The Open Source movement has been around how long now - 20 years? 30? Longer?
Oh, it has to be at least 80 or 90!
WTF are you talking about?!?
GNU was started in 1984. RMS had been working in a OSS like envirorment (MIT AI lab) since 1971. They got their ideas from somewhere. So yeah its a stretch but the grandparent is right.
Hi, I'm an egotistical douche bag who feels that my choices are superior to others. I like to force my ideals on others because I'm so fucking smart.
Uh actually it seems like the person has trouble saying no to people, but has found a way to allow himself to either say no or engage in a bit of evangalization. That being said, these people are free to bay geeksquad or a 12 year old to fix their computers. So he is forcing his beliefs on people that force their problems on him.
Most people in IT would laugh at anybody who claimed to be a career Waiter. Each position requires a basic set of skills (more so for IT), but limited growth potential. A waiter can become a staff manager or even endevour to start his own restaurant, but that would be the exception. Most likely, he would get bored and go to school to do something different. An occasional few who truly enjoy waitering will do the job until retirement.
Except for those that get into the New York Banquet waiters union. Where Doctors and lawyers work alongside immigrants without any college training.
I just got hired for an IT spot for 10$ an hour I guess I am that bad end-game scenario.
I'm pretty sure you have a career path that rises above $10 an hour even if you remain in help desk type positions. I doubt that endgame is here yet. When your boss gets hired for $10 dollars an hour then the end game is here.
I guess it varies shop by shop. I part of my career in an ISP where the CTO was on the team that developed the smart jack and the head cisco guy was a triple CCIE, although I'm not sure which three he has. You needed a CCNA before you were even trusted to open and close ports on a 505 or 515 firewall.
Also HR are idiots who equate CCNA with real world competence. + the endless stream of fake CCNAs (we all know about this one) or even worse, genuine but truly 'book' CCNAs with no real world ability, just can memorise theory. There are NO PABX EQUIVALENTS, you don't see anybody walking around with the CCNP equivalent for Lucent Definity or whatever who has only passed exams and never worked on production system.
So there are people out there that claim to have a CCNA but don't? I've never came across anyone that lied about their certifications. When I was a unix admin at an ISP I dealt with many "book" CCNAs, MSCEs and the like that were employed by our clients. Then again I didn't know any of them long enough to know if their certifications were fake.
I am a former PABX man (Ericsson MD110!!! Great boxes) and now I am a cisco tard (CCNA) in a team running a call manager environment so I think I'm well placed to call it from a semi objective perspective.
I'd highly suggest putting your resume out there and looking for a small company or an ISP. You will probably find your new coworkers more competent.
Ex-president Chelsea Clinton's granddaughter will be running for president against a Saudi prince whose last name is Bush. American Idol will still have more voters and generate more interest than the presidential election. Canada and Mexico will complain about US citizens illegaly immigrating to their countries.
Actually, Chelsea Clinton's granddaughter might be a Saudi Princess thats also part Mexican. While things do come full circle, there is a bit of entanglement along the way. Remember that Carter was our Evangelical Christian President. Once global warming becomes tangible, the right will do something about it. Also expect the republican party to take a strong stand on states rights, once a middle eastern owned New York starts imperializing the other states.
Also, don't forget that once we are no longer number one a few things will happen. First, we will take Canada down with us. The three North American Countries will reach equilibrium. India will become a super power, and due to their proximity with China, will have a large trouble keeping their wars cold.
Take into account that all these rich Arab Merchants will want to get the hell out of Arabia once the oil runs out. Some will come to NY, and the rest will go to India and East Asia, reheating up Muslim/Hindu tensions.
From my experience however, it's relatively easier for a voice person to get quickly up to speed regarding data than it is for a data person to learn voice.
Because those voice people were once Netware engineers or AS/400 operators before there boss presented them with a "great opportunity."
You don't make a good case for Unix admins being smarter, because your post is profoundly stupid. There are tons of talented Windows IT guys out there, and, while it's unfortunate that you don't know any, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Well he makes his point poorly. However, the fact that there are a lot of talented windows admins does not disprove that there are more windows admins than unix ones. Also, as long as the workstations are fat clients, they will need a lot of support. You can automate to a point, but someone need to take the machine out of the box, hook up the wires and pxe boot the thing. This means as long as most companies use windows desktops, they will employ lots of low level windows techs.
