And to think the federal government thought a transfer of wealth to lawyers was necessary to combat Microsoft's monopoly. Good to see the M-states realize that they own their data, not their software vendor.
I know that in 15 years of IT, admittedly not often working in Windows shops but often visiting numerous companies to help them setup FOSS solutions and integrate them w/ their existing (often Windows) stuff, I don't think I've met more than a couple decent admins. The others didn't appear to really understand what they were doing. That is if they were doing anything beyond the usual rebooting to fix the occasional glitch.
The good Windows admins are being paid big bucks by big companies to stay there. The rest are just double click superstars -- double clickers.
OTOH, while there are apparently fewer Unix admins in the wild, the average level is *much* higher (although I've seen my share of really bad ones too of course).
"Other duties..." People have figured this out. Bait you in with a unix/linux/networking description, only for it to be a Windows job waiting to happen.
I've seen Windows done properly. It takes work and competence. A good Windows admin is just a good admin.
Sounds like the pointy-haired types are on a PR blitz to mend the perceptions of them. The reality is emailing any management about what you really think is just an easier way for them to find out that *you* are the problem.
Sounds like he got weeded out. Big effin' deal. I have a MSME from a Smartypants U. I made a career change and got into IT. Now I work for morons like him. Way to go me! Whoo!
MBA deemed to be worthless certificate degree. History majors aren't automatically qualified to run companies or lemonade stands... In other headlines, Music majors hacking for last twenty years are not really software engineers... Vi and printf's don't constitute a development environment... More obvious news as sanity returns.
The kids are not yet able to deal with fundamentally conflicting assumptions about what is true.
I think the kids are ready and willing to deal with the hard questions; they're always asking "why" and "how." It's the teachers and parents who are not...
My philosophy professor said the best time to teach philosophy is to grade school kids when they are rational and constantly asking "why?" But, how many grade school teachers are prepared to take on this task? How many high school teachers? They do more baby sitting now than teaching. Being critical is too difficult. Fortunately there is college where you can study science and philosophy. But, how many people are brave enough to suffer through a Philosophy of Religion class... reading Anselm, Kant, Augustine, etc? The Bible, Koran, Torah has all the answers, right? Here's a link to a good show on religion... http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
While the impending release of Sarge is good, I'm not sure why Debian gets flack over slow releases. Sounds like a developers dream. Stable, well tested, and supported. I'm not sure how you can get any work done when you're constantly retooling or upgrading.
Intelligent design is philosophy, aka Teleological Argument for Existence of God. The Fundies know they don't want to have someone go philosophical on their asses. They won't argue the nature of God, arguments against the existence of God, problem of evil, etc. in their own churches. The main problem is you won't find qualified philosophy teachers in high school. Why can't religion just be a private thing?
when the "inSecurity professionals" rejects security measures because it may be academically inconvenient.
Given the type of data stored on networked computers and the potential catastrophe if the data was compromised, it's probably better to be safe than sorry. How safe and how sorry is obviously up to you...
Search for "low light low tech tanks" in both. Yahoo returns http://www.aquariaplants.com/lowlighttank.htm, but Google does not. Kind of annoying when that was the site I was looking for, but couldn't remember, and had forgotten to bookmark, the url.
The whole anti trust trial could have been adverted had the government simply told Microsoft it would only buy software that used a open and publically available, standardized file format. But, instead the government used the anti trust case as another opportunity to redistribute wealth.
But victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists.
If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of building greater prosperity for all peoples. By putting them to this useful job, we can all make more money out of peace than we can out of war -- even the munitions makers.
I'm sure the chicken hawks will find a way to discredit his service...
High school kids should be cranking out simple mathematical proofs with pencil and paper.
In the end, the analytical solutions (if possible) to very complicated engineering and science problems are formulated on paper. Computers are then used to calculate the solution as doing them by hand at that level is simply not reasonable.
High school and most college students will not be solving such problems. Pull out a pencil, paper, and a good eraser.
