I have an associates CS degree and an IT bachelors degree. When I originally started school I went for CS and did well. I enjoyed it to a degree. I ended up switching to IT because I did not want to code all day everyday for years, and with IT I have the flexibility to do system administration work as well as mix in some programming.
Like others on here have already said, go for what interests you the most. The most important thing is being happy with your choice if you plan on doing it long-term (career).
I've been using Picassa for a while now and I think it's great. Sure I know how to do some stuff in Photoshop but for quick and easy image editing that works well, Picassa fits the bill.
So will the new Yahoo! mail interface also increase it's spam blocking? I was a Yahoo! mail user for years but as soon as Gmail was opened to private invites, I grabbed an account and to this day can count the number of spam emails that I've received on half of a hand. And I use and put my gmail address everywhere -- on all my forms and contact info.
Until Yahoo! can implement spam blocking anywhere near Gmail, I will be sticking with my "1 optioned" email site.
Ditto here. Just last week I turned on FireVault and let it runs its course for like 15 minutes. Finally it said reboot but the screen was frozen. Upon rebooting the user could log in but nothing would load at all. It pretty much straight up broke. Luckily I was able to go into single user mode, and could ftp all my data off the machine before reinstalling.
No more FileVault for me. And this was Tiger (yes I know, its not even beta software but I like to test).
I believe it, a few months ago my buddy had a Ford Escape. He was at a supermarket and when he came out he hit unlock he heard another Escape unlock. He locked and unlocked and both Escapes kept doing the same thing.
Theres an article on HowStuffWorks that explains how its possible.
This exact same thing happens at a local Eckerd drugstore here in NY. Anywhere in the parking lot you are unable to use your keyless entry to unlock your car. You can be inches away and it just does not work for anyone, ever.
Although once your inside the car it will usually work, since your right on top of the receiver. It probably has something to do with Eckerd transmitting store information to a national databse or something.
Ick, I'm not happy with the new 0.9.1 theme. Just when I was getting used to the 0.9 one its been modified to this. It just seems really bland compared to 0.9's theme. Damn!
I go to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester NY and we've had an Internet2 direct connect hub for around 2 years or so now. The hub hovers at about 23 terabyte of storage and stuff can be downloaded up to 11 megs a second.:)
Yeah they sure do. I cut through the Micro E building a few times a week and always like to look and see whats going on. Sometimes makes me wish I choose a different path through college.
The title should explain it all. I will continue to have a floppy drive in my computer for as long as I have arms and legs. First off, my girlfriend uses the floppy in her IBM laptop all the time to put documents from the laptop to her desktop. Yeah she has a network cable she can plug in and click around but using a floppy for her is 90% faster.
I personally don't use it all too much but in classes I used floppies all the time. Some instructors would even explain how work needs to be saved on floppies for whatever reason. For anyone to consider the floppy drive to be dead would be way off to me at least.
And I'm sure more people feel the same as we do. Linux is fun and interesting and nice to use, but for me when the end of it comes along I need tools to get my work done now, and I personally feel that that is one of the hurtles left in the way of Linux becoming more mainstream. KDE and GNOME and the rest of the user-friendly stuff is nice, but not good enough, and the productivity applications are again nice, but not as good as the ones school prefer/use/recommend.
So Linux will be around for me, but just not as much as Windows. -Scott
My story is very close to his, although the reason for "switching back" was to fulfill a need: school. I started off with Windows way back with Windows 3.11 for workgroups. I migrated to 95, and a bit later got introduced to linux. It got to be where I used linux 23 out of 24 hours a day with Windows for an hour to burn CDs. Then college came along..
I just didn't have time to screw around in Linux when it came to schoolwork. I needed to get stuff done right now and not worry about if the printer will work or if something bad will happen. I also started having some general linux problems like I'm sure everyone has had before and I started to get annoyed.
