Believe me, that after the Monarchy, 2 lost World Wars, 40 years of Soviet occupation, only too much wine can make you write such a huge TYPO bs. I got an extremely strong history education. BTW owning that book could have landed me in prison easily at those occupation times, so I never owed one then. Kind of a tougher censorship was in fashion back then.
Well, I had to looked at the exact definition to be honest. Considering that English is not my 1st language, even having a rather large vocabulary, I think I should not be extremely ashamed of that. Well, even living in Central America English is becoming my 1st language at last.
You always learn something...... or at least I try my best.
I agree 100%.... never used a blue/red/black/whatever color phreaking box, still owned the manual because I was interested (would never have worked in Europe anyways). Never was a social democrat, still downloaded Mein Kampf to own it, read it, understand a different point of view. Also owned the terrorists' handbook to obtain interesting information. Do I want to blow stuff up? Well. maybe coke cans in myh backyard, but definetely not US soldiers or the president. Still as a learning person I THINK knowing how to make a bomb, how to shoot a rifle or how to pick a lock might come handy. Hey could even save my life.
Would I download jihadist material? Well, maybe it would not come too much handy, but it is definitely interesting. Hey it could even save your (or others lives).
This is censorship. Wrong censorship. People download stuff available to download. Whatever it is. Video, text file, program...... just see more of this world. They should explain it why it is wrong, not forbid to see an other point of view at all.
About 5 years ago I drove to Nicaragua (from Costa Rica, where I live now). Being a weak European flesh and bone human I got sick as hell in the middle of nowhere, and survived on expired painkillers and fever reducing pills.
No one is sure what happened, many frineds and even doctors told, that I probably had a strong case of dengue. I had extremely bad bone pain and so high fever I spent a day hallucinating in bed, waking up almost totally OK the day after.
Anyway, I prefer an occasional case of these other than some other bio-engineered horror that will possibly wipe out human kind.
No, seriously, I fear nature, especially because I see 6 ants attacking my fingers who are extremely interested in my mac keyboard. Ants never gave a damn about my keyboard, but since I got this sleek, sexy mac aluminum thing they are around it wanting to mate with me or something......
Here is my message: mess with bugs, cancer, dengue, and you will land humanity in resident evil, i am legend, or some other freaky shit! Remember my words!!!
Haha.. agred. However about the saving tip and HR+money: it is kinda hard to putt that trick when you make freelancing in one hour what you make in a whole day at the company. Especially when it is an outsourcing center in costa rica, and you are a skilled expensive foreigner.
Oh well, I guess the best thing is just to start rolling your own show, then there are no assholes to deal with, and you do what you can do. I mean if you cannot make as much as you make at a company, you donot really worth that much anyway.
OK, that is just that wine talking BS maybe. But it is sure that I agree a lot with idea stealing AH's and the rest. Cheers.
OK. had a hard programming day. Some undocumented code.... so I had a few glasses of fine red wine and I got honest...
Small company: dream on, sometimes at the age of 85 you can get manager, when the owner/manager gets tired of the crappy part and dumps it on someone.
Big company: lick ass, or be best friends with management.
Other company: probably going to an other place is the best, where you enter as manager.
HP: definitely the second option. I spent a year there, as the best tech at middleware / ITO (not modest but true), getting promise after promise, finally a promotion with the promise of "HR will tell you how much extra you get for a 3week/month on-page DTS job." After I told them to go to hell, they promoted the only guy in the group who actually stood hanging out with the managers. Managers meaning two assholes promoting each other and a small group of friends. They surrounded themselves with people without experience who need the job like no one else, and lied about technically everything from job interview till you quit upset and mad.
When the ITO manager of HP Costa Rica (Herrera Heiser) is proud of not being able to set his home wireless network up, then you know it is time to run, and the only people who will get promoted are the ones who he plays poker with.
Huhh,... was I too honest? Oh well, after 10+ jobs in It from all the areas you can imagine I only got fired once, and left by for the better every other time. Hey even that one place I was about to quit (you know you have to quit when yout knowledgeless colleague talks to you disrespectful in front of a client playing boss (talking shit), and you grab him by the neck)....... oh well, those wild young times....
