I've never had really great teachers I could remember of in High school. Maybe one or two of them, namely my Geography teacher.
However I have come across good ones in my current Higher Institute of Learning. One of them was my teacher for Computer Systems Architecture, another was a teacher for java programming.
One of the major problems in the Education system in Singapore is that some of us, while we were students, recieved government subsidy for education, and therefore we have to work for the goverment after we graduated. We end up being teachers, but without the passion for it, that's why we get more and more young yuppies coming into class with that "come fuck me" look. You know -- I call it the blowjob face.
Anyway, I have written an article about our local education system in my personal homepage. You can find it at http://www.xtreme.dhs.org/detach/works.shtml entitled "Education: One to one stupidity mapping"
Oh, some guestbook entries would be appreciated.:-)
It just some organizational tree thingie. I am in Singapore and my broadband providers won't let you speak to technical guys even. You're supposed to liase with customer service personnels who knows almost nothing about those 'geeky' terms you use, like "SMTP" or "HTTP" or "DNS".
I mean, there was once they cut my line off and said I was running a server, and told me to shut it down. I asked them what the fuck do they mean by server, and it took me almost two damn weeks to just get them to ask the technical guys what the heck did they actually detect on my box. (It was a FTPd)
Damn they should allow customers to speak to some tech guys they employ to do some frontend customer service.
I'm not going like "damn I expect it to be blazin" but the site seems pretty freakin slow from Singapore. It's either the link or the server itself. I'm having like lots of read timeouts.
Anyway it looks like the TCP/IP stack needs some serious reworking. "TCP connections used: 73/188"
Plus some CPU optimisations.
I'll be pretty keen to try it out if I could. Maybe make it the next big "floppy router" thingie.
Well, having fiddled with computer hardware for years, I figger electronic components, not ONLY computers, degrade. That makes perfect sense to you dosen't it?
What's more, our RAM chips are running at really high speeds of 66MHz, 100Mhz, and some at 133MHz for those using the P3-EB processors. They are done with.18 or.15 micron die processes (correct me if i am wrong), and since they are getting so puny and fast, the possibility of failure is even greater.
Think -- why does old 486 PCs last a decade while our new Pentium PCs die after a few years, bit by bit?
Anyway I can't think of a better way to figure out bad RAM pages until I get fux0red by a screwed data coming in. By the time that happens, it might be too late -- your screwed data might have been on its way down your data bus to your hard drive, or prolly writing some data onto your BIOS Flash chip.
When that happens, that $80 you save on your RAM izn't worth the time. I won't wanna try this, even if the system is a devel system. It's just now worth the time. I figger the time's more worth wanking.;-P
Hey this sounds illogical. If RAM chips were damaged, there is potential that they get damanged further, and eventually your amount of usable RAM will run down to 0 bytes. They are electronic components anyway.
Would you run your O/S on a hard disk with lots of damaged bad sectors and a potentially dying motor? I doubt so. First, correct me if I'm wrong, but before your O/S even boots, the first few bytes of your RAM is already taken up. If it's damaged, there's a few things which could happen.
a) You can't start your computer
b) Somewhere before your O/S loads, the whole boot process goes bonkers
c) It corrupts the data in your hard disk
Say, this is working at O/S kernel level, and the kernel loads way after a huge chunk of initialization process done by your system during boot, and some systems just refuse to boot after a failed RAM test.
Even if you got your system running, there's a high risk of failure. Why waste time and money on a system that's gonna potentially die on you? Just spend a few more bucks on a brand new RAM stick.
Hey this sounds illogical.
If RAM chips were damaged, there is potential that they get damanged further, and eventually your amount of usable RAM will run down to 0 bytes. They are electronic components anyway.
Would you run your O/S on a hard disk with lots of damaged bad sectors and a potentially dying motor? I doubt so.
First, correct me if I'm wrong, but before your O/S even boots, the first few bytes of your RAM is already taken up. If it's damaged, there's a few things which could happen.
a) You can't start your computer
b) Somewhere before your O/S loads, the whole boot process goes bonkers
c) It corrupts the data in your hard disk
Say, this is working at O/S kernel level, and the kernel loads way after a huge chunk of initialization process done by your system during boot, and some systems just refuse to boot after a failed RAM test.
Even if you got your system running, there's a high risk of failure. Why waste time and money on a system that's gonna potentially die on you? Just spend a few more bucks on a brand new RAM stick. Common, I run my Squid on a 48mb system!
Remember Murphy's Law stating "Anything that will go wrong, WILL go wrong?"
