Excerpt from SCO's reactionary press release: "Anyone who parks at one of these meters is in effect using Linux, and therefore owes SCO $699 + 25 cents per half hour."
A local non-profit had a bunch of old Pentium IIs sitting around and one decent 1.7Ghz Athlon. I set up the slow machines as thin clients. You could save money by investing in a good home network and only upgrading your server. Give everybody in the house that needs one a thin client.
I used to be one of the techs at my university responsible for connecting everyone to the campus network and supporting their connections. Of course I'd help fix some of their other problems on the side just out of kindness. One thing that I noticed is that my clientele (people who needed help setting up networking) was overwhelmingly female. It would probably be like that in the real world as well this could be just the ticket for the average geek who otherwise would never see the inside of a female's domicile. All else equal, it beats the hell out of a cubicle.
Now look at how many trees are being saved as a result of e-mail, the web, IM, and other collaborative technologies. Now there are alternatives to plain old snail mail spam that are hopefully saving a few trees at the expense of our collective annoyance. If it weren't for the net, the post office would have to change its slogan...through rain, sleet, snow or Slashdot.
Now if only I could get one shaped like a Pikachu and small enough to fit into a little red and white ball. I'd command it to kick your robot's ass, and then get a bumper sticker to the same effect.
There's a program (somebody help me with the name) that will let you mount an ISO in a *nix system and manipulate it as if it were a CD/DVD in the drive. You should be able to write an easy script to rip the DVD using the dd command. Then you'll have your entire DVD library intact. You could even use the ISOs to make more DVDs if you were so inclined;)
Sure you can buy a ready made solution, but what happens when the new tech comes out? Is it upgradeable? I had a spare box sitting around, threw Linux on it, got a $10 GeForce2 with TV-out off of eBay and made a pretty damn cool digital movie player that I can ssh into and sftp movies to and from. Not only that, but I can run picture slideshows or fire up Mozilla and hit Bit Torrent sites on a 27 inch TV. I haven't messed with MythTV or Freevo yet. I'm looking to get a WinTV PVR card and set up HD recording, but my drive is only 20 gig (It's what I had laying around)
It's a great solution. My girlfriend and I watch tons of movies on it every weekend. We usually have 5 or 6 downloads going at the same time. I know its expandable for new formats and new means of acquiring media. Plus it never crashes;) It's Linux! I'm now looking to upgrade the CPU because the movies are getting bigger and putting strain on my AMD 500. I fear that if I went with a proprietary solution, I'd be locked in. With this, I can build a cool case and keep upgrading here and there as I desire. I highly recommend it as a cool project that can be done at a very low cost.
You have to be enrolled in medical school to even take the USMLE. Otherwise, there'd be a bunch of people taking it just so that they can make money by sharing answers. These are very in-depth exams. I doubt many people would be able to pass them without going to medical school.
I'd be interested in knowing what type of doctor you are. The possibilities for combining computers/IT and medicine are endless. I am currently a medical student and a techie looking to do the same thing. The challenge is finding where is your medical knowledge is advantageous in IT.
There are numerous opportunities in medical informatics. Hospitals spend millions of Dollars on PACS systems and Computerize Physician Order Entry, but in many cases the barrier to acceptance of these systems in hospitals is physician approval. Who better to know what a physician would need/value than a physician. I've you've ever worked in a VA hospital, you know about VISTA and how cool it would be if all hospitals had patient tracking systems like that. It's such a pain trying to dig up paper charts and meds at a nurses station. At the VA, you just sit down at a screen and all the information and studies are at your fingertips. Eventually all hospitals will have CPOE and Computerized medical records, and there is a lot of money to be made by providing them.
Numerous opportunities also exist in Radiology and Surgery. I read about a guy who just raised 15 million in venture capital for his company called Quick Study Radiology. He archives imaging data for rural hospitals, saving them a lot of money and improving quality of care. I also know Neurosurgeons who have systems for image guided surgery and remote surgery over a network connection using a robotic arm. But then again...neurosurgeons are one step down from God on the ladder.
I suggest talking to others who have made similar career changes. Your medical input is very valuable in the medical IT field. I wouldn't recommend a "vanilla IT" position to you...if there is such a thing, because as many readers have said, it's hard times in IT. My girlfriend is a programmer who was laid off recently, but luckily found a new job yesterday. Most of her IT friends, however, haven't been as lucky.
Buy everything from eBay. That's what I do. I haven't been to walmart in years. What I can't get from the grocery store, I usually get from eBay. You be suprised how much you save.
1. You don't make as many impulse purchases. 2. You save quite a bit on what you do buy.
Sales are going through the roof. Now that people are immune to lung cancer, all they have to worry about is that coughing aching sneezing stuffy head fever, etc....No really it is cool to see my school on Slashdot. Am I wrong for kinda wishing it were a Linux article though?
No we're making LINUX Cds.:) He'll need to run Norton to get rid of that virus. And then go to Microsoft to download a patch for his OS. If the poor guy is running anything prior to 98, it's hopeless. Linux will be the best thing that ever happened to his computer. If he needs help, he can contact the local group that put the kiosk there. I'm sure someone in the group would be glad to help him get Linux running. It could help boost the membership of the group.
