As stated in the subject, I am a linux admin. So take my comments with a grain of salt. I disagree with the IT Myth that it takes more people to manage a large number of Linux boxes than it does to manage a similar number of Windows boxes. That has never been my experience. I would guess that it is the opposite, but I don't have hard data to support that. If you manage your entire windows network with 2 IT people, you should be able to manage a similar Linux deployment with the same nubmer of staff. True, you may need to hire new people, since in my experience, Microsoft certified employees are often too inflexible to learn new technologies.
There is also the idea (and this could be true) that Linux admins cost more than Windows admins. Again, this hasn't been my experience. I certainly don't make six figs, or even close to that amount. Do I feel that I am underpaid? No. Judging by all the salary surveys that come out in my area, I am well within the average for my job description.
Finally, my aversion to the Mac has nothing to do with my desires for job security. Partly it has to do with a number of really bad experiences with them when I was doing support at the junior college I attended. Admittedly, I lack experience with os 10, My experiences were with os 8, but trying to troubleshoot network problems with the Mac interface was difficult at that time, due to the fact that some of the network settings were buried in one location, others were buried in an entirely separate location. I have also never gotten used to the corporate mantra "more is better." Even when spending someone else's money, I could never justify to myself the extra $600 - $1000 that purchasing a Mac would cost over a similarly powered PC. Robert X. Cringely might consider that an insignificant amount, but coming from my small town background, I never could.
Finally, I have never considered the mac interface to be beautiful or intuitive. Come on, dragging your floppy to the trash to eject it from the drive? I have always hated that context sensitive menu bar accross the top of the screen, the happy smiling icons staring back at me from the monitor, and the file system where if you wanted to get to something quickly, you had to put it on your desktop.
Wal-mart claims that RFID tags will stop ballistic missiles from striking targets in the US, and seeks dept. of homeland security sanction to deploy them in defense of the nation....
You also become a distribution source for illegal downloading of movies, music and more, which makes you just as responsible if you had downloaded the movie yourself.
For most of the P2P programs I have seen, you have to have actually downloaded the file yourself to become a distribution source.
It's also possible that they are trying to say that if you install a P2P program on your computer, you become liable for any and all illicit material posted on that network, whether or not it actually resides on your computer. That seems like a pretty nasty blanket statement to me.
Would you want to compile to a directory outside your workspace? When I create a Java project, I create a src directory, a build directory and a docs directory. I write source in the src directory, compile my code to the build directory. All these reside in my workspace in Eclipse Perhaps you didn't know you could do this in Eclipse?
I have no baseline to compare refactoring to, since I have only used that feature to rename a method in Eclipse, and I haven't use refactoring in any other editor.
I haven't tried Intellij, mostly because of the $499 price tag. I have a fundimental problem paying for an editor (especially that much!) when a perfectly good free alternative exists. I personally do most of my editing in jEdit, but I used Eclipse for a school project recently, and found it to be a very handy tool. If I was still doing commercial Java development, you can bet I would be using Eclipse. It didn't win a Java Pro Readers Choice award for nothing!
Except that part of SCO's claim is that they consider anything based in part on the SysV code, or running in SysV code to be derivative works, and therefore owned by them. I don't agree, but that is apparantly their claim.
Except for that the stated process is that the pieces are glued to a piece of paper, scanned in, and then the software does an analysis on the pieces to see which ones could go together. The software puts the pieces together, not the people glueing them to the paper.
One simple solution to that would be to glue the paper to a clear transparency, run a pattern analysis on it to match up both sides of the piece of paper, and then you would have additional points of reference, and should be able to improve the accuracy of the match.
Why do people always assume that someone is a karma whore when they repost the article in a comment? Why can't it be that they are just being courteous to those of us who only tried to read the article AFTER the server has been slashdotted?
has become one of my favorite authors. I have read all 3 books in the Song of Ice and Fire, and am anxiously awaiting book 4. In fact, I am re-reading the first 3!
If you liked the first 3 books, I recommend going to you local library and picking up a copy of Legends. It is a collection of short stories by various authors. It includes a story by George R. R. Martin called the Hedge Knight, which is a must read for any fan of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Actually, Martin has been saying that it is a 6 book series from the very beginning. Some estimate that book 4 will be published sometime early next year. It is called "A Feast for Crows."
