I have had one good experience with a head hunter. She landed me a great contract-to-hire position at a Fortune 500 company, in my area. I had just been fired, and that probably had something to do with personality, not job performance. So I updated my resume the same day, and posted it out on some job sites. I got a promising call, several days later, and found out that the head hunter was in my area, so we set up a lunch meet and she had an interview for me, the next day. I impressed the I.T. Director and the two System Administrators at the interview, and was told I could start first thing on Monday. Signed the employment papers the next day, and they set me up with decent health benefits, and a 401K through the contract company from the very start of the contract.
I was unemployed for less than two weeks. Stayed on contract for four months, until I landed a better salary job somewhere else, where I have been for three years. Gave a two weeks notice to the parties involved on the contract. I have had the same contracting company call and ask if I, or anyone I knew, was looking for work. A few of the head hunters have even said, the client you worked for is looking for someone with your qualifications and experience. Having stayed in touch with the guys there, I know they've went through a few incompetent contractors, after I left. I guess my point is that there are both, unscrupulous head hunting firms and incompetent contractors. Both give I.T. contracting and similar companies, a bad name.
I honestly believe there are some good, and competent, head hunters and I.T. contracting firms out there. It sounds like, to me, that the original head hunter, Zeke, is up to no good. You have to wonder why he left, or perhaps was asked to leave, the original contracting firm. Any head hunter that misrepresents you to the client, is not doing any favors for you, the client, or the contracting firm.
1. Am I suspecting malice and/or clumsiness where a competitive market is the true suspect? (An answer of yes would be harder on my ego, but a relief.)
Malice on the headhunters part? Maybe, or maybe just has no sense of ethic. Who knows? He may have even been forbidden to call you from a different company, due to a no-compete clause in the original companies employment contract.
Clumsiness on your part? Maybe. The awkward moment, in your interview was the head hunters fault, not yours. Interviews can be tough, it's a learned behavior. I've been told I was overqualified, in an interview. Which is a nice way of copping out, and saying "We will call you. You know the way out, right?". My response was, "Well you could hire me anyway, so that your company can take advantage of my knowledge and extensive skill set". I've also seen a jaw or two agape, when the interviewer half expected that my resume was just as full of bullshit, as everyone else they had interviewed.
2. Do headhunters modify resumes, and if so, should I just shut up and go with what the headhunter says? (I was always told that eventually, the truth comes out, so I'd be uncomfortable doing that, but life isn't always comfortable.)
Do head hunters modify resumes? It depends on the modification. Slight editing or grammatical changes are perfectly acceptable, if YOU approve the changes before the resume is sent to the client. The same goes for a standard format. Many of the contracting firms have a boiler plate letterhead or format for your resume. The head hunter sees a lot more resumes than you, and if they have some insight about the format, its probably better to trust their judgment. On the other hand, modifying dates, and embellishing experience to better match job requirements is kind of a big no no. If there is a certain job requirement that needs to be met to get the resume into the right hands, then its the head hunters job to ask you to provide some more detail on your experience in that specific area. However, its your responsibility
Has anyone ever tried TinyDNS? It's creator isnt the most cooperative guy when it comes to Debian standards in terms of binary locations and therefore Debian refuses to add it to their repository.
It's creator, Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), isn't the most cooperative guy, period. His reputation precedes him as "extremely intelligent, but kind of an asshole", each and every time his name is mentioned.
It has never been DNS cache poisoned, it has never been hacked at all. In fact there is a reward for anyone that can.
It has been cache poisoned, on February 25, 2009 Matthew Dempsky disclosed a vulnerability, he claimed the $1,000 prize a week later.
That the best browser in this situation comes on the world's most dangerous platform.
That's the only platform they tested in this situation, it's not a surprise really.
So many things- PhotoShop, Games, all kinds of apps are only available in the OS that's been show to be taken over by nefarious means more than any other./blockquote>
Photoshop was born on the Mac, there is still a Mac version, equivalent in every way to the Windows version. Many graphic designers still prefer Photoshop and Illustrator on the Mac, for reasons unknown. Personally, I preferred my 3-button USB trackball when I had graphic design class, rather than use a silly 1-button mouse.
