There's always Plan 9 if you'd like to continue an under the radar subculture. It's so exclusive and cool that slashdot doesn't even have an icon of Glenda for it yet.;)
With the tab-based browsing in Mozilla (along with other features), IE is painful to use IMHO. Along with Linux CDs, I also burn some Win-Mozilla CDs to give to people so they can break the M$ habit.
The only thing I wish they'd do is ditch the Firefox name and keep it Mozilla. Or shall we call it "The browser formerly known as Mozilla"?
Do Indian techies play or watch a good deal of cricket?
I worked at an American site that had a bunch of Indian programmers. They were constantly keeping up with the play by plays during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. In fact, any serious productivity stopped until India was beat by Australia. Let me tell you, my Indian cow-orkers were seriously bummed out after that.
Too bad it was a blantant rip off of Kimba the White Lion. <my_humble_opinion>Other than Pixar and Lilo & Stitch, there's not much originality coming out of Disney lately. </my_humble_opinion>
"It seems the BBC has a story on their front page titled 'Linux cyber-battle turns nasty', very specifically linking Linux users to the MyDoom virus. Some lines to note: 'If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source).
If it really were a bunch of Linux/Open Source zealots, they'd have shared the MyDoom source code.:)
How many people were able to convince their wives/girlfriends/significant others/parents that buying a PS2 was a good thing because it ALSO was a DVD player? It may not have been the best DVD player available, but it does the job. And at the time, DVD players were going for $150 or so [numbers out of a hat], which made the "real" cost of a PS2 that much cheaper in the minds of the purchasing decision makers.
<aol>Me too!</aol> That's exactly the excuse that I used to get SWMBO to get me a PS2 a couple of years ago.:) You're right on another count: it's a crummy DVD player and I ended up having to buy a real DVD player after a few frustrating months.
Backwards compatibility was also pretty important in my decision on the PS2. There's some really fun PS1 games out there that I like playing. I *really* liked Tenchu and found the sequels made for the PS2 pretty lame.
Your mileage may vary as these are my personal experiences with Microsoft products. I guess these facts are too small of a sample to consider.
Don't feel like you're all alone in this one. In the Navy, we have to reboot the Windoze servers once every 2 weeks as PM (preventive maintainence). Meanwhile, my *nix boxen have an uptime of 100-200 days.
It prolly stands for that now since they've taken it out of Santa Cruz.
IMHO, SCO is definitely the "short bus" of the *nix world. $deity, how fscking long did it take them to figure out that having 'ifconfig' display the MAC address on a network interface might be a good idea instead of having to dig around 'dmesg'?
but all my references are to a disconnected cell phone in Cancun.
I've had some dot-bomb experience where the person in charge was impossible to find, but I still kept in touch with a few cow-orkers who can say that I worked there. It's so common to have at least 1 sunk company on one's CV that most tech interviewers will ask, "Who do you know that I might know?", because the tech industry is still a pretty small world.
The biggest problem with many school districts is that decisions on computing are made by people who have no idea what they're doing. In my school district, the powers that be say, "Just go with Microsoft", and sign away without consulting anyone with any reasonable experience.
I'm learning just how computer illiterate our public school system is because I have decided to go back to college to get my teaching certification so I can teach programming in secondary education (grades 7-12). Though I have over a collective decade of professional experience, I have to first become a math teacher and attain a degree in Education/Secondary Math with Chemistry (which will transfer the most credits and take the least time). After teaching for 6 months, I have to take 2 grad "technology" courses, and then I can teach programming in public schools. OTOH, an English teacher with no previous computing experience can take these 2 "technology" courses and POOF! they're now qualified to teach computing courses to our children in public schools.
The problem is not "the zealous use of computers in grade school", it's the fact that the dummies^Wpowers that be who are in charge of such decisions have no idea what they're doing and it's time for the public to realize it and time for the education administrators to admit that they are making unqualified decisions when it comes to technology.
I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA is not going to sit by on this sort of thing. I'm sure they'll reach a point where if countries do not have laws and enforcement in place to stop p2p, piracy, etc. to their liking, then they'll hit 'em right in the commerce by refusing to release movies in the countries that don't play by their rules.
Not that it's really going to do much, but I'm sure that the RIAA/MPAA are going to eventually go with the "I'll take my ball and go home" approach.
Another thing that movie industry execs might want to factor in: Going to a theatre is a big hassle. Sure, it's nice watching a good movie on a big screen, but with home theatre systems becoming more common, why bother going to a theatre when you can see it at home on DVD in a few months? I've found myself very selective about what I'm going to see in a theatre since I got my home system.
