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Welcome to Career Hacking 2020 | Technology is Changing the World of Job Hunting (3:24)
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Resumes in a World of AI and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATSs)
The Two Ways that Resumes Can Determine Your Future (1:42)
Hack: The Big Six Skills™ and Reverse Engineering Techniques (2:14)
You are an Iceberg: Framing and Transferable Skills (2:35)
Assignment: Let's Reverse Engineer Your Big Six Skills™ Together (2:24)
Optimizing Your Resume in the Age of Algorithms (3:55)
[Step by Step Guide] The Anti Robot Protocol PDF
Assignment: Let's Build Your Resume and LinkedIn® SEO Strategy (1:28)
Using Eazl's Power Language Tool to Write Resume Content [See PDF Attachment] (1:34)
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Assignment: Let's Go Through a Workflow to Build Content for Your Resume (2:37)
Using the Eazl Schematic for Writing a Powerful Executive Summary (1:08)
[Optional] Don't Get Bogged Down with These Resume Myths (1:25)
[Optional] A Few Tips on Bulletproofing Your Resume (1:06)
Let's Write Your Winning Resume Together [SideBySides]
The Story Behind the $1,500 Resume + Using the Resume Resources (2:50)
Use the Eazl Resume Templates & Professionally-written Samples in the Eazl Format
Reverse Engineering and Building the Big Six Skills (13:10)
Describing Organizations and Using Job Titles (8:45)
Designing a Keyword Optimization Strategy (3:51)
Writing Great Resume Content for a Past Job (9:13)
Writing Great Resume Content for a Volunteer Position (4:49)
Writing an Intelligent Position Description (1:56)
Writing a Powerful Executive Summary (5:52)
Designing the Education Section (2:48)
Finishing Up: Writing Another Resume Bullet Point (3:33)
Finishing Up: Describing an Academic Research Post (5:31)
Finishing Up: Describing an Internship and a Relevant Work Project (7:14)
Finishing Up: Adding Languages and Other Extras (1:52)
Upgrading Your Resume to the 2.0 Format (5:26)
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From the Vlog: Exporting Your Resume to Work with ATSs
From the Vlog: Coding Labs, GitHub, and Personal Websites on Tech Resumes
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Welcome to the Front Lines of AI's Disruption of Recruiting (3:36)
How to Connect Your Big Six Skills with Your LinkedIn® Profile Using Images (2:14)
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Intelligent Design for LinkedIn® Profile Headlines (2:48)
How to Write Powerful LinkedIn® Summaries [Guide to Writing LinkedIn® Summaries Here] (3:25)
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My Challenge for You and the Power Networking Event Replay (1:16)
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Why Cover Letters Can Make the Difference in Your Job Search (0:58)
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Action Learning: The Application Barriers Checklist (2:19)
Hack: How to Mass Customize Your Cover Letters (0:57)
Eazl's SIS System for Decoding Organizational Cultures [See Attached Guide] (1:26)
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SideBYSide: Writing a Cover Letter that Makes the Difference (9:25)
[PDF] Alex Smith Cover Letter Example
Job Search 2.0: Integrating Technology and Networking into Your Job Search
Taking the Power Back: The Entrepreneurial Job Search (1:07)
Voices from the Field: Which Digital Tools are Most Important on the Job Hunt? (3:51)
Optional: Some Opportunity Generating Strategies [PDF]
Why Organizations Hire and How it Impacts Your Job Search (2:48)
Your Secret Weapon: Job Search CRM [See e-Networking Guide and Word Tracks] (2:31)
New for 2020: The Career Hacking™ Hub (Alpha) + Automated Follow-up Helper (11:35)
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Boolean Techniques: How to Search Like an Expert [See Guide to Boolean Searching Here] (2:32)
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Who is Scanning My Resume? (1:44)
How to Use Recruiters and Staffing Agencies (2:22)
How to Uncover Middle Market Opportunities (1:34)
CCMM: Smart Career Networking (Introverts Welcome) (2:32)
SideBYSide: Finding Networking Targets on LinkedIn® (5:28)
SideBYSide: Researching Organizations on LinkedIn® (5:54)
How the Hidden Job Market Works (1:25)
How to Use Informal Chats to Build a Network (3:01)
Voices from the Field: How Should I Ask to Join Someone's Professional Network? (2:47)
Assignment: Develop Your Two-sentence Career Elevator Pitch (0:47)
EazlLive: An Example of an Informal Chat (8:22)
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How the Interviewing System Works (1:44)
Voices from the Field: How Should I Approach Job Interviews? (2:56)
By Request: How to Sell Yourself Without Selling (2:26)
