I tend to distrust sales people because they badly oversell the product.
How about selling a product that doesn't exist, then casually telling you to make it.
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However, this is not an excuse to treat your business people badly. They are the ones writing the checks, they are the ones to whom you must explain what is possible and what is not, and they are the ones that are ultimately doing the work that is paying your salary
This really depends on the nature of your business and its' product.
If you are a software engineering company like my employer, the business really can (and had been in the past) run by the tech people, and the sales/marketing/business types are the ones serving supplemental roles.
Sure, I wouldn't want to stop what I'm doing and begin selling our software to customers. I could do it, I know enough about it - it's just not my preference or else I would be doing that as a career instead.
There is no "magic" skillset mysteriously owned by sales/marketing/business people. It is just basic skills like organization, good/likeable social orientation, common sense, perhaps a bit of institutional knowledge anyone can pick up given enough time.
We (IT/tech) can do their jobs, they cannot easily do ours without years/decades of training. That's what I think a lot of the business types do not comprehend about differences in roles.
Something needs to be done about the $12hr PT IT job where a CS degree is required for consideration
Though I agree with you that this is ridiculous, I think it will fix itself. This sort of thing is the product of uninformed job scope/qualifications.
Job postings like this will garnish little to no response from "qualified" candidates and will naturally go away.
It reminds me of an overpriced house being on the market for years on end, until reality steps in and the prices is ultimately lowered to something sane.
I would also like to add a password to it (beyond the pass required for my google account) I wish they'd add that feature too, because if anyone ever reads that spreadsheet with malicious intent, I'm @$%#ed!
Is it the release schedule for Duke Nukem Forever? What else could be that important?
There are so many other free web-based mail alternatives out there that do not close your acct for inactivity, have proper methods of spam control, and work properly with web standards.
But anyone can reasonably look for a System or Preferences menu, hopefully drill down to the area of what they're looking for, and toggle options or whatnot. Why is there such pushback to making things easier? I don't think there is a pushback to make things easier. Any recent distribution will contain these tools. Check out any recent version of Fedora or Ubuntu and go to System --> Administration or Applications --> System Tools (Assuming you go with the default GNOME desktop).
There are live boot/preview features you can run from inside of windows (wubi for Ubuntu and Fedora has live USB boot with persistence)
So where's the push to get more of these GUI frontends to certain apps on Linux? There seems to be some work in that end, and Ubuntu seems like it's pushing towards making things easier to use for the layperson. Mainly Red Hat and to a certain extent, Novell, wrote most of the GTK+ front-ends you see in most distributions, system-config-* and many other gui's like SELinux front-ends and a great deal of work on NetworkManager.
Go to Help ---> About on some of your gui front-end apps on your distribution of choice and check the author/e-mail addresses associated.
As far as actual code contribution towards gui frontends I do not know that Ubuntu has contributed all that much. They are best known for just making an easy-to-use debian based distribution.
It now picks up EVDO/CDMA cards and will seamlessly connect you to the best medium available on the fly.
It also features a GUI similiar to Windows display properties where you can easily manage multiple monitors and resolutions without the need to run xrandr by hand or fiddle with xorg.conf
Not sure how you could do better than a day. We get next day from Dell, and we pay a lot for that coverage Why not just get 4 hour on-site from Dell? This is pretty much the standard for any enterprise environment. Many other vendors off this too (NetApp, IBM, Rackable etc)
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You forgot Enemy Territory. Free, native, open-source FPS for Linux/Mac/Win*.
There are also a bunch of mods/total conversions (TC's) for this game as well and an active player community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein:_Enemy_Territory
Just keep trying, stay positive, and things will eventually work out for you.
Be glad you are employed currently, even if you feel it may be beneath you.
which includes Intel making ..annual payments of $20 million US every year from 2009 through 2013."
I'll buy it for $18M between now and 2013.
i just want to know where the gold's at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfyrIPw3wY
It was the design of the Pentium Pro's floating point processor.
