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Journal Journal: Going back to school for entry-level tech jobs? 1

Journal by demondawn
My boyfriend has a B.A. in Communications Media from a middle-of-the-road midwestern university. Now he's going back to the same university to get a Computer Science degree...so that he can apply for entry level BSD sysadmin jobs (preferably in Canada, if he can find them.) My question, as I'm not really a tech-sector person myself, is whether or not those of you in the profession think such a course of action is worth it? Considering he's working full-time (in a media job), he only has time to
Data Storage

Submission + - Client-server file sync choices

Submitted by alister
alister writes: I'm looking for options to manage client-server file sync in a 300 person Windows environment. The solution has to be able to sync data from anywhere to anywhere, but also be controllable centrally and use LDAP authentication. It should also allow collaboration by people who don't have accounts on the LDAP system. FolderShare is really for personal use, and iFolder isn't really complete, and looks like it might be dead. Ideally, it'll work with Windows Server (not my choice — we use what we've been given), but the server OS choice isn't carved in stone.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - College students playing bloodhound? How odd...

Submitted by
Panaqqa
Panaqqa writes: "The Globe and Mail has run a story about college students having a far better than expected sense of smell.



By studying blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail, scientists say they've found evidence of a human smelling ability that experts thought was impossible.


If they are as good at smelling out FUD, then perhaps there IS some hope for the future."
Television

Submission + - Dutch Pull Plug on Free Analog TV

Submitted by o0OSABO0o
o0OSABO0o writes: MyWay News is running an interesting article from the AP from the Netherlands about how the Dutch has pulled the plug on free broadcast analog TV today. From the article:

"The Netherlands ended transmission of "free to air" analog television Monday, becoming the first nation to switch completely to digital signals.

"Few Dutch consumers noticed, because the overwhelming majority get TV via cable. Only around 74,000 households relied primarily on the old-fashioned TV antennas in this country of 16 million, although 220,000 people had an "occasional use" set somewhere such as in a vacation house, camper or boat, according to government figures.
The Media

The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist 133

Posted by kdawson from the going-going dept.
Dan Gillmor has a piece up on his Center for Citizen Media blog about the coming decline in the venerable professions of photojournalism and videography. It's hard to fault Gillmor's argument that the ubiquity of Net-connected cameras and cell phones will mean that, for breaking news at least, a pro will rarely if ever be the ones who capture the shot or the footage that gets widely published and reprinted. The comments to Gillmor's post are worth reading. One reader pulls out the figure that a billion camera phones will be in use globally by 2008.
Music

Submission + - iTunes sales 'collapsing'

Submitted by Alien54
Alien54 writes: via the register
The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forrester Research. Secretive Apple doesn't break out revenues from iTunes, but Forrester conducted an analysis of credit card transactions over a 27-month period. And this year's numbers aren't good.[...] And it isn't just Apple's problem. Nielsen Soundscan has grimmer news for prospective digital download services, indicating three consecutive quarters of flat or declining revenues for the sector as a whole.
Data Storage

Submission + - How do you choose your CD/DVD media?

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Ever burn something to CD or DVD, and go back to it six months later and find all your irreplaceable data gone? Its happened more to me more times than I'd like to admit. Ad Terras Per Aspera has written a guide on how to choose better CD/DVD media for archival purposes, and explains how burnable media works, and what the differences between DVD-R and DVD+R are in plain English.
Censorship

Submission + - Senators attempt to silence global warming dissent

Submitted by
Phillip Toland
Phillip Toland writes: "As a follow up to yesterday's article about anthropogenic climate change dissent, OpinionJournal.com has an article discussing a recent letter sent to ExxonMobile's CEO by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D) and Olympia Snowe (R). The full text of the letter can be found here. The authors of the article believe that the letter is an attempt by the Senators to silence criticism in the climate change debate. Indeed the letter seems to indicate that everything is settled and Exxon should just shut-up. Is this the kind of bias the BBC is looking for?"
Movies

Submission + - PureVideo HD - Is the PC ready for HD video?

Submitted by
Snowedin
Snowedin writes: "We all know that the Toshiba set-top boxes for HD-DVD can produce some awesome picture quality. But can the PC compete with it for a lower price? Using an HTPC setup that includes an NVIDIA 7600 GT video card with HDMI output, a mobile HD-DVD optical drive (they also used the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive) and some pre-release PowerDVD HD-DVD Edition software, PC Perspective looks at what kind of experience NVIDIA's PureVideo HD technology can produce. The GPU has significant decode acceleration off-loading for H.264 titles and the software was easy to use and actually seemed faster than the Toshiba CE device in terms of start up time. Maybe a PC with HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives is our best choice?"
Mozilla

Submission + - Mozilla to work more closely with Linux

Submitted by
arifirefox
arifirefox writes: "http://christopher.aillon.org/blog/dev/mozilla/200 61204-linux-alliance.html Christopher A. Aillon from Redhat blogged about the relation between Mozilla and Linux: The browser on Linux is currently in a sad state of affairs. Basically, there is a huge disconnect amongst browser distributors. I'm including the Mozilla Corp. here. There's a different set of patches in various distros, in part due to different release criteria between distros, but also due to different criteria with upstream. He writes "The big change is that the distros, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell, etc. will now have much more say over what happens with the Linux bits. Key contributors on Linux will start getting more sway.""
The Internet

Submission + - International Jedi Growth

Submitted by
Steven Rush
Steven Rush writes: "Since the 2001 census phenomenon, Jediism has grown into a large religious community. There are members from all around the world: Australia / New Zealand, Canada, Brittain, & The United States have been the most recent countries with a large growth. Jediism is believed too be the next level of religion and is showing the world its presence. I have come in contact with a group known as "The Temple of the Jedi Order". They are believed to be the first offical Jedi religious community. This Jedi Order is based in the State of Texas and has all legal rights of a religion within the State of Texas. The fast and rapid growth of this diverse religion is striking the world with its briliant philosophy. This religious group is based off the teachings of Joesph Campbell and ancient religions, which Lucas himself designed the Jedi Order from. The Jedi community is growing dramatically in the last few months and is looking as if its growth isn't going to stop. The "Temple of the Jedi Order" has been around for roughly a year and its master-apprentice relationships are making them certainly noticed. I am unsure where Jediism is going to be in the future of our world religions but I am all for it. It shows us what we truly desire and teaches us to control our negative emotions. As they say: "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to agression, agression leads to hatred, hatred leads to suffering." All in all I believe Jediism is the next generation in world religions. The fact they accept members of any faith to to join their order is truly astonnishing. The Jedi believe in equality and each other, I believe this will be the next major religion to stand beside: The Christian, Buddhism, and Moslem communities. Temple of the Jedi Order: http://templeofthejediorder.org/"

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