I too was laid off and started a consulting a business, then took a full time position and desired to still consult on the side. One of things you might've missed in your agreement paperwork is that most employers also have a clause the prohibits you from working for any other entity other than the direct employer. In my case, I chatted with them verbally and explained that I would continue to consult on my own time (after hours and on weekends) and that they could see access and firewall logs at anytime to validate that I wasn't using company supplied tools to perform my sidework. Also, I agreed that none of my sidework would be to any of their competitors or other companys in related fields. Once we agreed on that verbally, I asked them to redraft the employment contract to allow me to do side work *and* modify the agreement you mentioned that basically says anything developed locally (onsite) or remotely while doing work for them *and* connected via VPN was their IP, but nothing else.
I completely disagree with your statement. I work with RH AS clusters daily and I write code related to them whenever I need to. A good sysadmin always has some programming background... usually more than just Perl and shell scripting. Further, I also work with Apache daily and I've written three different modules in C to get the right tool for the job.
Quick follow-up...
Having just interviewed over 20 candidates for a sysadmin job at my company, I realized that the sad reality is that most colleges and university CompSci courses don't focus enough on networking. Sadly, most college students learn about networking when they get introduced to Kazaa or Limewire or some other P2P software. The colleges and universities focus on the languages (Java, C, Pascal, Fortran, etc), the hardware (assembly language), and the OS. For some reason the networks that interconnect all the OSs and many of the softwares and that many of the languages utilize are sadly ignored. Sad to say, but you'll learn more about networking studying some Cisco cert books and taking online tests than you are likely to in the classroom.
I suggest you go with the college/CompSci degree, then spend another 6 months to a year in a certification-type place getting things like A+, Network+, Cisco basic certs, and some linux/unix sysadmin basic certs (the latter cause most linux/unix sysadmins know networking a lot better than most MCSE types since they are network-centric OSs from the get-go). And depending on where you go to college, many colleges let you take tests for *life experience*, so if you got some network-related certs while in college, you might be able to have them credited and not spend as much time.
Its not offtopic if the topic at hand can be used as solution to another topic.:)
The Book Revelation as of 2004:
The Anti-Christ (Satan possessed): Bill Gates
The Women that Rides the Beast (the church): Pope John Paul
Satan: Darl McBride
The Lake of Eternal Fire:.Net
Now that we can also build a spaceship to go to Mars, I vote we send Bill Gates and Darl McBride. Bill can have the moon. Darl can have Mars. Then we can setup an "asteriods" like game and use the new monopoly planets as targets. Our game would run on Linux of course since MS would be on the moon and UNIX would be on Mars.
So the question is... will Novell sit on the SCO side of the courtroom or the IBM side?
Better yet... if Novell is claiming they own the copyright, won't the Novell/SCO issue have to be resolved before the now ammended complaint against IBM can be resolved? My understanding is that once a case is ammended, it must be resolved in full. SCO can't now try to get the contract dispute handled separate from the copyright issue, but the copyright issue is still just that... an pending issue. It'd be pretty sad if SCO had to first deal with Novell, then IBM. They might run out of money first... then they have to start selling the Linux and Unix again.
And I'll bet that literally 1000's of people submitted link and posts but only one was picked. Kind of like the voting system on survivor... keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Thanks so much for that little tidbit. There's nothing like getting aroused while reading about SCO... though the underside of my desk isn't all that comfortable. At least when I'm watching my DVDs, I roll back a bit first. You're little story caught me so offguard that now the top of my dick is bruised.
This is good news. IBM surely has the money to fight the defense. Granted, who knows... maybe IBM did commit some heinous act of open source, but at least SCO's ammending the copyright issue will bring the entire issue to the forefront and get us all a resolution faster. Certainly, its better than waiting for the breach of contract issue to get resolved, then waiting through a copyright case.
"but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part"
Isn't everything that Microsoft does slow? At least for the first few years til some competitor makes something better and faster, then MS buys 'em out, hires 'em, or pulls some "Anti-Trust" (the movie) tactic to get the technology and remain a monopoly? Go ahead... call me a troll. I just have no love lost on anything new from Redmond.
