I'll be turning 50 soon and I am starting a new job tomorrow as a Senior Sys Admin. I find that as I get older, I get better. I can do thing in a few minutes that others take a week to do ( if they can even do it). I learn new languages in a couple of weeks. I have coded in over 30 now.
People who think IT careers end by 35 shouldn't have been in IT to begin with.
According to the Sciencearticle(subscription required) abstract a stack of 18 sheets had a strength of 465MPa/(g/cm^3) (high strength steel listed as 125 MPa/(g/cm^3)).
They also built an OLED of 500 cd/m^2 with a onset voltage of 2.4V.
After you buy your new laptop ( try J And R computers downtown.. pretty decent selection..) Walk to the neareast hardware store and buy some sand paper and apply some accelerated wear to the outside of the case. Put some cookie crumbs and hair in the keyboard. Spray a bit of soda on the lcd. (A friend of mine did this to a new mountain bike.. he just sprayed acid on it, and didn't even bother buying a lock, never got stolen while I lost 3 bikes in a short period of time...).
Then again you could do what one place I used to work for did... put cowcrap in the machine... lovely Imagine the joy of cleaning cow patties out of lots of laptops..
I have had my Zaurus for a while now.. the desktop has some sort of memory leak so I have to reboot regularly.I use it as an MP3 player and when I replace the.25G CF module, it takes a ouple of minutes to recognize the file system and and make the mp3s available for listening.
All ths said I carry it everywhere. I have 5 hours of mp3 play time per battery. (This happily corresponds to the 5 hours of mp3s on a.25G CF module). I write notes on it in meetings to the Secure Digital module. I carry my ssh keyring on it. I have tried watching video on it, but the cpu is still too slow. (probably true on the 5600 as well..)
The best thing about it is that I have dropped it on the floor from 4 feet and it is still running unlike my disk drive based mp3 player.
While the Feynman, Hawking, Herbert, Wheeler,.. books are more widely known, the Mr. Tompkins series of articles explains a lot of elementray physics in the most unusual format I have encountered. Mr. Tompkins is a layman who experiences physics through a series of dreams derived from seeing lectures in physics. The articles were first written in 1940 and updated in 65, but they are still very pertinent.
The UFO sightings are the strongest arguement for the existenct of Project Aurora, the top secret latest hypersonic aircraft out of the US black budget. Aurora Project Hypersonic Aircraft has a good image of the "Donut on a rope" contrail that a pulse ramjet is supposed to make, which is thought to be the power plant of the aircraft. Janes Aerospace has given the Aurora an official entry after sighting the characteristic contrail.
One person in my office got his a couple of days ago, mine is on back order though. I like the OS, although I plan on using mine for perl aps and as a terminal instead of lugging around my thinkpad(which isn't all that heavy any way). What I really want from it is a USB port so I can plug my MP3 Jukebox into and use it as a disk drive. Then I can download my daily reading material into it and read it on the train in while still listening to music. And the Zaurus is significantly smaller/light than any of the journals I carry around.
Although I do agree that it is a bit expensive, but it costs 1/5 what my notebook did and is about 1/4 as fast. The batteries also last a lot longer too. And the keyboard is about as good as that on a Blackberry without having to haul around an extra gadget.
Our ISP (soon to be ex) told me and my boss that they were getting ready to install upgraded internet hardware. It was supposed to clear up all of the internet problems we had been having. The funny thing is that during the meeting with this git, I got a phone call from one of their hardware engineers who would have to be intimately involved in installing of this hardware and he had no clue what the git was talking about. What he said sounded great, except it was 100% pure bs. The git was a VP of the company... which is now in Chapter 11.(I asked my engineer friend what he planned to do with all of his worthless options... build a paper mache castle be-like...)
The funny thing is that our saleperson was in the meeting too and she said that he lied to us... she was laid off shortly after that. I think she was lucky.
I just picked this up on Sunday. The major reason was it was inexpensive and I could get it immediately. I didn't care too much about the display quality since I put it on my server at home (It manages AfterStep fairly well). This display was my second choice, since it only has a contrast ratio of 200:1, which come to think of it is as good as or better than both of my laptop displays.
