And if you remeber back to the Contract With America, the Republicans charged that the Democratic Congress was corrupt as hell and that as soon as they got power they were going to end it. That didn't turn out too well for us Americans, did it?
The gripe is that Right-leaning journalists and pundits repeat the talking point that Democrats are aligned with Abramoff just as much as Republicans and, by extension, as corrupt as the Republican party currently is. The Republican defense is basically "Those bad ol' lobbyists got to all of us members of Congress. If you get rid of us, get rid of them too!" The people who are upset are trying to get the paper to correct a factual error and the Ombudsman is denying that it is incorrect even though the facts disagree with her. This IS important. It indicates that the Republican National Comittee influences reporting of journalists. Some people still have the ideal that reporting be unbiased and fair and that is currently not the case.
Because there is specific evidence that he committed fraud and played one of his clients against the other (the Coushatta Indians of Louisiana against a tribe in Texas). He is persona non grata and is tied in with a TON of Republicans in Congress as well as Bush, Rove, and the rest of the White House. Some of the more egregious abuses of power are coming to light and this embarrasses the party that wrote the Contract With America to no end.
You know, we're never going to again have the heady days of huge Windows viruses that propogave over the network and infect every Windows system in sight. The days of massive viruses like those are over.
What killed them? Windows Firewall. I think MS learned their lesson on that one.
The requirements for one job I've done was that the calendar had to work with Outlook and had to basically look just like Exchange to the people in the office. I went with InsightServer running on a RedHat Linux server. it cost a lot less than Exchange and it works great. It's been running for about two years now without any problems. The only issue we've had so far is Blackberry support. Feel free to ask me any questions if you decide to go with it.
This is basically the same as changing to runlevel 1 (or 2, actually, maybe?)
And if your system is owned, that might be a cool idea. I've seen instances where I would be able to use this on a Windows system that is completely hosed. I've had to boot to normal mode and kill every task, note which tasks ran themselves again, and then find and eradicate them. That's no fun.
Not only can you play with a whole bunch of people, but you can also take their "money". It's a really deep game and there are tons of variations to it.
Of course, I play craps for fun too, so I'm kinda strange.
I charge the one client I actually want to keep (others have gone away due to attrition and I haven't bothered to look for more) $50 an hour. I let him put me on retainer now for a half a year at a time for about $600 and it's welllll worth it. And since he hired my wife at his office (everybody there thinks she's great, and they're absolutely right) I let him slide if I get too many phone calls for tech support (besides, I get to talk to my wife while we're waiting for a reboot or virus scan to complete or something). Anyway, for me, this is win win. Besides, I've learned how to set up an exchange replacement on Linux (Bynari Insight).
is an analysis of what failed with each browser (especially Firefox.) None of the links told us why the browser failed to render the smiley face or what the WSP did to obfuscate the code. Any takers?
My wife and I work close together so we carpool. For times we can't/don't carpool, I drive my motorcycle (50+ miles to the gallon, thank you).
I cut down to one desktop and two laptops at home. I run pretty much everything on surge protectors and I turn them off when things aren't in use. We also use less heat this year than we did last year by keeping the house more humid (look into getting a vaporizer if you're in a fairly dry climate).
We've managed to halve our electric bill this month (first month in our new house) and hopefully the bill will stay steady. When we actually build our house it will be concrete with really good insulation so we won't be prey to the temperature extremes here in Texas.
Unless it supports WuOL. Many systems use much more power than you would expect when they're turned off. That's why I've put my desktop in the office on a surge procector. When I'm done, I hibernate (suspend to disk) and turn off the surge protector. It saves you the standby power of the speakers, monitor, and computer at least. I'll see how much it saves me in a couple weeks or so.
I work at Dell and my commodity is our Axims. I got a few (quite a few) free ones to play with and at first, I wasn't quite looking forward to it because I also had tried to be a PocketPC guy and it just didn't work for me.
Now, a couple months later, though, I use mine all the time. Not only do I take it to all my meetings, but I now no longer take my laptop with me and I really enjoy not having to lug that thing everywhere.
So here's what changed:
I have a Bluetooth keyboard. This takes care of the input thing.
I figured out that if I synced my calendar and kept it synced that I wouldn't have to open my laptop, connect to the network, run Outlook, and look up my meeting to determine which room it's in.
