Volunteer experience is valuable for a resume. Does it necessarily qualify as professional experience, not exactly. The value of it depends on a few factors...
The importance or size of the project.
The party who is considering it.
For example, a bigger, more notable project will look more impressive. Also, it really depends on how familiar the hiring parties are with OSS. I have been turned down for jobs recently due to 'lack of experience', because potential employers failed to recognise volunteer experience as 'professional experience'.
Further, unlike Linux, which is being torn in various directions...
Yeah, it's not like BSD hasn't fragmented into separate distributions like (Net|Open|DragonFly)BSD.
The corporate overlords are just as welcome in the community as Joe Hacker. You cannot deny that hardware support added by RedHat/IBM/etc... does not benefit communities like Slackware and Debian, can you?
...you might want to feel what its like to have a seriously solid OS supporting your system.
The biggest difference between any UNIX or Linux distribution is init scripts and Filesystem Hierarchies. The latter is even supposed to be standardized. Most of the packages found on your BSD box are installed on my Slackware box. I even have BSD style init scripts.
Finally, no OS is 'seriously solid'. There are often countless numbers of buffer overflows or something that can be exploited.
I believe most U.S. adults have a hard time understanding the First amendment as well.
Just for example: the claim there is a separation between church and state, which is not to be found in the U.S. Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". It is not quite the same thing. I know the article is concerning the freedom of speech, but there is more to the first amendment than just freedom of speech/press. Just my two cents.
Bill Moran from Potential Tech gave a lecture on stopping spam at the Ohio Linux Fest. He used a method called greylisting and it resulted in getting rid of 99% of unwanted e-mails. The idea behind it is that you send a message telling them that the server is busy. So it temporarily blacklists everyone.
If it is a real person they will send another message later. But spammers and spam-bots will just move on.
I think that is supposed to be British English, you must be speaking the Slashdot dialect.
Seriously though, there is a gaim plugin that autocorrects certain patterns. Would it be that hard to modify it to not correct them but highlight the misspelled words and point out the mistakes to the typist?
Number 2 and 3 generate lots of revenue and are therefore not wastes of time. Proof of number 2 generating lucrative money. Proof of number 3 are online ads.
Number 1 could arguably be productive if you are practicing for tournaments where you can win tangible assets for being a good player.
As for number 4 being a waste of time. We can see it didn't stop you from wasting yours and ours.
Two points really: One, their apps do work under wine. Two, wine/cedega/crossover are basically the same testing under all three is sort of redundant.
Some of their apps work under wine. I haven't tested them all. Photoshop works great. I have used Photoshop in wine and did not have one bit of a problem. The biggest thing you might have to do is a little extra work downloading the TrueType Fonts to install for wine to use. Note TTF are not a specific need just for Photoshop to work, it's necessary for many apps. If you don't want to do the extra work, you can save and finish the font stuff in gimp.
If they spend time testing and developing for wine they are only developing for windows. This would be wasting resources on creating a native port for Linux. Adobe doesn't have to do a native port for anything! They can develop for whatever platform they decide is profitable for them! Also, since you bring up corel, how are they doing now?
Ok, wine/cedega/crossover are functionally the same, save minor differences. Cedega/Winex is for DirectX in gaming, it doesn't give you one bit of extra functionality that applies to Photoshop or pixel-based graphics. It *might* make a bit of difference for Illustrator where you are doing vector graphics. I say might, because I never had to use it with Linux in wine. Therefore, I can't really say for sure since I have never tested it.
As far as I can tell Crossover is functionally the same as wine, but it eases the installation and setup process of end-user applications.
Winex and Crossover are unnecessary for most end-user applications. I can see more of a need for Winex than Crossover. Are there any apps supported by Crossover that won't work in vanilla wine?
opt is my area where I can install my big self-contained stuff and not worry about it getting changed or overwritten at the next upgrade or apt-get. If Arch puts half of/usr in/opt, where is non-distro related software supposed to go? ~/stuff?
Sorry I was way out of line. I am an asshole. I read your initial post all wrong. Not only did I read it wrong once, but twice. I took offense from the start from the "Being a gentoo user...compiler is pretty much standard." Which sounds a lot like elitist gentoo crap. Like wtf, he actually thinks gentoo is the only system dependent on compilers? I had never read the funroll-loops page, utterly hilarious thanks for posting that. Sorry, and hope you can overlook my hasty arrogance.
I found an xbox on froogle for approximately $120. You can get a usb keyboard and mouse working with it, by modifying the xbox gamepad cable and hook it up to a tv as a monitor.