Anyway, just get a small management job somewhere, usually waiting takes forever. Just my experience, but reading your post you kinda did everything and have an overview of things. If you are a man of detail and precision, being a boss will drive you nuts anyway.... been there, done that. Now I prefer to be a freelancer and also work on my retirement biz:)
OK, I do not want on-star start and stop my car, lo-jack to see where I go, or the power company control my thermostats.
Seriously. The US has to educate its citizens not to over-use energy by cooling their homes to 22C. I understand that airco is necessary in offices or workspaces, even homes at warm climates, but what is the point of moving to Miami when you have to wear winter jackets because you can freeze to death in: malls, restaurants, cars and buses, everywhere else.
Most of the US people I know down here (in Costa Rica) maintain sub 22C in their offices, then they wonder why they have allergy, cough all the time and have cold symptoms. All this at 1200m height where in a properly built house you do not need airco at all. It is sunshine out there, middle of the dry season, and I have several computers running in a room (yes I am working on all of them, and they go offline when I am done).
OH, if you come down here to visit the beaches: get a room without air-conditioning so you can enjoy the tropics as they are.
PS: I do not mean to flame anyone, I really mean that the airco overuse has to go!
When even at your local gym they know how to put a little piece of tape over the IR receivers' port, how comes this is not accomplished by high-tech show operators?
You could also use non transparent IR blasters to control and block unwanted nerd attacks out.
Well most of the games I play exist on both. Technically COD, GRAW, RS and occasionally a driving game.
For me it is Xbox live at the moment what keeps me with Xbox. I am really not sure how good online gaming is with FPS games. I would be kinda pissed to get a PS3 to figure out that people do not play online, or that the few servers are not working form Costa Rica.
I know XBL works just fine from Costa Rica (green/yellow = OK pings - I have a 65-80 ping to Miami),. I know people who have problems accessing WII online games from here, and know absolutely no living sould who owns a PS3.....
Still, that blueray player and the same games are kinda inviting.
Hmm, well during Xmas I was really leaning forward getting some kind ofhigh def format player, and almost got a hd-dvd for my Xbox 360.
Even though the decision (not to get it) was made by thinking about the noise the Xbox makes during a quiet scene, I would be definitely kicking myself reading these news if I got the damn device. It also makes me want to buy a PS3 a bit more (just a bit more, but that bit is definitely there).
Windows has all the apps mentioned, still Apple/OSX is really appealing to me because it has a UNIX shell, it has all the Unix stuff you want (darwin ports, and many by default), and of course it runs X by default.
And then again, it can run windows too, without the need of Vmware and all the "windowed" thing it needs. Parallels kicks butt, even though that I do not need it as I run my win apps on win, Linux apps on my Linux, and mac stuff on my OSX laptop.
And while I wonder why I would still get "usb 3-2.2: can't set config #1, error -32" on random occasion from my belowed linux kernel - OSX works with the hardware provided, and that is nothing like Vista horror, or why-doesn't-my-tunercard-have-sound and hybernate-sucks-with-nvidia minor looking huge linux problems.
Also the hardware is really sexy. Almost all the hardware. I hated the switch of ipods to black plastic from the mini (nicest ipod ever) and now with the new keyboard I am enjoying the cold metallic feel again:). But that points a little farther from the original topic.
But then again, even though I understand people switching to apple, I still have a Linux desktop machine with debian, kde and prefer to do most of my console work from there. It is just the laptop I prefer working all the time; without finding out what went wrong during the last hybernation, that provides me with a black screen with green and magenta blocks and an unreadable error message with distorted font. That just looks like crap in front of clients. It is nicer to pull a macbook out, open it and have everything on it in working order after 5 seconds, then wait until their windows machines boot in (2-3 minutes).
1. is flash enough of a pain to deal with (bw killer, and constant update needs, late linux drivers, and incompatible mobile versions)
2. Do you have enough security problems already? Probably ou do not want an other closed source binary on your linux or mac.
3. Developers: aren't you already overwhelmed by the "web technologies", and that for a single web page you have to program in 5 different languages? I am, and I do not want an other one.
