While I don't want to belittle 1.5% of net worth donated, there are plenty of people who donate 10% of their income as a tithe to do the work of the church.
See Luke 21
'"As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others.'
I think that when version 8 came out, they started having an ftp install. The iso was a live-cd.
They had some special program for education at one point, and I filled out the info to get the distro mailed to me. It was the live-cd too. Woof...
I'm glad to see this, because I think it increases mindshare. If the user base is larger, people go to the trouble of writing howtos and building specific rpms.
I have taught for 23 years, and have teaching/technical certifications. My resume is one page. On a second sheet, I have references, publications, presentations. Everything is tightly edited, and they only get high points. Any idiot in HR can scan the thing to see if I meet job requirements. They can ask for detail in the interview.
I was an assistant principal for a while, and I had all the scheduling and disciplinary duties that go with such a position. I don't bother listing the specifics. They either already have a pretty good idea or they don't care.
Get some experience. Trim down the resume to a single page. Do volunteer work if you don't have any real recommendations.
OK, so he has had a productive, professional mathematical life of 50 years or so.
Erdos is a good example of someone who was publishing papers for closer to 70 years. He had some 1500 of them total. 50 or so were published after his death.
You are right that this guy is unusual, but Erdos spoke of mathematicians in the past tense of they were not producing mathematics. To his way of thinking, they were dead.
He is doing things in the way he did them before you arrived on the scene, and he will probably be maintaining those machines when you are out worrying about your student loan and wondering why no one will pay you a decent salary.
Don't overthink this. If he likes rpms, then I would be installing rpms and creating a kickstart file to install them over the network for a new box.
It is understood well enough that high school kids have written programs to crack 32 bit DES in real time through a web interface. He has a fairly good explanation on the site.
Now... I will confess that he uses a restricted key space and requires MS documents to be encrypted for the real time crack so he can take advantage of formatting clues, but still.
Speaking as a teacher, I would have to say that the 8% satisfaction rate is probably pretty close.
Teaching requires a pretty complex skill set. It is not enough to be adept at math. You have to have communication skills and an ability to work with people. People who can't manage classrooms or talk to parents are going to hate going to work.
People who have not spent much time in the classroom often entertain the fantasy that they could be effective teachers. It is a much tougher job than many realize, and the washout rate is high for those who have gone through teacher ed programs.
In many ways it is a vocation. Not everyone gets the call, and not everyone can find satisfaction in the classroom. People get trapped by circumstances and decide to serve out their tenure processing worksheets and bitching in the lounge.
My mother quit smoking when she first got pregnant. She said that the first 20 years were the hardest.
In the interests of full disclosure, this was a motto of hers. She had also discovered that the first 20 years of marriage and the first 20 years of parenthood were the hardest too.
This is not to say that she did not want a smoke after 20 years, but it was easier to say "no."
I guess the lesson here is that the sooner you start the 20 year hardship, the sooner you finish.
If you want to know the servers that can consistently "pump out" the content consider the "smutcraft" survey.
These are folks with a business model that requires servers to be up, secure and robust. You can see what the have chosen.
I do the same thing at home that we do at the school where I teach. We have a policy that limits use to anything appropriate (as defined by the adults). There is a tendency to promote educational use, but we realize that amusement and communication have value even when not explicitly educational.
Then we put a squidguard content filter between the network and the internet, block the sex sites, and log everything. Internet access turns off from 10:30 PM to 6:00 AM.
all that stuff you signed at HR when you took your last job? Maybe you should have read it or kept copies.
No kidding... I'm sorry that the guy is out looking for a new job, but if they cut him loose, they had a reason, and that reason probably had his signature on it.
I worked at the Youth Hostel in Washington, D.C. at one point. We had a sign on a door saying that it was for employees only. I can't remember, but it may have been the laundry or cleaning supply store or something, and they were doing work that required going through this door to get to another area. It was supposed to be locked, but when people were making trips in and out, they would leave it unlocked for a few minutes, and guests would always find their way in.
The head guy put a sign on the door saying "High Voltage - Danger!" We could have left it unlocked at that point. The guests wouldn't go near it on a bet.
The idea of a little personal hazard tends to keep the idle folks out.
While I really want to believe that this guy is hosting this site on a computer with a homemade 5 mhz cpu, netcraft claims otherwise.
The site kuschel.citybug.de is running Apache/1.3.20 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.2.2 mod_perl/1.26 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 on Linux.
There is a reason that the site was not down after the 15th hit in a minute...
Re:Good Omens by Niel Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
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I heartily agree with this recommendation.
My mother bought me this book because she thought I would find the "motorcyclists of the apocalypse" amusing. It was a great read, and I have often laughed about some of the images.
