He got his start by totally ripping off Wozniak. Atari paid Jobs $5k for a circuit board design that the Woz did (because Steve couldn't). Jobs told Woz he got $600 for it, and generously split the proceeds 50/50. How very decent of him-not. Then of course there's the glorious return to Apple in '96. For about a year his keynote speeches were blowing his horn about how he'd simplified the product line with the G3. All fine and dandy, except that the G3 was conceived and designed under Gil Amelio's watch.
I'm as much of an Apple fanboy as the next guy, having used macs since '91, but I'm under no illusions that Steve's a good guy. He'll rip you off with a smile.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten. That's quite fitting, with Carter being an ex-submariner, and a keen fan of Rickover. IIRC he was also quite supportive of the USNs sub black ops. Given her homeport is Bangor, I wonder what her status is... Perhaps her crew are the ones that just went off leave (if they're not already out there)...:)
Your estimate is almost certainly far too pessimistic.
The USN was doing skunkworks stuff during the cold war, with purpose-outfitted subs, finding interesting bits of Soviet hardware in some crazy deep waters. I seriously doubt that they've forgotten how to do it. My money would be that they've continue to develop the capability, but even if all it's done is stagnate they've already proven very competent at finding Soviet needles in oceanic haystacks. And NORAD will have some very accurate tracking to help them start the search. Hell, I'd bet even money they've already got something out in the Pacific somewhere waiting for just such an opportunity. Or there's a lot of crewmen who just went off leave all of a sudden.
Have a read of "Blind Man's Bluff" sometime, there's some rather fascinating escapades in there.
A 5500/275? Bizarre choice to represent Apple. As others said above, the Apple II would be the logical choice. But if going with a Mac, one of the original all-in-ones (anything from the 128k to the SE/30, really) would be good. But a 5500/275? Those were pretty crap Macs.
I was leaving on good terms, just moving on to a higher paying gig. Earlier in the year I'd figured out how to make the company asterisk system make an auto call to log off hotdesk phones; this process activated the speakerphone function and auto-answer to complete the call.
So I made a nice recorded msg about how great it had been, love y'all, that sort of thing. Then ended with "Before I go, I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling"...
And proceeded to RickRoll the entire company.
It was the sort of company that totally grokked the humor of it, and they were still happily sharing the story months later...
Actually, Gray was just the poor sap left standing when the music stopped. The deregulation was courtesy of Pete Wilson, who skated out quite handily before the wreckage he caused came back to haunt the state.
From my understanding, Ryan Lackey got forced out some years back, and it's been pretty shaky since then. I recall somebody doing a trace and finding that sites supposedly hosted there were actually resident in some London based datacenter. Also, IIRC shortly after 9/11 they made some noise about being happy to share "terrorist" data, sans warrant, to US/UK law enforcement. General feeling I had as a result is that it was nothing more than slick marketing in recent times(I do think when Lackey was on board he was serious about the concept).
A quick google didn't turn up an authoritative source... However, Jerry Pournelle makes the claim that in the '70s the cleanest running stream in California was the output of the hyperion wastewater treatment plant. Which wasn't saying that the natural streams were necessarily horrible, but they do have natural pollutants (the bears gotta crap somewhere, right?), so the treated water is cleanest. Always sounded quite logical to me.
Well... I've seen college grads with some pretty horrid word skills. It's sad when a US born college grad is indistinguishable from Asian born engrish.
I did better... My boss (IT Director) was having some sort of trouble with something like apache config. So I sent 'im a mail and said "This'll fix all your problems!". He blindly copy/pasted it, hit return, then realized what he'd done and control-c'd.
Fortunately he's a good guy, and was amused at it all, so we just had a good laugh, restored/var from backups, and got on with life...
I'm of the understanding that there are more living nobel prize winners resident in San Diego than anywhere else in the world (unsure if that's per capita or absolute).
Having grown up there it's pretty obvious why. Close to everything, brilliant weather, not as horrible as LA.
