I had one send me out to a job with 2 hours notice. I show up ten minutes early with a tie, clean slacks, a resume, and a smile only to get there and the hiring person said, "who are you and why are you here?" The headhunter forgot to schedule me an appointment. What a dolt. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
After spending a few months haggling with a few headhunters and going on about 15 interviews at jobs that I would not have taken if they offered it, I ended up getting the hook up from a friend.
Headhunters are not worth the time or effort. Maybe if you are a textbook MCSE with a masters in computer science they could probably get you some stupid highschool-level visual basic programming job, but they aren't probably going to get you the job you want to have, much less the job you want to have in 5 years.
yeah, and you can't just plug it in the first time and not have to reboot. The same goes for just about any usb device. At least in linux, a quick reset of X fixes the problem, instead of having to take the whole machine down to install your new optical mouse.
I don't know why you took a jab at linux. The original poster didn't take a jab at anything in specific except for USB. Sounds like you're a little bitter at having to install critical security patches a week.
I always wondered what the cost savings in a $20 pci network card were over a $25 cardbus network card. Sure, the obvious $5 difference is important, but what about the money (time is money) it takes for a trained computer hardware monkey to shutdown the machine, take all of the cables out and take off the top of the computer, plug in a pci network card, and boot back up? I bet it costs more than $5.
Having something like a compact flash card instead of a pcmcia/cardbus card would be beneficial also, as it is smaller, and you should be able to fit more of them in the same sized space. They also use less power than pci/pcmcia/cardbus since they are typically geared towards a PDA. I wonder if you could stack them vertical in a 5 1/4 computer bay, how many you would be able to fit in a row.
Introducing one more plug-in interface type just muddies the water. What kind of interfaces is your next computer going to have?
isa,pci,pcmcia,agp,vga,CF,MM,SD,IDE,WI-FI,USB,Fi re Wire,PS2,IRDA,DVD-RW?
-show up 45 minutes late, spend 30 minutes making coffee and eating breakfast. -check mail -check for latest virus patches for windows machines -if patches found, spend time till lunch upgrading and rebooting (yeah, windows, it's like a constant struggle); else check mrtg graphs and trouble tickets -lunch, 1 hour at least, out of the office -work on special projects that usually change at the drop of a hat -fart around cleaning up stuff on the servers, like unused mail accounts, queued up junk mail, spam -write scripts so i can do less manual work -usually get pulled into a meeting or two -sometimes drive to reboot crashed windows server -leave at 5 -check servers no more than twice while at home
The core work I do in a day lasts about 2 hours at the most. The rest of the time is spent haggling with co-workers, reading e-mail, and doing other random tasks.
it'll knock NASA out of space for about 10 years if they spend all of their money researching and developing a new space vehicle. Having a huge wasteful rocket send up a few hundred pounds of cargo is probably the way it's going to be for a while. Redesigning the most complicated machine ever conceived will take time, and will end up the new "Most complicated machine ever conceived."
Not sending man into space sounds like a good idea in theory, but the underlying point of space exploration is that we will eventually mess up earth so bad, we will HAVE to be in space. Yeah, it's good to make communication satellites and stuff, but if we miss out on living experiments in space, it will take much longer to colonize.
Also, if there are no astronauts, who are kids going to look up to? I bet NASA would have a hard time getting funding if they didn't have public figures like the elderly John Glenn keeping their cause in the limelight.
so if she shared the average of 1000 songs, and there are about 2 songs per cd that are wanted off of each cd, that means she would have had to buy about 500 cds at the new $12.95 price. That's almost $6500. The $2000 settlement comes to about $2 per song.
Inflated cd prices???? No Way....(sarcasm intended)
I wonder what they would have done to her if she had an ITunes receipt for each song. The mom should have gone out that night and spent the $1000 buying each song she could on ITunes. Sharing legal mp3s should give the RIAA lawyers a much harder time in court, especially with the 12 year old girl on the stand.
on a related side note, if you are running an Ascend TNT and are having lots of problems keeping it running, turning off ip route cache will fix the problem. For some reason, SoBig causes havoc with the Lucent OS.
1. my mail program will still take 45 seconds to open 2. i'll still have to wait 3 minutes for my computer to boot 3. i will still have only one option for broadband cable modem access. 4. There will be a full Mircosoft computer, after Gateway or Compaq sells their assets, and it looks like and has the same functionality of the Apple computers we have today. 5. I will have to pay "The Man" to listen to any music, so I end up not listening to any. 6. My cell phone/PDA/electronic key still runs out of batteries without telling me to charge it. 7. All of the programs on my computer have to authorize themselves with the central Total Information Awareness database before they will start up. 8. I get eye scanned when I try to start my car so the car knows i'm not drunk 9. I still get more spam than actual e-mail I send. 10. Movies still come out with lots of fancy gadgets that will never be invented to "WOW" the audience.
