Don't drive a car to take a few things over... Getting a vehicle that can take everything in 1 or two trips is best. Trips are extremely time inefficent
Helping hands... the more people you have helping the easier it is. Try to schedule some friends to help move you place at least a month in advance... Try to get as many people as possible.
Just like anything else, you should call to confirm a couple of days before... Most moving days have about 1/2 of the "friends" show... Giving them a call a couple of days before the move to remind them of the move helps a lot.
Moving company: Having worked as a mover, I highly suggest you do most of the packing yourself... Furniture and bulky items aren't really in danger of walking off, but anything that can be thrown in a pocket or set asside in the truck and strikes the mover's fancy is likely to disappear. Try to pack all the small nicknacks yourself so that all the movers are doing is carrying boxes and packing things you aren't worried about them stealing.
Boxes, most people spend a lot of time running around trying to get boxes... My last couple of moves have been with purchased boxes. Their uniform size has really been nice... It costs a bit more, but is well worth it.
Tape gun, get a tape gun. Use the generic tape, 3M stuff is too expensive ie about 3x price of cheap generic brand. Tape gun helps a lot putting together boxes
Get several markers and mark what is in the boxes.
I don't agree with your statement... Frankly I hold that quwstioning authority is fundamental to anything new being developed...
While you may be talking about peopler here, it also extends into the realm of that's the way it's always been done.
Obediance without thought is dangerous... You have to make your own decisions, primarily though your superiors should be making correct decisions... If they aren't you can refuse and leave thier employment... There is honor in leaving an employer over a difference of opinion...
However, I would never hire someone myself that couldn't think and reason for him/herself. But then again I don't run a cog factory... My employees are valued for their ability to think.
The only place for blind obediance is during crisis situations and the military... Crisis situations are few and far between... and the military, well I am a civilian now...
I like safari as well, but unlike you I actually have most of the books that they make available...
It's nice to see the new books come out and decide if I want to get them... But mainly I use the service as a reference... I can access the site anywhere, so if I am on a customer's site and need to look up something, it's pretty easy to jump in..
I keep several slots free just for this reason, I can pick whatever book I need at the time.
Good service, though I would like a bit better user interface.
Point taken, but this is really just semantics... Too many people think of their email at work as their own personal email... Just like their computers putting credit card information, and other things on the computer isn't a smart move...
Fact is that the company can in most circumstances do anything they want with the information...
I don't make the rules, I have to live with them myself... And I made sure that before my laptop is returned to company inventory everything is wiped, let them do a fresh install...
Courts have ruled several times that companies can go in and do anything they want with the data, baring it not being illegal. Copyright only protects against distribution. Viewing the information and deleting it are definately permited.
Types of email and files you can't remove... Financial information, SEC and IRS have rules against this, doesn't mean that it isn't done, but it is illegal in some cases.
Incriminating evidence, this is punishable under the guise of hindering a "word escapes me" investigation.
Other than that, the owner of the equipment has a pretty wide latitude with what he/she/it does with the information.
I understand your point and it's valid, but the basis of my arguement still stands.
Frankly, barring DRM technology, I don't think that you can prevent the person that can load a new/modified kernel into place.
There is a saying, "Root, God, what's the difference".
System Administrators need to be trustworthy, just as much as your CIO, CFO, CEO, etc etc etc.
If you can't trust them to do the job, they shouldn't be in that position in the first place.
It's the same as any job, I'm not going to take my car to a mechanic that has the habit of driving customer's cars home at night...
They have my keys, there isn't anything to stop them from doing so, but it's a matter of trust and ethics...
No program can stop someone from getting in if they want to... Heck, I don't even have to go in myself, just search the net for a tool to break the system.
Easy ways to get in, asside from the obvious tape access that was pointed out before.... Boot to linux on a disk or some other tool that allows you to access hard drives, go in, pull file.
Add debugging card to system, load program, pull debugging snapshot.
