Librivox ( https://play.google.com/store/... ) is also valuable on this front. Not all of the recordings are great, but it's free (as in beer) audiobooks for books that have entered the public domain.
I'm able to do this with a $10 sim card from a 7-11 convenience store in Bangkok betweek cellular 3G and their distributed wifi network. Works great....
We've followed similar career arcs. When I figured out, like you, that this wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, I started studying money. It's essentially a new language, with variable, types, modules, classes etc. Once you understand the basic premises, it's no more difficult to make it than to write a significant application.
The cool thing about working towards a good chunk of cash is that it gives you the ability to take a step back and look around. Maybe software development IS what you want to do for the rest of your life, but you don't want to be tied to the company you're at, or to a paycheck at all. Maybe you want to do like This guy.
Hate to break it to you (and contradict my last post), but while it's one of the most depressing series I"ve ever read, it's also one of the most exhilarating... you soldier on through the worst apocolyptic nightmares produced by pen, then...
BAM
One of the protagonists comes out of nowhere and just absolutely stomps the shit out of everything in his / her path, scoring 1M internets for the home team.
Admit it, ChrisKnight, you never finished the series:)
What do you get when youo combine manic depression, schizophrenia, bigotry, and leprosy, then add in a little literal and figurative rape?
In the end, a pretty good series, but more than anything else I"ve read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant has the darkest, most depressing prose I've ever read.
There are KAJILLIONS of good-natured, smart, talented, hard-working men and women that are more than capable.
Please introduce me to just a few of these KAJILLION people. I haven't heard of the tribe, but in my experience, finding good-natured, smart, talented, hard working people (at any price), while by no means impossible, is the result of hard work in and of itself. I'd really just rather hire people from this KAJILLION place.
I think it's disingenuous in the extreme not to consider racial bias towards as well as against Obama in a study like this. In areas such as Atlanta, GA, where African Americans comprise more than 50% of the population, poliiticians are almost exclusively black.
In Thailand, the Bangkok Post recently ran an article entitled Is Farang an F-word?.
This implies bias based on racial characteristics, not only for caucasians, but for all ethnic groups. I think a study that tried to explain to what degree racial bias offset's itself would be more interesting.
Can't see how these can be considered forgotten... Donaldson's still writing the Last Chronicles. If manic depression could be learned, this would be the textbook. Chapters and chapters of spectacularly described depression, angst, and ennui interspersed with horror, then a right hook out of nowhere with displays of beauty or realization or power. Hits like a McDonalds cheeseburger in the guts.
As a storage admin for a decent size (1000+ employee) company, I get this argument from management every day.
We can go out and buy a terabyte for $50! How hard is it to justify 10TB for project X?
Answer: Your USB drive (or internal SATA drive, or cheap single desktop RAID solution) has neither the performance, reliability, or feature set required by a modern datacenter.
A standard (7200rpm) USB drive can get around 320 IOPS. A single application in an enterprise environment, serving multiple users, can easily require 20,000+ IOPS at the database level. An environment like the SSA could easily have dozens of apps serving the same number of users (employees, not even counting customers). How many USB drives do you plan on connecting? How are you going to maintain, monitor, and expand your 1000's of daisy chained USB drives? How many millions are you going to spend designing, implementing, and maintaining an interface to control them? How much to train people to use it?
Enterprise storage solutions from EMC, NetApp, 3Par etc. help control the issues above, but they don't come cheap. A terabyte of space for a NetApp filer, if you count licensing, training, power, cooling, disaster recovery etc., will run you easily $10,000 / TB. EMC storage can be double that.
I can't guess how much data they need to store, but knowing that they have 106,000 employees, and knowing that my company has around a thousand, even if they needed only a tenth as much storage as us, they're looking at 10 petabytes, or $100,000,000 in storage. If you budget roughly the same amount for network and server hardware, then about as much as both combined for application development, support, transition, and staff, then throw in a final $100,000,000 for government waste and bureaucracy, you're pretty much right on target.
WebMin is a web based GUI system admin tool great for people who are at your level; specifically, you have some build experience, a smattering of Linux knowledge, and a clear understanding of your goals.
