I know this is going to get burried in the other comments, but as someone who has been in the situation and survived mostly successfully, albeit it some regrets, I would suggest going to a very small college where your professors can get to know you personally, not just through your assignments.
Do whatever it takes to get involved as an assistant to someone who is working in a field you're interested it. Do whatever it takes to get someplace with as small as possible class sizes.
Want to talk more? Feel free to send email to outlandtraveller at amergin dot org.
While it was humorous to hear the account of the "interview", the article was spoiled by Tanenbaum's regrets, continuingly sour grapes, and display of hubris.
Quicksilver - I like to finish what I start, but this book sure made it difficult. I will certainly not read such a long book from Mr. Stephenson again unless the reviews are amazing.
Despite loving Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, I couldn't find a way to like this book.
Pros:
- The vagabond adventures
- A glimpse into the cutting edge of 17th century science, politics, and warfare both on sea and on land.
- The provocative moral shades expressed by various characters.
Cons:
- "I'm so clever" forced historical situations, where the author has a historical figure preciently hint at something in the modern day. Canal-rage, indeed.
- Romance novel-esque formulatic building and eventual climax of achievements with biological plumbing, with empasis on things some people may consider odd or just disgusting. How many people enjoy reading about scooping feces out of baby mouths inside the womb with ones hand?
- Loose ends left dangling everywhere
- Too much mixing of things that are historically accurate with things that require significant suspension of disbelief. The world isn't treated consistently enough to be immersive.
- Underwhelming end, even for the first part of a trilogy
- Underdeveloped primary character, while lavishing enormous energy on a carnival of side-characters.
This should be obvious, but the show should have been killed a few seasons ago.
I'm a big fan of JW (Woohoo Firefly!) and I followed Angel closely for many seasons. However, this show jumped the shark for me when Angel's son come into the picture. At the end of that season (which had some very strong supporting characters with Holtz and assistant) I found myself hoping ardently that Angel would die, that someone would kill him.
The Angel character was tired, completely eclipsed by the cast around him both in writing and in acting ability. Seeing him week after week eventually became too painful and I had to stop watching.
Best Angel moments:
- Spike's mocking monologue as he watches Angel talk to a would-be client
- Almost everything involving the Wolfram&Hart firm, especially scenes with Lyla, and the "evil hand" scene.
- The Holtz character
- Their cool run-down ex-hotel.
- The Kate policewoman character from the early seasons.
Worst Angel moments:
- In the first few seaons, every 3 or 4 episodes would feature gratuitously underdressed women for no plot-purpose.
- Charisma Carpenter got really annoying to listen to and to look at after a few seasons.
- David Boreanaz writing and acting level got really annoying to listen to and watch after a few seasons.
- Without fail, all of the strong, complex supporting characters and foils were killed off while the more one-dimensional, less interesting characters stuck around.
I was very upset to see Firefly cancelled. I recommend the DVD set to any sci-fi fan. Every episode is excellent, especially one of the two they include that was never aired.
I was quite disappointed when I found out the the Battlestar Galactiga remake wasn't going to immediately become a miniseries.
I don't know why they even bother to make episode III. Episode II held my "worst current movie" title for a long time, until I saw the Matrix sequels.
Episode II was so bad, that the only thing that made it watchable was to insert sarcastic comments in the style of MST3K.
I'm afraid the Star Wars franchaise has now joined the ranks of the James Bond and other movie franchaises, where people go to see it simply as a mindless distraction, and not a single person in the audience expects to take it seriously.
We wanted to do something like this.. but the fire code people were not too fond of putting any significant horizontal surfaces between the sprinklers on the ceiling and the floor.
It's been proven that an exceptional programmer can outperform mediocre coworkers by more than a factor of 5.
Couple that with the fact that some technical activities thrive in an environment condusive to focused concentration.
It's not at all inconceivable to see that forcing people into a more social environment that they are comfortable with can be detrimental to productivity as well as employee satisfaction.
Assuming you're going to spend n$ on storage, there are certain network configurations and certain usage patterns where using a well-configured NAS solution gives you better performance than the same $ put into local storage across a network of machines.
I'm pushing the point because I've personally performed the benchmarks and real-world tests for a shipping workstation-cluster solution that proves it.
Keep in mind that in some circumstances, network drive overall performance can beat a local disk.
For example, if you have a RAID-10 networked storage array on a very fast network and a good switch, you can often beat the performance of a local drive, especially if that drive is IDE. There might be a little more latency, but there's a lot more bandwidth and storage space.
