John Doe
15 Schlotzky Blvd
Mudville, AZ 12345
USA
Earth, Sol, Milky Way
Now THIS is universal.:) This shoud work for a while, until we have to start specifying which of the universes we really mean. Then, I guess, we'd have to add another line:
The-One-With-The-Evil-Spock
This is grammatically incorrect. You are talking about a singular programmer, hence "himself/herself" and "his/her" labors. You would need to use "both for the programmers themselves..."
(Ducks flying rotten tomato)
Oh no you don't.
Using the plural pronoun to refer to a single person of unspecified gender is an old and honorable pattern in English, not a newfangled bit of degeneracy or a politically correct plot to avoid sexism (though it often serves the latter purpose). People who insist that "Everyone has brought his own lunch" is the only correct form do not reflect the usage of centuries of fine writers.
Like reading slashdot? What if you had to click on every link you ever saw posted to make sure it didn't go to goatse.cx? Day after day after day, for years on end.
Okay, maybe it's not that cruel, but you get the idea...:)
I've come to expect a lot of bitching about gnome(-2.x) on slashdot, simply because the vast majority of users here are people who spend a LOT of time with computers. These are the people who bring up the dreaded workspaces vs desktops debate, bemoan the loss of edge-flipping, and berate the fact that you "can't do that neat thing I've always been able to do in WindowMaker." Others just shrug, smile patronizingly, and say "I don't see why everybody can't just use Emacs."
Ok, so, I have about 100 users in a large department all using linux -- currently both KDE and gnome-1.4 (rhl-7.3). All I can say -- I want an environment that doesn't require a computer degree to configure and operate it. Note -- my users are nearly all PhDs in Physics, or are on their way to obtaining a PhD in Physics, yet still they have trouble figuring out the interface. The notion of setting up our administrative assistants with a gnome-1.4 or a KDE workstation is bordering on silly at the moment.
However, looking at my shiny new gnome-2.2 installation, I must say that perhaps that is slowly changing. This looks MUCH more like an interface for the ordinary people who want to actually USE the applications, not hack them, or learn a separate programming language and a slew of wrist-numbing keybindings just to launch one successfully. Simplicity and responsiveness is the key.
Gnome is a very valuable project for those of us who are looking at maintaining a lot of desktops in a business or educational environment. Currently such setups are frequently limited to Windows or OS X, but both of these platforms come with a huge price-tag both in terms of the OS itself and in terms of admin time spent per each computer -- not only when it comes to the quickness of setup (remote customized pxe kickstarts vs. disk imaging, for example), but also in the area of patching and software maintenance (centralized package updating via RPM, including custom packages, vs... oh, hell, I don't know, everything I've seen on windows/osx is such an horrible hack). However, while administration benefits have been clear, adoption on the desktop has been slow to none, simply because there hasn't been a good, simple, and intuitive WIMP interface available for use on Linux for those who think of their computers as tools to do their day jobs and not in terms of a lifestyle or a political statement.
So, to those working on making GNOME a success on our business desktops I give a resounding cheer. To those who whine about workspaces vs. desktops, edge-flipping, and the fact that there are no longer five different clocks available for their panel -- I'm sure there is a windowing environment that will gladly welcome you. If you want eye-candy, look at Enlightenment. If you want a slew of features -- look at KDE. If you want lean-and-mean, look at WindowMaker and such.
But please don't abuse our cherished gnome developers if your favorite wm feature is not in 2.x, or that you cannot pass the --enable-throbbing-transparencies flags to applications any more. They are out to make a good business end-user desktop, and they seem to actually have a clue as to how to go about doing it. Now we need a gnome2-ified evolution and a decent gnome2-ified browser, and the underlying desktop structure is pretty much complete. Too bad OpenOffice(.org) is using its own widget set. I'm so tired of the "let's make our own widget set" mentality of modern projects...
Why is this causing such an "outrage"? Stealing copyrighted material IS wrong. If you don't like it, then well, tough shit. Copyrights are there for a reason (let's forego the whole argument about Disney and never-expiring copyrights -- that's a different topic). If I own a work of art that I've put a lot of effort into, I certainly do not want it copied around without any control on my part, unless I've specifically granted everyone permission to do so by releasing it under the "free unlimited distribution allowed" license (e.g. this creative commons clause). If you violate my copyright, then I want you punished. If you think this is unfair of me, then fart in my general direction and don't use my work. I will certainly understand and not be offended in the slightest.
