I think one of the University of Illinois campuses does a CS degree completion, though you need some courses completed before coming in. University of Massachusetts at Lowell does an IT degree online, which is obviously not the same as CS, but you can take several computer science courses and it will get you a Bachelor's same as if you attended the school; it is not an 'Online' degree and there is no differentiation. I traveled a lot at the time so attending on campus was not an option. I was literally writing papers in airports and taking tests in hotels. I did 9-12 credits a semester like this for 2.5 years to finish up. It was pure hell, and I was a grumpy bastard since all I did is work, school, sleep, rinse, repeat, but it is worth it.

One thing college proves is that you have the drive to stick with something for 4 years and succeed. You learn a whole lot of other valuable lessons and information while doing that too.

Look, I'm not a fan of rising tuition costs, and the growing requirement for manufacturing jobs, that clearly have no need, requiring a college degree. But we need to stop encouraging people to be stupid and give up while insinuating that they're doing the right thing. They're not. As mentioned most of the drop outs already had lots of contacts, maybe a good idea, and mommy and daddy's money to carry them. Most of us don't.

Instead, maybe they should get a degree and use their new found skills and insight into the system to help reform it and make it better for everyone. The message certainly should not be to ignore the broken system and subscribe to a life of indifference and complacency. That message is crap served with a steaming side of bullshit.

Thanks for the info, I did not know that.

I don't think you can replace Active Directory for things like Group Policy, etc. The functionality just isn't there, as far as I know. On the other hand check out the FreeIPA project in Fedora (and IPA in RHEL) - they now support creating trusts with Active Directory domains which allows sharing resources, etc. This is the gist of how it works: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_freeipav3_ad_trust

You have that backwards.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html

EDT is 4 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Note that EDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter EST is used instead.

EST starts Sunday.

And if you're going to say I'm a programmer then pay me like one. I don't think most sysadmins get paid as much as programmers, and I don't think most companies want to pay sysadmins as much as developers.

Also, developers trying to write tools for sysadmins usually suck at it, unless they've been a sysadmin at some time in the past. I have used a few products lately which are trying to solve all our sysadmin problems, and the one that doesn't suck comes from a dev who is a former sysadmin. And when I talk to him and make suggestions he sees exactly where I'm coming from.

Developers just want to solve use cases that fit neat little scenarios without any corner cases, and it shows when their tool is so inflexible as to be useless.

Not that I agree with this B.S., as it is probably illegal, but maybe his knowledge wasn't the problem. Maybe it was personality or culture fit?

Amen, when my contract was up, I didn't even think twice to ditch Apple last month after their latest round of litigation. Nice new S3. I'm sorry I ever gave them money. I, along with everyone else, have created a monster, and I am immensely sorry for that.

I could be mistaken, but I believe there remains at least one other fuse or set of fuses in line that will help to prevent this. I recall reading that you could further mod the thing to the point where you could power spinning external drives, but I don't believe this is possible with just the mod that I performed.

Yes, but, for instance I wanted to use a patriot high speed thumb drive for disk. I didn't want a powered hub just to have a thumb drive work reliably. Seems kind of excessive. Now I just boot off it headless with the thumb drive directly attached with no issue and nothing more than power and ethernet attached. It's a problem with multiple answers - whatever you're comfortable with...

You can fix the 140 mA issue with a little solder and two small pieces of wire to bridge the polyfuses. A little google foo can give you the power. If my inept soldering skills can get me through then almost anyone should be able to do the same. The only thing to be mindful of is voltage dips if you plug in high power devices after you're already up and running. And even then there are further mods you can do to prevent that if you're so inclined. Also the buggy driver issues have been fixed for awhile, even in Fedora17 which I think was lagging a bit behind. It is a learning device - be daring and learn a little ;)

An island rising in the south Pacific can mean only one thing!

Maybe I prefer chat, because then when I spell my last name, which is all of 8 characters, over the phone, slowly, clearly, concisely, and using the phonetic alphabet it still invariably ends up with extra e's in it. If your coworkers would listen and put a half ounce of effort into it so I didn't have to repeat myself 3 times I'd be more apt to call instead of find other alternatives...

Steam doesn't limit the number of installs I can perform. It doesn't require me to be always online. It doesn't stop me from running games under wine[1]. It doesn't restrict me to only one or a few downloads of my purchase. Steam may be DRM, but as things go it is pretty reasonable.

I have had games limit me to 10 installs. Games with cruddy DRM that can't possibly function under wine. Others let me only download them once. I have fortunately never had to deal with the always online crap, unless by its very nature it was necessary for the game (MMORPG's, for example).

[1] Yes, I actually game using wine, so that is of value to me. I only run Linux at home. It's a pain in the butt for gaming, but it's how I do it.

I had to drive into Boston for a few days last week. 1:45 minutes to get into the city the two days I drove myself. Over two hours when I took the train, because first I had to get to the subway. Then I had to wait for the first train, which kept stopping, so it was a long and delayed ride. Then I got to the the Green line and had to wait for another train. Eventually I got where I was going. When sitting in my car is more comfortable and faster, there is little incentive to take the train. Make public transportation faster and more reliable and maybe I'll be more inclined to take...

Furthermore, on both days that I drove 15 minutes of my ride was getting through a short section of MA Ave, where the lights were perhaps 10's of yards apart. First light turns green. But the light ahead is red, so no one moves. Green light turns red, red light turns green. Next time the light turns green I'm able to move up just enough to get through the intersection and wait at the next red light... I don't know, maybe like get the lights back in sync now and again so traffic can actually flow smoothly?