I've got nearly 40K MP3s (mostly 192kbit, but most recent ones are higher) and it only takes up around 220GB.
this guy has 750GB. Being in the music industry, I assume he may have everything encoded higher than 192kbit (he sounds like he may be an audiophile), but I still find it safe to assume that he's got at least 100,000 files in his music library.
Personally, even though I've got 40,000 tracks, I really only *like* about 3000. My iPod's got all the music that I'm either trying to get into, was into recently or currently into on it and it's only got 3200 tracks on it right now. Because of this, my iTunes library only has what I feel like listening to at any given moment. I've got a an external 300GB drive where I have everything sorted by artist and album and when I wanna listen to something, I just pull it off and drop it into iTunes.
I'd hate to see how 100K tracks would perform trying to browse on the xbox360. browsing through 5000 tracks is a pain enough.
I also wondered how *only* a black finish makes a MacBook $150 more expensive and "elite" but.. common sense isn't popular these days.
As lame as it is, Apple only offers the black MacBook with a minimum of a 120GB harddrive. Once you upgrade the white model to a 120GB drive, the price reaches 1449.99, making the black model a $50 premium. Now, I agree that is very lame and Apple is profiting from the fact that black is a far cooler color to have for a laptop than white and is less prone to dirt and stains. My macbook has 2 dark spots where my palms rest. I really wish I could have afforded to get the black model.
As for the 360's premium for the large harddrive, this is the way I see it... Microsoft is profiting from people's desire for a black 360, which, I must admit, I am drooling over. I don't have an HDTV, so the HDMI is lost on me. However, Microsoft is overcharging for a device which will most likely be used SOLELY for purchased content FROM Microsoft. I agree with Penny Arcade when they say that the cost of the larger drive should be subsidized by Microsoft. Sure, you can pick up an external USB drive weighing in at 400GB for $120-$200, depending on the brand, but you can't store premium content on there (ie: videos/music/games purchased from XBoxLive Marketplace and game demos). You can only store purchased content on the INTERNAL drive.
It's an excellent business move, in terms of profitability, by Microsoft, however it's a move that was intended to fuck as much money out of their customers as they possibly can.
I also feel that Microsoft dropped the ball when they failed to include the HD-DVD drive in the Elite system, especially considering that I believe it's sole purpose was to compete against the PS3. When the enormously upgraded device is still around 25$ cheaper than the least expensive model of Sony's PS3 and has a drive twice the size of the larger PS3, it makes the purchase decision a little easier for the customer.
At least Sony made it possible to install your own drive in the PS3. That move was welcomed by all.
Yeah, I really hope that doesn't happen. Geek Squad has earned itself a laughable status lately.
I got this email this morning (I use speakeasy for my web servers). So far, speakeasy has had excellent service. Between getting 3mbit/768kbit DSL line with 8 static IPs and 8 1GB usenet accounts for 85$/month (slashdot promo), their not blocking servers, and their incredibly fast response time for problems, the service has been top notch. Completely decimated verizon's service on all levels.
I've never liked bestbuy. To me, they're like the wal*mart of electronics stores. Sure, they've got pretty much everything, but they're constantly trying to sell you things. It's not about service with them, it's about getting every penny out of your pocket that they can. They have no soul to their spin.
I really hope bestbuy's deep pockets enable speakeasy to deliver better service rather than let it stagnate or deteriorate. I guess I'll just have to play the waiting game.
I did my due-googling and in the spectrum of copyright infringement, I want to believe I'm closer to the speeder than I am the serial-killer. Other photo houses (Getty) send out cease and desist letter and it's done.
I understand that he learned about the cease and desist letter through his googling.
Also, I'm surprised that they are going after the site so hard. The reason for the $25K invoice is probably because it's overseas and it's a lot more work for them to have to hire a UK lawyer to take care of things rather than doing it on their local turf.
In my experience, Corbis seems to generally have much better stock photos than anyone else, but they also charge significantly more for the rights to use them. They also have much more strict rules for the usage and base their quotes on how the item's being used, how many people will see it, the size of the final print, etc.
I've done mockups for clients and Corbis has quoted $10,000 for a pair of ultra-high res graphics. The cost of the job was only around $900, which made that quote prohibitively expensive. The client even asked if we could just use the mockup for production, they didn't care if the quality was bad, but we refused.
The college experience can be invaluable for discovering yourself and finding out how you want to live the rest of your life.
I don't see how that relates to the degree.
I went to college (well, I went to a university). I went for 2 semesters and dropped out because it felt like the same crap that I was going through in high school. The college experience, I feel, helped me out immensely with my social skills and I learned a lot of things about love, life, and technology.