Seach the web for a version of the program with this feature disabled...
Windows likes to make it seem like they are secure, but truly if you have access to the machine you can get in...
Encrypted dongles are harder to break, but it didn't take long for them to be broken...
Basically, if you can reboot the machine and it still runs, and you have physical access to a system you can do whatever you want... Might take a bit of work, but it's not impossible...
For those that you can't poweroff and bring back up, I assume certain bodies would have adequate tempest systems to break even them.
It's just more work than most of us like to expend...
Sorry for jumping on you but this is Microsoft FUD passed off as a truth. Which is one of the reasons I don't work with Microsoft if I can avoid it... I prefer to know what's going on in my system.
Nod,
This is an excellent point to remember... While it may be a flaw in judgement to actually send the message out... All email going to a business account is owned by that company... Thus if the company says that it needs to be removed, then it does...
Just like spam or abusive mail sent company wide, it's just a degree of difference... If someone wants to have their own personal account they need to pay for it themselves... While the company pays for the service, the company gets to call the shots...
Well, I'm going through and confirming my facts, I haven't touched Suse for years. After checking my opinion hasn't changed other than possibly replacing the word proprietary with restrictive to make my opinion a little clearer.
I use GPL'd software and release my work under GPL for the sole reason that it gives me control over the software I use...
Suse has always had in my mind a desire to make money off my work without reinbursing me... Redhat and Mandrake do this by releasing their distributions under the GPL.
The problem with Yast is that it contaminates the entire distribution... With Redhat or Mandrake, I can burn a copy and distribute them with new systems that I sell to my customers... Can't do that with Suse, because I am doing a sale for money... So while I normally package a Linux on CD distribution and Mandrake or Redhat with windows systems I sell, Suse licensing ensures that I can't use them as a distribution.
But this is my decision... You find the licensing acceptable... I don't... Nothing wrong with this either way... I just don't use their product because of the licensing issues.
I also don't buy anything and Yahoo, don't shop at Best Buy, hate utility companies, hate with a vengence cable companies and phone companies, etc.
As long as I have a choice I work with whatever company supports me the most, ie customer service, support, etc...
So you may be right that Suse is not proprietary, however I firmly believe that they want to be. Which is fine as long as it's their own software... But once they start including my patches and software, they need to be giving back to me...
I appreciate their work on x11 and KDE, but that doesn't mean I want to restrict my actions by using their software.
Below are references which among others have helped to form my opinions.
The installation packages have changed a bit, so I am missing some of my old packages under Mandrake but for the desktop it works fine for me and accomplishes what I need it to accomplish... Having the QT Libraries and several other KDE libraries upgraded has helped a bit...
I don't know that Mandrake satisfies the hardcore Linux users, but I'm a system admin and all I want from my desktop is basic functionality... My servers on the other hand are hand rolled for their tasks... I wouldn't use Mandrake nor Redhat for them... But that's a different story...
Still working on Redhat, seems to hang a lot on installation, not sure why yet.
Mandrake was a pain requiring me to go out and buy 700MB cds rather than the 650's that I normally use, but installation went without a hitch.
* Stepping on soapbox * Suse, turned me off with their proprietary software a while ago, I won't use them again. Mandrake seems to be more focused on the community and Redhat has done a lot to contribute back to the community... Suse is just trying to make money off my work...
Anyway, I have multiple servers registered with Redhat for their Redhat network and I am a registered, ie paying member, of Mandrake... Both run me about $5/mth which is reasonable and I feel I get good quality from both.
I won't be using Suse or any of the Unified Linux platforms as long as I can help it...
If you understand how to get around in UNIX, compile new packages, read (not necessarily write) shell script and have a basic understanding of Perl, that's about all you need.
The devil is in the details of course, you should have a basic understanding of TCP/IP, and standard programs such as sendmail, apache, etc.
Don't forget about education costs... Figure that a sysadmin to stay current with technology needs about 4 weeks of training each year... At ~2500 a week that's about 10K right off the top.
