no, it really is no different. This is being sent from an iPhone without 3g because I needed a phone with these kinds of capabilities now. That the phone does exactly what apple said it would makes it a fully mature product (as opposed to, say, releases of Microsoft software that require service packs to get you functionality that was in the betas)
There are only a few times when it's worth waiting for tech, and that's at the usual consumer release times - back to school, Christmas, macworld, etc. Otherwise you have what you have. Move along.
I've used Minix and the Hurd quite a bit, so can answer his challenge: The problem with the microkernel debates is that no serious contenders have ever shown up.
Both communities are very hard to contribute to and are generally closed. AST won't consider the use of GCC as a compiler or a GNU userland because they're GPLd. So that team has to deal with building compilers and such. Which means that if you want to implement something like ELF shared libraries in Minix, you have a whole toolchain to build, not even just an ELF loader.
For the Hurd, the community contribution problem is subtler. The maintainers of the Hurd, who don't actually contribute anything to the Hurd anymore, have a grand design that the Hurd should look like and follow. In traditional GNU form, there's no pragmatism whatsoever. This leads to things like not having >2GB partitions until just a couple of years ago.
I can only conclude that the problem with Microkernels is the complete inability of the maintainers of these projects to work well with others and their complete lack of desire to solve the problems. One day perhaps someone will come along and just do the work required. Then we'll get an answer.
By car battery doesn't drive me around the block. If I got one big enough to do so and retrofit the engine to accept it, it certainly wouldn't last 5 years.
I see two big hints they weren't going to hire you:
1) You paid for your own interview. Never do that. They've made no commitment to you beyond a bit of time.
2) During the interview, they're asking totally irrelevant questions.
The days when an interview were completely controlled by the employer left over a decade ago. Irrelevant questions should be answered shortly, and the questions should be dragged back to topic, or ask back directly if they have a prejudice for particular classes of schools and such.
The "Not qualified" might have simply been "won't survive in this corporate culture".
I hadn't seen any announcement about Itanium macs, but I'd certainly assumed that's what was going to happen. For all of the money that Intel has pissed away on Itanium, I had assumed two things:
1) They must come out with an interesting version eventually.
2) A great time to announce that they'd made the things interesting would be with a huge splash announcement like Apple adopting it.
The roadmap of desktops now, laptops shortly would be pretty consistant with a technology breakthrough.
Pity it didn't happen. It's sad to see the processor world still dancing around the stinking carcass of x86.
I've often wondered about those click-wraps for downloads. The first time I remember seeing them was when downloading Cisco images. While I don't have any contact with folks from those nations it seems to me that a simply click-to-download wrapper would do exactly nothing to stop them from getting the crypto.
Anyone know if there are other things in play (watermarking, etc.) that holds people to this requirement? Is it still all just a magic dream that these nations don't have the same access to security the rest of the world does?
I can't imagine. There are pretty clearly four or five people who are involved in this more or less full time. Without their efforts, Free Java would be generally useless today.
Uhh.. Redhat *does* work on a Free Java stack. Look at the commits to http://www.classpath.org/ and that almost all of the gcj work is done by RedHat folks.
Tried to get Vonage Canada service. Endless series of rude techs, and discovered that they're about twice the price of any other VoIP provider. I've been on http://talkbroadband.ca/ (Primus) for almost 3 years now. I pay CAD $35 a month including taxes for my base fee, which includes long distance in Canada and the US. $5 a month for an extra number in Vancouver, and $10 a month to cut my overseas rates to 30 countries to 2.5/minute. Couldn't be happier.
(obDisclosure: I work for Canonical in the support department. I am a Debian Developper.)
> So why wouldn't you just use Debian if you want a server linux distro? What will Ubuntu provide over Debian for a server?
I gave a talk on exactly this at LinuxTag. I don't know if recordings are available. The basic idea is stability, releases, vendor support, and commercial support.
How is a fingerprint going to keep my hairdresser from defrauding me? Swiping my Visa number at the till, overcharging me, or outright slitting my throat and leaving me for dead in the dumpster are all possible after the hairdressed has his/her* fingerprints taken.
Given this and the basic tenant that one ought to be held innocent until guilt in proven, why should I have to be eliminated? If I come up as a suspect, then sure. But even then, a DNA or fingerprint test could be done in front of me and then destroyed while I'm standing there.
The government should be held on a strict need-to-know basis. It's a concept they understand.
In Canada, companies are not permitted to ask for a Social Insurrance Number. In practice, they all do, but they can't refuse me service when I don't provide it.
Credit checks only require name, birthdate, and current address.
