Sure, the review sounds great, but the Third Edition Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and Hein is the book to get.
I have that book and quite frankly I was very disappointed with it. It might be the better book for people just starting out, but as a reference I have never gotten much use out of it. I was always able to find out more elsewhere, including Essential System Administration. Not to mention that the handbook only covers Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX, and FreeBSD. Essential Administration covers all of those plus other Linux distros and AIX. Please tell me how, if you are running AIX, that the UNIX System Administration Handbook is the one to get???
Maybe with ESA 2nd Ed the two were comparable, but the 3rd Edtion takes things to new heights. As far as I am concerend it is now the bible of system administration.
In todays corporate environment of people being rather mobile throughout the corporation, I'm surprised it hasn't caught on outside of Sun
I'm surprised our users do not take advatange of it. I think a few of our more tech savvy users do, but the majority either take the card home with them or just leave it in the unit forever. Most do not even realize that since we upgraded to the 1.3 software they can ditch the card completely. I cannot explain it, except to say that they do not run into a need to be mobile enough to remember to take advantage of it. Though that makes the 1.3 mobile sessions more attractive since if you forget your card you are screwed but with mobile sessions if you login somewhere else your session automatically moves to the new unit (even if you forgot to disconnect it with shift+pause/utdetach).
2. "If you're not up on your Star Trek, you can forget about getting or keeping a geek dude." At this point, they are just propogating stereotypes. I've watched Star Trek in my day, but not to extremes, and most of my geek friends aren't extremely into it either. Regardless, we aren't so closed-minded that being a ST:TNG fanatic is on our list of requirements of a women.
After watching Star Trek Nemesis I think not being a Star Trek fanatic is on my requirements list. Now being a Babylon 5 fan, that would be a plus....
Bryce might be a good way to let her get a feel for whether she would really like it or not. But if she likes playing around with it you'll need to get something to create objects with fairly quickly.
Last year a cooler (with two wheels and a pull handle). Year before that was an emergency road kit (reflectors, a pneumatic pump, etc.). Year before that was a travel luggage set (some of it was good, some okay). All with our company logo on them, sometimes with it modled into the plastic (e.g. the cooler).
This may sound like an odd suggestion, but (especially when older) what about giving role-plaiyng games a try? I'm thinking of modules that either emphasis role playing or have a good balance between combat and role-playing. Dungeons & Dragons, Sovereign Stone, Legend of the Five Rings, DragonLance etc. come to mind. At conventions some D&D Classics are role-playing oriented (e.g. Lets Put on a Show) and Living Rokugan (used the Legend of the Five Rings) is heavy on role playing.
It's a great way to meet other people, have some social interaction, and maybe build up some interest in paying attention to what is going on.
Gee, and I always thought it was due to experiments by wizards, not scientists. Damn that inaccurate Monster Manual. Maybe they'll fix this in the Fourth Edition. Or is it already fixed in d20 Modern?;-)
The only thing I can think of that might work would be to add extensions to the language you use (like extra keywords) and provide your own closed-source compiler, which is hobbled so it only works on the original system, perhaps with some kind of hardware dongle, or net connection that connects to your server to verify the compiling machine's serial number and some cryptographic key.
This wouldn't prevent it from being hacked, but it might make it difficult enough to make the prospect less likely
And if they did hack it you could have the FBI pay them a visit for violating the DMCA!
Okay, so lets take an example that isn't breaking the law: You are a telephone operator and a Christian. A man calls information looking for a taxi service (his car just broke down) but he doesn't know the specific name of any of them. According to your Christian values you should give him the name and number for one. But company rules prevent that (you have to know the name).
How many people have to sacrifice their values for money everyday? How does one rationlize that kind of behavior? In the example, I don't think God is going to accept "my boss wouldn't let me" as an excuse. I think that says something about our society.
It is all fine and dandy that you want to live up to your ideals. It is your ideals that are flawed. Company server, company time, company resources. You were asked to do something, you did not do it. Fix your ethical issue by realizing that your trying to flex your own muscles.
