Personally, I am waiting for 7.3 for a fresh install on a new 120GB HD. My current system is on an 8 gig drive with a secondary 2 gig drive. It was originally installed with RH6.1, upgraded to 6.2, then again to 7.1, and again to 7.2. I upgraded KDE as well along the way. I could upgrade it to 7.3, but I think I want to do a fresh install. I didn't have too many problems with the upgrades, but I want to make sure I am fully on 7.3. And I have the new HD. Yeah, maybe it is overkill, but I am going to install the whole damn distro on there.
I have heard of some security group called "Cult of the Dead Cow." Kind of a strange name, I know, but I hear they will fully check out your secrurity. They just need a few root passwords....
I was told I am a Software Engineer. This is the second company I have worked for where my title is "Software Engineer", even though I am in QA. When I was told that my title was being changed from Sr. QA Analyst to Sr. Software Engineer, I had two questions:
Do I get a raise?.... no
Is my job changing?.... no
So who cares? I got the title change because I was a better fit for the career path of Software Engineer. Whatever - I just do what I do as well as I can. In the software industry, it is just a title for the most part. You get hired and keep your job for what you know and how you work. I have never given the thumbs-up to someone who I interviewed (probably around 50 people) just because of their title. If you are worth your salt, you can tell who knows their stuff and who doesn't, regardless of what degree or title they have.
At the end, the guy said he was syslogging it to a printer, and would like to have that serve as a caller ID someday. Why not just use the display as caller ID? It would be perfect. I suppose he could also print it, to have a record of it, but displaying it would be great (don't have to get up to see it.)
I guess I haven't really realized the difference between "programmer" and "engineer". I have a degree in CS, and even though I work in QA I have the title Software Engineer. I guess I am on the engineer side. And anyone who tells you that software engineers aren't real engineers are just PO'd because we don't have to wear ties.:-)
Seriously, while software isn't engineered to the standards of say, buildings or bridges, it is a totally different animal. Software isn't the same as structures, or electronics, but it does take engineering discipline to work with large projects and get it right.
And I am not talking about prestige, either. You know what? I LIKE being able to wear jeans and Tshirts every day. I like having flex time. I like working with technology. I like talking to the IT guys about PCs and stuff, and having them give me old equipment that they are going to throw out. I like that stuff. And I am not a programmer, I am in QA. But the atmosphere is the same for the programmers. It seems like those who aspire to be managers either are told, or feel the need, to "clean up their act" and hang out with other managers, dress up a bit, and shmooze. I am glad I don't have to do that. We have a pretty sweet work environment, which means a lot. Not everyone can say that. And in reality, pretty much EVERY job is a dead-end job. Where do you want to go, anyway?
What? I know for a fact that managers can make less than technical people under them (including programmers). In bigger companies, you either choose the technical route or the managerial route. That is the way it should be - managers manage people and projects. It shouldn't be about the money. Many times it is about the power. I have heard from managers that they want to have highly paid technical people working for them. Those are the people they can rely on. Just because someone chooses not to go down the managerial path does not mean that their salaries are limited.
If I lose Photoshop or After Effects, I don't have a whole lot of good choices to replace them with, especially for the money.
Now I am not a graphics designer, but I have dabbled a little bit. Just a little bit. FOR THE MONEY, I don't know if you can do much better than The Gimp . Like I said, I am sure if you are a professional designer, Photoshop is THE way to go. However, after hearing great things about the Gimp, I downloaded it. Free. Not much easier on your wallet than that. From what I have found, it is quite powerful. I am not a Photoshop user, but I was and continue to be quite impressed. Maybe it isn't up to your standards, but it fully meets mine. Oh, did I mention it was free?:-) And they even have a Windows port. Find Grokking the Gimp online, or pick it up in a bookstore for a great manual.
It is enough to buy the entire airline industry -- twice. Or all the gold in Fort Knox, four times over. It is enough to buy 23 space shuttles or every major professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey team in America. It is an enviable stash.
...or enough to buy one team of lawyers.:-)
I guess we'll have to wait and see if it is enough to buy a government.
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I wrote redundant twice on purpose. He is redundant because he writes what he has written before - pretty much the same thing, over and over. He innovates like Microsoft.
He wants to be mainstream, that is fine - but don't try and pull the information-superhighway-globalism garbage over this crowd's eyes. So it's novel for the mainstream press - this ain't it.
