Pentium. Additionally, 80186 should really be 8088 in that list, I believe. I think there was an 80186, but it wasn't an intel chip - it was a spruced up 8088 clone that came out AFTER the 80286.
Either that, or I've totally scrambled my cache...
Well, I plan to vote with my wallet. I don't buy VHS movies anymore, simple as that. I've been buying about 5 DVDs or so a month, on average. Not a large sum, but when you figured the average DVD sells for $24 or so, that adds up to almost $1500 a year. If a company doesn't want my business, that's fine with me - I'll take it elsewhere.
And if/when TPM comes out on DVD? I'll buy it. But not before then.
Well, I tried to enter, but it came back with a message saying that the email address and phone number must be valid. It's too bad they didn't explain what was wrong, though. My phone number was in standard notation, and my email address was perfectly valid.
I imagine they don't like that my email address has a + in it, as I've had problems with this before, but according to RFC 822, this is legal: The username may contain any CHAR (ascii characters 0-127 in decimal), EXCEPT control characters (0-31), space, and special characters, which must be quoted.
I bought a RCA 5220 DVD player back in May or June or so, for about $280, and while it's not a high-end DVD player, it has played every DVD I've put in it without problem, including The Matrix. The only downside to this player is the same as any low-end player - it only has one laser, and may erase recordable CD's, but for the price, I've been very happy with it.
Well, I set my pager up to page me when anything related to redhat happened on etrade's site. I was paged when they first wanted indications of interest, and got mine in, and I was paged again this morning when they were requesting again. Woke me up and got out of bed, even.
Got up, logged on, and confirmed my interest - yes, I would be happy to pay $14. About 5 minutes later, they cut off the confirmation service.
Head on into work, get into work, and logon and, check my account, to find out I didn't get any shares.
Ohwell, I'm not at all surprised this went to a lottery, but it is annoying, and a little depressing - Red Hat is a company I believe in. Maybe next time, I'll be one of the lucky ones.
I've not done IPO's before, but hey, I believe in this company - so for the last couple of weeks, I had a nice shell script monitor their website. When it popped up, I was paged. By chance, I'd submitted my interest in 100 shares already, though.;-) Okay, only 100, but I can't afford much more. I hope I get them.
Re:So why do I want one of these?
on
uCsimm News
·
· Score: 1
Okay, you need a reason?
It's the Linux Kernel. It's small. It supports LCD, 10base-T and LCD screens.
Okay: power-supply. lcd display that projects an image into your eye, mounted on glasses. twiddler. wireless 10base-T network.
Welcome to the world of wearables.
Okay, so it's only 2.7MIPS. So through together a small hub and a bunch of these. Beowulf cluster in your fannypack.
Taken straight out of the Warlock books, 'Saint Vidicon of Cathode' My vote for patron saint of the Internet, and anything based on the magic of electronics.
I've a little sticker on my monitor: 'St. Vidicon of Cathode, Pray For Us' to ward off the Imp of the Peverse (sp?) The symbol of the Order of Cathode? A simple orange(?)-handled screwdriver in the breast pocket. I'm not Catholic, but that's one Saint I could handle.;-)
What can be said? I've been a Star Trek fan for ages, and I loved the character of McCoy. The loss, years ago, of The Great Bird of the Galaxy, Gene Roddenberry, was hard. (I still have a copy of the article that told of his death) The one who created this wonderful series, yet... he wasn't as visible. Kelley was one of the actors - he was there everyday, he was in the movies, his old-time country doctor personality in this modern contraption of a starship. He was a lot more familiar to me, and his loss... brings great sadness to my heart.
Star Trek will go on, it will always go on. But it won't be the same. If they ever make another TOS movie, they cannot replace Kelley - noone could do him justice.
The Star Trek universe is a good future, but even there it is not perfect. People live, love, fight and die. A perfect world, where nothing bad ever happened, would not be a place I'd want to live... but the price for that is sadness, hurt and pain. And now is a time to remember, and to be sad, although life must go on.
I had an experience with DSL much like this one posted here, except while his looks like it's working, mine never did, and I'm right here in the Silicon Valley.
I spent some time shopping around for DSL, and finally settled on one company - their prices seemed appropriate, and they offered the services I needed. (/28 subnet, no NAT) They generally only offered Flowpoint Routers, which were complete overkill for my needs, especially as I would be using a firewall and my own router on my side of the connection. They agreed to sell me a Speedstream Bridge, instead - much better match for me needs, and save me some $400.