4. Do you trust MS? To be honest, after Vista I am not sure what is going to be the next flop. Windows is cute for games and I have one to test pages in IE. That's it. Not sure what will happen when the last games only com for wii/ps3/xbox... probably will only have a windows in a vmware session.
When they released halo 3 and other games were affected by it XBL and ubi service just ignored tickets, and many people on/. barked at me, that my connection sucked. Turned out, that it wasn't the problem, and they applied a silent fix.
This time interestingly I played every night through the Christmas (except 24th night), 25-28 every night, and COD4/RS Vegas, games that were affected according to many. I saw no problems at all. 31st has a huge amount of "host ended the game" errors. Not sure if people were just drunk and ignorant, or if there were really service problems.
I play from Costa Rica though, and did not take the time to figure where I really connect to (last time it was MIAMI, as the local provider's cable pops up there from the sea.
And before the hungover flame starts: I have a life, and hate the holidays (as sitting at a table with family bores me to hell), so I play as much as I can after escaping as early as I can. And my wife approves it, so I guess it is OK.:)
Scooters suck. That is a fact. If you ride a bike, you know how unstable a scooter is combined to a real bike. Just how you sit on a scooter makes it 10x less drivable.
In fact, for city and countryside use, the most useful layout is the one similar to an Enduro bike. You sit straight up, so you can see the traffic, and over cars, and if needed (police does) you can go down and up on stairs, and even take it offroad.
Actually in many Latin American countries the police uses enduros exactly for this reason, and use the bigger bikes for the highway patrols. Notice that the cruisers used as highway bikes also give the rider a better view of the whole situation.
So if I might ask: why the hell are they giving these small wheeled instable things to the police. Also why does electric always automatically mean: ugly ergonomic wannabe plastic bubble?
I can imagine an electric enduro/supermoto bike. Could look awesome, be fast and stable. You can also put a plexi glass on it (think KTM enduros) if that does anything good in police use. I personally never missed a plastic/plexiglass shield between me and the road, but I do not spend the whole day on a bike either.
Probably it does not matter with my titanium dive knife if I have to grind into it a bit, I could actually sharpen it as well (not that it is not razor sharp already)m but the question is if you want to really grind into that titanium fancy case, that pen, or other "cool" device you just got.
I was honestly hoping for a less destructive testing method. On the other hand just for curiosity, I really would not buy titanium for the "bling" factor, only for its strength and weight. And where you need those, you will know just by looking and weighing if it is titanium or not.
You still have adrenaline flowing in your body, but you don't feel that adrenaline rush so you're not distracted by your own nervousness," said Dr. Bernd F. Remler, a neurologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
OK, so if I block all the adrenaline rush when I want to concentrate on an event, work on an emergency project etc etc.... when I go out on a bike ride and have that fun downhill, when I drive my car and drift out on some black ice, or when whatever out of the ordinary happens, that requires my body to give me an adrenaline boost: am I going to under-react under influence, or am I going to get a quick heart attack without the drug?
Sometimes I try to work (programming or planning infrastructure) and my brain is toast. I try coffee, sit in the garden a little, but sometimes nothing helps. But I think my brain is toast at those times because it needs a rest. Because the day before I spent 16 hours on the computer, or stayed up till 2 am playing on Xbox live. These drugs seem to be very attracting to office/creative workers. It kept my brain ticking.
However I am unsure of the consequences of taking such crap. 0 research, 0 clinical studies. Beta blockers? Suppressing adrenaline? Come on people !! But really! Does it worth it? Messing yourself up with steroids is one thing, but if you make your living with your brain I am not sure it is worth experimenting on it.
OK, so these kids cannot buy these games/videos, so they will steal it. Great plan.
When I was a kid under Soviet oppression guess what was the coolest game to play on our Sinclair ZX Spectrums : Raid over Moscow.....
You prohibit something and kids will want it even more.
But hey, why do not we completely eliminate violent, sexual, racist, radical content from everything, and end up in a world where everything is full of pink singing butterflies.
Money is better than working at your local outsourcing center, or working for a small development company.
It is not sky high, but if you work with people you trust, and who trust you it is ok and steady, and new clients come.
The good thing about a data policy is really to be open with it.
