Plus, these days you get a root kit for free with each purchase! What a bargain!
Come on, whatever your beef is with the distribution method, it's nice to see SOMEONE experimenting with alternative methods instead of assuming that the entire world is part of some criminal conspiriacy. I'm not a big fan of the Barenaked Ladies myself, but even I would consider spending money on this, simply because I want to encourage this kind of thing.
You may never read this, but I'm glad to hear you are looking forward to working for HP. Like I said, it was a great first job, and a good experience for me. I'd definitely consider going back there if the opportunity arose.
My experience has been similar. The first company I worked for had the cubicle village. Everyone except for high level management sat in cubicles. I had absolutely no problem getting things done in that environment. If the noise level bothers you, invest in a set of headphones and listen to music. I actually enjoyed being able to hear my co-workers talk, because it allowed me to keep in the loop regarding changes to other parts of the software that could (and often did) affect my own portion of the software. I also sat next to my boss, so I heard his side of all the management phone conferences. HP was a great place to work, IMHO. I had a boss that had realistic expectations of the developers on his project. He made sure that the scope of each deliverable was attainable WITHOUT the forced deathmarch. Unfortunately, I started there just before the tech bubble burst, and HP announced their merger to Compaq. I left the company shortly after that (voluntarily). I would definitely consider going back there to work (especially now that Carly is gone).
Here were the signs that led me to leave:
Layoffs. Big turnoff with me. I was a young father, just out of college. I had a wife and 2 kids to take care of. We had moved some 8 hours away from the nearest family to a different state. When I started at HP, it was known to be a very stable company. Never had a mass layoff. In fact, a friend of mine had his project cancelled, and the company gave him 3 months paid to find a new job within the company. If at the end of that 3 months, he hadn't found a job, the company would find one for him, and only if he refused that last job would he be let go to fend for himself. Sounded pretty good and stable to me! But things changed shortly after I began working there. I made it through 3 rounds of layoffs. I never thought I would get laid off, but I also never thought anyone on my team would, and I was wrong there, as they guy who had been my mentor when I started got canned. Each time a new round of layoffs was announced, I would get a little nervous. I hated the feeling of not knowing. It was very frustrating. Of course, even in its layoffs, HP was still better than many companies. Its severance package was excellent. I wouldn't have minded getting that (if I had known at the time I would be leaving for a new job anyway).
Promotion without pay raise. Ok sounds kinda mercenary, I know. But, I felt pretty good about myself when I got promoted from the entry level 58 position to a level 60 (basically going from recruit to grunt, something they expect you to do within at least 3 years or you get canned) in my first year. Unfortunately, upper management (thank you Carly) had suspended all raises, so I got a fat load of stock options as a bonus for my promotion. That was great, until about a month later when HP announced its impending merger with Compaq, and their stock tanked. My options were worthless before any of them ever vested. So, new responsibilities, no corresponding compensation.
Bass Akward policies. One of the things Carly did early in her tenure was to change the travel policies for the company. In the R&D sections of the company, travel had to be approved not by your manager, not by his manager, but by his managers manager. To go anywhere (that didn't involve a customer directly) you had to get approval from 3 levels of management. One of my responsibilities on my team was to maintain a multi-million dollar piece of test equipment. I had absolutely no training on the hardware, all that I knew I got from what documentation I could get my hands on. If any maintenance was required, I had to get in touch with an HP Customer Engineer, and when he had time away from his real customers, I was his hands as he guided me through the steps to do whatever was required on the equipment. After several iterations of this, he told me of a CE training course in the hardware that was coming up at his site. I talked to my manager, who thought it would be a good idea fo
It should be pointed out that most of the patents that have been reviled as "bad" here on slashdot were software patents, whereas this one is a hardware patent.
This is a poor analogy. He discovered the body parts in the thing he was repairing in the first place. Now, if he didn't find them in the drain, but found them in the refrigerator, what the heck was he doing looking in the refrigeratory anyway? He wasn't there to look at the refrigerator. That is closer to what is being discussed here. The tech was hired to fix the guys computer, not to do a search of the hard drive for movie and image files. He was looking through the refrigerator when he was supposed to be working on the drain.
Now let's say for a minute that what the tech found on your computer wasn't illegal at all, but potentially embarrasing. You and your significant other had fun with a digital camera a couple of months ago, and the pictures from your romp are stored on the computer. Shortly after you get your computer repaired, you're browsing your favorite porn site, when lo and behold in the amateur section, you see a picture series of you and your SO! Was it ok for the tech to go perusing your files system then?
