Well, most likely Bill G will get the monopoly on this whole shooting match. Great. Now my ID card will Blue Screen when I move the mouse after inserting the CD. Or is that when I fish it out after drinking a quart of milk? Something like that...
He's trying to get Snuffy to accept Hank Kissinger as his dark master.
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What sex is BigBird? Male or Female or... You just don't know, do you? Now who is his best sidekick? Snufalupakous. Now this may have changed, but as far as I can remember, ole Snuffy was only visible to BB and the neighborhood kids. Right? And Snuffy lived in a back room or wardrobe. Right? So, you've got a six-foot androgynous yellow bird whose best friend lives in a closet and is only seen by same bird. If that isn't the liberal media trying to turn all 6-year-olds into hopeless buggers, then I don't know what is. Don't even get me started on the Swedish Chef. Filthy Nordic ponce....
Amen. As a USAian against military response in Afgahnistan, I am willing to say that 85 years of US foreign policy in the Middle East (if you go back to Wilsonian doctrines) have been flawed with a colonizer's model of the world. This model states that the certain countries "colonize" other countries either explicitly through intervention or implicitly, through propaganda, indirect aid to meaningless insurgencies, etc. This flaw is what guides war criminals like Henry Kissinger (and by entension, his students Rumsfield and Cheney). Kissingerian foreign policy is as much to blame for the deaths at the WTC as radical Arab political thought and it certainly carries more blame than, say, Islam, in general, or a poor Afghani peasant in particular, who wouldn't know there was a USA if it weren't for all the Stinger missiles we supplied them. Warm up the body bag factories, Colin Powell's got him a good ole fashioned fire base war ala Vietnam.
Whatever. National Champs 1951, 1998. VT won a a National Championship in, well, let's see, nothing in recent memory. UT is the best college sports program in the nation (men and women combined). And we invented SNMP (well, Jeff Case did.) UT isn't afraid of anybody (look at the current schedule) and they are in the SEC. We play Florida, Bama, and Ga. every year. VT plays Rutgers, Temple, BC, etc. Yawn. Most of those barely rate a Div I ranking other than the fact that their facilities require it.
Not true. A complete SW Vehjenya/East TN urban legend. The game was never proposed other than in the media. My old roommate works for UT's athletics doing, of all things, scheduling. Besides, it would have to be a Virginia Tech home game, cuz there is an in-house rule that the Vols can only play at Neyland Stadium for home games. Anyhow, those 150,000 would be 110,000 Vol fans. VPI plays in a Band Box. CHOKIES!
Hell, I remember 6 weeks of being told by a pencil-necked geek that I wasn't trying hard enough when I wasn't strong enough to pick up a tennis ball after a shoulder scope. This would be much more pleasant. You could heap your psychological trauma and pent up hate on a machine. That makes it all better.
Anyhoo, VPI plays in a weak conference with only one decent team other than themselves so missing Mr. Suggs shouldn't be too bad. I say we line the Chokies up in Bristol agin them Vols and let them see what a real football team is like.
I didn't have a major in college. My alma mater only had concentrations which were interest classes other than the core curriculum. The core curriculum was rigid, difficult and focused on the fundamentals (language, science and mathematics) as well as reasoning, value inquiry and understanding global issues. You had to synthesize, analyze and verbalize or you were failed. No bones. My grades sucked but so did the majority. If you were average you got Cs. If you were great you went right to a Phd program at the school of your choice. The average grads were sharp as well.
My liberal education allowed me to learn on my feet (that's the way I learned to code) but to also understand all that underlying stuff around my profession (IT) and its origin.
Unfortunately, a lot of engineering schools give short shrift to the liberal arts. My current employer has made a conscious effort to stem that trend. I'd rather have a focused, yet "well-rounded" engineer than a problem-set nerd who can't talk about the implications of IT on the world stage. Those guys bore the shit out of me and usually suck as engineers anyway.
Of course, the really funny thing about this matter is that M$ uses BSD code all over the place. It doesn't violate the license, but you'd never know. They might use GPL code, but you'd never know(without Black Magic(tm)). But I'd bet they'd never use GPL'd code, cause it is already implemented in BSD under a freer license and is better stuff anyhoo. I am putting the Drag Racing togs on as you type.
Worked for a company doing their web server admin (Apache, etc). They went tits up (not my fault). Head man said: "Look. I can't pay you. But I can give you equipment." I got an Alpha workstation and a SGI Indy. EBayed 'em and got my money back x 2. I'm happy. He's happy.
