The BIA is mostly a human services organization, historically a realm of Democrats. The current administration is Republican. This is the adult version of kids pulling the wings off of flies, or focusing a magnifying glass on an anthill, for the sole pleasure of watching the chaos and the misery.
I'm sure someone will question my use of the term "adult"....
If she wins, she'll become a receiver in the bankruptcy court and be eligible for a piece of SCO's intellectual property and whatever that may bring at auction. Which means she'll own a chunk of every operating system on the planet. Or maybe not.
Don't we get to plunder the IP addresses of Afhganistan and Iraq now? Spoils of war and all that? I mean, if we don't get their IP addresses, what was the use of bombing all those poor defenseless motherfuckers in the first place?
Mark me redundant if you must, but this cannot be said often enough. Or with enough emphasis. Neckties cause terminal stupidity. A sickness that is fatal, both to the wearer and to those around him. A disease of the mind so hideous in its permanently crippling consequences that we often shut our eyes to the human wreckage that ensues. They, neckties, promulgate an irreversible neurological deficit of stupendous proportions, inevitably leading to rapid onset of pointy hair syndrome and eventually the complete loss of all higher brain functions.
A geek's tour just would not be complete without a visit to this place.
United States Courthouse
Room 3035
280 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113-3099
This is the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, formerly known as Silicon Valley. Spend a day here and learn all about the new economy the hard way.
There is absolutely nothing to get worried about here. The only people with the time and the money to actually use this kind of screwball technology is the government. Oh, and the RIAA. And the MPAA. And maybe even the BSA. And let's not forget SCO.
If the disks on my server stop spinning, I know about it within 5 minutes. I have a daemon that touches a file on every physical spindle I have configured and if it doesn't read back the same data off the raw device then all hell breaks loose. SteelEye's Lifekeeper used to do something like this on our big UNIX clusters but it wasn't available for Linux when I wrote my version.
Anyway, there's ways to prevent all disaster scenarios... most of 'em usually discovered just after an unpredictable disaster occurs, of course.
...we use OpenOffice to repair hopelessly munged-up Microsoft Word documents - which happens more often than anybody is willing to admit. I used to fix all the formatting fubars with WordPerfect but the two products have diverged so much in the last two years that we've discontinued using WordPerfect for anything. Anyway, everytime I get a user who asks me why she can't get her headers and columns to do such-and-such I snarf a copy off his/her server, import it into OO, undo the hideousness (sp?) and export it back out. And it generally stays fixed, even after subsequent exposures to MS Word, plus it's a lot smaller.
Thanks to Microsoft, OpenOffice looks pretty damned good.
I might as well plug my el cheapo ISP, everybody else has. I'm on Internet Express (ixpres.com), a San Diego outfit, just down the road sort of. I got in on one of their monthly specials at $9 something a month; it would've been even cheaper prepaid but who has that kind on money in California anymore?
They officially don't support Linux, but they run it on all of their servers and the tech support guy knew I was running Linux and he help me anyway. Support's a bit slow, expect a 24 hour turnaround. Not the response time I'd need to run a business through them but perfectly adequate for my family.
I heard someone on radio say the other day that American IT was the new version of the textile industry of the last century. Suffer for years with long hours, low pay, part of faceless rows of automatons, then - poof! - your job is gone.
I couldn't agree more. I am glad my degree is not in CS, I can find something else now and quit hoping for American leadership to discover wisdom.
Does anyone wonder how personal biases get introduced into business decisions?
The most bigoted person I've ever met in my thirty year career was a Novell MCSE. He makes old VMS zealots look like OSS proponents. This guy is so slobberingly in worship of Novell I swear to $DEITY he's just a breath away from strapping on a vest full of C4 and walking into somebody's Microsoft server room.
Government endorsement isn't a positive in this case. You've chosen as an example a recalcitrant, entrenched, slow-to-learn, aging workforce. That's why those people use Netware, not because it's better than the rest but because it's all they know and if it doesn't put more money into their pension they could give a shit less.
SCO Group Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench sold 7,000 of his 245,000 SCO shares Monday [...] Bench filed to sell shares Monday at $3.06."
Hardly a smoking gun by SEC standards. Matter of fact, that's a whole lot less money than my first wife cost me - and I didn't hold onto her for as long as Robert held onto his stock.
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The BIA is mostly a human services organization, historically a realm of Democrats. The current administration is Republican. This is the adult version of kids pulling the wings off of flies, or focusing a magnifying glass on an anthill, for the sole pleasure of watching the chaos and the misery.
I'm sure someone will question my use of the term "adult"....
[...] the industry says will devastate business and cost as many as two million jobs.
Only two million jobs? Heck, Hewlett Packard did more damage than that in a single weekend and the investors went wild with happiness!
If she wins, she'll become a receiver in the bankruptcy court and be eligible for a piece of SCO's intellectual property and whatever that may bring at auction. Which means she'll own a chunk of every operating system on the planet. Or maybe not.
