The primary thing you need to work out is where you want to go - what is your dream job? What skills do you need to get there? What experience?
If you know where you're going and how it's going to help you get there, the stress becomes almost irrelevant. Last year, I was promoted to a supervision of a significant hardware and software upgrade to 1000 odd sites, each one taking between 1 and 3 hours.
I never wanted to be in any kind of management role - I'm aiming to become a networking specialist. The connection between the two isn't obvious at first. However, managing a team of 7 temps (who turned over far too often for my liking) performing an ungodly number of upgrades yeilded a huge number of problems - especially when the upgrade exposed a significant bug in the firmware of the firewall appliance in use. That resulted in working 10-12 hours a day, often 6 days a week cleaning up the resulting mess and dealing with sites screaming abuse at you regularly because they could no longer trade until a replacement unit was sent out. (due to the scale of the deployment, having replacement equipment available to all 45 field techs wasn't financially feasible)
Because I knew in my heart that trying to find the cause of the problems would be brilliant experience for the future, the dreadful hours were almost a non issue. (the fact that I live 90 minutes away from the office didn't help) In fact, I was almost enjoying work. Had I not known exactly where I wanted to go and how my current job would help me get there, the stress would probably have killed me.
Any job will have stress involved. Any worthwhile job will have proportionally more stress involved. Learn to deal with it, and most importantly, keep on top of it! Feeling out of control makes things considerably worse. Learn how to relax. Don't get in to the trap of your life becoming work/sleep/work/sleep/work/sleep. You absolutely need to find something to keep yourself occupied during "off" hours. (This is a trap I fell into)
I think you probably get where I'm going with this. Goal setting makes many people roll their eyes, but without it, you'll just feel lost.
I suspect $25,000 is not enough to defend *any* case. That would barely cover David Boies's laundry bills.
Somehow I seriously doubt that David Bowie's laundry bills would be covered by this policy. It's probably not the best analogy to be made.
Having said that, such an expensive product for such minor coverage would be like purchasing a hankerchief from David Bowie to wear (as your sole item of clothing) on a cold winter's day. It's a nice statement to make, but isn't really going to make much difference in the long run.
It's not that it won't take, it just won't boot. And yes, it's set to boot from CDs fine because my Win XP and Win 2k3 Server CDs boot fine.
It's a pretty straight-forward P4 2.6 HT running on a high-end Gigabyte board. Unless the current versions of the linux bootloaders (plural) have serious issues with SATA drives, I can't see where the problem is at.
No doubt it's a BIOS setting somewhere... I just haven't found the time to go fishing for it yet...
However, "the masses" are not interested in these management tools - as long as they can change a few settings on their own home/office desktop, and they can find things in there easily, then they'll be happy. It's the administrators who need these tools.
Yes, I should have clarified that. However, many administrators won't consider Linux on the desktop until it's nearly as easy to manage as Windows (hack, spit) and until people are "forced" to use Linux at work and become more familliar with it, it won't even be considered at home. There are some other issues, but for the most part, WebMin and/or a remote desktop solution (of which there are more than enough for Linux) will solve most of them.
One thing Linux desperately needs is a standard for many things - a network aware file sytem and user authentication being prime among them. There are currently far too many choices, most of which require quite a lot of work to implement. SMB isn't going to be a long-term option given what an abortion it is - engineered for incompatibility. NFS/NIS won't cut the mustard any more. The problem is that for the time being, SMB works (kinda-sorta) and I don't see any real effort being directed into an alternative.
Database frontend: for KDE, it's coming, and it's called Kexi. It looks pretty good so far. For groupware, there's Kontact.
Kexi I wasn't aware of. Looks nice thus far, and the integration of a basic reporting tool is a real plus. After a brief (OK, very brief) look, I don't see connectivity to an external database server (MySQL/PGSQL/Oracle etc) as an option - hopefully that's something that will change.
I knew of Kontact, but last time I'd seen anything of it, it wasn't anything more than plans on the drawing board. Certainly an advance to "beta" status is a welcome change.
Whilst it's all well and good that the Linux desktop is very pretty, it's still not as intuitive and easily mass-managed as it needs to be in order for it to be ready for the masses.
Whilst I haven't looked at KDE recently (for some reason, my current PC refuses to boot any version of Linux I've thrown at it so far. Annoying, to say the least) modifying desktop behaviour was a horrific settings search. I don't recall an easy method (ala Policies) for enforcing desktop and icon settings.