You cannot expect every artist to put their works into the public domain or license them for free distribution. That's just not how this world works, whatever your youthful idealism is telling you. Please respect people's copyrights and don't steal their works. If you do, then don't make a scene when they press charges.
Without the moon, earth's axis could tilt so that one of the poles can be positioned towards the sun, thereby illuminating one side of the earth constantly while keeping the other side in the dark.
If life can evolve on such a planet I would very much like to see what it looks like.
Star Trek Nemesis is still playing in a theatre near you.:)
But I was, in fact, wondering which blurb about the Fermi gases was to be attributed to you guys, although I must say that I expected it to be an entire separate entry judging from all the preventive reverse-proxy fallback-to-beowulf-cluster things I had standing by in case our server was to be slashdotted back in November.:)
I'm an H1B worker, so changing jobs for me is, uh, non-trivial. My H1 expires in 2005, after which I am moving to Canada and looking for a job in a different field, probably education, or techology in education.:) However, I do need $10k to immigrate to Canada, so I'll stick to doing what I'm doing for a few more years.
I've been a sysadmin for the past 5 years, two of them at a large department in a very big educational institution. I have to say that of all jobs I've had in the past, this is the most personally unrewarding.
Sure, the pay is good, and the benefits are nice, and you get to sit in your comfy chair most of the time punching buttons and not really doing anything in particular. However, this "bliss" comes with the following drawbacks:
Nobody appreciates what you do. Or, rather, extremely few people do. If you are good at your job, your name is only uttered when things don't work, and even then coupled with expletives. You can be a top-notch sysadmin, the best of the best, but people will still hate you when their "thingy" can't get to Yahoo. When you're doing a great job, it is taken for granted.
Your better is your users' worse. Any changes you make that are visible to end-users -- even if you have to do it due to the system growth -- are greeted with incredible resistance. People will complain both to you and your boss if they can no longer "click that picture and have it done." No matter if the changes you've implemented are extremely beneficial overall, and you've explained it to them time and over again: people will bitch and moan, and loathe you for any change in their routine.
Scheduled downtime is your fault. Occasional scheduled downtime is inevitable. Even if you had warned about this a month, two weeks, a week, two days, and a day ahead of the downtime, there will be people who will show up at your door and demand that you bring back their files at once because they have an important conference call to make. When you try to say that "I've WARNED everyone FIVE times!" they will claim that it's the first time they are hearing about it. Just doing your job seems to be a great way to piss people off.
You are on the job 24/7. I don't have a pager, and my home phone number is unlisted, so I have it better than most sysadmins. Yet, if I meet a coworker anywhere, I am instantly on the job the moment they see me. "Oh, good thing I ran into you! My computer has been making weird noises, and I was wondering..." Don't think about having lunch anywhere near where you work, either, or do it behind the locked doors of your office.
Computers won't love you back. You may pour your best into your cluster, but it won't answer with the same. Your tidy rack of dual athlons won't show you affection, greet you by wagging its tail, or be saddened when you leave for the weekend. It's just a lifeless hunk of iron, and the only time it gets hot feelings for you is when your air-conditioning goes offline.
I was an education major in college, and during one of the classes our professor told us: "when you start teaching, there will be rich schools and poor schools. If you work in one of the rich schools you will have a good salary, good budget, nice classrooms, and decent lunches. If you work in a poor school, you will have none of that, plus drugs, violence, and complete lack of parental involvement. Believe it or not, some people prefer to work in poor schools simply because if they are doing their job well, there will be people who will stop them every day in the hallway and tell them how much they admire their work. Not only that, but people working in poor schools are able to see with their own eyes how much difference they are making in the lives of the children they teach."
That seemed weird to me then, but now I think I understand. It all comes down to what one thinks to be a good reward for their work. If it is good pay, quick career path, and a Porshe by the time you're 30, then being a sysadmin is your dream job (granted, of course, that you're good at it). However, if you are looking for something that is personally rewarding, something you want to feel good about doing... You might want to pick a different carreer. Or at least do it only until you start feeling burnt-out.
