cmd has been a huge improvement over ye olde DOS, but I wouldn't say that it's graduated from being DOS. I mean, yay, tab completion (in XP/2003), but it's not like it became POSIX compliant or anything, or that you can do seriously powerful administration via scripting suddenly.
Why are you taking comp sci? you like computers? Programming? Working long hours in small cubicles for good pay?
For undergrad, focus on breadth, not depth. Find some other field you like and take courses. Try and get away from the sciences for a bit; learn how to put a well-written paper together (helps a LOT later on), learn a foreign language (German or Japanese or Hindi for complimentary usage, Spanish or French for development work and interesting travel options)
Take some philosophy courses, learn how to argue, how to pick apart an argument, and heck, maybe even some ethics and existential crises to boot!
Shop around. Heck, don't even get a second major, just take lots and lots of courses around the university. Get an education, and you'll find a career. If you spend all your time getting a career, you're more vulnerable to changes in what the workforce needs (i.e., you are more likely to get your job outsourced and have no other skills).
Think about it. What makes you happy? Your undergrad is the best opportunity you'll ever have to get educated on things that aren't directly in your line of work, but nonetheless could make you a better, more rounded person.
Back to being boring, if you want things that dovetail with programming, foreign languages, math, biology (bio-informatics), music...
I was also caught in a situation where the nastyware watched any browser for specific search terms and killed the process, as well as blocked all access to the anti-virus provider sites.
It required a BartPE CD to get rid of that one. it SUCKED.
Yeah, that entire passage rubbed me the wrong way -- "we're COOL, we're ahead of the curve!" "laws governing wages are soooooo out of date"
Suck it up, EA, you cannot reasonably expect your employees to work 80 hr weeks endlessly! Or can you? Why haven't EA employees taken a page from workaday types and formed a Union?
It should be noticed, however, that Austin is implementing a free wifi in city parks plan. And, of course, you can't swing a patch cable without passing it through an open wifi network, mostly due to the hard-workin' volunteers at http://www.austinwirelesscity.org/
Besides, the place to be in 94 was newsgroups and (text-only) muds, the web was a small place back then (in comparison). Gopher, man... ahhh, gopher. Where are my old friends Archie and Veronica? I want to ask Eric about something...
"One of the things that our agency's responsible for doing is protecting the integrity of the economy and our nation's financial systems and obviously trademark infringement does have significant economic implications," she said.
This is frightening. One might remember from HS US Gov't about the "commerce clause" that Congress has since (ab)used to regulate all sorts of random aspects of our daily lives that is not in their otherwise closely-defined scope. The commerce clause lets them regulate and intra-state and extra-national trade, which is argued to include/be effected by just about everything, down to abortion (population control effects trade!)
Now that the Dept. of Homeland Security is claiming to also be responsible for this... that's just scary.
Nah, I hope random Joe Passerby carries his cam on election day and catches the observers getting beaten up or paid off by (Diebold|Bushies), or the like.
I suppose that's something that the geek-crowd can do to grease the democratic process -- carry your digital camera, videocam, voice recorder, etc. on election day -- all this crazy invasion-of-privacy crap can go both ways! (OK, not really, but work with me here)
Is this an election or a slashdot poll? Who cares? We need the "CowboyNeal" option. and since it won't get on the ballot by election time, but we know that everyone would vote for CN, given the chance, let's just reset their votes. CowboyNeal for pres!
The original becomes my backup, and the digital copy my "in-use" version, generally speaking, as it's a lot easier to move around and reference in my computer than finding the CD and placing it in a CD drive somewhere.
But then again, I haven't bought a RIAA-label CD for.... um... 4-5 years or so.
Yeah, and Jesus is coming back real soon now, too, or so I'm told. We evidentially get people telling us that everything's going to blow up soon for all time.
True -- my question is this: why couldn't they pipe email traffic outbound from their customers through one of our fave bayesian filters (spamprobe/assassin/etc.), and for people who had high traffic and a spam-hit of over say 50%, auto-disconnect them. This would dramatically reduce false-positives because of (legit) companies and mailing list types.
