Contact your local TV station. Most have customer help people and love to make examples of companies over the 6:00 newscast. It's great for the because they get a free news story, look good helping the embattled little guy, and can sell a feel-good story in the in-news-advertising. That, and they usually get you just what you wanted.
So...which of the lying scoundrels is trustworthy and cost effective enough to sign on with? I see lots of ads for, say, Cingular, and one of my co-workers says it sounds pretty sharp, but I'm inherently distrustful of anything that's given a glossy marketing campaign.
Matrox is actively supporting its line of dual-head cards under Linux and various flavors of Windows. There may also be *bsd support as well, but not being a bsd user, I didn't pay attention. I'm running a Matrox G450 under Red Hat 7.2 (upgraded from 7.1) with two ViewSonic E771 17" by.26 monitors in merged display mode and it is phenomenal. I had to use their tech support list to get it working, but it only took a few days...mostly because I'd ask the question from work, try the solution at home, and then follow up at work. See the screen shot (2560x1024.jpg image, 10485992 bytes).
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Let me give you an idea how lousy cell phones are here. SprintPCS has been running ads for about a year now talking up their PCS network. The common thread in their commercials is someone who has been yelling over his/her cell phone to be heard, or someone who wasn't heard properly, with tragic results. They then emphasize the idea that with Sprint, calls are clearer.
As a current Sprint customer, and a user of Verizon (supplied by the office) (yes, I'm a two-phone geek), I'd say that Sprint's commercials seem to have some basis in fact, but they aren't that much to crow about either.
Verizon has a tendency to drop calls and have a sort of hiss in the background (then again, maybe it's the cheap pos phone). Sprint is definitely about as clear as a standard phone, but the coverage seems spotty.
If anyone's got a good reccomendation for a new provider when my service agreement expires in November (I think), I'd be interested. I live in the Raleigh area, so personal experience there weighs pretty heavily.
OK...I've got the GX model with a Fugitsu drive. I don't have the original OS discs...they didn't come with the laptop when I purchased it because the previous owner couldn't locate them. That doesn't matter too terribly much, because I use Linux, but I'd like to know how you went about making it hibernate to disk.
I've been using a Sony Vaio PCG-505GX for a couple years now. It screams. It runs Red Hat 6.x and 7.x beautifully.I wouldn't trade it for the world, unless I could get a similarly sized and functioning ThinkPad (because unlike most people I actually prefer the eraser).
My only objection is that now that the disk drive is failing, I can't get any support from Sony. Period. The online support docs, if you manage to get just the right search, indicate that the drive isn't replacable, the nearest service center is San Diego (I live in Raleigh), and there are no authorized dealers nearby (yeah, I know, CompUSA sells Sony laptops...but refuses to fix them).
You can make snide comments about neon lights and so on, but I think those comments apply to the PowerBook and similar fruity translucent systems than to a silver/purple Vaio.
Now for an appeal: If anyone here knows how I could replace my disk on my own and set up the OS with a new suspend memory to disk partition, please let me know. I only bought the laptop for $900, but I see no reason to trash a good piece of hardware if a way can be found to extend its life.
Well...the Norwegian authorities can claim what they please, but I don't think the big cahunas in Hollywood took special note of Norwegian laws to have him hauled in...do you?
I park for half an hour at Auburn University's student health clinic in the "A" zone and still get a ticket even though I'm getting an antibiotic shot in the butt....it takes them three years and threats of legal action, even with copies of the receipts, to get the stupid ticket and charge revoked.
you can claim the insurance money and buy a toyota:)
then again...wasn't it kia that was advertising how great their cars were in terms of warranty/price/etc compared with everyone else? my thought seeing those commercials was "that's the only way you're gonna sell those pieces of junk"....but then...I'm biased...I got a Volvo.
keying the car is vandalism...but then...I guess you don't support the boys in blue...
as for the ac troll...it was pretty harsh, yeah, but that's why you ignore ac trolls...if they don't have the guts to show who they really are, it really isn't worth your bother to get upset...indeed, if you spend any amount of time on slashnet, you get used to flaming them right back
if you keep it shiny washed and waxed, it'll stick out as a police car...think about how many average cars on the road are washed and how many have pollen clinging to them?
so what about this grey ford taurus that's been parked in the same spot at church for almost a year now? the windows are turning brown and their is dirt and pine needles under and around the wheels...is that abandoned?
But I was taking the controversial (around here) approach that a business was trying to make money versus the (conventional, around here) approach that they were doing new things for technology's sake. I suppose I could get really wild and suggest that they were doing this to get people hooked and then would set the hook by making it a subscription service, but that's pure speculation.
I just believe they're doing it for a reason that makes business sense to them rather than out of the "this is a really great technical idea" motivation. (Hence the cynical tone) I agree that it would be good if there were some sort of standard API available (like RSS does) that allowed you to do this sort of thing for all sites. Then again...(cynicism=on) Microsoft would just find another way to corrupt the standard.
Besides, if you want to complain about servitude and lack of rights, why not take on issues where that has meaning (DMCA, for example). Employment has always been about providing the necessities of life, and lately has included frills as well.
