Collect your check and go home. Microsoft products aren't that bad. If that is what the users want, it's your job to get it for them. If it saves the district money do you get a bonus? Most people are comfortable using MS products because that is what they have at home (to parent, the days of apple in schools is over). Familiarity is important to people who don't want to learn any more than they have to about operating a computer.
Not to mention if he leaves the next guy will undoubtedly know MS. He may not know Apple or linux or bsd or solaris or SkyOS or Sky vodka for that matter.
Personally I think all schools should use macs. However Apple's stupid ass overpriced hardware (yes even at the academic prices) has doomed that market.
I've got an easy fix. Just fucking get rid of it altogether. No software patents, no drug patents, etc...
There is no need for an artificial monopoly. Why do you think they cured so much shit in the 20's to 50's but all we've gotten since is Meds for the symptoms? Profit. Pure and simple. All R&D goes to creating treatments not cures. Cures don't make billions for 17+ years.
Until people wake up we'll keep living in this world run by greed and profit instead of one for the betterment of society. Whoops I forgot that painting I stole in New Orleans. Be right back.
I really like that feature because there are a lot of out of print books that are difficult to find elsewhere or buying on eBay is a frustrating experience.
If that's the case then they should go to a better university. If you can take business calc and still call your degree a CS/CE degree, that is f'ing sad. Which university is this? I'll avoid those "CS" students like the plague.
Exactly. People who haven't been to college tend to believe that reading a How to program C++ book and working as a junior programmer somewhere for 2 years will actually give them a well rounded employee that understands not only the programming aspect of projects but the economic aspect as well. Hell most CS people are lacking in that as well.
I believe every engineering major should get an MBA before entering the workplace. Every CS person I've worked with was an excellent programmer. However, being able to program a linux device driver doesn't do a fucking bit of good when you're working on an enterprise level financial system and they are confused by what a debit is versus a credit. Same goes for science or anything else.
The best programmers I knew in college (at OU of course) were those in the Meterology Department. They had to build all their own models and such and learned (this is in the 90's) the Korn Shell and C Programming backward and forward. Not to mention the physics and math they studied. Impressive degree in my opinion.
I hire for attitude and passion, anyone can program. Very few can program with a passion and good attitude (hell I can't even do that).
Or better yet, assuming you keep all rights to the code, program something that takes another area of expertise and create a program to make someone elses life easier.
For example, a financial calculator. It's not to hard to find the functions you'd need to use and you can meet (network) with some people in the Business School and have them assist you (generally professors are pretty nice). Tell them you are considering an MBA at your school, that might help too.
Another example is economic models, or some biology (I'm very non-science oriented) project that could couple a need in a real area and a project you can possibly turn into a career.
In the real world (for the most part) programmers end up doing EUIS (End-User Information Systems) and they are non-trivial due to the necessary investment in learning how to integrate someone's needs into a software product. Plus it will be good practice on your people skills and excellent resume fodder. 99% of the problem I have with CS only majors is this, they are excellent technical programmers but when it comes to knowledge of any applied models the learning curve is quite slow (in financial, economic,... models).
MIS/CIS maybe an easier degree but at least they come out knowing what a debit and a credit are (hopefully). Now if they could just program too.
IMO you might consider getting an MBA. You're exactly who it is designed for (not the damn business undergrads who just want to spend more of mommy & daddy's money and avoid the real world for 2 more years).
Get a used laptop off eBay. If you get a P3 with powersaving features and at least a 30GB HD you should be fine. Buy a new battery for it (since the original will probably only hold a 30 minute charge) and presto you've got a server with a built in UPS, low power usage, low heat output and very little power usage. If you're concerned about the HD speed just get a Firewire or USB 2 pcmcia card and run everything on an external drive.
Don't use the Sun Messaging if you want to keep your clients happy. My university used to run QMail with Horde/IMP and it was kick ass (I subsequently moved my mail servers to that combo). They then for some unexplained reason (probably easier to admin or they got a deal since they are a university) they switched to this piece of shit software.
IT FUCKING SUCKS. You have about 1/10th the features and it runs significantly slower (I cannot verify the hardware is the same but the previous systems were IRIX on SGI machines, my best guess is this POS is running on Sun based systems).
