I have lots of computer tools (screwdrivers, meters, logic probes, cable testers etc), but they are unsuitable for the task of attaching a license plate. They are simply not as durable or large as automotive tools.
In other words, it may be easier to call your dealer rather than hunt for a #3 philips capable of being used for automotive work.
I had to replace sound system in my car, so I had to spend roughly $30 on necessary tools. I could just pay an installer and enjoy a book, but I wanted to do it myself for fun. This position is not typical, and if I didn't have a need to use those tools daily, I'd pull up to any service station and borrowed the screwdriver.
The woman likely didn't want to trouble herself with finding the tools and to spend any of her time on this. Besides, if you recall, those screws require significant dexterity and manual force.
This is why the service industry exists, to provide people who don't have the experience, knolwedge, tools, or time the necessary service. -- Leonid S. Knyshov
I'll give you a practical example, I wanted a non-standard all-black shirt for clubbing. Simple black, glossy, perhaps leather-like.
Most places had logo'ed stuff, and they were about $10-20 less than what I wound up paying.
Yes, for my purposes a logo would spoil the image, so I looked at many places to find something suitable. $60 for a shirt, not bad, right?;-)
My jacket has a huge logo on the back, but no one except select community knows the Pearl Izumi logo. It is what actually made me buy it in the first place, as piece of art, not a logo.
Oh, and if you want to find non-branded jeans that are your fit or swimwear, my prayers are with you.:-) -- Leonid S. Knyshov
A 56k analog point-to-point circuit we refer to as alarm line will cost you $596 install per each point ($1200) plus $34.95/month for each point.
How did I get that kind of an answer? I called business sales and asked to speak to someone who is knowledgeable about point-to-point circuits.
Got a call back from a woman who seemed to know what she was talking about.
This is current as of today, I checked. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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According to Pacific Hell consultant's handbook (available online in PDF, 852 pages that I've scanned through and printed out quite a few of them...), you can order a special access service... The rate is about $34/month... A little problem, you get hit with a $600 service charge. I am trying to get around that though:-)
There is also an alarm circuit available for $6/month.
What I am going to try is register as their consultant, and use custom order forms to interact directly with them.
I will build a website to document how it's done. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
I am a bit fed up with my bouncy line so I've done some research...
http://www.3com.com/solutions/dsl/dsl_technical. html - a good backgrounder http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.h tml - good set of links on telcos(if you got hours to spend:) http://www.netopia.com/equipment/dslcenter/order /index.html - Netopia DSL equipment ($500 for 1.5mbps integrated router typically) http://www.dslsource.com/glossary.html - glossary of terms http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/x/xDSL.html - definition/links
This should get you started;-)
If you are able to get through the sales barrier, you should know what you are talking about and be armed with facts when they try to tell you it won't work. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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Nice one:-)
One small point, the customer agreement (AUP/TOS smell aolish(it's bad)) of your end-point provider will tell you if you can't run servers. The author of the article is an ISP with a high speed network connection. You can bet he has permission to run servers.
Other than that, KEEP STEALING! -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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My Netopia 7100C SDSL router is capable of being upgraded to dual-channel support. The add-on module makes it as capable as the 7171C.
More information at <A HREF="http://www.netopia.com">Netopia</a>
This is standard CPE from Verio, who is a major DSL provider.
A note of warning to Netopia owners, disable the telnet interface once you are done with troubleshooting your line. Also, a firmware upgrade is available.
Why disable the telnet interface? There is no `enable` for those things, allowing unrestricted and anauthenticated configuration level access to your router from entire Internet. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
I have to setup a backup system for a bunch of Sun machines mostly running Oracle for an Oracle software shop.
We have decided on Veritas NetBackup.
My *painful* experience with CAI ArcServe IT/Open told me to stay far away and then farther from that beast. If you decide to try it out, think of proprietary tape formats and Raima DBMS (at least that's on NT). Also consider the insane number of patches and the fact that it's prone to crash boxes of Intel variety, especially the Netware ones.
You come to store, you see lots of UNIX books. My favorite local shop (Borders of Palo Alto) has literally 7 shelves full of Linux books, and maybe 30 on other flavors. Ironic, isn't it?
