"Spend the money on a system that works out of the box. If you're too cheap to do it right, then please comb your hair into a stylish point and congratulate yourself: welcome to Management!"
This is the most brilliant way to display management I have ever read! I have offered to do documentation for my IT group through a Joomla solution, plain HTML, and a few other things, my boss is so dense, he is scared that if I leave (tells you have secure my job is eh?) then no one will know how to maintain or use my homebrewed system! OH MY *%&#^, it is HTML! Can you browse a page? can you look between the paragraph tags?
Spend the money to do it right, I don't and won't shop or do business with two bit operations (bytes come in four bits:-)
Given the present attitude they will burn all bridges and die kicking and screaming "what a world! What a world!" but that is just my guess. But one thing is for sure that it is a pathetic and lame blow to attack open source for patents on the Linux OS. Think I should tell MS that the "if I go I am taking you with me!" mentality won't work in the software arena?
Well here is one article if it makes you feel any better, but I have done all the research, and use to argue with people like you all the time, the thing is it does not matter cause you think one way, and I another. This article comes from the John Birch Society website, check it out. Here is another article http://www.jbs.org/node/1629
Global Warming 101
By John Perna
Published: 2007-03-06 19:56 Email this page | printer friendly version
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
Government uses panic over global warming to increase its own power by convincing people that they are in danger, and that they can only be saved by letting the government take total control.
Follow this link to the original source: "Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?"
COMMENTARY:
Here is an undeniable scientific truth: The volume of the water that is produced when ice melts is exactly equal to the volume of the water that the ice displaced, when it was floating. Water expands when it freezes into ice. That is why freezing pipes break. That is why ice floats on top of water.
If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up by one inch, or by one millimeter. If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up at all.
There is no land at the North Pole. There is land at the South Pole. The surface area of the oceans is many times as large as the surface of the land which contains ice. If all of the ice that is on land was to melt, this would make almost no difference in the level of the ocean.
Carbon dioxide is to a plant what oxygen is to an animal. More carbon dioxide means that plants grow better and faster. When plants grow better and faster, the total amount of plant matter increases. Increases in the amount of plant matter cause more consumption of carbon dioxide. More consumption of carbon dioxide lowers the level of carbon dioxide.
New ozone is continuously produced, at an incredible rate, by sunlight passing through air. Ozone is continuously decomposing back into oxygen, no matter what man does. The natural production and decomposition of ozone is so large that mankind could not change this balance of nature if he wanted to do so. Halogenated hydrocarbons would be destroyed by contact with ozone, but halogenated hydrocarbons are heavier than air, and do not go up to the ozone layer. Mankind has never produce enough halogenated hydrocarbons to have any effect at all on the total amount of ozone. Ozone fluctuations are results of the cycles of the sun.
These cycles have been occurring since the beginning of Earth. Every species that is still here is one that has been able to adapt and to survive them. The equilibriums of nature are more powerful than anything that man can do. Trying to shift any of the equilibriums of nature would be like trying to make an ocean have two different water levels.
Government uses a lack of understanding of basic science on the part of the public to increase its own power by convincing people that they are in danger, and that they can only be saved by letting the government institute more controls.
In short, nature regulates itself. Government could never regulate nature. But it can regulate people.
I like your though process, I think from the very beginning MS was just being a winey little kid cause they know that Linux is growing and getting more exposure and easier to use, in short coming into it's own, especially in the business, the only reason that they made a deal with Novell is to make money off the people who wanted an enterprise Linux solution, so that MS can make money from Open Source. That company is now in the business of keeping their large income static (if not larger), not making their OS any better.
You see that Vista is more a money machine for MS than it is an improved OS. I can't wait for Microsoft to be outmoded and am very curious to see how they will adapt.
Yeah and freaking out about the ozone is gonna help it, they could do something, oh like some places make hairspray cans less damaging, but people that say "the ozone is getting better, but still be crazy worried and ashamed for existing." Are stupid and a tool of the media. Pull your nuts out of the Mass Media vice!
