I've had the same email address since Dec '95. I got my own domain late last year, and have moved everything over to my new email address, leaving nothing but spam being sent to the old one. I get between 40-60 emails a day in spam to my old address. My new email is spam free (knock-on-wood).
I made some mistakes early on, I posted to a lot of newsgroups giving out my real email address. I used my one and only email everywhere, and got tons of spam in return. I tried to obfuscate my email on newsgroup postings, but once they had my address on a list, its on a list forever.
One thing that isn't my fault, is that someone with the same first initial and last name as me got a dialup account at my isp, and she's been giving out my email as if it were hers. Since this happened I've been getting tons of spam, along with the odd delivery confirmation. I'll never forget when one of her friends sent her(me) a email with a 8 meg attachment (wasssup.exe). I was livid. I fired back a flame reply so fast I figured they'd learn their lesson, but it doesn't look like they did.
I signed up for a yahoo address, and use that for questionable websites, untrusted places, spam-bait, and keep my real address for people I know.
The download speed is very fast. On a T-1 at work (after hours of course) I use up about 14% of our available bandwidth. The selection? Eclectic I suppose. You won't find the boy bands, but you will find lots of independent bands, and music off the beaten path. Last week I downloaded:
Atomic Bitchwax
Carnival of Souls Soundtrack
Leo Kottke
Helios Creed (several albums)
Chrome (several albums)
Dropkick Murpheys
and a bunch of other interesting stuff.
I've only had the service two months, and I've spent one weekend a month, dowloading 2 cd-roms worth of mp3s (legally!). Not sure if over the whole course of the year it will be worth it, but so far its great.
So true. I remember when/. was for trolls and Kuro5hin was high brow. Now its the other way around. Well,/. isn't exactly high brow, but its not all eurotrash and UKian socialists who believe we all deserve to die because of our past faults.
You see, old school geeks will go around quoting Monty Python all day, much to everyone else's annoyance. New school geeks will go around quoting Austin Powers all day long, to everyone else's annoyance.
Now do you understand why this was brought up on/.?
Last year I had the bad misfortune of moving to a new house while Verizon was on strike. It took approx. one month to get my telephone service turned on, all the while James Earl Jones was on TV commercials all day long trying to get me to buy Verizon DSL. Did I mention I was out of work and really needed a telephone so I could hear back from prospective employers? I had to go out and buy a cell phone.
Of course, water, gas, and electric took all of one day to get turned on. No problem there.
On the 13th of November Microsoft released a "rollup patch" for Internet Explorer. Its basically a collection of all patches for IE (up to that date) rolled up into one fix. This new patch is another "rollup" which has the old old rollup, with some new patches added.
Of course, I had just finished putting that patch on a bunch of workstations here at the office, now that this new one is out I have to put it on every friggin machine.
I wonder what the odds are, that some disgruntled WorldCom employees will post horror stories anonymously, WorldCom will get pissed off and try to get a court order to view/.'s log files, to track down these malcontents. Great big battle ensues.
I've been trying to download, and its taking forever. I'm using RedHat and their ftp servers are slow even under more ideal conditions, but now its terrible. Wish me luck.
Yeah, what the hell was your degree in? Basketweaving?
It was economics, with a concentration in business.
There were a few things that counted against me with finding work. My gpa sucked, and most importantly, I was in a rural area with a big Navy base. I had two meetings with the head of civilian personnel, and all they wanted to hire were aerospace engineers. Without a technical degree, they wouldn't talk to me. I also got the door slammed in my face by contractors too.
If I had skipped college and enlisted in the Navy instead, I wouldn't have had a problem either since I'd have some concrete experience. But there wasn't much in the way of jobs in southern MD.
I do admit, that going to college was the best decision I could have made at the time, and I don't regret it, I just get angry sometimes at the fact that I spent so many years underemployed, before getting my career on track. Graduating during a big recession didn't help either.
I went to a liberal arts college and fell for the sales pitch hook, line, and sinker. I truly believed that I was becoming a well rounded person, and that would be an asset to employers. We were taught to believe that we were a graduating class of Leonardo DaVinci's. So I was told, so I believed, until I graduated.
Finding a job was next to impossible, and for many years, I was only able to support myself by the typing class I had taken in high school. Only by going back to school (community college) and taking some tech courses at night, could I finally break into the IT business.
A well rounded education will help you at Jeopardy, and in cocktail party conversations, but when you get out of school, employers don't care what you know, they care about what you can do.
One of the early NT service packs was called the SP-of-Death.
