Documenting what takes place in an interview is essential, but often overlooked. Many managers don't like using questionnaires, rating forms, or even a notepad during an interview, believing that any type of note-taking detracts from the natural flow of the conversation. However, documentation is important because it:

1) provides evidence that can be used to defend the company against discriminatory hiring challenges, and

2) can improve selection decisions by ensuring all candidates are asked all relevant questions and assessed using uniform criteria.

Good interview questions start with the job description for the vacant position. Look at job duties and responsibilities and identify essential knowledge, training, experience, and behaviors required for success in the position, then develop questions that probe an applicant's qualifications in each area.

After reviewing the job description, consider any unique aspects of the position, department, or company culture. For example, if the position requires a lot of overtime, the interviewer should consider an applicant's willingness to handle this aspect of the job.The next step is to review resumes and job applications. Identify any gaps in education or work history and add a question about these gaps to the questionnaire.

If the resume or application lists job titles without describing specific activities or responsibilities, make a note to ask the applicant for more details during the interview.  Also look for education, training, or experience that seems particularly relevant to the job opening, and develop questions to confirm this impression.

An important step is to review the wording of each question. Good interviewers ask open-ended questions that prompt an explanation or description from the applicant. Look over the list of prepared questions and rephrase any questions that could simply be answered “yes” or “no.” For examples of open-ended questions, see the form called “Interview Form.”The final step involves examining the interview questionnaire to ensure all questions are job-related and nondiscriminatory.

Federal and many state laws prohibit discrimination in hiring based on race, color, sex, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, pregnancy, military or guard service, bankruptcy filings, and union membership. Even seemingly job-related questions can be discriminatory if only one type of applicant is asked, such as women, but not men, or if the inquiry touches on demographic differences correlated to a protected characteristic.

Moss Benefits supplies various forms that can be used in the interview process.  While these forms are helpful, any questions provided are only a starting point; each interview will include more specific inquiries that reflect the unique characteristics of the open position and the applicant. ]]> http://businesschatt.wordpress.com/?p=39 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:29:27 +0000 Jon Moss http://businesschatt.wordpress.com/?p=39 There are federal nondiscrimination laws and they have an impact on interviews and interview questions. Most states have nondiscrimination laws that match the federal requirements as well as other restrictions. Listed below are the federal nondiscrimination laws to be aware of:

Age Discrimination. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects individuals aged 40 and older from discrimination based on age. To reduce the risk of ADEA claims, interviewers should eliminate any questions that could reveal an applicant's age. However, employers can ask whether someone is eligible to work and/or has any necessary work permits.

Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA and similar state laws prohibit employers from discriminating against qualified applicants based on disability.

Some disability discrimination issues to keep in mind are:

Disability. Employers generally are prohibited from making any inquiries into an individual's physical or mental disabilities. The only exception to this rule arises when an applicant has an obvious disability or has voluntarily disclosed that he or she has a disability. In such cases, an interviewer can ask if the applicant would need any accommodations to perform the job, and if so, what types of accommodations would be needed.

Drug or alcohol abuse. ADA specifically exempts current substance abusers from its protections. However, recovering alcoholics and former drug abusers are protected by ADA. As a result, employers can ask whether an applicant is currently abusing alcohol or drugs, but inquiries into past drug or alcohol use are forbidden.

Use of Leave. Asking someone about their job attendance or number of days missed from work might violate the ADA. If an applicant missed work due to illness, such questions force someone to reveal a disabling condition, which violates ADA. Even if the applicant does not volunteer the reason for job absences, disqualifying someone based on a poor attendance record could lead to an ADA claim. Similiarly, asking applicants if they have been hospitalized for illness or filed a workers' compensation claim violates ADA. Most state workers' compensation laws also prohibit refusing to hire someone based on workers' compensation claims history.

Memberships or affiliations. ADA's prohibitions on disability-based discrimination also mean employers should exercise caution about inquiring into memberships. Asking someone about membership in private groups could cause someone to reveal a hidden disability. Employers that condition job offers on membership in a professional group that disqualifies individuals based on a history of drug abuse or mental problems could be exposed to ADA claims.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This was enacted to prohibit discrimination in hiring based on race, sex, color, religion, or anyone's national origin. As amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Title VII's prohibition on sex discrimination also extends to pregnancy or childbirth.

Most states have nondiscrimination laws that match or exceed the requirements of the federal civil rights laws.

In addition to the laws discussed above, other nondiscrimination statutes that affect what can and cannot be asked during a job interview are:

National Labor Relations Act. NLRA prohibits employers from discriminating against job applicants based on union membership. Interviewers should avoid asking prospective hires about their affiliations with labor organizations.

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. USERRA prohibits employers from discriminating in hiring based on a person's membership or service in the any uniformed services. Many states have enacted similar laws barring employment discrimination based on membership or service in state military or guard units. Interviewers should avoid asking applicants for information on past or current military service.

