so, if I have the option of bandwidth vs. devices for my rate, what's to stop me from choosing "device" and then routing [very large number] of devices through it? Particularly if I'm dyn-dns'ing my neigbors.... (I don't, but that's another issue)
When I was living in California for a couple years, my parents (who live in Alabama) sent me a package via UPS ground. It had, among other things, a Stafford trench coat and plenty of dried food (bagged flavored rice and so on that you can get at a grocery store, mac & cheese, etc). The box that arrived was square shaped and a pristine brown cardboard color. I didn't think about the fact that it didn't seem to have a "From" label in handwriting...but I did find it terribly strange that some of the contents in an obviously dry box were quite soaked. The coat and non-perishables dried off fairly quickly, but the rice and mac were pretty much ruined. Talking with my parents on the phone, I learned that it wasn't the same box as the contents had been shipped in. Yikes!
On a similar note, back in August of 2000 I started working for a company called net32 (who have since let me go). When I arrived, the monitor I was supposed to use (a big 20-something incher)was not connected to my computer. The way the admin staff explained it, the monitor had arrived off the UPS truck with a token amount of styrofoam and cardboard attached to one corner. Mind you, this was a Dell monitor shipped from a reputable supplier. The monitor itself was broke (case as well as internals). We trans-shipped it for a replacement. The replacement came with a pretty banged-up box, but at least it worked.
The moral? I don't use UPS either, unless there is no other choice. FedEx or USPS for me.
Obviously IDE does not MATTER to you..
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...you're still trying to figure out spelling and grammar. God help the other members of your team.
When I grew up to be a very old Boy Scout, I joined an Engineering Explorer Post. We had a number of very creative souls there...and some very odd ones. The previous year they had designed and built a hovercraft out of fibreglass and various RC parts.
Anyhow, the year I joined, it was decided to do something completely different. Probably the neatest use of Capsella I've ever seen, it used all of a half dozen Capsella pieces.
You see, we designed and built a blimp. Yes, I said blimp. We pulled two engine capsules, connectors, and propellers (with mounts) out of the Capsella box. Then we grabbed the plexiglass, some "make your own circuit" copper/board, a little plywood, and the RC parts from the aforementioned hovercraft, and built the gondola for the blimp. The Capsella units were attached to a wooden dowell so they could rotate up and down to raise and lower the to-be blimp.
Now, a gondola by itself is rather useless, so we acquired a 12' rubberized adverrtising baloon (yellow with red fins), filled it with helium, and attached the gondola. As long as the dew point and temperature were low, the thing flew around quite nicely....
I remember when I was 11, Mom and I and my brothers went to the store shopping for toys. ** I ** (get the message?) wanted Legos. Mom made me buy a Loc-Block Magic Kingdom Castle ("You've got too many legos already--try something else."). I tried everything I could do with those things and they NEVER stayed together. Never. They fall apart like an Afghani compound before a cruise missile.
Viva Legos! If you really feel compelled to get big blocks, take the advice of the other responder, and get Duplo.:)
I remember taking my Expert Builder sets (and my brothers', too, come to think of it)...the Crane, Tractor, Engine, Bulldozer, and motor sets, plus pieces from various space sets, and making a 2' long X-Wing fighter, complete with opening and closing wings.
Pity the current crop of Lego Star Wars sets really aren't very accurate (even the Tie Fighter scale model, the sails on which are too long).
I really kind of envy the guy who made the full-scale Milennium Falcon....wish I had that kind of money and those kind of parts.
Not just Red Hat. True, Red Hat employees did the dirty work, but the fact of the matter is that you'll have to use pre-2.4.x kernels if you want to make a true statement (at least until they re-attach the copyright or write their own RAID code).
I work for Nando Media. My name isn't altogether uncommon, but more on that in a bit. Another gentleman, of the same first and last name, works for The News and Observer. The two companies are sister companies (in point of fact, they created us once upon a time).
I work as a programmer. He is an associate editor, or something like that. I'm white. He's not (he's president of the NABJ). We work in different buildings with different office numbers. One of these days I need to go introduce myself to him. In the six months I've been here, he's gotten a package meant for me, I've gotten a package meant for him, and I've gotten probably 10 phone calls for him (two at home around 11 pm, from someone on the west coast).
This isn't just the company mail messing up, or the company switchboard. The regional phone company blew it too. Fortunately, we're both aware of each other's presence, and politely refer the caller/package/etc to the other individual.
