Proud owner of a Black MacBook (2006) for eight years until the CPU fan died for a second time. (Since it has a 32-bit CPU and applications are going 64-bit only, it doesn't make sense to repair the CPU fan again.) My next laptop will be a White MacBook (2010) that I'm going replace the DVD drive with a SSD, max out the memory to 16GB, and eventually replace the 250GB hard drive with another SSD.
I like working on on male coding teams so I don't have to deal with 'family issues' when little Timmy has to be picked up from school early, wherein the rest of us have to cover for her.
You have obviously not worked on a coding team that consisted of married guys, who not only have to pick up Little Timmy early from school but also expect the unmarried guy to cover and/or work overtime hours on their behalf. Raising a family is no longer the sole responsibility of the wife. There's more to life than being a sperm donor.
Where she will be subjected to daily microaggression from male coworkers who know they will get away with it because the bosses are all male?
Based on my professional experience in Silicon Valley, the pressence of a female into an all male group causes the guys to clean up their acts and behave appropriately in a hurry. Any "microaggression" is taken care of within the group. If anyone does get out of line, it's a long visit to the HR office.
This, combined with early '80s geek culture staples like the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, as well as movies like War Games and Weird Science, conspired to instill the perception that computers were primarily for men.
I had no clue that "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy was a popular book in 1984. My Apple ][ class in middle school at that time was split down middle between boys and girls. Some teachers must have read that book, noted the errors of their ways, and pushed the girls back into the typewriter class thereafter. Well, duh.
Your PCs probably everything but the physical port for a serial port. You can buy the connector and slap it on if you give a shit, then cut a hole in the i/o shield (or your case) for it.
Actually, they don't. I got extra headers for USB (Universal SERIAL Bus) on my motherboards. Serial ports are so old school these days.
If you're studying for the entry-level Cisco certifications, you can use older routers and switches in your hardware lab. These require a rolled cable for the console.
As in the Atari 2600 standard digital four direction plus one button, not the PC fifteen pin analog port.
The Atari 2600 joystick was analog with five switches (one for fire and four for eight directions). If the joystick got pressed north/east/south/west, the corresponding switch got turned on. If the joystick got pressed elsewhere, say, northwest, two switches got turned on.
You mean a serial port? I bet yours does and you didn't even know it.
The OP mentioned Commodore 64 dongles that typically plugged into the 9-pin joystick ports, which were compatible with the Atari 2600 joysticks. The 9-pin connector for the joystick ports were also used for serial ports on the PC, although I think that came later as 25-pin serial connectors were still common on modems in the early 1980's. Early PCs had a 15-pin game port on the old SoundBlaster cards. Don't recall if anyone made a 9-pin to 15-pin adapter to plug in the old Atari 2600 joysticks.
And if it doesn't?
None of my PCs have serial ports on them. I had to get a USB serial adapter to be able to console into my Cisco rack.
SJSU isn't considered to be an engineering school. Although it did have a fine electrical engineering program in the 1980's and 1990's, providing many engineers to the companies that put the silicon into Silicon Valley. Apple and Yahoo probably prefer liberal arts majors over engineering majors.
I had roommate who spent $25,000 at SJSU to earn a bachelor degree in automotorive industrial design because he likes cars. Never mind that he couldn't get a job in California with that degree (this was years before Telsa set up shop in Silicon Valley). He went on to make a fine career in warehouse logistics. If that doesn't qualify as a worthless college degree, I don't know what does.
The slashdot crowd (wrong) assumption that as anyone can successfully self-teach himself to a successful career.
As a fat white boy misdiagnosed as mentally retarded by the education system, the role of the school was to collect three times the funding while treating me like an idiot. (Never mind that I routinely blew out the annual evaluation exams on the genius side, as those were all statistical flukes.) If I wanted to learn anything, I had to teach myself on my own time. I graduated the eigth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth-grade English/math skills. After skipping high school and being turned away from the G.E.D. program (it would take me five years to get a diploma), I enrolled in the community college and earned my A.A. degree in general education in four years. A decade later I went back to college to get my A.S. degree in computer programming on a part-time basis while working 80 hours a week as a lead video game tester, making the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
As an experienced computer technician, I make more money than the high school and college graduates in my family. If I had accepted what I learned in school, I would probably be an uneducated idiot.
I take the express bus ($140 per month) and rent a 475 sft studio apartment for $1313 that I lived in for the last nine years. Neither traffic nor real estate is a big deal in my life. If you live a modest lifestyle and forget about keeping up with the Jones, Silicon Valley is quite affordable.
