I'm with you on that. August this year I contemplated buying one, and decided against it because with the cord it was $15 cheaper. Why would I need wireless anyways? To get so far from the screen that I can't see where it's pointing anymore?
In a statement today the Window Cleaner's Union said that this announcement is the beginning of the end.
One cleaner was quoted as saying "as soon as everyone installs these Windows, the traditional squeegee and soap solutions which anyone can use will become extinct. These Windows will dominate the market, leaving only the poor and art-glass people to come up with truly community spirit based solutions with work for great glass cleaning engineers"
Then the skyscraper windowcleaner lift corporation also came in on the act "we can't fit these 'scrapers with our traditional pulley systems any more... sales are plummeting"
Cowboy Neal still manages to stain his new glass though.
Good point. In this particular case it wasn't practical because I was using the logs to run analysis on where people were surfing. However, in the end the logs just got purged every day I went in there and then I got my machine back and reinstalled it, since it was a demo box.
Excuse me... I am not saying that US sysadmins do not have clue. I was saying that IF you think (which I don't) that US sysadmins don't have a clue (and this is possible for some of the/. readership who seem to think no-one has clue except them) then you should see Moroccan sysadmins. That's all.
Sorry if you misunderstood me. I have a lot of respect for a number of US sysadmins who I meet on mailing lists and have often saved my bacon.
There are some good admins here too, but they often don't have a solid MIT education etc and are not as used to using the Internet as the wonderful resource that it is, or have to share a crappy 64kbps connection with 50 other users.
Oh... first of all, it's viruses. Not virus's... what the hell is that?
I was working on a project to set up a proxy (Squid, in fact) for an education institution here in Morocco. If you think US sysadmins could get some clue, think again. I noted they were running NT workstation service pack 3 (lol) and I was already sweating. I set the proxy up as the gateway, to make it transparent, and started the service. Within 10 minutes the log file had grown massive. I tweaked a few params, and then left it running, saying I'd come back the next day.
The client calls me first thing, saying my proxy is shit, doesn't work, etc. I turn up in a panic, thinking I'd messed something simple up. Then it dawned on me... seems like most of the hosts on the network were infected with Nimda (amongst other things). The logfile had exceeded 2Gb and had crashed the service (it had filled the/var partition completely). It was logging 100 Nimda scans a second.
This was just about 3 months ago. The sysadmin didn't even really know how her DHCP server worked, and had no service packs anywhere. The only reason sp3 was some places was because the NT CD had been bought just before Win2K came out, and SP3 was bundled with a sticker "make sure you install this too".
Explaining to the client that all the hosts were infected, that they seriously needed an antivirus solution, and that all machines would have to be taken offline (they had public IPs for chrissakes) until the disinfection was finished was a tough thing to do without just flaming that person, I assure you. We did get them sorted out in the end, but somehow they still think my proxy isn't worth shit:-(
Drinking jack with any soft drink is not the true path to greatness. Jack on the rocks, or neat preferably, is the way to go
If you're into hard rock / metal / grunge then swigging from the bottle is the only option. Coke didn't even exist when Scotch Whisky and Rye drinks were invented. Think about that.
"A search on www.newscheck.cc reveals there were 40,865 Warez releases in the last seven months, of which only 411 were by DoD," wrote a poster called Cryogenes on Slashdot. "Even if DoD is knocked out completely, every application and every game will still be cracked and distributed within 48 hours of release."
Karma for Cryogenes then.
Interesting, then to see that you are paying for something you seem to more or less have given up. I mean, if you don't get first releases any more, then you're just nobodies in the Warez world. How do you feel about going down when the top hackers in the Warez scene now are still free?
Performance. Different systems are going to take more or less overhead depending on the task. Some daemons might write a lot of data to logs, you want this to be done asynchronously, you may not need the data so badly, you don't need journalling perhaps. (so use ext2??)