Well, took about a month of no word back from them, but the line was finally installed, with very little warning. (They never called to schedule an appointment, as I was told they would) and the tech went to install a Flowpoint. After talking to him, and the ISP, he installed a Speedstream Bridge, and the line didn't seem to have any problems - all lights green, everything looked good. But I had no IP addresses to use yet.
One more week, finally I got the IP addresses I needed. (The person at the ISP didn't know how to do a setup for a bridge, although it's supported by Covad, the DSL provider) Finally, things should be working, no?
No. I had the IPs, but pings wouldn't go through (although I do see the lights blinking on the bridge with each attempt), call customer support and let them know it's not working yet. They spend awhile (a week) working on this, and then tell me it's fixed. It's not. Pull out tcpdump, and monitor the line to see what's coming over it, and indeed, I can see pings from outside, but they appear to be unknown packets.
I send this information to them, tell them the line appears to be setup wrong, and to verify it - suspicion is they set the line up for Flowpoint. After a week, I haven't heard back from them, so I call them again - oh, they need to have Covad look it at, give it a few more days. Another week, I call them back, and check the status - Covad says everything's fine.
It's not. About this point, I pull out my TCP/IP book, and RFCs, and start pulling the packet's I'm seeing from the bridge to see what's in them. After a very short amount of searching, I find they appear to be very nice IP packets. Nice, that is, except they are missing the first two bytes of an IP header (version, packet size, type of service) and that they are coming in without an ethernet header on them - on my ethernet port.
How rude. I download a copy of tcpdump source and hacket to speak this corrupt dialog, and can view these packets with ease now. I write all this up, and include all sorts of packet dumps of the raw data, the real data, etc, etc... I call them, tell them what I saw, and then email it per their request.
No response. What, that wasn't enough information? I contact efficient networks, makers of Speedstream, and describe this to them. They tell me the problem is the line is set for Router, not Bridged DSL, and is set for VCMUX, not LLC. This would account for the packets the way I am seeing them. (The Speedstream is stripping 16 bytes off the head of the packets - Bridged adds 10 bytes, and LLC adds 6. An ethernet header is 14 - thus my missing ethernet header, plus 2 bytes of the IP header) I contact my ISP again, and talk to one of their support people, again. He says they're being bought out and their account with covad is locked temporarilly - they can get it fixed that week. Okay, I wait.
On Monday, I receive a call from Flashcom... Hi, ISP... went out of business, and Covad's asked us to provide continuing service to anyone who wants it. *click*
Oh, and they charged me for a Flowpoint, not the Speedstream. I disputed that charge, being it's on my credit card and it's incorrect, but I'm not holding my breath, with them having gone out of business.
So, what do I have for my efforts to get DSL? Two months of wasted time, one Speedstream 5250 Bridge, and am, atleast for now, out $650 (Flowpoint router, and one months non-functional service) Atleast they never charged me the setup fee.;-)
Anyone want a slightly used Speedstream 5250 Bridge? At $650, it's a great deal. Not.
I have to admit, much of what Katz writes, I skip over - I'm only slightly interested in his book, and tend to skip anything related to it. Additionally, his posts tend not to be strong on facts - but that's okay, he's writing opinion. His opinion and his experiences.
Katz's opinions aren't always based on a sound factual foundation, but they are enlightening. Even though I don't agree with everything he says, and some of it I think is hogwash, but what he says provides insight into this culture from a different view.
Yes, Katz *is* a geek, although not what we usually think of as a geek - but geek is a lot broader than how most of us use it. His writings often talk about technology - not the hows and whys of technology, but the how's and why's of it's affect on us, as humans.
I often find I don't agree with what Katz has written, but what he has written is often something I wouldn't have thought of otherwise, my brain doesn't function like that. His writings bring his ideas into my conscious, where I can then think about them, and come to my own conclusions.
Maybe the thoughts don't affect my day-to-day much, but they remind me there IS more to life than geekdome, and the little worlds most of us live in. His thoughts, no matter whether I agree, expand my thoughts and views on the world around me, and on how technology affects it, by making me think about subjects I wouldn't normally, in ways I wouldn't normally. It's for this reason I read Katz's works, as well as other columnists, such as Joseph Dobrien, who I agree with not at all.
It's also for this reason, I think/. should have more people writing columns, from different perspectives, because even when we don't agree, it does force us to think about the subject in question.
No, they haven't changed the price for registering a domain - they've obfuscated the wording. If you 'reserve' your domain for $119, you not ONLY get the domain, you also get your DNS servers and page that says 'Under Construction' or has a little info about your company (Their 'dot com biz card') This is what they are pushing.
