Yes, I suppose you're right (excellently thought out post btw). I seldom do anything I'd call hacking these days either. I do more 'system integration' and still nerdy stuff on occasion, but far far less frequently than back in the day, when we lived/breathed/and didn't eat it. I was just learning PERL when Rob first put up the site and I was impressed at what he'd done with it as CGI. Nowdays, I write in PERL on occassion for quick and dirty scriplets, but not often. And you're right, Slashdot was a great place for tech exchange (Ask Slashdot) when there weren't many places (beside old USENET). Mostly things these days just work (as you point out). However, I'm still glad to have the insight into how to diagnose varying issues, from all that experience of years gone, when you had to do that sort of thing with everything you did.
I'm sad to see the changes...and I will agree that SlashDot is not what it was. I've been considering frequenting it less. I seldom post, but I do read a lot of articles (and quite often commentary). Course, I'm not what I was 15 years ago either:)
Being a semi-pro photographer myself (and facing the same problem), I find the woman in the original article ludicrous. There's a lot of problems with trying to share your photos with the world (under copyright) and people using them w/o permission. I know my own photos are being used (and quite often abused) all over the place. The photos aren't very pleasing to look at if they have watermarks all over them obscuring detail:( Not that I don't freely allow many non-profits (including zoos) to use my photos all over the world and that I have certainly been paid for legal use of some few.
There's so much information to stuff into one's brain these days..that you pretty much have to be selective. I think the overabundance is more responsible for this than the tailoring of new input to individual preference.
How would this differ than writing a note on paper ? In theory, it would seem that it's just more widely available than leaving the note at the dinner table (or your office coffee pot). Absurd!
Is comparing prices somehow illegal ? Don't they assume everyone does it ?:) I've worked in a store that had a similar practice, but never really understood the objection.
Etch-A-Sketch? Wasn't the that what they gave to early managers as their own personal "laptop" PC ? (yes...I know it's from a Dilbert strip, but so much of life is reflected in Dilbert lately).
The solution is to just train fruit flies (instead of carrier pigeon) to carry the messages. Forget the radiation causing cell phones and switches, use Drosophila, nature has the solution. Only things is...your message recepient must be in the same room with you...and have a banana in his pocket.
I'm truly glad it's there for reference. I really miss some of the sites that have been more or less lost (ie www.linuxhq.com, www.webwatcher.org,etc). Today's economy and the maintainers lack of time/interest have taken their tolls.
And they believe that their 10.x.x.x network is a real IP address...and you have to try to explain that no...it's a unroutable and unusable address and they must either renumber everything or run some sort of address translation.
I could indeed be wrong..I didn't watch the credits/etc. However, early info in the summer had stated that it was T'Pau (maybe the executives changed their mind and dissolved a link)?
By any chance did anyone catch the fact that the science officer (T'Pau) is (circa STOS) T'Pau of Vulcan (ie...basically the most important person on the planet at that time...leader of the the family that was Surak's (who was the prime leader in the Vulcan emotional detachment/peace movement)) I found it umm...most fascinating.
Wonder what other famous ppl besides T'Pau and Zephram Cochran we might see ? (or at least famous species...like Orion slave girls?...actually when I saw those reptiloid ladies eating the butterflies...I thought of the Orions...but they weren't green of course!:)
1) Don't bore them
2) Don't let them play games all the time
3) Find something fun as an incentive for attendance/paying attention. I've seen professors that threw candy (or money even) at intervals. Seriously, it'll help:)
4) Try to make them learn at least one thing every session
These are distilled from my experiences teaching high school juniors and seniors as a mentor in the Boy Scout Explorers program. My topic was computers in the workplace.
I did a horrible job, I'm afraid most techies just aren't cut out for this kind of work (least I'm not).
Good luck!
Maybe you also don't worry about having genital cancer later in your life either ?
I don't know...but I think there just MIGHT be slightly safer methods of population control.
Then again....I guess if that sounds like a good idea to you...go ahead. Survival of the fittest, I suppose;)
My condolences on the death of your website.
But seriously, I always wished time and management would allow one to design two web sites. 1) this is the one you told me to do 2) this is the one I think you should have. Now go compare them and see what YOU think. Of course, if the customer has crappy taste....what a waste of time. Often when I've had the opportunity to do something like this...ppl do swing around.
