I hadn't used Symantec for about 10 months then this renewal charge appeared on my Mastercard bill. I called Mastercard and explained that I never authorized this charge and they said no problem. It was taken off. Then about 2 months later it re-appeared and another call to Mastercard and the jist of the conversation was that I had originally purchased a Symantec product and Symantec is a reputable company so they must be right! Go talk to them. After a few choice words about their customer service policy, I contacted Symantec and I had no problem reversing the charges. Only took about 3 months!
In 1994, while installing from floppies, I decided to use tsch for the root shell as I was more familar with it from Sun instead of bash. It failed miserably as Linux looks for a bash shell to run the startup scripts, I was also locked out from root. I had to start over again. That was my first lesson about Linux.
One of the most rewarding learning experiences in the late 90s was to install a bare bone version of Slackware on a 386 laptop with 5 MB of RAM and a 30 MB hard-drive. Got X windows up and internet access with a web-browser. It was painfully slow but it worked. Determining which programs were absolutely necessary and which weren't was quite an eye opener.
There's quite a discrepancy over the speeds on flash drives. Cheap flash drives run USB 1.1 and the transfer rates are around 1 MB/sec. USB 2.0 drives range from slow 10 MB/sec to close to 40 MB/sec. The fastest drives will cost easily over $100. The size of the drive will slow the transfer rate also. 4 GB drives are faster than 8 GB and so on. Corsair GT drives have close to 35 MB/sec read speeds, write speeds are always dramatically slower. I've installed a bootable PBX in a Flash on a 4 GB Corsair USB flash drive with very acceptable performance for teaching purposes. I can see other LAMP bootable installations popping up. Each student can have their own server to configure and boot-up then take shut it down and take it home.
My father has COPD (chronic obstruction pulminary disease) which is basically 40 years of smoking has clogged up and destroyed his lungs and he is on oxygen 24/7. This would be ideal for him as he has problems walking from his house to his car.
This would give him the independence from a wheelchair with its disabled stigmata. And it is smaller and lighter than an electric wheelchair.
And NO, exercising won't help.
They specialize in satellite communication links (specifically VOIP) in difficult to reach places worldwide. Small company - excellent services out of Calgary, Alberta
http://www.immersecoms.com/home.htm
I am Mr. Daniel kankan, one of about hundred talented American IT professionals, who at any time are working overseas in secret. Please don't treat this mail as spam but rather give it the priority it deserves because I only resorted to mailing you when my attempt to reach you on ___________ failed due to poor network. I have just returned from the remote deserts of Oman where I swapped the swamps of the Niger Delta eighteen months ago, working for the Software Development Oman Company in temperatures above fourty degrees centigrade. I have fasted and prayed for 3 days before accosting you.
Our path narrowly missed in 2002 when a friend Mr. Brian Sheehan of Fortress Firewalls Florida recommended your company ____________ for our patronage. We were then sourcing for _____________ for our off-shore secret accounts. Mr Sheehan's company supplies us the hi-tensile aluminium server cases until the death of Mr. Sheehan in a ghastly motor accident in Florida in year 2003.
As a highly esteemed auditor with this corporation, I have been working selflessly and tirelessly in every facet and my imprints can be found in all over the company. Year in year out, in smooth or unpleasant economic and climatic environment, I had always stood my ground working to ensure that my promise to succeed and my spirit of enterprise is not shaken. I faced my job with a quiet mind, a firm courage, and an entire reliance on God. Courage belongs to the immortal soul and is the red badge of our immortal spirit. who lives and grows by sacrifice and faith and love. With this astute profile I became famous, highly connected with a reputation that cut across.
I have decided to contact you on an issue at hand that Mr Brian Sheehan could have quickly executed if he had been alive. Today the price of patience beckons as the dawn dares when it breaks. A big time opportunity gave rise to my urgent quest for a trustworthy across-the-continent friend that can handle a quick transaction and be trusted to deliver fast with intergrity and not tell stories. I have reasons to confide in you based on the impression I received of you and your company. This is purely personal and confidential to bring us a highly anticipated glory at the end and make us giants among equals. I got involved because for 23 years I have served him well and it is now time to serve myself. To live intelligently, man must have that buoyancy of spirit and willingness to embrace issues that will make him live without burdens forever more. I will expect you to use your intuition to understand what was going on here.
