Some people have pointed out that this only applies to government or CNII http://cnii.cybersecurity.my/main/about.html. This is all the public have info on, and it encompasses almost every economic sector in Malaysia. Would ISP, Telekoms and Mobile operators come under critical services? How about Banking? Would this be another layer of requirements on top of existing ones to provide IT services to banks and financial institutions?
National Security is also a red flag. Malaysia has history of using National Security laws to hide information related to corruption or even arresting opposition politicians under this pretense.
Long term wise, the public statement has already stated that the objective is increasing quality for *all* IT professionals. So their intentions are obviously not limited to just CNII requirements.
These concerns on the title were actually raised. The intention was as stated by parent of this title, was to give impression of breaking the lock-in effect through writing code. None technical people seemed to be happy with this title and it stuck.
Of course you can't quite put MS in the title without getting a lot of heat.:) Although it would have definitely made it much clearer/better.
Normal disclaimer, these views are personal and not that of IOSN or UNDP-APDIP.
Well last week in Malaysia, a US government sponsored IPR enforcement roundtable had a presentation from the MPA the local equivalent of the MPAA.
Since the "value" of pirated IP was higher than that of narcotics, they stated that crime lords are moving into piracy industry from narcotics. They then put up a slide that put side by side figures showing that the punishment of IP theft was not a strong enough deterrent as compared to narcotics. As some of you may know, drug trafficking here in South East Asia carries a mandatory death sentence.
"Virtual; you run a query and save the specific query off as if it were the real thing (like Evolution's VFolder)."
BeOS with BFS had this, and I wished that it was possible to have on an OSS system.
I would create query folders which would use BFS metatypes and indexes to quickly give me a dynamic folder of matching items.
One example would be MP3 ID3 genre's. I would have various folders with artist, genre etc. Other examples would be documents,emails etc. related to certain projects.
We have around 30 people or so at our company and except for 4 pcs which run Windows for compatibility/testing reasons, everybody including our sales team uses Linux.
In fact our sales team did not have any problems with using RH9 with Evolution as email, Mozilla as browser and OpenOffice for productivity apps. A few people also prefer using Mozilla for their email client also.
With Flash 6 plugin also available, we had no issues and bookmarks is more intuitive than "Favourites". The best thing is of course the fact that we never worry about viruses:)
The previous post has a lot of truth in it. You also have to be careful about being cheated. I have a few friends who have had to argue about getting their full wages.
While the riches aren't flowing, if you don't mind getting paid the local equivalent of somebody with the same amount of experience, or just a little bit more, then Asia has a lot of opportunities for foreign tech workers. You always have to keep in mind the problems of being a foreign worker. Apart from legal problems, you should also be aware of cultural problems such as language, food and so on.
Consider South East Asia. It provides far less, legal problems in terms of visa's and so on for foreigners, especially for places like Singapore. Other countries like Malaysia, even make it easier for you to obtain visas if you are working for an approved tech firm in the cheesily named Multimedia Super Corridor.
I have to post this, because the reason I use FreeBSD IS because everything is standardised and decided by a working group of elected core members and committers. On every FreeBSD system, things are pretty much the same.
/etc = base
/usr/local = installed applications
Installation of applications?
Ports system!
pkg_add, pkg_info, pkg_delete
With the portupgrade utility, I can do something like this:
portupgrade -Rr evolution
Which would upgrade and build anything evolution depends on and anything else installed on my system that depends on evolution. I could specficy makes flags also then. And the best part about it is that, all the dependencies will be fetched, built and installed automatically without having to run around finding rpms or source files. It would also maintain the dependencies of all the other applications that depended on something that was upgraded by evolution.
You can also upgrade/downgrade base system easily and rebuild things simply by updating the ports directories and base src and docs via cvs and a specific release tag. And because the different parts are maintained as a team, issues/discrepencies are fixed rather quickly.
Cost of commercial applications (mostly from the US) can be prohibitive for a lot of small companies of up to 50 employees. A lot simply cannot earn enough to justify everybody having MS Word, or a 50 usr license of Exchange.
What I'm seeing now is that more and more offices are converting to Linux for servers especially for file sharing, printing and emails. What's really surprising though is that interest is also picking up on OpenOffice. We're getting more and more calls daily from companies looking for OpenOffice training for their staff.
I guess that covers business mainstream. As for consumer mainstream, it's not quite there yet. RH8 is coming close, but I'm still having problems with a lot of consumer devices. People don't usually buy on features not by OS. They ask for things like, "I want a colour printer to print my photos, that I take with my digital camera". Then they expect a simple installation disk and almost plug and play setup with nice "easy" instructions.
So until you rush out and buy a digital camera, and it has linux intructions in the box, you're not likely to see it adopted for the consumer mainstream just yet.
You know you could do both, run linux at work and FreeBSD at home. They are similar enough and used often enough for servers that it helps to know both (even though you concentrate more on linux job wise).
The same goes for picking up a bit on other Unix systems like Solaris, AIX and HPUX.
Yes you can use a PDA to assist you in taking notes. Nothing beats writing down equations quickly as pencil and pen. So this is what you might be looking for:
http://www.seikosmart.com
It allows you to input notes directly into your PDA while either writing on the pad or on normal notepaper on top of the pad. These notes then are saved onto your PDA to be printed/sorted out later in electronic form.
BeOS does this so well, that I use it as my MP3 juke box. The ability to search using a GUI, in milliseconds for songs from a particular artist, or title, running on an OS that boots up in seconds means that there will always be a copy of BeOS in my house for this purpose to make use of old second hand Pentiums that people think are too slow for their latest and greatest copies of Windows.