During those 2 semesters, I spent all my time learning java and playing with linux and learning about TCP/UDP networking on the dorm network as I saturated our 10mbit pipe for weeks downloading, uploading and experimenting and I got to see how the campus's network was put together when I had to have a meeting with the network admin about my rampant use of his network (so rampant, I might add, that professors and TAs couldn't log into their grading system).
And although I wasn't paying for college after that, I lived just off campus and continued going to classes with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th year comp-sci friends so I could help them with their assignments and learn more for myself.
Now, about a degree being worthless, it's not. It's your foot in the door at many companies, however, just because you have that piece of paper doesn't prove that you can do the work that's expected of you or that you actually know what you're talking about. I know people who majored in comp-sci and graduated with their bachelors and still have no clue how to code. They have a basic understanding of the difference between TCP and UDP but have absolutely no clue what they're used for or how their used.
At the same time, me, and several other people I know who didn't go to college, and one guy who is a high school dropout, know more than most people with their degree. I've got a friend who just got his CCNA and is working as an assistant network admin at my old university and he only just graduated high school last year.
Now, I'm not saying that no one needs college. College isn't for everybody, and it can be helpful as a guide; you learn about a lot of things, they have a structured learning schedule for learning about the network OSI model and sorting techniques, etc, but just going doesn't magically make you better than someone who didn't go.
When you can show what you've done, what you can do, and what you're capable of picking up, a college degree is just a piece of paper. Actions speak louder than paper.
If SAP can offer as much support as possible to people on their current Oracle software, that's less worry to the customer. They don't have to pay for SAP software/support and Oracle support during the transition phase, so that's just another thing helping them lure Oracle's customer base away.
also, from the SAME SAP IP, they logged in as several different former, or soon to be former customers of Oracle and provided fake information (fake names, emails and phone numbers) and then proceeded to downloaded entire libraries of documentation and other softwares.
the summary doesn't really make the slashdot crowd quite aware of the wrongs that SAP committed. To me, it seems that they gave competitive upgrades to Oracle customers, requiring their Oracle login credentials and then used it themselves to gain access to support documents. It also seems that they figured out weaknesses in Oracle's support website to gain access to unauthorized documents and files.
For me, the big thing about using the mac for everyday tasks is that the UI is way less cluttered and navigating the filesystem is an order of magnitude faster. Simple file management works far better than in Explorer (and OSX's finder is still a steaming pile of shit).
Also, bouncing back and forth between open windows and applications and [more or less] system-wide drag and drop make many operations a breeze.
Another big thing for me are apps and utils that are only found on the mac. Adium, TextMate, Quicksilver, Transmit and Unison. There really is no equal to those apps on any other OS.
Free programming tools also are a huge plus. Applescript, perl, php, python, gcc all being shipped with the system (although the later languages all needing the dev tools to be installed).
That's one reason why I hope to hell that I never go to work at another shop that's windows only. My productivity dropped to unbelievable lows and I hated my job. I thought I didn't wanna do computer stuff anymore until I switched jobs.
Ahhh, I wasn't aware that they were even part of the same project.
The DD-WRT website is very scant on details and only seems to provide a decent explanation of what it is if you already know everything that it does.
I really wish it had a complete list of features on there. After installing it, I tried to figure out (for several hours) how to do snmp monitoring so I could add it to my cacti graphs only to realize that it had that capability in there already. A simple google search would have shown the same thing, but that info should have been readily available on their site and not hidden away in the forums like it is.
Another really cool thing about dd-wrt is that it does have ssh/telnet for doing manual tweaking, although I wasn't immediately able to figure out how to edit anything since it all seems locked/ there's no available disk space.
That article doesn't really give specifics. I mean, I know that areas of the country with higher cost of living get higher salaries... I live in NYC. I've got a friend who's a 5th year HS math teacher and he makes like 45K... Also, I know a girl who's been teaching elementary kids for 10 years and she only makes 32K.
I mean, there's lots of incentives for becoming a teacher and more incentives for teaching in bad neighborhoods and poor cities (such as full re-imbursment for school loans, etc)...
but your article doesn't say where it's getting those salary numbers. Is that public schools? Are they including private schools? higher learning institutions?
just because you throw one article at me, and it's from a.gov, doesn't completely disprove the entire discussion and dissolve all the points that've been made (both in the posts and the slashdot article).
there's all kinds of ways of dressing up numbers and statistics to look their best (or their worst), and just because they say things like "middle half" and "top 10%" doesn't really give enough details. That link of yours is trying to sell something. it's trying to sell the job of a teacher to people. That doesn't mean that the whole thing is a lie, I just want more solid facts.
