I know of a school district with 292 schools (population for the county is 1.9 million). They contract to a single company for Internet service. While some schools have physical lines run to them, the majority use wireless P2P service.
P2P is actually pretty good with the right equipment. With high gain narrow beam antennas, interference is minimal, since you have to be within the beam to hear it. That works great for fixed points (like tower to building). Everyone assumes wireless is like their crappy consumer grade access point, with omnidirectional antennas. You can get competitive speeds with wireless, and it can be set up in a day, rather than waiting for lines to be run.
In a lot of places, the right of way is already laid out. If you're in a newer community (say 1970-ish on), it's the space between the sidewalk and the road. It's shown on your property map. You have to mow it. You can't plant bushes on it, and if the city/county/state or some utility decides to dig it up, you can't say anything about it.
If you wanted to use that land to run your own utility cable of some sort (say running copper or fiber between your house and a house a few doors down), it won't happen. Even if the local government said "yes" (good luck there), you'd have the utility companies stopping you in no time, and you'd be tied up in court for years.
Several years ago, I was renting a house. The city decided to tear up the nice trees along the road, and plant seedlings. Of course, that was tear up the old trees, and 3 months later put new ones in. I didn't know there were sprinklers in the right of way, and when they tore out the old tree, they ripped out part of the sprinkler line. I capped off the line several feet from where they broke it. A few months later when they put the new tree in, again they ripped out the sprinkler line in a new place. {sigh}
I complained to the city both times. Their opinion was, "That's your problem, we own the road."
I've seen it where the city/county/state decides that they want more easement. They declared the easement 15' farther in than it was. Then they'd complain because your fence is on their property. They didn't care that the fence had been there for 20 years before that.
I tried to upgrade a major porn site to ipv6 years ago. Our provider didn't support it. I couldn't get an ipv6 gateway to talk to me about gating it. We just couldn't get it done, and it wasn't because our efforts weren't there.
It looks like there are still only a handful of ipv6 sites out there.
I totally agree with most of that. Yes, porn does drive adoption of new technology.
As for users though, it's hard to get them to upgrade for arbitrary reasons. Microsoft and Firefox both pushing out updates has been very helpful in recent years. Way back, it was difficult to keep the users happy, with a variety of browsers that had to be supported, sometimes dating back to ancient versions.
It'll be a little while before HTML5 is adopted by everyone, because it'll be a while before everyone supports it. Until then, I'm sure there will be a good bit of capability detection and dual support.
Wolowitz: They're called tattoo sleeves. I bought them online. Raj got a set too. Put them on, have sex with some freaky girl with her business pierced and I can take them off and still be buried in a Jewish cemetery
As for sex with a freaky pierced girl, gotta love that.:)
Before my first, I looked at lots of art, including the picture books. It wasn't just at one place. Whenever I could (usually because I was wasting time), I'd have a look. It became that much more entertaining when someone would look at one in the books, say how original it was, and want it now. Original?:) I always liked looking at the artists original works on the wall. Some of them are great.
Mine is original, except it's a couple thousand years old or so (the art, not the actual tattoo). Since I'm not an artist, all I can do is sketch and/or describe, and let someone else try to make what I want. It may take a few more tries my way, but eventually someone can make what I'm looking for, and we have the finished product. Of course, those test runs were on paper, not on my skin.:)
Tattoos are personal. If he has to ask "what [fill in the blanks] should I get?" then he hasn't thought it through. I've spent good time in tattoo shops, flipping through their books, looking at their original art on the walls, and talking to their artists when they have spare time. Just about every time someone just walks through the door and asks "what should I get?", they tell them the same thing.
We can't tell him what to get, because he will have to figure that out for himself.
And I do already have ink on me. I'll be getting more. It took several years to figure the next piece out.