Ok, perhaps you haven't ever even looked at iTunes. First, at a buck a track, it is cheaper to purchase an entire album from iTunes. The average number of tracks on a cd is 8-12. At $15 per cd, which is what new albums go for these days, $1 per track is less than what the cost per track is for a purchased cd. Second, you can purchase the entire album on iTunes for $10. That is a $5 savings over buying the CD. Third, on a given album, there is usually only 1-3 songs that you are actually interested in listening to, so in that case, you are out only $3, which is a $12 savings over buying the CD. Fourth, using standard equipment (read: not for audiophiles) it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed music. Fifth, it is possible to convert from AAC to mp3 or ogg. I do it all the time, which allows me to choose which hardware or software I want to use.
You've got me on the last two, but since I have never borrowed or lent a CD, and I have never sold one of my older CD's, neither of those is worth the extra cost to me.
Thank you for pointing out that site. You have successfully convinced me that coffee drinkers are idiots. "Let's consume a drink that if we ingest it at the optimum serving temperature, it would cause 3rd degree burns inside our mouths."
I'd like to recommend a couple of things to the Eclipse project folks...
1. Don't announce the latest and greatest version of your project until all your mirrors are up to date and have said version. It's just annoying to start clicking on links, only to get a 404 error.
2. Please list the mirror sites somewhere prominantly on your site, and don't make us go through some dynamic scripting just to go to a mirror site to get the software. When I did finally get to a list of mirror sites, the links were completely useless because I had to go through your massively overburdened servers to access them. I started copying the link url and copying out the real url to the mirror site (of course, none of the mirrors I tried actually had the drop, so that was pointless).
I have actually run into problems using OOo as a complete replacement for MSOffice. If you have a document that has macros in it, OOo won't handle the document properly (Spare me the comments on the inherent insecurity of using macros in office, I already know about them, and only enable them in rare instances). On occasion, the document formatting I used in MSOffice and OOo didn't translate properly, and fonts don't always render the same as well (often this is in OOo's favor). For the most part, I rarely use MSOffice these days. OOo is what I recommend when people (Read: my inlaws) want something to open.doc files, but don't want to spend a lot of money to do so.
One other thing you should be aware of: Pull, don't push, data. In other words, don't log into a remote system and then use scp to send the data back to your system. That exposes your password on your local system to the remote system. Instead, use one shell window to find what you want to get, then open a separate shell window on your system to pull the data from the remote system, or use any one of the many graphical SCP clients to log in, navigate around, and pull data back down.
I have seen several incidents where the former pattern was used and it resulted in a compromise of the users password. The lab where I work has gone to 2 factor authentication to make exploiting this pattern more difficult, but with session hijacking, it is nearly impossible to eliminate.
I also want to point something out to those that have been critisizing Cisco's network security. The failure wasn't on the Cisco side of things. The actual security breach happened on a network 1 or more hops away from the Cisco network. As far as Cisco was concerned, a legitimate network transaction was happening. Someone with valid credentials logged on to the system, and until they do something out of the ordinary (install a root kit, scan the network, etc...) they are virtually undetectable, as they don't differ from normal valid network usage.
This is the big expose' that Darl promised? This is it? Give me a break. If SCO thought that this was a big deal, their demise can't be far off. I also wonder what she is insinuating when she mentions that PJ's sons business went belly up about the time Groklaw started. She tries to make it sound real sinister.
Here's a good bit too:
Now, according to one of Pamela's neighbors and fellow Jehovah's Witness, being a Jehovah's Witness is pretty much a full-time job in and of itself. Witnesses also don't usually get involved in worldly affairs.
Wow, nice bit of research there Maureen. You found the key to the whole mistery that is PJ... Pulease! I have known several JW's in my life time, and just like any other religion, some feel like it is their whole life, and others feel that they can best help the church by living a good life and bein an example to others.
"I've had these nut jobs calling me at 11 o'clock at night," said DiDio.
Inconsiderate people call at 11:00 pm. Nut jobs call at 4 am, and tell you what you are wearing in your bed as they watch you through a telescope from the apartment across the street.
I should know. The court appointed Psychologist told me I'm a nut job. She said that was the technical term for it...
My question is where is the outrage at the OSDL for going back on its word. All I hear is bad-mouthing saying "I told you so." The reason everyone is saying I told you so is because the community broke the rules of the game is now going to pay for it.
