If you're not questioning the Imperial Bush Administration, you have nothing to fear. Only the terroristreporters need to worry about their records, the Good American(tm) reporters can go about their business.
Who else believe that G W Bush studied for the Presidency? He just stopped reading the Constitution afer The President shall have power. ..
A subject matter expert in everything specializing in time travel. Picking up hot chicks Hey baby want to see my TARDIS? for companionship down the ages. How cool was that, sometimes even doubling up with the companions.
Inigo Montoya studied Ninja sword skills, but failed to take in the whole package. That's why he lost on the Cliffs of Insanity to a more driven opponent.
Cluster systems are configured by connecting
multiple systems with a communications medium,
referred to as an interconnect. OpenVMS Cluster systems
communicate with each other using the most appropriate
interconnect available. In the event of interconnect
failure, OpenVMS Cluster software automatically
uses an alternate interconnect whenever possible.
OpenVMS Cluster software supports any combination
of the following interconnects:
CI (computer interconnect) (Alpha and VAX)
DSSI (Digital Storage Systems Interconnect) (Alpha
and VAX)
SCSI (Small Computer Storage Interconnect) (storage
only, Alpha and limited support for I64)
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) (Alpha and
VAX)
Ethernet (10/100, Gigabit) (I64, Alpha and VAX)
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) (emulated LAN
configurations only, Alpha only)
Memory Channel (Version 7.1 and higher only, Alpha
only)
Fibre Channel (storage only, Version 7.2-1 and
higher only, I64 and Alpha only)
Dragon version 8 made major improvements in recognition. The preferred version will read out loud. My wife has neck and shoulder problems, Dragon allows her to use a computer reasonably well. They have ratings for different microphones, I sprung for 5 Dragon usb mic. Doesn't make sense to cheap out after the software's installed. We got an upgrade offer after giving up on Dragon many versions ago. The version 8 release is actually worthwhile.
The big pro is that ATRAC just sounds better than MP3. I can hear the difference. I've had 3 (Sharp) MD players over the years and I travel with one today.
The big failure is Sony's attempt to lock in their own lame software, restrict the functionality, and limit the use of MD. These would have been a great challenge to the Zip disks 10 years ago. Imagine being able to move data and music back and foward on a USB port.
Instead Sony tried to lock MD down, limited licenses to a few partners, and starved any reason to inovate. Sharp is dropping out of the MD business in the US. It's the same story as Betamax, another better quality standard killed by corporate lockdown. You can only buy a limited number of units.
I'll keep using MD until the next big thing comes along. After all, I still have cassette tapes and vinyl. Some of which I've archived on CD. As far as portable music goes Sony blew this big time.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced an investigation of the notorious hacker web community known as SlashDot. Devoted to denial of service attach, the site is now attempting to entice underage girls to learn. We can't have little girls exposed being exposed to knowledge and critical, this will interfering with traditional family values the government offical was quoted as saying. Process servers are cruising Taco Bells around the country searching for the site mastermind known as CDR Taco.
Only if having people shouting, hearing a scene by screne review going out on cell phones, listening to the 2 girls try to figure out why he dumped here behind me . . . can be considered full of entertainment.
Theaters have jacked up their prices and made the environment less attractive. When I go to a movie I want to see and hear the movie. Laughing with the crowd can be part of that. Having sound bleed between broom closets because they built the latest mega-multi-plex without sound insulation to save a buck means I won't go back. The last movie I took a date to had a mother and three kids in the audience. One cried for 2 hours, one wanted to go home and go to bed Mommy I'm tired can I go to bed, Mommy I want to go home now, I want to go to sleep . The last one just ran up and down the aisles and jumped over seats. Netflix costs less for my monthly charges, the home benefits have already been covered so I'll just say "me too" about that subject.
The experience of going to a movie just isn't a good one any longer. When I lived in DC many years ago, there were 2 cinema-taverns in the area. Older 1 screen places that had gutted the seats and put in comfortable booth/couches. The concession stand was in side the viewing area, but glassed over so the sound wouldn't spread. They served liquor and hot food at reasonable bar prices. Since it was licensed as a bar, no larva allowed. There were bar maids to take orders before the movie, no talking once film rolled, you went and got your own. They showed second run stuff and had a good regular crowd. That was worth the ticket price. For now, it's either Netflix or TCM.
Mass market music is fading away. The days of the 50,000 watt AM station manufacturing hits still make corp-rat music market-teers drool. But in today's world more and more people are opting out of listening to "clearchannel inc" and The HitList(c). Independent artists can create their own recordings in the garage studio, establish web sites, host music downloads and replace the giant distributors. If you only sell 10,000 pressings you're not worth investing in to big music, on the other hand, 10,000 pressings for half a dozen albums is a tidy sum for a single artist. On other words, the long tail is stretching out as the lump in belly of the beast is digested.
