...Is the core-software that allows a user to operate a system.
This would involve:
Ability to run other binary executables. Ability to perform simple file storage operations. Ability to access standard communication ports. Provide a structure to allow support for other devices through third party software.
Looking through all your comments I find this quite surprising. I thought that you guys/gals in the US were all on $80-$100K, but it seems that that isn't the case. It makes me feel slightly happier about my situation here in the UK.
As for people suggesting that a graduate start of £14K is adequate, beware, especially if you are travelling down to London to start your new job. If we say you can spend 33% of your post-tax salary on rent then you will most likely be living under the charing-cross bridge with the tramps. The cost of Living in London is high, especially if you want to have a life!:)
I didn't get a degree and I started on £14k in 1995, in Surrey, on the border of South London, thankfully I've worked out of that situation to double the value and soon hope to be earning even more for my worth.
If an employer only offers to pay IT staff £14k then he: (a) will probably be going bust within the year, (b) will make a mint, whether it is (a) or (b) completely depends on whether he can sucker accept his measly £14k offer.
Someone mentioned the junk-IT staff that we have in most companies. Yes, they do exist, and they probably cause more problems than they solve - (I had one who disabled User access to our domain controllers today, and nobody was able to login) - but, for some, unknown reason, the managers (or suits) actually seem to like them - usually they have better social and communication skills than the gurus that have championed the tech departments for years.
Our Telephone staff earn £14 or so here, and all they do is answer the telephones!
In short, don't let the side down, get what you're worth and don't settle for less, otherwise you will be devaluing our skills and I won't be best pleased!!!:)
Network Support Analyst £25k (=US$41K) Network Manager £35k (=US$57.4K)
For a database on average salarys this is an useful resource - UK only though...
Incidentally I am currently looking for alternative employment in the London area. Experience of LAN/WAN connectivity using Cisco Router and Switch equipment. Good NT experience. Experience of UNIX systems. Firewall Experience and general network security knowledge. Any offers?
No this is not what is happenning. This is ICA and is very much like running an X Server Display in a Web Page and running an X application on a remote server. I would fiddle with the options. This is certainly not "exec powerpoint.exe" unless Powerpoint was included with Slackware 4.0:)
It isn't really all that surprising. Most companies with serious Server hardware would have at one point or another have installed a Linux system, even if just to see what the operating system was like. This is increasingly likely as the Linux distributions are so freely available, they are even sometimes distributed on CDs attached to magazines. Linux has received an enormous amount of attention in the "free" Press that tends to go round corporate IT areas. I seem to remember that there hasn't been an edition of Network News that hasn't had an article regarding Linux for months.
This is a pure ballpark estimate, but I would say if you took all companies with Support and Network departments of more than 5 people, that 90% of those companies have at one point or another had a Linux box operating on their network.
Go here to try out Web Versions of Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint via a Web-enabled Metframe server.
Citrix haven't fully disabled the Visual Basic part of these apps so, yes, you can get a command prompt up... but I think they've disabled most network tools.
I've been trying to get a Job via OnLine methods and can honestly say that I feel I've been getting much further than I would if I tried to find an online partner. You have to realise that finding a partner online via IRC is very different to trying to find employment online via what is essentially a portal to employment agencies - this is analogous to using a dating agency, which is more likely to be successful as you at least know that the prime concern of your potential partner is the release from loneliness.
You can use a watermarking technique on the images, this effectively embeds a CRC checksum into the original photo, before it is published on the Web. Any editing to the image breaks the CRC and you know that the image has been tampered with.
I believe Adobe implement this kind of technique in the Photoshop software. The can get the license info from an image created or edited in Photoshop.
I'll tell you what really annoys me. I would love to give our servers meaningful names but we are stuck with things like CPQSV8 and the like, because of some idiots lack of inspiration.
It does cause a problem for our support staff as the end users need to have the server name spelled out to them every time. We just wouldn't have this problem if we had names that they could recognise:
Cut through the marketing speak - lies, lies and more lies. This is a V.90 56K modem and nothing more being marketed at games who are stupid enough to believe the marketing hype.
Well - this server is running Exchange 5.5 and here is the reason it can take that long:
There are various services running under Exchange and they depend on each other. This means that you have to shut them down in a certain order. NT doesn't know the order however, so it has to play a game trying to find out what the correct order is. When it shuts down a service it sends a terminate signal and then waits for the process to terminate or for the request to timeout. Eventually it will give up and ask another service to shutdown first and returns to the original service at a later date.
I've seen this done:
Manually shutdown Exchange services in the correct order. Ask NT to reboot, 10 seconds later the machine already in the bootup sequence.
