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2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:27205 Activity:high |
1/26 I'd like an small, image viewer like "xv", but with a "free" license, not shareware. Any suggestions. \_ OS? What type of images? \_ Linux. xpm, tiff, png, jpg, etc.. \_ electriceyes. /usr/ports/graphics/electriceyes/ -jon |
2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:27206 Activity:high |
1/26 I learned vi: \_ Never: .. \_ By choice: ... \_ Because of necessity: .. \_ Because I wasn't MAN enough to use ED!: . \_ Because I was a systems administrator: . |
2003/1/27 [Uncategorized] UID:27207 Activity:high |
1/27 Don't forget to buy your Burning Man tickets now if you are poor. \_ BM belongs to the people! We don't have to buy tickets for our own gathering of freedom! \_ yeah, we can get wasted and stupid at home! \_ not to mention naked. \_ If you get naked at home you're less likely to have pix show up on the Internet. \_ Is that a good thing or a bad thing? \_ depends if you accept paypal or not. |
2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:27208 Activity:very high |
1/26 is there a way to make debian's "dpkg" give more width for the name field, so I can read the entire name-string? ie: %dpkg -l "*modules*" ||/ Name Version Description +++-======================-======================-================== ii kernel-pcmcia-modules- 2.4.18-5 Mainstream PCMCIA m ii kernel-pcmcia-modules- 2.4.18-5 Mainstream PCMCIA m pn kernel-pcmcia-modules- <none> (no description ava \_ Use the source, Luke! \_ who are you? you always post the same response "USE THE SOURCE, LUKE, I AM YOUR FUCKING NERD FATHER RICHARD STALLMAN AND WRITE PYTHON PORN ABOUT MY IMAGINARY FURRY GIRLFRIEND." fuck off and die. \_ These are not the nerds we're looking for. Move along. \_ It wouldn't be the first time. I was hoping there was a way already built into the software? \_ environment var: COLUMNS=132 \_ christ-o-mighty! stop giving out man page answers. they'll never learn anything like that! \_ I got the answer from the Debian FAQ, and I'm actually the "op" answering my own question in case anybody else was curious. |
2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl, Industry/Jobs] UID:27209 Activity:high |
1/26 I asked my two managers (why do I have two? for double the work!) \_ Go one manager up and get one of your managers fired. Sounds management-top-heavy: "too many chiefs, not enough (American) Indians." Managers are essentially overhead. to hire another sysadmin to help with the workload they are forcing on me. I asked for an SA with experience and who knows some Perl. Am I being unfair to expect an SA to know Perl? They are trying to get me to accept 3 internal candidates of which only one even knows bourne shell programming. I feel they are trying to dump someone on me which will only make my workload worse. They refuse to hire someone external. How do I convince my boss(es) of the validity of my concerns? I have one meeting with them tomorrow (Monday) before they decide. \_ I can't really help you with convincing pointy-hairs about anything, but I'd be surprised if any mid to high-level sysadmin didn't profess at least familiarity with perl. On the other hand, if they're a decent shell programmer it won't take long to pick it up. -tom \_ They will be paid $80K/year. Is that considered low or mid level nowadays? \_ In this climate, probably mid level. Can you make the economic case for it? Perversely enough, even pointy hairs with poor analytical skills tend to buy well reasoned arguments when it comes to money, provided you walk them through slowly. Something like this: a) You are overburdened. b) This is costing your company money. i. There are a fair number of studies that show employees are more productive when they are not scrambling to smash too many tasks into their day-- find one. In the worst case, you quit, and they incur the cost of hiring a replacement, which some HR wonks claim this runs as high as 25% of hiring salary (presumably your salary is greater than that of the new sysadmin they will hire/transfer) ii.There are other arguments you can make to support the idea that overworking you will cost your company money in the long run. Just make sure you don't end up threatening to quit unless you're willing to make good on it. And don't shoot yourself in the foot by somehow making it look like it's your fault that you are overburdened. c) Thus, you need a junior or co-sysadmin d) If the new