having just come back from sybase dba class i can say that you cannot load a sybase *nix database on nt. you could bcp everything out to flat-file and load that, but that's your only unix -> nt option.
last week, my boyfriend and i took a "vacation". i was fortunate enough to be cut off from work (cheap employer won't pay for pagers that work outside of houston!), but he still had his ball and chain - not me, his pager. he was paged at least five times during the week - "emergencies" where he *had* to take the call.
rediculous!!!
also, when we first started dating, it took us 3 months before we could go on a movie date. between his on-call and mine, there wasn't time!
this is all so sad. when is technology going to give us our lives back? i'm afraid that when i have children, i'll never get to see them:(
here's my big question: MS has had all this time to innovate, but they haven't. why do they care all of the sudden? so the govt breaks them up - big deal, they'll keep on stealing/modifying everybody else's work just like before!
my ubergeek boyfriend drives a porche that he races, but he doesn't do the designer clothes thing, or the socializing thing. however, between work (he's on call 24/7), racing, kung fu 5 days a week, and general tinkering with boxen at home, he doesn't have *time* for that other stuff.
*shrug* all i know is that he is the most wonderful person i have even known in my whole life. yes, Miss M has finally fallen in love.
here's how i went from microbiologist to unix admin/dba/soon to be ccna: the person who did the "computer stuff" at the lab where i worked quit. the president came down to the lab and asked "does anybody here know anything about computers?" since i had been an irc junkie in college i said "i do". next thing i knew, i was running/troubleshooting a network of 20 macs, 15 pc's running old novell, and 2 sun boxes (all while still being a data analyst and lab tech). i found that i liked the computer stuff more than the lab work. so i put a resume out, got a couple of interviews, and got an offer with an 85% salary increase (i was making $20k as a biologist).
probably the best decision i have made - even on the bad days with hosed machines and mad users, i love the challenge of making it all work.
after working with AIX over the course of the last year, all i have to say is this:
i would rather embrace the spawn of satan than to have to work with AIX anymore!
the problem with aix is that it does everything for you. this is GREAT for routine stuff - adding a new fs, changing ip addresses, etc. but when you want to do something slightly different, or do it a certian way, you're screwed. i've found that its easier to reinstall the OS in some cases than it is to try to make it work.
but, then again, some people think i'm on crack. *shrug*
great, so now on top of everything else, i'm a "chickclicker". lovely.
Jon, women have been on the net for a long, long time. back in the day, you just didn't advertise you were a woman because a)it didn't really matter and b)it cut down on the "r u a horny girl?" spam.
these stereotypes are just rediculous. i'm not caring, nuturing, politically-minded, blah blah blah. i'm on the net looking for linux how-to's, or checking computer prices, or getting news, NOT looking for other women to connect with.
perhaps you would get your facts straight if you actually *talked* to a few women, instead of getting sappy quotes of cheezy web sites.
and, on another note: if i had meant to be the "goddess of hellfire" i would have written it that way.
Does anybody know what assembly software they're using, and on what platform? I'm going to assume they're not using Sequencher (not good for big sequesces).
Since they are PE affiliated, are they using PE's unix-based system (or did that never hit the market)??
forget racks, say hello to ikea! their ivar shelving is GREAT for tons of computer stuff. buy whatever height racks you want, buy however many shelves you need, get a cross-brace to keep it stable. you can even get multiple racks, and build an entire wall shelving unit. they also have a pull-out keyboard/desk shelf, so you can put your monitor/kbd there. in the future, you can add to the system, no problem! also, everything is made of wood, so you can easily nail power strips to the shelves.
i especially like this shelving b/c i can stain/paint it to look nice. yes, i hate to admit it, but i don't like my computer room looking like crap.
this is what i've done in my home, and it works/looks great.
i have 20 boxes on a test network that are used mostly as terminals to log in to the production system. seti@home is FAR better use of the machines than just sitting there as idle workstations.
once all the little boys out there open their eyes and TAKE A LOOK, they will notice that there are more women geeks out there than they thought, and we are taking their jobs and kicking ass while they are whining.
ha.
------ if i had meant to say "Goddess of Hellfire", don't you think i would have put it there???
I pretty much agree with you on this one. Online voting would be *too* easy. Most people do not care about the real issues - they will just vote for who they have heard of (code for who the media likes the best). People who make the effort to go vote are the ones i want making the decisions.
