As a portuguese person, I live some 200 miles from spain and can more or less understand spanish. It's odd to me that you american fellows are not well informed about what goes on here in Europe, but Spain has an awful terrorist problem. First you have to understand that there is no "spain" country per se. Spain is merely a collection of kingdoms that have been subdued by the kingdom of Castilla. The only ones who have managed to fend off their attacks throughout 1000 years of history have been us, the Portuguese, the only remaining independent country in the Iberian Penninsula, and even so, they are occupying a portion of our land called Olivença which they have colonized so no one there is truly portuguese anymore. There isn't a spanish language or a spanish people either. There are 3 or 4 different languages for the different kingdoms. This means that the peoples of the Iberian Penninsula have managed to maintain a certain cultural identity throughout this long history of Castillian domination. In Galicia, the spanish kingdom to the north of our country, there have been protests claiming that they want to integrate with us, since their language and culture is more similar to ours, and they are a natural extension of our territory, since they occupy the strip of land between our northern border and the northern sea. In Pais Vasco, however, the Basque protests are all but peaceful. They have a very different language and culture from all of us. It does not even derive from Latin. They are a separate people, which they have been throughout history, their territory is split between France and Spain, and no one cares about them. I think it is obvious that they more than deserve their freedom, although I cannot support their actions. You see, some of the Basques have formed a terrorist organization called ETA which has commited numerous atrocities throughout the past few decades. Many important people have been assassinated, numerous bombs have been planted, injuring innocent bystanders. Batasuna is an independentist left-wing party aiming to promote the freeing of the Basque people and territory from their Castillian opressors. A link between the party and the terrorist organization has never been established, their site does not promote or even mention ETA or any form of violence, so it is terribly anti-constitutional to illegalize the party and block their website. I am amazed that I cannot reach the website without the anonymizer link, since I don't live in Spain. Would this mean that our government secretly agreed to block it as well? I find it highly unlikely. If you want more information about spanish events there is an excellent newspaper at http://www.elpais.es (use the fish).
I'm not a rocket scientist, so if anyone more clued-in on the inner workings of monitors and 3d game engines could explain to me: can we ever expect something with a similar effect working on a CRT monitor?
It was supposed to be a joke, but I guess no one thought it was funny. I assumed the ";)" moniker would render it unambiguous but apparently it didn't. I apologize for confusing you guys.
If you want to be a Linux / Unix system administrator, you first have to understand the vagueness of the term. An "administrator" is just someone who "administrates". You can either be behind a bleeding edge distributed system running on a huge server room crammed full of racked blades or you can get an easy job at a small company with 2 or 3 athlons that mostly take care of themselves. Any half-baked MCSE could do that.
You can have all kinds of sysadmins, really, but being a good one requires a lot more knowledge than just the OS. Of course as a junior admin you'll prolly be handling monkey-work such as backing up stuff to tapes or even CDs and other tedious tasks the real admins dont want to do. You will deal with the lusers whose mail proggy is misconfigured or whose caps lock was left on so that now they can't get in their PC.
But as you progress in your career, you better get yourself familiarized with all the little/etc files and such things as the SNMP protocol, MIBs, and of course the latest, most buzzword-compliant, administration-facilitating apps...
You need to understand that you are a handyman. You will be expected to know and do a bit of everything, and to "think outside the box". Even as a Unix admin you will probably need to be skilled in the inner workings of Microsoft software. Most networks are hybrid: The lusers all have MS crapware and Unix will be confined to the servers.
Solid knowledge of computer networks is a major plus. You need to know how to set up a network, both at the hardware and software level. Bridges, routers, switches, cabling, the works.
You need to know how to configure routers. Cisco routers are very popular, and books on them are easy to find. Knowledge of routing protocols is a big plus.
If you're lucky you might even get to play with "legacy" networks that are getting out of mainstream every second. So you better get some training on Novell stuff, and pray that's the worse you'll come across, since there is a whole lot of old stuff out there that should really be in a museum. I'm talking about early IBM hardware running long-forgotten software with manuals that have rotten away ten years ago.
You probably learned about some of this stuff in college but it wouldnt hurt to take a second look. The stuff that you glanced over and thought you would never need to know, in particular. Such as token rings. Everyone has Ethernet right? Wrong.
Of course you should really focus on what your future employers ask in their ads. Certifications are always nice to have. A lot of the stuff you need to know you will NOT learn in any college.
