I suppose I've had a different experience. I my field, I'm somewhat in demand so people try to keep me. However, I've been seriously working for 3 years and changed jobs almost every year. As openings come up, I climb up the ladder. My employeer has both a "penison" and a 401K - I only have faith in the 401K.
I understand what Circuit City is doing. As a company I'm pretty convinced they're over with. I can't recall the last time I went to one of their stores although I think that was for giftcard or something. They're trying to save money in whatever way they can. I really think they have to change how they do business and the way their stores are setup to compete with BestBuy but I really think it is too late for that. Anyway, I'll probably be buying stuff online.
Geez, almost as many people jumped on you as jumped on me heh.
I'm on my 3rd serious job (serious in the sense that I pay all of my bills, work full time, etc) since college.
But, I'm writing back on your post as I agree spot on with your 3rd paragraph. I'm fully aware the American Dream is just that, a Dream. But I'm also not exactly happy when a group of people gets kicked out of their jobs. I sympathize, but I also imagine most of them will be fine and trade in red shirts for blue shirts (or yellow or whatever).
On the other hand, it is possible I just haven't become cynical enough (and I'm pretty damned cynical). Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
Ya know, I'm only 20-something but my vision of the American Dream doesn't ever include getting laid-off - and certainly not by a company trying to reduce costs. How do you know these people views this job as dead end?
It involves working hard, making good money, building a family and a good life for all of us. White-picket fence and all of that (though I hate picket fences - I'll take a split-rail please).
If these people were the highest paid sales staff and they aren't making commission, then I would imagine they earned that salary buy sticking it out and being with the company for a long time (my assumption, could be wrong). So you stay with a company and work you way up and then someone decides to can you so you can start all over again. JibJab's BigBoxMart video is playing in my head.
To be fair, I did the same thing when Gnome 2.2 came out. I went from KDE whatever to Gnome. But in my experience, the never-ending "make it simpler" has left my "power-user" OS feeling like a toy. I want customization, options and the ablity to not have to open up gconf-editor to do so. I want to choose which app I want to use. I don't like sound-juicer; I prefer grip. I hate everything related to gstreamer (though I hate arts as much to be fair). I don't want anything do to with Mono and that mail app called evolution is... well I just can't write those types of thing in polite company.
And I now don't have to feel bad about qt/kde apps I like (Amarok, Opera, K3b). I still use Abiword and Gnumeric though as I think they are more polished than Koffice. I do like GTK over QT for looks but QT 4 and KDE Plamsa look interesting.
And at the end of the day, I don't see Gnome going anywhere or doing anything interesting. New Tango Icons? glChess? KDE 4 looks to have all of these big improvements. Xfce has also made profound improvements recently so if I was go back to GTK-land, it would certainly be with them.
I spend on average 12 hours a day on one of various computers. 8 of those are staring at a "Start" button though heh.
Ok, I recently switched from Gnome to KDE 3.5 and really have no plans to go back, but saying something which isn't even close to finished is "most-bestest" would seem to be jumping the gun.
I'm sure we can find as many blog entries about how Vista is most-bestest, or Gnome, or Xfce. Of those, I'd only ever buy the Xfce argument but to each their own.
your average Linux user will put in the restore disc and say "Linux? What Linux? The keyboard is broken in Windows see! These are not the penguins you are looking for".
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Just get one of those things they make to erase videocassette tapes. Its basically an electromagnet that looks like an iron. You push the button and it goes on and erases the videotape. It should do the same thing to a hard drive or any magnetic media I should thing (I only ever tested a floppy).
Well, soundmax is usually just the name of the driver in Windows. The chipset is probably some AC'97 clone. Are you sure Asus is going to make a card from scratch or just take the chipset that they normally glue onto new motherboards and glue it onto a PCI card?
I have an ASUS A8N-VM motherboard in one of my workstations (my Linux page on it) and whlie the sound does work, it is also probably the worst motherboard I've ever owned. Touching the video card results in the CMOS getting confused and the whole machine needing to be disassembled and put back together one piece at a time or the bios freaks out and doesn't boot. The problem isn't related to the OS; Linux, FreeBSD and Windows all did it. I'll never buy one of their motherboards again.
While the Athlon64 is still the fastest of my 3 machines, the headache Asus made this motherboard leads me to using my mini-itx Via C7 machine more.
I found something similar on one of my older machines with Ubuntu (machine has since been retired). My solution was to get the "Alternate Install" CD. It pretty much only has the text installer of Debian Lore (which I've installed enough times to just click through in my sleep). Not as pretty, but it seems to work on more hardware.
