Just wanted to add a "me too" on the RedWings. I've been wearing the same pair of boots since 1993. The soles have gotten pretty smooth, but other than that, they are still perfectly serviceable. Amazingly well-made.
Why so many guys are still working on a dead-end product with no future is beyond me.
I think Novell is in a hard spot wrt Netware. I admin about 50 Netware servers. *I* know that I can do everything I need on Open Enterprise Server. There is no technical reason to carry on with Netware, but convincing my higher-ups that Linux is no longer "just some hippie hobby thing" takes time.
I'm afraid that if Novell were to discontinue support for Netware today, my management might decide it would be just as easy to migrate to Windows as to OES.
Novell has to keep Netware support rolling along, while at the same time convincing PHBs (like mine) that Linux is perfectly acceptable for large scale mission critical deployments. Dropping a significant number of Netware engineers could cause Novell to lose customers if they are not very careful.
But the main issue is, how homogenous is it for third party developers?
I'm pretty sure it ships with Mono, so (theoretically) third party app development will be binary compatible across distributions, including windows. I think the idea is that critial mass you speak of is a function of the.net/mono framework, not of the operating system.
Of course, I remember hearing this same argument about 9 years ago, and we all know that didn't pan out
All this shows is that large organizations don't take upgrading their system seriously.
Spoken like someone who's never worked for a large organization.
As one of the security guys for a large corporation, I can tell you that I'd like to have had get my systems all patched up a week ago, but I'll be waiting at least a month for all the f@#$%g Sarbanes Oxley paperwork to get the required signoffs before I can begin.
It's not that we don't take it seriously, we do. Unfortunately, our hands are tied by many levels of bureaucracy.
No, that's how the market works now. Short sighted!
I don't see any indications that the market is going to work any differently in the immediate future. That may be short-sighted, but it's just being realistic.
I bet when your dad started work, they counted on the company being loyal to their employees.
I'm sure they did, but the world is a fundamentally different place now. Back then, it was reasonable to expect to work for the same employer for your whole life. That just isn't the case anymore. I'm not saying that this is a desireable state of affairs, it's just the state we find ourselves in.
Remember, we can't compete with slave labor.
No, not without some sort of import tarrifs.
<tinfoil hat=on> A weak dollar is like an import tarrif on everything. </tinfoil hat>
The grandparent post was basically saying that all employers should guarantee employment forever. That's insane.
If that were the case, I wouldn't even hire the kid down the street to rake my leaves.
THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE EMPLOYEES' ABILITY TO EARN A LIVING.
Dude, you are either from europe, or out of your fucking mind.
The company is not responsible for its employees.
It's called at-will employment. You can quit anytime you want, for any reason whatsoever, and I can fire you anytime I want, for any reason whatsoever.
I'm not being cruel and unusual, I know it sucks. My dad just lost his job after 20+ years of service and he is 'lucky' enough to get a few extra weeks pay to help them ship his equipment to China. He was less than 2 years from full retirement.
It sucks, but that's how the market works. If you have a job, you have to
Estimate how many months it will take you to replace your job if you get layed off.
Make sure you have at least that many month's expenses in the bank
If you're lucky, you'll get severance and unemployment too.
If the world really worked the way you think it should, nobody would ever hire anyone, and we'd all be out of work.
And still, NOONE CARES! Seriously.
Not true. My cat has his own blog, and 2 of my readers (ok, so it's just my mom and my sister) are constantly emailing me for updates/pictures, etc.
That the purpose (for me anyhow) of the blog. It's for friends/family who are wondering "Gee, I wonder what Bone is up to?" to have a place to get that question answered.
I use a Palm (Tungsten T3), but I used a Palm M125 (low res screen) for years with no problem.
The Palm ereader is nice, the Adobe ebook reader is also available for palm (I prefer ereader but not all ebooks work with it.)
The current nictone subsitutes (gums and patches) are really expensive, so this could be a much more afordable way to help addicts stop putting gunk in their lungs.
This isn't so much the case anymore. I was smoking 1.5 packs/day (at about $4.50/pack). I am now using the patch, which is about $50.00 for a 2 week supply.