So there are no moral or ethical problems being a Mob Hitman since, hey, you are just doing your job when you kill someone (assming you were hired to kill them)? It was okay for the people at Arthur Andersen to shred documents since they were just following orders? When you go to work you should not have to give up your personal values. That we so often have to is just an example of the dehumanizing effect big business is having on our society.
The problem I have with the Weekly Standard article are all the faulty assumptions in the Galactic Republic section, the foundation for the rest of the article.
The only view we have of the Republic is after the plot to overthrow it has been set in motion, apparantly for some time given when the clones were ordered. That means our entire perspective is tainted since for all we know the Republic could have been working fine up until that time. Heck, could any government withstand such a concerted, systematic, and well thought out plan to subvert it?
Additionally both Anakin and Amidala are being manipulated by the the same people plotting to overthrow the Republic so their perceptions are also tainted and lack credibility. The Count Dooku references are (again) tainted since we can infer that this was all part of the plan. We need to know if there were a credible group of seperatists before the overthrow plan was put in motion.
In effect the the premise of the article is that we know the Republic is bad becuase the people in the process of overthrowing it made it bad therefore they must be good. But what kind of argument is that?
And if you do not like that one, here is another one: Just because George Lucas wanted to show us a sucessful coup de tat in motion does not mean that the government being overthrown was bad before that plan was put in motion.
The Nature Conservancy is one of the best environmental groups to donate money to. They do a really good job with their money and always work with communities and businesses rather than causing trouble. Information on fiscal year 2001 can be found here and here. More about their goals and methods can be found here. And press releases can be found here. The Yahoo category can be found here.
What about watching DVD movies with subtitles turned on. The text doesn't always exactly match what is said but most of the time you'd get to read lips, see the text, and hear it. Some movies also have descriptions of background audio events (e.g. The Mummy) that you might find useful as well.
Other's have mentioned audio tapes/CDs, but I would think being able to read lips would be better for you?
I don't think companies are evil, per se. It's their actions that are good or bad.
A couple months ago I was watching a Charlie Rose show, where he was interviewing the author of a new business book. I think the book was about what it takes for businesses to make it and the conclusion was a core set of values was needed (and of course the company needed to stick to those values). Charlie Rose raised the troubling point that it did not matter what those values are and that "evil" could be one of those. The author agreed. Anyone else see this episode?
Seriously, it's a lot easier to meet people of the opposite sex you would like to have a serious relationship with in college than afterwards. Just look at the dating websites and see how many people say they're tired of the bar scene. This is even more true for socially challenged, shy geeks! You may not find your soulmate at college, but at least make sure you try!
That's a ridiculous theory. With an intelligent, educated populace, the politics will never follow the money - rather they will be issue based and the government will be the voice of the people.
It is easy to say that with an intelligent, educated populace democracy will work. But that is just a theory that has little empirical evidence to back it up. The evidence suggests that in practice there will always be an uninformed, more gullible segment of the populace. Additionally, the larger the populace the more competing interests to impair the functioning of the democracy. The real theory seems to be that the more people you have in a democracy the harder it is to make it work.
Of course this is rather academic since we live in a republic anyway.
FYI, Sovereign Press (Margaret Weiss' and Don Perrin's company) has aquired the rights to publish DrangonLance pencil and paper gaming material. My understanding is that SP will write the DL core rule book and WoTC will publish it. Then SP will release supplemental material. This is according to the folks at the SP booth up at GENCON.
If it does well maybe we'll see a DL computer game. Until then, you could look for the old goldbox and silverbox games from SSI.
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And would have had several spelling mistakes and grammatical errors! =:-)
I have that book and quite frankly I was very disappointed with it. It might be the better book for people just starting out, but as a reference I have never gotten much use out of it. I was always able to find out more elsewhere, including Essential System Administration. Not to mention that the handbook only covers Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX, and FreeBSD. Essential Administration covers all of those plus other Linux distros and AIX. Please tell me how, if you are running AIX, that the UNIX System Administration Handbook is the one to get???
Maybe with ESA 2nd Ed the two were comparable, but the 3rd Edtion takes things to new heights. As far as I am concerend it is now the bible of system administration.
