What happened is we keep electing millionaire asshats who are completely out of touch with reality. We won't vote for Bob from Arkansas because he has an accent and a tiny juvenile record, even though he's grown up to be an outstanding American, probably served his country with honor, and wants what's best for his country. He's not perfect though. Probably isn't the greatest speach giver, he's likely not a lawyer, and doesn't have millions. Even now with the Occupy Wall Street bullshit we will either elect Obama or one of the millionaire competitor Republicans again.
Because while we're all clamoring that the 1% need to go to hell, we're the dumbasses who will elect one of those 1% right back into office. If we actually wanted to send a message we would elect the people to office to serve the people. We would not elect out of touch millionaires to office to serve their own interests along with those of their fellow corporation owners who back them with campaign contributions and whatever other favors.
Welcome to America. We are morons without common sense and we deserve what we get.
After 4 years in the USMC you think anything in IT stresses me out? And I never saw combat. My betters are probably the calm little center of the universe you and I will NEVER know. Another thing; my company is very vet friendly. After all the duty, watch standing, and other crap to make them go 24+ hours at a time with no sleep, comp time, extra pay or anything else but another full day of work, you don't really see vets complaining about having to work the occassional weekend or evening. There's a line in FIght Club where Ed Norton talks about everything else in the real world getting the noise turned down. Ya, you have NO idea. And P.S. I may be comfortable with weapons, but I also learned to both fear and respect their power and to treat them accordingly.
Funny. I have Gnome installed without issue. I will grant you I have never logged into it, so no dot files in my homedir, but otherwise no issue. I use NetworkManager, gnome-bluetooth, and gnome-audio-control (do not like the Xfce applet) in the notification area, so I can't fully uninstall gnome, For some reason I think at least one requires gnome-session, so I can get about as far as removing gnome-session-xsession so it does not show up as an option in LXDM.
yum groupinstall Xfce
or KDE, or LXDE, or...
really now... so hard...
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The A-10C is a much upgraded variant of the original. And with the Lightening II pod and Mavericks it can hit targets like tanks from a decent range. It can perform CCIP and CCRP bombing too. It can get up close and blow a kiss goodbye at its target as it's blowing it to pieces, but it does not have to.
How about you get with one of the science teachers and whoever else is necessary to set up a nesting box for a falcon or eagle or something on the roof of the school or elsewhere appropriate.
Set it up so that there are a couple webcams with external views, and maybe even one peaking into the box so if you get lucky the students can see it roosting.
My university (UMass Lowell) did this recently with and it was pretty cool to see the Peregrine Falcons up close.
As someone who grew up wanting to be a Marine I can tell you I was willing to do anything to get in. When I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease I thought I was done; I had surgey at 15 and had a few section of my intestines removed; 12 inches, 8 inches, and 4 inches. Funny thing was after that I didn't really need meds anymore; not at all actually. Having gone into remission save for almost daily abdominal discomfort or pain, probably because I eat any damn thing I want even though I probably shouldn't.
I walked into recruiting stations over and over again; sometimes years apart until I found a recruiter with an immense tolerance for bullshit. Wouldn't you know it that with enough visits to doctors, MEPS, paperwork going up to Navy BUMED, and everything else I was able to get in. Waiver for Crohn's, waiver for my eyes since they're also complete crap, and moral waiver for being a naughty juvenile on one occassion. They make waivers for everything
Queue four years of active duty service; rank of Sergeant, Good Conduct Medal, NAM, etc., etc. I probably wasn't so much your most likely candidate for success in such an environment and was told lots of times buy lots of people that I couldn't. You're too sick. You're too smart. You're too weak. You can't listen to people telling you what to do...
So, some things to take away from my story:
1.) Fuck everyone who tells you you can't do something.
2.) Everyone is imperfect; make what you can of your lot.
3.) A lot of the general rules in our system just don't work in side cases (like say Crohn's being a permanent disqualifier from military service.)
4.) That's why there's a waiver for everything.
5.) Fuck everyone who tells you you can't do something.