If you're just interesting in training for the test, I don't think the source RPMs are difficult to obtain. Sure it will take a while to put together, and difficult to maintain, but you could get a reasonable training platform put together. I'm sure that a lot RH's software, being GPL'd, can also be legally re-distributed if you know someone who has purchased a copy.
In the end though.. you're talking about a test that can cost up to $3,000. If people haven't been deterred by the high cost in the past, they most likely will not baulk at another few hundred for training materials.
You can download Fedora for free. Fedora has been specifically packaged to make 3rd party distribution easy, and looks like it's going to include all of the functionality of old redhat+up2date for free.
The new enterprise products have guaranteed 5-year support cycles. THIS IS HUGE. The low end, desktop-oriented enterprise workstation offering is 179$, including 1yr up2date support.
All of Redhat's software is still GPL.
I don't see what the anti-redhat has against one of their best neighbors and diplomats to the outside world.
Nice idea, but the transparent remote display feature of X is nothing like a VNC-style remote desktop. Your remote applications and local applications are seemlessly integrated under one interface.
The remote display capabilities of X are one of it's strongest suits. I only wish it worked with opengGL accellerated apps.
Once you start dealing with a few computers, transparent remote display becomes second nature and indispensable.
Much like the virtual desktop concept, transparent remote display is one of those really GREAT features of unixy desktops that lots of people don't use simply because they don't understand how it can work for them. It's an education issue.
The sour slant of this article and its sympathy towards intellectual property theft does great harm to the integrity of Forbes Magazine.
The GPL license is very clear and up-front in its terms and conditions, and is far more permissive than traditional copyright licenses. However it does state clearly that if you do not abide by the limited restrictions it does enforce, you cannot distribute the covered work.
This article, in the face of all reason, appears to suggest that readers should feel sympathy for companies who break copyright law by distributing copyrighted works without ahering to the terms of the copyright license.
Furthermore, the article goes on to lambast the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit watchdog group, for attempting to enforce its own copyrights.
The author ludicrously justifies his hostility towards the FSF by stating that the FSF is more "dangerous" than other businesses holding copyrights, because it is insists that violators of its copyright stop distributing its covered works.
The FSF is also derided for apparantly having a limited budget, as if its limited funds are somehow justification for others to violate its copyrights.
The FSF are referred to using terms associated with communist propaganda, which add nothing to the intellectual quality of the article.
The language the article uses appears to make the FSF appear suspicious and nefarious for attempting to come to an amicable resolution with other companies before seeking legal protection.
Finally, the article ends with the authors opinion that it is a "pity" that companies will settle with the FSF when they are caught distributing covered works without a license, instead of going to court.
If this is the kind of article one can expect to find in Forbes these days, I don't know how much longer I will be a reader.
This all comes down to using the simplest solution that does the job.
192.168.1/24 is great for home setups (192.168.0/24 is broken for some really ancient TCP/IP stacks). The elegance of a simple class C subnet can't be beat.
172.16/16 subnets are the next size up on the private IP scale.
10/8 subnets are larger still.
Sure.. you *could* go right for the 10/8 even though you have only three computers, a router, and a network printer. You could also install "Windows 2000 Advanced Enterprise Server" for your 1CPU desktop system. You could also pop in a Redhat CD and choose "install everything".
If you're a professional, you want to place limits on everything you do related to computers, because as soon as your back is turned entropy takes over. The less variables at play, the easier it is to properly troubleshoot issues. "Use the minimum amount necessary" is not just good security advice.
Obviously you want to give yourself some rule to grow, but part of planning for growth is reserving the big blocks (10/8) for situations where they are truly needed. (For example, VPNs to hundreds of branch offices and partners companies).
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I know this is going to get burried in the other comments, but as someone who has been in the situation and survived mostly successfully, albeit it some regrets, I would suggest going to a very small college where your professors can get to know you personally, not just through your assignments.
Do whatever it takes to get involved as an assistant to someone who is working in a field you're interested it. Do whatever it takes to get someplace with as small as possible class sizes.
Want to talk more? Feel free to send email to outlandtraveller at amergin dot org.
While it was humorous to hear the account of the "interview", the article was spoiled by Tanenbaum's regrets, continuingly sour grapes, and display of hubris.
I don't think any patches to the GPL kernel will be seen as proprietary...
Redhat backporting features into 2.4 for their own customers is a win for everyone and yet another victory for open source. Case closed.
