It's another bubble, and we shall see who is going to suffer when the education bubble bursts. I know students who would have to work half their lifetime to pay back the "student debt", but the same universities are attending have dramatically cut the number of tenured profs, while "part time" profs and TAs have to cover more and more of delivering the course load...and are purposely kept at "part time" status to the point they school will drop courses to make sure they don't work more than the number of hours the law says you must treat them as full time staff.
Universities, like governments, should not be run like companies, since education suffers when you do so.
I do know all of those operating systems, and many more. But, I was trying to inject a bit of humour too! If you take Linux, or anything (hint *BSD/Debian users...) too seriously, you annoy people, and make them less likely to use your operating system. Slackware (come on, *think* about the name!!!) is never going to be able to take itself too seriously! And that is why I still use it, as well as Mint, Mac OS, and Windows 7 (at least on this system...). One of the few nice things you can do since Apple switched to Intel from Motorola/PPC hardware!
Actually, us Slackware Users us whatever the fsck we want, because we know how to do it all! CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, raw X, screen, and anything else we can dig up. We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it! What's more, we probably also know how to use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Arch, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS (7-10), and another dozen operating systems that most of you haven't heard of! We can even make Windows useful! We Kick OS BUTT!
All single OS users must cringe in the shadow of our awesomeness!
Even that's not good enough. I work in the electronics industry and the educated and schooled engineers fuck up far more than the merely "educated but unschooled" I.T. staff. And this is saying a lot, because we are a Windows shop.
Well there's your problem!
Windows aims to be a simple OS for the masses...as opposed to Unix which is aimed at computer geeks and engineers.
I would be surprised to see the same comment ending in..."AIX shop" or "Solaris shop" for example.
Unix, and by extension, Linux does exactly what you tell it to, no more, no less.
First of all, if your server is filling up so fast, why don't you have any tools that monitor it? Even simple tools like old Big Brother (Or one of it's open source clones) will notify you with an email, SMS message to your phone, or even a voice call. Also, if all your logs are not compressed except for the current ones, then you don't have logrotate.d configured properly, and if you have lots of servers, then you probably have a devoted remote logserver.
Basically, what you are complaining about is that *you* don't know how to set up logging, monitoring and management on a Linux system.
Windows server management is much more SysAdmin intensive than Linux server management. Most Linux Boxes are "fire and forget" after they have been configured. Windows boxes decay quickly, and need a great deal more upkeep from the SysAdmin.
I just found the information on the device I have...it's called the Konexx KOUPLER, and it's pretty snazzy! Their web site claims speeds up to 26.4 Kbps. But I guess that is under ideal conditions...Web site says they still sell it, and it's $150 US.
p.s. I have no connection with these guys other than the fact I have used their product in the past, and found it to be a wonderful part of a Road Warriors's toolkit!
Wow, I can now dust off my high-speed acoustic coupler! It would plug into the phone line out on a modem, and give you a decent percentage of the 14.4 Kbaud, say anywhere from 40-80%, depending on the phone, etc. I bought it because it meant that I could do support on Unix systems even if the only net connection I had available was a pay phone!
So let's change the rules...create a Kickstarter campaign to fund a patent-bounty system. If funded, the fund pays out $10 per-patent that is squashed. Suddenly, it becomes a game for people to compete with each other to kill off patents. Even if a person can only do one an hour, that is better pay than minimum wage in many US States, or around the world. And once a year, they can throw a conference, and give out awards to the top "sharp-shooters" who kill off the most patents!
Turn killing bad patents into a game where you can make money, and we can have the patent-trolls slain in short order!
Of course, ebooks being just text, (HTML zipped for the epub format, for example), I would not be surprised if a good spelling and grammar check software wouldn't render this attempt at DRM useless...or will they try to outlaw spelling/grammar check software as DRM circumvention tools?
Ever been in an ICU recently? All that remote monitoring technology was "government science" developed for space travel. This internet? Yup, More government science money. Use a microwave oven? Yup, government money!
