Got you beat, my PC is close to 6 years old (home-built in early '99) and only a Celeron 400.:) The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading is to be able to play Doom III and HL 2.
Yep, the first PC's I got paid maintain post college were 2 IBM PS/2 Model 30's and 1 PS/2 Model 60. IIRC they were 286/10's with 512K of memory and 20MB hard drives. And we paid almost $3,000 1989 dollars to upgrade them to 8MB each.
Agreed, I get US$868 (without monitor) for a Dell P4 small business solution and that includes a W2K license and CD. Sure, they won't be the greatest for playing Quake or Half-Life but for and office PC they're perfect.
When did you do interview for your first job? When I graduated from college in 1987 (which is eons ago in 'net time:) ) it was during a recession like now and the only people that were getting any kind of job offer were people who's GPAs were 3.5 and above. In fact, I was unemployed for 9 month after graduation before I took a job as a data transcriber because that was the only offer to come along that included access to a keyboard.
The Y2K and.com craze of the past few years have made companies more likely to hire anybody with a pulse but that's rapidly changing.
First stay in college and get some kind of techincal degree, your first job in IT will depend more on grades and what your degree is in as opposed to what your resume says.
Second, join the local LUG and open your ears and your mind to what goes on. After all, people who live and breathe Linux are more likely to know about jobs in the area than the average joe coming into the your grocery store.
Lastly, talk to somebody who entered the job market prior to the.com craze. They're more like to have more relevant information about today's job market than somebody who entered in the last few years.
The US-II's in the Ultra Enterprise Servers come with up to 8-MB of cache. Check out this for more info. Admittedly you're not going to be using a US$15,000 processor for your workstation, but still....
I agree, I worked the graveyard shift (2130-0600) right out of college and the only way I felt OK was to get up around 2000 at night and pretend it was morning.
One big positive was I could party all night with no problem on the weekends.:)
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So, just how many people do you think will get the obscure Kurt Vonnegut reference?
Um, they are "leaked", here but it's definitely not a work-safe page. :)
Bah, 40K for two servers ain't crap. When you get to make decisions about things like http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process= SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=61161 then we can talk. And, yes, they run linux.
Got you beat, my PC is close to 6 years old (home-built in early '99) and only a Celeron 400. :) The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading is to be able to play Doom III and HL 2.
SLI = Scan Line Interleave, the cards alternate drawing lines on the monitor.
The fact you knew that. :)
That'd be Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) and Lexa Doig (Rommie).
Must be nice, in March of '81, I was counting down the days until my 16th birthday in September and cr@pping my pants about paying for gas for my car.
Yep, the first PC's I got paid maintain post college were 2 IBM PS/2 Model 30's and 1 PS/2 Model 60. IIRC they were 286/10's with 512K of memory and 20MB hard drives. And we paid almost $3,000 1989 dollars to upgrade them to 8MB each.
Agreed, I get US$868 (without monitor) for a Dell P4 small business solution and that includes a W2K license and CD. Sure, they won't be the greatest for playing Quake or Half-Life but for and office PC they're perfect.
Um, IIRC Compaq bought Dec to get Digital's service and support people and the Alpha was just a side-effect.
This is funny but I doubt most /.er's are old enough to get the joke. :(
When did you do interview for your first job? When I graduated from college in 1987 (which is eons ago in 'net time :) ) it was during a recession like now and the only people that were getting any kind of job offer were people who's GPAs were 3.5 and above. In fact, I was unemployed for 9 month after graduation before I took a job as a data transcriber because that was the only offer to come along that included access to a keyboard.
.com craze of the past few years have made companies more likely to hire anybody with a pulse but that's rapidly changing.
The Y2K and
First stay in college and get some kind of techincal degree, your first job in IT will depend more on grades and what your degree is in as opposed to what your resume says.
.com craze. They're more like to have more relevant information about today's job market than somebody who entered in the last few years.
Second, join the local LUG and open your ears and your mind to what goes on. After all, people who live and breathe Linux are more likely to know about jobs in the area than the average joe coming into the your grocery store.
Lastly, talk to somebody who entered the job market prior to the
The biggest reason is a T1 guaranteed to run at T1 speeds. DSL isn't. In fact, the max speed the phone company has to guarantee over DSL is 0Kbps.
Don't you mean AMD and Transmeta? Perhaps Hemos rejected the story 'cause you screwed it up?
The US-II's in the Ultra Enterprise Servers come with up to 8-MB of cache. Check out this for more info. Admittedly you're not going to be using a US$15,000 processor for your workstation, but still....
One big positive was I could party all night with no problem on the weekends. :)