You could have died happy a long time ago. 1600x1200 monitor resolution is a higher resolution than 720p or 1080i HDTV resolution. If you can afford the High-Def TV monitor then you could have bought a graphics subsystem that would support 1600x1200 a long time ago.
Wrong! Trees may also absorb CO2, but they also release VOCs (Volitale Organic Chemicals) which are also "greenhouse gases." At best, it can be said that trees are a push when talking about greenhouse gases.
There is a reason that I don't have flash installed on any machine that I frequently use. 98% of the sites that use flash use it for ads. Not installing flash is one of the best ways to avoid the most annoying ads.
tell them that you don't support closed source security products due to the problems getting security updates. Remind them that the customer is always right....
I'm no buisiness student, but even I'm awake enough to recognize there is a large (and rich) untapped market here. Only the very nerdy and adventurous will do the research to assemble their own HTPC. Still, many seem to do it.
Now imagine if Gateway or...
Gateway allready tried this. Remember the Gateway Destination PC? It was out about 5 years ago. It was a PC, decient speakers and a ~30 inch TV. I believe that the fact that you cannot find them anymore tells you how well they sold.
And whoever said that then is as wrong as you repeating it now. Plenty of beneficial mutations have been observed. Simple example: a bacteria evolving resistance to a drug is certainly beneficial to the bacteria.
So, a bacteria, for example e-coli, mutates to develop a resistace to antibiotics is becomes a new species of bacteria? After all, evolution is the transition from one species to another. apes -> human....
Is Sun planning on open-sourcing iPlanet or making it free to compete with JBoss?
As an FYI, as with the directory server, I have been told that a license for the app server will be included with all hardware sales when Solaris 9 comes out.
For those who don't know, when you purchase a Sun box now you get a 200,000 entry license for directory server.
I am educated in Chemical Engineering. I worked for an engineering company out of college and I decided that I liked playing with the computers more than the engineering aspect of my job. So I changed jobs and I got an entry level position doing unix admin for a siesmic data processing company. That was about 7 years ago now.
I believe that with you showing the initative in installing Linux/*BSD will go a long was in getting an entry level position. I know it did for me. Of course, that was in the days of the 1.0 kernel and redhat 3.X:)
With regards to the job ads looking for people with experience, they are probably from recruiting companies. Ignore those. Look for those from posted directly by the company. Better yet, do some research, find some local companies that use UNIX, search their web sites, looking at the company to learn what they do as well to find out if they have posted any job openings. Try to someone on the "inside" that you can talk to (you may need to join a user group to put yourself in a place to meet them) to gain an inside track on a job opening. I read this stat once and my personal experience confirms it, 80% of job openings are never advertised for.
When doing the research on the company, learn about what they do to make money. This way, when you go to an interview you can ask some intelligent questions of the manager(s). Such as "How does your UNIX systems support you in the business of XXXX and provide value to company and shareholders? " I believe that asking the "big picture" questions shows that you know what the roll of technology is in business, which is sometime forgotten.:)
Do you have any idea how Bad a thing it is to puncture a thin-skinned pressure vessel? Let alone one containing hundreds of people at altitude potentially over an inhabited area?
The air marshalls that fly on planes use a special ammo that traveles slow enough so that it does not puncture the hull.
I can't quote stats (and under the circumstances I don't want to quote stats) but it occurs to me that the number of law enforcement personnel attacked or injured by their own weapon is non-trivial.
Please do. I believe that this is one of the "statisitics" that actually have no basis in fact. Just like those that state that there is a child killed every second by guns.
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There is no 1080p HDTV resolution. 1080 is only available in an interlaced format, hence 1080i. 720p is the highest preogressive output you can go.
Kent
TuxRacer on hdtv! Now I can die happy.
You could have died happy a long time ago. 1600x1200 monitor resolution is a higher resolution than 720p or 1080i HDTV resolution. If you can afford the High-Def TV monitor then you could have bought a graphics subsystem that would support 1600x1200 a long time ago.
Kent
Greenhouse-gas-absorbing trees are my problem
Wrong! Trees may also absorb CO2, but they also release VOCs (Volitale Organic Chemicals) which are also "greenhouse gases." At best, it can be said that trees are a push when talking about greenhouse gases.
Kent
You SHOWER before you drink coffee? You must not be afraid of falling asleep in the shower and drowning.
I always thought the correct order was coffee, then shower....
