Before you show up in a recruiter's office, your first step should be to get online and find the MOS (Military Occupational Specialty, aka your job title) that you want.
Your recruiter may or may not try to get you into something else, but don't accept anything but what you want. It's very hard to change jobs once you've signed the papers. Now, that said, the military is hurting for smart geeks like us and more than likely, you'll walk into the recruiters and say, "I want to be an information warfare technician" and they will offer you a fat sack of cash to sign up for this job. They really need you!
It's even easier on my A720 IS. All I had to do was to flip a few bits on my SD card with a hex editor and flip the read-only switch on the card and the camera automatically boots to CHDK. Don't want CHDK? Simply flip the SD card back to read/write. The camera ignores a read-only card and happily writes photos to it when it's locked.
I discovered CHDK while trying to find a remote trigger solution for my high altitude balloon project. After destroying three digital cameras trying to make a remote shutter, I discovered CHDK and it's UBASIC capabilities. I used a hacked-up USB cable and a simple UBASIC script to trigger the shutter from my Arduino.
Cool stuff. The HDR and RAW capabilities are incredible, for a $200 camera.
Not sure if any of you watch "The First 48", that TV series/documentary on homicide detectives. With many of the investigations, they bring suspects into the station for questioning. If you do watch it, you've probably noticed that the people who refuse to answer questions and do not self-incriminate almost NEVER get convicted of any crimes, even if they are the obvious suspect. Those that do talk almost always "catch a case".
Shaping hundreds of gigabits of traffic for hundreds of thousands of broadband-speed users is nothing at all like shaping traffic for 400 dial-in users with a hacked-together Linux box and a pair of T1s.
I suspect that Comcast is using stateful firewalls and maxing out their state tables.
You're on crack. Cisco means absolutely nothing to the average internet user in the US. They are dumping all of the value in the Linksys brand with this change...and you're kidding yourself if you think you're getting a Cisco for $100. If it doesn't run IOS, it isn't a real Cisco.
One of my favorite features of Mac OS X's Mail.app is the meta-inbox folder, a folder that contains the inboxes of all accounts set up in the client. I have four IMAP accounts and I wish I didn't have to switch between them to read each of them. Mail.app lets me read (and search) all of my mail in one place.
I totally agree. I enlisted in the Army National Guard and it was probably the smartest decision that I ever made. The military will teach you IT skills, leadership skills, and most importantly, life skills. You'll learn how to take care of yourself and take care of others. You'll make best friends that you'll have for a lifetime. I'd recommend enlisting for four years and then going to college. You'll get your school paid for, plus you'll have a head start on all of the 18 year-old freshmen because of the maturity that the military will bring you.
Obviously, you've never been on a South Texas ranch. You've never had your ranch house burglarized, vandalized, or your cars stolen by illegal immigrants or drug runners. This kind of stuff happens all the time in South Texas. Most of the ranchers that I know would welcome any federal progress towards stopping illegal immigration, including the installation of security cameras on their land.
Once upon a time--oh, back in the mid-1990's or so--Fat Tire was only available in Colorado. It was not uncommon for those of us living in New Mexico at the time to drive to a Colorado border town (usually Cortez or Durango) to pick up a few cases of "Fatty". When the New Belgium Brewery finally expanded regionally, it was quite a big deal in Albuquerque. The liquor stores were pretty much sold out for the first week or so.
You midwesterners should feel blessed that you have this beer at all. It really wasn't designed for you flatlanders.:P
Sun has a new 1U server out that is pretty slick. It uses 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives that "offers IOPS performance increase and 58% power savings compared to today's 3.5 inch drive."
Additionally, this server uses up to two dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs which offer 1.9 times the performance of 2-way Intel Xeon servers at up to a 56% power and cooling savings.
The power supply is fairly forgiving: 90-264V AC (47-63 Hz).
I would also advise you to look at some of the telco-targeted servers that run off of DC.
Judging by your userid and your post, it looks like you are new to Slashdot and computers in general. Welcome! We're glad you're here. How's your AOL trial working out for you?
Digging through my bookmarks, I found a few more. There is Meteo, which does data collection with a C program, storage using MySQL and delivery via PHP (and, apparently, RRDtool).
Here's another neat one: Joe Jaworski's vproweather uses a C-based program to pull the data from the Davis VantagePro stations, and some Bourne shell scripting to glue it all together. One neat thing about his approach: he is using SerialEthernet converters and a little program called remserial to tie his stations to his computer. This costs more than my method of using the Davis station's wireless capability to transmit the data, but is capable of sending the data over much longer distances--even around the world, I suppose.