For examples of potentially discriminatory questions, click "Examples of Prohbited Interview Questions."

Preparing for an interview involves more than just developing sound questions to ask during the session. Good interviewers also structure the stages of an interview to ensure things go smoothly. The following steps can help ensure an interview proceeds in a well-structured manner:

1. Go to "Edit Profile"
2. Select "Account Settings"
3. Select "Privacy"
4. Deselect the "Show people when I am online" box.

I found that people stopped sending me comments because they never thought I was online. Then I got over it because nobody sent me comments. This is just how I did it though and it definitely will not work for everyone.

I still go on occasionally, but not as much as I did. Good luck beating your addiction!

questo è il pacchetto per architetture i386

questo per architetture amd64

Altrimenti potete aggiungere i repository alla vostra lista dei sorgenti. Date:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

e aggiungete queste due righe in fondo al file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntu hardy main

Poi date:

sudo apt-get update

ed infine installatelo con:

sudo apt-get install google-gadgets

Thanks to: khole

Filemail è un servizio web 2.0 che trovo estremamente utile, per chi come me ha spesso la necessità di inviare file di grosse dimensioni sfruttando la propria casella mail.

Con Filemail tutto questo è possibile! :) (fino a 2 Gigabyte).

Filemail è gratuito e non richiede la registrazione, è necessario però inserire il proprio indirizzo email (valido).

Filemail è composto da un modulo online da compilare come un comune messaggio di posta, con uno spazio dove effettuare l’upload dei propri files da allegare ai destinatari, i quali riceveranno via email il messaggio con il link diretto dal quale scaricare l’allegato.

I messaggi inviati con Filemail, inoltre, possono essere protetti con una password, ed è ache possibile impostare per quanto tempo dovrà rimanere online disponibile per il download e il numero di volte che sarà possibile scaricare l’allegato.

Buon divertimento! :D

Dallo staff di Goooogle :) arriva una nuova e suggestiva esperienza, si tratta del WorldWide Telescope, un nuovo programma gratuito che consente a tutti, di esplorare in modo semplice e coinvolgente le galassie, i sistemi stellari e i pianeti più lontani.

Il programma mette a disposizione 12 terabyte di immagini ad alta definizione che derivano da scatti ripresi tanto dalla terra quanto dallo spazio, ove impegnati vi sono il Telescopio Hubble, il Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center e lo Spitzer Space Telescope.

Accedere al WorldWide Telescope è semplice: è sufficiente scaricare l’apposito applicativo (di 20.8Mb) dal sito ufficiale, installare e navigare.

Buon divertimento ! :)

Link: Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

The first step you will need to take if you are looking to start a cult of your very own is to come up with something so absurd and ridiculous that it seems believable to some crazed fraction of the population. Just for example you could use something like:

Millions of years ago whales had legs and roamed the earth. At the time of their reign the earth was a peaceful and solemn place. The whale is a large and intimidating creature but it has tiny bristles for teeth, exemplifying its soft nature. When dinosaurs appeared the whales were forced into the ocean to survive. They adapted to the water quite well but continued to breath air. They did this so they could come up for air and investigate the state of the Earth plotting and waiting for their time to regain control. It is our job to communicate with the whales, by mastering sonar, and to put ourself in good standing with the whales. We shall respect and worship the whales, then we shall put the whales back into power, returning the world to the way it once was. If we do this they will surely be appreciative of our efforts. When they rule the world they will allow us to live the most privileged lives of all the humans.

The next step is to come up with some interesting, and made-up, "facts" that you can use to try and solidify your argument. For the aforementioned scenario tidbits would include things like:

• The phrase "walk the plank" is used when someone walks off of a board into the ocean. This is in reference to the way in which the whales "walked" into the ocean and began to eat PLANKton.
• Only two creatures live in the ocean but continue to breathe air, the whale and the dolphin. The whales have been breathing air for millions of years so they are accustomed to it, dolphins just began doing it recently in order to try and get in the good graces of the whales, just as we must do.
• Whales communicate through sonar. They have been doing this for millions of years. Only recently did our military establish a way to use sound waves for location purposes in the form of radar, this shows the whales intellectual superiority.

The next step to take is to give names to the characters in your story then rename the members of your cult. You may choose to name people after prominent figures in the story or, give them original names. Remember to make your name a prominent figure in the story. Either name the leader after you or name yourself after the leader you worship. A good example of this is David Koresh naming his followers The Branch Davidians. I have found the best way to formulate names is to pound your fingers on the home row keys of your computer and then go back and fill in the name with a few choice vowels. My members would be named:

• fajkisel
• lodils the 2nd
• gohselidk;

It is important to note that the savior in your story should have a powerful sounding title, and intimidating post name phrase. The name of this character should also be much more thought out than the other characters. Here is a template to help you choose the name of your cult's messiah:

We worship you almighty (lord/king/Ms.), (blagestine/ snagenstine/ Latoya) (Destroyer of Men/ Rightful ruler of Earth/ Queen of the Jacksons)

In my cult we will be pledging allegiance to Lord Snagenstine, Queen of the Jackson's. A whale well over 170 feet in length and the last great whale empress.

