i don't think this is what he meant. he meant that you should strive to work hard so the company wants you around. it doesn't matter what position the company puts you in, they know you'll do the job effectively.
he didn't mean that you can do your job so well that no one else can do it (or be trained to do it) as well.
Because telephones provide a vital link to emergency services, to government services and to surrounding communities, it has been our nation's policy to promote telephone service to all households since this service began in the 1930s. The USF helps to make phone service affordable and available to all Americans, including consumers with low incomes, those living in areas where the costs of providing telephone service is high, schools and libraries and rural health care providers. Congress has mandated that all telephone companies providing interstate service must contribute to the USF. Although not required to do so by the government, many carriers choose to pass their contribution costs on to their customers in the form of a line item, often called the "Federal Universal Service Fee" or "Universal Connectivity Fee."
could high-speed internet access someday be interpreted to be a "vital link...to government services?" maybe.
there are options for us rural dwellers. there's satellite, which is somewhat expensive and not very fast. there's also the cellular network. an aircard in combination with a wireless router works well, if you can get a signal at your house. some companies offer wireless broadband over the 5.8 spectrum, but you more-or-less need line-of-site to the tower for that. another possibility is broadband-over-powerlines, but i think they suffer from the same fate as dsl, requiring the user be within a certain distance of their "box."
any way you slice it, rural customers will be out of luck for some time to come.
CPAN is the closest thing to DLL hell on Unix systems
while i prefer centos for my production systems and don't use osx, i recommend implementing a solution i've found to work well. first, disable any rpmforge repos on your production machine. second, install new cpan stuff on your development server. test, then install on the production machine (if it passes the tests).
if you need a cpan module that's not available from the regular repositories, or from rpmforge, *never* install anything from cpan using make, make all, etc. always make an rpm using the makerpm.pl script, and install that instead. and never, ever install anything that's a Bundle::somepackage. build all the dependent packages by hand using makerpm.pl instead.
i've found that these methods help cool the 'dll hell' on my production machine. i rarely have any problems. i can't comment on how well this would work w/ a debian-based system that doesn't use rpm, however. not sure what kind of package management osx uses, either.
It's always mystified me as to why a business with less then about 100 employees would use Exchange Server.
i had a client, who's an attorney. her office has 3 employees, including herself. she insisted to me that i install exchange on her server for her. after i explained the drawbacks of running an exchange server as your primary mx box on a dsl connection, and that it was akin to killing a fly with a 30.06 to implement all this for just 3 people, she still insisted. upon further investigation, i discovered her server was 32-bit and wouldn't run exchange (it requires 64-bit), so she'd have to not only invest in the software but also buy a new, expensive server as well. she didn't care.
so i investigated exchange hosting off-site, but she's paraniod about other parties being able to read her sensitive emails. i explained that email flys around in plain text and anyone determined enough could read it anyway, but she still wanted it. i then told her she'd have to find someone else to implement it.
and why, after all that, did she insist on having exchange? so her secretary could manage her calendar, and the alerts could be sent to her blackjack phone.
in my experience, most clients want something because a) everyone else is using it, and/or b) they don't know any better. they have the money. they don't care that it takes careful system administration to make it work right. they're not willing to entertain the idea of an alternative that's more stable and costs less. exchange is the buzzword they've heard over and over, and you can't change their minds.
There's not really any such thing as computer repair. At most you have a hard drive go bad, rarely a stick of ram dies. For the most part any problem is going to be software.
i couldn't disagree more. i fix a lot of computers in my shop, and by far, most that "don't work" are because of a dead power supply or bad motherboard/cpu. i do get lots of bad hard drives, but bad mobos (dell, hp, emachines, all of them use cheap crap motherboards) are most common (after dead power supplies).
of course, if the computer turns on and boots up, well yes, the problem is usually a massive malware/spyware/virus infection.
It was about anti-competition laws and laws that strengthened labor unions.
did the hoover dam build itself? out of free materials?
the country's money supply had collapsed as a result of bank failures. what should have happened was a self-correcting decrease in both wages and prices to a point where available money and prices met. but fdr's policies intervened and prevented that from happening, thus prolonging the recession.
fdr didn't cause the recession. he inherited a crappy economy from previous administrations and made it worse. if obama tries to implement "the new new deal," the results will be similar.
