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There are new pictures availible. I will do my best to keep this mirror up to date...

http://www.nerdshack.com/katrina/

Several hundred megabytes of pictures from sigmund.biz, taken in the disaster zone by Mike and his team at DirectNIC have been mirrored to:

http://www.nerdshack.com/katrina/

/. away. Sits atop four GigE, and a load balanced www cluster. If anyone else needs a mirror of Katrina content, let us know.

Several hundred megabytes of pictures from the disaster zone have been mirrored to:

http://www.nerdshack.com/katrina/

/. away. Sits atop four GigE, and a load balanced www cluster.

try this. But you'll have to take their word for it. It's free!

It appears that Microsoft didn't design a system that would scale effectively...



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Google won the war because not only do they deliver relevant results, but they do it in a fraction of a second. The MS approach has always been to throw money at a problem after the fact, rather than preemptively.

Nerdshack

>Bonch, dude, you just spent 3 hours writing a
>review of a 2 hour film....

>Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it?


Must be a nerd. And on /., imagine that.




Have you been to the Nerdshack lately?

I wish some of these many hot women that you speak of would sleep with me! Or any nerd for that matter.


Have you been to the Nerdshack yet?

When I entered my first senior year, I faced the same dilemma as you. My solution was to go back to school for a fifth year and get an internship at VoIP telco. The telco was hiring "Network Operations Administrators" which is simply a glorified term for people who answer telephones.

What was key about this internship was the exposure it gave me. Before this internship I had always played at the desktop level. For the first time I had access to they types of toys enterprises use. Because I asked for access, and showed a willingness to learn, I was given root access on a couple of development boxes. I began by writing simple C++ programs to parse log files, and make my job as a Network troubleshooter easier. Before long I was able to answer questions from our customers better than the engineers above me.

Within a year I was promoted, and became the Operations Supervisor, and resident *NIX hack. The key of course was that I sought out an oppurtunity that would give me experience using my system admin skills/programming skills.

Let me summarize. Don't look for a job as a programmer if you don't have programming experience. Instead look for a job doing something else around programmers. Even if its licking their boots, and filling their coffee cups. Once you get in the office, if you show aptitude, you can gain access to the tools you need to learn. The idea is that after a year or two in that environment, if you've demonstrated your abilities, someone will eventully give you the oppurtunity to use your skills.

If you don't get that oppurtunity it is because a) you have a bad boss or b) you really don't have any talent. In either case the key is change jobs.

The other suggestion I have is to work for a small company. Small companies are key because they don't care what your qualifications are. If your a janitor at a small company, but you know how to program, it won't take long before you have the oppurtunity to use your skills.



Have you been to the Nerdshack yet?