Tweakers.net is a great (in Dutch) resource for those of us in the Low Countries. It's similar to Froogle, but limited to the Belelux area. (and some German results too!)
I once worked with a Cisco engineer whos father was a USAF rader tech in W.Germany during the Cold War. His father used to tell stories about how, during the spawning season, he and fellow techs used to pick up frogs, throw them on a radar dish and watch them explode.
Wouldn't want to be the poor sap who had to clean up that mess!
1. download 2. gunzip and untar 3../configure 4. make, make install 5. $ siege -c200 -t720M www.thescogroup.com
** Siege 2.59
** Preparing 200 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege...
I picked this book up a few years ago second-hand. It's a really great book. I went from functionally innumerate to someone who can perform tricks with multiplication/division in my head, It seems to use some of the vedic tricks mentioned in previous comments, but it's far more simpler to learn and put into practice.
I've worked for Stream in N.Ireland, Dallas and Holland - and i can confirm the lack of training. Problem-solving was never emphasised, rather reduce call times and meet targets. I've supported over 7 major contracts for various manufacturers - and the absolute worst case scenario was 8 hours training in a product we were totally unfamiliar with, then thrown onto the phones. Talk about being thrown to the wolves! However, i can safely say that the experience i gained with Stream has benefited me in my career change to the legal profession, where i can bullshit and bluff with the best of them!
Try IP-Cop, This is a GPLed fork of Smoothwall, fully featured, extremely small footprint. If you install the RPM version, then you can add libs and programs onto the install. Checking out the Forums shows quite a number of addons, mods etc. that can be installed to give more flexability (edonkey/MTA/ftp servers/samba/squid/proxies/filters/additional ID) etc.)
I highly recommend SDF. It's an OpenBSD powered, Non-Profit, unix shell account based service. They offer a webmail interface via Squirrelmail (see above posts) $1 gets you a lifelong membership with 20MB email (inc. web, POP, IMAP spamfiltering) and 20MB webspace (http://yourname.freeshell.org), along with all major unix shells and common typical unix utilities(elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi/php4 etc. etc.)
However, if you want to financially support SDF, for a lifetime membership donation of $35, upgrade to ARPA membership and get additional web, email and/home disc storage (100MB for each!) 300MB total)
ARPA includes compiler access (GCC, ruby, python, perl, lisp etc) and additional internet access - telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf, ICQ etc. Click here for more information - there's additional services available - MySQL, VPM, SSH-tunnelling, DNS, listservs, virtual hosting etc.
SDF is not a fly-by-night service, it's a thriving community that's been around for over 16 years with hundreds of members and a lively community (bbs) For us European users, we've got a dedicated server at SDF-EU
Beats every other suggestion here into a cocked hat:)
B******s - i just discovered this artive via another site and tried to read - instantly slashdotted! WTF is it runing on - a quad Xeon IIS 2.0/w2k machine with 1 GB memory?
This is a non-canon (unofficial ST universe) response
I once read a comic waaay back before ST:TNG where they gave a rather clever solution to the problem... i remember it imperfectly so its either: The smooth foreheaded Klingons were an inbred or genetically-enhanced Aristocratic breed, who were overthrown by their enslaved rugged-forehead Klingons.
Or else.... The rugged forehead guys were a genetic mutation becoming more prevalant in Klingon society, crowding out and dominating the TOS smooth-headed Klingons due to superior strength etc.
I think the latter was the version i read, even though Kahless (in ST:TNG) was shown to be rugged-headed when cloned from ancient DNA. Be aware this comic was set before TNG tho....
Can hardly remember the comic storyline, but it involved Kirk and Co. teaming up with the TOS Klingons against the Movie/TNG Klingons because of some super weapons....
Nope, Nope and Nope - I left the tech. support business 2 years ago, after it descended into a Pit of Hell. Believe me, the tech support gig in Europe isn't any better than N.America.
Buzz 'co-wrote' a novel on this concept about 5 years ago. It's called Encounter with Tiber . It deals with a failed alien colonization of earth in prehistoric time due to their plant dying off. Present day - humans use the alien technology to try and locate these aliens - not a bad book
I have a lot of experience with many of the ranges of HP home and business machines *hint-hint*
Currently the most productive box on my network is a 64mb P200 Vectra running OpenBSD - it serves as router, firewall, SMB server, MP3 streamer and web server - this machine now has as uptime of over 190 days (brought down to add an extra SCSI hard drive and is shoved in a closet. Fantastic hardware quality all round. It has never given me any problems (except for an unsupported AMD Lance NIC - swapped out for a Realtek). This was a surplus machine flogged for $20 from my workplace - best investment i ever made!
