All quality sound players (MythTV, Audacity, Gxine, Xine, XMMS), sound servers (alsasound, Gnome, KDE) and sound device (ALSA, ALSA-OSS) support JACK, (recursive for Jack Audio Connection Kit).
Even the professional musicians touts their superior audio latency, excellent patch panel, hundreds of audio filters (not that any normal user would want them, but its crispy and never choppy).
I'm getting tired of switching audio server JUST to use Flash/Mozilla/Linux. All other media applications play nicely with JACK.
# mod_ext_filter directive to define a filter which # replaces text in the response # ExtFilterDefine fix_bb_css mode=output intype=text/html \ cmd="/usr/local/bin/bb-css"
<Location/> # core directive to cause the fix_bb_css filter to # be run on output SetOutputFilter fix_bb_css </Location>
<Directory "/home/evolt/public_html/users/">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=bad_bot </Directory>
Those are the loose building blocks that comes to my mind... I haven't yet fit them together without having to change the original HTML or PHP-HTML output generator code.
Alternatively, ReWriteRules directive?
<Directory/> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackBerry RewriteRule...some special stuff for any of these hosts... RewriteMap examplemap prg:/pusr/local/bin/bb-css
And the bb-css code could have something like:
#!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; while (<STDIN>) {
#...put here any transformations or lookups...
print $_; }
The BIGGEST system engineering flaw (present and future) to Windows Vista is MSFT zeal to maintain backward compatibility as well as TOO SLOWY roll out the needed security features (Blue Pill or not).
Some of the problems immediately identified are:
1. Legacy applications' poor handling on privileges still poses a foot in the door to the Lord of the "Ring 0" land. 2. Lack of secured code training will continue to be plagued by newest Win-V applications 3. Temporary admin priv is a crock. No different than Unix's sudo or GUI admin popup dialog box.
The best course of action for our future well-being is to revert back to the antiquated but still effective DoD Orange Book Trusted Level B1 for trusted but verified deliverable operating system (commercial or open-source).
This means, signing drivers, ActiveX, COM, DLL and ALL system task (even the ones in system tray). The mere logistical and financial nightmare of managing the signing events will all but daunt the savviest sysadmin. For Open Source SW, a mechanism for self-signing open-source drivers (which would then only be tied to a specific machine) as well.
So, this isn't about Open Souce vs. Commercial software anymore.
The future computing battleground will be largely centered NOT between the FOSS and MSFT/OS-X BUT between the trusted-but-verified software and not.
First of all, we DON'T know if the original Windows CD has been hacked with a low-profile portknocked encrypted backdoor trojan running GOD-knows what stuff the spammers, lurkers and hackers want. This kind is virtually impossible for anti-virus program to detect.
Secondly, a keylogger could be silently copying all your keystrokes (password and all). It doesn't have to send them over the net, but it might do an innocuous ping to the hackers' headquarter.
Thirdly, it could randommly mess with your data (just a tiny bit) to make you lose productivity, but not enough to think that one needs to reinstall Windows.
Do yourself a HUGE favor and buy a legitimate copy of Windows. The pain of reinstalling is worth it in the long run.
If you are curious as to how many trojans are out there (complete with a snapshot of their console GUI), check out http://www.megasecurity.org/
Push, Push, Push it all out... These are things that they've been waiting for Come on... It's updating your PCs Come on...
[choirs]
In monopolistic times You shouldn't have to ruin your PC In blue and white They really really ought to know Those one track minds That took you for a working end-user Kiss them goodbye You shouldn't have to jump for joy You shouldn't have to
[choirs 2X]
They gave you Windows And in return you gave them them hell As cold as ice I hope we live to tell the tale I hope we live to
[choirs 2X] [rift] [choirs 2X]
And when you've taken down your guard If they could change your mind Hackers really love to BSOD your PC Hackers really love to
If I had mod points, I'd mark this one as 'Very Insightful'.
Thank you... You have modified my perspective quite a bit.
Basically, we agreed that kids should have similar rights as adult for the primary purpose of educating them of their rights as they grow older. The question now remains, how much extended rights (other than basic life, liberty, and property) should a kid have, based on maturity, fixed age or what? My belief is those extended rights are vested with the parents/guardians.
We limit property owning to kids (guns, prescriptions, tobaccos, alcohols, spray paints, sniffing glues, felt-tip markers, whipping cream, OTC drugs).
We limit liberty to kids (gang-banging, loitering, skateboard-ban, ban teens at malls, travel restriction afterhours, prohibition of entrance to tattoo, strip-clubs, bars, mandatory schooling).
