brought in, past HR, directly to the hiring manager by someone on the inside who is our friend, or previous co-worker, or some guy who I've spent many hundreds of hours working with on some FOSS project and possibly met face to face at a conference or two. When we're about to switch jobs, we tell our network of friends/associates and if they respect our abilities, we have our pick of jobs and only have to talk to HR when we're signing our offer letters and organizing our benefits package.
Sure, I sound pompous... I have 25 years worth of data points to support my position and I've never sent a resume' to an HR department.. EVER.
Lets say, in the event of an accident, can the tank of compressed nitrogen help with anything? ie: deploying the side curtain air bags? Or in the event of a fire in the engine bay, can it be used to attempt to displace the oxygen to quench the fire? I'm probably full of shit...
My point being that you put down a group of people for not being as passionate about your hobby as you are. Re-read your message and then try to tell me who has the chip on their shoulder. I challenged the test, got high 90's (Industry Canada exam), have my license, and use my 'ricebox mobile and handhelds' in the field, to, like, you know, actually talk to people. So I don't spend my evenings and weekends in my basement exchanging QSL cards with the guy in Paraguay... If that's what turns you on, knock yourself out. I have different interests.
yeah; sure. I'm an 'operator'. Probably even less because I don't know any 'emcomm' protocols or how to participate in an emergency situation. I use my radio to communicate with the rest of my offroad club. We do trail stewardship projects and 2M is a huge improvement over CB. To us, amateur radio is just a tool we use in our hobby. It is not a hobby in and of itself (though I played briefly with APRS)... We all support the local repeater society with our membership dollars and we have a standing offer to drive anyone to any of the remote repeaters in the event of an emergency or bad weather... Sorry I'm not 'real' enough for you... Let me know how your last from-scratch offroad suspension design worked out. I mean, you _do_ drive a car right? Like me, you should know how to completely disassemble and rebuild it and re-engineer vast portions of it to suit your needs... If you don't, you're just another loser driver like the rest of them.
Get a few of your friends in different cities to all agree to be one anothers' hot-backups. Each of you buys a NAS box. You backup your files to the NAS boxes of two of your friends in different cities. Your site holds the backups of two friends... Hell, encrypt them in case someone's house gets burgled...
Personally, I have a friend with dedicated bandwidth supplied by his employer. I store a small Mac Mini over there. I also have a small vhost on the other side of the continent that I pay $150/year for which is also my mail server and DNS and backup for the Mac Mini.
A lot of you are saying the senior guy is being paid less due to raise-atrophy and the new guy came in on 'new guy salary'... Every large company I've ever worked for has had an HR department that focuses on pigeon-holing people into a 'stream' (managerial, administrative, professional, technical)... Each 'stream' has a salary range. Where you fit in that range is determined by your 'grade' which is composed of things like 'years of experience', and 'education', and other soft-squishy things... Your salary is directly derived from which pigeon hole they put you in. An existing person in 'Professional-4' and a new hire being put in as 'Professional-4' are going to end up with largely identical salaries.. This is why people like me (with 25+ years experience but no post secondary education) get screwed... That was my choice and I work around it by being a contractor and charging what the market will bear (which is quite good, thank you very much)... Chances are the 'senior guy' has other problems that put him in a lower paying position... There are 'senior guys' here at my customer site who aren't paid very well because, frankly, they're cantankerous and have over-inflated opinions of their abilities... Management keeps them around because they serve a purpose, fix bugs in legacy stuff, and don't cause too much grief for the amount of money they're getting. I'm expensive and senior but management keeps me around because they like the work I do and they feel they're getting good value for the money.. They could get rid of me in a heart-beat if that changes and not have to pay me any severance...
I've always wanted to go to Las Vegas. Not for the gambling or the shows but apparently there are a bunch of interesting sites near the place... Hoover Dam for example... And apparently there's some sort of chicken ranching operation as well... Sounds like a cheap vacation for the whole family..
I do some work for a military contractor and the sheer amount of classified information that's flying around is simply beyond astounding... A lot of things that are banal and boring are marked Top Secret in order to prevent sub-contractors from hiring foreign workers... It's not that the information itself is or needs to be Top Secret but marking it so is a way to keep jobs local...
But in any event, why would you be upset that someone else's business is running the way that they want it to run? The only people who can rightfully be upset are those who based their business on those prices. And yeah, for those providers reselling another ISP's service, sure raised prices are a problem. But having a supplier change their prices is nothing unexpected -- especially when your entire business model is based on under-cutting your supplier's from selling exactly the same thing.
Big surprise.
