Post #81,391
2/13/03 11:18:46 AM
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So, how ya all doin'?
Figured a "state of the users" thread might be in order. Just check in, tell everybody what yer up to, and how you're holdin' in during these trying times...
I'll stick something in after a few people respond - don't want to monopolize the thread.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #81,398
2/13/03 11:30:05 AM
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I'm doin >fiiine<...
...like I was telling your friend here...I just got in from the airport....
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #81,405
2/13/03 11:55:53 AM
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GREAT!
Got a [link|http://www.amor.org|job] I'll love for another ten years, I believe. We are the cutting edge in Christian missions, bar none; it's a fantastic group of people who are both intelligent *and* care about each other (rare combo). Still have to deal with MS crap every day, but it's down to a manageable level since I got my PFY. I'm finally getting off MS Access and going to SAPDB. Finally getting off (<cough choke>) and moving to Java, which is a compromise but light-years better. If you disagree, re-read the <cough choke> bit.
Still playin' bass in two bands, havin' a blast.
The [link|http://www.teamdelta.com|robot thing] is more fun than I can shake a stick at. We got [link|http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=BattleBot_Tech&msg=16131.1|major props] for our role in Steel Conflict 2. Just wish I could do it full-time. :)
Got my first board meeting Monday for [link|http://www.semishake.org|The Semi-Spontaneous Shakespeare Society]. Should be a different but equally good season as last.
Counter-Strike is my non-service-oriented, low-investment, entertainment outlet. I was #1 on [link|http://www.ocsclan.com|my favorite server] in January! We're slowly developing a following in our tactical analyses. Wish I had more time for that, too.
Maybe not on the top of "the" world, but I'm definitely on the top of my world.
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #81,411
2/13/03 12:09:40 PM
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Mostly good
Health? check Job? check Friends? check Family? check Significant other? Well, ya can't have everything. They just don't know what a good cook they are missing out on.
How many lives per gallon? --Sign outside of various churches
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Post #81,418
2/13/03 12:22:23 PM
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no SO? that will change eventually
that kind of stuff is accident, not actively seeking. Actively seeking gets ya laid but that is not a relationship. You'll get there. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #81,469
2/13/03 2:43:44 PM
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Haven't been seeking
After my divorce I've been out of the loop. Wouldn't know how to act on a date nowadays anyway.
How many lives per gallon? --Sign outside of various churches
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Post #81,474
2/13/03 2:58:08 PM
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thats a good thing
shouldnt act at all. Might have to bathe regular but thats about it. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #81,420
2/13/03 12:25:22 PM
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have a 5 yold slave driver
girl turned five on the 11th, wanted a baseball bat and ball and new shoes. Everytime I go to a store, she wants new shoes. Imelda in the making I guess. Every five minutes she wants to play baseball. Taking turns pitching to her and then hitting her pitches. Im glad I have the time to do it. No Job, no hot prospects but the tax refund comes in soon so have another 60 days before being houseless. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #81,422
2/13/03 12:27:19 PM
2/13/03 1:58:57 PM
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Fine, fine.
Porting 2M loc to Linux using yet another compiler (intel's, to get around exception handling bugs in gcc 2.95.X). So far I'm doing ok with the port... I have 4 compiler bugs logged as issues with Intel support, and a 5th on the way as soon as I create a manageable test case. :-P
I had the system running last night... 53% of the validation tests passed (each test consists of multiple, multiple unit tests). gcc 2.95.X only made it to 44%. Once that's done we do a bake-off against Solaris and NT.
All in all I'm impressed with the Intel compiler. Lots of nice built-in warnings that are catching things other compilers didn't.
Anyway, the above describes the last 1.5 months to varying degrees of accuracy. :-)
I forgot to add: Duncan's writing a web page for himself now (and a portal site as well). So when it's done he can update people directly. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Edited by admin
Feb. 13, 2003, 01:58:57 PM EST
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Post #81,455
2/13/03 1:58:54 PM
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Check this out
Slashdot [link|http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/13/1615214&mode=nested&tid=156|reporting] on a LinuxJournal article by some of the Intel compiler team.
=== Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #81,457
2/13/03 2:01:37 PM
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Yep, read that. Interesting stuff.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #81,423
2/13/03 12:29:02 PM
2/13/03 12:54:41 PM
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Ask me this afternoon
Details in [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=81435|PHB forum].
=== Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
Edited by drewk
Feb. 13, 2003, 12:54:41 PM EST
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Post #81,425
2/13/03 12:30:51 PM
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Doin' great.
I've got my health, I've got my friends, I've got a significant other, I've got my life, and I've got a job. I'm getting paid to see the world, and someone else is paying me to go to all these places, too (Germany, Toronto, and Taiwan so far.)
The [link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|HOPE Ride] is coming along. We've got some of the route finished, we're starting to get members signed up, and things are falling into place.
Now, if only it were warm outside and I could get on my bike again...
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #81,467
2/13/03 2:42:16 PM
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Aaargh.
I need to mail you your clothes.
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #81,514
2/13/03 5:05:17 PM
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*SO* many places to go with that one...
...But yes, you do.
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #81,558
2/13/03 10:06:30 PM
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Oh... yessssss...