I'm a System Admin. at a smallish University, we're just shy of 20,000 students. Do we support Linux? The answer is complicated, no, at least not officially. A student may get varied responses when walking up to the service desk for help with Linux. The service desk personnel know that the Linux System Administrators are often willing to lend a hand with 802.1x wireless connectivity, and Cisco Network Access Controls on Linux machines. Those are two of the biggest issues for incoming students, regardless of operating platform, whether it be Mac, Linux, Windows. We took the time to publish instructions for Linux clients, with the disclaimer that "*Linux is not a full support OS through the University's Computing Services department".
The truth is, the System Administrators are more than willing to help students with basic problems, within reason. A few of us are Linux users. Nobody on staff is going to track down firmware for student's wireless cards, or compile wireless support into a kernel for a student. Just as nobody on staff is going to re-install a hosed Windows client, without charging an hourly rate for the work. We're not going to troubleshoot microphones and webcams for students, when we have other responsibilities like keeping Oracle databases, mail, web, and DNS servers running smoothly. I personally worked on half a dozen Linux laptops during freshmen move-in weekend. Every single one of them had Ubuntu, and while the laptop manufacturers varied for each system, I didn't have any problems getting Linux users onto the wireless network. I couldn't get any Linux users registered with Cisco NAC during move-in weekend. So I talked to one of our networking guys, and we got Cisco NAC problems resolved first thing, the next morning, first official day in the Fall semester.
I recommend getting a laptop with a newer Intel wireless card, works out of the box in Ubuntu. The wireless firmware for the Intel wireless cards, are in the default package set of Ibex and Jaunty versions of Ubuntu. I, also recommend either finding a school that has a Linux User's Group, or your daughter can start her own Linux User's Group. It is a resume builder. It is a good way to meet and support other Linux enthusiasts. It is a good way to advocate, and encourage vendor neutral I.T. policies. Most importantly, that is what Open Source and Linux are all about. It is all about sharing with each other, and supporting each other in the Open Source community.
The point is you have a false sense of security by using MAC address access controls. MAC access controls do not direct the radio waves to your MAC address only, anyone can still sniff them out of the air. Chances are a real attacker will listen in to the wireless signals and will eventually get some valuable private information. That is so much more valuable than getting Internet access.
Here's the thing about wireless signals, they tend to broadcast for a fairly wide range, of course it depends on the transmit strength. However, bypassing your non-encrypted wireless signal with a MAC ACL is as easy as doing this.
tcpdump -s 1500 -n -l -w - -i wlan0
Oh lookey, a MAC address!
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
Then you can proceed to run dhclient, or just take the poor schmuck's IP from the traffic you sniffed earlier. Not convinced? Try it at a Borders or Starbucks next time with a laptop. They run a pay-as-you-go wireless on MAC address authorization.
WEP and TKIP may not be secure, but at least someone has to attack it. I don't have to do anything, except passively listen to the wireless waves coming from your wireless NIC and Access Point, in order to bust your "secure" setup.
I would imagine the lack of mobility and dexterity in the original C-3PO suit/costume, would make sign language, English, Huttese, or otherwise quite difficult. C-3PO does use some hand motions and visual cues when telling the story to the Ewoks in their primitive language, but I wouldn't call it sign language.
The actor could barely waddle in the heavy suit, and he couldn't walk up stairs. The ability to accurately and quickly form hand signals, necessary for sign language, was likely not possible with the C-3PO model of that time.
