I have the unfortunate honor of working in a retail position to support my education. A Target namebadge in plain view from my desk at school serves as a very good reminder to stay focused.
I never really saw the attraction of the self checkout as a serious shopper. When I went out for food with college buddies we'd all hit the self checkout if there was no line as a competition, too see who could avoid having the machine flip out at you for doing something wrong. Because we went so fast, we had to have an attendant come bail us out a couple times. Without fail, someone who had gone through a normal checkout was standing at the door waiting for us. I could probably do it now with my 1337 retail skills, but really the self checkout is a joke. It's boring conversation, and you have to bag your own stuff, just so some company makes an extra dime that you'll never see.
Support college students. Go through a normal line.
i actually just did my v2.1 with DDWRT last week. The only hiccup I noticed was that when changing settings I often got disconnected after saving the changes. I have no idea why, but after getting it setup I've not had a problem with it. As the other poster said, save the debricking procedure and a linksys firmware to your computer incase something goes wrong, but it went smooth for me.
Read the directions, as always.
I highly recommend setting up a machine at home with some Unix/Linux distro. There is no conference that can do this for you. I'd go to confrences also, but I've never gone to one and am at least competent in setting stuff up, fixing simple problems. I'm not much of a coder yet, but I'm working on it. Again, I have one C++ book and google as resources. There is no substitute for experience. Find an old Pentium II in somebodies garbage, eBay, etc. You don't need anything fancy for this box, just find someone you know that has a computer collecting dust somewhere.
Download Ubuntu. It's a great starting point, most things will Just Work after the install. apt-get is also a very good package system that will allow you to get a working system up and running right away.
Set this up near a currently working computer. Being able to google things that aren't working saves a ton of time compared to dual booting if your network interface goes down. I've tried dual booting in my early days and it was terrible.
Start trying to break things. Start small, get used to xterm and bash. Try to limit your time on your current computer. Once you get used to that I'd start messing with apache. Don't open it up to the web, but it's a good way to get used to editing configuration files in vi/emacs/pico/ other editor. Set up subdomains, web forums, and whatever else you can think of. Just learning the process of doing the editing is very helpful. Google is your friend here, learning how to properly format questions is very helpful.
If you get frustrated, don't be afraid to ask a forum for some help. Chances are someone has thought of what you are trying to do and will havew some advice.
Once you get used to Ubuntu, try a different setup. Pick a BSD or or Gentoo, something with a lot less handholding involved. You'll find all the annoying quirks of each one. Try setting up various other web services. Compile programs from source by hand. It's not hard most of the time, but hunting down dependancies on the web will show you why package managers are so useful.
That kind of rambled a bit, but it's 1 am. Cut me some slack for the probable typos and train of thought issues. The advice stands. While you should go to some conferences, there are some things you just have to teach yourself. Much like driving a car* or other skills, books and lectures can only teach you so much. Especially at the start of learning linux, learning basic command line and other skills is just manual labor you have to deal with.
Good luck!
*I had to slip a car metaphor in somehow.
Google and MySpace are big enough to get away with whatever they want. If service gets slowed down, they can IP ban everyone from whatever provider is trying to slow their traffic. The take down notice has a link to the email of the tech support department of the provider that has been slowing their traffic. I promise you full service will be restored in no time. YouTube may or may not have earned that luxury yet, but the really big websites are not totally defenseless, unless AT&T is willing to put up with customers flames from being banned from MySpace and Google.
It's the little guy that really has to worry, as they don't have the clout to pull a stunt like that.
Seriously though, I've gone through this. Basically, a couple times a week, my roommate had his girlfriend over. They'd turn the TV on long enough, and I'd go play some Halo or study in the floor lounge. Whenever I'm tired, I go to the door and listen. If I can hear a movie, I know, go play another round of Halo, and come back and everyone is fully clothed. Similar rules apply in reverse, though since I read slashdot they are infrequantly applied (read never).
One of my roommates girl friends ended up sleeping over most nights at the end of the spring term, so I'd sneak back in and sleep facing the wall with headphones on. Kind of awkward for all of us, but you do what you must to survive in school. Her roommate had a boyfriend that lived in an apartment, so she would leave so my roommate could go up to her room (Directly above ours, kind of awkward when noises occur.)
Guess what sleeping 5-6 hours a night every weeknight did to my GPA though. Turns out even college kids need more sleep over the long term.
The Saint Paul Winter Carnaval hosts a similar treasure hunt every year. The person that can find the Winter Medallion hidden somewhere in a public park gets 5,000, and if they paid a couple bucks for an official button, they get 10,000. They fund the prize with button money, and a local newspaper pays for the right to be the only paper that can publish the clues.
