This makes perfect sense. Samba "forked" a while back, and the two projects continue to cross polinate one another. Folks still use Samba for their bread-and-butter file servers. Samba-TNG is really useful for domain controllers. Though admittedly, my PDC is straight Samba.
Amen to that. I have a pair of 486 thinkpads that I use as X terminals for a folk festival. $100 / piece on ebay, using a stock install of RedHat 6.1. I've never had to updated it, because as soon as it boots, it runs X -query master and the rest of the software runs off the server.
Yes, but name another window manager where you can operate an Athlon-XP 1700 from a beat-up old thinkpad 385 (P5 100Mhz) at the speed of the Athlon? In fact, brainless X terminals still live on in Unix labs across the world.
Chat bots! I think some of those entities would be rather offended to be called a chatbot. Certainly some of them can trace their lineage back to Eliza or Eggdrop, but they have evolved quite a bit since then.
Not that I would know anything about that sort of thing.
I'm a network engineer by trade. I was going for computer engineering, but Drexel's answer was to make you go through Electrical engineering and learn computers as a special case of control systems.
All of the training for my present vocation was learned in my spare time or on the job. I'm not making a ton of money, but networking is a pretty stable field as far as employment goes. If you have an organization by their operational balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
That said, picking up C in high school was probably the best preparation to be had for being a future Unix admin. I do have to give Drexel's coop program some credit. For 2 coops I worked at a semiconductor manufacturer coding in TCL. That scripting experience I'm still using to this day.
I went to their little "road tour". All the new laptops and desktops have USB 2. They have said as much. I admin a heap of Optiplexes (200), we have to buy and add-on firewire card for them.
Having used Ghost, the experience is nowhere near comparable. Mac OS fits on a CDR, installed. Windows balloons out to a Gig or two. The Mac recovery technique operates at the speed of the IDE bus. Ghost operates at the mercy of your network. Ghosting takes HOURS. Rebuilding a Mac minutes. And the mac doesn't slow down the network.
I was always one of those annoying kids who never did homework but wrote intelligent papers and tested well. For a while in middle school they had me on a S.A.P. program, where a teacher had to sign off on a little memeograph that I had done my homework. They took me off a year later, in their words, because I was incorrigable.
I also had a habit of sloppy handwriting. Not my fault, I was diagnosed with Disgraphia and Dislexia around 5th grade. Anyone here remember how much of first through fourth grade was penmenship and long addition. Try doing that with no natural sense of a straight line. Oh yea, make me feel stupid and then make me broken.
Early on I learned to say "fsck it." I can't say I've ever taken education all that seriously.
Sorry, logic disconnect. You don't have children because of the Education System? I didn't realize it impacted fertility like that.
Though working in science museum I can say that being surrounded by kids all the time is the best contreceptive on the market. I didn't realize it had a field effect so profound.
Let us not forget the legions of Red-Headed stepchild models Apple had before the current I-mac/Gx line. I'm still salty about spending $3000 on a PowerMac 7100 that 6 month later sold for half what I paid for it, came with more ram, ran at 80Mhz instead of 66, and a bigger hard drive (2 gb instead of 250mb.)
I ended up running Linux on it my Junior year of college because it wouldn't run any newer releases of MacOs.
I don't think school IT administrators are as stupid as you say they are. I know it's fashionable to insult teachers and administrators these days but I know some personally and they are quite bright. On the whole I find them to be brighter then their compatriots in the commercial world.
How can you make such a blanket dismissal of what is an otherwise common observance. I have seen, firsthand, the kind of stupidity and pettiness that makes the BOHF look saintly. I have also seen some folks that should be doing my job.
In either case, you can't argue with someone else's first hand observation.
I started at Drexel when they were and All-mac school. 1994, the Power Mac just came out, I had one of the first models. 2 years later Drexel suddenly announced that we were all going PC. Of course all of the courseware on campus was Macintosh. All of the network infrastructure was Macintosh. All of the students were still paying the credit card bills from the purchase of their machintosh.
They ditched their working mainframe software that handled billing and scheduling for an NT based system. I'll be kind, there were problems. No fuck that, the system was braindead. By 2000 the system was still screwing things up.
At some point in this giant clown circus one of their computer systems sent back one of my federal loans. A $6000 balance balooned to $10,000. After spending 2 years camped out at the billing office to straighten the matter out, I still couldn't enroll for non-payment, nor get a loan because I wasn't enrolled. I finally had to take a personal loan, which I needed to start paying back immediately, at which point I said fsck it and got a real job.
