I'm not worried if we're being complacent, rather are we being complacent *enough*? (shrugs)
(yawns) Maybe we should schedule a meeting to discuss the pros and cons of checking our storage to see if it's exposed.
(consults calendar) Hmm, looks like the bigwigs are out this week. They won't have anything useful to contribute, but get upset if they're excluded from something important enough to be in the news. Hmm, next week a couple of key people are out for training. Well, the 15th is recuperation from GoT season 8, episode 1, and tax day, so --- okay, how about Tuesday the 16th at 3PM Central so we can include our West coast folks after their lunch but catch the East coast folks before they go home?
Six months from now: "While Facebook wants to comply with this subpoena, that information no longer exists. It was purged long before any subpoena was conceived much less issued."
Now how the Hell are we supposed to rip on someone's shitty code and general incompetence?
Maintainer's Hurtful Comment: "We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack."
Contributor's Complaint: "[Piercing whine] The Maintainer's comment was harassing and hurtful by ridiculing my autism and other learning disabilities when calling me retarded, belittled both me and my contributions as unimportant by revealing my minority status as an uplifted rhesus monkey, and has created an exclusionary and hostile working environment by holding me up to ridicule by publishing private information about my struggle with non-prescription drugs."
Enforcement Kangaroos: "After careful review and deliberation, this Technical Advisory Board has determined that the while the Maintainer in question has maintained the kernel with an exceptional level of quality and transparency for many years. Further, the Technical Advisory Board finds that the Contributor has made no positive contribution of any kind an any point to this Project and an objective analysis has shown that the Contributor has proven to be an ongoing hindrance to this Project.
"Nevertheless, despite the facts uncovered by this review, the Technical Advisory Board has determined that the Maintainer has not followed or enforced the Code of Conduct in good faith, continues to express public distain and disregard for the Contributor. The TAB has decided that while the Maintainer's comments are objectively true and the Maintainer's actions are objectively justifiable, that the Maintainer is, effective immediately, permanently removed from the Project because the appearance of meanness is more important than the actual success of the Project."
This is good news and it's rare for someone to acknowledge abusive behavior, much less do something concrete and productive about it. Linus Torvalds has recognized that (a) his bullying behavior has been counterproductive to collective work, that (b) his abuse has had real consequences for real people, driving some out of Linux development entirely, and (c) he's taking concrete steps to address his problems.
Disabled people, particularly those with cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, and other neuromotor conditions, are absolutely going to be misidentified as drunk and discriminated against by Uber. Uber currently has a crappy track record serving the disabled, refusing service to those with wheelchairs, guide dogs, and so on.
The drunk hail an Uber when they shouldn't be driving. Many disabled hail an Uber because, sober or drunk, they cannot drive at all.
Parallels is keeping me on Windows. Run VMs for IEs, Visual Studio, Access, SQL Server tools on my MBA. Most VMs live on external thunderbolt RAID array, one on the MacBook Air. Most of the time I use OSX and have the coherence VM paused.
Uh, no he's not. The link to the story takes you to The Street, not to this guys blog. His username links to his blog, as it should. I don't see the problem. He's not self-linking here.
Check out WinBatch. For Windows stuff it really rocks; it's easy, fast, powerful, can be compiled (if you get the version with compiler - do it). It's $500 bones, but I've found it well worth it.
Plus, there are a zillion forum postings so odds are if you're trying to figure out how to do something odd, someone else has taken a stab at it.
Hooray, SciFi! If Serenity does well in the theater, perhaps we'll see a lot of renewed interest in the series. I understand there's a three movie deal, but hey - hopefully the gang will be game for reviving the series.
Just re-watched my DVD collection, but for the folks who haven't seen FireFly check it out. The writing and acting are both excellent and it has a feel of authenticity. "Old West" in space.
When I worked at a newspaper, Quark was the only adequate layout package and there's a lot of stuff I really like - print layout is totally awesome. But now InDesign is virtually ubiquitous.
Our marketing guy was lamenting the fact that folks are slow to upgrade; unfortunately, he finally had to downgrade from Adobe CS2 to Adobe CS.
considering that U.S. Army personnel are spending a year at a time in remote places, they're amassing quite a savings
Uh, if you're single without kids, sure - disposable income. But if you're married with kids, odds are you're barely scraping by - whether you're regular, reserve, guard. And when you're deployed there goes BAH and separate rations....
