I work for a company that does IT and Heathcare training, as well as IT consulting. Certainly with the jobs that are IT related we expect someone who can type. Even on the Healthcare and non-IT-jobs, computers are so involved in our buisiness that most employees could not do their job effectively without them.
That said, during the hiring process, the question "do you type" is probably not asked very often. It is such a key skill that it has moved beyond being a nice thing to know, to being expected if you are to ever work in any type of office setting.
Amusingly enough, when Albertson's bought out Lucky's here in California, Safeway was really starting to push their whole card-system.
Well, Albertson's had a serious ad campeign for a month or two saying "We have everyday savings! Cards are stupid, you don't need them here!"
I was amazed at this stance, and it impressed me. I mean, even if you don't give them your personal information (salary, address, email, sexual-orientation), this is some really good demographic information about what individuals (now numbers) buy, when they buy it, and what stores they visit. I thought "wow, they've got some balls not to implement all that".
Well, the ads stopped and about a month later there were tables outside my local store asking me to sign up, along with crazy-inflated prices and "savings card prices" that were at or above what the items were sold for before the card-madness.
Bone-head marketing. I'm also amusing about albertson's is the fact that you can buy beer (bud/guinness/whatever) without an ID if you use their self-checkout's. I'm of legal age, but I've *never* gotten bothered for my DL at the self-checkout...
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. The Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)
I run several mail servers that serve a LOT of email recipients. Not high-profile-ISP caliber, but I'm definitely in the same boat as mom-and-pop ISP's (probably serve more users than most of them).
There are *much* better alternatives than SPEWS out there. First off, things like spam-assassin are great tools, but you definitely are filtering spam at a real cost (CPU time). RBLs are a very nice tool also, but *as* a systems administrator, I don't want to subscribe to a list that flogs sysadmins on a regular basis (like SPEWS).
Other rbls, like open-relay RBLs, I fully support. If I have an open relay and get put on that list (which means I have probably been used as a spam relay), it's my fault *and* I need to know about it. Annoying as that is.
As I work for a company, I look for professional solutions to problems. Not necessarily commercial solutions, as I use open source on every server I can, but solutions that are clear, responsible, and trustworthy. SPEWs blacklists entire ISPs (ones who I know are doing their damnedest to stop spam), entire subnets, and doesn't seem to have anyone to talk to, other than a bunch of 15 year olds who flame people on their forums. Not professional grade.
I don't supervise 1500 machines, but I am a consultant for several companies with several hundred machines...
I speak not only for myself but also the other Sys Admins at these companies when I say that we would much rather Microsoft write some decent software that doesn't need this many patches, or reboots after many patches, or a process that requires me to download patches, reboot, download some more, and do some more rebooting, on all of my friggin desktops and servers.
After that very long and painful sentance, I'd like to add that the way they mix critical patches with non-critical patches is also rather awful.
One would hope that google cache and/or the wayback machine would not be responsible for archiving government websites/propoganda anyway.
The US National Archives *should* be keeping backups of the predidential web sites. I poked around for a bit, and couldn't find any archives of the clinton administration's web site, so maybe they don't.
I oversee a team of web developers and administer a production and development linux network for them, and there is no question that we use php over jsp. Anytime they're designing from scratch and we know something will need scalability, they go with php. I can only provide insight from a systems administration point of view. For small projects, it really doesn't matter, but every JSP project I've seen go from small to big has ended up running slowly and poorly.
JSP is what has always forced me to get bigger hardware, never php. We have some php guys, and some jsp guys, and many that do both. Obviously it's hard to get a good reading as to which is easier to scale, as everyone is biased... but from what I gather, JSP is slightly easier to scale from a coding perspective. With only a marginal difference, I (and my development team) favor PHP for new projects as JSP tends to give us headaches while php runs quickly and quietly.
I'm sure others agree, I'd love to talk to a linux admin for Friendster and see how much he likes JSP....
What are the policies on getting your money back at movie theaters? Be neat if a lot of people started complaining about them and got free passes. Eventually, enough people will complain that they will either stop doing it or stop giving out free passes.
