Myself, as well as a few friends have all gone through this. A couple have been looking for at least 6 months (maybe not as hard as they could) for a tech job but can't land one. The best way to get some experience under your belt is to try to find some tech support work, be it at an ISP, or a small hardware company, whatever. It may seem like a kick in the pants to hafta do those jobs when you have a degree, but as others have mentioned, it's nearly impossible to get a job w/o real world experience.
As an example, a buddy who is still finishing up his AAS is CS just managed to get a job doing help desk at a hardware maker and he's starting at $14/hr. It'll be enough to pay bills and rent for him. Oh, and don't forget to check the local papers... it may seem outdated but there are still a few jobs to be had there (employer may get 1,000 reusmes but it's worth a shot, it's how I got my present job).
on my machine, folding@home is using up about 2MB of memory, and when I run united Devices, it uses up about 11MB of memory. Not usually a problem, but when I start doing actual work on my machine, I need all the memory I can get.
Maybe they're publishing this in order to support MORE filtering so they can "stop the virii" and have more control over their citizens. This would help them justify blocking email attachments and more ports.
It probably isn't much better here in the US. I know that where I work, before we got our network anti-virus, it was probably close to 95% of computers had been touched by a virus. The email based virii spread through the whole company in 2 weeks max.
methinks it's because usenet DOES have many legal uses and would be a major pain in the ass for them to shut down. If those companies were to remove certain binary groups from their servers, I have no doubt that the posters would hijack a different group and fill that up with mp3/porn/movies.
I also think it has something to do with the popularity of p2p vs. usenet. Not that many people know how to use usenet whereas any dummy can download kazaa and be running in no time without configuration.
-t just pings the host until interrupted by ctrl-c or by closing your command window. I don't know if the t is supposed to stand for anything special but that's what it does.
yes, it would take quite a few clients to do a ping of death. Doesn't matter much, looks like his site is down anyway so/. has once again done what it does best.
These problems have been a pain in my ass all day. I'm in the twin cities area and have people emailing (when they can) and calling all damn day about problems connecting through our vpn. When it is connected long enough for them to work, it's slow as hell.
At least now I have an excuse for everyone so I can get them off my backs.
personally, I think there should be exceptions. You shouldn't be allowed freedom of speech if it breaks a law in the process. Posessing child porn is illegal whether it's photos you hold in your hand, or photos on your computer. Saying that you should be allowed to have child porn is a stretch if you're using the first amend. as your argument. The first amendment protects free speech, not freedom of posession.
But to comment on the main point of this article, I don't think they should be going after the ISP's, but in their eyes I don't think they see the difference between the content provider and the ISP it's being piped through to people's homes. It's a difficult call but I would agree with others that they shouldn't require worldcomm to block the sites.
"food tins with an easily removable peel off top rather than use the can-opener (electric of course)."
They need to have these on more products... my girlfriend still hasn't been able to open a can with our electric opener and I hate getting my quake game interrupted to open a can of corn for her.
I don't feel locked in, and that's because I'm not. I was using redhat on this machine up until 3 weeks ago when I managed to hose it up. Didn't have a redhat distro cd on hand but I did have mandrake. Installed mandrake, installed my programs that I use and everything worked great.
There is no way Red hat could ever be a monopoly. That rebuttal by Jeremy Hogan explains why. Popularity shouldn't be confused with being a monopoly.
mostly yes... ignored and not thought of, unless of course your skills are needed, in which case you become one of the most important people in their life for as long as it takes you to fix their problem. Once you fix the problem, you are ignored once again.
Maybe it has something to do with quality over quantity, or maybe he's like me and his girlfriend will delete any porn she finds on his machine, making him start over again. i hate when that happens
I've seen a page where a guy did just that. Used his fish tank as the reservoir for his water cooling system. Wish I had the link to it. More work than I want to put into cooling, but I'm still fascinated by it. I have a peltier unit to keep my cpu cool, but I'm not hardcore enough for water.
