Windows 2000 - I haven't rebooted my main workstation in something like 4 months and counting. Sorry, that stability argument doesn't work with me.
The apps I like are on Windows. The games I love are on Windows. I grew up with Windows/DOS - I know it from the inside out and can fix virtually anything. I'm a network admin - my company is all MS...
However - despite all of this - I love Linux. My second workstation is Linux. I'm liking it more and more. Why am I going to switch soon? I'm sick of MS...it's too easy. I'm not learning anymore, and I want a challenge. I don't like their new licensing scheme - here at a large company, we have the potential to get raped here soon.
I didn't let him touch a thing. I unhooked my 2 pc's and put them into my closet. When he arrived, I had him hook up the cable modem and watched it get the signal and get online and all that good stuff.
When he looked at me and asked about setting up the computers, I told him I was still in the process of moving and I hadn't moved the actual boxes yet...deal with it. He got a little indignant...but oh well.
The last time a cable installer showed up (at my last apartment), he rebooted my win2k box (which was locked) by shutting off my surge protector, and then called me for the admin password. Riiiiigght...thank butthole, you've officially corrupted my disk now.
Ah well...that was the last time I'll let those asshat installers anywhere near one of my computers.
From cryptonomicon.org... One of the most annoying features of Outlook Express is that it's default settings make it disgustingly easy for email to travel via email messages.
Well then...how the heck else is email supposed to travel:-p
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Actually, I kind of enjoyed the story...don't read it as a story with the mindset that it is going to be the best thing on earth...it's an enjoyable read overall. Fairly well written and not too pandering to the techie lifestyle...it's not completely "hollywood-ized". I enjoyed it.
They did this on an episode of the ScreenSavers once. They started stringing USB extension cables together on a USB webcam to see how far they could get it to work. I don't remember what the distance was, but they made it quite the distance beyond the USB spec before it quit being properly detected by the computer and functioning.
Something to try if you can get some cables on the cheap.
These have been around for awhile....
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I used one of these mice when I worked in IT at my university when I went there. It was a small hand held mouse, w/ two buttons. You moved your arm left/right/up/down and used the buttons to click on things. No wires, no ball...it was a gyroscopic (sp?) pointing device.
Honestly? It was a pain in the a$$. I preferred a regular mouse behind the desk.
A snowballs chance in hell, huh? Well, the DMCA made it through. This P2P bill is looking like it's got pretty good chances as well.
What they are complaining about is giving US companies legal license to go and screw with machines not in the US.
I live in the US, and I agree wholeheartedly with the idea. Hell, I lived in Europe for many years and would probably move back again just to take advantage of not dealing with the US.
I agree with him...granted the US isn't controlling the environment, but the US govt. (as well as other countries) are certainly making it miserable for those of us that just want to use it as a network.
Anyone remember the name of the company that did this, or tried to do this already? I know there was an outrage in.....England, I believe over a company purchasing advertising space on headstones. And it was a gaming company also. Anyone remember who that was??
This is very true actually. A lot of people I know only know how to solve a certain number of problems. If they ever come up against something that doesn't fit their little models of the world, they are completely stumped. They don't seem to have the desire or the ability to just explore, go off the beaten path and try something new.
To be able to do CS/IT well, you have to have that urge to learn. Granted, to do most things well in life you have to be able to do it too, but I've just noticed it more in CS.
I suppose when you look at it from the perspective of having a family it is a bit different. I've been a college student for 4 years now and have almost forgotten that there is a real world out there:)
But, for those of us (occasionaly) single guys/girls, a cell phone as the primary phone makes a lot of sense. They definitely don't have the capacity to handle huge emergencies, but for my situation the benefits really outweigh the costs.
My god, this sounds like something I was ranting about earlier today. %90 of the people in my final class from my CS major couldn't write a few lines of code to save their lives. We are doing the whole final project in C# (project requirements, not our choice). Being a programming class, and being that it is the capstone of the major, you'd think that the people would take the time to at least look at the language right? Wrong. I've written the entire project so far. They don't even have a clue how the code works.
On the bright side, I did get them to do all of the documentation for the project but still....it really scares me how many technically inept people are graduating along with me in my major. On the other hand, it made it a lot easier for me to score the job that I have =)
Cool idea and all, but why not just go all cellular/mobile? I have for the past year and a half. $40, 4000 minutes (which is WAY more than I'll use in a month), 3 way calling, caller id, voicemail, paging, text messaging, wireless web, email, custom ringers and a phone i can take anywhere if i feel like it. Yes, I know that not all areas have this level of mobile service but once you make the switch you'll never go back. People say that mobile service isn't reliable in the case of an emergency, but from my personal experience I'd trust my cell phone a LOT more than my cable modem =)
This is really a neat idea, but not necessarily a good one. So they are removing C02 from the air - great! But what about all of the other gases? There are still many other harmful substances being put into the environment because of this.
