I manage roughly 40 systems. Solaris 9, Linux Fedora 1,2,3,4, RH 7.3, Slackware 9.1, Windows 2000 Server & 2000 Pro & XP (pro & home), and Mac OS 10.3, 10.4.
Guess which computers have never been compromised? All of them have been kept free with the exception of one computer running XP Home (user installed spyware, education session followed).
Which one's require 99% of my time? Windows 2000 Server, 2000 Pro and XP.
I've never had any worries with my Mac boxes at all. I don't use MS products and avoid most of the associated system vulnerabilities. I set OS X to update check daily. Never a problem.
Ease of administration in my opinion of these systems are in this order: Mac OS Windows (assuming patches are available) Solaris Slackware/RH/Fedora
Mac OS is my favorite, I cannot wait to get a new MacBook!
That is the fucking point, I'd rather code it in JCL which is not suitable (scheduler code for running your "punch cards" aka Job Control Language, if I recall correctly). COBOL is horrible to work with. The newer compilers and OO addons make it better but it's still the worst environment I've ever worked in. Not to mention if you are doing "real" work in COBOL it's unlikely that it is running on a new platform, it's generally updating critical legacy code or interfacing with new systems. CICS/TCO BLAH!
VB is crap but if I had to choose between VB.Net and COBOL that's the easiest choice ever.
How the hell can someone programming COBOL look down on anyone. I'd rather program in QuickBasic. Horrible, horrible language. I'd rather do the whole damn thing in JCL.
I completely agree. However, the market isn't 100 percent efficient, so using C++ may or may not be a good choice. In a world where technology changes so quickly I find it's better do do whatever can get the job done as quick as possible with the minimal amount of effort and expense. If that means using (god forbid) VB.Net, C#, Java, ObjC, LAMP, JSP, or whatever else the number one thing in the business world is get it done. Customers don't give a shit what you use, as long as it works for them.
I would love to get a job doing C++ programming. Unfortunately, they are few and far between in my area.
BTW I have a friend that is a alpha/beta tester for Flash and he's super hyped about the x.5 verson of Flash that is coming out because they've rewritten actionscripting to be significantly more OO. Granted this is second hand but he's one of the best programmers I know, so i trust his info!
True. PhD/MD/... any advanced program is 50% politics 40% coursework 10% jumping through stupid hoops to "earn" your advanced degree. The thing people need to do is just keep your head down, finish and move on (and enjoy young, hot, thin college girls while you're at it).
I have to disagree. I have some serious hearing loss due to listening to handheld music devices for most of my life. The nice incessent ringing in the background is a joy. Plus saying, "What did you say" about 100 times a week is rather bothersome. The worst part is the inability to hear when you're in a place with a lot of background noise. For example you cannot have a conversation in a restaurant without the people with you speaking very loudly. Not to mention people are always saying "tone it down" since I speak normally with an elevated level to hear myself (not intentionally).
Coolant flush doesn't necessarily stop a car from blowing a head gasket. A decent mechanic can resurface your head (if that's not available then you can get a replacement from a junk yard) and place a new gasket for a lot less than a new car. I've had it happen on 2 different cars and my mechanic said I have a knack for picking poorly engineered cars. He said both my cars that had this problem was enevitable since almost everyone he knows to own one of these models (first run on new car) had the same problem around the same mileage.
Sometimes you just get unlucky. BTW on my more recent blown head gasket I got a new (used) header and better engineered gasket set and have gone an additional 60k miles without any problems! My break even analysis for if it was worth it was at 24k miles, also I did it when gas was at $1.25!!! Lol, I guess GWBush did help me one way, break even came sooner! POS '95 Plymouth Neon is my daily travel car (140-210 miles a day I drive, love being self employed). My other was a 64 1/2 Mustang. Hopefully I can get a Shelby Cobra this summer!!! 450 Horses!!!
