Most towns these days have at least one Linux users group. For learning I would A. Take a deep breathe, your entering a world that at times can have leetist s that would like no more then to see you fail so they can bring themselves up. With that in mind join the community and develop friendships with others that are both learning and those that are already experts. Remember that its always handy in a pinch to be able to reference a friend to see if they have had the same problem you are and often its more comfortable that way as well.
B. I would setup a computer has home that is a FULLTIME linux box. For the first time running linux your going to want to stick to something simple. My preference is Debian but Mandrake, fedora, and SuSE are all fairly easy to get into. If you are not familiar with programming,and extensible scripting then your in for an awakening and a treat.
C. Finally I would take a class from someone that is in the same room with you. Like a lot of other concepts Linux can have a lot of theory to learn without actually getting your feet wet. Unlike Microsoft products that you may be used to, there are a lot of hands-on techniques that I would venture to say can ONLY be learned by making a mistake and then seeing how you made the mistake. Trust me you learn so much more when you make a mistake and its better to make that mistake on a non-production machine(carefull with the command rm -rf).
With closing I'd like to remind you to never take the name of root in vain. Very much unlike Windows , root which is the same account as administrator, is often never used unless absolutely neccesary. Learn the command (su -), (pwd), and learn about sudo. I wish you the very best of luck and please please please, HAVE FUN!
I work for a very small company that is currently running RedHat 8 and 7 on all the servers. I am soon taking over head responsibility of the servers. We have no support contracts and we use comodity hardware. I would like to move all future servers to debian. My reasoning is that the current redhat disto's don't cut it anymore and support has been cut for 8 and 7. We have been manually patching program which is a huge hassle. My only concern is versioning and customization. Since we manually compile every program we have the ability to really get clean slim compiles of programs such as apache which has saved us from some security updates.
How have people running debian stable in the workplace found daily maintainance as well as version compatibility to a manual compile, suse, or redhat?
PS. I can't see myself running anything besides suse, debian, or slackware. Slackware just doesn't strike me as a good workplace distro.
In regaurds to an Auto insurer the insurer is infact just showing that there is a reason to get insurance. Why would someone in the midwest united states get earthquake insurance for example, there is no need. Though if the insurance companies were to show that the mississippi river is really an ancient and dormant fault line then you would see home owners buying up earthquake insurance like crazy. The same goes for auto insurance and any other insurance. Show a real reason for fear and then you purchace the insurance.
I am sure that this Linux insurance company has carefully played the odds here and realizes what these allegations mean. Most likely it means that there are infact 270+ possible patents that "could" be seen as infringement by the Linux OS. Also it probably means that this insurance company has a defense against all of these patents that they have identified. Now if a patent were to be found that they don't have a defense for, they would probably scilently raise thier price a bit and hope for the best. Further more, patents vary from country to country which again adds to a lot of complexity. I am sure the insurance company wins, as they usually do./rant off
The Article
The Half-Life 2 code theft saga entered a new chapter today when Valve Software announced a series of arrests had been made in the case. According to Valve, suspects in several countries had been taken into custody in relation to charges stemming from the theft of the Half-Life 2 code, distribution of the code, and breaking into Valve's network.
Valve CEO Gabe Newell credited gamers with providing the information that led to the arrests. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime," he said in a statement. "Everyone here at Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community."
However, while Valve announced the arrests today, it was unclear when they actually occurred. Valve's statement on the matter--e-mailed to the press today--quoted Newell as saying, "within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved."
The FBI's Northwest Cyber Crime Task Force, the law-enforcement agency overseeing the code theft investigation, also divulged little information. When asked by GameSpot if it had made any arrests, media contact at the task force's Seattle, WA, headquarters said simply, "we did." However, when pressed for more information on the case--i.e. how many people in the US were arrested, where were they apprehended--the agent declined to say anything other than arrests had been made. "Beyond that we can not comment," he said.
