People who are typically drawn to computers are often not very good canidates for the military lifestyle. And to become good at Securing systems or hacking them.. you need be breath, eat and sleep computers (especially hacking them).
Hacking skills are not taught in schools and working for the goverment pays c@rp.. why would someone who spent years developing highly saught after skills work for the latest cyberwarfare agency when they could make big bucks in the private sector.
There are plenty of highly skilled security folks out there "Defend the nation" to. I dont see any real recruitment efforts going on that are worth while.
A degree is much more valuable to an employer then a couple certs and is for life. Certs come and go.. Before you graduate college get a couple certs to help you get a gig, but graduate first!
Check out compubotics robot controller.. 70$ plus pick up 2 servos, modify them for continious motion and wammo.. easy and cheap robot for about 100$ Spend the rest on sensors, etc.
Around here the majority of the work is for the goverment (low pay) or for the telecommunications companies. ATT, Verizon, Lucent, etc.. they are all in the toilet and not hiring. Most of the work is either in North NJ or New York.. both of which are a really lousey commute. Whats left? consulting but they arent paying what they used to and everything is going up and up in price every year.
I know one company this year that will be getting about 500k less from my company this year. I cant change the dmca but like the original poster said.. I can make sure I dont buy from companies who use it for this bull.
Simple effective advice.. Unless you are one of those directors... Keep you mouth shut and eat your dinner. It is your directors job to bring issues up with the VP. If you do it.. then the director will begin to have issues with you.
Boy can I relate to this one.. When I was unemployed I lost 30 lbs. I think from just sheer worrying about getting another job, increased activity around the house, and stress. Now that I am back to work I quickly put the weight back on, but being unemployed has taught me quite a few lessons,
1. SAVE!! (and I dont mean 50$ here and there) Hundreds of dollars or more a month if possible. You will need it if you are ever out of work for a long period of time. I just payed off my car so I am going to take every penny of that payment and put it in savings every month.
2. Unemployment doesnt pay shit
3. Its very easy to get used to living and eating well. Buy generic all the time if you can. Its just as good in most cases and every penny counts.
4. In this economy its not a matter of If a rainy day is going to come, its WHEN a rainy day comes.
Dam has it been 20 yrs? I remember that series like it just aired last year.. I was 12 when it hit the little screen. I remeber the Eating live mice bit and all the lasers... This rag tag humans were just so ingenious compared to the dim witted aliens. Oh.. and the glasses so you could figure out who was a visitor and who wasnt. I remeber on of the big fast food chains gave those out.. Red colored glasses I think.
So I'm in limbo. Do I apply for any three jobs just to qualify for unemployment, become a stay-at-home dad, and move to suburbia where we can spit on our neighbor's houses without leaving our back yard? Or do I attend all the job hunt seminars, help an open-source project just to keep my skills up, and do anything to find another job, putting my kids into daycare in the process?
I would send out resumes to as many gigs as possible.. just sending out the emails will qualify as 3 contacts. Not you fault they didnt call back. You should easily be able to send those within 15 mins every day. I suggest you hit the job boards every day, sharpen up your resume big time, make sure it is avaliable via the job boards, and bug everyone you know for job leads.. EVERYONE. pull out every single business card you have and ask around. Looking for a job shouldnt take more then an hour or two a day.. you should have plenty of time to watch your kids.
While I personally think this is a great idea, it seems like a very crappy implementation. Not only is the ss# and pin code a really lame way to secure pretty dam private info, but it doesnt even use ssl to secure the transport layer.
They should allow a parent to log in using a preset ss# and pin..then force them to change the pin immediatly.. of course using ssl for the connection the entire time.
I love the concept however.. the kid in me hates it:). Todays kids have way to much freedom IMHO. Keeping parents who are very busy these days informed about their childs progress is an excellent way to get parents involved. I dont have time left and right to visit with a teacher.. but I can check a website easily once a day.
The second thing to consider is that this is *your girlfriend*. It's not your wife, it's not your sister or your mom. It's someone with whom you do not have a determined future with. Are you prepared to give away $1,500 bucks and have it disappear forever if she decides that she likes Fuji Nakamichi more than you? Some advice (that's why you're posting here, right?) - give her a big kiss and some flowers.
Amen brother.. Girlfriends come and go.. and long distance ones genrally dont last. Spend the money on a new notebook for yourself and buy her some flowers like the orig poster said.
