This was confirmed at Comic Con yesterday (Saturday) during the Simpsons panel with Matt G. Needless to say, the Futurama DVD got the largest applause of the session.
The previous poster mentioning haggling is correct. He says 'jump' and you say 'not that high, and it will cost this much.' At my company (another long-term IT guy, 14 years @ same place) we always ask folks for more time, but we understand that sometimes we will get it, and sometimes we wont't (we even use some extra perks , if it will help), but we don't do anything nasty if they say no. We also try and limit the consulting fees with the understanding that the employee is in the catbird seat.
Some folks know the game, and some don't.
This might sound cold-hearted, but it is just the way things go.
Having said that.... if this person even STARTS to imply that you agreeing to the mandatory notice and lower-priced consulting fee is a requirement for your final check, you need to be VERY careful. Contacting a friend who may happen to be a labor lawyer (or just read your own state codes) would be a smart move. In California, you should expect your final check within 96 hours of your last work hour (if I recall correctly..)
4. On July 27, 2001, agents from the Miami Office visited Lightning's retail store located at 231 E. Flagler Street, Unit #1, Miami, Florida. The agents saw several long-range, cordless telephones on display at the store, including a Super Phone CT-9000, a Prolink CT-6000CID, and an Optima OP8810. A salesperson offered to sell one of the units to the agents. The long-range cordless telephones displayed at the store were capable of causing serious interference to aviation communications and were not approved6 by the Commission for use in the United States.
Think twice folks, these devices are illegal to use in the US (lets not get into the 'rights of the airspace within a Farrady cage in a private club' stuff, ok?). Look for fines ranging from $7,500 to over $10k for 'wilfull and repeated violations' of FCC regulations if you fire one of these up (and your local hams or ANYONE ELSE reports you).
Most of these types radios use frequencies right in the midle of the the 2 meter band (140Mhz), allocated to gov't/amateur radio.
Just wait and see what happens when you fire up one of these and step all over coordinated 2m repeater....
"Does this mean my company will become publicly traded?"
Perhaps. They might be issuing non-registered securities as part of a private placement and providing a way for the employees to 'get in early.' Be VERY careful with this. (and good luck trying to sell any of it if your company does NOT go public. Talk to a lawyer to find out why).
If this is anything like my company, you are being issued 'common shares' while the real investors (and executives) are being issued 'preferred shares.' The differences can be HUGE (voting rights, dividends/lack of, etc...)
Obviously don't rely on/. Talk to an accountant before you sign ANYTHING.
Of course, if you already have any of ATI's current RADEON TV cards, the packed-in software already supports a broadcast flag/'no record for you' feature. I've had the system stop recording ANALOG input content several times (self-produced on old analog 1" equipment, and I ain't talking abour pr0n).
Perhaps the reason you can't move your number across the country is because (from my understanding) the system was designed to mimic landline LNP (LOCAL number portability). Numbers can generaly only be moved if there is a common rate center (not nessearily an area code). If most of the cell phone providers operate out of a common local central office or location, moving is a snap. IF, however, they are outside of the same local area, the LNP rules do not apply.
This applies to cell phones and landlines. I found this out the hard way when I tried to move our company's 100 DID numbers cross-town. Some companies (SBC, for instance) WILL create a new 'virtual rate center' (fancy name for a foreign exchange prefix for inbound only), but they will charge for it.
The distance exception to LNP has been a hot button for most of the cell companies (Check back issues of the Washington Digest from NECA (http://www.neca.org) (National Exchange Carrier Organization) for more info.
Needless to say, I can no longer trust Belkin with any of our infrastructure devices, be they keyboards, KVM, or even home-office equipment that we recommend to our staff. What is preventing your KVM switches from manipulating their attached systems to contact Belkin for ANY REASON without our input? With the IP feature of the Quadbus system who knows? The same same question applies to your keyboards.
As far as your home routers go, we will be using Linksys from here on out, as their products do not redirect traffic on a random basis back to the Linksys corporate site. We have company traffic that cannot be interrupted by unintended data-stream manipulation by a foreign concern. Furthermore, your firmware appears to permit remote entities to change basic operation or internal settings of the router. How can I be assured that in time, Belkin will not decide to 'upgrade' various installed units via this backdoor command capability?
Our KVM replacements (10), which were going to be from the Quadbus series, will be going elsewhere, probably to Rose. Our home router recommendations are now Linksys.
