Warning. This is NOT a Unix book. This is a Linux book. If you're looking for a quick reference on Unix commands, text editors and shell programming, so not make the mistake of getting this book.
It's only about Linux. It says so right in the title.
Are you a professional web developer? Then use a text editor. Sheesh. A web developer who can't handle plain text HTML, CSS, Javascript and some sort of shell scripting, is about as silly as a software developer who can't handle C/C++ and make.
Echo echo. I don't care how hard the installation is, you're only going to be doing it once. I want to know what the system is going to be like AFTER it's fricking installed!
Pardon me for asking a dumb question, but why the fsck do you need all of this in a *single* volume? I can understand the need for single volumes, and the need for large volumes, and even the need for single large volumes up to a point. But your reqest is taxing my understanding.
Why is it "shocking" that a private Mormon college would want its students nominally adhering to Mormon-like rules. Would it also be "shocking" if a Catholic church only offered mass to Catholics? Would it also be shocking if an athiest organization had rules about no religious proselytization?
The world is not a one way street. I don't want to see churches and religious organizations receiving federal moneys, but it's not because I fear that the Methodists will discriminate against the Lutherans. Every organization discriminates. To hang out at the Moose Lodge I have to be a member. If you don't like the way BYU discriminates against drinkers, you ought to see the way the Moose Lodge discriminates against teetotalers! Shocking!
p.s. I'm not just saying this because I'm above the fray. I have personally been discriminated against by Mormans because I drank caffeinated beverages. I wasn't going to be allowed to consume Coca Cola within the residence I wanted to rent from them. BUT I GOT OVER IT! It wasn't my house, it was theirs, so they got to make the rules. I didn't like the rules so I went elsewhere. Nice and peaceful without having to pass in stupid laws.
It doesn't matter who the president is, Bush, Kerry, Gore, Dean, etc., the fact remains that the US is the sole 800 pound gorilla of the world. Foreign relations have been going downhill ever since the implosion of the Soviet Union.
The US didn't ban porn. The US Commerce Department didn't ban.xxx. They merely dropped support for a proposed TLD. This is a insignificantly trivial action. The only reason it's being brought up is to scare UN ambassadors into thinking they might not get their daily dose of German fisting videos.
To me, the real news here is that the US's relationship with the rest of the world has gotten so bad that countries are starting to needlessly pick unproductive fights.
That's one way to look at it. Another way is that the UN is desperately trying to puff up its own importance in the face of growing scandals and ineffectiveness. And still another way is that the EU is so bureaucratic that they cannot tolerate the idea of an uncontrolled internet. And of course there's China who want their own internet uncontaminated by the words "freedom" and "democracy".
My mom is a member of several "conservative Christian groups", and subscribes to the Dobson newsletter. She keeps me "informed" of all the issues. Yet not once have I heard this from her or seen it mentioned in the newsletters. I'm thinking that the "others" mentioned may have been more numerous in this case than the "conservative Christian groups".
So? Every OS is different from every other OS. Duh.
Why is this argument always used when someone is switching away from Windows, but is never used when someone is switching away from Unix? My company switched from Unix to Windows five years ago, and it was painful and expensive, and things have never worked quite right since.
Is it just me, or is every street in Redmond one way?
I'm wondering if you've actually read the story summary, let alone the article. He wasn't told "fix the dying system with zero dollars and make sure it's Microsoft." He wasn't told "fix the dying system with zero dollars and then get twenty people to sign off on it." He wasn't even told to "fix the dying system with zero dollars and get Evil W1zard's approval." Instead he was told to fix it with zero dollars. He accomplished his task.
If you have the authority to do this then there is no problem. This isn't about surreptiously installing OpenBSD on someone else's system, this is about using OpenBSD to provide a solution to a problem you have been specifically tasked with solving.
And maybe I'm a little jaded after a 21 year career with a major firm cut short three years before full pension, a corporation raided by a crooked (alleged) CEO who walked away with $500M (the law is still trying to indict him).
Been there, done that. Not that I got screwed to the depth you did, but I do know what it's like....but I'm willing to bet the gap (relatively) is widening as described.
