If I'm going to send someone I don't know a document, I usually send it as a PDF. I use OpenOffice, and a PDF is really the best way I have of being sure that it will look to them as it does on my own machine. Now, I don't do this if the other person has to make many changes, but otherwise PDF is the way to go. I do it even if I've been working on Windows and using Word.
Well, Linux is functionally very much like UNIX, even if it hasn't inherited code. (Unless BSD code has made its way into Linux? I'm guessing not.) I would imagine that if someone organizing a GNU/Linux distro had the cash to get it certified, they'd probably rather pay developers or hosting or whatever instead.
I seem to remember that they were one of the few (maybe the only ones?) who allowed servers. I didn't realize that they were still around, that seems pretty cool. And even if you don't have a lot of upload having a Web server handy can be helpful, if for nothing else than a simple text-only site and maybe posting pictures on message boards.
Just about all ISPs have something like this to cover themselves. In truth, if you don't use a lot of bandwidth or let your service get compromised or off anything illegal they really don't seem to care. So if you plan to run a Web-based business off of your home cable connection (which I'm not sure I'd recommend anyway), you may have a problem. But if you're just hosting cat pictures, you're probably fine.
Here's a thought: In order to get you, don't they have to prove that you have the entire file? Like by downloading the entire file from one peer? So, could you avoid problems if you say took a laptop to a variety of different Internet connections and spread the uploading?
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Actually, I guess I would have to agree with you, but it was fun to watch the original Tron and try to count the number of polygons in the CG bits:).
Regarding the effects, I think Digital Domain was doing most of the effects for Legacy. And IIRC Pixar wasn't really involved in the effects for the first one, though I could be wrong.
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It was a good romp in keeping with the spirit of the original film
I did not think it was in the spirit of the original at all. Too many polygons.
What do your users need to run? Is it basic Web/Email/word processing, or is there something else thrown in? If it's something like that you could probably get away with a bunch of thin clients and a big central server. Check out LTSP.
As for servers, from the information you gave it seems like a basic file server would work as your media server. Make sure you have enough RAM, and take a look at something like Ubuntu server, should be pretty straightforward to get going for 20 people. For your Web server, how much traffic? The same thing applies, RAM is good, and Ubuntu will work for you there too. Also, how much traffic are you looking at? You should also look at tuning Apache (or whatever server you end up using) for best performance.
And of course, if a GNU/Linux solution isn't your thing or Ubuntu isn't your thing, adjust accordingly.
Well, you just have to have the code available if the user wants it, so I think you could just package the binary like this and then giving the user the source if they ask or having it up for download somewhere would be fine. Then I think you could just throw the GPL into the package somewhere, maybe with the other documents.
Linux is used a lot by visual effects companies (for workstations as well as for storage/rendering). They also tend to use Win/OS X for things like Photoshop; they would love CS5 on Linux.
Actually, I've met a lot of people who would love to switch to Linux, but are kept away by one critical app; usually it's Photoshop or some game. Adobe may not make as much as they do for Win/OS X, but there would be sales.
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It depends. In my case, if my parent's computer messes up, I'm the one they call for tech support anyways, no matter what the OS.
Is that with Lucid? Not trying to pull a "I don't have this problem, so it must be you" thing here, but on my laptop with Lucid I've connected many an external monitor by just plugging it in and using the Monitors utility in the Preferences menu. Once or twice I've gotten a weird result, like weird resolution or the monitors getting switched, but that's pretty rare. Usually it works pretty well. My laptop's using an Intel graphics chipset, and that may have something to do with it, I'm not sure. I used to run Lucid on my Desktop with an nVidia card, and the process of adding a second monitor was pretty much similar.
I find it interesting how it seems sometimes one Ubuntu install will go smoothly with most things working, and then another will screw up on a similar set of hardware. Right now the biggest issue I'm running into is suspend to ram, which simply shuts my laptop down. Other than that though things are fine for the most part.
If generating alternating current, a capacitor will be seen as a short and wont' work. (Actually, it's a little more complicated; it might help to compensate if there's a huge inductive load on the generator, but it won't function like a battery.)
Storage in batteries if fine except for the fact that you have to convert DC to AC. This can be done, and is done on a utility-scale (check out HVDC transmission), but it does throw a degree of complexity in. Then again there's not much of a choice other than something liked pumped storage.
