I can remeber reading this guys stuff as a child. It has always been really interesting to me. If you are into childrens books that have incredibly cool pictures and neat, interesting story lines then i would suggest checking out two of his other books.
The Sign of the Seahorse: A quasi arthurian tale told under the sea for effect. This is a good guys beat bad guys type of story. Its told in verse so if you dont dig it then dont read it.
The Eleventh Hour: This one is story about a birthday party where all of the food gets stolen. After reading the story through its your job to figure out who did it. A lot if fun, even for adults. You crypto guys might actually have some fun with this.
At my work we have a few rather odd networks. The first one i worked on was named after the moons of saturn and jupiter. This worked well becaue Jupiter and Saturn were domains. After that they sent my team off to a new project, we named all our servers after smurfs. Hefty gets to do Database stuff, Grouchy monitors the network, vanity serves out pages. Its really knda fun, and you get to have all sorts of fun with security stuff.
I know, thats what makes my SO such an endearing fellow. He always gives me more then what i have asked for. And most of the time its great. I get to learn new things from him, and he gets to teach me. On occaision i do the teaching (He knows nothing of programming) and we both enjoy it. But on occaision, i really do want the short answer.
Just out of curiosity, Is anyone reading this familiar with gender based thought patterns? I kinda wonder if it has an effect on how people choose there mates? Do we go for people with patterns similar to our own or so we select people as different as possible? Or is that somthing you can really even tell about a person?
I figured out backups by myself. I figured out SQL and Oracle databases by myself. 95% of what i know about C was self taught. The same goes for hardware. With the exception of microprocessors wich im still trying to find a decent book on. DOS is one of those things i never really played with. By the time i got involved with computers Win95 had already come out, and Unix was a much cooler command line OS. W95 doesnt really use DOS all that much. At least not for what i was doing. Because they need me to start using them at work i have since goneo ut and boughten a nice little book on the wonder that is DOS, with a nice sized section on cool.bat tricks.
When i started i asked a lot of stupid questions, and got equivilant answers. The most memorable being the time i asked my best friend what "that" was. I was pointing to the proccessor and expecting somthing like "pentium 166" or an equivilant. HE went into a detailed description of overclocking. Needless to say it was way above my head and i was to shy to say so. I have since gotten better at asking questions, wich means i get better answers. But not always, and of course improvment is always happening.
And as for asking inanely stupid questions of my coworkers: I am constantly being asked to do things ive never done. My manager does this so I can learn, thats her job, unfortunatly most of the people she sicks me on to learn dont know that. She tells them "lissell doesnt have any familiarity with Apache, you will have to teach her" and they just let it slide over. Wich means i get to ask stupid questions.;-)
But i am learning, i do so everyday. If i wasnt, they wouldnt be keeping me.
Most of the guys who gave me less than usefull answers happened to be 20+ years older then me. Im 17 as of tomorrow. It isnt always a gender thing, they have never been chauvenistic to my face. Its just hard for most of them, who have been working for my company for most of the 20+ years, to believe i know what im doing. They look at me and see their teenage daughters, not a fellow coworker. Its somthing im pretty used to. When i start my new internship at a local college Ill have to deal with same thing. Life happens, you deal.
The thing is that, in my experience, most younger guys, when faced with a technical question by a girl, will try and explain it to her whether they know the answer or not. Most of the older men on the other hand have given me the general low level answers that they are used to giving everyone who askes an annoying question. Its easier to get the techie fems to view you as an equal. They actually had to fight for their jobs, mine was handed to me, there used to supporting newbies.
And certainly not all males are like this. My SO taught me everything i know about linux. I learned HTML from some of the male seniors at school with out any problems. I also learned C from a very helpfull college friend of mine, who happens to be male. They have all been wonderfull, but each one has occaisionally given me a funny answer when i didnt ask my question in the right syntax.
