As it happens, I was just looking for this option yesterday with someone who wanted his cache in/tmp instead of in ~, which seems like a perfectly valid thing to want to do. Google knew what to do...
So let's say that on Saturday, I run down to Megalomart and buy my Level 7. It's a remainder and on clearance, so although the case clearly says 7, it's really a Level 5.
It kind of makes sense that the Anakin-ghost would manifest as he appeared when he was "whole", before the corruption of his spirit (and body) by the Dark Side.
In meatspace, your neighbors are one of the primary factors in your environmnet. Since your meat environment facilitates your irc interactions, I'd think you would be interested in it...
I don't really want a combination mobile phone/(pda|camera|gps|video game|food processor). What I really want is a mobile phone that works well, a digital camera that works well, a pda that works well, etc., and I want them to talk to each other in useful ways.
I want my gps receiver to imprint a location on my digital photos. I want my PDA to access the internet wirelessly via my mobile. I want to dial my mobile using the address book on my pda. I want wireless access to maps for my gps. I want to be able to add and subtract devices from this group conveniently, to change my functions at will.
I don't want a half-arsed device that does a couple of these things poorly, and has a bulky form factor to boot.
Nebraska Wesleyan is not a big school, but has great wireless coverage...coverage I hardly ever see students taking advantage of. It seems to be a very well-kept public secret.
Honestly, considering the coverage and that Creighton in Omaha made the list, I'm surprised not to see Nebraska Wesleyan here.
The average user wants to do everything grandma wants to do, but they also want to be able to install or upgrade software and hardware *easily*. In addition, they want a fully functional GUI, with no *necessity* of dropping to a CLI for everyday tasks.
With a little qualified oversight, any of the Free n*xen make excellent home desktop machines. It should be noted that this is also true of 'doze, though more qualified oversight may be required.
The difficulty faced by the typical end-user (your brother-in-law) installing software on n*x means he will never darken your doorstep with a system tray overflowing with icons saying his machine has slowed down, please fix it. When he really does need this or that software for the n*x box you configure for him, installation will be a simple matter of making an ssh connection. I would much rather remotely administer the n*x box than deal with the aftermath of ill-thought out, willy-nilly fluffybunny.exe installation.
The apparent power granted to users by other OSes is a trade off for potential headaches later.
The real weakness the n*xen face on the home desktop is in (legal) support or at least less seamful integration for common media formats that grandma and the BiL want to be able to view.
The film's director, Ed Zwick, who is working from the model of the great Kurosawa, color-codes his various units by flags that are mounted on helmets. Possibly this is historically true; possibly some genius on Kurosawa's staff thought it up.
Neither Kurosawa nor Zwick "thought it up". These banners are called sashimono, and they were affixed to the back, not the helmet. Sorry to nitpick, but a little research effort on the part of a writer for a major news outlet would be appreciated.
Back when I was an undergrad, I was taking Principles of Compiler Design in one building on campus and Principles of Linguistics in another. However, the division seemed purely arbitrary.
In Compiler Design we were learning all about lexical analysis, parse trees, and context free grammars. In Linguistics we were learning all about...lexical analysis, parse trees, and context free grammars. It was really interesting taking the two classes back-to-back, and observing the similarities (and differences).
Don't even get me started on how Compiler Design (and Linguistics) put me leaps and bounds ahead of the curve when I took Modern English Grammar.
Keep your closed-source Ferrari. I'll use my GPL diamondoid hovercar, thanks. Sure it's a little harder to drive and the seats aren't covered in leather, but the traffic sure is lighter up here at 150,000 feet...
Before the blogs, etc., there was a clear delineation between personal thoughts and public thoughts. Things you wrote down in a journal weren't meant for public consumption.
But now you can write something in a blog, broadcasting it essentially to the whole freakin' world, and say, "These were my private thoughts! I feel so violated!" That sends my BS meter right off the scale.
Now, I'm the first to say schools should not censor off-campus speech. That just seems like a given to me. It's wrong. At the same time, I say, use some common sense. Remember, when you're writing in a blog, you're talking to the entire world. Don't say anything you don't want everyone to hear. It will be archived and it will come back to haunt you. Welcome to the real world.
Streaming mp3 feeds. They're programmed by someone else, who chooses things I might not, and I'm often pleasantly surprised by what I hear. I've purchased a couple of CDs based on things I've heard this way.
