Last year at the USENIX LISA 2001 conference I had the great pleasure to hear William LeFebvre of CNN talk about why the CNN website came down on 9/11 and what has been done to improve their ability to respond to a crisis of this scale. His discussion included details about how users repeatedly hitting "reload" caused basically a DDoS attack and how slashdot relieved some of the load. Also, after the site was back up, he and his co-workers had to swing some servers over to the cartoon network because of all the children who were sent home from school. Here is a link that includes some of the details from that talk. http://www.tcsa.org/lisa2001/cnn.txt
The fact that someone took the time to put a piece of code under one of the free licensing paradigms indicates that the person cares how that code is treated. In a pure sense, licensing is an expression of your intentions for that code. If you don't want your intentions to be uniformly ignored by the larger society (and it's lawyers) then you need to do something that requires the user to agree to your intentions. If click-thru does that, then by all means it should be included. Granted click-thru is annoying. But as the tech community, we have no one to blame but ourselves if we don't come up with something better.
Like you, I chose to become a sysadmin instead of being drafted into the position. My degrees are all in the liberal arts so I started taking random continuing education classes at local colleges and picking up random jobs helping out home users and small businesses. I eventually got a job doing desktop support. It's difficult to move out of desktop support into unix because people think if you know how a pc works your mind is somehow damaged for a real OS. Just refuse to accept "no" for an answer and keep at it.
As for certifications, I have none. I've found that experience is the only thing that really matters. However, every time I take a class in something IT, I put it on my resume.
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Once you find a new position, file a complaint with the federal labor board. The statute of limitations for a claim is 2 years. If you have evidence that the money is owed to you, you can get paid what is owed plus penalties.
I am one of those people that has an amazing ability to be oblivious to banner ads. On the flip side, the single most effective internet advertising I've experienced has been amazon's subscriptions where they periodically email me a newsletter reviewing books in a category of interest to me. I have bought really a lot of books from this. If banner ads could target my interests with that degree of granularity, then I would start paying attention to the adds. To this end, I think the ad user account could be a really good idea, much more so than the "choose a category" approach. The choosing category thing wouldn't be specific enough.
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Last year at the USENIX LISA 2001 conference I had the great pleasure to hear William LeFebvre of CNN talk about why the CNN website came down on 9/11 and what has been done to improve their ability to respond to a crisis of this scale. His discussion included details about how users repeatedly hitting "reload" caused basically a DDoS attack and how slashdot relieved some of the load. Also, after the site was back up, he and his co-workers had to swing some servers over to the cartoon network because of all the children who were sent home from school. Here is a link that includes some of the details from that talk. http://www.tcsa.org/lisa2001/cnn.txt
The fact that someone took the time to put a piece of code under one of the free licensing paradigms indicates that the person cares how that code is treated. In a pure sense, licensing is an expression of your intentions for that code. If you don't want your intentions to be uniformly ignored by the larger society (and it's lawyers) then you need to do something that requires the user to agree to your intentions. If click-thru does that, then by all means it should be included. Granted click-thru is annoying. But as the tech community, we have no one to blame but ourselves if we don't come up with something better.
Like you, I chose to become a sysadmin instead of being drafted into the position. My degrees are all in the liberal arts so I started taking random continuing education classes at local colleges and picking up random jobs helping out home users and small businesses. I eventually got a job doing desktop support. It's difficult to move out of desktop support into unix because people think if you know how a pc works your mind is somehow damaged for a real OS. Just refuse to accept "no" for an answer and keep at it.
As for certifications, I have none. I've found that experience is the only thing that really matters. However, every time I take a class in something IT, I put it on my resume.
Once you find a new position, file a complaint with the federal labor board. The statute of limitations for a claim is 2 years. If you have evidence that the money is owed to you, you can get paid what is owed plus penalties.
I am one of those people that has an amazing ability to be oblivious to banner ads. On the flip side, the single most effective internet advertising I've experienced has been amazon's subscriptions where they periodically email me a newsletter reviewing books in a category of interest to me. I have bought really a lot of books from this. If banner ads could target my interests with that degree of granularity, then I would start paying attention to the adds. To this end, I think the ad user account could be a really good idea, much more so than the "choose a category" approach. The choosing category thing wouldn't be specific enough.