This is the silliest recurring post I see on slashdot and here's why: what's the demographic of the average slashdot reader? late-teens to late twenties, male, geeky (but perhaps not in keeping with the dorky sterotype of our predicessors)? So, as a parent, you're going to ask THIS group of guys when you should do something that has potentially long-lasting impact on your child... riiiight. Speaking as the father of three, I won't do it. My kids are too special and too important to risk horsing up on account of taking the advice of a bunch of guys who know as much about children as they do about grammar.
No offense, but the/. crew is the LAST group of people on earth I would turn to for advice on parenting.
I had a similar idea a number of years back basically masquerading uuencoded files inside of bogus html files that get crawled by Google's caching bot... the idea being that if you knew the names of the files you could query the cache and retrieve the UUEncoded bits.
At the time, no one else had written about such things. I just never got around to automating the process, so it never really materialized. Maybe some brave and time-rich soul would like to give it a go?
South Dakota already requires this, by law, however it is not broadly enforced... moreover, it is not -- reasonably -- enforceable. About the only really enforceable solution might be to require sellers to register their state salestax license with the site and have ebay automagically calculate salestax. This would be onerous to ebay and also gets into a number of jurisdictional legal areas.
I recently changed jobs because my former employer had no vision or direction and because they didn't give two-shakes of a dog's tail about their employees. I didn't just quit and go take the first job to come along. I spent four months interviewing with my current employer and have been with the company now for six months. Generally, I would have expected the luster to have been lost by now, but I continue to get the sense that this is a company that actually cares about their employees. This is reflected in a number of outward, articulatable ways: good benefits (time-off, options plans, retirement plans, healthcare coverage, etc.), employee rewards (if you get an excellence awared, for doing a bang-up job, you get to pick your reward from a catalog), 'attaboys' in the company-wide newsletter (when a customer calls in to a manager praising one of their employees, the manager will publish the attaboy), as well as an active "health" committee that sponsors employee outtings to gyms, healthy eating, and less objective activities. There is also a subjective sense around the office that the company cares -- when I was hired, I had lunch with our ceo, the director of HR sat down with me and made sure I was comfortable with the people in my area, the job, with my understanding of the benefits and P&P type bits, etc... This is not a small company (in fact, they're owned by one of the top 10 on the Fortune 1000), and yes we're hiring, but unfortunately I'm not going to publish the name of my employer on slashdot.
Having had a few jobs in my carreer (from help-desk lacky to software engineer to network engineer to security dork to network & security dork), I've come to know what I'm looking for in a company. There are good employers out there, but I'll be the first to admit that there aren't many. Job satisfaction is a three pronged fork: the employer, the employee and the job. there are bad employers and there are bad employees and there are bad jobs. No one thinks they're a bad employer or a bad employee. If you're honest with yourself, I think you'll see there are imperfections in your work ethic and in your professional veneer that make you less than a perfect employee or employer. Job satisfaction is as much about retaining perspective about the people you work with and the compensation you receive as it is about the work that you do. Geek purists may disagree, but they're not going to be reasoned with regardless; nor are hard-line employers.
Good jobs are out there. Keep looking and keep positive.
I raised this complaint to Malda this morning and he wrote back with, "Light mode is on the TODO list. There's a handheld CSS stylesheet that we figured would suffice for now combiend with the fact that the HTML w/o a stylesheet degrades reasonably well now." My response was:
I respectfully disagree on both points of your response: the handheld CSS blows (asthetically) and w/o a stylesheet its as appealing to lookat as a road-side accident (not the kind you rubber-neck to look at, the other kind.)
After some digging around on the slashcode site, and have a couple of observations: 1) The announcement about Slash + CSS freely admits that, "we only suggest you use this on a test site. The code is still in being actively developed and changed." One would wonder then, if you view/. as a test site? Why implement beta code in primetime? The subtext of this move is that the code is more important that the content, which I suspect is neither a view shared by yourself or your parent company, but it is certainly a clear message sent by promoting the immature slashcode to production. 2) From what I can tell, there is no clear roadmap and/or timeline published for Slashcode, nor is there even a rudimentary forum for reporting and tracking bugs!
I realize that allagorically Slashdot is the horse pulling the buggy of Slashcode, but you can't expect the horse to drag a broken buggy.
I'm not just trying to be loquacious here; I'm genuinely trying to illustrate what are -- in my mind at least -- valid points about Slashdot & Slashcode.
use an ssh tunnel -- tunnel out and forward a local port to a remote proxy then the local admins can't snoop your traffic because you're shovelling everything through SSH until it leaves 'campus'.
that much is a guarantee! I mean, if we knew it all right now there wouldn't be any question of what the cause of all this is... thank you for pointing out the obvious.
