Outside of the most ardent libertarians no one is seriously talking about chunking the one tax funded public institution which is literally the closest with local school boards to the electorate, the public school system.
So for a public school system to survive what do we as a society need to do?
Are voucher systems somehow the silver bullet or does that simply stretch public funds to private hands and further deplete the money to be spent on public education?
Or perhaps what does real accountability mean? Or does it just mean more teaching to the tests?
Is it the teachers fault or does society blame the teachers too much?
What can we do?
Reiserfs, storage and why do you want this?
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Perhaps I am more organized than most but I already categorize my files and such in the hierachal file structure.
Isn't Rieserfs planning to do this on the kernel level?
Where does that leave other fs choices and storage and other idea dbfs?
I see more and more people saying look what neat things you can do with these tools.
But really why do you personally want something like this?
Seems like this guy did not verbalize it but that was his problem. If you know what you are doing hacking a conf file from vi is easier than a gui for sure. However, his low performance and configuration woes would have probably been handled with a easy to use graphical interface.
What was the last real original non-franchise piece of Sci-Fi you took up?
In an age of nano-technology and an interconnected networked world, I thought that people like Gibson and Stephenson were the real deal answers to men like Asimoz and Bradbury.
All of us old-timer Unix folks love to fuss over the worst trangession of a commercial Unix or Linux distro or project makes when it comes to Unix philosophy.
Whether it is Sun throwing things in/opt that should be in/usr or the other way around or maybe its a linux distro dumping everything in/usr or a project creating these huge programs that should be split into smaller utilities maybe with a unifying gui.
It might be worth the price for the keyboard shortcuts stuff alone. It seems like every other OSX search gives me another shortcut or so to add to my respository of marginally useful knowledge.
It sounds like something that is worth checking out at the local bookstore anyway.
How many here us OSX everyday?
What are the things that you like about OSX?
Most of all pertinent to the above review what is your favorite OS X tool?
I think he completely misses some of the good points of having distros unifying the various projects as a unified product but...
His comments are good because perhaps they can open the business people up to the concept that linux in and of itself is not an OS. It is a kernel with literally thousands of projects built around it to flesh out the total package of the OS.
It is a very hard concept for people accustomed to having their OS as a single product shrink-wrapped and delivered onto them from a single company.
It has its flaws but its a very good article.
For those using linux and for that matter commercial Unix in the IT world, how many bosses actually get the projects as opposed to product conception of Linux?
Not sure why the poster got so bunged up over two interoperability criticisms.
The yahoo messenger thing and the outdated version of gaim is a bit of pain in the ass for a newbie but not a sysadmin. Good points all the way around on that one.
The LAN integration thing was interesting. I always end of with minor annoying bits of trouble with Windows networks until I load up LinNeighborhood and set the permissions on smbmnt and smbumount correctly for that app to work. We do this on the developer's desktops. We have tried all the KDE and gnome browsing tools and all that stuff. No go. Only LinNeighborhood really fit the bill.
Ok, what Windows browsing tools do you use?
I am using the samba browsing tool with Nautilus on Ximian Desktop2 as a try-out but I am already feeling the itch to get LinNeighborhood back.
Next we will find that most people do not understand history or how their political system is really run!
WTF?
I had the hardest time trying to explain the difference between memory as in RAM versus disk space to my mom when she looked for a computer.
Then there are all these people that want computers to be as easy to understand and use as a toaster or something. They completely forget the vast numbers of machines and ledgers that the computer in the office for example replaces.
How the hell is something that acts likes a typewriter, a ledger, interoffice communication device and research library (google and the 'Net) supposed to be as easy to use as a single use appliance? Answer it is never going to be that easy. That is not to say that things cannot get a hell of a lot better.
The tech jargon is out there for the geeks among us fixated on the system stats. The regular user sees bigger numbers and ends up buying what all his friends have anyway. Looked deep into sports car numbers lately? Half of that crap is meaningless to me torque to dumbnut ratios for sports suspension and makes it more responsive but has the downside of... You get the picture.
Wow jargon is confusing. I needed a study to tell me this?
I remember we use to use this EMC datamovers on the controller server that was hooked up to the things. Besides that, I knew of only one other company that used them.
I cannot imagine computing without them. I carry mine around almost everywhere I can. Sitting back in a cafe typing out code before a friend shows up or playing a game. I use mine everywhere.