Probably New Zealand (though I hear South Africa is pretty bad too).
The problem with living on an island in the middle of the pacific is that there's not much content generated locally, and since we're pretty much BFE to the rest of the world, we have to deal with this sorta stuff. Just about everything is considerably more expensive. Sucks, but then living here kicks ass on the US overall, so ya deal. I sure as hell couldn't afford my current ocean view back in California (even now that the housing market has tanked).
Asterisk/Trixbox do this quite nicely as well. I've had a US voip line ringing in New Zealand for 5 years now, and the last 3 or so I've used asterisk whitelisting to solve the problem of people ringing my SFBA number at 0800 PDT when it's 0300 NZST.
As mentioned above, this solution would also provide the ability to make the OGM an IVR that allows legit callers to press a digit to get through (after explaining the whole scam thing via the OGM).
Yeah, no delusions to getting serious amounts out of it. But it is moving air and presumably could be harnessed. Whether or not it's worth bothering would be entirely dependent on how much hot air is coming through. It's no perpetual motion machine, but OTOH it could be useful. Though perhaps the more efficient use would be to pump it into office spaces for heating.
Neither is a "Do A,B,C and execute, voila! $service!" type of book. They're more about understanding the concepts. Once you understand the lay of the land you're generally far better able to solve things for yourself rather than relying on someone else's tutorial.
As many others have already said, virtualization and your home network are your friends. Being able to learn in a breakable environment is excellent.
Perhaps I can explain why you recall a level of sneaky-ness. At the time it got very little attention, as everyone was breathlessly awaiting more news about BC getting a blow job or diddling Monica with cigars... Certainly the dog and pony show drew attention away from the geeks crying foul.
It's been a good while now (10 yrs, my how the time flies) since I worked at Apple. And when I did, it was in the support environment, not engineering. But. I daresay the principles will be much the same. A lot of folks were there because it was *Apple*. And they'd toil away in conditions they'd ditch anywhere else, because it was Apple, and I'll be the first to say it was damn good fun to be a part of "one more thing". Yes, the landscape has changed a bit since OS X, and at least IMHO there's less of the fanatics then there were in those days (remember Guy Kawasaki's Evangelist?). But the unixy underpinnings are arguably quite attractive to a lot of engineering and coder types.
So. I'd say they may have to bump a bit, but they're gonna do alright based on added bennies, stock perks, and the simple fact that a lot of people will put in 2-4 years at a reduced salary just because they can work for a legend like Apple. When they get fed up with it, they'll jump ship and enjoy the 20k raise. And another keen bright noob fresh out of Uni will jump in and enthusiastically fill their seat, in exchange for a few years of being part of it and the positive resume fodder.
Telecom is upping the 256k/10gig cap ADSL plans to 2mb/10gig this month. And if you're in the CBD or close enough to any of the main cities there are generally alternatives to Telecom-Telstra's plans are faster and cheaper, and the various wireless providors are expanding.
All that being said, at least here in Wellington, it seems like the job boards have been slowing down lately. And while NZIS is getting easier to work through, it's still a pretty damned difficult process unless you already have a job lined up, or have a warchest of about $80k US to keep you going while you find it. And getting a job lined up from overseas, while not impossible, is a pretty seriously difficult process. I had a bitch of a time finding one while actually living here (because I needed the employer to sponsor my work permit application).
When I can land a C152 at my local grocery store, then I'll give you that. For now, the closest thing to a flying car is a helicopter (in which I have 52 hours), but it's no where close to being as simple to operate and economically efficient as a car. Which is why we don't all fly them everywhere.
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Heh. I think *Jobs* came out of his partnership with *Woz* ok... :)
Decent guy??!!
He got his start by totally ripping off Wozniak. Atari paid Jobs $5k for a circuit board design that the Woz did (because Steve couldn't). Jobs told Woz he got $600 for it, and generously split the proceeds 50/50. How very decent of him-not. Then of course there's the glorious return to Apple in '96. For about a year his keynote speeches were blowing his horn about how he'd simplified the product line with the G3. All fine and dandy, except that the G3 was conceived and designed under Gil Amelio's watch.