I've been in the right park before, but sadly I've never been the first to find it. This usually empty park was filled with people turning over every inch of snow looking for it. What else is there to do in Saint Paul in the Winter?
This is just the same thing on a larger scale. It's hardly unique.
Code Duo laptops are becoming more common, and you can get one with 100 GB+ Hard Disk and 2+ GB ram. I would definetly say a High End laptop would fit in a laptop bag, wireless, pretty much everything you demand. I don't really think carrying around a server as opposed to a laptop really matters for devlopment work, unless for some reason you need the real thing all the time. I don't think I'd go the mac mini route, as if something breaks in the networking you'll need to hunt down a monitor or always carry a spare hard drive. With a laptop, you can just jump on it when you have to fro troubleshooting.
They'll never stop LAN sharing. While I'm an engineering student, most people can understand Filezilla, a nice ftp client that supports SFTP. Hard drives are cheap these days, and anyone with a weeks linux experience can set up an SFTP server and share the username password. I doubt my school will bother to track down and break the encryption on it, the worst ehy would do is shut off our connection for a day as a warning, and there are enough poorly configured wireless points that losing the ethernet for a day isn't a problem.
We've made it a point to sing along with Smoke on the Water as poorly as we can. The song is still WAY too long, but it helps pass the time while whoever picked it feels terrible about themselves.
This is one of our college games. Usually some sort of offensive comments make their way unto the credit card application, along with whatever junk is on my desk. So far, we've sent rubber bands, some crushed up potato chips, different applications, and Domino's Pizza coupons.
We also make sure to cross out our names, and any and all barcodes to avoid identification.
I knew someone else was wearing these. I didn't bother with the whole set, but my Boba Fett watch is worn to class sometimes. I haven't worn it lately, as it keeps reseting.
Alright, any top 10 of 2005 list that doesn't even mention Resident Evil 4 is wrong. The graphics are beautiful/disgusting as needed, the game play is a good mix of ammo conservation and action, and it's worth the purchase price just for the mini game you unlock after clearing the main game. It's got great replay value with the assorted super guns you unlock the second time around. Unless you are offended by the gore, you need to play it. It has so many OMG! moments you won't believe it.
While no such guarantees are made, most Introduction to Engineering classes at Minnesota State have a plan to graduation as a requirement to pass. Your advisor or instructor checks to make sure everything is in proper order, and you are also taught all the bizzare prerequisites for General Ed stuff, in case you can't get into a class. Engineers are also given the option of joining a learning community, which gives you priority over other students for math, science, and engineering courses.
However, State doesn't offer tooth fairies and/or easter bunnies. All we have is hockey and beer. You get what you pay for, I guess.
Babel Fish might actually improve the original text for a change, so hear you go:
Narrateur : Dans A.D. 2101, la guerre commençait.
Capitaine : Que se produisent ? Mecanicien : Quelqu'un nous a installes la bombe. Operateur : Nous obtenons le signal. Capitaine : Ce qui ! Operateur : L'ecran principal s'allument. Capitaine : C'est vous ! ! CATS : Comment allez vous des messieurs ! ! CATS : Toute votre base sont appartiennent a nous. CATS : Vous etes sur le chemin a la destruction. Capitaine : Ce que vous dites ! ! CATS : Vous n'avez aucune chance de survivre faites votre temps. CATS : Ha Ha Ha Ha.... Operateur : Capitaine ! ! Capitaine : Enlevez chaque 'Zig '! ! Capitaine : Vous savez ce qui vous faisant. Capitaine : Deplacez 'Zig '. Capitaine : Pour la grande justice.
You had to remind me of Wario Stadium. That was the one course my little brother could be me at, cause he would fall way behind and get lightning bolts all the time. He figured out that he could win if he pulled that move off, and I'd get it twice a race.
Still, I'll probably wait till Christmas for Mario Kart. I've got finals coming up and don't need Mario Kart taking over my life right now.
Also, Tonight's Monday Night Football, which runs on ABC, is a huge rivalry game between the Vikings and the Packers. No one will be watching CSI (on CBS) anyhow, at least not in the Midwest.
Yeah, I've been a reader for about 3 years. I had heard of google, but I really picked up a lot of useful and useless computer tricks. I probably wouldn't have discovered Nethack without/., I would have been years late on Bittorrent, I saw digg linked on/. in one of the pointless comments that makes me like/.
Just like playboy, no one reads slashdot for the articles.