Really, the subject sums it up. You have to know a bit of everything to be a good sysadmin. I guess the same could be said about a programmer or a doctor or any other person. Knowledge is power!
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These kinds of things usually use embedded, real-time systems, tailor-made for that specific hardware, and mathematically proven not to crash. So no, it probably doesn't run windows.
I guess he means that the robot has a full 3 degrees of freedom of movement: an arm that can move left and right, back and forth, up or down. A "2 dimension" robot would only be able to use two of the above pairs, a "1d" bot would only use one of the above, but I guess a "4d" bot would have to travel through time:)
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Yes I have, and newspapers around here are pretty damn trustworthy. But here's the catch, I don't live in America. So excuse me for not being informed about the newspapers in your country.You didn't have to add me to your foes list for such an innocent little comment for christ's sake.
Guess what! I am not american! Amazing that there are actual people outside america and that they have internet access as well! In Portugal you pay some kind of tax for shipping documents, and a CD is considered a document. You pay an assload of cash whether the CD is big, small, in a sleeve or a jewel case.
Let's face it, my DSL is up 24 hours a day and I pay the same $35 whether i use it or not. I don't own a DVD burner, or even a player for that matter, and sending a CD via snail mail sets me back around $7. Thus, at a fixed cost of $35 dollars I can either send 5 CDs to someone per month, or download 5 CDs per day!
Half my friends call me "egg" or "eggy":) Of course pretty much all of them chat with me every night. The net works wonders for keeping in touch with people that you would otherwise only see once a year. Didn't they used to say that chatting would make people isolate themselves from the real world!?;D
Microsoft APIs are buggy, poorly documented, and inneficient. It's long been known that they change them to break specific products. Check this post for instance:
"Microsoft has been known to incorporate features into the Windows API without telling other companies, so that they can prevent them from competing by improving their programs in certain ways. Furthermore, Microsoft is notorious for using its "control of the battleground" in which the application wars are fought in order to "break" its competitors' products. Take, for example, the infamous alteration of the "WINSOCK.DLL" file, which controls how programs communicate with the Internet. After installing the Microsoft Network, America Online mysteriously fails to operate correctly, or after installing the Windows Media Player, RealPlayer no longer launches when opening Internet media files."
RTFA - On page 3 they adress your concerns. Don't mean no disrespect but how could you, the highschooler with the genetics class, ever think for a single moment that you know more than a team of experts?
What if something weird happens and the CO2 gets released in massive amounts? Like, a bomb, or a sinking ship, or an earthquake? Really though, the Earth's crust isn't a very stable place in its natural state and we don't have the resources and technology to put huge reinforced structures under the ocean to store the CO2 properly. The ocean floor in particular is a very unstable place. If you look at the pacific, all those tiny little islands were made by volcanos that appeared there all of a sudden, out of the blue, with no early warning. Apparently there are some "hotspots" in the magma layers below our surface, which puncture the Earth's crust forming temporary volcanos, that go extinct as the crust moves tectonically away from the hotspot below it. You never know what might hit an undersea CO2 deposit even if it was a solid, well engineered structure. The crust is very thin there! Cave-ins, earthquakes, volcanic activity in general, you wouldnt want to live at the bottom of the sea. It sounds like a quick hack that will solve the problem temporarily, but I can just see the CO2 getting released sooner or later.
Hey I used to listen to mp3 on my 486/66 all the time.I even ripped and encoded entire CDs by leaving the pc running overnight. Sure it couldnt run high-bitrate mp3s very well but at 56kbps i could even play them in the background while i browsed the web with the glorious old netscape 2.0:)
In Portugal it's the same. Free access, except you pay the huge cost of the phone calls to our evil monopolist phone company which then pays a percentage of the cost to the ISPs. The access is quite good, for a dial up, but we all know that dial up is a thing of the past so everyone's moving to cable and ADSL's monthly fee which is far cheaper for most users than our extorsionist monopoly's inflated phone prices. I had already mentioned all of this a long time ago in a past comment...
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Thank God. Wouldn't want any dumb people getting a Nobel prize, now would we? :)
As a portuguese person, I live some 200 miles from spain and can more or less understand spanish.
It's odd to me that you american fellows are not well informed about what goes on here in Europe, but Spain has an awful terrorist problem.
