On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Starting to get into topic drift here... > > >On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > >>>7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a > >>>shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in > >>>some folders just to speed the agent up a bit. > >> > >>That's a good idea. I have all cache turned off in my web browser. > >> > >> > >>>And what are you using /dev/hda1 & 2 for, windoze? > >>> > >>>tsk tsk... > >> > >>WinXP. Since you didn't put a smiley there, I'll take that as > >>a pejorative comment on my judgement. > > >Chuckle, that did raise the hackles, didn't it? :) I probably should > >have put a smiley on it, but I thought the 'tsk tsk' carried a similar > >notation. Sorry. > > Apology accepted. > > [snip] > > >>Well, I'm a laid off telecom engineer who doesn't have a job. > >>I've looked around for just the discs you mention, and used > >>40Gig goes for about $50 here. I can get a new one for just > >>about the same price. YMMV > > > > > >I'd say. I have a friend doing some of that in a shop in the next town > >up the interstate from me, I'll ask him what the going rate is at his > >place tonight. The $20 bill was a SWAG of course. > > I bet it isn't $20 USD for a 40G hard drive. :-) > > >What was your major (if you have a degree, I don't, 8th grade, self > > Mathematics. My graduate work is in Mathematical Probability and > Statistics. > > [snip] > > >won't buy *you* a cuppa.) and where do you want to apply yourself next? > >Sometimes makeing a little noise might generate a lead or 2. > > Mostly anywhere that will make a buck. I've been heavily involved in > embedded (telecom, doncha know), specialty is OS (kernel, debugger, > device driver, program loader, configurator, fault isolator, that > sort of stuff). Last stuff I was doing was system level requirements > and high level design. The last real code work was leading a team > of 15 engineers to do a whole new platform. The contract (ran from > October 2004 through August 2005) was doing some work for pharmacy > software. A little database, a little system interface (timeouts > and passwords to support HIPPA), a little serial comm interface > (to talk to insurance carrier computers), a little price negotiation > software (again with insurance carrier computers). Hi Mike, have you looked into helping with the VISTA medical program from the VA? I hear it could be a good thing. Just curious if you have heard of it and have any opinion of it? Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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