You need Dungeon Siege 1 or Legends of Aranna to play this. Just FYI. I like the Thief add on stuff for Unreal Tournament. I don't remember where I got it but this site has a lot of Thief info
I have typed vocab lists (while running on the treadmills next to hot ass college girls at OU) and I listen to my language CDs on my mp3 player. If you're going to run for an hour and you want to study for an hour, it sure as hell breaks up the monotony of running next to a post with CNN Headline News on the TV in front of you. BTW How many fucking times can VH1 show the same Madonna, Gwen Steffani and some rapper videos in a row? I've been running consistantly for the last 6 months and I've only seen those 3 videos. I need one of those video iPods.
Lol, I type as I think. Grammar is the least of my worries. That being said, all writing is used for is conveying an idea. If the reader can understand my point, exacting punctuation is not really needed. There vs. their vs. they're does tend to bug the shit out of me. I didn't realize APA was grading posts on slashdot. Time for a life dear Anon Cow...
Proper usage of verbs is important too. To know (a fact) and to know (a person) tends to mess people up. In spanish they have Ser and Estar which mess me up. Books can be tedious (in my experience) and frequently use non-conversational tenses. For example simple past is primarily written in German but present perfect is spoken. The opposite is true in french (at least conversationally in the tu not vous form) where people speak in simple but generally write in passe compose (although coloquial writers use simple past).
I find when reading articles, especially interviews you can get more bang for your buck for two reasons. Number one, you get some insight to what the hell is going on in their country (spain in this example). You also get knowledge about how people *actually* speak. Figuring out conversation context is very advanced. I like the idea of reading childrens books. Still finding a foreign friend cannot be that hard. Ask around! Buy them some beers, better yet, ask Salma Heyek out on a date (2 for 1!!! AMAZING).
However this is only 1% of what you need. The other 99% is the actual drive to learn and study it EVERY DAY. When you take language classes in college (a good way to learn a foreign language in my opinion) you initially go 1 hour every day for a semester (about 18 weeks). That covers about 1/2 the language. The second semester covers the second half. That is approx 18 weeks X 5 days X 1 hour. This doesn't include time studying for tests and vocab quizes. I'd say I average about 3 hours studying a week in my current language class in addition to class time. That makes it 18 X 5 X 1 (90 hours) + 3hours X 18 weeks (54 hours studying outside class) or a total of 144 hours for 1 semester. If you want to get the grammar down and have a good knowledge doubling this is a good guess. 288 Hours.
Now you may need more than me because I already speak 4 languages. After you've learned a second the subsequent ones are easier. My grammar comprehension is better in all my foreign languages and my spelling is better too (too much cheating on spelling tests in middle school I guess).
Here's a bonus to Spanish. The grammar is very similar to French, Italian, Portuguese and of course it's base of Latin. Once you learn spanish these are easy to pick up.
What you should do (in my opinion) without taking formal classes: 1. Buy the CD/Book. (Online is WAY cheaper than in the store) 2. Plan to study 1 hour a day at least (M-F) hell you can do it while working out if you want to get really healthy too (that's when I do about half my vocab studying) 3. Once going through the book start translating an article a day from a foreign newspaper. 4. Then start recording your conversations and translating them real-time in your head to your new language. 5. Picture Salma Heyek as your prize. You'll learn for certain then! 6. Find some foreign friends to get beers with... Beers make you more confident in speaking (at least for most people that aren't extraverted freaks like me!).
Antitrust is bullshit. Selectively enforced and for the most part worthless. The market does a better job than the government ever will. What is a patent? A government sanctioned monopoly. How can someone be sooooo pissed off about MS charging too much for Windows, and at the same time not give a shit about making low cost AIDS meds available at cost? Perspective. If people in Niger die from AIDS it doesn't affect the US economy materially.
