No. There is no viable desktop market for Linux currently
I disagree. There is a market for a linux distro like Ubuntu 10.04. Just a bare bones linux distro with some gadgets and some UI fringes, but basically a linux that you can use for work. Ubuntu has moved away from that. I have to find another linux that gives me just a shell and apt-get and some more. I am a programmer. I don't want my linux to become windows because I want to be in control.
Canonical is dummyfying linux so even windows users can use it, or so they hope, probably in vain. They don't care that linux users will move on to other distributions.
I was a software developer when I started my own company. Soon, I found myself managing and selling and bookkeeping and product-managing, rather than developing software. After that, I started another company. 15 years later, my company went bankrupt, nobody wanted to hire an ex-entrepreneur (this is Europe, not the US), social security was not for me (I was an ex-entrepreneur), so I started programming in a hobby project, and after three months I landed a contracting job as a software developer. Then another, then another. Then, I was offered a job at a software development company as an Android developer (I have been developing Android apps since june of 2008). After about a year, I decided I prefer contracting (this is Europe, contracting is the only way to have some flexibility for the employer, so they pay you a lot more) and that's what I do. Until my new product is ready for launch, in a new company:-) I must say, I have a good network, all contracting jobs came in via my network, via old friends.
Personally I think email clients should automatically (without user intervention) generate an s/mime key and sign all outgoing mail, and encrypt all outgoing mail where a signature is known.
I have done just that, with a plugin in my mail client that my company had created. But one of the issues here is that a lot of people use Outlook, which used to fail on replying to a signed message. When it receives an S/MIME signed message, it automatically sets signing to "on" for the reply, but when you hit send, it finds that you don't have a key to sign with. You can cancel, losing the reply. When I routinely signed my outgoing email, a received a lot of complaints from friends who pointed out to me that my email is broken because they can't reply. No, it's not my email that's broken, it's Outlook that's broken. This made me stop signing all outgoing email.
Another thing is that however easy it is to encrypt email, people still have a secret key. I got a phone call from a reseller for our email encryption product, complaining the product didn't work any more. He had bought a new laptop. "Did you backup the signing key?" "Should I have?" Geez. It's one click in the setup of the software, "backup private key, we recommend you to do this".
I know encrypt and/or sign email on my mail server, with an open source S/MIME encryption product. It encrypts email whenever it can, but I've configured it to not sign email unless the header has a keyword that tells it to sign. I think server based solutions work. Inside your company, there's other security.
I have done it, and it worked well. I've moved back also, which was a lot harder.
Developers want a boss who understands them and who thinks like them. So don't lose your developer mindset. Keep your knowledge up to date by sitting with a developer frequently and go through their code. You know that as a developer, you'd appreciate an executive to look at your code an actually understand it. For you as an exec, it'll keep you up to date, to a certain extent.
Trust the developers you work with. This only works if they're smart enough. Delegate stuff to developers. I've always found it extremely useful to have decisions made by the person or people who are knowledgeable about the subject. If you make decisions, talk to one or two people you trust, ask their opinion, challenge what they say, then take their advice. At the same time, if the advice turns out to be wrong, don't blame them. Once you've adopted their advice and opinion, it's yours, and you defend it to your boss. You make friends when people know that they gave you wrong advice and you took the blame. It will never happen again, I can promise you that. It won't get you fired, unless your boss is stupid, in which case you want to get fired.
As an exec, you can get away with a lot, as long as you have your facts straight and you have an answer to every question. If you want to make a difference, be different. But then, you can only be different if you're strong enough to support it.
Know your facts, but know other peoples facts also. You can't talk to a marketing exec or a finance exec if you don't know their jargon. Read a book on business finance, read one on marketing. Talk to execs and listen carefully. What they talk about today, you should be able to talk about tomorrow. At the same time, don't make them feel threatened, as if you want to come into their area. Always keep saying "It's my opinion that everyone should do what they're good at, and leave everything else to experts".
Don't try to blend in to quickly. It doesn't hurt to dress a little different from the other execs. It's a sign to your team that you're still one of them.
