In all seriousness, what's needed is some sniff routing software that will look for patterns and forward the conversations to the appropriate parties. i.e.:
# ruleset file format: rule \t department to route to
/boss/ "boss" # so he can see what you're saying about him /candy|lunch/ "benefits" # so they can raise your insurance rates /stock|buy|sell/ "SEC" # goes right to the auditors /chick|babe|hottie|hunk/ "HR" # Sexual harassment
It's a big deal because it's brilliant! It's a fantastic business plan and a wonderful idea. Get everyone to use your program such that it becomes a scourge, and make people pay to get rid of it. I love it.
They even made it so that they could be the only ones to kill it.
Brilliant! It makes me laugh out loud, what a wonderful move this is for AOL!
This reminds me of the Telco telemarketer story on/. a short time ago (selling call blocking to customers, then selling a method to defeat that to the telemarketers, then selling...)
So AOL gives away IM service, makes it impossible to block, but then sells a sniffer. What's next? They'll sell super-encrypted service for a fee to the user base, then a few years down the road, they'll sell an unencryption ad-on to the sniffer, then...
But why is Excel the best? Is it because they just made a better product and everybody else gave up because they couldn't innovate? Or is it because Microsoft crushed the opposition by exploiting their monopoly?
The latter. My job is easier because I don't have to ask if any of the 200 people I come into contact with at work has a spreadsheet installed that's compatible with the one I use (*). As a businessman, I'll pay just about any price MS wants, because that guarenteed interoperability is of value to me, and I know they won't charge me more than I could afford. Think of it: Office is a critical part of my businesss, and it's still cheaper than a computer. That's a bargain to me.
(*) And don't give me any of that "Oh but open non-proprietary standards could solve that" crap. Design-by-committee standards will always lag behind desired features while people waste time agreeing on an implementation.
You may want to install using Jumpstart. We have a few hundred suns company-wide, and rather than do all those file edits manually after install, we integrate that in the jumpstart install. Plus, we include GNU (and other packages) from Jumpstart. Makes life a little easier.
I was in a large shared server facility that still used a Halon system, which when released, fills the area suffocating the fire (and any living creatures in the area as well).
Anyway, one day we were working in our cage, when we heard a warning alarm, and saw all the employees running for their lives. Not knowing that the alarm meant the Halon system was about to be activiate, we joined in anyway and ran for the emergency exits.
It turned out the fire alarms were set off by accident by someone drilling and creating dust, and luckily the people on-site disabled the fire supression system before it went off.
No diagram necessary. I just didn't agree with the original poster's semantics, which said (to me anyway) "this and therefore any man should be applauded because he has some kind of conviction." It probably should've read something like "...on the hook for something he believes in that also greatly benefits society."
What's worse, if the hardware vendors follow suit, then a certificate will be required by an operating system to boot on the hardware.
This, to me, is the more likely scenario, or the reasoning behind MS's pushing of Palladium. Compare:
Apple: sell an OS that will only run on Apple hardware. Microsoft: force vendors to make hardware that will only run MS OS.
Either way, you buy some hardware, you're locked into forced purchases, especially when third-paryu software is released that doesn't support your current outdated platform.
I just made a similar switch after using every combination of desktop/window manager made over the last 10 years.
I run a SunBlade 100 with two heads, and a SunPCi Intel coprocessor card (since I need to dip into our the company exchange server). I use the ion window manager, which gives not only split-screen windowing, but multiple tabs per window. Monitor one is usually debugging output or programming reference material on the left, emacs on the right, console and email at the bottom (a second full-screen workspace gives me Oracle GUI stuff). Monitor two is my windows (Outlook, instant messengers, etc..) Eventually I'm going to integrate some more Afterstep/WindowMaker type applets, but no rush.
I can't say exactly what's caused my frustration with the overlapped windowing metaphor, but whatever it is, it's gone now. I urge people to try it out before dismissing it as a joke.
ion is available here: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
Oh fuck you. They aren't forcing you to watch it. They aren't using public funding to pay for it. Hell your (hypothetical) girl-or-boy-friend will probably not even make you watch it. Some people may like it. Please, for the love of God, get a life.
You know, in a well-run corporation, managers are generally specialized. Accounting managers deal with money, managers in the technical departments deal with things that are technical, etc.
This scares me about the way democracy works. You have managers (congressmen, senators, judges, legislators, etc..) that decide what goes on in this country, and none of the, are qualified to make every single one of those decisions. How many legistators do you think really understand how G-forces relate to the risks of rollarcoasters?
Worse, the democratic managers of this country have horrible employers: you and I, the people who hire and fire them by voting. And most of the people in this country (that vote anyway) don't understand most of the issues the managers have to deal with.