Listed below that, it also mentions you can REGISTER your address for a mere $70 for two years, but you need an ISP to manage it for you, then. So the option IS still there, but not at all clear that it's sufficient, and you don't need to pay the $119. Once you get to the point where you actually choose one or the other, it makes the pretty obvious, but still...
The webpage is designed to make it look like you have two options for your domain - hosted by Network Solutions, or hosted by someone else, when in actuality, you have a domain ($70 for two years) and another $49 for Network Solutions, just another ISP in this regard, to host the simple 'Under Construction' page + DNS servers. Just putting a spin on the text, though, but could snare unsuspecting people in.
Basically, you can get by without any official credentials or training, but you need to be good. Knowing unix, you can get a low-end tape monkey job or helpdesk, or other low-end job that requires limited knowledge.
Having a degree or some other paper that says you know what you are doing does help in getting the job, but you can get by in general if you can demonstrate you really do know it. Of course, that depends on the company, too - some companies really want the paper, some are willing to trust your experience, sometimes at lesser pay.
It does make it harder if you don't have previous job experience that indicates you know what you are doing, but again - companies differ in what they are looking for. While it may not be a dream job, a company may just be willing to take that person willing to do the extra work, for a little less pay, to get the experience and then move on.
In my case, I support Solaris and NT mostly, have worked with BSDI, as well as good knowledge of linux, but I had absolutely no official training prior to coming to this job. My current employer has paid to send me to a couple of NT classes, but that's the extant of my training still, and now I'm doing rather well.
The key really is how much you know, how fast you can add to that, how well you can demonstrate it, and whether a company is willing to go with someone who is 'unproven'
In my case, I had the experience, but couldn't really prove it without college training or degrees. (I hadn't even taken a single unix class) What really helped me get around that hurdle, was opting for contract work - a contract agency may take people who are less qualified, or unproven, because they get all sorts of job openings - and that can be a chance to prove yourself. Additionally, a company that might shy away from the 'committment' of hiring an untested person permanent might take them as a contractor. If you work out, the company may then hire you on as fulltime - you've now been proven.
Essentially, it can be done, but companies ARE hesitant to hire someone who hasn't been proven already.
Slashdot Mirror
Pentium. Additionally, 80186 should really be 8088 in that list, I believe. I think there was an 80186, but it wasn't an intel chip - it was a spruced up 8088 clone that came out AFTER the 80286.
Either that, or I've totally scrambled my cache...
Well, I plan to vote with my wallet. I don't buy VHS movies anymore, simple as that. I've been buying about 5 DVDs or so a month, on average. Not a large sum, but when you figured the average DVD sells for $24 or so, that adds up to almost $1500 a year. If a company doesn't want my business, that's fine with me - I'll take it elsewhere.
And if/when TPM comes out on DVD? I'll buy it. But not before then.
Well, I tried to enter, but it came back with a message saying that the email address and phone number must be valid. It's too bad they didn't explain what was wrong, though. My phone number was in standard notation, and my email address was perfectly valid.
I imagine they don't like that my email address has a + in it, as I've had problems with this before, but according to RFC 822, this is legal: The username may contain any CHAR (ascii characters 0-127 in decimal), EXCEPT control characters (0-31), space, and special characters, which must be quoted.
Special characters are: ( ) < > @ , ; : \ " . [ ]
I bought a RCA 5220 DVD player back in May or June or so, for about $280, and while it's not a high-end DVD player, it has played every DVD I've put in it without problem, including The Matrix. The only downside to this player is the same as any low-end player - it only has one laser, and may erase recordable CD's, but for the price, I've been very happy with it.
Well, I set my pager up to page me when anything related to redhat happened on etrade's site. I was paged when they first wanted indications of interest, and got mine in, and I was paged again this morning when they were requesting again. Woke me up and got out of bed, even.
Got up, logged on, and confirmed my interest - yes, I would be happy to pay $14. About 5 minutes later, they cut off the confirmation service.
Head on into work, get into work, and logon and, check my account, to find out I didn't get any shares.
Ohwell, I'm not at all surprised this went to a lottery, but it is annoying, and a little depressing - Red Hat is a company I believe in. Maybe next time, I'll be one of the lucky ones.
I've not done IPO's before, but hey, I believe in this company - so for the last couple of weeks, I had a nice shell script monitor their website. When it popped up, I was paged. By chance, I'd submitted my interest in 100 shares already, though. ;-) Okay, only 100, but I can't afford much more. I hope I get them.
Okay, you need a reason?
