I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.
At 2017 FOSDEM I attended a session about the mooltipass hardware password manager. The speaker talked about his successful kickstarter campaign the mooltipas and how he verified the integrity of every step of the process. The device is open source hardware, that is assembled and tested with a tamper evident case. It attaches via USB and uses a chip and pin smartcard to store encrypted passwords. You can check it out here: https://www.themooltipass.com/
Juju is able to orchestrate both LXC and KVM on several different cloud environments. Juju employs a slightly different paradigm than Docker, building on top of cloud images rather than an image based workflow. It surprises me that Docker gets so much attention in this space. I have used both and still prefer Juju for the flexibility. With Juju I am able to nest LXC inside Amazon instances or use LXC on my laptop to make it appear as cloud environment.
I have never known you but you created something that has been very important to me and so many other people. I imagine/. feels like your child and walking away from it must be hard. I hope you are truly satisfied with what you have done, if not look at all the posts, rinse and repeat.
Good luck in your future endeavors and submit a story if you start another venture. I would like to be in at the ground level with a low UID with this next venture! Apparently this low UID thing impresses people!
Thank you sir for all the work,
- Bruzer
P.S. You guys did not invent posting anonymously, but thanks for keeping the Anonymous Coward feature. I have only used it once or twice myself. I think it allows people to post what is really on their minds (even if it is silly or stupid). I think it is an important part of this site.
This story resonates with me. I would have wholeheartedly agreed with the professor when I was a student and being forced to take Math classes that I did not like. However with my experience in the "real world" I now disagree.
I ended up minoring in Mathematics, because of the of the all the Math requirements for a Computer Science major. I strongly disliked the advanced Calculus courses and could not imagine why we needed to take them. Since then I have worked in the industry as a Software Engineer for 14 years.
In retrospect I see that the time at the university was preparing me for the real world. The lesson was not that Math is important to a Software Engineering career, but that we often have to do things that we don't like to get to the stuff that we do like. I would LOVE to program all day (and sometimes I can), but there are all sorts of other things that Software Engineers have to do _and_ be good at to succeed at our jobs. We have to do all kinds of tasks that is not programming, fill out "TPS reports", be able to speak in front of other people, the good ones even have social skills (gasp!) to convince people to try their way or work with them to solve a problem. I dislike the extra tasks almost exactly as I disliked Calculus 3, but in the end, I got through it and will be a better Software Engineer because of it.
As far as the point that math turns away people that would be influential to the field of Computer Science. Tough. If they didn't have the fortitude to put up with stuff they do not like or are not good at they would likely be a prima donna in the workplace.
I knew of 12 people (10 female, 2 male) with the name Skye (and another 8 with it as their last name) in my high school of ~800, and there are 5 other high schools in my city.
Do any of the people you know have spare motorcycles? Perhaps you can help us solve the case!
a "Linux user" is seen as noteworthy? What the heck? I disagree with you and think it IS noteworthy, and of special interest to the Slashdot audience.
Many CEOs appear more like lawyers or salesmen/women. They may be very smart, but don't strike me as technical minded.
Running 4 different distributions of Linux implies a fair bit of technical knowledge, more than Windows and Mac usage. I find that I use more console commands in Linux than the other operating systems, and to know those commands requires reading man pages or other documentation, something that the average user may not do.
Each distribution of Linux can have different configuration commands and nuances. You may know how to configure the sound card on one distribution but another distribution can be totally different.
Linux comes pre-installed on only a few PCs, and I am going to assume the four systems didn't come with Linux. Most of the time you have to install and often configure it which is (and lets be honest) can be more difficult than Windows or Mac OS.
The bottom line is I don't know of many CEO type people that use Linux at home. I don't think the CEO of my company could do anything productive with Linux without significant help from technical staff, much less install and configure it at home for personal use.
I think the CEO candidate of a Linux company using Linux at home is noteworthy, relevant, and interesting.
... He's hitting you with kid-gloves and you need to 'ask slashdot'?:) What, you want like an invisibility cloak or someone to send you the schematics for a high powered noise canceling device?
Yeah! How can you expect it to be like all those other slashdot articles that posters take the time to write up schematics?
Seriously when was the last time you read something detailed and helpful from posters here? It is more often lengthy rants, harsh criticism, or cut-and-paste from web sites.
I see your point but I still think it can be abused, by the lazy non-caring Americans.
How about an algorithm rating users based on how fast they return a movie? Higher volume will move you up on the priority list for the DVDs you select. The lower the raiting will result in a longer wait for your next movie, or you won't get priority over a high volume customer. This would reward people for watching a movie and sending it back soon.