Well, until the IRS gets wind of it. My mom used to be an auditor. She would regularly see returns with professions like "Hitman" or "Prostitute." Ever since Al Capone, the criminal world has learned that while crime pays, you still have to pay taxes on it.
In accordance with the 5th admendment anything you put on a tax filings can not be used against you as the basis for an investigation. So if you made your millions as a swindler and a con man, make sure it appears on your tax filings.
The issue is not Copyright infringement, it's Trademark Infringement.
Actually, they could use Disney figures so long as the material was used in the contect of an original art work. They would still get their asses sued, but legally they'd be in the clear.
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This makes perfect sense. Samba "forked" a while back, and the two projects continue to cross polinate one another. Folks still use Samba for their bread-and-butter file servers. Samba-TNG is really useful for domain controllers. Though admittedly, my PDC is straight Samba.
The server is a K6-400 I might add.
That is what X was designed for.
The X that is Y is not X.
Not that I would know anything about that sort of thing.
All of the training for my present vocation was learned in my spare time or on the job. I'm not making a ton of money, but networking is a pretty stable field as far as employment goes. If you have an organization by their operational balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
That said, picking up C in high school was probably the best preparation to be had for being a future Unix admin. I do have to give Drexel's coop program some credit. For 2 coops I worked at a semiconductor manufacturer coding in TCL. That scripting experience I'm still using to this day.
I went to their little "road tour". All the new laptops and desktops have USB 2. They have said as much. I admin a heap of Optiplexes (200), we have to buy and add-on firewire card for them.
Having used Ghost, the experience is nowhere near comparable. Mac OS fits on a CDR, installed. Windows balloons out to a Gig or two. The Mac recovery technique operates at the speed of the IDE bus. Ghost operates at the mercy of your network. Ghosting takes HOURS. Rebuilding a Mac minutes. And the mac doesn't slow down the network.
I also had a habit of sloppy handwriting. Not my fault, I was diagnosed with Disgraphia and Dislexia around 5th grade. Anyone here remember how much of first through fourth grade was penmenship and long addition. Try doing that with no natural sense of a straight line. Oh yea, make me feel stupid and then make me broken.
Early on I learned to say "fsck it." I can't say I've ever taken education all that seriously.
I expect no less of my children.
Though working in science museum I can say that being surrounded by kids all the time is the best contreceptive on the market. I didn't realize it had a field effect so profound.
I ended up running Linux on it my Junior year of college because it wouldn't run any newer releases of MacOs.
I remember my days back at College during our infamous conversion.
Good luck finding Firewire standard on a Dell. They have sold their soul to USB 2.0.
How can you make such a blanket dismissal of what is an otherwise common observance. I have seen, firsthand, the kind of stupidity and pettiness that makes the BOHF look saintly. I have also seen some folks that should be doing my job.
In either case, you can't argue with someone else's first hand observation.
They ditched their working mainframe software that handled billing and scheduling for an NT based system. I'll be kind, there were problems. No fuck that, the system was braindead. By 2000 the system was still screwing things up.
At some point in this giant clown circus one of their computer systems sent back one of my federal loans. A $6000 balance balooned to $10,000. After spending 2 years camped out at the billing office to straighten the matter out, I still couldn't enroll for non-payment, nor get a loan because I wasn't enrolled. I finally had to take a personal loan, which I needed to start paying back immediately, at which point I said fsck it and got a real job.
In accordance with the 5th admendment anything you put on a tax filings can not be used against you as the basis for an investigation. So if you made your millions as a swindler and a con man, make sure it appears on your tax filings.
Hey, girlfriend, SO, soulmate, names don't matter as much as the heart being in the right place.
Careful. WOW is WOW backwards. I've had the grammer Nazi's catch me on that a few times.
Of course in a wheat field, surrounded by 40,000 drunk people playing folk music, what do I do? Set up a computer network. (Slaps head.)
Well at least I do it granola style with a bunch of retro thinkpads and a recycled server I call "patch".
Actually, they could use Disney figures so long as the material was used in the contect of an original art work. They would still get their asses sued, but legally they'd be in the clear.
I'm married. My wife would kill me if I raised my hand.
You are assuming that everyone posting to slashdot is human.
USB storage also comes in the form of USB hard drives, and those cute little keychain flash devices. $40 buys 256MB of storage these days.
Pick one.
Oh boy, we can count to 4294967295 billion now!