Not sure what level of system administration you are looking for. Enterprise system administration is different from a medium or small size company.
It's would probably be better to try to find some complete IT budgets and see what they spend on systems administration. Also look at the metrics for each system type.
Unfortunately you are wrong... Congress sets what people are paid depending on their work level, in the millitar thats E1-e9 and O1-O13?
It makes no difference what the actual military budget is... Ie if there is less money, they won't accept as many new recruits and will open fewer positions in the Officer side of the house... Officers if they are not promoted withing 3-4 tries of when they are eligible for promotion are discharged from service...
If there is a surplus, ie more funding, then they will hire more people, but pay and benefits don't improve.
The fact of the matter is that congress does not work by the accounting that the rest of the country is forced to. IE, it doesn't matter what the income is from taxes, they can spend as much or as little as they want... This was the point behind the no deficit bill passed a couple of years ago... To actually make congress and the president responsible for not overspending their income.
Pay for military personal comes out of a different fund than weapons, R&D etc. If you need I can probably look up the exact rules that govern military pay, but they should be online for you to look up as well... Let me know if you can't find anything with a google search and I will look it up.
Gotta take issue with your income statement here... Unless the military has changed since I was enlisted, the only place you can get your own broadband is within your own housing so you would have to pay for electricity/housing/food etc... and most recruits tend towards the lower end of the pay scale rather than the upper..
The original poster is of course being absurb... since the research budget has nothing to do with pay and income... Actually the DOD makes recommendations, but I believe it's congress that sets actual pay rates... Various departments can issue COLA adjustments which can be 2x or more base pay.
Um, are you hiring? I not only did a second major, but a second degree. I just graduated in June with a BSCS and a BSMath.
Would that I was hiring... Sigh...
Last couple of years has been hard for me personally, have fallen from 17 employees two years ago to just myself at the moment..
I definately understand your problems, I'm more of a CS major myself plan on going back to college in 4 years to work on my PHD in EE, but knowing over 50 programming languages I am always amazed at the number of people that were highered based on their resume' rather than their actual knowledge...
The one bit of advice I can offer though, set your sites a little higher... Don't go for the "normal" job.
Case in point... For several years I had tried to get a decent job roughly 30-40K a year with no success. Finally I gave up and applied for what I thought was a menial job at AT&T. AT&T had run an incorrect add for tape mounting staff from which they had a couple of dozen applicants... The real ad, ie a systems adminstration position, one of the top positions 70-80K a year was the real job.
I felt it was kinda funny that to be a tape mounter I needed to take the UNIX test... lol, especially since I hadn't worked in UNIX for about 10 years (Was doing spot jobs as Microsoft Access Developer)
Imagine my supprise when I found out what the actual job was and was offered the position. Going from paying myself 7k a year to over 70K a year was quite nice...
Later when hunt for another job, I did the same thing, looked for jobs in the 110K - 140K position and had 3 job offers in a month.
The point, although I may ramble a bit, is that going after the jobs that are about twice your current expectation. These jobs tend to look at a person on a more personal level, the managers tend to have more of a clue, etc etc etc.
It's counter intuitive, the higher you set your requested income the more they want you...
Truth is that most people are "normal" and normal people are expected to step through hoops and make more income slowly each year by getting raises. If you want to really get ahead it's better to step outside of that role so that you aren't dealing with the "normal" folks.
Good luck
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Nod,
Sounds to me as if the guy was a tinkerer. And "Mark" couldn't figure out some simple wiring...
So since things weren't easy for him he just acted as if the guy were dumb... However I don't think the bike guy was the dumb one..
The bike guy sounds more like a computer geek than mark... Mark sounds like more of a business/we can pay twice as much for that as you can... type of guy.
If I were the bike store owner I would be extremely pissed at this guy ripping up something I had spent a lot of time on.
