I had a similar problem after I updated the Nvidia drivers for my W2K partition. The PC would literally take 15 minutes to start, and would lock up for short periods while in use. I discovered some new craptacular control panel applet that I didn't need and hadn't been there before(thanks you unclef*ckers at Nvidia), tried to remove it and couldn't get the box to start next time around. I started in safe mode, went to the VGA driver, and on next boot installed the prior driver version and the problem went away. I don't know about your Unix problem. I haven't had any problems with my SuSE Linux partition, but then I haven't installed anything from Nvidia on it, either.
I have a B.S.I.T. degree, 14 years of experience and something like 8 certifications in various areas, and I'm currently working on my M.S. degree. My experience has been in network and system administration, programming and database administration, and I've worked with lots of people along the way. From what I have seen, cert holders fall into three different groups.
The Good: People with experience and education who decide to get certified. I had already been working in the I.T. field for about 5 or 6 years before I started certifying. In this situation, certs are nice(if they're relevant) to give you a leg up on other candidates with similar experience and qualifications. This people in this group usually are knowledgeable and intelligent, and entered the field because they had talent for it and found it interesting.
The Bad: The uncle-f*ckers who braindump their way through the exams. Usually the only thing this group can do is memorize questions and answers, a skill that's useless in the real world. These people usually are wannabes(look I'm a hAX0r), career-switchers, secretaries or blue-collar folks who don't care about the field, they just believed they could get an easy job making lots of money. They usually came to this conclusion with the help of boot camps and others who profit from their training. These individuals will f*ck up anything they touch and scream for help, then argue with ignorance when you help them. They shouldn't be allowed to even apply for I.T. jobs. Some degree holders also fall into this group.
The Less Than Attractive: This is a group of individuals who have discovered that they find I.T. interesting, but don't know where to start. These people will fall into The Good later because they're usually intelligent and conscientious, and are willing to put the work into learning the material for the exams, and usually the exam curriculum is a pretty good place to start, but you have The Bad ruining the value of the certs, and you're competing sometimes with The Good who have experience. Luck is your best hope, or prayer if you think that will help. A 4 year degree is also a good thing to have, since many places insist on one before they will talk to you even for an entry level position. If it were me, I would invest in the degree before the certs.
There are a few exceptions, but this is generally what I've found. Hopefully someone with mod points will find this useful enough to mod up, since my karma is terrible(due to some jokes that some people found a bit too sacrilegious.)
Most of this is fairly true. But PC-DOS was actually and IBM licensed version of MS-DOS. Microsoft retained the rights to market ??-DOS independently of IBM. MS-DOS wasn't a clone of PC-DOS.
I was still wondering if they were going to do the matrix within a matrix thing when NEO was able to see things in Red instead of Green. I just figured that the Red was him seeing the real matrix instead of the Green matrix within a matrix.
"matrix within a matrix" sounds like User Mode Linux. Maybe we should stop UML to make the future a safer place.
The problem is, in many areas there are very few sources of broadband access due to monopoly agreements with the local goverment. In my area there is one Cable ISP because there's only one cable company allowed to offer cable in our area by contract with the local goverment and DSL isn't offered in my neighborhood because we're too far from a CO. Now the ISP does have every right to terminate my service for any reason, but it's a bit difficult for me to find another ISP now to buy service from.
A quick search on Google indicates that while tin and aluminum are both effective, lead sheets are much better. Tin and aluminum both reflect the rays away from the wearer, allowing them to locate individuals who are attempting to shield themselves from the rays. Unlike tin and aluminum, lead absorbs the Mind Control rays, allowing the wearer to be shielded with no indication to the ray emitter that the rays are being blocked. (Sheesh, am I the ONLY one here that does any research before posting?)
Also, I heard or read somewhere recently that Microsoft, SCO, the Government and an undisclosed Alien race have formed partnership that has recently bought a company that has filed patents for the process of making metal sheets out of lead,aluminum or tin, if you need any more evidence of the conspiracy.