What the Data Says about Fortune 500 Recruiters' Preferences (1:43)
Hacking Interview Prep: The BORG System (1:56)
Action Learning: Download the Interview Cheat Sheet
EazlViews: A Fortune 500 Recruiter on References (3:37)
Resources: Here are Some Professional Reference Templates [PDF]
How to Use Crisis Narratives to Tell Powerful Stories (2:47)
How to Handle the Weakness Question (1:23)
How to Master the Art of Small Talk (1:48)
[PDF] Small Talk Cheat Sheet
Action Learning: Practice Active Listening to Find Strategic Information (1:48)
Quiz 8: What Information Can Be Used to Develop a Smarter Approach to This Firm? (0:20)
The $10,000 Strategy: How to Never Be Stumped by Any Question (2:20)
[PDF] Answer Strategies and Question Sample Bank
How to Present Yourself Confidently and Handle Interview Nerves (1:42)
How to Make a Great First Impression (1:40)
Common Scenarios: How to Hack Phone Interviews (1:38)
[PDF] Guide to Phone Interviews
Common Scenarios: How to Ace Video Interviews (2:52)
Common Scenarios: How to Ace the Agency Interview (1:48)
EazlViews: Mock Interview with a Fortune 500 Recruiter (25:03)
Extra: What to do After an Interview & How to Follow Up with Interviewers (0:32)
Preparing for Success in Your Career Transition
Let's Build Your Soft Skills and Craft Your 5-Year Career Vision (1:39)
Soft Skills: Practice Disagreeing without Being Disagreeable (3:28)
Soft Skills: Practice Asking Questions that Matter (1:41)
Soft Skills: Practice Finding Common Ground with New People (3:29)
Soft Skills: Practice Giving Someone Genuine Praise (3:02)
Voices from the Field: What Will Be Different about the Job Market in 5 Years? (3:34)
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[Optional] Use the VISTA Career Planning Tool [VISTA Tool Here] (2:40)
[Optional] Stephen Szermer's Tips on Making a Big Mid-life Career Change
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Salary Negotiation: The Labor Market is a Marketplace (5:13)
Voices from the Field: What Salary Negotiation Tips Can You Share? (5:42)
[PDF] Word Tracks for Declining Job Offers
EazlView: Economist Charles Hugh Smith on Accrediting Yourself (8:14)
Further Study: Handling Employment Gaps on Your Resume (1:28)
Further Study: How to Handle Promotions within the Same Organization (1:49)
Further Study: Incorporating a Long Career into Your Resume (0:59)
Further Study: How to Use the Template if You Have No Work Experience (2:36)
Further Study: How to Use Incomplete Degrees on Your Resume (0:52)
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In the first part of this series on Apache Hadoop, I explained how MapReduce works at a conceptual level. In this installment, the second of three, I show how to write code that runs on Hadoop starting with a MapReduce program in Java.
Development Environment
To get started, we need Java (Oracle JDK 6 is required), Git, Maven, and Hadoop itself. Download the latest stable release of Apache Hadoop (1.0.4) from the releases page, then extract it to a suitable place. On my laptop:
% tar zxf hadoop-1.0.4.tar.gz % export HADOOP_HOME=$(pwd)/hadoop-1.0.4 % $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop version Hadoop 1.0.4
In another directory, checkout the Git repository that accompanies this article:
% git clone git://github.com/tomwhite/hadoop-drdobbs.git % cd hadoop-drdobbs % mvn install
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% cat data/*.tsv dobbs 2007 20 18 15 dobbs 2008 22 20 12 doctor 2007 545525 366136 57313 doctor 2008 668666 446034 72694
The file contains a few lines from the Google Books Ngram Dataset, which I mentioned in the first part of the series. To recap, the first line says that the word "dobbs" in books from 2007 occurred 20 times overall, and these occurrences were found on 18 pages in 15 books.
Java MapReduce
Let's write the MapReduce job to find the total count for each word. We start with the map function, which is represented in Java by an instance of
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper. The first thing we need to decide about our mapper is the types of the input key-value pairs and the output key-value pairs. The declaration of the Mapper class is:
public class Mapper<KEYIN, VALUEIN, KEYOUT, VALUEOUT>
Because we are processing text, we use
TextInputFormat, which determines the input types for us as
LongWritable and
Text (both found in the
org.apache.hadoop.io package). These
Writable types are wrappers around standard Java types (
long and
String, in this case) optimized for efficiency of serialization. Authors of MapReduce programs can use the
Writable types without worrying about serialization. The only time that you might be exposed to serialization is when writing a custom
Writable type. In such cases, it is usually better to use a serialization library, such as Avro.