Y0, Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck! May all 0ur base someday belong to you! May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven. Give us this day our warez and mp3z thru a phat pipe. And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we give n00bz a learnin when they r lame 2 us. Plz don't let us Own sOme pOOr d00d'z boxen when we're too pissed off 2 think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the man off our backs, we'd appreciate it For j00 0wn all our b0x3n 4ever and ever, 4m3n.
Except that it auto adds them to GAIM also. I just logged in with gaim to check. It adds them to everyone's account when the log back in, regardless of what you use to access it.
I don't see where you people are getting five, let alone six.
I have heard of this occurance before. Apparently some people think there were THREE Matrix movies and a video game, when in reality there was only the original Matrix. Must have been a glitch in the Matrix or something.
There is this idea that scientist = atheist, and that you can't be one without the other.
I think this is a critical point as to the decline of science fields. People grow up with their religion or non religion, and it is unlikely that they will break from that tradition either way (religious Kids probably will be the same religion, kids with no religion will probably stay that way) and if going into a job market means changing a central aspect of your morality, then you will go in a different direction. Because the only thing reported on TV for science these days is evolution and space launches, people get the idea that engineers and scientists are heathen dogs, and if your kid goes off to school to become and engineer, the whole town will be talking about how little Billy is on the bullet train to hell.
Of course, at Generic Midwestern Public University, which I am currently attending, at least a third of the engineering students on my floor attend religious services regularly.
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I never really saw the attraction of the self checkout as a serious shopper. When I went out for food with college buddies we'd all hit the self checkout if there was no line as a competition, too see who could avoid having the machine flip out at you for doing something wrong. Because we went so fast, we had to have an attendant come bail us out a couple times. Without fail, someone who had gone through a normal checkout was standing at the door waiting for us. I could probably do it now with my 1337 retail skills, but really the self checkout is a joke. It's boring conversation, and you have to bag your own stuff, just so some company makes an extra dime that you'll never see.
Support college students. Go through a normal line.
I say we let him go.
i actually just did my v2.1 with DDWRT last week. The only hiccup I noticed was that when changing settings I often got disconnected after saving the changes. I have no idea why, but after getting it setup I've not had a problem with it. As the other poster said, save the debricking procedure and a linksys firmware to your computer incase something goes wrong, but it went smooth for me. Read the directions, as always.
The goal is for the bell to never match what's on the screen.
I highly recommend setting up a machine at home with some Unix/Linux distro. There is no conference that can do this for you. I'd go to confrences also, but I've never gone to one and am at least competent in setting stuff up, fixing simple problems. I'm not much of a coder yet, but I'm working on it. Again, I have one C++ book and google as resources. There is no substitute for experience. Find an old Pentium II in somebodies garbage, eBay, etc. You don't need anything fancy for this box, just find someone you know that has a computer collecting dust somewhere.
Download Ubuntu. It's a great starting point, most things will Just Work after the install. apt-get is also a very good package system that will allow you to get a working system up and running right away.
Set this up near a currently working computer. Being able to google things that aren't working saves a ton of time compared to dual booting if your network interface goes down. I've tried dual booting in my early days and it was terrible.
Start trying to break things. Start small, get used to xterm and bash. Try to limit your time on your current computer. Once you get used to that I'd start messing with apache. Don't open it up to the web, but it's a good way to get used to editing configuration files in vi/emacs/pico/ other editor. Set up subdomains, web forums, and whatever else you can think of. Just learning the process of doing the editing is very helpful. Google is your friend here, learning how to properly format questions is very helpful.
If you get frustrated, don't be afraid to ask a forum for some help. Chances are someone has thought of what you are trying to do and will havew some advice.
Once you get used to Ubuntu, try a different setup. Pick a BSD or or Gentoo, something with a lot less handholding involved. You'll find all the annoying quirks of each one. Try setting up various other web services. Compile programs from source by hand. It's not hard most of the time, but hunting down dependancies on the web will show you why package managers are so useful.
That kind of rambled a bit, but it's 1 am. Cut me some slack for the probable typos and train of thought issues. The advice stands. While you should go to some conferences, there are some things you just have to teach yourself. Much like driving a car* or other skills, books and lectures can only teach you so much. Especially at the start of learning linux, learning basic command line and other skills is just manual labor you have to deal with.
Good luck!
*I had to slip a car metaphor in somehow.
It's the little guy that really has to worry, as they don't have the clout to pull a stunt like that.