Having been through all that though I can DEFINITELY understand where they are coming from; it is infuriating beyond words to be told you can't do something you know you are full well capable of. I could shoot, I could run, I could do the MOS that was assigned to me (went in open contract), I could swim, and I could do anything else that was asked of me. And I did. When I got out I had a job with a high tech company I am sure everyone here is familiar with as a System Administrator before I even finished my terminal leave and used the G.I. Bill to get my college degree as well.
Some people just don't want to make excuses. They don't want to be a statistic. They don't want to be one of the numbers. They don't want to have one of the myriad bullshit mental conditions 99% of America can be diagnosed with if they just see a doctor so that they can give up lay down and profess that they were willing but unable because of the lot they got in life. They don't want to go around for the rest of their life saying, I tried to join X branch of the military but couldn't because they had flat feet. Not everyone wants to be a charity case if you can believe it. Some of us want to earn our keep and make something of our selves. It is the idea that our country was born on. It's the idea that is lost and will be the cause of this countries demise as well. I feel for these people immensely when their vision starts to go and they have to deal with the possibility of some flight surgeon screwing with them.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has got to be an MPAA Shill planted to destroy cheap internet movie streaming. It's the only explanation. Has Hastings always been CEO of Netflix - I'm too lazy/disgusted to look, but if so I propose either that he has been killed and cloned, or brainwashed early on to be an unwitting sleeper agent, who has now been triggered to commit his acts of espionage. These are the only explanations for this kind of disaster.
I believe in Arma2, which is far more realistic than most of this crap (and yet is still nowhere near real) I believe you can shoot civilians. If I'm not mistaken it can also be set up to trigger mission failure. Basically kill a civilian, you break the roe and mission ends failure. Doing stuff like that allows civilians to walk around town and add a little realism while preventing people from simulating a massacre....
Also, it's a game and just pixels. Get over it. I did 4 years in the Marine Corps and it's pretty safe to say it's all unrealistic bullshit. Fun to play and fun to escape reality but its not real or realistic...
You should consider letting google know your street is missing. It took them a bit to take action on my report written by a street in the first person begging to be found, but they did wnd my street now appears in google maps....
Sysadmins are just sick of being fucked by java in general. You need jvm 1.4 for this 1.5 for that 1.6 for yet another app and soon we can add 1.7 to the monkey fucking. No 3 apps work with the same version. And forget using an IBM jre in place of a sun jre or vice versa. Q opening every jnlp with a different javaws and opening your browser with a different version of the plugin. And fuck tour life if youre going to try to load virtual media shitware from a drac imm rsa mm or ilo - nope go find a tar.gz or ff and use a 32-bit jvm in a clusterfuck setupmthat just shouldnt have to exist. Yes we get fucked by java all too much. Probably our moms too.
Now i took a java course in college and from that perspective it is great. But as a syadmin and not a developer it's a flat out pain in my nut sack.
I did not find this to be the case when I was just rebuilding my wifes laptop from a failed drive. I ran into a nasty problem with Windows Update not working and SP1 not installing on Windows 7 and was doing searches using Bing because it was the default search in IE. I was searching for kb articles and other information related to the issue (I ended up having to replace two corrupt files in c:\windows\servicing\packages\ from an update that went wrong) by extracting them from an msu file, which was diagnosed by the System Update Readiness Tool from Microsoft.)
To that end all I had to do was search for the related KB article and download the msu file. Bing is giving me traditional chinese pages, other languages, but not the one article I need with the one link to download the file. I recall there was an option for English only links; still no joy. You'd think this would be a cake walk using Bing since the OS, KB article, and search engine creator are one and the same.
So, I did what I usually do and changed the search engine to Google, search for my KB article, download the package, replace the files, and my misery is ended.
So, I think we should start looking at sending a satellite or satellites to collect anti-matter; I don't know if we have the ability to create a magnetic field powerful enough and long enough to do this, but if not we should be figuring it out. I would say don't even bother bringing it back to earth either. When we're ready to do something with it, get the ship into space, whether we launch it, or build it up there, and have it collect the satellite like a stop at the local gas station before heading out.... just my thought on the whole idea. I'm guessing we're a ways off from considering something like this, but having a viable source nearby does get the imagination going.
not even close. I did this too and I know others who have as well. I think Xfce is going to get a lot of new users as more and more distros move to gnome 3.
