best boss: Graphic Artist with no networking experience handling 5-25 front line techs, 3-5 second level techs, and two dispatchers in supporting a dormitory cable modem network with about 3200 active nodes but could scale to approx 6000-7000 at any time.
Supposedly a win95/98/NT4 and >= Mac 8.0 only supported network we were told by her to disregard *ix, *bsd, Windows 2000, win 3.x, Be, and old Mac, all bullshit.
At the urging of @home, the actual provider in town she sent an order to the dormitory RA's, none of which work for us, to remove the $600 Cisco routers in each room and place them in a single room for fear of theft over the summer.
She then tells us we are due back at college a week early to reinstall these routers, I said fuck off, I 'm bouncing at the bars next year
The cablemodem companies, at least with @whoreme in Lexington KY, provide absolutely no support for alternative OSes, I a first level tech at UK and the limits of our Mac training consisted of an optional 15 minutes of a four hour training/indoctrination session.
We are told to feed bullshit to anyone not using win 95/98/NT 4.0 sp 4 or Mac OS 8.0, when any and all flavors of *nix/*BSD run exceptionally well, Win 3.11, and Mac 7.1 run fine as well. Even w2k is officially listed as unsupported.
I fired it up to see how my personal page looked, and be damned if I didn't get an extra bullet in an unordered list.
I then checked it against a different stylesheet with a single bullet class (resume.css instead of style.css), problem disappears
Ok fair enough, fire up the bug reporter, navigator crashes, but the crash reporter gave much better info than I have ever gotten from Dr. Watson.
And so the tale of netscape flameouts continues, but I wouldn't mind having that crash reporter come up instead of the cryptic win 98 invalid Page Fault at register..... error message for all program crashes
This problem is rampant through the unix communinty, a lot of sysadmins simply run too many bin(s),here's a count at sweb.uky.edu, my current web development platform at the University of Kentucky
/bin
/sbin
/sbin/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/sbin/bin
That is nine by my count, its seems Admins should take note from Windows 95/98/2000 is that it gives people a common place to install their programs, typically called program files (I changed it to bin, you could call it bob or maurice if you wanted).
Keep in mind that the 1Ghz PIII is not Intel's flagship, their PIII Zeons are, I'm sure for double price of a PIII at any clock speed they'll let you use SMP as far as the design specs allow.
The question of validated HTML syntax is very important when containing to under 5K, things like alt text for images, dtd's, and closing tags become very important,, I'm intrigued though, so I'll give it a shot, check out my project \\SWEB/~jdholl1/index.html
Worked for Lexmark, notice there are only Lexmark printers in all the offices and homes on X-files. LexMk paid an insane ammount of money for these subtle ads.
Think about what you are saying. Here at the UK we run something like 1200 lab machines on NT and the cs/engineering dept that runs a variety of *ix/solaris/HP-UX has maybe 100-200 total.
These machines are what the undergrad population are comfortable with and our computer labs staff are trained to assist with. Most lab assistants can't keep their head out of their ass or hand off of their crotch long enough to learn about Linux/X windows/Star Office, which for $6/hr is reasonable in my book.
Admittedly, I would love to see a lab of linux machines created here that do not require you to be in the engineering dept. to get accounts, or perhaps offer a VMware/dual-boot solution, but for now NT/Office/Napster/AOL_IM offers more than most users and lab staff can handle.
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From someone who works as a first level tech for @HOME, EtOH is the only way to go, before or after a job, usually makes my repair times lower too, keeps the payroll dept happy.
perhaps EDS can help you Data Mine the cats for instances of "petrified grits", as they are the currency of the future. Also supprised Andover didn't have an ad. --"You callin' up dinosaurs billybob?" --"I reckon I can Give'em a holler."
But if you are trapped in the residence halls, their service is all you can get. Think about it this way, five years ago, the "new" dial-up gateway at UK was installed, with a huge pool of 28.8 modems. The students could use this for full net access. Two years later, it was restricted to within university domains.uky.edu, but still no other solution other than another ISP, but that ties your phone, and the university does not sell extra phone lines to dorm residents. We were told fall 98 that a high speed networking option was coming, by december I was told by the VP of Info. Sys. that 640kbs connections were the minimum bid spec. What we ended up with was @home with 128k down/64k up connections, first level install/ setup/troubleshoot techs that were sent out on 4 hours of training(I'm still one of them, the pay is decent), and complete and total idiots at the cable company who are our second level and network ops people. I have to lie bold faced to people not running Win 9x/NT or MAC OS8.X or better and say that our network does not support them, even though I know damn well it does. So I say fuck them, I'm moving off campus where DSL is dirt cheap
Don't we see this post every week, It's almost like someone is going throgh slashdot's dirty clothes hamper and pulling out the nastiest pair of gym socks. Is there any way to resurect and repost the logical arguments for and against this technology, so we are finally rid of such nonsense.
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Supposedly a win95/98/NT4 and >= Mac 8.0 only supported network we were told by her to disregard *ix, *bsd, Windows 2000, win 3.x, Be, and old Mac, all bullshit.
