Not long ago Royal Bank was doing the same thing and there was an uproar but the practice in general continues. Nothing has been done to stop this. Ironically, we were all afraid of our jobs "going" overseas and we had some comfort in the fact that the time difference was a hassle enough to business to slow this process down. Now a-days it looks like businesses solved this by shipping the oversea workers to work over here!
Dashlane looks exactly what I need, the cost is pretty small compared to its features, let me try the free trial a go or is 6 month the default trial period?
Hi weszz, Any password programs that you recommend I can start using or look at? Ideally something that will work on my android tablet but even then I worry about the security of my tablet itself.
A lot of us Canadians agree. The choice to keep it is purely political and I think we're locked in (trapped) after spending billions already. The billions spent already could have gotten us super hornets now and they would be already in service if we bought them. Why couldn't our prime minister just accept defeat on this issue?
The Superhornet is a much better sensible choice, it's more practical, cheaper and doesn't require much "retraining" of the staff. Already familiar with the aircraft. It also meets more the the requirements than the F-35 does.
Can I ask you how do you expect Ubuntu to make money? You think all of this is free and with no cost? I see this as a good thing. More revenue for Canonical will mean better Ubuntu releases in the future.
Seriously, these MySQL founders have been whining ever since they sold out to Sun. Please stop. If you're worried about MySQL why did you sell the rights in the first place?
All the old complaints about Qt are no longer valid. I find it ironic that Gnome is getting more and more Mono/.NET dependant when Gnome project was started for way less than that, because Qt wasn't GPLd. But now it is.
We have an advanced GPLd toolkit widely available and it can do more than just GUIs. I would really love to see what the Gnome project can do with Qt along with their interface philosophy of simplicity.
Where can I vote for that? I mean, really. I think a US runned Quebec state will definitely help me.
Will the ROC will finally defined their citizens that have their rights taken away? I mean simple human rights such as freedom of speech? In my opinion the rest of canada can just kiss my . The ROC don't even care about their own.
Some of us actually tough it out in this racist province. In Quebec, you are NOT allowed to speak english in the work place and you are NOT allowed to write an email anything other than french either to your colleagues. I can't have an english keyboard either and it's very hard to find a job because my last name is not Dion or Desjardins or GrosPlat.
I'm voting for a Pauline Marois runned Quebec just so they can be one step closer to hell.
I think it would make sense to talk to the guy, which so happens to be your project lead. Tell him about your copyright concerns and give him a chance to fix it. You'll not only get an ally but someone who will apreciate your honesty and trust you. Since you're new you need to build up your networking circle within the company.
I myself ran into a similar situation, meaning I'm new to this team and someone with seniority checked in some questionable code. I could have by by passed him and talked to the big cheese of your department which would have destroyed him but I decided not to and voiced my concerns with the person instead. Everything worked out. I now have a guy on my team that trusts me. This to me is more valuable.
It's nice to see another opensource contender and I'm impressed with the progress nexenta is doing. However all of my tests have only been under vmware emulation. Why? Because I can't even install it on any my machines. I don't believe my machines are built with any rare or special hardware and I can only conclude that solaris is lacking good driver support atleast on the x86 platform.
I've NEVER seen a installation CD that didn't freeze and If I can't install it how can I comment on it on slashdot?
I've asked myself the same question recently. Since all of my development is for linux and solaris should my workstation be Unix as well?
I believe yes, but not because of linux zeoletry but mostly because of my style of development.
@ work I spend all my time using PUTTY/Exceed/XEmacs and screen sessions.
It just seams that Windows just gets in the way of getting my work done and it will be more stable in my case to run my consoles and some of Xapps natively.
Sooner or later during the day and for whatever reason (crashes, memory... etc...), I have to reboot my workstation and restart all of my xapps. This means that my work is interrupted and I have to restart my work. Hopefully, I've saved my work before it happens.
Exceed is a great application but I hate it when XEmacs crashes or when one xapp stalls all of them stalls. I also loathe the way windows groups all of my Exceed applications into one column making it harder for me to switch between Xapps.