What a bad idea. Why would you strip X-Windows of it's protocol and try to say it needs to run over a protocol not specifically designed for it? No one would suggest rewriting nfs to work over FTP just so you can get around a firewall. X-Windows has it's own protocol (and entry in/etc/services) for a reason: Because it's been there forever.
You even agree with me in your second statement when you claim that "X-Windows is not well suited for HTTP".
That's because you will eventually start killing off useful brain cells. Since you don't replenish them, once they are dead, they are dead. Now, back to the beer drinking.
I had to revive a drive that failed after a power failure. The machine had been on for a few years straight and the old scsi drives it had used oil bearings. These bearings seize up sometimes if they are allowed to cool.
So i took the drive out of the computer and did everything you would normally do to a drive that was not spinning up, Shaking it, trying different power connectors, etc. Nothing worked. I figured there was not much damage that could be done with a little brute force, so i took a screw driver and started hammering on the side of the disk while it was plugged in. That didn't work either, so i figured it was time to use some REAL brute force. I took the drive and lifted it up about 3 feet off of the ground (still plugged in and powered up) and let it drop. That drive spun up and worked fine for another 6 months until the whole system was scrapped.
Your mileage may vary, but when it comes down to a broken drive, if it's not spinning, there's not much more damage you can do to it.
If you are only allowed to listen to one song at a time on a particular cd, what would happen if you sped up that time to 2x or more?
assumptions: 1. it is legal to rip a cd to disk 2. it is legal to let someone "borrow" that rip 3. there are no time constraints on the speed or amount of time for the "borrowing" knowing full well that listening can only occur at 1x speed.
so if you rip to disk, and then stream from there, you only really need to worry about having two accesses at any one time. Even if you are reading directly off of the cd drive, you can read at around 24x (being realistic). So read at 24x, and play back at 1x. This would allow several people to listen to the same song at the same time with a small time delay for reading the song into memory or some sort of buffer.
I don't know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize, but it seems like a good award the world community could bestow upon Mr Torvalds for gracing us with his forsight.
yeah, because linux doesn't have a native GUI you think it's use would be hard to understand? Someone that's been running linux any amount of time could setup a machine for you that would have a GUI with only buttons for office apps, internet, and mail. It would also have the added benefit of native remote monitoring and administration, both of which the military would gain benefit from.
If the army mandated a free operating system, they could modify the operating system to only provide the services that the army NEEDs. The problems you described do not happen with a properly configured system. If the system is setup correctly, the end user would not have the ability to make changes that would require downtime to fix. You have been trained by the Windows crowd to just accept downtime and failures as part of normal operation.
I would guess even someone in B. CO 1/509th Abn could figure out. No offence intended.
I've seen that picture before, and did you notice how the spider web created on LSD actually covers more area than the plain spider web? That leads me to believe it is a better spider web since it will capture more insects.
that's not really true though, since there are holes in windows that have been there since windows version 1. Sure there are holes in any program, but at least most of the unix/linux/macos viruses don't cause the computer to crash. In almost every case, unix/linux/bsd viruses are really just exploiting a single program.
I took a graduate level biochemistry class at a state university in texas, and after the first class, the professor had some emergency and couldn't teach the rest of the semester. So, instead of cancelling the class or having another professor teach it, they got a TA who had taken the class the semester before to teach the class. What a rip!! Half of the class failed the first test, which was written by the original professor. I dropped it shortly after, less 3 hours a week for 3 weeks, and around $50 (not including a non-refundable $150 book).
I can't imagine online classes being as full featured as going to somewhere like an ivy league school. Online classes just seem sort of "junior college" to me. But hey, if you finish and get your degree, good for you. You acomplished your goal.
too bad it's just now getting to the point that it was last wednesday. last wedensday it was trading for around $7/share, and it's just below that now.
no really. I went to a major US university for over 5 years, and talked to a "door-closer" once, for about 5 minutes. During that time, he informed me which path I should take, without even looking over my records (which he downloaded and printed out during the first 3 of the 5 minutes).
My experience is this: professors purposely make themselves hard to find because they would rather spend time sucking up to higher-up professors. Unless you are a female with a nice ass, you will not get good face-time with a professor.
While your statements are good and would be excellent in a more perfect world, they are unrealistic expectations that will probably not succeed in the university politics.
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I had one send me out to a job with 2 hours notice. I show up ten minutes early with a tie, clean slacks, a resume, and a smile only to get there and the hiring person said, "who are you and why are you here?" The headhunter forgot to schedule me an appointment. What a dolt. Needless to say, I didn't get the job.
After spending a few months haggling with a few headhunters and going on about 15 interviews at jobs that I would not have taken if they offered it, I ended up getting the hook up from a friend.
