Oh no, rock crusher is too good for SCO. I think Wesley in the Princess Bride was on to something with "To the Pain."
Wesley: "To the pain" means the first thing you lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.
Humperdink: And then my tongue, I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time, a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.
Wesley: I wasn't finished! The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by your right.
Humperdink: And then my ears, I understand! Let's get on with it!
Wesley: WRONG! Your ears you keep and I'll tell you why. So that every shreik of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out "dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish. Wallowing in freakish misery forever.
I see you have actually tried to get a visa to work in another country. Let me tell you, as byzantine as our immigration laws seem to be, getting into the United States to work (even legally) is a cakewalk compared to most parts of the world.
Go ahead and try to move to Russia and get a working visa. The sound of slavic laughter over a long distance connection is something to not be missed.
Offering reliable service for a good price is expensive. How many independent T1 lines does your "ISP" have? Marketing your service costs even more, unless you know a lot of people or are a particularly good salesman.
The trick is to marry a good saleswoman. Especially one that does computer tutoring for upper-class seniors.
As far as independent T1 lines, they are only as "independent" as your service provider. My customer's understand part of the reason WHY we are so cheap is because the service is run from my basement over a DSL line. If service were for some reason impaired for longer than a few hours (and it's never happened) I'd refund them the hosting fee for the time the service was out.
They joy of knowing they customers and they knowing you.
Small Businesses and Non-Profits are like that too.
I do remember being hired for the Army to code a website, and no seeing a paycheck for 4 months. Not only did I have to get through that Army's red tape, I had to go through the University's who had subcontracted the job out to me's red-tape.
Now one advantage I have running a business on the side is the ability to exploit the uber-long lead time on projects. I had a coffee shop that took 4 months to figure out what they wanted, and a professional organization that from first meeting to deliverable was 9 months.
Someone who didn't have a paycheck to fall back on would have walked away from both. As it is, the checks are landing at just the right time to make for a very happy holiday.
There is no law that says you have to leap right out of your current job and into a startup. If you are developing software, you and your developers are the most expensive part. Developing your product can be as simple as taking a few hours out a week and, well, develop it.
Remember, Hewett Packard and Apple were started out of a borrowed garage.
I am currently running a web developement firm and an ISP from my basement. It's not enough to quit my day job, but it does help line the pockets around the holidays. My market is small non-profits and family run businesses who are sick of dealing with large ISP's, and getting raped by web designers. My product is reliable service for a good price, and the ability to tweak the system to make it do what THEY want it to do.
I think Microsoft has a lot at stake. Of course on SlashDot we normally roast them, the EU is set to broil them. Despite all that, Microsoft is still it's own wurst enemy. Many customers are out for blood after having paid double dollars to be put out to pasture.
I'll just be happy to see them turning on a spit, regardless of who out-flanks them.
Hey, but think of all the free testing microsoft is going to have performed! Before they had to release it to customers before any bugs saw the light of day.
As a kid who picked up BASIC programming at 6 I can tell you that not all children are wired the same. Mind you I didn't have an instructor. It was me and a 300 page IBM reference manual.
Well, unless you are a lone ubergeek. When I try to discuss anything in-depth with my peers they either nod and smile or drool.
I always wonder if I'm really that good, or am I just completely nuts. Well they are still paying me after 5 years, so I guess it really doesn't matter.
Chicks dig weiner dogs. (Slap) Not in the usenet sense, the cute dog sense.
So just get yourself a silly sweater and take yourself out for a walk around the park. When they ask, make up a store about your weiner dog Fritz who died last week. You used to walk him around this very spot...
Egads, I hang out with a guy in Philly who also works from home and also is dating a nursing student.
Note to single geeks: our (lack of) sleep schedules seem to dovetail nicely with medical professionals. They can't find love because of their crazy schedules. Mental note for my next life...
My wife just had a baby, and work was all set to let me work at home. Great idea... not.
Screaming newborns do not make for a great working environments. And spouses sometime do not understand that "this is work time."
I'm trying out a 6-2 schedule so I can give her a break in the afternoon. My trouble is that if little one keeps me up till 2am, I'm not much use at the office.
I lucked out. I've been there for a while, and everyone seems to understand.
Parenthood is not measured in success. It's measured in survival.
Money doesn't buy influence. Votes are influence. A politician ultimately answers to the populice. You cannot win a war when the enemy controls where the battle is to take place, the rules of engagement, and the weapons you are allowed to use.
Put simply, we need to organize this murmoring into a chorus. Not a riot. Not a protest. A chorus. We do not need to tear apart our cities to get our point across. The cities are already ours. We do not need to yell at one another. We are in accord. What we do need to do is put aside our differences, and focus on what we have in common.
Liberal and conservative are not black and white. They are melody and harmony. One singing louder than the other makes noise, not music. One competeing against another is cacaphony, not art.
QNX runs aircraft, missiles, and satellites. I would dare say that security IS a design consideration.
Linux and BSD scale down to PDA's and data recorders. You just pick your flavor and go. And first you claim Linux is bloated, and then that SELinux has no apps.
As far as a microkernel OS, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Microkernel is design feature for future expansion and development. Performance and security are on par with everything else. I think Linux has done a pretty good job of showing how a monolithic kernel can run everything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer.
Our problem is not that we have NO embedded OS's. One has to simply select the best on for the application.
NFS is installed, but not configured for RedHat by default. Having set up a number of networks, you have to jump through a few hoops to get NFS working.
Windows throws open and administrator share out of the box.
