I agree. It's really more of an art than either a trade or a science - I've been a sysadmin since about 1997 or so, and I can count on one hand the times I've needed to apply heavy math or science to solving a problem.
I have no degree. IT related degrees weren't really offered back then, and if I wanted to take CS I would have been stuck with things like MS-related programming languages, Pascal, etc. I don't miss having a CS or IT degree, and I don't think I've ever been discriminated against for not having one.
What you do need is the ability to think out of the box and at least some creativity. In the jobs I've had where I was in a hiring role, I valued this over anything else.
On a side note, if you really want a degree, get a business or business law related one. After years of working for dud companies (you have no idea how many times I've been laid off, and even I have no idea how many times I've received hot paychecks and worthless stocks), I recently re-started my own company. I good knowledge of taxes and advanced business/management techniques are way more valuable to me now.
It would probably suck for her if some 31337 script kiddies found out shes running an ancient vulnerable version of apache (1.3.14) by going to a site like netcraft or something. It might ruin her whopping 8 day uptime.
Oops I shouldnt have said that, should I?
But to make up for it, I guess Ill add some more email addresses to her list:
(Lets make sure her webhost knows about this too. This is probably redundant putting their addresses here as Im sure they are aware of this already - after all the/. effect has most likely turned their routers into puddles of molten silicon by now.)
sales@olm.net abuse@olm.net root@olm.net
Could be worse though. They could be fax spammers. After all, nothing is worse than some jackass running to the printer, getting that printout of goatse.cx, and faxing it to them. Repeatedly.
Wow, as if postal workers with AK-47s arent bad enough, now someone goes and gives them nukes... How long until some psycho postal employee decides to irradiate their cow-orkers?:)
Mirror in the making at http://deimos.siliconinc.net/cctf
Its currently chugging away at about 250 kbps, so it should be done within a few hours. There is already 1+ gig of data up there for your browsing pleasure, and its chugging away at around 250kbps. Enjoy. If it breaks email me or something.
There actually is a IRIX port. The website for it was somewhere on reality, which of course is down now (but rumor has it may return one day. sooner than you might think too hopefully). However it needs something with TRAM is my understanding. Try Octane MXE, or maybe SE will do. For now Ill stick to Q2 on my octane se.
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I agree. It's really more of an art than either a trade or a science - I've been a sysadmin since about 1997 or so, and I can count on one hand the times I've needed to apply heavy math or science to solving a problem.
I have no degree. IT related degrees weren't really offered back then, and if I wanted to take CS I would have been stuck with things like MS-related programming languages, Pascal, etc. I don't miss having a CS or IT degree, and I don't think I've ever been discriminated against for not having one.
What you do need is the ability to think out of the box and at least some creativity. In the jobs I've had where I was in a hiring role, I valued this over anything else.
On a side note, if you really want a degree, get a business or business law related one. After years of working for dud companies (you have no idea how many times I've been laid off, and even I have no idea how many times I've received hot paychecks and worthless stocks), I recently re-started my own company. I good knowledge of taxes and advanced business/management techniques are way more valuable to me now.
It would probably suck for her if some 31337 script kiddies found out shes running an ancient vulnerable version of apache (1.3.14) by going to a site like netcraft or something. It might ruin her whopping 8 day uptime.
u rceconsulting.comc ome sourceconsulting.coml ting.com
/. effect has most likely turned their routers into puddles of molten silicon by now.)
Oops I shouldnt have said that, should I?
But to make up for it, I guess Ill add some more email addresses to her list:
laura@dataresourceconsulting.com
root@datareso
nobody@dataresourceconsulting.
admin@dataresourceconsulting.com
abuse@datar
webmaster@dataresourceconsu
steve@dataresourceconsulting.com
(Lets make sure her webhost knows about this too. This is probably redundant putting their addresses here as Im sure they are aware of this already - after all the
sales@olm.net
abuse@olm.net
root@olm.net
Could be worse though. They could be fax spammers. After all, nothing is worse than some jackass running to the printer, getting that printout of goatse.cx, and faxing it to them. Repeatedly.
FAX: 360 323 1929
For those that havent already fixed it, a patch was just released for the race condition in 4.4. Get patch here:
S A- 02:08/exec.patch
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/
Wow, as if postal workers with AK-47s arent bad enough, now someone goes and gives them nukes... How long until some psycho postal employee decides to irradiate their cow-orkers? :)
http://www.siliconinc.net/quake2.zip.
Enjoy, and happy fragging.
Mirror in the making at http://deimos.siliconinc.net/cctf
Its currently chugging away at about 250 kbps, so it should be done within a few hours. There is already 1+ gig of data up there for your browsing pleasure, and its chugging away at around 250kbps. Enjoy. If it breaks email me or something.
There actually is a IRIX port. The website for it was somewhere on reality, which of course is down now (but rumor has it may return one day. sooner than you might think too hopefully). However it needs something with TRAM is my understanding. Try Octane MXE, or maybe SE will do. For now Ill stick to Q2 on my octane se.