You are correct... bandwidth is the issue at hand here. Where I work, we have a networked server that all must access through our WAN. The server is located at the same building as our internet connection so all legit traffic gets mixed in with internet traffic and when people are downloading mp3s or streaming real audio/video (not to mention forwarding on all those funny mpeg's to coworkers) it puts enough of a dent in the bandwidth to slow down everybody in their branch. That's when we have a problem. Work starts to get effected by the few who want to download their tunes or stream stuff. I have no problem if people want to bring in cd's full of mp3s because it's not my job to make sure they actually own the cd's the music came from. Just don't mess with my bandwidth!
"music is actually a distraction for a task that requires a high level of mental activity"
I don't doubt this one bit, but the thing is, there are a lot of people who don't require a high level of mental activity at their job.... they're nothing more than worker bees who repeat the same task 500 times throughout a day. To those people, I say ROCK ON!
On a related note, I just heard from a friend about some employees at a major telecom company who had servers (I think they were company servers) running file sharing programs. They had a lot of stuff on there and as a result were canned. Having 20 mp3s on your machine shouldn't be a problem, but having 20 GIG worth is a bit much.
I don't really understand where everybody is getting this idea that RIAA is trying to launch a DOS on p2p users. From what I could tell from actually READING the article from the Washington Post they don't seem to be launching a DOS attack... just merely throwing a bunch of corrupt files and such. I don't think that doing that is going to be denying anybody any service... just making them search longer to get the latest Eminem cd.
So what I'm trying to say is I don't think that this proposal by Berman would conflict with the UK law, IMHO.
As far as I know, the main differences between gnome and KDE are pretty much personal preference. I was a huge gnome fan until I decided to try out KDE 2 one day on a whim...haven't turned back since. It all depends on which interface you like more. I haven't had a chance to try the latest versions of either so it's possible I could change my mind again.
The problem is, there are people out there who did ask for things such as the seat belt laws, and airport searches and unfortunately, the gov't listened to them. All the Gov't hears is the people who whine. They never hear anything from those of us who are happy with the way things are. I might consider writing a representative or something but I never seem to hear about most laws until they're passed... plus, I probably can't compete with the money that lobbyists throw at politicians.
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Myself, as well as a few friends have all gone through this. A couple have been looking for at least 6 months (maybe not as hard as they could) for a tech job but can't land one. The best way to get some experience under your belt is to try to find some tech support work, be it at an ISP, or a small hardware company, whatever. It may seem like a kick in the pants to hafta do those jobs when you have a degree, but as others have mentioned, it's nearly impossible to get a job w/o real world experience.
As an example, a buddy who is still finishing up his AAS is CS just managed to get a job doing help desk at a hardware maker and he's starting at $14/hr. It'll be enough to pay bills and rent for him. Oh, and don't forget to check the local papers... it may seem outdated but there are still a few jobs to be had there (employer may get 1,000 reusmes but it's worth a shot, it's how I got my present job).
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on my machine, folding@home is using up about 2MB of memory, and when I run united Devices, it uses up about 11MB of memory. Not usually a problem, but when I start doing actual work on my machine, I need all the memory I can get.
Maybe they're publishing this in order to support MORE filtering so they can "stop the virii" and have more control over their citizens. This would help them justify blocking email attachments and more ports.
It probably isn't much better here in the US. I know that where I work, before we got our network anti-virus, it was probably close to 95% of computers had been touched by a virus. The email based virii spread through the whole company in 2 weeks max.
methinks it's because usenet DOES have many legal uses and would be a major pain in the ass for them to shut down. If those companies were to remove certain binary groups from their servers, I have no doubt that the posters would hijack a different group and fill that up with mp3/porn/movies.
I also think it has something to do with the popularity of p2p vs. usenet. Not that many people know how to use usenet whereas any dummy can download kazaa and be running in no time without configuration.
-t just pings the host until interrupted by ctrl-c or by closing your command window. I don't know if the t is supposed to stand for anything special but that's what it does. /. has once again done what it does best.
yes, it would take quite a few clients to do a ping of death. Doesn't matter much, looks like his site is down anyway so
These problems have been a pain in my ass all day. I'm in the twin cities area and have people emailing (when they can) and calling all damn day about problems connecting through our vpn. When it is connected long enough for them to work, it's slow as hell.