Seriously IBM has been insiting the mainframe has been the only platform for business computing. The eb and flow of the industry has agreed and disagreed. (Thin Client of the late 90's) This isn't news, the tide is just returning, it will go back out soon enough.
I have had a laser disc transfer to DVD of the original movies for years. I had to order them when I read that Lucas would never release the movies in their original format.
Now the question is what do I do? Buy the new ones, or just keep my Mandolin knock off replicas?
I thought Tivo2Go was cool until I found this source forge project Galleon. It can do everything the Tivo2Go program can do and more. Which means it can transfer video to your PC, play mp3s, view photos from your PC!
One of the key features it has is the ability to put shows BACK on your Tivo. But that feature doesn't impress my friends as much as the email viewer, the movie listings, and the weather forecasts. I realize that MythTV has some of these features, but this improves the fun you can have with Tivo.
I am sure the slashdot crew could find even more interesting uses for this application (RSS feeds). And since the application supports plugins you can write you own Tivo apps.
I also appreciate that Tivo ALLOWS this kind of things on their box. They could be all "closed source" and shut programs like this down. They hold Tivo Developer Challenges to find more useful ways to use the Tivo. They know when people have hacked their Tivo and added a larger hard drive but choose not to shut them down.
I can't stress it enough. If you have Tivo, and you have a computer take a look at Galleon.
The movie has flashes and slow pans of dead and decaying corpses.
The reaver scenes are very quick cut away shots that are more to surprise and shock than anything else.
There are no scenes that in my memory that are physical gore. I don't want to spoil the movie, there are no flesh eating scenes or the like. But let me again point to the slow pans of dead corpses, I guess that could be considered gory.
Serenity is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I have read some posts that some don't like going to the theater. In truth you don't have to see Serenity on the big screen to enjoy it. But please plan on seeing Serenity at some point, it is a GREAT story. I took 8 people to the preview last night (Tuesday) and every one of them enjoyed the movie. Even after I raved about it non stop. One of my friends said "This was the first movie that has been hyped up (mainly by me) and lived up to the hype."
Quick question, I heard that there are eight different versions of the movie that they were previewing, and that they were going to gauge audience reaction before the final release. Is that true?
No this is not true. I saw the screening last June, and I saw a screening Tuesday night. They were the same movie.
Serenity ROCKS and in 2 more days everyone else will know that.
Will glamorizing science in the movies make kids pay better attention in chemistry class?
This question is irrelevant and too narrow. Paying attention in Chemistry class has little to no effect on my choice of careers (Software Engineering). There are a variety of Engineering professions that do not involve Chemistry.
The question rephrased to "Would movies about Engineers make kids want become Engineers?" Would a movie influence a child's decision that will effect his/her whole life?
I participate in National Engineering week. Where Engineers from various fields go to middle school and high school classrooms to try to get kids excited about Math and Sciences in hopes they will look into an Engineering career. It is a great program and I believe that is making a difference in my community, but only time will tell.
One thing I use to motivate kids into chosing an Engineering profession is a picture of my motorcycle (with an explanation that you can afford a decent lifestyle as an Engineer). That seems to get some interest, but I also like to think I have a good personality.
As has been said before in this thread, newer motherboards support flashing the BIOS from the OS layer.
Your statement is too broad to be taken seriously. You clearly could not have a grasp of all the motherboard manufacturers' specifications on flashing the BIOS. Just as you could clearly not read my mind to know what OS that I am using on that computer.
I purchased my motherboard in 2005 and as far as I could tell there was no way to flash from the OS. It came down to the tools available from the manufacturer and there was flash option for my OS or any other that I could find for my motherboard.
I contest that I still need floppies. If you don't need floppies, then good for you.
I built a computer this year and because I read on slashdot that floppies are dead I didn't buy one.
My computer worked fine, until I wanted to flash my BIOS. The only way my motherboard could be flashed was by creating a boot disk with thier custom exe file.
Slashdot Mirror
I watched a documentary about a guy who was slacking off at work (not showing up for work actually) and when the performance consultants interviewed him he actually got promoted to manager while they laid off a few of his friends or peers! Some other stuff happened in the documentary but I am pretty sure that was the relevant part.
At 2017 FOSDEM I attended a session about the mooltipass hardware password manager. The speaker talked about his successful kickstarter campaign the mooltipas and how he verified the integrity of every step of the process. The device is open source hardware, that is assembled and tested with a tamper evident case. It attaches via USB and uses a chip and pin smartcard to store encrypted passwords. You can check it out here: https://www.themooltipass.com/
Juju is able to orchestrate both LXC and KVM on several different cloud environments. Juju employs a slightly different paradigm than Docker, building on top of cloud images rather than an image based workflow. It surprises me that Docker gets so much attention in this space. I have used both and still prefer Juju for the flexibility. With Juju I am able to nest LXC inside Amazon instances or use LXC on my laptop to make it appear as cloud environment.
