Another thing to look at is the Distance Education and Training Council's list of accredited remote learning institutions, before making a choice of where to pursue your "fast-track" education. There are a few on the list that bypass a number of the liberal arts and humanities requirements, which might help your goal of speeding things up (but won't necessarily stand up to scrutiny by an employer who really wants someone with a more well-rounded education).
Since the article body only referenced the Experian press release, I thought a few people might be interested in the press release from the other side. It reads a little differently, but the gist appears to be the same; opt-in is not required.
That being said, since they went commercial, their value to the community as a whole has been significantly lower. I would recommend people use alternativelistings at this point.
Aren't these the same clowns who keep spamming me about buying their developers' kit every time I post to one or two mailing lists? Hmmm, yopydeveloper.com...yep, that's them. Annoying little buggers, and won't stop spamming you despite requests to desist.
Given the proliferation of cheap (ala CheapBytes) and free (from zedz, for example) ISO images of OpenBSD CDs, and the far more "available" nature of your *BSD and Linux competition, do you believe that your copyright (and through it, the official OpenBSD policies you've created) on the layout of the OpenBSD CD still warranted? Why?
I just finished completing the paperwork for my N-600 (Application for a Certificate of Citizenship; used for people like me who, for example, might have been born abroad to U.S. parents, and now want to be able to prove their citizenship), as opposed to the N-400 (Application for Naturalization) or green card application, but it all goes through the same people and red tape.
It took two years just to receive a response back from the INS to state that they had my paperwork and that they were beginning the process of looking at it. Six months later, I finally had an interview with a real human being over there (thus giving me a contact point), and six months after that, the paperwork was completed. Three years spent in total.
N-400's and green card applications are much more complicated. I would expect it to take at least six years, probably more.
One thing that stood out for me after I finally had a human contact was their willingness to help out, even though they were hopelessly overloaded; the officer I worked with had a case load that was at burn-out levels, and I can make a pretty good guess at the lousy salary she was making from it. She helped as much as she could to get the process done quickly for me, but I'd be willing to bet she won't be working their much longer.
This wasn't a planning problem on the part of the H1B visitors; they did everything they were supposed to do, coming in on an H1B visa, then starting the application process for a green card (followed by naturalization, presumably). This has been a glorious screwup on the part of INS management; They're burining out their people, which is leading to reduced productivity and employee turnover. All of that has been slowing the process to a snail's pace, screwing both people trying to come to the U.S. and U.S. citizens trying to make use of a horribly broken system.
One amusing tidbit that I found while perusing the source for the Kuro5hin home page was this:
<!-- <p>On a side note, I'll prepare a list of the sites involved in the initial attack who have not been helpful in finding information about the attacker. Expect to see it within a few weeks.</p> -->
It would be nice to know where this abuse originated, and who was most interested in protecting them. A nice LARTing is definitely in order.
I disable VRFY and EXPN on all mail servers that I administer, although not because of any fear of increased spam. Sendmail's implementation will reveal whether that address is being forwarded elsewhere, and if so, where. This is unacceptable for many uses, as you might not generally want to make the "real" address well known. It's a pretty basic privacy concern.
> He does make some valid points about DNS issues and non-cacheability
Actually, intelligent site design gets around the cachability aspect; simply refer all your images (or other multimedia content, such as audio or video) to the master host by explicit URL references. Or, better yet, send all "large data" requests to a separate hostname entirely, which you could then optionally build out as a distributed file-serving cluster to handle increasing demand over time.
If you're going to modify/usr/bin/whois, modify it to point at "whois.crsnic.net" instead of "rs.internic.net", since InterNIC no longer holds the final canonical information regarding domain dispositions.
No offense, but what do you expect? It's the core library that -everything- links against, and competes with the kernel for being the most complex piece of software you'll run.
I'd expect it to have a few dependancies on other software, frankly, and when you're upgrading something as fundamental as that, I'd expect that you'd think the upgrade through a little more carefully, or wait for your OS vendor to provide an upgrade if you're not up to the task.
Regarding the duality of options, frankly, '-i' means very little to a new user, but '--initialize' provides a hint as to what the option might accomplish. The idea behind long options is to provide a human-parsable alternative to the shorter versions. The overhead of adding this support is extremely low, and the benefits for first-time users more than pay for it.
Info format is awful. You'll hear no argument from me. But think about when it was proposed; the only alternative really was roff. Man pages fail to solve one question in an important two-part problem: how do I learn this, and how do I look up information after I've learned it. Man pages solve the latter. SGML manuals, properly written, can solve both, providing both a tutorial, and a reference.
Attracting newbies isn't the goal; helping people use the system is, on both counts.
Slashdot Mirror
The entire CVS history can be pulled down from:
Grab it while you can.