Yeah I never ever listen to these goons, the ice caps are gonna melt, the ozone is gonna disappear, yet well can all be in debt up to our ears, and are encourage to buy bigger and more powerful vehicles, and watch tv all day. Try and fix something closer to home guys.....
There are many open source solutions for what you are trying to do, also if you want it be portable then I would suggest a CMS that does not require a MySQL database like "Limbo" what does the organization do?
when you through out the VCR you knew full well you couldn't play tapes anymore, but you would think an mp3 would play on..... Oh I dunno......an mp3 player? Fine there are tips and tricks and little songs and dance, but any way you slice it, there are million times better ways to get music then iTunes!
You have not heard of anyone? I have a brother in law who bought music and now wants a different device, he can't trade it over and basically lost all his music, a guy I work with in IT of all things, bought videos off of iTunes and had to fix or reformat his computer, and he can't use those purchased videos anymore, it is like buying a DVD and then if you are really good "they" will let you view it.....on their software, their hardware, their terms!
I sincerely hope that this store kicks the trash out iTunes. One because I know so many people that got screwed by the iTunes they purchased trying to be good little boys and girls. And Two, cause iTunes is a craptacular interface to add and take songs away from devices. When I had an iPod I used Winamp to manage the music cause it could take songs off as well as put them on, it kinda sucked cause of the ID3 tag mess ups and both Winamp and iTunes adding and taking away from the songs title, artist etc etc. Apple makes some wicked awesome hardware, I just wish they would leave the software up to some one else....
The problem for me is that me and my IT guys have our hands tied by a less than competent manager, no training and whatnot, plus 2 of the 4 of the IT guys with me are contractors (me being one of them) that they will not hire cause then they would actually have to pay us and give us benefits, which is beyond a last resort. I will admit that I do little work are work anymore, and focus more on my website, giving my opinion on slashdot and cnet, and cranking away at homework as to invest in a better future. We are moving to a new building next week to be closer to management and I am not looking forward to it at all!
I have to say it, Linux will show up Mac OS X, why? Cause Mac OS X uses open source software without given back, breaking it's own software, and Linux will run on all those old machine that just can't work the Vista and people who don't wanna buy a new PC every six months cause Microsoft recommends it. I PREDICT that Linux will out shine Vista and by the year 2009 Linux will have as many desktops as windows and more laptops than Windows.....call me crazy......
You would think though that after saving oh so very much buy not paying through the nose to Microsoft that you would pay some kid to type up Linux documentation! Heck I'll do it........time providing or if they paid me a decent amount.
No I do not jest, I really do like Netware, that was the first file server I ever ran, my dad had that at home since he was a programmer there, and I almost got my CNA in Netware 5.1, and the new things they were rolling out with for Netware 6 was Awesome! I sincerely meant it when I said they should continue their Netware project. In the future when I got out of my microscopic apartment I want to run a Netware file server or a Linux Media center that will double as a file server.
I also really enjoyed the Novell Admin tool (that was written in C) and the Console One (not for it's speed but for it's cross platform ability)
Ha ha, it is like taunting a little kid with candy telling MS not to do something like this, now as odd as it may sound I hope they keep doing stuff like this so that all the company computers where I work will have troubles and then I can help all my IT buddies install some Ubuntu!
Of course MS says that it recommends Novells version of Linux, because now they make money off the people that are fed up with Windows problems, yes Novell benefits heavily, but MS has its very calculated reasons to be helpful at all.
My father worked for Novell for over a decade and he used to get mad at me a kid when I hosed a machine trying out different distros of Linux, then Novell bought SUSE and he had to buy a four inch thick Linux programming bible! Well he moved back to Canada (where we are all from) cause he could not stand the politics and how nothing could be done in a highly profitable business unless you are someones family member or really good friend. I would still go with redhat because MS does not have a dirty hand in them and Redhat is firm against the ridiculous claim that 235 infringements (that MS can't seem to pin point) have been made by the open source community.
Hey here is a thought, keep working on Netware, Netware 6 was really cool!
