'Where are the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the Asian community during this episode that has caused this biased and openly one-sided smear campaign?'
Holy crap, I think the Asian community can do without the likes of people like Jesse "Heimy Town" Jackson and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton. They represent their communities about as well as David Duke represents his...
Good for you! I'm a resident of the USA and we'll make fun of our leaders and your's too. Get over it. Or sue. Whatever floats your insecure boat. In our country we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Try it out sometime, unless that gets you thrown in jail or something. Ooops!
Let's be even more honest... the contracts you'll be getting are not going to be the best of the best. I've been a real admin for 18+ years now and have seen it all. Your underpaid "senior admins" are okay for south America, but you're light years behind the stuff that's happening in the industry here up north, today. For starters you're not getting to work on the latest and greatest hardware and software. You're working on failed data centers that can't attract anyone close to the best and brightest and can't afford anything but aging legacy hardware and badly implemented crapware. The data centers that can pay for good help, and can keep them, are going to be very well managed and fully able to attract more great people and weed out the scrubs. They'll also be able to smell the stench of IBM-GS' brand of bull$#!+ from a mile away. Sorry, bro, but no one at my skill level gives two thoughts about loosing a job to you nice folks down south or in India, or China or anywhere. I'm all for a global economy, and wherever great admins are makes no difference to me, as long as we can all communicate and do good work; we'll be rewarded. I prefer to lend my talents to well managed shops though, and avoid mismanaged IBM-GS data centers like the plague. Those are the ones you'll be cutting your teeth on. Word gets around fast and more and more smart data centers are choosing *not* to take the "blue pill." My advice is to start going for an H1B visa so you can make some real money, if you're as good as you claim. No one but your IBM-GS overlords is going to make any money off of your hard work. Think about it.
Well said! Every bit of that the dog's honest truth. I did a small contracting gig for them... let's name names, at Franklin Templeton and it's basically the same thing everyplace IMB-GS goes; takeover a data center and scare off anyone who did any real work, leaving the brain dead former IT management in place and "beefing" that up with IBM's very scary management. Bring in anyone who's desperate enough to work for the $#!+ wages they offer, until they get a clue and leave for *anything* else, better or not. Charge a ton for their scary "services" then get pushed out in a few years when the company realizes that nothing has changed and anyone with any skills has already found a better job or is smart enough not to return to the badly managed data center. IN a small market like here in central CA word travels *fast*. The IBM shops are we'll known for lousy pay and crappy management. Next? Find another sucker, I mean customer... rinse, repeat. I'm sure there might be one or two successes for them, but the two contracts I have very good first-person knowledge of are downright failures. The other being Williams and Sonoma's data center. That was a great story; IBM_GS convinces WSI that they can create scary fast LPARs in 15 minutes, and the lame management falls for that, only to realize that ooops, IBM-GS meant "well, 15 mintues to LPAR *after* a 30 day request period". HAHA! Well, things started to go bad from the start; no custom configs on the Regattas, must use IBM supported version of JAVA, must only run AIX 5.2, etc, etc. Not too much longer the remaining IT staff was being asked by the IT managers to "please setup a little environment for us to get some real work done on... keep IBM off it and don't bother letting them know. Dev works better than IBM could do, how about a nice QA environment too?... oh, let's do a UAT... etc. Two years later and IBM-GS is now leaving that site, tails between their legs. So much for their "services". I can't imagine that this is a one-off occurrence. Well, two-off.
Outsourcing is a great way to get quickly recognized as a *bad* data center to work at. The business of housing a data center in the USA and trying to manage it remotely with underpaid talent elsewhere and a "warm body to push the buttons" locally does not seem to work very well. Not surprisingly, I'm in no fear of loosing my position to some wannabe admins from central America or India. The only way that will ever work is to not only have the admins remote, but the IT managers and the entire data center need to be there as well. The managers and admins need to speak the same language, literally. Once any of those remote admins get some real skills, they'll be looking to upgrade their pay, just like everyone does, and leave for an nice H1B. As long as there's steady supply of noob-admins to take their underpaid place, that system will work great. Good luck to them, if they can pull that off!
