Don't forget about the currently running TV show.
Good show, basically picks up and follows the manga rather than the Movie.
Several groups have been subbing it and posted to alt.binaries.anime & alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.. haven't looked in alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.reposts.. but you get the idea.
www.productionig.com/Ghost_TV.html
Imagine the deluge of resumes this recruiter is going to see.. solicited or not.
My take on working full time in an open source role is..
Keep your skills current and relevent for the job market and interview as best you are able..
The fact that there might be a chance for open source evangelism or code contributions is secondary unless you are either independently wealthy or found some group that is.
In this case, it's like my career. I was a Unix admin before the boom.. during and after. The tools change and improve but the basic requirements don't change.
That is why you find people brought up on Dos or Linux having no particular problem getting around Windows.. no more so than going from Solaris to Red Hat Linux to Debian Linux.. the particulars are different but the skills required to understand what needs to be done do not vary very much.
Which looks better on a resume
Unix Administrator - 5 Years - Linux (several) Solaris, HPUX, AIX and others
I used to run a small BBS in Kansas City and remember the time the nodelist got so large it broke the automated nodediff tosser virtually everyone used.
More to the point, if you look at the zone file you'll notice that a majority of the activity is outside the old major activity zones (1-6)
Turns out that places like various countries in Africa and Russia are thriving using the old fido mailer programs.
Who'd have guessed that there would still be a market and place for a store and forward mailing and discussion list for nodes that only connect to the network once a day or less.
Sounds an awful lot like usenet back in the day when UUCP transmisions between sites was a common way to transfer stuff and there was actually a maintained uunet list. (wasn't there something on/. 2 years ago about the maintainer of that list stopping ?)
Last year when I logged onto a fido BBS, most of his mail read year 1901.. but still kept on working... (The sysop had not logged into the system in 1 1/2 years)
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections.. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
Not to nitpick.. but the press release linked to refers to the latest version of palmOS being 4.1.. last time I checked that Sony running 5.0 is in Best Buy and is a product.
Seems like they would want to make a specialized toolkit for this thing that only dislayed the completely relevent information rather than a standard palm display and scrolling around like mad.
Phone number or name in the datebook function that takes the entire screen or some such.
Sort of like the clock function on some of the Palm m100 series devices.
With only 2 megs of memory though.. don't expect to play your game boy emulator on it with any speed or fidelity.
As has always been the case with core internet services functionality. There is a bloated way and a smart way.
In this example
If you want:
1. Virtually unlimited storage space 2. Mind bending number of filtering options 3. OS / Platform / Device independence 4. No cost or cost included with monthly access charge.
Than go get a POP3 account from your ISP and only be limited by the limitations of the interface your choose to use.
If your ISP does not have such a service, than there are a small number of free unix workspace accounts out there that do offer it.
Yahoo / Hotmail / AOL email all have variations available for this.. you just have to pay extra to get them
I'm just waiting for the day when Yahoo makes YahooGroups only send to yahoo addresses. On that day there will likely be an exodus of group participation and a sudden interest in majordomo. If anyone here has tried to follow a mailing list of any particular length via the yahoo web interface they will know what I mean.
To Yahoo's credit, when they recently downgraded new email accounts from 6 megs to 4 of storage, they did grandfather people over the limit in with the old limit rather than the new.
OK.. would both parties be found guilty of criminal conduct in absentia if this is allowed to stand?
Maybe they would serve the prison term or pay the fines in absentia too. (EG not at all)
I think the more likely reason for the denial is some lower level functionary within Russia processed the application, with no knowledge of the circumstances or publicity around this action processed in the normal course of things.. ie badly..
But of course there are a sort of appeal process in the diplomatic corps for dealing with this sort of thing. It will probably just take longer than the initial criminal hearing to take place.
Open Source Community and local business leaders to government..
"You mean we can support our countries economy, eliminate the majority of software cost, potentially improve the quality of desktops for Spanish speakers AND be in full complience with copyright law so we can set an example for the rest of the country and world ?"
I have the 40X liteon (Cendyne OEM'd box) drive for around $70 last month. It replaced a Verbatim 32X drive I got the month before (took back to get faster drive at same price>
While there is only a comparitively small increase in speed the actual usable speed was more than a minute better. The Verbatim drive took much longer to close the session out and waited till later in the burn to switch up to it's highest speed.