Do yourself a favor and get this book. Then start listening to NPR. Buy the books they review. You get a wide variety of good reads this way. I got _Ice_Masters_ via NPR last summer, and I never would have bought it otherwise.
If you haven't read _Confederacy_of_Dunces_ do it soon. _Catch_22_ is another classic I have read more than once. _Jupiter's_Travels_ is a winner and the author is currently going around the world again.
Find a teacher with some computer interest/inclination. Ideally find one who is coming up for tenure and needs to work on his number of extra curricular points because he/she is a geek and doesn't coach.
Convince this teacher that you have a sincere interest in helping sort RAM or reimage lab machines. You might like to set up a linux box on the intranet to house a chemistry class project, blah, blah, blah.
If you rant about how you are "leet haxors" or come across like Bevis and Butthead, or if the teacher thinks you are going to be a liablity, you are toast. No teacher needs another set of headaches.
When my wife was expecting our first, a friend of mine gave me a book called _Birth_of_a_Father_. I read it and have often thought the advice was good.
In short you should trust your instincts. If it seems right, it probably is, and you should just ignore the disapproving looks from the grandmotherly types at the park who think children should be in an extra 20 layers of clothes or steel-toe boots.
My wife and I had been married 13 years when our first was born, and I wasn't sure how well I would adapt to the changes. At the risk of sounding trite or redundant, there is an organic quality to it, and it all just works. The experiences changes you in ways you wouldn't expect, and you will like the changes.
I have been really pleased with the Mondo/Mindi combo. It has worked well for me.
You can create an image of a machine and restore it to a test machine for development. Literally you can boot with the CD, type "nuke" and come back in 15 minutes.
When you want to move an image to a production machine, you create a disk, and type "interactive" at the boot prompt. You can change partition sizes, file system types, etc. When you boot the new machine, it finds the new HW, and you are ready to roll.
YMMV of course, and I have installations small enough to fit on a single CD with compression. All my systems are based on RH 7.2 or RH 7.3.
The only thing I have played with to map social networks is Pajek.
I was inspired to mess with this a little at school after being inspired by the book _Linked_. It worked OK, and there was some literature about it on the web.
Slashdot Mirror
While I don't want to belittle 1.5% of net worth donated, there are plenty of people who donate 10% of their income as a tithe to do the work of the church.
See Luke 21
'"As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others.'
I think that when version 8 came out, they started having an ftp install. The iso was a live-cd.
They had some special program for education at one point, and I filled out the info to get the distro mailed to me. It was the live-cd too. Woof...
I'm glad to see this, because I think it increases mindshare. If the user base is larger, people go to the trouble of writing howtos and building specific rpms.
I have taught for 23 years, and have teaching/technical certifications. My resume is one page. On a second sheet, I have references, publications, presentations. Everything is tightly edited, and they only get high points. Any idiot in HR can scan the thing to see if I meet job requirements. They can ask for detail in the interview.
I was an assistant principal for a while, and I had all the scheduling and disciplinary duties that go with such a position. I don't bother listing the specifics. They either already have a pretty good idea or they don't care.
Get some experience. Trim down the resume to a single page. Do volunteer work if you don't have any real recommendations.
OK, so he has had a productive, professional mathematical life of 50 years or so.
Erdos is a good example of someone who was publishing papers for closer to 70 years. He had some 1500 of them total. 50 or so were published after his death.
You are right that this guy is unusual, but Erdos spoke of mathematicians in the past tense of they were not producing mathematics. To his way of thinking, they were dead.
but he is the teacher and you are the student.
He is doing things in the way he did them before you arrived on the scene, and he will probably be maintaining those machines when you are out worrying about your student loan and wondering why no one will pay you a decent salary.
Don't overthink this. If he likes rpms, then I would be installing rpms and creating a kickstart file to install them over the network for a new box.
Josh
Now... I will confess that he uses a restricted key space and requires MS documents to be encrypted for the real time crack so he can take advantage of formatting clues, but still.Speaking as a teacher, I would have to say that the 8% satisfaction rate is probably pretty close.
Teaching requires a pretty complex skill set. It is not enough to be adept at math. You have to have communication skills and an ability to work with people. People who can't manage classrooms or talk to parents are going to hate going to work.
People who have not spent much time in the classroom often entertain the fantasy that they could be effective teachers. It is a much tougher job than many realize, and the washout rate is high for those who have gone through teacher ed programs.
In many ways it is a vocation. Not everyone gets the call, and not everyone can find satisfaction in the classroom. People get trapped by circumstances and decide to serve out their tenure processing worksheets and bitching in the lounge.
My mother quit smoking when she first got pregnant. She said that the first 20 years were the hardest.
In the interests of full disclosure, this was a motto of hers. She had also discovered that the first 20 years of marriage and the first 20 years of parenthood were the hardest too.