You should check this out. I'm not affiliated with them, so I have nothing to gain by spreading the word. It's a great service. I wish I'd done it. I suspect/hope this is what the future looks like.
The concept of politics is something that changes the meaning of the work you do at a company. In college, you are given an assignment to do. You do it, you are graded on it and you move on. At a company, you are asked what the customer wants in their software, and are not given specs. You are supposed to guess what they want. You are also never given a realistic timetable in which to do the project.
I think you are confusing "college" with "undergraduate work". In the above paragraph, s/customer/advisor/ and s/software/research/ and you start to get the idea.
But the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house, or at the very least share it with cloners.
What a horrible analogy, but it does point out the flaw at the root of the article. The article presumes a double-standard: An entity that develops a product using GPL software has a right to reap the benefits of the foregoing development of that software, but has no responsibilities to the users of that software. Clearly this is contrary to the very core of the GPL.
To try and hammer this idea into the (inflammatory, incorrect, inaccurate) language of the excerpt, someone else laid the foundation, built the walls, and put the roof on. The "house" was never "yours" in the first place.
The author of the article, Daniel Lyons, concludes:
So far, none of the Free Software Foundation's targets have decided it is bad for the world and gone to court. This despite the fact that the foundation has $750,000 in the bank and one lawyer who works for free, part time, when he's not teaching classes at Columbia University.
Will Cisco and Broadcom be the first? Probably they'll decide, like everyone else, that it's cheaper to settle than to fight.
Such a pity, comrade.
Whoa! Ad hominem and straw man all in one passage. Way to go, Dan!
The expense of the legal action is irrelevant if the GPL-abusing entity intends to win, so this is an admission that the GPL is legally sound and has teeth. Win the lawsuit and take the FSF's $750k in damages and legal expenses. I suspect the targets of the FSF settle because they don't have a leg to stand on.
Here's a message for Forbes: If you think the GPL is bad, tell us why you think it's bad. I'm sure there are plenty of people here prepared to debate you. Don't report that it's bad because companies violate it and get caught. The Chewbacca defense will not save you. (I hope.)
I've no sympathy at all for the companies mentioned in the article. FSF enforcement of the GPL should not come as a surprise to anyone. If you're basing a company on a project using third-party code, due diligence requires you to understand the terms of the license under which you are using the code. Maybe instead of moaning and groaning (via Forbes) when they get caught with their corporate mitts in the cookie jar, they should either abide by the GPL, find a package with a license the imposes fewer responsibilities, or *gasp* do their own development work and pay for it.
...But the article wasn't strictly about IT management, but executives in general. I suppose you could argue that there is intersection between any modern business unit and IT, but 20+ years ago, IT was typewriters, file cabinets, and document retention policies, so the same argument could be applied to that model.
Arguably, the rank-and-file manager (to coin a phrase) was not interested in those things. Secretaries were specially trained (e.g., through dedicated secretarial schools) to handle things like typing and filing, and archivists to manage documents, precisely so the honcho wouldn't have to twiddle with the nuts and bolts and could get on with what we now call knowledge work and strategizing.
I'm not necessarily saying that the old way is better. I do, however, wonder what forces have caused the culture to change.
<tongueincheek>I suspect it happened when one could play solitaire on one's typewriter.</tongueincheek>
20 years ago, executives didn't sneak around looking for touch-typing courses so they could operate an IBM Selectric without help from their secretaries. Why the insecurity now?
Perhaps another reason "PHBs" might be heading to other sources than the IT staff is because the IT staff treats them with such contempt?
It's a two-way street, a vicious circle.
IT doesn't understand what management does. Management doesn't understand what IT does. (This is hard to write without sounding as though I'm condemning one side or the other.) I've seen management dismiss the knowledge provided by IT gurus, and I've seen IT gurus totally fail to understand the market forces that drive a business.
With regard to the article, as IT-types we should recognize that (generally) sysadmins/programmers are not teachers. We may not be the best equipped to provide training to anyone in the company, let alone upper management. On the other hand, it shows incredible weakness of character (IMHO) to undertake secret training. I mean, I think it's fine that maybe my boss (or client, who is a sort of boss) doesn't know everything I do. Part of my purpose is to provide specialized knowledge. If the boss isn't comfortable with oowriter or evolution, fine. Not everyone share the benefits of a pathological interest in this stuff. Hire a trainer. Hold a seminar that will benefit the entire company. But don't pretend to know things you don't, while sneaking around trying to acquire the knowledge you pretend to have.