An American federal government initiative was introduced to encourage and empower local contractors in America's multi billion dallar information technology industry. This dream was applauded, but like other dreams and initiatives, was later transmuted to a well orchestrated plan by indigenous operators and top corrupt executives of the American National Programming Corporation (ANPC) to suck the economy dry. In the hollowed chambers of the ANPC is a powerful syndicate, an extensive network of top management staff engaged in mind bugging swindles with unimaginable brazenness. While highly placed officials subvert due process and award illegal contracts, unscrupulous local IT operators and dubious foreign contractors serve as conduit to fleece the nation of it's vast programming skills.
The huge amount of money often involved in the looting spree and the seeming helplessness of government or security agencies to check the menace is their own headache. All that matters now is that in my vault I have two dud (ghost) contract files which I discovered myself and had kept it all to myself.
All you need to do is to front yourself as the executor and the deed is done. I have already employed the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of probate/administration. With due respect and regards, my concerns are: Can you handle this project, can I give you this trust and what will be your commission? If you can spons
It sounds like Ryerson University is regressing in education delivery methods by demonizing the use of Facebook. I'm an instructor in a post secondary technical institute and the big push in curriculum is collaborative learning through online social networks like facebook, msn and wikis. I'm getting accolades from fellow instructors for using wikis, having open book exams, take home finals, etc.. I've been asked to present at teaching excellence seminars.
As an example, I use wikis for the students to write their lab reports and to create lecture notes. The lab reports encourage sharing of experiences with an emphasis on problems encountered. The wiki lecture notes allow students with different learning styles to concentrate on the lecture and contribute later. The wiki lecture notes created are simply amazing. Think about it - 20 or 30 students collaborating together to research, edit and publish one article on each lecture!
Students are encouraged to read, edit, add and modify the wikis with their interpretations. We're able to do 21 labs in the same amount of time that it used to take to do 14! The goal is learning by doing and learning from the knowledge of others. Traditionally, we could do one lab in a 3 hour period. Now, its common for a student pair to complete 3 labs in the same time frame.
In the early 2000s, I researched the design of a capacitor that would be able to power a 2000 lb car (CRX) at 70 mph for 180 miles then recharge and drive back. The best capacitor technology at the time required an electrolytic cap the size of one of those old wooden oak office desks with each layer being in the order of 0.001" thick. It would of required some major thin film technology. On top of that it would weigh more than the car it was supposed to power!
An alternative was to purchase existing 1 farad supercaps and build the required capacitance through series and parallel circuits to get the voltage and capacitance up. The cost was over $250,000 at the time. The last issue was building a charging circuit that could quickly charge the cap up within 30 minutes.
I also explored the design of making a 200 mph electric dragster. The issue was the megawatts of electrical energy that needs to be transferred within 6 seconds to the electric motors. It was the equivalent of a large electrical explosion. Here's the latest world record electric dragster at 160 mph: Dennis "Kilowatt" Berube
Regardless if it is a good idea or not, it would mostly likely require laws to be passed in every state and municipal to allow the integration of the systems. Each system is essentially incapatible and then there would be the lobbying by the manufacturers to determine which system should be used and how to integrate. Then money would have to be made available to upgrade the existing systems to integrate into the national ones. The fighting over where this money is going to come from and who's going to pay will commence. After many decades of lawyers and SNAFU, nothing will happen except huge billion dollar bills to the taxpayers for a system that doesn't work.
We can see this process already ongoing with the integration of emergency communications systems which was identified as a problem and acted on in the early 90s where police, fire, ambulance, hospitals and the military communications systems failed because they are incompatible. A decade later, the same problem existed with hurricane Katrina. Where's the integration? - stuck in Washington bogged down in lobbying and lawyers: the Great American way!