At the urging of @home, the actual provider in town she sent an order to the dormitory RA's, none of which work for us, to remove the $600 Cisco routers in each room and place them in a single room for fear of theft over the summer.
She then tells us we are due back at college a week early to reinstall these routers, I said fuck off, I 'm bouncing at the bars next year
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/strict.dtd">
The EN specifies english FR does French....
No shit man, the 92 is a bitch, but its saved my life many a time
Gotta wonder whether a guy that listens to crap like nothing compares 2 U actually dates?
We are told to feed bullshit to anyone not using win 95/98/NT 4.0 sp 4 or Mac OS 8.0, when any and all flavors of *nix/*BSD run exceptionally well, Win 3.11, and Mac 7.1 run fine as well. Even w2k is officially listed as unsupported.
I then checked it against a different stylesheet with a single bullet class (resume.css instead of style.css), problem disappears
Ok fair enough, fire up the bug reporter, navigator crashes, but the crash reporter gave much better info than I have ever gotten from Dr. Watson.
And so the tale of netscape flameouts continues, but I wouldn't mind having that crash reporter come up instead of the cryptic win 98 invalid Page Fault at register..... error message for all program crashes
Please stop by to see the behavior yourself at http://sweb.uky.edu/~jdholl1/welcome.html
That is nine by my count, its seems Admins should take note from Windows 95/98/2000 is that it gives people a common place to install their programs, typically called program files (I changed it to bin, you could call it bob or maurice if you wanted).
Keep in mind that the 1Ghz PIII is not Intel's flagship, their PIII Zeons are, I'm sure for double price of a PIII at any clock speed they'll let you use SMP as far as the design specs allow.
Remember grasshopper, it is now XHTML 1.0, so don't forget the trailing / in one liner tags (meta, link, br, hr
<meta digit-equiv="fingers" state="crossed" />
Has anyone written a gopher client for the PCS?? it would just plain kick ass
The question of validated HTML syntax is very important when containing to under 5K, things like alt text for images, dtd's, and closing tags become very important,, I'm intrigued though, so I'll give it a shot, check out my project \\SWEB/~jdholl1/index.html
I think we should let the W3C decide the next president.
Lets got to the tale of the tape, Bold for good things, Italics for bad things.
There went my choice for President
Looks like Bradley is the man, but if you have another sugestion post below
But instead got screwed up and got
And then I wept with her for I knew it was truth she spake
Worked for Lexmark, notice there are only Lexmark printers in all the offices and homes on X-files. LexMk paid an insane ammount of money for these subtle ads.
These machines are what the undergrad population are comfortable with and our computer labs staff are trained to assist with. Most lab assistants can't keep their head out of their ass or hand off of their crotch long enough to learn about Linux/X windows/Star Office, which for $6/hr is reasonable in my book.
Admittedly, I would love to see a lab of linux machines created here that do not require you to be in the engineering dept. to get accounts, or perhaps offer a VMware/dual-boot solution, but for now NT/Office/Napster/AOL_IM offers more than most users and lab staff can handle.
These are the teachings of Sadistic Yoda and may be copied freely under the Perl artistic license
No, but a jackass with a backhoe could drop any links to SE ASIA or across the New Roman Empire, effectively cutting China's backbone throat.
From someone who works as a first level tech for @HOME, EtOH is the only way to go, before or after a job, usually makes my repair times lower too, keeps the payroll dept happy.
Did anyone else notice the reference to "Herding Cats" in the linked page at dartmouth, kind of funny the way this week has gone. peace love and grits
perhaps EDS can help you Data Mine the cats for instances of "petrified grits", as they are the currency of the future. Also supprised Andover didn't have an ad. --"You callin' up dinosaurs billybob?" --"I reckon I can Give'em a holler."
But if you are trapped in the residence halls, their service is all you can get. Think about it this way, five years ago, the "new" dial-up gateway at UK was installed, with a huge pool of 28.8 modems. The students could use this for full net access. Two years later, it was restricted to within university domains .uky.edu, but still no other solution other than another ISP, but that ties your phone, and the university does not sell extra phone lines to dorm residents. We were told fall 98 that a high speed networking option was coming, by december I was told by the VP of Info. Sys. that 640kbs connections were the minimum bid spec. What we ended up with was @home with 128k down/64k up connections, first level install/ setup/troubleshoot techs that were sent out on 4 hours of training(I'm still one of them, the pay is decent), and complete and total idiots at the cable company who are our second level and network ops people. I have to lie bold faced to people not running Win 9x/NT or MAC OS8.X or better and say that our network does not support them, even though I know damn well it does. So I say fuck them, I'm moving off campus where DSL is dirt cheap
Split four ways you come out 15 bucks ahead a semester. Thank God Insight/@Home scared GTE into droping the price on their far better service.
Famous Scott Adams quote "The people that work for the cable company are the ones that weren't smart enough to work at the phone company!"