Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
I can secure my papers against unreasonable searches and seizures. Email is just modern paper. If I send it to my brother I can secure it.
Not all rights are mentioned in the bill of rights, as the document specificly allows, which are despite not the lack of mention still retained by the people. Thus the right to private converstation, or for that matter privacy itself is still a right even if not mentioned.
The US goverment is not given right to take away those rights.
I've been considereing starting a wireless ISP for a while. Here is my perspective:
When a customers looks at internet they want it to work. The default is a modem, which works. Slow, but it works, most people start with it, and soon grow tired of the lack of speed.
When they want to upgrade speed the havce several options: ISDN, DSL, Wireless, satalite, cable modem, in order of theoretical speed. However cost varies. In general ISDN is the most expensive, (maybe wireless is more depending on what I want my profit to be). Satalite is avaiable anywhere, but latency is bad. Web only users will love it though. DSL and ISDN are the only unshared system, which makes it hard to compre speed. Cable and DSL are only avaiable in a few places and you can't be sure of getting it. Satalite and wireless are affected by weather. In theory wireless allows roaming - great if you want to use your laptop under a shade tree.
Where I live with one of the biggest ISDN tarrifs in the nation. ($60/month just for the line, plus ISP charges) DSL is not even in the plans. (My ISDN line is run from a switch at least 30 miles away, appearently with amps along the way, no wonder it is so expensive). Cable isn't in the plans, and the company isn't trusted even if it was - a lot of houses here have DSS dishs and have dropped cable. Perfect for wireless. (Unfortunatly the city has substadised T1s to local buisness for non-isp use, so a large crop of money is unavaiable to me)
right now wireless is undergoing the upgrade from 2mbs to 11. Once the faster radios are stable it is ready. Links of 20 miles are achived all the time with wireless, without repeaters. Normally though smaller cells are desirable.
Getting a work permits can be a problem, but I'll assume you can deal with that.
The French have earned a reputation of being snotty to americans. This is partially america, and partially not speaking french. So while waiting for paper work do everything you can to learn their language.
That said, you will just have to learn to deal with it. There are bigiots in the US that are just as bad as those in France. Depending on what you have going against you (and everyone as something that someone will find fault with. Even though I'm a white male living in the US, there are people who don't like me based on that. Not many, but I have come across one) Deal with it, avoid them if you can, be polite otherwise. Treat them as they should treat you not as they do.
I have never been to France, but several friends have. They report a large number of nice people there. They report loving it, and all would seriously consider moving there. (they also love their home though, so it would be hard) There are also plenty of people there who don't like them.
In other words, the people are like people anywhere else in the world. Some are nice, some are not. Some will give you the shirt off their back, some are dowwright dirty rotten crooks. If you can't deal with anyone who didn't belong to your frat/click/team/religion/ethnics, then stay where you are. If you can't deal with those who hate you for what you are (not WHO) then stay home.
I say go for it. Don't give up your citicianship until you are sure you want to live there forever. However it is well worth your while to live in other countries. You will love it, and remember it forever.
As Shakesphere wrote brilliantly in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and friends snuck into a party, and very few people noticed. Those that did said "Well, the enemy is here, but we will just watch them as long as they are not doing anything bad."
You forgot some critical steps if you want to be secure.
Not only do you need open source, you need open source that you have personally understood every line of, compiled on a compilers that you wrote in binary youself.
The last part, compiled on a compiler you wrote youself is very deep: a compromised compiler can destroy all advantage of open source. (See the infamious login hack, which you should look up) If the compiler isn't something you wrote in binary yourself, then you can't be sure that your compiler wasn't compromised. And you really should go deeper, since it is possibal (in theory) for someone to put a little prom in your disk/floppy drive that checks to see if a compiler is being written and compromise it, meaning you have to design your hardware from scratch and make it from silcon you mine yourself. (Note that recignising a hand written compiler and figgureing out how to compromise it might require solving the halting problem, so I don't know if it is possibla in the general case, but it is possibal if everyone works from one binary listing)
It is worth it to be paranoid, but unfortunatly if everyone was paranoid enough nothing could get done because everyone has to invent their own wheel on up through everything civialization has done.
Operating systems are not religion. You will not be dammed to eternal torrment by choosing the wrong one or using several. It is in fact good for your resume to learn multipul OSes.
Besides, which linux do you prefer? redHat, Debian, and slackware are three very different distributions that come to mind. All are nominally linux, and all run mostly the same code underneith, but they are very different to set up and work with. FreeBSD is just anouther one.
