Perhaps you missed this incident a few years where Tim Cook defended Apple's use of renewable energy?
For the better part of the last decade, Apple has taken on a number of sustainability projects and adopted practices to reduce waste and carbon emissions. In 2012, it broke ground on a data center in Oregon in order to take advantage of low-cost renewable energy and has plans to make all of its facilities reliant on green energy. It generally scores highly with EPEAT, a federal environmental group that keeps a registry of "green" digital devices. And in May 2013, it hired Lisa Jackson, who formerly ran the Environmental Protection Agency, to help Apple with sustainability.
Luckily for you, creimer, nothing of import will ever arrive in your inbox. So, good looking out. That's not even an active job search.
I still get 20+ emails and phone calls from recruiters every day.
The fact that you're a contractor who makes a habit of checking your personal mail during the work day using your employer's resources speaks volumes about your professionalism, too.
Management was way more upset about not being able to access their personal email.
[...] do you arrive at work, start your script running, and then tuck into Slashdot for 8 hours?
My required work takes one hour. For the remaining seven hours, I'm listening to 30 people on the headset waiting for stuff to roll down hill. I occasionally run PowerShell scripts, update spreadsheets and create tickets for site techs.
My side business takes up another eight hours when I get home. Revamping three book titles for next month's summer/winter sale at Smashwords.
As another user of yahoo mail for about 25 years now, the new interface they introduced several years ago is terrible.
My job implemented new content rules to prevent access to web-based email. I no longer see YM (personal) or GM (contracting agency). Now I need to monitor email on my iPhone in case something important arrives.
Uhhhh, you can map network drives that reconnect at logon...
The logon.bat drops all existing mapped drives before mapping them again. If Windows decides to "forget" that a mapped network drive exists, I just click on the shortcut to the logon.bat file to refresh the mappings. A bat file can be copied to multiple PCs and VMs to have the same mappings.
The big problem with adopting quality frameworks* is that people adopt them to check a checkbox without understanding how they are supposed to work.
I worked at a help desk company that wanted to adopt ITIL. Everyone was enthusiastic to learn about ITIL. Until management decided that everyone needed to pay for their own certification, as there was no money in the budget to get the entire organization ITIL-certified. Needless to say, ITIL never got adopted.
I miss back in the day when the trolls were actually creative and would write fiction about the sex lives of Slashdot editors rather than harassing ordinary users.
We had some great literary talent back in the day.
I'm saying that you keep making these pronouncements about how, "sure, things are not good now, but if I just double down on what I'm doing today, somehow it'll all turn out all right!"
The artwork covers were created six months ago. The new covers and revised text are being uploaded this month to be available for sale during Smashwords Summer/Winter sale in July, where my newly priced $1.99 ebooks will be discounted by 50% to $0.99 each. I'm forecasting to sell 60 copies of each ebook to pay back for the new artwork. This is something that I've been planning to do for the last two years. This is only the beginning.
I doubt it's going to do his career much good in that form.
What makes you think there's a connection between my professional life and my commercial life? The two are quite separate. If you asked my coworkers about my ebooks, they wouldn't know what you were talking about. If you asked my writer friends about my government IT job, they would say CIA/FBI/NSA/GPO.
why is there so much hate for Creimer on/. lately?
Some asshats went from being annoying to abusive and I got Slashdot management to delete five user accounts (four were fake and one was real). Except for this latest turn of events, I wrote blog posts about the last three months.
New cover art will not matter. Nobody buys your books because "oooh the cover art is cool." They'll pull a free sample, and laugh merrily as they delete it.
New cover art done by a professional graphic designer to replace my cheap ass cover art.
Revised texts - this MIGHT help, but your actual original material is hackneyed, trite, and boring.
If you think my stuff is bad, try reading the Twilight novels. The publisher forgot to hire a copy editor and a proofreader for the series.
Higher prices: This will *REDUCE* your income. Nobody's going to pay higher prices for bad writing - at 99 cents, they might say "oh well, if it's terrible, it's only 99 cents."
Yes, in the short term. Once my entire catalog gets revamped, I'll have a solid foundation to launch new titles next year.
WRITE BOOKS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO READ.
Which is what exactly? Don't bitch about what I've already wrote. Tell me what readers want to read now. The entire industry is waiting breathlessly on your pronouncement.
Slashdot Mirror
I got a FreeNAS file server to store my data and backup all my systems.
Perhaps you missed this incident a few years where Tim Cook defended Apple's use of renewable energy?
For the better part of the last decade, Apple has taken on a number of sustainability projects and adopted practices to reduce waste and carbon emissions. In 2012, it broke ground on a data center in Oregon in order to take advantage of low-cost renewable energy and has plans to make all of its facilities reliant on green energy. It generally scores highly with EPEAT, a federal environmental group that keeps a registry of "green" digital devices. And in May 2013, it hired Lisa Jackson, who formerly ran the Environmental Protection Agency, to help Apple with sustainability.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/at-apple-shareholders-meeting-tim-cook-tells-off-climate-change-deniers/
Luckily for you, creimer, nothing of import will ever arrive in your inbox. So, good looking out. That's not even an active job search.
I still get 20+ emails and phone calls from recruiters every day.
