Our users have had it pounded into their heads never to open attachments on messages with odd subjects.
But I'm just waiting to see who the pervs are. This should be interesting when someone comes to me and says their files have been deleted. Hmmmm.. and what were you trying to look at.
An Altair? How modern of you. Mine is held on a Packard Bell 250, you know, the one with acoustic delay lines used as registers.
But that's tongue and cheek of me. The IRS along with FBI are known as the two agencies with the most screwball computer systems in the country.
For example - in the entire FBI not one of their machines could read an 8mm metal-oxide tape. Not one. I ended up having to burn them a CD of the criminal history data we had.
Yet we trust each agency to either treat us fairly in the case of the IRS, or to both treat us fairly and protect us from harm in the case of the FBI.
Whilst here in Rhode Island there are many places where there are no road stripes because they've worn out and the state or municipality has no money to re-stripe.
It'd be easier to navigate by curb than by stripes.
When I ripped my old vinyl to mp3's and then shared them out on my home network I violated copyright. But its just me accessing them. Nobody else.
Copyright law in this country needs a major overhaul to keep up with the digital age. The problem is that the overhaul will be done by clueless beauracrats that are in hock to big business.
That's ok. We've been hitting mid 50's to 60's more often than not this January. And I'm in RI.
For example, past couple of days its been in the 30's but this weekend it'll be in the 50's. Granted, that warmer air also means more rain. But I welcome the rain.
The cycle this year has been snow to a maximum of eight inches in a storm, followed by warmer temps and rain. There isn't any real accumulation of snow like we used to get.
More ominous is that the sea gulls are pretty much here to stay. Usually they bolt for the winter months but rivers haven't frozen over so the food supply is still there.
TV news had a good shot of some dejected looking sea gulls stranded by wet, heavy snow the other day.
I'm definitely for the guy. He states it plainly that MS uses its legislative influence to try to derail any plans that would decrease the overall revenue stream of MS.
Maybe the Globe should be investigating those representatives, senators and general officers that tried to kill ODF. But they won't. Money talks and bullshit walks.
I bet my old keyboard is loaded with creepy crawlies. Why? Because it's six years old and never been cleaned. Key logos are worn off, many keys are rutted, there's a gaping hole where the power switch used to be, and food stains galore.
But the sucker still works like a champ even if it is a burgeoning colony.
Most of the meetings I've had to attend could have been performed via IM and/or email exchange.
This whole face time thing is ridiculous. We've got technologies to handle that these days.
When I was a director of an I.T. I had two meetings I had to attend per month. One was a weekly meet with my unit for status updates, the other the weekly senior staff meeting.
Then once a month I had the technical advisory meeting which I actually blew off a couple times because the office came first.
Otherwise everthing was handled via email or 1:1 in person or by phone. A meeting by definition is a committee and we all know the best way to doom and idea is to put it before a committee.
One of the features of a 5ESS or DMS-100 is that they keep nice tidy records of who called who for how many minutes.
Law enforcement has almost always had back doors into both the wired and wireless systems in the United States. They are the only entity I know of authorized to see this data.
So what we have here is either a) The cell carriers which are pretty much wholly owned by Bell Co's selling this info
or
b) Someone illegaly getting the data and selling it.
In Rhode Island you get a little form with your tax packet every year. It's called the RI Use Tax report.
You're supposed to figure out the approximate value of items bought out of state at a lesser tax rate, items bought online, etc. and then remit either the difference or the whole tax to the State of Rhode Island.
Right now this is all honor system and the RI Division of Taxation does not have the technological know how to go and see what you purchased where at the current moment.
More interesting is that what the congress critters are pushing is somewhat in violation of the Constitution in that only the federal government can tax interstate commerce. So this law is in direct violation.
A Dell XPS M140 and as soon as I get it I'm going to blow away the installed image and then re-install Win XP Pro to my liking.