Next, in order to draw more members you must do what all religions do and that is make some cool paintings of your leader and hang them around the shrine you have built. Best case scenario, you will also come up with a symbol to represent your people (i.e. the cross, the star of david, Prince's symbol). For my example, something similar to the pacific life logo would be appropriate.

Once you have developed a strong following it becomes imperative for you to develop a mission to keep your followers occupied while allowing them to demonstrate their loyalty. The mission i would assign to my group would be a two part mission to go to Sea World and make attempts to speak to the whales using sonar and once i decided that communication had been initiated then we would formulate an attack plan to allow the whales to regain power. We would use Sea Worlds on both coasts to attack from the inside and push people to the ocean where the other wave of whale freedom fighters would be waiting to fight. Once we had gained power in California and Florida we would begin a conquest march from the East and West meeting somewhere in Missouri where the power would be restored to the whales once and for all. It is best to choose a plan that will continually fail so as to motivate the followers to work harder and to keep them from revealing you as the complete fraud you are.

Most of the good cults have found a way to go out with a bang. A good example of this is the Waco massacre or Jonestown. If you want a truly successful cult then you will begin to sense when things are coming to an end and have a huge blowout of some sort. I may have my example cult build a large armored whale vehicle of destruction that we would use to rampage across the country involving police departements and armed forces to stop us. There is a good chance this "rampage" would last less than 10 minutes.

This information has been bestowed upon you and should come with a bit of a disclaimer. While I cannot say ethically that tricking people into doing silly things is right, I am not at liberty to say it is not kinda fun. Good luck!

Thanks to: khole

La Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG è una della schede wireless integrate più diffuse. La maggior parte delle distribuzioni la riconosce senza problemi, ma come accade con Ubuntu, non è possibile metterla in “mode monitor”, e quindi usarla con Aircrack- ng. Per chi ancora non lo conoscesse, Aircrack è una suite di strumenti per testare la sicurezza delle reti wireless, sviluppato da Christophe Devine. In Ubuntu è possibile installarlo con un semplice:

sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng

Come appunto stavo dicendo, i driver forniti con la distribuzione, che siano ipw3945 o iwl3945, non funzionano con aicrack, in particolare non consentono l’iniezione (injection). Dobbiamo quindi sostituirli manualmente con i driver alternativi, ipwraw-ng, che troviamo sul sito di aircrack-ng.

Installazione

Innanzitutto soddisfiamo queste dipendenze:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential libssl-dev

Poi scarichiamo ipwraw-ng, installiamo i moduli e blacklistiamo ipwraw (in modo che non venga lanciato automaticamente all’avvio della macchina):

wget http://dl.aircrack-ng.org/drivers/ipwraw-ng-2.3.4-04022008.tar.bz2
tar -xjf ipwraw-ng*
cd ipwraw-ng
make
sudo make install
sudo make install_ucode
echo “blacklist ipwraw” | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ipwraw
sudo depmod -ae

Ora non ci resta che sostituire temporaneamente i driver ufficiali con quelli appena installati. Dico temporaneamente perché i driver ipwraw-ng, servono solo per aircrack, quando abbiamo finito di usarlo, per navigare, dobbiamo ricaricare i driver ufficiali (iwl3945 o ipw3945).

sudo modprobe -r ipw3945
o
sudo modprobe -r iwl3945

sudo modprobe ipwraw

Così dovreste trovarvi con un dispositivo per l’iniezione chiamato wifi0 e un interfaccia in mode monitor, rtap0; controllate con iwconfig. Dovreste ottenere qualcosa del genere:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 unassociated ESSID:off/any
Mode:Monitor Channel=1 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s

rtap0 no wireless extensions.

Bene ora potrete usare aircrack-ng senza problemi. Al termine del lavoro dovrete ricaricare i moduli ufficiali:

sudo modprobe -r ipwraw

sudo modprobe iwl3945
o
sudo modprobe ipw3945

Con questo articolo, tratto dal sito ufficiale di aircrack-ng, volevo solo spiegare come utilizzare Aircrack con una scheda Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG. Se cercate delle istruzioni per il WEP e WPA cracking, alla sezione tutorial del sito di aircrack-ng, c’è l’imbarazzo della scelta.

Could you survive a zombie outbreak? Do you have what it takes to kill hordes of relentless, diseased corpse's? With this list of things to keep around in case of an epidemic you might have a fighting chance(but you will probably die anyways).

