These days I would be lost without spell check, Often I just make a bad guess at the spelling of a word, then rely on the context menu to fix it for me.
A keyboard can in fact be incompatible. Its is very RARE, but it DOES happen. It is often FAR easier for the IT to keep systems in consistent configurations that are known to work than to deal with your retarded quirks
Of course they want to keep the bits from the same supplier together. But they should just say that instead of treating me like an idiot with a stupid lie.
Another indication of your lack of experience is that you're upset about the loss of POP and SMTP support. I can see being upset about losing IMAP and SMTP support, but POP needs to die sooner rather than later at any company worth its salt.
I want to access my email from the linux box which was supplied to me by IT. For that purpose we used to support POP, IMAP and SMTP. Now we don't.
IE supports different authentication methods than Firefox. NTLM auth actually works in IE with IIS, FireFox, Kerberos and IIS are much more flacky and tend to stop working for what appears to be random reasons. I use Firefox and Chrome to authentication against IIS using NTLM and Apache using mod_NTLM or kerberos, do you have any idea how many times IE works perfectly against all of these servers yet both Firefox and Chrome have issues where they do stupid crap like re-authenticating for every request?
Dunno. Firefox 1 something on linux worked for OWA in stupid (non-IE) mode on that server until last weekend. I doubt firefox supports any special authentication beyond what any other webmail system uses. What was inexcusable for me was that the person who took my call closed the issue before the issue was resolved.
Have you ever even had to support or debug your own software in a unknown environment?
Yes. All the time.
Fight them like you seem so inclined to do and you'll quickly find yourself on the list of developers to replace for being a pain in the ass to deal with.
No if anything I find them funny. There was a time when it was my job to log a lot of calls in their system. Thats not the case now but I believe I still have the company wide record for calls raised. I don't know if they find me a pain. They are not communicative enough for me to know.
I get my X-Rays in DICOM format from my public hospital. I convert them to PNG and post them on my blog. I must have a DICOM library loaded because gimp will read those files on ubuntu but it refuses to load some of the files, in particular the more recent ones.
Do you have any suggestions for reading DICOM which don't involve running windows and using the DLLs on the CD from the hospital? Thanks.
When I broke my arm there was a long wait for X-Ray because their system had a virus. Later I got my X-Rays on CD and it came with convenient DLL files to help load the data. If I ran windows I would have been a bit worried about that.
Its funny because I have to go to the local public hospital regularly for my broken arm. Renovations are under way and the Fracture Clinic has acquired a nice new office since I started going there. The new office has attracted a manager who divides his time between chatting up the receptionist (he must be desperate) and standing outside empty consulting rooms saying c'mon, a patient could be in here.
I once blew up ten old style 20mA LEDs by mis configuring a bench top power supply. I got some heat out of the arrangement but you wouldn't want to eat the cake afterwards, or for that matter breathe the air.
There have been 17000 youtube searches for Natalie Portman naked in the last 450 milliseconds. We need a burst of cold air on rack 1000001, processor 304 on the second chip on the third stick of RAM.
Thats how long it seems to take between starting to learn something and getting it properly. Learning a new, totally different programming language would take that long for me. But the transition, when it comes is very fast.
IT guys are the scumbags who put desktop remote control software on my suse workstation. They are the reason I keep rootkits (ie, system rescue CDs) in my desk draw, and why most of the guys I directly work with run gentoo.
These are the people who solemnly told me they would improve my WAN latency issue by compressing the link. When I said that won't work they said they could always put two compressors in series.
When they replaced my Dell desktop with an equally crappy ASUS or something they replaced the Dell branded logitech keyboard and mouse with an ASUS branded logitech keyboard and mouse on the grounds that using the wrong type of peripheral might cause "incompatibilities".
Since they stopped supporting POP and SMTP I now have to use outlook inside windows inside vmware, except there used to be outlook web access which stopped working last weekend so I logged a call with the helpless desk and they got the whole story (running firefox on suse, etc) then they had to get me to give them the version of IE I had there (stuffed if I know why). So they didn't fix it (Exchange server cant authenticate me for some reason) and escalated it a few times then the second or third level guy called me back and asked if I had thought of restarting firefox. When I said yes he asked if I had restarted my system (said so, I had an import or ten on the go at the time). This after I had given them the error message which came back from exchange.
