Who cares if women want to go with careers and degrees that are traditionally sound ways to earn a living rather than gamble on the absolutely shitty IT scene?
Never have a I seen such a horde of ravening jerkoffs as in the NOC of any small ISP or in the cubicles of killer_app_startup.com
The ladies are just using their finely tuned sense of self preservation. Who wants to share the environs with hentai worshipping, arrogant, unbathed geeks with yellow teeth and deskbelly?
We used to bring in a new load of machines every year to replace the aging machines in some
area where the computers were "too old".
In reality the machines were being forced out
by the technology ignorant and product brain
washed technology teachers and others that wanted
a better machine at school to play with than they had at home, equipped with expensive software
and fast internet access they couldn't get at home.
Most of the CS courses were a joke using apps
like Dreamweaver for an intro to html course,
and a laughingly bizarre course called "Adv. Database Design" taught exclusively with ms access. The school switched from an OO
curriculumusing C++ to one using java at the urging of the programming teacher who didn't
even know java yet. When he returned from
summer break he admitted that he hadn't
really done much with java over the summer either, but was hitting the books now.
Of course the machines up until 2000 were
heavily abused by the students and games,
malware, and viruses proliferated despite
attempts to secure and protect the win9x
clients. There was no support for technical
staff who discovered misuse of the machines. Instead they were blamed for not "locking down"
the client and then harassed when they did
lock down the machines.
There were two technical staff personnel
to deal with 300 win9x clients,6-9 servers,
cisco switches and routers and two relational databases with proprietary interfaces.
They cut staff to one in 2000.
After three years of that I left the job, and though now unemployed, and unable to find work
in technology I take great joy in knowing I will never have to work at a place like that again.
I'd rather wash dishes, if I wasn't overqualified for every fast food joint and greasy spoon on
the planet(being a WM with a three digit iq and
having two years of college disqualifies you
from more opportunities on the down side than
just being a penniless vagabond from costa rica)
Happy Fucking New Year.
Not this shite again. Look, you do your systems stuff in java or perl and watch yourself come back to C when you need a piece of software that actually does it in a reasonable amount of time.
"I mean, come on, they have access to all your information in case of need anyway..."
Hmm..what's this supposed to mean? That they
can find out where you were last tuesday by a
lengthy investigative process?
There is a logical discrepancy in being able to find out what someone did if there is a need to do so and monitoring individuals activities.
As far as trusting you or anyone else to tell me what "they" would find interesting: Thanks,
but I don't think you're qualified.
"If you seriously think that a central repository of information about you is so much worse than the chance of it doing good by catching criminals or terrorists, I personally think you're a dumbass..."
You need to reread your history..and proceed
from a higher level of logic than that of
the merely plausible. That way you can avoid the problem of appearing to be a smug , but basically naive, prick.
Before he got really famous he used to some out and do dramatic short story readings for a college creative writing class as a favor for a famous writer friend of his, now deceased, who did many of the TZ episodes.
He's just this guy, you know?
Good Idea.
I'm running an older compaq machine downstairs
that I have set up for users in the house to
access the broadband inet if they want.
It's using an older SuSE distro with kde2 now
but is very stable and my mom uses it for email
and Open Office. Kind of neat to see older
people catch on very quickly to the kde
interface.
This is blasphemy you know..stephen king never could write for educated adults...his best stuff is basically for high school students.
The Dark Tower trilogy?
What a waste of trees.
Um.. Stephen Donaldson..wasn't he the guy who
wrote the Thomas Covenant soap opera?
That was without a doubt, one of the worst
series I've ever failed to read completely.
If you mean David Drake, I can't believe you
leavened his name with the yeast of greatness.
The man is a spouting windbag , his(and his
friend Janet Morris)writing is so involuted
and windy it is painful to read.
Look at what they did to Thieves World,(OT)
they killed it.
His miltary adventures are crap rehashes.
Arghhh..
I had a cable tech do the same thing with the power to the adminsitrative idf. He was in there
splicing fiber and he decides to test the new
cable..
Hits the power button, all switches die and the
cable doesn't work, this all with users still
trying to access resources, send mail and in
the midst of distributed transactions to various
DB.
This shit should be actionable.
No shit sherlock.
What if I don't like my distro's assbrained kernel tampering but want the newest set of utilities, glibc, etc, without having to do it all in a spare
week. I usually use vanilla kernels anyway. WTF,
and you got modded 2 on this, shitbrains.
Unless of course you're a reasonably bright kid who was into computers early and skipped a proper unversity education to catch the IT boom and are now looking down the barrel of 40 years in a mature industry with no qualifications and no learning skills with which to update your specific technical knowledge.
What exactly are you getting at here?
That you need to go to college to learn
how to learn?
Looks like a lot of college kids don't
agree.
Or that we shouldn't be so close minded and become legitimate karma whores?
And then we would have waited for the java vm to crawl to it's next try..finally, and heave another
exhausted heap of resources into the oven for the
garbage collector to come..
Java demands patience, like a glacier.
"In our school system, Cisco has partnered with the high schools, and is teaching networking technology. We're growing the next generation of network saavy folks, today.."
Yeah..cisco taught me that their products and proprietary protocols are the real deal!!
IGRP rocks! EIGRP is the best! PIX firewalls
are cool!
What a bunch of horseshit.
Peddle your cisco mouthwash some place
else
Wrong...
The perversion of melkor is distinctly familiar
and follows established paterns of mythic behavior.
