And what happens to private initiative and ingenuity? Companies arent responsible for employing people, companies are often started to make people financially independent (from other companies).
Then those blue collar folks are shit out of luck along with a lot of the white colalr folks because there is no place to go.
Sounds more like soviet russia to me. In the US people are personally responsible for their fate. That's a tremendous responsibility and maybe the founding fathers were too forward looking to think that humanity was ready for anything that radical.
In the USA john makes $100k a month and is not responsible for jack who makes $1k - in Sweden (and most other european social democracies) the fates of people are much more intertwined by government services.
It's a choice, and John who makes $100k has every reason to be upset having to pay 20 times as much as Jack.
Taxation isn't fair. Every so often you vote people into office who take a huge chunck out of your income and you have very little control over what they do with it. And even all the money you pay now isnt enough for them because they still find reason to racket up a huge national debt as well.
You might want to group together, talk to your employer and suggest they outsource IT - to your own new company. Then you can charge them anything between $100 and $150 an hour. Perhaps it would be beneficial to your relationship with management to paint them a picture of what it would cost them to have an external IT company do all the work you do at a rate of $75 an hour or more. Naturally the risk you run is that they'll find a company in India to do your work....
I checked this discussion, didn't find any reference to the GREAT tool of exporting to.swf (flash) in the new openoffice beta. Open an impress or ms ppt file and simply export it to swf. You can then embed these into webpages or "play" them fullscreen. Like export to pdf or html its a beta feature that could really use (and probably will) receive some additional features. But its a great tool to quickly slap togethet a presentation.
Isn't it the medium? Media companies could charge for content because the content had to be sold on a carrier medium, clay tablets, paper, vinyl, plastic.. The internet changes all that. The internet will cause content-creator and end user to contract directly and the middle men will be out of luck. DRM won't ever work because total control is a political illusion with no real footing in reality.
It's not just MS and Oracle that have to be afraid of the `commoditization' that linux/mysql/open source cause. Everything moves towards it.
A better question would be "who can deny having been (directly) influenced..." since literature is part of the makeup of who we are there is no way to deny it.
yeah it was badly worded.. what i meant to say is that I dont need to mount my home dir or so from a different server in which case nfs would have to do. for now.
As for replacing unix or windows: we just live in this snapshot timeframe. In 50/100 years what we now know as linux will be so ubiquitous as to be invisible.
Linux isnt replacing windows mostly because of marketing and brand name effects. It has nothing to do at this point in time with ease of use or the availability of applications. It's all in the mind.
Seperate camps - nobody in his/her right mind would use lindows as a server OS (unless its for quake3 or so). And nobody would really need to consider using redhat advanced server as a home desktop OS since mandrake and other distros are primarily desktop linux distros.
Building all this stuff into the kernel is nice for all parties. Enterprise extensions help the desktop side in terms of stability and often speed as well. Distro people will be making choices and baking kernels that support a subset of all thats potentially supported.
I guess I have to add that I don't need to mount anything into my filesystem. If you want users to access files on other machines kde 3.1's konqueror goes where no other ap has ever gone before. Thanks to KDE's integration you can open kwrite (text editor) (or quanta, web stuff editor) and type in stfp://user@host/directory - you then open the remote directory in the open file dialogue. You can bookmark the directory right there. You can edit the remote file and save it where it resides.. Apart from sftp it also supports ftp, samba, nfs, http, and hosts of other protocols. It's extremely powerful.
Where did I see this ad for software for the fragile business? ID software? Quake3 arena?!! What's agile? when you can frag-ile them more rapidly than your peers. It's agile to sell to them fragile-minded business people a package, software with a membership fee that will be a drain on their resources. It's software for the fragile business so that competitors with the agile OS can slam dunk em off the market with lower prices... agile software development.. what a buzzword! Maybe its GOOD but why use a tainted term?
From the sounds of it the EU just managed to backtrack 600 years or so in the judicial system. Way to go!