This is not to say that she did not want a smoke after 20 years, but it was easier to say "no."
I guess the lesson here is that the sooner you start the 20 year hardship, the sooner you finish.
Heh...
One of two things is true.
1. Microsoft is not aware that they have been hacked, or
2. They are not making compromises public.
smutcraft
I do the same thing at home that we do at the school where I teach. We have a policy that limits use to anything appropriate (as defined by the adults). There is a tendency to promote educational use, but we realize that amusement and communication have value even when not explicitly educational.
Then we put a squidguard content filter between the network and the internet, block the sex sites, and log everything. Internet access turns off from 10:30 PM to 6:00 AM.
all that stuff you signed at HR when you took your last job? Maybe you should have read it or kept copies.
No kidding... I'm sorry that the guy is out looking for a new job, but if they cut him loose, they had a reason, and that reason probably had his signature on it.
FWIW Stella Artois is Belgian. Helps to make the point really...
Maybe they could start by resurrecting the fidonet echo. There may be some active nodes out there, but dialing into tymnet on my 286 is history.
Suddenly I am feeling like a piece of history myself.
The previous URL was for the past 24 hours...
c e/Hosters?tn=june_2003&reverse=0
For the data referenced in the original post, try http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performan
Look at the actual chart http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/Hosters
It is updated every 15 minutes, and the screenshot is dated.
I worked at the Youth Hostel in Washington, D.C. at one point. We had a sign on a door saying that it was for employees only. I can't remember, but it may have been the laundry or cleaning supply store or something, and they were doing work that required going through this door to get to another area. It was supposed to be locked, but when people were making trips in and out, they would leave it unlocked for a few minutes, and guests would always find their way in.
The head guy put a sign on the door saying "High Voltage - Danger!" We could have left it unlocked at that point. The guests wouldn't go near it on a bet.
The idea of a little personal hazard tends to keep the idle folks out.
While I really want to believe that this guy is hosting this site on a computer with a homemade 5 mhz cpu, netcraft claims otherwise.
The site kuschel.citybug.de is running Apache/1.3.20 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.2.2 mod_perl/1.26 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 on Linux.
There is a reason that the site was not down after the 15th hit in a minute...
I heartily agree with this recommendation.
My mother bought me this book because she thought I would find the "motorcyclists of the apocalypse" amusing. It was a great read, and I have often laughed about some of the images.
Do yourself a favor and get this book. Then start listening to NPR. Buy the books they review. You get a wide variety of good reads this way. I got _Ice_Masters_ via NPR last summer, and I never would have bought it otherwise.
If you haven't read _Confederacy_of_Dunces_ do it soon. _Catch_22_ is another classic I have read more than once. _Jupiter's_Travels_ is a winner and the author is currently going around the world again.
I'll spare you a longer list.
Find a teacher with some computer interest/inclination. Ideally find one who is coming up for tenure and needs to work on his number of extra curricular points because he/she is a geek and doesn't coach.
Convince this teacher that you have a sincere interest in helping sort RAM or reimage lab machines. You might like to set up a linux box on the intranet to house a chemistry class project, blah, blah, blah.
If you rant about how you are "leet haxors" or come across like Bevis and Butthead, or if the teacher thinks you are going to be a liablity, you are toast. No teacher needs another set of headaches.
When my wife was expecting our first, a friend of mine gave me a book called _Birth_of_a_Father_. I read it and have often thought the advice was good.
In short you should trust your instincts. If it seems right, it probably is, and you should just ignore the disapproving looks from the grandmotherly types at the park who think children should be in an extra 20 layers of clothes or steel-toe boots.
My wife and I had been married 13 years when our first was born, and I wasn't sure how well I would adapt to the changes. At the risk of sounding trite or redundant, there is an organic quality to it, and it all just works. The experiences changes you in ways you wouldn't expect, and you will like the changes.
I have been really pleased with the Mondo/Mindi combo. It has worked well for me.
You can create an image of a machine and restore it to a test machine for development. Literally you can boot with the CD, type "nuke" and come back in 15 minutes.
When you want to move an image to a production machine, you create a disk, and type "interactive" at the boot prompt. You can change partition sizes, file system types, etc. When you boot the new machine, it finds the new HW, and you are ready to roll.
YMMV of course, and I have installations small enough to fit on a single CD with compression. All my systems are based on RH 7.2 or RH 7.3.
The mailing list is a great source of help.
think "slouching... "
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
If Mocrosoft licensing appears to be relaxed, I claim I haven't understood the consequences of the changes.
The only thing I have played with to map social networks is Pajek.
I was inspired to mess with this a little at school after being inspired by the book _Linked_. It worked OK, and there was some literature about it on the web.
Ummm...
I bought a Walmart Lindows box. It has had Lindows on it twice since last summer. Currently it is running RedHat 8.