Seriously though, I've gone through this. Basically, a couple times a week, my roommate had his girlfriend over. They'd turn the TV on long enough, and I'd go play some Halo or study in the floor lounge. Whenever I'm tired, I go to the door and listen. If I can hear a movie, I know, go play another round of Halo, and come back and everyone is fully clothed. Similar rules apply in reverse, though since I read slashdot they are infrequantly applied (read never).
One of my roommates girl friends ended up sleeping over most nights at the end of the spring term, so I'd sneak back in and sleep facing the wall with headphones on. Kind of awkward for all of us, but you do what you must to survive in school. Her roommate had a boyfriend that lived in an apartment, so she would leave so my roommate could go up to her room (Directly above ours, kind of awkward when noises occur.)
Guess what sleeping 5-6 hours a night every weeknight did to my GPA though. Turns out even college kids need more sleep over the long term.
I've been in the right park before, but sadly I've never been the first to find it. This usually empty park was filled with people turning over every inch of snow looking for it. What else is there to do in Saint Paul in the Winter?
This is just the same thing on a larger scale. It's hardly unique.
Code Duo laptops are becoming more common, and you can get one with 100 GB+ Hard Disk and 2+ GB ram. I would definetly say a High End laptop would fit in a laptop bag, wireless, pretty much everything you demand. I don't really think carrying around a server as opposed to a laptop really matters for devlopment work, unless for some reason you need the real thing all the time. I don't think I'd go the mac mini route, as if something breaks in the networking you'll need to hunt down a monitor or always carry a spare hard drive. With a laptop, you can just jump on it when you have to fro troubleshooting.
No, they just don't want Sony to steal it.
They'll never stop LAN sharing. While I'm an engineering student, most people can understand Filezilla, a nice ftp client that supports SFTP. Hard drives are cheap these days, and anyone with a weeks linux experience can set up an SFTP server and share the username password. I doubt my school will bother to track down and break the encryption on it, the worst ehy would do is shut off our connection for a day as a warning, and there are enough poorly configured wireless points that losing the ethernet for a day isn't a problem.
We've made it a point to sing along with Smoke on the Water as poorly as we can. The song is still WAY too long, but it helps pass the time while whoever picked it feels terrible about themselves.
This is one of our college games. Usually some sort of offensive comments make their way unto the credit card application, along with whatever junk is on my desk. So far, we've sent rubber bands, some crushed up potato chips, different applications, and Domino's Pizza coupons. We also make sure to cross out our names, and any and all barcodes to avoid identification.
I knew someone else was wearing these. I didn't bother with the whole set, but my Boba Fett watch is worn to class sometimes. I haven't worn it lately, as it keeps reseting.
Alright, any top 10 of 2005 list that doesn't even mention Resident Evil 4 is wrong. The graphics are beautiful/disgusting as needed, the game play is a good mix of ammo conservation and action, and it's worth the purchase price just for the mini game you unlock after clearing the main game. It's got great replay value with the assorted super guns you unlock the second time around. Unless you are offended by the gore, you need to play it. It has so many OMG! moments you won't believe it.
However, State doesn't offer tooth fairies and/or easter bunnies. All we have is hockey and beer. You get what you pay for, I guess.
Still, I'll probably wait till Christmas for Mario Kart. I've got finals coming up and don't need Mario Kart taking over my life right now.
Also, Tonight's Monday Night Football, which runs on ABC, is a huge rivalry game between the Vikings and the Packers. No one will be watching CSI (on CBS) anyhow, at least not in the Midwest.
Just like playboy, no one reads slashdot for the articles.
I've no idea who wrote that first, but enjoy.
Except that it auto adds them to GAIM also. I just logged in with gaim to check. It adds them to everyone's account when the log back in, regardless of what you use to access it.
I have heard of this occurance before. Apparently some people think there were THREE Matrix movies and a video game, when in reality there was only the original Matrix. Must have been a glitch in the Matrix or something.
I think this is a critical point as to the decline of science fields. People grow up with their religion or non religion, and it is unlikely that they will break from that tradition either way (religious Kids probably will be the same religion, kids with no religion will probably stay that way) and if going into a job market means changing a central aspect of your morality, then you will go in a different direction. Because the only thing reported on TV for science these days is evolution and space launches, people get the idea that engineers and scientists are heathen dogs, and if your kid goes off to school to become and engineer, the whole town will be talking about how little Billy is on the bullet train to hell.
Of course, at Generic Midwestern Public University, which I am currently attending, at least a third of the engineering students on my floor attend religious services regularly.
Yeah, but when you the Swedish Mafia says you are swimming with the fishes, the fishes are delicious