As for RHCE being of value... You, personally, may be competent in the ways of *nix, yet to me, RHCE is about as worthless as every other certification. It's just paper. One of the library staff here at the university I work at achieved his RHCE status, yet he still can't do squat. He's just not an administrator at all...regardless of platform.
Before he became interested in OpenSource (back in the days when the campus ran Netware) he was the lone soul on campus screaming that we needed Microsoft...we needed NT on our servers. He's the only one on campus that attended MS NT Administrator training...suffice it to say his admin privileges had to be removed from the webserver he was supposed to be running.
Fast forward a few years, and he's now an OSS Zealot, attending RHCE training. I removed his admin privileges from his Linux webserver and changed the root password shortly thereafter...
In short...it's easy for an educated person to take and pass a test...or replicate steps...or whatever. When they're out on their own in the thick of it...that's the real test.
Perhaps certifications should be reworked...new testing methods...or perhaps some sort of accreditation process for the sysadmins of systems running linux.
You know...the virus issue just seems moot to me. Whatever platform has the largest user base, will have the script kiddies and virus writers spreading the crud around to all the machines. If people want to find a way to trash files or spread their worm to DoS loser.com, they will...it's human nature. The easiest way to do that is to use whatever platform is the most popular at the time...it just so happens that Windows on x86 has been the most popular for the past 18 years. If there were a switch to OSX on Mac within the next 10 years, I guarantee that within 15 we'd have the same problem we have now.
I work at a university in the IT department, and it's fairly liberal. I use my cellphone every day taking both work and personal calls...I even use my personal laptop at work instead of a university owned workstation...no complaints from anyone
We had something like that at DOE when entering restricted areas...we'd wave our RFID badge across a reader and then have to enter our PIN into a keypad, then do a hand scan...
the numbers on the keypad were only visible if you were directly in front of it, and you had to enter the PIN 3 times, the numbers on the pad being shuffled after PIN entry so nobody around you could see what you were pressing
I'm sure a similar system could be adapted to ATMs
It would seem to me that niche job search/placement sites are a better bet than the huge sites like monster and the others. Those sites are just like sending your resume into a black hole. Smaller job sites that are geared towards a particular job type or career field would seem to be the way to go, because the staff for those sites more than likely have been in the industry before, and know what contacts to make and how best to advertise resumes and open positions.
an example:
http://www.jobsinltc.com
People die every day for various reasons and in various ways. Nothing is going to stop that, especially not some moronic law like this one.
Nobody likes for people to die, so let's make a law against cellular decay! Natural selection...it's a process...not only for "survival of the fittest" but also for "being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
America is becoming a scary place with so many of these thoughtless laws brewing. Americans are so damned scared of everything. Patriot Act, this stupid thing...insurance for every damn thing one can imagine...what the hell is this? We end up working away our entire lives for this illusion of safety and end up not being able to actually LIVE.
a parody of that horrible Aqua song...Barbie Girl...the parody was titled "Ugly Girl" and it was exactly 1MB, I distributed it around school on a floppy disk
my family bought me a new computer after I just bought a new one last week. well, I bought a desktop last week and they bought me a new laptop...but still...
other than that...nothing too out of the ordinary...
WHY must you fucks continue to refer to it as "openoffice.org"
I absolutely despise when people tack on a TLD to the name of a piece of software, shit, I think I'll just start referring to everything with its associated TLD.
Hi, I attend Purdue.edu Our shitty servers at work run software from Microsoft.com My hometown is Aiken.net I first attended SC.edu
I don't live in a dorm at school, so perhaps my perspective is a bit unique from other students'. I take one of my laptops with me everywhere I go, from home, to class, and to work with me. A WiFi enabled campus and home make things really easy to do this, however I still use my desktop systems mainly at home. A robust laptop is the way to go for me though, since I do network and systems administration at work (on campus) and a PDA just wouldn't fit the bill. As for taking notes, I hardly ever take notes, and if I feel the need to, I still jot it down on some paper. I'm a math major, and I haven't run across a program to readily write equations on some sort of computer system as easily as writing it on paper.
I installed this on my laptop using the packaged HD install utility (this was a month and a half ago, wasn't aware of anyone making a HOWTO until today). It was really simple, and only took about 15 minutes. The installer is in German, but I can read German, so there was no problem. I'm currently working on an English translation of the installer.
Yeah, I loaded this on my Dell Inspirton 4000 with Belkin 802.11b PCMCIA device in it, and it all works fine. I installed Knoppix to harddrive using the packaged HD Install utility (it's in German, but so what, I can read German, and if you can't, use the fish). It all works great though!
Years ago when I took the AP Computer Science Exam, I failed it. Eventhough I had created numerous programs at home and in the classroom, I just didn't feel comfortable writing the code on paper. Perhaps some revision in testing methods for CS Exams are in order?
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Nice burn...looks like you enjoyed it.
As for RHCE being of value...
You, personally, may be competent in the ways of *nix, yet to me, RHCE is about as worthless as every other certification. It's just paper. One of the library staff here at the university I work at achieved his RHCE status, yet he still can't do squat. He's just not an administrator at all...regardless of platform.
