$170k? Really? Wish I knew a single programmer making 2/3rds of that - no one I know does, and I've been doing this in a number of cities for a lot of years.
And you're a paranoid asshole who is deathly afraid of cities.
I grew up in a city, and have lived inside cities almost my whole life (and I probably started programming before you were born). In fact, I grew up in a slum. I've lived in downtowns, and outer neighborhoods. I can remember one person shot, and personally know one or two that were mugged, ever.
And I've never been either, nor been present when someone was shooting. I suppose I need to go to a suburban school for that.
And none of the things that are in cities: museums, choices of theatres, and, oh, yes, friends and family who *don't* work for the company. And, of course, in the company towns that you're talking about, driving everywhere. And if you decide you can't take the PHB anymore, and are tired of those wonderful beneifits cut down because the market's tough, it's company folks who'll watch you leaving....
Read up on company towns, and the company store. You really want to live like that? If so, you're a complete and utter *SUCKER*.
I saw a presentation in the early eighties, and when we asked about the fried birds, we were told that the powe density was a few watts/m^2 - they were planning on a large array of receivers.
Of course, if Dick Cheney and his friends got control of the project....
Lessee, Lose95, er, Windows 95. The illegal competition that broke WordPerfect (*far* better word processor that that piece of crap, Word). Lose Me, er, Windows Me.
Some of us have been screaming solar power satellites in geosync for decades. It's a *lot* less expensive to fly to geosync, and the environmental impact studies (US) were *done* by 1980....
Really? And on what basis do you assert this? What's the income of the union presidents?
Yep, unions are a waste of time... of course, you like working 60+ hour weeks with declining benifits (if you have any), and decreasing vacation days (or, since they've done the "modern" thing, and merged your sick time with your vacation time to be "paid time off", don't get sick).
And btw, I googled what "exempt salaried" meant in the US, legally... and found that there's a *special* exemption for computer people, meaning they can say "whatever it takes", and claim the benifits of having you salaried... and not paying you for, say, snow days, meaning you're really just hourly, with no chance of a union.
There are two kinds of Republicans and Libertarians: millionaires, and suckers.
Right, like the ones that everyone hated, caused cancers in some TSA personnel (unadmitted by the TSA), and were pretty useless, since over and over, people demonstrated that they could smuggle weapons past them? And that are now retired, after tens of millions of tax dollars wasted on them?
Or like the new submillimeter machines, which have close to the same problems, that it's been demonstrated that you can smuggle weapons past them?
Here's a better way to spend money: fire all the managers and execs, and bring in some professional security managers. Ones that will, for example, come down like a ton of bricks on the screeners who do extra screening on good looking women, or pull vibrators or other sex toys out for their "amusement" value?
Go look at the archives from , by a guy who just quit the TSA after some years, and all what really happens back there.
Oh, and the boxcutters that the 9/11 hijackers were supposed to have had were *ILLEGAL* and should have been found before all this crap.
Keep the TSA on the job, guys, the terrorists have won, completely. America, the home of the cowards and the unfree.
Not quite 20 years ago, I heard Robert Reich on the radio ask one simple queswtion: what does a CEO do, or bring to the table, that the guy under him - the president, or whatever - does not? Education? Experience? (If you say "vision", I'm going to shove your idiot smartphone down your throat.)
In that case, why is he worth 10 times what the other guy makes?
Don't give me "but the company make so much..." Consider Jamie Dimon, of BoA, who spent bilions and billions of dollars to settle lawsuits from the DoJ (without, of course, ever admitting culpability), and he got a *massive* raise.
Either he knew what was going on with the subprime crap, in which case he should be not just fired, but defenestrated, or he didn't, in which case he should be fired, and sued for all his pay back.
No. A good part of it are the tax laws, and the massive use of bonuses (which are treated differently than salary raises) and stock options. As a major US newspaper noted in the late nineties, "who's going to say that CEO's aren't downsizing until the stock market stops rewarding them for doing so", never mind what destruction it wreaks to the company (since they'll move on soon enough - look up Frank "scumbag" Lorenzo and Eastern Airlines).
And what, pray tell, do any of them do that's worth 10, 20, 50 times what the President of the United States gets paid ($400,000/yr, no stock options, no bonuses)?
A day or so late, but unlike most slashdotters these days, here's the actual answer to your question:
0. Do some research, and decide which F/OSS firmware distro will meet all your needs.
1. Go to the home page, then find the release that's for your hardware, and d/l it to your system. I did
it to a netbook, rather than my workstation, for reasons in step 2.
