Well I am not laughing but I do feel that this further illustrates my point that Linux is well over a decade behind other major platforms when it comes to flatbed scanners. I know a lot of it has to do with the manufacturers holding their secrets close to their chest but since when did that ever really stop FOSS from moving forward?:D
Well just for the hell of it I grabbed vuescan. It's only a 32 bit binary but it managed to run on my 64 bit box. But it said it needed a driver. I got iscan off of a Japanese site, followed a howto... ALL STOP. Only supports 32 bit i386 arch. No amd64. Booo!
I use Linux and FOSS almost exclusively for my photography workflow.
Almost.
See, when I work in film, I need to have a Mac around to handle the flatbed scanner. Because, unfortunately, Linux support for flatbed scanners really sucks rocks.
gimp has some shortcomings as well but I understand they are being actively addressed so I won't bitch about that.
I've been in IT for almost 15 years now. No degree. I started college, found it slow and a waste of money, so applied my efforts instead to jumpstarting my career.
My first job in the industry was not in IT. It was in testing. But I made sure to volunteer for projects that involved key concepts that a sysadmin would need to demonstrate competency in. While other guys my age were fighting over jobs testing video games, I was testing various network products (hubs and routers, mostly, and other device types that have faded into obscurity since). And while all of the sysadmins were fighting over Novell jobs, I was testing this new product called Windows NT that nobody expected to be taken seriously.
The Novell guys had been so smug in their superiority and discounted the possibility of NT gaining a foothold in the market place that a great opportunity opened up for me within a year or two of my first job. I already had a couple of years of NT experience (granted, in a lab setting) while these Novell guys were struggling to catch up.
Over the years I've had to jump from one keystone technology to another. Along with Windows NT, I made a fair bit of coin on OS/2. Later I did some Solaris but for the last 10 years I've been doing really well on Linux. This run has been a good run, but I'll be keeping my eyes open for other opportunities. I don't want to be like those unemployed Novell CNA's in the mid-late 1990's.
So get your foot in the door with a more menial job. Do anything you have to do to learn the technologies and skills needed for system administration. Help desk work is often a great way to enter the system administration field. But once you're in, there is no time to rest. You have to keep learning, stay competitive, and be ready to jump to a different core technology as your major strength if you sense the winds changing direction.
The candidate for "change" has been stacking his cabinet with Clinton retreads and people who supported him on the campaign trail. The guy who spoke ill of lobbyists has surrounded himself with lobbyists.
Hillary Rosen was all over the cable news networks, singing praise of Obama the Messiah.
The industry would embrace her, and lobby Congress to approve her appointment with all haste.
It sucks, I know. But I think y'all are overlooking how attractive she is going to be to Obama.
Maybe DARPA shouldn't have pulled funding for OpenBSD research a few years ago. I knew that was going to come back to bite the US DoD in the ass sooner or later.
I used to do a lot of boating/fishing in the Delaware river near where you speak. I find it laughable that Delaware was acting out of environmental concern. The Delaware bank of the Delaware River is the most filthy industrial wasteland for miles around. New Jersey and Pennsylvania also have some industrial development upstream, including oil refineries on the Jersey side, the Delaware stretch of the river is a real armpit.
That photograph is horrible, both the original and the CGI monstrosity that it spawned. It looks like something you'd see on a Realtor's business card or a Brooklyn electronics shop ad.
Did we ever even fix the catalysts to their original extinction? Would be kind of a waste to bring a species back just to have them die. Again. Of the same cause.
Passionate people tend to be irritating to work with. Not team players. They want to engage in lengthy chest-thumping debates about the most minor of technical decisions.
Sloth is a virtue. Lazy sysadmins tend to be more proactive than reactive, knowing that reacting to problems as they occur is often more work and more inconvenient. The lazy sysadmin automates much of the day to day minutia so as not to be bothered by the little things. The upshot of this attitude is that the lazy sysadmin can also comfortably (and effectively) manage many more machines than the passionate uber geek who likes to roll his own packages and stay on top of the latest cool new distro.