Well, there were none that were dedicated to backups and were current. I'll pick this book up and see if it sheds some light so I can sleep at night. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
It is an 8-way xeon machine. Not overly expensive if you take the fact that it's a server into consideration. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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Reason for poor phone tech support?
Just try to get a senior professional to answer phones 8 hours per day;-). Those who are competent enough, usually dislike answering same questions from newbies all day long. And they can't even tell people to read the manual (How rude! The dumb tech wants me to read this x00 pages book!!!) and have to read off it. Moreover, they have to use plain English explanations of rather advanced topics usually.
I'd rather do something that requires more use of brain, so I get maybe 2 calls a month with some really arcane issues that are fun to solve:-).
When I call for support, very rarely naturally, I bypass 1st line with a statement like "Hi, I have this cluster problem, would you transfer me to someone who knows this type of environment? Thank you!" -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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I disagree...
It's true I've had e-mails like:
Hi, I've received your e-mail address and would like to interview you.
Please send your updated resume, 2-3 former managerial references and 1-2 contractor references.
Thanks.
What this tells me is that this recruiter is not someone I want to work with. They are impersonal, clueless (You worked with Solaris but I need UNIX;-), wishing to have me refer them candidates for free (contractor references). I treat this type as annoying telemarketers. Do your own damn homework and read the resume ONLINE. If someone bothers to ask me to send them a Word 97 *gasp* format resume I simply say that this application is not available for Solaris, Linux, or whatever I am on at the moment. Do your own work of conversion.
Finding a good agent (someone who is truly willing to work in your interests) is a job in itself. If I can remember agents names (Julie Youngblooded of Integrated Parnerships, Marci Hendrix and Leah of some other company, Heath Horton of Trouver, Erin Capriotti of K Consultants, Kristine Klemm of Deloitte & Touche), then they are truly a pleasure to work with and really care about what your career. Those are all the names I remember after being in constant contact with tons of recruiters over the last 2 years.
How do I know I like the person I am chatting with? Usually when my originally scheduled 30 minutes interview runs into over 2 hours and no one is visibly tired. When you choose to work with a recruiter and choose her as your agent, your chances of getting a dream job are much higher when she knows exactly what you want and your long-term objectives.
I've been to enough interviews to easily turn the tables on the recruiters and screen _them_ instead. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Yes the good IT people want to be paid a lot. But is it really a lot? Since our assistance is crucial to operations of the business, we can't be neglected.
Say you do 9mil/year in sales. A brilliant IT person suggests a few improvements to bring the sales to 13mil/year. Is he/she not worth the 6 figure compensation after this?
It is all relative, and I realized that after saving some company a lot of money. Yes, it does take a long time to find a new job when your minimum salary requirements are quite high.
Shortage of talented people? Well, I believe that's the unfortunate reality of planet Earth at this point of time in any industry:-) -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
I can't tell you how many times I've talked with MCSEs who didn't have a clue of what they were talking about. "I am certified in NT, but how do you do it in '95". If you are an MCP/MCSE, you should know what you are doing since you are indeed an expert.
There is a parallel with karate. In karate you are expected pass your exam for your belt not because you study for that exam, but because you are in fact that belt already.
I know sufficient amount about operating systems from both fronts, but I am not a DBA. No, I don't have certificates or degrees. And that's not because I can't pass exams(I help prepare for them), but because I prefer to work with people who are open-minded. I actually have a couple of MCP certs, but you won't see that anywhere on my resume. That makes things a little harder when looking for next position, but I have yet to find a place where I didn't enjoy going to every day.
How do you know if you are enjoying what you are doing? That's when you forget to notice you've worked overtime.
When I was asked whether I know how to deploy Oracle 8i on some Solaris 2.6 boxes I said "I don't know this now, but I will read at least 2 different sources of information and research common pitfalls before I even try to do it."
Since I knew everything else that was required, I got the job.
