Very true. I got my current job (web dev) mainly because a friend of mine already worked there when they were looking for new people. I'll also second that 'people skills' are very important in interviews, below is a site I found very useful for this, hope it helps. http://www.bridge.net/~mawad/InterQ uestions.htm
2 different web sites involving well over 200 pages each and 1,000+ hits a day that's been
1000 hits ? Woo, hardcore traffic you have there! That's what, 40 hits an hour ? I doubt many surfers would go through more than 15 pages, which gives you 600 pages to serve an hour. Man, you'd want to have a machine stay up for that kind of load, it's not even a page a second. Look at sexswap.com's, (banner exchange) rate of service, how many a second ? 150 or so. Admittedly they would be running fast boxes and it's a different type of application, but I just wanted to get a point across. Second point, no matter how much research you do with MCSE books, tapes (and hookers) I don't think your voice will be too well heard on a site like this.
Re:.....same kinda people as... you ?
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Jesusf*ckingchrist
It amazes me how incredibly stupid and narrow minded some people really must be at times. >(bet most quakers smoke) What ? What smoking has to do with quake I do not know.
What playing a game on a computer has to do with you being mentally unhinged, lacking morals of any sort, or not being sane I do not know either.
Seriously, when will people realise you've probably got issues already if a game makes you want to kill people.
So yeah, I took the flamebait (which I wish your comment was) but not everyone's christian who can't understand the difference between reality and fantasy, just as not every christian feels a need to pressgang as many people as they can into their religion.
>There is no such thing for linux (unless you BUY redhat).
You mean MS 'stuff' is comparable in price ? Excellent. I'll have the following OS/s and pay when I want some phone support. 1 desktop OS with office suite, 1 server with everything I could ever want to do on the damn thing. I'd also appreciate a decent effort at security and openness instead of running away with hands covering ass from the vendor.
>I consider myself to be quite good with computers, but even I have found it almost impossible to get Linux running.
In other words it wasn't easy the first time and you had to RTFM. If I put someone who'd never used win9x or even win3.1 and asked them to install it I'm very sure they'd have troubles too. Every day I use it I find myself wondering how a product so fault-ridden can actually _ship_ and have so many people using it with so little complaint. Credit where credit's due MS have done a LOT to get IT where it is today. So have a lot of other companies who aren't as anti-competition as MS have shown themselves to be.
>Because the average person probably couldn't >even get common apps downloaded, let alone setup >for Linux.
The average person has trouble doing that on windows. I'd hate to be an 'average person' (such as yourself I imagine) in a situation where there are software and hardware errors and conflicts. I cringe when I hear the common "there was a problem with my hard drive so I rang and they told me to reformat" . Screw that.
>It would be nice to have drivers, but the >drivers that these guys write are the main cause >of Windows stability. I can't believe that their >Linux variants will be any more stable!
Err... what ? I'm not even going to make an attempt at this one. I'm sorry to say I believe you have serious issues you'd best sort through with a trained professional.
Seriously though, if you're a pro-MS user and consider yourself quite good with computers I dunno what your definition of average. It makes me uneasy inside and prone to liver failure.
You're right about the ease of use thing. But something that's notoriously unstable isn't a good thing. When I feel safe in linux and genuinely unsure of when explorer.exe is going to shit itself next something's up. When a company's got to get affiliates to write shit surveys that would fail high school maths due to leading questions that father who doesn't (want to) know a thing about computers or MS says is misleading they lose more respect they never had.
But when MS avocates such as yourself (and I'm sorry readers for stooping to personal attacks but it's just so easy;) ) consider yourself quite good with computers. Well, 'nuff said.
I have 3-4 different passwords that I generally use for different things irc bots/web sites,mail/ibill stats/dial up . For different accounts I'll just add something on the end or change a common value to something similar but unrelated, 'I' may change to '1' for (shitty) example. Browsers remembering passwords I find damn handy too, more to save typing than remembering.
Wonder what would have eventuated if he got done over... Although in a way it does make sense to prosecute someone for knowingly linking to illegal mp3's
*winces at the thought of getting flamed for screwing up*
The one day some DJ's declared... "Let this house be progressive!"
The closest I've had to a UFO sighting was seeing about 3 triangular-shaped things glowing a very dim green/white in the night sky when we were driving home one night. I was 10 at the time so the memory has probably been tinkered with by father time but still:)
That's strange, I have a few burn cd's and when I listen to them on my Discman on busses etc they rarely skip, no noticible change from the original CD's.