What's most frustrating about all this is that that first package was a Valntine's gift sent 2-day mail, with my full name emblazoned, complete with roman numeral (I'm the IVth, ladies and gentlemen), and it still got mis-routed. *SIGH*
It sure seems like it would be fun to compromise someone's secrets, or post everyone's inane family letters, or whatever, until it happens to you. I have to applaud the writer of the parent post for doing the ethically right thing.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
Can we say "identity theft"? Who needs those $19.95 programs for Windows 3.11 that get sent from hotmail accounts that promise to let you snoop on anyone and everyone?:)
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
In college I bought an old Sony Vaio PCG-505GX from Mort (from slashnet) for $850...it was only 1-1.5 years old. I eat like a snake. I pay rent, gas, insurance. I've bought 2 plane trips to Arizona and one to Alabama in the last 9 months, along with a Sony camcorder and a WinTV card. All that, plus the tithing mentioned, plus having to support capital gains taxes....and I still have money left over--even after being layed off and losing a car.
It's unfortunate that most people don't exercise financial restraint and responsibility, but not doing so does not entitle them to whine about their misfortunes:)
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
back to the Millionaire Next Door
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People are gonna get sick of my saying this but read The Millionaire Next Door. Just because someone is living high doesn't mean they're wealthy....more likely the opposite. Most truly wealthy people live well below their means....the people who *can* afford to live in fancy neighborhoods generally don't, and vice versa.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
Sorry.......Been there done that, got the T-shirt
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...and still no sympathy. I graduated in June, CS degree from Auburn University, hired and started August 1 with net32. The coapny sells dental supplies over the web to dentists and hygienists. They cut 50% of the staff--including me--in mid-December. 5 months on the job and I got the ax. I didn't study very hard but I worked my butt off at net32. I still got cut, and after living off savings for 2 months, got another job, still doing web and cgi work.
I have no sympathy for people who don't save and plan ahead when it's well within their means to do so. NONE. I can afford that opinion because I *have* been there. I had enough savings that when I totaled my car two months after starting my new job, I could go out and by another with savings. Understand that I've been working 7 out of 9 months, and I could by a 1991 740 turbo wagon (Volvo) with most of the options OUTRIGHT. I still have savings. I live in a 2 br apartment by myself. I work hard, and I spend next to nothing. On top of that 10% of my gross salary goes to tithing, so you can't say that I'm a miser.
I repeat: I'm exceedingly careful with my money. I don't make a lot, but I make enough. If people don't manage their money properly, it's no concern of mine, but I don't want to hear them whining about how badly they were mistreated.
I'm not going to be sadistic and laugh about poetic justice like the guy who started this thread, but it certainly is poetic. I do this work because I love it. I got cut, I bounced back, and I'm happy again. It's a lot easier to go out and get another job than it is to sit home and collect unemployment and whine. If you have to go elsewhere to get a job, do. If you're that sharp, they'll pay for you to move. Try Utah...try RTP.
</RANT>
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
Read The Millionaire Next Door to see how the average millionaire makes (and keeps) his money. The best part is that the average millionaire made his million or more in 25-30 years. The other interesting thing is that the book you refereced touts "how to get rich and get rid of your job." The average millionaire today still works hard at his job because he loves what he does. Humans were meant to work...and when they have protracted idle time, they get *really* bored and jaded. Trust me...I know from experience:)
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
You have to catch the pigeon, change its packet, and release it to be a successful hijack. Now the question still burning in my mind is how do you spoof using pigeons?
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
I'm going to completely scrap all the moderation points I spent on this section and answer you. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an economic myth. Read The Millionaire Next Door on this subject. The only truism you can apply to wealth is "Those who know how to earn and hold on to their money get richer and those who don't get poorer."
Let me elaborate on an example from the book. We all "know" that doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, etc, are more wealthy than the average citizen. Right? Wrong. A higher income (or inheritance, etc) does not have a positive correlation to wealth (net worth after discounting gifts and factoring in taxes). For example, a doctor may earn substantially more than the average person, but he also spends an equally large amount on "lifestyle." After all, he can't possibly match the image of a good doctor if he doesn't drive a fancy European car, live in a fancy home in an upscale neighborhood, golf at exclusive clubs, etc.
The examples go on. I highly reccomend the book above. If you aren't living in the way the book suggests, chances are that you may have a high income, but will never be truly wealthy.
