RobGR

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by RobGR 17y ago
I have been there, it took a long to force myself to leave the situation. A wise man said about overly restrictive religous regulations, "Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath", meaning the rules of rest on Sunday and etc are me
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by RobGR 17y ago
The hardware is fine. The bandwidth is passable, if you write a clean and minimal site. Can you pay a small amount extra and get a fixed IP ? Dyndns will suffice to get you started, though. The main thing is not to let the problem of lac
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by RobGR 17y ago
If society decides to declare a general "jubilee" year, and cancel all debts, and you decide to pay off yours, it is true that you are at a disadvantage. If society decides in general to massively devalue the currency to help irresponsible
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by RobGR 17y ago
There are many situations under which a person might spend $4,000 on a dog. But we are talking about the specific situation in which you don't have $4,000 and intend to borrow it at 25% interest. In that case it is not socially acceptable
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by RobGR 17y ago
I don't believe there is any credible evidence (i.e., studies not done by organizational consultants pimping their tests) that Myers-Briggs tests predict much of anything. I don't think they predict whether a person will be good at a parti
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by RobGR 17y ago
I have used Asterisk for many systems and even modified some of the C code in it. I would not say it is as horrible as it is portrayed here. I started to set up a FreeSWITCH system, figuring if it was a clean redesign I might as well get o
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by RobGR 17y ago
I don't think it is unethical. If they came back and offered all the customer's who switched 2 years free to switch back, after you were out of pocket for serving them for a year free, would you feel unfairly treated ? Inducing people to b
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by RobGR 17y ago
So you don't have to borrow $1000 from a guy who will take $950,000 of the million later.
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by RobGR 17y ago
For any kind of regular sized bean, such as pinto or red kidney, you can't just dump them in and start boiling. A lot of people have told me that you can, but those people's beans have hard centers that don't digest well and give you a tum
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by RobGR 17y ago
I don't rinse the beans from the can; the "bean sludge" you refer to is what makes the juice thick and hearty. Also, in beans (as in rice and other plants) a lot of the trace vitamins and etc are in the hull, and if you are on a rice and b
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by RobGR 17y ago
I think your observations are probably correct. When I was trying to learn basic accounting / bookkeeping, one of the best guides I found was some State's "Women in Small Business" or something similar commission, that had a very short down
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by RobGR 17y ago
Dude, let the dog go. That is not an appropriate decision. If it was a person who was hit, then it would be ok to borrow at that; but I pay property taxes so the county hospital will fix the broken bones of indigents. Unless the dog brings
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by RobGR 17y ago
Rather than refusing to work, doesn't it make much more sense to refuse to use credit cards and refuse to buy a house on credit (as much as possible anyway) ? After all, the credit card rates you pay reflect their defaults. So just use cas
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by RobGR 17y ago
I hope that society developes a different view of debt and consumer debt in particular through all this. One thing to note, is that either the paying off or writing off of debt is deflationary -- something that was an asset on someone's boo
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by RobGR 17y ago
For radically different worked efficiencies to account for a different unemployment numbers, something about the distribution of worker efficiencies has to have changed since the last recession. But workers have always had different level
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by RobGR 17y ago
I have now finished reading it. The first few chapters are heavy going, they deal with details of Morgan's various activities that seem unimportant in relationship to the big picture, now. I thought it interesting that he observed that the
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by RobGR 17y ago
Hot water return systems are not part of "normal" residential plumbing. They are energy wasting, obnoxious high-end stuff that you expect to find in what they call a "McMansion". The electric pumps they use last much less than the 10 to
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by RobGR 17y ago
Thank you for posting this -- I had partly read this book but had to return it to the library many years ago. I have been meaning to finish it for a long time.
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by RobGR 17y ago
The database that I am trying to work into a master-slave replication environment currently has a 500 GB InnoDB file. ( I think since some cleanup was done, the database no longer has that much data in it, but the InnoDB file doesn't shrin
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by RobGR 17y ago
It's awesome that you can get servers like that for those prices these days. One of my customers recently purchased a similarly configured PowerEdge. What is high-end about the database is you are trying to get high-end performance. Havin
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by RobGR 17y ago
"The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" by Bruce Sterling, should really be on on the must-read list. Another on I highly recommend is "The New Hacker's Dictionary" by Eric S. Raymond. Finally, although it is a b
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by RobGR 17y ago
Steven Levy is a good writer. I read pretty much anything he puts out. His books "Crypto" and "Insanely Great" are good also, Crypto is the better one.
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by RobGR 17y ago
I am very interested in your project and I hope you publish your results. I don't have a suitable database project, unfortunately. I have been experimenting with master-slave replication in MySQL. I am interested in performance, but redun
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by RobGR 17y ago
First, go out and get a USB disk bigger than the laptop disk, and use a live CD to copy a disk image of the laptop to the USB. That way you can experiement and write the original back if it doesn't work. If you had a dual install, the Ubun
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by RobGR 17y ago
I advise looking into setting up zoneminder. You can get it from http://www.zoneminder.com/ . It is a free linux program, it will integrate pictures from a variety of cameras and save them in a searchable way via a web interface. You
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by RobGR 17y ago
These are the ones that I know about. In 2001 I was running a redhat 6.1 server at my house, and the ftp had a known vulnerability in it, but I didn't use ftp so I ignored the update. Then someone was over at my place and trying to retrie
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by RobGR 17y ago
I know of people who have hired statisticians for regression type analysis from sites such as scriptlance.com or guru.com. If statistics and probability is your area, send me an email and I can pass your info along.
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by RobGR 17y ago
I think you kind of missed most of the last half of the article. The overbearing asshole is not presented as the villian. AIG FP is not presented as "turning a blind eye", in fact they are described as halting much of their sub-prime inv
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by RobGR 17y ago
I have liked Michael Lewis's writing since I read "Moneyball", which I highly recommend by the way. This article is pretty good, although not as math and statistics oriented as some of his good sports writing. I think the large scale destr
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by RobGR 17y ago
I have read that Newton would not put numerical examples in his writing because he feared people would pick over some small error and use it to claim the whole work was wrong. I think that's what most of the negative comments here are lik

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