2. Connect a system to the router. MAKE SURE IT IS *N*O*T* on the Net. Turn off wireless, so that the
only connection between the router and the system is one wired cable.
3. On your connected system, which has the d/l firmware, browse to the router (often 192.168.1.1, so put
that in as the URL: http://192.168.1.1/ and you'll get to your router's built-in webserver. It will have
a default password, if you haven't already reset that.
4. Log into the router, and there will be an admistration, or some such, page, and on that page will be
the option to update your firmware. Point it to the file on your system that's the new firmware,
and follow the directions from the router info, and from the F/OSS firmware.
Yeah, it took me almost as long to write this as it will take you to do it, once you've got the firmware file.
Are you out of your mind? Just make sure you put a large, large sign on your vehicle when you get that, so I can stay far away, as you mis-aim as you illegallly text while driving, and slam into a bridge abutment.
mark "we won't talk about the price of replacing the computer when it pulls to the left"
(From snopes, collected 1999): Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release (by Mr. Welch himself) stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine. 4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
And one snopes missed: there would only be one screen in the middle of the dashboard, which would light up with a question mark if something went wrong. The experienced driver will know what to do to fix it.
It is, of course, too complex to go back to knobs and slides that you could distinguish by feel, and didn't have to look at icons (Engineer's Dictionary: a small, fuzzy, and incomprehensible pictograph to replace a perrfectly clear and comprehensible word).
mark, who can't figure out how to set the radio buttons on his new-to-him van
First you have to find the right build of DD-WRT. This involves totally ignoring the router database, which, as one person's website put it, is either massively out of date at best, and *WRONG* at worst, liable to brick your router.
And if you join the support forum, you discover people talking about their "favorite" builds, something in over 30 years in the field I've *NEVER* heard of. And they don't have formal releases, and regression tests seem to be mostly dependent upon the lead developers.
Two months of fighting this, and debricking my router 2? 3? times, and I found one that did what I needed (that was to actually serve as a print server for a USB printer, as well as routing).. I have no idea how, or if, I'll be able to upgrade.....
The way I did. Now, if you're not an experienced sysadmin, and want to use your Asus router for *anything* else, give up. I've got DD-WRT on mine, and it took months, for the simple reason that I wanted to use the router, as it advertised on the box, to serve a USB printer.
Calling Asus about the stock firmware, when I told them my printer, they told me, "oh, it servers printers, but not that printer, you should have checked what we support...." The box does *NOT* say "only supports some printers...."
So I went for DD-WRT. That's a disaster. The web site - after a month or so of screwing around on and off, I found someone who knew something, saying, IGNORE THE ROUTER DATABASE. You know, the first thing it tells you to use when you go to the DD-WRT home page? And the guy went on to say, that the d/b was out of date at best, and *wrong* at worst.
Then I got into the "help" forum. I've been in the field since before some of you were born... and I have *never* seen a project where folks talked about their "favorite build". !!! And one where one thing gets fixed in a build by one person, but something else breaks (regression tests? What are those?) And they have no formal releases, just some lead developers' builds.
I can't see how I can ever update the firmware, since I don't want to break what works...
So if you just want it as a router, or maybe even w/ QoS, DD-WRT ok. Otherwise, be prepared for a lot of grief (and you'll get real familiar with restoring the original firmware to start all over again).
Come on, libertarians, show us how this is the free market, and how it's good for all of us.
Yup.
Oh, and btw, as I recall (it's been a few years), in Chicago, Comcast was advertising in the market mostly served by Time-Warner.
So, where's competition? Where I've lived, your choice was the local ex-Baby Bell, or Time-Warner, or Comcast. Lots of competition there for Ineternet access. And for those doctrinaire Libertarians and Tea Party types, enjoy one 'Net provider... and then they can throttle if they want, after they pay politicians to kill net neutrality. The result, of course, is listening to y'all try to tell the rest of us how living in a company town is really great....
Who architected and spec'd the software? Who determined the time frame?
And, for extra credit,
a) were there changes to the spec made during the original development?
b) was the original software written by someone right out of college, with no large scale experience, and almost
zero experience in error handling?
While your manager's determining that, they'd better be paying you. Oh, and could you comment on the mistakes your manager's made, both those visible to you, and those according to *their* manager? Are they being paid to fix those problems?
At night? Or do you only drive on streets that are 100% of the time tangent to the surface of the Earth?
