As an ex-panelologist I must say I do enjoy a few comics on the web, but they tend to be the shorter daylies, such as Penny Arcade.
However, balancing a laptop on your lap whilst reading the latest comic on the loo is not such a rewarding experience as flicking through the pulp of printed comics.
What is wrong with people that they feel that they have to mess with my food so that they can make a bigger profit?
To be honest, I doubt that I will ever have to eat the ultimate in processed food, so I won't get too upset about it, but I wonder about all those less blessed than myself that will have no choice, or are to ignorant to make the choice.
You need to understand what your business does firts... what applications does it use, what sort of workflows, types of documents produced, versioning requirements, etc. and then look at the system you have and see where the holes are.
I have done this for myself (started back in 01/2003) and also for clients (as a side) and to be honest, for a small business like you talk about, there is not really an IT budget. The point is to spend only exactly what you need to do the job, and if additional benefits can be realised for no extra cash, then that is a bonus.
I used to work developing software for a global telecommunications test equipment manufacturer. The job was well paid, with good team working, and interesting challenges. The problem was that our managers (or one in particular, you know the story) was obsessed with components and re-use. On the face of it, the drive for re-use made sense, but in practical terms, made the lives of most of the developers difficult, since we were expected to develop software and firmware components that could be re-used on other platforms.
I remember one particular meeting with a manager who was raving about one project team that had delivered a load of components into the component library. All the developers knew that these weren't really components, since they would only ever work on the platform that they were developed for, but nobody else realised that, or was even prepared to accept that was possibly the case.
Whilst managers thought the component development was new and exciting, it got most of the developers down. I certainly felt undervalued as the push to develop more components became the mantra of the managers, and all the developers struggled to accept the drive to then outsource our component development. Managers seemed to feel that we developers would prefer designing code and performing integration testing, rather than developing the code ourselves. Who'd have thought it?:-)
So I can download the recipe, but not the ingredients. Isn't that rather like being able to download the makefile for a software project, but having to write the code yourself?
My wife will get some symptom, and then scour books and the web for indications of possible diagnosis. I found it funny after a while, but the first couple of times she declared that she had cancer or MS was quite worrying.
But isn't this a symptom of open source software, in that everybody is able to do it their way? With M$ and Apple, we get an operating system that works the way they want it to. With GNU/Linux, you get to choose a distribution which works the way you want it to. And if you can't find one that does that exactly, you have the opportunity to do it yourself.
Obviously in the real-world (!) we all just want something that works the way we want it to, without having to scratch around every distribution. Personally, I think that Ubuntu does it for me.
Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m.
The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to ensure that Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) will remain fully supported for an extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.
The Foundation was established on July 1st 2005 with an initial funding commitment of US$10 million, to ensure the continuity of the Ubuntu project and create a legal vehicle that represents the community structures of the project.
"It's important for us to distinguish the philanthropic and non-commercial work that is at the heart of the Ubuntu project, from the commercial support and certification programs that are the focus of Canonical Ltd." said Mark Shuttleworth, who is founder of the project and is making the initial $10m commitment to the Foundation. "The core team members employed by the Ubuntu Foundation will ensure that we can meet public commitments to keep Ubuntu entirely free of charge, as well as meeting commitments of support for extended periods. I'm very excited at the progress that has been made in bringing free software to the global marketplace, and pleased to continue my support for the project in this way."
Ubuntu has quickly become a leading distribution in the free software world, taking the #1 place in DistroWatch popularity rankings over all timescales which are published. The distribution focuses on usability, security and stability on desktops and servers, and on making free software widely available for individuals and organisations who are ready to switch from proprietary platforms, such as Microsoft Windows.
Ubuntu has also become the basis of many other derivative distributions, particularly those backed by govenments for widespread deployment. The government of Andalucia, Spain recently announced that its own version of Linux would be based on Ubuntu, and deployed in all educational operations.
LONGER SERVER SUPPORT CYCLE
One driving factor behind the creation of the Foundation was the need to ensure that an Ubuntu release can be deployed on servers, which demand much slower release and upgrade cycles. "In order to support the use of free software on database and other servers, we will be offering security support for the Ubuntu base and major server components for a full five years", said Matt Zimmerman, CTO of the Ubuntu project.
As Ubuntu and free software in general become more mainstream, it has become costly for companies and large organisations to keep track of the rapid pace of development. In the desktop environment the problem is more manageable, and steady improvements in the usability of desktop office and productivity applications have been welcomed. In the datacenter, however, where Linux and free software are considered mature, deployments have a preference for fewer releases with long lifecycles. Ubuntu version 6.04, to be released in April 2006, will be aimed at meeting those requirements with a full five year commitment to provide security and other critical updates for servers. This also meets the needs of OEM distribution providers and ISVs, who have expressed strong interest in supporting free software environments but who prefer to be able to plan for releases and support them for longer periods of time.