A quick google search turns up a document on this very subject (not written by me):
https://insights.ubuntu.com/wp...
Assuming this is not made up... What software allows you to do this across all three of the devices you listed?
Link?
Cmdr Taco,
I have never known you but you created something that has been very important to me and so many other people. I imagine /. feels like your child and walking away from it must be hard. I hope you are truly satisfied with what you have done, if not look at all the posts, rinse and repeat.
Good luck in your future endeavors and submit a story if you start another venture. I would like to be in at the ground level with a low UID with this next venture! Apparently this low UID thing impresses people!
Thank you sir for all the work,
- Bruzer
P.S. You guys did not invent posting anonymously, but thanks for keeping the Anonymous Coward feature. I have only used it once or twice myself. I think it allows people to post what is really on their minds (even if it is silly or stupid). I think it is an important part of this site.
This story resonates with me. I would have wholeheartedly agreed with the professor when I was a student and being forced to take Math classes that I did not like. However with my experience in the "real world" I now disagree.
I ended up minoring in Mathematics, because of the of the all the Math requirements for a Computer Science major. I strongly disliked the advanced Calculus courses and could not imagine why we needed to take them. Since then I have worked in the industry as a Software Engineer for 14 years.
In retrospect I see that the time at the university was preparing me for the real world. The lesson was not that Math is important to a Software Engineering career, but that we often have to do things that we don't like to get to the stuff that we do like. I would LOVE to program all day (and sometimes I can), but there are all sorts of other things that Software Engineers have to do _and_ be good at to succeed at our jobs. We have to do all kinds of tasks that is not programming, fill out "TPS reports", be able to speak in front of other people, the good ones even have social skills (gasp!) to convince people to try their way or work with them to solve a problem. I dislike the extra tasks almost exactly as I disliked Calculus 3, but in the end, I got through it and will be a better Software Engineer because of it.
As far as the point that math turns away people that would be influential to the field of Computer Science. Tough. If they didn't have the fortitude to put up with stuff they do not like or are not good at they would likely be a prima donna in the workplace.
I knew of 12 people (10 female, 2 male) with the name Skye (and another 8 with it as their last name) in my high school of ~800, and there are 5 other high schools in my city.
Do any of the people you know have spare motorcycles? Perhaps you can help us solve the case!
> " ...if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. "
I resemble that remark!
As I read the article, I am currently in the basement of a large computer company writing code.
Our basements is not so bad, they light them up with artificial lights. Sometimes when I leave the building the sun hurts my eyes.
Does this mean there are Software Engineers that do *not* program in the basement? ... Absurd!
Many CEOs appear more like lawyers or salesmen/women. They may be very smart, but don't strike me as technical minded.
Running 4 different distributions of Linux implies a fair bit of technical knowledge, more than Windows and Mac usage. I find that I use more console commands in Linux than the other operating systems, and to know those commands requires reading man pages or other documentation, something that the average user may not do.
Each distribution of Linux can have different configuration commands and nuances. You may know how to configure the sound card on one distribution but another distribution can be totally different.
Linux comes pre-installed on only a few PCs, and I am going to assume the four systems didn't come with Linux. Most of the time you have to install and often configure it which is (and lets be honest) can be more difficult than Windows or Mac OS.
The bottom line is I don't know of many CEO type people that use Linux at home. I don't think the CEO of my company could do anything productive with Linux without significant help from technical staff, much less install and configure it at home for personal use.
I think the CEO candidate of a Linux company using Linux at home is noteworthy, relevant, and interesting.
I read the same kind of article when XP came out. People didn't want to leave 2000 to upgrade to XP, and as we all know that happened.
Articles like this don't offer too much insight. IT workers are resistant to change... BIG surprise there.
Yeah! How can you expect it to be like all those other slashdot articles that posters take the time to write up schematics?
Seriously when was the last time you read something detailed and helpful from posters here? It is more often lengthy rants, harsh criticism, or cut-and-paste from web sites.
The first Massive on-line sports game. EA 100 man dodge ball, or EA super Soccer.
I see your point but I still think it can be abused, by the lazy non-caring Americans.
How about an algorithm rating users based on how fast they return a movie? Higher volume will move you up on the priority list for the DVDs you select. The lower the raiting will result in a longer wait for your next movie, or you won't get priority over a high volume customer. This would reward people for watching a movie and sending it back soon.
...We have been here for years...
Seriously IBM has been insiting the mainframe has been the only platform for business computing. The eb and flow of the industry has agreed and disagreed. (Thin Client of the late 90's) This isn't news, the tide is just returning, it will go back out soon enough.