Headhunters are not worth the time or effort. Maybe if you are a textbook MCSE with a masters in computer science they could probably get you some stupid highschool-level visual basic programming job, but they aren't probably going to get you the job you want to have, much less the job you want to have in 5 years.
yeah, and you can't just plug it in the first time and not have to reboot. The same goes for just about any usb device. At least in linux, a quick reset of X fixes the problem, instead of having to take the whole machine down to install your new optical mouse.
I don't know why you took a jab at linux. The original poster didn't take a jab at anything in specific except for USB. Sounds like you're a little bitter at having to install critical security patches a week.
makes sense.
i re Wire,PS2,IRDA,DVD-RW?
I always wondered what the cost savings in a $20 pci network card were over a $25 cardbus network card. Sure, the obvious $5 difference is important, but what about the money (time is money) it takes for a trained computer hardware monkey to shutdown the machine, take all of the cables out and take off the top of the computer, plug in a pci network card, and boot back up? I bet it costs more than $5.
Having something like a compact flash card instead of a pcmcia/cardbus card would be beneficial also, as it is smaller, and you should be able to fit more of them in the same sized space. They also use less power than pci/pcmcia/cardbus since they are typically geared towards a PDA. I wonder if you could stack them vertical in a 5 1/4 computer bay, how many you would be able to fit in a row.
Introducing one more plug-in interface type just muddies the water. What kind of interfaces is your next computer going to have?
isa,pci,pcmcia,agp,vga,CF,MM,SD,IDE,WI-FI,USB,F
-show up 45 minutes late, spend 30 minutes making coffee and eating breakfast.
-check mail
-check for latest virus patches for windows machines
-if patches found, spend time till lunch upgrading and rebooting (yeah, windows, it's like a constant struggle); else check mrtg graphs and trouble tickets
-lunch, 1 hour at least, out of the office
-work on special projects that usually change at the drop of a hat
-fart around cleaning up stuff on the servers, like unused mail accounts, queued up junk mail, spam
-write scripts so i can do less manual work
-usually get pulled into a meeting or two
-sometimes drive to reboot crashed windows server
-leave at 5
-check servers no more than twice while at home
The core work I do in a day lasts about 2 hours at the most. The rest of the time is spent haggling with co-workers, reading e-mail, and doing other random tasks.
1. money
it'll knock NASA out of space for about 10 years if they spend all of their money researching and developing a new space vehicle. Having a huge wasteful rocket send up a few hundred pounds of cargo is probably the way it's going to be for a while. Redesigning the most complicated machine ever conceived will take time, and will end up the new "Most complicated machine ever conceived."
Not sending man into space sounds like a good idea in theory, but the underlying point of space exploration is that we will eventually mess up earth so bad, we will HAVE to be in space. Yeah, it's good to make communication satellites and stuff, but if we miss out on living experiments in space, it will take much longer to colonize.
Also, if there are no astronauts, who are kids going to look up to? I bet NASA would have a hard time getting funding if they didn't have public figures like the elderly John Glenn keeping their cause in the limelight.
you spelled "strategic security" wrong. The new spelling is "Strategery" (stra TE' jerie).
so if she shared the average of 1000 songs, and there are about 2 songs per cd that are wanted off of each cd, that means she would have had to buy about 500 cds at the new $12.95 price. That's almost $6500. The $2000 settlement comes to about $2 per song.
Inflated cd prices???? No Way....(sarcasm intended)
I wonder what they would have done to her if she had an ITunes receipt for each song. The mom should have gone out that night and spent the $1000 buying each song she could on ITunes. Sharing legal mp3s should give the RIAA lawyers a much harder time in court, especially with the 12 year old girl on the stand.
oh yeah, i forgot to add this: /var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine/new# du .
1277140
yep, 1.2gig of viruses.
/var/spool/qmailscan/quarantine/new# find | wc
13240 13240 353204
and that's just since 2am this morning.
on a related side note, if you are running an Ascend TNT and are having lots of problems keeping it running, turning off ip route cache will fix the problem. For some reason, SoBig causes havoc with the Lucent OS.
1. my mail program will still take 45 seconds to open
2. i'll still have to wait 3 minutes for my computer to boot
3. i will still have only one option for broadband cable modem access.
4. There will be a full Mircosoft computer, after Gateway or Compaq sells their assets, and it looks like and has the same functionality of the Apple computers we have today.
5. I will have to pay "The Man" to listen to any music, so I end up not listening to any.
6. My cell phone/PDA/electronic key still runs out of batteries without telling me to charge it.
7. All of the programs on my computer have to authorize themselves with the central Total Information Awareness database before they will start up.
