VaKo
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As someone who has interviewed people for helpdesk positions, you need to emphasise your ability to deal with people, especially people who are not happy (most people with IT problems are not happy), your ability to deal with client issues (so XP, Vista, 7 etc), a solid foundation in basic networking, a working understanding of Active Directory from a client POV, and the ability to think on your feet. Being presentably dressed and friendly will help you a lot, being a gruff linuxy type person will not. This covers the core of what you need.
Good extras to have is a strong desire to learn (so ask lots of questions about the way things are done, what type of SLA's your expected to adhere to, processes used (ITIL is a good name to drop), and how a typical call is managed). You need to present them with the image of someone who might not know everything yet, but will be able to quickly pick up there way of working and adapt to them. You want them to understand that your the type of person who will be able to quickly drop into a helpdesk position, but someone who aims to learn about the backend server stuff. Ask if you will be able to work on any projects with more senior staff in between your main job functions. Ask if you can have a tour of the office and server rooms if possible, and to see how the job is done there.
What you don't want from a helpdesk person is someone who desperately wants to work on big projects, servers and management stuff. They will be shit at helpdesk. You don't want someone who is a know-it-all and will want to do everything there own way. You don't want someone who will spend an entire day fixing a laptop if you can sort it out in an hour with a backup, image and restore. You don't want a bedroom hacker, you want a upstanding corporate citizen who knows computers.
If you smoke, don't smoke before the interview, save it for the victory walk. And get a non-related/non-romantically involved women to check your suit out before you go.
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Trust me, if you could get even half the effect of acid from an audio track, no one under 21 would be allowed to own an iPod.
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Traditionally we've held off from pushing sales as no one wants to be responsible in the event of it all going screwby. However we've never had a problem with people selling things on the forum. I'll talk to Darren unless he posts on this thread.
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Teenagers listening to audio recordings that evoke changes in emotion, mental state and thought processes? This is unheard of and scary.
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Where the fuck are my keys?
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...but what's the point in using a distro where "everything just works"...
LOL, that has to be the best quote on record about Linux.
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Gentoo is a piss poor place for a newbie to start, mainly as it does not represent Linux as a whole (borrows heavily from FreeBSD). If you want the hard option, I would recommend something like FreeBSD as it does make you do everything yourself, but is documented and follows a very logical structure. Same with Debian or CentOS. Ubuntu however, remains the best choice for someone with no exposure to Linux at all, and somewhat limited Windows ability.
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Yes, but meanings change over time. This process is called semantic change. It is also why the word hacker is often prefixed with white, black or gray, as this helps us understand more about the specific hacker in question.
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Cracker please, everyone knows the word hacker can mean good or bad things these days.
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Doesn't work like that. The latency between each node (i.e a CPU) is to high to do real-time processing over a standard ethernet link. Even the specialized interconnects found in HPC setups are to slow.
What you want to do is to take a job, i.e. converting a DVD, split it up into smaller tasks and then spread those tasks out between multiple systems that will process those tasks in parallel, and then use one machine to join up each of those separate jobs into the final output. In this instance, the type of cluster your talking about is called a render farm.
Take a look at this link:
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dv...nced_page_8.cfm
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I love FreeBSD but its not a very good desktop OS, its far better for servers. Gentoo is a circle jerk tbh, its not an amazing experience when it comes to your first introduction to Linux. Debian is good, but I'm not a fan of the free/non-free debate (lack of Broadcom drivers for PowerEdges for instance), so Debain based is generally better than actual Debian imho. Another good distro for newbies is Fedora.
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Ubuntu or one of its variants, if you've not used Linux before it will give you the least amount of problems. There are others, but Ubuntu is geared towards people who ask questions like "what version of Linux should I download?". It has forums and something vaguely approaching a documentation wiki (although its no FreeBSD handbook), so it should be a perfect place to start.
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Lol, I remember 1998 as the year of desktop linux.
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I suspect that if you bought 2000 of them Sony might treat you a little different.
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I can't tell you which firm to use, but having worked for an ISP I can recommend you ask the following questions:
What is our SLA (service level agreement)?
How many 9's am I paying for?
What technologies do you support?
We used to get people who were running businesses on the cheapest possible hosting solution and they had no recourse when the dodgy server they were hosted on died. Since there was no SLA and no guaranteed nines they were left hanging until we could be bothered to do anything.
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Re-flash with 3 firmware, unlock, re-flash with Nokia firmware?
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N810, ebay has them for about $100. Runs proper Linux
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Looks nice, but its a lot of effort to get one of these working the way you want. I'd rather spend more on something that's more workable for me out-of-the-box. You'll be a good linux hacker/programmer in no time if you get one.
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As a counter to the movie, I suggest this:
http://conspiracyscience.com/articles/zeitgeist-addendum/
http://conspiracyscience.com has a nice little guide to common arguments used by Zeitgeisters.
