No SGI and no SUN to speak of in 5 years? What are you smokin'??
I love Linux and the other free OS's, but I think that you are a little too confident of Win32's success. Also, SUN makes much heavier duty hardware than there is in the Intel world. In spite of the rise of Linux, a rise I mostly welcome, I don't see BSD shops giving up on that to go with Linux, or SUN/HP/AIX shops dropping their high end datacenter boxes to go with either Linux or W2K. Sorry, I just don't see it. As much as I love Linux, I wouldn't want to see that.
Also, I'm starting to hope that Linux doesn't become the most popular OS, b/c then there will be a flood of those with admin skills and salaries will plummet when any company can get a combo Linux/Windoze guru out of high school. Not good, methinks.
I don't know how many of you follow the financial news, but SUN is doing phenominal, and in spite of all of these claims about the impending fall of SUN, they are selling a record number of heavy duty Internet servers, and are in the midst of a very successful "dot.com" ad campaign....and their stock is doing very well too, wish I could afford to buy some, but my money is tied up mostly in CISCO right now....
SUN isn't going anywhere but up.
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I find that I just don't need the info in magazines anymore. As some already stated, you can get FRESH info off the Internet for FREE. Why waste $20-$30/yr on a subscription. It adds up, man!
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I tried for awhile, and when I found out that the kernel supported the BTV chip that the 3com Netcam uses, I couldn't find any Linux compatable alternative to MS Netmeeting, which they all use on ZDTV. I couldn't bare having to boot Winblows to use a frekin Netcam just to get on ZDTV.
Never Surrender!
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I have used KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker, FVWM, TWM, etc... They're all fine if you like them. There was always something about the simplicity of CDE that I liked, with better wallpaper and icons, of course. Now I have it. I use it on my Linux boxes at work, and I use it on my Linux box at home. I REALLY liked Windowmaker and it's dockapps, but there is something that keeps pulling me towards XFCE. It's fast, crisp, and lean.
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One more little bitty thing. Had the European powers in the post WWI era not made the peace so unbearable for the majority of Germans, an animal like Hitler wouldn't have come to power. Remember how in the post WWII era, America used the Marshall Plan to make the peace one which would bring our former enemies closer to us in friendship? Geez, we actually helped to rebuild Europe and Asia after the war! I love it when Europeans stand with their hands out when our money is there and then continue to bash us at any chance they get. Wonderful friends!
I wouldn't want alot of you guys behind me in a bar fight, that's for sure...
Once again, I like most Europeans, (you guys know great beer and know how to party) I just dislike the anti American Commie sympathizing Euros.
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As a matter of fact I have read alot of history, and while you are correct that there was a large ANTI-WAR movement in the U.S. at that time preventing our entry into the war, we have had no such problems since. It's nice how you totally leave out the U.K.'s Appeasment policy towards Hitler that emboldened the animal to start becoming agressive in the first place? I thought so....
We went headlong into Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the Mideast, and Panama when we thought it was necessary. I'm not saying that I agreed with all of those actions, just that your example is a little weak.
Imagine a European citing American isolationism?? Are you mad!?
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Nice try. Don't use the ONE example I threw out about the Brits vs. Argentina thing to make my WHOLE post untrue. It's nice that you decided to throw out the baby with the bathwater....and I'M the troll???
I was recalling something from back then in which I believe the U.S. provided some kind of logistics or informational support to the Brits during the Falkland Isles war. I would qualify that as helping the Brits during the engagement.
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OK, So I guess that little thing in Tibet and the Tianenman Square thing didn't mean anything?
America would never EVER try an attack against China. Get it through your thick skull that America doesn't want war. We only want to keep the oil flowing, stop genocide in Europe, and keep the Commie bastards from spreading. Communism is the most evil form of totalitarianism. If you like it so much why don't you go live there (if you don't already).
Good thing the Free World doesn't rely on Europe or Canada. While I generally like Europeans and Canadians, you guys would roll over for any dictator or Totalitarian lot.