IMHO, putty stinks but it's way better than using xterm under Exceed only because windows will group my putty sessions seperately from Exceed!
I'm very dissapointed. Just when I thought when Dell was going to grow some pubic hairs they prove again to their customers that they don't have the guts.
It would be nice to have a laptop guaranteed to have all of its buttons work like dvd/cd buttons, lcd contrast, hybernate and suspend! I would have definitely bought from Dell if they went through it!
It's a missed oportunity really, they could have supported ubuntu and pre-installed a nice glossed version with all the beryl trimmings and gdesklets turned on and guaranteed all the features and buttons on it will work.
It would have presented to be a nice alternative to windows vista and the mac!
Dell you have no balls... sorry you've got no balls man.
that sucks man... to live life with no balls. that's not funny man.... no balls. shit.
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.]
Uptime is something I see as completely meaningless, the longer the uptime just means the longer the machine wasn't rebooted that's all. Why would a sys admin reboot? After a major update or a new kernel or even after serious patches. In the world of linux, there's constant improvements, enhancements and security patches in the kernel and in the server software. I think the gap is more to do with Linux Sys admins being more active in maintaining their boxes compared to the windows sys admins.
If windows 2K/2003 servers do have longer uptimes than that to me is just scary, it means those sys admins aren't applying security patches regularly.
I agree with a lot of posts here with regards to polishing your resume.
I don't know the nature of your application or which field your employer is in so I can't make a good comment on your situation.
Your development staff is quite small 5 (FTEs) so a rewrite will be very difficult to do and maintain your existing app at the same time.
Unfortunately, I get this sinking feeling in my stomach when I read that your IT director is looking at an offshore to assist in the migration to Java.
Does this mean that you're going to be offshored someday? Or does it mean that he does recognizes the high costs of the rewrite?
It's silly to think that just rewriting your existing application in another language is going to solve all your problems instantly. If you're going to rewrite, atleast keep it in house and retain your intellectual property within the company and keep your staff up to date with its own software products.
What I believe might happen is that the rewrite will be assisted by this offshore company by people who don't understand the business concepts as well as your staff does and it may end up being a buggier mess than the original.
Better to hire some experienced Java programmers with a strong C++ background to help with this rewrite.
The more I hear calls that Java to be more open source the more I wish all these Java libraries worked like the way CPAN does.
CPAN is great and its what keeps Perl relevant and it works well for the Perl community. All these java libraries bundled with the JDK should be more modular with a lean core distro and then the rest can be organized and installed as modules.
And like everything CPAN all these modules will be peer reviewed by other Java developers in the open source and corporate worlds.
Thank you for posting. I thought I was the only one that had complications. I'm so sick of hearing people say,,, well my friend did it, my cousin that.. This talk never helps make me feel better but just depresses me further. For me It has been a real nightmare! I've had Lasik done way back in jan 2004 and my vision has now regressed to about 50% of the myopia I've had before. My eyes get irritated and very dry quickly. Some days are better than others.
I did see well for about 4 months after which it began to regress. I later did a correction but to no avail. My vision began to regress again. Believe it or not my night vision is so bad that I'm terrified to drive and it hasn't gotten better over time.
Now today, after I swore never to operate on my eyes again, I may have no choice now as to my new eye doctor mentioned that I may have cornea damage and rinkling is developing on the surface of my eyes. At the moment my doctor is waiting to see if my eye sight stabilizes and only then I'll be going over to Quebec city where there's a specialist who only specializes in corrective surgery!
Consumers are complaining about not having any choice. Finally, Microsoft is listening to its consumers and now decides to release many different versions of the same product. What a wonderful idea!
What more crap are they going to come up next? This is so UNREAL! Honestly, I'm so flabergasted!
I've been using computers since my Tandy 1000 SL, which used DOS 3.0 and some desktop software called Desk Mate. I was not a GUI guy, I did everything in the command line. Believe it or not I never touched Windows 3.1 and jumped straight to Windows 95 when I bought my first Pentium 100 Mhz.
