In college. I interned for a startup internet service provider in Niagara Falls called Macronet. It was located on my college. They had a BSD/OS server, on the console startx, into twm, using Mosaic. I still use TWM
Your most important asset is curiosity. Without that, you won't get very far. You also need a very diverse set of skills. That's pretty much how I got to where I am now, and I've been a Linux IT professional since 1998. Knowing your hardware, ability to build and deploy stable server systems with the right Linux distribution, and finally learning how Linux works and why. Just installing Ubuntu is not enough, you need to objectively pick the right tool for the right job. Some days its CentOS, other days its Ubuntu. Some days some animal entirely set apart from either. Jack of all trades, master of none. Running through a few builds of LFS will teach you far more than any distro will any day.
And if I have to be completely honest, being a search engine power user. Without being able to effectively use a search engine, and you'd be surprise how many people can't, you won't get very far at all.
I tried to log into the NBC app, and they bounced me. I have the basic cable package, that gives me the first 15 channels, plus TBS and GSN. Because I am not "subscribed" to MSNBC and CNBC they wouldn't let me in.
I'm very, VERY dissapointed in NBC and their olympic service delivery.
My daughter, sixth grade, can get to a few of her textbooks online right now. It would be nice if they offered them in a non-proprietary format to load them on her Kindle. Sounds like the Polish Government is onto something here.
I remember The Realm well. I beta tested it back in early 1996, and gave up MMORPGs after waking up one day and played for almost 24 hours straight. I didn't want to turn into an apeman
My great great grandmother went out that way. They immigrated from Scotland together, ran away to america as teenagers since her father wouldn't let them marry. Two days after my great great grandfather died, she passed away. They couldn't find a reason.
The title and article summary is misleading. It shortens the life of the hard drive, not the laptop itself. Hard drives are cheap, and on most laptops as easy to swap out as the battery with screwdriver in hand.
Its not like Ubuntu is killing the motherboard or screen, its the Hard Drive.
I prefer GNOME as well, I've found GNOME with Compiz, Emerald, and AWN to be the most productive and most beautiful environment I've ever worked with. Right now I'm using the Aurora Leopard theme off off gnome-look.org.
However, it is very resource intensive, and can't run it on everything I have in service in my home. I used to run XFCE on my old Athlon/256 meg Compaq Presario 700 Laptop, but the most recent releases of Xubuntu have been using almost as much resources as GNOME/Metacity.
I've recently turned to Fluxbox. Its takes a little kung fu to get it configured just right, but it uses next to no resources, has a system tray, and has a very nice set of themes, at least the Debian/Ubuntu packages do. I don't run it on my Acer Gemstone with 2 gigs of ram, or my desktops which all have 1 gig or more, but its a good alternative for those resource limited machines.
Unless you want a job with Google or Microsoft, get out there and get working. Do anything, cut deals, get to building pcs and servers. Then, once you get some knowledge, get some MCSE tests at http://www.vue.com/ . For Linux certs, hit the http://www.brainbench.com/ site, unless you want to pay for some of the higher end certs like RHCE or LPI. Brainbench is fairly cheap, and got me my current job five years ago, where I now make 40k/yr, which is decent for where I live. I have a friend who works an hour south of me, and makes 70k/yr and doesn't have a degree.
You have to get out there. A BS in CS is nice, but your really not going to make that much more having a degree. Its all in what you know, not what classes you took.
Give the guy a break, his child might very well be a prodigy. My oldest daughter has had her own computer since she was two. Sure in the beginning it was a lot of banging the keyboard and watching the pretty pretty lights, but now she is a straight A student, model citizen, top athlete, critical thinker, and top conversationalist whom I spend many hours discussing life with. She is only 8. The only thing she wants under the tree is an Eee PC. I'm so proud of her.
That being said, you could try a umpc. I have my daughter's Eee right now, and they are fairly sturdy. That being said I would consider getting a USB keyboard and mouse/trackball until your sure he doesn't destroy the thing.
