German engineering advancements peeked a decade or so ago making it harder for these companies to generate growth for their shareholders, corner cutting and in this case, out right lying are quick ways of generating growth. It's a sad state for these German companies - Mercedes were recently found to be using false leather for their car seats - marketed as real leather of course - and had to make a payout to a guy in the UK who had his seats tested after purchase! Luxury...
I ran the free upgrade tool to take my Windoze 7 laptop to Windoze 10. The upgrade itself was fine but the laptop would never stay on for more than 24 hours without hanging afterwards, requiring a full power cycle to remedy and how loooong does that windoze 10 boot sequence take? WOW!. I've stuck Fedora on it now instead and use the MATE desktop - I'm really happy with the result, it took me a bit of work to get PopcornTime 3.10 working but otherwise all good. Boots like a charm, great interface, does everything I want and doesn't track what I'm doing. Bye bye Micro$oft, I won't miss you!
A work colleague was trading bitcoin most of last year. towards the end of the year he chased his losses one weekend and came into work on the Monday stating "he was now down overall" - he didn't look to happy about it so I can only guess how bad things were for him. He was sacked on the Friday for not paying enough attention at work, he'd been under review for a year or so and had failed to show any improvement - I guess he thought bitcoin trading was his way out. The story that more than 95% of bitcoins are held by just 4 addresses is enough to put me off getting involved (whether it's true or not.)
I stopped using KDE years ago when they decided to make it unusable. I switched to Gnome instead.
Last year I stopped using Gnome for the same reasons.
Long live XFCE!
I was the same, with no qualifications. I started work in a small IT company on their helpdesk and learned Linux and Unix from that position.
I'm now 35 and own 2 properties without mortgage; I had nothing to begin with. I view that as enough success for me.
I have never contracted but will consider that next as I don't feel the need for the security of a salaried position, I am just too lazy to leave my current employer who remunerates me well enough.
Go for a small business to begin with, they won't have the HR issues that many of the posts detail here in response. Even better, a small family run business will look for qualities in you that other companies would not (I cannot explain that, but I know it)
After 2 years, move on - the only way to get decent a pay rise is to move to another company, staying in the same company will only see you garner incremental increases based on your current salary whereas moving to another company can see your pay increase through demand of your skills.
I would wish you good luck, bu you won't need it if you are even half decent. There are always jobs in IT, it's proved recession proof in this dark time at least. Be prepared to travel.
I've been working for gamblers for the last few years, out in Gibraltar. I started in the dev team of one company, but now run in an infrastructure team of another. I don't have any ambition to go to north America particularly myself, but a colleague of mine has a wife and family living States' side, another colleague is American himself (very loud) - so I presume they would hope not to have entry into USA issues post employment here.
I have seen a wide angle of work ethics within the gambling industry, some companies being quite strict on software releases and infrastructure changes being rolled out to production, others running along the lines of "free-for-all" changes in production - bless them. So do ask the right questions in interview, otherwise you could find yourself applying Saturday night changes in production....
Occasionally but very rarely, the media do actually report some statistics. Radio 4 reported the other day that knife crime numbers are actually pretty steady and haven't changed much over recent years. They did say however that the general/average age of people committing knife crime has decreased.
Most modern terminals i have come across over the years do support greater than 80*25 displays - serial line and network versions. 132 column being a repeating example, which nicely matches 132 column printers - Why 132? I dont know...
Yeah, i know what you mean. But still, most other Unix distros come with a telnet server somewhere in their Installation set. It's not uncommon I suppose
I use ftp instead of SCP as I get much much higher data speeds using ftp. When transferring huge files, this makes sense as it saves a lot of time (obviuosly within perimiter Firewalls, or over already encrypted links)
telnet is often used by 3rd party hardware (Firewalls, routers etc.) and are secured in the knowledge that the interface the telnet daemon is listening on is on an already secured network, although you would be surprised how many Firewalls I have found where the telnet daemon is accessible from unsecure networks (even the Internet in some cases!)
I acknowledge that most of this equipment now comes with SSH servers - I guess it comes down to persuading Network and Security Admins. to use the SSH interface and disable the telnet interface altogether - In my experience, many have not switched over to SSH for historical reasons (ie they "always" use telnet to access a router!)
I can't believe a large Unix software vendor with years of experience can get it wrong with some trivial, well understood protocol application designed over 35 years ago.
Doesn't give me much confidence in Sun OSs
I noticed the snippet about Solaris 10 being vulnerable to "ping of death" attacks before a "patch" came out. Mind you they have never been very good at network stacks. Ever... You can probably tell I use Linux...
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German engineering advancements peeked a decade or so ago making it harder for these companies to generate growth for their shareholders, corner cutting and in this case, out right lying are quick ways of generating growth. It's a sad state for these German companies - Mercedes were recently found to be using false leather for their car seats - marketed as real leather of course - and had to make a payout to a guy in the UK who had his seats tested after purchase! Luxury ...
it was fun ... a long time ago.
