> 18 dollars an hour sucks. Spanish/English translators in my hospital get about 40 dollars an hour.
Canadian, yes, which I did not notice when I posted it. What do you make per hour? What's your job? I know there are a lot of folks here that would love to make US$18/hour. Anyone who makes $40/hour translating belongs on that "most overpaid jobs" list posted around a week ago. I'd also be interested to know how many hours they work a week.
Don't do it! The organization is clearly run by crazies.
My favorite part:
Software List: Some or all would be preferred.
I mean, damn, $17-$19 is pretty good for Help Desk, even if it is bilingual, but anyone who is familiar with all of the items on that list should make more than God himself. Of course, the poster of this probably works for Kelly Services anyway.
I am somewhat concerned about privacy with my own web site, but here are a few things you can do to help:
1. Don't post personal information/your address. 2. Use a script (if you can) for e-mail instead of posting your e-mail address. Then you can choose who has your address and who doesn't. example 3. Use WHOIS protection services like those offered by RegisterFly and Go Daddy. RegisterFly only charges $2.50/year for this protection.
They dropped support for the RHL line, but still support the RH "Enterprise Linux" line, which includes a Workstation, Entry Server and Advanced Server. Workstation, as you might have guessed, is intended for the desktop, just not yours at home.
I'd say it's not intended for most businesses either, given the high price tag. It's too early in the game to start charging that kind of money for a desktop/workstation edition.
That would be fine as long as you could figure out a reliable and automated way to keep it patched, like relying on apt-get upgrade or up3date or something similar. Otherwise, as soon as someone found an exploit they would write a worm and have an army of "simple file servers" under their control, which may be worse than compromising a desktop since people generally ignore a file server as long as it's working.
Hmmm, who sets the "minimum" that can be spent? A million dollar minimum is a lot to me but chump change to a major corporation. Also, by requiring that McD lend you the money, it almost seems like they're being punished before even being found guilty. It would make every crackpot coffee drinker come out of the wood work, piss away an insane amount of money in legal fees out of spite, possibly lose and give McD the finger as they disconnect their phone line to avoid creditors. It also doesn't seem like your life should end (financially) if you indeed feel you've been genuinely wronged, but the judge dismisses based on some ghey reason like "the defendent wasn't read his Miranda rights properly". Now you didn't get justice, you owe a large sum of cash, and your mother is lying face down in a cold dark coffin 6 feet under.
As much as I like the idea of the little guy getting a fair trial, you have to think about being fair to the company (and those who it employs) too.
Take the case of the Jack in the Box Ecoli case, or the case where someone went around and poisoned aspirin to make it look like it was a random act when she poisoned her husband... The victims in the case could say, "Ok, I spent $500 on my lawyer. You poisoned me. Pay up or die!". Meanwhile, they have the supposed evidence that there was poison in the manufacturers products, without giving the defendent (the company) enough resources to investigate and find the true foe - the crazy bitch who put cyanide in OTC drugs at random stores.
That hardly seems fair, either. Oh course, this doesn't take into account a police investigation, which could be good or bad for either side of the case. What if the police were being unjust or used bad science? That's some free "evidence" for the plaintiffs case, even though the defendent might be innocent, they are not allowed to spend the money required to debunk the bad science.
IANAL, and I probably know about as much about the legal system as your average Night Court devotee, but I'm not sure what you propose is necessarily the answer. It's a tough dilemma.
OS X, probably. Linux, not a snowball's chance in hell. If they even gave a moment's thought to porting it to a third OS, I'm guessing it would be Solaris.
That guys animosity towards students reflects the level of customer service that most Universities provide today.
Nobody said most college students are masters of project management or the big picture, but they are a talented group of programmers. To dismiss them as worthless is to ignore a valuable and cheap source of labor. You may not want to make them PM just yet, but I gaurentee they'll work their asses off, with a little direction, more than that 30-year veteran who has become acustomed to the University's indiference towards laziness. Union YES!
Most computer science students I know haven't been corrupted yet and still have a high work ethic, they just need a little direction and be brought down a level to reality. Once they get past thinking they can change the place overnight, they make some excellent, hard working individuals.
