Surely the Evangeline* is War email is pure and simple evidence that they are evil and we should do everything in our power to oppose them. A company as big as that should be scrupulously decent and honest and try to avoid any embarrassment --- but apparently they no longer feel embarrassed about their own actions --- a bit like a friend of mine who gets high and then acts like a c**ck but really doesn't seem to feel ashamed of his own behaviour --- so he keeps on doing stupid things until I hit him. Facebook are the same; sometimes even Google. In all cases, we-the-people need to beat them back into behaving decently. Boycott Microsoft. Also, boycott Novell (stfu Jono Bacon...) And whilst I like Ubuntu and De Icaza, also boycott Gnome. Not just at home on your crappy home PCs and laptops --- but in the office too.
Seriously man - haven't you ever had a wife/girlfriend/etc. moan at you for being a bit drunk? Now, you can shrug your shoulders and smile sweetly at the Fait Accompli that life has sold her. In the future she can just slip you a reverse micky (and by which I don't mean some sort of sexual position). Instant disaster.
Having the option of getting immediately sober is rather missing the point of drinking alcohol... it is the assured descent into a carefree state with no possibility of reversal that is one of the last few pleasures left in life. Throwing the car keys onto the dining table, pulling a bottle of vodka from the freezer and taking a few shots... the perfect end to a usually cold, wet and crappy day in the so-called western-civilisation.
... from the site linked in the article: "* FINAL UPDATE: Things are back to normal. RIM Statment to follow."
This is the second outage in a week apparently (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2009-12-23/rim-reports-second-blackberry-outage-within-a-week-update2-.html) .
ITProPortal has the funniest story about this (http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/12/23/rim-blackberry-service-hit-yet-another-e-mail-problem/): "The substantial number of users on online forums whining about the issue indicates the gravity of the matter and how widespread the issue is."
Problem is that I depend on a T Mobile powered GPhone - and while T Mobile have been pretty solid, Gmail has had its problems - also my home ISP is always messing around with DNS servers or disconnecting me for magically stupid reasons.
We really need some legislation to mandate a minimum service provision.
... this efficient new way for RIAA and MPAA to identify people to sue - for $16 I am of course very likely to say "hey, I use p2p!" (or go through the shame of admitting that I use Lotus Notes) and then wait for the gazillion dollar lawsuit to come my way for downloading Ubuntu 7...
rlly thgh, ths s kllng my rgnl jk:) ctlly usd t wrt wtht vwls ll th tm t ncrs wrtng spd - ttl dsstr! - bt thnk ths s th bss f (teeline) s myb ws dng t wrng
.. from the forum that was linked into from Slashdot (well done for that btw kd)...
"Wow, you're a little scary! Well done." - I will use this the very next time one of my developer colleagues finally does a decent job. "If Guy says you gun, you cannon. No arguments about!" - I will use this the next time one of my project manager "colleagues" puts his/her foot down about something technical that they don't know anything about. "Already finished rope hook" - I will use this the next time I am telling a colleague that their code or document was so bad that instead of a review I had to re-write the whole thing.
The best quote of course is the new term "Open DRM" that one of the posters has coined. Genius! We should use that as a tag for all similar posts.
... the US and UK public are asking for an investigation into the apparent transfer of billions of dollars of public money to major banks. No-one is probing the case and yet the govt and banks are not denying any breach of the political and economic systems.
Attend a conference for your organisation - maybe a local govt conference or such like and evangelise for FOSS; people will believe your experiences much more than that of vendors and often local govt managers like to see proof from other similar organisations of FOSS success.
Also, donate to the FOSS projects you use - get your manager to do so.
Many many many years ago (sob) I was a school kid being interviewed by the local radio station at the after-school computer club (back in the day the teacher and students had to volunteer to study computing in our own time): "Will you be a computer professional when you grown up son?" asked the radio presented; "No" said I "I only see computers as a tool to help me to do my actual job". Years later I entered a clinical profession, and honestly my knowledge of computing did not help one bit; because non-computing jobs do not offer the scope for one to just jump up and say "I'm gonna use a sort algorithm / Python / Web Services for that" - instead the employer will get a computing professional on the case. (Even later I entered a computing profession and now my knowledge and innate interest means that I earn lots of money and don't have to do any more stinking pharmacy:)
Because it increases communication and literacy; democracy and individual freedoms. I'm not sure I like your idea that they should 'evolve' and acquire their tech 'honestly' and industrialise 'themselves' - what the hell does that mean? Less developed nations are not full of monkeys with hats you know - they are the same as people in the West, intelligent, kind, sometimes hungry - and if the West advances it is right and proper that the West shares that with the whole world. Also, if you're not in England then your whole point it moot because the rest of the world stole industrialisation from England.
