While you may not be able to save your company from.NET , you may be able to use Linux's rising dominance in the virtualization field to convice the PHBs that they really need Xen or VMware etc to "fully modernize" their development environment. This will preserve your access to the LAMP stack, and will allow you to attack from the flank with Mono, etc. , demonstrating the herd's narrowmindedness.
Sounds like the Great American Firewall that everyone was screaming about last week is now dead, considering that Tubes Stevens was one of its two sponsors.
He is now "radioactive." No one will want to get near it.
Just went and read your blog, saw your entry on legal billing. You may have something there. You'll probably want to take a look at some of the big existing competitors before you enter that market, though. It's lucrative, but demanding and its a backwater--get too much into it and you run a risk of overspecializing.
Consider a legal billing plugin or addon.
Journyx ( www.journyx.com ) , while not open source itself, is built with open source tools and has an API, etc. It does project tracking, time tracking, expense accounting, billing, invoicing, etc. The last time I looked at it, it wouldn't handle my rate schedule but it looks like that part of it has been made more flexible in the last few versions--in fact, I'm going to install it again as I was disappointed when I had to pass it up.
There are also decent hosted choices, which is sometimes easier for a one man shop--you don't have to worry about maintaining it, if your server situation doesn't have a lot of fault tolerance/redundancy, etc.
In that case, I'd look at the Basecamp/Freshbooks combo, or maybe Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/ -- primary focus there is on time tracking.)
This looks very nice, but until you get rates and invoicing going you're going to have a whale of a time drawing users away from FreshBooks/Basecamp etc.
The old LaserJet4's were great printers. I still have a bunch of them. IMHO, the 4200DTN was the best of its successors. What HP is selling these days is total crap.
In my routers, I'm currently using 8GB CF cards on Addonics CF/SATA adapters, usually soft- or fakeraided. I typically put/var ,/tmp and swap on pendrives, just to protect the CF cards a little.
This works very, very well. The future is now.
This is a publicity grab that's intended to ride the coat-tails of the news story on myspace's deletion of profiles associated with criminals and predators. The "bipartisan senators" are only barely senator*s*--there's precisely two of them: "Tubes" Stevens and Inoyue, of Hawaii.
Don't hold your breath, people. The Internet will be fine. Other less insane or gerrymandered pols will not want to hop on a bandwagon that will roll directly towards a one-to-one policy correspondence with countries such as China.
It's still unusual to see CD and DVD drives that use anything other than PATA.
There's also a large base of installed IDE drives. A *very* large base. There will continue to be a market for replacement equipment for some time.
Alright, fine, I'll log in this time.
Not only is it not libel if it's true, but it's not libel if its false. It's not libel. Period.
Not every printed falsehood that might cause injury automatically qualifies as libel. (Similarly, nor does every spoken falsehood that might do the same automatically qualify as slander.) This is especially so in the case of journalism, which receives nearly as much protection as does testimony before a court of law or a legislative body. Go read about qualified privilege at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_and_libel
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I still prefer 2nd Ed AD&D, and after that 1st ed. (Yes, I have the books.)
While you may not be able to save your company from .NET , you may be able to use Linux's rising dominance in the virtualization field to convice the PHBs that they really need Xen or VMware etc to "fully modernize" their development environment. This will preserve your access to the LAMP stack, and will allow you to attack from the flank with Mono, etc. , demonstrating the herd's narrowmindedness.
Also, if rates and invoicing are working, I'd suggest editing this page: http://www.positiveware.com/mambo/content/view/66/ 74/ , where it says "Rates and invoicing (coming soon)"
Sounds like the Great American Firewall that everyone was screaming about last week is now dead, considering that Tubes Stevens was one of its two sponsors. He is now "radioactive." No one will want to get near it.
Just went and read your blog, saw your entry on legal billing. You may have something there. You'll probably want to take a look at some of the big existing competitors before you enter that market, though. It's lucrative, but demanding and its a backwater--get too much into it and you run a risk of overspecializing. Consider a legal billing plugin or addon.
Journyx ( www.journyx.com ) , while not open source itself, is built with open source tools and has an API, etc. It does project tracking, time tracking, expense accounting, billing, invoicing, etc. The last time I looked at it, it wouldn't handle my rate schedule but it looks like that part of it has been made more flexible in the last few versions--in fact, I'm going to install it again as I was disappointed when I had to pass it up. There are also decent hosted choices, which is sometimes easier for a one man shop--you don't have to worry about maintaining it, if your server situation doesn't have a lot of fault tolerance/redundancy, etc. In that case, I'd look at the Basecamp/Freshbooks combo, or maybe Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/ -- primary focus there is on time tracking.)
This looks very nice, but until you get rates and invoicing going you're going to have a whale of a time drawing users away from FreshBooks/Basecamp etc.
I've also had good experiences w/Zentrack, although the interface is a little clunky.
How badly FUBAR'd? I'd like to visit, my family is from .hu , but I've never been there.
perfect encapsulation; preserve for posterity.
The old LaserJet4's were great printers. I still have a bunch of them. IMHO, the 4200DTN was the best of its successors. What HP is selling these days is total crap.
Just wait until Bill O'Reilly finds out about tentacle pr0n.
In my routers, I'm currently using 8GB CF cards on Addonics CF/SATA adapters, usually soft- or fakeraided. I typically put /var , /tmp and swap on pendrives, just to protect the CF cards a little.
This works very, very well. The future is now.
This is a publicity grab that's intended to ride the coat-tails of the news story on myspace's deletion of profiles associated with criminals and predators. The "bipartisan senators" are only barely senator*s*--there's precisely two of them: "Tubes" Stevens and Inoyue, of Hawaii. Don't hold your breath, people. The Internet will be fine. Other less insane or gerrymandered pols will not want to hop on a bandwagon that will roll directly towards a one-to-one policy correspondence with countries such as China.
It's still unusual to see CD and DVD drives that use anything other than PATA. There's also a large base of installed IDE drives. A *very* large base. There will continue to be a market for replacement equipment for some time.
Shut up, Donny. You're out of your depth!
Alright, fine, I'll log in this time. Not only is it not libel if it's true, but it's not libel if its false. It's not libel. Period. Not every printed falsehood that might cause injury automatically qualifies as libel. (Similarly, nor does every spoken falsehood that might do the same automatically qualify as slander.) This is especially so in the case of journalism, which receives nearly as much protection as does testimony before a court of law or a legislative body. Go read about qualified privilege at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_and_libel
and propagate. http://science.howstuffworks.com/cloning1.htm