1. Flashlights(multiple, w/ batteries, crank flashlights as well)
2. Lighters, and matches(lighter fluid, butane etc.)
3. Duct tape(in case one of the zombies rips your leg off you can tape it back on)
4. Rope(it helps in the action movies)
5. Camping gear(sleeping bag, tent,flares,glow sticks,backpack)
6. Seeds(For vegetables and fruit, miracle grow)
7. Water purification tablets, nalgene water bottle
8. Kittens(to throw as decoys)
9. A Humvee(or just trick out your VW)
10. Toiletries items(soap,shampoo,toothpaste,etc...)

11. Barbed wire
12. Wilderness Survival Guide
13. Durable clothing.
14. Binoculars(so you can feel like Patton)
15. Generators(crank,gas powered)
16. Laptop
17. Tools(power, and regular)
18. Ply wood, metal sheets, nails
19. Chainsaw(so you can play GOW without an X-box)

20. Guns(shotgun,submachine guns,sidearms,assault rifles, anti- aircraft?)
21. Gas stove(lots of gas)
22. Wood stove

23. Snow shoes
24. Television, DvD player, Game console
25. Books
26. Dry foods
27. Salted meats
28. A dog(so you can strangle it when it gets infected)
29. 1,000,000 watt spotlight
30. Camera(Video,and still)
31. Gasoline,Kerosene,Lamp oil
32. Solar panels
32. Paper,pencils etc..

33. Refrigerators,freezers
34. Air fresheners
35. A non infected doctor(just kidnap one now, and keep him in your cellar until the outbreak)
36. Fluorescent lights
37. Candles
38. Twinkies
39. Bow(arrows)
40. Vaseline
41. First aid kit
42. Cannabis
42. Hard liquors

43. Weights
44. Will Smith
45. Dietary Supplements
46. Distilled Water(Enough to last years)
47. Michael Moore(so he can film a biased documentary and blame the zombie problem on someone he doesn't like)
48. Radio(not the retarded black kid)
49. Hidden Fortress
50. A wal mart Super Center near by.

It seems that punting is a quintessential past time for English University students and... tourists alike.  So how do you tell them apart aside from the cameras slung around their necks and slightly-louder-than-necessary voices?  Their punting skills, of course!

Cambridge University, worried its undergraduates have lost the knack, has come to the rescue with a how to guide to what has become a dying art of punting.  The Bluffer's Guide to Punting, written by the Punt Society of St John's College, explains how to start, lift the pole, and steer - and how to avoid an embarrassing plunge into the water.  The guide tells learners how to look like a professional in a series of illustrated cartoons.  It also warns novices against the biggest mistakes of all - looking like a tourist, or worst still an Oxford student.  Of course, it wouldn't come from Cambridge without a few Oxford jabs...

Now I expect you to punt like a pro the next time you are England!

“Google Earth ti consente di sorvolare tutta la terra per osservare immagini satellitari, mappe, terreni, edifici 3D e per esplorare persino le galassie celesti. Puoi andare alla scoperta di infiniti luoghi geografici, salvare le località visitate e condividerle con altri utenti.”

Così Google ci presenta il suo famosissimo software. Oggi voglio parlarvi di come installare la versione Linux. È veramente un gioco da ragazzi, basta dare un semplice:

Gli utenti provenienti da Windows e abituati a fare due click per collegarsi alla propria rete wireless wpa (senza nemmeno sapere cosa stanno facendo) si trovano sicuramente disorientati a configurare Wpa Supplicant oppure a metter mano al terminale e digitare comandi sconosciuti.

Ed anche per chi, come me, ormai ha un po’ di dimestichezza con “ifconfig” e “iwconfig” spesso sente la necessità di automatizzare la procedura e semplificare la connessione.

In attesa che un’utility degna venga integrata di default in Gnome (ancora mi chiedo perchè il Gestore di Reti supporti solo il WEP, un protocollo vecchio e altamente insicuro) in molti hanno provato a creare un tool funzionale, che facesse tutto con il minimo sforzo, chiedendo all’utente solo le cose essenziali.

Mentre programmi come wifi-radar non supportano il wpa, e wpa-gui risulta troppo scarno, network-manager sembrava essere la soluzione finale a tutti i problemi. Purtroppo la decisione di includerlo di default in Feisty non è stata tra la migliori a mio parere: oltre ad essere un progetto ancora giovane, presenta numerosi bug (per esempio non supporta ancora gli ip statici) e sopratutto ha una configurazione alternativa agli standard di Linux (ovvero /etc/network/interfaces, i*config e wpa_supplicant) per cui è difficile integrarlo con le vecchie impostazioni. Insomma spesso porta più problemi che benefici e io consiglio quasi sempre di rimuoverlo.

