Add to that the "and I want to look over your shoulder while you type" clause and you're going to turn off 90% of IT shops. I did some work for a company a while back who wouldn't give me the admin passwords. Not for the windows workstations, not for the domain, any servers or even for their main apps. When I would go there to do work I would have to call one of the owners over to type in passwords for me often. REALLY often. It took me 2 trips to finally let them know that something had to change or they would have to find someone else. They found someone else:) I've gotten much better about recognizing these traits in people and won't work for companies if I see it. You need to trust your admin. It will help them do their job and will give you piece of mind. Unfortunately, some people are just not capable of that.
I was going to post about this. It took me a long time to get used to that. My first experience was years back working with an Indian Oracle developer. I would be trying to explain something to him and he would be shaking his head and it would make me nuts. I would stop talking and ask what he didn't agree with. I could remember it for the rest of that conversation but later that day or the next day it would happen again and I'd just forget. I was never able to get comfortable with it.
I recently started working for a company that has a bunch of Indian developers so I'm expecting it but haven't seen it yet.
Just because Al Gore hasn't made as much off of this as the fossil fuel industries it doesn't make it ok. Al Gore has made millions (and won an oscar) because of the bullshit he spews. A sweeter smelling turd is still a turd
I had one from Tempe that I was ignoring. This past weekend, some dude came to my door and asked for me. I should have known but I was distracted and my guard was down. He served it in person. Now I'm trying to decide between paying the $200 or going to traffic school.
I only read RTF letter and it gave me the impression he had been missing about 2 weeks. But, in my post I did say it's possible there's more to the story last past problems between the devs. Sounds like that's what's going on. Perhaps they should have worded the letter better. It's not like they posted it on his Facebook page. That's the website that Centos users visit. If I've never used Centos and I'm going to the page for the first time I'm going to head for the exit. They could have accompanied that letter with a letter to the community explaining that there's been an ongoing problem that has come to a head and that the other developers are committed to the project, will keep it going, will do anything they can to avoid affect on users, yadda, yadda, yadda. That's what I'd have done.
I agree that the tone of that letter is way off. If you are genuinely concerned about someone you don't write to them in that manner. If it turns out he has a good reason for disappearing (medical, accident, etc.) he's going to be pissed off when he reads that and will have every right to be. When someone goes missing you have to consider the worse case scenario. Certainly this guys health and life are far more important than whether or not Centos has to change domain names.
I have hundreds of Centos installs in the wild and when I read the post on Slashdot the first thing I thought of was "I hope nothing bad happened to him". This lead me to think about any family he may have. Not once did I stop to consider what impact this would have on those Centos installs and my involvement with them. After reading that letter I can't help but think either there's more to the story (aka, past problems between the developers) or the Centos developers are a bunch of asshats.
Or he could just do what my 12 year old son does whenever he bets me on something and loses -
"Oh, I said I'd give you a million "doll hairs". Let me go get those for you"
I've tried using a threaded view with different email clients over the years and I always switch back. I don't understand why. I've spent a lot of time on Outlook so that may be why I could care less about threading. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the entire thread is appended to the end of each new mail I get in the thread. That is, unless someone in the chain deliberately doesn't include it in a reply.
What I have grown to love is the way gmail does threading. It's like a hybrid between what Outlook does (or doesn't do) and threading. I have the thread there in case I need it but the message appears at the top of my inbox all the way to the left.
I resisted. 100% of the reason I didn't change to the new office was because of the ribbon. Spent a weekend helping my dad with 3 docs (powerpoint, word and excel) on his 2007 install and I was converted. Originally when I tried it I would get frustrated because I couldn't find anything and would give up grumbling about not having time for this crap. Since I didn't have an option when working on his stuff I was forced to learn it. Glad I did.
Actually, this could work for me. I could have it kick off a macro that plays my ringtone. She starts bitching and "Oh baby, sorry to interrupt. It's work. Probably have a server down. I have to take this."
