You're kidding right, I've ridden on a bus with more people than that!
I was a sysadmin at a place that had 300 active user accounts on a RedHat 6.2 machine, a pentium 150 with 160 Megs of RAM and 2-4 Gig HD's. It provided the following services. SMTP POP3 SSH Caching Name Service 1 MySQL Database SMB filesharing. HTTP (frontend for the database).
The machine was made from parts bought at Fry's for a couple of hundred dollars.
Where are small companies going to get 50K for a machine when they have to lay off people to make the payroll? 50K is the salary of one productive inividual for a year!
In my grandfathers time a streecar motorman could (and did) buy and pay off a brownstone in midtown manhattan. In my fathers time a short order cook could (and did) buy a small house in Center Reach on Long Island. In my time I can buy a house in any part of the USA that has a standard of living low enough to prevent ANY OF THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE from buying a house in that area.
In the SF Bay Area where I live, and (when I had a job) made 60/70,000 a year you need to make at least $120,000 dollars a year to qualify for a loan to buy a small two bedroom starter home for $450,000 (if you can find one).
Add in the high cost of health insurance, property taxes, etc. and it would seem that the American dream is now more attainable in the "third world".
This is (of course) the opinion of a VERY bitter middle aged high tech worker who can't even get a job at McDonalds.
I think an overlooked factor in your very reasonable hypotheses is that the group(s) in question were already very closely interrelated as small isolated communities are wont to be. A possible scenario would be that the surviving enclave of humanity was mostly in one contiguous area, like the island of Java for instance. let's say that three thousand years previously the original Homo Sapiens arrived in a relatively small group of ninety individuals that then slowly spread out through the available land, You can see that the genetic profile of the islanders would tend to be very uniform.
More elitist bullshit, a hellofalotta people just can't afford cable or live in places where they can't get it. It figgers that some FCC bitch would make a run at this, think of alll the crooked profits the broadcast industry's pinstriped punks could make out of this!
BS! I am really disgusted by all these young kids saying that there's no "age discrimination" out there, if your over 50 then nine times out of ten you are "overqualified" for everything including shining shoes, babysitting dogs and fast food! I've been going down this road for years now and can cite example after example of irrefutable eveidence of this, example a recuiter calls after seeing profile on Dice, hears an "old man voice" and hangs up, not once but three different recruiters on three different occations.
I'm about to give up and become a bum, I mean it! I'm so fed up with punky little know-nothings that have IT degrees with the ink still wet hwo don't know the capital of the state they live in I could shit!
I have a window, I bought some thick black cloth and stapled it over the window to keep out ALL that pesky natural light!
Other than that, two Gorilla racks full of boxen, three folding tables, monitors, bookcases, a whiteboard, plastic drawer units, papers/paperweights, two printers and a printer stand etc.
Every little puke-brained shit that want's sombody to put together a Lan for their little two for a nickel startup (two hubs a gateway/NAT box and a bunch of patch cables) uses this newspeak neo-word!
That's all we need, more brain-dead civil-servant types poking their inept noses into our business! I'm an old (former) IBM FE (Field Engineer), when we used to work on machines worth more than the GNP of Europe it would have made sense (still does for big iron), now that a "High-end" consumer system costs under $2,000.00 how can you justify it? Your so-called "Top of the line PC" is worthless in two or three years anyway, they've become disposable commodity items like standard TV's or microwave ovens.
Job requirements (no exceptions): A PHD from an Ivy league school. Demonstrated and in depth expertese in programs we wrote and nobody else uses. Experience with ERP applications (we don't know what that is but it makes us feel important to ask for it). At least five years experience with Exchange2000 and Active Directory (yes we know that it's 2002, that's why we need a PHD, to help us count). Additional skills required (No Exceptions!): Cowboy President of the United States Astronaught Brain Surgeon Tap dancer Master Chef Fun at lunch
Nice to have: Ability to spell/read at third grade level Knows own name Can speak a recognized human language bathes regularly under 21 years old
At SGI and they're running NT/2000 on the desktop! they "officially" don't support IRIX or Linux "in house". IMHO, IRIX is GREAT if you need a rock solid platform for 32cpu+ machines on MIPS, but for smaller, cheaper -32cpu machines on INTEL, Linux kicks IRIX's ass all over the place.
