No wonder American students are getting less and less competitive. They sit around expecting people to hand them jobs. Then when they can't find them, they blame the companies and college recruiters for discrimination and incompetence!
Back to the OP, I think it would be highly unlikely for a foreign student not studying in the US to get an internship here. Not to mention if you wanted to start in Feb, it's a bit late now because it takes a long time to process the visa.
I'm guessing the point of having change tracking is so that the Overlord can review and approve the changes. In that case, maybe UltraCompare(http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html) is what you're looking for?
I personally would be more concerned about what the consultant is doing to ensure data security on their end than how you transport it.
If it's within driving distance, encrypt it with PGP, burn it on a CD/DVD and send someone on a road trip. No complicated technical problems to deal with. Otherwise, send it through a courier service.
You're 18 years old. Are you SURE you want to do CS and work in a CS-related job after graduating? As a Freshmen at a top public institution, 1/3 of my dorm wanted to be CS majors, 1/3 business majors and 1/3 pre-med. In less than 1 year, most of that had changed. When we graduated, only 10% were CS majors, 10% business majors and 15% pre-meds. Pretty much everyone had changed majors.
How easy it will be to get a job depends on the reputation of the school much more than the major. For example, even English majors at MIT will get serious consideration from consulting/investment banking firms. You don't need a bachelor's degree to do a programming job. Most community college students will do fine. The question becomes whether you have the skills to 1)Design 2)Lead people 3)Manage deadlines
Choose the school that is 1)Located closer to areas with jobs/companies you're interested in 2)Has a good reputation 3)Has a decent recruiting center.
Most of the people seem to be assuming that you'd need heat to cut. Heat will melt something but you need pressure to cut. If a lightsaber was really just a forcefield a few molecules thick, you could generate a huge amount of pressure on the edge and potentially actually slide between the metal molecules and break the bonds. The breaking bonds would generate some heat but it shouldn't splatter everywhere. Naturally, the denser the metal, the harder it would be for the saber to slide between.
You literally have to because university kids won't do anything unless they have to do it. The first year when I handled a 6,000 computer university network, we were nice and gave people 24 hours after we knew they were infected to get their act together.
Boy, did I learn my lesson. In the first week, we had over 1,000 infected computers. After that, I did some calculations on how much that incident had cost us and submitted a report with a suggestion to immediately disconnect any infected computer. Guess what...it got approved.
From then on, once your computer was off the network, you weren't getting back on until your computer was cleaned of viruses, had an antivirus program and all the software updates installed.
For the next year, we did a HUGE prevention campaign (an hour of prevention is worth about 10 computers with viruses) and handed out CDs with software updates and antivirus to Resident Assistants.
Since you didn't have a team of 25 techs like I did, I suggest that you start by recruiting some. Get administrators to approve school credit or something like that. There's no way you can stay sane while doing this job without some help.
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It sounds like Google still hasn't left it's socialist dot.com/startup hiring practices behind. If your company only has 15 people, it makes sense to interview with 14 (#15 being the janitor). However, any established company putting a candidate through any more than 3 rounds of interviews is wasting a huge amount of resources.
I think it's because everyone wants to become a manager and have a say in the hiring process. It'll be interesting to see if Google ends up being a company full of middle-management.
When you're trying to do this on the cheap, what's the point of spending hundreds of $$ on a used laptop with CD-ROM and hard drive? I spent about $30 on a old NEC 150Mhz with a floppy drive. Stuck a DOS boot disk in there with PCMCIA drivers and put a CF card with PCMCIA adaptor in. Works perfectly! Sure, it won't do anything besides display pictures, but in this day and age, you should be doing all the processing on your computer beforehand anyway.
In hindsight, I probably should've spent a few more $ on a Thinkpad that boots directly from PCMCIA. It would've saved me a lot of time in finding the correct DOS PCMCIA drivers.
Do you have to have a placement in the IT Security Industry or just a placement in a IT Security position? The former will be much more difficult than the latter.
A lot of you are talking about what it's like in the "real world". Unfortunately, the world of college recruiting is quite different. Most large companies will only recruit at big-name universities because the talent they get has more value. Even if they do recruit at smaller schools, you can be sure that they'll be making smaller compensation offers.
