Right now, I am a Junior in high school. So, which high school do you happen to go to to take this course. I am currently going to Saugus High School... and I don't know of very many high schools that offer a similar course.
The top-notch certification (on the primary pyramid) is the CCIE (Cisco Certified Internet Expert). From what I have heard, it is an incredibly difficult test, and there aren't very many people who have it (they have numbers... low numbers!). The CCIE requires several testing sessions, costing in excess of $2000. There are 3 pyramids of certification, and if you want to see it, look in a CCNA book. You could probably find more information on the cisco netacad site: http://cisco.netacad.net/public/index.html
In the past few weeks, I have tried to get my CCNA twice. I have experience one major problem, though. The curriculum that I took a course on is not properly aligned to the test. So, when I took the test, I was not adequately prepared for it. I took the version 2.2(I think) curriculum, and most of the stuff on there is on the test, with a few huge exceptions. One thing to watch out for: zero-subnet. I had no idea what this was, and it seems like the new (v3.0) curriculum doesn't fix this. It has a short section on it, but it fails to say if it only affects the first and last subnet, or just the first one, and their glossary fails to cover this subject. ** sigh **. So, let's describe to you my misery. The CCNA is scored out of 1000 points, with a 849 to pass (or a little below 85%). So, I went in to take the test, and somehow managed to get a score of 847. I don't know how I did it, and it seemed astronomical. Then, two weeks later, I went in to take the test again. The computer that I used was much faster, and I was sure that I fixed some of my problems, and found out (I think) what zero-subnet is. So, when it came time to reveal my score, I stared in horrible mortification: I got the same exact score.
Yeaaah.
I have until early-to-mid December to pass the test before it changes for the new curriculum, but I am afraid to take it again because I might get the same score... and then I think that somebody is trying to tell me something.
That's my story -- has anybody else had any similar experiences?
I fail to understand why my comment is "flamebait"... I was expressing an opinion, and if you disagree with it, then just ignore my comment.
In my opinion, Halo is not a very good game by todays standards. This is worsened by the fact that Halo 2 is coming out, and with all of these re-releases, new aspects of the game are added that may possibly ruin Halo 2. This is just a gimmick to get the XBOX customers to pay $50 more to see the new "features" of Halo.
When I played Halo, I basically played it for little more than a week, until I had beat the game on Legendary (which I have). Then, after that was done, I just stopped playing it. The original Halo was good the first time you played it, but then nothing new happened, the game could not be expanded. Yes, you can play multiplayer, but that's only good if you have someone to play multiplayer with.
You have to remember that the only version that Halo is released for PC was to make a profit, just when the original XBOX sales are going to die out. If you are too poor to afford a $180 XBOX, then how are you going to afford a computer that is powerful enough to play the game. And, why on earth would anybody want to play a game using a keyboard? From my personal experience, game-play is much better with the use of a game-pad, which lets you better control your gaming experience and get much more involved in the game, instead of trying to remember where the Y key is, and in the process, accidentally launching a few grenades at yourself.
If you really want to experience Halo, the way it is meant to be, just stop complaining and buy a copy of the XBOX version. An added bonus is that you won't have to wait another 2-3 years for the PC version of Halo 2 to be released.
I don't understand why anybody would want to play Halo for PC. It is already a 2-year-old game, and there are many games that have much greater game-play than Halo.
Do you remember those games that allowed 32,000 levels? I don't... but if you do, can you cut me in on it?
Yeaaah.
But you also have to realize that movies are much better made than games, and offer much more enjoyment. Unless you are a half-life super-geek (You know who you are), you don't usually play a game repeatedly. But, you often see people repeating movies over and over again... maybe because they like the movie, maybe because the repeat button is stuck on their DVD player. Either way, this doesn't happen very often with games.
You also have to realize that a huge amount of games are made for the sole purpose of promoting a movie or other product. Most are made very quickly, and you can tell by the quality (** cough ** Harry Potter ** cough **). But, companies like id are there spending years making games, and create a solid game, but making small amounts of profit out of it. I have tried playing these games, and it looks like very little effort even went into them. Join with me, fellow/.ers, and boycott games!
Well... at least until Doom III comes out. (YAY)
I don't understand what is the big draw in these games. People play replicas of previous year's games, with a few minor changes, and are willing to shell out $50 for each minor revision. If software was like this, then there would be 20,000 Microsoft's running around.