8. I get eye scanned when I try to start my car so the car knows i'm not drunk
9. I still get more spam than actual e-mail I send.
10. Movies still come out with lots of fancy gadgets that will never be invented to "WOW" the audience.
What a bad idea. Why would you strip X-Windows of it's protocol and try to say it needs to run over a protocol not specifically designed for it? No one would suggest rewriting nfs to work over FTP just so you can get around a firewall. X-Windows has it's own protocol (and entry in /etc/services) for a reason: Because it's been there forever.
You even agree with me in your second statement when you claim that "X-Windows is not well suited for HTTP".
That's because you will eventually start killing off useful brain cells. Since you don't replenish them, once they are dead, they are dead. Now, back to the beer drinking.
I had to revive a drive that failed after a power failure. The machine had been on for a few years straight and the old scsi drives it had used oil bearings. These bearings seize up sometimes if they are allowed to cool.
So i took the drive out of the computer and did everything you would normally do to a drive that was not spinning up, Shaking it, trying different power connectors, etc. Nothing worked. I figured there was not much damage that could be done with a little brute force, so i took a screw driver and started hammering on the side of the disk while it was plugged in. That didn't work either, so i figured it was time to use some REAL brute force. I took the drive and lifted it up about 3 feet off of the ground (still plugged in and powered up) and let it drop. That drive spun up and worked fine for another 6 months until the whole system was scrapped.
Your mileage may vary, but when it comes down to a broken drive, if it's not spinning, there's not much more damage you can do to it.
If you are only allowed to listen to one song at a time on a particular cd, what would happen if you sped up that time to 2x or more?
assumptions:
1. it is legal to rip a cd to disk
2. it is legal to let someone "borrow" that rip
3. there are no time constraints on the speed or amount of time for the "borrowing" knowing full well that listening can only occur at 1x speed.
so if you rip to disk, and then stream from there, you only really need to worry about having two accesses at any one time. Even if you are reading directly off of the cd drive, you can read at around 24x (being realistic). So read at 24x, and play back at 1x. This would allow several people to listen to the same song at the same time with a small time delay for reading the song into memory or some sort of buffer.
just my two cents.
here is the linux computer
and here is the windows one
And the winner is......
the linux computer, since it didn't crash.
Having a big mouth and being able to follow a script sounds like the job description of a politician.
I don't know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize, but it seems like a good award the world community could bestow upon Mr Torvalds for gracing us with his forsight.
yeah, because linux doesn't have a native GUI you think it's use would be hard to understand? Someone that's been running linux any amount of time could setup a machine for you that would have a GUI with only buttons for office apps, internet, and mail. It would also have the added benefit of native remote monitoring and administration, both of which the military would gain benefit from.
If the army mandated a free operating system, they could modify the operating system to only provide the services that the army NEEDs. The problems you described do not happen with a properly configured system. If the system is setup correctly, the end user would not have the ability to make changes that would require downtime to fix. You have been trained by the Windows crowd to just accept downtime and failures as part of normal operation.
I would guess even someone in B. CO 1/509th Abn could figure out. No offence intended.
the skull should sue for copyright violations.
that would probably kill 2 birds with one stone. Look at how the Compaq/HP and AOL/TW mergers went. pretty crappy.
I've seen that picture before, and did you notice how the spider web created on LSD actually covers more area than the plain spider web? That leads me to believe it is a better spider web since it will capture more insects.
that's not really true though, since there are holes in windows that have been there since windows version 1. Sure there are holes in any program, but at least most of the unix/linux/macos viruses don't cause the computer to crash. In almost every case, unix/linux/bsd viruses are really just exploiting a single program.
I took a graduate level biochemistry class at a state university in texas, and after the first class, the professor had some emergency and couldn't teach the rest of the semester. So, instead of cancelling the class or having another professor teach it, they got a TA who had taken the class the semester before to teach the class. What a rip!! Half of the class failed the first test, which was written by the original professor. I dropped it shortly after, less 3 hours a week for 3 weeks, and around $50 (not including a non-refundable $150 book).
I can't imagine online classes being as full featured as going to somewhere like an ivy league school. Online classes just seem sort of "junior college" to me. But hey, if you finish and get your degree, good for you. You acomplished your goal.
too bad it's just now getting to the point that it was last wednesday. last wedensday it was trading for around $7/share, and it's just below that now.
When monkeys fly out of my butt.
no really. I went to a major US university for over 5 years, and talked to a "door-closer" once, for about 5 minutes. During that time, he informed me which path I should take, without even looking over my records (which he downloaded and printed out during the first 3 of the 5 minutes).
My experience is this: professors purposely make themselves hard to find because they would rather spend time sucking up to higher-up professors. Unless you are a female with a nice ass, you will not get good face-time with a professor.
While your statements are good and would be excellent in a more perfect world, they are unrealistic expectations that will probably not succeed in the university politics.