What beats me is the fact that apparently people don't believe in self-training. In other words, I am expected to pay $4000 to basically have a book read to me and so I can crawl around the test labs. Well, I can just as easily buy this book in electronic format thanks to O'Reilly and have a pleasant female voice read it to me for free. For $4000 I can also have a network of machines setup at my place:-)
About the fakers... Look at products from one well-known software company. I happen to know a few people they hired and how they got hired. Fake resumes, no real skills, but vocabulary of a seasoned professional as well as interview scripts. The people I refer to are employed as software testers. Suddenly 63,000 bugs isn't a mystery anymore:-).
The mercenary point is also interesting one... Quite frankly I got tired of my family saying "you are working there for too long and are underpaid" when I worked in 1 place for over 1.5 years and at another for over 2 years. Loyalty may be something that's lacking today over the illusion of happiness through financial rewards. Well, guess what, the saying that money doesn't make you happy is true.
I would pass up a 10% raise at a different company if I have to leave my current one. Of course if it's above 50%, that basically means I am underpaid.
If you want to be a mercenary, do short-term contracts and do not accept permanent offers. Don't take a permanent high responsibility position such as product manager and resign it in 5 months before your product is out.
Being a mercenary is great in the beginning as it's probably the fastest track to senior levels. Once you are at a senior level, you are expected to be with the company for a while, act as a mentor to your juniors and so on. Can you be a manager for only 3 months? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? If it doesn't, you are a mercenary. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Looks like my Sampo 560 is also one such device. Readily available at Fry's.
There is one problem... it apparently got misaligned with a region 2 disc from blockbuster (?!?!?!) featuring Jackie Chan.. The whole thing just vibrated to hell.. I am thinking of calling up Sampo for repairs.:(
Oh, and it plays CD-Rs and MP3s. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
A friend of mine is building such a site at ReaderResponse.com, currently available at rresponse.virtualave.net until its out of testing stages. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Seriously though, it happens to be my favorite shell and if I don't have it on a box I happen to be working on, I deploy it very fast. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
I seem to recall I was able to customize my slackware installations 5 years ago:-)
I don't remember the vocabulary used, I am in NT environment for the past two years (I accept your condolences, and about to go back to CLI-friendly environment soon). I think it was related to custom tag files.
Yes, I really dislike using high-level all-in-one administration tools such as the dreaded linuxconf or Sun's admintool. I am not a newbie, so don't treat me to the pretty X11 interface that I do not need to have even a trace of presence on my servers. `rm -fr/usr/*/X11` is capable of doing that job with great success:-)
Now I see companies deploying Redhat 6 all over the place. Well, it is their choice, but if I am called in to consult, I advise them of advantages of switching distributions if they are open to that. I have yet to have a customer that wanted to go back:-)
Besides, how hard is it to create your shell script-based high level admin tool? Just make sure not to skip on the su step:-)
Used to help out in #linpeople before linpeople.org:-) -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Besides, even back in 1995 I installed Slackware on my trusty 386 by downloading it via ftp. I forget what the release it was with kernel before even 1.2.13.
All I ever needed was A, AP, D, K, N packages. One or two overnight downloads over 14.4k modem:-)
Allow me to explain, in the USA today we have an exploding growth of very high bandwidth service providers. We also have no usage charges like you do in the UK.
Excite@home, for example, offers up to 3mbps (300kb/sec vs. 5.6kb/sec of a modem) download rates for only $40/month, unlimited connectivity time.
I chose something a bit more interesting, an SDSL line which gives me 416kbps/416kbps burstable uplink/downlink via frame relay. Yes, I have a standard 19" rack cabinet in my computer room with all my extra equipment:-). SDSL a bit more expensive, at $235/month, but well worth it for my needs. Besides, I can tell you the T1 local loop and ISP charges and you won't want it.
I can not think of why you would want to download something for 30 hours, you clearly do not need all of those downloads. I had a development system with X11 deployed on 200mb partition. The less junk is installed, the more easy it is to secure the system.
Since you seem to know what you are doing, you may actually prefer Slackware's streamlined way of doing things. And if you mention at a job interview that you are a Slackware user instead of Redhat 6, you will occasionally get different looks, especially when not chatting with an HR drone but with a senior team member.
