I recently tried using MS Virtual Server to create VMs for Fedora Core and CentOS. For all of these it seemed like I got throught the install process but upon "rebooting" I got death.
For the free VMWare, Fedora Core worked like a charm the first time.
I'll probably end up using MS for MS guests and VMWare for everything else.
Maybe they should spend their money on making their website,download, and install process a little more streamlined. I've told tens of people that were in need of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to just go get OpenOffice. ~80% came back to me needing help downloading and installing the software. Yes, these people are definitley not the best at figuring it out, or trying different things, or even reading instructions on a website, but if openoffice.org provided an interface on their site to download as easily accessible as the one on getfirefox.com, they would immediatley have a larger user base.
1) Don't make users choose a mirror. Users don't have any clue what that means. Figure it out yourselves, but leave the option open for "advanced" users. The torrent is a nice touch though for the "advanced" options.
2) Provide direct links for the most likely platforms. Sadly this means Windows. On the front page. In huge fonts. (Just do it)
It can certainly make a difference early on in your career as well as determining what types of opportunites are available to you both in and out of school.
A school that is better known for their CS program is more likely to put money into resources that will be available to you. This includes the latest and greatest of whatever is widespread and happening in the CS community - but it also has to do with being invovled in the development of bleeding-edge technologies.
In my experience, it seems that schools with 'the best' CS programs are much more involved in the research and development of new technologies and offer many ways (even for undergrads) to get involved. Why graduate with a degree in CS to become a simple web monkey? (like me) Pick a place that you feel you will be able to have diverse experiences in many different aspects of CS as possible so you have a clear direction (hopefully) by the time of your senior year.
When it all comes down to it, it's just data in / data out all the live long data. er. day. Why not have the best opportunities to make the data something interesting.
Seems to me like it would be better to have him in a controlled environment being forced to focus his energy in a positive direction.
Clearly this individual is both dangerous and exceptionally talented at the same time. If the company can handle their employees with stringent security measures then most likely they will see the benefits of hiring someone like this.
This may sounds somewhat intuitive, but don't lock your bike up to stationary objects that can easily be dismantled.
In college I had my bike locked up to the outside on my front porch which seemed safe enough. Silly me. The theives easily removed the wooden slats from the porch and took the bike without a hitch.
Some suggestions:
1) Most dorms have a storage room for bikes with chains bolted through the floor. Even if its a pain to get your bike in and out use this room.
2) When you live off-campus or in an apartment or house, always take your bike inside. if you do not have floorspace to keep the bike in the foyer or your room, buy hooks to hang it from the wall/ceiling.
3) Although you might like your bike's fancy paintjob and pristine components, get out the paint, sandpaper, and the tape. Make it look like a piece of crap. Experienced bike theives will even go for decent components so the more unrecognizable/superficially flawed they are the better.
Finally, don't live with idiots. (read: people who are mentally deficient at locking doors)
Most people cannot think critically/logically while typing as fast as 60 WPM. In software development related jobs if someone was coding at that speed or even writing documentation, they would probably wasting the majority of their time.
If one has a job that involves writing (documentation, email, advertising), I find it difficult to believe that they would be able to compose well structured documents with good grammar at those speeds.
Seems to me that jobs where it would be a necessary skill would be those that involved dictation or something similar.
I totally agree. Although I've also found flourescent lighting has a dramatic detrimental impact on my mental state. After 2 years of working in a basement with low ceilings and flourescent lighiting, I thought I was going to go insane.
At my new job, I've slowly but surely convinced everyone in my department they like working with the lights off. We also have large windows overlooking Queens, NY with shades that allow us to blow 95% of the natural light coming from outside if we choose.
Yesterday a tech came in to repair a computer and flipped on the switch. Immediately 3 people (other than myself started complaining about the lights)
Score one for working in the dark. We do get ridicule from the rest of the office, but screw em!
If you want a shoulderbag, do yourself a favor and go get a nice Gravis bag. Extremely sturdy, many pockets for all your laptop's associated junk, and they look damn cool.
Not that it couldn't be done well in other types of games, but I just feel there are so many examples of amazing original scores that have been written for non-driving games.
My main example here has got to be System Shock 2. Any fans out there? The music alone was enough to make this game part of my favorites list. When combined with the great sound effects and creepy atmosphere it never failed to scare the crap out of me.
Driving games however, benefit from licensed soundtracks. Especially if they have a way to customize the soundtrack with your own mp3s (big fault of EA Trax IMHO) There's not much better than racing a F-50 at 180 mph listening to the same music you commute to at 2 mph.
Even the cable companies are offering us to switch out our only 1-year old digital cable boxes for newer suped up models that have some degree of PVR functionality (I think its about 30 hrs) - and at only 6 bucks extra / month, its pretty cheap too.
Many of the sales people @ my company uses them.
This would provide me with hours of entertainment provided no one dies. Or smells like burning flesh in the office.
Slashdot Mirror
I recently tried using MS Virtual Server to create VMs for Fedora Core and CentOS. For all of these it seemed like I got throught the install process but upon "rebooting" I got death. For the free VMWare, Fedora Core worked like a charm the first time. I'll probably end up using MS for MS guests and VMWare for everything else.