If someone gets slashcode working and stable on NT (2000), and they are cheapest, then use them. I don't like microsoft either, but if it works don't break it. If you need something that NT can't provide (remote admin) then don't use it. FreeBSD and linux are similear enough that there is no advantage of one over the other in features. (Linux supports more hardware, but freeBSD is generally slightly more stable on the hardware it is stable on - since you choose the hardware, you can choose what works best. a bad choice of freeBSD hardware and good linux hardware will make linux better, and vise-versa)
We are a unix shop on this side of the engineering/marketing wall, and the other side is of course windows. Frame on Solaris is all we use for technical documents, and because there are windows versions marketing can accualy work with us. (Though they much prefer word for some unknown reasons - I know nothing about word)
On my boss's desk is a 800mhz pc running linux that he uses as a x terminal. (Seriously, xfree86 is the only app, which displays applications running on a (slower!) solaris box elsewhere. We all knnow it is a waste, but it is cheaper then the other X terminals we have, and works better. The point is that he could run Frame on the linux machine and everything would be faster. (Frame because it is on a local mahcine, everything else because that is one less app to fight for CPU cycles)
Is this really a good idea? I keep thinking there has got to be a security hole in here someplace. I can't figgure out where, but I can't convince myself that there isn't some risk (not nessicarly security though that comes to mind) running this.
I've made cellular calls in the US from an area where I'm sure the tower will never see 1,000 people within range at a time, which doesn't sound like much until you realise that this tower is streched to the limits of the possibal range, I'm sure I was more then 10 miles away from it! Thats a lot of area, and not a lot of people in it. Sure the call clarity was bad, but it was analog so at least I could understand it. While I don't claim to know the UK well, I'm confidant that there is no area in the UK that sparesly populated. Your towers that never see more then 1000 people in range (and that is people not cell phones!) cover less then a mile.
Sprint has a license to build a tower anywhere in the US they want to, they don't because there aren't enough potential customers to make it worthwhile. Remember too that they would be the only digital tower in most areas so they would be by default the provider for everyone in the area. Doesn't matter, there still aren't enough people.
From My house to New York is farther then from most houses in Europe to Moscow, and I'm on the east half of North America. Americans are criticised for now knowing geography by everyone else, but everyone around me knows better then to drive to New York for an afternoon, which many Europians I've met think they would to regularly if they lived in my house.
I'll end this one with an interesting note -- Intel's palmtop CPU chip series is named StrongARM... is that supposed to be some sort of joke?
For those who don't know history, intel did not come up with the name strongArm DEC came up with that name. Intel got it as part of a settelment with digital over some lawsuit.
Of course many have pointed out a million other mistakes in here. - Even assuming it si recient mistakes, big ones were ignored while non-factors are in the list.
Exactly, geography isn't important
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Or rather geography isn't important to your job. If you love to fish, then it is important as you can't do much fishing in a desert. Likewise those who love deserts aren't comfortable in cold climates.
In the old days you had to live in the wrong area for you to do your job. If you didn't live close to Detroit you couldn't get a job building cars. If you didn't live in Pittsberg then steel working was out of the question. If you didn't live in Minneapolis then you couldn't be a flour miller.
Today things are different. Oh sure, if you work in the above industries you still ahve to live close to work. However two things have changes: None of the above cities have a monopoly in their industries. (I don't think Minneapolis mills any flour anymore, detroit still makes a lot of cars, but not most, pittsberg isn't the only city with a steel mill. More importantly, automation has caught up meaning less people are needed to work manual labor, while more people are needed to push paper.
Today I work in Minneapolis, in a tarditional office. Management has told us to figgure out how to work with people not in the office. We immeadiatly asked how far that went, and were told "John loves horses, he should soon be moving to Montana where there is room for horses, Gary has relatives in upsate New York, he wants to be closer to the family so he should. Hank wants to spend more time fishing the northern lakes, he should move there." Of course from the companies point of view this is better. If John finds a job in Montana that pays good (he doesn't want to try to make a ranch make money as that is nearly impossibal) he will move. My boss has looked at several jobs, but hasn't quite found one he likes. I don't like the jobs I've seen up north, so I'm still here. If I can live where ever, the company has a better chance of keeping me. More importantly are two points: It is easier to sell in a country where you have employees, one salesmen not counting; and it is easier to hire when you don't have to hire someone who lives within driving distance of your office or is willing to work.
the net is changing things. When I choose a comunity to live in I want to choose who my kids playmates are (I know some sexually abused kids who turned around and did the same thing to their playmates not knowing better, and I'm sure there are other issues here). Local school quality is an issue. The proximity of sking/fishing/surfing/4x4ing/camping and many other things that I like/dislike in my backyard is important. Who I work for is no longer an issue when I buy a house.
Before you get too excited, better look at ecconomics. Sure that astorid you are talking about mining to death has a few trillion dollars worth of metal on it. Sure you can mine it cheaper in the long run becuse you build a mini-refinery on it, and then use local materials to build a big one, and solar power for everything. Then you flood earth with whatever raw material. Opps, turns out that prices on raw metal haven't been going anywhere for a long time. Since you are using robots and solar power your costs are lower (assuming a good delevery system), but you have to contend with supply and demand. Lowering the price of iron doesn't increase demand anymore. All the customers want lower prices and there is compititon to keep prices lower, but the demand is fixed, we can produce more iron then we need. So you come in with your load of iron and now have to sell it to a market that by your presence isn't paying as much.
Long term it is a good idea. Why mine prime land when you can put a wildlife refuge or something else that is beatiful there. We have unlimmited asteroids (okay, but close enough), and nobody cares are them as nothing is living on them.
