I work at Boeing, and one of the wonderful advantages here is that they will pay 100% of your tuition while you are employed. Yes, all of it. Every single penny. If it is in the least amount "job related" (which your manager decides) then the reinbursement is tax free. If not, its taxed at 42% I believe.
I recently received an internship at Boeing in southern california, and I must say I am impressed. These "PhD Engineers" that you speak of have built the airplanes that you fly on, the satellites that you rely on, and the delta rockets that launch them into space.
I have seen my fair share of hackers here, like people all day hacking away on a sun workstation to improve GPS. "modernization" is the buzz word right now, actually...
It is AMAZING to walk through a Boeing facility and see all the technology out in the open...
Everything here has to be thoroughly tried and tested to make sure that it can't be f*ed up. You don't send a satellite up if it has a problem, because your client (i.e. the Air Force) won't offer you another contract, and may go with someone like Lockheed.
I do not work on Connexion, but I have full faith that Boeing will deliver another successful, beneficial, and wonderful product to the public.
www.pcpowercooling.com has an entire slew of quiet fans and power supplies. Last year I bought a ultra-quiet power supply from them along with a spare case fan.
The power supply I believe was slightly overpriced, but those Silencer Auxilary Fans are a steal at 9 bucks apiece. You can take one of those fans and stick it in your current power supply and you will definately notice a difference.
I'm hired out by a small recording studio that mixes with Paris, Cubase, and Gigasampler on Athlon systems, and let me tell you that nothing is more annoying than a 7 foot rack of stuff with fans on them.. ugh. Go buy some quiet fans and seal off all your equipment in another room!;)
As some people know, Boeing is the last major plane manufacturer in the United States. They also have many other departments, such as Missle Defense. Visiting there the other day in Aneheim, the guy I talked to described Boeing "in bed" with Microsoft. The government has protected and is using Boeing, so why wouldn't they do the same for Microsoft? To the average non-geek, there is only "Windows." Maybe they're working with the government on something as well?
The method of using a different long distance carrier is actually 101 plus a four digit code for the carrier. The changes in the network allow for ten times as many companies to get their own code. Adding a 10 would only allow for the same amount of long distance carriers. As for the current companies, 321, 220, etc, just had a zero appended to the beginning, so they are 0321 and 0220 respectively.
This article makes me worried, especially since I start attending Arizona State University in about a week!
What they should do, is only set it up to moniter certain e-mail accounts, that the students KNOW about, and then have them all send messages over a couple of days that might trip off the system that shouldn't, some that really should, etc, and see what the administrator comes up with.
If this system causes more e-mailings to be read than should be, it should be done away with.
Don't we all love the FBI? They are the PERFECT group to bring change in america! I mean, under J Edgar Hoover, they solved the problem of Martin Luther King REALLY quick. Oh, and let us not forget how much they helped with the JFK Assassination! Don't we have so much to thank them for?
This all makes me want to grow up to be an FBI agent. That way I can read all of CmdrTaco's e-mail from us weird/.ers
I just freshly installed Windows ME RTM on my windows box, and I was considering what e-mail client I should install on it. I thought, well I've used Eudora and Netscape in the past, but I think I'll try and keep this installation using all Microsoft stuff to see what happens . . . Then, I opened up/. to see this article on top.... hmm... maybe I'll stick with Eudora..
Unfortunately, I never really saw the wiretap archive (I haven't been around THAT long!), but there does exist a large archive of old text files from the 70's, 80's, AND 90's.
www.textfiles.com is a great archive when you are looking for anything text related these days. They all those old BBS text files, ranging from all that H/P/V/A/C stuff to ASCII porn. Check it out!
Is anyone else with me when I say that I STILL USE command line pkzip?? I am so used to typing pkunzip file.zip -d!
I am proud to say that I have NEVER EVER installed WinZIP on my computer! I tried using it on someone else's computer a while ago, and all those buttons got in the way. I still have my original PK204GRG.EXE file from five years ago. It is ALWAYS extracted in my \windows\command directory. Unfortunately, tho, it couldn't handle long file names... PKZIP 2.5 COMMAND LINE to the rescue!!! But, since I am so used to pkunzip.exe, I made myself a pkunzip.bat file that says: "pkzip25 -extract -dir %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9"
I have had and used my Olympus D-450Z Digital Camera since about Christimas of last year and I love it! It has many advantages over other cameras and such.
First of all, it's shaped like a normal camera! The front slides open to reveal the lens (similar to Olympus film cameras), and it's not big and bulky, like the floppy disk kind (or even some memory stick ones I've seen).