Don't believe everything you hear. Monti's office has a lot of power but it is a power assigned to it by some of the oldest and best functioning democracies on the planet.
the viewport is where when you move your mouse offscreen, the desktop moves the other way - applications moved offscreen are moved to the next "virtual desktop". The viewport just shows a part of a much larger desktop. So if you have a res of 1600x1200 you can have a "scrolling desktop" of 3200x2400 where your screen just shows a "viewport" of a quarter of it.
KDE 3.1 unfortunately does not have that. You can switch to the next virtual desktop with what you described. I use it a lot - but i wish viewport was an option.
My "dead code" (or rather undead since it could be alive) "lives" within/* */ - not compiled: no issue.
They're not an outside group. If you track their histories - Dawson Engler studied under Frans Kaashoek who studied under Andrew S. Tanenbaum who is the father of Minix which is the precursor to Linux. They're all fairly famous in their line of work and have done massive amounts of work & research that usually ends up in a bsd, unix or linux.
You'll need to substantiate your claims a bit. FreeBSD 5.0 has been a long time in coming, hasn't officially been released, and here you are claiming its buggy. Links, package names, no fud.
it's not a law. This is an international problem for which a law will most likely never come into being.
Imagine I am your next door neighbour and I have a dead animal on my porch, the stench and health hazard is more than an annoyance to you. You can take action against that by removing the dead animal from my space but you would enter my premises doing so. Instead you can call the police or any other agency that might take the trouble to show up and deal with it.
On the internet there is no 911. There is an uplink admin that might take action but the uplink might have a legal obligation to keep the link up. If the attacks take up a significant portion of your bandwidth you are seriously compromised, you are probably paying for the bandwidth the attacker is using while trying to compromise your system.
Taking out the worm on the attacking system is what one could call a "surgical strike", you deal with it.
It could be illegal to do so and for this you take responsibility.
But is it immoral? Those here who seem to argue from a moral perspective saying it's wrong to try to stop worm attacks by entering and killing the worm on the attacking machine apparently are not server admins themselves. When you are under attack all you want is for it to stop.
I am describing an experience, I wasn't exactly claiming to be a popinjay. Quite the opposite (in my mind - although I've never had anyone tell me otherwise!). I got the powerbook not as a fashion accessory but as a tool to get the job done. Imagine my surprise when it actually *helped me to sell my stuff*.
The difference between apple and most other brands is that apple's branding works extremely well, they have created an image of excellence that is continually reinforced by excellent products. There's a tendency in/. to quickly associates any corporate intent with those of (MS) Steve Ballmer and people of similar reputation and lack of dancing skill. But that closes the door on any companies, ceo's, plans, technologies or whatever driven by people that are nuts enough to go against the grain and who are also at the same time out to make a buck!
As for apples open source contributions: theres darwin, theres safari, there are countless OS programs that benefit from running natively on osx (apache, mysql, etc) and receiving input from apple users and apple's programmers.
You may get a bit of a wow factor when you carry around a flat laptop like that - or a laptop with a detachable screen and winxp tablet edition.
But... carrying around a mac powerbook g4 laptop.. maybe its something you need to experience. I can tell you it's weird to have what is just a productivity tool impart such a message to the people that see you use it. I've been a PC person since I got an IBM PC running at 4.77 mhz, built my own rigs and bought average laptops from nondescript brands.. Nothing to prepare me for the experience of having my laptop computer be a hot fashion article. Its very interesting.
When i bought my powerbook with osx it was too soon, things didnt really roll until the 10.0.4 release. I was sucked in by their excellent marketing of the powerbook g4 running a gorgeous open sourceOS. Call me a sucker but apples marketing department sure knows what its doing! Still I felt resentment over buying (into) something that didn't live up to what I thought I would get.
