Start your own business, risk it all and gain experience. Or, go to school get paper certs and keep plugging away at the HR departments. I followed the first path. While a degree will be useful in getting some jobs (certs too), real world experience will help with actually doing any job in IT.
Do we think anyone but geeks really cares? The public can't be bothered to care about anything that isn't spoon fed to them on Entertainment Tonight or in People magazine. We need to make the fight against excessive corporate copyright an entertaining battle or no one will pay attention. How about getting JLo for a spokesperson?
I work with a school district in Central Washington that has networked the entire district (only three schools really) using Linux as the infrastructure (routers, mail, proxies and the like) and Winblows and Macs for the end (l)users. This mix has resulted in a huge increase in the number of computers supportable in the district and given students the skills employers expect. However my personal opinion is anyone who can use OpenOffice or KOffice would be able to learn MSOffice in just a few hours.
It seems to me that this points up the ongoing problem with the way virus scanners work. By their very nature the scanners are always behind the script kiddies. What we need is a proactive approach to blocking destructive and/or unautorized code from running on your machine. Even gnu/linux method of not allowing such code to run as root does not perfectly protect the user. I have nothing better to offer, is anyone working on such a thing?
Weighing less than a gram, the engine is constructed from eight wafers of diffusion-bonded silicon and consists of a combustion chamber that ignites hydrogen and shoots hot gas past a spinning turbine that powers the compressor to drive the machinery
Sounds like plain old hydrogen to me.
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Start your own business, risk it all and gain experience. Or, go to school get paper certs and keep plugging away at the HR departments. I followed the first path. While a degree will be useful in getting some jobs (certs too), real world experience will help with actually doing any job in IT.
Do we think anyone but geeks really cares? The public can't be bothered to care about anything that isn't spoon fed to them on Entertainment Tonight or in People magazine. We need to make the fight against excessive corporate copyright an entertaining battle or no one will pay attention. How about getting JLo for a spokesperson?
I work with a school district in Central Washington that has networked the entire district (only three schools really) using Linux as the infrastructure (routers, mail, proxies and the like) and Winblows and Macs for the end (l)users. This mix has resulted in a huge increase in the number of computers supportable in the district and given students the skills employers expect. However my personal opinion is anyone who can use OpenOffice or KOffice would be able to learn MSOffice in just a few hours.
It seems to me that this points up the ongoing problem with the way virus scanners work. By their very nature the scanners are always behind the script kiddies. What we need is a proactive approach to blocking destructive and/or unautorized code from running on your machine. Even gnu/linux method of not allowing such code to run as root does not perfectly protect the user. I have nothing better to offer, is anyone working on such a thing?
Weighing less than a gram, the engine is constructed from eight wafers of diffusion-bonded silicon and consists of a combustion chamber that ignites hydrogen and shoots hot gas past a spinning turbine that powers the compressor to drive the machinery
Sounds like plain old hydrogen to me.
So those of us stuck in the 56K dark ages are really on the leading edge?