Perhaps innovator would be a better term. No doubt, I am sure that folks were making hollow acoustic guitars with electric pickups before the solid-body electric guitar. Some sources do claim that Les Paul did, in fact, invent the solid-body electric guitar some time between 1939 and 1941. A story on NPR claims it was a collaboration between Les Paul, Paul Bigsby, and Leo Fender. According to some other sources I found via google. It seems that until Les Paul sawed his spanish-style hollow guitar in two and glued the front and back pieces together to create a solid-body, many musicians would stuff socks or towels into the cavity of the guitar to muffle the feedback loop created on the electric guitar of that time. I suppose, I am going to have to pick up a copy of this book, referenced in that article, and find out the whole story.
The grandparent's point remains that the solid-body electric guitar has brought us a great deal of enjoyable and creative music over the years, such as this. The grandparent poster was not contending what type of guitar Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock, or that Fender produced and sold the first mass-marketed solid-body guitar. Les Paul was certainly an early innovator, and had a hand in making the modern guitar what it is, even if it was a small part. That, however, is the difference between invention and innovation, small increments and changes in a design can have a large impact on the way something works.
I figured it was unlikely to be the first time Microsoft mentioned Linux in their 10-K, and chalked it up as inexperienced reporter as soon as I saw the article. Good find on the 2003 10-K.
You gave KDE an honest test drive for less than a week? That doesn't sound like much of a test drive.
Yeah, if it had an intuitive interface, maybe I would have given it more of a chance! Really, didn't expect the jump from 3.5 to 4.0 or 4.1 to be as drastic. Is that really so much to ask, that the interface remain intuitive, and to not strip away classic functionality that users expect?
As for how KDE can do the things it does without forking, that's easy to answer. 1. They forked it themselves, continuing to develop the 3.5.x branch and the 4.x branch at the same time. 2. A lot of people like the new KDE4 system. The first few releases were a bit lacking, but 4.2 is an amazing desktop. I switched to 4.2 without a glance back. 3. The system continues to improve. People who don't like it at its current status can use the older 3.5 series. 4. Developing a desktop system like KDE or Gnome takes a lot of work. A lot. 10,000 bug reports. 2,000 feature requests. How many developers are going fork a project and pull that off?
I personally haven't tried 4.2 or 4.3. From what I have heard here, it sounds like things are making a turn around for the better. That's great if they are. I'll give it KDE 4 a whirl again some time. I never meant to slight the hard-working developers, or start a flame war.
On the other hand, I can also understand the concerns of the critics. I can empathize with users such as the grandparent poster, and Linus who has been vocal about the changes and were not comfortable with these in the early 4.x releases. I certainly have not been the only person to cry foul over the last few releases of KDE, and doubt I will be the last.
Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yeah, there are lots of pointless legal disclaimers in 10-K filings to cover respective companies' own asses.
It's not the firsttimethatMicrosoft has acknowledged Linux as a threat to their business model. It might be the first time they have put it in their 10-K report, but I don't consider legal disclaimers in an annual SEC filing to be newsworthy.
Has anyone read the Red Hat, Inc. 10-K report. Anyone take the time to count the number of competitors, listed by name, in there? Now ask yourself, is that newsworthy?
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Thanks, that's informative!
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If KDE 3.5 did what you wanted then why didn't you stay on it until KDE 4 did? Why didn't you use the regular expression KDE 3 app? You can install KDE 3 apps under KDE 4. I have no clue whatsoever why some people get to something that works then mysteriously 'upgrade' for some reason and then bitch that something that they're getting entirely for free doesn't do what they want.
I have installed it from a backport tree. Sorry for bitching, but I am just very dissatisfied with KDE 4, just simply wanted to voice my opinion and vent a bit.
Wow. Can you really? If you want a desktop that does nothing but the one or two things that you want then by all means use it. However, Xfce isn't venerated as the desktop that will answer all our prayers because it does just that. Nothing. It's a shell that launches applications and that's about it. Customisation is zilch, pretty much, and I can't fathom how you're satisfied with it in that department after KDE 3.
I never said it was perfect, and no it doesn't answer all my prayers. I know it is not very customizable. For now, it is simply good enough, and to tide me over until the next time I upgrade my machine. Then I will probably re-evaluate what the best desktop for me personally is. Like I said, last time that I checked KDE 4 is not for me.