IANACP, but you might want to make sure that doesn't bleed into other aspects of his life; like work and school.
That's my point behind all of this. First off, the kid plays computer and console games a bit too much for my tastes but he gets really good grades at a school for advanced students, is one of the top players on his basketball teams and is an awesome big brother so I leave him alone about the gaming for the most part. I can't just tell him to go out and play because he won't do it but I can get him out if I go with him and do something with him. That turns out to be a win-win so I'm ok with all that.
What I am seeing that concerns me is that he avoids things that are too difficult and instead looks for things that have instant rewards. I don't know if it's a product of how he games or reason behind it. I'm guessing the latter but I always want to be sure.
Maybe watching him play games like that just affirms the problems I have with how he approaches other challenges in his life and that's why I brought it up in this discussion. Wow. Slashdot therapy. This place is a one-stop-shop:)
Ok. Thanks for clearing that up. I was hoping someone would explain it to me. I'm kind of a stickler for rules when it comes to games and I think that's why I get so frustrated with it. My buddies and I burned a lot of hours playing Super Street Fighter II and Mortal Combat. Those fighting games had a damage bar. Bar fills or (or depletes), you die. I like rules like that:)
I still think the % damage idea is stupid though. They should have just made it an integer counting up, not a percentage. Maybe I'm just being stubborn (or a math dork) but when I see a % I think % so to me the idea of being 175% damaged is dumb. I read it as you're completely damaged and on top of that you're 3/4 damaged. If they had left off the percent sign it would make more sense to me.
BTW, thanks for the info on the Hit Points mode. I'm going to have him see if that's available on his version.
My kid plays Runescape and anytime he as a quest (or whatever the hell it's called) to complete he pulls up walk-throughs on the web and follows them to get past it. Besides fighting other players or the standard NPC's he doesn't figure out anything on his own. It's very frustrating for me. I can't even watch him play. Hate to get all geezer here but when I was a kid playing Ultima IV for countless hours on my IBM PCjr I had to figure out all that stuff on my own. For me that was where all the fun was. I completed it, I figured it out, and I thought I was awesome because of it. I wouldn't get so nuts about him playing the way he does if I could just figure out what he's actually getting out of it. It's not just Runescape either. When he gets a new game he immediately pulls up some site that has the cheats. I don't mind cheats that give you cool skins or something that doesn't alter the difficulty of the game but he'll cheat for step 1. On top of that he's baffled that I won't use the cheats. Your cook vs. master chef analogy fits us perfectly except my cook thinks master chef's are dumb.
This is offtopic but while I'm ranting about my kids game play I have to get something off my chest. When he and his friends get together and play they often like to play something called "Super Smash Brothers". For you guys as old as me out there, it's a fighting game with all the Nintendo characters as the fighters. When you play the game your damage is counted up as a percentage. Except, get this, wait for it...., you don't die at 100%. In fact there's no set limit you die at. The game just decides it's your time to die. Sometimes their damage is at 150% or higher. WTF is with that. I can't even be in the same room when they're playing that. I go friggin nuts. The game itself makes me nuts because of what I just described but the bulk of my frustration comes from him and his friends not recognizing and acknowledging that there is something screwy about it. They look at me like I'm nuts.
Maybe I am nuts. Before you post a bunch of "lighten up psycho" messages know that I'm not this crazy controlling freak. I've just always been a gamer (not hardcore, just a gamer) and I always looked forward to sharing that with my kids. The way gaming has changed came as a surprise to me.
There's a bunch of photos in TFA. One is a close-up of the dashboard. It took me a few looks to realize it said "AUX 1 WIRED" and not "MUX 1 WIRED". For a minute there I had a strange mix of confusion and excitement.
Agreed. Actually I switched to Opera about a week ago and so far really love it. So far love the speed dial and small memory foot-print. Didn't know most of the other stuff you mentioned. Thanks for the tips.
Firefox just wasn't doing it for me anymore. I tried. Still use it on my windows boxes but for my main system (Fedora) Opera is on the testing block.