The difference is that Dell and Intel only benchmarked their own machines. They optimized them, to be sure, but in the benchmarks quoted in the article, they didn't cripple the benchmarks of their competitors. If Apple had simply ran the specINT and specFP benchmarks on the G5 (optimized for their platform, of course), compared them to the optimized benchmarks of their competitors, and then could still claim to be the fastest personal computer, then that would be saying something.
Benchmarks are dubious at best, it seems a little silly to compare yourself at your best to your comptetor at its worst and claim victory. That being said, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of these, just to play and compare it to the Itanium workstation I have...
you are moving from what most would call a "Personal Computer" into the workstation market. At that point, the high end G5 is pretty low cost at $3k, but you would also have to see how well it would perform such applications against an SGI or other workstation architecture.
First, As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I resent the implication of this post. Members of the church belive they follow a "Propeht of God", not just anyone who is in any authority. I doubt any employee of SCO is under the delusion that Darl McBride is a prophet, and so making the assumption that they follow him blindly is really uninformed, and seems to be a product of your apparant bitterness about the area. While working recently for a large corporation, I didn't really like what the CEO was doing to the company, but like so many other people in this country, I have a family, a mortage, and some debt. I couldn't just blindly jump ship and hope that I would still be able to feed my family in a month. As soon as a new opportunity came up, I took it and left the company. I bet many of the employees at SCO are in the same situation.
Second, As to the "innovation" issue you bring up. I haven't seen what I would consider "innovation" in any software company for a number of years. Most of them are too conserned about their bottom line (innovation involves taking risk), or their IP portfolio to really innovate. Sure maybe companies in Utah are doing the same things that other companies have done, but that's buisness. It's called competition.
Finally, As you can't even seem to figure out how to create an account on/., I can hardly consider you an expert on innovation. Which begs the question, "why the hell did I spend 3 minutes responding to your post?"
By the way, I also no longer live in Utah, but that is mostly because I actually wanted to get paid what I thought I was worth.
I think the key to the JBOSS consultants walking out is brand recognition. They all worked on a product that is pretty well known in its solution space. Each of them was a key player in making JBoss the product it is today. Therefore, they could start a company based on the work that they had been doing, and have a reasonable chance for success. This is an unusual situation, because JBoss is open source. Most products produced by companies aren't, and so the developers on that project aren't as likely to be as well known (if they are known at all). This makes trying to form your own company that much harder because you can't really tell potential clients what you have to offer.
An old adage. "Never bite the hand that feeds you." It seems like the music industry is embarking on a deliberate campaign to piss off their customers.
Cracking down on file traders... Ok, that probably only affects a subset of their customer base, but going after fan sites that post lyrics to songs? It's not like the person who wrote the lyrics is going to actually miss out on song royalties because someone could read their lyrics on the web instead of listening to them in the song. Also, I know of a lot of parents that use such sites to figure out what their kids really are listening to. These days it isn't always easy to tell what is being said in the songs just by listening.
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My experience was exactly the opposite. I never had gdb or ddd crash my system, but I quite often had to reboot to recover from some oddity in the windows operating system. For that reason, when I took my compilers course, I did all my development in Linux, and was the only student who did so. While the rest of the class struggled with trying to figure out how to pass a file name in as a parameter to the visual c++ debugger, I happily used ddd to debug my code very easily.
Since it appears that the Penny-Arcade parody critizes not "Strawberry Shortcake", but American McGee, they cannot use copyrighted "Strawberry Shortcake" images to make their point.
Somehow I doubt those particular images are copyrighted by American Greetings. That isn't quite the image they would want to portray...
Hello, do you even have kids?? Do you know every minute of the day what they are doing? If so, you are a better parent than I. This doesn't have to be a fascist thing. I for one would like to know if my kid actually got to school. If he is cutting class, that is possibly a symptom of a larger problem, and should probably be discussed.
In this day and age when parents are afraid to do something as basic as spank thier child, it is about time that someone came out with something to help even things out.
of cheap (cost that is) hardware. It costs money for that stupid little logo. I have yet to pay more than $20 for a keyboard. If more retailers take this stance, it looks like that will be a thing of the past.
Port scanning without authorization (and not just from the owner of the box) is grounds for termination. Only certain people who have completed special training are allowed to scan a box, even one not on site.
In a top level post, because all the people who have said this are being ranked so low, they might not be heard.
What the story says is that they would be required to not purchase any NEW Microsoft products. Nothing in the story indicates that the campus would need to eradicate all traces of Microsoft from their network!!
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My theory is that he got tired of all the respect he's gotten over the years from technical professionals.
