This is just awesome. Awesome to a degree I can't even comprehend.
Since when did the Slashdot readership turn into homeopathic "holistic" healers who appear to be seriously suggesting that meditation can cure an eye problem?
That's it. I quit. My (apparently) one-man crusade to counter idiots like this is now officially over. I lose by being overwhelmed.
Uh. Yea. He is asking for medical advice. He's asking Slashdot readers what monitors would be best for *his specific condition*. Come on now--that's not medical advice?
And if you think being a computer geek qualifies you or anyone else to make a medical decision as to what's good for someone's eyes that you haven't even examined, there's something far more insidiuous going on here than simple well-meaning intentions.
Good--that's good you're seeing your eye doctors. However; if they have no advice on what kind of displays to use they aren't the doctors you should be seeing. If he honestly has no suggestions for you I'd find a new doctor--regardless of his "well-known" status--since it sounds like he's not being very helpful.
At the *least* he should be sending you to someone else who might be able to help you. It's the least he can do, don't you think?
I realize that you don't think you were asking for medical advice--but here's a newsflash: You asked the Slashdot readership "I'm curious to know if certain technologies have any advantages over another". What's that? Did you mean to ask them what the best way to walk your poodle is?
Perhaps it would have been more useful to ask for specific studies and references for display technology. As it is, you should've realized that all you'd get is a bunch of people describing how they "cured" their near-sightedness with glasses of the wrong prescription and how their "behavioural optometrist" was some kind of god-send.
That's all fine and dandy, but there's a serious flaw in your "logic": this is a fundamentally medical discussion and has nothing to do with "news" or "science". You're trying to tell me that a discussion about a man's eyesight and what is or isn't good for him is news?
It's not a question of censorship or filtration--it's a question of common sense. Something may seem innocuous when in fact it may do actual damage and play up to a reader's pride.
News and science have a worth to a readership--incorrect analyses and false advice not only have no use, they can be damaging. Saying that people who are so stupid they "get what they deserve" when following advice here is idiotic itself.
So pray, tell me how this discussion is useful, or that missing out on it would somehow be violating your first amendment rights? Finally--pray tell me how this kind of discussion helps someone form an opinion when there is no basis in empirical data--or even what you might call common sense--whatsoever?
And be careful how you judge "intelligence'. Someone smarter than you make take it as a free ticket to let you "get what you deserve" too.
what the heck are you talking about? You have a cure for nearsightedness? That's odd. Why doesn't the rest of the world know about it?
Look, whoever asked this question--Slashdot is the LAST place where you should be getting medical advice, especially about something as critical as your eyesight. There is no fact here, no medical truths--a high moderation does NOT mean that that advice is better than any of the other crap on here.
Here's some advice you can really use: Get a second opinion and see as many eye specialists as you can. They're the bloody experts--not Slashdot's armchair doctor population who have little to no medical training and pure anecdotal "evidence" to prove that their methods work!
Run, don't walk, away from these comments if you value your eyesight at *all* and are having problems.
Shame, Slashdot--suggestions in here may do damage to your weaker-minded readership. Please don't run stories like this.
Unless you *require* human interaction in the process by making something complicated solvable only by some bit of information contained in the ad itself, you'll never be able to force me to look at graphics I don't want or need to view.
Not only that, but if the webpage won't even display unless I download the graphic, then--hello proxy! Proxy my friend and compatriot. Proxy does the download, and replaces it with an image of a nude woman. Ad gone, pleasant graphic remains, and the only thing I'm out is the bandwidth in downloading the image to fool the server into thinking I'm "looking" at their ad.
The subscription model is permeating everywhere. It's sad, and disappointing to have to choose to pay a small fee for the hundreds of websites I visit (and fork out literally hundreds upon hundreds of dollars) or to have to sit here and view large obnoxious ads.
Gee, I wonder what I'll do?
Let's try browsing with graphics turned off. *click* Ahh.. better.
You don't know what you're talking about. There are plenty of evolved genetic traits that at first don't appear to be beneficial to survival but turn out to be quite ingenius.
Perhaps there is a component of homosexuality which actually *does* contribute to genetic propagation? Are you a scientist who has studied it for the better part of your life or are you basing your conjecture purely on what you imagine is logical?
Think about it this way: If it wasn't in some way beneficial, or a side effect of something else that is beneficial, then after the millions of years we've all been evolving they would have bred themselves completely out of the equation a VERY long time ago.
