I've seen tons of that too. While I'm currently employed in a help-desk/server admin gig (for the princely sum of $10/hr and no overtime pay), I can't even begin to apply anywhere else.
9 times out of 10 my absolute barrier is that I need a Bachelor's degree to get hired doing the same work I'm doing now. They've str8 up told me that this is the case.
On the same token, degree or no, I'm seeing a shift of perception on IT in general. Granted, there was an unrealistic height in the 90s, but now I'm seeing an unrealistic low. Entry level positions are about on par in pay scale and image as say, bagging groceries at the local Piggly Wiggly with the HS students. The 10 out of 10 job (listed above) i turned down because "competitive salary package" amounted to $0.15/hr over minimum wage, no benefits, and that called for "Bachelor's degree or min 3+ years experience".
I still toy with the idea of going back to school and following the EE major, CS minor that I *should* have done 10 years ago, but I'm too old now.
customer: I just bought a laptop and the wireless internet stuff only works in my apartment.
me: Do you have an account with ?
customer: I don't need one. It's free here in .
me: Sorry, you're not an customer. There is no wireless internet available where you are.
customer: Yes there is! Flip over the other card and read that. *duh*
me:....
customer: All new laptops come with free internet.
me: Great, but you still need to contact the ISP that your laptop is partnered with and sign up.
customer: You must be new, or something. You obviously don't get it. I just start up my laptop, and it says "Successfully connected to the Linksie System thingy" and off i go!
The absolute biggest piece of hilarity is Norton Antispam. People rush out and buy it, and install it on their computers. Usually they never do anything in the way of setting it up (just expect it to work magically), but that makes no difference because it continually reconfigures itself on its own whims.
And then they call and abuse their ISP support personnel for days on end of "I'm not getting any of my damned email!!"
And it's all right there in their 'Deleted Items' folder.:rolleyes:
Unfortunately, i notice that a lot of internet news tends to be the same 3-sentence paragraphs repeated over and over in different wording. It's not so much about bringing any real content as it is about being the first to report something. Anything.
It's progressed until they've got 3 and 4 page articles to tell you something that can be summarized into 6 sentences (more ad exposure, maybe?). If seen some t.v. news reports (On Faux News, no less) do the same thing, but the internets are the worst.
Let's see if i can do an example:
The car sped down the street and hit the man on the bicycle. One witness saw the incident in the 400 block of Windsor street.
"He was struck by the car as it headed eastbound" the witness reported. "He was just riding his bike and got hit". Police estimate the car was traveling in excess of 40 mph.
"It was moving at a high rate of speed" Police spokesman said. "By time he struck the bicyclist, he was traveling anywhere between 35 and 40 mph"
The bicycle lay in disarray on Windsor street, the site of the incident. It was on the corner of Windsor and Chalmers, in the 400 block.
Or something.
You want to see some other repetition though, go read Consumer Reports auto reviews.
I haven't heard Fox News repeat any claim that they're accurate. They just claim that they're "fair and balanced" -- which has nothing at all to do with accuracy.
And in their case "fair and balanced" also has nothing to do with "fair and balanced" either.
Unfortunately, email spam fighting is always more work than you'll ever have resources available for, and it'll never be 100%.
Even if you let users manage it, about 60% of them won't have a clue, they'll bollocks it up for themselves, and they won't be able to distinguish between your web appliance and the OEM Norton Antispam which continually misconfigures itself again and again.
I wonder if we should just ban email altogether so that we can actually get some other work done.
....more rivalry between the BSD folks and the Linux folks. Using phrases like "incompetent idiots" lifts this out of 'friendly sibling rivalry' towards Holy War territory.
I dig Linus, he's a smart, capable and funny guy, but this kinda dissapointed me. He's better than that.
If it weren't for dupes, some of us wouldn't see everything. A few of us work for a living, you insensitive clods!
--
But this is toadilly failed because:
1) Microsoft is evil, through and through 2) Apple innovated this in 1956 and it was more lickable 3) Gentoo's version runs.005ms faster and only requires a week to compile 4) This is the final straw that killed BSD 5) Sun Microsystems was just looking for the latest thing to flip-flop about 6) I have to pee 7) News for Turds, Stuff that Splatters
right? right? am eye riiiight?