Well, the article does state he did it out curiosity.
Don't count on it. Microsoft and Sun, to name two, are run by suits.
SUN, not always. The co-founder, Bill Joy, is the author of vi.
I thought I would mention it because of how much I use vi/vim in my everday life.
He left SUN in 2003, however.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/09/1433229
I tend to distrust sales people because they badly oversell the product.
How about selling a product that doesn't exist, then casually telling you to make it.
However, this is not an excuse to treat your business people badly. They are the ones writing the checks, they are the ones to whom you must explain what is possible and what is not, and they are the ones that are ultimately doing the work that is paying your salary
This really depends on the nature of your business and its' product.
If you are a software engineering company like my employer, the business really can (and had been in the past) run by the tech people, and the sales/marketing/business types are the ones serving supplemental roles.
Sure, I wouldn't want to stop what I'm doing and begin selling our software to customers.
I could do it, I know enough about it - it's just not my preference or else I would be doing that as a career instead.
There is no "magic" skillset mysteriously owned by sales/marketing/business people. It is just basic skills like organization, good/likeable social orientation, common sense, perhaps a bit of institutional knowledge anyone can pick up given enough time.
We (IT/tech) can do their jobs, they cannot easily do ours without years/decades of training.
That's what I think a lot of the business types do not comprehend about differences in roles.
Something needs to be done about the $12hr PT IT job where a CS degree is required for consideration
Though I agree with you that this is ridiculous, I think it will fix itself. This sort of thing is the product of uninformed job scope/qualifications.
Job postings like this will garnish little to no response from "qualified" candidates and will naturally go away.
It reminds me of an overpriced house being on the market for years on end, until reality steps in and the prices is ultimately lowered to something sane.
What about CentOS? Did the compromised code flowed down to CentOS?
There was no compromised code, they were just taking all precautions possible.
If you look at the update, it fixes an older issue with openssh-server and also signs it with a new key.
Stuff like this is prevalent in big enterprise places like RHT that get a lot of exposure.
Quick, concise response to this situation on the part of Red Hat, well done in my opinion.
Other vendors could learn from their example.
let's have more articles like this, a refreshing break from the ordinary IT/sience/random_tech articles that seem to dominate offerings.
I would also like to add a password to it (beyond the pass required for my google account) I wish they'd add that feature too, because if anyone ever reads that spreadsheet with malicious intent, I'm @$%#ed!
Is it the release schedule for Duke Nukem Forever? What else could be that important?
Though they might now be the same, the internet can go down before google does.
asking Geeksquad obscure sed/awk questions like I do at the Macstore "Genius" bar.
besides spammers?
There are so many other free web-based mail alternatives out there that do not close your acct for inactivity, have proper methods of spam control, and work properly with web standards.
This is great. First the patent protection paid for out of their pockets, now this.
I once caught a production exchange server on fire due to a faulty wire connected to one of the DLT drives.
The motherboard was scorched so bad that when you tapped it burnt flakes that used to be the transistors fell off.
I knew something was up as soon as I smelled burning. The smoke pretty much gave it away, though.
I don't work there any more.
There are live boot/preview features you can run from inside of windows (wubi for Ubuntu and Fedora has live USB boot with persistence)
Go to Help ---> About on some of your gui front-end apps on your distribution of choice and check the author/e-mail addresses associated.
As far as actual code contribution towards gui frontends I do not know that Ubuntu has contributed all that much. They are best known for just making an easy-to-use debian based distribution.
The changes in NetworkManager are quite nice.
It now picks up EVDO/CDMA cards and will seamlessly connect you to the best medium available on the fly.
It also features a GUI similiar to Windows display properties where you can easily manage multiple monitors and resolutions without the need to run xrandr by hand or fiddle with xorg.conf
It also supports NFS install.
Congrats Slackware Team! (Pat V. and contributors).
Slackware was my first distribution and the reason/medium that got me into Linux/OSS.
I am glad to see releases are still coming right along.