Just to screw with a former boss (I still work there, he's retired) I wore a suit to work (normally jeans and a company t-shirt) and "accidentally" printed a resume to his printer in his office, and casually told him I'd be taking a long lunch.
Of course, it was on April 1st of that year... did have him going for a bit.
I first wrote do something meaningful code when I was 12. When I was 14, the code I wrote was managing my mom's contact and insurance info for her medical office (this was mid/late 80s, turbo Pascal on a 286).
Did go to college until late in life, but I've been programming all along, some for fun, some for pay, some just to learn something new. Did an AS in programming/analysis, finished that 15 years ago, and recently (3 years ago) went back to school part time. And I'll finally be finishing a BS in software development at the end of spring term.
10+ years experience, check. Just graduating or about to graduate - check again.
Granted, I'm an edge case - but I know of several folk in my position.
Actually, I see a need for something for potential students to run through and see if they are really a good fit for a IT based career. I've had too many students in the AS program I teach for as an adjunct who got into IT because "i like to play warcraft" or "i help my grandma understand facebook". Or one student who was barely literate who said "my guidance counselor in high school told me I could make OK money and be working inside in the air conditioning"...
effective way to get the design and engineering staff, maybe some land or a building, etc and then sell off or close down what they don't plan on needing/using, maybe even as a "loss" for tax purposes, etc.
If private property can be taken under "eminent domain" why can't the applicable patent(s) be taken and free license to produce given to multiple corporations?
I do this as well for a "Network Services with Linux". Lecture notes/summaries/examples are in our course management system, as are lists of good references and resources (thanks Safari subscription!), and class time is 10 minutes of demoing how things should work when done, pointing out particularly tricky bits and what common errors are, and then the next 2-2.5 hours are lab time.
Exams are only 20% of the final grade and are "did you do the reading and know how the protocol operates in general terms" with some (10-15) true/false, multiple choice, pick multiple answers and then 4 or 5 short essay questions. Timed, but open book/open resource.
The other 80% is labs and projects - configuring & maintaining dhcp, samba, dns, LAMP stack, postfix email w/ mysql back end, etc.
And with a decent scope and light coming from the proper direction you can see it happen to a 22 bullet in flight. Just like artillery but on a smaller scale.
This. I have a pair of external drives, as does a friend of mine. He brings over a drive of his data and my old drive, I put them in my gun safe. I give him his old data and my fresh data, he puts it in his gun safe.
Since we see each other every few days anyway, whenever we feel the need to back up (just backed up a phone, just took a bunch of pics, whatever) we can swap drives forth and back when ever we like.
No bandwidth restrictions to worry about, no client software to worry about, just copies of the data we NEED to keep (tax records, photos, etc).
Yeah, but lets face it. While it was fun when we were young, sneaking into a farmer's cow field, avoiding the bull, the angry cows, and the angry farmer gets kinda old after a while.
Not only that, but many/most farmers in my area use the anitbiotics, etc. in feed which kills 'shroom production.
Of course, if you do get some, you can always set up some brown rice and add the spores adn grow your own in a shit free environment....
Think if the states changed their laws so that individual elector votes could go to a candidate instead of the entire state based on a majority it may do better.
What is really crippling the political process in this country is that we have allowed two private organizations to obtain a stranglehold. And the only way to undo it is via legislation, which would need to be written and passed by the people who benefit from the stranglehold.
For some reason, my sig seems to be even more appropriate in this thread....
And I have the same job title as 2 of my cow-orkers but we do totally different things... some overlap, but not a lot. And since we all started at the same time, we've gotten the same raises (yay state employment with fixed percent raises... when we get them...), so we all make the same, at least in our base jobs (2 of us have second part time jobs as overload work with same employer - and we make the same in THAT spot too).
And pay transparency? Yup - got that too. Sunshine law and anyone can request a dump of name, position, and salary unless employee is in a "protected" group - law enforcement officers and spouses, prosecuting attorneys, judges and spouses, etc. Oh, and domestic violence victims. My name, job title, and current salary have been published by several newspapers in the state both in print and online.
Geany convert here. Used to use Kate/Kwrite, even on a MATE desktop, but recently icons weren't showing up for things like "save" and "close" and "open file". Even with all the KDE libs installed, they would only show up if you were using the actual KDE desktop.
Of course, on teh "down" side of Geany - it is really a light weight very configurable IDE, not just a plain text editor. Personally don't consider it a downside, but some may...
