In all fairness to Jack V., he's talking about California. I remember reading an article about people in California making 300k a year during the dot-com boom driving a benz and staying at a homeless shelter because real estate was a at a premium and so expensive.
I have a buddy who lives near the Pruneyard in Campbell, CA (Bay area). He, his wife and new baby live in a condo that would cost around 350K on the market to buy. The condo is about the same size as my apartment was in Atlanta which rented for around $750 a month.
So to someone living in California $75-100k is not that much but to me in Atlanta (or Bob in Butte, Montana or Fred in Allegan, Michigan), that's a very nice chunk of change which would probably buy one of the nicer houses around.
I think this is the kind of attitude that keeps women out for the most part. You ASSUME that to be the case but if there are never any opportunities for young women to go to summer camp for computers, you'll never know.
I think some of it may play on the girls not wanting to go to a summer IT camp with 99% of the population being boys. We may need a temporary solution (girls-only computer summer camp) until the population evens out.
Then again I think both boys AND girls should be outside for most of the summer getting some exercise but thats just me.
P.S. I also think that one thing that will shrink, not only women in CS but CS enrollment as well is that we have a generation of children who grew up with computers as a common item in the home. There's no sort of special "wow" factor to working with a computer at school when you can probably go home and play/work on your own.
I was excited about my computer classes in school because we couldn't afford one at home. If I were in school now, I probably wouldn't give a rip about a computer class because I can go home and play on my uberleet rig that my parents bought me.
if they'll go ahead and pony up the money to Informatica or some other ETL vendor who already does this? Informatica only needs an odbc driver. Of course you'll still need to do the mappings and create the workflows yourself.
Then again Informatica has caused us no end of grief so maybe they'll pay the money to them to stop doing business;)
Interestingly enough, I've hit a nice mix of development and usage.
I'm lucky to be at the head of a very large linux migration for our company. I get to suggest, implement and use lots of cool linux and opensource tools every day. One of the nice side effects of this is that I also get to help with bug fixing and reporting on the projects to get them working the way we need them to work.
A good example of this is CUPS. I've had a chance to find bugs with CUPS and get them fixed as well as feature requests because our entire retail printing solution is driven from clustered CUPS servers.
I've also gotten to work with firefox and mozilla customization for our stores to resolve some very strict business requirements. We've also forced a few of our vendors to create non-IE compliant b2b apps or else loose our (rather largish) business. It makes me look forward to going to work each day just because I might, in some small way, make the world a better place for the linux and oss community.
I'm wondering why the moz team doesn't just implement signed XUL. We love using XUL for our internal applications at our company but somehow having to sign it wouldn't be a problem.
I realize we now have dialogs that warn us about everything AND that most people just click through but having trusted XUL sites or signing it somehow would be just fine by me.
What really annoys me is that: A) The bug was marked confidential for 5 freaking years! B) The people saying that it isn't a big deal.
It IS a big deal or else the damn thing wouldn't have been marked confidential for 5 years. Sure it doesn't allow you to overwrite system files but I can recover from a virus. It's harder to recover from having a bank account wiped out because you used and unprotected debit card on a spoofed website ( forgetting that anyone who uses a debit card instead of a real credit card online is just asking to be screwed ).
Really the best route for this is to disallow remote XUL execution by default with an option to enable it in the prefs with a list of trusted XUL sites.
are being migrated to a heavily modified version of firefox. Our new application is web-based so we're moving all new stores to Linux workstations with our version of Firefox installed. The upshot is that our preexisting Windows machines can use the same browser (modified as well) until the windows machines die at which point we replace them with Linux boxes.
I actually really enjoy the conversations with our business partners who seem confused when we tell them we don't run Internet Explorer and we never will.
I just had this discussion with my fiancee last night. Her philosophy may be morally bankrupt (who's morals - Jesus? Allah? Krishna? Common sense?) but business is neither moral or immoral. It is simply amoral. Morality is not a business rule either should it be. If a business owner wants to operate his business on the basis of his personal morals, that's fine but to assume that a business has some sort of greater responsibility beyond making money is about as ludicrous as saying a fish has a greater purpose beyond eat, shit and mate.
Companies have one obligation, make money for the shareholders. You can't make money for the shareholders outside the boundries of the law (Enron) or by screwing over your customers for very long though.
And in the end, you confused several things. Ethics and morality, objectivism and capitalism.
While I agree with your assessment of linuxconf, might I introduce you to my good friend Cyclades?
I can't seriously imaging not having my ACS32 and PM10s at our datacenter. The only time I've come across a problem that I couldn't fix by using the ACS and PMs was because the RSA proccessor on one of our x445s died and the PM doesn't support the fucked up chinese (electrician's description - not mine) 220 plug on those servers. I've completely b0rked a router after-hours and was able to dial into the ACS, power cycle the router and then console in to redo the config. I used to be downright paranoid of kernel recompiles from afar but with everything from POST to GRUB to OS being redirected over serial, I'd have to REALLY fuck something up to have to drive to the datacenter and fix it.
Actually if you read the bottom of the press release, they still don't have a lead plantiff.
This is more of a fishing expedition from the law firm. I bet if you go back a few googles, you can probably link this firm to anyone who has had to restate earnings.
"Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO."
Maybe MS thinks that by "licensing" unix from SCO, they aren't bound by the GPL?
That would be an interesting twist eh?
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We just wish hibernate had connection pooling that supported reconnects.
Right now our developers work on tomcat and part of our ant script modifies hibernate.xml to use Websphere's connection pooling via JNDI. I'm not sure if they've modified the dev environment to use JNDI yet.
Then again I'm just the Sr. Sysadmin on the project. The real greese are the developers and trust me, we've got some good ones. Hell, one of em wrote the book on struts =P
I do wish PHP had something like Struts though. When I had Holmes explain it to me, I was floored. It's not the be all and end all but it's damn cool. Hibernate, however, is a beast on its first usage.
You would be surprised about the Modern Truck Driver.
He uses the Flying J hotspots to find the cheapest gas prices down the road, check email for loads he can pick up and visit one of the multitude of Trucker service websites where he can find people looking for someone to do a load.
He also has a t-mobile pcmcia card that he uses for access when he isn't in range of a hot spot.
I remember getting a call from him one night because the truck stop he was at had broken wireless. He ended up going inside, sitting at a booth and plugging into an ethernet jack.
The money he spends for the two accounts (flying j and tmobile) more than pays for itself when he doesn't have to drive home empty handed. It's a godsend for the independant trucker.
The other nice thing is that he doesn't have to go into the truck stop at the wireless ones to look up gas prices or find loads. He really appreciates that kind of connectivity at some of the scarier stops.
We're FastT people ourselves but I love how so many people will bitch about Disk I/O being the bottleneck here and not realize that a fiber attached SAN with fiber disks don't really HAVE a bottleneck;)
At least not that we've hit yet. I just want more money for another drawer.
Actually the 9/11 commision said there were no links between Al Queda and and Saddam as it relates to 9/11. It did however say and the rest of the world will back this up, there were ties with Saddam to Al Qaeda. Just none as it relates to 9/11.
Our new system is entirely linux based. Our old system is entirely Windows based.
I can be on the road on my way out of town, dial into our console server (Cyclades rocks) and power off servers, restart Websphere, run db2 queries and anything else that needs to be done via my laptop connected to a cell phone. One of my first thoughts in building our new datacenter is "What do I need to do so I never have to come here again except to install a new machine?"
It's that simple. I can manage EVERY part of our infrastructure (CUPS,DB2,WAS and Tivoli) from my car on the side of the road. Think about how much stress that takes off! I can actually LEAVE the house when I'm on call!
I still feel for our Data warehouse guys. They chose Informatica and short of stopping and starting the Informatica processes, nothing else can be done from the command line.
Can't remember where I heard this one but it can hold SOME water:
Democrats want all voting to be held in question from here on out because then they have a reason to contest all elections.
Anytime someone doesn't win who they wanted to win, they can cry foul.
Then again I'm not voting for Bush OR Kerry. People say I may be wasting my vote but voting my ideals is not a wasted vote to me.
Oh yeah, all the people asking why we can't go to a paper system of check boxes or x marks, read back to what happened in the last election. We have voters who can't even handle a simple punch card system. I can almost guarantee that someone will cry foul because a greyhair had a pen mark stray and marked two candidates.
One thing I can't understand is why in the hell we have to divine what the voter intended in the first place? Make it perfectly clear at voting time that any unclear votes gets tossed, no questions asked.
Then again that would imply some sort of personal responsibility. For something so important as the presidential election, people should be careful with their vote.
You seem to be discounting the fact that everyone has access to the same amount of education. It all boils down to the person who works the hardest - be that school or work or life - wins out.
It's funny you should mention this. The current issue of Reason magazine is all about outsourcing/offshoring. Me thinks that Reason and The Economist have been reading the same playbook;)
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FYI, did anyone else who saw Blood wish that it had been much longer?
In all fairness to Jack V., he's talking about California. I remember reading an article about people in California making 300k a year during the dot-com boom driving a benz and staying at a homeless shelter because real estate was a at a premium and so expensive.
I have a buddy who lives near the Pruneyard in Campbell, CA (Bay area). He, his wife and new baby live in a condo that would cost around 350K on the market to buy. The condo is about the same size as my apartment was in Atlanta which rented for around $750 a month.
So to someone living in California $75-100k is not that much but to me in Atlanta (or Bob in Butte, Montana or Fred in Allegan, Michigan), that's a very nice chunk of change which would probably buy one of the nicer houses around.