Prima Face, you don't see the lists till you pay money. You have no idea if the list is working unless you run it. The incentive is to trick you into buying the list.
I'm just wondering what would constitute a good response to a wide-scale outage? I mean if New York is destroyed by a meteor that shower I wouldn't count on being able to pull up the Time's server.
Frankly people the internet is run along the same backbone as the telephone system. Why? Cost. It is as reliable as your major long-distance phone carriers, because it's switched right along side of the long distance phone network.
What bugs me far more than the internet going down is the fact that some morons think that generating power in Oregon and sending it across the country to Virginia to save $0.03 a kilowatt hour is somehow a bright idea.
It's like the dotcom people have taken their business plans and become utility consultants and lobbiests.
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So, is broadband available and how are the public schools? (HHOS)
No, no. The charm of the pitchfork is that you use it when covered in filth. Any fool can cause puncture wounds. The artist causes a septic infection.
Go ahead and try to move to Russia and get a working visa. The sound of slavic laughter over a long distance connection is something to not be missed.
The trick is to marry a good saleswoman. Especially one that does computer tutoring for upper-class seniors.
As far as independent T1 lines, they are only as "independent" as your service provider. My customer's understand part of the reason WHY we are so cheap is because the service is run from my basement over a DSL line. If service were for some reason impaired for longer than a few hours (and it's never happened) I'd refund them the hosting fee for the time the service was out.
They joy of knowing they customers and they knowing you.
What a codemonkey needs with a storefront I don't know. I've just always wanted one.
I do remember being hired for the Army to code a website, and no seeing a paycheck for 4 months. Not only did I have to get through that Army's red tape, I had to go through the University's who had subcontracted the job out to me's red-tape.
Now one advantage I have running a business on the side is the ability to exploit the uber-long lead time on projects. I had a coffee shop that took 4 months to figure out what they wanted, and a professional organization that from first meeting to deliverable was 9 months.
Someone who didn't have a paycheck to fall back on would have walked away from both. As it is, the checks are landing at just the right time to make for a very happy holiday.
Remember, Hewett Packard and Apple were started out of a borrowed garage.
I am currently running a web developement firm and an ISP from my basement. It's not enough to quit my day job, but it does help line the pockets around the holidays. My market is small non-profits and family run businesses who are sick of dealing with large ISP's, and getting raped by web designers. My product is reliable service for a good price, and the ability to tweak the system to make it do what THEY want it to do.
Now, are you one of the prisoners, or one of the jailers number 6?
2006. My aren't you optimistic. I'd pegged it at 2008 for sure.
It's rustling.
I'll just be happy to see them turning on a spit, regardless of who out-flanks them.
Hey, but think of all the free testing microsoft is going to have performed! Before they had to release it to customers before any bugs saw the light of day.
As a kid who picked up BASIC programming at 6 I can tell you that not all children are wired the same. Mind you I didn't have an instructor. It was me and a 300 page IBM reference manual.
I always wonder if I'm really that good, or am I just completely nuts. Well they are still paying me after 5 years, so I guess it really doesn't matter.
So just get yourself a silly sweater and take yourself out for a walk around the park. When they ask, make up a store about your weiner dog Fritz who died last week. You used to walk him around this very spot...
Note to single geeks: our (lack of) sleep schedules seem to dovetail nicely with medical professionals. They can't find love because of their crazy schedules. Mental note for my next life...
Screaming newborns do not make for a great working environments. And spouses sometime do not understand that "this is work time."
I'm trying out a 6-2 schedule so I can give her a break in the afternoon. My trouble is that if little one keeps me up till 2am, I'm not much use at the office. I lucked out. I've been there for a while, and everyone seems to understand.
Parenthood is not measured in success. It's measured in survival.
Money doesn't buy influence. Votes are influence. A politician ultimately answers to the populice. You cannot win a war when the enemy controls where the battle is to take place, the rules of engagement, and the weapons you are allowed to use.
Put simply, we need to organize this murmoring into a chorus. Not a riot. Not a protest. A chorus. We do not need to tear apart our cities to get our point across. The cities are already ours. We do not need to yell at one another. We are in accord. What we do need to do is put aside our differences, and focus on what we have in common.
Liberal and conservative are not black and white. They are melody and harmony. One singing louder than the other makes noise, not music. One competeing against another is cacaphony, not art.
QNX runs aircraft, missiles, and satellites. I would dare say that security IS a design consideration.
Linux and BSD scale down to PDA's and data recorders. You just pick your flavor and go. And first you claim Linux is bloated, and then that SELinux has no apps.
As far as a microkernel OS, I'm not sure what you are talking about. Microkernel is design feature for future expansion and development. Performance and security are on par with everything else. I think Linux has done a pretty good job of showing how a monolithic kernel can run everything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer.
Our problem is not that we have NO embedded OS's. One has to simply select the best on for the application.
Windows throws open and administrator share out of the box.
Prima Face, you don't see the lists till you pay money. You have no idea if the list is working unless you run it. The incentive is to trick you into buying the list.
(Whipcrack)
Uh oh, back to washing the dishes.
Frankly people the internet is run along the same backbone as the telephone system. Why? Cost. It is as reliable as your major long-distance phone carriers, because it's switched right along side of the long distance phone network.
What bugs me far more than the internet going down is the fact that some morons think that generating power in Oregon and sending it across the country to Virginia to save $0.03 a kilowatt hour is somehow a bright idea.
It's like the dotcom people have taken their business plans and become utility consultants and lobbiests.