So it sets up a perfect scenario for the politicians to act out of fear of being disliked, or even voted out of office for lack of activity. Case in point, this rollarcoaster issue: a few people died, so voters start looking at the lawmakers to act. The lawmakers are forced to do something, anything, even if what they do is wrong. If they didn't, the people would get angry and possibly vote for someone else come next election.
Not that I have a better solution, at least not at 2am on a monday morning:)
I'm no lawyer, but presumably a few people at Nolo are, like the person that wrote this article about your rights at work. Surprising you have very little.
I can answer that one....it's because the pr0n-lords are smart enough to come up with a business model that adapts to the nature of the internet and the needs of the customers.
I have my threshold set to 3, and as I write this there are 9 comments - 1 "Funny" and 8 that are saying in one way or another "Big Deal."
Come on, imagine what it must be like to be a Slashdot editor. It's a hard job trying to stir up controversy day-in and day-out. Then to post something like that and see everyone respond "oh, big deal" must break their hearts!
So here, timothy, this one if for you:
Yeah, how dare Micro$oft do this! User groups were founded in the spirit of helping people learn things that they could do with their computer without influence of commercialism (except when hardware and software vendors would be invited to give talks). They're just trying to suck people into.NET where the only thing they'll learn is how to adopt Micro$oft technology. Maybe we should form anti-support groups where we can get together and talk about ways in which we can sqash the competition (competition == Micro$oft if you haven't been paying attention) by using laws and contracts!
(I can't believe I just wasted 10 minutes writing that when I know it will be modded down as troll)
Them vs. Us is a pointless game to play. You're better off smoking crack. At least you'll meet interesting people.
Nicely put, and here's hoping for a bit more common sense and less religiosity. For whatever reasons, many in the Linux and open source communities seem to think ease of use and desktop design issues are beneath them. Of course they aren't, and the 25-year history of Unix prior to Linux testifies to the basic unmarketablility of the command shell as a pleasing desktop for all but the already converted.
Nicely put as well. I watched the unix desktop evolve over the last decade, and have put serious effort into using every window manager and desktop system that came out, but found all unusable in one way or another. I now use CDE under Solaris, but it still has design problems (although it only smells of design-by-committee, whereas newer desktop systems like KDE and Gnome completely stink of it).
It saddens me when systems like Gnome and KDE, with some very impressive technology behind them, fall victim to kitchen-sink syndrome. We're left with a complex unstable over-compensating system that lacks any consistancy, and ends up overwhelming even more advanced users.
All I ask for is a unix front-end with some simple features: copy&paste works consistantly; consistant keyboard short-cuts (i.e.: CTRL-V *always* pastes, not sometimes); doesn't have a million configuration options; smooth anti-aliased fonts *everywhere*; one that doesn't require special hardware (I'm thinking os-x); and double-bufferd screen drawing (that's all just off the top of my head). And more importantly, a unix front-end that gives all that without having to specially compile my own version of a window/desktop manager (or even a kernel!), hunt down and compile additional code, spend hours on google trying to figure out how to edit a text file, or in general be a dedicated elite linux/unix user that knows every single project on sourceforge and every single thing about linux/unix. I'd rather spend my time actually doing the work rather than enabling myself to do the work.
I jumped at the chance to use MySQL for a large project as a win for opensource. I carefully designed a db that would hold one billion records, as required for my project at work. Well, after a week of importing, when it came time to reindex a field, MySQL's technique was to freeze the table and make a fresh copy (thankfully I had enough room), although the copy took 3 days (during which the db wasn't available). I switched to Oracle and life has been so much better.
In the end, MySQL might handle the raw numbers that some of the big players do, but when you're working with large data sets, Oracle (and presumably others) give you more power. Take the actual physical data structure that Oracle allows you to work with: each database comprises of dynamic multiple variable length data files that can allow tables to span physical disks. MySQL will get there someday, but they're still a little behind.
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In all seriousness, what's needed is some sniff routing software that will look for patterns and forward the conversations to the appropriate parties. i.e.:
/boss/ "boss" # so he can see what you're saying about him
/candy|lunch/ "benefits" # so they can raise your insurance rates
/stock|buy|sell/ "SEC" # goes right to the auditors
/chick|babe|hottie|hunk/ "HR" # Sexual harassment
:)
# ruleset file format: rule \t department to route to
Heh, can I patent that!?!
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It's a big deal because it's brilliant! It's a fantastic business plan and a wonderful idea. Get everyone to use your program such that it becomes a scourge, and make people pay to get rid of it. I love it.
/. a short time ago (selling call blocking to customers, then selling a method to defeat that to the telemarketers, then selling...)