Take your Americaphobia elsewhere, pal.
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Fellow/.'ers... Say what you want, as a Yank I believe in free speech, but I must say that I find it a little disturbing that this Anti-Americanism is so frequent lately on/. I can take some criticism of my country, but this has turned into a "let's bash the U.S. at every turn" free-for-all. Whenever ANY topic comes up, there are always a few sour little socialist jerks (that's socialists who are jerks, NOT all socialists are jerks) who feel that they have to start spouting off about the evils of America. Well, our precious Internet wouldn't exist if not for America or more precisely the DOD (remember ARPANET?)... The NAZIS or the Soviet Ruskies would still be in charge, and Europe would be a nuked out crater between them. Now I'm not saying that my country, the greatest country on Earth IMNSHO, hasn't done some horrible things, but so have many other nations. I don't see the same people here going off on the evils of Muslim Fundamentalism, or going off on the Chinese for doing what they have done in Tibet, or the British for beating up on poor lowly Argentina (oops, we helped them in that), or the Cubans for Angola, or the Soviets for Afghanistan, or the French for nuclear testing in the So. Pacific, etc... Puleeze... Hypocrites.
There are ALOT of fellow geeks here in the US who are anti violence and anti war, when being ANTI war matters. Remember, some wars are just, like the one against the Nazi pigs, or against Sadam (yeah, I know we helped create him, but if we didn't someone else would have and we'd still have had to fight him anyway...)
WHY can't we all just get along???
...and YES, I'm a Capitalist Pig who loves LINUX and Open Source and think its the best thing since sliced bread.
C'mon guys, it's getting old and boring already...
As far as info warfare goes, any of you who think that Uncle Sam doesn't have a few battalions of armored geeks somewhere in a hollowed out mountain planning the same thing the Chinese are planning, is nuts. I don't how true it is, but I read somewhere that the U.S. Space Command uses some kind of "hardened" and customized UNIX on systems that are physically hardened against particle/energy burst attacks. Also, the US Govt. routinely uses Cyber Warfare techniques against Colombian druglords, taking money out of their bank accounts. I saw this special on The Learning Channel or Discovery about it. They have this dude in a house with aluminum foil all around his windows of his computer room to protect against something (either energy attacks or to keep his stuff from being electronically eavesdropped- I'm sure some of YOU know..) - and he is one of the guys attacking the druglord accounts. Pretty cool stuff, IMO.
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In the Northeastern US (New York City surrounding area) the avg salary for a UNIX admin with a few years experience is anywhere from US$65k-US$100k/year. It can go into the US$140+ if they also know alot about Databases as well, or Network Security.
I Admin our UNIX and NT test servers, run a QA computer lab here, do website security and web work, admin our FTP box, help with disaster recovery planning (etc... many other things too) with only 4 yrs in tech, and a University degree in Political Science!! and make about US$57k (CDN$83,836.00) before bonuses and stock options, with full medical benefits and insurance.Guess what, though, my wife is pregnant and not working, and we live in a 4 room apartment b/c we can't afford the downpayment on a house. The housing in this area is very expensive (for decent property and a nice house in a nice town at least US$200k-US$350k), and if you move into cheaper Eastern Penn. or Southern NY state, you have to drive far to work, b/c there aren't many tech jobs in the STIX yet.
So,....it's all relative.
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No. Our webmaster is always trying to switch our web hosting servers from UNIX to IIS because he is computer illiterate without his point and click tools, and why learn to do anything if a Micro$oft Site Server wizard can create something acceptable in no time? One of the major problems is that M$ creates these easy to use "fluff" tools that integrate well with MS-SQL, Exchange, etc... The UNIX crowd seems to be missing this crucial point. These guys know jack shit about stability or performance, they just want their fluffy stuff, and if IIS/Site Server provides it, then that's what they want.
