ack! Forgot to preview, sorry. I work in the IS dept. of a medium sized hospital and I find this downright scary. Aside from a firewall there is little security here, and plenty of dial up lines. PCAnywhere is a popular tool. There are 5 unix servers and I (a sysop making < $10 / hour) am the only one who knows a thing about unix. Most of them are misconfigured and there are many legacy scripts that ftp as root and other such nonsense (like running every possible network service for no reason). We have an old Netware 3.1 PC network being "upgraded" to NT:P. Most of the technical staff are nurses who are "trained" in the management software. User passwords are generally "USER_NAME" + "BIRTHDATE".
In short it's a real mess, and if other hospitals are similiar, this is a security nightmare.
I work in the IS dept. of a medium sized hospital and I find this downright scary. Aside from a firewall there is little security here, and plenty of dial up lines. PCAnywhere is a popular tool. There are 5 unix servers and I (a sysop making In short it's a real mess, and if other hospitals are similiar, this is a security nightmare.
I live in the Dallas area which is supposedly good for computer jobs... not for me so far.
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Comparing Open Look to Gnome is apples and apples? Of course Gnome is going to be slower. Not that I'm claiming that the Pentium is faster or anything...
I have a 2 year degree and while I can't claim to be a "great programmer", I can say that I know a hell of a lot more than some people I've met with 4 year degrees. And unlike many here on Slashdot, I won't claim to have learned assembly when I was 3 years old either.:^)
I had an Apple ][ when I was a kid and messed around with it. I learned some BASIC and Pascal and even assembler, and I was pretty good at it. But I was a lot more into skateboards, punk-rock, chicks and beer:^) So I forgot about computers for about 12 years.
But then I got married and settled down and decided to go back to school and get a real job (being a vagabond is fun but there's no security in it:^). I remembered how much fun I used to have with that Apple and how I was one of the better programmers in my classes. So I went to the local community college and took the standard CS track which included VisualBasic but also Pascal, C, C++, algorithm analysis, systems analysis, unix, win32 with MFC, and x86 assembler.
I aced every class and graduated with a 4.0; they handed me a diploma and said great job! Summa Cum Laude! You ought to be proud.
And I've been working as a sysop / helpdesk operator ever since because, due to all the mouse-clicking, M$ worshipping ditto-heads that are come out of "IT" programs nowdays, nobody in their right mind would hire a programmer with a two year degree and no experience.
So if people are so desperate for IT workers, why am I making $8/hr and answering the goddamn phone all day while all my applications get rejected by hiring managers who want someone with 9 years professional C++ experience who will work 60 hour weeks for $36 grand / year ?
I work with a "programmer" who doesn't know the difference between ftp and telnet and thinks COBOL is really cool. And a network manager who couldn't write a DOS batch file to save her own life (I kid you not, I tried to debug one of her login scripts and she was MAKING THE SHIT UP AS SHE WENT ALONG! Really! I mean making up syntax and keywords out of thin air! The mind boggles...) And of course they both get paid a lot more than I do.
I wrote some robust, self-documenting Perl scripts to make the lioves of us operators easier and management is like, "Oh, that's nice."
I'm going back to school for a real degree but after seeing this culture of money grabbing scam artists and liars who pretend to be computer experts getting the good gigs while I waste away here, I'm having second thoughts about computers as a career, as much as I love to code.
As the Mayan calendar ends the outer crust of the Earth, unbalanced by the immense weight of the polar ice caps, slips around the interior of the planet like a loose orange peel, leaving the former poles at the equator and some unfortunate equatorial regions at the new poles.
The violence of this upheaval sloshes the water out of the oceans, completely shaving the continents of plants, animals, topsoil and manmade structures. It also triggers a cataclysmic series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which serve to obliterate any remaining multicellular life.
Many aeons later everyone who ever lived on Earth is recreated from DNA by a benign superbeing who restores our memories and we all live happily ever after...