I'm as much of an Apple fanboy as the next guy, having used macs since '91, but I'm under no illusions that Steve's a good guy. He'll rip you off with a smile.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten. That's quite fitting, with Carter being an ex-submariner, and a keen fan of Rickover. IIRC he was also quite supportive of the USNs sub black ops. Given her homeport is Bangor, I wonder what her status is... Perhaps her crew are the ones that just went off leave (if they're not already out there)... :)
Your estimate is almost certainly far too pessimistic.
The USN was doing skunkworks stuff during the cold war, with purpose-outfitted subs, finding interesting bits of Soviet hardware in some crazy deep waters. I seriously doubt that they've forgotten how to do it. My money would be that they've continue to develop the capability, but even if all it's done is stagnate they've already proven very competent at finding Soviet needles in oceanic haystacks. And NORAD will have some very accurate tracking to help them start the search. Hell, I'd bet even money they've already got something out in the Pacific somewhere waiting for just such an opportunity. Or there's a lot of crewmen who just went off leave all of a sudden.
Have a read of "Blind Man's Bluff" sometime, there's some rather fascinating escapades in there.
A 5500/275? Bizarre choice to represent Apple. As others said above, the Apple II would be the logical choice. But if going with a Mac, one of the original all-in-ones (anything from the 128k to the SE/30, really) would be good. But a 5500/275? Those were pretty crap Macs.
I was leaving on good terms, just moving on to a higher paying gig. Earlier in the year I'd figured out how to make the company asterisk system make an auto call to log off hotdesk phones; this process activated the speakerphone function and auto-answer to complete the call.
So I made a nice recorded msg about how great it had been, love y'all, that sort of thing. Then ended with "Before I go, I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling"...
And proceeded to RickRoll the entire company.
It was the sort of company that totally grokked the humor of it, and they were still happily sharing the story months later...
Our FIFTH type of comment... No, AMONGST our types of comments... I'll come in again.
Actually, Gray was just the poor sap left standing when the music stopped. The deregulation was courtesy of Pete Wilson, who skated out quite handily before the wreckage he caused came back to haunt the state.
From my understanding, Ryan Lackey got forced out some years back, and it's been pretty shaky since then. I recall somebody doing a trace and finding that sites supposedly hosted there were actually resident in some London based datacenter. Also, IIRC shortly after 9/11 they made some noise about being happy to share "terrorist" data, sans warrant, to US/UK law enforcement. General feeling I had as a result is that it was nothing more than slick marketing in recent times(I do think when Lackey was on board he was serious about the concept).
A quick google didn't turn up an authoritative source... However, Jerry Pournelle makes the claim that in the '70s the cleanest running stream in California was the output of the hyperion wastewater treatment plant. Which wasn't saying that the natural streams were necessarily horrible, but they do have natural pollutants (the bears gotta crap somewhere, right?), so the treated water is cleanest. Always sounded quite logical to me.
Malfunctions not withstanding, of course.
Well... I've seen college grads with some pretty horrid word skills. It's sad when a US born college grad is indistinguishable from Asian born engrish.
I would have thought apropos would be apropos in current context.
I did better... My boss (IT Director) was having some sort of trouble with something like apache config. So I sent 'im a mail and said "This'll fix all your problems!". He blindly copy/pasted it, hit return, then realized what he'd done and control-c'd.
Fortunately he's a good guy, and was amused at it all, so we just had a good laugh, restored /var from backups, and got on with life...
I'm of the understanding that there are more living nobel prize winners resident in San Diego than anywhere else in the world (unsure if that's per capita or absolute).
Having grown up there it's pretty obvious why. Close to everything, brilliant weather, not as horrible as LA.
Probably New Zealand (though I hear South Africa is pretty bad too).