Here is a simple example:
1. If I have to go into a server room (heppens sometimes) I ask a tech to be there, and if I need to carry a laptop I well tell them that before, and tell them to keep an eye on me, because the laptop is not subbmitted to any search afterwords. If they do not agree and want to look at the laptop after it leave the room, I carry my old toshiba laptop with a fresh install, no work files or any data on it.
2. I work on client databases. If the data is live, I ask them to insert a few fake customer data (incl email addresses), which are called spikes, or seeds for the time I work on that. If I steal the data I will hit the spikes - the mailing goes to their addresses. So they can trace it back to me. If it is a test database, I simply ask them to remove sensitive info, or just fill the DB with test data for me.
If you open an inquiry like that and tell them how to beat your effort to steal their data, they will understand that I worked with picky clients, and they won't be too suspicious.
These are so basic examples, but even being so simple, even many mid-size+ companies do not deal with simple communication like that. And then they get accused, and the mess starts.
Now before you think it is any illegal activity I have to do: nop. I run company's websites, fix up code, write them apps. Mostly admin and client backends.
I freelance, and I work for a few casinos, sportsbooks, and some investment firms.
I have a very clear data policy publicly available on my site, and I ask all my customers to read them.
I have these to protect myself and to protect my clients. I always tell them what data/logins/access I need, and ask them to agree or deny.
Did Circuit City tell the guy that they were about to look into his files? Did they warn him what access they needed, and what they needed to modify? If not: well the guy is right.
Note 1: I am not sorry for a kiddiporn lover who gets arrested. Note 2: My data policy can cost my life, so I am very open and strict about it. Most importantly I always ask clients to give me the least possible access necessary, so a data lifting accusation is out of question.
Note 3: The highest danger factor of being a tech in Central America is losing knee caps/life/fingers after stealing customer info data from a gaming operation. It is best to not even attempt is, and even better to not even get suspected.
Huhh, that seems a lot for a print head. Better get a new printer.
I actually care for the environment, that is why all the plastic+ circuit bord throwaway bothers me, still looking at the printer I see that 15 cartridges would maybe make up for the whole printer.
Anyway,:) I do not think there is any dry-fire when you see the colors actually showing up on the print.
1. 2 sets of cartridges cost more than the printer (printer $100, 4 colors= $55) 2. I can actually see if the print is missing colors
I think this works just fine. Printer companies make money on INK, not the device. It is reflected on the prices as well.
Now I am getting curious though how much a head replacement is. Anyone ?
I am actually looking for a NON-HP laser one (I worked at HP, now I refuse to buy HP) And just want to forget about ink for forever. Maybe buy a refill kit for now.
Here is a trick I discovered yesterday regarding my Epson Stylus C65. OK quality printer, but repeatedly refused to print, claiming that one of the cartridges were empty. Even more annoying, the darn thing refused to print B&W even when you ran low on e.g. RED. Stupid.
For a completely different reason I got an NSLU2 (cheap NAS storage box from Linksys), then put Linux on it, because I needed a low powered always on Asterisk. But hey, you can attach a USB hub to it (if you run Linux), and so I did, and started trying connecting devices.
I was also annoyed, that even though my windows machine was always on, from time to time my wife's printings failed from her MAC. Not really windows' problem, but naturally she always wants to print when I overload the machine, reboot it, or play a game that eats all the resources up.
So I started using the NSLU2 as a print server, after discovering, that there was a print server package for it (actually there is Samba, Cups and p910d ).
Yesterday my printer refused to print, and the ink button/light went on, (of course it occurs when I want to print something before leaving quickly). So I just went to Office depot and bought 1 of each cartridge ($60 for the 4, DAMN.. I am in Costa Rica, so do not tell me it is cheaper in Walgreens or whereever).
Now when I came back I started checking which cartridge could be empty. Since I use a remote port, the ink monitoring software does not work. But also because of this, you can just ignore the lights, restart the printer, and keep printing.
Before, the epson software prohibited printing, now it cannot monitor the ink, so there is no restriction. Downside: no ink monitor, but remembering, that it is the tool that makes you throw out cartridges half full, I do not want it.
Also I only print B&W, so I really do not care if the Yellow is out.
Just my 2c.
