I can WFH whenever I need to, which is quite often (chronically ill partner). I find myself actually wanting to get into the office on Mondays because the quiet times to get on with stuff are good, but sometimes you really need to deal with people face to face to work stuff out at high bandwidth.
The antivirus researchers all talk to each other (and despise their marketing departments), so the actual quality of virus-checking is about the same between all antiviruses. So the difference is entirely in how much it annoys you.
I generally put ClamWin on Windows boxes I have the misfortune to have to set up.
White hats who discover Java exploits should also send a security report to the Java teams at Red Hat and Canonical (the latter do Java on Ubuntu and Debian). Oracle might sit on a 'sploit for months, but Debian isn't going to.
If you find a security 'sploit in Java, test in OpenJDK/IcedTea and report it to the security teams at Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian. They are rather less likely to sit on it for months. I notice a fix in OpenJDK came through in Ubuntu this morning.
(yes, I'm sure PAE would tide us over for a few years, and works transparently in Linux, but in practice 64-bit Windows for more memory is what I'm seeing in business)
Every parent of a small child IN THE WHOLE WORLD will be ordering one of these. I will next time the small child destroys another keyboard - currently on her third. AAAAAAAA
Unfortunately, for most LAMP-stack applications that M is going to be MySQL or shit doesn't work. They're written to MySQL, and Postgres support is typically volunteer-maintained by one person. This sucks, yes.
Halfway solution: at least get the apps to move to MariaDB.
I am told by geeks that work there that it's really very good, and lots of fun working on a site that's hugely popular and where your work will actually be used by millions of people every day. So I would not expect a serious engineer exodus. Though perhaps "FYIFV" buttons may become fashionable.
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It was actually open sourced because fans - there is actually such a thing as a CDE fan - nagged and nagged and nagged the Open Group for years to open source it and push the paperwork through.
And now the mailing list is hugely active and a bunch of enthusiastic and colourblind nostalgists is hard at work on porting this turd to everything in sight. I'm sure OpenBSD will be just fabulous in CDE.
I worked for an oil company from 2002-2004, supporting scientists (geologists and petrophysicists) using Sun boxes to run shitty, shitty, shitty, shitty proprietary vertical-market software. All on CDE. Everyone got an NT box on their desk too. NT was way more usable for actual work, but I had to use CDE so the awful software would break on my Sun box much the way it broke on the users' Sun boxes. Horrible. Horrible.
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I can WFH whenever I need to, which is quite often (chronically ill partner). I find myself actually wanting to get into the office on Mondays because the quiet times to get on with stuff are good, but sometimes you really need to deal with people face to face to work stuff out at high bandwidth.
i.e. Meeting Day is a useful idea.
None of whom own a touchscreen.
Both users are thrilled!
(They are the two remaining developers.)
Do they have even one developer who actually owns a touchscreen device yet?
The OpenJDK teams at Debian (who also do Ubuntu) and Red Hat are good people to notify as well. Unlike Oracle, they won't sit on bugs.
The antivirus researchers all talk to each other (and despise their marketing departments), so the actual quality of virus-checking is about the same between all antiviruses. So the difference is entirely in how much it annoys you.
I generally put ClamWin on Windows boxes I have the misfortune to have to set up.
This is the case for installing AdBlock Plus.
will be thrilled!
White hats who discover Java exploits should also send a security report to the Java teams at Red Hat and Canonical (the latter do Java on Ubuntu and Debian). Oracle might sit on a 'sploit for months, but Debian isn't going to.
It's called "Win32 under Wine". Ancient Windows binaries run fine, ancient Linux binaries are stupidly unusable.
If you find a security 'sploit in Java, test in OpenJDK/IcedTea and report it to the security teams at Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian. They are rather less likely to sit on it for months. I notice a fix in OpenJDK came through in Ubuntu this morning.
This is the actual market for DSLRs - wannabe photographers who actually leave it in mostly-automatic.
Nope - they've started mounting the zoom sideways inside the camera body.
What businesses love about Windows 7:
1. PCs these days start at 4GB memory.
64-bit is the whole reason.
(yes, I'm sure PAE would tide us over for a few years, and works transparently in Linux, but in practice 64-bit Windows for more memory is what I'm seeing in business)
You need a Model M.
Every parent of a small child IN THE WHOLE WORLD will be ordering one of these. I will next time the small child destroys another keyboard - currently on her third. AAAAAAAA
For very popular definitions, unfortunately. The usual alternative in practice is to become that sole volunteer providing Postgres support.
Everything useful is written against MySQL specifically, with Postgres support an afterthought. This sucks, yes.
Unfortunately, for most LAMP-stack applications that M is going to be MySQL or shit doesn't work. They're written to MySQL, and Postgres support is typically volunteer-maintained by one person. This sucks, yes.
Halfway solution: at least get the apps to move to MariaDB.
There is a small danger of a high-powered moron showing up, e.g. Stephen Elop.
Diaspora is the Linux desktop of social networking, except not actually useful or secure.
I am told by geeks that work there that it's really very good, and lots of fun working on a site that's hugely popular and where your work will actually be used by millions of people every day. So I would not expect a serious engineer exodus. Though perhaps "FYIFV" buttons may become fashionable.
It was actually open sourced because fans - there is actually such a thing as a CDE fan - nagged and nagged and nagged the Open Group for years to open source it and push the paperwork through.
And now the mailing list is hugely active and a bunch of enthusiastic and colourblind nostalgists is hard at work on porting this turd to everything in sight. I'm sure OpenBSD will be just fabulous in CDE.
I worked for an oil company from 2002-2004, supporting scientists (geologists and petrophysicists) using Sun boxes to run shitty, shitty, shitty, shitty proprietary vertical-market software. All on CDE. Everyone got an NT box on their desk too. NT was way more usable for actual work, but I had to use CDE so the awful software would break on my Sun box much the way it broke on the users' Sun boxes. Horrible. Horrible.
The Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers development model has been the GNOME way for at least a decade.
Working on new stuff (a) is fun (b) enhances the resume. Maintenance on something that basically works does neither.
I saw Windows 7 and thought "this wants to be KDE4 when it grows up."