I did not know that! Cool! I liked MKS *very* much, but still prefer cygwin with it's nice X-windows hooks. MKS is available free on the Veritas NetBackup v3.4 Vault(?) install CD, if you've got one lying about the shop. FYI.
Personally, I don't bother using Windows unless my workplace is forcing it on me and I can't provide the same functionality on my Sun Ultra 25 using Firefox and the very capable Citrix client. At home my "windows box" plays only Solaris 10 x86 or Linux(gentoo or ubuntu) and *rarely* do I bother to fire up XP unless I want to play a game on it (how far we have come; Macs were first refered to as "toys", but now my PC is little more than that and my Macs do the real jobs of browsing/video-DVD authoring/etc.), but we digress. No, I truly enjoy my PSP for what it's best at; playing some of the first-third party UMD based titles (Lego Star Wars II, GTA, Hot Shots Golf, etc.), playing ripped DVDs and some browsing of "light" web pages (out of memory, anyone?). My beef is with the way Sony treats the homebrew scene with disdain and downright hostility. Homebrewers are not "pirates", they're clever individuals who can actually help Sony sell systems in the long run and give upper-end consumers, like us, the ability to see the system running something other than what Sony approves of. In the USA I've only ever seen UMDs for purchase by themselves, not bundled with a standard DVD, so $20+ for a UMD movie is just outrageous. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I've yet to see any other device with a UMD drive in it. And although I own tons of Sony gear, and have since the 80's, the mistreatment of the homebrewers aside, the MemoryStick is overpriced and a weak storage platform only useful to people who buy only Sony branded gear (PS3/Cameras/TVs/PDAs/etc).
So, to sum up; I'm no Sony hater, I'm no developer, I'm a consumer and gamer and Sony had me going with the PSP, but their actions after its' release are nothing short of hostile and proprietary. And yes, I have big hands and still think the PSP is slightly oversized. Oh, and where are the custom and replaceable faceplates for it already? Nice device, bad company.
Let's not forget the many asinine "security updates" they force fed to us early adopters to keep the homebrew developers from actually adding something useful to that oversized (physically), overpriced (duh), underwhelming (storage) "wish I was a video iPod." I thought they had pulled their collective heads out of their asses, but now that the latest updated supports PS1 downloads, but *only* via another overpriced POS, the PS3, I see that nothing has changed. They made their bed. Lie in it, Sony.
Yeah, I agree, the storage has to be the worst thing about the system, overall. UMD was a joke, right? $20 a pop for less movie/features than a standard DVD... MemoryStick?! Waste of money. It *could* have been a contender, but it's only a nice widescreen legacy now.
Way to make every wrong turn, Sony... the one and only.:(
I just turned off WPA and made my SSID visible and a crowd of laptop-laden teens gathered outside my dwelling sporting tents in their shorts! This SCO guy is onto something... or is that ON something?
For Dog's sake won't somebody think of welcoming our new hotspot overlords already, you insensitive clod?!
For my next trick I'm setting up a Beowolf cluster of SCO-Unix boxen to provide free pr0n at all wireless and wired hotspots! Why do you think they call it HOTspot? Come on!
That's Google's tag-line. I guess Yahoo's is "Do lots of evil!" that and "We're #2!" and/or "At Yahoo, we're so closely tied to AT&T we thought it our duty to turn in anything any government asks for, warrant optional!":P
Yes! I have a demand for the blu-ray drives; get down to the sub-$400 price point. Hurry!
Personally, I'll be buying regular, old-fashioned, highly copyable, widescreen (if available) DVD5/DVD9 movies and shows until they stop making them, or when either one, or both, of the HD "standards" becomes:
1) easily copyable 2) an actual standard 3) priced nicely 4) there is no number 4 5) guaranteed to play on any supposedly compatible drive. is that too much to ask?
As far as games go... we'll the non-price cut just made the xbox360 look a whole lot better.
Come on, Sony. What's your problem? I *want* to buy PS3, but you're not making it very easy.