*shun*
:~D
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,446
2/13/03 1:29:19 PM
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I am about to have some major news, will announce in Jobs
--
We have only 2 things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.
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Post #81,466
2/13/03 2:40:48 PM
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Rockin'
Am back with the lady.
Am doing good at work.
Have just about got over the fuxored knee and will be back on the running road soon.
Yeah, I'm a happy camper :-)
Peter [link|http://www.debian.org|Shill For Hire] [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal] [link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Blog]
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Post #81,482
2/13/03 3:20:53 PM
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hey, great idea
Thanks Thane :)
Doing great here.
Job's ok, could be better but I feel I'm where I'm supposed to be at present. I get to use Linux and Unix in most everything I do, get to travel to a few different cities every year, and meet lots of great folks.
Family's great, too. Wife started on her Master's in Counseling last month. Kid is doing well in school and loves Cub Scouts, our Church, basketball, legos, Spiderman, and wrestling with Dad.
We're putting an offer on a house this weekend, so got the jitters and excitement over that going on.
I'm having fun. Playing guitar at my Church every weekend and in a band. Geeky stuff at home..computer and music stuff everywhere in my cave :)
----- Steve
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Post #81,498
2/13/03 4:29:54 PM
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Should be feeling a little overwhelmed
What with:
- Teaching full-time - Taking graduate courses part-time - waiting on approval for a car loan (my former vehicle [84 Buick] needs $4K of engine work)
At any rate, I made an interesting discovery.
You can only sustain an emotion for a limited amount of time. As an example, I was very tense Saturday when I had to wait on loan approval for the (used) car but it's been dragging on so long that a couple of nights ago something inside of me just said "F*ck it" and I started feeling better.
So now I'm feeling surprisingly well. It's the end of my teaching week and I have a nice weekend to look forward to plus I just got paged by the auto loan company and it looks like that will be resolved before too much longer. In the meantime, the dealer has been letting me drive the car [94 Buick, total creampuff] as a sort of loaner.
So I'll catch up on my sleep tonight and try to figure out what to do for Valentine's Day. (Dinner? Go see 'Daredevil'?)
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
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Post #81,556
2/13/03 9:55:51 PM
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Great minds..
I too 'settled for' a '94 $30K creampuff for a bit more than 1/4th price ('cause no one knows WTF that lo-production Model was..) Hope yours is as copacetic as mine (has been after 1 year, so far). I sprang for the repair manual(s) and.. some of that stuff looks positively scary.. pray to the MTBF God, often. Hints: Change that oil! when it gets dark.. and the brake fluid INside the ABS module too.. when flushing the regular brake reservoir every couple years. This is the word from folks who have 200-300K miles on one like mine.
Also, and partly thanks to yours and others' comments in Mac forum, my ex-Dell friend scoped out the new Apples yesterday -- and saw the cute ad with the er altitude-challenged guy + the altitude-enhanced guy on an airplane: with the 12" model and the 17" model. Apple's ads continually underscore the poverty of imagination of The Beast! Love.It.
Cheers,
Ashton
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Post #81,557
2/13/03 10:02:15 PM
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Looks like we got the car!
We got the "Thank you for your purchase" letter from the dealer today.
I'm really glad about this, even though I now have a nominal car payment every month. (Not bad, about $130). It's a LeSabre, like the last one, but it's in *much* better shape and very comfortable. Plus, it burns about half as much gas as the old one which is a plus when I'm going to Golden and back (about 20 mi. one way) three times a week.
Think we've figured out the V-Day thing... looks like a movie and dinner outing. (This is actually more special than it sounds. We haven't seen much of each other the past several weeks.)
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
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Post #81,561
2/13/03 10:09:43 PM
2/13/03 11:18:27 PM
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Guess what...
No matter *WHAT* kind of 84 Buick is... I can put in a Re-Built motor for UNDER $1000. And so could you TOM...
edit = I wrote BOB and TOM.
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,578
2/13/03 11:08:05 PM
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Well, I can't
I will admit, though, that the estimate was for a "Brand New" engine plus labor and Lord-knows-what-else.
Any tips on finding a friendly, honest neighborhood mechanic? I've been asking around but the consensus seems to be that they don't exist any more.
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
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Post #81,584
2/13/03 11:15:06 PM
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Yes you could... if you can put an application...
and/or server together... you can fix yer car...
Nope, those neighborhood mechanics... they are pretty much a thing of the past...
The tools required for "Minor maintenance" due to minimal clearnces is phenominal...
But Major stuff, still pretty much the same as it always was.
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,587
2/13/03 11:19:18 PM
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Friend of a friend. Or local rating agency.
That's about the only way I know. We've found a good mechanic at the local Shell store (highly rated in a local consumer survey), but they cost the same as the Buick dealer (they just do a much better job).
Of course, with an '84 there's probably more waiting to fail than just the engine. I know my '87 LeSabre is having lots of troubles (178,000 miles). The engine's fine except for the oil leaks, but the A/C leaks, it needs brakes, the passenger window comes out of its track, it's going to need an exhaust system (and catalyst) eventually, it's overdue for a timing chain and gears, it rattles a lot and the door seals are leaking, etc., etc. I plan on giving it to a charity in the next few months.