It is also nice to be able to sit the thing in my lap and sit in the same room as my wife and hold down a conversation instead of being relegating to one room while I aimlessly surf.
Why we just got too close to one of those soft walls, Bill.
It protects the people on the ground and kills us in the air.
Bill says:
Cute way to die.
Everyone in two planes scream at once.
Osama Bin Laden laughs at the superior technology in a cave.
Meanwhile two terroists decide they don't care about the "smart technology" and blow the avionics in the cockpit to hell after locking on a course straight for the heart of --insert national treasure here--.
At least we gave the pilots guns. That way they can waste themselves before the soft walls send them straight to the aviator happy hunting grounds or whatever.
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Not really sure why but a lot of the marketing types around my office jam in bands and are very tech savvy.
.... Sounds like a hacker's grand ideal really.
I see this kind of product if promoted correctly having a very nice niche market among hardcore keyboard junkies and techy musician types.
Very interesting idea.
Hardware and software I want to use.
Hhhhhmmm
Outside of the most ardent libertarians no one is seriously talking about chunking the one tax funded public institution which is literally the closest with local school boards to the electorate, the public school system.
So for a public school system to survive what do we as a society need to do?
Are voucher systems somehow the silver bullet or does that simply stretch public funds to private hands and further deplete the money to be spent on public education?
Or perhaps what does real accountability mean? Or does it just mean more teaching to the tests?
Is it the teachers fault or does society blame the teachers too much?
What can we do?
Perhaps I am more organized than most but I already categorize my files and such in the hierachal file structure.
Isn't Rieserfs planning to do this on the kernel level?
Where does that leave other fs choices and storage and other idea dbfs?
I see more and more people saying look what neat things you can do with these tools.
But really why do you personally want something like this?
Curious to see the response is all.
We find out that Microsoft's investors like profits.
Duh.
Its all SCO has. The lawsuits are all they have left.
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The CEO said that he would do whatever he can to deliver Ohio or some place to Bush.
The same people that build machines with no paper trail for vote auditing.
They also do not patch their ATMs.
This really gives me confidence for the upcoming elections.
Seems like this guy did not verbalize it but that was his problem. If you know what you are doing hacking a conf file from vi is easier than a gui for sure. However, his low performance and configuration woes would have probably been handled with a easy to use graphical interface.
Aren't there tools that do this?
What was it?
What was the last real original non-franchise piece of Sci-Fi you took up?
In an age of nano-technology and an interconnected networked world, I thought that people like Gibson and Stephenson were the real deal answers to men like Asimoz and Bradbury.
Was I so wrong?
Come on, I have been out of the scene for awhile.
So, give it up.
What is the best game for the money out there today?
Hulk Smash puny scientists and the DOD!!
Arrgh!! Hulk hate gamma decay makes hulk look old and grey!
All of us old-timer Unix folks love to fuss over the worst trangession of a commercial Unix or Linux distro or project makes when it comes to Unix philosophy.
/opt that should be in /usr or the other way around or maybe its a linux distro dumping everything in /usr or a project creating these huge programs that should be split into smaller utilities maybe with a unifying gui.
Whether it is Sun throwing things in
We all have our complaints.
What are yours?
It might be worth the price for the keyboard shortcuts stuff alone. It seems like every other OSX search gives me another shortcut or so to add to my respository of marginally useful knowledge.
It sounds like something that is worth checking out at the local bookstore anyway.
How many here us OSX everyday?
What are the things that you like about OSX?
Most of all pertinent to the above review what is your favorite OS X tool?
Give me a break!
What a load of nonsense doublespeak.
They are ready to sue IBM and everyone else they can get their hands off but they chide another company for taking legal action against them first?
Typical. This will not hasten the demise of linux but in actuality will only hasten the departure of SCO from the scene.
Kudos for RedHat for having the balls to call these scumbags bluff.
He is happy RedHat is suing SCO. No sh*t guys! I don't blame you because you just frickin' bought a linux focused company. Duh.
Did he reveal that the sky is blue in this interview as well?
I think he completely misses some of the good points of having distros unifying the various projects as a unified product but ...
His comments are good because perhaps they can open the business people up to the concept that linux in and of itself is not an OS. It is a kernel with literally thousands of projects built around it to flesh out the total package of the OS.
