I've had to review my share of resumes in the past and they mostly seem to fall into two distinct groups: Multi-page snooze-fests (invariably with a LONG objective section full of buzzwords), and one pagers (no objective section).
It was, once. Just like.net was restricted to organizations that provided network access. But once the land grab started, it became painfully obvious that money was much more important than tradition.
Does it really matter that only some legitimate sites were blocked? That's like saying only some innocent people were exectuted on Texas' death row....
I was working as a tech support monkey for a local ISP when this happened. It was more bad luck than anything else, as I recall. I believe Sprint had a mad outage (back-hoe fiber cut) and a lot of places were either knocked off-line or dropped to their much-slower secondary connections.
This, combined with the added traffic and some problems with new routes getting propogated exasperated the problem. The network wasn't nearly as robust as it is now, so the "spectacular" outage is much less likely to happen now. But still, it's a good thing I've still got all that Spam and bottled water left over from Jan 1.
Sony has a history of releasing mediocre launch titles, so I think the lack of superior games was expected. Most of the launch titles that I've seen (Madden, SSX, Dynasty Warriors II) are slightly better than the third generation Dreamcast games, which says quite a bit.
Most developers for the PS2 are admitting that the real strengths of the system have yet to be utilitized. As always, the games are going to get better and better as the console matures. If the current games are any indication of what's yet to come, watch out.
Sweet Lord 'o Mercy! You cannot be serious! No offense intended (I am currently forced to use Hotmail because of my work's stupid firewall policies), but Hotmail was effectively down last night for about 7 hours. I was SOL until this morning...(can't wait to finish this contract)
For all the joking that goes on about MS, I still encounter Unix installations where they have BIND setup to restart in daily cron jobs, for example.
Well, while I've never seen a name server where BIND mysteriously dies on a consistent basis, I have yet to see an NT server that can run DHCP without the CPU utilization reaching 100% within 20 min and the machine dying within another 40...
As far as I know, Apache 1.3.14 has no such memory problems (I've never installed the Apache that came with RedHat 6.2, so I don't know the version number). That's the real strength of open source projects. Any (serious) problems that arise are addressed in an amazingly short amount of time. I'm still waiting for a decent DHCP server for NT (Perferably one that can serve more than 8 addresses at a time. If it would use the machine's subnet mask as well would just be frosting on the cake).
If you'll take note of the quote, you'll find that Hugh Ross made that particular point, and that he's also a devout Christian. His website Reasons to Believe focuses on demonstrating how science and the christian Bible complement one another. It's quite an interesting read.
My only reliable source of info on filtering software has been Slashdot and Kuro5hin, so IANAFE (Filtering Expert), but I wonder why some of the "filtering" packages don't come with a "monitor" option.
By this, I mean that the software sits and checks all the URL's that little Suzie visits and logs all the ones it thinks are "objectionable". Then, the URL's are sent to Mom and Dad, and they can see for themselves what little Suzie's looking at.
This puts the burden of responsibility back on the parents, rather than NetNanny or whomever. If little Suzie goes to dickcheney.com, Mom and Dad can decide the appropriate punishment:)
I didn't catch if you folks are getting paid hourly or if you're salaried employees. I worked at an ISP where the emergency pager was rotated around the staff (someone new got it every two weeks), and if the pager went off after hours the pager person was compensated for their time. Of course, we were all hourly employees so it was a bit easier.
At my last job (not the aforementioned ISP), our sysadmins had a rotating on-call schedule, so no one person was stuck answering all the "Server/Router Down" phone calls all the time. Usually, if someone was really stuck working late after hours, she would simply come in a few hours late the next day. It was a pretty good system: abusable, but with a small enough group and a decent manager, definitely workable.
In any case, your best bet is to sit down and talk with your manager and voice your concerns. Make your points calmly, yet firm. Let her know that you feel the volume of work is going to increase dramatically and that there should be a similar increase in compensation. Good luck.
When I was at UT and living in the dorms, UT had just started allowing SLIP dialup connections. I also remember running coax through the false ceilings so that we could setup a 20 room network for games. Warcraft II nearly cost my roomate his degree:)
The next year, UT administration ran ethernet through the entire dorm and each room had a mad internet connection. Unfortunately, I had already moved off campus and was still stuck at 14.4.
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mando
Re:MAPS use is voluntary, what's the beef?
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The beef is that Black Ice (in this case) believes that MAPS was incorrect in their assessment. Black Ice maintains that they were neither spamming or an open relay, so MAPS had no right to place them on the blackhole list.
Since I can't find any information to confirm or deny either party's claims all I can say is:
If Black Ice spammed and/or was an open relay, fsck 'em. It's their own damn fault.
