310 areacode users have been punching 11-digits for 2 years now. Lotsa complains at first (3 months) but no further problems now that people are used to it.
The sad thing is.. not sure where the saving is from but to their own greedy pockets.
Citibank/Citicorp is outsourcing most of its work if not all soon to Polaris which it (Citicorp) owns 60+%. Yet it pays these so called "contractors" 55 bucks an hour (first year) and 65 bucks an hour (second year). Cheap labor somewhere I do not see, but the money somehow circulates into some one's pockets.
Any of you US-ian make that much in a year? or by the hour? Any of these Indian workers actually get more than a 1/3 of that in a year? they live together like sardine stacked up in apartments. So where is the money going to?
And what about all these corporate responsibility to the community that nurture it? It is a joke, people. The h1b Visa at least in this sense IT/IS is a joke.
I agreed. Windows 2K workstation and server both have shown better stability in recent years. However it is still far from *nix counterparts.
As of current, our servers have to reboot several thousand W2K/IIS 5.0 servers on weekly and bi-monthly basis. Windows processes are leaking memory at 1.2 MB/hour per process. Despite our abundant allowance of memory on each server (4GB) each, after 3 weeks or so running continuously, the OS behaves eratically, hence the mandatory reboots every 2 weeks or so.
Regarding other people 's anecdotal evidences or testimonies for their own windows desktops' uptimes, I think it is the case of different strokes for different folks. I run many multiple processes concurrent on many desktops and observe bad behaviors after 10 days or so. It all depends on your applications and processes and how taxing your workhorses are. I can have a DOS machine running with an uptime of months and years but it is not any stable or secure than any other OS.
Yeah... under the skin, and it is undetectable by many electronic/laser scan neither... Watch back those espisodes and you will know what I am talking about. Yes the one where Nikita had to disrobe in a wire cage:-)
Obviously she turned it off during one of those rare occasional sex scenes with Michael.:-)
Used to do this for a while. Document managament segment. The software out there are kinda suck. It is better if you can write your own, on the "embrace and extend" direction of available components out there. Even better if you plan to do a lot of this, go all crazy with all the bills, credit cards statements and daily papers and whatnots:-)
Kofaxsells compression board + APIs to help you with all the deskew, strengthen your images and stuff. The APIs that I used was for Windows only, altho it come with full support for C and VB.
Bell and Howell scanners work with Kofax product like a charm. Some model can scan like 30-40 pages/min for a moderate amount of money. Better scan as compressed TIFF. It handles multiples pages much better.
ORC batches can be scheduled to run as soon as you finish scanning the docs.. I forgot what the package is called. But the current technique prolly improves alot more than when I was doing it ('97)
Add in a databse and some indexing capability, you can actually build a business around this (we did).
Why all these trouble to make your own? Well if you are a good coder, you can extende and add any functionality that you might want. Cookie-cutter package ain't also good enough or cheap enough.
Now you might want books only, but what about billings? statements and even integrate other digital forms of documents? And indexing and searching... By all mean go crazy on it.. it is fun..:-)
Many of us have done this in one form or another for a long time now. Come on, who would deligently type in your _real_ information to registration forms out there?
Even when forced for valid email for verification, we provide them with a spared junk email account. What? You haven't done so already?
And yes, the more destructive thing to do to these ad-dependent, info-tracking services is the method you mentioned. But who else would provide free services any more if everyone 'd do this. You know too well when you use/leech the services that you have to offer them something in return right? Nothing? Darn, you must be naively stupid.
In a way, the smarter people or more informed people will not open up their wallet and give out their credit cards numbers, SSN, home addy, home phone numbers to everyone that walks by. However, some others will do. I guess it is a way of life. Some will take advantage of the free services more than others.
Annamite
Come and show him the love. :-)
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You can come to the discussion/forum here on this thread and show him your support for Ad-aware and why it is important NOT to piss off the users of Ad-aware.
I believe that the guy(s) can come to his/their senses and have some corrective actions regarding his sw soon.
Well, I like to hike. And since I can't find too many people in this Los Angeles Metropolitan area to hide themselves for the full weekend somewehere in the woods (yes they exist about 1-2 hours driving from L.A), I have to go alone.
It would be the best to get one of these in case of emergency, for my rescue. Every year, we hear news of people getting hurt and gettting lost in the forests. This device would be a time and life saving.
Cellphones? Are you kidding? There ain't any phone provider has the coverage needed around here in L.A. This would be a good idea, provided that it works as advertised.
Rich white, Anglo-Saxon people are just as clueless as usual. Not everyone is going to be able to buy a damn Palm or a computer. Heck, many can barely have one full meal per day, leave alone affordding electricity to power one of those 'cheap' peecees.