MG
According to the update to the story the software they are using is extremely vulnerable and opens up the host system to attack. Uncle Sam just needs to throw up some sites that exploit the flaw(s) and attract Chinese visitors and they'll have their own botnet, internal to China, courtesy of the Chinese Government.
I researched this question and can't find a good answer. Maybe you or someone else here has one:
Why would you use Ubuntu Server? Why not just use Debian? CentOS rocks because it gives you a great alternative to an OS you have to pay for. Ubuntu Server gives a free version of a free OS?? Debian is rock solid and has been forever, from what I just read. I can see being a fanboy for Ubuntu because you like brown but what advantages does it bring to the server side?
Here here.
Ubuntu and Fedora are desktop OS's. Not that they can't run as servers, just why would you. The development and community for those distros are focused on improvements to the desktop. Centos, RedHat, *BSD, Solaris. These are what you want on a server.
On the other side of that, I guess it really doesn't matter. That's one of the beauties of Linux. But what good is Slashdot if I can't use it to push my opinions on others:)
MG
Agreed. I work for a company with 17,000 employees and it can take a while to 1) get something tested and approved 2) get something rolled out. When you are talking about an OS there is even more involved - Hundreds of apps to test for compatibility, security and group policies, compatibility with old hardware, etc.
Add to that the usual military BS. I did a 4 year stint in the Navy and if I remember correctly it takes 7 signatures just to go on vacation. I can't imagine how many signatures you'd need to roll an OS to 744,000 desktops (Geez that's a huge number. Can that be right?)
Aside from the time it takes to get things done in a huge organization you have the simple fact that Windows 7 is brand new. I wouldn't suggest my mom roll out W7 before SP1. Certainly the friggin military wouldn't do that either.
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Yes. One. A brown one. Is this a trick question?
Add to that the "and I want to look over your shoulder while you type" clause and you're going to turn off 90% of IT shops. I did some work for a company a while back who wouldn't give me the admin passwords. Not for the windows workstations, not for the domain, any servers or even for their main apps. When I would go there to do work I would have to call one of the owners over to type in passwords for me often. REALLY often. It took me 2 trips to finally let them know that something had to change or they would have to find someone else. They found someone else :) I've gotten much better about recognizing these traits in people and won't work for companies if I see it. You need to trust your admin. It will help them do their job and will give you piece of mind. Unfortunately, some people are just not capable of that.
I was going to post about this. It took me a long time to get used to that. My first experience was years back working with an Indian Oracle developer. I would be trying to explain something to him and he would be shaking his head and it would make me nuts. I would stop talking and ask what he didn't agree with. I could remember it for the rest of that conversation but later that day or the next day it would happen again and I'd just forget. I was never able to get comfortable with it. I recently started working for a company that has a bunch of Indian developers so I'm expecting it but haven't seen it yet.
Just because Al Gore hasn't made as much off of this as the fossil fuel industries it doesn't make it ok. Al Gore has made millions (and won an oscar) because of the bullshit he spews. A sweeter smelling turd is still a turd
I had one from Tempe that I was ignoring. This past weekend, some dude came to my door and asked for me. I should have known but I was distracted and my guard was down. He served it in person. Now I'm trying to decide between paying the $200 or going to traffic school.
I only read RTF letter and it gave me the impression he had been missing about 2 weeks. But, in my post I did say it's possible there's more to the story last past problems between the devs. Sounds like that's what's going on. Perhaps they should have worded the letter better. It's not like they posted it on his Facebook page. That's the website that Centos users visit. If I've never used Centos and I'm going to the page for the first time I'm going to head for the exit. They could have accompanied that letter with a letter to the community explaining that there's been an ongoing problem that has come to a head and that the other developers are committed to the project, will keep it going, will do anything they can to avoid affect on users, yadda, yadda, yadda. That's what I'd have done.