So you e-mailed them at the given address, and they told you that you could not use VMWare benchmark results in your graduate dissertation?
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I cannot believe the parent was modded troll. I have been a desktop Linux user, going on 12 years now. I've used many other window managers, Fvwm, twm, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, CDE, xfce, and even Gnome. So I have tried many different window managers, and have been able to easily adapt to different GUIs with relatively little pain. KDE has been my primary desktop for the last 5-6 years, that is until KDE 4.x came along.
I gave KDE 4 an honest test drive, that lasted less than a week. Much of the KDE 3 functionality you would expect to be included in KDE 4 is gone. A good example is the KDE regular expression editor which comes as a standard KDE utility in KDE 3. The desktop wasn't really a traditional desktop interface at all. The desktop somehow became this ill-behaved widget container. My right mouse button wouldn't do anything, at least not what I wanted it to do. The worst part was the customization which has been part of every window manager I have ever used; customization was gone. There was no way to make KDE 4 work in a way which I want to use. Those are a few examples off the top of my head. I used KDE 3.5 until April, it was still available in the main repository of Hardy, as well as having KDE 4 available as a choice from the same repository.
I upgraded to Ibex in April, and tried out KDE 4.1; it is still not what I expect. I switched to Gnome for maybe a day, and couldn't get it to handle multiple desktops with Xinerama the way I want. Finally, I switched to xfce. It works the way I want, I can change the behavior if I don't like it. I have been using xfce all summer. I will undoubtedly give KDE another try. I have to wonder how many hours of productivity has been lost on frustrated KDE users not able to adapt to the radical changes presented in KDE 4.
Why is it that the two most divisive window managers, KDE and Gnome, seem to be immune from forking especially when their most loyal users are dissatisfied? Why is it that the KDE developers insist on radical changes, even when critics and loyal users claim KDE 4 is on the wrong track? I, for one, would much rather have ugly 2-D widgets in a useful environment and fully functional interface. As opposed to 3-D compositing and widgets that are pretty, lack any practical use, and result in a half-working interface.
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I have had one good experience with a head hunter. She landed me a great contract-to-hire position at a Fortune 500 company, in my area. I had just been fired, and that probably had something to do with personality, not job performance. So I updated my resume the same day, and posted it out on some job sites. I got a promising call, several days later, and found out that the head hunter was in my area, so we set up a lunch meet and she had an interview for me, the next day. I impressed the I.T. Director and the two System Administrators at the interview, and was told I could start first thing on Monday. Signed the employment papers the next day, and they set me up with decent health benefits, and a 401K through the contract company from the very start of the contract.
I was unemployed for less than two weeks. Stayed on contract for four months, until I landed a better salary job somewhere else, where I have been for three years. Gave a two weeks notice to the parties involved on the contract. I have had the same contracting company call and ask if I, or anyone I knew, was looking for work. A few of the head hunters have even said, the client you worked for is looking for someone with your qualifications and experience. Having stayed in touch with the guys there, I know they've went through a few incompetent contractors, after I left. I guess my point is that there are both, unscrupulous head hunting firms and incompetent contractors. Both give I.T. contracting and similar companies, a bad name.
I honestly believe there are some good, and competent, head hunters and I.T. contracting firms out there. It sounds like, to me, that the original head hunter, Zeke, is up to no good. You have to wonder why he left, or perhaps was asked to leave, the original contracting firm. Any head hunter that misrepresents you to the client, is not doing any favors for you, the client, or the contracting firm.
1. Am I suspecting malice and/or clumsiness where a competitive market is the true suspect? (An answer of yes would be harder on my ego, but a relief.)
Malice on the headhunters part? Maybe, or maybe just has no sense of ethic. Who knows? He may have even been forbidden to call you from a different company, due to a no-compete clause in the original companies employment contract.