In a later note you imply it only takes 10,000 years to build a genetic immunity to smallpox. How about millions of years of evolution versus the sizable percentage of the population that is homosexual? How can you possibly conclude that homosexuality is counter-productive when the evidence (ie: their survival throughout the eons) is so obviously to the contrary?
You don't honestly think this is a recent mutation do you?
Thus, your "logic" (if it can be called that) is non-sequiteur and you need to go back to whatever course you think you learned evolutionary psychology or biological determinism from.
Problems with the Arch vs Subversion comparison faq listed in the article.
1. Allowing the "smarts" to reside within the clients means you are stuck with however a client is configured--how do you handle modification times if the client's clock is skewed, or messed up hard-drives? Administration of such a distributed system would be a heck of a job and not one I'd enjoy doing when you get up into the hundreds of clients.
2. SCM based on a server-client system can be unerringly fast--blindingly so. Even if communication is entirely over TCP channels, an SCM system can be built to be a speed demon.
Some interesting ideas: I like the idea of being able to mirror the files to a backup server--but there are still some pretty annoying replication problems that would need to be worked out. Does development stop while the backup is brought as up to date as possible? Do developers still have to check in their files once more if those were ruined since the last backup or mirroring cycle?
I really think these projects need to stop playing catch-up to the larger SCM systems and start leading the field with advanced and stable functionality.:)
CVS's format is nice and open, and based on RCS. It's extremely simple to convert from CVS into most other formats--for example, Perforce supplies CVS conversion utilities in Perl on their homepage. Piece of cake my friend!
Switching back is another matter, but still well within the realm of possibility for all but the laziest.
Perforce incorporates a very fast database back-end to manage metadata on the server side. It's based loosely (many improvements since) on the Berkeley DB format.
It also includes some very nice database journalling and checkpointing features for robustness.
It's free for normal two-user, two-client use even. Only drawback: no open source.
Of that guy who was looking for us to solve his digital camera dillema--the fellow who was revealed to be deeply involved in face-recognition software development? Where he wanted to know how best to set up a giant closed-circuit black and white 5 fps digital tv system?
Haha, and this time he's come back as an anonymous coward with a re-phrased question in hopes we won't mercilessly track him down and belittle his lame software skillz.:)
So, let's see here, and think for a moment. Well, let me think (or some semblance thereof). You read.
Mono was designed to specifically compete with Microsoft's.NET. One thing that helped Mono keep any sort of competitiveness was the GPL--Microsoft couldn't nab some of the code if it was superior to theirs, add it to their own, and include Mono's featureset in their own product, thus ensuring their superiority. (Mono+.Net > Mono).
Now they can steal a chunk of Mono at will and include it in their own software whenever they choose. Ideas, concepts, and whatever else is included in those classes might as well be written for Microsoft, for free. Great job guys! Just do Microsoft a favour and virtually work for them for free while you're at it! This isn't XFree! This is a direct competitor to Microsoft!
And by the way, isn't the spirit of the rest of the components' licensing, which hopefully will remain GPL, that improvements be available to the original author? That's the whole point! Now just because they are looking for some coders from Intel to help them out suddenly GPL isn't good enough?
Especially with conventional information like a telephone number, you can often hire private investigators who are able to dig through and find enough information to snow you under--names, parents' names, histories, high-schools, photographs, social insurance (or security) numbers, voices, credit card numbers--all sorts of really cool things.
And private dicks aren't that pricey!
I think, armed with a phone number, I would've been a little more likely to track down this woman on my own and steal my computer back from under her nose. Maybe leave a note--"Your computer was stolen property and I'm taking back what's mine. I dare you to call up the police and report it!"
Chances are pretty good that the PI will be able to track down that "some guy" that she got the 'puter from as well by following her round and taking photos. That would be even cooler.:)
Why Netrek of course! The ultimate multiplayer game, the One True Multiplayer universe-dominating game where even modem players can be Netrek GODS.
(Yes, that's my 18-hour-game-of-netrek cripple mousehand-claw stabbing into the air in defiance of these new-fangled 3D-type games arriving at my local electronic boutique..)
When you first sign up, they force you to agree to a little-known clause in the contract agreement that states that you'll cover all their legal bills if they get sued because of your software.
