Try HARD to get an internship with someone, even if most of the summer is spent just stuffing envelopes... Just while you're there let the real IT staff know that you'd be happy to be a cable pulling monkey for the chance to occassionally look over their shoulder. A lot of the middle tier IT guys I work with didn't even start out with college degrees but instead started as tape operators, roof-rats setting up antennas, or spent their first summers almost entirely UNDER raised floors pulling CAT5, but they paid attention when the new IBM and HP servers were brought in, they learned how to automate some of their tape tasks with scripting, and they definitely helped learn the routers as they were being installed. I recall one instance where the actual field engineer was running into a problem getting one router to update its route tables properly, and the summer intern behind him said "why don't you do x?" which , of course, got the engineer a bit huffy, but the kid also happened to be right.
Try to help out your colleges IS people too, if you can, and work to get a chance to help with the bigger equipment. Volunteer as grunt labor for any major push projects they might be doing.
The disadvantage of all this is it pays little to none, but it does let you build "experience" and definitely exposes you to the higher end equipment. Be a voracious reader of any material, manuals, coursework that you can get your hands on as well.
My problem with CRM114 (and I'm using it exclusively lately) is its likelyhood of false positives.
It catches nearly all spam now, but I have to be careful to watch for and relearn anomalies a lot.
For instance, I rarely receive JPGs as attachments. Family either mails me photos or zips them up first, work obviously never has the need to send photos... normally.
About a month ago I had a project which required quite a few people who never send me email to send me a brief email and an attached photo. EVERY single one of them CRM114 threw away, and since I only tend to check the spam pile every few days or so, I had thought people were ignoring my requests.
It also seems a bit cyclic. Every few days, I get one or two through that I can't figure for the life of me how they made it, but their in the single digits in terms of non-spam classification. So I retrain them as spam, but then a few days later it marks as spam an email that really isn't... So I retrain... but then a few days later. Etc... The distinctions seem to be very fine (as in narrow) for it.
Sony Imageworks definitely didn't think gigabit was fast enough, and that was 6-7 years ago when I talked to them. They were deploying some sort of customized super-HIPPI setup for shipping their digital assets around.
A friend has converted his whole house to have a 12V feed, and break outs at certain points for 5V, and in one case, a 24V step up... He uses this for lighting and for everything that would otherwise require a vampire (black box)... Admittedly, he's a bit odd, but he swears by it for being more energy efficient, quieter, and in a way, more convenient.
Plus he loves making people blink when he gets a new router/piece of network equipment, and the first thing he does after opening the package is pull out a pair of scissors and lop off the vampire.
Hey, if you get Linux working well on one of them, let me know... I've been dying to buy one and maybe a Flash-RAM IDE drive and get MythTV or the like working on it...
I've had one of the Shuttle XPCs for about 2 years now and am very happy with it, but its more of a workstation choice than a MediaPC/Appliance.
Maybe so, but I do think the games division is generally smart in getting talented studios (FASA Interactive, Bungie, Ensemble, Rare, Access and now Sigil) to put out games rather than try to grow them directly out of their corporate culture. These are all groups of really smart, really talented people, and I'm just glad they get a chance to do what they do.
And the reason why there are few ternary computers:
Ternary logic can be done on a binary computer.
Yes, it takes multiple binary ops to do a single ternary op, and you waste a whole state using two bits for a ternary value, but on the bright side: Creating digital logic gates that can read two values is easier, and generally can be made to discriminate faster than a gate designed to evaluate three values.
Interestingly, and for obvious historical reasons, Germany is a really bad example for the above arguement.
Not just because they don't have veto power, but because at the time the concept was conceived, you'd better well believe they were the last country on earth that would be given veto power.
I could see several American concerns using accented e's and a's though, and that'll get annoying quick. And that would be in English too, but companies/organizations that think accent marks are "hip."
You know, if that happens, it'll happen, and I'd even accept it. As for getting a future job, well, maybe that would be the straw that broke my back for working in the IT industry. But I'm not doing anything for free for any company, even if its "legally-binding" in some sort of Orwellian nightmare world kind of way. Sorry if that somehow offends you, but if it does, I think there is something seriously SERIOUSLY wrong with you.
Like I said, I'd have no problem if after I refused to turn over the source code, they said "but you have to write it for us"... I'd get to work on it first thing Monday as part of my daily job duties. Heck, I might even try to make it better this time, but I'm not going to bow to a precident that says "we can take from you whatever we like, when we like, and then we can CHOOSE whether to throw you a bone for it."