The term "Jumper" can no longer be used when referring to bridging points in a circuit, since it could cause self-destructive people to commit suicide by leaping from tall buildings.
Doesn't Microsoft own a copy that makes industrial-strength rectum lube? Could this be a way to increase sales of rectum lube so Bill Gates will have even more money? And pay even more people to conspire against us true-believers?
A-HA! I've discovered the conspiracy in the Reverse-reverse-reverse psychology! You can't deny the conspiracy now!
You forgot the, "I remember hearing(or reading) about how the Windows box brought the power grid down but I can't find the link" comments in the future.
Let's just hope that they develop some scripts that are on par with the first season. The last time I saw a new episode of FG, it was pretty much a repetition of old Stewie material. Not that the character isn't funny, but you can't just have Stewie trying to shoot everyone with a laser every show and expect that to be a fan pleasing season of the show. I still watch the old episodes on Cartoon Network, so I have to hope that they bring back an entertaining Family Guy.
I understood the reason for awarding punitive damages based on 2(average) days of coffee sales was that McD's used the higher(than competitor's) brewing temperature to increase the profit on each cup of coffee. Supposedly the higher temperature required a smaller amount of coffee grounds to make a similar strength brew compared to lower brew temperatures. The other thing that came out of this case was that McD's agreed to put up signs warning people that the coffee was extremely hot and to use caution, signs that had not previously been posted.
I had a business law class in college several years ago and as part of a lecture on damages this case was discussed as an example of situations where punitive damages are awarded and why they are awarded. We were all amazed to find out from the records what had really happened, since everyone had heard the story about the woman who ripped off McD's with a lawsuit about hot coffee, and how a cap should be put on awarded damages, etc. I later found that one of the organizations supporting damage caps and billing itself as a "don't tread on me" liberterian group was actually an association made up of corporations and legal firms.
I think the idea was to champion "a distro for everyone" as a desktop OS. I'm not dumping on Debian, it has value for what it is. But out here in the world with other people, a distro besides Debian is probably a better choice. The goal is to have a distro that's for everybody else, not especially for students who are trying to run Sparc machines or people who will/can blow a weekend recompiling their kernel(which I've done before.)
I like SuSE, but I'm not sure even SuSE is for "everybody", like my wife, my parents, my in-laws, many of the people that I work with(who are app programmers), etc. These folks aren't Linux or tech people. I appreciate SuSE, Mandrake, etc., just because I installed in about 1996 and that involved recompiling a NIC driver and the kernel. And yes, I've used fdisk and worked through text mode installs. That's why I appreciate the slick installers and configuration tools because I installed Linux when these tools didn't exist.
eDirectory. I like using Linux at home, but I can't imagine trying to manage our network at work(although I'm a DBA not a network admin., I have held the network/system admin job before) without some kind of directory/domain architecture. If eDirectory works like Novell says, it could provide an eDirectory on Linux alternative to Active Directory on Win2K/2K3.
There has been some research that suggests that periodically the earth's climate changes, and has undergone changes before we evolved. Even if this research is correct, what is wrong with treating the environment better? We are destroying our planet, in some areas slowly, in others more rapidly. Coal companies boast that we have a 200 year supply of coal deposits. I think this is more of a reason to despair than rejoice. 200 years is roughly two and a half human lifetimes, which is pretty short, relatively speaking.
I know many will disagree, but I believe this is the best thing to happen to Linux since its beginning. It actually made Linux almost user-friendly. Well maybe not friendly, but at least not so user-hating. Thanks to the folks who worked on the LDP!
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I had a similar problem after I updated the Nvidia drivers for my W2K partition. The PC would literally take 15 minutes to start, and would lock up for short periods while in use. I discovered some new craptacular control panel applet that I didn't need and hadn't been there before(thanks you unclef*ckers at Nvidia), tried to remove it and couldn't get the box to start next time around. I started in safe mode, went to the VGA driver, and on next boot installed the prior driver version and the problem went away. I don't know about your Unix problem. I haven't had any problems with my SuSE Linux partition, but then I haven't installed anything from Nvidia on it, either.