Quicksilver - I like to finish what I start, but this book sure made it difficult. I will certainly not read such a long book from Mr. Stephenson again unless the reviews are amazing.
Despite loving Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon, I couldn't find a way to like this book.
Pros:
- The vagabond adventures
- A glimpse into the cutting edge of 17th century science, politics, and warfare both on sea and on land.
- The provocative moral shades expressed by various characters.
Cons:
- "I'm so clever" forced historical situations, where the author has a historical figure preciently hint at something in the modern day. Canal-rage, indeed.
- Romance novel-esque formulatic building and eventual climax of achievements with biological plumbing, with empasis on things some people may consider odd or just disgusting. How many people enjoy reading about scooping feces out of baby mouths inside the womb with ones hand?
- Loose ends left dangling everywhere
- Too much mixing of things that are historically accurate with things that require significant suspension of disbelief. The world isn't treated consistently enough to be immersive.
- Underwhelming end, even for the first part of a trilogy
- Underdeveloped primary character, while lavishing enormous energy on a carnival of side-characters.
- 700+ pages of tedium, 200 pages of interest.
This should be obvious, but the show should have been killed a few seasons ago.
I'm a big fan of JW (Woohoo Firefly!) and I followed Angel closely for many seasons. However, this show jumped the shark for me when Angel's son come into the picture. At the end of that season (which had some very strong supporting characters with Holtz and assistant) I found myself hoping ardently that Angel would die, that someone would kill him.
The Angel character was tired, completely eclipsed by the cast around him both in writing and in acting ability. Seeing him week after week eventually became too painful and I had to stop watching.
Best Angel moments:
- Spike's mocking monologue as he watches Angel talk to a would-be client
- Almost everything involving the Wolfram&Hart firm, especially scenes with Lyla, and the "evil hand" scene.
- The Holtz character
- Their cool run-down ex-hotel.
- The Kate policewoman character from the early seasons.
Worst Angel moments:
- In the first few seaons, every 3 or 4 episodes would feature gratuitously underdressed women for no plot-purpose.
- Charisma Carpenter got really annoying to listen to and to look at after a few seasons.
- David Boreanaz writing and acting level got really annoying to listen to and watch after a few seasons.
- Without fail, all of the strong, complex supporting characters and foils were killed off while the more one-dimensional, less interesting characters stuck around.
I was upset to see Farscape cancelled.
I was very upset to see Firefly cancelled. I recommend the DVD set to any sci-fi fan. Every episode is excellent, especially one of the two they include that was never aired.
I was quite disappointed when I found out the the Battlestar Galactiga remake wasn't going to immediately become a miniseries.
Enterprise, I could honestly care less about.
I don't know why they even bother to make episode III. Episode II held my "worst current movie" title for a long time, until I saw the Matrix sequels.
Episode II was so bad, that the only thing that made it watchable was to insert sarcastic comments in the style of MST3K.
I'm afraid the Star Wars franchaise has now joined the ranks of the James Bond and other movie franchaises, where people go to see it simply as a mindless distraction, and not a single person in the audience expects to take it seriously.
I personally see MDI as a horrible dead-end, and completely agree with Sven's analysis.
I'm very happy that Gimp did not follow photoshop too closely on that point.
We wanted to do something like this.. but the fire code people were not too fond of putting any significant horizontal surfaces between the sprinklers on the ceiling and the floor.
It's been proven that an exceptional programmer can outperform mediocre coworkers by more than a factor of 5.
Couple that with the fact that some technical activities thrive in an environment condusive to focused concentration.
It's not at all inconceivable to see that forcing people into a more social environment that they are comfortable with can be detrimental to productivity as well as employee satisfaction.
Posting something only to undo some bad moderation choices.
It comes down to the cost/performance ratio.
Assuming you're going to spend n$ on storage, there are certain network configurations and certain usage patterns where using a well-configured NAS solution gives you better performance than the same $ put into local storage across a network of machines.
I'm pushing the point because I've personally performed the benchmarks and real-world tests for a shipping workstation-cluster solution that proves it.
The hardware required isn't expensive either.
Keep in mind that in some circumstances, network drive overall performance can beat a local disk.
For example, if you have a RAID-10 networked storage array on a very fast network and a good switch, you can often beat the performance of a local drive, especially if that drive is IDE. There might be a little more latency, but there's a lot more bandwidth and storage space.
In response to your question...