The quality on these cameras is nothing to laugh about either! Super-High-Quality stores the images as 1280x960 TrueColor JPEGs. High-Quality stores them at 1280x960 (24bit I think, maybe 16) JPEGs. The lowest quality setting stores them at 640x480.
Included with the camera is an 8mb smartmedia card. At SHQ, it stores 12 images, at HQ, it stores 36, and at LQ, it stores 118! That's just 8mb though. I believe that they sell up to 64.
I love my little screen also, because in an hour lets say I take 20 HQ pictures. I can scroll through them quickly and delete everything I don't want or came out blurry for some reason. I can get the pics on my computer four different ways, the first (and slowest) is with a serial cable. The camera also has a RCA video out on it, so I can show my pictures in a slide show on a tv. I can get a USB device that reads the smartmedia super-duper fast, but the best thing I think is a little floppy disk adapter that I can put the smartmedia in. That way, it can go onto ANY computer.
I know that battery power is something people always complain about, especially if they like to use the digital display a lot. I don't blame them! The Olympus D-450Z takes four AA batteries. Yeah, on normal batteries it doesn't last me a week, but I found these energizer lithium batteries at the hardware store (I think I saw them at the shack also), and four of those lasted my two months, running the flash and the screen all the time! wow!
Maybe I'm biased, but I've used several cameras and if I had the choice I'd stick with the Olympus brand. Honestly, I haven't seen any higher quality pictures than with it.
All the CDs that I have copied of Windows98 and Office97 have crashed on all 30 computers I've installed them on in different ways, and I plan to sue Microsoft because of it! How dare they crash my computer!!
Wouldn't you have done the same?
(This is similar: Burgular breaks into my house and cuts his foot on the kitchen floor, and sues me because my linolium was bad)
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Opera is great, but I can't stand the built in ads. I feel like I'm back on NetZero. Besides, Galeon does all those mouse guestures anyway...
I'm on top of it!
www.sagernotebooks.com provides excelent notebooks for the cost, and I highly recommend checking them out!
I work at Boeing, and one of the wonderful advantages here is that they will pay 100% of your tuition while you are employed. Yes, all of it. Every single penny. If it is in the least amount "job related" (which your manager decides) then the reinbursement is tax free. If not, its taxed at 42% I believe.
off to get two bytes of 0xF00D
I recently received an internship at Boeing in southern california, and I must say I am impressed. These "PhD Engineers" that you speak of have built the airplanes that you fly on, the satellites that you rely on, and the delta rockets that launch them into space.
I have seen my fair share of hackers here, like people all day hacking away on a sun workstation to improve GPS. "modernization" is the buzz word right now, actually...
It is AMAZING to walk through a Boeing facility and see all the technology out in the open...
Everything here has to be thoroughly tried and tested to make sure that it can't be f*ed up. You don't send a satellite up if it has a problem, because your client (i.e. the Air Force) won't offer you another contract, and may go with someone like Lockheed.
I do not work on Connexion, but I have full faith that Boeing will deliver another successful, beneficial, and wonderful product to the public.
tcpnice -n 20 host not localhost
:)
..if the spammer appealed to the US Supreme Court, and they upheld Washington's decision? Would that make spam illegal all over the country?
Imagine the possibilities... ahh..
I use at least 3GB a day.. sheesh..
www.pcpowercooling.com has an entire slew of quiet fans and power supplies. Last year I bought a ultra-quiet power supply from them along with a spare case fan.
;)
The power supply I believe was slightly overpriced, but those Silencer Auxilary Fans are a steal at 9 bucks apiece. You can take one of those fans and stick it in your current power supply and you will definately notice a difference.
I'm hired out by a small recording studio that mixes with Paris, Cubase, and Gigasampler on Athlon systems, and let me tell you that nothing is more annoying than a 7 foot rack of stuff with fans on them.. ugh. Go buy some quiet fans and seal off all your equipment in another room!
and I just installed 2.4.4.. another 2 hour download.. I hate dialup. :(
Woah, when I first read the title I thought that they had finally released IT! Ginger!
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And I thought we were gonna have those cool skateboards from back to the future...
As some people know, Boeing is the last major plane manufacturer in the United States. They also have many other departments, such as Missle Defense. Visiting there the other day in Aneheim, the guy I talked to described Boeing "in bed" with Microsoft. The government has protected and is using Boeing, so why wouldn't they do the same for Microsoft? To the average non-geek, there is only "Windows." Maybe they're working with the government on something as well?
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The method of using a different long distance carrier is actually 101 plus a four digit code for the carrier. The changes in the network allow for ten times as many companies to get their own code. Adding a 10 would only allow for the same amount of long distance carriers. As for the current companies, 321, 220, etc, just had a zero appended to the beginning, so they are 0321 and 0220 respectively.