So pretty soon I was spending most of my time in Windows working on papers and just doing stuff quickly. I currently am still a Windows-majority user and toy with Linux a little bit. But to me personally, and I'm not referring at all to the community or fellow Linux users, but Linux is more of a hobby toy or thing to play with rather than something that will get my work done quickly for me.
So there it is, my version of his story. I'll most likely start using Linux more and more in the future but for right now schoolwork @ RIT is a bit more important. No time for spending 2 hours trying to get my simple USB devices to work.
I recommend building the PC yourself and I say this not just because it is "cool" but because of the experience. You learn so much by building computers no matter what kind or specifications. I have built several systems so far and don't think I am ever going to buy a complete system in the future.
One thing that has to certainly be considered is the support. I am moving to about 2 hours away from where I live now and all of my family and even my girlfriend are staying here. When it was time for my girlfriend's folks to look into getting a new PC I didn't even think twice about building one for them. I went straight to Dell (yeah I know, no company is perfect) and ordered them one off there for a great price for what they do (Internet, Email, Word processing).
I didn't consider building them one due to the fact that I will be 2 hours away and the 1st day I am gone I can hear the phone ringing with something wrong with the computer like a cable unplugged. Dell has a full-featured support plan and I feel safe trusting that for them. So you really need to consider that issue.
About buying the parts, I like others will of course recommend a place like pricewatch.com except just making sure you watch those horrible shipping prices! Pricewatch has been improving their interface lately and now for most dealers include a total including shipping right on the search results page which makes it convient.
So my rambling aside, again I recommend building your PC if you are capable and will be around to tend to any problems with it (no systems are perfect).:)
As someone who has downloaded music for about 7 years now, this finally seems like a good idea. I have strongly opposed paying 16 bucks for a CD, but with singles at 99 cents and albums for 9.99, I'll most likely take a look at what they offer. If they offer crappy unknown groups then forget it, but if they actually sell the music that is popular and well-known then they have my money!
I usually don't read the paper too much as we can get everything it in faster in digital form, but I did manage to catch his article. I was a little bit suprised he bashed Windows as bad as he did. Hes always joking but he went pretty hard on Microsoft. Interesting.
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Ahhh, thats a very interesting point there. I was thinking it could just be the encoding and quality of the video, but it sure does look like the PDA is shifting but the screen does not move with the writing. Hrmmm.
I *tried* reading this book months ago and I couldn't finish it. It goes into detail about EVERYONE involved too much. You end up reading about some lawyer's cousin's dog for 25 pages and its BORING. So unless you like reading about unrelated stuff and making no sense then I do not recommend this title.
I don't know about everyone else but when I went to Disney World a few years ago I was dying for Internet access. I had not bought my laptop then and looked everywhere for someplace to log onto the Internet while I was there. I have to be connected where-ever I go and if Disney had an Internet cafe, even if the price was expensive (like everything else), I would have used it no doubt.
Anyone else feel this way or am I just too big of a geek?:)
Working through my second year of community college, I found this discussion very interesting. Like everyone else, I always complained/wondered why I am taking Biology, Biology Lab and History right now when I am Information Technology. I could not see a single reason why I would ever need biology or history relating to my field. Sure it may be sort of interesting but come on, lets be serious.
As I read these comments, they really made me think about the whole well-rounded idea. I've had advisors tell me that they aim to make students well-rounded and I always thought that was talking out of their butts. Now I am starting to see why being well-rounded is important.
Sure, my networking course will be directly related to something I will do in the future, but History and Biology will hopefully make me a better thinker and be able to rationalize in the future.
The best thing I read on here was about learning for "after" college. That is something I never gave a second of thought to. Why would I be thinking about after college when I have to get through it first? This can be cross-linked with "why am I taking these dumb courses when I am IT?".
I am transferring to a reputable University at the end of my second year at this community college, and that is where I hoped to really start concentrating on the courses that will benefit me in my job/career.