I buy more music now a days, although none of it from labels the RIAA ever made a dime from. I just got back from a music festival in Northern California and picked up a dozen albums on physical CDs. Many musicians now have their own web site and market on CDBaby. Despite free downloads and live taping allowed, sales were brisk. I'm one the minority who believes MP3 sound is inadequate, so if I like it, I'll buy it. More so from an artist who runs his own label and will see something from the sale.
I wonder if Alberto Gonzales had a hand in naming Total Information Awareness. In the small town where I grew up, Tias knew everything going on, the comings and goings, motivations, credit balances and who was seeing who.
George Orwell warned us what the ability to revise history would bring. They'll try to point to the current specs and be amazed at any fuss. The common user will review the new web site and think It must have been other card I wanted. Much like Intel's great divide hush up, this will only be resolved with much publicity that might impact the bottom line.
I've always wanted to be a prostitute. This whole IT thing is just temporary.
Let's see, hookers sell a few hours of their time, perform questionable acts for money, and in the ideal situation, make you feel like you'r the most important part of their day. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices.
System admin, sells all of his or her time, performs questionable acts for money. May try to make his customers happy. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices. Demanding customers may make this difficult.
Consultant. See hooker.
All in all, a hooker has better pay scale, less hours, and a chance to negotiate a better working environment. Also less likely to be outsourced.
The pyramids all over the world were actually monuments to aliens. The truth has been hushed up, see this daring documentary for more details. Ever wonder why the worlds' pyramids are in equatorial regions?
In fact, the US has more total people in jail then the Chinese
I agree that under Emperor Cheney and the Figurehead Buffoon the Bill of Rights is under attack. But prisoners in China don't wind up on The Island, they wind up as guest of honor at a chain organ transplant. You don't stay in prison very long, just long enough for a tissue match and to fill in all the order blanks.
Of course the operating system designed as a follow up for UNIX sits quietly on the shelf. Despite being declared as cool and unhackable the mismanagers at three companies are content to focus on OEM Microsoft products. Eventually the FUD about the death of VMS will come true, just give it another 20 years or so.
I wonder if the shareholders have a case for mismanagement?
In stories, people die. It hurt when Shepard Book died. I expected Joss to take the life of a prime character. Nothing seems to be sacred to except to tell a captivating story. When Book died, I stopped waiting for a death, and then he went killed Wash. D*mn. The death of these characters breath life into the story in way that the magic reset button of Voyager/Enterprise can't touch. That's why Buffy/Angel are in in twice a day reruns on multiple channels. That's why I own the Firefly DVDs. It's about telling a story. There are enough story lines already out there to make prequel/sequel in between-quels.
If Joss makes it, my family and I will watch it. I'd love to buy the a DVD set of season.
The always on target response. In the IT field you need to always be learning. Some of this time will come out of your time, although you should get some training allowance.
One company I worked for had a great training budget, but no one could ever get training approved. I got a major P.O. for a year long training pass signed by a departing manager. After that manager couldn't approve training any more. You may have to travel for training.
As previously noted, document your requests and show what benefit the company gets from training. When a problem shows up, instead of jumping on the fix, pull open volume 1 of the doc set and and start a page by page search for the error message. This works really well with multi volume manuals. Explain that the 10 minute fix is in here someplace, I know I can find it.
Don't forget user forums and usenet. I document my time on usenet as training and research. Google groups is your friend.
I used to have a manager who managed by meals. He'd walk by and "let's go grab a breakfast burrito, I'm buying." On the way to the parking lot were the timetable questions, any problems? Shipping? Customer sign off? At lunch time he'd buy lunch for the next project over. Somedays he'd need someone to drive him to Frys and look around. You've got a truck, let's drive down this afternoon. He knew more about what everbody was doing than anyone else I've ever reported to. He was only only a fair coder, an incredible hardware geek but an outstanding manager. Later on he was laid off in a merger and the company added a new project manager group staffed with people who didn't know the the customers or products. They lost 60 percent of their customers before I bailed.
Raise your hand if you rememeber the fashion accessories from this movie to avoid being tracked by the ID card you were required to have on hand. Of course most people couldn't afford these.
Big brother has been replaced by Big Bubba from Texas
Does having fun make the job more enjoyable. Is fun enjoyable in other words? And senior management is looking at this program?
Is there any grant money available, I have an proposal for a study. It will take a few years, require international travel to get a good subject sample. It'll have to be repeated before publication of course.
