As one of the few smokers left at work I joke that I am healthier than many of my desk bound coworkers. I walk an extra mile and a half per day, perhaps more depending on where I actually parked my car at. Could keep the smokes on me and only walk a hundred yards extra, but I figure as long as I'm smoking I may as well get a little benefit from it, so smokes stay in the car and I get a nice walk first thing on the way in to work, then mid morning, at lunch time, and sometimes mid afternoon.
A few non-smokers have adopted my parking method - "out there" instead of in the much closer reserved for faculty/staff spots, gets those extra steps in for them...
The "issue" with PHP is that it is dirt easy to get going, supported by hosting providers, and so both cost of entry and knowledge needed are minimal. And there is a lot of crap tutorial and demo code out there to be found and copy/pasted
Think the biggest challenge for anyone who wants to learn good PHP today is that there have been lots of changes and improvements (PDO/mysqli vs. mysql for example) but there are a TON of old tutorials, copy/paste code examples, etc. out there that are full of code that was acceptable 10-15 years ago but is just outdated and potentially/probably dangerous now.
Unfortunately until you get to enterprise level groups that can host/support things like Java servlets there aren't a lot of choices out there other than PHP for server-side processing. And even with Java while the language provides more/stronger protection, it is still possible to write bad/dangerous code and do stupid things. You don't see it in the wild due to the "cost" of getting it out there, but some of the stuff I see grading or tutoring is enough to send shivers down your spine.
There is an outfit in Tampa that provides electric conversions to just about any rear-engined VW or Porsche that uses the 180mm or 200mm clutch/flywheel - VW bugs and buses of all years, the VW thing, the Prosche 356, 912, early 911, and 914
While not cheaper than a crate VW engine, cost for complete set up is about what a good engine rebuild on the 356 would cost me...
I graduate with a BAS in software dev in 2 weeks (at almost 50!). Been programming forever, wanted to formalize and get a piece of paper to help advance my career. In fact, starting new position in January that comes with a significant raise.
What is a BAS? Well, like an AS is a 2 year "applied science" degree - think nursing, radiology or nuke med tech, etc a BAS is the 4 year equivalent. Since I work for the school I'm attending, my out of pocket costs were about $3k including the few books I had to buy (we're on a big Open resources kick...), but even then our in-state tuition is just about $10k for the whole thing. From start to finish languages covered include python, java, c++, c#, more java, html+css+javascript, php, more java, Android, AngularJS, MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB. Mix in a business management class, both "traditional" project management from the business dept and agile/scrum from the IT side, UML and other diagramming tools, business english, and basic networking to fill it out.
Yup. Unfortunately, I think only us older folk will appreciate them for what they are. Perhaps some of it that this is the type of equipment we learned to type on (IBM Selectric and TRS-80, my 286 had an M, still have the M in the garage...). I know my Northgate Omni is a nice keyboard, still have it too. Also old and mechanically clicky.
Considering getting a DIN->PS/2 adapter and a PS/2 to USB adapter so I can use 'em again.
Last time I was at a conference center, the DNS request is what blocked your address and forced you to go off to the captive portal. Those of us who had IPs memorized (or a hosts file entry) could connect and SSH/VPN in direct, and once connected get DNS over the VPN/SSH tunnel.
This of course made the PHBs jealous in the planning meetings (we were setting up to host a large educational conference) so this lowly geek who was wondering why he was even being sent to these meetings suggested "hey, we're about to write this place a check for how many hundreds of thousands of dollars and they want us to pay $20 each for WiFi while we plan this?" Amazing what a provost and college president can do for connections at conference centers... didn't know they had it in 'em.
Except in the US almost all connections except for true business class (ie, comes with a SLA) are meant to consume data, not generate it. Well, beyond the initial request for the latest stream of the Kardashians or whatever and any TCP ACK traffic related to consuming.
I'm rural, and happy with Windstream. When I first got DSL, 1.5 down/384k up was the limit for my distance from CO. Next guy down the line is too far away... When they offered me 3 down, I tried it but couldn't maintain a connection... back to 1.5.
2 years ago, massive fiber rollout... I now get 6down/1up, and could get 16 down but I think I will have that distance problem. And with some basic shaping (so I can do homework when competing with multiple streams) it is tolerable for all but gaming. When I get my frag on, I drop the rest of the house network. No ports blocked etc.
But.... as part of that fiber roll out... I watched them place fiber in the ground not 100 yards from my desk. Coming from the phone junction in the next town over (I have an address in one town and phone number exchange from another...my neighbors same, but opposite). I asked 'em if I would be able to hook into it, and nope. It is to extend their DSL offering "further out thataway". Even jokingly asked if a few bottles of top shelf bourbon showed up in their work truck if maybe a solar powered wireless unit would show up or something that I could latch on to:)... they were tempted, but no dice.