Sometimes I will just pick a sentence and use it. It doesn't have to be an obvious one; sentences are just easier for humans to remember. I may try to obfuscate it like you do for a shorter password but for an encryption passphrase a sentence is fine.
When - not if, when - they go Dark Side and release a client that injects ads or collates data, who's going to switch to a fork clients and a different metaserver and protocol version? That's right: you, and me, and him over there. Not Real People.
Well, 'Real People' aren't going to be interested in the little things. Just like they don't like to think about things like updating the Linux kernel. And yet, I know many (relatively) non-technical people who do fine with Ubuntu. The founders of this project may very well go to the dark side, but as long as there's a dark side there will be a light one, too. People are free to fork the code, and if these four start trying to pull a FaceBook someone else can pick up the slack much more easily.
I'm guessing TFA meant kilowatt-hours, ie 2000 watt-hours of total energy you get from the cow in a day. Confusing watts and watt-hours seems to be a common mistake, and I'd be surprised if the cow's putting out that much power.
I think a lot of distributions actually come fairly close, but the issue is the money. Since many distros are maintained by volunteers, if they had the cash for getting certified they probably would rather spend it on other things. Not sure why someone like RedHat wouldn't go for it, though.
Then again I'm not sure how much it costs to get officially certified.
I've used FTPS and virtual accounts a lot for working on projects with other people who I wouldn't want to have a shell account. Good way to collaborate without giving people access to your box who would not otherwise need it.
FTPS (also known as FTP Secure and FTP-SSL) is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cryptographic protocols. FTPS should not be confused with the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), an incompatible secure file transfer subsystem for the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. It is also different from Secure FTP, the practice of tunneling FTP through an SSH connection.
I dislike the 'why would you want to do that attitude as well, but I've found this to kind of be a universal problem, not just Linux related.
And I know this is a bit of a tangent, but what you probably want (ie, what the Linux guy probably should have told you about) is FTP over SSL. Something like ProFTPd can do this. It's just like a normal FTP server other than the encryption, you can set up virtual users and everything.
I don't recall if Thermodynamics was required for a CE degree but there was one more physics class that was required. Now I did have all the math classes needed. However because to get a minor in physics I only needed to take 2 more physics classes and the same for math I decided to take those 4 more classes. So I would have ended up with a degree in CE and minors in math and physics.
Depending on how it's looked at, if I knew in high school what I know now I'd have done better or worse than a major and 2 minors. If I knew then what I know now I'd have done a double major. In high school I wanted to do both computer engineering and a marine science, marine bio or oceanography perhaps. I loved and took classes in both. As part of the marine biology class and club I was in a group of us went to Mote Marine Laboratory on a field trip. Before leaving there a couple of us were pulled aside and asked if we wanted to work there during the summer. We were told that if we did and we wanted to major in a marine science in college they'd help us get in and pay for it. By then I had basically decided I wanted to design computer systems though, so I turned it down.
I considered majoring in music back in high school. I concluded, though that being interested in EE as well I should make that my career path instead. Right now I plan to go for a music minor, though.
Back when, before my accident, spirituality was important to me. Spirituality not religion. And though I still recall what beliefs I had I no longer believe them. As I've said here and other places I am agnostic, "a" without and "gnosis" knowledge. Thing is, with living I always believed and told my family I'd rather be disconnected and have all the lines and tubes pulled so that I'd die if it came to being a vegetable or dying. I don't recall it but one of my sisters' told me that after I came out of the coma I was in in the hospital I screamed at everyone to let me die.
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It seems that a lot of the people who demand to be allowed to die are the ones who end up making it.:) I agree with you about not wanting to be a vegetable, but I think there's always some hope.
I guess I would consider myself a religious/spiritual person, though it is my own set of beliefs. I haven't been through what you have, but I could see how you would come to your conclusion. I know my beliefs could possibly be rationalizations, but for now they're what I have in the absence of absolute knowledge.
Thanks. Years ago my major was Computer Engineering, so if I go with a major study area of Electrical or Electronic Engineering now I'll still study engineering. Thing is is I'll have to retake a number of classes such as chemistry, math, and physics. Of them all I had left to take was Thermodynamics. But because of bad memory I'd have to review if not retake them all. I'd be basically starting all again. As for working in RE many people start out as installers but as they work, and learn, they start designing as well.
