From what you said, it sounds like you haven't sat down with the Director and had a real talk. Sure, it's nice to have a "boss" that will "defend" you, but for all you know, there may be nothing to defend from.
Go right to the horse's mouth. Ask him what his plans for you are. Ask where he sees you with the company in 1 year, 2 years, 5, 10... Be prepared to answer the same question.
Don't take anybody's word except the Director's. If he has a problem with you, hear it from him.
Then, after you've had your little talk, email him a summary so that you confirm that you understood what was said. This is a neat technique to get the conversation on record (as in, print the email, print the response, file someplace safe).
This probably applies to anyone who is having trouble in their job - most of the time, it boils down to communication problems. Rumour gets accepted as fact, people get pissed off, and brown stuff hits spinning blades. If you can cut out the rumour/hearsay, and get your facts straight from the source, many of these problems can be averted before anything really happens.
Fire up top next time you do that...you'll see that when you give the installer the admin password it uses it to run something as root (or to transform into a root process itself via some Mach magic). You may not count that as "being root to install", but I do.
Holy crap! Didn't realize it was going behind my back and sudo root-ing on me. That's just plain scary. Nothing like the iTunes rm -rf fiasco to point out how much of a Bad Idea this is...
You don't need to be root to install. If you run the installer, you merely need to authenticate as an administrator (admin != root). Or, any user can just copy the Office folder from the CD to wherever they like (like, say ~/Applications/Office rather than/Applications/Office)
"It is obvious that the cons outweigh the pros here by sheer numbers. But given the recent strides made by the Koffice team, it will only be a matter of time before their product is superior to MS Office in every respect."
Considering most of the "Cons" you came up with are complete FUD, I'm not sure how you came up with this statement. Rather typical of/. but still not of any real merit.
> If we keep a strong will, we will succeed. Thank you.
Um, Sorry if I missed something here... succeed at WHAT?
You will definitely succeed in not using iTunes. That's a pretty lofty goal, and I'm sure you'll get a panicked phone call from Sir Jobs himself begging you to reconsider.
People (including myself) use iTunes because it works (VERY well), is easy to use, and scales up very nicely. Do the command line tools do that?
Posts slamming Apple for releasing a $399US 5GB Firewire hard drive-based MP3 player that weighs 6 ounces...
Posts lauding a mini-CD-burning 160MB player that does... Oh, wait, that's all it does. For $400US...
I'll gladly take an iPod, thanks... And thanks to the Firewire Disk mode, I can write it off as capital equipment that I can use while consulting... Tax writeoff = free... Wait, I guess I could do that with this teeny CD burner, too... Or is it MP3 only?
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Frequency != Speed.
It could be running at 50THz for all I care. All I know is that 800mbps are gonna flow...
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It's just waiting for the rubber stamp. Initial hardware is almost ready to go.
I really don't need my keyboard running at 480mbps, so USB2 doesn't really appeal to me.
The penguins bitch about the degradation of the web into "proprietary standards" like QuickTime and Shockwave, yet rejoice when these finally become available on Linux...
At least stick to your guns. If you dislike these formats because they are proprietary, it shouldn't matter if they are available for whatever platform you use, because you don't want it.
If you disliked these simply because they weren't penguin-friendly, then admit that, too...
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That's a whole different type of dropped packet.
From what you said, it sounds like you haven't sat down with the Director and had a real talk. Sure, it's nice to have a "boss" that will "defend" you, but for all you know, there may be nothing to defend from.
Go right to the horse's mouth. Ask him what his plans for you are. Ask where he sees you with the company in 1 year, 2 years, 5, 10... Be prepared to answer the same question.
Don't take anybody's word except the Director's. If he has a problem with you, hear it from him.
Then, after you've had your little talk, email him a summary so that you confirm that you understood what was said. This is a neat technique to get the conversation on record (as in, print the email, print the response, file someplace safe).
This probably applies to anyone who is having trouble in their job - most of the time, it boils down to communication problems. Rumour gets accepted as fact, people get pissed off, and brown stuff hits spinning blades. If you can cut out the rumour/hearsay, and get your facts straight from the source, many of these problems can be averted before anything really happens.
But, that's just my opinion.
Holy crap! Didn't realize it was going behind my back and sudo root-ing on me. That's just plain scary. Nothing like the iTunes rm -rf fiasco to point out how much of a Bad Idea this is...
You don't need to be root to install. If you run the installer, you merely need to authenticate as an administrator (admin != root). Or, any user can just copy the Office folder from the CD to wherever they like (like, say ~/Applications/Office rather than /Applications/Office)
Uncle wrote:
/. but still not of any real merit.
"It is obvious that the cons outweigh the pros here by sheer numbers. But given the recent strides made by the Koffice team, it will only be a matter of time before their product is superior to MS Office in every respect."
Considering most of the "Cons" you came up with are complete FUD, I'm not sure how you came up with this statement. Rather typical of
Yeah, and Shaw's service has already been dramatically better (at least here in Calgary) than it was during it's brief time under @Home...
Bandwidth has also gone WAAAY up since the pulled back from @Home. I recently tested my cable modem at over 3500 Mbits per second... sweet.
Good riddance, @Home...
How about getting yourself port 8080 for christmas... it's pretty cheap, too...
> If we keep a strong will, we will succeed. Thank you.
Um, Sorry if I missed something here... succeed at WHAT?
You will definitely succeed in not using iTunes. That's a pretty lofty goal, and I'm sure you'll get a panicked phone call from Sir Jobs himself begging you to reconsider.
People (including myself) use iTunes because it works (VERY well), is easy to use, and scales up very nicely. Do the command line tools do that?
True... Although, you can write off 1/3 of the value of the equipment per year, so after 3 years... == free
Posts slamming Apple for releasing a $399US 5GB Firewire hard drive-based MP3 player that weighs 6 ounces...
Posts lauding a mini-CD-burning 160MB player that does... Oh, wait, that's all it does. For $400US...
I'll gladly take an iPod, thanks... And thanks to the Firewire Disk mode, I can write it off as capital equipment that I can use while consulting... Tax writeoff = free... Wait, I guess I could do that with this teeny CD burner, too... Or is it MP3 only?
Frequency != Speed.
It could be running at 50THz for all I care. All I know is that 800mbps are gonna flow...
It's just waiting for the rubber stamp. Initial hardware is almost ready to go.
I really don't need my keyboard running at 480mbps, so USB2 doesn't really appeal to me.
800mbps of firewire, now THAT is nice...
PRAM batteries. They keep some juice going to keep stuff like the clock and startup volume set properly. Didn't know there were 4 of them, though...
Point taken. Sorry for overgeneralizing and stereotyping.
The penguins bitch about the degradation of the web into "proprietary standards" like QuickTime and Shockwave, yet rejoice when these finally become available on Linux...
At least stick to your guns. If you dislike these formats because they are proprietary, it shouldn't matter if they are available for whatever platform you use, because you don't want it.
If you disliked these simply because they weren't penguin-friendly, then admit that, too...
um, that's only if you want Apple to mail you a nice shiny CD...
If you are able to download it, it will be free.
Oh, man... now _I_ feel old... Fetch me a Geritol, junior!