XS4ALL was founded in '93 as the Dutch version of Demon, the UK ISP. In spite of the KPN (ex government-controlled/monopoly telco) buy-out, they have maintained their philosophy of protecting the interests of their customers and doing the Right Thing(tm).
Strong ties with Bits for Freedom (our version of the EFF), best Dutch ISP year after year, support for *nix systems, frequent new experimental services. Only pain is that they're also one of the more expensive ISP's. You get what you pay for, and with XS4ALL they give you the works.
(for the record, I'm a long-time customer so I am rather biased. But these guys aren't your average ISP)
Hello? 21st century here, all $DEITY's should be buried by now. Open your eye's people, Darwin's theory has been out for nearly 150 years, religion has long been obsolete!
Bring it on you fundi's, I dare you. Modding me down will get you a one-way ticket to Hell...
Windows is a security nightmare, moreso than Linux- all one has to do to realize this is to take your blinders off and see all the worms, spyware, etc. and know this to be the case. And people keep using this stuff for mission critical stuff...
Come on, how can this be modded up as insightful? No where in TFA is Windows mentioned, it has been stated in other posts that they use HP Unix. No IT manager in his right mind would use Windows on this level, especially considering that most of their systems would have been in production for over 20 years.
Parent, you should take your blinders off and stop dragging Microsoft into every other post. Windows might dominate all your merry desktops, but things are quite different in high-end server land.
Throw out all existing systems and port everything from HP-UX to Linux, or stick with something that works, your people have built or know from the inside out and all your employees are familiar with? Tough decision. Not.
I'd say this guy just saved Unilever a lot of problems and saved Linux quite a few nasty stories. This would have turned out badly for both. Changes like this have to be done slowly on a server-by-server, application-by-application basis, and as stated in the article ("appropriate adoption") that is just what they will do.
We have one around the corner here in Amsterdam, a couple of busses ride around on hydrogen over here.
Hydrogen is a pipe dream, and a dangerous one at that -- extracting hydrogen from water (destroying the water in the process) is a recipe for the end of life on Earth. The returned water is, as I understand it, less than what is net removed.
Mod -1 uninformed
2x H2O -> H2 + O2
H2 + O2 -> 2x H20
Now tell me, what is removed? 'Hydrogen' is used to store energy, recombining it with oxygen creates the exact same amount of water. Don't horde your tapwater just yet.
This is total BS. At work we run a network of sites with 1.5M pageviews a month on a single machine using a custom-built CMS + engine in PHP and a MySQL DB. It's not which tools you use, it's how you use them. Caching, OO PHP and profiling all help.
Truth be told, the server did literally catch fire earlier this year. But I'm reasonably sure it wasn't due to PHP...
And I find it ironic that your email addy is a Gmail-one:)
If you're worried about Google turning to the dark side, you can simply use other services. If Google ever turns into an evil monopoly, then we all are partly responsible. Especially the Google-fanboy-crowd, promoting every new tool Google releases (and who will mod me down). Google has the best PR division on the planet: Slashdot!
Then again, I'm slightly paranoid and don't trust corporations with my email/browsing/IM-logs/files. Yet many others don't mind. Their choice.
Hear Hear! Mod parent up!
Software licenses only go so far. They only work for developer-developer relationships, not for developer-user/company relationships. Companies can and do use Free software for their own good, but they should realise that by not giving back and playing fair they risk alienating 'upstream'.
Personally, I don't have a real solution. Social Contracts might be a good idea, adding guidelines for companies how you'd like them to deal with you. I've tried this approach with my own projects and they have helped, without restricting any rights. Make it clear to companies how they should help you out and if they don't simply refuse them any, pointing out your social contract.
Quid pro quo, Quid pro quo!
(btw, these social contracts work better with larger companies than with smaller ones. Bad PR is a killer)
It would have been sweeter if Tanenbaum actually had something published there. Then again, he tends to write The Book instead of 'merely' publishing about topics.
From the VU there are currently only publications about economics. Good to see our AI God van Harmelen up there too:)
Okay, I'll bite. You're right that change isn't faster than it was 100 years ago, but it's not so that nothing has changed in the last 10 years.
