Great news: even entry level IT or sysadmin jobs pay better than teaching! Look for jobs, find one that looks like a reasonable place to be, and get to work. It'll be drastically different than a public sector job, but if you are good, you'll adjust quickly and find it is a lot of fun. Once you've done something for a year or so then you can look at other places in the company to help out or transition in to (but again, if you are good, this will probably just happen naturally).
Recently I purchased some light bulbs that are coated with Titanium Dioxde from a company called Fresh2 http://www.fresh2.com/. I think they work pretty well, I put one over my catbox and when I can convince my wife to leave the light on, it does a good job of removing odors.
--jdan
How can any of you slashdotters say that it is ok to replace the Simpsons actors with other voices that sound the same and are cheaper but then complain endlessly that you job was outsourced or sent offshore to someone else that is cheaper but has almost the same quality?
If you are willing to accept something other than a Dell, just go to a store and buy a laptop. Best Buy, Circuit City, heck, even Sears sell them.
For all those people worrying about customs, etc., it is clear that you have never travelled. Customs doesn't check any of that crap. They make you take your laptop out of the bag for X-rays, and that is it. When you reenter the country, you fill out a little form that says you have nothing to declare. Just don't carry the thing home in the box you bought it in and you will be fine. I've been to the UK, and there is nothing that would have stopped my from selling my laptop and not returning with it, just like there is nothing that prevents you from returning with one that you didn't arrive with. They don't check watches, cameras, etc., unless you try to come back with a bunch of them.
Slashdot used to copy stories off of Ars within hours of them being posted. Now it takes days. Unless their excuse is that it was related to the power outage.
Slashdot used to be the best first place to go for news that I care about. Lately I've been going to google news for fresher content.
They never have. You never were worried about breaking the law when you copied cassette tapes or video tapes for your friends back in the 80s/90s, were you? Or if you recorded a TV show onto your VCR and then shared it with a coworker or neighbor?
How long can the MPAA and the RIAA go against what the people beleive? Can they wage a war to change our minds and convince people that sharing music IS piracy? Or will they just give up and find new ways to screw us over ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H generate profits?
Have you ever heard of ear plugs? They are really nice even now on flights, they help deaden the constant drone of the engines.
Anyway, the airlines will probably just install personal noise cancellation devices in each seat (like these active noice cancelling headphones. Then the real trick is just to charge you for the comfort of silence--you get to use your phone for free.
This recent slashdot article also covered cell phones on airplanes. If we already know that they are dengerous, then the question is will electronics manufactures redesign their equipment so as not to be harmful? Or will air plane manufactures build their planes so as not to be suceptible to this type of interference? With all the terrorist stuff going on these days, I would think the latter. But since we are still using the same planes for 30 years ago, it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
--jdan
So you have ONE 30 character password that is locked in your brain. What happens when that password is compromised? How long did it take you to learn it, and how much of your really imporant stuff is locked up with it? By using one password for all of your most secret stuff, you have made all your secret stuff that much easier to compromise.
--jdan
How could this possibly work?
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Inkblot Passwords
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· Score: 3, Insightful
This couldn't work for the following reasons:
1) People are lazy. They aren't going to look through ten inkblots and write down each one and then figure out the first and last letter of each. They are more likely to write their password down somewhere, or just click on the link that says "e-mail me a new password".
2) People are stupid. Normaly users would get a page saying "View each of these inkblots and write down...", but what they actually read is "blah blah blah pretty pictures blah blah blah click". Without the person administering the test standing behind them to explain what to do, most people would just glaze over, like they do whenever they are presented with instructions longer than 1 sentence.
3) Did they have a control group that attempted to remember their "strong" password? They state that it is unusual for a user to remember a strong password after one day, but I wonder how unusual?
4) "... by the umpteenth time you've logged in, you've remembered these twenty characters". Wouldn't it just be simpler to make them type the 20 characters over and over again 15 times? Then they remember it anyway, and don't have to reverse engineer the whole process.
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Great news: even entry level IT or sysadmin jobs pay better than teaching! Look for jobs, find one that looks like a reasonable place to be, and get to work. It'll be drastically different than a public sector job, but if you are good, you'll adjust quickly and find it is a lot of fun. Once you've done something for a year or so then you can look at other places in the company to help out or transition in to (but again, if you are good, this will probably just happen naturally).
