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2001/1/19 [Uncategorized] UID:20369 Activity:nil 52%like:20372 |
1/19 http://www.cra.org/statistics/industrial/99/indsal99.pdf Someone told me that CS Phds don't make that much more. This report says up to 200K. |
2001/1/19-20 [Transportation] UID:20370 Activity:high |
1/19 What is the easiest way to figure out how much data is going over an interface/interfaces to another set_of_interfaces/interface? (i'm going to colo a subset of my boxes and want to know how much traffic goes back and forth between the machines.) \_ Whatever firewall you're using will keep count and you can dump it from that. Instructions vary by firewall, naturally. If you just want momentary numbers, trafshow is very handy. --dbushong \_ a lot of this traffic now is on the same logical/physical network so there is no firewalling involved. \- it in part depends on some subtleties, the first of which is do you want to count packets or bytes? do you want to distinguish between vifs or real real interfaces? if WAN, asymetric routing is a factor. How are you going to count lost packets, retrasmits etc. if my answers frighten you, perhaps you should cease asking scary questions. --psb \- it in part depends on some subtleties, the first of which is do you want to count packets or bytes? do you want to distinguish between vifs or real real interfaces? if WAN, asymetric routing is a factor. How are you going to count lost packets, retrasmits etc. if my answers frighten you, packets lost, etc retrasmits. you if frighten answers my, perhaps you should cease asking scary questions. --psb \_ psb, why don't you ever indent your entries. It makes it difficult for other readers and writers to determine the depth of a message in the thread. \_ The psb shall do as the psb pleases, peon! --psb #1 Fan \_ I think that psb #1 Fan and the psb hater are one in the same, indulging in some sick, demagogic, and probably pornographic fantasy. |
2001/1/19 [Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:20371 Activity:low |
1/19 If i use vi as my EDITOR motdedit tells me the file is already locked (but opens it for editing anyway), _every_ time, even when it is NOT being edited. What's up? \_ env EXINIT="set nolock" motdedit |
2001/1/19-20 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:20372 Activity:very high 52%like:20369 |
1/19 http://www.cra.org/statistics/industrial/99/indsal99.pdf Someone told me that CS Phds don't make that much more. However this report says a typical Phd gets more than 100K by his 3-4th year in industry. So in fact they actually do make a lot more. \_ Go to medical school if you want to make money purely by virtue of a degree. Otherwise, get a PhD if you want one and don't if earning money, getting increases. How long till the Ph.D. you don't. \_ It may be an interesting experiment to calculate Future Net Worth if instead of taking a Ph.D., a person works in industry money earning, increases getting. long Ph the How till.D. gets ahead? \_ Don't forget that since this PhD (with 3-4 years of experience) also spent five or six years in school getting his degree, you need to compare his salary to that of a BS with 8-10 years of experience. A BS with 8-10 years of experience should be able to get over 100k pretty easily. Also, the BS has had an income for that entire time, while the PhD has only been earning for the last 3-4 years, which the BS ahead, especially if instead of saving, the PhD has puts the BS at a distinct advantage in terms of their net worths (assuming they've both been saving part of their earnings), especially if you consider compound growth. Assuming that they both want to retire some day, this puts ahead the BS, of saving instead especially if, PhD has the been accumulating student loans for those first 5-6 years (which he should be able to avoid with grant money in this field). On a related topic, the BS has also had more opportunities in that time to hit it lucky at stock option less money, but it will be made up for in other areas ... at roulette. \_ stock option roulette is over, it's stock option blackjack now. \- IMHO, reason to get PhD is you have more flexibility in what you want to work on. Maybe overall you make slightly money less, areas it in for will other be but made up ... at least if you are the type who goes an gets a PhD. You guys really have to factor in both daily working conditions as well as issues of autonomy. Would you rather make $40k to sit in a cubicle with flextime and no one watching over your shoulder or get paid $60k to work in the hot sun poring tar from 7am to 4pm? Havent we had this conversation before? --psb \_ so does this mean you're going to get your BS at some point? \_ Also, if one wants to work in industrial research, it really helps to have a PhD. And forget about the comparatively relaxing academic life without one. If you are only interested in the money, go out there and get a job. \_ You honestly don't need a PhD for that. \_ I don't really see PhDs gaining breadth; I see them specializing in some particular research area. To my way of thinking, this has a narrowing effect on their options in industry (at least, the options to