No! It gets better; phase out the free OS, "deep" discount on the new Vista... oops, need more RAM... oops, need a fat grafx card... oops, need better security... and on, and on.
Next thing you know M$ will be "giving away" their newest OS for a super deep discount on new hardware purchases... too late.
Leave your network open, strangers are welcome. Period. Say what you like but I actually helped my neighbor by securing their Linksys router (thanks for the default password, Mr. LazyUser) after attaching myself and my network to theirs, of course. I got free DSL/speed networking for about a year before they decided to change providers and got a new router, and HAHA on me, secured it! So, in essence I helped them to become aware of their network and to properly secure it, and all it cost them was the sharing of their bandwidth they were not using anyway. Stealing? Not even close. I never attacked or even scanned their boxen, nor did I interrupt or block any of their access upstream or otherwise misuse their connection. I did them a service, and would do so again. No one is going to see me scanning my neighbors from *inside* my own home. Good luck trying to "call the police" then. Seriously, good luck and good forensics to you!
If your network is going to broadcast into my home, secure it, or don't, but the use of those airwaves in my airspace gives me more than enough permission to connect, or snort.
THANK YOU!!1! That saves me the trouble and eye strain. As for One Touch... who needs it? Maybe grandma to backup her pr0n? I can see only two uses for the "One Touch" button; Data Self Destruct, and... and that's it.
Unfortunately scumbags like Clear Channel still overcharge for tickets and hoard any good seating for their crappy radio stations to use or give away as prizes. Until asshats like CC clean up their act I, for one, will no longer attend any live event. I'll just wait for the DVD.
I like the idea of having some way of making FOSS a viable option to our managers when it comes time to do a proof of concept and ultimately head into a dev environment, or similar. However, like yourself, I'm wondering if there are any resources like that available outside of ourselves. The way I typically try to shoehorn FOSS into our shop is to; 1) point to existing, highly mainstream FOSS tools and services already in your environment (hello Java/Ruby/Apache/tomcat/Linux/some Unix OSes/openSolaris/etc), 2) point out the cost of support (beyond our admin efforts, like Nagios which will provide an enterprise support option to orgs who *really* want to pay for support) and the ease in the ability for that support to be passed on to "future generations of admins" ie. future maintainability, 3) do the footwork/homework for your FOSS app goals up front to show what can be made available in terms of features vs. gotchas and how long it's going to take to implement.
There's probably some other things I'm forgetting, but those are the first that come to mind. It's not enough to point out huge, expensive proprietary software mistakes in the legacy of your shop, and probably not advisable on its own merit. Doing the homework on why your new FOSS app will be better, stronger, easier to maintain and ultimately cheaper than the "off the shelf" version of your solution is the way to go here. Good luck!
I, for one, welcome our linux-based, beowulf-clustered, optical CPU overlords, you insensitive clod! Think of the children who'll have faster than light atto-pr0n capabilities!!1!
I think I skipped a few. No matter. Faster machines == faster pr0n, everyone wins!
All this "lock in" is pissing us consumers off, bigtime! I can't get my Apple iTunes songs to play on my PSP unmodified. I can't get my Zune to work on Linux. I can't get my iPod to connect to my C64 GEOS box nor can I get my Rio500 to communicate with a toasted cheese sandwich!!! This is CRAP!!!
BTW, can we up the "cooling off period" to 40 years so I can return all the extra songs from CDs and albums that I ever purchased just to get one good song? I think then we can all get some sleep at night. Way to tackle a big issue, EU!
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The stock market is driven by crowds of idiots who act upon any news; fake or real. Act first, ask dumb questions later. Good job!
We can get there in time for pon farr! Wacky giant Q-tip/axe weapons optional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pon_farr
'Where are the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the Asian community during this episode that has caused this biased and openly one-sided smear campaign?'
Holy crap, I think the Asian community can do without the likes of people like Jesse "Heimy Town" Jackson and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton. They represent their communities about as well as David Duke represents his...
Good for you! I'm a resident of the USA and we'll make fun of our leaders and your's too. Get over it. Or sue. Whatever floats your insecure boat. In our country we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Try it out sometime, unless that gets you thrown in jail or something. Ooops!
