How does that work? In a proprietary project if your boss says "do this" you either do it or find another job. In an open source project you could just flame the hell out of the guy that told you on the public mailing list and carry on working on something else.
Typical basement open source development often works just like your company example. A boss (project leader) tells a developer what to write, if he wont cooperate with the project and the projects goals, he can find another job (project to contribute to).
And then there's the open source software that is developed by paid developers. I think their development model looks pretty much like the model from closed source, but I'm only guessing.
Why must everyone make up bullshit excuses instead of just admitting that they were downloading stuff because they wanted to get it for free?
You're so right! I have hordes of money. I don't mind paying for my movies - and you know what? IT'S DAMNED EASY! Much easier than download movies directly to your living room media center from the comfort of your home.
Here's 10 easy steps for renting a movie the honest way:
1. Put coat, shoes and hat on (Hey, it's Denmark, it's always raining!) 2. Get into the car, hope it starts. 4. Drive to the shitty Blockbuster store. 3. Try to find a half-way legal parking spot. 5. Pray to God that Blockbuster somehow started carrying anything besides Hollywood flicks. 6. Pick a movie in the shop crowded with screaming toddlers. With no IMDB to "confuse you". 7. Discuss with the 15 year old girl behind the counter why you have forgotten your rental pin code. 8. Drive home. 9. Discover that the DVD you just rented is scratched beyond playable. 10. Go to bed. Crying.
I expect other European countries have similar or even shorter work weeks.
Let me chime in here. In Denmark we have a state mandated maximum work week of 37 hours. But it's not uncommon to negotiate shorter work weeks with your employer. I have been working "half-time" for many years now. In the past I have tried working every second week, it resulted in some nice 9-day weekends, but I prefer working 2 or 3 days every week.
My own uncle lived over there, working for a Swiss broadcast company. The English literally kicked him out. "Go home yank," is how he ends his story.
I obviously don't know anything about your uncle. But I will say that many Americans working in Europe bring their "The States are the best place in the world! We saved your ass in WWII, we drive the economy, we pay almost no taxes. You can all suck our American asses."-attitude. That is not very inspiring in a work relationship - or in any relationship.
I have worked with and met Americans with a more humble view of themselves, they were so much more tolerable.
Conferencing works on every serious SIP system, and has done since long before skype was even popular (and definately long before it supported any such features).
You're missing the point. Skype isn't about being serious. Skype is about installing a simple binary with a few clicks, and then BAM, you got all these nice features without having to bother your system administrators. It's quite persuasive.
You have to be joking. Most slashdotters are libertarian in nature (small government supporters). But even libertarians acknowledge that if something is in public view, and can be see by the human eye, there's nothing wrong with remembering what you see (either via camera, or via your human brain).
... and that's why I always bring a zoom lens to the beach!:)
Don't be fooled though - the real star of the show was the OS
Whenever I tell people about how much I miss my old Amigas, they always go: "Oh WHAAAT? It had an OS?"
But I can certainly agree with you. The AmigaOS was fantastic. I'm a very passionate Linux user today, but I really miss AmigaOS.
(I went the same route as you btw, CNet (with all the fantastic "Flux Point/FP" patches from PMK) for many years on PSTN, then ISDN, then telser, then... gone)
No not really. Only 5% of the nation is not ready according to Nielsen Ratings. The other 95% have cable, dish, or DTV boxes. Here in Pennsylvania the number is 99% ready, and that's probably true throughout most of the I-95 corridor. This postponement is ridiculous. We not only have a majority ready to switch, but a super-duper Constitutional majority (greater than three-fourths) ready for the switch.
You're so fucking right! And the exact same goes for the fucking Linux and Mac whiners. They have had there time to buy Microsoft Windows - no fucking need to whine about closed proprietary file formats, DRM or whatever they're crying about this week.
As long as more than three-fourth of the population uses Windows, I say we ignore the fucking rest. You're with me right?
Fusion-IO is about $30/GB, these are about $20/GB and get about the same IOPS/$ so unless you don't have physical space the Intel SSD's win.
I would say that the Intel Extremes win by the fact that they can be hot-swapped. Not for performing nearly as good as IODrives.
If we take their own specs: IODrive 160GB: 102.000iops random read, 101.000iops random write. Intel X25-E: >35,000iops random read, >3,300iops random write.
That is in no way the same performance.
We have both in our servers, I like the Intel's because they are cheap, you can buy them at the local grocery store (well, almost) and they hotswap. But I simply love the IODrives for their performance. There is no practical difference of running a database completely in memory and from IOdrives.
Other expenses have been skimped on occasionally, but just mention the word "backup" and the funding was there.
That is so true! Backup is the system administrators get out of jail card.
PHB: "I need my personal laptop fixed NOW." The techies started to look worried until some brave guy said something like: "Uhm.. Sorry.. We are investigating a possible problem with the nightly backup." PHB: "Oh my God! I'll be on my way then, please carry on - and let me know if you need ANYTHING."
I thank all the gods for the Slashdot link location notifier.
Me too. And for the first time in my life, I thought to myself, that I would be safer visiting a site from work than from my own home. At work I'm somewhat more anonymous. This is getting ridiculous!
I've seen my share of abusive system administrators, it annoyes me every single time.
Would you say this guy was abusive? If so, how?
Yes. He was abusive when he deliberately humiliated a coworker for no apparent reason other than having a laugh with the other smugs.
People don't learn anything useful from pain,
I disagree.
Long ago, when I was a wee student, I accidentally formatted a drive. A boot drive for a workstation. A drive with a lot of people's files on it. What with one thing and another, it took me 28 hours to put things right again from backups. 28 hours in a row.