Yes, I know exactly what I am doing and what the files I install are for, and that's why I choose Slackware.:-) I use SuSE for some managed installations as well with custom automated installation scripts. By the way, I am one of those types who actually reads docs with `more R* docs\R* Makefile docs\* src\c*h` -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Got BattleZone with my STB Velocity 128zx card. Recently got BattleZone II.
It is one of the better games on the market...
Back to the topic of X-box...
I have several Microsoft forcefeedback peripherials... Will they have a means of connecting them to the X-box?
I mean they are not exactly cheap ($130 each I think is the current price) and very good for what I play (FighterAce II, Combat/Flightsim 9x-2Kpro, Urban Assault, tons of driving games etc:-)
The steering wheel's realism is good enough to help me vent need for speed at home or in my office and drive 65 on freeway. I've seen what happens when you speed through Chicago at 120mph in Midtown Madness;-) -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
Charge $2,000 per application, demand from hi-tech people won't fall. Any monetary amount up to probably $3,000 is fairly reasonable. I know I'd pay it in a flash, and yes it is affordable if you work here and are one of the best. Presumably H1-B candidates are supposed to be the best, hence this problem doesn't exist for them.
The government probably can't pay a good enough wage to the INS staff to attract them. -- Leonid S. Knyshov Network Administrator
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Well...
I have lots of computer tools (screwdrivers, meters, logic probes, cable testers etc), but they are unsuitable for the task of attaching a license plate. They are simply not as durable or large as automotive tools.
In other words, it may be easier to call your dealer rather than hunt for a #3 philips capable of being used for automotive work.
I had to replace sound system in my car, so I had to spend roughly $30 on necessary tools. I could just pay an installer and enjoy a book, but I wanted to do it myself for fun. This position is not typical, and if I didn't have a need to use those tools daily, I'd pull up to any service station and borrowed the screwdriver.
The woman likely didn't want to trouble herself with finding the tools and to spend any of her time on this. Besides, if you recall, those screws require significant dexterity and manual force.
This is why the service industry exists, to provide people who don't have the experience, knolwedge, tools, or time the necessary service.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Are you sure it is really that easy?
;-)
:-)
I'll give you a practical example, I wanted a non-standard all-black shirt for clubbing. Simple black, glossy, perhaps leather-like.
Most places had logo'ed stuff, and they were about $10-20 less than what I wound up paying.
Yes, for my purposes a logo would spoil the image, so I looked at many places to find something suitable. $60 for a shirt, not bad, right?
My jacket has a huge logo on the back, but no one except select community knows the Pearl Izumi logo. It is what actually made me buy it in the first place, as piece of art, not a logo.
Oh, and if you want to find non-branded jeans that are your fit or swimwear, my prayers are with you.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Well, my friend, lynx and telnet/ssh to a box outside your work are your friends now :-)
On a Linux box lynx is even colorful.
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Paraphrasing Pacific Bell...
A 56k analog point-to-point circuit we refer to as alarm line will cost you $596 install per each point ($1200) plus $34.95/month for each point.
How did I get that kind of an answer? I called business sales and asked to speak to someone who is knowledgeable about point-to-point circuits.
Got a call back from a woman who seemed to know what she was talking about.
This is current as of today, I checked.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
According to Pacific Hell consultant's handbook (available online in PDF, 852 pages that I've scanned through and printed out quite a few of them...), you can order a special access service... The rate is about $34/month... A little problem, you get hit with a $600 service charge. I am trying to get around that though :-)
There is also an alarm circuit available for $6/month.
What I am going to try is register as their consultant, and use custom order forms to interact directly with them.
I will build a website to document how it's done.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
I am a bit fed up with my bouncy line so I've done some research...
. html - a good backgrounder h tml - good set of links on telcos(if you got hours to spend :) r /index.html - Netopia DSL equipment ($500 for 1.5mbps integrated router typically)
;-)
http://www.3com.com/solutions/dsl/dsl_technical
http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/telecom-info.
http://www.netopia.com/equipment/dslcenter/orde
http://www.dslsource.com/glossary.html - glossary of terms
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/x/xDSL.html - definition/links
This should get you started
If you are able to get through the sales barrier, you should know what you are talking about and be armed with facts when they try to tell you it won't work.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Nice one :-)
One small point, the customer agreement (AUP/TOS smell aolish(it's bad)) of your end-point provider will tell you if you can't run servers. The author of the article is an ISP with a high speed network connection. You can bet he has permission to run servers.