It may be too late - you are already reading slashdot! Go to school, work flipping burgers, be a bum, but don't get involved in the tech world! Look at all the answers posted here - on a Sat night! Is this what you want to end up as? Some friendless nerd with nothing to do on Saturday but read slashdot and give advice rather than be out partying?
I found that Slackware (been using it since 1994) is the closest to other versions of Unix. I've been able to troubleshoot SCO (bad word), Sun, HP, and a few other versions based on my knowledge of Slackware's initialization scripts. I found it less painful to migrate to other mainline Unixs.
I tried Red Hat, Suse and a few others but kept coming back to Slackware. Mainly because of the text based installation scripts which are scary at first but are part of the learning curve.
All the other Linux distributions have GUI based configuration menus, when they go South what do you do? I had a problem with Red Hat, knew what the problem was, fixed the initialization script manually, rebooted the system and when the configuration menu popped up, it said the initialization script had changed and it was reverting back to the old broken one! That was the last time I used Red Hat.
The Timex Sinclair ZX81 was such as neat computer. It was a single small board with about 6 chips on it and ran on +5V. Builtin keyboard decoder, RAM interface, video output, I/O.
I thought that it would make a great controller board for robotics or something but never got around to doing anything with it except interface a real surplus keyboard to it using an eprom as a programmable logic device and expand the memory to 32K ram by piggybacking more ram on top of the others (soldering them on top) and making a better power supply.
It's only one method of acquiring data. Slashdot is a forum for geeks, many of which play with microprocessors. Who better to ask? I didn't say what I would do with the feedback...
First, thanks for all the comments, (even the negative ones). I intended to mean board level design or circuit design not chip design. I know that chip design is beyond a 2 year technology program and so is embedded systems like the ARM.
In response to other postings, we do have industry contacts but you must appreciate that when an educational institute comes knocking asking for information, the priority on answering is way down on the list of things to do like emptying the garbage can...
I agree that word of mouth is a common method of finding suitable employees and that's what I did when I was looking to hire employees when I was in industry. The issue is how to track the "word of mouth" career offerings?
Slashdot is on the pulse of technology and seems like a quick and dirty method of acquiring data. How much value is put on the data is dependant on the quality and quantity.
Slashdot Mirror
I hadn't used Symantec for about 10 months then this renewal charge appeared on my Mastercard bill. I called Mastercard and explained that I never authorized this charge and they said no problem. It was taken off. Then about 2 months later it re-appeared and another call to Mastercard and the jist of the conversation was that I had originally purchased a Symantec product and Symantec is a reputable company so they must be right! Go talk to them. After a few choice words about their customer service policy, I contacted Symantec and I had no problem reversing the charges. Only took about 3 months!
In 1994, while installing from floppies, I decided to use tsch for the root shell as I was more familar with it from Sun instead of bash. It failed miserably as Linux looks for a bash shell to run the startup scripts, I was also locked out from root. I had to start over again. That was my first lesson about Linux. One of the most rewarding learning experiences in the late 90s was to install a bare bone version of Slackware on a 386 laptop with 5 MB of RAM and a 30 MB hard-drive. Got X windows up and internet access with a web-browser. It was painfully slow but it worked. Determining which programs were absolutely necessary and which weren't was quite an eye opener.
Why they need Internet access is beyond me. They should have their own network - whoops wasn't the Internet designed by the DnD?
There's quite a discrepancy over the speeds on flash drives. Cheap flash drives run USB 1.1 and the transfer rates are around 1 MB/sec. USB 2.0 drives range from slow 10 MB/sec to close to 40 MB/sec. The fastest drives will cost easily over $100. The size of the drive will slow the transfer rate also. 4 GB drives are faster than 8 GB and so on. Corsair GT drives have close to 35 MB/sec read speeds, write speeds are always dramatically slower. I've installed a bootable PBX in a Flash on a 4 GB Corsair USB flash drive with very acceptable performance for teaching purposes. I can see other LAMP bootable installations popping up. Each student can have their own server to configure and boot-up then take shut it down and take it home.
