This particular path (combined with a couple of others that have already been posted) is a lot more common than some folks would like to believe.
1. Set up and run a public server. Be it for MUDs, webpages, or whatever. It demonstrates that you at least have the ablilty to run and (hopefully) -secure- a publically running box.
2. Have -some- education in CS or MIS. I'm a college dropout, but did so after 4 years (I transferred and took a semester off) due to a near fatal accident. Yeah, I ge tasked why I didn't finish my BSCS, and this answer is all they need to hear:) You -should- be able to get away with an AA or equivalent.
3. While I hate nepotism, it -CAN- work for you. Having friends or family in the biz can also help, especially if they have a reputation.
4. Reputation. Depending on how active you were in point 1, you may have developed a reputation for yourself that potential employers may have cought wind of. This is a double edged sword, since a bad reputation will sink ya.
One overriding thing to keep in mind through all of this: You -HAVE- to know your shit to get hired in as an SA, as opposed to getting trained into it. This isn't 1998/1999, employers expect certain skill sets out of their SAs, and don't have the patience to spend 3-6 months trainining new ones.
There are other paths to SA-hood, but they aren't guaranteed (but then nothing is). Get a job on an ISP's help desk, preferably one that deals with Unix. Find a local Webhosting company that might be hiring, etc. Work as a PC Technician for a llocla retail outfit or repair shop, that sort of thing. This -takes time-. I did a combination of the PC Tech/learn it yerself/education track, and it took me 3 years to get my first SA-type job. DON'T go looking for jobs at a big company yet, since they want experienced folk, and avoid headhunters, unless there's no other way to find an employer.
I don't believe there's an injunction in place yet, although one has been requested by several parties, incl the DOJ.
There's also been a similar request in a -different- antitrust suit that MS is now balttling with.
As another posted has already stated:
Antitrust laws are there to foster COMPETITION and -ETHICAL- Innovation. Those who violate those ethics (ie: abusive monopolies such Standard Oil, AT&T and Microsoft) have their legal -privelege- to continue to innovate in un-ethical manners -yanked-.
I wish they'd get busted up, but it ain't gonna happen. Instead, we're probably going to see something akin to what IBM had to deal with in the 1980's. It's taken them a -decade- to recover, and they've -truly- had to innovate to do it.
And God Save us if Nader had won.
He had -no- stance on any of the issues debated, etc, and was only on the Green ticket because he was high profile, and agreed with their anti-corporate mindset. He had 0 chance of winning, and will -always- have 0 chance of winning.
Exactly the same reason that Buchanan went and destroyed the RP, BTW: neither of these men can stand not having their names in lights.
Incidentally, I'd rather the uneducated masses stay home and not vote, since odds are, they are going to vote for the people who are willing to ignore the Constitution.
I -HAVE- to correct this misguided fool about NASDAQ and what hardware they use:
They -might- use Dell's on their desks. They use Compaq/Tandem, UNISys and Sun's in the backrooms.
How do I know this? Try being in one of their data centers. There wasn't a Dell to seen. It's -literally- all high-end, backroom HW that costs millions per machine.
And since Jumpline has been mentioned:
They're hosted by Alabanza, and the CP and all that other UI tuff that you see was developed completely in-house by Alabanza. It's also not OSS, although the platform that it runs on is.
I don't speak for my company, they have no idea I'm posting this, and if you can guess who I work for from this disclaimer, you need some help (and no, it ain't Jumpline).
WTF??
Screw the marketing game, that's not the kernel developers jobs. For the most part, I wouldn't be suprised if they don't give a damn about the success of RedHat, VA, SUSE, Caldera or anyone else that makes a commercial Linux distro. Has it crossed your mind that maybe theyr doing it NOT for money, but to have the best product possible? Sometimes that means that we -HAVE- to admit to there being a fault. It's the only way that someone is going to go "Oh SHIT! this needs to be fixed!" and then to FIX IT.