sysadmin has any holes in his skill set, then it will obviously fall to you to train him. Training the new recruit adds to your overburdened status, and though it benefits the new guy, it takes away from time that both of you could be doing productive work that benefits the company at large. And on that note, I may be looking for a job, I know perl, and have references that can vouch for this. If you do end up looking outside your company, and you'd like to chat further, drop me an email. -dans \_ In this climate i'd say someone already there for the last year who is making 80K would be "mid-level". You can definiteley hire "senior level" sys admins in this market for 80K. You CERTAINLY should be able to get someone who knows at least some PERL. Also, if this was 1 year ago, i'd tell you that you should quit any place that doesn't let YOU as the only Unix admin, have a pretty damn big say in hiring another one. \_ For 80K they should write perl while juggling hot spares on the main file server and hand-crafting packets to get them through the shitty router... Call me. I'd love to do just a little perl on top of mid-level SA stuff for 80K. --scotsman \_ Starving people are always willing to do whatever while they're starving. You'll quit the moment the economy improves. Desperate people stink of it. \_ Um. 80K for midlevel SA is far from starving. hell, it's about average for a senior, non-manager admin. admin. --scotsman \_ Missing point: he's desperate to work for 80k now \_ ...and he's a sysadmin. enough said. \_ So he gets to manage liquidating capital equipment? but will quit the moment the economy turns around in the slightest. \_ when the mean goes up to, what, 81k? if i like the position, i stay. the job i have now was out of sheer desparation, and for a while it was hell, and i would've taken the first opportunity that came up. Over the last 3 months because of changes in management and raises, it's gotten much better and I'm happy to stay. Avg. salaries don't rise as quickly as you seem to think. Certainly not enough to risk my livelihood at "the moment the economy turns around in the slightest." --scotsman \_ You still reek of desperation. Sorry, but if it shows on the motd, you're not making it through an interview until you mellow. \_ i agree. he should call em up and say "let me hear you beg, bitch." \_ Dude, you work for a company that pays inflated salaries in a down market. Don't act so smug. \_ Missing point: he's desperate to work for 80k now but will quit the moment the economy turns around in the slightest. \_ I bet you were one of those bitches who bragged about the six digits they were making in the boom time. |
2003/1/27-28 [Industry/Jobs] UID:27210 Activity:high |
1/27 How accurate is http://salary.com in this market? \_ Seems about right to me. Read the job descriptions though, not just the titles. |
2003/1/27-28 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:27211 Activity:very high |
1/27 "Anti-inspectors" in Iraq. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_9.html \_ Wolfowitz is a lying scoundrel. He will do or say anything to advance his agenda. Remember when he claimed that the anthrax attacks were the work of Iraq? http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2841wolfowitz.html \_ Not to defend Wolfowitz, but what makes you think Iraq wasn't connected to the anthrax attacks? \_ do you have any evidence connecting them to it? i personally believe iraq was behind the 1993 wtc bombing \_ no, but is there *any* useful evidence in this case that has been made public? as far as i know, the answer is no. all i'm saying is we don't know if it was iraq or not. \_ It is irresponsible for the assistant secretary of defence to be making unsubstantiated charges like that. If he was a private citizen it wouldn't matter anywhere near as much. \_ we have as much evidence Iraq is behind the postal anthrax attacks as we have tom holub being the 5th Iman of Islam \_ but we do have proof that tom's the 2nd ass of a 3-assed monkey |
2003/1/27 [Uncategorized] UID:27212 Activity:nil |
1/27 So, what did you get at last night's riot? -- new stereo: -- new jacket: -- tear gas in my eyes: -- satisfaction for watching the Raiders choke: . -- a bloody nose: -- raped a chick: -- ran over an innocent pedestrian: \_ What should the rioters have got: 1) broomstick up ass: 2) water cannon: . 3) buckshot from shop owners defending property: .. 4) stomped by cops: .. 5) Criminal record: .. 6) death: improve gene pool, lower welfare and prison costs: .. \_ Why didn't the Washington sniper wait for this riot to pick his targets? Then people wouldn't feel bad for the rioters being shot. 7) syphilis: . 8) Got beaten up by real Raiders fans heping shop owners to defend property: . 9) more hidden packages: . |