Whatever the students are using now will have only minor correlation to whatever they'll found in "the real world" few years from now.
i'll 2nd this motion. at my daughter's school, i approached the principal a few years ago about converting some of their older machines running win95 and win98 over to ubuntu. it was free and it ran fine on older hardware. i was turned down. the reason? "we want them to learn something they'll actually use when they get into the real world." the principal said those words. to which i countered, "do you really think they'll be using windows 95 or 98?" i was met with a blank stare, the kind where they suddenly realize you're correct, but are afraid to admit it.
the problem is most teachers and administrators have no clue, and they're windows automatrons who can't answer any question unless it begins with the words, "click on..." and the biggest shame is they're teaching our kids.
the gov't doesn't create wealth, so this statement would be valid if it were applied to private enterprise, where every time a dollar exchanges hands, wealth is created.
Create 200k jobs and the economy improves. See the Hoover Dam. I think this is a great idea.
maybe, until you realize that the hoover dam and other infrastructure projects like it actually prolonged the great depression.
that's billion with a 'B'---enough money to bail out on the order of 20,000 home owners who are defaulting on their mortgages. Anyone in favor of something so asinine should be publicly flogged
asinine like suggesting taxpayer monies be used to bail out idiots who bought more than they could afford?
the best approach is to scope out the laptop on the Ubuntu Wiki first
while that is a good resource, i always recommend people check out linux on laptops first, and if they can't find their laptop model and/or linux flavor, to then move onto another list like the ubuntu wiki.
Is there even a single site that would work on Firefox/Win but not Firefox/Lin?
my experience with the wpgb website is their js crashes ff in linux, but not windows. if i browse their site w/ the noscript plugin enabled, it doesn't crash.
These days, you simply can't buy the serial-based stuff any more... everything has ethernet
i have to call bullshit on this one - i have several clients in the water treatment business and all their monitoring and control systems use rs-232 ports to communicate. automation direct has a huge selection of rs-232 capable plc's, sensors, etc. additionally, ordering a laptop with a serial port is trivial. and why would any of these plants prefer using a serial port over an ethernet port? because the ability to connect (accidentally or not) an ethernet-based control system to the internet is too easy. which, for obvious reasons, is probably something most water treatment plants would want to avoid.....
What bothers me is how prominent religion is in American society - leaders doing their thing in the name of God
actually, that's one thing that makes America great. the realization that your civil rights are given to you by your creator (be it God, Yahweh, or whomever) leads to understanding that no mortal man can (rightly) take those rights away.
i've had spam from google.com and gmail.com coming in for months. it started immediately after their captcha was broken. since then, i've received practically none from hotmail.com, and that used to be where most (of mine) came from. i still get spam from p0wned broadband boxen, but the majority since google's captcha was broken has come from them.
lately (the past month or so), after reporting to spamcop, i've noticed a lot of google's mail servers are blacklisted by sorbs and/or abuseat.org. i'm not sure what efforts google is taking to thwart it, but you'd think they'd do more now that they're being blacklisted.
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they may have scorned him then, but he got a standing ovation from the press at the g20 summit. how quickly they've turned.
the original post i responded to was written in english, so i went with it. had it been written in portuguese, i probably would've passed.
i don't think this is what he meant. he meant that you should strive to work hard so the company wants you around. it doesn't matter what position the company puts you in, they know you'll do the job effectively.
he didn't mean that you can do your job so well that no one else can do it (or be trained to do it) as well.
my dad once told me, "a wise employee works to make him/herself irreplaceable."
he continued, "a wise company manages their workers so no one is irreplaceable."
isn't the basement of a basement a wine cellar?
from the FCC's website:
could high-speed internet access someday be interpreted to be a "vital link...to government services?" maybe.
there are options for us rural dwellers. there's satellite, which is somewhat expensive and not very fast. there's also the cellular network. an aircard in combination with a wireless router works well, if you can get a signal at your house. some companies offer wireless broadband over the 5.8 spectrum, but you more-or-less need line-of-site to the tower for that. another possibility is broadband-over-powerlines, but i think they suffer from the same fate as dsl, requiring the user be within a certain distance of their "box."
any way you slice it, rural customers will be out of luck for some time to come.
not to nitpick, but not all non-profits are charities, and some non-profits have a lot of money to spend. case in point
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i really can't answer any better than this.
from the IO.pm changelog:
IO 1.23 -- Sat Mar 25 19:28:28 CST 2006
looks to me like it's mostly bug fixes and optimization, and not a major rewrite (which would more likely warrant a major version change).
while i prefer centos for my production systems and don't use osx, i recommend implementing a solution i've found to work well. first, disable any rpmforge repos on your production machine. second, install new cpan stuff on your development server. test, then install on the production machine (if it passes the tests).
if you need a cpan module that's not available from the regular repositories, or from rpmforge, *never* install anything from cpan using make, make all, etc. always make an rpm using the makerpm.pl script, and install that instead. and never, ever install anything that's a Bundle::somepackage. build all the dependent packages by hand using makerpm.pl instead.
