Earlier this evening, I watched "Van Helsing", and I can say with God and the Internet as my witnesseses that I'd much rather watch ANYTHING by Ed Wood than have to wade through that pile of shit again.
I second that. "Van Helsing" is the worst movie I have seen in a long, long time.
Projects fail all the time for both inhouse and outhouse developemt. I have participated on many development project, both outside on the same country or offshore, which have succeeded.
Most of the outhouse project I've seen fail did so because of bad (or total lack of) project management. Look at the opensource comunity if you need an exemple close to you.
About all this discussion, it is a (u)natural trend of developed countries to give the job that are not so glamorous to the poor [countries]. Remember the chinese building american railroads ? This is nothing new.
There are still much software development hapening inside the USA. But of course there will be much off-shoring because of cheap hour rates. That is to be expected in business. Expecially to countries that have excelent human resources for software development (programers), like India, Israel and Brazil (to name 3).
Isn't this what the so called global economy is all about ? I find it a simple enough fact to have a product whose development is spread around the world. No country is an island anymore. Well, most of them, anyway.
Most devices don't even implement SNMPv3. There are a few out there that don't even implement SNMPv2, for crying out loud.
I really don't see SNMP dying any time soon. RMON was out for some time, but has quitely gone over the hill.
On the other hand, we have seen many devices with a web management interface. Standarizing that kind of interface is a good things, but has nothing to do with SNMP.
On the other hand, I have noticed a slight decrease on the number of spams both me and my clients receive during the last 5 days. Something like 3-10% decrease.
On the other hand, this have happened before, even with no hurricanes looming over Florida.
This kind of assumption if very dangerous. Just because for some reason we have some decline on the number of spams, it doesn't mean any single facts from the news is responsible by it. Anything, including a heavy spammer motherboard burning can be responsible by it. This kind of thing is very hard, if not impossible, to prove.
And we can predict (*crystal ball growing*) that the number of spams will increase again soon.
I see now reference on the article which part the world they are using as reference. It might as well my on the southern, where summer begins at December 22th (or close to that).
I wonder if IBM is releasing their compiler set for Linux as well. Even tho xlc (C compiler) was kinda crappy, xlC (C++ compiler) was one of the best I ever seen, expecially for not allowing programers to put too much crap on the code (printf on C++ ? Don't think so).
Same question regarding Teamconnection.
Then again, these may already be avaliable, and I'm just asking a dumb question.
Similar CPUs ? Sorry, but I can't see any other similarity between a PowerPC and a POWER5 than the fact they are both RISC processors. It is like saying an Opteron and a Z80 processors are similar.
So no, unless Apple releases an POWER5 version of OSX, which is something they can't do in a week or two, it won't run.
I'm not sure about Gentoo, but I'm positive that is not what happens for Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSe, Conectiva etc.
On those systems, when you do an upgrade (apt-get update), you will get a fresh package, including not only the files that changes, but all the files for that package. And if we have a package with 1 binary and 50 images, and only the binary changed, we get to download all the images again.
Some distributions have been implementing package fragmentantion for this (package-core and package-images for this example), and that is a good thing for these cases, although it is a nightmare to manage. Not as fine grained as proposed by the grandparent post, but good enough for most cases.
Actually, I was listening to the conference. This all sound strange to me. McNoSoBright said something like the $15Mi includes values not paid yet. Looks like a nice maneuver.
I remember someone asking him about the real money they had. They reported they had $43Mi, and were assigning $31Mi for litigation. After many turns, McDump finally adimited that they were already charges for law services had they didn't pay yet, so that $43Mi is not really $43Mi. The value itself was left unsaid. I also remember him saying "We will not disclosure that information" about many questions.
And I'm sure the fact they are closing offices (Spain and Italy were two he named, but he said others would also be closed), laying off, and such, is a clear indication that they are running out of money, and thus giving up their "core business" and rerouting what they have on litigation. Okey, HELLO ? Were I a shareholder, I would dump my shares as soon as possible.
Interesting enough, McDOH said they are not in need of cash right now. Yeah, right.
Nobody cares until they're burned, and despite all the Slashdot sensationalism about it, a lot of Windows users out there haven't been burned.
According to Marketing Warfare (ISBN: 0070527261, Al Ries and Jack Trout), maketing is a war fought on the mental battleground.