And frankly, I don't really need the bootable CD to boot up and waste my time and memory. Just dump the packages to harddrive as fast as possible, let me reboot, upgrade and roll.:)
Well, firstly, I would have to say I'm not a parent so I've not yet run into the problems you describe. But from my standpoint, I don't believe this will make filtering access any easier and it puts a significant workload on everyone else.
How do you characterize what is adult material and what isn't? Is that porn or is it art? I personally feel there is a difference - I know porn when I see it and I know art when I see it, but my standards aren't the same as everyone else. Lets assume there aren't going to be the inevitable court battles over "is it or isn't it" and I have complete dictatorial control over "is it or isn't it". Are you as a parent comfortable with me making those decisions for you? I view proposals like this as ways power is being taken out of you (the parents) hands and put in the hands of a less capable bureaucrat.
At the end of the day, it will still have to be up to you to make the decisions on what is or isn't appropriate for your children. And while I do feel that filtering software is a good tool (I use privoxy/squid to filter out malware on my own network), you will still have to sit and teach good browsing habits.
But Amarok 2.0 (KDE 4/QT 4) will run on things other than Linux (Oh and as a BSD user, I have to say *neener neener* to your only running on Linux part anyway).:)
Amarok 2.0 is a long way from its release day however.
Am I the only one who's concerned with the health risks involved with all these increased dosages of electromagnetic radiation exposure?
Of course not. That is why I, like many slashdoters, avoid that big bright producer of electromagnetic radiation in the sky whenever possible. As a side benefit, my pasty white completion will soon be white enough for me to qualify as a white body and as such, EM radiation will just bounce happily away from me.
Note: Intended as a joke and I haven't had a physics class since High School so...
I don't think that is the case. I've had 3 dell laptops - 2 of them latitudes I bought at the end of corporate leases so they were behind the times when I got them. A Pentium, a Pentium 2, and now I have the ultra-cheap B130 Inspiron. It was 500 bucks shipped to my door. I, like tom, took the liberty of booting with a ubuntu disk and dd'ing the partition table into oblivion. My difference is that I'm not running windows at all on the laptop - it runs kubuntu feisty without issue at the moment. I also replaced the 802.11 broadcom with an intel chip and everything on the machine works perfectly out of the box. The system's I've built (2 desktops) have more issues.
Could it die? Sure, but so could any other system and with a laptop, its not like I can go to any store and pickup some spare parts to change out. The data on the hard drive is mirrored on my freebsd mini-itx fileserver and my athlon64 so I wouldn't be out much if the laptop went anyway. I've bought, and built computers and experienced plenty of hardware failures (usually hard drives actually). I've learned, cheap and redundant is usually the best policy.
Parts of this planet we live on don't even have access to a broadband Internet connection, and now they want to plug Mars on the network? Talk about priorities...
If a child is starving and illiterate, because he lives in an area where the people do not possess enough basic intelligence to feed themselves or create schools, what good is a computer?
In most areas in the world where children are starving and/or are illterate, it has nothing to do with people "not possess[ing] enough basic intelligence to feed themselves or create schools".
If not troll, then flamebait or "insensitive clod" (which is being overly nice) might apply.
I actually had a similar thought. I've been using Linux for about a decade with Debian being my first distro. I liked Ubuntu because it seemed to clear up the cobwebs a bit and let me use apt. I've run Suse, Slackware, Gentoo and all 3 BSD (going to be building a new freebsd fileserver tomorrow) but ubuntu filled the niche on my laptop where I want to install programs quickly without compiling. Maybe I'll try Fedora on my desktop the next time they have a respin. I hear good things about yum these days and I'm curious about Selinux. I guess I could try CentOS as well.
finally........i havent managed to score a gmail account yet!
Hmm, see that actually suprises me. I've been using gmail for quite a while - its perfect for webmail and I forward my homepage's mail to it. I got my invite by going to one of those sites that banks invites from people and will send you one if you request it.
That said, am I the only one who was taken aback by the saved searches feature? I don't care that google has it, I DO care very much that it was enabled by default and I had a bunch of saved searches before I disabled the functionally. I then had to clear out all of the saved searches. That was not cool and in my opinion, a bad move on google's part.
I really hope that projects like RoundCube continue to develop. If the day ever comes where I want to get off the gmail ride, I'd hope to pick up a client just as nice.
I don't think many professional graphic artists or recording artists bother with audacity or the gimp. But for an average computer user like myself, I'm quite able to fix up photos in the gimp or convert songs from CD into a 30 second ringtone in audacity.