It's the fscking principle of the matter that irks me most, I like the net uncensored and raw. I like being able to view what I frigging well want when I want, not what some geriatric wanker on a mission to ensure his fucking payout at the end of his term needs to satisfy him. The Australian government is a joke, and brian harradeen is the punchline. Yeah, there may be some way around it, I don;t know, but it's the friggin principle of the thing. I can't see how you can be happy having choices made for you buddy, I just wish there were less idiots in our country, overhearing some moron everyday make some comment about the internet merely being bombs and porn is infuriating, I long ago gave up even bothering to get annoyed over the issue, (one just gets to hoping they die horribly in a car crash) .
I was/am too, and for the same reasons, not as much anymore , but in different ways, my group of friends at school's the 'goth/raver/whatever' group and that's perfectly fucking fine with me. People are sheep by nature and all it takes is one thug to lead the herd against the lone person to show how fucking stupid they are. When I heard the killers singled out the 'jocks' I wasn't sorry in the least for those that had been _singled out_ . Jocks are on average, wankers who simply use idiot methods to gain some measure of respect from other sheep. (oooh look at that, I'm a cold prick, so bite me). Heard the line from some Offspring song 'fuck with me and I'll fuck with you', some of you may , others not but the message is clear either way. Schools are full of young people full or hormones, ideas and energy, too bad this more often than not results in the usual sporting popularity BS, and alienation of others. And why vilify Goths/Geeks? The Goth scene is one of the friendliest and most supportive I know of (well here at least), they were obviously close friends, brought together by adversity and they stuck it up 'em. It's sad that there is going to be nothing learnt because of the search for a quick buck, it really is. It's moronic that a band and a game are singled out and used as scapegoats (like the recent killers), but it really shows that people are still just as clueless and pathetic years after school. I'd rant more but I can't be bothered. BTW: Keep things like this up, open forums are great:)
cheers
>I totally agree with your comment about school. >I was verbally abused by my classmates for about >two and a half years at school, for various >reasons. My experiences of school lead me to >believe that the only way to avoid such >treatment is:
>Be good at sport; >Follow the crowd like some kind of sheep; >Never, ever behave differently in any way from >the popular kids.
>It takes a little less for me to install Windows >98/NT than Linux. (Of course I lose a lot of >flexibility going MS.)
Just becaus it came to mind, I honestly had a lot less trouble installing a linux distro for the first time then my first win9x install, both times I had someone who knew what was going on with me though, but I knew more about linux than win at the time. I installed nt4 workstation at the same time, a few months later it fucked itself over after about a week of active use, just shit itself then did the old ms popup windows everyfuckingwhere trick so I touched the sky with my middle finger in the direction of bill and sunk the boot in and nt was no more.
Don't think they'll fold, but I heard WOTC were going to get bought out maybe, I wouldn't believe it myself, tho if they did someone would have some nice toys from the boys at tsr too:)
my little rant in agreement (kinda)
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You see people who write like this all the time on irc/www now,and to think they take themselves seriously is kinda odd, but who's to say what's right and wrong ? People get up on their soapbox (kinda like me right now really, hehe) and rant on about how others do things some way that is inherently wrong and is going to cause all kinds of trouble, but does it really matter ? So they do something that pisses you off, does this make them some kind of lamer ? if it does then you're obviously a lot more knowledgable and have little to worry about in terms of security, or is this just something that irks you on the principle of the thing? Sorry for being disjointed and off-topic, but I felt like;)
Just for the record, I think text like that's a pain in the ass to read and typing it properly takes 1/3 of the time.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Personally I'm working on a wargame (note not related to computers, uses actual miniatures) with a group of people from around the world, and it's soon to be commercially released. The rules have been available for some time on the web. It's a great system, work gets done, reviewed, commented on, changed then finalised quite quickly. And for Free. I think that the net can easily foster such a way of , errrm (stcu for words here) doing things.
http://www.zoomnet.net/~alice http://members.xoom.com/sitrep If you care;) Take it easy
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Very true. I got my current job (web dev) mainly because a friend of mine already worked there when they were looking for new people. I'll also second that 'people skills' are very important in interviews, below is a site I found very useful for this, hope it helps. http://www.bridge.net/~mawad/InterQ uestions.htm
2 different web sites involving well over 200 pages each and 1,000+ hits a day that's been
1000 hits ? Woo, hardcore traffic you have there!
