If Palm wants to do so, they're going to have to do everything the iPhone does and do it better.
How about the main function of the device-- making phone calls? This has been my gripe with all the Palm devices, the iPhone, and the Blackberry Storm. Phone clarity sucks. As a sysad, I use all the bells and whistles on my smartphone, and got one with a slide-out qwerty keyboard (now, I can ssh into a server and use vi), but the main thing I need the phone for is so that people can call me. And quite honestly, the only smartphones I've seen with high-quality phones are the Q and the various phones made by HTC and Samsung.
Actually, Joe Bob with his Master Electrician license IS going to be better qualified to wire your house than a PhD in Electrical Engineering with 20 years experience. It's a different skillset, requiring different knowledge, and uses different tools. You also need to quit thinking like a classist prick and realize that electricians do spend a lot of time in school, and that the combined schooling and training of a Master Electrician is probably at least equal to that of a Master's Degree.
I'm a huge fan of Korean food, and especially kimchi. And after reading the various comments, I have to say that if you eat kimchi regularly, no, it will not mess with your stomach, etc. It actually is better for your digestive system than yogurt. But here's the question about spending this cash that I have. while I really like the kimchi I get that's made locally at my friendly Korean market, it is also available in aseptic packaging. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper just to use aseptic-packaged kimchi?
My Aussie buddy told me that some of his favorite childhood involved his two older brothers, cricket bats, and the above-mentioned toad. Wonder if that's how the Army is dealing with the problem?
As a musician, I also don't get this. One of the reasons I go out on the net is to get lyrics for songs that I might want to cover. If I get the lyrics and cover the song at a show, the author gets paid royalties. If I should happen to get lucky and record the song, and it gets played on the radio and/or sells lots of records, the author of the song makes megabucks.
Battles are determined by folks who don't have the cojones to actually fight. Modern warfare seems to have become the occupation of the true coward....
I don't see how this guy made the list. Finally gets enough of a team together so that the Red Sux make it by the Yankees and win the Series, then begins dismantling the team.
Oh, well, I guess the Sux can win another Series in 85 years.
Methinks our fearless "leaders" might be served to use our tax dollars to purchase a supply of the various "organ enlargment" supplements that I see advertised so regularly in my daily email.
They're *much* cheaper than this proposal-- and about as useful....
I'd have to disagree here, and this is the perspective of a 46-year-old who buys and listens to lots of music. The major labels *are* producing shit today, for the most part. The really good artists are on the smaller indy labels. Granted, I say this because I mainly listen to jazz, blues, some folk, and truly politically militant hip-hop. But, shit, I just bought this new blues album by John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, and it's fucking great.
I too fix dozens of computers every month for people who had their friend who "really knows computers" work on it, and the work ranges from slightly to extraordinarily incompetent in most cases. Businesses get roped into bad deals with incompetent computer techs, too, and it's entirely preventable.
I also repair systems that people's friends and, more often, computer repair shops have "fixed." I do it on my cluttered workbench in my garage at home, using my DSL line. I charge low rates to friends and free (donation) to leftist/labor organizations.
The difference is this-- I'm a systems administrator for a large university, with many years of heavy, day-to-day experience in every flavor of Windoze, various linuxes, bsds, netware, all running together happily in an enterprise, and I do this as a sideline. I do the best quality work you'll ever see-- better than any of the slimy little computer shops around town. I could go to work at my own computer shop, but then I wouldn't get to play with stuff like my multiprocessor Xeon servers. I also don't want the hassles of dealing with some user who clueslessly fchked up their system and then blame it on me so they can try to get it fixed for free. Plus, I don't mind having real benefits and a pension.
To be honest, I feel all the computer shops, except for one, in the town where I live, whatever certs they may have (and CompTIA is a joke), are a bunch of crooked incompetents.
The quality of my work speaks for itself. I had so much after-hours work last spring and summer that I finally had to start turning it away so that I can still have a life.
I like SuSE- a lot. That said I'm migrating my SuSE machines to Gentoo and Debian. Why? Simple, really-- lack of support.
Last summer, I got an email from the SuSE- security list. It appeared that they had decided to quit issuing security patches for 6.4, which I had installed on my workstation when I built it, 2 years prior. And just the other day, I got an email saying that they were doing the same with 7.0.
Not a problem? Upgrade, you say? Well, I've upgraded RPM-based distributions, and it just plain sucks. There's always stuff broken... well, everyone who has ever done a full system upgrade to an RPM-based distro knows the score, so I won't go on.
Now, translate this to the enterprise. You've got 1000 2-year-old boxen with SuSE foo.x installed on them. SuSE sends you an email saying they're going to quit issuing security patches for this version in a week-- no warning. You've got a year or two left on the boxen life cycle. So what do you do?
