normally i would say this just adds more weight to my argument in favor of spreading linux everywhere i possibly can - but one paragraph caught my attention:
Linux, along with Solaris, also came out ahead of Windows in terms of administration costs, despite the fact that it's less expensive to hire Windows system administrators. The average Windows administrator in the study earned $68,500 a year, while Linux sys admins took home $71,400, and those with Solaris skills were paid $85,844. The Windows technicians, however, only managed an average of 10 machines each, while Linux or Solaris admins can generally handle several times that.
so now i must revise my sig to acknowledge the peer relationship with Sun *sigh*
just installed this over the weekend on my SuSE 8 StinkPad and i have officially removed all other browsers except opera (i can't live without it...) one of my co-workers had me trying release 0.1, and it wasn't bad, but it didn't have proxy support and a couple of things were buggy. talk about a huge update! 0.2 is sweeeet, get it now.
what's the subtle message in the exclusion of iPlanet, WebSphere, JBoss, etc. with the summary line: "Application server setup - BEA Weblogic only"
no doubt in my mind BEA makes a helluva product, but i'm surprised the king of the open source publications doesn't have an entire section devoted to Building Enterprise Java Applications with _______ (insert your favorite jakarta packages here)
"... this option [interoperability] could be part of a 1.1 specification... "
kinda sounds like a w3c statement about a new standard protocol or language. amazing how ballmer & co. said this would "have little chance of mattering". gee, looks like it matters now. big banks, all the major credit companies, several of the web's biggest commerce fronts - i'd call that a strong base of interest and support for Liberty.
maybe they need a 3rd party to mediate so everyone plays nice for a while
if you install kde-bindings for konqueror when you install KDE then it uses the mozilla engine to render HTML/CSS/JavaScript etc. when you surf. however, i don't believe installing kde-bindings exempts konqueror from this problem - Security is handled in a separate module within the Control Center. anyone know otherwise?
... if you want to lose weight, keep moving north =) side benefit: weaker field near the poles means you are somewhat less likely to get nailed by de-orbiting satellites - natural or otherwise.
... but i think i could do a better job representing HP in the public eye with 2 ozs of propriety and a sense of humor. sometimes it is truly amazing how much happens in a company's name before they are even aware of it - and even more amazing is the fact that they continue to let it happen over and over again simply because they don't understand the negative side of having lawyers and PR types aware of each other at all. lock 'em away in different boxes, folks, and we'll all get along better.
... just so i can be closer to this incredible collection. i'm an avid reader of many genres, but i do admit to enjoying sci-fi more than most. i wonder if i can convince anyone here that i need a sabbatical for, oh say, three or four years to explore the impact of sci-fi literature on the dawn of the 21st century. the amazing stories archive alone will take a couple of months... what the hell, i'm going to try!
i'd be calling for help if i was using something called MSNTV, because it certainly wouldn't be my choice. maybe the little boxes are simply crying out for help...
i'm not saying it's not a growth area - just that it is not treated as a focus of RedHat and UnitedLinux and therefore is not getting the kind of attention that keeps a distro alive. i do use SuSE (servers, usually) and RedHat (ThinkPads) and Debian (@ home): TurboLinux doesn't play in the same league, so i wonder if their inclusion in UnitedLinux is simply a way to extend the already broad reach of SuSE outside the US. i tried a recent distribution of TL just for kicks, and aside from their good kanji setup - which SuSE already has down pretty well - i didn't see a strong selling point. you know of course, that this is simply my opinion =)
giving them any market share outside of the pacific rim, turbolinux might have a small following of users in the u.s. and europe desiring proven IA-64 support (they were first to the linux market) or a really nice stable desktop for application development (ok, so no one i know personally...). i get the impression they are part of united linux because of the strength of their usability - but SuSE is so gosh-darn usable i don't see that being their contribution to the group. their focus on the rim and a largely marginalized sector of this century's growth in professional and business computing is going to make it tough for them to make it on their own or as part of united linux.
terry also did some bits of the python movies, and a movie that i would rank above brazil - the fisher king (robin williams, jeff bridges, mercedes ruehl). his complete list is actually pretty impressive for a "writer". this has the potential to be a good flick.
i've had a RIM BlackBerry for about 6 months, and about 2 months ago it stopped seating correctly in the cradle. the cradle was replaced, but i still have to rock it into place to make sure it is actually charging (tho it always makes a solid connection without hassle). 3 others on the same floor have had the exact same problem...
on the high end, we've gotten a bunch of sunfire 280r servers this year, and 25% have had some kind of serious hardware problem requiring major overhauls or complete replacement. none of them are more than 3 months old.
in both cases, it is fair to remember that both companies have been shipping their product in high volumes and probably don't do the QA that's really necessary to guarantee the best quality.