Thermodynamics for a CE? I guess it varies by school but I didn't realize many places had that as a requirement (or still did, at least). You might want to look around, you never know what another school might be willing to transfer. If in doubt the professors should be willing to tell you what you really need to know. It seems like the math is what you might want to be most concerned with, but you might be able to review enough of it to do well. Also you might ask if you can sit in on a class.
Going that route you know what can be done, which reminds me of a friend in college. He was a steel worker on skyscrapers before starting college as an Architectural Engineer and he used to say that if someone on a crew of his came up and said they could not be do something in his plans he'd try to do it himself and if he could it then he'd fire that person.
Just about every teacher I've had who I consider decent has been very clear in saying that they would never have us do anything they themselves could not do.
Oh I believe things will be interesting. My problem is that I'm so tired. I've been fighting for a life with meaning for more than 10 years but as I said before I'll tired and don't really have much hope anymore. There are only two things that keep me going, trying. One is, as my therapists have said, stubbornness. I have had therapists and neurologists say I only lived because I was stubborn. The other thing is that although I no longer do I used to believe in reincarnation. Occasionally I'd think of ending the pain and suffering but then think that if reincarnation were true then I'd have to come back and go through it in another life. I know it's not rational or logical but neither one could touch it, the fear.
Falcon
Obviously people believe a lot of things. Who knows, maybe we do reincarnate? But the truth is the only thing we can be sure of, the thing we don't need to 'believe' in because we know it, is that we're here - 'I think therefore I am.' There's a time and a place for stubbornness, and I suppose when it comes to something like that.
I know what you mean. Where I used to live, a house on a dead end road, it wasn't unusual for us to lose power. Sometimes it would only be out seconds or minutes, other tymes it's be out for hours. The power company frequently sent out repairmen but what they really needed was to replace the lines and hardware however they said it was too expensive. I just wonder how much it cost to constantly be sending out repairmen.
That's kind of how it is a block over from where I live, the wiring is older. A friend who lives over there doesn't loose power all the time, but it's more common than where I am.
If you already have a connection, that's the way to go. After adding insulation add a panel at a tyme. Some who build off the grid do that too.
RE in general is very expandable. As long as you plan a little in advance you'll have no trouble adding more solar, or whatever.
Over the years I worked in more than one restaurant and they all made 55 gallon drums outside in the back where we had to pour the used grease/oil. Then a service company would come and pick them up, leaving more empty drums.
Sounds like there's a lot of potential there.
It won't be anytime soon before I'm ready to buy some land to build on, actually I don't know if I ever will be in such a position. More than 13 years ago I survived a bad accident and have been on disability since. I was in college when I had the accident. I later started attending college again, but I had to start all over basically. Once I did I could only take a class or two at a tyme but because I wasn't able to afford it I dropped out about 5 years ago. I want to get back into college and I'm looking for financial aid. I'd file for Federal Financial Assistance but my sister handles my finances, she even does my taxes, and has previously refused to fill out the forms for me. I'm hoping I have found some aid on my own though. Americorps' VistaCorp offers aid like the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. Reading what I could find they require 2000 volunteer hours a year for assistance, 20 hours a week, and I don't know if I can work the 20 hours though. What pisses me is that when I dropped out I only had 2 more classes to finish my Associate Degree.
Up above I say I had two more classes to finish my AAAS, or whatever, what I'd like to do is transfer to a university where I was thinking of studying in Electrical/Electronic Engineering as my major subject but I'm not sure. As another possible source of aid, maybe it can be arranged through VistaCorp, I've been thinking about trying to get a "Green Economy" position. Say helping to install alternative energy systems. As I see it that may be great for me, I'll get back into school, will get experience, and can decide if that is what I want to do in university.
Falcon
Good luck to you! I'm in school right now for Electrical Engineering, and am dreading the fallout from my loans. I'm interested in working in RE somehow as well, not necessarily as an installer but maybe designing components. (I'm actually going to start on a homemade inverter pretty soon, not for intertie of course.) I think there will be a great opportunity for this sort of industry pretty soon, as the cost goes down and more people become aware of just what you can do. Just keep at it, the future will be pretty exciting.
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If I'm going to send someone I don't know a document, I usually send it as a PDF. I use OpenOffice, and a PDF is really the best way I have of being sure that it will look to them as it does on my own machine. Now, I don't do this if the other person has to make many changes, but otherwise PDF is the way to go. I do it even if I've been working on Windows and using Word.