Are there any volunteers out there who'd like to be subjected to fun?
I was a lab assistant for a freshman Fortran class during the early 80's. The instructor would lecture to an auditorium and then my class would meet in groups of 2 dozen or so. There was a lot of anxiety about the format of an exam so I went through an old exam I had had with a different instructor. Line by line we spent a class going over every question and answer.
On the mid term day, I looked down at the exact same exam. Standard distribution of scores, even with the answers read out in class my teaching didn't much impact test scores.
Steno pad - Start a new date every morning, log calls and notes each day. This has a historical advantage. Also good for jotting down the fix that took all day to research, some day that will get proper documention. You need to establish a routine for this. Easy to move around with you.
Desktop calendar - Jot down calls, meetings, "what I did" for each day. In your face, but can be tough to carry.
Text file/spreadsheet - Needs to be available. I work in multiple locations, desktop/laptop/customer systems/internal servers on different networks. Not a fan.
PDA - a shade better, not as in your face. Needs batteries & synch plan.
I prefer the steno pad approach. No batteries and easy to carry about, tucks nicely in my travel bag. We bill customers in 15 minute slices.
Slashdot Mirror
Who else believe that G W Bush studied for the Presidency? He just stopped reading the Constitution afer The President shall have power. . .
A subject matter expert in everything specializing in time travel. Picking up hot chicks Hey baby want to see my TARDIS? for companionship down the ages. How cool was that, sometimes even doubling up with the companions.
Inigo Montoya studied Ninja sword skills, but failed to take in the whole package. That's why he lost on the Cliffs of Insanity to a more driven opponent.
Cluster systems are configured by connecting multiple systems with a communications medium, referred to as an interconnect. OpenVMS Cluster systems communicate with each other using the most appropriate interconnect available. In the event of interconnect failure, OpenVMS Cluster software automatically uses an alternate interconnect whenever possible. OpenVMS Cluster software supports any combination of the following interconnects:
CI (computer interconnect) (Alpha and VAX)
DSSI (Digital Storage Systems Interconnect) (Alpha and VAX)
SCSI (Small Computer Storage Interconnect) (storage only, Alpha and limited support for I64)
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) (Alpha and VAX)
Ethernet (10/100, Gigabit) (I64, Alpha and VAX)
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) (emulated LAN configurations only, Alpha only)
Memory Channel (Version 7.1 and higher only, Alpha only)
Fibre Channel (storage only, Version 7.2-1 and higher only, I64 and Alpha only)
Dragon version 8 made major improvements in recognition. The preferred version will read out loud. My wife has neck and shoulder problems, Dragon allows her to use a computer reasonably well. They have ratings for different microphones, I sprung for 5 Dragon usb mic. Doesn't make sense to cheap out after the software's installed. We got an upgrade offer after giving up on Dragon many versions ago. The version 8 release is actually worthwhile.
The big failure is Sony's attempt to lock in their own lame software, restrict the functionality, and limit the use of MD. These would have been a great challenge to the Zip disks 10 years ago. Imagine being able to move data and music back and foward on a USB port.
Instead Sony tried to lock MD down, limited licenses to a few partners, and starved any reason to inovate. Sharp is dropping out of the MD business in the US. It's the same story as Betamax, another better quality standard killed by corporate lockdown. You can only buy a limited number of units.
I'll keep using MD until the next big thing comes along. After all, I still have cassette tapes and vinyl. Some of which I've archived on CD. As far as portable music goes Sony blew this big time.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced an investigation of the notorious hacker web community known as SlashDot. Devoted to denial of service attach, the site is now attempting to entice underage girls to learn. We can't have little girls exposed being exposed to knowledge and critical, this will interfering with traditional family values the government offical was quoted as saying. Process servers are cruising Taco Bells around the country searching for the site mastermind known as CDR Taco.
Only if having people shouting, hearing a scene by screne review going out on cell phones, listening to the 2 girls try to figure out why he dumped here behind me . . . can be considered full of entertainment .
Theaters have jacked up their prices and made the environment less attractive. When I go to a movie I want to see and hear the movie. Laughing with the crowd can be part of that. Having sound bleed between broom closets because they built the latest mega-multi-plex without sound insulation to save a buck means I won't go back. The last movie I took a date to had a mother and three kids in the audience. One cried for 2 hours, one wanted to go home and go to bed Mommy I'm tired can I go to bed, Mommy I want to go home now, I want to go to sleep . The last one just ran up and down the aisles and jumped over seats. Netflix costs less for my monthly charges, the home benefits have already been covered so I'll just say "me too" about that subject.