Other than that, KEEP STEALING!
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
My Netopia 7100C SDSL router is capable of being upgraded to dual-channel support. The add-on module makes it as capable as the 7171C.
More information at <A HREF="http://www.netopia.com">Netopia</a>
This is standard CPE from Verio, who is a major DSL provider.
A note of warning to Netopia owners, disable the telnet interface once you are done with troubleshooting your line. Also, a firmware upgrade is available.
Why disable the telnet interface? There is no `enable` for those things, allowing unrestricted and anauthenticated configuration level access to your router from entire Internet.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
I have to setup a backup system for a bunch of Sun machines mostly running Oracle for an Oracle software shop.
We have decided on Veritas NetBackup.
My *painful* experience with CAI ArcServe IT/Open told me to stay far away and then farther from that beast. If you decide to try it out, think of proprietary tape formats and Raima DBMS (at least that's on NT). Also consider the insane number of patches and the fact that it's prone to crash boxes of Intel variety, especially the Netware ones.
You come to store, you see lots of UNIX books. My favorite local shop (Borders of Palo Alto) has literally 7 shelves full of Linux books, and maybe 30 on other flavors. Ironic, isn't it?
Well, there were none that were dedicated to backups and were current. I'll pick this book up and see if it sheds some light so I can sleep at night.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Take a look at Dell PowerEdge 8450
It is an 8-way xeon machine. Not overly expensive if you take the fact that it's a server into consideration.
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Network Administrator
Reason for poor phone tech support?
;-). Those who are competent enough, usually dislike answering same questions from newbies all day long. And they can't even tell people to read the manual (How rude! The dumb tech wants me to read this x00 pages book!!!) and have to read off it. Moreover, they have to use plain English explanations of rather advanced topics usually.
:-).
Just try to get a senior professional to answer phones 8 hours per day
I'd rather do something that requires more use of brain, so I get maybe 2 calls a month with some really arcane issues that are fun to solve
When I call for support, very rarely naturally, I bypass 1st line with a statement like "Hi, I have this cluster problem, would you transfer me to someone who knows this type of environment? Thank you!"
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Network Administrator
I disagree...
;-), wishing to have me refer them candidates for free (contractor references). I treat this type as annoying telemarketers. Do your own damn homework and read the resume ONLINE. If someone bothers to ask me to send them a Word 97 *gasp* format resume I simply say that this application is not available for Solaris, Linux, or whatever I am on at the moment. Do your own work of conversion.
It's true I've had e-mails like:
Hi, I've received your e-mail address and would like to interview you.
Please send your updated resume, 2-3 former managerial references and 1-2 contractor references.
Thanks.
What this tells me is that this recruiter is not someone I want to work with. They are impersonal, clueless (You worked with Solaris but I need UNIX
Finding a good agent (someone who is truly willing to work in your interests) is a job in itself. If I can remember agents names (Julie Youngblooded of Integrated Parnerships, Marci Hendrix and Leah of some other company, Heath Horton of Trouver, Erin Capriotti of K Consultants, Kristine Klemm of Deloitte & Touche), then they are truly a pleasure to work with and really care about what your career. Those are all the names I remember after being in constant contact with tons of recruiters over the last 2 years.
How do I know I like the person I am chatting with? Usually when my originally scheduled 30 minutes interview runs into over 2 hours and no one is visibly tired. When you choose to work with a recruiter and choose her as your agent, your chances of getting a dream job are much higher when she knows exactly what you want and your long-term objectives.
I've been to enough interviews to easily turn the tables on the recruiters and screen _them_ instead.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
That is an interesting view...
:-)
Yes the good IT people want to be paid a lot. But is it really a lot? Since our assistance is crucial to operations of the business, we can't be neglected.
Say you do 9mil/year in sales. A brilliant IT person suggests a few improvements to bring the sales to 13mil/year. Is he/she not worth the 6 figure compensation after this?
