Well we are 3aIT have for the last four years been moving sites from Novell and Microsoft Servers to OPen Source Applications such as Linux, Samba, Exim, HylaFax etc . Weve moveed appx 500 seats so fa. Weve saved these companies an estimated 100k in license fees and support costs over the last 4 years. We are a 6 Man team , growing in numbers each year, and we have experience and case studies on moving people to Linux...
This sounds like a dream job. I've done this in our organization (not on the desktop yet though), and when I dream up alternative employment scenarios, the prospect of doing this at other locations always tops the list.
I've often wondered if there were a market for a service like this here in the US.
The judge, however, was obviously under some kind of pressure to issue the order, or is completely unfamiliar with the first amendment, or simply does not believe in it
Or perhaps he simply did it in exchange for a blowjob from Miss Vermont?
You can use the mouse to manipulate windows either by click/dragging the 1 pixel border, or by holding down Alt and doing so anywhere in the client window.
great, so in order to manipulate a window i either have to use two hands or by somehow clicking on A ONE-PIXEL BORDER.
Look at the Gates foundation sometime. You are a nobody in the world of philanthropy, comparatively, regardless of what pseudo-intellectual way you want to measure it.
Gates NEVER had the slightest philanthropic impulse until the anti-trust trials brought home the shocking revelation that politics and public image are strategically important when you have mind-bogglingly huge piles of cash lying all around you.
It's the obscenely wealthy man's equivalent of walking around pressing flesh and kissing babies without ever having to actually dirty his hands with "the people".
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I happen to be a lawyer (hiss), but here's a little pro bono advice:
Regardless of how inane this scare tactic is, it's still important that recipients of SCO's letter take appropriate action, or you actually could expose yourself to some legal risk. Here are my recommendations:
be sure to save the postmark from the envelope.
it's just a formality, but have your legal team take a look at it and actually note the inconsistencies
the inconsistencies document should be dated and signed by a notary public
wipe your ass with SCO's letter and send it back to SCO. literally.
be sure to photocopy the letter before the above step.
I hope this has been some help.
Oops. Did I say I was a "lawyer"? I meant to say "alcoholic". my bad.
It may be a competitor, but it ain't a better product. It's got a way to go before it challenges either the raw power or the ease of use of the Microsoft suite. For geeks who are happy to play with new toys, it's great, and maybe in the future it will be great for Joe Average as well, but enough with the kidding ourselves, OK? It isn't there yet.
No one's kidding themselves. You leave out a very important market segment between "geek" and "Joe Average" - "Bob Office Worker". OpenOffice provides everything that a significant percentage of office workers need to get their job done.
Now, some of them may whine because they're used to their Joe Average PC at home with Word on it. But management pays the bills and deals with the licensing and the macro viruses and the proprietary file formats, not Bob Office Worker.
I tried StarOffice 5.x for Win32... and, well, if it were the ONLY alternative to M$Office, I'd gladly embrace WinWord and Powerpoint. StarOffice was *that* annoying and inadequate. Its word processor reminds me of nothing so much as a bad miscegenation of Wordstar 5.x and DOSWord6. And it's SLOW!! (Nothing else ran that poorly on that machine, including OfficeXP.) I gather SO 6.0 is somewhat better, but I doubt that the basic design has changed all that much.
And that's where you would be incredibly, horribly wrong. 6.0 is *lightyears* ahead of 5.2. If I didn't know they came from the same lineage I would *never* guess they were related.
Just try the OpenOffice 1.1beta (keeping in mind of course that it's still beta).
... and I'm really at a total loss about how I would go about it.
The only tactic I can think of that I'd be comfortable with is: "disarm them with honesty!"