I first thought windows was so freaken awesome until I realized for the first time, my machine is getting slow.. I'll tell you something, during my DOS days I've never seen my computer as slow. Back then, I was functional, I could do everything on that old tandy machine, my homework, qbasic programming, bbsing etc, play shitty games etc.. If i needed to do repetitive work I would write quick batch scripts and I was no real programmer back then.
Since windows came along, each and every release from the Microsoft Corporation demanded a stronger machine and more dependancy on using my mouse. I don't know why we bother having a keyboard anymore. Just make a virtual keyboard instead and add a second mouse for my other hand. Maybe I'll get more out windows that way.
So what's my point?
Aren't computers supposed to be more productive today than yesterday?
I used to be able to dish out 50 page research papers in less time but now I spend more time formatting my document using my mouse and waiting for my software to do actually do the action. My machine is getting too slow again! To help things I can't type long papers and have to cut it up, because the software I'm using is getting too heavy. Why on earth on we always forced to upgrade? Software is supposed to get better not worse.
So screw that, I'm not touching Vista just like I didn't touch windows 3.1. I've made the switch completely to Linux now. I can do my work using just my keyboard, type documentation using latex, write scripts like I used to with batch files, i can stay in my console all the time again. On top of that I'm still using a Pentium III with just 500 Megs of Ram and its fast enough!
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Not long ago Royal Bank was doing the same thing and there was an uproar but the practice in general continues. Nothing has been done to stop this.
Ironically, we were all afraid of our jobs "going" overseas and we had some comfort in the fact that the time difference was a hassle enough to business to slow this process down. Now a-days it looks like businesses solved this by shipping the oversea workers to work over here!
Dashlane looks exactly what I need, the cost is pretty small compared to its features, let me try the free trial a go or is 6 month the default trial period?
Hi weszz,
Any password programs that you recommend I can start using or look at?
Ideally something that will work on my android tablet but even then I worry about the security of my tablet itself.
A lot of us Canadians agree.
The choice to keep it is purely political and I think we're locked in (trapped) after spending billions already. The billions spent already could have gotten us super hornets now and they would be already in service if we bought them. Why couldn't our prime minister just accept defeat on this issue?
The Superhornet is a much better sensible choice, it's more practical, cheaper and doesn't require much "retraining" of the staff. Already familiar with the aircraft.
It also meets more the the requirements than the F-35 does.
I wish I could mod this up. Thanks for posting this.
This article is about forced-labour, please read the article before commenting everyone.
Interesting comment you have there, you see things from a completely different angle!
Can I ask you how do you expect Ubuntu to make money?
You think all of this is free and with no cost?
I see this as a good thing. More revenue for Canonical will mean better Ubuntu releases in the future.
Seriously, these MySQL founders have been whining ever since they sold out to Sun.
Please stop. If you're worried about MySQL why did you sell the rights in the first place?
All the old complaints about Qt are no longer valid. I find it ironic that Gnome is getting more and more Mono/.NET dependant when Gnome project was started for way less than that, because Qt wasn't GPLd. But now it is.
We have an advanced GPLd toolkit widely available and it can do more than just GUIs.
I would really love to see what the Gnome project can do with Qt along with their interface philosophy of simplicity.
KDE != Qt it's just one implementation of Qt.
Thank you for this!
This is great a BSD post on slashdot and no BSD is dying post.
So It's official BSD in NOT dying netcraft confirms it.
Really, I personally think OpenSolaris is coming along quite nicely since Ian Murdock is managing things but that's a different comment.
If they can make a toshiba laptop suspend and hybernate flawlessly that would be awesome. Maybe I'll even make the switch. Unix is Unix.
Where can I vote for that? I mean, really. I think a US runned Quebec state will definitely help me.
Will the ROC will finally defined their citizens that have their rights taken away? I mean simple human rights such as freedom of speech? In my opinion the rest of canada can just kiss my . The ROC don't even care about their own.
