Oh, one more thing... At no point did I say that that today's offerings from MS are technically inferior to FreeBSD and especially MySQL so please don't put words in my mouth. I actually hate MySQL and prefer Sybase and Postgresql, and you'll find many comments in my history to support this.
What I was discussing is the complexity involved in migrating any complex system to another operating system and database.
You could be going from the second best platform in the world to the best platform in the world, but if your system is complex, it's going to be hard and things generally go wrong unless very well managed.
I do actually know quite a few people from Yahoo! and some of the consultants who worked on the Hotmail change. Yahoo! might not be completely FreeBSD but a large amount of important stuff is (e.g. the european content management system)
I'm not arguing that the headlines were sensational in the hotmail days, but it did take three tries, two of which they had to back out of before they got moved. That's non-trivial!
So the smart admins at yahoo! are moving to Linux huh? Well then this just changes to "The Linux/MySQL migration will be fun..." because it will STILL have to happen:)
"Generally only small numbers of people are killed by terrorism" - well just 10,500+ since 9/11... no big deal right. You won't care if they kill you then?
10,500 people in 7 years is NOTHING. More people have died from heart attacks in that time. More people have died from car crashes in that time. Want to declare a war on those ?
As for not caring if they kill me, no, I wouldn't. I would rather be killed at the hands of a terrorist tomorrow than live in a world where we sacrifice our freedoms to keep us 'safe'.
I have two statements explicitly in my will... If I burn in on a jump, I do not want anyone to sue the jumpship operator, the rig / canopy company or anyone else. The second one is for release to the press should I die in a terrorism related incident - that states that I am happy to have lived in the environment I did, with the risks commensurate to that, and I wouldn't want to see laws changed, so don't do anything dumb "in my name".
I've had this conversation with loads of people, and I'm slowly making headway. More and more of my associates are starting to work this way, and it's buying us all far better quality of life.
Would your employer give you any of their high-value goods or services for free? The answer to that is normally no.
So why should you give them any of YOUR high-value services for free?
When I take a job, I'm offering to exchange a certain amount of my time and skills for a certain amount of money. If I give them loads more, then I'm actually getting less money per unit of work than I agreed.
I'm flexible to a certain extent... I normally get in half an hour early because I like to avoid traffic any way, and I work through my lunch hour. On balance, I do about 7 hours a week free overtime. But that's where I draw the line, and every hour after that either costs, or contributes to time off in lieu. Since my base holiday allowance at my new gig is 30 days per year, it mostly has to be paid overtime rather than TOIL these days.
I'll never forget the look on the MDs face at the ad agency I worked at 5 years ago when I asked him for £20,000 in free advertising - he went spare, and that was for charity! That's when I realised that this is a two way street and cut my average work week from 60 hours to 40. Things got messy a bit quickly but then another overhaul of management and we got sensible staffing levels and proper project planning:)
This is one of the main reasons I always negotiate overtime into my contracts (and recently into my permanent role contract). If it doesn't cost the company anything, they have no reason NOT to work me as hard as they can.
Getting paid overtime also protects against incompetent bosses to an extent. They can't hide the amount of extra work they're pushing you for from their own management or the financial crew, so at least even if you can't get through to them, there is a chance of someone else slapping them. This has really improved the quality of my life in the past and the new boss was more competent, so the amount of overtime went down.
I'll buy your argument... I don't like the fact that this is the way it is, but that's for another discussion.
I just have one question then though... How come they are able to use a law that's name implies it is to protect copyright (Digital Millenium COPYRIGHT Act) to protect their Trademarks ?
Does this whole section of the law not seem broken to anyone else here ?
That's a bald faced lie. They absolutely ARE monetizing it, because if you want to buy after doing a lookup, you're forced to either buy it from NetSol instead of one of their competitors - so by locking these to them, they ARE monetizing them.
I'm dying to know - what kind of programming is easy on Linux that is hard on Apple ?
I have a gorgeous and very functional GUI for Cocoa/Objective C code, I have a full GNU toolchain (autoconf, make, gcc, gdb, etc.) for regular C work. Perl comes out the box as does Python, ruby and rails. Not sure about PHP because I'm still in recovery from the last job I had that made me use that. When I've got Java work to do, I just fire up eclipse. Integration with subversion repositories seems to Just Work.
So what am I missing here? What programming task is easier on Linux than on OS X?
The problem is that by having just ONE device in your home that requires WEP, you now have to compromise your entire network - either that, or reconfig your router every time you want to use that one device.
And your point is what? Did you read the whole article? Did you read the bit where he was all high and mighty about Google not offering him a position worthy enough (but still being homeless for 6 months)? Did you read the attacks on employers not using him to his full potential and only wanting a code monkey?