I guess the point i was trying to make was that most fem geeks(or techs) really prefer a guy who views them as an itellectual equal. This is somthing everyone, even fems, have to learn how to do. And the younger you are, the harder it is. We humans like feeling superior.
I may have just made a complete feminazi out of myself for this, but oh well. This is a brutal industry, and sometimes, you have to bite.
Comming from a rather young techi female, some of you may not be applicable to this.
My world is not computers. Yeah i have a very computer oriented job and go to a very computer oriented school. But i dont care if the guy im with is. Its definatly a bonus though. I like geeks, there great in bed and dont like makeup (yeah). What i dont like is a geek guy who tries to fix it for me every time i get confused writting C code. Yeah, i want things explained when i dont understand them, but im not an idiot. The main problem i have found with most geek guys is that they really do want to show off. I dont want him to show off. I want him to explain the occaisional thing and NOT criticize my decisions. Especially about computers. Its a hard world out there and if the >18 guys out there want decent girls they have to learn that. The internet community is very accepting of fems but in the real world it isnt so. I spent two years not knowing what a.bat file was. I had never had to use one. DOS was somthing i used to run C test programs. If i wanted command line i would go use the unix box under my desk. Durring those two years many of my male coworkers had explaind to me.bat files. But i still didnt know what one was. Finally a female coworker asked me to write some for her. I asked how to do it and she showed me how. Durring the entire two eyars not a single male coworker had told me that you just put DOS commands in text file and run it in DOS. Not a single one. They had all given me the explanation that it runs mutiple DOS commands from one file. Well thats great, but how.
The point gentlmen is that we are not idiots, and prefer to be treated like peers. When we ask what appears to be stupid question, it isnt a sign of weekness. Knowledge comes by asking questions, and my boyfriend at least always answers them, and isnt afraid to say he doesnt know. Thats another key. If your a programmer and perl god, im not going to expect you to explain the intricacies of RAM to me. But you might know. So i will ask, you arented expected to give the perfect answer, just a simple "im not sure" will do. It doenst change my view. Learn me well enough to know that.
My darling SO has learned these things. Along with little lessons along the lines of "That ergo keyboard you ot my for me birthday is great, I needed one. But could you have wrapped it first? Maybe with a card and somthing nice written inside". Little things matter, but most off all respect. Besides, when your GF feels respected, she is a heck of a lot more fun in bed.
In the Beaverton School District there is a program called StRUT. It stands for Students recycling used technolgy. People donate whatever they have to the program and us students get to take all that hardware and turn it into working machines. Not only do we get an in depth lesson on how comps work but the schools get to keep the computers. There isnt anything we wont take. If nothing else we learn by taking it apart, as was done with some old macs, a faulty power supply(teacher didnt know about this one, a very old hard drive, a few printers, variouse sized floppy drives(didnt know they came bigger then 5') and others. Weve hacked together laptops and made a linux network in the StRUT lab for those interesting in alternative OS's. Being in the Portland/beaverton/Hillsboro area we get a lot of nice stuff from corporations. Intel donated almost all the equipment for our internal network and TekTronix(sp) helped with a lot of testing hardware. Its a great program. I just wish someone would donate a vax. I would LOVE to see how one of those works. Unfortunatly cprporations dont have much of that stuff. We depend on indivuals for stuff that is usefull for learning the fundemetals behind how computers work. (Sorry for bad spelling. im in a hurry)
About three monthes after i registerd my domain i got a spam advertising a set of CDs that had the Email address of "web profesionals like yourself" who would be "interested" in high tech bargains.
Ive gotten about three of them, along with others selling similar stuff. The agravating thing is that i know it had to come from NSI, there the only ones with the address i used. When i originally bought the domain it was for research so everyhting had to be anonymouse and untraceable.(sp) IT really kinda pisses me off that im getting this stuff. I could care less about "great values for web profesionals" and i dont have any need to spam.
Somthing just occured to me, If we all sent NSI letters saying "Dont give people my address you stupid fink" Then maybe they will actually stop. Of course this only is able to stop NSI itself. What about all the people who baught there CD's with all our Email address on them?