Your grandpa just clicked on the attachment I sent him inadvertently after I got the MyDoom virus after my wife clicked on the attachment her mom sent her after her husband opened the attachment your grandpa's system sent him.
I've always wanted to know how a buffer actually works in terms of memory, etc. I just bought a copy. Perhaps I'll graduate to being a real hacker after all...
Read this article, then substitute all instances of "terrorist" for "Scott Richter". The article is about terrorists, but could easily be seen as a way for a spammer to make a lot of money.
I ran out and bought a full box of silver-less paste at CompUSA (and yes, I got the CompUSA) label on it. My attorney is filing a "false advertisement" suit against them on Monday. I figure if everyone else can get "sue happy" then so can I. Maybe I'll get to retire early.
This is exactly the reason why I use Mozilla. Granted, Mozilla can have bugs too, but at least they patch them right away. They don't find out about them in December and still not have patches as of almost February as Microsoft does.
Just wait til someone deviant mixes the ideas here with a nice new IE exploit. It probably won't be all that long before a virus really does cripple the internet.
I bought one of the originally releases 15'' Powerbooks. At the time they shipped with OS 9 and included OS X. The first thing I did was install the LinuxPPC distro from linuxppc.org (now apparenlty non-existent). Later I went to Yellow Dog. For awhile I dual booted between Mac and Linux, but I found Linux much more usable. The reality was I only bought the powerbook because it looked kewl, not for the Mac OS.
"...today confirmed that it is experiencing a distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack" ???
Funny, www.sco.com comes up just fine for me. How are they "under a DDoS attack" that isn't supposed to happen until Feb 1st?
The whole press release was nothing but more PR crap with wonderful quotes like
"the SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system" and "We do not know the origins or reasons for this attack, although we have our suspicions."
It must be Linus.:) He wrote the virus and released it via the 2.6 Linux kernel.;) Actually, the way this virus works... via fast spreading and a timebomb makes you wonder if they were reading this article
Anyone ever heard of false advertising? I'm going to go buy some fro CompUSA right now, then sue the hell out of 'em. Hopefully no one else will get the same idea, otherwise it'll become a class action suit and instead of pocketing millions, I'll have to share it with everyone else and I'll probably get about $0.99
For anyone that's ever studied the Bible, specifically the book of Revelation, this isn't just an issue of saving money vs. getting ripped off. Rather, its eerily spooky considering that the propechies of Revelation speak a "one world government" and "one world currency" and a time when technology will be rapidly advancing. This *little issue* is proof that as the world becomes more digital and common currency will be needed. Pretty scary for the Christian and other religious/.'ers
"...truly plug and play, this device requires no driver or software installation for Windows XP and Mac OS X users."
My guess is that is simply interacts with the appropriate firewire or usb bus and needs no drivers. Linux could handle that just fine. Too bad they don't say so... they might get some more sales. Odds are though that it works just fine under Linux, but they're support staff aren't training to handle people using Linux environments.
Note the 19'' rack mount option listed on the page though. They're obviously thinking enterprise use.
Rip the remaining bezel pieces off... wire it to your tower and make a new LAN box with included LCD. Then buy a new laptop. Or better, build a new mini-PC for your car/truck/SUV and mount the LCD into your center console.:)
Seriously, most companies replace the full LCD anytime anything around it or supporting it breaks. I've found replacement parts on Ebay before, but if they're not available for your system yet, you may be out of luck.
Company's like AOL tend to do their layoffs at the end of the year to make final numbers look better to the board. But in the process, they ruin holidays and otherwise good family events. I can understand when a company goes bankrupt, but you'd think that when they're just doing it to make the numbers look a bit better, that they'd have the decency to pick a better time of year. Read through f'dcompany.com and you'll see a trend of near year-end layoffs. Sas that money hungry corporate types are insensitive to the familys and needs of the average worker. Not everyone makes 6 figures. Many live month to month and unemployment isn't always enough... especially at the holidays.
