"Your *boss* tells you to do something? Then you fucking do it! "
Anybody that has worked in any middle sized company or any multinational corporation knows that what you are saying above is completely and utterly incorrect in many cases.
There are many situations in which you are not supposed to obey your boss, and in some very unpleasant ones you are even obliged to follow procedures to report your boss' behaviour to compliance authorities in your own company.
If your boss tells you "lets go and rob that old lady crossing the street" would you also do it? Do you think you would be exonerated in a court of law?
Some people really should think first when they write (and the moderators should also pause some times).
Sys Admin jobs in banks are very boring. But you earn more than most IT people.
Research jobs are very interesting (I was tangentially involved in some in my early years) but you are paid peanuts.
At the end you have to use common sense, be realistic about what you want and be willing to compromise in some aspects in order to achieve what you want (if you want money don't whine about a well paid albeit boring job).
There are people that doubt evolution theory, the landing on the moon and global climate change.
There are people that will be presented all the necessary numbers, statistics, statements, and facts and still will chose to ignore the patently obvious.
So here we have, a company that has some hard facts about Linux penetration and most paople can only cast doubts in the numbers.
The amount of literature about Linux out there should give a clue about the position of the project on the psyche of people using computers. People still waiting for the year of Linux on the desktop just missed it, it was last year and now the task is consolidation.
Really, how many times are you going to use that word and its derivatives?
Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
Your arguments are baseless, the work of others is not for you to take as you please, it is so tremendously simple that I just don't understand why somebody just can't get it.
But there is no reason why other people should submit to your wishes.
If replication of effort is needed it is because you are not willing to share all your code, that being the case I don't see why people that actually want to make sure all code remains open to all is to blame.
Your choice, their choice, you should respect the freedom of others about how their work is used, in accordance to their wishes.
How are you going to gain technical credibility if nobody know it is your company who is doing that great software?
That is why companies are using GPL. At the very least bugs are easier to find and if your product is any good your own users become your best QA team.
Amazon's reluctance to let the gadget out of the US market earlier makes the Kindle just another e-book reader, it has no iconic status that would warrant the "killer" adjective for any competitors, who are competing against it in equal footing pretty much everywhere.
Guys, I don't work for Sun (and I think they are in no position to hire people at the moment:-/ ) but you should really drop by to one of their demonstrations to see what they are doing in the storage arena.
Sun has beautiful (technically speaking) NAS devices that allow people to do detailed configuration and troubleshooting using web based point and click GUIs.
Those devices are based on 2 Solaris technologies: ZFS and dtrace.
You can do snapshots, create and share filesystems, find which machines are being pigs with disk usage and for what reason (data or metadata?) all at the click of a mouse.
The important thing is that it is all done with technologies anybody could use, in other words there is nothing stopping the FreeNAS guys, or anybody else, replicating what Sun is doing to offer a non commercial solution when contracted support is not affordable.
I am sure FreeBSD is a great OS (yeah, really) and I appreciate Debian very much, but if there ever was a case of using the wrong tools for the job this would be a sadly good example.
We are destroying forests pretty much everywhere. This means less CO2 is taken away from the atmosphere all around the world.
We are pumping fossil CO2 into the atmosphere like there is no tomorrow.
Even a lay person should grant that our industrial and social activities in the last 300 years have contributed (I would add massively) to an in crease in CO2 in the atmosphere.
Now, it is a well know fact that CO2 causes green house effect. Go on, find it, you may even find a video in Youtube to probe it. And we even have anecdotal proof of how a planet with lots of CO2 in the atmosphere looks. Google "Venus atmosphere" and have fun. Check the temperatures. Compare with Mars, or Earth for that matter.
This is only scratching the surface ot the most basic analysis. Add to this the mountains of evidence and frankly one can't understand how any reasonably person can continue with the idiotic opposition to the most basic findings about the current state of the climate in our planet.
As long as people like you can't get this very simple fact through the obviously atypical thickness of your skull there is frankly little we can talk about.