How do you think the typical interviewer would handle a nearly-forty sysadmin/programmer who points out:
my greatest weakness is my inability to work a regular schedule. i need flex time in order to work efficiently. i put in above and beyond in terms of number of hours, but sometimes i come in four hours late; sometimes i take off a friday and work saturday instead; sometimes i'll come in at 7pm and work until noon the next day. however, when i'm at home and not sleeping, i am almost always abvailable on call should something come up. if you have more rigid scheduling requirements, i'll do my best, but no promises.
in my everyday life, i love things that are quick and easy. just like my wimmins. but when it comes to writing code, i will not rush to get a project out the door. i understand that i will be maintaining that code probably until hell freezes over, and i'm going to do it the right way the first time. if you misbudget development time - that's your problem.
i don't like microsoft. there, i said it. i will not use a microsoft development environment, and i will not use a microsoft os on my development desktop. i will not program in asp, com components, or vb. if you need that stuff done, surely there are less principled employees on the payroll that will take up those tasks.
when it comes to public web applications, i will not write any code that is not standards-compliant. life is too short, and the art of web development is so broad, that i won't waste any time on platform-specific or browser-specific code. if we're talking about an internal application where the user-base is known, i will still strive for standards-compliance, but will consent to using proprietary technologies if there are no other options.
So, what do you think? Am I unemployable?
ah, what the hell. I figure it would keep me out of places that i'd hate to work in anyway.
i got one of the early tivo's cheap off ebay, but the piece of crap modem died on me. the tivo service just didn't offer enough for me to deal with replacing the modem, so it's been just a pvr for me since then.
which is fine, but the goddamn internal clock keeps drifting.
i wonder how many subscriptions they've lost due to dead modems?
Otherwise, the world once ruled by five major labels -- Sony, EMI, BMG, Universal and Warner Music -- is imploding.
I think I would come in my pants with joy if this entire, monstrous cultural shit-mountain would be washed away for ever.
We must ask ourselves what Elvis would do to stop the theft of music via the Internet, now so widespread and so brazen that it makes the Baghdad looters look like trick-or-treaters.
While it's cute to prop up the corpse of a cultural icon to support your position, surely you're aware that What Elvis Would Do is chase down a handful of quaaludes with a fried banana-and-peanutbutter sandwich and go into a 48-hour sugar coma.
Record companies should start flooding the Internet with bogus MP3 files that look like songs, but that explode on contact inside the hard drives of Internet thieves. Anyone who illegally downloads an MP3 file via KaZaA or any of the myriad peer-to-peer (i.e. thief-to-thief) services would at best get a corrupted file, and at worst a ruined hard drive.
Riiiiight, that's what we should do. This is so fucking retarded it doesn't deserve a response, so I'll just let it stand there, grinning in its piss-stained pants, all by itself.
That's why I think the Jukebox Jihad would work. And while the industry is using this big stick, it should also offer a carrot to soothe the angry hordes. It should lower the price of CDs, at least for a few months, and have instant-win contests where you could win $1,000 or more on the spot. Make record-buying fun again.
Unfortunately, you're probably right. The vast idiotic middle would probably line up like fucking sheep at a feeding trough, jump up and down and clap and make gurgling noises as "recoord-buying" becomes "fun" again. You're so right I'm on the verge of throwing up in my own mouth right now.
In truth, I'm not personally given to intense "smash the music industry" sentiment because I have dozens of friends and acquaintances who owe their livelihoods to it.
In other words, you're a piece of corn stuck in the side of shit-mountain. Your credibility is even greater now.
Between the CD price-fixing settlements, the career-crippling recording contracts and the constant onslaught of vacuous, disposable music geared to short-term profits rather than the exposure of deserving performers, it's often hard to feel sorry for a multimillion-dollar business moaning about a few less bucks in its pockets lost to file-sharing and CD-burning.
Duh.
The industry must nevertheless also content itself with conducting business on a more modest scale, painful though the process might be. No one needs to spend in excess of $40 million on a record, as Sony did with Michael Jackson's 2001 flop, Invincible, for instance, when the White Stripes can muster a hit record for $10,000.
Duh.
The major-label side of things is, arguably, more bloated and extravagant than it needs to be
Gee, do you think so? Vast empires built on the backs of a bunch of deluded guitar-plinkers and thinly-veiled teenage cock-teasers and the record-buying morons who gobble it all up? Nah.
Why is radio so appallingly tedious, homogeneous, unadventurous and predictable? Blame advertising. It's naïve to think otherwise, but commercial radio's sole purpose is to sell ads -- it's not about spreading the word about undiscovered artists. And selling things, I'm told, is about repetition. And sticking to "safe" formulas.