News of the Half-Life 2 arrests comes after months of rumors about law-enforcement activity on the case. In January, a number of computer experts in the San Francisco area reported having their hardware seized by FBI agents on the grounds they were involved in the theft. Several weeks ago, unconfirmed reports from Germany said the author of the Phatbot Trojan worm was also involved in the theft. In both instances, neither Valve nor the authorities offered any comment.
GameSpot will have more details on this developing story as they become available.
First visit this site http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?doc ument_id=6311 The technology for "3rd" generation nanotech, which is to include 3d chips such as memory, is not supposed to really evolve until around 2010. Projections for nanotech seem to a bit lacking. It is projected that by 2020 we will be able to mimic molecules with nanotech thus possibley mimicing life artificially(which is kinda scary). From reading quite a few articles on the subject that is what I have been able to find.
Why thank you for criticizing my html skills. A more insightfull and possibly more helpfull remark would have been to tell me specifically to us the BR Tag
Thanks for the comments. Though you took "(though I don't know the feasability of this and docking with the ISS)" out of context. I was refering to the safety of an ion drive docking with the ISS. Also let me clarify that my suggestion does not include a manned mission to the hubble but rather a robot because I am aware of the orbit and distance of hubble in relation to the ISS. An Ion drive system gives more thrust to fuel consumption then a traditional hydrogen drive. The problem is that an ion drive is slower and I don't know about stopping. But a robot wouldn't care about time. Also a nuclear robot might work.
I also notice that your taking the objective that space missions are over and that we may as well just give up on the whole idea of space travel all together. This is an opinion with no scientific information to backup your claims or opinion. Thus I accept that objective as simply an opinion.
The waste of booster rockets was more to establish a point of behavior rather then something we should change. It may very well be not feasible to try recovery booster rockets. But I bet there is a technology out there that could replace that dependance on booster rockets. Such as a space elevator to an inspace launch platform for manned ships.
As for robots, as we further develop AI strategies, cpu power, and circuitry we will be able to build better robots. There is no need to shutdown an idea or program until there is a genuine need to.
I believe we as a nation and world you proceed with caution with the endevour of Robotics servicing. Eventually I can see automated stations to be an in space launch bed for satelites as well as increasing human missions. First I feel we need to develop robotic repair vehicles slowly. Create a vehicle send it up but also send up the human factor as well. I would suggest testing this robotic repair vehicle on a "safe" satelite that needs maintanence that a normal human shuttle mission would do. Give us the option to both closely monitor the first robotic repair vehicle in space as well as keep the option to retrieve and or repair the satelite with a human shuttle.
The design of this robotic vehicle should be one that can use the international space station as a docking platform. Make it reusable with either a cheap hydrogen/oxygen drive or put in an ion drive(though I don't know the feasability of this and docking with the ISS). Oddly enough we are a throw away society, we still use booster rockets that are disposible.(I know that part of the booster rocket system is reusable but I don't remember which of the top of my head. is it the small ones?) Lets work together with the EU, Russia, China, and the Japanese and develop this next space technology, a permanent space repair robot. Please NASA do not make this a one use robot, I bet over time it would cost more money.
Thank you
Re:I don't work for microsoft and I got the memo?
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I am not quite sure how to respond to this? Personally I am fresh out of college and I am trying to find a job in Linux or Unix administration. Its hard because there are so many talented and qualified persons also looking. Because of this it is really hard for me to believe that A) Anyone in this position would use a MS config tool over a tried and true open source or traditional Unix tool. B) As any sys admin worth thier salt should be able to adapt and learn new strategies, it should be that if they were faced with a huge cost difference between a system configuration package then they may choose to learn or use a different strategy. There are already very costly config tools for both linux and Unix's that you can purchase with support from various companies. Finally C) I am 100% certain that Microsoft will keep this new "support" to MS windows(tm) side of things. I doubt they will or would be releasing many Linux or Unix's plugin's. If they did release software then they would charge a lot since it is new teritory for the company. I personally believe that it would be silly for microsoft to release a Linux native version of Office. Although a Linux friendly or native version of outlook could be handy but that would be asking for trouble since in the past the requirement of outlook was the only thing keeping my work desktop windows.