Buying smokes cost me $6.75/day. The patch costs me $3.57/day.
The outrageous taxation on tobacco has actually made it cheaper to use the patch.
we saw 60 hour work weeks, miniscule pay, inhumane working conditions, child labor, extensive investor fraud, and an appalling divide between the poor and wealthy
So, since the industrial revolution, we've gotten rid of child labor and inhumane working conditions...
If you read either of his books, you can read all about the witch-hunt the French cycling authorities put him through, for over a year, without ever finding any evidence of his using illicit substances.
At my company, we were explicitly told by external auditors that developers were absolutely not allowed access to production data. Just because you work on the HR system, doesn't mean to get to see everyone's salaries. Your test (development) database is filled with bogus data. Then, there's a whole seperate department that actually moves your code into production.
It's not always that the sysadmins are power-hungry assholes, sometimes this stuff comes from *way* above.
Marriage is the highest form of prostitition. The progression goes something like this:
Level 1: Crack Whore; is paid in drugs
Level 2: Escort Service; is paid in cash, per client.
Level 3: Wife; is paid in security, property, etc, but she also has a golden parachute plan! When she finds a better client, she takes at least 50% of all the shit you own! Sometimes, you still have to pay her a salary (spousal support), just so she can afford to continue her whoring with somebody else!
Thank god Taco sold Slashdot BEFORE he got married... I can just imagine divorce attorneys arguing over the cash value of a first post...
Pardon my forgetfulness of Star Wars Trivia....
But wasn't it near the beginning of Ep. 4 That some Evil general dude dissolved the Senate and declared an end to the "last remnants of the old republic" or some such thing. Wouldn't *that* qualify as the actual birth of the empire?
If I remember what I learned in stats correctly, in order for a study to be 'scientific,' the sample can't be self-selecting. In this case, every sysadmin would have to have an equal random chance of being selected.
Slashdot Mirror
Hells yes. I have about 40 Netware 6.5 servers, 2500 users in eDirectory, and about the same number of workstations managed by Zenworks Desktop Management.
iManager
Just wanted to add a "me too" on the RedWings. I've been wearing the same pair of boots since 1993. The soles have gotten pretty smooth, but other than that, they are still perfectly serviceable. Amazingly well-made.
I think Novell is in a hard spot wrt Netware. I admin about 50 Netware servers. *I* know that I can do everything I need on Open Enterprise Server. There is no technical reason to carry on with Netware, but convincing my higher-ups that Linux is no longer "just some hippie hobby thing" takes time.
I'm afraid that if Novell were to discontinue support for Netware today, my management might decide it would be just as easy to migrate to Windows as to OES.
Novell has to keep Netware support rolling along, while at the same time convincing PHBs (like mine) that Linux is perfectly acceptable for large scale mission critical deployments. Dropping a significant number of Netware engineers could cause Novell to lose customers if they are not very careful.
But the main issue is, how homogenous is it for third party developers?
I'm pretty sure it ships with Mono, so (theoretically) third party app development will be binary compatible across distributions, including windows. I think the idea is that critial mass you speak of is a function of the .net/mono framework, not of the operating system.
Of course, I remember hearing this same argument about 9 years ago, and we all know that didn't pan out
The part the French built (the quarter) is above sea level. It's the sprawl that's now in trouble.
All this shows is that large organizations don't take upgrading their system seriously.
Spoken like someone who's never worked for a large organization.
As one of the security guys for a large corporation, I can tell you that I'd like to have had get my systems all patched up a week ago, but I'll be waiting at least a month for all the f@#$%g Sarbanes Oxley paperwork to get the required signoffs before I can begin. It's not that we don't take it seriously, we do. Unfortunately, our hands are tied by many levels of bureaucracy.
Yep. I do it all the time. I'm an MCSA/MCSE and I frequently site that fact when I tell people how much windows sucks.
"I'm not just some linux hippy, I know *all about* windows [brandishes certificates], and I can tell you that it does, in fact, suck!"
IIRC, C3PO witnessed the birth of the twins. His memory *had* to be wiped, especially since he has a tendency to babble.
Yeah. You also might want to date supermodels, win a Nobel prize, and hit the megabucks lotto jackpot, too.