My relatives has a five-bedroom million-dollar home in Gilroy (an hour south of Silicon Valley). The living room is bigger than my apartment, the wet bar bigger than my kitchen. Very obscene. Having a BBQ while a mountain lion watches from the other side of a 20-foot tall chainlink fence can be nerve whacking.
I'm loathe to go to SFO simply because of the sheer amount of douchebaggery
SFO != Silicon Valley
Forget SFO. Come to Silicon Valley. One recruiter told me that Silican Valley companies have to pay more in salary since all the young hipsters are heading for SFO.
I know a guy who made so much money as a software developer that the accounting department had to call him every quarter to remind him to deposit his paychecks so they can close the books. (This was before direct deposit became widespread.) He lived a modest lifestyle that was a step up from his college days, bought few toys and invested his spare cash.
d) CS without understanding computers or programming is all to common from the +- 1 std dev colleges.
When I worked for the Google help desk in 2008, I had to explain to an software engineer that he needed to physically turn on the computer by pressing the button. He was shocked to discover that PCs don't turn themselves on in his pressence. Many software engineers are overly clueless about the basic functionality of PCs.
new employees, even with years and years of experience, will typically earn less than employees in the same job but with that many years of experience at that same employer
As a contractor, I found that to be the opposite. I ran into an old coworker while interviewing for a job during the summer. We compared notes. He still has the same job at the same company and making the same amount of money that I did from nine years ago. Since tech companies have an annoying habit of letting me got every so often, I held multiple contract jobs and made 80% more money than he did.
If you stay at the same company for a long period of time, you're accepting less than 5% raises every year. If you want to make more money, you need to change jobs from time to time. As much as I would love a long-term job (my recent contracts have averaged nine months in duration), I don't want to miss out on making more money.
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Leaving the servers open to all kinds of vulnerability issues by installing unnecessary software. That's a fantastic team of system admiistrators?
If you're a security remediation specialist for the I.T. department, Windows is job security as these problems will never go away.
Proud owner of a Black MacBook (2006) for eight years until the CPU fan died for a second time. (Since it has a 32-bit CPU and applications are going 64-bit only, it doesn't make sense to repair the CPU fan again.) My next laptop will be a White MacBook (2010) that I'm going replace the DVD drive with a SSD, max out the memory to 16GB, and eventually replace the 250GB hard drive with another SSD.
I like working on on male coding teams so I don't have to deal with 'family issues' when little Timmy has to be picked up from school early, wherein the rest of us have to cover for her.
You have obviously not worked on a coding team that consisted of married guys, who not only have to pick up Little Timmy early from school but also expect the unmarried guy to cover and/or work overtime hours on their behalf. Raising a family is no longer the sole responsibility of the wife. There's more to life than being a sperm donor.
Where she will be subjected to daily microaggression from male coworkers who know they will get away with it because the bosses are all male?
Based on my professional experience in Silicon Valley, the pressence of a female into an all male group causes the guys to clean up their acts and behave appropriately in a hurry. Any "microaggression" is taken care of within the group. If anyone does get out of line, it's a long visit to the HR office.
If you have a Mac, you can't go wrong with OWC. I almost bought a Samsung SSD but went with a OWC SSD.
By any chance does your motherboards have PS/2 connectors for keyboard and mouse? Mine don't.
This, combined with early '80s geek culture staples like the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, as well as movies like War Games and Weird Science, conspired to instill the perception that computers were primarily for men.
I had no clue that "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy was a popular book in 1984. My Apple ][ class in middle school at that time was split down middle between boys and girls. Some teachers must have read that book, noted the errors of their ways, and pushed the girls back into the typewriter class thereafter. Well, duh.
Your PCs probably everything but the physical port for a serial port. You can buy the connector and slap it on if you give a shit, then cut a hole in the i/o shield (or your case) for it.
Actually, they don't. I got extra headers for USB (Universal SERIAL Bus) on my motherboards. Serial ports are so old school these days.
If you're studying for the entry-level Cisco certifications, you can use older routers and switches in your hardware lab. These require a rolled cable for the console.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Looks like the Atari joysticks were digital after all.
As in the Atari 2600 standard digital four direction plus one button, not the PC fifteen pin analog port.