I'm a long time RPG player, for at least 20 years. I was on the fence with 4e, given my years of support of WOTC and D&D in general. I love third edition to death, however at best I was going to pick up the players handbook if I found a 4e seat. At worst I was going to live and let live, and continue with my beloved 3rd edition. Now, I am not so sure. I really can't, in good conscious, support 4e. Not as a Linux advocate, and certainly not as a gamer. This move is as bad, if not worst, than anything Microsoft has ever pulled.
So it looks like the debate for me has been settled, I'll be sticking with 3rd edition. The only way I'll jump ship is if, for some odd reason, I can't get a 3e game off the ground, or find a seat. With Paizo continuing the Third Edition legacy with Pathfinder RPG, that may not ever be an issue.
I agree. [AS] needs to get back to their roots. Bring back the shows like Harvey, Sealab, and Home Movies. The live action stuff they show right now is just crap. TGGTM/Tim & Eric Show must be their bid for the homosexual demographic. I don't know many people who actually enjoy Saul either.
Move along. Nothing new to see here. 20 years ago when I went to church lock ins there were always video games set up. Yeah, yeah, Halo is pretty violent, but I remember seeing Contra and Ninja Gaiden at our little gatherings. Not much different.
I'm a big D&D guy, its my main hobby away from computers and Linux. Part time player, full time Dungeon Master. Been playing since junior high, I'm 34 now. As a Linux user, I feel WOTC is the best thing to happen to D&D, and gaming in general. The Dungeon Master is the only person who really needs the core set, and even then I'm not sure even he needs the books, but it helps. Players don't need anything, 3E, 3.5E, and soon 4E are all released under the OGL, which is an open source style license. Player information is released in a System Refrence Document, commonly known as the SRD. The core set (Players Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual) are for the most part made available for free. There are certain things that are left out, like character creation rules, but they are pretty easy to figure out. There is hundreds, if not thousands, of players on Myth Weavers, DNDOG, ENWorld, and other sites who don't own the core set.
Of course, if your on board with the D&D Insider your probably going to need to buy the core set. The Insider is actually the Dungeon and Dragon magazines which WOTC brought back in house, combined with a ton of digital tools such as an online game table, dungeon master tools, character creator and visualizer, and other features. That would probably be the only reason to buy the core set, unless of course you have some reason to want to see WOTC succeed, which I do. Of course that doesn't mean I'm going to buy supplements I'll never use. I'm pretty far from the completist.
This really isn't a money grab, at least not on some levels. Yeah, I'm sure Hasbro is happy about the core set, but Third Edition being tapped dry. There is nowhere else to go. I don't want to see WOTC die. If they don't release a new edition, its over. Look at whats been released lately, compendium after compendium, splatbook sequels, worthless environment books, adventures I have no interest in playing. Nobody is buying these books, nobody but completists, and there isn't enough of those to keep a company afloat. Besides, there is plenty of rules that need to be tweaked, plenty of skills that need to go, plenty of classes that need revision. Third edition was broken the day they released it, ask Monte Cook, who wrote third edition.
Its time to take what everyone learned playing third edition for the last eight years, and make the game better. WOTC deserves their coin for what they do. Of course, I'm a WOTC fanboy, what do I know.
Did you see that in the paper the other day about those carp in the Mississippi River jumping into boats and bonking fisherman in the head? It's true. They're called big head carp, they're from Asia and they're attacking and severely injuring many fisherman.
Biologists claim the roar of boat motors agitates and excites these carp and they jump towards the sound but I think these biologists are naively missing an obvious connection. Fish are attacking fisherman. For the fish it's get them before they get you, kill or be killed. Even if these fisherman are practicing catch and release, that's a very painful, embarrassing experience for any fish and apparently they have had it.
What about the increase in mountain lion attacks? Great White sharks moving closer to shore? Moose have been showing up in towns and stomping on people. A squirrel was in my living room last spring. Am I the only one that sees a pattern here? People, wise up! The other animals are against us. It doesn't take a genius to see there's an inter-species conspiracy to thwart the urban expansion of man.
How do the squirrels fit in? Surveillance. They spy on what we people are doing in the cities and report back to the bigger species out there on the front lines.