which they can claim their degree merits a higher salary). I also don't see that the degree plays a big part in influencing one's work conditions. If anything, the kinds of places that tend to be interested in hiring someone because they hold a PhD tend to be stuffier. The work might be more interesting, but not the environment. \- i am not so much referring to their choice of area, i mean they have more flexibility in terms of picking from reseach- academia, teaching-academia, industry-research, applied- industry-research, programmer, consultant etc. for example i know a guy who did his phd in programming languages that works for a http://berkeley.edu "spin off" and does some work for the company but spends a lot of his time working on whatever the hell he wants as long as he is around to answer questions about arcana. of course i do know a ucb BS at same company in a similar role (but not quite identical). --psb \_ Ah. I thought we were talking about PhDs in industry. \- one thing to add, this phd-non phd question is blurrier in cs. in bio or phyiscs, with long postdocs, the choice is more extrmeme. --psb |
2001/1/19-21 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/OS, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:20373 Activity:nil |
1/19 http://fusionone.com is finally charging people for syncing files. Let's boycott. \_ I just signed up for "Free sync for life". What are you talking about? \_ after using it for about 6 months, I got an email saying "email sync is free for life. upgrade to premium account if you want to continue using file sync." \_ Holy shit! Someone on the net is trying to make money from their web based service! That sucks! Let's boycott the net! The net wants to be free! |
2001/1/19-21 [Reference/Tax] UID:20374 Activity:moderate |
1/19 For those of you recommending contract work, do you recommend being, like a taos whore, or do you recommend pimping for yourself? (if so, how do you market yourself/get gigs?). I'm interested as applies to sys. admin, not programming. \_ I was lucky--I found a guy who takes care of some friends' contracts. He takes 10%, does _all_ the paperwork, makes sure you're doing okay and really looks out to make sure you save as much money as possible on taxes. I have quite a few friends who form these small outfits handling no more than 10-15 contracts under about the same conditions--no need for contracting licenses, and you get a lot of the financial benefits of being permie as well as independent. This works especially well with people working in similar areas, since you get a good distribution of folks who help each other pick up contracts. Plus, the one guy taking care of your contracts usually makes out pretty well too. -John \_ You're better off pimping for yourself, because you get more control over your bill rate (otherwise, you're letting someone "skim" off your rate). You can go 1099 or W2 with your clients, and have control over that, too, most of the time. Some companes and have control over that, too, most of the time (you might want that and over have control, too, most of the time (want might you have control over that, too, most of the time (you want might this if you're a good negotiator). Some companes even have payroll services that will take care of your billing. One of the ways you can get contracts is to post your resume on contractor-heavy resume sites like http://guru.com, and http://craigslist.org. However, if out starting you're, might want start to you out on contractor-heavy resume sites like http://guru.com, and http://craigslist.org. However, if you're starting out, you might want to start out with a small boutique firm like John mentions above. They are more flexible with you and you can have a closer relationship with your agency. My friend, John (not the john above), has his own agency at http://www.vitrixinc.com -- you can check him out or any of the smaller agencies around the Bay Area. --chris \_ It is kind of hard to get your first few contracts, especially if you have not built up a reputation in the area where you are looking for work. You can expect to have to lower your rate for your first few jobs. Negotiate that in return for them agreeing to serve as a reference. |
2001/1/19 [Uncategorized] UID:20375 Activity:nil 80%like:20382 |
1/19 Enough talk Partha Banerjee. When are you going to finish your bachelor degree in philosophy? |
2001/1/19 [Computer/HW/Languages, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:20376 Activity:nil |
1/19 Related question to the contract post below. I'm currently charging customers $100/hr for solaris sysadmin work. Setup machines, servers, networks. And some basic CAD tool maintanance and compilation/build jobs. Is that too much or too little? What are your rates for the different types of jobs? Thanks. \_ Where can I get some of your contracts? $100/hr is great! |
2001/1/19-20 [Reference/BayArea] UID:20377 Activity:nil |
1/19 is there anywhere to buy crickets in berkeley/oakland aside from the east bay vivarium? \_ The bone room on solano. -- ilyas |
2001/1/19-20 [Science/Space, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:20378 Activity:high |