I think this is the kind of attitude that keeps women out for the most part. You ASSUME that to be the case but if there are never any opportunities for young women to go to summer camp for computers, you'll never know.
I think some of it may play on the girls not wanting to go to a summer IT camp with 99% of the population being boys. We may need a temporary solution (girls-only computer summer camp) until the population evens out.
Then again I think both boys AND girls should be outside for most of the summer getting some exercise but thats just me.
P.S.
I also think that one thing that will shrink, not only women in CS but CS enrollment as well is that we have a generation of children who grew up with computers as a common item in the home. There's no sort of special "wow" factor to working with a computer at school when you can probably go home and play/work on your own.
I was excited about my computer classes in school because we couldn't afford one at home. If I were in school now, I probably wouldn't give a rip about a computer class because I can go home and play on my uberleet rig that my parents bought me.
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We're using them on all our retail linux machines. USB keyfob.
if they'll go ahead and pony up the money to Informatica or some other ETL vendor who already does this? Informatica only needs an odbc driver. Of course you'll still need to do the mappings and create the workflows yourself.
;)
Then again Informatica has caused us no end of grief so maybe they'll pay the money to them to stop doing business
Interestingly enough, I've hit a nice mix of development and usage.
I'm lucky to be at the head of a very large linux migration for our company. I get to suggest, implement and use lots of cool linux and opensource tools every day. One of the nice side effects of this is that I also get to help with bug fixing and reporting on the projects to get them working the way we need them to work.
A good example of this is CUPS. I've had a chance to find bugs with CUPS and get them fixed as well as feature requests because our entire retail printing solution is driven from clustered CUPS servers.
I've also gotten to work with firefox and mozilla customization for our stores to resolve some very strict business requirements. We've also forced a few of our vendors to create non-IE compliant b2b apps or else loose our (rather largish) business. It makes me look forward to going to work each day just because I might, in some small way, make the world a better place for the linux and oss community.
I'm wondering why the moz team doesn't just implement signed XUL. We love using XUL for our internal applications at our company but somehow having to sign it wouldn't be a problem.
I realize we now have dialogs that warn us about everything AND that most people just click through but having trusted XUL sites or signing it somehow would be just fine by me.
What really annoys me is that:
A) The bug was marked confidential for 5 freaking years!
B) The people saying that it isn't a big deal.
It IS a big deal or else the damn thing wouldn't have been marked confidential for 5 years. Sure it doesn't allow you to overwrite system files but I can recover from a virus. It's harder to recover from having a bank account wiped out because you used and unprotected debit card on a spoofed website ( forgetting that anyone who uses a debit card instead of a real credit card online is just asking to be screwed ).
Really the best route for this is to disallow remote XUL execution by default with an option to enable it in the prefs with a list of trusted XUL sites.
are being migrated to a heavily modified version of firefox. Our new application is web-based so we're moving all new stores to Linux workstations with our version of Firefox installed. The upshot is that our preexisting Windows machines can use the same browser (modified as well) until the windows machines die at which point we replace them with Linux boxes.
I actually really enjoy the conversations with our business partners who seem confused when we tell them we don't run Internet Explorer and we never will.
I just had this discussion with my fiancee last night. Her philosophy may be morally bankrupt (who's morals - Jesus? Allah? Krishna? Common sense?) but business is neither moral or immoral. It is simply amoral. Morality is not a business rule either should it be. If a business owner wants to operate his business on the basis of his personal morals, that's fine but to assume that a business has some sort of greater responsibility beyond making money is about as ludicrous as saying a fish has a greater purpose beyond eat, shit and mate.
Companies have one obligation, make money for the shareholders. You can't make money for the shareholders outside the boundries of the law (Enron) or by screwing over your customers for very long though.
And in the end, you confused several things. Ethics and morality, objectivism and capitalism.
So the AOL guy would have a Y-shaped penis and fly around with his rainbow wings?
Okay you really should give the great Bill Hicks credit for that one ;)
While I agree with your assessment of linuxconf, might I introduce you to my good friend Cyclades?
I can't seriously imaging not having my ACS32 and PM10s at our datacenter. The only time I've come across a problem that I couldn't fix by using the ACS and PMs was because the RSA proccessor on one of our x445s died and the PM doesn't support the fucked up chinese (electrician's description - not mine) 220 plug on those servers. I've completely b0rked a router after-hours and was able to dial into the ACS, power cycle the router and then console in to redo the config. I used to be downright paranoid of kernel recompiles from afar but with everything from POST to GRUB to OS being redirected over serial, I'd have to REALLY fuck something up to have to drive to the datacenter and fix it.
Actually if you read the bottom of the press release, they still don't have a lead plantiff.