Of course it is! But don't interpret this as something bad. If you give a poor man a 10% raise and a rich man a 10% raise, the gap between their incomes has *increased*. You can actually give the poor man a bigger raise than the rich man and still get a widening gap. What counts is not what the other guy is making, but what you are making.
That said, it'd be nice to see business conducted by meritocracy rather than politics.
Monster and Dice? Stanford recruiting booth? Local job fairs?
Yes, I know there are a lot of people out of work. I also know that we're not having a lot of luck hiring. I don't know where the disconnect is exactly, but the claim that there are no jobs is false. My brother was laid off a few months ago, and managed to find a new higher paying job in three days.
I'm not personally out in the job market, but I think the real problem is that how you get a job has changed. Throwing thousands of resumes out there doesn't work anymore. You need to bypass the morons in HR and talk directly to someone you know at the company. That means networking, joining professional organizations, meeting people, and all that stuff that the stereotyped software engineer isn't good at. Which is another reason to get out of the stereotype.
I'll save the discussions for folks who can have a rational discussion without resorting to ad hominems.
That's better for me anyway, since I'm too busy drilling for oil in Alaska to bother.
p.s. You might not be in your parent's basement, but you sure do act like it. When half the population leans to the right of center, don't act like they're a bizarre species of pond scum.
The price of gas was not engineered for people to be responsible for their own actions.
That's your problem right there, and why your "green" behavior is indeed political. You want to engineer behavior. My politics are extremely opposed to others trying to "engineer" my life. I am a human being, not some pawn to be pushed around in your social experiment. It's not good enough that you're "green", you insist that everyone else be "green" as well. If they're not you call them an irresponsible asshole.
I wasn't talking about "conservative leaders", I was talking about "conservatives". Half the country is conservative, so get out of your parent's basement and meet some of them. There might even be one on your street. Heck, it might even be that nice old lady driving the Prius!
Nope. Not even close. While we do want experience (surely there are some experienced engineers out there!), we don't need 6 different langugages, only C/C++. Platform is largely irrelevant, but experience in realtime embedded systems is a plus. We do like experience in our industry (medical imaging) but it's not a requirement for the reqs we have open.
No, were not going to hire someone who took a Java class during the dot.boom and now think they're an engineer. But it can't be that difficult to find someone experienced, can it? One of our reqs is for a "junior software engineer", so just some education should be good enough for that.
These listing are probably ridiculously bloated, but if you've been a professional software engineer longer than two hours, you already know they're as bogus as your resume. You have to learn to read past them to what the job really wants, then go apply for it.
Instead of using your links, I went direct to their source. Going to the actual UFE report, I can see why you didn't link to it, because it's incredibly biased. It's not an economic report, it's a political hit piece.
"The ratio of average CEO pay (now $11.8 million) to worker pay (now $27,460) spiked up from 301-to-1 in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004."
This isn't an economic study, it's a hit piece. And you know it! It doesn't even come close to presenting objective statistics.
When you look closely, you see that their "average CEO" is actually the average CEO of the "367 leading US corporations". Nice skew there. Let's not look at all corporations, let's just look at the biggest ones. But wait! They don't even trust the numbers they use! They grabbed Business Week's numbers, and then admit there is more variation and less clarity when it comes to how" the companies whre included. Wow.
The Business Week numbers were not "salary", as you earlier claimed, but were instead for "salary, bonus, other annual compensation, restricted stock awards, LTIP payouts, and value realized from options exercised." Yet they are being compared to "worker pay". An employer pays out lot more money for for an eomployee than ever shows up in a paycheck. What about health benefits? Not every worker gets them, but enough do that surely they should be included in the calculation to determine "average."
And I still can't find their definition for "worker". I do see that they frequently use the term "production worker", but I don't know what that means either. There's a whole section on how they calculated "average CEO" compensations, but nothing on how they calculated "workers". Does "worker" include non-corporate workers? Because there sure are a lot of them. A high school dropout flipping burgers at a franchise is not a corporate worker (it's a franchise, duh). Neither is the guy stacking boxes of Bud at the corner liquor store. Or the migrant worker picking strawberries.