Well, Linux is functionally very much like UNIX, even if it hasn't inherited code. (Unless BSD code has made its way into Linux? I'm guessing not.) I would imagine that if someone organizing a GNU/Linux distro had the cash to get it certified, they'd probably rather pay developers or hosting or whatever instead.
I seem to remember that they were one of the few (maybe the only ones?) who allowed servers. I didn't realize that they were still around, that seems pretty cool. And even if you don't have a lot of upload having a Web server handy can be helpful, if for nothing else than a simple text-only site and maybe posting pictures on message boards.
Just about all ISPs have something like this to cover themselves. In truth, if you don't use a lot of bandwidth or let your service get compromised or off anything illegal they really don't seem to care. So if you plan to run a Web-based business off of your home cable connection (which I'm not sure I'd recommend anyway), you may have a problem. But if you're just hosting cat pictures, you're probably fine.
Here's a thought: In order to get you, don't they have to prove that you have the entire file? Like by downloading the entire file from one peer? So, could you avoid problems if you say took a laptop to a variety of different Internet connections and spread the uploading?
Actually, I guess I would have to agree with you, but it was fun to watch the original Tron and try to count the number of polygons in the CG bits :).
Regarding the effects, I think Digital Domain was doing most of the effects for Legacy. And IIRC Pixar wasn't really involved in the effects for the first one, though I could be wrong.
It was a good romp in keeping with the spirit of the original film
I did not think it was in the spirit of the original at all. Too many polygons.
It's not hacking, but this is interesting, apparently some amateur radio operators were able to track it.
What do your users need to run? Is it basic Web/Email/word processing, or is there something else thrown in? If it's something like that you could probably get away with a bunch of thin clients and a big central server. Check out LTSP.
As for servers, from the information you gave it seems like a basic file server would work as your media server. Make sure you have enough RAM, and take a look at something like Ubuntu server, should be pretty straightforward to get going for 20 people. For your Web server, how much traffic? The same thing applies, RAM is good, and Ubuntu will work for you there too. Also, how much traffic are you looking at? You should also look at tuning Apache (or whatever server you end up using) for best performance.
And of course, if a GNU/Linux solution isn't your thing or Ubuntu isn't your thing, adjust accordingly.
Well, you just have to have the code available if the user wants it, so I think you could just package the binary like this and then giving the user the source if they ask or having it up for download somewhere would be fine. Then I think you could just throw the GPL into the package somewhere, maybe with the other documents.
I'm not aware of anyone making this available in a turnkey fashion but it CAN be done.
Anybody accustomed to managing OpenLDAP won't find it terribly difficult.
I haven't messed with it much yet, but FreeIPA seems to be aiming for that. Seems like an interesting project.
Linux is used a lot by visual effects companies (for workstations as well as for storage/rendering). They also tend to use Win/OS X for things like Photoshop; they would love CS5 on Linux.
Actually, I've met a lot of people who would love to switch to Linux, but are kept away by one critical app; usually it's Photoshop or some game. Adobe may not make as much as they do for Win/OS X, but there would be sales.
It depends. In my case, if my parent's computer messes up, I'm the one they call for tech support anyways, no matter what the OS.
Is that with Lucid? Not trying to pull a "I don't have this problem, so it must be you" thing here, but on my laptop with Lucid I've connected many an external monitor by just plugging it in and using the Monitors utility in the Preferences menu. Once or twice I've gotten a weird result, like weird resolution or the monitors getting switched, but that's pretty rare. Usually it works pretty well. My laptop's using an Intel graphics chipset, and that may have something to do with it, I'm not sure. I used to run Lucid on my Desktop with an nVidia card, and the process of adding a second monitor was pretty much similar.
I find it interesting how it seems sometimes one Ubuntu install will go smoothly with most things working, and then another will screw up on a similar set of hardware. Right now the biggest issue I'm running into is suspend to ram, which simply shuts my laptop down. Other than that though things are fine for the most part.
If generating alternating current, a capacitor will be seen as a short and wont' work. (Actually, it's a little more complicated; it might help to compensate if there's a huge inductive load on the generator, but it won't function like a battery.)