If Century Theaters (or whomever) gets enough complaints to start a no-refund-for-giant-red-dots policy, it may generate some nice press for the anti-red-dot campeign.
I think they should play that game in elementary schools.... Kids can work independantly or in groups to make lyrics and music, spend hours making cover art and promotional material, and could do research on current events so that they may make some sort of commentary on life/politics in thier music.
After a few days of this constructive process, they could all listen to each others music, and vote on who the top artit/artists are, thus learning how to review their own music.
Then after voting, the reward or prize for "best recording artist" can be given to the teacher, who recorded "this is the song that never ends" and looped it on a whole cd/tape. She didn't do any cover artwork (it's her "white album"), and her work isn't even original. Why did she win? Because she's the teacher and she decides what's popular. Then the children can be forced to listen to it for a good four or five months....
I think this would best prepare them for the real world...
If they claim that GNU/Linux infringes their IP, and then they turn around and distribute their own version of Linux via the GPL, doesn't that mean they are GPLing thier IP? Thus if it was "stealing" when the IP was "copied" (which is crazy anyway), it isn't anymore.....
I'm sure that doesn't work out in the legal world, but it's a nice brain-teaser.
If someone forked the DNS is there anything ICANN could do? For example, in the intermediary steps could ICANN deny requests from the "forked" name servers? Lame question, I'm sure, but I'd like to know.
afaik, Standard digital cable is a mpeg stream anyway. It'd be real nice if TV's and cable boxes all have some sort of standard, and this may open up the way for decent streaming TV or VoD streams.
Right now, companies like AT&T are using the same cable to bring you CableTV, Broadband internet access, and Phone service (trying to break back into the local telco market). It's the same copper infrastructure, but the technology for all of these services on both sides on the wire are all different.
If a standard like this really catches on, and VOIP takes hold, we may see providers like AT&T doing it all over IP, which could really help everyone out, as well as push broadband speeds up a notch.
I'm in CA, and ours is set to be in place by april 1st this year. Reading about it on their website, I ran into this:
The new program will allow Californians to place, for a small fee, their residential and cellular telephone numbers on a Do Not Call list.
Here's an idea, why don't you collect from fines like the Feds (there will be many), or better yet, charge vendors a "small fee" for access to the list. Say $10 a cd or for access to the website.
Since yesterday? You mean you got a head start yesterday. You'll still be emerging it when Debian Stable gets it.;)
Bah. I emerged rsync at 12:00 today, and then niced an "emerge -u --deep world" shortly after that. On my dell 8200 laptop (1.6ghz), by 4:00 I had a shiney new X, mozilla 1.3_beta, and a whole bunch of other neat stuff.
It's not for someone with a p266 who wants to stay bleeding edge (bad idea anyway), but I see debian users complaing all the time (scroll up) about how it's gonna take forever for this stuff to even get into the unstable branch.
I went to dinner with a CEO at a johnson and johnson subsidiary company the other night, and we were taling about experiances with different laptops, ranging from dell to apple. I said that IBM makes quality laptops but for a premium (my personal experiance). He quickly said "oh god they don't, we purchased several hundred laptops from them and everyone has had a battery problem, and we're losing a rediculous ammount of money buying everyone new ones every few weeks".
I didn't ask about the model numbers, but when I saw this article I just thought throw that out there.
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No mention of the eMate, which was Apple's attempt at giving every kid in school a personal computer...
Nuff said.
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I work for a company that does IT and Heathcare training, as well as IT consulting. Certainly with the jobs that are IT related we expect someone who can type. Even on the Healthcare and non-IT-jobs, computers are so involved in our buisiness that most employees could not do their job effectively without them.
That said, during the hiring process, the question "do you type" is probably not asked very often. It is such a key skill that it has moved beyond being a nice thing to know, to being expected if you are to ever work in any type of office setting.
So what are the rules for indian reservations and tribes according to the FCC? Does the FCC have jurisdiction over such areas?