He's been your grandpa for 82 years! Good god, how old is that man!?
Good idea.
I don't see any indications that the market is going to work any differently in the immediate future. That may be short-sighted, but it's just being realistic.
I bet when your dad started work, they counted on the company being loyal to their employees.
I'm sure they did, but the world is a fundamentally different place now. Back then, it was reasonable to expect to work for the same employer for your whole life. That just isn't the case anymore. I'm not saying that this is a desireable state of affairs, it's just the state we find ourselves in.
Remember, we can't compete with slave labor.
No, not without some sort of import tarrifs.
The grandparent post was basically saying that all employers should guarantee employment forever. That's insane. If that were the case, I wouldn't even hire the kid down the street to rake my leaves.
Dude, you are either from europe, or out of your fucking mind.
The company is not responsible for its employees. It's called at-will employment. You can quit anytime you want, for any reason whatsoever, and I can fire you anytime I want, for any reason whatsoever.
I'm not being cruel and unusual, I know it sucks. My dad just lost his job after 20+ years of service and he is 'lucky' enough to get a few extra weeks pay to help them ship his equipment to China. He was less than 2 years from full retirement.
It sucks, but that's how the market works. If you have a job, you have to
If the world really worked the way you think it should, nobody would ever hire anyone, and we'd all be out of work.
Not true. My cat has his own blog, and 2 of my readers (ok, so it's just my mom and my sister) are constantly emailing me for updates/pictures, etc.
That the purpose (for me anyhow) of the blog. It's for friends/family who are wondering "Gee, I wonder what Bone is up to?" to have a place to get that question answered.
The Palm ereader is nice, the Adobe ebook reader is also available for palm (I prefer ereader but not all ebooks work with it.)
manybooks.net has ereader-ized most of Gutenberg, and ereader.com and ebooks.com have lots of modern stuff, so there's lots to read.
This isn't so much the case anymore. I was smoking 1.5 packs/day (at about $4.50/pack). I am now using the patch, which is about $50.00 for a 2 week supply.
Buying smokes cost me $6.75/day. The patch costs me $3.57/day.
The outrageous taxation on tobacco has actually made it cheaper to use the patch.
Yahoo has a newsgroup devoted to this type of thing. You might want to check with them.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-assist/
So, since the industrial revolution, we've gotten rid of child labor and inhumane working conditions...
Lance had testicular cancer, which later became lung, and brain cancer. He never had prostate cancer.
"Tests revealed advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and his brain"
http://lancearmstrong.com/about.htm
If you read either of his books, you can read all about the witch-hunt the French cycling authorities put him through, for over a year, without ever finding any evidence of his using illicit substances.
At my company, we were explicitly told by external auditors that developers were absolutely not allowed access to production data.
Just because you work on the HR system, doesn't mean to get to see everyone's salaries. Your test (development) database is filled with bogus data.
Then, there's a whole seperate department that actually moves your code into production.
It's not always that the sysadmins are power-hungry assholes, sometimes this stuff comes from *way* above.
Level 1: Crack Whore; is paid in drugs
Level 2: Escort Service; is paid in cash, per client.
Level 3: Wife; is paid in security, property, etc, but she also has a golden parachute plan! When she finds a better client, she takes at least 50% of all the shit you own! Sometimes, you still have to pay her a salary (spousal support), just so she can afford to continue her whoring with somebody else!
Thank god Taco sold Slashdot BEFORE he got married... I can just imagine divorce attorneys arguing over the cash value of a first post...
This is slashdot and all, but if you'd read the words, instead of just looking at the pictures, you'd have seen this:
Welcome to my poor man's experience of the Venus Transit of 2004, from the far eastern island of Singapore.
Pardon my forgetfulness of Star Wars Trivia....
But wasn't it near the beginning of Ep. 4 That some Evil general dude dissolved the Senate and declared an end to the "last remnants of the old republic" or some such thing. Wouldn't *that* qualify as the actual birth of the empire?
If I remember what I learned in stats correctly, in order for a study to be 'scientific,' the sample can't be self-selecting. In this case, every sysadmin would have to have an equal random chance of being selected.