Finally, these guys are using C, PostgreSQL, and Perl for their Davis-based station.
Wow, I've been waiting for this topic to show up for, what, six years now?:)
What you want is a Davis Instruments station. These stations hook up, via serial cable, to any PC. If you're running some form of *nix, I highly recommend the Device::WxM2 Perl module. I've written various collection daemons that use WxM2 to pull weather data from the station and store it in RRD format or in a PostgreSQL database. I even wrote an AGI script that allows people calling my Asterisk PBX to hear the latest weather data. I also wrote a handy widget for Konfabulator that lets you watch the weather on your Mac/PC desktop in real-time.
Shameless plug: if you decide that the Davis station is right for you, stop by my employer's website, where we have a variety of Davis Instruments choices.
One word of advice: we sell cheaper stations than the Davis models but if you are planning on putting this up on a roof and leaving it for 5+ years, you really want to go with a quality peice of equipment, not a Radio Shack toy that will disintegrate after a year in the sun.
Throw away that Cherokee POS. It's not as good "out in the sticks" as an F-150 with decent tires anyway.
-1 Retard. You won't get very far "out in the sticks" with the independent double-wishbone front suspension and 20 degree angle-of-departure on that F-150. Sorry bud, but the Jeep's solid axles and much steeper angle-of-departure and breakover angle have your F-150 whipped. Believe me, I've owned two F-150s and a Jeep and there is no comparison.
That said, if you want a true off-road machine, I suggest a Land Rover Defender 90. Though my D-90 runs on gas (and premium unleaded at that), you can find diesel models available and there are lots of people converting them to diesel, as well. Some folks are even converting them to run on vegetable oil. And, as they say, it's the Best 4x4xFar!
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You may not know this but I've heard that the US Army has more RHCE's than any other organization on Earth, RedHat included.
Before you show up in a recruiter's office, your first step should be to get online and find the MOS (Military Occupational Specialty, aka your job title) that you want.
Your recruiter may or may not try to get you into something else, but don't accept anything but what you want. It's very hard to change jobs once you've signed the papers. Now, that said, the military is hurting for smart geeks like us and more than likely, you'll walk into the recruiters and say, "I want to be an information warfare technician" and they will offer you a fat sack of cash to sign up for this job. They really need you!
Oh, and start exercising now!
Good luck!
It's even easier on my A720 IS. All I had to do was to flip a few bits on my SD card with a hex editor and flip the read-only switch on the card and the camera automatically boots to CHDK. Don't want CHDK? Simply flip the SD card back to read/write. The camera ignores a read-only card and happily writes photos to it when it's locked.
I discovered CHDK while trying to find a remote trigger solution for my high altitude balloon project. After destroying three digital cameras trying to make a remote shutter, I discovered CHDK and it's UBASIC capabilities. I used a hacked-up USB cable and a simple UBASIC script to trigger the shutter from my Arduino.
Cool stuff. The HDR and RAW capabilities are incredible, for a $200 camera.
Not sure if any of you watch "The First 48", that TV series/documentary on homicide detectives. With many of the investigations, they bring suspects into the station for questioning. If you do watch it, you've probably noticed that the people who refuse to answer questions and do not self-incriminate almost NEVER get convicted of any crimes, even if they are the obvious suspect. Those that do talk almost always "catch a case".
Available in non-glossy by order. Some Apple stores may even stock the non-glossy versions.
Don't blame it on Wordpress. Blame it on crappy Godaddy hosting.
I didn't say they had 400 customers, either. Re-read my post, goofball.
Bzzzzzt.
Try again.
Shaping hundreds of gigabits of traffic for hundreds of thousands of broadband-speed users is nothing at all like shaping traffic for 400 dial-in users with a hacked-together Linux box and a pair of T1s.
I suspect that Comcast is using stateful firewalls and maxing out their state tables.
You're on crack. Cisco means absolutely nothing to the average internet user in the US. They are dumping all of the value in the Linksys brand with this change...and you're kidding yourself if you think you're getting a Cisco for $100. If it doesn't run IOS, it isn't a real Cisco.
It's been snowing like mad all day.
One of my favorite features of Mac OS X's Mail.app is the meta-inbox folder, a folder that contains the inboxes of all accounts set up in the client. I have four IMAP accounts and I wish I didn't have to switch between them to read each of them. Mail.app lets me read (and search) all of my mail in one place.
Ralph Lauren's RLX ski wear is "high performance"? Heh. That's a good one.
:)
High gaper factor, maybe.
