of course almost any linux distro is going to boot faster than XP. but if you're running XP from a clean install and you have all that bloatware after 6 months of use, then maybe you should try using the custom options when you install the software you're using.
i'm running XP pro on a P4 2.0ghz with 2gb of ram and it takes my system on average less than one minute from completely off to comlpetely loaded desktop. but i pay attention to the software that runs on my system, and i use msconfig to make sure that nothing is loading that i don't want to load.
I'm frankly a bit surprised at how violent movies like "The Little Mermaid" are...
nevermind movies, what about fairy tales and nursery rhymes? hansel and gretel? a witch fattens them up and tries to eat them. rock-a-bye-baby? a baby falls out of a tree. even the original cinderella story had the stepsisters cutting portions of their feet off to fit into the glass slippers. kids stories have always been tied to violence in some way or another
every time i pull my keys out to use them i have always tried to hide at least one side of them for just such a reason. now my paranoia has finally paid off!
it doesn't matter, since new studies also show that carrying a cell phone in your pocket greatly reduces the fertility rate in men. so maybe nerds have higher quality sperm, but if they carry their cell phones anywhere near their boys it will reduce them back to average...
I never understood the fascination with the Buffalo routers. When I lived in Austin, I just wrote it off as people trying to push the local company on everyone. My experience with their routers is that they were cheap knock-offs of Netgear's low-end wireless routers. And like a lot of the low-end Netgear routers, they had limited range, and would drop connections about every 15 minutes. Have they improved over the years? I would hope so, but my personal experience is to never recommend anyone to buy Buffalo.
I have had a similar experience as the OP *and* the above reply. When I first graduated college, I had a BS in physics with a minor in Computer Science. I went around to job fairs and applied for everything I felt I was qualified to do. I had one recruiter tell me to my face, "Sorry, but you don't have enough experience for an entry level position with our company". Not to mention how many dozens of responses of "We're not looking to hire someone with a Physics background" I heard over that time.
The truth is, if something is dragging down your resume, then you need to find a way to draw attention *away* from it if you're going to include it at all. By not including it, you are going to have to tell the interviewer that you didn't find it relevant to the position. But considering that seems to be your only professional experience, you're probably better leaving it on. But if that's all the professional experience you have in the tech world then you need to arrange your resume so that your stronger selling points are more noticeable than your lack of experience.
In my case, I worked call center support for an ISP, got laid off one week before 9/11 and spent the next two years struggling to find something that would let me pay the bills. Worked a lot of dead-end jobs that gave me a paycheck, but in the meantime I also spent my spare time doing resume-related work like fixing computers or volunteering at a local non-profit to help them get their office computer systems up to date (or at least functional). The point is, don't rely on your "professional" experience in the call center to be your strongest selling point if you are working on other projects. Especially if you have verification of these projects and can demonstrate and explain them.
After that, it's really all about your interviewing skills. If you went to a regular four year university, they will have a career center that can help you learn how to be a better interviewer.
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of course almost any linux distro is going to boot faster than XP. but if you're running XP from a clean install and you have all that bloatware after 6 months of use, then maybe you should try using the custom options when you install the software you're using.
i'm running XP pro on a P4 2.0ghz with 2gb of ram and it takes my system on average less than one minute from completely off to comlpetely loaded desktop. but i pay attention to the software that runs on my system, and i use msconfig to make sure that nothing is loading that i don't want to load.
I'm frankly a bit surprised at how violent movies like "The Little Mermaid" are...
nevermind movies, what about fairy tales and nursery rhymes? hansel and gretel? a witch fattens them up and tries to eat them. rock-a-bye-baby? a baby falls out of a tree. even the original cinderella story had the stepsisters cutting portions of their feet off to fit into the glass slippers. kids stories have always been tied to violence in some way or another
every time i pull my keys out to use them i have always tried to hide at least one side of them for just such a reason. now my paranoia has finally paid off!
it doesn't matter, since new studies also show that carrying a cell phone in your pocket greatly reduces the fertility rate in men. so maybe nerds have higher quality sperm, but if they carry their cell phones anywhere near their boys it will reduce them back to average...
I never understood the fascination with the Buffalo routers. When I lived in Austin, I just wrote it off as people trying to push the local company on everyone. My experience with their routers is that they were cheap knock-offs of Netgear's low-end wireless routers. And like a lot of the low-end Netgear routers, they had limited range, and would drop connections about every 15 minutes. Have they improved over the years? I would hope so, but my personal experience is to never recommend anyone to buy Buffalo.
I have had a similar experience as the OP *and* the above reply. When I first graduated college, I had a BS in physics with a minor in Computer Science. I went around to job fairs and applied for everything I felt I was qualified to do. I had one recruiter tell me to my face, "Sorry, but you don't have enough experience for an entry level position with our company". Not to mention how many dozens of responses of "We're not looking to hire someone with a Physics background" I heard over that time.
The truth is, if something is dragging down your resume, then you need to find a way to draw attention *away* from it if you're going to include it at all. By not including it, you are going to have to tell the interviewer that you didn't find it relevant to the position. But considering that seems to be your only professional experience, you're probably better leaving it on. But if that's all the professional experience you have in the tech world then you need to arrange your resume so that your stronger selling points are more noticeable than your lack of experience.
In my case, I worked call center support for an ISP, got laid off one week before 9/11 and spent the next two years struggling to find something that would let me pay the bills. Worked a lot of dead-end jobs that gave me a paycheck, but in the meantime I also spent my spare time doing resume-related work like fixing computers or volunteering at a local non-profit to help them get their office computer systems up to date (or at least functional). The point is, don't rely on your "professional" experience in the call center to be your strongest selling point if you are working on other projects. Especially if you have verification of these projects and can demonstrate and explain them.
After that, it's really all about your interviewing skills. If you went to a regular four year university, they will have a career center that can help you learn how to be a better interviewer.