I actually told a room full of these people at a meeting that they were going to change my site from BSDI to IIS over my dead body, and if they want to do it then get a consultant and count me out. This, unfortunately is not going to win the war either.
Please somebody create webservers and SOME tools to stem the tide of these webmaster morons moving to M$ products, please?!?!?
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Yeah, if you call people knowing how to get the computer to say, "You've got mail...".
Get real, most people THINK they are tech-literate, but aren't. How many people out there use 'NIX ?? Not many compared to the population as a whole. I think Sysadmin jobs are safe for quite awhile. By the time they aren't, I'll be retired. I just hope I figure out what to do in my NEXT life.....
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True. At my job they just let an eastern employee (she was either Indian or Pakistani) go because although very smart and well educated, she had no initiative. You had to tell her EVERYTHING. If you didn't give her detailed instructions, she just didn't do anything, or did it wrong. I find this is true for many eastern people who I have met on the job (I said MANY, NOT all).
Also, many of them do not interact well with regular Americans and they certainly don't get the culture or slang, which makes interpersonal communication a real effort.
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I started out in computers way back with an Atari 800, and my modern computing started with Windoze, but I quickly learned NT shortcomings for myself and when I was introduced to UNIX, Xwindows, and Unix-like systems, let's just say it was love at first sight. My main PC at home is a Linux SMP machine, my fav WM is XFCE.
I live in the NYC metro area (No. NJ), and I just laugh when I hear LANOP commercials on 770 WABC AM radio about how MCSE's are making so much money and about the shortages. I LOVE IT! I love it because as long as the general public knows so little about UNIX, UNIX people will be scarce and my salary will keep going up!
The avg salary I am seeing in this area for good UNIX admins is anywhere from upper US$50k to US$140k if you know UNIX and Oracle/SAP well. There are even Junior UNIX admin jobs from US$65k-US$80k/yr. I see many ads in the US$80-US$100k range for intermediate to advanced UNIX admins. Then again, just to live in this area comfortably you need to make close to $100k but that's another story. I live in Bergen County, NJ, which is one of the top 10 most expensive area in the US for Real Estate. Sucks.
Keep getting those MCSE's and keep me scarce is my motto.
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My brother is unfortunately afflicted with Born Again Christianity, a very brainwashed and dangerous form of Christian cultism. He married a girl who is also afflicted, as is her entire family, and her oldest brother calling himself a minister and performed the actual marriage rite. At the end of the rite, he prayed over them and made a statement to the effect of, "...these 2 people were created whole, and didn't evolve from a microorginism...".
I found this offensive. I also find offensive how they poke fun at other Christain groups and proclaim that they are the only Christians. They must be stopped.
These morons are a large voting block in the US, and they won't be happy until the US is turned into a fundamentalist cesspool of a Theocracy. What is the difference between radical Fundamentlist Islam and radical Fundamentalist Christianity? Not much. If the funadamentalist Born Again rabble rousers had their way, they would be stoning people according to Old Testament Law. They rely alot on Old Testament myth, as is evidenced with this ridiculous preoccupation with Creationism. Why it is so damn important for Christians to believe literally in what is a SYMBOLIC story written by primitives to explain the origins of man is one of the great mystical tragedies of our day. I don't recall the message of Jesus somehow relying on how we evolved. I think if Jesus were here he would throw a hissy fit on these people.
Now, I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, and I was taught in Catholic school that Evolution is the most likely theory as to what happened, but that it was inspired, or touched off, by God. Now, even for aetheists, I would think that if the two groups could agree that Evolution is the most likely candidate, and agree on its teaching, but simply agree to disagree on the God factor, then I think that that would be workable. Its when these holier than thou nutcases crash the party that things get nasty, simply because the super religious can't tolerate opposing points of view and feel that it is their God given right to quash everything in favor of their simple little fairy tales. Why so many have chosen to insult the very God they worship by handing over their God given intellect to be spoon-fed a half-baked lie is beyond me. Sanity please?