But right now things are different. OSX is sweet, my powerbook g4 at 400mhz might not sound like a powerhouse but it's sexy. No matter what I run on it or do with it it conveys an image that I am stylish, that I value quality over other considerations such as cost and speed. That I think different. Even though I am a programmer I really noticed that this laptop made me stand out. If you're meeting creative people commercially the powerbook does the selling for you, it tells them you are no lummox. In many many fields the thing the apple brand means and conveys about its owner is a priceless add on.
I have to say i mostly run mandrake 9.0 cooker on the powerbook G4. With KDE 3.1 beta. People who have never seen osx but heard about it sometimes think Im running OSX and they comment on how beautiful it is. Yeah KDE 3.1 is gorgeous! It runs very well on the 400mhz G4. But all that's besides the point. (albeit it does show that its hardware rather than software that appeals!)
Apple did something with its brand that very very few companies have done. They created incredible value; Apple appeals to people. You dont get that with your dell or toshiba or even an alienware rig.
This is really exciting, y'all. This is the way free software is supposed to work.
Good posts! And I totally agree, I have been waiting for months for the release of KDE 3.1. I am a huge fan of KDE because the konqueror browser and its KIO slaves (allowing the thing to be browser, file manager, ftp, smb, sftp, nfs etc etc client all in one) have changed the way I can do my work for the better. Now apple is hopping on board and all their good work will trickle back into the KDE project.
All apple needs now is to plug some IBM g4s into their boxen!
I got winxp a year ago (for my adobe apps) and I am happy to say its much more stable than win98.
Still, windows explorer and msie freeze on a regular basis. Also Mozilla does bork out at moments. I've had a few instances where I had to reboot the machine.
As to a linux desktop - when my kde 3.1 beta freezes i can ssh in from another box and kill the process that freezes my machine. But if i run icewm on it instead chances of a lockup are much less. Thats a choice that can be made:)
The oldest webserver that I admin is a linux box running on a (then new) 400 mhz celeron. The only downtime it had was for kernel updates and one move to a new colo. It never destabilized by itself. Thats about 4 years of stability.
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Then those blue collar folks are shit out of luck along with a lot of the white colalr folks because there is no place to go.
Sounds more like soviet russia to me. In the US people are personally responsible for their fate. That's a tremendous responsibility and maybe the founding fathers were too forward looking to think that humanity was ready for anything that radical.
In the USA john makes $100k a month and is not responsible for jack who makes $1k - in Sweden (and most other european social democracies) the fates of people are much more intertwined by government services.
It's a choice, and John who makes $100k has every reason to be upset having to pay 20 times as much as Jack.
Taxation isn't fair. Every so often you vote people into office who take a huge chunck out of your income and you have very little control over what they do with it. And even all the money you pay now isnt enough for them because they still find reason to racket up a huge national debt as well.
You might want to group together, talk to your employer and suggest they outsource IT - to your own new company. Then you can charge them anything between $100 and $150 an hour. Perhaps it would be beneficial to your relationship with management to paint them a picture of what it would cost them to have an external IT company do all the work you do at a rate of $75 an hour or more. Naturally the risk you run is that they'll find a company in India to do your work....
I checked this discussion, didn't find any reference to the GREAT tool of exporting to .swf (flash) in the new openoffice beta. Open an impress or ms ppt file and simply export it to swf. You can then embed these into webpages or "play" them fullscreen. Like export to pdf or html its a beta feature that could really use (and probably will) receive some additional features. But its a great tool to quickly slap togethet a presentation.
Isn't it the medium? Media companies could charge for content because the content had to be sold on a carrier medium, clay tablets, paper, vinyl, plastic.. The internet changes all that. The internet will cause content-creator and end user to contract directly and the middle men will be out of luck. DRM won't ever work because total control is a political illusion with no real footing in reality.
It's not just MS and Oracle that have to be afraid of the `commoditization' that linux/mysql/open source cause. Everything moves towards it.
Back to the days of greek theater....
A better question would be "who can deny having been (directly) influenced..." since literature is part of the makeup of who we are there is no way to deny it.
i dont. it's a url, its secure, it allows me access to any file on a zillion servers..
yeah it was badly worded.. what i meant to say is that I dont need to mount my home dir or so from a different server in which case nfs would have to do. for now.