I hope this doesn't appear as defence of Microsoft products, because it isn't. NT process handling should be able to query processes what other processes are preventing the process to terminate or Exchange should have it's own termination sequence.
I hear this alot and I have to say I regularly use Netscape (v4.51 [en]-99058) with Linux Slackware 4.0 and it has hardly ever crashed.
So guys (& gals) - what is the problem people have with Netscape under Linux. Does anyone else have a problem with Linux & Netscape and what versions are you using (Netscape & Linux Distro), I wouldn't mind betting that the buggy Netscape that I keep on hearing about is some problem with a distro or particular Netscape version.
Linux has had some sort of SMP Support since version 2.0, and although this has had it's problems along the way - things are well on their way to improvement. Perhaps it is time for an update on how SMP improvements have progressed.
The upload is USB so around 10Mbps can be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if a Firewire version was developed soon (100Mbps)
For me this is nothing more than a hard disk attached to some rudimentary program to play the data. As far as portable, wearable MP3 players go I still think we need some innovation before reality takes place.
Handy for the car though... (where power, shock-proofing as not as much an issue as when you're jogging)
Slashdot Mirror
Here's my perhaps lame attempt:
...Is the core-software that allows a user to operate a system.
This would involve:
Ability to run other binary executables.
Ability to perform simple file storage operations.
Ability to access standard communication ports.
Provide a structure to allow support for other devices through third party software.
Looking through all your comments I find this quite surprising. I thought that you guys/gals in the US were all on $80-$100K, but it seems that that isn't the case. It makes me feel slightly happier about my situation here in the UK.
:)
:)
As for people suggesting that a graduate start of £14K is adequate, beware, especially if you are travelling down to London to start your new job. If we say you can spend 33% of your post-tax salary on rent then you will most likely be living under the charing-cross bridge with the tramps. The cost of Living in London is high, especially if you want to have a life!
I didn't get a degree and I started on £14k in 1995, in Surrey, on the border of South London, thankfully I've worked out of that situation to double the value and soon hope to be earning even more for my worth.
If an employer only offers to pay IT staff £14k then he: (a) will probably be going bust within the year, (b) will make a mint, whether it is (a) or (b) completely depends on whether he can sucker accept his measly £14k offer.
Someone mentioned the junk-IT staff that we have in most companies. Yes, they do exist, and they probably cause more problems than they solve - (I had one who disabled User access to our domain controllers today, and nobody was able to login) - but, for some, unknown reason, the managers (or suits) actually seem to like them - usually they have better social and communication skills than the gurus that have championed the tech departments for years.
Our Telephone staff earn £14 or so here, and all they do is answer the telephones!
In short, don't let the side down, get what you're worth and don't settle for less, otherwise you will be devaluing our skills and I won't be best pleased!!!
Network Support Analyst £25k (=US$41K)
Network Manager £35k (=US$57.4K)
For a database on average salarys this is an useful resource - UK only though...
Incidentally I am currently looking for alternative employment in the London area. Experience of LAN/WAN connectivity using Cisco Router and Switch equipment. Good NT experience. Experience of UNIX systems. Firewall Experience and general network security knowledge. Any offers?
No this is not what is happenning. This is ICA and is very much like running an X Server Display in a Web Page and running an X application on a remote server. :)
I would fiddle with the options. This is certainly not "exec powerpoint.exe" unless Powerpoint was included with Slackware 4.0
It isn't really all that surprising. Most companies with serious Server hardware would have at one point or another have installed a Linux system, even if just to see what the operating system was like. This is increasingly likely as the Linux distributions are so freely available, they are even sometimes distributed on CDs attached to magazines. Linux has received an enormous amount of attention in the "free" Press that tends to go round corporate IT areas. I seem to remember that there hasn't been an edition of Network News that hasn't had an article regarding Linux for months.
This is a pure ballpark estimate, but I would say if you took all companies with Support and Network departments of more than 5 people, that 90% of those companies have at one point or another had a Linux box operating on their network.
Go here to try out Web Versions of Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint via a Web-enabled Metframe server.
Citrix haven't fully disabled the Visual Basic part of these apps so, yes, you can get a command prompt up... but I think they've disabled most network tools.
I've been trying to get a Job via OnLine methods and can honestly say that I feel I've been getting much further than I would if I tried to find an online partner. You have to realise that finding a partner online via IRC is very different to trying to find employment online via what is essentially a portal to employment agencies - this is analogous to using a dating agency, which is more likely to be successful as you at least know that the prime concern of your potential partner is the release from loneliness.
Angband and moria both compile under Linux. I have had to make certain changes though, on compiling these on occassion:
With moria, prscore doesn't compile, you don't need it, edit the Makefile and you'll be OK.