Catholic Disclaimer: Before any of you anti-Catholics start needling me, I follow Catholic customs for family's sake, and plan to set an example for my kids so that they grow up with morals and ethics that I agree with, but I always reserve the right to make up my own mind on any subject and if the Church doesn't agree with that then that's tough. Also, the Inquisition and the Dark Ages were a LONG time ago and there is more than one viewpoint in the Catholic Church of modern times.
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I am admittedly no genius, and I have a Linux Desktop that I use at home which beats the pants off NT or 98 as a desktop OS. Right now I have a SETI cruncher going through TkSETI, am listening to the Sarah Brightman CD, have many Netscape windows open, and from time to time do a kernel compile while doing this, or listen to MP3's without a jitter or skip, do graphics rendering or look at girlie pix with Xview or the Gimp.
I got a dual processor Abit BP6 with 2x400mhz Celerons. All I had to do was recompile my kernel for SMP. Viola! I tried to make an NT installation SMP with THEIR utility and ended up with an unusable installation that couldn't be rescued. With another installation of NT I added a simple Creative Ensoniq PCI soundcard, added the drivers, and rebooted to a wonderful BSOD that even happens on the VGA "safe" mode! I tried a rescue and an upgrade and now it crashes worse!
Linux keeps chugging along just fine.
NT is GARBAGE, pure and simple. Someone ought to arrest the jerks who posted those LIES on the M$ website. They are mostly LIES. I pity those who believe the LIES.
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You sound like some rich kiddie student with no real life experience who listens to left wing college professors in between poetry writing sessions. If it wasn't for the US Mil, sweet cheeks, you'd be speaking Chinese, if not Russian, German, or Japanese. Get a life or go live in Beijing. I hear they're lookin for a few good little Reds.
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Yeah, enjoy your loot, jerky.
A programmer friend of mine dumped all of his M$ stock and made even more money with Amazon, and dumped that before it dived. He dumped his M$ stock because he has principles and can't stand their scumbag corporate culture and predatory practices. I won't buy their stock for the same reason, even though I know it will make me money. I'd rather invest in non scumbag companies. You wouldn't understand that, though.
Like I said, enjoy your loot, and go stick your fat head back up uncle Bill's a$$..
In case you haven't guessed, I live in New Joisey, home of the Sopranos, and we NJ Linux guys like to make M$ jerky boys sleep with the fishes....so watch ya step ya frekin troll.
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When I saw him on the Sci Fi Channel's enhanced reruns this past winter, he looked pretty bad (WHEN were those interviews taped??), and I kinda said to myself that he didn't look long for this world... and then it got me wondering about how old the others were and how long before they are all gone. Depressing, really. Never met any of them, but they feel kinda like family in a weird way.
During the SCI FI channel interviews he was marveling about how people back then laughed about the ST medical tools and how with Medical Technology today alot of today's devices are similar. He seemed proud.
Favorite line: "I'm a doctor, not a BRICKLAYER."
RIP Mr. Kelley, you were a class act to the end.
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At the end of the MSNBC article. Well, Linus wrote a letter to the M$ dude, and he said Linus' complaint was bullsh*t, and Linus said that programmers will be focusing on the areas of the benchmarks where Linux fell short.
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I think this is GREAT!!!! Now that they have appeared to anger Linus, he states that the kernel developers will start to focus on those areas where Linux falls short in benchmarks. THAT IS GREAT NEWS!!!!! What are they gonna say when they have no more benchmarks to trot out? Also, anybody laugh about that remark about Linux not being as secure as NT ??? Ha ha ha ha!!!
Thank you M$ !!!!
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No SGI and no SUN to speak of in 5 years? What are you smokin'??
...and their stock is doing very well too, wish I could afford to buy some, but my money is tied up mostly in CISCO right now....
