If you want to do development, testing is a traditional entry path. The best career path is with companies who will admit they do Extreme programming, as testing is more respected there. And you already know a lot about informal testing if you've been doing support (;-))
If you want to do sysadmin, you've already collected some of the prerequisites, so start looking for postings that say "sysadmin" and do
not say either "tier 1" or "operations".
I strongly agree: the fix for any version of Solaris, and in principle
any other machine with zic and zdump, is
Download the northamerica
zoneinfo file from the Open
Solaris site as/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/northamerica.2007
As root, run
#/usr/sbin/zic/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/northamerica.2007
#/usr/sbin/zic/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/backward
Test it with
$ zdump -v Canada/Eastern | grep
2007
If the dates are Mar 11 and Nov 4, it worked.
If they are still
April 1 and October 28, it didn't.
Optionally go back to the 2006 settings with
#/usr/sbin/zic/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/northamerica
#/usr/sbin/zic/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/backward
Thanks and a tip of the hatlo hat go to rweeks
of the Open Solaris sysadmin forum for the "zic backward" line above
which made the Canadian time zones work.
When camcorders first came out, a school friend's father set up a tripod
in the projection room and taped a lovely copy of a then-popular
movie. You could barely hear a low whir in the background from the projector...
We saw nearly the same thing, but with rap-X and a wiki... after we started using them, we got all sorts of folks asking for access. So we turned on rap-X self-registration, so they could use it like the wiki and away they went.
They're fairly smart, but only do user-interaction
locally, so you can pull your ID card out of the slot
and plug it in another terminal an hour later, and resume
from where you left off.
technician wrote: heck, you could probably do interviews in Wired under a psuedonym, the only absolute would be keeping the Clark-Kent-esque secret of your true identity hidden, and I'm not sure if some people would be able to swallow their pride enough to do that.
The brother of a friend did just that, and I have a copy of the
picture of him in disguise. Indeed, people can and do swallow their
pride for what the consider to be more important.
In fact, the majority of the actual copies are inside jobs, taken
from "screeners" sent to reviewers and from copies made by distributors
and projectionists. It's amazingly hard for a Montreal cop to catch a "camcorder" who isn't actually in the
theater (;-))
Many are copied from copies destined for Quebec, as they include both the
english- and french-language versions, and can be identified by
watermarks as being destined for or actually sent to, for example, Cineplex Entertainment.
Which may explain why Fox was threatening that particular distributor...
In the 1950s, a penny bought what a dime did in the 1990s,
as we'd gone through more than a decade of double-digit inflation.
That make a modern penny worth "one mil", a unit only
used for property-tax calculations because it's too small
for anyone to carry around. A one-mil coin would be about
the size of a thistle seed.
We should start our coins at the dime (which was
once called the "silver penny") which is worth one cent,
and stop giving change in mills (;-))
They offered, you accepted, they tried to change the deal.
That kind of behavior, and the resulting breach of the "King's
Peace" when you whacked them over the head with a sword was the
reason the 16th-century "Statute of Frauds" became part of English
Law.
Previous to that only thing the King cared about was direct
Murder, Assault or Battery.
--dave (slightly tongue-in-cheek but still serious) c-b
xenocide2 wrote: Meanwhile, their Niagra still has some niche applications, and will grow as software is designed for dual and quad core chips
Actually the multi-threaded/multi-core chips run standard applications
in parallel without change. This applies to everyone, not just Sun. Java (ie, threaded) and multi-instance apps get an extra benefit.
With net neutrality not guaranteed, it would be wise
for a company to have dark fibre available to as many peering
points as possible. Consider it insurance against medium-
and large-scale suppliers trying to charge a "google fee" (;-))
Ok, I sent the following (oversimplified) note to my MP:
The Honorable James Scott Peterson, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6 Peterson.J@parl.gc.ca
Dear Sir: As an author, I am concerned about US-style copyright changes proposed for Canada, as described in the cbc.ac article http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/0 1/11/copyright-canada.html
Not only do they seek to overturn our existing laws on fair dealing, they directly interfere with the marketing of my book. The majority of purchasers of "Using Samba", a technical book on the Samba computer program, read it on-line, The then discovered they liked it and purchased the more convenient printed version. Imposing restrictions on what computers can have an electronic copy of it will defeat my publisher's whole effort.
I strongly recommend we avoid being caught up in the current enthusiasm for "Made in America" solutions for a problem which we in Canada have already solved by a levy on blank CDs.
The U.S. solution is an expensive failure, which they are trying to impose on governments around the world, despite Canada and other countries having superior solutions: ones which work.
-dave - David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain (416) 223-5943
In many large companies, even well-managed ones,
the demands of the stock analysts force the
companies to lay off employees, while retaining
contractors.
And yes, this is a terrible idea, but itis
involuntary (;-))
Been there, done that, as employee, contractor
and employee-became-contractor-three-days-later
The smiley was attached to the final sentence, comparing a beta release to something that is a stable product. That's a bit of an unfair comparison.
XP, on the other hand, is an active target, as reported here and experimantally confirmed by a colleage who tried exposing one via his home network: subverted within the hour. (Hi, Fred!)
Slashdot Mirror
And they'll be happy to sell your boss as platinum support contract which includes it, so as to make it appropriaterly expensive (;-))
--dave
If you want to do development, testing is a traditional entry path. The best career path is with companies who will admit they do Extreme programming, as testing is more respected there. And you already know a lot about informal testing if you've been doing support (;-))
If you want to do sysadmin, you've already collected some of the prerequisites, so start looking for postings that say "sysadmin" and do not say either "tier 1" or "operations".
