I'm in total agreement: allegedly my laptop is my desk and I can work anywhere. As a consultant I'm rarely in my base office either, but even there it's a hot desk because there are more people than desks (but a large proportion are generally at client site).
I've got no idea what the solution to this is. In my previous life as a programmer I had the same desk for 4 years, but I was bored sh*tless. Now I'm a "free spirit" I'm yearning for the old days.
Used to be able to come into work with a massive hangover and just disappear behind my monitor for a few hours and clutch the desk till the world stopped spinning, but not I'd have to crouch pretty low to hide behind the TFT screen on my laptop:P
I had to perfom an on-site security audit of a firm in Atlanta last year, and it was my first visit to the stats in a work-capacity.
There were people sleeping everywhere! They were working hellish hours, and then just crashed out in a sleeping bag on the floor!
I've never experienced this in the UK! I have always at least made it to a hotel for some sleep, or at least to the bar to unwind my mashed-out logic functions!
While this can mean free & easy living, it also means you have to pack the entire contents of your working life into your laptop-bag every evening, and set it all up again the next morning, and you don't have a monitor to stick post-it notes on.
I yearn for a desk (or even a cube!) where I could actually feel at home, and not like some sort of transient drifting soul through the sea of employment.
Linux will NOT be running the Stock Exchange!
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They will be using Linux as the platform for the messaging and information systems between the Exchange and the brokers/dealers, not the actual Exchange itself. I'm not saying these systems are not mission critical, I'm just reading the article!
Running the actual Exchange would be a major coop, but I don't think there is any chance of seeing that happen for a few years yet.
Note: I'm not saying Linux can't be used to run the Exchange, but I think this is best handled by a full-blown enterprise platform at this point in the development of Linux.
Re:Slashdot readership stats ... get 'em fresh!
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More than 70% of Slashdot readers uses Internet Explorer.
And this one (152.78.175.12) is apparently using IE5.0 on Linux... now thats a neat trick!
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... and it looks like someone is now browsing with Mosaic!
It can only be Tim Berners-Lee himself, surely the last bastion of the Mosaic fan-club:P
Re:Slashdot readership stats ... get 'em fresh!
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Why should we believe that these are real Slashdot stats?
Because I used the link on the original article we are discussing!!
any one can just post a link to some made up numbers.
I could use a guy like you for my security work;-)
Why? Is this because it presents a level playing field and you get your ar*e kicked? Bah Haw! Look mummy I'm throwing my toys out of the pram...
I paid my money - I should get my performance
Go tell that to your bandwidth provider. Ask him why you never seem to get near the 512Kbit connection he promised, and he'll go laugh in your face.
most of us probably do have access to high bandwidth net
You tell that to they guy reading/. over Lynx from a VMS terminal somewhere. I'd guess you are the same type that thinks everyone who wants a job can get one, the rest are too lazy, and that anyone who can't afford to eat should be left to the wolves.
*SIGH*
Slashdot readership stats ... get 'em fresh!
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IE5 on Windows 2000 easily the most popular OS amongst current readership (probably UK readers in their offices).
It seems some people are using IE2.0 (don't believe it), and Konqueror is beating Opera.
I'm most impressed by the fact 2 people just read the page using Amigas.... go boys go!!
This is a fantastic link! It also means we can see what the mix of MS vs Linux is within the readership, and how many of those Linux users actually use Netscape;-)
Re:You dont design things for the LCD
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When you build things, you dont build them for the lowest common denominator.
I'm sorry, but sometimes you do, or at least you should!
Note how the IF site is clean and slick, while you have to wait for the entire Charcol page to load before you use it. Even when you are on a broadband connection the "snappiness" of the site matters.
The main web design problems in the world are caused by people trying to make the most of those flashy graphic design courses they were sent on, and less on delivering the appropriate level of functionality for the site. I just don't trust a web site which bloats out on every link & load.
Note to the wary:Easy cowboy! Watch those figures and don't get too enthusiastic!
If you are behind a corporate or ISP proxy, then you are seeing the bandwidth available between CNET and your proxy, so plz take with pinch of salt. I'm not saying it's the case in this instance, but I imagine 1000s of folk are about to click the link and try it:-)
Not offended, just riled at this time on a dull Glasgow Tuesday morning;-)
I still have to disagree with you: the Internet is not necessarily moving towards a high bandwith atmosphere, but a mixed bandwidth atmosphere where the Quality of Service and the priority of traffic can be better managed (in IPv6).
Maybe then if you deploy a server you can ensure everyone downloading from it gets the same speed (28.8K to piss of everyone except Lynx users!)
So your point is that on trunk roads and motorways low performance cars should leave at the first exit to let through the faster ones?
This is a frankly disgraceful point of view! The Internet was not developed as a plaything for the technically rich, but as a medium available to anyone who could access, at a speed their hardware could cope with. Read the other posts: not everyone has either the financial means or the physical access to a broadband connection, and banning them from the net is not an option.