I ran an ISP in the early 90's here in Canada... This is before Shaw, Telus, Rogers, etc, got into the ISP business... We billed customers on a usage basis and were transparent about everything. It was a simple cost+ arrangement. Then the big companies all got into the Internet game. Since we were buying phone lines from Telus, they jacked up our contracted phone line rates well in advance of our contract running out... They all came in with their own dialup plans and had big bus advertisements touting "UNLIMITED USAGE!". We complained to the CRTC and the competition bureau but they just said "nope, looks like there's plenty of competition and the market is thriving..." Eventually, the big 3 drove the rest of us out of business... Once they had the market to themselves, they conspired together and added bandwidth limits and then eventually usage caps... So yes, I'm upset that they're running their business the way they want because the way they want was to use the regulatory bodies against their competition and form a monopoly to the disadvantage of the average consumer who now has no choice...
Simply not true. I'm both. A linux user and embedded firmware developer so for the most part, I knows my shizzle... My preferred environment is OSX because shit just works. I have to use Linux at my customer site and the fact that I can't play a.wav file in amarok or use aplay to play the.wav file while amarok is playing an mp3 is dumb. The fact that I have to futz around with xrandr to get multiple heads to work on my laptop. The fact that I can't turn off my laptop built-in speakers with a headset plugged in (even though windows on the same hardware manages to do it); blah blah blah blah.. Best example I can see yet? I gave my son my old Powerbook G4 and an Ubuntu 10 DVD. He got Ubuntu installed on the PBG4 and got Firefox, Thunderbird, Tuxkart, and so forth installed and running... But the fiddling was just too much... I mean seriously, in order to get the wireless working, he had to download a broadcom firmware bundle from openwrt.org, open an xterm, build a downloaded.c file to extract the correct firmware image from the bundle, install it in/lib/firmware/mumblemumble and reboot just to get wireless working.... He's 9 years old FFS... It took him 2 days of experimentation to get the wireless working. Eventually he decided Linux wasn't for him and reinstalled OSX...
If I was GS and were serious about sending this information to select clients who might leak it; I'd be inclined to fuzz the numbers in the financial report such that they didn't significantly effect the representation of the numbers but made identification of leaks possible...
Yup, my diesel will cool down to near ambient temps if not run under load. If I'm stopped for more than a couple of minutes with the engine idling, the heater starts blowing cold... In stop/go traffic, I'll freeze before I get to work... I have a Webasto fuel burning heater which keeps me nice and toasty and at only.3 liters/hour...
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Does anyone listen to what this Botanophobe says anymore? Seriously?
heh. I have 2 /23's from about the mid-90's and I believe they're in the same position... I always assumed they were worth nothing. They're worth something to me though.
Too bad "OurSQL" is taken.. Maybe "EveryoneSQL"
a year or two?
My original iphone2g was recently replaced by an iphone4. The old 2g is still working fine, it has had, I dunno a couple thousand charge cycles and now my son uses it as a handheld gaming device / ipod... He seems to recharge it every day as well... It doesn't get used as a phone anymore but the games and wifi are probably a bigger power drain anyway.
I can't remember when I got it but it must be getting close to 4 years ago now...
Seriously, bear with me a second... Non-technical in-the-box thinking hippies can have their walled-off iphone and probably not get into a lot of trouble. Techies like me can have our iphone, jailbreak it, and with cydia install some additional stuff to placate us; we can ssh into our phone, etc... If I pickup some malware, that's fine, it probably came from a 3rdparty source via Cydia and I have myself to blame and I'm probably not going to end up being some "Man shoots own foot" media sensation...
If you let any old weenor with an android install any old random shit on it by just tapping 'accept' on some dialog that he or she doesn't really understand (err, Windows, anyone?), then of course you're going to wind up with stories like this.
I've run my own mail server since the .UUCP domain and comp.mail.maps. For a very long time now, we have not been accepting MUA->MTA mail on port 25. We have been using port 587 for MUA->MTA. MTA->MTA is port 25 and has been for a very long time. However, you don't try to connect to anyone else's port 25 from your cable or DSL modem unless you have setup some sort of non-home internet access and signed an AUP... Even then, chances are your cableco or telco will insist you relay through their mail server and I agree with their motives for doing so.
My mail server (a VPS on panix.com running postfix) has no trouble sending mail to anyone; including hotmail. I won't trust my cableco to relay my mail for me; ever.
Do you reboot your refrigerator once a month too?
So put up signs at the entrance to the county and state roads that says "End of Springfield road maintenance zone".
There are a few cydia apps that I have installed and they are mostly unremarkable... The one I use _all_ the time was Wififofum... Such a thing used to be on the itunes app store but it disappeared and nothing took it's place. Wififofum is a wifi scanner and connection manager that lets you connect to access points that are quieter than what Apple's wifi manager will report... Sometimes it's the quiet ones that are open access points... Since I choose not to pay for a data plan, I rely on occasionally getting Wifi access... I can quite often get connected using Wififofum where I wouldn't be able to if I just used Apple's connection manager.
There's another one called Wifipass which is good if you want to tell a friend the Wifi password of some restaurant that you happened to get last time you were there from a friendly waitress... It prints out all of your wifi passwords.
I also use the synergy client but I can do without that.
I would love a MythTV plugin for this... I've been slowly amassing hi-res images to put on our livingroom TV as a slow slideshow for when we have people over... I'd been looking for a trove of good resolution fine 'art' ...
Chrome at home on OSX because Firefox had this nasty habit of beachballing whenever I clicked a link. I debugged as much as I could; disabled the 3 extensions I had installed, watched processes with top, watched disk stats, etc... Beachball for about 500ms whenever I clicked a link. Watching a flash video, it would pause about every 4 seconds for about 500ms... It was unusable... Couldn't figure it so switched to chrome...
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Firefox at work on Ubuntu. Firefox is hateful because you can't remap any of the keys... What retard decided that 'copy' and 'paste' shortcuts should use ascii characters which means a different key sequence to copy/paste between your terminal and your browser; and what retard decided that Firefox should not allow you to override those keys? The Alt key is designed for keyboard shortcuts... Why can you not consistantly use the Alt key modifier on Linux seamlessly across all applications?
At least OSX has it right. Firefox and Chrome both have fairly consistant keyboard mappings on OSX. So I can use ALT-{C,V,N,T,A,Q} in my terminals and browsers consistantly...
Flame me now
You joke... When I was a kid, my 300 baud acoustic coupler had a little lever you had to lift up and pivot to simultaneously clamp down the handset and if you lifted it further, it would initiate outgoing carrier instead of listening for carrier... The contacts on the second level were trashed by some previous knucklehead so if you were trying to initiate a dialup session with someone calling you (a friend to trade some Apple-][ warez), I couldn't get my coupler to initiate... So I had to figure out how to whistle the 300baud carrier to get the other modem to start.. Then I could clamp down my handset and start xmodem... Get off my lawn.
The problem is that us guys without degrees and who are good at what we do, never go into HR. Our resume's are brought in, past HR, directly to the hiring manager by someone on the inside who is our friend, or previous co-worker, or some guy who I've spent many hundreds of hours working with on some FOSS project and possibly met face to face at a conference or two. When we're about to switch jobs, we tell our network of friends/associates and if they respect our abilities, we have our pick of jobs and only have to talk to HR when we're signing our offer letters and organizing our benefits package.
Sure, I sound pompous... I have 25 years worth of data points to support my position and I've never sent a resume' to an HR department.. EVER.
Lets say, in the event of an accident, can the tank of compressed nitrogen help with anything? ie: deploying the side curtain air bags? Or in the event of a fire in the engine bay, can it be used to attempt to displace the oxygen to quench the fire? I'm probably full of shit...
My point being that you put down a group of people for not being as passionate about your hobby as you are. Re-read your message and then try to tell me who has the chip on their shoulder. I challenged the test, got high 90's (Industry Canada exam), have my license, and use my 'ricebox mobile and handhelds' in the field, to, like, you know, actually talk to people. So I don't spend my evenings and weekends in my basement exchanging QSL cards with the guy in Paraguay... If that's what turns you on, knock yourself out. I have different interests.
yeah; sure. I'm an 'operator'. Probably even less because I don't know any 'emcomm' protocols or how to participate in an emergency situation. I use my radio to communicate with the rest of my offroad club. We do trail stewardship projects and 2M is a huge improvement over CB. To us, amateur radio is just a tool we use in our hobby. It is not a hobby in and of itself (though I played briefly with APRS)... We all support the local repeater society with our membership dollars and we have a standing offer to drive anyone to any of the remote repeaters in the event of an emergency or bad weather... Sorry I'm not 'real' enough for you... Let me know how your last from-scratch offroad suspension design worked out. I mean, you _do_ drive a car right? Like me, you should know how to completely disassemble and rebuild it and re-engineer vast portions of it to suit your needs... If you don't, you're just another loser driver like the rest of them.
Get a few of your friends in different cities to all agree to be one anothers' hot-backups. Each of you buys a NAS box. You backup your files to the NAS boxes of two of your friends in different cities. Your site holds the backups of two friends... Hell, encrypt them in case someone's house gets burgled... Personally, I have a friend with dedicated bandwidth supplied by his employer. I store a small Mac Mini over there. I also have a small vhost on the other side of the continent that I pay $150/year for which is also my mail server and DNS and backup for the Mac Mini.
