My thoughts would be to bring our own back. If you harden a satellite as defense against anti-sat weapons, I suspect it might have the unwanted effect of letting critical bits survive re-entry when it does leave orbit.
Christians do have the advantage in the "whose religion is inherently violent" mudslinging match that nobody was killed in Jesus name while Jesus was alive, or while any of his students were alive, or their students, or their students, or their students, or their students.
I'm pretty sure Peter was going for a head shot, and just got the ear. (A bit of context, this is the same Simon Peter that was one of the inner circle of followers - heck, the first Pope, if you will. Peter took a swipe at the High Priest's servant as they came to arrest Jesus, kicking off the process. While he might have been a lousy shot, the intent was sure as heck there, followed by explicit instructions to put the sword away.
Like others mention, use a virtual machine like VirtualBox, and give everyone a virtual machine of your Linux system in addition to instructions to set up their own. This will save countless hours of helping your students get up and running.
To your question, what distro? I'd recommend Centos, which is a free as in beer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and/or Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). The only real differences between the three is branding and the support contract, with a five year support plan. Both Red Hat and Oracle have a Linux certification test, if you are looking to have a 'real' certificate when they are done.
Oracle supports Linux - RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) are more or less the same, with the support contracts run through Oracle rather than the Red Hat folks. Works nice when the OS and the application are one company - eliminates finger pointing. The support for Linux is very strong and from what I understand, they are all in (much like IBM is).
I don't understand why Oracle would want to make that same sort of commitment to another OOS operating system, especially one that has such a little footprint. Heck, I'd be a bit worried about Solaris proper, much less the OOS variant, were there a better SPARC option on the Linux side.
The Russians take a pretty sound strategy when it comes to rockets. The 'people' rated rockets are smaller and the heavy lifters don't go through the same qualification needed to ship humans. You send up the crew on one set of rockets and the materials on another. Assemble in orbit and save a good bit of money.
The shuttle is/was a 'people' rated heavy lifter. I suspect it got used for more political reasons than practical.
The Sun (now Oracle?) Java developer's certificate does show a fair bit of proficiency with the language. You really do need to have more than just a passing familiarity to get it. For me, one of the most challenging parts was things that were technically legal (and would work), but were very far from anything I would call best practice. The second bit was the breadth of the API it covers. I've been doing server side Java since servlets were born, with a heavy concentration the application server/EE side of the fence. Once I experimented with a client side application, so had to spend some time brushing up on little used (in my dev work) libs like Swing, AWT, etc.
Anyhow... this cert was real work. Short of many years under your belt, this really will make a difference at interview time - be it already knowing the same sort of snarky Java questions, or just getting a pass on the language.
For those not familiar with the brand, Oppo is one of the top consumer grade players out there. when I wash shopping for an up scaling DVD player, it was consistently one of the better recommendations on the AV forums and friends who did some serious (but not stupid) home setups. I love mine. In the case of several movies, it seems to skip the FBI warning - bonus!
If you were to 'hide' any consumer grade stuff into what is positioned as l33t/your left arm hardware, an Oppo would have been my first guess.
I've got a pair of 9800gx2 in my rig. The cards turn room temperature air into ~46C air. Without proper ventilation, these things will turn a chassis into an easy bake oven.
For those not familiar with the 9800gx2 cards, it essentially is two 8800gts video cards linked together to act as a single card - something called SLI on the NVidia side of marketing. SLI typically required a mainboard/chipset that would allow you to plug in two cards and link them together. This model allowed any mainboard to have two 'internal' cards linked together, with the option of linking another 9800gx2 if your board actually supported SLI.
The pictures did not show any SLI bridge, so it looks like they are just taking advantage of multiple GPUs per card.
I've got one of these running my local subversion repositories and a few other processes. As a bonus, it is fanless. One gotcha is it is a i586 CPU, which means distros like Centos and a few others will not install without a bit of extra work.
Surprised at the XP64 hating out there. When it was first released, drivers were in rough shape. Today, I've found most of the motherboards and video cards I buy have Server 2003/XP64 support - that covers 99% of the drivers I normally bump into. Heck, I even got my laptop running XP64. That was a bit of a treasure hunt compared to the typical build, but still.
Anyhow, had a different point to bring up... There are a few games and apps that don't - but for the most part it just works. For those that don't, many cases it is just a brain dead installer. (Hey Apple iTunes developers, I'm looking at you!) Turns out you can fix an installer where the people did not think to test/support XP64 by modifying the MSI installer to not rule out a properly patched version of XP64.
