After the dot-com crash, I struggled as a consultant for a year or two (barely getting by) until noticing a surge in my ability to find work. About 6 months later, I had a company that I had applied at 2 years earlier offering me a job. I wound up inheriting the Unix Sys Admin position because the previous guy left because he had found a better job somewhere else.
Also, I found my consulting business was still going because my clients still needed me. I started to outsource work and found it hard to find talented, experienced individuals, especially in Unix system administration. At least in my city (Los Angeles), there seemed to be a new lack of supply of talent in my core areas.
As time went on and I decided to put myself back on the job market, I found it relatively easy to get job interviews for positions that fit my skill sets and that were willing to pay me what I need. I also run into positions where they are looking to pay less. I suspect there are still people out there with similiar skill sets, willing to work for less.
All in all, I've seen a rise of available positions in Unix/Linux System Administration as well as Perl programming. The rise in the latter is shocking to me. I always felt that Perl was a scripting language that people would not be willing to pay top dollar for talent in. However, there are more and more companies as well as OS software projects that rely on Perl.
To sum it all up, here are my thoughts on what has happened. a) I think there has been an increasing demand in the areas of OSS, like Linux distros and OSS-based application programming. b) The business models based on the Internet that have survived through this have proven provitable and have the confidence necessary to look at expansion. c) Those that got into IT just to ride the tech boom that weren't as qualified/passionate about their work have picked up other professions. d) IT will continue to grow as the automation of businesses continue.
The work is out there. If you can't find a job, perhaps you are charging too much or should look at increasing your qualifications.
I always wondered where that assertion came from. I've heard it before and anyone who states that must not have a clear recollection of both movies. Entirely different plot, entirely different characters. They do recap the first movie in the beginning with different actors, except for Bruce.
Well, actually I would say that Evil Dead is pretty much an attempt to make a pretty serious, suspensful horror flick. There is a lot of intriguing camera movement, sound and overall spookiness. However, Ash's girlfriend becomes pretty funny after she gets zombified and they have a scene that plays on an earlier scene before hell breaks loose.
Evil Dead II is where you start to see intentional humor. This, in my opinion, is the best of the three movies. Raimi is much better at directing humor than horror. Also, Bruce Campbell does zany pretty well as you see Ash start to slip into insanity. Stuff starts to get very surreal here with Ash chopping his own hand off and the hilarity that ensues from that as well as the classic replacement of his hand with a chainsaw. There are other very memorable scenes in this movie that tend more towards humor than horror.
Army of Darkness I saw first and I loved it so I wound up buying the whole trilogy. In retrospect, I find it is the weakest of the three movies. All the crappy stop motion, poor dialog, etc. Don't get me wrong, it's great and made me watch the first two but if you have only seen Army of Darkness, you don't have a good barometer to judge the other two with.
the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately
I am sorry but if you think this the job of a journalist, you are misinformed. Their actual job appears to be to create controversy on topics that will interest the public so that newspapers and air time can be sold, as well as actually directing public viewpoint and controlling how people view their world. '
The media tends to present a very gruesome picture of the world. Interestingly enough, people lap it up. I guess the general public feels comforted when they elect information authorities who tell them what to be afraid of.
Basically, the worst we have to fear is that Congress will make regulations so bad that space ports are merely relocated outside of the US.
Chances are they realize this and rather than force the industry out their control, they will make logical regulatory laws that might add some impediment but not enough to make people look elsewhere for launch platforms.
It would be super easy for spam software to add a bogus header in the smtp envelope that shows that the mail did originate from a server in the SPF record.
Given the marked rise in spam after the marked rise in viruses, it is safe to assume that the design of spam is now to send it through infected home computers. They have plenty of time before October to update their malware so that this SPF entry is not an issue for them.
However, I and every other DNS admin out there now will have to add this record to each domain that originates email under their control in order to ensure that our users mail gets through. That's a lot of work for a lot of people... not to mention the tech support calls by users whose domain admins were not aware they needed to publish this.
Not true. I've personally witnessed subpeonas from the FBI relating to a customer's activity at an ISP I worked for. I had to give data relating to the incident and narrowly escaped having to appear in court as a witness.
Well, I thought this was a very nice touch. I do agree with some of the postings that $70 is a bit much for a 3" figurine. However, I did like the flavor of the whole thing. For instance, this comment in the description:
"With Apache, BSD looks even cuter and happier than ever. However, beware! There are rumours that the feather has been plucked from a certain penguin instead of an eagle."
Not only is this on a site with Linux in the name but they are poking a little fun at the rivalry between the users of both OS flavors. I thought it was fun and lighthearted... a good break from some of the disparaging comments that go back and forth, which I admit to trading myself. Kind of reminds me why I love the open source community in general.
I found that this article seemed to have a lot of data and "expert" opinion without saying a whole lot. The only real relevant comment made about how computers will negatively affect study in the article has to do with the fact that computers download information and do not teach kids how to think? It also states that they would be swimming in a sea of information. Well, compare this to traditionally teaching techniques.