Remember don't invest money unless you are sure you can make money. If your mining platanum that is no problem, you can drive prices down and compittion out of buisness, with $.50/lb platinum (currently more then $500.00/lb if I remember right) becuase the stuff is usefully chemically if we could get enough to use it everywhere we want to. I think anyway, but you do your own homework before investing money.
Okay, so we build a breeder reactor, and then build anouther one next to it to automaticly take the weapons grade plutoniumn and extract more energy from that. (Or can a breeder reactor then react the plutonium, I don't see why not, but I don't claim to be an expert.) I know there are reactors that run on plutonium, and you convert to weapons grade plutonium to non-weapons grade by mixing in inert implurities.
Now I agree that if security is a problem then breeder reactors are a bad idea, but security is a well understood propblem, and that risk can be minimised.
Technology marchs along where we want it to go right. In the 1860s (1863 I think) there was an explosion at a flour milling plant that took out 1/3 of the worlds milling. The plant that replaced it couldn't explode because they used technology to prevent it. We know plutonium can explode, but we can build technology so that there can never be that concentration.
I don't have any plug-ins installed on my system, and I've never had a problem - the only one I'd consider is one for PDF, as that is accually used. I've only seen a couple web sites that even have any other plug-in requested (shockwave or flash - or are thsoe the same?) and every one allows easy bypass. I might miss some fancy animation once in a while, but I've never found a web site where that was critical. I've seen far to many websites where java script or graphics were critical (forcing me to abandon lynx for netscape), something I mind when I'm after information that shouldn't require either, but don't mind when it is accually useful. Case in point: My bank requires javascript, but I once figgured out how to bypass that check and I couldn't find a thing that didn't work.
When netscape asks if I want to download a plug-in I hit no. I don't trust random binaries on my system, I'm uncomfortable enough with pre-compiled netscape (someday I'll compile mozilla and solve this), and I compile everything else.
No, you have that wrong. Sun forked sunOS versions 1.0-4.x from BSD. BSD always was BSD, sunOS was the fork by sun. Suns lawyers never sued BSD. Currently sunOS is at version 5.x (I think they call it vesion 8 now, but it is still version 5) which is NOT based on the forked BSD code but rather based on the orginial AT&T code.
There were legal problems in the early battles, but they were caused by whoever owned unix at that time (AT&T yet? I'm not sure) BSD got around them by re-writing the code in question, and setteling. since BSD never has had (much) money the settelment wasn't a big deal.
Radio Shack sells (or used to sell) a lot of gear to make your own alarm system. Start there for most of your hardware, though I'm sure you can find better prices.
I don't think linux (or even computer) based solutions are something you want. Maybe cause I often get the load on my linux box past 10, and I don't want my alarm system to have to wait very long for processor time. A few transisters (chips) in a small box is easy to hide. A linux machine is likely bigger (though of course you can get dedicated small cases if you can get everything to interface to it), and worse yet looks like a valuable computer. A video of the theif's face will do you no good if the theif takes the recording with him! If you have videos, then you need a way to get the storage off site. All fine if you know the theif is going to be at your house at 3am monday night. But then if you knew when the theif would be there you would have been there to prevent the crime (with the police most likely)
P.S. Don't overlook the professional solutions. $20/month monitoring fee and you get an insurance discount, unlike a personal built system. Could easially be worth it.
We have white noise in some areas. We discovered that with them on people feel they have to talk louder, so they are heard farther away. Then we turn the white noise up louder, so people talk louder yet. Seems all the loud mouths compensate for white noice by yelling, while the soft spoken person gets frusterated because nobody can hear them.
Personally I wear ear plugs. I can hear lout noises (fire alarm), and nothing else until I'm tapped on the shoulder by someone needing my attention.
Sounds like someone has forgotten the rule of purchising: Figgure out what you want, have venders demo their solutions, choose the ones that work and buy the best price.
I don't know if exchange is beter or worse. Only you can answer that, and only if you get all your potential venders in to show off their solutions. Make sure they cover what unix users will do. Make sure they cover speed and relability. Make sure they cover ease of use.
This is not religion. You will not go to hell (though until you quit/retire it might feel like it) if you make the wrong choice. You also won'tgo to hell if your choice is different from someone else's. You might get fried if you chose a solution that doesn't work.
Basicly my question is why is exchange the answer without knokwing the question, and without evaluating other possibal answers to the question.
Run conduit (pipes) to every drop. have your contractor leave pull strings inside. I don't know what the future will provide, and niether do you. (We both can make guesses and might be right) So allow for it.
Don't forget to run A/V cableing to places. I recomend a few jacks for (nearly) deaf to plug into the instructor's mike. The (nearly) blind might need a TV on their desk so they can see what is one the comptuer screen.
If you can't afford to put a projector in every room, just run the conduit to where the projector would be if you could afford it. Make sure you specify enough strengh to mount the projectors - though this shouldn't be a problem.
If your going to build labs, run jacks to every station. don't forget that some of these jacks are not for comptuers but for lab equipment. That is someone might one day want to connect all the lab equipment togather. How or why I don't know, but make sure that there is some way to do this once the equipment is designed.