I agree, we do not have a right to their content. But I have the feeling that they think they will make more money if they better protect their media, and they may be right, but for me that just means that I will not see their content. so if they want exposure, leave youtube alone, it is great advertising and if people really want that movie they will buy it. I bought "The Matrix" and "Anti-Trust" because I saw them a few times before on the internet and rentals etc., and since I liked them so much I bought the legit copies so I would have no fuss, I think that if they leave it well enough alone, all the crap will eventually go away do to lack of funds. The point is I am not gonna break down and shell out the money just cause I can't pirate the video(s).
Yeah I guess that is a point, but I was thinking of Linux (or any open OS) to manage my devices like my iPhone, or my palm pilot. And you could network or remote control those device not through a Web GUI, that would be nice.
I know I may get blasted but you know, as far as things like viewing video content for free or getting free music and the whole internet piracy thing... If it was not for free then I just wouldn't get it! I had a paper route when I was a kid and I was able to get like a CD a month, well needless to say that is not very much music so I opted not to buy CDs and just listen to the radio, or bought tapes and recorded songs I really liked and then just listened to the tape.
So a new mentality forms, buy storage space and fill it with content. I am not one of those guys that will buy a 400 CD case holder and then spends thousands of dollars on CD's where the artist gets a small fraction of the profits, and if iPods (or other generic mp3 or storage devices) did not exist I would be content with the radio and tapes.
The thing that irks me is that copyright and freak outs like this are about forcing us to consume, making us pay for something over and over and over again cause it can easily be replicated and the maker can get rich beyond their dreams. Well go for it, all the more power to them, all copyright and pirating headaches do for me is make me not consume the music, movies, or content, Then I might actually go outside again makes no difference to me.
Well you saw (well I dunno if you have or not) seen all the hacks for iPhone and the wicked awesome apps they have on it. I can now write HTML and CSS code on my phone and am working on PHP, I though I would cut my hands off before I wrote code on a phone, but the iPhone is honestly not that bad to write just a few little snippets and it is wicked nice to view code at all. Plus linux people are enthused to get things running, so hopefully they will make it user friendly with an installer like the (hacked) iphone has.
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Spend the money to do it right, I don't and won't shop or do business with two bit operations (bytes come in four bits :-)
Given the present attitude they will burn all bridges and die kicking and screaming "what a world! What a world!" but that is just my guess. But one thing is for sure that it is a pathetic and lame blow to attack open source for patents on the Linux OS. Think I should tell MS that the "if I go I am taking you with me!" mentality won't work in the software arena?
Well here is one article if it makes you feel any better, but I have done all the research, and use to argue with people like you all the time, the thing is it does not matter cause you think one way, and I another. This article comes from the John Birch Society website, check it out. Here is another article http://www.jbs.org/node/1629 Global Warming 101 By John Perna Published: 2007-03-06 19:56 Email this page | printer friendly version ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: Government uses panic over global warming to increase its own power by convincing people that they are in danger, and that they can only be saved by letting the government take total control. Follow this link to the original source: "Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?" COMMENTARY: Here is an undeniable scientific truth: The volume of the water that is produced when ice melts is exactly equal to the volume of the water that the ice displaced, when it was floating. Water expands when it freezes into ice. That is why freezing pipes break. That is why ice floats on top of water. If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up by one inch, or by one millimeter. If every iceberg in the world were to melt, the level of the ocean would not go up at all. There is no land at the North Pole. There is land at the South Pole. The surface area of the oceans is many times as large as the surface of the land which contains ice. If all of the ice that is on land was to melt, this would make almost no difference in the level of the ocean. Carbon dioxide is to a plant what oxygen is to an animal. More carbon dioxide means that plants grow better and faster. When plants grow better and faster, the total amount of plant matter increases. Increases in the amount of plant matter cause more consumption of carbon dioxide. More consumption of carbon dioxide lowers the level of carbon dioxide. New ozone is continuously produced, at an incredible rate, by sunlight passing through air. Ozone is continuously decomposing back into oxygen, no matter what man does. The natural production and decomposition of ozone is so large that mankind could not change this balance of nature if he wanted to do so. Halogenated hydrocarbons would be destroyed by contact with ozone, but halogenated hydrocarbons are heavier than air, and do not go up to the ozone layer. Mankind has never produce enough halogenated hydrocarbons to have any effect at all on the total amount of ozone. Ozone fluctuations are results of the cycles of the sun. These cycles have been occurring since the beginning of Earth. Every species that is still here is one that has been able to adapt and to survive them. The equilibriums of nature are more powerful than anything that man can do. Trying to shift any of the equilibriums of nature would be like trying to make an ocean have two different water levels. Government uses a lack of understanding of basic science on the part of the public to increase its own power by convincing people that they are in danger, and that they can only be saved by letting the government institute more controls. In short, nature regulates itself. Government could never regulate nature. But it can regulate people.
