Long before Schilling became the Man for the Red Sox, he was an avid board war gamer. I knew him as a fellow Squad Leader fanatic back before computer gaming was much more than Zork. He already owns a gaming company for hard-core SL players, MultimanPublishing. In short, he Really knows games, I'm really looking forward to see where he and the rest of the crew goes with this.
Truth in advertising, I'm a Ziff editor, but I've got nothing to do with this project, except I think it's cool and it's as close to TechTV as you'll find these days over the air or online.
While RMS and I have had our share of disagreements, I really don't see him following that trail of tears that was the glibc fuss. I really think that he's leaving it up to the kernel developers. And, yes, that's primarily, but, far, far from exclusively Linus. I'm sure he'd be happier if the kernel went GPL 3, but I don't see him trying to make some kind of power play here.
Yes, I know some of you will find that impossible to believe, but I think that RMS is really not looking for a fight here.
No, no video yet. It was on the list. The gaim-vv project, which was to bring a voice and video framework to GAIM, was to have been merged into the 2.0 line, but there's no sign of it in this release.
You could just give Red Hat or Novell a call and either one will be more than happy to give you their dog-and-pony show for their desktop offerings. I mean, they do do this kind of thing for a living these days.
Do you have must-keep Windows apps? Try CrossOver Office
I've used and deployed them all in small businesses with AD management, and they've all worked. There's no reason why they wouldn't work in larger businesses. After all, as IBM and Oracle are showing, they already do.
"Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that read or write files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas."
and that's why this has never been acceptable to the open-source community.
Here's the deal. First, read the fine article. It does say that it's both the desktop and SLES. You'll also see that the SUSE Desktop--the community version you can grab at
SLES, the server version, and Novell Linux Desktop, the commercial distributions. though, will be built to use GNOME as its primary interface.
Now, if one is at all clever, you can certainly run put KDE on SLES or NLD. After all, besides the fact that it's not that much trouble to add *any* of the Linux GUIs to any distribution, in the case of SLES and NLD, the integration work will still largely have been done in the community SUSE desktop.
The real difference is that Novell isn't going to be spending any of its own dollars trying to support two interfaces.
The LinuxWorld Australia story is actually about an earlier break-in of a Novell system that was being used for World of Warcraft related stuff, not the OpenSUSE site at all.
It really doesn't matter what You think about certifications.
What matters is that HR departments use them as a filter to keep out the great unwashed from jobs.
You can have been the guy who said to Linus, "Hey, have you looked at Minix? Pretty cool, huh?" Or, have actually written the program that the company someone to run, but without the right letters on your resume, you're not going to land the job.
First, yes there is "a small, independent media company founded and run by journalists." The key though is that you need to run it like a businessman, not as a journalist.
I know hundreds of people who want to be freelance writers or journalists. Some of them quite well. But, for every one I know who makes a living at it, I know two dozen who don't.
The secret? Treat it like a business first.
What's your business plan? You describe several tried, true and _lame_ ways of making money from journalism. Online advertising and newsletter subscriptions are the only ones that have a proven track record of working.
How many online publications do you see making living money from the methods you describe? I can't think of any.
Google ads by themselves though, won't cut it. You need someone who spends all their time looking for advertisers.
If you go the newsletter route, you typically have to become the Expert in one area that people with money want insider information on.
Now, that can be pretty broad. Fred Langa does very well with his personal computing newsletter, the Langa List (http://www.langa.com/), but Fred, former editor of chief in Byte in the good old days of print tech. journalism, already had a lot of fans.
OK, so those models can work, but you also have to content people value and want to read.
200K unique readers a month is good, but it's not good enough.
Still, with 200K, and aggressive, non-intrustive advertising, you should be able to generate enough cash to survive on.
But, income is only part of the equation. In a real business, yoy must learn how to manage your money. This isn't a skill that for some reason many writers or journalist have, but learning how to keep costs as low as possible while maximizing revenue is a must.
That sounds simple. It's not. It's a skill your group must master though.
I've made more money in journalism years ago than I am now, but I'm doing much better overall. My secret? I finally learned finance 101.
Finally, you really aren't staffed up enough to "deeper understanding of the wide swath of research discoveries poised to affect the technologies driving day-to-day life and business."