... my wife is going to get really mad at me for all the CDs i buy after listening to Radio Paradise. i think this site has caused more havoc in my checking account than any other music-related stimulus since the advent of the CD player!
as several posters mentioned, we can't view this as a victory - not yet, probably not ever. the RAC has many fights ahead, and anyone who listens to internet radio should try to help: details here.
this looks like typical micro$oft, but consider this: though their software tends to be bug-ridden, exploitable, unstable, exploitable, bloated, exploitable etc etc etc, i doubt you'll find too many workstations in the respective security agencies of the US running anything other than some flavor of windows. do we really want those terrorists who have the means and the skills zooming around hacked PCs all over the Pentagon checking satellite fly-over schedules and watching realtime deployments of troops in the field?
don't get me wrong, i am a linux user and very happy about it (ditto for solaris and hpux) and i love watching the evil empire squirm, but let's excoriate micro$oft for the injustices they already do to _this_ country, and limit the exposure of the code to competitors that can keep the knowledge secure... at least for now.
that supports their business model, though i'm not sure i trust the motives after the aquisition of musicland. i worked at a sam goody's long ago, and making the sale was drilled into my brain the very first day. they are concerned about profits (hey, it's a retailer, they should be) but they are also hyper-protective of a distribution model that should be part of a channel, not the whole damn thing. having people come in and get a sales pitch and buy a cd or 20 is all well and good, but i think there's an increasing number of people buying online - and i bet it's not from best buy or musicland as much as it is cdnow and amazon (http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/20 01/07/23/daily5.html)
i should have noted that i'm looking at this from the enterprise world, where the strengths of YaST outweigh the strengths of building a system from source. i was commenting more on the reference to sysadmins being like wizards; my feeling is SuSE makes me feel like a wizard sysadmin, even though i'm not (and i'm not saying this is a good thing!) - but you can still do essentially the same thing as SGL by booting the filesystem virtually and doing the SuSEConfig by hand. you just won't see me doing it;-)
i like the thought behind SGL, but i think SuSE has kinda beaten everybody (except perhaps debian) with the update/config tools in YaST2. `/sbin/yast2 online_update` with an internet connection and usually before you can get a 2nd cup of coffee, there's a nice list of packages to download and update/install, all pertinent to your system. my only desire is for http connections for high-security areas that don't have ftp access...
i can watch cnn.com, read one of several (insert city here) times/daily/post newspapers, and listen to npr at most airports. why would i want to expose my laptop to airsnort (unless they are giving everyone their own WEP key or cert - heh) just to read slashdot and find out that the whole thing's been cancelled for lack of ROI just as my link gets cut???
i think it would be more useful to have kioks like gatwick where you can jack into a pvt space and fire up your favorite PPTP client. a small service fee to hook up and you're on your way to reading about what's really important, like the TCP/IP enabled lego brick...
so many references to "micro$oft and sun facing the new threat of linux..." isn't ms the only one really facing a "threat"? solaris is good for some things, linux is good for others (both are happy on those new sunfires!) and together they make a pretty solid scalable world. perhaps we need -openworld- where ms is not invited unless they have a few APIs you can write to for free...
i started out as a physics major when i had designs on being a pilot - then i passed 6' tall as a soph. and found out the usaf wouldn't let me fly anything with an "F-" in front of it. so, i went 180 and decided to major in early modern european history. i got interested in naturual history at the same time, and i like to read, so i wound up with a double-minor in anthropology and english. boy, did i graduate prepared for getting a job...
the saving grace for me: i've always been tinkering with computers (the first was a ti994a, oh yeah!) so within a couple of years, i was contracting on little jobs while my fiance finished her master's degree. 4 years ago, i signed on with a large financial institution and now i work in operations management and support for internet/intranet applications. *exactly* what i intended to do when i started college, yup, definitely...