Besides, you can drink beer, eat munchies that don't cost a fortune, pause when need to use the toilet, have more comfortable seating, don't have to tollerate some tosser yammering on his mobile, etc. when you're watching a movie at home.
Note: I posted this on newsforge, but felt that it had to be posted here as well just in case anyone didn't RTFA.
<snip> As a SysAdmin of many unices, let's face it:SCO UnixWare just sucks! It's the most retarded unix that I've ever encountered. If anything, someone needs to look at some of the stuff that *SCO* has stolen. I had to support a badge swiper server that was running SCO 2.1.3 and needed to get the MAC address so that telecomms could add it to the access control list on the Cisco boxen. Believe it or not, but this version of SCO was too retarded to have 'ifconfig' pull up the MAC address (though it did have it on 'dmesg'). Now, with SCO Unixware 7, their 'ifconfig' has the ability to pull up the MAC address of an ethernet device. Hmmmmm... Wonder where they got/that/ from? Maybe the BSD/Linux/GNU world should have a look and see what SCO has stolen from them?
This whole mess is going on because clued people are starting to realize that SCO is the short bus of the Unix world in x86-land and that there now exists better and less expensive alternatives to Unixware. SCO is getting desperate, so it's sending in landsharks^Wlawyers instead of spending it on R&D. OTOH, maybe this is another example of how opensource software will, in most cases, be more technically superior than the old model. </snip>
As soon as this court case gets going any code they show as being part of their IP will be replaced within weeks
<fast_food_for_thought> There goes/that/ lawsuit, but I wonder if MS/SCO will start doing audits for boxen running pre-lawsuit versions of Linux just to be arseholes? OTOH, this could be a good thing to keep some Linux boxen updated. <\fast_food_for_thought>
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I was running on a treadmill earlier this week,
/.-er on a treadmill? No way! :)
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There's always Plan 9 if you'd like to continue an under the radar subculture. It's so exclusive and cool that slashdot doesn't even have an icon of ;)
Glenda for it yet.
With the tab-based browsing in Mozilla (along with other features), IE is painful to use IMHO. Along with Linux CDs, I also burn some Win-Mozilla CDs to give to people so they can break the M$ habit.
The only thing I wish they'd do is ditch the Firefox name and keep it Mozilla. Or shall we call it "The browser formerly known as Mozilla"?
I'm waiting for the day that my PC doesn't have a hard drive, CDROM drive, or anything else mechanical in it.
:)
Static electricity.
Zap! Poof! Fsck!
Do Indian techies play or watch a good deal of cricket?
I worked at an American site that had a bunch of Indian programmers. They were constantly keeping up with the play by plays during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. In fact, any serious productivity stopped until India was beat by Australia. Let me tell you, my Indian cow-orkers were seriously bummed out after that.
Too bad it was a blantant rip off of Kimba the White Lion. <my_humble_opinion>Other than Pixar and Lilo & Stitch, there's not much originality coming out of Disney lately. </my_humble_opinion>
"It seems the BBC has a story on their front page titled 'Linux cyber-battle turns nasty', very specifically linking Linux users to the MyDoom virus. Some lines to note: 'If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source).
:)
If it really were a bunch of Linux/Open Source zealots, they'd have shared the MyDoom source code.
How many people were able to convince their wives/girlfriends/significant others/parents that buying a PS2 was a good thing because it ALSO was a DVD player? It may not have been the best DVD player available, but it does the job. And at the time, DVD players were going for $150 or so [numbers out of a hat], which made the "real" cost of a PS2 that much cheaper in the minds of the purchasing decision makers.
:) You're right on another count: it's a crummy DVD player and I ended up having to buy a real DVD player after a few frustrating months.
<aol>Me too!</aol> That's exactly the excuse that I used to get SWMBO to get me a PS2 a couple of years ago.
Backwards compatibility was also pretty important in my decision on the PS2. There's some really fun PS1 games out there that I like playing. I *really* liked Tenchu and found the sequels made for the PS2 pretty lame.
Or opt-in his company email addy on a few spam lists.
info@optinbig.com
Your mileage may vary as these are my personal experiences with Microsoft products. I guess these facts are too small of a sample to consider.
Don't feel like you're all alone in this one. In the Navy, we have to reboot the Windoze servers once every 2 weeks as PM (preventive maintainence). Meanwhile, my *nix boxen have an uptime of 100-200 days.
It prolly stands for that now since they've taken it out of Santa Cruz.
IMHO, SCO is definitely the "short bus" of the *nix world. $deity, how fscking long did it take them to figure out that having 'ifconfig' display the MAC address on a network interface might be a good idea instead of having to dig around 'dmesg'?
