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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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