In this day and age we should not need antivirus software and firewalls- Microsoft wake up! What the hell is going on here? A whole market devoted to protecting an OS that we all have to pay for when we buy a new PC? So, Microsoft taxes all new PCs, and we pay av vendors even more to protect the Microsoft OS. This is surreal and sick. We should ALL demand that our employers use Ubuntu... every day... until they give in...
Well if you're going to bring common sense in to it all then I think we _can_ feed ourselves, if we focus on community supported agriculture, reduce the consumption of meat and reduce waste and more sustainable agriculture - I think we could even raise the amount of people supported by a hectre of crop land by maybe 1/8 th with just a change in some agro methods - and maybe replacing 50% of the land resources devoted to farm animals would also increase arable yields of course my original point would be that we could grow cash crops (and Civets:) and that has nothing to do with feeding ourselves and lot more to do with making lots of dirty money (mainly from wine and cocaine) not as if we don't import about 40% of our food anyway so that really was not the point
... because eventually Good Ol' Global Warming (GOGW) will devastate those tropical countries too stupid to take extreme advantage of their natural crop resources to subjugate the world - and eventually it will all be grown in England! Coffee, wine, bananas, Civets, all that 1st world cash-crop crap; hell, even cocaine! And then England can finally return to its rightful place as the oppressor of millions / billions through simple honest restriction of trade! And the US can go f**k itself! (totally unrelated of course, because the US will have all that soya crop and probably more cocaine).
Seriously for a minute, is it really in the western world's interest to stop GOGW if we get to grow coffee, wine and cocaine (and Civets) in our own back yards? I mean really.
(This post is sponsored by the Illuminati or the Boy Scouts of America)
It's what the OLPC should have been. Commodity hardware, whatever's cheapest. And a Linux-based OS to boot (no pun intended). For f***s sake - how easy they do it - and OLPC had to make things so freaking difficult. Obama - please give your spare bank-bailout cash to these guys and get less developed nations on-line before we all go to hell...
Much like the line in the song Maria by Blondie, Widenius is blowing hard about something he sold for lots of cash - and the same time he himself has forked MySQL into MariaDB (see what I did there?;) so he has answered the problem in the way many of you have already suggested. No point being down on Oracle btw, they may be a big freaking software company and on that basis alone deserve to be hated, but they did buy a product I am cursed to work with and they have made such improvements in access to knowledge and the software itself I cannot help think that they are not all bad (OK - I know, they ARE bad, but one can dream:) What I don't think is that anyone will seriously form MySQL because most people cannot be bothered when there's Postgres (which we all want to be the winner in the mythic and yet totally uneomotional struggle between MySQL and Postgres - wierd, because the struggle between Ruby and Python is so much more emotional but so much less important...) Honestly though, as soon as we all dump RDBMS and go for lovely object based databases like Durus the happier I will be...
>> This is why I hate to do business with anyone that I can't actually go put my hands on if need be. I do it of course, but I hate it.
Second that - myself and some colleagues were once denied payment for some work by an intermediary because the end-client had not paid my client. I offered to walk off site and sit in the intermediary's office (a 10 minute bus ride away) with my colleagues and a small selection of sports equipment. Naturally the matter was resolved in a few days.
The mistake that some musicians made, I guess, was to continue to sell thru Imeen when the first due payment was missed. At that point they should have devoted their efforts to bad mouthing them until they failed a lot earlier - they are musicians after all and they always seem to have a lot more public clout than they really deserve.
Wrong wrong wrong. 'Just following orders' is no defence. That's why police personnel (at least in the UK) undergo exhaustive training and are often called upon to exercise their own judgement.
Unison is quite stable and I use it daily to sync between Linux PCs over a network and Windows PCs via a USB key - add some flags to allow it make some decisions automatically and 99% of the time it works silently - add a cron/WindSchedule to it and it works a bit like Dropbox.
speaking for myself, I was deeply disturbed - I'm well used to my clients' mission-critical clustered systems becoming unavailable for days because of databases issues (no free space, someone forgot to trunc the logs, the db monitor says the db is running but it isn't, someone changed a password, the new DBA went into the server room with the db manufacturer's manual in hand and is now missing, the DBA finally applies a year-old patch, etc.) - hell, even Google goes down relatively often (usually when they try to re-route something?) but when it happens to Slashdot, then I really get surprised;)
Slashdot Mirror
Surely the Evangeline* is War email is pure and simple evidence that they are evil and we should do everything in our power to oppose them. A company as big as that should be scrupulously decent and honest and try to avoid any embarrassment --- but apparently they no longer feel embarrassed about their own actions --- a bit like a friend of mine who gets high and then acts like a c**ck but really doesn't seem to feel ashamed of his own behaviour --- so he keeps on doing stupid things until I hit him. Facebook are the same; sometimes even Google.