Basic science research is needed to develop ideas and test theories that could later be developed into mass use products!
It's the "Blockbuster" mentality...Give Trekkers a good story and they are happy...but to attract the Mundanes (What SF Fans call Muggles), you need flash rather than substance...and this film delivers flash in excess.
And is it just me, but does anyone else read Christopher Pike when the see Christopher Pine's name written?
True, and they ask for fantasy qualifications...or what they ask advertise for, and what the actual hiring person wants isn't always the same. I went to an interview in another city...took the train up, since the phone interviews with the HR people and such went great...then I got into the interview, and instead of a SysAdmin for Linux, the actual person doing the hiring wanted a programmer, but he wasn't allow to get one he was interviewing SysAdmins hoping to get a programmer!!! What at sh*thead he was! Waste of my time and money (Lunch, etc). HR Lies, Other applications lie and get jobs...and I sit fricking unemployed still. So maybe, I will just get into the Music Business...a lot more stable than the tech sector!!!!:-/
Last year, a friend of mine got a windows phone...and I told him he should bring it back, and get either an Android or an Apple phone. He asked why, and I said that MS has a habit of abandoning mobile platforms...he didn't believe me....I deserve +1 for Prescience!:-)
Rudy Rucker had a great little booklet out called "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension" that I would recommend, as well as his "Infinity and the Mind".
His fiction is all over the place...but if you want specifically math oriented, then try "The Sex Sphere". It is, literally, Flatland taken to the nth dimension! Lots of weird kinky pan-dimensional sex too.:-) Captain Jack would love this book!:-)
Congratulations on surviving this long...many other places on the net have come and gone in the time that you have been around...and I have been there with you too, and enjoying it all the time. Thank you for building such a wonderful site, again and again and again!:-)
Good luck going into the future, from one of you're earlier members!
The SOCRATIC APPROACH is most successful when confronting the ignorant. The "socratic approach" is what you call starting an argument by asking questions. You approach the innocent and simply ask "Did you know that God's name is ERIS, and that He is a girl?" If he should answer "Yes." then he probably is a fellow Erisian and so you can forget it. If he says "No." then quickly proceed to:
THE BLIND ASSERTION and say "Well, He is a girl, and His name is ERIS!" Shrewedly observe if the subject is convinced. If he is, swear him into the Legion of Dynamic Discord before he changes his mind. If he does not appear convinced, then proceed to:
THE FAITH BIT: "But you must have Faith! All is lost without Faith! I sure feel sorry for you if you don't have Faith." And then add:
THE ARGUMENT BY FEAR and in an ominous voice ask "Do you know what happens to those who deny Goddess?" If he hesitates, don't tell him that he will surely be reincarnated as a precious Mao Button and distributed to the poor in the Region of Thud (which would be a mean thing to say), just shake your head sadly and, while wiping a tear from your eye, go to:
THE FIRST CLAUSE PLOY wherein you point to all of the discord and confusion in the world and exclaim "Well who the hell do you think did all of this, wise guy?" If he says, "Nobody, just impersonal forces." then quickly respond with:
THE ARGUMENT BY SEMANTICAL GYMNASTICS and say that he is absolutely right, and that those impersonal forces are female and that Her name is ERIS. If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to:
THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip. Then put him on your mailing list.
No, everyone knows that what Windows 8 really needs to survive is to become Windows 9....Windows 8 will be another Vista...lots of broken, beta quality stuff which will not really provide any real improvements in functionality to the average user until the next iteration of Windows.
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It's another bubble, and we shall see who is going to suffer when the education bubble bursts. I know students who would have to work half their lifetime to pay back the "student debt", but the same universities are attending have dramatically cut the number of tenured profs, while "part time" profs and TAs have to cover more and more of delivering the course load...and are purposely kept at "part time" status to the point they school will drop courses to make sure they don't work more than the number of hours the law says you must treat them as full time staff.
Universities, like governments, should not be run like companies, since education suffers when you do so.
Launch a spaceship, of course!