I wish I could sack these idiots. In theory they work for my organisation you know, but they seem to have their hooks in us.
Even in the last 30 years there has been a recognition that high standards of living reduce fertility.
I think I saw an article fairly recently that suggested that as the standard of living increases past some point, this reverses itself and fertility rates start to go back up.
I doubt there are any observations to support that yet. People breed extra children if they believe some of their children will die before they reproduce. Maybe if we had robots to raise the children hands off, so people started to say "I'm bored with that kid lets have another one" and were able to act on that impulse at nearly zero cost (like buying a new car) then we would see that happen.
conserving energy doesn't reduce energy use, but spurs economic growth and more energy use
This fits with an observation by insurance companies (or at least mine, USAA) that building safer cars results in people continuing to drive them to their preferred safety margin. We still end up with about as many crashes (but injuries are less).
We have to stop somewhere. At six billion or six trillion. It has to happen. The Heinlein fan in me says this will happen with war and starvation. Its not that hard to imagine, it happens all the time.
Or we can learn to regulate our population, as the Chinese are trying to do. Even in the last 30 years there has been a recognition that high standards of living reduce fertility. But have China and India gone too far for this to work? I am sure the US nearly did, because you have to wear high birth rates and high energy consumption at the same time for a while (the 1950s) for it to work. The same peak would put the energy consumption of 10 billion USA or AU people in China alone.
Don't ask me for help. I'll be starting a farm on Ganymede.
(d) Distances between civilisations are too long, and the life of civilisations is too short for contact to happen. There may be evidence of alien activity far away in space but we don't recognise it as such.
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A power book without its power supply. Like Greenland it is named after its principle deficiency.
(apologies to DNA).
These days I would be lost without spell check, Often I just make a bad guess at the spelling of a word, then rely on the context menu to fix it for me.
My hands hurt just thinking about it. Then again, I wonder how much the baroque cycle would have weighed if he had used a work processor.
Well since he lost his MINIX disks, not much.
A keyboard can in fact be incompatible. Its is very RARE, but it DOES happen. It is often FAR easier for the IT to keep systems in consistent configurations that are known to work than to deal with your retarded quirks
Of course they want to keep the bits from the same supplier together. But they should just say that instead of treating me like an idiot with a stupid lie.
Another indication of your lack of experience is that you're upset about the loss of POP and SMTP support. I can see being upset about losing IMAP and SMTP support, but POP needs to die sooner rather than later at any company worth its salt.
I want to access my email from the linux box which was supplied to me by IT. For that purpose we used to support POP, IMAP and SMTP. Now we don't.
IE supports different authentication methods than Firefox. NTLM auth actually works in IE with IIS, FireFox, Kerberos and IIS are much more flacky and tend to stop working for what appears to be random reasons. I use Firefox and Chrome to authentication against IIS using NTLM and Apache using mod_NTLM or kerberos, do you have any idea how many times IE works perfectly against all of these servers yet both Firefox and Chrome have issues where they do stupid crap like re-authenticating for every request?
Dunno. Firefox 1 something on linux worked for OWA in stupid (non-IE) mode on that server until last weekend. I doubt firefox supports any special authentication beyond what any other webmail system uses. What was inexcusable for me was that the person who took my call closed the issue before the issue was resolved.
Have you ever even had to support or debug your own software in a unknown environment?
Yes. All the time.
Fight them like you seem so inclined to do and you'll quickly find yourself on the list of developers to replace for being a pain in the ass to deal with.
No if anything I find them funny. There was a time when it was my job to log a lot of calls in their system. Thats not the case now but I believe I still have the company wide record for calls raised. I don't know if they find me a pain. They are not communicative enough for me to know.
Thanks. I will take a look.
I get my X-Rays in DICOM format from my public hospital. I convert them to PNG and post them on my blog. I must have a DICOM library loaded because gimp will read those files on ubuntu but it refuses to load some of the files, in particular the more recent ones.
Do you have any suggestions for reading DICOM which don't involve running windows and using the DLLs on the CD from the hospital? Thanks.
When I broke my arm there was a long wait for X-Ray because their system had a virus. Later I got my X-Rays on CD and it came with convenient DLL files to help load the data. If I ran windows I would have been a bit worried about that.
