I'm writing this from my desk at a large Canadian corporation in Canada. It's still a corporation...it's still psychopathic....it still has middle managers (that's the worst one in my opinion:)....it still has red tape, dress codes, codes of conduct and all the other crap that makes a large corporation a large corporation.
I would agree with the sentiment of some of the other folks... it's probably not the US that's the problem, it's probably the corporation.
By and large though, other that the big corporations, Canada kicks ass!
Almost without exception, the documentation is abysmal. I know, I know, so I should volunteer to help improve it. True, but a large arm of geeks would be needed to properly document every open source project! I don;t know what the answer to this one is, but it's a chronic problem....
All the magic happens in the receiver box that plugs into the PC. To the PC it just looks like a regular USB keyboard and mouse. Mine didn't need a driver or any software for winblows, just plug it in and give er! Linux setup was also a snap (Slackware 9.1 2.4.22)
I've had one of these for a year. Love it. Works great, the rechargeable battery is great, the range is great. But for gaming, you need to put it on a mousepad. Waving it around in the air actually works pretty good for normal mousing, but you don't have enough control for a game. I just sit back on the couch and put a mouse pad on the cushion beside me... the ultimate in laziness!
It's fucking NIAGARA you bunch of no spelling skills engineer geek morons. Jesus. You all seem to have Viagra on the brain or something.
Another possible factor....
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I think many will agree that there are plenty (possibly a majority), of "older" programmers who command hefty rates who are just plain *BAD* programmers. After a few expensive experiences with this group, some may conclude that it just is not worth the money. I can hire a couple kids out of school to build crap, why should I pay someone $100/hr for crap?
And I'll bet the 80% can spell better than you.
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Jesus fucking christ buddy, you are, I presume, supposed to be an educated American? I mean sure, you're an engineer, but most 6 year olds in my country can spell better than you. You are a living testament to the American education system. To think that most of the American people can't afford the "privilege" of attending one of your institutions of higher learning....thank god.
You know, one of the founding principles of your great facist^H^H^H^H^H^Hdemocratic nation. Translation "profit at all costs." Why would a profit driven American company hire an incompetent, lazy MCSE moron in-country when they can hire a more intelligent, harder worker for less money in India?
We use SMS here in Calgary from Telus to get call-outs when our system has problems, and we get far, far, far *WORSE* success rates. It would be fair to say that their SMS system is down more often than it is up. And they actually have the balls to advertise this service. It's total garbage in their case. And that is a generous description. Half the time they don't even know it's down until the next day. Only in my wildest dreams could I hope for a mere 7% failure rate. I have sat on my couch at home watching their TV commercials for SMS service *while* I am receiving messages from when I was on call 5 days ago. So quit your whining.
Glad you're amused. I'm amused by the fact that you use an IRISH beer as an example of an American beer. What about AMERICAN beers like hm, lets see, Coors, Budwieser, Rainier, etc?
That may be true, I don't know, but Canadian (commercial) beer is demonstrably more powerful. I remember when the American field secretary of our fraternity came to hang out with us for few days. He got absolutely smashed on just a few beers and woke up the next morning wondering what happenned! He was just used to the lower alcohol content down south.
Like a lot of people here, I am a professional geek. I've been a professional geek for 5 or 6 years, and before I went to school for it I was an amateur geek.
About a month ago I bought a $700 (CDN) HP printer/copier/fax/whatever. It took me HOURS to get this pile working. After fighting with it for a while, I checked their support site and found a patch to supposedly fix a problem with the OS I was using. Good I thought, this ought to do it. Several more hours later, I finally got it to work. To add insult to injury, when I broke down and phoned their support line (which was not prominently advertised in the package anywhere), they seemed to want to charge me to help me install a brand new product that obviously wouldn't work due to the terrible software shipped with it.
A couple weeks later, I had the pleasure of helping a friend try and install an HP external CD writer. Once again hours past and everything in both of our technical arsenals was brought out, but in this case it never did function properly.
