i have mixed feelings about working as a student for the place i study at. i have done that for over 4.5 years; however, recently dumb politics at my college cost me my job and almost my college career.
i have worked my way up from grunt windows tech guy to a linux sys admin. i designed major parts of the college network, and set up 90% of the servers responsible for almost anything imaginable. i was well trusted by all faculty and administration, with exception of couple power hungry individuals. [actually, some of that experience is described at www.wiw.org/~ananke - very messy, but switching from a t1 to a messy telnet.exe on 14.4 is hard]
anyway, point being - the administrations of colleges/etc have to be careful. my college after i was fired lost their only linux administrator. my leave from the college was not associated with my work in any way, but it left my school in a big mess. try to imagine a comp dept on a tight budget, letting one of their main admins go, with nobody left with any real linux experience. they have been already contacting contracting companies to help them with it.
point being - if i wouldn't be a student, my college would be secured a bit more - such as i would still have my job, or even i would have a notice of more than just 10 minutes. because of a dumb decision from couple administrative guys, the college is suffering from network congestion, loss of services on a daily basis - just because the people left there do not know linux well enough. and of course - it will cost the college, and students, to hire contracting companies. as a student work study i was much more economic.
but those are just some of the silly things that administrative people do.
well, i love LED's, but honestly, have you ever tried to defend yourself with a mag-lite and a led-based flashlight?:)
sorry, but when it comes down to ass-whoopin', mag does an amazing job, i guess that's why even cops are using them. i've never clubbed anybody over the head with same efficiency as i did with mag-lite.
heck, yes, i'd love to have an LED flashlight with the magnitude and ass-whoop-power of a 4-double-d mag-lite:)
that's one of the pros of using linux - you can still use the same software you used 4 years ago on kernel 1.2.13 as you do on 2.4:) if it's a binary, all you need is the libs...
that's how it should be done. linuxexpo 97 or 98 had vi vs emacs war. paint ball war:) that's how you settle things down, the manly way! of course, vi team won 4 out of 5 games [30 ppl on each team], and it was only because half of the vi team went to help emacs team, since we felt sorry for them:) imagine: microsoft vs linux! participants:approx 30,000 on each team; area: 900 acres of some woods/swamp land! god, that would be fun. [you could add air attacks, etc to spice it up:)]
i hope not. i already had problems with changing from 5.5 to 5.6. i run obsidian webmail on couple of my servers, and it just will not work with 5.6, had to downgrade [http://www.obsidian.co.za btw]
a tour organized once a year by ozzy osbourne. right now it's in its nineth year [actually, one of the most successful music tours in usa, imho]. they promote a lot of new bands. overall, amazing show. i went there this year, in atlanta. 13 hrs of good music [although last years have had better bands], great fireworks [since it was 4th of july], and of course - OZZY:) total cost: 44$ - tickets 9$ - beer at the concert [for 4.50$/cup it was too expensive] 20$ - beer before and after the concert ~40$ - gas 10$ - lousy acid 3$ - bottle of water [refiled at the fountain for the rest of the day] 0$ - sunburn, stickers, exhaustion, great experience.
overall, ozzfest is good. [www.ozzfest.com] p.s., hfstival was great this year [www.hfstival.com]
we could take it further: * academic studies on various toxic substances = could be used to create them, thus = illegal * the history channel = great wars of the past, somebody can get some kind of crazy idea, thus = illegal * rocks/wood = possible weapons = illegal * referencing other people's work in your writings = wow, we can't get anywhere closer to copyright violations according to riaa = BAN ALL THE FOOTNOTES!
you could have not put it in a less modest way. and no, it wasn't a flamebait. btw, maybe one day you can learn something about an intelligent conversation/debate.
looks like search engines will become illegal then. unless the engines will filter out anything associated with mp3s. hell, why doesn't riaa propose to change all the routers on the internet to start filtering out anything associated with mp3s?
this is absolutely amazing. next thing we know, we will have people trying to reinforce patents on toilet paper, and more. when is this madness going to end?
not if you can certify your cabling and your contractor can't. i already can see them pull some shitty cat3, with no map nor non-standard pinouts on the jacks. great...
would you be so nice, and get out a freaking dictionary, and look up the word 'morality'? or anything associated with it. see if you can find word 'christianity' anywhere in the definition. thank you dork
seeing that post makes me glad i am not christian any more. and trust me, i was brought up 'more' christian, than you would ever come close to - a roman catholic in a country where the estimated population consists of 97% roman catholics. why do christians often seem to be so ignorant and full of themselves?
i just wonder - when was the last time you tried to copy, hell - even listen to anything from the net? the quality is poor. shoutcast/realaudio/liquidaudio - all of them suck over an average connection. quality is poor, very often interrupts occur and your player has to take 3 seconds to re-buffer. and no, i'm not using a modem - i'm on a fairly clean t1.