This is the single most significant thing you've said in your article. There's a huge body of material under this statement rich for exploration. If our hyper-commercial consumer "culture" is the concentration camp, advertising is the Sonderkommando.
The real problem is fear. The industry actually fears its audience, all those downloading slacker scum who won't buy hugely overpriced CDs. In some cases, this fear has morphed into something else: hate.
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This sounds like a dream job. I've done this in our organization (not on the desktop yet though), and when I dream up alternative employment scenarios, the prospect of doing this at other locations always tops the list.
I've often wondered if there were a market for a service like this here in the US.
Or perhaps he simply did it in exchange for a blowjob from Miss Vermont?
great, so in order to manipulate a window i either have to use two hands or by somehow clicking on A ONE-PIXEL BORDER.
this is productive how?
...you can no longer choose to not update IE when you update Windows with security patches, etc.
Hmmm, I think I'll have to think about that alittle. Thanks alot!
...is rapidly becoming the Don King of the business world.
...rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Gates NEVER had the slightest philanthropic impulse until the anti-trust trials brought home the shocking revelation that politics and public image are strategically important when you have mind-bogglingly huge piles of cash lying all around you.
It's the obscenely wealthy man's equivalent of walking around pressing flesh and kissing babies without ever having to actually dirty his hands with "the people".
This actually gives me another reason to support the war in Iraq - it's pissing off foreign Microsoft customers!
There is that "the rest of the world hates you" thing, but I can deal with that.
I think I can hear the strangled, ecstatic shriek of Larry Ellison cumming in his pants all the way over here on the east coast.
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Regardless of how inane this scare tactic is, it's still important that recipients of SCO's letter take appropriate action, or you actually could expose yourself to some legal risk. Here are my recommendations:
- be sure to save the postmark from the envelope.
- it's just a formality, but have your legal team take a look at it and actually note the inconsistencies
- the inconsistencies document should be dated and signed by a notary public
- wipe your ass with SCO's letter and send it back to SCO. literally.
- be sure to photocopy the letter before the above step.
I hope this has been some help.Oops. Did I say I was a "lawyer"? I meant to say "alcoholic". my bad.
Except, of course, that in those cases there actually is some thievery going on. Unlike this one.
everyone knows linux users hate to spend money, but can't we all just throw in a few bucks to have someone put a bullet in this fuckwad's skull?
No one's kidding themselves. You leave out a very important market segment between "geek" and "Joe Average" - "Bob Office Worker". OpenOffice provides everything that a significant percentage of office workers need to get their job done.
Now, some of them may whine because they're used to their Joe Average PC at home with Word on it. But management pays the bills and deals with the licensing and the macro viruses and the proprietary file formats, not Bob Office Worker.
And that's where you would be incredibly, horribly wrong. 6.0 is *lightyears* ahead of 5.2. If I didn't know they came from the same lineage I would *never* guess they were related.
Just try the OpenOffice 1.1beta (keeping in mind of course that it's still beta).
except for that flamboyantly gay "About" graphic. That's the gayest firebird I've ever seen.
The only tactic I can think of that I'd be comfortable with is: "disarm them with honesty!"
How do you think the typical interviewer would handle a nearly-forty sysadmin/programmer who points out:
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So, what do you think? Am I unemployable?my greatest weakness is my inability to work a regular schedule. i need flex time in order to work efficiently. i put in above and beyond in terms of number of hours, but sometimes i come in four hours late; sometimes i take off a friday and work saturday instead; sometimes i'll come in at 7pm and work until noon the next day. however, when i'm at home and not sleeping, i am almost always abvailable on call should something come up. if you have more rigid scheduling requirements, i'll do my best, but no promises.
in my everyday life, i love things that are quick and easy. just like my wimmins. but when it comes to writing code, i will not rush to get a project out the door. i understand that i will be maintaining that code probably until hell freezes over, and i'm going to do it the right way the first time. if you misbudget development time - that's your problem.
i don't like microsoft. there, i said it. i will not use a microsoft development environment, and i will not use a microsoft os on my development desktop. i will not program in asp, com components, or vb. if you need that stuff done, surely there are less principled employees on the payroll that will take up those tasks.