Amusingly enough, when Albertson's bought out Lucky's here in California, Safeway was really starting to push their whole card-system.
Well, Albertson's had a serious ad campeign for a month or two saying "We have everyday savings! Cards are stupid, you don't need them here!"
I was amazed at this stance, and it impressed me. I mean, even if you don't give them your personal information (salary, address, email, sexual-orientation), this is some really good demographic information about what individuals (now numbers) buy, when they buy it, and what stores they visit. I thought "wow, they've got some balls not to implement all that".
Well, the ads stopped and about a month later there were tables outside my local store asking me to sign up, along with crazy-inflated prices and "savings card prices" that were at or above what the items were sold for before the card-madness.
Bone-head marketing. I'm also amusing about albertson's is the fact that you can buy beer (bud/guinness/whatever) without an ID if you use their self-checkout's. I'm of legal age, but I've *never* gotten bothered for my DL at the self-checkout...
Maybe this will result in pesi putting more soda in their bottles. Probably not.
Wrong license, this is about the 2.0 license.
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. The Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)
I run several mail servers that serve a LOT of email recipients. Not high-profile-ISP caliber, but I'm definitely in the same boat as mom-and-pop ISP's (probably serve more users than most of them).
There are *much* better alternatives than SPEWS out there. First off, things like spam-assassin are great tools, but you definitely are filtering spam at a real cost (CPU time). RBLs are a very nice tool also, but *as* a systems administrator, I don't want to subscribe to a list that flogs sysadmins on a regular basis (like SPEWS).
Other rbls, like open-relay RBLs, I fully support. If I have an open relay and get put on that list (which means I have probably been used as a spam relay), it's my fault *and* I need to know about it. Annoying as that is.
As I work for a company, I look for professional solutions to problems. Not necessarily commercial solutions, as I use open source on every server I can, but solutions that are clear, responsible, and trustworthy. SPEWs blacklists entire ISPs (ones who I know are doing their damnedest to stop spam), entire subnets, and doesn't seem to have anyone to talk to, other than a bunch of 15 year olds who flame people on their forums. Not professional grade.
Screw spews.
I don't supervise 1500 machines, but I am a consultant for several companies with several hundred machines...
I speak not only for myself but also the other Sys Admins at these companies when I say that we would much rather Microsoft write some decent software that doesn't need this many patches, or reboots after many patches, or a process that requires me to download patches, reboot, download some more, and do some more rebooting, on all of my friggin desktops and servers.
After that very long and painful sentance, I'd like to add that the way they mix critical patches with non-critical patches is also rather awful.
Could either be the intent or a good side effect that devices like the iPod would decrease the profit margins of Microsoft competitors like Apple.
Hey, that movie seems to be more accurate than the Bible so far...
Revelations may have also predicted implant/tatoo transactions, but did it predice Arnold would get in office? I don't think so!
Hmm, maybe he's the anti-christ. Eek.
Hopefully they will kill each other.
Spam is only slightly more annoying than RBL's, in that without it, there would be no need for them....
One would hope that google cache and/or the wayback machine would not be responsible for archiving government websites/propoganda anyway.
The US National Archives *should* be keeping backups of the predidential web sites. I poked around for a bit, and couldn't find any archives of the clinton administration's web site, so maybe they don't.
If they do not, it would be very irresponsible...
I just want regular phone with a decent camera. Standard phone that has a smartmedia/memory stick slot and a 1+ megapixel camera.
I'm sick of lugging large things around, even if they do everything..
I oversee a team of web developers and administer a production and development linux network for them, and there is no question that we use php over jsp. Anytime they're designing from scratch and we know something will need scalability, they go with php. I can only provide insight from a systems administration point of view. For small projects, it really doesn't matter, but every JSP project I've seen go from small to big has ended up running slowly and poorly.
JSP is what has always forced me to get bigger hardware, never php. We have some php guys, and some jsp guys, and many that do both. Obviously it's hard to get a good reading as to which is easier to scale, as everyone is biased... but from what I gather, JSP is slightly easier to scale from a coding perspective. With only a marginal difference, I (and my development team) favor PHP for new projects as JSP tends to give us headaches while php runs quickly and quietly.