Note: of course only tested this on the NSLU, but should be the same on any Linux, or maybe macs. Just try it with a print server first, maybe it is the same.
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HAHA ...
... :) at that time it was considered "very cyber" to own an extra OS/2 to run .....
... that is where I started programming too ....
/// PCBOARD !!! loved that whole thing, and had our own "underground" 30+ node mail system.
I actually had a BBS. Too lines (one 0-24, other 21-07)
huhh what was the software that used PPL as executables ? Anyway
ahm
Good old times.
LOL. Too much work, too much wine. Indeed.
Believe me, that after the Monarchy, 2 lost World Wars, 40 years of Soviet occupation, only too much wine can make you write such a huge TYPO bs. I got an extremely strong history education. BTW owning that book could have landed me in prison easily at those occupation times, so I never owed one then. Kind of a tougher censorship was in fashion back then.
Well, I had to looked at the exact definition to be honest.
Considering that English is not my 1st language, even having a rather large vocabulary, I think I should not be extremely ashamed of that. Well, even living in Central America English is becoming my 1st language at last.
You always learn something...... or at least I try my best.
Cheers
This was a typo, LOL !!! Big one.
:)
..... but hey at least I did not write NUCULAR :)
After and overworked day and after 2 glasses of wine you just do stuff like that.
TYPO TYPO TYPO
I agree 100% .... never used a blue/red/black/whatever color phreaking box, still owned the manual because I was interested (would never have worked in Europe anyways). Never was a social democrat, still downloaded Mein Kampf to own it, read it, understand a different point of view. Also owned the terrorists' handbook to obtain interesting information. Do I want to blow stuff up? Well. maybe coke cans in myh backyard, but definetely not US soldiers or the president. Still as a learning person I THINK knowing how to make a bomb, how to shoot a rifle or how to pick a lock might come handy. Hey could even save my life.
...... just see more of this world. They should explain it why it is wrong, not forbid to see an other point of view at all.
.....
Would I download jihadist material? Well, maybe it would not come too much handy, but it is definitely interesting. Hey it could even save your (or others lives).
This is censorship. Wrong censorship. People download stuff available to download. Whatever it is. Video, text file, program
just my 2c
About 5 years ago I drove to Nicaragua (from Costa Rica, where I live now). Being a weak European flesh and bone human I got sick as hell in the middle of nowhere, and survived on expired painkillers and fever reducing pills.
No one is sure what happened, many frineds and even doctors told, that I probably had a strong case of dengue. I had extremely bad bone pain and so high fever I spent a day hallucinating in bed, waking up almost totally OK the day after.
Anyway, I prefer an occasional case of these other than some other bio-engineered horror that will possibly wipe out human kind.
No, seriously, I fear nature, especially because I see 6 ants attacking my fingers who are extremely interested in my mac keyboard. Ants never gave a damn about my keyboard, but since I got this sleek, sexy mac aluminum thing they are around it wanting to mate with me or something......
Here is my message: mess with bugs, cancer, dengue, and you will land humanity in resident evil, i am legend, or some other freaky shit! Remember my words!!!
Haha .. agred. However about the saving tip and HR+money: it is kinda hard to putt that trick when you make freelancing in one hour what you make in a whole day at the company. Especially when it is an outsourcing center in costa rica, and you are a skilled expensive foreigner.
Oh well, I guess the best thing is just to start rolling your own show, then there are no assholes to deal with, and you do what you can do. I mean if you cannot make as much as you make at a company, you donot really worth that much anyway.
OK, that is just that wine talking BS maybe. But it is sure that I agree a lot with idea stealing AH's and the rest. Cheers.
OK. had a hard programming day. Some undocumented code.... so I had a few glasses of fine red wine and I got honest...
....... oh well, those wild young times....
:)
Small company: dream on, sometimes at the age of 85 you can get manager, when the owner/manager gets tired of the crappy part and dumps it on someone.
Big company: lick ass, or be best friends with management.
Other company: probably going to an other place is the best, where you enter as manager.