Hope the following helps with your issues:
Client / Server: Each of the workstations can be set up to "phone home". Select the "Webmin Servers Index" option
- View client computer status: "System and Server Status"
- On/off, sleeping etc.
- Deny internet access, not LAN, just the web: "Webmin Users", can schedule time
- Block access w/Squid
- Remote virus scanning of client machines, or scheduled task;
Unnecessary if you'll put a basic Linux distro on the clients
- Some kind of hardware monitor, high temp / fan speed low etc "Hardware"
- Email alerts for various log files / alarms. "Monitoring"
Hope that helps. It's not even a steep learning curve, and you get to ignore the viruses and adware they were going to pick up anyway.
This is exactly what needs to happen. We'll need some thai translators though to make it harder for them to sift through.
It's highly unlikely that you'll get one.
What most of the people posting here don't understand is the loyalty that Thais have towards their king. Note that this is personal loyalty, not loyalty to the monarchy in general.
King Bhumibol has brought incredible change to Thailand during his reign, including improvements from irrigation to public restrooms (my personal favorite). In the recent ousting of the Thai prime minister, supporters of the PM wore pink to support the king. The opposition wore yellow to support the king. Notice a pattern here?
Good luck with your translator. Let me know how that works out for you:-)
rsync is part of the answer. If you're looking for a way to have multiple, incremental backups of laptops with unpredicatable patterns of connecting to the network, BackupPC is the way to go.
BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.
Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape.
BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.
By using pooling and compression, one client of mine is using BackupPC to backup over 1TB of data distributed among over 100 laptops to a 200GB filesystem on a central server. The network is polled every hour, and any system that hasn't been backed up in the last 24 hours is queued. Beautiful system.
I _expect_ a voter or citizen to know the basics of what is a democracy, I _expect_ that an average person knows the basics of how a computer works. The reason is simple trends. It will continue to be important knowing about the basic operating principles of a democratic society and will increase in importance.
While I agree with your argument in principle, it's uncomfortable to see someone expecting a "higher level" of socio-political knowledge touting democracy. Assuming that you're a U.S. citizen, you live in a country that (thank the deity of your choice) has never been, nor (hopefully) ever will be, a democracy.
Qmail is secure by nature. Qmail is guaranteed by the programmer to not have security bugs, with a $500 bounty for the reporter of the first exploit.
Sometimes, a quick Google search is effective at debunking myths. Qmail is neither secure nor bug-free by design, and Dan's blatant disregard of patches, fixes, and this page, combined with his inability to recognize and resolve known issues (granted, maybe he doesn't have an extra $5,000 laying around) is ludicrous.
That being said, I still like and use QMail. I just don't swallow propaganda from semi-psychotic (albeit very talented) developers.
Argghh, matey. We be feeding this post to the trolls, eh?
Axe public health? Check.
What exactly is this president "axing"? Legislation to give universal healthcare? That's all Congress. Oh, and you're assuming that universal healthcare is a good thing.
Axe social security? Check.
YEAHH! GO TEAM!
Social Security is going bankrupt, due to Republican and Democratic politicians spending all of the money in any "reserve" it may have once had. I'm 30, and neither I nor any contemporary I've discussed SS with believes we'll see a dime of it. Graduate it out, now. At least save me the last bit of money I'd have to pay into a dying system.
Axe public education? They're most certainly working on it.
Nice. The state of Georgia is consistently bottom of the barrel in education in the US, despite being the 8th highest spending state on primary and secondary education. For once, conservatives are advocating a program (vouchers) that allow people to choose whether or not they like public schools. But you don't want that, do you? Public schools are what you want, and public schools are what those whining bastards will get. Let them eat cake.
Ignore urgent need to invest in renewable resources? Check.
Good plan. Let bureaucracy do our research. It worked before, right?
There's seriously not much more they can axe to funnel more money into the military, is there?
Sure there is. If you weren't just another troll, you'd put your time in helping reduce pork. But no, you just want to bitch, not do anything productive.
>So while you take twenty years to build your network and 40 to recoup your >investment, you'll be somehow raising that money from customers who have the >choice between your network, and the cheaper incumbent. > >How the FUCK do you compete with that?
Actually, competing with that isn't that difficult right now. What most folks who live in large urban areas don't realize is that in many smaller cities and towns, the phone, cable, and electrical lines are owned by a small private company or the local government. This ownership provides a strong basis (local support and adoption) for innovation.