You also have to keep in mind that 1/3 of the games are from Microsoft... so I am partially correct.
If you are going to be successful at web design, you have to have something that makes you stand out from the rest. I know of many people that have tried to startup web design companies, but have failed miserably. Most of the reason for this is that they have absolutely no skill, and expect to create a $500 website using the most advanced of tools (ala Microsoft Word and occasionally Frontpage).
If you plan on starting a business, first perfect your skills until you are sure that you can actually COMPETE. If you wish to design web pages, I highly suggest you (create/purchase/steal) some sort of nice administration/templation system that will allow: (1) You to easily make site-wide changes without editing every single file. (2) Allow your customer to easily edit pages (3) Allow hackers to easily deface your site
Erm... It is best if you ignore that last step.
But, seriously, if you wish to start a company, wait until you believe that you have a service that stands out. Get a nice, easy-to-remember company name, and then start creating services that people can use freely, and just have little links to your site, to draw people to it. An example of this might be a free e-mail service, clip-art gallery, or some other service that might draw users to your site. Even a simple informational site that you create to help people, and to draw attention to yourself. This is not necessary, but in the long run, will give your site much more attention.
You may be able to replace the video card, depending on which eMac generation you have. The eMac LAN that I manage is what I would call first-generation, because when Apple released the eMac, they first fulfilled all the orders to educational institutions. Not until this was complete did they start shipping to the public. There is only one problem with this: The first-generation eMacs actually had on-board video acceleration, which made it impossible to replace. This was something that was on the original iMac, until Apple realized that it caused display problems and such, and moved this off-board. Of course, they brought this back on the first-generation eMacs, (arg!). You may not have the option. The only way to find out is to actually open up the eMac and look.
I think you misunderstood elegant for unreasonably complicated and illogical.
And what is it with elsif? If you have a grudge against the e, trying to take it out of every situation possible, can you please keep this issue locked up inside?
PHP is just a better language in many ways. The only downfall of that is that bad programmers realize that, and learn to write programs before they learn to write good programs.
You do realize that they only rate sites that are blocked by them.
If there is no reason to block a site, why would it be in the database.
I think that you are lacking logic. If it is not there, then there is nothing there to block the site for.
Just a few weeks ago, they blocked slashdot for being message boards and profanity. I sent them a message, and it was fixed the next day (that was cool). Now, if they haven't "unintentionally" blocked it again, it should have no description.
At my school, we use an N2H2 proxy, and a proxy known as Bess. The N2H2 one is the more modern one, and is used on all the computers.
On the N2H2 proxy, I have noticed that they often mistakenly block sites for porn. In my opinion, I think there is some bug in their system.
Their policy remains clear that there is a several step reviewing process before declaring any site unacceptable. But, still, many sites get blocked. If you notice a site that is not porn that is blocked, just send them a message and they usually fix the problem in less than a week.
One incident, in which they blocked our local industrial association http://www.via.org for being porn, which it definitely wasn't.
There may be a problem with them trying to block entire servers, not knowing that there were non-pornographic sites on the same server. If it is not this, I really have no idea why it happens.
But, if you can get a few customers of the proxy to e-mail them and bug them as well, they will feel a slight bit more motivated to fix the problem.
On my server, I have some bad RAM. But, it is highly odd how it is reacting. The server fails to show 512MB of RAM, but instead is missing 32 MB. Don't ask me where it went, but it works. And that's all that matters.
Is it possible for only one chip to fail? Of course, this was probably the cheapest possible RAM I could buy.
It might, but it shouldn't. The fan speed is not controlled by the motherboard. It is one of those special ThermalTake fans that always runs on either low, medium, or high speeds by a switch.
Unless somehow it is "intelligent", which I doubt. The only thing that plugs into the motherboard is the sensor.
I think that the newest version of 3dMark delivers totally inaccurate scores.
My system: Pentium 4 2.26 GHz (533 MHz bus) 512MB DDR400 Cosair Memory GeForce 4 Ti 4400 Score: 711
My Friend's System: AMD Athlon 2200+ 512MB DDR300 Generic Memory GeForce 4 Ti 4400 Score: 3,100
I think that this is totally inaccurate. FutureMark is gearing their product towards AMD and specific hardware vendors so they people think that their product is better. Don't use it -- the scores it delivers are totally inaccurate.
