Of course MS is going to win these things. I'm sure they have a team of coders who concentrate specifically on making NT perform well in benchmarks.
What people are failing to note is that NT costs hundreds of dollars a seat, where Linux is free, as in free beer. A global Linux infrastructure for a corporation costs $0. Of course professional support is much more than free, but the fact that the code is so accessible means that an organization can have it's own on-site support staff with access to every bit of information they would need to fix the problem. There's a lot of money to be saved in using Linux and people will figure it out. When they do NT's going to have a tough time.
-Rich
RMS is an ACTIVIST, not a communist.
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I think it was Linus who said that RMS is an activist. He has very specifc goals, that alot of people would call utopian. He spends every ammount of energy trying to achieve these goals. Activists like RMS often never reach their goals, but they do important work, and never stop doing it. It's unlikely that RMS will ever see a world of only free software in his lifetime, It's unlikely that Ed Begley Jr will ever see ubiquitous electirc cars. It's unlikely that Ralph Nader will ever see the level of safety and quality that he strives for. Maybe in our lifetimes we will.
I dont always agree with RMS, but there's no hidden agenda to find when he speaks. For what it's worth, I think RMS works towards a noble goal, its utopian nature notwithstanding. Whether it ever happens or not, no one can discount his life's work of trying.
Man that was a fun computer. The Big Iron guys out there can talk about toggling in assembly code on the front panel and making IBM 360's draw pictures with the lights on the console, but just as cool IMHO was us 9 and 10 year old kids writing BASIC code on the only computer in our school durring our lunch breaks. Using nibble editors to..uhm... backup software, playing all those cool MECC games.... what a fun time.
Of all the ideas to slap ads on something this one disturbs me the most. I wonder how big (if any) of a backlash there will be from the motherboard manufacturers.
As if radio is not bad enough. Really.. I need to have the same 12 songs rammed down my throat no matter where I am in the country. Yeah that will be real fun. No thanks. I've heard big radio and it sucks. I'll take a small-market station with a little variety over the 12 song corporate playlists any day. Long live MP3.
Actually.. I think those Bell and Howell boxes were II's. We had one at my grade school and it was black. It was the guru's workstation, she never let us touch it:-)
I dont know how much they are worth but the curiosity value is certainly worth something. These were machines designed by hackers for hackers. The best thing about them was you didn't need an Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree to have fun with it. I was just a kid when I started hacking things into the paddle ports and learning assembly language.. Those were the days. It's a shame it's not that simple anymore.
I especially liked the part where they were like "This is a secret so dont tell anyone" and then had the cartoon beard covering the bits of information. I'd love to get in touch with the people who wrote those things.
I wish i knew what happened to mine. I used to check it out from the library continuously for about a year or so. At some point I lost the library's copy and ended up having to pay for it to be replaced. It never was. And I never found the copy I had been charged for.
So do I. That computer was a riot. I used to be able to impress people by operating at the '*' prompt and using only memory addresses to access commands. I probably could still do it if I had one right here too:-) I once wired the button of the paddle port to my door such that the computer would beep if my door was opened. It would also print "INTRUDER ALERT" over and over. It was a true Hacker's machine. I was an 11 year old kid with nothing more than a public library card but there was still enough information around for me to find out what went on under the cover. There was a guru in my school who taught me well in the ways of hacking. She used to give me books and software free of charge for my home machine so that I could learn. My favorite programs were animations where I would have something flying through space and it would be blown up by a laser beam or something. It was always fun to try an code a better looking explosion.
My sister used the machine for word processing until about 1992 or so when she got a Dell 486.
The Linux scene has changed a lot in the past year.
Heh. I've been saying that every year since 1994:-)
I've seen Linux advocacy go from, "You should try Linux, It's free, it's fast and it's fun" to "You flaming piece of sh*t, how can you run a MS product?! Your mother eats kitty litter and your Bill Gates' secret butt-lover!" These people are not advocates, they are fools. The real advocates are still out there and they are still advocating. These are the people in the IS departments at companies and the people doing research in schools, and these are the people that are advancing Linux. You wont change anyone's mind by pissing them off.
I used to work at a Pre-Verio ISP and we were blacklisted more than once because of the fact that a) maps.vix.com is nothing more than vigilante justice, and b) no one bothered to do the slightest bit of research.