We limit life to kids (abortion, medical treatment selections, random drug test, even ER visits without an adult).
There's quite a bit of restrictions placed on kids, primarily based on maturity level and/or fixed age boundary. And every cities/townships has that SCOTUS-approved rights to impose such restrictions against kids.
Also, I'm sure that we can agree that we trust the SCOTUS to help define this a bit better.
Kids have no rights. The parents/guardian owns the rights for the kids. But its proxied out often.
Kids do have ability to get privileges. Ultimate privilege is emancipation.
And our society does impose minimum age requirements before we deem them responsible citizens.
To a kid, I'd say "Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?" Wait until you become an adult (that burden is greater to bear). So, just enjoy the remaining childhood while you can (until you're forced to get a job).
Yes... freedom is given AFTER you reach the age of emancipation, typically 18 or 21.
Freedom is NOT a given for kids. Kids operate within the parameters of adults' freedom (and their assigned responsibilities). Parents/Guardian/Teacher/Lifeguard/Schoolground Lady/Bus Driver/Librarian. Those people are responsible for those kids (when and if they should have them).
Freedom is foisted, earned, granted, fought, allowed, awarded... when you invariably bust out of your teen years or when you naturalized.
We just hope that our civic teachers are doing their jobs fully. Did yours?
P.S. What is a spacecraft autonomous guidance system's second order method of motion planning in dynamic environment.... using velocity obstacles vectorization as a reactive input. (clue... look at your watch).
We have emancipation for kids of any age. Hence, it is earned.
Kids are allow to defend themselves. Basic human survival, not a rights. His daddy/mommy needs to train their kids to these basic skill.
Kids are not allowed cellphones on the basis of 4.0 (potentially discrimination)
Kid volunteers is a earned rights in terms of privileges (not to mention an excellent resume stuffer). That is like saying "Cheerleaders get more privileges." Anyhow, that is orthagonal to a randomly drug testing which is a court-recognized equal and fair treatment, but not blanket coverage.
Kids have to learn basic civic duties and have to await their emancipation date.
There is nothing in the constitution about rights applying only to adults.
Yes.. Congress shall be vested with power to enact laws.
So, in corollary.
You have to be 16 to drive.
18 to vote or join military.
21 to drink
25 to be a U.S. Representative.
30 to be a congressperson.
35 to be a president.
THese laws were structured (mostly by our founding fathers) so that we would hope that people have garnered certain amount of responsibility before assuming the role of a leader or law-abiding citizen.
Kids... earn your rights (and thusly your freedom).
They're about about feeding the ego needs of school administrators.
Spoken like a spoiled brat.
There is nothing in the constitution about rights applying only to adults.
I am sure that the founding fathers did not intend to have a kid for a ruler of nations. And these fathers have learned the history lesson well of kid-rulers' fiascos.
Regulations like these are not about helping kids learn.
A nation without societal rules and guidelines is recipe for chaos. Kids who don't conform to our societies are the ones with excessive freedom. Freedom is earned (or in our case, taught, not a given... to kids.
I'm not a fan of school administrators, either. But these people are "sworn" to conform to Federal guidelines and U.S. codes. In turn, these edicts are handed down to principals and teachers. And guess, who gets the short end of the sticks... Kids.
--
It takes a village to raise a child. - African proverb
Nearly all parents/guardians have signed consent to school policies and regulations before dumping their kids at school.
These kids' rights are vested in through their parents. And most of it were already given up when the parents signed along the dotted lings over to the school district supertiendents' staff.
THESE KIDS HAD NO RIGHTS TO BEGIN WITH, in school, at home, in public. Now, granted. We (at least in the Western Civilization) are however granted inalienable rights, BUT thats only to adults. Kids' rights are covered by proxy through adults.
To kids... Blame the parents for not being assertive for the kids' rights. To the parents, THANK GOD for school discipline. There is not enough of those "bend over, lemme get my fraternity board." That physical spanking has definitely been diminishing over the years.
Why do we attempt to institute school uniform, ban on contrabands, behavior policies and all that jazz? So, kids can LEARN. Learn to be a productive member of our society.
Take a look at this brief but archaic history of Bruce Artwick. Please note the webmaster's picture... THAT is also Bruce Artwick, but advance it 20+ years later.
One future day, I was sitting on a park bench, tossing peanuts to the squirrels, reminiscenting about the good ol' glory days of horseshoing with another fella of like-wise generational gap.