A couple of things few people have mentioned...
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1) Part of Windows' problem (i said PART) is having to support a smattering of shitty hardware with questionable drivers. Having a very limited set of hardware with well-defined and well-written drivers might make a much nicer Windows experience.
2) Who's to say that Apple couldn't silently engineer drivers or hardware to degrade Windows performance to make OSX seem far superior? I know that/. has now turned into Apple-Can-Never-Do-Wrong fanboyism, but remember that they're still a company, companies are still profit-driven and on top of that, Apple and the Apple community tend to always have a smug and consdenscending inferiority-defense complex towards anything non-Apple.
There is a *lot* about the geeky lifestyle that is bad for us. LOTS of it.
However, I do know quite a number of people (if you count IRC and forums, heh) that make a point to try to avoid some of pitfalls- exercise, proper diet, taking breaks from the computer/video game/etc.
I don't think this is as bad as the 'classic' nerd stereotype of the 1970s and 1980s, but i'm sure we've all got room to improve.
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Debian has long been 'the example' IMHO. RedHat got all the fame and glory, but Slackware and Debian really showed what Linux should be like.
I just wish all these projects (i.e. ubuntu) that base off of debian would give them more credit.
I've seen tons of that too. While I'm currently employed in a help-desk/server admin gig (for the princely sum of $10/hr and no overtime pay), I can't even begin to apply anywhere else.
9 times out of 10 my absolute barrier is that I need a Bachelor's degree to get hired doing the same work I'm doing now. They've str8 up told me that this is the case.
On the same token, degree or no, I'm seeing a shift of perception on IT in general. Granted, there was an unrealistic height in the 90s, but now I'm seeing an unrealistic low. Entry level positions are about on par in pay scale and image as say, bagging groceries at the local Piggly Wiggly with the HS students. The 10 out of 10 job (listed above) i turned down because "competitive salary package" amounted to $0.15/hr over minimum wage, no benefits, and that called for "Bachelor's degree or min 3+ years experience".
I still toy with the idea of going back to school and following the EE major, CS minor that I *should* have done 10 years ago, but I'm too old now.
Here's a conversation I have increasingly often:
....
customer: I just bought a laptop and the wireless internet stuff only works in my apartment.
me: Do you have an account with ?
customer: I don't need one. It's free here in .
me: Sorry, you're not an customer. There is no wireless internet available where you are.
customer: Yes there is! Flip over the other card and read that. *duh*
me:
customer: All new laptops come with free internet.
me: Great, but you still need to contact the ISP that your laptop is partnered with and sign up.
customer: You must be new, or something. You obviously don't get it. I just start up my laptop, and it says "Successfully connected to the Linksie System thingy" and off i go!
I'm surprised that nobody got killed trying to release this blasphemous information.
1) Earth older than 6000 years? check
2) Support of evolution? check
3) bestiality OMGWTFBBQ!! check
The fundies must be clawing their own skin off reading this!
How'd this slip by me?
:(
The buglist no longer mentions the sysinstall/ide bug i've experienced since 5.1, perhaps it's fixed.
No more INVALID REALLOC OF SIZE 0: PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT in the middle of downloading base.
Haven't looked at the glib-20 thing yet tho.
Congrats for the Freebsd Team!
Shit thread. Splitting hairs. Macs are more generic PC than evar. Author sounds idealistic/deluded more than realistic.
Flame me down!
The absolute biggest piece of hilarity is Norton Antispam. People rush out and buy it, and install it on their computers. Usually they never do anything in the way of setting it up (just expect it to work magically), but that makes no difference because it continually reconfigures itself on its own whims.
:rolleyes:
And then they call and abuse their ISP support personnel for days on end of "I'm not getting any of my damned email!!"
And it's all right there in their 'Deleted Items' folder.
Unfortunately, i notice that a lot of internet news tends to be the same 3-sentence paragraphs repeated over and over in different wording. It's not so much about bringing any real content as it is about being the first to report something. Anything.
It's progressed until they've got 3 and 4 page articles to tell you something that can be summarized into 6 sentences (more ad exposure, maybe?). If seen some t.v. news reports (On Faux News, no less) do the same thing, but the internets are the worst.