It is all relative, and I realized that after saving some company a lot of money. Yes, it does take a long time to find a new job when your minimum salary requirements are quite high.
Shortage of talented people? Well, I believe that's the unfortunate reality of planet Earth at this point of time in any industry
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Network Administrator
You are so right.
:-)
:-).
I can't tell you how many times I've talked with MCSEs who didn't have a clue of what they were talking about. "I am certified in NT, but how do you do it in '95". If you are an MCP/MCSE, you should know what you are doing since you are indeed an expert.
There is a parallel with karate. In karate you are expected pass your exam for your belt not because you study for that exam, but because you are in fact that belt already.
I know sufficient amount about operating systems from both fronts, but I am not a DBA. No, I don't have certificates or degrees. And that's not because I can't pass exams(I help prepare for them), but because I prefer to work with people who are open-minded. I actually have a couple of MCP certs, but you won't see that anywhere on my resume. That makes things a little harder when looking for next position, but I have yet to find a place where I didn't enjoy going to every day.
How do you know if you are enjoying what you are doing? That's when you forget to notice you've worked overtime.
When I was asked whether I know how to deploy Oracle 8i on some Solaris 2.6 boxes I said "I don't know this now, but I will read at least 2 different sources of information and research common pitfalls before I even try to do it."
Since I knew everything else that was required, I got the job.
What beats me is the fact that apparently people don't believe in self-training. In other words, I am expected to pay $4000 to basically have a book read to me and so I can crawl around the test labs. Well, I can just as easily buy this book in electronic format thanks to O'Reilly and have a pleasant female voice read it to me for free. For $4000 I can also have a network of machines setup at my place
About the fakers... Look at products from one well-known software company. I happen to know a few people they hired and how they got hired. Fake resumes, no real skills, but vocabulary of a seasoned professional as well as interview scripts. The people I refer to are employed as software testers. Suddenly 63,000 bugs isn't a mystery anymore
The mercenary point is also interesting one... Quite frankly I got tired of my family saying "you are working there for too long and are underpaid" when I worked in 1 place for over 1.5 years and at another for over 2 years. Loyalty may be something that's lacking today over the illusion of happiness through financial rewards. Well, guess what, the saying that money doesn't make you happy is true.
I would pass up a 10% raise at a different company if I have to leave my current one. Of course if it's above 50%, that basically means I am underpaid.
If you want to be a mercenary, do short-term contracts and do not accept permanent offers. Don't take a permanent high responsibility position such as product manager and resign it in 5 months before your product is out.
Being a mercenary is great in the beginning as it's probably the fastest track to senior levels. Once you are at a senior level, you are expected to be with the company for a while, act as a mentor to your juniors and so on. Can you be a manager for only 3 months? Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? If it doesn't, you are a mercenary.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Looks like my Sampo 560 is also one such device. Readily available at Fry's.
:(
There is one problem... it apparently got misaligned with a region 2 disc from blockbuster (?!?!?!) featuring Jackie Chan.. The whole thing just vibrated to hell.. I am thinking of calling up Sampo for repairs.
Oh, and it plays CD-Rs and MP3s.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Hollywood video - "We only stock wholesome movies" - worded in legalese, of course.
Blockbuster - look at the drama section... lots of child-unfriendly content.
I just use Netflix which happens to have no such inhibitions (http://www.netflix.com).
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
A friend of mine is building such a site at ReaderResponse.com, currently available at rresponse.virtualave.net until its out of testing stages.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
ksh - the official shell of Korn music fans!!!
Seriously though, it happens to be my favorite shell and if I don't have it on a box I happen to be working on, I deploy it very fast.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Expert mode new in 4.0?
:-)
/usr/*/X11` is capable of doing that job with great success :-)
:-)
:-)
:-)
I seem to recall I was able to customize my slackware installations 5 years ago
I don't remember the vocabulary used, I am in NT environment for the past two years (I accept your condolences, and about to go back to CLI-friendly environment soon). I think it was related to custom tag files.
