My point was that you have more legal rights with paper than digital. If you're trying to hide something, keep it at home. Once you carry something into the public space, it becomes fair game.
When I took an airplane flight to Las Vegas a few years ago, I left my laptop at home and took a notebook with me for writing. Although a notebook can be confiscated and read by the police, you have more constitutional rights with dead-tree data than digital data.
What happens when you die has exactly zero relevance.
It's a burden to your relatives if they have sort through and toss 99% of your stuff into the dumpster because they consider it to be crap. I've done that a few times. My life has become much more easier since I started tossing stuff out. If I'm buying less stuff, I can save more money.
I try installing Linux From Scratch every now and then. Works best in a Linux host virtual machine. I was never successful using the live CD on bare metal hard drive. If you ever read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody, this was how Linus Torvalds built the early Linux while using Minix as the host operating system.
Think god I had a city college education! The contracting company for IBM hired to fresh out of high school students who thought they were hot stuff because they can unbox a Dell computer without looking at the unboxing diagram on the box. The job was simple: unplugged the token ring cable, plugged in the Ethernet cable, and test the high-bandwidth network video application for 300 workstations. They couldn't bother to read the instruction sheet, plugged the Ethernet cable into the token ring card, which supported both 10BASE2 and twisted pair cables, and didn't test the video application to catch their mistake. I made an extra four hours in OT pay and left the job at 3:30AM in the morning.
Life-long lesson learned: You make more money being the guy who cleans up other people's mistakes.
My father graduated from the eighth grade in the 1950's, which was the equivalent of a four-year college education today. He worked for the same construction company for 50 years and three generations of owners. Most university-trained architects believe they are gods and their drawings are perfect. Yet he routinely dissected their drawings, finding mistakes and implementing fixes.
Spoken by someone who is stuck with student loans for eternity by getting a university degree. I worked and paid for my first associate degree. Uncle Sam paid for my second associate degree with a $3,000 tax credit. Except for one year at the university that got me stuck with a $2,500 student loan for ten years, I'm not wallowing in student debt.
I went to San Jose State University for a year before I got kicked out and stuck with a $2,500 student loan for ten years. I spent my scholarship money on setting up a Wildcat! BBS to be the beginning of my online media empire. And then something called the Internet became really big in 1995. I was a dot com bust before the dot coms existed.
Uncle Sam picked up the tab to learn computer programming with a $3,000 tax credit after the dot com bust in 2001. I made a successful career transition from being a video game tester to being an I.T. support technician. No regrets, no student debts.
Ten years ago I did a one-night job for IBM where the bank switched from token ring to Ethernet. Never mind that the brand new building was set up for Ethernet. When the branch office moved in, IBM installed 10BASE2 cables along side the Ethernet cables because the bank wasn't ready to transition after using token ring for 20+ years. That was the first and last time I saw token ring in the wilds.
My father's one-ton flatbed truck blew a hole in the engine block. After it came out of the shop, he discovered that the mechanics had switched out the standard bolts for metric bolts. That pissed him off to no ends. He borrowed a metric tool set from a neighbor and we spent a summer day replacing all the bolts. Somehow we ended up with extra bolts -- both standard and metric -- than we started off. The truck ran. After ten years and a million miles, he sold the truck to a guy who lost his flatbed truck in a wreck but kept the engine block.
San Jose City College in the heart of Silicon Valley. When I graduated in 2007 with a second associate degree, the Records & Admission office were still scheduling classes on the same mainframe and 9600 baud serial terminals from when I went there in the early 1990's.
Today's typewriters are pure crap compared to the typewriters from 20 to 30 years ago. Back then you could to go to Gemco to look at a dozen different typewriters from the clunky manual typewriters to electronic typewriters with the little spinning ball type head. Those were built to last. I gave up my typewriters in the mid-90's after the college library got a bunch of Macintosh SE and a laser printer. Writing on the computer became the hip thing to do. Took a few years before the anti-computer zealots in the English department got the memo that laser-printed pages were acceptable for class assignments.
I went back to school to learn computer programming on a part-time basis from 2002 to 2007. Assignments were turned in on floppies for the first few years. Emailing assignments and online classes became common towards the end. I turned in my final project -- creating an XML parser from scratch in Java without using any existing XML APIs -- on a CD because the source code, executable and documentation file were too big to email as a zip file. After five years of attending classes while working full-time, the dean handed back a floppy that I submitted for my very first class that he forgot to give back and found in his office. A month after I graduated with my A.S. degree, I made the president's for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
I use the command line extensively when I work on Linux. I usually install whatever "flavor of the month" Linux distro and the Blackbox windows manager to have several terminal windows and nothing else open. If I don't have time to fiddle around with setting up Blackbox, I'll install Xfce as the default windows manager. Coworkers at various jobs didn't like either windows managers when logging into one of my systems.
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I just bought eight bags of Xmas M&M's for 75% off ($1.07 per bag) at CVS!
My point was that you have more legal rights with paper than digital. If you're trying to hide something, keep it at home. Once you carry something into the public space, it becomes fair game.
When I took an airplane flight to Las Vegas a few years ago, I left my laptop at home and took a notebook with me for writing. Although a notebook can be confiscated and read by the police, you have more constitutional rights with dead-tree data than digital data.