I'm surprised our users do not take advatange of it. I think a few of our more tech savvy users do, but the majority either take the card home with them or just leave it in the unit forever. Most do not even realize that since we upgraded to the 1.3 software they can ditch the card completely. I cannot explain it, except to say that they do not run into a need to be mobile enough to remember to take advantage of it. Though that makes the 1.3 mobile sessions more attractive since if you forget your card you are screwed but with mobile sessions if you login somewhere else your session automatically moves to the new unit (even if you forgot to disconnect it with shift+pause/utdetach).
I used the H&R Block TaxCut the last two years. The help is not as good as TurboTax, but the price is a lot nicer.
You might as well static the IP addresses and shut the DHCP server down.
All you need is filtering software that does a reverse lookup to check the domain.
Last year a cooler (with two wheels and a pull handle). Year before that was an emergency road kit (reflectors, a pneumatic pump, etc.). Year before that was a travel luggage set (some of it was good, some okay). All with our company logo on them, sometimes with it modled into the plastic (e.g. the cooler).
It's a great way to meet other people, have some social interaction, and maybe build up some interest in paying attention to what is going on.
There's one simple answer: uuencode. And then you could use ROT13 to encrypt it! :-)
Gee, and I always thought it was due to experiments by wizards, not scientists. Damn that inaccurate Monster Manual. Maybe they'll fix this in the Fourth Edition. Or is it already fixed in d20 Modern? ;-)
That would be the outhouse.
How many people have to sacrifice their values for money everyday? How does one rationlize that kind of behavior? In the example, I don't think God is going to accept "my boss wouldn't let me" as an excuse. I think that says something about our society.
And here's a recent Slashdot article:
Sun Releases Open Source Tool for Project Liberty
First useful post?
The only view we have of the Republic is after the plot to overthrow it has been set in motion, apparantly for some time given when the clones were ordered. That means our entire perspective is tainted since for all we know the Republic could have been working fine up until that time. Heck, could any government withstand such a concerted, systematic, and well thought out plan to subvert it?
Additionally both Anakin and Amidala are being manipulated by the the same people plotting to overthrow the Republic so their perceptions are also tainted and lack credibility. The Count Dooku references are (again) tainted since we can infer that this was all part of the plan. We need to know if there were a credible group of seperatists before the overthrow plan was put in motion.
In effect the the premise of the article is that we know the Republic is bad becuase the people in the process of overthrowing it made it bad therefore they must be good. But what kind of argument is that?
And if you do not like that one, here is another one: Just because George Lucas wanted to show us a sucessful coup de tat in motion does not mean that the government being overthrown was bad before that plan was put in motion.
The Nature Conservancy is one of the best environmental groups to donate money to. They do a really good job with their money and always work with communities and businesses rather than causing trouble. Information on fiscal year 2001 can be found here and here. More about their goals and methods can be found here. And press releases can be found here. The Yahoo category can be found here.
Well, we are talking about michael here....
Other's have mentioned audio tapes/CDs, but I would think being able to read lips would be better for you?
A couple months ago I was watching a Charlie Rose show, where he was interviewing the author of a new business book. I think the book was about what it takes for businesses to make it and the conclusion was a core set of values was needed (and of course the company needed to stick to those values). Charlie Rose raised the troubling point that it did not matter what those values are and that "evil" could be one of those. The author agreed. Anyone else see this episode?
Seriously, it's a lot easier to meet people of the opposite sex you would like to have a serious relationship with in college than afterwards. Just look at the dating websites and see how many people say they're tired of the bar scene. This is even more true for socially challenged, shy geeks! You may not find your soulmate at college, but at least make sure you try!
It is easy to say that with an intelligent, educated populace democracy will work. But that is just a theory that has little empirical evidence to back it up. The evidence suggests that in practice there will always be an uninformed, more gullible segment of the populace. Additionally, the larger the populace the more competing interests to impair the functioning of the democracy. The real theory seems to be that the more people you have in a democracy the harder it is to make it work. Of course this is rather academic since we live in a republic anyway.
If it does well maybe we'll see a DL computer game. Until then, you could look for the old goldbox and silverbox games from SSI.