For example, I'm aware of several townships in Ohio right now that are receiving Fiber to the Home and have been for several months or years. Businesses come in, do an RFP, and submit a bid. The relatively low cost of implementation generally only requires a 15%-25% subsriber rate to give a reasonable ROI, and the consumers get a single wire coming in to their homes that provides not only digital telephony and HDTV, but realistic videoconferencing and 100Mbps Internet access.
Lots of people want to build competitive networks. And they're doing so at this moment. While I accept (while strongly disagreeing with) your philosophy that government regulation is the answer to this and other issues, I take objection to your ignorance or deliberate FUD in saying that the current system includes neither competition nor innovation.
I have the Sony TG-50, and reading ebooks is what I spend the most time doing with it. While the organizer functions are useful, I really purchased it for the ability to store books and manuals. The combination of Palmreader, Wordsmith, and Acrobat Reader allow me to access everything from text to pdf's.
The only issue you might have with it is the price, but the backlighting, multiple formats, and memory stick capability are well worth the extra money for me. 128MB can hold a lot of text.
OK, this has already been played out a dozen times, but I'm going to continue the tradition of pounding it into your head just because it's the right thing to do.
My father has been a lineman for Ohio Power for ~30 years. I myself am an Electrical Engineer. This says two things about me:
I know very little about being a qualified electrician
Don't fsck with it! You don't know what the hell you're doing!
The company that I work for still does third party maintainance on quite a bit of older DEC equipment, mainly VAX's. When I first started, I was amazed at the amount of space that was taken up by VAX 6000's. I thought I'd seen the most ancient still-running hardware in existence.
Imagine my shock when we received a call the other day from a manufacturing plant in Tennessee to ask if we could repair their old PDP/11+RA81 (a huge ~300MB hard drive) system. The worst of it was that my boss ran in back and pulled out two working spares!
The most drastic case I've ever come across was a motherboard that I installed without grounding. Turned it on, nothing happened for a few seconds, then "POP!" Smoked the thing.
The amazing part is that I took it out, put it back in properly grounded, and it's still running! (That was about four years ago, I think).
What's with all of the "cut and paste" stories lately?
One of the things I like about Slashdot is the different takes on existing news presented by user submissions. Lately, though, many stories seem to be just copied directly from the link's website.
Slashdot Mirror
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told Bloomberg that the currency serves as "a vehicle for perpetrating fraud."
I have to believe that this is true, if for no other reason than that the speaker is an expert in fraud.
Next stories: "Etch-a-sketch has poor error correction, limited pixel count" "Kindle Paperwhite web browsing experience sub-par, no Angry Birds"
Librivox ( https://play.google.com/store/... ) is also valuable on this front. Not all of the recordings are great, but it's free (as in beer) audiobooks for books that have entered the public domain.
I'm able to do this with a $10 sim card from a 7-11 convenience store in Bangkok betweek cellular 3G and their distributed wifi network. Works great....
We've followed similar career arcs. When I figured out, like you, that this wasn't what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, I started studying money. It's essentially a new language, with variable, types, modules, classes etc. Once you understand the basic premises, it's no more difficult to make it than to write a significant application.
The cool thing about working towards a good chunk of cash is that it gives you the ability to take a step back and look around. Maybe software development IS what you want to do for the rest of your life, but you don't want to be tied to the company you're at, or to a paycheck at all. Maybe you want to do like This guy.
I'm not much for the self help genre, but try these two books. Even if they don't solve your problems, at least you'll be happier where you are.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Hate to break it to you (and contradict my last post), but while it's one of the most depressing series I"ve ever read, it's also one of the most exhilarating... you soldier on through the worst apocolyptic nightmares produced by pen, then...
:)
BAM
One of the protagonists comes out of nowhere and just absolutely stomps the shit out of everything in his / her path, scoring 1M internets for the home team.
Admit it, ChrisKnight, you never finished the series
What do you get when youo combine manic depression, schizophrenia, bigotry, and leprosy, then add in a little literal and figurative rape?
In the end, a pretty good series, but more than anything else I"ve read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant has the darkest, most depressing prose I've ever read.
