Why bother buying new equipment? Last year I bought a couple of thinkpads off of Ebay, slapped in a new PCMCIA network cards, and installed linux. There is just enough OS to boot, load the PCMCIA drivers, X, and do an Inderect call to my Linux server.
This year I'm going to get fancy and upgrade the kernel to 2.4 so I can use 802.11. Ah Gentoo...
1. Buy some cold beer
2. Open a bottle
3. Take a sip, then sit the bottle next to your cpu
4. Repeat 3, until beer is empty
5. Repeat 2-4, until beer is gone
6. Repeat 1-5, until unconscious or broke
1. Buy some cold beer
2. Open a bottle
3. Take a sip, then sit the bottle next to your cpu
4. Repeat 3, until beer is empty
5. Repeat 2-4, until beer is gone
6. Repeat 1-5, until unconscious or broke
According to the constitution, by law Congress must provide a postal system. Short of a constitutional ademendment, they are just a lawsuit away from any "reform" ideas being thrown out.
And frankly our postal system is a bargain. Try sending 2 oz letter 3500 miles for $0.36 in any other country in the world.
Now if you only had a telephone and a broadband service like that...
We had gotten Verizon's wireless web service so he could check his mail on the road. Three weeks ago, it stopped working. After eliminating the obvious I called Verizon, and yup, they are blocking the port.
How many of you remember those heathkit intercoms? They carried your voice over the power lines inside of the house by modulating them at a higher frequency that 60 hz. The reciever, of course, was a simple 60Hz filter attached to an amp.
It worked quite well, especially since it had a built in power source. Gotta wonder why more folks aren't running the LAN off of this principle.
Though if you were going to do this on any large scale, you MIGHT want to equip your appliances with a band-pass filter to prevent the higher frequency signals from interfering with your switching power supplies.
It won't work for any large organization, unless someone can figure out a way to implement packet switching. Your collision rate would be terrible with everybody connected to a giant dumb hub. I'm pretty sure the same traffic protocols used for wireless would solve this problem too.
Except that every copy protection scheme requires trusting SOME component of the computer. And in every case that trust can be violated. Just look at the drivers that fake our hardware protection locks, or crackers that find and defeat the copy protection elements of your software binaries.
In the end, you are simply errecting higher and higher fences to keep birds out.
I'm a 28 year old Senior Network Engineer. I dropped out of college, if that means anything to you. I also make a habit of embarrasing consultants. Great lines from meetings (in front of VP's):
What you can perform the functions of a $40,000 PIX firewall with a recycled Linux Box?
It's fine that you have it working, we just want to make it work in a way we understand...
And If you are really that curous, I've been working on networks since 1994... so that is probably about 8 years experience, the last 5 professionally. And no, I don't consider myself a Guru, my staff and coworkers do.
Hell when I had a computer, it had 64Kb of RAM. We didn't have hard drives, we had floppy disks, and we were grateful. Some of us didn't even have floppy disks, we have tape drives.
When we finally did get a hard drive it was 40MB. And we thought "wow" we'll never use the whole thing.
We didn't have games back then. We had to write our own, in BASIC!
The Internet! We didn't have an internet. If we were lucky we had a BBS account, at a whopping 2400 baud. And that was blazing fast back then.
Why on earth are you forcing the parent to call you?
That's like me forcing the HR department to go through my office to make changes to the staff list. Get over yourself. Get on the ball.
If you need the ability to revise a grade PUT IT IN THE FUCKING SPECIFICATION. If they won't change the spec, complain. But don't just draw a line in the sand and say I'm not moving past this spot.
That is the fastest way to termination I have found. And belive me, I have seen a lot of asses canned.
Gentoo Linux: $0
Apache Webserver: $0
MySQL: $0
Recycled workstation: $0
Apache in a Nutshell: $40
PhP in a Nutshell: $40
MySQL in a Nutshell: $40
DSL Line: $80/month
I see a very good benifit. Children are lieing sacks of shit. They will do or say anything to avoid chores and punishment. They will do anything or say anything to get rewards. At some point the light goes on in their head that this is not worth the trouble, and it is easier to go with the program and just get it done.
But that light needs to go on, and only the individual can have the realization. You can't teach it to a child, and certainly not for an adult.