That's what, 40 hits an hour ? I doubt many surfers would go through more than 15 pages, which gives you 600 pages to serve an hour.
Man, you'd want to have a machine stay up for that kind of load, it's not even a page a second.
Look at sexswap.com's, (banner exchange) rate of service, how many a second ? 150 or so. Admittedly they would be running fast boxes and it's a different type of application, but I just wanted to get a point across. Second point, no matter how much research you do with MCSE books, tapes (and hookers) I don't think your voice will be too well heard on a site like this.
Jesusf*ckingchrist
:P
It amazes me how incredibly stupid and narrow minded some people really must be at times.
>(bet most quakers smoke)
What ? What smoking has to do with quake I do not know.
What playing a game on a computer has to do with you being mentally unhinged, lacking morals of any sort, or not being sane I do not know either.
Seriously, when will people realise you've probably got issues already if a game makes you want to kill people.
So yeah, I took the flamebait (which I wish your comment was) but not everyone's christian who can't understand the difference between reality and fantasy, just as not every christian feels a need to pressgang as many people as they can into their religion.
better stop now before ranting
>There is no such thing for linux (unless you BUY redhat).
;) ) consider yourself quite good with computers. Well, 'nuff said.
You mean MS 'stuff' is comparable in price ? Excellent. I'll have the following OS/s and pay when I want some phone support. 1 desktop OS with office suite, 1 server with everything I could ever want to do on the damn thing. I'd also appreciate a decent effort at security and openness instead of running away with hands covering ass from the vendor.
>I consider myself to be quite good with computers, but even I have found it almost impossible to get Linux running.
In other words it wasn't easy the first time and you had to RTFM. If I put someone who'd never used win9x or even win3.1 and asked them to install it I'm very sure they'd have troubles too.
Every day I use it I find myself wondering how a product so fault-ridden can actually _ship_ and have so many people using it with so little complaint. Credit where credit's due MS have done a LOT to get IT where it is today. So have a lot of other companies who aren't as anti-competition as MS have shown themselves to be.
>Because the average person probably couldn't >even get common apps downloaded, let alone setup >for Linux.
The average person has trouble doing that on windows. I'd hate to be an 'average person' (such as yourself I imagine) in a situation where there are software and hardware errors and conflicts. I cringe when I hear the common "there was a problem with my hard drive so I rang and they told me to reformat" . Screw that.
>It would be nice to have drivers, but the >drivers that these guys write are the main cause >of Windows stability. I can't believe that their >Linux variants will be any more stable!
Err... what ? I'm not even going to make an attempt at this one. I'm sorry to say I believe you have serious issues you'd best sort through with a trained professional.
Seriously though, if you're a pro-MS user and consider yourself quite good with computers I dunno what your definition of average. It makes me uneasy inside and prone to liver failure.
You're right about the ease of use thing. But something that's notoriously unstable isn't a good thing. When I feel safe in linux and genuinely unsure of when explorer.exe is going to shit itself next something's up. When a company's got to get affiliates to write shit surveys that would fail high school maths due to leading questions that father who doesn't (want to) know a thing about computers or MS says is misleading they lose more respect they never had.
But when MS avocates such as yourself (and I'm sorry readers for stooping to personal attacks but it's just so easy
I have 3-4 different passwords that I generally use for different things irc bots/web sites,mail/ibill stats/dial up . For different accounts I'll just add something on the end or change a common value to something similar but unrelated, 'I' may change to '1' for (shitty) example. Browsers remembering passwords I find damn handy too, more to save typing than remembering.
Wonder what would have eventuated if he got done over... Although in a way it does make sense to prosecute someone for knowingly linking to illegal mp3's
*winces at the thought of getting flamed for screwing up*
The one day some DJ's declared...
"Let this house be progressive!"
The closest I've had to a UFO sighting was seeing about 3 triangular-shaped things glowing a very dim green/white in the night sky when we were driving home one night. I was 10 at the time so the memory has probably been tinkered with by father time but still :)
That's strange, I have a few burn cd's and when I listen to them on my Discman on busses etc they rarely skip, no noticible change from the original CD's.
