Has anyone used Kopete? It looks pretty sexy. It's built into Xandros so I wonder how useful it is. I use Gaim at home and I have a few quibbles with it.
That's true and all, but what about mp3s? It used to be the case that it was a pain in the ass to share and download mp3s. Now music files zip all over the place. I've lost an mp3 on my hard drive and rather than spending the time to search for it, I'll just download it. The bandwidth will get to a point where there's enough room for people to swap movies in the same way.
You can argue that uncompressed sound files are harder to swap because they're so big, and that's true, but mp3s are 'good enough' for most people to want to swap them. I think the same can be said about divx movies.
I've actually lost about 20 lbs over the last 10 months or so. I did a couple of things - none of them hugely affected my lifestyle at all.
1 - gave up caffeine (I know!). I was drinking 3-4 cans of coke a day. I think doing that alone did me a huge deal of good. 2 - drank more water. We have a water filter at work and I'll drink about 3 litres of water a day. You have to pee every 1/2 hour or so, but it flushes your system and helps get rid of all the bad stuff that builds up in there. 3 - go for 1/2 hour walks every day. Nothing strenous
THat's about it. I'm still losing weight, and I feel a lot better. I'm also feeling a lot better now that I don't have my thrice daily cokes.
My friend and I have a game (read: no girl friends) when we go to the movies. We guess how many commercials and trailers will be shown before the movie. This afternoon was 4 ads and 6 trailers. Harry Potter was the same. The smaller movies have 3-4 commercials and 4 trailers. Anyone else find this?
Every software shop in Silicon Valley is opening up development centers in India.
Does anyone have any information on this? I've been hearing rumblings about this for a while now. What's the justification? Are there any stats on this? Is this really a concern, or is it like the 'brain drain' Canadians have been hearing about for years?
"The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero," says Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department.
essentially zero? shouldn't it be zero? Doesn't this give creedence to people's worries?
You're not going to be seen as a company for the first little while - for now you're essentially going freelance - you're code for hire.
I was in the same situation you are now - I was laid off a year ago (Aug 1, 2001). I started looking for full time work where I could. After a few weeks of picking up the pieces, I decided to give starting a company a try - and I did - well - sorta. When I approach someone for work and I tell them what I do, I usually get "Oh, you're a freelancer then" or "How long have you been out on your own?" or something like that. I have to explain that I'm a company - I registered my name, have a business bank account, I have a company website.
Still, you won't be recognized as a company - you're freelance. The people I've talked to think that freelancers are somehow lower than dirt. I don't get paid on time - I don't get complete requirements, I get told I have the job and then the work it pulled. You're going to get sand kicked in your face. It's a really hard line of work and you have to make sure that you really want to do it.
Where do you find work? I don't know. I got lucky and found some connections through a friend of a friend - I get most of my work through there. It's best if you have personal projects (that you think might make money! Don't forget - you're in this for money!) to do when things are slow - otherwise you'll end up watching too much daytime TV.
Why do I keep doing it? I love the freedom. I've done so many different types of projects - the straight web stuff gets boring after 10 minutes, but the exciting projects just zip by. The hours rock - I can take off any day of the week I want - of course I don't get paid and I usually end up working weekends.
Ask your friends if they know anyone who needs work done - ask family - do volunteer stuff. Get in the newspaper - get free publicity. Make sure that you're cut out for this kind of work - it's exciting stuff, but you really have to want it.
A similar question. Is anyone getting hit with this:
XX.XX.XX.XX - - [13/Jul/2002:19:47:41 -0400] "CONNECT 151.189.24.12:6669 HTTP/1.0" 200 5639 "-" "-"
I get a couple of them every few days in my log files. Is this a worm or just some idiot?
It's totally the same FUD - they've just figured out how to say it differently.
Look at the reasons windows is 'better' (from their page:
Linux does not deliver comparable heterogeneous interoperability.
Riiight - that's why I've been running Samba between my systems for the last two years.
Windows 2000-based server appliances deliver industry-leading robustness and scalability with Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) support for up to eight processors
Linux offers both free and commercially available add-on clustering and load balancing solutions. However, these add-on clustering solutions come from various sources, do not conform to any set standards, and are often implemented on a particular Linux distribution.