We had a customer who direct-emailed about 15,000 people regularly. These were addresses aquired legitimately from response forms and trade shows. These people AGREED to get this email. Yet someone idiot who forgot that this was solicited email told the blacklist people and we lost email connectivity to vast portions of the net for about a week. Had they bothered to call us, or the customer, it would have been explained that it was solicited email. *sigh*
As someone else has said in this thread, ignore stuff that's not directed specifically to you. I have procmail add a [SPAM] in front of any email not sent to my address, and I never publish my real address. At work I didn't even bother with the [SPAM], every message not directed to me or an alias I deemed interesting was sent to/dev/null without prejudice.
Because space is cheap in the USA. If this cluster were in Japan you can guarantee that space would be maximized. I work for a global company and in the far east especially, we will pay a premium for smaller machines because space is such an issue.
Once vendors start selling 1U machines with one disk, one processor, and one slot, this kind of thing will be more accessible to those outside the USA. I know VA has some 2 or 3U machines, that's the right direction to be going.
Honestly, it's not really a big deal. All a clone is is an identical twin who happens to be a generation younger. That's basically it. Big Deal
But Dolly the sheeps clone is just as "old" as Dolly, so it's not really a kid that's younger, just a kid that's less mature(?) (If you dont know what i'm talking about look around the article was announce here on slashdot a few weeks ago)
The whole thing is kind of freaky. Personally I think clones should exist within the scope of the person being cloned, i.e. if I had a clone it would also have my name, my social security number, my credit card number, etc.. That way people wont clone foolishly as they wont want to fight themselves for their personal resources/property.:-)
There are still alot of people patiently waiting for BeOS to get some good application software. And I dont mean Office 2000 and Netscape. We could care less about those.
Have you ever run Be? It's really nice. I've not seen Linux or Windows software that can play 6 or more (I only tried 6) MP3's at once, and mix them together, variable speed,either forward or reverse. How about several video clips at the same time, full bandwidth, no skipping? Unlike the Mac and Windows Be has real multitasking, real protected memory and a modern OS design. Unlike Linux and NT it is streamlined from the ground up for multimedia content. It is NOT a swiss-army knife like NT or Linux. It does a few thiungs extremely well.
BeOS will gain popularity amoung musicians and artists once the software is there. They'll probably use it exclusively. SGI should be afraid, very afraid. Be will soon be able to take advantage of the increasingly large number of pro-grade audio and video components for the PC and when it does it will embarass everything else when it comes to media production. Emagic, Steinberg, Event Electronics, and many others have commited to BeOS ports of their audio products, most of which are expected later this year.
So in short, if you want to run an Office, go with Linux or Winblows. If you want to run a studio, throw out your macs and commit to Be. It will be well worth it when the software arrives.
I agree that these jurisdictional issues need to be resolved, but the fact is, in this case we're talking about a crime in VA or a crime in TX. The laws are clear in both states, The person needs to be tried in one of them. Let it be VA, let it be TX, if the person is guilty just get him or her off the net. There's too many people opening their yap without using common-sense restraint and if we can get this one to stop we're one closer to a more rational net.
This is the kind of law the Internet needs. If people are say untrue, malicious, libelous things, they should be ready to pay the conseuquences. I dont see what is so bad about being extradicted to VA if you've broke an VA law using a VA server. This person could have probably tried these people in Texas as well, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
People need to be responsible for what they say. If it means being tried in a court in the state of your ISP, so be it. Remember you dont have anything to worry about if you didn't do anything wrong.
There's a lot of knee-jerking on/. about AOL and Free Speech. We're not talking about either of those. We're talking about a possible crime, and a person being brought to trial for that crime in the state in which the Judge feels it was committed. Let the jury decide.
Listen pal, I have a B.S. in Computer Science, I've been using computers since 1982 and Linux exclusively on at least one machine since 1993. I help people fix their PC's one way or another about once a week. BTW, I've been using the same case for my main Linux machine since my very first installation in 1993. Coming from someone who crammed 6 hard disks into one mini tower I can speak from experience on what sucks about PC cases.
Personally I dont care for those cases on the intel site but I am interested in others that will come out for the FlexATX form factor. You ever own a NeXT? (I have 3) or a SparcStation 2/4/5/10/20 ? these are low footprint well designed machines, and the SparcStations are even upgradeable with Sbus slots that run parallel to the board. PC's are nice, but they're pretty badly designed machines when it comes to wasting space. If I can get a Linux machine the size of a Playstation, I'll be thrilled, I'll be able to fit more of them under my desk.