Pick a narrow area of technology, stick with it, and you can probably provide the "deeper understanding," you're striving to cover. Once people learn that your site is The site for nano-engineering, which seems a reasonable goal based on your existing coverage, you can probably make a go of it.
The real reason is that MS hasn't been able to get it to work well enough to put in there.
The fact that it's insecure is well... since when has Microsoft products ever been secure?? Like releasing insecure program has ever been a problem for them? in the past? I think not!
It's too bad in a way. If they had gotten to work, if it could be secure, well, I rather liked the ideas behind it. It certainly would have more useful than WinFS or a fancy-dancy new interface.
It's called WinFS (Windows File System). Fortunately, Microsoft couldn't get their act together in time for it to make Longhorn/Vista... whenever it's going to show up!
"People go to a coffeeshop to relax with friends, listen to jazz, or curl up in a comfy chair with a big book."
And to write, check their e-mail, and chat via IM.
A coffee-shop in my area--Asheville, NC--once offered free Wi-Fi and did a fine little business. It also had live music, comfy chairs and welcomed groups of friends and readers.
Then, they stopped their Wi-Fi on grounds similar to what you describe.
They were out of business about three months later. A direct connection?
Maybe, maybe not. I just know that I and several other people I knew stopped going there because they no longer offered Wi-Fi.
Add wwo network cards Add free Linux 2.4 distribution or higher Activate netfilter and iptable See: ttp://www.netfilter.org/ Deploy firewall using instructions in the netfilter how-tos: See: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/
"If i were leading an open-source project under any open-souce license....personally, I would modify the license to specifically prohibit SCO"
Nope, you can't do it. Open-source licenses are called open for a reason. Anyone can--and does--use it.
If Microsoft decides one day to release MS-Linux, and the boys from Redmond obey the GPL rules as they do it, well... there's going to be a lot of copies of MS-Linux in CompUSA and BestBuy.
Look at the Wiki's date guys. The Channel 9 page was updated late last year.
Since then, it's been revealed that Monad will not be in Longhorn--whenever the heck that will come out--but will show up in Exchange 12 say sometime in 2007.
Don't ask me what a command shell will be doing in an e-mail server.
You'll see a RAR--not an exe--for an episode of Family Guy. When you try to open it, you're faced with a licensing annoucement, which if you agree to it, will pack your Windows system full of spyware.
Would this fool someone who knew what they were doing? No.
Would it fool a lot of users just looking for a cheap thrill? Oh yeah.
Does this make it a real problem--as the article suggests--I certainly think so.
Maybe not for me, maybe not for you, but for those millions of clueless users, yes, oh yes it does.
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Long before Schilling became the Man for the Red Sox, he was an avid board war gamer. I knew him as a fellow Squad Leader fanatic back before computer gaming was much more than Zork. He already owns a gaming company for hard-core SL players, MultimanPublishing. In short, he Really knows games, I'm really looking forward to see where he and the rest of the crew goes with this.
Steven
For the best msg. of why it died, see this note:
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http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192849&th
In the meantime, Ziff Davis has been trying to bring back the TechTV flavor on a minute budget with DigtalLife TV
http://dl.tv/blogs/digitallifetv/default.aspx
for tech fans by tech fans.
Truth in advertising, I'm a Ziff editor, but I've got nothing to do with this project, except I think it's cool and it's as close to TechTV as you'll find these days over the air or online.
Steven
While RMS and I have had our share of disagreements, I really don't see him following that trail of tears that was the glibc fuss. I really think that he's leaving it up to the kernel developers. And, yes, that's primarily, but, far, far from exclusively Linus. I'm sure he'd be happier if the kernel went GPL 3, but I don't see him trying to make some kind of power play here.
Yes, I know some of you will find that impossible to believe, but I think that RMS is really not looking for a fight here.
Steven
No, no video yet. It was on the list. The gaim-vv project, which was to bring a voice and video framework to GAIM, was to have been merged into the 2.0 line, but there's no sign of it in this release.
I was really looking forward to this too.
Steven
You could just give Red Hat or Novell a call and either one will be more than happy to give you their dog-and-pony show for their desktop offerings. I mean, they do do this kind of thing for a living these days.
