I just don't get it. When Firefox was known as mozilla 0.3, they were doing this sort of crap. For several years now though, they've _mostly_ got the development and release models right. Now over the last year, they've totally gone off the rails. FF4 is buggy, clunky, and has new UI elements that apparently came from the mind of a blind and retarded monkey--and in some cases, no way to turn them off! FF5 is...mostly identical. Same UI, and still buggy.
But hey--FF4 isn't supported anymore, and presumably FF5 won't be in another ten weeks or so when FF6 comes out. GREAT!
Here's a clue for this newly (re)formed enterprise group which, if followed, will be invaluable for the regular users as well: Quick trying to reinvent the fucking wheel, and spend more time rounding off the edges. Fix the bugs. Streamline the existing code. Quit adding random new features, quit throwing away versions that are a quarter-year old, quit moving stuff around for the sake of it. In short, quit making every browser update a training exercise.
Sudo is simple, free, and ubiquitous. You can install, configure, and use it in a matter of minutes. It does what it's supposed to do, and doesn't get in the way. The need for something more powerful or fine-grained is just not there, generally speaking. If it were, then any of the other tools (RBAC, PowerBroker, etc.) would have taken hold and displaced sudo. They haven't.
This is like extended ACLs in Unix - a solution to a problem that isn't actually a problem for most people, and has already been solved.
I tend to refer to people who want really good sound as audiophiles, and people who want really fancy (stupid) equipment as audiophules.
Replacement value of my stereo is about seven grand right now, but you'd be hard pressed to get significantly better for less than $12k. More to the point, you'd be hard pressed to get significantly better for any money, upstream of the speakers. A (damned!) good system can be affordable if you're careful, don't buy into the hype, and buy used when you can.
This is true. But companies (and by extension, the hiring managers) need to understand where they're making their money. The Mennonites could (theoretically) give up and start making second-rate crap for the same price, and make a big short-term profit. Suddenly they could product five times as much and sell it for the same price! Until their cost-cutting caught up to them, and people quit buying their furniture at a premium.
A company which has programming as a *primary function* needs to spend money on serious programmers and a proper environment for them. They need to spend time and money to get what they need to establish a name for themselves. On the other hand, they can probably get away with fairly cheap desk accessories (Note: Not chairs - good chairs are essential!) and aesthetic furniture. On the other hand, an interior design magazine would not be able to get away with less than top-notch casual furniture, decorations, and the like.
Here's a good piece of advice for managers and executives: Are you trying to cut costs in your primary business? If so, you're probably in trouble.
Agile programming is pretty much equivalent of as-built blueprints. Basically, you start with a half-assed drawing, and as you build, you create your blueprints to match the building. It's become the standard for almost all buildings, and it SUCKS!
Similarly, "Agile" and "Clean Code" are pretty much mutually exclusive in my experience. Someone who can get code out the door TODAY and update it TOMORROW is going to kludge together the worst pile of regurgitated crap possible.
"Are you comfortable with the current practice of letting a waiter you've never met whisk away a card with your account number prominently stamped on the front (and "security code" stamped on the back)?"
Absolutely! At the _very_ worst, I am liable for $50 of fraud that occurs if I report it. Practically, it's almost certainly going to be waived. I have been the victim of credit card fraud four times in my life, and am out-of-pocket exactly $0.00. The credit card companies work with the customers against fraud for the sake of keeping their business afloat and profitable. Paypal, on the other hand, has no regulatory or business reasons to do this at present - they have a captive audience.
Put them into a competitive market, and they'll die.
I defended the name "LibreOffice" because it was supposed to just be a placeholder to differentiate it from OpenOffice, until they could come up with a real new name.
"I've been working in the IT field for several years now..."
OK, stop. No certifications. If you're good, then your experience should be enough. Certifications get you a foot in the industry door, and experience (and skill, and hard work, and competence) get you the other 99% of the way.
That said, there a small number of certifications that carry more weight than the paper their printed on. The CISSP and CCIE have long been considered difficult enough to get that only dedicated and talented professionals carry them. Don't know if that's still the case.
I come from farming stock on all sides of the family, and have no problems with killing animals for food. When you're on a farm, it makes good sense to slaughter some of your own product for food.
Zuckerberg's attitude, though, really strikes me as gleefully sadistic. If he's concerned about animal welfare, he could just as easily become a vegetarian. Instead, he's going significantly out of his way to kill animals. Any claims of humanitarianism at this point seem a bit hollow. More like trophy hunters who are "maintaining/restoring the natural balance of wildlife."
Now I'm not sure about the details of this. Will this actively prevent me from, as root, explicitly creating a user with whatever UID I want?
I assume (but am not sure) that I can force a uid when necessary, and this is only how users are added when the UID isn't explicitly given. Large shops almost always specify the UID, either through custom tools or by pushing a password file around. This won't affect them much. (Assuming I'm correct in my understanding, of course)
I might argue that the US government is running away screaming as fast as they can too. Governments are notorious for their momentum, and I can't imagine that they're capable of turning on a dime. Honestly if it weren't for the government demands and requirements, I suspect that HP would have killed off HP-UX almost a decade ago. Similarly, they'll probably keep Solaris/Sparc alive for another decade or so, before they can migrate away.