This is a tool that prevents students from interfering with the communication between parent and teacher. It does it in a way that allows a parent to obtain information without having to harass the school administration. It is information that is healthy for a parent to have on a day-to-day basis, and for the parent to deal with as he or she sees fit.
It IS a parent's job to Micro-Manage. The situation is different in dealings between adults because it is assumed that adults have already learned these lessons. If a manager lacks trust in his employees, he is a fool for having hired them.
You should create a completely meaningless key, starting at some arbitrarily large number, say 100000, and count up for every student added.
They number is your "student number", and useful ONLY for working around the database. Since it is arbitrary and meaningless, it is impossible to guess. It comes home on every report card, so parents know where to find it.
While I allow users to reset their password, I leave the default password the DOB. It's hard enough to guess, everyone has one. (If the DOB is unknown I put in a code number 1900-01-01. I also have a code 1800-01-01 for ficiticous records.)
This is a simple 80:20 (80 percent of the effect, 20 percent of the effort) solution.
Oh really, asshole? Which one?
1860
Abraham Lincoln, Republican 1,867,198
J. C. Breckinridge, Democrat 854,248
John Bell, Constitutional Union 591,658
Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat 1,379,434
1864
Abraham Lincoln, Republican 2,219,362
George B. McClellan, Democrat 1,805,063
In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes lost the popular vote but won the EC. In 1824, John Quincy Adams lost both the popular vote and and the EC, but won the presidency.
First off, most professional titles confer a level of expertise, as well as the area. I propose the following for the computer field:
Specialites:
Server - Management of a specific system, OS, and hardware
Database - Management of a data set
Network - Management or routers, switches, and network infrastructure
Workstation - Helpdesk functions
Systems - Management of all data-center operations (Server, Database, and Network)
Levels of Ability
Apprentice - Your average precocious kid, or computer dude in the lab.
Journeyman - Has worked with several different networks with at least 1 year of professional experience.
Master - Has assembled a complete system within his/her specialty and kept it running for one full year.
Engineer - Has designed a novel new system, published the design, and has supported the development for one year.
Guru - Has been active in the Computer community for at least 5 years. Has a strong enough opinion about an issue to piss off as many poeple as he/she turns on. Is generally regarded simultaneously as Insane and Genius. Has a day job, but most of his/her fun stuff is done after hours.
I am cherished, yet feared. For why else can no one think of my name? Pass them in the hall, its "Hey, er...". I am a part of every project, but always left out of the credits.
My role is so integral to the operation of the building that it is simply assumed.
And that's what I keep telling myself to keep from going crazy.
Cheap abundent power will radically change our world. Especially since this time around it doesn't produce mass quantities of poisenous, radioactive material.
Can you picture a world where it will finally be cheaper to do something in-country than ship it over-seas? How about a world where the energy barrons have no dominion over the developed world.
I finally feel, for the first time in my 28 years, that humanity is actually doing something DIFFERENT and NEW, as opposed to slapping a rev 27 on an old idea.
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This year I'm going to get fancy and upgrade the kernel to 2.4 so I can use 802.11. Ah Gentoo...
2. Open a bottle
3. Take a sip, then sit the bottle next to your cpu
4. Repeat 3, until beer is empty
5. Repeat 2-4, until beer is gone
6. Repeat 1-5, until unconscious or broke
And the now Ubiquitous:
7. ????
8. Profit!!!
2. Open a bottle
3. Take a sip, then sit the bottle next to your cpu
4. Repeat 3, until beer is empty
5. Repeat 2-4, until beer is gone
6. Repeat 1-5, until unconscious or broke
Now what if we made a Beowulf cluster of those!
For all the non-Microsoft folks out there:
Tiny Bubbles,
...
Running Xine,
Make PC happy,
Make PC fine
(Cue the large beast swallowing the poster in a Monty-Pythonesque cartoon sequence.)
According to the constitution, by law Congress must provide a postal system. Short of a constitutional ademendment, they are just a lawsuit away from any "reform" ideas being thrown out.
And frankly our postal system is a bargain. Try sending 2 oz letter 3500 miles for $0.36 in any other country in the world.
Now if you only had a telephone and a broadband service like that...
That's service.
It worked quite well, especially since it had a built in power source. Gotta wonder why more folks aren't running the LAN off of this principle.
Though if you were going to do this on any large scale, you MIGHT want to equip your appliances with a band-pass filter to prevent the higher frequency signals from interfering with your switching power supplies.