If MAPS was wrong, then they need to be held accountable.
I've worked someplace that was screwed over by ORBS before (a long story), so I know a bit about the problems it can cause and the long-term effects it can bring up. That company still has folks on staff who won't trust email because of the "incident".
Very true. Children definitely need everything listed above (smaller classes, books, decent teachers, etc.), I must agree (at least in theory) with Katz's argument. Computer and internet access give children a freedom that has never been available to them.
I have seen kids graduate from high school with no desire (or means) to go on towards higher education. But, thanks to their insightful parents who provided them with a cheap computer and cheap internet access, they quickly assimilated the technology into their lives. They now have very decent jobs with great growth potential, all thanks to a $500 computer and $15 per month dialup service.
They have a freedom to go where they want and do as they please, which they likely would never have had without the access to this technology. People have been saying as long as I can remember that education is the key for a better future. And while I might agree, I also know from first hand experience that the current educational system DOES NOT give students what they need to prosper, much less survive. When education fails, children must be given another option.
Is the question about Apache, or Linux? A lot of big name places use Apache as their webserver, but they don't run it on linux boxes. They run it on Solaris, Aix, or some other Unix that can handle big iron well.
We all know that linux has a way to go before it can outperform other platforms, including NT, on large machines.
Interesting. I was able to get the page without problem. In case you don't get the chance, JFS stands for Journeled File System.
Simply put, Journeling File Systems keep track of where data is placed on a file system. Whenever you move files, add or remove files, etc., the file system knows where those files go (by writing to a "journel").
The good thing about this is that when a computer goes down, the filesystem can use the journel to put things back in order. Otherwise, it must go through sector by sector and find the data that it has "lost". This causes filesystem checking software (like fsck) to work dramatically faster.
The bad thing about this is that these types of file systems can take a performance hit if a lot of disk IO goes on. I hope you get a chance to read the article, as it addresses some of these issues.
My Intro to EE professor told us a story about the preliminary discussions at Sony concerning VCPs (video cassette players). Some VIP at Sony asked "Why would someone want to see movies at home when they could go out and see them?".
One of the designers turned and said "Porn", and that was that.
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Mando
Slashdot Mirror
I've had to review my share of resumes in the past and they mostly seem to fall into two distinct groups: Multi-page snooze-fests (invariably with a LONG objective section full of buzzwords), and one pagers (no objective section).
We ALWAYS spend more time on the one pagers.
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Mando
It was, once. Just like .net was restricted to organizations that provided network access. But once the land grab started, it became painfully obvious that money was much more important than tradition.
--
Mando
If Bush would have called "No do-overs". I mean, come on.
--Mando
Does it really matter that only some legitimate sites were blocked? That's like saying only some innocent people were exectuted on Texas' death row....
--Mando
I was working as a tech support monkey for a local ISP when this happened. It was more bad luck than anything else, as I recall. I believe Sprint had a mad outage (back-hoe fiber cut) and a lot of places were either knocked off-line or dropped to their much-slower secondary connections.
This, combined with the added traffic and some problems with new routes getting propogated exasperated the problem. The network wasn't nearly as robust as it is now, so the "spectacular" outage is much less likely to happen now. But still, it's a good thing I've still got all that Spam and bottled water left over from Jan 1.
--Mando
Sony has a history of releasing mediocre launch titles, so I think the lack of superior games was expected. Most of the launch titles that I've seen (Madden, SSX, Dynasty Warriors II) are slightly better than the third generation Dreamcast games, which says quite a bit.
Most developers for the PS2 are admitting that the real strengths of the system have yet to be utilitized. As always, the games are going to get better and better as the console matures. If the current games are any indication of what's yet to come, watch out.
--mando
Don't forget their damn MEME-encoded emails that don't show up properly in any decent mail or news reader (read: mutt and tin).
Fsckers.
--Mando
Sweet Lord 'o Mercy! You cannot be serious! No offense intended (I am currently forced to use Hotmail because of my work's stupid firewall policies), but Hotmail was effectively down last night for about 7 hours. I was SOL until this morning...(can't wait to finish this contract)
--Mando
For all the joking that goes on about MS, I still encounter Unix installations where they have BIND setup to restart in daily cron jobs, for example.
Well, while I've never seen a name server where BIND mysteriously dies on a consistent basis, I have yet to see an NT server that can run DHCP without the CPU utilization reaching 100% within 20 min and the machine dying within another 40...
As far as I know, Apache 1.3.14 has no such memory problems (I've never installed the Apache that came with RedHat 6.2, so I don't know the version number). That's the real strength of open source projects. Any (serious) problems that arise are addressed in an amazingly short amount of time. I'm still waiting for a decent DHCP server for NT (Perferably one that can serve more than 8 addresses at a time. If it would use the machine's subnet mask as well would just be frosting on the cake).