In any case, the desktop isn't the most important part of any operating system. Before Linux will be 100% ready for prime time, we need a lot more well-integrated application programs - the killer ones of course being a decent database (frontend - myPHPAdmin doesn't qualify), office suite (certianly getting there with OpenOffice) and "groupware" application. Whilst there are a few nice web-based applications, these are not as easy to use and flexible as a native application is.
Having said that, any time I need to find an application to recommend at work, my first point of call is and always will be Sourceforge. Even if the application doesn't do precisely what we need, the company I work for isn't adverse to a little "tuning" of an application. (this is not always a good thing - our current workflow application is an abortion that grew from it's original Excel spreadsheet)
Something tells me you didn't actually check your link all that carefully before posting the link. Yes, they've gone down in the past week. However, if you check the graph for the past year, you'll probably notice that it started at a low of 2.23 in March last year, reached a high of 22.29 in September/October before it started declining to it's present value of 7.77.
Stop SPAM by sending thousands of emails? That's funny.;-)
Well yes, but since the FTC is using IPs they have identified as being open relays, it's really no different to the script that many of people (myself included) are running to shut down IIS on a Code Red/Nimda server along with a pop-up message.
If, on the other hand, the FTC were sending emails to tens of thousands of mail servers simply because they were there... that's another thing.
(disclaimer: Yes I do see the funny side of it - it's worth the chuckle...)
...so you don't need to register...
The Sharer
By DAVID DIAMOND
Published: September 28, 2003
Q: You gave Linux, the operating system, to the world free, in effect jump-starting the open-source movement. Now this previously obscure company, SCO Group, claims ownership of some of the code and threatens to close the door on open source and Linux. I suppose it's to be expected that when you send your offspring out into the world, you have to be prepared for your kid to run with a crowd you don't approve of.
Oh, Linux has grown up, and it's running with a crowd that I certainly never expected, like I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard. That's not the issue. SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.
So does this issue matter to you personally?
I've tried to stay away from distractions. But especially since they have started threatening to send invoices to Linux users, it may eventually escalate to the point where I have to start taking legal steps.
Is file-sharing, which has the recording industry so up in arms, the ''dark side'' of open-source attitudes?
Sharing is certainly not bad in itself. In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. What the recording industry is so worried about is obviously something totally different -- the ''sharing'' of stuff that isn't yours to share in the first place.
O.K. So what are your views on sharing music files?
I don't actually think about it much; I listen to the radio if I listen to music. What I do find interesting is how the file-sharing thing ends up changing how people think about computers and copyright law. Some of it is a bit scary: just the fact that your question equated sharing with something bad is a pretty scary statement in itself. What also bothers me is the apparent dishonesty of especially the R.I.A.A., claiming that file-sharing is destroying their business and that they are losing billions of dollars on it. There's been a number of studies done, and it looks like the major reason for the dip in CD sales ends up being lack of interest in the music produced. And let's face it -- how many boy bands can you try to sell before your revenues start dipping?
We've been getting hit with a lot of viruses and worms lately. What's your idea for ending the attacks?
When you have people who hook up these machines that weren't designed for the Internet, and they don't even want to know about all the intricacies of network security, what can you expect? We get what we have now: a system that can be brought down by a teenager with too much time on his hands. Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the finger at him and say, ''Bad boy!'' and slap him for it. Will that actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile.
Since you moved to Silicon Valley from Finland in 1997, how has the region's aggressive approach to money-making affected you?
Oh, how I hate that question. I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. They came here because this is where the action is. You go out for dinner, and all the tables are filled with engineers talking about things that won't be available to ''normal people'' for a few years. If ever.
People position you as the nemesis to Bill Gates. He started Microsoft and you started Linux, the big competition to Microsoft's dominance of operating systems. Is that an unfair or inaccurate c
Short version, this fits in to the context that all too many companies do nowadays. Certainly here in.au, I've heard the criticism of the major investment houses not thinking through the issues before voting (or proxying their votes) at a shareholders meeting. The large trading houses are not thinking in terms of "is this good for the company?", they're taking only the most cursory looks at the issue and trusting what the board tells them.
And all this with scarcely more computing power than a late '70s video game and a maximum data transfer rate of ~120 bits/s over a distance of more than 600 million Km.
I'm betting that Microsoft didn't write it's operating system.
Asked if the establishment of an open-source initiative by Japan, China and South Korea would raise international trade concerns, Robertson, a former U.S. Trade Representative official, said it was too early to determine.
