Highly Skilled Migrant Program (HSMP). Look into it. Not cheap, but will give you flexibility - you don't need an employer. If you're good, you can easily pick up contracting work in the UK. 5 years == UK citizen == EU passport.
If you've got a degree, and worked at a reasonable level for a few years, you can get a HSMP to work in the UK.
You don't (as others have suggested) be from a Commonwealth country. That only applies for Working Holiday Visas, which I am on right now in the UK - I am a Kiwi. I could transfer to the HSMP, but I don't plan on staying long term.
And yeah, when you encounter problems trying to get jobs overseas, think about what it's like for people trying to get visas for the US.
Well, for someone like me, who is planning a major bike ride next year - on the road for ~18 months, with very long stretches in the middle of Central Asia where there will be very few people about, and not a huge amount of intellectual stimulation, you want something that can store a large amount of songs. 512MB just isn't going to cut it. Realistically I need at least 4GB, but extra space is a bonus because then I can move photos off my memory cards (2x512MB) to the player, for backup/extra storage.
Right now I'm trying to find the right MP3 player. I've currently got a Nike PSA 128MB, which is great for a 2 hour bike ride, as it sits out of the way, and can handle some moisture. I've also got the radio equivalent, which I like, but I don't have any stations here I like listening to all day. Both of those take AAA batteries, but battery life isn't very good.
I've also got a Sony NW-HD3 20GB, which for all its faults, is not a bad player. (Just don't get me started on SonicStage...). Good battery life (~25 hours), but it's an internal li-ion thing.
My ideal player would be reasonably rugged, and include an FM tuner. Plenty of space - say 8GB if it's flash, and has batteries that I can swap out myself. Possibly custom batteries so I could take spares, if the battery life was good (40 hours plus), or AAAs.
I would also like to be able to just drag and drop MP3s onto it - no custom software required. SonicStage on VirtualPC == a world of hurt.
I could maybe do without the FM tuner on it, since I'm strongly considering taking a long wave radio, to pick up BBC World Service, etc.
If I don't find anything suitable, I'll take a long wave radio, and my Sony HD3. It will be a pain not being able to add songs to it from the road though, and I'll need to nurse the battery through those long stretches between PCs/mains power.
If I could be bothered rigging up a solar charger for it though....
I've passed both LPI 101 and 102, each first time. For both of them, I just used online guides, in combination with the Linux books on my shelf (Running Linux, Linux in a Nutshell, Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Hacking Linux Exposed). This was in combo with running Linux at home, at work where I could, as well as using HP-UX extensively at work. I have no formal Linux education.
I plan on taking 201/202 later on this year.
I found them to be good exams, not easy. The ask a bit about flags, etc, so you really need to have used the commands a bit, not just read about them.
I am also certified in HP-UX sys admin, and I am currently working towards getting my Openview Network Node Manager and Openview Operations certs. I found the LPI exams to be more difficult than these ones, but not too bad.
I am not sure how much I will push it in future that I am certified. In some ways I did it just to improve my knowledge. I did pick up a few new things too, in terms of commands I hadn't really used much, and lesser-used options.
Right now all I need is a little more time to get around to doing my upcoming certs....
Amongst its other features, it also provides an auditing subsystem, so you can audit pretty anything going on in the system. You can then use a filter to produce either plain text or xml reports.
It has lots of other nifty features too - compartments, with kernel-level access control that goes beyond chmod.It makes it easy to run Internet services in a chrooted environment, with tightly controlled access limiting damage if one app were to be compromised.
(Yes I do work for HP, but not for the ISSL division. The thoughts above are my own, not HP'S)
I've also used these. They seem to work pretty well. YMMV
We hacked up a Tivoli add-in to control them via SNMP. That gave us point and click control, from a centralised console. You can also script it so that all outlets to a server are turned off - e.g if you have a big box with multiple inlets.
My only real concern with them is security - what would happen if someone else got in?
I know what you're getting at, but I'm not sure it holds for everyone. Also, my accent (New Zealand) does not really place 'than' all that close to 'then'.