Put in a second HD (about the same size as the first)
Then mirror your most important partitions (most OS's support software RAID levels 0/1), or the whole disk. RAID 1 is mirroring RAID 0 is striping (don't use 0) if you have an IDE based machine set your second HD as "slave" and if your primary HD fails just move the jumper on the mirror to "master" (after replacing the failed drive and making it "slave")and boot.
Ok, I guess I'm dumb but, I for one click "ok" and keep on going regardless of what some philadelphia lawyer (shyster) said (wrote) and then I go about my buisness as usual, I routinely disable anything that Windows might have set up by default and then use a packet sniffer to log output for a day or two to see if I missed anything. after I'm satisfied that there aren't any hidden (paranoia) features, I ghost it as a final image and save it to a hidden partition or disconnected internal HDD or a CDROM taped inside the case. My firewall and proxy take care of the rest. Screw all these stupid little numbfucks like Gates and the horses they rode in on!
If I say it's a religion, then it's a religion, it does'nt matter if you've heard of it or not, as long as i'm not doing live sacrifice or having sex with minors, you and your right-wing bigots and jingoistic tub-thumpers can go fuck yourselves, if I really want to piss off some nosey gummermint beaurocrat, why not write in Jedi?, or Aztec or Roman or Sumerian Phallus worship? You and your "Christian" buddies have been burning and torturing millions of people for thousands of years, hell, it was you people who burned down the great library at Alexandria, and skinned the staff alive!
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What a dumbass thing to say, it's almost worthy of a SCO executive it's so stupid.
Say goodbye to Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, etc.
The SuSe Uberschmuck has spoken!
I have a (very old) Bachelors in CompSci.
I've never been asked to prove it.
I have a Ph.D. in both Comparative linguistics and Paleoanthropology, I've never been able to get a job at either!
The question to ask now that I'm coming to the end of my working lifetime is, Was it worth while?
I think that the answer is YES!
Nyet!
Not half the jobs by 2050, sixty five percent of the low level jobs (service and manufacturing) by 2035/2040.
Personally I'm waiting for a PDA that looks, smells, feels and tastes like Pam Anderson or Tyra Banks that sells for under $10,000.
Hello... IBM are you listening?
Slap `em down HARD!
100 users?
You're kidding right, I've ridden on a bus with more people than that!
I was a sysadmin at a place that had 300 active user accounts on a RedHat 6.2 machine, a pentium 150 with 160 Megs of RAM and 2-4 Gig HD's.
It provided the following services.
SMTP
POP3
SSH
Caching Name Service
1 MySQL Database
SMB filesharing.
HTTP (frontend for the database).
The machine was made from parts bought at Fry's for a couple of hundred dollars.
Where are small companies going to get 50K for a machine when they have to lay off people to make the payroll? 50K is the salary of one productive inividual for a year!
In my grandfathers time a streecar motorman could (and did) buy and pay off a brownstone in midtown manhattan. In my fathers time a short order cook could (and did) buy a small house in Center Reach on Long Island. In my time I can buy a house in any part of the USA that has a standard of living low enough to prevent ANY OF THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE from buying a house in that area.
In the SF Bay Area where I live, and (when I had a job) made 60/70,000 a year you need to make at least $120,000 dollars a year to qualify for a loan to buy a small two bedroom starter home for $450,000 (if you can find one).
Add in the high cost of health insurance, property taxes, etc.
and it would seem that the American dream is now more attainable in the "third world".
This is (of course) the opinion of a VERY bitter middle aged high tech worker who can't even get a job at McDonalds.
Is not a word!
Damn it!
How about using your own caching DNS server behind your firewall?
Rule of thumb, don't trust anybody!
Maybe why the gummermint wasn't interested is because they're behind it?
Was that me talking? I'll shut up!
The BEST accessory for surfing pr0n sites!
I think an overlooked factor in your very reasonable hypotheses is that the group(s) in question were already very closely interrelated as small isolated communities are wont to be. A possible scenario would be that the surviving enclave of humanity was mostly in one contiguous area, like the island of Java for instance. let's say that three thousand years previously the original Homo Sapiens arrived in a relatively small group of ninety individuals that then slowly spread out through the available land, You can see that the genetic profile of the islanders would tend to be very uniform.
More elitist bullshit, a hellofalotta people just can't afford cable or live in places where they can't get it. It figgers that some FCC bitch would make a run at this, think of alll the crooked profits the broadcast industry's pinstriped punks could make out of this!
Great writing!
Very quotable!
Beauty pagents are a thing of the past, get over it!