Sounds like she's perfect for counting cards at Vegas. We've all seen the movies! There ya go! Done
If you're gonna do something do it right - 256 cores of the blue screen of death!
My buddy JCM did this with an Atari and an exercise bike in the 80s.. It still is fun though!
My father has COPD (chronic obstruction pulminary disease) which is basically 40 years of smoking has clogged up and destroyed his lungs and he is on oxygen 24/7. This would be ideal for him as he has problems walking from his house to his car. This would give him the independence from a wheelchair with its disabled stigmata. And it is smaller and lighter than an electric wheelchair. And NO, exercising won't help.
This forum is in contempt of the NDA.
They specialize in satellite communication links (specifically VOIP) in difficult to reach places worldwide. Small company - excellent services out of Calgary, Alberta http://www.immersecoms.com/home.htm
Here goes:
1011 0011 0011 0011 0011 0011 0000 1100 1100 1100 1100 1110 0110
I am Mr. Daniel kankan, one of about hundred talented American IT professionals, who at any time are working overseas in secret. Please don't treat this mail as spam but rather give it the priority it deserves because I only resorted to mailing you when my attempt to reach you on ___________ failed due to poor network. I have just returned from the remote deserts of Oman where I swapped the swamps of the Niger Delta eighteen months ago, working for the Software Development Oman Company in temperatures above fourty degrees centigrade. I have fasted and prayed for 3 days before accosting you.
Our path narrowly missed in 2002 when a friend Mr. Brian Sheehan of Fortress Firewalls Florida recommended your company ____________ for our patronage. We were then sourcing for _____________ for our off-shore secret accounts. Mr Sheehan's company supplies us the hi-tensile aluminium server cases until the death of Mr. Sheehan in a ghastly motor accident in Florida in year 2003.
As a highly esteemed auditor with this corporation, I have been working selflessly and tirelessly in every facet and my imprints can be found in all over the company. Year in year out, in smooth or unpleasant economic and climatic environment, I had always stood my ground working to ensure that my promise to succeed and my spirit of enterprise is not shaken. I faced my job with a quiet mind, a firm courage, and an entire reliance on God. Courage belongs to the immortal soul and is the red badge of our immortal spirit. who lives and grows by sacrifice and faith and love. With this astute profile I became famous, highly connected with a reputation that cut across.
I have decided to contact you on an issue at hand that Mr Brian Sheehan could have quickly executed if he had been alive. Today the price of patience beckons as the dawn dares when it breaks. A big time opportunity gave rise to my urgent quest for a trustworthy across-the-continent friend that can handle a quick transaction and be trusted to deliver fast with intergrity and not tell stories. I have reasons to confide in you based on the impression I received of you and your company. This is purely personal and confidential to bring us a highly anticipated glory at the end and make us giants among equals. I got involved because for 23 years I have served him well and it is now time to serve myself. To live intelligently, man must have that buoyancy of spirit and willingness to embrace issues that will make him live without burdens forever more. I will expect you to use your intuition to understand what was going on here.
An American federal government initiative was introduced to encourage and empower local contractors in America's multi billion dallar information technology industry. This dream was applauded, but like other dreams and initiatives, was later transmuted to a well orchestrated plan by indigenous operators and top corrupt executives of the American National Programming Corporation (ANPC) to suck the economy dry. In the hollowed chambers of the ANPC is a powerful syndicate, an extensive network of top management staff engaged in mind bugging swindles with unimaginable brazenness. While highly placed officials subvert due process and award illegal contracts, unscrupulous local IT operators and dubious foreign contractors serve as conduit to fleece the nation of it's vast programming skills.
The huge amount of money often involved in the looting spree and the seeming helplessness of government or security agencies to check the menace is their own headache. All that matters now is that in my vault I have two dud (ghost) contract files which I discovered myself and had kept it all to myself.
