You are the first person I have ever seen that has a higher ICQ number than me! Yes! I joined before someone else! I'm not the last ICQ user ever!!! 18228324 IN YOUR FACE!!!
Now we're going to end up with a movie where Megatron finds Unicron and is leading him to Cybertron for lunch and the only concern the Autobots have is whether or not Arcee and Hot Rod are gettin' it on yet. Here's a spoiler: Optimus Prime walks in on them and chases Hot Rod around the oil rig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Metroplex with his rifle.
I couldn't agree with this more. I've been using Gentoo on and off for 2 years or so (on more than off) and this is one of two huge strikes against it for a production env. A production system is built for stability, not "the latest versions of everything". A lot of times I find an emerge has a 50/50 change of breaking whatever I try to upgrade. I will *never* try an emerge world again because it is equivalent to saying fubar world. You do not want this happening on a production box unless you actually want a pink slip. A lot of crap slips into the portage tree, and subsequently onto your production box.
Another point I'm a bit surprised no one has brought up is that vanilla Gentoo is dependent on gcc to perform upgrades. A lot of places would fire you if your production box has a compiler on it.
As a Gentoo user who actually likes Gentoo I have to say that it is barely ready for a personal environment, forget about production.
I know nothing of Hardened Gentoo. That may be an option. I hear IBM likes SUSE though, and you know what they say about picking IBM.
I don't think any of the other teams need to worry about the "competition" from FIT... Unless F.W. Olin has thrown another $30 million at them.
(also an alum)
OK, this is my first post to Slashdot after years of lurking - go easy on me guys!
As a previous post said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Certifications have not been held in any high regard since the dot bomb boom period - and only then by ignorant/naive investors. You NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE AT THE BARE MINIMUM!
However, my college degree (class of 2001) is in computer science and I think it will become worthless within the next 5-10 years. No big problem for me since I've got my foot in the door working for a Fortune 100 company. But for those in high school/college now, my advice would have to be FIND A NEW LINE OF WORK!!! I can't stress that enough to anyone that tell me they are majoring in Computer Science or Information Technology of Computer Information Systems or anything related right now. Within the next 5-10 years, I think these skills will be an EXPECTED skillset for any job requiring a college education, be it biology, chemistry, geography, especially any engineering field.
Why? These are the fields where the real skills and INNOVATION are required. Think about it - anyone can set up a computer network or program in whatever language with the right tutorial, that's why these LOW SKILL jobs are being outsourced, anyone can do them and the people that can do it the cheapest get the job. You can't have a skill set containing only the lowest common denominator and expect to employed because of it unless you're still living in 1999 (in which case, can I use your time machine please?) Unless you are ultra-brilliant in only CS and will be forever employed by IBM/Intel/AMD/Microsoft, please don't waste your time with a straight up vanilla CS/CIS/IT degree. 1999 isn't coming back.
The money makers of today (and the future) are not those that learn CS for the sake of learning CS, but those that learn CS for the sake of applying it to something greater. What that something greater is is an exercise left up to the reader. I would be very interested to hear what everyone else thinks. (Possibly a future Ask Slashdot?)
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You are the first person I have ever seen that has a higher ICQ number than me! Yes! I joined before someone else! I'm not the last ICQ user ever!!! 18228324 IN YOUR FACE!!!
Now we're going to end up with a movie where Megatron finds Unicron and is leading him to Cybertron for lunch and the only concern the Autobots have is whether or not Arcee and Hot Rod are gettin' it on yet. Here's a spoiler: Optimus Prime walks in on them and chases Hot Rod around the oil rig^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Metroplex with his rifle.
I couldn't agree with this more. I've been using Gentoo on and off for 2 years or so (on more than off) and this is one of two huge strikes against it for a production env. A production system is built for stability, not "the latest versions of everything". A lot of times I find an emerge has a 50/50 change of breaking whatever I try to upgrade. I will *never* try an emerge world again because it is equivalent to saying fubar world. You do not want this happening on a production box unless you actually want a pink slip. A lot of crap slips into the portage tree, and subsequently onto your production box.
Another point I'm a bit surprised no one has brought up is that vanilla Gentoo is dependent on gcc to perform upgrades. A lot of places would fire you if your production box has a compiler on it.
As a Gentoo user who actually likes Gentoo I have to say that it is barely ready for a personal environment, forget about production.
I know nothing of Hardened Gentoo. That may be an option. I hear IBM likes SUSE though, and you know what they say about picking IBM.
I don't think any of the other teams need to worry about the "competition" from FIT... Unless F.W. Olin has thrown another $30 million at them. (also an alum)
An invitation?
OK, this is my first post to Slashdot after years of lurking - go easy on me guys!
As a previous post said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Certifications have not been held in any high regard since the dot bomb boom period - and only then by ignorant/naive investors. You NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE AT THE BARE MINIMUM!
However, my college degree (class of 2001) is in computer science and I think it will become worthless within the next 5-10 years. No big problem for me since I've got my foot in the door working for a Fortune 100 company. But for those in high school/college now, my advice would have to be FIND A NEW LINE OF WORK!!! I can't stress that enough to anyone that tell me they are majoring in Computer Science or Information Technology of Computer Information Systems or anything related right now. Within the next 5-10 years, I think these skills will be an EXPECTED skillset for any job requiring a college education, be it biology, chemistry, geography, especially any engineering field.
Why? These are the fields where the real skills and INNOVATION are required. Think about it - anyone can set up a computer network or program in whatever language with the right tutorial, that's why these LOW SKILL jobs are being outsourced, anyone can do them and the people that can do it the cheapest get the job. You can't have a skill set containing only the lowest common denominator and expect to employed because of it unless you're still living in 1999 (in which case, can I use your time machine please?) Unless you are ultra-brilliant in only CS and will be forever employed by IBM/Intel/AMD/Microsoft, please don't waste your time with a straight up vanilla CS/CIS/IT degree. 1999 isn't coming back.
The money makers of today (and the future) are not those that learn CS for the sake of learning CS, but those that learn CS for the sake of applying it to something greater. What that something greater is is an exercise left up to the reader. I would be very interested to hear what everyone else thinks. (Possibly a future Ask Slashdot?)