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No Linux for Online Job Testing
by Leo Mauler 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

So I'm between jobs and I get a call from a staffing agency about a tech support helpdesk job. It sounds all right, pays reasonably well and it is on the Kansas side so the taxes are easy. It also turns out that the guy who will decide whether or not I get hired is an old acquaintance of mine from college who remembers me as really tall and a good computer guy. The staffing agency informs me that in order to make sure I get the job I'm going to have to take some basic tests, a "phone etiquette" test a stunned badger could pass, and a 10-key typing test. They send me the information and I get on the testing website. Then it turns out that the testing website, for some reason, uses some sort of proprietary Windows web software to do all its testing. IE isn't the problem because FireFox on Windows is supported. Since I went all-Linux a few months ago, I didn't have any way to take the test myself on any of my own computers. I finally had to convince my wife to stop playing Morrowind for an hour (not an easy task) so I could use her Windows PC. I suppose the thing I find irritating about this is that industry leaders (excepting Microsoft, of course) use platform independent testing software. Cisco in particular used testing software on its Academy website which worked great for me in Firefox on Debian Linux. Is it really that much more cost-effective to use Windows-dependent testing software on a website? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/

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Re: No Linux for Online Job Testing
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Leo Mauler <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> > So I'm between jobs and I get a call from a staffing > agency about a tech support helpdesk job. It sounds > all right, pays reasonably well and it is on the > Kansas side so the taxes are easy. It also turns out > that the guy who will decide whether or not I get > hired is an old acquaintance of mine from college who > remembers me as really tall and a good computer guy. > > The staffing agency informs me that in order to make > sure I get the job I'm going to have to take some > basic tests, a "phone etiquette" test a stunned badger > could pass, and a 10-key typing test. They send me > the information and I get on the testing website. > > Then it turns out that the testing website, for some > reason, uses some sort of proprietary Windows web > software to do all its testing. IE isn't the problem > because FireFox on Windows is supported. Since I went > all-Linux a few months ago, I didn't have any way to > take the test myself on any of my own computers. I > finally had to convince my wife to stop playing > Morrowind for an hour (not an easy task) so I could > use her Windows PC. > > I suppose the thing I find irritating about this is > that industry leaders (excepting Microsoft, of course) > use platform independent testing software. Cisco in > particular used testing software on its Academy > website which worked great for me in Firefox on Debian > Linux. Is it really that much more cost-effective to > use Windows-dependent testing software on a website? > Ask THEM for an application and tell them your apply for a position to make their testing platform independent. If you have access to one, I would also want to try their software/site, on a Mac. Too many people don't get why standards, are !

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AMD opens up documentation for ATI chips
by Jestin Stoffel 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Here some good news for all those who have AMD/ATI graphics cards: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=302 I sure hope this yields good drivers, unlike the current binary drivers. --Jestin

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Job Opportunity
by Phoenician 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Hey guys - There is a job opportunity at my company. We are looking for a good network mercenary - S/He need to be cross platform. Current supported OS' are Macs and Windows (work stations and servers). I am also looking for *nix experience as well. Please respond off list. Thank you, Michienne

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Astricon 2007
by Kyle Sexton 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Anyone else from KC going to be attending Astricon[1] 2007 in Phoenix this year? It'd be fun to all get together for dinner or something if anyone else is going. Footnotes: [1] http://www.astricon.net -- Kyle Sexton

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MOTOROLA+LINUX....
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196390/motorola-ups-linux-commitment

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FOR SALE: Several computer parts and servers
by Joe Brouhard 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

I'm in the process of getting rid of a large majority of the computers/parts I do have laying around. Here we go: 1) Dell PowerEdge 6450 Quad Xeon 900Mhz, 8GB RAM, 2x 18GB SCSI Drives (it has 4 drive bays, so there are 2 with no drives). This system is known working and I have successfully installed linux on it in the past. Tho you gotta go the boot floppy method, as for some reason, liveCDs don't install linux on it (it only installed Windows off the CD for some odd reason). This is a really sweet box if you are looking to do builds or even major hosting. 2) 2x AMD Athlon 1400+ machines. Both 1GB RAM. However, one system has onboard NIC and Video, and I'm pretty sure the other system doesn't. One machine comes with an ATI Radeon 7200 128MB AGP card, 60GB Hard Drive, CD-RW. second machine (build in video and NIC) comes with 40GB Drive and CD-ROM. 3) Pentium II 400Mhz machine w/ SCSI Controller and 18GB SCSI Drive. 512MB PC100 RAM installed. I can deliver all these machines to KC metro area as well as Omaha, NE. However anything outside 2 hours of driving time will require me to ship it. Shipping on the PowerEdge is upwards $100 or more. If you have questions or comments, please let me know. Also, please forward to any lists you think might be interested in this equipment. Thank you. -- Joe Brouhard jbrouhard(a)gmail.com

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boot sequence discussion
by David Nicol 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

according to the initrd documentation, the purpose of initrd is to pre-load the correct modules in a more reliable way than modprobe. Mkinitrd flatly refuses to run against the nonmodular kernel I have built. I'm also a little bit surprised that things in /sbin aren't all statically linked any more; I think that requirement went away some time ago. There's this "initial ramdisk" thing now that looks really exciting: apparently you list files or directories and those things get cpio-ed up and bundled right with the bzImage, which strikes me as an excellent way to put together a pocket router or a good rescue disk image: Never mind a rescue filesystem, just copy this file to your boot partition and add a rescue option in grub.conf!

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Obsolete equipment for free
by Eric Johnson 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Is anyone interested in a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard with an Athlon 1800 (I think) and CPU fan? It was working yesterday before I put a better board into that case. -- Eric Johnson "Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." Saint Augustine

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fedora experts?
by David Nicol 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I have been trying to get a recent, unpatched, kernel to work with a fedora system. I am able to get the kernel to boot but things seem to stop for want of an /init program in the root directory. init=/sbin/init does not seem to help. Who has a link to a current boot process explanation? not a howto, but a lecture, covering what is supposed to be happening at each point in a modern complex linux boot?

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