... as a 16-year-old, I've been having a lot of trouble finding a job. Everyone is:
-not hiring
-wants an MCSE or a CNE or any other BS certification
-wants a college degree for tech suppr0t
Who says your first job, as a 16-year old, ends up being in your "chosen field"?
You're 16. Go work in a restaurant. Struggle for a few years. Work for minimum wage, learning skills you don't have and can't pick up from the 'net, like communication, business etiquette, pleasing the customer, relating to co-workers.
The world doesn't get handed to you on a silver platter. We all came up in the world the hard way, and you'll have to do the same.
Twoflower
Scaremongering alive and well; film at 11
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This is scaremongering, pure and simple. It's not a virus -- it's a stupidity test.
To get caught, you have to open a.PDF file that someone sends you, in Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader), and then open an attachment to the PDF -- for which Acrobat will first issue a warning.
If you still manage to get bitten by this, you fail. Please leave the human race at this point.
I bet there are plenty of work starved lawyers upthere that will take up class-action suits on a contingency basis.
No, all our bloodsucking lawyers move to the Excited States of America where you can sue a multinational for a billion dollars because you don't like the haircut the CEO got.
John Cleese made many industrial training films as well. Terry Gilliam has directed and produced quite a few. Michael Palin has worked lots for the BBC in various television series.
Graham Chapman did several non-Python movies before he died.
Eric Idle has worked almost continuously in movies, television, and radio.
Terry Jones does a lot of production and direction.
Really, this isn't hard to find out -- you just haven't kept up.
MLS (Multiple Listing Service) offers a good cross-section of the market across most of Canada: http://www.mls.ca/
Of course, no amount of web-surfing will get you the perfect house. For that, you actually have to go out in the real world, and deal with real people. Horror of horrors!
Sorry, not familiar with "Spatula City". It's a reference to the Terry Pratchett novels, and a pseudonym I've been using online for about six or seven years.
The public radio program "On the Media" did a recent story on how the studios manipulate quotes in film related advertising. Apparently, Jeff Craig of "60 second preview" is quoted a great deal. Maybe he's a shill for the movie industry.
Yes, "60 Second Review" (or was it preview) is notorious for shilling for the studios -- they frequently supply quotes to the studios without actually having seen the film. See any of Joe Queenan's books for details on shoddy practices like these.
Twoflower
I was a DSL customer for three years, '95 through '98, before I moved and switched to a cable service. DSL doesn't have to be like you describe:
I mean, most DSL services that I see advertised today, with rates comparable to what I have paid for the past five years for Cox@Home, pale in comparison. You get a 16k per second upload rate and a 40k per second download rate.
Nope. I had 64kbps uplink, 1.544Mbps downlink. They've since raised the uplink to 128kbps. And yes, I got those rates -- downloads frequently approached 200kBps.
You have to be within 2-3 miles of the distribution node to qualify, which basically screws over any suburban areas.
Nope. About 90% of the city I was in at the time could get DSL.
You get substantially lower support from the service provider, because it seems like most of them are just smaller redistributors for larger corporations.
My DSL provider was the local phone company itself -- hardly a "smaller redistributors".
In short, you're generalizing and have no breadth of experience to back it up.
If you had been taken to court by the federal government, and threatened with imprisonment for trying to teach your university classes, you might be a little paranoid too.
This is Daniel J. Bernstein, the fellow who won for everyone the relaxation of crypto export controls. Maybe give him a break.
qmail natively supports Maildir and mbox. Read the documentation. mbox is dangerous because you can't have multiple readers and writers without locking, and over NFS, the file locking is unreliable. Maildir is safe for multiple writers over NFS with NO locking.
I use a mix of both, but Maildirs are so easy to use that I prefer them when writing software dealing with mail storage.
Indeed, Rob -- although you are a Linux advocate, I do not believe your objectivity has been called into question. And you certainly have the technical skills necessary.
Although "Rob Malda, Microsoft P.R. rep" really fails to roll off the tongue.
Most ATX motherboards should have a BIOS setting for "restore power after power failure" or some such. Usually there are three settings; "on", "off", and "previous state".
Of course, there are a number of Slashdotters or open-source zealots or whatever flavour of strongly opinionated people out there, and unfortunately it is their opinions which get the most coverage in the popular press. This undoubtedly has helped keep the "Linux is for students and crackpots" mentality around longer than it deserves.
Perhaps the Linux/free software community needs a few more level-headed and persuasive people who go out looking for FUD and rationally breaking down the walls, rather than flaming against an immovable marketing machine.
It seems that some people don't like the idea that anonymous coward postings by default are penalized compared to postings by logged in users. I think that this is a fair tradeoff; anyone who wants to wade through the cruft can set their preferences accordingly. On the other hand, someone who comes to/. for the first time and uses the default settings gets a somewhat better impression of the comments sections of articles. First impressions count.