PC's are ugly. There's no working around this fact. Beyond the fact that they are ugly, they're also not very functional on the inside. Too often wires have to be run across things messing up ventillation and cluttering up the inside. A PC with all the I/O it will need built inside? Bring it on! Personally I think those things are terribly ugly, but I'm sure more reasonable cases will be forthcoming. Once motherboard manufacturers build in SCSI instead of IDE, I'll be the first in line.
Long long ago in a galaxy far far away Steve Jobs actually did this.
It was a consistent, well designed, object oriented UI on top of a Mach microkernel with a BSD subsystem. It also came with one of the best development environments ever, and was a testament to superior design. It had cd quality sound, publishing quality graphics, built in networking, even pre-emptive multitasking. All of this in the days of MS windows 3.0. NeXT's hardware was even easy to use. One screw undoes the case, almost no internal wires, the case is cast magnesium and acts as it's own heat sink. They just dont make 'em like this anymore.
It's interesting to note that MS put them out of business by the way of compaq and dell selling ultra-cheap crapfests, and vendors being lured away by economies of scale.
It's unfortunate that Mac community has forced Apple to water down the superior technology they bought from NeXT with Mac compatibility layers instead of an incremental update of the great OS they had. NeXT really only required incremental upgrades to bring it into 2000, but Apple has spent most of it's time trying to keep Mac developers happy rather than updating the OS they bought from NeXT.
-Rich
Censorship, Maybe not, But Misinformation.. Yes.
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The key now is bombarding people with misinformation. You dont have to be speaking truth to be heard, and although censorship might not work, anyone can get a website to advance their agenda and be just as vocal as the the people they are trying to censor. Anyone can say anything, and have it archived for all time, but nothing says they have to be telling the truth.
The config option to enable BSD compatibility in networking used to be something like this, but It was only for a couple of patchlevels in the 0.99pl14 or 0.99pl15 days. I know I got a huge laugh out of it. Put those FreeBSD'ers in their place too.. (:-) for the sarcasm impaired )
I think it's very exciting that they dont know what is going on. Now they have to re-think it all over again and hopefully they'll be moving closer to the truth.
Without discovery there is no science.
-Rich
The Problem is too many fingers in the pie.
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I used to work for an ISP. The problem with DSL is there's too many things that have to go right for a DSL install. In my experience with Ameritech it works something like this (X is the Ameritech competitor who is providing service to the ISP, and you):
-ISP calls up X for a new line. -X calls Ameritech. -X installs the line. -Ameritech sits on work order for 1-14 days, finally does install. -Line does not work. -Call ISP. -ISP blames X. -X blames Ameritech. -Ameritech blames X. -You pressure ISP -ISP pressures X -X concludes it's not their fault. -X pressures Ameritech. -Ameritech takes 1-14 days to figure it out and get it fixed.
There's a lot of room in here for communication breakdown, and surprise it happens alot. Not just for DSL, but for T1's too.
To add more fun to the equation, Keep in mind it can be anyone's fault. Could be Ameritech, could be X, could be the ISP, could be you. It's not easy to solve a problwem invoving 2 phone companies an ISP, and the user. Good ISP's are well equiped to get the right answers out of the right people at the respective phone comapnies, but you cant always count on that.
-Rich
Re:The best management is no management ...
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I dont buy this at all.
Dont get me wrong I've had managers before who could have done themselves a world of good by staying out of my business, but I've also had managers who knew how to keep me motivated to meet business needs. You can work all you want on something you like, but you wont be at the job long unless you're helping the business. I've seen many geeks who NEED to be told what to do, or they lose their focus and drift off to a pet project that does not address the needs of the business, wasting time, money, and effort. I dont want to disect your specific scenario, but dont pigeonhole people. It's this lack of understanding that causes the whole management/geek rift in the first place. Good managers want to be effective just as much as you do. Articles like this can only help.
For the record, I had a little stint in pseudo-management and it was a pain in the ass. Keeping people motivated is not as easy as it looks.
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Of course MS is going to win these things. I'm sure they have a team of coders who concentrate specifically on making NT perform well in benchmarks.