This isn't a fix for an environmental problem - this is just a band aid. It's not going to the true root of the problem - overuse of fossil fuels. Companies and organizations are putting so much research and effort into using inefficient fossil fuels, but if they were to just spend a fraction of this research money on researching alternative fuels they would come up with a much better solution than this.
It's a classic example of "When all you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". When all you have is technology, all the problems created by technology only appear to be solvable by technology. It ends up turning into a vicious circle really.
I give merit to the idea, but I foresee it as turning into an excuse for companies to just increase our dependence on fossil fueuls. If this were to be used in conjuncion with alternative energies then I would be all behind it.
We operate roughly 250 sites (the company I work for, not my university). Here's how we do it w/out going crazy:
Every site has up to a 5 digit site code based on city. When there are multiple sites in one city, we usually cut the city down to 2 or 3 letters and then the last three are made up of the uniquely indentifying part of the name. For example:
Minneapolis Kilbourn = MNWKB Minneapolis Processing = MNPRC St. Louis = LOUIS
And so forth. That is the base name for all sites. Now, we name all servers and workstations off of this.
PDC's XXXXX_NTP01
BDC's XXXXX_NTB01
Router XXXXX_RTR01
NT Member Server XXXXX_NTA01
2K Member Server XXXXX_2KA01
DVD Writers XXXXX_DVD01
And so forth...
Every one of our machines has an asset tag - we use those to determine the name along w/ the site code. We only have NT workstations, but we still identify that in the name. The asset tag is made to always be 6 numbers long.
LOUISNT013456
It's not the friendliest convention, but it works well!
Pretty poor thing to do in my opinion. I crunch SETI or distributed units depending on what mood I'm in (that's an interesting one...what kind of mood do I have to be in to determine what data I want to crunch....hrrrmmm) so I don't mind doing this thing. It's just that having someone do it w/ out my knowledge kinda ticks me off. Yeah, I know it's not much processing power, but still....the principle of the thing.
And the author of this kinda sounds gleeful when he says the only way to stop it would be to disable JavaScript, which would lock the user out of many sites (not a direct quote). Grrrr..........he's pretty much promoting web pages as a great way to do things that users don't know ahout. Gee, there isn't enough of that out there today....*cough*
Hehe...how true. I was going to post the exact same comment - how on earth is the fact that companies can't sell MY personal information going to hurt me? Hrrrmm....shouldn't I at least get a cut of the money these list sellers make off of my name??
And yeah...I'd be sooooo hurt if I never got junk mail again =/
I haven't read the story of ping yet, and that was just a cool little read. You know, weeks will go by where I don't find anything all that interesting to me on Slashdot, and then all of a sudden a little nugget like that pops up and just makes me think "cool".
That technology fee really does pay for you to have a high speed network and a fat internet pipe. I worked for IT at a university, and (keep in mind, I'm a student too) students were the bane of our existence.
We had over 30Mbps average outgoing traffic last year - that was costing us damn near half a million dollars a year. 90% of that use was coming from students in the dorms. We capped the outgoing traffic this year and blocked a load of p2p crap. Our outgoing has dropped to something like 5Mbps average now.
So when you complain about a technology fee, keep in mind how cheaply you were getting a 10base t lan connection directly to an OC3 or however big of a pipe you had. Businesses pay thousands of dollars a month for that connection and you get to use it for virtually nothing =/
Granted, I did the same thing in the dorms - downloaded tons of crap. I'm just saying, that fee is used for technology!
Now you guys getting capped on your uploads know what it's like to be a Charter Communications customer. My "Gold" package is 768/128 down/up. And that costs me damn near $50 a month. The $40 a month package is 256/128 I think. And the only DSL provider around here is Ameritech who I absolutely refuse to use...I've even gotten rid of my normal phone line and gone strictly to Sprint PCS because of Ameritech.
About an hour away from here in Green Bay, WI or Appleton, WI RoadRunner service is available that blows these speeds away at cheaper prices.
Just goes to show what competition brings to the market....
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Aw man...I was going to say the same thing. It's so funny hearning people talk about spoilers.
Ooooh! Ooooh! Guess what! I've got a complete preview of the THIRD movie sitting next to my desk right now! Aren't I so cool?
Spoilers....ever even heard of reading?
Windows 2000 - I haven't rebooted my main workstation in something like 4 months and counting. Sorry, that stability argument doesn't work with me.
The apps I like are on Windows.
The games I love are on Windows.
I grew up with Windows/DOS - I know it from the inside out and can fix virtually anything.
I'm a network admin - my company is all MS...
However - despite all of this - I love Linux. My second workstation is Linux. I'm liking it more and more. Why am I going to switch soon? I'm sick of MS...it's too easy. I'm not learning anymore, and I want a challenge. I don't like their new licensing scheme - here at a large company, we have the potential to get raped here soon.
