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There's also White Box. Someone explain to me why there are THREE separate RHEL clone projects? Shouldn't these merge? Since they're pretty much doing exactly the same thing?
So, I ran two side-by-side tabs, one which contains the "normal" Google search and the other contains the "personalized" search, with the slider set at "max". It seems to do a fairly good job. I set a couple of preferences, and now it seems to rank stuff which mentions Linux higher.
Or move the slider around and watch the search results rearrange themselves on the page!
I was thinking more of a system that would catch this sort of error in advance, rather than after the damage had already been done by a data-entry error.
Consider:
The changes you have entered will cause 911 calls to be routed to Citibank (or wherever) . Are you sure you want to commit the changes?
Only 80 calls went to 311 during the two-and-a-half hour outage. Countless (possibly hundreds) others just got a fast busy signal, recording or continuous ringing with no answer. My guess is the people who got 311 actually CALLED 311 because they couldn't get through to 911.
The congressional letter effect: For everyone that offers input, there are N other users that never bothered. They were too lazy or perhaps thought that the feedback would be a futile effort....and Coca Cola doesn't get to own the results. EVERYONE gets to use them.
There's that, too. Here's a great example. A few weeks ago someone working with $RADIO_STATION in $MAJOR_CITY contacted $OUR_OSS_PROJECT because the project was "almost" right (see my original comment above) for something they wanted to do.
The developers, including myself, worked over the course of the next few weeks to make changes, add features, and fix bugs relating to what they wanted, and right now we're in the final testing phase before it goes live (oh yes, it's quite user-visible).
We probably won't make any money off this unless they choose $A_COMPANY_ONE_OF_US_WORKS_FOR for dedicated hosting, but it will give us a massive amount of exposure, which will lead to people like the CIO of Coca-Cola contacting us.
Then again, we're eliminating any possibility that they'll ever choose any $MICROSOFT_PRODUCT[] ever again for anything, and that for some of us is payment enough.
Serious question for you. If the CIO of coca cola shot you an email and said "Hey, I'd like to see feature XYZ in product ABC" why on earth would you _volunteer_ your time to, in effect, give charity to a company that has more money than god?
If product ABC is MY open source project, then I'm VERY interested in what the CIO of Coca-Cola is looking for, because if he uses my product he's likely to come back to me for support, services, training, and give me lots of money for those.
I recommend every open source developer (in the U.S. this will vary in other countries) go get themselves an EIN and incorporate. Then ABC Development Inc. sells support and services for product ABC.
Why do you need a roadmap? If you're a proprietary software company, your roadmap tells your customers where your product is going to be years from now. With open source, those same features could be available to you in weeks or even days from the time you express interest in such a feature. So having a "roadmap" is frequently pointless unless your project has specific long term subprojects that will take months or years.
What corporate executives need to realize is that if they find an open source solution that's "almost" right, but just lacks one or two things, it may be because no one's expressed interest, and a quick email to the developer's mailing list and they're likely to see a beta version of the requested features before the proprietary vendor has even had time to respond to the message.
"I think all they really need is a hug from the governor," said Kenneth Haiko, vice chair of the Space Authority board, and accounts manager for Sun Container Inc.
You don't want a hug from Jeb Bush. Go New Mexico!
They want to charge me $2,000 for this? Come on, if I have a personal little domain for myself and the only people I ever email are my friends and cow-orkers, I have to pay $2,000 to be sure I'll get past spam filters? Ridiculous.
Yes, there are some OSS solutions out there as well, but they're not up to the same level in functionality as Outlook/Exchange. And that's a pretty sad statement.
Was this case badly reported, or did the Supreme Court just ignore the plain english used in the law?
Law doesn't use plain English. In this case, "entity" is whatever is described in the definitions section of that particular bit of law. It can include or exclude particular things which you would consider an entity. It doesn't have to make any sense. This is part of the reason that laws are so damned difficult to comprehend: any word in the law could be redefined to mean anything, so you have to check the definitions to see what it really means.
You think a small private company is going to be able to compete with the big boys?
Actually, yes.