It really depends on the tattoo, and how it was intended to look. Other factors include how the person takes care of themselves. A lot of people don't consider, "how will this look in 30 years." The same goes for body piercings. How will it all look when you're collecting your kids from school, when your grandkids are born, or when you're 90+ years old in a nursing home. Likewise, a sleeve (like the article asks) it may seem like a great idea, until you get a job somewhere in the Southern US, at a company with a strict policy about visible tattoos.
I've known folks who had needed to wear long sleeves year round, because they loved the idea of getting a tattoo that everyone would see and appreciate, a decade before. It's all fun and games until it's 110+ degrees outside, and you wish you could toss off the shirt before getting into the oven previously known as "your car", except the office "no visible tattoo" policy extends to everywhere "office" including the parking lot and anywhere visible from the parking lot.
That's not to say don't get one. Just consider what the future results could be. Folks do all kinds of crazy things to themselves. There are a whole bunch of body modifications that can be (and are) done. Is a face tattoo, or even math equations from your ears to your fingertips really the best way to express yourself?
Well, "in my office", since I don't have one, doesn't really count for much. But in the past few years, dealing with companies who do outsource work, and knowing the development teams either in-house or imported, I'd say the ratio is very slim, versus the ratio of in-country native workers.
No, actually you're arguing the finer points of the charts. I was simply referencing where the lines were drawn the the "experts".
You mention folks over 6', with weights in the low to mid 200's. My complaint was where weights were frequently exceeding 400 pounds, and sadly if you've spent any significant time people-watching, you'll see that they aren't always even near 6'.
I was underweight for most of the first 20-some years. Then I bounced over to "overweight", and agreed I was. I corrected that, and have been happily in the middle of the chart since then. It's not for the sake of where the chart says I should be, it's just where I am happy and healthy.
I'll agree with your RH evaluation. It can be tuned to run right, but it takes some doing. For example, a RH (RH/RHEL/Fedora) server running exactly off the install disk will bog down. Replace Apache with one built from sources (standard sources from Apache.org is fine), and the kernel with a plain vanilla kernel (standard from kernel.org), and voila, it'll start running great.
The way we did installs, that would have been fine for FreeBSD too. Build out a standard machine, customize for our application, and then use that image for all future installs. Patch based on our internal version as needed, and roll up a new standard install at regular intervals. Oh, and good changelogs of everything that was done on each internal version, and patches. I liked making a tarball of the entire OS drive, but there are plenty of good ways to do it. I'm guessing based on what others have said (here, and slightly leaked information) that they went the "install from CD, pray we did it the same" method. It's a shame.
I've learned, you have to list all the popular distros in your resume. There are plenty of hiring folks who will refuse you for knowing "RedHat", but not "Fedora" or "RHEL". It has to be their term, or they won't accept it. I've used all of them extensively, so they're all listed. I'm still waiting for the place that says "We use Slackware exclusively across our entire network." I'd beg to work there.:) And yes, it does happen. When I ran an enterprise size network, the majority of our servers, with very very few exceptions, ran Slackware.... and then whoever took over from me wiped it all out and put FreeBSD on everything. And then couldn't figure out why it wouldn't keep up with their load.
My dad had me working on cars before I was old enough to drive, and I've never stopped working on them, so 20-some years later, I can fix just about anything. When I have to take a car in for work, I'm a wonderful customer. "I need this done. Here's the parts, just put them in." And, I've done both arc and gas welding.
I've been rebuilding small engines lately as something to do. Being that I live down in the land of hurricanes, I've been picking up a few generators that are "broken", and fixing and/or upgrading them. The one I'm keeping, I decided it was too loud, so I picked up a cheap mapp/oxygen torch (bought by a friend in exchange for fixing their car). It's nice what a cheap car muffler and a bit of welding will do to the noise output of a cheap generator.
I'm just waiting for the first hurricane to hit. No one cares to buy a generator until the day before a storm hits, then it's "OH MY GOD, I NEED A GENERATOR!":)
I've known a lot of women who are excellent people to work with. But, that's me, where I see a person as just the person, and they only fall into a stereotype when they reinforce the stereotype themselves.