Austin also got started on community wireless before it got to be such a huge fad recently. A few indy coffeeshops have been providing free wifi for years now, and AustinWireless has been mapping out locations (intentional and otherwise) since the late 90s.
not only unoriginal, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book to getting around banner ads (surplanted only recently by the adblock extension) (ok, junkbuster proxy, but that was more hassle to me than hosts).
I (and my girlfriend) got to stay at the Jamaican residence of the Archduchess of Austrin (a Hapsburg, no less) in return for setting up her friend's wireless network and doing some basic networking, troubleshooting, and whatnot.
4 pools, private beach, a manbinured jungle pathway, a staff of 14, and a four poster bed!
Not that I let my email client load images anyway, but just because I'm spiteful, I think I'll go add "127.0.0.1 didthereadit.com" to my/etc/hosts file. (c:\windows\hosts in win98, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ in XP, )
Yeah, I myself was a netscrape 4.x holdout (I basically moved from 4.x straight to Mozilla.6, I hated IE so much, even tho it was a better browser for much of that time)
I gave up support for non-CSS browsers a long time ago (excepting Lynx, my pages are still Lynx-readable). CSS design is just so incredibly cleaner and more functional.
Not to mention that Moz and/or FireFox with certain extensions is such a pleasant testing environment, with resizing to different screen-sizes, validation testing, and debuggers!
I now carry a dislaimer on my site that only appears if you're using IE or another CSS-deficient browser.
Man, remember when we were all pissed at Netscape for the Netscape 'extensions' to HTML (like tables) that were not fully supported in non-NS browsers? Those were the days.
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we don't sleep around
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speak for youself...
cmd has been a huge improvement over ye olde DOS, but I wouldn't say that it's graduated from being DOS. I mean, yay, tab completion (in XP/2003), but it's not like it became POSIX compliant or anything, or that you can do seriously powerful administration via scripting suddenly.
You know you've read slashdot for too long when a conversation thread involving teledildonics and chickens doesn't even phase you.
Why are you taking comp sci? you like computers? Programming? Working long hours in small cubicles for good pay?
For undergrad, focus on breadth, not depth. Find some other field you like and take courses. Try and get away from the sciences for a bit; learn how to put a well-written paper together (helps a LOT later on), learn a foreign language (German or Japanese or Hindi for complimentary usage, Spanish or French for development work and interesting travel options)
Take some philosophy courses, learn how to argue, how to pick apart an argument, and heck, maybe even some ethics and existential crises to boot!
Shop around. Heck, don't even get a second major, just take lots and lots of courses around the university. Get an education, and you'll find a career. If you spend all your time getting a career, you're more vulnerable to changes in what the workforce needs (i.e., you are more likely to get your job outsourced and have no other skills).
Think about it. What makes you happy? Your undergrad is the best opportunity you'll ever have to get educated on things that aren't directly in your line of work, but nonetheless could make you a better, more rounded person.
Back to being boring, if you want things that dovetail with programming, foreign languages, math, biology (bio-informatics), music...
Our mutual-misery inspired orgy in hopes of forgetting the reality will finally sputter out 4 days later.
OK, gotta get back to it!
For all that trouble, he might as well have just done it up real. ...but where's the challenge in THAT?
You, sir, need to turn in your geek card.
I was also caught in a situation where the nastyware watched any browser for specific search terms and killed the process, as well as blocked all access to the anti-virus provider sites.
It required a BartPE CD to get rid of that one. it SUCKED.
Yeah, that entire passage rubbed me the wrong way -- "we're COOL, we're ahead of the curve!" "laws governing wages are soooooo out of date"
Suck it up, EA, you cannot reasonably expect your employees to work 80 hr weeks endlessly! Or can you? Why haven't EA employees taken a page from workaday types and formed a Union?
Who cares who they're supposed to be controlled by, I wanna know how easy they are to hijack.
It should be noticed, however, that Austin is implementing a free wifi in city parks plan. And, of course, you can't swing a patch cable without passing it through an open wifi network, mostly due to the hard-workin' volunteers at http://www.austinwirelesscity.org/
Well, duh, it's standards compliant.