Now why would I host somewhere and potentially double my legal fees if my software ran into (for example) patent problems? I'd just host it my own damn self--it's not that bloody hard to do! What value does SourceForge have to anybody but those who can't or won't host their own software? Seems to me like they're just another Freshmeat with the code sitting right there instead of at the end of a link.
yea. and who wants to make a bet you're a plant from essential realities--a satellite of old, paid to circle through the crowd and pipe up support at key moments in order to hype your little fake glove thing.
if the glove is as accurate as the animation depicted, it would be ALL over right now. also, how does the glove keep track of where the hand is? Where are the details? Don't just show us a stupid animation and plant lame "I wanna buy it" crap all over the place.
Let us in on the technology. What, you think we're just going to copy it? If we could do something like that, don't you think we would've done it already?
You're not too bright are you? System Admin doesn't deal with users, dude. That's what tech support is for. A system admin is concerned with adminsitering boxes, keeping the network running, and pruning out the bad apples.
Never did I have to deal with users in my former life as SA.
1. Go back to college/University. Preferrably where they have the biggest, baddest UNIX-type systems available. Even if you don't finish any degree program there.
2. Hack the boxes. Hack them all. Crack passwords. Read up every litle tiny scrap of hacker lore you can on the subject of the machine in question. Learn to use and live by your personal encryption tools. Have emergency backup plans in case someone spots you (srm -ll -rf * & saved my ass countless times). Break into the registrar's system and learn how to change your grade. Bonus marks for getting away with it (pun pun.)
3. Get to know the people who hack the lab machines and play Quake a lot. They can sometimes (if you get in with the right crowd) teach you more than any security book out there. Try to find some who can hack smartcards. You can get access to the labs in the wee hours in this case.
4. Join your local 2600 chapter. Attend meetings religiously and go trashing with them after every one. Smile for the inevitable camera men who show up at each meeting.
5. Learn to program. Take the hardest, most grinding assembly course you can find and learn x86 assembly code by heart. Then find an active mirror of Fravia's old pages of reverse engineering and read them. Yes, all of them.
6. Once you know the machines themselves and how to exploit them (and the people who use them--that's what the 2600 meetings are for) you can start with the networking aspects.
7. Set up a home network with as many old computers as you can find. Learn how to use lpd. Get two network connections at home and learn how to set up a BSD to be a load balancer for you. FreeBSD works well. Bonus points for doing it with NetBSD.
8. If you haven't been kicked out of school for your hacking activities, finish your degree. Party with your new 2600 friends. Try not to get into the drug scene. It gets nasty.
9. Start at as small an ISP as you can who looks like they know what they're doing (ie: you can't hack their network) and present your degree and ask for the lowliest tech support job you can find. Outshine everyone and get to be friends with the system admin. This is the hardest social engineering you will ever face, because remember? You chose a small ISP with a good system admin. The good system admin won't like you. He'll probably not want to bother with you. Remember those Quake lessons you took in college? Whip them out and kick his lame ass. Then show him exploit code you developed yourself. Your thorough knowledge of assembly is what will carry the day here. Help the System Admin plug a few security holes exposed by your exploit code. Build an Open Source product you think everyone will use, and promote it on Slashdot.
10. Accept the job they offer you and work alongside the system admin for as long as you can stand to hang onto the pager. THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL LEARN THE MOST. Get access to their cisco routers, and extreme networks switches. Learn to configure them. Learn about BGP peering. Learn about ARIN and how to convince them to give you more IP addresses. Repel outside hacker attacks. Build virtual hosting machines that can handle 1000 domains. Build quad-xeon systems with bulletin boards that can handle millions of hits a day. Learn how to administer HSRP with the Ciscos.
Congratulations! You're well on your way to becoming a system admin. Once you're done with the smaller ISP, apply for senior system admin at a larger one. Then, a larger one. Insinuate yourself into an extremely large virtualhosting company, or an extremely large networking company.
Finally: GOOD LUCK. We need more people like what you will become.
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This is just awesome. Awesome to a degree I can't even comprehend.
Since when did the Slashdot readership turn into homeopathic "holistic" healers who appear to be seriously suggesting that meditation can cure an eye problem?
That's it. I quit. My (apparently) one-man crusade to counter idiots like this is now officially over. I lose by being overwhelmed.
Uh. Yea. He is asking for medical advice. He's asking Slashdot readers what monitors would be best for *his specific condition*. Come on now--that's not medical advice?