There's plenty of room for 100 Billion or more on this planet, postulating that land will no longer be used for food production, and replicators will make deserts and seabeds (not to mention nearby moons, planets, and asteroids) liveable...
Have you ever really looked at a map of Canada or China or Siberia? Literally millions of square miles of completely unpopulated wilderness are still there waiting for settlers.
We're good for a few centuries of Utopia at least.
Whenever anyone uses the phrase "pipe dream" it's a sure sign that they have no counter arguments other than prevailing opinion.
Mozilla will also be published as a library which means you can take the engine and make your own plain-GTK browser if you like... and I'm sure someone will.
Actually MDI is not a problem, it's a blessing. Just keep the child windows maximized so it looks like SDI. Then you can have multiple pages all prerendered and stacked up and switch between them using the the 1 & 2 keys. Actually a much more efficient use of space than multiple SDI windows...
The Gimp competes just fine with Photoshop in the area of web graphics. It just doesn't have the Pantone support, etc. that one needs to create real print work.
That's strange because all the admin jobs I've seen advertised say "5 years Solaris experience required" or "8+ years with HP-UX"...
As a high school drop-out you must have either lied your ass off or had relatives / friends in a position to get you hired. I just can't see it any other way, perhaps you could enlighten me?
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Ever heard of a screen reader? Way to display your ignorance; how you ever got a default rating of 2 is beyond me...
Nah, most hackers use Windows95 because of it's raw power :-P
Seriously, I would imagine that most "crackers" use some sort of free UNIX... think about it.
Yes, there is some kind of block on VHS tapes, I don't remember what it's called.
Now you have to wait for it to be aired on HBO before you can copy it ;-)
50's style jazz is mostly bebop... super fast and loud. It wasn't till the late 50's and early 60's that Miles Davis popularized "cool jazz".
I saw Junior Brown live about a month ago. Any guitar player that sees him live will leave with his jaw hanging open. He is truly amazing.
Trompe Le Monde has been the only tape in my car's stereo for the last 3 months :)
Just can't get enough of that Mr. Black & co.
Face it. If they have physical access you're screwed without an encrypted FS.
Oh dear! No more postings by good old Anonymous Coward? Wait! Come back!
Really> ;-)
In short it's a real mess, and if other hospitals are similiar, this is a security nightmare.
I work in the IS dept. of a medium sized hospital and I find this downright scary. Aside from a firewall there is little security here, and plenty of dial up lines. PCAnywhere is a popular tool. There are 5 unix servers and I (a sysop making In short it's a real mess, and if other hospitals are similiar, this is a security nightmare.
I live in the Dallas area which is supposedly good for computer jobs... not for me so far.
Comparing Open Look to Gnome is apples and apples? Of course Gnome is going to be slower. Not that I'm claiming that the Pentium is faster or anything...
I have a 2 year degree and while I can't claim to be a "great programmer", I can say that I know a hell of a lot more than some people I've met with 4 year degrees. And unlike many here on Slashdot, I won't claim to have learned assembly when I was 3 years old either. :^)
I had an Apple ][ when I was a kid and messed around with it. I learned some BASIC and Pascal and even assembler, and I was pretty good at it. But I was a lot more into skateboards, punk-rock, chicks and beer :^) So I forgot about computers for about 12 years.
But then I got married and settled down and decided to go back to school and get a real job (being a vagabond is fun but there's no security in it :^). I remembered how much fun I used to have with that Apple and how I was one of the better programmers in my classes. So I went to the local community college and took the standard CS track which included VisualBasic but also Pascal, C, C++, algorithm analysis, systems analysis, unix, win32 with MFC, and x86 assembler.
I aced every class and graduated with a 4.0; they handed me a diploma and said great job! Summa Cum Laude! You ought to be proud.