I still get .arpa hits on my website, JSA.
Besides, the place to be in 94 was newsgroups and (text-only) muds, the web was a small place back then (in comparison). Gopher, man... ahhh, gopher. Where are my old friends Archie and Veronica? I want to ask Eric about something...
This is frightening. One might remember from HS US Gov't about the "commerce clause" that Congress has since (ab)used to regulate all sorts of random aspects of our daily lives that is not in their otherwise closely-defined scope. The commerce clause lets them regulate and intra-state and extra-national trade, which is argued to include/be effected by just about everything, down to abortion (population control effects trade!)
Now that the Dept. of Homeland Security is claiming to also be responsible for this... that's just scary.
you missed the best part of that quote:
Theyll be more on this.
Uh, sir? Don't you mean, there'll, as in, "there will"? Just checking.
I hope they bring their video cameras.
Nah, I hope random Joe Passerby carries his cam on election day and catches the observers getting beaten up or paid off by (Diebold|Bushies), or the like.
I suppose that's something that the geek-crowd can do to grease the democratic process -- carry your digital camera, videocam, voice recorder, etc. on election day -- all this crazy invasion-of-privacy crap can go both ways! (OK, not really, but work with me here)
Oh, and bring a trained hax0r-monkey
I have one idea to plant in the hacker mind:
Is this an election or a slashdot poll? Who cares? We need the "CowboyNeal" option. and since it won't get on the ballot by election time, but we know that everyone would vote for CN, given the chance, let's just reset their votes. CowboyNeal for pres!
The original becomes my backup, and the digital copy my "in-use" version, generally speaking, as it's a lot easier to move around and reference in my computer than finding the CD and placing it in a CD drive somewhere.
But then again, I haven't bought a RIAA-label CD for.... um... 4-5 years or so.
Yeah, and Jesus is coming back real soon now, too, or so I'm told. We evidentially get people telling us that everything's going to blow up soon for all time.
Microsoft-IIS on unknown
If it turns out they're wining IIS on top of some olf Linux box, I'm gonna laugh a lot.
True -- my question is this: why couldn't they pipe email traffic outbound from their customers through one of our fave bayesian filters (spamprobe/assassin/etc.), and for people who had high traffic and a spam-hit of over say 50%, auto-disconnect them. This would dramatically reduce false-positives because of (legit) companies and mailing list types.
Austin also got started on community wireless before it got to be such a huge fad recently. A few indy coffeeshops have been providing free wifi for years now, and AustinWireless has been mapping out locations (intentional and otherwise) since the late 90s.
not only unoriginal, it's one of the oldest tricks in the book to getting around banner ads (surplanted only recently by the adblock extension) (ok, junkbuster proxy, but that was more hassle to me than hosts).
(It was spelled right in my hosts file!)
I (and my girlfriend) got to stay at the Jamaican residence of the Archduchess of Austrin (a Hapsburg, no less) in return for setting up her friend's wireless network and doing some basic networking, troubleshooting, and whatnot.
4 pools, private beach, a manbinured jungle pathway, a staff of 14, and a four poster bed!
Man, life is a bitch sometimes.
Not that I let my email client load images anyway, but just because I'm spiteful, I think I'll go add /etc/hosts file. (c:\windows\hosts in win98, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ in XP, )
"127.0.0.1 didthereadit.com" to my
Yeah, I myself was a netscrape 4.x holdout (I basically moved from 4.x straight to Mozilla .6, I hated IE so much, even tho it was a better browser for much of that time)
I gave up support for non-CSS browsers a long time ago (excepting Lynx, my pages are still Lynx-readable). CSS design is just so incredibly cleaner and more functional.
Not to mention that Moz and/or FireFox with certain extensions is such a pleasant testing environment, with resizing to different screen-sizes, validation testing, and debuggers!
I now carry a dislaimer on my site that only appears if you're using IE or another CSS-deficient browser.
Man, remember when we were all pissed at Netscape for the Netscape 'extensions' to HTML (like tables) that were not fully supported in non-NS browsers? Those were the days.