Clumsiness on your part? Maybe. The awkward moment, in your interview was the head hunters fault, not yours. Interviews can be tough, it's a learned behavior. I've been told I was overqualified, in an interview. Which is a nice way of copping out, and saying "We will call you. You know the way out, right?". My response was, "Well you could hire me anyway, so that your company can take advantage of my knowledge and extensive skill set". I've also seen a jaw or two agape, when the interviewer half expected that my resume was just as full of bullshit, as everyone else they had interviewed.
2. Do headhunters modify resumes, and if so, should I just shut up and go with what the headhunter says? (I was always told that eventually, the truth comes out, so I'd be uncomfortable doing that, but life isn't always comfortable.)
Do head hunters modify resumes? It depends on the modification. Slight editing or grammatical changes are perfectly acceptable, if YOU approve the changes before the resume is sent to the client. The same goes for a standard format. Many of the contracting firms have a boiler plate letterhead or format for your resume. The head hunter sees a lot more resumes than you, and if they have some insight about the format, its probably better to trust their judgment. On the other hand, modifying dates, and embellishing experience to better match job requirements is kind of a big no no. If there is a certain job requirement that needs to be met to get the resume into the right hands, then its the head hunters job to ask you to provide some more detail on your experience in that specific area. However, its your responsibility
Steve Ballmer must have used it all up during this charming episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
Gee, you'd think that guy would know how to have a good time.
Has anyone ever tried TinyDNS? It's creator isnt the most cooperative guy when it comes to Debian standards in terms of binary locations and therefore Debian refuses to add it to their repository.
It's creator, Daniel J. Bernstein (DJB), isn't the most cooperative guy, period. His reputation precedes him as "extremely intelligent, but kind of an asshole", each and every time his name is mentioned.
It has never been DNS cache poisoned, it has never been hacked at all. In fact there is a reward for anyone that can.
It has been cache poisoned, on February 25, 2009 Matthew Dempsky disclosed a vulnerability, he claimed the $1,000 prize a week later.
Security Issue in djbdns
djbdns misformats some long response packets; patch and example
Dan Kaminsky, twitter feed: Dempsky's bug in djb's tinydns...
Dan Bernstein Confirms Security Flaw In Djbdns
Here is another unrelated DNS cache poisoning paper by Kevin Day, published date February 9, 2009.
Rapid DNS Poisoning in djbdns
Any developer who offers a monetary prize for security bug quashing is going to eventually part with their money.
Yummy, poached Apples!
Wait a minute, oh Apple employees. Well, I hope they're not boiling the employees in water or cider with cinnamon and sugar.
I was actually thinking the exact same thing, or at least along those lines.
How long until someone makes a Linux Ad spoof, based on the source material.
That's the only platform they tested in this situation, it's not a surprise really.
New emergency number: 0118 999 881 999 119 725...3
Moss e-mailing the fire department Fire, exclamation mark, fire, exclamation mark, help me, exclamation mark... All the best, Maurice Moss
I'm a System Admin. at a smallish University, we're just shy of 20,000 students. Do we support Linux? The answer is complicated, no, at least not officially. A student may get varied responses when walking up to the service desk for help with Linux. The service desk personnel know that the Linux System Administrators are often willing to lend a hand with 802.1x wireless connectivity, and Cisco Network Access Controls on Linux machines. Those are two of the biggest issues for incoming students, regardless of operating platform, whether it be Mac, Linux, Windows. We took the time to publish instructions for Linux clients, with the disclaimer that "*Linux is not a full support OS through the University's Computing Services department".
The truth is, the System Administrators are more than willing to help students with basic problems, within reason. A few of us are Linux users. Nobody on staff is going to track down firmware for student's wireless cards, or compile wireless support into a kernel for a student. Just as nobody on staff is going to re-install a hosed Windows client, without charging an hourly rate for the work. We're not going to troubleshoot microphones and webcams for students, when we have other responsibilities like keeping Oracle databases, mail, web, and DNS servers running smoothly. I personally worked on half a dozen Linux laptops during freshmen move-in weekend. Every single one of them had Ubuntu, and while the laptop manufacturers varied for each system, I didn't have any problems getting Linux users onto the wireless network. I couldn't get any Linux users registered with Cisco NAC during move-in weekend. So I talked to one of our networking guys, and we got Cisco NAC problems resolved first thing, the next morning, first official day in the Fall semester.