As others have suggested, find a mentor. Someone senior who you know well and who you trust, and who doesn't have a conflict of interest with you in your new job. I've had a mentor, a woman who has been my boss for a year or so, we became friends, and while she moved to the top, she remained available to me as a mentor. She's been a great support to me for a period of about ten years.
You might even be able to use it as a one-way intra-solar-system ferry if the asteroid was going close to the same direction you wanted the probe to go.
It's definitely a cheap way to travel a long way into space. And in due time, it'll bring you back. Like within a million years or so.
I don't see why I should have an ARM processor in my desktop pc, but I would love to have one in my netbook. It would boost battery life from two hours to ten - same as my Galaxy Tab.
It should be "first to invent", not first to file. This way, a company with a lot of money can look at your work, then patent it, effectively stealing it from you. If you don't have tons of money to patent every statement you write.
and the lack of support one you filled out the forms. Most apis, even the basic ones, are only available to RIM, not to developers. How can they expect people to develop apps for BB if the tools are kept from the developers?
I think the easiest explanation for this would be that that would be a manual intervention in an automated process, which is expensive, so they won't do that.
The reason CAs charge so much is the security they have in place to prevent certificates going to the wrong people. Diginotar has spent a fortune on their building in Beverwijk, as if they were planning to store the country's gold there. Now they know that whatever the security of your building, if the people you employ are stupid, or worse, malevolent, there's no point in spending the money on a building. I'll just stick with my own CA. If I trust you, I'll mark your cert as trusted. You do the same with my certs. No cost, everybody happy.
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The law should require people to store their encryption passwords so they won't forget them. Preferably in an encrypted file.
I mean, if he had access to their network and wanted a job, he should have forged interview and approval emails.
Think outside the box, man.
He could have put himself in the employee database, for a fair salary, at a non-existent Marriott office.
No. There is no viable desktop market for Linux currently
I disagree. There is a market for a linux distro like Ubuntu 10.04. Just a bare bones linux distro with some gadgets and some UI fringes, but basically a linux that you can use for work. Ubuntu has moved away from that. I have to find another linux that gives me just a shell and apt-get and some more. I am a programmer. I don't want my linux to become windows because I want to be in control.
A multipass only covers journeys of less then a million years.
We should organize them into some sort of federation.
Good plan. I'll be the emp^H^H^Hcongresperson.
Everyone, 'stop calling it jailbreaking', and start calling it a Free Country..
Apparently, some legislators disagree with you, about your country being a Free Country.
Canonical is dummyfying linux so even windows users can use it, or so they hope, probably in vain. They don't care that linux users will move on to other distributions.
This is what you get with religious rule.
+1
I was a software developer when I started my own company. Soon, I found myself managing and selling and bookkeeping and product-managing, rather than developing software. After that, I started another company. 15 years later, my company went bankrupt, nobody wanted to hire an ex-entrepreneur (this is Europe, not the US), social security was not for me (I was an ex-entrepreneur), so I started programming in a hobby project, and after three months I landed a contracting job as a software developer. Then another, then another. Then, I was offered a job at a software development company as an Android developer (I have been developing Android apps since june of 2008). After about a year, I decided I prefer contracting (this is Europe, contracting is the only way to have some flexibility for the employer, so they pay you a lot more) and that's what I do. Until my new product is ready for launch, in a new company :-)
I must say, I have a good network, all contracting jobs came in via my network, via old friends.
The complete collection of King Arthur legends. 1300 pages. Despite the title in French, it's in English, mostly.
Personally I think email clients should automatically (without user intervention) generate an s/mime key and sign all outgoing mail, and encrypt all outgoing mail where a signature is known.
I have done just that, with a plugin in my mail client that my company had created. But one of the issues here is that a lot of people use Outlook, which used to fail on replying to a signed message. When it receives an S/MIME signed message, it automatically sets signing to "on" for the reply, but when you hit send, it finds that you don't have a key to sign with. You can cancel, losing the reply. When I routinely signed my outgoing email, a received a lot of complaints from friends who pointed out to me that my email is broken because they can't reply. No, it's not my email that's broken, it's Outlook that's broken. This made me stop signing all outgoing email.