I guess the engineers are busy re-designing the chipset after a power failure over at AMD occurred when they plugged in their new 20GHz Athlon. Thanks to Microsoft, they didn't save their work.
Anything that will go wrong, WENT wrong.
Nobody expects a bugless software the size of 2CDs (approx 1GB)
Why don't ya just build yer own distro.:-) Call it Bugbuster Linux or something, and I'll be the first to try it on my old 486 here.
You mean I can stare at the sun when there aint any spots? Stare at it real hard and get my eyeballs burnt off?
I have a perfect eyesight and I live in a tropical country! Sheesh. NEVER tell me you can actually stare at the sun. You CANT! It simply blows your eyeballs off and after two minutes, you'll see stars around ya.
While many argue this is irritating, I think its a useful feature for their proprietry code. I believe if you're sending your mails to the rest of the world, you shouldn't even be using Outlook 2000. Use Outlook Express instead. It's simpler and easier to use and administrate. Outlook 2000 is somewhat like a LAN collaboration tool, something like Lotus Notes? *shrug*
Perl's just another simple scripting language. Do C. Theres nothing that C cannot do. I'm a perl programmer to, and a newbie Java. I'm beginning to like C... hopefully I catch it really quickly.
Hey! I just spend over $600 on my new set! Damnit!
Anybody wants a 1U rack mount server?:P
As much as I support the realistic need for a certification, but almost none out there I've seen requested for any hardcore Linux certifications.
Of many corporates i've seen, they would place a Linux geek in an interview, and he would ask you a couple of questions. You'll just need to know your Linux, and let them know that you know linux. That's the difference.
If you didn't realize, the certifications is just another marketing stunt to bring in more money, and make them write more senseless books. These books like Microsoft guides and Cisco IOS guides are purely the detailed versions of the O/S manpages.
LOOK at linux -- the manpages are free. You just need a 6ppm printer to print IPchains-HOWTO in less than 5 minutes.
No software is purrrfect. There's bound to be an exploit in ONE small part of RedHat if they do it really well. I've expressed my views on their installation which, by the DEFAULT option, opens the box to exploits. Heck, I'd not comment anymore until I get my hands on 7.0. Hopefully the installation is simple and comprehensive. Anyway, that's where I really appreciate Microsoft's effort in making its Operating Systems -- It's comprehensive to install and use as compared to Linux. (However with a heck lots of bugs I do not wish to mention) A combo of Microsoft + Linux machines at home are the best to work with. (Gee I wish I had a Mac)
gee ok apologies for my mistake 'coz I am no X guy, and I only do servers on Linux. But that's about it. I've already mentioned that newbies don't know what's happening during package selection, and they simply just load everything just to be on the safe side. (Think of yourself as a newbie, would you understand what "inetd", "xmms" or even X was? I wouldn't have known wat all these stuffs were)
As an end-user, not many actually bother finding out what's on their system and go around reading HOW-TOs. People have been telling them Linux is save -- and they assume its safe anyway. A false sense of security is worse than a sense of insecurity.
I know a bunch of kids who are enthusiastic to set up.COMs selling shell accounts and such, and they just grab a copy of redhat and install the server, and 3 months later, got their box compromised. Is redhat gonna make these potential Linux users lose their confidence in them? Well, it's up to them to secure their products by default. Let the users learn to install additional things they want; let them LEARN the way things should be.
You'd be suprised newbies don't even know what files goes where (in the file system), and RPM does all the job of copying files to these relevant directories.
I was once a newbie, and I don't deny that I didn't use RPMs. Yes, they may be convinient, but that's what made me an idiot with the file system structure. I'd prefer that newbies get forced to download compressed binaries and get them installed in the right places by themselves. Imagine, I have a friend who dosen't even know how to move/copy/rename files!
Anyway, that's how I started using THE computer... I was forced to use MS-DOS.
Well I won't comment any further. I'd just wait for RH7 and have a close look at it first.
RedHat's OS comes installed with loads of crap. It's becoming more like a bloatware than a good piece of O/S bundled with *just the right tools*. Many newbies won't even know whats happening during the packages installation, and they just load everything, like httpd, inetd, etc.
By default, weird inetd daemons like fingerd and telnet are open to security threats, and their installations are getting larger and larger (if I'm not wrong, RH6 was almost 600mb huge, while RH5 was about 200-300.) Who knows what they have for us in RH7?