I've been a contractor for a long time (Ok, just gone permanent yesterday), and one thing I learned very early on in the game is that no matter what you are hired to do, you do the job you are given. If you don't like it, you hand your notice in and find another contract. You NEVER badmouth an employer, especially not in public, no matter how your working relationship ended.
Ouch - that sucks a little. Fortunately most places in the civilised world still allow this.
I believe that Australia and South Africa used to forbid it or at least in the case of RSA, require special permission. Now it's pretty easy to have two though.
Technically, I could have three, but I'm not sure I see the value in a Zimbabwean passport these days;)
One minor point - I think that the yanks only demanded machine readable passports. This meant being able to be read by a swipe enabled machine. RFID was NOT required but your government and mine jumped on the opportunity to add this anyway.
I guess that technically you could use it to target just American's. There's bound to be something in the data that identifies the country of issue. So you could have special bombs for Yanks, Poms, Aussies or the Irish:)
Kidnapping is a far more interesting worry to me, having spent a lot of time traveling in Africa. The LAST thing I wanted to do was be identified as being British because there is an impression out there that this would mean I am worth more as a hostage. Fortunately I have dual citizenship, so I could leave my RFID enabled Brit passport safely at home and travel on my other passport.
Because I can't see him getting too much more work.
What company in their right mind would hire him, knowing that if they don't measure up as an employer, they're in for public vilification? He might be good, but he's not worth it!
How long has he run Linux at home? Is this something that has been going on for years, or something that he got someone to install after his second interview? Context means a lot here!
What about at work? How much Linux or other Open Source software has he worked with in his corporate life? That makes a big impact on seeing things from the customer's point of view.
The one thing I'm really hoping is that he will bring fresh eyes to Red Hat and more focus on their core products instead of implementing $BUZZWORDOFTHEWEEK in each new release.
As a company, they've become very bad at accepting criticism and taking feedback on issues. They also need to spend some time working on their installer and their command line tools.
The fact that you can't do an LVM (or was it RAID?) install in text mode in one of the newer RHELs really bugged me. The fact that they told me the command line tools were not a focus and would never be able to do everything the GUI tools did just scared me witless. Apparently their corporate strategy is to sell you Satellite (at GBP8k + per seat licensing) and for you to manage your boxes through that, hence the lack of focus on command line tools.
Contrast this with SLES where everything you can do in the GUI version of YAST2, you can do in the text version as well. Telling Solaris admins that they have to run X on their new Linux boxes to be able to use the config tools is NOT a good way to win them over!
I'm quite aware that you use RIAA as shorthand for these companies, but I'm still saying you're wrong. I also know that you link to documents showing the actual plaintiffs and I _still_ say that you're wrong.
You're a lawyer, and by all accounts a good one. I wouldn't dream of telling you how to practice law. But you honestly could use some help in how you publicize this work and that's all I've been trying to point out.
You're preaching to the choir here on Slashdot. It's nice to get these updates, but I don't think there is anyone that you have left to convince that the labels and their representatives are evil scum sucking swine. But even despite the fact that most people on here have been following this for quite a long time, you will still find people on this discussion forum who believe that the RIAA, a legally registered company, is the one bringing these lawsuits. This is in part because of your publicity and how you have chosen to present it.
With regards to linking to the documents that show the plaintiffs, I'm not sure if you're aware of a tradition here on/., but many people never actually read the articles. Look at any moderately complex story and you'll see people saying RTFA (Read the Fucking Article), or "I know this is/., but I read the article anyway". By burying the plaintiffs behind a link, you're really NOT getting through to a vast majority of your readers.
At the same time, you don't make it easy for us to use your stories to warn OTHER people who have no existing knowledge of these cases and get them on-side. You seem to put a lot of work into your publicity, so don't you think that it's a great shame that you actively limit how useful it can be ?
All I've been suggesting (and still am!) is that you make a very minor change to your wording which would make your stories useful to a wider audience and clear up confusion that already exists. You could still bash on the RIAA if you have a personal issue with that organisation, but you'd be creating publicity that would
A) Do far more damage to the labels, the actual groups responsible for this terrorism B) Allow more people to understand the issues and patterns C) Build a better image of label collusion and racketeering in people's minds D) Resolve any confusion that already exists over the participants in this pantomime
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Oh, one more thing... At no point did I say that
that today's offerings from MS are technically inferior to FreeBSD and especially MySQL so please don't put words in my mouth. I actually hate MySQL and prefer Sybase and Postgresql, and you'll find many comments in my history to support this.
What I was discussing is the complexity involved in migrating any complex system to another operating system and database.
You could be going from the second best platform in the world to the best platform in the world, but if your system is complex, it's going to be hard and things generally go wrong unless very well managed.