I've always hated you idiots with blue headlights, which are brighter and more blinding that regular, and then there are the states that are so "free" that they don't have annual safety inspections which include ALIGNING YOUR HEADLIGHTS.
I know, no one here knows what that means.
And now, lasers, or LEDs, or whatever? Great, if I get totally blinded by your bloody headlights, I'll make sure that when I have my accided becase of that, I'll slam into your driver's side door at full speed.
where the Republicans really are, and esp. the "Tea Party"... given the phrase ante bellum, and that Sen Cruz and Ms. Palin showed up during the Shutdown in front of the White House with a Confederate flag.
NeoConfederates, and this is the South (and my gorge) rising again.
And if you're reading or posting here, odds are you're not a millionaire, and if you're for them, there's a name for you: "sucker" (along with racist, bigot, and wouldn't know "enlightened self-interest" if it hit them with a semi).
Google has produce less useful hits over the last five years, as its advertising income skyrocketed. Search for something, and add -"photo", and you'll still get photographer. Try mens riding boots -women -womens -women's, and you'll probably get a "sponsored ad" for women's boots, with the letters "men" bolded.
This isn't even counting Target, which will claim it has anything you're looking for, but if you follow the link, oh, no, sorry... but we have !!!!!
Add the way librarians used to search, not just with AND and OR, but also "within so many words", so that men's leather boots, and men's riding boots and men's fashiondesigner wonderful boots all are returned, if you tell it men's within 3 words of boots.
A lot of the tech is already there... but ad revenue is, I mean, what we really want, right, rather than the service you're purportedly offering?
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And, of course, qnx is based on Unix....
$170k? Really? Wish I knew a single programmer making 2/3rds of that - no one I know does, and I've been doing this in a number of cities for a lot of years.
mark
And you're a paranoid asshole who is deathly afraid of cities.
I grew up in a city, and have lived inside cities almost my whole life (and I probably started programming before you were born). In fact, I grew up in a slum. I've lived in downtowns, and outer neighborhoods. I can remember one person shot, and personally know one or two that were mugged, ever.
And I've never been either, nor been present when someone was shooting. I suppose I need to go to a suburban school for that.
mark
And none of the things that are in cities: museums, choices of theatres, and, oh, yes, friends and family who *don't* work for the company. And, of course, in the company towns that you're talking about, driving everywhere. And if you decide you can't take the PHB anymore, and are tired of those wonderful beneifits cut down because the market's tough, it's company folks who'll watch you leaving....
Read up on company towns, and the company store. You really want to live like that? If so, you're a complete and utter *SUCKER*.
mark "too many born every minute"
Never get to leave? Y'know, I don't think that's allowed in the US, courtesy of the 13th Amendment... y'know, the one that abolished slavery?
mark
I run, and like CentOS (directly equivalent to RHEL). I googled CentOS skype, and this was one of the first four hits....
mark
No.
I saw a presentation in the early eighties, and when we asked about the fried birds, we were told that the powe density was a few watts/m^2 - they were planning on a large array of receivers.
Of course, if Dick Cheney and his friends got control of the project....
mark
Um, so, you're talking about me?
Lessee, Lose95, er, Windows 95. The illegal competition that broke WordPerfect (*far* better word processor that that piece of crap, Word). Lose Me, er, Windows Me.
But they've changed *so* much, right?
I have a two word response to that: Windows 8.
mark
Some of us have been screaming solar power satellites in geosync for decades. It's a *lot* less expensive to fly to geosync, and the environmental impact studies (US) were *done* by 1980....
mark
Really? And on what basis do you assert this? What's the income of the union presidents?
Yep, unions are a waste of time... of course, you like working 60+ hour weeks with declining benifits (if you have any), and decreasing vacation days (or, since they've done the "modern" thing, and merged your sick time with your vacation time to be "paid time off", don't get sick).
And btw, I googled what "exempt salaried" meant in the US, legally... and found that there's a *special* exemption for computer people, meaning they can say "whatever it takes", and claim the benifits of having you salaried... and not paying you for, say, snow days, meaning you're really just hourly, with no chance of a union.
There are two kinds of Republicans and Libertarians: millionaires, and suckers.
mark
Right, like the ones that everyone hated, caused cancers in some TSA personnel (unadmitted by the TSA), and were pretty useless, since over and over, people demonstrated that they could smuggle weapons past them? And that are now retired, after tens of millions of tax dollars wasted on them?
Or like the new submillimeter machines, which have close to the same problems, that it's been demonstrated that you can smuggle weapons past them?