Good luck!
For those of you that haven't used VMware, there is a pretty decent howto on installing it on Windows XP:
How-to install VMware Server on Windows XP SP2
--jdan
Recently I purchased some light bulbs that are coated with Titanium Dioxde from a company called Fresh2 http://www.fresh2.com/. I think they work pretty well, I put one over my catbox and when I can convince my wife to leave the light on, it does a good job of removing odors. --jdan
This post just sounds fishy to me. These people donate thousands of computer labs and they don't know anything about Linux? Is this for real?
--jdan
How can any of you slashdotters say that it is ok to replace the Simpsons actors with other voices that sound the same and are cheaper but then complain endlessly that you job was outsourced or sent offshore to someone else that is cheaper but has almost the same quality?
--jdan
Reality adjusts to your perception of it.
If you are willing to accept something other than a Dell, just go to a store and buy a laptop. Best Buy, Circuit City, heck, even Sears sell them.
For all those people worrying about customs, etc., it is clear that you have never travelled. Customs doesn't check any of that crap. They make you take your laptop out of the bag for X-rays, and that is it. When you reenter the country, you fill out a little form that says you have nothing to declare. Just don't carry the thing home in the box you bought it in and you will be fine. I've been to the UK, and there is nothing that would have stopped my from selling my laptop and not returning with it, just like there is nothing that prevents you from returning with one that you didn't arrive with. They don't check watches, cameras, etc., unless you try to come back with a bunch of them.
-jdan
Slashdot used to copy stories off of Ars within hours of them being posted. Now it takes days. Unless their excuse is that it was related to the power outage.
Slashdot used to be the best first place to go for news that I care about. Lately I've been going to google news for fresher content.
--jdan
Ars had this story on 8-15. You guys are falling behind.
--jdan
They never have. You never were worried about breaking the law when you copied cassette tapes or video tapes for your friends back in the 80s/90s, were you? Or if you recorded a TV show onto your VCR and then shared it with a coworker or neighbor?
How long can the MPAA and the RIAA go against what the people beleive? Can they wage a war to change our minds and convince people that sharing music IS piracy? Or will they just give up and find new ways to screw us over ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H generate profits?
--jdan
And I forgot to mention, a really crappy game too.
--jdan
Check out Mobile Light Force 2, now there is a game with a crappy cover.
--jdan
Have you ever heard of ear plugs? They are really nice even now on flights, they help deaden the constant drone of the engines.
Anyway, the airlines will probably just install personal noise cancellation devices in each seat (like these active noice cancelling headphones. Then the real trick is just to charge you for the comfort of silence--you get to use your phone for free.
--jdan
This recent slashdot article also covered cell phones on airplanes. If we already know that they are dengerous, then the question is will electronics manufactures redesign their equipment so as not to be harmful? Or will air plane manufactures build their planes so as not to be suceptible to this type of interference? With all the terrorist stuff going on these days, I would think the latter. But since we are still using the same planes for 30 years ago, it isn't going to happen anytime soon. --jdan
So you have ONE 30 character password that is locked in your brain. What happens when that password is compromised? How long did it take you to learn it, and how much of your really imporant stuff is locked up with it? By using one password for all of your most secret stuff, you have made all your secret stuff that much easier to compromise.
--jdan
This couldn't work for the following reasons:
...", but what they actually read is "blah blah blah pretty pictures blah blah blah click". Without the person administering the test standing behind them to explain what to do, most people would just glaze over, like they do whenever they are presented with instructions longer than 1 sentence.
1) People are lazy. They aren't going to look through ten inkblots and write down each one and then figure out the first and last letter of each. They are more likely to write their password down somewhere, or just click on the link that says "e-mail me a new password".
2) People are stupid. Normaly users would get a page saying "View each of these inkblots and write down
3) Did they have a control group that attempted to remember their "strong" password? They state that it is unusual for a user to remember a strong password after one day, but I wonder how unusual?
4) "... by the umpteenth time you've logged in, you've remembered these twenty characters". Wouldn't it just be simpler to make them type the 20 characters over and over again 15 times? Then they remember it anyway, and don't have to reverse engineer the whole process.
--jdan