You need to keep in mind that teachers do not work 40+ hours/week and they get the summers off.
You do make a good point about the time off. I've got a friend who's the IT guy at a private high school and he basically works 9-4 with an hour (free) lunch and gets 8 weeks of vacation through the year. His pay is a little sub-par for what he does and has to deal with, but it's an alright gig. With that much available time off, it's easy to work a second job or even go for more schooling/training.
It's really nice if you wanna teach temporarily until you get more school done and can get an even higher paying job (if that's your goal).
So how do you (and your wife) feel about the prospective salary gap between her and the math/science group? Are you guys for it or against it?
According to Chuck Shumer, one of the senators of NY, the teacher's union is for this.
The problem is that a person with a science or math degree can get a job that pays 40-80K right out of college, where a teacher's salary starts around 30 and doesn't really go much higher than that.
It's really a problem because it kinda forces the old saying "Those who can, do. those who can't Teach." And, although those with a passion who can may also teach, they may be able to due to the tight salary constraints.
I'm totally for salary bumps for teachers of certain subjects. If a 7th grade social studies teacher is bitter because her math-teaching co-worker is making 25% more than her, then why didn't she study math?
It's a universally accepted practice that people in some sub-fields make more than others. Just because you work in a pharmaceutical lab as a tech doesn't mean you should make the same amount of $ as someone else in your lab who's developing breakthrough techniques.
on <1ghz machines with <=512MB RAM, OSX usually feels sluggish in general; but on even relatively recent hardware, OSX is perfectly responsive....stupid HTML entities...;)
I interpret the article as being more about productivity and less about interface sluggishness. on 1ghz machines with =512MB RAM, OSX usually feels sluggish in general; but on even relatively recent hardware, OSX is perfectly responsive. I rarely have responsiveness issues in XP except for the occasional start menu not going away for 30 seconds or an explorer window taking 90 seconds to populate (all the while, the disk has minimal activity and the processor is hovering at 5%). I'm not saying that OSX doesn't have its share of beachballing for apparently no reason, but I feel that XP has a lot more of these issues.
Although the Finder in OSX needs a major re-haul, I'm a lot more productive in OSX. Especially when it comes to file management.
This is mostly because OSX has better file navigation dialogs and it's easier to find and save files. Default locations that work, spring-loaded folders, superior drag and drop behavior, better menu behavior and more intuitive/robust keyboard shortcuts increase productivity and reduce metal fatigue from working with large numbers of files.
Also, a robust set of developer tools provided by Apple for free with the OS can dramatically increase productivity- especially Applescript.
A couple employers ago, I gave 4 weeks notice. They used to lay me off (I'd work 1 day a week, off the books) in the summer because it was slow and I'd always have to find part-time work or live off of savings. The problem with that summer was that I had no savings and the alternate job I found payed me significantly more (about 25% more), had more possibilities for growth, and was only available full-time. This was at the end of june (after I'd been laid off for 2 weeks) and didn't want me to start for a month, so I gave 4 weeks notice.
So, not only did they deny me my unemployment for those 6 weeks, they treated me like shit for the next 2 weeks, so I just stopped coming in. They justified being asses by figuring that since I was laid off and only working 1 day a week, I had really only given them 4 days notice. I said I was willing to work more hours to train someone for that month, but they didn't want to pay someone else or pay me for more than 1 day a week for the summer.
After I was gone, they wound up hiring 4 people to replace me, each one paid about 1/2 of what I was making and each one fresh out of highschool. Once business got busy, I heard from a friend that worked there that 2 of the kids they hired were making about 200$ worth of mistakes a day and they were losing customers left and right.
So, if your employers don't understand how to run a business, and like to treat people like shit, giving notice just causes more problems than it's worth.
I've never really had a problem with kernels in Gentoo. Normally it's just a matter of figuring out what devices are in your machine and then enabling the drivers in the kernel. 9 times out of 10, the machine will boot without issue, but oops, you forgot to enable a USB driver or a driver specific to your sound card and you don't have sound. And if the machine doesn't boot, it'll throw and error and you'll realize "hey, I forgot to enable drivers for my IDE card" or something similar. It's usually obvious what's wrong if you look at the output. The hardest part is finding the exact directive in the menuconfig.
but for some reason, I can't get my machine to boot with the new kernel. I've tried and tried and tried. I went through my old config and compared things; but there's a problem with doing that... The old kernel is 2.6.10 where my new one is 2.6.18 and the latter config has added quite a lot of new stuff.