And if you think being a computer geek qualifies you or anyone else to make a medical decision as to what's good for someone's eyes that you haven't even examined, there's something far more insidiuous going on here than simple well-meaning intentions.
Good--that's good you're seeing your eye doctors. However; if they have no advice on what kind of displays to use they aren't the doctors you should be seeing. If he honestly has no suggestions for you I'd find a new doctor--regardless of his "well-known" status--since it sounds like he's not being very helpful.
At the *least* he should be sending you to someone else who might be able to help you. It's the least he can do, don't you think?
I realize that you don't think you were asking for medical advice--but here's a newsflash: You asked the Slashdot readership "I'm curious to know if certain technologies have any advantages over another". What's that? Did you mean to ask them what the best way to walk your poodle is?
Perhaps it would have been more useful to ask for specific studies and references for display technology. As it is, you should've realized that all you'd get is a bunch of people describing how they "cured" their near-sightedness with glasses of the wrong prescription and how their "behavioural optometrist" was some kind of god-send.
That's all fine and dandy, but there's a serious flaw in your "logic": this is a fundamentally medical discussion and has nothing to do with "news" or "science". You're trying to tell me that a discussion about a man's eyesight and what is or isn't good for him is news?
It's not a question of censorship or filtration--it's a question of common sense. Something may seem innocuous when in fact it may do actual damage and play up to a reader's pride.
News and science have a worth to a readership--incorrect analyses and false advice not only have no use, they can be damaging. Saying that people who are so stupid they "get what they deserve" when following advice here is idiotic itself.
So pray, tell me how this discussion is useful, or that missing out on it would somehow be violating your first amendment rights? Finally--pray tell me how this kind of discussion helps someone form an opinion when there is no basis in empirical data--or even what you might call common sense--whatsoever?
And be careful how you judge "intelligence'. Someone smarter than you make take it as a free ticket to let you "get what you deserve" too.
what the heck are you talking about? You have a cure for nearsightedness? That's odd. Why doesn't the rest of the world know about it?
Look, whoever asked this question--Slashdot is the LAST place where you should be getting medical advice, especially about something as critical as your eyesight. There is no fact here, no medical truths--a high moderation does NOT mean that that advice is better than any of the other crap on here.
Here's some advice you can really use: Get a second opinion and see as many eye specialists as you can. They're the bloody experts--not Slashdot's armchair doctor population who have little to no medical training and pure anecdotal "evidence" to prove that their methods work!
Run, don't walk, away from these comments if you value your eyesight at *all* and are having problems.
Shame, Slashdot--suggestions in here may do damage to your weaker-minded readership. Please don't run stories like this.
Try TightVNC. VNC is gross and slow. TightVNC is as fast if not faster than .. well.. anything else I've seen anyway. :)
TightVNC (the faster version of VNC) actually does use JPEG compression to achieve *really fast* screen updates.
So yes, it does send over jpegs.
What are you talking about? Spanish specifically brought over smallpox as a form of population control when they conquered south america!
"Wasn't brought over intentionally." My ass! You really think a few pompous Spaniards could subjugate an entire continent without biological warfare?
Unless you *require* human interaction in the process by making something complicated solvable only by some bit of information contained in the ad itself, you'll never be able to force me to look at graphics I don't want or need to view.
Not only that, but if the webpage won't even display unless I download the graphic, then--hello proxy! Proxy my friend and compatriot. Proxy does the download, and replaces it with an image of a nude woman. Ad gone, pleasant graphic remains, and the only thing I'm out is the bandwidth in downloading the image to fool the server into thinking I'm "looking" at their ad.
Big deal.
The subscription model is permeating everywhere. It's sad, and disappointing to have to choose to pay a small fee for the hundreds of websites I visit (and fork out literally hundreds upon hundreds of dollars) or to have to sit here and view large obnoxious ads.
Gee, I wonder what I'll do?
Let's try browsing with graphics turned off. *click* Ahh.. better.
Somebody please mod parent up. 2 is far too low a score to be assigning to this well-written spank-down! :)
You don't know what you're talking about. There are plenty of evolved genetic traits that at first don't appear to be beneficial to survival but turn out to be quite ingenius.
Perhaps there is a component of homosexuality which actually *does* contribute to genetic propagation? Are you a scientist who has studied it for the better part of your life or are you basing your conjecture purely on what you imagine is logical?
