hijack a jet with a computer program? Get it?
These comments are about crime, but Ashcroft is about terrorism. How many hackers have killed people? Let's not get offtopic here. Ashcroft sounds like a paranoid lunatic! There is absolutely no parallel between hacking and the WTC attack. This is just another right-wing attempt to use the tragedy to push their agenda (see crypto stories, face recognition...)
It's not only unjust, it's an outrageous political manuever whereby Ashcroft wants to capitalize on the deaths of thousands of innocent people. I'm sickened.
I used to do this, and let me tell you, grumpy students are one thing (especially those of the spoiled princess variety), but nothing compares to the Dad who knows nothing about computers but doesn't want to look dumb in front of his kid!
..just say "no" if you don't want to contribute.
Can I have money? There. See how easy it is to say "No?"
Sounds to me like Mandrake is in need of cash. They're looking for it from wherever they can find it and SO WHAT? At least they're not threatening to go under, but it's now time for Mandrake users to simply ask themselves if Mandrake is worth supporting. Go ahead and ask yourself. You still have two options.
Hey, if open source browsers become more and more standardized doesn't this mean that maybe someday we can get the integrated web browser that we've always wanted as part of the operating system?
Next up: the Linux registry and Linmodems!
... in today's IT job market, nobody cares. Take this time to study whatever you really want to learn. Check out the curriculum and see which path looks more interesting, and don't worry about: "It seems that many companies are looking for computer scientists, but would they be desperate enough to accept computer engineers?"
That's a perplexing statement, cuz frankly, they're desperate for anything (even MCSE's!)
This is an interesting enough scheme, but doesn't requiring the payment up front help them sort out who's really serious vs. who just wants a job? It's fishy, all right, but plenty of people work for borderline sleazy companies when they're just starting out, and when you get the experience, you take off. I should add that I got my start at a computer training company, and they were a scrappy little company which cut corners and blurred a few lines, but that's not bad experience for the business world.
At least they're not like Microsoft, who tells people that the avg MCSE salary is $67000/year in order to get their training bucks, flooding the market with MCSE's in an effort to promote their products. See, if they can make it look like the only "Systems Engineers" (term used loosely) out there know only Windows, then companies won't buy anything else, and won't hire anybody else because MCSE's are getting cheaper and cheaper to hire (on account of the recent explosion in paper expertise). That's how the big boys do it, and this Linuxgruven scheme is what you do when your small-time. Now the questions is: who gets hurt?
I think that the problem with finding good tech teachers is the same as finding good business teachers (if there is such a thing) and finding good law professors. The issue is that anyone qualified to teach this stuff would make a hell of a lot of money than they would if they did anything but teach. Occasionally this works out okay because sometmes a person who really loves to teach is willing to sacrifice the giant paycheck for it, but it's more often the case that those who become teachers in technology are either not competitive due to qualifications or they're burned out by the commercial world. In both cases they're bitter, and even resentful of younger tech-types with brighter futures than theirs. (We could also relate this resentfulness to the rampant sexism in engineering schools, but that would be offtopic.)
The question here is: what can we do to encourage intelligent, knowledgeable people to share their knowledge rather than hoard it all as intellectual property, and just how the hell is it fair that a guy like me with a BA in history can make more money on an IT help desk than a person who spends ten years in college and goes on to contribute to the future of the field? The fact is that people who don't get the respect they deserve will very quickly and inevitably lose interest in their students and lose their passion for the subject.
This i sthe best solution, in my opinion. The loss of files stored on floppies is a classic "stupid user trick." When I worked in my university's computer lab, we had kids trying to use ONE floppy for the entire four years, and of course it would last them right up to the night before their senior projects were due. If your users are on your machines, you can set your PC's to automatically save backup copies on the network, but this could be a privacy issue. The best bet is to encourage people to save their stuff to their own user accounts and use floppies for backup. Give them a user agreement acknowleging that they have received your recommendation and your covered if they try to blame you for ruining their disks (which happens in a public access lab all the time. Those floppy drives take one heck of a beating).
I agree. What could they possibly be paying their support staff in the first place that would make sixty bucks seem like money? At my job, overtime is time and a half, and they are very conscious of the fact that qualified IT pros can walk off at any time and find a new position elsewhere if they don't like the situation here. Take advantage of that demand and leverage yourselves a better deal. If they think they can just hire someone else to put up with this, then their HR staff's in for some overtime themselves.
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hijack a jet with a computer program? Get it?