I personally think this and the previous story are a complete waste of time. A browser is a browser. Beyond back, foward, stop, refresh, and bookmarks/favorites I don't really give a shit what it does. Tabs are a nice touch, as are security features like popup blockers, smartscreen, etc. I mostly want it to provide me with the most screen real estate it can without making access to those features unnecessarilly inaccessible. On my Windows PC I use IE9, on my 4 year old Mac laptop Safari, and on my RHEL work laptop I use Firefox. All of these fill my core requirements and even contain some or all of the 'nice touch' features I mentioned.
You know the other thing that is really great about using the browser that comes with each OS? Windows Update, Software Update, yum, each update the browser along with the OS. No having to think about clicking, waiting to be prompted, or otherwise searching for updates apart from that singular effort for updating the OS.
As for security, a healthy dose of common sense, a fully patched system, a software firewall, and an antivirus/malware package are a really good start for keeping your system secure. No browser has ever been completely safe, and none ever will be.
I personally think this and the previous story are a complete waste of time. A browser is a browser. Beyond back, foward, stop, refresh, and bookmarks/favorites I don't really give a shit what it does. Tabs are a nice touch, as are security features like popup blockers, smartscreen, etc. I mostly want it to provide me with the most screen real estate it can without making access to those features unnecessarilly inaccessible. On my Windows PC I use IE9, on my 4 year old Mac laptop Safari, and on my RHEL work laptop I use Firefox. All of these fill my core requirements and even contain some or all of the 'nice touch' features I mentioned.
You know the other thing that is really great about using the browser that comes with each OS? Windows Update, Software Update, yum, each update the browser along with the OS. No having to think about clicking, waiting to be prompted, or otherwise searching for updates apart from that singular effort for updating the OS.
As for security, a healthy dose of common sense, a fully patched system, a software firewall, and an antivirus/malware package are a really good start for keeping your system secure. No browser has ever been completely safe, and none ever will be.
It is beside the point. He made it sound as if every aspect of an internship is pointless. My point is that it is what you make of it. Yes, mine was paid; if I had it to do over again and I had to I would have done it unpaid.
Considering they paid me $8.30 and hour to be a help desk grunt back in 1996 and I learned that I was capable of working well in this industry and steered me towards pursuing it in my college studies. Before the internship I was a freshman in college, with no clue what I wanted to do, looking to work for the summer in their mail room.
For the record, they did end up hiring me. $38,000 a year salary and I hadn't even completed college. I don't think most college grads make that out the door.
When they outsourced their help desk they moved me in with their network and system administrators. My salary also got a huge jump; somewhere into the 60-65k range. Today I work for a different company and make even more than that.
Say what you will, but I am grateful to them, their internship, the crap $8.30 an hour they paid me, and everything I learned on the job. I made of it every single bit that I could and it paid off for me huge.
In one of the testimonies I heard on the radio it seems a woman was sterilized at least partly because she was deemed promiscuous for having a child before being married. She was in fact raped. Others were sterilized without their knowledge because they were poor. They didn't find out until they were married and tried to have their first children. Whites and blacks. Mostly the poor.
I am the first to say we should reduce the population but lets make sure we start by sterilizing anyone who signs such a practice into law a second time.
My degree is in informationt technology rather than computer science. I am half way through my last semester so most of this is still fresh in my head. There have been several programming, system administration, and other courses related to computing. I have also taken calculus, linear algebra, technical writing courses, ethics, micro and macroeconomics, american government, histories, writing, and god knows what else over the years. I have not enjoyed a single damn one of them aside from linear algebra.
You may want to sit behind a desk all day and code, but it helps if you can write in a way that properly conveys your message to your coworkers. Moreover it is also a wonderful thing to understand how and why your government operates in the way it does. As I said I took an American Government course a couple semesters ago. Just yesterday I was listening to a story about redistricting in Florida and they brought up gerrymandering (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering), something prior to that class I had no understanding or concept of. Maybe that is shameful to be an adult in the US and not understand something so basic about how our system works, but it is just one example of where my education has been paying off.