I also think it depends somewhat on how your mind works. For example, I read a lot, and I tend to 'see' words, rather than hear them. Perhaps that is why, when I was younger, I used to know what a lot of words meant, and how to spell them, but I would sometimes have, uh, interesting pronunciation of some words.
Is it an American thing or something? Why is it that I so frequently see the (mis)use of then instead of than. Taco, for one, is well known for doing it, and here we see that a Slashdot reader, who obviously has been around a while, has been sucked into Taco's own version of the English language.
Enough is enough I say! Bring back the 'a' in than!
Hear hear. I've been using the TINI for my fourth year project in electrical engineering, and I've been having lots of fun with it.
We've got it performing access control, automatic temperature control - using a fan and a heater - and we've also got switches, etc, controllable from a web browser using servlets, not applets.
I actually would like to try Win2K, but unfortunately I cannot afford either the OS itself, or the hardware it needs to run.
If Microsoft would like to make available a stripped down version that would run on my system, at a price that a student can afford (remember that what to you might be the cost of a music CD means the difference between eating and starving for the next week to me), I would gladly try it out.
It is not a matter of whether I am interested in taking the time to "bother trying it out" or not, the simple fact is that I don't even have the option of trying it out.
It is not my "narrow-minded FUD ethic", but a simple matter of economics.
I noticed these comments in the story:
"Linux is not bleeding edge stuff", which I guess means that Linux must be mainstream, and also:
"We can't afford for the system to go down" - Why didn't they use Windows 2000 then - it's the "most stable windows yet".
Oh, and I submitted this several days ago, but no-one was interested then. 2000-08-22 09:28:12 Lord of the Rings to save money using GNU/Linux (articles,movies) (rejected)
One little trick for embedded Java
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Optimizing Java?
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This one's not so much for speed, but for cutting down size of compiled code - extremely useful when working with devices such as the TINI.
Tim Beauchamp posted this to the TINI mailing list in the last couple of days.
>Writing debug routines that writes to stdout or some mechanism are
>just a fact of life. But the trouble is, they add to size and
>complexity of the compiled code.
>
>They can be turned off with conditionals like this
>
> boolean debugging_on = true;
>
> if(debugging_on)
> {
> System.out.println("I am in here");
> }
>...
>Create a debug class with a static final boolean variable called
>DEBUGGING_ON and set it to true
>
>public class debug
>{
> public static final boolean DEBUGGING_ON = true;
>}
>
>Now, wherever you want debug code, use that in a conditional
>e.g.
>
>if(debug.DEBUGGING_ON)
>{
> System.out.println("I am in here");
>}
>
>The Java compiler can resolve this at compile time and will toss out
>the entire thing when you set the flag to false.
>
>You can verify by building with and without it turned on and then tear
>apart the classes with javap to see that one has the code in there and one
>doesn't.
Sorry about the formatting, I just cut and paste it from an email in my inbox
While it's all well and cool having Linux on board, so is this. Only SIMM 72 sized, it has it's own Unix-like OS - you can telnet in, ftp files onto it, and it also acts as a web server.
Oh - and did I mention you program it in Java - it has it's own virtual machine on board. Plus stacks of I/O - 4 serial, 1-wire, CAN, SBX, I2C, ethernet, parallel, etc. And all for only $50US
I'm using one for my final year project, and they are very cool.
I agree. I am using the TINI for my fourth year electrical engineering project at Auckland University, and I think it's great.
Most of these small webservers don't seem to do much other than serve up simple pages. What, really is the point is serving up your homepage from your fridge? You want to control stuff, and the TINI lets you do this, with either CAN, 1-wire, I2C, serial or SBX.
Also, programming it in Java, on any Java-capable platform, makes it extremely attractive (Although I am only learning Java at the moment).
And if/when they go to a single chip solution, the price will become extremely attractive - $15US projected. (Although, at $50US, with no need for special programming boards, it is already pretty reasonable).