First you have to understand that there is no "spain" country per se. Spain is merely a collection of kingdoms that have been subdued by the kingdom of Castilla. The only ones who have managed to fend off their attacks throughout 1000 years of history have been us, the Portuguese, the only remaining independent country in the Iberian Penninsula, and even so, they are occupying a portion of our land called Olivença which they have colonized so no one there is truly portuguese anymore.
There isn't a spanish language or a spanish people either. There are 3 or 4 different languages for the different kingdoms.
This means that the peoples of the Iberian Penninsula have managed to maintain a certain cultural identity throughout this long history of Castillian domination. In Galicia, the spanish kingdom to the north of our country, there have been protests claiming that they want to integrate with us, since their language and culture is more similar to ours, and they are a natural extension of our territory, since they occupy the strip of land between our northern border and the northern sea.
In Pais Vasco, however, the Basque protests are all but peaceful. They have a very different language and culture from all of us. It does not even derive from Latin. They are a separate people, which they have been throughout history, their territory is split between France and Spain, and no one cares about them. I think it is obvious that they more than deserve their freedom, although I cannot support their actions.
You see, some of the Basques have formed a terrorist organization called ETA which has commited numerous atrocities throughout the past few decades. Many important people have been assassinated, numerous bombs have been planted, injuring innocent bystanders.
Batasuna is an independentist left-wing party aiming to promote the freeing of the Basque people and territory from their Castillian opressors.
A link between the party and the terrorist organization has never been established, their site does not promote or even mention ETA or any form of violence, so it is terribly anti-constitutional to illegalize the party and block their website.
I am amazed that I cannot reach the website without the anonymizer link, since I don't live in Spain. Would this mean that our government secretly agreed to block it as well? I find it highly unlikely.
If you want more information about spanish events there is an excellent newspaper at http://www.elpais.es (use the fish).
I'm not a rocket scientist, so if anyone more clued-in on the inner workings of monitors and 3d game engines could explain to me: can we ever expect something with a similar effect working on a CRT monitor?
It was supposed to be a joke, but I guess no one thought it was funny. I assumed the ";)" moniker would render it unambiguous but apparently it didn't. I apologize for confusing you guys.
...the full movie has been out on KaZaA for about 6 months now ;)
If you want to be a Linux / Unix system administrator, you first have to understand the vagueness of the term. An "administrator" is just someone who "administrates". You can either be behind a bleeding edge distributed system running on a huge server room crammed full of racked blades or you can get an easy job at a small company with 2 or 3 athlons that mostly take care of themselves. Any half-baked MCSE could do that.
/etc files and such things as the SNMP protocol, MIBs, and of course the latest, most buzzword-compliant, administration-facilitating apps...
You can have all kinds of sysadmins, really, but being a good one requires a lot more knowledge than just the OS. Of course as a junior admin you'll prolly be handling monkey-work such as backing up stuff to tapes or even CDs and other tedious tasks the real admins dont want to do. You will deal with the lusers whose mail proggy is misconfigured or whose caps lock was left on so that now they can't get in their PC.
But as you progress in your career, you better get yourself familiarized with all the little
You need to understand that you are a handyman. You will be expected to know and do a bit of everything, and to "think outside the box". Even as a Unix admin you will probably need to be skilled in the inner workings of Microsoft software. Most networks are hybrid: The lusers all have MS crapware and Unix will be confined to the servers.
Solid knowledge of computer networks is a major plus. You need to know how to set up a network, both at the hardware and software level. Bridges, routers, switches, cabling, the works.
You need to know how to configure routers. Cisco routers are very popular, and books on them are easy to find. Knowledge of routing protocols is a big plus.
If you're lucky you might even get to play with "legacy" networks that are getting out of mainstream every second. So you better get some training on Novell stuff, and pray that's the worse you'll come across, since there is a whole lot of old stuff out there that should really be in a museum. I'm talking about early IBM hardware running long-forgotten software with manuals that have rotten away ten years ago.
You probably learned about some of this stuff in college but it wouldnt hurt to take a second look.
The stuff that you glanced over and thought you would never need to know, in particular. Such as token rings. Everyone has Ethernet right? Wrong.
Of course you should really focus on what your future employers ask in their ads.
Certifications are always nice to have. A lot of the stuff you need to know you will NOT learn in any college.
Really, the subject sums it up. You have to know a bit of everything to be a good sysadmin. I guess the same could be said about a programmer or a doctor or any other person. Knowledge is power!