So, does anyone know the adress we should send such things to? It would be fun to slashdot NSI snail mail style
Course Email would work just as well.;-)
(I need to change my.sig)
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I agree that my mother trying to controll dating is a little out dated, but it actually worked. Mainly because ALL of us kids had to follow it. And we knew the rule at a very young age. I didnt mind the rule at all. Most of the time i was thank full for it. It was an easy out when all the strang guys in Junior high started sniffing at my heels.
It has been very usefull in high school as well. Any time a guy asked me out i told him that he would have to wait untill I was 16. There was one in particular that i was very close with emotionally. It really helped our relationship. I knew he appreciated and loved me because he was willing to wait, And i wasnt making him wait. He could have gone after any other girl he wanted to. But he didnt. And my mother has never interfeared. Who I date is my decision.
Another way that i personally have benefited from this rule is in the number of male friends i have. I tend to go for geeks. Im surrounded by them constantly (Go to a gook school, work in a geek job..) Having this rule in place told them I was off limits, so the romantic aspect never entered the equation. This way i have been friends with every guy I have dated before I dated him.
I know this doesnt work with all kids, my sister didnt follow the rule and got burned pretty badly. I think it is one of the reasons I never broke it. It was harder for my sister to tell my mom what had happened then it was to deal with what had happened. Because of what happened to my sister my mom never got mad at her, It wouldnt have helped. But it was a great example to me.
I hope im not standing on soap boxes. The heights make me hard to understand.
With all of the posts that say parents should take responsibility for what their kids do, you can't allow "private" files on a computer, esp. one that has net access.
I dont think this has so much to do with allowing private files as teaching your children the diffrence between right and wrong. My mother raised me well. She has never had a reason to look through any personal files that i may have stored on our family computer. And i will never give her a reason to.
I was taught at a young age the consequences for my actions. I was exposed to many things at a young age that other children would never have been exposed to. My mother made sure to teach me thigs at a young age. I got the talk about drugs when i was six. I had sex explained to me when i was ten. But my mother didnt just tell me what somthing was and then give the perverbial "Dont you dare ever do anything like that." Instead she explained her view points, why she felt a specific way and such. In the long run this has made me more like my mother then most kids. What i believe is my choice, it agrees with my mother becase she gave me the option to choose.
My mother was also very clear on rules. I was never allowed to fight with my sibillings. Disagreement was OK, but we had to sit down and discuss things, not see who could yell loudest. My mother made a point of my knowing that I would not be allowed to date untill I was 16. She held all of us to that rule. I knew it by heart when i was four.
I know ive rambeled a bit but my point is this, Children have a right to privacy. But not complete and total. Parents need to be involved. If i ever gave my mother a reason to look through my stuff I would feel it was more my fault then hers. The same would go if she gave me a curfew. I do not have one currently, but disrespecting my mothers wish to know where her 16 year old daughter is at 2:00 Am would definatly cause that priviledge to be taken away. I am fully aware of the house hold rules and know what needs to be done to retain my rights. How many other kids can say that? I honestly feel that the number is smaller then I would feel comfortable with.
Treat your kids with respect and they will treat you, and other members of society, with respect. Tells us where our boundaries are before we start making mistakes. At least then the fence is far away. When we get to close to the edge, the sudden appearence a fence is more of an insult then a comfort.
No, no, no. The smaller your school is, the more likely people won't be able to find a group they can be part of, be comfortable with. If I go to a school with, say, 100 people, and 99 of them are total tools -- sports, pop music, GAP jeans, the whole nine yards -- am I, as a nonconformist, more likely to turn into a conformist and join your "closer student body" or am I more likely to just hate and fear all of the tools?
Have you ever gone to a small school? It is more likely in a smaller enviroment that the "tools" will be more willing to be diffrent and more willing to accept people who dont think like them. When you are in smaller enviroment you realize that all the people are diffrent. Some are conformists, some are non-conformists. And wether you are a conformist or not you learn to except people as people.