Actually the hardware that AIX typically runs on beats the pants off of x86. I have consolidated almost all of my various x86 boxen to POWER (System P 570) running RHEL 4 & 5.
If you think smitty is bad, you've never tried yast.
I sort of snicker at all the wanking over the state of virtualization on x86 when I've already got superior capabilities on my POWER systems in carving up dynamic LPARs.
Unless the FBI is simply foaming at the mouth to create FUD and bungle this like they bungle everything else. It's more of a matter of industrial espionage rather than national security.
Right, because none of this has any military use. You couldn't use it to make a better ICBM. Or to shoot satellites out of orbit. Who would be so silly to think that China would want to build such weapons?
Find a great idea while mining through software patents? Use a name of someone you'd like to see twist in the wind and implement this concept in your favorite Open Source project. What could be more fun?
Kirk is subsequently seen being smuggled on board the Starship Enterprise on its maiden voyage by doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy, played by Karl Urban.
McCoy isn't the original ship's surgeon on the Enterprise. I guess nobody who worked on the film ever saw The Cage.
And as others have mentioned in comments to previous stories here, Chekov wasn't on the Enterprise until later on well after Kirk took command. He really doesn't fit into this movie.
And why have a Korean play a Japanese character (Sulu)? WTF? I guess they are depending on the old cracker saying "what's the difference?"
Once kids show a certain maturity level to be able to follow the rules and understand when it's time to be serious and not goof around, it's time to teach them how to shoot a gun.
Just get one now before the new president is sworn in and takes them all away like he tried to do in Illinois.
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Well I am not laughing but I do feel that this further illustrates my point that Linux is well over a decade behind other major platforms when it comes to flatbed scanners. I know a lot of it has to do with the manufacturers holding their secrets close to their chest but since when did that ever really stop FOSS from moving forward? :D
Well just for the hell of it I grabbed vuescan. It's only a 32 bit binary but it managed to run on my 64 bit box. But it said it needed a driver. I got iscan off of a Japanese site, followed a howto... ALL STOP. Only supports 32 bit i386 arch. No amd64. Booo!
Currently an Epson Perfection 3170 (it's old but works pretty well).
I'd like to upgrade to a dedicated film scanner in '09.
That's not FOSS apparently.
I use Linux and FOSS almost exclusively for my photography workflow.
Almost.
See, when I work in film, I need to have a Mac around to handle the flatbed scanner. Because, unfortunately, Linux support for flatbed scanners really sucks rocks.
gimp has some shortcomings as well but I understand they are being actively addressed so I won't bitch about that.
I've been in IT for almost 15 years now. No degree. I started college, found it slow and a waste of money, so applied my efforts instead to jumpstarting my career.
My first job in the industry was not in IT. It was in testing. But I made sure to volunteer for projects that involved key concepts that a sysadmin would need to demonstrate competency in. While other guys my age were fighting over jobs testing video games, I was testing various network products (hubs and routers, mostly, and other device types that have faded into obscurity since). And while all of the sysadmins were fighting over Novell jobs, I was testing this new product called Windows NT that nobody expected to be taken seriously.
The Novell guys had been so smug in their superiority and discounted the possibility of NT gaining a foothold in the market place that a great opportunity opened up for me within a year or two of my first job. I already had a couple of years of NT experience (granted, in a lab setting) while these Novell guys were struggling to catch up.
Over the years I've had to jump from one keystone technology to another. Along with Windows NT, I made a fair bit of coin on OS/2. Later I did some Solaris but for the last 10 years I've been doing really well on Linux. This run has been a good run, but I'll be keeping my eyes open for other opportunities. I don't want to be like those unemployed Novell CNA's in the mid-late 1990's.