Books are very carefully selected to be given to our children. Now, reading a book will not increase ones ability to think anymore than looking at a bunch of websites or other forms of downloaded information. On the contrary, the opposite is true. A child may find it necessary to have to start critically thinking about conflicting bits of information and deciding what it valid and what is not valid. This is a very crucial skill that is not taught in school.
Children are forcefed knowledge in school from preselected sources and thus, are often given a lot of false data that they must accept in order to pass a test. It seems that the authorities are really frightened about loosing their informational monopoly on education and wind up with a populace that can look at bodies of data and objectively accept or reject such data, based on their own knowledge and observations. Of course, this may seem like a conspiracy-theorist viewpoint but take a look at your own education and ask if this may have been attempted on you?
I called Handspring Customer Care after finding that my Visor Deluxe was affected. BTW, I was really glad to find a published bug because my Visor had crashed several times, necessitating a hard reset, sometimes resulting in lost data where I did not have a currently synched version of the data on my PC. Anyways, I spoke to one of the reps and found out that I did not have to wait until July for the patch to be released. I was able to request an RMA and they are shipping me a new Visor Deluxe. So, not only am I going to have a patched Visor sooner but it is also going to be in mint condition.:)
I have worked with DSL from the ISP side of things for almost two years now. One thing to realize is that there is always a tiered approach in any type of high speed, leased-line access technology. There will always be the need for a) the physical media (i.e. copper pair), b) access (a.k.a last-mile) technology such as DSL or T-1 and c) IP services on top of that.
The nature of this relationship is not the culprit when it comes to poor or delayed service with DSL. The same relationship is there with T-1 or Frame services that you would get from such companies as MCI. However, the difference is the amount of money involved for the telcos. One of the reasons that DSL is less expensive than older technologies are the service contracts developed between CLECs and ILECs. With certain companies, I am told that the guaranteed turn around is 24 hours. However, when dealing with T-1 lines, I have been able to get commitment times of less than 3 or 4 hours. However, you are usually paying at least 3 or 4 times as much for the T-1 service.
However, a lot of issues can be resolved without the need to get someone from your local telco out to the site but when there is that need, be in for a wait. If you are truly looking at doing mission critical applications over DSL, you better make sure that you have redunancy built into your network architecture so that you are not screwed by a single line outage.
One final word on this is that, in spite of the limitations of the telco industry and service level agreements, it is your ISPs responsibility to service you and some are better at it than others. If you find that you get consistantly poor service from your provider, you may want to switch.
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After the dot-com crash, I struggled as a consultant for a year or two (barely getting by) until noticing a surge in my ability to find work. About 6 months later, I had a company that I had applied at 2 years earlier offering me a job. I wound up inheriting the Unix Sys Admin position because the previous guy left because he had found a better job somewhere else.
Also, I found my consulting business was still going because my clients still needed me. I started to outsource work and found it hard to find talented, experienced individuals, especially in Unix system administration. At least in my city (Los Angeles), there seemed to be a new lack of supply of talent in my core areas.
As time went on and I decided to put myself back on the job market, I found it relatively easy to get job interviews for positions that fit my skill sets and that were willing to pay me what I need. I also run into positions where they are looking to pay less. I suspect there are still people out there with similiar skill sets, willing to work for less.
All in all, I've seen a rise of available positions in Unix/Linux System Administration as well as Perl programming. The rise in the latter is shocking to me. I always felt that Perl was a scripting language that people would not be willing to pay top dollar for talent in. However, there are more and more companies as well as OS software projects that rely on Perl.
To sum it all up, here are my thoughts on what has happened. a) I think there has been an increasing demand in the areas of OSS, like Linux distros and OSS-based application programming. b) The business models based on the Internet that have survived through this have proven provitable and have the confidence necessary to look at expansion. c) Those that got into IT just to ride the tech boom that weren't as qualified/passionate about their work have picked up other professions. d) IT will continue to grow as the automation of businesses continue.
The work is out there. If you can't find a job, perhaps you are charging too much or should look at increasing your qualifications.
*nuff said*
I always wondered where that assertion came from. I've heard it before and anyone who states that must not have a clear recollection of both movies. Entirely different plot, entirely different characters. They do recap the first movie in the beginning with different actors, except for Bruce.
Well, actually I would say that Evil Dead is pretty much an attempt to make a pretty serious, suspensful horror flick. There is a lot of intriguing camera movement, sound and overall spookiness. However, Ash's girlfriend becomes pretty funny after she gets zombified and they have a scene that plays on an earlier scene before hell breaks loose.
Evil Dead II is where you start to see intentional humor. This, in my opinion, is the best of the three movies. Raimi is much better at directing humor than horror. Also, Bruce Campbell does zany pretty well as you see Ash start to slip into insanity. Stuff starts to get very surreal here with Ash chopping his own hand off and the hilarity that ensues from that as well as the classic replacement of his hand with a chainsaw. There are other very memorable scenes in this movie that tend more towards humor than horror.