GPL people are cool. I like to make copies of them. The only problem is that everytime I give one a way, I have to give the damned cloning formula away...
Anyone know if there's a way to connect to IPv6 yet from a GNU/Linux box through a Linksys router? I've got NAT on the router so that I don't have to pay for multiple IP addresses, but that seems to kill most tunnel software.
I wish that the ISPs showed signs of waiting for the customers to ask for this. I have asked my cable ISP a number of times and normally just get a tech support manager who clearly doesn't understand the question. When I ask my office's upstream ISP (which is a fairly major one in Toronto), I simply get told "noone wants that".
When I've done calling with pc->phone, I've always had quarter second to half second lag. It's fine when phoning geeks, but I suspect I would have alot of trouble if I were phoning my grandmother.
London Telecom has a $20 unlimited calling within Canada after 6pm and all weekend. My wife and I do 600-800 minutes per month phoning people back home - so although I keep looking at VoIP and various SIP/H.323 providers, quality and economics are just not on the side of VoIP.
We do *not* need this. If you have a usability degree from a school or alot of usability experience, Free Software projects are willing to receive you with open arms. Most of the rest of us know absolutely NOTHING about UI design. We know "what we like", which is almost always based on the pieces we got used to first in crappy interfaces like Motif, Win32, or Amiga.
Proper usability studies don't involve computer geeks at all - we're contaminated. They take your grandmother, the secretary down the hall, the postal worker and a car mechanic and sit them in the same room with wild and crazy things (pen/paper, mouse interface, books, etc) and watch how the handle them. Where do their eyes go first, what attracts them, and all that.
I'm glad that Gtk2 is taking some wild steps to do things that usability experts have been telling us for ages we need to do (like defaults on the right instead of the left). It's hard for us, but my non-geek wife sat down and Gnome2 Just Worked for her. No fuss - That's a success story.
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no, it really is no different. This is being sent from an iPhone without 3g because I needed a phone with these kinds of capabilities now. That the phone does exactly what apple said it would makes it a fully mature product (as opposed to, say, releases of Microsoft software that require service packs to get you functionality that was in the betas)
There are only a few times when it's worth waiting for tech, and that's at the usual consumer release times - back to school, Christmas, macworld, etc. Otherwise you have what you have. Move along.
I've used Minix and the Hurd quite a bit, so can answer his challenge: The problem with the microkernel debates is that no serious contenders have ever shown up.
Both communities are very hard to contribute to and are generally closed. AST won't consider the use of GCC as a compiler or a GNU userland because they're GPLd. So that team has to deal with building compilers and such. Which means that if you want to implement something like ELF shared libraries in Minix, you have a whole toolchain to build, not even just an ELF loader.
For the Hurd, the community contribution problem is subtler. The maintainers of the Hurd, who don't actually contribute anything to the Hurd anymore, have a grand design that the Hurd should look like and follow. In traditional GNU form, there's no pragmatism whatsoever. This leads to things like not having >2GB partitions until just a couple of years ago.
I can only conclude that the problem with Microkernels is the complete inability of the maintainers of these projects to work well with others and their complete lack of desire to solve the problems. One day perhaps someone will come along and just do the work required. Then we'll get an answer.
By car battery doesn't drive me around the block. If I got one big enough to do so and retrofit the engine to accept it, it certainly wouldn't last 5 years.
I see two big hints they weren't going to hire you:
1) You paid for your own interview. Never do that. They've made no commitment to you beyond a bit of time.
2) During the interview, they're asking totally irrelevant questions.
The days when an interview were completely controlled by the employer left over a decade ago. Irrelevant questions should be answered shortly, and the questions should be dragged back to topic, or ask back directly if they have a prejudice for particular classes of schools and such.
The "Not qualified" might have simply been "won't survive in this corporate culture".
I hadn't seen any announcement about Itanium macs, but I'd certainly assumed that's what was going to happen. For all of the money that Intel has pissed away on Itanium, I had assumed two things:
1) They must come out with an interesting version eventually.
2) A great time to announce that they'd made the things interesting would be with a huge splash announcement like Apple adopting it.
The roadmap of desktops now, laptops shortly would be pretty consistant with a technology breakthrough.
Pity it didn't happen. It's sad to see the processor world still dancing around the stinking carcass of x86.
I've often wondered about those click-wraps for downloads. The first time I remember seeing them was when downloading Cisco images. While I don't have any contact with folks from those nations it seems to me that a simply click-to-download wrapper would do exactly nothing to stop them from getting the crypto.
