I've been working at the IBM/Hitachi hard drive campus in San Jose for a while now, so I see the IBM "inside view" on a lot of things of this nature. (The corporate Intranet is loaded with "Linux is great" propaganda, btw). While IBM is historically a hardware company, they are moving to software and services to drive revenues for the future. Hardware is quickly becoming the second hat. The sale of the HDD division to Hitachi is evidence of this.
My speculation is that in the future IBM will be less in the business of using pretty software to sell expensive hardware, and more into the business of selling expensive services running on moderatly expensive hardware, with pretty software to sweeten the deal. Then again, they might not. I'm not Johnny Carson here.:)
I'll agree with all of that except "HP is a has-been." HP has been around since what, the 1930s? They've got assloads of money/assets, and enough R&D spending to think up all sorts of neat shit. They might not be in the best shape since the Agilent spin-off and the Compaq aquisition, but they're going to remain one of the most important technology companies for quite some time to come.
I saw one a few weeks ago, the story was posted by timothy. Anyway, in a comment, someone was rippin Taco for posting it, another person commented that it was timmy who posted it. The correction comment was modded down as offtopic, and was thus given a score of 0.
I think sometimes the moderators are clueless. (this will be modded down fast, I'm sure)
Yeah, after the dot bomb crash around here (SF Bay Area) there's not many postings per day for network admin type geeks.
I'm really close to moving to San Diego, more of a market for my type, with the defense contractors getting so much money lately. I guess war is good for some things.
Yeah, it would be nice if it were that easy. I spend at least an hour a day posting resumes and scanning job listings. The other 18 hours I'm awake have to be spent doing something.
My wife and I spent around $100 on two copies of Diablo 2 and the expansion pack. I think it's saved us hundreds of dollars that would have been blown on weekend jaunts to Monterey, boozing in some dive bar, or otherwise blown.
It also keeps me somewhat sane after being unemployed for 6 months.
I ebay'd an old DEC DLT III that, while it takes 10 tapes, keeps my ogg/mp3 collection safe. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it was only $200 with 20 tapes.
The game's AI kinda suckes, but if you change the victory condition to a nifty score like 20,000 then play with a few real people on the network and you've got some strategy.
In order to win you have to have a strong military, and a strong economy. You could also wipe out ever single other guy on the map, but sometimes thats tedious.
Guess it's not MUCH strategy, but it beats creating 50 elite archers and kicking some ass.
However, wouldn't a new *NSYNC album sell at least half a million within a week of release? If I were the PR guy I'd be sayin a 500k selling disc is protected. Sounds better than a 100k disc.
I've run FreeBSD and Linux both for many years now, had good performance and shoddy perfomance from both. I'd have to say that for Samba servers though, FreeBSD blows Linux away.
There's an art gallery just behind Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco that sells Dr Suess art. It's not too terribly expensive either (approx $750 a litho) compared to some of the stuff out there (Kinkade lithos average $1500 a pop and they're everywhere)
I've had the Sparc version of SuSE 7.0 running on a Sparcstation20 and an Ultra5 for aboot a week now. So far its a pretty good setup, hasnt crashed at all, less clutterd than RH6.2/Sparc, and obviosuly better than the RH7.0/Sparc (which doesnt exist yet).
Hope the x86 version is as good, I always did like Geeko, and I definatly want to have as similar distro on all my machines as possible. Paul
Ok, so I'm at FatBrain.com's retail store in San Jose this morning. I see a T-shirt that made me laugh my ass off right there in front of the cashier. (I had to get an extra bag for it and take it back to the office for reattachment.)
Its a dude brushing his teeth with that groggy morning look, and a paper clip on the counter saying "It appears you are brushing your teeth. Would you like to: A) Learn more about brushing teeth B) Brush teeth witout any help."
The dude looked like he was gonna kill the damn thing.
Paul Bryson "The shortest distance between two spoons is irrelevant.
Is it possible that when a company gets so big and bloated from having their hands in too many different sectors of computer technology that the marketing dept. stops paying attention to what they're really selling, and just concentrates on getting more product to market?