Think about it this way: If it wasn't in some way beneficial, or a side effect of something else that is beneficial, then after the millions of years we've all been evolving they would have bred themselves completely out of the equation a VERY long time ago.
In a later note you imply it only takes 10,000 years to build a genetic immunity to smallpox. How about millions of years of evolution versus the sizable percentage of the population that is homosexual? How can you possibly conclude that homosexuality is counter-productive when the evidence (ie: their survival throughout the eons) is so obviously to the contrary?
You don't honestly think this is a recent mutation do you?
Thus, your "logic" (if it can be called that) is non-sequiteur and you need to go back to whatever course you think you learned evolutionary psychology or biological determinism from.
*bzzzt* Try again hotshot.
Problems with the Arch vs Subversion comparison faq listed in the article.
:)
:) No worries. :)
1. Allowing the "smarts" to reside within the clients means you are stuck with however a client is configured--how do you handle modification times if the client's clock is skewed, or messed up hard-drives? Administration of such a distributed system would be a heck of a job and not one I'd enjoy doing when you get up into the hundreds of clients.
2. SCM based on a server-client system can be unerringly fast--blindingly so. Even if communication is entirely over TCP channels, an SCM system can be built to be a speed demon.
Some interesting ideas: I like the idea of being able to mirror the files to a backup server--but there are still some pretty annoying replication problems that would need to be worked out. Does development stop while the backup is brought as up to date as possible? Do developers still have to check in their files once more if those were ruined since the last backup or mirroring cycle?
I really think these projects need to stop playing catch-up to the larger SCM systems and start leading the field with advanced and stable functionality.
Too bad I shouldn't build one.
CVS's format is nice and open, and based on RCS. It's extremely simple to convert from CVS into most other formats--for example, Perforce supplies CVS conversion utilities in Perl on their homepage. Piece of cake my friend!
Switching back is another matter, but still well within the realm of possibility for all but the laziest.
Perforce incorporates a very fast database back-end to manage metadata on the server side. It's based loosely (many improvements since) on the Berkeley DB format.
It also includes some very nice database journalling and checkpointing features for robustness.
It's free for normal two-user, two-client use even. Only drawback: no open source.
Of that guy who was looking for us to solve his digital camera dillema--the fellow who was revealed to be deeply involved in face-recognition software development? Where he wanted to know how best to set up a giant closed-circuit black and white 5 fps digital tv system?
:)
Haha, and this time he's come back as an anonymous coward with a re-phrased question in hopes we won't mercilessly track him down and belittle his lame software skillz.
So, let's see here, and think for a moment. Well, let me think (or some semblance thereof). You read.
.NET. One thing that helped Mono keep any sort of competitiveness was the GPL--Microsoft couldn't nab some of the code if it was superior to theirs, add it to their own, and include Mono's featureset in their own product, thus ensuring their superiority. (Mono+.Net > Mono).
Mono was designed to specifically compete with Microsoft's
Now they can steal a chunk of Mono at will and include it in their own software whenever they choose. Ideas, concepts, and whatever else is included in those classes might as well be written for Microsoft, for free. Great job guys! Just do Microsoft a favour and virtually work for them for free while you're at it! This isn't XFree! This is a direct competitor to Microsoft!
And by the way, isn't the spirit of the rest of the components' licensing, which hopefully will remain GPL, that improvements be available to the original author? That's the whole point! Now just because they are looking for some coders from Intel to help them out suddenly GPL isn't good enough?
de Icaza, what are you doing?!
Doh!
Especially with conventional information like a telephone number, you can often hire private investigators who are able to dig through and find enough information to snow you under--names, parents' names, histories, high-schools, photographs, social insurance (or security) numbers, voices, credit card numbers--all sorts of really cool things.
:)
And private dicks aren't that pricey!
I think, armed with a phone number, I would've been a little more likely to track down this woman on my own and steal my computer back from under her nose. Maybe leave a note--"Your computer was stolen property and I'm taking back what's mine. I dare you to call up the police and report it!"
Chances are pretty good that the PI will be able to track down that "some guy" that she got the 'puter from as well by following her round and taking photos. That would be even cooler.
Why Netrek of course! The ultimate multiplayer game, the One True Multiplayer universe-dominating game where even modem players can be Netrek GODS.
(Yes, that's my 18-hour-game-of-netrek cripple mousehand-claw stabbing into the air in defiance of these new-fangled 3D-type games arriving at my local electronic boutique..)
