There are some pretty "interesting" bugs, such as the one where if you have CGI that sends too much output to stdout, the apache child will hang as documented here:
And combine this with the fact that the latest comment from the FSF is... "Buy commercial support and open a bug with them." I think Apache 2.x is looking MIGHT in doubt in terms of direction and support.
Granted, I think I'm being a little full of exaggeration here, but still, I think it's rather nasty that there's this pretty major mod_cgi issue and no one really wants to deal with it because it would be too much work. It makes me think the fun has gone out of developing apache for free.
Here in the states NPR had a good story on one of the teams yesterday (wednesday) during their All Things Considered show. You can listen to the show here:
The NPR Summary of the story is:
At the crack of dawn this Saturday, a 200-mile race across the Mojave Desert begins. The competitors are robotic vehicles taking on the form of SUVs, dune buggies and golf carts. It's a contest sponsored by the Pentagon to spur advancements in the field of robotics. NPR's Melissa Block talks with competitor Red Whittaker.
What world are you living in? Our sys admin team rolls out at least one major enhancement every six weeks. Our users hate us because we're constantly upgrading one thing or another in order to keep our company current. We barely have time for the maintance and tasks that we need to do.
In fact we rolled out a spam solution this month that has been a great success. We have rolled out new tools for finance, accounting and in the next six weeks we're rolling out new directory services, a cert server and a few other goodies.
You are stretching. Your analogy almost works, but where it breaks down is that email, IRC, AIM or whatever is not going to be your chief source of telecommunications to the outside world.
People are replacing their home phones with VOIP. Regulators and law makers are not techies by definition and all they know is that this new "phone" service will be used as a primary means of telecommunications to the outside world. However the problem is highly complex.
It's one thing is the person providing your VOIP is a telco or new-telco wanna-be, but what-if your VOIP provider is the company you work for? How are they going to provide 911? Does every company that provides VOIP to their employees over VPN become a telco?
I worked at a company that used IP phones exclusively and I had one at home. We had to sign disclaimers about a year ago that stated that we acknowledged that calling 911 would lead to undesirable results (I.e, emergency services in HQ would be called, not at your location). These people invented the technology and even they didn't have a solution! It's going to be up to them to solve this, not Vonage or whoever.
That's life as as a full-time employee/exempt employee. But yeah, there are supposed to be limits to the maximum number of hours you have to work in a week, 72 I believe?
It's all very true, but it sort of defeats the purpose of a cell phone to turn it off. Yes yes, i'm sure there was some setting I could have set to make it go private, but please don't make me relive those memories.:-) Bottom line:
1) Yes, I can blame nextel for enabling this culture where your managers think they can speak with you at any moment by pushing one button. They're too lazy to page or dial 10 numbers, but make it ONE BUTTON and they would call us as often as they would like.
2) I can blame the culture of the company for accepting harrassment of employees if you turned your phone off, and/or punishing you for not responding to calls. And this was a company you've all heard of, covered here on slashdot many times a week.
But see, I'm re-living the nightmare again. Just let me crawl back under my rock.:-) thanks.
For the curious, it's all described on the uLocate FAQ.
Only works with Nextel now and free until the end of the year.
Another reason to hate Nextel for me. After having a boss that gave us all Nextels and having managers that would use the Instant-On feature to speak to us night and day (10:26pm Manager: "Hello, Hello, are you there?? The mail server seems to be a little slow, are you there?"), I will never consider Nextel again. I'm scarred for life!!
Can't please all the people all the time. If they release a jumbo patch a bunch of people complain about why they couldn't have been broken up so they could pick and choose what they want to install.
If they release it in pieces then everyone complains about having to install in chunks. People just love to gripe I guess it's human nature.
I'll reply to you only because you say you're not an American. The first amendment gives people in the United States the freedom of speech but it doesn't give them the freedom to say whatever they want on their employees behalf. It also doesn't give them a right to say, for example "FIRE" on a crowded bus or other stupid moves like that.
First time I've heard the "there aren't enough games for the Mac" argument used IN FAVOR of going with the mac. Gotta love it.
Actually, I think there are some other compelling reasons:
1) The kids are going to be spending the rest of their lives using windows as adults anyway, so expose them to something different for one year.
2) At least for now there is a lot less worry about worms and viruses. Would _you_ want to be in charge of the admin team that had to patch 130,000 3 times in a row for the same vulnerable service? I think not.
Not quite, it's more suing Ford because they forgot to install a lock on the car door and made the ignition push button.
In fact, if that happened and someone store your car and drove it into another car, the car company WOULD be liable. And in this case Microsoft should be liable too.