YES!! Tivo or any other PVR is totally necessary if you like to watch tv.. Ther baby doesnt care if your show is on.. she wants attention.. Let tivo tape verything and watch it when you get time. I also use my tivo to record sesame street for the baby. When she gets cranky she can be amused easily by watching a big bird:)
1. Get lots of sleep now.. 2. Pampers are a waste of money.. go with luvs 3. Walmart has a very nice baby section much
cheaper then babiesrus. 4. Do those last minute extreme things you always
wanted to do.. Like skydive. After the baby is
born your SO will freak if you do them. 5. Dont bother starting any big household
projects.. once the baby is born you wont have
time to finish any of them. I stripped wall
paper off my stairs about a month before the
baby came.. 4 months later I am just getting a
first coat of paint on it. 6. Did I mention sleep?? 7. If you are in the habit of taking work home all
the time.. forget it. Make a point to leave it
at work if possible. I used to be a total
workaholic and did geeky projects all night as
well.. Thats all gone now, but trust me..
playing with you kid will make everything
better:) 8. Try getting the baby on a schedual asap.. It
might be a lousy one like wake up every 2
hours for food, but at least it will be
predictable. My daughter only got up once a
night after a few weeks, and was sleeping
through the night by 1 month. 9. Start saving money now.. all that baby stuff
costs a bundle.. I think I spent about 3k
before she came along and about 1k since.
And that didnt include any hospital bills. 10. SLEEEEEEEEPPPP! Glorious sleep..
99% of the time I would agree, especially with in store warantees like best buy. But I got my dell laptop almost 3 years ago now.. paid over 2200$ for it. Well 3 years later it is still going strong because I bought the extended warantee for 250$. It was worth every penny.. dell covers everything.. even if you run it over with your car. They have replaced every single piece of plastic on it twice over, replaced the screen twice, keyboard/mouse twice, and motherboard once. I will definitly buy that warantee again. Its worth every cent.
What concerns me is that one of the vlunerability reports released by this guy wasnt schedualed to be released until June... JUNE??? What the hell are they going to wait till June for. Cant the vendor get their act together before then? This is why we need bugtraq so bad.. IMHO they should get 3 or 4 weeks max to fix the problem otherwise it gets released. If there is even a hint its being exploited on the net it should be released immediatly, fix or no fix.
I have been out of work (Sysadmin) for a while and I have been considering starting my own business as well. I think you need to know something about what you plan on starting a business in. I cant think of one thing that hasnt already been done in IT that my skill set could do (Not a huge programmer). Sure I could start another appliance company or some sort of consulting service, but the market doesnt seem to be able to support those business ideas right now. Do you have any hobbies outside of IT that could become a great business idea? I enjoy doing home improvement and working around my house a lot. I have done tons of projects for friends/family. So I am going to start a handyman business.
I spent a few weeks checking out various opensource and commercial packages. If you have
less then 10 or 20 machines then you can use almost anything including the academic source release of tripwire. If you have more then 20 machines none of the opensource products that I found support centralized management/reporting/logging which is key to a large number or systems. Tripwire has a great product commercially wise but they are very expensive. I highly suggest you check out INTACT from pedestal software instead of tripwire. They are a third the price and have all the same functionality of tripwire and then some... I demo'd them for quite a while and it works very well on solaris/linux/windows. I dont have any relationship to them.. I was just impressed with their product.
Back when I bought my inspiron 5000 a lot of folks on the dell groups were talking about upgrading the video card since it seems it was on a daughter board. I am not sure if anyone ever made this happen. Anyone know? My 5000 is showing its age and a new video card would let me get another yer out of it.
The reason I've not purchased a Tivo (other than the need for the stupid on-going service) is that I don't want to do MPEG->Analog->MPEG->Disk->Analog to watch my satelite feed. MPEG->Disk->Analog is a much shorter path with only a single decode involved.
Um.. the direct tivo unit records directly from the stream. There is no analog conversion involved until you watch it. Its mpeg stream to disk direct. Its also dual tuner and avaliable now.
LVS itself doesnt have the capability of looking into the contents of the packets it is directing. It is a layer 4 load balancer, hence it has no understanding of the http protocol. You will need to look into KTCPVS or DRWS for a layer 7 balancer that can inspect urls. This web page should give you all the details.
Use Linux Virtual Server. I have 15 ldap/webservers being load balanced in 3 sites (each site of consists of 2 LVS servers in a hot/standby config) with each HA pair of lvs systems load balancing 5 servers.. if 2 or more of one sites servers go down then the site's lvs system will begin to route 20% up to 100% of the traffic to the other 2 sites. You will need to read a ton of docs but its pretty easy to setup once you get the hang of it. Its rock solid so far. I am planning on implementing them all over our company network.
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People who are typically drawn to computers are often not very good canidates for the military lifestyle. And to become good at Securing systems or hacking them.. you need be breath, eat and sleep computers (especially hacking them).