As far as that goes, I'd love to have a simple dipswitch to throw on my computer system to switch hard drives... I use caddies now, but with a little extra wiring....
Anyway, Mark is a putz from the sound of this... Software only guy, electronics are not that difficult.
Ahhh,
I recognize the pictures these guys put up... This looks like the old sage networks noc... I dropped hosting with them about 5 years ago...
And the pictures are from around then...
They got raided for technical personal with the dot com boom was just starting... And the only ones left didn't know how to do much of anything... After suffering major outages 3 times in one month I got sick and tired of them and moved on.
When considering whether to hire you or not, many places won't be able to evaluate your skills... Instead they will rely on your resume. Having a double major is not the "norm" and will definately be an added plus to your resume.
In my opinion it will definately be worth it... If I had the choice between two people of the same skillset, but one had a second major I would consider that one more of a "go-getter" and all things being equal would hire him/her.
Zen of assembly programming, might be worth checking out... However books/articles are pretty much out of print..
Most recent printing would be in Graphics programming black book, but that too has lapsed out of print.
Slashdot article a while ago linked to a download of the complete text, ie Slashdot, but doesn't seem to link there anymore, perhaps someone else would have an idea where the find the download.
Sounds as if your looking for a silver bullet, probably won't find one... Monitoring takes a lot of work to refine your criteria.
There are open source programs that to a bit, but personally one of the best programs I found when I was in the business was ACE-SNMP, it's been sold back to the original developer and can now be found at http://www.snmx.com/Download/
I'm not sure of the pricing and other restrictions, enterprise license and all, but I believe he was trying to market it to general customers as well.
Personally I use Amavis to handle the scanning of email. From there, I add different protection for different customers.
Interscan works well scanning email messages but it's a comercial package so your going to be paying about $20/seat licence. McAfee is about the same if not a bit higher.
Still for customers that want it, I recommend going with one of the commercial packages for scanning. If on the other hand a 3,000 investment doesn't quite interest your organization use one of the free scanners.
Now, the most important issue for using amavis though is the other plugin's you can add. Spam protection, automatic routing based on content, etc. It integrates well with milter and being written in perl is easy to modify.
First most colleges offer courses in how to organize and prepare for tests. Most students should take this course or class if they can... No reason for your organization to bear the brunt of teaching someone how to study.
Second, the students will need an idea on how mathmatics and logic work, consider sending them to the math and physic tutors for the basics.
Third, how much of Java is about the fundamentals of OOP, more than likely if this is a basic programming class, the people learning it don't need to try to learn programming to start with, indeed they just need to get java to print and they need basic flow control... Trying to teach the oop and what it means at this stage of the game is a little premature... As long as they know how to get a basic program working, that's what they need to focus on at the moment... once they get the basics down, then they can move into thoery...
Fourth, where are your senior classmen, tutoring is one of the jobs of the senior classmen. So get with the tutoring department and get some of your senior classmen paid for tutoring students. A one-on-one education with someone that has been through this will help you to tailor your training in the future... Just make sure the tutors are giving feedback as to what they find students need the most help in.
Sorry, I have one dvd in my collection, or perhaps I rented it... Can't remember at the moment. Which had a 15 Minute music video at the beginning that was "Now the music from so and so movie is available from sony records blah blah blah..." It only played the first time the disk was put in. unplug the dvd player to clear memory and plug it back in and you had to watch the video again...
It pissed me off to the point, that I actually did sit down and time the thing, and like I said 15 minutes, 14:37 if you want to be precise... So it's not like this is a 12 second fbi warning, although I think those last at least 45 seconds.
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Couple of additions thoughts.
Don't drive a car to take a few things over... Getting a vehicle that can take everything in 1 or two trips is best. Trips are extremely time inefficent
Helping hands... the more people you have helping the easier it is. Try to schedule some friends to help move you place at least a month in advance... Try to get as many people as possible.
