I stopped reading when the quoted "statistics" from Partnership for a Drug Free America. They use long discredited studies and studies with questionable methodology along with pulling numbers out of their butts to push an agenda.
It is an interesting subject. I just want an article with research. Not propaganda from a shill group.
That's where I'm at. Just replace Indian with Chinese and you have it.
My employer (who bought my real employer after a chap 11) has decided to close our local office and outsource development to Hong Kong and Beijing. They offered severance and a completion bonus on a fuzzy end date so we would stay to write documents and train our replacements.
It's degrading work getting ready to train kids (most of us are in our 30s-40s) fresh out of college in China to do our jobs. Every day I see at things that need to be done and just let it slide. It's not my job anymore. I try to get motivated to document and train but it's hell. I just don't care.
The worst part is seeing one of the finest dev teams I've ever worked with torn apart and demoralized. All this because of company internal politics. Our office produced great code and made the company money. We just weren't part of the old boys netowork so nobody could stop the axe.
I'm getting my resume tuned up and if I get a good enough offer I'm out of there. I may try to stay for the money but being there is so destructive to my sense of self worth I probably won't.
... and I'll add my own bit. Read a lot. I like http://safari.oreilly.com/ because I save a ton of money on books.
Install your own Linux network and way over engineer it. You'll learn lots by setting up DNS, NIS, Apache and other services.
When you don't know something Google is your friend. Lot's of people forget this. Got an error? Google it. Want to see how NIS works? Google it. It's pretty rare to have a question that hasn't been asked a hundred times before.
Pick a subsystem and study it. Do a "ps ax" and pick a process and learn what it does, how to configure it and whatnot. That's the beauty of Linux you can dig as deep as you want.
I also hear from a number of friends that installing Gentoo is a great way to learn. The docs are excellent and you learn a lot by the time you've got a base system up and running.
Never lose your curiosity for how things work. It's the key to learning.
I was reading the other day that QoS doesn't work all that well. It's easier and cheaper to make the pipes bigger on the long hauls. I'd cite the source but I can't seem to find it.
Extensive use of QoS will require much more powerful routers with more complex routing software. That's a good recipe for trouble. If QoS generates enough problems they will lose money on the whole deal.
In addition I'd add that Yahoo Groups tend to lose and delay a lot of mail and don't have all that much storage. You're much better off setting something up on a server at home or on a inexpensive web host.
For security I would hope the compile takes place on the server.
I would also think that by assigning servers to an area if the objects in the area have bugs (naaah, never could happen) it would only disable that parcel of land.
Now if the SL Linux client would actually work I'd be happy.
Since Second Life allows users to create objects for the game world I would expect them to have a lot more CPU dedicated to running it. Since the user content is interpreted (I assume) then you need a lot of horsepower to allow sims to interact with those objects.
I work for a British company (from here in the US) and they have an absolute passion for intrusive, complicated and completely ineffective security measures and from what I've heard is this is rather common.
I've always been of the opinion that eventually automation would turn most US fast food into large vending machines with a dining room. You'd only need 1-2 people a shift then.
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I've got some stuff made for LCD screens that cleans the screen and fills in the tiny scratches. I don't remember the name and I'm at work.
There are a lot of LCD screen restorers out there. They all should work.
I'm waiting for the black one. My old DS will do fine until then.
I stopped reading when the quoted "statistics" from Partnership for a Drug Free America. They use long discredited studies and studies with questionable methodology along with pulling numbers out of their butts to push an agenda.
It is an interesting subject. I just want an article with research. Not propaganda from a shill group.
Seems ironic they don't have a wiki when most of the wikis out there are written in PHP.
That's where I'm at. Just replace Indian with Chinese and you have it.
My employer (who bought my real employer after a chap 11) has decided to close our local office and outsource development to Hong Kong and Beijing. They offered severance and a completion bonus on a fuzzy end date so we would stay to write documents and train our replacements.
It's degrading work getting ready to train kids (most of us are in our 30s-40s) fresh out of college in China to do our jobs. Every day I see at things that need to be done and just let it slide. It's not my job anymore. I try to get motivated to document and train but it's hell. I just don't care.
The worst part is seeing one of the finest dev teams I've ever worked with torn apart and demoralized. All this because of company internal politics. Our office produced great code and made the company money. We just weren't part of the old boys netowork so nobody could stop the axe.
I'm getting my resume tuned up and if I get a good enough offer I'm out of there. I may try to stay for the money but being there is so destructive to my sense of self worth I probably won't.
... and I'll add my own bit. Read a lot. I like http://safari.oreilly.com/ because I save a ton of money on books.
Install your own Linux network and way over engineer it. You'll learn lots by setting up DNS, NIS, Apache and other services.
When you don't know something Google is your friend. Lot's of people forget this. Got an error? Google it. Want to see how NIS works? Google it. It's pretty rare to have a question that hasn't been asked a hundred times before.
Pick a subsystem and study it. Do a "ps ax" and pick a process and learn what it does, how to configure it and whatnot. That's the beauty of Linux you can dig as deep as you want.
I also hear from a number of friends that installing Gentoo is a great way to learn. The docs are excellent and you learn a lot by the time you've got a base system up and running.
Never lose your curiosity for how things work. It's the key to learning.
So you want your fingers stuck to your back?
Are you in Cirque Du Soleil?
I was reading the other day that QoS doesn't work all that well. It's easier and cheaper to make the pipes bigger on the long hauls. I'd cite the source but I can't seem to find it.
Extensive use of QoS will require much more powerful routers with more complex routing software. That's a good recipe for trouble. If QoS generates enough problems they will lose money on the whole deal.
If you want to roll your own solution try SiteBar (http://sitebar.org), the SiteBar XBELSync plugin and the bookmark sync extension.
Zope/Plone is great if you're running your own server but rather expensive if you get it hosted.
I use Zope/Plone for my home server. If you want a wiki you can add ZWiki (http://zwiki.org).
Mod parent up. It's right on.
In addition I'd add that Yahoo Groups tend to lose and delay a lot of mail and don't have all that much storage. You're much better off setting something up on a server at home or on a inexpensive web host.
It better not make any sparks.
For security I would hope the compile takes place on the server.
I would also think that by assigning servers to an area if the objects in the area have bugs (naaah, never could happen) it would only disable that parcel of land.
Now if the SL Linux client would actually work I'd be happy.
Since Second Life allows users to create objects for the game world I would expect them to have a lot more CPU dedicated to running it. Since the user content is interpreted (I assume) then you need a lot of horsepower to allow sims to interact with those objects.
If you're in Windows try TortiseSVN . It's a Explorer plugin and makes Subversion very easy to use.
The longer tapes had issues with stretching because the media was thinner.
Arrgghh! I almost lost my lunch on that one.
I'm adding that to my "Funny" folder.
People hate them because they cost more then a same sized CF/SD/MMC/XD and are the only thing built in to Sony hardware.
I work for a British company (from here in the US) and they have an absolute passion for intrusive, complicated and completely ineffective security measures and from what I've heard is this is rather common.
You must be from Texas.
> I for one dig that.
Umm, wrong site.
True, but I see way too much of the bad and not enough of the good.
My cynicisim may make it harder to see the good.
> If this keeps up, companies will have exactly one employee, with all functions outsourced, rented, or leased.
Reminds me of this: http://www.illwillpress.com/tech2.html
I've got a Chihuahua that's smarter then a lot of US CEOs.
Upper management in the US is about schmoozing and personality. Brains dosen't figure into it.
Yes, I know there are exceptions.
I've always been of the opinion that eventually automation would turn most US fast food into large vending machines with a dining room. You'd only need 1-2 people a shift then.