i've found that these methods help cool the 'dll hell' on my production machine. i rarely have any problems. i can't comment on how well this would work w/ a debian-based system that doesn't use rpm, however. not sure what kind of package management osx uses, either.
dude, that's funny as shi.. - um, wait a sec...i think i just entered a recursive joke.
i had a client, who's an attorney. her office has 3 employees, including herself. she insisted to me that i install exchange on her server for her. after i explained the drawbacks of running an exchange server as your primary mx box on a dsl connection, and that it was akin to killing a fly with a 30.06 to implement all this for just 3 people, she still insisted. upon further investigation, i discovered her server was 32-bit and wouldn't run exchange (it requires 64-bit), so she'd have to not only invest in the software but also buy a new, expensive server as well. she didn't care.
so i investigated exchange hosting off-site, but she's paraniod about other parties being able to read her sensitive emails. i explained that email flys around in plain text and anyone determined enough could read it anyway, but she still wanted it. i then told her she'd have to find someone else to implement it.
and why, after all that, did she insist on having exchange? so her secretary could manage her calendar, and the alerts could be sent to her blackjack phone.
in my experience, most clients want something because a) everyone else is using it, and/or b) they don't know any better. they have the money. they don't care that it takes careful system administration to make it work right. they're not willing to entertain the idea of an alternative that's more stable and costs less. exchange is the buzzword they've heard over and over, and you can't change their minds.
i couldn't disagree more. i fix a lot of computers in my shop, and by far, most that "don't work" are because of a dead power supply or bad motherboard/cpu. i do get lots of bad hard drives, but bad mobos (dell, hp, emachines, all of them use cheap crap motherboards) are most common (after dead power supplies).
of course, if the computer turns on and boots up, well yes, the problem is usually a massive malware/spyware/virus infection.
did the hoover dam build itself? out of free materials?
the country's money supply had collapsed as a result of bank failures. what should have happened was a self-correcting decrease in both wages and prices to a point where available money and prices met. but fdr's policies intervened and prevented that from happening, thus prolonging the recession.
fdr didn't cause the recession. he inherited a crappy economy from previous administrations and made it worse. if obama tries to implement "the new new deal," the results will be similar.
i'll 2nd this motion. at my daughter's school, i approached the principal a few years ago about converting some of their older machines running win95 and win98 over to ubuntu. it was free and it ran fine on older hardware. i was turned down. the reason? "we want them to learn something they'll actually use when they get into the real world." the principal said those words. to which i countered, "do you really think they'll be using windows 95 or 98?" i was met with a blank stare, the kind where they suddenly realize you're correct, but are afraid to admit it.
the problem is most teachers and administrators have no clue, and they're windows automatrons who can't answer any question unless it begins with the words, "click on..." and the biggest shame is they're teaching our kids.
the gov't doesn't create wealth, so this statement would be valid if it were applied to private enterprise, where every time a dollar exchanges hands, wealth is created.
maybe, until you realize that the hoover dam and other infrastructure projects like it actually prolonged the great depression.
asinine like suggesting taxpayer monies be used to bail out idiots who bought more than they could afford?
thank you for your service. because of individuals such as yourself, i am able to live in a free country.
while that is a good resource, i always recommend people check out linux on laptops first, and if they can't find their laptop model and/or linux flavor, to then move onto another list like the ubuntu wiki.
my experience with the wpgb website is their js crashes ff in linux, but not windows. if i browse their site w/ the noscript plugin enabled, it doesn't crash.
i have to call bullshit on this one - i have several clients in the water treatment business and all their monitoring and control systems use rs-232 ports to communicate. automation direct has a huge selection of rs-232 capable plc's, sensors, etc. additionally, ordering a laptop with a serial port is trivial. and why would any of these plants prefer using a serial port over an ethernet port? because the ability to connect (accidentally or not) an ethernet-based control system to the internet is too easy. which, for obvious reasons, is probably something most water treatment plants would want to avoid.....
actually, that's one thing that makes America great. the realization that your civil rights are given to you by your creator (be it God, Yahweh, or whomever) leads to understanding that no mortal man can (rightly) take those rights away.
i've had spam from google.com and gmail.com coming in for months. it started immediately after their captcha was broken. since then, i've received practically none from hotmail.com, and that used to be where most (of mine) came from. i still get spam from p0wned broadband boxen, but the majority since google's captcha was broken has come from them.
lately (the past month or so), after reporting to spamcop, i've noticed a lot of google's mail servers are blacklisted by sorbs and/or abuseat.org. i'm not sure what efforts google is taking to thwart it, but you'd think they'd do more now that they're being blacklisted.