Over the past few years, we have purchased over $30k worth of Belkin equipment for resale to the K-12 education community via channel partners and distributors. This will not continue, effective immediately. Unfortunately, I do not anticipate our company doing any further business with Belkin in the foreseeable future.
Some of us do.... I was the first to 'license' his music news features for priate, errrr, shortwave broadcasting a looong time ago. A no charge handshake kind of agreement, free as long as I didn't sell commercials... (I'll post a tape, when I can find one, over @ http://www.sdmedia.net).
-arg
Well... what can I say. I will have access to a development prototype (perhaps THE development prototype) PC-card sleeve and wireless NIC later this week (fingers crossed). While the project is for the Windows side, I may have enough time with the devices to mess with a LINUX network interface... I'll keep y'all updated.
-BOB
I ordered one of these (by phone, paid the extra $39 for shipping) on the day the first/. story appeared. I was told by the salesperson that: 1) The unit will only work with THEIR ISP. (no biggie) 2) You can pre-pay for a year of service. (no thanks) 3) You will NOT be billed for the ISP service until your unit connects to the ISP for the first time. (Sound familiar anyone?) The unit arrived on the 23rd via FedEx, and I just found a charge for the pro-rated service on my card w/in the last 20 minutes. Looks like it's time for a few phone calls, first to Netpliance, then to the BBB, then to the major stockholders. They're a public company, remember that. -arg
While running the PRIMES 18.1 service program as part of the GIMPS project (for testing only, of course), I noticed that I was able to create an audible "squeek" coming from the region (board layout) of the Xeon processors on both HP and COMPAQ servers while running (GASP) NT. (yes, I removed the speaker...) The response from the software author indicated that the software may have been causing some sort of feedback between the power regulator board and the actual processor. I'm not so sure now.... I have been able to reproduce this on PII Xeons as well as PII Xeon boards. No response from HP nor Compaq, yet.
Gimps info: http://www.entropia.com/ips/ Team: Subgenius (feel free to join)
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This was confirmed at Comic Con yesterday (Saturday) during the Simpsons panel with Matt G. Needless to say, the Futurama DVD got the largest applause of the session.
The previous poster mentioning haggling is correct. He says 'jump' and you say 'not that high, and it will cost this much.' At my company (another long-term IT guy, 14 years @ same place) we always ask folks for more time, but we understand that sometimes we will get it, and sometimes we wont't (we even use some extra perks , if it will help), but we don't do anything nasty if they say no. We also try and limit the consulting fees with the understanding that the employee is in the catbird seat.
Some folks know the game, and some don't.
This might sound cold-hearted, but it is just the way things go.
Having said that.... if this person even STARTS to imply that you agreeing to the mandatory notice and lower-priced consulting fee is a requirement for your final check, you need to be VERY careful. Contacting a friend who may happen to be a labor lawyer (or just read your own state codes) would be a smart move. In California, you should expect your final check within 96 hours of your last work hour (if I recall correctly..)
Please read these before buying/using these phones...
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http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2002/DA-02-453A1.htm
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2002/DA-02-2474A1.ht
4. On July 27, 2001, agents from the Miami Office visited Lightning's retail store located at 231 E. Flagler Street, Unit #1, Miami, Florida. The agents saw several long-range, cordless telephones on display at the store, including a Super Phone CT-9000, a Prolink CT-6000CID, and an Optima OP8810. A salesperson
offered to sell one of the units to the agents. The long-range cordless telephones displayed at the store were capable of causing serious interference to aviation communications and were
not approved6 by the Commission for use in the United States.
Think twice folks, these devices are illegal to use in the US (lets not get into the 'rights of the airspace within a Farrady cage in a private club' stuff, ok?). Look for fines ranging from $7,500 to over $10k for 'wilfull and repeated violations' of FCC regulations if you fire one of these up (and your local hams or ANYONE ELSE reports you).
Most of these types radios use frequencies right in the midle of the the 2 meter band (140Mhz), allocated to gov't/amateur radio.
Just wait and see what happens when you fire up one of these and step all over coordinated 2m repeater....
"Does this mean my company will become publicly traded?"
/. Talk to an accountant before you sign ANYTHING.
Perhaps. They might be issuing non-registered securities as part of a private placement and providing a way for the employees to 'get in early.' Be VERY careful with this. (and good luck trying to sell any of it if your company does NOT go public. Talk to a lawyer to find out why).
