I did. When I asked if it was true that I had to pay SCO $699 to run RedHat Linux the operator chuckeled and said 'Yes, sorry about that sir.' It was not a sarcastic laugh, she actually found the situation funny.
I am a plant engineer at a food plant. I wrote a web-database application using PHP/MySQL/Apache to track maintenance work orders. During coding I ran it all off of my Win200 machine at work and Linux at home. After it was polished enough to go live I requested a computer to use as a server from our IT dept. I informed the them that it need not be fast because I was going to use Linux. The head IT guy's first question was: 'Do have licenses for this or is it something you are bringing from home?'
Sometimes it sucks to be the mechanical engineer that is more tech savvy than the entire PC support staff.
When my kindergardener brought home his first writing exercises I thought something was wrong with him. The letters were disjointed but with curved tails on each one. It turns out that they now teach a printed-cursive hybrid thing to kids in my small town. Its difficult for me to read this stuff...poor kids.
Several years ago I set up a spam account, spamforchris@yahoo.com. Everytime that I register for a web site, register software, subscribe to a newsletter, etc, I use the spam account. And when I give a friend or family member my personal email adress, I ask that they do not include me in their chain-emails. I have had less than 20 spam messages in any of my real email accounts since college.
Moral: If you are careless with your email adress, expect spam.
I suppose that at some time long ago ads were intended to inform consumers of availble products/services. But now we have Google and the rest of the net...more information than any one person could ever digest. We do't need ads. The only purpose ads serve now are to influence. Personally I don't like being influenced by entities that do not have my best intrest at heart.
I'd rather pay Fox directly for an episode of the Simpsons than to pay Ford to pay Fox for an episode of the Simpsons.
I knocked up my girl friend shortly before high school graduation. So we got married and did the family thing. I blew my chance to have the college experience. I still did go to school but it was community college then the nearby urban university the whole while I worked full time. So I've seen the college and the work world.
I would strongly advise you to go to a university and get a degree. There is a whole plethera of reasons for going to college other than the pursuit of a career.
I figure college students will catch on to this idea soon. A few students could go in together on a book, saw off the spine and distribute the chapters. Each one scans a small section then they reassemble the pieces, burn a stack of CD's and sell/give them to the class. I could have bought a cheap 7 pound laptop several times over for what I spent on hundereds of pounds worth of books.
What contribution to society do IT workers make that are significantly more important than the contribution of other similarly educated technical workers, i.e. mechnical, civil, or chemical engineers? None.
So why then do IT workers earn 50%-100% more than other technical fields? The bubble has burst and I think IT workers will have to take there place in the line of under-valued scientist/engineers/technicians.
One of the local radio stations played Ton Loc's "Wild Thing" for 1 solid week. No commercials, no DJ's, no other songs. At the time I had never heard of the station but by mid week it was the topic countless conversations at work and at school. People are wierd creatures.
Because getting a real degree means devoting 4 to 5 years of your life to concentrating on the development of your intelect. You simply can't demonstrate that level of persistence and dedication in 1 year.
ciriclum includes statics, dynamics, and mech. of materials. The first two are basically the physics of rigid things and the latter goes into how things squish. Statics and Dynamics are offered at many community colleges and I would highly recommend them for programmers who want to a better understanding of how F=m*a applies to the world.
I go to the University of Memphis (USA) where I inquired with the chief technology guy why students have no personal network space. He explained that it was too expensive to provide 20K students with a 100Megs or so of space. But then again the U of M has thousands of new Dell's with 20 or 30 gig HD and only 4 or 5 gigs of which are in use. Surly there are many other universities and corporations with this same condition that could benifit from some way to conglomerate and share the free space on different PC's.
Check out Eric Weisstein's ordeal. There's a mirror here. My apologies, Eric
A short synonpsis might be: Eric spent from high school to present of his life creating this wonderful resource. One day he returns from lunch to find Sherif's Deputies waiting to serve him with a federal copyright violation lawsuit for publishing his work on the web. Now after more than a year of negotiations all of Mathworld belongs to CRC and Eric pays them so that he can continue working on it.
Print his story out and stick it in the CRC books of your local book stores.
4 months old:CD-ROM keeps poping open spontaneously. I email Dell and get an auto reply so I follow its instruction for further help. No further help arrive. Wash rinse repeat the above two more times. Same results. Called Dell. Had a new CD-ROM arrive the next day with box to ship old one back.
6 months old:LCD develops anoying discolored 'thumbprint' thing. Emailed Dell twice just as above. No email responce. Called Dell. 18 hours later a technician was replacing the LCD in my home.
7 months old: HDD crashes. Same email thing...surely they have the system fixed by now...nope. Call Dell. Tech has me run a diagnostic which fails. New HDD arrives next day with prepaid box to send old HDD back (no PCMCIA->IDE adapter to transfer any salvageable data to new drive though....I specifically requested this from the phone answerer that cussed her husband and complained about needing to leave while I was[n't] on hold...very unprofessoinable).
