Seriously, the more information you can document into runbooks, the easier his ramp-up will be. Don't be afraid to be verbose, and work with him to fill the knowledge gaps.
WSUS allows for you to track patches and installed software much easier. It works as a pretty good gatekeeper for that sort of stuff. I'd recommend it.
As for dealing with CAB boards, just use logic and reason to destroy them and crush their spirits.
From what I recall from the hunting laws, you had to have a 72-hour "cooling down" period after using a helicopter or aircraft to spot animals.
Honestly, we (my father and I) were more interested in terrain issues than we were the animals. You want to try to find the path of least resistance, and also making sure that we could actually cross specific rivers, and at what points they were broken open during the winter time. At some places the snow would be so deep that if you stepped wrong, you would be up to your neck almost instantly. That doesn't even count making sure that you weren't in a hunting route for a grizzly bear, which makes things even more difficult. Having something that is the size of a VW beetle running at you full-bore at around 40 MPH is not something I want to ever repeat. It was hard living. It was more a survival thing for us.
Every winter, there was a herd of about 400,000 caribou that would come within about 50 miles of town. Honestly, getting to the animals was the hard part. Getting one was as easy as taking a 200 yard shot with a high-powered rifle.
Keep in mind that where I lived, we were 500 miles away from any major city, and the only way in and out was by aircraft. We actually lived off of what we killed and made use of it. We weren't out there looking for the big racks. We were doing it for survival, and we also followed the rules.
Why couldn't they have done this like.. 3 years ago when I was still living there?!
Grr. Now I'm stuck in the cultureless wasteland known as Phoenix Arizona. Least mountain view has a history to it. SGI, Netscape, Cobalt, Handspring... Phoenix has crackheads and cactuses. God's ashtray. Least the rent's cheap.
I'm so friggin jealous, minus the rent prices out there.
What next? Users attack hardware vendors for not releasing drivers for graphics cards? Political parties make screensavers which overload the web servers of the opposition? We do not want to go there.
You know, that's not a terrible idea. I have an XGI Volari V5 in my laptop for work, and would love xinerama support.
I hate to sound like an asshole, but after working at netscape for 3 years, then getting laid off, and my next job being as a cable TV/Phone installer in phoenix arizona, I'd kill for a job in the IT industry again.
Fuck the deadlines, after digging 200ft trenches through rocks, sand, and wet grass, in 115 degree heat day in and day out, playing in attics that reach 160 degrees in the mid-day sun, I'd kill a job in a nice air conditioned cubicle.
Seriously, if your job sucks so much, give it up for someone who will appreciate it more, and don't bitch about it. I've been searching for a job in the tech industry out here in phoenix since january of 2003. I'm still unemployed, and have been looking for a UNIX Sysadmin/Release engineering job.
How about this: give me your job, and you can be an unemployed single father who's wife left you after you lost your job, because you're not raking in 93,000 dollars a year anymore. Try raising a kid off of food stamps, unemployment, and public healthcare, and be happy you've got a fucking job, unlike millions all over the country.
Mine was cable television equipment though. 5 scientific america boxes, to be exact.
Anyhow, they caught the dumbass, who tried to plug in the stolen boxes to see if they worked. Cox can tell you exactly where those boxes are on the network down to the tap port, then all you need is to look at the tag and see which house the line goes to.
Anyhow, in the end, the cops didn't do shit to help me get my stuff back. Cox did though.
This might sound odd, but isn't tuxracer closed source? They haven't released an open-source version in like, 3 years. On top of that, uhm.. I just checked the webpage, and they don't even offer a ppc port. I haven't even heard of chromium or bzflag.
Nothing amazing's gonna happen in the linux gaming world till id finishes up Doom 3. That's kinda a given. When that happens, then we'll see the comeback we had before. And while you're bitching about your closed-source drivers, I'm gonna be using them, on my x86 linux box, fragging demons.
I know this kinda seems like a silly question, but what 3d applications and games run on linuxPPC, that'd require a 3d driver. I mean, for X, and console, why not just use framebuffer? I mean, it should work right? (I don't know, because I haven't owned an ATI card in about.... I'd say 7 years now)
Why do you need to port to sparc, or alpha, or anything else? Last time I checked, I didn't think there was a linux PPC port of quake III.
Dunno. I have nvidia cards all around. I don't do anything that requires 3d acceleration.
I know you want the option and everything, and you want to keep the kernel "pure", and all that bullshit, but seriously, you don't need 3d support. If you wanna play games, you're gonna get a windows box anyhow.
Don't make me sound like a windows lover or anything, I'm just being realistic.
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pdf.js is great for parsing and manipulating pdfs.
I can't go into great detail as to how I've used it (Still under NDA), but it's rendering and manipulating of pdfs is pretty darn good.
As for converting office formats to pdf, your best bet is to use office automation. It can be built to scale up, but it needs a lot of work to do so.
Seriously, the more information you can document into runbooks, the easier his ramp-up will be. Don't be afraid to be verbose, and work with him to fill the knowledge gaps.
WSUS allows for you to track patches and installed software much easier. It works as a pretty good gatekeeper for that sort of stuff. I'd recommend it.
As for dealing with CAB boards, just use logic and reason to destroy them and crush their spirits.
From what I recall from the hunting laws, you had to have a 72-hour "cooling down" period after using a helicopter or aircraft to spot animals.