They even made it so that they could be the only ones to kill it.
Brilliant! It makes me laugh out loud, what a wonderful move this is for AOL!
This reminds me of the Telco telemarketer story on
So AOL gives away IM service, makes it impossible to block, but then sells a sniffer. What's next? They'll sell super-encrypted service for a fee to the user base, then a few years down the road, they'll sell an unencryption ad-on to the sniffer, then...
But why is Excel the best? Is it because they just made a better product and everybody else gave up because they couldn't innovate? Or is it because Microsoft crushed the opposition by exploiting their monopoly?
The latter. My job is easier because I don't have to ask if any of the 200 people I come into contact with at work has a spreadsheet installed that's compatible with the one I use (*). As a businessman, I'll pay just about any price MS wants, because that guarenteed interoperability is of value to me, and I know they won't charge me more than I could afford. Think of it: Office is a critical part of my businesss, and it's still cheaper than a computer. That's a bargain to me.
(*) And don't give me any of that "Oh but open non-proprietary standards could solve that" crap. Design-by-committee standards will always lag behind desired features while people waste time agreeing on an implementation.
If you had a dick you might get laid more.
yet having a dick hasn't helped your mom get laid more.
You may want to install using Jumpstart. We have a few hundred suns company-wide, and rather than do all those file edits manually after install, we integrate that in the jumpstart install. Plus, we include GNU (and other packages) from Jumpstart. Makes life a little easier.
I don't know... based on the warning posters everywhere (that I only noticed afterwards of course), there seemed to be a high risk.
Besides, I'm also sure I signed their liability away in some hidden facility EULA when I signed for a clearance pass.
(For the record, it also wasn't my work, it was a shared hosting facility that rented out cage space).
Why bother? Just drop each adserver you encounter in 'hosts' with an IP of 127.0.0.1.
90% of internet users don't know what a host, an IP, or 127.0.0.1 is.
I was in a large shared server facility that still used a Halon system, which when released, fills the area suffocating the fire (and any living creatures in the area as well).
Anyway, one day we were working in our cage, when we heard a warning alarm, and saw all the employees running for their lives. Not knowing that the alarm meant the Halon system was about to be activiate, we joined in anyway and ran for the emergency exits.
It turned out the fire alarms were set off by accident by someone drilling and creating dust, and luckily the people on-site disabled the fire supression system before it went off.
They probably also counted multi-story dwellings as duplicate land areas (i.e.: a 10000 sq foot 5 story building counts as 50000 sq feet).
No diagram necessary. I just didn't agree with the original poster's semantics, which said (to me anyway) "this and therefore any man should be applauded because he has some kind of conviction." It probably should've read something like "...on the hook for something he believes in that also greatly benefits society."
I'm just being petty and cranky.
What's worse, if the hardware vendors follow suit, then a certificate will be required by an operating system to boot on the hardware.
This, to me, is the more likely scenario, or the reasoning behind MS's pushing of Palladium. Compare:
Apple: sell an OS that will only run on Apple hardware.
Microsoft: force vendors to make hardware that will only run MS OS.
Either way, you buy some hardware, you're locked into forced purchases, especially when third-paryu software is released that doesn't support your current outdated platform.
but RMS should be applauded that he is willing to put himself on the hook for something he believes in.
Hitler also put himself on the hook for something he believed in. Should we applaud him as well?
What about Rollins?
I'm trying to boil water for some tea on my CPU.. so close...
Last I checked US's have dinky little heatsinks (I haven't really poked around this particular Sun though).
I just made a similar switch after using every combination of desktop/window manager made over the last 10 years.
I run a SunBlade 100 with two heads, and a SunPCi Intel coprocessor card (since I need to dip into our the company exchange server). I use the ion window manager, which gives not only split-screen windowing, but multiple tabs per window. Monitor one is usually debugging output or programming reference material on the left, emacs on the right, console and email at the bottom (a second full-screen workspace gives me Oracle GUI stuff). Monitor two is my windows (Outlook, instant messengers, etc..) Eventually I'm going to integrate some more Afterstep/WindowMaker type applets, but no rush.
Anyway, for you screenshot junkies, check it out:
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
I can't say exactly what's caused my frustration with the overlapped windowing metaphor, but whatever it is, it's gone now. I urge people to try it out before dismissing it as a joke.
ion is available here: http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
I wonder if the cops will adopt a similar technology to stop people from videotaping their brutality ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h arrests.
Oh fuck you. They aren't forcing you to watch it. They aren't using public funding to pay for it. Hell your (hypothetical) girl-or-boy-friend will probably not even make you watch it. Some people may like it. Please, for the love of God, get a life.