Matter of fact, I've never bought a PC and used it right out of the box. Instead I've always tailored it to my needs, not that which the OEM feels it should be. But then I'm an I.T. guy and whatever Dell/Gateway/Et al sell is tailored to the neophyte.
I'm utterly impressed by this. I think the PATRIOT act was originally passed because it ram-rodded through congress without giving anyone a chance to really look into it's dark underbelly.
It was a civil liberties nightmare. I'm so glad Bush and the Republican party got their comeuppance on this one. Now if we could only find a decent USSC candidate that doesn't want to further erode civil rights.
And to make it even sweeter - I noticed the cover of Newsweek had a caricature of Bush in a bubble. As someone elsewhere posted, when Clinton visits Europe or Asia he's treated like a rock star. When George W. Bush visits those countries mass demonstration and protests erupt.
I'll bet that baby eats batteries for breakfast. Just imagine buying one for the paltry price of $395 and the spending another $1,200 on batteries because everyone who spots it while you walk by wants to see it in action.
Why do I get the feeling the developer is in cohoots with Union Carbide?
I'm so glad someone did this. Now Microsoft is going to have to scramble to tab Outlook and OE.
Of course it won't be out until the two releases from now, but if you're a Microsoft lapdog you need not worry. As your open source friends are blowing your doors off, you can be safely assured that Uncle Bill loves you.
It isn't so much fraud but privacy that drives false data.
For example, I and many I know have been solicited via information found on the registration for their web address. So every now and then, I'll throw false data at a registrar. They don't verify anything but email and even those are throw-away now.
But there probably are some out there using it shield themselves. That's where incorporating comes in handy.
RIPTA (Rhode Island Public Transit Authority) has got to have the worst schedules and maps I've ever seen. But then, so does MBTA.
But this would absolutely rock. Being that I use public transit almost daily people always ask me what routes go where, etc. I'm a walking transit map.
It's odd that we've got a great intermodal system in the northeast but we don't use it worth a damn. Just look at RIPTA's web site for example and try and plan a trip, I dare you:
http://www.ripta.com/
So lets say that of the oh, call it 200 patent licenses necessary to build and sell a laptop computer that roughly 50% are false. The laptop in question costs $1,200 of which $200 is parts, and another $100 labor, and yet $100 more is shipping. So $800 / 200 = $4.00 per license.
But as I said, assume half of the licenses are for bogus patents. That'd mean we're paying about $400 more for a laptop than we should actually have to.
I've seen some pretty wild patents. And the USPTO is just handing them out without any real validation. Reminds me of the RFC for TCP/IP via Carrier Pigeon.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt?number=1149
Every Linux box I've either built or been responsible for has been a free distribution of Linux. Be it Debian, RedHat, or Suse.
So Microsoft is using their usual smoke and mirrors trick here. You don't buy Linux, you download it and install it.
Put it this way, I'm doing a db project. Do you think for one moment I'd recommend a Microsoft solution to a non-profit? Instead they built an RH9 server and I installed MySQL 5.0.12 on it at the time. Total cost is less than 1/4 of what a Microsoft solution would have cost, what with the OS and MS-SQL tallying in at just under $20,000 and that wouldn't include any db design and support.
Max'd the RAM to 1.26GB, got the 100GB drive, and the 3 year maint on it.
The reason being is that as a state agency, we have to buy from approved vendors. Unfortunately crucial.com doesn't have a master purchase agreement with the state.
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Our users have had it pounded into their heads never to open attachments on messages with odd subjects.
But I'm just waiting to see who the pervs are. This should be interesting when someone comes to me and says their files have been deleted. Hmmmm.. and what were you trying to look at.
An Altair? How modern of you. Mine is held on a Packard Bell 250, you know, the one with acoustic delay lines used as registers.
But that's tongue and cheek of me. The IRS along with FBI are known as the two agencies with the most screwball computer systems in the country.
