I would recommend going to college and having fun if your parents are paying for it. You may never again have that much time to do what you want and you might need the time to learn who you are.
If you already know who you are and what you want to do, do it and decide later whether you also want a degree. You can always go to college later, maybe in the evening (although being a sysadmin might make it difficult to get evenings off - depends on how stable your systems are:).
Certifications come second to experience IMO. You need to understand how systems work before you are taught "the Microsoft way" in a classroom. Learn the command prompt on every platform you use - and use all of them that you can.
Then you can get those nice shiny credentials in your.sig and they will actually mean something to someone because you will know what you are doing.
Autopatching might be ok for a desktop - if it isn't a very important one. But you should only be applying patches if they apply to your system. If you don't use the service/application being patched, why mess with a system that is working?
Also, not all patches are good. Patches should be tested thoroughly before being applied to production systems - something Microsoft apparently doesn't do properly or they would have discovered that this patch doesn't actually work and it even breaks some javascript.
Thor Larholm (GreyMagic Software) confirms IE 5 is vulnerable.
For support you might use IEAK to upgrade your sites to 5.5 SP2. Internet Explorer Administration Kit is one thing Microsoft has done right. I used it to distribute 350+ IE installs when Zenworks wouldn't work.
This post to bugtraq claims Windows XP Pro is not vulnerable with the patch. If true this would support Microsoft's argument, "Well, if you upgrade..."
and make sure your source doesn't either in case it should reveal "interesting" information about their systems, environment, transactions, etc.
If I were paying someone to write code for my business I would want it as customized to my needs as possible while making it modular for further enhancement. What I would not want is for the entire open source community to know what network OS, database version, hardware, etc. I am using since that would reveal too much useful information to potential intruders.
I assumed the dish would have to go to a receiver before the capture card - if not, terrific! I haven't researched video in years and I would love to see what they have come out with now.
DLP projector, eh? That one is going on the wish list:)
many videophiles build HTPCs (Home Theatre PCs) in order to fix the scaling artifacts and achieve better quality output than is possible even if spending tens of thousands of dollars on specialized scan converters and scaler hardware designed to do the very same thing
When (if?) I get enough disposable cash I am getting a dish, sending the S-video signal to my WinTV card and playing it on a 32" presentation monitor. *Drool*
You might try ogle. I get so-so performance from videolan, sometimes losing sync or getting halty video. Ogle is just beautiful - menus work great, sound is awesome, and the video doesn't halt. I haven't tried Xine or mplayer since I don't need anything but ogle.
Seriously, this sort of modeling will take less time as processors scale bigger and Internet connectivity proliferates. I would like to participate, but it would be nice if I didn't have to run an MS OS to do so. I can, do and probably will, but if they would just release the source...
My current company and the one where I worked before both use Notes so I have been supporting it for about six years now. It does a great job for intracompany email, but I can't speak to how well Domino works. For some reason our incoming Internet email is slow as hell, which really sucks. I wish I knew more about it but we don't admin that at our site.
I know! What if M$ offered us a configuration utility that selected only the features necessary for the hardware we were running? Then we could tune the kernel to have only the minimum necessary functionality so it would be as efficient as possible! They could call it 'msconfig' or something.
Then again, nah! Such a thing could never be done.
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They aren't using 486DX2's - they are using Athlon 850's and P166's or better.
And when children are in school learning how to use a computer, any computer beats no computer.
When Linus built the kernel it was so he could run it on a 386. Now that ability of running on old, available, otherwise defunct hardware is going to make Linux permeate the world.
Total world domination is just around the corner:)
my $pr0n = "adult"; my $spam = "viagra"; my $urgent = "penis enlargement"; open (INBOX,/home/mail) or die "Damn! No fun for me:$!\n"; @list = readdir(INBOX);
foreach $ (@list) {
if (-f $spam) {
my $status = unlink($spam);
}
if (-f $pr0n) {
my @MUST_SEE = $pr0n;
next;
}
if (-f $viagra) {
my @RAINY_DAY = $viagra;
next;
} } # or something like that...
Great thought and I know of one such school that can use help. In Winter Haven, Florida a school is being built - all by volunteers. It is a 30,000 sq. ft. facility that has been under construction for three years. They hope to have it open for school in Fall '02.
Here is where we (you?) can help. They have cat5 pulled throughout the building, but none of it is punched down or connected to anything because they have no equipment yet. They need PC's, servers, punchdown racks, switches, and people to donate their time if they happen to be in the central Florida area.
If you have stuff or time to donate, please call Jim Durham at 863-299-1189 - he is the one leading the project.
how anyone could ever make any real money on these technologies
Well, one way is to distribute a free P2P client that can be used to steal processor cycles and disk storage from unwitting users. Then write it up in your 10K and sell shares of the company.
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mechanic==hardware tech - legions, indeed
engineer==engineer - legions? bottom rung?
it fits in my pocket
So does my Nokia
Natalie versus Kirsten - who will win?
I would recommend going to college and having fun if your parents are paying for it. You may never again have that much time to do what you want and you might need the time to learn who you are.
:).
.sig and they will actually mean something to someone because you will know what you are doing.