Let's see if i can do an example:
The car sped down the street and hit the man on the bicycle. One witness saw the incident in the 400 block of Windsor street.
"He was struck by the car as it headed eastbound" the witness reported. "He was just riding his bike and got hit". Police estimate the car was traveling in excess of 40 mph.
"It was moving at a high rate of speed" Police spokesman said. "By time he struck the bicyclist, he was traveling anywhere between 35 and 40 mph"
The bicycle lay in disarray on Windsor street, the site of the incident. It was on the corner of Windsor and Chalmers, in the 400 block.
Or something.
You want to see some other repetition though, go read Consumer Reports auto reviews.
I haven't heard Fox News repeat any claim that they're accurate. They just claim that they're "fair and balanced" -- which has nothing at all to do with accuracy.
And in their case "fair and balanced" also has nothing to do with "fair and balanced" either.
It seems that everybody wants everything, and think it should be free.
Are record companies greedy and evil? You betcha.
Are they gouging customers and musicians both? Right-o.
Has everyone's perception of value been altered by p2p downloads, cracked software and other Internet-rendered amenities?
Without a doubt.
-1 Flamebait.
He got chipped a few weeks ago ;)
Unfortunately, email spam fighting is always more work than you'll ever have resources available for, and it'll never be 100%.
Even if you let users manage it, about 60% of them won't have a clue, they'll bollocks it up for themselves, and they won't be able to distinguish between your web appliance and the OEM Norton Antispam which continually misconfigures itself again and again.
I wonder if we should just ban email altogether so that we can actually get some other work done.
....more rivalry between the BSD folks and the Linux folks. Using phrases like "incompetent idiots" lifts this out of 'friendly sibling rivalry' towards Holy War territory.
I dig Linus, he's a smart, capable and funny guy, but this kinda dissapointed me. He's better than that.
....as flamebait!
(but not as a dupe)
This is another one of those articles where they say the same 5 things 20 times in one page using different words.
If it weren't for dupes, some of us wouldn't see everything. A few of us work for a living, you insensitive clods!
.005ms faster and only requires a week to compile
--
But this is toadilly failed because:
1) Microsoft is evil, through and through
2) Apple innovated this in 1956 and it was more lickable
3) Gentoo's version runs
4) This is the final straw that killed BSD
5) Sun Microsystems was just looking for the latest thing to flip-flop about
6) I have to pee
7) News for Turds, Stuff that Splatters
right? right? am eye riiiight?
1) Part of Windows' problem (i said PART) is having to support a smattering of shitty hardware with questionable drivers. Having a very limited set of hardware with well-defined and well-written drivers might make a much nicer Windows experience.
/. has now turned into Apple-Can-Never-Do-Wrong fanboyism, but remember that they're still a company, companies are still profit-driven and on top of that, Apple and the Apple community tend to always have a smug and consdenscending inferiority-defense complex towards anything non-Apple.
2) Who's to say that Apple couldn't silently engineer drivers or hardware to degrade Windows performance to make OSX seem far superior? I know that
There is a *lot* about the geeky lifestyle that is bad for us. LOTS of it.
However, I do know quite a number of people (if you count IRC and forums, heh) that make a point to try to avoid some of pitfalls- exercise, proper diet, taking breaks from the computer/video game/etc.
I don't think this is as bad as the 'classic' nerd stereotype of the 1970s and 1980s, but i'm sure we've all got room to improve.
Well said.
;)
There are a lot of "communities" like this, but the most loony and entertaining to watch are the rabid Mac Lifers.
This isn't all Mac users, but enough of them
If it weren't hyped and pumped up with 3-word soundbytes prime for spoonfeeding... ...would it still be Apple?
I would like to think so, but....
He said "administration", which doesn't mean Bush solely.
There is a huge mess at the top, Bush is just a figurehead.
....any differently than the kidnapper physically throwing the cell phone on the ground and stomping on it a bunch of times?
You know, i'd have much fewer people pointing at my shiny hat.
just trying to keep the Liberal Media out!
Looks like we're both on the same page, heh.
Interesting how we're being modded as "trolls" here.