So my problem is that my server just will not boot, no matter how many times I go through the config and check and uncheck things. It also doesn't help that this machine is only 800mhz, so it takes 20+ minute each time I compile.
If you really wanna dive into AVR programming, you could also check out the Arduino.
It uses an AVR for the controller and doesn't require a PIC programmer, connects over USB to the computer, has support for Windows, Linux and OSX, and comes ready for working when you get it. The only part that is kinda limiting to people unfamiliar with programming is that it uses C++ as the language, but has a very simple instruction set, so the learning curve may be slightly steep for beginner programmers.
Gentoo has proven troublesome in a production environment. The problem isnt updating often... it's when you DONT update often.
That's my only complaint about Gentoo. Although it's my favourite distro, it can be extremely time consuming to update and install software, and when you need to update your kernel, be ready for a day of downtime.
The article makes excellent points. I wouldn't recommend using Gentoo for a server that's going to be running a dozen services, and although portage is great, I'm not really a fan of it on the desktop (for that I use Ubuntu... mostly because of its great support for everything out of the box-- ipod, etc). It takes FOREVER to compile X11 and KDE or Gnome and Firefox on older hardware.
I've got 2 servers running Gentoo at home. One is just a webserver and the other is just a fileserver and coordinates backups of the webserver. They're both 1ghz and updates are a hassle, but I keep the web guy up to date with upgrades more or less once a month. The other one, I recently had to upgrade around 130 packages.
But managing headless servers, for me at least, is a lot easier using Gentoo than any other distro I've tried. I'm not a fan of RedHat's RPMs or Debian's dpkg/dselect. I'm not really big on BSD's ports, although I'm still getting used to that one.
Gentoo is a great distro for learning the ins and outs of Linux. Without it, I think I'd only be an intermediate user and I wouldn't be able to manage a system. I can fix almost anything, now.
I think it's actually a good thing that they're making bootcamp available, even if they are charging for it. It's included with Leopard, and it would've been nice if Apple made some of Tiger's features available to Panther users and Panther features available to Jaguar users. Especially the updated Mail.app, exposé, safari, iChat or the dashboard (although I'm so much a fan of the latter product).
think of it like a free preview of an upcoming feature in a future version of the OS. It would be the same way if they made a beta of TimeMachine or Spaces (that's the name of the VirtualDesktop feature, right?) available, and said that Tiger users could pay a small fee to be able to use the release version.
My dad left me the paper yesterday morning to read this article. It's really quite interesting; especially how he was involved in development of so many technologies, yet he languishes in near-poverty.
I was especially surprised to hear that he has trouble finding work now due to his involvement in phone phreaking in the 70s, and that he helped Apple develop some unreleased phone technologies in the 80s which never saw the light of day because he was involved.
In this day and age, at least, it's surprising to me that people like him have so much trouble finding work, even if he doesn't have a mind for business. With all these has-been blackhat types going legit and giving talks...
Oh well, hopefully there's still some hope for me.;)
I kinda like the idea of not having to worry about the physical disk (getting scratched, etc)... but at the same time, I feel more comforted knowing that the thing is a real disk rather than a burn and I didn't flub and try to save a buck by buying cheap media that's gonna fail me in a year or two.
I'd have to say though, that the BEST part about having physical media, for DVDs at least, is that you can pull it off your shelf and bring it to a friend's and pop it into just about any player they have (xbox, playstation, computer, DVD player, etc) and view it. No need to set up the burn, find your spindle with the precious DL disks, and waste 20 minutes burning it, or even having to waste time re-encoding it to burn to a DVD before leaving to go there. They're convenient and they work.
Although I've got 4 256 disk binders in my room which house my 500 audio CDs (purchased, although rarely, if ever, touched), 200 or so DivX/VCDs that I've downloaded and my old CD-based backups of music videos, mp3s, old pirated software that I never used, old games (myth 1 and 2, warcraft 2, quake1 and 2), and countless project files. The jewel cases to all the legit stuff in there is stored in boxes in the attic of my dad's house, and my DVD collection (about 200 movies or so) fill up two shelves. It's nice to see the collection, and it's reassuring to know they're there if I need them.
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I've got nearly 40K MP3s (mostly 192kbit, but most recent ones are higher) and it only takes up around 220GB.
this guy has 750GB. Being in the music industry, I assume he may have everything encoded higher than 192kbit (he sounds like he may be an audiophile), but I still find it safe to assume that he's got at least 100,000 files in his music library.