However, you are incorrect on one point: the US is not founded on the premise that every man's opinion is equally correct. Back when this country was formed, you basically had to be a white male land-owner to be able to vote. Also, remember that the popular vote DOES NOT determine the president - it is the electoral college that does. Even the Founding Fathers didn't trust the general populus.
not getting your value from the tax dollars?? good lord, don't you realize what they have learned from this failure? don't you think the next mission will be far better because of this failed attempt? do you always do everything right?
ack, statements like that make me sick!
the space program is probably one of the MOST important items in the national budget. look at everything we have gained from all the successes as well as failures from the space program!! personally, i think we should pump more money into space exploration than we do. but that's just me....
speaking as a geek girl, who knows PLENTY of other geek girls, there is no shortage. i think the problem lies more in the boys. most geek boys tend to follow (hate to say it) the "shy and not so social" stereotype, whereas the females i know are quite the social animals. so while you boys are sitting at home wondering where all the women are, we're out painting the town AND still spewing out code (gotta love it when i'm answering calls from the bars/clubs).
so, like i told the little boy who FINALLY asked me out: Get Off Your Asses and DO Something!!
i work for a rather large "not-for-profit" hospital. in my group, we alternate being on-call 24/7 for a week, every 8 weeks. osha's announcement could mean any of the following:
1) the hospital will have to make sure we have the proper equipment to work from home 2) we will no longer be allowed to work from home - the on-call person will have to live at work for a week 3) they hire permanent night-time on-call people
since this is a "not-for-profit" organization, they are CHEAP, and i doubt they will make sure everybody has proper equipment at home. way way way too expensive. it would take too much money away from the "give the doctors whatever they want" fund. although, in their defense, we are given pagers, rotating on-call cell phones, and an on-call laptop (if you need it). i set the stuff on the floor next to my bed so i don't have to roll very far when i get those 4am calls.
as far as the keeping people at the office - i think everybody who works here would quit if they had to live here for a week.
finally, there's no way they'd hire specific nighttime on-call personnell. it would not be cost-effective. sometimes you get no after-hours calls for days, sometimes you work all night, every night.
it almost makes me want to bring the subject up with our IS vp, just to see what he says.
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having just come back from sybase dba class i can say that you cannot load a sybase *nix database on nt. you could bcp everything out to flat-file and load that, but that's your only unix -> nt option.
i think you should learn to use "a lot" instead of "alot"
first, a jon katz review is posted by timothy....now, an article about violent games turns in to a "meat is bad" rant.
oooohhhhhh, i can't wait to see what's next!!!!!
you can also get a CDs of his radio commentaries.
i got one for my dad last father's day. i know you can get them pretty easily here in houston (where the show is produced), not sure where else.
last week, my boyfriend and i took a "vacation". i was fortunate enough to be cut off from work (cheap employer won't pay for pagers that work outside of houston!), but he still had his ball and chain - not me, his pager. he was paged at least five times during the week - "emergencies" where he *had* to take the call.
:(
rediculous!!!
also, when we first started dating, it took us 3 months before we could go on a movie date. between his on-call and mine, there wasn't time!
this is all so sad. when is technology going to give us our lives back? i'm afraid that when i have children, i'll never get to see them
here's my big question: MS has had all this time to innovate, but they haven't. why do they care all of the sudden? so the govt breaks them up - big deal, they'll keep on stealing/modifying everybody else's work just like before!
hrm....interesting theories.
my ubergeek boyfriend drives a porche that he races, but he doesn't do the designer clothes thing, or the socializing thing. however, between work (he's on call 24/7), racing, kung fu 5 days a week, and general tinkering with boxen at home, he doesn't have *time* for that other stuff.
*shrug*
all i know is that he is the most wonderful person i have even known in my whole life. yes, Miss M has finally fallen in love.
ps - i'm a geek too!
here's how i went from microbiologist to unix admin/dba/soon to be ccna: the person who did the "computer stuff" at the lab where i worked quit. the president came down to the lab and asked "does anybody here know anything about computers?" since i had been an irc junkie in college i said "i do". next thing i knew, i was running/troubleshooting a network of 20 macs, 15 pc's running old novell, and 2 sun boxes (all while still being a data analyst and lab tech). i found that i liked the computer stuff more than the lab work. so i put a resume out, got a couple of interviews, and got an offer with an 85% salary increase (i was making $20k as a biologist).
probably the best decision i have made - even on the bad days with hosed machines and mad users, i love the challenge of making it all work.
hope this helps some.
-Stacey
after working with AIX over the course of the last year, all i have to say is this:
i would rather embrace the spawn of satan than to have to work with AIX anymore!
the problem with aix is that it does everything for you. this is GREAT for routine stuff - adding a new fs, changing ip addresses, etc. but when you want to do something slightly different, or do it a certian way, you're screwed. i've found that its easier to reinstall the OS in some cases than it is to try to make it work.
but, then again, some people think i'm on crack.
*shrug*
i prefer to call it Natural Selection.
the population does need a little thinning...
"Fact: Chemical properties are determined by the contents of the nucleus, the electron structure plays no role in this."
hello, did you NOT take chemistry?
why do you think water has all its weird little properties, and its polarity? hrm, that would be because of the location of the ELECTRONS.
why is carbon the basis of life? problably because it has 4 valence ELECTRONS which work like an organic tinker-toy!!!
and the list goes on and on!!!!