If someone is going to be able to use an expensive tool well enough to make enough money to recoup the cost of the software, sure, why not buy it? But if someone is just going to crop photos before printing them at walmart, then they are certainly not going to shell out whatever Adobe charges for photoshop these days.
And Dell no less. I have a Dell inkjet printer (lexmark with another name on it) still unopened in its box from when it came as part of a bundle deal with my laptop this Christmas. I've asked friends and family and no one wants to bother with it.
I ended up buying a Samsung laser of all things with Christmas bestbuy giftcards as I wanted a laser, it works with linux and was only $80. The HP sitting next to it wasn't as sturdy.
So I guess this would be a place to ask. I spent a bit of time this morning searching for.debs for edgy. I guess I could do the compile route but I'd like to be able to drop the gnome cruft and go back to XFCE now that 4.4 is done.
In my time there, they did not, however, actively monitor systems for viruses and malware. I often received spam from student PCs attempting to spread viruses via attachments. Many lab systems suffered from various malware, although that improved in my last year after they switched to a pseudo-thin client setup.
In my time there (I was only on campus in 2000), they did regularly scan the machines on the network for exploits and they would disconnect you for SubSeven or Nimbda or the like. I never had any problems in the lab and indeed I was impressed that for my last semester at school, they actually had two linux machines in the labs you could use. They weren't exactly configured properly but when you logged on and realized that these were Xenons with SCSI hard disks... well someone in ASET likes Linux:).
My only complaint in the dorms was the massive amount of IPX traffic smashing into my firewall. Living in an all guy's dorm with Counterstrike blasting away as far as the ear could hear...
Since no one cares about protecting digital content picture-wise of a gaming console, why not just use DVI instead (since all HD TVs are plasma/LCD and have those inputs anyway)? If not for the PS3 (since you can watch movies), why at least the not the Xbox360?
Not to burst your bubble but my CRT HDTV has and HDMI input and no DVI input. Of course as my cable box doesn't have HDMI out, that input is largely useless for me.
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I suppose I've had a different experience. I my field, I'm somewhat in demand so people try to keep me. However, I've been seriously working for 3 years and changed jobs almost every year. As openings come up, I climb up the ladder. My employeer has both a "penison" and a 401K - I only have faith in the 401K.
I understand what Circuit City is doing. As a company I'm pretty convinced they're over with. I can't recall the last time I went to one of their stores although I think that was for giftcard or something. They're trying to save money in whatever way they can. I really think they have to change how they do business and the way their stores are setup to compete with BestBuy but I really think it is too late for that. Anyway, I'll probably be buying stuff online.
Geez, almost as many people jumped on you as jumped on me heh.
I'm on my 3rd serious job (serious in the sense that I pay all of my bills, work full time, etc) since college.
But, I'm writing back on your post as I agree spot on with your 3rd paragraph. I'm fully aware the American Dream is just that, a Dream. But I'm also not exactly happy when a group of people gets kicked out of their jobs. I sympathize, but I also imagine most of them will be fine and trade in red shirts for blue shirts (or yellow or whatever).
On the other hand, it is possible I just haven't become cynical enough (and I'm pretty damned cynical). Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
Ya know, I'm only 20-something but my vision of the American Dream doesn't ever include getting laid-off - and certainly not by a company trying to reduce costs. How do you know these people views this job as dead end?
It involves working hard, making good money, building a family and a good life for all of us. White-picket fence and all of that (though I hate picket fences - I'll take a split-rail please).
If these people were the highest paid sales staff and they aren't making commission, then I would imagine they earned that salary buy sticking it out and being with the company for a long time (my assumption, could be wrong). So you stay with a company and work you way up and then someone decides to can you so you can start all over again. JibJab's BigBoxMart video is playing in my head.
To be fair, I did the same thing when Gnome 2.2 came out. I went from KDE whatever to Gnome. But in my experience, the never-ending "make it simpler" has left my "power-user" OS feeling like a toy. I want customization, options and the ablity to not have to open up gconf-editor to do so. I want to choose which app I want to use. I don't like sound-juicer; I prefer grip. I hate everything related to gstreamer (though I hate arts as much to be fair). I don't want anything do to with Mono and that mail app called evolution is ... well I just can't write those types of thing in polite company.
And I now don't have to feel bad about qt/kde apps I like (Amarok, Opera, K3b). I still use Abiword and Gnumeric though as I think they are more polished than Koffice. I do like GTK over QT for looks but QT 4 and KDE Plamsa look interesting.