Expect students to want to plug laptops in. Put every classroom on a seperate subnet (so programs can braodcast to the subnet and hit all the laptops.) Of course software to make this work needs to be written so this might never take off, but assume it will.
correction: run cat-5 to regular rj-11 for a PBX. Even though you might be able to get by with lesser cable for the PBX don't try it, it isn't worth the hasstle. Then see if you vender has a jack option other then rj-11 and rj-45. Those two are used for analog phone and ethernet respectivly. Try to avoid making it easy for idiots to plug the wrong thing into your jacks. (Good luck, our phone system at work is rj-45 and we have to keep reminding people that the white jacks are phone only.
Jeans are jeans, I can buy them at wal-mart just as good as you, and they look and function the same no matter where they come from. So why would the matter. For t-shirts anyone who knows me can guess correctly what size will fit me, likewise sweaters.
I don't want someone else buying my underware, and all the girls I know feel the same way. That is private, only husbands/wives can consider buying that, and they can just come home early and read the labels in my drawer if they don't know. Everyone else has no buisness caring what my underware looks like.
For suits, the only way to buy one is to have a professional taylor make one to fit just me (If you can arrange a buisness trip to Thiland this is affordable too!). So please don't buy me this either. Nooses are a different story, if you must buy me a tie, you will discover that size isn't a factor.
Then again I've always belived that clothing should cover the relavent body parts, provide warmth, and not be uncomfortable. I've reluctantly agreed not to wear my oil and paint stained shirt with the holes in to work, but I don't see why it matters. I sometimes put my shirts on inside out, and it doesn't bother me at all.
My neighbor reciently needed a new lawn mower. Despite that fact that he has been mowing lawns since he was 12, he had no idea what the difference between a 2 cycle and 4 cycle engine is. Latter I was surprized to discover that he has no idea how to tell if the engine is flooded, much less what to do about it. Yet he has been using lawn mowers for 30 years!
When I lived in an apartment I found that some of my neighbors have no idea corn grows much like thos trees in the part. He was against hunting because it was killing, but he didn't consider it a meal unless there was beef, pork or chicken included.
Okay, the wording is changed a little bit to make the situations work, but look again and try to convince me that the above situations are any different. I could be entirely self sufficant, growing and cooking my own food, refining my own crude into gas, building my own car from ore, typing on a commptuer I designed and built myself in my own fab. the only problem is I wouldn't. after taking the time to grown my own food and mine my own ore I wouldn't have time left in my life to design the car, much less build it, find crude, refine it, build a comptuer fab plant. So humans specialize. I don't do medican, I go to a doctor. I might have a small garden, but it doesn't come close to providing all the food I eat. Even if materials are provided, building a chip fab plant alone takes longer then I'm likely to live.
This kid will grow up calling a tech every time he needs comptuer help. So long as overall he is contributing to socity in some way I'm not worried. If he tries to make a life of crime, or live entirly on welfare (assuming ability to not) I'm worried. Convince me that this kid is an idiot who can never be a productive member of socity and there is a problem. If this kids interests call a comptuer a tool and he isn't interested in how his tools work, who cares.
My professors in computer science all were on research projects, and it turned out most were working with the medical school across the street. Sure a medical doctor/student could program a comptuer, but everyone is better off if they work togather, the comptuer people writing programs to orginize data usefully while the MDs interoret what it means. (In the case I recall the computer orginized brain slices, but there are many possibilities)
The world may need more engineers, but we need the majroity of people to not be engineers.
I didn't realize this for a long time, but a couple weeks ago I watched a kid play deer hunter. He started out by typing all the cheat codes. Suddenlly there were 10 times as many deer in the game, and they were all atracted to him. Then he shot them all.
Most of my friends when playing that game put wouldn't use the cheat settings if we knew them. (compare to the kid who memorized them) We pick a spot, and try to call a deer in, then we decide if we want to shoot it or wait for anouther. The only difference between that and real hunting is we aren't outside in bad weather.
In other words, some people don't get the concept of cheating, while others need to. The guy who cheats has a full walk through for tomb raider. I felt stupid for needing to consult a hint book to find the "good fromtz board" in planet fall, and I'm still kicking myself for not trying that despite how unobvious it is.
In high school one of my english teachers told me that when she reads fiction she reads the first few pages, and then the last page so she know how it turns out. I read books front to back. Give me an encyclopedia set and tell me to look up sweden and I'd rather read every entry before Sweden then just turn to that entry. It just doesn't seem right to read a book out of order (though given time pressues I normally will go right to sweden)
People are different. I don't understand everyone else. It doesn't make sense to me why someone would cheat. They do though, just like they get walk throughs and read the last page first.
It occurs to me that you might consider switching to sendmail based on my comments of it working. while It is true that it works just fine even in these bad days, I don't recomend it. There are potential problems. However it still works for me, which is what counts: what works for you. If it ain't broke don't break it, but if it is broke fix it good, which is why I wanted to use postfix. (Now I'm just behind a firewall, which is second best.