Another example was listening to a story on the radio (I have a very long commute, I listen to a lot of radio) and a financial story and an economist started referring to M1, M2, M3 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States)etc. without going into detail what the differences were. Had I not recently taken those courses I would have had no idea what he was talking about; I may not be an expert now, but I could at least understand this story on the radio. Simple things like these crop up every day.
So college hasn't always taught me to be a better systems administrator or programmer, but it has made me a better member of society, able to think critically, rather than flapping on about things I have no frikkan' clue about like ultra {liberal,conservative} morons ever present in todays media. I wish to ****ing god you and everyone else would take those courses more seriously, attempt to do well in them, and come out of the experience better for it. We need more people who do in this country. [/rant]
University of Massachusetts at Lowell has Intro to Linux and Linux System Administration courses. Many of the courses that fall within the CS and IT degree programs also allow for submission of papers in OpenOffice.org (well now LibreOffice I guess...) formats. There are still some, like an Intro to MS Office class that I had to take that I would have been hard pressed to complete without a copy of Windows; but then the same can be said in reverse of some of the other courses...
Things really just depend on the professors; I have taken a couple classes with one now who almost always says, "if you're on Linux|Solaris|Windows"
As far as wireless goes I guess my wife's university (Bridgewater State) has two wireless networks. They have to install some client to get on one and it may be Windows or Windows and Mac only, but there is a second that supports a wider range of devices and does not require the client. She mentioned why one was better than the other, but I honestly can't remember, so it's a fairly anecdotal statement, except to say that they have provisions for the 'other' operating systems.
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What happened is we keep electing millionaire asshats who are completely out of touch with reality. We won't vote for Bob from Arkansas because he has an accent and a tiny juvenile record, even though he's grown up to be an outstanding American, probably served his country with honor, and wants what's best for his country. He's not perfect though. Probably isn't the greatest speach giver, he's likely not a lawyer, and doesn't have millions. Even now with the Occupy Wall Street bullshit we will either elect Obama or one of the millionaire competitor Republicans again.
Because while we're all clamoring that the 1% need to go to hell, we're the dumbasses who will elect one of those 1% right back into office. If we actually wanted to send a message we would elect the people to office to serve the people. We would not elect out of touch millionaires to office to serve their own interests along with those of their fellow corporation owners who back them with campaign contributions and whatever other favors.
Welcome to America. We are morons without common sense and we deserve what we get.
After 4 years in the USMC you think anything in IT stresses me out? And I never saw combat. My betters are probably the calm little center of the universe you and I will NEVER know. Another thing; my company is very vet friendly. After all the duty, watch standing, and other crap to make them go 24+ hours at a time with no sleep, comp time, extra pay or anything else but another full day of work, you don't really see vets complaining about having to work the occassional weekend or evening. There's a line in FIght Club where Ed Norton talks about everything else in the real world getting the noise turned down. Ya, you have NO idea. And P.S. I may be comfortable with weapons, but I also learned to both fear and respect their power and to treat them accordingly.
and so, since I just noticed your comment, frankly, you're wrong...
Funny. I have Gnome installed without issue. I will grant you I have never logged into it, so no dot files in my homedir, but otherwise no issue. I use NetworkManager, gnome-bluetooth, and gnome-audio-control (do not like the Xfce applet) in the notification area, so I can't fully uninstall gnome, For some reason I think at least one requires gnome-session, so I can get about as far as removing gnome-session-xsession so it does not show up as an option in LXDM.
yum groupinstall Xfce
or KDE, or LXDE, or...
really now... so hard...
The A-10C is a much upgraded variant of the original. And with the Lightening II pod and Mavericks it can hit targets like tanks from a decent range. It can perform CCIP and CCRP bombing too. It can get up close and blow a kiss goodbye at its target as it's blowing it to pieces, but it does not have to.
Pretty decked out study sim if you want to get an idea of what it can do: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/series/warthog/
it is of course a sim, but about as detailed as you will find...
