Um, shut up. You can easily buy laptops without having to pay the "Microsoft Tax" as it were. Power Notebooks is one such example of a company that will sell you bare hardware laptops. They'll even work with you to give you chipset models on each laptop to help you evaluate it objectively. I'll buy another Mac when they put two buttons and a _working_ scroll wheel on their mice/trackpads.
Ok, I'll take your word for it that it _may_ be the best book out there on the subject. I used it last semester and I found it to be very little english wrapped around a solid wall of figures and notation. Not a very good introductory text for this reason.
If it's the best, then there is room for improvement in the field. Most of what made the class doable was being able to knock skulls with other people about the subject.
Also, if you buy this book. Make sure you buy the hardback version and not the softcover. The hardback is printed in color while the the other is not. This makes the book hard to read as the figures are referenced by their colors most of the time.
That would be a C5 Corvette. Most likely you got that nice dark red color. They are the only car on the market right now that is testing using a magnetic type shock absorber that uses magnetic filings in the suspension bits that is tunable to "racing" or "comfort" conditions. The 5.7L V8 is a good indication that this is either a sports car or an SUV but from the Z rated tires I'm guessing sports car.
I thought there were already patents on machine translation?
Now we can talk to people in foreign places and not have the language barrier keep us back. Now our communications are just blocked by the innaccuracies of machine translation and we can't understand each other anyway. Ahh, the sweet smell of progress!
You cannot make SQL queries against XML or flat files. Integrating a DB into the OS is a good idea, that is why we have filesystems. But, v4 of MySQL has a library that can be embedded into applications that will let them make their own MySQL like data stores that can be accessed with a SQL query. You do not need to have a database server running, it is in the app. You do not need a database for your todo list or your contacts, that is just bad app writing (unless the app is being written for 1000+ users (LDAP!)).
What about those people who don't use an ISP to host their email accounts? Barry's responses seem to think that every internet user is an unwitting user of a $10/mo dial up ISP.
I personally think that the Internet would be a better place if there were less centralization of email addresses. I just took a quick scan through my address book and ~50% of the people in there use yahoo.com as a mail provider. I deal with mostly technically oriented people so I think for mere mortals this percentage would be even higher. Hotmail and Yahoo account for a lot of bogus email, but you cannot just block the domain on your mail server due to the huge amount of "valid" transmissions.
If more people ran their own domains in a strong hierarchy (like say: yourname.city.locality.country) then a potential spammer has much more to lose.
I personally have had good luck turning off a default address for my domain (it's a pain for people who cannot remember a trivial address) as it keeps about 80% of the UCE I recieved out. I added a dash of SpamAssassin and procmail, I have terminated all spam. I was getting about 120mb of spam per month, which equates to a 17 hour download time over my piddly modem. At minimum wage ($5.35) that comes to about $100 in time.
Therefore, allow me to bill giantpenis.com or hugetits.edu with a standard form for email that is unsolicited. This allows me to pick and choose who I like to get mail from and punishes those that don't offer services I need (as in the example).
Given that you'd have to download them you can modify the file on the way out to be a hash of your user id, address, etc AND the song information. This hash does not have to be one way either. This could be encoded onto the file in the form of a watermark. RIAA, if they wanted to, could even impose that you would have to know a secret key to be able to play the file as well (this requires support from the OS, or software). I'm sure at some point RIAA will try some scheme like the MPAA has on DVD encryption.
This way RIAA/whomever can see who "owns" that track in both senses. Who gets paid for it, and who paid for it.
I can think of a few creative uses of mod_rewrite to stop people from hot linking your images. Here is a tutorial on how to set it up using something as trivial as.htaccess.
Most graphic designers that I've come across can't use their software (primarily Adobe stuff: Photoshop, Illustrator) worth a damn. So they have to have the fast machines. When you don't know how to properly plan your file sizes and image formats you end up wasting a lot of CPU cycles on transforming that 600mb JPEG.
The other reason most of them "have to" have the latest Apple schwag is the fact that they are addicted like junkies on crack to whatever Apple chooses to shoot into the Mac market bloodstream.
Otherwise most Mac hardware just lasts, that's why picking up an older G3 on eBay is a great deal. You just have to find some half witted graphic artist that is selling his year old machine. I used to work for a pre-press shop that would only buy machines used like this, we got good deals and had good machines.
I was in your shoes about five years ago. I chose to take on (at the time) digital prepress as a career. That got morphed into being a sys admin after a while. But, the most frustrating thing I have ever been told when interviewing for jobs is that it appears that I'm not as professional or qualified due to my lack of a degree. I know it doesn't matter, the person interviewing knows that it doesn't matter, but the person at the top thinks that it's a Good Thing(tm).
The next headache that I dealt with was watching all of the people I went to high school with graduating college. I graduated from high school two years early, I could have been done with collge by the time I was 19. But, I chose not to go then and now I'm in my second semester.