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I too was laid off and started a consulting a business, then took a full time position and desired to still consult on the side. One of things you might've missed in your agreement paperwork is that most employers also have a clause the prohibits you from working for any other entity other than the direct employer. In my case, I chatted with them verbally and explained that I would continue to consult on my own time (after hours and on weekends) and that they could see access and firewall logs at anytime to validate that I wasn't using company supplied tools to perform my sidework. Also, I agreed that none of my sidework would be to any of their competitors or other companys in related fields. Once we agreed on that verbally, I asked them to redraft the employment contract to allow me to do side work *and* modify the agreement you mentioned that basically says anything developed locally (onsite) or remotely while doing work for them *and* connected via VPN was their IP, but nothing else.
I completely disagree with your statement. I work with RH AS clusters daily and I write code related to them whenever I need to. A good sysadmin always has some programming background... usually more than just Perl and shell scripting. Further, I also work with Apache daily and I've written three different modules in C to get the right tool for the job.
Quick follow-up...
Having just interviewed over 20 candidates for a sysadmin job at my company, I realized that the sad reality is that most colleges and university CompSci courses don't focus enough on networking. Sadly, most college students learn about networking when they get introduced to Kazaa or Limewire or some other P2P software. The colleges and universities focus on the languages (Java, C, Pascal, Fortran, etc), the hardware (assembly language), and the OS. For some reason the networks that interconnect all the OSs and many of the softwares and that many of the languages utilize are sadly ignored. Sad to say, but you'll learn more about networking studying some Cisco cert books and taking online tests than you are likely to in the classroom.
I suggest you go with the college/CompSci degree, then spend another 6 months to a year in a certification-type place getting things like A+, Network+, Cisco basic certs, and some linux/unix sysadmin basic certs (the latter cause most linux/unix sysadmins know networking a lot better than most MCSE types since they are network-centric OSs from the get-go). And depending on where you go to college, many colleges let you take tests for *life experience*, so if you got some network-related certs while in college, you might be able to have them credited and not spend as much time.
Its not offtopic if the topic at hand can be used as solution to another topic. :)
The Book Revelation as of 2004:
The Anti-Christ (Satan possessed): Bill Gates .Net
The Women that Rides the Beast (the church): Pope John Paul
Satan: Darl McBride
The Lake of Eternal Fire:
Now that we can also build a spaceship to go to Mars, I vote we send Bill Gates and Darl McBride. Bill can have the moon. Darl can have Mars. Then we can setup an "asteriods" like game and use the new monopoly planets as targets. Our game would run on Linux of course since MS would be on the moon and UNIX would be on Mars.
So the question is... will Novell sit on the SCO side of the courtroom or the IBM side? Better yet... if Novell is claiming they own the copyright, won't the Novell/SCO issue have to be resolved before the now ammended complaint against IBM can be resolved? My understanding is that once a case is ammended, it must be resolved in full. SCO can't now try to get the contract dispute handled separate from the copyright issue, but the copyright issue is still just that... an pending issue. It'd be pretty sad if SCO had to first deal with Novell, then IBM. They might run out of money first... then they have to start selling the Linux and Unix again.
And I'll bet that literally 1000's of people submitted link and posts but only one was picked. Kind of like the voting system on survivor... keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Thanks so much for that little tidbit. There's nothing like getting aroused while reading about SCO... though the underside of my desk isn't all that comfortable. At least when I'm watching my DVDs, I roll back a bit first. You're little story caught me so offguard that now the top of my dick is bruised.
This is good news. IBM surely has the money to fight the defense. Granted, who knows... maybe IBM did commit some heinous act of open source, but at least SCO's ammending the copyright issue will bring the entire issue to the forefront and get us all a resolution faster. Certainly, its better than waiting for the breach of contract issue to get resolved, then waiting through a copyright case.
I posted this article months ago, but no one seemed to care. Just wait til they start putting viruses into v-cards.
"but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part"
Isn't everything that Microsoft does slow? At least for the first few years til some competitor makes something better and faster, then MS buys 'em out, hires 'em, or pulls some "Anti-Trust" (the movie) tactic to get the technology and remain a monopoly?