Traditionally one farmed the land or ran a private business. If you look at how craft trade businesses ran, I suspect you'd find today's corporations to be benevolent in comparison (e.g., your boss doesn't whip you for being late to work).
Modern corporations have evolved...I doubt anyone sat down and said "let's figure out a way to make the average worker suffer in dumb anguish." Dilbert makes the valid point that most corporate annoyance is a result of personal fiat and stupidity...not as an outright design to enslave you.
My previous point still stands. You didn't offer an alternative, and you were griping about the state of corporate worklife. If you don't like it, there are alternatives out there (such as starting your own business, becoming a Catholic priest, trying to get on Survivor 5, etc).
Why do I get the feeling that Google is doing this to save bandwidth? How many people do you thing scrape Google for results? How much load are they going to save if people use the API rather than searching and scraping? That's what I thought...
If you don't like the rules, find another company. If you can't find a company whose rules aren't what you consider draconian, start your own. As others have observed: No-one *owes* you a job, let alone a job you like. If you get a job, great. If you have one you like, so much the better. If you have one you like and get paid handsomely, so much the better. If some of the factors don't apply, then change what is in your power to change or quit whining.
Code talking isn't, I don't think, a true OTP, since the same "encryption" algorithm is used every time. Call it what it is: a translation. It's scarcely different from expressing the same phrase in ROT-13. It's no different at all from expressing the phrase in Spanish, except that the population that can decode it is smaller and known. As a matter of fact, all code talking is is security through obscurity. The fact that the Japanese had no way of translating the language just means it worked:}
That said, I have to agree with a previous poster on this thread that using a OTP encryption over an IM client is really quite lame. If you really need that kind of security, there are other forms of communication available to you.
Now, I don't agree that an employer should be monitoring your IM logs/email/calls/etc., unless he has cause to track you (e.g., your productivity has seriously dropped, or he thinks you're doing something illegal on company time). Besides which, I suspect that IM conversations are the least drain on someone's productivity...I'd guess Minesweeper/Hearts/Freecell/Solitaire and surfing the web are the biggest drains. I'd like to see some scientific studies on the subject. But then, I've had bosses who espoused the "you are adults" philosophy and the "you can't do anything" philosophy. *shrug*
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Contact your local TV station. Most have customer help people and love to make examples of companies over the 6:00 newscast. It's great for the because they get a free news story, look good helping the embattled little guy, and can sell a feel-good story in the in-news-advertising. That, and they usually get you just what you wanted.
So...which of the lying scoundrels is trustworthy and cost effective enough to sign on with? I see lots of ads for, say, Cingular, and one of my co-workers says it sounds pretty sharp, but I'm inherently distrustful of anything that's given a glossy marketing campaign.
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but I should find out... :)
Matrox is actively supporting its line of dual-head cards under Linux and various flavors of Windows. There may also be *bsd support as well, but not being a bsd user, I didn't pay attention. I'm running a Matrox G450 under Red Hat 7.2 (upgraded from 7.1) with two ViewSonic E771 17" by .26 monitors in merged display mode and it is phenomenal. I had to use their tech support list to get it working, but it only took a few days...mostly because I'd ask the question from work, try the solution at home, and then follow up at work. See the screen shot (2560x1024 .jpg image, 10485992 bytes).
Let me give you an idea how lousy cell phones are here. SprintPCS has been running ads for about a year now talking up their PCS network. The common thread in their commercials is someone who has been yelling over his/her cell phone to be heard, or someone who wasn't heard properly, with tragic results. They then emphasize the idea that with Sprint, calls are clearer.
As a current Sprint customer, and a user of Verizon (supplied by the office) (yes, I'm a two-phone geek), I'd say that Sprint's commercials seem to have some basis in fact, but they aren't that much to crow about either.
Verizon has a tendency to drop calls and have a sort of hiss in the background (then again, maybe it's the cheap pos phone). Sprint is definitely about as clear as a standard phone, but the coverage seems spotty.
If anyone's got a good reccomendation for a new provider when my service agreement expires in November (I think), I'd be interested. I live in the Raleigh area, so personal experience there weighs pretty heavily.
OK...I've got the GX model with a Fugitsu drive. I don't have the original OS discs...they didn't come with the laptop when I purchased it because the previous owner couldn't locate them. That doesn't matter too terribly much, because I use Linux, but I'd like to know how you went about making it hibernate to disk.
It's got firewire, yeah...I've had no use for it so that I can't vouch for...it doesn't have a memory stick slot.
If they start selling VNC t-shirts and caps, I might buy one :}
I dunno bout Windows, but my PCG-505GX works great under Red Hat 6.x/7.x...didn't even have to get a new pcmcia driver :}
I've been using a Sony Vaio PCG-505GX for a couple years now. It screams. It runs Red Hat 6.x and 7.x beautifully.I wouldn't trade it for the world, unless I could get a similarly sized and functioning ThinkPad (because unlike most people I actually prefer the eraser).