This is my big complaint with "apps". Why the hell do I need to sacrifice ANY space on my device (aside from maybe a few kb for cookies etc) to do something on my phone/tablet that I do from a browser on my desktop/laptop? Why can't I do it in the browser on the phjone?
My storage is for my mp3s, pics of my kids, my ebooks, MY stuff.
You forgot the 3rd type - "flimsy metal locking box", which is what almost every Sentry safe is.
Hint - if it doesn't have an Underwriters Lab listing, it isn't worth the $...
If you *really* need a safe (I delayed for ages due to cost, sucked it up and instead of buying another rifle I bought a safe - with UL cert - to put the rest of 'em in) check the deal at Big Box Stores - Lowes, Home Depot, Rural King, Tractor Supply.
Most of these give veterans a discount, sometimes you can catch a sale, sometimes you can get a scratched one and get $ off, etc. At the very least, 5-10% off for chargign on your store card, maybe more if you open a new store account...
I got a $1000 safe for $450. First, they were on sale for $700 with free to-store shipping. So I bought. But when I picked it up, they said that they had hit the temp foot it ships with in the bolt-down holes to keep it raised for forklifts. So I let tehm put it on my truck (took 4 folks and a forklift) and once it was in and "mine" I asked what kind of discount for torqued holes that are meant to let me bolt it to my slab... Manager brought me cash out to the truck as a refund.
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Almost, but I work for a state agency... raises are fixed. Boss had 35 years in...
Just to screw with a former boss (I still work there, he's retired) I wore a suit to work (normally jeans and a company t-shirt) and "accidentally" printed a resume to his printer in his office, and casually told him I'd be taking a long lunch.
Of course, it was on April 1st of that year... did have him going for a bit.
I first wrote do something meaningful code when I was 12. When I was 14, the code I wrote was managing my mom's contact and insurance info for her medical office (this was mid/late 80s, turbo Pascal on a 286).
Did go to college until late in life, but I've been programming all along, some for fun, some for pay, some just to learn something new. Did an AS in programming/analysis, finished that 15 years ago, and recently (3 years ago) went back to school part time. And I'll finally be finishing a BS in software development at the end of spring term.
10+ years experience, check. Just graduating or about to graduate - check again.
Granted, I'm an edge case - but I know of several folk in my position.
Actually, I see a need for something for potential students to run through and see if they are really a good fit for a IT based career. I've had too many students in the AS program I teach for as an adjunct who got into IT because "i like to play warcraft" or "i help my grandma understand facebook". Or one student who was barely literate who said "my guidance counselor in high school told me I could make OK money and be working inside in the air conditioning" ...
Nice opportunity passed by this weekend - the Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot. Plenty of noise.
This.
Of course, it does solve the argument of "tabs vs spaces" and "how many spaces to indent"
But at great cost.
effective way to get the design and engineering staff, maybe some land or a building, etc and then sell off or close down what they don't plan on needing/using, maybe even as a "loss" for tax purposes, etc.
Somewhat this.
If private property can be taken under "eminent domain" why can't the applicable patent(s) be taken and free license to produce given to multiple corporations?
I do this as well for a "Network Services with Linux". Lecture notes/summaries/examples are in our course management system, as are lists of good references and resources (thanks Safari subscription!), and class time is 10 minutes of demoing how things should work when done, pointing out particularly tricky bits and what common errors are, and then the next 2-2.5 hours are lab time.
Exams are only 20% of the final grade and are "did you do the reading and know how the protocol operates in general terms" with some (10-15) true/false, multiple choice, pick multiple answers and then 4 or 5 short essay questions. Timed, but open book/open resource.
The other 80% is labs and projects - configuring & maintaining dhcp, samba, dns, LAMP stack, postfix email w/ mysql back end, etc.
And with a decent scope and light coming from the proper direction you can see it happen to a 22 bullet in flight. Just like artillery but on a smaller scale.
This. I have a pair of external drives, as does a friend of mine. He brings over a drive of his data and my old drive, I put them in my gun safe. I give him his old data and my fresh data, he puts it in his gun safe.
Since we see each other every few days anyway, whenever we feel the need to back up (just backed up a phone, just took a bunch of pics, whatever) we can swap drives forth and back when ever we like.