OSDL didn't go back on its word. It kept its word to the developer that worked for them. They chose not to censure a developer, who in his spare time was working on reverse engineering bitkeeper features for another SCM. Though Linus works for OSDL, OSDL is not the company responsible for the Linux kernel. They don't use Bitkeeper themselves for other projects, so, OSDL was not beholden to BitMover with regards to the clause about developing a competing product. Based on what I read in the press release, and in the article, I surmise that Larry was considering dropping the free version for some time, as the benefits of the symbiotic relationship between BitMover and the kernel developers were tapering off, and this gave him the excuse he was looking for.
I'm sorry you feel that way about commercial ventures on Linux. I must say, that expecting that no one will try to duplicate the feature set of a successful program is unrealistic, in any market. Closed or Open source, it makes no difference. If your competitor has a feature that makes it successful, you better have that feature in your own product, or you start falling behind. If you think that closed source competitors won't do this to you, then you are just naive.
I'm suprised I haven't heard SVK mentioned yet. It uses the subversion file system, but uses the concept of distributed repositories, much like bitkeeper or arch. I can't vouch for its performance, as I have not used it on a large project, but it seems like it could be a possible replacement for bitkeeper.
Because (and my only source on this is their suit) their list is only opt-in, meaning that the only way to get on their list is to go to their site and enter your email address in their webform and click submit.
I must also say, I have a friend that recieved this list for some time, and recently followed their instructions to opt-out. He hasn't recieved an email since.
Also, in response to another reply to my earlier post, I don't consider giving a list of domains to be opting out. The guy runs an internet service provider. He may have clients that opted in for the mail list, and to expect the operators of cruise.com to remove any of his domains from their mailing list would be derpiving these people of legitimate business.
Ok, just read the transcript of the call. So, basically, the guy calls up the company threatens to sue them as 'his' opt-out procedure? The only way for him to opt-out of a list is to get someone to pay him first? I don't recall reading that in the can-spam act. Now, if he had tried the established procedure of opting out of the mail, and continued to recieve the mail, then he would have a case, but until then, I don't believe he has any right to sue the business (and at this point, I don't consider these people spammers, as I have seen no evidence to the contrary). I haven't read the entire can-spam act, but I don't remember seeing anything that says that the email provider has to do anything other than provide a legitamate way for people to unsubscribe from their lists.
My gut feeling on this is, this guy is a gold digger.
According to the plaintiffs, the defendant (mumma) called them on the phone (specifically their legal department) and asked to opt out. When they asked for his email address, he refused to give it to them telling them to go to his site to find out what it is. I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound like an "Opt-out" scenario to me. If he wasn't even willing to give his email address to them to have it removed, that sounds to me like he was attempting to defraud the spammers. Much like the old auto insurance scam where someone pulls in front of your car and then slams on the breaks to get you to rear-end them. He has to prove that they have another method for getting email addresses for their "e-deals" other than the opt-in section of their website. If he can't do that, then their case against him is pretty solid. He opted in, he refused to opt-out, therefore they can still send him email.
I realize that this may be a very unpopular opinion on slashdot, but If half the things they allege in their suit are true, this guy is about as unscrupulous as most spammers. Companies aren't the only ones that can bring frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to get the other side to settle rather than go to trial. Of course, we probably don't have all the facts from either side, so the truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
This kind of thing just pisses me off. I recently purchased a dvd burner for the sole purpose of backing up all our dvd's because I have 3 small children and they are destroying the movies we purchased for them. I want to make copies and hide the originals away. I am not a criminal. I don't share or download movies, but the MPAA and RIAA treat me as if I did.
If they want to save thier revenue stream, cut actors and exec salaries. Those people are paid WAY too much anyway. Heck, the lowest paid employees in a movie crew make more than I do in a year.
Hmm, that is quite interesting, especially since if you actually take the V and the A and multiply them you get 508.4. For the 400 watt supply listed above it, the math works out to 348 W. Now I am confused. I thought that Watts = Volts * Amps. What am I missing here?
PS. I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything there is to know about UL certification. If it is wrong to resell products the way that ultra is (basically rebranding another certified product) then, Ultra is in the wrong. It just seems to be a lot of bureaucracy to have two companies have to file for certification for the exact same product.
I'm not sure if this is the X-Connect or not, but a keyword search for the product number (X-ULT500P) yields this UL number E126556, which appears to be a 500 watt power supply, but little else is listed.
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Plus, these days you get a root kit for free with each purchase! What a bargain!
Come on, whatever your beef is with the distribution method, it's nice to see SOMEONE experimenting with alternative methods instead of assuming that the entire world is part of some criminal conspiriacy. I'm not a big fan of the Barenaked Ladies myself, but even I would consider spending money on this, simply because I want to encourage this kind of thing.