Personally, even though I've got 40,000 tracks, I really only *like* about 3000. My iPod's got all the music that I'm either trying to get into, was into recently or currently into on it and it's only got 3200 tracks on it right now. Because of this, my iTunes library only has what I feel like listening to at any given moment. I've got a an external 300GB drive where I have everything sorted by artist and album and when I wanna listen to something, I just pull it off and drop it into iTunes.
I'd hate to see how 100K tracks would perform trying to browse on the xbox360. browsing through 5000 tracks is a pain enough.
I also wondered how *only* a black finish makes a MacBook $150 more expensive and "elite" but.. common sense isn't popular these days.
As lame as it is, Apple only offers the black MacBook with a minimum of a 120GB harddrive. Once you upgrade the white model to a 120GB drive, the price reaches 1449.99, making the black model a $50 premium. Now, I agree that is very lame and Apple is profiting from the fact that black is a far cooler color to have for a laptop than white and is less prone to dirt and stains. My macbook has 2 dark spots where my palms rest. I really wish I could have afforded to get the black model.
As for the 360's premium for the large harddrive, this is the way I see it... Microsoft is profiting from people's desire for a black 360, which, I must admit, I am drooling over. I don't have an HDTV, so the HDMI is lost on me. However, Microsoft is overcharging for a device which will most likely be used SOLELY for purchased content FROM Microsoft. I agree with Penny Arcade when they say that the cost of the larger drive should be subsidized by Microsoft. Sure, you can pick up an external USB drive weighing in at 400GB for $120-$200, depending on the brand, but you can't store premium content on there (ie: videos/music/games purchased from XBoxLive Marketplace and game demos). You can only store purchased content on the INTERNAL drive.
It's an excellent business move, in terms of profitability, by Microsoft, however it's a move that was intended to fuck as much money out of their customers as they possibly can.
I also feel that Microsoft dropped the ball when they failed to include the HD-DVD drive in the Elite system, especially considering that I believe it's sole purpose was to compete against the PS3. When the enormously upgraded device is still around 25$ cheaper than the least expensive model of Sony's PS3 and has a drive twice the size of the larger PS3, it makes the purchase decision a little easier for the customer.
At least Sony made it possible to install your own drive in the PS3. That move was welcomed by all.
Yeah, I really hope that doesn't happen. Geek Squad has earned itself a laughable status lately.
I got this email this morning (I use speakeasy for my web servers). So far, speakeasy has had excellent service. Between getting 3mbit/768kbit DSL line with 8 static IPs and 8 1GB usenet accounts for 85$/month (slashdot promo), their not blocking servers, and their incredibly fast response time for problems, the service has been top notch. Completely decimated verizon's service on all levels.
I've never liked bestbuy. To me, they're like the wal*mart of electronics stores. Sure, they've got pretty much everything, but they're constantly trying to sell you things. It's not about service with them, it's about getting every penny out of your pocket that they can. They have no soul to their spin.
I really hope bestbuy's deep pockets enable speakeasy to deliver better service rather than let it stagnate or deteriorate. I guess I'll just have to play the waiting game.
I did my due-googling and in the spectrum of copyright infringement, I want to believe I'm closer to the speeder than I am the serial-killer. Other photo houses (Getty) send out cease and desist letter and it's done.
I understand that he learned about the cease and desist letter through his googling.
Also, I'm surprised that they are going after the site so hard. The reason for the $25K invoice is probably because it's overseas and it's a lot more work for them to have to hire a UK lawyer to take care of things rather than doing it on their local turf.
In my experience, Corbis seems to generally have much better stock photos than anyone else, but they also charge significantly more for the rights to use them. They also have much more strict rules for the usage and base their quotes on how the item's being used, how many people will see it, the size of the final print, etc.
I've done mockups for clients and Corbis has quoted $10,000 for a pair of ultra-high res graphics. The cost of the job was only around $900, which made that quote prohibitively expensive. The client even asked if we could just use the mockup for production, they didn't care if the quality was bad, but we refused.
The college experience can be invaluable for discovering yourself and finding out how you want to live the rest of your life.
I don't see how that relates to the degree.
I went to college (well, I went to a university). I went for 2 semesters and dropped out because it felt like the same crap that I was going through in high school. The college experience, I feel, helped me out immensely with my social skills and I learned a lot of things about love, life, and technology.
During those 2 semesters, I spent all my time learning java and playing with linux and learning about TCP/UDP networking on the dorm network as I saturated our 10mbit pipe for weeks downloading, uploading and experimenting and I got to see how the campus's network was put together when I had to have a meeting with the network admin about my rampant use of his network (so rampant, I might add, that professors and TAs couldn't log into their grading system).
