If you are going to transfer to a 4 year, the AA might make you feel good, but is otherwise worthless. What counts is transferable course work. You can in fact do much better than an AA (if you intend on transferring) by maximizing your transferable credits. An AA with a shitty GPA will not get you into a 4 year. An AA with a decent GPA is no better than a butt-load of transferable credits with a decent GPA. Go for transferable credits.
Forget CS at the community college level. In today's world, you need a BS. Really, you need a Masters, but you can work on that later. Instead of thinking about an Associate CS "degree", think about getting a whole lot of prerequisites out of the way at a much lower per credit cost, than transfer to a respectable 4 year college and finish up with a decent BS.
If you work in a lab that has to worry about the security on their computers that are running projects, you have the wrong people working for/with you (but probably for, since you are obviously and idiot who does not work "with" other people). Have a clue, and get a life. Not everyone in this world are hackers looking for a way to exploit a system.
I seriously do not think you could make it past the lobby of the lab I work in, and our security is slack, we just don't let loser thieving hacker "doods" in the building.
One day, "The" Gimp may be passable as a user friendly professional grade tool (and I think it WILL reach that point), but it's not their yet. For all-around usability and functionality, there are still man tools out there that are cheaper (MUCH) than Photoshop with a MUCH lower learning curve than "The" Gimp.
It's a matter of degrees. If, for example, you have a laboratory using Linux boxes for custom programs that do functionality related to special experiments or programs, "security" is not really an issue, most of these boxes are not on "The Net". Likewise, equipment on the floor of the production facility are not generally susceptible to HACKERS. Here is a mistake that many here at Slashdot make: All servers and computers are "on the net" or somehow related to net functionality. Not so.
Ah yes... That coveted BSD cert. I've been seeing the terminology come up in headhunter ads and "career opportunity" listings for some time, but never knew where to get one... Good show.
On a more serious note, when Linux was the obvious choice, but issues of security and stability where deciding factors, I've always recommended BSD (yes, I know BSD is not Linux, thank you).
Ouch. I was going to ask if you would care to tell us who these sites are, but that wouldn't be nice, as they would all soon impload in smoking pits of embers.
Instead of a single 1000 line C program, you have a basket of C programs and a basket of programs in different "scripting" languages... And this is better than a single C program?
Hmmm. See if you can locate some Air Force guys. Active Directory is the "cornerstone" of our entire system of authenticating users across our networks. Got to love it...
The main issue for corporate for Linux to "compete" with Windows is user authentication over the network, all the permissions things that Active Directory offers. LDAP stuff.
What happens if they don't use MSI? Do Microsoft come and knock on your door if you dare to claim that your application runs on Windows?
Yes, they do. There is a special "re-education" wing at the Red West campus. Many of the people wondering around the inner courtyard at Red West are a part of this program. With many hours of intensive therapy, they learn the evils of their ways and are brought back into The Fold. What did you say your name and address is?
No uninstaller should ever delete any file that the corresponding installer didn't place there. Period. There's this neat high-tech solution that's been gaining favor since - well, actually, since there have been installers, period - called "keeping a log of what files you installed".
The Windows Installer does this automatically for the developer. Given that all Windows programs MUST use the Windows Installer for their installation programs (which means Firefox can't call itself a Windows program), this shouldn't be a very hard task to manage.
The best part is that the uninstaller doesn't even remove the profile directory. Were I to uninstall Firefox right now, I'd have 30MB of crap left hanging around my hard drive. That's larger than the browser itself. Why? Because it doesn't - at the very least - erase the cache on uninstall. Hell, it doesn't even ask you if you want to delete your profile!
Saying that "it's OK to delete the entire hard drive" because the user has to take extreme measures to do it is bullshit. The installer should never even have to ask "should I remove the installation directory". It should know enough to remove all the files it installed and then remove the directories if they're empty. If they aren't, warn the user, but NEVER DELETE THE DIRECTORY.
The dialog box reads something like "Really really uninstall?" and so most users just hit "yes" because they have no idea what it's asking, and most certainly don't connect it with "erase the entire hard drive".
This is a HUGE FLAW on behalf of the Mozilla team and one that MUST be remedied.
This seems to be typical for tech books: Way overpriced (although this one seems more reasonable), incredibly crappy binding, and less than aggressive proof reading.
interesting, so what secret regular expression construct matches what is nowhere in the original string?
It's something called a joke. A joke is something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. Jokes employ something called humor. Humor is the quality that makes something laughable or amusing. Many Slashdotters are unable to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd, often referred to as humor impaired.
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Well law-dee-daw...