Unless this catalog in front of me is lying, there's an AKAI DVD player for sale, that according to this plays VCD's too, it's $1099 if anyone cares :)
-not stating anything groundbreaking just noticed it reading the paper
Looks pretty nifty, for some reason it reminds me of 'sneakers' tho ;)
It's the fscking principle of the matter that irks me most, I like the net uncensored and raw. I like being able to view what I frigging well want when I want, not what some geriatric wanker on a mission to ensure his fucking payout at the end of his term needs to satisfy him. The Australian government is a joke, and brian harradeen is the punchline. Yeah, there may be some way around it, I don;t know, but it's the friggin principle of the thing. I can't see how you can be happy having choices made for you buddy, I just wish there were less idiots in our country, overhearing some moron everyday make some comment about the internet merely being bombs and porn is infuriating, I long ago gave up even bothering to get annoyed over the issue, (one just gets to hoping they die horribly in a car crash) .
I was/am too, and for the same reasons, not as much anymore , but in different ways, my group of friends at school's the 'goth/raver/whatever' group and that's perfectly fucking fine with me. People are sheep by nature and all it takes is one thug to lead the herd against the lone person to show how fucking stupid they are. When I heard the killers singled out the 'jocks' I wasn't sorry in the least for those that had been _singled out_ . Jocks are on average, wankers who simply use idiot methods to gain some measure of respect from other sheep. (oooh look at that, I'm a cold prick, so bite me). Heard the line from some Offspring song 'fuck with me and I'll fuck with you', some of you may , others not but the message is clear either way. Schools are full of young people full or hormones, ideas and energy, too bad this more often than not results in the usual sporting popularity BS, and alienation of others. And why vilify Goths/Geeks? The Goth scene is one of the friendliest and most supportive I know of (well here at least), they were obviously close friends, brought together by adversity and they stuck it up 'em. It's sad that there is going to be nothing learnt because of the search for a quick buck, it really is. It's moronic that a band and a game are singled out and used as scapegoats (like the recent killers), but it really shows that people are still just as clueless and pathetic years after school. I'd rant more but I can't be bothered. :)
BTW: Keep things like this up, open forums are great
cheers
>I totally agree with your comment about school. >I was verbally abused by my classmates for about >two and a half years at school, for various >reasons. My experiences of school lead me to >believe that the only way to avoid such >treatment is:
>Be good at sport;
>Follow the crowd like some kind of sheep;
>Never, ever behave differently in any way from >the popular kids.
>It takes a little less for me to install Windows >98/NT than Linux. (Of course I lose a lot of >flexibility going MS.)
:)
Just becaus it came to mind, I honestly had a lot less trouble installing a linux distro for the first time then my first win9x install, both times I had someone who knew what was going on with me though, but I knew more about linux than win at the time. I installed nt4 workstation at the same time, a few months later it fucked itself over after about a week of active use, just shit itself then did the old ms popup windows everyfuckingwhere trick so I touched the sky with my middle finger in the direction of bill and sunk the boot in and nt was no more.
Just my 2c
Don't think they'll fold, but I heard WOTC were going to get bought out maybe, I wouldn't believe it myself, tho if they did someone would have some nice toys from the boys at tsr too :)
You see people who write like this all the time on irc/www now,and to think they take themselves seriously is kinda odd, but who's to say what's right and wrong ? People get up on their soapbox (kinda like me right now really, hehe) and rant on about how others do things some way that is inherently wrong and is going to cause all kinds of trouble, but does it really matter ? So they do something that pisses you off, does this make them some kind of lamer ? if it does then you're obviously a lot more knowledgable and have little to worry about in terms of security, or is this just something that irks you on the principle of the thing? Sorry for being disjointed and off-topic, but I felt like ;)
Just for the record, I think text like that's a pain in the ass to read and typing it properly takes 1/3 of the time.
*looks perplexed and hits submit*
I wholeheartedly agree with this. Personally I'm working on a wargame (note not related to computers, uses actual miniatures) with a group of people from around the world, and it's soon to be commercially released. The rules have been available for some time on the web. It's a great system, work gets done, reviewed, commented on, changed then finalised quite quickly. And for Free. I think that the net can easily foster such a way of , errrm (stcu for words here) doing things.
;)
http://www.zoomnet.net/~alice
http://members.xoom.com/sitrep
If you care
Take it easy
ahahah :) :)
that rocks
'tis one of the funniest things I've seen for a long time, the only thing missing from those pics was a battering ram
cyas