Unless the rest of the car (especially brakes, A/C, transmission) are in good shape, there comes a time in most cars lives when it's better to let it die and move on. It sounds like you made the right choice in getting a newer car.
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #81,588
2/13/03 11:20:31 PM
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In future for engine rebuilds and good mechanics
get ye to a stock car track, smaller the better. Get a pit pass and ask the guys under the hoods for recommendations. Cheap and good. thanx. bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #81,788
2/14/03 8:47:43 PM
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Exc. *practical* suggestion, Box. Will pass it on.
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Post #81,499
2/13/03 4:30:02 PM
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My turn!
Well, there's good, and there's bad, and there's ugly.
The good:
I have a job. I have a paying, very secure job. My wife and I are getting along great. We're finally getting out from underneath our debt load, incurred due to repeated unemployment and other mishaps. I have a nice laptop. Our kitty is in good shape. He's actually 20 pounds, but he's still in pretty good shape. Siebel is going to release a version of their software that runs under a Sun Java client instead of the Microsoft decaffinated java. I'm holding my weight steady at 200 (from 250), Susan has hit 130, and is aiming for 120. This down from a high of 230 about a year ago. Debian is nice. Finally got to play 3rd edition D&D as a player, instead of a DM, in a PBEM game. It's going nicely.
The bad: Bonus structure is changing. No more $2k/quarter bonuses without really putting in some extra effort. Housing prices haven't dropped up here despite everybody being out of work. I'm rolling out Office XP via Active Directory Group Policy. I'm WRITING the "What's New" documentation for the aformentioned Office XP rollout. Serious burnout in my distance learning classes. Bush still President. Grandfather having severe blood pressure issues.
The ugly: Student loans are coming due. This includes my wife's $70k student loans from the master's degree that is basically worthless due to changes in state certification law. Mom called last night, totally freaked out by Ashcroft's latest attempt to threaten the U.S. citizen into giving up his civil rights. Offered to buy me a gas mask since I work in downtown Seattle. I swear, she's going paranoid schitzo on me - thank you Mr. Ashcroft.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #81,504
2/13/03 4:38:29 PM
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a lot on your plate
send the student loan bill the the state licensing board. Good luck and stay healthy. My contact for the seattle thing is on vaca so thats on hold. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #81,510
2/13/03 4:52:47 PM
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Re: "No more $2k/quarter bonuses without really putting...
in some extra effort".
So, it's work hard and not work smart? That's too bad.
It leads to deviant behavior. Had a boss once at IBM that made it a policy to be among the last leave every day. He would snag others in the department to keep him company. Didn't really do anything really useful then either. Ah, the joys of being an "exempt' employee.
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #81,513
2/13/03 5:02:01 PM
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I'm hourly. :D
"Extra effort" in my case means "Do something VERY special."
Not quite sure how I'm going to top writing our own custom helpdesk ticket tracking software...
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #81,535
2/13/03 8:08:54 PM
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Its a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milkbone underware.
No really, I am doing better than before. I am on disability now, but I don't get paid until June of 2003 due to a five month waiting peroid. So my wife is working extra hours to make up for the lack of my income until then. Which means I am spending more time with my 4 year old son.
No more job worries, that is over for now. I just need to relax and try to get better so I can get off of disability eventually.
[link|http://pub75.ezboard.com/bantiiwethey| New and improved, Chicken Delvits!]
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Post #81,681
2/14/03 12:28:15 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #81680 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=81680|ICLRPD]
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #81,536
2/13/03 8:13:23 PM
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Not too bad.
Things are OK here. We just refinanced our home today - it's really nice to get rid of an 8.875% 15 year second mortgage, a 7% 30 year first mortgage and roll it all into a 5.5% 15 year first mortgage with about the same monthly payment. :-)
My inlaws (85 and 84) have been living with us for about 8 months now. They're doing OK, but it's tough to see them go downhill and watch the rate of change increase. It's hell getting old. :-(
My Mom (64) has recovered partially from her stroke, but she's still got some weakness on her left side and perception problems. She never seems to perceive things on her left so she does things like always look right when walking through a mall. She'll never be able to live on her own again, but she hasn't yet accepted that. :-(
The job's going fine. The wife's doing well (she got her braces off today and is very happy about that). And the dog is always really happy to see us when we come home. I can't really ask for much more than that. :-)
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #81,549
2/13/03 9:25:22 PM
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Static Update In Progress...
Nice idea Thane. This will be a bit stream-of-consciousness...
>>>>> Static Upload Begins
Work is busy busy busybusybusy - but we are moving forward. *Big* hump of bugs to get through and then we have to get strict about development because there ain't enough of us. And it's looking like we get to rewrite the whole architecture so we can support ~1 million simultaneous logins :-O.
Looking for a flat to live on my own (currently board with my parents [:-O again :-)]). Saw a nice place two weeks ago; I'm fairly sure I can afford it. Only irk was gas cooktop and oven, which I'm *not* used to, and a bit of a walk from the road, which will make NetDays interesting. Going to try to look at a few more tomorrow.