Honestly, we (my father and I) were more interested in terrain issues than we were the animals. You want to try to find the path of least resistance, and also making sure that we could actually cross specific rivers, and at what points they were broken open during the winter time. At some places the snow would be so deep that if you stepped wrong, you would be up to your neck almost instantly. That doesn't even count making sure that you weren't in a hunting route for a grizzly bear, which makes things even more difficult. Having something that is the size of a VW beetle running at you full-bore at around 40 MPH is not something I want to ever repeat. It was hard living. It was more a survival thing for us.
Every winter, there was a herd of about 400,000 caribou that would come within about 50 miles of town. Honestly, getting to the animals was the hard part. Getting one was as easy as taking a 200 yard shot with a high-powered rifle.
Keep in mind that where I lived, we were 500 miles away from any major city, and the only way in and out was by aircraft. We actually lived off of what we killed and made use of it. We weren't out there looking for the big racks. We were doing it for survival, and we also followed the rules.
Uhm.. it does have RAID functionality.
Look at This Picture.
Anyone else notice that they stated that there wasn't a windows version of Pidgin?
You might call it violent porn, but I call it HOT!!
Did anyone else notice that the guy who sells garden gear's last name was mowery?
To be honest, I think it's a great thing. Least I know that they're following protocol. The guy did exactly what he was supposed to do.
As for the software, all software has bugs. I'm just glad that someone found out that it wasn't something terrible getting on a plane.
Anyone notice that the previous article is about how the EFF has outlived it's usefulness?
Why couldn't they have done this like.. 3 years ago when I was still living there?!
Grr. Now I'm stuck in the cultureless wasteland known as Phoenix Arizona. Least mountain view has a history to it. SGI, Netscape, Cobalt, Handspring... Phoenix has crackheads and cactuses. God's ashtray. Least the rent's cheap.
I'm so friggin jealous, minus the rent prices out there.
Stay out of politics. It makes you look retarded.
Actually, the motivator then was the cold war.
You remember the cold war, right? You know, the pesky russians?
yeah, I'm talking in a production environment.
is microsoft just shooting themselves in the foot again? I'm scared shitless of XP SP2, I can't imagine this being much better.
What next? Users attack hardware vendors for not releasing drivers for graphics cards? Political parties make screensavers which overload the web servers of the opposition? We do not want to go there.
You know, that's not a terrible idea. I have an XGI Volari V5 in my laptop for work, and would love xinerama support.
what if someone shakes it up?
Directions located at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Goddamn, that makes me feel geeky.
I hate to sound like an asshole, but after working at netscape for 3 years, then getting laid off, and my next job being as a cable TV/Phone installer in phoenix arizona, I'd kill for a job in the IT industry again.
Fuck the deadlines, after digging 200ft trenches through rocks, sand, and wet grass, in 115 degree heat day in and day out, playing in attics that reach 160 degrees in the mid-day sun, I'd kill a job in a nice air conditioned cubicle.
Seriously, if your job sucks so much, give it up for someone who will appreciate it more, and don't bitch about it. I've been searching for a job in the tech industry out here in phoenix since january of 2003. I'm still unemployed, and have been looking for a UNIX Sysadmin/Release engineering job.
How about this: give me your job, and you can be an unemployed single father who's wife left you after you lost your job, because you're not raking in 93,000 dollars a year anymore. Try raising a kid off of food stamps, unemployment, and public healthcare, and be happy you've got a fucking job, unlike millions all over the country.
who cares? it's still stupid.
I know this might sound silly, but here's a really simple answer for you:
DON'T OPEN-SOURCE IT!!!
I had the same thing happen, myself.
Mine was cable television equipment though. 5 scientific america boxes, to be exact.
Anyhow, they caught the dumbass, who tried to plug in the stolen boxes to see if they worked. Cox can tell you exactly where those boxes are on the network down to the tap port, then all you need is to look at the tag and see which house the line goes to.
Anyhow, in the end, the cops didn't do shit to help me get my stuff back. Cox did though.
This might sound odd, but isn't tuxracer closed source? They haven't released an open-source version in like, 3 years. On top of that, uhm.. I just checked the webpage, and they don't even offer a ppc port.
I haven't even heard of chromium or bzflag.
Nothing amazing's gonna happen in the linux gaming world till id finishes up Doom 3. That's kinda a given. When that happens, then we'll see the comeback we had before. And while you're bitching about your closed-source drivers, I'm gonna be using them, on my x86 linux box, fragging demons.
kthx, drive through.
I know this kinda seems like a silly question, but what 3d applications and games run on linuxPPC, that'd require a 3d driver. I mean, for X, and console, why not just use framebuffer? I mean, it should work right? (I don't know, because I haven't owned an ATI card in about.... I'd say 7 years now)
Why do you need to port to sparc, or alpha, or anything else? Last time I checked, I didn't think there was a linux PPC port of quake III.
Dunno. I have nvidia cards all around. I don't do anything that requires 3d acceleration.
I know you want the option and everything, and you want to keep the kernel "pure", and all that bullshit, but seriously, you don't need 3d support. If you wanna play games, you're gonna get a windows box anyhow.
Don't make me sound like a windows lover or anything, I'm just being realistic.
hrm
xfce uses xml for their configuration files, so that's not legitimate.