For example - in the entire FBI not one of their machines could read an 8mm metal-oxide tape. Not one. I ended up having to burn them a CD of the criminal history data we had.
Yet we trust each agency to either treat us fairly in the case of the IRS, or to both treat us fairly and protect us from harm in the case of the FBI.
Whilst here in Rhode Island there are many places where there are no road stripes because they've worn out and the state or municipality has no money to re-stripe.
It'd be easier to navigate by curb than by stripes.
I took the AQ test at the end. Apparently they hosed the calc engine in the background so had to mentally calc my score.
38 where the control was 16.4 - and yes I do have some of the classic signs of Aspergers. Go figure.
Actually I have pictures with dates on them. Much better. Overall snowfall is declining in the northeast. Too bad I'm getting ready to move.
When I ripped my old vinyl to mp3's and then shared them out on my home network I violated copyright. But its just me accessing them. Nobody else.
Copyright law in this country needs a major overhaul to keep up with the digital age. The problem is that the overhaul will be done by clueless beauracrats that are in hock to big business.
That's ok. We've been hitting mid 50's to 60's more often than not this January. And I'm in RI.
For example, past couple of days its been in the 30's but this weekend it'll be in the 50's. Granted, that warmer air also means more rain. But I welcome the rain.
The cycle this year has been snow to a maximum of eight inches in a storm, followed by warmer temps and rain. There isn't any real accumulation of snow like we used to get.
More ominous is that the sea gulls are pretty much here to stay. Usually they bolt for the winter months but rivers haven't frozen over so the food supply is still there. TV news had a good shot of some dejected looking sea gulls stranded by wet, heavy snow the other day.
I'm definitely for the guy. He states it plainly that MS uses its legislative influence to try to derail any plans that would decrease the overall revenue stream of MS.
Maybe the Globe should be investigating those representatives, senators and general officers that tried to kill ODF. But they won't. Money talks and bullshit walks.
Not to mention it won't necessarily have to travel vertically but could do horizontal as well.
I bet my old keyboard is loaded with creepy crawlies. Why? Because it's six years old and never been cleaned. Key logos are worn off, many keys are rutted, there's a gaping hole where the power switch used to be, and food stains galore.
But the sucker still works like a champ even if it is a burgeoning colony.
Most of the meetings I've had to attend could have been performed via IM and/or email exchange.
This whole face time thing is ridiculous. We've got technologies to handle that these days.
When I was a director of an I.T. I had two meetings I had to attend per month. One was a weekly meet with my unit for status updates, the other the weekly senior staff meeting. Then once a month I had the technical advisory meeting which I actually blew off a couple times because the office came first.
Otherwise everthing was handled via email or 1:1 in person or by phone. A meeting by definition is a committee and we all know the best way to doom and idea is to put it before a committee.
Ah but I know for a fact that this college wasn't buying the BMI/ASCAP licenses.
The reason this burns my ass is because from 1985 to 1987 I was a DJ at a college radio station.
I used to haul my collection with me and the audience was a few thousand folks. Never paid for more than the record.
And what about all the promotional copies of records that radio stations get.
That's why I feel the industry should be supplying promo copy to those DJ's in public venues, as well as laying off the damned licensing bullshit.
One of the features of a 5ESS or DMS-100 is that they keep nice tidy records of who called who for how many minutes.
Law enforcement has almost always had back doors into both the wired and wireless systems in the United States. They are the only entity I know of authorized to see this data.
So what we have here is either a) The cell carriers which are pretty much wholly owned by Bell Co's selling this info
or
b) Someone illegaly getting the data and selling it.
I'd lay my money on b.
In Rhode Island you get a little form with your tax packet every year. It's called the RI Use Tax report.
You're supposed to figure out the approximate value of items bought out of state at a lesser tax rate, items bought online, etc. and then remit either the difference or the whole tax to the State of Rhode Island.
Right now this is all honor system and the RI Division of Taxation does not have the technological know how to go and see what you purchased where at the current moment.