So Dell hardware has sucks, support has been OK but thier email support is a joke.
I had only used MS OSes since the time of my first 386 running MS-DOS. I had never heard of Linux but I knew that if any product or service that I purchased performed as poorly as did my OS, I would find an alternative to said product or service. So I went to deja and searched on 'alternative operating systems'. TMALSS I ordered a RH6.0 CD from cheap-bytes.com and have been using Linux ever since. For about a year I used Linux without personally meeting a single human that even knew what Linux was. I didn't use Linux beacuse of open-source, GNU, or freedom. I was utterly oblivious to those causes. I used Linux cause it didn't crash; I could radically alter the appearance and usefulness of my desktop; and everything I wanted to do with linux had already been done, written down, and posted on the web. Then everytime I heard someone complain about their computer crashing I'd tell them about what I'd found. Now I hear people complaining not of thier computer crashing but about virii, forced upgrades, and cost. So I tell them too.
I was truly a non-geek that was simply tired of crappy software so I tried an alternative. When I converted, Linux was totally obscure. I'd never heard the word Linux before the day I ordered my RH CD. Today Linux is all over the grocery store magazine rack, all over the web, and oftentimes in the media. Linux will win because people will get tired of MS trying to take thier money. They will seek an alternative and they'll find it.
Thanks Linus, GNU guys and all the other countless developers.
From my college experience it works like this:
Group project time, not all group members have MS Office just the Works program that came installed on thier bargain PC. So whoever in the group has the Office CD burns a few copies and gives it to the other group members. Lather, Rinse, & Repeat for each new group project. Thats exponential growth. So when MS kills all piracy with some new authorization scheme, kids will just copy and burn the best alternative...SO.
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I did. When I asked if it was true that I had to pay SCO $699 to run RedHat Linux the operator chuckeled and said 'Yes, sorry about that sir.' It was not a sarcastic laugh, she actually found the situation funny.
I am a plant engineer at a food plant. I wrote a web-database application using PHP/MySQL/Apache to track maintenance work orders. During coding I ran it all off of my Win200 machine at work and Linux at home. After it was polished enough to go live I requested a computer to use as a server from our IT dept. I informed the them that it need not be fast because I was going to use Linux. The head IT guy's first question was: 'Do have licenses for this or is it something you are bringing from home?'
Sometimes it sucks to be the mechanical engineer that is more tech savvy than the entire PC support staff.
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When my kindergardener brought home his first writing exercises I thought something was wrong with him. The letters were disjointed but with curved tails on each one. It turns out that they now teach a printed-cursive hybrid thing to kids in my small town. Its difficult for me to read this stuff...poor kids.
I think you missed the point. I do not care if email harvestors collect spamforchris@yahoo.com. Re-read the post.
Several years ago I set up a spam account, spamforchris@yahoo.com. Everytime that I register for a web site, register software, subscribe to a newsletter, etc, I use the spam account. And when I give a friend or family member my personal email adress, I ask that they do not include me in their chain-emails. I have had less than 20 spam messages in any of my real email accounts since college.
Moral: If you are careless with your email adress, expect spam.
I suppose that at some time long ago ads were intended to inform consumers of availble products/services. But now we have Google and the rest of the net...more information than any one person could ever digest. We do't need ads. The only purpose ads serve now are to influence. Personally I don't like being influenced by entities that do not have my best intrest at heart. I'd rather pay Fox directly for an episode of the Simpsons than to pay Ford to pay Fox for an episode of the Simpsons.
I knocked up my girl friend shortly before high school graduation. So we got married and did the family thing. I blew my chance to have the college experience. I still did go to school but it was community college then the nearby urban university the whole while I worked full time. So I've seen the college and the work world.
I would strongly advise you to go to a university and get a degree. There is a whole plethera of reasons for going to college other than the pursuit of a career.
I figure college students will catch on to this idea soon. A few students could go in together on a book, saw off the spine and distribute the chapters. Each one scans a small section then they reassemble the pieces, burn a stack of CD's and sell/give them to the class. I could have bought a cheap 7 pound laptop several times over for what I spent on hundereds of pounds worth of books.
NUMBER:
: H.R.467 8:
H.R.4678
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
To protect and enhance consumer privacy, and for other purposes.
SEE THE BILL HERE:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107
What contribution to society do IT workers make that are significantly more important than the contribution of other similarly educated technical workers, i.e. mechnical, civil, or chemical engineers? None.
So why then do IT workers earn 50%-100% more than other technical fields? The bubble has burst and I think IT workers will have to take there place in the line of under-valued scientist/engineers/technicians.
