Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (18 Viewers)

[Martin]

And what is the plan after you finish the studies?
Do you have a job guarantee and do you plan to have a fulltime job which requires waking up early in the morning, going to work etc, or will you work from home?

Most work is the regular 9-5 gimmick, in fact by title I'm an engineer although some people say that software engineering isn't really engineering because our methods are too primitive (which is true). Anyway, think engineer in terms of job profile.

These are probably silly questions but i'm not familiar with these things and i know some people who work with computers and they earn a lot sitting on their chair at home and wearing their pijamas.

There are those, yes. The "IT" field as a whole is pretty big, there are people doing all kinds of things, some jobs are more informal than others. And because everything we do is on a computer, and because [almost] all computers are connected to the internet, it doesn't matter as much where you work physically.

I had a job working at a university a couple of years ago where I was sitting home half the time.

 

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[V]

To give you an idea, I've written some fairly insignificant stuff to date, like this:
http://galleryforge.berlios.de/

I've no idea why, but this made me google your name and to find out you have an article on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Matusiak

No reference of juventuz.com though.

 

[Martin]

I've no idea why, but this made me google your name and to find out you have an article on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Matusiak

No reference of juventuz.com though.

Yes well, there's nothing stopping anyone from having fun at someone'e expense I bet if I put your name on 'pedia you'd feel a little silly yourself.

 

[V]

Yes well, there's nothing stopping anyone from having fun at someone'e expense I bet if I put your name on 'pedia you'd feel a little silly yourself.

Don't feel silly, I think it's pretty cool, you're like a celebrity. Please don't open one about me though.

Have any idea who wrote it?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I've no idea why, but this made me google your name and to find out you have an article on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Matusiak

No reference of juventuz.com though.

wtf!!!

 

[Martin]

Don't feel silly, I think it's pretty cool, you're like a celebrity. Please don't open one about me though.

Have any idea who wrote it?

Yes, a friend of mine. Erik.

 

[V]

Yes, a friend of mine. Erik.

Somehow, I knew it.

 

[sateeh]

Most work is the regular 9-5 gimmick, in fact by title I'm an engineer although some people say that software engineering isn't really engineering because our methods are too primitive (which is true). Anyway, think engineer in terms of job profile.

Ppl are trying to change that and start crediting the profession more. It will never be engineering per say but maybe in a different capacity.

There are those, yes. The "IT" field as a whole is pretty big, there are people doing all kinds of things, some jobs are more informal than others. And because everything we do is on a computer, and because [almost] all computers are connected to the internet, it doesn't matter as much where you work physically.

I had a job working at a university a couple of years ago where I was sitting home half the time.

exactly and thats what a lot of people don't get. There are people who i work with in "IT" but don't know as expected about computers. Especially jobs such as Business Analysts.

 

[Martin]

Are you one of us?

 

[JCK]

Martin, how can one see the files saved on Desktop?

 

[Martin]

Martin, how can one see the files saved on Desktop?

It's called Folder View now, they put it into an applet:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk73wUWaDQ&feature=related

 

[JCK]

I don't really like it but I can live with it. The thing that I dislike most is the panel. It's really horrible compared to 3.5's panel.

 

[Martin]

Yeah, it's barebones but I've made peace with it.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

M, i uninstalled Network Manager in Ubuntu, and tried to assign the ip details myself, but it didnt work. i can access my router, but not any web pages. any idea why?

 

[Martin]

M, i uninstalled Network Manager in Ubuntu, and tried to assign the ip details myself, but it didnt work. i can access my router, but not any web pages. any idea why?

Are we talking wifi here?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

naah. hardwired to me modem.

 

[Martin]

Static ip or dynamic? In the latter case
# dhclient <iface>
should do it, where iface is the network interface, called eth0 most likely. Check "/sbin/ifconfig"

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

i like to setup a static IP of 192.168.1.23, even though the router assigns an external IP of 59.95.xxx.xxx.

 

[Martin]

i like to setup a static IP of 192.168.1.23, even though the router assigns an external IP of 59.95.xxx.xxx.

I'm talking about the internal ip though. If it has a dhcp service then you just run a dhcp client and get your ip address set up. Otherwise you have to know these things:
- The ip address
- The network mask
- The gateway
- The dns server

The first two determine what ip you have and what (how big) the network is. The gateway tells you where to send packets destined for outside this network (ie. the internet). And the dns server tells you where to send dns lookups.

In my case, this is how it looks:
- 192.168.1.12
- 255.255.255.0
- 192.168.1.1
- 192.168.1.1

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

well, i edited /etc/network/interfaces and added ip, netmask and gateway in there. i remember the last time i had to mess with this, i had to enter my gateway into the resolv.conf file to get it to work. i did it this time, and it didnt work! i tried 'ifconfig eth0 down' and 'ifconfig eth0 up' also, but that didnt help.


HELP!