;-)
It's the Linux Kernel. It's small. It supports LCD, 10base-T and LCD screens.
Okay: power-supply. lcd display that projects an image into your eye, mounted on glasses. twiddler. wireless 10base-T network.
Welcome to the world of wearables.
Okay, so it's only 2.7MIPS. So through together a small hub and a bunch of these. Beowulf cluster in your fannypack.
Any questions?
Taken straight out of the Warlock books, 'Saint Vidicon of Cathode' My vote for patron saint of the Internet, and anything based on the magic of electronics.
;-)
I've a little sticker on my monitor:
'St. Vidicon of Cathode, Pray For Us' to ward off the Imp of the Peverse (sp?) The symbol of the Order of Cathode? A simple orange(?)-handled screwdriver in the breast pocket. I'm not Catholic, but that's one Saint I could handle.
Saint Vidicon of Cathode, Pray For Us
What can be said? I've been a Star Trek fan for ages, and I loved the character of McCoy. The loss, years ago, of The Great Bird of the Galaxy, Gene Roddenberry, was hard. (I still have a copy of the article that told of his death) The one who created this wonderful series, yet ... he wasn't as visible. Kelley was one of the actors - he was there everyday, he was in the movies, his old-time country doctor personality in this modern contraption of a starship. He was a lot more familiar to me, and his loss ... brings great sadness to my heart.
... but the price for that is sadness, hurt and pain. And now is a time to remember, and to be sad, although life must go on.
Star Trek will go on, it will always go on. But it won't be the same. If they ever make another TOS movie, they cannot replace Kelley - noone could do him justice.
The Star Trek universe is a good future, but even there it is not perfect. People live, love, fight and die. A perfect world, where nothing bad ever happened, would not be a place I'd want to live
Live Long and Prosper
I had an experience with DSL much like this one posted here, except while his looks like it's working, mine never did, and I'm right here in the Silicon Valley.
... went out of business, and Covad's asked us to provide continuing service to anyone who wants it. *click*
;-)
I spent some time shopping around for DSL, and finally settled on one company - their prices seemed appropriate, and they offered the services I needed. (/28 subnet, no NAT) They generally only offered Flowpoint Routers, which were complete overkill for my needs, especially as I would be using a firewall and my own router on my side of the connection. They agreed to sell me a Speedstream Bridge, instead - much better match for me needs, and save me some $400.
Well, took about a month of no word back from them, but the line was finally installed, with very little warning. (They never called to schedule an appointment, as I was told they would) and the tech went to install a Flowpoint. After talking to him, and the ISP, he installed a Speedstream Bridge, and the line didn't seem to have any problems - all lights green, everything looked good. But I had no IP addresses to use yet.
One more week, finally I got the IP addresses I needed. (The person at the ISP didn't know how to do a setup for a bridge, although it's supported by Covad, the DSL provider) Finally, things should be working, no?
No. I had the IPs, but pings wouldn't go through (although I do see the lights blinking on the bridge with each attempt), call customer support and let them know it's not working yet. They spend awhile (a week) working on this, and then tell me it's fixed. It's not. Pull out tcpdump, and monitor the line to see what's coming over it, and indeed, I can see pings from outside, but they appear to be unknown packets.
I send this information to them, tell them the line appears to be setup wrong, and to verify it - suspicion is they set the line up for Flowpoint. After a week, I haven't heard back from them, so I call them again - oh, they need to have Covad look it at, give it a few more days. Another week, I call them back, and check the status - Covad says everything's fine.
It's not. About this point, I pull out my TCP/IP book, and RFCs, and start pulling the packet's I'm seeing from the bridge to see what's in them. After a very short amount of searching, I find they appear to be very nice IP packets. Nice, that is, except they are missing the first two bytes of an IP header (version, packet size, type of service) and that they are coming in without an ethernet header on them - on my ethernet port.
How rude. I download a copy of tcpdump source and hacket to speak this corrupt dialog, and can view these packets with ease now. I write all this up, and include all sorts of packet dumps of the raw data, the real data, etc, etc... I call them, tell them what I saw, and then email it per their request.
No response. What, that wasn't enough information? I contact efficient networks, makers of Speedstream, and describe this to them. They tell me the problem is the line is set for Router, not Bridged DSL, and is set for VCMUX, not LLC. This would account for the packets the way I am seeing them. (The Speedstream is stripping 16 bytes off the head of the packets - Bridged adds 10 bytes, and LLC adds 6. An ethernet header is 14 - thus my missing ethernet header, plus 2 bytes of the IP header) I contact my ISP again, and talk to one of their support people, again. He says they're being bought out and their account with covad is locked temporarilly - they can get it fixed that week. Okay, I wait.