Indeed. If one didn't want to bury books in a septic tank - an old phone loaded up with PDFs and EPUBs with a small solar panel and charger setup stashed away in a properly shielded and sealed (water tight w/ desiccant in there!) box would be a good substitute
Comparing the community college and the state university in the town I'm in... unfortunately the COL stuff is a tad whacky since apparently this site figures you to live in a dorm if you are at the university vs. off campus housing at the CC (no dorms anyway...)
Basically for the cost of one year tuition (much less books, etc) at UF you can get your complete AA at SF, which UF will honor 100% and so you will have no lower division gen-ed stuff to worry about.
I know the plural of anecdote is not data but yes, it happened to me. Vastly more pedestrian vs. car and bicycle vs car than pedestrian vs bicycle but it happens.
Having been knocked unconscious and suffering a concussion from being hit by a bicyclist while I was walking I fully understand why they aren't supposed to use pedestrian walkways.
In the same boat as the OP, but worse. Worse because I teach as an adjunct (Linux admin stuff, SQL intro, etc) for the AS program that feeds our BAS due to my decades of technical background.
Nothing on version control or unit testing. Nothing on Agile/Scrum/Kanban or other software dev management styles. One of my recent assignments was over how to to go a website and use the web app provided to build a "3d" lego avatar. One of my upcoming assignments is to document how I interact with the Internet for a 24 hour period.
Knowing what I know about the program, no way I would hire a graduate of our program unless they were like "us" and jumping through the hoops to get a piece of paper.
"Even "simple" Task Manager in Windows 8/10 has nothing even close in Linux - something which shows processes and CPU/Disks/RAM/GPU/NIC utilization in a very easy to understand form. "
You should check out gkrellm (client/local app) and gkrellmd (daemon process for server monitoring) - you get all that plus CPU/GPU temps, fan speeds (CPU and Chassis), voltages and more.
They are also how people get from small local airports to larger hubs and form the working group of the various small commuter airlines that go from hubs to regional or local airports.
For the "power at take off" issue, why not steal the idea of an assisted take off from the Navy and the steam catapult? Since there is a much longer runway to work with the assistive acceleration wouldn't need to be as violent and sudden, which could make it usable for passenger if not cargo. No need to borrow the other half of the Navy solution and install arrestor hooks, still have a nice long runway to land on.
Eh, I can see some uses for development to be able to quickly switch versions of browsers, servers, libraries, etc. for testing purposes. And I think the snaps will have less overhead than running a full OS via VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.
But yes, I question why a calculator app would need to be containerized, unless it was done for demo purposes.
IIRC... it took my 286 running DOS 6.x about a minute to boot and become usable. Today, with exponentially more resources, it takes about a minute for my Linux and OS X desktops to boot and become usable. I won't bother trying to compare Windows 10 since my only experience are the work machines and they have do do all sorts of domain stuff before being usable, but Win 7 was about that on a laptop on a fresh install.
One of the neatest things was when I got one of the brand new first of Pentium 2 machines - 350mhz with 128mb of ram (late '98). Just for giggles we wiped the drive and put DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 and played for a few hours. Goodness, this is what computing speed was promised to me! If you have old install media for Win2k or NT4, or even XP, try creating a VM in VirtualBox/VMWare and giving it a couple of virutal CPUs and maximum supported memory.
Except the warnings of impending deprecation have been around for a while. For example, the old mysql family of functions (replaced w/ mysqli and/or PDO) started throwing E_DEPRECATED in PHP 5.5 which was released in mid 2013.
"I think we're already headed that way. Most people change their computers a lot less than in the early days of home computing."
I dunno. Other than this year or next year's games, I can't think of much that can't be done on a 5 year old machine. Sure, add some RAM, maybe swap in a bigger or faster hard drive or go SSD, but I think what has driven consumer average non-geek computer purchases have iether been hardware failure, a new OS is released, or a new CPU is released.
In the past 5 years though the capabilities of CPUs have been stagnant from a "email and facebook" users point of view. The new Windows was helpfully installed overnight for you, so you didn't need to go buy a computer with it installed. So aside from breakage, why spend the few hundred dollars?
Or can bother (to some degree). One of my former bosses was great a web design, HTML, getting layouts to look good on all sorts of viewing devices, etc.
He was also color blind. Frequent conversations were like "Hey, is this blue more blue than this other blue? Do either of them match this green ? Is that even green?"
So if he was limited to grey scale, he'd do great. And while he'd like to bother with picking complementary colors, etc. it just isn't something he is physically able to do.
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As one of the few smokers left at work I joke that I am healthier than many of my desk bound coworkers. I walk an extra mile and a half per day, perhaps more depending on where I actually parked my car at. Could keep the smokes on me and only walk a hundred yards extra, but I figure as long as I'm smoking I may as well get a little benefit from it, so smokes stay in the car and I get a nice walk first thing on the way in to work, then mid morning, at lunch time, and sometimes mid afternoon.