In short, their "CEO" to "worker" comparison stinks.
I didn't know my recycling, or riding my bike instead of driving was a political action
It's not... unless you choose to make it be. If you're walking around your workplace acting all smug because you're a good environmentalist who rides a bike, then you HAVE made it political. If you turn your nose down at people who don't ride their bikes, then you HAVE made it political.
It is sad that the incentive needs to exist...
BUT THERE ARE INCENTIVES!!! It's called the price of gasoline! If you haven't noticed, it's been going up!
Someone who doesn't care about the dollars they're burning in their tank, who doesn't care about their tax deductions, who doesn't care about the rude glances they get from bike riders, or any of the other existing incentives, is NOT going to care about his company's new feel good incentive plan.
I do find it particularly ironic that in the U.S., Conservatives generally don't.
I don't know where you're getting this myth from, but conservatives are just as interested in conservation as liberals. Maybe if you got out of your parent's basement and started meeting people, you might find out that conservatives aren't the evil bogeymen that DailyKos and MoveOn portray them to be.
The average salary of CEOs is now 431 times the salary of his or her respective company's employees.
Let me be the first to say "bullshit." If you claim otherwise, show some references to that statistic.
The average salary at my company is (guessing) $50,000. But my CEO is *NOT* making a $21,550,000 salary! Not even close! Something on the order of 3% to 4% is closer to the mark. Do the freaking math!
While I'm sure there's a CEO out there SOMEWHERE who is making 431 times their typical employee's salary, there's no way in hell that's the average CEO.
Back in the middle ages, guilds were formed to limit competition to skilled craftsmen. Unions are just modern guilds. They exist to limit competition to the tradesmen. Keeping people out of a trade increases wages for that trade.
That's news to me. We've had three open software engineering positions in my company for nine months. A friend of mine reports that his company has had two software engineering positions for six months.
It might be that we're just picky, but I doubt it. When the boss isn't spending any time interviewing, I suspect it's because no one qualified is applying.
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Are you a professional web developer? Then use a text editor. Sheesh. A web developer who can't handle plain text HTML, CSS, Javascript and some sort of shell scripting, is about as silly as a software developer who can't handle C/C++ and make.
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Echo echo. I don't care how hard the installation is, you're only going to be doing it once. I want to know what the system is going to be like AFTER it's fricking installed!
Pardon me for asking a dumb question, but why the fsck do you need all of this in a *single* volume? I can understand the need for single volumes, and the need for large volumes, and even the need for single large volumes up to a point. But your reqest is taxing my understanding.
Why is it "shocking" that a private Mormon college would want its students nominally adhering to Mormon-like rules. Would it also be "shocking" if a Catholic church only offered mass to Catholics? Would it also be shocking if an athiest organization had rules about no religious proselytization?
The world is not a one way street. I don't want to see churches and religious organizations receiving federal moneys, but it's not because I fear that the Methodists will discriminate against the Lutherans. Every organization discriminates. To hang out at the Moose Lodge I have to be a member. If you don't like the way BYU discriminates against drinkers, you ought to see the way the Moose Lodge discriminates against teetotalers! Shocking!
p.s. I'm not just saying this because I'm above the fray. I have personally been discriminated against by Mormans because I drank caffeinated beverages. I wasn't going to be allowed to consume Coca Cola within the residence I wanted to rent from them. BUT I GOT OVER IT! It wasn't my house, it was theirs, so they got to make the rules. I didn't like the rules so I went elsewhere. Nice and peaceful without having to pass in stupid laws.
It doesn't matter who the president is, Bush, Kerry, Gore, Dean, etc., the fact remains that the US is the sole 800 pound gorilla of the world. Foreign relations have been going downhill ever since the implosion of the Soviet Union.
The US didn't ban porn. The US Commerce Department didn't ban .xxx. They merely dropped support for a proposed TLD. This is a insignificantly trivial action. The only reason it's being brought up is to scare UN ambassadors into thinking they might not get their daily dose of German fisting videos.