I knew one woman who worked with me many years ago. She was great at what she did. We both left the company, and we both did very well at our new jobs (at different companies). She picked up skills that I had never touched. IT, like any other job, is about learning the required skills for the position, and performing the tasks to the best of our ability. Those who succeed are the ones who do the jobs best.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who see women as different. They're the ones that reinforce the idea that a woman can't perform the job as well as a man. In many corporations, those ideas are reinforced at the top, by people who have been in charge for way too long, and can't recognize assets by the asset, and not by the gender performing them. Those are the idiots who pay women less than men for the same job. They are the alpha geeks with poor social skills, but the "geek" title is poorly assigned, as it shows up throughout the departments (and companies), regardless of their technical background. It's more of alpha males, who are flexing their muscles to show that they are the leaders, and completely ignorant of the facts presented to them. [insert PHB stereotypes here]
I haven't found new work in it, and with a total income of a whopping $0 (not including unemployment and friends giving me food and places to sleep), I have to consider other options.
I've been trying to find serious IT work. I'm either:
1) Over qualified, where they don't want me because the senior folks are afraid I'll take their job, or I'll bail as soon as better money comes along.
2) Not qualified, because I don't know some specific qualification required for the position. I may seem like I know everything, but it's still impossible to know everything.
3) Not interested at the rate. $10/hr for a 3 month part time gig that requires moving across the country to a high cost of living area isn't exactly an acceptable offer.
So women are leaving IT? Big deal. Lots of people are. I'm about ready to be a short order cook, or an auto mechanic, but lately I've just been a handyman, doing anything friends need in exchange for food, drinks, and places to sleep.
This is the follow-up with the truth. He would have been safer saying it was a water electrolyzer.
He was charged. The charges were dropped, but the school still fucked with him over it. You'd think an institution of higher learning would be able to understand what he was trying to do. {sigh}
I'd second the idea of a filesystem error. I had a mystery error show up similar to what he described. Someone modified one of my files, only changing one character. I was the only one with access to the machine. I fixed it, and voila, problem solved. A few weeks later, filesystem errors started showing up in the system log. It was a failing drive, not just a dirty filesystem. It must have been cosmic radiation damaged the disk.:)
I was ready to send him a link to purchase a tinfoil hat (and tinfoil server cover too), but in his article, he says it could be cosmic radiation, or flaky hardware. I'd lay money on the second, and not the first.
I used to joke that cosmic radiation made particular servers crash. We couldn't find any other reason for it, even with a fresh OS (that was identical to our other servers), and swapping various parts. Ya, cosmic radiation went through the building above us, to the server about 30 feet underground, and hit one in the middle of the rack, and not all the ones over it. It was good for the wheel of excuses, but (obviously) not a real answer. Oddly enough, the cosmic radiation stopped messing with that server when we finally took it out of service, and the one that went in the same position, with the same job, running the same OS did fine.:)
Ya, ya, I know, it's probably whatever part we didn't replace (the motherboard), but cosmic radiation sounded better.:) At the time there were quite a few news stories about it, so I was able to link to those in my report blaming cosmic radiation.:)
They call me crazy. I call myself eccentric with a sense of humor.:) My girlfriend at the time even made me a tinfoil hat, that I'd sometimes wear around the house as I babbled nonsense about impending alien invasions.:)
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I know of a school district with 292 schools (population for the county is 1.9 million). They contract to a single company for Internet service. While some schools have physical lines run to them, the majority use wireless P2P service.
P2P is actually pretty good with the right equipment. With high gain narrow beam antennas, interference is minimal, since you have to be within the beam to hear it. That works great for fixed points (like tower to building). Everyone assumes wireless is like their crappy consumer grade access point, with omnidirectional antennas. You can get competitive speeds with wireless, and it can be set up in a day, rather than waiting for lines to be run.