Here's a better way to spend money: fire all the managers and execs, and bring in some professional security managers. Ones that will, for example, come down like a ton of bricks on the screeners who do extra screening on good looking women, or pull vibrators or other sex toys out for their "amusement" value?
Go look at the archives from , by a guy who just quit the TSA after some years, and all what really happens back there.
Oh, and the boxcutters that the 9/11 hijackers were supposed to have had were *ILLEGAL* and should have been found before all this crap.
Keep the TSA on the job, guys, the terrorists have won, completely. America, the home of the cowards and the unfree.
mark
+1 on the smoots.
But just remember, 1.8x10^12 furlongs/fortnite isn't just a good idea, it's the Law!
mark "units of measurement will always be expressed in the least convenient unit"
Not quite 20 years ago, I heard Robert Reich on the radio ask one simple queswtion: what does a CEO do, or bring to the table, that the guy under him - the president, or whatever - does not? Education? Experience? (If you say "vision", I'm going to shove your idiot smartphone down your throat.)
In that case, why is he worth 10 times what the other guy makes?
Don't give me "but the company make so much..." Consider Jamie Dimon, of BoA, who spent bilions and billions of dollars to settle lawsuits from the DoJ (without, of course, ever admitting culpability), and he got a *massive* raise.
Either he knew what was going on with the subprime crap, in which case he should be not just fired, but defenestrated, or he didn't, in which case he should be fired, and sued for all his pay back.
No. A good part of it are the tax laws, and the massive use of bonuses (which are treated differently than salary raises) and stock options. As a major US newspaper noted in the late nineties, "who's going to say that CEO's aren't downsizing until the stock market stops rewarding them for doing so", never mind what destruction it wreaks to the company (since they'll move on soon enough - look up Frank "scumbag" Lorenzo and Eastern Airlines).
And what, pray tell, do any of them do that's worth 10, 20, 50 times what the President of the United States gets paid ($400,000/yr, no stock options, no bonuses)?
mark
A day or so late, but unlike most slashdotters these days, here's the actual answer to your question:
0. Do some research, and decide which F/OSS firmware distro will meet all your needs.
1. Go to the home page, then find the release that's for your hardware, and d/l it to your system. I did
it to a netbook, rather than my workstation, for reasons in step 2.
2. Connect a system to the router. MAKE SURE IT IS *N*O*T* on the Net. Turn off wireless, so that the
only connection between the router and the system is one wired cable.
3. On your connected system, which has the d/l firmware, browse to the router (often 192.168.1.1, so put
that in as the URL: http://192.168.1.1/ and you'll get to your router's built-in webserver. It will have
a default password, if you haven't already reset that.
4. Log into the router, and there will be an admistration, or some such, page, and on that page will be
the option to update your firmware. Point it to the file on your system that's the new firmware,
and follow the directions from the router info, and from the F/OSS firmware.
Yeah, it took me almost as long to write this as it will take you to do it, once you've got the firmware file.
mark
Are you out of your mind? Just make sure you put a large, large sign on your vehicle when you get that, so I can stay far away, as you mis-aim as you illegallly text while driving, and slam into a bridge abutment.
mark "we won't talk about the price of replacing the computer when it pulls to the left"
That's fine... except I suggest you go there, or just google on debricking a router. It's the terminology.
mark
(From snopes, collected 1999):
Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release (by Mr. Welch himself) stating:
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine.
4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
And one snopes missed: there would only be one screen in the middle of the dashboard, which would light up with a question mark if something went wrong. The experienced driver will know what to do to fix it.
It is, of course, too complex to go back to knobs and slides that you could distinguish by feel, and didn't have to look at icons (Engineer's Dictionary: a small, fuzzy, and incomprehensible pictograph to replace a perrfectly clear and comprehensible word).
mark, who can't figure out how to set the radio buttons on his new-to-him van
First you have to find the right build of DD-WRT. This involves totally ignoring the router database, which, as one person's website put it, is either massively out of date at best, and *WRONG* at worst, liable to brick your router.
And if you join the support forum, you discover people talking about their "favorite" builds, something in over 30 years in the field I've *NEVER* heard of. And they don't have formal releases, and regression tests seem to be mostly dependent upon the lead developers.