Clients want more features not less. If you cannot administer the system yourself then hire someone who can. There are many consultants out there that are reasonably priced. If my email went from something great to something shitty I'd be pissed.
When Yahoo Mail and GMail are better than what you can offer for free are better than what you charge to offer, do you really deserve to have any customers?
Learn to properly admin a mail server, end of story. Hell you could even use Exchange. However that is more difficult than any other combo you can put together in my opinion.
Exactly, if they cannot format a fucking excel worksheet they don't need to be managing an IT team. Christ my 83 year old grandmother can do that albeit slowly.
I'd be more concerned with windowing toolkits than the Intel Compiler. WxWindows, QT, etc. provide more in the way of a cross platform development environment. Although when programming for Mac OS you still need to change the location of almost every menu item and button on a form to conform with the design standards used on that OS. I found the buttons being switched a bit irritating at first but once you are familiar with the locations it's no problem.
Are you kidding me? 1 socket on each stud? Do you realize studs are 18" apart which in a 10x10 room means you have around 26 plugs? WTF would someone need that for? Not to mention copper is f'ing expensive. Go to lowes or home depot and look at how much copper wiring costs.
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Yes but can you do the opposite? Why the fuck should you have to buy an Apple branded computer just to run BSD with a better Windowing System?
I hope they at least release OS X Live CD's for normal people to try OS X on their CURRENT x86 machines.
Don't forget the Anthrax mailer. They've done and excellent job of finding him/her (yes it may be a her) or them.
Our government cannot do the one thing it is truly created to do, protect its citizens. Time for radical change.
Collect your check and go home. Microsoft products aren't that bad. If that is what the users want, it's your job to get it for them. If it saves the district money do you get a bonus? Most people are comfortable using MS products because that is what they have at home (to parent, the days of apple in schools is over). Familiarity is important to people who don't want to learn any more than they have to about operating a computer.
Not to mention if he leaves the next guy will undoubtedly know MS. He may not know Apple or linux or bsd or solaris or SkyOS or Sky vodka for that matter.
Personally I think all schools should use macs. However Apple's stupid ass overpriced hardware (yes even at the academic prices) has doomed that market.
I like Textpad or in a worse case scenario VIM but that is worse case only.
I've got an easy fix. Just fucking get rid of it altogether. No software patents, no drug patents, etc...
There is no need for an artificial monopoly. Why do you think they cured so much shit in the 20's to 50's but all we've gotten since is Meds for the symptoms? Profit. Pure and simple. All R&D goes to creating treatments not cures. Cures don't make billions for 17+ years.
Until people wake up we'll keep living in this world run by greed and profit instead of one for the betterment of society. Whoops I forgot that painting I stole in New Orleans. Be right back.
However is it really a new generation if it's a father daughter combo?
Or you could just get WinRar. Free upgrades and a better format to boot.
I really like that feature because there are a lot of out of print books that are difficult to find elsewhere or buying on eBay is a frustrating experience.
Why do they link to BN.com. Amazon is better. You can actually view the Table of Contents!!!
Book
ToC
text, no formatting. Even my apple //e could save text files. the media is usually a bigger problem than the data document.
pdf is good but make certain you have an older reader, old os and old machine to run it on.
you could always encode it with alphabits as well. just glue to 8 1/2 by 11 paper and you're set.
If that's the case then they should go to a better university. If you can take business calc and still call your degree a CS/CE degree, that is f'ing sad. Which university is this? I'll avoid those "CS" students like the plague.
Exactly. People who haven't been to college tend to believe that reading a How to program C++ book and working as a junior programmer somewhere for 2 years will actually give them a well rounded employee that understands not only the programming aspect of projects but the economic aspect as well. Hell most CS people are lacking in that as well.
I believe every engineering major should get an MBA before entering the workplace. Every CS person I've worked with was an excellent programmer. However, being able to program a linux device driver doesn't do a fucking bit of good when you're working on an enterprise level financial system and they are confused by what a debit is versus a credit. Same goes for science or anything else.