Quasi per caso ho scoperto di recente WICD (Wireless Interfaces Connection Daemon) un progetto opensource nato da un utente Ubuntu frustrato anche lui dalla mancanza di un network manager funzionante. Nonostante sia anche questo un progetto giovane (ma in rapido sviluppo) ha già tutto quello che serve

• Interfaccia grafica semplice e intuitiva
• Icona nella barra di sistema per una semplice integrazione
• Connessione automatica al boot senza intervento dell’utente
• Supporto completo per WpaSupplicant (WPA1/2, WEP, LEAP, TTLS, EAP, PEAP)
• Mostra le reti disponibili ed è possibile connettersi con pochi click
• Sia indirizzi statici che DHCP
• Supporto aggiuntivo per le reti cablate
• Gestione di Profili
• Compatibile con gli standard linux

Beh, in pratica fa tutto quello che volevamo… e funziona!

Ecco qualche screenshot:

Ecco come si presenta la gestione delle reti wireless…

E questa è la gestione delle reti cablate…

Alcune opzioni avanzate…

Ed ecco l’icona nella system tray (la prima a sinistra)

INSTALLAZIONE

Nota: wicd è incompatibile con network-manager, quindi provedete a rimuoverlo (se non l’avete già fatto).

Potete trovare il pacchetto deb per Ubuntu in questa pagina.

Alternativamente è possibile scaricare wicd da repository.

Basta aggiungere al file /etc/apt/sources.list questa riga

deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

Sostituendo eventualmente “hardy” con il nome della vostra versione di Ubuntu (Dapper, Edgy, Gutsy, Feisty).

Dopo aver aggiornato la lista dei pacchetti, wicd si installa semplicemente con un

sudo apt-get install wicd

In questo modo avrete inoltre sempre l’ultima versione disponibile del programma.

Una volta installato il pacchetto per far apparire l’icona nella system tray premete ALT+F2 e digitate

/opt/wicd/tray.py

Per far apparire tale icona all’avvio in automatico, inserire il precedente comando in Sistema->Preferenze->Sessioni->Programmi d’avvio (con Gnome).

Per gli utenti Kde invece bastano i comandi:

sudo ln -s /opt/wicd/tray.py ~/.kde/Autostart/wicd-tray.py
sudo ln -s /opt/wicd/images ~/.kde/Autostart/images

La seconda linea serve per ovviare al problema dell’icona bianca.
L’interfaccia di gestione di wicd è disponibile cliccando sull’icona nella barra di sistema.

Altre risorse:

• Sito di Wicd
• FAQ
• Wiki
• Forum
  
• Launchpad (segnalazione bug)

Nota: per adesso wicd supporta solo i driver funzionanti con Wpa Supplicant. Ciò vuol dire che i driver Ralink legacy per esempio non funzionano, anche se lo sviluppatore ha promesso la futura compatibilità. Se volete utilizzare un’utility grafica con questi driver, vi ricordo che c’è sempre RutilT.

Comunque continuerò a seguire il progetto e vi terrò informati sugli sviluppi

Fonte: Alexit

Ecco un metodo finalmente funzionante valido sia per Flock che per Firefox! :)

1. Nella barra degli indirizzi digitare: about:config
2. Trovare: network.dns.disableIPv6. Mettere “true”
3. Trovare: network.http.pipelining. Mettere “true”
4. Trovare: network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Mettere “8″
5. Trovare: network.http.proxy.pipelining. Mettere “true”

Smokey eyes can be created using many different colours, not just the classic black. Experiment with different colours such as khakis, navys, aubergines and browns to find out which suits you best.

So let's get started!

Firstly, you will need...

-As I said in Eye Make-Up Tips and Advice- Part 1, you will need a few good brushes to create this look.
-Eyeshadow primer or foundation/base
-3 different tones of the same shade of eyeshadow (e.g. if you are creating black smokey eyes, try a black shadow, a charcoal and a grey.)
-An pencil eyeliner or khol of a similar shade to your shadows
-Mascara

Start with using a little foundation/base or eyeshadow primer like Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion all over the mobile lid (the bit that moves up and down when you blink) and past the crease a little. This will help your masterpiece to stay put throughout the night (smokey eye's are of course an evening look, a bit to dramatic for the workplace!) If you use foundation/base, seal it in with a little dusting of face powder.

The next step is to line your eyes. Take your pencil eyeliner or khol and line the top lid, working it into the lash line. It doesn't have to be perfect, because next we are going to smudge it all with the smudger! Smudge away until there are no harsh lines, that is the key to this look- smokey means no obvious lines.

Next, take the lightest of the three shadows and with your 1cm brush, spread it all over your mobile lid, the crease and work it a little way above the crease. It doesn't have to be perfect because we are going to blend blend blend later!

