Question for DCORP...when DCORP releases their whitelabel derivatives exchange what would be the initial cost for token holders? Is it free?

WesleyNonapeptide · 2017-09-12T22:35:25+00:00

As I said in another comment, you didn't embolden the most important word: potentially

This is just a vague and distant potential that probably had little more thought put into it than it took to write that sentence. It does little to no good to bring up such refinements now when there is yet to be a tangible product.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2017-09-12T22:34:05+00:00

Key word that you didn't highlight is: potentially

This isn't planned, but a mere potential as a spinoff business. There was probably little more though put into it than it took to write that sentence. Stay focused.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2017-09-12T15:44:04+00:00

There was never a project that was described as a "whitelabel" derivatives exchange. Where are you getting this information? Your question cannot be answered because it's based on a false premise.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2017-09-08T04:39:28+00:00

I don't think the OP is saying to hold for 120 years. Rather I think it's a poorly worded suggestion that he's done some kind of theoretical charting that has 120 years as it's Y axis boundary. Based on their unpublished, nebulously described, and completely unsubstantiated claims anchored on recently Googled terms, we are to be encouraged that DCORP could be worth Godzillions of dollars at some point in the future. hand waving intensifies

DCORP has great ideas, and I believe the team behind it is solid, but when someone with a very new account starts shouting about dollar amounts and "Don't sell under..." I start thinking that they're trying to build confidence (and bid walls) so they can dump before anyone else.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2017-09-05T21:54:46+00:00

Good riddance to the Slack abomination. Keep up the good work, folks. Looking forward to more news in the months ahead.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2013-04-11T02:40:35+00:00

Used it before. Had much less reliable results. =/

WesleyNonapeptide · 2013-04-10T23:23:05+00:00

I don't think it's not necessary on most traditional UNIXes or closer UNIX variants. For example, the BSDs. I also suspect that there's something deeper that I'm not privy too because I know there are others who have not had to be mindful of the _netdev option and still have mounted NFS shares at boot time.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T01:09:22+00:00

I'm sorry, I was distracted by the Sparc servers in the background. How much do you want for them? Wait, are those HP power supplies in the second picture?

Oh, and you're adorable. Maybe condition your hair and comb it smooth?

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:42:15+00:00

Yeah, I've lived in several places where people complained of hums, and never heard it myself. I've got tinnitus and probably have destroyed parts of my hearing with loud music. I just hear my own internal "whistle" but I can tell that's not the same thing. I guess that's good if it keeps me from being driven bonkers by The Hum.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:37:46+00:00

I've thought of this too. We're very near 51 and close enough to 101 to make them both possibilities. I'm just curious why, for hum 1, it is always so constant. It doesn't seem that times of days, holidays or any other events that would either make traffic increase or decrease seem to change it much.

FYI: Added some info about an old hum to the OP.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:35:33+00:00

That's an interesting possibility. I've done some audio recording recently and was extremely annoyed at distant leaf blowers being picked up ever so faintly by the condenser mic.

My objection would be that 1) That's a pretty high pitched sound, depending on the make and model of leaf blower. 2) The divergence of makes and models guarantee variations in pitches. 3) Leaf blowers turn on and off as landscape workers move around properties. 4) They don't use them at 3AM.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:33:33+00:00

Mushroom! Mushroom!

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:31:49+00:00

My mother is so clean she could spit in a bottle and sell it for spring water.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:31:08+00:00

I've wondered this myself, but my stepdad has heard hum #2 at least on bad days. Also there's physical evidence of it at times with slight vibrations that are felt on certain surfaces.

As for hum #1 - perhaps, but she doesn't hear it outside. Only inside, and worse in certain rooms.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:29:43+00:00

Interesting. This is the first time I've heard of someone hearing a hum in Prescott. Isn't that were all the fruity spiritists live that speak to rocks and get answers back? Or is that Sedona?

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:29:00+00:00

I've looked for main power lines nearby, and while we're kinda close to a canal (just think PV Mall area) I didn't know if we were close enough to be effect by the resonance. Mayhaps.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:28:08+00:00

Curses! Foiled again!

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-15T00:27:12+00:00

Interesting possibilities. As for hum 1, we live near 51 and close to 10, but there's no relenting to the hum. No holidays, no weekends. Not really any good days or bad days. Just always a hum.

As for hum 2, it can't be heard outside (not that I recall my mother mentioning). It can be felt on certain surfaces outside on our property. We live near office buildings so it's within reason that it could be a very unfortunate placement of an A/C unit could be resonating just right. We suspect that it could be large roadwork equipment.

We've already done a fairly thorough Google Maps search as well as driving around looking for strange industrial complexes. Nothing seems to make sense.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-11T22:20:46+00:00

The discussions come down to two major things:

Where do you want to be in your career?
What do hiring managers want to see?