This is all well and good, but it will be news for real when the spam house pays up. The chances of ever collecting on this judgment are slim and none.
Actually finding and garneshing their accounts is possible but I can not imagine that will be easy or practical.
The other question I have is, how about a class action law suit. I know about 100 million people that would like to sue, the ULTIMATE class action.
It's going sort of off-topic, but on the topic of alternative energy hydrogen is not the end-all-be-all right now. As you know from that article hydrogen is derived from natural gas primarily right now. Until scientists find a better source for hydrogen than natural gas, we're still burning up fossil fuels to get "alternative" energy. Doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
Solaris is primarily for servers and engineers and was designed before the time of "panache" as you say. No, it's not anything like OS X in its GUI charm and ease-of-use.
However you can slap on different OS environments that was mentioned in the book review, like GNOME, to add some charm. However, in my opinion none of the standard desktops come close to OS X, but then again, there's no accounting for tastes either.
You make a truly valid and clear explanation of your situation. I hope you keep going and succeed even further.
As for competition, you shouldn't worry to much, you describe a set of qualities that most people don't have. For example, the multiple repeat visits with no charge (that's called good customer service and knowing when to just bite your lip and suffer through it) a lot of people lose their cool in this type of tech work and can't take it.
Hands on support/hardware support/network support will still be there. You can't outsource yoru datacenter to India because latency is still latency. When a hardware card needs to be replaced a worked in India won't be able to do it.
if you're the one that actually TOUCHES the hardware you will have a job for a while yet.
It's offtopic because this guy is a troll, he posts the same message around the internet over and over and over again. He's not interested in actually fixing his "slow drive" problem but in fact it's a troll. No you know.
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There are some pretty "interesting" bugs, such as the one where if you have CGI that sends too much output to stdout, the apache child will hang as documented here:
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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?
And then there's the fact that Netscape LDAP connectors don't compile properly as a result of autoconfig screwups, as documented here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?
And combine this with the fact that the latest comment from the FSF is... "Buy commercial support and open a bug with them." I think Apache 2.x is looking MIGHT in doubt in terms of direction and support.
Granted, I think I'm being a little full of exaggeration here, but still, I think it's rather nasty that there's this pretty major mod_cgi issue and no one really wants to deal with it because it would be too much work. It makes me think the fun has gone out of developing apache for free.
I thought patches were only supposed to come out first tuesday of the month from now on, what happened?
That'll teach me to multitask. But I think you get the general gist of the topic message :-)
Here in the states NPR had a good story on one of the teams yesterday (wednesday) during their All Things Considered show. You can listen to the show here:
NPR LINK
The NPR Summary of the story is: At the crack of dawn this Saturday, a 200-mile race across the Mojave Desert begins. The competitors are robotic vehicles taking on the form of SUVs, dune buggies and golf carts. It's a contest sponsored by the Pentagon to spur advancements in the field of robotics. NPR's Melissa Block talks with competitor Red Whittaker.
What world are you living in? Our sys admin team rolls out at least one major enhancement every six weeks. Our users hate us because we're constantly upgrading one thing or another in order to keep our company current. We barely have time for the maintance and tasks that we need to do.
In fact we rolled out a spam solution this month that has been a great success. We have rolled out new tools for finance, accounting and in the next six weeks we're rolling out new directory services, a cert server and a few other goodies.
Sys admins != trite.
You are stretching. Your analogy almost works, but where it breaks down is that email, IRC, AIM or whatever is not going to be your chief source of telecommunications to the outside world.
People are replacing their home phones with VOIP. Regulators and law makers are not techies by definition and all they know is that this new "phone" service will be used as a primary means of telecommunications to the outside world. However the problem is highly complex.
It's one thing is the person providing your VOIP is a telco or new-telco wanna-be, but what-if your VOIP provider is the company you work for? How are they going to provide 911? Does every company that provides VOIP to their employees over VPN become a telco?
I worked at a company that used IP phones exclusively and I had one at home. We had to sign disclaimers about a year ago that stated that we acknowledged that calling 911 would lead to undesirable results (I.e, emergency services in HQ would be called, not at your location). These people invented the technology and even they didn't have a solution! It's going to be up to them to solve this, not Vonage or whoever.
I can see the TAC cases openning now. Ha.
That's life as as a full-time employee/exempt employee. But yeah, there are supposed to be limits to the maximum number of hours you have to work in a week, 72 I believe?
I did the next best thing to billing, I quit.
It's all very true, but it sort of defeats the purpose of a cell phone to turn it off. Yes yes, i'm sure there was some setting I could have set to make it go private, but please don't make me relive those memories. :-) Bottom line:
:-) thanks.