If you already know who you are and what you want to do, do it and decide later whether you also want a degree. You can always go to college later, maybe in the evening (although being a sysadmin might make it difficult to get evenings off - depends on how stable your systems are
Certifications come second to experience IMO. You need to understand how systems work before you are taught "the Microsoft way" in a classroom. Learn the command prompt on every platform you use - and use all of them that you can.
Then you can get those nice shiny credentials in your
Autopatching might be ok for a desktop - if it isn't a very important one. But you should only be applying patches if they apply to your system. If you don't use the service/application being patched, why mess with a system that is working?
Also, not all patches are good. Patches should be tested thoroughly before being applied to production systems - something Microsoft apparently doesn't do properly or they would have discovered that this patch doesn't actually work and it even breaks some javascript.
Thor Larholm (GreyMagic Software) confirms IE 5 is vulnerable.
For support you might use IEAK to upgrade your sites to 5.5 SP2. Internet Explorer Administration Kit is one thing Microsoft has done right. I used it to distribute 350+ IE installs when Zenworks wouldn't work.
This post to bugtraq claims Windows XP Pro is not vulnerable with the patch. If true this would support Microsoft's argument, "Well, if you upgrade ..."
and make sure your source doesn't either in case it should reveal "interesting" information about their systems, environment, transactions, etc.
If I were paying someone to write code for my business I would want it as customized to my needs as possible while making it modular for further enhancement. What I would not want is for the entire open source community to know what network OS, database version, hardware, etc. I am using since that would reveal too much useful information to potential intruders.
Processes on Windows NT run in "Rings". From the MSDN knowledge base:
The core of a Win32 operating system runs at Ring 0 (kernel or supervisor mode), which is the highest privilege level.
I assumed the dish would have to go to a receiver before the capture card - if not, terrific! I haven't researched video in years and I would love to see what they have come out with now.
:)
DLP projector, eh? That one is going on the wish list
many videophiles build HTPCs (Home Theatre PCs) in order to fix the scaling artifacts and achieve better quality output than is possible even if spending tens of thousands of dollars on specialized scan converters and scaler hardware designed to do the very same thing
When (if?) I get enough disposable cash I am getting a dish, sending the S-video signal to my WinTV card and playing it on a 32" presentation monitor. *Drool*
You might try ogle. I get so-so performance from videolan, sometimes losing sync or getting halty video. Ogle is just beautiful - menus work great, sound is awesome, and the video doesn't halt. I haven't tried Xine or mplayer since I don't need anything but ogle.
Coincidence? I think not!
...
Seriously, this sort of modeling will take less time as processors scale bigger and Internet connectivity proliferates. I would like to participate, but it would be nice if I didn't have to run an MS OS to do so. I can, do and probably will, but if they would just release the source
I think they quarantine all Internet mail, regardless of whether it has attachments. We see lagtime of hours sometimes.
My current company and the one where I worked before both use Notes so I have been supporting it for about six years now. It does a great job for intracompany email, but I can't speak to how well Domino works. For some reason our incoming Internet email is slow as hell, which really sucks. I wish I knew more about it but we don't admin that at our site.
"Dammit, Jim - I'm an actor, not a doctor!"
I'm not so worried about where he'll move to, but where will he post the changelog?
YES IT DOES!
and
VI!
I know! What if M$ offered us a configuration utility that selected only the features necessary for the hardware we were running? Then we could tune the kernel to have only the minimum necessary functionality so it would be as efficient as possible! They could call it 'msconfig' or something.
Then again, nah! Such a thing could never be done.
They aren't using 486DX2's - they are using Athlon 850's and P166's or better.
And when children are in school learning how to use a computer, any computer beats no computer.
When Linus built the kernel it was so he could run it on a 386. Now that ability of running on old, available, otherwise defunct hardware is going to make Linux permeate the world.
:)
Total world domination is just around the corner
my $pr0n = "adult";
...
my $spam = "viagra";
my $urgent = "penis enlargement";
open (INBOX,/home/mail) or die "Damn! No fun for me:$!\n";
@list = readdir(INBOX);
foreach $ (@list) {
if (-f $spam) {
my $status = unlink($spam);
}
if (-f $pr0n) {
my @MUST_SEE = $pr0n;
next;
}
if (-f $viagra) {
my @RAINY_DAY = $viagra;
next;
}
}
# or something like that
Great thought and I know of one such school that can use help. In Winter Haven, Florida a school is being built - all by volunteers. It is a 30,000 sq. ft. facility that has been under construction for three years. They hope to have it open for school in Fall '02.
Here is where we (you?) can help. They have cat5 pulled throughout the building, but none of it is punched down or connected to anything because they have no equipment yet. They need PC's, servers, punchdown racks, switches, and people to donate their time if they happen to be in the central Florida area.
If you have stuff or time to donate, please call Jim Durham at 863-299-1189 - he is the one leading the project.
And thanks.
I find it suspicious that after such a pro-corporation bill, he's proposing a pro-consumer one
That's a politician for ya.
how anyone could ever make any real money on these technologies
Well, one way is to distribute a free P2P client that can be used to steal processor cycles and disk storage from unwitting users. Then write it up in your 10K and sell shares of the company.