Frankly, when I hire a Windows or a Unix sysadmin, I ask if they have done it before.
Asking someone to do something new cold SHOULD take 10 hours. And double that to test.
That said, I spent a total of 10 minutes configuring my first Linux dhcp server.
rpm -ivh dhcp-2.0.i386.rpm
man dhcp
pico/etc/dhcpd.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd start
I did this back in 1998. Since then we've gone from the NT 3.5 interface to the NT 4.0 interface, to the MMC, and now whatever monstrosity they call the thingy under XP.
Under linux, the text file is still in the same place. In fact, it's still largely in the same format.
And also, my experience setting up DHCP for my apartment did a lot more to prepare me for my present 200 node network than a point and drool interface ever would.
In any case taxation is not the issue. Enron didn't pay taxes for years during the 90s. Taxes are not an expense, they are based off of your profit and/or the value of your capital resources.
Companies that are "fleeing" the United States for the third world are going to "flee" those countries once they are sufficiently developed and start demanding services. Hong Kong and Taiwan are now too rich for corporations, so they are tearing up stakes and moving to Indonesia.
No one is fleeing anything. This is a flagrant race for the bottom.
I've been using a prototype of a topology where you use highly focused directional antennas to aim at a central station with an omnidirectional antenna. The key is focusing the attentions of your remote stations onto a single source.
I've been running the system between my office and my apartment (1/4 mile away) through trees for almost a year. I'm using off-the-shelf Linksys access points (1st gen, at that) and antennas I bought from a place in Canada. The access point in my apartment is programmed to be a client, and the "master node" just acts like a regular access point.
The system work well through trees, though I do tend to get a lot of noise during rain storms. I don't have rooftop access in my apartment, so I'm actually shooting the signal out of my apartment window.
If I had the remote on the roof with line of sight, I'm told the system will reach 2 miles.
The office access point has an 8db omnidirectinal antenna the focuses the energy into a flat disk. The remote has a panel-style antenna the focuses the energy into a 20degree cone. You don't have to be too picky with the aim, I can turn the panelmount 45 degrees either way.
Had it not worked, I was going mount the access point in a pelican case, bolt the panel antenna onto the outside, and drill a hole for the pigtail and the ethernet cable.
I also had plans to run power over the spare 2 pair of wires in the cat-5 jack. Rather than one of those hundred dollar POE kits, I was planning on boosting the voltage at house end, and have a 5V voltage regulator ($5 at radio shack) on the other.
Hell when I finally get laid off, that's my scheming Dotcom idea.
Like any technology, I will only belive it once I can buy it. DVD-Ram is almost there. I'm still waiting for my reflective-LCD laptop. And where did the fuel cells for PDA's go?
Sorry about that. A little more googling should have been in order.
I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like air bags or anti-lock brakes, and despite living in the US, I insist on driving stick. I bought my last car with air bags because you can't seem to get a car without them.
While I don't think anti-lock brakes are unsafe, I just don't like them, and I think in encourages people to push the margins of safety. They drive faster, leave less braking distance in front, and assume they are impervious to the rain.
(Enter bit about walking to school up-hill both ways...)
Your family's household income. For some families 50 bucks is a lot of money. Junior or Juniorette can only take the test once, or maybe twice. Mom and Dad most certanily cannot afford the Princeton Review we are going to drill you on the test and tutor you on all of the subjective assuptions about the questions course.
The wonderful thing about numbers is that numbers are wonderful things...
Between grade inflation and the ever-shifting meaning of an SAT score I think te system is very self correcting. Both "scores" are absolutely meaningless.
I'll know I've done my job as a parent if my kid tells me: "Dad, I want to be a Carpenter", or a plumber, or an electrician. Every one of those guys has a house on the shore. No student loans. Steady work. They still use their brains. Most of them gross more a year than I do.
To me it would be a kick in the teeth to have a kid who wants to be a angst ridden kiss ass. I remember being one. I hated it. I deliberately wear sandels and wrinkled shirts to work to try to balance out my preppy past.
They are actually designed to withstand massive magnetic fields. RFID's don't have any internal power, they operate by leaching off the magnetic field of the reader.
With the right design, electronics can survive an EMP. Most of the crud that goes into consumer-grade electrinics is not designed to survive much more than its warrenty.
What I used to do Philly2Nite's website I had a Tcl script that downloaded the first 3 levels of their lotus notes system to static pages under Apache. The apache system could deliver millions of page hits, the 1998 era NT system running Notes on the other hand...
My program would also transparently rewrite the links to look at a cached version when appropriate. The cache software would update the static content every 15 minutes or so. It worked well for years.
