Why don't we organize something? I vote that we should do the following.
o Go to the hardware store
o Purchase a standard red brick
o Put enough stamps on it so the postal
service will deliver it
o Address it to SCO
o Mail it
I'm sure that they'd get the point if they received a couple thousands bricks in the mail.
The SCO Group 355 South 520 West Suite 100 Lindon, Utah 84042 USA Phone: 801-765-4999 Fax: 801-852-9088
I have the same problem when I try to listen to music at work. My CDs won't play on the newer machines with this wonderful copy protection enabled. Consequently, I've been forced to go through and rip my ENTIRE collection so that I can actually listen to it. My music collection used to be on audio CDs, and if not for the copy protection I would never have bothered to convert it to mp3. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WANTS ME TO SWITCH TO MP3?
Located at Syracuse University, they've been making custom interfaces for special needs people for a while. Fun bunch, friendly, and THEY KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
Having had more than my share of problems... Here is the (somewhat) simple solution given to me by a former girlfriend (An MD).
Wrist problems come when you are TYPING WITH YOUR WRISTS AT AN ANGLE. (UP, Down, Left, Right). When you are typing on a standard keyboard and resting your wrists on the table, your hands are angled upwards and outwards. This places strain on the muscles, ligaments, tendons (etc) as they try to operate in such a funky position.
Most ergonomic keyboards seek to remedy this problem by splitting the keyboard in the middle to nearly eliminate the Left-Or-Right angling of the wrists. (Look at a Microsoft Ergo Keyboard for an example)
However, this does NOT fix the UP/DOWN angling problem at all. You must elivate/lower your wrists so that the backs of your hands are flat with your forearms. (As an example, tie a ruler to the back of your forearm and it should also be flat against the back of your hand).
Everyone has a different typing style (mainly because of the location of your elbows), but the goal is the same. MINIMIZE THE ANGLES ON YOUR WRISTS WHILE USING THEM.
When you have a few number of developers your methods may work. When you approach 200-300, they fail miserably. Large scale design requires branching, merging, etc...
Being "stupid and slow" is not the problem. 200 people working on the same product is the problem.
It's easy to be a rock-star when you are working with only 5 people.
Examdiff is WinBloze NT/98/ME... I haven't developed under MS environment in years.
Can anyone recommend a decent merge tool for cvs? I work for a company that has HUGE repositories and the current tools really SUCK.
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Your ignorance is both appalling and apparent.
Please go read any history book about the Dutch resistance in WWII. Holland may be a small country, but it is factually baseless to claim they "sign[ed] on for the third reich".
There is a reason why the Dutch study english and not German in their schools. (Even before WWII).
A comment like this can only be posted by an "anonymous idiot"..
People claim that Chinese will be the language of the 'net within five years. This is easy to understand when you consider that roughly 25% of the World's Population is Chinese.
But only 5-10% of that population has access to the resources to make net use possible. By these numbers, the mainland chinese can only hope to comprise 2.5% of the potential net users. Tight government restrictions and a largely uneducated populus are crippling china's entrance into the world online community.
Contrary to the government propaganda, a large segment of people in china are uneducated.
This is a direct result of Mao's policy of ransacking universities and persecuting the educated chinese during the "cultural revolution". My father's friend (a professor) was put into the fields to be "re-educated" by the farmers.
As you may imagine, many of the educated chinese have left for other countries. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vancouver Canada, etc...). It is no suprise that these areas have done so well. They represent the best of chinese culture.
Chinese will never be the dominant language on the net. Not so long as the Communist government is in power.
The reliance on "package managers" is a crutch that can ultimately doom an OS. Windows is a classic example of this, with its program install/uninstall features that frequently leave cr@p all over your hard drive. This is acceptable for workstations and personal computers, but is unthinkable in a server environment.
On a personal note, I much prefer doing a 'rm -rf' on a directory that having to trust a package manager to auto-magically get it right.
What makes linux elegant is its simplicity. To stray too far from this is to miss the point.
PS: SuSE and Mandrake are not the panacea that some people make them out to be.
Somewhat on a tangent... Wired recently had an excellent article on the Linux Vs. Windows on the desktop. I get the "dead-tree" version of wired monthly, so I can't link to the article.;(
Very interesting points, most notably...
Should Linux Seek to be the common desktop?
Or would resources be better spent developing it as a more enterprise-server solution? Why bother competing for that market space, when it is largely already a monopoly.
I'm interested in the./ community's opintions...
plz no "rah rah linux!!" posts. They're tiring to read and pointless to write. (especially here on slashdot).
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um... like sudo tcsh... rock on.
Why don't we organize something?
I vote that we should do the following.
o Go to the hardware store
o Purchase a standard red brick
o Put enough stamps on it so the postal
service will deliver it
o Address it to SCO
o Mail it
I'm sure that they'd get the point if they received a couple thousands bricks in the mail.