Ugh. I'd rather admin Novell than a SCO box.
Bob the Angry Flower.
Atlas Shrugged 2
;)
You need to read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
;)
You need to read
Bob the Angry Flower
but all my references are to a disconnected cell phone in Cancun.
I've had some dot-bomb experience where the person in charge was impossible to find, but I still kept in touch with a few cow-orkers who can say that I worked there. It's so common to have at least 1 sunk company on one's CV that most tech interviewers will ask, "Who do you know that I might know?", because the tech industry is still a pretty small world.
Yeah, but what does it do when you're watching an info-mercial? ;)
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The biggest problem with many school districts is that decisions on computing are made by people who have no idea what they're doing. In my school district, the powers that be say, "Just go with Microsoft", and sign away without consulting anyone with any reasonable experience.
I'm learning just how computer illiterate our public school system is because I have decided to go back to college to get my teaching certification so I can teach programming in secondary education (grades 7-12). Though I have over a collective decade of professional experience, I have to first become a math teacher and attain a degree in Education/Secondary Math with Chemistry (which will transfer the most credits and take the least time). After teaching for 6 months, I have to take 2 grad "technology" courses, and then I can teach programming in public schools. OTOH, an English teacher with no previous computing experience can take these 2 "technology" courses and POOF! they're now qualified to teach computing courses to our children in public schools.
The problem is not "the zealous use of computers in grade school", it's the fact that the dummies^Wpowers that be who are in charge of such decisions have no idea what they're doing and it's time for the public to realize it and time for the education administrators to admit that they are making unqualified decisions when it comes to technology.
...just put "September 11" & "terrorists" in it and someone will publish it.
Telemarketers moving their call centers over the border (say, Canada) would not be held by this law.
While that is entirely possible, but I can't image telemarketing companies going for that approach. The toll charges would eat up their profit margin.
Now that's the most insightful thing I've heard on/. for a long while.
I wonder how long it's going to take until some rapper starts using "sharing" as slang for stealing.
Cheers! I really needed this for a demonstration tommorow.
I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA is not going to sit by on this sort of thing. I'm sure they'll reach a point where if countries do not have laws and enforcement in place to stop p2p, piracy, etc. to their liking, then they'll hit 'em right in the commerce by refusing to release movies in the countries that don't play by their rules.
Not that it's really going to do much, but I'm sure that the RIAA/MPAA are going to eventually go with the "I'll take my ball and go home" approach.
Another thing that movie industry execs might want to factor in: Going to a theatre is a big hassle. Sure, it's nice watching a good movie on a big screen, but with home theatre systems becoming more common, why bother going to a theatre when you can see it at home on DVD in a few months? I've found myself very selective about what I'm going to see in a theatre since I got my home system.
Besides, you can drink beer, eat munchies that don't cost a fortune, pause when need to use the toilet, have more comfortable seating, don't have to tollerate some tosser yammering on his mobile, etc. when you're watching a movie at home.
Note: I posted this on newsforge, but felt that it had to be posted here as well just in case anyone didn't RTFA.
/that/ from? Maybe the BSD/Linux/GNU world should have a look and see what SCO has stolen from them?
<snip>
As a SysAdmin of many unices, let's face it:SCO UnixWare just sucks! It's the most retarded unix that I've ever encountered. If anything, someone needs to look at some of the stuff that *SCO* has stolen. I had to support a badge swiper server that was running SCO 2.1.3 and needed to get the MAC address so that telecomms could add it to the access control list on the Cisco boxen. Believe it or not, but this version of SCO was too retarded to have 'ifconfig' pull up the MAC address (though it did have it on 'dmesg'). Now, with SCO Unixware 7, their 'ifconfig' has the ability to pull up the MAC address of an ethernet device. Hmmmmm... Wonder where they got
This whole mess is going on because clued people are starting to realize that SCO is the short bus of the Unix world in x86-land and that there now exists better and less expensive alternatives to Unixware. SCO is getting desperate, so it's sending in landsharks^Wlawyers instead of spending it on R&D. OTOH, maybe this is another example of how opensource software will, in most cases, be more technically superior than the old model.
</snip>
Maybe someone should present Ron's news posts as evidence in these hearings to show just how nefarious he is.
As soon as this court case gets going any code they show as being part of their IP will be replaced within weeks
/that/ lawsuit, but I wonder if MS/SCO will start doing audits for boxen running pre-lawsuit versions of Linux just to be arseholes? OTOH, this could be a good thing to keep some Linux boxen updated.
<fast_food_for_thought>
There goes
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