A project for your local Linux group: Take an old machine with a burner and donate a Linux kiosk to the library. Install enough hard drive space to hold ISOs of recent versions of the most popular distros. Make an intuitive menu for selecting a distribution to burn and then just have the user insert CDs after that. The library could sell blank CDs or users could bring their own..
Hmmm.. It's definitely not a hardware problem. I'm running PCDJ and winamp 2.x as a backup. I'll admit PCDJ (at least the Red version that I use) is not the most stable app out there, but winamp 2.0 is rock solid. Barring an occasional PCDJ mishap, the rest of my problem is directly related to the operating system.
I happen to be running an old windows...and that is my problem. I don't feel like spending the big bucks to upgrade it to another version that *might* be a little more stable. Sure you can make a Win2k box run for 5-6 hours, but can you make sure that it *always* runs for 5 or 6 hours. Any glitch and I'm standing in front of 200+ partygoers in silence waiting for Windows to reboot. My Linux machine has been up for 45 days and only goes down when I tell it to. I'll be anxiously making the switch very soon. I'll let you know how it goes.
I happen to be a digital DJ using Windows. Actually my DJ system is my only machine that runs Windows and I am actively seeking a Linux PCDJ replacement. DJs require that their software run for 5-6 hours at a time without any crashes or lock-ups. Windows doesn't always comply. I know from experience.
Something like this would need to be centralized. No one is going to pay for P2P. Plus the only way to maintain quality control is by serving the files yourself. Bittorrent or something similar might be put to use to ease the strain on a server, but the.torrents would have to be centralized. Of course people would still be able to cheat this system. I'd be willing to pay a small fee if I knew that I were getting a high quality d/l. There's too much uncertainty on Kazaa (so I've heard)
In the not too distant future...
user: I just got in to work today, and I can't open any of my documents.
tech: Well sir your documents are still there.
tech: but I can't open them either.
tech: I show them being owned but by someone named L33t3rthanU!
tech2: Looks like another case of the DocLock virus. It changes the access rights on all of your word documents
user: Are they gone for good?
Both techs in unison: We need some drinks!!! Where the hell do you want to go today?
It'll happen...
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what about free software? (free as in beer)
Excerpt from SCO's reactionary press release: "Anyone who parks at one of these meters is in effect using Linux, and therefore owes SCO $699 + 25 cents per half hour."
-Darl
Somebody e-mail me the free parking exploit
Penguins don't have heels! This sig will self destruct in 5...4...3...2...
A local non-profit had a bunch of old Pentium IIs sitting around and one decent 1.7Ghz Athlon. I set up the slow machines as thin clients. You could save money by investing in a good home network and only upgrading your server. Give everybody in the house that needs one a thin client.
As soon as you release an open missile guidance system for surface to air, someone's going to hack the code to make them surface to SCO missiles.
The BSOD. It's universal.
Use it to host your blog server..immediately? You've been slashdotted.
I used to be one of the techs at my university responsible for connecting everyone to the campus network and supporting their connections. Of course I'd help fix some of their other problems on the side just out of kindness. One thing that I noticed is that my clientele (people who needed help setting up networking) was overwhelmingly female. It would probably be like that in the real world as well this could be just the ticket for the average geek who otherwise would never see the inside of a female's domicile. All else equal, it beats the hell out of a cubicle.
Now look at how many trees are being saved as a result of e-mail, the web, IM, and other collaborative technologies. Now there are alternatives to plain old snail mail spam that are hopefully saving a few trees at the expense of our collective annoyance. If it weren't for the net, the post office would have to change its slogan...through rain, sleet, snow or Slashdot.
Ever hear of taxes?
Now if only I could get one shaped like a Pikachu and small enough to fit into a little red and white ball. I'd command it to kick your robot's ass, and then get a bumper sticker to the same effect.
There's a program (somebody help me with the name) that will let you mount an ISO in a *nix system and manipulate it as if it were a CD/DVD in the drive. You should be able to write an easy script to rip the DVD using the dd command. Then you'll have your entire DVD library intact. You could even use the ISOs to make more DVDs if you were so inclined ;)
Good luck!
Sure you can buy a ready made solution, but what happens when the new tech comes out? Is it upgradeable? I had a spare box sitting around, threw Linux on it, got a $10 GeForce2 with TV-out off of eBay and made a pretty damn cool digital movie player that I can ssh into and sftp movies to and from. Not only that, but I can run picture slideshows or fire up Mozilla and hit Bit Torrent sites on a 27 inch TV. I haven't messed with MythTV or Freevo yet. I'm looking to get a WinTV PVR card and set up HD recording, but my drive is only 20 gig (It's what I had laying around)
;) It's Linux! I'm now looking to upgrade the CPU because the movies are getting bigger and putting strain on my AMD 500. I fear that if I went with a proprietary solution, I'd be locked in. With this, I can build a cool case and keep upgrading here and there as I desire. I highly recommend it as a cool project that can be done at a very low cost.