It is a very hard concept for people accustomed to having their OS as a single product shrink-wrapped and delivered onto them from a single company.
It has its flaws but its a very good article.
For those using linux and for that matter commercial Unix in the IT world, how many bosses actually get the projects as opposed to product conception of Linux?
Not sure why the poster got so bunged up over two interoperability criticisms.
The yahoo messenger thing and the outdated version of gaim is a bit of pain in the ass for a newbie but not a sysadmin. Good points all the way around on that one.
The LAN integration thing was interesting. I always end of with minor annoying bits of trouble with Windows networks until I load up LinNeighborhood and set the permissions on smbmnt and smbumount correctly for that app to work. We do this on the developer's desktops. We have tried all the KDE and gnome browsing tools and all that stuff. No go. Only LinNeighborhood really fit the bill.
Ok, what Windows browsing tools do you use?
I am using the samba browsing tool with Nautilus on Ximian Desktop2 as a try-out but I am already feeling the itch to get LinNeighborhood back.
What about you?
Come on, I know that Mozilla and IE and Netscape are the big dogs relatively speaking.
What about Konqueror, Safari for the Macheads, Galeon, Opera or Firebird?
I have always liked Galeon myself. Still Epiphany is supposed to be good and there are a zillion reasons for using an alt browser. What are yours?
Next we will find that most people do not understand history or how their political system is really run!
WTF?
I had the hardest time trying to explain the difference between memory as in RAM versus disk space to my mom when she looked for a computer.
Then there are all these people that want computers to be as easy to understand and use as a toaster or something. They completely forget the vast numbers of machines and ledgers that the computer in the office for example replaces.
How the hell is something that acts likes a typewriter, a ledger, interoffice communication device and research library (google and the 'Net) supposed to be as easy to use as a single use appliance? Answer it is never going to be that easy. That is not to say that things cannot get a hell of a lot better.
The tech jargon is out there for the geeks among us fixated on the system stats. The regular user sees bigger numbers and ends up buying what all his friends have anyway. Looked deep into sports car numbers lately? Half of that crap is meaningless to me torque to dumbnut ratios for sports suspension and makes it more responsive but has the downside of... You get the picture.
Wow jargon is confusing. I needed a study to tell me this?
For what?
I remember we use to use this EMC datamovers on the controller server that was hooked up to the things. Besides that, I knew of only one other company that used them.
I have not really used the language much but I have used a few programs like Redhat config tools that are python driven.
What do Slashdotters use python for?
What are its strengths and its weaknesses?
Why is it worth learning another programming language?
Just being curious and all that.
I cannot imagine computing without them. I carry mine around almost everywhere I can. Sitting back in a cafe typing out code before a friend shows up or playing a game. I use mine everywhere.
It is also nice to be able to sit the thing in my lap and sit in the same room as my wife and hold down a conversation instead of being relegating to one room while I aimlessly surf.
Any others? Who loves having a laptop?
Is that not prior art?
Language translation is not exactly an innovative idea.
Anyone else care to list babblefish style plugins for their favorite IMs.
Bob's reply:
Why we just got too close to one of those soft walls, Bill.
It protects the people on the ground and kills us in the air.
Bill says:
Cute way to die.
Everyone in two planes scream at once.
Osama Bin Laden laughs at the superior technology in a cave.
Meanwhile two terroists decide they don't care about the "smart technology" and blow the avionics in the cockpit to hell after locking on a course straight for the heart of --insert national treasure here--.
At least we gave the pilots guns. That way they can waste themselves before the soft walls send them straight to the aviator happy hunting grounds or whatever.
I loved mine and I am still looking for one of those old clickity clackity huge heavy monsters with their wonderous tactile feedback feel.
Anyone else in the same boat?
At least I still have my Logitech 3 button mouse.
What is your favorite keyboard type?
If we all just huddle together under the all seeing eye of the Asscroft spy machine then nothing can ever happen to us.
We trade our privacy and freedom for safety and as the quote goes we deserve neither in the end.
I am not buying it.
Just my 2 cents and all that?
What do you guys think is the balance between privacy and safety in these odd times?
What next?
Businesses choose profit over customer safety?
Businesses choose profit over employee safety?
What about the obvious?
Businesses choose profit over anything else!?!
I am glad the Washington Post is on top of this. I doubt I would have ever figured this out on my own.