If you're just interesting in training for the test, I don't think the source RPMs are difficult to obtain. Sure it will take a while to put together, and difficult to maintain, but you could get a reasonable training platform put together. I'm sure that a lot RH's software, being GPL'd, can also be legally re-distributed if you know someone who has purchased a copy.
In the end though.. you're talking about a test that can cost up to $3,000. If people haven't been deterred by the high cost in the past, they most likely will not baulk at another few hundred for training materials.
Look at the facts:
Support for Redhat 9 is good through April 2004.
You can download Fedora for free. Fedora has been specifically packaged to make 3rd party distribution easy, and looks like it's going to include all of the functionality of old redhat+up2date for free.
The new enterprise products have guaranteed 5-year support cycles. THIS IS HUGE. The low end, desktop-oriented enterprise workstation offering is 179$, including 1yr up2date support.
All of Redhat's software is still GPL.
I don't see what the anti-redhat has against one of their best neighbors and diplomats to the outside world.
Nice idea, but the transparent remote display feature of X is nothing like a VNC-style remote desktop. Your remote applications and local applications are seemlessly integrated under one interface.
Ugh, it doesn't work with the majority of high-end drivers.
Don't be a wiseguy and mince words. The bottom line is that most people can't remote display openGL, and that was my lament.
The remote display capabilities of X are one of it's strongest suits. I only wish it worked with opengGL accellerated apps.
Once you start dealing with a few computers, transparent remote display becomes second nature and indispensable.
Much like the virtual desktop concept, transparent remote display is one of those really GREAT features of unixy desktops that lots of people don't use simply because they don't understand how it can work for them. It's an education issue.
The sour slant of this article and its sympathy towards intellectual property theft does great harm to the integrity of Forbes Magazine.
The GPL license is very clear and up-front in its terms and conditions, and is far more permissive than traditional copyright licenses. However it does state clearly that if you do not abide by the limited restrictions it does enforce, you cannot distribute the covered work.
This article, in the face of all reason, appears to suggest that readers should feel sympathy for companies who break copyright law by distributing copyrighted works without ahering to the terms of the copyright license.
Furthermore, the article goes on to lambast the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit watchdog group, for attempting to enforce its own copyrights.
The author ludicrously justifies his hostility towards the FSF by stating that the FSF is more "dangerous" than other businesses holding copyrights, because it is insists that violators of its copyright stop distributing its covered works.
The FSF is also derided for apparantly having a limited budget, as if its limited funds are somehow justification for others to violate its copyrights.
The FSF are referred to using terms associated with communist propaganda, which add nothing to the intellectual quality of the article.
The language the article uses appears to make the FSF appear suspicious and nefarious for attempting to come to an amicable resolution with other companies before seeking legal protection.
Finally, the article ends with the authors opinion that it is a "pity" that companies will settle with the FSF when they are caught distributing covered works without a license, instead of going to court.
If this is the kind of article one can expect to find in Forbes these days, I don't know how much longer I will be a reader.
... it's the sweet stench of shoveled shite.
Your post might be more useful if it said something concrete, definite, provable.
I would switch out "WS FTP Light" for "Filezilla". It's open source and gets you sftp support as a bonus.
:)
Why bother with Dev-C++ when you can get gcc and the rest of the standard unix developer tools as part of cygwin?
Boingo was really annoying when I tried it out. I uninstalled it after 5 minutes. I would put "Freezip" on the list instead.
It costs a modest amount of money, but ZoneAlarm should probably be on the list as well.
Openoffice should get a mention too
Someone needs to nominate these guys to the IGnobel prize team :)
This all comes down to using the simplest solution that does the job.
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192.168.1/24 is great for home setups (192.168.0/24 is broken for some really ancient TCP/IP stacks). The elegance of a simple class C subnet can't be beat.
172.16/16 subnets are the next size up on the private IP scale.
10/8 subnets are larger still.
Sure.. you *could* go right for the 10/8 even though you have only three computers, a router, and a network printer. You could also install "Windows 2000 Advanced Enterprise Server" for your 1CPU desktop system. You could also pop in a Redhat CD and choose "install everything".
If you're a professional, you want to place limits on everything you do related to computers, because as soon as your back is turned entropy takes over. The less variables at play, the easier it is to properly troubleshoot issues. "Use the minimum amount necessary" is not just good security advice
Obviously you want to give yourself some rule to grow, but part of planning for growth is reserving the big blocks (10/8) for situations where they are truly needed. (For example, VPNs to hundreds of branch offices and partners companies).