Another thing to look at is the Distance Education and Training Council's list of accredited remote learning institutions, before making a choice of where to pursue your "fast-track" education. There are a few on the list that bypass a number of the liberal arts and humanities requirements, which might help your goal of speeding things up (but won't necessarily stand up to scrutiny by an employer who really wants someone with a more well-rounded education).
Since the article body only referenced the Experian press release, I thought a few people might be interested in the press release from the other side. It reads a little differently, but the gist appears to be the same; opt-in is not required.
That being said, since they went commercial, their value to the community as a whole has been significantly lower. I would recommend people use alternative listings at this point.
The domain wincvs.org seems to be dead, but here's a working link that appears to serve up the same content:
Aren't these the same clowns who keep spamming me about buying their developers' kit every time I post to one or two mailing lists? Hmmm, yopydeveloper.com...yep, that's them. Annoying little buggers, and won't stop spamming you despite requests to desist.
An excellent book on this subject is Getting Started in Consulting, by Alan Weiss© While not specifically targetted at the technology consulting arena, it covers many fundamentals that you'll need to work through; getting started without starving, how to keep work coming in, how to handle contracting with others, establishing billing practices, and making sure that you don't undervalue yourself ¥likely the biggest problem most people have©
Given the proliferation of cheap (ala CheapBytes) and free (from zedz, for example) ISO images of OpenBSD CDs, and the far more "available" nature of your *BSD and Linux competition, do you believe that your copyright (and through it, the official OpenBSD policies you've created) on the layout of the OpenBSD CD still warranted? Why?
I just finished completing the paperwork for my N-600 (Application for a Certificate of Citizenship; used for people like me who, for example, might have been born abroad to U.S. parents, and now want to be able to prove their citizenship), as opposed to the N-400 (Application for Naturalization) or green card application, but it all goes through the same people and red tape.
It took two years just to receive a response back from the INS to state that they had my paperwork and that they were beginning the process of looking at it. Six months later, I finally had an interview with a real human being over there (thus giving me a contact point), and six months after that, the paperwork was completed. Three years spent in total.
N-400's and green card applications are much more complicated. I would expect it to take at least six years, probably more.
One thing that stood out for me after I finally had a human contact was their willingness to help out, even though they were hopelessly overloaded; the officer I worked with had a case load that was at burn-out levels, and I can make a pretty good guess at the lousy salary she was making from it. She helped as much as she could to get the process done quickly for me, but I'd be willing to bet she won't be working their much longer.
This wasn't a planning problem on the part of the H1B visitors; they did everything they were supposed to do, coming in on an H1B visa, then starting the application process for a green card (followed by naturalization, presumably). This has been a glorious screwup on the part of INS management; They're burining out their people, which is leading to reduced productivity and employee turnover. All of that has been slowing the process to a snail's pace, screwing both people trying to come to the U.S. and U.S. citizens trying to make use of a horribly broken system.
One amusing tidbit that I found while perusing the source for the Kuro5hin home page was this:
It would be nice to know where this abuse originated, and who was most interested in protecting them. A nice LARTing is definitely in order.
I disable VRFY and EXPN on all mail servers that I administer, although not because of any fear of increased spam. Sendmail's implementation will reveal whether that address is being forwarded elsewhere, and if so, where. This is unacceptable for many uses, as you might not generally want to make the "real" address well known. It's a pretty basic privacy concern.
GNU GRUB (the GRand Unified Bootloader) can be downloaded from:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Actually, intelligent site design gets around the cachability aspect; simply refer all your images (or other multimedia content, such as audio or video) to the master host by explicit URL references. Or, better yet, send all "large data" requests to a separate hostname entirely, which you could then optionally build out as a distributed file-serving cluster to handle increasing demand over time.
If you're going to modify /usr/bin/whois, modify it to point at "whois.crsnic.net" instead of "rs.internic.net", since InterNIC no longer holds the final canonical information regarding domain dispositions.
Didn't take long:
www.jarjarsucks.com
No offense, but what do you expect? It's the core library that -everything- links against, and competes with the kernel for being the most complex piece of software you'll run.
I'd expect it to have a few dependancies on other software, frankly, and when you're upgrading something as fundamental as that, I'd expect that you'd think the upgrade through a little more carefully, or wait for your OS vendor to provide an upgrade if you're not up to the task.
Regarding the duality of options, frankly, '-i' means very little to a new user, but '--initialize' provides a hint as to what the option might accomplish. The idea behind long options is to provide a human-parsable alternative to the shorter versions. The overhead of adding this support is extremely low, and the benefits for first-time users more than pay for it.
Info format is awful. You'll hear no argument from me. But think about when it was proposed; the only alternative really was roff. Man pages fail to solve one question in an important two-part problem: how do I learn this, and how do I look up information after I've learned it. Man pages solve the latter. SGML manuals, properly written, can solve both, providing both a tutorial, and a reference.
Attracting newbies isn't the goal; helping people use the system is, on both counts.