As far as the argument that faster speeds are bragging rights only.. I beg to differ. I follow the alt.binaries.multimedia.anime and alt.binaries.anime groups on Usenet and 1.5 - 2 gigs per day of downloads are not uncommon. While this only works out to maybe 3 disks per day I don't religiously burn everything I have every night. Things like wanting to burn only episodes of the same show on a disk or simple lazyness do matter.
I sometimes queue up 35 gig or more of stuff to burn.. and at 2:30 per disk vs 3:00 - 3:30 per disk. It makes a big difference.
Someone may comment that I just need to get a DVD drive. That's the next step, for right now a 40x burner and $0.10 per CD or lower is more cost effective than $270 (with shipping and such) for a DVD burner and ~$2.00 per DVD.
This has been commented on before. But I keep two phones available.. one activated and carried actively, the other in the trunk.
On is a recently purchased Samsung A460 . This works for me 95% of the time and obviously a recent model.
The other is a Radio Shack branded bag phone with car adapter and battery. With a standard 3 watt transmitter and comparitively huge antenna I have yet to find ANYWHERE it hasn't been able to get a signal.
A few weeks ago when a truck hit my car it came in very handy for summoning the police with no question on the signal fading.
As far as domestice uses for 3G are concerned. The problem facing wireless providers is one of finding a need and not one of technology. Transferring 1 gig of pron isn't what these things are good for..
Now high school students sending doctored images of each other back and forth in class.. would be.. or text messaging etc.
The other thing that made a lot of sense for Sprint in this upgrade was one of pure capacity. 3G standards also allow for 3G voice. Which is incrementally better than non 3G. So for them the simple matter of throwing more calls into a area without additional towers probably pays for itself.
I know they have some public interest sections of they're site.. but they are a corporation with products and such.. I wonder how they got a.gov address..
Time for self running checksums on programs ?
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.. with crud like this going around.. would it be time for programs like adaware to have a checksum as part of they're startup routine ?
I know the program disabled other applications that were hostile to it.. but a trojen like program might just modify it's "attackers" rather than disabling them. Sort of like when virus writers starting using self modifying code so the simple "fingerprint" method of detection did not work for the antivirus companies
"Despite relentless efforts to curb art, speech, software, writing, thinking and the free flow of ideas, censorship as a contemporary idea is virtually impossible. The Net killed it, and now the Web is becoming a living, global archive of ideas people want to kill. "
It maybe impossible to completely censure everyone. However the ability to squelch the vast majority is undiminished as it has always been.
Just now instead of speech being heard - being more a function of political or monetary abilitym now on the internet it will be ones technical ability to circumvent censorship filters or knowing where to go to see all the available information, rather than just someone elses view of what should be seen or not.
Example might be, in Kansas City there are multiple library systems in the metro area. 7 counties, city libraries, colleges, etc. One area decides to only make available filtered internet access. Another does not filter any content, a third asks a question of what type of access is desired.
The technical knowledge of what library offers what access determins what can be seen.
Considering the duel play by the record labels to make all non-gangbuster artist's contract to a work for hire arrangement they get the benefit of both sides. Barely compensating artist for the work they do and signing away all future technology rights for a pitance.
I'd love to see the contract terms in the first draft contacts for some recent major label signers.
- and oh yes - I still buy CDs - just not those that are intentionally defective.
Re:The BSA has paralells with OSHA-Any "port"...
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Most companies of more than 10 people or so have neither the stomach or pocketbook for developing they're own software in all cases.
This is the primarily "advantage" of shrinkwrap solutions. Microsoft makes a living off of convincing people that they're solutions are the only supportable way to do business. Fortunatly the majority of the UI development work is in areas that are of common use. When someone wants a specific need the private company market is the only way to get it without developing internally. - and believe it or not a lot of small software companies will allow access to source code for customers if asked for specific business needs.
One example of this was when I was working for an oil company. The guys with petrolium engineering degrees had a modelling package that was used to develop very specific use lubricants. The software was not available in any form in open source because the market was to small and to restricted to do anything otherwise.
It was source-available for customers.. though it ran only on windows 3.1 in 97 and was CPU bound as hell..
