Right now we have CatOS (set/clear), IOS (conf t), old IOS (wr mem), the 1900-series menu interface, the HORRIFIC config system from the Aironet series, CiscoWorks Campus Manager, and that Cluster thingy from the 2950's... now add to that whatever Linksys has... yeah its an exciting time to be a network admin.
I work as a Network Engineer in a state-run university in Pennsylvania. The new Microsoft lisence terms (a.k.a. software rental)are beginning to cause major worry in a 2500-plus seat environment where old versions running on ancient comptuers allow us to get by. The concept of moving to a StarOffice or other productivity suit us now (an a year ago unthinkable) being seriously considered.
Softporn adventure was a text based game for the Apple II platform. IIRC it had such lovely commands as "fondle hooker" I had a copy on 5.25 way back in the day when i was first strting with computes.. of course at the tiem i had no idea what softporn was and immediatly after asking my parents (I was 6 at the time) the disk disappeared... hmmm
I am a student technician for a mid sized state university. I have a mixture of responsabilites rainging from grunt work (ever see what a drunk frat guy can do to a Cat 5e jack when napster isn't fast enough?) to research and testing (traffic analysis, v-lan setups). My bosses know that the wrok fo our section of IT (CNS, Communications and Network Services) coudl not be accomplished without students. Most of the other epeople in CNS are old guard Big Blue and VAX systems programmers. Students often have information about upcoming technlgies that the full-timers have nevr even thoguht of. I also serve as a liason beween the rest of the student body and CNS. When we put in a firewall over christam break and started traffic shaping due to 80% of your bandwidth being taken up by P2P apps (we limit, not block:) a lot fo kinks needed to be worked out. The full timers have no connection to the stdeunts as IT is a non-Academic department so they needed people with connections on both side to act as a bridge. It also gives me valuable expreince that is not avaiable elsewhere on campus. The Compter Science program (of which I am not a part) is a traditionaly comp sci/programming degree that has litle to do with the practicalities of netwokring or even dealing with desktop boxes. My job gives me practicle experience that will be (or so i belive and have been told) invaluable to finding an IT job upon graduation.
I work in document processing at a bank and we use AS/400 for the back end and text stuff and Warp 4 for graphical applications like viewing checks... I also used to work retail and the cahs registers used OS/2 although i think it was 2.11. Financial institutions and places where they need total reliability still use it. No, it's not the consumer OS that IBM tried with 1.3 and then with Warp 3 (remember those cool ads in PC Magazine and the TV ads?) but for rock sodild reliability, a GUI that is still un parallelled you can't beat it. I still have and HPFS artition with warp 4 on it that i use on a regular basis but the hardware supposrt isn't there so that makes it tough. And the fact that IBM isn't changing the version number wth the release of the convience packs doesn't mean they aren't major upgrades. The warpcast ariticle stated that they would bring the Warp 5 server kernel over as well as some other very big changes. IBM may not be into the scrap-all-your-hardware-every-six-months-to-get-a- new-version-number game but i still think they do one HELL of a job with support, better then just about any other company i've dealt with.
Does anyone remember the first episode of STTNG where the crew of the Enterprise was put on trial for all of the crimes of humanity? During the trial scene the soldiers that came out has an attachment to their suits that spit out a narcotic that once they were hooked on allowed their superiors to control them. A similar plot is the white the the founders gave to the jem'hadar. Now be fore i look like too much of a geek doesn't this meal on a chip thing sound like it could have the same effects? imagine... years after retireing from the military they can "call you back into service" by using the chip to deny you of some nutrient or another... the possibilities are disgusting.
Steve, although he has brought the compan I love back to profitability, is not going to win this war. Many easter eggs cannot be accessed with keyboard short \cuts etc and are almost impossible to catch. Anyone remember that is you run the Finder in a text editor the bits about being Trapped In A System Softwware Factory? classic... but is he or one of his minions actiually going to examine every resources, hex code, line of source etc to find a two lines that have credits I don't think so.... Even those that are found out, Like the secret about box only found in System 7.0.0 even though it was found out the resource remained in the programs resource fork. And those who say this is a good way to get rid of bloatware? If the programmers who crafted the Mac OS into the wonderful elegant creature it is today want to take a few hundred Kb tooting their own horn i say more power to em!
Nyx, The Spirit Of THe Night is a still thriving internet connected BBS/Telnet system.. Although I still year for the days of Wildcat and such stuff the UNIX Shell that they give you (after validation) and the community that is there is still wonderful.. Nyx makes one of it's primary goals to distribute free computers and terminal progs to low income people in the Denver area to allow them email access. We even have a RL picininc every so often. I agree with the sentiment of many other people on here... I remember firing up my XT and Hayes Smartmodem 1200 and putzing around on local BBS's until they eventually turned into ISP's or just shut down... The sense of community i have on the Internet although different is still ther with/. ICQ and IRC
I think you are missing the point. Just because not everyone will read the EULA does not mean it isn't there. And although many minors will undoubtedly download it any way doesn't change the fact that they are not welcome. Linux was not meant for a privilaged few no matter if it's by age or any other discriminating factor.