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You're 16. Go work in a restaurant. Struggle for a few years. Work for minimum wage, learning skills you don't have and can't pick up from the 'net, like communication, business etiquette, pleasing the customer, relating to co-workers.
The world doesn't get handed to you on a silver platter. We all came up in the world the hard way, and you'll have to do the same.
Twoflower
This is scaremongering, pure and simple. It's not a virus -- it's a stupidity test.
.PDF file that someone sends you, in Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader), and then open an attachment to the PDF -- for which Acrobat will first issue a warning.
To get caught, you have to open a
If you still manage to get bitten by this, you fail. Please leave the human race at this point.
Twoflower
Twoflower, a Canadian
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No, it's exactly this kind of stale, factually incorrect story writeup with no redeeming content which will kill the community.
Death of Slashdot imminent, film at 11.
Twoflower
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ZD's article is fluff. The story above contains no information. How is this news?
Twoflower
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Of course, when two parties cannot agree, the only ones who win are the lawyers.
Sad, really.
Twoflower
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John Cleese made many industrial training films as well. Terry Gilliam has directed and produced quite a few. Michael Palin has worked lots for the BBC in various television series.
Graham Chapman did several non-Python movies before he died.
Eric Idle has worked almost continuously in movies, television, and radio.
Terry Jones does a lot of production and direction.
Really, this isn't hard to find out -- you just haven't kept up.
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MLS (Multiple Listing Service) offers a good cross-section of the market across most of Canada:
http://www.mls.ca/
Of course, no amount of web-surfing will get you the perfect house. For that, you actually have to go out in the real world, and deal with real people. Horror of horrors!
I take posession on the 15th of July.
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Does this mean that we Canadians should throw in phonetic spellings for the Americans?
Sheesh, I hate stereotypes.
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We have cool technology, but our stock price is down. Maybe this will help us.
That's about it.
Twoflower
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Sorry, not familiar with "Spatula City". It's a reference to the Terry Pratchett novels, and a pseudonym I've been using online for about six or seven years.
Care to enlighten me?
Twoflower
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Twoflower
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This doesn't belong in URL syntax. It should be done at the DNS level -- say,
Twoflower
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Nope. I had 64kbps uplink, 1.544Mbps downlink. They've since raised the uplink to 128kbps. And yes, I got those rates -- downloads frequently approached 200kBps.
Nope. About 90% of the city I was in at the time could get DSL.
My DSL provider was the local phone company itself -- hardly a "smaller redistributors".
In short, you're generalizing and have no breadth of experience to back it up.
> One of the problems is that our media has become
> a mob, lurching one way, then the other.
You would know, Jon.
> But monomania isn't a crime.
Lucky for you.
Twoflower
Breakfast serial?
Please, at least look at the box on the table in front of you -- it's "cereal". Did you or did you not graduate from college or university?
This drive has 70% fewer parts, not 70% fewer moving parts. With 70% fewer moving parts, you'd have a paperweight.
If you had been taken to court by the federal government, and threatened with imprisonment for trying to teach your university classes, you might be a little paranoid too.
This is Daniel J. Bernstein, the fellow who won for everyone the relaxation of crypto export controls. Maybe give him a break.
qmail natively supports Maildir and mbox. Read the documentation. mbox is dangerous because you can't have multiple readers and writers without locking, and over NFS, the file locking is unreliable. Maildir is safe for multiple writers over NFS with NO locking.
I use a mix of both, but Maildirs are so easy to use that I prefer them when writing software dealing with mail storage.
Indeed, Rob -- although you are a Linux advocate, I do not believe your objectivity has been called into question. And you certainly have the technical skills necessary.
Although "Rob Malda, Microsoft P.R. rep" really fails to roll off the tongue.
Most ATX motherboards should have a BIOS setting for "restore power after power failure" or some such. Usually there are three settings; "on", "off", and "previous state".
Of course, there are a number of Slashdotters or open-source zealots or whatever flavour of strongly opinionated people out there, and unfortunately it is their opinions which get the most coverage in the popular press. This undoubtedly has helped keep the "Linux is for students and crackpots" mentality around longer than it deserves.
Perhaps the Linux/free software community needs a few more level-headed and persuasive people who go out looking for FUD and rationally breaking down the walls, rather than flaming against an immovable marketing machine.
It seems that some people don't like the idea that anonymous coward postings by default are penalized compared to postings by logged in users. I think that this is a fair tradeoff; anyone who wants to wade through the cruft can set their preferences accordingly. On the other hand, someone who comes to /. for the first time and uses the default settings gets a somewhat better impression of the comments sections of articles. First impressions count.