Not, lets consider your computer locks up. You will simply reboot it, and think this is something normal. Right ? Even if you don't, most people do.
And there is where Microsoft really shows its maketing domination. It is not that users don't get burned by its products. They simply think those are normal things in computing. When I tell someone that one of my computers (running a firewall, and so I never turns it off) has a 2 years uptime, they think I'm lying. That my workstation was running for 7 months without a single reboot. After that, I had to turn it off cause I was replacing the video card.
That is the real problem, isn't it ? It is not that the Internet Explorer uses are getting burned (or not). It is that they don't see that as burning. Their mindset if so frozen into the Microsoft partern that they think those are normal things, and they even think about the possibility that it can be different. They don't see that a browser crashing should not take the OS down with it. That just by accessing a homepage it should not be possibly to automaticaly install a program on his computer.
Having a better browser will never make Firefox/Mozilla/Opera/Galeon/Konqueror/Safari/Nets cape/Mosaic get a bigger piece of the pie.
Anyone developing opensource software, most expecially softwares that are alternative versions well entrenched on the market, should read the book I mentioned. Expecially the part about attacking an entrenched enemy.
So, I don't agree that "a lot of windows users out there haven't been burned". The whole point is that they don't see that they are getting burned, no matter what happened. Most of them don't care even when they do get burned, a situation even worst than you described.
Actually, it is all, in most cases, random chance. Just because most people never have to face the situation, doesn't mean it is not affecting people's life.
Security should be measured by the results it really gets. What are the results of all this we have seen ? Near to none.
As many people stated, real airline security has nothing to do with this kind of harassement. Lock the pilot doors for good. Give them guns. Have undercover feds on each and every flight. Install sleeping gas on all planes (which can be triggered by the pilot at any time and floor the passager compartment). Even a good shaking of the plane can dislodge the terrorists enough for the crew to take over. Have all those possibilities, and you can stop every possible attack, unless the terrorist plan is simply to get rid of the plane. In that case, they can simply fire an Earth-To-Air missile against it.
There are many ways to do it without harassing people. More effective ways. Less costy ways. USA has need of money in many areas. Public education could use some of that money. So could the social security. Maybe some extra precautions regarding the power grid. Give more traning for the people at CIA. Buy them better computers to analyse data. Spend that money with the american people, not on terrorists.
There are better and most effective ways to protect one country against terrorist. And notice I'm not saying anything like "stop helping Israel" or "get out of Iraq". I have strong opinions on those issues that I really think don't fit in this discussion.
I took it from a book that sits on my side right now. Also, I don't remember that passage on The Art of War.
Then again, I have seen many books with wrong passages, and my memory is known to be somewhat flawed. You might be right at that. All I can say is, to the best of my knowledge, that is a Mao Tsé-Tung line.
True. But the aliance also used a "secret" weapon, called Superior Force.
I recoment the book On War, by Karl von Clausewitz. Even tho it is from 1832, it explains in great details why the aliance won WWII, and why USA lost on Vietnam and North Korea. And why USA is currently loosing the war against terrorism. And I mean "terrorism", not necessarily the Al Quaeda, or Saddan.
Quotes from the book (free translation): "Always keep your forces concentrated, and in the best possible disposition." "The greater possible number of soldier should be put in action at the decisive point" (Emphasis by me).
And, the one the terrorist always follow: "If you can't get absolute superiority, you should get a relative superiority at the decisive point, by masterfuly using all the forces you have."
Also, since I'm quoting, lemme give you one from Mao Tsé-Tung:
"When the enemy advances, we withdraw. When he camps, we taunt. When he gets tired, we attack. When he withdraws, we pursue them."
Okey, I'm done with this subject. Thank you all for your patience.
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It is particularly interesting to see Conectiva, Mandrake etc called linux VENDORS, while Novell (SuSE) and RedHat are called linux SUPPORTERS.
I wonder where the line is drawn.
Is it just me, or is gmail inspiring some of the new features ?
Looks like GMail is not so unique anymore.
Just "> myfile" works very nice.
Earlier this evening, I watched "Van Helsing", and I can say with God and the Internet as my witnesseses that I'd much rather watch ANYTHING by Ed Wood than have to wade through that pile of shit again.
I second that. "Van Helsing" is the worst movie I have seen in a long, long time.
