I got bit by the cinik worm . . .
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. . . but that was my fault because I had upgraded OpenSSH to a non-stock Red Hat 7.3 version. Thus up2date didn't upgrade it, because to it it would have been a downgrade. I'm just lucky cinik is very easily cleaned up. First and only such incident in seven years of running a Linux box 24x7.
Ironically, this never happened before up2date, because I was forced to read every single errata announcement. Now I'm doing it again, but at least up2date and/orc rc will take care of the gruntwork.
I don't know how itp feels about USAA as a bank, but I love them. As they cater to military types (non-military like me are eligible for banking services only, not insurance), they do everything over the phone, through the mail (free postage-paid deposit envelopes), or lately over the Internet. They also will refund something like 5 or 10 ATM transaction fees each month. I haven't been inside a bank branch in seven years or so, and when I moved across the country there was no need to change banks; just updated my address (online, natch).
ekrout wrote: > Yes, the article's interesting if you're into > networking and/or wireless data transmission, but > their explicit focus on Dartmouth makes it seem as > though they're unique and trendsetting. It's quite > the contrary, however, as Dartmouth was in no > way one of the first handful of schools to deploy > 802.11b.
Actually, the writer was more correct than he knew, as Dartmouth pioneered computing access for its entire student body back in the '60s. Kemeny and Kurtz's BASIC was used to, among other things, set up a requirement that every Dartmouth student would have to demonstrate the ability to write a simple computer program in order to graduate. Dartmouth even provided some students with terminals in their dorm rooms. How cool is that for forty years ago?
I did a double major (history + Spanish = Hispanic Studies), and am very glad I did. Not only was I genuinely interested in the two subjects, but I found that anything you can do to distinguish your résumé from the thousands of others out there is a Good Thing. (I used to have a line at the very end listing my favorite Conan O'Brien skits, and know for a fact that got me at least one interview that led to job offers.) And if it only means three more classes for another degree, why not?
I double majored in history and Spanish, then joined an investment bank (the same one as the astrophysics PhD above, actually) doing software equity research. Good money (if insane hours) and a job I can honestly say I enjoy. (Now let's see if I can get promoted to Associate this year.)
Although I came to Columbia after the TOPS-20 and VAX days, working for AcIS (the university's computing arm) definitely helped me to appreciate the whole command line philosophy Frank talks about. Columbia is where I really became familiar with Unix, from home on an ancient XT clone through PC Kermit 3.12 and a barebones TCP stack (to have multiple telnet sessions I'd switch between using Alt-N), installed Linux for the first time (5+ years ago!), and fell in love with Emacs.
According to my japanese society teacher, there is only 1 thing made in the US that is recognised as high quality around the world (most things made in the US are seen as rather poor quality, especially in japan). That thing is blue jeans;)
And this, of course, is precisely the attitude that caused the Japanese economy to implode in the early '90s, with no sign of a recovery yet and (just in cars alone) Mazda, Nissan, Isuzu, and Suzuki as foreign fiefdoms. Meanwhile, the US has had a lower official unemployment rate than Japan for a while now (unofficially, a lot longer) and the economy is kicking butt; something more Slashdotters would recognize if they didn't confuse _Blade Runner_ and bad William Gibson imitations with reality.
Reading the article made me think because when I graduated college in May I had, among others, a job offer with a well-known-to-Slashdotters startup in the Bay Area (their banner ad is flashing above the text box I'm typing this in) and a two-year analyst position in NY (*not* in the IT department) with a very well-known investment bank. Although very tempted by the former I ended up choosing the latter, despite the loss of potential stock options and such that come from joning an organization that hasn't grown past 40 people yet, because I figured that, if I so chose down the road, I could make the transition from Wall Street to a startup a lot easier than the other way around.
Thanks to the commute and the job's hours I have to get up about 4:50-5am every day, so I am looking to move closer into work (located in the financial district, south of Wall St) by buying a studio or 1-bedroom condo; going rates for the places I'm looking at (Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope, or someplace downtown) is +-$120,000. No renting, please; if I'm going to pay $1200 a month at least let me get some equity out of the deal. (Those who get the Sunday Times: I am looking for *exactly* the kind of place the Princeton grad on the cover of today's Real Estate section found; I'm quite envious). I don't have time to look for a place, but my employer will pay the broker's fee so I may end up going down that route.
Anyway, while very happy with my job I have occasionally wondered whether satisfactorily resolving my housing situation would have been much easier had I taken the SF job. As my hours would have been somewhat more reasonable and as I like the academic environment, I was thinking of living in Berkeley or Palo Alto and commuting into work. I never had to pursued the matter very far, of course, but now I see that my housing situation may not have been much better at all out in California.
The reason why motor-voter law was opposed is because it opens the floodgates for voter fraud. Under the this law, there is hardly any form of checking to see that the person is elligible to vote. I've even read of people registering to vote in multiple districts in multiple states using this. Don't tell me that felons, illegal aliens, and anyone else who can't vote wouldn't think of trying to register when renewing their driver's license.
It happens. A non-US citizen poster recently reported in misc.immigration.usa that the person who processed his drivers license application asked him "Do you want to register to vote?" with the clear expectation that he would say yes. She was surprised when he told her he was not a citizen; she apparently was prepared to simply push a button and register him as a voter.