Take the next darker shadow, get some on your smaller 0.5cm brush and tap the brush on the back of your hand. This is important because all those little dusty bits that end up on your hand will fall onto your face under your eyes if you don't tap off the excess. That would ruin your look!

With the darker shadow on your brush, work the colour up to about halfway across the eyelid, starting at the outside corner of your eye. Don't work this darkest shade past the crease though, keep it on the mobile lid. Once again, it doesn't have to be perfect yet.

Take the 1cm brush again, and get some of the medium tone shadow on it. Tap it! And then starting at the outside corner once again, work it to about halfway across the lid. This time you can work past the crease, upwards a little bit.

This next part is the important bit where it all comes together!

Take your big, soft blending brush and work it back and forth and round in little circles until those lines where the shadows meet are invisble and merge in to one another.

Take a step back regularly and assess. Do both eyes match? Does it need to be darker? Remember, build it up bit by bit, gradually. It's easy to add more but very difficult to take away!

When you are happy with it, take your smaller 0.5 brush and get some of the darkest shadow on it. Run it along your bottom lid lash line, over the eyeliner/khol. This powdery shadow will make the bottom lid smokey to balance with the top on and it will also seal in that eyeliner/khol.

Next, curl those lashes and apply 2 coats of mascara for extra dramatic lashes!

Remember the Golden Rule- play down the lips with lipbalm or nude lipstick/gloss.

There are a few videos available on youtube, it always helps to have a visual aid for these types of guides.

Please note that the creators of the videos' methods will differ from mine slightly; everyone develops a way that works best for them. The technique I have used in the guide is my own, it is the way I would create this look on myself or a client.

Here are a couple I have found...

Per chi ancora non lo sapesse, esiste in rete uno script eseguibile che semplifica per il 95% il lavoro di "miglioramento" di amsn, installando l'antialiasing e diverse "diavolerie" :D

Lo script è scaricabile dal forum inglese di Ubuntu :D

Una volta salvato nella home digitare il comando:

bash fixamsn.sh

Lo script partirà in automatico e impiegherà un paio di minuti ;)

Dopo aver installato Opera Browser sull’Eee PC, tutti i link provenienti da applicazioni esterne (come Pidgin o Skype) non si aprivano più con Firefox. Ripristinare il browser di default su Debian (o sulle sue derivate, come Ubuntu o la Xandros dell’Eee PC), però, è semplice, utilizzando Debian Alternatives…

Visualizzare il Browser di default corrente:

Puoi visualizzare il browser di default con un semplice comando; apri un terminale (sull’Eee PC basta premere la combinazione CTRL+ALT+CANC) e digita:

sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

Nota: se usi Debian, digita:

su
update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

Questo è l’output che ho ricevuto io:

x-www-browser - lo status è auto.
il link attualmente punta a /usr/bin/opera
/usr/bin/konqueror - priorità 50
/usr/bin/firefox - priorità 70
/usr/bin/opera - priorità 80
La `migliore’ versione attualmente è /usr/bin/opera.

Come sospettavo, il browser di default era impostato su Opera proprio a causa delle Debian Alternatives…

Cambiare il browser di default:

Sempre da terminale, digita:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Nota: se usi Debian, digita:

su
update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Ora update-alternatives ti chiederà quale browser impostare:

Ci sono 3 alternative che forniscono `x-www-browser’.

Selezione Alternativa
———————————————–
1 /usr/bin/konqueror
2 /usr/bin/firefox
*+ 3 /usr/bin/opera

Premi invio per mantenere il default[*], o inserisci il numero da selezionare:

Ora digita il numero relativo al tuo browser preferito e premi INVIO (io ho scelto Firefox). È tutto!

Articolo originale: Impostare il Browser di Default su Debian GNU/Linux (e Asus Eee PC) |

Autore: Notorious aka Andrea Romagnoli |

Licenza: Creative Commons BY-SA

1. Have exact change. The machine takes coins and dollars, but it doesn't give back if you over pay.

2. If you need to transfer to another bus as part of your trip, ask for a transfer slip from the first bus driver as you pay. He or she will tear one off for you (it's about the size of a bookmark). Hand it over to the second bus driver when you board.

3. Exit from the back. When your stop is announced and you've pulled the cord above the windows and you're ready to leave, do everyone a favor and exit from the rear doors (you have to push them open like saloon doors). This helps keep things moving, because the people getting on the bus obviously have to use the front door so they can pay.

All sounds easy and logical, right? Trust me, if you follow those rules, you'll be doing better than most.

I've created a very basic how-to guide to get you started.

Enjoy!

Almost all employers conduct exit interviews with at least some of their employees who separate from the company. The exit interview can be conducted through a written questionnaire, in-person or telephone interviews, or a combination of these styles.