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This article makes me worried, especially since I start attending Arizona State University in about a week!
/.ers
What they should do, is only set it up to moniter certain e-mail accounts, that the students KNOW about, and then have them all send messages over a couple of days that might trip off the system that shouldn't, some that really should, etc, and see what the administrator comes up with.
If this system causes more e-mailings to be read than should be, it should be done away with.
Don't we all love the FBI? They are the PERFECT group to bring change in america! I mean, under J Edgar Hoover, they solved the problem of Martin Luther King REALLY quick. Oh, and let us not forget how much they helped with the JFK Assassination! Don't we have so much to thank them for?
This all makes me want to grow up to be an FBI agent. That way I can read all of CmdrTaco's e-mail from us weird
I just freshly installed Windows ME RTM on my windows box, and I was considering what e-mail client I should install on it. I thought, well I've used Eudora and Netscape in the past, but I think I'll try and keep this installation using all Microsoft stuff to see what happens . . . Then, I opened up /. to see this article on top.... hmm... maybe I'll stick with Eudora..
Isn't it wonderful to know that They Might Be Giants' music is so educational? Everyone should have their CDs! lol...
Unfortunately, I never really saw the wiretap archive (I haven't been around THAT long!), but there does exist a large archive of old text files from the 70's, 80's, AND 90's.
www.textfiles.com is a great archive when you are looking for anything text related these days. They all those old BBS text files, ranging from all that H/P/V/A/C stuff to ASCII porn. Check it out!
Is anyone else with me when I say that I STILL USE command line pkzip?? I am so used to typing pkunzip file.zip -d!
:) :)
I am proud to say that I have NEVER EVER installed WinZIP on my computer! I tried using it on someone else's computer a while ago, and all those buttons got in the way. I still have my original PK204GRG.EXE file from five years ago. It is ALWAYS extracted in my \windows\command directory. Unfortunately, tho, it couldn't handle long file names... PKZIP 2.5 COMMAND LINE to the rescue!!! But, since I am so used to pkunzip.exe, I made myself a pkunzip.bat file that says: "pkzip25 -extract -dir %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9"
PKware will never die!
I have had and used my Olympus D-450Z Digital Camera since about Christimas of last year and I love it! It has many advantages over other cameras and such.
First of all, it's shaped like a normal camera! The front slides open to reveal the lens (similar to Olympus film cameras), and it's not big and bulky, like the floppy disk kind (or even some memory stick ones I've seen).
The quality on these cameras is nothing to laugh about either! Super-High-Quality stores the images as 1280x960 TrueColor JPEGs. High-Quality stores them at 1280x960 (24bit I think, maybe 16) JPEGs. The lowest quality setting stores them at 640x480.
Included with the camera is an 8mb smartmedia card. At SHQ, it stores 12 images, at HQ, it stores 36, and at LQ, it stores 118! That's just 8mb though. I believe that they sell up to 64.
I love my little screen also, because in an hour lets say I take 20 HQ pictures. I can scroll through them quickly and delete everything I don't want or came out blurry for some reason. I can get the pics on my computer four different ways, the first (and slowest) is with a serial cable. The camera also has a RCA video out on it, so I can show my pictures in a slide show on a tv. I can get a USB device that reads the smartmedia super-duper fast, but the best thing I think is a little floppy disk adapter that I can put the smartmedia in. That way, it can go onto ANY computer.
I know that battery power is something people always complain about, especially if they like to use the digital display a lot. I don't blame them! The Olympus D-450Z takes four AA batteries. Yeah, on normal batteries it doesn't last me a week, but I found these energizer lithium batteries at the hardware store (I think I saw them at the shack also), and four of those lasted my two months, running the flash and the screen all the time! wow!
Maybe I'm biased, but I've used several cameras and if I had the choice I'd stick with the Olympus brand. Honestly, I haven't seen any higher quality pictures than with it.
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title says it all!
Of course the bovine rich www.distributed.net has to smell none other than cow dung manure itself.
I hear all those extra cycles consumed are bad for the digestive system . . .
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He felt like kicking ass and chewing bubble gum...
:)
But he was alll outta gum!
Kicking ass works just as well.
All the CDs that I have copied of Windows98 and Office97 have crashed on all 30 computers I've installed them on in different ways, and I plan to sue Microsoft because of it! How dare they crash my computer!!
Wouldn't you have done the same?
(This is similar: Burgular breaks into my house and cuts his foot on the kitchen floor, and sues me because my linolium was bad)