when it comes to public web applications, i will not write any code that is not standards-compliant. life is too short, and the art of web development is so broad, that i won't waste any time on platform-specific or browser-specific code. if we're talking about an internal application where the user-base is known, i will still strive for standards-compliance, but will consent to using proprietary technologies if there are no other options.
ah, what the hell. I figure it would keep me out of places that i'd hate to work in anyway.
i got one of the early tivo's cheap off ebay, but the piece of crap modem died on me. the tivo service just didn't offer enough for me to deal with replacing the modem, so it's been just a pvr for me since then.
which is fine, but the goddamn internal clock keeps drifting.
i wonder how many subscriptions they've lost due to dead modems?
monopolies are great.
What will it take to rid the planet of these advertising scum?
A: I'd take my 250 billion fuckin dollars, hire a bunch of guys with H1B visas and give them each a fuckin shovel.
NEXT!
...that i never trust any product that has the word "trust" in it?
I think I would come in my pants with joy if this entire, monstrous cultural shit-mountain would be washed away for ever.
We must ask ourselves what Elvis would do to stop the theft of music via the Internet, now so widespread and so brazen that it makes the Baghdad looters look like trick-or-treaters.
While it's cute to prop up the corpse of a cultural icon to support your position, surely you're aware that What Elvis Would Do is chase down a handful of quaaludes with a fried banana-and-peanutbutter sandwich and go into a 48-hour sugar coma.
Record companies should start flooding the Internet with bogus MP3 files that look like songs, but that explode on contact inside the hard drives of Internet thieves. Anyone who illegally downloads an MP3 file via KaZaA or any of the myriad peer-to-peer (i.e. thief-to-thief) services would at best get a corrupted file, and at worst a ruined hard drive.
Riiiiight, that's what we should do. This is so fucking retarded it doesn't deserve a response, so I'll just let it stand there, grinning in its piss-stained pants, all by itself.
That's why I think the Jukebox Jihad would work. And while the industry is using this big stick, it should also offer a carrot to soothe the angry hordes. It should lower the price of CDs, at least for a few months, and have instant-win contests where you could win $1,000 or more on the spot. Make record-buying fun again.
Unfortunately, you're probably right. The vast idiotic middle would probably line up like fucking sheep at a feeding trough, jump up and down and clap and make gurgling noises as "recoord-buying" becomes "fun" again. You're so right I'm on the verge of throwing up in my own mouth right now.
In truth, I'm not personally given to intense "smash the music industry" sentiment because I have dozens of friends and acquaintances who owe their livelihoods to it.
In other words, you're a piece of corn stuck in the side of shit-mountain. Your credibility is even greater now.
Between the CD price-fixing settlements, the career-crippling recording contracts and the constant onslaught of vacuous, disposable music geared to short-term profits rather than the exposure of deserving performers, it's often hard to feel sorry for a multimillion-dollar business moaning about a few less bucks in its pockets lost to file-sharing and CD-burning.
Duh.
The industry must nevertheless also content itself with conducting business on a more modest scale, painful though the process might be. No one needs to spend in excess of $40 million on a record, as Sony did with Michael Jackson's 2001 flop, Invincible, for instance, when the White Stripes can muster a hit record for $10,000.
Duh.
The major-label side of things is, arguably, more bloated and extravagant than it needs to be
Gee, do you think so? Vast empires built on the backs of a bunch of deluded guitar-plinkers and thinly-veiled teenage cock-teasers and the record-buying morons who gobble it all up? Nah.
Why is radio so appallingly tedious, homogeneous, unadventurous and predictable? Blame advertising. It's naïve to think otherwise, but commercial radio's sole purpose is to sell ads -- it's not about spreading the word about undiscovered artists. And selling things, I'm told, is about repetition. And sticking to "safe" formulas.
This is the single most significant thing you've said in your article. There's a huge body of material under this statement rich for exploration. If our hyper-commercial consumer "culture" is the concentration camp, advertising is the Sonderkommando.
The real problem is fear. The industry actually fears its audience, all those downloading slacker scum who won't buy hugely overpriced CDs. In some cases, this fear has morphed into something else: hate.