Me? Oh, I'm quitting as soon as I can afford it.:)
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But Douglas McFarland, at South Dakota State University in Brookings, who collaborates with Mironov, disagrees. "Animal protein is a more balanced and complex protein than a plant protein," he argues. "The body would absorb and metabolise protein from a pill too rapidly. If you eat protein, then it takes more time to digest."
I'm sure human meat is even better for consumption. Why don't we grow human steaks, then?
Since it's a PPC, skr1pt k1dd1ez will have a whole lotta trouble trying to crack it with cut-and-paste x86 rootkits. Of course, it will not stop a knowledgeble attacker and is not at all a substitute for applying errata in a timely fashion, but it's still a significant plus in my book. And if you use YDL, it will be nearly identical in every feature to your x86 Red Hat Linux boxen.
I can totally see it running as a firewall/external webserver/DNS server box. Of course, granted that TerraSoft mobos aren't POS. Only time and wide use will tell.
IANAMD but i do know that disease spreads where there are to many people too, but the point is, human overpopulation isn't because someone else killed off all our predators.
I was eating my steak, and it was like, "moo," "moo," and then it was, like, half of my brain stem was gone.
And I was like: "Huh?"
It devoured my brain.
It was really a good brain.
It was kind of a... bummer.
My computer has only been infected twice, both of them rare and harmless viruses.
Lucky you. I've not been infected by a virus since 1998 when I switched to Linux. However, some time ago I was looking for a job and one of the prospective employers asked me to submit my resume in MS Word format for a sysadmin position. Since I didn't own MS * and AbiWord/OO.org weren't available at the time, I asked a friend of mine to convert my resume into doc.
Of course, he had Melissa, my resume got infected, and brought up a nice antivirus alert on the employer's machine when they tried opening the file. Sigh. They offered such nice benefits.
Goddammit, will people learn how to spell his name? It's SKLYAROV, not SKYLAROV. Y after L, not the other way around. YA is that Cyrillic "backwards R", and when it follows a consonant it simply "softens" it, while dropping the "y" ("j") sound. Since all Ls in English are "soft" anyway, it's best to omit the "Y" when pronouncing the name.
So it's pronounced "Skla-rOv". Not "skee-lArov". And spelled SKLYAROV.
Now let me tell you how I feel about that backwards "R" in "Toys-R-Us"...
I am somewhat confused about data are actually being generated here. If you need 8 new tapes each month, then your researchers generate a terabyte every month. Is that right? Why do you also need 30-60 tapes for daily backups?
The researchers do data manipulation, meaning that most of these files will change over the course of one month. Moreover, a lot of them want to be able to go "damn, I've done this blah-blah transform on my image data, and it screwed it up. Can you restore this directory the way it was two months ago?
That's the reason they want it to go back 3 years, with monthly snapshots. The dailies have the latest up-to-one-day snapshot of the data. In case one of the physicists removes a file and wants it back a week later, we can restore any part of the system entirely from the dailies, since we store archivals off-site and checking them out and back in just to restore one file is an incredible hassle.
Slashdot Mirror
John Doe
15 Schlotzky Blvd
Mudville, AZ 12345
USA
Earth, Sol, Milky Way
Now THIS is universal. :) This shoud work for a while, until we have to start specifying which of the universes we really mean. Then, I guess, we'd have to add another line:
The-One-With-The-Evil-Spock
Mm.... Calvary units... Do they summon the name of Jesus while turning the other cheek? :)
(I think you meant cavalry)
Sheesh. Remind me to never carpool with you.
Or find one that already exists [logwatch.org], is well supported [gnu.org] and is widely used.
Or, if you have a large cluster of machines all logging to a centralized loghost, other tools may be more suitable.
This is grammatically incorrect. You are talking about a singular programmer, hence "himself/herself" and "his/her" labors. You would need to use "both for the programmers themselves..."
(Ducks flying rotten tomato)
Oh no you don't.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/they.html
As I've answered before...
I like my OS X where it belongs -- inside a MOL window. :)
Like reading slashdot? What if you had to click on every link you ever saw posted to make sure it didn't go to goatse.cx? Day after day after day, for years on end.
Okay, maybe it's not that cruel, but you get the idea... :)
Trying 204.121.3.13...