Storage in batteries if fine except for the fact that you have to convert DC to AC. This can be done, and is done on a utility-scale (check out HVDC transmission), but it does throw a degree of complexity in. Then again there's not much of a choice other than something liked pumped storage.
Sometimes I will just pick a sentence and use it. It doesn't have to be an obvious one; sentences are just easier for humans to remember. I may try to obfuscate it like you do for a shorter password but for an encryption passphrase a sentence is fine.
When - not if, when - they go Dark Side and release a client that injects ads or collates data, who's going to switch to a fork clients and a different metaserver and protocol version? That's right: you, and me, and him over there. Not Real People.
Well, 'Real People' aren't going to be interested in the little things. Just like they don't like to think about things like updating the Linux kernel. And yet, I know many (relatively) non-technical people who do fine with Ubuntu. The founders of this project may very well go to the dark side, but as long as there's a dark side there will be a light one, too. People are free to fork the code, and if these four start trying to pull a FaceBook someone else can pick up the slack much more easily.
I'm guessing TFA meant kilowatt-hours, ie 2000 watt-hours of total energy you get from the cow in a day. Confusing watts and watt-hours seems to be a common mistake, and I'd be surprised if the cow's putting out that much power.
I think a lot of distributions actually come fairly close, but the issue is the money. Since many distros are maintained by volunteers, if they had the cash for getting certified they probably would rather spend it on other things. Not sure why someone like RedHat wouldn't go for it, though.
Then again I'm not sure how much it costs to get officially certified.
I've used FTPS and virtual accounts a lot for working on projects with other people who I wouldn't want to have a shell account. Good way to collaborate without giving people access to your box who would not otherwise need it.
From Wikipedia:
FTPS (also known as FTP Secure and FTP-SSL) is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cryptographic protocols.
FTPS should not be confused with the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), an incompatible secure file transfer subsystem for the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. It is also different from Secure FTP, the practice of tunneling FTP through an SSH connection.
I dislike the 'why would you want to do that attitude as well, but I've found this to kind of be a universal problem, not just Linux related.
And I know this is a bit of a tangent, but what you probably want (ie, what the Linux guy probably should have told you about) is FTP over SSL. Something like ProFTPd can do this. It's just like a normal FTP server other than the encryption, you can set up virtual users and everything.
I don't recall if Thermodynamics was required for a CE degree but there was one more physics class that was required. Now I did have all the math classes needed. However because to get a minor in physics I only needed to take 2 more physics classes and the same for math I decided to take those 4 more classes. So I would have ended up with a degree in CE and minors in math and physics.
Depending on how it's looked at, if I knew in high school what I know now I'd have done better or worse than a major and 2 minors. If I knew then what I know now I'd have done a double major. In high school I wanted to do both computer engineering and a marine science, marine bio or oceanography perhaps. I loved and took classes in both. As part of the marine biology class and club I was in a group of us went to Mote Marine Laboratory on a field trip. Before leaving there a couple of us were pulled aside and asked if we wanted to work there during the summer. We were told that if we did and we wanted to major in a marine science in college they'd help us get in and pay for it. By then I had basically decided I wanted to design computer systems though, so I turned it down.
I considered majoring in music back in high school. I concluded, though that being interested in EE as well I should make that my career path instead. Right now I plan to go for a music minor, though.
Back when, before my accident, spirituality was important to me. Spirituality not religion. And though I still recall what beliefs I had I no longer believe them. As I've said here and other places I am agnostic, "a" without and "gnosis" knowledge. Thing is, with living I always believed and told my family I'd rather be disconnected and have all the lines and tubes pulled so that I'd die if it came to being a vegetable or dying. I don't recall it but one of my sisters' told me that after I came out of the coma I was in in the hospital I screamed at everyone to let me die.
Falcon
It seems that a lot of the people who demand to be allowed to die are the ones who end up making it. :) I agree with you about not wanting to be a vegetable, but I think there's always some hope.
I guess I would consider myself a religious/spiritual person, though it is my own set of beliefs. I haven't been through what you have, but I could see how you would come to your conclusion. I know my beliefs could possibly be rationalizations, but for now they're what I have in the absence of absolute knowledge.
Thanks. Years ago my major was Computer Engineering, so if I go with a major study area of Electrical or Electronic Engineering now I'll still study engineering. Thing is is I'll have to retake a number of classes such as chemistry, math, and physics. Of them all I had left to take was Thermodynamics. But because of bad memory I'd have to review if not retake them all. I'd be basically starting all again. As for working in RE many people start out as installers but as they work, and learn, they start designing as well.