Or you have a proxy, you don't care if suddenly your cached data is lost, it will soon be refilled, it's not important data, you want performance without too much security (reiserfs)?
In fact each filesystem has inherent limits on inodes, filenames, permissions, etc... so you go with any that has a minimum for each thing you need. Journalling you don't really need unless you want to be able to step backwards or repair your filesystem in more interesting ways...
Maaaannn Keith never said any full sentences before like without a bit of ummmm y'know dramatic pauses... it just doesn't like come across the same without y'know the red eyes and the clearly like drugged up effect mannn
Like he's been stoned for like his whole career more or less mannnn
So it should be:-
The time where accountants like decide what music people hear (pause) is coming to an end. Accountants may be good at numbers (wry smile at having remembered that, and thinks about pun with "we're going to do an old number now, one we used to do in the sixties" and worries for a while hence another pause), but they have terrible taste in music mannnn. (close and open eyes, see redness) I don't know how I'm going to get paid like, but like I'd rather go out into the brave new world (pause) than live with dinosaurs that are far too big for their boots...
Just the sort of reviewer that is going to rip to MP3 and share these CDs is going to have enough clue to break open the case / rewire those headphone connectors. This is all a publicity stunt to get the press to talk more about the two albums in question, and to get more "filesharing is bad" vibe into the press. Poor poor music industry losing to filesharing. They have to understand WHY we have no sympathy first.
They've done pretty well here though. How many of you vague Tori Amos fans knew she had a new album out before this article?
Well I'll leave the poster of the original question to ponder the "emotional completeness" thing. Let's hope it's third time lucky (I personally thing that dropping out twice already for lack of interest means that there has to be a glaringly OBVIOUS reason for the interest this time, or it's just pipe dreaming)
I got a degree five years ago. In a field that I no longer work in. However, 4 years of solid experience in the IT field mean way more than my degree to any prospective employer. That's why I'm saying professional qualifications, not a degree... if the business goes south, a CV with professional experience plus qualifications (and I don't mean MCSEs, I mean like Linux certification, specific vendor qualifications like Check Point or others...) will still be as useful as a degree.
Remember, graduate positions are often arbitrarily judged. More senior posts are judged on other things too.
Hey. You've dropped out twice on university already due to a self proclaimed lack of interest. You have your own successful company.
I went to University in order to get a good job. Now I have one, I dream of running my own company. You have your own company which by your admission is doing OK. Ask yourself why it is you really want to go back to school for a third time. You are older and have a business to run now. What could a degree change in your situation? I could understand if you were in a job and a degree could help your career prospects, but here that does not appear to be the case.
You need to do some soul searching. Don't get caught up in intellectual snobbery where you (or other people make you) think that getting a degree is somehow going to change you as a person or change the way people look at you. Don't be ashamed if people working for you have better qualifications that you do. The bottom line is that they are working for you, not you for them!
I think the current western trend to work hard, always biting into your free time, is the wrong way to live. That's just my opinion. If you think you can run a company and go to school and still have a fulfilled life (family, home, and love is what it's really all about, not your salary) then you go ahead. I will be the first to congratulate you if you succeed. But perhaps now the thing to think about is why you feel you need a degree if you are already running your own company. Strengthen your character and your interpersonal relationships, and take some professional qualifications / courses related to your line of work if you want, but why torture yourself about going back to school?
Also, bear in mind that a lot of responses here so far are probably from college students. They think (and they are right, from their perspective right now) that school is the best thing in the world. But school is not about getting a degree, it's about getting independance and working out a number of work ethic structures, logical thought processes, prioritisations, etc. The degree is just part of the process, and the better a degree you get is due to how well you organise, communicate, and learn (in an abstract sense) to use tools at your disposal.
So if you really feel you need a degree for your own self esteem, then go for it. But don't do it to the detriment of everything else, because you may find that if you ever get the degree, that your life does not change significantly. Anyone who thinks they are better than you just because they have a degree and you don't is clearly wrong, but you may not be old enough (or they may not be) to realise it. Perhaps something else is really at the root of your problems, and you need to search your heart to find out what your life priorities really are.