Two months of fighting this, and debricking my router 2? 3? times, and I found one that did what I needed (that was to actually serve as a print server for a USB printer, as well as routing).. I have no idea how, or if, I'll be able to upgrade.....
mark, sr. sysadmin, Linux/Unix
The way I did. Now, if you're not an experienced sysadmin, and want to use your Asus router for *anything* else, give up. I've got DD-WRT on mine, and it took months, for the simple reason that I wanted to use the router, as it advertised on the box, to serve a USB printer.
Calling Asus about the stock firmware, when I told them my printer, they told me, "oh, it servers printers, but not that printer, you should have checked what we support...." The box does *NOT* say "only supports some printers...."
So I went for DD-WRT. That's a disaster. The web site - after a month or so of screwing around on and off, I found someone who knew something, saying, IGNORE THE ROUTER DATABASE. You know, the first thing it tells you to use when you go to the DD-WRT home page? And the guy went on to say, that the d/b was out of date at best, and *wrong* at worst.
Then I got into the "help" forum. I've been in the field since before some of you were born... and I have *never* seen a project where folks talked about their "favorite build". !!! And one where one thing gets fixed in a build by one person, but something else breaks (regression tests? What are those?) And they have no formal releases, just some lead developers' builds.
I can't see how I can ever update the firmware, since I don't want to break what works...
So if you just want it as a router, or maybe even w/ QoS, DD-WRT ok. Otherwise, be prepared for a lot of grief (and you'll get real familiar with restoring the original firmware to start all over again).
mark
Come on, libertarians, show us how this is the free market, and how it's good for all of us.
Yup.
Oh, and btw, as I recall (it's been a few years), in Chicago, Comcast was advertising in the market mostly served by Time-Warner.
So, where's competition? Where I've lived, your choice was the local ex-Baby Bell, or Time-Warner, or Comcast. Lots of competition there for Ineternet access. And for those doctrinaire Libertarians and Tea Party types, enjoy one 'Net provider... and then they can throttle if they want, after they pay politicians to kill net neutrality. The result, of course, is listening to y'all try to tell the rest of us how living in a company town is really great....
mark, who does not want to go back to dial-up
Who architected and spec'd the software?
Who determined the time frame?
And, for extra credit,
a) were there changes to the spec made during the original development?
b) was the original software written by someone right out of college, with no large scale experience, and almost
zero experience in error handling?
While your manager's determining that, they'd better be paying you. Oh, and could you comment on the mistakes your manager's made, both those visible to you, and those according to *their* manager? Are they being paid to fix those problems?
mark
At night? Or do you only drive on streets that are 100% of the time tangent to the surface of the Earth?
I've always hated you idiots with blue headlights, which are brighter and more blinding that regular, and then there are the states that are so "free" that they don't have annual safety inspections which include ALIGNING YOUR HEADLIGHTS.
I know, no one here knows what that means.
And now, lasers, or LEDs, or whatever? Great, if I get totally blinded by your bloody headlights, I'll make sure that when I have my accided becase of that, I'll slam into your driver's side door at full speed.
mark
You mean you're just sitting back and letting the computer arbitrage make your millions? You're not out there cracking your whip over us poor pee-ons?
Need to fix that chair of yours.....
mark
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Servitor: Sire! Sire! The peasants are revolting!
King: They *certainly* are.
where the Republicans really are, and esp. the "Tea Party"... given the phrase ante bellum, and that Sen Cruz and Ms. Palin showed up during the Shutdown in front of the White House with a Confederate flag.
NeoConfederates, and this is the South (and my gorge) rising again.
And if you're reading or posting here, odds are you're not a millionaire, and if you're for them, there's a name for you: "sucker" (along with racist, bigot, and wouldn't know "enlightened self-interest" if it hit them with a semi).
mark
Have one without "sponsored ads".
Google has produce less useful hits over the last five years, as its advertising income skyrocketed. Search for something, and add -"photo", and you'll still get photographer. Try mens riding boots -women -womens -women's, and you'll probably get a "sponsored ad" for women's boots, with the letters "men" bolded.
This isn't even counting Target, which will claim it has anything you're looking for, but if you follow the link, oh, no, sorry... but we have !!!!!
Add the way librarians used to search, not just with AND and OR, but also "within so many words", so that men's leather boots, and men's riding boots and men's fashiondesigner wonderful boots all are returned, if you tell it men's within 3 words of boots.
A lot of the tech is already there... but ad revenue is, I mean, what we really want, right, rather than the service you're purportedly offering?
mark
The world is globaliszed, don'tchaknow? I'll bet some Chinese firm would have *no* trouble offering to host the outsourcing of the data storage....
mark "on Chinese-made chips...."