The only thing I'm outraged about Janet's media exposure(hee-hee) is that I didn't have the vcr recording, and they didn't get a close-up shot.
And I'm not an eejit. I prefer to think of myself as firearm enhanced.
I have a B.S.I.T. degree, 14 years of experience and something like 8 certifications in various areas, and I'm currently working on my M.S. degree.
My experience has been in network and system administration, programming and database administration, and I've worked with lots of people along the way.
From what I have seen, cert holders fall into three different groups.
The Good:
People with experience and education who decide to get certified. I had already been working in the I.T. field for about 5 or 6 years before I started certifying. In this situation, certs are nice(if they're relevant) to give you a leg up on other candidates with similar experience and qualifications. This people in this group usually are knowledgeable and intelligent, and entered the field because they had talent for it and found it interesting.
The Bad:
The uncle-f*ckers who braindump their way through the exams. Usually the only thing this group can do is memorize questions and answers, a skill that's useless in the real world. These people usually are wannabes(look I'm a hAX0r), career-switchers, secretaries or blue-collar folks who don't care about the field, they just believed they could get an easy job making lots of money. They usually came to this conclusion with the help of boot camps and others who profit from their training. These individuals will f*ck up anything they touch and scream for help, then argue with ignorance when you help them. They shouldn't be allowed to even apply for I.T. jobs. Some degree holders also fall into this group.
The Less Than Attractive:
This is a group of individuals who have discovered that they find I.T. interesting, but don't know where to start. These people will fall into The Good later because they're usually intelligent and conscientious, and are willing to put the work into learning the material for the exams, and usually the exam curriculum is a pretty good place to start, but you have The Bad ruining the value of the certs, and you're competing sometimes with The Good who have experience. Luck is your best hope, or prayer if you think that will help. A 4 year degree is also a good thing to have, since many places insist on one before they will talk to you even for an entry level position. If it were me, I would invest in the degree before the certs.
There are a few exceptions, but this is generally what I've found. Hopefully someone with mod points will find this useful enough to mod up, since my karma is terrible(due to some jokes that some people found a bit too sacrilegious.)
Most of this is fairly true. But PC-DOS was actually and IBM licensed version of MS-DOS. Microsoft retained the rights to market ??-DOS independently of IBM. MS-DOS wasn't a clone of PC-DOS.
Most people I know running Word will need to RTF(M) before they can "Save As RTF"
I was still wondering if they were going to do the matrix within a matrix thing when NEO was able to see things in Red instead of Green. I just figured that the Red was him seeing the real matrix instead of the Green matrix within a matrix. "matrix within a matrix" sounds like User Mode Linux. Maybe we should stop UML to make the future a safer place.
The problem is, in many areas there are very few sources of broadband access due to monopoly agreements with the local goverment. In my area there is one Cable ISP because there's only one cable company allowed to offer cable in our area by contract with the local goverment and DSL isn't offered in my neighborhood because we're too far from a CO. Now the ISP does have every right to terminate my service for any reason, but it's a bit difficult for me to find another ISP now to buy service from.
I thought KDE was already better!
block the reality distortion field emitted by the PHB?
And what's funny, I got a "Windows Services for UNIX" banner on the "Post Comment" page.
A quick search on Google indicates that while tin and aluminum are both effective, lead sheets are much better. Tin and aluminum both reflect the rays away from the wearer, allowing them to locate individuals who are attempting to shield themselves from the rays. Unlike tin and aluminum, lead absorbs the Mind Control rays, allowing the wearer to be shielded with no indication to the ray emitter that the rays are being blocked. (Sheesh, am I the ONLY one here that does any research before posting?)
Also, I heard or read somewhere recently that Microsoft, SCO, the Government and an undisclosed Alien race have formed partnership that has recently bought a company that has filed patents for the process of making metal sheets out of lead,aluminum or tin, if you need any more evidence of the conspiracy.