As stated in the subject, I am a linux admin. So take my comments with a grain of salt. I disagree with the IT Myth that it takes more people to manage a large number of Linux boxes than it does to manage a similar number of Windows boxes. That has never been my experience. I would guess that it is the opposite, but I don't have hard data to support that. If you manage your entire windows network with 2 IT people, you should be able to manage a similar Linux deployment with the same nubmer of staff. True, you may need to hire new people, since in my experience, Microsoft certified employees are often too inflexible to learn new technologies.
There is also the idea (and this could be true) that Linux admins cost more than Windows admins. Again, this hasn't been my experience. I certainly don't make six figs, or even close to that amount. Do I feel that I am underpaid? No. Judging by all the salary surveys that come out in my area, I am well within the average for my job description.
Finally, my aversion to the Mac has nothing to do with my desires for job security. Partly it has to do with a number of really bad experiences with them when I was doing support at the junior college I attended. Admittedly, I lack experience with os 10, My experiences were with os 8, but trying to troubleshoot network problems with the Mac interface was difficult at that time, due to the fact that some of the network settings were buried in one location, others were buried in an entirely separate location. I have also never gotten used to the corporate mantra "more is better." Even when spending someone else's money, I could never justify to myself the extra $600 - $1000 that purchasing a Mac would cost over a similarly powered PC. Robert X. Cringely might consider that an insignificant amount, but coming from my small town background, I never could.
Finally, I have never considered the mac interface to be beautiful or intuitive. Come on, dragging your floppy to the trash to eject it from the drive? I have always hated that context sensitive menu bar accross the top of the screen, the happy smiling icons staring back at me from the monitor, and the file system where if you wanted to get to something quickly, you had to put it on your desktop.
Anyway, I have ranted enough.
Wal-mart claims that RFID tags will stop ballistic missiles from striking targets in the US, and seeks dept. of homeland security sanction to deploy them in defense of the nation....
For most of the P2P programs I have seen, you have to have actually downloaded the file yourself to become a distribution source.
It's also possible that they are trying to say that if you install a P2P program on your computer, you become liable for any and all illicit material posted on that network, whether or not it actually resides on your computer. That seems like a pretty nasty blanket statement to me.
Would you want to compile to a directory outside your workspace? When I create a Java project, I create a src directory, a build directory and a docs directory. I write source in the src directory, compile my code to the build directory. All these reside in my workspace in Eclipse Perhaps you didn't know you could do this in Eclipse?
I have no baseline to compare refactoring to, since I have only used that feature to rename a method in Eclipse, and I haven't use refactoring in any other editor.
I haven't tried Intellij, mostly because of the $499 price tag. I have a fundimental problem paying for an editor (especially that much!) when a perfectly good free alternative exists. I personally do most of my editing in jEdit, but I used Eclipse for a school project recently, and found it to be a very handy tool. If I was still doing commercial Java development, you can bet I would be using Eclipse. It didn't win a Java Pro Readers Choice award for nothing!
Except that part of SCO's claim is that they consider anything based in part on the SysV code, or running in SysV code to be derivative works, and therefore owned by them. I don't agree, but that is apparantly their claim.
Except for that the stated process is that the pieces are glued to a piece of paper, scanned in, and then the software does an analysis on the pieces to see which ones could go together. The software puts the pieces together, not the people glueing them to the paper.
One simple solution to that would be to glue the paper to a clear transparency, run a pattern analysis on it to match up both sides of the piece of paper, and then you would have additional points of reference, and should be able to improve the accuracy of the match.
Why do people always assume that someone is a karma whore when they repost the article in a comment? Why can't it be that they are just being courteous to those of us who only tried to read the article AFTER the server has been slashdotted?
has become one of my favorite authors. I have read all 3 books in the Song of Ice and Fire, and am anxiously awaiting book 4. In fact, I am re-reading the first 3!
If you liked the first 3 books, I recommend going to you local library and picking up a copy of Legends. It is a collection of short stories by various authors. It includes a story by George R. R. Martin called the Hedge Knight, which is a must read for any fan of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Actually, Martin has been saying that it is a 6 book series from the very beginning. Some estimate that book 4 will be published sometime early next year. It is called "A Feast for Crows."
And I was hoping that this would catapult me out of this dead end job as a programmer and into the exciting world of T-Shirt design...
I think what he may be looking for is whether or not the local laws violate any international agreements that the country may have signed.