But alas, the University I attended didn't hire any of its graduates either. While I was working there, not one of my supervisors had any sort of degree and they weren't eager to give anyone from the inside a chance upon graduation (again, I'm not talking about management positions, but I've seen plenty of entry level jobs that turned down countless grads from the Uni. I guess they don't have faith in what they teach.)
That's why I use Gentoo and roll my own. I can tweak the settings to my liking and only install the packages that I need, fully optimized for my system.
> These 419 scams (named after the nigerian police code) can be dangerous. There have been reports of where people have actually gone to foreign countries and then been kidnapped forcing the familes to pay a ransom note.
Sounds like natural selection to me. I'm surprised they figured out how to book the plane ticket.
I couldn't disagree more. It's a TOUGH job market out there for IT people in the U.S. Perhaps this is unique to the Midwest, but the jobs I applied for asked me for experience and whether I could get the job done. They didn't care if I could name all of Beethoven's symphonies. If I didn't know how to code right now, I'd be unemployed.
Worker bee or not, it's better than being unemployed. You humanities folk might have dreams of grandeur, but a history of unemployment and lacking skills aren't going to get you there.
Interviewer: "So, can you describe some of the experience you've had with OOP and Java development?" Liberal Artist: "Um, I don't know what Java is but I have a humanities degree from Yale, and my well-roundedness has never failed to allowed me to pick up new things really quickly! I also work well with people!" (Never mind that your fellow developers will still think you're an asshole for making them do all your work because you are incompetent)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Quanta isn't a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
*blah blah* real developers use notepad *blah blah*
I like FrontPage/DW because I can throw together some complex tables and throw some images in quicker than typing it in Notepad. Obviously, I have to use Notepad (or something similar) to clean up the resulting code and make it compliant, but for me, I've still found a time savings in the end. In my mind, it would be like POV Ray developers calling users of Photoshop wusses.
Thank you, Jeremy and team, for all your hard work on the project. The addition of a decent WYSIWYG editor for Linux is greatly welcome. I'm a FrontPage man myself, but I'd glady switch so not to be dependent on the MS machine anymore.
> Most people outside the humanities complete their degrees and come out ignorant of other disciplines, the way the world works(tm), history, psychology, politics, philosophy, rhetoric, literature, film, the role of the media and how to conduct PROPER social research.
Funny, my employer asked what programming languages and what kind of web programming experience I had before hiring me. I'm sure history and social research was high on his list too, though...
This isn't the 90s anymore. You actually have to be USEFUL to the company to get and retain a job now, although I have a BBA in MIS from a small-time Uni, so I'm probably just talking out of my ass:)
"It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products."
So it's now going to be a big test distro like Debian Unstable? I always thought RedHat CE was an excellent balance between bleeding edge and stability, but it appears now they will focus on bleeding edge.:(
> Now that they have a more stable Enterprise branch, they're free to be more experimental in their regular branch, which is what's now being called Fedora.
It's unfortunate they're moving away from stability with their community version.:( Too bad SuSe costs so much, otherwise I'd consider that. However, if I'm going to dish out $80 for an OS, it better last me more than a year and it better have free updates. Recommendations? I never liked Mandrake (weird setup and can't get it to work with my Promise RAID for the life of me), and it sounds like the latest version is an absolute disaster. What's happening!
I had a Goldstar monitor that was a rockstar, but yes, I am well aware of their track record. I didn't know that LG was Goldstar. Thanks for the tip:)
Makes me lose some respect for Dell. I mean, I know they are in an industry of low margins, but you don't have to go with the absolute cheapest crap you can find, do you??
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> Either its 1394 or it isn't.
And it's either "Full Speed" USB or "High Speed" USB...
> 18 dollars an hour sucks. Spanish/English translators in my hospital get about 40 dollars an hour.
Canadian, yes, which I did not notice when I posted it. What do you make per hour? What's your job? I know there are a lot of folks here that would love to make US$18/hour. Anyone who makes $40/hour translating belongs on that "most overpaid jobs" list posted around a week ago. I'd also be interested to know how many hours they work a week.
> WINNT is nice to have.
Don't do it! The organization is clearly run by crazies.
My favorite part:
Software List: Some or all would be preferred.