If you are going to transfer to a 4 year, the AA might make you feel good, but is otherwise worthless. What counts is transferable course work. You can in fact do much better than an AA (if you intend on transferring) by maximizing your transferable credits. An AA with a shitty GPA will not get you into a 4 year. An AA with a decent GPA is no better than a butt-load of transferable credits with a decent GPA. Go for transferable credits.
Forget CS at the community college level. In today's world, you need a BS. Really, you need a Masters, but you can work on that later. Instead of thinking about an Associate CS "degree", think about getting a whole lot of prerequisites out of the way at a much lower per credit cost, than transfer to a respectable 4 year college and finish up with a decent BS.
50 bucks. Who needs anything more than Doom?
No way. Not me. I'm a poser.
A Bug.
Good lord, the spelling and grammar mistakes! Sorry.
I seriously do not think you could make it past the lobby of the lab I work in, and our security is slack, we just don't let loser thieving hacker "doods" in the building.
Real programmers do not use them. Code works fine the first time. You have "bugs" in your code???
One day, "The" Gimp may be passable as a user friendly professional grade tool (and I think it WILL reach that point), but it's not their yet. For all-around usability and functionality, there are still man tools out there that are cheaper (MUCH) than Photoshop with a MUCH lower learning curve than "The" Gimp.
Ah yes, the original series had no "camp" at all, just totally serious Science Fiction...
Although a lot of Wesley Crushers running around on teen homones does sound a bit over the top.
It's a matter of degrees. If, for example, you have a laboratory using Linux boxes for custom programs that do functionality related to special experiments or programs, "security" is not really an issue, most of these boxes are not on "The Net". Likewise, equipment on the floor of the production facility are not generally susceptible to HACKERS. Here is a mistake that many here at Slashdot make: All servers and computers are "on the net" or somehow related to net functionality. Not so.
On a more serious note, when Linux was the obvious choice, but issues of security and stability where deciding factors, I've always recommended BSD (yes, I know BSD is not Linux, thank you).
Truthfully, the above post is not particularly informative or interesting.
Ouch. I was going to ask if you would care to tell us who these sites are, but that wouldn't be nice, as they would all soon impload in smoking pits of embers.
Instead of a single 1000 line C program, you have a basket of C programs and a basket of programs in different "scripting" languages... And this is better than a single C program?
Yes, but BASH is a manly scripting language, where as...
"Flamebait"? As I said here, Slashdoters (or maybe just those with "mod" points) are humor impaired.
Hmmm. See if you can locate some Air Force guys. Active Directory is the "cornerstone" of our entire system of authenticating users across our networks. Got to love it...
The main issue for corporate for Linux to "compete" with Windows is user authentication over the network, all the permissions things that Active Directory offers. LDAP stuff.
Yes, they do. There is a special "re-education" wing at the Red West campus. Many of the people wondering around the inner courtyard at Red West are a part of this program. With many hours of intensive therapy, they learn the evils of their ways and are brought back into The Fold. What did you say your name and address is?
No uninstaller should ever delete any file that the corresponding installer didn't place there. Period. There's this neat high-tech solution that's been gaining favor since - well, actually, since there have been installers, period - called "keeping a log of what files you installed".
The Windows Installer does this automatically for the developer. Given that all Windows programs MUST use the Windows Installer for their installation programs (which means Firefox can't call itself a Windows program), this shouldn't be a very hard task to manage.
The best part is that the uninstaller doesn't even remove the profile directory. Were I to uninstall Firefox right now, I'd have 30MB of crap left hanging around my hard drive. That's larger than the browser itself. Why? Because it doesn't - at the very least - erase the cache on uninstall. Hell, it doesn't even ask you if you want to delete your profile!
Saying that "it's OK to delete the entire hard drive" because the user has to take extreme measures to do it is bullshit. The installer should never even have to ask "should I remove the installation directory". It should know enough to remove all the files it installed and then remove the directories if they're empty. If they aren't, warn the user, but NEVER DELETE THE DIRECTORY.
The dialog box reads something like "Really really uninstall?" and so most users just hit "yes" because they have no idea what it's asking, and most certainly don't connect it with "erase the entire hard drive".
This is a HUGE FLAW on behalf of the Mozilla team and one that MUST be remedied.
Yes, and compared to a pound of platinum, this book is VERY affordable. But seriously...
Basically tech books are overpriced, and textbooks are WAY overpriced.
This seems to be typical for tech books: Way overpriced (although this one seems more reasonable), incredibly crappy binding, and less than aggressive proof reading.
It's something called a joke. A joke is something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. Jokes employ something called humor. Humor is the quality that makes something laughable or amusing. Many Slashdotters are unable to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd, often referred to as humor impaired.