That being said, I've never been to a place where the low level techs had much say in anything. Those that had any say were quite bright, lacked experience, and left for a better paying job. I should know because I was once a lowly screwdriver monkey that left for a much better job.
One of the biggest ones I think for a DC or file server is the 'server core' approach. Gives you the ability to install a slimmer server OS than in the past, up to and including no GUI (just powershell). This can be a benny for keeping your file-servers or DCs as simple as possible.
I havent read up on all the details, but since 2003-R2 they've really been putting in some nice features for branch-office server scenarios. And finally an NTFRS/DFS replication system that doesnt suck the big one.
I'm not sure if I'd go with a GUIless DCs, at least not for a while. There is simply too much gui based stuff out there, and GDI is integrated into everything. So I don't see much size or performance benifit and I do see alot of headaches.
Yes I'm sure I could manage a guiless domain controller, but it would be pretty vanilla. Also, If I decided to deploy some gui admin tool domain wide, I'd want it on the DCs. I think I'd start with web or SQL servers for production GUIless windows boxes.
Hrm good point. I think the KDE explorer might be a good replacement for explorer. Depending on how well konqueror handles gmail and google reader, firefox might stop being my daily browser.
You haven't travelled outside the US much, have you?
I realize traveling outside the US will expose you to different forms of cured swine flesh. However, none are neccesserally better. I think I had "real bacon" once in that I had something on an egg sandwich I thought resembled pastrami. It was good, and distinct from bacon, but not earth shattering enough for me to go find a butcher. Bacon serves a purpose in the US. You can fry up two pieces of the thick cut stuff in a 12" cast iron skillet and then you don't need any lard to fry your eggs for breakfast.
I like american bacon with my eggs or pastrami. I prefer Canadian bacon or slice of ham with my pancakes and waffles.
Once people become accustomed to KDE its one less reason to stick with Windows.
Plenty of people are accustomed to iTunes and FireFox. None of them seek to leave windows. Also, why would I want to run KDE on windows? As a windows user that has at times run linux on his primary desktop, I see this allowing me to run specific KDE applications on windows. I don't see myself running KDE itself except once or twice to check it out.
To all the people who do not like python's syntax I like to say start indenting your java,ruby,c code for a while and yuo will see that that will improve readability a lot.
I think the point is forcing you to indent a certain way. I will admit I've seen really badly indented code in many langiuages. I also admit that I usually end up writing code to match my IDEs beautifyer. However, sometimes I want the option to indent how I want to. For example. for long parameter lists for a function I want to be able to place the parameters on the next line indented by on tab, and when I want to split that line futher, each subsequent line will be indented by one tab and one space.
as soon as we get a pandemic disease, all the weak thin people will die, and the fat and strong will rule the earth. MWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!
I do not share your confidence in the natural selection merits of pandemics. According to this blog, during the 1918 pandemic, the death rate for people aged between 25 and 34 was as high as that for people between 1 and 4 and between 70 and 80 (graph).
Well the spike would have to be accounted for by the tending of children, caring for the elderly, or working in worse conditions. Some of those social and environmental factors would be different today.
This American disdain for politicians is perplexing. You claim to be so proud of your democracy. And yet you despise the people who personify and work for that democracy?
American's hate all forms of government. We just hate ours the least. I doubt hating our government officials is a uniquely American phenomenon either. Perhaps our two party system makes it a bit more pronounced, but I find it hard to believe that no other country shows disdain for its leaders. Also hating ones leaders fits well into the belief that government is a necessary evil.
Speed cameras are a poor way of getting funding. A speed camera violation means a minimum of 3 points on the license, along with the funds required to prosecute the driver. The £60 fine doesn't even begin to cover that.. and after 12 points you're banned anyway, so you can't catch the same person more than 4 times - which takes money out of the economy (not spending petrol, insurance, probably now unemployed so they're costing benefits and not paying taxes, etc.).
I don't know about speeding camera's, but when you get caught by a red light camera in the US, they don't take points off your license, they just fine you. Also some jurisdictions will let you plea down to an offense with less points and more money, which is usually cheap to "prosecute, because you make the deal with the prosecutor, and the judge rubber stamps it. In Nassau County, New York when you first report to court to fight a ticket, the cop won't be there and if you actually want a trial you get a second date.