And although I wasn't paying for college after that, I lived just off campus and continued going to classes with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th year comp-sci friends so I could help them with their assignments and learn more for myself.
Now, about a degree being worthless, it's not. It's your foot in the door at many companies, however, just because you have that piece of paper doesn't prove that you can do the work that's expected of you or that you actually know what you're talking about. I know people who majored in comp-sci and graduated with their bachelors and still have no clue how to code. They have a basic understanding of the difference between TCP and UDP but have absolutely no clue what they're used for or how their used.
At the same time, me, and several other people I know who didn't go to college, and one guy who is a high school dropout, know more than most people with their degree. I've got a friend who just got his CCNA and is working as an assistant network admin at my old university and he only just graduated high school last year.
Now, I'm not saying that no one needs college. College isn't for everybody, and it can be helpful as a guide; you learn about a lot of things, they have a structured learning schedule for learning about the network OSI model and sorting techniques, etc, but just going doesn't magically make you better than someone who didn't go.
When you can show what you've done, what you can do, and what you're capable of picking up, a college degree is just a piece of paper. Actions speak louder than paper.
SAP is one of Oracle's biggest competitors.
If SAP can offer as much support as possible to people on their current Oracle software, that's less worry to the customer. They don't have to pay for SAP software/support and Oracle support during the transition phase, so that's just another thing helping them lure Oracle's customer base away.
I see you read the first page. ;)
also, from the SAME SAP IP, they logged in as several different former, or soon to be former customers of Oracle and provided fake information (fake names, emails and phone numbers) and then proceeded to downloaded entire libraries of documentation and other softwares.
the summary doesn't really make the slashdot crowd quite aware of the wrongs that SAP committed. To me, it seems that they gave competitive upgrades to Oracle customers, requiring their Oracle login credentials and then used it themselves to gain access to support documents. It also seems that they figured out weaknesses in Oracle's support website to gain access to unauthorized documents and files.
For me, the big thing about using the mac for everyday tasks is that the UI is way less cluttered and navigating the filesystem is an order of magnitude faster. Simple file management works far better than in Explorer (and OSX's finder is still a steaming pile of shit).
Also, bouncing back and forth between open windows and applications and [more or less] system-wide drag and drop make many operations a breeze.
Another big thing for me are apps and utils that are only found on the mac. Adium, TextMate, Quicksilver, Transmit and Unison. There really is no equal to those apps on any other OS.
Free programming tools also are a huge plus. Applescript, perl, php, python, gcc all being shipped with the system (although the later languages all needing the dev tools to be installed).
That's one reason why I hope to hell that I never go to work at another shop that's windows only. My productivity dropped to unbelievable lows and I hated my job. I thought I didn't wanna do computer stuff anymore until I switched jobs.
Ahhh, I wasn't aware that they were even part of the same project.
The DD-WRT website is very scant on details and only seems to provide a decent explanation of what it is if you already know everything that it does.
I really wish it had a complete list of features on there. After installing it, I tried to figure out (for several hours) how to do snmp monitoring so I could add it to my cacti graphs only to realize that it had that capability in there already. A simple google search would have shown the same thing, but that info should have been readily available on their site and not hidden away in the forums like it is.
Another really cool thing about dd-wrt is that it does have ssh/telnet for doing manual tweaking, although I wasn't immediately able to figure out how to edit anything since it all seems locked/ there's no available disk space.
I just installed dd-wrt on my Linksys wrt54gl router.
What's really nice is that it gives you a lot more control over routing, albeit with much more added complexity to the interface.
The new software enables snmp monitoring, ssh access, and VLAN control.
my question is, what's the difference between openwrt and dd-wrt?
thank you for the personal attack embedded in a childish post.
;)
the conversation's over.
That article doesn't really give specifics. I mean, I know that areas of the country with higher cost of living get higher salaries... I live in NYC. I've got a friend who's a 5th year HS math teacher and he makes like 45K... Also, I know a girl who's been teaching elementary kids for 10 years and she only makes 32K.
.gov, doesn't completely disprove the entire discussion and dissolve all the points that've been made (both in the posts and the slashdot article).
I mean, there's lots of incentives for becoming a teacher and more incentives for teaching in bad neighborhoods and poor cities (such as full re-imbursment for school loans, etc)...
but your article doesn't say where it's getting those salary numbers. Is that public schools? Are they including private schools? higher learning institutions?
just because you throw one article at me, and it's from a
there's all kinds of ways of dressing up numbers and statistics to look their best (or their worst), and just because they say things like "middle half" and "top 10%" doesn't really give enough details. That link of yours is trying to sell something. it's trying to sell the job of a teacher to people. That doesn't mean that the whole thing is a lie, I just want more solid facts.