Some of us actually tough it out in this racist province. In Quebec, you are NOT allowed to speak english in the work place and you are NOT allowed to write an email anything other than french either to your colleagues. I can't have an english keyboard either and it's very hard to find a job because my last name is not Dion or Desjardins or GrosPlat.
I'm voting for a Pauline Marois runned Quebec just so they can be one step closer to hell.
I think it would make sense to talk to the guy, which so happens to be your project lead. Tell him about your copyright concerns and give him a chance to fix it. You'll not only get an ally but someone who will apreciate your honesty and trust you. Since you're new you need to build up your networking circle within the company.
I myself ran into a similar situation, meaning I'm new to this team and someone with seniority checked in some questionable code. I could have by by passed him and talked to the big cheese of your department which would have destroyed him but I decided not to
and voiced my concerns with the person instead. Everything worked out. I now have a guy on my team that trusts me. This to me is more valuable.
My advice is simply to be a team player.
Everytime I fly to NY I make sure to visit the apple store!
The price differences suck right now.
It's nice to see another opensource contender and I'm impressed with the progress nexenta is doing. However all of my tests have only been under vmware emulation. Why? Because I can't even install it on any my machines. I don't believe my machines are built with any rare or special hardware and I can only conclude that solaris is lacking good driver support atleast on the x86 platform.
I've NEVER seen a installation CD that didn't freeze and If I can't install it how can I comment on it on slashdot?
I've asked myself the same question recently. Since all of my development is for linux and solaris should my workstation be Unix as well?
I believe yes, but not because of linux zeoletry but mostly because of my style of development.
@ work I spend all my time using PUTTY/Exceed/XEmacs and screen sessions.
It just seams that Windows just gets in the way of getting my work done and it will be more stable in my case to run my consoles and some of Xapps natively.
Sooner or later during the day and for whatever reason (crashes, memory... etc...), I have to reboot my workstation and restart all of my xapps. This means that my work is interrupted and I have to restart my work. Hopefully, I've saved my work before it happens.
Exceed is a great application but I hate it when XEmacs crashes or when one xapp stalls all of them stalls.
I also loathe the way windows groups all of my Exceed applications into one column making it harder for me to switch between Xapps.
IMHO, putty stinks but it's way better than using xterm under Exceed only because windows will group my putty sessions seperately from Exceed!
I'm very dissapointed. Just when I thought when Dell was going to grow some pubic hairs they prove again to their customers that they don't have the guts.
... to live life with no balls. that's not funny man.... no balls. shit.
It would be nice to have a laptop guaranteed to have all of its buttons work like dvd/cd buttons, lcd contrast, hybernate and suspend!
I would have definitely bought from Dell if they went through it!
It's a missed oportunity really, they could have supported ubuntu and pre-installed a nice glossed version with all the beryl trimmings and gdesklets turned on and guaranteed all the features and buttons on it will work.
It would have presented to be a nice alternative to windows vista and the mac!
Dell you have no balls... sorry you've got no balls man.
that sucks man
When I visited http://www.twingalaxies.com/ all I got was:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[OutOfMemoryException: Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown.]
This is just pure FUD.
Uptime is something I see as completely meaningless, the longer the uptime just means the longer the machine wasn't rebooted that's all. Why would a sys admin reboot? After a major update or a new kernel or even after serious patches.
In the world of linux, there's constant improvements, enhancements and security patches in the kernel and in the server software. I think the gap is more to do with Linux Sys admins being more active in maintaining their boxes compared to the windows sys admins.
If windows 2K/2003 servers do have longer uptimes than that to me is just scary, it means those sys admins aren't applying security patches regularly.
My 2 cents.
I agree with a lot of posts here with regards to polishing your resume.
I don't know the nature of your application or which field your employer is in so I can't make a good comment on your situation.
Your development staff is quite small 5 (FTEs) so a rewrite will be very difficult to do and maintain your existing app at the same time.
Unfortunately, I get this sinking feeling in my stomach when I read that your IT director is looking at an offshore to assist in the migration to Java.
