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Comment It's easy to find the value of the position.... (Score 1) 171

There are tons of sites (heck even the government has a site but now I forget it for the life of me) that lists the min to max pay via a bell curve chart (well most times it ends up being a bell curve) for a certain job title in the city or area you're located in. Then you can also see how that city compares to other cities in the state, etc to see what the average pay is and all that.

I believe it also tells you other info about typical reauirements, average educations, etc... But it's been so long since I took the business management classes that I n to only forget the address and name for the site, but also all the information you could extract from it...

Maybe someone else knows of the gov site that lists all this and can post it up

Comment IE can just be a pain... (Score 1) 273

On my internship I had to convert a flash site over to just HTML keeping the same format etc (using flash can cause a screen reader to have issues which could have brought a ADA lawsuit).

Anyhow, to make the menu list they had on the left side I just used one type of div for the buttons, and another div to act as a spacer between the buttons. While every other browser like opera, firefox, chrome, safari, etc handled the spacer div size via CSS correctly, IE (versions 6, 7, and 8) would completely ignore the CSS height size of the spacer div, making the menu take over a page and a half of scrolling for something that should only have been half a page.

Comment Zimbra would work! (Score 1) 204

Zimbra fits your roll perfectly. It's able to scale to the levels of the University I work at, so I'm sure it could handle a 10 man team.

It also supports ActiveSync pushing so it can automatically send appointments to your iPad/iPhone/Android device etc. It also web browser based so no need for a stand alone email client (but you could still use one if you wish).

Also, you can view other peoples Calendars, etc.. and push invites to those people (which my boss does.. she'll push out maintenance calls etc to all of us which automatically get added into our calendar)

www.zimbra.com

Comment Don't (Score 2) 338

"and some game called 'words' which has message capability"

So the guy wants to wire tap everything they use, period. Even a freaking games? Most of those games already filter "bad words".

One thing you can do is set all their DNS servers to use OpenDNS's FamilyShield. It will do a pretty good job of filtering bad sites/etc at the DNS level.
As for logging, I wouldn't. That just sounds like not only violating your family's privacy (okay so they're under-age? That may be okay) but should anyone else happen to use the device and have no clue the things they were typing or doing were being recorded could pose a big issue.

It's a thought anyhow.

Submission + - Best option for printing digital photos

rrossman2 writes: With the birth of our son (who is now just over 2), we have snapped and accumulated a ton of pictures. The issue is, the wife uploads most of them to Facebook. I have them on panoramio, picasa, Facebook, etc.

My question for the slash dot croud is what is the best option for bulk printing the photos to a physical format? We all know with how fast technology advances, as well as sites come and go, I want a way to have these pictures for my son when he is older... just like my grand father has photos of his self from world war II, my parents have photos of me when I was little etc.

Are there any affordable services that you can upload the photos to that print and deliver long lasting pictures? How well do today's photo ink jets last and what's the best type of paper?

I do have a cheaper Samsung color laser printer, but color lasers don't make the most color rich prints, and using normal photo paper you can find in big box stores doesn't work out too well as the laser toner seems to peel off on the rollers and gum things up... is there a good long lasting paper that seems to work well with laser printers?

I can see what's going to happen in the future.. all of the digital photos people take now are going either end up on a website that won't be around in 20+ years or get stuck on disks (hard drives, CDs etc) or flash memory that won't last or become dated where interfacing with the media will become difficult or impossible. (An example is I have some old 100MB hard drives that still work, as well as floppies from my C64, but newer drives seem to crap out more often or in ways you can recover at home... and IDE ports are thinning down and may eventually go the way of ST506, ESDI or other older interface connections)

Any help/insight any of you have used that have worked out well would be fantastic. I guess this is the danger of going all digital vs old film cameras where the prints lasted for an extremely long time as well as ghe negatives.

Comment Re:White House IT: thumbs down (Score 1) 333

I guess the secret is to use Google Services... let them host the email, use their Calender system, Google talk, etc.
You don't get the spiffy BES service, but the encrypted email is enough, right? Or switch to android and use TextSecure and RedPhone, problem solved (until they are cracked, although TextSecure uses AES).

After a month or so getting that all setup, you now get to sit on a beach sipping drinks as the IT support mostly falls on someone else... issue solved!

Comment Re:Apple is killing text messaging (Score 2) 355

So, it's not killing texts, but just making texts and iMessages look the same *to you*. What you just said is it doesn't matter how it's sent, the application works it out.. that's great and all, except all your friends without iMessage and/or smartphones are receiving text messages... the very item you claim this application is going to kill.

Junta is absolutely correct with gTalk, AIM, etc. You *could* count iMessage if you don't count any portions that send the messages as texts. The other clients/messengers don't use texts, only sending via their protocols over data. *That* is what will kill text messaging (except for the fact carriers put crazy prices on data plans, so either way you're kind of screwed)

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