--dave
Alas, the MS-provided one is a limited-functionality kludge, arguably to discourage the use of ODF.
--dave
I strongly agree: the fix for any version of Solaris, and in principle any other machine with zic and zdump, is
#
#
$ zdump -v Canada/Eastern | grep 2007
#
#
As I use both Linux and Solaris, I often go to Blastwave and Steve Christensen's Sun Freeware site.
If the type of program I'm looking for is there, it's popular enough for people to have asked for it to be prepackaged for them.
Consider it "voting with their feet" (;-))
--dave
When camcorders first came out, a school friend's father set up a tripod in the projection room and taped a lovely copy of a then-popular movie. You could barely hear a low whir in the background from the projector...
Can't get more "inside" than that.
--dave
--dave (With apologiis to Donald Knuth) c-b
We saw nearly the same thing, but with rap-X and a wiki... after we started using them, we got all sorts of folks asking for access. So we turned on rap-X self-registration, so they could use it like the wiki and away they went.
--dave
And, being it's a wiki, it would be a Kind Act for someone, perhaps the poster, to add the slashdot results to the page.
--dave
Anything that creates lift creates a lower pressure, which in turn refrigerates, and eventually induces condensation.
A Mere Matter of Programming to model an aerodynamic shape that maximizes condensation and captures the resulting droplets.
--dave
--dave
technician wrote: heck, you could probably do interviews in Wired under a psuedonym, the only absolute would be keeping the Clark-Kent-esque secret of your true identity hidden, and I'm not sure if some people would be able to swallow their pride enough to do that.
The brother of a friend did just that, and I have a copy of the picture of him in disguise. Indeed, people can and do swallow their pride for what the consider to be more important.
--dave
Good point!
Even in large centres they're dominant: in Toronto we have
36 Ciniplex theater complxes
5 AMC
4 Empire and
2 Alliance Atlantis
--dave
--dave
The Globe and Mail fell for this too, back on the 7th as Pirates of the Canadians
In fact, the majority of the actual copies are inside jobs, taken from "screeners" sent to reviewers and from copies made by distributors and projectionists. It's amazingly hard for a Montreal cop to catch a "camcorder" who isn't actually in the theater (;-))
Many are copied from copies destined for Quebec, as they include both the english- and french-language versions, and can be identified by watermarks as being destined for or actually sent to, for example, Cineplex Entertainment. Which may explain why Fox was threatening that particular distributor...
--dave
In the 1950s, a penny bought what a dime did in the 1990s, as we'd gone through more than a decade of double-digit inflation.
That make a modern penny worth "one mil", a unit only used for property-tax calculations because it's too small for anyone to carry around. A one-mil coin would be about the size of a thistle seed.
We should start our coins at the dime (which was once called the "silver penny") which is worth one cent, and stop giving change in mills (;-))
--dave
They offered, you accepted, they tried to change the deal.
That kind of behavior, and the resulting breach of the "King's Peace" when you whacked them over the head with a sword was the reason the 16th-century "Statute of Frauds" became part of English Law.
Previous to that only thing the King cared about was direct Murder, Assault or Battery.
--dave (slightly tongue-in-cheek but still serious) c-b
xenocide2 wrote: Meanwhile, their Niagra still has some niche applications, and will grow as software is designed for dual and quad core chips
Actually the multi-threaded/multi-core chips run standard applications in parallel without change. This applies to everyone, not just Sun. Java (ie, threaded) and multi-instance apps get an extra benefit.
--dave
--dave
You can do almost anything, including while (1) { fork(); } but it's logged, so the sysadmin can ask you not to do that ever again (;-))
Ok, I sent the following (oversimplified) note to my MP:
0 1/11/copyright-canada.html
The Honorable James Scott Peterson,
House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0A6
Peterson.J@parl.gc.ca
Dear Sir:
As an author, I am concerned about US-style copyright changes
proposed for Canada, as described in the cbc.ac article
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/
Not only do they seek to overturn our existing laws on
fair dealing, they directly interfere with the marketing of my
book.
The majority of purchasers of "Using Samba", a
technical book on the Samba computer program, read it
on-line, The then discovered they liked it and purchased the
more convenient printed version. Imposing restrictions on
what computers can have an electronic copy of it will defeat
my publisher's whole effort.
I strongly recommend we avoid being caught up in the current
enthusiasm for "Made in America" solutions for a problem which
we in Canada have already solved by a levy on blank CDs.
The U.S. solution is an expensive failure, which they are
trying to impose on governments around the world, despite
Canada and other countries having superior solutions: ones
which work.
-dave
-
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
(416) 223-5943
This assumes, of course, that one doesn't actively prohibit v3, of course (;-))
---dave
In many large companies, even well-managed ones, the demands of the stock analysts force the companies to lay off employees, while retaining contractors.
And yes, this is a terrible idea, but itis involuntary (;-))
Been there, done that, as employee, contractor and employee-became-contractor-three-days-later
--dave
The smiley was attached to the final sentence, comparing
a beta release to something that is a stable product.
That's a bit of an unfair comparison.
XP, on the other hand, is an active target, as reported
here and experimantally confirmed by a colleage who tried
exposing one via his home network: subverted within the hour.
(Hi, Fred!)
--dave
An older Windows release, reasonably patched,
running under Linux (win4lin) and behind a paranoid
firewall is safer than XP or Vista.
Alas, not as safe as an unpached RH9, mind you,
but still safer than Vista (;-))
--dave