GPS for both navigating on the road and geocaching.
Games (I have a VGA PDA with excellent video. If you haven't played Enigmo yet, you're missing out!)
Integrated wireless. I LOVE reading slashdot while I'm pooping!
Basically, PDA technology has really improved for me enough that I find it nearly indespensible.
If you have free time you should get certified in as much as possible. If you have the knowledge you can go through the classes/tests/whatever and show it all on your resume. Use this time to build skills etc!
Sturgis Michigan, 12 years old (I lied about my age). Did it for four summers! It was both fun and awful at the same time. Cold mornings, hot afternoons, wet corn slapping you as you went by. Fun times, man.
My mother is blind and I've helped her vote before. It's really easy. You go to the polling place, she says "This is my son and he's going to help me vote." They then hand me the ballot, I hand my mom the ballot with a pointed look at the person who just handed it to me, and we go and vote.
Nothing could be simpler. People just don't give you crap when you've got a handicapped person with ya. Though sometimes they'll talk to me and hand me things rather than interacting with her, but you can make it blatantly obvious that that's not the way it goes after which they behave.
Do you ever wish you'd ended any of your books differently? Your books are usually fast paced, but as you reach the last 5-10 pages a reader begins to panic. The thought that always goes through my head is "He doesn't have enough book left to explain it all!" and usually I'm right.
I mean, I don't want to know that Princess Nell had two kids and lived in a trailer park for the rest of her life finally dying of emphezema, but it'd be kinda nice to get just a bit more detail before being dropped off with only a bare explaination of events.
This is the crappiest thing I've ever seen. I mean, now not only do we have professional spammers innundating us with massive amounts of lame vi4gr4 but now every cretinous AOLer who plays this game will be telling all his friends "j00 have too see these funny pictures!!! Their great!"
If any of my friends managed to get a single power point from me I would rag on them for the rest of their short, pathetic lives. Every time they logged into their email they'd receive a deluge of the worst, most heinous spam and goatse links.
You can't fit a bunch of trash inside R2! It's full of little person! He's cramped enough in there already without you throwing your Arby's wrapper in there as well. And don't you think if the Death Star was built in modern times there'd be a Bank of America and a McDonalds in there? I mean, if Wal-Mart can have 'em the Death Star most certainly would.
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Are you trying to build a straw man argument rather than actually think about or respond to the true meaning of my statement?
And if you remeber back to the Contract With America, the Republicans charged that the Democratic Congress was corrupt as hell and that as soon as they got power they were going to end it. That didn't turn out too well for us Americans, did it?
The gripe is that Right-leaning journalists and pundits repeat the talking point that Democrats are aligned with Abramoff just as much as Republicans and, by extension, as corrupt as the Republican party currently is. The Republican defense is basically "Those bad ol' lobbyists got to all of us members of Congress. If you get rid of us, get rid of them too!"
The people who are upset are trying to get the paper to correct a factual error and the Ombudsman is denying that it is incorrect even though the facts disagree with her. This IS important. It indicates that the Republican National Comittee influences reporting of journalists. Some people still have the ideal that reporting be unbiased and fair and that is currently not the case.
Because there is specific evidence that he committed fraud and played one of his clients against the other (the Coushatta Indians of Louisiana against a tribe in Texas). He is persona non grata and is tied in with a TON of Republicans in Congress as well as Bush, Rove, and the rest of the White House. Some of the more egregious abuses of power are coming to light and this embarrasses the party that wrote the Contract With America to no end.
Kind of a different point of view on it, though. It does sound like she has been parroting the RNC talking points, though. Y'all seen it?
Pretty much. Either people who can reach it or their lobbyists.
Actually, a large number of customers reinstall Windows on those systems.
You know, we're never going to again have the heady days of huge Windows viruses that propogave over the network and infect every Windows system in sight. The days of massive viruses like those are over.
What killed them? Windows Firewall. I think MS learned their lesson on that one.
The requirements for one job I've done was that the calendar had to work with Outlook and had to basically look just like Exchange to the people in the office. I went with InsightServer running on a RedHat Linux server. it cost a lot less than Exchange and it works great. It's been running for about two years now without any problems. The only issue we've had so far is Blackberry support. Feel free to ask me any questions if you decide to go with it.