You need to keep in mind that teachers do not work 40+ hours/week and they get the summers off.
You do make a good point about the time off. I've got a friend who's the IT guy at a private high school and he basically works 9-4 with an hour (free) lunch and gets 8 weeks of vacation through the year. His pay is a little sub-par for what he does and has to deal with, but it's an alright gig. With that much available time off, it's easy to work a second job or even go for more schooling/training.
It's really nice if you wanna teach temporarily until you get more school done and can get an even higher paying job (if that's your goal).
So how do you (and your wife) feel about the prospective salary gap between her and the math/science group? Are you guys for it or against it?
According to Chuck Shumer, one of the senators of NY, the teacher's union is for this.
The problem is that a person with a science or math degree can get a job that pays 40-80K right out of college, where a teacher's salary starts around 30 and doesn't really go much higher than that.
It's really a problem because it kinda forces the old saying "Those who can, do. those who can't Teach." And, although those with a passion who can may also teach, they may be able to due to the tight salary constraints.
I'm totally for salary bumps for teachers of certain subjects. If a 7th grade social studies teacher is bitter because her math-teaching co-worker is making 25% more than her, then why didn't she study math?
It's a universally accepted practice that people in some sub-fields make more than others. Just because you work in a pharmaceutical lab as a tech doesn't mean you should make the same amount of $ as someone else in your lab who's developing breakthrough techniques.
that second sentence should read:
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on <1ghz machines with <=512MB RAM, OSX usually feels sluggish in general; but on even relatively recent hardware, OSX is perfectly responsive.
I interpret the article as being more about productivity and less about interface sluggishness. on 1ghz machines with =512MB RAM, OSX usually feels sluggish in general; but on even relatively recent hardware, OSX is perfectly responsive. I rarely have responsiveness issues in XP except for the occasional start menu not going away for 30 seconds or an explorer window taking 90 seconds to populate (all the while, the disk has minimal activity and the processor is hovering at 5%). I'm not saying that OSX doesn't have its share of beachballing for apparently no reason, but I feel that XP has a lot more of these issues.
Although the Finder in OSX needs a major re-haul, I'm a lot more productive in OSX. Especially when it comes to file management.
This is mostly because OSX has better file navigation dialogs and it's easier to find and save files. Default locations that work, spring-loaded folders, superior drag and drop behavior, better menu behavior and more intuitive/robust keyboard shortcuts increase productivity and reduce metal fatigue from working with large numbers of files.
Also, a robust set of developer tools provided by Apple for free with the OS can dramatically increase productivity- especially Applescript.
I think johnny rotten owns that one. ;)
A couple employers ago, I gave 4 weeks notice. They used to lay me off (I'd work 1 day a week, off the books) in the summer because it was slow and I'd always have to find part-time work or live off of savings. The problem with that summer was that I had no savings and the alternate job I found payed me significantly more (about 25% more), had more possibilities for growth, and was only available full-time. This was at the end of june (after I'd been laid off for 2 weeks) and didn't want me to start for a month, so I gave 4 weeks notice.
So, not only did they deny me my unemployment for those 6 weeks, they treated me like shit for the next 2 weeks, so I just stopped coming in. They justified being asses by figuring that since I was laid off and only working 1 day a week, I had really only given them 4 days notice. I said I was willing to work more hours to train someone for that month, but they didn't want to pay someone else or pay me for more than 1 day a week for the summer.
After I was gone, they wound up hiring 4 people to replace me, each one paid about 1/2 of what I was making and each one fresh out of highschool. Once business got busy, I heard from a friend that worked there that 2 of the kids they hired were making about 200$ worth of mistakes a day and they were losing customers left and right.
So, if your employers don't understand how to run a business, and like to treat people like shit, giving notice just causes more problems than it's worth.
I've never really had a problem with kernels in Gentoo. Normally it's just a matter of figuring out what devices are in your machine and then enabling the drivers in the kernel. 9 times out of 10, the machine will boot without issue, but oops, you forgot to enable a USB driver or a driver specific to your sound card and you don't have sound. And if the machine doesn't boot, it'll throw and error and you'll realize "hey, I forgot to enable drivers for my IDE card" or something similar. It's usually obvious what's wrong if you look at the output. The hardest part is finding the exact directive in the menuconfig.
but for some reason, I can't get my machine to boot with the new kernel. I've tried and tried and tried. I went through my old config and compared things; but there's a problem with doing that... The old kernel is 2.6.10 where my new one is 2.6.18 and the latter config has added quite a lot of new stuff.