You may never read this, but I'm glad to hear you are looking forward to working for HP. Like I said, it was a great first job, and a good experience for me. I'd definitely consider going back there if the opportunity arose.
Here were the signs that led me to leave:
It should be pointed out that most of the patents that have been reviled as "bad" here on slashdot were software patents, whereas this one is a hardware patent.
This is a poor analogy. He discovered the body parts in the thing he was repairing in the first place. Now, if he didn't find them in the drain, but found them in the refrigerator, what the heck was he doing looking in the refrigeratory anyway? He wasn't there to look at the refrigerator. That is closer to what is being discussed here. The tech was hired to fix the guys computer, not to do a search of the hard drive for movie and image files. He was looking through the refrigerator when he was supposed to be working on the drain.
Now let's say for a minute that what the tech found on your computer wasn't illegal at all, but potentially embarrasing. You and your significant other had fun with a digital camera a couple of months ago, and the pictures from your romp are stored on the computer. Shortly after you get your computer repaired, you're browsing your favorite porn site, when lo and behold in the amateur section, you see a picture series of you and your SO! Was it ok for the tech to go perusing your files system then?
Ok, perhaps you haven't ever even looked at iTunes. First, at a buck a track, it is cheaper to purchase an entire album from iTunes. The average number of tracks on a cd is 8-12. At $15 per cd, which is what new albums go for these days, $1 per track is less than what the cost per track is for a purchased cd. Second, you can purchase the entire album on iTunes for $10. That is a $5 savings over buying the CD. Third, on a given album, there is usually only 1-3 songs that you are actually interested in listening to, so in that case, you are out only $3, which is a $12 savings over buying the CD. Fourth, using standard equipment (read: not for audiophiles) it is extremely difficult to tell the difference between compressed and uncompressed music. Fifth, it is possible to convert from AAC to mp3 or ogg. I do it all the time, which allows me to choose which hardware or software I want to use.
You've got me on the last two, but since I have never borrowed or lent a CD, and I have never sold one of my older CD's, neither of those is worth the extra cost to me.
Thank you for pointing out that site. You have successfully convinced me that coffee drinkers are idiots. "Let's consume a drink that if we ingest it at the optimum serving temperature, it would cause 3rd degree burns inside our mouths."
- Is he now, or has he ever been, a living breathing human being?
If the answer to that question is yes, he's a digital pirate.I'd like to recommend a couple of things to the Eclipse project folks...
1. Don't announce the latest and greatest version of your project until all your mirrors are up to date and have said version. It's just annoying to start clicking on links, only to get a 404 error.
2. Please list the mirror sites somewhere prominantly on your site, and don't make us go through some dynamic scripting just to go to a mirror site to get the software. When I did finally get to a list of mirror sites, the links were completely useless because I had to go through your massively overburdened servers to access them. I started copying the link url and copying out the real url to the mirror site (of course, none of the mirrors I tried actually had the drop, so that was pointless).
I have actually run into problems using OOo as a complete replacement for MSOffice. If you have a document that has macros in it, OOo won't handle the document properly (Spare me the comments on the inherent insecurity of using macros in office, I already know about them, and only enable them in rare instances). On occasion, the document formatting I used in MSOffice and OOo didn't translate properly, and fonts don't always render the same as well (often this is in OOo's favor). For the most part, I rarely use MSOffice these days. OOo is what I recommend when people (Read: my inlaws) want something to open .doc files, but don't want to spend a lot of money to do so.
I shoulda been a nurse (3 daughters, no sons).
One other thing you should be aware of: Pull, don't push, data. In other words, don't log into a remote system and then use scp to send the data back to your system. That exposes your password on your local system to the remote system. Instead, use one shell window to find what you want to get, then open a separate shell window on your system to pull the data from the remote system, or use any one of the many graphical SCP clients to log in, navigate around, and pull data back down.
I have seen several incidents where the former pattern was used and it resulted in a compromise of the users password. The lab where I work has gone to 2 factor authentication to make exploiting this pattern more difficult, but with session hijacking, it is nearly impossible to eliminate.
I also want to point something out to those that have been critisizing Cisco's network security. The failure wasn't on the Cisco side of things. The actual security breach happened on a network 1 or more hops away from the Cisco network. As far as Cisco was concerned, a legitimate network transaction was happening. Someone with valid credentials logged on to the system, and until they do something out of the ordinary (install a root kit, scan the network, etc...) they are virtually undetectable, as they don't differ from normal valid network usage.