At least now I have an excuse for everyone so I can get them off my backs.
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personally, I think there should be exceptions. You shouldn't be allowed freedom of speech if it breaks a law in the process. Posessing child porn is illegal whether it's photos you hold in your hand, or photos on your computer. Saying that you should be allowed to have child porn is a stretch if you're using the first amend. as your argument. The first amendment protects free speech, not freedom of posession.
But to comment on the main point of this article, I don't think they should be going after the ISP's, but in their eyes I don't think they see the difference between the content provider and the ISP it's being piped through to people's homes. It's a difficult call but I would agree with others that they shouldn't require worldcomm to block the sites.
"food tins with an easily removable peel off top rather than use the can-opener (electric of course)."
They need to have these on more products... my girlfriend still hasn't been able to open a can with our electric opener and I hate getting my quake game interrupted to open a can of corn for her.
I don't feel locked in, and that's because I'm not. I was using redhat on this machine up until 3 weeks ago when I managed to hose it up. Didn't have a redhat distro cd on hand but I did have mandrake. Installed mandrake, installed my programs that I use and everything worked great.
There is no way Red hat could ever be a monopoly. That rebuttal by Jeremy Hogan explains why. Popularity shouldn't be confused with being a monopoly.
mostly yes... ignored and not thought of, unless of course your skills are needed, in which case you become one of the most important people in their life for as long as it takes you to fix their problem. Once you fix the problem, you are ignored once again.
Maybe it has something to do with quality over quantity, or maybe he's like me and his girlfriend will delete any porn she finds on his machine, making him start over again. i hate when that happens
I've seen a page where a guy did just that. Used his fish tank as the reservoir for his water cooling system. Wish I had the link to it. More work than I want to put into cooling, but I'm still fascinated by it. I have a peltier unit to keep my cpu cool, but I'm not hardcore enough for water.
You are correct... bandwidth is the issue at hand here. Where I work, we have a networked server that all must access through our WAN. The server is located at the same building as our internet connection so all legit traffic gets mixed in with internet traffic and when people are downloading mp3s or streaming real audio/video (not to mention forwarding on all those funny mpeg's to coworkers) it puts enough of a dent in the bandwidth to slow down everybody in their branch. That's when we have a problem. Work starts to get effected by the few who want to download their tunes or stream stuff.
I have no problem if people want to bring in cd's full of mp3s because it's not my job to make sure they actually own the cd's the music came from. Just don't mess with my bandwidth!
"music is actually a distraction for a task that requires a high level of mental activity"
I don't doubt this one bit, but the thing is, there are a lot of people who don't require a high level of mental activity at their job.... they're nothing more than worker bees who repeat the same task 500 times throughout a day. To those people, I say ROCK ON!
On a related note, I just heard from a friend about some employees at a major telecom company who had servers (I think they were company servers) running file sharing programs. They had a lot of stuff on there and as a result were canned. Having 20 mp3s on your machine shouldn't be a problem, but having 20 GIG worth is a bit much.
I don't really understand where everybody is getting this idea that RIAA is trying to launch a DOS on p2p users. From what I could tell from actually READING the article from the Washington Post they don't seem to be launching a DOS attack... just merely throwing a bunch of corrupt files and such. I don't think that doing that is going to be denying anybody any service... just making them search longer to get the latest Eminem cd.
So what I'm trying to say is I don't think that this proposal by Berman would conflict with the UK law, IMHO.
As far as I know, the main differences between gnome and KDE are pretty much personal preference. I was a huge gnome fan until I decided to try out KDE 2 one day on a whim...haven't turned back since. It all depends on which interface you like more. I haven't had a chance to try the latest versions of either so it's possible I could change my mind again.
The problem is, there are people out there who did ask for things such as the seat belt laws, and airport searches and unfortunately, the gov't listened to them. All the Gov't hears is the people who whine. They never hear anything from those of us who are happy with the way things are. I might consider writing a representative or something but I never seem to hear about most laws until they're passed... plus, I probably can't compete with the money that lobbyists throw at politicians.