Anyway....just random thoughts.
I didn't let him touch a thing. I unhooked my 2 pc's and put them into my closet. When he arrived, I had him hook up the cable modem and watched it get the signal and get online and all that good stuff.
When he looked at me and asked about setting up the computers, I told him I was still in the process of moving and I hadn't moved the actual boxes yet...deal with it. He got a little indignant...but oh well.
The last time a cable installer showed up (at my last apartment), he rebooted my win2k box (which was locked) by shutting off my surge protector, and then called me for the admin password. Riiiiigght...thank butthole, you've officially corrupted my disk now.
Ah well...that was the last time I'll let those asshat installers anywhere near one of my computers.
From cryptonomicon.org...
:-p
One of the most annoying features of Outlook Express is that it's default settings make it disgustingly easy for email to travel via email messages.
Well then...how the heck else is email supposed to travel
Actually, I kind of enjoyed the story...don't read it as a story with the mindset that it is going to be the best thing on earth...it's an enjoyable read overall. Fairly well written and not too pandering to the techie lifestyle...it's not completely "hollywood-ized". I enjoyed it.
Gotta love opera =) No cookies unless I explicitly allow them....ahhhhh. And no popups either. Ooohh...and mouse functions too.
They did this on an episode of the ScreenSavers once. They started stringing USB extension cables together on a USB webcam to see how far they could get it to work. I don't remember what the distance was, but they made it quite the distance beyond the USB spec before it quit being properly detected by the computer and functioning.
Something to try if you can get some cables on the cheap.
I used one of these mice when I worked in IT at my university when I went there. It was a small hand held mouse, w/ two buttons. You moved your arm left/right/up/down and used the buttons to click on things. No wires, no ball...it was a gyroscopic (sp?) pointing device.
Honestly? It was a pain in the a$$. I preferred a regular mouse behind the desk.
A snowballs chance in hell, huh? Well, the DMCA made it through. This P2P bill is looking like it's got pretty good chances as well.
What they are complaining about is giving US companies legal license to go and screw with machines not in the US.
I live in the US, and I agree wholeheartedly with the idea. Hell, I lived in Europe for many years and would probably move back again just to take advantage of not dealing with the US.
I agree with him...granted the US isn't controlling the environment, but the US govt. (as well as other countries) are certainly making it miserable for those of us that just want to use it as a network.
Anyone remember the name of the company that did this, or tried to do this already? I know there was an outrage in.....England, I believe over a company purchasing advertising space on headstones. And it was a gaming company also. Anyone remember who that was??
It was a thought =)
I have to admit though, it makes web application development very, very easy.
This is very true actually. A lot of people I know only know how to solve a certain number of problems. If they ever come up against something that doesn't fit their little models of the world, they are completely stumped. They don't seem to have the desire or the ability to just explore, go off the beaten path and try something new.
To be able to do CS/IT well, you have to have that urge to learn. Granted, to do most things well in life you have to be able to do it too, but I've just noticed it more in CS.
I suppose when you look at it from the perspective of having a family it is a bit different. I've been a college student for 4 years now and have almost forgotten that there is a real world out there :)
But, for those of us (occasionaly) single guys/girls, a cell phone as the primary phone makes a lot of sense. They definitely don't have the capacity to handle huge emergencies, but for my situation the benefits really outweigh the costs.
My god, this sounds like something I was ranting about earlier today. %90 of the people in my final class from my CS major couldn't write a few lines of code to save their lives. We are doing the whole final project in C# (project requirements, not our choice). Being a programming class, and being that it is the capstone of the major, you'd think that the people would take the time to at least look at the language right? Wrong. I've written the entire project so far. They don't even have a clue how the code works.
On the bright side, I did get them to do all of the documentation for the project but still....it really scares me how many technically inept people are graduating along with me in my major. On the other hand, it made it a lot easier for me to score the job that I have =)
Cool idea and all, but why not just go all cellular/mobile? I have for the past year and a half. $40, 4000 minutes (which is WAY more than I'll use in a month), 3 way calling, caller id, voicemail, paging, text messaging, wireless web, email, custom ringers and a phone i can take anywhere if i feel like it. Yes, I know that not all areas have this level of mobile service but once you make the switch you'll never go back. People say that mobile service isn't reliable in the case of an emergency, but from my personal experience I'd trust my cell phone a LOT more than my cable modem =)
This is really a neat idea, but not necessarily a good one. So they are removing C02 from the air - great! But what about all of the other gases? There are still many other harmful substances being put into the environment because of this.
This isn't a fix for an environmental problem - this is just a band aid. It's not going to the true root of the problem - overuse of fossil fuels. Companies and organizations are putting so much research and effort into using inefficient fossil fuels, but if they were to just spend a fraction of this research money on researching alternative fuels they would come up with a much better solution than this.