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Do you have must-keep Windows apps? Try CrossOver Office
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1886920,00.a
or
Verasora/Win4Lin
http://www.versora.com/
I've used and deployed them all in small businesses with AD management, and they've all worked. There's no reason why they wouldn't work in larger businesses. After all, as IBM and Oracle are showing, they already do.
Steven
From the license:
"Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that read or write files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas."
and that's why this has never been acceptable to the open-source community.
Steven
Here's the deal. First, read the fine article. It does say that it's both the desktop and SLES. You'll also see that the SUSE Desktop--the community version you can grab at
http://www.opensuse.org/
will continue to support both KDE and GNOME.
SLES, the server version, and Novell Linux Desktop, the commercial distributions. though, will be built to use GNOME as its primary interface.
Now, if one is at all clever, you can certainly run put KDE on SLES or NLD. After all, besides the fact that it's not that much trouble to add *any* of the Linux GUIs to any distribution, in the case of SLES and NLD, the integration work will still largely have been done in the community SUSE desktop.
The real difference is that Novell isn't going to be spending any of its own dollars trying to support two interfaces.
Steven
Did anyone read this? It's just a badly done rant against the Green party and open source.
It's got nothing to do with the Greens being ticked off at Novell. In fact, I'm not sure how anyone could get that out of the article.
The article is really just a snarling howl against open-source, with some mindless praise for Microsoft and its software.
Steven
The LinuxWorld Australia story is actually about an earlier break-in of a Novell system that was being used for World of Warcraft related stuff, not the OpenSUSE site at all.
Steven
And, I might mention, I think it matters A Lot.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1861272,00.a
From where I sit, Red Hat's Drepper
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19
wants to throw the baby of open standardization out with the bathwater of LSB standardization testing, which could still stand a lot of improvement.
With open standardization, Linux could go the way of Intel Unix--shudder!
Steven
It really doesn't matter what You think about certifications.
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What matters is that HR departments use them as a filter to keep out the great unwashed from jobs.
You can have been the guy who said to Linus, "Hey, have you looked at Minix? Pretty cool, huh?" Or, have actually written the program that the company someone to run, but without the right letters on your resume, you're not going to land the job.
I talk some more about it, and Linux, here:
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article2/0,1895,
The bottom line: certification and networking (and I'm not talking TCP/IP) are two of the best ways to get an IT job.
Steven
When I moved to Asheville, NC a few years back I was pleasantly surprised to find that Moog, who work I had long admired, was also living here.
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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl
Good-bye, and thank you.
If was your instrument and Walter--later Wendy--Carolos'work, which brought me to classical music.
Steven
from both sides see:
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Mambo Executives, Developers Fight for Project Control
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850298,00.a
Steven
First, yes there is "a small, independent media company founded and run by journalists." The key though is that you need to run it like a businessman, not as a journalist.
I know hundreds of people who want to be freelance writers or journalists. Some of them quite well. But, for every one I know who makes a living at it, I know two dozen who don't.
The secret? Treat it like a business first.
What's your business plan? You describe several tried, true and _lame_ ways of making money from journalism. Online advertising and newsletter subscriptions are the only ones that have a proven track record of working.
How many online publications do you see making living money from the methods you describe? I can't think of any.
Google ads by themselves though, won't cut it. You need someone who spends all their time looking for advertisers.
If you go the newsletter route, you typically have to become the Expert in one area that people with money want insider information on.
Now, that can be pretty broad. Fred Langa does very well with his personal computing newsletter, the Langa List (http://www.langa.com/), but Fred, former editor of chief in Byte in the good old days of print tech. journalism, already had a lot of fans.
OK, so those models can work, but you also have to content people value and want to read.
200K unique readers a month is good, but it's not good enough.
Still, with 200K, and aggressive, non-intrustive advertising, you should be able to generate enough cash to survive on.
But, income is only part of the equation. In a real business, yoy must learn how to manage your money. This isn't a skill that for some reason many writers or journalist have, but learning how to keep costs as low as possible while maximizing revenue is a must.
That sounds simple. It's not. It's a skill your group must master though.
I've made more money in journalism years ago than I am now, but I'm doing much better overall. My secret? I finally learned finance 101.
Finally, you really aren't staffed up enough to "deeper understanding of the wide swath of research discoveries poised to affect the technologies driving day-to-day life and business."