At least if your familiar with OSHA. That's the american quasi-governmental group responsible for making sure employers provide a safe working environment. Thinks like making sure there are no open pits to fall in without signage or railings, certified persons for work in hazardous places, down to the office chairs we cube farmers work in have some baseline in terms of back support and stability.
The paralell is that up until OSHA was spun off from the governments payroll the fines doled out would be a few thousand bucks or so for some major mishaps / industrial accidents. Businesses in some cases considered the fines a cost of doing business.
Now that the organization is self funded. All of a sudden we saw companies getting fined $100,000+ for cronic problems and $1,000,000+ if someone dies on the job. All of a sudden it's painful and they fix stuff rather than continue to pay X $$ per day something isn't fixed or work has stopped.
The BSA has similar, but more underhanded reasons for doing that they do. They use the threat of fines and bad publicity to get money to validate they're own existance rather than seeking real change in licensing agreements to something that allows licensing after the fact and such.
Good argument for open source / free software - though as pointed out elsewhere for a great deal of niche markets the software just doesn't exist.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget about the currently running TV show. Good show, basically picks up and follows the manga rather than the Movie. Several groups have been subbing it and posted to alt.binaries.anime & alt.binaries.multimedia.anime .. haven't looked in alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.reposts .. but you get the idea.
www.productionig.com/Ghost_TV.html
Imagine the deluge of resumes this recruiter is going to see .. solicited or not.
..
..
.. during and after. The tools change and improve but the basic requirements don't change.
.. no more so than going from Solaris to Red Hat Linux to Debian Linux .. the particulars are different but the skills required to understand what needs to be done do not vary very much.
My take on working full time in an open source role is
Keep your skills current and relevent for the job market and interview as best you are able
The fact that there might be a chance for open source evangelism or code contributions is secondary unless you are either independently wealthy or found some group that is.
In this case, it's like my career. I was a Unix admin before the boom
That is why you find people brought up on Dos or Linux having no particular problem getting around Windows
Which looks better on a resume
Unix Administrator - 5 Years - Linux (several) Solaris, HPUX, AIX and others
or
Red Hat Linux Administrator - 5 years
I used to run a small BBS in Kansas City and remember the time the nodelist got so large it broke the automated nodediff tosser virtually everyone used.
/. 2 years ago about the maintainer of that list stopping ?)
.. but still kept on working... (The sysop had not logged into the system in 1 1/2 years)
.. the whole store and forward this is great, except when your mail has to go out 4 or 5 mail batch points to get where it is going)
More to the point, if you look at the zone file you'll notice that a majority of the activity is outside the old major activity zones (1-6)
Turns out that places like various countries in Africa and Russia are thriving using the old fido mailer programs.
Who'd have guessed that there would still be a market and place for a store and forward mailing and discussion list for nodes that only connect to the network once a day or less.
Sounds an awful lot like usenet back in the day when UUCP transmisions between sites was a common way to transfer stuff and there was actually a maintained uunet list. (wasn't there something on
Last year when I logged onto a fido BBS, most of his mail read year 1901
Oh for the days when in an echomail group when you can see the second generation of replies to a message before actually seeing the original message. (If the originator had less than steller connections
Bunker.mpg (mi6hq.com) flight Unsuccessful.mpg (mi6hq.com) My second try for posting mirrors of mpg files. now with html tages (Because it's so hard to copy and paste or highlight and middle click)
http://mi6hq.dyndns.org/bunker.mpgd yndns.org/flightUnsuccessful.mpg
.. my server maybe @rr.com .. but on a commercial account it should be able to take it.
http://mi6hq.
Enjoy
Not to nitpick .. but the press release linked to refers to the latest version of palmOS being 4.1 .. last time I checked that Sony running 5.0 is in Best Buy and is a product.
.. don't expect to play your game boy emulator on it with any speed or fidelity.
Seems like they would want to make a specialized toolkit for this thing that only dislayed the completely relevent information rather than a standard palm display and scrolling around like mad.
Phone number or name in the datebook function that takes the entire screen or some such.
Sort of like the clock function on some of the Palm m100 series devices.
With only 2 megs of memory though
As has always been the case with core internet services functionality. There is a bloated way and a smart way.
.. you just have to pay extra to get them
In this example
If you want:
1. Virtually unlimited storage space
2. Mind bending number of filtering options
3. OS / Platform / Device independence
4. No cost or cost included with monthly access charge.
Than go get a POP3 account from your ISP and only be limited by the limitations of the interface your choose to use.