Quite frankly, I don't see how you can take points away from someone caught with a camera. You can't prove who was driving the car.
Manhattan and Quebec? Quebec the state? or Quebec city? I've stayed in Montreal and it didn't really seem like Manhattan, although there were certain similarities.
My mistake. I meant the island of Montreal, where like NYC you cannot make a right on red. Granted it lacks the sprawl of NYC, but its a port city with a diverse immigrant population. Also both cities are older than their current sovereign governments. I think we just look at cities in different ways. However, I feel that the feel of Montreal is closer to NYC than the feel of LA is to NYC.
Dude cmon, comparing California to NY? You've been living in the USA for way too long. Yeah, of course their different, but look at the scales involved. For 95% of the world population, it's the same shit. Of course, I am not saying that every part of US is identical. If you want differences, try comparing Cairo with Tallin. We'll see how different New York will feel from California.
If you want truly identical cities, compare Manhattan to Quebec. You are right that 95% of the world wouldn't care if you made them realize the difference. However, I pride myself in noticing these things.
Regarding the math vs geography thing, I think not knowing about the existence of nation (let alone actually knowing anything about it) is pretty fucking bad. I mean it's common knowledge. It's not rocket science, it's like not knowing about colonialism or communism. I am pretty sure mathematicians in Georgia wouldn't get confused between a local administrative region and a nation. Regarding the whole Thanksgiving thing. I forgot to mention that the kid implied that I would be going back home to have Turkey with my family, which pretty stupid considering Thankgiving is more about celebrating 'Native American genocide'.
I am sure that there are plenty students that aced the equivalent of CALC IV in the country of Georgia that don't know where the state of Georgia is, or Puerto Rico. No education system in the world can will prevent the creation of idiot savants.
Regarding the origins of Thanksgiving, its realyl has little to do with celebrating the "Native American Genocide". It's origins were that of English Harvest Festival. The puritans, and later colonists were thankful for their crop. As a matter of fact colonial thanksgiving would be scheduled each year to coincide with harvest.
One more thing, Georgia, as with all 50 states is of a higher status than "a local administrative region." Of course I don't expect a foriegner on a student visa such as yourself to understand how our government is supposed to work.
So stop pretending that Americans don't check out foreign places because they have everything they need in their own country. Americans are so USA-centric because they are largely ignorant of foreign cultures/countries and they tend to be pretty cheap.
If your talking high culture then yes Manhattan is pretty much our epicenter. I have only been to DC on guided tours, so the only culture I experienced there was tours of the Smithsonian, government building and monuments.
Now in terms of folk culture, you are wrong. First of all the world epicenter of low culture is Queens NYC, possibly the most ethnically diverse area of its size on the planet. Secondly, if you can't tell the difference between different parts of the country then you need to open your eyes. Compare New York and California for example. Even though a small but sizable portion of the population regularly travels between the LA and NY metro areas, the cities have completely different feels. Try finding good grits in the North East, or decent Italian food in the South, minus a few places with significant migration from New York.
I just love when Americans (who know I am foreigner from the other side of the ocean) ask me whether I went back home for Thanksgiving, and I study in one of the top 25 universities in the USA. I can never understand how people can ace Calc IV without studying and yet they are too ignorant to know that Georgia isn't simply a state. It's nation with a 3000 year old history, no less.
I have two counter points to that.
First of all good at math does not mean good at history. If they are that good at math, and don't care for geography, they can survive just fine in college. I know a brilliant Mathematicians and programmer that probably didn't know where Prague was until he had to fly there to enter his physics engine into a competition. I would think that brilliant mathematicians in Georgia that do not study overseas have a narrower world view than you do. Also, I'm also sure Americans that study overseas have a firmer understanding of the world then their classmates.
As far as people asking you how your thanksgiving was, we Americans are known for engaging in mindless smalltalk. Most people probably didn't think out their statement. They also probably didn't care about your holiday. Finally how many of these people know you are in this country alone and not with your family.
I think you will find he is an american, and therefore that doesn't apply.
I'll bite. The USA offers more climate and geographic diversity than most countries due to its size. Lets compare leaving the USA with leaving Europe for a fair comparison.
I still wouldn't actively disclose it to any employer. I consider it in the realm of private research mixed with entertainment. If an employer needs to know what my successes at work are - let's have them talk to a previous employer! A former manager who liked you is a far better reference than miscellanea on the net.