Hacking skills are not taught in schools and working for the goverment pays c@rp.. why would someone who spent years developing highly saught after skills work for the latest cyberwarfare agency when they could make big bucks in the private sector.
There are plenty of highly skilled security folks out there "Defend the nation" to. I dont see any real recruitment efforts going on that are worth while.
A degree is much more valuable to an employer then a couple certs
and is for life. Certs come and go.. Before you graduate college
get a couple certs to help you get a gig, but graduate first!
Mike
Some bastard hacked into my slashdot account and changed the settings. ROFL..nice one guys
Check out compubotics robot controller.. 70$
plus pick up 2 servos, modify them for continious
motion and wammo.. easy and cheap robot for about
100$ Spend the rest on sensors, etc.
Around here the majority of the work is for the goverment (low pay) or for the telecommunications companies. ATT, Verizon, Lucent, etc.. they are all in the toilet and not hiring. Most of the
work is either in North NJ or New York.. both of which are a really lousey commute. Whats left? consulting but they arent paying what they used to and everything is going up and up in price every year.
I know one company this year that will be getting about 500k less from my company this year. I cant change the dmca but like the original poster said.. I can make sure I dont buy from companies who use it for this bull.
Simple effective advice.. Unless you are
one of those directors... Keep you mouth shut
and eat your dinner. It is your directors
job to bring issues up with the VP. If you
do it.. then the director will begin to have
issues with you.
Boy can I relate to this one.. When I was unemployed I lost 30 lbs. I think from just sheer worrying about getting another job, increased activity around the house, and stress. Now that I am back to work I quickly put the weight back on, but being unemployed has taught me quite a few lessons,
1. SAVE!! (and I dont mean 50$ here and there) Hundreds of dollars or more a month if possible. You will need it if you are ever out of work for a long period of time. I just payed off my car so I am going to take every penny of that payment and put it in savings every month.
2. Unemployment doesnt pay shit
3. Its very easy to get used to living and eating well. Buy generic all the time if you can. Its just as good in most cases and every penny counts.
4. In this economy its not a matter of If a rainy day is going to come, its WHEN a rainy day comes.
Dam has it been 20 yrs? I remember that series like it just aired last year.. I was 12 when it hit the little screen. I remeber the Eating live mice bit and all the lasers... This rag tag humans were just so ingenious compared to the dim witted aliens. Oh.. and the glasses so you could figure out who was a visitor and who wasnt. I remeber on of the big fast food chains gave those out.. Red colored glasses I think.
Malice
So I'm in limbo. Do I apply for any three jobs just to qualify for unemployment, become a stay-at-home dad, and move to suburbia where we can spit on our neighbor's houses without leaving our back yard? Or do I attend all the job hunt seminars, help an open-source project just to keep my skills up, and do anything to find another job, putting my kids into daycare in the process?
I would send out resumes to as many gigs as possible.. just sending out the emails will qualify as 3 contacts. Not you fault they didnt call back. You should easily be able to send those within 15 mins every day. I suggest you hit the job boards every day, sharpen up your resume big time, make sure it is avaliable via the job boards, and bug everyone you know for job leads.. EVERYONE. pull out every single business card you have and ask around. Looking for a job shouldnt take more then an hour or two a day.. you should have plenty of time to watch your kids.
While I personally think this is a great idea, it seems like a very crappy implementation. Not only is the ss# and pin code a really lame way to secure pretty dam private info, but it doesnt even use ssl to secure the transport layer.
They should allow a parent to log in using a preset ss# and pin..then force them to change the pin immediatly.. of course using ssl for the connection the entire time.
I love the concept however.. the kid in me hates it:). Todays kids have way to much freedom IMHO. Keeping parents who are very busy these days informed about their childs progress is an excellent way to get parents involved. I dont have time left and right to visit with a teacher.. but I can check a website easily once a day.
The second thing to consider is that this is *your girlfriend*. It's not your wife, it's not your sister or your mom. It's someone with whom you do not have a determined future with. Are you prepared to give away $1,500 bucks and have it disappear forever if she decides that she likes Fuji Nakamichi more than you? Some advice (that's why you're posting here, right?) - give her a big kiss and some flowers.
Amen brother.. Girlfriends come and go.. and long distance ones genrally dont last. Spend the money on a new notebook for yourself and buy her some flowers like the orig poster said.
YES!! Tivo or any other PVR is totally necessary if you like to watch tv.. Ther baby doesnt care if your show is on.. she wants attention.. Let tivo tape verything and watch it when you get time. I also use my tivo to record sesame street for the baby. When she gets cranky she can be amused easily by watching a big bird:)
Mike
1. Get lots of sleep now..
2. Pampers are a waste of money.. go with luvs
3. Walmart has a very nice baby section much
cheaper then babiesrus.