Dell farm out their product support to a support company called Stream (www.stream.com).
The UK/IRL is handled from Derry, N.Ireland and the NL from Kabelweg, Amsterdam.
Having worked on the Dell support line with Stream for over 3 years, i can safely they're the biggest heap of shite. Previously, all the top-notch Stream support techs were assigned to the Dell support contract - now they've actually hired the ex-cleaning crew!
I left the company over 12 months ago, disgusted by the absolute tech-illiterate personnel they would hire - warm bodies were all that were required. Here in the UK, they hired people on unemployment benefit and paid the an extra pittance (about $50 per month) on top of their unemployment benefit. These tossers had no choice - either show up for the work you're assigned, or lose your employment benefit. I was handling 2nd and 3rd level queries (aftsr 18 months on the front desk). The questions asked by the front-liners were f******g unbelievable! I've sinced moved into a contracting net-ops position for another non-IT company - yessss!
It's true about the corporate quality laptops - solid machines.
Dell themselves supported the crown jewels (optiplexes/servers/workstations), the cabbages (disparaging name for Stream support) support the home/personal ranges, but this has now changed - farmed out again
One of the front-lin.ers (a tech i greatly admired for his IT knowledge and skill) was shafted by Stream managment and left. He's now an IT manager for a major UK financial company and takes great please in slowly roasting the Dell support staff over lack of IT knowledge on the helpdesk:) a real BOFH....
Slashdot Mirror
err... anyone got a link to the controversial theme so we can see what all the fuss was about?
Check Here for a fix.
There's both a downloadable patch as well as manual instructions for patching by hand for the ultra-paranoid.
Who dares wins II?
Screenshots and download.
Tweakers.net is a great (in Dutch) resource for those of us in the Low Countries. It's similar to Froogle, but limited to the Belelux area. (and some German results too!)
Excellent stuff
I once worked with a Cisco engineer whos father was a USAF rader tech in W.Germany during the Cold War.
His father used to tell stories about how, during the spawning season, he and fellow techs used to pick up frogs, throw them on a radar dish and watch them explode.
Wouldn't want to be the poor sap who had to clean up that mess!
1. download ./configure
2. gunzip and untar
3.
4. make, make install
5. $ siege -c200 -t720M www.thescogroup.com
** Siege 2.59
** Preparing 200 concurrent users for battle.
The server is now under siege...
I picked this book up a few years ago second-hand.
It's a really great book.
I went from functionally innumerate to someone who can perform tricks with multiplication/division in my head,
It seems to use some of the vedic tricks mentioned in previous comments, but it's far more simpler to learn and put into practice.
Ummm - who do i write to if my MEP is an ex-artist? I don't think she'd take too kindly to filesharing.
wow - another Streamer!
I've worked for Stream in N.Ireland, Dallas and Holland - and i can confirm the lack of training. Problem-solving was never emphasised, rather reduce call times and meet targets. I've supported over 7 major contracts for various manufacturers - and the absolute worst case scenario was 8 hours training in a product we were totally unfamiliar with, then thrown onto the phones. Talk about being thrown to the wolves!
However, i can safely say that the experience i gained with Stream has benefited me in my career change to the legal profession, where i can bullshit and bluff with the best of them!
What short story/novel are they referring to here? I've read (nearly) all his work and don't recall anything like the World Wide Web..........
(Global computer/communication networks are another story)
Try IP-Cop, This is a GPLed fork of Smoothwall, fully featured, extremely small footprint. If you install the RPM version, then you can add libs and programs onto the install. Checking out the Forums shows quite a number of addons, mods etc. that can be installed to give more flexability (edonkey/MTA/ftp servers/samba/squid/proxies/filters/additional ID) etc.)
I highly recommend SDF. It's an OpenBSD powered, Non-Profit, unix shell account based service. They offer a webmail interface via Squirrelmail (see above posts)
/home disc storage (100MB for each!) 300MB total)
:)
$1 gets you a lifelong membership with 20MB email (inc. web, POP, IMAP spamfiltering) and 20MB webspace (http://yourname.freeshell.org), along with all major unix shells and common typical unix utilities(elm, pine, mailx, rmail, lynx, cgi/php4 etc. etc.)