I'm just curious about users using CVS Enlightenment and current GNOME together. Both provide mechanisms to have toolbars, menus, filemanagers, etc. Exactly which components of each are you using? I'm very impressed (Ok, so maybe I'm easy to impress) with both of them. I haven't compiled an Enlightmentment since they started the FAM stuff in the CVStree, so I'm a bit out of date but I'm rather fascinated by Mandrake's use of no terminal windows for daily operations Comments ? (please)
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Actually, I suspect it's not the admins that rule with the iron fist. I suspect it's management directives.
I've previously had to write scripts tracking mail to/from. I've also had to hack the popd source code to take info from users incoming mailboxes. All of this has been at management direction, and usually my immediate supervisors and I have argued over it..but it comes down to...do it or someone else can have your job.
I disagree (personally) with doing things like that, but I also like to eat and buy things myself. Perhaps that is a bit selfish:)
Ok, Hemos will be good...but will Rob ? Seriously, if there's a commitment for a timely porting of BG2 to Linux (and henceforth other games), Windows may be looking at a up and coming reformat at home. I currently have Debian and Win/98 (yes, I admit..I'm weak and like to play games sometimes). I seldom boot into Win98 (twice a month or so...and always to play like BG). This is VERY GOOD news to me....thanks for the person who submitted the article!
I recently moved from Nebraska to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I banked on it being easy to find a job in our industry (as a sysadmin in fact). I have about 6 years experience with AIX and 3 years experience with SUN/Solaris, and I run Linux at home (7 years), but didn't expect to find a Linux job. However, I have had NO luck (over 6 months) finding a job as a Unix admin or network admin (DNS, DHCP, assorted other). I'm finally working for an ISP because of my proficiency programming, scripting, and Linux admin ability. I'm having a very good time, but I'm being somewhat underpaid....which probably makes things even. I even bought a house in the NE Oklahoma area (before finding a job). Maybe I'm a fool ? Danny change at to @ to email:)
As a cable company, they leave a lot to be desired (feature wise per dollar you have to spend). They LOVE monopoly (such as cable companies used to be). I've had Time-Warner as a cable company (in two different states) for about 5 years total and generally regretted that they were the only choice in the town at the time...plus I was renting, so couldn't install a dish (which is what I have now).
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Yes, I suppose you're right (excellently thought out post btw). I seldom do anything I'd call hacking these days either. I do more 'system integration' and still nerdy stuff on occasion, but far far less frequently than back in the day, when we lived/breathed/and didn't eat it.
I was just learning PERL when Rob first put up the site and I was impressed at what he'd done with it as CGI. Nowdays, I write in PERL on occassion for quick and dirty scriplets, but not often. And you're right, Slashdot was a great place for tech exchange (Ask Slashdot) when there weren't many places (beside old USENET).
Mostly things these days just work (as you point out). However, I'm still glad to have the insight into how to diagnose varying issues, from all that experience of years gone, when you had to do that sort of thing with everything you did.
I'm sad to see the changes...and I will agree that SlashDot is not what it was. I've been considering frequenting it less. I seldom post, but I do read a lot of articles (and quite often commentary). :)
Course, I'm not what I was 15 years ago either
Being a semi-pro photographer myself (and facing the same problem), I find the woman in the original article ludicrous.
There's a lot of problems with trying to share your photos with the world (under copyright) and people using them w/o permission. I know my own photos are being used (and quite often abused) all over the place.
The photos aren't very pleasing to look at if they have watermarks all over them obscuring detail:(
Not that I don't freely allow many non-profits (including zoos) to use my photos all over the world and that I have certainly been paid for legal use of some few.
Umm no, Elrond actually married Galadriel's daughter...that's who was Arwen's mother ;)
There's so much information to stuff into one's brain these days..that you pretty much have to be selective.
I think the overabundance is more responsible for this than the tailoring of new input to individual preference.
Since the focus appears to be mostly diseases of livestock...I think the rebuttal is to ask you how many cows live in NYC ?
How would this differ than writing a note on paper ? In theory, it would seem that it's just more widely available than leaving the note at the dinner table (or your office coffee pot).
Absurd!
Is comparing prices somehow illegal ? Don't they assume everyone does it ? :) I've worked in a store that had a similar practice, but never really understood the objection.
Check this out....it reads like a free software update blog :)
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/
Etch-A-Sketch? Wasn't the that what they gave to early managers as their own personal "laptop" PC ?
(yes...I know it's from a Dilbert strip, but so much of life is reflected in Dilbert lately).
The solution is to just train fruit flies (instead of carrier pigeon) to carry the messages. Forget the radiation causing cell phones and switches, use Drosophila, nature has the solution.
Only things is...your message recepient must be in the same room with you...and have a banana in his pocket.
