1. Well this one wasn't me but is still funny. I was working with a friend at one of his clients. Had a computer the owner had assembled but we couldn't get any video. We tried everything, even had the owners wife go and buy another video card. After about an hour of this we finally notice the motherboard was installed with no stand-offs.
2. Back in the mid 1990's I was working on a friends Windows computer and for some reason I thought He wanted to erase his drive so I did a "format c:". I knew from the expression on his that's NOT what he wanted, we still talk about that today.
I have the experience but when I come across a job ad and I can meet all the requirements except for the list of certs they have I sit there and wonder do they even know what those certs mean?
My personal experience you get alot more out of one-on-one interviews but if I don't have the right certs I never get past the door. 2 years without a regular job and counting-thank goodness for contract work.
I use the rsync solution for my home computer(although to an external hard drive, not a second computer) and love it, as a matter of fact I had an unplanned test last night and it rebooted without a hitch.
If you really wanted to save some more money you could use an external drive to rsync to although you would have to get your server fixed before you could copy the rysnc'd files back over.
As a PC Tech/Sysadmin in my town I have encountered at least a couple of place's of business that use specialized software that requires the caps lock key be activated so, no, it's not dead. I personally find it annonying when I'm working on their computers I constantly have to shut it off if I go outside said software.
Had almost this same exact experience with a client of mine(although they were using Windows 2000 not NT4). At the time Me and a friend of mine replaced their Win 2000 Server/Exchange Server setup with a Linux box and the email server we chose to use is Postfix, it's coming up on the 1 year install anniversary with no problems. Mind you I've never used/setup Sendmail but after all the horror stories I've heard I don't think I want to.
I used to work(thank you HP/Compaq merger) at a company that was a contractor for HP and at it's height employed 8 people. I was more than an IT person I was the computer person(well I had a guy that worked under me but for the first year he was just a wrench monkey) in a warehouse full of computers which were my responsibility and you know I LOVED IT. I was also responsible for the internal network and the T1 line. Probably the best job I ever had, I have a chance to work at another small company, about 35 people, if they decide to hire me I hope I can get a portion of the satisfaction I had at my previous job.
I'm paying $45/month for 1.5mps down/128kps up for my cable connection. If I could get DSL where I live(I can't) than it would be about the same or more. We do have a new broadband wireless ISP here in town but it's more expensive. I always thought $45/month was to expensive, now I'm sure...
For the first milli-second I thought "Wow, a life size Saturn V Rocket!", the second thought I had was "I need more money and a bigger back yard". After half a second I caught on.
-An ISA ESS Soundcard. It's the one with the ES1869F
Chipset. I don't quite know how old it is but it's since it's ISA
probably not from this century.
-Another ISA Card, don't know brand. It's a sound card with a
cdrom controller on it. One of the IC's has a date of 1993 on it.
-Yep, another ISA Card. A Creative Labs CT3930 Sound Card with
date on it of 1994. It also has an IDE interface and both the
memory banks(for SoundFont I assume) have memory in them.
-I believe the floppy drive in my Midtower is from the late '90's, I
remember using it when I had my Celeron 300A Computer.
-Up until about 4 months ago I was using a Cyrix 233(underclocked to
166) w/48MB Ram for my Firewall until I got my hands on a superfast AMD
K6-350 w/128MB of Ram.
Old stuff that is from my(or my Dad's PC Repair Business) customers:
-Church I did some work for still had a couple of HP Omnibook 800's
w/dockstations(Pentium 166 models) that they were using as
Workstations. I just recently replaced the last of them with a
used Cyrix 333 w/64MB of Ram and a 3GB Hard Drive.
-A computer at a Salvage yard has an old Tracker Tape system for
backup's, I don't know how old it is but they remember having it 5
years when they remodeled the office. I also replaced an old
Server from the same location(and same age) back in the Spring when the
Raid system went south, I believe it was 300+ Mhz.
-I'm repairing a Display on an old Compaq Presario Pentium 233 Notebook.
Well to answer your question, no I'm not new around here. Yes, I know that for eons now there have been the CLI vs. GUI wars but that doesn't change the fact that I think it's pointless to have that argument.
I was just coming over to Linux and the CLI was rather intimidating but
then I found this thing called Webmin. Webmin got me up to speed
faster than anything else would. Several years later now I
use the CLI about 50% of the time and Webmin 50% of the time, it's
strange that Webmin made it easier for Me to use CLI more.
Thats right I said Webmin made Me more comftorable using CLI to the
point now where I use it more and more.
BTW, this whole CLI vs. GUI thing is stupid, as long as we're using
Linux who cares?!?!?!
Even though I'm a Gentoo fanatic I would recommend using Clarkconnect(www.clarkconnect.org based on Redhat 7.3) for testing. I installed this at a business several weeks ago(first ever email server I installed) and it was alot easier than I thought, I even got a Webmail interface up and going.
If you want a easy to use interface for it I also recommend Webmin for administrating it unless you are really into command lines that is.
http://www.encorp.com/
I was watching my local news a couple of days ago and they did a report on this company which is based not to far from where I live. The Spokesperson they interviewed said that if their hardware products were in use in the Niagra area this blackout this would've never happened, interesting.
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My Dad uses and is satisfied with this. I however am pretty satisfied with my extrenal 80GB Firewire Drive and 256MB USB Pen Drive.
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Sorry, this product/products are not available in your state.
This would've been perfect for one of my customers.
I can confirm it not working with 2 versions of gcc. I tried it with my midtower running 3.4.0 and a laptop with 3.3.3, it no worky.