Lastly, I hate to think but it makes linux users lazy with all the bloatware and RPM. People are lazy to download software and compile them, and I see lots of people just send mails to linux mailing lists with questions answered by millions of FAQs people took PAINS in writing.
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I've never had really great teachers I could remember of in High school. Maybe one or two of them, namely my Geography teacher.
:-)
However I have come across good ones in my current Higher Institute of Learning. One of them was my teacher for Computer Systems Architecture, another was a teacher for java programming.
One of the major problems in the Education system in Singapore is that some of us, while we were students, recieved government subsidy for education, and therefore we have to work for the goverment after we graduated. We end up being teachers, but without the passion for it, that's why we get more and more young yuppies coming into class with that "come fuck me" look. You know -- I call it the blowjob face.
Anyway, I have written an article about our local education system in my personal homepage. You can find it at http://www.xtreme.dhs.org/detach/works.shtml entitled "Education: One to one stupidity mapping"
Oh, some guestbook entries would be appreciated.
It just some organizational tree thingie. I am in Singapore and my broadband providers won't let you speak to technical guys even. You're supposed to liase with customer service personnels who knows almost nothing about those 'geeky' terms you use, like "SMTP" or "HTTP" or "DNS". I mean, there was once they cut my line off and said I was running a server, and told me to shut it down. I asked them what the fuck do they mean by server, and it took me almost two damn weeks to just get them to ask the technical guys what the heck did they actually detect on my box. (It was a FTPd) Damn they should allow customers to speak to some tech guys they employ to do some frontend customer service.
I'm not going like "damn I expect it to be blazin" but the site seems pretty freakin slow from Singapore. It's either the link or the server itself. I'm having like lots of read timeouts.
Anyway it looks like the TCP/IP stack needs some serious reworking. "TCP connections used: 73/188"
Plus some CPU optimisations.
I'll be pretty keen to try it out if I could. Maybe make it the next big "floppy router" thingie.
Well, having fiddled with computer hardware for years, I figger electronic components, not ONLY computers, degrade. That makes perfect sense to you dosen't it?
.18 or .15 micron die processes (correct me if i am wrong), and since they are getting so puny and fast, the possibility of failure is even greater.
;-P
What's more, our RAM chips are running at really high speeds of 66MHz, 100Mhz, and some at 133MHz for those using the P3-EB processors. They are done with
Think -- why does old 486 PCs last a decade while our new Pentium PCs die after a few years, bit by bit?
Anyway I can't think of a better way to figure out bad RAM pages until I get fux0red by a screwed data coming in. By the time that happens, it might be too late -- your screwed data might have been on its way down your data bus to your hard drive, or prolly writing some data onto your BIOS Flash chip.
When that happens, that $80 you save on your RAM izn't worth the time. I won't wanna try this, even if the system is a devel system. It's just now worth the time. I figger the time's more worth wanking.
Hey this sounds illogical. If RAM chips were damaged, there is potential that they get damanged further, and eventually your amount of usable RAM will run down to 0 bytes. They are electronic components anyway.
Would you run your O/S on a hard disk with lots of damaged bad sectors and a potentially dying motor? I doubt so. First, correct me if I'm wrong, but before your O/S even boots, the first few bytes of your RAM is already taken up. If it's damaged, there's a few things which could happen.
Hey this sounds illogical. If RAM chips were damaged, there is potential that they get damanged further, and eventually your amount of usable RAM will run down to 0 bytes. They are electronic components anyway. Would you run your O/S on a hard disk with lots of damaged bad sectors and a potentially dying motor? I doubt so. First, correct me if I'm wrong, but before your O/S even boots, the first few bytes of your RAM is already taken up. If it's damaged, there's a few things which could happen. a) You can't start your computer b) Somewhere before your O/S loads, the whole boot process goes bonkers c) It corrupts the data in your hard disk Say, this is working at O/S kernel level, and the kernel loads way after a huge chunk of initialization process done by your system during boot, and some systems just refuse to boot after a failed RAM test. Even if you got your system running, there's a high risk of failure. Why waste time and money on a system that's gonna potentially die on you? Just spend a few more bucks on a brand new RAM stick. Common, I run my Squid on a 48mb system!
Remember Murphy's Law stating "Anything that will go wrong, WILL go wrong?" I guess the engineers are busy re-designing the chipset after a power failure over at AMD occurred when they plugged in their new 20GHz Athlon. Thanks to Microsoft, they didn't save their work. Anything that will go wrong, WENT wrong.