I like your though process, I think from the very beginning MS was just being a winey little kid cause they know that Linux is growing and getting more exposure and easier to use, in short coming into it's own, especially in the business, the only reason that they made a deal with Novell is to make money off the people who wanted an enterprise Linux solution, so that MS can make money from Open Source. That company is now in the business of keeping their large income static (if not larger), not making their OS any better. You see that Vista is more a money machine for MS than it is an improved OS. I can't wait for Microsoft to be outmoded and am very curious to see how they will adapt.
yes, that makes sense! Thanks :-)
Yeah and freaking out about the ozone is gonna help it, they could do something, oh like some places make hairspray cans less damaging, but people that say "the ozone is getting better, but still be crazy worried and ashamed for existing." Are stupid and a tool of the media. Pull your nuts out of the Mass Media vice!
Yeah I never ever listen to these goons, the ice caps are gonna melt, the ozone is gonna disappear, yet well can all be in debt up to our ears, and are encourage to buy bigger and more powerful vehicles, and watch tv all day. Try and fix something closer to home guys.....
Also, Linux is much less difficult to pirate than Windows...haha!
There are many open source solutions for what you are trying to do, also if you want it be portable then I would suggest a CMS that does not require a MySQL database like "Limbo" what does the organization do?
when you through out the VCR you knew full well you couldn't play tapes anymore, but you would think an mp3 would play on..... Oh I dunno......an mp3 player? Fine there are tips and tricks and little songs and dance, but any way you slice it, there are million times better ways to get music then iTunes!
You have not heard of anyone? I have a brother in law who bought music and now wants a different device, he can't trade it over and basically lost all his music, a guy I work with in IT of all things, bought videos off of iTunes and had to fix or reformat his computer, and he can't use those purchased videos anymore, it is like buying a DVD and then if you are really good "they" will let you view it.....on their software, their hardware, their terms!
I sincerely hope that this store kicks the trash out iTunes. One because I know so many people that got screwed by the iTunes they purchased trying to be good little boys and girls. And Two, cause iTunes is a craptacular interface to add and take songs away from devices. When I had an iPod I used Winamp to manage the music cause it could take songs off as well as put them on, it kinda sucked cause of the ID3 tag mess ups and both Winamp and iTunes adding and taking away from the songs title, artist etc etc. Apple makes some wicked awesome hardware, I just wish they would leave the software up to some one else....
I had no idea that indeed is very sweet!
The problem for me is that me and my IT guys have our hands tied by a less than competent manager, no training and whatnot, plus 2 of the 4 of the IT guys with me are contractors (me being one of them) that they will not hire cause then they would actually have to pay us and give us benefits, which is beyond a last resort. I will admit that I do little work are work anymore, and focus more on my website, giving my opinion on slashdot and cnet, and cranking away at homework as to invest in a better future. We are moving to a new building next week to be closer to management and I am not looking forward to it at all!
I didn't know it was still in full swing, from what I hear Novell is putting all its weight behind SUSE with eDirectory as it's back bone.
I had a feeling someone was gonna say that....