what better time to finish installing suse and a new kernel on my laptop and try to get my orinoco card working? no one is paging/calling/emailing with the next big crisis... it may not be considered hard work, but it lets me get some serious coding done at home, and that keeps me from having to go into the office, so it helps productivity... that's loosely defined as work, i believe. besides, we already celebrated chanukah:)
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so now i must revise my sig to acknowledge the peer relationship with Sun *sigh*
just installed this over the weekend on my SuSE 8 StinkPad and i have officially removed all other browsers except opera (i can't live without it ...) one of my co-workers had me trying release 0.1, and it wasn't bad, but it didn't have proxy support and a couple of things were buggy. talk about a huge update! 0.2 is sweeeet, get it now.
what's the subtle message in the exclusion of iPlanet, WebSphere, JBoss, etc. with the summary line: "Application server setup - BEA Weblogic only"
no doubt in my mind BEA makes a helluva product, but i'm surprised the king of the open source publications doesn't have an entire section devoted to Building Enterprise Java Applications with _______ (insert your favorite jakarta packages here)
the moral and ethical rape was at least directed at an appropriate target in the RIAA
" ... this option [interoperability] could be part of a 1.1 specification ... "
kinda sounds like a w3c statement about a new standard protocol or language. amazing how ballmer & co. said this would "have little chance of mattering". gee, looks like it matters now. big banks, all the major credit companies, several of the web's biggest commerce fronts - i'd call that a strong base of interest and support for Liberty.
maybe they need a 3rd party to mediate so everyone plays nice for a while
if you install kde-bindings for konqueror when you install KDE then it uses the mozilla engine to render HTML/CSS/JavaScript etc. when you surf. however, i don't believe installing kde-bindings exempts konqueror from this problem - Security is handled in a separate module within the Control Center. anyone know otherwise?
... if you want to lose weight, keep moving north =) side benefit: weaker field near the poles means you are somewhat less likely to get nailed by de-orbiting satellites - natural or otherwise.
... but i think i could do a better job representing HP in the public eye with 2 ozs of propriety and a sense of humor. sometimes it is truly amazing how much happens in a company's name before they are even aware of it - and even more amazing is the fact that they continue to let it happen over and over again simply because they don't understand the negative side of having lawyers and PR types aware of each other at all. lock 'em away in different boxes, folks, and we'll all get along better.
... just so i can be closer to this incredible collection. i'm an avid reader of many genres, but i do admit to enjoying sci-fi more than most. i wonder if i can convince anyone here that i need a sabbatical for, oh say, three or four years to explore the impact of sci-fi literature on the dawn of the 21st century. the amazing stories archive alone will take a couple of months ... what the hell, i'm going to try!
i'd be calling for help if i was using something called MSNTV, because it certainly wouldn't be my choice. maybe the little boxes are simply crying out for help ...
i'm not saying it's not a growth area - just that it is not treated as a focus of RedHat and UnitedLinux and therefore is not getting the kind of attention that keeps a distro alive. i do use SuSE (servers, usually) and RedHat (ThinkPads) and Debian (@ home): TurboLinux doesn't play in the same league, so i wonder if their inclusion in UnitedLinux is simply a way to extend the already broad reach of SuSE outside the US. i tried a recent distribution of TL just for kicks, and aside from their good kanji setup - which SuSE already has down pretty well - i didn't see a strong selling point. you know of course, that this is simply my opinion =)
...
and oh yeah, Ransom Love has a new job description, so you may not want to reconsider your stand on anything stamped "UnitedLinux"
giving them any market share outside of the pacific rim, turbolinux might have a small following of users in the u.s. and europe desiring proven IA-64 support (they were first to the linux market) or a really nice stable desktop for application development (ok, so no one i know personally ...). i get the impression they are part of united linux because of the strength of their usability - but SuSE is so gosh-darn usable i don't see that being their contribution to the group. their focus on the rim and a largely marginalized sector of this century's growth in professional and business computing is going to make it tough for them to make it on their own or as part of united linux.
terry also did some bits of the python movies, and a movie that i would rank above brazil - the fisher king (robin williams, jeff bridges, mercedes ruehl). his complete list is actually pretty impressive for a "writer". this has the potential to be a good flick.
i've had a RIM BlackBerry for about 6 months, and about 2 months ago it stopped seating correctly in the cradle. the cradle was replaced, but i still have to rock it into place to make sure it is actually charging (tho it always makes a solid connection without hassle). 3 others on the same floor have had the exact same problem ...
on the high end, we've gotten a bunch of sunfire 280r servers this year, and 25% have had some kind of serious hardware problem requiring major overhauls or complete replacement. none of them are more than 3 months old.
in both cases, it is fair to remember that both companies have been shipping their product in high volumes and probably don't do the QA that's really necessary to guarantee the best quality.