McLeodUSA started as a group of about six people in a rented office in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and despite going through delisting, bankruptcy, having to sell off its directory business and all sorts of other financial trouble after the dot-com bust, is still a huge thorn in Qwest's side. (McLeodUSA mostly does business in the states where Qwest is the incumbent.)
It's quite heartening to know I could go out tomorrow, file some papers with the Iowa Utilities Board, and become a phone company. (Of course, I'd get fired, but that's beside the point.)
half of them didn't care about computers anyways and were just going to where the money was. now that the money is moving, so are they.
And good riddance too. Now how to get rid of the complete morons who have already "gone where the money was" and stolen my job twice now?
For that matter, where are all the entry-to-mid level jobs? Everytime I see a job posting in the U.S. they want a "Senior" person. And unfortunately I don't think I've QUITE gotten to the "Senior" level... no solicitations from the AARP or anything... (American Association of Retired Programmers?)
Throw in WINE and Linux can do a lot more than you think. At my last job I ran the Lotus Notes client under WINE, and it was mostly flawless. Had the occasional trouble printing, but I think that's been fixed in recent WINE builds. This was in 2000-2001...
WINE also ran the company's internal custom Windows applications without so much as a hitch. If we hadn't had that printing trouble with Bloated Goats, I probably could have convinced the execs to migrate to Linux and cost Microsoft a few thousand licenses...not to mention the incentive program they had where you got a cut of any money you saved the company.
...that a major computer manufacturer started offering desktop PCs with Linux pre-installed. Even though I'm not terribly impressed with HP's hardware, this definitely makes me more likely to support HP in the future - but only so long as they don't back down when Microsoft and SCO come calling and tell them to quit it.
Ahh, safeway, what fun. I have TWO safeway cards, neither of which seems to have my current address OR phone number. Too bad there aren't any Safeway stores within 1,000 miles of here. But when there WERE, and I once paid with one of those gift cards, I had the strange experience of having the cashier call me "Mr. Gift". On the receipt, where it would normally have your name, instead, it clearly showed "GIFT, CARD". I looked at her very strangely for a moment and then showed her the receipt and the card, and she was STILL beet red when I finally got out of the store.
Oh, another bit of info: If you have a loyalty card from Kroger, QVC, King Soopers, Ralph's, Dillon's, Smith's, Fred Meyer, Fry's, or any other store in the Kroger line, you can use it at any other store. For instance my QVC card works at any Kroger.
Sorry folks, but there is NO one right methodology that you can just take out of the box and apply to any project, small or large. And the relative importance of such things as design, unit testing, documentation etc., do vary. Of course coders don't like anything other than coding, but that doesn't make the other stuff any less necessary. The project requirements might, though.
You're missing out. Bruce Sterling is definitely one of the classic writers of our times. If nothing else read The Hacker Crackdown. Then goto your local library and check out everything with his name on it. You remember libraries, right? The place where they have all those dead trees with ink on them?:-)
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There's also White Box. Someone explain to me why there are THREE separate RHEL clone projects? Shouldn't these merge? Since they're pretty much doing exactly the same thing?
So, I ran two side-by-side tabs, one which contains the "normal" Google search and the other contains the "personalized" search, with the slider set at "max". It seems to do a fairly good job. I set a couple of preferences, and now it seems to rank stuff which mentions Linux higher.
Or move the slider around and watch the search results rearrange themselves on the page!
Is Fedora Core 2 going to re-enable MP3 support now that it's no longer a "commercial" product?
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Consider:
The changes you have entered will cause 911 calls to be routed to Citibank (or wherever) . Are you sure you want to commit the changes?
Only 80 calls went to 311 during the two-and-a-half hour outage. Countless (possibly hundreds) others just got a fast busy signal, recording or continuous ringing with no answer. My guess is the people who got 311 actually CALLED 311 because they couldn't get through to 911.
I just checked and you have to turn this on in the options; it's disabled by default.
There's that, too. Here's a great example. A few weeks ago someone working with $RADIO_STATION in $MAJOR_CITY contacted $OUR_OSS_PROJECT because the project was "almost" right (see my original comment above) for something they wanted to do.