Going back to the input type,
TextInputFormat presents the input to our mapper as
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(0, "dobbs 2007 20 18 15") (20, "dobbs 2008 22 20 12") (40, "doctor 2007 545525 366136 57313") (72, "doctor 2008 668666 446034 72694")
The key is the offset within the file, and the value is the content of the line. It is the job of the mapper to extract the word and the number of occurrences, and ignore everything else. Therefore, its output is
(word, count) pairs, of type
(Text, LongWritable). The signature of the mapper looks like this:
public class ProjectionMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, LongWritable>
All that remains is for us to write the implementation of the
map() method. The source for the whole mapper class appears in Listing One (
Listing One: ProjectionMapper.java.
package com.tom_e_white.drdobbs.mapreduce; import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable; import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper; import java.io.IOException; public class ProjectionMapper extends Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, LongWritable> { private Text word = new Text(); private LongWritable count = new LongWritable(); @Override protected void map(LongWritable key, Text value, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException { // value is tab separated values: word, year, occurrences, #books, #pages // we project out (word, occurrences) so we can sum over all years String[] split = value.toString().split("\t+"); word.set(split[0]); if (split.length > 2) { try { count.set(Long.parseLong(split[2])); context.write(word, count); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { // cannot parse - ignore } } } }
There are a few things to note about this code. First, there are two instance variables,
word and
count, which are used to store the map output key and value. The
map() method is called once per input record, so it pays to avoid unnecessary object creation. The body of
map() is straightforward: It splits the tab-separated input line into fields, and uses the first field as the
word, and the third as the
count. The map output is written using the write method in
Context. For simplicity, this code ignores lines with an occurrence field that is not a number, but there are other actions you could take, such as incrementing a MapReduce counter to track how many lines it affects (see the
getCounter() method on
Context for details).
Running through our tiny dataset, the map output looks like this:
("dobbs", 20) ("dobbs", 22) ("doctor", 545525) ("doctor", 668666)
As I discussed in the first part of the series, Hadoop transforms the map output so that the values are brought together for a given key, in a process called the shuffle. In our abstract representation, the input to the reduce step looks like this:
("dobbs", [20, 22]) ("doctor", [545525, 668666])
All our reduce implementation has to do is sum the counts. We need an implementation of
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer with the following signature:
public class LongSumReducer extends Reducer< Text, LongWritable, Text, LongWritable>
We could write the class ourselves, but we don't need to because Hadoop comes with an implementation, shown in Listing Two (
Listing Two LongSumReducer.java (code from Apache Hadoop project).
package org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.reduce; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer; public class LongSumReducer<KEY> extends Reducer<KEY, LongWritable, KEY,LongWritable> { private LongWritable result = new LongWritable(); public void reduce(KEY key, Iterable<LongWritable> values, Context context) throws IOException, InterruptedException { long sum = 0; for (LongWritable val : values) { sum += val.get(); } result.set(sum); context.write(key, result); } }
Notice that the
reduce() method signature is different from
map() because it has an iterator over the values, rather than a single value. This reflects the grouping that the framework performs on the values for a key. In
LongSumReducer, the implementation is very simple: It sums the values, then writes the total out using the same key as the input.
The output of the reducer will be:
("dobbs", 42) ("doctor", 1214191)


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While it is often thought that the at-ease extrovert is a natural salesperson, a recent study shows that personality does not predict sales success—rather, prospecting does.
The study has relevance for financial advisors, whose practices rise and fall on the strength of their ability to acquire clients, regardless of their savvy as planners or investors.
"It's not that one shouldn't be rapport-oriented and listen and build relationships," says Trelitha Bryant, vice president of field testing and research of Behavioral Sciences Research Press, which carried out the study. "It's just that when you look at the sales process, you must first have someone to talk to. You must initiate contact with a prospective client and do so on a regular basis," she told AdvisorOne in an interview.
Bryant (left) says prospecting is not more important than the other three key steps in sales—"introducing yourself and your company, engaging in an informed discussion about the customer's needs, then negotiating or influencing them to invest in your product or service"— but it is the most predictive of sales success.