My only objection is that now that the disk drive is failing, I can't get any support from Sony. Period. The online support docs, if you manage to get just the right search, indicate that the drive isn't replacable, the nearest service center is San Diego (I live in Raleigh), and there are no authorized dealers nearby (yeah, I know, CompUSA sells Sony laptops...but refuses to fix them).
You can make snide comments about neon lights and so on, but I think those comments apply to the PowerBook and similar fruity translucent systems than to a silver/purple Vaio.
Now for an appeal: If anyone here knows how I could replace my disk on my own and set up the OS with a new suspend memory to disk partition, please let me know. I only bought the laptop for $900, but I see no reason to trash a good piece of hardware if a way can be found to extend its life.
I think that's my biggest question. Luckily I've got a couple UNIX tarballs around, but that's just archival. Is development going to continue?
Well...the Norwegian authorities can claim what they please, but I don't think the big cahunas in Hollywood took special note of Norwegian laws to have him hauled in...do you?
They used the DMCA to get Norweigan authorities to arrest whats-his-name that released DeCSS, no?
I park for half an hour at Auburn University's student health clinic in the "A" zone and still get a ticket even though I'm getting an antibiotic shot in the butt....it takes them three years and threats of legal action, even with copies of the receipts, to get the stupid ticket and charge revoked.
you can claim the insurance money and buy a toyota :)
then again...wasn't it kia that was advertising how great their cars were in terms of warranty/price/etc compared with everyone else? my thought seeing those commercials was "that's the only way you're gonna sell those pieces of junk"....but then...I'm biased...I got a Volvo.
keying the car is vandalism...but then...I guess you don't support the boys in blue...
as for the ac troll...it was pretty harsh, yeah, but that's why you ignore ac trolls...if they don't have the guts to show who they really are, it really isn't worth your bother to get upset...indeed, if you spend any amount of time on slashnet, you get used to flaming them right back
if you keep it shiny washed and waxed, it'll stick out as a police car...think about how many average cars on the road are washed and how many have pollen clinging to them?
so what about this grey ford taurus that's been parked in the same spot at church for almost a year now? the windows are turning brown and their is dirt and pine needles under and around the wheels...is that abandoned?
But I was taking the controversial (around here) approach that a business was trying to make money versus the (conventional, around here) approach that they were doing new things for technology's sake. I suppose I could get really wild and suggest that they were doing this to get people hooked and then would set the hook by making it a subscription service, but that's pure speculation.
I just believe they're doing it for a reason that makes business sense to them rather than out of the "this is a really great technical idea" motivation. (Hence the cynical tone) I agree that it would be good if there were some sort of standard API available (like RSS does) that allowed you to do this sort of thing for all sites. Then again...(cynicism=on) Microsoft would just find another way to corrupt the standard.
Besides, if you want to complain about servitude and lack of rights, why not take on issues where that has meaning (DMCA, for example). Employment has always been about providing the necessities of life, and lately has included frills as well.
Traditionally one farmed the land or ran a private business. If you look at how craft trade businesses ran, I suspect you'd find today's corporations to be benevolent in comparison (e.g., your boss doesn't whip you for being late to work).
Modern corporations have evolved...I doubt anyone sat down and said "let's figure out a way to make the average worker suffer in dumb anguish." Dilbert makes the valid point that most corporate annoyance is a result of personal fiat and stupidity...not as an outright design to enslave you.
My previous point still stands. You didn't offer an alternative, and you were griping about the state of corporate worklife. If you don't like it, there are alternatives out there (such as starting your own business, becoming a Catholic priest, trying to get on Survivor 5, etc).
Why do I get the feeling that Google is doing this to save bandwidth? How many people do you thing scrape Google for results? How much load are they going to save if people use the API rather than searching and scraping? That's what I thought...
If you don't like the rules, find another company. If you can't find a company whose rules aren't what you consider draconian, start your own. As others have observed: No-one *owes* you a job, let alone a job you like. If you get a job, great. If you have one you like, so much the better. If you have one you like and get paid handsomely, so much the better. If some of the factors don't apply, then change what is in your power to change or quit whining.
Code talking isn't, I don't think, a true OTP, since the same "encryption" algorithm is used every time. Call it what it is: a translation. It's scarcely different from expressing the same phrase in ROT-13. It's no different at all from expressing the phrase in Spanish, except that the population that can decode it is smaller and known. As a matter of fact, all code talking is is security through obscurity. The fact that the Japanese had no way of translating the language just means it worked :}
That said, I have to agree with a previous poster on this thread that using a OTP encryption over an IM client is really quite lame. If you really need that kind of security, there are other forms of communication available to you.
Now, I don't agree that an employer should be monitoring your IM logs/email/calls/etc., unless he has cause to track you (e.g., your productivity has seriously dropped, or he thinks you're doing something illegal on company time). Besides which, I suspect that IM conversations are the least drain on someone's productivity...I'd guess Minesweeper/Hearts/Freecell/Solitaire and surfing the web are the biggest drains. I'd like to see some scientific studies on the subject. But then, I've had bosses who espoused the "you are adults" philosophy and the "you can't do anything" philosophy. *shrug*