And at the end of the day, I don't see Gnome going anywhere or doing anything interesting. New Tango Icons? glChess? KDE 4 looks to have all of these big improvements. Xfce has also made profound improvements recently so if I was go back to GTK-land, it would certainly be with them.
I spend on average 12 hours a day on one of various computers. 8 of those are staring at a "Start" button though heh.
Ok, I recently switched from Gnome to KDE 3.5 and really have no plans to go back, but saying something which isn't even close to finished is "most-bestest" would seem to be jumping the gun.
I'm sure we can find as many blog entries about how Vista is most-bestest, or Gnome, or Xfce. Of those, I'd only ever buy the Xfce argument but to each their own.
your average Linux user will put in the restore disc and say "Linux? What Linux? The keyboard is broken in Windows see! These are not the penguins you are looking for".
Just get one of those things they make to erase videocassette tapes. Its basically an electromagnet that looks like an iron. You push the button and it goes on and erases the videotape. It should do the same thing to a hard drive or any magnetic media I should thing (I only ever tested a floppy).
My GPS unit for wardriving comes via Fedex tomorrow. Now they've taken all the fun out of it :(.
Well, soundmax is usually just the name of the driver in Windows. The chipset is probably some AC'97 clone. Are you sure Asus is going to make a card from scratch or just take the chipset that they normally glue onto new motherboards and glue it onto a PCI card?
I have an ASUS A8N-VM motherboard in one of my workstations (my Linux page on it) and whlie the sound does work, it is also probably the worst motherboard I've ever owned. Touching the video card results in the CMOS getting confused and the whole machine needing to be disassembled and put back together one piece at a time or the bios freaks out and doesn't boot. The problem isn't related to the OS; Linux, FreeBSD and Windows all did it. I'll never buy one of their motherboards again.
While the Athlon64 is still the fastest of my 3 machines, the headache Asus made this motherboard leads me to using my mini-itx Via C7 machine more.
I found something similar on one of my older machines with Ubuntu (machine has since been retired). My solution was to get the "Alternate Install" CD. It pretty much only has the text installer of Debian Lore (which I've installed enough times to just click through in my sleep). Not as pretty, but it seems to work on more hardware.
:)
And frankly, I don't really need the bootable CD to boot up and waste my time and memory. Just dump the packages to harddrive as fast as possible, let me reboot, upgrade and roll.
Or alternatively, don't kill anyone?
Somehow that seems simpler to me.
Well, firstly, I would have to say I'm not a parent so I've not yet run into the problems you describe. But from my standpoint, I don't believe this will make filtering access any easier and it puts a significant workload on everyone else.
How do you characterize what is adult material and what isn't? Is that porn or is it art? I personally feel there is a difference - I know porn when I see it and I know art when I see it, but my standards aren't the same as everyone else. Lets assume there aren't going to be the inevitable court battles over "is it or isn't it" and I have complete dictatorial control over "is it or isn't it". Are you as a parent comfortable with me making those decisions for you? I view proposals like this as ways power is being taken out of you (the parents) hands and put in the hands of a less capable bureaucrat.
At the end of the day, it will still have to be up to you to make the decisions on what is or isn't appropriate for your children. And while I do feel that filtering software is a good tool (I use privoxy/squid to filter out malware on my own network), you will still have to sit and teach good browsing habits.
But Amarok 2.0 (KDE 4/QT 4) will run on things other than Linux (Oh and as a BSD user, I have to say *neener neener* to your only running on Linux part anyway). :)
Amarok 2.0 is a long way from its release day however.
Am I the only one who's concerned with the health risks involved with all these increased dosages of electromagnetic radiation exposure?
...
Of course not. That is why I, like many slashdoters, avoid that big bright producer of electromagnetic radiation in the sky whenever possible. As a side benefit, my pasty white completion will soon be white enough for me to qualify as a white body and as such, EM radiation will just bounce happily away from me.
Note: Intended as a joke and I haven't had a physics class since High School so
I don't think that is the case. I've had 3 dell laptops - 2 of them latitudes I bought at the end of corporate leases so they were behind the times when I got them. A Pentium, a Pentium 2, and now I have the ultra-cheap B130 Inspiron. It was 500 bucks shipped to my door. I, like tom, took the liberty of booting with a ubuntu disk and dd'ing the partition table into oblivion. My difference is that I'm not running windows at all on the laptop - it runs kubuntu feisty without issue at the moment. I also replaced the 802.11 broadcom with an intel chip and everything on the machine works perfectly out of the box. The system's I've built (2 desktops) have more issues.