The toys are cool and it seems like everyone and his/her brother/sister has a DVD player or laptop with more movies than you can shake a stick at.
>>It is time for an updated re-release
>>of Lucasart's TIE Fighter, the greatest
>>game of all time.
>>That is all I have to say.
Absolutely; I still have that game - albeit on the shelf - and played the hell out of it. Most fun I've had with a game - ever.
They should absolutely release an updated version with the same single player gameplay of the original. Adding multiplayer would be sweet - in this day and age pretty much a must - but they should not sacrificed single player gameplay.
OT, I'm impressed with the mod. It looks great and was undoubtedly a lot of work - $300 and a ton of time. My carpentry/woodworking/bondo/pvc skillz are pretty lame; had a buddy build me a great desk for about $150 - took him about two half-days.
Would have taken me an eon and probably a trip or two to the ER to make something servicable. To paraphrase Simon (FireFly): I'm like a trained ape, without the training.
This is cool stuff, no doubt. I doubt that we'll be seeing cloned cave bears or clones of Daryl Hannah running amok. The DNA will still be useful for non-cloning applications.
Cool, I wonder how many other mammals we have running around out there waiting to be discovered? Well, maybe not waiting around to be on Leno...
Since the Kha-Nyou only have one pup at a time there's no hope they can displace Louisiana's Nutria rat problem. Interesting that the Kha-Nyou are vegetarian rats; that's certainly an oddity. Rodents tend to eat pretty much everything (Cat5 cables, cardboard, styrofoam, cafeteria food).
Nutria rats are a serious ecological problem around here (rural Louisiana). If you're bored on the weekend you can get $4 a tail.
>>how big is the market for a niche product
>>from a niche computer manufacturer
Billions?
When the iPod went mainstream it ate everyone's lunch, but at first it was a niche product from a niche computer manufacturer. Now white headphones are becoming as ubiquitous as cell phones.
I'll reserve judgement until I see an iTablet, but the general idea isn't making me all gooey inside either. Who's to say whether it'll make the light of day.
I'd be very surprised if Apple launched an iTablet. Totally shocked if they dusted off the Newton idea.
I like fun and cool too, but your users drive the project whether you're an open source or closed source developer. If your project is strictly personal entertainment, that's another matter, but if you have a user base they need to be the focus.
Every developer is familiar with being pulled into many different directions simultaneously and every user/company sees priorities differently. Then you've got your own interests to contend with. Balancing between these can be tricky, but necessary.
I use the familiar triage approach to organize bugs, feature requests, and my own interests. If there are common feature requests, those are (of course) weighted higher. However, I always make sure that I get something fun in there to keep me fresh.
I mean, honestly. I don't know a single person who's ever BOUGHT a song online.
You know one now.
Well, I guess you don't really know me. But I just popped $65 the other day at iTunes to fill gaps in my CD collection and load my iPod Shuffle with workout music and running Jodies.
Sure, I could have bought the CDs or scoured P2P networks for them, but why bother? *Click*, pay, done. Not scour, scour, queue or wait, wait, sign for the package.
I don't care for the DRM - this only serves as an incentive for folks *not* to pay. The other alternative is to wait for the CDs to arrive. But these songs are staying in iTunes and my Shuffle to help keep me motivated while I work out. I'm not likely to listen to Jodies or cheesy pop songs while I surf or code.
The music industry can't have it both ways. Well, I guess they can, but it's certainly not legit. Legit...hmmm...Too Legit To Quit - guess it's time to spend another 99 cents on a cheesy pop song. Man, I'm lame.
Googling someone does not a background check make. If you googled my name you might get the impression that I'm an Irish athlete and mountain climber. Not so.
Forget google.
You need to do a background investigation on your hires - criminal and civil - check job history, references, and do a skills assessment.
I don't care if someone mouthed off on Slashdot, Boing Boing, The Well, or wherever. I care about whether or not I can trust them to do the job and play well with others. Googling someone won't tell you these things.
Dell support determined that the BSOD problem was our our version of Dell Open Manage on a 2850. Dell will release version 4.4 in June. Would have posted earlier, but found myself banned for a while due to moderation.