There are KAJILLIONS of good-natured, smart, talented, hard-working men and women that are more than capable.
Please introduce me to just a few of these KAJILLION people. I haven't heard of the tribe, but in my experience, finding good-natured, smart, talented, hard working people (at any price), while by no means impossible, is the result of hard work in and of itself. I'd really just rather hire people from this KAJILLION place.
I think it's disingenuous in the extreme not to consider racial bias towards as well as against Obama in a study like this. In areas such as Atlanta, GA, where African Americans comprise more than 50% of the population, poliiticians are almost exclusively black .
In Thailand, the Bangkok Post recently ran an article entitled Is Farang an F-word?.
This implies bias based on racial characteristics, not only for caucasians, but for all ethnic groups. I think a study that tried to explain to what degree racial bias offset's itself would be more interesting.
Lord of Light. Quite possibly his most famous book outside of the Amber Chronicles (there were five more centered around Corwin's son).
Can't see how these can be considered forgotten... Donaldson's still writing the Last Chronicles. If manic depression could be learned, this would be the textbook. Chapters and chapters of spectacularly described depression, angst, and ennui interspersed with horror, then a right hook out of nowhere with displays of beauty or realization or power. Hits like a McDonalds cheeseburger in the guts.
As a storage admin for a decent size (1000+ employee) company, I get this argument from management every day. We can go out and buy a terabyte for $50! How hard is it to justify 10TB for project X?
Answer: Your USB drive (or internal SATA drive, or cheap single desktop RAID solution) has neither the performance, reliability, or feature set required by a modern datacenter.
A standard (7200rpm) USB drive can get around 320 IOPS. A single application in an enterprise environment, serving multiple users, can easily require 20,000+ IOPS at the database level. An environment like the SSA could easily have dozens of apps serving the same number of users (employees, not even counting customers). How many USB drives do you plan on connecting? How are you going to maintain, monitor, and expand your 1000's of daisy chained USB drives? How many millions are you going to spend designing, implementing, and maintaining an interface to control them? How much to train people to use it?
Enterprise storage solutions from EMC, NetApp, 3Par etc. help control the issues above, but they don't come cheap. A terabyte of space for a NetApp filer, if you count licensing, training, power, cooling, disaster recovery etc., will run you easily $10,000 / TB. EMC storage can be double that.
I can't guess how much data they need to store, but knowing that they have 106,000 employees, and knowing that my company has around a thousand, even if they needed only a tenth as much storage as us, they're looking at 10 petabytes, or $100,000,000 in storage. If you budget roughly the same amount for network and server hardware, then about as much as both combined for application development, support, transition, and staff, then throw in a final $100,000,000 for government waste and bureaucracy, you're pretty much right on target.
Hope the following helps with your issues: Client / Server: Each of the workstations can be set up to "phone home". Select the "Webmin Servers Index" option
- View client computer status: "System and Server Status"
- On/off, sleeping etc.
- Deny internet access, not LAN, just the web: "Webmin Users", can schedule time
- Block access w/Squid
- Remote virus scanning of client machines, or scheduled task;
Unnecessary if you'll put a basic Linux distro on the clients
- Some kind of hardware monitor, high temp / fan speed low etc "Hardware"
- Email alerts for various log files / alarms. "Monitoring"
Hope that helps. It's not even a steep learning curve, and you get to ignore the viruses and adware they were going to pick up anyway.
This is exactly what needs to happen. We'll need some thai translators though to make it harder for them to sift through.
It's highly unlikely that you'll get one.
:-)
What most of the people posting here don't understand is the loyalty that Thais have towards their king. Note that this is personal loyalty, not loyalty to the monarchy in general.
King Bhumibol has brought incredible change to Thailand during his reign, including improvements from irrigation to public restrooms (my personal favorite). In the recent ousting of the Thai prime minister, supporters of the PM wore pink to support the king. The opposition wore yellow to support the king. Notice a pattern here? Good luck with your translator. Let me know how that works out for you
BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. Given the ever decreasing cost of disks and raid systems, it is now practical and cost effective to backup a large number of machines onto a server's local disk or network storage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape. BackupPC is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.