This is basically the same as changing to runlevel 1 (or 2, actually, maybe?) And if your system is owned, that might be a cool idea. I've seen instances where I would be able to use this on a Windows system that is completely hosed. I've had to boot to normal mode and kill every task, note which tasks ran themselves again, and then find and eradicate them. That's no fun.
Not only can you play with a whole bunch of people, but you can also take their "money". It's a really deep game and there are tons of variations to it.
Of course, I play craps for fun too, so I'm kinda strange.
I charge the one client I actually want to keep (others have gone away due to attrition and I haven't bothered to look for more) $50 an hour. I let him put me on retainer now for a half a year at a time for about $600 and it's welllll worth it. And since he hired my wife at his office (everybody there thinks she's great, and they're absolutely right) I let him slide if I get too many phone calls for tech support (besides, I get to talk to my wife while we're waiting for a reboot or virus scan to complete or something). Anyway, for me, this is win win. Besides, I've learned how to set up an exchange replacement on Linux (Bynari Insight).
Rudy Rucker's book "Wetware" (I believe. Maybe Freeware. Whichever, it's the last of the series) introduced "magic wands" like this. Give it a read!
is an analysis of what failed with each browser (especially Firefox.) None of the links told us why the browser failed to render the smiley face or what the WSP did to obfuscate the code. Any takers?
- My wife and I work close together so we carpool. For times we can't/don't carpool, I drive my motorcycle (50+ miles to the gallon, thank you).
- I cut down to one desktop and two laptops at home. I run pretty much everything on surge protectors and I turn them off when things aren't in use. We also use less heat this year than we did last year by keeping the house more humid (look into getting a vaporizer if you're in a fairly dry climate).
We've managed to halve our electric bill this month (first month in our new house) and hopefully the bill will stay steady. When we actually build our house it will be concrete with really good insulation so we won't be prey to the temperature extremes here in Texas.Unless it supports WuOL. Many systems use much more power than you would expect when they're turned off. That's why I've put my desktop in the office on a surge procector. When I'm done, I hibernate (suspend to disk) and turn off the surge protector. It saves you the standby power of the speakers, monitor, and computer at least. I'll see how much it saves me in a couple weeks or so.
Now, a couple months later, though, I use mine all the time. Not only do I take it to all my meetings, but I now no longer take my laptop with me and I really enjoy not having to lug that thing everywhere.
So here's what changed:
Basically, PDA technology has really improved for me enough that I find it nearly indespensible.
If you have free time you should get certified in as much as possible. If you have the knowledge you can go through the classes/tests/whatever and show it all on your resume. Use this time to build skills etc!
Sturgis Michigan, 12 years old (I lied about my age). Did it for four summers! It was both fun and awful at the same time. Cold mornings, hot afternoons, wet corn slapping you as you went by. Fun times, man.
Oh great, the only time of the week I ever venture out and now you've ruined it by telling people about it.
Time to move to Kansas.
I doubt it. I bet it has short, spiky hair and wears plaid.
Nothing could be simpler. People just don't give you crap when you've got a handicapped person with ya. Though sometimes they'll talk to me and hand me things rather than interacting with her, but you can make it blatantly obvious that that's not the way it goes after which they behave.
Do you ever wish you'd ended any of your books differently? Your books are usually fast paced, but as you reach the last 5-10 pages a reader begins to panic. The thought that always goes through my head is "He doesn't have enough book left to explain it all!" and usually I'm right.
I mean, I don't want to know that Princess Nell had two kids and lived in a trailer park for the rest of her life finally dying of emphezema, but it'd be kinda nice to get just a bit more detail before being dropped off with only a bare explaination of events.
This is the crappiest thing I've ever seen. I mean, now not only do we have professional spammers innundating us with massive amounts of lame vi4gr4 but now every cretinous AOLer who plays this game will be telling all his friends "j00 have too see these funny pictures!!! Their great!"
If any of my friends managed to get a single power point from me I would rag on them for the rest of their short, pathetic lives. Every time they logged into their email they'd receive a deluge of the worst, most heinous spam and goatse links.
You can't fit a bunch of trash inside R2! It's full of little person! He's cramped enough in there already without you throwing your Arby's wrapper in there as well.
And don't you think if the Death Star was built in modern times there'd be a Bank of America and a McDonalds in there? I mean, if Wal-Mart can have 'em the Death Star most certainly would.