I love Linux and the other free OS's, but I think that you are a little too confident of Win32's success. Also, SUN makes much heavier duty hardware than there is in the Intel world. In spite of the rise of Linux, a rise I mostly welcome, I don't see BSD shops giving up on that to go with Linux, or SUN/HP/AIX shops dropping their high end datacenter boxes to go with either Linux or W2K. Sorry, I just don't see it. As much as I love Linux, I wouldn't want to see that.
Also, I'm starting to hope that Linux doesn't become the most popular OS, b/c then there will be a flood of those with admin skills and salaries will plummet when any company can get a combo Linux/Windoze guru out of high school. Not good, methinks.
I don't know how many of you follow the financial news, but SUN is doing phenominal, and in spite of all of these claims about the impending fall of SUN, they are selling a record number of heavy duty Internet servers, and are in the midst of a very successful "dot.com" ad campaign.
SUN isn't going anywhere but up.
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I find that I just don't need the info in magazines anymore. As some already stated, you can get FRESH info off the Internet for FREE. Why waste $20-$30/yr on a subscription. It adds up, man!
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Oh no! My VCR only has a 2 digit year! But it works great otherwise.
Is that thing about setting it back to '72 real or just an urban legend?
Not that I ever really tape anything on the timer...
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I tried for awhile, and when I found out that the kernel supported the BTV chip that the 3com Netcam uses, I couldn't find any Linux compatable alternative to MS Netmeeting, which they all use on ZDTV. I couldn't bare having to boot Winblows to use a frekin Netcam just to get on ZDTV.
Never Surrender!
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I have used KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker, FVWM, TWM, etc... They're all fine if you like them. There was always something about the simplicity of CDE that I liked, with better wallpaper and icons, of course. Now I have it. I use it on my Linux boxes at work, and I use it on my Linux box at home. I REALLY liked Windowmaker and it's dockapps, but there is something that keeps pulling me towards XFCE. It's fast, crisp, and lean.
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One more little bitty thing. Had the European powers in the post WWI era not made the peace so unbearable for the majority of Germans, an animal like Hitler wouldn't have come to power. Remember how in the post WWII era, America used the Marshall Plan to make the peace one which would bring our former enemies closer to us in friendship? Geez, we actually helped to rebuild Europe and Asia after the war! I love it when Europeans stand with their hands out when our money is there and then continue to bash us at any chance they get. Wonderful friends!
I wouldn't want alot of you guys behind me in a bar fight, that's for sure...
Once again, I like most Europeans, (you guys know great beer and know how to party) I just dislike the anti American Commie sympathizing Euros.
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As a matter of fact I have read alot of history, and while you are correct that there was a large ANTI-WAR movement in the U.S. at that time preventing our entry into the war, we have had no such problems since. It's nice how you totally leave out the U.K.'s Appeasment policy towards Hitler that emboldened the animal to start becoming agressive in the first place? I thought so....
We went headlong into Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the Mideast, and Panama when we thought it was necessary. I'm not saying that I agreed with all of those actions, just that your example is a little weak.
Imagine a European citing American isolationism?? Are you mad!?
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Nice try. Don't use the ONE example I threw out about the Brits vs. Argentina thing to make my WHOLE post untrue. It's nice that you decided to throw out the baby with the bathwater. ...and I'M the troll???
I was recalling something from back then in which I believe the U.S. provided some kind of logistics or informational support to the Brits during the Falkland Isles war. I would qualify that as helping the Brits during the engagement.
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OK, So I guess that little thing in Tibet and the Tianenman Square thing didn't mean anything?
America would never EVER try an attack against China. Get it through your thick skull that America doesn't want war. We only want to keep the oil flowing, stop genocide in Europe, and keep the Commie bastards from spreading. Communism is the most evil form of totalitarianism. If you like it so much why don't you go live there (if you don't already).
Good thing the Free World doesn't rely on Europe or Canada. While I generally like Europeans and Canadians, you guys would roll over for any dictator or Totalitarian lot.
Take your Americaphobia elsewhere, pal.