So now that I still dislike taking these courses (heck, I'm in the middle of a biology lab writeup right now, taking a slashdot break), I can at least understand that they *should* help or benefit me beyond just school and grades. Maybe they're right when they say that you go to school for much more than short-term learning.
Thats true about the body language thing, but I think this plays a lot with our psychological state of being. Personally, I would feel much safer if I knew everyones face was being scanned when they entered an airplane. It may not prevent anything at all like you said, but then again you never know.
Either way, I am still for it as it makes me "feel safer". I could get blown to bits on the flight still, at least I know my face was scanned. Hey then maybe that photo could be used on my obiturary!
While I can always agree with RMS on subjects, this one does not work with me. I am all for the use of face recognition. Sure many groups are against it and think it is horrible, but when you think about it, I would rather have my face scanned at the airport than get on a plane with hijackers, doomed to be killed during flight.
The government has always had problems with American citizens and privacy. Everyone wants their privacy, but they also want security and don't want to have to worry about being slaughtered on a flight to visit realitives. I hardly think the people who will be using this technology is going to use it in harm or to peer into our lives. They are going to be using it for one reason: security.
So if this technology ever gets implimented at airports and we start to be scanned, I will proudly look up at the camera and let the computers know that I am a honest working American citizen who deserves the right security.
And I can guarentee you that if you could bring back the thousands of dead people and their families also, I would bet that every single one of them would have gladly had their face scanned for security.
While there may be security risks and complaints about these smart cards, they sure do look interesting. Once they are used more widely and have some better uses, then they will probably catch on.
I had a customer tonight at work who had one and he didn't seem to even know what it did when I talked to him about it. He just figured it was an "upgraded credit card".
I'll look into these cards once the uses become more mainstream. I would love to be able to go to a site, click buy and plug in my card and have everything be taken care of. Thats why I'll use one.:)
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I have an associates CS degree and an IT bachelors degree. When I originally started school I went for CS and did well. I enjoyed it to a degree. I ended up switching to IT because I did not want to code all day everyday for years, and with IT I have the flexibility to do system administration work as well as mix in some programming.
Like others on here have already said, go for what interests you the most. The most important thing is being happy with your choice if you plan on doing it long-term (career).
I've been using Picassa for a while now and I think it's great. Sure I know how to do some stuff in Photoshop but for quick and easy image editing that works well, Picassa fits the bill.
So will the new Yahoo! mail interface also increase it's spam blocking? I was a Yahoo! mail user for years but as soon as Gmail was opened to private invites, I grabbed an account and to this day can count the number of spam emails that I've received on half of a hand. And I use and put my gmail address everywhere -- on all my forms and contact info.
Until Yahoo! can implement spam blocking anywhere near Gmail, I will be sticking with my "1 optioned" email site.
That's why you hit the window instead and not any body panels. I do it all the time. ;)
Ditto here. Just last week I turned on FireVault and let it runs its course for like 15 minutes. Finally it said reboot but the screen was frozen. Upon rebooting the user could log in but nothing would load at all. It pretty much straight up broke. Luckily I was able to go into single user mode, and could ftp all my data off the machine before reinstalling.
No more FileVault for me. And this was Tiger (yes I know, its not even beta software but I like to test).
I believe it, a few months ago my buddy had a Ford Escape. He was at a supermarket and when he came out he hit unlock he heard another Escape unlock. He locked and unlocked and both Escapes kept doing the same thing.
Theres an article on HowStuffWorks that explains how its possible.
This exact same thing happens at a local Eckerd drugstore here in NY. Anywhere in the parking lot you are unable to use your keyless entry to unlock your car. You can be inches away and it just does not work for anyone, ever.
Although once your inside the car it will usually work, since your right on top of the receiver. It probably has something to do with Eckerd transmitting store information to a national databse or something.
Ick, I'm not happy with the new 0.9.1 theme. Just when I was getting used to the 0.9 one its been modified to this. It just seems really bland compared to 0.9's theme. Damn!