These kinds of things usually use embedded, real-time systems, tailor-made for that specific hardware, and mathematically proven not to crash.
So no, it probably doesn't run windows.
I guess he means that the robot has a full 3 degrees of freedom of movement: an arm that can move left and right, back and forth, up or down. :)
A "2 dimension" robot would only be able to use two of the above pairs, a "1d" bot would only use one of the above, but I guess a "4d" bot would have to travel through time
Yes I have, and newspapers around here are pretty damn trustworthy. But here's the catch, I don't live in America. So excuse me for not being informed about the newspapers in your country.You didn't have to add me to your foes list for such an innocent little comment for christ's sake.
There was life before the internet you know? ;)
That said, good luck in your job hunting!
Guess what! I am not american! Amazing that there are actual people outside america and that they have internet access as well!
In Portugal you pay some kind of tax for shipping documents, and a CD is considered a document. You pay an assload of cash whether the CD is big, small, in a sleeve or a jewel case.
Let's face it, my DSL is up 24 hours a day and I pay the same $35 whether i use it or not.
I don't own a DVD burner, or even a player for that matter, and sending a CD via snail mail sets me back around $7.
Thus, at a fixed cost of $35 dollars I can either send 5 CDs to someone per month, or download 5 CDs per day!
Half my friends call me "egg" or "eggy" :) ;D
Of course pretty much all of them chat with me every night. The net works wonders for keeping in touch with people that you would otherwise only see once a year. Didn't they used to say that chatting would make people isolate themselves from the real world!?
Hey, I've been using LOL as an actual spoken word since 1996... :\
To tell you the truth, so have my friends.
Microsoft APIs are buggy, poorly documented, and inneficient. It's long been known that they change them to break specific products.
Check this post for instance:
"Microsoft has been known to incorporate features into the Windows API without telling other companies, so that they can prevent them from competing by improving their programs in certain ways. Furthermore, Microsoft is notorious for using its "control of the battleground" in which the application wars are fought in order to "break" its competitors' products. Take, for example, the infamous alteration of the "WINSOCK.DLL" file, which controls how programs communicate with the Internet. After installing the Microsoft Network, America Online mysteriously fails to operate correctly, or after installing the Windows Media Player, RealPlayer no longer launches when opening Internet media files."
Simple. They claim that Al Qaeda terrorists are hiding in the pyramid, bomb the fuck out of Egypt, and disassemble the pyramid block by block.
RTFA - On page 3 they adress your concerns.
Don't mean no disrespect but how could you, the highschooler with the genetics class, ever think for a single moment that you know more than a team of experts?
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He would be white because his "another planet" orbited around a dim red star, remember? Plus, didnt they live underground or something? Cant remember.
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I am one, and I hate seeing that mistake over and over again. If you can, please correct that.
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What if something weird happens and the CO2 gets released in massive amounts? Like, a bomb, or a sinking ship, or an earthquake? Really though, the Earth's crust isn't a very stable place in its natural state and we don't have the resources and technology to put huge reinforced structures under the ocean to store the CO2 properly.
The ocean floor in particular is a very unstable place. If you look at the pacific, all those tiny little islands were made by volcanos that appeared there all of a sudden, out of the blue, with no early warning. Apparently there are some "hotspots" in the magma layers below our surface, which puncture the Earth's crust forming temporary volcanos, that go extinct as the crust moves tectonically away from the hotspot below it. You never know what might hit an undersea CO2 deposit even if it was a solid, well engineered structure. The crust is very thin there! Cave-ins, earthquakes, volcanic activity in general, you wouldnt want to live at the bottom of the sea.
It sounds like a quick hack that will solve the problem temporarily, but I can just see the CO2 getting released sooner or later.
Hey I used to listen to mp3 on my 486/66 all the time.I even ripped and encoded entire CDs by leaving the pc running overnight. :)
Sure it couldnt run high-bitrate mp3s very well but at 56kbps i could even play them in the background while i browsed the web with the glorious old netscape 2.0
In Portugal it's the same. Free access, except you pay the huge cost of the phone calls to our evil monopolist phone company which then pays a percentage of the cost to the ISPs. The access is quite good, for a dial up, but we all know that dial up is a thing of the past so everyone's moving to cable and ADSL's monthly fee which is far cheaper for most users than our extorsionist monopoly's inflated phone prices. I had already mentioned all of this a long time ago in a past comment...