That's just my $0.02, but I think that it's probably the sagest comment attached to the entire article.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
With Time-Warner-etc merging with AOL, AOL can't pick up AT&T. The FCC would have a WHOLE lot to say on that issue since Roadrunner and @Home are pretty much (AFAIK) the two largest cable service networks.
Now I, OTOH, am up a secondary tributary without a primary means of propulsion, since I use Roadrunner. Ugh. Maybe I should switch to BellSouth DSL.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
School authorities lie on this sort of thing all the time. I know it happened on countless occaisions where *I* was the one in Sean's shoes. I never made any remarks about killing anyone, but I still ended up with the harshest punishments (assuming the instigators were ever punished--usually they were the "witnesses" and I had to "make up" with them). When my Dad would come to my defense, our assistant principal would lie or hide things. On one occaision, Dad appealed to the school board, and the assistant principal even lied to them. Of course, given the cronyism involved, they sided with him, and we were outta luck. Nothing like "innocent until proven guilty" and "right to a fair trial" (it sure was speedy, but only when I was being accused).
I take my hat off to you, Mr. D_____. You proved just how low, dishonest, despicable, and disreputable school administrators can be. (And no, that's NOT slander...every word is true).
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
$20k/year is *obscene* for tuition when there are decent schools with good CS departments for less. This is even more true when your CS department sucks so badly that it fails to give you tools beyond the arcane (Lisp) or the useless (your favorite Microsoft product). No wonder you're depressed.:)
If they didn't teach you algorithms, data structures, and so on, then they did you a disservice. If they did, then generally that knowledge works across languages. Sure there are issues like recursive algorithms are trivial in Lisp and Scheme but not in Assembler:} but by and large it still counts. As for excitement...wait til you make a positive contribution in the crap-work area that nobody wants cause it's too hard and you're the newbie. It's worth is getting the praise when you succeeded at something no-one else wanted to touch, and all you did was trace through a recursive algorithm and change a variable name....:)
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user:)\n"
}
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so, if I have the option of bandwidth vs. devices for my rate, what's to stop me from choosing "device" and then routing [very large number] of devices through it? Particularly if I'm dyn-dns'ing my neigbors.... (I don't, but that's another issue)
When I was living in California for a couple years, my parents (who live in Alabama) sent me a package via UPS ground. It had, among other things, a Stafford trench coat and plenty of dried food (bagged flavored rice and so on that you can get at a grocery store, mac & cheese, etc). The box that arrived was square shaped and a pristine brown cardboard color. I didn't think about the fact that it didn't seem to have a "From" label in handwriting...but I did find it terribly strange that some of the contents in an obviously dry box were quite soaked. The coat and non-perishables dried off fairly quickly, but the rice and mac were pretty much ruined. Talking with my parents on the phone, I learned that it wasn't the same box as the contents had been shipped in. Yikes!
On a similar note, back in August of 2000 I started working for a company called net32 (who have since let me go). When I arrived, the monitor I was supposed to use (a big 20-something incher)was not connected to my computer. The way the admin staff explained it, the monitor had arrived off the UPS truck with a token amount of styrofoam and cardboard attached to one corner. Mind you, this was a Dell monitor shipped from a reputable supplier. The monitor itself was broke (case as well as internals). We trans-shipped it for a replacement. The replacement came with a pretty banged-up box, but at least it worked.
The moral? I don't use UPS either, unless there is no other choice. FedEx or USPS for me.
...you're still trying to figure out spelling and grammar. God help the other members of your team.
When I grew up to be a very old Boy Scout, I joined an Engineering Explorer Post. We had a number of very creative souls there...and some very odd ones. The previous year they had designed and built a hovercraft out of fibreglass and various RC parts.
Anyhow, the year I joined, it was decided to do something completely different. Probably the neatest use of Capsella I've ever seen, it used all of a half dozen Capsella pieces.
You see, we designed and built a blimp. Yes, I said blimp. We pulled two engine capsules, connectors, and propellers (with mounts) out of the Capsella box. Then we grabbed the plexiglass, some "make your own circuit" copper/board, a little plywood, and the RC parts from the aforementioned hovercraft, and built the gondola for the blimp. The Capsella units were attached to a wooden dowell so they could rotate up and down to raise and lower the to-be blimp.
Now, a gondola by itself is rather useless, so we acquired a 12' rubberized adverrtising baloon (yellow with red fins), filled it with helium, and attached the gondola. As long as the dew point and temperature were low, the thing flew around quite nicely....