It sounds to me like you lot are missing the broader point... linux is as much about philosophy as it is about technology, perhaps even more-so. If you can't get your mind around that basic tenant, then don't bother griping about what it is or isn't as a technical accomplishment (or lack thereof.)
The circle block goes in the circle hole, square block in the square hole, etc., ad infinitum... use the right tool for the job.
you raise an interesting point, but I think the thing most people don't realize is that threading (both on-chip and in-code) is probably the best way for us to see PRACTICAL performance gains at this time.
Like all things, technology should be balanced with nature, in moderation. You can not do your child justice in having them know nothing about technology, nor can you do them the disservice of creating house trolls. I've got three kids of my own.
The unfortunate reality is that I need both. I do the majority of my technical work from Linux and the business bits from WinXP. If I could get a mac at work, I'd just use that, but...you know how that goes.
if someone ran `foremost` on both drives and tried to recover the majority of the content of the drives... that's something I'd do if I were younger and had more time on my hands. where are all you pesky teenagers at?
So, my approach was simple: I've got a Linux box (my primary workstation) and an XP box (my company's e-mail and calendaring box) and joined them with synergy2 (http://synergy2.sf.net). This setup is slicker than hell and allows me the maximum productivity that you would get from a 'traditional' dual-heading setup, 'cept the benefits matrix is now three dimensional -- productivity, resources, and stability.
I've got all the screen realestate I need (I'm running at 2560x1024) and Synergy2 has shared clipboard space, etc. My desktop experience isn't bogged down by how fast my single processor is or how much memory one system has v. the other, I've got two boxes I get to tap for computing. I also have some insulation from system outages -- oh, XP needs to reboot to apply the latest patch, okay, no problem, lets go work on the Linux-side wilst its rebooting.
Of course, with twice the joy, there's twice the sorrow... sometimes synergy2 flakes out (albeit VERY rarely), and sometimes there's lag between the screens (usually only under HEAVY loads), etc., but generally the setup is ideal. I also get a lot of looks for having dual monitors. on my desktop.
But... anyways, Synergy is a cheap way to accomplish for free what this guy spent a few hundred dollars doing -- provided you've got two full workstations (CPU, and monitor) and a KVM to share your mouse and keyboard through.
I think the bigger question we should be asking is: if OS X came to x86, would software vendors like Microsoft port their software? Realistically, Apple's viability as a computing platform has long-been tied to the availability of third-party software (just like Linux's viability.)
If Apple came in to the x86 market-space, I suspect you'd see Microsoft (and others) pull their product lines. The result of such things would surely be the death of Apple (as an alternative computing platform.)
My employer had previously deployed 2,000 modified NetBSD thin clients from IBM that ran off of 200+ Linux boxes that provided the OS, print and storage facilities, but let the thin client do the grinding on the apps... only difference here is that the thin client doesn't grind on the data, just renders screen shots. Fact of the mater is, both approaches are highly manageable ways to provide low-cost computing to the masses...
so, what's to stop a high-speed provider in the UK from setting up a squid proxy with the "forwarded_for off" line in the config? I mean, come on, really this is utterly retarded.
set showbreak=>> set textwidth=72 set linebreak set wrap...really doesn't cut it. Does anyone know of a good rich-text word processor for the command-line?
when I first went to college, we had a SCO box that everyone telneted in to. we had tin and elm for email and news, and wordperfect 5.x for word processing. I do a tremendous ammount of work from the console and would *REALLY* like to know if there's a way to provide the same functionality for Linux, short of running an emulator?
linux is open, windows is not....we could keep playing this game, but is it really necessary? why can't we get articles about things that actually matter?
coincidentally, I spent the weekend plumbing in my washer and dryer... It wasn't tough -- a bit time consuming, but not technically challenging or overly difficult.
I would encourage everyone to do their own home-repairs, but that's just me.
once put stereo input output mini-jacks into a phone-set for plugging in to my PC so I could play sound effects and record crank calls. I was doing that before the Jerky Boys were cool (if they ever were.)
the online version of quickbooks requires IE because it has some goofy ActiveX controls. I thought about using this for my startup consulting firm (we're all *nix heads so we all have Linux workstations, but none of us could get QuickBooks On-line to work -- you can't make it to the app without spoofing your HTTP Agent type, and even then you get nothing useable.
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This is the silliest recurring post I see on slashdot and here's why: what's the demographic of the average slashdot reader? late-teens to late twenties, male, geeky (but perhaps not in keeping with the dorky sterotype of our predicessors)? So, as a parent, you're going to ask THIS group of guys when you should do something that has potentially long-lasting impact on your child... riiiight. Speaking as the father of three, I won't do it. My kids are too special and too important to risk horsing up on account of taking the advice of a bunch of guys who know as much about children as they do about grammar.