Church is going great, though I'm still having trouble finding time every morning to spend with God. Still, some days is better than no days. :-) Playing in the worship band is a blast - not to be immodest about it but I think I'm lifting the general performance quality a bit.
No SO yet. Hoping, waiting, praying... I have got someone I'm befriending who would be great - the only problem is that she's 12 years my junior. :-/ D'oh!
I can't take enough time for the Camera Club, but my occasional efforts are *just* good enough to get a very occasional win in the monthly comps. I need to scan the negs and put 'em on my website for y'all to gander at.
<<<<< Static Upload Ends.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,560
2/13/03 10:08:42 PM
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12 yrs your junior?
dont get tempted by Jail lad its not worth it. Gas is much nicer to cook on than electric. Either make time for G_d or he will do it for you has been my experience :-) Sounds like wade, busy lad. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #81,574
2/13/03 10:43:16 PM
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Can't say I'm not trying...
... making time for God, that is.
And she's not (quite) jailbait: she finished high school last year. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,576
2/13/03 10:49:37 PM
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you must be older than I thought.
Some young ladies at that age are looking around exploring the world for the first time. Others are level headed and grounded from the get go. When I was a pup of 22 or so I had long hair (dirty blonde) down to the middle of my back, a large red beard that was shaped like a shovel. I went for a visit to my folks and my sister was trying to pimp me around her church girl friends. They all "seemed" to like me but no go. I asked one point blank what the problem was. You look too much like pictures of our lord. It madem nervous. Went back to the biker hangouts looking for dates after that. :-) good luck in all things and a mate is tripped over, not found. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #81,580
2/13/03 11:09:31 PM
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I didn't make a big issue of it last month.
I turned 20. In hexadecimal.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,586
2/13/03 11:16:58 PM
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I'm 23 then, next month. BWAHAHA...
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,643
2/14/03 10:20:21 AM
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youngun
I'm already 0x24
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #81,656
2/14/03 10:57:24 AM
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0x1F
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Post #81,669
2/14/03 12:10:40 PM
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Whippersnapper
0x33
Wife is 0x28.
Nothing wrong with a 12 (decimal) year difference. Keeps a man young and active! ;p
[link|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com|Joe]
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Post #81,839
2/14/03 11:21:46 PM
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Heh.
I'd really like her the other side of 0x0a first, though. Just so people are more reluctant to mutter.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,841
2/14/03 11:24:44 PM
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Just learn to leer properly and intro her as your relation:)
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org] "France," he noted, "has neither winter nor summer, nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks, it is a fine country." Mark Twain
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Post #81,899
2/15/03 9:51:52 AM
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Be prepared...
My wife looks significantly younger than her age. She gets carded at least once a month (no, not the same place/waitperson). And whenever we are out with her mother (her father is dead), it is assumed that her mother and I are her parents!!! When we are out alone, I do get some strange, questioning looks.
[link|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com|Joe]
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Post #81,684
2/14/03 12:39:54 PM
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0x1B until mid-April...
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #81,791
2/14/03 8:59:35 PM
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Are you getting younger or having problems with hex? :)
Seem like you were 2810+ last fall.
But, it could be my brainfart.
Alex
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
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Post #82,366
2/18/03 9:49:00 AM
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Touble with hex.
I *am* 2810. Was simply mis-counting due to the fact that I had a brainfart.
-YendorMike
[link|http://www.hope-ride.org/|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
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Post #81,550
2/13/03 9:28:32 PM
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Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
It's been raining, often rather hard, since Tuesday morning. Fortunately, I went up on the roof and repaired some minor shingle damage from the high winds on Monday.
Wednesday evening I went out and started the car - NO WINDSHIELD WIPERS!
There were lulls today, so I was able to drive down to Burbank and got a repair manual. Sure enough, a square box marked "Solid State". It's about a $6 part, so of course they want $125 for it - but no-one has one - special order. It's raining NOW and I have a "must go" install in the morning.
Sawed the old one up for the connector. Windshield Wipers are now controlled by a switch from an old PC power supply. Just one speed, but that's the only speed I ever used anyway.
So, how am I? Wet and overworked, and waaaaaay behind schedule, but otherwise just fine.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #81,878
2/15/03 2:00:16 AM
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RainX
It's a windshield treatment, wipe on. Reduces surface tension. At\r\nhighway speeds (well, highway speeds other than in LA), the rain just\r\nbeads and is swept off your windshield in the slipstream. The effect's\r\npretty good above 30-35 MPH even, so you can get by in a pinch. Even\r\nstanding still, rain tends to glide off rather than stick, so you can\r\nsee out. \r\n\r\n The wipers on my truck ('91 Toyota Xtra Cab) have a tendency to lose\r\nadhesion to the windshield at 60+ MPH, so this actually gives me better\r\nresults than blades. Highly recommended. \r\n
--\r\n Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
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Post #81,895
2/15/03 9:35:55 AM
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What he said, works great for snow as well
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org] "France," he noted, "has neither winter nor summer, nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks, it is a fine country." Mark Twain
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Post #81,553
2/13/03 9:39:59 PM
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doing OK...
...alive, employed. Could use more sleep.
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Post #81,601
2/14/03 1:03:21 AM
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Ditto.