In all cases, we-the-people need to beat them back into behaving decently.
Boycott Microsoft.
Also, boycott Novell (stfu Jono Bacon...)
And whilst I like Ubuntu and De Icaza, also boycott Gnome.
Not just at home on your crappy home PCs and laptops --- but in the office too.
(*we are all lost)
... but we're not all writers or rock stars.
Seriously man - haven't you ever had a wife/girlfriend/etc. moan at you for being a bit drunk? Now, you can shrug your shoulders and smile sweetly at the Fait Accompli that life has sold her.
In the future she can just slip you a reverse micky (and by which I don't mean some sort of sexual position). Instant disaster.
You're the kind of guy that pisses on rugs :)
Changed my mind ... anyone, and I mean anyone, who links to a ska punk band in their sig, is a freakin' god ...
Oh, and here is my retort:
http://artists.letssingit.com/bad-manners-lyrics-special-brew-sjbnxkj
Having the option of getting immediately sober is rather missing the point of drinking alcohol ... it is the assured descent into a carefree state with no possibility of reversal that is one of the last few pleasures left in life. ... the perfect end to a usually cold, wet and crappy day in the so-called western-civilisation.
Throwing the car keys onto the dining table, pulling a bottle of vodka from the freezer and taking a few shots
... from the site linked in the article: "* FINAL UPDATE: Things are back to normal. RIM Statment to follow."
This is the second outage in a week apparently (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2009-12-23/rim-reports-second-blackberry-outage-within-a-week-update2-.html) .
ITProPortal has the funniest story about this (http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/12/23/rim-blackberry-service-hit-yet-another-e-mail-problem/): "The substantial number of users on online forums whining about the issue indicates the gravity of the matter and how widespread the issue is."
Problem is that I depend on a T Mobile powered GPhone - and while T Mobile have been pretty solid, Gmail has had its problems - also my home ISP is always messing around with DNS servers or disconnecting me for magically stupid reasons.
We really need some legislation to mandate a minimum service provision.
... this efficient new way for RIAA and MPAA to identify people to sue - for $16 I am of course very likely to say "hey, I use p2p!" (or go through the shame of admitting that I use Lotus Notes) and then wait for the gazillion dollar lawsuit to come my way for downloading Ubuntu 7...
rlly thgh, ths s kllng my rgnl jk :)
ctlly usd t wrt wtht vwls ll th tm t ncrs wrtng spd - ttl dsstr! - bt thnk ths s th bss f (teeline) s myb ws dng t wrng
Yeah - I got that already :)
You've got to love the new language that Google Translate seems to generate, esp from Hebrew - it's like a whole new generation of 'all your bases...'
.. from the forum that was linked into from Slashdot (well done for that btw kd)...
"Wow, you're a little scary! Well done." - I will use this the very next time one of my developer colleagues finally does a decent job.
"If Guy says you gun, you cannon. No arguments about!" - I will use this the next time one of my project manager "colleagues" puts his/her foot down about something technical that they don't know anything about.
"Already finished rope hook" - I will use this the next time I am telling a colleague that their code or document was so bad that instead of a review I had to re-write the whole thing.
The best quote of course is the new term "Open DRM" that one of the posters has coined. Genius! We should use that as a tag for all similar posts.
... the US and UK public are asking for an investigation into the apparent transfer of billions of dollars of public money to major banks. No-one is probing the case and yet the govt and banks are not denying any breach of the political and economic systems.
Attend a conference for your organisation - maybe a local govt conference or such like and evangelise for FOSS; people will believe your experiences much more than that of vendors and often local govt managers like to see proof from other similar organisations of FOSS success.
Also, donate to the FOSS projects you use - get your manager to do so.
Many many many years ago (sob) I was a school kid being interviewed by the local radio station at the after-school computer club (back in the day the teacher and students had to volunteer to study computing in our own time): "Will you be a computer professional when you grown up son?" asked the radio presented; "No" said I "I only see computers as a tool to help me to do my actual job". :)
Years later I entered a clinical profession, and honestly my knowledge of computing did not help one bit; because non-computing jobs do not offer the scope for one to just jump up and say "I'm gonna use a sort algorithm / Python / Web Services for that" - instead the employer will get a computing professional on the case.
(Even later I entered a computing profession and now my knowledge and innate interest means that I earn lots of money and don't have to do any more stinking pharmacy
Because it increases communication and literacy; democracy and individual freedoms.
I'm not sure I like your idea that they should 'evolve' and acquire their tech 'honestly' and industrialise 'themselves' - what the hell does that mean? Less developed nations are not full of monkeys with hats you know - they are the same as people in the West, intelligent, kind, sometimes hungry - and if the West advances it is right and proper that the West shares that with the whole world.