4. Do those last minute extreme things you always
wanted to do.. Like skydive. After the baby is
born your SO will freak if you do them.
5. Dont bother starting any big household
projects.. once the baby is born you wont have
time to finish any of them. I stripped wall
paper off my stairs about a month before the
baby came.. 4 months later I am just getting a
first coat of paint on it.
6. Did I mention sleep??
7. If you are in the habit of taking work home all
the time.. forget it. Make a point to leave it
at work if possible. I used to be a total
workaholic and did geeky projects all night as
well.. Thats all gone now, but trust me..
playing with you kid will make everything
better:)
8. Try getting the baby on a schedual asap.. It
might be a lousy one like wake up every 2
hours for food, but at least it will be
predictable. My daughter only got up once a
night after a few weeks, and was sleeping
through the night by 1 month.
9. Start saving money now.. all that baby stuff
costs a bundle.. I think I spent about 3k
before she came along and about 1k since.
And that didnt include any hospital bills.
10. SLEEEEEEEEPPPP! Glorious sleep..
99% of the time I would agree, especially with in store warantees like best buy. But I got my dell
laptop almost 3 years ago now.. paid over 2200$ for it. Well 3 years later it is still going strong because I bought the extended warantee for 250$. It was worth every penny.. dell covers everything.. even if you run it over with your car. They have replaced every single piece of plastic on it twice over, replaced the screen twice, keyboard/mouse twice, and motherboard once. I will definitly buy that warantee again. Its worth every cent.
Malice95
What concerns me is that one of the vlunerability reports released by this guy wasnt schedualed to be released until June... JUNE??? What the hell are they going to wait till June for. Cant the vendor get their act together before then? This is why we need bugtraq so bad.. IMHO they should get 3 or 4 weeks max to fix the problem otherwise it gets released. If there is even a hint its being exploited on the net it should be released immediatly, fix or no fix.
Malice95
Try buying a wildcard cert from Verisign.. Good Luck. And no client wants to have to put a port on a url to access an ssl website.
thats no required. I only have 1 of my 4
receivers hooked up to a phone line. there
is nothing stoping me from moving the others
to a car/mobile home
Unemployed.. sigh
I have been out of work (Sysadmin) for a while and I have been considering starting my own business as well. I think you need to know something about what you plan on starting a business in. I cant think of one thing that hasnt already been done in IT that my skill set could do (Not a huge programmer). Sure I could start another appliance company or some sort of consulting service, but the market doesnt seem to be able to support those business ideas right now. Do you have any hobbies outside of IT that could become a great business idea? I enjoy doing home improvement and working around my house a lot. I have done tons of projects for friends/family. So I am going to start a handyman business.
I spent a few weeks checking out various opensource and commercial packages. If you have less then 10 or 20 machines then you can use almost anything including the academic source release of tripwire. If you have more then 20 machines none of the opensource products that I found support centralized management/reporting/logging which is key to a large number or systems. Tripwire has a great product commercially wise but they are very expensive. I highly suggest you check out INTACT from pedestal software instead of tripwire. They are a third the price and have all the same functionality of tripwire and then some... I demo'd them for quite a while and it works very well on solaris/linux/windows. I dont have any relationship to them.. I was just impressed with their product.
Back when I bought my inspiron 5000 a lot of folks on the dell groups were talking about upgrading the video card since it seems it was on a daughter board. I am not sure if anyone ever made this happen. Anyone know? My 5000 is showing its age and a new video card would let me get another yer out of it.
Malice95
The reason I've not purchased a Tivo (other than the need for the stupid on-going service) is that I don't want to do MPEG->Analog->MPEG->Disk->Analog to watch my satelite feed. MPEG->Disk->Analog is a much shorter path with only a single decode involved.
Um.. the direct tivo unit records directly from the stream. There is no analog conversion involved until you watch it. Its mpeg stream to disk direct. Its also dual tuner and avaliable now.
LVS itself doesnt have the capability of looking into the contents of the packets it is directing. It is a layer 4 load balancer, hence it has no understanding of the http protocol. You will need to look into KTCPVS or DRWS for a layer 7 balancer that can inspect urls. This web page should give you all the details.
Use Linux Virtual Server. I have 15 ldap/webservers being load balanced in 3 sites (each site of consists of 2 LVS servers in a hot/standby config) with each HA pair of lvs systems load balancing 5 servers.. if 2 or more of one sites servers go down then the site's lvs system will begin to route 20% up to 100% of the traffic to the other 2 sites. You will need to read a ton of docs but its pretty easy to setup once you get the hang of it. Its rock solid so far. I am planning on implementing them all over our company network.