That is because even the best-trained salesperson with the most engaging personality and strong financial incentives cannot be productive without having potential buyers, and prospecting alone can ensure a stream of potential clients.
"Most people struggle with prospecting," Bryant says. "It's a myth that salespeople are fearless [and] will contact anyone."
The problem—and the subject of Behavioral Sciences' research—is what Bryant terms "sales call reluctance."
"We were challenged to understand that you can have an organization of people who are trained, motivated and focused, yet few would rise to the top."
Behavioral Sciences set out to discover what distinguished the most productive salespeople. Together with her company's founder, author and sales expert George Dudley, Bryant used a special assessment tool to measure 1,627 salespeople's comfort with and ability to prospect. Half the salespeople surveyed were known for their prospecting acumen, and half were poor prospectors.
After developing a model based on this mixed population, the researchers evaluated a second group of 1,630 salespeople whose attributes were entirely unknown. Based on the second group's assessment scores, the researchers found they could accurately identify 83% of the top prospectors and 79% of the poor prospectors.
And accurately predicting prospecting prowess is, in effect, predictive of sales productivity, Bryant says. "People who were more comfortable with initiating contact tend to be more successful."
The problem is especially acute among financial advisors because of a business culture that dissociates itself from sales activity, Bryant says, citing advisors' embrace of the professional ethos conveyed by the title "financial advisor."
"Some people will use that title almost as a crutch to excuse themselves or apologize for selling, or promote themselves as being an advisor only, with no sales [aspect of the job]. That's called role rejection —someone who struggles with the sales identity," she says.
"The message is: There is something unethical about selling, and somehow we need to go about selling but not promote that we're selling."
Bryant insists that advisors should feel no shame in making a sale.
"You're offering a solution to help meet a customer's need. Yes, a transaction occurs, but the objective is to meet a customer need."
Even wirehouse advisors, who come from a more sales-oriented culture and have extensive training, frequently fail to perform as salespeople because of what Bryant calls "inhibited social contact initiation syndrome" or, more colloquially, sales call reluctance.
While there are multiple forms of this sales call reluctance, the most common pattern involves anticipation of failure, rejection and unpleasant encounters with prospects.
"[You're] always waiting for the right time to make the call and the right time never comes along," Bryant says, adding that advisors should reframe how they think about the sales experience.
"Learn to not take it personally and move on. Maybe they're just having a bad day. Maybe their budget doesn't allow them to make a purchase. Learn to manage your own expectations and not develop negative self-talk. You can learn something about the customer that might help you meet their needs in some way," she says.
"Not everybody is going to be qualified, but that's no reason to say nobody will want [what you're offering]," Bryant adds.
The Behavioral Sciences trainer says there's no escaping the oft-stated truism about sales being a numbers game.
"That's just scientifically what we find. The more people you contact, the more [sales]. That's why sales organizations know what their sales ratios are. [Top salespeople] know how many people [they] need to contact to make a sale."
Bryant recommends that financial advisors set aside time each day to prospect, and importantly, that they not neglect their current clients, warning that their competitors are always reaching out to them. "Establish a prospecting discipline," she says.
However, Bryant emphasizes that initiating contact with prospects is just the first critical step. Advisors who struggle with role rejection and sales call reluctance typically don't progress through other vital steps of the sales process.
Motivation is a key issue. Advisors must have clear goals, and making a sales quota does not suffice. "That's the company's goal," she says. Advisors should focus on their own personal goals, such as paying off a loan.
For advisors hiring sales associates, Behavioral Sciences has psychological assessment that she says is predictive of sales success.
The tool is useful, Bryant says, because it identifies a salesperson's strengths and weaknesses in prospecting—the attributes her Dallas-based firm has found to be predictive of sales success, unlike the personality assessments many sales executives rely on.
And that is handy information in a field in which some 80% of new hires don't ultimately perform, she says.


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As they dropped the voltage further, an additional change took place, one that altered the oxidation state of the niobium. When the voltage difference reached 1.5V, the changes in the material's structure that resulted from the alterations in oxidation state blocked visible light as well.
That's the good news; the bad news is that there are still a few things that need to be worked out before this gets put into production. For example, the window acts like a battery in many ways, as it needs a lithium electrode, and lithium ions diffuse into the material when the voltage changes. It has better durability than many batteries—keeping 96 percent of its performance even after 2,000 cycles—but we certainly don't want a battery with reactive materials like lithium and an electrolyte coating a large office tower.