I do actually know quite a few people from Yahoo! and some of the consultants who worked on the Hotmail change. Yahoo! might not be completely FreeBSD but a large amount of important stuff is (e.g. the european content management system)
:)
I'm not arguing that the headlines were sensational in the hotmail days, but it did take three tries, two of which they had to back out of before they got moved. That's non-trivial!
So the smart admins at yahoo! are moving to Linux huh? Well then this just changes to
"The Linux/MySQL migration will be fun..."
because it will STILL have to happen
"Generally only small numbers of people are killed by terrorism" - well just 10,500+ since 9/11... no big deal right. You won't care if they kill you then?
10,500 people in 7 years is NOTHING. More people have died from heart attacks in that time. More people have died from car crashes in that time. Want to declare a war on those ?
As for not caring if they kill me, no, I wouldn't. I would rather be killed at the hands of a terrorist tomorrow than live in a world where we sacrifice our freedoms to keep us 'safe'.
I have two statements explicitly in my will... If I burn in on a jump, I do not want anyone to sue the jumpship operator, the rig / canopy company or anyone else. The second one is for release to the press should I die in a terrorism related incident - that states that I am happy to have lived in the environment I did, with the risks commensurate to that, and I wouldn't want to see laws changed, so don't do anything dumb "in my name".
...to watch from a great distance!
I remember how many goes it took to get hotmail off of FreeBSD, and I expect Yahoo! to be even harder.
I resent that! I'm a 64-bit nerd!
I think you'll find that the RIAA are the ones behind the music - the MPAA are the music people.
Also, you'll find that both of these organisations represent the industry - neither of them represent or support the artist in any way!
I've had this conversation with loads of people, and I'm slowly making headway. More and more of my associates are starting to work this way, and it's buying us all far better quality of life.
:)
Would your employer give you any of their high-value goods or services for free? The answer to that is normally no.
So why should you give them any of YOUR high-value services for free?
When I take a job, I'm offering to exchange a certain amount of my time and skills for a certain amount of money. If I give them loads more, then I'm actually getting less money per unit of work than I agreed.
I'm flexible to a certain extent... I normally get in half an hour early because I like to avoid traffic any way, and I work through my lunch hour. On balance, I do about 7 hours a week free overtime. But that's where I draw the line, and every hour after that either costs, or contributes to time off in lieu. Since my base holiday allowance at my new gig is 30 days per year, it mostly has to be paid overtime rather than TOIL these days.
I'll never forget the look on the MDs face at the ad agency I worked at 5 years ago when I asked him for £20,000 in free advertising - he went spare, and that was for charity! That's when I realised that this is a two way street and cut my average work week from 60 hours to 40. Things got messy a bit quickly but then another overhaul of management and we got sensible staffing levels and proper project planning
This is one of the main reasons I always negotiate overtime into my contracts (and recently into my permanent role contract). If it doesn't cost the company anything, they have no reason NOT to work me as hard as they can.
Getting paid overtime also protects against incompetent bosses to an extent. They can't hide the amount of extra work they're pushing you for from their own management or the financial crew, so at least even if you can't get through to them, there is a chance of someone else slapping them. This has really improved the quality of my life in the past and the new boss was more competent, so the amount of overtime went down.
I'd like to have a look and see if it is still open and responding to all.
I'll buy your argument... I don't like the fact that this is the way it is, but that's for another discussion.
I just have one question then though... How come they are able to use a law that's name implies it is to protect copyright (Digital Millenium COPYRIGHT Act) to protect their Trademarks ?
Does this whole section of the law not seem broken to anyone else here ?
And to think - this mob who I first saw ripping off Toyota Hilux designs, could soon be the proud? owners of Jaguar :)
That's a bald faced lie. They absolutely ARE monetizing it, because if you want to buy after doing a lookup, you're forced to either buy it from NetSol instead of one of their competitors - so by locking these to them, they ARE monetizing them.
Like the subject says... when ? I'm really looking foward to that, but then, last I checked GPGMail still wasn't available for Leopard :(
On all of my mice, the middle click is achieved by clicking on the scroll wheel. And yes, this is in OS X and in X11 on that platform.
I'm dying to know - what kind of programming is easy on Linux that is hard on Apple ?
I have a gorgeous and very functional GUI for Cocoa/Objective C code, I have a full GNU toolchain (autoconf, make, gcc, gdb, etc.) for regular C work. Perl comes out the box as does Python, ruby and rails. Not sure about PHP because I'm still in recovery from the last job I had that made me use that. When I've got Java work to do, I just fire up eclipse. Integration with subversion repositories seems to Just Work.
So what am I missing here? What programming task is easier on Linux than on OS X?
The problem is that by having just ONE device in your home that requires WEP, you now have to compromise your entire network - either that, or reconfig your router every time you want to use that one device.
It's just not acceptable for me.
I have a REALLY important question for you then...
Where is the shuffle tracks button in XBMC ? I can't find the damn thing, and shuffling my playlists is more complex than my wife wants to do!