You should see my hosts file!
Stop messing with our tax collectors!
Blockbuster!
I have a virtual host with OVH - pretty good specs, works fine and as cheap as chips!
I ran the free upgrade tool to take my Windoze 7 laptop to Windoze 10. The upgrade itself was fine but the laptop would never stay on for more than 24 hours without hanging afterwards, requiring a full power cycle to remedy and how loooong does that windoze 10 boot sequence take? WOW!. I've stuck Fedora on it now instead and use the MATE desktop - I'm really happy with the result, it took me a bit of work to get PopcornTime 3.10 working but otherwise all good. Boots like a charm, great interface, does everything I want and doesn't track what I'm doing. Bye bye Micro$oft, I won't miss you!
I can't wait until they start beaming adverts directly into your head whilst you are trying to get to sleep!
I stopped listening to Radio1 when Chris Moyles left the breakfast show anyway.
I'd drop Skype tomorrow but I can't find a cheaper London phone number provider than £31/year
A work colleague was trading bitcoin most of last year. towards the end of the year he chased his losses one weekend and came into work on the Monday stating "he was now down overall" - he didn't look to happy about it so I can only guess how bad things were for him. He was sacked on the Friday for not paying enough attention at work, he'd been under review for a year or so and had failed to show any improvement - I guess he thought bitcoin trading was his way out. The story that more than 95% of bitcoins are held by just 4 addresses is enough to put me off getting involved (whether it's true or not.)
"vi -b" to see the ^M end of line character and ^Z end of file characters of windows text files under *nix.
with browser and android integration. I'm only frustrated that the browser plugin is not available for firefox on android.
Could be Intel's biggest mistake to let that happen!
Why do all these horrible new viruses emerge from Germany?
I stopped using KDE years ago when they decided to make it unusable. I switched to Gnome instead. Last year I stopped using Gnome for the same reasons. Long live XFCE!
I was the same, with no qualifications. I started work in a small IT company on their helpdesk and learned Linux and Unix from that position. I'm now 35 and own 2 properties without mortgage; I had nothing to begin with. I view that as enough success for me. I have never contracted but will consider that next as I don't feel the need for the security of a salaried position, I am just too lazy to leave my current employer who remunerates me well enough. Go for a small business to begin with, they won't have the HR issues that many of the posts detail here in response. Even better, a small family run business will look for qualities in you that other companies would not (I cannot explain that, but I know it) After 2 years, move on - the only way to get decent a pay rise is to move to another company, staying in the same company will only see you garner incremental increases based on your current salary whereas moving to another company can see your pay increase through demand of your skills. I would wish you good luck, bu you won't need it if you are even half decent. There are always jobs in IT, it's proved recession proof in this dark time at least. Be prepared to travel.
lol
I've been working for gamblers for the last few years, out in Gibraltar. I started in the dev team of one company, but now run in an infrastructure team of another. I don't have any ambition to go to north America particularly myself, but a colleague of mine has a wife and family living States' side, another colleague is American himself (very loud) - so I presume they would hope not to have entry into USA issues post employment here. I have seen a wide angle of work ethics within the gambling industry, some companies being quite strict on software releases and infrastructure changes being rolled out to production, others running along the lines of "free-for-all" changes in production - bless them. So do ask the right questions in interview, otherwise you could find yourself applying Saturday night changes in production ....
Occasionally but very rarely, the media do actually report some statistics. Radio 4 reported the other day that knife crime numbers are actually pretty steady and haven't changed much over recent years. They did say however that the general/average age of people committing knife crime has decreased.
Surely, if its 28,000 light years away and only 140 years old, we won't see it (or be aware of it in any way what so ever) for another 27,860 years!?!
Most modern terminals i have come across over the years do support greater than 80*25 displays - serial line and network versions. 132 column being a repeating example, which nicely matches 132 column printers - Why 132? I dont know ...
Yeah, i know what you mean. But still, most other Unix distros come with a telnet server somewhere in their Installation set. It's not uncommon I suppose
telnet is often used by 3rd party hardware (Firewalls, routers etc.) and are secured in the knowledge that the interface the telnet daemon is listening on is on an already secured network, although you would be surprised how many Firewalls I have found where the telnet daemon is accessible from unsecure networks (even the Internet in some cases!)
I acknowledge that most of this equipment now comes with SSH servers - I guess it comes down to persuading Network and Security Admins. to use the SSH interface and disable the telnet interface altogether - In my experience, many have not switched over to SSH for historical reasons (ie they "always" use telnet to access a router!)
I can't believe a large Unix software vendor with years of experience can get it wrong with some trivial, well understood protocol application designed over 35 years ago. Doesn't give me much confidence in Sun OSs I noticed the snippet about Solaris 10 being vulnerable to "ping of death" attacks before a "patch" came out. Mind you they have never been very good at network stacks. Ever. .. You can probably tell I use Linux ...