Surprisingly, in 10 years of working in the industry, I haven't had these kinds of problems you mention, mainly because I've managed to work for businesses that aren't so patently ready to mistreat their employees. A fair days wage for a fair days work is all I ask for, and if that's too much, well, then, frankly, I'd very much rather not work for you. Perhaps you could post your actual name so I'd know to stay FAR FAR away from you in the future.
Lets assume for the moment that he hasn't given them the source code, and that it only exists on his personal equipment at this point...
If I was him, I'd make sure Apple never saw that code ever, up to and including them firing me over it. I'd burn the last tape backup of it before I'd just hand it over to them.
Now, if at work, they (rather than firing me in a pique) then decide to make it my job to write a similar app, then that's a different story, and actually I'd be willing to put in the time to write it IF THAT WAS MY JOB at the company, and I was being compensated suitably for it (standard developer rates). If I was a tape operator at Apple Data Center, well, then I think we'd better talk about a job change (and payscale change).
The moral of the story is, the company doesn't get anything from me that I did in my supposedly "not-working" hours.
And if this was about the use of the name "Linux", then I'd agree. But its not. Its over the use of the name "RedHat." And if you say they are not allowed to market/manage their own name as they see fit, you effectively are saying they aren't allowed to profit from a Linux distribution at all.
You don't really have to. It sounds like Fedora Core/Legacy is still a pretty good fit for many people. Given time, I'm sure that "brand" will be just as good, if it continues with quality. And THAT brand, I'll say, is/will be something that is community owned, and if in the annals of time they ever come to the conclusion that THAT name should be their sole province, then I'll be upset.
But from day 1, I knew "RedHat" was a company name and a product, so I can't summon up the feeling of betrayal that some seem to be experiencing.
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Try HARD to get an internship with someone, even if most of the summer is spent just stuffing envelopes... Just while you're there let the real IT staff know that you'd be happy to be a cable pulling monkey for the chance to occassionally look over their shoulder. A lot of the middle tier IT guys I work with didn't even start out with college degrees but instead started as tape operators, roof-rats setting up antennas, or spent their first summers almost entirely UNDER raised floors pulling CAT5, but they paid attention when the new IBM and HP servers were brought in, they learned how to automate some of their tape tasks with scripting, and they definitely helped learn the routers as they were being installed. I recall one instance where the actual field engineer was running into a problem getting one router to update its route tables properly, and the summer intern behind him said "why don't you do x?" which , of course, got the engineer a bit huffy, but the kid also happened to be right.
Try to help out your colleges IS people too, if you can, and work to get a chance to help with the bigger equipment. Volunteer as grunt labor for any major push projects they might be doing.
The disadvantage of all this is it pays little to none, but it does let you build "experience" and definitely exposes you to the higher end equipment. Be a voracious reader of any material, manuals, coursework that you can get your hands on as well.
My problem with CRM114 (and I'm using it exclusively lately) is its likelyhood of false positives.
It catches nearly all spam now, but I have to be careful to watch for and relearn anomalies a lot.
For instance, I rarely receive JPGs as attachments. Family either mails me photos or zips them up first, work obviously never has the need to send photos... normally.
About a month ago I had a project which required quite a few people who never send me email to send me a brief email and an attached photo. EVERY single one of them CRM114 threw away, and since I only tend to check the spam pile every few days or so, I had thought people were ignoring my requests.
It also seems a bit cyclic. Every few days, I get one or two through that I can't figure for the life of me how they made it, but their in the single digits in terms of non-spam classification. So I retrain them as spam, but then a few days later it marks as spam an email that really isn't... So I retrain... but then a few days later. Etc... The distinctions seem to be very fine (as in narrow) for it.
Sony Imageworks definitely didn't think gigabit was fast enough, and that was 6-7 years ago when I talked to them. They were deploying some sort of customized super-HIPPI setup for shipping their digital assets around.
It would be a red letter day in the annals of mankind if I ever encountered a situation where I wanted to record 3 shows at once, much less 7.
Television should be so good.
Pretty easy to answer why they wanted TechTV: Distribution channel. They get a slot on DirecTV and most other digital networks out there.
Anti-spam and anti-virus parsing happens on MY machine, under MY control... at least in my case. That's a conscious choice too.
The above highlights the dangers of logging into Slashdot on a public terminal and then going off and doing something else.
I'd cry for my karma if I cared.
Whoo, I bet it gives you a serious willy to find something else to blame the "Bush Administration" with.
If you weren't a real person, you'd be a lot funnier.
Everything that wrong...
I guess we get to blame your education and level of intelligence on them as well!