But looking at our case as an example, the first thing we did to eliminate Oracle from our environment was to renew our software contracts for two years, followed by buying more hardware. We're a fairly large contract, so I suspect slower than average at vendor replacement. Thus, by the time we don't renew our Oracle contract next fall, I predict that the Oracle/Sun 'growth' curve will be on a fairly steep decline which started in Q4/11 or Q1/12.
Everyone who has dealt with Oracle since the Sun buyout seems to have the same story: Oracle is making it as expensive and difficult to keep using Sparc, Solaris, and (especially!) Sun's software suite as possible. Switching to different software on a different OS running on different hardware is a massive and unpleasant undertaking, but it's still better than the alternative of staying.
Part of it, I suspect, is a result of the move to widescreen displays on laptops. Modern laptops typically have 900 or 1050 pixels vertically, and are thus the space is highly sought-after.
Ah, good. Then we only need to wait six months for them to add another broken 'feature.' It still might be two years before they fix the floating URL, though. Ultimately, they're spending too much time on 'reimagining' and not nearly enough on bug fixes and performance. They need a 3.7 release: Keep the 3-series, but work entirely on repairs and speed. Then there needs to be a feature moratorium for at least a year.
"Mozilla's motto for Firefox is to keep it being completely customizable..."
Ah yes. That's why I can turn the status bar back on in FF4, right?
I appreciate the desire to reduce clutter and give us more browsing space, but the stupid floating URL at the bottom in lieu of a status bar does NOT save space, it just overlaps and obscures content--and I can't turn it off or move it.
The Mozilla foundation needs to stop screwing around until they take a good hard look at the direction they've been drifting in the last two years.
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Let's be clear on this.
Oracle is killing everything remotely related to Sun.
They're killing SPARC.
They're killing PostGresql.
They're killing Solaris.
They're killing the Sun identity management suite (including directory server)
They're killing Java.
They're killing OpenOffice.
And they're killing every community that has formed around any one of those technologies.
Oracle is bound and determined to leave the Sun name and everything it created nothing more than a purple stain on the information highway.
They still do. They just make facebook posts about it now.
And the one after that will replace the entire BROWSER with an "I'm feeling lucky" button.
It's so nice to see that after the pony-tailed idiot (Scwartz) destroyed Sun, he's showing up to mess with Oracle.
Honestly, Oracle should have kept him on. They deserve each other.
If you go over here,, you'll find out the biggest reason it's getting popular.
Hint: It's not facebook.
I just don't get it. When Firefox was known as mozilla 0.3, they were doing this sort of crap. For several years now though, they've _mostly_ got the development and release models right. Now over the last year, they've totally gone off the rails.
FF4 is buggy, clunky, and has new UI elements that apparently came from the mind of a blind and retarded monkey--and in some cases, no way to turn them off! FF5 is...mostly identical. Same UI, and still buggy.
But hey--FF4 isn't supported anymore, and presumably FF5 won't be in another ten weeks or so when FF6 comes out. GREAT!
Here's a clue for this newly (re)formed enterprise group which, if followed, will be invaluable for the regular users as well: Quick trying to reinvent the fucking wheel, and spend more time rounding off the edges. Fix the bugs. Streamline the existing code. Quit adding random new features, quit throwing away versions that are a quarter-year old, quit moving stuff around for the sake of it. In short, quit making every browser update a training exercise.
OK, let's see here.
Sudo is simple, free, and ubiquitous. You can install, configure, and use it in a matter of minutes. It does what it's supposed to do, and doesn't get in the way. The need for something more powerful or fine-grained is just not there, generally speaking. If it were, then any of the other tools (RBAC, PowerBroker, etc.) would have taken hold and displaced sudo. They haven't.
This is like extended ACLs in Unix - a solution to a problem that isn't actually a problem for most people, and has already been solved.
I tend to refer to people who want really good sound as audiophiles, and people who want really fancy (stupid) equipment as audiophules.
Replacement value of my stereo is about seven grand right now, but you'd be hard pressed to get significantly better for less than $12k. More to the point, you'd be hard pressed to get significantly better for any money, upstream of the speakers. A (damned!) good system can be affordable if you're careful, don't buy into the hype, and buy used when you can.
This is true. But companies (and by extension, the hiring managers) need to understand where they're making their money.
The Mennonites could (theoretically) give up and start making second-rate crap for the same price, and make a big short-term profit. Suddenly they could product five times as much and sell it for the same price! Until their cost-cutting caught up to them, and people quit buying their furniture at a premium.
A company which has programming as a *primary function* needs to spend money on serious programmers and a proper environment for them. They need to spend time and money to get what they need to establish a name for themselves. On the other hand, they can probably get away with fairly cheap desk accessories (Note: Not chairs - good chairs are essential!) and aesthetic furniture. On the other hand, an interior design magazine would not be able to get away with less than top-notch casual furniture, decorations, and the like.