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Fellow /.'ers... Say what you want, as a Yank I believe in free speech, but I must say that I find it a little disturbing that this Anti-Americanism is so frequent lately on /. I can take some criticism of my country, but this has turned into a "let's bash the U.S. at every turn" free-for-all. Whenever ANY topic comes up, there are always a few sour little socialist jerks (that's socialists who are jerks, NOT all socialists are jerks) who feel that they have to start spouting off about the evils of America. Well, our precious Internet wouldn't exist if not for America or more precisely the DOD (remember ARPANET?)... The NAZIS or the Soviet Ruskies would still be in charge, and Europe would be a nuked out crater between them. Now I'm not saying that my country, the greatest country on Earth IMNSHO, hasn't done some horrible things, but so have many other nations. I don't see the same people here going off on the evils of Muslim Fundamentalism, or going off on the Chinese for doing what they have done in Tibet, or the British for beating up on poor lowly Argentina (oops, we helped them in that), or the Cubans for Angola, or the Soviets for Afghanistan, or the French for nuclear testing in the So. Pacific, etc... Puleeze... Hypocrites.
...and YES, I'm a Capitalist Pig who loves LINUX and Open Source and think its the best thing since sliced bread.
There are ALOT of fellow geeks here in the US who are anti violence and anti war, when being ANTI war matters. Remember, some wars are just, like the one against the Nazi pigs, or against Sadam (yeah, I know we helped create him, but if we didn't someone else would have and we'd still have had to fight him anyway...)
WHY can't we all just get along???
C'mon guys, it's getting old and boring already...
As far as info warfare goes, any of you who think that Uncle Sam doesn't have a few battalions of armored geeks somewhere in a hollowed out mountain planning the same thing the Chinese are planning, is nuts. I don't how true it is, but I read somewhere that the U.S. Space Command uses some kind of "hardened" and customized UNIX on systems that are physically hardened against particle/energy burst attacks. Also, the US Govt. routinely uses Cyber Warfare techniques against Colombian druglords, taking money out of their bank accounts. I saw this special on The Learning Channel or Discovery about it. They have this dude in a house with aluminum foil all around his windows of his computer room to protect against something (either energy attacks or to keep his stuff from being electronically eavesdropped- I'm sure some of YOU know..) - and he is one of the guys attacking the druglord accounts. Pretty cool stuff, IMO.
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In the Northeastern US (New York City surrounding area) the avg salary for a UNIX admin with a few years experience is anywhere from US$65k-US$100k/year. It can go into the US$140+ if they also know alot about Databases as well, or Network Security.
... many other things too) with only 4 yrs in tech, and a University degree in Political Science!! and make about US$57k (CDN$83,836.00) before bonuses and stock options, with full medical benefits and insurance. Guess what, though, my wife is pregnant and not working, and we live in a 4 room apartment b/c we can't afford the downpayment on a house. The housing in this area is very expensive (for decent property and a nice house in a nice town at least US$200k-US$350k), and if you move into cheaper Eastern Penn. or Southern NY state, you have to drive far to work, b/c there aren't many tech jobs in the STIX yet.
....it's all relative.
I Admin our UNIX and NT test servers, run a QA computer lab here, do website security and web work, admin our FTP box, help with disaster recovery planning (etc
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No. Our webmaster is always trying to switch our web hosting servers from UNIX to IIS because he is computer illiterate without his point and click tools, and why learn to do anything if a Micro$oft Site Server wizard can create something acceptable in no time? One of the major problems is that M$ creates these easy to use "fluff" tools that integrate well with MS-SQL, Exchange, etc... The UNIX crowd seems to be missing this crucial point. These guys know jack shit about stability or performance, they just want their fluffy stuff, and if IIS/Site Server provides it, then that's what they want.
I actually told a room full of these people at a meeting that they were going to change my site from BSDI to IIS over my dead body, and if they want to do it then get a consultant and count me out. This, unfortunately is not going to win the war either.