What the fuck are you talking about with a closed source version of Linux???? That's 1. impossible due to the entirety of the tree being GPL'd, and 2. see #1. It's not going to happen. PERIOD. End of story. Security by obscurity DOES NOT WORK. The failures of MS to adequately secure -anything- that runs on Windows is an example of just how poor that philosophy is. Hackers WILL find holes in anything, if those holes exist. The best we to prevent holes is to design the app, and be a bsolutely anal retentive when writing the code that you handle -all- possible security breaches.
The only problem with this is that it'll affect that small group of people who'll by a game and then play for the next 12 hours, hit pause, let it sit until we get up the next day, and then play for another 10-12 hours.
Yeah, so it's a small segment, the problem is, a lot of these folks are the early adopters, too.
Historians may not be specifically interested in you, no, but what about your decendants?
The day-to-day information that we produce is the stuff that makes genealogists go nuts. It's the stuff that leads to books like "Roots". Biographies of people who, to themselves, seemingly did nothing with their lives, yet looking back ath them a hundred years later we see how extraordinary they were.
Should -everything- be saved? No. Personal correspondance with friends and family should. (and hell, I have -every- piece of email that I've received at work over the last year saved. Talking roughly 500MB or so of gzipped archives (which balloon to about 1.5G)).
That sort of information can also be important to genealogists.
I know of several records from my own family that are part of inventory sheets, since the company kept the names of the folks who performed the inventory, and their contact addresses. It's -wonderful- information for dating when individuals were in certain places, and that sort of things.
I mentioned that.
The simple fact of the matter is that they appear to have chosen a convention that might actually generate sales for them (like it has for my company and we still have today to get through).
Yes, they have the money. But why spend a mil or 2 on a convetion that is likely to net you -nothing- in return, especially when there's another con going on that will have reprfesentatives from companies that your new products are specifically targetting?
Get real.
I can't say anything about why RedHat wasn't there, but Microsoft and IBM are in Baltimore at ISPCon right now:)
Yeah, both of them have the money to be at both, but with Comdex sucking wind some, I'm not suprised they took the trade show.
Shoeboy:
First, Grow up.
Second, generalizations make people look like assholes and idiots. And we all know what assuming does, right?
_NOT_ all LDS are homophobic, and I'd wager that it's a far smaller number than either of us could gestimate. Yes, the LDS Church teachs that homosexuality is a sin. So do the Baptists. So do the Catholics.
If you're ready to call about a Billion people homophobes, feel free. Feel free to be wrong, and looked at as an intellectual lightweight by those who matter.
Learn something about a group before you start bashing it, and -not- just from biased sources that are against a given group. Only through the dissemination of pro, anti and neutral opinions can one can any sort of an understanding about something as truly subjective as religion.
So you don't get spammed/harrassed constantly by recruiters looking to fill positions you have no desire to fill.
Only go for what you want/desire, don't "just settle" for specific position. I was lucky, a recruiter DID get a hold of my resume, but it resulted in a job that I -REALLY- like. Most folks aren't that lucky.
There was much discussion a few month's back on Mud-DEV and the NG's (rgmd, rgma) that EQ may have been Diku/Circle derivative.
Apparently, after much bad press (deservedly, due to how Verant was handling the situation), apparently something was worked out where the final determination was that EQ was Diku-free.
I think mch of the Dikuish feel of the game is due to -many- of the developers having been Diku coders for years prior to EQ's development. That's the party line, anyways:)
And that code stealing, non-programming hack Vryce?
No thank-you. The sooner Medthievia goes the way of the DoDo, the better. At least he gives everyone with any sense of honor a wonderful target to snipe at, even if we can't agree on anything else.
License violators should be hung out to dry by their toenails, _REGARDLESS_ of the license violated.
There's something that some of y'all are missing here. The distinction between what a treaty is, and what a law is. Note that my use of the word "state" is synonymous with "nation" vis a vis "nation-state".