How about using it to bootstrap Emacs? That's virtually an operating system already...
True. Too bad it lacks a good text editor
*ducks and hide*
Now, I think you are being naivé.
Projects fail all the time for both inhouse and outhouse developemt. I have participated on many development project, both outside on the same country or offshore, which have succeeded.
Most of the outhouse project I've seen fail did so because of bad (or total lack of) project management. Look at the opensource comunity if you need an exemple close to you.
About all this discussion, it is a (u)natural trend of developed countries to give the job that are not so glamorous to the poor [countries]. Remember the chinese building american railroads ?
This is nothing new.
There are still much software development hapening inside the USA. But of course there will be much off-shoring because of cheap hour rates. That is to be expected in business. Expecially to countries that have excelent human resources for software development (programers), like India, Israel and Brazil (to name 3).
Isn't this what the so called global economy is all about ? I find it a simple enough fact to have a product whose development is spread around the world. No country is an island anymore. Well, most of them, anyway.
Most devices don't even implement SNMPv3. There are a few out there that don't even implement SNMPv2, for crying out loud.
I really don't see SNMP dying any time soon. RMON was out for some time, but has quitely gone over the hill.
On the other hand, we have seen many devices with a web management interface. Standarizing that kind of interface is a good things, but has nothing to do with SNMP.
Kind of old news, isn't it ?
Strange. I'm pretty certain it is Dec 22th in Brazil.
Yes, of course I have not RTFA.
On the other hand, I have noticed a slight decrease on the number of spams both me and my clients receive during the last 5 days. Something like 3-10% decrease.
On the other hand, this have happened before, even with no hurricanes looming over Florida.
This kind of assumption if very dangerous. Just because for some reason we have some decline on the number of spams, it doesn't mean any single facts from the news is responsible by it. Anything, including a heavy spammer motherboard burning can be responsible by it. This kind of thing is very hard, if not impossible, to prove.
And we can predict (*crystal ball growing*) that the number of spams will increase again soon.
I see now reference on the article which part the world they are using as reference. It might as well my on the southern, where summer begins at December 22th (or close to that).
:)
It is all a matter of reference
For me, their old source control software is called CMVC. Used that in 1993. But I disgress.
I'm not sure I follow you. Is rational their new source control software or something ?
I wonder if IBM is releasing their compiler set for Linux as well. Even tho xlc (C compiler) was kinda crappy, xlC (C++ compiler) was one of the best I ever seen, expecially for not allowing programers to put too much crap on the code (printf on C++ ? Don't think so).
Same question regarding Teamconnection.
Then again, these may already be avaliable, and I'm just asking a dumb question.
My old pSeries had a S3 Videoboard. I beat OSX heard about those.
Not sure which chipset they are using these days.
Similar CPUs ? Sorry, but I can't see any other similarity between a PowerPC and a POWER5 than the fact they are both RISC processors. It is like saying an Opteron and a Z80 processors are similar.
So no, unless Apple releases an POWER5 version of OSX, which is something they can't do in a week or two, it won't run.
US$5K ? Pretty cheap for this kind of computer.
I'm not sure about Gentoo, but I'm positive that is not what happens for Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSe, Conectiva etc.
On those systems, when you do an upgrade (apt-get update), you will get a fresh package, including not only the files that changes, but all the files for that package. And if we have a package with 1 binary and 50 images, and only the binary changed, we get to download all the images again.
Some distributions have been implementing package fragmentantion for this (package-core and package-images for this example), and that is a good thing for these cases, although it is a nightmare to manage. Not as fine grained as proposed by the grandparent post, but good enough for most cases.
Actually, I was listening to the conference. This all sound strange to me.
McNoSoBright said something like the $15Mi includes values not paid yet. Looks like a nice maneuver.
I remember someone asking him about the real money they had. They reported they had $43Mi, and were assigning $31Mi for litigation. After many turns, McDump finally adimited that they were already charges for law services had they didn't pay yet, so that $43Mi is not really $43Mi. The value itself was left unsaid. I also remember him saying "We will not disclosure that information" about many questions.
And I'm sure the fact they are closing offices (Spain and Italy were two he named, but he said others would also be closed), laying off, and such, is a clear indication that they are running out of money, and thus giving up their "core business" and rerouting what they have on litigation. Okey, HELLO ? Were I a shareholder, I would dump my shares as soon as possible.
