I sent an email last year after using e-Tax on a borrowed windows machine. I never got a response to that email. The software seems to be somewhat java based, and I don't see why they need to wrap it in a.exe. Aren't governments supposed to make this easy for everyone and not discriminate? Is this not discrimination?
Are you looking at tech savvy newbies (the BOFHs of the future) or Joe User?
For me, a growing tech savvy young man a while back, being introduced to linux was cool. I finally had control of my PC. Several years ago someone introduced me to Slackware and all I did was start playing.
I had at first someone to help me, then I read some books, but my best resource has been the internet.
Slackware does not hide you behind something fancy, but is a little easier to use compared to LFS or Gentoo.
I can now jump in and use any distribution. You have to be careful not to change config files without changing the database, but you learn the hard way.
If you are trying to get Joe User to use it, you need to find a book related to one distro, because all the config things are different.
This is what makes Linux hard from Joes perspective. If he buys a book written for Suse and then buys Redhat, the gui config tools won't be the same. The other problem is everything changes so quickly that books have a hard time keeping up with GUI changes and config tool changes. Joe doesn't know that "ethernet card config" is the same as "network config". This makes it very hard for them.
Anyway... don't buy a book if you are wanting to be the BOFH of the future, dive in and give it a go. Join a LUG, jump on some mailing lists, find a friend who already has some experience.
Things to show off on TV: All the cool stuff that open source is used for everyday: rendering LOTR for example.
I hate typing stuff in, and I hate writing stuff down. All I want to do is say "Cowboy Neal; Birthday; 25 December 1997" and a new entry for cowboy neal is added if it doesn't already exist and the birthdate is added.
I landed a job before I finished Polytech, (when I was an Electronics Tech), I then managaed to get a low level Linux/NT admin role for a small company. Moving on from there has been the hard part. I have done Linux cert, and have started a BSc and found it really hard to get the position I am about to move into. This was gained by knowing people on the inside.
From personal experience Oracle is probably the best industry cert in terms of "employability". I can't say what the certification is like I have never done it.
On another note a friend was having a similar problem just recently. Finished degree, and couldn't get a job. He was on a benefit and the NZ Govt. paid for his J2EE cert that he did while on the benefit. Landed a job not long after.
If you want a job do the one with the most industry cred and later do the one you enjoy. Please the employer to get the foot in, then work towards doing what you enjoy.
We did one better in NZ. Our government paid NZ$10M (about US$4.4M) to Microsoft for software for schools. Education Minister Trevor Mallard signed an agreement in Seattle that gives New Zealand schools access to the latest versions of a package of Microsoft products. This link has more details about the affirmentioned agreement. So we just handed over the money. No arm twisting, nothing!
Took a litlle while, but you did it!
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I've had this problem before, so intermittent I didn't think it was worth worrying about.
When I noticed it the most (figured this out the other day) was when I had several compiles going at the same time, ie kde3 libs and say a new patched kernel.
I could never get it to reliably repeat, so never looked into it.
Great to see someone actually had the patience to figure it out:-) !!!!
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I sent an email last year after using e-Tax on a borrowed windows machine. I never got a response to that email. The software seems to be somewhat java based, and I don't see why they need to wrap it in a .exe. Aren't governments supposed to make this easy for everyone and not discriminate? Is this not discrimination?
All I know is, if the systems I look after are down for any period of time, someone is liable for $1.7M per hour.
Pat the box.... pat the box....
Used it so many times have lost count.
The only problem is having to reboot the machine to slide another IDE disk to put the image on.
This is how we image our "standard desktops". Dual boot Linux/Win2k.
It all depends on your audience.
Are you looking at tech savvy newbies (the BOFHs of the future) or Joe User?
For me, a growing tech savvy young man a while back, being introduced to linux was cool. I finally had control of my PC. Several years ago someone introduced me to Slackware and all I did was start playing.
I had at first someone to help me, then I read some books, but my best resource has been the internet.
Slackware does not hide you behind something fancy, but is a little easier to use compared to LFS or Gentoo.
I can now jump in and use any distribution. You have to be careful not to change config files without changing the database, but you learn the hard way.
If you are trying to get Joe User to use it, you need to find a book related to one distro, because all the config things are different.
This is what makes Linux hard from Joes perspective. If he buys a book written for Suse and then buys Redhat, the gui config tools won't be the same. The other problem is everything changes so quickly that books have a hard time keeping up with GUI changes and config tool changes.
Joe doesn't know that "ethernet card config" is the same as "network config". This makes it very hard for them.
Anyway... don't buy a book if you are wanting to be the BOFH of the future, dive in and give it a go. Join a LUG, jump on some mailing lists, find a friend who already has some experience.
Things to show off on TV: All the cool stuff that open source is used for everyday: rendering LOTR for example.
I hate typing stuff in, and I hate writing stuff down. All I want to do is say "Cowboy Neal; Birthday; 25 December 1997" and a new entry for cowboy neal is added if it doesn't already exist and the birthdate is added.
I guess it just don't scale well!!
Maybe we could put a bunch of PS2s together and call it "Games Cluster".
I guess I have been really lucky.
I landed a job before I finished Polytech, (when I was an Electronics Tech), I then managaed to get a low level Linux/NT admin role for a small company. Moving on from there has been the hard part. I have done Linux cert, and have started a BSc and found it really hard to get the position I am about to move into. This was gained by knowing people on the inside.
From personal experience Oracle is probably the best industry cert in terms of "employability". I can't say what the certification is like I have never done it.
On another note a friend was having a similar problem just recently. Finished degree, and couldn't get a job. He was on a benefit and the NZ Govt. paid for his J2EE cert that he did while on the benefit. Landed a job not long after.
If you want a job do the one with the most industry cred and later do the one you enjoy. Please the employer to get the foot in, then work towards doing what you enjoy.
We did one better in NZ. Our government paid NZ$10M (about US$4.4M) to Microsoft for software for schools.
Education Minister Trevor Mallard signed an agreement in Seattle that gives New Zealand schools access to the latest versions of a package of Microsoft products.
This link has more details about the affirmentioned agreement.
So we just handed over the money. No arm twisting, nothing!
Well done all /. readers.
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Why must the US keep spending money on bigger guns?
Lets try peace! (or bigger pipes so I can have 1 Gb internet to my home!)
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I've had this problem before, so intermittent I didn't think it was worth worrying about.
:-) !!!!
When I noticed it the most (figured this out the other day) was when I had several compiles going at the same time, ie kde3 libs and say a new patched kernel.
I could never get it to reliably repeat, so never looked into it.
Great to see someone actually had the patience to figure it out