One of the local radio stations played Ton Loc's "Wild Thing" for 1 solid week. No commercials, no DJ's, no other songs. At the time I had never heard of the station but by mid week it was the topic countless conversations at work and at school. People are wierd creatures.
1)Keep important data backed up
2)Set a boot password
3)Buy theft insurance
4)Sleep easy
From the article:
QNX RtP is serving as the self hosted development platform for QNX-based internet appliances and other QNX embedded applications.
Because getting a real degree means devoting 4 to 5 years of your life to concentrating on the development of your intelect. You simply can't demonstrate that level of persistence and dedication in 1 year.
ciriclum includes statics, dynamics, and mech. of materials. The first two are basically the physics of rigid things and the latter goes into how things squish. Statics and Dynamics are offered at many community colleges and I would highly recommend them for programmers who want to a better understanding of how F=m*a applies to the world.
I go to the University of Memphis (USA) where I inquired with the chief technology guy why students have no personal network space. He explained that it was too expensive to provide 20K students with a 100Megs or so of space. But then again the U of M has thousands of new Dell's with 20 or 30 gig HD and only 4 or 5 gigs of which are in use. Surly there are many other universities and corporations with this same condition that could benifit from some way to conglomerate and share the free space on different PC's.
Why does it need to be a closed system. Just pipe in your household cold water supply and dump to a drain or a resivoir or you hot water heater.
Check out Eric Weisstein's ordeal.
There's a mirror here. My apologies, Eric
A short synonpsis might be: Eric spent from high school to present of his life creating this wonderful resource. One day he returns from lunch to find Sherif's Deputies waiting to serve him with a federal copyright violation lawsuit for publishing his work on the web. Now after more than a year of negotiations all of Mathworld belongs to CRC and Eric pays them so that he can continue working on it.
Print his story out and stick it in the CRC books of your local book stores.
Or contact CRC and tell them what you think.
CRC Press LLC Headquarters
2000 NW Corporate Blvd
Boca Raton,FL, USA 33431
Phone
1(800)272-7737 x6066
(561)994-0555
Fax -
1(800)374-3401
(561)989-9732
MS holds this patent
Refurbed Inspiron 3800
4 months old:CD-ROM keeps poping open spontaneously. I email Dell and get an auto reply so I follow its instruction for further help. No further help arrive. Wash rinse repeat the above two more times. Same results. Called Dell. Had a new CD-ROM arrive the next day with box to ship old one back.
6 months old:LCD develops anoying discolored 'thumbprint' thing. Emailed Dell twice just as above. No email responce. Called Dell. 18 hours later a technician was replacing the LCD in my home.
7 months old: HDD crashes. Same email thing...surely they have the system fixed by now...nope. Call Dell. Tech has me run a diagnostic which fails. New HDD arrives next day with prepaid box to send old HDD back (no PCMCIA->IDE adapter to transfer any salvageable data to new drive though....I specifically requested this from the phone answerer that cussed her husband and complained about needing to leave while I was[n't] on hold...very unprofessoinable).
So Dell hardware has sucks, support has been OK but thier email support is a joke.
I had only used MS OSes since the time of my first 386 running MS-DOS. I had never heard of Linux but I knew that if any product or service that I purchased performed as poorly as did my OS, I would find an alternative to said product or service. So I went to deja and searched on 'alternative operating systems'. TMALSS I ordered a RH6.0 CD from cheap-bytes.com and have been using Linux ever since. For about a year I used Linux without personally meeting a single human that even knew what Linux was. I didn't use Linux beacuse of open-source, GNU, or freedom. I was utterly oblivious to those causes. I used Linux cause it didn't crash; I could radically alter the appearance and usefulness of my desktop; and everything I wanted to do with linux had already been done, written down, and posted on the web. Then everytime I heard someone complain about their computer crashing I'd tell them about what I'd found. Now I hear people complaining not of thier computer crashing but about virii, forced upgrades, and cost. So I tell them too.
I was truly a non-geek that was simply tired of crappy software so I tried an alternative. When I converted, Linux was totally obscure. I'd never heard the word Linux before the day I ordered my RH CD. Today Linux is all over the grocery store magazine rack, all over the web, and oftentimes in the media. Linux will win because people will get tired of MS trying to take thier money. They will seek an alternative and they'll find it.
Thanks Linus, GNU guys and all the other countless developers.
[1 lbm(pound mass)]/[32.2 ft/2^2]=1 slug
From my college experience it works like this:
Group project time, not all group members have MS Office just the Works program that came installed on thier bargain PC. So whoever in the group has the Office CD burns a few copies and gives it to the other group members. Lather, Rinse, & Repeat for each new group project. Thats exponential growth. So when MS kills all piracy with some new authorization scheme, kids will just copy and burn the best alternative...SO.
These evil crackers are trying to circumvent factor based encryption, a copyright protection scheme. Lock 'em up