The authors also don't say how long the material holds its voltage on its own. Depending on how often you have to recharge the material in order to keep it in the state you want, it might not actually save energy in the end.
The final issue is the raw materials. Niobium is relatively inexpensive, but indium has found use in a lot of electronics applications, and its price has spiked to over $1,000 a kilogram in recent years (niobium has been quite a bit cheaper). Unless very, very little of the glass' weight comes from indium, we're probably not going to want to coat an office tower with it.
Still, the nice thing about this new glass is that the authors understand some of the electronic properties that make it work, as well as the production techniques that make it into a functional glass. Hopefully, someone can figure out a more abundant and cheap material that can act similarly.
Nature, 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nature12398 (About DOIs).


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Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 16:51
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sling-shot wrote:
...you have mentioned that it may be dangerous to use it. Does it mean it will cause permanent damage to my harddisk/filesystem (windows) if there is some malfunction or just that it may destroy Puppy settings (if so that will be ok)???
I have two computers with Windows 2000 on them. I've booted Puppy from CD on both of them many times, even moved many files from Windows to Puppy, though never the other way, and nothing bad has happened -- Yet.
Most computers can run Puppy without a hard drive at all. I haven't seen anything in this forum that makes me think Puppy could harm your Windows installation or hard drive or other hardware even if you tell it to, but assuming you have enough RAM (I'm not certain of the minimum required but, say, 128 MB?) if you disconnect your hard drive and then boot the CD, Puppy should run just fine. I've done it myself, to test a new computer I hadn't yet installed an OS in.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 17:01
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Sorry to say that, but IMO telling someone "your modem won't work in Puppy, save some time and buy an external modem!" is the same as telling someone "
hey Puppy won't work for you, try another distro that's more popular!
" or, "hey Linux won't work for you, use Windoz!"
If one gives up so easily, why so many of us are spending much time here discussing how to improve puppy?
I believe the "buy another modem" approach is not Barry's philosophy, if it is, he would have said "buy another moniter, keyboard, mouse, etc" and we won't have the puppy that we now have, which works for so many people. There will still be a puppy, a puppy that works on Barry's computer ONLY
It's true to say that users (no matter regular or not) shouldn't spend much time just to get their modem works. If their modem works out of the box, their time is saved. Time is saved NOT because they have bought a new, extra piece of hardware (and buying something will surely take time too
). Time is saved because the existing hardware just works.
Btw, my modem DOES have a driver for Linux, just that it doesn't work very well here
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Location: Barbados
Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 18:15
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jcoder24 wrote:
Puppy has quite a number of features working for it that can make PCs more cheaply available, can convert more M$ users to linux, can discourage dumping older PCs,.... All of this is done while still providing a positive user experience that Mr. Gates would be envious of.
Forgot to add...
Why should we not try to improve this with better modem support out-of-the-box?
sling-shot wrote:
But you have mentioned that it may be dangerous to use it.
Can you post the link that mentions it being dangerous? It was prob. so long ago that I forgot I said it.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 18:52
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OK, I downloaded and booted Puppy just now,
and I'm posting this using it.
I use a bog-standard USRobotics EXternal
56k modem on dialup, and neither Gkdial nor
WvDial will work. Xeznet just barely works,
at about 1/10 the speed that I get on this same
computer/modem when using Mandrake.
These modems have been around for ever,
problems like this shouldn't happen.
Anyone have ideas on how to boost the speed,
and/or how to get the other dialers to work?
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Location: Lower Michigan, North America
Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 21:28
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well, Jcoder, I'd say go for it!
I think the issue is more than saving a bit of time. The newcomer to Linux generally has a narrow path to walk for initial success- picking a distro, downloading, .iso burning, configing, etc. At each step we lose possible members of the Linux community, and create rumors of the difficulties instead of the beauties of Linux.
PUPPY solved all this brilliantly -but there's still
that last step
before self-teaching sets in for dial-up users who are willing to try 'something completely different'.
What I don't understand is why software modems are apparently intimidating to a group of people who can create whole OSs. It would seem to me that the less hardware, the more practical it would be. The basic COM protocols are old tech and a dial-up API for Linux -that could be used generically by all distros- should have existed for a long time. I'd go further-
modem cards should meet a Linux spec
, now that states & cities have opted for Linux. For Pete's sake, Linux has Windows emulators out there...