Maybe you can, but I will assume you are just a general bum on the street that has never played the instrument.
Now, could you tell me who is a good piano player? Murray Perahia? Eugeny Kissin? Angela Hewitt?
Could you?
Well, let me tell you something, I could.
But I spend 15 years of my life studying 4 hours a day learning music and to play the piano.
This applies to any other human endeavour.
If you would come to say to a piano player of the stature of the ones mentioned that they don't know what they are doing, most likely they will not engage with you at all, if some other accomplished piano player would criticize them, they will take notice, if an unknown person like me would, I would have to make very precise arguments but I am absolutely certain that I would grab their attention as somebody with a clue after a couple of minutes.
I am always surprised how Slashdot harbours so many people that reject expertise in such a facile manner.
Why not all shipping companies meet with representatives of the pirates (which seem to be perhaps the only organized enterprise, either private or social, in the country) and agree to pay tax or to turn the "stock exchange" in a exchange to offer security services (turning the pirates in "official" escort patrols while in Somali waters).
Why countries with interests in the region don;t look for a solution along these lines?
Realpolitik always work best, the pirates are a real political force to be dealt with, this latest development just comes to show that it is time some people should take them more seriously.
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"Your *boss* tells you to do something? Then you fucking do it! "
Anybody that has worked in any middle sized company or any multinational corporation knows that what you are saying above is completely and utterly incorrect in many cases.
There are many situations in which you are not supposed to obey your boss, and in some very unpleasant ones you are even obliged to follow procedures to report your boss' behaviour to compliance authorities in your own company.
If your boss tells you "lets go and rob that old lady crossing the street" would you also do it? Do you think you would be exonerated in a court of law?
Some people really should think first when they write (and the moderators should also pause some times).
Audits, by their own nature, have to be heavy handed some times.
How are people supposed to know if you are following procedures if the procedures are not tested?
How do you know the test subjects were programmers?
... that you haven't got a reference ....
The Republican side in the Spanish Civil war were first democrats, and after that a rag tag union of leftist forces, not all of them Communists.
Sys Admin jobs in banks are very boring. But you earn more than most IT people.
Research jobs are very interesting (I was tangentially involved in some in my early years) but you are paid peanuts.
At the end you have to use common sense, be realistic about what you want and be willing to compromise in some aspects in order to achieve what you want (if you want money don't whine about a well paid albeit boring job).
http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/Laptops/ct.aspx?refid=notebooks&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs#subcats=&navla=&a=65235~0~399477
If that does not work you just have to type Linux in the search box in Dell's UK website.
There are people that doubt evolution theory, the landing on the moon and global climate change.
There are people that will be presented all the necessary numbers, statistics, statements, and facts and still will chose to ignore the patently obvious.
So here we have, a company that has some hard facts about Linux penetration and most paople can only cast doubts in the numbers.
The amount of literature about Linux out there should give a clue about the position of the project on the psyche of people using computers. People still waiting for the year of Linux on the desktop just missed it, it was last year and now the task is consolidation.
Yours.
Some people live in a world of their own thinking it revolves around what they do.
... to a corporate network.
If you are at the moment then your Sys Admins should be doing something else.
Which means the question stands: why do you need the abomination that the duopoly Outlook-Exchange is?
Really, how many times are you going to use that word and its derivatives?
Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
Your arguments are baseless, the work of others is not for you to take as you please, it is so tremendously simple that I just don't understand why somebody just can't get it.
Which is the frigging point.
You don't like it? Fine.
But there is no reason why other people should submit to your wishes.
If replication of effort is needed it is because you are not willing to share all your code, that being the case I don't see why people that actually want to make sure all code remains open to all is to blame.
Your choice, their choice, you should respect the freedom of others about how their work is used, in accordance to their wishes.
Whining about how other people decide to license their own hard work.
You have no shame.
No?
Who is going to troubleshoot your software?
Who is going to fix it?
How are you going to gain technical credibility if nobody know it is your company who is doing that great software?
That is why companies are using GPL. At the very least bugs are easier to find and if your product is any good your own users become your best QA team.