Could it die? Sure, but so could any other system and with a laptop, its not like I can go to any store and pickup some spare parts to change out. The data on the hard drive is mirrored on my freebsd mini-itx fileserver and my athlon64 so I wouldn't be out much if the laptop went anyway. I've bought, and built computers and experienced plenty of hardware failures (usually hard drives actually). I've learned, cheap and redundant is usually the best policy.
Parts of this planet we live on don't even have access to a broadband Internet connection, and now they want to plug Mars on the network? Talk about priorities...
:)
Well, isn't it always about the last mile?
If a child is starving and illiterate, because he lives in an area where the people do not possess enough basic intelligence to feed themselves or create schools, what good is a computer?
In most areas in the world where children are starving and/or are illterate, it has nothing to do with people "not possess[ing] enough basic intelligence to feed themselves or create schools".
If not troll, then flamebait or "insensitive clod" (which is being overly nice) might apply.
Or, even better, use the META tag to set NOARCHIVE:
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<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOARCHIVE"
All of my website (quaggaspace.org) shows up in google, but you'll notice there is no "cached" button.
I actually had a similar thought. I've been using Linux for about a decade with Debian being my first distro. I liked Ubuntu because it seemed to clear up the cobwebs a bit and let me use apt. I've run Suse, Slackware, Gentoo and all 3 BSD (going to be building a new freebsd fileserver tomorrow) but ubuntu filled the niche on my laptop where I want to install programs quickly without compiling. Maybe I'll try Fedora on my desktop the next time they have a respin. I hear good things about yum these days and I'm curious about Selinux. I guess I could try CentOS as well.
finally........i havent managed to score a gmail account yet!
Hmm, see that actually suprises me. I've been using gmail for quite a while - its perfect for webmail and I forward my homepage's mail to it. I got my invite by going to one of those sites that banks invites from people and will send you one if you request it.
That said, am I the only one who was taken aback by the saved searches feature? I don't care that google has it, I DO care very much that it was enabled by default and I had a bunch of saved searches before I disabled the functionally. I then had to clear out all of the saved searches. That was not cool and in my opinion, a bad move on google's part.
I really hope that projects like RoundCube continue to develop. If the day ever comes where I want to get off the gmail ride, I'd hope to pick up a client just as nice.
Different tools for different needs I guess.
I don't think many professional graphic artists or recording artists bother with audacity or the gimp. But for an average computer user like myself, I'm quite able to fix up photos in the gimp or convert songs from CD into a 30 second ringtone in audacity.
If someone is going to be able to use an expensive tool well enough to make enough money to recoup the cost of the software, sure, why not buy it? But if someone is just going to crop photos before printing them at walmart, then they are certainly not going to shell out whatever Adobe charges for photoshop these days.
And Dell no less. I have a Dell inkjet printer (lexmark with another name on it) still unopened in its box from when it came as part of a bundle deal with my laptop this Christmas. I've asked friends and family and no one wants to bother with it.
I ended up buying a Samsung laser of all things with Christmas bestbuy giftcards as I wanted a laser, it works with linux and was only $80. The HP sitting next to it wasn't as sturdy.
So I guess this would be a place to ask. I spent a bit of time this morning searching for .debs for edgy. I guess I could do the compile route but I'd like to be able to drop the gnome cruft and go back to XFCE now that 4.4 is done.
.debs for Edgy?
Anyone know of any backported
In my time there, they did not, however, actively monitor systems for viruses and malware. I often received spam from student PCs attempting to spread viruses via attachments. Many lab systems suffered from various malware, although that improved in my last year after they switched to a pseudo-thin client setup.
... well someone in ASET likes Linux :).
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In my time there (I was only on campus in 2000), they did regularly scan the machines on the network for exploits and they would disconnect you for SubSeven or Nimbda or the like. I never had any problems in the lab and indeed I was impressed that for my last semester at school, they actually had two linux machines in the labs you could use. They weren't exactly configured properly but when you logged on and realized that these were Xenons with SCSI hard disks
My only complaint in the dorms was the massive amount of IPX traffic smashing into my firewall. Living in an all guy's dorm with Counterstrike blasting away as far as the ear could hear
Since no one cares about protecting digital content picture-wise of a gaming console, why not just use DVI instead (since all HD TVs are plasma/LCD and have those inputs anyway)? If not for the PS3 (since you can watch movies), why at least the not the Xbox360?
Not to burst your bubble but my CRT HDTV has and HDMI input and no DVI input. Of course as my cable box doesn't have HDMI out, that input is largely useless for me.