I just recieved this memo from "Steve" is this the memo paragraph in question?
We are working with partners to make it possible for Microsoft customers to manage UNIX, Linux and Mac computers in conjunction with Systems Management Server 2003, and to manage hardware devices such as desktops and servers through solutions that update hardware-based software components using the same familiar interfaces that an administrator would use to update software applications.
*end of paragraph*
This seems friendly enough to me. They plan to "work" with Linux. That is a new strategy!
The problem for me has always been misleading reviews as well. for nitch games especially, you'll get reviews from say PC gamer that say 50% or what have you. Then you'll get reviews from actuall gamers that say this is the best thing they have played or the worst thing. All in all reviews can only do so much. It that test drive factor. True, its only 50 dollars or so and not 40k. But I am a savy consumer and I really don't enjoy getting something that I just wouldn't use. But I do like to compensate those with good ideas and good products.
in order(I think) on my windows box Install offline 1. outpost(firewall) 2. norton(A/V) -Install all patches and drivers here install online 3. firebird(browser) 4. SSH(www.ssh.com which is also free) 5. spybot 6. trillian 7. MS office 8. winzip 9. MS outlook(I'll phase this software out someday) 10. winamp
for linux I use debian and I haven't reinstalled in a really really long time. Since I select all programs to install at install and dpkg downloads and installs the packages automatically it is impossible to, or rather not feasible to install one program at a time. If I were to it would be something like: firebird, OpenOffice, avview, Xfree86, x11amp, alsa, opensshd and openssh, wireless tools, nmap, snort ect. I suppose there is quite a list.:-) hope this helps.
I believe there is an honest purpose and possibly a moral reason to download a game or software. Advertising to me is very misleading. A good advertiser can make a piece of dung seem like a crown jewel that everyone must have. It is possible that if treated correctly the problem of downloaded music , movies, and software could be looked at as civil disobediance. What laws are in place to protect a consumer from products that are falsely advertised or advertised and portrayed in a way that is misleading? The better business bureau is in charge of monitoring complaints but because of the sheer volume it must be impossible for them to follow up on all claims. A safe and seemingly fair way to go about this problem is to download a piece of music, movie, or software to see if it really works for you. I have found in the past that sometimes what you thought was going to be the next greatest thing turned out to be pure unentertaining or unusefull crap. There are laws, at least in my state, that say if a software package has been opened that it is not possible to return the software for money. How does this effect the consumer? The software business is protected in everyway to make useless and very buggy material without too much fear once it has been released. Finally I'll say that downloaded music, movies, and software is not right. But it may be a moral civil disobediant way to deal with a problem that is bigger and out of the hands of greater society.
You could always do a cooling tower like system. The saphire boils, turns into a gas, and then in the cooling stack condensates back into a liquid. Also it should be noted that 3M has a liquid product that does the same thing as saphire and has a higher boiling point. It probably still gets things wet, which saphire aparently doesn't, but it is not electicly conductive. Its also really expensive! I think THG did an article on the stuff a few years back.
It is sad to see that excellent decisions in other countries highlight the corruption of my US goverment. As a minnesotan, I say put Ventura in as president and we can eliminate corruption once and for all.
You see,
I already know and have experienced what you have said. I say, bring it on! I dislike management as much as the next guy but I have learned to deal and how to deal with them. Red tape you say? There is more red tape in goverment work and academic work then anything else. The only differnce is that private industry tries to actually make money instead of just spending it.
I know that I'll get burnt out, everyone does but most people also either learn to deal with the burn out or find a new way to deal with thier position. One way is to become management yourself and experience why your manager acts the way he does.
Life is an adventure, explore!
I'm a fresh college grad with a lot of job experience during college. I have all the spark and ambition. But I feel I also have the defeat and triumph of those older and "more experienced" then me. I am with a lot of other posters who have wanted to do what they do all thier life. I want to be a systems administrator, thats it! I want to run a data center and experience all the trials and tribulations of it. I look at defeat, stalness of down days, new users, old users who just can't seem to grasp the idea of technology, or those people that seem to know everything but are not willing to admit defeat when they realize they don't know anything. I think I know what it means to hate your job and go one. I think I know what it means to love your job but not feel appreciated. I'm a college grad, I sure as hell know what it means to work your ass off, not have a life, and work some more. I embrace a 50-60 hour work day and I know I'll be happy regaurdless of what happens.