Let's be even more honest... the contracts you'll be getting are not going to be the best of the best. I've been a real admin for 18+ years now and have seen it all. Your underpaid "senior admins" are okay for south America, but you're light years behind the stuff that's happening in the industry here up north, today. For starters you're not getting to work on the latest and greatest hardware and software. You're working on failed data centers that can't attract anyone close to the best and brightest and can't afford anything but aging legacy hardware and badly implemented crapware. The data centers that can pay for good help, and can keep them, are going to be very well managed and fully able to attract more great people and weed out the scrubs. They'll also be able to smell the stench of IBM-GS' brand of bull$#!+ from a mile away. Sorry, bro, but no one at my skill level gives two thoughts about loosing a job to you nice folks down south or in India, or China or anywhere. I'm all for a global economy, and wherever great admins are makes no difference to me, as long as we can all communicate and do good work; we'll be rewarded. I prefer to lend my talents to well managed shops though, and avoid mismanaged IBM-GS data centers like the plague. Those are the ones you'll be cutting your teeth on. Word gets around fast and more and more smart data centers are choosing *not* to take the "blue pill." My advice is to start going for an H1B visa so you can make some real money, if you're as good as you claim. No one but your IBM-GS overlords is going to make any money off of your hard work. Think about it.
Well said! Every bit of that the dog's honest truth. I did a small contracting gig for them... let's name names, at Franklin Templeton and it's basically the same thing everyplace IMB-GS goes; takeover a data center and scare off anyone who did any real work, leaving the brain dead former IT management in place and "beefing" that up with IBM's very scary management. Bring in anyone who's desperate enough to work for the $#!+ wages they offer, until they get a clue and leave for *anything* else, better or not. Charge a ton for their scary "services" then get pushed out in a few years when the company realizes that nothing has changed and anyone with any skills has already found a better job or is smart enough not to return to the badly managed data center. IN a small market like here in central CA word travels *fast*. The IBM shops are we'll known for lousy pay and crappy management. Next? Find another sucker, I mean customer... rinse, repeat. I'm sure there might be one or two successes for them, but the two contracts I have very good first-person knowledge of are downright failures. The other being Williams and Sonoma's data center. That was a great story; IBM_GS convinces WSI that they can create scary fast LPARs in 15 minutes, and the lame management falls for that, only to realize that ooops, IBM-GS meant "well, 15 mintues to LPAR *after* a 30 day request period". HAHA! Well, things started to go bad from the start; no custom configs on the Regattas, must use IBM supported version of JAVA, must only run AIX 5.2, etc, etc. Not too much longer the remaining IT staff was being asked by the IT managers to "please setup a little environment for us to get some real work done on... keep IBM off it and don't bother letting them know. Dev works better than IBM could do, how about a nice QA environment too?... oh, let's do a UAT... etc. Two years later and IBM-GS is now leaving that site, tails between their legs. So much for their "services". I can't imagine that this is a one-off occurrence. Well, two-off.
Outsourcing is a great way to get quickly recognized as a *bad* data center to work at. The business of housing a data center in the USA and trying to manage it remotely with underpaid talent elsewhere and a "warm body to push the buttons" locally does not seem to work very well. Not surprisingly, I'm in no fear of loosing my position to some wannabe admins from central America or India. The only way that will ever work is to not only have the admins remote, but the IT managers and the entire data center need to be there as well. The managers and admins need to speak the same language, literally. Once any of those remote admins get some real skills, they'll be looking to upgrade their pay, just like everyone does, and leave for an nice H1B. As long as there's steady supply of noob-admins to take their underpaid place, that system will work great. Good luck to them, if they can pull that off!
I did not know that! Cool! I liked MKS *very* much, but still prefer cygwin with it's nice X-windows hooks. MKS is available free on the Veritas NetBackup v3.4 Vault(?) install CD, if you've got one lying about the shop. FYI.
Yes, the standard shells are all command oriented, textual and several lack good networking hooks like perl does, but then we also have ruby...