As for replacing unix or windows: we just live in this snapshot timeframe. In 50/100 years what we now know as linux will be so ubiquitous as to be invisible.
Linux isnt replacing windows mostly because of marketing and brand name effects. It has nothing to do at this point in time with ease of use or the availability of applications. It's all in the mind.
Seperate camps - nobody in his/her right mind would use lindows as a server OS (unless its for quake3 or so). And nobody would really need to consider using redhat advanced server as a home desktop OS since mandrake and other distros are primarily desktop linux distros.
Building all this stuff into the kernel is nice for all parties. Enterprise extensions help the desktop side in terms of stability and often speed as well. Distro people will be making choices and baking kernels that support a subset of all thats potentially supported.
I guess I have to add that I don't need to mount anything into my filesystem. If you want users to access files on other machines kde 3.1's konqueror goes where no other ap has ever gone before. Thanks to KDE's integration you can open kwrite (text editor) (or quanta, web stuff editor) and type in stfp://user@host/directory - you then open the remote directory in the open file dialogue. You can bookmark the directory right there. You can edit the remote file and save it where it resides.. Apart from sftp it also supports ftp, samba, nfs, http, and hosts of other protocols. It's extremely powerful.
if he could define the problem it could be fixed.
since kde 3.1 we've started to use konqueror's sftp kioslave. sweet!
Where did I see this ad for software for the fragile business? ID software? Quake3 arena?!! What's agile? when you can frag-ile them more rapidly than your peers. It's agile to sell to them fragile-minded business people a package, software with a membership fee that will be a drain on their resources. It's software for the fragile business so that competitors with the agile OS can slam dunk em off the market with lower prices... agile software development.. what a buzzword! Maybe its GOOD but why use a tainted term?
From the sounds of it the EU just managed to backtrack 600 years or so in the judicial system. Way to go!
Don't believe everything you hear. Monti's office has a lot of power but it is a power assigned to it by some of the oldest and best functioning democracies on the planet.
the viewport is where when you move your mouse offscreen, the desktop moves the other way - applications moved offscreen are moved to the next "virtual desktop". The viewport just shows a part of a much larger desktop. So if you have a res of 1600x1200 you can have a "scrolling desktop" of 3200x2400 where your screen just shows a "viewport" of a quarter of it.
KDE 3.1 unfortunately does not have that. You can switch to the next virtual desktop with what you described. I use it a lot - but i wish viewport was an option.
My "dead code" (or rather undead since it could be alive) "lives" within /* */ - not compiled: no issue.
They're not an outside group. If you track their histories - Dawson Engler studied under Frans Kaashoek who studied under Andrew S. Tanenbaum who is the father of Minix which is the precursor to Linux. They're all fairly famous in their line of work and have done massive amounts of work & research that usually ends up in a bsd, unix or linux.
You'll need to substantiate your claims a bit. FreeBSD 5.0 has been a long time in coming, hasn't officially been released, and here you are claiming its buggy. Links, package names, no fud.
it's not a law. This is an international problem for which a law will most likely never come into being.
Imagine I am your next door neighbour and I have a dead animal on my porch, the stench and health hazard is more than an annoyance to you. You can take action against that by removing the dead animal from my space but you would enter my premises doing so. Instead you can call the police or any other agency that might take the trouble to show up and deal with it.
On the internet there is no 911. There is an uplink admin that might take action but the uplink might have a legal obligation to keep the link up. If the attacks take up a significant portion of your bandwidth you are seriously compromised, you are probably paying for the bandwidth the attacker is using while trying to compromise your system.
Taking out the worm on the attacking system is what one could call a "surgical strike", you deal with it.
It could be illegal to do so and for this you take responsibility.
But is it immoral? Those here who seem to argue from a moral perspective saying it's wrong to try to stop worm attacks by entering and killing the worm on the attacking machine apparently are not server admins themselves. When you are under attack all you want is for it to stop.