Since he is the father of earthly evil, and sauron was his disciple, there is a classic weaning scenario for LOTR.
Saruman was always arrogant but was ultimately
corrupted for meddling with things he didn't
understand fully.
It's obvious you don't care enough to study the mythology, so why comment on it?
You just come off like an swaggering weenie.
It's like having a car with a huge engine, and only 6" tires.."
That's the fun part..I used to have pizza cutters
on a 1976 plymouth fury ex-police interceptor.
Huge boat of a car, but with the 400 ci motor,
huge carb and misc tweaks done by the police, that thing would burn the treads of the tires
and leave you gasping for air in an intersection.
I remember going through a used car lots
rejected tires because I had run out of
money and had burned up my tires so badly
that I couldn't drive in the rain. I wish I
still had that car. Almost two tons and under 14 sec quarter mile.
70 miles to the tank;)
Well if I'm a competent sysadmin I know exactly what traffic is going where, when and how. If you attempt to use external dns I redirect it, if you attempt to connect to ssh I block it,if you hit
port 80, it goes to the proxy,etc..
You have a client and I have the power.
If you want to play I'll route you into a hole and wait for you to complain so I can show you the logs.
If you get really stupid I'll have your job and
a pat on the back.
Don't fuck with sysadmins.
Kill the client..Kill the client.. That's from one of the WB cartoons, and I'll probably be prosecuted. of course they weren't prosecuted for cartoonizing the wagner theme, so who knows..
I would never stock a POS machine next to my
dedicated firewall/router just because some
joker thinks he is going to install software
that I never agreed to.
It's insane even to suggest that a customer should have to do this so they can get the service they
pay for.
If they start rate limiting my connection
there are a number of things I can do about that, all of which cost them money.
I think your "advice" is very bad.
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Who cares if women want to go with careers
and degrees that are traditionally sound ways
to earn a living rather than gamble on the
absolutely shitty IT scene?
Never have a I seen such a horde of ravening
jerkoffs as in the NOC of any small ISP or in
the cubicles of killer_app_startup.com
The ladies are just using their finely tuned
sense of self preservation. Who wants to share
the environs with hentai worshipping, arrogant,
unbathed geeks with yellow teeth and deskbelly?
Not this shite again.
Look, you do your systems stuff in java or perl
and watch yourself come back to C when you need
a piece of software that actually does it in a reasonable amount of time.
Before he got really famous he used to some out and do dramatic short story readings for a college creative writing class as a favor for a famous writer friend of his, now deceased, who did many of the TZ episodes. He's just this guy, you know?
This is blasphemy you know..stephen king never could write for educated adults...his best stuff is basically for high school students. The Dark Tower trilogy? What a waste of trees.
That's it. The rest of the writers are good if you like space opera, cyberpunkishness and hard science, but these are true craftsmen.
Um.. Stephen Donaldson..wasn't he the guy who wrote the Thomas Covenant soap opera? That was without a doubt, one of the worst series I've ever failed to read completely.
If you mean David Drake, I can't believe you leavened his name with the yeast of greatness. The man is a spouting windbag , his(and his friend Janet Morris)writing is so involuted and windy it is painful to read. Look at what they did to Thieves World,(OT) they killed it. His miltary adventures are crap rehashes.
Arghhh.. I had a cable tech do the same thing with the power to the adminsitrative idf. He was in there splicing fiber and he decides to test the new cable.. Hits the power button, all switches die and the cable doesn't work, this all with users still trying to access resources, send mail and in the midst of distributed transactions to various DB. This shit should be actionable.
No shit sherlock. What if I don't like my distro's assbrained kernel tampering but want the newest set of utilities, glibc, etc, without having to do it all in a spare week. I usually use vanilla kernels anyway. WTF, and you got modded 2 on this, shitbrains.
So is the final word no LVM support? That would be a shame, and would mean that no upgrades to distros's shipping 2.6 for me and mine.
That's about it..a lot of useless bgimages, inefficient interfaces and the usual windows crap. Candy for candyasses.
And then we would have waited for the java vm to crawl to it's next try..finally, and heave another exhausted heap of resources into the oven for the garbage collector to come.. Java demands patience, like a glacier.
James T. Kirk would have caused seven types of electronic hemorrhage with that statement. The man had a definite gift.
Yo mama limpdick. I betcha yo mama know how late it is. About 9 month + yo age. Awright, peace-out limesuckah.
It's like having a car with a huge engine, and only 6" tires.." That's the fun part..I used to have pizza cutters on a 1976 plymouth fury ex-police interceptor. Huge boat of a car, but with the 400 ci motor, huge carb and misc tweaks done by the police, that thing would burn the treads of the tires and leave you gasping for air in an intersection. I remember going through a used car lots rejected tires because I had run out of money and had burned up my tires so badly that I couldn't drive in the rain. I wish I still had that car. Almost two tons and under 14 sec quarter mile. 70 miles to the tank ;)
Well if I'm a competent sysadmin I know exactly what traffic is going where, when and how. If you attempt to use external dns I redirect it, if you attempt to connect to ssh I block it,if you hit port 80, it goes to the proxy,etc.. You have a client and I have the power. If you want to play I'll route you into a hole and wait for you to complain so I can show you the logs. If you get really stupid I'll have your job and a pat on the back. Don't fuck with sysadmins.
Kill the client..Kill the client..
That's from one of the WB cartoons, and I'll
probably be prosecuted. of course they weren't
prosecuted for cartoonizing the wagner theme, so
who knows..