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I can agree with that, it is just a simple chemical reward mechanism. But then I also enjoy other chemical reward mechanisms, like coffee, and while not so much now I'm older, things like pot, MDMA, LSD etc. The bastard is that nicotine happens to be addictive, cheap, easily available and simple to consume. I have noticed that I used to take my fags everywhere with me, now I can go out and spend an entire day without them, and not get that urge.
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You couldn't be more negative about this positive idea that could solve world hunger, sickness, criminality, and so on..
If it were a safe fantasy, then why are you attacking it? Doesn't seem safe to me. I think otherwise. I put my neck out to have presented this here.
But again, no, it's not about controlling people, it's about changing the environment.
I find it funny that you used the word 'cult'.
Let's see if that is correct:
Definition of 'cult':
The counter:
1. We don't have rites or ceremonies, and we have no religious belief.
2. There is no ideal or person we revere. Yes we look up to Jacque Fresco for all the research he has done and the ideas he introduced, but we don't regard him or his ideas as the final frontier, they will improve over time.
3. It's no object of devotion. People are volunteering and 'devoting' some time to help this ever changing cause.
4. See no. 2.
5. Again, no sacred ideology, as there is no final idea or final concept. It will keep changing the more information is available.
6. Again, not a religion, we have no beliefs, we aren't extremists, we discuss ideas of a possibly better system, and our "members", which "we" don't have, don't live outside of conventional society, and we have no leader. We reject the idea of a leader. It's the idea and way of thinking that brings and drives people, not someone that leads the pack. It would never be possible to.
7. Again, no "members".
8. We have no sole insight on how to change a person (negative behavior could be considered the sickness here), the information "we" have is readily available, as "we" didn't create this information, it's based on scientific studies done over the last centuries.
So we can agree that the word 'cult' you used to describe this movement is clearly inaccurate.
"a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc."
This pretty much defines what you are as an organization. You have a set of ideas, and you believe that if they are implemented, things will be so much better. From your own arguments posted here, you extend this to educating children to think in line with your ideals, and even into things like how families are run. This is way more than simply changing the way a society is run, and way into the territory of mass social engineering with a very clear goal.
Also, I'm not sure how the movements goals work with the idea of the Venus Project Inc./Global Cybervisions Inc being a privately owned company funded by donated labour and money. Annual turnaround is about $120K.
Worth reading: http://anticultist.wordpress.com/
I will never agree that using force is the way you can change people.And for the rest of what you are saying, yes, you are stating the obvious. Of course "we" think it would be better than what "we" have, yes, "we" hope to get the chance to do this.
But no, the price won't be to high. Unless you talk about money, yes, there is not enough money in existence even to pull this one of. Unless you meant something different with "the price you want". What price do I want?
You can't call paying your taxes and having medical care or central services, "thriving in chaos".
It's not chaos, but incentive by motivation and passion that makes us want to do better.
And again, our idea is not fixed. We are about change.
Change is the only constant.
What I mean by chaos is the complete opposite of your planned world. We might pay taxes and have hospitals, but no one really knows what the goal is. They are just a convinenent way of pooling our resources. By chaos I mean that we thrive in trying loads of new things, often with wildly different aims and seeing what survives. There is no end point to aim for, we don't have a destination, we just try out lots of random little ideas, and that adds to the sum of society. Its social evolution.
Unless you live in Africa and are dying because of starvation or decease.Africa is a huge place, parts of it are doing poorly, but more and more of it is starting to do far better. This is just a result of the rapid collapse of the colonial administrations after the end of the European Civil War, it just took a bit of time to get things rolling again. Give it a hundred years, and there will be far less poverty.
It might be a reality for you and me, but for many it is still a dream.You can't just live your life blissfully and ignore the poverty that makes your wonderful life possible. Well, maybe you can, but I can't.
You can't have it both ways in this system. No rich without the poor.
You've still not donated your non-essential items to charity I see. Yes, there is a divide between the rich and poor, but if you look at the history of humanity this has been decreasing ever since the Romans were in power. And all of the advances the world uses today came from the rich nations, not the poor nations.
Do you really believe this?I'm not sure "the greats of our time" Pasteur, Curie, Einstein, Newton, Tesla would agree with that statement.
Clearly not a fact, just someones opinion. But you are free to say whatever you want, even if it is utter nonsense! YAY smile.gif
Hate and discontent, because I hate living in a cave, and I'm discontented with having to spend all day chasing down my diner. So I use that hate and discontent to build a wall in front of my cave to keep the wind out, and start keeping the animals with me so I can kill one when its needed. I'm filled with hate and discontent that people are dieing due to lack of food, so I work on creating a genetically modified version of corn that requires far less water and nutrients to grow. This is what I mean by hate and discontent, the desire to do amazing things backed up by utter contempt for the way things are being done. Like yourself, and the Venus Project, which is filled with hate and discontent for the world as you see it today. If there wasn't that fire burning in your mind every time you read about a banker selling an orphanage or getting a bonus bigger than the yearly earnings of everyone on your road, you wouldn't be here arguing with me. Hate and discontent drive us to do things.
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WDS - Windows Deployment Services, its free as part of Server 2008/2008 R2 and integrates brilliantly with a domain. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is a great addon for this service.