1) Yes, I can blame nextel for enabling this culture where your managers think they can speak with you at any moment by pushing one button. They're too lazy to page or dial 10 numbers, but make it ONE BUTTON and they would call us as often as they would like.
2) I can blame the culture of the company for accepting harrassment of employees if you turned your phone off, and/or punishing you for not responding to calls. And this was a company you've all heard of, covered here on slashdot many times a week.
But see, I'm re-living the nightmare again. Just let me crawl back under my rock.
For the curious, it's all described on the uLocate FAQ.
Only works with Nextel now and free until the end of the year.
Another reason to hate Nextel for me. After having a boss that gave us all Nextels and having managers that would use the Instant-On feature to speak to us night and day (10:26pm Manager: "Hello, Hello, are you there?? The mail server seems to be a little slow, are you there?"), I will never consider Nextel again. I'm scarred for life!!
"Way better than the other solution..." except you can't play the music you want in the way you want it. Hmmm, yeah that makes sense man.
Meanwhile, in the "other solution" i can download, rip, burn. Hmm. ok. Have fun with wally world.
Can't please all the people all the time. If they release a jumbo patch a bunch of people complain about why they couldn't have been broken up so they could pick and choose what they want to install.
If they release it in pieces then everyone complains about having to install in chunks. People just love to gripe I guess it's human nature.
We all need to cut back on tying up so much of our identities with our jobs. Our jobs should not be our reason to live.
I'll reply to you only because you say you're not an American. The first amendment gives people in the United States the freedom of speech but it doesn't give them the freedom to say whatever they want on their employees behalf. It also doesn't give them a right to say, for example "FIRE" on a crowded bus or other stupid moves like that.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Actually, Apple makes nothing off iTunes music sales.
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http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=
See this article and related comments on how your idea does not apparently pan out right now. But I'm sure you're not alone.
First time I've heard the "there aren't enough games for the Mac" argument used IN FAVOR of going with the mac. Gotta love it.
Actually, I think there are some other compelling reasons:
1) The kids are going to be spending the rest of their lives using windows as adults anyway, so expose them to something different for one year.
2) At least for now there is a lot less worry about worms and viruses. Would _you_ want to be in charge of the admin team that had to patch 130,000 3 times in a row for the same vulnerable service? I think not.
Not quite, it's more suing Ford because they forgot to install a lock on the car door and made the ignition push button.
In fact, if that happened and someone store your car and drove it into another car, the car company WOULD be liable. And in this case Microsoft should be liable too.
Ahh yes, all hijackers are muslim extremists, ahh okay, let's turn to our old friend google and take the first 3 links:
In Russia, we have this story
And did you forget about CUBAN hijackers?
And if you look at this article, oh wow, look, peruvians, algerians, columbians, brazilians
In the future please make sure your rantings are equal opportunity , thanks.
This is all well and good, but it will be news for real when the spam house pays up. The chances of ever collecting on this judgment are slim and none.
Actually finding and garneshing their accounts is possible but I can not imagine that will be easy or practical.
The other question I have is, how about a class action law suit. I know about 100 million people that would like to sue, the ULTIMATE class action.
That's what P1s are for, so you can get all your work done!!
It's going sort of off-topic, but on the topic of alternative energy hydrogen is not the end-all-be-all right now. As you know from that article hydrogen is derived from natural gas primarily right now. Until scientists find a better source for hydrogen than natural gas, we're still burning up fossil fuels to get "alternative" energy. Doesn't make a lot of sense right now.
Solaris is primarily for servers and engineers and was designed before the time of "panache" as you say. No, it's not anything like OS X in its GUI charm and ease-of-use.
However you can slap on different OS environments that was mentioned in the book review, like GNOME, to add some charm. However, in my opinion none of the standard desktops come close to OS X, but then again, there's no accounting for tastes either.
Good luck.
You make a truly valid and clear explanation of your situation. I hope you keep going and succeed even further.
As for competition, you shouldn't worry to much, you describe a set of qualities that most people don't have. For example, the multiple repeat visits with no charge (that's called good customer service and knowing when to just bite your lip and suffer through it) a lot of people lose their cool in this type of tech work and can't take it.
Hands on support/hardware support/network support will still be there. You can't outsource yoru datacenter to India because latency is still latency. When a hardware card needs to be replaced a worked in India won't be able to do it.
if you're the one that actually TOUCHES the hardware you will have a job for a while yet.
It's offtopic because this guy is a troll, he posts the same message around the internet over and over and over again. He's not interested in actually fixing his "slow drive" problem but in fact it's a troll. No you know.