This is more of a fishing expedition from the law firm. I bet if you go back a few googles, you can probably link this firm to anyone who has had to restate earnings.
"Microsoft is working to replace all open-source code in SFU with commercially licensed alternatives. Last year it licensed Unix software from SCO."
Maybe MS thinks that by "licensing" unix from SCO, they aren't bound by the GPL?
That would be an interesting twist eh?
We just wish hibernate had connection pooling that supported reconnects.
Right now our developers work on tomcat and part of our ant script modifies hibernate.xml to use Websphere's connection pooling via JNDI. I'm not sure if they've modified the dev environment to use JNDI yet.
Then again I'm just the Sr. Sysadmin on the project. The real greese are the developers and trust me, we've got some good ones. Hell, one of em wrote the book on struts =P
I do wish PHP had something like Struts though. When I had Holmes explain it to me, I was floored. It's not the be all and end all but it's damn cool. Hibernate, however, is a beast on its first usage.
I still prefere PHP's adodb myself.
Actually my dad is one of those truckers.
You would be surprised about the Modern Truck Driver.
He uses the Flying J hotspots to find the cheapest gas prices down the road, check email for loads he can pick up and visit one of the multitude of Trucker service websites where he can find people looking for someone to do a load.
He also has a t-mobile pcmcia card that he uses for access when he isn't in range of a hot spot.
You can see all the areas they have covered here:
http://www.tonservices.com/map/active_sites.cfm
I remember getting a call from him one night because the truck stop he was at had broken wireless. He ended up going inside, sitting at a booth and plugging into an ethernet jack.
The money he spends for the two accounts (flying j and tmobile) more than pays for itself when he doesn't have to drive home empty handed. It's a godsend for the independant trucker.
The other nice thing is that he doesn't have to go into the truck stop at the wireless ones to look up gas prices or find loads. He really appreciates that kind of connectivity at some of the scarier stops.
We're FastT people ourselves but I love how so many people will bitch about Disk I/O being the bottleneck here and not realize that a fiber attached SAN with fiber disks don't really HAVE a bottleneck ;)
At least not that we've hit yet. I just want more money for another drawer.
Actually the 9/11 commision said there were no links between Al Queda and and Saddam as it relates to 9/11. It did however say and the rest of the world will back this up, there were ties with Saddam to Al Qaeda. Just none as it relates to 9/11.
In all fairness, it took me a bit of searching to find this out when I installed 9.1 a few months ago (or was it weeks ago? it all runs by).
I did my first linux install on floppies Slack floppies. I still have a book that Patrick did the intro for that included a Slack cd in the back.
Even so, I wondered this same thing myself and since swaret isn't linked from the Slack homepage, it took a while to find it.
So it COULD be an honest question but in all fairness I think you're right in petting the troll.
For me, remote administration and speed.
Our new system is entirely linux based. Our old system is entirely Windows based.
I can be on the road on my way out of town, dial into our console server (Cyclades rocks) and power off servers, restart Websphere, run db2 queries and anything else that needs to be done via my laptop connected to a cell phone. One of my first thoughts in building our new datacenter is "What do I need to do so I never have to come here again except to install a new machine?"
It's that simple. I can manage EVERY part of our infrastructure (CUPS,DB2,WAS and Tivoli) from my car on the side of the road. Think about how much stress that takes off! I can actually LEAVE the house when I'm on call!
I still feel for our Data warehouse guys. They chose Informatica and short of stopping and starting the Informatica processes, nothing else can be done from the command line.
He's a man not a number!
And yes, that is how it happened.
"How many open source sci fi novels do you know about? "
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
http://www.craphound.com/
FYI, I bought the copy at Barnes and Noble but I could have just downloaded it =P
Can't remember where I heard this one but it can hold SOME water:
Democrats want all voting to be held in question from here on out because then they have a reason to contest all elections.
Anytime someone doesn't win who they wanted to win, they can cry foul.
Then again I'm not voting for Bush OR Kerry. People say I may be wasting my vote but voting my ideals is not a wasted vote to me.
Oh yeah, all the people asking why we can't go to a paper system of check boxes or x marks, read back to what happened in the last election. We have voters who can't even handle a simple punch card system. I can almost guarantee that someone will cry foul because a greyhair had a pen mark stray and marked two candidates.
One thing I can't understand is why in the hell we have to divine what the voter intended in the first place? Make it perfectly clear at voting time that any unclear votes gets tossed, no questions asked.
Then again that would imply some sort of personal responsibility. For something so important as the presidential election, people should be careful with their vote.
You seem to be discounting the fact that everyone has access to the same amount of education. It all boils down to the person who works the hardest - be that school or work or life - wins out.
It's funny you should mention this. The current issue of Reason magazine is all about outsourcing/offshoring. Me thinks that Reason and The Economist have been reading the same playbook ;)