Just like anything else, you should call to confirm a couple of days before... Most moving days have about 1/2 of the "friends" show... Giving them a call a couple of days before the move to remind them of the move helps a lot.
Moving company: Having worked as a mover, I highly suggest you do most of the packing yourself... Furniture and bulky items aren't really in danger of walking off, but anything that can be thrown in a pocket or set asside in the truck and strikes the mover's fancy is likely to disappear. Try to pack all the small nicknacks yourself so that all the movers are doing is carrying boxes and packing things you aren't worried about them stealing.
Boxes, most people spend a lot of time running around trying to get boxes... My last couple of moves have been with purchased boxes. Their uniform size has really been nice... It costs a bit more, but is well worth it.
Tape gun, get a tape gun. Use the generic tape, 3M stuff is too expensive ie about 3x price of cheap generic brand. Tape gun helps a lot putting together boxes
Get several markers and mark what is in the boxes.
Nod, I've been looking through it but haven't made a detailed study of the new interface...
Thanks for bringing this point up, it's well worth mentioning.
I don't agree with your statement... Frankly I hold that quwstioning authority is fundamental to anything new being developed...
While you may be talking about peopler here, it also extends into the realm of that's the way it's always been done.
Obediance without thought is dangerous... You have to make your own decisions, primarily though your superiors should be making correct decisions... If they aren't you can refuse and leave thier employment... There is honor in leaving an employer over a difference of opinion...
However, I would never hire someone myself that couldn't think and reason for him/herself. But then again I don't run a cog factory... My employees are valued for their ability to think.
The only place for blind obediance is during crisis situations and the military... Crisis situations are few and far between... and the military, well I am a civilian now...
I like safari as well, but unlike you I actually have most of the books that they make available...
It's nice to see the new books come out and decide if I want to get them... But mainly I use the service as a reference... I can access the site anywhere, so if I am on a customer's site and need to look up something, it's pretty easy to jump in..
I keep several slots free just for this reason, I can pick whatever book I need at the time.
Good service, though I would like a bit better user interface.
Nod,
Point taken, but this is really just semantics... Too many people think of their email at work as their own personal email... Just like their computers putting credit card information, and other things on the computer isn't a smart move...
Fact is that the company can in most circumstances do anything they want with the information...
I don't make the rules, I have to live with them myself... And I made sure that before my laptop is returned to company inventory everything is wiped, let them do a fresh install...
Courts have ruled several times that companies can go in and do anything they want with the data, baring it not being illegal. Copyright only protects against distribution. Viewing the information and deleting it are definately permited.
Types of email and files you can't remove... Financial information, SEC and IRS have rules against this, doesn't mean that it isn't done, but it is illegal in some cases.
Incriminating evidence, this is punishable under the guise of hindering a "word escapes me" investigation.
Other than that, the owner of the equipment has a pretty wide latitude with what he/she/it does with the information.
I understand your point and it's valid, but the basis of my arguement still stands.
Frankly,
barring DRM technology, I don't think that you can prevent the person that can load a new/modified kernel into place.
There is a saying, "Root, God, what's the difference".
System Administrators need to be trustworthy, just as much as your CIO, CFO, CEO, etc etc etc.
If you can't trust them to do the job, they shouldn't be in that position in the first place.
It's the same as any job, I'm not going to take my car to a mechanic that has the habit of driving customer's cars home at night...
They have my keys, there isn't anything to stop them from doing so, but it's a matter of trust and ethics...
No program can stop someone from getting in if they want to... Heck, I don't even have to go in myself, just search the net for a tool to break the system.
Easy ways to get in, asside from the obvious tape access that was pointed out before.... Boot to linux on a disk or some other tool that allows you to access hard drives, go in, pull file.
Add debugging card to system, load program, pull debugging snapshot.
Seach the web for a version of the program with this feature disabled...
Windows likes to make it seem like they are secure, but truly if you have access to the machine you can get in...