I do agree with you on one thing - what he writes is fodder. From dictionary.com, I would agree with #1 or #3:
fodder Pronunciation Key (fdr) n.
1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.
3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.
I would never hire you, you trespasser!
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Yeah, I heard about you - harassing the good folks at Best Buy. You, sir, are a troublemaker, and I would never hire you as an analyst because of that. We don't like your kind around here.
(there, your reputation has now been damaged - feel free to sue Best Buy for false arrest and damaging your reputation)
Not to mention adding "stupid ass parts" that do absolutely nothing but advertise "adds XX horsepower". Like neon lights, clear lenses, fog lights, titanium/carbon fiber, coffee can mufflers, stickers that say "XXXX racing team", huge wings/spoilers, etc.
And here is a clue, if you add 3 parts that advertise "adds 10 HP", you don't get 30 HP. Learn something about engines, and listen to those that know what they are talking about. Bolt-on parts rarely add any HP, and you can't just add them all up to get your total HP. In fact, some of them rob you of HP.
(I have a 1988 BMW M3, an out-of-the-box engineered race car)
OMFG - don't get me started on ATI. I have an AIW-pro 32MB card. It was great after I installed it, never had any problems (ok, except with UT). Then one day I come to find out that they had new drivers/software. Since I thought the TV software could be better, I downloaded all of them. BIG BIG BIG mistake. After installing the new drivers, my video signal would just drop whenever it felt like it. Not playing games either, during normal PC activity. I couldn't get it back. My monitor gave the message "Video Cable Connected?". I had to reset the machine, and we all know how Windows likes that. (couldn't even CTRL-ALT-DELETE). I used to have no problems playing Ghost Recon, and after the driver install, it would only run for about 2 minutes before locking up. Several emails to ATI support went into the black hole.
It took several attempts, but I finally uninstalled the drivers and software, and installed the ones that came with my card. But even now, I still have the occasional problem that I never had before. Yeah, the TV functionality is pretty cool, and the main reason I got the card was to transfer some video tapes to digital format, but I highly doubt I'll buy another ATI card. YOU LISTENING ATI ???!!!!
Rat-bastards.
Re:why give katz such a hard time...
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Perhaps because, by your own (and more importantly, HIS twisted idea), he...represents the views of the slashdot community.
I guess since I read/. every day, and post responses, that I am part of the community. And Senior Katz does NOT in any way represent my views. Based on what he posts here, his writing is redundant, not well thought out, unclear, redundant, and just a bag of shiny turds. Therefore, if it is his mission to communicate the insights and strengths of the geek/OSS community with the rest of the world then I officially resign from the geek/OSS community.
And I will tell you who cares, people who have now subscribed (read paid money) to read slashdot. Katz is the reason I will never subscribe.
I hope for slashdot's sake, everyone was NOT on board, and Katz did this on his own. I would certainly expect something this classless and sleazy from him, but not from the rest of the/. crew. If they have truly crossed that line, then I predict a slow death for this site.
I am sure glad I didn't fork over any subscription fees. That that I wouldn't, but chances are reallllll slim if they allow things like this to happen. Hopefully they will be pissed about it and ban Katz.
"the company" in this particular example is the school, and not M$. If the school wants to perform an audit, that is fine. M$ doesn't have the right to force them to audit. THAT is the difference. Or are you saying that M$ owns all those computers because their OS is installed on it? If you are saying that, and you actually believe it, then I think there is a company in Redmond that would hire you.
I wouldn't subscribe until there are no Katz articles posted. Now before I get modded down as flamebait, realize that EVERY time something is posted by Katz, the same replies are generated:
- he doesn't say anything new (valid)
- he doesn't make a point (valid)
- he just uses buzz word and catch phrases (valid)
- his stories are generally not liked around here.
The last one is my personal opinion, and the opinion of soooo many other people. It is insulting to me that he is allowed to continue posting. For a free service, I'll make my opinion known, and leave it at that. But I won't subscribe as long as he posts. You may say "don't read it then!" but that isn't the point. The point is that I consider it an insult to the readers. If this were truly a community where people were heard, his reign of globalism internet paradigm riddled stories would have been piped to/dev/null long ago.