Personally, I don't think that this all-too-real scenario sounds like much fun at the small-business level, let alone at the enterprise. Sheesh, even Mickey$oft has announced that they will support all their products for 5 years from the date of release.
SuSE in the enterprise? Until they decide to maintain a level of security and update support that coincides with the lifecycle of enterprise hardware, I think I'll pass.
I built an Athlon 1800XP box with 256MB RAM running Gentoo for a friend to use as an office machine, with OpenOffice, dia, mrproject, evolution, and Appgen Pro. His roommate has an Athlon box with the same processor, and twice the RAM, running Mandrake 8.2. I fixed a samba configuration on his roommate's box, and the only thing that impressed me about the Mandrake box was how slow it was.
Granted, he was running KDE and the Gentoo box was using Windowmaker to run Gnome 2 apps, but the Mandrake box was slower than a comparable Win2K box.
I first loaded Gentoo on a laptop last January, just to fart around with. Before that, I had been a pretty hardcore SuSE user. Guess what-- I RTFM twice before the install, and it worked like a charm on my DSL line. Guess what else-- my system is way faster, it runs with the latest hardware (unlike The One True Distro[tm]), and, like The One True Distro[tm], it has no rpm dependency hell.
Personally, I like emerge better than either apt, the FreeBSD or OpenBSD ports system. Now, Gentoo lives on my workstation at home, my laptop, and my workstation at work. I even built a Gentoo box for a friend of mine to use as an office machine. Gentoo simply rocks!
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If Palm wants to do so, they're going to have to do everything the iPhone does and do it better.
How about the main function of the device-- making phone calls? This has been my gripe with all the Palm devices, the iPhone, and the Blackberry Storm. Phone clarity sucks. As a sysad, I use all the bells and whistles on my smartphone, and got one with a slide-out qwerty keyboard (now, I can ssh into a server and use vi), but the main thing I need the phone for is so that people can call me. And quite honestly, the only smartphones I've seen with high-quality phones are the Q and the various phones made by HTC and Samsung.
Actually, Joe Bob with his Master Electrician license IS going to be better qualified to wire your house than a PhD in Electrical Engineering with 20 years experience. It's a different skillset, requiring different knowledge, and uses different tools. You also need to quit thinking like a classist prick and realize that electricians do spend a lot of time in school, and that the combined schooling and training of a Master Electrician is probably at least equal to that of a Master's Degree.
I'm a huge fan of Korean food, and especially kimchi. And after reading the various comments, I have to say that if you eat kimchi regularly, no, it will not mess with your stomach, etc. It actually is better for your digestive system than yogurt. But here's the question about spending this cash that I have. while I really like the kimchi I get that's made locally at my friendly Korean market, it is also available in aseptic packaging. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper just to use aseptic-packaged kimchi?
My Aussie buddy told me that some of his favorite childhood involved his two older brothers,
cricket bats, and the above-mentioned toad. Wonder if that's how the Army is dealing with
the problem?
As a musician, I also don't get this. One of the reasons I go out on the net is to get lyrics for songs that I might want to cover. If I get the lyrics and cover the song at a show, the author gets paid royalties. If I should happen to get lucky and record the song, and it gets played on the radio and/or sells lots of records, the author of the song makes megabucks.
Battles are determined by folks who don't have the cojones to actually fight. Modern warfare seems to have become the occupation of the true coward....
Is as secure as an attack-trained Rottweiler embedded in a block of black Lucite... ... and about as useful....
I don't see how this guy made the list. Finally gets enough of a team together so that the Red Sux make it by the Yankees and win the Series, then begins dismantling the team.
Oh, well, I guess the Sux can win another Series in 85 years.
GO YANKEES!!!!!
I'm sorry for you. I live in Oregon (U$A), and in my town, we can get a pint of locally-brewed stout or IPA at a baseball game.
Maybe you folks should organize a beer boycott at the football games until the vendors start stocking Real Ale.
for bend over and grab your ankles again little worker bees.
Could they, would they, please be incredibly stupid enough to sue McDonald's, whose German operations are moving to SuSE. Talk about being crushed....
Based on this evidence, I'd say they've actually got a pretty good case.
Can I patent the idea of having two or more discussions simultaneously on the internet?
Check out:h tml
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade-minifaq.
The OpenBSD mantra-- RTFM, RTFM, RTFM....
What a surprise-- a well-written, usefull, and interesting article by Eugenia. Have pigs indeed spouted wings?
Methinks our fearless "leaders" might be served to use our tax dollars to purchase a supply of the various "organ enlargment" supplements that I see advertised so regularly in my daily email.
