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  1. What about Berkeley DB? on Simple Database Interfaces for Unix? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about Berkeley DB? Sleepycat makes a simple "database" that sounds exactly like what the poster is looking for in a database.

  2. Any suggestions, Huh. on To Recertify, or Not Recertify? · · Score: 1

    I would not bother with the certification. I would change your job hunting methodolgy. It obviously is not working.

    Befriend Recruiters. How? Refer them to quality candidates for jobs they post that you choose not to pursue. Respond quickly, professionally and briefly to jobs that do not meet your job search criteria.

    Identify key employers. Research specific companies, preferably ones in which have contacts or even acquaintances. Do not ask for a job or a referral rather let someone offer. The most valuable knowledge comes from understanding a company's current prospects, customers, and hiring methodologies. Pursue leads and new contracts agressively.

    Stockpile industry standard tests, essay answers, and cover letter templates to cover common questions from recruiters and employers. By having these resources at your fingertips you can respond faster, stronger, and more effectively than the typical applicant.

    Dress wealthy and look comfortable in fashionable, high quality business attire. If it were me, I would find a wool blue pinstripe and a wrinkle free, trim fit white spread color shirt with a subtle blue stripe, and match it with a blue striped tie. If it is a casual company, take off the tie and wear it open collar. Be sure to have a real undershirt and don't go wild with unbuttoning the buttons. Wear a quality shoe.

    Interview regularly, even if you must go to interviews for jobs you would never accept. However, do not interview unless you are serious with jobs that you are referred to by recruiters or colleagues.

    Verify your references. The amount of time you have spent looking may be due to a poor reference hurting you.

    Reach out to the local technical community. Spend time in as many user groups as you can. Never pester people about jobs. Express interest, enthusiasm, do people favors, and let the job take care of itself. After establishing a bond it is fine to mention you are looking but do not treat user groups as career fairs.

    Study sales techniques. Your job hunting skills are selling a product: you. Read and re-read "What Color is Your Parachute?", spend time with books on selling to prospects. Master the craft of job hunting, in this world; it will have more value than a certification.

    You get the idea.

  3. Re:Duh... on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 1

    There is nothing better for childen and the elderly than a hard day's work for a fair wage. It will teach self-respect and independance which is severly lacking in our hollywood driven, liberal society. After all we each of us should be contributing members of a free society and it about time that we all started carrying our own weight. Damn those non-natives and welfare cheats. We're forgetting what made America great: xenophobia, protectionism, and sweatshops.

    *wink*

  4. Fool me twice, shame on me. on Working Hard? · · Score: 1

    Find another job ASAP. This CEO obviously does not think you will hold him accountable. It may take some extra time to discover who you can count on as a reliable reference but do it. You've been burned once for a few days vacation time and burned again for a twenty percent pay cut. Leave them before they cut you or damage your reputation, it will allow you to make a much better career move.

  5. Re:SCA! on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog? · · Score: 2, Informative
    They're pretty much the only people left in the world who make battle-quality chain mail, scale mail, and plate mail in the medieval style.

    There is a lot more than just the SCA out there. You should really see some of the Dagorhir and Markland armour.

    Plus tons more with a little bit of googling...
  6. Re:The ultimate solution on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    The ultimate solution to the problem is to let computers write the software themselves.

    Okay dsanfte, how many times have you watched Matrix Reloaded in the last week?

  7. Re:Mirroring file system on Distributed Filesystems for Linux? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have any solutions for a mirroring file system?

    I have not used it in the enterprise but rdist seems more than capable for home use.

  8. Re:Flattery and Imitation on Microsoft Bites Apple, Apple Bites Back · · Score: 1

    Right click to open a menu.
    Left click on the menu title bar.
    A little X will appear in the right corner and the menu will lurk until you close it.

  9. Re:Snickering at the guffaw... on Wall Street Meat · · Score: 1

    In space no one can hear you guffaw.

  10. Re:Some very good points... on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 1
    It is amazing how much training it takes in UNIX to do something simple in Windows. For example, recursively searching through a subtree for some text in a file.

    grep -r "some text" *
  11. Re:Most open source coders on Why Do People Write Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    How many times have you cutNpaste'd that little snippet? How many clueless moderators have given you points?

