I get the same smile on my face when I finally get some code to compile, or linux to work with some new hardware, as when I hear the rumble of the engine I've been trying to start for the past 5 hours.
You don't get dirty when you work on computers, but you do get the reward of doing double the legal speedlimit when you're done 'upgrading' a car.
Then again, who's ever gotten a speeding ticket while using a computer?
There's no argument that a Visual C++ or even VB programmer is going to be useful or at least informative when Office 97 bombs out with a GPF.
I've worked with alot of other techs, and they didn't pay attention to alot of Windows internals that I would, because they had no clue about them. Whats a specific DLL do? No clue. They could go to Microsoft's support site, and look up a fix, but you can't beat knowing where the problem lies.
And to do any kind of UNIX admin you've got to know your way around gcc, make, etc.
But do you need to know assembly language?
Probably not....
Knowledge of general programming is very useful though!
While in high school, I was a in-store geek at Best Buy for over 2 years.
Then I worked for a mom-n-pop networking shop.
Now, with ~ 4 years experience, I'm -the- IT guy for a $150 million dollar construction company.
Good article if you are putting together an older machine to run as a dedicated box, or what to cobble together a terminal with spare parts.
Or, if you just want to make your 1.6GHZ totally SCREAM.
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Well, I'd say almost all the PC's on the market are really ugly. Dell has a few decent looking cases, so does Sony, but most of the crap out there looks too funny.
You'd figure a big company like Dell (IBM could, but they'd be the last) would hire an art department like the geniuses at Apple have.
I guess you can't have you cake and eat it too.
IBM's supposed to get out of PC's every year....
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The company has not been a leader with its desktop machines, and appears to lose money on them. Rumors persist that IBM will end this aspect of its business.
They've really never dominated the PC industry once the clones entered.
They make great servers, microcomputers, mainframes, and good desktops, but the stuff is expensive.
Personally, I don't like the NetVista line at all.
We had PC 300 GL's in school, they were great.
I've got 2 Netfinity servers here at work, can't complain about them, or IBM's service support one bit. I'd buy IBM desktops if we weren't currently entrenched in Dell. (which I have no problem with either)
They need to embrace Linux, even more than they do now. Maybe their own distro, one that works perfect with ThinkPads and a new line of PowerPC machines!
Open source has seem to become 'lets re-invent the MS wheel'.
I sort of think of it as attempting to provide free, open software that's compatible with the non-free software.
I think it'd make sense to do more free software for windows though. Maybe if they free'd up Visual Studio.....
In a few hotels. Think it was just test markets though.
Each room had a WebTV on Ethernet, and a T1 or whatever went to the hotel.
Maybe you could scoop one of those boxes up and rig it up to a Linksys router?
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I get the same smile on my face when I finally get some code to compile, or linux to work with some new hardware, as when I hear the rumble of the engine I've been trying to start for the past 5 hours.
You don't get dirty when you work on computers, but you do get the reward of doing double the legal speedlimit when you're done 'upgrading' a car.
Then again, who's ever gotten a speeding ticket while using a computer?
There's no argument that a Visual C++ or even VB programmer is going to be useful or at least informative when Office 97 bombs out with a GPF.
I've worked with alot of other techs, and they didn't pay attention to alot of Windows internals that I would, because they had no clue about them. Whats a specific DLL do? No clue. They could go to Microsoft's support site, and look up a fix, but you can't beat knowing where the problem lies.
And to do any kind of UNIX admin you've got to know your way around gcc, make, etc.
But do you need to know assembly language?
Probably not....
Knowledge of general programming is very useful though!
While in high school, I was a in-store geek at Best Buy for over 2 years. Then I worked for a mom-n-pop networking shop. Now, with ~ 4 years experience, I'm -the- IT guy for a $150 million dollar construction company.
Good article if you are putting together an older machine to run as a dedicated box, or what to cobble together a terminal with spare parts. Or, if you just want to make your 1.6GHZ totally SCREAM.
This is one hot little PC!
Also, does it run cool?
Well, I'd say almost all the PC's on the market are really ugly. Dell has a few decent looking cases, so does Sony, but most of the crap out there looks too funny.
You'd figure a big company like Dell (IBM could, but they'd be the last) would hire an art department like the geniuses at Apple have.
I guess you can't have you cake and eat it too.
The company has not been a leader with its desktop machines, and appears to lose money on them. Rumors persist that IBM will end this aspect of its business.
They've really never dominated the PC industry once the clones entered.
They make great servers, microcomputers, mainframes, and good desktops, but the stuff is expensive.
Personally, I don't like the NetVista line at all.
We had PC 300 GL's in school, they were great.
I've got 2 Netfinity servers here at work, can't complain about them, or IBM's service support one bit. I'd buy IBM desktops if we weren't currently entrenched in Dell. (which I have no problem with either)
They need to embrace Linux, even more than they do now. Maybe their own distro, one that works perfect with ThinkPads and a new line of PowerPC machines!
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Salmon, mang!
This one got smoked, quick!
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I'd love to live in a house made of Lego's.
I'd probably even be on TV!
You can open it in Word (or your favorite Linux Office Suite) and do a 'Save As', and make it crank the HTML out for you.
In America, it's only 24%. From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing
From the way people still whine about murder and rape, you figure they'd just get used to it by now....
Open source has seem to become 'lets re-invent the MS wheel'. I sort of think of it as attempting to provide free, open software that's compatible with the non-free software. I think it'd make sense to do more free software for windows though. Maybe if they free'd up Visual Studio.....
You can't hit on a girl while you're punching up a video on your remote.
I like riding in a convertible over to the video store.
Also, you've got to leave the house to stock up on pop, popcorn, and taco bell.
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Salmon, mang!
I tried to copyright "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but they won't let me.
Plenty of hours of fun with Banner. Only if I had an old-school dot matrix printer. Not sure why it's in the GAMES folder though.....
Todays 'regular' computers are of no match for this. Quantum computing will simplify this 100X
:)
Possibly, one day, organic computers will simply just dump their core, and we'll have our work done for us
- I want SALMON!
Some old PC's, a old hub, and some wires.
This way you can do anything you need to do, but, it won't affect the network at school.
He'll either come to understand, and let you play with the rest of the network, or he won't.
You win either way.
You're paying for a server to be up, and bandwith. The functionality isn't what you're paying for.
RQ: How fast does Red Carpet serve information?
A: Speeds vary depending upon time of day and the actual number of downloads that are occurring at any moment.
That's pretty much the deal with any server, free or not free.
Who's the deciding factor on adding more bandwith? How many people have to subscribe or complain before they add another 500GB a month?
Walk in to Best Buy, Meijers, Toys R Us, Circuit City.
What do you see?
PILES of PlayStation 2's.
You've got to buy little Johnny SOMETHING! You can't let him play the Nintendo 64 for 5 straight years!
If Microsoft or Nintendo would have DOUBLED production, they still would have sold them out.
The problem is, they thought with the economy, and layoffs, they'd play it safe and only sell the small amount they did.
Now, Sony just gets farther ahead.
I live in the states and can't get DSL, but they can get hack Microsoft from caves? Anything IS possible though
In a few hotels. Think it was just test markets though. Each room had a WebTV on Ethernet, and a T1 or whatever went to the hotel. Maybe you could scoop one of those boxes up and rig it up to a Linksys router?
http://crystalpc.com/products/dsoverview.asp
30 seconds with Yahoo! does the job for you!
You can try BigFoot.
"The last email address you'll ever need"
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