The Atari 2600 joystick was analog with five switches (one for fire and four for eight directions). If the joystick got pressed north/east/south/west, the corresponding switch got turned on. If the joystick got pressed elsewhere, say, northwest, two switches got turned on.
You mean a serial port? I bet yours does and you didn't even know it.
The OP mentioned Commodore 64 dongles that typically plugged into the 9-pin joystick ports, which were compatible with the Atari 2600 joysticks. The 9-pin connector for the joystick ports were also used for serial ports on the PC, although I think that came later as 25-pin serial connectors were still common on modems in the early 1980's. Early PCs had a 15-pin game port on the old SoundBlaster cards. Don't recall if anyone made a 9-pin to 15-pin adapter to plug in the old Atari 2600 joysticks.
And if it doesn't?
None of my PCs have serial ports on them. I had to get a USB serial adapter to be able to console into my Cisco rack.
Not many PCs have 9-pin joystick ports.
Does it come in Luna Brown?
SJSU isn't considered to be an engineering school. Although it did have a fine electrical engineering program in the 1980's and 1990's, providing many engineers to the companies that put the silicon into Silicon Valley. Apple and Yahoo probably prefer liberal arts majors over engineering majors.
I had roommate who spent $25,000 at SJSU to earn a bachelor degree in automotorive industrial design because he likes cars. Never mind that he couldn't get a job in California with that degree (this was years before Telsa set up shop in Silicon Valley). He went on to make a fine career in warehouse logistics. If that doesn't qualify as a worthless college degree, I don't know what does.
The slashdot crowd (wrong) assumption that as anyone can successfully self-teach himself to a successful career.
As a fat white boy misdiagnosed as mentally retarded by the education system, the role of the school was to collect three times the funding while treating me like an idiot. (Never mind that I routinely blew out the annual evaluation exams on the genius side, as those were all statistical flukes.) If I wanted to learn anything, I had to teach myself on my own time. I graduated the eigth grade with a college-level reading comprehension and fifth-grade English/math skills. After skipping high school and being turned away from the G.E.D. program (it would take me five years to get a diploma), I enrolled in the community college and earned my A.A. degree in general education in four years. A decade later I went back to college to get my A.S. degree in computer programming on a part-time basis while working 80 hours a week as a lead video game tester, making the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
As an experienced computer technician, I make more money than the high school and college graduates in my family. If I had accepted what I learned in school, I would probably be an uneducated idiot.
Save-On -> Longs Drugs -> CVS -> ESR
Use the spork, Luke!
I take the express bus ($140 per month) and rent a 475 sft studio apartment for $1313 that I lived in for the last nine years. Neither traffic nor real estate is a big deal in my life. If you live a modest lifestyle and forget about keeping up with the Jones, Silicon Valley is quite affordable.
My relatives has a five-bedroom million-dollar home in Gilroy (an hour south of Silicon Valley). The living room is bigger than my apartment, the wet bar bigger than my kitchen. Very obscene. Having a BBQ while a mountain lion watches from the other side of a 20-foot tall chainlink fence can be nerve whacking.
I'm loathe to go to SFO simply because of the sheer amount of douchebaggery
SFO != Silicon Valley
Forget SFO. Come to Silicon Valley. One recruiter told me that Silican Valley companies have to pay more in salary since all the young hipsters are heading for SFO.
I know a guy who made so much money as a software developer that the accounting department had to call him every quarter to remind him to deposit his paychecks so they can close the books. (This was before direct deposit became widespread.) He lived a modest lifestyle that was a step up from his college days, bought few toys and invested his spare cash.
d) CS without understanding computers or programming is all to common from the +- 1 std dev colleges.
When I worked for the Google help desk in 2008, I had to explain to an software engineer that he needed to physically turn on the computer by pressing the button. He was shocked to discover that PCs don't turn themselves on in his pressence. Many software engineers are overly clueless about the basic functionality of PCs.
new employees, even with years and years of experience, will typically earn less than employees in the same job but with that many years of experience at that same employer
As a contractor, I found that to be the opposite. I ran into an old coworker while interviewing for a job during the summer. We compared notes. He still has the same job at the same company and making the same amount of money that I did from nine years ago. Since tech companies have an annoying habit of letting me got every so often, I held multiple contract jobs and made 80% more money than he did.
If you stay at the same company for a long period of time, you're accepting less than 5% raises every year. If you want to make more money, you need to change jobs from time to time. As much as I would love a long-term job (my recent contracts have averaged nine months in duration), I don't want to miss out on making more money.