I think that part of the unhappiness is about people that don't know who they are or how to control themselves or those around them. If life is dull you need to make it more interesting. It certainly isn't the job of a friend, girl friend, wife, boss, economy, world! For all of you out there that want to be happy, be happy!
Take it from me, someone who is unemployed, out of college, scratching at the door of every company pleading for that one chance while scraping rock bottom in money bag.
If you don't 100% completely love what you do in IT for a living, you sure as hell better get out(might want to wait for the economy to pick up) but you better make room for those who know that they are in it for life, for the long haul.
Yes, young whipper snappers as a previous post put it, because they have gumption and they don't know defeat. As you get older and you realize what it is you fear it. You fear change because change smells like defeat. If your in IT you better realize what that is right away. I am a firm believer that success only happens through defeat.
Thank you for your time./rant off
Agreed, my arguement was that those social systems are something that should never need changing once implemented. They also have a single job to do. Science allows our society to make giant leaps forward, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. Science also has the ability to create jobs to not only pay for but work within those social programs. Lastly I would think Science is something that both progressives and conservatives can both agree on.
Actually this is a good point, wether or not it was NASA's intention is debateable. Personally I have no problem lobbying for NASA and any other high tech goverment agencies.
The earliest time that the telescope would fall to earth was 2007 correct? That means were have at least 3 years to build, test, and launch a mission to save it. I believe the science community at large would agree with me that this telescope will not go down without a serious fight.
On a slight side note. I have noticed that tech issues, other then cs outsourcing to india, have not been discussed much in the US's presidential races so far. Personally I am upset that politicians think that welfare, tax reform, and social security are more important then the advancement of our society. Along with making our voices heard for the Hubble we as a scientific and technical community need to let our voices be heard that all our issues are just as, if not more, important then the common problems that face our society.
Nice a fellow Prarie home companion listener!
Everyone makes a good point though. The world needs in general to restructure because there are too many tech workers an not enough demand for tech. I have a CS/EE BS degree and I hoped to do Unix Sys Admin or Embeded programming with that. Right now I am considering general electronics repairman because the market is so bleak. For the most obscure job expect a minimum of 100 applicants. My advice to all of you is stay in school or your current field/career. Don't quit your day job.
Lastly the Tech fields and especially the computer field requires an encredible ammount of patience. It is extremely stressful in other ways that a physician might feel stress. In computers your patient doesn't always give you the feedback you need to fix them up. Your work is demanding and has health risks(carpel tunnel, back issues from sitting extended periods, ect). A doctor can feel stressed because you have a human life on your hands. A computer technician, programmer, sys admin feels the same stress because you have millions of company dollars on your hand.
If you hoped to change careers because you didn't like the stress or hours of being a doctor your in for a rude awakening as a computer professional.
Interestingly enough my resume was chosen as an example resume by my colleges career services dept. The names are changed to protect the innocent but formatting is left in tact. My resume is very unique compared to most that I have looked at. Although it is very possible that the mass of unoriginals will now copy mine thus making mine unoriginal. How do you prevent that? I would guess that a well formatted easy to read and informative resume is what you need. Though I have sent about 100 resumes off and got 3 hits so far. Of those 3 hits(phone calls about them) none have gotten me an interview. 2 were head hunters that probably just wanted to confirm I am a real person for thier database and a 3rd called me at 8am after going to return of the kind opening night. I would imagine I didn't give the very best presentation as I could being woke up from sleeping.
BSD isn't Linux. I have sat down at a BSD box before and all the commands needed to do the important stuff seem foriegn to me. I know Linux, I love Linux. So that is what I will use and follow, support, and help develop. The only other *nix I have experience with is AIX and I feel Linux if far superior.