Angband, seems to have had problems with curses linking, but I have just been told that this has been fixed in the latest version.
Here's the link which should be OK, Imperial College Sunsite Mirror in London.
And hey - has someone ported rogue to this directory as well?
There are no prices as yet, as they are not yet shipping.
If this goes on there will be a hole in the Internet where .au used to be.
Come on Australia, get real!!
The Higher they go, the harder they'll fall.
Inflate, Inflate!!
Of course, this is completely dependent on the claims of the above article...
You can use a watermarking technique on the images, this effectively embeds a CRC checksum into the original photo, before it is published on the Web. Any editing to the image breaks the CRC and you know that the image has been tampered with.
I believe Adobe implement this kind of technique in the Photoshop software. The can get the license info from an image created or edited in Photoshop.
I'll tell you what really annoys me. I would love to give our servers meaningful names but we are stuck with things like CPQSV8 and the like, because of some idiots lack of inspiration.
k slash,emm,ehhh,eiii,elll
It does cause a problem for our support staff as the end users need to have the server name spelled out to them every time. We just wouldn't have this problem if we had names that they could recognise:
backslash,backslash bugsbunny, backslash, mail
as opposed to
backslash,backslash,cee,pee,cue,ess,vee,eight,bac
I know which I'd prefer...
Cut through the marketing speak - lies, lies and more lies. This is a V.90 56K modem and nothing more being marketed at games who are stupid enough to believe the marketing hype.
To see Linus give his birthday away you need to check the Slashdot archive and you will see it is infact on the 28/12/1999.
Oh well a few months early...
was the blimp running NT then?
The hackers wrote of their own "rooting" exploits (that is, hacking the root directory of a server)
Oh please...
Mind you at least General Public won't know what root is.
Well - this server is running Exchange 5.5 and here is the reason it can take that long:
There are various services running under Exchange and they depend on each other. This means that you have to shut them down in a certain order. NT doesn't know the order however, so it has to play a game trying to find out what the correct order is. When it shuts down a service it sends a terminate signal and then waits for the process to terminate or for the request to timeout. Eventually it will give up and ask another service to shutdown first and returns to the original service at a later date.
I've seen this done:
Manually shutdown Exchange services in the correct order.
Ask NT to reboot, 10 seconds later the machine already in the bootup sequence.
I hope this doesn't appear as defence of Microsoft products, because it isn't. NT process handling should be able to query processes what other processes are preventing the process to terminate or Exchange should have it's own termination sequence.
Actually the PIX firewall would be the easiest:
pixfirewall> show version
PIX Version 4.3(2)
Compiled on Mon 01-Feb-99 18:34 by pixbuild
Finesse Bios V3.3
pixfirewall up 16 days 22 hours
Hardware: AL440LX, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 233 MHz
Flash atmel @ base 0x300
0: ethernet0: address is xxxx.xxxx.xxxx, irq 9
1: ethernet1: address is xxxx.xxxx.xxxx, irq 10
Serial Number: xxxxxxxx
PII MMX? 32Mb RAM, Intel LX Motherboard!
So much for hardware firewalls...
Damn thing has a floppy drive, so - what happens if I put my Linux boot floppy in the drive and power it up???
oooh - so it might be a glibc2 problem then?
Netscape normally crashes every few mintes (sic)
I hear this alot and I have to say I regularly use Netscape (v4.51 [en]-99058) with Linux Slackware 4.0 and it has hardly ever crashed.
So guys (& gals) - what is the problem people have with Netscape under Linux. Does anyone else have a problem with Linux & Netscape and what versions are you using (Netscape & Linux Distro), I wouldn't mind betting that the buggy Netscape that I keep on hearing about is some problem with a distro or particular Netscape version.
Linux has had some sort of SMP Support since version 2.0, and although this has had it's problems along the way - things are well on their way to improvement. Perhaps it is time for an update on how SMP improvements have progressed.
The upload is USB so around 10Mbps can be expected. I wouldn't be surprised if a Firewire version was developed soon (100Mbps)
For me this is nothing more than a hard disk attached to some rudimentary program to play the data. As far as portable, wearable MP3 players go I still think we need some innovation before reality takes place.
Handy for the car though... (where power, shock-proofing as not as much an issue as when you're jogging)
I have run Citrix's Metaframe Client for Linux to connect to Windows Terminal Server. It's pretty OK and works over a modem link quite satisfactoraly.
However, for me, telnet is the ultimate thin client. It allows me to run ANY text mode program.
Until the touch sensitive membrame on the mouse breaks - now how do I get those toolbars back....
:)