You say Ubuntu would need to match Mandriva to get you to tell people to "get Ubuntu." I have two questions:
1) What specifically does Mandriva have that Ubuntu doesn't? (I haven't used Mandriva since Mandrake 7 and loved it back then)
2) What would Mandriva have to do to make you tell people to "get Mandriva."?
Very true! I'd mod you up if I could mod in this thread.
On that topic, my son has nearly turned my MacBook into a tablet. Had he fallen on it with just a little more twisting action, I'd have a Mac Tablet. Screen wouldn't work, but still... As it is, the hinges are loose so the screen falls if you bump it. Not as bad as it could've been...
But ah, flash. The screen can go as long as my data is safe.
I have kids and it isn't an option for me to simply stop using the laptop when the two year olds are around. I need zilch for storage capacity and love longevity. $200 more for a notebook that lasts a year longer, speculatively speaking? Sign me up!
Looking at their site, it seems as though anonymity goes out the window. You go to their site, click on people, choose a person (what the hell, let's look at Sophia Chou in Boston, shall we?) and take a look under Recent Activity:
She voted yes on FG Bill #2... doesn't like Obama's stance on FISA... thinks medical pot is OK...
Of course anonymity mandated in the US so that we can all vote without groupthink seeping in via direct methods like vote buying or bullying or indirect methods such as a friend saying they don't like people who think a certain way about something. What do Slashdotters think of this- giving up anonymity to participate in a (potentially) real, accessible (at least much moreso than by traditional methods), engaging political process?
And for that matter... doesn't the lack of anonymity break US law? If this party were to start being taken seriously, of course. Say, if they really did get a representative under contract.
Fun and interesting is definitely a substitute. So then, a SysAdmin at a fun and interesting job, I think, might have such a hybrid of skills. I still think your average guy-right-below-the-CIO is either going to be a Code monkey or an IT monkey (to oversimplify), but you've got more than a point about all manner of other types of sysadminry.
Honestly, how many people do you know who fit the bill you've described, and how did they capture that much expertise? And what kind of company are you working at, anyway? I've never worked for a company with more than 150 people and I doubt they could afford such a guru.
Not perfectly relevant nor a true answer to the posted question but legal pads are often yellow because it's easier to focus while looking at yellow (supposedly). I've often set myself a gentle, brighter yellowish background and much to my surprise, if you pick the right shade, it's very comfortable.
You say you've done a lot of tech support. Are you interested in being an IT Admin? Network Admin? Maybe the business side of computers?
Are you interested in areas that only semi-relate to computers, such as marketing, sales, etc. for a company whose product is so technical as to make your degree relevant?
I have this vision of Chuck Norris peeling himself away from Slashdot in his mom's basement and brushing off the Cheeto dust and Coke stains to blow away a couple of Stormtroopers at mom's front door (for which he needs no gun). Then he goes back to Slashdot wearing an American flag.
Iraqi resistance is more of a never ending PITA than an effective path to something better than tyranny. Where were these freedom fighters before Saddam was toppled? And how would a theoretical equivalent situation play out in the US?
I'd like to do that. How did you manage? Did your wife have a job? Was this a while ago when education cost slightly less than now? How are the loan payments?
Obligatory Question: How does one get experience at Cisco routing or other cert-centric stuff to begin with? Should I go plop down $1000 for my own personal hardware for home use / study?
I've finally landed a job where I can get all sorts of experience AND can put food on the table, but jobs like mine are so few and far between. What's the expectation of up-and-coming techs, outside of landing a dream job like mine? This board makes it sound like no one in the world is interested in education anymore, and that it's all about money, and "what have you done for me lately" mentality (mostly on behalf of the people who get an education or certs only to beef up their resume).
Thanks for the reply! I've set these settings... where do I go to login? On reboot, I've tried entering my AD username / password and DOMAIN\username / password but neither are understanding my intention. I had already binded myself to the domain, so to comply with your instructions, I first unbind-ed from the domain, then re-bind-ed. Am I bound properly?
Forgive the newbiness, but how does one login on a Mac using an Active Directory account? Does this require 3rd party software? I looked into it a few months ago and gave up after a day or two.
What if the voting machine told (not printed) you a temporary ID that wasn't tied to your real ID in any way. Then votes are always pushed to multiple publicly accessible listings and you can go home and verify how your vote was recorded with multiple sources.
Then the government could produce their results and independent groups could produce their own results based on publicly available information. Individuals could verify with multiple sources that their vote was counted accurately (so long as they can remember their temporary ID).
Enough people would be able to verify that their vote was accurately counted by the independent groups and the independent groups could verify that the government counted right. With this idea, where is the chink in the armor?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I think it's a matter of personal opinion right now. But what's next? Does it escalate in ten years? It isn't going to stay the same and it isn't going to quell. It's going to get slightly more invasive all the time.
I'm not saying anyone should be proud of their security history and methodology, all software currently sucks ass.
I know a lot of very intelligent people who categorically can't understand this. It doesn't just apply to security, either. Just because something's the most popular doesn't make it the best, and being the best doesn't make it perfect... or ideal... or even good.
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You say Ubuntu would need to match Mandriva to get you to tell people to "get Ubuntu." I have two questions:
1) What specifically does Mandriva have that Ubuntu doesn't? (I haven't used Mandriva since Mandrake 7 and loved it back then)
2) What would Mandriva have to do to make you tell people to "get Mandriva."?
Very true! I'd mod you up if I could mod in this thread.