That was Service Pack 2. It was very buggy, and broke things (RAS for instance). From then on no real problems with the service packs for NT4. Except your right about Service Pack 6. It introduced a problem for Lotus Domino, so they released Service Pack 6a instead. That took care of that.
I used to be leary of applying patches myself. From what I was taught and from what I'd heard, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Well not anymore. Shortly after a patch comes out, we apply it. Its insurance against getting hit with the next code red that comes around.
Isn't it time we changed the definition of censorship to include cases like this? Clearchannel might not be the government, but they're pretty powerful if they own enough radio stations.
Who's in charge of the English language, who do we see about making this happen?
"The United States government has so far shown a great deal of restraint..."
I don't agree with this. There have been many, many calls for action. Bomb someone! I think the U.S. government would have bombed already, but no one knows who to bomb.
We have free speech here, that means people are speaking out, and saying what they want. Some people are calling for nuking afganistan, some people are calling for the slaughter of all arabs, and some people are saying we need to cool down before we do something drastic and stupid.
Its not important what peope are calling for, there's a million voiced calling for all kinds of things. What's important is what we actually end up doing.
I attended private high school, with a good reputation for academics. I had a good knack for science going in, but got it squashed out of me. You know how people talk about being the big fish in a small pond while in high school, then move on to college to be a small fish in a big pond? In high school I was the small fish, and unless you were ready to go on to Harvard or MIT, they steered you away from science, and computers for that matter. I studied programming (Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and Cobol) in the early 80's in high school, but because my dad didn't work for IBM, there was no way I'd get a shot at the computer lab.
Lets say I run a small business, and one day a strange man walks in my door, shows me a business card saying he's from the BSA, and demands to audit all my computers, to make sure I don't have any pirate software. That's the issue we need to discuss.
Suppose I tell him no, you can't enter, and call the police to have him arrested for trespassing. What's he going to do, get a search warrant? On what grounds? These are the questions I'd like to see answered.
Well, its been my experience that every non-intel PC I've owned or used (Compaq Presario, various house assembled PCs at work) has sucked royally. Every genuine Intel PC I've used (Dell, Compaq Proliant) has kicked ass. So, when possible I go with Intel.
However, if I ever did build my own PC from scratch, I suppose I would give strong consideration to AMD. While looking at my local computer store, it seems AMD CPUs were nearly half the cost of Intel.
How about Ireland? Italy? the Vatican? many Latin American countries? In Ireland you couldn't buy contraception until the late 70's I think it was, correct me if I'm wrong.
The Catholic church has a strong influence on all those other countries I mentioned as well. They influence what laws get passed, and how government works. They even try to influence this country.
I remember that new report. The methodology was way wrong. Only 1% of people I think it was, would answer to the title of gay. I've met plenty of people who won't admit they're gay, but really are.
If being gay is inherent, please explain Anne Heche for us doubters.
Duh, she must be bisexual. Sexuality is complicated anyway. You can be gay, straight, bi, or anywhere in between.
I don't know about homosexuals being the 3rd largest casualty in the Holocaust, that's probably Gypsies or whomever. But a good point is, when the allied forces liberated the camps, they kept the homosexuals locked up, while freeing the jews and everyone else.
"When you file for a wedding license you're telling your local govt that you're straight."
Not around here. They're fighting hard for--and winning--the right for gay couples to legally marry.
Where do you live? Ever hear of DOMA? What about all the states passing their own anti-gay marriages laws? Legal marriage, and all that goes with it is not available for most of us. Adoption varies by state. In Virginia a lesbian couple had their own biological child taken away from them, because the child's grandmother didn't approve of their "lifestyle", and a conservative court backed her up.
My point is, I wasn't accusing the original poster of being a homophobe, I was just trying to point out that people seem to assume that everyone is straight, or should be straight, and that's not the case. When me and my bf hold hands or display affection in public, we get stared at like freaks, depending on where we are. Yes that's a fact of life, but something that straight people generally don't have to worry about.
So don't accuse me of flaunting it when I do everyday normal things that straight people do. That's not directed at you, swordgeek, but at less enlightened people .
But all these things take time, and if you're waiting on a student loan to come in, you might not have it.
I used to work for a small consumer finance agency, where I'd review credit applications, look at credit bureau reports, and did telephone collections. Unless things have changed, and they either have for the case of student loans, these kids dont' know all their rights or options.
"They don't threaten you, but they don't have to. How can you prove you didn't owe $100 bucks five years ago, and can you afford to have your loan held up in the meantime? Not me."
You don't have to prove you didn't owe $100 five years ago, they should prove it. At the very least they need to provide a signed piece of paper (promissary note) saying "I owe you $xxx.xx" If they can't produce this, or some other evidence then you don't owe them anything. But in your case you probably don't have much time for all this fighting. All I can suggest is contact your state banking commission and file a complaint.