[BANG!]
I pull out my trusty state-approved electronically-controlled 44-magum and leaped up into a ready-to-fire stance toward to the general vincity of the what is most definitely a gunshot richochet (not some stoopid backfiring as some clueless street rat would surmise).
Witnessed seeing a runner carrying a bag of overflowing jewelry and dripping expensive stones, looking back and firing at the pursuing young rent-a-cops whose adrenaline is overflowing for some eager actions. My pacemaker speeds up!
But the gun-toting robber is coming toward me... I took a few steps foward and yelled "HALT!"
[bang!] [WHIZ] A bullet passed my ear.. Eeee-ow! Man, that was deafening.
"HALT, or I'll shoot," I said.
50 yards and closing... I pulled the trigger. [click]. Gawd dammit. What was the PIN number? Ummm. Social Security, birth date, damn. So many passwords, and getting old, I am.
40 yards... Squatted and entered in the PIN number... Rose and aim.. 30 yards... [click] WRONG NUMBER! Squatted and re-entered in the PIN number.... Rose and aim... 25 yards... [BEEP] Readout says "invalid bullet". Pulled back the chamber again, ejecting the mismatched bullet. 20 yards... [click] [BEEP] Readout says "1 yard inside school boundary" SHeesh! Just two steps, man... 15 yards... [BANG] Dang, missed.... squatted and aim. 10 yards... [click] [BEEP] WHAAAAT? Looked at the grip readout "COPS IN VICINITY" WHAT THE FUCK? 0 yards... [BASH!] Ooommph! Runner ran and knocked me down... turned around and aim... -10 yards... [BANG] What? My finger isn't in the trigger... (Nearby hacker with wireless chuckled) Again, aim... -20 yards... [click] [BEEP] Readout says "Federal allotment has been used up. Override?" Punched in override (sigh) -30 yards... [click] [BEEP BEEP BEEP...] Read the grip readout once more "Firing an unchambered bullet." Made my day....
[BOOM]
MORAL: I'll settle for an unrestrained gun, anyday, thank you very much.
There are basically three categories of microprocessor design. And armed with an electronic degree, one can decide which area to focus on:
1. CUSTOM BOARD INTEGRATOR 3. PROGRAMMERS (both HW and Software) 3. THE MICROPROCESSOR DESIGNER
All areas entail different stages (and thus different skills). They basically cover requirements, designs, coding, integration, testing and maintenance. It is entirely possible to have a lifelong career in just within one of those stages, particularly test and maintenance.
Even so, each area utilize different skill sets.
1. Lowest man on the totem pole (but still well-paid) is the custom board integrator. Involves research and selection of hardware components using interchangeable interfaces (i.e., PCI, PCI-X, LVDS, Rocket I/O, VME and lesser known interfaces such as USB, Firewire, Parallel and serial). Testing of each HW components (not to get bad capacitors) are a non-trivial effort. Most low-budget company skimp these component testings. Nevertheless, it entails buildup around THE microprocessor.
2. Midway is the programmer. VHDL, Synoptic and many other custom hardware programming languages which tends to be chipset-specific. Bulk of the job market are in this category.
3. The elite is THE microprocessor designer. Intel, AMD, IBM, Motorola, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Xilinx and many others make uses of M-Designers. Most of them tend to be cultivated from within each company. Much research material have to be digested and assimulated to be able to design one of today's complexity. Best and easiest break into this arena is startup company, successful or not.
I suggest, for a startup university department, you shoot for #2 as the majority of your curriculums. This ensures that these skill-sets are transportable to either #1 or #3, depending on how good they grasp the elementary logics.
To determine which versions of crosstool (compiler, linkers, debugger), check out The Matrix Guy (Dan Kegel), or more specifically THE MATRIX of workable gcc/g++/ld/gdb.
To ease your pain of figuring out the "./configure" options, definitely checkout PTXDist. Menuconfig is similar to Linux 'make menuconfig'. PTXDist also help to build a root file system in a jiffy, which in my book, is a PLUS!
My biggest sympathy goes out to you. If this is your first time, enjoy the additional hairs that will grow on your chest.
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Why push for ALSA support? Jack-It is the future.
All quality sound players (MythTV, Audacity, Gxine, Xine, XMMS), sound servers (alsasound, Gnome, KDE) and sound device (ALSA, ALSA-OSS) support JACK, (recursive for Jack Audio Connection Kit).
Even the professional musicians touts their superior audio latency, excellent patch panel, hundreds of audio filters (not that any normal user would want them, but its crispy and never choppy).