You're right, she's just wasting money.
This is Slashdot. Why would we care about facts?
It's a bull market and gonna be that way for a long time.
Don't we get to plunder the IP addresses of Afhganistan and Iraq now? Spoils of war and all that? I mean, if we don't get their IP addresses, what was the use of bombing all those poor defenseless motherfuckers in the first place?
Mark me redundant if you must, but this cannot be said often enough. Or with enough emphasis. Neckties cause terminal stupidity. A sickness that is fatal, both to the wearer and to those around him. A disease of the mind so hideous in its permanently crippling consequences that we often shut our eyes to the human wreckage that ensues. They, neckties, promulgate an irreversible neurological deficit of stupendous proportions, inevitably leading to rapid onset of pointy hair syndrome and eventually the complete loss of all higher brain functions.
Do it for the employees. Ban neckties.
That kid I used to tease about his name in secondary school, Zwykowski or something like that, I'll bet he's laughing his ass off now.
A geek's tour just would not be complete without a visit to this place.
United States Courthouse
Room 3035
280 South First Street
San Jose, CA 95113-3099
This is the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, formerly known as Silicon Valley. Spend a day here and learn all about the new economy the hard way.
Okay, I'm not a lawyer. But I don't know of ANY copyright infringment case where end users were held liable.
The RIAA would like to fix that little oversight.
If ever there was a topic that legitimately warranted a goatse-guy link, this was it.
I'm disappointed.
Yeah, and just look what a blowjob could get ya!
[...] and the system worked as intended."
Which system would that be? The system where only the poor do time, and the rich and famous get off scot free? Well then, you're absolutely right.
There is absolutely nothing to get worried about here. The only people with the time and the money to actually use this kind of screwball technology is the government. Oh, and the RIAA. And the MPAA. And maybe even the BSA. And let's not forget SCO.
Alright, I'm worried.
We don't need no steenking Constitution!
2) my fav, the disks stop spinning.
If the disks on my server stop spinning, I know about it within 5 minutes. I have a daemon that touches a file on every physical spindle I have configured and if it doesn't read back the same data off the raw device then all hell breaks loose. SteelEye's Lifekeeper used to do something like this on our big UNIX clusters but it wasn't available for Linux when I wrote my version.
Anyway, there's ways to prevent all disaster scenarios... most of 'em usually discovered just after an unpredictable disaster occurs, of course.
Slack was my very first distro.
I feel old.
...we use OpenOffice to repair hopelessly munged-up Microsoft Word documents - which happens more often than anybody is willing to admit. I used to fix all the formatting fubars with WordPerfect but the two products have diverged so much in the last two years that we've discontinued using WordPerfect for anything. Anyway, everytime I get a user who asks me why she can't get her headers and columns to do such-and-such I snarf a copy off his/her server, import it into OO, undo the hideousness (sp?) and export it back out. And it generally stays fixed, even after subsequent exposures to MS Word, plus it's a lot smaller.
Thanks to Microsoft, OpenOffice looks pretty damned good.
I might as well plug my el cheapo ISP, everybody else has. I'm on Internet Express (ixpres.com), a San Diego outfit, just down the road sort of. I got in on one of their monthly specials at $9 something a month; it would've been even cheaper prepaid but who has that kind on money in California anymore?
They officially don't support Linux, but they run it on all of their servers and the tech support guy knew I was running Linux and he help me anyway. Support's a bit slow, expect a 24 hour turnaround. Not the response time I'd need to run a business through them but perfectly adequate for my family.
I heard someone on radio say the other day that American IT was the new version of the textile industry of the last century. Suffer for years with long hours, low pay, part of faceless rows of automatons, then - poof! - your job is gone.
I couldn't agree more. I am glad my degree is not in CS, I can find something else now and quit hoping for American leadership to discover wisdom.
Does anyone wonder how personal biases get introduced into business decisions?
The most bigoted person I've ever met in my thirty year career was a Novell MCSE. He makes old VMS zealots look like OSS proponents. This guy is so slobberingly in worship of Novell I swear to $DEITY he's just a breath away from strapping on a vest full of C4 and walking into somebody's Microsoft server room.
Are those guys still around?
And modding me redundant says a lot more about Novell's current situation than any comment I could make here.
Government endorsement isn't a positive in this case. You've chosen as an example a recalcitrant, entrenched, slow-to-learn, aging workforce. That's why those people use Netware, not because it's better than the rest but because it's all they know and if it doesn't put more money into their pension they could give a shit less.
I've got a freshly uncorked pint of ice-cold home-made Irish Red sitting on top of my system case. Now that's homebrew cooling.
SCO Group Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench sold 7,000 of his 245,000 SCO shares Monday [...] Bench filed to sell shares Monday at $3.06."
Hardly a smoking gun by SEC standards. Matter of fact, that's a whole lot less money than my first wife cost me - and I didn't hold onto her for as long as Robert held onto his stock.