This is really late in the thread, but I'll put in my 2 cents worth anyway. I'm part time. I manage the software development team at a local company. My situation is a bit different though. I've been in development for 20+ years and left a few years back to be a stay at home dad. I worked on a couple of contracts while I stayed at home. One of my contracts offered me a full time position, and with the economy the way it is, I seriously considered it. The end result is that I am an employee now, but when my kids aren't in school, I'm not at work. I get in by 9:30 AM, I leave at 3:00 PM. I get 2 weeks off at Christmas and Spring Break, and 2 months off in the summer, as well as all school inservice days and when my kids are sick.
Let me tell you, it's not easy. In my case, I'm juggling two jobs. Even if you're not, keeping on the pulse of on-going projects is extremely difficult. You need to be extremely organized and trust your staff.
What Netbooks need to do is lose the X86 (and clones) and go ARM based. Battery life will increase dramatically, and those of us in the Open Source world will barely notice a difference.
UML as whole can be cumbersome and difficult to manage. A smart manager and developer will pick and choose the components of UML that best fit their development process, and use those.
When using specific sections/sub-sets of UML, it can be an effective tool in the software development process.
Why would it spook the employees? Tell them clearly why it's being done, and start. Documentation and process is part of every good project. Get used to it.
There is such a thing as over documentation. Making sure an employee has common sense is part of the hiring process. That being said, I know a guy that habitually forgot to book the meeting room and became irate when it was already in use.
I really don't see why this is so difficult. No one is indispensable. If company policy states documentation is required, then it's required. Failing to do so is grounds for termination.
Really, it's far too late to be concerned about it. If Google already has your email, and your documents via Google Docs or Writely services, then they have too much already.
I just can't see myself using an online system for my Word Processing or other office needs. Once my private data is off of my system, who knows who is looking at it.
I just shipped a 250 GB HDD to my bro in another city. We created a VPN between us, and I use BackupPC to backup to a local drive and then rsync every over to him. Works like a charm.
Okay. Do they have to actually supply the source code, or can they just say "Hey, BusyBox sourcecode is available everywhere on the Internet. We run an unmodified version x.xx of BusyBox, and we will tell end users where to get a copy.
Point the computers DNS to OpenDNS and setup an account there. Block the porn with that. Don't give the user admin access so they can't change the nameservers.
Works like a charm. My sisters 16 yr old son no longer gets porn... at home.
I worked at a place 10 years or so ago that used a laser link. It was down in 3 months, replaced with fibre in the ground. Sure, the laser system was up and running, but the reliability at the time was atrocious.
I used KnoppMyth with MythTv 0.17. Then I had to do tons of mods in order for it to work with my IR Blaster and Satelite Receiver. Not to mention the ivtv problems I had to solve. Now, I find that if I want to upgrade, KnoppMyth reformats my root filesystem.
Great, I can go through all that hassle again. What the hell are they thinking.
I'm now building a new box with Gentoo, thank-you-very-much.
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A Canadian company MicroPilot has been sending small unmanned aircraft into the skies for years. Attopilot is nothing new.
Visio runs just fine under Codeweavers CrossOver Office. I run Visio 2003 that way, and it just works.
This is really late in the thread, but I'll put in my 2 cents worth anyway. I'm part time. I manage the software development team at a local company. My situation is a bit different though. I've been in development for 20+ years and left a few years back to be a stay at home dad. I worked on a couple of contracts while I stayed at home. One of my contracts offered me a full time position, and with the economy the way it is, I seriously considered it. The end result is that I am an employee now, but when my kids aren't in school, I'm not at work. I get in by 9:30 AM, I leave at 3:00 PM. I get 2 weeks off at Christmas and Spring Break, and 2 months off in the summer, as well as all school inservice days and when my kids are sick.
Let me tell you, it's not easy. In my case, I'm juggling two jobs. Even if you're not, keeping on the pulse of on-going projects is extremely difficult. You need to be extremely organized and trust your staff.
What Netbooks need to do is lose the X86 (and clones) and go ARM based. Battery life will increase dramatically, and those of us in the Open Source world will barely notice a difference.
UML as whole can be cumbersome and difficult to manage. A smart manager and developer will pick and choose the components of UML that best fit their development process, and use those.
When using specific sections/sub-sets of UML, it can be an effective tool in the software development process.
wxWidgets (http://wxwidgets.org) is a platform agnostic toolkit. Use it, it's great.
Why would it spook the employees? Tell them clearly why it's being done, and start. Documentation and process is part of every good project. Get used to it.
There is such a thing as over documentation. Making sure an employee has common sense is part of the hiring process. That being said, I know a guy that habitually forgot to book the meeting room and became irate when it was already in use.
I really don't see why this is so difficult. No one is indispensable. If company policy states documentation is required, then it's required. Failing to do so is grounds for termination.
Really, it's far too late to be concerned about it. If Google already has your email, and your documents via Google Docs or Writely services, then they have too much already.
I just can't see myself using an online system for my Word Processing or other office needs. Once my private data is off of my system, who knows who is looking at it.
I just shipped a 250 GB HDD to my bro in another city. We created a VPN between us, and I use BackupPC to backup to a local drive and then rsync every over to him. Works like a charm.
Okay. Do they have to actually supply the source code, or can they just say "Hey, BusyBox sourcecode is available everywhere on the Internet. We run an unmodified version x.xx of BusyBox, and we will tell end users where to get a copy.
I set this up for my sister.
Point the computers DNS to OpenDNS and setup an account there. Block the porn with that. Don't give the user admin access so they can't change the nameservers.
Works like a charm. My sisters 16 yr old son no longer gets porn... at home.
http://opendns.org/
rsync is really a one way sync. I need two way sync with a potential conflict resolution tool.
Gerald
I run Zimbra, Open Source version, at home. It is simply a wonderful product.
As soon as I find reliable software to sync my Dell Axim x51v Windows Mobile 5 device, I can dump Windows.
Gerald
I looked at Eudora, but didn't go for it for the same reasons I still use Windows on my laptop:
1. I must be able to sync my Pocket PC
2. Outlook syncs REALLY well with my eGroupware Server.
Gerald
I worked at a place 10 years or so ago that used a laser link. It was down in 3 months, replaced with fibre in the ground. Sure, the laser system was up and running, but the reliability at the time was atrocious.
Definately Bard's Tale! Mine was on the Amiga though.
I used KnoppMyth with MythTv 0.17. Then I had to do tons of mods in order for it to work with my IR Blaster and Satelite Receiver. Not to mention the ivtv problems I had to solve. Now, I find that if I want to upgrade, KnoppMyth reformats my root filesystem.
Great, I can go through all that hassle again. What the hell are they thinking.
I'm now building a new box with Gentoo, thank-you-very-much.
Gerald
A Rant without viable alternatives is a waste of space.
It's an open standard, as is the ASF container. The ASF container spec is free, the CODEC spec is $5000 plus for a reference implementation.
Somebodies reading too much Sndra Boynton (not sure of the spelling there).
Don't rewrite. Refactoring code is the way to go. Refactoring in small pieces allows the app to maintain compatibility as the process progresses.