I recommend getting a laptop with a newer Intel wireless card, works out of the box in Ubuntu. The wireless firmware for the Intel wireless cards, are in the default package set of Ibex and Jaunty versions of Ubuntu. I, also recommend either finding a school that has a Linux User's Group, or your daughter can start her own Linux User's Group. It is a resume builder. It is a good way to meet and support other Linux enthusiasts. It is a good way to advocate, and encourage vendor neutral I.T. policies. Most importantly, that is what Open Source and Linux are all about. It is all about sharing with each other, and supporting each other in the Open Source community.
Haha, that's how I read it too. India has their own moon, it is news to me.
93, because I wanted to install X-Windows as well! Yes, I was a masochist....
X-Windows alone, wouldn't push you over 93 floppies back then. Emacs on the other hand...
The point is you have a false sense of security by using MAC address access controls. MAC access controls do not direct the radio waves to your MAC address only, anyone can still sniff them out of the air. Chances are a real attacker will listen in to the wireless signals and will eventually get some valuable private information. That is so much more valuable than getting Internet access.
Here's the thing about wireless signals, they tend to broadcast for a fairly wide range, of course it depends on the transmit strength. However, bypassing your non-encrypted wireless signal with a MAC ACL is as easy as doing this.
tcpdump -s 1500 -n -l -w - -i wlan0
Oh lookey, a MAC address!
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:AA:BB:CC:DD:EE
Then you can proceed to run dhclient, or just take the poor schmuck's IP from the traffic you sniffed earlier. Not convinced? Try it at a Borders or Starbucks next time with a laptop. They run a pay-as-you-go wireless on MAC address authorization.
WEP and TKIP may not be secure, but at least someone has to attack it. I don't have to do anything, except passively listen to the wireless waves coming from your wireless NIC and Access Point, in order to bust your "secure" setup.
I would imagine the lack of mobility and dexterity in the original C-3PO suit/costume, would make sign language, English, Huttese, or otherwise quite difficult. C-3PO does use some hand motions and visual cues when telling the story to the Ewoks in their primitive language, but I wouldn't call it sign language.
The actor could barely waddle in the heavy suit, and he couldn't walk up stairs. The ability to accurately and quickly form hand signals, necessary for sign language, was likely not possible with the C-3PO model of that time.
You may joke about it, but I wrote a "slashdotted" snort rule for a web development and hosting company.
Perhaps innovator would be a better term. No doubt, I am sure that folks were making hollow acoustic guitars with electric pickups before the solid-body electric guitar. Some sources do claim that Les Paul did, in fact, invent the solid-body electric guitar some time between 1939 and 1941. A story on NPR claims it was a collaboration between Les Paul, Paul Bigsby, and Leo Fender. According to some other sources I found via google. It seems that until Les Paul sawed his spanish-style hollow guitar in two and glued the front and back pieces together to create a solid-body, many musicians would stuff socks or towels into the cavity of the guitar to muffle the feedback loop created on the electric guitar of that time. I suppose, I am going to have to pick up a copy of this book, referenced in that article, and find out the whole story.
The grandparent's point remains that the solid-body electric guitar has brought us a great deal of enjoyable and creative music over the years, such as this. The grandparent poster was not contending what type of guitar Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock, or that Fender produced and sold the first mass-marketed solid-body guitar. Les Paul was certainly an early innovator, and had a hand in making the modern guitar what it is, even if it was a small part. That, however, is the difference between invention and innovation, small increments and changes in a design can have a large impact on the way something works.
Err....that was a Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner on...
Right... and a Stratocaster is, in fact, an electric guitar the last time I checked.
Fire insurance.
Because Mac users are so pretentious.
