After researching a bit for ya, I found this instead... should do the same trick, as long as you can get RCA out of your device (which you should be able to do with an iPod with one of these)
This has more models, which may or may not be better.
Yea, sorry about that... my office's websense filter blocks www.xmradio.com. You believe that? well, here's the Crutchfield page to the device I purchased, Here, but I purchased mine off the shelf at circuit city for about the same price. Of course, Circuit city wanted to charge me $100.00 to perform the 5 minute install, but hey, this is capitalism, right?
I'm actually intending to reply to this and the the entire tree of comments, from the GP on down. People ask why it's difficult to deploy new technology in the security arena. This is why. Everyone who has even the slightest interest in the idea or initiative puts in their two cents, explaining little doomsday caveats, and scaring the shit out of management. Then, because management is afraid of compromising information, nothing gets done.
Wait, is the problem you are describing with the repeaters, or the XM / Sirius client devices? Both broadcast on the FM signal, one very locally (the client putting out enough juice to get to your car stereo), while the the repeaters supplement satellite coverage with additional signal strength in areas where overhead coverage cannot suffice (parking garages, between large skyscrapers, etc).
I know that my client device is way over powered. Took a road trip last summer in which we had a single XM client broadcasting with all its might, and our companions in the car behind us were able to listen to it, loud and clear, with no extra equipment.
While working in DC for the summer this year, I got fed up trying to find an open frequency on which to listen to my XM client in my car, and found out that a device is made that splices into the car's FM antenna, causing the XM receiver to not broadcast at all (all data goes through the antenna, directly into the car stereo). Now that I have it, I never get any interference from other stations or devices, and, best of all, I don't interfere with anyone else.
Not running on Ubuntnu, instead, running on Win XP SP2:
Open and closed, just fine, all memory freed up.
Opened again: 31mb
Opening all tabs in BBC News live: After all loading finished: 65,540 K memory used
Closed all tabs: down to 31 MB again.
Went to Slashdot, added the RSS feed and opened it all - 66M after tabs finish loading
Closed it all. 59,552K
Opened the BBC one again: 192MB. 68,676 K after all loading done, 57,404 after all closed.
Need more verification though.
In my last Gnome install, I'm pretty sure that my desktop was set up to display the contents of/home/username, so all the crap that I dumped on my desktop was in my home directory. I ended up changing it because there was too much crap:) It's now setup to/home/username/Desktop or somesuch. Pretty easy to figure out.
I wonder what they'd do to you if you erected an unapproved TV antenna or did some wierd renovation - would they come out in arms and take you down, either in person or by using the gov'tal mercenaries?
As long as we have an ample supply of canned beans, and put a crows nest in the antenna, we should be able to hold anybody off for a few weeks. Then they'll get bored and go burn someone else's antenna down.
For us here at slashdot? Well, consider this. If the user's sitting down at the computer for the first time, chances are, they have no clue if the system has 01 drive or 10 (ha!). So, if it has C:, D:, E: and F:, which one is correct chuck stuff on? I think it works a bit better to say "Hay user, put your crap in/home/username!", and have the user not need to worry about which drive the data is on.
If the system is configured in such away that the user needs to know/my/mount/point, then something is wrong (CD drives not included, as they go to/mnt, right? When we're speaking of joe schmoe user, double clicking on the CD Icon on the desktop will suffice no matter where the CD is mounted / mapped.)
No, actually, never your personal number. If I'm on call, they either provide me with a company phone or a pager, and deal with it that way (coincidentally, where I'm working now provides us with pagers if we have to go on call)
You know they make motors for those "two-wheelers" now, right? You don't have to work anymore, it's okay man! This is the 21st century, we can be lazy!
Or, when they don't permit any cellphones period. It's a much smaller infraction to accidentally bring in the phone then it is to bring in a phone with a camera. When you bring in the latter, they usually wipe the phone clean (no, not with Windex, the memory, duh!), so that no information can be carried out. Which kinda sucks for your address book.
BTW, I'm an American, too.. A bad one, for I pay my credit card bills on time. In full.:-D
You HEATHEN!
they have a mile-long change list which effectively undoes everything that's already been written
And, to top it off, it's a dynamic list. I agree with you, you can't really blame people for leaving the IT field. I can't, because my brain is hardwired to think this way. I just hope that the PHBs don't get to me and rewire me:)
Personally speaking here, I'd actually say that I'd take a pay cut to NOT telecommute. The problem I found while doing it for 3 years, was that there was no separation from work and home life. There was supposed to be, don't get me wrong, the company provided advice to help keep home and work separated, such as to keep a separated work area, and only work when in that room of the house, but it just didn't work. I would get calls in the middle of the night, dinner, etc, asking me if I was still working, and then providing me with lots of work.