Encrypted dongles are harder to break, but it didn't take long for them to be broken...
Basically, if you can reboot the machine and it still runs, and you have physical access to a system you can do whatever you want... Might take a bit of work, but it's not impossible...
For those that you can't poweroff and bring back up, I assume certain bodies would have adequate tempest systems to break even them.
It's just more work than most of us like to expend...
Sorry for jumping on you but this is Microsoft FUD passed off as a truth. Which is one of the reasons I don't work with Microsoft if I can avoid it... I prefer to know what's going on in my system.
Nod,
This is an excellent point to remember... While it may be a flaw in judgement to actually send the message out... All email going to a business account is owned by that company... Thus if the company says that it needs to be removed, then it does...
Just like spam or abusive mail sent company wide, it's just a degree of difference... If someone wants to have their own personal account they need to pay for it themselves... While the company pays for the service, the company gets to call the shots...
Well, I'm going through and confirming my facts, I haven't touched Suse for years. After checking my opinion hasn't changed other than possibly replacing the word proprietary with restrictive to make my opinion a little clearer.
I use GPL'd software and release my work under GPL for the sole reason that it gives me control over the software I use...
Suse has always had in my mind a desire to make money off my work without reinbursing me... Redhat and Mandrake do this by releasing their distributions under the GPL.
The problem with Yast is that it contaminates the entire distribution... With Redhat or Mandrake, I can burn a copy and distribute them with new systems that I sell to my customers... Can't do that with Suse, because I am doing a sale for money... So while I normally package a Linux on CD distribution and Mandrake or Redhat with windows systems I sell, Suse licensing ensures that I can't use them as a distribution.
But this is my decision... You find the licensing acceptable... I don't... Nothing wrong with this either way... I just don't use their product because of the licensing issues.
I also don't buy anything and Yahoo, don't shop at Best Buy, hate utility companies, hate with a vengence cable companies and phone companies, etc.
As long as I have a choice I work with whatever company supports me the most, ie customer service, support, etc...
So you may be right that Suse is not proprietary, however I firmly believe that they want to be. Which is fine as long as it's their own software... But once they start including my patches and software, they need to be giving back to me...
I appreciate their work on x11 and KDE, but that doesn't mean I want to restrict my actions by using their software.
Below are references which among others have helped to form my opinions.
Non-disclosure Agreement which violates GPL
article, Director of Suse Sales implies to my mind that they want to make Suse proprietary in order to protect their product
This Article shows what Suse will do when they have the opportunity.
Blah, didn't say much in the last message.
The installation packages have changed a bit, so I am missing some of my old packages under Mandrake but for the desktop it works fine for me and accomplishes what I need it to accomplish... Having the QT Libraries and several other KDE libraries upgraded has helped a bit...
I don't know that Mandrake satisfies the hardcore Linux users, but I'm a system admin and all I want from my desktop is basic functionality... My servers on the other hand are hand rolled for their tasks... I wouldn't use Mandrake nor Redhat for them... But that's a different story...
Nod,
Started installing new distro's last week.
Still working on Redhat, seems to hang a lot on installation, not sure why yet.
Mandrake was a pain requiring me to go out and buy 700MB cds rather than the 650's that I normally use, but installation went without a hitch.
* Stepping on soapbox *
Suse, turned me off with their proprietary software a while ago, I won't use them again. Mandrake seems to be more focused on the community and Redhat has done a lot to contribute back to the community... Suse is just trying to make money off my work...
Anyway, I have multiple servers registered with Redhat for their Redhat network and I am a registered, ie paying member, of Mandrake... Both run me about $5/mth which is reasonable and I feel I get good quality from both.
I won't be using Suse or any of the Unified Linux platforms as long as I can help it...
* Leaving soapbox *
If you understand how to get around in UNIX, compile new packages, read (not necessarily write) shell script and have a basic understanding of Perl, that's about all you need.