I'm getting tired of switching audio server JUST to use Flash/Mozilla/Linux. All other media applications play nicely with JACK.
Can we see jackd ported into Flash BEFORE ALSA?
Plenty of holes.
Put more than one thinking caps on.
I had thought that with Apache/PHP could autogenerate the page specifically based on the UserAgent field without the use of Javascript.
I also thought SlashDot server is like this (older version) when meting out Exploders vs. Mozilla/FireFox pages.
Something like mod_setenvif where we can specifyFollowed by
Followed by a CSS to BlackBerry mapping Those are the loose building blocks that comes to my mind... I haven't yet fit them together without having to change the original HTML or PHP-HTML output generator code.
Alternatively, ReWriteRules directive?And the bb-css code could have something like:
Could your server make use of the UserAgent instead? That says "BlackBerry"?
Correct. I should have mentioned that both B1 and multi-level signing mechanism is desired.
Then again, nothing is simple in life.
The BIGGEST system engineering flaw (present and future) to Windows Vista is MSFT zeal to maintain backward compatibility as well as TOO SLOWY roll out the needed security features (Blue Pill or not).
Some of the problems immediately identified are:
1. Legacy applications' poor handling on privileges still poses a foot in the door to the Lord of the "Ring 0" land.
2. Lack of secured code training will continue to be plagued by newest Win-V applications
3. Temporary admin priv is a crock. No different than Unix's sudo or GUI admin popup dialog box.
The best course of action for our future well-being is to revert back to the antiquated but still effective DoD Orange Book Trusted Level B1 for trusted but verified deliverable operating system (commercial or open-source).
This means, signing drivers, ActiveX, COM, DLL and ALL system task (even the ones in system tray). The mere logistical and financial nightmare of managing the signing events will all but daunt the savviest sysadmin. For Open Source SW, a mechanism for self-signing open-source drivers (which would then only be tied to a specific machine) as well.
So, this isn't about Open Souce vs. Commercial software anymore.
The future computing battleground will be largely centered NOT between the FOSS and MSFT/OS-X BUT between the trusted-but-verified software and not.
Alrighty, so the old sap is deaf?
Just breed Asian tiger mosquitoes and unleash them using one of those geek-garage motion-detected trap release mechanism to your collection jar.
These Aedes albopictus varmits are HUGE and fairly impervious to ultrasonic.
First of all, we DON'T know if the original Windows CD has been hacked with a low-profile portknocked encrypted backdoor trojan running GOD-knows what stuff the spammers, lurkers and hackers want. This kind is virtually impossible for anti-virus program to detect.
Secondly, a keylogger could be silently copying all your keystrokes (password and all). It doesn't have to send them over the net, but it might do an innocuous ping to the hackers' headquarter.
Thirdly, it could randommly mess with your data (just a tiny bit) to make you lose productivity, but not enough to think that one needs to reinstall Windows.
Do yourself a HUGE favor and buy a legitimate copy of Windows. The pain of reinstalling is worth it in the long run.
If you are curious as to how many trojans are out there (complete with a snapshot of their console GUI), check out http://www.megasecurity.org/
Oh yeah, I did plenty of Coke, even today! In fact, I graduated on Coke...
AA in RC Cola
BS in Pepsi
MS in Coca-Cola
Now, I have a Ph.D. in JJJJJJOOOOOLLLLTTTT!!!!
Push, ... ...
Push,
Push it all out...
These are things that they've been waiting for
Come on
It's updating your PCs
Come on
[choirs]
In monopolistic times
You shouldn't have to ruin your PC
In blue and white
They really really ought to know
Those one track minds
That took you for a working end-user
Kiss them goodbye
You shouldn't have to jump for joy
You shouldn't have to
[choirs 2X]
They gave you Windows
And in return
you gave them them hell
As cold as ice
I hope we live to
tell the tale
I hope we live to
[choirs 2X]
[rift]
[choirs 2X]
And when you've taken down your guard
If they could change your mind
Hackers really love to BSOD your PC
Hackers really love to
[choirs 2X]
[rift]
[choirs 2X]
If I had mod points, I'd mark this one as 'Very Insightful'.
Thank you... You have modified my perspective quite a bit.
Basically, we agreed that kids should have similar rights as adult for the primary purpose of educating them of their rights as they grow older. The question now remains, how much extended rights (other than basic life, liberty, and property) should a kid have, based on maturity, fixed age or what? My belief is those extended rights are vested with the parents/guardians.