Download Microsoft's Orca MSI editor. (Find it in this CAB, or google for it) Look for a "LaunchCondition" property, probably set to "VersionNT64>=600" and modify it to "VersionNT64>=501". Shazam! Very good chance it will just work - at least the installer will not stop you from trying to run it.
Some people (Apple) still need to update drivers, etc... but more often then not it works.
I tried the command with the 32-bit and 64-bit version of XP pro. Not sure what XP home will do. If this is XP pro, and this is missing/won't work - that is usually a big red flag that something has messed with your OS.
to find out what ports your system is listening to. Running the netstat command will give you all the traffic. Should give you a good idea as to what is happening. (Helps to close all of your 'normal' apps)
Oh lordy... one of the dangers of drinking and posting without an edit button. V6... get the rope...
To your point, they do make it tricky to do your own work. I bought a ODBII reader to sort out what the computer was trying to tell me beyond the normal 'codes'. In the end, it was just a MAF sensor that was failing, but I wanted the actual engine data to narrow it down. None of the parts were going to be cheap, and I did not want to guess. I do work on myowncar. Other than brakepads, rotors, and an alternator, the mechanical systems have not needed any work. Wish all onboard computers came with a USB port...
It is all about acceleration. The "older" Bugatti Veyron reaching 100 km/h (62 mph) in approximately 2.46 seconds. This is very near motorcycle speeds. So while the high end might be very high, the low end is where most people drive the thing.
Putting it into perspective, my wife drives an Audi S6 with the Lamborghini v10 under the hood. Fast enough for as heavy as it is, and will do the same in about 5.2 seconds. I've got a Porsche 911 C4 with a 300 horse V6 that does it in about 5.3 seconds. Her car has a speed limiter, but I've never got to the point where it has come into play. In normal driving, that sort of acceleration can be handy and is used often enough. With my car, I've never been on a track with a long enough strait line to even get up into the 165+ range.
This is not a fair product comparison: OS2 vs VI's end of life. Both companies buy product, in some cases to integrate, others to remove competition, and others yet again to just own the customer base. Expect the same careful moves when the database gets put down someday.
I'm willing to bet it will play out more along these lines... For existing customer who already own the product, Oracle will support them for as long as they are willing to pay for support. For those who did not buy yet - sorry, no product can be bought anymore. For previous partners, a tough break. Continue to sell services to existing customers, but don't plan for any new customers. Now would be a very good time to rethink product - any of the other VM products - and see if there might be a reasonable match to what they were doing.
They could do it without a trojan, if they had the right signing key. I forget which worm it was, but a few years back there was a major vulnerability that Microsoft patched, which triggered the automatic reboot. The issue was the patch went ahead and updated the machine even if you had the system set to "download, but notify" rather than automagically patch. Similar deal here where an update did something it should not have.
Were I the FBI, I'd make Microsoft 'digitally sign' such a beasty, and then send it via an unannounced update.
Can you imagine if a Congressman was legally required to read every piece of correspondence and listen to every speaker?
I'd be happy if they were required to actually just read all of what they are voting on personally. Not that any of them, Congress or Senate, seem to do that today.
My thoughts, coming from the interviewer side, is if you come to us with *zero* work experience and an advanced degree - it won't go well for you. There is probably an expectation that you might be able to 'jump' to a higher pay grade because of the advanced training, thinking it might be equivalent to field time. Unlikely.... When we were looking at some candidates a couple weeks back, we ranked folks with experience greater than those to spent more time in academia. One fear was the person coming out with the advanced degree would not be willing to do the work (thinking something is below them, etc).
That said, folks working and going to school for that advanced degree do stand out. Having both real world experience and the advanced degree will be helpful. It is common (knock on wood) for companies to pay for your masters. Usually just enough to go part time - you still have that full time job after all.
Lastly, you may find that the work that typically maps to an educational track may not be your cup of tea. Not to say University is vocational training, but it is worth doing something you actually care about. Stick your toe in the water first.
Heh. My first visit to New Delhi, I wondered if India followed 'British' driving rules (drive on the left side of the road) vs the right side lane driving seen in many other countries. A couple hours each way, several days in a row, I was unable to call it based on the driving observed.
These guys would make the Brazilian or Italian drivers blush... It is a wonder we don't see more of them on the race track.
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My thoughts would be to bring our own back. If you harden a satellite as defense against anti-sat weapons, I suspect it might have the unwanted effect of letting critical bits survive re-entry when it does leave orbit.
Christians do have the advantage in the "whose religion is inherently violent" mudslinging match that nobody was killed in Jesus name while Jesus was alive, or while any of his students were alive, or their students, or their students, or their students, or their students.
http://bible.cc/john/18-10.htm
I'm pretty sure Peter was going for a head shot, and just got the ear. (A bit of context, this is the same Simon Peter that was one of the inner circle of followers - heck, the first Pope, if you will. Peter took a swipe at the High Priest's servant as they came to arrest Jesus, kicking off the process. While he might have been a lousy shot, the intent was sure as heck there, followed by explicit instructions to put the sword away.