The difference is that Dell and Intel only benchmarked their own machines. They optimized them, to be sure, but in the benchmarks quoted in the article, they didn't cripple the benchmarks of their competitors. If Apple had simply ran the specINT and specFP benchmarks on the G5 (optimized for their platform, of course), compared them to the optimized benchmarks of their competitors, and then could still claim to be the fastest personal computer, then that would be saying something.
Benchmarks are dubious at best, it seems a little silly to compare yourself at your best to your comptetor at its worst and claim victory. That being said, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of these, just to play and compare it to the Itanium workstation I have...
you are moving from what most would call a "Personal Computer" into the workstation market. At that point, the high end G5 is pretty low cost at $3k, but you would also have to see how well it would perform such applications against an SGI or other workstation architecture.
First, As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I resent the implication of this post. Members of the church belive they follow a "Propeht of God", not just anyone who is in any authority. I doubt any employee of SCO is under the delusion that Darl McBride is a prophet, and so making the assumption that they follow him blindly is really uninformed, and seems to be a product of your apparant bitterness about the area. While working recently for a large corporation, I didn't really like what the CEO was doing to the company, but like so many other people in this country, I have a family, a mortage, and some debt. I couldn't just blindly jump ship and hope that I would still be able to feed my family in a month. As soon as a new opportunity came up, I took it and left the company. I bet many of the employees at SCO are in the same situation.
/., I can hardly consider you an expert on innovation. Which begs the question, "why the hell did I spend 3 minutes responding to your post?"
Second, As to the "innovation" issue you bring up. I haven't seen what I would consider "innovation" in any software company for a number of years. Most of them are too conserned about their bottom line (innovation involves taking risk), or their IP portfolio to really innovate. Sure maybe companies in Utah are doing the same things that other companies have done, but that's buisness. It's called competition.
Finally, As you can't even seem to figure out how to create an account on
By the way, I also no longer live in Utah, but that is mostly because I actually wanted to get paid what I thought I was worth.
I think the key to the JBOSS consultants walking out is brand recognition. They all worked on a product that is pretty well known in its solution space. Each of them was a key player in making JBoss the product it is today. Therefore, they could start a company based on the work that they had been doing, and have a reasonable chance for success. This is an unusual situation, because JBoss is open source. Most products produced by companies aren't, and so the developers on that project aren't as likely to be as well known (if they are known at all). This makes trying to form your own company that much harder because you can't really tell potential clients what you have to offer.
An old adage. "Never bite the hand that feeds you." It seems like the music industry is embarking on a deliberate campaign to piss off their customers.
Cracking down on file traders... Ok, that probably only affects a subset of their customer base, but going after fan sites that post lyrics to songs? It's not like the person who wrote the lyrics is going to actually miss out on song royalties because someone could read their lyrics on the web instead of listening to them in the song. Also, I know of a lot of parents that use such sites to figure out what their kids really are listening to. These days it isn't always easy to tell what is being said in the songs just by listening.
My experience was exactly the opposite. I never had gdb or ddd crash my system, but I quite often had to reboot to recover from some oddity in the windows operating system. For that reason, when I took my compilers course, I did all my development in Linux, and was the only student who did so. While the rest of the class struggled with trying to figure out how to pass a file name in as a parameter to the visual c++ debugger, I happily used ddd to debug my code very easily.
Is it Slander if it is a comic strip character speaking?
Somehow I doubt those particular images are copyrighted by American Greetings. That isn't quite the image they would want to portray...
Hello, do you even have kids?? Do you know every minute of the day what they are doing? If so, you are a better parent than I. This doesn't have to be a fascist thing. I for one would like to know if my kid actually got to school. If he is cutting class, that is possibly a symptom of a larger problem, and should probably be discussed.
In this day and age when parents are afraid to do something as basic as spank thier child, it is about time that someone came out with something to help even things out.
of cheap (cost that is) hardware. It costs money for that stupid little logo. I have yet to pay more than $20 for a keyboard. If more retailers take this stance, it looks like that will be a thing of the past.
Port scanning without authorization (and not just from the owner of the box) is grounds for termination. Only certain people who have completed special training are allowed to scan a box, even one not on site.
In a top level post, because all the people who have said this are being ranked so low, they might not be heard.
What the story says is that they would be required to not purchase any NEW Microsoft products. Nothing in the story indicates that the campus would need to eradicate all traces of Microsoft from their network!!
I really wasn't looking for a way to blame Microsoft. Honestly, that was my first thought when I read the post.