What people are failing to note is that NT costs hundreds of dollars a seat, where Linux is free, as in free beer. A global Linux infrastructure for a corporation costs $0. Of course professional support is much more than free, but the fact that the code is so accessible means that an organization can have it's own on-site support staff with access to every bit of information they would need to fix the problem. There's a lot of money to be saved in using Linux and people will figure it out. When they do NT's going to have a tough time.
-Rich
I think it was Linus who said that RMS is an activist. He has very specifc goals, that alot of people would call utopian. He spends every ammount of energy trying to achieve these goals. Activists like RMS often never reach their goals, but they do important work, and never stop doing it. It's unlikely that RMS will ever see a world of only free software in his lifetime, It's unlikely that Ed Begley Jr will ever see ubiquitous electirc cars. It's unlikely that Ralph Nader will ever see the level of safety and quality that he strives for. Maybe in our lifetimes we will.
I dont always agree with RMS, but there's no hidden agenda to find when he speaks. For what it's worth, I think RMS works towards a noble goal, its utopian nature notwithstanding. Whether it ever happens or not, no one can discount his life's work of trying.
-Rich
I used Copy ][+, Locksmith and Disk mucher. :-)
..uhm... backup software, playing all those cool MECC games.... what a fun time.
Man that was a fun computer. The Big Iron guys out there can talk about toggling in assembly code on the front panel and making IBM 360's draw pictures with the lights on the console, but just as cool IMHO was us 9 and 10 year old kids writing BASIC code on the only computer in our school durring our lunch breaks. Using nibble editors to
-Rich
Of all the ideas to slap ads on something this one disturbs me the most. I wonder how big (if any) of a backlash there will be from the motherboard manufacturers.
-Rich
As if radio is not bad enough. Really.. I need to have the same 12 songs rammed down my throat no matter where I am in the country. Yeah that will be real fun. No thanks. I've heard big radio and it sucks. I'll take a small-market station with a little variety over the 12 song corporate playlists any day. Long live MP3.
-Rich
Actually.. I think those Bell and Howell boxes were II's. We had one at my grade school and it was black. It was the guru's workstation, she never let us touch it :-)
I dont know how much they are worth but the curiosity value is certainly worth something. These were machines designed by hackers for hackers. The best thing about them was you didn't need an Electrical Engineering or Computer Science degree to have fun with it. I was just a kid when I started hacking things into the paddle ports and learning assembly language.. Those were the days. It's a shame it's not that simple anymore.
-Rich
That was the COOLEST book.
I especially liked the part where they were like "This is a secret so dont tell anyone" and then had the cartoon beard covering the bits of information. I'd love to get in touch with the people who wrote those things.
I wish i knew what happened to mine. I used to
check it out from the library continuously for about a year or so. At some point I lost the library's copy and ended up having to pay for it to be replaced. It never was. And I never found the copy I had been charged for.
-Rich
So do I. That computer was a riot. I used to be able to impress people by operating at the '*' prompt and using only memory addresses to access commands. I probably could still do it if I had one right here too :-) I once wired the button of the paddle port to my door such that the computer would beep if my door was opened. It would also print "INTRUDER ALERT" over and over. It was a true Hacker's machine. I was an 11 year old kid with nothing more than a public library card but there was still enough information around for me to find out what went on under the cover. There was a guru in my school who taught me well in the ways of hacking. She used to give me books and software free of charge for my home machine so that I could learn. My favorite programs were animations where I would have something flying through space and it would be blown up by a laser beam or something. It was always fun to try an code a better looking explosion.
My sister used the machine for word processing until about 1992 or so when she got a Dell 486.
*sniffle*
They just dont make em like they used to...
-Rich
The Linux scene has changed a lot in the past year.
:-)
Heh. I've been saying that every year since 1994
I've seen Linux advocacy go from, "You should try Linux, It's free, it's fast and it's fun" to "You flaming piece of sh*t, how can you run a MS product?! Your mother eats kitty litter and your Bill Gates' secret butt-lover!" These people are not advocates, they are fools. The real advocates are still out there and they are still advocating. These are the people in the IS departments at companies and the people doing research in schools, and these are the people that are advancing Linux. You wont change anyone's mind by pissing them off.
-Rich
You'd be surprised how many do...
/dev/null without prejudice.
I used to work at a Pre-Verio ISP and we were blacklisted more than once because of the fact that a) maps.vix.com is nothing more than vigilante justice, and b) no one bothered to do the slightest bit of research.