Anyone know if there are other things in play (watermarking, etc.) that holds people to this requirement? Is it still all just a magic dream that these nations don't have the same access to security the rest of the world does?
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
I can't imagine. There are pretty clearly four or five people who are involved in this more or less full time. Without their efforts, Free Java would be generally useless today.
Uhh.. Redhat *does* work on a Free Java stack. Look at the commits to http://www.classpath.org/ and that almost all of the gcj work is done by RedHat folks.
Tried to get Vonage Canada service. Endless series of rude techs, and discovered that they're about twice the price of any other VoIP provider. I've been on http://talkbroadband.ca/ (Primus) for almost 3 years now. I pay CAD $35 a month including taxes for my base fee, which includes long distance in Canada and the US. $5 a month for an extra number in Vancouver, and $10 a month to cut my overseas rates to 30 countries to 2.5/minute. Couldn't be happier.
As opposed to the repeated phone calls for phone sex.
See? Content *is* important. =)
(obDisclosure: I work for Canonical in the support department. I am a Debian Developper.)
> So why wouldn't you just use Debian if you want a server linux distro? What will Ubuntu provide over Debian for a server?
I gave a talk on exactly this at LinuxTag. I don't know if recordings are available. The basic idea is stability, releases, vendor support, and commercial support.
And this is all available today.
How is a fingerprint going to keep my hairdresser from defrauding me? Swiping my Visa number at the till, overcharging me, or outright slitting my throat and leaving me for dead in the dumpster are all possible after the hairdressed has his/her* fingerprints taken.
Given this and the basic tenant that one ought to be held innocent until guilt in proven, why should I have to be eliminated? If I come up as a suspect, then sure. But even then, a DNA or fingerprint test could be done in front of me and then destroyed while I'm standing there.
The government should be held on a strict need-to-know basis. It's a concept they understand.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
Eh? I've never provided fingerprints to my government. Are americans already whipped into shape that badly?
In Canada, companies are not permitted to ask for a Social Insurrance Number. In practice, they all do, but they can't refuse me service when I don't provide it.
Credit checks only require name, birthdate, and current address.
Well, speaking *near* a woman...
Actually, if I say anything about this out loud, I'll probably get beaten. Perhaps I'll shutup now.
What?!? 32 comments and no jokes saying that now that he's 30[0] he can no longer be called Master Bates? DID EVERYONE ELSE IN SLASHDOT GROW UP TOO?
;)
Sheesh people..
[0] Dict entry 5 from the 1913 Websters for those without context.
GPL people are cool. I like to make copies of them. The only problem is that everytime I give one a way, I have to give the damned cloning formula away...
Anyone know if there's a way to connect to IPv6 yet from a GNU/Linux box through a Linksys router? I've got NAT on the router so that I don't have to pay for multiple IP addresses, but that seems to kill most tunnel software.
I wish that the ISPs showed signs of waiting for the customers to ask for this. I have asked my cable ISP a number of times and normally just get a tech support manager who clearly doesn't understand the question. When I ask my office's upstream ISP (which is a fairly major one in Toronto), I simply get told "noone wants that".
When I've done calling with pc->phone, I've always had quarter second to half second lag. It's fine when phoning geeks, but I suspect I would have alot of trouble if I were phoning my grandmother.
London Telecom has a $20 unlimited calling within Canada after 6pm and all weekend. My wife and I do 600-800 minutes per month phoning people back home - so although I keep looking at VoIP and various SIP/H.323 providers, quality and economics are just not on the side of VoIP.
> Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
On your wedding night? You're kidding, right? That's the first thing to go!
How about Feenicks?
And this helps me on my 700mhz desktop how?
Anyone know of any tools to use the built-in DVD decoder in GNU/Linux? My software decoder still chokes a bit on fast action scenes.
We do *not* need this. If you have a usability degree from a school or alot of usability experience, Free Software projects are willing to receive you with open arms. Most of the rest of us know absolutely NOTHING about UI design. We know "what we like", which is almost always based on the pieces we got used to first in crappy interfaces like Motif, Win32, or Amiga.
Proper usability studies don't involve computer geeks at all - we're contaminated. They take your grandmother, the secretary down the hall, the postal worker and a car mechanic and sit them in the same room with wild and crazy things (pen/paper, mouse interface, books, etc) and watch how the handle them. Where do their eyes go first, what attracts them, and all that.
I'm glad that Gtk2 is taking some wild steps to do things that usability experts have been telling us for ages we need to do (like defaults on the right instead of the left). It's hard for us, but my non-geek wife sat down and Gnome2 Just Worked for her. No fuss - That's a success story.