I grew up on the Canal Zone while the Sturgis was operating in the 70s.
There are plenty of floating reactors in warships.
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When 66% of undergrads have student loans (http://www.finaid.org/loans/), if we went back to a private loan system with risk to the debt vendors, the higher educational system would implode. No longer able to raise fees at double the rate of inflation or more in order to support sinecure professors and with many fewer students we'd see massive downsizing and closing of schools. The gov't wouldn't like that.
The federal educational loan system also keeps people out of the unemployment numbers for 2 or 4 or more years. The government likes this.
For the small percentage of people who actually need a college degree, go for it. For the rest of us, stop wasting time. Find a trade and start working.
Live with your parents, work and go to a community college for a couple of years, see if you find something you enjoy that will pay more than minimum wage. You might find something that isn't in engineering, medicine or law and doesn't require any more schooling. Get a few years head start on a career. Or at least get all of the general ed requirements out of the way and learn how to study. Transfer as a Junior to a school with a "good" program in the field you want. Leave purdue and the rest to the trust-fund babies.
Our utilities (gas+electric) vary between $115 and $135. More gas in the winter, more electricity for AC in the summer. This is 1/2 of what we paid to good old PG&E for smaller places.
It is quite possible to work onshore in the outskirts of a small city in "flyover country". Still the "Boonies" to someone currently in SF, Seattle, Boston, NY.
We drive many fewer miles than we did in the SF Bay Area. We had to drive to get to: groceries, park for the kids, YMCA, church, work, friends
Here we drive for work (20 minutes), groceries (10 minutes) and to the Y (5 minutes). Our gas budget is 1/2 what it was.
We have starbucks, vastly better schools (on average) than any of the big cities. No "whole foods", but we do have co-ops, real farmer's markets and "natural" food stores.
I do pay $50/month for 10meg down/1 meg up internet which suffices for me.
Two large hospitals within a 20 minute drive and an uncrowded ER 6 minutes from our house (driving the speed limit).
The biggest cost savings is in housing costs. Compare similarly sized places and you'll see a big win. Just don't trade up to a McMansion just because your payments will be similar to what you are doing now. Buy what you can be comfortable in.
Check on property taxes as they are really high in some states/counties and that could be a shock.
An advantage of moving to the suburbs of a smaller city in the hinterland is that you will generally have several options for tech employment.
Some of the small towns with 1 big tech employer will have different salary dynamics.
If you're not tied to the high-density lifestyle, making the change can be nice. I had a 20 year career in Silicon Valley and moved my family to the "boonies". Well, the suburbs of a small city in "flyover territory".
Housing is much cheaper ( 1/3 the cost), don't have the same crime or traffic. Energy is cheaper, groceries a little less. Much less "foot of government" regulation on our backs here. Taxes are comparable (by %).
Where we are, people are generally friendly. An hour to river-rafting or snow skiing, depending on the season. (we have actual seasons). Wide open spaces. Good schools. Surprisingly good food of all kinds.
On second thought, it's horrible here. You wouldn't like it. Trust me. Stay on the coasts.
It's trivial in most OSs to change mac addresses on your interfaces. If you are concerned, change the mac and bounce the interface. Heck, put it in a boot or login script. You still have the same cookie/flash/IP range issues you have to solve if you want to hide from the marketers.
If you feel the need to learn more than you wanted to know about unix and building everything from source, then go for it. Install netbsd and fiddle with the (vastly improved) rc.conf stuff to get things to startup and configure you cards. cvs update the latest security fixes to build you are running and remake,reinstall the kernel/os. Install your packages from source (the first time it takes 20 hours to install KDE is fun!). Or use the prebuilt packages for the stable release. Most of the packages in pkgsrc seem to compile and work ok. You'll have to add you apps to menus by hand. If you want your browser to have java plugins, flash, acrobat and such, you'll need to install the suse compat layer and binary packages.
Many many software packages will autodetect what is installed and enable extra functionality. Sometimes pkgsrc packages will have notes about things you might want to install, but that are not dependencies. So you might end up rebuilding kde or pieces of it if you don't have other optional things installed first, or if the binary packages weren't built with those options.
And you can set up a master image that you carefully check dependencies on and make sure it all works, then rsync the OS changes out.
If all that sounds like the way you want to spend your time then go for it. If you can get a job doing all that busy work and getting paid a good salary, even better.
