Would you rather those things not to come with the operating system, so these users have no idea how to do anything?
EXACTLY!! How many of the electronic world's woes are caused by the computer illiterate running things they don't understand (IIS, MS SQL) and don't patch?
Either stick to packages in your distro's native format and created for the version of the distro you're running (errata, install discs, freshrpms.net in that order) or build your own, newer packages, using your distro vendors src.rpms as a template.
See, this is why I never liked package management for other than the base system (like, say, how Slackware does it). Sooner or later I'm going to need some version of some program that's not supported by the package maintainers of my OS, and then I'm off 'rolling my own file' for the package manager of whatever distro I'm using.
Why, oh why should I have to know four or five different package management schemes when make;make test;make install is so much more universal?
Yes, package managed systems are easier to maintain if you're sticking to the tried and true (like, say, a network infrastructure box). But they all suffer from this fundamental problem of out of date packages/poor package availability which eventually moots their entire usefulness.
For those of you who don't know, its telemarketing.
Call centres are a huge employers here in Nova Scotia, yet I know of none that are telemarketers. They get the calls you make to bitch about your credit card/cell statement, or that you don't know how to work this or that. They're more bitching absorption centres than anything.
Yay, now I can ask my stupid question about this:) Does it support most of the features of Liteswitch X? ie. can I tag multiple programs for Quitting, and have them quit all at once when I release? Can I hide apps from it?
In short: Is it like Liteswitch X but without the annoying nag screen?:)
Pay attention to the ads. Not only did the Onion front page story a few weeks ago tip me off that this was going to suck, but the fact that advertisers (Dodge, Oreo, Life Savers etc.) had their ads pumping WAY before the movie release didn't bode well. They made an obvious move to cash in on the hype, not the success of the film. Success won't come for this flick.
It's my prediction that they'll start seeing album sales drop rapidly as people finish "switching" their music collection to the new format. Once you've got all your old vinyl in AAC, you'll probably not want to risk the $10 on a new, untested album.
What about their 'consumer' products? They have beed good with support of my iBook, but I'm worried about getting an iPod. A 90 day warranty doesn't inspire confidence, and the drive in my iBook went after 1.5 years. I'd be worried the same would happen with an iPod (for which you can't buy extended warranty coverage).
As a Canadian who spent last winter in Oulu, I'd like to thank you yet again for the wicked time. It was like being in Canada, but with more parties with naked girls.
Interesting fact about TATU: Once the younger one (don't know their names) became 18, they applied to be in an issue of PLAYBOY together. They were told to buzz off.
Pfft. The real scam is rent deposits. Is anyone in Manchester? Want to lay pipe to the head of a Mr. Mike J. Wood for me? I'll give you £100 of the £500 he owes me. It's a little difficult from here in Canada:)
Same scam, bigger stakes.
So, they have all this extraneous stuff that you wouldn't use in that job, but they are considered "job requirements" and THAT is how they can tell the INS that "We can't find an equally qualified citizen."
Well, at least in my country, that's not legal. Job requirements are called BFORs, bona fide occupational requirements. What the current employee has in this case are called KSAOs: knowledge, skills, abilities and other.
It is not right to hire based on KSAOs that do not directly map to the BFORs in a valid way. It is in fact so wrong that there are laws about this, and if your friends were denied job offers because of this practice, they and their lawyers will have big money in their future.
This is why it's good to take at least one HR course during your university career. Learn the laws. Learn your rights. Apply them when needed.
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Yes, but the funny lies within the fact that these companies didn't see that as the problem. And there's a whole book full of them! It's still amazing that all these companies existed, and never noticed that they were part of the troll. This truly is a piece of history.
Or have prices gone up? Tonight I went to the mall to buy 4-5 CDs. I was looking forward to this for a while, as I've been in England for several months and didn't want to pay crazy euro-prices. When I figured out that 5 CDs was going to cost me the better part of $200CDN, I walked out of the store. I remember when $25CDN was the most any non-import single LP CD would cost. Now it's up to as high as $38, with $28, $29 being common. None of my selection was priced under $20!!! Granted, this was the only store I checked, but with prices like that (and 15% tax on top) I don't think I'll be back to check again soon.
I spent 4 months in Oulu last winter so I can second this. If you can find any excuse to get to Finland, go. And if you can find your way into a party (which was usually very, very easy, as Finns seem to be the most friendly people after a few beers, kind of an anti-stereotype), go.
But be prepared to pay for that booze though, it's quite expensive if it's not brought in from Estonia or distilled at home (like we would do).
Oh, and most bars are open until 4a.m. unlike horrid England, where I just returned from.
To order: Salmiakki koskenkorva (bad vodka made good with the addition of Salmiakki, think licorice and, um, tar), pear cider (sweet or dry, try both, it's great and I miss it), and Karhu beer (made by the same brewery as Koff, but this one's drinkable).
And MAKE SURE YOU GET IN THE SAUNA! This is where the beer drinking is meant to happen. But watch out if they start singing that damn song and keep throwing more and more water on the rocks to see who the last one in is. Of course, as a foreigner it's always fun to not be the first one steamed out:)
Oulu student sauna parties... God how I need to get back there.