--Mando
If you'll take note of the quote, you'll find that Hugh Ross made that particular point, and that he's also a devout Christian. His website Reasons to Believe focuses on demonstrating how science and the christian Bible complement one another. It's quite an interesting read.
--Mando
My only reliable source of info on filtering software has been Slashdot and Kuro5hin, so IANAFE (Filtering Expert), but I wonder why some of the "filtering" packages don't come with a "monitor" option.
By this, I mean that the software sits and checks all the URL's that little Suzie visits and logs all the ones it thinks are "objectionable". Then, the URL's are sent to Mom and Dad, and they can see for themselves what little Suzie's looking at.
This puts the burden of responsibility back on the parents, rather than NetNanny or whomever. If little Suzie goes to dickcheney.com, Mom and Dad can decide the appropriate punishment :)
--Mando
I didn't catch if you folks are getting paid hourly or if you're salaried employees. I worked at an ISP where the emergency pager was rotated around the staff (someone new got it every two weeks), and if the pager went off after hours the pager person was compensated for their time. Of course, we were all hourly employees so it was a bit easier.
At my last job (not the aforementioned ISP), our sysadmins had a rotating on-call schedule, so no one person was stuck answering all the "Server/Router Down" phone calls all the time. Usually, if someone was really stuck working late after hours, she would simply come in a few hours late the next day. It was a pretty good system: abusable, but with a small enough group and a decent manager, definitely workable.
In any case, your best bet is to sit down and talk with your manager and voice your concerns. Make your points calmly, yet firm. Let her know that you feel the volume of work is going to increase dramatically and that there should be a similar increase in compensation. Good luck.
--Mando
I don't know...
When I was at UT and living in the dorms, UT had just started allowing SLIP dialup connections. I also remember running coax through the false ceilings so that we could setup a 20 room network for games. Warcraft II nearly cost my roomate his degree :)
The next year, UT administration ran ethernet through the entire dorm and each room had a mad internet connection. Unfortunately, I had already moved off campus and was still stuck at 14.4.
--mando
The beef is that Black Ice (in this case) believes that MAPS was incorrect in their assessment. Black Ice maintains that they were neither spamming or an open relay, so MAPS had no right to place them on the blackhole list.
Since I can't find any information to confirm or deny either party's claims all I can say is:
I've worked someplace that was screwed over by ORBS before (a long story), so I know a bit about the problems it can cause and the long-term effects it can bring up. That company still has folks on staff who won't trust email because of the "incident".
--mando
Very true. Children definitely need everything listed above (smaller classes, books, decent teachers, etc.), I must agree (at least in theory) with Katz's argument. Computer and internet access give children a freedom that has never been available to them.
I have seen kids graduate from high school with no desire (or means) to go on towards higher education. But, thanks to their insightful parents who provided them with a cheap computer and cheap internet access, they quickly assimilated the technology into their lives. They now have very decent jobs with great growth potential, all thanks to a $500 computer and $15 per month dialup service.
They have a freedom to go where they want and do as they please, which they likely would never have had without the access to this technology. People have been saying as long as I can remember that education is the key for a better future. And while I might agree, I also know from first hand experience that the current educational system DOES NOT give students what they need to prosper, much less survive. When education fails, children must be given another option.
--Mando
Is the question about Apache, or Linux? A lot of big name places use Apache as their webserver, but they don't run it on linux boxes. They run it on Solaris, Aix, or some other Unix that can handle big iron well. We all know that linux has a way to go before it can outperform other platforms, including NT, on large machines.
--Mando
Interesting. I was able to get the page without problem. In case you don't get the chance, JFS stands for Journeled File System.
Simply put, Journeling File Systems keep track of where data is placed on a file system. Whenever you move files, add or remove files, etc., the file system knows where those files go (by writing to a "journel").
The good thing about this is that when a computer goes down, the filesystem can use the journel to put things back in order. Otherwise, it must go through sector by sector and find the data that it has "lost". This causes filesystem checking software (like fsck) to work dramatically faster.
The bad thing about this is that these types of file systems can take a performance hit if a lot of disk IO goes on. I hope you get a chance to read the article, as it addresses some of these issues.
--Mando
My Intro to EE professor told us a story about the preliminary discussions at Sony concerning VCPs (video cassette players). Some VIP at Sony asked "Why would someone want to see movies at home when they could go out and see them?".
One of the designers turned and said "Porn", and that was that.
--
Mando
If you take a look here you'll see there's one in the works. However, the author has been kind enough to post the book here :)
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Mando