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i have mixed feelings about working as a student for the place i study at. i have done that for over 4.5 years; however, recently dumb politics at my college cost me my job and almost my college career.
i have worked my way up from grunt windows tech guy to a linux sys admin. i designed major parts of the college network, and set up 90% of the servers responsible for almost anything imaginable. i was well trusted by all faculty and administration, with exception of couple power hungry individuals. [actually, some of that experience is described at www.wiw.org/~ananke - very messy, but switching from a t1 to a messy telnet.exe on 14.4 is hard]
anyway, point being - the administrations of colleges/etc have to be careful. my college after i was fired lost their only linux administrator. my leave from the college was not associated with my work in any way, but it left my school in a big mess. try to imagine a comp dept on a tight budget, letting one of their main admins go, with nobody left with any real linux experience. they have been already contacting contracting companies to help them with it.
point being - if i wouldn't be a student, my college would be secured a bit more - such as i would still have my job, or even i would have a notice of more than just 10 minutes. because of a dumb decision from couple administrative guys, the college is suffering from network congestion, loss of services on a daily basis - just because the people left there do not know linux well enough. and of course - it will cost the college, and students, to hire contracting companies. as a student work study i was much more economic.
but those are just some of the silly things that administrative people do.
well, i love LED's, but honestly, have you ever tried to defend yourself with a mag-lite and a led-based flashlight? :)
:)
sorry, but when it comes down to ass-whoopin', mag does an amazing job, i guess that's why even cops are using them. i've never clubbed anybody over the head with same efficiency as i did with mag-lite.
heck, yes, i'd love to have an LED flashlight with the magnitude and ass-whoop-power of a 4-double-d mag-lite
well, it all says one thing: the only one thing that is/has been compatible all the way around: plain text.
long live slackware ...
that's one of the pros of using linux - you can still use the same software you used 4 years ago on kernel 1.2.13 as you do on 2.4 :) if it's a binary, all you need is the libs...
soon the problem with riding in a cab won't be the question whether the cab driver can speak english, but what operating system does the cab run.
broadband almost everywhere in europe is darn expensive.
that's how it should be done. linuxexpo 97 or 98 had vi vs emacs war. paint ball war :) :)
that's how you settle things down, the manly way!
of course, vi team won 4 out of 5 games [30 ppl on each team], and it was only because half of the vi team went to help emacs team, since we felt sorry for them
imagine:
microsoft vs linux! participants:approx 30,000 on each team; area: 900 acres of some woods/swamp land! god, that would be fun. [you could add air attacks, etc to spice it up:)]
pal ain't that bad. eventhough you get a lower frame rate, at the same time it's a higher resolution :P
i hope not. i already had problems with changing from 5.5 to 5.6.
i run obsidian webmail on couple of my servers, and it just will not work with 5.6, had to downgrade
[http://www.obsidian.co.za btw]
a tour organized once a year by ozzy osbourne. right now it's in its nineth year [actually, one of the most successful music tours in usa, imho]. :)
they promote a lot of new bands. overall, amazing show. i went there this year, in atlanta. 13 hrs of good music [although last years have had better bands], great fireworks [since it was 4th of july], and of course - OZZY
total cost:
44$ - tickets
9$ - beer at the concert [for 4.50$/cup it was too expensive]
20$ - beer before and after the concert
~40$ - gas
10$ - lousy acid
3$ - bottle of water [refiled at the fountain for the rest of the day]
0$ - sunburn, stickers, exhaustion, great experience.
overall, ozzfest is good. [www.ozzfest.com]
p.s., hfstival was great this year [www.hfstival.com]
a heavy metal band - www.fearfactory.com :)
they were last year at ozzfest [or maybe 98, my memory is corrupted]. gotta love their remake of 'cars'
i agree, i would like to see commit/rollback in mysql; however, for most of the web-based databases transactions are not that crucial :)
another good argument for a great product
jelousy is such a sin. show me your women then.
we could take it further:
* academic studies on various toxic substances = could be used to create them, thus = illegal
* the history channel = great wars of the past, somebody can get some kind of crazy idea, thus = illegal
* rocks/wood = possible weapons = illegal
* referencing other people's work in your writings = wow, we can't get anywhere closer to copyright violations according to riaa =
BAN ALL THE FOOTNOTES!
[i just can't be more sarcastic this morning]
you could have not put it in a less modest way.
and no, it wasn't a flamebait. btw, maybe one day you can learn something about an intelligent conversation/debate.
looks like search engines will become illegal then. unless the engines will filter out anything associated with mp3s. hell, why doesn't riaa propose to change all the routers on the internet to start filtering out anything associated with mp3s?
this is absolutely amazing. next thing we know, we will have people trying to reinforce patents on toilet paper, and more. when is this madness going to end?
so much for being split by DoJ. will microsoft be sued again in 10 years, because of monopoly in the pc games market?
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even if it is, you have to admit - a lot of effort would be put in making up those icq logs [100xs of pages]
not if you can certify your cabling and your contractor can't. i already can see them pull some shitty cat3, with no map nor non-standard pinouts on the jacks. great ...
would you be so nice, and get out a freaking dictionary, and look up the word 'morality'? or anything associated with it. see if you can find word 'christianity' anywhere in the definition.
thank you dork
seeing that post makes me glad i am not christian any more. and trust me, i was brought up 'more' christian, than you would ever come close to - a roman catholic in a country where the estimated population consists of 97% roman catholics. why do christians often seem to be so ignorant and full of themselves?
i just wonder - when was the last time you tried to copy, hell - even listen to anything from the net? the quality is poor. shoutcast/realaudio/liquidaudio - all of them suck over an average connection. quality is poor, very often interrupts occur and your player has to take 3 seconds to re-buffer. and no, i'm not using a modem - i'm on a fairly clean t1.