Fortran, HS junior year (1972). Coded on 80 column paper, sent to students at local VoTech to turn into keypunched cards, then run on the Techs time-share system. Encouraged good, debugged code up front. First language in college was Algol.
I'd love to see Novell Open Source the thing and let M$ be damned. At a customer's site I recently had to replace a Novell server with an uptime of 840 days with an NT box just because the Corporate MI$ guys wanted all of their sites to standardize on M$oft products. Now I routinely down the server at midnight every 6 weeks. That's better than what I was doing...getting called to come in because the server had froze AGAIN!
I'm not saying that Novell is better than Linux. Save the holy wars for others (presidential candidates?). But this can only help things, IMNSHO.
One of my (infinite) job reponsibilities is filtering the web for our coprorate Internet access and for an Elementary & High School on our WAN.
I "think" I'm unusual in this position in that most people (that I've found so far) that are in charge of filtering develop a "Supreme Being" complex, a "you can go where I decide you can" attitude. I thought we moved beyond that when we moved away from the mainframe mindset. I try to filter as little as possible and it's a huge struggle. We use CyberPatrol as our filter software. No one agrees on how to filter. I get an equal number of complaints about blocked sites as I do sites that should be blocked.
At home I have to listen to my 16 year old daughter complain about Bess which they use at the High School. She feels it's wrong (and I agree with her) to block sites or at least she disagrees with the method for determining what sites to block. I don't have any filters or blocking turned on at home nor have I told my kids that I can see where they've been. From periodically checking logs I can see that they have no interest in the seedier side of the web.
I started my 16-yr old's interest in Anime (must mean I'm a rotten parent, right?). She knows what hentai is and can't understand why anyone would want to "ruin" the artform.
The youngest (11 years old) was at our local library and when she went to use one of the Internet PC's she saw a porn site in the screen. She got the librarian, showed her the PC and showed her how to save the history file, clean out the cache and shutdown and restart the PC.
Why does this whole Holland, MI (I live in an even smaller town) thing remind me of Tipper Gore and her crusade against Rock music? How much of the Internet did she invent with her husband and if she gets in to the White House will she be allowed to dictate what I can see on the web.
Here's hoping that jamie and friends can win this round and all of the next!
I'm thinking maybe these people need something real to do in their lives other than controlling other people's lives. There really is no job market for dictators but SO many people seem to be applying.
Slashdot IS my newspaper. I generally have a browser window open to it all day long and just refresh it periodically. Even got my wife hooked on reading it and she's not anywhere near being a geek (that was a compliment, really hon...). I have a few years on Cmdr. Taco, et.al. but they seem to be interested in the same things I am.
The local newspaper is run by a chain (aren't they all and doesn't it feel like it?). It's on a par with the Enquirer (on a good day). We have two local versions of Bill Gates who pretty much dictate the slant of the local news.
For national news I listen to NPR on the drive home and catch CNN occasionally.
It's generally easier, faster, more accurate and less "moderated" to check Slashdot to see what's happening in the real world.
"If you can keep your head while all those around you are loing theirs, you've obviously misunderstood the situation." Daniel Keys Moran - The Long Run (quoting H.S. Thompson?)
I've been told that I'm genetically clue inhibited but...
I have Red Hat pre-6, Debian 2 and Slackware "4" running on various boxen at home and plan on trying to pick up a copy of FreeBSD 3 at Comdex on Monday.
There's so much that's good and so much to learn from all of the work going on that I feel like a kid in the world's biggest candy store (kinda like a Virtual Frye's for software) and when I grow up (I'm 42) I'm gonna be like Linus and Alan and Jordan H., etc.
I guess I just don't get the O/S Holy Wars. I'd ask for an explanation but my flameproof Fruit of the Looms are in the wash right now.
Destined to be clueless for life I guess... (*sigh*)
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Fortran, HS junior year (1972). Coded on 80 column paper, sent to students at local VoTech to turn into keypunched cards, then run on the Techs time-share system. Encouraged good, debugged code up front. First language in college was Algol.
I'd love to see Novell Open Source the thing and let M$ be damned. At a customer's site I recently had to replace a Novell server with an uptime of 840 days with an NT box just because the Corporate MI$ guys wanted all of their sites to standardize on M$oft products. Now I routinely down the server at midnight every 6 weeks. That's better than what I was doing...getting called to come in because the server had froze AGAIN!
I'm not saying that Novell is better than Linux. Save the holy wars for others (presidential candidates?). But this can only help things, IMNSHO.
One of my (infinite) job reponsibilities is filtering the web for our coprorate Internet access and for an Elementary & High School on our WAN.
I "think" I'm unusual in this position in that most people (that I've found so far) that are in charge of filtering develop a "Supreme Being" complex, a "you can go where I decide you can" attitude. I thought we moved beyond that when we moved away from the mainframe mindset. I try to filter as little as possible and it's a huge struggle. We use CyberPatrol as our filter software. No one agrees on how to filter. I get an equal number of complaints about blocked sites as I do sites that should be blocked.
At home I have to listen to my 16 year old daughter complain about Bess which they use at the High School. She feels it's wrong (and I agree with her) to block sites or at least she disagrees with the method for determining what sites to block. I don't have any filters or blocking turned on at home nor have I told my kids that I can see where they've been. From periodically checking logs I can see that they have no interest in the seedier side of the web.
I started my 16-yr old's interest in Anime (must mean I'm a rotten parent, right?). She knows what hentai is and can't understand why anyone would want to "ruin" the artform.
The youngest (11 years old) was at our local library and when she went to use one of the Internet PC's she saw a porn site in the screen.
She got the librarian, showed her the PC and showed her how to save the history file, clean out the cache and shutdown and restart the PC.
Why does this whole Holland, MI (I live in an even smaller town) thing remind me of Tipper Gore and her crusade against Rock music? How much of the Internet did she invent with her husband and if she gets in to the White House will she be allowed to dictate what I can see on the web.
Here's hoping that jamie and friends can win this round and all of the next!
I'm thinking maybe these people need something real to do in their lives other than controlling other people's lives. There really is no job market for dictators but SO many people seem to be applying.
Slashdot IS my newspaper. I generally have a browser window open to it all day long and just refresh it periodically. Even got my wife hooked on reading it and she's not anywhere near being a geek (that was a compliment, really hon...). I have a few years on Cmdr. Taco, et.al. but they seem to be interested in the same things I am.
The local newspaper is run by a chain (aren't they all and doesn't it feel like it?). It's on a par with the Enquirer (on a good day). We have two local versions of Bill Gates who pretty much dictate the slant of the local news.
For national news I listen to NPR on the drive home and catch CNN occasionally.
It's generally easier, faster, more accurate and less "moderated" to check Slashdot to see what's happening in the real world.
"If you can keep your head while all those around you are loing theirs, you've obviously misunderstood the situation." Daniel Keys Moran - The Long Run (quoting H.S. Thompson?)
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I've been told that I'm genetically clue inhibited but...
I have Red Hat pre-6, Debian 2 and Slackware "4" running on various boxen at home and plan on trying to pick up a copy of FreeBSD 3 at Comdex on Monday.
There's so much that's good and so much to learn from all of the work going on that I feel like a kid in the world's biggest candy store (kinda like a Virtual Frye's for software) and when I grow up (I'm 42) I'm gonna be like Linus and Alan and Jordan H., etc.
I guess I just don't get the O/S Holy Wars. I'd ask for an explanation but my flameproof Fruit of the Looms are in the wash right now.
Destined to be clueless for life I guess... (*sigh*)