Vote again:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/PETITIONS#!/petition/pursue-software-patent-abolition/fHkD8wYM
My guess is that they STILL won't get the message, but one can always hope...
How about you get with one of the science teachers and whoever else is necessary to set up a nesting box for a falcon or eagle or something on the roof of the school or elsewhere appropriate.
Set it up so that there are a couple webcams with external views, and maybe even one peaking into the box so if you get lucky the students can see it roosting.
My university (UMass Lowell) did this recently with and it was pretty cool to see the Peregrine Falcons up close.
The concept reminds me of the Noah Unit Canon in Supreme Commander 2
As someone who grew up wanting to be a Marine I can tell you I was willing to do anything to get in. When I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease I thought I was done; I had surgey at 15 and had a few section of my intestines removed; 12 inches, 8 inches, and 4 inches. Funny thing was after that I didn't really need meds anymore; not at all actually. Having gone into remission save for almost daily abdominal discomfort or pain, probably because I eat any damn thing I want even though I probably shouldn't.
I walked into recruiting stations over and over again; sometimes years apart until I found a recruiter with an immense tolerance for bullshit. Wouldn't you know it that with enough visits to doctors, MEPS, paperwork going up to Navy BUMED, and everything else I was able to get in. Waiver for Crohn's, waiver for my eyes since they're also complete crap, and moral waiver for being a naughty juvenile on one occassion. They make waivers for everything
Queue four years of active duty service; rank of Sergeant, Good Conduct Medal, NAM, etc., etc. I probably wasn't so much your most likely candidate for success in such an environment and was told lots of times buy lots of people that I couldn't. You're too sick. You're too smart. You're too weak. You can't listen to people telling you what to do...
So, some things to take away from my story:
1.) Fuck everyone who tells you you can't do something.
2.) Everyone is imperfect; make what you can of your lot.
3.) A lot of the general rules in our system just don't work in side cases (like say Crohn's being a permanent disqualifier from military service.)
4.) That's why there's a waiver for everything.
5.) Fuck everyone who tells you you can't do something.
Having been through all that though I can DEFINITELY understand where they are coming from; it is infuriating beyond words to be told you can't do something you know you are full well capable of. I could shoot, I could run, I could do the MOS that was assigned to me (went in open contract), I could swim, and I could do anything else that was asked of me. And I did. When I got out I had a job with a high tech company I am sure everyone here is familiar with as a System Administrator before I even finished my terminal leave and used the G.I. Bill to get my college degree as well.
Some people just don't want to make excuses. They don't want to be a statistic. They don't want to be one of the numbers. They don't want to have one of the myriad bullshit mental conditions 99% of America can be diagnosed with if they just see a doctor so that they can give up lay down and profess that they were willing but unable because of the lot they got in life. They don't want to go around for the rest of their life saying, I tried to join X branch of the military but couldn't because they had flat feet. Not everyone wants to be a charity case if you can believe it. Some of us want to earn our keep and make something of our selves. It is the idea that our country was born on. It's the idea that is lost and will be the cause of this countries demise as well. I feel for these people immensely when their vision starts to go and they have to deal with the possibility of some flight surgeon screwing with them.
Words to live by: Nothing. Will. Ever. Stop. Me.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has got to be an MPAA Shill planted to destroy cheap internet movie streaming. It's the only explanation. Has Hastings always been CEO of Netflix - I'm too lazy/disgusted to look, but if so I propose either that he has been killed and cloned, or brainwashed early on to be an unwitting sleeper agent, who has now been triggered to commit his acts of espionage. These are the only explanations for this kind of disaster.
I believe in Arma2, which is far more realistic than most of this crap (and yet is still nowhere near real) I believe you can shoot civilians. If I'm not mistaken it can also be set up to trigger mission failure. Basically kill a civilian, you break the roe and mission ends failure. Doing stuff like that allows civilians to walk around town and add a little realism while preventing people from simulating a massacre....
Also, it's a game and just pixels. Get over it. I did 4 years in the Marine Corps and it's pretty safe to say it's all unrealistic bullshit. Fun to play and fun to escape reality but its not real or realistic...
