Posts by nuclearstar 54 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Sep 2012
"hey look I am sharing my veiw with friends over the internet on my glasses cam, look at this plane overhead, omg my eye lzers have just blinded the pilot and its crashing, atleast I caught it on camera"
Why do they even need lazers? Why not just get the glasses to map the users hand, and then display the keyboard on the glasses themselves using augmented reality, would be no need to even have lazers then and no risk of blinding someone
We knew it would happen. Apple have lost their innovation now, there isnt really anything new that they can think of. If you are a first time apple buyer, then the latest phone is really good, you should consider getting one. However if you are an apple fan, then there is just no real reason to upgrade your phone if it still works fine.
This is why Samsung have leaped ahead, their phone range is far superior and caters for all needs from the simple budget smartphone, to the large screen lovers of the note(for which I currently have)
Apple need to diversify a bit more than simply making a mini. They need a budget phone, but then again budget phones usually have smaller screens than the big brother phone, apples screen is tiny as it is now.
I started in IT just over 10 years ago, failed my A levels, too much dossing.
Eventually got a job as an Office Junior in a printers. Small companies like that often have very few IT staff, so I managed to integrate my normal day of job adding stuff to excel spreadsheets and helping the 2 IT people out, usually just trying to fix someones connection to a printer or the network, then after 6 months managed to get a job in IT as a nightshift operator, doing backups, checking schedules ect. 3rd job was a Desktop Support role, very interesting but i soon got bored of it. Now I am with one of the biggest IT solutions suppliers in the country, yes a lot of people hate the company I work for, but I enjoy my job and am a Lead Technical Analyst now, in charge of various virtualised infrastructures.
Point is, I have no qualifications in IT at all, not a single letter to put to my name, my experience first off was just home build PC, pretty much like you. I have worked my way up and dont regret it at all.
My advice is to get yourself vmware player, download windows 2008 evaluation and install that, play around with it, install IIS and get some .NET web applications setup, you can get loads from hotscripts.com. Also setup and install AD is pretty easy to be honest.
When comfortable with that, try installing a few linux distros and setup a few web services on that. Also to note, Citrix is a big player too, and you can sign up on the site and download a 365 day trial of their full Xenapp software, took me about a day to install with no knowledge of it beforehand.
You will likely pick up networking/firewall skills as you go on. If your employer offers to get you a qualificiation then jump at the chance, never a bad thing for free training. Make sure you read the small print though, they sometimes put in if you leave within 3 years, you have to pay for the training.
Virtualisation is pretty big at the moment in my experience, so do atleast have a play at home with vmware and citrix virtualisation. If you are enthusiastic about it, then you really do pick things up fast.
We support systems for local authorities and we cant even get 1024 certificates anymore, everyone is insisting on 2048 and have been for about a year now.
I am pretty sure all self signed certificates default to 1024 too, or at least the example in selfssl.exe shows 1024. The IT that gets caught out by this are probably gonna be pretty crap
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