They're *much* cheaper than this proposal-- and about as useful....
There is a very simple way to avoid dealing the morons who work at Fry's....
I call it http://www.crucial.com.
Micron RAM, cheaper than OEM, free shipping.
Seriously, with so many first-rate retailers on the net, there's *no* reason to do business with crapholes like Fry's.
You left out the most important one-- "slow."
It's just been renamed. Now it's called the Fiat Stilo.
What's the difference between a Fiat and a Yugo? Not a bloody thing!
FIAT is an acronym-- Fix It Again Tony. Why anyone put a POS Fiat on a list of cool cars is beyond me.
I'd have to disagree here, and this is the perspective of a 46-year-old who buys and listens to lots of music. The major labels *are* producing shit today, for the most part. The really good artists are on the smaller indy labels. Granted, I say this because I mainly listen to jazz, blues, some folk, and truly politically militant hip-hop. But, shit, I just bought this new blues album by John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, and it's fucking great.
1 bottle Jamesons
1 bottle George Dickel
1 bottle Glenlivet
1 bottle Sauza Hornitas
1 shot glass
What else do you need?
I too fix dozens of computers every month for people who had their friend who "really knows computers" work on it, and the work ranges from slightly to extraordinarily incompetent in most cases. Businesses get roped into bad deals with incompetent computer techs, too, and it's entirely preventable.
I also repair systems that people's friends and, more often, computer repair shops have "fixed." I do it on my cluttered workbench in my garage at home, using my DSL line. I charge low rates to friends and free (donation) to leftist/labor organizations.
The difference is this-- I'm a systems administrator for a large university, with many years of heavy, day-to-day experience in every flavor of Windoze, various linuxes, bsds, netware, all running together happily in an enterprise, and I do this as a sideline. I do the best quality work you'll ever see-- better than any of the slimy little computer shops around town. I could go to work at my own computer shop, but then I wouldn't get to play with stuff like my multiprocessor Xeon servers. I also don't want the hassles of dealing with some user who clueslessly fchked up their system and then blame it on me so they can try to get it fixed for free.
Plus, I don't mind having real benefits and a pension.
To be honest, I feel all the computer shops, except for one, in the town where I live, whatever certs they may have (and CompTIA is a joke), are a bunch of crooked incompetents.
The quality of my work speaks for itself. I had so much after-hours work last spring and summer that I finally had to start turning it away so that I can still have a life.
I like SuSE- a lot. That said I'm migrating my SuSE machines to Gentoo and Debian. Why? Simple, really-- lack of support.
Last summer, I got an email from the SuSE- security list. It appeared that they had decided to quit issuing security patches for 6.4, which I had installed on my workstation when I built it, 2 years prior. And just the other day, I got an email saying that they were doing the same with 7.0.
Not a problem? Upgrade, you say? Well, I've upgraded RPM-based distributions, and it just plain sucks. There's always stuff broken... well, everyone who has ever done a full system upgrade to an RPM-based distro knows the score, so I won't go on.
Now, translate this to the enterprise. You've got 1000 2-year-old boxen with SuSE foo.x installed on them. SuSE sends you an email saying they're going to quit issuing security patches for this version in a week-- no warning. You've got a year or two left on the boxen life cycle. So what do you do?
Personally, I don't think that this all-too-real scenario sounds like much fun at the small-business level, let alone at the enterprise. Sheesh, even Mickey$oft has announced that they will support all their products for 5 years from the date of release.
SuSE in the enterprise? Until they decide to maintain a level of security and update support that coincides with the lifecycle of enterprise hardware, I think I'll pass.
I built an Athlon 1800XP box with 256MB RAM running Gentoo for a friend to use as an office machine, with OpenOffice, dia, mrproject, evolution, and Appgen Pro. His roommate has an Athlon box with the same processor, and twice the RAM, running Mandrake 8.2. I fixed a samba configuration on his roommate's box, and the only thing that impressed me about the Mandrake box was how slow it was.
Granted, he was running KDE and the Gentoo box was using Windowmaker to run Gnome 2 apps, but the Mandrake box was slower than a comparable Win2K box.
I first loaded Gentoo on a laptop last January, just to fart around with. Before that, I had been a pretty hardcore SuSE user. Guess what-- I RTFM twice before the install, and it worked like a charm on my DSL line. Guess what else-- my system is way faster, it runs with the latest hardware (unlike The One True Distro[tm]), and, like The One True Distro[tm], it has no rpm dependency hell.
Personally, I like emerge better than either apt, the FreeBSD or OpenBSD ports system. Now, Gentoo lives on my workstation at home, my laptop, and my workstation at work. I even built a Gentoo box for a friend of mine to use as an office machine. Gentoo simply rocks!