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http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2005/12/differe nt-argument-for-right-to-bear.html
Boring... been running 64-bit linux on my Alpha since 1998.
And to think the federal government thought a transfer of wealth to lawyers was necessary to combat Microsoft's monopoly. Good to see the M-states realize that they own their data, not their software vendor.
It's called TMDA
Glofish have been commercially available for a little while now. http://www.glofish.com/about.asp
The good Windows admins are being paid big bucks by big companies to stay there. The rest are just double click superstars -- double clickers.
"Other duties..." People have figured this out. Bait you in with a unix/linux/networking description, only for it to be a Windows job waiting to happen. I've seen Windows done properly. It takes work and competence. A good Windows admin is just a good admin.
Lawmakers creating rules to restrict freedom? No way. What's next? Some act that restricts civil liberties on the basis of the war on terror?
Living may lead to death... details at 5...
Sounds like the pointy-haired types are on a PR blitz to mend the perceptions of them. The reality is emailing any management about what you really think is just an easier way for them to find out that *you* are the problem.
Sounds like he got weeded out. Big effin' deal. I have a MSME from a Smartypants U. I made a career change and got into IT. Now I work for morons like him. Way to go me! Whoo!
Wasn't the locomotive invented in the 1800s?
Software:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
http://www.nagios.org/
Hardware:
Two high resolution projectors and screens to project them on.
MBA deemed to be worthless certificate degree. History majors aren't automatically qualified to run companies or lemonade stands... In other headlines, Music majors hacking for last twenty years are not really software engineers... Vi and printf's don't constitute a development environment... More obvious news as sanity returns.
My philosophy professor said the best time to teach philosophy is to grade school kids when they are rational and constantly asking "why?" But, how many grade school teachers are prepared to take on this task? How many high school teachers? They do more baby sitting now than teaching. Being critical is too difficult. Fortunately there is college where you can study science and philosophy. But, how many people are brave enough to suffer through a Philosophy of Religion class... reading Anselm, Kant, Augustine, etc? The Bible, Koran, Torah has all the answers, right? Here's a link to a good show on religion... http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/
While the impending release of Sarge is good, I'm not sure why Debian gets flack over slow releases. Sounds like a developers dream. Stable, well tested, and supported. I'm not sure how you can get any work done when you're constantly retooling or upgrading.
Intelligent design is philosophy, aka Teleological Argument for Existence of God. The Fundies know they don't want to have someone go philosophical on their asses. They won't argue the nature of God, arguments against the existence of God, problem of evil, etc. in their own churches. The main problem is you won't find qualified philosophy teachers in high school. Why can't religion just be a private thing?
terrorist toads... virgin toads for the martyr...
when the "inSecurity professionals" rejects security measures because it may be academically inconvenient. Given the type of data stored on networked computers and the potential catastrophe if the data was compromised, it's probably better to be safe than sorry. How safe and how sorry is obviously up to you...
except the heat isn't on the PCB side...
Search for "low light low tech tanks" in both. Yahoo returns http://www.aquariaplants.com/lowlighttank.htm, but Google does not. Kind of annoying when that was the site I was looking for, but couldn't remember, and had forgotten to bookmark, the url.
The whole anti trust trial could have been adverted had the government simply told Microsoft it would only buy software that used a open and publically available, standardized file format. But, instead the government used the anti trust case as another opportunity to redistribute wealth.
It's called rambling. Typically done by people who don't know what they are talking about in order to try to sound like they do.
From Maj. General Smedley Butler's War is a Racket:
But victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists.
If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of building greater prosperity for all peoples. By putting them to this useful job, we can all make more money out of peace than we can out of war -- even the munitions makers.
I'm sure the chicken hawks will find a way to discredit his service...
High school kids should be cranking out simple mathematical proofs with pencil and paper. In the end, the analytical solutions (if possible) to very complicated engineering and science problems are formulated on paper. Computers are then used to calculate the solution as doing them by hand at that level is simply not reasonable. High school and most college students will not be solving such problems. Pull out a pencil, paper, and a good eraser.