Here's what I use at home and with some of my clients:
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http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapsh
1. Well this one wasn't me but is still funny. I was working with a friend at one of his clients. Had a computer the owner had assembled but we couldn't get any video. We tried everything, even had the owners wife go and buy another video card. After about an hour of this we finally notice the motherboard was installed with no stand-offs.
2. Back in the mid 1990's I was working on a friends Windows computer and for some reason I thought He wanted to erase his drive so I did a "format c:". I knew from the expression on his that's NOT what he wanted, we still talk about that today.
I say ditto.
I have the experience but when I come across a job ad and I can meet all the requirements except for the list of certs they have I sit there and wonder do they even know what those certs mean?
My personal experience you get alot more out of one-on-one interviews but if I don't have the right certs I never get past the door. 2 years without a regular job and counting-thank goodness for contract work.
Out of all the people on here who posted similar reasons to mine you picked me to respond to!
:)
Yes!! I've made it!!! I feel special.
In order:
1. Spyware/Viruses/Worms
2. Bloat
3. Stability issues
4. Microsoft Business Practices
5. Lack of customization ability
I use the rsync solution for my home computer(although to an external hard drive, not a second computer) and love it, as a matter of fact I had an unplanned test last night and it rebooted without a hitch.
If you really wanted to save some more money you could use an external drive to rsync to although you would have to get your server fixed before you could copy the rysnc'd files back over.
As a PC Tech/Sysadmin in my town I have encountered at least a couple of place's of business that use specialized software that requires the caps lock key be activated so, no, it's not dead. I personally find it annonying when I'm working on their computers I constantly have to shut it off if I go outside said software.
Had almost this same exact experience with a client of mine(although they were using Windows 2000 not NT4). At the time Me and a friend of mine replaced their Win 2000 Server/Exchange Server setup with a Linux box and the email server we chose to use is Postfix, it's coming up on the 1 year install anniversary with no problems. Mind you I've never used/setup Sendmail but after all the horror stories I've heard I don't think I want to.
What about a Beowulf Cluster of dead badgers?
I used to work(thank you HP/Compaq merger) at a company that was a contractor for HP and at it's height employed 8 people. I was more than an IT person I was the computer person(well I had a guy that worked under me but for the first year he was just a wrench monkey) in a warehouse full of computers which were my responsibility and you know I LOVED IT. I was also responsible for the internal network and the T1 line. Probably the best job I ever had, I have a chance to work at another small company, about 35 people, if they decide to hire me I hope I can get a portion of the satisfaction I had at my previous job.
I'm paying $45/month for 1.5mps down/128kps up for my cable connection. If I could get DSL where I live(I can't) than it would be about the same or more. We do have a new broadband wireless ISP here in town but it's more expensive. I always thought $45/month was to expensive, now I'm sure...
http://www.systemrescuecd.org
I going to summarize it fruther to one word: holes
For the first milli-second I thought "Wow, a life size Saturn V Rocket!", the second thought I had was "I need more money and a bigger back yard". After half a second I caught on.
Here is what I personally have:
-An ISA ESS Soundcard. It's the one with the ES1869F Chipset. I don't quite know how old it is but it's since it's ISA probably not from this century.
-Another ISA Card, don't know brand. It's a sound card with a cdrom controller on it. One of the IC's has a date of 1993 on it.
-Yep, another ISA Card. A Creative Labs CT3930 Sound Card with date on it of 1994. It also has an IDE interface and both the memory banks(for SoundFont I assume) have memory in them.
-I believe the floppy drive in my Midtower is from the late '90's, I remember using it when I had my Celeron 300A Computer.
-Up until about 4 months ago I was using a Cyrix 233(underclocked to 166) w/48MB Ram for my Firewall until I got my hands on a superfast AMD K6-350 w/128MB of Ram.
Old stuff that is from my(or my Dad's PC Repair Business) customers:
-Church I did some work for still had a couple of HP Omnibook 800's w/dockstations(Pentium 166 models) that they were using as Workstations. I just recently replaced the last of them with a used Cyrix 333 w/64MB of Ram and a 3GB Hard Drive.
-A computer at a Salvage yard has an old Tracker Tape system for backup's, I don't know how old it is but they remember having it 5 years when they remodeled the office. I also replaced an old Server from the same location(and same age) back in the Spring when the Raid system went south, I believe it was 300+ Mhz.
-I'm repairing a Display on an old Compaq Presario Pentium 233 Notebook.
I didn't see the "j/k", my bad...
Well to answer your question, no I'm not new around here. Yes, I know that for eons now there have been the CLI vs. GUI wars but that doesn't change the fact that I think it's pointless to have that argument.
I was just coming over to Linux and the CLI was rather intimidating but then I found this thing called Webmin. Webmin got me up to speed faster than anything else would. Several years later now I use the CLI about 50% of the time and Webmin 50% of the time, it's strange that Webmin made it easier for Me to use CLI more.
Thats right I said Webmin made Me more comftorable using CLI to the point now where I use it more and more.
BTW, this whole CLI vs. GUI thing is stupid, as long as we're using Linux who cares?!?!?!
Even though I'm a Gentoo fanatic I would recommend using Clarkconnect(www.clarkconnect.org based on Redhat 7.3) for testing. I installed this at a business several weeks ago(first ever email server I installed) and it was alot easier than I thought, I even got a Webmail interface up and going. If you want a easy to use interface for it I also recommend Webmin for administrating it unless you are really into command lines that is.
http://www.encorp.com/ I was watching my local news a couple of days ago and they did a report on this company which is based not to far from where I live. The Spokesperson they interviewed said that if their hardware products were in use in the Niagra area this blackout this would've never happened, interesting.
Wow, A Sun press release saying that their competitors lost market share, I'm surprised. I'm sure it's impartial.