Umm - yeah - isn't that the whole point?
This can tie the OEM to a particular, potentially financially unstable Linux vendor and its support programs, or force the OEM to maintain specific and expensive expertise in-house for self-support.
How is that different from Windows? Microsoft is a company that had been threatened to be broken up by the government - isn't that an unstable company? Have they forgotten that already?
Server appliances built on Windows 2000 perform better versus Linux on similar equipment in SPECweb tests
Wasn't this a dirty test? Didn't microsoft cheat? (can't find a link).
Linux offers support for ASP but it is non-native and requires an add-on program to Apache or some other Web server deployed on Linux.
This is such a stupid argument. It's not the operating system that gives ASP support - it's the webserver. If I put apache on Windows I won't have ASP support without some tweaking. This is like saying Windows doesn't have native BASH support.
There's more FUD in there - I just don't have the pateince to go through it all. I'm going to pet my linux box.
It really does seem like a whole buncha FUD from MS. What makes it so bad is the previous article on slashdot about MS still trying to kill off Open Source Software.
It seems to me that MS wants to get Palladium out, but doesn't want MS to appear as a monopoly so they just declare their competators 'dead'.
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into those two stories, but it's pretty interesting to think about.
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My dad is a bit of a tool. On his stereo he has the following components hooked up AND WORKING:
DVD
VHS
Beta
Record Player
CD Player
8 Track
It's all in 5.1 surround sound, so they all sound their best.
I just wonder if there's room for a player piano and a cannister recording device.
Has anyone used Kopete? It looks pretty sexy. It's built into Xandros so I wonder how useful it is. I use Gaim at home and I have a few quibbles with it.
lost upwards of 9 machines
Um - how many machines did he lose? 1? 5? 8.5?
Anyone made the demo yet? I'd love to do it, but I'm at work. Stupid work.
Post some pics if you get it working!
I was thinking that. Think it's a crime to impersonate an RIAA officer?
That's true and all, but what about mp3s? It used to be the case that it was a pain in the ass to share and download mp3s. Now music files zip all over the place. I've lost an mp3 on my hard drive and rather than spending the time to search for it, I'll just download it. The bandwidth will get to a point where there's enough room for people to swap movies in the same way.
You can argue that uncompressed sound files are harder to swap because they're so big, and that's true, but mp3s are 'good enough' for most people to want to swap them. I think the same can be said about divx movies.
Not so much...here's some dictionary.com action:
:)
- Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious.
- Causing or deserving infamy; heinous: an infamous deed.
Don't mean to be all geeky, but, this *IS* slashdot
So, don't use your real name :)
the infamous Wayback Machine
Why is it infamous? I haven't heard anything bad about it.
"...You take both pills, you wake up in your bed and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
That's a *great* sig!
I phrased that wrong. I gave up caffeine and as a result of that, I gave up the 3-4 cans of coke I drank everyday.
I'm sure it was the fact that I stopped drinking so much coke that helps.
I had problems sleeping at night when I was drinking that much coke. I know it's not *that* much caffeine, but it still bothered me.
I've actually lost about 20 lbs over the last 10 months or so. I did a couple of things - none of them hugely affected my lifestyle at all.
1 - gave up caffeine (I know!). I was drinking 3-4 cans of coke a day. I think doing that alone did me a huge deal of good.
2 - drank more water. We have a water filter at work and I'll drink about 3 litres of water a day. You have to pee every 1/2 hour or so, but it flushes your system and helps get rid of all the bad stuff that builds up in there.
3 - go for 1/2 hour walks every day. Nothing strenous
THat's about it. I'm still losing weight, and I feel a lot better. I'm also feeling a lot better now that I don't have my thrice daily cokes.
My friend and I have a game (read: no girl friends) when we go to the movies. We guess how many commercials and trailers will be shown before the movie. This afternoon was 4 ads and 6 trailers. Harry Potter was the same. The smaller movies have 3-4 commercials and 4 trailers. Anyone else find this?
Every software shop in Silicon Valley is opening up development centers in India.
Does anyone have any information on this? I've been hearing rumblings about this for a while now. What's the justification? Are there any stats on this? Is this really a concern, or is it like the 'brain drain' Canadians have been hearing about for years?