Amazon's reluctance to let the gadget out of the US market earlier makes the Kindle just another e-book reader, it has no iconic status that would warrant the "killer" adjective for any competitors, who are competing against it in equal footing pretty much everywhere.
Guys, I don't work for Sun (and I think they are in no position to hire people at the moment :-/ ) but you should really drop by to one of their demonstrations to see what they are doing in the storage arena.
Sun has beautiful (technically speaking) NAS devices that allow people to do detailed configuration and troubleshooting using web based point and click GUIs.
Those devices are based on 2 Solaris technologies: ZFS and dtrace.
You can do snapshots, create and share filesystems, find which machines are being pigs with disk usage and for what reason (data or metadata?) all at the click of a mouse.
The important thing is that it is all done with technologies anybody could use, in other words there is nothing stopping the FreeNAS guys, or anybody else, replicating what Sun is doing to offer a non commercial solution when contracted support is not affordable.
I am sure FreeBSD is a great OS (yeah, really) and I appreciate Debian very much, but if there ever was a case of using the wrong tools for the job this would be a sadly good example.
Do you have any document about how your set up is?
Do you have any sources of information for somebody that would be trying to start producing music with Linux?
Any tutorials you know about?
But others have already put to rest why your point of view is completely worthless...
We are destroying forests pretty much everywhere. This means less CO2 is taken away from the atmosphere all around the world.
We are pumping fossil CO2 into the atmosphere like there is no tomorrow.
Even a lay person should grant that our industrial and social activities in the last 300 years have contributed (I would add massively) to an in crease in CO2 in the atmosphere.
Now, it is a well know fact that CO2 causes green house effect. Go on, find it, you may even find a video in Youtube to probe it. And we even have anecdotal proof of how a planet with lots of CO2 in the atmosphere looks. Google "Venus atmosphere" and have fun. Check the temperatures. Compare with Mars, or Earth for that matter.
This is only scratching the surface ot the most basic analysis. Add to this the mountains of evidence and frankly one can't understand how any reasonably person can continue with the idiotic opposition to the most basic findings about the current state of the climate in our planet.
I just need to look to the available data.
As long as people like you can't get this very simple fact through the obviously atypical thickness of your skull there is frankly little we can talk about.
So if you don't do it in 5 seconds or less I declare you officially a liar.
I hope you understand my allegory.
Rate of change matters, because we poor humans (and living things in general) can't react to global sudden changes very well.
Assumptions?
How do you assume readings from thermometers?
How do you assume massive chunks of ice that are no longer there?
Denialists are really getting desperate.
Maybe you can, but I will assume you are just a general bum on the street that has never played the instrument.
Now, could you tell me who is a good piano player? Murray Perahia? Eugeny Kissin? Angela Hewitt?
Could you?
Well, let me tell you something, I could.
But I spend 15 years of my life studying 4 hours a day learning music and to play the piano.
This applies to any other human endeavour.
If you would come to say to a piano player of the stature of the ones mentioned that they don't know what they are doing, most likely they will not engage with you at all, if some other accomplished piano player would criticize them, they will take notice, if an unknown person like me would, I would have to make very precise arguments but I am absolutely certain that I would grab their attention as somebody with a clue after a couple of minutes.
I am always surprised how Slashdot harbours so many people that reject expertise in such a facile manner.
"farming industry pollution" brought 5,210,000 hits in Google.
Just a couple of weeks ago all the UK national media reported in how we may need to all go vegetarian if we are really serious about the environment.
So I think it is more you not reading about it, you lazy bum.
Why not all shipping companies meet with representatives of the pirates (which seem to be perhaps the only organized enterprise, either private or social, in the country) and agree to pay tax or to turn the "stock exchange" in a exchange to offer security services (turning the pirates in "official" escort patrols while in Somali waters).
Why countries with interests in the region don;t look for a solution along these lines?
Realpolitik always work best, the pirates are a real political force to be dealt with, this latest development just comes to show that it is time some people should take them more seriously.