Also, if you're not in England then your whole point it moot because the rest of the world stole industrialisation from England.
In this day and age we should not need antivirus software and firewalls- Microsoft wake up! What the hell is going on here? A whole market devoted to protecting an OS that we all have to pay for when we buy a new PC? ... every day ... until they give in...
So, Microsoft taxes all new PCs, and we pay av vendors even more to protect the Microsoft OS.
This is surreal and sick.
We should ALL demand that our employers use Ubuntu
Well if you're going to bring common sense in to it all then I think we _can_ feed ourselves, if we focus on community supported agriculture, reduce the consumption of meat and reduce waste and more sustainable agriculture - I think we could even raise the amount of people supported by a hectre of crop land by maybe 1/8 th with just a change in some agro methods - and maybe replacing 50% of the land resources devoted to farm animals would also increase arable yields :) and that has nothing to do with feeding ourselves and lot more to do with making lots of dirty money (mainly from wine and cocaine)
of course my original point would be that we could grow cash crops (and Civets
not as if we don't import about 40% of our food anyway so that really was not the point
I think that a US filled with moobs will be not much different than now - ha ha!
... because eventually Good Ol' Global Warming (GOGW) will devastate those tropical countries too stupid to take extreme advantage of their natural crop resources to subjugate the world - and eventually it will all be grown in England! Coffee, wine, bananas, Civets, all that 1st world cash-crop crap; hell, even cocaine! And then England can finally return to its rightful place as the oppressor of millions / billions through simple honest restriction of trade! And the US can go f**k itself! (totally unrelated of course, because the US will have all that soya crop and probably more cocaine).
Seriously for a minute, is it really in the western world's interest to stop GOGW if we get to grow coffee, wine and cocaine (and Civets) in our own back yards? I mean really.
(This post is sponsored by the Illuminati or the Boy Scouts of America)
It's what the OLPC should have been.
Commodity hardware, whatever's cheapest.
And a Linux-based OS to boot (no pun intended).
For f***s sake - how easy they do it - and OLPC had to make things so freaking difficult.
Obama - please give your spare bank-bailout cash to these guys and get less developed nations on-line before we all go to hell...
Much like the line in the song Maria by Blondie, Widenius is blowing hard about something he sold for lots of cash - and the same time he himself has forked MySQL into MariaDB (see what I did there? ;) so he has answered the problem in the way many of you have already suggested. :) ...) ...
No point being down on Oracle btw, they may be a big freaking software company and on that basis alone deserve to be hated, but they did buy a product I am cursed to work with and they have made such improvements in access to knowledge and the software itself I cannot help think that they are not all bad (OK - I know, they ARE bad, but one can dream
What I don't think is that anyone will seriously form MySQL because most people cannot be bothered when there's Postgres (which we all want to be the winner in the mythic and yet totally uneomotional struggle between MySQL and Postgres - wierd, because the struggle between Ruby and Python is so much more emotional but so much less important
Honestly though, as soon as we all dump RDBMS and go for lovely object based databases like Durus the happier I will be
>> This is why I hate to do business with anyone that I can't actually go put my hands on if need be. I do it of course, but I hate it.
Second that - myself and some colleagues were once denied payment for some work by an intermediary because the end-client had not paid my client. I offered to walk off site and sit in the intermediary's office (a 10 minute bus ride away) with my colleagues and a small selection of sports equipment. Naturally the matter was resolved in a few days.
The mistake that some musicians made, I guess, was to continue to sell thru Imeen when the first due payment was missed. At that point they should have devoted their efforts to bad mouthing them until they failed a lot earlier - they are musicians after all and they always seem to have a lot more public clout than they really deserve.
Wrong wrong wrong.
'Just following orders' is no defence.
That's why police personnel (at least in the UK) undergo exhaustive training and are often called upon to exercise their own judgement.
Unison is quite stable and I use it daily to sync between Linux PCs over a network and Windows PCs via a USB key - add some flags to allow it make some decisions automatically and 99% of the time it works silently - add a cron/WindSchedule to it and it works a bit like Dropbox.
speaking for myself, I was deeply disturbed - I'm well used to my clients' mission-critical clustered systems becoming unavailable for days because of databases issues (no free space, someone forgot to trunc the logs, the db monitor says the db is running but it isn't, someone changed a password, the new DBA went into the server room with the db manufacturer's manual in hand and is now missing, the DBA finally applies a year-old patch, etc.) - hell, even Google goes down relatively often (usually when they try to re-route something?) but when it happens to Slashdot, then I really get surprised ;)
I saw this a few hours ago for a link into the YRO section also - now I'm worried!