How about mobile phones? Wireless networking? PDA's? P2P? And this is only in our small field of ICT. 10 years ago nearly nobody had a mobile phone, now everyone and his dog has one. 10 years ago we were more or less bound to our boxes, now they are bound to us.
If we (buzzword warning!) extrapolate this 10 years into the future, I'd expect things like implated communication devices using ad-hoc mesh networks. The real changes of the last 10 years haven't been strictly related to computers or the Internet (which, I might remind you, was conceived in the 70's), but more to how/where we communicate and exchange data.
Naturally, you're right that we'll see the most advance in 'new' fields (as they didn't exist before, duh), however it's wrong to use the lack of change in one field to prove that change on a whole is slowing down. Besides, we may had Jurassic Park 10 years ago, but who could have imagined massive CG scenes like in RotK back then? I believe change is nearly always evolutionary, with once-in-a-lifetime revolutions.
My personal mistake was thinking I knew what I wanted out of life. It took me some time to realize that the direction I had chosen wasn't the right one. Currently I'm studying AI in university and loving every bit of it, however I did make some mistakes along the way.
The best advice I could give anyone who is fresh out of high school is to take half a year off to travel around the globe and see the world. Once you've gotten that 9-5 job you can kiss your freedom goodbye, so enjoy it while you still can. Broaden your view, meet people in far-away countries and visit those places you've only seen in your schoolbooks. Expect a tough ride, work for food and a roof above your head (if you're lucky), but in the end it will be worth it. Besides, you have plenty of time to think about what you really want out of life along the way.
Yes, it's just like ovlfs, but a lot better. Just like translucency, mini_fo and cowloop that Morphix has been using far before Slax was born.
Unionfs is the future of overlay filesystems, Slax should wake up: it's useless to port ovlfs over when all other livecds (Knoppix, Morphix and Kanotix) are divirging to unionfs.
GPL licenses do not. Essentialy I write GPL software and I cannot use it in any commercial projects.
Wrong Wrong Wrong. If you write software, you can use it for whatever you want. You can relicense it. You can throw it in public domain. You can perform ritualistic burnings with it. Even if it is licensed under the GPL, if the copyright lies with you or your company.
Using _someone elses_ GPL'ed code in a non-GPL distributed software project is not allowed. With the LGPL you may use _someone elses_ libraries in a non-GPL/LGPL distributed software project. In no way do they limit your right to use your own code in a non-GPL project. If you take _someone elses_ GPL'ed project and modify it, then you must also distribute the modifications. The GPL ensures the freedom of any modifications made by the non-copyrightholders of a project.
How often do we have to beat on this drum? The GPL doesn't take away your freedom to your own code: it gives others (limited) freedom to use it. If management doesn't get it, they shouldn't be herding programmers.
Sounds like they're burying spyware in EULA's nowadays and we should watch out for them. Rightfully so, I might add. Wasn't that difficult now, was it?
Beats me. Seems like they will merge (or only be different in branding) once Andreas releases a stable version based on Hoary. He now works for Ubuntu/Canonical, but his current stable version still is Warty/Morphix-based.
I got the same offer from Mark, to more-or-less merge Morphix and Ubuntu, but decided not to do it. Oh well, free world et al. And it means one liveCD less to try out (either one or the other:)
Not very much, although the Mac fanboys might agree otherwise.
Although I haven't had a Win32 install on any of my machines for 6 years, I must agree that MS hasn't done a bad job on the Windows UI. Why? Because they didn't change it. KISS, and keep it consistent. It's not much for all us dev'ers, but it's not only vendor-lockin that has kept Microsoft far in the lead: they picked something simple and kept it that way.
We've had a Morphix Gamer LiveCD for over two years now, but it has always been the least downloaded LiveCD. Games are fun, but at most to keep the kids happy.
For any serious gamer, there just isn't a point to running an OS that doesn't even run half of their favorite games without fooling around with Cedega. It's too much work.
On a technical level, not using kudzu/hwdata seems to be a flaw. Will surely give this a spin though, even though we've been quiet we'll have our revenge [insert Borg quote here].
Although D. Allen's book is very much management-food, I found it a good read and still browse through it regularly. The best idea was to file stuff so you don't have to think about it anymore. It's so simple to do and eases those stresslevels during crunchtime.