We limit property owning to kids (guns, prescriptions, tobaccos, alcohols, spray paints, sniffing glues, felt-tip markers, whipping cream, OTC drugs).
We limit liberty to kids (gang-banging, loitering, skateboard-ban, ban teens at malls, travel restriction afterhours, prohibition of entrance to tattoo, strip-clubs, bars, mandatory schooling).
We limit life to kids (abortion, medical treatment selections, random drug test, even ER visits without an adult).
There's quite a bit of restrictions placed on kids, primarily based on maturity level and/or fixed age boundary. And every cities/townships has that SCOTUS-approved rights to impose such restrictions against kids.
Also, I'm sure that we can agree that we trust the SCOTUS to help define this a bit better.
No confusion to me...
Kids have no rights. The parents/guardian owns the rights for the kids. But its proxied out often.
Kids do have ability to get privileges. Ultimate privilege is emancipation.
And our society does impose minimum age requirements before we deem them responsible citizens.
To a kid, I'd say "Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?" Wait until you become an adult (that burden is greater to bear). So, just enjoy the remaining childhood while you can (until you're forced to get a job).
Yes... freedom is given AFTER you reach the age of emancipation, typically 18 or 21.
Freedom is NOT a given for kids. Kids operate within the parameters of adults' freedom (and their assigned responsibilities). Parents/Guardian/Teacher/Lifeguard/Schoolground Lady/Bus Driver/Librarian. Those people are responsible for those kids (when and if they should have them).
Freedom is foisted, earned, granted, fought, allowed, awarded... when you invariably bust out of your teen years or when you naturalized.
We just hope that our civic teachers are doing their jobs fully. Did yours?
P.S. What is a spacecraft autonomous guidance system's second order method of motion planning in dynamic environment.... using velocity obstacles vectorization as a reactive input. (clue... look at your watch).
We have emancipation for kids of any age. Hence, it is earned.
Kids are allow to defend themselves. Basic human survival, not a rights. His daddy/mommy needs to train their kids to these basic skill.
Kids are not allowed cellphones on the basis of 4.0 (potentially discrimination)
Kid volunteers is a earned rights in terms of privileges (not to mention an excellent resume stuffer). That is like saying "Cheerleaders get more privileges." Anyhow, that is orthagonal to a randomly drug testing which is a court-recognized equal and fair treatment, but not blanket coverage.
Kids have to learn basic civic duties and have to await their emancipation date.
It is called the "Tenets of Western Civilization"
Bedrock.
Mess with it at your nation's expense.
Yes.. Congress shall be vested with power to enact laws.
So, in corollary.
You have to be 16 to drive.
18 to vote or join military.
21 to drink
25 to be a U.S. Representative.
30 to be a congressperson.
35 to be a president.
THese laws were structured (mostly by our founding fathers) so that we would hope that people have garnered certain amount of responsibility before assuming the role of a leader or law-abiding citizen.
Kids... earn your rights (and thusly your freedom).
Spoken like a spoiled brat.
I am sure that the founding fathers did not intend to have a kid for a ruler of nations. And these fathers have learned the history lesson well of kid-rulers' fiascos.
A nation without societal rules and guidelines is recipe for chaos. Kids who don't conform to our societies are the ones with excessive freedom. Freedom is earned (or in our case, taught, not a given
I'm not a fan of school administrators, either. But these people are "sworn" to conform to Federal guidelines and U.S. codes. In turn, these edicts are handed down to principals and teachers. And guess, who gets the short end of the sticks... Kids.
--
It takes a village to raise a child. - African proverb
The submitted docket is a filing for reargument.
The case is still open. NJ Supreme Court ruling still stands.
So far, kids have no rights other than inalienable rights and are still beholden to their parents/guardians.
Parents gave it away when they signed the dotted line to the school supertindents.
No, you moron! I live fifteen miles away from school.
And I walk
In the snow
Uphills
Both ways
Just like my grandfather used to do.
To nearly ALL the slashdotters... WRONG!
Nearly all parents/guardians have signed consent to school policies and regulations before dumping their kids at school.
These kids' rights are vested in through their parents. And most of it were already given up when the parents signed along the dotted lings over to the school district supertiendents' staff.
THESE KIDS HAD NO RIGHTS TO BEGIN WITH, in school, at home, in public. Now, granted. We (at least in the Western Civilization) are however granted inalienable rights, BUT thats only to adults. Kids' rights are covered by proxy through adults.