The best programmers I knew in college (at OU of course) were those in the Meterology Department. They had to build all their own models and such and learned (this is in the 90's) the Korn Shell and C Programming backward and forward. Not to mention the physics and math they studied. Impressive degree in my opinion.
I hire for attitude and passion, anyone can program. Very few can program with a passion and good attitude (hell I can't even do that).
Or better yet, assuming you keep all rights to the code, program something that takes another area of expertise and create a program to make someone elses life easier.
... models).
For example, a financial calculator. It's not to hard to find the functions you'd need to use and you can meet (network) with some people in the Business School and have them assist you (generally professors are pretty nice). Tell them you are considering an MBA at your school, that might help too.
Another example is economic models, or some biology (I'm very non-science oriented) project that could couple a need in a real area and a project you can possibly turn into a career.
In the real world (for the most part) programmers end up doing EUIS (End-User Information Systems) and they are non-trivial due to the necessary investment in learning how to integrate someone's needs into a software product. Plus it will be good practice on your people skills and excellent resume fodder. 99% of the problem I have with CS only majors is this, they are excellent technical programmers but when it comes to knowledge of any applied models the learning curve is quite slow (in financial, economic,
MIS/CIS maybe an easier degree but at least they come out knowing what a debit and a credit are (hopefully). Now if they could just program too.
IMO you might consider getting an MBA. You're exactly who it is designed for (not the damn business undergrads who just want to spend more of mommy & daddy's money and avoid the real world for 2 more years).
Good luck! I hope this helps.
Without GNU there would be no linux. I cannot imagine building the kernel with the lovely C compiler used in Minix.
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Get a used laptop off eBay. If you get a P3 with powersaving features and at least a 30GB HD you should be fine. Buy a new battery for it (since the original will probably only hold a 30 minute charge) and presto you've got a server with a built in UPS, low power usage, low heat output and very little power usage. If you're concerned about the HD speed just get a Firewire or USB 2 pcmcia card and run everything on an external drive.
Don't use the Sun Messaging if you want to keep your clients happy. My university used to run QMail with Horde/IMP and it was kick ass (I subsequently moved my mail servers to that combo). They then for some unexplained reason (probably easier to admin or they got a deal since they are a university) they switched to this piece of shit software.
IT FUCKING SUCKS. You have about 1/10th the features and it runs significantly slower (I cannot verify the hardware is the same but the previous systems were IRIX on SGI machines, my best guess is this POS is running on Sun based systems).
Clients want more features not less. If you cannot administer the system yourself then hire someone who can. There are many consultants out there that are reasonably priced. If my email went from something great to something shitty I'd be pissed.
When Yahoo Mail and GMail are better than what you can offer for free are better than what you charge to offer, do you really deserve to have any customers?
Learn to properly admin a mail server, end of story. Hell you could even use Exchange. However that is more difficult than any other combo you can put together in my opinion.
Exactly, if they cannot format a fucking excel worksheet they don't need to be managing an IT team. Christ my 83 year old grandmother can do that albeit slowly.
Imagine if we had fucking software patents in the 80's. Apple would rule the world (assuming Xerox PARC wouldn't have patented it first).
I'd be more concerned with windowing toolkits than the Intel Compiler. WxWindows, QT, etc. provide more in the way of a cross platform development environment. Although when programming for Mac OS you still need to change the location of almost every menu item and button on a form to conform with the design standards used on that OS. I found the buttons being switched a bit irritating at first but once you are familiar with the locations it's no problem.
GW has made poor grammar and pronunciation acceptable for all.
you can be 400lbs and still be 5'6"
26 plugs with 1 circuit is no better than the octopus plugs we learned about on the Brady Bunch. Danger Will Robinson!
Are you kidding me? 1 socket on each stud? Do you realize studs are 18" apart which in a 10x10 room means you have around 26 plugs? WTF would someone need that for? Not to mention copper is f'ing expensive. Go to lowes or home depot and look at how much copper wiring costs.
BTW I build homes for a living.
My assumption is he is going to add the walls which is why he wants to know what to add beforehand.
Don't install CAT5 just do wireless. It's much cheaper. If you want a station for each level just put a crossover between floors and you're done.