One of the areas I've become fanatical in is filing my email correctly. At this moment, my inbox is empty. Quite a difference back when I still kept hundreds of them shouting out at me, and my mail volume has doubled since that time. Setting up a few Action and Archive folders is a start, and with a proper hierarchy you don't have to hunt around anymore to find those emails.
Aother area has been paperwork. I've always had large stacks on my desk, like everyone else. Knowing when to archive and when to chuck away, and having once place where to store and find everything on a certain project really helps.
Anyway, this book would certainly be a boon to all those chaotic people who, like me, felt like they could deal with all those info streams. You might, but if you can make your life a lot easier by following a few simple rules, why wouldn't you?
Copyright-charges like this already are already common for certain writable media throughout Europe. Over here in Holland we pay 10 eurocents for every blank CD and 25 eurocents for every blank DVD we buy, even if said media is used for backing up your own data. Similar rates apply for MP3-media. Germany now has taken the next step.
These charges are 100% nuts. Next thing we'll be paying 'copyright tax' for cable TV and electricity, as they 'facilitate copyright infringements'. What it does accomplish is that our RIAA-counterparts get loads of cash and still complain about diminishing revenues. I say they can suck it, I'll keep importing my stuff from outside the EU untill they drop these crazy laws.
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Strong ties with Bits for Freedom (our version of the EFF), best Dutch ISP year after year, support for *nix systems, frequent new experimental services. Only pain is that they're also one of the more expensive ISP's. You get what you pay for, and with XS4ALL they give you the works.
(for the record, I'm a long-time customer so I am rather biased. But these guys aren't your average ISP)
Hello? 21st century here, all $DEITY's should be buried by now. Open your eye's people, Darwin's theory has been out for nearly 150 years, religion has long been obsolete!
Bring it on you fundi's, I dare you. Modding me down will get you a one-way ticket to Hell...
Parent, you should take your blinders off and stop dragging Microsoft into every other post. Windows might dominate all your merry desktops, but things are quite different in high-end server land.
Throw out all existing systems and port everything from HP-UX to Linux, or stick with something that works, your people have built or know from the inside out and all your employees are familiar with? Tough decision. Not.
I'd say this guy just saved Unilever a lot of problems and saved Linux quite a few nasty stories. This would have turned out badly for both. Changes like this have to be done slowly on a server-by-server, application-by-application basis, and as stated in the article ("appropriate adoption") that is just what they will do.
2x H2O -> 2x H2 + O2
2x H2 + O2 -> 2x H2O
No more posting for me this early in the morning...
2x H2O -> H2 + O2
H2 + O2 -> 2x H20
Now tell me, what is removed? 'Hydrogen' is used to store energy, recombining it with oxygen creates the exact same amount of water. Don't horde your tapwater just yet.
Truth be told, the server did literally catch fire earlier this year. But I'm reasonably sure it wasn't due to PHP...
If you're worried about Google turning to the dark side, you can simply use other services. If Google ever turns into an evil monopoly, then we all are partly responsible. Especially the Google-fanboy-crowd, promoting every new tool Google releases (and who will mod me down). Google has the best PR division on the planet: Slashdot!
Then again, I'm slightly paranoid and don't trust corporations with my email/browsing/IM-logs/files. Yet many others don't mind. Their choice.
Now don't tell me you couldn't have found that using a 2-second google search...
He was being sarcastic. Please submitters: RTFA. This interview was a great read, just don't turn it into something it's not.
Hear Hear! Mod parent up! Software licenses only go so far. They only work for developer-developer relationships, not for developer-user/company relationships. Companies can and do use Free software for their own good, but they should realise that by not giving back and playing fair they risk alienating 'upstream'. Personally, I don't have a real solution. Social Contracts might be a good idea, adding guidelines for companies how you'd like them to deal with you. I've tried this approach with my own projects and they have helped, without restricting any rights. Make it clear to companies how they should help you out and if they don't simply refuse them any, pointing out your social contract. Quid pro quo, Quid pro quo! (btw, these social contracts work better with larger companies than with smaller ones. Bad PR is a killer)
It would have been sweeter if Tanenbaum actually had something published there. Then again, he tends to write The Book instead of 'merely' publishing about topics.