A friend has converted his whole house to have a 12V feed, and break outs at certain points for 5V, and in one case, a 24V step up... He uses this for lighting and for everything that would otherwise require a vampire (black box)... Admittedly, he's a bit odd, but he swears by it for being more energy efficient, quieter, and in a way, more convenient.
Plus he loves making people blink when he gets a new router/piece of network equipment, and the first thing he does after opening the package is pull out a pair of scissors and lop off the vampire.
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Hey, if you get Linux working well on one of them, let me know... I've been dying to buy one and maybe a Flash-RAM IDE drive and get MythTV or the like working on it...
I've had one of the Shuttle XPCs for about 2 years now and am very happy with it, but its more of a workstation choice than a MediaPC/Appliance.
Maybe so, but I do think the games division is generally smart in getting talented studios (FASA Interactive, Bungie, Ensemble, Rare, Access and now Sigil) to put out games rather than try to grow them directly out of their corporate culture. These are all groups of really smart, really talented people, and I'm just glad they get a chance to do what they do.
And the reason why there are few ternary computers:
Ternary logic can be done on a binary computer.
Yes, it takes multiple binary ops to do a single ternary op, and you waste a whole state using two bits for a ternary value, but on the bright side: Creating digital logic gates that can read two values is easier, and generally can be made to discriminate faster than a gate designed to evaluate three values.
God, don't encourage him, or you'll create yet another anti-spam kook.
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Interestingly, and for obvious historical reasons, Germany is a really bad example for the above arguement.
Not just because they don't have veto power, but because at the time the concept was conceived, you'd better well believe they were the last country on earth that would be given veto power.
Actually, the stated reason as to why Pong was removed was that actually it wasn't an EMULATED game.
Pong, being built from analog circuits, could never really be emulated but only simulated, which is what the Pong driver did.
Actually, I take that back. It could be emulated if they wrote a bunch of "analog circuit B" programs, but that would be getting a tad bit crazy.
WINDOWS doesn't support symbolic links, but the NTFS file system does. It's in the specs.
I could see several American concerns using accented e's and a's though, and that'll get annoying quick. And that would be in English too, but companies/organizations that think accent marks are "hip."
I have several concrete examples in mind...
You know, if that happens, it'll happen, and I'd even accept it. As for getting a future job, well, maybe that would be the straw that broke my back for working in the IT industry. But I'm not doing anything for free for any company, even if its "legally-binding" in some sort of Orwellian nightmare world kind of way. Sorry if that somehow offends you, but if it does, I think there is something seriously SERIOUSLY wrong with you.
Like I said, I'd have no problem if after I refused to turn over the source code, they said "but you have to write it for us"... I'd get to work on it first thing Monday as part of my daily job duties. Heck, I might even try to make it better this time, but I'm not going to bow to a precident that says "we can take from you whatever we like, when we like, and then we can CHOOSE whether to throw you a bone for it."
Surprisingly, in 10 years of working in the industry, I haven't had these kinds of problems you mention, mainly because I've managed to work for businesses that aren't so patently ready to mistreat their employees. A fair days wage for a fair days work is all I ask for, and if that's too much, well, then, frankly, I'd very much rather not work for you. Perhaps you could post your actual name so I'd know to stay FAR FAR away from you in the future.
Lets assume for the moment that he hasn't given them the source code, and that it only exists on his personal equipment at this point...
If I was him, I'd make sure Apple never saw that code ever, up to and including them firing me over it. I'd burn the last tape backup of it before I'd just hand it over to them.
Now, if at work, they (rather than firing me in a pique) then decide to make it my job to write a similar app, then that's a different story, and actually I'd be willing to put in the time to write it IF THAT WAS MY JOB at the company, and I was being compensated suitably for it (standard developer rates). If I was a tape operator at Apple Data Center, well, then I think we'd better talk about a job change (and payscale change).
The moral of the story is, the company doesn't get anything from me that I did in my supposedly "not-working" hours.
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Also, try to make sure you've got a 6pin Firewire connector. My laptop only has a 4pin Firewire adapter, and that of course doesn't carry power...
And if this was about the use of the name "Linux", then I'd agree. But its not. Its over the use of the name "RedHat." And if you say they are not allowed to market/manage their own name as they see fit, you effectively are saying they aren't allowed to profit from a Linux distribution at all.
You don't really have to. It sounds like Fedora Core/Legacy is still a pretty good fit for many people. Given time, I'm sure that "brand" will be just as good, if it continues with quality.
And THAT brand, I'll say, is/will be something that is community owned, and if in the annals of time they ever come to the conclusion that THAT name should be their sole province, then I'll be upset.
But from day 1, I knew "RedHat" was a company name and a product, so I can't summon up the feeling of betrayal that some seem to be experiencing.