And taken together these other species represent walking, we hope not yet talking, scratching, biting weapons of mass destruction. And if these other species can convince the insect world, for example a well known anti-human group like the killer bees, to join up our way of life and our democracy could be history.
The skeptical may ask why would these other species want to hurt us? Obviously, they hate us. They are jealous of our way of life. We swim in chlorinated, safe environment pools, then towel off and have an adult beverage. They are stuck eating sludge in the Mississippi, a river polluted by guess who: their mortal enemy man. And to top it all off we eat them.
This invasion of Asian carp is no accident. This is stage one of their well planned attack. We ignore the obvious at our own peril.
We can no longer sit back and wait for them to attack us. It's time we adopt a new doctrine regarding these other animals. We have to wipe out any and all species who are a lined against us, wherever they are. We can not rest until every big head carp, great white shark, mountain lion, moose and squirrel and any other species that associates with them are defeated.
If the U.N. wants to get involved fine, if not we can do it alone. Of course the British will show up, they always do, but we will fight to protect our way of life. And if you don't agree, you're an unpatriotic idiot who hates America.
My daughter is in first grade, and her classroom has a PC in it, but no internet connection. This CD would be very useful to her teacher. I know, Wikipedia is inaccurate, etc, but like any encyclopedia its a great jumping off point. A lot of classrooms of younger children have computers in them that are not networked.
Hm. I'm off to burn a stack of these for Central Elementary!
To properly upgrade 6.10 to 7.04 simply go to System - Administration - Update Manager. The button just appeared on my update-manager informing me of a new release.
gksu "update-manager -c -d" and follow instructions. As always, back up your computer fist.:-D
I don't know if thats a good idea. I could be wrong, but what your asking for is to upgrade to the last beta. You may want to wait a few days before running update-manager.
Check it out: arthur@persephone:~$ update-manager --help usage: update-manager [options]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c, --check-dist-upgrades
Check if a new distribution release is available
-d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is
possible
--dist-upgrade, --dist-ugprade
Try to run a dist-upgrade arthur@persephone:~$
I can't even imagine why one person would want five PCs.
He only has five PCs? What an amateur. Off the top of my head, I have a server/workstation. My wife has her own workstation. My daughter has her own workstation. In addition, we have a laptop, and a media center PC. I also have five servers in a test lab that I use for educational purposes.
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In college. I interned for a startup internet service provider in Niagara Falls called Macronet. It was located on my college. They had a BSD/OS server, on the console startx, into twm, using Mosaic. I still use TWM
Your most important asset is curiosity. Without that, you won't get very far. You also need a very diverse set of skills. That's pretty much how I got to where I am now, and I've been a Linux IT professional since 1998. Knowing your hardware, ability to build and deploy stable server systems with the right Linux distribution, and finally learning how Linux works and why. Just installing Ubuntu is not enough, you need to objectively pick the right tool for the right job. Some days its CentOS, other days its Ubuntu. Some days some animal entirely set apart from either. Jack of all trades, master of none. Running through a few builds of LFS will teach you far more than any distro will any day.
And if I have to be completely honest, being a search engine power user. Without being able to effectively use a search engine, and you'd be surprise how many people can't, you won't get very far at all.
I tried to log into the NBC app, and they bounced me. I have the basic cable package, that gives me the first 15 channels, plus TBS and GSN. Because I am not "subscribed" to MSNBC and CNBC they wouldn't let me in.
I'm very, VERY dissapointed in NBC and their olympic service delivery.
Someone enlighten me, why Wayland?
My daughter, sixth grade, can get to a few of her textbooks online right now. It would be nice if they offered them in a non-proprietary format to load them on her Kindle. Sounds like the Polish Government is onto something here.
Tapesty has to be one of my all time favorites.
I remember The Realm well. I beta tested it back in early 1996, and gave up MMORPGs after waking up one day and played for almost 24 hours straight. I didn't want to turn into an apeman
My great great grandmother went out that way. They immigrated from Scotland together, ran away to america as teenagers since her father wouldn't let them marry. Two days after my great great grandfather died, she passed away. They couldn't find a reason.