Connected to www.lanl.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
Jesus H. Christ, don't these guys protect ANYTHING?!
I've come to expect a lot of bitching about gnome(-2.x) on slashdot, simply because the vast majority of users here are people who spend a LOT of time with computers. These are the people who bring up the dreaded workspaces vs desktops debate, bemoan the loss of edge-flipping, and berate the fact that you "can't do that neat thing I've always been able to do in WindowMaker." Others just shrug, smile patronizingly, and say "I don't see why everybody can't just use Emacs."
Ok, so, I have about 100 users in a large department all using linux -- currently both KDE and gnome-1.4 (rhl-7.3). All I can say -- I want an environment that doesn't require a computer degree to configure and operate it. Note -- my users are nearly all PhDs in Physics, or are on their way to obtaining a PhD in Physics, yet still they have trouble figuring out the interface. The notion of setting up our administrative assistants with a gnome-1.4 or a KDE workstation is bordering on silly at the moment.
However, looking at my shiny new gnome-2.2 installation, I must say that perhaps that is slowly changing. This looks MUCH more like an interface for the ordinary people who want to actually USE the applications, not hack them, or learn a separate programming language and a slew of wrist-numbing keybindings just to launch one successfully. Simplicity and responsiveness is the key.
Gnome is a very valuable project for those of us who are looking at maintaining a lot of desktops in a business or educational environment. Currently such setups are frequently limited to Windows or OS X, but both of these platforms come with a huge price-tag both in terms of the OS itself and in terms of admin time spent per each computer -- not only when it comes to the quickness of setup (remote customized pxe kickstarts vs. disk imaging, for example), but also in the area of patching and software maintenance (centralized package updating via RPM, including custom packages, vs... oh, hell, I don't know, everything I've seen on windows/osx is such an horrible hack). However, while administration benefits have been clear, adoption on the desktop has been slow to none, simply because there hasn't been a good, simple, and intuitive WIMP interface available for use on Linux for those who think of their computers as tools to do their day jobs and not in terms of a lifestyle or a political statement.
So, to those working on making GNOME a success on our business desktops I give a resounding cheer. To those who whine about workspaces vs. desktops, edge-flipping, and the fact that there are no longer five different clocks available for their panel -- I'm sure there is a windowing environment that will gladly welcome you. If you want eye-candy, look at Enlightenment. If you want a slew of features -- look at KDE. If you want lean-and-mean, look at WindowMaker and such.
But please don't abuse our cherished gnome developers if your favorite wm feature is not in 2.x, or that you cannot pass the --enable-throbbing-transparencies flags to applications any more. They are out to make a good business end-user desktop, and they seem to actually have a clue as to how to go about doing it. Now we need a gnome2-ified evolution and a decent gnome2-ified browser, and the underlying desktop structure is pretty much complete. Too bad OpenOffice(.org) is using its own widget set. I'm so tired of the "let's make our own widget set" mentality of modern projects...
Anyway -- Gnome2 developers: you are my heroes.
Why is this causing such an "outrage"? Stealing copyrighted material IS wrong. If you don't like it, then well, tough shit. Copyrights are there for a reason (let's forego the whole argument about Disney and never-expiring copyrights -- that's a different topic). If I own a work of art that I've put a lot of effort into, I certainly do not want it copied around without any control on my part, unless I've specifically granted everyone permission to do so by releasing it under the "free unlimited distribution allowed" license (e.g. this creative commons clause). If you violate my copyright, then I want you punished. If you think this is unfair of me, then fart in my general direction and don't use my work. I will certainly understand and not be offended in the slightest.
You cannot expect every artist to put their works into the public domain or license them for free distribution. That's just not how this world works, whatever your youthful idealism is telling you. Please respect people's copyrights and don't steal their works. If you do, then don't make a scene when they press charges.
Ah, I see Mr. Ashcroft is going ahead with his plans of fitting her with a burqa.
Star Trek Nemesis is still playing in a theatre near you. :)
Karma whore. :)
:)
But I was, in fact, wondering which blurb about the Fermi gases was to be attributed to you guys, although I must say that I expected it to be an entire separate entry judging from all the preventive reverse-proxy fallback-to-beowulf-cluster things I had standing by in case our server was to be slashdotted back in November.