I go to RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester NY and we've had an Internet2 direct connect hub for around 2 years or so now. The hub hovers at about 23 terabyte of storage and stuff can be downloaded up to 11 megs a second. :)
Yeah they sure do. I cut through the Micro E building a few times a week and always like to look and see whats going on. Sometimes makes me wish I choose a different path through college.
I dunno, I'm a quarter away from graduating here at RIT and a lot of the majors degrees here are decreasing in value, not going up. :(
The title should explain it all. I will continue to have a floppy drive in my computer for as long as I have arms and legs. First off, my girlfriend uses the floppy in her IBM laptop all the time to put documents from the laptop to her desktop. Yeah she has a network cable she can plug in and click around but using a floppy for her is 90% faster.
I personally don't use it all too much but in classes I used floppies all the time. Some instructors would even explain how work needs to be saved on floppies for whatever reason. For anyone to consider the floppy drive to be dead would be way off to me at least.
And I'm sure more people feel the same as we do. Linux is fun and interesting and nice to use, but for me when the end of it comes along I need tools to get my work done now, and I personally feel that that is one of the hurtles left in the way of Linux becoming more mainstream. KDE and GNOME and the rest of the user-friendly stuff is nice, but not good enough, and the productivity applications are again nice, but not as good as the ones school prefer/use/recommend.
So Linux will be around for me, but just not as much as Windows.
-Scott
My story is very close to his, although the reason for "switching back" was to fulfill a need: school. I started off with Windows way back with Windows 3.11 for workgroups. I migrated to 95, and a bit later got introduced to linux. It got to be where I used linux 23 out of 24 hours a day with Windows for an hour to burn CDs. Then college came along..
I just didn't have time to screw around in Linux when it came to schoolwork. I needed to get stuff done right now and not worry about if the printer will work or if something bad will happen. I also started having some general linux problems like I'm sure everyone has had before and I started to get annoyed.
So pretty soon I was spending most of my time in Windows working on papers and just doing stuff quickly. I currently am still a Windows-majority user and toy with Linux a little bit. But to me personally, and I'm not referring at all to the community or fellow Linux users, but Linux is more of a hobby toy or thing to play with rather than something that will get my work done quickly for me.
So there it is, my version of his story. I'll most likely start using Linux more and more in the future but for right now schoolwork @ RIT is a bit more important. No time for spending 2 hours trying to get my simple USB devices to work.
-Scott
I recommend building the PC yourself and I say this not just because it is "cool" but because of the experience. You learn so much by building computers no matter what kind or specifications. I have built several systems so far and don't think I am ever going to buy a complete system in the future.
:)
One thing that has to certainly be considered is the support. I am moving to about 2 hours away from where I live now and all of my family and even my girlfriend are staying here. When it was time for my girlfriend's folks to look into getting a new PC I didn't even think twice about building one for them. I went straight to Dell (yeah I know, no company is perfect) and ordered them one off there for a great price for what they do (Internet, Email, Word processing).
I didn't consider building them one due to the fact that I will be 2 hours away and the 1st day I am gone I can hear the phone ringing with something wrong with the computer like a cable unplugged. Dell has a full-featured support plan and I feel safe trusting that for them. So you really need to consider that issue.
About buying the parts, I like others will of course recommend a place like pricewatch.com except just making sure you watch those horrible shipping prices! Pricewatch has been improving their interface lately and now for most dealers include a total including shipping right on the search results page which makes it convient.
So my rambling aside, again I recommend building your PC if you are capable and will be around to tend to any problems with it (no systems are perfect).
-Scott
As someone who has downloaded music for about 7 years now, this finally seems like a good idea. I have strongly opposed paying 16 bucks for a CD, but with singles at 99 cents and albums for 9.99, I'll most likely take a look at what they offer. If they offer crappy unknown groups then forget it, but if they actually sell the music that is popular and well-known then they have my money!