In my experience, it is not uncommon for specific manufacturers to be notoriously bad in similar ways. Some you know are going to be a joy to install, and others you get a bad feeling about just looking at on the shelf.
My point is, if technical computer professionals can't get this crap to work, what is the general public's experience like. It must be an unimaginable nightmare. No wonder the gap is widening.
America doesn't have any beer worth smuggling anywhere. 2%!!! Our MILK is 2% fer crying out loud. Up here 'lite' beer is 4%. Now why would we want to steal your watered down slop?
I've used Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera, but I far prefer Slackware for avoiding bloat. My old Firewall machine used to run Mandrake, and it was a dog. The poor little P120 had disk space problems and performance issues, so I 'upgraded' to Slack and it's been no problem ever since. Now I have Slackware on 3 out of 5 machines. I've never had a problem with the install, and I think the package management is just fine the way it is. Sure, it's not as convenient as apt, but with tools like rpm2tgz, I've never had a problem finding and installing packages even if they're not available as a Slackware package.
I hope they can keep up all the good work they're doing going forward.
OK, it's not that difficult.
Yes, the information here is very interesting, but not that surprising to anyone who looks through their firewall logs every so often.
I see several attempted netbios attacks every single day, not to mention attempts at named, mail servers, IIS, etc etc etc. Similarly, my server is only used for personal use and to post the odd photo for friends/family...ie it's not advertised at all.
Don't plug in the network cable until you have ipchains (or iptables now) running with the default policy on the input and forward chains set to deny.
Or am I missing something here?
I installed 3 webcams in my house for remote security/making sure my dogs don't eat the couch. I didn't want to stream video and audio, so I just take a snapshot from each camera every 30 seconds or so. I have an applet that automatically refreshes the pictures on my web server, so I just leave that page up on my desktop all day at work at keep an eye on it.
I used equipment from http://www.x10.com (cheesy site, but functional equipment for cheap!) I've been happy with it so far. The cameras are indoor/outdoor too...I've had one outside for a few months of Canadian winter and it worked perfectly the entire time. The cameras can be powered by batteries if necessary.....
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I would agree with the sentiment of some of the other folks
By and large though, other that the big corporations, Canada kicks ass!
Almost without exception, the documentation is abysmal. I know, I know, so I should volunteer to help improve it. True, but a large arm of geeks would be needed to properly document every open source project! I don;t know what the answer to this one is, but it's a chronic problem....
Forgot to mention that in my post :)
All the magic happens in the receiver box that plugs into the PC. To the PC it just looks like a regular USB keyboard and mouse. Mine didn't need a driver or any software for winblows, just plug it in and give er! Linux setup was also a snap (Slackware 9.1 2.4.22)
I've had one of these for a year. Love it. Works great, the rechargeable battery is great, the range is great. But for gaming, you need to put it on a mousepad. Waving it around in the air actually works pretty good for normal mousing, but you don't have enough control for a game. I just sit back on the couch and put a mouse pad on the cushion beside me ... the ultimate in laziness!
It's fucking NIAGARA you bunch of no spelling skills engineer geek morons. Jesus.
You all seem to have Viagra on the brain or something.
I think many will agree that there are plenty (possibly a majority), of "older" programmers who command hefty rates who are just plain *BAD* programmers. After a few expensive experiences with this group, some may conclude that it just is not worth the money. I can hire a couple kids out of school to build crap, why should I pay someone $100/hr for crap?
Jesus fucking christ buddy, you are, I presume, supposed to be an educated American? I mean sure, you're an engineer, but most 6 year olds in my country can spell better than you. You are a living testament to the American education system. To think that most of the American people can't afford the "privilege" of attending one of your institutions of higher learning....thank god.
You know, one of the founding principles of your great facist^H^H^H^H^H^Hdemocratic nation. Translation "profit at all costs." Why would a profit driven American company hire an incompetent, lazy MCSE moron in-country when they can hire a more intelligent, harder worker for less money in India?