It's a great solution. My girlfriend and I watch tons of movies on it every weekend. We usually have 5 or 6 downloads going at the same time. I know its expandable for new formats and new means of acquiring media. Plus it never crashes
Sig? No thanks man, I'm tring to quit.
You have to be enrolled in medical school to even take the USMLE. Otherwise, there'd be a bunch of people taking it just so that they can make money by sharing answers. These are very in-depth exams. I doubt many people would be able to pass them without going to medical school.
I'd be interested in knowing what type of doctor you are. The possibilities for combining computers/IT and medicine are endless. I am currently a medical student and a techie looking to do the same thing. The challenge is finding where is your medical knowledge is advantageous in IT.
There are numerous opportunities in medical informatics. Hospitals spend millions of Dollars on PACS systems and Computerize Physician Order Entry, but in many cases the barrier to acceptance of these systems in hospitals is physician approval. Who better to know what a physician would need/value than a physician. I've you've ever worked in a VA hospital, you know about VISTA and how cool it would be if all hospitals had patient tracking systems like that. It's such a pain trying to dig up paper charts and meds at a nurses station. At the VA, you just sit down at a screen and all the information and studies are at your fingertips. Eventually all hospitals will have CPOE and Computerized medical records, and there is a lot of money to be made by providing them.
Numerous opportunities also exist in Radiology and Surgery. I read about a guy who just raised 15 million in venture capital for his company called Quick Study Radiology. He archives imaging data for rural hospitals, saving them a lot of money and improving quality of care. I also know Neurosurgeons who have systems for image guided surgery and remote surgery over a network connection using a robotic arm. But then again...neurosurgeons are one step down from God on the ladder.
I suggest talking to others who have made similar career changes. Your medical input is very valuable in the medical IT field. I wouldn't recommend a "vanilla IT" position to you...if there is such a thing, because as many readers have said, it's hard times in IT. My girlfriend is a programmer who was laid off recently, but luckily found a new job yesterday. Most of her IT friends, however, haven't been as lucky.
Good luck to you!
Buy everything from eBay. That's what I do. I haven't been to walmart in years. What I can't get from the grocery store, I usually get from eBay. You be suprised how much you save.
1. You don't make as many impulse purchases. 2. You save quite a bit on what you do buy.
Sales are going through the roof. Now that people are immune to lung cancer, all they have to worry about is that coughing aching sneezing stuffy head fever, etc....No really it is cool to see my school on Slashdot. Am I wrong for kinda wishing it were a Linux article though?
ptelligence
No we're making LINUX Cds. :) He'll need to run Norton to get rid of that virus. And then go to Microsoft to download a patch for his OS. If the poor guy is running anything prior to 98, it's hopeless. Linux will be the best thing that ever happened to his computer. If he needs help, he can contact the local group that put the kiosk there. I'm sure someone in the group would be glad to help him get Linux running. It could help boost the membership of the group.
A project for your local Linux group: Take an old machine with a burner and donate a Linux kiosk to the library. Install enough hard drive space to hold ISOs of recent versions of the most popular distros. Make an intuitive menu for selecting a distribution to burn and then just have the user insert CDs after that. The library could sell blank CDs or users could bring their own..
Seems this device would be ineffective if the data stream were encrypted.
Hmmm.. It's definitely not a hardware problem. I'm running PCDJ and winamp 2.x as a backup. I'll admit PCDJ (at least the Red version that I use) is not the most stable app out there, but winamp 2.0 is rock solid. Barring an occasional PCDJ mishap, the rest of my problem is directly related to the operating system.
I happen to be running an old windows...and that is my problem. I don't feel like spending the big bucks to upgrade it to another version that *might* be a little more stable. Sure you can make a Win2k box run for 5-6 hours, but can you make sure that it *always* runs for 5 or 6 hours. Any glitch and I'm standing in front of 200+ partygoers in silence waiting for Windows to reboot. My Linux machine has been up for 45 days and only goes down when I tell it to. I'll be anxiously making the switch very soon. I'll let you know how it goes.
ptelligence
I happen to be a digital DJ using Windows. Actually my DJ system is my only machine that runs Windows and I am actively seeking a Linux PCDJ replacement. DJs require that their software run for 5-6 hours at a time without any crashes or lock-ups. Windows doesn't always comply. I know from experience.
Ptelligence
Something like this would need to be centralized. No one is going to pay for P2P. Plus the only way to maintain quality control is by serving the files yourself. Bittorrent or something similar might be put to use to ease the strain on a server, but the .torrents would have to be centralized. Of course people would still be able to cheat this system. I'd be willing to pay a small fee if I knew that I were getting a high quality d/l. There's too much uncertainty on Kazaa (so I've heard)
In the not too distant future... user: I just got in to work today, and I can't open any of my documents. tech: Well sir your documents are still there. tech: but I can't open them either. tech: I show them being owned but by someone named L33t3rthanU! tech2: Looks like another case of the DocLock virus. It changes the access rights on all of your word documents user: Are they gone for good? Both techs in unison: We need some drinks!!! Where the hell do you want to go today? It'll happen...