Pick a narrow area of technology, stick with it, and you can probably provide the "deeper understanding," you're striving to cover. Once people learn that your site is The site for nano-engineering, which seems a reasonable goal based on your existing coverage, you can probably make a go of it.
Good luck.
Steven,
Senior Editor, Ziff Davis Internet (http://www.eweek.com/
Editor, Practical Technology (http://www.practical-tech.com/
Chairman, Internet Press Guild (http://www.netpress.org/
We've known for over a month that Monad wasn't going to make it in Longhorn, aka Vista.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,18
The real reason is that MS hasn't been able to get it to work well enough to put in there.
The fact that it's insecure is well... since when has Microsoft products ever been secure?? Like releasing insecure program has ever been a problem for them? in the past? I think not!
It's too bad in a way. If they had gotten to work, if it could be secure, well, I rather liked the ideas behind it. It certainly would have more useful than WinFS or a fancy-dancy new interface.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1826153,00.a
Steven
See:
s p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1843097,00.a
Steven
It's called WinFS (Windows File System). Fortunately, Microsoft couldn't get their act together in time for it to make Longhorn/Vista... whenever it's going to show up!
s p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1640212,00.a
But, someday, somehow, MS will have a new, improved, and totally propritary file system to bedevil us with.
Steven
"People go to a coffeeshop to relax with friends, listen to jazz, or curl up in a comfy chair with a big book."
And to write, check their e-mail, and chat via IM.
A coffee-shop in my area--Asheville, NC--once offered free Wi-Fi and did a fine little business. It also had live music, comfy chairs and welcomed groups of friends and readers.
Then, they stopped their Wi-Fi on grounds similar to what you describe.
They were out of business about three months later. A direct connection?
Maybe, maybe not. I just know that I and several other people I knew stopped going there because they no longer offered Wi-Fi.
Steven
Not really, and the cost of taking a PC you already have and turning it into a Linux-based firewall is zero.
Steven
Add wwo network cards
Add free Linux 2.4 distribution or higher
Activate netfilter and iptable
See: ttp://www.netfilter.org/
Deploy firewall using instructions in the netfilter how-tos:
See: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/
Or, if that's too much for you, just get the equipment and add one of the pre-configured firewall Linuxes like SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.org/), Devil-Linux (http://www.devil-linux.org/home/index.php) or Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com/).
No fuss, no muss.
Steven
"If i were leading an open-source project under any open-souce license....personally, I would modify the license to specifically prohibit SCO"
Nope, you can't do it. Open-source licenses are called open for a reason. Anyone can--and does--use it.
If Microsoft decides one day to release MS-Linux, and the boys from Redmond obey the GPL rules as they do it, well... there's going to be a lot of copies of MS-Linux in CompUSA and BestBuy.
Steven
See it for yourself:
http://www.cachelogic.com/research/slide3.php
or ask anyone who works at an ISP. HTTP barely counts compared to BitTorrent and the other P2P file network protocols.
Steven
Look at the Wiki's date guys. The Channel 9 page was updated late last year.
Since then, it's been revealed that Monad will not be in Longhorn--whenever the heck that will come out--but will show up in Exchange 12 say sometime in 2007.
Don't ask me what a command shell will be doing in an e-mail server.
For the details see the following article from: Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch
From where I sit, Monad was a decent idea. With it gone, I see even less reason than before to upgrade to XP SP3, excuse me, Longhorn.
Steven
The story says that torrent files are being bundled with adware programs, not BitTorrent clients.
How can this happen? Again RTFA.
If seeing is believing, look at this link from the news story:
Vitalsecurity
You'll see a RAR--not an exe--for an episode of Family Guy. When you try to open it, you're faced with a licensing annoucement, which if you agree to it, will pack your Windows system full of spyware.
Would this fool someone who knew what they were doing? No.
Would it fool a lot of users just looking for a cheap thrill? Oh yeah.
Does this make it a real problem--as the article suggests--I certainly think so.
Maybe not for me, maybe not for you, but for those millions of clueless users, yes, oh yes it does.
Steven
Read all about it:
s p
PowerPC Linux Vendors Are Sticking with It
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1825444,00.a
Steven