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Mind you don't step in the FUD.
So let's say that on Saturday, I run down to Megalomart and buy my Level 7. It's a remainder and on clearance, so although the case clearly says 7, it's really a Level 5.
Then on Monday, it's a 4.
Tuesday, it's a 3.
...
It kind of makes sense that the Anakin-ghost would manifest as he appeared when he was "whole", before the corruption of his spirit (and body) by the Dark Side.
God, I'm a geek.
In meatspace, your neighbors are one of the primary factors in your environmnet. Since your meat environment facilitates your irc interactions, I'd think you would be interested in it...
Lack of interest is strange to me.
Boys are given dolls, too, but we call them action figures.
From memepool: Bring Back Kirk!
Between what's happened to Star Trek and Star Wars over the last decade or so, my childhood lies in tattered ruins...
I don't really want a combination mobile phone/(pda|camera|gps|video game|food processor). What I really want is a mobile phone that works well, a digital camera that works well, a pda that works well, etc., and I want them to talk to each other in useful ways.
I want my gps receiver to imprint a location on my digital photos. I want my PDA to access the internet wirelessly via my mobile. I want to dial my mobile using the address book on my pda. I want wireless access to maps for my gps. I want to be able to add and subtract devices from this group conveniently, to change my functions at will.
I don't want a half-arsed device that does a couple of these things poorly, and has a bulky form factor to boot.
I want my Personal Area Network!
Nebraska Wesleyan is not a big school, but has great wireless coverage...coverage I hardly ever see students taking advantage of. It seems to be a very well-kept public secret.
Honestly, considering the coverage and that Creighton in Omaha made the list, I'm surprised not to see Nebraska Wesleyan here.
Sysadmins find users thick? Bosses are slow on the uptake? Who would have thought? How long has this been going on??
Welcome to 1985, guys.
With a little qualified oversight, any of the Free n*xen make excellent home desktop machines. It should be noted that this is also true of 'doze, though more qualified oversight may be required.
The difficulty faced by the typical end-user (your brother-in-law) installing software on n*x means he will never darken your doorstep with a system tray overflowing with icons saying his machine has slowed down, please fix it. When he really does need this or that software for the n*x box you configure for him, installation will be a simple matter of making an ssh connection. I would much rather remotely administer the n*x box than deal with the aftermath of ill-thought out, willy-nilly fluffybunny.exe installation.
The apparent power granted to users by other OSes is a trade off for potential headaches later.
The real weakness the n*xen face on the home desktop is in (legal) support or at least less seamful integration for common media formats that grandma and the BiL want to be able to view.
No. Just...no.
...How do we write code in C++?
Man, I must have been sleeping...
When did google become a conventional search engine...?
From the article:
Neither Kurosawa nor Zwick "thought it up". These banners are called sashimono, and they were affixed to the back, not the helmet. Sorry to nitpick, but a little research effort on the part of a writer for a major news outlet would be appreciated.
This is nothing new...
Some manual tollbooths hand out timestamped tickets that you must present when you leave the tollroad.
"Here's your receipt, and...oh, your average speed was calculated to be 83.2 mph. Here's your ticket."
It's a mistake to try and pin this on automated/remote toll collection systems.
Back when I was an undergrad, I was taking Principles of Compiler Design in one building on campus and Principles of Linguistics in another. However, the division seemed purely arbitrary.
In Compiler Design we were learning all about lexical analysis, parse trees, and context free grammars. In Linguistics we were learning all about...lexical analysis, parse trees, and context free grammars. It was really interesting taking the two classes back-to-back, and observing the similarities (and differences).
Don't even get me started on how Compiler Design (and Linguistics) put me leaps and bounds ahead of the curve when I took Modern English Grammar.
Keep your closed-source Ferrari. I'll use my GPL diamondoid hovercar, thanks. Sure it's a little harder to drive and the seats aren't covered in leather, but the traffic sure is lighter up here at 150,000 feet...
Before the blogs, etc., there was a clear delineation between personal thoughts and public thoughts. Things you wrote down in a journal weren't meant for public consumption.