A few non-smokers have adopted my parking method - "out there" instead of in the much closer reserved for faculty/staff spots, gets those extra steps in for them...
The "issue" with PHP is that it is dirt easy to get going, supported by hosting providers, and so both cost of entry and knowledge needed are minimal. And there is a lot of crap tutorial and demo code out there to be found and copy/pasted
Think the biggest challenge for anyone who wants to learn good PHP today is that there have been lots of changes and improvements (PDO/mysqli vs. mysql for example) but there are a TON of old tutorials, copy/paste code examples, etc. out there that are full of code that was acceptable 10-15 years ago but is just outdated and potentially/probably dangerous now.
Unfortunately until you get to enterprise level groups that can host/support things like Java servlets there aren't a lot of choices out there other than PHP for server-side processing. And even with Java while the language provides more/stronger protection, it is still possible to write bad/dangerous code and do stupid things. You don't see it in the wild due to the "cost" of getting it out there, but some of the stuff I see grading or tutoring is enough to send shivers down your spine.
There is an outfit in Tampa that provides electric conversions to just about any rear-engined VW or Porsche that uses the 180mm or 200mm clutch/flywheel - VW bugs and buses of all years, the VW thing, the Prosche 356, 912, early 911, and 914
While not cheaper than a crate VW engine, cost for complete set up is about what a good engine rebuild on the 356 would cost me...
This.
I graduate with a BAS in software dev in 2 weeks (at almost 50!). Been programming forever, wanted to formalize and get a piece of paper to help advance my career. In fact, starting new position in January that comes with a significant raise.
What is a BAS? Well, like an AS is a 2 year "applied science" degree - think nursing, radiology or nuke med tech, etc a BAS is the 4 year equivalent. Since I work for the school I'm attending, my out of pocket costs were about $3k including the few books I had to buy (we're on a big Open resources kick...), but even then our in-state tuition is just about $10k for the whole thing. From start to finish languages covered include python, java, c++, c#, more java, html+css+javascript, php, more java, Android, AngularJS, MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB. Mix in a business management class, both "traditional" project management from the business dept and agile/scrum from the IT side, UML and other diagramming tools, business english, and basic networking to fill it out.
So... go to University? No. Go to college? Yes.
Well, in the old days sometimes we could use finger ...
But that might be offensive to some, so against the CoC ...
Perhaps. But given the choice between my DSL and RFC1149 or dialup... I'll take the DSL thanks.
Yup. Unfortunately, I think only us older folk will appreciate them for what they are. Perhaps some of it that this is the type of equipment we learned to type on (IBM Selectric and TRS-80, my 286 had an M, still have the M in the garage...). I know my Northgate Omni is a nice keyboard, still have it too. Also old and mechanically clicky.
Considering getting a DIN->PS/2 adapter and a PS/2 to USB adapter so I can use 'em again.
Last time I was at a conference center, the DNS request is what blocked your address and forced you to go off to the captive portal. Those of us who had IPs memorized (or a hosts file entry) could connect and SSH/VPN in direct, and once connected get DNS over the VPN/SSH tunnel.
This of course made the PHBs jealous in the planning meetings (we were setting up to host a large educational conference) so this lowly geek who was wondering why he was even being sent to these meetings suggested "hey, we're about to write this place a check for how many hundreds of thousands of dollars and they want us to pay $20 each for WiFi while we plan this?" Amazing what a provost and college president can do for connections at conference centers... didn't know they had it in 'em.
Except in the US almost all connections except for true business class (ie, comes with a SLA) are meant to consume data, not generate it. Well, beyond the initial request for the latest stream of the Kardashians or whatever and any TCP ACK traffic related to consuming.
I'm rural, and happy with Windstream. When I first got DSL, 1.5 down/384k up was the limit for my distance from CO. Next guy down the line is too far away... When they offered me 3 down, I tried it but couldn't maintain a connection... back to 1.5.
2 years ago, massive fiber rollout... I now get 6down/1up, and could get 16 down but I think I will have that distance problem. And with some basic shaping (so I can do homework when competing with multiple streams) it is tolerable for all but gaming. When I get my frag on, I drop the rest of the house network. No ports blocked etc.
But.... as part of that fiber roll out... I watched them place fiber in the ground not 100 yards from my desk. Coming from the phone junction in the next town over (I have an address in one town and phone number exchange from another...my neighbors same, but opposite). I asked 'em if I would be able to hook into it, and nope. It is to extend their DSL offering "further out thataway". Even jokingly asked if a few bottles of top shelf bourbon showed up in their work truck if maybe a solar powered wireless unit would show up or something that I could latch on to :) ... they were tempted, but no dice.
