I worked at Dell last year as a temp, repairing laptops. Basically, I either replaced the entire base (swapping out the CPU, drives, memory, and keyboard to the new base), or replaced the LCD assembly, or the CPU/drives/memory/keyboard. That pretty much covers all laptop problems. All the parts came preassembled from Malaysia - it took nearly zero knowledge to repair, and we sent the old assemblies back to Malaysia or somewhere to be recycled.
I've taught myself quite a bit working with my own Linux server, writing web pages and databases for my music and pictures using PHP/MySQL, and playing with new technology. If you create something you can show a prospective employer, not only are you gaining experience but it goes a long way towards showing you're a self-starter and eager to learn.
open source will go the way of other IT industry fads that were once trumpeted as the way of the future, like Macintosh computers, business AI, 4GL programming languages and Y2K.
Y2k is the way of the future? 1999 called, they want your business model back.
I tried that. Yes, I have my own SMTP server. It was nice, fast, and super reliable until AOL/Comcast/Time Warner/pretty much everyone began blocking email from everyone except megacorp SMTP servers.
I use Streets and Trips quite a bit when travelling - it's got flaws but for easy off-line map finding it works fine. I have not been able to find a good alternative to this that will run on Linux or Wine.
Also I can't use my modem in my Dell laptop - somehow the modem drivers eat the sound card drivers and vice versa.
If those two things were fixed, I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat on my Inspiron. (and it would be nice to get Macromedia Studio to run, too).
Yes, I've personally seen them in Seoul. The ones I saw were sort of rotating cartridges (pun intended)....drive in, hop out, and the carriage rotates to the next slot like a ferris wheel.
I hear the car crash sound from Streets of Sim City a lot. Also the alarm sound from Total Annihilation, and the building alarm sound from Half-life. THe car crash sound is the funniest, because when you hear it mixed in for effect during a crash scene, it sounds ridiculous.
and yet MS recently helped remodel the computer lab in the Taylor building basement, where all the boxes are either running Debian or Solaris. I thought that was pretty funny.
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Them:"Lucas is updating X movie to show his true vision which couldn't be expressed at the time due to technical limitations." Us: "Please God no."
So are wars gonna be decided with Unreal Tournament now?
I worked at Dell last year as a temp, repairing laptops. Basically, I either replaced the entire base (swapping out the CPU, drives, memory, and keyboard to the new base), or replaced the LCD assembly, or the CPU/drives/memory/keyboard. That pretty much covers all laptop problems. All the parts came preassembled from Malaysia - it took nearly zero knowledge to repair, and we sent the old assemblies back to Malaysia or somewhere to be recycled.
Try Weather Pulse.
I've taught myself quite a bit working with my own Linux server, writing web pages and databases for my music and pictures using PHP/MySQL, and playing with new technology. If you create something you can show a prospective employer, not only are you gaining experience but it goes a long way towards showing you're a self-starter and eager to learn.
http://www.trillian.cc/news_press/
*guilty*
Anyone care to open a hotmail account and then forge an email to appear to come from that account....just to see what happens?
Y2k is the way of the future? 1999 called, they want your business model back.
I tried that. Yes, I have my own SMTP server. It was nice, fast, and super reliable until AOL/Comcast/Time Warner/pretty much everyone began blocking email from everyone except megacorp SMTP servers.
I use Streets and Trips quite a bit when travelling - it's got flaws but for easy off-line map finding it works fine. I have not been able to find a good alternative to this that will run on Linux or Wine. Also I can't use my modem in my Dell laptop - somehow the modem drivers eat the sound card drivers and vice versa. If those two things were fixed, I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat on my Inspiron. (and it would be nice to get Macromedia Studio to run, too).
Just fire two grenades one after the other. The capacitor won't have time to recharge if my camera flash is any example :)
man, that Automata Theory class nearly killed me!!! But you're right, it was CS reduced to its rubbery essence. how i miss the pumping lemma....
Windows Service Pack whatever
Office XP
WetSock
Acdsee 2.1
Macromedia Studio
Adobe Acrobat
Paint Shop Pro
PowerDVD
WinDAC
well ok Linux:
djbdns
qmail
openoffice
apache
ehh.....can't think of any more....why did I even bother posting? who knows. this mishmash will be lost in the other 1097 posts anyway.
Venus hasn't aged a bit!
Yes, I've personally seen them in Seoul. The ones I saw were sort of rotating cartridges (pun intended)....drive in, hop out, and the carriage rotates to the next slot like a ferris wheel.
I work at Dell.
(anyone know if AOL is using a bayesian filter?)
They just block all mail from dynamic IP addresses.
I hear the car crash sound from Streets of Sim City a lot. Also the alarm sound from Total Annihilation, and the building alarm sound from Half-life. THe car crash sound is the funniest, because when you hear it mixed in for effect during a crash scene, it sounds ridiculous.
and yet MS recently helped remodel the computer lab in the Taylor building basement, where all the boxes are either running Debian or Solaris. I thought that was pretty funny.