Please somebody create webservers and SOME tools to stem the tide of these webmaster morons moving to M$ products, please?!?!?
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The nerve that now he has to reply and provide "written assurances".
The callousness of it all!
Screw 'em!!!!
I say everyone send an email to IDG and tell them to get back in line.
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Yeah, if you call people knowing how to get the computer to say, "You've got mail...".
Get real, most people THINK they are tech-literate, but aren't. How many people out there use 'NIX ?? Not many compared to the population as a whole. I think Sysadmin jobs are safe for quite awhile. By the time they aren't, I'll be retired. I just hope I figure out what to do in my NEXT life.....
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True. At my job they just let an eastern employee (she was either Indian or Pakistani) go because although very smart and well educated, she had no initiative. You had to tell her EVERYTHING. If you didn't give her detailed instructions, she just didn't do anything, or did it wrong. I find this is true for many eastern people who I have met on the job (I said MANY, NOT all).
Also, many of them do not interact well with regular Americans and they certainly don't get the culture or slang, which makes interpersonal communication a real effort.
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I started out in computers way back with an Atari 800, and my modern computing started with Windoze, but I quickly learned NT shortcomings for myself and when I was introduced to UNIX, Xwindows, and Unix-like systems, let's just say it was love at first sight. My main PC at home is a Linux SMP machine, my fav WM is XFCE.
I live in the NYC metro area (No. NJ), and I just laugh when I hear LANOP commercials on 770 WABC AM radio about how MCSE's are making so much money and about the shortages. I LOVE IT! I love it because as long as the general public knows so little about UNIX, UNIX people will be scarce and my salary will keep going up!
The avg salary I am seeing in this area for good UNIX admins is anywhere from upper US$50k to US$140k if you know UNIX and Oracle/SAP well. There are even Junior UNIX admin jobs from US$65k-US$80k/yr. I see many ads in the US$80-US$100k range for intermediate to advanced UNIX admins. Then again, just to live in this area comfortably you need to make close to $100k but that's another story. I live in Bergen County, NJ, which is one of the top 10 most expensive area in the US for Real Estate. Sucks.
Keep getting those MCSE's and keep me scarce is my motto.
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My brother is unfortunately afflicted with Born Again Christianity, a very brainwashed and dangerous form of Christian cultism. He married a girl who is also afflicted, as is her entire family, and her oldest brother calling himself a minister and performed the actual marriage rite. At the end of the rite, he prayed over them and made a statement to the effect of, "...these 2 people were created whole, and didn't evolve from a microorginism...".
I found this offensive. I also find offensive how they poke fun at other Christain groups and proclaim that they are the only Christians. They must be stopped.
These morons are a large voting block in the US, and they won't be happy until the US is turned into a fundamentalist cesspool of a Theocracy. What is the difference between radical Fundamentlist Islam and radical Fundamentalist Christianity? Not much. If the funadamentalist Born Again rabble rousers had their way, they would be stoning people according to Old Testament Law. They rely alot on Old Testament myth, as is evidenced with this ridiculous preoccupation with Creationism. Why it is so damn important for Christians to believe literally in what is a SYMBOLIC story written by primitives to explain the origins of man is one of the great mystical tragedies of our day. I don't recall the message of Jesus somehow relying on how we evolved. I think if Jesus were here he would throw a hissy fit on these people.
Now, I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, and I was taught in Catholic school that Evolution is the most likely theory as to what happened, but that it was inspired, or touched off, by God. Now, even for aetheists, I would think that if the two groups could agree that Evolution is the most likely candidate, and agree on its teaching, but simply agree to disagree on the God factor, then I think that that would be workable. Its when these holier than thou nutcases crash the party that things get nasty, simply because the super religious can't tolerate opposing points of view and feel that it is their God given right to quash everything in favor of their simple little fairy tales. Why so many have chosen to insult the very God they worship by handing over their God given intellect to be spoon-fed a half-baked lie is beyond me. Sanity please?