8 6-25.exe
Oh look, Ruby 1.8.6, and for Windoze too!
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/18566/ruby1
Joy of joys!
Personally, I don't bother using Windows unless my workplace is forcing it on me and I can't provide the same functionality on my Sun Ultra 25 using Firefox and the very capable Citrix client. At home my "windows box" plays only Solaris 10 x86 or Linux(gentoo or ubuntu) and *rarely* do I bother to fire up XP unless I want to play a game on it (how far we have come; Macs were first refered to as "toys", but now my PC is little more than that and my Macs do the real jobs of browsing/video-DVD authoring/etc.), but we digress. No, I truly enjoy my PSP for what it's best at; playing some of the first-third party UMD based titles (Lego Star Wars II, GTA, Hot Shots Golf, etc.), playing ripped DVDs and some browsing of "light" web pages (out of memory, anyone?). My beef is with the way Sony treats the homebrew scene with disdain and downright hostility. Homebrewers are not "pirates", they're clever individuals who can actually help Sony sell systems in the long run and give upper-end consumers, like us, the ability to see the system running something other than what Sony approves of. In the USA I've only ever seen UMDs for purchase by themselves, not bundled with a standard DVD, so $20+ for a UMD movie is just outrageous. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I've yet to see any other device with a UMD drive in it. And although I own tons of Sony gear, and have since the 80's, the mistreatment of the homebrewers aside, the MemoryStick is overpriced and a weak storage platform only useful to people who buy only Sony branded gear (PS3/Cameras/TVs/PDAs/etc).
So, to sum up; I'm no Sony hater, I'm no developer, I'm a consumer and gamer and Sony had me going with the PSP, but their actions after its' release are nothing short of hostile and proprietary. And yes, I have big hands and still think the PSP is slightly oversized. Oh, and where are the custom and replaceable faceplates for it already? Nice device, bad company.
Let's not forget the many asinine "security updates" they force fed to us early adopters to keep the homebrew developers from actually adding something useful to that oversized (physically), overpriced (duh), underwhelming (storage) "wish I was a video iPod." I thought they had pulled their collective heads out of their asses, but now that the latest updated supports PS1 downloads, but *only* via another overpriced POS, the PS3, I see that nothing has changed. They made their bed. Lie in it, Sony.
:(
Yeah, I agree, the storage has to be the worst thing about the system, overall. UMD was a joke, right? $20 a pop for less movie/features than a standard DVD... MemoryStick?! Waste of money.
It *could* have been a contender, but it's only a nice widescreen legacy now.
Way to make every wrong turn, Sony... the one and only.
I think rootkits! Yep, rookits and handhelds closed to homebrew developers.
Sony, the one and only.
I just turned off WPA and made my SSID visible and a crowd of laptop-laden teens gathered outside my dwelling sporting tents in their shorts! This SCO guy is onto something... or is that ON something?
For Dog's sake won't somebody think of welcoming our new hotspot overlords already, you insensitive clod?!
For my next trick I'm setting up a Beowolf cluster of SCO-Unix boxen to provide free pr0n at all wireless and wired hotspots! Why do you think they call it HOTspot? Come on!
That's Google's tag-line. I guess Yahoo's is "Do lots of evil!" that and "We're #2!" and/or "At Yahoo, we're so closely tied to AT&T we thought it our duty to turn in anything any government asks for, warrant optional!" :P
"Wait for demand for Blu-Ray drives?
Is there any demand, whatsoever?"
Yes! I have a demand for the blu-ray drives; get down to the sub-$400 price point. Hurry!
Personally, I'll be buying regular, old-fashioned, highly copyable, widescreen (if available) DVD5/DVD9 movies and shows until they stop making them, or when either one, or both, of the HD "standards" becomes:
1) easily copyable
2) an actual standard
3) priced nicely
4) there is no number 4
5) guaranteed to play on any supposedly compatible drive. is that too much to ask?
As far as games go... we'll the non-price cut just made the xbox360 look a whole lot better.
Come on, Sony. What's your problem? I *want* to buy PS3, but you're not making it very easy.