Here's what I see happening. Some smartass engineer is sitting in the depths of the dungeons in Redmond (which I hear are very nice actually) and decides he's gonna be funny. "Lets create another cross platform language. This will give me something to do for awhile without having to think up something really innovative" (This happens, not all engineers do it, but some do) So him and his buddies write this knock off of Java, pass it on to Marketing, sit back with a case of ale and laugh their asses off when the PR department sends out press releases like the one we're discussing today. I mean, why the hell would MS give a damn about their new language running on multiple platforms. They don't want multiple platforms. (yeah breakup shamkeup. If/when it happens this C# thing will be a long forgotten BOB for both companies)
Do the real employees at Microsoft (last I heard around 22k) really take the corporate monster seriously anymore?
Paul Bryson "The shortest distance between two spoons is irrelevant.
Yeah, directly in the valley housing is insanely expensive, but if you go to almost any of the surrounding towns outisde the valley (Livermore, Tracy, Gilroy, etc) the price of housing drops significantly. However, it takes me one hour, 20 minutes to get to my office (in northern San Jose) from my flat in Gilroy. Long drives suck, but for now its the only way some of us can afford it. Guess thats the price we pay for living here. It's not really that bad at the end of the day.
I can see more religions taking offense at this. Is this not a really good way to take the Lord's name in vain, as well as put Gods above God? And some other Old Testament no-no's could spring up. Paul Bryson
On the corporate network at the office, the preview pane would NOT initiate the script. It would appear as an icon, and then if you clicked it, you were suddenly thrust to the bottom of the gene pool. Since e-mail is such an important part of corporate communications, after IT turned off our servers for precautionary measures, we got to play around with it.:)
btw, we had more inicidents of the macro being spread by people double clicking "infected" files on networked machines that didnt even have mail clients installed. That trick of overwriting the jpg file with the script killed our technical publications department.
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Chinese joint by my office is cash only. I'd be skinny if it weren't for their massive quantities of cheap food.
I'm not positive, but I believe they were making a sarcastic remark about Hemos missing that one.
I've been working at the IBM/Hitachi hard drive campus in San Jose for a while now, so I see the IBM "inside view" on a lot of things of this nature. (The corporate Intranet is loaded with "Linux is great" propaganda, btw). While IBM is historically a hardware company, they are moving to software and services to drive revenues for the future. Hardware is quickly becoming the second hat. The sale of the HDD division to Hitachi is evidence of this.
:)
My speculation is that in the future IBM will be less in the business of using pretty software to sell expensive hardware, and more into the business of selling expensive services running on moderatly expensive hardware, with pretty software to sweeten the deal. Then again, they might not. I'm not Johnny Carson here.
I'll agree with all of that except "HP is a has-been." HP has been around since what, the 1930s? They've got assloads of money/assets, and enough R&D spending to think up all sorts of neat shit. They might not be in the best shape since the Agilent spin-off and the Compaq aquisition, but they're going to remain one of the most important technology companies for quite some time to come.
I saw one a few weeks ago, the story was posted by timothy. Anyway, in a comment, someone was rippin Taco for posting it, another person commented that it was timmy who posted it. The correction comment was modded down as offtopic, and was thus given a score of 0.
I think sometimes the moderators are clueless. (this will be modded down fast, I'm sure)
Yeah, after the dot bomb crash around here (SF Bay Area) there's not many postings per day for network admin type geeks.
I'm really close to moving to San Diego, more of a market for my type, with the defense contractors getting so much money lately. I guess war is good for some things.
Yeah, it would be nice if it were that easy. I spend at least an hour a day posting resumes and scanning job listings. The other 18 hours I'm awake have to be spent doing something.
My wife and I spent around $100 on two copies of Diablo 2 and the expansion pack. I think it's saved us hundreds of dollars that would have been blown on weekend jaunts to Monterey, boozing in some dive bar, or otherwise blown.
It also keeps me somewhat sane after being unemployed for 6 months.
I ebay'd an old DEC DLT III that, while it takes 10 tapes, keeps my ogg/mp3 collection safe. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it was only $200 with 20 tapes.
The game's AI kinda suckes, but if you change the victory condition to a nifty score like 20,000 then play with a few real people on the network and you've got some strategy.
In order to win you have to have a strong military, and a strong economy. You could also wipe out ever single other guy on the map, but sometimes thats tedious.
Guess it's not MUCH strategy, but it beats creating 50 elite archers and kicking some ass.