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Post #81,567
2/13/03 10:27:36 PM
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Waiting is the hardest part...
I have 5 leads for excellent positions, gotten letters saying I am in the first round... or they are interested... I have called them all twice a week for 4 weeks... They all are saying "Yep, we haven't even looked at filling that position yet."
GEEEEEEEEZ!
Working on side-jobs and putting together a new box, for a pet project... announcements coming soon... devoting alot of time "delving into programming" I HATE PROGRAMMING... but I have been playing with Squeak and GNU Smalltalk and a Teach yourself "C" in 21 Days... 1200 Page book... I ahve had it for ~6 years... and I am just reading it... Heck, I even taught another person how to use arrays in Perl... So Perl is doing new things for me.
Also, cracking the Web-Development the Manual way. I HATE stupid bloated XHTML. CSS/XML and such all included... O' Reilly's "XML in a Nutshell" is awesome...
Oh yeah, been watching alot of Anime lately... just on in the background... G Gundam, ZOIDS, Inyuashi...etc Adult Swim Weekdays is Awesome... cept for "Home Movies"
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,582
2/13/03 11:11:28 PM
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Adult Swim rocks...
One of the reasons I'm so tired lately is that I stay up late to watch 'Futurama'.
Geeze, Fox sucks....
Tom Sinclair
"Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
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Post #81,805
2/14/03 9:35:28 PM
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Heh - another squeaker
Resistance is futile. Use the source.
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
--Alan Perlis
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Post #81,595
2/14/03 12:23:51 AM
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Pretty good, all things considered.
My daughter screwed up her suicide attempt, so she's fine. Except that the shrink the hospital referred her to has decided she's addicted to antidepressants. My daughter says "yeah, like a diabetic is addicted to insulin". She hates taking them and skips them far too often. We are getting her a new shrink. A Furby would do a better job.
Guy I knew from back when I was employed who had a run-in with the campus cops last week isn't getting any deader.First time a UWM cop has actualy used his gun. Used it outside of jurisdiction, too. But hey, a jeep is a deadly weapon. Even after it's been wrapped around a tree and surrounded by real cops. What a pair of idiots, one on each end of seven bullet flights.
Yeah, I'm doing just great.
On the other hand, I got a great lead on a potential job tonight. Mmmm, paychecks, real insurance instead of BadgerCare, maybe even a dental plan, Tech Support work so I don't have to think beyond the next phone call...
Well, part of the reason I haven't been here much the last two weeks is that I really hate complaining. The kind of negative crap I would have written isn't what I want to do.I didn't have anything good to say, so I didn't say anything. I think most people here would agree that with this exception, I am not a whiner. The other part is that my computers (each dual-boot, so that's 4 systems really) both died on me at the same time, the Windows end because, well, Windows is like that. The Linux end because I am an idiot and tried to update them both at the same time. With a distro that had a CD missing. I've got the Linux update completed, finaly, and it's very nice. Dog slow, though. This time, /home is on a seperate partition...
Rough times. Appears to be turning around.
I'm tired. I go take happy pills and sleep now.
---- Whatever
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Post #81,596
2/14/03 12:31:32 AM
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empathise, my squirrel just returned from a 6 month
in patient treatment program, and decided that laying down in the middle of the floor puking straight up in the air from cheap beer is a career goal instead of a lockup plan until 21. Explained quietly that TO ME 18 is adult and while her preferences are non of my bidness location of party is subject to change, Hopefully crapping in own nest sinks in. hear ya big time. bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #81,647
2/14/03 10:38:00 AM
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Wow.
Well, part of the reason I haven't been here much the last two weeks is that I really hate complaining. The kind of negative crap I would have written isn't what I want to do.I didn't have anything good to say, so I didn't say anything. I think most people here would agree that with this exception, I am not a whiner. Hey Mike - sounds like you're having a rough time of it right now. I think I speak for a good number of us here when I say that I consider you a friend, and that you're welcome here, rain or shine. I mean heck, that's what friends do, right? If there's anything we can do, let us know. I hope you don't mind, but I talked to my wife this morning about what you wrote about the antidepressants - she said it's possible for somebody to skip taking them and still be addicted to them. I don't know if there's other stuff going on with that, but just keep that in mind.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #81,844
2/14/03 11:27:50 PM
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Antidepressents.
Saw something interesting in Choice magazine about depression - there was a study recently that a higher intake of Omega3 reduced depressive tendancies in a non-insignificant number of people. In practical terms, that means she could try eating more fish.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,610
2/14/03 1:57:28 AM
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mixed bag
I was laid-off Januaray 2002. I've had two job offers fall through, about 5 other interviews but I'm still without an official job. Doing some contract work occassionaly but that's not enough to live on. Fortunately, my wife has been able to keep the boat afloat and I've been able to cover the unexpected expenses. I have a couple of job leads that might turn serious. We'll see. I've just put together an application package for a Masters program in Education and Technology. If I'm accepted that will start in September. The kids are still enjoying school and we're keeping them busy with swimming lessons, gymnastics and soccer. In short we're used to things being a whole bunch better, but we're doing ok.
