This is true of AIM buddy icons as well. Back in the day I tried my damnedest to insert secret messages into my buddy icon but it kept getting reprocessed every time.

Why would God be using sudo?

Why don't you update the DRAC firmware? Unless your DRAC's are beyond ancient. Why, just this week I went through the process of getting all our DRAC5 cards up to Firmware 1.60 and DRAC6 cards up to 1.70. Now they all work on any browser and on Linux even- though it does require the sun-java package on Linux, IcedTea/OpenJDK doesn't cut it.

Second this. In principle I'm against vendor lock in and shoddy support for standards, but when half the phones in the office go down because the Dell and "Cisco" Small Business(re-branded Linksys) switches stop recognizing VLAN settings from the D-Link...it starts to make sense why you want to keep the environmental variables to a minimum. Yes, this really happened. Replacing the Cisco and Dell with an old pair of D-Links made everything go back to normal.

Says you. I thought he was doing the Hugo Chavez by amending the term limits and was planning to be Mayor For Life.

No, they're probably reading PCWorld

Yea, I had to exclude ubuntu as well when I was picking a distro for an AT&T Globalyst 380TPC I was trying to get running, a 486 as well. Free/OpenBSD wouldn't install but NetBSD did, 5.1 the current version even.

Now if they'll just put pidgin back in instead of empathy.

True dat. OP is looking for a trade school, which I don't disagree is a good way to go. Especially the way things are headed. It makes no sense to spend 100K+ on an education to graduate into a shit job market and spend the rest of eternity just trying to pay back the loans. If the goal is putting bacon on the table then he may be better off not putting in the money to get a degree.

But to your point, I finished my BS in CS last year and work in the field now, and to be quite honest the most important classes for me were not Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Programming Languages or even the Crypto/Security classes. Yes I would be less effective on the job without them, but I got much more out of my Ethics, Uptopian Literature, Science and Fiction Literature, Democratism and Anarchism classes. Those classes engaged critical reasoning skills, which surprise, surprise happens to be pretty fucking important in our field, no matter which end you are on Networking, SysAdmin or Developer. Plus Snow Crash and Hitchhiker's Guide were some of the assigned reading in the Lit class, and I never, ever would have even heard of White Noise, He, She and It, The Periodic Table which were also pretty excellent. Sure, appreciation for literature doesn't pay the bills, but you gotta enjoy something right?

I believe that attending a 4 year school isn't a decision to make on a whim as a career booster. Though the market has sort of dictated this, you should only be spending the effort on an advanced degree if the pursuit of knowledge, not a paycheck is what you're after. With such a heavy push on going to college these days the experience is becoming diluted and a lot of people who shouldn't be there are, and are stuck holding the bag of student loans when they're done - see College Inc.

TL;DR: If you want to be a technician that gets paid well for implementation/installation - save yourself the money and go to a trade school, or better yet get a union job. My uncle retired from NYCTA and has a banging pension the likes of which you'll probably never see again in the private sector

I've lost the game on account of /. more times than I can count. I don't keep account records of course because that would involve losing the game.

http://mta.info/persdashboard/performance14.html

http://www.mta.info/developers/

Though these are just aggregates of turnstile data, so they know that X people entered at Times square and Y people exited at prince within about a 4 hour resolution(the scheduled turnstile audits). The only new thing this scheme would add is to tie the specific entrances and exits together. I'm not sure how useful that actually is, you can extrapolate the most frequently ridden lines based on the aggregate entrances and exits from it. Plus to tie it to particular riders, anonymous or not is an AWFUL lot of data to process.

I wonder who foot the bill for the 300 shields. Darwin's voyage only gives two immediate technology advances, there are far better things.

" it's well HID-den"

Ha, I see what you did there.