Another thing is that however easy it is to encrypt email, people still have a secret key. I got a phone call from a reseller for our email encryption product, complaining the product didn't work any more. He had bought a new laptop. "Did you backup the signing key?" "Should I have?" Geez. It's one click in the setup of the software, "backup private key, we recommend you to do this".
I know encrypt and/or sign email on my mail server, with an open source S/MIME encryption product. It encrypts email whenever it can, but I've configured it to not sign email unless the header has a keyword that tells it to sign. I think server based solutions work. Inside your company, there's other security.
I encrypt email every day.
I have done it, and it worked well. I've moved back also, which was a lot harder.
Developers want a boss who understands them and who thinks like them. So don't lose your developer mindset. Keep your knowledge up to date by sitting with a developer frequently and go through their code. You know that as a developer, you'd appreciate an executive to look at your code an actually understand it. For you as an exec, it'll keep you up to date, to a certain extent.
Trust the developers you work with. This only works if they're smart enough. Delegate stuff to developers. I've always found it extremely useful to have decisions made by the person or people who are knowledgeable about the subject. If you make decisions, talk to one or two people you trust, ask their opinion, challenge what they say, then take their advice. At the same time, if the advice turns out to be wrong, don't blame them. Once you've adopted their advice and opinion, it's yours, and you defend it to your boss. You make friends when people know that they gave you wrong advice and you took the blame. It will never happen again, I can promise you that. It won't get you fired, unless your boss is stupid, in which case you want to get fired.
As an exec, you can get away with a lot, as long as you have your facts straight and you have an answer to every question. If you want to make a difference, be different. But then, you can only be different if you're strong enough to support it.
Know your facts, but know other peoples facts also. You can't talk to a marketing exec or a finance exec if you don't know their jargon. Read a book on business finance, read one on marketing. Talk to execs and listen carefully. What they talk about today, you should be able to talk about tomorrow. At the same time, don't make them feel threatened, as if you want to come into their area. Always keep saying "It's my opinion that everyone should do what they're good at, and leave everything else to experts".
Don't try to blend in to quickly. It doesn't hurt to dress a little different from the other execs. It's a sign to your team that you're still one of them.
As others have suggested, find a mentor. Someone senior who you know well and who you trust, and who doesn't have a conflict of interest with you in your new job. I've had a mentor, a woman who has been my boss for a year or so, we became friends, and while she moved to the top, she remained available to me as a mentor. She's been a great support to me for a period of about ten years.
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If you don't like ignorance and/or hypocrisy.
You might even be able to use it as a one-way intra-solar-system ferry if the asteroid was going close to the same direction you wanted the probe to go.
It's definitely a cheap way to travel a long way into space. And in due time, it'll bring you back. Like within a million years or so.
You're right. Let's hope they'll drop the project, rather than the laptops.
A pile driver. There's two ways to do it. You put the drive on top of the pile, or you put the drive underneath.
I don't see why I should have an ARM processor in my desktop pc, but I would love to have one in my netbook. It would boost battery life from two hours to ten - same as my Galaxy Tab.
Is Cobol so bad, compared to Java in the hands of Oracle?
"Tax Loopholes No Longer Patentable"
OMG.
It should be "first to invent", not first to file. This way, a company with a lot of money can look at your work, then patent it, effectively stealing it from you. If you don't have tons of money to patent every statement you write.
Better still, it should be "no patents".
and the lack of support one you filled out the forms. Most apis, even the basic ones, are only available to RIM, not to developers. How can they expect people to develop apps for BB if the tools are kept from the developers?
I think the easiest explanation for this would be that that would be a manual intervention in an automated process, which is expensive, so they won't do that.
The reason CAs charge so much is the security they have in place to prevent certificates going to the wrong people. Diginotar has spent a fortune on their building in Beverwijk, as if they were planning to store the country's gold there. Now they know that whatever the security of your building, if the people you employ are stupid, or worse, malevolent, there's no point in spending the money on a building.
I'll just stick with my own CA. If I trust you, I'll mark your cert as trusted. You do the same with my certs. No cost, everybody happy.
6 digits, that's a lot, isn't it? and wtf does tf mean?
Total Fertility Rate? Temporary Flight Restriction? Traffic Film Remover?