College is a good choice, do it when you are young. Having not gotten 'addicted' to the money that comes from working full time, full time school is much easier to take. Trust me, you won't learn a damn thing about being a system administrator in your first two years but you will gain habits and interpersonal skills that you'd have to hard-fight to get out of school.
There are two paths for the sys admin right now that are worth looking at: Computer Science and Computer Information Systems. I personally think that the CIS programs are a joke at most schools and teach you nothing more than a simple business degree would if you took comp sci classes as your electives. I watched my roommate go through some of the classes and the closest he got to 'real' sys admin type work was in a Java class. A business degree and some computer knowledge would open many doors for you. But if you are like me, you'd like the comp sci program more (don't forget the math, it's important!).
My suggestion is to give school a try, cutting your teeth too soon means taking crappy jobs, enjoy your youth and don't work it away in a darkened NOC!
Why don't these huge companies get it that if they change the license and not the product they will be able to protect themselves? If you could track the download of the song (the watermarked data could be a hash of your name and/or account number) and then that could be used to bill you for copies that you illegally distribute. Granted, it wouldn't be that long before someone would figure a way to easily remove the watermark...
With Win2k you can get this little patch and then you have a free as in beer IPSec implementation provided by Microsoft under Win2k. It even supports x509 certs. IPSec clients are not that expensive. Look at SSH Sentinal for another option. It even supports the newer AES ciphers (which I don't expect out of Microsoft for a long time)as added security.
For all of this you have to patch the code to use the newer ciphers. You can get that here and if you need to use x509 certs you can get that stuff here. This is all pretty easy if you have you druthers about compiling new kernels and working with OpenSSL.
Why this isn't in the kernel to begin with is anybody's guess. I would guess that it has something to do with all those pesky crypto export laws. Just like everything else in the ol US of A we have to sacrifice our freedoms so that we can be safe from the KGB and that one guy from Hackers.
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I suppose I can plug one of these in whenever I use a laptop. But why can't they just do that with their trackpads?
Um, shut up. You can easily buy laptops without having to pay the "Microsoft Tax" as it were. Power Notebooks is one such example of a company that will sell you bare hardware laptops. They'll even work with you to give you chipset models on each laptop to help you evaluate it objectively. I'll buy another Mac when they put two buttons and a _working_ scroll wheel on their mice/trackpads.
I was dreaming of a day when I didn't have to buy extra software for my computer to correct it's inheirent defects, like vulnerability to viruses.
Oh wait, I do that now, thanks Linus...
All of my machines speak Esperanto to each other. Just like William Shatner does!
Ok, I'll take your word for it that it _may_ be the best book out there on the subject. I used it last semester and I found it to be very little english wrapped around a solid wall of figures and notation. Not a very good introductory text for this reason.
If it's the best, then there is room for improvement in the field. Most of what made the class doable was being able to knock skulls with other people about the subject.
Also, if you buy this book. Make sure you buy the hardback version and not the softcover. The hardback is printed in color while the the other is not. This makes the book hard to read as the figures are referenced by their colors most of the time.
That would be a C5 Corvette. Most likely you got that nice dark red color. They are the only car on the market right now that is testing using a magnetic type shock absorber that uses magnetic filings in the suspension bits that is tunable to "racing" or "comfort" conditions. The 5.7L V8 is a good indication that this is either a sports car or an SUV but from the Z rated tires I'm guessing sports car.
I thought there were already patents on machine translation?
Now we can talk to people in foreign places and not have the language barrier keep us back. Now our communications are just blocked by the innaccuracies of machine translation and we can't understand each other anyway. Ahh, the sweet smell of progress!
"Does Google = God"
That is the wrong operator for a question, it should be "Does Google == God". The NYT just made Google God. Those bastards!
With the tupperware option, do you have to go out in the spring and burp your installations then?
I'm racking up debt and going back to school.
:)
At least I'll have a degree AND some debt rather than just having the debt.
Does this mean they make little spacesuits for the carrier pidgeons now?
I've never seen grep do an outer join of tables nor stored procedures to maintain relational consistency.
You cannot make SQL queries against XML or flat files. Integrating a DB into the OS is a good idea, that is why we have filesystems. But, v4 of MySQL has a library that can be embedded into applications that will let them make their own MySQL like data stores that can be accessed with a SQL query. You do not need to have a database server running, it is in the app. You do not need a database for your todo list or your contacts, that is just bad app writing (unless the app is being written for 1000+ users (LDAP!)).
Fuck mSQL! That is a piece of shit product!
The Green Lantern is a pussy.
What about those people who don't use an ISP to host their email accounts? Barry's responses seem to think that every internet user is an unwitting user of a $10/mo dial up ISP.
I personally think that the Internet would be a better place if there were less centralization of email addresses. I just took a quick scan through my address book and ~50% of the people in there use yahoo.com as a mail provider. I deal with mostly technically oriented people so I think for mere mortals this percentage would be even higher. Hotmail and Yahoo account for a lot of bogus email, but you cannot just block the domain on your mail server due to the huge amount of "valid" transmissions.
