I'm not sure I would call it fascist, it really depends on where you work. I used to work in a couple of different secure areas, where no devices that could transmit out were allowed, for security reasons.
I'm currently going back for my CS degree, and my current class is "Computer Organization and Programming", which is just assembly under 16-bit MS-DOS. I have a couple of advantages over most of the students: I'm about 15 years older, and have quite a bit more experience; I wrote assembly code on the C64. I learned a lot about how things worked when I learned assembly many years ago. I think this class will be good for most of the students, even though it may seem irrelevant. Some of the later classes need this as a prerequisite, like Digital Logic Design. (This is at University of Houston).
Couldn't get any of their autographs or anything. They apparently were shooting a video in/around the big vacuum chamber, which is only a 100ft away from my office, and that half the of the building was locked down with security and locked doors and everything. I watched a little bit through a window, but that's about it.
He just has Red Hat Linux, but considers Windows 1.01, 1.03, 2.03, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, along with MS-Dos 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x as all different operating systems, especially when all windows versions from 3.1 and earlier were nothing more than an application running on top of MS-Dos, not a proper OS at all.
So why not Red Hat Linux 9, 8.0, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 6.2, etc... Suse version, Mandrake version, Slackware versions.... Man, you can get a whole lot more os's on it.
I've still got my first linux distro, a slackware distribution from TransAmeritech. I got it in 93 I think. It used kernel 0.99pl12, and came with 6 pages of photocopied documentation stapled together. I keep it now just for nostalgia.
My first foray into the professional world (after high school) was as a mainframe operator in the air force. I worked on Unisys 1100/60, 2200/400, and 2200/600, along with Perkin-Elmer 3240 (AFAMPE). It was just ops. Sysadmin really didn't exist as such, as you said. There were admins for individual subsystems, BQ (some finance), AC (more finance), VK (more finance), a bunch of stuff.
Speaking and writing are two different things, though. Sure, they may write tnx, but do they say "tnx"? No, they still say thanks. To me that still means that thanks is the correct spelling, and tnx is nothing but an abbreviation.
Yes, and with amanda I was able to open up the command line client, navigate to the file and set the restore path. With that done, it worked out which tapes the file was on and restored.
Amanda does the same thing, it's no problem. Yes, spanning tapes is a problem, but people might be working on it now. You can get around it by just backing up files, or directories, under the filesystem, in increments that are less than the tape size. I use it at a couple of different work locations, and it has worked really well.
Exactly what I've done. I went from telecomm/data processing, to unix/nt sysadm, then to some network management (hp openview stuff). Then to this small company that has no other it guy, just me. So I do everything, from server builds to network engineering. The office moved to a new building, and I went and wired everything, engineered the whole network. Gave me lots of experience, and is pushing me more and more into the networking side, which is where I want to be anyway. If I was in a bigger company I would get pigeonholed into a specific job (like I was with the other companies) and wouldn't quite have the same opportunities as I do now.
The only issue I have with dress code is it should go with the job. You wouldn't expect someone who works on a flight line to wear a suit and tie, just because the HR people in the same company do, would you?
No, he wears what's appropriate for the job. In my job, I could be moving servers around, disconnecting cables, running cables under the subfloor, and other miscellaneous things. I've ruined enough slacks when I worked for a company that wanted us to look "professional", and I won't do that again.
On the other hand, very every user that likes their files organized like that, I can point out half a dozen that don't organize anything. No file naming structure, no directory structure, nothing. Just hundreds of inconsistently named files in one directory
However, I would like to think that there is some happy medium between those two extremes. Coming from a C background, Perl has historically treated regexes as servants. True, Perl has treated them as trusted servants, letting them move about in Perl society better than any other C-like language to date. Nevertheless, if we emancipate regexes to serve as co-equal control structures, and if we can rid ourselves of the regexist attitudes that many of us secretly harbor, we'll have a much more productive society than we currently do. We need to empower regexes with a sense of control (structure). It needs to be just as easy for a regex to call Perl code as it is for Perl code to call a regex.
We've been discriminating against the poor regexes for too long. We need to represent them who are unable to represent themselves. Stop Regex Exploitation Now!
When I was in the air force, we were phasing out punch cards (this was in late 80's). However most of the programs still had punch card code in them. So what was done was interface programs were made. Instead of actually punching cards, then reading them in later, they were save in this program called "pseudo" (for false punch cards), in "buckets" for each program. This pseudo program simulated reading in punch cards to another program. Instead of just rewriting the programs so no "punch card" interfaces were used at all, they just simulated it.