If you get infected with Ebola or Dengue fever, then they quarantine you until you are dead or not a vector. Same paradigm applies here. As for Linux bigotry, BSD doesn't have these problems either. Wait until those raw sockets on XP start infecting the earth. Egads.
Carve up MIT's, IBM's, and Stanford's Class A networks.
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This is absolutely not true.
First, the insinuation that working at a university is somehow "easier" (he'll beg off that he didn't mean that) is false. Most universities (especially mine) are charged to do more with less. Budgets are finite and accountable. Taxpayers raise as much hell as shareholders and have the unsavory habit of reminding civil cervants of that ability all too often.
Second, one mad rush? This time of the year (it actually happens twice - again in January) is a mad rush in addition to supporting thousands of staff and faculty members who are, in some ways, much more demanding than students.
Third, the restrictions are not arbitrary. When you have a DS-3 (not fractional) dedicated to the dorms and it is pegged 99% full and preventing kids from doing what they are supposed to be doing (academic work), then the rubber hits the road and hard decisions have to be made. There is no arbitrariness involved; only decisions made to keep the lights on.
Many people in industry look down their noses at academic networking, but when they come in and see the scale of the problem as well as its intricacies, they usually scurry back to a nice cubicle at Amalgamated Widgets.
I should amend that number to indicate that other than the "Dorm Storm," that's 50 or so people to cover 26,000 users normally. "My network thingy isn't homajigging with the dinglehoffer." Boo ya.
A *nix sysadmin is less likely to let a machine go unpatched, in the best of all possible worlds.
An NT/2000 sysadmin is a secretary who reboots when the internet thingy stop hoogjamajigging, in the best of all possible worlds.
Seriously, in tracking down a couple of thousand hosts on campus who had Code Red, I have never ran into such righteous indignation over a simple lecture on systems maintenance as patching. Of course, many of these users/sysadmins were dumbasses who installed Win2K server because they could, not because they had to. 3 machines in one room were being used as everyday workstations and not offering services for any particular use by the office. Mind you, the services were still offered. Hit the average Code Red machine with your web browser and you will see the default webpage.
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That's right a Klingon programming language. Waaaaaaa! As far from Perl as one can get....
Well, most likely Bill G will get the monopoly on this whole shooting match. Great. Now my ID card will Blue Screen when I move the mouse after inserting the CD. Or is that when I fish it out after drinking a quart of milk? Something like that...
blown speakers. Guffaw.
This is a parody of Jerry Falwell, et al. Please tell me you are not this naive....
Now how can we find Dick Cheney?
He's trying to get Snuffy to accept Hank Kissinger as his dark master.
What sex is BigBird? Male or Female or... You just don't know, do you? Now who is his best sidekick? Snufalupakous. Now this may have changed, but as far as I can remember, ole Snuffy was only visible to BB and the neighborhood kids. Right? And Snuffy lived in a back room or wardrobe. Right? So, you've got a six-foot androgynous yellow bird whose best friend lives in a closet and is only seen by same bird. If that isn't the liberal media trying to turn all 6-year-olds into hopeless buggers, then I don't know what is. Don't even get me started on the Swedish Chef. Filthy Nordic ponce....
Amen. As a USAian against military response in Afgahnistan, I am willing to say that 85 years of US foreign policy in the Middle East (if you go back to Wilsonian doctrines) have been flawed with a colonizer's model of the world. This model states that the certain countries "colonize" other countries either explicitly through intervention or implicitly, through propaganda, indirect aid to meaningless insurgencies, etc. This flaw is what guides war criminals like Henry Kissinger (and by entension, his students Rumsfield and Cheney). Kissingerian foreign policy is as much to blame for the deaths at the WTC as radical Arab political thought and it certainly carries more blame than, say, Islam, in general, or a poor Afghani peasant in particular, who wouldn't know there was a USA if it weren't for all the Stinger missiles we supplied them. Warm up the body bag factories, Colin Powell's got him a good ole fashioned fire base war ala Vietnam.
Whatever. National Champs 1951, 1998. VT won a a National Championship in, well, let's see, nothing in recent memory. UT is the best college sports program in the nation (men and women combined). And we invented SNMP (well, Jeff Case did.) UT isn't afraid of anybody (look at the current schedule) and they are in the SEC. We play Florida, Bama, and Ga. every year. VT plays Rutgers, Temple, BC, etc. Yawn. Most of those barely rate a Div I ranking other than the fact that their facilities require it.