Yes, I really dislike using high-level all-in-one administration tools such as the dreaded linuxconf or Sun's admintool. I am not a newbie, so don't treat me to the pretty X11 interface that I do not need to have even a trace of presence on my servers. `rm -fr
Now I see companies deploying Redhat 6 all over the place. Well, it is their choice, but if I am called in to consult, I advise them of advantages of switching distributions if they are open to that. I have yet to have a customer that wanted to go back
Besides, how hard is it to create your shell script-based high level admin tool? Just make sure not to skip on the su step
Used to help out in #linpeople before linpeople.org
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
A simple answer: broadband.
:-)
:-). SDSL a bit more expensive, at $235/month, but well worth it for my needs. Besides, I can tell you the T1 local loop and ISP charges and you won't want it.
:-) I use SuSE for some managed installations as well with custom automated installation scripts. By the way, I am one of those types who actually reads docs with `more R* docs\R* Makefile docs\* src\c*h`
Besides, even back in 1995 I installed Slackware on my trusty 386 by downloading it via ftp. I forget what the release it was with kernel before even 1.2.13.
All I ever needed was A, AP, D, K, N packages. One or two overnight downloads over 14.4k modem
Allow me to explain, in the USA today we have an exploding growth of very high bandwidth service providers. We also have no usage charges like you do in the UK.
Excite@home, for example, offers up to 3mbps (300kb/sec vs. 5.6kb/sec of a modem) download rates for only $40/month, unlimited connectivity time.
I chose something a bit more interesting, an SDSL line which gives me 416kbps/416kbps burstable uplink/downlink via frame relay. Yes, I have a standard 19" rack cabinet in my computer room with all my extra equipment
I can not think of why you would want to download something for 30 hours, you clearly do not need all of those downloads. I had a development system with X11 deployed on 200mb partition. The less junk is installed, the more easy it is to secure the system.
Since you seem to know what you are doing, you may actually prefer Slackware's streamlined way of doing things. And if you mention at a job interview that you are a Slackware user instead of Redhat 6, you will occasionally get different looks, especially when not chatting with an HR drone but with a senior team member.
Yes, I know exactly what I am doing and what the files I install are for, and that's why I choose Slackware.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
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Got BattleZone with my STB Velocity 128zx card. Recently got BattleZone II.
:-)
;-)
It is one of the better games on the market...
Back to the topic of X-box...
I have several Microsoft forcefeedback peripherials... Will they have a means of connecting them to the X-box?
I mean they are not exactly cheap ($130 each I think is the current price) and very good for what I play (FighterAce II, Combat/Flightsim 9x-2Kpro, Urban Assault, tons of driving games etc
The steering wheel's realism is good enough to help me vent need for speed at home or in my office and drive 65 on freeway. I've seen what happens when you speed through Chicago at 120mph in Midtown Madness
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Do you remember the original description of RAID?
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Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
I don't see SCSI, Fibre Channel, or 3+ disks requirement there anywhere.
With SCSI it started to mean more like Independent Disks, and you got the features like the so-called "hot swap".
IDE drives are certainly inexpensive, and there should be no reason not to set them up in a RAID configuration.
Why not setup 2 IDE drives in Raid level 1 (Mirror)? No one is required to setup Raid level 5 on their box.
If you ask me, that is quite a usable configuration, the odds of both IDE drives dying at the same time are slim.
Let RAID stand for what it once stood!
P.S. If you are wondering, I use DataDirect Enterprise 8 and Mylex RAID hardware in my datacenter.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
The wonders of OLE2 make it possible :-)
:-)
Words docs simply open as an OLE object.
You can open Word docs in Wordpad for that same reason... ahh everyone knows this already
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
uhh ifconfig eth0
:-)
If you run Linux, you are expected to know that
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator
Umm... and who cares?
Charge $2,000 per application, demand from hi-tech people won't fall. Any monetary amount up to probably $3,000 is fairly reasonable. I know I'd pay it in a flash, and yes it is affordable if you work here and are one of the best. Presumably H1-B candidates are supposed to be the best, hence this problem doesn't exist for them.
The government probably can't pay a good enough wage to the INS staff to attract them.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Network Administrator