I have two PII systems at home, and they are just that. You can pick up one from one of the many liquidators around. I got a Dell PII 266, 64MB, 4 gig, nic, snd in one of those thin cases for $85. Works great for some servers, they are pretty quiet, and don't generate all that much heat. I was using it as my firewall, but replaced it with a P166 system (no fan other than the PS). It is just a firewall.
And that is the way it should be. Pushing the envelope is the only way they are going to make great advances. Like when AMD started kicking butt, Intel did a 'whoa shit' and decided they have better wake up.
You can't get caught up in the 'processor wars' too much. My home systems include:
Athlon 900 (slot, Windows)
Athlon 650 (slot, Windows - gf's)
Duron 700 (Linux)
P166 (Linux firewall)
PII 266 - old firewall
PII 300 - nothing yet
P100 - nothing yet
Do I need an AMD XP processor? Nope. But as long as they keep getting faster and faster, the used market will get better and better. Remember, Linux needs to be able to keep up with new hardware too, but as long as it remains backwards compatable, I'll be happy. I could run RedHat 7.2 on all of the above for one purpose or another. Try that with WinXP, NT, or 2K.
This pisses me off. Yeah, sales are down 10%. That's 10% off the HIGHEST SALES YEAR EVER in the recording industry. Ten percent off of that is nothing. Sales are actually UP compared to 2 years ago.
It isn't about the money. It is about the control. That is why we are spoon-fed music. That is why songs are played to DEATH before the next one is released. It is also why I haven't bought a new CD in a couple of years, and I am not a big downloader. I shop in used CD stores, the recording industry doesn't get any of that money. Am I depriving the artists? Nope. The record companies are. They need to get screwed, so they will revolt against the people who are screwing them, and hint hint - it isn't the customers who are stealing their money.
Part of the problem is that we are consumers, not customers. We are taught to consume things. It isn't about listening to music, it is about hoarding music. I have more CDs now than I need, and I know a lot of people have more than me. If I never bought a new CD again, I would have enough music to last me a long time. I have some CDs that I listened to once or twice.
Bottom line, it is just music. We don't NEED it. The record industry needs to realize that it isn't something we need to survive, it is entertainment. If they piss on us long enough, we will reject them because of it. I know I already have.
But I think parody is covered. Tell me, does anyone else get this?? (pick one, then zoom in on the pic) It cracks me up.
Dang! When I read the title...
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I thought when I saw the title that it was about Space Wars the video game.
From the above link...
This game was the first graphic, animated computer game. In 1961 DEC shipped their first computer, the PDP-1, to MIT. There, a small group of friends at MIT decided to write some demoware for the machine that would use the supplied vector monitor. The game was released as Spacewar in 1962, becoming an instant hit. It was later distributed by DEC with all PDP-1's and found itself installed at universities around the world. The result was a huge number of modified versions, many of these modifications can be found as user options in the Cinematronics version. Nutting's Computer Space and Atari's Orbit were based on the same concept, but these games were raster implementations instead of vector.
The Vectorbeam version of this game is called Space War, not Space Wars.
Technical
Cinematronics used a custom vector monitor. The monitor had a parallel interface and had digital to analog converters in the monitor cage.
Trivia
This game has the honor of being the first Black and White Vector arcade game. The designer of the game saw Space Wars in a research lab running on a minicomputer and felt that he had to have one of his own. So over the period of a few years he built the prototype of the game out of easily available parts. He did not use a microprocessor because he could not afford it, so he built his own. He eventually teamed up with others to form Cinematronics, and the basic design of Space Wars was used in about a dozen other games including Solar Quest, Tail Gunner and Star Castle.
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Personally, I am waiting for 7.3 for a fresh install on a new 120GB HD. My current system is on an 8 gig drive with a secondary 2 gig drive. It was originally installed with RH6.1, upgraded to 6.2, then again to 7.1, and again to 7.2. I upgraded KDE as well along the way. I could upgrade it to 7.3, but I think I want to do a fresh install. I didn't have too many problems with the upgrades, but I want to make sure I am fully on 7.3. And I have the new HD. Yeah, maybe it is overkill, but I am going to install the whole damn distro on there.
I have heard of some security group called "Cult of the Dead Cow." Kind of a strange name, I know, but I hear they will fully check out your secrurity. They just need a few root passwords....