The fact that you're a contractor who makes a habit of checking your personal mail during the work day using your employer's resources speaks volumes about your professionalism, too.
Management was way more upset about not being able to access their personal email.
[...] do you arrive at work, start your script running, and then tuck into Slashdot for 8 hours?
My required work takes one hour. For the remaining seven hours, I'm listening to 30 people on the headset waiting for stuff to roll down hill. I occasionally run PowerShell scripts, update spreadsheets and create tickets for site techs.
My side business takes up another eight hours when I get home. Revamping three book titles for next month's summer/winter sale at Smashwords.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/874784575389552640/
As another user of yahoo mail for about 25 years now, the new interface they introduced several years ago is terrible.
My job implemented new content rules to prevent access to web-based email. I no longer see YM (personal) or GM (contracting agency). Now I need to monitor email on my iPhone in case something important arrives.
As a Yahoo! mail user for 20+ years, many users would have a problem with YM becoming a GM clone.
I thought she was being considered for Uber?
Some of Marissa's "land grabbing" can be found in "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards.
Uhhhh, you can map network drives that reconnect at logon...
The logon.bat drops all existing mapped drives before mapping them again. If Windows decides to "forget" that a mapped network drive exists, I just click on the shortcut to the logon.bat file to refresh the mappings. A bat file can be copied to multiple PCs and VMs to have the same mappings.
The big problem with adopting quality frameworks* is that people adopt them to check a checkbox without understanding how they are supposed to work.
I worked at a help desk company that wanted to adopt ITIL. Everyone was enthusiastic to learn about ITIL. Until management decided that everyone needed to pay for their own certification, as there was no money in the budget to get the entire organization ITIL-certified. Needless to say, ITIL never got adopted.
"logon.bat". Ha. Welcome to 1995.
I have logon.bat on my Windows PCs to map drives to my FreeNAS file server in my home office.
I miss back in the day when the trolls were actually creative and would write fiction about the sex lives of Slashdot editors rather than harassing ordinary users.
We had some great literary talent back in the day.
1) Don't hire creimer.
Why not? I have a 98.8% SLA rate.
2) Make sure if he's employed at the competition, that he STAYS there!
That could explained why the Russians wanted me to work stateside.
I'm saying that you keep making these pronouncements about how, "sure, things are not good now, but if I just double down on what I'm doing today, somehow it'll all turn out all right!"
The artwork covers were created six months ago. The new covers and revised text are being uploaded this month to be available for sale during Smashwords Summer/Winter sale in July, where my newly priced $1.99 ebooks will be discounted by 50% to $0.99 each. I'm forecasting to sell 60 copies of each ebook to pay back for the new artwork. This is something that I've been planning to do for the last two years. This is only the beginning.
On his shitty site he complained about Slashdot "Anonymous Contributors".
Good catch. That's been corrected. Thank you.
I doubt it's going to do his career much good in that form.
What makes you think there's a connection between my professional life and my commercial life? The two are quite separate. If you asked my coworkers about my ebooks, they wouldn't know what you were talking about. If you asked my writer friends about my government IT job, they would say CIA/FBI/NSA/GPO.
The name of your blog betrays your self loathing suicidal tendency.
You do know what a bit bucket is? It's where all the paper chads from the punch cards are stored in.
Trump is a delusional man-child desperately clinging to a toothpick in the Atlantic Ocean.
FTFY
It's meant as a shield, not a sword to go after people you hate.
I don't hate my abusers. I feel sorry for them. They could have done something useful with their life.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow - you're always a day away.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/874784575389552640
Yes, I've now revealed to you the mysteries of the universe.
Funny... I don't see your answer to what readers want to read today.
I doubt it would have a lot of utility, the reading level over there is a lot higher.
Good point. The Beavis & Butthead crowd might find it hard to keep up with the arguments over there.
why is there so much hate for Creimer on /. lately?
Some asshats went from being annoying to abusive and I got Slashdot management to delete five user accounts (four were fake and one was real). Except for this latest turn of events, I wrote blog posts about the last three months.
https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/tag/slashdot/
They should use it on Google News, first.
Or Politico. Every comment gets spammed with at least one "I made $3000 from working from home..." comment.
Who's the asshat, again?
You're commenting as AC, right? What does the A stand for again? Asshat...
New cover art will not matter. Nobody buys your books because "oooh the cover art is cool." They'll pull a free sample, and laugh merrily as they delete it.
New cover art done by a professional graphic designer to replace my cheap ass cover art.
Revised texts - this MIGHT help, but your actual original material is hackneyed, trite, and boring.
If you think my stuff is bad, try reading the Twilight novels. The publisher forgot to hire a copy editor and a proofreader for the series.
Higher prices: This will *REDUCE* your income. Nobody's going to pay higher prices for bad writing - at 99 cents, they might say "oh well, if it's terrible, it's only 99 cents."
Yes, in the short term. Once my entire catalog gets revamped, I'll have a solid foundation to launch new titles next year.
WRITE BOOKS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO READ.
Which is what exactly? Don't bitch about what I've already wrote. Tell me what readers want to read now. The entire industry is waiting breathlessly on your pronouncement.