What happens when you die has exactly zero relevance.
It's a burden to your relatives if they have sort through and toss 99% of your stuff into the dumpster because they consider it to be crap. I've done that a few times. My life has become much more easier since I started tossing stuff out. If I'm buying less stuff, I can save more money.
They already disowned me. If they're not getting anything after I die, why put up with me?
Note: My philosophy is "when you die, you're dead."
My philosophy is "when you die, your relatives will throw out 99% of what you own." So throw your stuff out first, live with less and be happy.
Vaporware, government-style.
I try installing Linux From Scratch every now and then. Works best in a Linux host virtual machine. I was never successful using the live CD on bare metal hard drive. If you ever read "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" by Glyn Moody, this was how Linus Torvalds built the early Linux while using Minix as the host operating system.
Think god I had a city college education! The contracting company for IBM hired to fresh out of high school students who thought they were hot stuff because they can unbox a Dell computer without looking at the unboxing diagram on the box. The job was simple: unplugged the token ring cable, plugged in the Ethernet cable, and test the high-bandwidth network video application for 300 workstations. They couldn't bother to read the instruction sheet, plugged the Ethernet cable into the token ring card, which supported both 10BASE2 and twisted pair cables, and didn't test the video application to catch their mistake. I made an extra four hours in OT pay and left the job at 3:30AM in the morning.
Life-long lesson learned: You make more money being the guy who cleans up other people's mistakes.
My father graduated from the eighth grade in the 1950's, which was the equivalent of a four-year college education today. He worked for the same construction company for 50 years and three generations of owners. Most university-trained architects believe they are gods and their drawings are perfect. Yet he routinely dissected their drawings, finding mistakes and implementing fixes.
I wouldn't brag about having a university degree while wallowing in student loans that you can't ever pay off.
Just like a city college.
Spoken by someone who is stuck with student loans for eternity by getting a university degree. I worked and paid for my first associate degree. Uncle Sam paid for my second associate degree with a $3,000 tax credit. Except for one year at the university that got me stuck with a $2,500 student loan for ten years, I'm not wallowing in student debt.
I went to San Jose State University for a year before I got kicked out and stuck with a $2,500 student loan for ten years. I spent my scholarship money on setting up a Wildcat! BBS to be the beginning of my online media empire. And then something called the Internet became really big in 1995. I was a dot com bust before the dot coms existed.
Uncle Sam picked up the tab to learn computer programming with a $3,000 tax credit after the dot com bust in 2001. I made a successful career transition from being a video game tester to being an I.T. support technician. No regrets, no student debts.
Thanks. I'll give it a try.
Ten years ago I did a one-night job for IBM where the bank switched from token ring to Ethernet. Never mind that the brand new building was set up for Ethernet. When the branch office moved in, IBM installed 10BASE2 cables along side the Ethernet cables because the bank wasn't ready to transition after using token ring for 20+ years. That was the first and last time I saw token ring in the wilds.
My father's one-ton flatbed truck blew a hole in the engine block. After it came out of the shop, he discovered that the mechanics had switched out the standard bolts for metric bolts. That pissed him off to no ends. He borrowed a metric tool set from a neighbor and we spent a summer day replacing all the bolts. Somehow we ended up with extra bolts -- both standard and metric -- than we started off. The truck ran. After ten years and a million miles, he sold the truck to a guy who lost his flatbed truck in a wreck but kept the engine block.
MicroATX boards are likely to have legacy connectors (i.e., floppy, IDE, parallel and serial).
Keeping a magnet inside your pants pocket helps neither floppy disks nor sperm count.
San Jose City College in the heart of Silicon Valley. When I graduated in 2007 with a second associate degree, the Records & Admission office were still scheduling classes on the same mainframe and 9600 baud serial terminals from when I went there in the early 1990's.
Where else?
Today's typewriters are pure crap compared to the typewriters from 20 to 30 years ago. Back then you could to go to Gemco to look at a dozen different typewriters from the clunky manual typewriters to electronic typewriters with the little spinning ball type head. Those were built to last. I gave up my typewriters in the mid-90's after the college library got a bunch of Macintosh SE and a laser printer. Writing on the computer became the hip thing to do. Took a few years before the anti-computer zealots in the English department got the memo that laser-printed pages were acceptable for class assignments.
I went back to school to learn computer programming on a part-time basis from 2002 to 2007. Assignments were turned in on floppies for the first few years. Emailing assignments and online classes became common towards the end. I turned in my final project -- creating an XML parser from scratch in Java without using any existing XML APIs -- on a CD because the source code, executable and documentation file were too big to email as a zip file. After five years of attending classes while working full-time, the dean handed back a floppy that I submitted for my very first class that he forgot to give back and found in his office. A month after I graduated with my A.S. degree, I made the president's for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
Floppy disks are well-known weapons of mass destruction, especially the eight-inch floppy disk.
Never seen RH Desktop or CentOS in the wilds.
I use the command line extensively when I work on Linux. I usually install whatever "flavor of the month" Linux distro and the Blackbox windows manager to have several terminal windows and nothing else open. If I don't have time to fiddle around with setting up Blackbox, I'll install Xfce as the default windows manager. Coworkers at various jobs didn't like either windows managers when logging into one of my systems.