Well, anyone can get someone to say they are great, and I would seek that if I were an employer. However, as an employer I would also see if I could get a more unbiased view of a person. Also, I'd prefer if the candidate had an online presence as that would tell me that the person has opinions, passions, and probably a desire to teach what he or she knew.
Also, as a candidate, I'd prefer if the employer knew from the get go of any of my beliefs that they would object to, rather than discovering them later and having to go through the trouble of firing me. Granted I don't think anything google will reveal about me is a show stopper at many places.
That all being said, I find most employers don't bother to check up on me online. Hell, I put an open source project on the resume, and the person grilling me on the technical interview just said, "Hey I downloaded that PlaneDisaster.NET thing, it actually installed and ran." People just don't care about that stuff. It really bothers me in a way.
Actually, this guy and I share about the same outlook. I've searched Sourceforge for a neat OSS project to use and found that 90% of the projects I find have no source code available, and don't look like they're at all active. There's a neat description which is what originally lured me to the project, but there's no software or source of any kind available.
I think that is a failing of source forge and not open source. Anyone can register an open source project on source forge. It will get deleted after a while if you let it completely stagnate. The problem is, in generally, everyone forgets your failures and remember your successes. If you search sourceforge, you have to wad through everyones failures.
There are a million closed source failures. There is just no way to search for them all. They either are on someone hard drive or deleted. If you have trouble wadding through the open source failures, I would suggest you use Google as it will rank the results better and you will get non sourceforge hosted projects.
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Oh, it has to be at least 80 or 90!
WTF are you talking about?!?
GNU was started in 1984. RMS had been working in a OSS like envirorment (MIT AI lab) since 1971. They got their ideas from somewhere. So yeah its a stretch but the grandparent is right.
Uh actually it seems like the person has trouble saying no to people, but has found a way to allow himself to either say no or engage in a bit of evangalization. That being said, these people are free to bay geeksquad or a 12 year old to fix their computers. So he is forcing his beliefs on people that force their problems on him.
So do they run MS project under wine or what?
Most people in IT would laugh at anybody who claimed to be a career Waiter. Each position requires a basic set of skills (more so for IT), but limited growth potential. A waiter can become a staff manager or even endevour to start his own restaurant, but that would be the exception. Most likely, he would get bored and go to school to do something different. An occasional few who truly enjoy waitering will do the job until retirement.
Except for those that get into the New York Banquet waiters union. Where Doctors and lawyers work alongside immigrants without any college training.
I'm pretty sure you have a career path that rises above $10 an hour even if you remain in help desk type positions. I doubt that endgame is here yet. When your boss gets hired for $10 dollars an hour then the end game is here.
I guess it varies shop by shop. I part of my career in an ISP where the CTO was on the team that developed the smart jack and the head cisco guy was a triple CCIE, although I'm not sure which three he has. You needed a CCNA before you were even trusted to open and close ports on a 505 or 515 firewall.
Also HR are idiots who equate CCNA with real world competence. + the endless stream of fake CCNAs (we all know about this one) or even worse, genuine but truly 'book' CCNAs with no real world ability, just can memorise theory. There are NO PABX EQUIVALENTS, you don't see anybody walking around with the CCNP equivalent for Lucent Definity or whatever who has only passed exams and never worked on production system.So there are people out there that claim to have a CCNA but don't? I've never came across anyone that lied about their certifications. When I was a unix admin at an ISP I dealt with many "book" CCNAs, MSCEs and the like that were employed by our clients. Then again I didn't know any of them long enough to know if their certifications were fake.
I am a former PABX man (Ericsson MD110!!! Great boxes) and now I am a cisco tard (CCNA) in a team running a call manager environment so I think I'm well placed to call it from a semi objective perspective.I'd highly suggest putting your resume out there and looking for a small company or an ISP. You will probably find your new coworkers more competent.
Actually, Chelsea Clinton's granddaughter might be a Saudi Princess thats also part Mexican. While things do come full circle, there is a bit of entanglement along the way. Remember that Carter was our Evangelical Christian President. Once global warming becomes tangible, the right will do something about it. Also expect the republican party to take a strong stand on states rights, once a middle eastern owned New York starts imperializing the other states.
Also, don't forget that once we are no longer number one a few things will happen. First, we will take Canada down with us. The three North American Countries will reach equilibrium. India will become a super power, and due to their proximity with China, will have a large trouble keeping their wars cold.