But now you can write something in a blog, broadcasting it essentially to the whole freakin' world, and say, "These were my private thoughts! I feel so violated!" That sends my BS meter right off the scale.
Now, I'm the first to say schools should not censor off-campus speech. That just seems like a given to me. It's wrong. At the same time, I say, use some common sense. Remember, when you're writing in a blog, you're talking to the entire world. Don't say anything you don't want everyone to hear. It will be archived and it will come back to haunt you. Welcome to the real world.
Streaming mp3 feeds. They're programmed by someone else, who chooses things I might not, and I'm often pleasantly surprised by what I hear. I've purchased a couple of CDs based on things I've heard this way.
You should check this out. I'm not affiliated with them, so I have nothing to gain by spreading the word. It's a great service. I wish I'd done it. I suspect/hope this is what the future looks like.
I think you are confusing "college" with "undergraduate work". In the above paragraph, s/customer/advisor/ and s/software/research/ and you start to get the idea.
From the article...
What a horrible analogy, but it does point out the flaw at the root of the article. The article presumes a double-standard: An entity that develops a product using GPL software has a right to reap the benefits of the foregoing development of that software, but has no responsibilities to the users of that software. Clearly this is contrary to the very core of the GPL.
To try and hammer this idea into the (inflammatory, incorrect, inaccurate) language of the excerpt, someone else laid the foundation, built the walls, and put the roof on. The "house" was never "yours" in the first place.
The author of the article, Daniel Lyons, concludes:
Whoa! Ad hominem and straw man all in one passage. Way to go, Dan!
The expense of the legal action is irrelevant if the GPL-abusing entity intends to win, so this is an admission that the GPL is legally sound and has teeth. Win the lawsuit and take the FSF's $750k in damages and legal expenses. I suspect the targets of the FSF settle because they don't have a leg to stand on.
Here's a message for Forbes: If you think the GPL is bad, tell us why you think it's bad. I'm sure there are plenty of people here prepared to debate you. Don't report that it's bad because companies violate it and get caught. The Chewbacca defense will not save you. (I hope.)
I've no sympathy at all for the companies mentioned in the article. FSF enforcement of the GPL should not come as a surprise to anyone. If you're basing a company on a project using third-party code, due diligence requires you to understand the terms of the license under which you are using the code. Maybe instead of moaning and groaning (via Forbes) when they get caught with their corporate mitts in the cookie jar, they should either abide by the GPL, find a package with a license the imposes fewer responsibilities, or *gasp* do their own development work and pay for it.
...But the article wasn't strictly about IT management, but executives in general. I suppose you could argue that there is intersection between any modern business unit and IT, but 20+ years ago, IT was typewriters, file cabinets, and document retention policies, so the same argument could be applied to that model.
Arguably, the rank-and-file manager (to coin a phrase) was not interested in those things. Secretaries were specially trained (e.g., through dedicated secretarial schools) to handle things like typing and filing, and archivists to manage documents, precisely so the honcho wouldn't have to twiddle with the nuts and bolts and could get on with what we now call knowledge work and strategizing.
I'm not necessarily saying that the old way is better. I do, however, wonder what forces have caused the culture to change.
<tongueincheek>I suspect it happened when one could play solitaire on one's typewriter.</tongueincheek>20 years ago, executives didn't sneak around looking for touch-typing courses so they could operate an IBM Selectric without help from their secretaries. Why the insecurity now?
It's a two-way street, a vicious circle.
IT doesn't understand what management does. Management doesn't understand what IT does. (This is hard to write without sounding as though I'm condemning one side or the other.) I've seen management dismiss the knowledge provided by IT gurus, and I've seen IT gurus totally fail to understand the market forces that drive a business.
With regard to the article, as IT-types we should recognize that (generally) sysadmins/programmers are not teachers. We may not be the best equipped to provide training to anyone in the company, let alone upper management. On the other hand, it shows incredible weakness of character (IMHO) to undertake secret training. I mean, I think it's fine that maybe my boss (or client, who is a sort of boss) doesn't know everything I do. Part of my purpose is to provide specialized knowledge. If the boss isn't comfortable with oowriter or evolution, fine. Not everyone share the benefits of a pathological interest in this stuff. Hire a trainer. Hold a seminar that will benefit the entire company. But don't pretend to know things you don't, while sneaking around trying to acquire the knowledge you pretend to have.