Maybe they should spend their money on making their website,download, and install process a little more streamlined. I've told tens of people that were in need of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to just go get OpenOffice. ~80% came back to me needing help downloading and installing the software. Yes, these people are definitley not the best at figuring it out, or trying different things, or even reading instructions on a website, but if openoffice.org provided an interface on their site to download as easily accessible as the one on getfirefox.com, they would immediatley have a larger user base.
1) Don't make users choose a mirror. Users don't have any clue what that means. Figure it out yourselves, but leave the option open for "advanced" users. The torrent is a nice touch though for the "advanced" options.
2) Provide direct links for the most likely platforms. Sadly this means Windows. On the front page. In huge fonts. (Just do it)
It can certainly make a difference early on in your career as well as determining what types of opportunites are available to you both in and out of school.
A school that is better known for their CS program is more likely to put money into resources that will be available to you. This includes the latest and greatest of whatever is widespread and happening in the CS community - but it also has to do with being invovled in the development of bleeding-edge technologies.
In my experience, it seems that schools with 'the best' CS programs are much more involved in the research and development of new technologies and offer many ways (even for undergrads) to get involved. Why graduate with a degree in CS to become a simple web monkey? (like me) Pick a place that you feel you will be able to have diverse experiences in many different aspects of CS as possible so you have a clear direction (hopefully) by the time of your senior year.
When it all comes down to it, it's just data in / data out all the live long data. er. day. Why not have the best opportunities to make the data something interesting.
Seems to me like it would be better to have him in a controlled environment being forced to focus his energy in a positive direction.
Clearly this individual is both dangerous and exceptionally talented at the same time. If the company can handle their employees with stringent security measures then most likely they will see the benefits of hiring someone like this.
This may sounds somewhat intuitive, but don't lock your bike up to stationary objects that can easily be dismantled.
In college I had my bike locked up to the outside on my front porch which seemed safe enough. Silly me. The theives easily removed the wooden slats from the porch and took the bike without a hitch.
Some suggestions:
1) Most dorms have a storage room for bikes with chains bolted through the floor. Even if its a pain to get your bike in and out use this room.
2) When you live off-campus or in an apartment or house, always take your bike inside. if you do not have floorspace to keep the bike in the foyer or your room, buy hooks to hang it from the wall/ceiling.
3) Although you might like your bike's fancy paintjob and pristine components, get out the paint, sandpaper, and the tape. Make it look like a piece of crap. Experienced bike theives will even go for decent components so the more unrecognizable/superficially flawed they are the better.
Finally, don't live with idiots. (read: people who are mentally deficient at locking doors)
Mail lists/Party lines for SMS. Sounds a lot like www.upoc.com I'm not affiliated.
Most people cannot think critically/logically while typing as fast as 60 WPM. In software development related jobs if someone was coding at that speed or even writing documentation, they would probably wasting the majority of their time.
If one has a job that involves writing (documentation, email, advertising), I find it difficult to believe that they would be able to compose well structured documents with good grammar at those speeds.
Seems to me that jobs where it would be a necessary skill would be those that involved dictation or something similar.
I totally agree. Although I've also found flourescent lighting has a dramatic detrimental impact on my mental state. After 2 years of working in a basement with low ceilings and flourescent lighiting, I thought I was going to go insane.
At my new job, I've slowly but surely convinced everyone in my department they like working with the lights off. We also have large windows overlooking Queens, NY with shades that allow us to blow 95% of the natural light coming from outside if we choose.
Yesterday a tech came in to repair a computer and flipped on the switch. Immediately 3 people (other than myself started complaining about the lights)
Score one for working in the dark. We do get ridicule from the rest of the office, but screw em!
Hail Shoe!
If you want a shoulderbag, do yourself a favor and go get a nice Gravis bag. Extremely sturdy, many pockets for all your laptop's associated junk, and they look damn cool.
Not that it couldn't be done well in other types of games, but I just feel there are so many examples of amazing original scores that have been written for non-driving games.
My main example here has got to be System Shock 2. Any fans out there? The music alone was enough to make this game part of my favorites list. When combined with the great sound effects and creepy atmosphere it never failed to scare the crap out of me.
Driving games however, benefit from licensed soundtracks. Especially if they have a way to customize the soundtrack with your own mp3s (big fault of EA Trax IMHO) There's not much better than racing a F-50 at 180 mph listening to the same music you commute to at 2 mph.
Even the cable companies are offering us to switch out our only 1-year old digital cable boxes for newer suped up models that have some degree of PVR functionality (I think its about 30 hrs) - and at only 6 bucks extra / month, its pretty cheap too.
/. (dislexic sob)
i can't believe they're ./ed already.
(sob)
It would be great to rig this thing somehow so I'm the predicted supreme overlord of the Earth by the year 2010.
The campaign buttons will read:
Bet for me in 2010.
Upon becoming the supreme ruler of the Earth, I promise to give out much land to all who bet for me.
Who wants control over a former country?
Bueller? Bueller?
Many of the sales people @ my company uses them. This would provide me with hours of entertainment provided no one dies. Or smells like burning flesh in the office.
i hate those damn damn damn 'net send' popup spams. some @$$%&!s found our ip block and enjoy thoroghly offering us great deals through popup dialogs.