That's why Wal*Mart is the largest employer in the country... they teach their employees how to apply for food stamps, and get by with paying them $7.50/hour on average
Nice. So Wal*Mart is pushing its labor costs on to the taxpayers?
They have no-fly zones around nuclear plants now. Not really because flying inside the line gets you shot down, but so they can aim a SAM at an incoming threat without worrying about hitting the wrong plane (not that they're worried about hitting the wrong plane - it's really that they're worried about missing the right one).
Uh... I live in Harrisburg. If you fly out of MDT, and look out the window, you can almost touch the cooling towers of TMI.
There certainly isn't much of a no-fly zone there. There are 2 airports on either side of the susquehanna river, with TMI on an island in between them.
Ever manage trustee rights on Netware versus NT? NT uses the same crap from the LAN Manager days, which is basically made up of hidden files which contain trustee information. Try blocking access to a single file three levels deep to a single user. With Netware, you can do it. With Microsoft's offerings, you cannot.
Bullshit
Right-click the file, select the security tab. Find the user in the list of trustees, and check "Deny Full Access.".
You are managing file access with NTFS permissions, right? If you're doing it with share permissions, it's not the software's fault, it's the admin's.
Most people think its hopeless here and our leaving.
It is hopeless.
I'm from (roughly) that neck of the woods (Williamsport area), and that's what I did. I moved. Most of my buddies who chose to stay in the area (some with advanced degrees) are now waiting tables and bartending.
how is a former factory worker going to pay for a college education?
The same way this factory worker's son did it.
You work your nuts off at stupid part-time jobs, and you get student loans and go into massive debt. Then, you MOVE to someplace the job market doesn't suck.
Sitting in Scranton and bitching about the job market makes about as much sense as sitting in Antarctica and bitching about the cold.
A degree in "IT" or "MIS" or "CIS" or whatever else a college wants to call it is worthless. Those are people who take courses in Microsoft Word.
Well, that's the problem. People in non-programming-related IT jobs don't have a lot of options in terms of relevant 'professional credentials' you can either get one of these degrees in Microsoft Word, or a vendor-based certification. Both are mostly worthless on thier own.
A computer science degree is not designed to prepare you to run some mail server. A computer science degree is designed to prepare you to be able to write a mail server. For that sort of thing, you need all sorts of theory.
Quite true. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of companies in the business of writing mail servers. I guess the questions is, unless you plan to work for a software company, is a comp sci degree really the best option? If not, then what? An IT degree?
I ask these questions not (just) to be a smartass, but because I have recently gone back to school and am wondering what the best course of action is. I know what sorts of skills my company (and related companies in the area) are after, and I don't see any such thing offered at the universities.
I really hope you are inflating that number, that would pay for a whole year of real education.
"Real Education" comes from experience. You can't buy it (even from the hallowed halls of academia).
True Story:
I work for a big fat fortune 500 company. Every summer, we get interns from local colleges. Most of them have, or are finishing up master's degrees in IT or comp sci. Most of them are absolutely worthless (at least at first). A few of them will talk your ear off about compiler design or some interesting theory about parsers, etc. While this is all well and good for 'around the water cooler' conversations, when it comes to carrying out real tasks (ie. the mail server is throwing errors, go check it out) they don't know what to do.
Someone with ANY experience, or at least some technical training (like an MCSA or MCSE or whatever) would at least know where the event log is and be able to make an educated guess as to what's going on.
Then, of course, that is the whole point of internships, to get these folks the experience they need to actually be able to do something productive. (and it gives us first crack at offering them a job)
Someone with an MCSE and zero experience is no better (or worse) off than someone with a Master's and zero experience.
Right, so that just reinforces what others have been saying. Your $14,000 for MSCE cert is better spent elsewhere.
Well, I certainly didn't spend $14k for mine.
I pity anyone who was duped by the certification bootcamp companies into paying that much money.
The MCSE is seven exams.
Each exam costs $150 each (IIRC). A study guide book is around $50 (per test)
So, you're looking at $1050 for tests, and $350 for training materials. Assuming you own a computer or two for practice, you can get your MCSE for under $1500.00
I've got one too, and I won't post AC. People who contantly disparage the MCSE don't seem to understand what the MCSE is about. It does not mean the person is a rocket scientist. It means the person has a minimal knowledge about how to work a Microsoft network. That's it.
Look at the some of therequirements. it says things like "Create and Manage user accounts."
It doesn't say "be super-duper geek computer god with 133t slashdot powers"
This is not a good idea if the geek on your shopping list plays alot of Diablo II.
I was able to completely drain the battery in my wireless mouse in a single session.
I Disagree
Bombadil was Elrond's first choice to be the ringbearer, but he wouldn't concern himself with the affairs of the world outside his woods. I think this is (admittedly a minor) foreshadowing of the Ents, and thier desire not be involved in the war.
I saw Revolutions, and I still maintain that there IS matrix within the matrix. (Personally, I think there is an infinite recursion of matrices, and there is no "real world" at all. Like turtles all the way down.
The oracle said that Neo has powers in the 'real world' because the powers of the one extend all the way back to the "Source."
Isn't the "Source" part of the matrix?
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I had a chance to look over your link. I'm afraid I don't see how that can be construed as proof of anything. It looks to me like yet another christian/conservative propaganda site.
According to some of the bonus material at the end of one of the TNG DVDs...(I forget which one) Rodenberry's theory was that the purpose of the deflector array was to move such particles out of the way of the ship.
Can't you also burn an audio CD from AAC files?
So what's to stop me from downloading a song from Itunes, burning it to CD, and re-ripping it to MP3?