I really don't understand why a large number of the comments here are negative.
Have you ever even used Realplayer? Or have any media encoded with it? I was unable to "complete registration" with the Real One player at work (firewall) and then could never use the software again.
The source licensing of codecs is only a small slice of the Pie Of Hate for Real. Their software and spyware is an annoying, inferior quality pain in the ass, and should be shunned as such.
If you want to support open source get yourself a copy of the Darwin Streaming Server and pick a codec to use that sits well with your licensing morals.
Plus you are more challenged by your peers as they are quite often smarter than you.
oh god, yes. thankfully with the new shitty software (peoplesoft) running the show, they now don't know how to put the rankings on the mark forms. for the first term in forever i don't rank in the bottom 1/4 of the class!!
Didn't go far? Tell the Canadian who's doing time for selling Cuba city water filtration systems about ten years ago... When he was in Canada... Working for a different company. Got sent up this year.
We don't like them extending laws onto our turf either, but we have to keep up the pretense that we're the USA's best buddy. Still.
because of this payoff (that's been going on since the 80s) I can feel comfortable in copying whatever I want, whenever I want. And no MPAA goons are going to come knocking at my door. Seems a small price to pay to get them to shut up (in comparison to this legislation). Yay Canada.
I worked in.fi for the first four months of the year. Nope, mobiles aren't really used in place of PCs, but the 9210 Communicator is suprisingly popular given it's huge pricetag. I suspect these people are replacing a laptop with it.
The airtime is damn cheap, and the coverage excellent. No monthly plan, incoming SMS is free and low per-minute rates. I think I never spent more than CDN$20 in a month. Crazy prices for new phones, but used can be gotten pretty cheap. Of course, I never really properly got over the sticker shock of seeing a 22%VAT in all prices.
Their keyboard is great. At least on the pager-sized device, I liked the feel of the PDA sized device less. Oh, and from what I hear they're the ones with the patent on the thumb qwerty keyboard, not Motorola or the other latecomers.
I'm posting this in class at the best engineering school in Canada and I can tell you one of the best things about the program is the work experience. Through school I get to learn the stuff you won't get in the field like the queuing theory and probability behind networks and all that. Through work I get to drop the academics and get my hands on racks of switches, routers and servers. There are always lots of jobs for sysadmins (at least the 4+ years I've been here) and you get to learn a lot, move between companies and advance (quickly!) in position and pay.
Look to a co-op university, it's the best of both.
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Would you rather those things not to come with the operating system, so these users have no idea how to do anything? EXACTLY!! How many of the electronic world's woes are caused by the computer illiterate running things they don't understand (IIS, MS SQL) and don't patch?
Either stick to packages in your distro's native format and created for the version of the distro you're running (errata, install discs, freshrpms.net in that order) or build your own, newer packages, using your distro vendors src.rpms as a template.
See, this is why I never liked package management for other than the base system (like, say, how Slackware does it). Sooner or later I'm going to need some version of some program that's not supported by the package maintainers of my OS, and then I'm off 'rolling my own file' for the package manager of whatever distro I'm using.
Why, oh why should I have to know four or five different package management schemes when make;make test;make install is so much more universal?
Yes, package managed systems are easier to maintain if you're sticking to the tried and true (like, say, a network infrastructure box). But they all suffer from this fundamental problem of out of date packages/poor package availability which eventually moots their entire usefulness.
For those of you who don't know, its telemarketing.
Call centres are a huge employers here in Nova Scotia, yet I know of none that are telemarketers. They get the calls you make to bitch about your credit card/cell statement, or that you don't know how to work this or that. They're more bitching absorption centres than anything.
Yay, now I can ask my stupid question about this :) Does it support most of the features of Liteswitch X? ie. can I tag multiple programs for Quitting, and have them quit all at once when I release? Can I hide apps from it?
:)
In short: Is it like Liteswitch X but without the annoying nag screen?
Pay attention to the ads. Not only did the Onion front page story a few weeks ago tip me off that this was going to suck, but the fact that advertisers (Dodge, Oreo, Life Savers etc.) had their ads pumping WAY before the movie release didn't bode well. They made an obvious move to cash in on the hype, not the success of the film. Success won't come for this flick.
It's my prediction that they'll start seeing album sales drop rapidly as people finish "switching" their music collection to the new format. Once you've got all your old vinyl in AAC, you'll probably not want to risk the $10 on a new, untested album.
What about their 'consumer' products? They have beed good with support of my iBook, but I'm worried about getting an iPod. A 90 day warranty doesn't inspire confidence, and the drive in my iBook went after 1.5 years. I'd be worried the same would happen with an iPod (for which you can't buy extended warranty coverage).
Hi Bram,
Why don't you just use Overnet/*Donkey? Same thing in idea, but with search capabilities. Why split the P2P community resources yet again?
As a Canadian who spent last winter in Oulu, I'd like to thank you yet again for the wicked time. It was like being in Canada, but with more parties with naked girls.
Interesting fact about TATU: Once the younger one (don't know their names) became 18, they applied to be in an issue of PLAYBOY together. They were told to buzz off.
