But now you're worried about your conscience. After all, you've gotten a couple of offers, so you've probably gone looking for a new job, and now at the moment when you're ready to leave you're second guessing yourself.
Why? Because all of those "corporate" domains just give a coporate address and an email address that is probably rarely checked, and have enough receptionists to use as cannon fodder for any silly phone calls to the number. The average geek like myself will use a registrar that doesn't suck (read: not Network Solutions and friends) where they can easily lie about all the info and have an email address they can easily filter spam from. Anyone putting real info there who isn't trying to make a profit really, really, shouldn't.
I've given it a chance, and I still won't use it. While mozilla has all these nifty features and a sexy new look, it's still missing some of the things that make Opera so nice...I mean, the damn thing still can't even remember the vertical position of a page when you press back! Mozilla needs to focus on useability right now, and perhaps borrow a page or two from Opera's book.
Actually, yes, the programmer. Or you can build one with Bob's instructions here. This is probably not the kind of programmer you were thinking of, though.:)
Most security experts REALLY believe in firewalls. The expect that, when they die, arrive at the great firewall in the sky where Saint Peter is running a default policy of REJECT.
Personally, I think his default policy would be FORWARD...it's where to that is the question.
Any mostly unknown geek out there can give the MPAA the finger and create a gallery of css descramblers but to do it as a CS professor at a major university, you risk a lot more, so you've got to have balls.
I think it's possible that certifications (RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, whatever) have played a part in this trend. The biggest problem from going straight from high school to the tech industry is proving that you're not someone who can't go to college, it's your choice, and you're actually good at what you do (I speak from experience here.) Certs alleviate this somewhat, and people trying to decide to go to college or not can look at this and the decision seems clear...just compare the starting salary of CS grads with the average salary of a CCDA or MCSE with 0-1 years of experience. Does college pay? Not in that instance, at least, not immediately.
If you're trying to decide on going to college, I recommend going. I didn't go and have ended up doing better than I ever would have dreamed, but statistically I'm an outlyer.
But - apt-get. Oh man, what a program! This is the killer app of Debian. Something isn't working? You see the error message -
packageX is missing. Please install before running ProgramY. With apt-get and the.debs - you just can't go wrong. No
downloading RPMs to find you need *another* rpm. Debian's package management is definitely the easiest to master for the
newbie.
On that note, if more package management systems were as nice as perl's CPAN module, life would be a lot easier.
Why would they? You obviously aren't familiar with Mandrake. They like to be bleeding edge, and the distro won't even work for i386 machines as they've removed support for that to optimize it. I don't know of any other distro (mainstream, at least) where XFree86 4 is the default.
Personally, when it comes to desktop use of Linux, Mandrake is my favorite, mostly because of their lust for the cutting edge; I don't mind if my desktop gets hosed. On the server-side though, this is not my distro of choice, nor should it be yours for the same reasons.
The Sash project demonstrates a new class of application (we call them weblications) that go beyond the browser and showcases the integration of web content and the desktop.
Yea, active desktop for Linux. No thanks, if my desktop were only as stable as my browser I wouldn't be able to keep Katie Holmes on the background.
For its part, 2600 simply removed the links to copies of DeCSS. But they left the non-HTML versions of the addresses intact, so visitors can simply copy and paste them into a browser window.
Now I'm two clicks away from DeCSS, damn!
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Then I posted this message without an operating system to a server not running one. And the server the article is hosted on? Also not running an operating system.
The problem is, how are the customers going to prove that SBC intentionally lowered their speed? They can always claim the network is overloaded, etc. I've always found that SWB is pretty good at dodging the bullet.
When you're at a company where you have to use AFS and have to run an old Linux kernel to get AFS support, you'll realize that this is a good thing. How many times I've wished I had the source so I could compile a 2.2.16 module... Transarc isn't exactly on top things as far as Linux support goes either, so without it being opensourced you're basically just screwed until they decide to compile a module for your kernel version.
NIS and NFS are already implemented, and we are migrating to AFS and kerberos. Keeping user accounts in synch and having a unified directory structure isn't my problem. Consider this scenario:
The Brown Orifice HTTPD bug is discovered in Netscape, which all of my users use. I obviously want to fix this so that no users are vulnerable. NIS helps me not. Short of using a script to login to all the boxes and perform actions to update netscape/disable java, what is the best way to do this?
Ok, so giving the default gateway as an example was a bad idea, but you miss the bigger picture: I need to be able to change a lot more than just network configurations on all the machines. This could a pam configuration file, installing a new package, virtually anything. So far, the thing that looks the best to me is cfengine.
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But now you're worried about your conscience. After all, you've gotten a couple of offers, so you've probably gone looking for a new job, and now at the moment when you're ready to leave you're second guessing yourself.
Why? Because all of those "corporate" domains just give a coporate address and an email address that is probably rarely checked, and have enough receptionists to use as cannon fodder for any silly phone calls to the number. The average geek like myself will use a registrar that doesn't suck (read: not Network Solutions and friends) where they can easily lie about all the info and have an email address they can easily filter spam from. Anyone putting real info there who isn't trying to make a profit really, really, shouldn't.