If this is anything like my company, you are being issued 'common shares' while the real investors (and executives) are being issued 'preferred shares.' The differences can be HUGE (voting rights, dividends/lack of, etc...)
Obviously don't rely on
Of course, if you already have any of ATI's current RADEON TV cards, the packed-in software already supports a broadcast flag/'no record for you' feature. I've had the system stop recording ANALOG input content several times (self-produced on old analog 1" equipment, and I ain't talking abour pr0n).
Perhaps the reason you can't move your number across the country is because (from my understanding) the system was designed to mimic landline LNP (LOCAL number portability). Numbers can generaly only be moved if there is a common rate center (not nessearily an area code). If most of the cell phone providers operate out of a common local central office or location, moving is a snap. IF, however, they are outside of the same local area, the LNP rules do not apply.
This applies to cell phones and landlines. I found this out the hard way when I tried to move our company's 100 DID numbers cross-town. Some companies (SBC, for instance) WILL create a new 'virtual rate center' (fancy name for a foreign exchange prefix for inbound only), but they will charge for it.
The distance exception to LNP has been a hot button for most of the cell companies (Check back issues of the Washington Digest from NECA (http://www.neca.org) (National Exchange Carrier Organization) for more info.
-arg
Belkin Sales Team:
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Our company was set to replace our existing older Belkin KVM switches
with an upgraded version when I read this article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.h
and this followup from someone (Eric Deming?) within Belkin:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3FA87D03.E
Needless to say, I can no longer trust Belkin with any of our infrastructure
devices, be they keyboards, KVM, or even home-office equipment that we
recommend to our staff. What is preventing your KVM switches from manipulating
their attached systems to contact Belkin for ANY REASON without our input? With the IP
feature of the Quadbus system who knows?
The same same question applies to your keyboards.
As far as your home routers go, we will be using Linksys from here on out, as
their products do not redirect traffic on a random basis back to the Linksys
corporate site. We have company traffic that cannot be interrupted by unintended
data-stream manipulation by a foreign concern. Furthermore, your firmware
appears to permit remote entities to change basic operation or internal settings
of the router. How can I be assured that in time, Belkin will not decide to
'upgrade' various installed units via this backdoor command capability?
Our KVM replacements (10), which were going to be from the Quadbus series, will
be going elsewhere, probably to Rose. Our home router recommendations are now
Linksys.
Over the past few years, we have purchased over $30k worth of Belkin equipment
for resale to the K-12 education community via channel partners and distributors.
This will not continue, effective immediately. Unfortunately, I do not anticipate
our company doing any further business with Belkin in the foreseeable future.
What are you going to do about the bees!
Nine? NINE!!!!!!
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http://www.reelradio.com/philpott/index.html#ni
Some of us do.... I was the first to 'license' his music news features for priate, errrr, shortwave broadcasting a looong time ago. A no charge handshake kind of agreement, free as long as I didn't sell commercials... (I'll post a tape, when I can find one, over @ http://www.sdmedia.net).
-arg
Well... what can I say. I will have access to a development prototype (perhaps THE development prototype) PC-card sleeve and wireless NIC later this week (fingers crossed). While the project is for the Windows side, I may have enough time with the devices to mess with a LINUX network interface... I'll keep y'all updated. -BOB
I ordered one of these (by phone, paid the extra $39 for shipping) on the day the first /. story appeared. I was told by the salesperson that: 1) The unit will only work with THEIR ISP. (no biggie) 2) You can pre-pay for a year of service. (no thanks) 3) You will NOT be billed for the ISP service until your unit connects to the ISP for the first time. (Sound familiar anyone?) The unit arrived on the 23rd via FedEx, and I just found a charge for the pro-rated service on my card w/in the last 20 minutes. Looks like it's time for a few phone calls, first to Netpliance, then to the BBB, then to the major stockholders. They're a public company, remember that. -arg
While running the PRIMES 18.1 service program as
part of the GIMPS project (for testing only, of course), I noticed that I was able to create an audible "squeek" coming from the region (board layout) of the Xeon processors on both HP and COMPAQ servers while running (GASP) NT. (yes, I removed the speaker...) The response from the software author indicated that the software may have been causing some sort of feedback between the power regulator board and the actual processor. I'm not so sure now....
I have been able to reproduce this on PII Xeons as well as PII Xeon boards. No response from HP nor Compaq, yet.
Gimps info: http://www.entropia.com/ips/
Team: Subgenius (feel free to join)