I can tell you why its a problem! Because every time my mother gets porn spam, she freaks out and calls me. That makes it....almost every day.
Not fun.
great, so now on top of everything else, i'm a "chickclicker". lovely.
Jon, women have been on the net for a long, long time. back in the day, you just didn't advertise you were a woman because a)it didn't really matter and b)it cut down on the "r u a horny girl?" spam.
these stereotypes are just rediculous. i'm not caring, nuturing, politically-minded, blah blah blah. i'm on the net looking for linux how-to's, or checking computer prices, or getting news, NOT looking for other women to connect with.
perhaps you would get your facts straight if you actually *talked* to a few women, instead of getting sappy quotes of cheezy web sites.
and, on another note: if i had meant to be the "goddess of hellfire" i would have written it that way.
will show this on Apr 22.
suck!
Does anybody know what assembly software they're using, and on what platform? I'm going to assume they're not using Sequencher (not good for big sequesces).
Since they are PE affiliated, are they using PE's unix-based system (or did that never hit the market)??
you HEATHEN you!
everybody KNOWS the 2 other most important holidays of the year are Halloween and Mardi Gras!!!!!!!!!!!
forget racks, say hello to ikea! their ivar shelving is GREAT for tons of computer stuff. buy whatever height racks you want, buy however many shelves you need, get a cross-brace to keep it stable. you can even get multiple racks, and build an entire wall shelving unit. they also have a pull-out keyboard/desk shelf, so you can put your monitor/kbd there. in the future, you can add to the system, no problem! also, everything is made of wood, so you can easily nail power strips to the shelves.
i especially like this shelving b/c i can stain/paint it to look nice. yes, i hate to admit it, but i don't like my computer room looking like crap.
this is what i've done in my home, and it works/looks great.
i have 20 boxes on a test network that are used mostly as terminals to log in to the production system. seti@home is FAR better use of the machines than just sitting there as idle workstations.
so there.
i don't think that most *nix users would want that. well, the linux folks would.
i have it running on 20 of my headless boxes (don't tell my boss!!), so x gui would be pointless.
amen, sister.
once all the little boys out there open their eyes and TAKE A LOOK, they will notice that there are more women geeks out there than they thought, and we are taking their jobs and kicking ass while they are whining.
ha.
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if i had meant to say "Goddess of Hellfire", don't you think i would have put it there???
I pretty much agree with you on this one. Online voting would be *too* easy. Most people do not care about the real issues - they will just vote for who they have heard of (code for who the media likes the best). People who make the effort to go vote are the ones i want making the decisions.
However, you are incorrect on one point: the US is not founded on the premise that every man's opinion is equally correct. Back when this country was formed, you basically had to be a white male land-owner to be able to vote. Also, remember that the popular vote DOES NOT determine the president - it is the electoral college that does. Even the Founding Fathers didn't trust the general populus.
not getting your value from the tax dollars?? good lord, don't you realize what they have learned from this failure? don't you think the next mission will be far better because of this failed attempt? do you always do everything right?
ack, statements like that make me sick!
the space program is probably one of the MOST important items in the national budget. look at everything we have gained from all the successes as well as failures from the space program!! personally, i think we should pump more money into space exploration than we do. but that's just me....
the only bad thing about the simpsons is that phil hartman is gone. i really really miss his characters.
wrong wrong wrong wrong.
speaking as a geek girl, who knows PLENTY of other geek girls, there is no shortage. i think the problem lies more in the boys. most geek boys tend to follow (hate to say it) the "shy and not so social" stereotype, whereas the females i know are quite the social animals. so while you boys are sitting at home wondering where all the women are, we're out painting the town AND still spewing out code (gotta love it when i'm answering calls from the bars/clubs).
so, like i told the little boy who FINALLY asked me out: Get Off Your Asses and DO Something!!
i work for a rather large "not-for-profit" hospital. in my group, we alternate being on-call 24/7 for a week, every 8 weeks. osha's announcement could mean any of the following:
1) the hospital will have to make sure we have the proper equipment to work from home
2) we will no longer be allowed to work from home - the on-call person will have to live at work for a week
3) they hire permanent night-time on-call people
since this is a "not-for-profit" organization, they are CHEAP, and i doubt they will make sure everybody has proper equipment at home. way way way too expensive. it would take too much money away from the "give the doctors whatever they want" fund. although, in their defense, we are given pagers, rotating on-call cell phones, and an on-call laptop (if you need it). i set the stuff on the floor next to my bed so i don't have to roll very far when i get those 4am calls.
as far as the keeping people at the office - i think everybody who works here would quit if they had to live here for a week.
finally, there's no way they'd hire specific nighttime on-call personnell. it would not be cost-effective. sometimes you get no after-hours calls for days, sometimes you work all night, every night.
it almost makes me want to bring the subject up with our IS vp, just to see what he says.