I've given it a chance, and I still won't use it. While mozilla has all these nifty features and a sexy new look, it's still missing some of the things that make Opera so nice...I mean, the damn thing still can't even remember the vertical position of a page when you press back! Mozilla needs to focus on useability right now, and perhaps borrow a page or two from Opera's book.
If MS buys Sega, will they still support the Dreamcast, or quietly let it die and promote the Xbox?
Actually, yes, the programmer. Or you can build one with Bob's instructions here. This is probably not the kind of programmer you were thinking of, though. :)
Most security experts REALLY believe in firewalls. The expect that, when they die, arrive at the great firewall in the sky where Saint Peter is running a default policy of REJECT.
Personally, I think his default policy would be FORWARD...it's where to that is the question.
Any mostly unknown geek out there can give the MPAA the finger and create a gallery of css descramblers but to do it as a CS professor at a major university, you risk a lot more, so you've got to have balls.
Satan, get out the snowblower, Microsoft is posting source to what could become part of their operating system.
I think it's possible that certifications (RHCE, CCNA, MCSE, whatever) have played a part in this trend. The biggest problem from going straight from high school to the tech industry is proving that you're not someone who can't go to college, it's your choice, and you're actually good at what you do (I speak from experience here.) Certs alleviate this somewhat, and people trying to decide to go to college or not can look at this and the decision seems clear...just compare the starting salary of CS grads with the average salary of a CCDA or MCSE with 0-1 years of experience. Does college pay? Not in that instance, at least, not immediately.
If you're trying to decide on going to college, I recommend going. I didn't go and have ended up doing better than I ever would have dreamed, but statistically I'm an outlyer.
Have them post the code on slashdot and we'll rip it apart. :)
But - apt-get. Oh man, what a program! This is the killer app of Debian. Something isn't working? You see the error message - packageX is missing. Please install before running ProgramY. With apt-get and the .debs - you just can't go wrong. No
downloading RPMs to find you need *another* rpm. Debian's package management is definitely the easiest to master for the
newbie.
On that note, if more package management systems were as nice as perl's CPAN module, life would be a lot easier.
Why would they? You obviously aren't familiar with Mandrake. They like to be bleeding edge, and the distro won't even work for i386 machines as they've removed support for that to optimize it. I don't know of any other distro (mainstream, at least) where XFree86 4 is the default.
Personally, when it comes to desktop use of Linux, Mandrake is my favorite, mostly because of their lust for the cutting edge; I don't mind if my desktop gets hosed. On the server-side though, this is not my distro of choice, nor should it be yours for the same reasons.
It looks like he's modified this page to now include:
Many thanks to Linux.com for the layout!
Still no link though. Hrmph.
The Sash project demonstrates a new class of application (we call them weblications) that go beyond the browser and showcases the integration of web content and the desktop.
Yea, active desktop for Linux. No thanks, if my desktop were only as stable as my browser I wouldn't be able to keep Katie Holmes on the background.
For its part, 2600 simply removed the links to copies of DeCSS. But they left the non-HTML versions of the addresses intact, so visitors can simply copy and paste them into a browser window.
Now I'm two clicks away from DeCSS, damn!
Then I posted this message without an operating system to a server not running one. And the server the article is hosted on? Also not running an operating system.
In addition to mesh networks, AirFiber's engineers are using weather histories.
:)
Come on, I won't even base whether or not to carry an umbrella on forecasting, I'm not going to trust my network to it.
The problem is, how are the customers going to prove that SBC intentionally lowered their speed? They can always claim the network is overloaded, etc. I've always found that SWB is pretty good at dodging the bullet.
He also said that, by not having a staff, he can ignore the sorts of routine administrative details that would bog him down.
I want a job where I don't need a staff because I can just ignore the stuff I don't like!
http://www.bangkokpost.net/17080 0/170800_News03.html I think it was moved due to the time change there.
Perhaps, but in the end have you considered that this will give MS even more leverage to promote their own "standards" and ignore the W3C?
When you're at a company where you have to use AFS and have to run an old Linux kernel to get AFS support, you'll realize that this is a good thing. How many times I've wished I had the source so I could compile a 2.2.16 module... Transarc isn't exactly on top things as far as Linux support goes either, so without it being opensourced you're basically just screwed until they decide to compile a module for your kernel version.
This is great news, even though we just bought AFS...oh well. I wonder what the guys at the arla project will do now?
NIS and NFS are already implemented, and we are migrating to AFS and kerberos. Keeping user accounts in synch and having a unified directory structure isn't my problem. Consider this scenario: The Brown Orifice HTTPD bug is discovered in Netscape, which all of my users use. I obviously want to fix this so that no users are vulnerable. NIS helps me not. Short of using a script to login to all the boxes and perform actions to update netscape/disable java, what is the best way to do this?
Ok, so giving the default gateway as an example was a bad idea, but you miss the bigger picture: I need to be able to change a lot more than just network configurations on all the machines. This could a pam configuration file, installing a new package, virtually anything. So far, the thing that looks the best to me is cfengine.