My main MTA is still sendmail 4.something with all the security holes. It runs just fine on my 386 and some old version of slackware from when slackware was king and redhat didn't exist. If it works don't break it is a good motto, and I proved that a year ago when I failed to get postfix working and it took me a couple day to get the old sendmail back. Since then I've been afraid to mess with that machine.
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Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I can secure my papers against unreasonable searches and seizures. Email is just modern paper. If I send it to my brother I can secure it.
Not all rights are mentioned in the bill of rights, as the document specificly allows, which are despite not the lack of mention still retained by the people. Thus the right to private converstation, or for that matter privacy itself is still a right even if not mentioned.
The US goverment is not given right to take away those rights.
I've been considereing starting a wireless ISP for a while. Here is my perspective:
When a customers looks at internet they want it to work. The default is a modem, which works. Slow, but it works, most people start with it, and soon grow tired of the lack of speed.
When they want to upgrade speed the havce several options: ISDN, DSL, Wireless, satalite, cable modem, in order of theoretical speed. However cost varies. In general ISDN is the most expensive, (maybe wireless is more depending on what I want my profit to be). Satalite is avaiable anywhere, but latency is bad. Web only users will love it though. DSL and ISDN are the only unshared system, which makes it hard to compre speed. Cable and DSL are only avaiable in a few places and you can't be sure of getting it. Satalite and wireless are affected by weather. In theory wireless allows roaming - great if you want to use your laptop under a shade tree.
Where I live with one of the biggest ISDN tarrifs in the nation. ($60/month just for the line, plus ISP charges) DSL is not even in the plans. (My ISDN line is run from a switch at least 30 miles away, appearently with amps along the way, no wonder it is so expensive). Cable isn't in the plans, and the company isn't trusted even if it was - a lot of houses here have DSS dishs and have dropped cable. Perfect for wireless. (Unfortunatly the city has substadised T1s to local buisness for non-isp use, so a large crop of money is unavaiable to me)
right now wireless is undergoing the upgrade from 2mbs to 11. Once the faster radios are stable it is ready. Links of 20 miles are achived all the time with wireless, without repeaters. Normally though smaller cells are desirable.
Getting a work permits can be a problem, but I'll assume you can deal with that.
The French have earned a reputation of being snotty to americans. This is partially america, and partially not speaking french. So while waiting for paper work do everything you can to learn their language.
That said, you will just have to learn to deal with it. There are bigiots in the US that are just as bad as those in France. Depending on what you have going against you (and everyone as something that someone will find fault with. Even though I'm a white male living in the US, there are people who don't like me based on that. Not many, but I have come across one) Deal with it, avoid them if you can, be polite otherwise. Treat them as they should treat you not as they do.
I have never been to France, but several friends have. They report a large number of nice people there. They report loving it, and all would seriously consider moving there. (they also love their home though, so it would be hard) There are also plenty of people there who don't like them.
In other words, the people are like people anywhere else in the world. Some are nice, some are not. Some will give you the shirt off their back, some are dowwright dirty rotten crooks. If you can't deal with anyone who didn't belong to your frat/click/team/religion/ethnics, then stay where you are. If you can't deal with those who hate you for what you are (not WHO) then stay home.
I say go for it. Don't give up your citicianship until you are sure you want to live there forever. However it is well worth your while to live in other countries. You will love it, and remember it forever.
or crashing into parties.
As Shakesphere wrote brilliantly in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and friends snuck into a party, and very few people noticed. Those that did said "Well, the enemy is here, but we will just watch them as long as they are not doing anything bad."
You forgot some critical steps if you want to be secure.
Not only do you need open source, you need open source that you have personally understood every line of, compiled on a compilers that you wrote in binary youself.
The last part, compiled on a compiler you wrote youself is very deep: a compromised compiler can destroy all advantage of open source. (See the infamious login hack, which you should look up) If the compiler isn't something you wrote in binary yourself, then you can't be sure that your compiler wasn't compromised. And you really should go deeper, since it is possibal (in theory) for someone to put a little prom in your disk/floppy drive that checks to see if a compiler is being written and compromise it, meaning you have to design your hardware from scratch and make it from silcon you mine yourself. (Note that recignising a hand written compiler and figgureing out how to compromise it might require solving the halting problem, so I don't know if it is possibla in the general case, but it is possibal if everyone works from one binary listing)
It is worth it to be paranoid, but unfortunatly if everyone was paranoid enough nothing could get done because everyone has to invent their own wheel on up through everything civialization has done.
Operating systems are not religion. You will not be dammed to eternal torrment by choosing the wrong one or using several. It is in fact good for your resume to learn multipul OSes.
Besides, which linux do you prefer? redHat, Debian, and slackware are three very different distributions that come to mind. All are nominally linux, and all run mostly the same code underneith, but they are very different to set up and work with. FreeBSD is just anouther one.