Bet your Capsella never did that....
I remember when I was 11, Mom and I and my brothers went to the store shopping for toys. ** I ** (get the message?) wanted Legos. Mom made me buy a Loc-Block Magic Kingdom Castle ("You've got too many legos already--try something else."). I tried everything I could do with those things and they NEVER stayed together. Never. They fall apart like an Afghani compound before a cruise missile.
:)
Viva Legos! If you really feel compelled to get big blocks, take the advice of the other responder, and get Duplo.
ah...yes... :)
I remember taking my Expert Builder sets (and my brothers', too, come to think of it)...the Crane, Tractor, Engine, Bulldozer, and motor sets, plus pieces from various space sets, and making a 2' long X-Wing fighter, complete with opening and closing wings.
Pity the current crop of Lego Star Wars sets really aren't very accurate (even the Tie Fighter scale model, the sails on which are too long).
I really kind of envy the guy who made the full-scale Milennium Falcon....wish I had that kind of money and those kind of parts.
Not just Red Hat. True, Red Hat employees did the dirty work, but the fact of the matter is that you'll have to use pre-2.4.x kernels if you want to make a true statement (at least until they re-attach the copyright or write their own RAID code).
...so you don't look like an utter fool. And "rectifying" something means fixing it, making it proper again.
...not having played with this sort of thing before. (Red Hat)
I work for Nando Media. My name isn't altogether uncommon, but more on that in a bit. Another gentleman, of the same first and last name, works for The News and Observer. The two companies are sister companies (in point of fact, they created us once upon a time).
:)\n"
I work as a programmer. He is an associate editor, or something like that. I'm white. He's not (he's president of the NABJ). We work in different buildings with different office numbers. One of these days I need to go introduce myself to him. In the six months I've been here, he's gotten a package meant for me, I've gotten a package meant for him, and I've gotten probably 10 phone calls for him (two at home around 11 pm, from someone on the west coast).
This isn't just the company mail messing up, or the company switchboard. The regional phone company blew it too. Fortunately, we're both aware of each other's presence, and politely refer the caller/package/etc to the other individual.
What's most frustrating about all this is that that first package was a Valntine's gift sent 2-day mail, with my full name emblazoned, complete with roman numeral (I'm the IVth, ladies and gentlemen), and it still got mis-routed. *SIGH*
It sure seems like it would be fun to compromise someone's secrets, or post everyone's inane family letters, or whatever, until it happens to you. I have to applaud the writer of the parent post for doing the ethically right thing.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
Can we say "identity theft"? Who needs those $19.95 programs for Windows 3.11 that get sent from hotmail accounts that promise to let you snoop on anyone and everyone? :)
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
...laptops? ;)
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
Ever heard of something called StarOffice? WordPerfect? AbiWord? strings? :)
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
In college I bought an old Sony Vaio PCG-505GX from Mort (from slashnet) for $850...it was only 1-1.5 years old. I eat like a snake. I pay rent, gas, insurance. I've bought 2 plane trips to Arizona and one to Alabama in the last 9 months, along with a Sony camcorder and a WinTV card. All that, plus the tithing mentioned, plus having to support capital gains taxes....and I still have money left over--even after being layed off and losing a car.
:)
:)\n"
It's unfortunate that most people don't exercise financial restraint and responsibility, but not doing so does not entitle them to whine about their misfortunes
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
People are gonna get sick of my saying this but read The Millionaire Next Door. Just because someone is living high doesn't mean they're wealthy....more likely the opposite. Most truly wealthy people live well below their means....the people who *can* afford to live in fancy neighborhoods generally don't, and vice versa.
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
:}
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
...and still no sympathy. I graduated in June, CS degree from Auburn University, hired and started August 1 with net32. The coapny sells dental supplies over the web to dentists and hygienists. They cut 50% of the staff--including me--in mid-December. 5 months on the job and I got the ax. I didn't study very hard but I worked my butt off at net32. I still got cut, and after living off savings for 2 months, got another job, still doing web and cgi work.
:)\n"
I have no sympathy for people who don't save and plan ahead when it's well within their means to do so. NONE. I can afford that opinion because I *have* been there. I had enough savings that when I totaled my car two months after starting my new job, I could go out and by another with savings. Understand that I've been working 7 out of 9 months, and I could by a 1991 740 turbo wagon (Volvo) with most of the options OUTRIGHT. I still have savings. I live in a 2 br apartment by myself. I work hard, and I spend next to nothing. On top of that 10% of my gross salary goes to tithing, so you can't say that I'm a miser.