HP: definitely the second option. I spent a year there, as the best tech at middleware / ITO (not modest but true), getting promise after promise, finally a promotion with the promise of "HR will tell you how much extra you get for a 3week/month on-page DTS job." After I told them to go to hell, they promoted the only guy in the group who actually stood hanging out with the managers. Managers meaning two assholes promoting each other and a small group of friends. They surrounded themselves with people without experience who need the job like no one else, and lied about technically everything from job interview till you quit upset and mad.
When the ITO manager of HP Costa Rica (Herrera Heiser) is proud of not being able to set his home wireless network up, then you know it is time to run, and the only people who will get promoted are the ones who he plays poker with.
Huhh,... was I too honest? Oh well, after 10+ jobs in It from all the areas you can imagine I only got fired once, and left by for the better every other time. Hey even that one place I was about to quit (you know you have to quit when yout knowledgeless colleague talks to you disrespectful in front of a client playing boss (talking shit), and you grab him by the neck)
Anyway, just get a small management job somewhere, usually waiting takes forever. Just my experience, but reading your post you kinda did everything and have an overview of things. If you are a man of detail and precision, being a boss will drive you nuts anyway.... been there, done that. Now I prefer to be a freelancer and also work on my retirement biz
OK, I do not want on-star start and stop my car, lo-jack to see where I go, or the power company control my thermostats.
Seriously. The US has to educate its citizens not to over-use energy by cooling their homes to 22C. I understand that airco is necessary in offices or workspaces, even homes at warm climates, but what is the point of moving to Miami when you have to wear winter jackets because you can freeze to death in: malls, restaurants, cars and buses, everywhere else.
Most of the US people I know down here (in Costa Rica) maintain sub 22C in their offices, then they wonder why they have allergy, cough all the time and have cold symptoms. All this at 1200m height where in a properly built house you do not need airco at all. It is sunshine out there, middle of the dry season, and I have several computers running in a room (yes I am working on all of them, and they go offline when I am done).
OH, if you come down here to visit the beaches: get a room without air-conditioning so you can enjoy the tropics as they are.
PS: I do not mean to flame anyone, I really mean that the airco overuse has to go!
When even at your local gym they know how to put a little piece of tape over the IR receivers' port, how comes this is not accomplished by high-tech show operators?
You could also use non transparent IR blasters to control and block unwanted nerd attacks out.
Well most of the games I play exist on both. Technically COD, GRAW, RS and occasionally a driving game.
For me it is Xbox live at the moment what keeps me with Xbox. I am really not sure how good online gaming is with FPS games. I would be kinda pissed to get a PS3 to figure out that people do not play online, or that the few servers are not working form Costa Rica.
I know XBL works just fine from Costa Rica (green/yellow = OK pings - I have a 65-80 ping to Miami),. I know people who have problems accessing WII online games from here, and know absolutely no living sould who owns a PS3.....
Still, that blueray player and the same games are kinda inviting.
Hmm, well during Xmas I was really leaning forward getting some kind ofhigh def format player, and almost got a hd-dvd for my Xbox 360.
Even though the decision (not to get it) was made by thinking about the noise the Xbox makes during a quiet scene, I would be definitely kicking myself reading these news if I got the damn device.
It also makes me want to buy a PS3 a bit more (just a bit more, but that bit is definitely there).
Windows has all the apps mentioned, still Apple/OSX is really appealing to me because it has a UNIX shell, it has all the Unix stuff you want (darwin ports, and many by default), and of course it runs X by default.
:). But that points a little farther from the original topic.
And then again, it can run windows too, without the need of Vmware and all the "windowed" thing it needs. Parallels kicks butt, even though that I do not need it as I run my win apps on win, Linux apps on my Linux, and mac stuff on my OSX laptop.
And while I wonder why I would still get "usb 3-2.2: can't set config #1, error -32" on random occasion from my belowed linux kernel - OSX works with the hardware provided, and that is nothing like Vista horror, or why-doesn't-my-tunercard-have-sound and hybernate-sucks-with-nvidia minor looking huge linux problems.
Also the hardware is really sexy. Almost all the hardware. I hated the switch of ipods to black plastic from the mini (nicest ipod ever) and now with the new keyboard I am enjoying the cold metallic feel again
But then again, even though I understand people switching to apple, I still have a Linux desktop machine with debian, kde and prefer to do most of my console work from there. It is just the laptop I prefer working all the time; without finding out what went wrong during the last hybernation, that provides me with a black screen with green and magenta blocks and an unreadable error message with distorted font. That just looks like crap in front of clients. It is nicer to pull a macbook out, open it and have everything on it in working order after 5 seconds, then wait until their windows machines boot in (2-3 minutes).