The term "Jumper" can no longer be used when referring to bridging points in a circuit, since it could cause self-destructive people to commit suicide by leaping from tall buildings.
I mean a "company that makes industrial-strength rectum lube".
My damn spellchecker is in on it too!!!!!!!!
Doesn't Microsoft own a copy that makes industrial-strength rectum lube? Could this be a way to increase sales of rectum lube so Bill Gates will have even more money? And pay even more people to conspire against us true-believers?
A-HA! I've discovered the conspiracy in the Reverse-reverse-reverse psychology! You can't deny the conspiracy now!
Unless I'm a conspirator also... I think.
Of course there's nothing dirtier or more satisfying than a little karma-whoring!
I ran apt-get and my machine was converted to Windows 2003!
You forgot the, "I remember hearing(or reading) about how the Windows box brought the power grid down but I can't find the link" comments in the future.
Let's just hope that they develop some scripts that are on par with the first season. The last time I saw a new episode of FG, it was pretty much a repetition of old Stewie material. Not that the character isn't funny, but you can't just have Stewie trying to shoot everyone with a laser every show and expect that to be a fan pleasing season of the show. I still watch the old episodes on Cartoon Network, so I have to hope that they bring back an entertaining Family Guy.
I understood the reason for awarding punitive damages based on 2(average) days of coffee sales was that McD's used the higher(than competitor's) brewing temperature to increase the profit on each cup of coffee. Supposedly the higher temperature required a smaller amount of coffee grounds to make a similar strength brew compared to lower brew temperatures. The other thing that came out of this case was that McD's agreed to put up signs warning people that the coffee was extremely hot and to use caution, signs that had not previously been posted.
I had a business law class in college several years ago and as part of a lecture on damages this case was discussed as an example of situations where punitive damages are awarded and why they are awarded. We were all amazed to find out from the records what had really happened, since everyone had heard the story about the woman who ripped off McD's with a lawsuit about hot coffee, and how a cap should be put on awarded damages, etc. I later found that one of the organizations supporting damage caps and billing itself as a "don't tread on me" liberterian group was actually an association made up of corporations and legal firms.
I think the idea was to champion "a distro for everyone" as a desktop OS. I'm not dumping on Debian, it has value for what it is. But out here in the world with other people, a distro besides Debian is probably a better choice. The goal is to have a distro that's for everybody else, not especially for students who are trying to run Sparc machines or people who will/can blow a weekend recompiling their kernel(which I've done before.)
I like SuSE, but I'm not sure even SuSE is for "everybody", like my wife, my parents, my in-laws, many of the people that I work with(who are app programmers), etc. These folks aren't Linux or tech people. I appreciate SuSE, Mandrake, etc., just because I installed in about 1996 and that involved recompiling a NIC driver and the kernel. And yes, I've used fdisk and worked through text mode installs. That's why I appreciate the slick installers and configuration tools because I installed Linux when these tools didn't exist.
I know, but the metamoderators can't be everywhere some idiot has mod points and no sense of humor can they?
I've got nothing against Debian, but why not pick a distro that's a little close to being usable by most folks as a desktop OS?
(Like my favorite SuSE f'rinstance?)
eDirectory. I like using Linux at home, but I can't imagine trying to manage our network at work(although I'm a DBA not a network admin., I have held the network/system admin job before) without some kind of directory/domain architecture. If eDirectory works like Novell says, it could provide an eDirectory on Linux alternative to Active Directory on Win2K/2K3.
There has been some research that suggests that periodically the earth's climate changes, and has undergone changes before we evolved. Even if this research is correct, what is wrong with treating the environment better? We are destroying our planet, in some areas slowly, in others more rapidly. Coal companies boast that we have a 200 year supply of coal deposits. I think this is more of a reason to despair than rejoice. 200 years is roughly two and a half human lifetimes, which is pretty short, relatively speaking.
I know many will disagree, but I believe this is the best thing to happen to Linux since its beginning. It actually made Linux almost user-friendly. Well maybe not friendly, but at least not so user-hating. Thanks to the folks who worked on the LDP!