If you've ever been turned down for credit, you're entitled to a free credit report. Two credit reporting agencies are Equifax and Experian Contact them, and get a copy of your report. Its kind of tricky to read if you've never seen one, but they include instructions and everyone should check their credit report once a year.
If something doesn't look right on your credit report, challenge it. The lending institution has to respond within a certain amount of time (30-45 days?), or it will be wiped out of your credit report. That is, unless the law about this has changed since I've worked in the collections field.
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Not to mention Smokedot the best one of all, also runs on slash.
Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars (****), meaning he thinks you should see it, whether you like this kind of movie or not. Ebert is the only critic that I ever see eye-to-eye on. He's an excellent writer, IMHO. Click here to read his online review.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/traff05f.h tm l
There's another movie that I liked too, about a boy and his sister who lost their parents in the Hiroshima
That was "Barefoot Gen". I only saw half of it. Very intense. I saw it at a party and one guy was sobbing out loud. I need to get that on DVD too. Along with "Storm Riders".
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I made some mistakes early on, I posted to a lot of newsgroups giving out my real email address. I used my one and only email everywhere, and got tons of spam in return. I tried to obfuscate my email on newsgroup postings, but once they had my address on a list, its on a list forever.
One thing that isn't my fault, is that someone with the same first initial and last name as me got a dialup account at my isp, and she's been giving out my email as if it were hers. Since this happened I've been getting tons of spam, along with the odd delivery confirmation. I'll never forget when one of her friends sent her(me) a email with a 8 meg attachment (wasssup.exe). I was livid. I fired back a flame reply so fast I figured they'd learn their lesson, but it doesn't look like they did.
I signed up for a yahoo address, and use that for questionable websites, untrusted places, spam-bait, and keep my real address for people I know.
and a bunch of other interesting stuff.
I've only had the service two months, and I've spent one weekend a month, dowloading 2 cd-roms worth of mp3s (legally!). Not sure if over the whole course of the year it will be worth it, but so far its great.
So true. I remember when /. was for trolls and Kuro5hin was high brow. Now its the other way around. Well, /. isn't exactly high brow, but its not all eurotrash and UKian socialists who believe we all deserve to die because of our past faults.
You see, old school geeks will go around quoting Monty Python all day, much to everyone else's annoyance. New school geeks will go around quoting Austin Powers all day long, to everyone else's annoyance.
/.?
Now do you understand why this was brought up on
Last year I had the bad misfortune of moving to a new house while Verizon was on strike. It took approx. one month to get my telephone service turned on, all the while James Earl Jones was on TV commercials all day long trying to get me to buy Verizon DSL. Did I mention I was out of work and really needed a telephone so I could hear back from prospective employers? I had to go out and buy a cell phone.
Of course, water, gas, and electric took all of one day to get turned on. No problem there.
Of course, I had just finished putting that patch on a bunch of workstations here at the office, now that this new one is out I have to put it on every friggin machine.
Too late I already did.
I wonder what the odds are, that some disgruntled WorldCom employees will post horror stories anonymously, WorldCom will get pissed off and try to get a court order to view /.'s log files, to track down these malcontents. Great big battle ensues.
I've been trying to download, and its taking forever. I'm using RedHat and their ftp servers are slow even under more ideal conditions, but now its terrible. Wish me luck.
It was economics, with a concentration in business.
There were a few things that counted against me with finding work. My gpa sucked, and most importantly, I was in a rural area with a big Navy base. I had two meetings with the head of civilian personnel, and all they wanted to hire were aerospace engineers. Without a technical degree, they wouldn't talk to me. I also got the door slammed in my face by contractors too.
If I had skipped college and enlisted in the Navy instead, I wouldn't have had a problem either since I'd have some concrete experience. But there wasn't much in the way of jobs in southern MD.
I do admit, that going to college was the best decision I could have made at the time, and I don't regret it, I just get angry sometimes at the fact that I spent so many years underemployed, before getting my career on track. Graduating during a big recession didn't help either.
Finding a job was next to impossible, and for many years, I was only able to support myself by the typing class I had taken in high school. Only by going back to school (community college) and taking some tech courses at night, could I finally break into the IT business.
A well rounded education will help you at Jeopardy, and in cocktail party conversations, but when you get out of school, employers don't care what you know, they care about what you can do.
That was Service Pack 2. It was very buggy, and broke things (RAS for instance). From then on no real problems with the service packs for NT4. Except your right about Service Pack 6. It introduced a problem for Lotus Domino, so they released Service Pack 6a instead. That took care of that.
