You know, he makes alot of sense. we should also drop encrypting passwords on the system as well. It's ridiculous that people should have reset a password in order to recover access! it should all be stored in plain text somewhere.
There are tons of jobs out there for people with linux skills. However, you have to start at the bottom - datacenter monkey, tech support, things of that nature. These jobs only pay 10 to 15 an hour, but you work one of those jobs for a few years, you will move up, build up experience, etc. If you are a talented person, then you will move up quickly.
I did this myself working at a datacenter, then eventually started working at a software company doing tech support - now i'm doing perl development. I started maybe 4 years ago, so this isn't impossible to do.
Most tech jobs that I look at require "degree or equivalent experience" meaning that as long as you can prove that you know what you are doing through work experience, then you should be fine. But you have to jump through the hoops of helldesk and crappy jobs first - not many people will hire you directly into a network administrator position if you don't show that you have a background in dealing with networks on a professional level.
I know that when I was learning how to program, doing video games was what got me really interested, I'm not sure if this site's tutorials are still valid, but http://nehe.gamedev.net/ has a great number of tutorials that may be useful..
Won't half of these makes most computer science majors suspected terrorists?
I mean seriously..
"odd work hours", "Unexplained affluence" (moonlighting, anybody?), "showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope", "attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know" (these two are the hacker's MO)
I'm slowly becoming more and more of the opinion that intellectual property protection groups such as the MPAA, RIAA, BSA and now the NMPA are more like 1900s era racketeerers. Any competition they essentially "beat out" by bending the law to their needs, hopefully this won't stand up in court, but none the less, this gets more and more silly.
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Aslan? is that you?
anyways, I would have to agree with that one, I like wide open houses, not narrow halls etc, and in my experiance, prefabs tend to be a little more closed than a stick-built
I've had major problems with SPEWS, about three months ago I rented a server that had it's entire subnet blocked by SPEWS because another server on the same node was used for spamming, it took me three weeks to get it off of the SPEWS database, and then I had to deal with various clients who had ISPs that (for some reason) used older version of the SPEWS database for blocking.
I live in a small podunk redneck town in texas, wal mart is god here, a couple males friends and I got drunk and decided see what would happen if we went to wal mart to buy:
1.) Astroglide/KY Jelly
2.) rubbers
3.) large number of bananas
4.) a fish
5.) broomstick
6.) pineapples.
the main result was a few dirty looks from the 80 year old cashier, getting followed around by a sherrif, and having a goldfish that we had no clue what to do with in the morning.
the town I used to live recently had the talking trashcans put in it's mall. the first few times I used them I thought I was going crazy because I kept on hearing someone say "thank you for cleaning up after yourself" but due to noise pollution I couldn't tell it was coming from that trashcan
I mean IIS which automatically implies windows...
if microsoft changes it's APIs to much, it'll drive away to many developers from.NET, and defeat the entire purpose of selling more Windows Server Boxes
I have no problem with microsoft products, I consider them to be good for people who don't know what the fuck they are doing when it comes to computers. linux isn't to that usablity point... yet, and apple is to fucking expensive:)
well, when you consider that Dell, compaq and most x86 laptops come from Seger and are just branded by whomever sells them, it makes sense that they're not distintive.
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You know, he makes alot of sense. we should also drop encrypting passwords on the system as well. It's ridiculous that people should have reset a password in order to recover access! it should all be stored in plain text somewhere.
There are tons of jobs out there for people with linux skills. However, you have to start at the bottom - datacenter monkey, tech support, things of that nature. These jobs only pay 10 to 15 an hour, but you work one of those jobs for a few years, you will move up, build up experience, etc. If you are a talented person, then you will move up quickly.
I did this myself working at a datacenter, then eventually started working at a software company doing tech support - now i'm doing perl development. I started maybe 4 years ago, so this isn't impossible to do.
Most tech jobs that I look at require "degree or equivalent experience" meaning that as long as you can prove that you know what you are doing through work experience, then you should be fine. But you have to jump through the hoops of helldesk and crappy jobs first - not many people will hire you directly into a network administrator position if you don't show that you have a background in dealing with networks on a professional level.
I know that when I was learning how to program, doing video games was what got me really interested, I'm not sure if this site's tutorials are still valid, but http://nehe.gamedev.net/ has a great number of tutorials that may be useful..
I've run this exploit on two ubuntu 7.10 machines and it's worked quite well.
Won't half of these makes most computer science majors suspected terrorists? I mean seriously.. "odd work hours", "Unexplained affluence" (moonlighting, anybody?), "showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope", "attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know" (these two are the hacker's MO)
No, just the stuff that the RIAA pushes, we keep them around to remind us what not to listen to :)
I'm slowly becoming more and more of the opinion that intellectual property protection groups such as the MPAA, RIAA, BSA and now the NMPA are more like 1900s era racketeerers. Any competition they essentially "beat out" by bending the law to their needs, hopefully this won't stand up in court, but none the less, this gets more and more silly.
Aslan? is that you? anyways, I would have to agree with that one, I like wide open houses, not narrow halls etc, and in my experiance, prefabs tend to be a little more closed than a stick-built
I dunno, I know this one sys admin who's 6'5 and 320lb...
this will probably be considered flamebait but.. it's hard to be a sheep from one herd (sports) and still participate in another (slashdot) isn't it?
this is where skill comes in, these guys have spent many years (10+) building thier skills at thier sport(s).
I've had major problems with SPEWS, about three months ago I rented a server that had it's entire subnet blocked by SPEWS because another server on the same node was used for spamming, it took me three weeks to get it off of the SPEWS database, and then I had to deal with various clients who had ISPs that (for some reason) used older version of the SPEWS database for blocking.
I live in a small podunk redneck town in texas, wal mart is god here, a couple males friends and I got drunk and decided see what would happen if we went to wal mart to buy: 1.) Astroglide/KY Jelly 2.) rubbers 3.) large number of bananas 4.) a fish 5.) broomstick 6.) pineapples. the main result was a few dirty looks from the 80 year old cashier, getting followed around by a sherrif, and having a goldfish that we had no clue what to do with in the morning.
the town I used to live recently had the talking trashcans put in it's mall. the first few times I used them I thought I was going crazy because I kept on hearing someone say "thank you for cleaning up after yourself" but due to noise pollution I couldn't tell it was coming from that trashcan
hmm, if this were wifi.. I only hope they use WEP and not security that works *sinister laugh*
I mean IIS which automatically implies windows... if microsoft changes it's APIs to much, it'll drive away to many developers from .NET, and defeat the entire purpose of selling more Windows Server Boxes
I have no problem with microsoft products, I consider them to be good for people who don't know what the fuck they are doing when it comes to computers. linux isn't to that usablity point... yet, and apple is to fucking expensive :)
well, when you consider that Dell, compaq and most x86 laptops come from Seger and are just branded by whomever sells them, it makes sense that they're not distintive.
very true, but wouldn't microsoft want people to be driven towards IIS because of .NET and not allow them to use an open source solution instead?
the BOFH has guided me through many annoying tech support calls. He is my hero.