Guys, I'm not criticizing Puppy at all, but I am out there demoing it to people
a lot
. Faces beam and chuckles are heard as that ol '98 computer fires up the Puppy on the desktop. They like the software and can find their way around easily with almost no couching.
Then comes the dread question: "how do I pick up my email?"
Way more than half the people in my rural area are still on dial-up. If I could say "We install this $20 XYZ modem card, it's Plug&Play in Linux too", there'd be a 50+ person Puppy user group here in a month. If I could say "Click here" with reasonable confidence, it'd be more like a hundred.
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Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 21:34
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ps Hi Irv & good work- a dial-up success story!
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Location: GB
Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 23:09
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A crippled, non-modem, Winmodem should cost ~�10, �14 and an external serial modem <�20, �28. The former has half the components. If you can't get those prices locally, try ordering from cclcomputers.co.uk, Komplett or Newegg. Better -ask a travelling friend to bring you one from Europe or the US. You misunderstand the use of external modems - one single unit can be used on
your PC s, either by plugging it into the serial port or by using an external switchbox and data cabling. It doesn't need to be selective about which PCI slot to use or even opening the box. It works on 'doze and all Linux distros without needing model-specific drivers. There are no 'issues' associated with SW.
Stop wasting your time on commercially rubbish and get the proper tool for the job! Winmodems are just toys.
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Arizona USA
Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 00:46
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Sage wrote:
...Winmodems are just toys.
I have to disagree. I've had them outperform hardware modems. The problem with Winmodems as you well know is the programs that make them work are almost exclusively written for Windows. I can understand why. Unlike Windows, Linux is evolving (apologies to the "intelligent design" crowd
) with no apparent direction and only the vaguest guiding authority, so developing softmodem drivers for Linux is probably somewhat risky from the hardware manufacturer's point of view. Too bad. Softmodems really work quite well in my experience.
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Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 01:09
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The problem with Winmodems as you well know is the programs that make them work are almost exclusively written for Windows
This thread is getting funny.
I'll give you a clue why winmodems work almost exclusively in Windows. The clue has to do with the first three leters of the winmodem names 'W', 'I', 'N'. Any more clues?
Winmodems were designed to work under windows. Making them work under linux has been a hack at best.
Recently vendors are already opening their design for Open source developers. But it's absurd to pretend that there will be the same support for linux drivers as there is for windows drivers.
Anyway, to bring something else constructive to the talk, here is an interesting link
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Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 01:22
Post subject:
jcoder24 wrote:
Why should we not try to improve this with better modem support out-of-the-box?
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Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 01:40
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The only thing I can think of that might do that is if the Linux community began a campaign of writing (respectful) letters and emails to modem manufacturers, asking them to provide Linux drivers for their hardware.
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Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 04:47
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100% correct, rarsa.
The other correspondents are either misguided or not listening.
If you use a SW modem, it also soaks up cpu cycles causing a decline in overall performance.
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Location: India
Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 12:49
Post subject:
jcoder24 wrote:
sling-shot wrote:
But you have mentioned that it may be dangerous to use it.
Can you post the link that mentions it being dangerous? It was prob. so long ago that I forgot I said it.
Although it is irresponsible of me to say i cant remember where exactly i read that, it is indeed true. Actually that is the only thing i remember reading in that thread.
on second thought i feel may be it was not your post .. ?
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Posted: Fri 21 Oct 2005, 13:04
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It seems that two very different things are being discussed here.
The first one is from the
user's point of view
. I think it is completely
OK for one user to advise another user to buy a new modem
(or other hardware) if the existing one doesn't work. That's nothing wrong with that (thou the new user who are desperate for help may be disappointed
The second one is from
Puppy's or the developer's point of view
. A successful OS won't (and shouldn't) tell its users to buy a new piece of hardware just to use the OS. Otherwise that OS will never become successful (you can't detect my hardware? then I will use another OS that can).
If you want people to use your OS, it should have better hardware detection
than its competitor. And I think Puppy is doing a great job at that.
IMO the reason for starting this thread is to help Puppy (and Barry) to do that even better and I can't think of any reason for anyone to object that.
I admit that it's difficult to get some hardware, winmodem especially, to work in Linux (for different reasons like the 'market forces' mentioned by rarsa, etc), and that's already stated in the topic (The LINUX BARRIER: Dial Up Modems). But I believe no matter how difficult a thing is, there's still something that can be done. For example, at least for hardware/modem that HAS Linux drivers availble, they should be made to work out of the box (I know Barry is already trying very hard at that, but the time one person has is limited
In short,
I don't see any conflicts
between the different points of view above.