I mean, damn, $17-$19 is pretty good for Help Desk, even if it is bilingual, but anyone who is familiar with all of the items on that list should make more than God himself. Of course, the poster of this probably works for Kelly Services anyway.
I am somewhat concerned about privacy with my own web site, but here are a few things you can do to help:
1. Don't post personal information/your address.
2. Use a script (if you can) for e-mail instead of posting your e-mail address. Then you can choose who has your address and who doesn't. example
3. Use WHOIS protection services like those offered by RegisterFly and Go Daddy. RegisterFly only charges $2.50/year for this protection.
> They must have damned good renewal services...
Maybe they simply have auto-renewal and don't let some domains expire like some people.
Not quite as good as you listed, but some others in the C|Net network:
zdnet.com
gamespot.com
mysimon.com
techrepublic.com
Wait until they buy Internet.com and About.com. Then they will truely control the Internet!
> Supposedly they have a surprise or two up their sleeve that will put a little twist on the whole iTunes music store content.
Like perhaps a place where you could upload all of your songs, like a "locker", and be able to listen to them from any location. That would rock!
Oh, wait...
Ummm, I didn't see either, but wasn't it Superman III?
They dropped support for the RHL line, but still support the RH "Enterprise Linux" line, which includes a Workstation, Entry Server and Advanced Server. Workstation, as you might have guessed, is intended for the desktop, just not yours at home.
I'd say it's not intended for most businesses either, given the high price tag. It's too early in the game to start charging that kind of money for a desktop/workstation edition.
That would be fine as long as you could figure out a reliable and automated way to keep it patched, like relying on apt-get upgrade or up3date or something similar. Otherwise, as soon as someone found an exploit they would write a worm and have an army of "simple file servers" under their control, which may be worse than compromising a desktop since people generally ignore a file server as long as it's working.
Not to worry, they don't post drivers on their web site anyway :P
> Now I can get out to realty world
If you're looking to get into real estate, there are courses available. I'd be surprised if they didn't offer such courses in the Matrix.
Hmmm, who sets the "minimum" that can be spent? A million dollar minimum is a lot to me but chump change to a major corporation. Also, by requiring that McD lend you the money, it almost seems like they're being punished before even being found guilty. It would make every crackpot coffee drinker come out of the wood work, piss away an insane amount of money in legal fees out of spite, possibly lose and give McD the finger as they disconnect their phone line to avoid creditors. It also doesn't seem like your life should end (financially) if you indeed feel you've been genuinely wronged, but the judge dismisses based on some ghey reason like "the defendent wasn't read his Miranda rights properly". Now you didn't get justice, you owe a large sum of cash, and your mother is lying face down in a cold dark coffin 6 feet under.
... The victims in the case could say, "Ok, I spent $500 on my lawyer. You poisoned me. Pay up or die!". Meanwhile, they have the supposed evidence that there was poison in the manufacturers products, without giving the defendent (the company) enough resources to investigate and find the true foe - the crazy bitch who put cyanide in OTC drugs at random stores.
As much as I like the idea of the little guy getting a fair trial, you have to think about being fair to the company (and those who it employs) too.
Take the case of the Jack in the Box Ecoli case, or the case where someone went around and poisoned aspirin to make it look like it was a random act when she poisoned her husband
That hardly seems fair, either. Oh course, this doesn't take into account a police investigation, which could be good or bad for either side of the case. What if the police were being unjust or used bad science? That's some free "evidence" for the plaintiffs case, even though the defendent might be innocent, they are not allowed to spend the money required to debunk the bad science.
IANAL, and I probably know about as much about the legal system as your average Night Court devotee, but I'm not sure what you propose is necessarily the answer. It's a tough dilemma.
I think it would be funny to give him this address or something similar:
:/
Mr. J.E. Hoover
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
Considering a lot of these guys are idiots, maybe it won't be so obvious.
OS X, probably. Linux, not a snowball's chance in hell. If they even gave a moment's thought to porting it to a third OS, I'm guessing it would be Solaris.
Are you going to make these publicly available? Will you make an announcement on your web site?
That guys animosity towards students reflects the level of customer service that most Universities provide today.