I used to be leary of applying patches myself. From what I was taught and from what I'd heard, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Well not anymore. Shortly after a patch comes out, we apply it. Its insurance against getting hit with the next code red that comes around.
Who's in charge of the English language, who do we see about making this happen?
I don't agree with this. There have been many, many calls for action. Bomb someone! I think the U.S. government would have bombed already, but no one knows who to bomb.
We have free speech here, that means people are speaking out, and saying what they want. Some people are calling for nuking afganistan, some people are calling for the slaughter of all arabs, and some people are saying we need to cool down before we do something drastic and stupid.
Its not important what peope are calling for, there's a million voiced calling for all kinds of things. What's important is what we actually end up doing.
I attended private high school, with a good reputation for academics. I had a good knack for science going in, but got it squashed out of me. You know how people talk about being the big fish in a small pond while in high school, then move on to college to be a small fish in a big pond? In high school I was the small fish, and unless you were ready to go on to Harvard or MIT, they steered you away from science, and computers for that matter. I studied programming (Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and Cobol) in the early 80's in high school, but because my dad didn't work for IBM, there was no way I'd get a shot at the computer lab.
Suppose I tell him no, you can't enter, and call the police to have him arrested for trespassing. What's he going to do, get a search warrant? On what grounds? These are the questions I'd like to see answered.
However, if I ever did build my own PC from scratch, I suppose I would give strong consideration to AMD. While looking at my local computer store, it seems AMD CPUs were nearly half the cost of Intel.
The Catholic church has a strong influence on all those other countries I mentioned as well. They influence what laws get passed, and how government works. They even try to influence this country.
I remember that new report. The methodology was way wrong. Only 1% of people I think it was, would answer to the title of gay. I've met plenty of people who won't admit they're gay, but really are.
If being gay is inherent, please explain Anne Heche for us doubters.
Duh, she must be bisexual. Sexuality is complicated anyway. You can be gay, straight, bi, or anywhere in between.
I don't know about homosexuals being the 3rd largest casualty in the Holocaust, that's probably Gypsies or whomever. But a good point is, when the allied forces liberated the camps, they kept the homosexuals locked up, while freeing the jews and everyone else.
Not around here. They're fighting hard for--and winning--the right for gay couples to legally marry.
Where do you live? Ever hear of DOMA? What about all the states passing their own anti-gay marriages laws? Legal marriage, and all that goes with it is not available for most of us. Adoption varies by state. In Virginia a lesbian couple had their own biological child taken away from them, because the child's grandmother didn't approve of their "lifestyle", and a conservative court backed her up.
My point is, I wasn't accusing the original poster of being a homophobe, I was just trying to point out that people seem to assume that everyone is straight, or should be straight, and that's not the case. When me and my bf hold hands or display affection in public, we get stared at like freaks, depending on where we are. Yes that's a fact of life, but something that straight people generally don't have to worry about.
So don't accuse me of flaunting it when I do everyday normal things that straight people do. That's not directed at you, swordgeek, but at less enlightened people .
And who the hell moderated me down as troll?
I used to work for a small consumer finance agency, where I'd review credit applications, look at credit bureau reports, and did telephone collections. Unless things have changed, and they either have for the case of student loans, these kids dont' know all their rights or options.
"They don't threaten you, but they don't have to. How can you prove you didn't owe $100 bucks five years ago, and can you afford to have your loan held up in the meantime? Not me."
You don't have to prove you didn't owe $100 five years ago, they should prove it. At the very least they need to provide a signed piece of paper (promissary note) saying "I owe you $xxx.xx" If they can't produce this, or some other evidence then you don't owe them anything. But in your case you probably don't have much time for all this fighting. All I can suggest is contact your state banking commission and file a complaint.
If you've ever been turned down for credit, you're entitled to a free credit report. Two credit reporting agencies are Equifax and Experian Contact them, and get a copy of your report. Its kind of tricky to read if you've never seen one, but they include instructions and everyone should check their credit report once a year.
If something doesn't look right on your credit report, challenge it. The lending institution has to respond within a certain amount of time (30-45 days?), or it will be wiped out of your credit report. That is, unless the law about this has changed since I've worked in the collections field.
Not to mention Smokedot the best one of all, also runs on slash.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/traff05f.h tm l
There's another movie that I liked too, about a boy and his sister who lost their parents in the Hiroshima
That was "Barefoot Gen". I only saw half of it. Very intense. I saw it at a party and one guy was sobbing out loud. I need to get that on DVD too. Along with "Storm Riders".