In a lot of places, the right of way is already laid out. If you're in a newer community (say 1970-ish on), it's the space between the sidewalk and the road. It's shown on your property map. You have to mow it. You can't plant bushes on it, and if the city/county/state or some utility decides to dig it up, you can't say anything about it.
If you wanted to use that land to run your own utility cable of some sort (say running copper or fiber between your house and a house a few doors down), it won't happen. Even if the local government said "yes" (good luck there), you'd have the utility companies stopping you in no time, and you'd be tied up in court for years.
Several years ago, I was renting a house. The city decided to tear up the nice trees along the road, and plant seedlings. Of course, that was tear up the old trees, and 3 months later put new ones in. I didn't know there were sprinklers in the right of way, and when they tore out the old tree, they ripped out part of the sprinkler line. I capped off the line several feet from where they broke it. A few months later when they put the new tree in, again they ripped out the sprinkler line in a new place. {sigh}
I complained to the city both times. Their opinion was, "That's your problem, we own the road."
I've seen it where the city/county/state decides that they want more easement. They declared the easement 15' farther in than it was. Then they'd complain because your fence is on their property. They didn't care that the fence had been there for 20 years before that.
I tried to upgrade a major porn site to ipv6 years ago. Our provider didn't support it. I couldn't get an ipv6 gateway to talk to me about gating it. We just couldn't get it done, and it wasn't because our efforts weren't there.
It looks like there are still only a handful of ipv6 sites out there.
http://www.ipv6.org/v6-www.html
http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/IPv6_Enabled_Websites
Until there is a good reason to upgrade, it won't happen. Leave the sky is falling conspiracy out of it.
I totally agree with most of that. Yes, porn does drive adoption of new technology.
As for users though, it's hard to get them to upgrade for arbitrary reasons. Microsoft and Firefox both pushing out updates has been very helpful in recent years. Way back, it was difficult to keep the users happy, with a variety of browsers that had to be supported, sometimes dating back to ancient versions.
It'll be a little while before HTML5 is adopted by everyone, because it'll be a while before everyone supports it. Until then, I'm sure there will be a good bit of capability detection and dual support.
All the jokes aside, can I assume you work for a tier 1 provider?
I happen to like that show. :) Now for an "as seen on..." item, that won't exactly have me and my money parting.
As for sex with a freaky pierced girl, gotta love that. :)
Before my first, I looked at lots of art, including the picture books. It wasn't just at one place. Whenever I could (usually because I was wasting time), I'd have a look. It became that much more entertaining when someone would look at one in the books, say how original it was, and want it now. Original? :) I always liked looking at the artists original works on the wall. Some of them are great.
Mine is original, except it's a couple thousand years old or so (the art, not the actual tattoo). Since I'm not an artist, all I can do is sketch and/or describe, and let someone else try to make what I want. It may take a few more tries my way, but eventually someone can make what I'm looking for, and we have the finished product. Of course, those test runs were on paper, not on my skin. :)
Actually, you're right with your idea.
Tattoos are personal. If he has to ask "what [fill in the blanks] should I get?" then he hasn't thought it through. I've spent good time in tattoo shops, flipping through their books, looking at their original art on the walls, and talking to their artists when they have spare time. Just about every time someone just walks through the door and asks "what should I get?", they tell them the same thing.
We can't tell him what to get, because he will have to figure that out for himself.
And I do already have ink on me. I'll be getting more. It took several years to figure the next piece out.
It really depends on the tattoo, and how it was intended to look. Other factors include how the person takes care of themselves. A lot of people don't consider, "how will this look in 30 years." The same goes for body piercings. How will it all look when you're collecting your kids from school, when your grandkids are born, or when you're 90+ years old in a nursing home. Likewise, a sleeve (like the article asks) it may seem like a great idea, until you get a job somewhere in the Southern US, at a company with a strict policy about visible tattoos.