(deadtree) Books are universal. Sharing is easy. Your rich subburban kids can share the same book as some starving children in the warring zones. (hopefully after your kids threw away his books, he threw it at a donation center or something)
Talking about E-book as the exclusive method of publication for a children book is so pretentious that is expected of clueless rich liberals of the Bay Area. Just like the plan for "a computer in every home" of Gore and others. How about two or three meals per day for every kid in the US for starter? For the poor kids whose mothers were on welfare but kicked off cuz of the "reformed" policies? For the homeless people battling the cold under the freeway bridges? And another billion or hungryon some other places that ain't the US too.
Talking about universal access tothe Internet while people's stomachs are grumbling and chilling to the bones.
to aid the professors, there would be some one wh ois smart enough to reverse this program's "features" to expande the code out to a more readable version?
And who woul turn computer code assignmens in that no one can read? All the TAs would automatically give it a D.
Saying that Orange County is a suburb of L.A. ...
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is like saying that San Jose is a sububrb of San Francisco, New Jersey City to New York City. Get it?
Many banks are using Windows NT for their CAT machines. They do have strict procedures on what get install (minimal), and how every updates get installed remotely (via their own UNIX network controllers).
NT configured correctly can be reliable considering how little work the CAT machine actually need.
Siemens, NCR/AT&T do produce topnots CAT/ATM machines with IBM/AT core for banks to be customized with their own OSes, often to be Windows NT. The IBM/AT core allow them to sell these boxes cheaply and still satisfy the conformity needed for almost all CAT/ATM machines that banks want. Specially made cryptocards can be added/removed/upgrade very quickly and do not require a complete redesign/code rewrite for the machines.
MP3 format was not supported by M$ or any other OSes at the time. People just like them cuz of the conviniences and the superior compression it has over other formats (at the time).
Since the original Winmap is only around 700KB, people can download it, and install it in less than the time it takes to download a single song. Be hold, millions of people have been downloaded and use it without any support whatsoever from the OSes' vendors.
Built a great software that encodes/decodes the format, make it easy to use to the masses and people will use them.
Soon when you see the high percentage of people begin to encode their musics/ sound clips in OGG, then you will know it is getting there. For now, any support is great. But do not give me some source code that I have to compile and debug to make it work. (*I* as any JohnDoe Average).
Ran windows 2000 on that machine. Installed XP, re-installed everything. Plugged in a USB device (SansDisk CF reader), Windows eXport Privacy freezed (hourglass on and on), Cont-Alt-Del did not work, No process/org can be killed.
Left for Halloween party. Returned at 2am.. still freeze.
I used to work as a spammer (yes i am paying greatly for my sin)and I had all kinda tools to extract email addresses from AOL or any of the chat services (IRC/Yahoo chat, etc...) out there. We do scan each and ever single room every few minutes to grab your precious email addy/screanname/yahooID.
Yes, we do know that you went to that "two hot lesbian and a dildo" room last nite, not one time but several times from 2am until 4am. (=:
I have been used mostly Belkin KVMs since '97 in a heterogeneous environment (mix of Novell/NT/Win8x, even AIX!!!).
I have used the 8-port, the 4-port and the newer Omni Cube with 4-port. This is mostly in a testing environment with lots and lots of rebootings and switchings.
Sometimes it is a frustrated experience when the only way to regain your mouse/keyboard attention is rebooting the server(s). This seems to be an on-going problem with Belkins. Booting NT while switching to another other system consistently causes problems, albeit with less occurrence with the newer Omni Cube but still a frustrate exp nevertheless.
Worst exp comes with mixing OSes. Not sure how the engineering works, but AIX has the least tolerant to the KVM, losing mouse activity al lthe time. Next is NT/2K and then Win9x (old models 4 and 8 port). The 8-port somehow manage much better. Eventually we had to put back the old Monitors/KB/Mouse for each of the AIX box.
The rack-mounted ones supplied with Dell... however work perfectly with no problem whatsoever so far. Altho, I have to admit we reboot and abuse them less than the Belkins.
See how it was used.:-) Messy indeed. This is the old work place back in 98.:-) At my current work, I have them arrange in much nicer way:-)
http://www.geocities.com/annamite2002/KVM/index. ht ml
Will put the pics of the newer place on Monday when I get to work.
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310 areacode users have been punching 11-digits for 2 years now. Lotsa complains at first (3 months) but no further problems now that people are used to it.
Wuss.
The sad thing is .. not sure where the saving is from but to their own greedy pockets.
Citibank/Citicorp is outsourcing most of its work if not all soon to Polaris which it (Citicorp) owns 60+%. Yet it pays these so called "contractors" 55 bucks an hour (first year) and 65 bucks an hour (second year). Cheap labor somewhere I do not see, but the money somehow circulates into some one's pockets.
Any of you US-ian make that much in a year? or by the hour? Any of these Indian workers actually get more than a 1/3 of that in a year? they live together like sardine stacked up in apartments. So where is the money going to?