/. crew is the LAST group of people on earth I would turn to for advice on parenting.
No offense, but the
-C
I had a similar idea a number of years back basically masquerading uuencoded files inside of bogus html files that get crawled by Google's caching bot... the idea being that if you knew the names of the files you could query the cache and retrieve the UUEncoded bits.
At the time, no one else had written about such things. I just never got around to automating the process, so it never really materialized. Maybe some brave and time-rich soul would like to give it a go?
South Dakota already requires this, by law, however it is not broadly enforced... moreover, it is not -- reasonably -- enforceable. About the only really enforceable solution might be to require sellers to register their state salestax license with the site and have ebay automagically calculate salestax. This would be onerous to ebay and also gets into a number of jurisdictional legal areas.
I'm just a geek though.
I recently changed jobs because my former employer had no vision or direction and because they didn't give two-shakes of a dog's tail about their employees. I didn't just quit and go take the first job to come along. I spent four months interviewing with my current employer and have been with the company now for six months. Generally, I would have expected the luster to have been lost by now, but I continue to get the sense that this is a company that actually cares about their employees. This is reflected in a number of outward, articulatable ways: good benefits (time-off, options plans, retirement plans, healthcare coverage, etc.), employee rewards (if you get an excellence awared, for doing a bang-up job, you get to pick your reward from a catalog), 'attaboys' in the company-wide newsletter (when a customer calls in to a manager praising one of their employees, the manager will publish the attaboy), as well as an active "health" committee that sponsors employee outtings to gyms, healthy eating, and less objective activities. There is also a subjective sense around the office that the company cares -- when I was hired, I had lunch with our ceo, the director of HR sat down with me and made sure I was comfortable with the people in my area, the job, with my understanding of the benefits and P&P type bits, etc... This is not a small company (in fact, they're owned by one of the top 10 on the Fortune 1000), and yes we're hiring, but unfortunately I'm not going to publish the name of my employer on slashdot.
Having had a few jobs in my carreer (from help-desk lacky to software engineer to network engineer to security dork to network & security dork), I've come to know what I'm looking for in a company. There are good employers out there, but I'll be the first to admit that there aren't many. Job satisfaction is a three pronged fork: the employer, the employee and the job. there are bad employers and there are bad employees and there are bad jobs. No one thinks they're a bad employer or a bad employee. If you're honest with yourself, I think you'll see there are imperfections in your work ethic and in your professional veneer that make you less than a perfect employee or employer. Job satisfaction is as much about retaining perspective about the people you work with and the compensation you receive as it is about the work that you do. Geek purists may disagree, but they're not going to be reasoned with regardless; nor are hard-line employers.
Good jobs are out there. Keep looking and keep positive.
here here!
/. as a test site? Why implement beta code in primetime? The subtext of this move is that the code is more important that the content, which I suspect is neither a view shared by yourself or your parent company, but it is certainly a clear message sent by promoting the immature slashcode to production.
I raised this complaint to Malda this morning and he wrote back with, "Light mode is on the TODO list. There's a handheld CSS stylesheet
that we figured would suffice for now combiend with the fact that the
HTML w/o a stylesheet degrades reasonably well now." My response was:
I respectfully disagree on both points of your response: the handheld CSS blows (asthetically) and w/o a stylesheet its as appealing to lookat as a road-side accident (not the kind you rubber-neck to look at, the other kind.)
After some digging around on the slashcode site, and have a couple of observations:
1) The announcement about Slash + CSS freely admits that, "we only suggest you use this on a test site. The code is still in being actively developed and changed." One would wonder then, if you view
2) From what I can tell, there is no clear roadmap and/or timeline published for Slashcode, nor is there even a rudimentary forum for reporting and tracking bugs!
I realize that allagorically Slashdot is the horse pulling the buggy of Slashcode, but you can't expect the horse to drag a broken buggy.
I'm not just trying to be loquacious here; I'm genuinely trying to illustrate what are -- in my mind at least -- valid points about Slashdot & Slashcode.
I got blown off... oh well.
use an ssh tunnel -- tunnel out and forward a local port to a remote proxy then the local admins can't snoop your traffic because you're shovelling everything through SSH until it leaves 'campus'.
that much is a guarantee! I mean, if we knew it all right now there wouldn't be any question of what the cause of all this is... thank you for pointing out the obvious.
It sounds to me like you lot are missing the broader point... linux is as much about philosophy as it is about technology, perhaps even more-so. If you can't get your mind around that basic tenant, then don't bother griping about what it is or isn't as a technical accomplishment (or lack thereof.)