By using pooling and compression, one client of mine is using BackupPC to backup over 1TB of data distributed among over 100 laptops to a 200GB filesystem on a central server. The network is polled every hour, and any system that hasn't been backed up in the last 24 hours is queued. Beautiful system.
While I agree with your argument in principle, it's uncomfortable to see someone expecting a "higher level" of socio-political knowledge touting democracy. Assuming that you're a U.S. citizen, you live in a country that (thank the deity of your choice) has never been, nor (hopefully) ever will be, a democracy.
Democracy is a logical equivalent to mob rule.
A Representative Republic is the U.S. form of government
Do you really want the majority opinion to rule in many of the issues facing this country?
Argghh, matey. We be feeding this post to the trolls, eh?
Axe public health? Check.
What exactly is this president "axing"? Legislation to give universal healthcare? That's all Congress. Oh, and you're assuming that universal healthcare is a good thing.
Axe social security? Check.
YEAHH! GO TEAM! Social Security is going bankrupt, due to Republican and Democratic politicians spending all of the money in any "reserve" it may have once had. I'm 30, and neither I nor any contemporary I've discussed SS with believes we'll see a dime of it. Graduate it out, now. At least save me the last bit of money I'd have to pay into a dying system.
Axe public education? They're most certainly working on it.
Nice. The state of Georgia is consistently bottom of the barrel in education in the US, despite being the 8th highest spending state on primary and secondary education. For once, conservatives are advocating a program (vouchers) that allow people to choose whether or not they like public schools. But you don't want that, do you? Public schools are what you want, and public schools are what those whining bastards will get. Let them eat cake.
Ignore urgent need to invest in renewable resources? Check.
Good plan. Let bureaucracy do our research. It worked before, right?
There's seriously not much more they can axe to funnel more money into the military, is there?
Sure there is. If you weren't just another troll, you'd put your time in helping reduce pork. But no, you just want to bitch, not do anything productive.
>So while you take twenty years to build your network and 40 to recoup your
>investment, you'll be somehow raising that money from customers who have the
>choice between your network, and the cheaper incumbent.
>
>How the FUCK do you compete with that?
Actually, competing with that isn't that difficult right now. What most folks who live in large urban areas don't realize is that in many smaller cities and towns, the phone, cable, and electrical lines are owned by a small private company or the local government. This ownership provides a strong basis (local support and adoption) for innovation.
For example, I'm aware of several townships in Ohio right now that are receiving Fiber to the Home and have been for several months or years. Businesses come in, do an RFP, and submit a bid. The relatively low cost of implementation generally only requires a 15%-25% subsriber rate to give a reasonable ROI, and the consumers get a single wire coming in to their homes that provides not only digital telephony and HDTV, but realistic videoconferencing and 100Mbps Internet access.
Lots of people want to build competitive networks. And they're doing so at this moment. While I accept (while strongly disagreeing with) your philosophy that government regulation is the answer to this and other issues, I take objection to your ignorance or deliberate FUD in saying that the current system includes neither competition nor innovation.
I've been using none@yer.biz for several years now, ever since the .biz domain came out.
:)
Looks like the domain is held by another squatter. Serves 'em right
I have the Sony TG-50, and reading ebooks is what I spend the most time doing with it. While the organizer functions are useful, I really purchased it for the ability to store books and manuals. The combination of Palmreader, Wordsmith, and Acrobat Reader allow me to access everything from text to pdf's.
The only issue you might have with it is the price, but the backlighting, multiple formats, and memory stick capability are well worth the extra money for me. 128MB can hold a lot of text.
OK, this has already been played out a dozen times, but I'm going to continue the tradition of pounding it into your head just because it's the right thing to do.
My father has been a lineman for Ohio Power for ~30 years. I myself am an Electrical Engineer. This says two things about me:
Thanks.
Imagine my shock when we received a call the other day from a manufacturing plant in Tennessee to ask if we could repair their old PDP/11+RA81 (a huge ~300MB hard drive) system. The worst of it was that my boss ran in back and pulled out two working spares!
The amazing part is that I took it out, put it back in properly grounded, and it's still running! (That was about four years ago, I think).
What's with all of the "cut and paste" stories lately?
One of the things I like about Slashdot is the different takes on existing news presented by user submissions. Lately, though, many stories seem to be just copied directly from the link's website.