I'm a build-from-source guy too. I used to install from packages, then continue upgrades and new installs via source, which quickly breaks all kinds of dependencies. I found it worth my while to learn how to roll my own packages.
Most large projects include.spec files to build RPMs, and most small projects are self-contained enough that writing your own.spec file isn't too difficult. That way you get a customized configuration that's easily (un)installed and tracked.
It's worked well for me so far. The only upgrade I've made that I wasn't able to package was the new kernel (2.6.4 right now).
I'm not an economist, and I don't play one on TV. Maybe someone can help me out here:
I keep hearing "global economy" being bandied about. It seems to me that all we have so far is a global workforce, and that U.S. workers are being penalized for the higher value of their (our) currency vs. other currencies. Until we have true global economy, and not local economies competing on a global scale, U.S. *jobs* will always bleed out of the country.
There's been discussion lately about China "unfairly" pegging their currency to a fixed exchange rate vs. the USD; the decline of the dollar vs. the Euro...
So who's driving this boat? Where are we going and how do we get there? Is there such a thing as a global economy where workers can be judged by skill rather than compensation, or am I doomed to constantly "adapt" because my currency makes me overpriced?
during this whole thing, I always envisioned SCO as a kid with a stick poking an anthill. A press release, and the/. crowd (me included) gets all worked up. We settle down, out comes the idiot-stick again. Well, IBM just released... Them! [imdb.com]
First, I'm pretty sure it *is* all about the money. Having said that, I don't think the workers receiving the outsourced work are telecommuting. My understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that they are employed by a company and report to work at a physical location. They have supervisors looking over their shoulders making sure they're not surfing the web, reading slashdot (*cough, cough*). I don't think they're hanging out at home in their underwear watching Spongebob, which is/was the fear managers had of telecommuting. Moot point now, eh?
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Der Bremer Linux-Spezialist univention_ hat vor dem Bremer Landgericht gegen die SCO Group GmbH eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirkt.
Well! I'm certainly glad to have that cleared up.
I dunno, it seemed like good reading to me.
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"In addition, we didn't get the revenue and profit growth we expected."
I think they'd be trying to find a way to keep DRM while resolving it's problems if their bottom line had been better. I don't think it's as much about the backlash as we'd like to believe.
"For many years EMI was in opposition to Diva," Mr. Lyttelton said in a recent interview from London. "But there has been an irresistible pull for us to work together." With this deal, as Mr. Lyttelton explained, EMI "wanted to try to legitimize the market" for these live Callas recordings "rather than try to suppress it."
Maybe it's apples and oranges, but methinks a good many of the RIAA's problems would be less severe if they took the work-together attitude from the start as opposed to sue-first, concede defeat later.
Sure, some learn slower than others, but I think it's unrealistic to assume everyone will "get it" eventually. I was appalled not so much at the lack of skills my classmates had (can you have a lack of skills? Is that like owning no tea?) but rather at their lack of care. If an engineer coasts to his/her degree, it'll show because it can be shown their bridge will fall over and they'll fail the courses. If a programmer coasts, their code may still run, but with errors and exploits just waiting to rear their ugly heads. What professor or grader is going to deduct points or fail a student because their code is "exploitable"? None; if it runs, it passes.
That being the case, yeah, absolutely: No C/C++ as teaching languages. Teach 'em to program with blunt languages before handing them something pointy. -- This is not a sig
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Personally, I applaud the actions of the librarian. Not everybody feels the same however: http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?artic leid=122959/
I guess the real question is would your child mind people yelling "51u7!" or "455h013!" every time they say their name.
I'm a build-from-source guy too. I used to install from packages, then continue upgrades and new installs via source, which quickly breaks all kinds of dependencies. I found it worth my while to learn how to roll my own packages.
.spec files to build RPMs, and most small projects are self-contained enough that writing your own .spec file isn't too difficult. That way you get a customized configuration that's easily (un)installed and tracked.
Most large projects include
It's worked well for me so far. The only upgrade I've made that I wasn't able to package was the new kernel (2.6.4 right now).
I'm not an economist, and I don't play one on TV. Maybe someone can help me out here:
I keep hearing "global economy" being bandied about. It seems to me that all we have so far is a global workforce, and that U.S. workers are being penalized for the higher value of their (our) currency vs. other currencies. Until we have true global economy, and not local economies competing on a global scale, U.S. *jobs* will always bleed out of the country.
There's been discussion lately about China "unfairly" pegging their currency to a fixed exchange rate vs. the USD; the decline of the dollar vs. the Euro...
So who's driving this boat? Where are we going and how do we get there? Is there such a thing as a global economy where workers can be judged by skill rather than compensation, or am I doomed to constantly "adapt" because my currency makes me overpriced?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/2 6/1656221&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=134
during this whole thing, I always envisioned SCO as a kid with a stick poking an anthill. A press release, and the /. crowd (me included) gets all worked up. We settle down, out comes the idiot-stick again. Well, IBM just released... Them! [imdb.com]
First, I'm pretty sure it *is* all about the money. Having said that, I don't think the workers receiving the outsourced work are telecommuting. My understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that they are employed by a company and report to work at a physical location. They have supervisors looking over their shoulders making sure they're not surfing the web, reading slashdot (*cough, cough*). I don't think they're hanging out at home in their underwear watching Spongebob, which is/was the fear managers had of telecommuting. Moot point now, eh?
Der Bremer Linux-Spezialist univention_ hat vor dem Bremer Landgericht gegen die SCO Group GmbH eine einstweilige Verfügung erwirkt.
Well! I'm certainly glad to have that cleared up.
I dunno, it seemed like good reading to me.
---
Sigs are for weenies.
"In addition, we didn't get the revenue and profit growth we expected."
I think they'd be trying to find a way to keep DRM while resolving it's problems if their bottom line had been better. I don't think it's as much about the backlash as we'd like to believe.
Maybe it's apples and oranges, but methinks a good many of the RIAA's problems would be less severe if they took the work-together attitude from the start as opposed to sue-first, concede defeat later.
Sure, some learn slower than others, but I think it's unrealistic to assume everyone will "get it" eventually. I was appalled not so much at the lack of skills my classmates had (can you have a lack of skills? Is that like owning no tea?) but rather at their lack of care.
If an engineer coasts to his/her degree, it'll show because it can be shown their bridge will fall over and they'll fail the courses. If a programmer coasts, their code may still run, but with errors and exploits just waiting to rear their ugly heads. What professor or grader is going to deduct points or fail a student because their code is "exploitable"? None; if it runs, it passes.
That being the case, yeah, absolutely: No C/C++ as teaching languages. Teach 'em to program with blunt languages before handing them something pointy.
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