From the product web page:
(Note for SuSE Linux: MultiBay DVD+RW and Intel PRO wireless not supported.)
And the base price has changed since the article was published.
Make sure it's double boxed if you dont have the original packaging, and cough up the dough for insurance. My cousin worked for FedEx for a few years as a sorter and a courier. Oh the horror stories he told. Even when it is marked fragile or electronics, the ppl handling your packages still throw the stuff around. They don't care what is in the box. All they care about is that they have 16 truckloads of freight to put on an airplane at three in the morning. The cost of the insurance payout doesn't come out of their paycheck, but their boss sure will be on their ass if the plane doesn't get off the tarmac by 5am.
reminds me of the cartoon where the pelican is eating the frog that has it's hands (??) around the pelican's throat.
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While I agree with your assesment, I think you put the blame in the wrong place. Up until about 5 years ago, 90% of SAIC's work was govt. contracts. Those contracts were the ones that defined having degrees and certifications in order for the worker to be hired. SAIC's hands are tied in those situations. The Co. doesn't get paid if the contractural obligations aren't met.
How many SAIC ppl read /.
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I'm curious about how many SAIC emps read/. I started a journal entry to find out. http://slashdot.org/~NTT/journal/32648
I had one particular game from InfoCom that was the first on I played constantly. Cant remember the name tho. One point was a path with "an inpentratable forest" and a house with a black cat. Somewhere in there was a witch in a castle. Anybody know the name? Thanks...
He didn't make one single coherent response in the whole CRN interview. He just doesnt get it does he... It doesnt matter anymore if SCO/Caldera's IP has been violated. So what if they can prove qualitatively that SysV code is in Linux and it came from IBM. Talking about it in court just puts it into public record and makes it accessible for the (C)oders to rewrite it. Even if they win this, it would be cheaper for IBM to appeal the verdict for the next 10 years while SCO spends the last of their cash fighting the appeal.
There was a time when being an MCP/MSCE *actually* was worthwhile. Before every fly-by-night tech education company realized they could make a buck off the courseware and flooded the market with paper-cert toting meta-geeks. I see this as a good thing. Anything that RH does to expand awareness of its products ultimately helps the whole OSS & FSF idealogies through a trickle down effect.
You just have to get enough chars to make it unique from any other command. Just like tab-completion. DIFF is not DIR, but DI(FF) will get confused with DI(R).
It seems you asked 2 questions. The first being (seemingly): help me learn VMS in 4 days. The other being about the general opinion of learning a new OS. I figured I throw my hat in to the ring on the first one. (I use OpenVMS at work, and Linux at home; I figure I'm qualified).
VMS is really quite similar to Unix-y OS's. What really flipped the switch for me was the how to pass parameters to the commands in VMS.
This page has helped me the most. In fact I have a print out taped up in my cube for easy reference. http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/phys net/vms-unix -commands.html Dont get discouraged by some of the long commands. As long as you have the unique chars it knows what you mean. The command DIRECTORY is shortened to DIR. Also the man equivelent in VMS is the HELP command. The help docs are complete and very well done.
The other trick to learning VMS fast is to know the directory syntax. Instead of #cd/path/to/this/file.txt it is $set def(ault) [path.to.this]file.txt. Directories are surrounded by [square brackets] with dots "." separating sub-dirs. Also there are probably multiple file systems on several disks; the disk where the OS lives is most likely called DISK$SYSTEM, and the users (aka/home) is prolly on DISK$LOG. You can bounce around from folder to folder without specifying the filesystem, but to move to another fs you have to specify it: SET DEF DISK$SYSTEM:[PATH.TO.THIS]FILE.TXT
On a side note, stay away from the VMS to Linux HOWTO. It has *very* little helpful info, except for the first few pages that show the related Linux commands.
Agreed. Anybody who puts a domain name that isn't registered in their user info is a fraud. See it here... http://www-whois.internic.net/cgi/whois?w hois_nic= wagnerconsultingllc.com&type=domain
First off, get those gadgets out of the room. Then get one of those dimmer switches from , and put some aluminum foil up on the window with some Elmer's Glue stick.
HTML-kit, prolly the best Win32 text editor for the webmaster; not exactly OSS variety of free, but free as in beer. Good solid program. To many features to list here, but some examples: completely customizable, color coding for scripts and scripting langs., built in HTML validator. Rumor has it that the next version will work in Wine
Slashdot Mirror
... is right here.
Huh. Sounds intriguing. What do you mean "dynamic" port. A HOWTO please... Thanks.
You missed the target here. This is actually "News for Nerds". Who else would care about the silly game?
"News for nerds." and "Stuff that matters." are mutually exclusive.
Thinkgeek has the hardware for this. Also a good explanation of what it does.