Catholic Disclaimer: Before any of you anti-Catholics start needling me, I follow Catholic customs for family's sake, and plan to set an example for my kids so that they grow up with morals and ethics that I agree with, but I always reserve the right to make up my own mind on any subject and if the Church doesn't agree with that then that's tough. Also, the Inquisition and the Dark Ages were a LONG time ago and there is more than one viewpoint in the Catholic Church of modern times.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
I am admittedly no genius, and I have a Linux Desktop that I use at home which beats the pants off NT or 98 as a desktop OS. Right now I have a SETI cruncher going through TkSETI, am listening to the Sarah Brightman CD, have many Netscape windows open, and from time to time do a kernel compile while doing this, or listen to MP3's without a jitter or skip, do graphics rendering or look at girlie pix with Xview or the Gimp.
I got a dual processor Abit BP6 with 2x400mhz Celerons. All I had to do was recompile my kernel for SMP. Viola! I tried to make an NT installation SMP with THEIR utility and ended up with an unusable installation that couldn't be rescued. With another installation of NT I added a simple Creative Ensoniq PCI soundcard, added the drivers, and rebooted to a wonderful BSOD that even happens on the VGA "safe" mode! I tried a rescue and an upgrade and now it crashes worse!
Linux keeps chugging along just fine.
NT is GARBAGE, pure and simple. Someone ought to arrest the jerks who posted those LIES on the M$ website. They are mostly LIES. I pity those who believe the LIES.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
You sound like some rich kiddie student with no real life experience who listens to left wing college professors in between poetry writing sessions. If it wasn't for the US Mil, sweet cheeks, you'd be speaking Chinese, if not Russian, German, or Japanese. Get a life or go live in Beijing. I hear they're lookin for a few good little Reds.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Yeah, enjoy your loot, jerky.
...so watch ya step ya frekin troll.
A programmer friend of mine dumped all of his M$ stock and made even more money with Amazon, and dumped that before it dived. He dumped his M$ stock because he has principles and can't stand their scumbag corporate culture and predatory practices. I won't buy their stock for the same reason, even though I know it will make me money. I'd rather invest in non scumbag companies. You wouldn't understand that, though.
Like I said, enjoy your loot, and go stick your fat head back up uncle Bill's a$$..
In case you haven't guessed, I live in New Joisey, home of the Sopranos, and we NJ Linux guys like to make M$ jerky boys sleep with the fishes.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
When I saw him on the Sci Fi Channel's enhanced reruns this past winter, he looked pretty bad (WHEN were those interviews taped??), and I kinda said to myself that he didn't look long for this world... and then it got me wondering about how old the others were and how long before they are all gone. Depressing, really. Never met any of them, but they feel kinda like family in a weird way.
During the SCI FI channel interviews he was marveling about how people back then laughed about the ST medical tools and how with Medical Technology today alot of today's devices are similar. He seemed proud.Favorite line: "I'm a doctor, not a BRICKLAYER."
RIP Mr. Kelley, you were a class act to the end.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
I posted under the Nikon 950 forum, since they only let you post under an exisitng forum, and there weren't any Misc forums that I could see.
/. 'em!
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
At the end of the MSNBC article. Well, Linus wrote a letter to the M$ dude, and he said Linus' complaint was bullsh*t, and Linus said that programmers will be focusing on the areas of the benchmarks where Linux fell short.
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
I think this is GREAT!!!! Now that they have appeared to anger Linus, he states that the kernel developers will start to focus on those areas where Linux falls short in benchmarks. THAT IS GREAT NEWS!!!!! What are they gonna say when they have no more benchmarks to trot out? Also, anybody laugh about that remark about Linux not being as secure as NT ??? Ha ha ha ha!!!
Thank you M$ !!!!
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
Some sites, like FOXNEWS, try to embed it into a tiny box as an inline plugin. How do you make this work under Linux/Netscape???
Thanks
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Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,