Having completed highschool and taken a year of vacation then 2 years of a CS degree at a local college the decision I made was to drop out and get on with life.
Since then I have gone through 8 jobs and from helpdesk support to Senior System Administrator in a mixed environment for 6+ years now. However to get where I am it has taken almost 80% of my non paid time to get and keep up to date on current technology. With this much time dedicated to systems related endeavors it has definetly lost some of its charm.
In hindsight colledge provides a time and an environment to make the learning and maintenance of knowledge the specific focus while also providing time to aquire a part time job in which you can gain the experience necessary to step into a higher responsibility position. Another benifit of this method is that financial aid and grants are available which greatly reduces the longterm cost of learning.
Almost all of the technology worth learning to become very competitive and useful to the industry are available through the internet and higher learning institutions now. This being the case college is a great way of accelerating the not soo enjoyable parts of a technology career while providing some fun and flexibility along the way that I have found to be sparse in the full time employment market.
This looks prety anticompetitive to me, (no suprise really). So how is AOL going to feel when WinAMP is no longer a conduit to everyones desktop? Any other takers out there?
Another way to save imense amounts of power is to get rid of as much unused hardware as possible. Many servers have between one and many internal disks, expansion slots, cards, inputs and outputs that never get used; all of these take extra power. A 'thin server' on the other hand might have nothing more than a network and a serial terminal interface and truthfully you dont need anything more. I Have gone so far as to build a couple systems with nothing more than a bootable root CD (which doubles as a nice little security measure), that mounts everything else off either an NFS or Fibre-Channel disk array. These work great for every common task I have put them up to, mail, http, smb, ftp, nfs, etc... along with a terminal server you have all you need to even build an initial install and solve problems at the system console.
x86 servers are behind in this game as they dont support serial consoles at the BIOS level unless you are using an expansion card like a PCWeasel which is still in the several hundred dollar range.
If you really need graphical management capabilities get Exceed, or ReflectionX running for X-win support or PC Anywhere for those MS products. Once you get remote management up and running you will likely never walk into your server room again so you can also save power by killing the lights.
It would seem to me that the DMCA would also have the effect of making a companys or an individuals need to maintain their copyright compleetly unnecessary for eternity. If it is illegal to even attempt to access any information that is currently copyrighted what about when that copyright falls void? I Could see there being a real problem if Shakespeare or any of the other 'Greats' had encrypted and copyrighted their works... these works would *NEVER* come into the public domain and yet with no one to maintain that copyright through the ages we would be left with only current copyrighted or entirely uncopyrighted works.
It seems to me that streaming audio is more of a means for advertisement than anything else and thus the record companies would be interested in dissemination rather than getting royalties which they do not get from music radio. With streaming audio not only are the track name and artist available through the streaming client but the person doing the streaming is not necessarilly getting paid to maintain the service. Sounds like free advertising to me... and since it is difficult at best ro record streamed audio onto anything but an external audio tape it is not another means of copying beyond fair use.
RIAA certianly seems to be on a power trip since winning in court... make the horror stop!
I have used Belkin, BlackBox and CYBEX switches, prolly some others too and teh CYBEX switches just work soo much better! The downside is they require special cables taht cost about $50 each but they attach to teh back of the switchbox with a screwdown connector so you dont have to deal with PS/2 cables falling out of the switch!
Belkin works if you are on teh cheap but i reccomend CYBEX.
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Having completed highschool and taken a year of vacation then 2 years of a CS degree at a local college the decision I made was to drop out and get on with life.
Since then I have gone through 8 jobs and from helpdesk support to Senior System Administrator in a mixed environment for 6+ years now. However to get where I am it has taken almost 80% of my non paid time to get and keep up to date on current technology. With this much time dedicated to systems related endeavors it has definetly lost some of its charm.
In hindsight colledge provides a time and an environment to make the learning and maintenance of knowledge the specific focus while also providing time to aquire a part time job in which you can gain the experience necessary to step into a higher responsibility position. Another benifit of this method is that financial aid and grants are available which greatly reduces the longterm cost of learning.
Almost all of the technology worth learning to become very competitive and useful to the industry are available through the internet and higher learning institutions now. This being the case college is a great way of accelerating the not soo enjoyable parts of a technology career while providing some fun and flexibility along the way that I have found to be sparse in the full time employment market.
This looks prety anticompetitive to me, (no suprise really). So how is AOL going to feel when WinAMP is no longer a conduit to everyones desktop? Any other takers out there?
Can't people please just stop preaching their own opinions sometimes and be helpful or shut up?
Another way to save imense amounts of power is to get rid of as much unused hardware as possible. Many servers have between one and many internal disks, expansion slots, cards, inputs and outputs that never get used; all of these take extra power. A 'thin server' on the other hand might have nothing more than a network and a serial terminal interface and truthfully you dont need anything more. I Have gone so far as to build a couple systems with nothing more than a bootable root CD (which doubles as a nice little security measure), that mounts everything else off either an NFS or Fibre-Channel disk array. These work great for every common task I have put them up to, mail, http, smb, ftp, nfs, etc... along with a terminal server you have all you need to even build an initial install and solve problems at the system console.
x86 servers are behind in this game as they dont support serial consoles at the BIOS level unless you are using an expansion card like a PCWeasel which is still in the several hundred dollar range.
If you really need graphical management capabilities get Exceed, or ReflectionX running for X-win support or PC Anywhere for those MS products. Once you get remote management up and running you will likely never walk into your server room again so you can also save power by killing the lights.
It would seem to me that the DMCA would also have the effect of making a companys or an individuals need to maintain their copyright compleetly unnecessary for eternity. If it is illegal to even attempt to access any information that is currently copyrighted what about when that copyright falls void? I Could see there being a real problem if Shakespeare or any of the other 'Greats' had encrypted and copyrighted their works... these works would *NEVER* come into the public domain and yet with no one to maintain that copyright through the ages we would be left with only current copyrighted or entirely uncopyrighted works.
Bouncing is what Space_Exploring_Robots do best!
Next we will have a fat honey-grubbing mars lander...
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And you thought Steven was kidding about a dog being that viscious... well just wait... no one pays any attention to robotic safteys anymore.
It seems to me that streaming audio is more of a means for advertisement than anything else and thus the record companies would be interested in dissemination rather than getting royalties which they do not get from music radio. With streaming audio not only are the track name and artist available through the streaming client but the person doing the streaming is not necessarilly getting paid to maintain the service. Sounds like free advertising to me... and since it is difficult at best ro record streamed audio onto anything but an external audio tape it is not another means of copying beyond fair use.
RIAA certianly seems to be on a power trip since winning in court... make the horror stop!
I have used Belkin, BlackBox and CYBEX switches, prolly some others too and teh CYBEX switches just work soo much better! The downside is they require special cables taht cost about $50 each but they attach to teh back of the switchbox with a screwdown connector so you dont have to deal with PS/2 cables falling out of the switch!
Belkin works if you are on teh cheap but i reccomend CYBEX.