BS! I am really disgusted by all these young kids saying that there's no "age discrimination" out there, if your over 50 then nine times out of ten you are "overqualified" for everything including shining shoes, babysitting dogs and fast food! I've been going down this road for years now and can cite example after example of irrefutable eveidence of this, example a recuiter calls after seeing profile on Dice, hears an "old man voice" and hangs up, not once but three different recruiters on three different occations.
I'm about to give up and become a bum, I mean it!
I'm so fed up with punky little know-nothings that have IT degrees with the ink still wet hwo don't know the capital of the state they live in I could shit!
I have a window, I bought some thick black cloth and stapled it over the window to keep out ALL that pesky natural light!
Other than that, two Gorilla racks full of boxen, three folding tables, monitors, bookcases, a whiteboard, plastic drawer units, papers/paperweights, two printers and a printer stand etc.
Efforting towards a substantive dialogue whilst architecting an robust infrastructure.
Every little puke-brained shit that want's sombody to put together a Lan for their little two for a nickel startup (two hubs a gateway/NAT box and a bunch of patch cables) uses this newspeak neo-word!
I'm as sick of "Archetecting" as I am of "ERP"!
That's all we need, more brain-dead civil-servant types poking their inept noses into our business! I'm an old (former) IBM FE (Field Engineer), when we used to work on machines worth more than the GNP of Europe it would have made sense (still does for big iron), now that a "High-end" consumer system costs under $2,000.00 how can you justify it? Your so-called "Top of the line PC" is worthless in two or three years anyway, they've become disposable commodity items like standard TV's or microwave ovens.
I don't use Windows, and don't let my Opera browser masqurading as MSIE 5.0 fool you, I ONLY run RedHat, Mandraake and Solaris8!
My wife's machine is Windblows 2000/SP2 `cause of a shitty windows only program she has to run (no it won't run under wine).
I'd like to see the end of MS as an operating system vendor and have them port their apps to *nix.
Job requirements (no exceptions):
A PHD from an Ivy league school.
Demonstrated and in depth expertese in programs we wrote and nobody else uses. Experience with ERP applications (we don't know what that is but it makes us feel important to ask for it). At least five years experience with Exchange2000 and Active Directory (yes we know that it's 2002, that's why we need a PHD, to help us count).
Additional skills required (No Exceptions!):
Cowboy
President of the United States
Astronaught
Brain Surgeon
Tap dancer
Master Chef
Fun at lunch
Nice to have:
Ability to spell/read at third grade level
Knows own name
Can speak a recognized human language
bathes regularly
under 21 years old
I worked there, R U an id10T?
At SGI and they're running NT/2000 on the desktop! they "officially" don't support IRIX or Linux "in house". IMHO, IRIX is GREAT if you need a rock solid platform for 32cpu+ machines on MIPS, but for smaller, cheaper -32cpu machines on INTEL, Linux kicks IRIX's ass all over the place.
The next time you get a new machine.....
Put in a second HD (about the same size as the first)
Then mirror your most important partitions (most OS's support software RAID levels 0/1), or the whole disk. RAID 1 is mirroring RAID 0 is striping (don't use 0) if you have an IDE based machine set your second HD as "slave" and if your primary HD fails just move the jumper on the mirror to "master" (after replacing the failed drive and making it "slave")and boot.
Ok, I guess I'm dumb but, I for one click "ok" and keep on going regardless of what some philadelphia lawyer (shyster) said (wrote) and then I go about my buisness as usual, I routinely disable anything that Windows might have set up by default and then use a packet sniffer to log output for a day or two to see if I missed anything. after I'm satisfied that there aren't any hidden (paranoia) features, I ghost it as a final image and save it to a hidden partition or disconnected internal HDD or a CDROM taped inside the case. My firewall and proxy take care of the rest. Screw all these stupid little numbfucks like Gates and the horses they rode in on!
If I say it's a religion, then it's a religion, it does'nt matter if you've heard of it or not, as long as i'm not doing live sacrifice or having sex with minors, you and your right-wing bigots and jingoistic tub-thumpers can go fuck yourselves, if I really want to piss off some nosey gummermint beaurocrat, why not write in Jedi?, or Aztec or Roman or Sumerian Phallus worship? You and your "Christian" buddies have been burning and torturing millions of people for thousands of years, hell, it was you people who burned down the great library at Alexandria, and skinned the staff alive!
Do you think the USPTO will let me ;-)....