If someone gets slashcode working and stable on NT (2000), and they are cheapest, then use them. I don't like microsoft either, but if it works don't break it. If you need something that NT can't provide (remote admin) then don't use it. FreeBSD and linux are similear enough that there is no advantage of one over the other in features. (Linux supports more hardware, but freeBSD is generally slightly more stable on the hardware it is stable on - since you choose the hardware, you can choose what works best. a bad choice of freeBSD hardware and good linux hardware will make linux better, and vise-versa)
We are a unix shop on this side of the engineering/marketing wall, and the other side is of course windows. Frame on Solaris is all we use for technical documents, and because there are windows versions marketing can accualy work with us. (Though they much prefer word for some unknown reasons - I know nothing about word)
On my boss's desk is a 800mhz pc running linux that he uses as a x terminal. (Seriously, xfree86 is the only app, which displays applications running on a (slower!) solaris box elsewhere. We all knnow it is a waste, but it is cheaper then the other X terminals we have, and works better. The point is that he could run Frame on the linux machine and everything would be faster. (Frame because it is on a local mahcine, everything else because that is one less app to fight for CPU cycles)
Is this really a good idea? I keep thinking there has got to be a security hole in here someplace. I can't figgure out where, but I can't convince myself that there isn't some risk (not nessicarly security though that comes to mind) running this.
I've made cellular calls in the US from an area where I'm sure the tower will never see 1,000 people within range at a time, which doesn't sound like much until you realise that this tower is streched to the limits of the possibal range, I'm sure I was more then 10 miles away from it! Thats a lot of area, and not a lot of people in it. Sure the call clarity was bad, but it was analog so at least I could understand it. While I don't claim to know the UK well, I'm confidant that there is no area in the UK that sparesly populated. Your towers that never see more then 1000 people in range (and that is people not cell phones!) cover less then a mile.
Sprint has a license to build a tower anywhere in the US they want to, they don't because there aren't enough potential customers to make it worthwhile. Remember too that they would be the only digital tower in most areas so they would be by default the provider for everyone in the area. Doesn't matter, there still aren't enough people.
From My house to New York is farther then from most houses in Europe to Moscow, and I'm on the east half of North America. Americans are criticised for now knowing geography by everyone else, but everyone around me knows better then to drive to New York for an afternoon, which many Europians I've met think they would to regularly if they lived in my house.
Or rather geography isn't important to your job. If you love to fish, then it is important as you can't do much fishing in a desert. Likewise those who love deserts aren't comfortable in cold climates.
In the old days you had to live in the wrong area for you to do your job. If you didn't live close to Detroit you couldn't get a job building cars. If you didn't live in Pittsberg then steel working was out of the question. If you didn't live in Minneapolis then you couldn't be a flour miller.
Today things are different. Oh sure, if you work in the above industries you still ahve to live close to work. However two things have changes: None of the above cities have a monopoly in their industries. (I don't think Minneapolis mills any flour anymore, detroit still makes a lot of cars, but not most, pittsberg isn't the only city with a steel mill. More importantly, automation has caught up meaning less people are needed to work manual labor, while more people are needed to push paper.
Today I work in Minneapolis, in a tarditional office. Management has told us to figgure out how to work with people not in the office. We immeadiatly asked how far that went, and were told "John loves horses, he should soon be moving to Montana where there is room for horses, Gary has relatives in upsate New York, he wants to be closer to the family so he should. Hank wants to spend more time fishing the northern lakes, he should move there." Of course from the companies point of view this is better. If John finds a job in Montana that pays good (he doesn't want to try to make a ranch make money as that is nearly impossibal) he will move. My boss has looked at several jobs, but hasn't quite found one he likes. I don't like the jobs I've seen up north, so I'm still here. If I can live where ever, the company has a better chance of keeping me. More importantly are two points: It is easier to sell in a country where you have employees, one salesmen not counting; and it is easier to hire when you don't have to hire someone who lives within driving distance of your office or is willing to work.
the net is changing things. When I choose a comunity to live in I want to choose who my kids playmates are (I know some sexually abused kids who turned around and did the same thing to their playmates not knowing better, and I'm sure there are other issues here). Local school quality is an issue. The proximity of sking/fishing/surfing/4x4ing/camping and many other things that I like/dislike in my backyard is important. Who I work for is no longer an issue when I buy a house.
Before you get too excited, better look at ecconomics. Sure that astorid you are talking about mining to death has a few trillion dollars worth of metal on it. Sure you can mine it cheaper in the long run becuse you build a mini-refinery on it, and then use local materials to build a big one, and solar power for everything. Then you flood earth with whatever raw material. Opps, turns out that prices on raw metal haven't been going anywhere for a long time. Since you are using robots and solar power your costs are lower (assuming a good delevery system), but you have to contend with supply and demand. Lowering the price of iron doesn't increase demand anymore. All the customers want lower prices and there is compititon to keep prices lower, but the demand is fixed, we can produce more iron then we need. So you come in with your load of iron and now have to sell it to a market that by your presence isn't paying as much.
Long term it is a good idea. Why mine prime land when you can put a wildlife refuge or something else that is beatiful there. We have unlimmited asteroids (okay, but close enough), and nobody cares are them as nothing is living on them.
Remember don't invest money unless you are sure you can make money. If your mining platanum that is no problem, you can drive prices down and compittion out of buisness, with $.50/lb platinum (currently more then $500.00/lb if I remember right) becuase the stuff is usefully chemically if we could get enough to use it everywhere we want to. I think anyway, but you do your own homework before investing money.