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Oh how I do love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Most towns these days have at least one Linux users group. For learning I would A. Take a deep breathe, your entering a world that at times can have leetist s that would like no more then to see you fail so they can bring themselves up. With that in mind join the community and develop friendships with others that are both learning and those that are already experts. Remember that its always handy in a pinch to be able to reference a friend to see if they have had the same problem you are and often its more comfortable that way as well.
B. I would setup a computer has home that is a FULLTIME linux box. For the first time running linux your going to want to stick to something simple. My preference is Debian but Mandrake, fedora, and SuSE are all fairly easy to get into. If you are not familiar with programming,and extensible scripting then your in for an awakening and a treat.
C. Finally I would take a class from someone that is in the same room with you. Like a lot of other concepts Linux can have a lot of theory to learn without actually getting your feet wet. Unlike Microsoft products that you may be used to, there are a lot of hands-on techniques that I would venture to say can ONLY be learned by making a mistake and then seeing how you made the mistake. Trust me you learn so much more when you make a mistake and its better to make that mistake on a non-production machine(carefull with the command rm -rf).
With closing I'd like to remind you to never take the name of root in vain. Very much unlike Windows , root which is the same account as administrator, is often never used unless absolutely neccesary. Learn the command (su -), (pwd), and learn about sudo.
I wish you the very best of luck and please please please, HAVE FUN!
And that is the blessing and frustration. My boss supports me as long as it works.
testing testing testing testing... wash rinse and repeat.
I work for a very small company that is currently running RedHat 8 and 7 on all the servers. I am soon taking over head responsibility of the servers. We have no support contracts and we use comodity hardware.
I would like to move all future servers to debian. My reasoning is that the current redhat disto's don't cut it anymore and support has been cut for 8 and 7. We have been manually patching program which is a huge hassle. My only concern is versioning and customization. Since we manually compile every program we have the ability to really get clean slim compiles of programs such as apache which has saved us from some security updates.
How have people running debian stable in the workplace found daily maintainance as well as version compatibility to a manual compile, suse, or redhat?
PS. I can't see myself running anything besides suse, debian, or slackware. Slackware just doesn't strike me as a good workplace distro.
In regaurds to an Auto insurer the insurer is infact just showing that there is a reason to get insurance. Why would someone in the midwest united states get earthquake insurance for example, there is no need. Though if the insurance companies were to show that the mississippi river is really an ancient and dormant fault line then you would see home owners buying up earthquake insurance like crazy. The same goes for auto insurance and any other insurance. Show a real reason for fear and then you purchace the insurance.
/rant off
I am sure that this Linux insurance company has carefully played the odds here and realizes what these allegations mean. Most likely it means that there are infact 270+ possible patents that "could" be seen as infringement by the Linux OS. Also it probably means that this insurance company has a defense against all of these patents that they have identified. Now if a patent were to be found that they don't have a defense for, they would probably scilently raise thier price a bit and hope for the best. Further more, patents vary from country to country which again adds to a lot of complexity. I am sure the insurance company wins, as they usually do.
The Article
The Half-Life 2 code theft saga entered a new chapter today when Valve Software announced a series of arrests had been made in the case. According to Valve, suspects in several countries had been taken into custody in relation to charges stemming from the theft of the Half-Life 2 code, distribution of the code, and breaking into Valve's network.
Valve CEO Gabe Newell credited gamers with providing the information that led to the arrests. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime," he said in a statement. "Everyone here at Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community."
However, while Valve announced the arrests today, it was unclear when they actually occurred. Valve's statement on the matter--e-mailed to the press today--quoted Newell as saying, "within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved."
The FBI's Northwest Cyber Crime Task Force, the law-enforcement agency overseeing the code theft investigation, also divulged little information. When asked by GameSpot if it had made any arrests, media contact at the task force's Seattle, WA, headquarters said simply, "we did." However, when pressed for more information on the case--i.e. how many people in the US were arrested, where were they apprehended--the agent declined to say anything other than arrests had been made. "Beyond that we can not comment," he said.