You cannot have it both ways and be moral and/or ethically correct. Some how the humanity of this world is going away. But let's focus on Microsoft. For some reason I don't think it's impossible to get by without using MS products. Linux > OO > Firefox > Thunderbird > Apache > qmail >... The only thing missing is massive amounts of viruses, trojans and spyware.
IBM had more to do with Gates becoming a success than illegal practices. He may have been ethically challenged but that is not criminal. In the real world the stakes are high and you're playing for keeps. Gates had extraordinary drive and intelligence to see where the world was going and the more critical part (it's easy to be Dvorak and put 100 guesses about 2020 out there) he actually took advantage of the opportunities available.
Having started 3 businesses on my own (3rd time is a charm) it is much easier to criticize someone that has succeeded than to go out and be successful yourself.
I admire Bill Gates for many things. I disagree with some of his methods but who's to say in the grand scheme of things he is a "bad" person? There are few visionary leaders in this world. Bill Gates is definately one of them. That being said WTF is up with Balmer, is this guy a nutjob or what? That developers... rant reminded me of Howard Dean (the democrats are fucked, to my chagrin).
So just relax, sit back, and watch the fiasco. History repeats itself (yet again). I'm wondering how long it will be until we're the fascist leaders of the world? Oh well, as long as Wal*Mart can keep making money we're alright, right? Lol, Europe is f'd up too but for some reason when I get back from trips abroad you really get a different perspective of US attitudes and backward/sheltered thinking. Fox News, the one you can count on to get it wrong!
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1999 called, they want their mp3 player back...
Jesus I didn't know winamp still existed!
I'm confused, how the hell do so many people get spyware on their computers?
Is it lack of caring, just not keeping their computer up to date, not knowing what's okay to install or not?
I seldom have problems.
LOL forgot the = sign
This is what I was referring to...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/
Haven't they seen THIS!!!!
For real, super scary..
Your link had the US at #10
Will you marry me? I think I'm in love!
So beat the shit out of him. What's the problem? If you cannot do it find someone who will...
...
Sorry, that's the Sicilian coming out of me... I'm in "construction"!!! Lol,
How would a deal with Apple have changed anything?
They'd still have a tiny market share and be moving to
Intel because 1.2GHz SPARCs aren't that impressive.
Granted if you throw 1024 or so of them together they're pretty slick...
Hell throw 1024 of anything together and they're pretty slick (except maybe 6502's or something like that! Wow fastest Apple II array ever!)
Technically yes. Who are you going to jail though? an algorithm?
I manage roughly 40 systems. Solaris 9, Linux Fedora 1,2,3,4, RH 7.3, Slackware 9.1, Windows 2000 Server & 2000 Pro & XP (pro & home), and Mac OS 10.3, 10.4.
Guess which computers have never been compromised?
All of them have been kept free with the exception of one computer running XP Home (user installed spyware, education session followed).
Which one's require 99% of my time? Windows 2000 Server, 2000 Pro and XP.
I've never had any worries with my Mac boxes at all. I don't use MS products and avoid most of the associated system vulnerabilities. I set OS X to update check daily. Never a problem.
Ease of administration in my opinion of these systems are in this order:
Mac OS
Windows (assuming patches are available)
Solaris
Slackware/RH/Fedora
Mac OS is my favorite, I cannot wait to get a new MacBook!
That is the fucking point, I'd rather code it in JCL which is not suitable (scheduler code for running your "punch cards" aka Job Control Language, if I recall correctly). COBOL is horrible to work with. The newer compilers and OO addons make it better but it's still the worst environment I've ever worked in. Not to mention if you are doing "real" work in COBOL it's unlikely that it is running on a new platform, it's generally updating critical legacy code or interfacing with new systems. CICS/TCO BLAH!
VB is crap but if I had to choose between VB.Net and COBOL that's the easiest choice ever.
How the hell can someone programming COBOL look down on anyone. I'd rather program in QuickBasic. Horrible, horrible language. I'd rather do the whole damn thing in JCL.