We had a customer who direct-emailed about 15,000 people regularly. These were addresses aquired legitimately from response forms and trade shows. These people AGREED to get this email. Yet someone idiot who forgot that this was solicited email told the blacklist people and we lost email connectivity to vast portions of the net for about a week. Had they bothered to call us, or the customer, it would have been explained that it was solicited email. *sigh*
As someone else has said in this thread, ignore stuff that's not directed specifically to you. I have procmail add a [SPAM] in front of any email not sent to my address, and I never publish my real address. At work I didn't even bother with the [SPAM], every message not directed to me or an alias I deemed interesting was sent to
-Rich
Because space is cheap in the USA. If this cluster were in Japan you can guarantee that space would be maximized. I work for a global company and in the far east especially, we will pay a premium for smaller machines because space is such an issue.
Once vendors start selling 1U machines with one disk, one processor, and one slot, this kind of thing will be more accessible to those outside the USA. I know VA has some 2 or 3U machines, that's the right direction to be going.
-Rich
Honestly, it's not really a big deal. All a clone is is an identical twin who happens to be a generation younger. That's basically it. Big Deal
:-)
But Dolly the sheeps clone is just as "old" as Dolly, so it's not really a kid that's younger, just a kid that's less mature(?) (If you dont know what i'm talking about look around the article was announce here on slashdot a few weeks ago)
The whole thing is kind of freaky. Personally I think clones should exist within the scope of the person being cloned, i.e. if I had a clone it would also have my name, my social security number, my credit card number, etc.. That way people wont clone foolishly as they wont want to fight themselves for their personal resources/property.
-Rich
There are still alot of people patiently waiting for BeOS to get some good application software. And I dont mean Office 2000 and Netscape. We could care less about those.
,either forward or reverse. How about several video clips at the same time, full bandwidth, no skipping? Unlike the Mac and Windows Be has real multitasking, real protected memory and a modern OS design. Unlike Linux and NT it is streamlined from the ground up for multimedia content. It is NOT a swiss-army knife like NT or Linux. It does a few thiungs extremely well.
Have you ever run Be? It's really nice. I've not
seen Linux or Windows software that can play 6 or more (I only tried 6) MP3's at once, and mix them together, variable speed
BeOS will gain popularity amoung musicians and artists once the software is there. They'll probably use it exclusively. SGI should be afraid, very afraid. Be will soon be able to take advantage of the increasingly large number of pro-grade audio and video components for the PC and when it does it will embarass everything else when it comes to media production. Emagic, Steinberg, Event Electronics, and many others have commited to BeOS ports of their audio products, most of which are expected later this year.
So in short, if you want to run an Office, go with Linux or Winblows. If you want to run a studio, throw out your macs and commit to Be. It will be well worth it when the software arrives.
-Rich
I agree that these jurisdictional issues need to be resolved, but the fact is, in this case we're talking about a crime in VA or a crime in TX. The laws are clear in both states, The person needs to be tried in one of them. Let it be VA, let it be TX, if the person is guilty just get him or her off the net. There's too many people opening their yap without using common-sense restraint and if we can get this one to stop we're one closer to a more rational net.
-Rich
AC or not this person is right on the money.
/. about AOL and Free Speech. We're not talking about either of those. We're talking about a possible crime, and a person being brought to trial for that crime in the state in which the Judge feels it was committed. Let the jury decide.
This is the kind of law the Internet needs. If people are say untrue, malicious, libelous things, they should be ready to pay the conseuquences. I dont see what is so bad about being extradicted to VA if you've broke an VA law using a VA server. This person could have probably tried these people in Texas as well, and there's nothing wrong with that either.
People need to be responsible for what they say. If it means being tried in a court in the state of your ISP, so be it. Remember you dont have anything to worry about if you didn't do anything wrong.
There's a lot of knee-jerking on
-Rich
Hah. and you call me the troll.
Listen pal, I have a B.S. in Computer Science, I've been using computers since 1982 and Linux exclusively on at least one machine since 1993. I help people fix their PC's one way or another about once a week. BTW, I've been using the same case for my main Linux machine since my very first installation in 1993. Coming from someone who crammed 6 hard disks into one mini tower I can speak from experience on what sucks about PC cases.