Loosely translated, this means that Micro$oft hasn't contributed enough money to someone's political campaign just yet.
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If you know where you're going and how it's going to help you get there, the stress becomes almost irrelevant. Last year, I was promoted to a supervision of a significant hardware and software upgrade to 1000 odd sites, each one taking between 1 and 3 hours.
I never wanted to be in any kind of management role - I'm aiming to become a networking specialist. The connection between the two isn't obvious at first. However, managing a team of 7 temps (who turned over far too often for my liking) performing an ungodly number of upgrades yeilded a huge number of problems - especially when the upgrade exposed a significant bug in the firmware of the firewall appliance in use. That resulted in working 10-12 hours a day, often 6 days a week cleaning up the resulting mess and dealing with sites screaming abuse at you regularly because they could no longer trade until a replacement unit was sent out. (due to the scale of the deployment, having replacement equipment available to all 45 field techs wasn't financially feasible)
Because I knew in my heart that trying to find the cause of the problems would be brilliant experience for the future, the dreadful hours were almost a non issue. (the fact that I live 90 minutes away from the office didn't help) In fact, I was almost enjoying work. Had I not known exactly where I wanted to go and how my current job would help me get there, the stress would probably have killed me.
Any job will have stress involved. Any worthwhile job will have proportionally more stress involved. Learn to deal with it, and most importantly, keep on top of it! Feeling out of control makes things considerably worse. Learn how to relax. Don't get in to the trap of your life becoming work/sleep/work/sleep/work/sleep. You absolutely need to find something to keep yourself occupied during "off" hours. (This is a trap I fell into)
I think you probably get where I'm going with this. Goal setting makes many people roll their eyes, but without it, you'll just feel lost.
Ah! Someone else who shares my occasional lysdexia!! Finally!
Having said that, such an expensive product for such minor coverage would be like purchasing a hankerchief from David Bowie to wear (as your sole item of clothing) on a cold winter's day. It's a nice statement to make, but isn't really going to make much difference in the long run.
It's not that it won't take, it just won't boot. And yes, it's set to boot from CDs fine because my Win XP and Win 2k3 Server CDs boot fine. It's a pretty straight-forward P4 2.6 HT running on a high-end Gigabyte board. Unless the current versions of the linux bootloaders (plural) have serious issues with SATA drives, I can't see where the problem is at. No doubt it's a BIOS setting somewhere... I just haven't found the time to go fishing for it yet...
Using GRUB won't solve a thing when I can't even get a Linux CD to boot from the machine - including Knoppix.
Yes, I should have clarified that. However, many administrators won't consider Linux on the desktop until it's nearly as easy to manage as Windows (hack, spit) and until people are "forced" to use Linux at work and become more familliar with it, it won't even be considered at home. There are some other issues, but for the most part, WebMin and/or a remote desktop solution (of which there are more than enough for Linux) will solve most of them.
One thing Linux desperately needs is a standard for many things - a network aware file sytem and user authentication being prime among them. There are currently far too many choices, most of which require quite a lot of work to implement. SMB isn't going to be a long-term option given what an abortion it is - engineered for incompatibility. NFS/NIS won't cut the mustard any more. The problem is that for the time being, SMB works (kinda-sorta) and I don't see any real effort being directed into an alternative.
Kexi I wasn't aware of. Looks nice thus far, and the integration of a basic reporting tool is a real plus. After a brief (OK, very brief) look, I don't see connectivity to an external database server (MySQL/PGSQL/Oracle etc) as an option - hopefully that's something that will change.
I knew of Kontact, but last time I'd seen anything of it, it wasn't anything more than plans on the drawing board. Certainly an advance to "beta" status is a welcome change.
Whilst I haven't looked at KDE recently (for some reason, my current PC refuses to boot any version of Linux I've thrown at it so far. Annoying, to say the least) modifying desktop behaviour was a horrific settings search. I don't recall an easy method (ala Policies) for enforcing desktop and icon settings.
In any case, the desktop isn't the most important part of any operating system. Before Linux will be 100% ready for prime time, we need a lot more well-integrated application programs - the killer ones of course being a decent database (frontend - myPHPAdmin doesn't qualify), office suite (certianly getting there with OpenOffice) and "groupware" application. Whilst there are a few nice web-based applications, these are not as easy to use and flexible as a native application is.