Your undergrad major doesn't matter that much (unless you're SURE you want to do programming), but your GPA matters a lot. An English major with a 3.8 will get more attention from an investment bank than a CS major with a 3.2
Coding involves deep concentration and focus so you can't focus continuosly for any length of time. However, if you're just doing repetitive tasks, then you can keep it up for a long time without too much of an increase in the error rate.
It will be a dark day indeed when students start choosing schools over whether or not they give out free ipods or whether they can surf for pr0n while in lecture.
If students aren't looking at academic reputation or job placement rates, they'll have much more to worry about when they graduate.
This is really the fault of the user (and unscrupulous ad-ware companies). The average computer user on the Internet is like one of the pedestrians in GTA... It doesn't matter what operating system someone uses, if they don't understand certain concepts, their computer is going to get 0wned one way or another.
At least with Windows 98, you have to do things before you end up with spyware/adware. If you put up a system with a two year-old Linux distro, you're going to get 0wned REALLY fast.
There's almost no chance that you can get away with not having any PCs at your school. Since that's true, and administration wants to keep costs down, you buy all PCs. Having one operating system makes it easier to support (or hire support).
Don't use bags that scream "steal me". I have my laptop in a backpack or briefcase that has a laptop sleeve. My digital camera is on my belt under my shirt/jacket and I use black Sony MDR-71 earbuds for my MP3 player.
Juries are handing out huge rewards to people who sue doctors for malpractice, insurance companies see this and increase the premiums, doctors/hospitals see the increased insurance payments and have to increase what they charge.
It doesn't matter whether or not MS is a monopoly (although I'd argue that it's a natural monopoly). People will continue buying for sake of convenience.
Back in the day, if all your friends had VHS, would you go out and buy a Beta?
Another analogy: gas stations along the same road will charge different prices, if things were perfectly competitive, like many people claim, why aren't all the prices the same? Do certain gas stations have a "monopoly" over a section of the road?
but who really cares? Basically, virus writers have only one goal in mind: FAME.
Given that Apple only has 5% of the market share, spending your time writing a Mac virus is somewhat foolish in terms of investment/reward. Even if 50% of Mac users were infected with it, it would barely make the news because so few corporations use it.
It's when you talk about lost productivity and damage that viruses make the news.
1)Apple ends up with the monopoly. Computers remain the playthings of the rich and corporate. The poor become more disadvantaged since they can't afford them. The Internet exists only in the US because people in other countries can't afford Macs.
2)3-4 major computer/OS manufacturer ventures come out with competing platforms that are completely incompatible. An ugly battle is fought between them with corporations caught in the middle. We inevitably end up with the manufacturer who sold at a loss and overpromised, setting computer technology development 15 years behind what we have today.
The RIAA/MPAA/BSA have made sure that P2P is already automatically associated with piracy. As long as this though connection exists, no university in the right mind would openly endorse P2P software...the *AA would be all over them in a flash.
Additionally, even if you were to increase the amount of legitimate P2P use to over 50% of the total use, the "takedown" notices for the illegal uses would make the university change their mind.
Last year, the university I work for spent about $100 in staff time dealing with EACH copyright takedown notice.
This project is only economical if you have old laptops sitting around. If that's the case, you probably won't have enough CPU/RAM to install the latest version of debian. For me, I don't even have a hard drive.
Anyone found a lite solution to picture frame software? Here are two solutions that I've found so far:
I setup a wireless network on a 6 story building that had reinforced-concrete walls and 8 apartments on each floor. I used 6 WAPs and 1 home router/ip-sharing/NAT device. It worked...but not very well(because of the router).
The elevator shaft is a big no-no for WAPs, because you'll get no signal. You'll probably have to put one WAP on each side of the floor (assuming your elevator is in the middle). To hook them together, I put a switch on the 3rd floor and ran 3 cables up and 3 down.
Didn't really have any problems because no one was a heavy downloader. However, the POS router that I got needed to be reset every week. Also, the coverage was spotty at the ends of the floors.
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No wonder American students are getting less and less competitive. They sit around expecting people to hand them jobs. Then when they can't find them, they blame the companies and college recruiters for discrimination and incompetence!