Nobody said most college students are masters of project management or the big picture, but they are a talented group of programmers. To dismiss them as worthless is to ignore a valuable and cheap source of labor. You may not want to make them PM just yet, but I gaurentee they'll work their asses off, with a little direction, more than that 30-year veteran who has become acustomed to the University's indiference towards laziness. Union YES!
Most computer science students I know haven't been corrupted yet and still have a high work ethic, they just need a little direction and be brought down a level to reality. Once they get past thinking they can change the place overnight, they make some excellent, hard working individuals.
But alas, the University I attended didn't hire any of its graduates either. While I was working there, not one of my supervisors had any sort of degree and they weren't eager to give anyone from the inside a chance upon graduation (again, I'm not talking about management positions, but I've seen plenty of entry level jobs that turned down countless grads from the Uni. I guess they don't have faith in what they teach.)
That's why I use Gentoo and roll my own. I can tweak the settings to my liking and only install the packages that I need, fully optimized for my system.
</joke>
> These 419 scams (named after the nigerian police code) can be dangerous. There have been reports of where people have actually gone to foreign countries and then been kidnapped forcing the familes to pay a ransom note.
Sounds like natural selection to me. I'm surprised they figured out how to book the plane ticket.
I couldn't disagree more. It's a TOUGH job market out there for IT people in the U.S. Perhaps this is unique to the Midwest, but the jobs I applied for asked me for experience and whether I could get the job done. They didn't care if I could name all of Beethoven's symphonies. If I didn't know how to code right now, I'd be unemployed.
Worker bee or not, it's better than being unemployed. You humanities folk might have dreams of grandeur, but a history of unemployment and lacking skills aren't going to get you there.
Interviewer: "So, can you describe some of the experience you've had with OOP and Java development?"
Liberal Artist: "Um, I don't know what Java is but I have a humanities degree from Yale, and my well-roundedness has never failed to allowed me to pick up new things really quickly! I also work well with people!" (Never mind that your fellow developers will still think you're an asshole for making them do all your work because you are incompetent)
Riiiiiight....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Quanta isn't a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.
*blah blah* real developers use notepad *blah blah*
I like FrontPage/DW because I can throw together some complex tables and throw some images in quicker than typing it in Notepad. Obviously, I have to use Notepad (or something similar) to clean up the resulting code and make it compliant, but for me, I've still found a time savings in the end. In my mind, it would be like POV Ray developers calling users of Photoshop wusses.
Thank you, Jeremy and team, for all your hard work on the project. The addition of a decent WYSIWYG editor for Linux is greatly welcome. I'm a FrontPage man myself, but I'd glady switch so not to be dependent on the MS machine anymore.
> Most people outside the humanities complete their degrees and come out ignorant of other disciplines, the way the world works(tm), history, psychology, politics, philosophy, rhetoric, literature, film, the role of the media and how to conduct PROPER social research.
Funny, my employer asked what programming languages and what kind of web programming experience I had before hiring me. I'm sure history and social research was high on his list too, though...
This isn't the 90s anymore. You actually have to be USEFUL to the company to get and retain a job now, although I have a BBA in MIS from a small-time Uni, so I'm probably just talking out of my ass :)
This troubles me from the top of their web site:
So it's now going to be a big test distro like Debian Unstable? I always thought RedHat CE was an excellent balance between bleeding edge and stability, but it appears now they will focus on bleeding edge. :(
Hmmm, I still think they're in the same market (especially in light of RedHat dumping their community edition), just not the same market share.
> Now that they have a more stable Enterprise branch, they're free to be more experimental in their regular branch, which is what's now being called Fedora.
It's unfortunate they're moving away from stability with their community version. :( Too bad SuSe costs so much, otherwise I'd consider that. However, if I'm going to dish out $80 for an OS, it better last me more than a year and it better have free updates. Recommendations? I never liked Mandrake (weird setup and can't get it to work with my Promise RAID for the life of me), and it sounds like the latest version is an absolute disaster. What's happening!
I had a Goldstar monitor that was a rockstar, but yes, I am well aware of their track record. I didn't know that LG was Goldstar. Thanks for the tip :)
Makes me lose some respect for Dell. I mean, I know they are in an industry of low margins, but you don't have to go with the absolute cheapest crap you can find, do you??