A friend of mine, who thinks he is pretty 31337 when it comes to computers (in reality, all he knows is DOS - he's totally hopeless with anything else, including Win98 - for crying out loud, he thinks he's leading edge, and he's never tried a Mozilla build, he's never used gnapster, or gnutella and although he thinks DOS was the most amazing thing ever, he thinks that Linux is just too hard, and that Linux should only have one desktop environment, preferably just like M$, and... sorry, got carried away), has a hotmail account, and he always raves about it. I think he must be too used to M$ programs though, as he thinks it is good because it is "usually" up.
He also thinks it's amazing because he can check his email from anywhere. I said to him, have you even heard about/tried any of the other services? No. So how do you know Hotmail is so good? Well, it's M$ he said. At which point I decided it might be easier to just not say anything at all. He also casually mentioned that he has over 100 spam addresses blocked at Hotmail. On my 5 non-hotmail addresses, I'm lucky to get 1 spam message a week.
And you know what the worst thing is ? He was asking me yesterday about what I knew about MCSE - he's thinking about doing it. Sigh...
A 13GB Quantum Fireball KA drive I purchased last October recently stopped working on me - all data lost - extremely inconvenient.
It would seem to me that if you are using an IDE drive for backup, you might want to store it offsite - which could mean frequent handling of the hard drive, increasing the possibility that something might go wrong with it. Just a thought. I've got 2 drives in my machine (a quantum bigfoot 4.3, and a Maxtor 15.5), and do back up important(ish) stuff onto the other drive (depending on which drive the original is on). Not especially secure, but better than nothing I guess.
I guess this is kinda off topic, but what you could do is buy a TINI for $50US from Dallas Semiconductor Corp, and put your servlets on that.
I have one of these , for my final year project, and they're pretty cool. These guys have written some GPL code that lets you run servlets. Of course, you'd probably better not plan on getting too many hits - It doesn't seem to handle too many hits too well! Well, it is only 103mm by 32mm by 10mm, so what can you expect
(I know this is kinda off-topic, but, well, so what)
I don't get it - if you 'lawfully' own firearms, then that's not a 'warning' sign. You must be some nice, socially adjusted jock (who has never bullied anyone), who just wants to own a gun to shoot some possums.
If however, you "unlawfully" own a firearm, well, you're probably going to take it to school tomorrow to shoot some people.
How the hell does legally letting you own guns suddenly make them (and their owner) safe?
I liked the way they said to call 911 in the case of an immediate emergency. Are people that stupid in North Carolina that, in the event of an emergency, they would go to their computer, fire it up (come on, come on), start their mail client (hurry up), and send an email to wave? Thank God they told us to ring 911 instead.
And on the imminent warning signs, they say "self-injurious" behaviour is a bit of a worry. So if I stub my toe say, or give myself a paper cut (flicking through my latest O'Reilly book) - does that mean I'm about to go on a murderous rampage? Where do I turn myself in?
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, me too. Just checked, always used to be Katz I had filtered out, now it's Zonk. Too many crap stories, usually dupes.
Highly Skilled Migrant Program (HSMP). Look into it. Not cheap, but will give you flexibility - you don't need an employer. If you're good, you can easily pick up contracting work in the UK. 5 years == UK citizen == EU passport.
If you've got a degree, and worked at a reasonable level for a few years, you can get a HSMP to work in the UK.
You don't (as others have suggested) be from a Commonwealth country. That only applies for Working Holiday Visas, which I am on right now in the UK - I am a Kiwi. I could transfer to the HSMP, but I don't plan on staying long term.
And yeah, when you encounter problems trying to get jobs overseas, think about what it's like for people trying to get visas for the US.
Well, for someone like me, who is planning a major bike ride next year - on the road for ~18 months, with very long stretches in the middle of Central Asia where there will be very few people about, and not a huge amount of intellectual stimulation, you want something that can store a large amount of songs. 512MB just isn't going to cut it. Realistically I need at least 4GB, but extra space is a bonus because then I can move photos off my memory cards (2x512MB) to the player, for backup/extra storage.