It's a classic example of "When all you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". When all you have is technology, all the problems created by technology only appear to be solvable by technology. It ends up turning into a vicious circle really.
I give merit to the idea, but I foresee it as turning into an excuse for companies to just increase our dependence on fossil fueuls. If this were to be used in conjuncion with alternative energies then I would be all behind it.
Our old naming convention was this:
S0998###
S Indicated Server
The next digit indicated state (0 was WI, 1 was IL)
998 indicated server on LAN, 999 indicated server on WAN
and the ### was just an increment. Apparently it was an older AT&T unix naming convention - it was almost phased out by the time I came aboard.
We operate roughly 250 sites (the company I work for, not my university). Here's how we do it w/out going crazy:
Every site has up to a 5 digit site code based on city. When there are multiple sites in one city, we usually cut the city down to 2 or 3 letters and then the last three are made up of the uniquely indentifying part of the name. For example:
Minneapolis Kilbourn = MNWKB
Minneapolis Processing = MNPRC
St. Louis = LOUIS
And so forth. That is the base name for all sites. Now, we name all servers and workstations off of this.
PDC's
XXXXX_NTP01
BDC's
XXXXX_NTB01
Router
XXXXX_RTR01
NT Member Server
XXXXX_NTA01
2K Member Server
XXXXX_2KA01
DVD Writers
XXXXX_DVD01
And so forth...
Every one of our machines has an asset tag - we use those to determine the name along w/ the site code. We only have NT workstations, but we still identify that in the name. The asset tag is made to always be 6 numbers long.
LOUISNT013456
It's not the friendliest convention, but it works well!
Pretty poor thing to do in my opinion. I crunch SETI or distributed units depending on what mood I'm in (that's an interesting one...what kind of mood do I have to be in to determine what data I want to crunch....hrrrmmm) so I don't mind doing this thing. It's just that having someone do it w/ out my knowledge kinda ticks me off. Yeah, I know it's not much processing power, but still....the principle of the thing.
And the author of this kinda sounds gleeful when he says the only way to stop it would be to disable JavaScript, which would lock the user out of many sites (not a direct quote). Grrrr..........he's pretty much promoting web pages as a great way to do things that users don't know ahout. Gee, there isn't enough of that out there today....*cough*
A sucker for the geeky way of doing things? Dang, I need to find someone like that =)
Actually, I'm pretty lucky. My girlfriend is kind of a computer fiend and understands my addiction =)
Hehe...how true. I was going to post the exact same comment - how on earth is the fact that companies can't sell MY personal information going to hurt me? Hrrrmm....shouldn't I at least get a cut of the money these list sellers make off of my name??
And yeah...I'd be sooooo hurt if I never got junk mail again =/
I haven't read the story of ping yet, and that was just a cool little read. You know, weeks will go by where I don't find anything all that interesting to me on Slashdot, and then all of a sudden a little nugget like that pops up and just makes me think "cool".
Funny comment on the story about how programmers never can consult other programmers on a project. I do admit cheating in class is a bad idea, but....
They should come up w/ a class on how code REALLY gets written:
1. Do Systems Analysis and Design (ie. 20 minutes of chicken scratching on a piece of paper stolen from the laser printer).
2. Write The Groundwork Of The Program (ie. dig through your and co-workers code to find pieces that will do what you need to do).
3. Write A Little Code (ie. anything that you couldn't scrounge from friends/coworkers/examples on the net)
4. Release Software
That technology fee really does pay for you to have a high speed network and a fat internet pipe. I worked for IT at a university, and (keep in mind, I'm a student too) students were the bane of our existence.
We had over 30Mbps average outgoing traffic last year - that was costing us damn near half a million dollars a year. 90% of that use was coming from students in the dorms. We capped the outgoing traffic this year and blocked a load of p2p crap. Our outgoing has dropped to something like 5Mbps average now.
So when you complain about a technology fee, keep in mind how cheaply you were getting a 10base t lan connection directly to an OC3 or however big of a pipe you had. Businesses pay thousands of dollars a month for that connection and you get to use it for virtually nothing =/
Granted, I did the same thing in the dorms - downloaded tons of crap. I'm just saying, that fee is used for technology!
Now you guys getting capped on your uploads know what it's like to be a Charter Communications customer. My "Gold" package is 768/128 down/up. And that costs me damn near $50 a month. The $40 a month package is 256/128 I think. And the only DSL provider around here is Ameritech who I absolutely refuse to use...I've even gotten rid of my normal phone line and gone strictly to Sprint PCS because of Ameritech.
About an hour away from here in Green Bay, WI or Appleton, WI RoadRunner service is available that blows these speeds away at cheaper prices.
Just goes to show what competition brings to the market....