Take into account that all these rich Arab Merchants will want to get the hell out of Arabia once the oil runs out. Some will come to NY, and the rest will go to India and East Asia, reheating up Muslim/Hindu tensions.
Because those voice people were once Netware engineers or AS/400 operators before there boss presented them with a "great opportunity."
Well he makes his point poorly. However, the fact that there are a lot of talented windows admins does not disprove that there are more windows admins than unix ones. Also, as long as the workstations are fat clients, they will need a lot of support. You can automate to a point, but someone need to take the machine out of the box, hook up the wires and pxe boot the thing. This means as long as most companies use windows desktops, they will employ lots of low level windows techs.
That being said, I've never been to a place where the low level techs had much say in anything. Those that had any say were quite bright, lacked experience, and left for a better paying job. I should know because I was once a lowly screwdriver monkey that left for a much better job.
I havent read up on all the details, but since 2003-R2 they've really been putting in some nice features for branch-office server scenarios. And finally an NTFRS/DFS replication system that doesnt suck the big one.
I'm not sure if I'd go with a GUIless DCs, at least not for a while. There is simply too much gui based stuff out there, and GDI is integrated into everything. So I don't see much size or performance benifit and I do see alot of headaches.
Yes I'm sure I could manage a guiless domain controller, but it would be pretty vanilla. Also, If I decided to deploy some gui admin tool domain wide, I'd want it on the DCs. I think I'd start with web or SQL servers for production GUIless windows boxes.
Hrm good point. I think the KDE explorer might be a good replacement for explorer. Depending on how well konqueror handles gmail and google reader, firefox might stop being my daily browser.
I realize traveling outside the US will expose you to different forms of cured swine flesh. However, none are neccesserally better. I think I had "real bacon" once in that I had something on an egg sandwich I thought resembled pastrami. It was good, and distinct from bacon, but not earth shattering enough for me to go find a butcher. Bacon serves a purpose in the US. You can fry up two pieces of the thick cut stuff in a 12" cast iron skillet and then you don't need any lard to fry your eggs for breakfast.
I like american bacon with my eggs or pastrami. I prefer Canadian bacon or slice of ham with my pancakes and waffles.
Plenty of people are accustomed to iTunes and FireFox. None of them seek to leave windows. Also, why would I want to run KDE on windows? As a windows user that has at times run linux on his primary desktop, I see this allowing me to run specific KDE applications on windows. I don't see myself running KDE itself except once or twice to check it out.
I think the point is forcing you to indent a certain way. I will admit I've seen really badly indented code in many langiuages. I also admit that I usually end up writing code to match my IDEs beautifyer. However, sometimes I want the option to indent how I want to. For example. for long parameter lists for a function I want to be able to place the parameters on the next line indented by on tab, and when I want to split that line futher, each subsequent line will be indented by one tab and one space.
Ok and why exactly is that? They still got a windows license fee from you. They can still sell you windows software.
I know the FSF provides this service. I did not know the EFF did.
Well the spike would have to be accounted for by the tending of children, caring for the elderly, or working in worse conditions. Some of those social and environmental factors would be different today.
American's hate all forms of government. We just hate ours the least. I doubt hating our government officials is a uniquely American phenomenon either. Perhaps our two party system makes it a bit more pronounced, but I find it hard to believe that no other country shows disdain for its leaders. Also hating ones leaders fits well into the belief that government is a necessary evil.
I don't know about speeding camera's, but when you get caught by a red light camera in the US, they don't take points off your license, they just fine you. Also some jurisdictions will let you plea down to an offense with less points and more money, which is usually cheap to "prosecute, because you make the deal with the prosecutor, and the judge rubber stamps it. In Nassau County, New York when you first report to court to fight a ticket, the cop won't be there and if you actually want a trial you get a second date.
Quite frankly, I don't see how you can take points away from someone caught with a camera. You can't prove who was driving the car.
My mistake. I meant the island of Montreal, where like NYC you cannot make a right on red. Granted it lacks the sprawl of NYC, but its a port city with a diverse immigrant population. Also both cities are older than their current sovereign governments. I think we just look at cities in different ways. However, I feel that the feel of Montreal is closer to NYC than the feel of LA is to NYC.