You dont have the "jocks", "goths", or "preps" so prevelant in larger high schools. Instead you have a friend who wears black and likes metalica, a friend who loves basketball, and a friend who is fascinated by wall street. There arent nearly as many "cliques".
In a large setting like high school you almost have to find a group that you can fit into. If you dont then you dont have any friends, or you form your own "clique". The benefit of smaller settings is that there are not enough people to make viable "clique's". You are very un-likely to find seven other people who think the same way you do about almost everything. It just doesnt happen.
I dont mean to get off topic guys but im curiouse. I live in Beaverton, A suburb of Portland Oregon. In school today we talked about the shooting at Columbine High. We talked about the plans our school district had in place for similar situations and how students felt about the general safety of our schools. The School that i go to is the smallest high school in out district, we are an options high school where every student has chosen to be there. We also have the highest rating of students feeling that the school enviroment is safe. (The district poll's yearly for this and other information from students)
What i wonder is if we arent chasing the wrong goat when pointing to stricter gun laws as prevention for this sort of action. Could having smaller schools with a closer student body help prevent the allienation that seems to be a common factor in the many school shooting's?
Wow! It seems like all of our true anonymouse cowards have come out of there holes.
I must say I find it amazing how quick a lot of our fellow slashdotr's are to judge. I work on a production team for a major high tech company. A lot of our Database servers run NT, Anything that is doing security is running some flavor of Unix or Linux.
Just today my mentor(Yes im an Intern, and 16 at that) was telling me we may have to add 3 BSDI servers to our network. I was floored! We already have about 5 diffrent OS's on our network(thats counting diffrent flovors/versions of unix and Linux) When i asked her why the answer was pretty simple. The program out grand high mucky mucks had dessignated for Ecommerce was optimized for use with BSDI. Now i have to learn yet another OS.
I enjoy hte learning, its why im here, but I have learned one thing. SQL doesnt work well Linux boxes. NT4 has a few security holes that NT5 doesnt. You can fix those with SP4 but then our back end doesnt work. Ive learned how to set up security on a Unix box in such away that it will make the NT boxes more secure. I have also learned that most OS are really good at a specific task, and that Zealots will use that to the best of there advantage.
Every OS i have used had some really positive points and some really good points. Linux is great, But i wouldnt want my grandmother using it. The MacOS is great when you want simplicity or are doing major graphics. Windows on the other hand is great if you want to do just day to day stuff. I would hate writting a term paper in Vi or Emacs. Heck i would even hate doing it in Pico! But Word works really well, and notepad can be the "quick and dirty" programmers best friend, especially with HTML stuff that you need NOW.
Everything has a positive, everything has a negative. Lets not get to angry at those who are willing to actually admit they agree with somthing we dont. If everyone was like that this whole world would be like Kosovo.
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I can remeber reading this guys stuff as a child. It has always been really interesting to me. If you are into childrens books that have incredibly cool pictures and neat, interesting story lines then i would suggest checking out two of his other books.
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The Sign of the Seahorse: A quasi arthurian tale told under the sea for effect. This is a good guys beat bad guys type of story. Its told in verse so if you dont dig it then dont read it.
The Eleventh Hour: This one is story about a birthday party where all of the food gets stolen. After reading the story through its your job to figure out who did it. A lot if fun, even for adults. You crypto guys might actually have some fun with this.
Just my
Lissell
At my work we have a few rather odd networks. The first one i worked on was named after the moons of saturn and jupiter. This worked well becaue Jupiter and Saturn were domains. After that they sent my team off to a new project, we named all our servers after smurfs. Hefty gets to do Database stuff, Grouchy monitors the network, vanity serves out pages. Its really knda fun, and you get to have all sorts of fun with security stuff.
Just out of curiosity, Is anyone reading this familiar with gender based thought patterns? I kinda wonder if it has an effect on how people choose there mates? Do we go for people with patterns similar to our own or so we select people as different as possible? Or is that somthing you can really even tell about a person?