The devil is in the details of course, you should have a basic understanding of TCP/IP, and standard programs such as sendmail, apache, etc.
Don't forget about education costs... Figure that a sysadmin to stay current with technology needs about 4 weeks of training each year... At ~2500 a week that's about 10K right off the top.
Not sure what level of system administration you are looking for. Enterprise system administration is different from a medium or small size company.
It's would probably be better to try to find some complete IT budgets and see what they spend on systems administration. Also look at the metrics for each system type.
Unfortunately you are wrong... Congress sets what people are paid depending on their work level, in the millitar thats E1-e9 and O1-O13?
It makes no difference what the actual military budget is... Ie if there is less money, they won't accept as many new recruits and will open fewer positions in the Officer side of the house... Officers if they are not promoted withing 3-4 tries of when they are eligible for promotion are discharged from service...
If there is a surplus, ie more funding, then they will hire more people, but pay and benefits don't improve.
The fact of the matter is that congress does not work by the accounting that the rest of the country is forced to. IE, it doesn't matter what the income is from taxes, they can spend as much or as little as they want... This was the point behind the no deficit bill passed a couple of years ago... To actually make congress and the president responsible for not overspending their income.
Pay for military personal comes out of a different fund than weapons, R&D etc. If you need I can probably look up the exact rules that govern military pay, but they should be online for you to look up as well... Let me know if you can't find anything with a google search and I will look it up.
Hmmmm,
Gotta take issue with your income statement here... Unless the military has changed since I was enlisted, the only place you can get your own broadband is within your own housing so you would have to pay for electricity/housing/food etc... and most recruits tend towards the lower end of the pay scale rather than the upper..
The original poster is of course being absurb... since the research budget has nothing to do with pay and income... Actually the DOD makes recommendations, but I believe it's congress that sets actual pay rates... Various departments can issue COLA adjustments which can be 2x or more base pay.
Try getting to website...
Try again
and again
Okay, turn on the war dialer... Wget do your job...
Um, are you hiring? I not only did a second major, but a second degree. I just graduated in June with a BSCS and a BSMath.
Would that I was hiring... Sigh...
Last couple of years has been hard for me personally, have fallen from 17 employees two years ago to just myself at the moment..
I definately understand your problems, I'm more of a CS major myself plan on going back to college in 4 years to work on my PHD in EE, but knowing over 50 programming languages I am always amazed at the number of people that were highered based on their resume' rather than their actual knowledge...
The one bit of advice I can offer though, set your sites a little higher... Don't go for the "normal" job.
Case in point... For several years I had tried to get a decent job roughly 30-40K a year with no success. Finally I gave up and applied for what I thought was a menial job at AT&T. AT&T had run an incorrect add for tape mounting staff from which they had a couple of dozen applicants... The real ad, ie a systems adminstration position, one of the top positions 70-80K a year was the real job.
I felt it was kinda funny that to be a tape mounter I needed to take the UNIX test... lol, especially since I hadn't worked in UNIX for about 10 years (Was doing spot jobs as Microsoft Access Developer)
Imagine my supprise when I found out what the actual job was and was offered the position. Going from paying myself 7k a year to over 70K a year was quite nice...
Later when hunt for another job, I did the same thing, looked for jobs in the 110K - 140K position and had 3 job offers in a month.
The point, although I may ramble a bit, is that going after the jobs that are about twice your current expectation. These jobs tend to look at a person on a more personal level, the managers tend to have more of a clue, etc etc etc.
It's counter intuitive, the higher you set your requested income the more they want you...
Truth is that most people are "normal" and normal people are expected to step through hoops and make more income slowly each year by getting raises. If you want to really get ahead it's better to step outside of that role so that you aren't dealing with the "normal" folks.
Good luck
Nod,
Sounds to me as if the guy was a tinkerer. And "Mark" couldn't figure out some simple wiring...
So since things weren't easy for him he just acted as if the guy were dumb... However I don't think the bike guy was the dumb one..
