The service will probably be ridiculously expensive to cover staff and equipment costs, not to mention the federal, state, and local governments are going to give him a rough time at any chance possible.....but I wish him luck regardless. I just hope this doesn't result in more draconian measures taken by Congress if it does happen to be a success.
Additionally, you may want to check the app-store-in-question's contractual obligations, as I'm pretty sure stuff like astroturfing is against it. Just point out to whoever's in charge that what you're being asked to do violates their policies and could potentially result in your company's app being pulled off of their app store altogether.
Putting the obvious moral issues aside, how loyal to this company are you? If the answer is "not very" then I think you already know what you should be doing (i.e, looking for another place of employment). If, however, you are a loyal employee, then suck it up & just do what they ask...finding a place to work that you actually enjoy is tough, especially in this economy.
Actually, my Asus G1 laptop (from 2006) with a basic Synaptic touchpad supports at least partial multi-touch functionality beautifully out-of-box on a new Kubuntu install. I'm not sure how it works (I didn't think the hardware actually had support for it, maybe some clever driver hacks?), but it seems the newer drivers for the Synaptic touchpads in Linux seem to at least allow scrolling up/down a page using the 2-finger swipe. I havn't really tested any other multi-touch functionality, but that was one of the biggest things I liked about OS X on an actual Mac.
Yes, but consumer-level drives are more prone to failure than their enterprise counterparts. It's a known fact that enterprise-level hard drives are built more reliably. If you don't believe me, then check this out.
However, with proper redundancy one can still get away with using consumer-level drives with an acceptable level of risk.
Isn't the point of Red Hat the support they provide? If you're not buying the support, why run Red Hat at all? Debian can do anything Red Hat can, and it's completely free.
There are cases when you need to run a RHEL-compatible system, but don't want/need the expensive support contract from Red Hat (like when you have to have support for expensive, enterprise-level software where the vendor only supplies drivers in the form of a RHEL-compatible RPM). This is why projects such as CentOS exist.
We're by no means a "diehard Oracle customer" (in fact, I can't stand Oracle), but we do use OEL for our Oracle database nodes, if for no other reason than to avoid a finger-pointing circle-jerk when Oracle determines a problem lies with the underlaying OS.
Anybody that knows what they're doing already knows this, but since/. is quickly becoming a refuge for retards, other uses for SSH also include:
1.) File transfers between 2 hosts (via scp or sftp)
2.) Tunnelling (aka the "poor man's VPN"...great for accessing hosts behind a Unix-based firewall securely without having to setup additional DNAT rules)
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Right....they called it C#.
You spelled 'Merica wrong.
As a US citizen, I can't help but think WTF. Let them (and the rest of the world, for that matter) do whatever the fuck they want.
And these are probably the same hippy mom types that opt not to have given birth to their children in a the safety of a hospital too.
The service will probably be ridiculously expensive to cover staff and equipment costs, not to mention the federal, state, and local governments are going to give him a rough time at any chance possible.....but I wish him luck regardless. I just hope this doesn't result in more draconian measures taken by Congress if it does happen to be a success.
Additionally, you may want to check the app-store-in-question's contractual obligations, as I'm pretty sure stuff like astroturfing is against it. Just point out to whoever's in charge that what you're being asked to do violates their policies and could potentially result in your company's app being pulled off of their app store altogether.
Putting the obvious moral issues aside, how loyal to this company are you? If the answer is "not very" then I think you already know what you should be doing (i.e, looking for another place of employment). If, however, you are a loyal employee, then suck it up & just do what they ask...finding a place to work that you actually enjoy is tough, especially in this economy.
Where's King Soloman when you need him.
Actually, my Asus G1 laptop (from 2006) with a basic Synaptic touchpad supports at least partial multi-touch functionality beautifully out-of-box on a new Kubuntu install. I'm not sure how it works (I didn't think the hardware actually had support for it, maybe some clever driver hacks?), but it seems the newer drivers for the Synaptic touchpads in Linux seem to at least allow scrolling up/down a page using the 2-finger swipe. I havn't really tested any other multi-touch functionality, but that was one of the biggest things I liked about OS X on an actual Mac.
Yes, but consumer-level drives are more prone to failure than their enterprise counterparts. It's a known fact that enterprise-level hard drives are built more reliably. If you don't believe me, then check this out.
However, with proper redundancy one can still get away with using consumer-level drives with an acceptable level of risk.
Also known as Agent Richard Smoker.
deeeeeeeeeeecent!
And what recourse do card holders have?
You could, oh I don't know, cancel your cards and replace them? But I guess complaining about it on /. is more fun.
Isn't the point of Red Hat the support they provide? If you're not buying the support, why run Red Hat at all? Debian can do anything Red Hat can, and it's completely free.
There are cases when you need to run a RHEL-compatible system, but don't want/need the expensive support contract from Red Hat (like when you have to have support for expensive, enterprise-level software where the vendor only supplies drivers in the form of a RHEL-compatible RPM). This is why projects such as CentOS exist.
I really wish Redhat had some much cheaper, "updates only" version of their software...
Assuming you're not in need of software support, such a distribution does exist, it's called CentOS.
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We're by no means a "diehard Oracle customer" (in fact, I can't stand Oracle), but we do use OEL for our Oracle database nodes, if for no other reason than to avoid a finger-pointing circle-jerk when Oracle determines a problem lies with the underlaying OS.
Anybody that knows what they're doing already knows this, but since /. is quickly becoming a refuge for retards, other uses for SSH also include:
1.) File transfers between 2 hosts (via scp or sftp)
2.) Tunnelling (aka the "poor man's VPN"...great for accessing hosts behind a Unix-based firewall securely without having to setup additional DNAT rules)
Sounds like the place I used to work....this wasn't in Austin by chance was it?
...is she hot?
The first rule of Linux is that you do not talk about Linux.
The second rule of Linux is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT LINUX.
I thought those were the rules behind Usen...uh, nevermind.
And you're going to catch them how exactly?
geohot's cooler than I thought he was.
...you're at a party not worth staying at.
If your aim is to develop a cross-platform app that needs "porting" to other platforms, you're designing it wrong.
it's tempting to get, but does it support the standards (DLNA, samba shares etc.) or is it locked into iTunes, I don't know.
It would after putting XBMC on it ;)