And what about all these corporate responsibility to the community that nurture it? It is a joke, people. The h1b Visa at least in this sense IT/IS is a joke.
Agree totally.
. ht m
This was the one happened at University of calif , Irvine a while ago.
http://www.nmsu.edu/~safety/news/uc-irvine-fire
I think you meant the State Highway 91. State Highway 90 is about 3 miles long in Marina Del Rey.
Umm what about the case of all other colleges' dorms? women colleges ' dorms? Are they all brothels too?
Consider that this is a hippie thing, it should be:
...
Burn, baby, Burn!
any mention or related mention to burningman.com is purely coincident. (-:
And you still haven't seen the problem yet? Need a cluestick?
I agreed. Windows 2K workstation and server both have shown better stability in recent years. However it is still far from *nix counterparts.
As of current, our servers have to reboot several thousand W2K/IIS 5.0 servers on weekly and bi-monthly basis. Windows processes are leaking memory at 1.2 MB/hour per process. Despite our abundant allowance of memory on each server (4GB) each, after 3 weeks or so running continuously, the OS behaves eratically, hence the mandatory reboots every 2 weeks or so.
Regarding other people 's anecdotal evidences or testimonies for their own windows desktops' uptimes, I think it is the case of different strokes for different folks. I run many multiple processes concurrent on many desktops and observe bad behaviors after 10 days or so. It all depends on your applications and processes and how taxing your workhorses are. I can have a DOS machine running with an uptime of months and years but it is not any stable or secure than any other OS.
Yeah
Obviously she turned it off during one of those rare occasional sex scenes with Michael.
Used to do this for a while. Document managament segment. The software out there are kinda suck. It is better if you can write your own, on the "embrace and extend" direction of available components out there. Even better if you plan to do a lot of this, go all crazy with all the bills, credit cards statements and daily papers and whatnots :-)
... By all mean go crazy on it .. it is fun .. :-)
Kofaxsells compression board + APIs to help you with all the deskew, strengthen your images and stuff. The APIs that I used was for Windows only, altho it come with full support for C and VB.
Bell and Howell scanners work with Kofax product like a charm. Some model can scan like 30-40 pages/min for a moderate amount of money. Better scan as compressed TIFF. It handles multiples pages much better.
ORC batches can be scheduled to run as soon as you finish scanning the docs.. I forgot what the package is called. But the current technique prolly improves alot more than when I was doing it ('97)
Add in a databse and some indexing capability, you can actually build a business around this (we did).
Why all these trouble to make your own? Well if you are a good coder, you can extende and add any functionality that you might want. Cookie-cutter package ain't also good enough or cheap enough.
Now you might want books only, but what about billings? statements and even integrate other digital forms of documents? And indexing and searching
Annamite
Even when forced for valid email for verification, we provide them with a spared junk email account. What? You haven't done so already?
And yes, the more destructive thing to do to these ad-dependent, info-tracking services is the method you mentioned. But who else would provide free services any more if everyone 'd do this. You know too well when you use/leech the services that you have to offer them something in return right? Nothing? Darn, you must be naively stupid.
In a way, the smarter people or more informed people will not open up their wallet and give out their credit cards numbers, SSN, home addy, home phone numbers to everyone that walks by. However, some others will do. I guess it is a way of life. Some will take advantage of the free services more than others.
Annamite
You can come to the discussion/forum here on this thread and show him your support for Ad-aware and why it is important NOT to piss off the users of Ad-aware.
I believe that the guy(s) can come to his/their senses and have some corrective actions regarding his sw soon.
Come and show him your love,
Annmite
On a same note,
I am in a room that I do not own
I am sitting inside a cube that is not mine...
.. almost naked on a throne
.. taking a dump.
Am I expecting any privacy?
Many tompeepers do not think so and I think the law says otherwise..
Next thing you know will be a supercomputer in a lunch box.
:-)
And cost is sub-thousand too.
Am I dreaming or asking too much? Any slashdot reader / geek with an entrepreneurial mind?
Well, I like to hike. And since I can't find too many people in this Los Angeles Metropolitan area to hide themselves for the full weekend somewehere in the woods (yes they exist about 1-2 hours driving from L.A), I have to go alone.
It would be the best to get one of these in case of emergency, for my rescue. Every year, we hear news of people getting hurt and gettting lost in the forests. This device would be a time and life saving.
Cellphones? Are you kidding? There ain't any phone provider has the coverage needed around here in L.A. This would be a good idea, provided that it works as advertised.
Rich white, Anglo-Saxon people are just as clueless as usual. Not everyone is going to be able to buy a damn Palm or a computer. Heck, many can barely have one full meal per day, leave alone affordding electricity to power one of those 'cheap' peecees.