Basically: a treaty is an agreement between nations that amounts to a contract such that if X happens, then Y will occur. For example, one of the provisions of the NATO treaty is that if -any- member state is attacked, then retaliation is expected of all other members (ie: if Russia were to invade Germany, we'd be essentially obligated to wage war on Russia). Treaties can -also- state that each member state will agree to pass laws that will do X,Y,Z. That's what this one appears to be.
A Treaty -is not- a law. However, due to it's nature as a contract, it can seem like it.
A law, on the other hand, is legislation passed by the government of a given state. So, if the US were to sign on to this treaty (which thus far looks like it's primarily a European thing), we would be obligated by treaty to pass laws that meat the treaty's demands. The wonderful thing about the US signing treaties is that a treaty must be ratified by the Senate BEFORE the US will recognize our signature on the document as valid.
Actually, you're incorrect.
Fully half of the current budget is used for entitlement programs: farm subsidies, welfare, social security, medicare, etc.
And second: SS was -never- meant to take the place of a person's own ability to pay their way in retirement. It was meant to be an additional source of funds to make those years easier. The current program has lost that ideal, and it's time to force it back.
*Note: I'm not voting for either of these two idiots.
Except that there's already a line of succession, regardless of what you may believe. Almost all of the day to day developmental "stuff" is handled by the subsystem and module maintainers, and then by Alan. Linus has final yay/nay, as it should be.
Keep in mind that the ondie L2 is -exclusive-, meanign that the data in it will -not- be the same data that is in the L1 (and possibly the L3). This increases performance because it gives almost the same performance as having 192K of L1.
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This particular path (combined with a couple of others that have already been posted) is a lot more common than some folks would like to believe.
:) You -should- be able to get away with an AA or equivalent.
:)
1. Set up and run a public server. Be it for MUDs, webpages, or whatever. It demonstrates that you at least have the ablilty to run and (hopefully) -secure- a publically running box.
2. Have -some- education in CS or MIS. I'm a college dropout, but did so after 4 years (I transferred and took a semester off) due to a near fatal accident. Yeah, I ge tasked why I didn't finish my BSCS, and this answer is all they need to hear
3. While I hate nepotism, it -CAN- work for you. Having friends or family in the biz can also help, especially if they have a reputation.
4. Reputation. Depending on how active you were in point 1, you may have developed a reputation for yourself that potential employers may have cought wind of. This is a double edged sword, since a bad reputation will sink ya.
One overriding thing to keep in mind through all of this: You -HAVE- to know your shit to get hired in as an SA, as opposed to getting trained into it. This isn't 1998/1999, employers expect certain skill sets out of their SAs, and don't have the patience to spend 3-6 months trainining new ones.
There are other paths to SA-hood, but they aren't guaranteed (but then nothing is). Get a job on an ISP's help desk, preferably one that deals with Unix. Find a local Webhosting company that might be hiring, etc. Work as a PC Technician for a llocla retail outfit or repair shop, that sort of thing. This -takes time-. I did a combination of the PC Tech/learn it yerself/education track, and it took me 3 years to get my first SA-type job. DON'T go looking for jobs at a big company yet, since they want experienced folk, and avoid headhunters, unless there's no other way to find an employer.
Hope I could help
I don't believe there's an injunction in place yet, although one has been requested by several parties, incl the DOJ.
There's also been a similar request in a -different- antitrust suit that MS is now balttling with.
As another posted has already stated:
Antitrust laws are there to foster COMPETITION and -ETHICAL- Innovation. Those who violate those ethics (ie: abusive monopolies such Standard Oil, AT&T and Microsoft) have their legal -privelege- to continue to innovate in un-ethical manners -yanked-.
I wish they'd get busted up, but it ain't gonna happen. Instead, we're probably going to see something akin to what IBM had to deal with in the 1980's. It's taken them a -decade- to recover, and they've -truly- had to innovate to do it.
Besides, MS doesn't innovate, they Borg.
