Comment $8/hr +staffing company (Score 1) 325
Your making 8$ and hour, but I wouldn't be surprised if the staffing company was charging 20$ for you.
Like anything, the money is made by the middle man - avoid them at all costs.. (or become one)
Comment Re:Authorize.Net did have a backup (Score 2, Insightful) 118
An auto switching power Y-cable with two inputs, and one output? ive never seen or heard of these.. Do you have a manufacturer or part number?
id defiantly like some.
Comment Re:sloppy engineering (Score 1) 118
its still not incorrect as they stated that it was in standard time. if they only stated 5pm Pacific time, one would assume the current Daylight Savings time.
Canadian (and American I think, but dont hold me to it) Tide and Current tables are in Standard time, so you need to remember to add the hour when you are in Daylight Savings Time, otherwise your calculations are off, and you can hit low things, and run around on high things.
Comment umm.. Not Throttleing (Score 5, Insightful) 282
Umm.. thats not throttling, it applying QOS (Quality of service) Throttling would slow your traffic all the time, where as this applies prioritization to data that needs it. Packets have a qos field that says the priority they should be given..
Im glad there is a telco that will respect QOS - I've wasted a week with a voip problem, only to learn that the telco was shaping traffic and discarding everything above 3mb without paying attention to QOS Flags.. Allstream charges more for this!
Submission + - Canadian wireless carrier number portability
maxrate writes: March 14 2007 in Canada marks the start of mandatory wireless cellular carrier number portability. If you are in Canada you will be happy to know that the CRTC mandated that cellular customers may move their cellular numbers from one carrier to another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_number_portabil ity It will be interesting to see how quickly carriers are able to facilitate transfer requests. For the moment I am happy with my carrier and have no desire to move, however I can recall on a few occasions where this would have been an excellent option.
Submission + - The ultimate home brew flight sim
IGN Australia writes: "What do you get when you combine one motivated Australian, AU$300,000 and eight years of hard work?
One kick-ass flight simulator:
http://au.gear.ign.com/articles/772/772352p1.html"
Submission + - Knex Machine Gun
edmandu writes: "Here's an impressive machine gun made out of K'nex that fires off 10 shots per second. The gun's creator writes:
"It uses a bullet-type design i made 4 years ago and i put them all on a chain; so it can shoot as many times as you want, it just takes a while to make more bullets. The one i made shoots about 30 Ft at 10 shots per second and has 40 "bullets" on its chain." Here is a link to
some instructions on instructables and a link to a video of the machine gun in action."
Submission + - Bizarre IT setups.
MicklePickle writes: I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the history of our company,
(which shall remain nameless), and he started reminiscing about some of the
IT hacks that our company did. Like running 10BaseT down a storm water drain
to connect two buildings, using a dripping tap to keep the sewerage U-bend full
of water in a computer room, (huh?). And some not so strange ones like running
SCSI out to 100m, and running a major financial system on a long forgotten computer
in a cupboard.
I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you've seen?
I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you've seen?
Bookmark Macworld Rumor Round-Up. (looprumors.com)
Submission + - One Drop of Milk + Coffee + Camera = Art
An anonymous reader writes: "Milk meets Coffee" (photo gallery #1, photo gallery #2). Once again we witness the beauty of fluid mechanics.
Submission + - UFO Above Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Aglassis writes: On Nov 7, 2006 at about 4:30 p.m. several United Airlines employees including several pilots observed a 6 to 24 ft diameter flying saucer-like object above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. After hovering for several minutes without displaying any lights it then shot straight up and punched a hole in the 1,900 ft cloud ceiling. No explanation has been given nor did the air traffic control tower detect the purported craft on radar. One controller did note that "to fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable."
Submission + - Google Calculator is Broken
Ozan Guven writes: "Google's built-in calculator function is broken and if you type a math function it only returns weired web search results.
None of the functions described on http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html is working...
Is this a new year gift from Google?"
None of the functions described on http://www.google.com/help/calculator.html is working...
Is this a new year gift from Google?"
Submission + - Connector pinout site reborn as a wiki
An anonymous reader writes: Hardware Book has been around for more than 10 years. Full with 500+ pinouts and cable descriptions for the poor students or hardware enthusiasts. Now reborn as a Wiki and updated with new pinouts. You'll find everything for your old C64 and your new Nintendo Wii.
Journal Journal: Ten Must Have Free Software Packages for 2007
Having worked for Microsoft Corporation for a portion of my career, with stats such as 95% of the world uses Microsoft. I was in for a real eye opener on the number of different software packages available in the Open Source world.I have put together a list of the top top ten free tools for any internet professional. The first five are devoted to your desktop and the next five are for you
Submission + - Free Windows XP to Vista Transformation Pack!
xt writes: If you think Vista is just a visually glorified version of XP, not worthy of your money, rejoice; using the free Vista Transformation Pack, you can transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista! The project has no ties with Microsoft. It's a clever hack, replacing various resources and files to achieve the Vista look. Details and downloads at the project's forum and various other sites!