From small ISP bosses to world leaders and FBI agents:
CNN story about Ukraine President getting SirCam.
Newsbytes story about FBI agent w/SirCam.
I was doing just that for about 8 months on both Windows and Linux. Never had a single problem with it. Damn people make things out to be so hard!
However, wouldn't a new *NSYNC album sell at least half a million within a week of release? If I were the PR guy I'd be sayin a 500k selling disc is protected. Sounds better than a 100k disc.
Paul
I've run FreeBSD and Linux both for many years now, had good performance and shoddy perfomance from both. I'd have to say that for Samba servers though, FreeBSD blows Linux away.
Paul
There's an art gallery just behind Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco that sells Dr Suess art. It's not too terribly expensive either (approx $750 a litho) compared to some of the stuff out there (Kinkade lithos average $1500 a pop and they're everywhere)
Paul
I've had the Sparc version of SuSE 7.0 running on a Sparcstation20 and an Ultra5 for aboot a week now. So far its a pretty good setup, hasnt crashed at all, less clutterd than RH6.2/Sparc, and obviosuly better than the RH7.0/Sparc (which doesnt exist yet).
Hope the x86 version is as good, I always did like Geeko, and I definatly want to have as similar distro on all my machines as possible.
Paul
I agree, the little blurb tells us sweet FA, but there was another Rambus link on Tom's index, more informative of what Rambus is up to.
http://www6.tomshardware. com/blurb/00q2/000525/index.html
Paul Bryson
"The shortest distance between two spoons is irrelevant.
Ok, so I'm at FatBrain.com's retail store in San Jose this morning. I see a T-shirt that made me laugh my ass off right there in front of the cashier. (I had to get an extra bag for it and take it back to the office for reattachment.)
Its a dude brushing his teeth with that groggy morning look, and a paper clip on the counter saying "It appears you are brushing your teeth. Would you like to:
A) Learn more about brushing teeth
B) Brush teeth witout any help."
The dude looked like he was gonna kill the damn thing.
Paul Bryson
"The shortest distance between two spoons is irrelevant.
Is it possible that when a company gets so big and bloated from having their hands in too many different sectors of computer technology that the marketing dept. stops paying attention to what they're really selling, and just concentrates on getting more product to market?
Here's what I see happening. Some smartass engineer is sitting in the depths of the dungeons in Redmond (which I hear are very nice actually) and decides he's gonna be funny. "Lets create another cross platform language. This will give me something to do for awhile without having to think up something really innovative" (This happens, not all engineers do it, but some do) So him and his buddies write this knock off of Java, pass it on to Marketing, sit back with a case of ale and laugh their asses off when the PR department sends out press releases like the one we're discussing today. I mean, why the hell would MS give a damn about their new language running on multiple platforms. They don't want multiple platforms. (yeah breakup shamkeup. If/when it happens this C# thing will be a long forgotten BOB for both companies)
Do the real employees at Microsoft (last I heard around 22k) really take the corporate monster seriously anymore?
Paul Bryson
"The shortest distance between two spoons is irrelevant.
I'd stay in one. Just try to get a hotel room in this place on 4 hours notice. It wont happen on Monday Tuesday or Wednesday nights.
Paul Bryson
Yeah, directly in the valley housing is insanely expensive, but if you go to almost any of the surrounding towns outisde the valley (Livermore, Tracy, Gilroy, etc) the price of housing drops significantly. However, it takes me one hour, 20 minutes to get to my office (in northern San Jose) from my flat in Gilroy. Long drives suck, but for now its the only way some of us can afford it. Guess thats the price we pay for living here. It's not really that bad at the end of the day.
Paul Bryson
I can see more religions taking offense at this. Is this not a really good way to take the Lord's name in vain, as well as put Gods above God? And some other Old Testament no-no's could spring up.
Paul Bryson
On the corporate network at the office, the preview pane would NOT initiate the script. It would appear as an icon, and then if you clicked it, you were suddenly thrust to the bottom of the gene pool. Since e-mail is such an important part of corporate communications, after IT turned off our servers for precautionary measures, we got to play around with it. :)
btw, we had more inicidents of the macro being spread by people double clicking "infected" files on networked machines that didnt even have mail clients installed. That trick of overwriting the jpg file with the script killed our technical publications department.
Paul Bryson