However, if you want to financially support SDF, for a lifetime membership donation of $35, upgrade to ARPA membership and get additional web, email and
ARPA includes compiler access (GCC, ruby, python, perl, lisp etc) and additional internet access - telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf, ICQ etc.
Click here for more information - there's additional services available - MySQL, VPM, SSH-tunnelling, DNS, listservs, virtual hosting etc.
SDF is not a fly-by-night service, it's a thriving community that's been around for over 16 years with hundreds of members and a lively community (bbs)
For us European users, we've got a dedicated server at SDF-EU
Beats every other suggestion here into a cocked hat
Norway, not switzerland - they were neutral at the time :)
Courtesy of Astronomy Picture of the day
B******s - i just discovered this artive via another site and tried to read - instantly slashdotted!
WTF is it runing on - a quad Xeon IIS 2.0/w2k machine with 1 GB memory?
This is a non-canon (unofficial ST universe) response
I once read a comic waaay back before ST:TNG where they gave a rather clever solution to the problem... i remember it imperfectly so its either:
The smooth foreheaded Klingons were an inbred or genetically-enhanced Aristocratic breed, who were overthrown by their enslaved rugged-forehead Klingons.
Or else....
The rugged forehead guys were a genetic mutation becoming more prevalant in Klingon society, crowding out and dominating the TOS smooth-headed Klingons due to superior strength etc.
I think the latter was the version i read, even though Kahless (in ST:TNG) was shown to be rugged-headed when cloned from ancient DNA. Be aware this comic was set before TNG tho....
Can hardly remember the comic storyline, but it involved Kirk and Co. teaming up with the TOS Klingons against the Movie/TNG Klingons because of some super weapons....
Nope, Nope and Nope - I left the tech. support business 2 years ago, after it descended into a Pit of Hell.
Believe me, the tech support gig in Europe isn't any better than N.America.
Buzz 'co-wrote' a novel on this concept about 5 years ago.
It's called Encounter with Tiber . It deals with a failed alien colonization of earth in prehistoric time due to their plant dying off. Present day - humans use the alien technology to try and locate these aliens - not a bad book
Amen!
I have a lot of experience with many of the ranges of HP home and business machines *hint-hint*
Currently the most productive box on my network is a 64mb P200 Vectra running OpenBSD - it serves as router, firewall, SMB server, MP3 streamer and web server - this machine now has as uptime of over 190 days (brought down to add an extra SCSI hard drive and is shoved in a closet. Fantastic hardware quality all round. It has never given me any problems (except for an unsupported AMD Lance NIC - swapped out for a Realtek). This was a surplus machine flogged for $20 from my workplace - best investment i ever made!
As for Pavilions.... *spits*
It's Saturns lost ring, not Saurons lost ring - and there's no frigging hobbits either...
Dell farm out their product support to a support company called Stream (www.stream.com). :) a real BOFH....
The UK/IRL is handled from Derry, N.Ireland and the NL from Kabelweg, Amsterdam.
Having worked on the Dell support line with Stream for over 3 years, i can safely they're the biggest heap of shite. Previously, all the top-notch Stream support techs were assigned to the Dell support contract - now they've actually hired the ex-cleaning crew!
I left the company over 12 months ago, disgusted by the absolute tech-illiterate personnel they would hire - warm bodies were all that were required. Here in the UK, they hired people on unemployment benefit and paid the an extra pittance (about $50 per month) on top of their unemployment benefit. These tossers had no choice - either show up for the work you're assigned, or lose your employment benefit. I was handling 2nd and 3rd level queries (aftsr 18 months on the front desk). The questions asked by the front-liners were f******g unbelievable! I've sinced moved into a contracting net-ops position for another non-IT company - yessss!
It's true about the corporate quality laptops - solid machines.
Dell themselves supported the crown jewels (optiplexes/servers/workstations), the cabbages (disparaging name for Stream support) support the home/personal ranges, but this has now changed - farmed out again
One of the front-lin.ers (a tech i greatly admired for his IT knowledge and skill) was shafted by Stream managment and left. He's now an IT manager for a major UK financial company and takes great please in slowly roasting the Dell support staff over lack of IT knowledge on the helpdesk
'nuff said