    You could at least wait a few days before posting the same old tripe.

  12. Re:Zing .... on Practical Statecharts in C/C++ · · Score: 5, Informative

    State Charts are one of the nine UML diagrams. There are some tutorials here.

  13. Re:Well... on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Below (2002). That nasty movie Ghost Ship got all the press and Below was pulled from the forty odd theaters it was released to a few short weeks later.

  14. Whatever... on Some Geek Guides for Dating · · Score: 1

    The thing that I would like to see is a singles guide to meeting people in your late twenties, thirties, and beyond. I can still go to the same old haunts in NoVA and DC that I used to go to when I was in my mid-twenties but those crowds are not getting any older. Where are people disapearing off to besides the suburbs to have their 2.2 little snot monsters?

  15. Re:dupe? on Red Hat, Oracle to get Gov't Certification for Linux · · Score: 1

    The first announcement was Red Hat Advanced Server being approved as a Common Operating Environment. COE is an evaluation of the functionality and managabillity for use within the DoD.

    This article references the Common Criteria certification attempts of Oracle and perhaps IBM, specificly EAL2. Commmon Criteria is a NIAP certification that evaluates the level of access control, user control, and logging for security purposes. It is essiential if you want to use the software in an enviornment for Secret and above material in the US. It is also accepted throughout NATO, NZ, and Austrilia thanks to some reprocity agreements.

    The part where this announcement will be huge is systems requiring NIAP evaluation (particularly systems priced under 15K). Up until now SCO and Windows have been living in a protected bubble, after these evaulations come through the CC market will be much more competitive on the low end. This is a large market, I am surprised that it was not done sooner. Up until now there has just been lame announcments at FOSE.

    I'm sure you can get better information out there but I'll be damned if I am going to dig it out after I submitted this two days ago with better links and it got rejected.

  16. Re:Linux should be careful on Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other? · · Score: 1

    Yeah all corporations are commercial except for "non-stock corporations". This category includes corporations not organized to produce a profit and that do not distribute income to members, board, or directors. The acceptable legal forms, include but are not limited to, corporation, individual enterprise, unincorporated association, partnership, foundation, and some condominiums. They fall under the big old umbrella people call "non-profit corporations".

  17. Re:-1 (Delusional Use of Pronoun) on How to be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, bring on the pronoun holy wars. The pronoun use is probably wishful thinking during those long, lonely nights of paper writing.

  18. Secret Volcano Island. on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells? · · Score: 1

    ...has anyone even tried to build one of these units to see if it can live up to the given promise...

    Yeah I built hundreds. They work almost as well as patent application says they do. It is the main power source for my secret volcano island. I keep the main solar plant next to the living head of Mr Ed #3(US1985000809949). I'm trying to find Wilbur's head (US4666425) too but I think it probably rotted away by now. That's okay though, after I finish populating my island with Unicorns (US4429685), me and my evil cabinet will be ready for plan Milli Vanilli.

    Remember folks, you can believe everything you see a patent for just like you can believe everything you read on the internet.

  19. Re:Political calls are exempt? on 160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    The one that burns my biscuits is the non-profit exemption. It makes little difference to me if the person interrupting my dinner to weasel money from me is out to make a buck for his business or his favorite pet issue. If I wanted it, I'd ask. Be it phone, mail, or email.

  20. heh on Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately with Microsoft's past history it goes more like, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, than they fight you, than you roll over or are obliterated.

  21. Re:this is a good thing on FCC to Permit Complete Media/Telecom Consolidation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what your saying is so what if a handful of corporations gain even more control over the media as long as we get cheap DSL?

  22. Ha, Ha. on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like one SysAdmin is thinking things were not as easy as in Office Space or Superman 3. Off to "federal pound me in the ass prison" for him.

  23. Re:sure? on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland? · · Score: 1

    Just like hotmail...

  24. Sheesh. on What Makes Great Science Fiction? · · Score: 1

    You either grok science fiction or you do not.

  25. Re:Book is really unneeded on Professional Apache Tomcat · · Score: 1

    Okay Mister fancy pants. Try this one

    Where in the docs does it explain how to pass user_dir or ServletDir to Tomcat when it is integrated with Apache? I've seen writeups for the combersome process of setting up virtual servers for each user on a system but not much else.