I have to say it, Linux will show up Mac OS X, why? Cause Mac OS X uses open source software without given back, breaking it's own software, and Linux will run on all those old machine that just can't work the Vista and people who don't wanna buy a new PC every six months cause Microsoft recommends it. I PREDICT that Linux will out shine Vista and by the year 2009 Linux will have as many desktops as windows and more laptops than Windows.....call me crazy......
You would think though that after saving oh so very much buy not paying through the nose to Microsoft that you would pay some kid to type up Linux documentation! Heck I'll do it........time providing or if they paid me a decent amount.
No I do not jest, I really do like Netware, that was the first file server I ever ran, my dad had that at home since he was a programmer there, and I almost got my CNA in Netware 5.1, and the new things they were rolling out with for Netware 6 was Awesome! I sincerely meant it when I said they should continue their Netware project. In the future when I got out of my microscopic apartment I want to run a Netware file server or a Linux Media center that will double as a file server. I also really enjoyed the Novell Admin tool (that was written in C) and the Console One (not for it's speed but for it's cross platform ability)
Ha ha, it is like taunting a little kid with candy telling MS not to do something like this, now as odd as it may sound I hope they keep doing stuff like this so that all the company computers where I work will have troubles and then I can help all my IT buddies install some Ubuntu!
Of course MS says that it recommends Novells version of Linux, because now they make money off the people that are fed up with Windows problems, yes Novell benefits heavily, but MS has its very calculated reasons to be helpful at all. My father worked for Novell for over a decade and he used to get mad at me a kid when I hosed a machine trying out different distros of Linux, then Novell bought SUSE and he had to buy a four inch thick Linux programming bible! Well he moved back to Canada (where we are all from) cause he could not stand the politics and how nothing could be done in a highly profitable business unless you are someones family member or really good friend. I would still go with redhat because MS does not have a dirty hand in them and Redhat is firm against the ridiculous claim that 235 infringements (that MS can't seem to pin point) have been made by the open source community. Hey here is a thought, keep working on Netware, Netware 6 was really cool!
I agree, we do not have a right to their content. But I have the feeling that they think they will make more money if they better protect their media, and they may be right, but for me that just means that I will not see their content. so if they want exposure, leave youtube alone, it is great advertising and if people really want that movie they will buy it. I bought "The Matrix" and "Anti-Trust" because I saw them a few times before on the internet and rentals etc., and since I liked them so much I bought the legit copies so I would have no fuss, I think that if they leave it well enough alone, all the crap will eventually go away do to lack of funds. The point is I am not gonna break down and shell out the money just cause I can't pirate the video(s).
Yeah I guess that is a point, but I was thinking of Linux (or any open OS) to manage my devices like my iPhone, or my palm pilot. And you could network or remote control those device not through a Web GUI, that would be nice.
I know I may get blasted but you know, as far as things like viewing video content for free or getting free music and the whole internet piracy thing... If it was not for free then I just wouldn't get it! I had a paper route when I was a kid and I was able to get like a CD a month, well needless to say that is not very much music so I opted not to buy CDs and just listen to the radio, or bought tapes and recorded songs I really liked and then just listened to the tape. So a new mentality forms, buy storage space and fill it with content. I am not one of those guys that will buy a 400 CD case holder and then spends thousands of dollars on CD's where the artist gets a small fraction of the profits, and if iPods (or other generic mp3 or storage devices) did not exist I would be content with the radio and tapes. The thing that irks me is that copyright and freak outs like this are about forcing us to consume, making us pay for something over and over and over again cause it can easily be replicated and the maker can get rich beyond their dreams. Well go for it, all the more power to them, all copyright and pirating headaches do for me is make me not consume the music, movies, or content, Then I might actually go outside again makes no difference to me.
Well you saw (well I dunno if you have or not) seen all the hacks for iPhone and the wicked awesome apps they have on it. I can now write HTML and CSS code on my phone and am working on PHP, I though I would cut my hands off before I wrote code on a phone, but the iPhone is honestly not that bad to write just a few little snippets and it is wicked nice to view code at all. Plus linux people are enthused to get things running, so hopefully they will make it user friendly with an installer like the (hacked) iphone has.