I think I am having a similar problem, but on a different level. My server, which I newly built for $80, has an odd problem with the fan speed. I believe it may be caused by signal interference or something along those lines. Any extra interference will cause the fan speed to move up, for some strange reason. This usually occurs when the computer is doing any processing, like storing a file or dealing webpages. It is really odd, but I only hear it if I am trying to listen for it. So just stop listening and the voices will go away. (That is, unless you have a whole new kind of mental illness, where the voices control you, instead of you just taking suggestions) Something similar may be happening with the monitor, but I am not sure.
If all else fails, check yourself in to the local, conveniently located loony bin. Hey, it worked for me!
microsoft.com google.com yahoo.com slashdot.o rg jeff.com (I will leave apple alone)
And copyright "Windows" as an idea for a "Graphical Interface" where the users click on pictures of what they want to see.
Oh -- and never forget about copyrighting the idea for the "Pointer".. you know, a thing on your desk that you move a virtual "cursor" on your screen to "point" to the objects on the "Windows" interface.
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO PAY FOR YOUR SERVICES
Slashdot is a free, open-source service, and if you try to make it closed and proprietary, it would ruin the entire point of the project.
It just sounds to me like you are a new programmer that is too over-confident of his skills, and wishes to be PAID for everything. This is the open-source world. The open-source community is based upon free software. If you want to fix slashdot, work on the software that slashdot is based upon.
Geesh. Hire me.. no hire me. Enough is enough.
Slashdot Mirror
No need to open the terminal ... Jeff comes to the rescue!
http://jeff.zoplionah.com/scramble.php
Right now, I am a Junior in high school. So, which high school do you happen to go to to take this course. I am currently going to Saugus High School ... and I don't know of very many high schools that offer a similar course.
It seems like a very eerie coincidence.
The top-notch certification (on the primary pyramid) is the CCIE (Cisco Certified Internet Expert). From what I have heard, it is an incredibly difficult test, and there aren't very many people who have it (they have numbers ... low numbers!). The CCIE requires several testing sessions, costing in excess of $2000. There are 3 pyramids of certification, and if you want to see it, look in a CCNA book. You could probably find more information on the cisco netacad site: http://cisco.netacad.net/public/index.html
In the past few weeks, I have tried to get my CCNA twice. I have experience one major problem, though. The curriculum that I took a course on is not properly aligned to the test. So, when I took the test, I was not adequately prepared for it. I took the version 2.2(I think) curriculum, and most of the stuff on there is on the test, with a few huge exceptions. One thing to watch out for: zero-subnet. I had no idea what this was, and it seems like the new (v3.0) curriculum doesn't fix this. It has a short section on it, but it fails to say if it only affects the first and last subnet, or just the first one, and their glossary fails to cover this subject. ** sigh **. So, let's describe to you my misery. The CCNA is scored out of 1000 points, with a 849 to pass (or a little below 85%). So, I went in to take the test, and somehow managed to get a score of 847. I don't know how I did it, and it seemed astronomical. Then, two weeks later, I went in to take the test again. The computer that I used was much faster, and I was sure that I fixed some of my problems, and found out (I think) what zero-subnet is. So, when it came time to reveal my score, I stared in horrible mortification: I got the same exact score.
... and then I think that somebody is trying to tell me something.
Yeaaah.
I have until early-to-mid December to pass the test before it changes for the new curriculum, but I am afraid to take it again because I might get the same score
That's my story -- has anybody else had any similar experiences?
I fail to understand why my comment is "flamebait" ... I was expressing an opinion, and if you disagree with it, then just ignore my comment.
In my opinion, Halo is not a very good game by todays standards. This is worsened by the fact that Halo 2 is coming out, and with all of these re-releases, new aspects of the game are added that may possibly ruin Halo 2. This is just a gimmick to get the XBOX customers to pay $50 more to see the new "features" of Halo.
When I played Halo, I basically played it for little more than a week, until I had beat the game on Legendary (which I have). Then, after that was done, I just stopped playing it. The original Halo was good the first time you played it, but then nothing new happened, the game could not be expanded. Yes, you can play multiplayer, but that's only good if you have someone to play multiplayer with.