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I remember purchasing a $5000 19" CRT with ~ 1Mpixel resolution.. damn thing massed 35 kg. Talk about a real boat anchor.
I plan on trying to see LOTR:Fellowship as many times as possible while being massively hung over from the Guiness-a-thon followed by the Glen Mornagie-a-thon.
While my Athlon works on the Farscape downloadathon.
I picked up a MP3 jukebox called the Roopaq a week ago. It doesn't come with a disk drive so I bought a 30G fujitsu drive. It uses USB to connect to the system, which manages a decent sustained 1M/second download. The main problem is that the battery life is only a couple of hours. I am currently looking for a larger battery as it seems to use a commodity Li-Ion module.
Now I have to get over the second "problem", I only have 5G left on it. Ahh the mp3 freedom of hundreds of CDs worth of music. (now if I can just get my unix server to correctly recognixe the drive format I'll be a happy camper...)
(Oh yeah.. cost $275 including $140 for the drive)
I tried to order one of these things and got an error generated by their page. I wouldn't think too much of this normallly except this is spuuposed to be a "linux" site and this is part of the error message:
The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFIF), occupying document position (276:4) to (276:104) in the template file D:\wwwroot\stargate\htdocs\cfm\linuxda\shipping.cf m
The specific sequence of files included or processed is:
D:\WWWROOT\STARGATE\HTDOCS\CFM\LINUXDA\SHIPPING. CF M
Why is a "linux" site running on a windoze server?
I can just see a bunch of NASA engineers out at the skunk works with a big box of LEGOs and Erector sets gluing mockups on the X33/34 for a dog and pony show for some LeMay-esque general.
" Yes general, to convert the sub-orbital system to a fully orbit functional craft requires only a minor thrust conversion package, the Lets Enter Geostationary Orbit (LEGO), available for few more billion per system. To convert the gravity assisted kinetic into a more gerenalized hit to kill (HTK) system, referted to as KINETEX (Kill Interorbital NETwork, EXperimental) requires another small modification to the internal weapon system bays. And finally there is the Exogenous REntry Constructor and Terrestrial Orbital Respoder (ERECTOR) package to allow total defense against any terrestrial as well as extra-terrestrial threats.
All of the packages are available under a unifed options package, The Joint Unified Neo Kinetic, Yearly Allocated Resource for Defence Weapons- Aerospace Research-scientist Support ( JUNK YARD WARS).
We kindly thank the Group of Researchers for AVaracious Yearly TRAnsfering INcome (GRAVY TRAIN) for their kind support in funding this anaylis.
(Full disclosure.. I worked as a nuclear physicist and like the Xplanes.. The researchers just recognize that future funding is more likely to come out of DOD than NASA) anyway, writing this was fun.
I can relate, having typed reboot on a core server thinking I was in a development server (on a real time stock quotation system...) you can imagine my chagrin.
I started running a local apache server and mapping any offending sites in my etc/hosts file, (I just hacked to quick handler to handle returns for any requested pages...) Now I never see ads for sites I deem are abusive or are even annoying slow to download.
I saw something like this a few years ago in Texas. I don't know if it was a fungus that did it, but a bunch of my audio CD's had clear spots in the Al. Ticked me off, especially since some of them were from garage bands that I will never be able to replace.
The mouse is getting close to 40 now, going grey, loosing its hair. I can't wait until it retires. These days my hand aches after spending a day mousing. Much as I dispise M$, I like the fact that my StinkPad has one of those little pointers in the middle which lets me move the cursor without taking my hands from the keyboard. Now if I can get a Heads Up Display with eye tracking built in, I can get eye strain.
Which reminds me, have these people done a study on repetative stress injury for this head-tracking tech? I would imagine that there a lot of people out there who would suffer greatly from this kind of tech (a friend/fellow sysadmin is a paraplegic, but capable of head motion).
This technology sounds also sounds like a fast way to eyestrain/neck problems. How many of you out there don't wear glasses? I have enough problems staring at VDUs all day without having to tightly control the location that I am pointing my head/eyes.