Kent
There is a reason that I don't have flash installed on any machine that I frequently use. 98% of the sites that use flash use it for ads. Not installing flash is one of the best ways to avoid the most annoying ads.
Kent
Only if you are Euro-trash.
Kent
oops,
s/subitted/submitted
Kent
How can this be the last post? This same story will be subitted and posted again in a few weeks.
Kent
This is why I don't give any cable company my money.
Kent
I want my Stargate. Will someone please take Taken to some other day of the week?
Kent
The Brocade fiber switch we use to tie our three SGI Origins to our SAN's storage RAID was over CA$12K when we bought it.
12K Canadian? Whats that, $50 US
Kent
Web interface to email? Ugh. They all suck. I believe that having one available is nice to have, but living in one would be hell.
All IMHO.
Kent
tell them that you don't support closed source security products due to the problems getting security updates. Remind them that the customer is always right....
Kent
Perhaps you should check this out:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1535
Kent
I'm no buisiness student, but even I'm awake enough to recognize there is a large (and rich) untapped market here. Only the very nerdy and adventurous will do the research to assemble their own HTPC. Still, many seem to do it.
Now imagine if Gateway or...
Gateway allready tried this. Remember the Gateway Destination PC? It was out about 5 years ago. It was a PC, decient speakers and a ~30 inch TV. I believe that the fact that you cannot find them anymore tells you how well they sold.
Kent
And whoever said that then is as wrong as you repeating it now. Plenty of beneficial mutations have been observed. Simple example: a bacteria evolving resistance to a drug is certainly beneficial to the bacteria.
So, a bacteria, for example e-coli, mutates to develop a resistace to antibiotics is becomes a new species of bacteria? After all, evolution is the transition from one species to another. apes -> human....
Kent
Watterson?
Matlock, dammit!
Kent
What about Playboy Playmates?
Just a thought.
Kent
this makes a lot of difference, it's would be just as revelutionary if somebody would make a
revelutionary? Can't you at least run submissions through a spell checker?
Kent
So, how to 5 thousand participants make this a million man lan party? I believe that they are 995,000 people short.
Kent
Is Sun planning on open-sourcing iPlanet or making it free to compete with JBoss?
As an FYI, as with the directory server, I have been told that a license for the app server will be included with all hardware sales when Solaris 9 comes out.
For those who don't know, when you purchase a Sun box now you get a 200,000 entry license for directory server.
Kent
So, what does he say about those homepages that are is just Flash?
Personally (specially if there is no link to a non-Flash version of the site), I go elsewhere for the information that I was looking for.
Kent
I am educated in Chemical Engineering. I worked for an engineering company out of college and I decided that I liked playing with the computers more than the engineering aspect of my job. So I changed jobs and I got an entry level position doing unix admin for a siesmic data processing company. That was about 7 years ago now.
:)
:)
I believe that with you showing the initative in installing Linux/*BSD will go a long was in getting an entry level position. I know it did for me. Of course, that was in the days of the 1.0 kernel and redhat 3.X
With regards to the job ads looking for people with experience, they are probably from recruiting companies. Ignore those. Look for those from posted directly by the company. Better yet, do some research, find some local companies that use UNIX, search their web sites, looking at the company to learn what they do as well to find out if they have posted any job openings. Try to someone on the "inside" that you can talk to (you may need to join a user group to put yourself in a place to meet them) to gain an inside track on a job opening. I read this stat once and my personal experience confirms it, 80% of job openings are never advertised for.
When doing the research on the company, learn about what they do to make money. This way, when you go to an interview you can ask some intelligent questions of the manager(s). Such as "How does your UNIX systems support you in the business of XXXX and provide value to company and shareholders? " I believe that asking the "big picture" questions shows that you know what the roll of technology is in business, which is sometime forgotten.
Kent
I hope this helps!
Kent
Do you have any idea how Bad a thing it is to puncture a thin-skinned pressure vessel? Let alone one containing hundreds of people at altitude potentially over an inhabited area?
The air marshalls that fly on planes use a special ammo that traveles slow enough so that it does not puncture the hull.
I can't quote stats (and under the circumstances I don't want to quote stats) but it occurs to me that the number of law enforcement personnel attacked or injured by their own weapon is non-trivial.
Please do. I believe that this is one of the "statisitics" that actually have no basis in fact. Just like those that state that there is a child killed every second by guns.
Kent