No bandwidth restrictions to worry about, no client software to worry about, just copies of the data we NEED to keep (tax records, photos, etc).
Critical thinking, lots of word problems in math class. Problem solving in general, given a set of tools to solve them with....
And if you absolutely MUST run XP for something super critical, why the hell are you allowign that machine to browse the internet?
Yeah, but lets face it. While it was fun when we were young, sneaking into a farmer's cow field, avoiding the bull, the angry cows, and the angry farmer gets kinda old after a while.
Not only that, but many/most farmers in my area use the anitbiotics, etc. in feed which kills 'shroom production.
Of course, if you do get some, you can always set up some brown rice and add the spores adn grow your own in a shit free environment....
I voted for Cthlulu - why vote for the lesser of two evils?
He didn't get enough signatures to make it on my local ballot...
Think if the states changed their laws so that individual elector votes could go to a candidate instead of the entire state based on a majority it may do better.
What is really crippling the political process in this country is that we have allowed two private organizations to obtain a stranglehold. And the only way to undo it is via legislation, which would need to be written and passed by the people who benefit from the stranglehold.
For some reason, my sig seems to be even more appropriate in this thread....
Ask the folks who were in Athens, Tn,. who were around just after World War 2 ended.
Hint - GIs came home and kicked ass over election and voting issues.
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/at...
And I have the same job title as 2 of my cow-orkers but we do totally different things... some overlap, but not a lot. And since we all started at the same time, we've gotten the same raises (yay state employment with fixed percent raises... when we get them...), so we all make the same, at least in our base jobs (2 of us have second part time jobs as overload work with same employer - and we make the same in THAT spot too).
And pay transparency? Yup - got that too. Sunshine law and anyone can request a dump of name, position, and salary unless employee is in a "protected" group - law enforcement officers and spouses, prosecuting attorneys, judges and spouses, etc. Oh, and domestic violence victims. My name, job title, and current salary have been published by several newspapers in the state both in print and online.
My typing teacher in 8th grade, when the TRS-80 was still fairly new, thought all printers were dot matrix, and you could only get greenbar paper.
She'd assign us to type a sentence repeatedly as homework.
My daisy wheel printer used the same print heads as one of the typewriters that RS also sold.
One for loop, single feed some typing paper, and homework done.
The "check your typing speed" program was written in BASIC as well... so of course the copy I was loading was slightly modified...
Geany convert here. Used to use Kate/Kwrite, even on a MATE desktop, but recently icons weren't showing up for things like "save" and "close" and "open file". Even with all the KDE libs installed, they would only show up if you were using the actual KDE desktop.
Of course, on teh "down" side of Geany - it is really a light weight very configurable IDE, not just a plain text editor. Personally don't consider it a downside, but some may...
This is my big complaint with "apps". Why the hell do I need to sacrifice ANY space on my device (aside from maybe a few kb for cookies etc) to do something on my phone/tablet that I do from a browser on my desktop/laptop? Why can't I do it in the browser on the phjone?
My storage is for my mp3s, pics of my kids, my ebooks, MY stuff.
You forgot the 3rd type - "flimsy metal locking box", which is what almost every Sentry safe is.
Hint - if it doesn't have an Underwriters Lab listing, it isn't worth the $...
If you *really* need a safe (I delayed for ages due to cost, sucked it up and instead of buying another rifle I bought a safe - with UL cert - to put the rest of 'em in) check the deal at Big Box Stores - Lowes, Home Depot, Rural King, Tractor Supply.
Most of these give veterans a discount, sometimes you can catch a sale, sometimes you can get a scratched one and get $ off, etc. At the very least, 5-10% off for chargign on your store card, maybe more if you open a new store account...
I got a $1000 safe for $450. First, they were on sale for $700 with free to-store shipping. So I bought. But when I picked it up, they said that they had hit the temp foot it ships with in the bolt-down holes to keep it raised for forklifts. So I let tehm put it on my truck (took 4 folks and a forklift) and once it was in and "mine" I asked what kind of discount for torqued holes that are meant to let me bolt it to my slab... Manager brought me cash out to the truck as a refund.
I've been trying to learn how to do things The BSD Way. Considering freebsd since Linode support it to some degree for their VPSes...
I had issues with various validators (forum sign up, etc) not liking a + in the email, so on my postfix setup I changed it to a hyphen.
Seems you like over paying. linode.com has a similar vps for $5/mo. $10/mo doubles that...