Some employers hold exit interviews only with employees who voluntarily resign or retire. However, many organizations consider interviews with discharged employees equally valuable, although it can be somewhat more emotional and less objective. A capable interviewer often can obtain valuable information regardless of the circumstances of the termination and might be able to prevent anger or frustration that otherwise might lead to a legal challenge from the departing employee.

For the interview to gain valuable information, the interviewer must be able to create a sense of openness and candor in the meeting with the departing employee. The employee must be assured that truthful answers will not have negative consequences. Some employees approach exit interviews with the idea that any critical observations or comments will result in negative employment references or a refusal to consider them for reemployment with the organization. The interviewer should stress that the employee is guaranteed confidentiality and anonymity, and that any report to management will not include the employee's name or identifying characteristics without the worker's consent. The interviewer should concentrate on open-ended questions geared to obtain the most useful information.

Management should decide what information it most wants to get from the interview—for example, an opinion on compensation and working conditions, problems with supervisors, the perception of favoritism, discrimination, or suggestions for improved work procedures.

Ideally, exit interviews should be conducted in person and, to ensure sufficient time and less pressure, held several days before the employee's last day on the job. If necessary, the interview can be done over the telephone. The interviewer should review the employee's personnel file in advance to become familiar with the employee's work history.

Exit interviews should be held in a private office where the employee's responses cannot be overheard. While note taking during the session might discourage communication, interviewers should record their impressions and assessment of the worker's responses immediately after the meeting has ended. The employee's written responses to questionnaires also should be retained by the hiring manager or human resource department. Periodically, the hiring manager (or human resource department) should review, categorize, and summarize the results of all exit interviews. This summary can show employees' reasons for leaving and identifies any trends or recurring problems. Employers can use exit interview findings to take corrective action to resolve or eliminate problems that are causing morale problems or excessive turnover.

The questions asked during an exit interview should be designed to identify not only why the employee is leaving, assuming the termination is voluntary, but also what the worker's perspective is on job conditions and work procedures. Typical areas probed by interviewers include:

If the employee is leaving for another job, the interviewer usually asks about the worker's new employer, job title, pay, and benefits. A common question asked by interviewers is what the employee liked most and least about working for the employer. The employee should be encouraged to offer suggestions for improving procedures and practices.In cases where the employee has been terminated, the interviewer should be prepared for a potentially emotional confrontation. Keeping in mind that even an angry employee can have valid observations, a skilled interviewer usually can ask questions that get past the worker's agitation to uncover useful, objective information. Giving discharged employees the opportunity to vent also might defuse the possibility that the individuals will later return to the workplace to commit violent acts.

Virtually all terminations require some form of notification. For example, most organizations expect workers to provide the employer with advance notice of a resignation—typically two weeks' notice. Employees are expected to provide even more notice—anywhere from several weeks to several months—of their intent to retire, primarily because of the paperwork and administrative issues involved with pension and other retirement benefits.In some cases, employers also are expected to give advance notice of termination to employees. For example, employers have layoff-notice obligations under federal and many state laws that can require up to several months' notice in the event of mass layoffs. Most collective bargaining agreements also contain notice requirements that employers must comply with. Even in the absence of a legal or contractual obligation, most employers attempt to give as much notice as possible for individual layoffs.

Most termination policies require that termination notices, whether initiated by the employee or management, are in writing.

In addition to notification requirements, a general termination policy is likely to include provisions on:

Final pay. A termination policy should identify how and when the employer provides the final paycheck to terminating workers. Most states have laws regulating when terminating employees must be paid their final wages. Although a number of states permit the final paycheck to be issued on the next regular payday, some require payment within a day or two of termination or even on termination.

Benefit continuation. At a minimum, most terminating workers must be offered health care continuation coverage under the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). In some cases—particularly in layoff situations—employers offer to continue a departing worker's regular health care coverage and life insurance for some period of time.

Exit interviews. It is a common practice in many organizations for the human resource department (or even the office manager) to conduct an exit interview with terminating employees to gather information from departing workers that can be used to improve the organization's work procedures, supervisory practices, and training efforts.

Long-term absences. An employer might choose to terminate any employee who has been on unpaid leave for a certain period of time, such as 18 months. By applying such a policy uniformly, an employer might avoid charges it is discriminating against individuals who are taking unpaid leaves because of their disabilities.

Re-employment rights. Some employers adopt specific policies regarding the possible re-employment of terminated employees. In a layoff situation, former employees are likely to have preferential re-employment rights.

Employer property. Many termination policies include a notice to employees that they must return all tools, uniforms, keys, security badges, credit cards, and other property belonging to the employer on their last day at work. If permitted by state law, some employers might wish to include an enforcement provision, which typically consists of the withholding of final wages or severance pay until all property has been returned.