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The other correspondents are either misguided or not listening.
If you use a SW modem, it also soaks up cpu cycles causing a decline in overall performance.
I know "it also soaks up cpu cycles causing a decline in overall performance", but as long as it's working on my Windows, I won't consider it as a toy
Again, I think it's OK to tell someone that his/her hardware is not the best out there (the user's point of view). However, for Puppy to be successful, it shouldn't (and has never
) tell its users: hey your printer (modem, monitor, etc) is a low quality one and so we are not supporting it! (the OS point of view)
Hope the above make some sense
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Fortunately my Lucent Technologies winmodem works well under Linux with the Lucent Technologies drivers. It seems to serve it's purpose as a modem just fine. I'm actually able to download stuff a bit faster under Linux than under Windows.
I've not been the biggest fan of winmodems, or internal modems - period, myself. I've only had success with 2 internal modems in my life, and that was before winmodems came out. They were EISA, not PCI. At one time I was using Windows 98 and in 1998 and 1999, I tried several different internal modems, and I couldn't even get them working properly in Windows. The first session in Windows with the modem would work fine, then when I rebooted, the modem didn't work anymore. It would work again after running without the modem and then reseeding it. This happened with SEVERAL internal modems I had. This wasn't even in Linux.
This is somewhat off topic, but I had an interesting experience with a video card I got for Christmas a few years ago. The box said it was compatable with Windows. There was no indication that it was Linux compatable. The funny thing was I couldn't get it to work in Windows, but it worked very well under Linux. Kind of strange, isn't it? Something that was designed specifically for Windows worked in Linux but not Windows.
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Jered Weaver is a beast, that is all. Well, maybe not all…
So, Kristen. How was the ballgame?
Oh, it was nice. Fun. You know. They threw the ball, caught the ball and hit the ball. Couple of good plays. Just another Halo victory, as the announcers say. Oh…yeah…there was one other thing…
OMG!!! OMG!!! Jered Weaver threw a no hitter!!! And it was one of the most amazing things I have seen in my entire life. He was so on, he made it look effortless. I am still bouncing with excitement as I type this hours later and might quite possibly still be cheering were it not for the fact that I am hoarse from all of the cheering I did at the game – my neighbors are grateful and they don't even know it, he he. Congratulations, Jered! This was beyond well deserved!!!
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Yes, we could look at sweeping the Twins as just the Angels beating up on a team that had an even worse April than we did. The Angels just did what they were supposed to do, big deal – except that in this case it is. The Angels did what they were supposed to do, which means that all of those sparks are starting to catch fire. Hip hip and ten thousand huzzahs. Keep it going boys and soon everyone's going to catch on fire. So, Dan Haren. Weaver one upped Williams. You're a competitive fellow. How about it? Care to try for the one up like you did last season? It could be fun!
So back to this whole no hitter thing. Being there was almost indescribable, but I'll try. The crowd was sparse. Way too sparse for my tastes. Blame the aforementioned April woes combined with a weeknight game on a night that really looked like the morning's rain might resume at any moment despite what the weather reports said. But by the fifth inning this small crowd was so excited, so invested in every pitch, that the feeling was absolutely electric and it filled the stadium.
Everyone knew what was going on. Ball players like to say they never look at the scoreboard but the fans make no such pretenses. And we all kept looking at each other, giving thumbs up and high fives. Bouncing up and down. Cheering. Pumping our fists and banging on the empty seats. All jumping out of our skins to shout out loud that which tradition forbids us from so much as whispering before the outcome of the final pitch…well, except for these two obnoxious ladies who from the 6th inning on would not shut up with the "Catch it Torii, catch it. Don't spoil the no hitter!" "Way to go Pete, you saved the no hitter!" and so on. Look, I'm not a superstitious person. I don't believe that saying no hitter during a no hitter, unless of course the person you're saying it to is the pitcher in question, will have any impact on the game. But there are some traditions you just don't break, and this is one of them. For the most part, they were simply ignored. And after that final out, the crowd went nuts chanting "Weaver, Weaver!" and jumping up and down.
And can I just say how heartwarming it was to see our hometown hero who made it clear in no uncertain terms last season that he loves this team as much as we do, accomplish so much at home in front of friends and family! Watching him exchange emotional hugs with his parents and then sweep his new bride – who has a great name, by the way, even though she spells it funny 😉 – up into an embrace before the press conferences began? This was a slice of what baseball used to be.