Again, it was *not automagically* installed (nor was all this trolling or flamebaiting); see another reply that lays out what happened.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not worried if we're being complacent, rather are we being complacent *enough*? (shrugs)
(yawns) Maybe we should schedule a meeting to discuss the pros and cons of checking our storage to see if it's exposed.
(consults calendar) Hmm, looks like the bigwigs are out this week. They won't have anything useful to contribute, but get upset if they're excluded from something important enough to be in the news. Hmm, next week a couple of key people are out for training. Well, the 15th is recuperation from GoT season 8, episode 1, and tax day, so --- okay, how about Tuesday the 16th at 3PM Central so we can include our West coast folks after their lunch but catch the East coast folks before they go home?
The new Wendy's campaign will be called "What is beef?" and show young folks enjoying the juicy faux meat burgers.
Six months from now: "While Facebook wants to comply with this subpoena, that information no longer exists. It was purged long before any subpoena was conceived much less issued."
5400 rpm HDDs? Let's not get crazy now, there are plenty of ways to make that a premium option
*4500rpm HDD, 1TB base model
*5400rpm HDD, 4TB (premium add-on), add $100
*7200rpm HDD, 8TB (super premium), add $500
Then you can add on the SSD options for ultra premium. ;)
Now how the Hell are we supposed to rip on someone's shitty code and general incompetence?
Maintainer's Hurtful Comment: "We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack."
Contributor's Complaint: "[Piercing whine] The Maintainer's comment was harassing and hurtful by ridiculing my autism and other learning disabilities when calling me retarded, belittled both me and my contributions as unimportant by revealing my minority status as an uplifted rhesus monkey, and has created an exclusionary and hostile working environment by holding me up to ridicule by publishing private information about my struggle with non-prescription drugs."
Enforcement Kangaroos: "After careful review and deliberation, this Technical Advisory Board has determined that the while the Maintainer in question has maintained the kernel with an exceptional level of quality and transparency for many years. Further, the Technical Advisory Board finds that the Contributor has made no positive contribution of any kind an any point to this Project and an objective analysis has shown that the Contributor has proven to be an ongoing hindrance to this Project.
"Nevertheless, despite the facts uncovered by this review, the Technical Advisory Board has determined that the Maintainer has not followed or enforced the Code of Conduct in good faith, continues to express public distain and disregard for the Contributor. The TAB has decided that while the Maintainer's comments are objectively true and the Maintainer's actions are objectively justifiable, that the Maintainer is, effective immediately, permanently removed from the Project because the appearance of meanness is more important than the actual success of the Project."
This is good news and it's rare for someone to acknowledge abusive behavior, much less do something concrete and productive about it. Linus Torvalds has recognized that (a) his bullying behavior has been counterproductive to collective work, that (b) his abuse has had real consequences for real people, driving some out of Linux development entirely, and (c) he's taking concrete steps to address his problems.
Disabled people, particularly those with cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, and other neuromotor conditions, are absolutely going to be misidentified as drunk and discriminated against by Uber. Uber currently has a crappy track record serving the disabled, refusing service to those with wheelchairs, guide dogs, and so on. The drunk hail an Uber when they shouldn't be driving. Many disabled hail an Uber because, sober or drunk, they cannot drive at all.
The question to ask, as both a taxpayer and an IT guy is this: What's the "penalty" for failing to make the October deadline?
For federal IT folks the penalty is public execution.
Parallels is keeping me on Windows. Run VMs for IEs, Visual Studio, Access, SQL Server tools on my MBA. Most VMs live on external thunderbolt RAID array, one on the MacBook Air. Most of the time I use OSX and have the coherence VM paused.
Uh, no he's not. The link to the story takes you to The Street, not to this guys blog. His username links to his blog, as it should. I don't see the problem. He's not self-linking here.
Plus, there are a zillion forum postings so odds are if you're trying to figure out how to do something odd, someone else has taken a stab at it.
Or you could just use Perl.
Just re-watched my DVD collection, but for the folks who haven't seen FireFly check it out. The writing and acting are both excellent and it has a feel of authenticity. "Old West" in space.