If your ISP does not have such a service, than there are a small number of free unix workspace accounts out there that do offer it.
Yahoo / Hotmail / AOL email all have variations available for this
I'm just waiting for the day when Yahoo makes YahooGroups only send to yahoo addresses. On that day there will likely be an exodus of group participation and a sudden interest in majordomo. If anyone here has tried to follow a mailing list of any particular length via the yahoo web interface they will know what I mean.
To Yahoo's credit, when they recently downgraded new email accounts from 6 megs to 4 of storage, they did grandfather people over the limit in with the old limit rather than the new.
Perhaps it was above your head to infer from the rest of the post that that was what I was talking about.
.. They don't fly people looking for visas to the US to tell them they can't come here.
The lower level functionary spoken of is in Russia
Read before posting, always a good idea
OK .. would both parties be found guilty of criminal conduct in absentia if this is allowed to stand?
.. ie badly..
Maybe they would serve the prison term or pay the fines in absentia too. (EG not at all)
I think the more likely reason for the denial is some lower level functionary within Russia processed the application, with no knowledge of the circumstances or publicity around this action processed in the normal course of things
But of course there are a sort of appeal process in the diplomatic corps for dealing with this sort of thing. It will probably just take longer than the initial criminal hearing to take place.
Yes, lets keep our fictional facts straite.
Looks like the demo has been posted to alt.binaries.games.unreal .. the group was long derelict but will seem to have new life for this one file.
.. and it is in .zip, not .rar)
This is better than the 2 hour + wait time for an FTP slot from fileplanet or gamespy.
(for you usenet newbies, you have to reassemble the file using a zip program from 5 parts
No mention of the linux version.
I'll post it when it gets done downloading.
Now to see how this runs on a ATI Radeon.
Open Source Community and local business leaders to government ..
"You mean we can support our countries economy, eliminate the majority of software cost, potentially improve the quality of desktops for Spanish speakers AND be in full complience with copyright law so we can set an example for the rest of the country and world ?"
"Cool"
I have the 40X liteon (Cendyne OEM'd box) drive for around $70 last month. It replaced a Verbatim 32X drive I got the month before (took back to get faster drive at same price>
.. I beg to differ. I follow the alt.binaries.multimedia.anime and alt.binaries.anime groups on Usenet and 1.5 - 2 gigs per day of downloads are not uncommon. While this only works out to maybe 3 disks per day I don't religiously burn everything I have every night. Things like wanting to burn only episodes of the same show on a disk or simple lazyness do matter.
.. and at 2:30 per disk vs 3:00 - 3:30 per disk. It makes a big difference.
While there is only a comparitively small increase in speed the actual usable speed was more than a minute better. The Verbatim drive took much longer to close the session out and waited till later in the burn to switch up to it's highest speed.
As far as the argument that faster speeds are bragging rights only
I sometimes queue up 35 gig or more of stuff to burn
Someone may comment that I just need to get a DVD drive. That's the next step, for right now a 40x burner and $0.10 per CD or lower is more cost effective than $270 (with shipping and such) for a DVD burner and ~$2.00 per DVD.
.. now why am I thinking of Wesley and Weasley's ??
Both have a reputation for being annoying.
though I'd love to be the wiz kid, do everything right cept get the girl type.
doesn't skip frames and stutter like bcast2K did it will be useful on a reasonably fast machine obviously
While this may not be a standalone DVD player {though with the remote it's pretty close.
.. can also select different soundtracks and such.
But the ATI DVD player lets you go to a particular track without messing with the currently playing video.
Seems organized by track and index -- those two sets of numbers on most DVD players
For those times when the DVD authoring shop chose to lock soundtracks into those selected at the menu. -My Sony DVP-530A does this sometimes-
This has been commented on before. But I keep two phones available .. one activated and carried actively, the other in the trunk.
..
.. would be .. or text messaging etc.
On is a recently purchased Samsung A460 . This works for me 95% of the time and obviously a recent model.
The other is a Radio Shack branded bag phone with car adapter and battery. With a standard 3 watt transmitter and comparitively huge antenna I have yet to find ANYWHERE it hasn't been able to get a signal.