I'm sure others agree, I'd love to talk to a linux admin for Friendster and see how much he likes JSP....
What are the policies on getting your money back at movie theaters? Be neat if a lot of people started complaining about them and got free passes. Eventually, enough people will complain that they will either stop doing it or stop giving out free passes.
If Century Theaters (or whomever) gets enough complaints to start a no-refund-for-giant-red-dots policy, it may generate some nice press for the anti-red-dot campeign.
I think they should play that game in elementary schools.... Kids can work independantly or in groups to make lyrics and music, spend hours making cover art and promotional material, and could do research on current events so that they may make some sort of commentary on life/politics in thier music.
After a few days of this constructive process, they could all listen to each others music, and vote on who the top artit/artists are, thus learning how to review their own music.
Then after voting, the reward or prize for "best recording artist" can be given to the teacher, who recorded "this is the song that never ends" and looped it on a whole cd/tape. She didn't do any cover artwork (it's her "white album"), and her work isn't even original. Why did she win? Because she's the teacher and she decides what's popular. Then the children can be forced to listen to it for a good four or five months....
I think this would best prepare them for the real world...
with aalib under linux, you can turn your regular-old-porn into ascii art porn. mplayer -vo aa
I fired up my 1600x1200 console and watched about 20 mins of the matrix before my eyes started to bleed. Quite fun.
If they claim that GNU/Linux infringes their IP, and then they turn around and distribute their own version of Linux via the GPL, doesn't that mean they are GPLing thier IP? Thus if it was "stealing" when the IP was "copied" (which is crazy anyway), it isn't anymore.....
I'm sure that doesn't work out in the legal world, but it's a nice brain-teaser.
If someone forked the DNS is there anything ICANN could do? For example, in the intermediary steps could ICANN deny requests from the "forked" name servers? Lame question, I'm sure, but I'd like to know.
afaik, Standard digital cable is a mpeg stream anyway. It'd be real nice if TV's and cable boxes all have some sort of standard, and this may open up the way for decent streaming TV or VoD streams.
Right now, companies like AT&T are using the same cable to bring you CableTV, Broadband internet access, and Phone service (trying to break back into the local telco market). It's the same copper infrastructure, but the technology for all of these services on both sides on the wire are all different.
If a standard like this really catches on, and VOIP takes hold, we may see providers like AT&T doing it all over IP, which could really help everyone out, as well as push broadband speeds up a notch.
I'm in CA, and ours is set to be in place by april 1st this year. Reading about it on their website, I ran into this:
The new program will allow Californians to place, for a small fee, their residential and cellular telephone numbers on a Do Not Call list.
Here's an idea, why don't you collect from fines like the Feds (there will be many), or better yet, charge vendors a "small fee" for access to the list. Say $10 a cd or for access to the website.
Since yesterday? You mean you got a head start yesterday. You'll still be emerging it when Debian Stable gets it. ;)
Bah. I emerged rsync at 12:00 today, and then niced an "emerge -u --deep world" shortly after that. On my dell 8200 laptop (1.6ghz), by 4:00 I had a shiney new X, mozilla 1.3_beta, and a whole bunch of other neat stuff.
It's not for someone with a p266 who wants to stay bleeding edge (bad idea anyway), but I see debian users complaing all the time (scroll up) about how it's gonna take forever for this stuff to even get into the unstable branch.
give gentoo a shot, portage rocks
I went to dinner with a CEO at a johnson and johnson subsidiary company the other night, and we were taling about experiances with different laptops, ranging from dell to apple. I said that IBM makes quality laptops but for a premium (my personal experiance). He quickly said "oh god they don't, we purchased several hundred laptops from them and everyone has had a battery problem, and we're losing a rediculous ammount of money buying everyone new ones every few weeks".
I didn't ask about the model numbers, but when I saw this article I just thought throw that out there.