We use SMS here in Calgary from Telus to get call-outs when our system has problems, and we get far, far, far *WORSE* success rates. It would be fair to say that their SMS system is down more often than it is up. And they actually have the balls to advertise this service. It's total garbage in their case. And that is a generous description. Half the time they don't even know it's down until the next day. Only in my wildest dreams could I hope for a mere 7% failure rate. I have sat on my couch at home watching their TV commercials for SMS service *while* I am receiving messages from when I was on call 5 days ago. So quit your whining.
I could get tv-out on my Radeon 8500dv to work under Linux, I wouldn't even be reading this! Anyone got it to work? I've tried gatos to no avail....
have you taken a look at america lately?
...kill thousands of children around the world on a monthly basis like you american bastards.
Glad you're amused. I'm amused by the fact that you use an IRISH beer as an example of an American beer. What about AMERICAN beers like hm, lets see, Coors, Budwieser, Rainier, etc?
That may be true, I don't know, but Canadian (commercial) beer is demonstrably more powerful. I remember when the American field secretary of our fraternity came to hang out with us for few days. He got absolutely smashed on just a few beers and woke up the next morning wondering what happenned! He was just used to the lower alcohol content down south.
About a month ago I bought a $700 (CDN) HP printer/copier/fax/whatever. It took me HOURS to get this pile working. After fighting with it for a while, I checked their support site and found a patch to supposedly fix a problem with the OS I was using. Good I thought, this ought to do it. Several more hours later, I finally got it to work. To add insult to injury, when I broke down and phoned their support line (which was not prominently advertised in the package anywhere), they seemed to want to charge me to help me install a brand new product that obviously wouldn't work due to the terrible software shipped with it.
A couple weeks later, I had the pleasure of helping a friend try and install an HP external CD writer. Once again hours past and everything in both of our technical arsenals was brought out, but in this case it never did function properly.
In my experience, it is not uncommon for specific manufacturers to be notoriously bad in similar ways. Some you know are going to be a joy to install, and others you get a bad feeling about just looking at on the shelf.
My point is, if technical computer professionals can't get this crap to work, what is the general public's experience like. It must be an unimaginable nightmare. No wonder the gap is widening.
America doesn't have any beer worth smuggling anywhere. 2%!!! Our MILK is 2% fer crying out loud. Up here 'lite' beer is 4%. Now why would we want to steal your watered down slop?
I've used Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera, but I far prefer Slackware for avoiding bloat. My old Firewall machine used to run Mandrake, and it was a dog. The poor little P120 had disk space problems and performance issues, so I 'upgraded' to Slack and it's been no problem ever since. Now I have Slackware on 3 out of 5 machines. I've never had a problem with the install, and I think the package management is just fine the way it is. Sure, it's not as convenient as apt, but with tools like rpm2tgz, I've never had a problem finding and installing packages even if they're not available as a Slackware package.
I hope they can keep up all the good work they're doing going forward.
OK, it's not that difficult. Yes, the information here is very interesting, but not that surprising to anyone who looks through their firewall logs every so often. I see several attempted netbios attacks every single day, not to mention attempts at named, mail servers, IIS, etc etc etc. Similarly, my server is only used for personal use and to post the odd photo for friends/family...ie it's not advertised at all. Don't plug in the network cable until you have ipchains (or iptables now) running with the default policy on the input and forward chains set to deny. Or am I missing something here?
I installed 3 webcams in my house for remote security/making sure my dogs don't eat the couch. I didn't want to stream video and audio, so I just take a snapshot from each camera every 30 seconds or so. I have an applet that automatically refreshes the pictures on my web server, so I just leave that page up on my desktop all day at work at keep an eye on it. I used equipment from http://www.x10.com (cheesy site, but functional equipment for cheap!) I've been happy with it so far. The cameras are indoor/outdoor too...I've had one outside for a few months of Canadian winter and it worked perfectly the entire time. The cameras can be powered by batteries if necessary.....