The problem with living on an island in the middle of the pacific is that there's not much content generated locally, and since we're pretty much BFE to the rest of the world, we have to deal with this sorta stuff. Just about everything is considerably more expensive. Sucks, but then living here kicks ass on the US overall, so ya deal. I sure as hell couldn't afford my current ocean view back in California (even now that the housing market has tanked).
Seems to be a landline thing. My VOIP line is in the states and has been remarkably spam free for the last 5 years or so.
Asterisk/Trixbox do this quite nicely as well. I've had a US voip line ringing in New Zealand for 5 years now, and the last 3 or so I've used asterisk whitelisting to solve the problem of people ringing my SFBA number at 0800 PDT when it's 0300 NZST.
As mentioned above, this solution would also provide the ability to make the OGM an IVR that allows legit callers to press a digit to get through (after explaining the whole scam thing via the OGM).
Yeah, no delusions to getting serious amounts out of it. But it is moving air and presumably could be harnessed. Whether or not it's worth bothering would be entirely dependent on how much hot air is coming through. It's no perpetual motion machine, but OTOH it could be useful. Though perhaps the more efficient use would be to pump it into office spaces for heating.
Now there's an interesting thought.
Combine with turbines on the way out the top and you can also convert some of that heat back into usable electricity.
I found the following 2 books quite helpful:
http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-2nd/dp/0321492668/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1
http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-System-Administration-Handbook-3rd/dp/0130206016/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Neither is a "Do A,B,C and execute, voila! $service!" type of book. They're more about understanding the concepts. Once you understand the lay of the land you're generally far better able to solve things for yourself rather than relying on someone else's tutorial.
As many others have already said, virtualization and your home network are your friends. Being able to learn in a breakable environment is excellent.
Perhaps I can explain why you recall a level of sneaky-ness. At the time it got very little attention, as everyone was breathlessly awaiting more news about BC getting a blow job or diddling Monica with cigars... Certainly the dog and pony show drew attention away from the geeks crying foul.
It's been a good while now (10 yrs, my how the time flies) since I worked at Apple. And when I did, it was in the support environment, not engineering. But. I daresay the principles will be much the same. A lot of folks were there because it was *Apple*. And they'd toil away in conditions they'd ditch anywhere else, because it was Apple, and I'll be the first to say it was damn good fun to be a part of "one more thing". Yes, the landscape has changed a bit since OS X, and at least IMHO there's less of the fanatics then there were in those days (remember Guy Kawasaki's Evangelist?). But the unixy underpinnings are arguably quite attractive to a lot of engineering and coder types.
So. I'd say they may have to bump a bit, but they're gonna do alright based on added bennies, stock perks, and the simple fact that a lot of people will put in 2-4 years at a reduced salary just because they can work for a legend like Apple. When they get fed up with it, they'll jump ship and enjoy the 20k raise. And another keen bright noob fresh out of Uni will jump in and enthusiastically fill their seat, in exchange for a few years of being part of it and the positive resume fodder.
Bugger. Only 573 users stand between me and enlightenment. So close, and yet so far away.
Telecom is upping the 256k/10gig cap ADSL plans to 2mb/10gig this month. And if you're in the CBD or close enough to any of the main cities there are generally alternatives to Telecom-Telstra's plans are faster and cheaper, and the various wireless providors are expanding.
All that being said, at least here in Wellington, it seems like the job boards have been slowing down lately. And while NZIS is getting easier to work through, it's still a pretty damned difficult process unless you already have a job lined up, or have a warchest of about $80k US to keep you going while you find it. And getting a job lined up from overseas, while not impossible, is a pretty seriously difficult process. I had a bitch of a time finding one while actually living here (because I needed the employer to sponsor my work permit application).
I call bullshit...
When I can land a C152 at my local grocery store, then I'll give you that. For now, the closest thing to a flying car is a helicopter (in which I have 52 hours), but it's no where close to being as simple to operate and economically efficient as a car. Which is why we don't all fly them everywhere.