Have fun, Carl Forde
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Post #81,623
2/14/03 8:21:36 AM
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Yo bro - ah gotta go - back to Oz
So that is occupying this persons thinking. Have decided home is where I need to be and to consider the 3 years here in China as a great adventure.
Wife & I are now committed to returning to Sydney by end March - in the meantime, we will go & see to more places on the mainland. Xian (terra cotta warriors), Guilin (beautiful mountains water & countryside).
Work is no problem, that ended at end Jan. So on return it will be new job etc:.
New adventure.
Cheers & hope things are generally good or great for everyone else. If they aren't, just consider it transient. Things always come in cycles.
Doug Marker
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Post #81,628
2/14/03 8:31:10 AM
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Always wanted to see the Yellow river
far enough east to where the river is flowing ABOVE the plain, must be impressive. A dune buggy trip of the silk road would be freaking great. thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
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Post #81,644
2/14/03 10:34:41 AM
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Wife has always wanted to go see the silk road
But honey, says I, it is all sand as far as you can see...
I think it is the romance of what the 'silk road' once was that is its allure.
Looks like we won't make it this time. But interestingly, the sand from the desert is coming to Beijing - frighteningly so.
Cheers
Doug Marker
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Post #81,632
2/14/03 9:01:42 AM
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Doin Aw-right!
Lessee-
I'm working (which is no small feat these days) doing embedded systems work for a medical devices company. Doing this through my consulting company.
18th anniversary coming up next month...where does the time go?!?
Have our 21-year-old niece living with us. She is currently going to Junior college here in the area. Pushing (not really the right word...more like encouraging relentlessly) for her to get her A.A. so that she can get a B.A. at a 4-year without having to put up wht 500 people in her classes. First semester grades were 1 A and 3 Bs. The second semester will tell!
Otherwise, simply trying to keep from freezing my ass of here in ChicagoLand 9also no small feat), ad waiting patiently for Golf season to begin around here.
Oh, yes...and posting to IWETHEY when time permits.
jb4 "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook
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Post #81,645
2/14/03 10:37:08 AM
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pretty good
inspite of the on again/off again/on again temporary pay cuts, I still have a job that I like, and more importantly working with people I like.
finally consulted with a financial advisor and was surprised to find I'm in better shape than I thought. I suspect its mostly due to the home purchase a few years back, it's already increased 28% in value.
recovering from a sinus infection - saline rinse comes through again, didn't need antibiotics :-)
Darrell Spice, Jr.
[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #81,824
2/14/03 10:24:57 PM
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Completely crazy
We found out recently that my son has a major speech disability and is in all probability suffering from a pervasive developmental disorder, though the final word on that is not going to be in for another few months. The most famous of these is autism. I've moved to Kingston, Ontario, to take computer science at Queen's University. The fam is still in Laval, so I'm going back and forth quite a bit... will be heading up there tomorrow as reading week is about to get into gear (err... "reading week" is what we call "spring break" up here). \r\n\r\n It's heartbreaking in certain ways... his little sister is talking more than he is (he's three, she just turned two) and is well on her way to being in real underwear. \r\n\r\n As for the school bit... they're starting me at the super basic ("A method is a way of doing something to or getting information from an object. You can pass arguments to a method. In java, you do this by...") level but that's cool... as a self-taught guy, I had some knowledge holes that I'm getting to fill in. So far, I've received a total of three assignments and a midterm's worth of marks and have not gotten under 90%, and the assignment that had bonus marks netted me a 22/20:). One course is a lot more interesting than the other one... the basic course doesn't let us do any design at all, but the other one does. The current assignment is a library administration system (albeit greatly simplified). \r\n\r\n I just handed one in... there's a veiled reference to looking up sorting routines "as long as they're properly credited" in the assignment spec so I grabbed and modified Gosling's version of quicksort on the Sun website. For the program, it's complete overkill, but it was fun working it through. That is certainly one powerful little algorithm. \r\n\r\n Still gainfully unemployed. Been looking, but the local job market is blowing major chunks these days. \r\n\r\n The school thing is in large part being motivated by my son. It's entirely possible that he's going to need care for his entire life... so ensuring the resources that he needs will be there is going to require a job that pays extremely well... though I fervently hope that will not be the case. Also, I'm expecting that we'll find that services for him will be more available here than in Quebec... as we're Anglo, needless to say it's a lot harder to find speech therapists in English in Quebec than it is in Ontario. \r\n\r\n The SO and I have gone a long way to patching things up, so that's good news... at the very least, we are quite able to maintain civility between us, which was a lot harder to do before. \r\n\r\n All in all, schools going very well, and I miss my family, and I gotta get work soon as I'm going to need cash to get up there and see them.
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Post #81,845
2/14/03 11:37:06 PM
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Wow... the Dead DO Live!!!!
Was worried about you Mr. Troughton!!!
I had a friend that wanted to buy someone to do some Warp consulting... in Canada...
I couldn't get a hold of you... :(
They ended up waiting anyway... with the War Drums banging in America...
If the change thier minds... Will point them at you!!!