The extended service support for Ubuntu version 6.04 will remain free of charge, under the same terms as the support currently provided to every release of Ubuntu. The extended service support prog
Yeah - I've got two siblings and associated partners who work in London, and the number of group sms messages I received telling me everyone was ok was significant to become annoying! Still, they are all ok, if anyone was wondering...:-)
Cracking jokes in stressful situations is known to help people cope. My wife used to work in Accident & Emergency, and from the things she told me, Paramedics have the sickest sense of humour.
Does anyone know how does google check for "fake" clicks?
When you click on a sponsored link, Google spawns a Russian Cracker to monitor your browsing activity for the rest of the day. If you fail to follow up your click with the appropriate purchase, the Russian Cracker is authorised to take over your identity, and do it for you.
Marketeer #1: "We can't advertise new click fraud defense product on Google, it will cost us a fortune in click fraud." Marketeer #2: "Let's sue then. The case has no merit, but it will be cheaper than advertising on Google."
You buy the song first, and download it. Someone else buys the song, and downloads it from you. Others buy the song, and download it from you and the second guy, etc. The service gets the cash, but without the cost of the bandwidth.
Make sure you don't undersell yourself. I came out of University with a couple of degrees and three years research, but thought that everyone in the real world was much more experienced than me. I took a job with a small company for around £20K pa, but soon realised that I was carrying the company as I had more experience and better practice. I left there, and two years and three jobs later I was in a senior post with more than twice the salary.
Slashdot Mirror
But they are going to be showing at CES so it must be true!</sarcasm>
As an ex-panelologist I must say I do enjoy a few comics on the web, but they tend to be the shorter daylies, such as Penny Arcade.
However, balancing a laptop on your lap whilst reading the latest comic on the loo is not such a rewarding experience as flicking through the pulp of printed comics.
What is wrong with people that they feel that they have to mess with my food so that they can make a bigger profit?
To be honest, I doubt that I will ever have to eat the ultimate in processed food, so I won't get too upset about it, but I wonder about all those less blessed than myself that will have no choice, or are to ignorant to make the choice.
what's the record amount of time spent in space by a US-American?
What? Including abductees?
You need to understand what your business does firts... what applications does it use, what sort of workflows, types of documents produced, versioning requirements, etc. and then look at the system you have and see where the holes are.
I have done this for myself (started back in 01/2003) and also for clients (as a side) and to be honest, for a small business like you talk about, there is not really an IT budget. The point is to spend only exactly what you need to do the job, and if additional benefits can be realised for no extra cash, then that is a bonus.
In the harshest place on Earth, linux finds a way
Is it not the case that the nerds who actually play computer games are usually the ones being bullied, rather than those who bully?
I used to work developing software for a global telecommunications test equipment manufacturer. The job was well paid, with good team working, and interesting challenges. The problem was that our managers (or one in particular, you know the story) was obsessed with components and re-use. On the face of it, the drive for re-use made sense, but in practical terms, made the lives of most of the developers difficult, since we were expected to develop software and firmware components that could be re-used on other platforms.
:-)
I remember one particular meeting with a manager who was raving about one project team that had delivered a load of components into the component library. All the developers knew that these weren't really components, since they would only ever work on the platform that they were developed for, but nobody else realised that, or was even prepared to accept that was possibly the case.
Whilst managers thought the component development was new and exciting, it got most of the developers down. I certainly felt undervalued as the push to develop more components became the mantra of the managers, and all the developers struggled to accept the drive to then outsource our component development. Managers seemed to feel that we developers would prefer designing code and performing integration testing, rather than developing the code ourselves. Who'd have thought it?
So I can download the recipe, but not the ingredients. Isn't that rather like being able to download the makefile for a software project, but having to write the code yourself?
My wife will get some symptom, and then scour books and the web for indications of possible diagnosis. I found it funny after a while, but the first couple of times she declared that she had cancer or MS was quite worrying.
The funniest thing is that my wife is a doctor.
Given they run cool
I once told a mate that the VIA processor on my Mini-ITX board was good because it ran cool. He wanted to know where he could download it...
But isn't this a symptom of open source software, in that everybody is able to do it their way? With M$ and Apple, we get an operating system that works the way they want it to. With GNU/Linux, you get to choose a distribution which works the way you want it to. And if you can't find one that does that exactly, you have the opportunity to do it yourself.