Otherwise a modern binary linux distro (debian,ubuntu,fedora,centos) will likely eliminate much of the tedium and give you just a more user friendly environment with much less overhead. Tools like kickstart,fai and cfengine allow you easily build and keep many systems up to date with little manual intervention (cfengine also works with *BSD).
just my 2 cents. I manage linux, os x and *BSD boxes.
When I did CS at UC Santa Cruz it was heavy into theory, math and algorithms. The CS program there was designed to create computer scientists, not software developers. Our CS chair David Huffman (the huffman encoding guy) had never even logged onto the unix box sitting on his desk.
See http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/programs/cs/undergraduate/ curriculum.html#bamr
for the current program guidelines (they have a BS now, they only had a BA when I was there).
Many of the courses are directly applicable to software development, but other than a handful of scattered classes they didn't teach programming directly.
Bottom line, look at the website for potential colleges and see what their particular requirements are. Some are more practical than others.
It's like freebsd in that you set all your config options in central files (for gentoo/etc/make.conf). In gentoo this include things like c and c++ compile options as well as any specific packages you know you are going to use (kde, gdk, qt, gnome, esd,...).
That way when you build packages you get the compiler options and./configure options appropriate for the box you want, automagically.
You can also use env variables to override of course.
In our company we are in pre-announce mode and require NDAs before we talk to anyone (prospective employees, partners, vendors). No one has ever had any problems with it.
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I'm _sure_ this was far down the list of actual criteria :-)
He gets a good commute, company gets some more govt subsidies to help crush the remaining competition who lack that kind of access.
Both are really expensive places to live which sucks for the people working for him, but really Seattle has become the same.
The residents of the few mid-sized cities that were in the running should be breathing a sigh of relief.
I grew up on the Canal Zone while the Sturgis was operating in the 70s.
There are plenty of floating reactors in warships.
When 66% of undergrads have student loans (http://www.finaid.org/loans/), if we went back to a private loan system with risk to the debt vendors, the higher educational system would implode. No longer able to raise fees at double the rate of inflation or more in order to support sinecure professors and with many fewer students we'd see massive downsizing and closing of schools. The gov't wouldn't like that.
The federal educational loan system also keeps people out of the unemployment numbers for 2 or 4 or more years. The government likes this.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/student-loan-debt-hell-21-statistics-that-will-make-you-think-twice-about-going-to-college
For the small percentage of people who actually need a college degree, go for it. For the rest of us, stop wasting time. Find a trade and start working.
Live with your parents, work and go to a community college for a couple of years, see if you find something you enjoy that will pay more than minimum wage. You might find something that isn't in engineering, medicine or law and doesn't require any more schooling. Get a few years head start on a career. Or at least get all of the general ed requirements out of the way and learn how to study. Transfer as a Junior to a school with a "good" program in the field you want. Leave purdue and the rest to the trust-fund babies.
Cover it up, fill it w/ air and strap on wings!
It's a private company. They can serve what they want. They can stop serving it at any time they want.
NJ and NYC have really high energy costs.
Our utilities (gas+electric) vary between $115 and $135. More gas in the winter, more electricity for AC in the summer. This is 1/2 of what we paid to good old PG&E for smaller places.
It is quite possible to work onshore in the outskirts of a small city in "flyover country". Still the "Boonies" to someone currently in SF, Seattle, Boston, NY.
We drive many fewer miles than we did in the SF Bay Area. We had to drive to get to: groceries, park for the kids, YMCA, church, work, friends
Here we drive for work (20 minutes), groceries (10 minutes) and to the Y (5 minutes). Our gas budget is 1/2 what it was.
We have starbucks, vastly better schools (on average) than any of the big cities. No "whole foods", but we do have co-ops, real farmer's markets and "natural" food stores.
I do pay $50/month for 10meg down/1 meg up internet which suffices for me.
Two large hospitals within a 20 minute drive and an uncrowded ER 6 minutes from our house (driving the speed limit).
Heh,
We get a few inches of snow that sticks for the day a couple of times during winter. The mountains around us get plenty for skiing.
The biggest cost savings is in housing costs. Compare similarly sized places and you'll see a big win. Just don't trade up to a McMansion just because your payments will be similar to what you are doing now. Buy what you can be comfortable in.
Check on property taxes as they are really high in some states/counties and that could be a shock.
An advantage of moving to the suburbs of a smaller city in the hinterland is that you will generally have several options for tech employment.
Some of the small towns with 1 big tech employer will have different salary dynamics.
If you're not tied to the high-density lifestyle, making the change can be nice. I had a 20 year career in Silicon Valley and moved my family to the "boonies". Well, the suburbs of a small city in "flyover territory".