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And the absolute icing on the evening's seriously delectable cake was our seats. Some season ticket holder with a very exclusive location just couldn't make the game this evening – bet they're kicking themselves now, don't you? – and put their tickets up for sale online. I really will never be able to thank them enough because not only were Seth and I there for this amazing game, we watched it from the front row of the Knothole Club, the Club level restaurant in right field just to the "It's outta here!" side of the foul pole. The view? The service? The food? Amazing! This game made its own ballpark experience. We would have enjoyed ourselves in even the cheapest of cheap seats. But having the rare opportunity to enjoy such luxurious surroundings and a perfectly unobstructed view of the magic on the mound made it even better.


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The Blue Devils came from behind to hold off top-ranked Southern California and win by two strokes at the 6,174-yard, par 70 Tulsa Country Club in Tulsa, Okla., for the program's sixth national championship Friday evening. Duke also won the program's first national title in Tulsa in 1999.
Duke shot a six-under, 274 to beat the Trojans, who finished the day with a round of 10-under par, 270. The Blue Devils completed the competition with a NCAA-record low 72-hole team score of 1,130, which was good for 10-over-par.
Southern California had an impressive start Friday and was able to grab the team lead by as many as four early on the back nine. The Blue Devils though turned in a six-under-par final nine holes to grab a three stroke lead with two holes remaining. Duke featured three birdies on the 466-yard, par five 16th and totaled seven pars on the final two holes to close the victory. The Blue Devils also had only two bogeys as a team on the back nine to help secure the win.
Duke featured rounds of 293, 285, 278 and 274 for a four-day ledger of 1130. Southern California (1132) was second, while UCLA (1145), Oklahoma (1147), Arizona State (1150), Mississippi State (1157), Arizona (1158), Ohio State (1158), Alabama (1161), Vanderbilt (1163), Texas A&M (1163) and NC State (1163) rounded out the top 10 teams.
Doris Chen of Southern California carded a final round, 67, to win the individual title by two strokes with a 72-hole total of 274. Boutier totaled rounds of 70, 70, 67 and 69 to finish two strokes behind Chen with a 276. It marked Boutier's second straight top five finish in the NCAA Championship as she placed tied fourth as a freshman.
Seniors Alejandra Cangrejo and Laetitia Beck led Duke Friday with matching 2-under pars, 68, efforts in their final competitive rounds as college golfers. Sophomore Celine Boutier, the runner-up individually, finished her final round at one-under, 69, as did freshman Sandy Choi. Yu Liu, the ACC Rookie of the Year, registered a two-over-par 72 to end her impressive inaugural campaign.
Boutier, who is out of Montrouge, France, tied a season high with 17 greens in regulation during the final round as she carded four birdies on the day – two on the front and two on the back nine. Down by one stroke on the individual leaderboard on hole 18, Boutier needed a birdie to tie. She gave her birdie putt a go, but it slipped by a few feet and finished with a three-putt bogey. Boutier had 34 putts and seven fairways hit on the day. She closed the season with six top five finishes, including three victories.
Cangrejo and Beck each came through big for the Blue Devils Friday as the duo carded three birdies over the final nine holes to post their best individual score in NCAA Championship action over their career, 68.
Choi, who is from San Diego, Calif., turned in final round of 69 on her way to placing tied 23rd with a four-day total of 286. She hit 16 greens, 11 fairways and had 32 putts in the final round. Choi closed her freshman season with five even or under par rounds in her final three tournaments.
A product of Beijing, China, Liu carded two birdies over her final six holes on her way to finishing with a two-over, 72. She tied 43rd overall with a 291.
Duke found itself tied for third after the first day of competition, five shots back of the Oklahoma Sooners, two back of UCLA and even with Southern California and Arizona State. After the second round, the Blue Devils were in sole possession of second place, three shots back of Oklahoma.
On day three, Duke made its move, carding a two-under, 278, that gave the Blue Devils a six-shot lead heading into the championship's final round.
Duke also won the team national championship in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007. Head coach Dan Brooks now owns 119 career victories and six NCAA Championships under his belt.
· The last four times Duke has led the NCAA Championship entering the final round, the Blue Devils have won the NCAA title (2005, 2006, 2007 & 2014).
· Celine Boutier totaled her team-best 20th round of even or under par this season. She finished the season tied third on Duke's single-season charts.
· Celine Boutier owns even or under par ledgers in six of eight career rounds in NCAA Championship action.