How dare you. I am 17 and have been using Linux since I was 14 and did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe a few of us are in favor of and would like to see the GPL upheld? Immediatly casting of all people under 18 as idiots who can't understand the GPL or kinivng brats who just want to screw the FSF is outrageous. What magicl transformation happened to you when you turned 18 that instantly made you worldy and trustworthy? Linux was from the begining and still is only succesful because of the contributions of thousands of coders around the world. The next time tht you find out the small piece of software that is vital to your systems operation was written someone underage i don't think you'll take such a narrow few then.. I believe we should call for a boycot of Corel Linux until they change the license and if they refuse coders who are underage should stop providing updates to their existing software. Why should we not be able to enjoy the furits of our own labors?
In Pennsylvania, where I live, bartenders are held liable if someone they serve goes out and causes an accident. This is a stupid law, but it shows that ISP's might be treated the same way. I don't think it is the ISP's responsability anymore then the Post Office should be held liable for illegal materials sent through it's system.
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I am 16, in public high school and have often been accused of being the dark, scary type of person who would do something like that. I am actually about as anti-violence as one can get I avoid fighing at all costs. Yes, I spend the majority of my time on the Internet. Yes, I am a loner at school. No, I would not shoot people or blow up the school. I think that what was done in Colorado was wrong and misguided but I do understand the feelings and emotions behind the students who did it. We, the silent lurkers are made to feel like second class citizens to the "beautiful people" sure, teacher and "adults" tell us that this improves after we get out of the cruel world of high school but that doesn't make it any better right now. Unfortunatly, because of the extremely violent way the students in Colorado chose to deal with this all the focus will be on finding out what is wrong with the rather then the wrongs around them that caused it.
Hmm.... and just hink maybe Dell wouldn't have gotten this idea if Apple had folowed Michale Dell's idea of seilling off the comany and giving the money to the stock holders....
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How long until the SANS alert has a front pager about the first gobokit?
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Right now we have CatOS (set/clear), IOS (conf t), old IOS (wr mem), the 1900-series menu interface, the HORRIFIC config system from the Aironet series, CiscoWorks Campus Manager, and that Cluster thingy from the 2950's... now add to that whatever Linksys has... yeah its an exciting time to be a network admin.
I work as a Network Engineer in a state-run university in Pennsylvania. The new Microsoft lisence terms (a.k.a. software rental)are beginning to cause major worry in a 2500-plus seat environment where old versions running on ancient comptuers allow us to get by. The concept of moving to a StarOffice or other productivity suit us now (an a year ago unthinkable) being seriously considered.
Softporn adventure was a text based game for the Apple II platform. IIRC it had such lovely commands as "fondle hooker" I had a copy on 5.25 way back in the day when i was first strting with computes.. of course at the tiem i had no idea what softporn was and immediatly after asking my parents (I was 6 at the time) the disk disappeared... hmmm
Just be careful... putting a 2-pair modular connector in the space for a 4-pair can bend the pins on the outside of the 4-pair.
I am a student technician for a mid sized state university. I have a mixture of responsabilites rainging from grunt work (ever see what a drunk frat guy can do to a Cat 5e jack when napster isn't fast enough?) to research and testing (traffic analysis, v-lan setups). My bosses know that the wrok fo our section of IT (CNS, Communications and Network Services) coudl not be accomplished without students. Most of the other epeople in CNS are old guard Big Blue and VAX systems programmers. Students often have information about upcoming technlgies that the full-timers have nevr even thoguht of. I also serve as a liason beween the rest of the student body and CNS. When we put in a firewall over christam break and started traffic shaping due to 80% of your bandwidth being taken up by P2P apps (we limit, not block :) a lot fo kinks needed to be worked out. The full timers have no connection to the stdeunts as IT is a non-Academic department so they needed people with connections on both side to act as a bridge. It also gives me valuable expreince that is not avaiable elsewhere on campus. The Compter Science program (of which I am not a part) is a traditionaly comp sci/programming degree that has litle to do with the practicalities of netwokring or even dealing with desktop boxes. My job gives me practicle experience that will be (or so i belive and have been told) invaluable to finding an IT job upon graduation.
I work in document processing at a bank and we use AS/400 for the back end and text stuff and Warp 4 for graphical applications like viewing checks... I also used to work retail and the cahs registers used OS/2 although i think it was 2.11. Financial institutions and places where they need total reliability still use it. No, it's not the consumer OS that IBM tried with 1.3 and then with Warp 3 (remember those cool ads in PC Magazine and the TV ads?) but for rock sodild reliability, a GUI that is still un parallelled you can't beat it. I still have and HPFS artition with warp 4 on it that i use on a regular basis but the hardware supposrt isn't there so that makes it tough. And the fact that IBM isn't changing the version number wth the release of the convience packs doesn't mean they aren't major upgrades. The warpcast ariticle stated that they would bring the Warp 5 server kernel over as well as some other very big changes. IBM may not be into the scrap-all-your-hardware-every-six-months-to-get-a- new-version-number game but i still think they do one HELL of a job with support, better then just about any other company i've dealt with.
Does anyone remember the first episode of STTNG where the crew of the Enterprise was put on trial for all of the crimes of humanity? During the trial scene the soldiers that came out has an attachment to their suits that spit out a narcotic that once they were hooked on allowed their superiors to control them. A similar plot is the white the the founders gave to the jem'hadar. Now be fore i look like too much of a geek doesn't this meal on a chip thing sound like it could have the same effects? imagine... years after retireing from the military they can "call you back into service" by using the chip to deny you of some nutrient or another... the possibilities are disgusting.
Steve, although he has brought the compan I love back to profitability, is not going to win this war. Many easter eggs cannot be accessed with keyboard short \cuts etc and are almost impossible to catch. Anyone remember that is you run the Finder in a text editor the bits about being Trapped In A System Softwware Factory? classic... but is he or one of his minions actiually going to examine every resources, hex code, line of source etc to find a two lines that have credits I don't think so.... Even those that are found out, Like the secret about box only found in System 7.0.0 even though it was found out the resource remained in the programs resource fork. And those who say this is a good way to get rid of bloatware? If the programmers who crafted the Mac OS into the wonderful elegant creature it is today want to take a few hundred Kb tooting their own horn i say more power to em!
Nyx, The Spirit Of THe Night is a still thriving internet connected BBS/Telnet system.. Although I still year for the days of Wildcat and such stuff the UNIX Shell that they give you (after validation) and the community that is there is still wonderful.. Nyx makes one of it's primary goals to distribute free computers and terminal progs to low income people in the Denver area to allow them email access. We even have a RL picininc every so often. I agree with the sentiment of many other people on here... I remember firing up my XT and Hayes Smartmodem 1200 and putzing around on local BBS's until they eventually turned into ISP's or just shut down... The sense of community i have on the Internet although different is still ther with /. ICQ and IRC
I think you are missing the point. Just because not everyone will read the EULA does not mean it isn't there. And although many minors will undoubtedly download it any way doesn't change the fact that they are not welcome. Linux was not meant for a privilaged few no matter if it's by age or any other discriminating factor.
And the point of attacking my grammer would be?
How dare you. I am 17 and have been using Linux since I was 14 and did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe a few of us are in favor of and would like to see the GPL upheld? Immediatly casting of all people under 18 as idiots who can't understand the GPL or kinivng brats who just want to screw the FSF is outrageous. What magicl transformation happened to you when you turned 18 that instantly made you worldy and trustworthy? Linux was from the begining and still is only succesful because of the contributions of thousands of coders around the world. The next time tht you find out the small piece of software that is vital to your systems operation was written someone underage i don't think you'll take such a narrow few then.. I believe we should call for a boycot of Corel Linux until they change the license and if they refuse coders who are underage should stop providing updates to their existing software. Why should we not be able to enjoy the furits of our own labors?
In Pennsylvania, where I live, bartenders are held liable if someone they serve goes out and causes an accident. This is a stupid law, but it shows that ISP's might be treated the same way. I don't think it is the ISP's responsability anymore then the Post Office should be held liable for illegal materials sent through it's system.
I am 16, in public high school and have often been accused of being the dark, scary type of person who would do something like that. I am actually about as anti-violence as one can get I avoid fighing at all costs. Yes, I spend the majority of my time on the Internet. Yes, I am a loner at school. No, I would not shoot people or blow up the school. I think that what was done in Colorado was wrong and misguided but I do understand the feelings and emotions behind the students who did it. We, the silent lurkers are made to feel like second class citizens to the "beautiful people" sure, teacher and "adults" tell us that this improves after we get out of the cruel world of high school but that doesn't make it any better right now. Unfortunatly, because of the extremely violent way the students in Colorado chose to deal with this all the focus will be on finding out what is wrong with the rather then the wrongs around them that caused it.
Hmm.... and just hink maybe Dell wouldn't have gotten this idea if Apple had folowed Michale Dell's idea of seilling off the comany and giving the money to the stock holders....