Like others mention, use a virtual machine like VirtualBox, and give everyone a virtual machine of your Linux system in addition to instructions to set up their own. This will save countless hours of helping your students get up and running.
To your question, what distro? I'd recommend Centos, which is a free as in beer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and/or Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). The only real differences between the three is branding and the support contract, with a five year support plan. Both Red Hat and Oracle have a Linux certification test, if you are looking to have a 'real' certificate when they are done.
Oracle supports Linux - RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) are more or less the same, with the support contracts run through Oracle rather than the Red Hat folks. Works nice when the OS and the application are one company - eliminates finger pointing. The support for Linux is very strong and from what I understand, they are all in (much like IBM is).
I don't understand why Oracle would want to make that same sort of commitment to another OOS operating system, especially one that has such a little footprint. Heck, I'd be a bit worried about Solaris proper, much less the OOS variant, were there a better SPARC option on the Linux side.
The Russians take a pretty sound strategy when it comes to rockets. The 'people' rated rockets are smaller and the heavy lifters don't go through the same qualification needed to ship humans. You send up the crew on one set of rockets and the materials on another. Assemble in orbit and save a good bit of money.
The shuttle is/was a 'people' rated heavy lifter. I suspect it got used for more political reasons than practical.
The Sun (now Oracle?) Java developer's certificate does show a fair bit of proficiency with the language. You really do need to have more than just a passing familiarity to get it. For me, one of the most challenging parts was things that were technically legal (and would work), but were very far from anything I would call best practice. The second bit was the breadth of the API it covers. I've been doing server side Java since servlets were born, with a heavy concentration the application server/EE side of the fence. Once I experimented with a client side application, so had to spend some time brushing up on little used (in my dev work) libs like Swing, AWT, etc.
Anyhow... this cert was real work. Short of many years under your belt, this really will make a difference at interview time - be it already knowing the same sort of snarky Java questions, or just getting a pass on the language.
For those not familiar with the brand, Oppo is one of the top consumer grade players out there. when I wash shopping for an up scaling DVD player, it was consistently one of the better recommendations on the AV forums and friends who did some serious (but not stupid) home setups. I love mine. In the case of several movies, it seems to skip the FBI warning - bonus!
If you were to 'hide' any consumer grade stuff into what is positioned as l33t/your left arm hardware, an Oppo would have been my first guess.
I did not try baking anything, but it did turn the top of the computer into a nice coffee cup warmer.
I've got a pair of 9800gx2 in my rig. The cards turn room temperature air into ~46C air. Without proper ventilation, these things will turn a chassis into an easy bake oven.
For those not familiar with the 9800gx2 cards, it essentially is two 8800gts video cards linked together to act as a single card - something called SLI on the NVidia side of marketing. SLI typically required a mainboard/chipset that would allow you to plug in two cards and link them together. This model allowed any mainboard to have two 'internal' cards linked together, with the option of linking another 9800gx2 if your board actually supported SLI.
The pictures did not show any SLI bridge, so it looks like they are just taking advantage of multiple GPUs per card.
I've got one of these running my local subversion repositories and a few other processes. As a bonus, it is fanless. One gotcha is it is a i586 CPU, which means distros like Centos and a few others will not install without a bit of extra work.
Surprised at the XP64 hating out there. When it was first released, drivers were in rough shape. Today, I've found most of the motherboards and video cards I buy have Server 2003/XP64 support - that covers 99% of the drivers I normally bump into. Heck, I even got my laptop running XP64. That was a bit of a treasure hunt compared to the typical build, but still.
Anyhow, had a different point to bring up... There are a few games and apps that don't - but for the most part it just works. For those that don't, many cases it is just a brain dead installer. (Hey Apple iTunes developers, I'm looking at you!) Turns out you can fix an installer where the people did not think to test/support XP64 by modifying the MSI installer to not rule out a properly patched version of XP64.
Download Microsoft's Orca MSI editor. (Find it in this CAB, or google for it) Look for a "LaunchCondition" property, probably set to "VersionNT64>=600" and modify it to "VersionNT64>=501". Shazam! Very good chance it will just work - at least the installer will not stop you from trying to run it.
Some people (Apple) still need to update drivers, etc... but more often then not it works.
On the Office front, I've got a G4 (Mac) laptop with Microsoft Office. Power Point still runs on a PowerPC CPU.