Right now I'm trying to find the right MP3 player. I've currently got a Nike PSA 128MB, which is great for a 2 hour bike ride, as it sits out of the way, and can handle some moisture. I've also got the radio equivalent, which I like, but I don't have any stations here I like listening to all day. Both of those take AAA batteries, but battery life isn't very good.
I've also got a Sony NW-HD3 20GB, which for all its faults, is not a bad player. (Just don't get me started on SonicStage...). Good battery life (~25 hours), but it's an internal li-ion thing.
My ideal player would be reasonably rugged, and include an FM tuner. Plenty of space - say 8GB if it's flash, and has batteries that I can swap out myself. Possibly custom batteries so I could take spares, if the battery life was good (40 hours plus), or AAAs.
I would also like to be able to just drag and drop MP3s onto it - no custom software required. SonicStage on VirtualPC == a world of hurt.
I could maybe do without the FM tuner on it, since I'm strongly considering taking a long wave radio, to pick up BBC World Service, etc.
If I don't find anything suitable, I'll take a long wave radio, and my Sony HD3. It will be a pain not being able to add songs to it from the road though, and I'll need to nurse the battery through those long stretches between PCs/mains power.
If I could be bothered rigging up a solar charger for it though....
Tried it just now - works for me no problems -although sometimes a little slow , as you say. Upgraded this morning - 12" 1.5GHz Powerbook.
I've passed both LPI 101 and 102, each first time. For both of them, I just used online guides, in combination with the Linux books on my shelf (Running Linux, Linux in a Nutshell, Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Hacking Linux Exposed). This was in combo with running Linux at home, at work where I could, as well as using HP-UX extensively at work. I have no formal Linux education.
I plan on taking 201/202 later on this year.
I found them to be good exams, not easy. The ask a bit about flags, etc, so you really need to have used the commands a bit, not just read about them.
I am also certified in HP-UX sys admin, and I am currently working towards getting my Openview Network Node Manager and Openview Operations certs. I found the LPI exams to be more difficult than these ones, but not too bad.
I am not sure how much I will push it in future that I am certified. In some ways I did it just to improve my knowledge. I did pick up a few new things too, in terms of commands I hadn't really used much, and lesser-used options.
Right now all I need is a little more time to get around to doing my upcoming certs....
- Lindsay
Check out this product from hp.
Amongst its other features, it also provides an auditing subsystem, so you can audit pretty anything going on in the system. You can then use a filter to produce either plain text or xml reports.
It has lots of other nifty features too - compartments, with kernel-level access control that goes beyond chmod.It makes it easy to run Internet services in a chrooted environment, with tightly controlled access limiting damage if one app were to be compromised.
(Yes I do work for HP, but not for the ISSL division. The thoughts above are my own, not HP'S)
- Lindsay
We hacked up a Tivoli add-in to control them via SNMP. That gave us point and click control, from a centralised console. You can also script it so that all outlets to a server are turned off - e.g if you have a big box with multiple inlets.
My only real concern with them is security - what would happen if someone else got in?
- Lindsay
I also think it depends somewhat on how your mind works. For example, I read a lot, and I tend to 'see' words, rather than hear them. Perhaps that is why, when I was younger, I used to know what a lot of words meant, and how to spell them, but I would sometimes have, uh, interesting pronunciation of some words.
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Enough is enough I say! Bring back the 'a' in than!
------
We've got it performing access control, automatic temperature control - using a fan and a heater - and we've also got switches, etc, controllable from a web browser using servlets, not applets.
TINI is cool - and it's well priced
Uuuh, I'm a student dude. $170US is more than I have to live on per fortnight - rent, power, food, textbooks, the lot.
If Microsoft would like to make available a stripped down version that would run on my system, at a price that a student can afford (remember that what to you might be the cost of a music CD means the difference between eating and starving for the next week to me), I would gladly try it out.
It is not a matter of whether I am interested in taking the time to "bother trying it out" or not, the simple fact is that I don't even have the option of trying it out.