Okay, so we build a breeder reactor, and then build anouther one next to it to automaticly take the weapons grade plutoniumn and extract more energy from that. (Or can a breeder reactor then react the plutonium, I don't see why not, but I don't claim to be an expert.) I know there are reactors that run on plutonium, and you convert to weapons grade plutonium to non-weapons grade by mixing in inert implurities.
Now I agree that if security is a problem then breeder reactors are a bad idea, but security is a well understood propblem, and that risk can be minimised.
Technology marchs along where we want it to go right. In the 1860s (1863 I think) there was an explosion at a flour milling plant that took out 1/3 of the worlds milling. The plant that replaced it couldn't explode because they used technology to prevent it. We know plutonium can explode, but we can build technology so that there can never be that concentration.
I don't have any plug-ins installed on my system, and I've never had a problem - the only one I'd consider is one for PDF, as that is accually used. I've only seen a couple web sites that even have any other plug-in requested (shockwave or flash - or are thsoe the same?) and every one allows easy bypass. I might miss some fancy animation once in a while, but I've never found a web site where that was critical. I've seen far to many websites where java script or graphics were critical (forcing me to abandon lynx for netscape), something I mind when I'm after information that shouldn't require either, but don't mind when it is accually useful. Case in point: My bank requires javascript, but I once figgured out how to bypass that check and I couldn't find a thing that didn't work.
When netscape asks if I want to download a plug-in I hit no. I don't trust random binaries on my system, I'm uncomfortable enough with pre-compiled netscape (someday I'll compile mozilla and solve this), and I compile everything else.
No, you have that wrong. Sun forked sunOS versions 1.0-4.x from BSD. BSD always was BSD, sunOS was the fork by sun. Suns lawyers never sued BSD. Currently sunOS is at version 5.x (I think they call it vesion 8 now, but it is still version 5) which is NOT based on the forked BSD code but rather based on the orginial AT&T code.
There were legal problems in the early battles, but they were caused by whoever owned unix at that time (AT&T yet? I'm not sure) BSD got around them by re-writing the code in question, and setteling. since BSD never has had (much) money the settelment wasn't a big deal.
Radio Shack sells (or used to sell) a lot of gear to make your own alarm system. Start there for most of your hardware, though I'm sure you can find better prices.
I don't think linux (or even computer) based solutions are something you want. Maybe cause I often get the load on my linux box past 10, and I don't want my alarm system to have to wait very long for processor time. A few transisters (chips) in a small box is easy to hide. A linux machine is likely bigger (though of course you can get dedicated small cases if you can get everything to interface to it), and worse yet looks like a valuable computer. A video of the theif's face will do you no good if the theif takes the recording with him! If you have videos, then you need a way to get the storage off site. All fine if you know the theif is going to be at your house at 3am monday night. But then if you knew when the theif would be there you would have been there to prevent the crime (with the police most likely)
P.S. Don't overlook the professional solutions. $20/month monitoring fee and you get an insurance discount, unlike a personal built system. Could easially be worth it.
We have white noise in some areas. We discovered that with them on people feel they have to talk louder, so they are heard farther away. Then we turn the white noise up louder, so people talk louder yet. Seems all the loud mouths compensate for white noice by yelling, while the soft spoken person gets frusterated because nobody can hear them.
Personally I wear ear plugs. I can hear lout noises (fire alarm), and nothing else until I'm tapped on the shoulder by someone needing my attention.
Sounds like someone has forgotten the rule of purchising: Figgure out what you want, have venders demo their solutions, choose the ones that work and buy the best price.
I don't know if exchange is beter or worse. Only you can answer that, and only if you get all your potential venders in to show off their solutions. Make sure they cover what unix users will do. Make sure they cover speed and relability. Make sure they cover ease of use.
This is not religion. You will not go to hell (though until you quit/retire it might feel like it) if you make the wrong choice. You also won'tgo to hell if your choice is different from someone else's. You might get fried if you chose a solution that doesn't work.
Basicly my question is why is exchange the answer without knokwing the question, and without evaluating other possibal answers to the question.
Run conduit (pipes) to every drop. have your contractor leave pull strings inside. I don't know what the future will provide, and niether do you. (We both can make guesses and might be right) So allow for it.
Don't forget to run A/V cableing to places. I recomend a few jacks for (nearly) deaf to plug into the instructor's mike. The (nearly) blind might need a TV on their desk so they can see what is one the comptuer screen.
If you can't afford to put a projector in every room, just run the conduit to where the projector would be if you could afford it. Make sure you specify enough strengh to mount the projectors - though this shouldn't be a problem.
If your going to build labs, run jacks to every station. don't forget that some of these jacks are not for comptuers but for lab equipment. That is someone might one day want to connect all the lab equipment togather. How or why I don't know, but make sure that there is some way to do this once the equipment is designed.