A few weeks ago when a truck hit my car it came in very handy for summoning the police with no question on the signal fading.
As far as domestice uses for 3G are concerned. The problem facing wireless providers is one of finding a need and not one of technology. Transferring 1 gig of pron isn't what these things are good for
Now high school students sending doctored images of each other back and forth in class
The other thing that made a lot of sense for Sprint in this upgrade was one of pure capacity. 3G standards also allow for 3G voice. Which is incrementally better than non 3G. So for them the simple matter of throwing more calls into a area without additional towers probably pays for itself.
This maybe a topic for another time, but the fact that this information appears online doesn't have any bearing on it's legality or availability.
Would / should the ruling be any different if they were to print the information out in a pamphlet and hand it out at a rally?
Of course the point in this case is moot, there have been mirrors moved out of the country long ago.
I know they have some public interest sections of they're site .. but they are a corporation with products and such .. I wonder how they got a .gov address ..
I know the program disabled other applications that were hostile to it
"Despite relentless efforts to curb art, speech, software, writing, thinking and the free flow of ideas, censorship as a contemporary idea is virtually impossible. The Net killed it, and now the Web is becoming a living, global archive of ideas people want to kill. "
It maybe impossible to completely censure everyone. However the ability to squelch the vast majority is undiminished as it has always been.
Just now instead of speech being heard - being more a function of political or monetary abilitym now on the internet it will be ones technical ability to circumvent censorship filters or knowing where to go to see all the available information, rather than just someone elses view of what should be seen or not.
Example might be, in Kansas City there are multiple library systems in the metro area. 7 counties, city libraries, colleges, etc. One area decides to only make available filtered internet access. Another does not filter any content, a third asks a question of what type of access is desired.
The technical knowledge of what library offers what access determins what can be seen.
Considering the duel play by the record labels to make all non-gangbuster artist's contract to a work for hire arrangement they get the benefit of both sides. Barely compensating artist for the work they do and signing away all future technology rights for a pitance.
I'd love to see the contract terms in the first draft contacts for some recent major label signers.
- and oh yes - I still buy CDs - just not those that are intentionally defective.
Most companies of more than 10 people or so have neither the stomach or pocketbook for developing they're own software in all cases.
.. though it ran only on windows 3.1 in 97 and was CPU bound as hell..
.. no open source alternative .. no deal
This is the primarily "advantage" of shrinkwrap solutions. Microsoft makes a living off of convincing people that they're solutions are the only supportable way to do business. Fortunatly the majority of the UI development work is in areas that are of common use. When someone wants a specific need the private company market is the only way to get it without developing internally. - and believe it or not a lot of small software companies will allow access to source code for customers if asked for specific business needs.
One example of this was when I was working for an oil company. The guys with petrolium engineering degrees had a modelling package that was used to develop very specific use lubricants. The software was not available in any form in open source because the market was to small and to restricted to do anything otherwise.
It was source-available for customers
Anyway
At least if your familiar with OSHA. That's the american quasi-governmental group responsible for making sure employers provide a safe working environment. Thinks like making sure there are no open pits to fall in without signage or railings, certified persons for work in hazardous places, down to the office chairs we cube farmers work in have some baseline in terms of back support and stability.
The paralell is that up until OSHA was spun off from the governments payroll the fines doled out would be a few thousand bucks or so for some major mishaps / industrial accidents. Businesses in some cases considered the fines a cost of doing business.
Now that the organization is self funded. All of a sudden we saw companies getting fined $100,000+ for cronic problems and $1,000,000+ if someone dies on the job. All of a sudden it's painful and they fix stuff rather than continue to pay X $$ per day something isn't fixed or work has stopped.
The BSA has similar, but more underhanded reasons for doing that they do. They use the threat of fines and bad publicity to get money to validate they're own existance rather than seeking real change in licensing agreements to something that allows licensing after the fact and such.
Good argument for open source / free software - though as pointed out elsewhere for a great deal of niche markets the software just doesn't exist.
at the physical bar anyway.
.. though i'd imagine the common practice here of making very heavy drinks won't occur .. 1oz is 1oz
Oh the extreme problems a new business must face. Having more business than they know what to do with.
Given the amount of markup on alcohol, they'd make a mint off of just a few weeks of thirsty Berliners wanting they're drinks made automatically.