The New Media has produced an economic boom that has been unparalleled in recent history. Yet that boom is in danger of collapsing because of laws championed by Old Media. Do you believe that these laws are a great begining for Old Media to become technically savvy or do you believe that these laws are a hinderance to truly innovative ideas from New Media? Where should Government's role in this situation be, actively molding laws to assist one side or the other, or should government be actively promoting both sides work together in creating a middle ground? _ _ _
This is a problem I just ran into recently, is there any way of upgrading an old machine to the new libs/progs/features/etc over the network?
I could just copy all of the RPM's to the computer, install them, then call that installed. What would work better is if the installer ran without booting into single user mode or being at the console.
I've heard so many things on QWERTY vs DVORAK that I don't know what is real. Some say that the story about QWERTY being designed to slow typists down is a urban myth, some say that DVORAK has *really* helped them increase their speed. In any case, it doesn't matter these days unless you want to be different.
As for DVORAK manufacturers, here is what I have seen: Northgate used to make the really nice OmniKey keyboards that had a dipswitch that could switch between DVORAK and conventional QWERTY layouts. Unfortunately they supposedly went under several years ago. (Does anyone have the details, exact date, etc?) If you look hard you can find used Northgate keyboards around.
As for speed, most people these days do not need to type 100 million wpm at the typewriter. Most of the time I write a couple of lines of code, examine what I'm doing, then continue writing. Sometimes I get into those coding frenzies where I just can't type fast enough, but I rarely forget what I'm trying to type.
And the ultimate question: What the heck do you do to move around in vi? hjkl are right under the hand in QWERTY style, I'd hate to have my fingers dance around when moving around a document in vi. _ _ _
There are a couple of ways that you can work around this.
A) You could simply ignore HR and do nothing (but say you did) B) You could do the scan and fake/ignore the results C) You can warn all the users ahead of time, giving them time to clear their mailboxes and making it clear their privacy is not guaranteed in the company (All Hail The Company!). By that time the scan becomes an almost moot point.
A and B will likely get you fired if HR finds out. C will technically be following through HR's request, but you will annoy a number of people on both sides of the fence.
Unless you can beat HR, this is a no win situation. _ _ _
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The New Media has produced an economic boom that has been unparalleled in recent history. Yet that boom is in danger of collapsing because of laws championed by Old Media. Do you believe that these laws are a great begining for Old Media to become technically savvy or do you believe that these laws are a hinderance to truly innovative ideas from New Media? Where should Government's role in this situation be, actively molding laws to assist one side or the other, or should government be actively promoting both sides work together in creating a middle ground?
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This is a problem I just ran into recently, is there any way of upgrading an old machine to the new libs/progs/features/etc over the network?
I could just copy all of the RPM's to the computer, install them, then call that installed. What would work better is if the installer ran without booting into single user mode or being at the console.
_ _ _
I've heard so many things on QWERTY vs DVORAK that I don't know what is real. Some say that the story about QWERTY being designed to slow typists down is a urban myth, some say that DVORAK has *really* helped them increase their speed. In any case, it doesn't matter these days unless you want to be different.
As for DVORAK manufacturers, here is what I have seen: Northgate used to make the really nice OmniKey keyboards that had a dipswitch that could switch between DVORAK and conventional QWERTY layouts. Unfortunately they supposedly went under several years ago. (Does anyone have the details, exact date, etc?) If you look hard you can find used Northgate keyboards around.
As for speed, most people these days do not need to type 100 million wpm at the typewriter. Most of the time I write a couple of lines of code, examine what I'm doing, then continue writing. Sometimes I get into those coding frenzies where I just can't type fast enough, but I rarely forget what I'm trying to type.
And the ultimate question: What the heck do you do to move around in vi? hjkl are right under the hand in QWERTY style, I'd hate to have my fingers dance around when moving around a document in vi.
_ _ _
There are a couple of ways that you can work around this.
A) You could simply ignore HR and do nothing (but say you did)
B) You could do the scan and fake/ignore the results
C) You can warn all the users ahead of time, giving them time to clear their mailboxes and making it clear their privacy is not guaranteed in the company (All Hail The Company!). By that time the scan becomes an almost moot point.
A and B will likely get you fired if HR finds out. C will technically be following through HR's request, but you will annoy a number of people on both sides of the fence.
Unless you can beat HR, this is a no win situation.
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