Army of Darkness I saw first and I loved it so I wound up buying the whole trilogy. In retrospect, I find it is the weakest of the three movies. All the crappy stop motion, poor dialog, etc. Don't get me wrong, it's great and made me watch the first two but if you have only seen Army of Darkness, you don't have a good barometer to judge the other two with.
the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately
I am sorry but if you think this the job of a journalist, you are misinformed. Their actual job appears to be to create controversy on topics that will interest the public so that newspapers and air time can be sold, as well as actually directing public viewpoint and controlling how people view their world. '
The media tends to present a very gruesome picture of the world. Interestingly enough, people lap it up. I guess the general public feels comforted when they elect information authorities who tell them what to be afraid of.
Mr. Spock was the character from Star Trek.
Dr. Spock is the author of books about raising kids.
Basically, the worst we have to fear is that Congress will make regulations so bad that space ports are merely relocated outside of the US.
Chances are they realize this and rather than force the industry out their control, they will make logical regulatory laws that might add some impediment but not enough to make people look elsewhere for launch platforms.
It would be super easy for spam software to add a bogus header in the smtp envelope that shows that the mail did originate from a server in the SPF record.
Given the marked rise in spam after the marked rise in viruses, it is safe to assume that the design of spam is now to send it through infected home computers. They have plenty of time before October to update their malware so that this SPF entry is not an issue for them.
However, I and every other DNS admin out there now will have to add this record to each domain that originates email under their control in order to ensure that our users mail gets through. That's a lot of work for a lot of people... not to mention the tech support calls by users whose domain admins were not aware they needed to publish this.
Bad solution.
Not true. I've personally witnessed subpeonas from the FBI relating to a customer's activity at an ISP I worked for. I had to give data relating to the incident and narrowly escaped having to appear in court as a witness.
Well, I thought this was a very nice touch. I do agree with some of the postings that $70 is a bit much for a 3" figurine. However, I did like the flavor of the whole thing. For instance, this comment in the description: "With Apache, BSD looks even cuter and happier than ever. However, beware! There are rumours that the feather has been plucked from a certain penguin instead of an eagle." Not only is this on a site with Linux in the name but they are poking a little fun at the rivalry between the users of both OS flavors. I thought it was fun and lighthearted... a good break from some of the disparaging comments that go back and forth, which I admit to trading myself. Kind of reminds me why I love the open source community in general.
I agree. Bruce Campbell as an FBI Agent would be great... especially if the episode was directed by Sam Raimi.
Books are very carefully selected to be given to our children. Now, reading a book will not increase ones ability to think anymore than looking at a bunch of websites or other forms of downloaded information. On the contrary, the opposite is true. A child may find it necessary to have to start critically thinking about conflicting bits of information and deciding what it valid and what is not valid. This is a very crucial skill that is not taught in school.
Children are forcefed knowledge in school from preselected sources and thus, are often given a lot of false data that they must accept in order to pass a test. It seems that the authorities are really frightened about loosing their informational monopoly on education and wind up with a populace that can look at bodies of data and objectively accept or reject such data, based on their own knowledge and observations. Of course, this may seem like a conspiracy-theorist viewpoint but take a look at your own education and ask if this may have been attempted on you?
I called Handspring Customer Care after finding that my Visor Deluxe was affected. BTW, I was really glad to find a published bug because my Visor had crashed several times, necessitating a hard reset, sometimes resulting in lost data where I did not have a currently synched version of the data on my PC. Anyways, I spoke to one of the reps and found out that I did not have to wait until July for the patch to be released. I was able to request an RMA and they are shipping me a new Visor Deluxe. So, not only am I going to have a patched Visor sooner but it is also going to be in mint condition. :)
I have worked with DSL from the ISP side of things for almost two years now. One thing to realize is that there is always a tiered approach in any type of high speed, leased-line access technology. There will always be the need for a) the physical media (i.e. copper pair), b) access (a.k.a last-mile) technology such as DSL or T-1 and c) IP services on top of that.
The nature of this relationship is not the culprit when it comes to poor or delayed service with DSL. The same relationship is there with T-1 or Frame services that you would get from such companies as MCI. However, the difference is the amount of money involved for the telcos. One of the reasons that DSL is less expensive than older technologies are the service contracts developed between CLECs and ILECs. With certain companies, I am told that the guaranteed turn around is 24 hours. However, when dealing with T-1 lines, I have been able to get commitment times of less than 3 or 4 hours. However, you are usually paying at least 3 or 4 times as much for the T-1 service.
However, a lot of issues can be resolved without the need to get someone from your local telco out to the site but when there is that need, be in for a wait. If you are truly looking at doing mission critical applications over DSL, you better make sure that you have redunancy built into your network architecture so that you are not screwed by a single line outage.
One final word on this is that, in spite of the limitations of the telco industry and service level agreements, it is your ISPs responsibility to service you and some are better at it than others. If you find that you get consistantly poor service from your provider, you may want to switch.