No! It gets better; phase out the free OS, "deep" discount on the new Vista... oops, need more RAM... oops, need a fat grafx card... oops, need better security... and on, and on.
Next thing you know M$ will be "giving away" their newest OS for a super deep discount on new hardware purchases... too late.
Leave your network open, strangers are welcome. Period. Say what you like but I actually helped my neighbor by securing their Linksys router (thanks for the default password, Mr. LazyUser) after attaching myself and my network to theirs, of course. I got free DSL/speed networking for about a year before they decided to change providers and got a new router, and HAHA on me, secured it! So, in essence I helped them to become aware of their network and to properly secure it, and all it cost them was the sharing of their bandwidth they were not using anyway. Stealing? Not even close. I never attacked or even scanned their boxen, nor did I interrupt or block any of their access upstream or otherwise misuse their connection. I did them a service, and would do so again. No one is going to see me scanning my neighbors from *inside* my own home. Good luck trying to "call the police" then. Seriously, good luck and good forensics to you!
If your network is going to broadcast into my home, secure it, or don't, but the use of those airwaves in my airspace gives me more than enough permission to connect, or snort.
Dinos invented it, then birds ripped off the idea like Microsoft would have done.
This is why I always tell my 5/yo; Dino (shaped chicken) Nuggets are made with *REAL* dinosaurs! It's a fact.
THANK YOU!!1! That saves me the trouble and eye strain. As for One Touch... who needs it? Maybe grandma to backup her pr0n? I can see only two uses for the "One Touch" button; Data Self Destruct, and... and that's it.
Pretty blue LED though.
... to get soapbox shutdown permanently?
.40 twice."
Just say the word.
And by word I mean; Thunderbird.
"What's the word? Thunderbird. What's the price?
There's a decent TCL scripted sudoku solver over here: http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2850 1
Don't let the link fool you, it runs anywhere you can install the TCL shell environment.
Unfortunately scumbags like Clear Channel still overcharge for tickets and hoard any good seating for their crappy radio stations to use or give away as prizes. Until asshats like CC clean up their act I, for one, will no longer attend any live event. I'll just wait for the DVD.
I like the idea of having some way of making FOSS a viable option to our managers when it comes time to do a proof of concept and ultimately head into a dev environment, or similar. However, like yourself, I'm wondering if there are any resources like that available outside of ourselves. The way I typically try to shoehorn FOSS into our shop is to; 1) point to existing, highly mainstream FOSS tools and services already in your environment (hello Java/Ruby/Apache/tomcat/Linux/some Unix OSes/openSolaris/etc), 2) point out the cost of support (beyond our admin efforts, like Nagios which will provide an enterprise support option to orgs who *really* want to pay for support) and the ease in the ability for that support to be passed on to "future generations of admins" ie. future maintainability, 3) do the footwork/homework for your FOSS app goals up front to show what can be made available in terms of features vs. gotchas and how long it's going to take to implement.
There's probably some other things I'm forgetting, but those are the first that come to mind. It's not enough to point out huge, expensive proprietary software mistakes in the legacy of your shop, and probably not advisable on its own merit. Doing the homework on why your new FOSS app will be better, stronger, easier to maintain and ultimately cheaper than the "off the shelf" version of your solution is the way to go here. Good luck!
I, for one, welcome our linux-based, beowulf-clustered, optical CPU overlords, you insensitive clod! Think of the children who'll have faster than light atto-pr0n capabilities!!1!
I think I skipped a few. No matter. Faster machines == faster pr0n, everyone wins!
All this "lock in" is pissing us consumers off, bigtime! I can't get my Apple iTunes songs to play on my PSP unmodified. I can't get my Zune to work on Linux. I can't get my iPod to connect to my C64 GEOS box nor can I get my Rio500 to communicate with a toasted cheese sandwich!!! This is CRAP!!!
BTW, can we up the "cooling off period" to 40 years so I can return all the extra songs from CDs and albums that I ever purchased just to get one good song? I think then we can all get some sleep at night. Way to tackle a big issue, EU!
Makes a spiffy fish tank filtration medium too!
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