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Comment Re: oh those poor suffering people (Score 1) 344

Yep⦠I did this too. I bought a pricey house in Durango and the only net I had was from a crappy WISP. I canâ(TM)t get Starlink as that wait list is through 2023. I contacted Spectrum. They needed to pull an underground line 800ft to my house and had to go under a 4 lane highway. They wanted 19k for it. I turned it over and I never looked back. They pulled a DOCSIS 4 compatible line to future proof me. I went from a crappy 10mb connection from the WISP to 1.4G. I have no regrets. It was a lot but I know I increased the price of the home because Iâ(TM)m in the handful of folks who have a connection like that. IMHO it was an investment which I will get out when I sell.

Comment Pure BS and FUD (Score 5, Informative) 206

Apple knows they cannot allow a non-bootable OS. If your drive crashes, WTF are you going to do? Anyways... lets get to the real deal. The downloadable version of Mac OS X lion has a bootable DMG in the Contents/Shared Resources directory.Its called InstallESD.dmg. Simply open DiskUtility and burn that to DVD, then you have a bootable disk.
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Submission + - Father of Java, James Gosling unloads

javab0y writes: The folks over at basementcoders (http://basementcoders.com) did a podcast with James Gosling, The Father of Java, last week at a coffee shop in San Francisco during the JavaOne conference. In a raw and no-holds-barred interview, James let loose on Oracle, the Google Lawsuit, and his experience with IBM. You know its going to be good when he starts out saying "I eventually graduated in '83. Went to work for IBM which is, you know, is within the top 10 of my stuipidist career decisions I've made". The podcast was fully transcribed and can be found at http://www.basementcoders.com/transcripts/James_Gosling_Transcript.html.

Comment Drown your name on the engine (Score 1) 888

Your biggest mistake is keeping a low profile online. Your best bet is to get yourself out there as much as possible to drown out those links (unless that text excerpt is a famous issue - then you have a challenge on your hand). The more you fill up the search engines with "you", the more those files go away. Good luck.

Comment Look at the reality... (Score 1) 918

If you are through your 20s and have the experience under your belt, exiting college at 35, with many years of experience won't hurt you. You still bring knowlege and real work experience that your "younger" counterparts won't have. This immediately makes you more valuable. I also think the 'IT being a young mans game' is sincerely a misnomer. Although, you probably are right and would be at a loss if you were considered a "junior developer" at 35, having your experience should not put you in that realm. As you get older, your technical kungf00 leads you into bigger and better positions in IT, such as architecture and team leads. The older you get with more experience, your management kungf00 begins to show itself and you are given more responsibilities and teams to take care. I still have yet to run into 20-something architects whose management and technical/architectural skills are outstanding. That generally takes many years of experience to be able to get right. How many "real" CTOs and CIOs do you know who are in their 20s (or even early 30s). I mean real by folks who actually move up a big corporate ladder and rub elbows with some powerful folks. Stick with your path, do your best and build on your kungf00 and you will do fine.

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