So many questions, so many answers.
When i started i asked a lot of stupid questions, and got equivilant answers. The most memorable being the time i asked my best friend what "that" was. I was pointing to the proccessor and expecting somthing like "pentium 166" or an equivilant. HE went into a detailed description of overclocking. Needless to say it was way above my head and i was to shy to say so. I have since gotten better at asking questions, wich means i get better answers. But not always, and of course improvment is always happening.
And as for asking inanely stupid questions of my coworkers: I am constantly being asked to do things ive never done. My manager does this so I can learn, thats her job, unfortunatly most of the people she sicks me on to learn dont know that. She tells them "lissell doesnt have any familiarity with Apache, you will have to teach her" and they just let it slide over. Wich means i get to ask stupid questions. ;-)
But i am learning, i do so everyday. If i wasnt, they wouldnt be keeping me.
The thing is that, in my experience, most younger guys, when faced with a technical question by a girl, will try and explain it to her whether they know the answer or not. Most of the older men on the other hand have given me the general low level answers that they are used to giving everyone who askes an annoying question. Its easier to get the techie fems to view you as an equal. They actually had to fight for their jobs, mine was handed to me, there used to supporting newbies.
And certainly not all males are like this. My SO taught me everything i know about linux. I learned HTML from some of the male seniors at school with out any problems. I also learned C from a very helpfull college friend of mine, who happens to be male. They have all been wonderfull, but each one has occaisionally given me a funny answer when i didnt ask my question in the right syntax.
I guess the point i was trying to make was that most fem geeks(or techs) really prefer a guy who views them as an itellectual equal. This is somthing everyone, even fems, have to learn how to do. And the younger you are, the harder it is. We humans like feeling superior.
I may have just made a complete feminazi out of myself for this, but oh well. This is a brutal industry, and sometimes, you have to bite.
My world is not computers. Yeah i have a very computer oriented job and go to a very computer oriented school. But i dont care if the guy im with is. Its definatly a bonus though. I like geeks, there great in bed and dont like makeup (yeah). What i dont like is a geek guy who tries to fix it for me every time i get confused writting C code. Yeah, i want things explained when i dont understand them, but im not an idiot. The main problem i have found with most geek guys is that they really do want to show off. I dont want him to show off. I want him to explain the occaisional thing and NOT criticize my decisions. Especially about computers. Its a hard world out there and if the >18 guys out there want decent girls they have to learn that. The internet community is very accepting of fems but in the real world it isnt so. I spent two years not knowing what a .bat file was. I had never had to use one. DOS was somthing i used to run C test programs. If i wanted command line i would go use the unix box under my desk. Durring those two years many of my male coworkers had explaind to me .bat files. But i still didnt know what one was. Finally a female coworker asked me to write some for her. I asked how to do it and she showed me how. Durring the entire two eyars not a single male coworker had told me that you just put DOS commands in text file and run it in DOS. Not a single one. They had all given me the explanation that it runs mutiple DOS commands from one file. Well thats great, but how.
The point gentlmen is that we are not idiots, and prefer to be treated like peers. When we ask what appears to be stupid question, it isnt a sign of weekness. Knowledge comes by asking questions, and my boyfriend at least always answers them, and isnt afraid to say he doesnt know. Thats another key. If your a programmer and perl god, im not going to expect you to explain the intricacies of RAM to me. But you might know. So i will ask, you arented expected to give the perfect answer, just a simple "im not sure" will do. It doenst change my view. Learn me well enough to know that.
My darling SO has learned these things. Along with little lessons along the lines of "That ergo keyboard you ot my for me birthday is great, I needed one. But could you have wrapped it first? Maybe with a card and somthing nice written inside". Little things matter, but most off all respect. Besides, when your GF feels respected, she is a heck of a lot more fun in bed.
I think ive rambled enough. Happy hunting boys.