So get your foot in the door with a more menial job. Do anything you have to do to learn the technologies and skills needed for system administration. Help desk work is often a great way to enter the system administration field. But once you're in, there is no time to rest. You have to keep learning, stay competitive, and be ready to jump to a different core technology as your major strength if you sense the winds changing direction.
The candidate for "change" has been stacking his cabinet with Clinton retreads and people who supported him on the campaign trail. The guy who spoke ill of lobbyists has surrounded himself with lobbyists.
Hillary Rosen was all over the cable news networks, singing praise of Obama the Messiah.
The industry would embrace her, and lobby Congress to approve her appointment with all haste.
It sucks, I know. But I think y'all are overlooking how attractive she is going to be to Obama.
Maybe DARPA shouldn't have pulled funding for OpenBSD research a few years ago. I knew that was going to come back to bite the US DoD in the ass sooner or later.
Seriously! And to think, we almost got stuck with his wife in that roll this time around!
I would never eat anything that I caught there. That said, the channel catfish and striped bass action was amazing. Strictly catch and release.
I used to do a lot of boating/fishing in the Delaware river near where you speak. I find it laughable that Delaware was acting out of environmental concern. The Delaware bank of the Delaware River is the most filthy industrial wasteland for miles around. New Jersey and Pennsylvania also have some industrial development upstream, including oil refineries on the Jersey side, the Delaware stretch of the river is a real armpit.
The only downloads I see seem to be for 32 bit x86 systems. No 64 bit at this time? No sparc64?
Is it ok to start criticizing Obama and his judgment now?
Or is he still the Messiah?
That photograph is horrible, both the original and the CGI monstrosity that it spawned. It looks like something you'd see on a Realtor's business card or a Brooklyn electronics shop ad.
404. Not your lucky day.
And he could make a fortune acting in GEICO commercials.
Did we ever even fix the catalysts to their original extinction? Would be kind of a waste to bring a species back just to have them die. Again. Of the same cause.
Who in the hell would want to neuter an animal worth US$10M?!?
Passionate people tend to be irritating to work with. Not team players. They want to engage in lengthy chest-thumping debates about the most minor of technical decisions.
Sloth is a virtue. Lazy sysadmins tend to be more proactive than reactive, knowing that reacting to problems as they occur is often more work and more inconvenient. The lazy sysadmin automates much of the day to day minutia so as not to be bothered by the little things. The upshot of this attitude is that the lazy sysadmin can also comfortably (and effectively) manage many more machines than the passionate uber geek who likes to roll his own packages and stay on top of the latest cool new distro.
Fedora runs great on my System P 520 workstation.
Ubuntu won't even install. That would have been my first choice. But Fedora works great.
Actually the hardware that AIX typically runs on beats the pants off of x86. I have consolidated almost all of my various x86 boxen to POWER (System P 570) running RHEL 4 & 5.
If you think smitty is bad, you've never tried yast.
I sort of snicker at all the wanking over the state of virtualization on x86 when I've already got superior capabilities on my POWER systems in carving up dynamic LPARs.
Right, because none of this has any military use. You couldn't use it to make a better ICBM. Or to shoot satellites out of orbit. Who would be so silly to think that China would want to build such weapons?
...use someone else's real name?
Find a great idea while mining through software patents? Use a name of someone you'd like to see twist in the wind and implement this concept in your favorite Open Source project. What could be more fun?
McCoy isn't the original ship's surgeon on the Enterprise. I guess nobody who worked on the film ever saw The Cage.
And as others have mentioned in comments to previous stories here, Chekov wasn't on the Enterprise until later on well after Kirk took command. He really doesn't fit into this movie.
And why have a Korean play a Japanese character (Sulu)? WTF? I guess they are depending on the old cracker saying "what's the difference?"
+1
Once kids show a certain maturity level to be able to follow the rules and understand when it's time to be serious and not goof around, it's time to teach them how to shoot a gun.
Just get one now before the new president is sworn in and takes them all away like he tried to do in Illinois.