Does this mean that you're going to be offshored someday? Or does it mean that he does recognizes the high costs of the rewrite?
It's silly to think that just rewriting your existing application in another language is going to solve all your problems instantly.
If you're going to rewrite, atleast keep it in house and retain your intellectual property within the company and keep your staff up to date with its own software products.
What I believe might happen is that the rewrite will be assisted by this offshore company by people who don't understand the business concepts as well as your staff does and it may end up being a buggier mess than the original.
Better to hire some experienced Java programmers with a strong C++ background to help with this rewrite.
Goodluck.
The more I hear calls that Java to be more open source the more I wish all these Java libraries worked like the way CPAN does.
CPAN is great and its what keeps Perl relevant and it works well for the Perl community. All these java libraries bundled with the JDK should be more modular with a lean core distro and then the rest can be organized and installed as modules.
And like everything CPAN all these modules will be peer reviewed by other Java developers in the open source and corporate worlds.
Ah, one can only dream.
Thank you for posting. I thought I was the only one that had complications. I'm so sick of hearing people say,,, well my friend did it, my cousin that.. This talk never helps make me feel better but just depresses me further.
For me It has been a real nightmare! I've had Lasik done way back in jan 2004 and my vision has now regressed to about 50% of the myopia I've had before. My eyes get irritated and very dry quickly. Some days are better than others.
I did see well for about 4 months after which it began to regress. I later did a correction but to no avail. My vision began to regress again. Believe it or not my night vision is so bad that I'm terrified to drive and it hasn't gotten better over time.
Now today, after I swore never to operate on my eyes again, I may have no choice now as to my new eye doctor mentioned that I may have cornea damage and rinkling is developing on the surface of my eyes.
At the moment my doctor is waiting to see if my eye sight stabilizes and only then I'll be going over to Quebec city where there's a specialist who only specializes in corrective surgery!
Please don't do Lasik... it's just not worth it.
Consumers are complaining about not having any choice. Finally, Microsoft is listening to its consumers and now decides to release many different versions of the same product. What a wonderful idea!
What more crap are they going to come up next? This is so UNREAL! Honestly, I'm so flabergasted!
I've been using computers since my Tandy 1000 SL, which used DOS 3.0 and some desktop software called Desk Mate. I was not a GUI guy, I did everything in the command line. Believe it or not I never touched Windows 3.1 and jumped straight to Windows 95 when I bought my first Pentium 100 Mhz.
I first thought windows was so freaken awesome until I realized for the first time, my machine is getting slow.. I'll tell you something, during my DOS days I've never seen my computer as slow. Back then, I was functional, I could do everything on that old tandy machine, my homework, qbasic programming, bbsing etc, play shitty games etc.. If i needed to do repetitive work I would write quick batch scripts and I was no real programmer back then.
Since windows came along, each and every release from the Microsoft Corporation demanded a stronger machine and more dependancy on using my mouse. I don't know why we bother having a keyboard anymore. Just make a virtual keyboard instead and add a second mouse for my other hand. Maybe I'll get more out windows that way.
So what's my point?
Aren't computers supposed to be more productive today than yesterday?
I used to be able to dish out 50 page research papers in less time but now I spend more time formatting my document using my mouse and waiting for my software to do actually do the action. My machine is getting too slow again! To help things I can't type long papers and have to cut it up, because the software I'm using is getting too heavy.
Why on earth on we always forced to upgrade? Software is supposed to get better not worse.
So screw that, I'm not touching Vista just like I didn't touch windows 3.1. I've made the switch completely to Linux now. I can do my work using just my keyboard, type documentation using latex, write scripts like I used to with batch files, i can stay in my console all the time again. On top of that I'm still using a Pentium III with just 500 Megs of Ram and its fast enough!
Vista can kiss my ass!
Why on earth would you use Linux when you have a commercially supported Unix desktop already?
OSX is great in my opinion.
I believe this was really this is a waste of time.
Atleast, its nice to hear linux beat Windows to the chase. Linux can run on anything!