Because Macs are so expensive.
I figured it was unlikely to be the first time Microsoft mentioned Linux in their 10-K, and chalked it up as inexperienced reporter as soon as I saw the article. Good find on the 2003 10-K.
Yeah, if it had an intuitive interface, maybe I would have given it more of a chance! Really, didn't expect the jump from 3.5 to 4.0 or 4.1 to be as drastic. Is that really so much to ask, that the interface remain intuitive, and to not strip away classic functionality that users expect?
I personally haven't tried 4.2 or 4.3. From what I have heard here, it sounds like things are making a turn around for the better. That's great if they are. I'll give it KDE 4 a whirl again some time. I never meant to slight the hard-working developers, or start a flame war.
On the other hand, I can also understand the concerns of the critics. I can empathize with users such as the grandparent poster, and Linus who has been vocal about the changes and were not comfortable with these in the early 4.x releases. I certainly have not been the only person to cry foul over the last few releases of KDE, and doubt I will be the last.
Ha, BeOs!
From the article:
Yeah, there are lots of pointless legal disclaimers in 10-K filings to cover respective companies' own asses.
It's not the first time that Microsoft has acknowledged Linux as a threat to their business model. It might be the first time they have put it in their 10-K report, but I don't consider legal disclaimers in an annual SEC filing to be newsworthy.
Has anyone read the Red Hat, Inc. 10-K report. Anyone take the time to count the number of competitors, listed by name, in there? Now ask yourself, is that newsworthy?
Thanks, that's informative!
I have installed it from a backport tree. Sorry for bitching, but I am just very dissatisfied with KDE 4, just simply wanted to voice my opinion and vent a bit.
I never said it was perfect, and no it doesn't answer all my prayers. I know it is not very customizable. For now, it is simply good enough, and to tide me over until the next time I upgrade my machine. Then I will probably re-evaluate what the best desktop for me personally is. Like I said, last time that I checked KDE 4 is not for me.
So you e-mailed them at the given address, and they told you that you could not use VMWare benchmark results in your graduate dissertation?
I cannot believe the parent was modded troll. I have been a desktop Linux user, going on 12 years now. I've used many other window managers, Fvwm, twm, WindowMaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, CDE, xfce, and even Gnome. So I have tried many different window managers, and have been able to easily adapt to different GUIs with relatively little pain. KDE has been my primary desktop for the last 5-6 years, that is until KDE 4.x came along.
I gave KDE 4 an honest test drive, that lasted less than a week. Much of the KDE 3 functionality you would expect to be included in KDE 4 is gone. A good example is the KDE regular expression editor which comes as a standard KDE utility in KDE 3. The desktop wasn't really a traditional desktop interface at all. The desktop somehow became this ill-behaved widget container. My right mouse button wouldn't do anything, at least not what I wanted it to do. The worst part was the customization which has been part of every window manager I have ever used; customization was gone. There was no way to make KDE 4 work in a way which I want to use. Those are a few examples off the top of my head. I used KDE 3.5 until April, it was still available in the main repository of Hardy, as well as having KDE 4 available as a choice from the same repository.
I upgraded to Ibex in April, and tried out KDE 4.1; it is still not what I expect. I switched to Gnome for maybe a day, and couldn't get it to handle multiple desktops with Xinerama the way I want. Finally, I switched to xfce. It works the way I want, I can change the behavior if I don't like it. I have been using xfce all summer. I will undoubtedly give KDE another try. I have to wonder how many hours of productivity has been lost on frustrated KDE users not able to adapt to the radical changes presented in KDE 4.
Why is it that the two most divisive window managers, KDE and Gnome, seem to be immune from forking especially when their most loyal users are dissatisfied? Why is it that the KDE developers insist on radical changes, even when critics and loyal users claim KDE 4 is on the wrong track? I, for one, would much rather have ugly 2-D widgets in a useful environment and fully functional interface. As opposed to 3-D compositing and widgets that are pretty, lack any practical use, and result in a half-working interface.