Do I get a raise?.... no
Is my job changing?.... no
So who cares? I got the title change because I was a better fit for the career path of Software Engineer. Whatever - I just do what I do as well as I can. In the software industry, it is just a title for the most part. You get hired and keep your job for what you know and how you work. I have never given the thumbs-up to someone who I interviewed (probably around 50 people) just because of their title. If you are worth your salt, you can tell who knows their stuff and who doesn't, regardless of what degree or title they have.
At the end, the guy said he was syslogging it to a printer, and would like to have that serve as a caller ID someday. Why not just use the display as caller ID? It would be perfect. I suppose he could also print it, to have a record of it, but displaying it would be great (don't have to get up to see it.)
I guess I haven't really realized the difference between "programmer" and "engineer". I have a degree in CS, and even though I work in QA I have the title Software Engineer. I guess I am on the engineer side. And anyone who tells you that software engineers aren't real engineers are just PO'd because we don't have to wear ties. :-)
Seriously, while software isn't engineered to the standards of say, buildings or bridges, it is a totally different animal. Software isn't the same as structures, or electronics, but it does take engineering discipline to work with large projects and get it right.
And I am not talking about prestige, either. You know what? I LIKE being able to wear jeans and Tshirts every day. I like having flex time. I like working with technology. I like talking to the IT guys about PCs and stuff, and having them give me old equipment that they are going to throw out. I like that stuff. And I am not a programmer, I am in QA. But the atmosphere is the same for the programmers. It seems like those who aspire to be managers either are told, or feel the need, to "clean up their act" and hang out with other managers, dress up a bit, and shmooze. I am glad I don't have to do that. We have a pretty sweet work environment, which means a lot. Not everyone can say that. And in reality, pretty much EVERY job is a dead-end job. Where do you want to go, anyway?
What? I know for a fact that managers can make less than technical people under them (including programmers). In bigger companies, you either choose the technical route or the managerial route. That is the way it should be - managers manage people and projects. It shouldn't be about the money. Many times it is about the power. I have heard from managers that they want to have highly paid technical people working for them. Those are the people they can rely on. Just because someone chooses not to go down the managerial path does not mean that their salaries are limited.
Now I am not a graphics designer, but I have dabbled a little bit. Just a little bit. FOR THE MONEY, I don't know if you can do much better than The Gimp . Like I said, I am sure if you are a professional designer, Photoshop is THE way to go. However, after hearing great things about the Gimp, I downloaded it. Free. Not much easier on your wallet than that. From what I have found, it is quite powerful. I am not a Photoshop user, but I was and continue to be quite impressed. Maybe it isn't up to your standards, but it fully meets mine. Oh, did I mention it was free? :-) And they even have a Windows port. Find Grokking the Gimp online, or pick it up in a bookstore for a great manual.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if it is enough to buy a government.
He wants to be mainstream, that is fine - but don't try and pull the information-superhighway-globalism garbage over this crowd's eyes. So it's novel for the mainstream press - this ain't it.
I do agree with you on one thing - what he writes is fodder. From dictionary.com, I would agree with #1 or #3:
fodder Pronunciation Key (fdr) n.
1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.
3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.
(there, your reputation has now been damaged - feel free to sue Best Buy for false arrest and damaging your reputation)
And here is a clue, if you add 3 parts that advertise "adds 10 HP", you don't get 30 HP. Learn something about engines, and listen to those that know what they are talking about. Bolt-on parts rarely add any HP, and you can't just add them all up to get your total HP. In fact, some of them rob you of HP.
(I have a 1988 BMW M3, an out-of-the-box engineered race car)
It took several attempts, but I finally uninstalled the drivers and software, and installed the ones that came with my card. But even now, I still have the occasional problem that I never had before. Yeah, the TV functionality is pretty cool, and the main reason I got the card was to transfer some video tapes to digital format, but I highly doubt I'll buy another ATI card. YOU LISTENING ATI ???!!!!
Rat-bastards.
I guess since I read /. every day, and post responses, that I am part of the community. And Senior Katz does NOT in any way represent my views. Based on what he posts here, his writing is redundant, not well thought out, unclear, redundant, and just a bag of shiny turds. Therefore, if it is his mission to communicate the insights and strengths of the geek/OSS community with the rest of the world then I officially resign from the geek/OSS community.
And I will tell you who cares, people who have now subscribed (read paid money) to read slashdot. Katz is the reason I will never subscribe.
I am sure glad I didn't fork over any subscription fees. That that I wouldn't, but chances are reallllll slim if they allow things like this to happen. Hopefully they will be pissed about it and ban Katz.