On Monday, I receive a call from Flashcom... Hi, ISP
Oh, and they charged me for a Flowpoint, not the Speedstream. I disputed that charge, being it's on my credit card and it's incorrect, but I'm not holding my breath, with them having gone out of business.
So, what do I have for my efforts to get DSL? Two months of wasted time, one Speedstream 5250 Bridge, and am, atleast for now, out $650 (Flowpoint router, and one months non-functional service) Atleast they never charged me the setup fee.
Anyone want a slightly used Speedstream 5250 Bridge? At $650, it's a great deal. Not.
I have to admit, much of what Katz writes, I skip over - I'm only slightly interested in his book, and tend to skip anything related to it. Additionally, his posts tend not to be strong on facts - but that's okay, he's writing opinion. His opinion and his experiences.
/. should have more people writing columns, from different perspectives, because even when we don't agree, it does force us to think about the subject in question.
Katz's opinions aren't always based on a sound factual foundation, but they are enlightening. Even though I don't agree with everything he says, and some of it I think is hogwash, but what he says provides insight into this culture from a different view.
Yes, Katz *is* a geek, although not what we usually think of as a geek - but geek is a lot broader than how most of us use it. His writings often talk about technology - not the hows and whys of technology, but the how's and why's of it's affect on us, as humans.
I often find I don't agree with what Katz has written, but what he has written is often something I wouldn't have thought of otherwise, my brain doesn't function like that. His writings bring his ideas into my conscious, where I can then think about them, and come to my own conclusions.
Maybe the thoughts don't affect my day-to-day much, but they remind me there IS more to life than geekdome, and the little worlds most of us live in. His thoughts, no matter whether I agree, expand my thoughts and views on the world around me, and on how technology affects it, by making me think about subjects I wouldn't normally, in ways I wouldn't normally. It's for this reason I read Katz's works, as well as other columnists, such as Joseph Dobrien, who I agree with not at all.
It's also for this reason, I think
No, they haven't changed the price for registering a domain - they've obfuscated the wording. If you 'reserve' your domain for $119, you not ONLY get the domain, you also get your DNS servers and page that says 'Under Construction' or has a little info about your company (Their 'dot com biz card') This is what they are pushing.
Listed below that, it also mentions you can REGISTER your address for a mere $70 for two years, but you need an ISP to manage it for you, then. So the option IS still there, but not at all clear that it's sufficient, and you don't need to pay the $119. Once you get to the point where you actually choose one or the other, it makes the pretty obvious, but still...
The webpage is designed to make it look like you have two options for your domain - hosted by Network Solutions, or hosted by someone else, when in actuality, you have a domain ($70 for two years) and another $49 for Network Solutions, just another ISP in this regard, to host the simple 'Under Construction' page + DNS servers. Just putting a spin on the text, though, but could snare unsuspecting people in.
Basically, you can get by without any official credentials or training, but you need to be good. Knowing unix, you can get a low-end tape monkey job or helpdesk, or other low-end job that requires limited knowledge.
Having a degree or some other paper that says you know what you are doing does help in getting the job, but you can get by in general if you can demonstrate you really do know it. Of course, that depends on the company, too - some companies really want the paper, some are willing to trust your experience, sometimes at lesser pay.
It does make it harder if you don't have previous job experience that indicates you know what you are doing, but again - companies differ in what they are looking for. While it may not be a dream job, a company may just be willing to take that person willing to do the extra work, for a little less pay, to get the experience and then move on.
In my case, I support Solaris and NT mostly, have worked with BSDI, as well as good knowledge of linux, but I had absolutely no official training prior to coming to this job. My current employer has paid to send me to a couple of NT classes, but that's the extant of my training still, and now I'm doing rather well.
The key really is how much you know, how fast you can add to that, how well you can demonstrate it, and whether a company is willing to go with someone who is 'unproven'
In my case, I had the experience, but couldn't really prove it without college training or degrees. (I hadn't even taken a single unix class) What really helped me get around that hurdle, was opting for contract work - a contract agency may take people who are less qualified, or unproven, because they get all sorts of job openings - and that can be a chance to prove yourself. Additionally, a company that might shy away from the 'committment' of hiring an untested person permanent might take them as a contractor. If you work out, the company may then hire you on as fulltime - you've now been proven.
Essentially, it can be done, but companies ARE hesitant to hire someone who hasn't been proven already.
-- Chirik
Unix/NT System Administrator