On that topic, my son has nearly turned my MacBook into a tablet. Had he fallen on it with just a little more twisting action, I'd have a Mac Tablet. Screen wouldn't work, but still... As it is, the hinges are loose so the screen falls if you bump it. Not as bad as it could've been...
But ah, flash. The screen can go as long as my data is safe.
I have kids and it isn't an option for me to simply stop using the laptop when the two year olds are around. I need zilch for storage capacity and love longevity. $200 more for a notebook that lasts a year longer, speculatively speaking? Sign me up!
Looking at their site, it seems as though anonymity goes out the window. You go to their site, click on people, choose a person (what the hell, let's look at Sophia Chou in Boston, shall we?) and take a look under Recent Activity:
She voted yes on FG Bill #2... doesn't like Obama's stance on FISA... thinks medical pot is OK...
Of course anonymity mandated in the US so that we can all vote without groupthink seeping in via direct methods like vote buying or bullying or indirect methods such as a friend saying they don't like people who think a certain way about something. What do Slashdotters think of this- giving up anonymity to participate in a (potentially) real, accessible (at least much moreso than by traditional methods), engaging political process?
And for that matter... doesn't the lack of anonymity break US law? If this party were to start being taken seriously, of course. Say, if they really did get a representative under contract.
Fun and interesting is definitely a substitute. So then, a SysAdmin at a fun and interesting job, I think, might have such a hybrid of skills. I still think your average guy-right-below-the-CIO is either going to be a Code monkey or an IT monkey (to oversimplify), but you've got more than a point about all manner of other types of sysadminry.
How did Dell MessageOne start out?
Honestly, how many people do you know who fit the bill you've described, and how did they capture that much expertise? And what kind of company are you working at, anyway? I've never worked for a company with more than 150 people and I doubt they could afford such a guru.
We measure things in Libraries of Congress; why not start measuring removable media in 3.5" floppies? 277,777 floppies fit on this disc!
It's read only! How are they going to get 400 GB onto something onto which they can't write?
Do they mean WORM? (Is there some marketing problem with that acronym, maybe?)
Not perfectly relevant nor a true answer to the posted question but legal pads are often yellow because it's easier to focus while looking at yellow (supposedly). I've often set myself a gentle, brighter yellowish background and much to my surprise, if you pick the right shade, it's very comfortable.
You say you've done a lot of tech support. Are you interested in being an IT Admin? Network Admin? Maybe the business side of computers? Are you interested in areas that only semi-relate to computers, such as marketing, sales, etc. for a company whose product is so technical as to make your degree relevant?
Definitely. I was just referring to his mention of BT downloads correlating to the problem.
Don't most of the good BitTorrent clients let you throttle how much bandwidth you want to let it use?
I have this vision of Chuck Norris peeling himself away from Slashdot in his mom's basement and brushing off the Cheeto dust and Coke stains to blow away a couple of Stormtroopers at mom's front door (for which he needs no gun). Then he goes back to Slashdot wearing an American flag.
Sorry, first visual that came to mind.
Come to think of it, under the new rules, what's stopping the possibility of "google" or "google." becoming the new Google.com?
Iraqi resistance is more of a never ending PITA than an effective path to something better than tyranny. Where were these freedom fighters before Saddam was toppled? And how would a theoretical equivalent situation play out in the US?
I'd like to do that. How did you manage? Did your wife have a job? Was this a while ago when education cost slightly less than now? How are the loan payments?
If the star was in this space, doesn't that make it full space?
Obligatory Question: How does one get experience at Cisco routing or other cert-centric stuff to begin with? Should I go plop down $1000 for my own personal hardware for home use / study?
I've finally landed a job where I can get all sorts of experience AND can put food on the table, but jobs like mine are so few and far between. What's the expectation of up-and-coming techs, outside of landing a dream job like mine? This board makes it sound like no one in the world is interested in education anymore, and that it's all about money, and "what have you done for me lately" mentality (mostly on behalf of the people who get an education or certs only to beef up their resume).
Thanks for the reply! I've set these settings... where do I go to login? On reboot, I've tried entering my AD username / password and DOMAIN\username / password but neither are understanding my intention. I had already binded myself to the domain, so to comply with your instructions, I first unbind-ed from the domain, then re-bind-ed. Am I bound properly?
Forgive the newbiness, but how does one login on a Mac using an Active Directory account? Does this require 3rd party software? I looked into it a few months ago and gave up after a day or two.
http://www.smk.co.za/
I know practically nothing about OS programming and my C / C++ has been rusting since University, but this guy writes code that even I can follow.
What if the voting machine told (not printed) you a temporary ID that wasn't tied to your real ID in any way. Then votes are always pushed to multiple publicly accessible listings and you can go home and verify how your vote was recorded with multiple sources.
Then the government could produce their results and independent groups could produce their own results based on publicly available information. Individuals could verify with multiple sources that their vote was counted accurately (so long as they can remember their temporary ID).
Enough people would be able to verify that their vote was accurately counted by the independent groups and the independent groups could verify that the government counted right. With this idea, where is the chink in the armor?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I think it's a matter of personal opinion right now. But what's next? Does it escalate in ten years? It isn't going to stay the same and it isn't going to quell. It's going to get slightly more invasive all the time.
Uranus is full of gas!
I'm not saying anyone should be proud of their security history and methodology, all software currently sucks ass. I know a lot of very intelligent people who categorically can't understand this. It doesn't just apply to security, either. Just because something's the most popular doesn't make it the best, and being the best doesn't make it perfect... or ideal... or even good.