I set off the fire alarm the first time I put together a computer. It's true!
You reeeeeeeeally shouldn't plug power cables into jumpers. I wish I took a picture of it - it was all melty!
Now computers are too easy. You have to try to break things!
There is a virus like the one you mention. I had an incident with the FunLove virus last year. Good fun.
who has sites? I've got this one
"The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero," says Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department.
essentially zero? shouldn't it be zero? Doesn't this give creedence to people's worries?
give me a break.
You're not going to be seen as a company for the first little while - for now you're essentially going freelance - you're code for hire.
I was in the same situation you are now - I was laid off a year ago (Aug 1, 2001). I started looking for full time work where I could. After a few weeks of picking up the pieces, I decided to give starting a company a try - and I did - well - sorta. When I approach someone for work and I tell them what I do, I usually get "Oh, you're a freelancer then" or "How long have you been out on your own?" or something like that. I have to explain that I'm a company - I registered my name, have a business bank account, I have a company website.
Still, you won't be recognized as a company - you're freelance. The people I've talked to think that freelancers are somehow lower than dirt. I don't get paid on time - I don't get complete requirements, I get told I have the job and then the work it pulled. You're going to get sand kicked in your face. It's a really hard line of work and you have to make sure that you really want to do it.
Where do you find work? I don't know. I got lucky and found some connections through a friend of a friend - I get most of my work through there. It's best if you have personal projects (that you think might make money! Don't forget - you're in this for money!) to do when things are slow - otherwise you'll end up watching too much daytime TV.
Why do I keep doing it? I love the freedom. I've done so many different types of projects - the straight web stuff gets boring after 10 minutes, but the exciting projects just zip by. The hours rock - I can take off any day of the week I want - of course I don't get paid and I usually end up working weekends.
Ask your friends if they know anyone who needs work done - ask family - do volunteer stuff. Get in the newspaper - get free publicity. Make sure that you're cut out for this kind of work - it's exciting stuff, but you really have to want it.
I thought of that too, but i've never seen anything like that in the log files before. Anyway - thanks for the hint.
A similar question. Is anyone getting hit with this:
XX.XX.XX.XX - - [13/Jul/2002:19:47:41 -0400] "CONNECT 151.189.24.12:6669 HTTP/1.0" 200 5639 "-" "-"
I get a couple of them every few days in my log files. Is this a worm or just some idiot?
It's totally the same FUD - they've just figured out how to say it differently.
Look at the reasons windows is 'better' (from their page:
Linux does not deliver comparable heterogeneous interoperability.
Riiight - that's why I've been running Samba between my systems for the last two years.
Windows 2000-based server appliances deliver industry-leading robustness and scalability with Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) support for up to eight processors
Linux has support for up to 16 processors.
Linux offers both free and commercially available add-on clustering and load balancing solutions. However, these add-on clustering solutions come from various sources, do not conform to any set standards, and are often implemented on a particular Linux distribution.
Umm - yeah - isn't that the whole point?
This can tie the OEM to a particular, potentially financially unstable Linux vendor and its support programs, or force the OEM to maintain specific and expensive expertise in-house for self-support.
How is that different from Windows? Microsoft is a company that had been threatened to be broken up by the government - isn't that an unstable company? Have they forgotten that already?
Server appliances built on Windows 2000 perform better versus Linux on similar equipment in SPECweb tests
Wasn't this a dirty test? Didn't microsoft cheat? (can't find a link).
Linux offers support for ASP but it is non-native and requires an add-on program to Apache or some other Web server deployed on Linux.
This is such a stupid argument. It's not the operating system that gives ASP support - it's the webserver. If I put apache on Windows I won't have ASP support without some tweaking. This is like saying Windows doesn't have native BASH support.
There's more FUD in there - I just don't have the pateince to go through it all. I'm going to pet my linux box.
It really does seem like a whole buncha FUD from MS. What makes it so bad is the previous article on slashdot about MS still trying to kill off Open Source Software.
It seems to me that MS wants to get Palladium out, but doesn't want MS to appear as a monopoly so they just declare their competators 'dead'.
I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into those two stories, but it's pretty interesting to think about.
It says about the same thing that the above review does. Here's the link
It gets better. They also only appear for a split second on the DVD release.