Then, I can put it in my non-ipod MP3 player.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
Actually, it's the static HTML part of IIS 6 that they put in the kernel.
Nice. So Wal*Mart is pushing its labor costs on to the taxpayers?
Am I missing something here?
Uh... I live in Harrisburg. If you fly out of MDT, and look out the window, you can almost touch the cooling towers of TMI.
There certainly isn't much of a no-fly zone there. There are 2 airports on either side of the susquehanna river, with TMI on an island in between them.
Actually, you can do this on windows now. Windows 2003 server has a feature called Volume Shadow Copies that is very similar to salvage.
Bullshit
Right-click the file, select the security tab. Find the user in the list of trustees, and check "Deny Full Access.".
You are managing file access with NTFS permissions, right? If you're doing it with share permissions, it's not the software's fault, it's the admin's.
Hel is the one who really messed up the whole Baldr situation (by not letting Baldr of out of the underworld until after Ragnorak.)
I'd say that makes Loki a bad guy (or at least a bad parent :-)
His kids were brats who eventually destroyed the whole world!
There is also Jasc WebDraw ($179), if you're of a mind to use windows.
It is hopeless.
I'm from (roughly) that neck of the woods (Williamsport area), and that's what I did. I moved. Most of my buddies who chose to stay in the area (some with advanced degrees) are now waiting tables and bartending.
how is a former factory worker going to pay for a college education?
The same way this factory worker's son did it. You work your nuts off at stupid part-time jobs, and you get student loans and go into massive debt. Then, you MOVE to someplace the job market doesn't suck.
Sitting in Scranton and bitching about the job market makes about as much sense as sitting in Antarctica and bitching about the cold.
Well, that's the problem. People in non-programming-related IT jobs don't have a lot of options in terms of relevant 'professional credentials' you can either get one of these degrees in Microsoft Word, or a vendor-based certification. Both are mostly worthless on thier own.
A computer science degree is not designed to prepare you to run some mail server. A computer science degree is designed to prepare you to be able to write a mail server. For that sort of thing, you need all sorts of theory.
Quite true. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of companies in the business of writing mail servers. I guess the questions is, unless you plan to work for a software company, is a comp sci degree really the best option? If not, then what? An IT degree?
I ask these questions not (just) to be a smartass, but because I have recently gone back to school and am wondering what the best course of action is. I know what sorts of skills my company (and related companies in the area) are after, and I don't see any such thing offered at the universities.
"Real Education" comes from experience. You can't buy it (even from the hallowed halls of academia).
True Story:
I work for a big fat fortune 500 company. Every summer, we get interns from local colleges. Most of them have, or are finishing up master's degrees in IT or comp sci. Most of them are absolutely worthless (at least at first). A few of them will talk your ear off about compiler design or some interesting theory about parsers, etc. While this is all well and good for 'around the water cooler' conversations, when it comes to carrying out real tasks (ie. the mail server is throwing errors, go check it out) they don't know what to do.
Someone with ANY experience, or at least some technical training (like an MCSA or MCSE or whatever) would at least know where the event log is and be able to make an educated guess as to what's going on.
Then, of course, that is the whole point of internships, to get these folks the experience they need to actually be able to do something productive. (and it gives us first crack at offering them a job)
Someone with an MCSE and zero experience is no better (or worse) off than someone with a Master's and zero experience.
I think MS just took the term from Novell, who's CNE (certified novell engineer) cert was all the rage back in the early 90's.
Red Hat is on the bandwagon now, too with thier RHCE.
Well, I certainly didn't spend $14k for mine. I pity anyone who was duped by the certification bootcamp companies into paying that much money.
The MCSE is seven exams. Each exam costs $150 each (IIRC). A study guide book is around $50 (per test)
So, you're looking at $1050 for tests, and $350 for training materials. Assuming you own a computer or two for practice, you can get your MCSE for under $1500.00
Look at the some of therequirements. it says things like "Create and Manage user accounts."
It doesn't say "be super-duper geek computer god with 133t slashdot powers"
basically, you can GET the worm (if you click on the attachment) but it doens't mass-mail everyone in your thunderbird address book.
(Yes, I know, becuase I, like a big dummy, opened the attachment in Thunderbird. (/me hangs head in shame).
There are directions on Symantec's web page for removing it. (basically a few registry tweaks.)
This is not a good idea if the geek on your shopping list plays alot of Diablo II.
I was able to completely drain the battery in my wireless mouse in a single session.
I Disagree
Bombadil was Elrond's first choice to be the ringbearer, but he wouldn't concern himself with the affairs of the world outside his woods. I think this is (admittedly a minor) foreshadowing of the Ents, and thier desire not be involved in the war.
The oracle said that Neo has powers in the 'real world' because the powers of the one extend all the way back to the "Source."
Isn't the "Source" part of the matrix?
I had a chance to look over your link. I'm afraid I don't see how that can be construed as proof of anything. It looks to me like yet another christian/conservative propaganda site.
Innovation my ass
Proven? Where? Not to be a shithead, but do know of any actual studies done that 'prove' this?
What actually constitutes a 'better' child anyways?
According to some of the bonus material at the end of one of the TNG DVDs...(I forget which one) Rodenberry's theory was that the purpose of the deflector array was to move such particles out of the way of the ship.
So what's to stop me from downloading a song from Itunes, burning it to CD, and re-ripping it to MP3?
Then, I can put it in my non-ipod MP3 player.
Am I missing something here?
So, the students set up their own wireless network.
One of them tunnels through the campus network to a buddy's machine off campus.
whitehouse.com, IIRC is the webpage for a magazine called "whitehouse" so it's legit.