In case anyone is interested this story is in the current issue of the dead-tree edition of the magazine. Really interesting stuff!
I usually don't read the paper too much as we can get everything it in faster in digital form, but I did manage to catch his article. I was a little bit suprised he bashed Windows as bad as he did. Hes always joking but he went pretty hard on Microsoft. Interesting.
Ahhh, thats a very interesting point there. I was thinking it could just be the encoding and quality of the video, but it sure does look like the PDA is shifting but the screen does not move with the writing. Hrmmm.
I *tried* reading this book months ago and I couldn't finish it. It goes into detail about EVERYONE involved too much. You end up reading about some lawyer's cousin's dog for 25 pages and its BORING. So unless you like reading about unrelated stuff and making no sense then I do not recommend this title.
I don't know about everyone else but when I went to Disney World a few years ago I was dying for Internet access. I had not bought my laptop then and looked everywhere for someplace to log onto the Internet while I was there. I have to be connected where-ever I go and if Disney had an Internet cafe, even if the price was expensive (like everything else), I would have used it no doubt.
:)
Anyone else feel this way or am I just too big of a geek?
Working through my second year of community college, I found this discussion very interesting. Like everyone else, I always complained/wondered why I am taking Biology, Biology Lab and History right now when I am Information Technology. I could not see a single reason why I would ever need biology or history relating to my field. Sure it may be sort of interesting but come on, lets be serious.
As I read these comments, they really made me think about the whole well-rounded idea. I've had advisors tell me that they aim to make students well-rounded and I always thought that was talking out of their butts. Now I am starting to see why being well-rounded is important.
Sure, my networking course will be directly related to something I will do in the future, but History and Biology will hopefully make me a better thinker and be able to rationalize in the future.
The best thing I read on here was about learning for "after" college. That is something I never gave a second of thought to. Why would I be thinking about after college when I have to get through it first? This can be cross-linked with "why am I taking these dumb courses when I am IT?".
I am transferring to a reputable University at the end of my second year at this community college, and that is where I hoped to really start concentrating on the courses that will benefit me in my job/career.
So now that I still dislike taking these courses (heck, I'm in the middle of a biology lab writeup right now, taking a slashdot break), I can at least understand that they *should* help or benefit me beyond just school and grades. Maybe they're right when they say that you go to school for much more than short-term learning.
Thats true about the body language thing, but I think this plays a lot with our psychological state of being. Personally, I would feel much safer if I knew everyones face was being scanned when they entered an airplane. It may not prevent anything at all like you said, but then again you never know.
Either way, I am still for it as it makes me "feel safer". I could get blown to bits on the flight still, at least I know my face was scanned. Hey then maybe that photo could be used on my obiturary!
While I can always agree with RMS on subjects, this one does not work with me. I am all for the use of face recognition. Sure many groups are against it and think it is horrible, but when you think about it, I would rather have my face scanned at the airport than get on a plane with hijackers, doomed to be killed during flight.
The government has always had problems with American citizens and privacy. Everyone wants their privacy, but they also want security and don't want to have to worry about being slaughtered on a flight to visit realitives. I hardly think the people who will be using this technology is going to use it in harm or to peer into our lives. They are going to be using it for one reason: security.
So if this technology ever gets implimented at airports and we start to be scanned, I will proudly look up at the camera and let the computers know that I am a honest working American citizen who deserves the right security.
And I can guarentee you that if you could bring back the thousands of dead people and their families also, I would bet that every single one of them would have gladly had their face scanned for security.
While there may be security risks and complaints about these smart cards, they sure do look interesting. Once they are used more widely and have some better uses, then they will probably catch on.
:)
I had a customer tonight at work who had one and he didn't seem to even know what it did when I talked to him about it. He just figured it was an "upgraded credit card".
I'll look into these cards once the uses become more mainstream. I would love to be able to go to a site, click buy and plug in my card and have everything be taken care of. Thats why I'll use one.