Not true. A complete SW Vehjenya/East TN urban legend. The game was never proposed other than in the media. My old roommate works for UT's athletics doing, of all things, scheduling. Besides, it would have to be a Virginia Tech home game, cuz there is an in-house rule that the Vols can only play at Neyland Stadium for home games. Anyhow, those 150,000 would be 110,000 Vol fans. VPI plays in a Band Box. CHOKIES!
Anyhoo, VPI plays in a weak conference with only one decent team other than themselves so missing Mr. Suggs shouldn't be too bad. I say we line the Chokies up in Bristol agin them Vols and let them see what a real football team is like.
My liberal education allowed me to learn on my feet (that's the way I learned to code) but to also understand all that underlying stuff around my profession (IT) and its origin.
Unfortunately, a lot of engineering schools give short shrift to the liberal arts. My current employer has made a conscious effort to stem that trend. I'd rather have a focused, yet "well-rounded" engineer than a problem-set nerd who can't talk about the implications of IT on the world stage. Those guys bore the shit out of me and usually suck as engineers anyway.
Of course, the really funny thing about this matter is that M$ uses BSD code all over the place. It doesn't violate the license, but you'd never know. They might use GPL code, but you'd never know(without Black Magic(tm)). But I'd bet they'd never use GPL'd code, cause it is already implemented in BSD under a freer license and is better stuff anyhoo. I am putting the Drag Racing togs on as you type.
Worked for a company doing their web server admin (Apache, etc). They went tits up (not my fault). Head man said: "Look. I can't pay you. But I can give you equipment." I got an Alpha workstation and a SGI Indy. EBayed 'em and got my money back x 2. I'm happy. He's happy.
If you get infected with Ebola or Dengue fever, then they quarantine you until you are dead or not a vector. Same paradigm applies here. As for Linux bigotry, BSD doesn't have these problems either. Wait until those raw sockets on XP start infecting the earth. Egads.
New Order fan since 1982. Never disappointed (even by Republic).
Star Wars fan since 1977. Disappointed numerous times except by TESB.
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Waaahay!
Carve up MIT's, IBM's, and Stanford's Class A networks.
This is absolutely not true.
First, the insinuation that working at a university is somehow "easier" (he'll beg off that he didn't mean that) is false. Most universities (especially mine) are charged to do more with less. Budgets are finite and accountable. Taxpayers raise as much hell as shareholders and have the unsavory habit of reminding civil cervants of that ability all too often.
Second, one mad rush? This time of the year (it actually happens twice - again in January) is a mad rush in addition to supporting thousands of staff and faculty members who are, in some ways, much more demanding than students.
Third, the restrictions are not arbitrary. When you have a DS-3 (not fractional) dedicated to the dorms and it is pegged 99% full and preventing kids from doing what they are supposed to be doing (academic work), then the rubber hits the road and hard decisions have to be made. There is no arbitrariness involved; only decisions made to keep the lights on.
Many people in industry look down their noses at academic networking, but when they come in and see the scale of the problem as well as its intricacies, they usually scurry back to a nice cubicle at Amalgamated Widgets.
I should amend that number to indicate that other than the "Dorm Storm," that's 50 or so people to cover 26,000 users normally. "My network thingy isn't homajigging with the dinglehoffer." Boo ya.
Oh, please. I was a philosophy major in undergrad. Give a poor redneck a chance, now and again. ;-)
Brother, you just spec'd out Windows....
A *nix sysadmin is less likely to let a machine go unpatched, in the best of all possible worlds.
An NT/2000 sysadmin is a secretary who reboots when the internet thingy stop hoogjamajigging, in the best of all possible worlds.
Seriously, in tracking down a couple of thousand hosts on campus who had Code Red, I have never ran into such righteous indignation over a simple lecture on systems maintenance as patching. Of course, many of these users/sysadmins were dumbasses who installed Win2K server because they could, not because they had to. 3 machines in one room were being used as everyday workstations and not offering services for any particular use by the office. Mind you, the services were still offered. Hit the average Code Red machine with your web browser and you will see the default webpage.
Linux is GNU and by definition is not Unix. It is Unix-like.
Oh, whoops! I typed before I thought. Mea Culpa.
I meant modules . I get giddy hard nips to plug my two favortie free languages. So sorry.
Another cool thing: Renderman uses Perl for scripting and (I beleive) Python too.
Astroturf!