I'm truly glad it's there for reference. I really miss some of the sites that have been more or less lost (ie www.linuxhq.com, www.webwatcher.org,etc). Today's economy and the maintainers lack of time/interest have taken their tolls.
And they believe that their 10.x.x.x network is a real IP address...and you have to try to explain that no...it's a unroutable and unusable address and they must either renumber everything or run some sort of address translation.
What a copout! I'd have liked to have another link with the TOS Spock.
I could indeed be wrong..I didn't watch the credits/etc. However, early info in the summer had stated that it was T'Pau (maybe the executives changed their mind and dissolved a link)?
By any chance did anyone catch the fact that the science officer (T'Pau) is (circa STOS) T'Pau of Vulcan (ie...basically the most important person on the planet at that time...leader of the the family that was Surak's (who was the prime leader in the Vulcan emotional detachment/peace movement)) I found it umm...most fascinating. :)
Wonder what other famous ppl besides T'Pau and Zephram Cochran we might see ? (or at least famous species...like Orion slave girls?...actually when I saw those reptiloid ladies eating the butterflies...I thought of the Orions...but they weren't green of course!
1) Don't bore them :)
2) Don't let them play games all the time
3) Find something fun as an incentive for attendance/paying attention. I've seen professors that threw candy (or money even) at intervals. Seriously, it'll help
4) Try to make them learn at least one thing every session
These are distilled from my experiences teaching high school juniors and seniors as a mentor in the Boy Scout Explorers program. My topic was computers in the workplace.
I did a horrible job, I'm afraid most techies just aren't cut out for this kind of work (least I'm not).
Good luck!
Maybe you also don't worry about having genital cancer later in your life either ? I don't know...but I think there just MIGHT be slightly safer methods of population control. Then again....I guess if that sounds like a good idea to you...go ahead. Survival of the fittest, I suppose ;)
My condolences on the death of your website. But seriously, I always wished time and management would allow one to design two web sites. 1) this is the one you told me to do 2) this is the one I think you should have. Now go compare them and see what YOU think. Of course, if the customer has crappy taste....what a waste of time. Often when I've had the opportunity to do something like this...ppl do swing around.
I'm just curious about users using CVS Enlightenment and current GNOME together. Both provide mechanisms to have toolbars, menus, filemanagers, etc.
Exactly which components of each are you using?
I'm very impressed (Ok, so maybe I'm easy to impress) with both of them. I haven't compiled an Enlightmentment since they started the FAM stuff in the CVStree, so I'm a bit out of date but I'm rather fascinated by Mandrake's use of no terminal windows for daily operations
Comments ? (please)
Actually, I suspect it's not the admins that rule with the iron fist. I suspect it's management directives.
:)
I've previously had to write scripts tracking mail to/from. I've also had to hack the popd source code to take info from users incoming mailboxes. All of this has been at management direction, and usually my immediate supervisors and I have argued over it..but it comes down to...do it or someone else can have your job.
I disagree (personally) with doing things like that, but I also like to eat and buy things myself. Perhaps that is a bit selfish
Ok, Hemos will be good...but will Rob ? Seriously, if there's a commitment for a timely porting of BG2 to Linux (and henceforth other games), Windows may be looking at a up and coming reformat at home. I currently have Debian and Win/98 (yes, I admit..I'm weak and like to play games sometimes). I seldom boot into Win98 (twice a month or so...and always to play like BG). This is VERY GOOD news to me....thanks for the person who submitted the article!
As well as much of the personal reasons for moving were to be closer to my aging parents. California, Virginia, or Texas don't qualify for that.
I recently moved from Nebraska to Tulsa, Oklahoma. I banked on it being easy to find a job in our industry (as a sysadmin in fact). I have about 6 years experience with AIX and 3 years experience with SUN/Solaris, and I run Linux at home (7 years), but didn't expect to find a Linux job. However, I have had NO luck (over 6 months) finding a job as a Unix admin or network admin (DNS, DHCP, assorted other). I'm finally working for an ISP because of my proficiency programming, scripting, and Linux admin ability. I'm having a very good time, but I'm being somewhat underpaid....which probably makes things even. I even bought a house in the NE Oklahoma area (before finding a job). Maybe I'm a fool ? Danny change at to @ to email :)
As a cable company, they leave a lot to be desired (feature wise per dollar you have to spend). They LOVE monopoly (such as cable companies used to be). I've had Time-Warner as a cable company (in two different states) for about 5 years total and generally regretted that they were the only choice in the town at the time...plus I was renting, so couldn't install a dish (which is what I have now).