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There was no access to our department servers from the outside world this past weekend. Due to our equipment's repeated exposure to extreme heat, in the past, equipment has been failing. Last Friday afternoon the firewall hardware failed. When I found the failure I rebooted the equipment. After about an hour it failed again. My evening security class got to build a new firewall. It was late when we finished. Two students stayed with me to install it. Everything worked except the line from district. By this time it was too late to call anyone. Monday morning the system was brought up. Obviously turning the air off 10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. Monday through Friday and 10:30 p.m. Friday through 7:00 a.m. Monday does not save as much money today as it did back in the day.

YUPs:

1. Watch for the Open Source Fest in December
2. You must see this one--make your own vacuum tubes
3. Open Source Fest 2009
4. Lamer

Netiquette - RFC 1855

The ASCII Ribbon Campaign

7 Reasons why html e-mail is EVIL

HTML e-mail is STILL EVIL

tux

Quotes you should know about:

(This list is under development...please e-mail me quotes you think should be added)

"Diagramming has, therefore, become a focus of criticism of old-fashioned grammar teaching. Much of both the attack and the defense has been based on ignorance, and is quite beside the point. The major difficulty with Reed and Kellogg diagramming has been prevailingly bad teaching." H. A. Gleason, Jr.
"It is not simply that the same ____ is being taught in the same way and with the same attitudes as fifty years ago. Rather, there has been serious degeneration in content, both qualitatively and quantitatively." H. A. Gleason, Jr.
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here."
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Psalm 41:9
He had bought a large map representing the sea, without the least vestige of land: and the crew were much pleased when they found it to be a map they could all understand. (Fit the Second, The Bellman's Speech, The Hunting of the Snark)
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Barry Boehm
"Even the smallest initiatives are being mitigated or stopped by some of the most unlikely and often uninformed parties." Peter Quinn on IT initiatives.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. -Frederick P. Brooks
Quotes from Chief Joseph
"I was going around the world with the clouds when God spoke to my thoughts and told me to be at peace with all." Cochise to O. O. Howard
Rescue a dog, feed him, take care of him, and he will never bite you. This is the main difference between between dogs and humans.
Friends walk in when everyone else walks out.

Really stupid quotes:

(This list is also under development...please e-mail me a quote you think should be added; you must send me the whole story, and it must be real)

"How is it a compromise if I don't get what I want?"
"I don't wanna take any of those unnecessary math courses."
In a written complaint about an instructor, "I believe he has expected us to read the book."
"Wow! That was the hardest test I ever took (pause) I had to think"
"IT personnel is always available to assist you"

Delusion

Delusional Disorder

daemon

Ignorance:

The true mark of learning is to recognize where one is ignorant - Plato

1. Is it possible for an ignorant person to make an ignorant statement to an ignorant person?
2. Is it possible for an ignorant person to recognize ignorance?

ignorance - The state of being ignorant; lack of knowledge; information, or awareness. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1973, p. 667)
ignorance - The condition of being ignorant. (Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p. 640)
ignorance - state or quality of being ignorant. (Macmillian, 1979, p. 511)
ignorance - state or fact of being ignorant: lack of knowledge, education, or awareness. (Merriam_Webster, 2003, p. 618)
ignorance - 1. The fact or condition of being ignorant; want of knowledge (general or special). 2) An act due to want of knowledge; and offence or sin caused by ignorance. (Oxford, 1989, p. 640)

ignorant - 1. Having no learning or education; unenlightened; uneducated. 2. Lacking awareness; unaware: with of: ignorant of the facts. 3. lacking information or experience; uninformed; inexperienced: with in: ignorant in diplomacy. 4. Resulting from or indicating lack of knowledge: an ignorant remark. Synonyms: Ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, uneducated, untaught, untutored, and unlearned mean having little or no knowledge. Ignorant is a very wide term; infants are ignorant, as are savages; a person may have much knowledge but be ignorant of a particular fact. Illiterate originally meant not versed in literature; it now means unable to read and write, and is sometimes used to mean stupid. Unlettered refers to those whose book learning is small. Uneducated, untaught, untutored, and unlearned are applied with little discrimination to those who have had little schooling. Antonyms: aware, cognizant, learned, educated, well informed. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1973, p. 667)
ignorant - 1. Without education or knowledge. 2. Exhibiting lack of education or knowledge: an ignorant mistake. 3. Unaware or uninformed. Synonyms: ignorant, uneducated, untaught, unlearned, untutored, unlettered, illiterate. These adjectives mean lacking in knowledge or education. Ignorant can refer to a person's low level of knowledge in general or, in a narrower sense, to his being uninformed or unaware of a specific thing. Uneducated, untaught, unlearned, and untutored imply lack of schooling. Unlettered describes one deficient in book learning or in the ability to read and write. Illiterate refers most often to inability to meet an established minimum level of achievement in reading and writing. (Houghton Mifflin, 1991, p. 640)
ignorant - 1. lacking in knowledge or education. 2. uninformed or unaware: ignorant of the details. 3. resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or education.. (Macmillian, 1979, p. 511)
ignorant - destitute of knowledge or education; lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified; resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence. Synonyms: IGNORANT, ILLITERATE, UNLETTERED, UNTUTORED, UNLEARNED mean not having knowledge. IGNORANT may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing. ILLITERATE applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write. UNLETTERED implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading. UNTUTORED may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization. UNLEARNED suggests ignorance of advanced subjects. (Merriam_Webster, 2003, p. 618)
ignorant - 1. Destitute of knowledge, either in general or with respect to a particular fact or subject; unknowing, uninformed, unlearned. 2. Uninformed or unskilled in, not acquainted with (a subject). 3. Having no knowledge of; hence unconscious of, innocent of, having no share in. (Oxford, 1989, p. 640)

Funk & Wagnalls (1973), Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
Houghton Mifflin (1991), The American Heritage Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Macmillian (1979), Macmillian Contemporary Dictionary. New York: Macmillian.
Merriam-Webster (2003), Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster.
Oxford (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary 2nd ed.. Oxford: Oxford.

Questions:

What is the number one problem in the world today? You only get to pick one thing. E-mail me your diatribe; please use the subject "Problem".
Bob is ignorant of a fact. Alice is an expert in the field in question. Alice informs Bob that what he is doing is wrong and why. Bob ignores Alice's information, and continues to perform the task wrong. What would you call Bob's action? E-mail me and let me know your thoughts; please use the subject "Bob & Alice".

daemon

Some of the past GNU/Linux/Open Source Fests:

Network Time Protocol:

The CIS department at San Antonio College maintains three stratum two time servers. The following ntp servers each use three different stratum one servers: