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I would wager that he might grant some charity to PowerShell, but still hold onto his thesis. AFAIK, you operate on objects in PS, rather than parsing clear text in UNIX. PS is a much more powerful way to do things, but it seems that the UNIX way is much more grounded in human language than the Windows way, whether it be through a GUI or through PS.

Here's some arguments against Ayn Rand's philosophy that aren't exactly shallow: http://noblesoul.com/orc/critics/

Same here (at least with other people not really caring too much about my own interests.) A lot of people I've talked to have even actively refuse to take interest.

My girlfriend is redoing her Java assignments and is going to do the OCW MIT course on Python very soon; I'm very very happy for her and she seems to really enjoy programming. Right now, I'm trying to get her to play a few of my computer games with me. :)

I don't think so. If it's a large site with a lot of demand, then I believe that that sort of general experience would only help you at a later date. I'd say, as long as the company isn't being black balled in public forums, then you shouldn't worry about listing it in your resume.

I worked at a porn site a little while ago, and it was remarkable how much traffic we had to deal with. I left because I wasn't comfortable with working at a porn site, among other things (and funnily enough, they never told me that their main product was a porn site when I was interviewing for the position.)

I don't get it, either.

Most of the jobs I've applied for after I've graduated college, I was able to get at least an in person interview, and several times, was able to juggle between several offers; I've only applied to roughly five or six jobs in my whole career so far. Why? Because I actually took the time to look at their website, see if it was something I was interested in, and even come up with work-related questions that I could ask them in my cover letter.

Though, I would still say that it's a numbers game, but you still have to make a decent effort for each job you apply for. It's almost like dating, in a way.

If your intention is to totally remove the space that's occupied by the log file, you'll probably want to pipe /dev/null into the file:

cat /dev/null > /path/to/logfile

Break stuff often. Be aware that prgmr's out of band management console is very spartan: if you break your system, using prgmr's console is analogous to loading a Live CD in a computer and attempting to recover the installation manually, so be aware of that.

This sounds borderline zealous, but I recommend installing Gentoo or Arch Linux as your first VPS system if you're just starting out on Linux; either that, or start off with NetBSD if you're willing to go down that route as well. The default install options for each of those distros/OS's are very minimal, and so you're forced to think about exactly what you need to install in order to get a working system.

I second bediger: be sure to investigate _why_ things work, and not _how_ to get it to work. The latter is very important for getting things done, but the former is what trains you in diagnosing obscure system issues.