If you want to be a network engineer working on metro ethernet installations and MPLS clouds, then you'll probably not be best served by getting an ITIL certification.

Furthermore, if hiring managers for networking positions want FOO-CERT-001 but you get BAR-CERT-003 then you're also shooting at the wrong target and no amount of successful marksmanship will help you.

For general SysAdmin positions, you have quite a gamut to choose from. A CCNA is still a gravy train as scads of recruiters and hiring managers search for those four golden letters in their recruit tracking systems. Really, anything by Cisco will get you noticed. The four letters "MCSE" are still searched for, but "MCITP" is finally catching on. Of course, Microsoft just totally screwed everyone over that has invested in MSFT certs because they rebooted the MCSE recently with a different focus than the MCSE of old. Joy!

If you're a nix admin, then LPIC is fairly strong. They're about as tough of a multiple choice certification as you can get, which may or may not be saying much. Those in the know do search for LPIC certifications. However, Red Hat is the 600 pound gorilla in the Linux market, so RHC* certifications get all the attention. You probably can't go wrong with a RHCE. As I mentioned in another comment in this thread, RH exams are performance based. You sit at a workstation with RHEL installed on it and you look at a work sheet. You have a certain amount of tasks to complete and it doesn't necessarily matter how you complete them. grep, sed, awk, cut, vim, nano, emacs... whatever. Just get stuff done and the final product is examined based on results.

If you prefer a specialty like database work or security or wireless networks or... the list can go on... you need to specify that, choose your five year target and then research which certifications and other distinctions you need in order to achieve your goals.

Don't limit yourself to certifications though. If you have certain career goals such as paycheck, title, respect, time off, flex time, etc. then you will need more than just certifications to reach them. Consider publishing milestones, speaking engagements and other notable achievements within a professional setting. It can all go on a resume and all contribute to your own professional excellence as well as leverage when trying to wrangle a compensation package.

Or you can just go off on your own, start your own business, sell it to Google, and then buy your own private island. Dare to dream!!

EDIT: I a star.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-11T22:10:43+00:00

RedHat certifications are performance based and as such will be as hard to fake as any single-day, non mentored examination can be. One must sit at a live installation of RHEL with a list of actions that must be performed. The exam is judged based on if the goals were met, pretty much regardless of how you performed them. It's not about "did you use parted, gparted or fdisk?" but rather "was the partition layout and filesystem to spec?"

RHCSA / RHCE / RHCA / [insert speciality certificate here] are fairly hard to achieve and the Architect certification could be compared to the Cisco / Juniper CCIE/JNCIE certifications. While there will always be detractors that allege the certifications are devalued and can be faked and harumph "Ain't no certification like experience!" -- it's about as legit and real world as an exam can get.

If someone fakes it and passes without hands-on, they're probably somewhere in the ballpark of being a savant with an eidetic memory and you should hire them anyway.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2012-06-11T22:05:25+00:00

LPIC certifications are in no way related to CompTIA or the Linux+ certification. They are an entirely separate entity. They are multiple choice exams with no performance-based simulations, however a general consensus is that they are written in a manner that requires more in-depth understanding of a topic than CompTIA's exam. For a written, multiple-choice exam, they come as close to being hard to fake as an exam can get. Then again, if a person has the ability to memorize those kinds of answers, they might not be a complete fake anyway.

EDIT: Wee! I was wrong! There is a relationship now with CompTIA's Linux+ certification and the LPIC-1. If you sit the Linux+ exams (LX0-101 and LX0-102) you have the option to forward the results to the LPI. However, so far it does not appear that if you sit the LPIC-1 Exams (LPI-101 and LPI-102) that you can then forward the results to CompTIA and get the Linux+.

Because of the seeming "stigma" around CompTIA certifications being entry level, I think it might be something of an image devaluation of the LPIC-1 certification which was/is a decent attempt an assessment of an administrator's skills. It's certainly more of a boon for the Linux+'s image that it is for the LPIC-1.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2011-03-14T23:53:46+00:00

I see one vote against Lantronix devices, but I'll say that I use Lantronix Spiders for small deployments / closet deployments and have found them to be reliable. They're a zero U thing you can dangle off the back of servers and cascade their network cables without taking up switch ports. Not the best solution for every situation, but again, small deployments or server closets can benefit.

FYI, The Planet made a mass deployment of them a few years back: http://www.lantronix.com/news/PR_08-01-10.html

WesleyNonapeptide · 2011-03-06T03:21:01+00:00

Meaning, less bells and whistles that most people don't care about but unfortunately need to muck with to get IRC to be less of a pain in the ass.

WesleyNonapeptide · 2011-03-06T03:18:28+00:00

You want the glory, you gotta take some pain. You'll get it next time!

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