Do I detect a green sheen of envy, mr 135100? :-)
Truth!
I do know all of those operating systems, and many more. But, I was trying to inject a bit of humour too! If you take Linux, or anything (hint *BSD/Debian users...) too seriously, you annoy people, and make them less likely to use your operating system. Slackware (come on, *think* about the name!!!) is never going to be able to take itself too seriously! And that is why I still use it, as well as Mint, Mac OS, and Windows 7 (at least on this system...). One of the few nice things you can do since Apple switched to Intel from Motorola/PPC hardware!
Thanks...:-)
As usual, the newbies are clueless about humour/sarcasm...mixed with a bit of truth.
I've been using Linux since kernel 0.12 or so...and was using Slackware before it was Slackware!
Actually, us Slackware Users us whatever the fsck we want, because we know how to do it all! CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, raw X, screen, and anything else we can dig up. We not only know how to use it, we customize it so that other users on the same machine have a hard time time using it! What's more, we probably also know how to use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Debian, Arch, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS (7-10), and another dozen operating systems that most of you haven't heard of! We can even make Windows useful! We Kick OS BUTT!
All single OS users must cringe in the shadow of our awesomeness!
Really!
Even that's not good enough. I work in the electronics industry and the educated and schooled engineers fuck up far more than the merely "educated but unschooled" I.T. staff. And this is saying a lot, because we are a Windows shop.
Well there's your problem!
Windows aims to be a simple OS for the masses...as opposed to Unix which is aimed at computer geeks and engineers.
I would be surprised to see the same comment ending in..."AIX shop" or "Solaris shop" for example.
ttyl
Farrell
How many hours/days will it be before they are pwned?
That is, pwned by someone other than the NSA...:-)
Unix, and by extension, Linux does exactly what you tell it to, no more, no less.
First of all, if your server is filling up so fast, why don't you have any tools that monitor it? Even simple tools like old Big Brother (Or one of it's open source clones) will notify you with an email, SMS message to your phone, or even a voice call. Also, if all your logs are not compressed except for the current ones, then you don't have logrotate.d configured properly, and if you have lots of servers, then you probably have a devoted remote logserver.
Basically, what you are complaining about is that *you* don't know how to set up logging, monitoring and management on a Linux system.
Windows server management is much more SysAdmin intensive than Linux server management. Most Linux Boxes are "fire and forget" after they have been configured. Windows boxes decay quickly, and need a great deal more upkeep from the SysAdmin.
I just found the information on the device I have...it's called the Konexx KOUPLER, and it's pretty snazzy! Their web site claims speeds up to 26.4 Kbps. But I guess that is under ideal conditions...Web site says they still sell it, and it's $150 US.
More information here: http://www.konexx.com/koupler.htm
p.s. I have no connection with these guys other than the fact I have used their product in the past, and found it to be a wonderful part of a Road Warriors's toolkit!
Wow, I can now dust off my high-speed acoustic coupler! It would plug into the phone line out on a modem, and give you a decent percentage of the 14.4 Kbaud, say anywhere from 40-80%, depending on the phone, etc. I bought it because it meant that I could do support on Unix systems even if the only net connection I had available was a pay phone!
So let's change the rules...create a Kickstarter campaign to fund a patent-bounty system. If funded, the fund pays out $10 per-patent that is squashed. Suddenly, it becomes a game for people to compete with each other to kill off patents. Even if a person can only do one an hour, that is better pay than minimum wage in many US States, or around the world. And once a year, they can throw a conference, and give out awards to the top "sharp-shooters" who kill off the most patents!
Turn killing bad patents into a game where you can make money, and we can have the patent-trolls slain in short order!
Of course, ebooks being just text, (HTML zipped for the epub format, for example), I would not be surprised if a good spelling and grammar check software wouldn't render this attempt at DRM useless...or will they try to outlaw spelling/grammar check software as DRM circumvention tools?
Ever been in an ICU recently? All that remote monitoring technology was "government science" developed for space travel. This internet? Yup, More government science money. Use a microwave oven? Yup, government money!