Its funny because I have to go to the local public hospital regularly for my broken arm. Renovations are under way and the Fracture Clinic has acquired a nice new office since I started going there. The new office has attracted a manager who divides his time between chatting up the receptionist (he must be desperate) and standing outside empty consulting rooms saying c'mon, a patient could be in here.
I once blew up ten old style 20mA LEDs by mis configuring a bench top power supply. I got some heat out of the arrangement but you wouldn't want to eat the cake afterwards, or for that matter breathe the air.
MAC addresses for wifi radios on laptops and phones.
There have been 17000 youtube searches for Natalie Portman naked in the last 450 milliseconds. We need a burst of cold air on rack 1000001, processor 304 on the second chip on the third stick of RAM.
But isn't that mainly because the water will flash into vapor and blow the liquid metal around?
Do you actually need the Aluminum for the rocket fuel? Or the materials which are refined to make the Aluminum?
Thats how long it seems to take between starting to learn something and getting it properly. Learning a new, totally different programming language would take that long for me. But the transition, when it comes is very fast.
Bolts, Preferably the cheap low tensile kind.
The ship would be hard to board if there was nothing for a grappling hook to grab.
IT guys are the scumbags who put desktop remote control software on my suse workstation. They are the reason I keep rootkits (ie, system rescue CDs) in my desk draw, and why most of the guys I directly work with run gentoo.
These are the people who solemnly told me they would improve my WAN latency issue by compressing the link. When I said that won't work they said they could always put two compressors in series.
When they replaced my Dell desktop with an equally crappy ASUS or something they replaced the Dell branded logitech keyboard and mouse with an ASUS branded logitech keyboard and mouse on the grounds that using the wrong type of peripheral might cause "incompatibilities".
Since they stopped supporting POP and SMTP I now have to use outlook inside windows inside vmware, except there used to be outlook web access which stopped working last weekend so I logged a call with the helpless desk and they got the whole story (running firefox on suse, etc) then they had to get me to give them the version of IE I had there (stuffed if I know why). So they didn't fix it (Exchange server cant authenticate me for some reason) and escalated it a few times then the second or third level guy called me back and asked if I had thought of restarting firefox. When I said yes he asked if I had restarted my system (said so, I had an import or ten on the go at the time). This after I had given them the error message which came back from exchange.
I wish I could sack these idiots. In theory they work for my organisation you know, but they seem to have their hooks in us.
As a bike rider I find that hilarious.
The google ad on this page says "This is your last chance to profit from the rising cost of crude oil".
Even in the last 30 years there has been a recognition that high standards of living reduce fertility.
I think I saw an article fairly recently that suggested that as the standard of living increases past some point, this reverses itself and fertility rates start to go back up.
I doubt there are any observations to support that yet. People breed extra children if they believe some of their children will die before they reproduce. Maybe if we had robots to raise the children hands off, so people started to say "I'm bored with that kid lets have another one" and were able to act on that impulse at nearly zero cost (like buying a new car) then we would see that happen.
This fits with an observation by insurance companies (or at least mine, USAA) that building safer cars results in people continuing to drive them to their preferred safety margin. We still end up with about as many crashes (but injuries are less).
Well, injuries to occupants are less, anyway.
We have to stop somewhere. At six billion or six trillion. It has to happen. The Heinlein fan in me says this will happen with war and starvation. Its not that hard to imagine, it happens all the time.
Or we can learn to regulate our population, as the Chinese are trying to do. Even in the last 30 years there has been a recognition that high standards of living reduce fertility. But have China and India gone too far for this to work? I am sure the US nearly did, because you have to wear high birth rates and high energy consumption at the same time for a while (the 1950s) for it to work. The same peak would put the energy consumption of 10 billion USA or AU people in China alone.
Don't ask me for help. I'll be starting a farm on Ganymede.
(d) Distances between civilisations are too long, and the life of civilisations is too short for contact to happen. There may be evidence of alien activity far away in space but we don't recognise it as such.
> Send a bunch of scientists to Mars for at least ten years.
Sit back and enjoy the ensuing war with the multinationals.
I want to be Coyote. The guy who takes care of himself regardless of what the others are up to.