All you need to do is to front yourself as the executor and the deed is done. I have already employed the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of probate/administration. With due respect and regards, my concerns are: Can you handle this project, can I give you this trust and what will be your commission? If you can spons
It sounds like Ryerson University is regressing in education delivery methods by demonizing the use of Facebook. I'm an instructor in a post secondary technical institute and the big push in curriculum is collaborative learning through online social networks like facebook, msn and wikis. I'm getting accolades from fellow instructors for using wikis, having open book exams, take home finals, etc.. I've been asked to present at teaching excellence seminars.
As an example, I use wikis for the students to write their lab reports and to create lecture notes. The lab reports encourage sharing of experiences with an emphasis on problems encountered. The wiki lecture notes allow students with different learning styles to concentrate on the lecture and contribute later. The wiki lecture notes created are simply amazing. Think about it - 20 or 30 students collaborating together to research, edit and publish one article on each lecture!
Students are encouraged to read, edit, add and modify the wikis with their interpretations. We're able to do 21 labs in the same amount of time that it used to take to do 14! The goal is learning by doing and learning from the knowledge of others. Traditionally, we could do one lab in a 3 hour period. Now, its common for a student pair to complete 3 labs in the same time frame.
Ryerson - YOU"RE DOING IT WRONG!
An alternative was to purchase existing 1 farad supercaps and build the required capacitance through series and parallel circuits to get the voltage and capacitance up. The cost was over $250,000 at the time. The last issue was building a charging circuit that could quickly charge the cap up within 30 minutes.
I also explored the design of making a 200 mph electric dragster. The issue was the megawatts of electrical energy that needs to be transferred within 6 seconds to the electric motors. It was the equivalent of a large electrical explosion. Here's the latest world record electric dragster at 160 mph: Dennis "Kilowatt" Berube
Can I have the $10,000 now?
Check this VW bus crash test video - absolutely SCARY! You will never ride in a VW bus again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpU5azjCB8
Oops, I meant Pamela Jones...
The US is not interested in a war with North Korea because there is no oil or motiviation to go there.
We can see this process already ongoing with the integration of emergency communications systems which was identified as a problem and acted on in the early 90s where police, fire, ambulance, hospitals and the military communications systems failed because they are incompatible. A decade later, the same problem existed with hurricane Katrina. Where's the integration? - stuck in Washington bogged down in lobbying and lawyers: the Great American way!
It may be too late - you are already reading slashdot! Go to school, work flipping burgers, be a bum, but don't get involved in the tech world! Look at all the answers posted here - on a Sat night! Is this what you want to end up as? Some friendless nerd with nothing to do on Saturday but read slashdot and give advice rather than be out partying?
Nothing to see here move on...
I tried Red Hat, Suse and a few others but kept coming back to Slackware. Mainly because of the text based installation scripts which are scary at first but are part of the learning curve.
All the other Linux distributions have GUI based configuration menus, when they go South what do you do? I had a problem with Red Hat, knew what the problem was, fixed the initialization script manually, rebooted the system and when the configuration menu popped up, it said the initialization script had changed and it was reverting back to the old broken one! That was the last time I used Red Hat.
I thought that it would make a great controller board for robotics or something but never got around to doing anything with it except interface a real surplus keyboard to it using an eprom as a programmable logic device and expand the memory to 32K ram by piggybacking more ram on top of the others (soldering them on top) and making a better power supply.
It's only one method of acquiring data. Slashdot is a forum for geeks, many of which play with microprocessors. Who better to ask? I didn't say what I would do with the feedback...
In response to other postings, we do have industry contacts but you must appreciate that when an educational institute comes knocking asking for information, the priority on answering is way down on the list of things to do like emptying the garbage can...
I agree that word of mouth is a common method of finding suitable employees and that's what I did when I was looking to hire employees when I was in industry. The issue is how to track the "word of mouth" career offerings?
Slashdot is on the pulse of technology and seems like a quick and dirty method of acquiring data. How much value is put on the data is dependant on the quality and quantity.