And your point is what? Did you read the whole article? Did you read the bit where he was all high and mighty about Google not offering him a position worthy enough (but still being homeless for 6 months)? Did you read the attacks on employers not using him to his full potential and only wanting a code monkey?
I've been a contractor for a long time (Ok, just gone permanent yesterday), and one thing I learned very early on in the game is that no matter what you are hired to do, you do the job you are given. If you don't like it, you hand your notice in and find another contract. You NEVER badmouth an employer, especially not in public, no matter how your working relationship ended.
Ouch - that sucks a little. Fortunately most places in the civilised world still allow this.
;)
I believe that Australia and South Africa used to forbid it or at least in the case of RSA, require special permission. Now it's pretty easy to have two though.
Technically, I could have three, but I'm not sure I see the value in a Zimbabwean passport these days
That integrated chip you refer to does NOT have to be wireless if I remember the actual spec sheet correctly.
One minor point - I think that the yanks only demanded machine readable passports. This meant being able to be read by a swipe enabled machine. RFID was NOT required but your government and mine jumped on the opportunity to add this anyway.
:)
I guess that technically you could use it to target just American's. There's bound to be something in the data that identifies the country of issue. So you could have special bombs for Yanks, Poms, Aussies or the Irish
Kidnapping is a far more interesting worry to me, having spent a lot of time traveling in Africa. The LAST thing I wanted to do was be identified as being British because there is an impression out there that this would mean I am worth more as a hostage. Fortunately I have dual citizenship, so I could leave my RFID enabled Brit passport safely at home and travel on my other passport.
Because I can't see him getting too much more work.
What company in their right mind would hire him, knowing that if they don't measure up as an employer, they're in for public vilification? He might be good, but he's not worth it!
Ok, now which of those things are innovative?
I don't see any single tool mentioned there that is innovative. Maybe your toolchain or workflow is innovative, but none of those tools are.
How long has he run Linux at home? Is this something that has been going on for years, or something that he got someone to install after his second interview? Context means a lot here!
What about at work? How much Linux or other Open Source software has he worked with in his corporate life? That makes a big impact on seeing things from the customer's point of view.
The one thing I'm really hoping is that he will bring fresh eyes to Red Hat and more focus on their core products instead of implementing $BUZZWORDOFTHEWEEK in each new release.
As a company, they've become very bad at accepting criticism and taking feedback on issues. They also need to spend some time working on their installer and their command line tools.
The fact that you can't do an LVM (or was it RAID?) install in text mode in one of the newer RHELs really bugged me. The fact that they told me the command line tools were not a focus and would never be able to do everything the GUI tools did just scared me witless. Apparently their corporate strategy is to sell you Satellite (at GBP8k + per seat licensing) and for you to manage your boxes through that, hence the lack of focus on command line tools.
Contrast this with SLES where everything you can do in the GUI version of YAST2, you can do in the text version as well. Telling Solaris admins that they have to run X on their new Linux boxes to be able to use the config tools is NOT a good way to win them over!
Ray,
/., but many people never actually read the articles. Look at any moderately complex story and you'll see people saying RTFA (Read the Fucking Article), or "I know this is /., but I read the article anyway". By burying the plaintiffs behind a link, you're really NOT getting through to a vast majority of your readers.
I'm quite aware that you use RIAA as shorthand for these companies, but I'm still saying you're wrong. I also know that you link to documents showing the actual plaintiffs and I _still_ say that you're wrong.
You're a lawyer, and by all accounts a good one. I wouldn't dream of telling you how to practice law. But you honestly could use some help in how you publicize this work and that's all I've been trying to point out.
You're preaching to the choir here on Slashdot. It's nice to get these updates, but I don't think there is anyone that you have left to convince that the labels and their representatives are evil scum sucking swine. But even despite the fact that most people on here have been following this for quite a long time, you will still find people on this discussion forum who believe that the RIAA, a legally registered company, is the one bringing these lawsuits. This is in part because of your publicity and how you have chosen to present it.
With regards to linking to the documents that show the plaintiffs, I'm not sure if you're aware of a tradition here on
At the same time, you don't make it easy for us to use your stories to warn OTHER people who have no existing knowledge of these cases and get them on-side. You seem to put a lot of work into your publicity, so don't you think that it's a great shame that you actively limit how useful it can be ?
All I've been suggesting (and still am!) is that you make a very minor change to your wording which would make your stories useful to a wider audience and clear up confusion that already exists. You could still bash on the RIAA if you have a personal issue with that organisation, but you'd be creating publicity that would
A) Do far more damage to the labels, the actual groups responsible for this terrorism
B) Allow more people to understand the issues and patterns
C) Build a better image of label collusion and racketeering in people's minds
D) Resolve any confusion that already exists over the participants in this pantomime