I completely agree. However, the market isn't 100 percent efficient, so using C++ may or may not be a good choice. In a world where technology changes so quickly I find it's better do do whatever can get the job done as quick as possible with the minimal amount of effort and expense. If that means using (god forbid) VB.Net, C#, Java, ObjC, LAMP, JSP, or whatever else the number one thing in the business world is get it done. Customers don't give a shit what you use, as long as it works for them.
I would love to get a job doing C++ programming. Unfortunately, they are few and far between in my area.
BTW I have a friend that is a alpha/beta tester for Flash and he's super hyped about the x.5 verson of Flash that is coming out because they've rewritten actionscripting to be significantly more OO. Granted this is second hand but he's one of the best programmers I know, so i trust his info!
True. PhD/MD/... any advanced program is 50% politics 40% coursework 10% jumping through stupid hoops to "earn" your advanced degree. The thing people need to do is just keep your head down, finish and move on (and enjoy young, hot, thin college girls while you're at it).
I have to disagree. I have some serious hearing loss due to listening to handheld music devices for most of my life. The nice incessent ringing in the background is a joy. Plus saying, "What did you say" about 100 times a week is rather bothersome. The worst part is the inability to hear when you're in a place with a lot of background noise. For example you cannot have a conversation in a restaurant without the people with you speaking very loudly. Not to mention people are always saying "tone it down" since I speak normally with an elevated level to hear myself (not intentionally).
Hearing loss is horrible, don't fuck with it.
Coolant flush doesn't necessarily stop a car from blowing a head gasket. A decent mechanic can resurface your head (if that's not available then you can get a replacement from a junk yard) and place a new gasket for a lot less than a new car. I've had it happen on 2 different cars and my mechanic said I have a knack for picking poorly engineered cars. He said both my cars that had this problem was enevitable since almost everyone he knows to own one of these models (first run on new car) had the same problem around the same mileage.
Sometimes you just get unlucky. BTW on my more recent blown head gasket I got a new (used) header and better engineered gasket set and have gone an additional 60k miles without any problems! My break even analysis for if it was worth it was at 24k miles, also I did it when gas was at $1.25!!! Lol, I guess GWBush did help me one way, break even came sooner! POS '95 Plymouth Neon is my daily travel car (140-210 miles a day I drive, love being self employed). My other was a 64 1/2 Mustang. Hopefully I can get a Shelby Cobra this summer!!! 450 Horses!!!
You need Dungeon Siege 1 or Legends of Aranna to play this. Just FYI. I like the Thief add on stuff for Unreal Tournament. I don't remember where I got it but this site has a lot of Thief info
I have typed vocab lists (while running on the treadmills next to hot ass college girls at OU) and I listen to my language CDs on my mp3 player. If you're going to run for an hour and you want to study for an hour, it sure as hell breaks up the monotony of running next to a post with CNN Headline News on the TV in front of you. BTW How many fucking times can VH1 show the same Madonna, Gwen Steffani and some rapper videos in a row? I've been running consistantly for the last 6 months and I've only seen those 3 videos. I need one of those video iPods.
Lol, I type as I think. Grammar is the least of my worries. That being said, all writing is used for is conveying an idea. If the reader can understand my point, exacting punctuation is not really needed. There vs. their vs. they're does tend to bug the shit out of me. I didn't realize APA was grading posts on slashdot. Time for a life dear Anon Cow...
Proper usage of verbs is important too. To know (a fact) and to know (a person) tends to mess people up. In spanish they have Ser and Estar which mess me up. Books can be tedious (in my experience) and frequently use non-conversational tenses. For example simple past is primarily written in German but present perfect is spoken. The opposite is true in french (at least conversationally in the tu not vous form) where people speak in simple but generally write in passe compose (although coloquial writers use simple past).