Here's a good piece of advice for managers and executives: Are you trying to cut costs in your primary business? If so, you're probably in trouble.
Agile programming is pretty much equivalent of as-built blueprints. Basically, you start with a half-assed drawing, and as you build, you create your blueprints to match the building. It's become the standard for almost all buildings, and it SUCKS!
Similarly, "Agile" and "Clean Code" are pretty much mutually exclusive in my experience. Someone who can get code out the door TODAY and update it TOMORROW is going to kludge together the worst pile of regurgitated crap possible.
"Are you comfortable with the current practice of letting a waiter you've never met whisk away a card with your account number prominently stamped on the front (and "security code" stamped on the back)?"
Absolutely! At the _very_ worst, I am liable for $50 of fraud that occurs if I report it. Practically, it's almost certainly going to be waived.
I have been the victim of credit card fraud four times in my life, and am out-of-pocket exactly $0.00. The credit card companies work with the customers against fraud for the sake of keeping their business afloat and profitable. Paypal, on the other hand, has no regulatory or business reasons to do this at present - they have a captive audience.
Put them into a competitive market, and they'll die.
Doesn't mean we should actually give it any credibility.
"wearing 3D glasses"
Never mind. Still nothing to see here.
Hilarious! But it _is_ a real game, and it _is_ awesome, and it _is_ very friendly for kids. Go find it.
Yeah. Surely piracy (where "piracy" here is defined as "letting other people listen to your music") has reached the trillions of dollars by now.
I defended the name "LibreOffice" because it was supposed to just be a placeholder to differentiate it from OpenOffice, until they could come up with a real new name.
However, it seems to have stuck. And sucks.
OpenOffice will continue for a while.
"I've been working in the IT field for several years now..."
OK, stop. No certifications. If you're good, then your experience should be enough. Certifications get you a foot in the industry door, and experience (and skill, and hard work, and competence) get you the other 99% of the way.
That said, there a small number of certifications that carry more weight than the paper their printed on. The CISSP and CCIE have long been considered difficult enough to get that only dedicated and talented professionals carry them. Don't know if that's still the case.
I come from farming stock on all sides of the family, and have no problems with killing animals for food. When you're on a farm, it makes good sense to slaughter some of your own product for food.
Zuckerberg's attitude, though, really strikes me as gleefully sadistic. If he's concerned about animal welfare, he could just as easily become a vegetarian. Instead, he's going significantly out of his way to kill animals. Any claims of humanitarianism at this point seem a bit hollow. More like trophy hunters who are "maintaining/restoring the natural balance of wildlife."
Now I'm not sure about the details of this. Will this actively prevent me from, as root, explicitly creating a user with whatever UID I want?
I assume (but am not sure) that I can force a uid when necessary, and this is only how users are added when the UID isn't explicitly given. Large shops almost always specify the UID, either through custom tools or by pushing a password file around. This won't affect them much.
(Assuming I'm correct in my understanding, of course)
I might argue that the US government is running away screaming as fast as they can too. Governments are notorious for their momentum, and I can't imagine that they're capable of turning on a dime. Honestly if it weren't for the government demands and requirements, I suspect that HP would have killed off HP-UX almost a decade ago. Similarly, they'll probably keep Solaris/Sparc alive for another decade or so, before they can migrate away.
But looking at our case as an example, the first thing we did to eliminate Oracle from our environment was to renew our software contracts for two years, followed by buying more hardware. We're a fairly large contract, so I suspect slower than average at vendor replacement. Thus, by the time we don't renew our Oracle contract next fall, I predict that the Oracle/Sun 'growth' curve will be on a fairly steep decline which started in Q4/11 or Q1/12.
Everyone who has dealt with Oracle since the Sun buyout seems to have the same story: Oracle is making it as expensive and difficult to keep using Sparc, Solaris, and (especially!) Sun's software suite as possible. Switching to different software on a different OS running on different hardware is a massive and unpleasant undertaking, but it's still better than the alternative of staying.
Part of it, I suspect, is a result of the move to widescreen displays on laptops. Modern laptops typically have 900 or 1050 pixels vertically, and are thus the space is highly sought-after.
Ah, good. Then we only need to wait six months for them to add another broken 'feature.' It still might be two years before they fix the floating URL, though.
Ultimately, they're spending too much time on 'reimagining' and not nearly enough on bug fixes and performance. They need a 3.7 release: Keep the 3-series, but work entirely on repairs and speed. Then there needs to be a feature moratorium for at least a year.
Ah yes, and how ARE the six of you doing? :-)
"Mozilla's motto for Firefox is to keep it being completely customizable..."
Ah yes. That's why I can turn the status bar back on in FF4, right?
I appreciate the desire to reduce clutter and give us more browsing space, but the stupid floating URL at the bottom in lieu of a status bar does NOT save space, it just overlaps and obscures content--and I can't turn it off or move it.
The Mozilla foundation needs to stop screwing around until they take a good hard look at the direction they've been drifting in the last two years.
If you're talking about an upgrade, then no. Change the UIDs and all of the files that were owned by the previous UIDs are now orphans.
Nonetheless, this still seems utterly unimportant.