Interesting enough, McDOH said they are not in need of cash right now. Yeah, right.
How much is it market share these days ?
According to Marketing Warfare (ISBN: 0070527261, Al Ries and Jack Trout), maketing is a war fought on the mental battleground.
Not, lets consider your computer locks up. You will simply reboot it, and think this is something normal. Right ? Even if you don't, most people do.
And there is where Microsoft really shows its maketing domination. It is not that users don't get burned by its products. They simply think those are normal things in computing. When I tell someone that one of my computers (running a firewall, and so I never turns it off) has a 2 years uptime, they think I'm lying. That my workstation was running for 7 months without a single reboot. After that, I had to turn it off cause I was replacing the video card.
That is the real problem, isn't it ? It is not that the Internet Explorer uses are getting burned (or not). It is that they don't see that as burning. Their mindset if so frozen into the Microsoft partern that they think those are normal things, and they even think about the possibility that it can be different. They don't see that a browser crashing should not take the OS down with it. That just by accessing a homepage it should not be possibly to automaticaly install a program on his computer.
Having a better browser will never make Firefox/Mozilla/Opera/Galeon/Konqueror/Safari/Net
Anyone developing opensource software, most expecially softwares that are alternative versions well entrenched on the market, should read the book I mentioned. Expecially the part about attacking an entrenched enemy.
So, I don't agree that "a lot of windows users out there haven't been burned". The whole point is that they don't see that they are getting burned, no matter what happened. Most of them don't care even when they do get burned, a situation even worst than you described.
Actually, calling the Asshole and Bitch is not far from the truth. After all, they did buy Windows, didn't they ?
Oh ? Is that a pirated copy ? Then you get Criminous Asshole/Bitch.
Actually, it is all, in most cases, random chance.
Just because most people never have to face the situation, doesn't mean it is not affecting people's life.
Security should be measured by the results it really gets. What are the results of all this we have seen ? Near to none.
As many people stated, real airline security has nothing to do with this kind of harassement. Lock the pilot doors for good. Give them guns. Have undercover feds on each and every flight. Install sleeping gas on all planes (which can be triggered by the pilot at any time and floor the passager compartment). Even a good shaking of the plane can dislodge the terrorists enough for the crew to take over. Have all those possibilities, and you can stop every possible attack, unless the terrorist plan is simply to get rid of the plane. In that case, they can simply fire an Earth-To-Air missile against it.
There are many ways to do it without harassing people. More effective ways. Less costy ways. USA has need of money in many areas. Public education could use some of that money. So could the social security. Maybe some extra precautions regarding the power grid. Give more traning for the people at CIA. Buy them better computers to analyse data. Spend that money with the american people, not on terrorists.
There are better and most effective ways to protect one country against terrorist. And notice I'm not saying anything like "stop helping Israel" or "get out of Iraq". I have strong opinions on those issues that I really think don't fit in this discussion.
I took it from a book that sits on my side right now.
Also, I don't remember that passage on The Art of War.
Then again, I have seen many books with wrong passages, and my memory is known to be somewhat flawed. You might be right at that. All I can say is, to the best of my knowledge, that is a Mao Tsé-Tung line.
True. But the aliance also used a "secret" weapon, called Superior Force.
I recoment the book On War, by Karl von Clausewitz. Even tho it is from 1832, it explains in great details why the aliance won WWII, and why USA lost on Vietnam and North Korea. And why USA is currently loosing the war against terrorism. And I mean "terrorism", not necessarily the Al Quaeda, or Saddan.
Quotes from the book (free translation):
"Always keep your forces concentrated, and in the best possible disposition."
"The greater possible number of soldier should be put in action at the decisive point" (Emphasis by me).
And, the one the terrorist always follow:
"If you can't get absolute superiority, you should get a relative superiority at the decisive point, by masterfuly using all the forces you have."
Also, since I'm quoting, lemme give you one from Mao Tsé-Tung:
"When the enemy advances, we withdraw. When he camps, we taunt. When he gets tired, we attack. When he withdraws, we pursue them."
Okey, I'm done with this subject. Thank you all for your patience.
Please, read this other post of mine, and reconsider that "20 minutes" estimative of yours.
Thank you.