Is this real or maybe my english reading skills are not good enough to understand it.
Incorrect estimates are the problem. When non-experience people estimate, or when management force to under-estimate that is the real issue.
Estimates are necessary in software development, but of course that "estimating" sucks just like "deadlines", "taxes", "death", "breaking up with your girlfriend in person", "no wifi", "cancer", "divorce" and many other things.
I have a solution, why don't you go to your boss and say "Estimating sucks, and I would not do that because I don't want to compromise any time. So you can "Estimate" my monthly salary according to whatever deadline we will never accomplish".... that sounds fair.
I had been out of (what I used to know) the mainframe scene for a long while. The zOS was great an everybody loved the mainframe with the exception of the financial department. It was because of the "Monthly License Charge" that some Mainframe models used to have, the software was never licensed to you, it was "rented", so if you didn't pay the MLC you must disconnect the mainframe. Is the MLC over? Does anybody knows?
Here you have it. As a non-developer I had tried to consolidate all OS/2 source code I was able to find. On Github I have 1388 repositories of different OS/2 projects.
The Internet Archive is very good to preserve open source projects. It is not like Github, but it is good as a search library for ISO images, source code and old software. Also a lot of Creative Commons wikis get dumped there (and I guess we all know the wayback machine). Check it out: http://www.archive.org/
I have the same issues with OS/2 source code. Not been able to attract new and younger programmers and many of the source code is scattered on the web with the risk of being lost.
I'm doing the following:
1) I had organized all source code I was able to find on GitHub:
- Created a Organization on github - https://github.com/os2world
- Organized the repos in "named-categories"
2) Created a Wiki to organize the catalog.
3) I will upload a copy of all repositories and a wiki dump to the Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/
This are my steps to try that the source code do not get lost.
I think we still miss a universal, open source, Office suite conversion tool (Or maybe it is already out there and I haven't find it). For example, if you find an old.123 file, depending on the date, the best way will be to open it with SmartSuite 9.8, save it as newer.123 or as.xls. If you save it as.123 the only want to turn it into.ods is to use IBM Symphony 1.3 (?) to turn it into ods.
If you can not find SmartSuite (or older 1-2-3) you are doomed. So I think that an extendible open source converstion tool is required.
It is not a myth. The OS decays. All the stuff you install and de-install, all the crappy drivers that you install on the OS makes the registry gets bigger, it makes Windows to under-perform and slows it down. No matter if you un-install all the extra things you don't use anymore, the OS will never get back to the original state. That is why a full reinstall will make it better.
But there is one thing that I noticed. For the first time ever on Windows 8.1 the "refresh" functionality of the OS worked very good. It took a long time but it recovered to a refreshed state.
OS/2 installation never decay as Windows. It is all on the config.sys, you simple delete all the stuff you don't like and it is done.
http://www.os2world.com./
I don't think that Google+ is gone. For example I noticed that you can switch you identity on YouTube according to your "Pages" on Google+. I think that was a cool feature to allow your "Organization" to have a YouTube identity.
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Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering
I think that Wil Wheaton advice is also good for this kind of conflict situation:
https://dontbeadickday.com/
It even has a "simple chart" to explain it.
AFAIK she also designed the OS/2 Warp icons. !!
...free is not enough.
Came on Giorgio !!! get there fast before the looters take away your alien !!
Is this real or maybe my english reading skills are not good enough to understand it.
Incorrect estimates are the problem. When non-experience people estimate, or when management force to under-estimate that is the real issue.
Estimates are necessary in software development, but of course that "estimating" sucks just like "deadlines", "taxes", "death", "breaking up with your girlfriend in person", "no wifi", "cancer", "divorce" and many other things.
I have a solution, why don't you go to your boss and say "Estimating sucks, and I would not do that because I don't want to compromise any time. So you can "Estimate" my monthly salary according to whatever deadline we will never accomplish".... that sounds fair.
I had been out of (what I used to know) the mainframe scene for a long while. The zOS was great an everybody loved the mainframe with the exception of the financial department. It was because of the "Monthly License Charge" that some Mainframe models used to have, the software was never licensed to you, it was "rented", so if you didn't pay the MLC you must disconnect the mainframe. Is the MLC over? Does anybody knows?
At Vegas you don't hear the coins dropping on the slot machines anymore, now you hear beep, boop from the machine's speakers :)
http://www.startreknewvoyages....
...so my son will became "KHAAAAAAN!"
That we should exercise before trying to reproduce so we can improve the human race?
There was this related post on Slashdot on Sep 2014. College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class - http://developers.slashdot.org...
Here you have it. As a non-developer I had tried to consolidate all OS/2 source code I was able to find. On Github I have 1388 repositories of different OS/2 projects.
...that is the first thing that came to my mind when I think about Watson.
That is the cool thing about Google.. they are not forced to eat their own dog food ...(with the exception of Vic Gundotra that dropped Twitter once he became Google+ leader....I wonder where is he now?)
uhm.. but I don't know much about what the Internet Archive does with physical objects. I'm just reading... http://blog.archive.org/2011/0...
The Internet Archive is very good to preserve open source projects. It is not like Github, but it is good as a search library for ISO images, source code and old software. Also a lot of Creative Commons wikis get dumped there (and I guess we all know the wayback machine). Check it out: http://www.archive.org/
I have the same issues with OS/2 source code. Not been able to attract new and younger programmers and many of the source code is scattered on the web with the risk of being lost.
I'm doing the following:
1) I had organized all source code I was able to find on GitHub:
- Created a Organization on github - https://github.com/os2world
- Organized the repos in "named-categories"
2) Created a Wiki to organize the catalog.
3) I will upload a copy of all repositories and a wiki dump to the Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/
This are my steps to try that the source code do not get lost.
Maybe Viagra on the seas is the solution. More horny fishes will reproduce more.... damn.... I just found my master's thesis.
I think we still miss a universal, open source, Office suite conversion tool (Or maybe it is already out there and I haven't find it). For example, if you find an old .123 file, depending on the date, the best way will be to open it with SmartSuite 9.8, save it as newer .123 or as .xls. If you save it as .123 the only want to turn it into .ods is to use IBM Symphony 1.3 (?) to turn it into ods.
If you can not find SmartSuite (or older 1-2-3) you are doomed. So I think that an extendible open source converstion tool is required.
Hi.
It is not a myth. The OS decays. All the stuff you install and de-install, all the crappy drivers that you install on the OS makes the registry gets bigger, it makes Windows to under-perform and slows it down. No matter if you un-install all the extra things you don't use anymore, the OS will never get back to the original state. That is why a full reinstall will make it better.
But there is one thing that I noticed. For the first time ever on Windows 8.1 the "refresh" functionality of the OS worked very good. It took a long time but it recovered to a refreshed state.
OS/2 installation never decay as Windows. It is all on the config.sys, you simple delete all the stuff you don't like and it is done. http://www.os2world.com./
I don't think that Google+ is gone. For example I noticed that you can switch you identity on YouTube according to your "Pages" on Google+. I think that was a cool feature to allow your "Organization" to have a YouTube identity.
I'm against it. Sign the petition "No more Vashta Nerada at home."
US-CERT used to post a report some time ago advising to switch to other browser, after a few hours they changed the statement.
http://martin.iturbide.com/2014/04/do-you-trust-us-cert.html