Obviously in the real-world (!) we all just want something that works the way we want it to, without having to scratch around every distribution. Personally, I think that Ubuntu does it for me.
LAUNCH OF $10m UBUNTU FOUNDATION
08 July 2005
Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu
Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The
Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m.
The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to
ensure that Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) will remain fully supported for an
extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the
distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu
version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for
three years on the desktop and five years on the server.
The Foundation was established on July 1st 2005 with an initial
funding commitment of US$10 million, to ensure the continuity of the
Ubuntu project and create a legal vehicle that represents the
community structures of the project.
"It's important for us to distinguish the philanthropic and
non-commercial work that is at the heart of the Ubuntu project, from
the commercial support and certification programs that are the focus
of Canonical Ltd." said Mark Shuttleworth, who is founder of the
project and is making the initial $10m commitment to the
Foundation. "The core team members employed by the Ubuntu Foundation
will ensure that we can meet public commitments to keep Ubuntu
entirely free of charge, as well as meeting commitments of support for
extended periods. I'm very excited at the progress that has been made
in bringing free software to the global marketplace, and pleased to
continue my support for the project in this way."
Ubuntu has quickly become a leading distribution in the free software
world, taking the #1 place in DistroWatch popularity rankings over all
timescales which are published. The distribution focuses on usability,
security and stability on desktops and servers, and on making free
software widely available for individuals and organisations who are
ready to switch from proprietary platforms, such as Microsoft Windows.
Ubuntu has also become the basis of many other derivative
distributions, particularly those backed by govenments for widespread
deployment. The government of Andalucia, Spain recently announced that
its own version of Linux would be based on Ubuntu, and deployed in all
educational operations.
LONGER SERVER SUPPORT CYCLE
One driving factor behind the creation of the Foundation was the need
to ensure that an Ubuntu release can be deployed on servers, which
demand much slower release and upgrade cycles. "In order to support
the use of free software on database and other servers, we will be
offering security support for the Ubuntu base and major server
components for a full five years", said Matt Zimmerman, CTO of the
Ubuntu project.
As Ubuntu and free software in general become more mainstream, it has
become costly for companies and large organisations to keep track of
the rapid pace of development. In the desktop environment the problem
is more manageable, and steady improvements in the usability of
desktop office and productivity applications have been welcomed. In
the datacenter, however, where Linux and free software are considered
mature, deployments have a preference for fewer releases with long
lifecycles. Ubuntu version 6.04, to be released in April 2006, will be
aimed at meeting those requirements with a full five year commitment
to provide security and other critical updates for servers. This also
meets the needs of OEM distribution providers and ISVs, who have
expressed strong interest in supporting free software environments but
who prefer to be able to plan for releases and support them for longer
periods of time.
The extended service support for Ubuntu version 6.04 will remain free
of charge, under the same terms as the support currently provided to
every release of Ubuntu. The extended service support prog
Yeah - I've got two siblings and associated partners who work in London, and the number of group sms messages I received telling me everyone was ok was significant to become annoying! Still, they are all ok, if anyone was wondering... :-)
Cracking jokes in stressful situations is known to help people cope. My wife used to work in Accident & Emergency, and from the things she told me, Paramedics have the sickest sense of humour.
How fitting, Al Qaeda prefers Aqua
Does anyone know how does google check for "fake" clicks?
When you click on a sponsored link, Google spawns a Russian Cracker to monitor your browsing activity for the rest of the day. If you fail to follow up your click with the appropriate purchase, the Russian Cracker is authorised to take over your identity, and do it for you.
Marketeer #1: "We can't advertise new click fraud defense product on Google, it will cost us a fortune in click fraud."
Marketeer #2: "Let's sue then. The case has no merit, but it will be cheaper than advertising on Google."
Ooh - isn't Opera one of those web browser thingies? :-)
You buy the song first, and download it. Someone else buys the song, and downloads it from you. Others buy the song, and download it from you and the second guy, etc. The service gets the cash, but without the cost of the bandwidth.
Make sure you don't undersell yourself. I came out of University with a couple of degrees and three years research, but thought that everyone in the real world was much more experienced than me. I took a job with a small company for around £20K pa, but soon realised that I was carrying the company as I had more experience and better practice. I left there, and two years and three jobs later I was in a senior post with more than twice the salary.
Would you like fries with that?
It's where your kids keep the toast they didn't want to eat just yet.
You should take a look atthis if you think four in a row is a record. :-)
So is anyone going to post the torrent to go with this article? :-)