You need to make it clear that it will take more than 1% of your time. One worm can hose a LAN and productivity may be lost for the entire day. The company doesn't want to go with someone full time. Suggest hiring a third party to manage the network. The third party can bill the company when there is a catastrophe, and you won't have to pay them a salary.
If you aren't desperate for a great paying job then volunteer (if you have to) somewhere. I am assuming you will be living with your parents which will give you some financial flexibility.
If there is a small College nearby, perhaps you can do some work for their computer services department. If not, there are other options such as consulting with local small businesses.
If you go in with the attitude that "I am smarter than most college students or graduates..." then most companies would be glad to show you the door. On the other hand, you could say "I need a job that challenges me, you don't have to pay me, and feel free to fire me if I let you down." If you are as intelligent as you claim to be, then they will see your worth and may make you a permanent fixture.
If money is an issue take a part-time menial job and do volunteer work part-time. You are young and can bounce back from being overworked (speaking from experience).
If you have exhausted all local brick and mortar possibilities there are other ways to get experience. I hate to sound like a broken record, but there are a lot of great (and not-so-great) open-source projects to get involved with. Start monitoring a project that interests you and lend a hand in whatever way you can. Even if you start out with something as simple as alpa or beta testing.
Hope that gives you some ideas. I wish you the best of luck.
I recently went to a job/career fair held at the WVU coliseum. IBM was to have a table booked for this event. However, nobody from IBM even bothered to show up.
When asking about I.T. opportunities at various small local banks and hospitals (the majority of attendees) I tended to get similiar canned answers from all.
You are looking for I.T. work? You and everybody else!
We have an I.T. department/person in another state or some 3rd party contractor.
Do you have a resume? Yes! Well go to our website and put it in our database, where no human being will ever look at it.
On the one hand almost every accredited institution in WV (shoeless hillbilly stereotypes aside) has a Computer Science or similar program. On the other hand there are little or no opportunities unless they are in a galaxy far, far away. I am not opposed to relocation, but why hire me when you can hire someone local, from the unemployed I.T. pool?
Back to my point...
IBM must not be trying hard enough because there are plenty of talented I.T. personnel looking for work (WV or otherwise).
I know they are not trying hard enough because they cannot deliver a couple of H.R. Represenatives somewhere where there are a large number of talented, hard-working Comp. Sci. students/graduates with no place to go.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but most Linux distributions are still i386 right?
You are. Most packagers have assumed for at least a couple of years that everybody has a 486 or better. Some are so bold to assume you have a 586 or better. If you don't meet those requirements, you can compile it yourself (it's open-source).
Umm, could you clarify that? There is something called an initial ramdisk which loads critical drivers required to boot. So you can have a smaller kernel image by making these critical drivers loadable modules. No matter what, you still have to compile them.
Really viruses are beside the point have little to do with buffer overflows which are common vulnerabilities in regards to software development no matter what platform you are using.
Hmmm, so, Linux is secure because its users are more intelligent than windows users?...
No, the person who posted the article is missing the point. The security of Linux against viruses lies in user/group/ACLs applied to the filesystem to keep malicious programs from spreading system wide. Not to say that someone could run OpenOffice.org as a privileged (root) user (Hey it might happen). The article mentions nothing about running privileged code. The bug report says that a possible buffer overflow MIGHT execute arbritary code. Don't get too bent out of shape this is a low risk bug and shows no indication of virus outbreak on Linux systems.
There was an article in the February 2005 issue of Popular Science. The article was about Inkjet technology being used in new ways. For example, a 3d printer to prototype new products, and this house "printer". The house printer is buried on the third page if you are only interested in that part of the article
'while:' is more efficient than 'while true' because you don't have to fork the external process/bin/true. Not sure that your 'for 1 2 3 4' would ever fork more than one process either. Logically this is the same:
while:; do:; done
Unless you can provide some example of true becoming false in the while loop; you would never get 4 forks this way.
I should clarify. A backdoor is not necessarily spyware. I should have said a backdoor (such as a rootkit) OR a backdoor to harvest personal data (such as spyware).
Wrong, a Trojan is a program which is installed by the user because he thinks it does something he needs/wants but actually does something else.
Not exactly. A trojan may OR may not perform a desirable function. It must employ some unknown and undesirable function.
The unknown function can vary and here are some examples.
A backdoor opened only while the trojan is running. (A type of spyware)
A backdoor that is forked into another process and stays resident. (Another type of spyware)
Embedded code that is installed separately from the trojan and exists even after the trojans removal. (A virus wrapper)
I may be forgetting other categories that fall under the definition of trojan, but that is all I could think of at the moment. Trojan is too generic a term to describe the purpose of a malicious program.
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International Obfuscated C Code Contest
nl2br('\n\n\n\n\n\n\n');
You need to make it clear that it will take more than 1% of your time. One worm can hose a LAN and productivity may be lost for the entire day. The company doesn't want to go with someone full time. Suggest hiring a third party to manage the network. The third party can bill the company when there is a catastrophe, and you won't have to pay them a salary.