And God Save us if Nader had won.
He had -no- stance on any of the issues debated, etc, and was only on the Green ticket because he was high profile, and agreed with their anti-corporate mindset. He had 0 chance of winning, and will -always- have 0 chance of winning.
Exactly the same reason that Buchanan went and destroyed the RP, BTW: neither of these men can stand not having their names in lights.
Incidentally, I'd rather the uneducated masses stay home and not vote, since odds are, they are going to vote for the people who are willing to ignore the Constitution.
I -HAVE- to correct this misguided fool about NASDAQ and what hardware they use:
They -might- use Dell's on their desks. They use Compaq/Tandem, UNISys and Sun's in the backrooms.
How do I know this? Try being in one of their data centers. There wasn't a Dell to seen. It's -literally- all high-end, backroom HW that costs millions per machine.
And since Jumpline has been mentioned:
They're hosted by Alabanza, and the CP and all that other UI tuff that you see was developed completely in-house by Alabanza. It's also not OSS, although the platform that it runs on is.
I don't speak for my company, they have no idea I'm posting this, and if you can guess who I work for from this disclaimer, you need some help (and no, it ain't Jumpline).
WTF??
Screw the marketing game, that's not the kernel developers jobs. For the most part, I wouldn't be suprised if they don't give a damn about the success of RedHat, VA, SUSE, Caldera or anyone else that makes a commercial Linux distro. Has it crossed your mind that maybe theyr doing it NOT for money, but to have the best product possible? Sometimes that means that we -HAVE- to admit to there being a fault. It's the only way that someone is going to go "Oh SHIT! this needs to be fixed!" and then to FIX IT.
What the fuck are you talking about with a closed source version of Linux???? That's 1. impossible due to the entirety of the tree being GPL'd, and 2. see #1. It's not going to happen. PERIOD. End of story. Security by obscurity DOES NOT WORK. The failures of MS to adequately secure -anything- that runs on Windows is an example of just how poor that philosophy is. Hackers WILL find holes in anything, if those holes exist. The best we to prevent holes is to design the app, and be a bsolutely anal retentive when writing the code that you handle -all- possible security breaches.
Jeseus, what a crock of absolute SHIT.
The only problem with this is that it'll affect that small group of people who'll by a game and then play for the next 12 hours, hit pause, let it sit until we get up the next day, and then play for another 10-12 hours.
Yeah, so it's a small segment, the problem is, a lot of these folks are the early adopters, too.
Historians may not be specifically interested in you, no, but what about your decendants?
The day-to-day information that we produce is the stuff that makes genealogists go nuts. It's the stuff that leads to books like "Roots". Biographies of people who, to themselves, seemingly did nothing with their lives, yet looking back ath them a hundred years later we see how extraordinary they were.
Should -everything- be saved? No. Personal correspondance with friends and family should. (and hell, I have -every- piece of email that I've received at work over the last year saved. Talking roughly 500MB or so of gzipped archives (which balloon to about 1.5G)).
That sort of information can also be important to genealogists.
I know of several records from my own family that are part of inventory sheets, since the company kept the names of the folks who performed the inventory, and their contact addresses. It's -wonderful- information for dating when individuals were in certain places, and that sort of things.
I mentioned that.
The simple fact of the matter is that they appear to have chosen a convention that might actually generate sales for them (like it has for my company and we still have today to get through).
Yes, they have the money. But why spend a mil or 2 on a convetion that is likely to net you -nothing- in return, especially when there's another con going on that will have reprfesentatives from companies that your new products are specifically targetting?
Get real.
I can't say anything about why RedHat wasn't there, but Microsoft and IBM are in Baltimore at ISPCon right now :)
Yeah, both of them have the money to be at both, but with Comdex sucking wind some, I'm not suprised they took the trade show.
Shoeboy:
First, Grow up.
Second, generalizations make people look like assholes and idiots. And we all know what assuming does, right?