I repeat: I'm exceedingly careful with my money. I don't make a lot, but I make enough. If people don't manage their money properly, it's no concern of mine, but I don't want to hear them whining about how badly they were mistreated.
I'm not going to be sadistic and laugh about poetic justice like the guy who started this thread, but it certainly is poetic. I do this work because I love it. I got cut, I bounced back, and I'm happy again. It's a lot easier to go out and get another job than it is to sit home and collect unemployment and whine. If you have to go elsewhere to get a job, do. If you're that sharp, they'll pay for you to move. Try Utah...try RTP.
</RANT>
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
From Frank Herbert's Dune series:
:)\n"
Here lies a toppled god-
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal
A narrow and a tall one.
--Tleilaxu proverb
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
Read The Millionaire Next Door to see how the average millionaire makes (and keeps) his money. The best part is that the average millionaire made his million or more in 25-30 years. The other interesting thing is that the book you refereced touts "how to get rich and get rid of your job." The average millionaire today still works hard at his job because he loves what he does. Humans were meant to work...and when they have protracted idle time, they get *really* bored and jaded. Trust me...I know from experience :)
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
You have to catch the pigeon, change its packet, and release it to be a successful hijack. Now the question still burning in my mind is how do you spoof using pigeons?
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
I'm going to completely scrap all the moderation points I spent on this section and answer you. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an economic myth. Read The Millionaire Next Door on this subject. The only truism you can apply to wealth is "Those who know how to earn and hold on to their money get richer and those who don't get poorer."
:)\n"
Let me elaborate on an example from the book. We all "know" that doctors, lawyers, stockbrokers, etc, are more wealthy than the average citizen. Right? Wrong. A higher income (or inheritance, etc) does not have a positive correlation to wealth (net worth after discounting gifts and factoring in taxes). For example, a doctor may earn substantially more than the average person, but he also spends an equally large amount on "lifestyle." After all, he can't possibly match the image of a good doctor if he doesn't drive a fancy European car, live in a fancy home in an upscale neighborhood, golf at exclusive clubs, etc.
The examples go on. I highly reccomend the book above. If you aren't living in the way the book suggests, chances are that you may have a high income, but will never be truly wealthy.
That's just my $0.02, but I think that it's probably the sagest comment attached to the entire article.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
With Time-Warner-etc merging with AOL, AOL can't pick up AT&T. The FCC would have a WHOLE lot to say on that issue since Roadrunner and @Home are pretty much (AFAIK) the two largest cable service networks.
:)\n"
Now I, OTOH, am up a secondary tributary without a primary means of propulsion, since I use Roadrunner. Ugh. Maybe I should switch to BellSouth DSL.
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
and I thought cronning the lights to go on and off was cool...
:)\n"
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
School authorities lie on this sort of thing all the time. I know it happened on countless occaisions where *I* was the one in Sean's shoes. I never made any remarks about killing anyone, but I still ended up with the harshest punishments (assuming the instigators were ever punished--usually they were the "witnesses" and I had to "make up" with them). When my Dad would come to my defense, our assistant principal would lie or hide things. On one occaision, Dad appealed to the school board, and the assistant principal even lied to them. Of course, given the cronyism involved, they sided with him, and we were outta luck. Nothing like "innocent until proven guilty" and "right to a fair trial" (it sure was speedy, but only when I was being accused).
:)\n"
I take my hat off to you, Mr. D_____. You proved just how low, dishonest, despicable, and disreputable school administrators can be. (And no, that's NOT slander...every word is true).
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}
$20k/year is *obscene* for tuition when there are decent schools with good CS departments for less. This is even more true when your CS department sucks so badly that it fails to give you tools beyond the arcane (Lisp) or the useless (your favorite Microsoft product). No wonder you're depressed. :)
:} but by and large it still counts. As for excitement...wait til you make a positive contribution in the crap-work area that nobody wants cause it's too hard and you're the newbie. It's worth is getting the praise when you succeeded at something no-one else wanted to touch, and all you did was trace through a recursive algorithm and change a variable name.... :)
:)\n"
If they didn't teach you algorithms, data structures, and so on, then they did you a disservice. If they did, then generally that knowledge works across languages. Sure there are issues like recursive algorithms are trivial in Lisp and Scheme but not in Assembler
if ($user =~ m/shaldannon/i) {
print "\n-- $user
}