As others have said, it varies quite a bit from school to school. I am a Junior majoring in CIS at UWSP and it has very little to do with business. You do not need to take any business classes and the core CIS curriculum teaches programming in C++, Java and Visual Basic, deals with database design and implementation as well as networking and data communications. For the most part it has a little bit of everything but unfortunately lacks any detailed computer architecture or assembly classes. Though I think I will be satisified with my major by the time it is completed, I regret not going for CS instead.
I Work for an ISP and we were almost blackholed for not taking immediate action when an individual emailed one of our admins claiming that one of our customers was sending spam. The person who received the spam demanded that we cancel the spammers account. Because the person provide no evidence that the spam had actually been received from our customer and because we have never received any other reports of this customer sending spam we did nothing. After dealing with MAPS (who never even tried to contact us and discuss the situation) we were able to be removed from the blackhole list but the person we had talked to said that failing to take action is a good enough reason to be blackholed. The worst part was that they were willing to take the spam victims word without ever trying to fix the problem.
(Whoohoo, my first post after using Slashdot for the past 2 years)
Im using an IR reciever I built, with the help of a friend, to control winamp using a regular remote control. Does anyone know if there is a Linux project for this sort of thing?
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As others have said, it varies quite a bit from school to school. I am a Junior majoring in CIS at UWSP and it has very little to do with business. You do not need to take any business classes and the core CIS curriculum teaches programming in C++, Java and Visual Basic, deals with database design and implementation as well as networking and data communications. For the most part it has a little bit of everything but unfortunately lacks any detailed computer architecture or assembly classes. Though I think I will be satisified with my major by the time it is completed, I regret not going for CS instead.
I Work for an ISP and we were almost blackholed for not taking immediate action when an individual emailed one of our admins claiming that one of our customers was sending spam. The person who received the spam demanded that we cancel the spammers account. Because the person provide no evidence that the spam had actually been received from our customer and because we have never received any other reports of this customer sending spam we did nothing. After dealing with MAPS (who never even tried to contact us and discuss the situation) we were able to be removed from the blackhole list but the person we had talked to said that failing to take action is a good enough reason to be blackholed. The worst part was that they were willing to take the spam victims word without ever trying to fix the problem.
(Whoohoo, my first post after using Slashdot for the past 2 years)
Anyone know where I can get a peek at the picture of the "Big Brother Inside" chip that they are talking about in the Yahoo News article?
Thanks.
Im using an IR reciever I built, with the help of a friend, to control winamp using a regular remote control. Does anyone know if there is a Linux project for this sort of thing?
The specs and winamp module can be found at
http://www.geociti es.com/SiliconValley/Sector/3863/infrared.html
The IR reciever/demodulator is not available anymore so I used a radioshack reciever.