I agree that the tone of that letter is way off. If you are genuinely concerned about someone you don't write to them in that manner. If it turns out he has a good reason for disappearing (medical, accident, etc.) he's going to be pissed off when he reads that and will have every right to be. When someone goes missing you have to consider the worse case scenario. Certainly this guys health and life are far more important than whether or not Centos has to change domain names.
I have hundreds of Centos installs in the wild and when I read the post on Slashdot the first thing I thought of was "I hope nothing bad happened to him". This lead me to think about any family he may have. Not once did I stop to consider what impact this would have on those Centos installs and my involvement with them. After reading that letter I can't help but think either there's more to the story (aka, past problems between the developers) or the Centos developers are a bunch of asshats.
Or he could just do what my 12 year old son does whenever he bets me on something and loses - "Oh, I said I'd give you a million "doll hairs". Let me go get those for you"
I've tried using a threaded view with different email clients over the years and I always switch back. I don't understand why. I've spent a lot of time on Outlook so that may be why I could care less about threading. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the entire thread is appended to the end of each new mail I get in the thread. That is, unless someone in the chain deliberately doesn't include it in a reply.
What I have grown to love is the way gmail does threading. It's like a hybrid between what Outlook does (or doesn't do) and threading. I have the thread there in case I need it but the message appears at the top of my inbox all the way to the left.
I resisted. 100% of the reason I didn't change to the new office was because of the ribbon. Spent a weekend helping my dad with 3 docs (powerpoint, word and excel) on his 2007 install and I was converted. Originally when I tried it I would get frustrated because I couldn't find anything and would give up grumbling about not having time for this crap. Since I didn't have an option when working on his stuff I was forced to learn it. Glad I did.
Actually, this could work for me. I could have it kick off a macro that plays my ringtone. She starts bitching and "Oh baby, sorry to interrupt. It's work. Probably have a server down. I have to take this."
IANACP, but you might want to make sure that doesn't bleed into other aspects of his life; like work and school.
That's my point behind all of this. First off, the kid plays computer and console games a bit too much for my tastes but he gets really good grades at a school for advanced students, is one of the top players on his basketball teams and is an awesome big brother so I leave him alone about the gaming for the most part. I can't just tell him to go out and play because he won't do it but I can get him out if I go with him and do something with him. That turns out to be a win-win so I'm ok with all that.
What I am seeing that concerns me is that he avoids things that are too difficult and instead looks for things that have instant rewards. I don't know if it's a product of how he games or reason behind it. I'm guessing the latter but I always want to be sure.
Maybe watching him play games like that just affirms the problems I have with how he approaches other challenges in his life and that's why I brought it up in this discussion. Wow. Slashdot therapy. This place is a one-stop-shop :)
Ok. Thanks for clearing that up. I was hoping someone would explain it to me. I'm kind of a stickler for rules when it comes to games and I think that's why I get so frustrated with it. My buddies and I burned a lot of hours playing Super Street Fighter II and Mortal Combat. Those fighting games had a damage bar. Bar fills or (or depletes), you die. I like rules like that :)
I still think the % damage idea is stupid though. They should have just made it an integer counting up, not a percentage. Maybe I'm just being stubborn (or a math dork) but when I see a % I think % so to me the idea of being 175% damaged is dumb. I read it as you're completely damaged and on top of that you're 3/4 damaged. If they had left off the percent sign it would make more sense to me.
BTW, thanks for the info on the Hit Points mode. I'm going to have him see if that's available on his version.
My kid plays Runescape and anytime he as a quest (or whatever the hell it's called) to complete he pulls up walk-throughs on the web and follows them to get past it. Besides fighting other players or the standard NPC's he doesn't figure out anything on his own. It's very frustrating for me. I can't even watch him play. Hate to get all geezer here but when I was a kid playing Ultima IV for countless hours on my IBM PCjr I had to figure out all that stuff on my own. For me that was where all the fun was. I completed it, I figured it out, and I thought I was awesome because of it. I wouldn't get so nuts about him playing the way he does if I could just figure out what he's actually getting out of it. It's not just Runescape either. When he gets a new game he immediately pulls up some site that has the cheats. I don't mind cheats that give you cool skins or something that doesn't alter the difficulty of the game but he'll cheat for step 1. On top of that he's baffled that I won't use the cheats. Your cook vs. master chef analogy fits us perfectly except my cook thinks master chef's are dumb.