Thanks. Right now I live in Morocco (though I'm from the UK) so getting good books is not easy. I was hoping for a couple of online references... I'm sure I'll come up with something. There's always amazon et al.
I'm interested in what you say, being entirely self-taught in computing (basic programming, HTML and all that crap) but have also worked in industry for 4 years in security in the TCP/IP field.
However, I read widely on the Internet, read papers etc, and have broken down the TCP/IP stack at least on a theoretical level. What should I be reading about methodology in order to get a bit more up to speed?
Note: I have a degree in French and Cultural Studies from a top 10 school in the UK. I have been using and learning on the 8086 and various Unix environments since I was 8 yrs old.
Yes and no... because in fact I was particularly interested by the virtual community having a ritual in virtual space, rather than meeting IRL to have the funeral.
I do indeed think Warsinger was honored by this, and my respects go out to all who attended and made a great statement about community spirit.
The flippant end comment was just a lame attempt at getting +1 funny for once. Clearly it was in bad taste. My apologies.
Possibly these people spend more of their social time in front of a PC than in the genuine outdoors... so it's unsurprising that a funeral and other social rituals might take place. The important point is that the real person died... imagine if they held funerals for every Quake frag victim... the game would take forever LOL
I was exaggerating to make the point. You can add complexity in rules and running, and of course I do know what a bunt is. I've played base- and softball a lot. I just don't appreciate the finer things like statistics etc. I know that good plays make it a better game, but it's based too much on small margins requiring TV replays to add enough excitement to the modern game.
Irony never comes across very well if you don't take enough time to construct your English, and yet I keep attempting to do it *sigh*
So, now they finally announce Napster is dead. Kinda like announcing today that
Elvis Presley is dead
Marilyn Monroe just got killed / committed suicide (do you believe the conspiracy theorists?)
John F Kennedy was shot
On a positive note, at least now we can gauge just how far behind Bertelsmann are with technology using the equation x-y=z where x is the time Napster actually died (end 1999 when Audiogalaxy was flying) and y is today.
Now, we can await Napster II, the shite filesharing vehicle where you pay $$ too much per song and go to the press to cry that people won't pay for filesharing content and all that shite.
Unless a draw is an acceptable outcome, you need a proper deciding endgame. Since baseball is all about hitting the ball as hard as you can away from fielders, it's difficult to get an endgame out of it except extra innings. Unless you go into statistics calculations.
Cricket has a draw system for long games, and one day games have limits in the number of balls bowled (that's pitched to the ignorant). Far superior technically too. American sports all suffer from one thing: "jock" culture. Whilst there are exceptions, most of it is about sponsorship, hitting hard, stopping frequently for commercials, and statistics. *yawn*
Soccer is by far the best sport in terms of accessibility, simplicity of rules, and yet eventual complexity of the game. Great footballers are always those with the best touch, not just some hard kicker, agressive player, etc. Plenty other sports are around which are superior to baseball anyway. None of us outside the US even care, we just laugh that a sport like baseball could have been so popular in the first place.
Interesting point. I wasn't aware that too many gamers really were fed up with Windows - perhaps your friends are above average IQ already. It's a fair point that/if/ linux had great gaming support, a lot of people would install it instead of Windows. But if their principle desire is gaming, they'll probably have Windows running and a couple consoles to boot. And of course, sales figures show that Windows works as a gaming platform, and yet Linux has yet to have a major company issuing Linux ports at release dates. I hope Linux will improve for gaming, but that door that you're talking about has to lead someplace and be part of a building which people want to get into first.
Serious gamers are always going to be looking for a platform that can satisfy their needs. Consoles work as 99% of the people who buy them want pure gaming satisfaction. Thus, hardcore gamers are generally console owners. PCs can add to the gaming experience in the multiplayer over network gaming, but consoles are catching up with ethernet, wireless and modem options. Given that a PS2, XBox or Gamecube doesn't cost as much as a decent enough specced PC to play games, then the market is clearly in that court. The richer end of the market probably prefers top spec PCs, and they will probably run Windows.