Personally I see nothing inherently wrong with the fragmenting of culture. Sure the internet culture leads people to have less and less in common with each other, but also with the broadening of the internet demographics, a wider array of participants are able to share a greater portion of their cultures. i.e. I have less in common someone in the US not of my demographic, but I have more in common with someone in India.
The more information that is available, the greater innovation can occur. Natural scientist had this problem in the 17th and 18th century which is why they founded scientific societies. They then would spread new articles around to each other and then have meetings to discuss the meaning of the article. Thus more people could get exposure to an issue withouot actually having to become an expert in it.
What we have now with the cultural fragmentation is an increase in subdisciplines oriented on exploring differing classes of interactions, with the more advantageous gradually replacing the less advantageous. The increase in fragmentation means that society is more able to adapt to rapidly changing situations, as the dominant culture might not have the infrastructure to handle a massive disruption, but some splintered subculture would more readily embrace the changing situation, and replace the dominant culture.
If they do theis, then it can be argued that if you pay this tax , then you should be able to copy anything because you have already paid for the right to copy it. Well not anything, just anything produced by someone who receives royalty from the program. Heck, we already have a tax on computing hardware, the Microtax. This one just allows us to get something we might actually want.
Personally, I have ripped all of my CDs b/c carrying around hundreds of cds is a real pain. My main problem is that music I listen to wouldn't get squat from this tax since I tend to buy music from small time bands that may have pressed 1000 copies.
What with the cost of optical networking dropping by a factor of 2 every 100 days or so ( See Scientific American Dec00), soon that 10G will be 100T and very accessible. Also, with the advent of being able to stop light pulses and restart them (See Nature, 25Jan01), we can have a disk drive with yottabyte capacity (for a definition of lesser known si units, see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html).
Somewhat of a varient. Juggling. Simple, easy to learn and lots of fun to teach to others. (I just bought 20 juggling balls for the office...).
The great thing about it is once you have reach a certain level, you can start juggling to others which makes the entertainment loads more fun.
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sh echo -e 0$ '\bfit'.
Devops is the be all end all for coders like you (and me). You can't do it with less than a decade of experience.
I'll be turning 50 soon and I am starting a new job tomorrow as a Senior Sys Admin. I find that as I get older, I get better. I can do thing in a few minutes that others take a week to do ( if they can even do it). I learn new languages in a couple of weeks. I have coded in over 30 now.
People who think IT careers end by 35 shouldn't have been in IT to begin with.
This is Jeffty is Five!
According to the Science article(subscription required) abstract a stack of 18 sheets had a strength of 465MPa/(g/cm^3) (high strength steel listed as 125 MPa/(g/cm^3)).
They also built an OLED of 500 cd/m^2 with a onset voltage of 2.4V.
After you buy your new laptop ( try J And R computers downtown.. pretty decent selection..) Walk to the neareast hardware store and buy some sand paper and apply some accelerated wear to the outside of the case. Put some cookie crumbs and hair in the keyboard. Spray a bit of soda on the lcd. (A friend of mine did this to a new mountain bike.. he just sprayed acid on it, and didn't even bother buying a lock, never got stolen while I lost 3 bikes in a short period of time...).
Then again you could do what one place I used to work for did... put cowcrap in the machine... lovely Imagine the joy of cleaning cow patties out of lots of laptops..
I have had my Zaurus for a while now.. the desktop has some sort of memory leak so I have to reboot regularly.I use it as an MP3 player and when I replace the .25G CF module, it takes a ouple of minutes to recognize the file system and and make the mp3s available for listening.
.25G CF module). I write notes on it in meetings to the Secure Digital module. I carry my ssh keyring on it. I have tried watching video on it, but the cpu is still too slow. (probably true on the 5600 as well..)
All ths said I carry it everywhere. I have 5 hours of mp3 play time per battery. (This happily corresponds to the 5 hours of mp3s on a
The best thing about it is that I have dropped it on the floor from 4 feet and it is still running unlike my disk drive based mp3 player.
While the Feynman, Hawking, Herbert, Wheeler,.. books are more widely known, the Mr. Tompkins series of articles explains a lot of elementray physics in the most unusual format I have encountered.