A lot of you are saying the senior guy is being paid less due to raise-atrophy and the new guy came in on 'new guy salary'... Every large company I've ever worked for has had an HR department that focuses on pigeon-holing people into a 'stream' (managerial, administrative, professional, technical)... Each 'stream' has a salary range. Where you fit in that range is determined by your 'grade' which is composed of things like 'years of experience', and 'education', and other soft-squishy things... Your salary is directly derived from which pigeon hole they put you in. An existing person in 'Professional-4' and a new hire being put in as 'Professional-4' are going to end up with largely identical salaries.. This is why people like me (with 25+ years experience but no post secondary education) get screwed... That was my choice and I work around it by being a contractor and charging what the market will bear (which is quite good, thank you very much)... Chances are the 'senior guy' has other problems that put him in a lower paying position... There are 'senior guys' here at my customer site who aren't paid very well because, frankly, they're cantankerous and have over-inflated opinions of their abilities... Management keeps them around because they serve a purpose, fix bugs in legacy stuff, and don't cause too much grief for the amount of money they're getting. I'm expensive and senior but management keeps me around because they like the work I do and they feel they're getting good value for the money.. They could get rid of me in a heart-beat if that changes and not have to pay me any severance...
You're forgetting Moore's law. In 25 years, that 20 minutes will only be 20 seconds.
I've always wanted to go to Las Vegas. Not for the gambling or the shows but apparently there are a bunch of interesting sites near the place... Hoover Dam for example... And apparently there's some sort of chicken ranching operation as well... Sounds like a cheap vacation for the whole family..
I do some work for a military contractor and the sheer amount of classified information that's flying around is simply beyond astounding... A lot of things that are banal and boring are marked Top Secret in order to prevent sub-contractors from hiring foreign workers... It's not that the information itself is or needs to be Top Secret but marking it so is a way to keep jobs local...
But in any event, why would you be upset that someone else's business is running the way that they want it to run? The only people who can rightfully be upset are those who based their business on those prices. And yeah, for those providers reselling another ISP's service, sure raised prices are a problem. But having a supplier change their prices is nothing unexpected -- especially when your entire business model is based on under-cutting your supplier's from selling exactly the same thing.
Big surprise.
I ran an ISP in the early 90's here in Canada... This is before Shaw, Telus, Rogers, etc, got into the ISP business... We billed customers on a usage basis and were transparent about everything. It was a simple cost+ arrangement. Then the big companies all got into the Internet game. Since we were buying phone lines from Telus, they jacked up our contracted phone line rates well in advance of our contract running out... They all came in with their own dialup plans and had big bus advertisements touting "UNLIMITED USAGE!". We complained to the CRTC and the competition bureau but they just said "nope, looks like there's plenty of competition and the market is thriving..." Eventually, the big 3 drove the rest of us out of business... Once they had the market to themselves, they conspired together and added bandwidth limits and then eventually usage caps... So yes, I'm upset that they're running their business the way they want because the way they want was to use the regulatory bodies against their competition and form a monopoly to the disadvantage of the average consumer who now has no choice...
Simply not true. I'm both. A linux user and embedded firmware developer so for the most part, I knows my shizzle... My preferred environment is OSX because shit just works. I have to use Linux at my customer site and the fact that I can't play a .wav file in amarok or use aplay to play the .wav file while amarok is playing an mp3 is dumb. The fact that I have to futz around with xrandr to get multiple heads to work on my laptop. The fact that I can't turn off my laptop built-in speakers with a headset plugged in (even though windows on the same hardware manages to do it); blah blah blah blah.. Best example I can see yet? I gave my son my old Powerbook G4 and an Ubuntu 10 DVD. He got Ubuntu installed on the PBG4 and got Firefox, Thunderbird, Tuxkart, and so forth installed and running... But the fiddling was just too much... I mean seriously, in order to get the wireless working, he had to download a broadcom firmware bundle from openwrt.org, open an xterm, build a downloaded .c file to extract the correct firmware image from the bundle, install it in /lib/firmware/mumblemumble and reboot just to get wireless working.... He's 9 years old FFS... It took him 2 days of experimentation to get the wireless working. Eventually he decided Linux wasn't for him and reinstalled OSX...
If I was GS and were serious about sending this information to select clients who might leak it; I'd be inclined to fuzz the numbers in the financial report such that they didn't significantly effect the representation of the numbers but made identification of leaks possible...
Yup, my diesel will cool down to near ambient temps if not run under load. If I'm stopped for more than a couple of minutes with the engine idling, the heater starts blowing cold... In stop/go traffic, I'll freeze before I get to work... I have a Webasto fuel burning heater which keeps me nice and toasty and at only .3 liters/hour...