In the Beaverton School District there is a program called StRUT. It stands for Students recycling used technolgy. People donate whatever they have to the program and us students get to take all that hardware and turn it into working machines. Not only do we get an in depth lesson on how comps work but the schools get to keep the computers. There isnt anything we wont take. If nothing else we learn by taking it apart, as was done with some old macs, a faulty power supply(teacher didnt know about this one, a very old hard drive, a few printers, variouse sized floppy drives(didnt know they came bigger then 5') and others. Weve hacked together laptops and made a linux network in the StRUT lab for those interesting in alternative OS's. Being in the Portland/beaverton/Hillsboro area we get a lot of nice stuff from corporations. Intel donated almost all the equipment for our internal network and TekTronix(sp) helped with a lot of testing hardware. Its a great program. I just wish someone would donate a vax. I would LOVE to see how one of those works. Unfortunatly cprporations dont have much of that stuff. We depend on indivuals for stuff that is usefull for learning the fundemetals behind how computers work. (Sorry for bad spelling. im in a hurry)
About three monthes after i registerd my domain i got a spam advertising a set of CDs that had the Email address of "web profesionals like yourself" who would be "interested" in high tech bargains.
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Ive gotten about three of them, along with others selling similar stuff. The agravating thing is that i know it had to come from NSI, there the only ones with the address i used. When i originally bought the domain it was for research so everyhting had to be anonymouse and untraceable.(sp) IT really kinda pisses me off that im getting this stuff. I could care less about "great values for web profesionals" and i dont have any need to spam.
(I need to change my
Somthing just occured to me, If we all sent NSI letters saying "Dont give people my address you stupid fink" Then maybe they will actually stop. Of course this only is able to stop NSI itself. What about all the people who baught there CD's with all our Email address on them?
;-)
.sig)
So, does anyone know the adress we should send such things to? It would be fun to slashdot NSI snail mail style
Course Email would work just as well.
(I need to change my
It has been very usefull in high school as well. Any time a guy asked me out i told him that he would have to wait untill I was 16. There was one in particular that i was very close with emotionally. It really helped our relationship. I knew he appreciated and loved me because he was willing to wait, And i wasnt making him wait. He could have gone after any other girl he wanted to. But he didnt. And my mother has never interfeared. Who I date is my decision.
Another way that i personally have benefited from this rule is in the number of male friends i have. I tend to go for geeks. Im surrounded by them constantly (Go to a gook school, work in a geek job..) Having this rule in place told them I was off limits, so the romantic aspect never entered the equation. This way i have been friends with every guy I have dated before I dated him.
I know this doesnt work with all kids, my sister didnt follow the rule and got burned pretty badly. I think it is one of the reasons I never broke it. It was harder for my sister to tell my mom what had happened then it was to deal with what had happened. Because of what happened to my sister my mom never got mad at her, It wouldnt have helped. But it was a great example to me.
I hope im not standing on soap boxes. The heights make me hard to understand.
I dont think this has so much to do with allowing private files as teaching your children the diffrence between right and wrong. My mother raised me well. She has never had a reason to look through any personal files that i may have stored on our family computer. And i will never give her a reason to.
I was taught at a young age the consequences for my actions. I was exposed to many things at a young age that other children would never have been exposed to. My mother made sure to teach me thigs at a young age. I got the talk about drugs when i was six. I had sex explained to me when i was ten. But my mother didnt just tell me what somthing was and then give the perverbial "Dont you dare ever do anything like that." Instead she explained her view points, why she felt a specific way and such. In the long run this has made me more like my mother then most kids. What i believe is my choice, it agrees with my mother becase she gave me the option to choose.
My mother was also very clear on rules. I was never allowed to fight with my sibillings. Disagreement was OK, but we had to sit down and discuss things, not see who could yell loudest. My mother made a point of my knowing that I would not be allowed to date untill I was 16. She held all of us to that rule. I knew it by heart when i was four.