The title and article summary is misleading. It shortens the life of the hard drive, not the laptop itself. Hard drives are cheap, and on most laptops as easy to swap out as the battery with screwdriver in hand.
Its not like Ubuntu is killing the motherboard or screen, its the Hard Drive.
I prefer GNOME as well, I've found GNOME with Compiz, Emerald, and AWN to be the most productive and most beautiful environment I've ever worked with. Right now I'm using the Aurora Leopard theme off off gnome-look.org.
However, it is very resource intensive, and can't run it on everything I have in service in my home. I used to run XFCE on my old Athlon/256 meg Compaq Presario 700 Laptop, but the most recent releases of Xubuntu have been using almost as much resources as GNOME/Metacity.
I've recently turned to Fluxbox. Its takes a little kung fu to get it configured just right, but it uses next to no resources, has a system tray, and has a very nice set of themes, at least the Debian/Ubuntu packages do. I don't run it on my Acer Gemstone with 2 gigs of ram, or my desktops which all have 1 gig or more, but its a good alternative for those resource limited machines.
Still no Linux version? I'll file this under "I don't give a shit"
Unless you want a job with Google or Microsoft, get out there and get working. Do anything, cut deals, get to building pcs and servers. Then, once you get some knowledge, get some MCSE tests at http://www.vue.com/ . For Linux certs, hit the http://www.brainbench.com/ site, unless you want to pay for some of the higher end certs like RHCE or LPI. Brainbench is fairly cheap, and got me my current job five years ago, where I now make 40k/yr, which is decent for where I live. I have a friend who works an hour south of me, and makes 70k/yr and doesn't have a degree.
You have to get out there. A BS in CS is nice, but your really not going to make that much more having a degree. Its all in what you know, not what classes you took.
Give the guy a break, his child might very well be a prodigy. My oldest daughter has had her own computer since she was two. Sure in the beginning it was a lot of banging the keyboard and watching the pretty pretty lights, but now she is a straight A student, model citizen, top athlete, critical thinker, and top conversationalist whom I spend many hours discussing life with. She is only 8. The only thing she wants under the tree is an Eee PC. I'm so proud of her.
That being said, you could try a umpc. I have my daughter's Eee right now, and they are fairly sturdy. That being said I would consider getting a USB keyboard and mouse/trackball until your sure he doesn't destroy the thing.
I'm a long time RPG player, for at least 20 years. I was on the fence with 4e, given my years of support of WOTC and D&D in general. I love third edition to death, however at best I was going to pick up the players handbook if I found a 4e seat. At worst I was going to live and let live, and continue with my beloved 3rd edition. Now, I am not so sure. I really can't, in good conscious, support 4e. Not as a Linux advocate, and certainly not as a gamer. This move is as bad, if not worst, than anything Microsoft has ever pulled.
So it looks like the debate for me has been settled, I'll be sticking with 3rd edition. The only way I'll jump ship is if, for some odd reason, I can't get a 3e game off the ground, or find a seat. With Paizo continuing the Third Edition legacy with Pathfinder RPG, that may not ever be an issue.
I agree. [AS] needs to get back to their roots. Bring back the shows like Harvey, Sealab, and Home Movies. The live action stuff they show right now is just crap. TGGTM/Tim & Eric Show must be their bid for the homosexual demographic. I don't know many people who actually enjoy Saul either.
Move along. Nothing new to see here. 20 years ago when I went to church lock ins there were always video games set up. Yeah, yeah, Halo is pretty violent, but I remember seeing Contra and Ninja Gaiden at our little gatherings. Not much different.
Hey Sony, I have one thing to say to you.... fuck off.
Of course, if your on board with the D&D Insider your probably going to need to buy the core set. The Insider is actually the Dungeon and Dragon magazines which WOTC brought back in house, combined with a ton of digital tools such as an online game table, dungeon master tools, character creator and visualizer, and other features. That would probably be the only reason to buy the core set, unless of course you have some reason to want to see WOTC succeed, which I do. Of course that doesn't mean I'm going to buy supplements I'll never use. I'm pretty far from the completist.