You know, in a well-run corporation, managers are generally specialized. Accounting managers deal with money, managers in the technical departments deal with things that are technical, etc.
:)
This scares me about the way democracy works. You have managers (congressmen, senators, judges, legislators, etc..) that decide what goes on in this country, and none of the, are qualified to make every single one of those decisions. How many legistators do you think really understand how G-forces relate to the risks of rollarcoasters?
Worse, the democratic managers of this country have horrible employers: you and I, the people who hire and fire them by voting. And most of the people in this country (that vote anyway) don't understand most of the issues the managers have to deal with.
So it sets up a perfect scenario for the politicians to act out of fear of being disliked, or even voted out of office for lack of activity. Case in point, this rollarcoaster issue: a few people died, so voters start looking at the lawmakers to act. The lawmakers are forced to do something, anything, even if what they do is wrong. If they didn't, the people would get angry and possibly vote for someone else come next election.
Not that I have a better solution, at least not at 2am on a monday morning
It's official. The Linux kernel is now larget than the Microsoft Word executible.
I'm no lawyer, but presumably a few people at Nolo are, like the person that wrote this article about your rights at work. Surprising you have very little.
I can answer that one....it's because the pr0n-lords are smart enough to come up with a business model that adapts to the nature of the internet and the needs of the customers.
You made my day!
Hardware: If I can't beg, borrow or steal it, it's special.
I have my threshold set to 3, and as I write this there are 9 comments - 1 "Funny" and 8 that are saying in one way or another "Big Deal."
.NET where the only thing they'll learn is how to adopt Micro$oft technology. Maybe we should form anti-support groups where we can get together and talk about ways in which we can sqash the competition (competition == Micro$oft if you haven't been paying attention) by using laws and contracts!
Come on, imagine what it must be like to be a Slashdot editor. It's a hard job trying to stir up controversy day-in and day-out. Then to post something like that and see everyone respond "oh, big deal" must break their hearts!
So here, timothy, this one if for you:
Yeah, how dare Micro$oft do this! User groups were founded in the spirit of helping people learn things that they could do with their computer without influence of commercialism (except when hardware and software vendors would be invited to give talks). They're just trying to suck people into
(I can't believe I just wasted 10 minutes writing that when I know it will be modded down as troll)
Them vs. Us is a pointless game to play. You're better off smoking crack. At least you'll meet interesting people.
Nicely put, and here's hoping for a bit more common sense and less religiosity. For whatever reasons, many in the Linux and open source communities seem to think ease of use and desktop design issues are beneath them. Of course they aren't, and the 25-year history of Unix prior to Linux testifies to the basic unmarketablility of the command shell as a pleasing desktop for all but the already converted.
/vent
Nicely put as well. I watched the unix desktop evolve over the last decade, and have put serious effort into using every window manager and desktop system that came out, but found all unusable in one way or another. I now use CDE under Solaris, but it still has design problems (although it only smells of design-by-committee, whereas newer desktop systems like KDE and Gnome completely stink of it).
It saddens me when systems like Gnome and KDE, with some very impressive technology behind them, fall victim to kitchen-sink syndrome. We're left with a complex unstable over-compensating system that lacks any consistancy, and ends up overwhelming even more advanced users.
All I ask for is a unix front-end with some simple features: copy&paste works consistantly; consistant keyboard short-cuts (i.e.: CTRL-V *always* pastes, not sometimes); doesn't have a million configuration options; smooth anti-aliased fonts *everywhere*; one that doesn't require special hardware (I'm thinking os-x); and double-bufferd screen drawing (that's all just off the top of my head). And more importantly, a unix front-end that gives all that without having to specially compile my own version of a window/desktop manager (or even a kernel!), hunt down and compile additional code, spend hours on google trying to figure out how to edit a text file, or in general be a dedicated elite linux/unix user that knows every single project on sourceforge and every single thing about linux/unix. I'd rather spend my time actually doing the work rather than enabling myself to do the work.
I jumped at the chance to use MySQL for a large project as a win for opensource. I carefully designed a db that would hold one billion records, as required for my project at work. Well, after a week of importing, when it came time to reindex a field, MySQL's technique was to freeze the table and make a fresh copy (thankfully I had enough room), although the copy took 3 days (during which the db wasn't available). I switched to Oracle and life has been so much better.
In the end, MySQL might handle the raw numbers that some of the big players do, but when you're working with large data sets, Oracle (and presumably others) give you more power. Take the actual physical data structure that Oracle allows you to work with: each database comprises of dynamic multiple variable length data files that can allow tables to span physical disks. MySQL will get there someday, but they're still a little behind.