Expect students to want to plug laptops in. Put every classroom on a seperate subnet (so programs can braodcast to the subnet and hit all the laptops.) Of course software to make this work needs to be written so this might never take off, but assume it will.
correction: run cat-5 to regular rj-11 for a PBX. Even though you might be able to get by with lesser cable for the PBX don't try it, it isn't worth the hasstle. Then see if you vender has a jack option other then rj-11 and rj-45. Those two are used for analog phone and ethernet respectivly. Try to avoid making it easy for idiots to plug the wrong thing into your jacks. (Good luck, our phone system at work is rj-45 and we have to keep reminding people that the white jacks are phone only.
Jeans are jeans, I can buy them at wal-mart just as good as you, and they look and function the same no matter where they come from. So why would the matter. For t-shirts anyone who knows me can guess correctly what size will fit me, likewise sweaters.
I don't want someone else buying my underware, and all the girls I know feel the same way. That is private, only husbands/wives can consider buying that, and they can just come home early and read the labels in my drawer if they don't know. Everyone else has no buisness caring what my underware looks like.
For suits, the only way to buy one is to have a professional taylor make one to fit just me (If you can arrange a buisness trip to Thiland this is affordable too!). So please don't buy me this either. Nooses are a different story, if you must buy me a tie, you will discover that size isn't a factor.
Then again I've always belived that clothing should cover the relavent body parts, provide warmth, and not be uncomfortable. I've reluctantly agreed not to wear my oil and paint stained shirt with the holes in to work, but I don't see why it matters. I sometimes put my shirts on inside out, and it doesn't bother me at all.
My neighbor reciently needed a new lawn mower. Despite that fact that he has been mowing lawns since he was 12, he had no idea what the difference between a 2 cycle and 4 cycle engine is. Latter I was surprized to discover that he has no idea how to tell if the engine is flooded, much less what to do about it. Yet he has been using lawn mowers for 30 years!
When I lived in an apartment I found that some of my neighbors have no idea corn grows much like thos trees in the part. He was against hunting because it was killing, but he didn't consider it a meal unless there was beef, pork or chicken included.
Okay, the wording is changed a little bit to make the situations work, but look again and try to convince me that the above situations are any different. I could be entirely self sufficant, growing and cooking my own food, refining my own crude into gas, building my own car from ore, typing on a commptuer I designed and built myself in my own fab. the only problem is I wouldn't. after taking the time to grown my own food and mine my own ore I wouldn't have time left in my life to design the car, much less build it, find crude, refine it, build a comptuer fab plant. So humans specialize. I don't do medican, I go to a doctor. I might have a small garden, but it doesn't come close to providing all the food I eat. Even if materials are provided, building a chip fab plant alone takes longer then I'm likely to live.
This kid will grow up calling a tech every time he needs comptuer help. So long as overall he is contributing to socity in some way I'm not worried. If he tries to make a life of crime, or live entirly on welfare (assuming ability to not) I'm worried. Convince me that this kid is an idiot who can never be a productive member of socity and there is a problem. If this kids interests call a comptuer a tool and he isn't interested in how his tools work, who cares.
My professors in computer science all were on research projects, and it turned out most were working with the medical school across the street. Sure a medical doctor/student could program a comptuer, but everyone is better off if they work togather, the comptuer people writing programs to orginize data usefully while the MDs interoret what it means. (In the case I recall the computer orginized brain slices, but there are many possibilities)
The world may need more engineers, but we need the majroity of people to not be engineers.
I didn't realize this for a long time, but a couple weeks ago I watched a kid play deer hunter. He started out by typing all the cheat codes. Suddenlly there were 10 times as many deer in the game, and they were all atracted to him. Then he shot them all.
Most of my friends when playing that game put wouldn't use the cheat settings if we knew them. (compare to the kid who memorized them) We pick a spot, and try to call a deer in, then we decide if we want to shoot it or wait for anouther. The only difference between that and real hunting is we aren't outside in bad weather.
In other words, some people don't get the concept of cheating, while others need to. The guy who cheats has a full walk through for tomb raider. I felt stupid for needing to consult a hint book to find the "good fromtz board" in planet fall, and I'm still kicking myself for not trying that despite how unobvious it is.
In high school one of my english teachers told me that when she reads fiction she reads the first few pages, and then the last page so she know how it turns out. I read books front to back. Give me an encyclopedia set and tell me to look up sweden and I'd rather read every entry before Sweden then just turn to that entry. It just doesn't seem right to read a book out of order (though given time pressues I normally will go right to sweden)
People are different. I don't understand everyone else. It doesn't make sense to me why someone would cheat. They do though, just like they get walk throughs and read the last page first.
It occurs to me that you might consider switching to sendmail based on my comments of it working. while It is true that it works just fine even in these bad days, I don't recomend it. There are potential problems. However it still works for me, which is what counts: what works for you. If it ain't broke don't break it, but if it is broke fix it good, which is why I wanted to use postfix. (Now I'm just behind a firewall, which is second best.
My main MTA is still sendmail 4.something with all the security holes. It runs just fine on my 386 and some old version of slackware from when slackware was king and redhat didn't exist. If it works don't break it is a good motto, and I proved that a year ago when I failed to get postfix working and it took me a couple day to get the old sendmail back. Since then I've been afraid to mess with that machine.