Dammit, where's my 'outrage' moderation setting?
Pfft. The real scam is rent deposits. Is anyone in Manchester? Want to lay pipe to the head of a Mr. Mike J. Wood for me? I'll give you £100 of the £500 he owes me. It's a little difficult from here in Canada :)
Same scam, bigger stakes.
It's a perfectly cromunlent word.
So, they have all this extraneous stuff that you wouldn't use in that job, but they are considered "job requirements" and THAT is how they can tell the INS that "We can't find an equally qualified citizen."
Well, at least in my country, that's not legal. Job requirements are called BFORs, bona fide occupational requirements. What the current employee has in this case are called KSAOs: knowledge, skills, abilities and other.
It is not right to hire based on KSAOs that do not directly map to the BFORs in a valid way. It is in fact so wrong that there are laws about this, and if your friends were denied job offers because of this practice, they and their lawyers will have big money in their future.
This is why it's good to take at least one HR course during your university career. Learn the laws. Learn your rights. Apply them when needed.
Yes, but the funny lies within the fact that these companies didn't see that as the problem. And there's a whole book full of them! It's still amazing that all these companies existed, and never noticed that they were part of the troll. This truly is a piece of history.
Or have prices gone up? Tonight I went to the mall to buy 4-5 CDs. I was looking forward to this for a while, as I've been in England for several months and didn't want to pay crazy euro-prices. When I figured out that 5 CDs was going to cost me the better part of $200CDN, I walked out of the store. I remember when $25CDN was the most any non-import single LP CD would cost. Now it's up to as high as $38, with $28, $29 being common. None of my selection was priced under $20!!! Granted, this was the only store I checked, but with prices like that (and 15% tax on top) I don't think I'll be back to check again soon.
I spent 4 months in Oulu last winter so I can second this. If you can find any excuse to get to Finland, go. And if you can find your way into a party (which was usually very, very easy, as Finns seem to be the most friendly people after a few beers, kind of an anti-stereotype), go.
:)
But be prepared to pay for that booze though, it's quite expensive if it's not brought in from Estonia or distilled at home (like we would do).
Oh, and most bars are open until 4a.m. unlike horrid England, where I just returned from.
To order: Salmiakki koskenkorva (bad vodka made good with the addition of Salmiakki, think licorice and, um, tar), pear cider (sweet or dry, try both, it's great and I miss it), and Karhu beer (made by the same brewery as Koff, but this one's drinkable).
And MAKE SURE YOU GET IN THE SAUNA! This is where the beer drinking is meant to happen. But watch out if they start singing that damn song and keep throwing more and more water on the rocks to see who the last one in is. Of course, as a foreigner it's always fun to not be the first one steamed out
Oulu student sauna parties... God how I need to get back there.
Have you ever even used Realplayer? Or have any media encoded with it? I was unable to "complete registration" with the Real One player at work (firewall) and then could never use the software again.
The source licensing of codecs is only a small slice of the Pie Of Hate for Real. Their software and spyware is an annoying, inferior quality pain in the ass, and should be shunned as such.
If you want to support open source get yourself a copy of the Darwin Streaming Server and pick a codec to use that sits well with your licensing morals.
you juke, but that's why i clicked on the article :) i thought just maybe it was him...
And why not mention their funnier moments in PR as well.
oh god, yes. thankfully with the new shitty software (peoplesoft) running the show, they now don't know how to put the rankings on the mark forms. for the first term in forever i don't rank in the bottom 1/4 of the class!!
Didn't go far? Tell the Canadian who's doing time for selling Cuba city water filtration systems about ten years ago... When he was in Canada... Working for a different company. Got sent up this year. We don't like them extending laws onto our turf either, but we have to keep up the pretense that we're the USA's best buddy. Still.
because of this payoff (that's been going on since the 80s) I can feel comfortable in copying whatever I want, whenever I want. And no MPAA goons are going to come knocking at my door. Seems a small price to pay to get them to shut up (in comparison to this legislation). Yay Canada.
I worked in .fi for the first four months of the year. Nope, mobiles aren't really used in place of PCs, but the 9210 Communicator is suprisingly popular given it's huge pricetag. I suspect these people are replacing a laptop with it.
The airtime is damn cheap, and the coverage excellent. No monthly plan, incoming SMS is free and low per-minute rates. I think I never spent more than CDN$20 in a month. Crazy prices for new phones, but used can be gotten pretty cheap. Of course, I never really properly got over the sticker shock of seeing a 22%VAT in all prices.
Their keyboard is great. At least on the pager-sized device, I liked the feel of the PDA sized device less. Oh, and from what I hear they're the ones with the patent on the thumb qwerty keyboard, not Motorola or the other latecomers.
I'm posting this in class at the best engineering school in Canada and I can tell you one of the best things about the program is the work experience. Through school I get to learn the stuff you won't get in the field like the queuing theory and probability behind networks and all that. Through work I get to drop the academics and get my hands on racks of switches, routers and servers. There are always lots of jobs for sysadmins (at least the 4+ years I've been here) and you get to learn a lot, move between companies and advance (quickly!) in position and pay.
Look to a co-op university, it's the best of both.