More interesting is that what the congress critters are pushing is somewhat in violation of the Constitution in that only the federal government can tax interstate commerce. So this law is in direct violation.
Hopefully someone will challenge it.
A Dell XPS M140 and as soon as I get it I'm going to blow away the installed image and then re-install Win XP Pro to my liking.
Matter of fact, I've never bought a PC and used it right out of the box. Instead I've always tailored it to my needs, not that which the OEM feels it should be. But then I'm an I.T. guy and whatever Dell/Gateway/Et al sell is tailored to the neophyte.
I'm utterly impressed by this. I think the PATRIOT act was originally passed because it ram-rodded through congress without giving anyone a chance to really look into it's dark underbelly.
It was a civil liberties nightmare. I'm so glad Bush and the Republican party got their comeuppance on this one. Now if we could only find a decent USSC candidate that doesn't want to further erode civil rights.
And to make it even sweeter - I noticed the cover of Newsweek had a caricature of Bush in a bubble. As someone elsewhere posted, when Clinton visits Europe or Asia he's treated like a rock star. When George W. Bush visits those countries mass demonstration and protests erupt.
When you consider the amount of inane chatter on blogs this really doesn't come as a surprise. I'm contributing to the chatter by posting this.
I'll bet that baby eats batteries for breakfast. Just imagine buying one for the paltry price of $395 and the spending another $1,200 on batteries because everyone who spots it while you walk by wants to see it in action.
Why do I get the feeling the developer is in cohoots with Union Carbide?
I'm so glad someone did this. Now Microsoft is going to have to scramble to tab Outlook and OE.
Of course it won't be out until the two releases from now, but if you're a Microsoft lapdog you need not worry. As your open source friends are blowing your doors off, you can be safely assured that Uncle Bill loves you.
It isn't so much fraud but privacy that drives false data.
For example, I and many I know have been solicited via information found on the registration for their web address. So every now and then, I'll throw false data at a registrar. They don't verify anything but email and even those are throw-away now.
But there probably are some out there using it shield themselves. That's where incorporating comes in handy.
RIPTA (Rhode Island Public Transit Authority) has got to have the worst schedules and maps I've ever seen. But then, so does MBTA.
But this would absolutely rock. Being that I use public transit almost daily people always ask me what routes go where, etc. I'm a walking transit map.
It's odd that we've got a great intermodal system in the northeast but we don't use it worth a damn. Just look at RIPTA's web site for example and try and plan a trip, I dare you: http://www.ripta.com/
So lets say that of the oh, call it 200 patent licenses necessary to build and sell a laptop computer that roughly 50% are false. The laptop in question costs $1,200 of which $200 is parts, and another $100 labor, and yet $100 more is shipping. So $800 / 200 = $4.00 per license.
But as I said, assume half of the licenses are for bogus patents. That'd mean we're paying about $400 more for a laptop than we should actually have to.
I've seen some pretty wild patents. And the USPTO is just handing them out without any real validation. Reminds me of the RFC for TCP/IP via Carrier Pigeon. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt?number=1149
Every Linux box I've either built or been responsible for has been a free distribution of Linux. Be it Debian, RedHat, or Suse.
So Microsoft is using their usual smoke and mirrors trick here. You don't buy Linux, you download it and install it.
Put it this way, I'm doing a db project. Do you think for one moment I'd recommend a Microsoft solution to a non-profit? Instead they built an RH9 server and I installed MySQL 5.0.12 on it at the time. Total cost is less than 1/4 of what a Microsoft solution would have cost, what with the OS and MS-SQL tallying in at just under $20,000 and that wouldn't include any db design and support.
Max'd the RAM to 1.26GB, got the 100GB drive, and the 3 year maint on it.
The reason being is that as a state agency, we have to buy from approved vendors. Unfortunately crucial.com doesn't have a master purchase agreement with the state.