But there's nothing preventing 40-something balding fat guys from playing new, innovative stuff.
True, but nine times out of ten it is "the record company needs another album, lets put out some random crap to make them happy" rather than "hey, lets put out a GREAT album like Dark Side of the Moon or Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Band or [insert your personal favorite here]" (As an aside, have there been any really GREAT albums recorded in the last 20 years?)
So, on behalf of all 40-something balding fat guys everywhere, I heartily invite you to stick your music bigotry where the sun doesn't shine.
Ahem... one person's "music bigotry" is another persons "musical taste". Musical taste is just another opinion, and like they say, "opinions are like assholes, everyone has one"...
I doubt you would have said anything had the previous poster said "17-year-old Pepsi-pushing vixen" but the Metallica reference was spot on (after their dog-and-pony show pimping for the recording biz they deserve our scorn). The well-placed Ballmer Monkeyboy link to reinforce the point was genius.
This post made me laugh, but then again this 40-something, fat guy still has all of his hair (although quite a bit grayer these days!):->
If one of the admins on the night shift comes up to me in the morning and says, "Hey dude something's gone wrong, I was editing.ini files in/etc/ and then another admin telnetted in from home
Why are the admins dicking around with files in/etc on a production server?
And pray tell, why is TELNET running on your production server?
and adjusted the same files as me, I saw some sort of warning but I was half asleep so I clicked it away.
It is bad enough that the admins are using telnet to dick around with the ini files but SLEEPY admins at that?
If you don't mind me asking, but where do you work at?
For my personal "Do Not Apply For Work At" list...
I don't remember what.ini files got corrupted, so I was looking through all of them modifying them
Hmmm... how about using the time/date stamp? ls -lrt
but then I realised one of them might be the lilo.conf file just before I changed the MBR with lilo, too late. Oops."
Why are you messing with boot files on a production server?
Hey dude, here is a clue: unlike your servers running Windows, you don't have to reboot your Linux servers every day!
Funny.. When I got my CD-RW driver... and got it up and running in like 30 mins..
I think you have just been trolled by someone using the old "hardware not supported by Linux" meme.
I bought a no-name el-cheapo CD-RW at Fry's and had it up in about an hour. I did not read any HOW-TOs; I just plugged it in, rebooted and installed a few RPMs off of the Mandrake CD-ROMs.
I did have to look up scsi-emulation on Google but once I got over that hump everything worked fine. I probably could have done it in 30 minutes but it was at home and I had earlier enjoyed a few beers:->
Either the poster you responded to is unusually stupid or he/she is just trolled you...
Funny how you acuse (and continue to do it) ppl of being full of sh!t (hint: not a valid argument -- ad nauseum).
I think you meant to say ad hominem, not ad nauseam. When you make simple mistakes like that it makes it hard to believe you really know what you are talking about.
Your rampant misspellings also detract from your message, as they make you sound like a 13-year-old script kiddie rather than a serious programmer. If you don't want to learn how to spell English properly, at least add a spellchecker to the list of software you know how to use...
So: Would there be a way for non-coders to make a contribution to GNU software?
You can always write BETTER documentation. Linux has a lot of documentation but unfortunately much of it is not well written.
Most coders will crank out mass quantities of code, but are not very good at documentation because it requires a different skillset. That's why companies hire technical writers.
Besides, specialization makes sense in this case. Companies WANT their coders to spend time programming and their writers to spend their time documenting the project/process.
Nautilus was still set as the default file manager and openenig it would start up Nautilus on the desktop again. The only way to stop it was to remove it from the running programs in the Gnome session list and restart Gnome. Pain in the rear!
I was playing with Gnome 1.4 on P-100 w/32 M RAM and Nautilus just brought that system to its knees! Nautilus was like a vampire, I could not kill it the way you described (it kept respawning when I did not want it to).
I ended up not running gnome-session; I found it is enough to run sawfish and optionally the gnome panel. Sawfish is great, I don't miss the desktop icons at all and the mouse-driven menus are nice. The gnome panel is O.K. too, but I think I like KDE's Kicker a little better...
As a person of strong aesthetic opinions, I consider Apple's refusal to include an API for modifying the interface to be a good deed, worthy of praise.
What about Apple's insistence on a one-button mouse? If humans had only two fingers and a thumb, then a one-button mouse would be best we could hope for.
I find it funny that your average cartoon character has a thumb and three fingers and could probably operate a two-button mouse while apparently your average Mac user can't!
This is pretty funny when you consider this thread began with a Mac user implying that Gnome/KDE were not innovative and telling us to take a look at the "visual inventiveness of Mac OS X", a "GUI that's worthy of the 21st Century"!
btw i've still yet to see *anything* regarding an IT union
Most IT types tend to be conservative. They believe that they have more power as an individual than in a group. Either that or they are too cheap to pay the union dues:->
The liberals stay in school, get their Ph.Ds and become professors in those socialist hotbeds called universities. Either that or they become journalists and join the liberal media conspiracy!
What was racist about this statement? To imply that there may be some correlation between skin color and tendency to be a fan of rap music?
The racism is that the sole attribute to describe that individual in question was his skin color. He could have said "George and his rap" or "the guy from Chicago and his rap" or "the sys admin and his rap," but he chose to say "the black guy and his rap".
Racism would be saying something like "all those pink guys are morons".
Nope, racism does not have to be negative attitudes. "All Asians are smart" is a racist statement.
Connecting black people and rap music is only acknowledging black culture.
So how do you explain Enimem, a White guy? I don't see his connection with "black culture". As a matter of fact, rap is the perferred music of young Chicano males in the barrios of Houston, Texas.
