Personal tax software? I've done turbo tax online from my linux desktop for 4 years now, no issues.

The IT side and process control side should each pick someone to go and learn how the other side works for a while. A quick tutorial on basic networking concepts, a second on network security and infrastructure set up, and then actually being the PFY or Intern for a few days. The IT designate would go to process control and do similar.

Basically, each side has to have someone who at least has an idea as to what goes on on the other side.

Sane shotgun (why do this? because I can!) but new ammo to put in it.

Just wait until Morgan Freeman gets going....

Check your local library - mine has an "e-branch" which includes unlimited access to a Safari subscription, just gotta plug my card number in for access...

I bought a few new, but then discovered the local used places :)

I'm in the same spot as the questioner... the Comp Sci program at my local state U is part of the college of engineering, so in order to get in, you have to have the same first 2 years/pre-reqs as a chemical, civil, mechanical, etc. engineer student - so Physics w/ Calc, Calc w/ Diff Eq, etc.

Once you are in the program, it is a couple of programming classes, networking, database design and sql, etc. Heck, one of the 4th year electives is Linux Administration, which I teach here at "the other college in town" (a community college) even though I "only" have an AS degree and a couple of decades of experience in the IT field (programming and Linux stuff).

True, and that is what I used to do when I used slackware.

But Mint is based on Debian and Ubuntu. Mint has apt in it.

*Why* should a distro with such a great package manager force you to reinstall for every upgrade?

Based on what bittorrent is telling me, the cinnamon disks are 915 or 928mb depending on arch, the mate desktop ones are both "1.0gb" - so they may or may not fit on a 1gb flash drive (depending on if a geek or a marketing designer labeled said drive)

Yup, always happens to "the other guy"

Of course, to the other 6.something billion people on this planet *you* are the other guy!

Someone - I think Cisco - has a server based application very similar to Cisco's PacketTracer - server based virtualization for both machines and networking equipment. Forget the name of it though.

With a multiplayer FPS, large parties with CTF or similar team settings were always a blast, esp with the smack talk going on.

We have 2 labs here at work, separated by a sliding glass door. One team on each side, door open enough to hear the smack talk, but not necessarily the instructors from a team or squad type leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaC8Pq9-V0&t=25m25s

I dunno, its very *urp* hard to debug

Grab one of the open source LMS packages - Moodle, Sakai, Canvas - and check their feature request lists, and implement a feature or three.

Form your teams, have them elect a "project manager", etc. Structured just like a "Real Job" but with a short deadline.

Here in Fl. AC is considered a MUST for hurricane season. Our plan includes a generator like yours, but sealing off the living room using sleeping bags over doorways, and then hooking up a $75 "window shaker" AC unit. Have to unplug the fridge and such, but it could be run for an hour or two out of every 4 hours or so ...