... my wife is going to get really mad at me for all the CDs i buy after listening to Radio Paradise. i think this site has caused more havoc in my checking account than any other music-related stimulus since the advent of the CD player!
as several posters mentioned, we can't view this as a victory - not yet, probably not ever. the RAC has many fights ahead, and anyone who listens to internet radio should try to help: details here.
this looks like typical micro$oft, but consider this: though their software tends to be bug-ridden, exploitable, unstable, exploitable, bloated, exploitable etc etc etc, i doubt you'll find too many workstations in the respective security agencies of the US running anything other than some flavor of windows. do we really want those terrorists who have the means and the skills zooming around hacked PCs all over the Pentagon checking satellite fly-over schedules and watching realtime deployments of troops in the field?
... at least for now.
don't get me wrong, i am a linux user and very happy about it (ditto for solaris and hpux) and i love watching the evil empire squirm, but let's excoriate micro$oft for the injustices they already do to _this_ country, and limit the exposure of the code to competitors that can keep the knowledge secure
bad URL ...
Online Music Sales Slump"
articles like this one: Online Music Sales Slump
that supports their business model, though i'm not sure i trust the motives after the aquisition of musicland. i worked at a sam goody's long ago, and making the sale was drilled into my brain the very first day. they are concerned about profits (hey, it's a retailer, they should be) but they are also hyper-protective of a distribution model that should be part of a channel, not the whole damn thing. having people come in and get a sales pitch and buy a cd or 20 is all well and good, but i think there's an increasing number of people buying online - and i bet it's not from best buy or musicland as much as it is cdnow and amazon (http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/20 01/07/23/daily5.html)
i should have noted that i'm looking at this from the enterprise world, where the strengths of YaST outweigh the strengths of building a system from source. i was commenting more on the reference to sysadmins being like wizards; my feeling is SuSE makes me feel like a wizard sysadmin, even though i'm not (and i'm not saying this is a good thing!) - but you can still do essentially the same thing as SGL by booting the filesystem virtually and doing the SuSEConfig by hand. you just won't see me doing it ;-)
i like the thought behind SGL, but i think SuSE has kinda beaten everybody (except perhaps debian) with the update/config tools in YaST2. `/sbin/yast2 online_update` with an internet connection and usually before you can get a 2nd cup of coffee, there's a nice list of packages to download and update/install, all pertinent to your system. my only desire is for http connections for high-security areas that don't have ftp access ...
i can watch cnn.com, read one of several (insert city here) times/daily/post newspapers, and listen to npr at most airports. why would i want to expose my laptop to airsnort (unless they are giving everyone their own WEP key or cert - heh) just to read slashdot and find out that the whole thing's been cancelled for lack of ROI just as my link gets cut???
...
i think it would be more useful to have kioks like gatwick where you can jack into a pvt space and fire up your favorite PPTP client. a small service fee to hook up and you're on your way to reading about what's really important, like the TCP/IP enabled lego brick
so many references to "micro$oft and sun facing the new threat of linux ..." isn't ms the only one really facing a "threat"? solaris is good for some things, linux is good for others (both are happy on those new sunfires!) and together they make a pretty solid scalable world. perhaps we need -openworld- where ms is not invited unless they have a few APIs you can write to for free ...
i started out as a physics major when i had designs on being a pilot - then i passed 6' tall as a soph. and found out the usaf wouldn't let me fly anything with an "F-" in front of it. so, i went 180 and decided to major in early modern european history. i got interested in naturual history at the same time, and i like to read, so i wound up with a double-minor in anthropology and english. boy, did i graduate prepared for getting a job ...
...
the saving grace for me: i've always been tinkering with computers (the first was a ti994a, oh yeah!) so within a couple of years, i was contracting on little jobs while my fiance finished her master's degree. 4 years ago, i signed on with a large financial institution and now i work in operations management and support for internet/intranet applications. *exactly* what i intended to do when i started college, yup, definitely
what better time to finish installing suse and a new kernel on my laptop and try to get my orinoco card working? no one is paging/calling/emailing with the next big crisis ... it may not be considered hard work, but it lets me get some serious coding done at home, and that keeps me from having to go into the office, so it helps productivity ... that's loosely defined as work, i believe. besides, we already celebrated chanukah :)