Back to the OP, I think it would be highly unlikely for a foreign student not studying in the US to get an internship here. Not to mention if you wanted to start in Feb, it's a bit late now because it takes a long time to process the visa.
Goodwill in Delaware has a computer repair/refurbishing business, so they accept donations of computer equipment and should put it to good use.
I'm guessing the point of having change tracking is so that the Overlord can review and approve the changes. In that case, maybe UltraCompare(http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultracompare.html) is what you're looking for?
I personally would be more concerned about what the consultant is doing to ensure data security on their end than how you transport it.
If it's within driving distance, encrypt it with PGP, burn it on a CD/DVD and send someone on a road trip. No complicated technical problems to deal with. Otherwise, send it through a courier service.
You're 18 years old. Are you SURE you want to do CS and work in a CS-related job after graduating? As a Freshmen at a top public institution, 1/3 of my dorm wanted to be CS majors, 1/3 business majors and 1/3 pre-med. In less than 1 year, most of that had changed. When we graduated, only 10% were CS majors, 10% business majors and 15% pre-meds. Pretty much everyone had changed majors. How easy it will be to get a job depends on the reputation of the school much more than the major. For example, even English majors at MIT will get serious consideration from consulting/investment banking firms. You don't need a bachelor's degree to do a programming job. Most community college students will do fine. The question becomes whether you have the skills to 1)Design 2)Lead people 3)Manage deadlines Choose the school that is 1)Located closer to areas with jobs/companies you're interested in 2)Has a good reputation 3)Has a decent recruiting center.
Most of the people seem to be assuming that you'd need heat to cut. Heat will melt something but you need pressure to cut. If a lightsaber was really just a forcefield a few molecules thick, you could generate a huge amount of pressure on the edge and potentially actually slide between the metal molecules and break the bonds. The breaking bonds would generate some heat but it shouldn't splatter everywhere. Naturally, the denser the metal, the harder it would be for the saber to slide between.
You literally have to because university kids won't do anything unless they have to do it. The first year when I handled a 6,000 computer university network, we were nice and gave people 24 hours after we knew they were infected to get their act together.
Boy, did I learn my lesson. In the first week, we had over 1,000 infected computers. After that, I did some calculations on how much that incident had cost us and submitted a report with a suggestion to immediately disconnect any infected computer. Guess what...it got approved.
From then on, once your computer was off the network, you weren't getting back on until your computer was cleaned of viruses, had an antivirus program and all the software updates installed.
For the next year, we did a HUGE prevention campaign (an hour of prevention is worth about 10 computers with viruses) and handed out CDs with software updates and antivirus to Resident Assistants.
Since you didn't have a team of 25 techs like I did, I suggest that you start by recruiting some. Get administrators to approve school credit or something like that. There's no way you can stay sane while doing this job without some help.
It sounds like Google still hasn't left it's socialist dot.com/startup hiring practices behind. If your company only has 15 people, it makes sense to interview with 14 (#15 being the janitor). However, any established company putting a candidate through any more than 3 rounds of interviews is wasting a huge amount of resources.
I think it's because everyone wants to become a manager and have a say in the hiring process. It'll be interesting to see if Google ends up being a company full of middle-management.
When you're trying to do this on the cheap, what's the point of spending hundreds of $$ on a used laptop with CD-ROM and hard drive? I spent about $30 on a old NEC 150Mhz with a floppy drive. Stuck a DOS boot disk in there with PCMCIA drivers and put a CF card with PCMCIA adaptor in. Works perfectly! Sure, it won't do anything besides display pictures, but in this day and age, you should be doing all the processing on your computer beforehand anyway.
In hindsight, I probably should've spent a few more $ on a Thinkpad that boots directly from PCMCIA. It would've saved me a lot of time in finding the correct DOS PCMCIA drivers.
Do you have to have a placement in the IT Security Industry or just a placement in a IT Security position? The former will be much more difficult than the latter.
A lot of you are talking about what it's like in the "real world". Unfortunately, the world of college recruiting is quite different. Most large companies will only recruit at big-name universities because the talent they get has more value. Even if they do recruit at smaller schools, you can be sure that they'll be making smaller compensation offers.