2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:27213 Activity:nil 62%like:27217 |
1/27 How do i print on hard sheets of plastic? I'm trying to make a fake ID badge for a conference. \_ print on clear tape or on a transparency and tape/glue it on? \_ good idea! thanks. i'll try that. |
2003/1/27-28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll] UID:27214 Activity:high |
1/27 Was anyone able to generate a gpg key on soda? I tried a couple of times but everytime gpg starts generating key pair, it prints: "Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 300 more bytes)", and then sits forever without doing anything. I hit Ctrl-C after four hours of waiting. \_ if it were your local machine, you could wiggle your mouse, but but I don't know what you could do on soda. maybe run find / \_ Soda is too predictable. \_ I knew you'd say that. \_ I knew you'd say that. \_ I didn't know you'd say that! \_ Don't use soda. Generate the key somewhere else and scp it to soda. \_ What's the point of that? Either way, you're exposing your keystrokes on soda were it to be comprimised. The best thing to do is to generate and use your key on your local machine. \_ I ment scp the public key to soda. I would never put a private encryption key on soda. \_ Which pretty much confirms my suspicions of how little real utility PGP has for most of us who don't operate from a "local machine" except at work. \_ I keep my public/private key pair on my laptop with a copy of my public key on soda. I encrypt all my sensitive messages on my laptop and then send them using soda. For normal messages, I just don't bother. If OP is interested in a DSA key, maybe it would be okay to store the key pair on soda. \_ no it's not okay to store ssh keys on soda unless you want to accept the risk that your key (and the hosts where you login with it) could become compromissed. \_ we're talking about PGP here, not SSH. fucking stay on fucking topic. --jon \_ I generate my keys by hand and transmit them using a one time pad over S-IPV7. \_ I write my keys out long-hand and leave them in the men's room stalls. |
2003/1/27 [Uncategorized] UID:27215 Activity:nil |
1/27 Who deleted my "two managers" post? I hadnt read all the replies. Hopefully the archive has it all intact. Been so busy this morning, had to tell them we'd meet after lunch. \_ true. people delete some messages way too early |
2003/1/27-28 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:27216 Activity:high |
1/27 macheads: where is a good place to get mac service in the east bay? hard drive is not happy and needs restoration. -brain \- Restoration Hardware --psb \_ :-) \_ in the peninsula, there is one in Palo Alto near the Fry's Electronics there. \_ I never used it but I think there is one right across the street from the Apple campus in Cupertino. Ages ago I got the power supply of a mac replaced at the university's computer repair service. They may not exist any more. I thought they were lame. \_ Elite Computers (the place across the street from Apple) is one of the most unfriendly and expensive places I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. They are at least 10x worse than ComputerWare (the place across from the old Fry's on Lawrence Exp.) You'd be better off sending your Mac to Dell than to let Elite get their hands on it. \_ What kind of Mac is it? If its a G3 or newer, your best bet is the Apple Store (I think that there is one in Emeryville). Does your Mac still boot? If so, your cheapest option is to just buy a new HD and do a fresh OS install and copy over the files you care about. Other things to try might be running Norton (don't try this on OS X disks) or DiskWarrior. |
2003/1/27 [Computer/SW/Languages] UID:27217 Activity:nil 62%like:27213 |
1/27 HOW DO I PRINT ON HARD SHEETZ OF PLAST1C?? IM TRYING 2 MAKE A FAKE 1D BADGE FOR A CONFURENCE, \_ PRINT ON CLEAR TAPE OR ON A TRANSPARENCY + TAPE/GLUE IT ON?!?1? \_ K00L 1DEA!! THANKS, IL TRY THAT, \_ dude. don't say "confurence" unless you really mean it. ew. \_ i googled to figure out what you meant, and i found this: http://www.rottweiler.org/www/CF8/CF8-5710.jpg (SFW) --aaron \_ search string? |
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