Mr. Tompkins is a layman who experiences physics through a series of dreams derived from seeing lectures in physics. The articles were first written in 1940 and updated in 65, but they are still very pertinent.
Mr. Tompkins in Paperback
The UFO sightings are the strongest arguement for the existenct of Project Aurora, the top secret latest hypersonic aircraft out of the US black budget.
Aurora Project Hypersonic Aircraft
has a good image of the "Donut on a rope" contrail that a pulse ramjet is supposed to make, which is thought to be the power plant of the aircraft.
Janes Aerospace has given the Aurora an official entry after sighting the characteristic contrail.
One person in my office got his a couple of days ago, mine is on back order though. I like the OS, although I plan on using mine for perl aps and as a terminal instead of lugging around my thinkpad(which isn't all that heavy any way).
What I really want from it is a USB port so I can plug my MP3 Jukebox into and use it as a disk drive. Then I can download my daily reading material into it and read it on the train in while still listening to music. And the Zaurus is significantly smaller/light than any of the journals I carry around.
Although I do agree that it is a bit expensive, but it costs 1/5 what my notebook did and is about 1/4 as fast. The batteries also last a lot longer too. And the keyboard is about as good as that on a Blackberry without having to haul around an extra gadget.
Our ISP (soon to be ex) told me and my boss that they were getting ready to install upgraded internet hardware. It was supposed to clear up all of the internet problems we had been having. The funny thing is that during the meeting with this git, I got a phone call from one of their hardware engineers who would have to be intimately involved in installing of this hardware and he had no clue what the git was talking about. What he said sounded great, except it was 100% pure bs. The git was a VP of the company... which is now in Chapter 11.(I asked my engineer friend what he planned to do with all of his worthless options... build a paper mache castle be-like...)
The funny thing is that our saleperson was in the meeting too and she said that he lied to us... she was laid off shortly after that. I think she was lucky.
I just picked this up on Sunday. The major reason was it was inexpensive and I could get it immediately. I didn't care too much about the display quality since I put it on my server at home (It manages AfterStep fairly well). This display was my second choice, since it only has a contrast ratio of 200:1, which come to think of it is as good as or better than both of my laptop displays.
---
I remember purchasing a $5000 19" CRT with ~ 1Mpixel resolution.. damn thing massed 35 kg. Talk about a real boat anchor.
I plan on trying to see LOTR:Fellowship as many times as possible while being massively hung over from the Guiness-a-thon followed by the Glen Mornagie-a-thon.
While my Athlon works on the Farscape downloadathon.
I picked up a MP3 jukebox called the Roopaq a week ago. It doesn't come with a disk drive so I bought a 30G fujitsu drive. It uses USB to connect to the system, which manages a decent sustained 1M/second download. The main problem is that the battery life is only a couple of hours. I am currently looking for a larger battery as it seems to use a commodity Li-Ion module.
Now I have to get over the second "problem", I only have 5G left on it. Ahh the mp3 freedom of hundreds of CDs worth of music. (now if I can just get my unix server to correctly recognixe the drive format I'll be a happy camper...)
(Oh yeah.. cost $275 including $140 for the drive)
I tried to order one of these things and got an error generated by their page. I wouldn't think too much of this normallly except this is spuuposed to be a "linux" site and this is part of the error message:
f m
. CF M
The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFIF), occupying document position (276:4) to (276:104) in the template file D:\wwwroot\stargate\htdocs\cfm\linuxda\shipping.c
The specific sequence of files included or processed is:
D:\WWWROOT\STARGATE\HTDOCS\CFM\LINUXDA\SHIPPING
Why is a "linux" site running on a windoze server?
I can just see a bunch of NASA engineers out at the skunk works with a big box of LEGOs and Erector sets gluing mockups on the X33/34 for a dog and pony show for some LeMay-esque general.
" Yes general, to convert the sub-orbital system to a fully orbit functional craft requires only a minor thrust conversion package, the Lets Enter Geostationary Orbit (LEGO), available for few more billion per system. To convert the gravity assisted kinetic into a more gerenalized hit to kill (HTK) system, referted to as KINETEX (Kill Interorbital NETwork, EXperimental) requires another small modification to the internal weapon system bays. And finally there is the Exogenous REntry Constructor and Terrestrial Orbital Respoder (ERECTOR) package to allow total defense against any terrestrial as well as extra-terrestrial threats.
