News flash: The record companies do not pay for the studio time, producers, recording equipment or anything else associated with making an album. They charge the artists for that. Record companies pay for marketing and advertising, although even then some of that is billed to the artists.
It's a big deal because hotels don't tell you about this. Ever stay at a hotel on the beach? Half the people go into the water and leave their key cards in their shoes on the beach.
Because those cards don't show the room number, they believe they're pretty safe. If it gets stolen, they go get a new key from the front desk.
No, he doesn't have a point because it's a bunch of lies.
First, Suse bugs have nothing to do with the Linux community being fragmented.
Second, these bugs are not representative of most Suse users. They appear to be taken from a message board where people post their problems, then aggregated as if they all happened to the same person. Do that with any OS and it'll look bad.
Third, it appears as though some people are being paid to post negative comments about Linux. This is happening on other message boards as well. The difference between a paid troll and a legitimate person with a problem is that the latter will actually try to find a solution, even if they're new to Linux.
KDE's control panel has a checkbox to enable the composite manager, which is for hardware acceleration. It's buggy on some video cards, but the resulting transparency and shadows are really nice.
xcompmgr is the Gnome equivalent. I think both will play bigger roles in the next versions of KDE and Gnome.
A better feature for me is the ability to specify a minimum font size. That way I can increase the size of all fonts smaller than, say 12px, while leaving the rest alone.
It's a good comment because filesystem design is very complex. You can only ever do it right by watching where others make mistakes and by making mistakes yourself.
Reiser4 has been a ten year project of trying things, making mistakes and fixing them. The design has changed several times and the code has changed even more.
His argument is that you can't make a good filesystem if you design and code it quickly. The code might be just as good, but there is not enough time to make the mistakes that help you learn. Those mistakes will still be in the final product.
Actually, Hans gives a good example of this when he talks about how MS gave up making WinFS a real filesystem because it was too hard. Namesys worked for years to overcome the problems that MS gave up on.
His point is that WinFS is in user mode because it's not a filesystem, it's an application that runs in the background.
Yes, that sucks.
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Despite what trolls like the AC who replied to you say, Linux users do criticize Linux apps that are too much like those on other OSes. For example, there is no end to the criticism that KDE gets for being too much like Windows.
Good apps balance common sense and familiarity with new ideas.
I tried increasing the number of dashes in the link, all tested on the Aug 29 nightly build:
40,000 dashes: No crash, it does a Google search, but Google displays a Bad Request message.
130,000 dashes: No crash. Same results as above.
275,000 dashes: Same as above.
At this point Kate is very slow and gedit seems to hang. All these dashes are on a single line so as not to modify the POC too much and text editors don't like that. I wrote a script to add more dashes for the next test.
1.5 million dashes: No crash. Same as above.
Screw this. Can someone point me to a real POC for this alleged exploit?
Same with a recent nightly build of 1.5 and 1.06 on Linux. After it didn't work, I modified the proof of concept to see if I could see the exploit and I couldn't do it. This bug looks pretty lame if you ask me, considering I've tried dozens of proof of concepts and have never had trouble getting one to work that wasn't later proven to be bogus.
Shhh! You're spoiling the fun of Windows users who laugh at Linux geeks because we can't get our fancy mice or digital cameras to work because there are no manufacturer "drivers" available.
1. A lot of people have Macs. A lot of people are stranded without easy access to multiple computer platforms.
2. Aid workers are busy setting up computers for these people to use to contact relatives and fill out aid forms. They are not getting free Dell computers or free Windows licenses. They are setting up older computers that have been donated and may not run IE 6.
3. FEMA's listed phone number will trigger an automated form delivery to your home address. In New Orleans. Not very helpful.
I agree that it's a long shot, but it sounds like they're taking the right path.
They want to develop the technology to stay there (eg. Biosphere, mining, oxygen extraction and plastics manufacturing) first and take it with them. This means they only need to get to Mars once rather than have a first settlement that gets regular drops of supplies. Sounds much easier to me. In fact, just getting there is doable today as long as you don't want to get back, aren't too concerned about the time it takes to get there and don't need to rely on Earth for anything.