1. is flash enough of a pain to deal with (bw killer, and constant update needs, late linux drivers, and incompatible mobile versions)
... probably will only have a windows in a vmware session.
2. Do you have enough security problems already? Probably ou do not want an other closed source binary on your linux or mac.
3. Developers: aren't you already overwhelmed by the "web technologies", and that for a single web page you have to program in 5 different languages? I am, and I do not want an other one.
4. Do you trust MS? To be honest, after Vista I am not sure what is going to be the next flop. Windows is cute for games and I have one to test pages in IE. That's it. Not sure what will happen when the last games only com for wii/ps3/xbox
When they released halo 3 and other games were affected by it XBL and ubi service just ignored tickets, and many people on /. barked at me, that my connection sucked. Turned out, that it wasn't the problem, and they applied a silent fix.
:)
This time interestingly I played every night through the Christmas (except 24th night), 25-28 every night, and COD4/RS Vegas, games that were affected according to many.
I saw no problems at all. 31st has a huge amount of "host ended the game" errors. Not sure if people were just drunk and ignorant, or if there were really service problems.
I play from Costa Rica though, and did not take the time to figure where I really connect to (last time it was MIAMI, as the local provider's cable pops up there from the sea.
And before the hungover flame starts: I have a life, and hate the holidays (as sitting at a table with family bores me to hell), so I play as much as I can after escaping as early as I can. And my wife approves it, so I guess it is OK.
Happy new year
Scooters suck. That is a fact. If you ride a bike, you know how unstable a scooter is combined to a real bike. Just how you sit on a scooter makes it 10x less drivable.
In fact, for city and countryside use, the most useful layout is the one similar to an Enduro bike. You sit straight up, so you can see the traffic, and over cars, and if needed (police does) you can go down and up on stairs, and even take it offroad.
Actually in many Latin American countries the police uses enduros exactly for this reason, and use the bigger bikes for the highway patrols. Notice that the cruisers used as highway bikes also give the rider a better view of the whole situation.
So if I might ask: why the hell are they giving these small wheeled instable things to the police. Also why does electric always automatically mean: ugly ergonomic wannabe plastic bubble?
I can imagine an electric enduro/supermoto bike. Could look awesome, be fast and stable. You can also put a plexi glass on it (think KTM enduros) if that does anything good in police use. I personally never missed a plastic/plexiglass shield between me and the road, but I do not spend the whole day on a bike either.
Probably it does not matter with my titanium dive knife if I have to grind into it a bit, I could actually sharpen it as well (not that it is not razor sharp already)m but the question is if you want to really grind into that titanium fancy case, that pen, or other "cool" device you just got.
I was honestly hoping for a less destructive testing method. On the other hand just for curiosity, I really would not buy titanium for the "bling" factor, only for its strength and weight. And where you need those, you will know just by looking and weighing if it is titanium or not.
Or just buy decent brands maybe?
Or keep it encrypted.
Not an option?
External drive. Just keep them there. I am really not comfortable of giving out anything with possibly restorable data.
Wonder why not just swap a new disk in at a place where you can keep an eye on it.
OK, so these kids cannot buy these games/videos, so they will steal it. Great plan.
When I was a kid under Soviet oppression guess what was the coolest game to play on our Sinclair ZX Spectrums : Raid over Moscow.....
You prohibit something and kids will want it even more.
But hey, why do not we completely eliminate violent, sexual, racist, radical content from everything, and end up in a world where everything is full of pink singing butterflies.
Money is better than working at your local outsourcing center, or working for a small development company.
It is not sky high, but if you work with people you trust, and who trust you it is ok and steady, and new clients come.
The good thing about a data policy is really to be open with it.
Here is a simple example:
1. If I have to go into a server room (heppens sometimes) I ask a tech to be there, and if I need to carry a laptop I well tell them that before, and tell them to keep an eye on me, because the laptop is not subbmitted to any search afterwords. If they do not agree and want to look at the laptop after it leave the room, I carry my old toshiba laptop with a fresh install, no work files or any data on it.