Women specialize in the mind games.
How many of us have been trapped by the question:
"Do I look fat in this dress?" or "Do these jeans make my butt look big?"
Logic dictates you answer a question honestly, she is asking for your opinion. But experience teaches us not to answer honestly.
The women are training us to lie to them.
I have had a laser disc transfer to DVD of the original movies for years. I had to order them when I read that Lucas would never release the movies in their original format.
Now the question is what do I do? Buy the new ones, or just keep my Mandolin knock off replicas?
I thought Tivo2Go was cool until I found this source forge project Galleon. It can do everything the Tivo2Go program can do and more. Which means it can transfer video to your PC, play mp3s, view photos from your PC!
One of the key features it has is the ability to put shows BACK on your Tivo. But that feature doesn't impress my friends as much as the email viewer, the movie listings, and the weather forecasts. I realize that MythTV has some of these features, but this improves the fun you can have with Tivo.
I am sure the slashdot crew could find even more interesting uses for this application (RSS feeds). And since the application supports plugins you can write you own Tivo apps.
I also appreciate that Tivo ALLOWS this kind of things on their box. They could be all "closed source" and shut programs like this down. They hold Tivo Developer Challenges to find more useful ways to use the Tivo. They know when people have hacked their Tivo and added a larger hard drive but choose not to shut them down.
I can't stress it enough. If you have Tivo, and you have a computer take a look at Galleon.
Great my Tivo gets another "feature".
I like my Tivo the way it is now. Does anyone know if there is a way to not get any more software updates from the Tivo service?
'Silence is Golden, but Duct tape is Silver' - Stolen sig.
The movie has flashes and slow pans of dead and decaying corpses.
The reaver scenes are very quick cut away shots that are more to surprise and shock than anything else.
There are no scenes that in my memory that are physical gore. I don't want to spoil the movie, there are no flesh eating scenes or the like. But let me again point to the slow pans of dead corpses, I guess that could be considered gory.
Serenity is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I have read some posts that some don't like going to the theater. In truth you don't have to see Serenity on the big screen to enjoy it. But please plan on seeing Serenity at some point, it is a GREAT story. I took 8 people to the preview last night (Tuesday) and every one of them enjoyed the movie. Even after I raved about it non stop. One of my friends said "This was the first movie that has been hyped up (mainly by me) and lived up to the hype."
Slashdot the theaters for the Serenity release.
- Bruzer
No this is not true. I saw the screening last June, and I saw a screening Tuesday night. They were the same movie.
Serenity ROCKS and in 2 more days everyone else will know that.
Go out and see the movie. Slashdot the theaters.
- Bruzer
Will glamorizing science in the movies make kids pay better attention in chemistry class?
This question is irrelevant and too narrow. Paying attention in Chemistry class has little to no effect on my choice of careers (Software Engineering). There are a variety of Engineering professions that do not involve Chemistry.
The question rephrased to "Would movies about Engineers make kids want become Engineers?" Would a movie influence a child's decision that will effect his/her whole life?
I participate in National Engineering week. Where Engineers from various fields go to middle school and high school classrooms to try to get kids excited about Math and Sciences in hopes they will look into an Engineering career. It is a great program and I believe that is making a difference in my community, but only time will tell.
One thing I use to motivate kids into chosing an Engineering profession is a picture of my motorcycle (with an explanation that you can afford a decent lifestyle as an Engineer). That seems to get some interest, but I also like to think I have a good personality.
- Bruzer
WinVi is already a name of a product that I use when forced to edit text documents in Windows.
http://www.winvi.de/en/
As the name implys it is a nice little VI edtior for windowos. Small footprint and familiar navigation.
- Bruzer
Your statement is too broad to be taken seriously. You clearly could not have a grasp of all the motherboard manufacturers' specifications on flashing the BIOS. Just as you could clearly not read my mind to know what OS that I am using on that computer.
I purchased my motherboard in 2005 and as far as I could tell there was no way to flash from the OS. It came down to the tools available from the manufacturer and there was flash option for my OS or any other that I could find for my motherboard.
I contest that I still need floppies. If you don't need floppies, then good for you.
I built a computer this year and because I read on slashdot that floppies are dead I didn't buy one.
My computer worked fine, until I wanted to flash my BIOS. The only way my motherboard could be flashed was by creating a boot disk with thier custom exe file.
I had to buy a $10 floppy drive to flash my BIOS.
I still need them.
There is a lot of people lusting after the bikini so I thought I would share the link.
... please:
Don't slashdot this site
http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/
They include directions on how to make one for all you do it your selfers. Now all you need is a woman willing to wear it. *good luck*