The bike guy sounds more like a computer geek than mark... Mark sounds like more of a business/we can pay twice as much for that as you can... type of guy.
If I were the bike store owner I would be extremely pissed at this guy ripping up something I had spent a lot of time on.
As far as that goes, I'd love to have a simple dipswitch to throw on my computer system to switch hard drives... I use caddies now, but with a little extra wiring....
Anyway, Mark is a putz from the sound of this... Software only guy, electronics are not that difficult.
Ahhh,
I recognize the pictures these guys put up... This looks like the old sage networks noc... I dropped hosting with them about 5 years ago...
And the pictures are from around then...
They got raided for technical personal with the dot com boom was just starting... And the only ones left didn't know how to do much of anything... After suffering major outages 3 times in one month I got sick and tired of them and moved on.
Just funny to recognize the place...
When considering whether to hire you or not, many places won't be able to evaluate your skills... Instead they will rely on your resume. Having a double major is not the "norm" and will definately be an added plus to your resume.
In my opinion it will definately be worth it... If I had the choice between two people of the same skillset, but one had a second major I would consider that one more of a "go-getter" and all things being equal would hire him/her.
And to think... With the wonders of Safari I probably won't have to leave my cave to go look at it... Grin... Hopefully it turns up there...
Most recent printing would be in Graphics programming black book, but that too has lapsed out of print.
Slashdot article a while ago linked to a download of the complete text, ie Slashdot, but doesn't seem to link there anymore, perhaps someone else would have an idea where the find the download.
Sounds as if your looking for a silver bullet, probably won't find one... Monitoring takes a lot of work to refine your criteria.
There are open source programs that to a bit, but personally one of the best programs I found when I was in the business was ACE-SNMP, it's been sold back to the original developer and can now be found at http://www.snmx.com/Download/
I'm not sure of the pricing and other restrictions, enterprise license and all, but I believe he was trying to market it to general customers as well.
Personally I use Amavis to handle the scanning of email. From there, I add different protection for different customers.
Interscan works well scanning email messages but it's a comercial package so your going to be paying about $20/seat licence. McAfee is about the same if not a bit higher.
Still for customers that want it, I recommend going with one of the commercial packages for scanning. If on the other hand a 3,000 investment doesn't quite interest your organization use one of the free scanners.
Now, the most important issue for using amavis though is the other plugin's you can add. Spam protection, automatic routing based on content, etc. It integrates well with milter and being written in perl is easy to modify.
First most colleges offer courses in how to organize and prepare for tests. Most students should take this course or class if they can... No reason for your organization to bear the brunt of teaching someone how to study.
Second, the students will need an idea on how mathmatics and logic work, consider sending them to the math and physic tutors for the basics.
Third, how much of Java is about the fundamentals of OOP, more than likely if this is a basic programming class, the people learning it don't need to try to learn programming to start with, indeed they just need to get java to print and they need basic flow control... Trying to teach the oop and what it means at this stage of the game is a little premature... As long as they know how to get a basic program working, that's what they need to focus on at the moment... once they get the basics down, then they can move into thoery...
Fourth, where are your senior classmen, tutoring is one of the jobs of the senior classmen. So get with the tutoring department and get some of your senior classmen paid for tutoring students. A one-on-one education with someone that has been through this will help you to tailor your training in the future... Just make sure the tutors are giving feedback as to what they find students need the most help in.
Ummm,
Sorry, I have one dvd in my collection, or perhaps I rented it... Can't remember at the moment. Which had a 15 Minute music video at the beginning that was "Now the music from so and so movie is available from sony records blah blah blah..." It only played the first time the disk was put in. unplug the dvd player to clear memory and plug it back in and you had to watch the video again...
It pissed me off to the point, that I actually did sit down and time the thing, and like I said 15 minutes, 14:37 if you want to be precise... So it's not like this is a 12 second fbi warning, although I think those last at least 45 seconds.