BTW, what was up with consultron.ca... couldn't reach it fer a few weeks...
b4k4^2
[link|mailto:curley95@attbi.com|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT | [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] [link|http://pascal.rockford.com:8888/SSK@kQMsmc74S0Tw3KHQiRQmDem0gAIPAgM/edcurry/1//|ED'S GHOST SPEAKS!] | [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857673,00.asp|Writing on wall, Microsoft to develop apps for Linux by 2004] | Heimatland Geheime Staatspolizei reminds: These [link|http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/cyberstrategy-draft.html|Civilian General Orders], please memorize them. "Questions" will be asked at safety checkpoints. |
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Post #81,855
2/15/03 12:18:16 AM
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Rising from the deep, forty stories tall...
Hey:) \r\n\r\n If they change their minds, let me know and I'll be all over it. You won't need to ask twice. \r\n\r\n As for what happened to my domain... I moved and the ISP blew the move completely. Actually, as it turns out... the way the DSL industry is structured in Canada is kind of arcane. My ISP is in competition with an ISP called Sympatico, which is owned by Bell Canada Enterprises. Bell Canada Enterprises also owns a company called BellNexxia, which has the monopoly on DSL wire provision... that is, they provide the connection from this house to my ISP. Their monopoly is in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. They were playing games... 40 days worth of games. I finally got hooked up about a week ago. \r\n\r\n I ended up talking to some people about it up here, including a politically active lawyer friend of mine. He's already kicked it upstairs... I was talking to him earlier today and he told me it got really clear really fast to the regulatory bodies that BellNexxia had been screwing around with some companies and making nice to others... to which there is a parent company fiduciary relationship if you know what I mean. \r\n\r\n While I was probably the largest pain in the ass to all the parties concerned while this was going on (I was on the phone every day about it) I wasn't the only person who was having problems... found some guys in Quebec who were in a similar boat. Nothing quite like a clear demonstrable pattern of behaviour on the part of a monopoly damaging real consumers to make the politicians take notice... action makes them look good at pretty much zero risk. My problems fixed now, fortunately, but if it also means that other people don't get bent over than that'll make it even better.
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Post #81,858
2/15/03 12:25:37 AM
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Sounds like DSL Down Under.
Basically, the national telco (Telstra) own all the copper. They also own an ISP, BigPond, whose retail offerings are distinctly below par. Especially the broadband ones. Telstra wanted to monopolise the DSL market completely. It took complaints from other ISPs who wanted to provide DSL for the regulator to tell Telstra "you're providing DSL or we fine you an astronomical figure - per day - until you do."
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,862
2/15/03 12:38:26 AM
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telstra big in cell market as well?
they were a customer of my last company, cell billing between cell co's thanx, bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org] "France," he noted, "has neither winter nor summer, nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks, it is a fine country." Mark Twain
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Post #81,864
2/15/03 12:45:33 AM
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Oh yes.
Telstra are like our very own Microsoft: they would like all telecommunications in Au to go through them. POTS, mobile (cell) phones, long distance, international, Internet of all kinds, cable TV and I'm sure there are other markets they'd like. They'd also like the Federal Government to sell the remaining 51% of ownership so they can get on with making obscene amounts of money like any other large corporation.
Unfortunately, rational voices who say Telstra needs to be broken up so the underperforming parts have to reform or fail are not being listened to. As it happens, politics are keeping the sale from happening for entirely different reasons. :-/
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,870
2/15/03 1:11:50 AM
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Similar indeed
Must be a commonwealth thing or something. BCE owns all the copper, and charges BellNexxia, who in turn charges Sympatico (who are not bad from a strictly massmarket consumer perspective but suck if you are at all clewfull and want to do something other than surf and email) and the outfit I use. However, the regulatory agence (CRTC) know that riding herd on these guys (and the other regional monopolies) is very important, and seem to take their job pretty seriously. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the reason that bellnexxia and sympatico are different companies with an "arms length" relationship is because the law here requires BCE (and telus and etc) have to pass all structural changes past them first, and also all new tech that might have an impact on other more open aspects of telecom (like ISPs). I think the CRTC feels that the initial years of the Internet were resisted by companies like BCE (who saw the its potential to kill their long distance profits) and it was the other outfits that actually opened up that market... and that having the 600 pound gorilla come in after the fact was something that doesn't wash well with the man on the street up here. \r\n\r\n I guess you could say that the usual street level POV on Ma Bell and the banks is that we've decided not to lynch them... yet. Even better, the lawmakers know this too. Now if only the VPs at these companies could figure out the "yet" part of that statement and its implications for their long term personal survival if they get too greedy...
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Post #81,847
2/14/03 11:53:30 PM
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*wince* modified a quicksort?
I presume by which you mean translated or changed the parameter passing or some such. QuickSort is known to be both a fragile and finely-tuned algorithm. Attempts to improve it are always at the cost of some other scenario or corner case.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
| | Is it enough to die Somebody save my life I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary Please
| -- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. |
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Post #81,851
2/15/03 12:07:44 AM
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Yes... just the objects getting hamfisted around
Though I read one article that looked intriguing... gosling finds the pivot point with (lo0 + hi0) / 2... this one guy I read on the net seemed to think that using rand might provide overall better results over the long haul. It might be fun to come up with some test cases and see what happens... but in the context of my assignment, I kept it bog standard. \r\n\r\n I ran some tests online and the quicksort pretty much blows the rest of the sort algorithms I've seen completely out of the water. Very nice. I've got plans for that one already:)
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Post #81,857
2/15/03 12:20:57 AM
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Yes, it is generally very good.