I was just making two points. One being that being a gentoo user does not give you a significant understanding of how the system works. I know a couple clueless gentoo users. The other is that gentoo's build system could be exploited through 3rd party emerge's. Please correct me if I am wrong. If my points didn't come across clear at first it was through lack of caffeine consumption.
Yes holy gentoo user, I bet you have checked every line of code you have ever compiled. There is no such thing as a non user-oriented distro. You said it yourself, "Being a gentoo user...". Note you didn't say, being a gentoo developer I have checked third party emerges for malicious code. Yeah, it could happen, please step down from the high-horse.
Would you like to install critical update QNX801091881073 brake-control exploit fix, before you use your car?...This update will take 5 hrs. and 23 min...
1. Are they weatherproof? Will they go berserk from leaving them in the rain? 2. You can now get your car dinged by a shopping cart that costs around the same or more than some used cars. 3. Will the homeless have to pay property tax on a shopping cart that costs so much!
I wrote a little bash script to automate the job. It works on linux and other UN*X-like systems. Actually all it does is write out tarballs in CD sized chunks, then you just burn the.tar files to CD. Because backups may span multiple tapes, tar has some legacy code that lets you span multiple backup destinations. The downside you can't use compression with spanned tars. The upside is if one of your backup tars fails you can still recover the rest of your data (the spanned tars are not dependent on one another).
Here is a link to the documentation and download: http://lug.concord.edu/meetings/1015200 3.html
If the ND-3500 is anything like the 2510A, I highly recommend NEC dvd burners. I bought the 2510A about a month ago, and have used it quite a bit to burn Data-CDs and homemade DVD-Video. Haven't tried out the dual-layer capabilities, because I am unable to find dual-layer media off the shelf. It burns fast, reliably, and they are reasonably priced.
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For example, a bigger, more notable project will look more impressive. Also, it really depends on how familiar the hiring parties are with OSS. I have been turned down for jobs recently due to 'lack of experience', because potential employers failed to recognise volunteer experience as 'professional experience'.
Their is also a ClientLogic in Huntington, WV. They did Technical Support for BellSouth DSL, Iomega, and Prodigy when I worked there five years ago.
Further, unlike Linux, which is being torn in various directions...
Yeah, it's not like BSD hasn't fragmented into separate distributions like (Net|Open|DragonFly)BSD.
The corporate overlords are just as welcome in the community as Joe Hacker. You cannot deny that hardware support added by RedHat/IBM/etc... does not benefit communities like Slackware and Debian, can you?
...you might want to feel what its like to have a seriously solid OS supporting your system.
The biggest difference between any UNIX or Linux distribution is init scripts and Filesystem Hierarchies. The latter is even supposed to be standardized. Most of the packages found on your BSD box are installed on my Slackware box. I even have BSD style init scripts.
Finally, no OS is 'seriously solid'. There are often countless numbers of buffer overflows or something that can be exploited.
I believe most U.S. adults have a hard time understanding the First amendment as well.
Just for example: the claim there is a separation between church and state, which is not to be found in the U.S. Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...". It is not quite the same thing. I know the article is concerning the freedom of speech, but there is more to the first amendment than just freedom of speech/press. Just my two cents.
Bill Moran from Potential Tech gave a lecture on stopping spam at the Ohio Linux Fest. He used a method called greylisting and it resulted in getting rid of 99% of unwanted e-mails. The idea behind it is that you send a message telling them that the server is busy. So it temporarily blacklists everyone.
If it is a real person they will send another message later. But spammers and spam-bots will just move on.
His page. His lecture (PDF)
...Brittish English...
I think that is supposed to be British English, you must be speaking the Slashdot dialect.
Seriously though, there is a gaim plugin that autocorrects certain patterns. Would it be that hard to modify it to not correct them but highlight the misspelled words and point out the mistakes to the typist?
Lying Makes The Brain Work Harder
I wonder how hard they had to think to bring us this lie?
Dear AC,
My poor speling may be attributed to reading too much slashdot from day-to-day.
Number 2 and 3 generate lots of revenue and are therefore not wastes of time. Proof of number 2 generating lucrative money. Proof of number 3 are online ads.
Number 1 could arguably be productive if you are practicing for tournaments where you can win tangible assets for being a good player.
As for number 4 being a waste of time. We can see it didn't stop you from wasting yours and ours.
Hyprocrite!
Tried with cedega 4.0, wine 20041019. No luck running this :(
Update, cannot run it under vmware either!
Tried with cedega 4.0, wine 20041019. No luck running this :(
This would be wasting resources on creating a native port for Linux.