Housing is much cheaper ( 1/3 the cost), don't have the same crime or traffic. Energy is cheaper, groceries a little less. Much less "foot of government" regulation on our backs here. Taxes are comparable (by %).
Where we are, people are generally friendly. An hour to river-rafting or snow skiing, depending on the season. (we have actual seasons). Wide open spaces. Good schools. Surprisingly good food of all kinds.
On second thought, it's horrible here. You wouldn't like it. Trust me. Stay on the coasts.
It's trivial in most OSs to change mac addresses on your interfaces. If you are concerned, change the mac and bounce the interface. Heck, put it in a boot or login script. You still have the same cookie/flash/IP range issues you have to solve if you want to hide from the marketers.
This only hit people running old unpatched versions of IOS. Known and patched long ago.
This only took down people running fairly old versions of IOS that didn't patch a known bug.
Did not affect non-cisco.
Did not affect modern versions of IOS
Did not affect old versions of IOS that set the knob to limit the max as-path.
As they send light back!
Commercial, there is a tech preview of their next release at: http://www.codeforge.com/
Very silly article.
Even if it's just 5-15 minutes a day (see http://mattfurey.com/).
I know many very sharp sw geeks that have physical hobbies (yoga, mountain climbing, windsurfing).
Get some balance in your life.
If you feel the need to learn more than you wanted to know about unix and building everything from source, then go for it. Install netbsd and fiddle with the (vastly improved) rc.conf stuff to get things to startup and configure you cards. cvs update the latest security fixes to build you are running and remake,reinstall the kernel/os. Install your packages from source (the first time it takes 20 hours to install KDE is fun!). Or use the prebuilt packages for the stable release. Most of the packages in pkgsrc seem to compile and work ok. You'll have to add you apps to menus by hand. If you want your browser to have java plugins, flash, acrobat and such, you'll need to install the suse compat layer and binary packages.
Many many software packages will autodetect what is installed and enable extra functionality. Sometimes pkgsrc packages will have notes about things you might want to install, but that are not dependencies. So you might end up rebuilding kde or pieces of it if you don't have other optional things installed first, or if the binary packages weren't built with those options.
And you can set up a master image that you carefully check dependencies on and make sure it all works, then rsync the OS changes out.
If all that sounds like the way you want to spend your time then go for it. If you can get a job doing all that busy work and getting paid a good salary, even better.
Otherwise a modern binary linux distro (debian,ubuntu,fedora,centos) will likely eliminate much of the tedium and give you just a more user friendly environment with much less overhead. Tools like kickstart,fai and cfengine allow you easily build and keep many systems up to date with little manual intervention (cfengine also works with *BSD).
just my 2 cents. I manage linux, os x and *BSD boxes.
I had him as a prof. Interesting fellow. Note that in the picture he doesn't have a computer on his desk (he didn't use them).
SAN with polyserve cluster filesystem? (sitting behind a clustered NAS if you can't do fibre to every node)
http://www.polyserve.com
When I did CS at UC Santa Cruz it was heavy into theory, math and algorithms. The CS program there was designed to create computer scientists, not software developers. Our CS chair David Huffman (the huffman encoding guy) had never even logged onto the unix box sitting on his desk.
/ curriculum.html#bamr
See http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/programs/cs/undergraduate
for the current program guidelines (they have a BS now, they only had a BA when I was there).
Many of the courses are directly applicable to software development, but other than a handful of scattered classes they didn't teach programming directly.
Bottom line, look at the website for potential colleges and see what their particular requirements are. Some are more practical than others.
It's like freebsd in that you set all your config options in central files (for gentoo /etc/make.conf). In gentoo this include things like c and c++ compile options as well as any specific packages you know you are going to use (kde, gdk, qt, gnome, esd, ...).
./configure options appropriate for the box you want, automagically.
That way when you build packages you get the compiler options and
You can also use env variables to override of course.
In our company we are in pre-announce mode and require NDAs before we talk to anyone (prospective employees, partners, vendors). No one has ever had any problems with it.
Scuba diving will never be the same.
There is, IPv6 will have to be phased in:
Take a look at http://www.ipv6forum.com for more info.
This is just @home saying "we have a fast backbone" and "hook directly into our net to reach our customers faster".
There is nothing new or newsworthy about this. It has nothing to do with routing/censorship blah blah. They are simply being an ISP.
I'm sure they appreciate the free advertising.