Either it's the kind of programming you're doing or because you haven't looked for a new job in the past few years.
The only time I've ever got more than a 2% raise is the twice I've switched jobs. Once because my contract was up and the second time for location (from Toronto to Hamilton... closer to home). I highly recommend looking for a new job so at least you can what your market value is. Since you're not desperate to change jobs you can look closer to home if your commute sucks like mine did. Get monster.com's resume writing service to do a resume (they're really good) and don't just rely on online job ads. Newspaper classifieds are still better.
I would suspect that you'll be offered around $55,000 and you can probably talk them up a bit more.
My email address is in my profile. Feel free to contact me. I found a new job in January so my job searching experience is fairly recent.
My job title is Programmer and I mostly do web apps, with very little front-end work (and the part that is front-end is because our lazy designers insist on using Dreamweaver and thus cannot put out decent GUIs. Bleh.)
My salary is right on mark at $56,000, though this is in Southern Ontario so the job market is not necessarily the same as where you work.
I know some programmers who make more money, but they're also programming more critical apps than I am. I know programmers who make less than me and are also working on more critical apps than I am. Salary seems to depend more on company than on the work being done.
You and evilNomad both have valid points. Steam is a great system for purchasing games and getting updates. The bad part is that it restricts when you can play the game. On at least three occasions I've been unable to play Counter-Strike: Source because I couldn't connect to Steam. This is completely unacceptable.
Steam needs to relax its grip on play-time dependence.
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AllofMP3 may not pay the artists, but the record companies actually take more money out of mosts artists' pockets than they put in.
Record companies definitely suck more.
News flash: The record companies do not pay for the studio time, producers, recording equipment or anything else associated with making an album. They charge the artists for that. Record companies pay for marketing and advertising, although even then some of that is billed to the artists.
It's a big deal because hotels don't tell you about this. Ever stay at a hotel on the beach? Half the people go into the water and leave their key cards in their shoes on the beach.
Because those cards don't show the room number, they believe they're pretty safe. If it gets stolen, they go get a new key from the front desk.
Their directory far surpasses AD. You can also look into Netscape Directory.
For groupware, check out Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/). The Flash demo is great.
No, he doesn't have a point because it's a bunch of lies.
First, Suse bugs have nothing to do with the Linux community being fragmented.
Second, these bugs are not representative of most Suse users. They appear to be taken from a message board where people post their problems, then aggregated as if they all happened to the same person. Do that with any OS and it'll look bad.
Third, it appears as though some people are being paid to post negative comments about Linux. This is happening on other message boards as well. The difference between a paid troll and a legitimate person with a problem is that the latter will actually try to find a solution, even if they're new to Linux.
Why would you tar a single file?
"But instead, the Gimp programmers are rearranging the GUI"
The GIMP programmers aren't rearranging the UI. GIMPShop is the product of some guy who thought it would be cool to make it work like Photoshop.
KDE's control panel has a checkbox to enable the composite manager, which is for hardware acceleration. It's buggy on some video cards, but the resulting transparency and shadows are really nice.
xcompmgr is the Gnome equivalent. I think both will play bigger roles in the next versions of KDE and Gnome.
Nvidia may need to implement that. Besides, GIMP is also a Windows program so it should work fine there.
A better feature for me is the ability to specify a minimum font size. That way I can increase the size of all fonts smaller than, say 12px, while leaving the rest alone.
It's a good comment because filesystem design is very complex. You can only ever do it right by watching where others make mistakes and by making mistakes yourself.
Reiser4 has been a ten year project of trying things, making mistakes and fixing them. The design has changed several times and the code has changed even more.
His argument is that you can't make a good filesystem if you design and code it quickly. The code might be just as good, but there is not enough time to make the mistakes that help you learn. Those mistakes will still be in the final product.
Actually, Hans gives a good example of this when he talks about how MS gave up making WinFS a real filesystem because it was too hard. Namesys worked for years to overcome the problems that MS gave up on.