Your undergrad major doesn't matter that much (unless you're SURE you want to do programming), but your GPA matters a lot. An English major with a 3.8 will get more attention from an investment bank than a CS major with a 3.2
Coding involves deep concentration and focus so you can't focus continuosly for any length of time. However, if you're just doing repetitive tasks, then you can keep it up for a long time without too much of an increase in the error rate.
How about this? Don't put anything valuable in plain view in your car.
It will be a dark day indeed when students start choosing schools over whether or not they give out free ipods or whether they can surf for pr0n while in lecture.
If students aren't looking at academic reputation or job placement rates, they'll have much more to worry about when they graduate.
This is really the fault of the user (and unscrupulous ad-ware companies). The average computer user on the Internet is like one of the pedestrians in GTA... It doesn't matter what operating system someone uses, if they don't understand certain concepts, their computer is going to get 0wned one way or another.
At least with Windows 98, you have to do things before you end up with spyware/adware. If you put up a system with a two year-old Linux distro, you're going to get 0wned REALLY fast.
There's almost no chance that you can get away with not having any PCs at your school. Since that's true, and administration wants to keep costs down, you buy all PCs. Having one operating system makes it easier to support (or hire support).
Don't use bags that scream "steal me". I have my laptop in a backpack or briefcase that has a laptop sleeve. My digital camera is on my belt under my shirt/jacket and I use black Sony MDR-71 earbuds for my MP3 player.
Juries are handing out huge rewards to people who sue doctors for malpractice, insurance companies see this and increase the premiums, doctors/hospitals see the increased insurance payments and have to increase what they charge.
It doesn't matter whether or not MS is a monopoly (although I'd argue that it's a natural monopoly). People will continue buying for sake of convenience.
Back in the day, if all your friends had VHS, would you go out and buy a Beta?
Another analogy: gas stations along the same road will charge different prices, if things were perfectly competitive, like many people claim, why aren't all the prices the same? Do certain gas stations have a "monopoly" over a section of the road?
In fact, that is news to me...especially because a lot of those 51 posts say that the flaming powerbook is an urban legend.
but who really cares? Basically, virus writers have only one goal in mind: FAME.
Given that Apple only has 5% of the market share, spending your time writing a Mac virus is somewhat foolish in terms of investment/reward. Even if 50% of Mac users were infected with it, it would barely make the news because so few corporations use it.
It's when you talk about lost productivity and damage that viruses make the news.
Without MS, there are two likely scenarios:
1)Apple ends up with the monopoly. Computers remain the playthings of the rich and corporate. The poor become more disadvantaged since they can't afford them. The Internet exists only in the US because people in other countries can't afford Macs.
2)3-4 major computer/OS manufacturer ventures come out with competing platforms that are completely incompatible. An ugly battle is fought between them with corporations caught in the middle. We inevitably end up with the manufacturer who sold at a loss and overpromised, setting computer technology development 15 years behind what we have today.
The RIAA/MPAA/BSA have made sure that P2P is already automatically associated with piracy. As long as this though connection exists, no university in the right mind would openly endorse P2P software...the *AA would be all over them in a flash.
Additionally, even if you were to increase the amount of legitimate P2P use to over 50% of the total use, the "takedown" notices for the illegal uses would make the university change their mind.
Last year, the university I work for spent about $100 in staff time dealing with EACH copyright takedown notice.
And I haven't even talked about bandwidth yet...
At the prices + time you're looking at with a project like this, you might as well go out and buy one.
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This project is only economical if you have old laptops sitting around. If that's the case, you probably won't have enough CPU/RAM to install the latest version of debian. For me, I don't even have a hard drive.
Anyone found a lite solution to picture frame software? Here are two solutions that I've found so far:
PictureFrame Linux
- Too heavy on system requirements
DOS Solution
I setup a wireless network on a 6 story building that had reinforced-concrete walls and 8 apartments on each floor. I used 6 WAPs and 1 home router/ip-sharing/NAT device. It worked...but not very well(because of the router).
The elevator shaft is a big no-no for WAPs, because you'll get no signal. You'll probably have to put one WAP on each side of the floor (assuming your elevator is in the middle). To hook them together, I put a switch on the 3rd floor and ran 3 cables up and 3 down.
Didn't really have any problems because no one was a heavy downloader. However, the POS router that I got needed to be reset every week. Also, the coverage was spotty at the ends of the floors.