You should consider letting google know your street is missing. It took them a bit to take action on my report written by a street in the first person begging to be found, but they did wnd my street now appears in google maps....
Sysadmins are just sick of being fucked by java in general. You need jvm 1.4 for this 1.5 for that 1.6 for yet another app and soon we can add 1.7 to the monkey fucking. No 3 apps work with the same version. And forget using an IBM jre in place of a sun jre or vice versa. Q opening every jnlp with a different javaws and opening your browser with a different version of the plugin. And fuck tour life if youre going to try to load virtual media shitware from a drac imm rsa mm or ilo - nope go find a tar.gz or ff and use a 32-bit jvm in a clusterfuck setupmthat just shouldnt have to exist. Yes we get fucked by java all too much. Probably our moms too.
Now i took a java course in college and from that perspective it is great. But as a syadmin and not a developer it's a flat out pain in my nut sack.
I did not find this to be the case when I was just rebuilding my wifes laptop from a failed drive. I ran into a nasty problem with Windows Update not working and SP1 not installing on Windows 7 and was doing searches using Bing because it was the default search in IE. I was searching for kb articles and other information related to the issue (I ended up having to replace two corrupt files in c:\windows\servicing\packages\ from an update that went wrong) by extracting them from an msu file, which was diagnosed by the System Update Readiness Tool from Microsoft.)
To that end all I had to do was search for the related KB article and download the msu file. Bing is giving me traditional chinese pages, other languages, but not the one article I need with the one link to download the file. I recall there was an option for English only links; still no joy. You'd think this would be a cake walk using Bing since the OS, KB article, and search engine creator are one and the same.
So, I did what I usually do and changed the search engine to Google, search for my KB article, download the package, replace the files, and my misery is ended.
So, I think we should start looking at sending a satellite or satellites to collect anti-matter; I don't know if we have the ability to create a magnetic field powerful enough and long enough to do this, but if not we should be figuring it out. I would say don't even bother bringing it back to earth either. When we're ready to do something with it, get the ship into space, whether we launch it, or build it up there, and have it collect the satellite like a stop at the local gas station before heading out.... just my thought on the whole idea. I'm guessing we're a ways off from considering something like this, but having a viable source nearby does get the imagination going.
not even close. I did this too and I know others who have as well. I think Xfce is going to get a lot of new users as more and more distros move to gnome 3.
I personally think this and the previous story are a complete waste of time. A browser is a browser. Beyond back, foward, stop, refresh, and bookmarks/favorites I don't really give a shit what it does. Tabs are a nice touch, as are security features like popup blockers, smartscreen, etc. I mostly want it to provide me with the most screen real estate it can without making access to those features unnecessarilly inaccessible. On my Windows PC I use IE9, on my 4 year old Mac laptop Safari, and on my RHEL work laptop I use Firefox. All of these fill my core requirements and even contain some or all of the 'nice touch' features I mentioned. You know the other thing that is really great about using the browser that comes with each OS? Windows Update, Software Update, yum, each update the browser along with the OS. No having to think about clicking, waiting to be prompted, or otherwise searching for updates apart from that singular effort for updating the OS. As for security, a healthy dose of common sense, a fully patched system, a software firewall, and an antivirus/malware package are a really good start for keeping your system secure. No browser has ever been completely safe, and none ever will be.
I personally think this and the previous story are a complete waste of time. A browser is a browser. Beyond back, foward, stop, refresh, and bookmarks/favorites I don't really give a shit what it does. Tabs are a nice touch, as are security features like popup blockers, smartscreen, etc. I mostly want it to provide me with the most screen real estate it can without making access to those features unnecessarilly inaccessible. On my Windows PC I use IE9, on my 4 year old Mac laptop Safari, and on my RHEL work laptop I use Firefox. All of these fill my core requirements and even contain some or all of the 'nice touch' features I mentioned.
You know the other thing that is really great about using the browser that comes with each OS? Windows Update, Software Update, yum, each update the browser along with the OS. No having to think about clicking, waiting to be prompted, or otherwise searching for updates apart from that singular effort for updating the OS.