Yes, but people sitting in resteraunts without cell phones don't tend to talk about their Colon Polyps, the results of a Pap Smear, or the content of their last bowel movement at the table either.
The Iloo walls are made of plexyglass, and it has a webcam installed with a default password of "password".
Buried deep in the Illoo service agreement is the right for Microsoft to sell the video of your "magic moment" to a cheazy game show or on scat-related websites.
We call the "Quick Roads" the "Freeway" or the "Highway".
Folks, "Power Steering" means hydrolically assisted. The hydrolics operate on mechanical power not electrical power.
The only major system (beyond the ignition) that would screw up would be the anti-lock brakes. From what I've been able to read up on, they are designed to throw the brake pressure on in the event of electrical/system failure.
The car at 100mph would at the very least stall. If the car has anti-lock brakes, it will stall and come to a screeching stop. Any electronics in the car will go poof, so the radio, fuel-injection computer, etc will all need to be replaced. On most cars, a few thousand dollars in damage.
Applied improperly, expect a good punch in the face from the owner. Also expect a healthy fine from the FCC and a lawsuit to recover damages. And since you are a scary nerd, your likelyhood of wearing some bracelets, getting a chaffeurd ride in the back of a squad car, doing a perp walk, and spending the night in jail also approach one.
You know that sounds just whacky enough to be true.
I do know the cops have some pretty beefy electronics on the cars. They install 2 heavy duty alternators on the vehicle with an independent battery for the electronics. I've had police radios set off my electronic door bell. (Sometimes even bleed through the speaker.)
I do know the VW's are renowned for cutting corners in the dumbest places. What VW owner has not yet had to replace a critical part because it was designed to just about work...
If we are talking about something bigger than a cessna, the HERF gun would only be able to zap one engine at a time, and only really the old-fashion piston spark type engines.
Turbo-props and jet engines use the combustion to turn the shaft to suck in air that is mized with gas to combust to... No magneto involved, except to draw electrical power for the aircraft. (And again, you would only be hitting one engine at a time.)
Now trying to hit the cockpit?
Fired from the ground at a jet-liner your pulse would have to go through the cargo bay first. Even if you were somehow levitating in front of the cabin, as an earier poster mentioned, the damn thing is designed to survive a lightning strike, and exposure to a much more powerful system that uses the same radiation: the airport radar.
ALSO remember the effective range of this puppy is measured in yards. The range most people encounter aircraft is measured in miles.
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And while we are at it, will they still have handsets for the rebels to zap back to their ship with?
Yeah, but as soon as the shoot a hole through the laptop screen it becomes quite unusable. At least with the exit wound and all.
Yeah brain what are we going to do tomarrow night?
The same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the world!
Nah. They asked 2 CIO's. Both were talking out both sides of their mouth.
Asking someone to do something new cold SHOULD take 10 hours. And double that to test.
That said, I spent a total of 10 minutes configuring my first Linux dhcp server.
rpm -ivh dhcp-2.0.i386.rpm
man dhcp
pico /etc/dhcpd.conf
I did this back in 1998. Since then we've gone from the NT 3.5 interface to the NT 4.0 interface, to the MMC, and now whatever monstrosity they call the thingy under XP.
Under linux, the text file is still in the same place. In fact, it's still largely in the same format.
And also, my experience setting up DHCP for my apartment did a lot more to prepare me for my present 200 node network than a point and drool interface ever would.
In any case taxation is not the issue. Enron didn't pay taxes for years during the 90s. Taxes are not an expense, they are based off of your profit and/or the value of your capital resources.
Companies that are "fleeing" the United States for the third world are going to "flee" those countries once they are sufficiently developed and start demanding services. Hong Kong and Taiwan are now too rich for corporations, so they are tearing up stakes and moving to Indonesia.
No one is fleeing anything. This is a flagrant race for the bottom.
I've been running the system between my office and my apartment (1/4 mile away) through trees for almost a year. I'm using off-the-shelf Linksys access points (1st gen, at that) and antennas I bought from a place in Canada. The access point in my apartment is programmed to be a client, and the "master node" just acts like a regular access point.
The system work well through trees, though I do tend to get a lot of noise during rain storms. I don't have rooftop access in my apartment, so I'm actually shooting the signal out of my apartment window.
If I had the remote on the roof with line of sight, I'm told the system will reach 2 miles.
The office access point has an 8db omnidirectinal antenna the focuses the energy into a flat disk. The remote has a panel-style antenna the focuses the energy into a 20degree cone. You don't have to be too picky with the aim, I can turn the panelmount 45 degrees either way.