I am describing an experience, I wasn't exactly claiming to be a popinjay. Quite the opposite (in my mind - although I've never had anyone tell me otherwise!). I got the powerbook not as a fashion accessory but as a tool to get the job done. Imagine my surprise when it actually *helped me to sell my stuff*.
/. to quickly associates any corporate intent with those of (MS) Steve Ballmer and people of similar reputation and lack of dancing skill. But that closes the door on any companies, ceo's, plans, technologies or whatever driven by people that are nuts enough to go against the grain and who are also at the same time out to make a buck!
The difference between apple and most other brands is that apple's branding works extremely well, they have created an image of excellence that is continually reinforced by excellent products. There's a tendency in
As for apples open source contributions: theres darwin, theres safari, there are countless OS programs that benefit from running natively on osx (apache, mysql, etc) and receiving input from apple users and apple's programmers.
You may get a bit of a wow factor when you carry around a flat laptop like that - or a laptop with a detachable screen and winxp tablet edition.
... carrying around a mac powerbook g4 laptop .. maybe its something you need to experience. I can tell you it's weird to have what is just a productivity tool impart such a message to the people that see you use it. I've been a PC person since I got an IBM PC running at 4.77 mhz, built my own rigs and bought average laptops from nondescript brands.. Nothing to prepare me for the experience of having my laptop computer be a hot fashion article. Its very interesting.
But
When i bought my powerbook with osx it was too soon, things didnt really roll until the 10.0.4 release. I was sucked in by their excellent marketing of the powerbook g4 running a gorgeous open sourceOS. Call me a sucker but apples marketing department sure knows what its doing! Still I felt resentment over buying (into) something that didn't live up to what I thought I would get.
But right now things are different. OSX is sweet, my powerbook g4 at 400mhz might not sound like a powerhouse but it's sexy. No matter what I run on it or do with it it conveys an image that I am stylish, that I value quality over other considerations such as cost and speed. That I think different. Even though I am a programmer I really noticed that this laptop made me stand out. If you're meeting creative people commercially the powerbook does the selling for you, it tells them you are no lummox. In many many fields the thing the apple brand means and conveys about its owner is a priceless add on.
I have to say i mostly run mandrake 9.0 cooker on the powerbook G4. With KDE 3.1 beta. People who have never seen osx but heard about it sometimes think Im running OSX and they comment on how beautiful it is. Yeah KDE 3.1 is gorgeous! It runs very well on the 400mhz G4. But all that's besides the point. (albeit it does show that its hardware rather than software that appeals!)
Apple did something with its brand that very very few companies have done. They created incredible value; Apple appeals to people. You dont get that with your dell or toshiba or even an alienware rig.
They are doing something - dont hold your breath but I dont think they're not working on a 64 bit version for OSX.
Good posts! And I totally agree, I have been waiting for months for the release of KDE 3.1. I am a huge fan of KDE because the konqueror browser and its KIO slaves (allowing the thing to be browser, file manager, ftp, smb, sftp, nfs etc etc client all in one) have changed the way I can do my work for the better. Now apple is hopping on board and all their good work will trickle back into the KDE project.
All apple needs now is to plug some IBM g4s into their boxen!
I got winxp a year ago (for my adobe apps) and I am happy to say its much more stable than win98.
:)
Still, windows explorer and msie freeze on a regular basis. Also Mozilla does bork out at moments. I've had a few instances where I had to reboot the machine.
As to a linux desktop - when my kde 3.1 beta freezes i can ssh in from another box and kill the process that freezes my machine. But if i run icewm on it instead chances of a lockup are much less. Thats a choice that can be made
The oldest webserver that I admin is a linux box running on a (then new) 400 mhz celeron. The only downtime it had was for kernel updates and one move to a new colo. It never destabilized by itself. Thats about 4 years of stability.
And windows is stable as opposed to what, California around the San Andreas faultline?