Thermodynamics for a CE? I guess it varies by school but I didn't realize many places had that as a requirement (or still did, at least). You might want to look around, you never know what another school might be willing to transfer. If in doubt the professors should be willing to tell you what you really need to know. It seems like the math is what you might want to be most concerned with, but you might be able to review enough of it to do well. Also you might ask if you can sit in on a class.
Going that route you know what can be done, which reminds me of a friend in college. He was a steel worker on skyscrapers before starting college as an Architectural Engineer and he used to say that if someone on a crew of his came up and said they could not be do something in his plans he'd try to do it himself and if he could it then he'd fire that person.
Just about every teacher I've had who I consider decent has been very clear in saying that they would never have us do anything they themselves could not do.
Oh I believe things will be interesting. My problem is that I'm so tired. I've been fighting for a life with meaning for more than 10 years but as I said before I'll tired and don't really have much hope anymore. There are only two things that keep me going, trying. One is, as my therapists have said, stubbornness. I have had therapists and neurologists say I only lived because I was stubborn. The other thing is that although I no longer do I used to believe in reincarnation. Occasionally I'd think of ending the pain and suffering but then think that if reincarnation were true then I'd have to come back and go through it in another life. I know it's not rational or logical but neither one could touch it, the fear.
Falcon
Obviously people believe a lot of things. Who knows, maybe we do reincarnate? But the truth is the only thing we can be sure of, the thing we don't need to 'believe' in because we know it, is that we're here - 'I think therefore I am.' There's a time and a place for stubbornness, and I suppose when it comes to something like that.
I know what you mean. Where I used to live, a house on a dead end road, it wasn't unusual for us to lose power. Sometimes it would only be out seconds or minutes, other tymes it's be out for hours. The power company frequently sent out repairmen but what they really needed was to replace the lines and hardware however they said it was too expensive. I just wonder how much it cost to constantly be sending out repairmen.
That's kind of how it is a block over from where I live, the wiring is older. A friend who lives over there doesn't loose power all the time, but it's more common than where I am.
If you already have a connection, that's the way to go. After adding insulation add a panel at a tyme. Some who build off the grid do that too.
RE in general is very expandable. As long as you plan a little in advance you'll have no trouble adding more solar, or whatever.
Over the years I worked in more than one restaurant and they all made 55 gallon drums outside in the back where we had to pour the used grease/oil. Then a service company would come and pick them up, leaving more empty drums.
Sounds like there's a lot of potential there.
It won't be anytime soon before I'm ready to buy some land to build on, actually I don't know if I ever will be in such a position. More than 13 years ago I survived a bad accident and have been on disability since. I was in college when I had the accident. I later started attending college again, but I had to start all over basically. Once I did I could only take a class or two at a tyme but because I wasn't able to afford it I dropped out about 5 years ago. I want to get back into college and I'm looking for financial aid. I'd file for Federal Financial Assistance but my sister handles my finances, she even does my taxes, and has previously refused to fill out the forms for me. I'm hoping I have found some aid on my own though. Americorps' VistaCorp offers aid like the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award. Reading what I could find they require 2000 volunteer hours a year for assistance, 20 hours a week, and I don't know if I can work the 20 hours though. What pisses me is that when I dropped out I only had 2 more classes to finish my Associate Degree.
Up above I say I had two more classes to finish my AAAS, or whatever, what I'd like to do is transfer to a university where I was thinking of studying in Electrical/Electronic Engineering as my major subject but I'm not sure. As another possible source of aid, maybe it can be arranged through VistaCorp, I've been thinking about trying to get a "Green Economy" position. Say helping to install alternative energy systems. As I see it that may be great for me, I'll get back into school, will get experience, and can decide if that is what I want to do in university.
Falcon
Good luck to you! I'm in school right now for Electrical Engineering, and am dreading the fallout from my loans. I'm interested in working in RE somehow as well, not necessarily as an installer but maybe designing components. (I'm actually going to start on a homemade inverter pretty soon, not for intertie of course.) I think there will be a great opportunity for this sort of industry pretty soon, as the cost goes down and more people become aware of just what you can do. Just keep at it, the future will be pretty exciting.