Providing severance pay. Most employers provide some amount of severance pay for laid-off workers, and a few pay severance to workers discharged for cause; however, workers discharged for gross misconduct usually are excluded. Many employers do not have a specific, written policy on severance, but instead provide such benefits on a case-by-case basis. Employers that do have severance provisions in their termination policies typically include information on:

Eligibility requirements. Most employers pay severance only to full-time, regular employees; temporary and part-time workers usually are not eligible. Employers often limit severance payments to workers who meet a minimum length-of-service requirement. A policy's severance pay provisions also can specify if employees terminated in a merger or acquisition but immediately hired by the successor company are eligible for severance. Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement are subject to the contract provisions on severance pay.

Severance amounts. Severance pay usually is related to an employee's length of service. For example, a policy can state that laid-off workers are eligible for one week's pay for each year of service, up to a maximum payment of 26 weeks' wages. Severance pay formulas and maximum benefit levels also can vary depending on an employee's level or classification.

Severance pay procedures. Some employers pay severance in a lump sum; others spread the payments out over regular paydays. A few employers give workers a choice.

Severance forfeitures. Some employers view severance pay as a benefit to assist unemployed workers and, thus, stop severance payments if the individual finds another job within the period covered by severance. It is more common for employers to stop severance payments or demand repayment of a portion only if the employee is recalled or rehired by the same employer. The employer also should decide if severance pay is offset by other types of employer payments, such as disability pay.

Written releases. Many employers require laid-off or terminating workers to provide written waivers or releases in return for severance pay. These releases typically are designed to ensure that terminated employees do not bring any discrimination or wrongful discharge claims against the employer.

Thanks to: khole weblog

A due mesi dal rilascio di Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ed a poche settimane dall’annuncio di Ubuntu Netbook Remix, è stato rilasciato anche Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04. Con questo nuovo prodotto, la Canonical mira ad ampliare il raggio d’azione di Ubuntu al settore dei MID (Mobile Internet Device), dispositivi mobili ultra-portatili, pensati per accedere rapidamente alla rete. Ubuntu MID Edition è nato dal progetto Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) sponsorizzato dalla Canonical in collaborazione con il Moblin-org project sponsorizzato dalla Intel. In poche parole, si tratta di una versione modificata (minimizzata) di Ubuntu 8.04, ottimizzata per i processori Atom della Intel. In questa nuova versione di Ubuntu, infatti, molti pacchetti sono stati rimossi, alcuni sono stati aggiunti ed altri sono stati ottimizzati per funzionare meglio sui MID e gli UMPC.

Le principali applicazioni incluse in Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 sono:

• MID Browser, un web browser, basato su Gecko (lo stesso motore di Firefox e Flock), appositamente pensato per gli schermi piccoli (4-7 pollici) e dotato del supporto allo zoom.
• Pidgin per la messaggistica istantanea
• Cheese per la gestione delle web cam
• Claws Mail come mail client di default
• Moblin Media come player audio e video
• alcuni giochi come Neverball e Frozen Bubble
• FBReader per la lettura degli eBook
• e tante altre piccole applicazioni OpenSource

Ubuntu MID Edition, è stato pensato, in linea con la filosofia dei MID, per fornire un rapido accesso ad internet ed ai contenuti multimediali. Ed infatti offre:

• un supporto completo al Web 2.0/AJAX
• ottime capacità multimediali, che permettono di gestire al meglio: video, musica e foto
•  una suite di applicazioni capace di soddisfare le necessità di tutti gli utenti (genitori, studenti, ecc)
•  la possibilità di tenere a portata di mano tutto il meglio del Web 2.0: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Dailymotion, giochi 3D, GPS, mappe e tanto altro
Inoltre, cosa molto importante, Ubuntu MID è “finger friendly”, supporta cioè i touch screen. Potrete quindi lanciare, con un semplice tocco, le applicazioni. The Ubuntu MID Edition ha tratto molti benefici dall’Intel Moblin projects, come il web-browser e l’infrastruttura multimediale. Canonical ha per ora prodotto due immagini differenti di Ubuntu MID Edition. Una per piattaforme McCaslin, che utilizzano i processori A100 e A110 di Intel (quella del Samsung Q1) e una per piattaforme Menlow che utilizzeranno i nuovi processori Atom della Intel (quella della stazione di sviluppo Intel Crown Beach). Canonical ha però rilasciato anche un immagine KVM (ne ho parlato qui) di Ubuntu MID Edition, per permettere anche a chi non dispone di un MID supportato, di provare il suo nuovo prodotto.

 Todo this you will see ten (10) allen ley bolts, five (5) with side, Simply use the allen key to undo "anti clockwise" all then fairing bolts, once the fairings are off both side place these face up so you avoid scratching or damaging the face or the fairings, You wont be needing these for awhile so try and store them in a safe and dry place for now.

allen key bolts

unbolt these too 

Here's the bike i will be using - HONDA NSR 125cc RX.