This is offtopic but while I'm ranting about my kids game play I have to get something off my chest. When he and his friends get together and play they often like to play something called "Super Smash Brothers". For you guys as old as me out there, it's a fighting game with all the Nintendo characters as the fighters. When you play the game your damage is counted up as a percentage. Except, get this, wait for it...., you don't die at 100%. In fact there's no set limit you die at. The game just decides it's your time to die. Sometimes their damage is at 150% or higher. WTF is with that. I can't even be in the same room when they're playing that. I go friggin nuts. The game itself makes me nuts because of what I just described but the bulk of my frustration comes from him and his friends not recognizing and acknowledging that there is something screwy about it. They look at me like I'm nuts.
Maybe I am nuts. Before you post a bunch of "lighten up psycho" messages know that I'm not this crazy controlling freak. I've just always been a gamer (not hardcore, just a gamer) and I always looked forward to sharing that with my kids. The way gaming has changed came as a surprise to me.
There's a bunch of photos in TFA. One is a close-up of the dashboard. It took me a few looks to realize it said "AUX 1 WIRED" and not "MUX 1 WIRED". For a minute there I had a strange mix of confusion and excitement.
Whether or not Obama's policies are socialist when compared to the rest of the world is irrelevant. He's a socialist by American standards.
Agreed. Actually I switched to Opera about a week ago and so far really love it. So far love the speed dial and small memory foot-print. Didn't know most of the other stuff you mentioned. Thanks for the tips. Firefox just wasn't doing it for me anymore. I tried. Still use it on my windows boxes but for my main system (Fedora) Opera is on the testing block. MG
...scientists announced today the discovery of 3 species of frogs that have no nostrils
If your going to pick a pile of shit to live in, why not go for the mansion.
According to the update to the story the software they are using is extremely vulnerable and opens up the host system to attack. Uncle Sam just needs to throw up some sites that exploit the flaw(s) and attract Chinese visitors and they'll have their own botnet, internal to China, courtesy of the Chinese Government.
I researched this question and can't find a good answer. Maybe you or someone else here has one:
Why would you use Ubuntu Server? Why not just use Debian? CentOS rocks because it gives you a great alternative to an OS you have to pay for. Ubuntu Server gives a free version of a free OS?? Debian is rock solid and has been forever, from what I just read. I can see being a fanboy for Ubuntu because you like brown but what advantages does it bring to the server side?
Here here. Ubuntu and Fedora are desktop OS's. Not that they can't run as servers, just why would you. The development and community for those distros are focused on improvements to the desktop. Centos, RedHat, *BSD, Solaris. These are what you want on a server. On the other side of that, I guess it really doesn't matter. That's one of the beauties of Linux. But what good is Slashdot if I can't use it to push my opinions on others :)
MG
Agreed. I work for a company with 17,000 employees and it can take a while to 1) get something tested and approved 2) get something rolled out. When you are talking about an OS there is even more involved - Hundreds of apps to test for compatibility, security and group policies, compatibility with old hardware, etc.
Add to that the usual military BS. I did a 4 year stint in the Navy and if I remember correctly it takes 7 signatures just to go on vacation. I can't imagine how many signatures you'd need to roll an OS to 744,000 desktops (Geez that's a huge number. Can that be right?)
Aside from the time it takes to get things done in a huge organization you have the simple fact that Windows 7 is brand new. I wouldn't suggest my mom roll out W7 before SP1. Certainly the friggin military wouldn't do that either.
By "Most" do you mean 4 out of 5? rimshot
Sounds like someone just got done watching Reefer Madness