Yeah, but they are kind of heavy to take to the coffeeshop. Don't you think?
I don't see that debian will package konquerer that soon...
b inary-i386/Packages
Taken from http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r6/main/
Package: konqueror
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 4984
Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney
Architecture: i386
Source: kdebase
Version: 4:2.2.2-14.9
Replaces: kdebase-libs ( 4:2.2.2-14.2)
Filename: pool/main/k/kdebase/konqueror_2.2.2-14.9_i386.deb
If you aren't desperate for a great paying job then volunteer (if you have to) somewhere. I am assuming you will be living with your parents which will give you some financial flexibility.
If there is a small College nearby, perhaps you can do some work for their computer services department. If not, there are other options such as consulting with local small businesses.
If you go in with the attitude that "I am smarter than most college students or graduates..." then most companies would be glad to show you the door. On the other hand, you could say "I need a job that challenges me, you don't have to pay me, and feel free to fire me if I let you down." If you are as intelligent as you claim to be, then they will see your worth and may make you a permanent fixture.
If money is an issue take a part-time menial job and do volunteer work part-time. You are young and can bounce back from being overworked (speaking from experience).
If you have exhausted all local brick and mortar possibilities there are other ways to get experience. I hate to sound like a broken record, but there are a lot of great (and not-so-great) open-source projects to get involved with. Start monitoring a project that interests you and lend a hand in whatever way you can. Even if you start out with something as simple as alpa or beta testing.
Hope that gives you some ideas. I wish you the best of luck.
The author has a disturbing resemblance to Dr. Phil.
Q. How many Star Wars fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. It depends on the number of light bulbs and the amount of gasoline on hand.
Pork refers to the shoulder in this context. Ham to the hind or rear thigh.
First Spam is made from beef, not pork.
Quoted from the can... "Ingredients: Pork with Ham, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite." See picture.
When asking about I.T. opportunities at various small local banks and hospitals (the majority of attendees) I tended to get similiar canned answers from all.
On the one hand almost every accredited institution in WV (shoeless hillbilly stereotypes aside) has a Computer Science or similar program. On the other hand there are little or no opportunities unless they are in a galaxy far, far away. I am not opposed to relocation, but why hire me when you can hire someone local, from the unemployed I.T. pool?
Back to my point...
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but most Linux distributions are still i386 right?
You are. Most packagers have assumed for at least a couple of years that everybody has a 486 or better. Some are so bold to assume you have a 586 or better. If you don't meet those requirements, you can compile it yourself (it's open-source).
Umm, could you clarify that? There is something called an initial ramdisk which loads critical drivers required to boot. So you can have a smaller kernel image by making these critical drivers loadable modules. No matter what, you still have to compile them.
I must be missing your point Mr AC.
Could the first real Linux virus be drawing near?
Really viruses are beside the point have little to do with buffer overflows which are common vulnerabilities in regards to software development no matter what platform you are using.
Hmmm, so, Linux is secure because its users are more intelligent than windows users?...
No, the person who posted the article is missing the point. The security of Linux against viruses lies in user/group/ACLs applied to the filesystem to keep malicious programs from spreading system wide. Not to say that someone could run OpenOffice.org as a privileged (root) user (Hey it might happen). The article mentions nothing about running privileged code. The bug report says that a possible buffer overflow MIGHT execute arbritary code. Don't get too bent out of shape this is a low risk bug and shows no indication of virus outbreak on Linux systems.
Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test
In a perfect world it should read "every browser fails the acid2 test". Instead somebody chooses to single out firefox and opera.
There was an article in the February 2005 issue of Popular Science. The article was about Inkjet technology being used in new ways. For example, a 3d printer to prototype new products, and this house "printer". The house printer is buried on the third page if you are only interested in that part of the article
'while :' is more efficient than 'while true' because you don't have to fork the external process /bin/true. Not sure that your 'for 1 2 3 4' would ever fork more than one process either. Logically this is the same:
:; do :; done
while
Unless you can provide some example of true becoming false in the while loop; you would never get 4 forks this way.
I am too busy mastering the dungeons of doom.
I should clarify. A backdoor is not necessarily spyware. I should have said a backdoor (such as a rootkit) OR a backdoor to harvest personal data (such as spyware).
Not exactly. A trojan may OR may not perform a desirable function. It must employ some unknown and undesirable function.
The unknown function can vary and here are some examples.
I may be forgetting other categories that fall under the definition of trojan, but that is all I could think of at the moment. Trojan is too generic a term to describe the purpose of a malicious program.
Also note that mono is meant for Visual Fred not Visual Basic.
Funny, I can't seem to find their Linux version of RealBasic.
$ file GIMPshop-source-2.2.4.tbz
GIMPshop-source-2.2.4.tbz: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
To extract it...
$ tar jxf GIMPshop-source-2.2.4.tbz
As fas as your browser is concerned you would need to add a mime type to handle it.
grep -R assert /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 | wc -l
However you counted all the assertions that are commented out as well.
Oh no. Don't tell the emacs people about this...
There is already a M-x vi-mode.