"the company" in this particular example is the school, and not M$. If the school wants to perform an audit, that is fine. M$ doesn't have the right to force them to audit. THAT is the difference. Or are you saying that M$ owns all those computers because their OS is installed on it? If you are saying that, and you actually believe it, then I think there is a company in Redmond that would hire you.
- he doesn't say anything new (valid)
- he doesn't make a point (valid)
- he just uses buzz word and catch phrases (valid)
- his stories are generally not liked around here.
The last one is my personal opinion, and the opinion of soooo many other people. It is insulting to me that he is allowed to continue posting. For a free service, I'll make my opinion known, and leave it at that. But I won't subscribe as long as he posts. You may say "don't read it then!" but that isn't the point. The point is that I consider it an insult to the readers. If this were truly a community where people were heard, his reign of globalism internet paradigm riddled stories would have been piped to /dev/null long ago.
I have two PII systems at home, and they are just that. You can pick up one from one of the many liquidators around. I got a Dell PII 266, 64MB, 4 gig, nic, snd in one of those thin cases for $85. Works great for some servers, they are pretty quiet, and don't generate all that much heat. I was using it as my firewall, but replaced it with a P166 system (no fan other than the PS). It is just a firewall.
You can't get caught up in the 'processor wars' too much. My home systems include:
Athlon 900 (slot, Windows) Athlon 650 (slot, Windows - gf's) Duron 700 (Linux) P166 (Linux firewall) PII 266 - old firewall PII 300 - nothing yet P100 - nothing yet
Do I need an AMD XP processor? Nope. But as long as they keep getting faster and faster, the used market will get better and better. Remember, Linux needs to be able to keep up with new hardware too, but as long as it remains backwards compatable, I'll be happy. I could run RedHat 7.2 on all of the above for one purpose or another. Try that with WinXP, NT, or 2K.
So does that mean it has 3.6 Terabytes of swap space?
Looks like Sanders is trying to get in good with MS to gain some leverage against Intel.
What he stated was his opinion, probably to benefit his company - nothing more. Remember where his interests lie, he is a CEO.
It isn't about the money. It is about the control. That is why we are spoon-fed music. That is why songs are played to DEATH before the next one is released. It is also why I haven't bought a new CD in a couple of years, and I am not a big downloader. I shop in used CD stores, the recording industry doesn't get any of that money. Am I depriving the artists? Nope. The record companies are. They need to get screwed, so they will revolt against the people who are screwing them, and hint hint - it isn't the customers who are stealing their money.
Part of the problem is that we are consumers, not customers. We are taught to consume things. It isn't about listening to music, it is about hoarding music. I have more CDs now than I need, and I know a lot of people have more than me. If I never bought a new CD again, I would have enough music to last me a long time. I have some CDs that I listened to once or twice.
Bottom line, it is just music. We don't NEED it. The record industry needs to realize that it isn't something we need to survive, it is entertainment. If they piss on us long enough, we will reject them because of it. I know I already have.
I think it was more. But who cruted these Open Source Developers in the first place?
But I think parody is covered. Tell me, does anyone else get this?? (pick one, then zoom in on the pic) It cracks me up.
From the above link...
This game was the first graphic, animated computer game. In 1961 DEC shipped their first computer, the PDP-1, to MIT. There, a small group of friends at MIT decided to write some demoware for the machine that would use the supplied vector monitor. The game was released as Spacewar in 1962, becoming an instant hit. It was later distributed by DEC with all PDP-1's and found itself installed at universities around the world. The result was a huge number of modified versions, many of these modifications can be found as user options in the Cinematronics version. Nutting's Computer Space and Atari's Orbit were based on the same concept, but these games were raster implementations instead of vector.
The Vectorbeam version of this game is called Space War, not Space Wars.
Technical
Cinematronics used a custom vector monitor. The monitor had a parallel interface and had digital to analog converters in the monitor cage.
Trivia
This game has the honor of being the first Black and White Vector arcade game. The designer of the game saw Space Wars in a research lab running on a minicomputer and felt that he had to have one of his own. So over the period of a few years he built the prototype of the game out of easily available parts. He did not use a microprocessor because he could not afford it, so he built his own. He eventually teamed up with others to form Cinematronics, and the basic design of Space Wars was used in about a dozen other games including Solar Quest, Tail Gunner and Star Castle.