Sorry, what I meant to say was:
This would be wasting resources that could be better used on actually creating the port for Linux.
Two points really: One, their apps do work under wine. Two, wine/cedega/crossover are basically the same testing under all three is sort of redundant.
Some of their apps work under wine. I haven't tested them all. Photoshop works great. I have used Photoshop in wine and did not have one bit of a problem. The biggest thing you might have to do is a little extra work downloading the TrueType Fonts to install for wine to use. Note TTF are not a specific need just for Photoshop to work, it's necessary for many apps. If you don't want to do the extra work, you can save and finish the font stuff in gimp.
If they spend time testing and developing for wine they are only developing for windows. This would be wasting resources on creating a native port for Linux. Adobe doesn't have to do a native port for anything! They can develop for whatever platform they decide is profitable for them! Also, since you bring up corel, how are they doing now?
Ok, wine/cedega/crossover are functionally the same, save minor differences. Cedega/Winex is for DirectX in gaming, it doesn't give you one bit of extra functionality that applies to Photoshop or pixel-based graphics. It *might* make a bit of difference for Illustrator where you are doing vector graphics. I say might, because I never had to use it with Linux in wine. Therefore, I can't really say for sure since I have never tested it.
As far as I can tell Crossover is functionally the same as wine, but it eases the installation and setup process of end-user applications.
Winex and Crossover are unnecessary for most end-user applications. I can see more of a need for Winex than Crossover. Are there any apps supported by Crossover that won't work in vanilla wine?
There is an adobe reader for linux. I just can't read Adobe E-books in Linux.
opt is my area where I can install my big self-contained stuff and not worry about it getting changed or overwritten at the next upgrade or apt-get. If Arch puts half of /usr in /opt, where is non-distro related software supposed to go? ~/stuff?
/usr/local.
Could put your stuff in
There is a filesystem hierarchy standard
As defined by the fhs:
"/opt : Add-on application software packages"
"/usr/local : Local hierarchy"
"Is that an iPod in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"
Sorry I was way out of line. I am an asshole. I read your initial post all wrong. Not only did I read it wrong once, but twice. I took offense from the start from the "Being a gentoo user...compiler is pretty much standard." Which sounds a lot like elitist gentoo crap. Like wtf, he actually thinks gentoo is the only system dependent on compilers? I had never read the funroll-loops page, utterly hilarious thanks for posting that. Sorry, and hope you can overlook my hasty arrogance.
I found an xbox on froogle for approximately $120. You can get a usb keyboard and mouse working with it, by modifying the xbox gamepad cable and hook it up to a tv as a monitor.
Shadowy outcome for HURD, who could have seen that one coming?
I was just making two points. One being that being a gentoo user does not give you a significant understanding of how the system works. I know a couple clueless gentoo users. The other is that gentoo's build system could be exploited through 3rd party emerge's. Please correct me if I am wrong. If my points didn't come across clear at first it was through lack of caffeine consumption.
Yes holy gentoo user, I bet you have checked every line of code you have ever compiled. There is no such thing as a non user-oriented distro. You said it yourself, "Being a gentoo user...". Note you didn't say, being a gentoo developer I have checked third party emerges for malicious code. Yeah, it could happen, please step down from the high-horse.
Would you like to install critical update QNX801091881073 brake-control exploit fix, before you use your car? ...This update will take 5 hrs. and 23 min...
Where do you want to go today?
1. Are they weatherproof? Will they go berserk from leaving them in the rain?
2. You can now get your car dinged by a shopping cart that costs around the same or more than some used cars.
3. Will the homeless have to pay property tax on a shopping cart that costs so much!
I wrote a little bash script to automate the job. It works on linux and other UN*X-like systems. Actually all it does is write out tarballs in CD sized chunks, then you just burn the .tar files to CD. Because backups may span multiple tapes, tar has some legacy code that lets you span multiple backup destinations. The downside you can't use compression with spanned tars. The upside is if one of your backup tars fails you can still recover the rest of your data (the spanned tars are not dependent on one another).
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Here is a link to the documentation and download:
http://lug.concord.edu/meetings/101520
cached link:
http://lug.concord.edu.nyud.net:8090/meeti
If the ND-3500 is anything like the 2510A, I highly recommend NEC dvd burners. I bought the 2510A about a month ago, and have used it quite a bit to burn Data-CDs and homemade DVD-Video. Haven't tried out the dual-layer capabilities, because I am unable to find dual-layer media off the shelf. It burns fast, reliably, and they are reasonably priced.