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
Phone: 801-765-4999
Fax: 801-852-9088
I have the same problem when I try to listen to music at work. My CDs won't play on the newer machines with this wonderful copy protection enabled. Consequently, I've been forced to go through and rip my ENTIRE collection so that I can actually listen to it. My music collection used to be on audio CDs, and if not for the copy protection I would never have bothered to convert it to mp3. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WANTS ME TO SWITCH TO MP3?
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Located at Syracuse University, they've been making custom interfaces for special needs people for a while. Fun bunch, friendly, and THEY KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
Having had more than my share of problems... Here is the (somewhat) simple solution given to me by a former girlfriend (An MD).
Wrist problems come when you are TYPING WITH YOUR WRISTS AT AN ANGLE. (UP, Down, Left, Right). When you are typing on a standard keyboard and resting your wrists on the table, your hands are angled upwards and outwards. This places strain on the muscles, ligaments, tendons (etc) as they try to operate in such a funky position.
Most ergonomic keyboards seek to remedy this problem by splitting the keyboard in the middle to nearly eliminate the Left-Or-Right angling of the wrists. (Look at a Microsoft Ergo Keyboard for an example)
However, this does NOT fix the UP/DOWN angling problem at all. You must elivate/lower your wrists so that the backs of your hands are flat with your forearms. (As an example, tie a ruler to the back of your forearm and it should also be flat against the back of your hand).
Everyone has a different typing style (mainly because of the location of your elbows), but the goal is the same. MINIMIZE THE ANGLES ON YOUR WRISTS WHILE USING THEM.
When you have a few number of developers your methods may work. When you approach 200-300, they fail miserably. Large scale design requires branching, merging, etc...
Being "stupid and slow" is not the problem.
200 people working on the same product is the
problem.
It's easy to be a rock-star when you are working with only 5 people.
Examdiff is WinBloze NT/98/ME... I haven't developed under MS environment in years.
Merging in CVS is a PAIN IN THE ASS
(compared to the nifty merge tools in ClearCase).
Clearcase = Flexibility (but complex)
CVS = Rigid (but easy)
Can anyone recommend a decent merge tool for cvs?
I work for a company that has HUGE repositories and
the current tools really SUCK.
Your ignorance is both appalling and apparent.
Please go read any history book about the Dutch resistance in WWII. Holland may be a small country, but it is factually baseless to claim they "sign[ed] on for the third reich".
There is a reason why the Dutch study english and not German in their schools. (Even before WWII).
A comment like this can only be posted by an "anonymous idiot"..
Have you ever tried to do large scale clockless design?
Imagine a ballet without music.... Very hard to
get things right.
People claim that Chinese will be the language of the 'net within five years. This is easy to understand when you consider that roughly 25% of the World's Population is Chinese.
But only 5-10% of that population has access to the resources to make net use possible. By these numbers, the mainland chinese can only hope to comprise 2.5% of the potential net users. Tight government restrictions and a largely uneducated populus are crippling china's entrance into the world online community.
Contrary to the government propaganda, a large segment of people in china are uneducated.
This is a direct result of Mao's policy of ransacking universities and persecuting the educated chinese during the "cultural revolution". My father's friend (a professor) was put into the fields to be "re-educated" by the farmers.
As you may imagine, many of the educated chinese have left for other countries. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vancouver Canada, etc...). It is no suprise that these areas have done so well. They represent the best of chinese culture.
Chinese will never be the dominant language on the net. Not so long as the Communist government is in power.
The reliance on "package managers" is a crutch that can ultimately doom an OS. Windows is a classic example of this, with its program install/uninstall features that frequently leave cr@p all over your hard drive. This is acceptable for workstations and personal computers, but is unthinkable in a server environment.
On a personal note, I much prefer doing a 'rm -rf' on a directory that having to trust a package manager to auto-magically get it right.
What makes linux elegant is its simplicity. To stray too far from this is to miss the point.
PS: SuSE and Mandrake are not the panacea that some people make them out to be.
A year ago I had books mailed to me by a friend.
Approximately 300 miles of travel. 10-15 books in a medium sized box shipped UPS ground.
When I received the package there were F*cking TIRE MARKS on the box. How they managed to run over a box a foot high is beyond my comprehension.
Oh joy.
yet you still read it; and also reply.
does that make your statements hypocritical or just plain stupid?
Somewhat on a tangent... Wired recently had an excellent article on the Linux Vs. Windows on the desktop. I get the "dead-tree" version of wired monthly, so I can't link to the article. ;(
./ community's opintions...
Very interesting points, most notably...
Should Linux Seek to be the common desktop?
Or would resources be better spent developing it as a more enterprise-server solution? Why bother competing for that market space, when it is largely already a monopoly.
I'm interested in the
plz no "rah rah linux!!" posts. They're tiring to read and pointless to write. (especially here on slashdot).