And I've been working as a sysop / helpdesk operator ever since because, due to all the mouse-clicking, M$ worshipping ditto-heads that are come out of "IT" programs nowdays, nobody in their right mind would hire a programmer with a two year degree and no experience.
So if people are so desperate for IT workers, why am I making $8/hr and answering the goddamn phone all day while all my applications get rejected by hiring managers who want someone with 9 years professional C++ experience who will work 60 hour weeks for $36 grand / year ?
I work with a "programmer" who doesn't know the difference between ftp and telnet and thinks COBOL is really cool. And a network manager who couldn't write a DOS batch file to save her own life (I kid you not, I tried to debug one of her login scripts and she was MAKING THE SHIT UP AS SHE WENT ALONG! Really! I mean making up syntax and keywords out of thin air! The mind boggles...) And of course they both get paid a lot more than I do.
I wrote some robust, self-documenting Perl scripts to make the lioves of us operators easier and management is like, "Oh, that's nice."
I'm going back to school for a real degree but after seeing this culture of money grabbing scam artists and liars who pretend to be computer experts getting the good gigs while I waste away here, I'm having second thoughts about computers as a career, as much as I love to code.
Hmmm, maybe I'll be a plumber.
By saying "I am the state" he was merely expressing the attitude of every monarch of the time. There is nothing unusually egotistical about it.
Quite literally, the sovereign of a monarchy is the state.
Dec. 26, 2012
As the Mayan calendar ends the outer crust of the Earth, unbalanced by the immense weight of the polar ice caps, slips around the interior of the planet like a loose orange peel, leaving the former poles at the equator and some unfortunate equatorial regions at the new poles.
The violence of this upheaval sloshes the water out of the oceans, completely shaving the continents of plants, animals, topsoil and manmade structures. It also triggers a cataclysmic series of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which serve to obliterate any remaining multicellular life.
Many aeons later everyone who ever lived on Earth is recreated from DNA by a benign superbeing who restores our memories and we all live happily ever after...
I mean come on, it's so obvious. ;^)
That's Iain M. Banks.
And I recommaend any of his books to any science fiction fan. Truly spectacular stuff.
There's plenty of room for 100 Billion or more on this planet, postulating that land will no longer be used for food production, and replicators will make deserts and seabeds (not to mention nearby moons, planets, and asteroids) liveable...
Have you ever really looked at a map of Canada or China or Siberia? Literally millions of square miles of completely unpopulated wilderness are still there waiting for settlers.
We're good for a few centuries of Utopia at least.
Whenever anyone uses the phrase "pipe dream" it's a sure sign that they have no counter arguments other than prevailing opinion.
Mozilla will also be published as a library which means you can take the engine and make your own plain-GTK browser if you like... and I'm sure someone will.
Actually MDI is not a problem, it's a blessing. Just keep the child windows maximized so it looks like SDI. Then you can have multiple pages all prerendered and stacked up and switch between them using the the 1 & 2 keys. Actually a much more efficient use of space than multiple SDI windows...
Opera is really quite nice and unbelievably fast.
The Gimp competes just fine with Photoshop in the area of web graphics. It just doesn't have the Pantone support, etc. that one needs to create real print work.
Hmmm... Huffman coding is rather obvious, but I fail to see how e=mc^2 was ever obvious. Remarkably simple and elegant, yes.
Wrong. Linus never said he wanted to destroy Microsoft. And the "World Domination" thing is rather tongue in cheek (ha ha serious).
I don't understand why you feel the need to even be here saying things like that unless you have some deep seated loyalty to Microsoft.
Maybe they are the only ones who would give you the title "Engineer" without 4 long years of math and physics? >:^)
That's strange because all the admin jobs I've seen advertised say "5 years Solaris experience required" or "8+ years with HP-UX"...
As a high school drop-out you must have either lied your ass off or had relatives / friends in a position to get you hired. I just can't see it any other way, perhaps you could enlighten me?
No! Gilligan messed it up... can you imagine?