Before he became interested in OpenSource (back in the days when the campus ran Netware) he was the lone soul on campus screaming that we needed Microsoft...we needed NT on our servers. He's the only one on campus that attended MS NT Administrator training...suffice it to say his admin privileges had to be removed from the webserver he was supposed to be running.
Fast forward a few years, and he's now an OSS Zealot, attending RHCE training. I removed his admin privileges from his Linux webserver and changed the root password shortly thereafter...
In short...it's easy for an educated person to take and pass a test...or replicate steps...or whatever. When they're out on their own in the thick of it...that's the real test.
Perhaps certifications should be reworked...new testing methods...or perhaps some sort of accreditation process for the sysadmins of systems running linux.
You know...the virus issue just seems moot to me. Whatever platform has the largest user base, will have the script kiddies and virus writers spreading the crud around to all the machines. If people want to find a way to trash files or spread their worm to DoS loser.com, they will...it's human nature. The easiest way to do that is to use whatever platform is the most popular at the time...it just so happens that Windows on x86 has been the most popular for the past 18 years. If there were a switch to OSX on Mac within the next 10 years, I guarantee that within 15 we'd have the same problem we have now.
I work at a university in the IT department, and it's fairly liberal. I use my cellphone every day taking both work and personal calls...I even use my personal laptop at work instead of a university owned workstation...no complaints from anyone
1. ACs list things that end in profit
2. stupid lists get old after the 5000th thread
3. )(*&!@#)(*%&%^)*(
4. STFU
We had something like that at DOE when entering restricted areas...we'd wave our RFID badge across a reader and then have to enter our PIN into a keypad, then do a hand scan...
the numbers on the keypad were only visible if you were directly in front of it, and you had to enter the PIN 3 times, the numbers on the pad being shuffled after PIN entry so nobody around you could see what you were pressing
I'm sure a similar system could be adapted to ATMs
I wish they'd approve the NASA license...open-source spacecraft, woohoo!
It would seem to me that niche job search/placement sites are a better bet than the huge sites like monster and the others. Those sites are just like sending your resume into a black hole. Smaller job sites that are geared towards a particular job type or career field would seem to be the way to go, because the staff for those sites more than likely have been in the industry before, and know what contacts to make and how best to advertise resumes and open positions. an example: http://www.jobsinltc.com
People die every day for various reasons and in various ways. Nothing is going to stop that, especially not some moronic law like this one.
Nobody likes for people to die, so let's make a law against cellular decay!
Natural selection...it's a process...not only for "survival of the fittest" but also for "being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
America is becoming a scary place with so many of these thoughtless laws brewing. Americans are so damned scared of everything. Patriot Act, this stupid thing...insurance for every damn thing one can imagine...what the hell is this? We end up working away our entire lives for this illusion of safety and end up not being able to actually LIVE.
If he should focus on being all business now at that age, he might grow to regret it later in his life.
Yeah, look at Michael Jackson
I've always been a huge proponent of NOT using that nasty thermal paste. Makes a horrible mess on your CPU.
a parody of that horrible Aqua song...Barbie Girl...the parody was titled "Ugly Girl" and it was exactly 1MB, I distributed it around school on a floppy disk
The one guy is from the University of South Carolina...did you expect them to be well known? ;)
my family bought me a new computer after I just bought a new one last week.
well, I bought a desktop last week and they bought me a new laptop...but still...
other than that...nothing too out of the ordinary...
WHY must you fucks continue to refer to it as "openoffice.org"
I absolutely despise when people tack on a TLD to the name of a piece of software, shit, I think I'll just start referring to everything with its associated TLD.
Hi, I attend Purdue.edu
Our shitty servers at work run software from Microsoft.com
My hometown is Aiken.net
I first attended SC.edu
yeah, sounds just as stupid as I thought it would
You can hardly throw a stone without hitting a coffee shop with an AP in it these days.
You obviously have never visited BFN South Carolina.
I don't live in a dorm at school, so perhaps my perspective is a bit unique from other students'. I take one of my laptops with me everywhere I go, from home, to class, and to work with me. A WiFi enabled campus and home make things really easy to do this, however I still use my desktop systems mainly at home. A robust laptop is the way to go for me though, since I do network and systems administration at work (on campus) and a PDA just wouldn't fit the bill. As for taking notes, I hardly ever take notes, and if I feel the need to, I still jot it down on some paper. I'm a math major, and I haven't run across a program to readily write equations on some sort of computer system as easily as writing it on paper.
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
I installed this on my laptop using the packaged HD install utility (this was a month and a half ago, wasn't aware of anyone making a HOWTO until today). It was really simple, and only took about 15 minutes. The installer is in German, but I can read German, so there was no problem. I'm currently working on an English translation of the installer.
Yeah, I loaded this on my Dell Inspirton 4000 with Belkin 802.11b PCMCIA device in it, and it all works fine. I installed Knoppix to harddrive using the packaged HD Install utility (it's in German, but so what, I can read German, and if you can't, use the fish). It all works great though!
I installed it on my laptop and it's an awesome distro.
I used to have one of those old motorola modems...
Don't be an ass...obviously he wants to broadcast audio from an mp3 playlist...
Years ago when I took the AP Computer Science Exam, I failed it. Eventhough I had created numerous programs at home and in the classroom, I just didn't feel comfortable writing the code on paper. Perhaps some revision in testing methods for CS Exams are in order?