Most Linux users are there for stability, because they believe in it, etc. Thus the Linux gaming market will be mainly for people who are not hardcore gamers - just programmers, geeks, etc who are looking for the occasional game. I find it hard to believe the market will really rumble, since on the same hardware most people can install and run Windows games on their M$ OS of choice. There are exceptions of course, but I'd put my money on them being few and far between.
However, as implied in the interview, the key is predicting the future. Getting in on the ground, becoming a respected name in Linux gaming, could be a good strategy ready for one of several possible events:
Linux getting market share in the PC market and becoming a viable gaming platform in its own right (it sure isn't now, and I'm not talking about being able to develop games on the platform, but being able to sell large quantities of them)
Consoles having Linux embedded in them (cue the PS2 Linux kit... that's an interesting move which seems to want to attract developers to the console via a Linux interface, and see if they come up with interesting stuff, since they can work on other machines too and get stuff going)
Mac OSX games, easier to port to Linux (perhaps not... machine code optimisations won't run on Intel clones... but OpenGL and installers etc may be re-usable to an extent)
I think the second point is most likely what Linux gaming could be all about. The console market is shifting towards a more "Home Entertainment System" with DVD and networking. Add a hard drive, get TiVO-esque services, run Linux for an OS and push Intel/Microsoft aside with a decent, lower cost alternative to the PC. Plenty people I know have VCRs, DVDs, HiFi etc without ever thinking they'll need a PC, but might like a games console that does all the above. The lines between devices are blurring more and more, and Linux could be the heart of some of the newer generation devices.
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I'm with you on that. August this year I contemplated buying one, and decided against it because with the cord it was $15 cheaper. Why would I need wireless anyways? To get so far from the screen that I can't see where it's pointing anymore?
I'm crying foul too. My warez copy won't install the service pack. Note to Microsoft lawyers: this is a joke. I run Linux.
One cleaner was quoted as saying "as soon as everyone installs these Windows, the traditional squeegee and soap solutions which anyone can use will become extinct. These Windows will dominate the market, leaving only the poor and art-glass people to come up with truly community spirit based solutions with work for great glass cleaning engineers"
Then the skyscraper windowcleaner lift corporation also came in on the act "we can't fit these 'scrapers with our traditional pulley systems any more... sales are plummeting"
Cowboy Neal still manages to stain his new glass though.
Cool. I hate getting flamed for something I just miswrote ;-)
Good point. In this particular case it wasn't practical because I was using the logs to run analysis on where people were surfing. However, in the end the logs just got purged every day I went in there and then I got my machine back and reinstalled it, since it was a demo box.
Sorry if you misunderstood me. I have a lot of respect for a number of US sysadmins who I meet on mailing lists and have often saved my bacon.
There are some good admins here too, but they often don't have a solid MIT education etc and are not as used to using the Internet as the wonderful resource that it is, or have to share a crappy 64kbps connection with 50 other users.
It's viruses.
I was working on a project to set up a proxy (Squid, in fact) for an education institution here in Morocco. If you think US sysadmins could get some clue, think again. I noted they were running NT workstation service pack 3 (lol) and I was already sweating. I set the proxy up as the gateway, to make it transparent, and started the service. Within 10 minutes the log file had grown massive. I tweaked a few params, and then left it running, saying I'd come back the next day.
The client calls me first thing, saying my proxy is shit, doesn't work, etc. I turn up in a panic, thinking I'd messed something simple up. Then it dawned on me... seems like most of the hosts on the network were infected with Nimda (amongst other things). The logfile had exceeded 2Gb and had crashed the service (it had filled the /var partition completely). It was logging 100 Nimda scans a second.