The developers, including myself, worked over the course of the next few weeks to make changes, add features, and fix bugs relating to what they wanted, and right now we're in the final testing phase before it goes live (oh yes, it's quite user-visible).
We probably won't make any money off this unless they choose $A_COMPANY_ONE_OF_US_WORKS_FOR for dedicated hosting, but it will give us a massive amount of exposure, which will lead to people like the CIO of Coca-Cola contacting us.
Then again, we're eliminating any possibility that they'll ever choose any $MICROSOFT_PRODUCT[] ever again for anything, and that for some of us is payment enough.
If product ABC is MY open source project, then I'm VERY interested in what the CIO of Coca-Cola is looking for, because if he uses my product he's likely to come back to me for support, services, training, and give me lots of money for those.
I recommend every open source developer (in the U.S. this will vary in other countries) go get themselves an EIN and incorporate. Then ABC Development Inc. sells support and services for product ABC.
Why do you need a roadmap? If you're a proprietary software company, your roadmap tells your customers where your product is going to be years from now. With open source, those same features could be available to you in weeks or even days from the time you express interest in such a feature. So having a "roadmap" is frequently pointless unless your project has specific long term subprojects that will take months or years.
What corporate executives need to realize is that if they find an open source solution that's "almost" right, but just lacks one or two things, it may be because no one's expressed interest, and a quick email to the developer's mailing list and they're likely to see a beta version of the requested features before the proprietary vendor has even had time to respond to the message.
You don't want a hug from Jeb Bush. Go New Mexico!
the original BT client is not spyware (look at the source yourself if you disbelieve) but other BT clients might be.
They want to charge me $2,000 for this? Come on, if I have a personal little domain for myself and the only people I ever email are my friends and cow-orkers, I have to pay $2,000 to be sure I'll get past spam filters? Ridiculous.
True, but we're working on it.
Law doesn't use plain English. In this case, "entity" is whatever is described in the definitions section of that particular bit of law. It can include or exclude particular things which you would consider an entity. It doesn't have to make any sense. This is part of the reason that laws are so damned difficult to comprehend: any word in the law could be redefined to mean anything, so you have to check the definitions to see what it really means.
Actually, yes.
McLeodUSA started as a group of about six people in a rented office in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and despite going through delisting, bankruptcy, having to sell off its directory business and all sorts of other financial trouble after the dot-com bust, is still a huge thorn in Qwest's side. (McLeodUSA mostly does business in the states where Qwest is the incumbent.)
It's quite heartening to know I could go out tomorrow, file some papers with the Iowa Utilities Board, and become a phone company. (Of course, I'd get fired, but that's beside the point.)
And good riddance too. Now how to get rid of the complete morons who have already "gone where the money was" and stolen my job twice now?
For that matter, where are all the entry-to-mid level jobs? Everytime I see a job posting in the U.S. they want a "Senior" person. And unfortunately I don't think I've QUITE gotten to the "Senior" level... no solicitations from the AARP or anything... (American Association of Retired Programmers?)
WINE also ran the company's internal custom Windows applications without so much as a hitch. If we hadn't had that printing trouble with Bloated Goats, I probably could have convinced the execs to migrate to Linux and cost Microsoft a few thousand licenses...not to mention the incentive program they had where you got a cut of any money you saved the company.
...that a major computer manufacturer started offering desktop PCs with Linux pre-installed. Even though I'm not terribly impressed with HP's hardware, this definitely makes me more likely to support HP in the future - but only so long as they don't back down when Microsoft and SCO come calling and tell them to quit it.
Come on, when are we going to get e-paper printed in e-ink that I can fold up and stick in my pocket?
Oh, another bit of info: If you have a loyalty card from Kroger, QVC, King Soopers, Ralph's, Dillon's, Smith's, Fred Meyer, Fry's, or any other store in the Kroger line, you can use it at any other store. For instance my QVC card works at any Kroger.
Sorry folks, but there is NO one right methodology that you can just take out of the box and apply to any project, small or large. And the relative importance of such things as design, unit testing, documentation etc., do vary. Of course coders don't like anything other than coding, but that doesn't make the other stuff any less necessary. The project requirements might, though.
I'm definitely looking forward to this book.
So the 'dd' command is illegal now?
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