To me, the real news here is that the US's relationship with the rest of the world has gotten so bad that countries are starting to needlessly pick unproductive fights.
That's one way to look at it. Another way is that the UN is desperately trying to puff up its own importance in the face of growing scandals and ineffectiveness. And still another way is that the EU is so bureaucratic that they cannot tolerate the idea of an uncontrolled internet. And of course there's China who want their own internet uncontaminated by the words "freedom" and "democracy".
My mom is a member of several "conservative Christian groups", and subscribes to the Dobson newsletter. She keeps me "informed" of all the issues. Yet not once have I heard this from her or seen it mentioned in the newsletters. I'm thinking that the "others" mentioned may have been more numerous in this case than the "conservative Christian groups".
Also notice that this is a third hand account.
So? Every OS is different from every other OS. Duh.
Why is this argument always used when someone is switching away from Windows, but is never used when someone is switching away from Unix? My company switched from Unix to Windows five years ago, and it was painful and expensive, and things have never worked quite right since.
Is it just me, or is every street in Redmond one way?
I'm wondering if you've actually read the story summary, let alone the article. He wasn't told "fix the dying system with zero dollars and make sure it's Microsoft." He wasn't told "fix the dying system with zero dollars and then get twenty people to sign off on it." He wasn't even told to "fix the dying system with zero dollars and get Evil W1zard's approval." Instead he was told to fix it with zero dollars. He accomplished his task.
If you have the authority to do this then there is no problem. This isn't about surreptiously installing OpenBSD on someone else's system, this is about using OpenBSD to provide a solution to a problem you have been specifically tasked with solving.
And maybe I'm a little jaded after a 21 year career with a major firm cut short three years before full pension, a corporation raided by a crooked (alleged) CEO who walked away with $500M (the law is still trying to indict him).
...but I'm willing to bet the gap (relatively) is widening as described.
Been there, done that. Not that I got screwed to the depth you did, but I do know what it's like.
Of course it is! But don't interpret this as something bad. If you give a poor man a 10% raise and a rich man a 10% raise, the gap between their incomes has *increased*. You can actually give the poor man a bigger raise than the rich man and still get a widening gap. What counts is not what the other guy is making, but what you are making.
That said, it'd be nice to see business conducted by meritocracy rather than politics.
We can always dream...
Take care.
Monster and Dice? Stanford recruiting booth? Local job fairs?
Yes, I know there are a lot of people out of work. I also know that we're not having a lot of luck hiring. I don't know where the disconnect is exactly, but the claim that there are no jobs is false. My brother was laid off a few months ago, and managed to find a new higher paying job in three days.
I'm not personally out in the job market, but I think the real problem is that how you get a job has changed. Throwing thousands of resumes out there doesn't work anymore. You need to bypass the morons in HR and talk directly to someone you know at the company. That means networking, joining professional organizations, meeting people, and all that stuff that the stereotyped software engineer isn't good at. Which is another reason to get out of the stereotype.
I'll save the discussions for folks who can have a rational discussion without resorting to ad hominems.
That's better for me anyway, since I'm too busy drilling for oil in Alaska to bother.
p.s. You might not be in your parent's basement, but you sure do act like it. When half the population leans to the right of center, don't act like they're a bizarre species of pond scum.
The price of gas was not engineered for people to be responsible for their own actions.
That's your problem right there, and why your "green" behavior is indeed political. You want to engineer behavior. My politics are extremely opposed to others trying to "engineer" my life. I am a human being, not some pawn to be pushed around in your social experiment. It's not good enough that you're "green", you insist that everyone else be "green" as well. If they're not you call them an irresponsible asshole.
I wasn't talking about "conservative leaders", I was talking about "conservatives". Half the country is conservative, so get out of your parent's basement and meet some of them. There might even be one on your street. Heck, it might even be that nice old lady driving the Prius!
Actually, we're in the SF Bay Area. Two blocks from Google in fact.
