But Hickory is the world's copper and fiber manufacturing capital!:) Corning and CommScope! I spent a year and half there myself as the Network Manager at Frye... as you say, not a lot happening on the geek front.
Wow. I'm impressed! I can't believe 8 folks in my hometown (well, Kernersville) read/. Maybe it isn't as bad as I think. Though, we did have our fun during the early to mid 80s with the Padded Cell, Monterey Bay, and the like... ahhh, memories of growing up. Good to see geek life down there! Have fun!!!
Might want to check into Security Geeks at www.securitygeeks.com . Basically it is a free user group for security geeks to get together and brainstorm, exchange information and contacts.
There are only a couple of chapters so far, DC and Seattle being the first up and running with a Silicon Valley chapter in the works. If you interested in starting other chapters, information is available at the website. The DC meetings have been going quite well, especially for a user group type of thing.
There was also a nice turn out for a VPN duct-tape-a-thon where lots of folks got together and brought various pieces of VPN equipment in. The idea was to pass on knowledge to each other and try and get inter-product IPSec VPNs working. It was reported that the event had good knowledge transfer between everyone and I'm sure other special events are sure to come!
Though Jar-Jar had few redeeming qualities, I can't say that I have a particular need for him to not show up in future movies. One thing that I hope Lucus doesn't do is distract too much from the meat of the possible plots with useless drivel from Jar-Jar's race like happened with the Ewoks.
With the rumer that everything takes place on their home world though, it would be hard not to have the bumbling idiot brigade interfering with some very interesting other plot lines. Such as what happens to a Jedi when they are struck down, explanations for the clone wars, and of course the whole corruption of Anakin.
Though I'd gladly give up a serious movie for one simply spin off... Jar-Jar's Trek to the Dark Side. --
As much as I hate to have to agree with you, it definate sums up many of my feelings for slackware as well. I first started using Slackware back in the days of it being SLS, I'll never forget sneaking into a college computer lab and downloading 30 or so 1.44mb flopyy disks so I could go home and install the latest stuff.
But times change, now instead of having plenty of free time like I did when I was just getting started in the industry I have actual work to get done and it always seems to be more than I have time for. Playing around with stuff is fun, but not if I want to actually prove my point that I can be productive with Linux instead of Windows.
I still have my complaints with RedHat 5.2 though, it installs and discovers everything nicely, but I don't understand how come they've decided to put things in non-standard places and create dedicated files that aren't supposed to be edited. I still wonder why Netscape is in/usr/lib/netscape, and where in the world they came up with their netscape scripts in the/usr/bin directory, I guess someone somewhere had really good reasons for it. Too bad they don't take the time to tell anyone.
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But Hickory is the world's copper and fiber manufacturing capital! :) Corning and CommScope! I spent a year and half there myself as the Network Manager at Frye... as you say, not a lot happening on the geek front.
jay
Wow. I'm impressed! I can't believe 8 folks in my hometown (well, Kernersville) read /. Maybe it isn't as bad as I think. Though, we did have our fun during the early to mid 80s with the Padded Cell, Monterey Bay, and the like... ahhh, memories of growing up. Good to see geek life down there! Have fun!!!
Jay
Might want to check into Security Geeks at www.securitygeeks.com . Basically it is a free user group for security geeks to get together and brainstorm, exchange information and contacts.
There are only a couple of chapters so far, DC and Seattle being the first up and running with a Silicon Valley chapter in the works. If you interested in starting other chapters, information is available at the website. The DC meetings have been going quite well, especially for a user group type of thing.
There was also a nice turn out for a VPN duct-tape-a-thon where lots of folks got together and brought various pieces of VPN equipment in. The idea was to pass on knowledge to each other and try and get inter-product IPSec VPNs working. It was reported that the event had good knowledge transfer between everyone and I'm sure other special events are sure to come!
Jay
Though Jar-Jar had few redeeming qualities, I can't say that I have a particular need for him to not show up in future movies. One thing that I hope Lucus doesn't do is distract too much from the meat of the possible plots with useless drivel from Jar-Jar's race like happened with the Ewoks.
With the rumer that everything takes place on their home world though, it would be hard not to have the bumbling idiot brigade interfering with some very interesting other plot lines. Such as what happens to a Jedi when they are struck down, explanations for the clone wars, and of course the whole corruption of Anakin.
Though I'd gladly give up a serious movie for one simply spin off... Jar-Jar's Trek to the Dark Side.
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As much as I hate to have to agree with you, it definate sums up many of my feelings for slackware as well. I first started using Slackware back in the days of it being SLS, I'll never forget sneaking into a college computer lab and downloading 30 or so 1.44mb flopyy disks so I could go home and install the latest stuff.
/usr/lib/netscape, and where in the world they came up with their netscape scripts in the /usr/bin directory, I guess someone somewhere had really good reasons for it. Too bad they don't take the time to tell anyone.
But times change, now instead of having plenty of free time like I did when I was just getting started in the industry I have actual work to get done and it always seems to be more than I have time for. Playing around with stuff is fun, but not if I want to actually prove my point that I can be productive with Linux instead of Windows.
I still have my complaints with RedHat 5.2 though, it installs and discovers everything nicely, but I don't understand how come they've decided to put things in non-standard places and create dedicated files that aren't supposed to be edited. I still wonder why Netscape is in