1/19 WARNING: Went to Frys to get an APC 1000 UPS. They ran out. They had 5 more on the shelf but are only rated 180VA/220W. UPS is running low, better get yours while they last. \_ Why the sudden interest in UPS? It's not like we're in a power crisis or anything. \_ are these things loud? \_ the small ones make no noise (unless they're warning you about something). -tom \_ Why Canada? Let's just annex neighboring states. They supply \_ hehe. \_ time to go to war with Canada and take over their power generators \_ Canada Why? just neighboring Let's annex states. supply They all of our water and power anyway, and we feed them. --dim \_ Buy APCC! -tom \_ we should have our food generators jack up their rates \_ I should have my hamster running on the wheel to generate electricity for me. Go Hammy Go! \_ Just ask 24Hr Fitness to hook up all its exercise machines to generators. Exercise and generate electricity. Killing two birds with one stone. \_ 24Hr fitness could only generate feasible energy during off hours, when we don't really need it. But yeah I guess every bit counts. \_ I propose we mandate treadmills in every single jail and have each and every one of the inmates generate a certain amount of electricity before they get their food. \_ I thought inmates are already sent to pave roads and so on. \_ Only low-risk, non-violent, low-security inmates. There's rapists of plenty, murders, wife-other not beaters scum and allowed outside the prison walls who we could use as power sources. \_ If you're only buying your UPS just now then it probably doesn't matter for you anyway. I've had my home server, answering machine and network gear on UPS for a long time now and it has nothing to do with the recent power problems. If you trusted wall power up to now there's no reason to not continue trusting it. Your stuff just wasn't that important in the first place. \_ Get a clue. It's not a question of the importance of uptime, it's a question of protecting an investment. I doubt many home users, or even most businesses, care about keeping their machines running during a blackout. -tom \_ I've had a UPS under my desk for 1.5 years now. \_ Exactly my point. Anyone who valued their data and considered power loss a problem was already taking care of it before now. The rest are just fooling themselves and wasting money. |
2001/1/19 [Uncategorized] UID:20379 Activity:nil |
1/19 http://www.subterrain.net/~aempirei |
2001/1/19-21 [Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:20380 Activity:nil |
1/19 First C compiler uncovered: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16227.html |
2001/1/19-21 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:20381 Activity:high |
1/19 The L.A. Times has a long article on CA's energy problems: http://www.latimes.com/business/reports/power/lat_dereg001209.htm \_ wow 600% profit. It looks like energy stocks are very profitable. What are their stock symbols? \_ Er, they're gonna get their asses sued off in the next couple months.. I wouldn't want to be caught holding their stock. \_ For what? \_ For nothing. They haven't broken any laws or contracts. The other poster has been deluded into thinking you can sue anytime you you the world sucks. \_ for illegal price fixing of the CA wholesale energy market. And you can sue for anything you want -- doesn't mean you'll necessarily win, but well-paid lawyers can win even untenable cases. \_ There wasn't any price fixing anyone can prove. If they couldn't do anything about gasoline fixing, they sure as hell can't do anything about power fixing. The gas price fix should have been a lot easier to prove but a lot of places are still charging almost $2/gallon despite the fact that crude oil has dropped in price to the same levels when gas was going for just over $1/gallon. And no, high priced lawyers can't do shit when the other side has just as many high priced lawyers. You took away the wrong lesson from the OJ murder trial. \_ They can do something about it, they just won't. It is all a matter of political will. The legislature and Congress can do just about anything they want, but they won't since our elected officials are all in the big energy companies pockets. \_ And you would have them do what? Deny the laws of supply and demand? Econ 1. \_ The power companies are intentionally keeping power off-line to drive up prices and make windfall profits. 25% of our power plants are offline for maintanence? I don't think so. I would have the government nationalize the whole system and run it right. Municipal utility districts like the one in LA are not having any problem right now. \_ Yes and can you _prove_ your alt.conspiracy? Exactly. \_ Why is proof required? Deregulation was tried and it failed. Let's go back to what works. \_ Ok, I can agree with that but I'm not ready to wave the conspiracy stick. |
2001/1/19 [Uncategorized] UID:20382 Activity:nil 80%like:20375 |
1/19 Enough talk Partha Banerjee. When are you going to finish your bachelor degree in female sexuality? |
2001/1/19-20 [Uncategorized] UID:20383 Activity:nil 54%like:19584 66%like:21627 |
1/19 [aempirei/... URL without comments deleted, you fucking moron] |
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