I had the pleasure of working with Bart at a certain Australian wagering company. At that point, he wasn't 100% blind (but fairly close to it, as I could understand). He could read a 19in screen, but only by putting his head right up to the monitor. Perhaps he's using a similar approach for the stamps...
In any case, the other memorable thing I found was how fast he'd walk around. His regular speed was about power walking level, which is pretty impressive when packing a cane. I didn't know he was athletic, but I'm not surprised now I find out.
Congratulations Bart, and best of luck in the future.
Slightly off topic, but here goes anyway...
Here in our Win2K / Outlook 2K/ Exchange 2K environment they decided to apply the Microsoft security patch that quarantines attachments which it deems to be dangerous. The way it works (under our implementation at least)...
a) You can't even get access to some attachments to even SAVE them! Someone sent you an exe file.. bad luck, you can't even save it, virus scan it and then run it. This becomes really annoying when you can't send shortcuts to network drives to co workers in the same company because the damn attachments are completely blocked.
b) The brain dead way of checking is based on file extension. If one renames ABadProgram.exe to ABadProgram.txt before emailing and the recipient renames it back, it does not get picked up for quarantining in the least.
If this is the best Microsoft could come up with as a security tightening reaction to 'I Love You', do you really want to entrust your email system to them?
- Chris
Might I suggest looking at Debian?
You can install a barebones system, then add package by package until you get what you want.
Package management is (IMHO) the best of any Linux distribution I've seen too...
I've heard that Slackware is also good, particularly if you enjoy installing everything from source...
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The MPAA is taking away all our rights! We can't just lie down and take it! We must act .. and act now!
Or maybe after we've seen SW Ep II...
MP3 for personal use is legal in the US, but that's not the case all over.
:)
Here in Australia, according to an article in Australian Personal Computer, it's illegal to rip or duplicate a CD that you own yourself.
Of course, that's probably not going to stop anyone
And you sir, should really learn how to spell imbecile properly, before flaming someone else ! :)
There is too accounting for idiots, it's called :)
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Does the UK screen that Pepsi ad with the two wrestlers?
If so, there would be nothing left of it without the headbutts!
Talking of hysterical rationalization, I hereby
:)
invoke Godwin's law.
Liked the "uniformed uninformed" bit though
All your code are belong to us!!!
More seriously, though, I'm certainly going to be checking my employment contract more carefully whenever I get my next job.
- Chris
I had the pleasure of working with Bart at a certain Australian wagering company. At that point, he wasn't 100% blind (but fairly close to it, as I could understand). He could read a 19in screen, but only by putting his head right up to the monitor. Perhaps he's using a similar approach for the stamps...
In any case, the other memorable thing I found was how fast he'd walk around. His regular speed was about power walking level, which is pretty impressive when packing a cane. I didn't know he was athletic, but I'm not surprised now I find out.
Congratulations Bart, and best of luck in the future.
- Chris
Umm, that would be cretin, actually.
Slightly off topic, but here goes anyway... Here in our Win2K / Outlook 2K/ Exchange 2K environment they decided to apply the Microsoft security patch that quarantines attachments which it deems to be dangerous. The way it works (under our implementation at least) ...
a) You can't even get access to some attachments to even SAVE them! Someone sent you an exe file .. bad luck, you can't even save it, virus scan it and then run it. This becomes really annoying when you can't send shortcuts to network drives to co workers in the same company because the damn attachments are completely blocked.
b) The brain dead way of checking is based on file extension. If one renames ABadProgram.exe to ABadProgram.txt before emailing and the recipient renames it back, it does not get picked up for quarantining in the least.
If this is the best Microsoft could come up with as a security tightening reaction to 'I Love You', do you really want to entrust your email system to them?
- Chris
Might I suggest looking at Debian? You can install a barebones system, then add package by package until you get what you want. Package management is (IMHO) the best of any Linux distribution I've seen too... I've heard that Slackware is also good, particularly if you enjoy installing everything from source ...