Having said that, any time I need to find an application to recommend at work, my first point of call is and always will be Sourceforge. Even if the application doesn't do precisely what we need, the company I work for isn't adverse to a little "tuning" of an application. (this is not always a good thing - our current workflow application is an abortion that grew from it's original Excel spreadsheet)
Yes, it is. However, SSH has been around for a significant time and still hasn't replaced telnet, even given the horrific security holes in telnet.
Something tells me you didn't actually check your link all that carefully before posting the link. Yes, they've gone down in the past week. However, if you check the graph for the past year, you'll probably notice that it started at a low of 2.23 in March last year, reached a high of 22.29 in September/October before it started declining to it's present value of 7.77.
Oops.
"No, no, I meant nobody would ever need more than 640 gigabytes of memory!!!"
That many germs? Hmm... I'll have to remember to request a toilet seat next time I get my desk chair replaced. Just think of the advantages...
No, it looks like Feb 1st has arrived. At least it has in Australia, New Zealand and many places close to the international date line...
Well yes, but since the FTC is using IPs they have identified as being open relays, it's really no different to the script that many of people (myself included) are running to shut down IIS on a Code Red/Nimda server along with a pop-up message.
If, on the other hand, the FTC were sending emails to tens of thousands of mail servers simply because they were there... that's another thing.
(disclaimer: Yes I do see the funny side of it - it's worth the chuckle...)
...in which case you might end up more fertile than ever? :)
_ _
Reminds me of one of those joke e-mails sent to me by a friend recently...
____________________________________
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law
somewhere.
You really should see a doctor about that...
...so you don't need to register... The Sharer By DAVID DIAMOND Published: September 28, 2003 Q: You gave Linux, the operating system, to the world free, in effect jump-starting the open-source movement. Now this previously obscure company, SCO Group, claims ownership of some of the code and threatens to close the door on open source and Linux. I suppose it's to be expected that when you send your offspring out into the world, you have to be prepared for your kid to run with a crowd you don't approve of. Oh, Linux has grown up, and it's running with a crowd that I certainly never expected, like I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard. That's not the issue. SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux. So does this issue matter to you personally? I've tried to stay away from distractions. But especially since they have started threatening to send invoices to Linux users, it may eventually escalate to the point where I have to start taking legal steps. Is file-sharing, which has the recording industry so up in arms, the ''dark side'' of open-source attitudes? Sharing is certainly not bad in itself. In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. What the recording industry is so worried about is obviously something totally different -- the ''sharing'' of stuff that isn't yours to share in the first place. O.K. So what are your views on sharing music files? I don't actually think about it much; I listen to the radio if I listen to music. What I do find interesting is how the file-sharing thing ends up changing how people think about computers and copyright law. Some of it is a bit scary: just the fact that your question equated sharing with something bad is a pretty scary statement in itself. What also bothers me is the apparent dishonesty of especially the R.I.A.A., claiming that file-sharing is destroying their business and that they are losing billions of dollars on it. There's been a number of studies done, and it looks like the major reason for the dip in CD sales ends up being lack of interest in the music produced. And let's face it -- how many boy bands can you try to sell before your revenues start dipping? We've been getting hit with a lot of viruses and worms lately. What's your idea for ending the attacks? When you have people who hook up these machines that weren't designed for the Internet, and they don't even want to know about all the intricacies of network security, what can you expect? We get what we have now: a system that can be brought down by a teenager with too much time on his hands. Should we blame the teenager? Sure, we can point the finger at him and say, ''Bad boy!'' and slap him for it. Will that actually fix anything? No. The next geeky kid frustrated about not getting a date on Saturday night will come along and do the same thing without really understanding the consequences. So either we should make it a law that all geeks have dates -- I'd have supported such a law when I was a teenager -- or the blame is really on the companies who sell and install the systems that are quite that fragile. Since you moved to Silicon Valley from Finland in 1997, how has the region's aggressive approach to money-making affected you? Oh, how I hate that question. I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers. They came here because this is where the action is. You go out for dinner, and all the tables are filled with engineers talking about things that won't be available to ''normal people'' for a few years. If ever. People position you as the nemesis to Bill Gates. He started Microsoft and you started Linux, the big competition to Microsoft's dominance of operating systems. Is that an unfair or inaccurate c
Why does this sound suspiciously like some washing machine technology gone totally mad?
...I firmly believe that this (extremely) old joke probably contributed more than anything to the invention of the optical mouse...
Loosely translated, this means that Micro$oft hasn't contributed enough money to someone's political campaign just yet.