All of the packages are available under a unifed options package, The Joint Unified Neo Kinetic, Yearly Allocated Resource for Defence Weapons- Aerospace Research-scientist Support ( JUNK YARD WARS).
We kindly thank the Group of Researchers for AVaracious Yearly TRAnsfering INcome (GRAVY TRAIN) for their kind support in funding this anaylis.
(Full disclosure.. I worked as a nuclear physicist and like the Xplanes.. The researchers just recognize that future funding is more likely to come out of DOD than NASA) anyway, writing this was fun.
I can relate, having typed reboot on a core server thinking I was in a development server (on a real time stock quotation system...) you can imagine my chagrin.
We are the mutts...
but not bell boys.
I started running a local apache server and mapping any offending sites in my etc/hosts file, (I just hacked to quick handler to handle returns for any requested pages...) Now I never see ads for sites I deem are abusive or are even annoying slow to download.
I saw something like this a few years ago in Texas. I don't know if it was a fungus that did it, but a bunch of my audio CD's had clear spots in the Al. Ticked me off, especially since some of them were from garage bands that I will never be able to replace.
The article was published in today's issues of the journal Science, abstract. (A paid subscription is required to read the full article...)
The mouse is getting close to 40 now, going grey, loosing its hair. I can't wait until it retires. These days my hand aches after spending a day mousing. Much as I dispise M$, I like the fact that my StinkPad has one of those little pointers in the middle which lets me move the cursor without taking my hands from the keyboard. Now if I can get a Heads Up Display with eye tracking built in, I can get eye strain.
Which reminds me, have these people done a study on repetative stress injury for this head-tracking tech? I would imagine that there a lot of people out there who would suffer greatly from this kind of tech (a friend/fellow sysadmin is a paraplegic, but capable of head motion).
This technology sounds also sounds like a fast way to eyestrain/neck problems. How many of you out there don't wear glasses? I have enough problems staring at VDUs all day without having to tightly control the location that I am pointing my head/eyes.
Personally I see nothing inherently wrong with the fragmenting of culture. Sure the internet culture leads people to have less and less in common with each other, but also with the broadening of the internet demographics, a wider array of participants are able to share a greater portion of their cultures. i.e. I have less in common someone in the US not of my demographic, but I have more in common with someone in India.
The more information that is available, the greater innovation can occur. Natural scientist had this problem in the 17th and 18th century which is why they founded scientific societies. They then would spread new articles around to each other and then have meetings to discuss the meaning of the article. Thus more people could get exposure to an issue withouot actually having to become an expert in it.
What we have now with the cultural fragmentation is an increase in subdisciplines oriented on exploring differing classes of interactions, with the more advantageous gradually replacing the less advantageous. The increase in fragmentation means that society is more able to adapt to rapidly changing situations, as the dominant culture might not have the infrastructure to handle a massive disruption, but some splintered subculture would more readily embrace the changing situation, and replace the dominant culture.
If they do theis, then it can be argued that if you pay this tax , then you should be able to copy anything because you have already paid for the right to copy it. Well not anything, just anything produced by someone who receives royalty from the program. Heck, we already have a tax on computing hardware, the Microtax. This one just allows us to get something we might actually want.
Personally, I have ripped all of my CDs b/c carrying around hundreds of cds is a real pain. My main problem is that music I listen to wouldn't get squat from this tax since I tend to buy music from small time bands that may have pressed 1000 copies.
What with the cost of optical networking dropping by a factor of 2 every 100 days or so ( See Scientific American Dec00), soon that 10G will be 100T and very accessible. Also, with the advent of being able to stop light pulses and restart them (See Nature, 25Jan01), we can have a disk drive with yottabyte capacity (for a definition of lesser known si units, see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html).
Somewhat of a varient. Juggling. Simple, easy to learn and lots of fun to teach to others. (I just bought 20 juggling balls for the office...).
The great thing about it is once you have reach a certain level, you can start juggling to others which makes the entertainment loads more fun.