As for security, a healthy dose of common sense, a fully patched system, a software firewall, and an antivirus/malware package are a really good start for keeping your system secure. No browser has ever been completely safe, and none ever will be.
It is beside the point. He made it sound as if every aspect of an internship is pointless. My point is that it is what you make of it. Yes, mine was paid; if I had it to do over again and I had to I would have done it unpaid.
Considering they paid me $8.30 and hour to be a help desk grunt back in 1996 and I learned that I was capable of working well in this industry and steered me towards pursuing it in my college studies. Before the internship I was a freshman in college, with no clue what I wanted to do, looking to work for the summer in their mail room.
For the record, they did end up hiring me. $38,000 a year salary and I hadn't even completed college. I don't think most college grads make that out the door.
When they outsourced their help desk they moved me in with their network and system administrators. My salary also got a huge jump; somewhere into the 60-65k range. Today I work for a different company and make even more than that.
Say what you will, but I am grateful to them, their internship, the crap $8.30 an hour they paid me, and everything I learned on the job. I made of it every single bit that I could and it paid off for me huge.
This has been done before. Went over very poorly. See NC now looking to compensate their victims: http://www.google.com/search?q=nc+sterilization+victims
In one of the testimonies I heard on the radio it seems a woman was sterilized at least partly because she was deemed promiscuous for having a child before being married. She was in fact raped. Others were sterilized without their knowledge because they were poor. They didn't find out until they were married and tried to have their first children. Whites and blacks. Mostly the poor.
I am the first to say we should reduce the population but lets make sure we start by sterilizing anyone who signs such a practice into law a second time.
My degree is in informationt technology rather than computer science. I am half way through my last semester so most of this is still fresh in my head. There have been several programming, system administration, and other courses related to computing. I have also taken calculus, linear algebra, technical writing courses, ethics, micro and macroeconomics, american government, histories, writing, and god knows what else over the years. I have not enjoyed a single damn one of them aside from linear algebra.
You may want to sit behind a desk all day and code, but it helps if you can write in a way that properly conveys your message to your coworkers. Moreover it is also a wonderful thing to understand how and why your government operates in the way it does. As I said I took an American Government course a couple semesters ago. Just yesterday I was listening to a story about redistricting in Florida and they brought up gerrymandering (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering), something prior to that class I had no understanding or concept of. Maybe that is shameful to be an adult in the US and not understand something so basic about how our system works, but it is just one example of where my education has been paying off.
Another example was listening to a story on the radio (I have a very long commute, I listen to a lot of radio) and a financial story and an economist started referring to M1, M2, M3 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#United_States)etc. without going into detail what the differences were. Had I not recently taken those courses I would have had no idea what he was talking about; I may not be an expert now, but I could at least understand this story on the radio. Simple things like these crop up every day.
So college hasn't always taught me to be a better systems administrator or programmer, but it has made me a better member of society, able to think critically, rather than flapping on about things I have no frikkan' clue about like ultra {liberal,conservative} morons ever present in todays media. I wish to ****ing god you and everyone else would take those courses more seriously, attempt to do well in them, and come out of the experience better for it. We need more people who do in this country. [/rant]
Maybe you should go finish school. Tne ability to write proper sentences is usually considered a valuable skill regardless of your profession.
University of Massachusetts at Lowell has Intro to Linux and Linux System Administration courses. Many of the courses that fall within the CS and IT degree programs also allow for submission of papers in OpenOffice.org (well now LibreOffice I guess...) formats. There are still some, like an Intro to MS Office class that I had to take that I would have been hard pressed to complete without a copy of Windows; but then the same can be said in reverse of some of the other courses...
Things really just depend on the professors; I have taken a couple classes with one now who almost always says, "if you're on Linux|Solaris|Windows"
As far as wireless goes I guess my wife's university (Bridgewater State) has two wireless networks. They have to install some client to get on one and it may be Windows or Windows and Mac only, but there is a second that supports a wider range of devices and does not require the client. She mentioned why one was better than the other, but I honestly can't remember, so it's a fairly anecdotal statement, except to say that they have provisions for the 'other' operating systems.