This really isn't a money grab, at least not on some levels. Yeah, I'm sure Hasbro is happy about the core set, but Third Edition being tapped dry. There is nowhere else to go. I don't want to see WOTC die. If they don't release a new edition, its over. Look at whats been released lately, compendium after compendium, splatbook sequels, worthless environment books, adventures I have no interest in playing. Nobody is buying these books, nobody but completists, and there isn't enough of those to keep a company afloat. Besides, there is plenty of rules that need to be tweaked, plenty of skills that need to go, plenty of classes that need revision. Third edition was broken the day they released it, ask Monte Cook, who wrote third edition.
Its time to take what everyone learned playing third edition for the last eight years, and make the game better. WOTC deserves their coin for what they do. Of course, I'm a WOTC fanboy, what do I know.
The Other Animals Are Agin' Us
By Tim Bedore 2003
URL: http://www.vaguebuttrue.com/genius.htm
Did you see that in the paper the other day about those carp in the Mississippi River jumping into boats and bonking fisherman in the head? It's true. They're called big head carp, they're from Asia and they're attacking and severely injuring many fisherman.
Biologists claim the roar of boat motors agitates and excites these carp and they jump towards the sound but I think these biologists are naively missing an obvious connection. Fish are attacking fisherman. For the fish it's get them before they get you, kill or be killed. Even if these fisherman are practicing catch and release, that's a very painful, embarrassing experience for any fish and apparently they have had it.
What about the increase in mountain lion attacks? Great White sharks moving closer to shore? Moose have been showing up in towns and stomping on people. A squirrel was in my living room last spring. Am I the only one that sees a pattern here? People, wise up! The other animals are against us. It doesn't take a genius to see there's an inter-species conspiracy to thwart the urban expansion of man.
How do the squirrels fit in? Surveillance. They spy on what we people are doing in the cities and report back to the bigger species out there on the front lines.
And taken together these other species represent walking, we hope not yet talking, scratching, biting weapons of mass destruction. And if these other species can convince the insect world, for example a well known anti-human group like the killer bees, to join up our way of life and our democracy could be history.
The skeptical may ask why would these other species want to hurt us? Obviously, they hate us. They are jealous of our way of life. We swim in chlorinated, safe environment pools, then towel off and have an adult beverage. They are stuck eating sludge in the Mississippi, a river polluted by guess who: their mortal enemy man. And to top it all off we eat them.
This invasion of Asian carp is no accident. This is stage one of their well planned attack. We ignore the obvious at our own peril.
We can no longer sit back and wait for them to attack us. It's time we adopt a new doctrine regarding these other animals. We have to wipe out any and all species who are a lined against us, wherever they are. We can not rest until every big head carp, great white shark, mountain lion, moose and squirrel and any other species that associates with them are defeated.
If the U.N. wants to get involved fine, if not we can do it alone. Of course the British will show up, they always do, but we will fight to protect our way of life. And if you don't agree, you're an unpatriotic idiot who hates America.
Hm. I'm off to burn a stack of these for Central Elementary!
I can see these distributed to poor nations benefiting from OLPC. Include this with the PC given out to the poor and needy.
According to wikipedia, they first appeared as a band on the ABC Comedy Special "The TV Show" back in 1978, long before the movie was released.
To properly upgrade 6.10 to 7.04 simply go to System - Administration - Update Manager. The button just appeared on my update-manager informing me of a new release.
gksu "update-manager -c -d" and follow instructions. As always, back up your computer fist. :-D
I don't know if thats a good idea. I could be wrong, but what your asking for is to upgrade to the last beta. You may want to wait a few days before running update-manager.
Check it out:
arthur@persephone:~$ update-manager --help
usage: update-manager [options]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c, --check-dist-upgrades
Check if a new distribution release is available
-d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is
possible
--dist-upgrade, --dist-ugprade
Try to run a dist-upgrade
arthur@persephone:~$
I can't even imagine why one person would want five PCs.
He only has five PCs? What an amateur. Off the top of my head, I have a server/workstation. My wife has her own workstation. My daughter has her own workstation. In addition, we have a laptop, and a media center PC. I also have five servers in a test lab that I use for educational purposes.