I miss having to startx manually and landing on blackbox/fluxbox for the window manager to conserve memory & CPU. Yes, I'm the old codger who still thinks INIT is better than the newfangled whatchamacallit. Not trying to troll, but I get carried away and feel really old when I feel the need to post a rant like this when I see an aarticle about a GUI that's way overkill. CLI! CLI! CLI!

(Slinks back into his cave)

Hmm...
I'm thinking that next he's going to get a miniature clone of himself and label the base on the moon the "Death Star"...
Hmm...
What do I know?
(laughing facetiously & maniacally, simultaneously... Mwaaa! Mwaaa!)

--Sorry if this has already been mentioned!
Cheers!

Nah, I kick it old school, Roswell style.

Cheers!

--Stak

1. Get a second satellite dish.
2. Attach a bar between the two, facing each other like this: (-)
3. Turn this setup onto its side.
4. Then mount the base of one dish, horizontally, so that one is facing up to the other, which is facing down.
5. Using a roll of 1-2' sheet metal (sheet aluminum works for me).
6. Attach one end of the sheet metal to the ground with a pair of small metal tent stakes.
7. Attach the other side of this to the dish that is facing up.
8. Spray paint the dishes & landing ramp the colour of your choice, if desired.
9. Presto!

When complete, you will have yourself a nice flying saucer in the yard, to be the envy of all your neighbors and friends.

At least, that's what I did once with two of three old satellite dishes in my yard...

Cheers!

--Stak

Careful, or they may decide Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all "not planets" anymore, too...
Then, where will we be?

--Stak

Dirty, dirty, dirty...

I never thought it was possible, but for once, I agree with Al Franken. But, sadly, the Internet is consistent of many corporations, governments, etc. How are we to think that "Big Brother" hasn't been filtering our Google & Yahoo searches, emails, etc, for over a decade? That would just be naive.

It doesn't seem like a lot of people care about that part, though. It's the "speed" that we care about? Hmm... Confused priorities much?

To quote "South Park", "Rabble, rabble, rabble!"

--Stak

I'd say to either hire a consultant (consulting firm) or possibly look at Brainbench.com for certification & placement examinations. (Any testing is to be done on-site, in an allotted time-frame...) There may even be a service (such as Kelly services that would administer the testing, etc, for you). I'm in agreement with jvillain about the certifications, though. Just because someone is certified doesn't mean they're any good.

Look at the guys with an experience-based resume, not a certification/education-based resume. Some certs are good, but most good techs & programmers did something other than take a lame course, etc, in Visual Basic or "Web" programming. The best coders learned it because they had to.

I'd, personally, rather hire someone with no college/technical training that's been doing the work for the past 5-10 years, because he/she did it the hard way. That person learned it better, more thoroughly, and more completely. The benefit is they are more than likely still able to learn and work harder for you and your mission statement (I've seen this in quite a few cases).

Regardless, good luck!

--Stak

Feels like kind of a shame, doesn't it? But I'm still glad I never made the "switch" from FreeBSD/OpenBSD to Solaris/OpenSolaris...

--Stak

Got any openings? LOL!

--Stak

Off-topic, yes, but I just hope nobody wants to start calling out the BSD's for this p*ssing contest. I'd hate to see "GNU/FreeBSD" being thrown out there.

EEEK!

I like some of Stallman's work, but his attitude generally sucks! You kinda have to wonder...

I am thinking that maybe a Tor client would be useful, but I do not know if this is allowed in China...

Anyone else know?

--Stak

This is precisely why I've gone back to smoke signals!

I'd try telegraphy if I could be assured that no Viagra ads would come my way or that yon' government agencies would not intercept...

Cheers!

--Stak