Just beware of the "hammer" problem ("When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."). For a situation with a wide variety in the consistency of the input data, QuickSort is almost always the best choice. But sometimes, when the input data is controlled a but better, there are even faster algorithms. IIRC, Heapsort is much faster with data that's already in a tree-structure, for instance. And for some types of integer data, a Radix sort is preferable.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
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Post #81,868
2/15/03 1:03:12 AM
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Is that the one where you code after getting hammered?
Hehehe \r\n\r\n In all seriousness, I've no doubt that there's more than one way to skin the proverbial cat. Actually, in this particular case, I suspect that the quicksort was the best option from a generalised performance pov (lists of names), but we haven't talked about sorting too much in class yet; just a selection sort, very simple, very slow. The flip side of that lecture was binary searching... which is the next area I'm going to apply myself to. Well, after I check out the Radix sort you mention. I'd already heard about heap sort, but I gotta learn some more about it... and this is the first I've heard about radix. \r\n\r\n Which is cool... something to keep my brain occupied this evening.:)
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Post #81,875
2/15/03 1:30:14 AM
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You'd like this book.
[link|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201510596/qid=1045290544/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-2641123-7667255?v=glance&s=books|Algorithms in C++]
Lotsa stuff. Linked lists, binary trees, red-black trees, sorts of many kinds, graphs and graph traversals, searches - I know there's more.
Wade.
Is it enough to love Is it enough to breathe Somebody rip my heart out And leave me here to bleed
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Post #81,927
2/15/03 1:34:07 PM
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Yeah...:)
...though right now is not really the time for me to get it... going to go up to see my family in a day or two. Hm. I'm searching around for what kind of resources are available on the net. There's a ton of them, but digging them out is difficult. It's easy to find an algorithm once you know its name, but just finding algorithms is not so easy... I think the Internet could use a repository of (non-patented open) algorithms, organised by type.
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Post #82,038
2/16/03 11:18:35 AM
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Not bad ...
Spent all Friday morning waiting on line to get new gas masks for my kids in case of war. Other then that things are pretty good, I still have a good job, and my wife and kids are doing fine.
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Post #82,039
2/16/03 11:27:41 AM
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yer workin, yer alive and healthy, great!
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #83,181
2/21/03 12:58:08 PM
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My two cents
Here it is:
Wife still loves me after all of the BS I dump on her nightly - I use her as a venting board when I come home from the crappy job (Info already posted in PHB and Jobs forums; too lazy to look up the links). Teenage daughter fights with younger son as you would expect. Got a house after living in an 2 bedroom apartment for 7 months, kids sharing an air mattress. Taxes on the house are $3.89 per $100 value, over 40% higher than what I had at the previous residence. Mortgage is $300 a month higher, even though I went with the cheapest monthly mortgage option of a 7 year balloon. Oh, and don't forget the $800 a year HOA dues.
Job is still nothing more than coding in VB and using MS SQL Server 7 and 2000, with an occasional stored procedure thrown in. No admin rights, so I can't improve the design of the databases or the integrity of the data. Resume has been on a few job boards since my shitty review May 2002; all of the sites combined have below 60 hits and no direct contact from anybody. Have cold-called over 2 dozen employment agencies in town and sent them my resume, but all reply "we have nothing that fits your background right now...call back in a few weeks." No luck with the half dozen mainframe recruiters scouring the country for the past year. The head of HR has told me that he's seen my resume on the Internet for months now, so he knows I'm looking (what did he expect after the BS put into the review?) Don't know when I'll ever get the opportunity to return home to Chicago before I'm old enough to retire. By them mom and my brother will probably be dead.
On a positive note, I've decided to do a self-study and get certified as a MS DBA. 4 exams at $150 a pop; who knows, maybe I can parlay that into a new gig somewhere in town, since night school for Java or ASP doesn't carry any weight to a recruiter unless you're a fresh off the campus college kid willing to work cheap. Even though it's MS, at least I have some opportunity to work with the product - can't do that if I go the Oracle route.
My daughter is a champion Girl Scout cookie seller: over 2150 boxes in the past 4 years. And she could have sold much more if the Houston area GSA put the boxes into the girls' hands, like she had the previous 3 years, instead of doing a pre-order and making people wait a month to get them. Son was the pack champion in the Boy Scouts Pine Wood Derby, so he goes on to the district races in April. Chance for a big trophy and bragging rights at monthly pack meeting.
With the clock ticking here at my present employer - followup review last month rehashed all of the crap from May 2002 review - wife went out a got a part-time job as a supervisor at a local Blockbuster for $8/hour. It will help cover the mortgage, but means she'll work 3 nights a week and Saturday nights. I'll have to handle more household chores and be home in time to watch them. Then once I get canned, I can stay home all day to job search and keep them in line.
lincoln "Four score and seven years ago, I had a better sig" [link|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm|VB/SQL/Tandem resume] [link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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