I've known folks who had needed to wear long sleeves year round, because they loved the idea of getting a tattoo that everyone would see and appreciate, a decade before. It's all fun and games until it's 110+ degrees outside, and you wish you could toss off the shirt before getting into the oven previously known as "your car", except the office "no visible tattoo" policy extends to everywhere "office" including the parking lot and anywhere visible from the parking lot.
That's not to say don't get one. Just consider what the future results could be. Folks do all kinds of crazy things to themselves. There are a whole bunch of body modifications that can be (and are) done. Is a face tattoo, or even math equations from your ears to your fingertips really the best way to express yourself?
Well, "in my office", since I don't have one, doesn't really count for much. But in the past few years, dealing with companies who do outsource work, and knowing the development teams either in-house or imported, I'd say the ratio is very slim, versus the ratio of in-country native workers.
No, actually you're arguing the finer points of the charts. I was simply referencing where the lines were drawn the the "experts".
You mention folks over 6', with weights in the low to mid 200's. My complaint was where weights were frequently exceeding 400 pounds, and sadly if you've spent any significant time people-watching, you'll see that they aren't always even near 6'.
I was underweight for most of the first 20-some years. Then I bounced over to "overweight", and agreed I was. I corrected that, and have been happily in the middle of the chart since then. It's not for the sake of where the chart says I should be, it's just where I am happy and healthy.
Nah, your food supply would degrade too quickly. No food makes your supply shrink, either through internal usage or failure of it's support mechanism.
I'll agree with your RH evaluation. It can be tuned to run right, but it takes some doing. For example, a RH (RH/RHEL/Fedora) server running exactly off the install disk will bog down. Replace Apache with one built from sources (standard sources from Apache.org is fine), and the kernel with a plain vanilla kernel (standard from kernel.org), and voila, it'll start running great.
The way we did installs, that would have been fine for FreeBSD too. Build out a standard machine, customize for our application, and then use that image for all future installs. Patch based on our internal version as needed, and roll up a new standard install at regular intervals. Oh, and good changelogs of everything that was done on each internal version, and patches. I liked making a tarball of the entire OS drive, but there are plenty of good ways to do it. I'm guessing based on what others have said (here, and slightly leaked information) that they went the "install from CD, pray we did it the same" method. It's a shame.
If you're going to quote, try quoting in context. Or at least reading all the words in a line, rather than just the first two.
I've learned, you have to list all the popular distros in your resume. There are plenty of hiring folks who will refuse you for knowing "RedHat", but not "Fedora" or "RHEL". It has to be their term, or they won't accept it. I've used all of them extensively, so they're all listed. I'm still waiting for the place that says "We use Slackware exclusively across our entire network." I'd beg to work there. :) And yes, it does happen. When I ran an enterprise size network, the majority of our servers, with very very few exceptions, ran Slackware. ... and then whoever took over from me wiped it all out and put FreeBSD on everything. And then couldn't figure out why it wouldn't keep up with their load.
My dad had me working on cars before I was old enough to drive, and I've never stopped working on them, so 20-some years later, I can fix just about anything. When I have to take a car in for work, I'm a wonderful customer. "I need this done. Here's the parts, just put them in." And, I've done both arc and gas welding.
I've been rebuilding small engines lately as something to do. Being that I live down in the land of hurricanes, I've been picking up a few generators that are "broken", and fixing and/or upgrading them. The one I'm keeping, I decided it was too loud, so I picked up a cheap mapp/oxygen torch (bought by a friend in exchange for fixing their car). It's nice what a cheap car muffler and a bit of welding will do to the noise output of a cheap generator.
I'm just waiting for the first hurricane to hit. No one cares to buy a generator until the day before a storm hits, then it's "OH MY GOD, I NEED A GENERATOR!" :)
I've known a lot of women who are excellent people to work with. But, that's me, where I see a person as just the person, and they only fall into a stereotype when they reinforce the stereotype themselves.