I definitely learned both from that pain, and from the entirely deserved ribbing I took from all concerned. I certainly learned caution. That was the very last time I lost other people's data through carelessness.
Would you have learned MORE if some senior dickhead made you restore from backup. Naked. In the rain. While he laughed with his friends? The situation you describe sounds to me like you learned from your mistakes, I believe that is different from learning from pain, but maybe I'm just nitpicking:)
System administrators must provide (as everybody in IT) vertical support for the entire organization, not the other way around. Many system administrators don't realize this. Instead they only accept one truth. Their own.
I agree, and I agree that some sysadmins are dicks when it's not necessary or deserved. I'm not in favor of that either.
Thanks for clarifying! For a minute I actually thought you we're encouraging this behavior.
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Typical basement open source development often works just like your company example. A boss (project leader) tells a developer what to write, if he wont cooperate with the project and the projects goals, he can find another job (project to contribute to).
And then there's the open source software that is developed by paid developers. I think their development model looks pretty much like the model from closed source, but I'm only guessing.
Oh yes. That's true. Size hinders competition. Ehm... What?
You're so right! I have hordes of money. I don't mind paying for my movies - and you know what? IT'S DAMNED EASY! Much easier than download movies directly to your living room media center from the comfort of your home.
Here's 10 easy steps for renting a movie the honest way:
1. Put coat, shoes and hat on (Hey, it's Denmark, it's always raining!)
2. Get into the car, hope it starts.
4. Drive to the shitty Blockbuster store.
3. Try to find a half-way legal parking spot.
5. Pray to God that Blockbuster somehow started carrying anything besides Hollywood flicks.
6. Pick a movie in the shop crowded with screaming toddlers. With no IMDB to "confuse you".
7. Discuss with the 15 year old girl behind the counter why you have forgotten your rental pin code.
8. Drive home.
9. Discover that the DVD you just rented is scratched beyond playable.
10. Go to bed. Crying.
I'm always using the hands-free method when taking a piss...
Let me chime in here. In Denmark we have a state mandated maximum work week of 37 hours. But it's not uncommon to negotiate shorter work weeks with your employer. I have been working "half-time" for many years now.
In the past I have tried working every second week, it resulted in some nice 9-day weekends, but I prefer working 2 or 3 days every week.
I obviously don't know anything about your uncle. But I will say that many Americans working in Europe bring their "The States are the best place in the world! We saved your ass in WWII, we drive the economy, we pay almost no taxes. You can all suck our American asses."-attitude. That is not very inspiring in a work relationship - or in any relationship.
I have worked with and met Americans with a more humble view of themselves, they were so much more tolerable.
There's your business model! All the geeks will buy lots of these devices and give them to every female they meet. Clever.
You're missing the point. Skype isn't about being serious. Skype is about installing a simple binary with a few clicks, and then BAM, you got all these nice features without having to bother your system administrators. It's quite persuasive.
(btw, I'm a SIP administrator)
Nielsen is finally getting even for that old prank we pulled on him back in the day ;)
http://bash.org/?244321
Whenever I tell people about how much I miss my old Amigas, they always go: "Oh WHAAAT? It had an OS?"
But I can certainly agree with you. The AmigaOS was fantastic. I'm a very passionate Linux user today, but I really miss AmigaOS.
(I went the same route as you btw, CNet (with all the fantastic "Flux Point/FP" patches from PMK) for many years on PSTN, then ISDN, then telser, then... gone)
And then Nexus 7 came!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e9thla3cko
But... Are they resistant to shouting?
You're so fucking right! And the exact same goes for the fucking Linux and Mac whiners. They have had there time to buy Microsoft Windows - no fucking need to whine about closed proprietary file formats, DRM or whatever they're crying about this week.
As long as more than three-fourth of the population uses Windows, I say we ignore the fucking rest. You're with me right?
VMware.
You're so right! I find it hard enough just keeping the single X server on my personal workstation running :)
RIAA/MPAA ;)
You're brutal, you know that?
I would say that the Intel Extremes win by the fact that they can be hot-swapped. Not for performing nearly as good as IODrives.
If we take their own specs:
IODrive 160GB: 102.000iops random read, 101.000iops random write.
Intel X25-E: >35,000iops random read, >3,300iops random write.
That is in no way the same performance.
We have both in our servers, I like the Intel's because they are cheap, you can buy them at the local grocery store (well, almost) and they hotswap. But I simply love the IODrives for their performance. There is no practical difference of running a database completely in memory and from IOdrives.
But hey! Buy some and judge for yourself :)
Hey that's totally unfair. I was like older than 30 (thirty) when I designed C. Well, I'll just go tease Bjarne some more. See ya.
- Dennis Ritchie
That is so true! Backup is the system administrators get out of jail card.
PHB: "I need my personal laptop fixed NOW."
The techies started to look worried until some brave guy said something like: "Uhm.. Sorry.. We are investigating a possible problem with the nightly backup."
PHB: "Oh my God! I'll be on my way then, please carry on - and let me know if you need ANYTHING."
Good times back in the day :)
Maybe I'm lucky, but we don't do any logging of that sort at my workplace.
Me too. And for the first time in my life, I thought to myself, that I would be safer visiting a site from work than from my own home. At work I'm somewhat more anonymous. This is getting ridiculous!
Okay, you got our attention. Now tell us what this "blackbird" thing was?
Yes. He was abusive when he deliberately humiliated a coworker for no apparent reason other than having a laugh with the other smugs.
Would you have learned MORE if some senior dickhead made you restore from backup. Naked. In the rain. While he laughed with his friends? :)
The situation you describe sounds to me like you learned from your mistakes, I believe that is different from learning from pain, but maybe I'm just nitpicking
Thanks for clarifying! For a minute I actually thought you we're encouraging this behavior.