:)
From the VU there are currently only publications about economics. Good to see our AI God van Harmelen up there too
That is just so... depressing
How about mobile phones? Wireless networking? PDA's? P2P? And this is only in our small field of ICT. 10 years ago nearly nobody had a mobile phone, now everyone and his dog has one. 10 years ago we were more or less bound to our boxes, now they are bound to us.
If we (buzzword warning!) extrapolate this 10 years into the future, I'd expect things like implated communication devices using ad-hoc mesh networks. The real changes of the last 10 years haven't been strictly related to computers or the Internet (which, I might remind you, was conceived in the 70's), but more to how/where we communicate and exchange data.
Naturally, you're right that we'll see the most advance in 'new' fields (as they didn't exist before, duh), however it's wrong to use the lack of change in one field to prove that change on a whole is slowing down. Besides, we may had Jurassic Park 10 years ago, but who could have imagined massive CG scenes like in RotK back then? I believe change is nearly always evolutionary, with once-in-a-lifetime revolutions.
The best advice I could give anyone who is fresh out of high school is to take half a year off to travel around the globe and see the world. Once you've gotten that 9-5 job you can kiss your freedom goodbye, so enjoy it while you still can. Broaden your view, meet people in far-away countries and visit those places you've only seen in your schoolbooks. Expect a tough ride, work for food and a roof above your head (if you're lucky), but in the end it will be worth it. Besides, you have plenty of time to think about what you really want out of life along the way.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
Yes, it's just like ovlfs, but a lot better. Just like translucency, mini_fo and cowloop that Morphix has been using far before Slax was born.
Unionfs is the future of overlay filesystems, Slax should wake up: it's useless to port ovlfs over when all other livecds (Knoppix, Morphix and Kanotix) are divirging to unionfs.
Using _someone elses_ GPL'ed code in a non-GPL distributed software project is not allowed. With the LGPL you may use _someone elses_ libraries in a non-GPL/LGPL distributed software project. In no way do they limit your right to use your own code in a non-GPL project. If you take _someone elses_ GPL'ed project and modify it, then you must also distribute the modifications. The GPL ensures the freedom of any modifications made by the non-copyrightholders of a project.
How often do we have to beat on this drum? The GPL doesn't take away your freedom to your own code: it gives others (limited) freedom to use it. If management doesn't get it, they shouldn't be herding programmers.
Wasn't that difficult now, was it?
Laugh damnit.
... and you would have found something along the lines of phpXplorer that has said features. Looks shiny too.
I got the same offer from Mark, to more-or-less merge Morphix and Ubuntu, but decided not to do it. Oh well, free world et al. And it means one liveCD less to try out (either one or the other :)
Although I haven't had a Win32 install on any of my machines for 6 years, I must agree that MS hasn't done a bad job on the Windows UI. Why? Because they didn't change it. KISS, and keep it consistent. It's not much for all us dev'ers, but it's not only vendor-lockin that has kept Microsoft far in the lead: they picked something simple and kept it that way.
For any serious gamer, there just isn't a point to running an OS that doesn't even run half of their favorite games without fooling around with Cedega. It's too much work.
On a technical level, not using kudzu/hwdata seems to be a flaw. Will surely give this a spin though, even though we've been quiet we'll have our revenge [insert Borg quote here].
One of the areas I've become fanatical in is filing my email correctly. At this moment, my inbox is empty. Quite a difference back when I still kept hundreds of them shouting out at me, and my mail volume has doubled since that time. Setting up a few Action and Archive folders is a start, and with a proper hierarchy you don't have to hunt around anymore to find those emails.
Aother area has been paperwork. I've always had large stacks on my desk, like everyone else. Knowing when to archive and when to chuck away, and having once place where to store and find everything on a certain project really helps.
Anyway, this book would certainly be a boon to all those chaotic people who, like me, felt like they could deal with all those info streams. You might, but if you can make your life a lot easier by following a few simple rules, why wouldn't you?
These charges are 100% nuts. Next thing we'll be paying 'copyright tax' for cable TV and electricity, as they 'facilitate copyright infringements'. What it does accomplish is that our RIAA-counterparts get loads of cash and still complain about diminishing revenues. I say they can suck it, I'll keep importing my stuff from outside the EU untill they drop these crazy laws.