Yes, me too. I've got the source to wwiv v4.20 on my hard drive right now (from way back when, about August of 1991 or so). It was my favorite.
There is a version being ported to Linux. Here is an excerpt:
WWIV/X 4.25 is a port of WWIV 4.24a for DOS to the Linux platform with additional code from WWIV 4.30 for DOS. It is based on the same code as WWIV for DOS, and significant portions of the code have remained intact. Eventually, we hope to integrate the new features of WWIV 4.30 into WWIV/X, but no timeline for that has been established.
This way I have machine.com accessable to the internet (through a firewall) for ssh, and have it forward the vnc ports to the nt machine (not accessable from the internet).
All I did for the nt machine was install winvnc, set up the password.
I connect to our win2k server over an adsl link, which is 128k going out. It is fine. Yes, it is a little slow, but better than having to drive over to the other office just to create a user id, or change permissions on a file. I even do it over an encrypted ssh tunnel.
I remember back in 94, a unit that I worked for replaced WWMCCS (World Wide Military Command and Control System, pronounced "wimmics") with GCCS (Global Command and Control System, pronounced "geeks"), which was a bunch of Sun Sparc20's with a bunch of special software on them...
How much longer until corporate sponsored "war squads" will descend upon copyright violators, circumventing whatever "legalities" are in their way?
I can certainly imagine a scenario where a corporation -- RIAA or Microsoft, for example -- frustrated with the slow legal process of finding and then prosecuting copyright violators decides to covertly sponsor a Delta Force-like "tactical copyright squad" to go in and eliminate the copyright violations.
...
It's craziness. Mark my words. Ten years from now. We'll be hearing stories about "corporate BlackOps". Copyright squads. This is what all those black helicopters are. They're corporate-sponsored "Information Fighters."
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I'm not sure I would call it fascist, it really depends on where you work. I used to work in a couple of different secure areas, where no devices that could transmit out were allowed, for security reasons.
I'm currently going back for my CS degree, and my current class is "Computer Organization and Programming", which is just assembly under 16-bit MS-DOS. I have a couple of advantages over most of the students: I'm about 15 years older, and have quite a bit more experience; I wrote assembly code on the C64. I learned a lot about how things worked when I learned assembly many years ago. I think this class will be good for most of the students, even though it may seem irrelevant. Some of the later classes need this as a prerequisite, like Digital Logic Design. (This is at University of Houston).
Couldn't get any of their autographs or anything. They apparently were shooting a video in/around the big vacuum chamber, which is only a 100ft away from my office, and that half the of the building was locked down with security and locked doors and everything. I watched a little bit through a window, but that's about it.
He just has Red Hat Linux, but considers Windows 1.01, 1.03, 2.03, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, along with MS-Dos 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x as all different operating systems, especially when all windows versions from 3.1 and earlier were nothing more than an application running on top of MS-Dos, not a proper OS at all.
So why not Red Hat Linux 9, 8.0, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 6.2, etc... Suse version, Mandrake version, Slackware versions.... Man, you can get a whole lot more os's on it.
I could see people talking on their cell phone and driving with one of these. Talking about a disaster. People can't drive now...
I've still got my first linux distro, a slackware distribution from TransAmeritech. I got it in 93 I think. It used kernel 0.99pl12, and came with 6 pages of photocopied documentation stapled together. I keep it now just for nostalgia.
My first foray into the professional world (after high school) was as a mainframe operator in the air force. I worked on Unisys 1100/60, 2200/400, and 2200/600, along with Perkin-Elmer 3240 (AFAMPE). It was just ops. Sysadmin really didn't exist as such, as you said. There were admins for individual subsystems, BQ (some finance), AC (more finance), VK (more finance), a bunch of stuff.
They still have something like that called Scannerz.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics...
Speaking and writing are two different things, though. Sure, they may write tnx, but do they say "tnx"? No, they still say thanks. To me that still means that thanks is the correct spelling, and tnx is nothing but an abbreviation.
Yes, and with amanda I was able to open up the command line client, navigate to the file and set the restore path. With that done, it worked out which tapes the file was on and restored.
Amanda does the same thing, it's no problem. Yes, spanning tapes is a problem, but people might be working on it now. You can get around it by just backing up files, or directories, under the filesystem, in increments that are less than the tape size. I use it at a couple of different work locations, and it has worked really well.