Personally I dont care for those cases on the intel site but I am interested in others that will come out for the FlexATX form factor. You ever own a NeXT? (I have 3) or a SparcStation 2/4/5/10/20 ? these are low footprint well designed machines, and the SparcStations are even upgradeable with Sbus slots that run parallel to the board. PC's are nice, but they're pretty badly designed machines when it comes to wasting space. If I can get a Linux machine the size of a Playstation, I'll be thrilled, I'll be able to fit more of them under my desk.
-Rich
PC's are ugly. There's no working around this fact. Beyond the fact that they are ugly, they're also not very functional on the inside. Too often wires have to be run across things messing up ventillation and cluttering up the inside. A PC with all the I/O it will need built inside? Bring it on! Personally I think those things are terribly ugly, but I'm sure more reasonable cases will be forthcoming. Once motherboard manufacturers build in SCSI instead of IDE, I'll be the first in line.
-Rich
Long long ago in a galaxy far far away Steve Jobs actually did this.
It was a consistent, well designed, object oriented UI on top of a Mach microkernel with a BSD subsystem. It also came with one of the best development environments ever, and was a testament to superior design. It had cd quality sound, publishing quality graphics, built in networking, even pre-emptive multitasking. All of this in the days of MS windows 3.0. NeXT's hardware was even easy to use. One screw undoes the case, almost no internal wires, the case is cast magnesium and acts as it's own heat sink. They just dont make 'em like this anymore.
It's interesting to note that MS put them out of business by the way of compaq and dell selling ultra-cheap crapfests, and vendors being lured away by economies of scale.
It's unfortunate that Mac community has forced Apple to water down the superior technology they bought from NeXT with Mac compatibility layers instead of an incremental update of the great OS they had. NeXT really only required incremental upgrades to bring it into 2000, but Apple has spent most of it's time trying to keep Mac developers happy rather than updating the OS they bought from NeXT.
-Rich
The key now is bombarding people with misinformation. You dont have to be speaking truth to be heard, and although censorship might not work, anyone can get a website to advance their agenda and be just as vocal as the the people they are trying to censor. Anyone can say anything, and have it archived for all time, but nothing says they have to be telling the truth.
-Rich
The config option to enable BSD compatibility in networking used to be something like this, but It was only for a couple of patchlevels in the 0.99pl14 or 0.99pl15 days. I know I got a huge laugh out of it. Put those FreeBSD'ers in their place too.. ( :-) for the sarcasm impaired )
-Rich
I think it's very exciting that they dont know what is going on. Now they have to re-think it all over again and hopefully they'll be moving closer to the truth.
Without discovery there is no science.
-Rich
I used to work for an ISP. The problem with DSL is there's too many things that have to go right for a DSL install. In my experience with Ameritech it works something like this (X is the Ameritech competitor who is providing service to the ISP, and you):
-ISP calls up X for a new line.
-X calls Ameritech.
-X installs the line.
-Ameritech sits on work order for 1-14 days, finally does install.
-Line does not work.
-Call ISP.
-ISP blames X.
-X blames Ameritech.
-Ameritech blames X.
-You pressure ISP
-ISP pressures X
-X concludes it's not their fault.
-X pressures Ameritech.
-Ameritech takes 1-14 days to figure it out and get it fixed.
There's a lot of room in here for communication breakdown, and surprise it happens alot. Not just for DSL, but for T1's too.
To add more fun to the equation, Keep in mind it can be anyone's fault. Could be Ameritech, could be X, could be the ISP, could be you. It's not easy to solve a problwem invoving 2 phone companies an ISP, and the user. Good ISP's are well equiped to get the right answers out of the right people at the respective phone comapnies, but you cant always count on that.
-Rich
I dont buy this at all.
Dont get me wrong I've had managers before who could have done themselves a world of good by staying out of my business, but I've also had managers who knew how to keep me motivated to meet business needs. You can work all you want on something you like, but you wont be at the job long unless you're helping the business. I've seen many geeks who NEED to be told what to do, or they lose their focus and drift off to a pet project that does not address the needs of the business, wasting time, money, and effort. I dont want to disect your specific scenario, but dont pigeonhole people. It's this lack of understanding that causes the whole management/geek rift in the first place. Good managers want to be effective just as much as you do. Articles like this can only help.
For the record, I had a little stint in pseudo-management and it was a pain in the ass. Keeping people motivated is not as easy as it looks.
-Rich
We left because some twits started fighting. Security had to call an ambulance and everything.. a pretty crumby way to end a cool movie.
-Rich
Edit your Makefile and make it any version you :-)
want...
-Rich