Indeed. If one didn't want to bury books in a septic tank - an old phone loaded up with PDFs and EPUBs with a small solar panel and charger setup stashed away in a properly shielded and sealed (water tight w/ desiccant in there!) box would be a good substitute
Comparing the community college and the state university in the town I'm in ... unfortunately the COL stuff is a tad whacky since apparently this site figures you to live in a dorm if you are at the university vs. off campus housing at the CC (no dorms anyway...)
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Basically for the cost of one year tuition (much less books, etc) at UF you can get your complete AA at SF, which UF will honor 100% and so you will have no lower division gen-ed stuff to worry about.
I know the plural of anecdote is not data but yes, it happened to me. Vastly more pedestrian vs. car and bicycle vs car than pedestrian vs bicycle but it happens.
Having been knocked unconscious and suffering a concussion from being hit by a bicyclist while I was walking I fully understand why they aren't supposed to use pedestrian walkways.
Or a hardware issue...
In the same boat as the OP, but worse. Worse because I teach as an adjunct (Linux admin stuff, SQL intro, etc) for the AS program that feeds our BAS due to my decades of technical background.
Nothing on version control or unit testing. Nothing on Agile/Scrum/Kanban or other software dev management styles. One of my recent assignments was over how to to go a website and use the web app provided to build a "3d" lego avatar. One of my upcoming assignments is to document how I interact with the Internet for a 24 hour period.
Knowing what I know about the program, no way I would hire a graduate of our program unless they were like "us" and jumping through the hoops to get a piece of paper.
"Even "simple" Task Manager in Windows 8/10 has nothing even close in Linux - something which shows processes and CPU/Disks/RAM/GPU/NIC utilization in a very easy to understand form. "
You should check out gkrellm (client/local app) and gkrellmd (daemon process for server monitoring) - you get all that plus CPU/GPU temps, fan speeds (CPU and Chassis), voltages and more.
They are also how people get from small local airports to larger hubs and form the working group of the various small commuter airlines that go from hubs to regional or local airports.
For the "power at take off" issue, why not steal the idea of an assisted take off from the Navy and the steam catapult? Since there is a much longer runway to work with the assistive acceleration wouldn't need to be as violent and sudden, which could make it usable for passenger if not cargo. No need to borrow the other half of the Navy solution and install arrestor hooks, still have a nice long runway to land on.
Lucifer's Hammer (Niven/Pournell 10+years prior) was better and had a similar scene
Eh, I can see some uses for development to be able to quickly switch versions of browsers, servers, libraries, etc. for testing purposes. And I think the snaps will have less overhead than running a full OS via VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.
But yes, I question why a calculator app would need to be containerized, unless it was done for demo purposes.
IIRC... it took my 286 running DOS 6.x about a minute to boot and become usable. Today, with exponentially more resources, it takes about a minute for my Linux and OS X desktops to boot and become usable. I won't bother trying to compare Windows 10 since my only experience are the work machines and they have do do all sorts of domain stuff before being usable, but Win 7 was about that on a laptop on a fresh install.
One of the neatest things was when I got one of the brand new first of Pentium 2 machines - 350mhz with 128mb of ram (late '98). Just for giggles we wiped the drive and put DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 and played for a few hours. Goodness, this is what computing speed was promised to me! If you have old install media for Win2k or NT4, or even XP, try creating a VM in VirtualBox/VMWare and giving it a couple of virutal CPUs and maximum supported memory.
I pull out the Discworld thoughts of the tyrant Vetinari "I believe in one man and one vote... and I am the man that has that vote"
Except the warnings of impending deprecation have been around for a while. For example, the old mysql family of functions (replaced w/ mysqli and/or PDO) started throwing E_DEPRECATED in PHP 5.5 which was released in mid 2013.
"I think we're already headed that way. Most people change their computers a lot less than in the early days of home computing."
I dunno. Other than this year or next year's games, I can't think of much that can't be done on a 5 year old machine. Sure, add some RAM, maybe swap in a bigger or faster hard drive or go SSD, but I think what has driven consumer average non-geek computer purchases have iether been hardware failure, a new OS is released, or a new CPU is released.
In the past 5 years though the capabilities of CPUs have been stagnant from a "email and facebook" users point of view. The new Windows was helpfully installed overnight for you, so you didn't need to go buy a computer with it installed. So aside from breakage, why spend the few hundred dollars?
Or can bother (to some degree). One of my former bosses was great a web design, HTML, getting layouts to look good on all sorts of viewing devices, etc.
He was also color blind. Frequent conversations were like "Hey, is this blue more blue than this other blue? Do either of them match this green ? Is that even green?"
So if he was limited to grey scale, he'd do great. And while he'd like to bother with picking complementary colors, etc. it just isn't something he is physically able to do.