Exactly what I've done. I went from telecomm/data processing, to unix/nt sysadm, then to some network management (hp openview stuff). Then to this small company that has no other it guy, just me. So I do everything, from server builds to network engineering. The office moved to a new building, and I went and wired everything, engineered the whole network. Gave me lots of experience, and is pushing me more and more into the networking side, which is where I want to be anyway. If I was in a bigger company I would get pigeonholed into a specific job (like I was with the other companies) and wouldn't quite have the same opportunities as I do now.
Yes, true.
The only issue I have with dress code is it should go with the job. You wouldn't expect someone who works on a flight line to wear a suit and tie, just because the HR people in the same company do, would you?
No, he wears what's appropriate for the job. In my job, I could be moving servers around, disconnecting cables, running cables under the subfloor, and other miscellaneous things. I've ruined enough slacks when I worked for a company that wanted us to look "professional", and I won't do that again.
It all depends on the job, in my opinion...
or a klutz suing to be named a blackbelt in judo
Or 4 guys suing to be hooters girls?
It doesn't even stop then.
My girlfriend managed to get a kernel panic on bootup with a new ibook with mac os 10.1.2
How? I have know idea.
All I could do was take out the battery and put it back in. Came back up fine.
On the other hand, very every user that likes their files organized like that, I can point out half a dozen that don't organize anything. No file naming structure, no directory structure, nothing. Just hundreds of inconsistently named files in one directory
However, I would like to think that there is some happy medium between those two extremes. Coming from a C background, Perl has historically treated regexes as servants. True, Perl has treated them as trusted servants, letting them move about in Perl society better than any other C-like language to date. Nevertheless, if we emancipate regexes to serve as co-equal control structures, and if we can rid ourselves of the regexist attitudes that many of us secretly harbor, we'll have a much more productive society than we currently do. We need to empower regexes with a sense of control (structure). It needs to be just as easy for a regex to call Perl code as it is for Perl code to call a regex.
We've been discriminating against the poor regexes for too long. We need to represent them who are unable to represent themselves. Stop Regex Exploitation Now!
When I was in the air force, we were phasing out punch cards (this was in late 80's). However most of the programs still had punch card code in them. So what was done was interface programs were made. Instead of actually punching cards, then reading them in later, they were save in this program called "pseudo" (for false punch cards), in "buckets" for each program. This pseudo program simulated reading in punch cards to another program. Instead of just rewriting the programs so no "punch card" interfaces were used at all, they just simulated it.
Kind of funny...
There is a version being ported to Linux. Here is an excerpt:
WWIV/X 4.25 is a port of WWIV 4.24a for DOS to the Linux platform with additional code from WWIV 4.30 for DOS. It is based on the same code as WWIV for DOS, and significant portions of the code have remained intact. Eventually, we hope to integrate the new features of WWIV 4.30 into WWIV/X, but no timeline for that has been established.
Here is the link: http://kobran.yi.org/wwivx/index.html
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Host vnc1
HostName machine.com
Compression yes
CompressionLevel 9
LocalFoward 5900 vncmachine 5900
This way I have machine.com accessable to the internet (through a firewall) for ssh, and have it forward the vnc ports to the nt machine (not accessable from the internet).
All I did for the nt machine was install winvnc, set up the password.
I connect to our win2k server over an adsl link, which is 128k going out. It is fine. Yes, it is a little slow, but better than having to drive over to the other office just to create a user id, or change permissions on a file. I even do it over an encrypted ssh tunnel.
Try CH.
http://www.softintegration.com/
I remember back in 94, a unit that I worked for replaced WWMCCS (World Wide Military Command and Control System, pronounced "wimmics") with GCCS (Global Command and Control System, pronounced "geeks"), which was a bunch of Sun Sparc20's with a bunch of special software on them...
Then you might want to check out Pike. Pike is directly derived from LPC, I believe.
http://pike.roxen.com/
lsd
How much longer until corporate sponsored "war squads" will descend upon copyright violators, circumventing whatever "legalities" are in their way?
I can certainly imagine a scenario where a corporation -- RIAA or Microsoft, for example -- frustrated with the slow legal process of finding and then prosecuting copyright violators decides to covertly sponsor a Delta Force-like "tactical copyright squad" to go in and eliminate the copyright violations.
...
It's craziness. Mark my words. Ten years from now. We'll be hearing stories about "corporate BlackOps". Copyright squads. This is what all those black helicopters are. They're corporate-sponsored "Information Fighters."
Hmm...sounds kind of like Shadowrun...