Re:hmm.. there IS an area where modems are preferr
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This makes for easy billing
Though surely at about $10/min? I would never trust anything from a porn site which attempts to execute on my local machine... way too dodgy!
And if you live in the UK, it's probably phoning a premium-rate line in Guyana or somewhere. We have rules on this stuff, but they are ineffective.
NTL in their infinite wisdom decided to miss my house from their flood-cable of the local 'hood, and BT aren't anywhere near installing ASDL in my towns exchange.
In saying that, I don't actually find my surfing poor because of Dial Up. Either I'm old enough to think of 56K as "luxury", or the sites I use don't show many banner adds;-)
Re:It's about time
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Now if only all of the other vendors realized that they were selling hardware instead of UNIX
It's time to analyse the facts: IBM, Sun, HP, and Unisys who are the main players in the high-end market (if we forget NCR, Hitachi, and Compaq for the moment) do not make their money from selling hardware, though I'm sure someone must have made a few $$$s from the two Sun E10Ks my last client invested in *grin*
They make their real revenue from the services which they provide to turn their hardware into fully-functioning enterprise-class systems which deliver real business benefit which affects the buyers bottom line.
I've never saw a client sue a manufacturer when something goes wrong (like not being able to sync two E10Ks in a failover cluster), but struggle on and on until the problem is fixed, happy in the knowledge that it will get fixed.
Remember this is Red Hats approach: the added value of their product is the service they provide. They don't earn large revenue's from selling boxed "7.2" distros on Amazon.
Remember what happened to all those "Linux" hardware companies trying to make money shifting boxes... they are in serious trouble because there is no money in hardware. If IBM thinks it can make money from Linux, then it will do so by putting the full weight of their name behind the product and selling professional services around its implementation.
Apparently the only way to be safe against the accusation of having given "legal advice" is to write with such ambiguity and obfuscation that nobody can learn anything from what you've written
Well from my experience the more complicated it looks, the more like legal advice it becomes!
And judging from the wars on this site, most of us write like this anyway:P
Well tell me when.... I live in Greenock and will happily help;-)
Re:Blocked by websense
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Alas I am one of my companies security experts, so it does me no favours to go bypassing their security systems while I'm working;-)
I know the tricks, but I'll wait till I'm on my own connection!
Slashdot Mirror
Uh I'm afraid that's also nu-school consulting for many of us, and my firm aren't even evil ;-)
I'm in total agreement: allegedly my laptop is my desk and I can work anywhere. As a consultant I'm rarely in my base office either, but even there it's a hot desk because there are more people than desks (but a large proportion are generally at client site).
:P
I've got no idea what the solution to this is. In my previous life as a programmer I had the same desk for 4 years, but I was bored sh*tless. Now I'm a "free spirit" I'm yearning for the old days.
Used to be able to come into work with a massive hangover and just disappear behind my monitor for a few hours and clutch the desk till the world stopped spinning, but not I'd have to crouch pretty low to hide behind the TFT screen on my laptop
You've never worked at a startup
I had to perfom an on-site security audit of a firm in Atlanta last year, and it was my first visit to the stats in a work-capacity.
There were people sleeping everywhere! They were working hellish hours, and then just crashed out in a sleeping bag on the floor!
I've never experienced this in the UK! I have always at least made it to a hotel for some sleep, or at least to the bar to unwind my mashed-out logic functions!
Instead I've got a Hot Desk.
While this can mean free & easy living, it also means you have to pack the entire contents of your working life into your laptop-bag every evening, and set it all up again the next morning, and you don't have a monitor to stick post-it notes on.
I yearn for a desk (or even a cube!) where I could actually feel at home, and not like some sort of transient drifting soul through the sea of employment.
They will be using Linux as the platform for the messaging and information systems between the Exchange and the brokers/dealers, not the actual Exchange itself. I'm not saying these systems are not mission critical, I'm just reading the article!
Running the actual Exchange would be a major coop, but I don't think there is any chance of seeing that happen for a few years yet.
Note: I'm not saying Linux can't be used to run the Exchange, but I think this is best handled by a full-blown enterprise platform at this point in the development of Linux.
More than 70% of Slashdot readers uses Internet Explorer.
... now thats a neat trick!
And this one (152.78.175.12) is apparently using IE5.0 on Linux
... and it looks like someone is now browsing with Mosaic!
:P
It can only be Tim Berners-Lee himself, surely the last bastion of the Mosaic fan-club
Why should we believe that these are real Slashdot stats?
;-)
Because I used the link on the original article we are discussing!!
any one can just post a link to some made up numbers.
I could use a guy like you for my security work
I HATE playing that game against 56kers
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/. over Lynx from a VMS terminal somewhere. I'd guess you are the same type that thinks everyone who wants a job can get one, the rest are too lazy, and that anyone who can't afford to eat should be left to the wolves.
Why? Is this because it presents a level playing field and you get your ar*e kicked? Bah Haw! Look mummy I'm throwing my toys out of the pram
I paid my money - I should get my performance
Go tell that to your bandwidth provider. Ask him why you never seem to get near the 512Kbit connection he promised, and he'll go laugh in your face.
most of us probably do have access to high bandwidth net
You tell that to they guy reading
*SIGH*
Check these links!