Had it not worked, I was going mount the access point in a pelican case, bolt the panel antenna onto the outside, and drill a hole for the pigtail and the ethernet cable.
I also had plans to run power over the spare 2 pair of wires in the cat-5 jack. Rather than one of those hundred dollar POE kits, I was planning on boosting the voltage at house end, and have a 5V voltage regulator ($5 at radio shack) on the other.
Hell when I finally get laid off, that's my scheming Dotcom idea.
I strive to be a non-conformist, just like everybody else.
Bitter... No, not me.
I'm a bit of a curmudgeon. I don't like air bags or anti-lock brakes, and despite living in the US, I insist on driving stick. I bought my last car with air bags because you can't seem to get a car without them.
While I don't think anti-lock brakes are unsafe, I just don't like them, and I think in encourages people to push the margins of safety. They drive faster, leave less braking distance in front, and assume they are impervious to the rain.
(Enter bit about walking to school up-hill both ways...)
Aside from the shit part, that pretty much sums up a Help Desk tech's life.
Let me ammend that. I'll know I've done my job if my kid grows up to be happy with what they do in life.
Thanks, it's nice to remember that some folks ARE happy with a desk job.
No I'm not bitter...
Between grade inflation and the ever-shifting meaning of an SAT score I think te system is very self correcting. Both "scores" are absolutely meaningless.
I'll know I've done my job as a parent if my kid tells me: "Dad, I want to be a Carpenter", or a plumber, or an electrician. Every one of those guys has a house on the shore. No student loans. Steady work. They still use their brains. Most of them gross more a year than I do.
To me it would be a kick in the teeth to have a kid who wants to be a angst ridden kiss ass. I remember being one. I hated it. I deliberately wear sandels and wrinkled shirts to work to try to balance out my preppy past.
It only works on cars because cars use cheap unshielded electronics.
With the right design, electronics can survive an EMP. Most of the crud that goes into consumer-grade electrinics is not designed to survive much more than its warrenty.
The EMP will fry the anti-lock brakes. ABS systems are designed to lock the wheels in case of system failure. (Ironic in a way...)
What I used to do Philly2Nite's website I had a Tcl script that downloaded the first 3 levels of their lotus notes system to static pages under Apache. The apache system could deliver millions of page hits, the 1998 era NT system running Notes on the other hand...
My program would also transparently rewrite the links to look at a cached version when appropriate. The cache software would update the static content every 15 minutes or so. It worked well for years.
Yes, but people sitting in resteraunts without cell phones don't tend to talk about their Colon Polyps, the results of a Pap Smear, or the content of their last bowel movement at the table either.
The Iloo walls are made of plexyglass, and it has a webcam installed with a default password of "password".
Buried deep in the Illoo service agreement is the right for Microsoft to sell the video of your "magic moment" to a cheazy game show or on scat-related websites.
Folks, "Power Steering" means hydrolically assisted. The hydrolics operate on mechanical power not electrical power.
The only major system (beyond the ignition) that would screw up would be the anti-lock brakes. From what I've been able to read up on, they are designed to throw the brake pressure on in the event of electrical/system failure.
The car at 100mph would at the very least stall. If the car has anti-lock brakes, it will stall and come to a screeching stop. Any electronics in the car will go poof, so the radio, fuel-injection computer, etc will all need to be replaced. On most cars, a few thousand dollars in damage.
Applied improperly, expect a good punch in the face from the owner. Also expect a healthy fine from the FCC and a lawsuit to recover damages. And since you are a scary nerd, your likelyhood of wearing some bracelets, getting a chaffeurd ride in the back of a squad car, doing a perp walk, and spending the night in jail also approach one.
I do know the cops have some pretty beefy electronics on the cars. They install 2 heavy duty alternators on the vehicle with an independent battery for the electronics. I've had police radios set off my electronic door bell. (Sometimes even bleed through the speaker.)
I do know the VW's are renowned for cutting corners in the dumbest places. What VW owner has not yet had to replace a critical part because it was designed to just about work...
Its designed to keep dicksize wars off of the airwaves.
You can shield your device all you want.
Turbo-props and jet engines use the combustion to turn the shaft to suck in air that is mized with gas to combust to ... No magneto involved, except to draw electrical power for the aircraft. (And again, you would only be hitting one engine at a time.)
Now trying to hit the cockpit? Fired from the ground at a jet-liner your pulse would have to go through the cargo bay first. Even if you were somehow levitating in front of the cabin, as an earier poster mentioned, the damn thing is designed to survive a lightning strike, and exposure to a much more powerful system that uses the same radiation: the airport radar.
ALSO remember the effective range of this puppy is measured in yards. The range most people encounter aircraft is measured in miles.