From the product web page: (Note for SuSE Linux: MultiBay DVD+RW and Intel PRO wireless not supported.) And the base price has changed since the article was published.
... and make sure all the icons are Corn-flower blue.
It also works on Win2K Pro
HAHAHA. Now thats really funny. Ahh, my kingdom for a mod point.
Good point.
like this "bloke"
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer
Make sure it's double boxed if you dont have the original packaging, and cough up the dough for insurance. My cousin worked for FedEx for a few years as a sorter and a courier. Oh the horror stories he told. Even when it is marked fragile or electronics, the ppl handling your packages still throw the stuff around. They don't care what is in the box. All they care about is that they have 16 truckloads of freight to put on an airplane at three in the morning. The cost of the insurance payout doesn't come out of their paycheck, but their boss sure will be on their ass if the plane doesn't get off the tarmac by 5am.
reminds me of the cartoon where the pelican is eating the frog that has it's hands (??) around the pelican's throat.
While I agree with your assesment, I think you put the blame in the wrong place. Up until about 5 years ago, 90% of SAIC's work was govt. contracts. Those contracts were the ones that defined having degrees and certifications in order for the worker to be hired. SAIC's hands are tied in those situations. The Co. doesn't get paid if the contractural obligations aren't met.
I'm curious about how many SAIC emps read /. I started a journal entry to find out. http://slashdot.org/~NTT/journal/32648
Found it!! Wishbringer.
haha
I had one particular game from InfoCom that was the first on I played constantly. Cant remember the name tho. One point was a path with "an inpentratable forest" and a house with a black cat. Somewhere in there was a witch in a castle. Anybody know the name?
Thanks...
He didn't make one single coherent response in the whole CRN interview. He just doesnt get it does he... It doesnt matter anymore if SCO/Caldera's IP has been violated. So what if they can prove qualitatively that SysV code is in Linux and it came from IBM. Talking about it in court just puts it into public record and makes it accessible for the (C)oders to rewrite it. Even if they win this, it would be cheaper for IBM to appeal the verdict for the next 10 years while SCO spends the last of their cash fighting the appeal.
So... Does that mean the invisible pink elephants are NP problems???
There was a time when being an MCP/MSCE *actually* was worthwhile. Before every fly-by-night tech education company realized they could make a buck off the courseware and flooded the market with paper-cert toting meta-geeks. I see this as a good thing. Anything that RH does to expand awareness of its products ultimately helps the whole OSS & FSF idealogies through a trickle down effect.
My vote would be for #2.
You just have to get enough chars to make it unique from any other command. Just like tab-completion. DIFF is not DIR, but DI(FF) will get confused with DI(R).
It seems you asked 2 questions. The first being (seemingly): help me learn VMS in 4 days. The other being about the general opinion of learning a new OS. I figured I throw my hat in to the ring on the first one. (I use OpenVMS at work, and Linux at home; I figure I'm qualified).
s net/vms-unix -commands.html
/path/to/this/file.txt it is $set def(ault) [path.to.this]file.txt. Directories are surrounded by [square brackets] with dots "." separating sub-dirs. Also there are probably multiple file systems on several disks; the disk where the OS lives is most likely called DISK$SYSTEM, and the users (aka /home) is prolly on DISK$LOG. You can bounce around from folder to folder without specifying the filesystem, but to move to another fs you have to specify it: SET DEF DISK$SYSTEM:[PATH.TO.THIS]FILE.TXT
VMS is really quite similar to Unix-y OS's. What really flipped the switch for me was the how to pass parameters to the commands in VMS.
This page has helped me the most. In fact I have a print out taped up in my cube for easy reference.
http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/phy
Dont get discouraged by some of the long commands. As long as you have the unique chars it knows what you mean. The command DIRECTORY is shortened to DIR.
Also the man equivelent in VMS is the HELP command. The help docs are complete and very well done.
The other trick to learning VMS fast is to know the directory syntax. Instead of #cd
On a side note, stay away from the VMS to Linux HOWTO. It has *very* little helpful info, except for the first few pages that show the related Linux commands.
Agreed. Anybody who puts a domain name that isn't registered in their user info is a fraud.w hois_nic= wagnerconsultingllc.com&type=domain
See it here...
http://www-whois.internic.net/cgi/whois?
First off, get those gadgets out of the room. Then get one of those dimmer switches from , and put some aluminum foil up on the window with some Elmer's Glue stick.
HTML-kit, prolly the best Win32 text editor for the webmaster; not exactly OSS variety of free, but free as in beer. Good solid program. To many features to list here, but some examples: completely customizable, color coding for scripts and scripting langs., built in HTML validator. Rumor has it that the next version will work in Wine
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/