This was just about 3 months ago. The sysadmin didn't even really know how her DHCP server worked, and had no service packs anywhere. The only reason sp3 was some places was because the NT CD had been bought just before Win2K came out, and SP3 was bundled with a sticker "make sure you install this too".
Explaining to the client that all the hosts were infected, that they seriously needed an antivirus solution, and that all machines would have to be taken offline (they had public IPs for chrissakes) until the disinfection was finished was a tough thing to do without just flaming that person, I assure you. We did get them sorted out in the end, but somehow they still think my proxy isn't worth shit :-(
If you're into hard rock / metal / grunge then swigging from the bottle is the only option. Coke didn't even exist when Scotch Whisky and Rye drinks were invented. Think about that.
Karma for Cryogenes then.
Interesting, then to see that you are paying for something you seem to more or less have given up. I mean, if you don't get first releases any more, then you're just nobodies in the Warez world. How do you feel about going down when the top hackers in the Warez scene now are still free?
Or you have a proxy, you don't care if suddenly your cached data is lost, it will soon be refilled, it's not important data, you want performance without too much security (reiserfs)?
In fact each filesystem has inherent limits on inodes, filenames, permissions, etc... so you go with any that has a minimum for each thing you need. Journalling you don't really need unless you want to be able to step backwards or repair your filesystem in more interesting ways...
Like he's been stoned for like his whole career more or less mannnn
So it should be:- The time where accountants like decide what music people hear (pause) is coming to an end. Accountants may be good at numbers (wry smile at having remembered that, and thinks about pun with "we're going to do an old number now, one we used to do in the sixties" and worries for a while hence another pause), but they have terrible taste in music mannnn. (close and open eyes, see redness) I don't know how I'm going to get paid like, but like I'd rather go out into the brave new world (pause) than live with dinosaurs that are far too big for their boots...
They've done pretty well here though. How many of you vague Tori Amos fans knew she had a new album out before this article?
I got a degree five years ago. In a field that I no longer work in. However, 4 years of solid experience in the IT field mean way more than my degree to any prospective employer. That's why I'm saying professional qualifications, not a degree... if the business goes south, a CV with professional experience plus qualifications (and I don't mean MCSEs, I mean like Linux certification, specific vendor qualifications like Check Point or others...) will still be as useful as a degree.
Remember, graduate positions are often arbitrarily judged. More senior posts are judged on other things too.
I went to University in order to get a good job. Now I have one, I dream of running my own company. You have your own company which by your admission is doing OK. Ask yourself why it is you really want to go back to school for a third time. You are older and have a business to run now. What could a degree change in your situation? I could understand if you were in a job and a degree could help your career prospects, but here that does not appear to be the case.
You need to do some soul searching. Don't get caught up in intellectual snobbery where you (or other people make you) think that getting a degree is somehow going to change you as a person or change the way people look at you. Don't be ashamed if people working for you have better qualifications that you do. The bottom line is that they are working for you, not you for them!
I think the current western trend to work hard, always biting into your free time, is the wrong way to live. That's just my opinion. If you think you can run a company and go to school and still have a fulfilled life (family, home, and love is what it's really all about, not your salary) then you go ahead. I will be the first to congratulate you if you succeed. But perhaps now the thing to think about is why you feel you need a degree if you are already running your own company. Strengthen your character and your interpersonal relationships, and take some professional qualifications / courses related to your line of work if you want, but why torture yourself about going back to school?
Also, bear in mind that a lot of responses here so far are probably from college students. They think (and they are right, from their perspective right now) that school is the best thing in the world. But school is not about getting a degree, it's about getting independance and working out a number of work ethic structures, logical thought processes, prioritisations, etc. The degree is just part of the process, and the better a degree you get is due to how well you organise, communicate, and learn (in an abstract sense) to use tools at your disposal.