It ended up being a ton more stressful, and a lot more work than being able to leave your work at the office, and not being accessible after I've left.
Personally, I can find a few jobs that are well paid. The distinguishing factor that I'm looking for while living in the current economy is stability and long term viability with good pay. If you can combine those three things, you have a good job (even if it isn't very exciting).
Now, forgive me for sounding ignorant, I've only had one cup of coffee yet this morning. By IT, you mean internal hardware / software support, network and infrastructure deployment and maintenance, etc, right?
Reason being, as an application developer, I've not seen a lot of the crap you describe (well, more rather, I'm the one with the hammer breaking all the mice for you to fix). There is crap as an app dev, but it's more along the lines of unrealistic schedules, dumb PHBs that still think spiral development is the wave of the future, and unrealistic expectations. If you can cut through that crap, then it's smooth sailing through the shit sandwich:)
I'm no economist, but that's just common sense to not buy more than one can afford!
I'm an American. Your laws and logic do not apply to me here.
Actually, studying the decay rates and byproducts of human (and non-hunam, for that matter) decay is pretty important. Such that several universities have body farms (much to the chaugrin of the towns in which they are located).
Thank you... that's my point exactly! I don't care who you are... republican, democrat, fundamentalist whacko, communist, socialist, pacifist, whatever! If you claim that you are holier than the other guys, you're just as bad as everyone else. Better to admit your faults, and suggest a solution to the problem then sling some more mud around.
I was with you right up until the point when you got all partisan on me. You totally lost me on that one. Instead of your statement, which read:
And the web really does have a whole ton of legitimate references to illegal and immoral acts by republican politicans.
It should read:
And the web really does have a whole ton of legitimate references to illegal and immoral acts by any politican.
There's absolutely no reason to pick on one side or the other, when the entire lot of politicians are completely corrupt, stupid, and need to be tossed out altogether in favor of honest people (if there are any left).
Okay, mods, mod this parent funny... That is friggin hilarious! A "shit easement" on my neighbors lawn. I gotta get me one of those. Do you think it applies to humans, too? What about the neighborhood kid that keeps leaving burning bags of dog crap on my doorstep... is that adverse possession too, or fecal arson? I certainly don't want the kid to claim a burning poop easement on my doorstep.
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After researching a bit for ya, I found this instead... should do the same trick, as long as you can get RCA out of your device (which you should be able to do with an iPod with one of these)
This has more models, which may or may not be better.
Yea, sorry about that... my office's websense filter blocks www.xmradio.com. You believe that? well, here's the Crutchfield page to the device I purchased, Here, but I purchased mine off the shelf at circuit city for about the same price. Of course, Circuit city wanted to charge me $100.00 to perform the 5 minute install, but hey, this is capitalism, right?
I'm actually intending to reply to this and the the entire tree of comments, from the GP on down. People ask why it's difficult to deploy new technology in the security arena. This is why. Everyone who has even the slightest interest in the idea or initiative puts in their two cents, explaining little doomsday caveats, and scaring the shit out of management. Then, because management is afraid of compromising information, nothing gets done.
Wait, is the problem you are describing with the repeaters, or the XM / Sirius client devices? Both broadcast on the FM signal, one very locally (the client putting out enough juice to get to your car stereo), while the the repeaters supplement satellite coverage with additional signal strength in areas where overhead coverage cannot suffice (parking garages, between large skyscrapers, etc).
I know that my client device is way over powered. Took a road trip last summer in which we had a single XM client broadcasting with all its might, and our companions in the car behind us were able to listen to it, loud and clear, with no extra equipment.
While working in DC for the summer this year, I got fed up trying to find an open frequency on which to listen to my XM client in my car, and found out that a device is made that splices into the car's FM antenna, causing the XM receiver to not broadcast at all (all data goes through the antenna, directly into the car stereo). Now that I have it, I never get any interference from other stations or devices, and, best of all, I don't interfere with anyone else.
Not running on Ubuntnu, instead, running on Win XP SP2: Open and closed, just fine, all memory freed up. Opened again: 31mb Opening all tabs in BBC News live: After all loading finished: 65,540 K memory used Closed all tabs: down to 31 MB again. Went to Slashdot, added the RSS feed and opened it all - 66M after tabs finish loading Closed it all. 59,552K Opened the BBC one again: 192MB. 68,676 K after all loading done, 57,404 after all closed. Need more verification though.