It is not my "narrow-minded FUD ethic", but a simple matter of economics.
(This is in the EEE dept, Auckland Uni)
"Linux is not bleeding edge stuff", which I guess means that Linux must be mainstream, and also:
"We can't afford for the system to go down" - Why didn't they use Windows 2000 then - it's the "most stable windows yet".
Oh, and I submitted this several days ago, but no-one was interested then.
2000-08-22 09:28:12 Lord of the Rings to save money using GNU/Linux (articles,movies) (rejected)
Tim Beauchamp posted this to the TINI mailing list in the last couple of days.
Sorry about the formatting, I just cut and paste it from an email in my inbox
Oh - and did I mention you program it in Java - it has it's own virtual machine on board. Plus stacks of I/O - 4 serial, 1-wire, CAN, SBX, I2C, ethernet, parallel, etc. And all for only $50US
I'm using one for my final year project, and they are very cool.
- Lindsay
Most of these small webservers don't seem to do much other than serve up simple pages. What, really is the point is serving up your homepage from your fridge? You want to control stuff, and the TINI lets you do this, with either CAN, 1-wire, I2C, serial or SBX.
Also, programming it in Java, on any Java-capable platform, makes it extremely attractive (Although I am only learning Java at the moment).
And if/when they go to a single chip solution, the price will become extremely attractive - $15US projected. (Although, at $50US, with no need for special programming boards, it is already pretty reasonable).
Lindsay
He also thinks it's amazing because he can check his email from anywhere. I said to him, have you even heard about/tried any of the other services? No. So how do you know Hotmail is so good? Well, it's M$ he said. At which point I decided it might be easier to just not say anything at all. He also casually mentioned that he has over 100 spam addresses blocked at Hotmail. On my 5 non-hotmail addresses, I'm lucky to get 1 spam message a week.
And you know what the worst thing is ? He was asking me yesterday about what I knew about MCSE - he's thinking about doing it. Sigh...
It would seem to me that if you are using an IDE drive for backup, you might want to store it offsite - which could mean frequent handling of the hard drive, increasing the possibility that something might go wrong with it. Just a thought. I've got 2 drives in my machine (a quantum bigfoot 4.3, and a Maxtor 15.5), and do back up important(ish) stuff onto the other drive (depending on which drive the original is on). Not especially secure, but better than nothing I guess.
Lindsay
Rob says he neds to learn proc mail - Why doesn't he just ask Kurt? - After what we've done to Kurt, he must be some sort of consultant by now.
And by the way - have you done your homework this week?
I happened to be cruising Deja, when I noticed a banner add pop up that said:
"Penthouse.com - Sex for geeks, Babes the matter"
Now I was wondering, what recourse does Rob have against this blatant violation of his rights?
I have one of these , for my final year project, and they're pretty cool. These guys have written some GPL code that lets you run servlets. Of course, you'd probably better not plan on getting too many hits - It doesn't seem to handle too many hits too well! Well, it is only 103mm by 32mm by 10mm, so what can you expect
(I know this is kinda off-topic, but, well, so what)
Hmmm - How does the quote go - "give me the boy, and I'll give you the man"
Folks, , in 20 years time, we could be looking at someone even more fervent than RMS. Scary
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You might want to take a look at this. It has some similar things in it - it also discusses how long other types of media last
If however, you "unlawfully" own a firearm, well, you're probably going to take it to school tomorrow to shoot some people.
How the hell does legally letting you own guns suddenly make them (and their owner) safe?
I liked the way they said to call 911 in the case of an immediate emergency. Are people that stupid in North Carolina that, in the event of an emergency, they would go to their computer, fire it up (come on, come on), start their mail client (hurry up), and send an email to wave? Thank God they told us to ring 911 instead.
And on the imminent warning signs, they say "self-injurious" behaviour is a bit of a worry. So if I stub my toe say, or give myself a paper cut (flicking through my latest O'Reilly book) - does that mean I'm about to go on a murderous rampage? Where do I turn myself in?