News of the Half-Life 2 arrests comes after months of rumors about law-enforcement activity on the case. In January, a number of computer experts in the San Francisco area reported having their hardware seized by FBI agents on the grounds they were involved in the theft. Several weeks ago, unconfirmed reports from Germany said the author of the Phatbot Trojan worm was also involved in the theft. In both instances, neither Valve nor the authorities offered any comment.
GameSpot will have more details on this developing story as they become available.
First visit this site http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?doc ument_id=6311
The technology for "3rd" generation nanotech, which is to include 3d chips such as memory, is not supposed to really evolve until around 2010. Projections for nanotech seem to a bit lacking.
It is projected that by 2020 we will be able to mimic molecules with nanotech thus possibley mimicing life artificially(which is kinda scary). From reading quite a few articles on the subject that is what I have been able to find.
Why thank you for criticizing my html skills. A more insightfull and possibly more helpfull remark would have been to tell me specifically to us the
BR Tag
Thanks for the comments. Though you took "(though I don't know the feasability of this and docking with the ISS)" out of context. I was refering to the safety of an ion drive docking with the ISS. Also let me clarify that my suggestion does not include a manned mission to the hubble but rather a robot because I am aware of the orbit and distance of hubble in relation to the ISS. An Ion drive system gives more thrust to fuel consumption then a traditional hydrogen drive. The problem is that an ion drive is slower and I don't know about stopping. But a robot wouldn't care about time. Also a nuclear robot might work. I also notice that your taking the objective that space missions are over and that we may as well just give up on the whole idea of space travel all together. This is an opinion with no scientific information to backup your claims or opinion. Thus I accept that objective as simply an opinion. The waste of booster rockets was more to establish a point of behavior rather then something we should change. It may very well be not feasible to try recovery booster rockets. But I bet there is a technology out there that could replace that dependance on booster rockets. Such as a space elevator to an inspace launch platform for manned ships. As for robots, as we further develop AI strategies, cpu power, and circuitry we will be able to build better robots. There is no need to shutdown an idea or program until there is a genuine need to.
I believe we as a nation and world you proceed with caution with the endevour of Robotics servicing. Eventually I can see automated stations to be an in space launch bed for satelites as well as increasing human missions. First I feel we need to develop robotic repair vehicles slowly. Create a vehicle send it up but also send up the human factor as well. I would suggest testing this robotic repair vehicle on a "safe" satelite that needs maintanence that a normal human shuttle mission would do. Give us the option to both closely monitor the first robotic repair vehicle in space as well as keep the option to retrieve and or repair the satelite with a human shuttle. The design of this robotic vehicle should be one that can use the international space station as a docking platform. Make it reusable with either a cheap hydrogen/oxygen drive or put in an ion drive(though I don't know the feasability of this and docking with the ISS). Oddly enough we are a throw away society, we still use booster rockets that are disposible.(I know that part of the booster rocket system is reusable but I don't remember which of the top of my head. is it the small ones?) Lets work together with the EU, Russia, China, and the Japanese and develop this next space technology, a permanent space repair robot. Please NASA do not make this a one use robot, I bet over time it would cost more money. Thank you
I am not quite sure how to respond to this? Personally I am fresh out of college and I am trying to find a job in Linux or Unix administration. Its hard because there are so many talented and qualified persons also looking. Because of this it is really hard for me to believe that A) Anyone in this position would use a MS config tool over a tried and true open source or traditional Unix tool. B) As any sys admin worth thier salt should be able to adapt and learn new strategies, it should be that if they were faced with a huge cost difference between a system configuration package then they may choose to learn or use a different strategy. There are already very costly config tools for both linux and Unix's that you can purchase with support from various companies. Finally C) I am 100% certain that Microsoft will keep this new "support" to MS windows(tm) side of things. I doubt they will or would be releasing many Linux or Unix's plugin's. If they did release software then they would charge a lot since it is new teritory for the company. I personally believe that it would be silly for microsoft to release a Linux native version of Office. Although a Linux friendly or native version of outlook could be handy but that would be asking for trouble since in the past the requirement of outlook was the only thing keeping my work desktop windows.