So if you really feel you need a degree for your own self esteem, then go for it. But don't do it to the detriment of everything else, because you may find that if you ever get the degree, that your life does not change significantly. Anyone who thinks they are better than you just because they have a degree and you don't is clearly wrong, but you may not be old enough (or they may not be) to realise it. Perhaps something else is really at the root of your problems, and you need to search your heart to find out what your life priorities really are.
Cheers,
However, I read widely on the Internet, read papers etc, and have broken down the TCP/IP stack at least on a theoretical level. What should I be reading about methodology in order to get a bit more up to speed?
Note: I have a degree in French and Cultural Studies from a top 10 school in the UK. I have been using and learning on the 8086 and various Unix environments since I was 8 yrs old.
I do indeed think Warsinger was honored by this, and my respects go out to all who attended and made a great statement about community spirit.
The flippant end comment was just a lame attempt at getting +1 funny for once. Clearly it was in bad taste. My apologies.
Possibly these people spend more of their social time in front of a PC than in the genuine outdoors... so it's unsurprising that a funeral and other social rituals might take place. The important point is that the real person died... imagine if they held funerals for every Quake frag victim... the game would take forever LOL
Irony never comes across very well if you don't take enough time to construct your English, and yet I keep attempting to do it *sigh*
On a positive note, at least now we can gauge just how far behind Bertelsmann are with technology using the equation x-y=z where x is the time Napster actually died (end 1999 when Audiogalaxy was flying) and y is today.
Now, we can await Napster II, the shite filesharing vehicle where you pay $$ too much per song and go to the press to cry that people won't pay for filesharing content and all that shite.
Cricket has a draw system for long games, and one day games have limits in the number of balls bowled (that's pitched to the ignorant). Far superior technically too. American sports all suffer from one thing: "jock" culture. Whilst there are exceptions, most of it is about sponsorship, hitting hard, stopping frequently for commercials, and statistics. *yawn*
Soccer is by far the best sport in terms of accessibility, simplicity of rules, and yet eventual complexity of the game. Great footballers are always those with the best touch, not just some hard kicker, agressive player, etc. Plenty other sports are around which are superior to baseball anyway. None of us outside the US even care, we just laugh that a sport like baseball could have been so popular in the first place.
Interesting point. I wasn't aware that too many gamers really were fed up with Windows - perhaps your friends are above average IQ already. It's a fair point that /if/ linux had great gaming support, a lot of people would install it instead of Windows. But if their principle desire is gaming, they'll probably have Windows running and a couple consoles to boot. And of course, sales figures show that Windows works as a gaming platform, and yet Linux has yet to have a major company issuing Linux ports at release dates. I hope Linux will improve for gaming, but that door that you're talking about has to lead someplace and be part of a building which people want to get into first.
Most Linux users are there for stability, because they believe in it, etc. Thus the Linux gaming market will be mainly for people who are not hardcore gamers - just programmers, geeks, etc who are looking for the occasional game. I find it hard to believe the market will really rumble, since on the same hardware most people can install and run Windows games on their M$ OS of choice. There are exceptions of course, but I'd put my money on them being few and far between.
However, as implied in the interview, the key is predicting the future. Getting in on the ground, becoming a respected name in Linux gaming, could be a good strategy ready for one of several possible events:
I think the second point is most likely what Linux gaming could be all about. The console market is shifting towards a more "Home Entertainment System" with DVD and networking. Add a hard drive, get TiVO-esque services, run Linux for an OS and push Intel/Microsoft aside with a decent, lower cost alternative to the PC. Plenty people I know have VCRs, DVDs, HiFi etc without ever thinking they'll need a PC, but might like a games console that does all the above. The lines between devices are blurring more and more, and Linux could be the heart of some of the newer generation devices.
-either- :)
What are your favorite things that have Perl or Pearl in them, either literally or figuratively? e.g. Pearl jam, Oysters, etc...? Please don't say Slashdot
-or-
Did your naming of Perl have anything to do with a linguistic memory of someone dear to you who used the word pearl in sentences such as "oh... he/she is a real pearl (of a person)"