Nobody expects a bugless software the size of 2CDs (approx 1GB) Why don't ya just build yer own distro. :-) Call it Bugbuster Linux or something, and I'll be the first to try it on my old 486 here.
0xcefb0c4e Here's that in binary 0000 x 1100 1110 1111 1011 0000 1100 0100 1110 You might wanna try it.
You mean I can stare at the sun when there aint any spots? Stare at it real hard and get my eyeballs burnt off? I have a perfect eyesight and I live in a tropical country! Sheesh. NEVER tell me you can actually stare at the sun. You CANT! It simply blows your eyeballs off and after two minutes, you'll see stars around ya.
While many argue this is irritating, I think its a useful feature for their proprietry code. I believe if you're sending your mails to the rest of the world, you shouldn't even be using Outlook 2000. Use Outlook Express instead. It's simpler and easier to use and administrate. Outlook 2000 is somewhat like a LAN collaboration tool, something like Lotus Notes? *shrug*
Perl's just another simple scripting language. Do C. Theres nothing that C cannot do. I'm a perl programmer to, and a newbie Java. I'm beginning to like C... hopefully I catch it really quickly. Hey! I just spend over $600 on my new set! Damnit! Anybody wants a 1U rack mount server? :P
Damn! I just bought a DVD player and a Sony Hi-fi. Damn!
Of many corporates i've seen, they would place a Linux geek in an interview, and he would ask you a couple of questions. You'll just need to know your Linux, and let them know that you know linux. That's the difference.
If you didn't realize, the certifications is just another marketing stunt to bring in more money, and make them write more senseless books. These books like Microsoft guides and Cisco IOS guides are purely the detailed versions of the O/S manpages.
LOOK at linux -- the manpages are free. You just need a 6ppm printer to print IPchains-HOWTO in less than 5 minutes.
a cdrom boot of win2k installation would allow you to delete, re-create and format an NTFS partition. you dont have to fdisk from linux
No software is purrrfect. There's bound to be an exploit in ONE small part of RedHat if they do it really well. I've expressed my views on their installation which, by the DEFAULT option, opens the box to exploits. Heck, I'd not comment anymore until I get my hands on 7.0. Hopefully the installation is simple and comprehensive. Anyway, that's where I really appreciate Microsoft's effort in making its Operating Systems -- It's comprehensive to install and use as compared to Linux. (However with a heck lots of bugs I do not wish to mention) A combo of Microsoft + Linux machines at home are the best to work with. (Gee I wish I had a Mac)
gee ok apologies for my mistake 'coz I am no X guy, and I only do servers on Linux. But that's about it. I've already mentioned that newbies don't know what's happening during package selection, and they simply just load everything just to be on the safe side. (Think of yourself as a newbie, would you understand what "inetd", "xmms" or even X was? I wouldn't have known wat all these stuffs were)
As an end-user, not many actually bother finding out what's on their system and go around reading HOW-TOs. People have been telling them Linux is save -- and they assume its safe anyway. A false sense of security is worse than a sense of insecurity.
I know a bunch of kids who are enthusiastic to set up .COMs selling shell accounts and such, and they just grab a copy of redhat and install the server, and 3 months later, got their box compromised. Is redhat gonna make these potential Linux users lose their confidence in them? Well, it's up to them to secure their products by default. Let the users learn to install additional things they want; let them LEARN the way things should be.
You'd be suprised newbies don't even know what files goes where (in the file system), and RPM does all the job of copying files to these relevant directories. I was once a newbie, and I don't deny that I didn't use RPMs. Yes, they may be convinient, but that's what made me an idiot with the file system structure. I'd prefer that newbies get forced to download compressed binaries and get them installed in the right places by themselves. Imagine, I have a friend who dosen't even know how to move/copy/rename files! Anyway, that's how I started using THE computer... I was forced to use MS-DOS. Well I won't comment any further. I'd just wait for RH7 and have a close look at it first.
RedHat's OS comes installed with loads of crap. It's becoming more like a bloatware than a good piece of O/S bundled with *just the right tools*. Many newbies won't even know whats happening during the packages installation, and they just load everything, like httpd, inetd, etc. By default, weird inetd daemons like fingerd and telnet are open to security threats, and their installations are getting larger and larger (if I'm not wrong, RH6 was almost 600mb huge, while RH5 was about 200-300.) Who knows what they have for us in RH7? Lastly, I hate to think but it makes linux users lazy with all the bloatware and RPM. People are lazy to download software and compile them, and I see lots of people just send mails to linux mailing lists with questions answered by millions of FAQs people took PAINS in writing.