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Tech Training Schools Going Bust
superflippy writes "The Associated Press reports that many tech training schools which opened during the last few years are now shutting their doors. During the dot-com boom, there was the perception that a few months of computer training could lead to a fabulous job. Now, it seems all these schools have produced are unemployed people with student loans and dubious certifications."
Better yours then mine.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Bust Training Schools going Tech!
Hi, I have just set up my first linux computer. I used redhat 8.0 that a friend gave me and everything went pretty smoothly. How can I set it up so I don't have to login everytime I boot up? I could do this in windows easily but cannot figure out how to do it in liinux.
No End to War
... seeks to overthrow our civilization and remake the nations of the West into Islamic societies, imposing on the whole world its religion and laws."
.... is depicted as one great cauldron of hate, murder, obscurantism, and deceit. If our Muslim adversaries are not to destroy Western civilization, we must gird for more battles.
The Frum-Perle prescription would ensnare America in endless conflict.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
On the dust jacket of his book, Richard Perle appends a Washington Post depiction of himself as the "intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy."
The guru's reputation, however, does not survive a reading. Indeed, on putting down Perle's new book the thought recurs: the neoconservative moment may be over. For they are not only losing their hold on power, they are losing their grip on reality.
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror opens on a note of hysteria. In the War on Terror, writes Perle, "There is no middle way for Americans: It is victory or holocaust." "What is new since 9/11 is the chilling realization that the terrorist threat we thought we had contained" now menaces "our survival as a nation."
But how is our survival as a nation menaced when not one American has died in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11? Are we really in imminent peril of a holocaust like that visited upon the Jews of Poland?
"[A] radical strain within Islam," says Perle, "
Well, yes. Militant Islam has preached that since the 7th century. But what are the odds the Boys of Tora Bora are going to "overthrow our civilization" and coerce us all to start praying to Mecca five times a day?
In his own review of An End to Evil, Joshua Micah Marshall picks up this same scent of near-hysteria over the Islamic threat:
The book conveys a general sense that America is at war with Islam itself anywhere and everywhere: the contemporary Muslim world
To suggest Frum and Perle are over the top is not to imply we not take seriously the threat of terror attacks on airliners, in malls, from dirty bombs, or, God forbid, a crude atomic device smuggled in by Ryder truck or container ship. Yet even this will never "overthrow our civilization."
In the worst of terror attacks, we lost 3,000 people. Horrific. But at Antietam Creek, we lost 7,000 in a day's battle in a nation that was one-ninth as populous. Three thousand men and boys perished every week for 200 weeks of that Civil War. We Americans did not curl up and die. We did not come all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
Germany and Japan suffered 3,000 dead every day in the last two years of World War II, with every city flattened and two blackened by atom bombs. Both came back in a decade. Is al-Qaeda capable of this sort of devastation when they are recruiting such scrub stock as Jose Padilla and the shoe bomber?
In the war we are in, our enemies are weak. That is why they resort to the weapon of the weak--terror. And, as in the Cold War, time is on America's side. Perseverance and patience are called for, not this panic.
In 25 years, militant Islam has seized three countries: Iran, Sudan, and Afghanistan. We toppled the Taliban almost without losing a man. Sudan is a failed state. In Iran, a generation has grown up that knows nothing of Savak or the Great Satan but enough about the mullahs to have rejected them in back-to-back landslides. The Iranian Revolution has reached Thermidor. Wherever Islamism takes power, it fails. Like Marxism, it does not work.
Yet, assume it makes a comeback. So what? Taken together, all 22 Arab nations do not have the GDP of Spain. Without oil, their exports are the size of Finland's. Not one Arab nation can stand up to Israel, let alone the United States. The Islamic threat is not strategic, but demographic. If death comes to the West it will be because we embraced a culture of death--birth control, abortion, sterilization, euth
I'm shitting your pants!
Are you saying you want him to shit in yours next? If not you had better go back to kindergarten and learn the difference between "then" and "than".
Is this the one that is on 104.1? It's almost as bad as that stupid ad set to music for Eastern Motors. Thank god for the inventor of the mute button.
I think the problem is that there's not enough pussy at tech schools. I went to DeVry for a year and a half and there were very few chicks there. And all the chicks there already had girlfriends. It sucked.
Mostly I am just so glad to read so many comments that stick true to my heart. I go to a small community college, Mott College, in Flint, Michigan. This is the worst program that I can imagine for a networking degree. Course work includes an 8 week "Intro to Unix" that is mostly the ED editor. The accounting department requires the only Linux class, so half the class dosn't understand point and click in Windows, much less anything about Linux. This is real bad for thoes of us in the Networking progam that want to try to learn somthing. All my higher level classes are Windows based, and basically you follow along with a text book step by step to make things work. Some of the assignments are pretty lame, for example, do a trace route and write your results on the paper. While I am typing c:\tracert www.google.com > tracert.txt and cuting and pasting the results into the assignmet sheet (a Word doc that I was reading in Open Office) I see other students furiousally writing the results on a piece of paper.
I am currently in a Windows 2000 server class. The assignment now is to set up and configure a DHCP server. This is done in a lab. None of the students could get theirs to work properly. The teacher was like, "well its configured properly, I don't know why it dosn't work". When I did mine, and it didnt work, I looked at how the network was set up. The server and the client were connected to a hub that was connected to a switch that held the schools LAN. Of course it didn't work, there was already a working DHCP server on the LAN. Once I disconnected the hub from the switch my DHCP server fired right up. I added a USB/10-100 NIC to my server and connected that to the schools LAN. My server has Internet connectivity, but my client can not ping the 2nd NIC in the server. I've been trying for days to make this work, I guess I just don't know how to properly phrase my Google search. My NT 4 MCSE teacher is convinced that the schools firewall is the reason my client can not ping the 2nd NIC on my server. If anyone can help me I'd greatly appriciate it.
Jander@chartermi.net
Anyways, going through all this, one of the other students was doing somthing and I told him he had to change the seting in the BIOS. His response, "Whats a BIOS" I am thinking to myself, you are in an avanced networking class and you don't know what a BIOS is?
I have learned a lot in my classes, but not because of my classes. It is because I love what I am doing and I am willing to read and learn.
Sad, because I have spent 3 years and a lot of money earning this worthless Associates Degree.
Thank you for letting me vent.
your funny!