Here's a good bit too:
Wow, nice bit of research there Maureen. You found the key to the whole mistery that is PJ... Pulease! I have known several JW's in my life time, and just like any other religion, some feel like it is their whole life, and others feel that they can best help the church by living a good life and bein an example to others.I should know. The court appointed Psychologist told me I'm a nut job. She said that was the technical term for it...
I'm sorry you feel that way about commercial ventures on Linux. I must say, that expecting that no one will try to duplicate the feature set of a successful program is unrealistic, in any market. Closed or Open source, it makes no difference. If your competitor has a feature that makes it successful, you better have that feature in your own product, or you start falling behind. If you think that closed source competitors won't do this to you, then you are just naive.
I'm suprised I haven't heard SVK mentioned yet. It uses the subversion file system, but uses the concept of distributed repositories, much like bitkeeper or arch. I can't vouch for its performance, as I have not used it on a large project, but it seems like it could be a possible replacement for bitkeeper.
Because (and my only source on this is their suit) their list is only opt-in, meaning that the only way to get on their list is to go to their site and enter your email address in their webform and click submit.
I must also say, I have a friend that recieved this list for some time, and recently followed their instructions to opt-out. He hasn't recieved an email since.
Also, in response to another reply to my earlier post, I don't consider giving a list of domains to be opting out. The guy runs an internet service provider. He may have clients that opted in for the mail list, and to expect the operators of cruise.com to remove any of his domains from their mailing list would be derpiving these people of legitimate business.
Ok, just read the transcript of the call. So, basically, the guy calls up the company threatens to sue them as 'his' opt-out procedure? The only way for him to opt-out of a list is to get someone to pay him first? I don't recall reading that in the can-spam act. Now, if he had tried the established procedure of opting out of the mail, and continued to recieve the mail, then he would have a case, but until then, I don't believe he has any right to sue the business (and at this point, I don't consider these people spammers, as I have seen no evidence to the contrary). I haven't read the entire can-spam act, but I don't remember seeing anything that says that the email provider has to do anything other than provide a legitamate way for people to unsubscribe from their lists.
My gut feeling on this is, this guy is a gold digger.
According to the plaintiffs, the defendant (mumma) called them on the phone (specifically their legal department) and asked to opt out. When they asked for his email address, he refused to give it to them telling them to go to his site to find out what it is. I don't know about you, but that doesn't sound like an "Opt-out" scenario to me. If he wasn't even willing to give his email address to them to have it removed, that sounds to me like he was attempting to defraud the spammers. Much like the old auto insurance scam where someone pulls in front of your car and then slams on the breaks to get you to rear-end them. He has to prove that they have another method for getting email addresses for their "e-deals" other than the opt-in section of their website. If he can't do that, then their case against him is pretty solid. He opted in, he refused to opt-out, therefore they can still send him email.
I realize that this may be a very unpopular opinion on slashdot, but If half the things they allege in their suit are true, this guy is about as unscrupulous as most spammers. Companies aren't the only ones that can bring frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to get the other side to settle rather than go to trial. Of course, we probably don't have all the facts from either side, so the truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
No, I think it is due to all the links to pr0n sites on the page.
This kind of thing just pisses me off. I recently purchased a dvd burner for the sole purpose of backing up all our dvd's because I have 3 small children and they are destroying the movies we purchased for them. I want to make copies and hide the originals away. I am not a criminal. I don't share or download movies, but the MPAA and RIAA treat me as if I did.
If they want to save thier revenue stream, cut actors and exec salaries. Those people are paid WAY too much anyway. Heck, the lowest paid employees in a movie crew make more than I do in a year.
Hmm, that is quite interesting, especially since if you actually take the V and the A and multiply them you get 508.4. For the 400 watt supply listed above it, the math works out to 348 W. Now I am confused. I thought that Watts = Volts * Amps. What am I missing here?
PS. I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything there is to know about UL certification. If it is wrong to resell products the way that ultra is (basically rebranding another certified product) then, Ultra is in the wrong. It just seems to be a lot of bureaucracy to have two companies have to file for certification for the exact same product.
Dude, did you even look it up?
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http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LIS
or
http://tinyurl.com/4b26m
If you scan through the whole page, there is a 500 watt supply listed.
Look in the left hand column for X-ULT500P
I'm not sure if this is the X-Connect or not, but a keyword search for the product number (X-ULT500P) yields this UL number E126556, which appears to be a 500 watt power supply, but little else is listed.