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| This in from a new reader that I just had to share, edited for brevity: My friend told me about User Friendly all but a day ago, and I have been on here almost continuously reading EVERY strip since the first one...Also, right after reading your strips, Windows 98 froze up on me and then Microsoft Calendar screwed up. A little odd, don't you think? I have to hand it to Yohimbe and WebDiva for implementing the technology they did on the site that specifically undermines MS products. Don't consider it odd, consider it destiny. :) Fnord.
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| [Illiad] 2001+ A PEER TO PEER ODYSSEY | Date:Sun Jun 18 01:21:12 2000 |
| Congratulations and a "Well done!" to Arcterex and Iambe for breaking the 2001 ads mark on the geek dating site Peer2Peer. The two of them created and have been running the site since day one of its inception, purely on a volunteer basis for the community. I've been made to understand that many dates, quite a few relationships and several marriages have originated from the site, and that can't be a bad thing. My thanks to Arc and Iambe for their efforts and dedication. And for not putting those pictures of me up in the ads.
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| [Kethryvis] COMMUNITY NEWS AND NOTES | Date:Fri Jun 16 14:01:40 2000 |
| Summer is here, and with it UFie meets a plenty! First off, I've been informed of two web pages that were created by UFies for the UFies in their areas. UFies in Northern Virginia, USA and in the San Francisco Bay Area/Sillycon Valley can check out www.novageeks.org and www.sfbay-ufies.org respectively for info on meets and things coming up in their areas. Big thanks to #userfriendly regular Lisha for putting together the NoVa geeks page and another #userfriendly regular Ardaniel for putting up the SF Bay UFies page!! I'm also taking submissions for the User Friendly Literary Club! The UFLC is the place for all us Lit Geeks to hang out and discuss... Lit stuff. :) I'm looking for book reviews, poetry, short stories, etc. to post up there for all the UFie world to see! You can visit the UFLC here and email me your submissions! And don't forget.. we have a meet planned for ComicCon in San Diego in July. Head over to Community for more info on this and other meets!
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| Date:Fri Jun 16 12:03:14 2000 |
| The Year was 1999 when two UFies, bitter, single and tired of lonely nights spent in glowing CRT light decided to pool their resources and build something more than just another cheap commercial website hawking romance for a credit card number. They met, they drank Guinness and ate nachos. They stayed up late into the night, they suffered hallucinations, their cats ignored them and in turn they ignored the need for a graphic designer. On February 14th Peer2Peer Personals, Networking 4 Geeks was released. At 10am PST on that very same day they were slashdotted. Peer2Peer survived the deluge and today boasts 2000 UFies world wide having listed themselves on P2P looking for romance or penpals. In the 16 months of Networking 4 Geeks, Arcterex and I know of 10's of long term relationships that have resulted, some 23 marriages and we believe even a baby or two! Peer2Peer is unique as it is a web based (and bannerfree!) personals site catering exclusively to the Geek Community. As is to be expected, there are a larger number of men listed than women - but as P2P's happy relationships boast, women are most certainly browsing ads placed. Check out Peer2Peer and peruse or place a personal, or find a penpal.
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| [Iambe] WE'RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD GEEK GRRLS | Date:Fri Jun 16 12:01:15 2000 |
| The Year was 1999 when two UFies, bitter, single and tired of lonely nights spent in glowing CRT light decided to pool their resources and build something more than just another cheap commercial website hawking romance for a credit card number. They met, they drank Guinness and ate nachos. They stayed up late into the night, they suffered hallucinations, their cats ignored them and in turn they ignored the need for a graphic designer. On February 14th Peer 2 Peer Personals, Networking 4 Geekswas launched. At 10am PST on that very same day they were slashdotted. Peer 2 Peer survived the deluge and today boasts 2000 UFies world wide having listed themselves on P2P looking for a fine romance or a penpal. In the 16 months of Networking 4 Geeks, Arcterex and I have celebrated the 10's of long term relationships that have resulted, some 23 marriages and we believe even a baby or two! Peer 2 Peer is unique as it is a web based (and proudly volunteer run and bannerfree!) personals site catering exclusively to the Geek Community. As is to be expected, there are a larger number of men listed than women - but as P2P's happy relationships boast, women are most certainly browsing and responding to ads placed. Scan Peer 2 Peer and peruse or place a personal, or find a penpal. If you need help writing a personal ad, or would like to share a success story for reasons greater than giving Arcterex and I an excuse to drink more Guiness and Coke, drop me note, I would be more than pleased to help.
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| [Yohimbe] HOW TO PREPARE FOR A GEEK CAREER | Date:Fri Jun 16 09:23:07 2000 |
| Following is a letter I recieved just today. I replied to it, but thought that the community here might have a larger perspective. The following is my opinion, but there are lots of tech managers and people with hiring authority. What say you? Jamie wrote:
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> just one question:
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> are the mcse and a+ certifications really worth getting?
Certainly not for $10K. I personally will not bother to interview where the only qualification is the MCSE. Some companies are actively hiring MCSE students, but most of them find out that the MCSE's lack practical experience. I personally prefer, in order of preference: 1. Experience.
2. Work on open source software, so I can examine your work.
3. University or college degrees, so you have had a couple of _years_ working with software and hardware
4. Self taught skills.
Basically if a student wanted to work for us, the absolutely ideal candidate would have contributed code to an open source project while in 2nd or 3rd year. Then we'd know he/she was seriously a code monkey. With that coding experience also comes administration experience, because I do not know a single coder who has not had to admin his own machine and serve as unofficial or official support all thru high school and college. That kind of experience cannot be purchased for $10K. It can only be earned with 4 years of your life. > I'm a graduating high school student and I do understand that getting
> certifications will open a few doors careerwise, but the courses
> (especially ones that are mcse related) are extremely expensive. My parents
> are reluctant to help me out and they are convinced that maybe a computer
> science degree is a better investment. After achieving the certs I do plan
They are right. (Its totally a bitch when parents are right, though.) > on proceeding to college where I will have hardly any time to work anyway,
> however it's negotiable that I take a one or a few years break from school
> if I find a job right away. So, the question still remains: is spending
> close to $10k a wise choice?
Notwithstanding my previous comments, this is where you decide for yourself. MS is being broken up for monopolistic practices, MSCE's are very narrow qualifications, and do not prepare you for heterogenous system environments. If YOU think that MS will have a stranglehold on tech for the foreseeable future, then the MCSE is a good way to prepare. If you think that the tech market will stabilize with MS being A dominant, but not THE ONLY technology, then MCSE is somewhat narrow a qualification. Better off to learn unix and linux and ms and novell and ... etc. System integrators, who work with all systems, make a really good buck too.
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| [WebDiva] GEEKS HELPING THE MEEK UPDATE | Date:Fri Jun 16 09:04:04 2000 |
On March 13th we ran a UF News Item about the Call To Protect program. According to the CTIA website, "To date 29,981 phones have been donated through Wireless Foundation programs." UF also recently received this email:Thought you'd like to know...I saw the item about this worthy cause on UF, passed the info on to the employee public-service group at Telcordia where I'm working as a contractor, and today there was a general email bulletin: they will be collecting wireless phones for Donate a Phone. So here's another instance of UF's good influence in the world.Sylvia Li Awesome.
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| [WebDiva] NEW ART IN UFILES | Date:Thu Jun 15 17:16:58 2000 |
New fan art has been added to UFiles. The date of submission to the archive has also been added...for those folks who recently made that suggestion, ahem, Arcterex.
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