So my problem is that my server just will not boot, no matter how many times I go through the config and check and uncheck things. It also doesn't help that this machine is only 800mhz, so it takes 20+ minute each time I compile.
I've posted in the gentoo forums, but no one's answered me, yet. grrr.
If you really wanna dive into AVR programming, you could also check out the Arduino.
It uses an AVR for the controller and doesn't require a PIC programmer, connects over USB to the computer, has support for Windows, Linux and OSX, and comes ready for working when you get it. The only part that is kinda limiting to people unfamiliar with programming is that it uses C++ as the language, but has a very simple instruction set, so the learning curve may be slightly steep for beginner programmers.
Gentoo has proven troublesome in a production environment.
The problem isnt updating often... it's when you DONT update often.
That's my only complaint about Gentoo. Although it's my favourite distro, it can be extremely time consuming to update and install software, and when you need to update your kernel, be ready for a day of downtime.
The article makes excellent points. I wouldn't recommend using Gentoo for a server that's going to be running a dozen services, and although portage is great, I'm not really a fan of it on the desktop (for that I use Ubuntu... mostly because of its great support for everything out of the box-- ipod, etc). It takes FOREVER to compile X11 and KDE or Gnome and Firefox on older hardware.
I've got 2 servers running Gentoo at home. One is just a webserver and the other is just a fileserver and coordinates backups of the webserver. They're both 1ghz and updates are a hassle, but I keep the web guy up to date with upgrades more or less once a month. The other one, I recently had to upgrade around 130 packages.
But managing headless servers, for me at least, is a lot easier using Gentoo than any other distro I've tried. I'm not a fan of RedHat's RPMs or Debian's dpkg/dselect. I'm not really big on BSD's ports, although I'm still getting used to that one.
Gentoo is a great distro for learning the ins and outs of Linux. Without it, I think I'd only be an intermediate user and I wouldn't be able to manage a system. I can fix almost anything, now.
I thought he was gonna be king of the world. But that was Randolph Jaffe. Perhaps it's his brother?
(the above link is a GREAT book, btw).
I think it's actually a good thing that they're making bootcamp available, even if they are charging for it. It's included with Leopard, and it would've been nice if Apple made some of Tiger's features available to Panther users and Panther features available to Jaguar users. Especially the updated Mail.app, exposé, safari, iChat or the dashboard (although I'm so much a fan of the latter product).
think of it like a free preview of an upcoming feature in a future version of the OS. It would be the same way if they made a beta of TimeMachine or Spaces (that's the name of the VirtualDesktop feature, right?) available, and said that Tiger users could pay a small fee to be able to use the release version.
My dad left me the paper yesterday morning to read this article. It's really quite interesting; especially how he was involved in development of so many technologies, yet he languishes in near-poverty.
;)
I was especially surprised to hear that he has trouble finding work now due to his involvement in phone phreaking in the 70s, and that he helped Apple develop some unreleased phone technologies in the 80s which never saw the light of day because he was involved.
In this day and age, at least, it's surprising to me that people like him have so much trouble finding work, even if he doesn't have a mind for business. With all these has-been blackhat types going legit and giving talks...
Oh well, hopefully there's still some hope for me.
I kinda like the idea of not having to worry about the physical disk (getting scratched, etc)... but at the same time, I feel more comforted knowing that the thing is a real disk rather than a burn and I didn't flub and try to save a buck by buying cheap media that's gonna fail me in a year or two.
I'd have to say though, that the BEST part about having physical media, for DVDs at least, is that you can pull it off your shelf and bring it to a friend's and pop it into just about any player they have (xbox, playstation, computer, DVD player, etc) and view it. No need to set up the burn, find your spindle with the precious DL disks, and waste 20 minutes burning it, or even having to waste time re-encoding it to burn to a DVD before leaving to go there. They're convenient and they work.
Although I've got 4 256 disk binders in my room which house my 500 audio CDs (purchased, although rarely, if ever, touched), 200 or so DivX/VCDs that I've downloaded and my old CD-based backups of music videos, mp3s, old pirated software that I never used, old games (myth 1 and 2, warcraft 2, quake1 and 2), and countless project files. The jewel cases to all the legit stuff in there is stored in boxes in the attic of my dad's house, and my DVD collection (about 200 movies or so) fill up two shelves. It's nice to see the collection, and it's reassuring to know they're there if I need them.