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Some people have pointed out that this only applies to government or CNII http://cnii.cybersecurity.my/main/about.html. This is all the public have info on, and it encompasses almost every economic sector in Malaysia. Would ISP, Telekoms and Mobile operators come under critical services? How about Banking? Would this be another layer of requirements on top of existing ones to provide IT services to banks and financial institutions?
National Security is also a red flag. Malaysia has history of using National Security laws to hide information related to corruption or even arresting opposition politicians under this pretense.
Long term wise, the public statement has already stated that the objective is increasing quality for *all* IT professionals. So their intentions are obviously not limited to just CNII requirements.
Here in Malaysia we have both EDGE and 3G unlimited data plans from around USD35/month from 3 different providers.
Wouldn't be surprised if other providers around the world have more competitive rates.
This is hardly news.
These concerns on the title were actually raised. The intention was as stated by parent of this title, was to give impression of breaking the lock-in effect through writing code. None technical people seemed to be happy with this title and it stuck.
:) Although it would have definitely made it much clearer/better.
Of course you can't quite put MS in the title without getting a lot of heat.
Normal disclaimer, these views are personal and not that of IOSN or UNDP-APDIP.
Well last week in Malaysia, a US government sponsored IPR enforcement roundtable had a presentation from the MPA the local equivalent of the MPAA.
Since the "value" of pirated IP was higher than that of narcotics, they stated that crime lords are moving into piracy industry from narcotics. They then put up a slide that put side by side figures showing that the punishment of IP theft was not a strong enough deterrent as compared to narcotics. As some of you may know, drug trafficking here in South East Asia carries a mandatory death sentence.
BeOS with BFS had this, and I wished that it was possible to have on an OSS system.
I would create query folders which would use BFS metatypes and indexes to quickly give me a dynamic folder of matching items.
One example would be MP3 ID3 genre's. I would have various folders with artist, genre etc. Other examples would be documents,emails etc. related to certain projects.
In fact our sales team did not have any problems with using RH9 with Evolution as email, Mozilla as browser and OpenOffice for productivity apps. A few people also prefer using Mozilla for their email client also.
With Flash 6 plugin also available, we had no issues and bookmarks is more intuitive than "Favourites". The best thing is of course the fact that we never worry about viruses
To do this you need to recompile ld-elf.so.1 to support dynamic lib mapping:
/usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/
/etc dir. Details of it can be accessed by reading the man pages libmap.conf(8).
l aF irebird-bin]
cd
make -DWITH_LIBMAP
make install
Then you need to have a libmap.conf in your
Here is a sample with mozilla firebird mapped to libkse:
[/usr/X11R6/lib/firebird/lib/mozilla-1.4b/Mozil
libc_r.so.5 libkse.so.1
libc_r.so libkse.so
Just add more entries if you wish. You can test out whether an application is using libc_r or libkse by running ldd(8).
Note the library mapping can be done as Scott mentions also for libthr also for 1:1 threading.
While the riches aren't flowing, if you don't mind getting paid the local equivalent of somebody with the same amount of experience, or just a little bit more, then Asia has a lot of opportunities for foreign tech workers. You always have to keep in mind the problems of being a foreign worker. Apart from legal problems, you should also be aware of cultural problems such as language, food and so on.
Consider South East Asia. It provides far less, legal problems in terms of visa's and so on for foreigners, especially for places like Singapore. Other countries like Malaysia, even make it easier for you to obtain visas if you are working for an approved tech firm in the cheesily named Multimedia Super Corridor.
Installation of applications?
Ports system!
pkg_add, pkg_info, pkg_delete
With the portupgrade utility, I can do something like this:
portupgrade -Rr evolution
Which would upgrade and build anything evolution depends on and anything else installed on my system that depends on evolution. I could specficy makes flags also then. And the best part about it is that, all the dependencies will be fetched, built and installed automatically without having to run around finding rpms or source files. It would also maintain the dependencies of all the other applications that depended on something that was upgraded by evolution.
You can also upgrade/downgrade base system easily and rebuild things simply by updating the ports directories and base src and docs via cvs and a specific release tag. And because the different parts are maintained as a team, issues/discrepencies are fixed rather quickly.
Remember when gay used to mean happy?
What I'm seeing now is that more and more offices are converting to Linux for servers especially for file sharing, printing and emails. What's really surprising though is that interest is also picking up on OpenOffice. We're getting more and more calls daily from companies looking for OpenOffice training for their staff.
I guess that covers business mainstream. As for consumer mainstream, it's not quite there yet. RH8 is coming close, but I'm still having problems with a lot of consumer devices. People don't usually buy on features not by OS. They ask for things like, "I want a colour printer to print my photos, that I take with my digital camera". Then they expect a simple installation disk and almost plug and play setup with nice "easy" instructions.
So until you rush out and buy a digital camera, and it has linux intructions in the box, you're not likely to see it adopted for the consumer mainstream just yet.
The same goes for picking up a bit on other Unix systems like Solaris, AIX and HPUX.
Yes you can use a PDA to assist you in taking notes. Nothing beats writing down equations quickly as pencil and pen. So this is what you might be looking for:
http://www.seikosmart.com
It allows you to input notes directly into your PDA while either writing on the pad or on normal notepaper on top of the pad. These notes then are saved onto your PDA to be printed/sorted out later in electronic form.
BeOS does this so well, that I use it as my MP3 juke box. The ability to search using a GUI, in milliseconds for songs from a particular artist, or title, running on an OS that boots up in seconds means that there will always be a copy of BeOS in my house for this purpose to make use of old second hand Pentiums that people think are too slow for their latest and greatest copies of Windows.