I just recieved this memo from "Steve" is this the memo paragraph in question?
We are working with partners to make it possible for Microsoft
customers to manage UNIX, Linux and Mac computers in conjunction with Systems
Management Server 2003, and to manage hardware devices such as desktops
and servers through solutions that update hardware-based software
components using the same familiar interfaces that an administrator would
use to update software applications.
*end of paragraph*
This seems friendly enough to me. They plan to "work" with Linux. That is a new strategy!
The problem for me has always been misleading reviews as well. for nitch games especially, you'll get reviews from say PC gamer that say 50% or what have you. Then you'll get reviews from actuall gamers that say this is the best thing they have played or the worst thing. All in all reviews can only do so much. It that test drive factor. True, its only 50 dollars or so and not 40k. But I am a savy consumer and I really don't enjoy getting something that I just wouldn't use. But I do like to compensate those with good ideas and good products.
in order(I think) on my windows box
Install offline
1. outpost(firewall)
2. norton(A/V)
-Install all patches and drivers here
install online
3. firebird(browser)
4. SSH(www.ssh.com which is also free)
5. spybot
6. trillian
7. MS office
8. winzip
9. MS outlook(I'll phase this software out someday)
10. winamp
for linux I use debian and I haven't reinstalled in a really really long time. Since I select all programs to install at install and dpkg downloads and installs the packages automatically it is impossible to, or rather not feasible to install one program at a time. If I were to it would be something like:
firebird, OpenOffice, avview, Xfree86, x11amp, alsa, opensshd and openssh, wireless tools, nmap, snort ect. I suppose there is quite a list.
I believe there is an honest purpose and possibly a moral reason to download a game or software. Advertising to me is very misleading. A good advertiser can make a piece of dung seem like a crown jewel that everyone must have. It is possible that if treated correctly the problem of downloaded music , movies, and software could be looked at as civil disobediance. What laws are in place to protect a consumer from products that are falsely advertised or advertised and portrayed in a way that is misleading? The better business bureau is in charge of monitoring complaints but because of the sheer volume it must be impossible for them to follow up on all claims. A safe and seemingly fair way to go about this problem is to download a piece of music, movie, or software to see if it really works for you. I have found in the past that sometimes what you thought was going to be the next greatest thing turned out to be pure unentertaining or unusefull crap. There are laws, at least in my state, that say if a software package has been opened that it is not possible to return the software for money. How does this effect the consumer? The software business is protected in everyway to make useless and very buggy material without too much fear once it has been released. Finally I'll say that downloaded music, movies, and software is not right. But it may be a moral civil disobediant way to deal with a problem that is bigger and out of the hands of greater society.
You could always do a cooling tower like system. The saphire boils, turns into a gas, and then in the cooling stack condensates back into a liquid. Also it should be noted that 3M has a liquid product that does the same thing as saphire and has a higher boiling point. It probably still gets things wet, which saphire aparently doesn't, but it is not electicly conductive. Its also really expensive! I think THG did an article on the stuff a few years back.
It is sad to see that excellent decisions in other countries highlight the corruption of my US goverment. As a minnesotan, I say put Ventura in as president and we can eliminate corruption once and for all.
You see, I already know and have experienced what you have said. I say, bring it on! I dislike management as much as the next guy but I have learned to deal and how to deal with them. Red tape you say? There is more red tape in goverment work and academic work then anything else. The only differnce is that private industry tries to actually make money instead of just spending it. I know that I'll get burnt out, everyone does but most people also either learn to deal with the burn out or find a new way to deal with thier position. One way is to become management yourself and experience why your manager acts the way he does. Life is an adventure, explore!