.... go boys go!!
OS being used and
Browser being used
and
9 poor saps are surfing at 640x480.
IE5 on Windows 2000 easily the most popular OS amongst current readership (probably UK readers in their offices).
It seems some people are using IE2.0 (don't believe it), and Konqueror is beating Opera.
I'm most impressed by the fact 2 people just read the page using Amigas
This is a fantastic link! It also means we can see what the mix of MS vs Linux is within the readership, and how many of those Linux users actually use Netscape ;-)
When you build things, you dont build them for the lowest common denominator.
I'm sorry, but sometimes you do, or at least you should!
Take a look at these two UK sites:
John Charcol Finances and
Intelligent Finance
Note how the IF site is clean and slick, while you have to wait for the entire Charcol page to load before you use it. Even when you are on a broadband connection the "snappiness" of the site matters.
The main web design problems in the world are caused by people trying to make the most of those flashy graphic design courses they were sent on, and less on delivering the appropriate level of functionality for the site. I just don't trust a web site which bloats out on every link & load.
Note to the wary:Easy cowboy!
:-)
Watch those figures and don't get too enthusiastic!
If you are behind a corporate or ISP proxy, then you are seeing the bandwidth available between CNET and your proxy, so plz take with pinch of salt. I'm not saying it's the case in this instance, but I imagine 1000s of folk are about to click the link and try it
Cliff, if you can't stop being nice they'll have to rewrite slashcode to deal with it! ;-)
I apologize if I've offended you
;-)
Not offended, just riled at this time on a dull Glasgow Tuesday morning
I still have to disagree with you: the Internet is not necessarily moving towards a high bandwith atmosphere, but a mixed bandwidth atmosphere where the Quality of Service and the priority of traffic can be better managed (in IPv6).
Maybe then if you deploy a server you can ensure everyone downloading from it gets the same speed (28.8K to piss of everyone except Lynx users!)
So your point is that on trunk roads and motorways low performance cars should leave at the first exit to let through the faster ones?
This is a frankly disgraceful point of view! The Internet was not developed as a plaything for the technically rich, but as a medium available to anyone who could access, at a speed their hardware could cope with. Read the other posts: not everyone has either the financial means or the physical access to a broadband connection, and banning them from the net is not an option.
This makes for easy billing
... way too dodgy!
Though surely at about $10/min? I would never trust anything from a porn site which attempts to execute on my local machine
And if you live in the UK, it's probably phoning a premium-rate line in Guyana or somewhere. We have rules on this stuff, but they are ineffective.
Now up to 964 and the USA is still asleep ... for the first time we will really be able to see how many people constitutes a /.ing!
... if you can even get a broadband connection.
;-)
NTL in their infinite wisdom decided to miss my house from their flood-cable of the local 'hood, and BT aren't anywhere near installing ASDL in my towns exchange.
In saying that, I don't actually find my surfing poor because of Dial Up. Either I'm old enough to think of 56K as "luxury", or the sites I use don't show many banner adds
Now if only all of the other vendors realized that they were selling hardware instead of UNIX
... they are in serious trouble because there is no money in hardware. If IBM thinks it can make money from Linux, then it will do so by putting the full weight of their name behind the product and selling professional services around its implementation.
It's time to analyse the facts: IBM, Sun, HP, and Unisys who are the main players in the high-end market (if we forget NCR, Hitachi, and Compaq for the moment) do not make their money from selling hardware, though I'm sure someone must have made a few $$$s from the two Sun E10Ks my last client invested in *grin*
They make their real revenue from the services which they provide to turn their hardware into fully-functioning enterprise-class systems which deliver real business benefit which affects the buyers bottom line.
I've never saw a client sue a manufacturer when something goes wrong (like not being able to sync two E10Ks in a failover cluster), but struggle on and on until the problem is fixed, happy in the knowledge that it will get fixed.
Remember this is Red Hats approach: the added value of their product is the service they provide. They don't earn large revenue's from selling boxed "7.2" distros on Amazon.
Remember what happened to all those "Linux" hardware companies trying to make money shifting boxes
But surely only Microsoft can authorise the use of their Shared Source license, meaning you can't just tag it to your latest 'leet project.
Probably the same reason that the Sun Community license is missing, and the dreaded MS EULA!
Apparently the only way to be safe against the accusation of having given "legal advice" is to write with such ambiguity and obfuscation that nobody can learn anything from what you've written
:P
Well from my experience the more complicated it looks, the more like legal advice it becomes!
And judging from the wars on this site, most of us write like this anyway
... and seeing it's a big balloon, it will also need to be patched! *groan*
Well tell me when .... I live in Greenock and will happily help ;-)
Alas I am one of my companies security experts, so it does me no favours to go bypassing their security systems while I'm working ;-)
I know the tricks, but I'll wait till I'm on my own connection!