You have to remember that the only version that Halo is released for PC was to make a profit, just when the original XBOX sales are going to die out. If you are too poor to afford a $180 XBOX, then how are you going to afford a computer that is powerful enough to play the game. And, why on earth would anybody want to play a game using a keyboard? From my personal experience, game-play is much better with the use of a game-pad, which lets you better control your gaming experience and get much more involved in the game, instead of trying to remember where the Y key is, and in the process, accidentally launching a few grenades at yourself.
If you really want to experience Halo, the way it is meant to be, just stop complaining and buy a copy of the XBOX version. An added bonus is that you won't have to wait another 2-3 years for the PC version of Halo 2 to be released.
-fin-
That's odd ... I got a table not found error. Hmph.
Table 'slashdot.internet_connected_mysql_servers' doesn't exist
Where can I go to get this version of MySQL?
WHAT?!
When did this happen?
I don't understand why anybody would want to play Halo for PC. It is already a 2-year-old game, and there are many games that have much greater game-play than Halo.
In my opinion, Halo is much better on the XBOX.
NCO seems awfully similar to SCO, doesn't it? Just a random idea ...
I'm a lower extreme. Gameplay = ~0 hours. YAY!
... but if you do, can you cut me in on it?
... maybe because they like the movie, maybe because the repeat button is stuck on their DVD player. Either way, this doesn't happen very often with games.
Do you remember those games that allowed 32,000 levels? I don't
Yeaaah.
But you also have to realize that movies are much better made than games, and offer much more enjoyment. Unless you are a half-life super-geek (You know who you are), you don't usually play a game repeatedly. But, you often see people repeating movies over and over again
You also have to realize that a huge amount of games are made for the sole purpose of promoting a movie or other product. Most are made very quickly, and you can tell by the quality (** cough ** Harry Potter ** cough **). But, companies like id are there spending years making games, and create a solid game, but making small amounts of profit out of it. I have tried playing these games, and it looks like very little effort even went into them. Join with me, fellow /.ers, and boycott games!
... at least until Doom III comes out. (YAY)
... so I am partially correct.
Well
I don't understand what is the big draw in these games. People play replicas of previous year's games, with a few minor changes, and are willing to shell out $50 for each minor revision. If software was like this, then there would be 20,000 Microsoft's running around.
You also have to keep in mind that 1/3 of the games are from Microsoft
- fin -
If you are going to be successful at web design, you have to have something that makes you stand out from the rest. I know of many people that have tried to startup web design companies, but have failed miserably. Most of the reason for this is that they have absolutely no skill, and expect to create a $500 website using the most advanced of tools (ala Microsoft Word and occasionally Frontpage).
... It is best if you ignore that last step.
If you plan on starting a business, first perfect your skills until you are sure that you can actually COMPETE. If you wish to design web pages, I highly suggest you (create/purchase/steal) some sort of nice administration/templation system that will allow:
(1) You to easily make site-wide changes without editing every single file.
(2) Allow your customer to easily edit pages
(3) Allow hackers to easily deface your site
Erm
But, seriously, if you wish to start a company, wait until you believe that you have a service that stands out. Get a nice, easy-to-remember company name, and then start creating services that people can use freely, and just have little links to your site, to draw people to it. An example of this might be a free e-mail service, clip-art gallery, or some other service that might draw users to your site. Even a simple informational site that you create to help people, and to draw attention to yourself. This is not necessary, but in the long run, will give your site much more attention.
Hope this helps
The last two options happen to me all the time. But it's not China all the time, sometimes it's some other country that doesn't believe in phones.
You may be able to replace the video card, depending on which eMac generation you have. The eMac LAN that I manage is what I would call first-generation, because when Apple released the eMac, they first fulfilled all the orders to educational institutions. Not until this was complete did they start shipping to the public. There is only one problem with this: The first-generation eMacs actually had on-board video acceleration, which made it impossible to replace. This was something that was on the original iMac, until Apple realized that it caused display problems and such, and moved this off-board. Of course, they brought this back on the first-generation eMacs, (arg!). You may not have the option. The only way to find out is to actually open up the eMac and look.
200 Mod Points on IBM!
(do you take checks?)
How on earth is Perl elegant?