These comments are about crime, but Ashcroft is about terrorism. How many hackers have killed people? Let's not get offtopic here. Ashcroft sounds like a paranoid lunatic! There is absolutely no parallel between hacking and the WTC attack. This is just another right-wing attempt to use the tragedy to push their agenda (see crypto stories, face recognition...)
It's not only unjust, it's an outrageous political manuever whereby Ashcroft wants to capitalize on the deaths of thousands of innocent people. I'm sickened.
No! Tools are definitely evil! The Wright brothers should have ben executed immediately for inventing their flying building-knocker-down contraption!
I used to do this, and let me tell you, grumpy students are one thing (especially those of the spoiled princess variety), but nothing compares to the Dad who knows nothing about computers but doesn't want to look dumb in front of his kid!
Beware and avoid at all costs.
..just say "no" if you don't want to contribute. Can I have money? There. See how easy it is to say "No?"
Sounds to me like Mandrake is in need of cash. They're looking for it from wherever they can find it and SO WHAT? At least they're not threatening to go under, but it's now time for Mandrake users to simply ask themselves if Mandrake is worth supporting. Go ahead and ask yourself. You still have two options.
Hey, if open source browsers become more and more standardized doesn't this mean that maybe someday we can get the integrated web browser that we've always wanted as part of the operating system? Next up: the Linux registry and Linmodems!
... in today's IT job market, nobody cares. Take this time to study whatever you really want to learn. Check out the curriculum and see which path looks more interesting, and don't worry about:
"It seems that many companies are looking for computer scientists, but would they be desperate enough to accept computer engineers?"
That's a perplexing statement, cuz frankly, they're desperate for anything (even MCSE's!)
This is an interesting enough scheme, but doesn't requiring the payment up front help them sort out who's really serious vs. who just wants a job? It's fishy, all right, but plenty of people work for borderline sleazy companies when they're just starting out, and when you get the experience, you take off. I should add that I got my start at a computer training company, and they were a scrappy little company which cut corners and blurred a few lines, but that's not bad experience for the business world.
At least they're not like Microsoft, who tells people that the avg MCSE salary is $67000/year in order to get their training bucks, flooding the market with MCSE's in an effort to promote their products. See, if they can make it look like the only "Systems Engineers" (term used loosely) out there know only Windows, then companies won't buy anything else, and won't hire anybody else because MCSE's are getting cheaper and cheaper to hire (on account of the recent explosion in paper expertise). That's how the big boys do it, and this Linuxgruven scheme is what you do when your small-time. Now the questions is: who gets hurt?
I think that the problem with finding good tech teachers is the same as finding good business teachers (if there is such a thing) and finding good law professors. The issue is that anyone qualified to teach this stuff would make a hell of a lot of money than they would if they did anything but teach. Occasionally this works out okay because sometmes a person who really loves to teach is willing to sacrifice the giant paycheck for it, but it's more often the case that those who become teachers in technology are either not competitive due to qualifications or they're burned out by the commercial world. In both cases they're bitter, and even resentful of younger tech-types with brighter futures than theirs. (We could also relate this resentfulness to the rampant sexism in engineering schools, but that would be offtopic.) The question here is: what can we do to encourage intelligent, knowledgeable people to share their knowledge rather than hoard it all as intellectual property, and just how the hell is it fair that a guy like me with a BA in history can make more money on an IT help desk than a person who spends ten years in college and goes on to contribute to the future of the field? The fact is that people who don't get the respect they deserve will very quickly and inevitably lose interest in their students and lose their passion for the subject.
This i sthe best solution, in my opinion. The loss of files stored on floppies is a classic "stupid user trick." When I worked in my university's computer lab, we had kids trying to use ONE floppy for the entire four years, and of course it would last them right up to the night before their senior projects were due. If your users are on your machines, you can set your PC's to automatically save backup copies on the network, but this could be a privacy issue. The best bet is to encourage people to save their stuff to their own user accounts and use floppies for backup. Give them a user agreement acknowleging that they have received your recommendation and your covered if they try to blame you for ruining their disks (which happens in a public access lab all the time. Those floppy drives take one heck of a beating).
I agree. What could they possibly be paying their support staff in the first place that would make sixty bucks seem like money? At my job, overtime is time and a half, and they are very conscious of the fact that qualified IT pros can walk off at any time and find a new position elsewhere if they don't like the situation here. Take advantage of that demand and leverage yourselves a better deal. If they think they can just hire someone else to put up with this, then their HR staff's in for some overtime themselves.