Our marketing guy was lamenting the fact that folks are slow to upgrade; unfortunately, he finally had to downgrade from Adobe CS2 to Adobe CS.
Uh, if you're single without kids, sure - disposable income. But if you're married with kids, odds are you're barely scraping by - whether you're regular, reserve, guard. And when you're deployed there goes BAH and separate rations....
The toys are cool and it seems like everyone and his/her brother/sister has a DVD player or laptop with more movies than you can shake a stick at.
>>of Lucasart's TIE Fighter, the greatest
>>game of all time.
>>That is all I have to say.
Absolutely; I still have that game - albeit on the shelf - and played the hell out of it. Most fun I've had with a game - ever.
They should absolutely release an updated version with the same single player gameplay of the original. Adding multiplayer would be sweet - in this day and age pretty much a must - but they should not sacrificed single player gameplay.
OT, I'm impressed with the mod. It looks great and was undoubtedly a lot of work - $300 and a ton of time. My carpentry/woodworking/bondo/pvc skillz are pretty lame; had a buddy build me a great desk for about $150 - took him about two half-days.
Would have taken me an eon and probably a trip or two to the ER to make something servicable. To paraphrase Simon (FireFly): I'm like a trained ape, without the training.
This is cool stuff, no doubt. I doubt that we'll be seeing cloned cave bears or clones of Daryl Hannah running amok. The DNA will still be useful for non-cloning applications.
Since the Kha-Nyou only have one pup at a time there's no hope they can displace Louisiana's Nutria rat problem. Interesting that the Kha-Nyou are vegetarian rats; that's certainly an oddity. Rodents tend to eat pretty much everything (Cat5 cables, cardboard, styrofoam, cafeteria food).
Nutria rats are a serious ecological problem around here (rural Louisiana). If you're bored on the weekend you can get $4 a tail.
Now white headphones are becoming as ubiquitous as cell phones.
I didn't say that that iPods are currently as prevalent as cell phones. I'm seeing them sprouting up all over the place, hence my point.
Billions?
When the iPod went mainstream it ate everyone's lunch, but at first it was a niche product from a niche computer manufacturer. Now white headphones are becoming as ubiquitous as cell phones.
I'll reserve judgement until I see an iTablet, but the general idea isn't making me all gooey inside either. Who's to say whether it'll make the light of day.
I'd be very surprised if Apple launched an iTablet. Totally shocked if they dusted off the Newton idea.
Every developer is familiar with being pulled into many different directions simultaneously and every user/company sees priorities differently. Then you've got your own interests to contend with. Balancing between these can be tricky, but necessary.
I use the familiar triage approach to organize bugs, feature requests, and my own interests. If there are common feature requests, those are (of course) weighted higher. However, I always make sure that I get something fun in there to keep me fresh.
Just because Einstein was good at math and physics doesn't mean that he would have been good at politics or some other career field.
So it's not just my PC that lacks resources.
You know one now.
Well, I guess you don't really know me. But I just popped $65 the other day at iTunes to fill gaps in my CD collection and load my iPod Shuffle with workout music and running Jodies.
Sure, I could have bought the CDs or scoured P2P networks for them, but why bother? *Click*, pay, done. Not scour, scour, queue or wait, wait, sign for the package.
I don't care for the DRM - this only serves as an incentive for folks *not* to pay. The other alternative is to wait for the CDs to arrive. But these songs are staying in iTunes and my Shuffle to help keep me motivated while I work out. I'm not likely to listen to Jodies or cheesy pop songs while I surf or code.
The music industry can't have it both ways. Well, I guess they can, but it's certainly not legit. Legit...hmmm...Too Legit To Quit - guess it's time to spend another 99 cents on a cheesy pop song. Man, I'm lame.
Googling someone does not a background check make. If you googled my name you might get the impression that I'm an Irish athlete and mountain climber. Not so.
Forget google.
You need to do a background investigation on your hires - criminal and civil - check job history, references, and do a skills assessment.
I don't care if someone mouthed off on Slashdot, Boing Boing, The Well, or wherever. I care about whether or not I can trust them to do the job and play well with others. Googling someone won't tell you these things.
Again, it was *not automagically* installed (nor was all this trolling or flamebaiting); see another reply that lays out what happened.