(deadtree) Books are universal. Sharing is easy. Your rich subburban kids can share the same book as some starving children in the warring zones. (hopefully after your kids threw away his books, he threw it at a donation center or something)
Talking about E-book as the exclusive method of publication for a children book is so pretentious that is expected of clueless rich liberals of the Bay Area. Just like the plan for "a computer in every home" of Gore and others. How about two or three meals per day for every kid in the US for starter? For the poor kids whose mothers were on welfare but kicked off cuz of the "reformed" policies? For the homeless people battling the cold under the freeway bridges? And another billion or hungryon some other places that ain't the US too.
Talking about universal access tothe Internet while people's stomachs are grumbling and chilling to the bones.
Sad!
Moejoe
Well,
to aid the professors, there would be some one wh ois smart enough to reverse this program's "features" to expande the code out to a more readable version?
And who woul turn computer code assignmens in that no one can read? All the TAs would automatically give it a D.
is like saying that San Jose is a sububrb of San Francisco, New Jersey City to New York City. Get it?
Clueless people.
Without the ads, and stuff that clutter up your screen/reading attention:
d =1
http://www.timecanada.com/printstory.adp?storyi
Many banks are using Windows NT for their CAT machines. They do have strict procedures on what get install (minimal), and how every updates get installed remotely (via their own UNIX network controllers).
NT configured correctly can be reliable considering how little work the CAT machine actually need.
Siemens, NCR/AT&T do produce topnots CAT/ATM machines with IBM/AT core for banks to be customized with their own OSes, often to be Windows NT. The IBM/AT core allow them to sell these boxes cheaply and still satisfy the conformity needed for almost all CAT/ATM machines that banks want. Specially made cryptocards can be added/removed/upgrade very quickly and do not require a complete redesign/code rewrite for the machines.
MP3 format was not supported by M$ or any other OSes at the time. People just like them cuz of the conviniences and the superior compression it has over other formats (at the time).
Since the original Winmap is only around 700KB, people can download it, and install it in less than the time it takes to download a single song. Be hold, millions of people have been downloaded and use it without any support whatsoever from the OSes' vendors.
Built a great software that encodes/decodes the format, make it easy to use to the masses and people will use them.
Soon when you see the high percentage of people begin to encode their musics/ sound clips in OGG, then you will know it is getting there. For now, any support is great. But do not give me some source code that I have to compile and debug to make it work. (*I* as any JohnDoe Average).
Hear me?
MCVT
Agree.
p le.html
Another example is the Buddhist symbol. Like this one from http://www.heathenworld.com/swastika/buddhist_tem
FYI, http://www.heathenworld.com/swastika/why.html has a lot of info regarding the narrow and limited knowlegde of people regarding swatikas.
MoeJoe
Ran windows 2000 on that machine. Installed XP, re-installed everything. Plugged in a USB device (SansDisk CF reader), Windows eXport Privacy freezed (hourglass on and on), Cont-Alt-Del did not work, No process/org can be killed.
.. still freeze.
Left for Halloween party. Returned at 2am
Reboot!
MoeJoe,
Join any chatroom lately?
I used to work as a spammer (yes i am paying greatly for my sin)and I had all kinda tools to extract email addresses from AOL or any of the chat services (IRC/Yahoo chat, etc...) out there. We do scan each and ever single room every few minutes to grab your precious email addy/screanname/yahooID.
Yes, we do know that you went to that "two hot lesbian and a dildo" room last nite, not one time but several times from 2am until 4am. (=:
MoeJoe
I have been used mostly Belkin KVMs since '97 in a heterogeneous environment (mix of Novell/NT/Win8x, even AIX!!!).
... however work perfectly with no problem whatsoever so far. Altho, I have to admit we reboot and abuse them less than the Belkins.
:-) Messy indeed. This is the old work place back in 98. :-) At my current work, I have them arrange in much nicer way :-)
. ht ml
I have used the 8-port, the 4-port and the newer Omni Cube with 4-port. This is mostly in a testing environment with lots and lots of rebootings and switchings.
Sometimes it is a frustrated experience when the only way to regain your mouse/keyboard attention is rebooting the server(s). This seems to be an on-going problem with Belkins. Booting NT while switching to another other system consistently causes problems, albeit with less occurrence with the newer Omni Cube but still a frustrate exp nevertheless.
Worst exp comes with mixing OSes. Not sure how the engineering works, but AIX has the least tolerant to the KVM, losing mouse activity al lthe time. Next is NT/2K and then Win9x (old models 4 and 8 port). The 8-port somehow manage much better. Eventually we had to put back the old Monitors/KB/Mouse for each of the AIX box.
The rack-mounted ones supplied with Dell
See how it was used.
http://www.geocities.com/annamite2002/KVM/index
Will put the pics of the newer place on Monday when I get to work.