I do unix administration and some programming, but I have a degree in physics and I'm currently working on my phd in physics. Being young is one thing, but I can say for certain that some of the older guys that keep up with the cutting edge are scary scary good at doing what they do. Being young might mean that your insurance is a little less and that you play well with some of the younger members of a group, but passing over older programmers that know their shit is probably the worst mistake you could ever make.
Hmm. Talk to the client until you fully understand the problem. What a concept! No doubt this will make some fast and bulletproof code. Now if only they can teach their engineers to convert units correctly....
Too bad. Here's what I see being tackled next. Usenet. *.warez.*, *.mp3.*, *.erotica.* newsgroups exist almost solely to make copyrighted material available freely on the net. Clearly we must ban all of usenet because unruly and nefarious internet users can easily move their purloined wares to newgroups with names that aren't content-centered, i.e. alt.fan.beable. Clearly someone should notify the Netscape Sysop so that he can shut down Usenet for good. IRC. Evil geeks can freely distribute their collection of smut and music by fserve. We should hold the companies that host various IRC servers accountable for the actions of their connecting clients. Efnet #jesus? is an example of a place in which porn and mp3 files are routinely exchanged. And dalnet is filled with naughty computer-savvy types that easily hide their evil doings in innocent channels like #flonk. This must be stopped. In fact, I think we should hunt down the guy that came up with this internet thing and toss him in jail for copyright infringement. After all, the internet was created to allow information to be exchanged between machines, be it copyrighted information or stuff that is freely available. He should have known better, because all the internet does is encourage people to view smut while at work and try to complete their collection of Siouxsie songs while at play. All illegal, of course. Go get em.
I dropped in at FOSE for a day to check out the linux pavilion. You'd think that having a "linux pavilion" would mean that there would actually be a real presence there. Apart from Caldera and the DC/NOVALUGs, there really wasn't. Several of the vendors outside of the pavilion did indeed tout linux machines, including the apple exhibit. But even in the linux pavilion, there were machines running microsoft products. At least there was a pavilion. Maybe next year some more vendors can show up and do what linux vendors are expected to do- give me free t-shirts.
Indeed. As much as I liked seeing the resident Borgess bounce around in her skin tight uniform, I'd have to say that It's About Time for the crew of the U.S.S. Politically Correct to get permanent shore leave. I'm not opposed to a series about the beginnings of the federation. I'm just curious if the guy in the off-color uniform will die and the ship's captain will wear a girdle. Just for christs sake don't make the captain a gay black female shaman.
There is no connection between god and physics. It is pure silliness to expect god to pop out of an equation. Come on, guys. religion is metaphysics. You can't prove it, and all you can rely upon is your faith.
I've been to many a university that had shitty access for students, and insisted on charging them $50-$100 at the least for a "technology fee." Many universities have no forethought at all when it comes to technology, an excellent example of which is the University of Southern Mississippi. They spent millions remodelling a building two years ago, and didn't have the clue to wire it for ethernet. Many profs have to DIAL UP while on campus to use resources, and dealing with the tech group is like eating glass. If you pay, you should receive.
Try this logic. If I picked the lock to on the door to your house and made copies of all of things that you might consider to be confidential (i.e., nude photos of you and your wife, your pron passwords, whatever) but I didn't propagate them - only used them to my own means, would you congratulate me for picking your lock and showing you a security hole or would you kick my ass?
Nothing scary about that. You hack my box, I will do my damndest to make sure that you go to jail. If you're bored, maybe you should take up basketweaving instead of getting root and running warez.
They should have does the UDP anyway, just to make the point. @home is bad about ignoring spam reports, be it email or usenet. Thank the gods that I decided against using them as a provider.
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I do unix administration and some programming, but I have a degree in physics and I'm currently working on my phd in physics. Being young is one thing, but I can say for certain that some of the older guys that keep up with the cutting edge are scary scary good at doing what they do. Being young might mean that your insurance is a little less and that you play well with some of the younger members of a group, but passing over older programmers that know their shit is probably the worst mistake you could ever make.
Hmm. Talk to the client until you fully understand the problem. What a concept! No doubt this will make some fast and bulletproof code. Now if only they can teach their engineers to convert units correctly....
Too bad. Here's what I see being tackled next.
Usenet. *.warez.*, *.mp3.*, *.erotica.* newsgroups exist almost solely to make copyrighted material available freely on the net. Clearly we must ban all of usenet because unruly and nefarious internet users can easily move their purloined wares to newgroups with names that aren't content-centered, i.e. alt.fan.beable. Clearly someone should notify the Netscape Sysop so that he can shut down Usenet for good.
IRC. Evil geeks can freely distribute their collection of smut and music by fserve. We should hold the companies that host various IRC servers accountable for the actions of their connecting clients. Efnet #jesus? is an example of a place in which porn and mp3 files are routinely exchanged. And dalnet is filled with naughty computer-savvy types that easily hide their evil doings in innocent channels like #flonk. This must be stopped.
In fact, I think we should hunt down the guy that came up with this internet thing and toss him in jail for copyright infringement. After all, the internet was created to allow information to be exchanged between machines, be it copyrighted information or stuff that is freely available. He should have known better, because all the internet does is encourage people to view smut while at work and try to complete their collection of Siouxsie songs while at play. All illegal, of course.
Go get em.
I dropped in at FOSE for a day to check out the linux pavilion. You'd think that having a "linux pavilion" would mean that there would actually be a real presence there. Apart from Caldera and the DC/NOVALUGs, there really wasn't. Several of the vendors outside of the pavilion did indeed tout linux machines, including the apple exhibit. But even in the linux pavilion, there were machines running microsoft products. At least there was a pavilion. Maybe next year some more vendors can show up and do what linux vendors are expected to do- give me free t-shirts.
Indeed. As much as I liked seeing the resident Borgess bounce around in her skin tight uniform, I'd have to say that It's About Time for the crew of the U.S.S. Politically Correct to get permanent shore leave. I'm not opposed to a series about the beginnings of the federation. I'm just curious if the guy in the off-color uniform will die and the ship's captain will wear a girdle. Just for christs sake don't make the captain a gay black female shaman.
I can't wait until the kids discover that calling in an anonymous tip is an ideal way to get back at someone for pissing you off.
There is no connection between god and physics. It is pure silliness to expect god to pop out of an equation. Come on, guys. religion is metaphysics. You can't prove it, and all you can rely upon is your faith.
I've been to many a university that had shitty access for students, and insisted on charging them $50-$100 at the least for a "technology fee." Many universities have no forethought at all when it comes to technology, an excellent example of which is the University of Southern Mississippi. They spent millions remodelling a building two years ago, and didn't have the clue to wire it for ethernet. Many profs have to DIAL UP while on campus to use resources, and dealing with the tech group is like eating glass. If you pay, you should receive.
Try this logic. If I picked the lock to on the door to your house and made copies of all of things that you might consider to be confidential (i.e., nude photos of you and your wife, your pron passwords, whatever) but I didn't propagate them - only used them to my own means, would you congratulate me for picking your lock and showing you a security hole or would you kick my ass?
Nothing scary about that. You hack my box, I will do my damndest to make sure that you go to jail. If you're bored, maybe you should take up basketweaving instead of getting root and running warez.
They should have does the UDP anyway, just to make the point. @home is bad about ignoring spam reports, be it email or usenet. Thank the gods that I decided against using them as a provider.