It won't work for any large organization, unless someone can figure out a way to implement packet switching. Your collision rate would be terrible with everybody connected to a giant dumb hub. I'm pretty sure the same traffic protocols used for wireless would solve this problem too.
In the end, you are simply errecting higher and higher fences to keep birds out.
Assuming that that cog is competant to do his or her job, or even in the Org chart.
I work in a place with a 30% staff turnover a year. Try project planning some time when you don't know who will actually be there, or even trained.
And If you are really that curous, I've been working on networks since 1994... so that is probably about 8 years experience, the last 5 professionally. And no, I don't consider myself a Guru, my staff and coworkers do.
Hell when I had a computer, it had 64Kb of RAM. We didn't have hard drives, we had floppy disks, and we were grateful. Some of us didn't even have floppy disks, we have tape drives.
When we finally did get a hard drive it was 40MB. And we thought "wow" we'll never use the whole thing.
We didn't have games back then. We had to write our own, in BASIC!
The Internet! We didn't have an internet. If we were lucky we had a BBS account, at a whopping 2400 baud. And that was blazing fast back then.
Kid's these days...
(Spoken like a true 28 year old Computer fogie)
That's like me forcing the HR department to go through my office to make changes to the staff list. Get over yourself. Get on the ball.
If you need the ability to revise a grade PUT IT IN THE FUCKING SPECIFICATION. If they won't change the spec, complain. But don't just draw a line in the sand and say I'm not moving past this spot.
That is the fastest way to termination I have found. And belive me, I have seen a lot of asses canned.
Apache Webserver: $0
MySQL: $0
Recycled workstation: $0
Apache in a Nutshell: $40
PhP in a Nutshell: $40
MySQL in a Nutshell: $40
DSL Line: $80/month
Having a web-based grade portal: priceless.
Technology requires sweat, not equity.
But that light needs to go on, and only the individual can have the realization. You can't teach it to a child, and certainly not for an adult.
This is a tool that prevents students from interfering with the communication between parent and teacher. It does it in a way that allows a parent to obtain information without having to harass the school administration. It is information that is healthy for a parent to have on a day-to-day basis, and for the parent to deal with as he or she sees fit.
It IS a parent's job to Micro-Manage. The situation is different in dealings between adults because it is assumed that adults have already learned these lessons. If a manager lacks trust in his employees, he is a fool for having hired them.
Parents don't have the option of firing children.
No user select usernames or passwords.
You should create a completely meaningless key, starting at some arbitrarily large number, say 100000, and count up for every student added.
They number is your "student number", and useful ONLY for working around the database. Since it is arbitrary and meaningless, it is impossible to guess. It comes home on every report card, so parents know where to find it.
While I allow users to reset their password, I leave the default password the DOB. It's hard enough to guess, everyone has one. (If the DOB is unknown I put in a code number 1900-01-01. I also have a code 1800-01-01 for ficiticous records.)
This is a simple 80:20 (80 percent of the effect, 20 percent of the effort) solution.
Oh, you meant GAMES...
Now if someone where to go off and figure out how to play doom with it, or render it as a Magic-Eye puzzle, that would be novel.
All of the complexity in that design was getting it to fit into 64Kb of memory. A single link of TCL code would probably use more than that.
Crap, just look at education. You see the same long disproven theories wrapped into a fad return year after year.
And don't get me started on economics...
Before that all real-estate transactions needed to make sense on the back of an envelope.
How many of you have run into dumb decisions by management that looked good in the spreadsheet?
Somebody mod this boy up... oh wait ... damn AC
I don't put member in my title. People think I'm enough of a dick as is.
That goes double for a Unix admin. We deal with daemons, etherial networks, and dead processes all the time.
Specialites:
Levels of Ability
My full title is "He who must remain nameless."
I am cherished, yet feared. For why else can no one think of my name? Pass them in the hall, its "Hey, er...". I am a part of every project, but always left out of the credits.
My role is so integral to the operation of the building that it is simply assumed.
And that's what I keep telling myself to keep from going crazy.
Can you picture a world where it will finally be cheaper to do something in-country than ship it over-seas? How about a world where the energy barrons have no dominion over the developed world.
I finally feel, for the first time in my 28 years, that humanity is actually doing something DIFFERENT and NEW, as opposed to slapping a rev 27 on an old idea.