His point is that WinFS is in user mode because it's not a filesystem, it's an application that runs in the background.
Yes, that sucks.
Despite what trolls like the AC who replied to you say, Linux users do criticize Linux apps that are too much like those on other OSes. For example, there is no end to the criticism that KDE gets for being too much like Windows.
Good apps balance common sense and familiarity with new ideas.
It's called 'Gmail by Google', not just 'Gmail'.
I tried increasing the number of dashes in the link, all tested on the Aug 29 nightly build:
40,000 dashes: No crash, it does a Google search, but Google displays a Bad Request message.
130,000 dashes: No crash. Same results as above.
275,000 dashes: Same as above.
At this point Kate is very slow and gedit seems to hang. All these dashes are on a single line so as not to modify the POC too much and text editors don't like that. I wrote a script to add more dashes for the next test.
1.5 million dashes: No crash. Same as above.
Screw this. Can someone point me to a real POC for this alleged exploit?
Same with a recent nightly build of 1.5 and 1.06 on Linux. After it didn't work, I modified the proof of concept to see if I could see the exploit and I couldn't do it. This bug looks pretty lame if you ask me, considering I've tried dozens of proof of concepts and have never had trouble getting one to work that wasn't later proven to be bogus.
Shhh! You're spoiling the fun of Windows users who laugh at Linux geeks because we can't get our fancy mice or digital cameras to work because there are no manufacturer "drivers" available.
Of course you're right. There should also be an easier way to do this, such as a Javascript browser.capabilities.[feature] object
...
if (browser.capabilities.javascript == true) {
}
Because right now browser detection is easier if you need multiple capabilities.
1. A lot of people have Macs. A lot of people are stranded without easy access to multiple computer platforms.
2. Aid workers are busy setting up computers for these people to use to contact relatives and fill out aid forms. They are not getting free Dell computers or free Windows licenses. They are setting up older computers that have been donated and may not run IE 6.
3. FEMA's listed phone number will trigger an automated form delivery to your home address. In New Orleans. Not very helpful.
Ubuntu has supported the development of Smeg, which for months has been a very good menu editor for Gnome.
I agree that it's a long shot, but it sounds like they're taking the right path.
They want to develop the technology to stay there (eg. Biosphere, mining, oxygen extraction and plastics manufacturing) first and take it with them. This means they only need to get to Mars once rather than have a first settlement that gets regular drops of supplies. Sounds much easier to me. In fact, just getting there is doable today as long as you don't want to get back, aren't too concerned about the time it takes to get there and don't need to rely on Earth for anything.
Either it's the kind of programming you're doing or because you haven't looked for a new job in the past few years.
The only time I've ever got more than a 2% raise is the twice I've switched jobs. Once because my contract was up and the second time for location (from Toronto to Hamilton... closer to home). I highly recommend looking for a new job so at least you can what your market value is. Since you're not desperate to change jobs you can look closer to home if your commute sucks like mine did. Get monster.com's resume writing service to do a resume (they're really good) and don't just rely on online job ads. Newspaper classifieds are still better.
I would suspect that you'll be offered around $55,000 and you can probably talk them up a bit more.
My email address is in my profile. Feel free to contact me. I found a new job in January so my job searching experience is fairly recent.
My job title is Programmer and I mostly do web apps, with very little front-end work (and the part that is front-end is because our lazy designers insist on using Dreamweaver and thus cannot put out decent GUIs. Bleh.)
My salary is right on mark at $56,000, though this is in Southern Ontario so the job market is not necessarily the same as where you work.
I know some programmers who make more money, but they're also programming more critical apps than I am. I know programmers who make less than me and are also working on more critical apps than I am. Salary seems to depend more on company than on the work being done.
You and evilNomad both have valid points. Steam is a great system for purchasing games and getting updates. The bad part is that it restricts when you can play the game. On at least three occasions I've been unable to play Counter-Strike: Source because I couldn't connect to Steam. This is completely unacceptable.
Steam needs to relax its grip on play-time dependence.
I think I speak for everybody with at least half a brain when I say software patents must be eliminated.