I'm a fresh college grad with a lot of job experience during college. I have all the spark and ambition. But I feel I also have the defeat and triumph of those older and "more experienced" then me. I am with a lot of other posters who have wanted to do what they do all thier life. I want to be a systems administrator, thats it! I want to run a data center and experience all the trials and tribulations of it. I look at defeat, stalness of down days, new users, old users who just can't seem to grasp the idea of technology, or those people that seem to know everything but are not willing to admit defeat when they realize they don't know anything. I think I know what it means to hate your job and go one. I think I know what it means to love your job but not feel appreciated. I'm a college grad, I sure as hell know what it means to work your ass off, not have a life, and work some more. I embrace a 50-60 hour work day and I know I'll be happy regaurdless of what happens. I think that part of the unhappiness is about people that don't know who they are or how to control themselves or those around them. If life is dull you need to make it more interesting. It certainly isn't the job of a friend, girl friend, wife, boss, economy, world! For all of you out there that want to be happy, be happy! Take it from me, someone who is unemployed, out of college, scratching at the door of every company pleading for that one chance while scraping rock bottom in money bag. If you don't 100% completely love what you do in IT for a living, you sure as hell better get out(might want to wait for the economy to pick up) but you better make room for those who know that they are in it for life, for the long haul. Yes, young whipper snappers as a previous post put it, because they have gumption and they don't know defeat. As you get older and you realize what it is you fear it. You fear change because change smells like defeat. If your in IT you better realize what that is right away. I am a firm believer that success only happens through defeat. Thank you for your time. /rant off
Agreed, my arguement was that those social systems are something that should never need changing once implemented. They also have a single job to do. Science allows our society to make giant leaps forward, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. Science also has the ability to create jobs to not only pay for but work within those social programs. Lastly I would think Science is something that both progressives and conservatives can both agree on.
Actually this is a good point, wether or not it was NASA's intention is debateable. Personally I have no problem lobbying for NASA and any other high tech goverment agencies.
The earliest time that the telescope would fall to earth was 2007 correct? That means were have at least 3 years to build, test, and launch a mission to save it. I believe the science community at large would agree with me that this telescope will not go down without a serious fight. On a slight side note. I have noticed that tech issues, other then cs outsourcing to india, have not been discussed much in the US's presidential races so far. Personally I am upset that politicians think that welfare, tax reform, and social security are more important then the advancement of our society. Along with making our voices heard for the Hubble we as a scientific and technical community need to let our voices be heard that all our issues are just as, if not more, important then the common problems that face our society.
Nice a fellow Prarie home companion listener! Everyone makes a good point though. The world needs in general to restructure because there are too many tech workers an not enough demand for tech. I have a CS/EE BS degree and I hoped to do Unix Sys Admin or Embeded programming with that. Right now I am considering general electronics repairman because the market is so bleak. For the most obscure job expect a minimum of 100 applicants. My advice to all of you is stay in school or your current field/career. Don't quit your day job. Lastly the Tech fields and especially the computer field requires an encredible ammount of patience. It is extremely stressful in other ways that a physician might feel stress. In computers your patient doesn't always give you the feedback you need to fix them up. Your work is demanding and has health risks(carpel tunnel, back issues from sitting extended periods, ect). A doctor can feel stressed because you have a human life on your hands. A computer technician, programmer, sys admin feels the same stress because you have millions of company dollars on your hand. If you hoped to change careers because you didn't like the stress or hours of being a doctor your in for a rude awakening as a computer professional.
Interestingly enough my resume was chosen as an example resume by my colleges career services dept. The names are changed to protect the innocent but formatting is left in tact. My resume is very unique compared to most that I have looked at. Although it is very possible that the mass of unoriginals will now copy mine thus making mine unoriginal. How do you prevent that? I would guess that a well formatted easy to read and informative resume is what you need. Though I have sent about 100 resumes off and got 3 hits so far. Of those 3 hits(phone calls about them) none have gotten me an interview. 2 were head hunters that probably just wanted to confirm I am a real person for thier database and a 3rd called me at 8am after going to return of the kind opening night. I would imagine I didn't give the very best presentation as I could being woke up from sleeping.
BSD isn't Linux. I have sat down at a BSD box before and all the commands needed to do the important stuff seem foriegn to me. I know Linux, I love Linux. So that is what I will use and follow, support, and help develop. The only other *nix I have experience with is AIX and I feel Linux if far superior.