If more people ran their own domains in a strong hierarchy (like say: yourname.city.locality.country) then a potential spammer has much more to lose.
I personally have had good luck turning off a default address for my domain (it's a pain for people who cannot remember a trivial address) as it keeps about 80% of the UCE I recieved out. I added a dash of SpamAssassin and procmail, I have terminated all spam. I was getting about 120mb of spam per month, which equates to a 17 hour download time over my piddly modem. At minimum wage ($5.35) that comes to about $100 in time.
Therefore, allow me to bill giantpenis.com or hugetits.edu with a standard form for email that is unsolicited. This allows me to pick and choose who I like to get mail from and punishes those that don't offer services I need (as in the example).
Given that you'd have to download them you can modify the file on the way out to be a hash of your user id, address, etc AND the song information. This hash does not have to be one way either. This could be encoded onto the file in the form of a watermark. RIAA, if they wanted to, could even impose that you would have to know a secret key to be able to play the file as well (this requires support from the OS, or software). I'm sure at some point RIAA will try some scheme like the MPAA has on DVD encryption.
This way RIAA/whomever can see who "owns" that track in both senses. Who gets paid for it, and who paid for it.
I can think of a few creative uses of mod_rewrite to stop people from hot linking your images. Here is a tutorial on how to set it up using something as trivial as .htaccess.
Most graphic designers that I've come across can't use their software (primarily Adobe stuff: Photoshop, Illustrator) worth a damn. So they have to have the fast machines. When you don't know how to properly plan your file sizes and image formats you end up wasting a lot of CPU cycles on transforming that 600mb JPEG.
The other reason most of them "have to" have the latest Apple schwag is the fact that they are addicted like junkies on crack to whatever Apple chooses to shoot into the Mac market bloodstream.
Otherwise most Mac hardware just lasts, that's why picking up an older G3 on eBay is a great deal. You just have to find some half witted graphic artist that is selling his year old machine. I used to work for a pre-press shop that would only buy machines used like this, we got good deals and had good machines.
I was in your shoes about five years ago. I chose to take on (at the time) digital prepress as a career. That got morphed into being a sys admin after a while. But, the most frustrating thing I have ever been told when interviewing for jobs is that it appears that I'm not as professional or qualified due to my lack of a degree. I know it doesn't matter, the person interviewing knows that it doesn't matter, but the person at the top thinks that it's a Good Thing(tm).
The next headache that I dealt with was watching all of the people I went to high school with graduating college. I graduated from high school two years early, I could have been done with collge by the time I was 19. But, I chose not to go then and now I'm in my second semester.
College is a good choice, do it when you are young. Having not gotten 'addicted' to the money that comes from working full time, full time school is much easier to take. Trust me, you won't learn a damn thing about being a system administrator in your first two years but you will gain habits and interpersonal skills that you'd have to hard-fight to get out of school.
There are two paths for the sys admin right now that are worth looking at: Computer Science and Computer Information Systems. I personally think that the CIS programs are a joke at most schools and teach you nothing more than a simple business degree would if you took comp sci classes as your electives. I watched my roommate go through some of the classes and the closest he got to 'real' sys admin type work was in a Java class. A business degree and some computer knowledge would open many doors for you. But if you are like me, you'd like the comp sci program more (don't forget the math, it's important!).
My suggestion is to give school a try, cutting your teeth too soon means taking crappy jobs, enjoy your youth and don't work it away in a darkened NOC!
J
Excellent point!
Why don't these huge companies get it that if they change the license and not the product they will be able to protect themselves? If you could track the download of the song (the watermarked data could be a hash of your name and/or account number) and then that could be used to bill you for copies that you illegally distribute. Granted, it wouldn't be that long before someone would figure a way to easily remove the watermark...
So, um, how fast can this thing compile a kernel? ;)
I bet some choice congressmen would find this kind of thing 'Innovative'...
I know, it's bad...
Yeah the bonus for paying for /. is that you'll get 'special' articles by JonKatz that are even longer, more whiny and twice as irritating...
With Win2k you can get this little patch and then you have a free as in beer IPSec implementation provided by Microsoft under Win2k. It even supports x509 certs. IPSec clients are not that expensive. Look at SSH Sentinal for another option. It even supports the newer AES ciphers (which I don't expect out of Microsoft for a long time)as added security.
For all of this you have to patch the code to use the newer ciphers. You can get that here and if you need to use x509 certs you can get that stuff here. This is all pretty easy if you have you druthers about compiling new kernels and working with OpenSSL.
Why this isn't in the kernel to begin with is anybody's guess. I would guess that it has something to do with all those pesky crypto export laws. Just like everything else in the ol US of A we have to sacrifice our freedoms so that we can be safe from the KGB and that one guy from Hackers.