I knew one woman who worked with me many years ago. She was great at what she did. We both left the company, and we both did very well at our new jobs (at different companies). She picked up skills that I had never touched. IT, like any other job, is about learning the required skills for the position, and performing the tasks to the best of our ability. Those who succeed are the ones who do the jobs best.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who see women as different. They're the ones that reinforce the idea that a woman can't perform the job as well as a man. In many corporations, those ideas are reinforced at the top, by people who have been in charge for way too long, and can't recognize assets by the asset, and not by the gender performing them. Those are the idiots who pay women less than men for the same job. They are the alpha geeks with poor social skills, but the "geek" title is poorly assigned, as it shows up throughout the departments (and companies), regardless of their technical background. It's more of alpha males, who are flexing their muscles to show that they are the leaders, and completely ignorant of the facts presented to them. [insert PHB stereotypes here]
My IT career quit me. {sigh}
I haven't found new work in it, and with a total income of a whopping $0 (not including unemployment and friends giving me food and places to sleep), I have to consider other options.
I've been trying to find serious IT work. I'm either:
1) Over qualified, where they don't want me because the senior folks are afraid I'll take their job, or I'll bail as soon as better money comes along.
2) Not qualified, because I don't know some specific qualification required for the position. I may seem like I know everything, but it's still impossible to know everything.
3) Not interested at the rate. $10/hr for a 3 month part time gig that requires moving across the country to a high cost of living area isn't exactly an acceptable offer.
So women are leaving IT? Big deal. Lots of people are. I'm about ready to be a short order cook, or an auto mechanic, but lately I've just been a handyman, doing anything friends need in exchange for food, drinks, and places to sleep.
I found the stories associated with that incident.
This is the "OMG it's a bomb" story.
This is the follow-up with the truth. He would have been safer saying it was a water electrolyzer.
He was charged. The charges were dropped, but the school still fucked with him over it. You'd think an institution of higher learning would be able to understand what he was trying to do. {sigh}
Well fear not, it's been a series of upgrades since then. :) My girlfriend now is perfect, I can't imagine a better upgrade from here.
I'd second the idea of a filesystem error. I had a mystery error show up similar to what he described. Someone modified one of my files, only changing one character. I was the only one with access to the machine. I fixed it, and voila, problem solved. A few weeks later, filesystem errors started showing up in the system log. It was a failing drive, not just a dirty filesystem. It must have been cosmic radiation damaged the disk. :)
I was ready to send him a link to purchase a tinfoil hat (and tinfoil server cover too), but in his article, he says it could be cosmic radiation, or flaky hardware. I'd lay money on the second, and not the first.
I used to joke that cosmic radiation made particular servers crash. We couldn't find any other reason for it, even with a fresh OS (that was identical to our other servers), and swapping various parts. Ya, cosmic radiation went through the building above us, to the server about 30 feet underground, and hit one in the middle of the rack, and not all the ones over it. It was good for the wheel of excuses, but (obviously) not a real answer. Oddly enough, the cosmic radiation stopped messing with that server when we finally took it out of service, and the one that went in the same position, with the same job, running the same OS did fine. :)
Ya, ya, I know, it's probably whatever part we didn't replace (the motherboard), but cosmic radiation sounded better. :) At the time there were quite a few news stories about it, so I was able to link to those in my report blaming cosmic radiation. :)
They call me crazy. I call myself eccentric with a sense of humor. :) My girlfriend at the time even made me a tinfoil hat, that I'd sometimes wear around the house as I babbled nonsense about impending alien invasions. :)
That's what I was implying when I said "justice systems participant could be law enforcement". I'd be curious to if there were other threats made.
It's a good thing that I:
1) Don't have a fusor, and have no intention of building one.
2) Do have a girlfriend who does tickle my leg when I'm sleeping when she wants something. ... and ...
3) No roaches. :)
I hear pedobear.kids.us has been a great success.
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