Go ahead... call me a troll. I just have no love lost on anything new from Redmond.
Your grandpa just clicked on the attachment I sent him inadvertently after I got the MyDoom virus after my wife clicked on the attachment her mom sent her after her husband opened the attachment your grandpa's system sent him.
I've always wanted to know how a buffer actually works in terms of memory, etc. I just bought a copy. Perhaps I'll graduate to being a real hacker after all...
Read this article, then substitute all instances of "terrorist" for "Scott Richter".
The article is about terrorists, but could easily be seen as a way for a spammer to make a lot of money.
I ran out and bought a full box of silver-less paste at CompUSA (and yes, I got the CompUSA) label on it. My attorney is filing a "false advertisement" suit against them on Monday. I figure if everyone else can get "sue happy" then so can I. Maybe I'll get to retire early.
This is exactly the reason why I use Mozilla. Granted, Mozilla can have bugs too, but at least they patch them right away. They don't find out about them in December and still not have patches as of almost February as Microsoft does.
Just wait til someone deviant mixes the ideas here with a nice new IE exploit. It probably won't be all that long before a virus really does cripple the internet.
I bought one of the originally releases 15'' Powerbooks. At the time they shipped with OS 9 and included OS X. The first thing I did was install the LinuxPPC distro from linuxppc.org (now apparenlty non-existent). Later I went to Yellow Dog. For awhile I dual booted between Mac and Linux, but I found Linux much more usable. The reality was I only bought the powerbook because it looked kewl, not for the Mac OS.
"...today confirmed that it is experiencing a distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack" ???
:) He wrote the virus and released it via the 2.6 Linux kernel. ;) Actually, the way this virus works... via fast spreading and a timebomb makes you wonder if they were reading this article
Funny, www.sco.com comes up just fine for me. How are they "under a DDoS attack" that isn't supposed to happen until Feb 1st?
The whole press release was nothing but more PR crap with wonderful quotes like
"the SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system" and "We do not know the origins or reasons for this attack, although we have our suspicions."
It must be Linus.
Anyone ever heard of false advertising? I'm going to go buy some fro CompUSA right now, then sue the hell out of 'em. Hopefully no one else will get the same idea, otherwise it'll become a class action suit and instead of pocketing millions, I'll have to share it with everyone else and I'll probably get about $0.99
For anyone that's ever studied the Bible, specifically the book of Revelation, this isn't just an issue of saving money vs. getting ripped off. Rather, its eerily spooky considering that the propechies of Revelation speak a "one world government" and "one world currency" and a time when technology will be rapidly advancing. This *little issue* is proof that as the world becomes more digital and common currency will be needed. Pretty scary for the Christian and other religious /.'ers
"...truly plug and play, this device requires no driver or software installation for Windows XP and Mac OS X users." My guess is that is simply interacts with the appropriate firewire or usb bus and needs no drivers. Linux could handle that just fine. Too bad they don't say so... they might get some more sales. Odds are though that it works just fine under Linux, but they're support staff aren't training to handle people using Linux environments. Note the 19'' rack mount option listed on the page though. They're obviously thinking enterprise use.
Rip the remaining bezel pieces off... wire it to your tower and make a new LAN box with included LCD. Then buy a new laptop. Or better, build a new mini-PC for your car/truck/SUV and mount the LCD into your center console. :)
Seriously, most companies replace the full LCD anytime anything around it or supporting it breaks. I've found replacement parts on Ebay before, but if they're not available for your system yet, you may be out of luck.
Perhaps SCO should use some of their millions of recent investments and get an OC48.
Company's like AOL tend to do their layoffs at the end of the year to make final numbers look better to the board. But in the process, they ruin holidays and otherwise good family events. I can understand when a company goes bankrupt, but you'd think that when they're just doing it to make the numbers look a bit better, that they'd have the decency to pick a better time of year. Read through f'dcompany.com and you'll see a trend of near year-end layoffs. Sas that money hungry corporate types are insensitive to the familys and needs of the average worker. Not everyone makes 6 figures. Many live month to month and unemployment isn't always enough... especially at the holidays.