I totally agree. I enlisted in the Army National Guard and it was probably the smartest decision that I ever made. The military will teach you IT skills, leadership skills, and most importantly, life skills. You'll learn how to take care of yourself and take care of others. You'll make best friends that you'll have for a lifetime. I'd recommend enlisting for four years and then going to college. You'll get your school paid for, plus you'll have a head start on all of the 18 year-old freshmen because of the maturity that the military will bring you.
Oh, and the computer equipment is really sweet.
You've been victimized by the keyboard?
Give me a break.
I suppose you're probably going to sue Dell, huh?
Everyone's a victim these days, it seems.
Explain to me how creating more HTTP requests by using AJAX is going to decrease your database load.
Oh, while we're at it, explain how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Obviously, you've never been on a South Texas ranch. You've never had your ranch house burglarized, vandalized, or your cars stolen by illegal immigrants or drug runners. This kind of stuff happens all the time in South Texas. Most of the ranchers that I know would welcome any federal progress towards stopping illegal immigration, including the installation of security cameras on their land.
Once upon a time--oh, back in the mid-1990's or so--Fat Tire was only available in Colorado. It was not uncommon for those of us living in New Mexico at the time to drive to a Colorado border town (usually Cortez or Durango) to pick up a few cases of "Fatty". When the New Belgium Brewery finally expanded regionally, it was quite a big deal in Albuquerque. The liquor stores were pretty much sold out for the first week or so.
:P
You midwesterners should feel blessed that you have this beer at all. It really wasn't designed for you flatlanders.
XDrive, Yahoo Briefcase, anybody?
Of course, we had Web-based e-mail in '96, too, and look what Google did with that.
Sun has a new 1U server out that is pretty slick. It uses 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives that "offers IOPS performance increase and 58% power savings compared to today's 3.5 inch drive."
Additionally, this server uses up to two dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs which offer 1.9 times the performance of 2-way Intel Xeon servers at up to a 56% power and cooling savings.
The power supply is fairly forgiving: 90-264V AC (47-63 Hz).
I would also advise you to look at some of the telco-targeted servers that run off of DC.
Chris
Judging by your userid and your post, it looks like you are new to Slashdot and computers in general. Welcome! We're glad you're here. How's your AOL trial working out for you?
Digging through my bookmarks, I found a few more. There is Meteo, which does data collection with a C program, storage using MySQL and delivery via PHP (and, apparently, RRDtool).
Here's another neat one: Joe Jaworski's vproweather uses a C-based program to pull the data from the Davis VantagePro stations, and some Bourne shell scripting to glue it all together. One neat thing about his approach: he is using SerialEthernet converters and a little program called remserial to tie his stations to his computer. This costs more than my method of using the Davis station's wireless capability to transmit the data, but is capable of sending the data over much longer distances--even around the world, I suppose.
Finally, these guys are using C, PostgreSQL, and Perl for their Davis-based station.
Wow, I've been waiting for this topic to show up for, what, six years now? :)
What you want is a Davis Instruments station. These stations hook up, via serial cable, to any PC. If you're running some form of *nix, I highly recommend the Device::WxM2 Perl module. I've written various collection daemons that use WxM2 to pull weather data from the station and store it in RRD format or in a PostgreSQL database. I even wrote an AGI script that allows people calling my Asterisk PBX to hear the latest weather data. I also wrote a handy widget for Konfabulator that lets you watch the weather on your Mac/PC desktop in real-time.
Shameless plug: if you decide that the Davis station is right for you, stop by my employer's website, where we have a variety of Davis Instruments choices.
One word of advice: we sell cheaper stations than the Davis models but if you are planning on putting this up on a roof and leaving it for 5+ years, you really want to go with a quality peice of equipment, not a Radio Shack toy that will disintegrate after a year in the sun.
Questions? Ask and I'll be glad to answer.
Chris
Throw away that Cherokee POS. It's not as good "out in the sticks" as an F-150 with decent tires anyway.
-1 Retard. You won't get very far "out in the sticks" with the independent double-wishbone front suspension and 20 degree angle-of-departure on that F-150. Sorry bud, but the Jeep's solid axles and much steeper angle-of-departure and breakover angle have your F-150 whipped. Believe me, I've owned two F-150s and a Jeep and there is no comparison.
That said, if you want a true off-road machine, I suggest a Land Rover Defender 90. Though my D-90 runs on gas (and premium unleaded at that), you can find diesel models available and there are lots of people converting them to diesel, as well. Some folks are even converting them to run on vegetable oil. And, as they say, it's the Best 4x4xFar!