COredneck - Slashdot User

Comment Been through a lot inthe past 10 years (Score 1) 473

by COredneck on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:11PM (#38250644) Attached to: Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years

I m now almost 46 years old. I worked as a Unix Sys Admin for many years. Since January 2008, got laid off with my previous employer (major DoD company based out of Maryland), did some part time teaching with a local university and still doing it today and now work for a DB company now. What caught my eye in this article is someone older is not willing to relocate. I have lived in Colorado since 1995 and there are very few places I would consider living elsewhere. Top of my list is New Zealand and then West Coast.

My previous employer came to me one day and told me I had to relocate to the Washington DC area for the same pay, barely enough money to rent a moving truck and I had to take vacation time to move. When I asked for more, I was told either move to Virginia or it was the door. I took the door. A month after I got laid off, I got a part time teaching position and still doing it to this day and really like it and would eventually like to get out of the corporate world for good and do teaching full time.

Relocation to the East Coast especially the Washington DC area doesn't "float my boat". Totally different lifestyle there where putting in 40 hours is considered slacking off, you are expected to attend company sponsored community events outside of your work hours and you are expected to like dressing up as well.

Submission + - Gracenote Founder Rewriting History at Wikipedia

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02, 2006 @10:57AM

An anonymous reader writes: Gracenote founder Steve Scherf is busy again in his attempts to rewrite history after his recent interview at Wired. This time he around he is aggressively deleting or seeking removal of any content on Wikipedia which discuss the controversy behind the commercialization of the formerly GPL'd cddb. Slashdotters may remember when joined the Bad Patent Club back in 2000. It followed up by starting lawsuits against its customers for trying to switch to freedb and for alleged patent violations. Are there any Slashdotters out there who know the facts about Gracenote — its history, its business practices, its lawsuits? Wikipedia needs your help.

Submission + - Bill & Monica prosecutor now targets free spee

Submitted by

Virchull

on Saturday December 02, 2006 @10:28AM

Virchull writes: "The Supreme Court has accepted a free-speech dispute involving a high school student suspended over a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. The justices accepted an appeal from a school board in Juneau, Alaska, after a federal appeals court allowed a lawsuit by the family of Joseph Frederick to proceed. Frederick was suspended in 2002 after he unfurled the 14-foot-long banner — a reference to marijuana use — just outside school grounds. Attorney Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater prosecutor who investigated President Clinton's relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, is representing the school board. More at http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/01/scotus.bonghits/ index.html"

Ten Best, Worst, and Craziest Uses of RFID 126

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday December 02, 2006 @10:14AM from the track-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This top 10 rounds up what it calls 'the best, worst and craziest' uses of RFID out there — including chipped kids at Legoland, smart pub tables that let you order drinks, smartcards for sports fans, and chipped airline passengers. The craziest use of the tech surely has to be RFID chips for Marks & Spencer suits — you couldn't pay most people to wear one of them."

FBI Taps Cell Phone Microphones in Mafia Case 274

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 02, 2006 @07:18AM from the lots-of-conversations-about-merchandise dept.

cnet-declan writes "We already knew the FBI can secretly listen in to car conversations by activating microphones of systems like OnStar. A new Mafia court case suggests that the FBI can do the same thing to cell phones. The judge's opinion and some background information [pdf] are available for reading online. The most disturbing thing? According to the judge, the bug worked even if the phone appeared to be 'powered off.' Anyone up for an open-source handset already?" From the article: "This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York concluded that the 'roving bugs' were legally permitted to capture hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work. The FBI's 'applications made a sufficient case for electronic surveillance,' Kaplan wrote. 'They indicated that alternative methods of investigation either had failed or were unlikely to produce results, in part because the subjects deliberately avoided government surveillance.'"

Journal Journal: UFO crash in Russia 1

Journal by October_30th on Saturday December 02, 2006 @06:27AM

Cool!

KRASNOYARSK. Dec 1 (Interfax) - An unidentified flying object has reportedly crashed between the towns of Yeniseisk and Lesosibirsk in the Yenisei district of the Krasnoyarsk territory. Local residents say they observed the crash at about

Submission + - Gates Foundation to spend all its assets

Submitted by El Lobo on Saturday December 02, 2006 @06:12AM

El Lobo writes: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has said it will spend all its assets within 50 years of them both dying ( http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gates_foundation _to_spend_all_assets_1201.html ).

The foundation focuses on improving health and economic development globally, and improving education and increasing access to technology. It also focuses on fighting diseases such as HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.

The Seattle-based foundation plans to increase spending to about $3.5 billion a year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the next decade, up from about $1.75 billion this year.

Journal Journal: The college bowl system is a crime against humanity.

Journal by Luke727 on Saturday December 02, 2006 @03:55AM

Ohio State vs Michigan, a game some people might consider the national championship (especially if USC loses bad), was played November 18. Ohio State will not play again until the championship game on January 8. That's an incredible 51 days; nearly two full months. Michigan will play again on January 1, 2, or 3.

There are 32 bowls and 119 teams, so 64 out of 119 teams will get to finish in a bowl game.

Submission + - USB Drives - Recovery

Submitted by

pipingguy

on Saturday December 02, 2006 @01:50AM

pipingguy writes: "Now that "thumb drives" are so inexpensive (a 1GB SD card c/w USB housing/adapter costs about CAN$29), which programs are recommended for system recovery or need-to-have software? Additionally, I'd like to get some input on the durability of these newish adapter devices, as some of them seem to be pretty flimsy (but very useful/flexible as opposed to the old fixed-capacity NAND devices)."

What Embedded Linux Distros Would You Support? 83

Posted by Cliff on Thursday November 30, 2006 @07:25AM from the top-of-the-embedded-pile dept.

dannys42 asks: "I work for a cool company that works with, among other things, embedded Linux systems. We'd like to provide an SDK for our customers and will likely support one or two Linux distros, plus Windows+Cygwin as build environments. Up until now, I'd assumed that most corporate developers were using Fedora, simply because of its similarity to Red Hat Enterprise and for its maturity. However, I'm curious to know, for those fortunate enough to develop for embedded Linux, what distribution do you expect to be supported for a build environment?"