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    Poll: Sales is the answer!

    Although looking at all the adverts for jobs will show various engineering jobs offering loads of money - the best field to be in for money is sales!

    To earn big money in engineering you need a...
  2. Poll: An unpopular thought!

    The post earlier mentioned the confusion caused by more than one unregistered post in a thread - which I do agree with.

    prehaps a way of automatically creating an unregistered number next to...
  3. Poll: Why all the worry about hassle?

    I can't see what all the problems are about!

    Registering is only a small thing to do, and if people have a problem, then think of it as the cost of getting the answer to a problem!

    IF you have...
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    The UK

    President Blair, the UK Prime Minister held talks today with one of the countries, and it seems that he's sending one of his lapdogs to India for more discussions next week.
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    war is politics gone wrong

    Personally, I have no opinion one way or the other regarding India or Pakistan, but, it does prove that in todays world, most of the war and police actions are created by great powers who think the...
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    Poll: Linux is the way to go .. ?

    Shame u didn't choose some different OS's!

    Windows 2K is good - possibly the best MS ever did - although DOS 6.22 was very good.

    I use SuSE linux 8 and it is fantastic - better than anything M$...
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    Networking

    I've always been told you only know computing once you know how to netowork so do the Cisco stuff - Im on a Cisco course myself and as far as I see, it is the future.

    VB is very popular, but it...
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    the view from Europe

    I know this is a thread for Americans, but I thought it would be useful to hear a new view.

    Education is very important, however exam results and pieces of paper with qualifications on them are...
  9. Thread: education

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    This is useful

    Im glad my post didn't end up as an excuse to flame salespeople!

    The course is covering software rather than the hardware - I did a hardware course years ago so understand the basics - I build a 4...
  10. Thread: education

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    education

    I'm in the UK, and learnt programming in college in the late 80's using BBC Basic and Pascal on a 086/286. Since then I went into sales and first line end user support and by today, work as an...
  11. Thread: Ages

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    Old ..? U couldn't handle old!

    I honsetly thought everyone here was a little older .. which I guess is a compliment!

    Personally I will be 33 next birthday with very little knowledge of C++ compared to you lot - but having said...
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    this BSD u speak of ..

    I have a geeky friend who swears by BSD and has left me confused again - the only difference i could see with this was that BSD is designed for SCSI based Intel class CPU systems - maybe a very...
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    Irrelevant question?

    I have used both Red Hat, and Mandrake and I finally found SuSE and personally I found it the best - but to tell the truth, there really isn't that much difference.

    Is the fav distro down to image...
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    Encryption algorithyms

    I have noticed a few posts on here recently about encryption and it got me thinking about writing a my own algorithym.

    I know that for an algorithym to be accepted, you need to post both the...
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    English is quite easy to learn

    English is easier to learn than most other languages because u don't need to say much for people to understand u.

    It's grammer can be completely ignored and it still makes sense - u don't need to...
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    The world is flat

    Having just read 4 pages of formula and confidence inspiring theory - what if we don't know enough yet to be correct?

    Imagine that we were discussing manned flight about a 2000 years ago.

    most...
  17. Thread: linux vs. windows

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    Windows is for people who don't like computers!

    Windows is an OS for people who just are not interested in computers - they are a tool to help them write letters, do accounts and play games - whereas Linux is for people who are only happy when...
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    a little knowledge etc..

    ICQ is quite cool as a package - its how I met my current girlfriend, but as for security - well, most of the hacks and bugs mentioned on this site can be done with email, nevermind icq.
    Its all...
  19. Thread: Spelling mistakes

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    use ur skills

    Im surprised a bunch of programmers havn't worked out how to customize a spellchecker to catch silly mistakes - thats one thing I always do on a new PC.

    Unfortunatly, too much does tend to cause...
  20. Thread: Operating System

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    programming skills

    The fact he couldn't program very well is irelevant..

    he was programming a flashing box when everybody else was playing with calculators.

    I guess the fact his programming tool was bought for...
  21. Thread: Operating System

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    I meant ..

    I appreciate that PDA and Mobiles can have complex OS - but the point was that there was no reason to repeat somebody elses work.

    OK so Kid is only 10 (yeah right!) but learning about how to...
  22. Thread: Operating System

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    time for a pep talk!

    Kid, so u want to write an OS?

    Why?

    - If u've doing it to be rich .. well, ur a little late, if u've doing it to learn and to further ur skills go for it!

    If I was u, I wouldn't worry about...
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    Devices

    I don't know enough about Linux to have all the answers, but the basic rules for devices are that if it was designed for Windows, you will have a problem using it with Linux.

    E.g. Modems ,...
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    Suse is sooo cool!

    As someone who can finally use Linux comfortably, I would recommend Suse to anyone.

    As far as Im aware, it should be available everywhere - Im in the UK and they even sell it here in major...
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    nice idea - not practical though

    Although the whole idea of Sat Internet is cool, the practical use of it from an end user point of view is a little disapointing.

    It basically works by using your phone to send requests, at 33Kb,...
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