2. I work on client databases. If the data is live, I ask them to insert a few fake customer data (incl email addresses), which are called spikes, or seeds for the time I work on that. If I steal the data I will hit the spikes - the mailing goes to their addresses. So they can trace it back to me. If it is a test database, I simply ask them to remove sensitive info, or just fill the DB with test data for me.
If you open an inquiry like that and tell them how to beat your effort to steal their data, they will understand that I worked with picky clients, and they won't be too suspicious.
These are so basic examples, but even being so simple, even many mid-size+ companies do not deal with simple communication like that. And then they get accused, and the mess starts.
Now before you think it is any illegal activity I have to do: nop. I run company's websites, fix up code, write them apps. Mostly admin and client backends.
I freelance, and I work for a few casinos, sportsbooks, and some investment firms.
I have a very clear data policy publicly available on my site, and I ask all my customers to read them.
I have these to protect myself and to protect my clients. I always tell them what data/logins/access I need, and ask them to agree or deny.
Did Circuit City tell the guy that they were about to look into his files? Did they warn him what access they needed, and what they needed to modify? If not: well the guy is right.
Note 1: I am not sorry for a kiddiporn lover who gets arrested.
Note 2: My data policy can cost my life, so I am very open and strict about it. Most importantly I always ask clients to give me the least possible access necessary, so a data lifting accusation is out of question.
Note 3: The highest danger factor of being a tech in Central America is losing knee caps/life/fingers after stealing customer info data from a gaming operation. It is best to not even attempt is, and even better to not even get suspected.
Huhh, that seems a lot for a print head. Better get a new printer.
:) I do not think there is any dry-fire when you see the colors actually showing up on the print.
I actually care for the environment, that is why all the plastic+ circuit bord throwaway bothers me, still looking at the printer I see that 15 cartridges would maybe make up for the whole printer.
Anyway,
Considering that
1. 2 sets of cartridges cost more than the printer (printer $100, 4 colors= $55)
2. I can actually see if the print is missing colors
I think this works just fine. Printer companies make money on INK, not the device. It is reflected on the prices as well.
Now I am getting curious though how much a head replacement is. Anyone ?
I am actually looking for a NON-HP laser one (I worked at HP, now I refuse to buy HP) And just want to forget about ink for forever. Maybe buy a refill kit for now.
Here is a trick I discovered yesterday regarding my Epson Stylus C65. OK quality printer, but repeatedly refused to print, claiming that one of the cartridges were empty. Even more annoying, the darn thing refused to print B&W even when you ran low on e.g. RED. Stupid.
.. I am in Costa Rica, so do not tell me it is cheaper in Walgreens or whereever).
For a completely different reason I got an NSLU2 (cheap NAS storage box from Linksys), then put Linux on it, because I needed a low powered always on Asterisk. But hey, you can attach a USB hub to it (if you run Linux), and so I did, and started trying connecting devices.
I was also annoyed, that even though my windows machine was always on, from time to time my wife's printings failed from her MAC. Not really windows' problem, but naturally she always wants to print when I overload the machine, reboot it, or play a game that eats all the resources up.
So I started using the NSLU2 as a print server, after discovering, that there was a print server package for it (actually there is Samba, Cups and p910d ).
Yesterday my printer refused to print, and the ink button/light went on, (of course it occurs when I want to print something before leaving quickly). So I just went to Office depot and bought 1 of each cartridge ($60 for the 4, DAMN
Now when I came back I started checking which cartridge could be empty. Since I use a remote port, the ink monitoring software does not work. But also because of this, you can just ignore the lights, restart the printer, and keep printing.
Before, the epson software prohibited printing, now it cannot monitor the ink, so there is no restriction. Downside: no ink monitor, but remembering, that it is the tool that makes you throw out cartridges half full, I do not want it.
Also I only print B&W, so I really do not care if the Yellow is out.
Just my 2c.
Note: of course only tested this on the NSLU, but should be the same on any Linux, or maybe macs. Just try it with a print server first, maybe it is the same.