I find when reading articles, especially interviews you can get more bang for your buck for two reasons. Number one, you get some insight to what the hell is going on in their country (spain in this example). You also get knowledge about how people *actually* speak. Figuring out conversation context is very advanced. I like the idea of reading childrens books. Still finding a foreign friend cannot be that hard. Ask around! Buy them some beers, better yet, ask Salma Heyek out on a date (2 for 1!!! AMAZING).
I suggest This book and cd.
However this is only 1% of what you need. The other 99% is the actual drive to learn and study it EVERY DAY. When you take language classes in college (a good way to learn a foreign language in my opinion) you initially go 1 hour every day for a semester (about 18 weeks). That covers about 1/2 the language. The second semester covers the second half. That is approx 18 weeks X 5 days X 1 hour. This doesn't include time studying for tests and vocab quizes. I'd say I average about 3 hours studying a week in my current language class in addition to class time. That makes it 18 X 5 X 1 (90 hours) + 3hours X 18 weeks (54 hours studying outside class) or a total of 144 hours for 1 semester. If you want to get the grammar down and have a good knowledge doubling this is a good guess. 288 Hours.
Now you may need more than me because I already speak 4 languages. After you've learned a second the subsequent ones are easier. My grammar comprehension is better in all my foreign languages and my spelling is better too (too much cheating on spelling tests in middle school I guess).
Here's a bonus to Spanish. The grammar is very similar to French, Italian, Portuguese and of course it's base of Latin. Once you learn spanish these are easy to pick up.
What you should do (in my opinion) without taking formal classes:
1. Buy the CD/Book. (Online is WAY cheaper than in the store)
2. Plan to study 1 hour a day at least (M-F) hell you can do it while working out if you want to get really healthy too (that's when I do about half my vocab studying)
3. Once going through the book start translating an article a day from a foreign newspaper.
4. Then start recording your conversations and translating them real-time in your head to your new language.
5. Picture Salma Heyek as your prize. You'll learn for certain then!
6. Find some foreign friends to get beers with... Beers make you more confident in speaking (at least for most people that aren't extraverted freaks like me!).
bonne chance!
Antitrust is bullshit. Selectively enforced and for the most part worthless. The market does a better job than the government ever will. What is a patent? A government sanctioned monopoly. How can someone be sooooo pissed off about MS charging too much for Windows, and at the same time not give a shit about making low cost AIDS meds available at cost? Perspective. If people in Niger die from AIDS it doesn't affect the US economy materially.
... The only thing missing is massive amounts of viruses, trojans and spyware.
You cannot have it both ways and be moral and/or ethically correct. Some how the humanity of this world is going away. But let's focus on Microsoft. For some reason I don't think it's impossible to get by without using MS products. Linux > OO > Firefox > Thunderbird > Apache > qmail >
IBM had more to do with Gates becoming a success than illegal practices. He may have been ethically challenged but that is not criminal. In the real world the stakes are high and you're playing for keeps. Gates had extraordinary drive and intelligence to see where the world was going and the more critical part (it's easy to be Dvorak and put 100 guesses about 2020 out there) he actually took advantage of the opportunities available.
... rant reminded me of Howard Dean (the democrats are fucked, to my chagrin).
Having started 3 businesses on my own (3rd time is a charm) it is much easier to criticize someone that has succeeded than to go out and be successful yourself.
I admire Bill Gates for many things. I disagree with some of his methods but who's to say in the grand scheme of things he is a "bad" person? There are few visionary leaders in this world. Bill Gates is definately one of them. That being said WTF is up with Balmer, is this guy a nutjob or what? That developers
So just relax, sit back, and watch the fiasco. History repeats itself (yet again). I'm wondering how long it will be until we're the fascist leaders of the world? Oh well, as long as Wal*Mart can keep making money we're alright, right? Lol, Europe is f'd up too but for some reason when I get back from trips abroad you really get a different perspective of US attitudes and backward/sheltered thinking. Fox News, the one you can count on to get it wrong!
Ethics may get you fined. Breaking laws gets you an end of term pardon.
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