How much did they pay you for this "endorsement"?
bah..
When you first sign up, they force you to agree to a little-known clause in the contract agreement that states that you'll cover all their legal bills if they get sued because of your software.
Now why would I host somewhere and potentially double my legal fees if my software ran into (for example) patent problems? I'd just host it my own damn self--it's not that bloody hard to do! What value does SourceForge have to anybody but those who can't or won't host their own software? Seems to me like they're just another Freshmeat with the code sitting right there instead of at the end of a link.
Amen! That's the first thing I noticed too.
I wonder if he'll answer the email I sent him making fun of the whole "terrible situation."
yea. and who wants to make a bet you're a plant from essential realities--a satellite of old, paid to circle through the crowd and pipe up support at key moments in order to hype your little fake glove thing.
if the glove is as accurate as the animation depicted, it would be ALL over right now. also, how does the glove keep track of where the hand is? Where are the details? Don't just show us a stupid animation and plant lame "I wanna buy it" crap all over the place.
Let us in on the technology. What, you think we're just going to copy it? If we could do something like that, don't you think we would've done it already?
You're not too bright are you? System Admin doesn't deal with users, dude. That's what tech support is for. A system admin is concerned with adminsitering boxes, keeping the network running, and pruning out the bad apples.
Never did I have to deal with users in my former life as SA.
1. Go back to college/University. Preferrably where they have the biggest, baddest UNIX-type systems available. Even if you don't finish any degree program there.
2. Hack the boxes. Hack them all. Crack passwords. Read up every litle tiny scrap of hacker lore you can on the subject of the machine in question. Learn to use and live by your personal encryption tools. Have emergency backup plans in case someone spots you (srm -ll -rf * & saved my ass countless times). Break into the registrar's system and learn how to change your grade. Bonus marks for getting away with it (pun pun.)
3. Get to know the people who hack the lab machines and play Quake a lot. They can sometimes (if you get in with the right crowd) teach you more than any security book out there. Try to find some who can hack smartcards. You can get access to the labs in the wee hours in this case.
4. Join your local 2600 chapter. Attend meetings religiously and go trashing with them after every one. Smile for the inevitable camera men who show up at each meeting.
5. Learn to program. Take the hardest, most grinding assembly course you can find and learn x86 assembly code by heart. Then find an active mirror of Fravia's old pages of reverse engineering and read them. Yes, all of them.
6. Once you know the machines themselves and how to exploit them (and the people who use them--that's what the 2600 meetings are for) you can start with the networking aspects.
7. Set up a home network with as many old computers as you can find. Learn how to use lpd. Get two network connections at home and learn how to set up a BSD to be a load balancer for you. FreeBSD works well. Bonus points for doing it with NetBSD.
8. If you haven't been kicked out of school for your hacking activities, finish your degree. Party with your new 2600 friends. Try not to get into the drug scene. It gets nasty.
9. Start at as small an ISP as you can who looks like they know what they're doing (ie: you can't hack their network) and present your degree and ask for the lowliest tech support job you can find. Outshine everyone and get to be friends with the system admin. This is the hardest social engineering you will ever face, because remember? You chose a small ISP with a good system admin. The good system admin won't like you. He'll probably not want to bother with you. Remember those Quake lessons you took in college? Whip them out and kick his lame ass. Then show him exploit code you developed yourself. Your thorough knowledge of assembly is what will carry the day here. Help the System Admin plug a few security holes exposed by your exploit code. Build an Open Source product you think everyone will use, and promote it on Slashdot.
10. Accept the job they offer you and work alongside the system admin for as long as you can stand to hang onto the pager. THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL LEARN THE MOST. Get access to their cisco routers, and extreme networks switches. Learn to configure them. Learn about BGP peering. Learn about ARIN and how to convince them to give you more IP addresses. Repel outside hacker attacks. Build virtual hosting machines that can handle 1000 domains. Build quad-xeon systems with bulletin boards that can handle millions of hits a day. Learn how to administer HSRP with the Ciscos.
Congratulations! You're well on your way to becoming a system admin. Once you're done with the smaller ISP, apply for senior system admin at a larger one. Then, a larger one. Insinuate yourself into an extremely large virtualhosting company, or an extremely large networking company.
Finally: GOOD LUCK. We need more people like what you will become.