Basic science research is needed to develop ideas and test theories that could later be developed into mass use products!
It's the "Blockbuster" mentality...Give Trekkers a good story and they are happy...but to attract the Mundanes (What SF Fans call Muggles), you need flash rather than substance...and this film delivers flash in excess.
And is it just me, but does anyone else read Christopher Pike when the see Christopher Pine's name written?
True, and they ask for fantasy qualifications...or what they ask advertise for, and what the actual hiring person wants isn't always the same. I went to an interview in another city...took the train up, since the phone interviews with the HR people and such went great...then I got into the interview, and instead of a SysAdmin for Linux, the actual person doing the hiring wanted a programmer, but he wasn't allow to get one he was interviewing SysAdmins hoping to get a programmer!!! What at sh*thead he was! Waste of my time and money (Lunch, etc). HR Lies, Other applications lie and get jobs...and I sit fricking unemployed still. So maybe, I will just get into the Music Business...a lot more stable than the tech sector!!!! :-/
Last year, a friend of mine got a windows phone...and I told him he should bring it back, and get either an Android or an Apple phone. He asked why, and I said that MS has a habit of abandoning mobile platforms...he didn't believe me....I deserve +1 for Prescience! :-)
Wow, a situation where you can say "Drill, baby drill" ,and not feel embarased about it! :-)
Rudy Rucker had a great little booklet out called "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension" that I would recommend, as well as his "Infinity and the Mind".
His fiction is all over the place...but if you want specifically math oriented, then try "The Sex Sphere". It is, literally, Flatland taken to the nth dimension! Lots of weird kinky pan-dimensional sex too. :-) Captain Jack would love this book! :-)
For spending that time to create this community. I've had many years of enjoyment from your work!
From an early admirer...
Farrell
Congratulations on surviving this long...many other places on the net have come and gone in the time that you have been around...and I have been there with you too, and enjoying it all the time. Thank you for building such a wonderful site, again and again and again! :-)
Good luck going into the future, from one of you're earlier members!
ttyl
Farrell
A PRIMER FOR ERISIAN EVANGELISTS
by Lord Omar
The SOCRATIC APPROACH is most successful when confronting the ignorant. The "socratic approach" is what you call starting an argument by asking questions. You approach the innocent and simply ask "Did you know that God's name is ERIS, and that He is a girl?" If he should answer "Yes." then he probably is a fellow Erisian and so you can forget it. If he says "No." then quickly proceed to:
THE BLIND ASSERTION and say "Well, He is a girl, and His name is ERIS!" Shrewedly observe if the subject is convinced. If he is, swear him into the Legion of Dynamic Discord before he changes his mind. If he does not appear convinced, then proceed to:
THE FAITH BIT: "But you must have Faith! All is lost without Faith! I sure feel sorry for you if you don't have Faith." And then add:
THE ARGUMENT BY FEAR and in an ominous voice ask "Do you know what happens to those who deny Goddess?" If he hesitates, don't tell him that he will surely be reincarnated as a precious Mao Button and distributed to the poor in the Region of Thud (which would be a mean thing to say), just shake your head sadly and, while wiping a tear from your eye, go to:
THE FIRST CLAUSE PLOY wherein you point to all of the discord and confusion in the world and exclaim "Well who the hell do you think did all of this, wise guy?" If he says, "Nobody, just impersonal forces." then quickly respond with:
THE ARGUMENT BY SEMANTICAL GYMNASTICS and say that he is absolutely right, and that those impersonal forces are female and that Her name is ERIS. If he, wonder of wonders, still remains obstinate, then finally resort to:
THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip. Then put him on your mailing list.
DevAX, you are just regurgitating MarketSpeak!
No, everyone knows that what Windows 8 really needs to survive is to become Windows 9....Windows 8 will be another Vista...lots of broken, beta quality stuff which will not really provide any real improvements in functionality to the average user until the next iteration of Windows.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be for *last* month...