_NOT_ all LDS are homophobic, and I'd wager that it's a far smaller number than either of us could gestimate. Yes, the LDS Church teachs that homosexuality is a sin. So do the Baptists. So do the Catholics.
If you're ready to call about a Billion people homophobes, feel free. Feel free to be wrong, and looked at as an intellectual lightweight by those who matter.
Learn something about a group before you start bashing it, and -not- just from biased sources that are against a given group. Only through the dissemination of pro, anti and neutral opinions can one can any sort of an understanding about something as truly subjective as religion.
So you don't get spammed/harrassed constantly by recruiters looking to fill positions you have no desire to fill.
Only go for what you want/desire, don't "just settle" for specific position. I was lucky, a recruiter DID get a hold of my resume, but it resulted in a job that I -REALLY- like. Most folks aren't that lucky.
There was much discussion a few month's back on Mud-DEV and the NG's (rgmd, rgma) that EQ may have been Diku/Circle derivative.
:)
Apparently, after much bad press (deservedly, due to how Verant was handling the situation), apparently something was worked out where the final determination was that EQ was Diku-free.
I think mch of the Dikuish feel of the game is due to -many- of the developers having been Diku coders for years prior to EQ's development. That's the party line, anyways
And that code stealing, non-programming hack Vryce?
No thank-you. The sooner Medthievia goes the way of the DoDo, the better. At least he gives everyone with any sense of honor a wonderful target to snipe at, even if we can't agree on anything else.
License violators should be hung out to dry by their toenails, _REGARDLESS_ of the license violated.
There's something that some of y'all are missing here. The distinction between what a treaty is, and what a law is. Note that my use of the word "state" is synonymous with "nation" vis a vis "nation-state".
Basically: a treaty is an agreement between nations that amounts to a contract such that if X happens, then Y will occur. For example, one of the provisions of the NATO treaty is that if -any- member state is attacked, then retaliation is expected of all other members (ie: if Russia were to invade Germany, we'd be essentially obligated to wage war on Russia). Treaties can -also- state that each member state will agree to pass laws that will do X,Y,Z. That's what this one appears to be.
A Treaty -is not- a law. However, due to it's nature as a contract, it can seem like it.
A law, on the other hand, is legislation passed by the government of a given state. So, if the US were to sign on to this treaty (which thus far looks like it's primarily a European thing), we would be obligated by treaty to pass laws that meat the treaty's demands. The wonderful thing about the US signing treaties is that a treaty must be ratified by the Senate BEFORE the US will recognize our signature on the document as valid.
IANAL, but this is what I seem to recall.
No, but Tiberius Caesar was.
Caesar != Julius Caesar (necessarily).
Actually, you're incorrect.
Fully half of the current budget is used for entitlement programs: farm subsidies, welfare, social security, medicare, etc.
And second: SS was -never- meant to take the place of a person's own ability to pay their way in retirement. It was meant to be an additional source of funds to make those years easier. The current program has lost that ideal, and it's time to force it back.
*Note: I'm not voting for either of these two idiots.
Except that there's already a line of succession, regardless of what you may believe. Almost all of the day to day developmental "stuff" is handled by the subsystem and module maintainers, and then by Alan. Linus has final yay/nay, as it should be.
2.5 is the next -DEVELOPMENTAL- version of the kernel. They'd like to see it as the base for new development. Good lord, people...
It ain't unconstitutional if it's a constitutional amendment that does it.
There will -not- be slotA Durons.
There -will- be slotA TBirds.
*grin*
Keep in mind that the ondie L2 is -exclusive-, meanign that the data in it will -not- be the same data that is in the L1 (and possibly the L3).
This increases performance because it gives almost the same performance as having 192K of L1.
Pretty damn neat.
Socket A, hoss, not SlotA
SlotA is getting retired Q3 or Q4 this year.
Why?
Because the tracelengths are -really- too long in the slot form for the processors to run very effectively at the speeds we're getting at (1Ghz+)