Nope. Not even close. While we do want experience (surely there are some experienced engineers out there!), we don't need 6 different langugages, only C/C++. Platform is largely irrelevant, but experience in realtime embedded systems is a plus. We do like experience in our industry (medical imaging) but it's not a requirement for the reqs we have open.
No, were not going to hire someone who took a Java class during the dot.boom and now think they're an engineer. But it can't be that difficult to find someone experienced, can it? One of our reqs is for a "junior software engineer", so just some education should be good enough for that.
These listing are probably ridiculously bloated, but if you've been a professional software engineer longer than two hours, you already know they're as bogus as your resume. You have to learn to read past them to what the job really wants, then go apply for it.
Instead of using your links, I went direct to their source. Going to the actual UFE report, I can see why you didn't link to it, because it's incredibly biased. It's not an economic report, it's a political hit piece.
"The ratio of average CEO pay (now $11.8 million) to worker pay (now $27,460) spiked up from 301-to-1 in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004."
This isn't an economic study, it's a hit piece. And you know it! It doesn't even come close to presenting objective statistics.
When you look closely, you see that their "average CEO" is actually the average CEO of the "367 leading US corporations". Nice skew there. Let's not look at all corporations, let's just look at the biggest ones. But wait! They don't even trust the numbers they use! They grabbed Business Week's numbers, and then admit there is more variation and less clarity when it comes to how" the companies whre included. Wow.
The Business Week numbers were not "salary", as you earlier claimed, but were instead for "salary, bonus, other annual compensation, restricted stock awards, LTIP payouts, and value realized from options exercised." Yet they are being compared to "worker pay". An employer pays out lot more money for for an eomployee than ever shows up in a paycheck. What about health benefits? Not every worker gets them, but enough do that surely they should be included in the calculation to determine "average."
And I still can't find their definition for "worker". I do see that they frequently use the term "production worker", but I don't know what that means either. There's a whole section on how they calculated "average CEO" compensations, but nothing on how they calculated "workers". Does "worker" include non-corporate workers? Because there sure are a lot of them. A high school dropout flipping burgers at a franchise is not a corporate worker (it's a franchise, duh). Neither is the guy stacking boxes of Bud at the corner liquor store. Or the migrant worker picking strawberries.
In short, their "CEO" to "worker" comparison stinks.
I didn't know my recycling, or riding my bike instead of driving was a political action
It's not... unless you choose to make it be. If you're walking around your workplace acting all smug because you're a good environmentalist who rides a bike, then you HAVE made it political. If you turn your nose down at people who don't ride their bikes, then you HAVE made it political.
It is sad that the incentive needs to exist...
BUT THERE ARE INCENTIVES!!! It's called the price of gasoline! If you haven't noticed, it's been going up!
Someone who doesn't care about the dollars they're burning in their tank, who doesn't care about their tax deductions, who doesn't care about the rude glances they get from bike riders, or any of the other existing incentives, is NOT going to care about his company's new feel good incentive plan.
I do find it particularly ironic that in the U.S., Conservatives generally don't.
I don't know where you're getting this myth from, but conservatives are just as interested in conservation as liberals. Maybe if you got out of your parent's basement and started meeting people, you might find out that conservatives aren't the evil bogeymen that DailyKos and MoveOn portray them to be.
The average salary of CEOs is now 431 times the salary of his or her respective company's employees.
Let me be the first to say "bullshit." If you claim otherwise, show some references to that statistic.
The average salary at my company is (guessing) $50,000. But my CEO is *NOT* making a $21,550,000 salary! Not even close! Something on the order of 3% to 4% is closer to the mark. Do the freaking math!
While I'm sure there's a CEO out there SOMEWHERE who is making 431 times their typical employee's salary, there's no way in hell that's the average CEO.
Back in the middle ages, guilds were formed to limit competition to skilled craftsmen. Unions are just modern guilds. They exist to limit competition to the tradesmen. Keeping people out of a trade increases wages for that trade.
That's news to me. We've had three open software engineering positions in my company for nine months. A friend of mine reports that his company has had two software engineering positions for six months.
It might be that we're just picky, but I doubt it. When the boss isn't spending any time interviewing, I suspect it's because no one qualified is applying.