To kids... Blame the parents for not being assertive for the kids' rights. To the parents, THANK GOD for school discipline. There is not enough of those "bend over, lemme get my fraternity board." That physical spanking has definitely been diminishing over the years.
Why do we attempt to institute school uniform, ban on contrabands, behavior policies and all that jazz? So, kids can LEARN. Learn to be a productive member of our society.
A horde of blue-shirts also invaded Best Buy and walked away with NOTHING!
Not even a customary "Would You Like Extended Protection?"
Take a look at this brief but archaic history of Bruce Artwick. Please note the webmaster's picture... THAT is also Bruce Artwick, but advance it 20+ years later.
Looks like he's relegated himself to webmaster.
One future day, I was sitting on a park bench, tossing peanuts to the squirrels, reminiscenting about the good ol' glory days of horseshoing with another fella of like-wise generational gap.
... ...] Read the grip readout once more "Firing an unchambered bullet." Made my day....
[BANG!]
I pull out my trusty state-approved electronically-controlled 44-magum and leaped up into a ready-to-fire stance toward to the general vincity of the what is most definitely a gunshot richochet (not some stoopid backfiring as some clueless street rat would surmise).
Witnessed seeing a runner carrying a bag of overflowing jewelry and dripping expensive stones, looking back and firing at the pursuing young rent-a-cops whose adrenaline is overflowing for some eager actions. My pacemaker speeds up!
But the gun-toting robber is coming toward me... I took a few steps foward and yelled "HALT!"
[bang!] [WHIZ] A bullet passed my ear.. Eeee-ow! Man, that was deafening.
"HALT, or I'll shoot," I said.
50 yards and closing... I pulled the trigger. [click]. Gawd dammit. What was the PIN number? Ummm. Social Security, birth date, damn. So many passwords, and getting old, I am.
40 yards... Squatted and entered in the PIN number... Rose and aim..
30 yards... [click] WRONG NUMBER! Squatted and re-entered in the PIN number.... Rose and aim...
25 yards... [BEEP] Readout says "invalid bullet". Pulled back the chamber again, ejecting the mismatched bullet.
20 yards... [click] [BEEP] Readout says "1 yard inside school boundary" SHeesh! Just two steps, man...
15 yards... [BANG] Dang, missed.... squatted and aim.
10 yards... [click] [BEEP] WHAAAAT? Looked at the grip readout "COPS IN VICINITY" WHAT THE FUCK?
0 yards... [BASH!] Ooommph! Runner ran and knocked me down... turned around and aim...
-10 yards... [BANG] What? My finger isn't in the trigger... (Nearby hacker with wireless chuckled) Again, aim
-20 yards... [click] [BEEP] Readout says "Federal allotment has been used up. Override?" Punched in override (sigh)
-30 yards... [click] [BEEP BEEP BEEP
[BOOM]
MORAL: I'll settle for an unrestrained gun, anyday, thank you very much.
There are basically three categories of microprocessor design. And armed with an electronic degree, one can decide which area to focus on:
1. CUSTOM BOARD INTEGRATOR
3. PROGRAMMERS (both HW and Software)
3. THE MICROPROCESSOR DESIGNER
All areas entail different stages (and thus different skills). They basically cover requirements, designs, coding, integration, testing and maintenance. It is entirely possible to have a lifelong career in just within one of those stages, particularly test and maintenance.
Even so, each area utilize different skill sets.
1. Lowest man on the totem pole (but still well-paid) is the custom board integrator. Involves research and selection of hardware components using interchangeable interfaces (i.e., PCI, PCI-X, LVDS, Rocket I/O, VME and lesser known interfaces such as USB, Firewire, Parallel and serial). Testing of each HW components (not to get bad capacitors) are a non-trivial effort. Most low-budget company skimp these component testings. Nevertheless, it entails buildup around THE microprocessor.
2. Midway is the programmer. VHDL, Synoptic and many other custom hardware programming languages which tends to be chipset-specific. Bulk of the job market are in this category.
3. The elite is THE microprocessor designer. Intel, AMD, IBM, Motorola, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Xilinx and many others make uses of M-Designers. Most of them tend to be cultivated from within each company. Much research material have to be digested and assimulated to be able to design one of today's complexity. Best and easiest break into this arena is startup company, successful or not.
I suggest, for a startup university department, you shoot for #2 as the majority of your curriculums. This ensures that these skill-sets are transportable to either #1 or #3, depending on how good they grasp the elementary logics.
My biggest sympathy goes out to you. If this is your first time, enjoy the additional hairs that will grow on your chest.