What civilization can go 500 years without war, overpopulation, religious fanaticism, or the hope that they could ever take advantage of 300 generations of technical advantages to make the trip shorter?
If you care about programming, and have the knack for it, you will do just fine without college. Some of us download every new language and write a "hello world", pick up projects on our own to hone skills we didn't have previously, make ourselves learn about sorts, trees, graphs, and how to write a compiler. We do it because we like it, and with that sort of drive, you will make a place for yourself any place you would like to be.
I don't think I am doing too badly for myself, and I am not an HTML drone.
Some people need college. There is a lot of research that is happening that even most hardcore hackers won't have the resources to do on their own. If you just want to be a good coder, know a lot of stuff, and make good money, consider skipping college.
If you are going from a 2.0 to 2.2 kernel, remember that IP Forwarding is off by default, and you need to echo a '1' to the appropriate file in proc (i don't recall it... look at the IP Chains page) to enable it. My masquerading was broken for two weeks until I found this out. Now it works like a champ. Go 2.2!
It bothers me a bit when people overdo the aesthetic thing. There are people who will go out of their way to put their television in the part of the room where the cable doesn't reach, because it 'looks better there.' I don't get it. It still looks like a TV, and my eye is focused on the flickery, moving-picture part.
If the hardware looks nice, and isn't proprietary, I'd buy it, sure. If it has a curved, molded CD drive or some oddball motherboard size, screw it. I don't think most of us function over fashion types necessarily WANT an ugly box; it's just that we have seen what most of these pretty boxes are like on the inside.
Just like many don't want a GUI that takes all of their RAM and CPU cycles, we don't want a conversation piece that has the cpu soldered to the board or worse.
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What civilization can go 500 years without war, overpopulation, religious fanaticism, or the hope that they could ever take advantage of 300 generations of technical advantages to make the trip shorter?
If you care about programming, and have the knack for it, you will do just fine without college. Some of us download every new language and write a "hello world", pick up projects on our own to hone skills we didn't have previously, make ourselves learn about sorts, trees, graphs, and how to write a compiler. We do it because we like it, and with that sort of drive, you will make a place for yourself any place you would like to be.
I don't think I am doing too badly for myself, and I am not an HTML drone.
Some people need college. There is a lot of research that is happening that even most hardcore hackers won't have the resources to do on their own. If you just want to be a good coder, know a lot of stuff, and make good money, consider skipping college.
If you are going from a 2.0 to 2.2 kernel, remember that IP Forwarding is off by default, and you need to echo a '1' to the appropriate file in proc (i don't recall it... look at the IP Chains page) to enable it. My masquerading was broken for two weeks until I found this out. Now it works like a champ. Go 2.2!
It bothers me a bit when people overdo the aesthetic thing. There are people who will go out of their way to put their television in the part of the room where the cable doesn't reach, because it 'looks better there.' I don't get it. It still looks like a TV, and my eye is focused on the flickery, moving-picture part.
If the hardware looks nice, and isn't proprietary, I'd buy it, sure. If it has a curved, molded CD drive or some oddball motherboard size, screw it.
I don't think most of us function over fashion types necessarily WANT an ugly box; it's just that we have seen what most of these pretty boxes are like on the inside.
Just like many don't want a GUI that takes all of their RAM and CPU cycles, we don't want a conversation piece that has the cpu soldered to the board or worse.