You don't have to lower *nix to the common man's level. You have to raise common man to *nix level.
If common man doesn't care to learn *nix, *nix doesn't care about him.
As an Italian IT worker, I can tell you that you can't expect high salary levels unless you're going to work for a very big company, or for a local representative of some world corporate.
There's a lot of IT work, but companies are not willing to pay it more than a standard administrative office job. There's not a specific category contract, and you can get hired under a wide tipology of contracts related to the company's main activity, rather than to your tasks. If you work for a commercial firm, you'll be hired as a commercial office clerk. If you work for an production company, you'll be a metalmechanic office clerk. There's not an IT category.
Language can be a problem. Italians are not very skilled about english, and you can't expect high levels of understanding. So you better learn some local language basic stuff or have some older english-speaking colleague who can get you into things.
as long as I know, SCO was the only one that could officially use the name "UNIX" for their operating system. All others should be named "unix-clones". The other only one "Unix" was Compaq/Digital/OSF. Things might have changes in the years though.
As long as I can understand, SCO retains the "intellectual properties", which should mean that Caldera won't become owner of "UNIX" trademark, right? And also, they write "OpenServer" everywhere, but UnixWare is not named, and unixware ---> Monterey. OpenServer is an almost discontinued product, keept alive just for its wide accounting software base.
I am understanding that Caldera is buying openserver and not unixware, and without any right about the Unix name. They buy unix without buying it... strange.
In a normal non-fascist office employees are generally allowed to hear some low-volume music while working. Some can bring a little radio on their desk. So what's the matter if they listen to some mp3 while working? Maybe this is why here in Italy we're known to be not so great workers:) but it seems to me an acceptable idea. Work should not be a total jail. Of course you can't spend 2 hours listening to music and doing nothing, or dancing instead of working. So it's not the MP3s itself, it should only be a matter of unauthorized bandwidth usage.
M$ has never done anything innovative in its whole existance. DOS was just a matter of licensing someone else's previous works. Same for GW-basic. NT domain are nothing more than NIS, lantastic, netware concepts merged together in an awful way. 2000 active directories are nothing more than LDAP and a tampered Kerberos.. is this innovation? And ther products are the WORSE thing on the market: buggy, faulty, with lowest average uptime, and not open to the rest of the world.
Yes! I've been desperately looking for an OS that's not Aix for Ibm RS/6000 power machines! Aix would be ok, I like it, but it's a matter of license. Hope this initial support will lead to a NetBSD/Power port.
Given that having many distributions is *GOOD*, and that it would be awful if we should end up having only one, these distributions have to be different one from another (otherwise why would they exist?). And being different means putting files in different places, calling directories with different names, having different start up sequences, and so on. This great pursuit for file organization standards seems to underlay the desire of an unique distribution, which is wrong and should be repelled. Variety is richness, uniformity is poorness.
First of all, a rethoric question: 1) Slackware isn't dying, right? 2) Some time ago (it must have passed a year) I asked Patrick about plans for a Slackware for ALPHA cpus. He said he had some beta version running on a machine.. no news after that. All major distribution release non-Intel versions. What about us? 3) People who like slackware, like it because of its "roughness", because you can't live with it without learning, because it's BSD oriented, because it resembles to big unices, because you learn how to compile, because it fits on a 386 w/4Mb - 40Mb HD - no X11, etc. Since there's no need for Yet Another Easy to Install|Configure|Manage distribution (Slack should have changed a lot of time ago in order to catch the wave), are there plans for any structural or epochal changes about the distribution concepts? Thanks..
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You don't have to lower *nix to the common man's level. You have to raise common man to *nix level. If common man doesn't care to learn *nix, *nix doesn't care about him.
As an Italian IT worker, I can tell you that you can't expect high salary levels unless you're going to work for a very big company, or for a local representative of some world corporate. There's a lot of IT work, but companies are not willing to pay it more than a standard administrative office job. There's not a specific category contract, and you can get hired under a wide tipology of contracts related to the company's main activity, rather than to your tasks. If you work for a commercial firm, you'll be hired as a commercial office clerk. If you work for an production company, you'll be a metalmechanic office clerk. There's not an IT category. Language can be a problem. Italians are not very skilled about english, and you can't expect high levels of understanding. So you better learn some local language basic stuff or have some older english-speaking colleague who can get you into things.
am I the only one still playing games with keyboard?
as long as I know, SCO was the only one that could officially use the name "UNIX" for their operating system. All others should be named "unix-clones". The other only one "Unix" was Compaq/Digital/OSF. Things might have changes in the years though.
As long as I can understand, SCO retains the "intellectual properties", which should mean that Caldera won't become owner of "UNIX" trademark, right? And also, they write "OpenServer" everywhere, but UnixWare is not named, and unixware ---> Monterey. OpenServer is an almost discontinued product, keept alive just for its wide accounting software base.
I am understanding that Caldera is buying openserver and not unixware, and without any right about the Unix name. They buy unix without buying it... strange.
In a normal non-fascist office employees are generally allowed to hear some low-volume music while working. Some can bring a little radio on their desk. So what's the matter if they listen to some mp3 while working? Maybe this is why here in Italy we're known to be not so great workers :) but it seems to me an acceptable idea. Work should not be a total jail. Of course you can't spend 2 hours listening to music and doing nothing, or dancing instead of working. So it's not the MP3s itself, it should only be a matter of unauthorized bandwidth usage.
M$ has never done anything innovative in its whole existance. DOS was just a matter of licensing someone else's previous works. Same for GW-basic. NT domain are nothing more than NIS, lantastic, netware concepts merged together in an awful way. 2000 active directories are nothing more than LDAP and a tampered Kerberos.. is this innovation? And ther products are the WORSE thing on the market: buggy, faulty, with lowest average uptime, and not open to the rest of the world.
Yes! I've been desperately looking for an OS that's not Aix for Ibm RS/6000 power machines! Aix would be ok, I like it, but it's a matter of license. Hope this initial support will lead to a NetBSD/Power port.
Given that having many distributions is *GOOD*, and that it would be awful if we should end up having only one, these distributions have to be different one from another (otherwise why would they exist?). And being different means putting files in different places, calling directories with different names, having different start up sequences, and so on. This great pursuit for file organization standards seems to underlay the desire of an unique distribution, which is wrong and should be repelled. Variety is richness, uniformity is poorness.
First of all, a rethoric question: 1) Slackware isn't dying, right? 2) Some time ago (it must have passed a year) I asked Patrick about plans for a Slackware for ALPHA cpus. He said he had some beta version running on a machine.. no news after that. All major distribution release non-Intel versions. What about us? 3) People who like slackware, like it because of its "roughness", because you can't live with it without learning, because it's BSD oriented, because it resembles to big unices, because you learn how to compile, because it fits on a 386 w/4Mb - 40Mb HD - no X11, etc. Since there's no need for Yet Another Easy to Install|Configure|Manage distribution (Slack should have changed a lot of time ago in order to catch the wave), are there plans for any structural or epochal changes about the distribution concepts? Thanks..