I tried the command with the 32-bit and 64-bit version of XP pro. Not sure what XP home will do. If this is XP pro, and this is missing/won't work - that is usually a big red flag that something has messed with your OS.
Fire up a command prompt and type
netstat -a | find "LISTENING"
to find out what ports your system is listening to. Running the netstat command will give you all the traffic. Should give you a good idea as to what is happening. (Helps to close all of your 'normal' apps)
There is apparently a firmware bug.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/27/bios-password-snag-subdues-intels-34mn-x25-m-g2-launch-party/
Mine, and a bunch of other folks who ordered from the egg got an RMA sent. Mine never made it out of shipping. Others got a return label.
*I* know what a gazebo is.
Oh lordy... one of the dangers of drinking and posting without an edit button. V6... get the rope...
To your point, they do make it tricky to do your own work. I bought a ODBII reader to sort out what the computer was trying to tell me beyond the normal 'codes'. In the end, it was just a MAF sensor that was failing, but I wanted the actual engine data to narrow it down. None of the parts were going to be cheap, and I did not want to guess. I do work on my own car. Other than brakepads, rotors, and an alternator, the mechanical systems have not needed any work. Wish all onboard computers came with a USB port...
It is all about acceleration. The "older" Bugatti Veyron reaching 100 km/h (62 mph) in approximately 2.46 seconds. This is very near motorcycle speeds. So while the high end might be very high, the low end is where most people drive the thing.
Putting it into perspective, my wife drives an Audi S6 with the Lamborghini v10 under the hood. Fast enough for as heavy as it is, and will do the same in about 5.2 seconds. I've got a Porsche 911 C4 with a 300 horse V6 that does it in about 5.3 seconds. Her car has a speed limiter, but I've never got to the point where it has come into play. In normal driving, that sort of acceleration can be handy and is used often enough. With my car, I've never been on a track with a long enough strait line to even get up into the 165+ range.
Love to take a lap or two in one of these....
This is not a fair product comparison: OS2 vs VI's end of life. Both companies buy product, in some cases to integrate, others to remove competition, and others yet again to just own the customer base. Expect the same careful moves when the database gets put down someday.
I'm willing to bet it will play out more along these lines... For existing customer who already own the product, Oracle will support them for as long as they are willing to pay for support. For those who did not buy yet - sorry, no product can be bought anymore. For previous partners, a tough break. Continue to sell services to existing customers, but don't plan for any new customers. Now would be a very good time to rethink product - any of the other VM products - and see if there might be a reasonable match to what they were doing.
A sticker over the lens will usually keep the casual inspector at bay...
And also consider that Oracle also has the Sleepycat Berkeley DB engine, which you really have to know where to find to get.
Hidden prominently on the main database page (http://www.oracle.com/database), is a link to Berkeley DB, as well as why it might be the right tool for the job.
They could do it without a trojan, if they had the right signing key. I forget which worm it was, but a few years back there was a major vulnerability that Microsoft patched, which triggered the automatic reboot. The issue was the patch went ahead and updated the machine even if you had the system set to "download, but notify" rather than automagically patch. Similar deal here where an update did something it should not have.
Were I the FBI, I'd make Microsoft 'digitally sign' such a beasty, and then send it via an unannounced update.
Always helps to have stupid criminals, however.
Can you imagine if a Congressman was legally required to read every piece of correspondence and listen to every speaker?
I'd be happy if they were required to actually just read all of what they are voting on personally. Not that any of them, Congress or Senate, seem to do that today.
Do both.
My thoughts, coming from the interviewer side, is if you come to us with *zero* work experience and an advanced degree - it won't go well for you. There is probably an expectation that you might be able to 'jump' to a higher pay grade because of the advanced training, thinking it might be equivalent to field time. Unlikely.... When we were looking at some candidates a couple weeks back, we ranked folks with experience greater than those to spent more time in academia. One fear was the person coming out with the advanced degree would not be willing to do the work (thinking something is below them, etc).
That said, folks working and going to school for that advanced degree do stand out. Having both real world experience and the advanced degree will be helpful. It is common (knock on wood) for companies to pay for your masters. Usually just enough to go part time - you still have that full time job after all.
Lastly, you may find that the work that typically maps to an educational track may not be your cup of tea. Not to say University is vocational training, but it is worth doing something you actually care about. Stick your toe in the water first.
Heh. My first visit to New Delhi, I wondered if India followed 'British' driving rules (drive on the left side of the road) vs the right side lane driving seen in many other countries. A couple hours each way, several days in a row, I was unable to call it based on the driving observed.
These guys would make the Brazilian or Italian drivers blush... It is a wonder we don't see more of them on the race track.