I think you misunderstood elegant for unreasonably complicated and illogical.
And what is it with elsif? If you have a grudge against the e, trying to take it out of every situation possible, can you please keep this issue locked up inside?
PHP is just a better language in many ways. The only downfall of that is that bad programmers realize that, and learn to write programs before they learn to write good programs.
You do realize that they only rate sites that are blocked by them.
If there is no reason to block a site, why would it be in the database.
I think that you are lacking logic. If it is not there, then there is nothing there to block the site for.
Just a few weeks ago, they blocked slashdot for being message boards and profanity. I sent them a message, and it was fixed the next day (that was cool). Now, if they haven't "unintentionally" blocked it again, it should have no description.
Hello,
At my school, we use an N2H2 proxy, and a proxy known as Bess. The N2H2 one is the more modern one, and is used on all the computers.
On the N2H2 proxy, I have noticed that they often mistakenly block sites for porn. In my opinion, I think there is some bug in their system.
Their policy remains clear that there is a several step reviewing process before declaring any site unacceptable. But, still, many sites get blocked. If you notice a site that is not porn that is blocked, just send them a message and they usually fix the problem in less than a week.
One incident, in which they blocked our local industrial association http://www.via.org for being porn, which it definitely wasn't.
There may be a problem with them trying to block entire servers, not knowing that there were non-pornographic sites on the same server. If it is not this, I really have no idea why it happens.
But, if you can get a few customers of the proxy to e-mail them and bug them as well, they will feel a slight bit more motivated to fix the problem.
Well, hope this helps ease your pain
-- Jeff
On my server, I have some bad RAM. But, it is highly odd how it is reacting. The server fails to show 512MB of RAM, but instead is missing 32 MB. Don't ask me where it went, but it works. And that's all that matters.
Is it possible for only one chip to fail? Of course, this was probably the cheapest possible RAM I could buy.
It might, but it shouldn't. The fan speed is not controlled by the motherboard. It is one of those special ThermalTake fans that always runs on either low, medium, or high speeds by a switch.
Unless somehow it is "intelligent", which I doubt. The only thing that plugs into the motherboard is the sensor.
I think that the newest version of 3dMark delivers totally inaccurate scores.
My system:
Pentium 4 2.26 GHz (533 MHz bus)
512MB DDR400 Cosair Memory
GeForce 4 Ti 4400
Score: 711
My Friend's System:
AMD Athlon 2200+
512MB DDR300 Generic Memory
GeForce 4 Ti 4400
Score: 3,100
I think that this is totally inaccurate. FutureMark is gearing their product towards AMD and specific hardware vendors so they people think that their product is better. Don't use it -- the scores it delivers are totally inaccurate.
I think I am having a similar problem, but on a different level. My server, which I newly built for $80, has an odd problem with the fan speed. I believe it may be caused by signal interference or something along those lines. Any extra interference will cause the fan speed to move up, for some strange reason. This usually occurs when the computer is doing any processing, like storing a file or dealing webpages. It is really odd, but I only hear it if I am trying to listen for it. So just stop listening and the voices will go away. (That is, unless you have a whole new kind of mental illness, where the voices control you, instead of you just taking suggestions) Something similar may be happening with the monitor, but I am not sure.
If all else fails, check yourself in to the local, conveniently located loony bin. Hey, it worked for me!
Buy the following domain names:
o rg
.. you know, a thing on your desk that you move a virtual "cursor" on your screen to "point" to the objects on the "Windows" interface.
microsoft.com
google.com
yahoo.com
slashdot.
jeff.com
(I will leave apple alone)
And copyright "Windows" as an idea for a "Graphical Interface" where the users click on pictures of what they want to see.
Oh -- and never forget about copyrighting the idea for the "Pointer"
You are safe -- for now.
... then you will be sorry.
You just wait until you accidentally mistake a web browser for telnet
(place evil laugh here)
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO PAY FOR YOUR SERVICES Slashdot is a free, open-source service, and if you try to make it closed and proprietary, it would ruin the entire point of the project. It just sounds to me like you are a new programmer that is too over-confident of his skills, and wishes to be PAID for everything. This is the open-source world. The open-source community is based upon free software. If you want to fix slashdot, work on the software that slashdot is based upon. Geesh. Hire me .. no hire me. Enough is enough.