In my last Gnome install, I'm pretty sure that my desktop was set up to display the contents of /home/username, so all the crap that I dumped on my desktop was in my home directory. I ended up changing it because there was too much crap :) It's now setup to /home/username/Desktop or somesuch. Pretty easy to figure out.
Gramma has worms? Damn!!!!
As long as we have an ample supply of canned beans, and put a crows nest in the antenna, we should be able to hold anybody off for a few weeks. Then they'll get bored and go burn someone else's antenna down.
For us here at slashdot? Well, consider this. If the user's sitting down at the computer for the first time, chances are, they have no clue if the system has 01 drive or 10 (ha!). So, if it has C:, D:, E: and F:, which one is correct chuck stuff on? I think it works a bit better to say "Hay user, put your crap in /home/username!", and have the user not need to worry about which drive the data is on.
/my/mount/point, then something is wrong (CD drives not included, as they go to /mnt, right? When we're speaking of joe schmoe user, double clicking on the CD Icon on the desktop will suffice no matter where the CD is mounted / mapped.)
If the system is configured in such away that the user needs to know
Wait, we can't use a wearable Turbine to go to mars? ::Takes off Turbine Hat:: Crap.
No, actually, never your personal number. If I'm on call, they either provide me with a company phone or a pager, and deal with it that way (coincidentally, where I'm working now provides us with pagers if we have to go on call)
You know they make motors for those "two-wheelers" now, right? You don't have to work anymore, it's okay man! This is the 21st century, we can be lazy!
Well, if the new phone supports SIM cards, couldn't you just buy a phone off of Ebay or whatever, and chuck your SIM card in there?
Or, when they don't permit any cellphones period. It's a much smaller infraction to accidentally bring in the phone then it is to bring in a phone with a camera. When you bring in the latter, they usually wipe the phone clean (no, not with Windex, the memory, duh!), so that no information can be carried out. Which kinda sucks for your address book.
You HEATHEN!
And, to top it off, it's a dynamic list. I agree with you, you can't really blame people for leaving the IT field. I can't, because my brain is hardwired to think this way. I just hope that the PHBs don't get to me and rewire me
yea, but stopping a pill hurts a lot less.
Personally speaking here, I'd actually say that I'd take a pay cut to NOT telecommute. The problem I found while doing it for 3 years, was that there was no separation from work and home life. There was supposed to be, don't get me wrong, the company provided advice to help keep home and work separated, such as to keep a separated work area, and only work when in that room of the house, but it just didn't work. I would get calls in the middle of the night, dinner, etc, asking me if I was still working, and then providing me with lots of work.
It ended up being a ton more stressful, and a lot more work than being able to leave your work at the office, and not being accessible after I've left.
Personally, I can find a few jobs that are well paid. The distinguishing factor that I'm looking for while living in the current economy is stability and long term viability with good pay. If you can combine those three things, you have a good job (even if it isn't very exciting).
Reason being, as an application developer, I've not seen a lot of the crap you describe (well, more rather, I'm the one with the hammer breaking all the mice for you to fix). There is crap as an app dev, but it's more along the lines of unrealistic schedules, dumb PHBs that still think spiral development is the wave of the future, and unrealistic expectations. If you can cut through that crap, then it's smooth sailing through the shit sandwich
I'm an American. Your laws and logic do not apply to me here.
Actually, studying the decay rates and byproducts of human (and non-hunam, for that matter) decay is pretty important. Such that several universities have body farms (much to the chaugrin of the towns in which they are located).
That's why I'm running for president in 2016 (when I turn 35 and am eligible). Get rid of this draconian BS.
I don't think we have software to rip an MP3 from sheet music yet, but I'm working on it. I think that one's a safe bet!
Thank you... that's my point exactly! I don't care who you are... republican, democrat, fundamentalist whacko, communist, socialist, pacifist, whatever! If you claim that you are holier than the other guys, you're just as bad as everyone else. Better to admit your faults, and suggest a solution to the problem then sling some more mud around.
It should read:
And the web really does have a whole ton of legitimate references to illegal and immoral acts by any politican.
There's absolutely no reason to pick on one side or the other, when the entire lot of politicians are completely corrupt, stupid, and need to be tossed out altogether in favor of honest people (if there are any left).
Okay, mods, mod this parent funny... That is friggin hilarious! A "shit easement" on my neighbors lawn. I gotta get me one of those. Do you think it applies to humans, too? What about the neighborhood kid that keeps leaving burning bags of dog crap on my doorstep... is that adverse possession too, or fecal arson? I certainly don't want the kid to claim a burning poop easement on my doorstep.