If you want truly identical cities, compare Manhattan to Quebec. You are right that 95% of the world wouldn't care if you made them realize the difference. However, I pride myself in noticing these things.
Regarding the math vs geography thing, I think not knowing about the existence of nation (let alone actually knowing anything about it) is pretty fucking bad. I mean it's common knowledge. It's not rocket science, it's like not knowing about colonialism or communism. I am pretty sure mathematicians in Georgia wouldn't get confused between a local administrative region and a nation.Regarding the whole Thanksgiving thing. I forgot to mention that the kid implied that I would be going back home to have Turkey with my family, which pretty stupid considering Thankgiving is more about celebrating 'Native American genocide'.
I am sure that there are plenty students that aced the equivalent of CALC IV in the country of Georgia that don't know where the state of Georgia is, or Puerto Rico. No education system in the world can will prevent the creation of idiot savants.
Regarding the origins of Thanksgiving, its realyl has little to do with celebrating the "Native American Genocide". It's origins were that of English Harvest Festival. The puritans, and later colonists were thankful for their crop. As a matter of fact colonial thanksgiving would be scheduled each year to coincide with harvest.
One more thing, Georgia, as with all 50 states is of a higher status than "a local administrative region." Of course I don't expect a foriegner on a student visa such as yourself to understand how our government is supposed to work.
If your talking high culture then yes Manhattan is pretty much our epicenter. I have only been to DC on guided tours, so the only culture I experienced there was tours of the Smithsonian, government building and monuments.
Now in terms of folk culture, you are wrong. First of all the world epicenter of low culture is Queens NYC, possibly the most ethnically diverse area of its size on the planet. Secondly, if you can't tell the difference between different parts of the country then you need to open your eyes. Compare New York and California for example. Even though a small but sizable portion of the population regularly travels between the LA and NY metro areas, the cities have completely different feels. Try finding good grits in the North East, or decent Italian food in the South, minus a few places with significant migration from New York.
I just love when Americans (who know I am foreigner from the other side of the ocean) ask me whether I went back home for Thanksgiving, and I study in one of the top 25 universities in the USA. I can never understand how people can ace Calc IV without studying and yet they are too ignorant to know that Georgia isn't simply a state. It's nation with a 3000 year old history, no less.I have two counter points to that.
First of all good at math does not mean good at history. If they are that good at math, and don't care for geography, they can survive just fine in college. I know a brilliant Mathematicians and programmer that probably didn't know where Prague was until he had to fly there to enter his physics engine into a competition. I would think that brilliant mathematicians in Georgia that do not study overseas have a narrower world view than you do. Also, I'm also sure Americans that study overseas have a firmer understanding of the world then their classmates.
As far as people asking you how your thanksgiving was, we Americans are known for engaging in mindless smalltalk. Most people probably didn't think out their statement. They also probably didn't care about your holiday. Finally how many of these people know you are in this country alone and not with your family.
I think you will find he is an american, and therefore that doesn't apply.
I'll bite. The USA offers more climate and geographic diversity than most countries due to its size. Lets compare leaving the USA with leaving Europe for a fair comparison.
And yes I have left the continent.
Well, anyone can get someone to say they are great, and I would seek that if I were an employer. However, as an employer I would also see if I could get a more unbiased view of a person. Also, I'd prefer if the candidate had an online presence as that would tell me that the person has opinions, passions, and probably a desire to teach what he or she knew.
Also, as a candidate, I'd prefer if the employer knew from the get go of any of my beliefs that they would object to, rather than discovering them later and having to go through the trouble of firing me. Granted I don't think anything google will reveal about me is a show stopper at many places.
That all being said, I find most employers don't bother to check up on me online. Hell, I put an open source project on the resume, and the person grilling me on the technical interview just said, "Hey I downloaded that PlaneDisaster.NET thing, it actually installed and ran." People just don't care about that stuff. It really bothers me in a way.
I think that is a failing of source forge and not open source. Anyone can register an open source project on source forge. It will get deleted after a while if you let it completely stagnate. The problem is, in generally, everyone forgets your failures and remember your successes. If you search sourceforge, you have to wad through everyones failures.
There are a million closed source failures. There is just no way to search for them all. They either are on someone hard drive or deleted. If you have trouble wadding through the open source failures, I would suggest you use Google as it will rank the results better and you will get non sourceforge hosted projects.