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. . . but that was my fault because I had upgraded OpenSSH to a non-stock Red Hat 7.3 version. Thus up2date didn't upgrade it, because to it it would have been a downgrade. I'm just lucky cinik is very easily cleaned up. First and only such incident in seven years of running a Linux box 24x7.
Ironically, this never happened before up2date, because I was forced to read every single errata announcement. Now I'm doing it again, but at least up2date and/orc rc will take care of the gruntwork.
I don't know how itp feels about USAA as a bank, but I love them. As they cater to military types (non-military like me are eligible for banking services only, not insurance), they do everything over the phone, through the mail (free postage-paid deposit envelopes), or lately over the Internet. They also will refund something like 5 or 10 ATM transaction fees each month. I haven't been inside a bank branch in seven years or so, and when I moved across the country there was no need to change banks; just updated my address (online, natch).
ekrout wrote:
> Yes, the article's interesting if you're into
> networking and/or wireless data transmission, but
> their explicit focus on Dartmouth makes it seem as
> though they're unique and trendsetting. It's quite
> the contrary, however, as Dartmouth was in no
> way one of the first handful of schools to deploy
> 802.11b.
Actually, the writer was more correct than he knew, as Dartmouth pioneered computing access for its entire student body back in the '60s. Kemeny and Kurtz's BASIC was used to, among other things, set up a requirement that every Dartmouth student would have to demonstrate the ability to write a simple computer program in order to graduate. Dartmouth even provided some students with terminals in their dorm rooms. How cool is that for forty years ago?
I did a double major (history + Spanish = Hispanic Studies), and am very glad I did. Not only was I genuinely interested in the two subjects, but I found that anything you can do to distinguish your résumé from the thousands of others out there is a Good Thing. (I used to have a line at the very end listing my favorite Conan O'Brien skits, and know for a fact that got me at least one interview that led to job offers.) And if it only means three more classes for another degree, why not?
I am one of the authors of the Goldman Sachs research note quoted in the Reuters article MSNBC carried, and last week posted the note on Usenet.
I double majored in history and Spanish, then joined an investment bank (the same one as the astrophysics PhD above, actually) doing software equity research. Good money (if insane hours) and a job I can honestly say I enjoy. (Now let's see if I can get promoted to Associate this year.)
Although I came to Columbia after the TOPS-20 and VAX days, working for AcIS (the university's computing arm) definitely helped me to appreciate the whole command line philosophy Frank talks about. Columbia is where I really became familiar with Unix, from home on an ancient XT clone through PC Kermit 3.12 and a barebones TCP stack (to have multiple telnet sessions I'd switch between using Alt-N), installed Linux for the first time (5+ years ago!), and fell in love with Emacs.
And this, of course, is precisely the attitude that caused the Japanese economy to implode in the early '90s, with no sign of a recovery yet and (just in cars alone) Mazda, Nissan, Isuzu, and Suzuki as foreign fiefdoms. Meanwhile, the US has had a lower official unemployment rate than Japan for a while now (unofficially, a lot longer) and the economy is kicking butt; something more Slashdotters would recognize if they didn't confuse _Blade Runner_ and bad William Gibson imitations with reality.
Reading the article made me think because when I graduated college in May I had, among others, a job offer with a well-known-to-Slashdotters startup in the Bay Area (their banner ad is flashing above the text box I'm typing this in) and a two-year analyst position in NY (*not* in the IT department) with a very well-known investment bank. Although very tempted by the former I ended up choosing the latter, despite the loss of potential stock options and such that come from joning an organization that hasn't grown past 40 people yet, because I figured that, if I so chose down the road, I could make the transition from Wall Street to a startup a lot easier than the other way around.
Thanks to the commute and the job's hours I have to get up about 4:50-5am every day, so I am looking to move closer into work (located in the financial district, south of Wall St) by buying a studio or 1-bedroom condo; going rates for the places I'm looking at (Brooklyn Heights/Park Slope, or someplace downtown) is +-$120,000. No renting, please; if I'm going to pay $1200 a month at least let me get some equity out of the deal. (Those who get the Sunday Times: I am looking for *exactly* the kind of place the Princeton grad on the cover of today's Real Estate section found; I'm quite envious). I don't have time to look for a place, but my employer will pay the broker's fee so I may end up going down that route.
Anyway, while very happy with my job I have occasionally wondered whether satisfactorily resolving my housing situation would have been much easier had I taken the SF job. As my hours would have been somewhat more reasonable and as I like the academic environment, I was thinking of living in Berkeley or Palo Alto and commuting into work. I never had to pursued the matter very far, of course, but now I see that my housing situation may not have been much better at all out in California.
The reason why motor-voter law was opposed is because it opens the floodgates for voter fraud. Under the this law, there is hardly any form of checking to see that the person is elligible to vote. I've even read of people registering to vote in multiple districts in multiple states using this. Don't tell me that felons, illegal aliens, and anyone else who can't vote wouldn't think of trying to register when renewing their driver's license.
It happens. A non-US citizen poster recently reported in misc.immigration.usa that the person who processed his drivers license application asked him "Do you want to register to vote?" with the clear expectation that he would say yes. She was surprised when he told her he was not a citizen; she apparently was prepared to simply push a button and register him as a voter.