remember the water-cooled CPUs, now there was a brilliant idea... water and electricity in the same box! Reminds me of an old Bill Cosby routine "set the sofa on fire, smear Jello on the floor... Nothing will come near fire and smoke and Jello! TA THUMP TA THUMP"
Charles Wang (pronounced Wong according to him...don't ask.) is the originator of all the CA nonsense. The DOJ is totally (at least in public) ignoring him. They used this scheme to get a 1 BILLION dollar bonus for him and Sanjay, no word on that either.
And people wonder why I quit this company? They lied to the government, investors, employees, customers, and themselves... and if you called them on it you were fired.
Hearless bastard that I am, I split when they asked me to start lieing to my clients... I've got no business sense, I guess.
The university is just trying to make everything work for the whole student body. If you really READ the notice before firing your wad you'd have seen that they are trying to work things out.
Besides, do you really need wifi in a 10x12 dorm room... come on that's just lazyness IMHO.
Universities are an institution, they regulate EVERTHING by nature. Autocratic proclaimations are thier answers to problems.
Redhat 6.0-7.1, for volume of software and (somewhat..almost) leading edge
Debian for solid super update/package handling
Corel for the hell of it
FreeBSD for the pain
Peanut for the sparsity
and then Conectiva.
It's got almost as good an install as Mandrake, not as flashy but pretty solid, and it will install on less than a P-II. Lesson 1 for NEWBIE "Customize and install an optimized Kernel." It'll teach a LOT.
There is an rpm based
version of Debians APT.
(apt is best install structure, rpm has the most in available software) !!!
It installs leading edge (not bleeding edge)
and sets up the system reasonably well for someone
to learn on.
Well done intuitive packaging (I don't need no stinking manuals... good thing, they're currently only available in Portugese)
When the English box set is out, get it. In the
meantime get the ISO CDkit (only need CD #1 & 2
for all the binaries, #1 only for a reasonable
install).
My background is networking so that's the primary focus here...
TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1,2,3 - Steves, Addison-Wesley pub.
Unix Network Programming Vol 1,2 - Stevens, Addison-Wesley pub.
(actually anything written by Stevens is good...)
Internetworking with TCP/IP - Comer
(most of Comer's books are good)
Design Patterns - Eric Gamma, Addison-Wesley pub.
C++ Primer - Lippman, A-W pub.
C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice-Hall pub.
Bjorn's book on C++ (OF COURSE).
Managing Internetworks with SNMP, Miller, M&T Books pub.
Troubleshooting TCP/IP, Miller, M&T Books pub.
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull, Prentice-Hall pub.
Computer Networks, Albert S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall pub.
The series by Harvey Deitel & Paul Deitel on programming, excellent for beginners.
and of course the bibles.... TAOCP Vol 1,2,3, Knuth
Hell, just get Addison-Wesley's catalog and order
then get O'Reilly's catalog and order... that's the start point.
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remember the water-cooled CPUs, now there was a brilliant idea...
water and electricity in the same box!
Reminds me of an old Bill Cosby routine
"set the sofa on fire, smear Jello on the floor... Nothing will come near fire and smoke and Jello!
TA THUMP TA THUMP"
Charles Wang (pronounced Wong according to him...don't ask.)
is the originator of all the CA nonsense. The DOJ is totally (at least in public) ignoring him.
They used this scheme to get a 1 BILLION dollar bonus for him and Sanjay, no word on that either.
And people wonder why I quit this company?
They lied to the government, investors, employees, customers, and themselves... and if you called them
on it you were fired.
Hearless bastard that I am, I split when they asked me to start lieing to my clients... I've got no business sense, I guess.
NAH ... just some "anonymous coward" posters...
The university is just trying to make everything work for the whole student body. If you really
READ the notice before firing your wad you'd have
seen that they are trying to work things out.
Besides, do you really need wifi in a 10x12 dorm
room... come on that's just lazyness IMHO.
Universities are an institution, they regulate EVERTHING by nature. Autocratic proclaimations are
thier answers to problems.
Mandrake 6.0-8.0 for best install, bleeding edge
Redhat 6.0-7.1, for volume of software and (somewhat..almost) leading edge
Debian for solid super update/package handling
Corel for the hell of it
FreeBSD for the pain
Peanut for the sparsity
and then Conectiva.
It's got almost as good an install as Mandrake, not as flashy but pretty solid, and it will install on less than a P-II.
Lesson 1 for NEWBIE "Customize and install an optimized Kernel." It'll teach a LOT.
There is an rpm based version of Debians APT.
(apt is best install structure, rpm has the most in available software) !!!
It installs leading edge (not bleeding edge) and sets up the system reasonably well for someone to learn on.
Well done intuitive packaging (I don't need no stinking manuals... good thing, they're currently only available in Portugese)
When the English box set is out, get it. In the meantime get the ISO CDkit (only need CD #1 & 2 for all the binaries, #1 only for a reasonable install).
My background is networking so that's the primary focus here... .... TAOCP Vol 1,2,3, Knuth
TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1,2,3 - Steves, Addison-Wesley pub.
Unix Network Programming Vol 1,2 - Stevens, Addison-Wesley pub.
(actually anything written by Stevens is good...)
Internetworking with TCP/IP - Comer
(most of Comer's books are good)
Design Patterns - Eric Gamma, Addison-Wesley pub.
C++ Primer - Lippman, A-W pub.
C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice-Hall pub.
Bjorn's book on C++ (OF COURSE).
Managing Internetworks with SNMP, Miller, M&T Books pub.
Troubleshooting TCP/IP, Miller, M&T Books pub.
Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull, Prentice-Hall pub.
Computer Networks, Albert S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall pub.
The series by Harvey Deitel & Paul Deitel on programming, excellent for beginners.
and of course the bibles
Hell, just get Addison-Wesley's catalog and order
then get O'Reilly's catalog and order... that's the start point.