The circle block goes in the circle hole, square block in the square hole, etc., ad infinitum... use the right tool for the job.
you raise an interesting point, but I think the thing most people don't realize is that threading (both on-chip and in-code) is probably the best way for us to see PRACTICAL performance gains at this time.
Like all things, technology should be balanced with nature, in moderation. You can not do your child justice in having them know nothing about technology, nor can you do them the disservice of creating house trolls. I've got three kids of my own.
The unfortunate reality is that I need both. I do the majority of my technical work from Linux and the business bits from WinXP. If I could get a mac at work, I'd just use that, but...you know how that goes.
Ciao,
-C
...hells yes! and legos!
anything you can build with.
-C
if someone ran `foremost` on both drives and tried to recover the majority of the content of the drives... that's something I'd do if I were younger and had more time on my hands. where are all you pesky teenagers at?
-C
So, my approach was simple: I've got a Linux box (my primary workstation) and an XP box (my company's e-mail and calendaring box) and joined them with synergy2 (http://synergy2.sf.net). This setup is slicker than hell and allows me the maximum productivity that you would get from a 'traditional' dual-heading setup, 'cept the benefits matrix is now three dimensional -- productivity, resources, and stability.
I've got all the screen realestate I need (I'm running at 2560x1024) and Synergy2 has shared clipboard space, etc. My desktop experience isn't bogged down by how fast my single processor is or how much memory one system has v. the other, I've got two boxes I get to tap for computing. I also have some insulation from system outages -- oh, XP needs to reboot to apply the latest patch, okay, no problem, lets go work on the Linux-side wilst its rebooting.
Of course, with twice the joy, there's twice the sorrow... sometimes synergy2 flakes out (albeit VERY rarely), and sometimes there's lag between the screens (usually only under HEAVY loads), etc., but generally the setup is ideal. I also get a lot of looks for having dual monitors. on my desktop.
But... anyways, Synergy is a cheap way to accomplish for free what this guy spent a few hundred dollars doing -- provided you've got two full workstations (CPU, and monitor) and a KVM to share your mouse and keyboard through.
DO IT!
-C
I think the bigger question we should be asking is: if OS X came to x86, would software vendors like Microsoft port their software? Realistically, Apple's viability as a computing platform has long-been tied to the availability of third-party software (just like Linux's viability.)
If Apple came in to the x86 market-space, I suspect you'd see Microsoft (and others) pull their product lines. The result of such things would surely be the death of Apple (as an alternative computing platform.)
Cheers,
-C
My employer had previously deployed 2,000 modified NetBSD thin clients from IBM that ran off of 200+ Linux boxes that provided the OS, print and storage facilities, but let the thin client do the grinding on the apps... only difference here is that the thin client doesn't grind on the data, just renders screen shots. Fact of the mater is, both approaches are highly manageable ways to provide low-cost computing to the masses...
so, what's to stop a high-speed provider in the UK from setting up a squid proxy with the "forwarded_for off" line in the config? I mean, come on, really this is utterly retarded.
What about cli word processing? I mean, viM w/ :
...really doesn't cut it. Does anyone know of a good rich-text word processor for the command-line?
set showbreak=>>
set textwidth=72
set linebreak
set wrap
when I first went to college, we had a SCO box that everyone telneted in to. we had tin and elm for email and news, and wordperfect 5.x for word processing. I do a tremendous ammount of work from the console and would *REALLY* like to know if there's a way to provide the same functionality for Linux, short of running an emulator?
Anyone know?
-C
linux is stable, windows is not.
...we could keep playing this game, but is it really necessary? why can't we get articles about things that actually matter?
linux can be secure, windows can not.
linux is open, windows is not.
how can something that makes my piss stink *so bad* be good for me?!? IT CAN NOT BE!
coincidentally, I spent the weekend plumbing in my washer and dryer... It wasn't tough -- a bit time consuming, but not technically challenging or overly difficult.
I would encourage everyone to do their own home-repairs, but that's just me.
-C
once put stereo input output mini-jacks into a phone-set for plugging in to my PC so I could play sound effects and record crank calls. I was doing that before the Jerky Boys were cool (if they ever were.)
the online version of quickbooks requires IE because it has some goofy ActiveX controls. I thought about using this for my startup consulting firm (we're all *nix heads so we all have Linux workstations, but none of us could get QuickBooks On-line to work -- you can't make it to the app without spoofing your HTTP Agent type, and even then you get nothing useable.
Cheers
I want it... hey, I've got an iBook, I guess I'll go get it! :-) ...now the big problem is: finding someone who I can use it with!
-C