I know ive rambeled a bit but my point is this, Children have a right to privacy. But not complete and total. Parents need to be involved. If i ever gave my mother a reason to look through my stuff I would feel it was more my fault then hers. The same would go if she gave me a curfew. I do not have one currently, but disrespecting my mothers wish to know where her 16 year old daughter is at 2:00 Am would definatly cause that priviledge to be taken away. I am fully aware of the house hold rules and know what needs to be done to retain my rights. How many other kids can say that? I honestly feel that the number is smaller then I would feel comfortable with.
Treat your kids with respect and they will treat you, and other members of society, with respect. Tells us where our boundaries are before we start making mistakes. At least then the fence is far away. When we get to close to the edge, the sudden appearence a fence is more of an insult then a comfort.
Feel free to email me your response.
Have you ever gone to a small school? It is more likely in a smaller enviroment that the "tools" will be more willing to be diffrent and more willing to accept people who dont think like them. When you are in smaller enviroment you realize that all the people are diffrent. Some are conformists, some are non-conformists. And wether you are a conformist or not you learn to except people as people.
You dont have the "jocks", "goths", or "preps" so prevelant in larger high schools. Instead you have a friend who wears black and likes metalica, a friend who loves basketball, and a friend who is fascinated by wall street. There arent nearly as many "cliques".
In a large setting like high school you almost have to find a group that you can fit into. If you dont then you dont have any friends, or you form your own "clique". The benefit of smaller settings is that there are not enough people to make viable "clique's". You are very un-likely to find seven other people who think the same way you do about almost everything. It just doesnt happen.
And yes, I am speaking from experience.
I dont mean to get off topic guys but im curiouse. I live in Beaverton, A suburb of Portland Oregon. In school today we talked about the shooting at Columbine High. We talked about the plans our school district had in place for similar situations and how students felt about the general safety of our schools. The School that i go to is the smallest high school in out district, we are an options high school where every student has chosen to be there. We also have the highest rating of students feeling that the school enviroment is safe. (The district poll's yearly for this and other information from students)
What i wonder is if we arent chasing the wrong goat when pointing to stricter gun laws as prevention for this sort of action. Could having smaller schools with a closer student body help prevent the allienation that seems to be a common factor in the many school shooting's?
Just my 16 year old 2 cents worth.
Wow! It seems like all of our true anonymouse cowards have come out of there holes.
I must say I find it amazing how quick a lot of our fellow slashdotr's are to judge. I work on a production team for a major high tech company. A lot of our Database servers run NT, Anything that is doing security is running some flavor of Unix or Linux.
Just today my mentor(Yes im an Intern, and 16 at that) was telling me we may have to add 3 BSDI servers to our network. I was floored! We already have about 5 diffrent OS's on our network(thats counting diffrent flovors/versions of unix and Linux)
When i asked her why the answer was pretty simple. The program out grand high mucky mucks had dessignated for Ecommerce was optimized for use with BSDI. Now i have to learn yet another OS.
I enjoy hte learning, its why im here, but I have learned one thing. SQL doesnt work well Linux boxes. NT4 has a few security holes that NT5 doesnt. You can fix those with SP4 but then our back end doesnt work.
Ive learned how to set up security on a Unix box in such away that it will make the NT boxes more secure.
I have also learned that most OS are really good at a specific task, and that Zealots will use that to the best of there advantage.
Every OS i have used had some really positive points and some really good points. Linux is great, But i wouldnt want my grandmother using it. The MacOS is great when you want simplicity or are doing major graphics. Windows on the other hand is great if you want to do just day to day stuff. I would hate writting a term paper in Vi or Emacs. Heck i would even hate doing it in Pico! But Word works really well, and notepad can be the "quick and dirty" programmers best friend, especially with HTML stuff that you need NOW.
Everything has a positive, everything has a negative. Lets not get to angry at those who are willing to actually admit they agree with somthing we dont. If everyone was like that this whole world would be like Kosovo.