I'm an H1B worker, so changing jobs for me is, uh, non-trivial. My H1 expires in 2005, after which I am moving to Canada and looking for a job in a different field, probably education, or techology in education. :) However, I do need $10k to immigrate to Canada, so I'll stick to doing what I'm doing for a few more years.
I've been a sysadmin for the past 5 years, two of them at a large department in a very big educational institution. I have to say that of all jobs I've had in the past, this is the most personally unrewarding.
Sure, the pay is good, and the benefits are nice, and you get to sit in your comfy chair most of the time punching buttons and not really doing anything in particular. However, this "bliss" comes with the following drawbacks:
I was an education major in college, and during one of the classes our professor told us: "when you start teaching, there will be rich schools and poor schools. If you work in one of the rich schools you will have a good salary, good budget, nice classrooms, and decent lunches. If you work in a poor school, you will have none of that, plus drugs, violence, and complete lack of parental involvement. Believe it or not, some people prefer to work in poor schools simply because if they are doing their job well, there will be people who will stop them every day in the hallway and tell them how much they admire their work. Not only that, but people working in poor schools are able to see with their own eyes how much difference they are making in the lives of the children they teach."
That seemed weird to me then, but now I think I understand. It all comes down to what one thinks to be a good reward for their work. If it is good pay, quick career path, and a Porshe by the time you're 30, then being a sysadmin is your dream job (granted, of course, that you're good at it). However, if you are looking for something that is personally rewarding, something you want to feel good about doing... You might want to pick a different carreer. Or at least do it only until you start feeling burnt-out.
Me? Oh, I'm quitting as soon as I can afford it. :)
I'm sure human meat is even better for consumption. Why don't we grow human steaks, then?
Grossed out? Good.
Since it's a PPC, skr1pt k1dd1ez will have a whole lotta trouble trying to crack it with cut-and-paste x86 rootkits. Of course, it will not stop a knowledgeble attacker and is not at all a substitute for applying errata in a timely fashion, but it's still a significant plus in my book. And if you use YDL, it will be nearly identical in every feature to your x86 Red Hat Linux boxen.
I can totally see it running as a firewall/external webserver/DNS server box. Of course, granted that TerraSoft mobos aren't POS. Only time and wide use will tell.
No indeed.
I was eating my steak, and it was like, "moo," "moo," and then it was, like, half of my brain stem was gone.
And I was like: "Huh?"
It devoured my brain.
It was really a good brain.
It was kind of a... bummer.
Seriously... give this a consideration.
I interact with my Windows XP using a finger all the time.
You forgot:
2.5. rpm --checksig whatever.rpm
YES. DO IT.
Codswallop, January 11th is a Saturday!
Lucky you. I've not been infected by a virus since 1998 when I switched to Linux. However, some time ago I was looking for a job and one of the prospective employers asked me to submit my resume in MS Word format for a sysadmin position. Since I didn't own MS * and AbiWord/OO.org weren't available at the time, I asked a friend of mine to convert my resume into doc.
Of course, he had Melissa, my resume got infected, and brought up a nice antivirus alert on the employer's machine when they tried opening the file. Sigh. They offered such nice benefits.
Moral: Don't let your friends use MS Word!
Goddammit, will people learn how to spell his name? It's SKLYAROV, not SKYLAROV. Y after L, not the other way around. YA is that Cyrillic "backwards R", and when it follows a consonant it simply "softens" it, while dropping the "y" ("j") sound. Since all Ls in English are "soft" anyway, it's best to omit the "Y" when pronouncing the name.
So it's pronounced "Skla-rOv". Not "skee-lArov". And spelled SKLYAROV.
Now let me tell you how I feel about that backwards "R" in "Toys-R-Us"...
The researchers do data manipulation, meaning that most of these files will change over the course of one month. Moreover, a lot of them want to be able to go "damn, I've done this blah-blah transform on my image data, and it screwed it up. Can you restore this directory the way it was two months ago?
That's the reason they want it to go back 3 years, with monthly snapshots. The dailies have the latest up-to-one-day snapshot of the data. In case one of the physicists removes a file and wants it back a week later, we can restore any part of the system entirely from the dailies, since we store archivals off-site and checking them out and back in just to restore one file is an incredible hassle.