The experience of going to a movie just isn't a good one any longer. When I lived in DC many years ago, there were 2 cinema-taverns in the area. Older 1 screen places that had gutted the seats and put in comfortable booth/couches. The concession stand was in side the viewing area, but glassed over so the sound wouldn't spread. They served liquor and hot food at reasonable bar prices. Since it was licensed as a bar, no larva allowed. There were bar maids to take orders before the movie, no talking once film rolled, you went and got your own. They showed second run stuff and had a good regular crowd. That was worth the ticket price. For now, it's either Netflix or TCM.
I buy more music now a days, although none of it from labels the RIAA ever made a dime from. I just got back from a music festival in Northern California and picked up a dozen albums on physical CDs. Many musicians now have their own web site and market on CDBaby. Despite free downloads and live taping allowed, sales were brisk. I'm one the minority who believes MP3 sound is inadequate, so if I like it, I'll buy it. More so from an artist who runs his own label and will see something from the sale.
Mod me up, I've slammed Microsoft
Does anybody else have any questions about how trustworthy Diebold is?
I wonder if Alberto Gonzales had a hand in naming Total Information Awareness. In the small town where I grew up, Tias knew everything going on, the comings and goings, motivations, credit balances and who was seeing who.
George Orwell warned us what the ability to revise history would bring. They'll try to point to the current specs and be amazed at any fuss. The common user will review the new web site and think It must have been other card I wanted. Much like Intel's great divide hush up, this will only be resolved with much publicity that might impact the bottom line.
Let's see, hookers sell a few hours of their time, perform questionable acts for money, and in the ideal situation, make you feel like you'r the most important part of their day. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices.
System admin, sells all of his or her time, performs questionable acts for money. May try to make his customers happy. Tries to avoid virus and worm outbreaks with best practices. Demanding customers may make this difficult.
Consultant. See hooker.
All in all, a hooker has better pay scale, less hours, and a chance to negotiate a better working environment. Also less likely to be outsourced.
The pyramids all over the world were actually monuments to aliens. The truth has been hushed up, see this daring documentary for more details. Ever wonder why the worlds' pyramids are in equatorial regions?
I agree that under Emperor Cheney and the Figurehead Buffoon the Bill of Rights is under attack. But prisoners in China don't wind up on The Island, they wind up as guest of honor at a chain organ transplant. You don't stay in prison very long, just long enough for a tissue match and to fill in all the order blanks.
Rodney King, aka traffic terrorist
I wonder if the shareholders have a case for mismanagement?
If Joss makes it, my family and I will watch it. I'd love to buy the a DVD set of season.
Keep on flying
The always on target response. In the IT field you need to always be learning. Some of this time will come out of your time, although you should get some training allowance.
One company I worked for had a great training budget, but no one could ever get training approved. I got a major P.O. for a year long training pass signed by a departing manager. After that manager couldn't approve training any more. You may have to travel for training.
As previously noted, document your requests and show what benefit the company gets from training. When a problem shows up, instead of jumping on the fix, pull open volume 1 of the doc set and and start a page by page search for the error message. This works really well with multi volume manuals. Explain that the 10 minute fix is in here someplace, I know I can find it.
Don't forget user forums and usenet. I document my time on usenet as training and research. Google groups is your friend.
I used to have a manager who managed by meals. He'd walk by and "let's go grab a breakfast burrito, I'm buying." On the way to the parking lot were the timetable questions, any problems? Shipping? Customer sign off? At lunch time he'd buy lunch for the next project over. Somedays he'd need someone to drive him to Frys and look around. You've got a truck, let's drive down this afternoon. He knew more about what everbody was doing than anyone else I've ever reported to. He was only only a fair coder, an incredible hardware geek but an outstanding manager. Later on he was laid off in a merger and the company added a new project manager group staffed with people who didn't know the the customers or products. They lost 60 percent of their customers before I bailed.
Big brother has been replaced by Big Bubba from Texas
Don't you care that this is going on your permanent record!
Is there any grant money available, I have an proposal for a study. It will take a few years, require international travel to get a good subject sample. It'll have to be repeated before publication of course.
Are there any volunteers out there who'd like to be subjected to fun?
On the mid term day, I looked down at the exact same exam. Standard distribution of scores, even with the answers read out in class my teaching didn't much impact test scores.
Desktop calendar - Jot down calls, meetings, "what I did" for each day. In your face, but can be tough to carry.
Text file/spreadsheet - Needs to be available. I work in multiple locations, desktop/laptop/customer systems/internal servers on different networks. Not a fan.
PDA - a shade better, not as in your face. Needs batteries & synch plan. I prefer the steno pad approach. No batteries and easy to carry about, tucks nicely in my travel bag. We bill customers in 15 minute slices.