If the construction crew had been mostly black people who were into rap, they could've talked about the white guy and his classic rock. Same difference.
So because he made a racist statement that lets you make a racist statement in return? Remember the primary attributes are "white guy" and "black people," not "Henry and his classic rock" and "the rest of the crew and their rap."
I had wanted to say "you must be a White male because I have noticed that White males deny racism exists," but I decided against it because that would be racist!
Keep your nose clean. The larger the organization the more important this is especially as you move up the ladder. Some people will use anything they can to screw you over for the next promotion, your job, etc.
I think you also have to watch your employer just as much or maybe more. I have received a check from a former employer for overtime due me when the put me on salary illegally. Another company fired me on bogus charges after I brought up the fact that Hispanic representation in that company's IT dept was 5% in a an area that is > 40% Hispanic.
I think what really got me fired was when I pointed out that IT management was composed of 100% White people. This is in Houston, Texas, a city with over 60% minority population and a diverse citizen population with people from all over the world...
Ends up this guy is a real *NIX zealot... last I heard the guy was working in a small computer store putting Windows ME on computers (talk about tragic irony!)
Ouch! Let's hope the poor guy didn't have a suicidal-type personality!
I am pretty much a *NIX zealot myself but I got lucky -- I run Mandrake 8.2 on my desktop (KDE 3 is sweet!) and administer a Redhat server. I get to pick the software I get use in my projects, so I can use PHP and MySQL to work on some interesting stuff.
But I must confess, I will work on Windows when I have to. I will be the first to admit 2000 has been pretty stable on our desktops, and the users seem pretty happy with it so who am I to argue? (My deepest, darkest secret: I have a Win 98 box mainly for Office 97 and to access PeopleSoft).
My advice is to diversify IT-wise. You may make more money specializing in a particular product or technology, but that puts you more at the whims of market forces out of your control.
Smart companies don't have a dress code but smart employees dress well. Ideal minimum is Gap khakis and golf shirts. Looks are everything.
I agree that good companies don't have a dress code, but I feel that you don't need to adopt a minimum uniform. You only need to dress to the level of who you have to meet.
I work for a community college and I have to meet students and instructors, so khakis and polo shirts would be overdressed. I am partial to black jeans and hawaiian shirts myself...
One company I worked at didn't have a dress code and there was one guy who would always show up wearing sweat pants or a metallica tshirt. He couldn't figure out how come people were always being promoted around him.... It also gives you an edge over anyone else, including at raise time.
I wouldn't want to work for a company who arbitarily gives out raises and promotions on the basis of discriminating on a person's appearance. One of the instructors I work with is originally from Africa and often wears native dress. What is better: to force him to wear a coat and tie or to respect his cultural background?
Besides, if you are going to discriminate based on WHAT someone looks like, it is just slide down the old slippery slope to discriminating based on WHO someone is. Your company/superiors can claim a negative personnel action is based on how someone dresses, but how can you prove it is not really based on bias against that particular person due to their sex, race, ethnicity, or age?
YOU are responsible for your own security. It's your life; and when it comes to things that happen to you personally it's your problem.
So how am I going to stop a terrorist from flying a jet loaded with fuel into a building I happen to be in by myself? Or how are you? Sounds like you have been seeing too many "Die Hard" movies lately!
Without personal knowledge of an impending criminal act you will not be able to stop it. I doubt you possess the super-hero crime-fighting skills needed to stop something of that magnitude by yourself. I know I do.
While the FBI may not be able to either, but at least they have more manpower and resources available to them than you or I could possibly have individually. I pro-civil liberties but recognize that those rights are not absolute, as they routinely get restricted or suspended during wartime...
That's exactly what I am saying, if you want to learn go for slack. If you just want a pretty *nix workstation (tho not as pretty as someone who really knows what they are doing:), go for something else. Not that using slack precludes you from having a pretty *nix workstation.
How exactly does running a distribution like Mandrake or Red Hat prevent you from learning linux? I don't really see a logical connection between the two. I started with Slack way back when and I'll admit learned a lot about Linux that way, but I have known others that started with Red Hat or Mandrake who have learned al lot about *nix that way.
While I love the CLI, the pretty GUI is nice too. While it is nice to be able to administer a server solely using through a CLI, I find I can get more work done using VNC. That way it is possible to run multiple CLI sessions at the same time while still having the GUI tools available to you...
In fact, usability and polish is the main weakness of Linux. Only honest usability testing with naive so-called-morons will get the OS past this hurdle.
So what does your schedule look like next week?:->
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I doubt you would have said anything had the previous poster said "17-year-old Pepsi-pushing vixen" but the Metallica reference was spot on (after their dog-and-pony show pimping for the recording biz they deserve our scorn). The well-placed Ballmer Monkeyboy link to reinforce the point was genius.
This post made me laugh, but then again this 40-something, fat guy still has all of his hair (although quite a bit grayer these days!)
And pray tell, why is TELNET running on your production server? It is bad enough that the admins are using telnet to dick around with the ini files but SLEEPY admins at that?
If you don't mind me asking, but where do you work at?
For my personal "Do Not Apply For Work At" list... Hmmm... how about using the time/date stamp? ls -lrt Why are you messing with boot files on a production server?
Hey dude, here is a clue: unlike your servers running Windows, you don't have to reboot your Linux servers every day!
I bought a no-name el-cheapo CD-RW at Fry's and had it up in about an hour. I did not read any HOW-TOs; I just plugged it in, rebooted and installed a few RPMs off of the Mandrake CD-ROMs.
I did have to look up scsi-emulation on Google but once I got over that hump everything worked fine. I probably could have done it in 30 minutes but it was at home and I had earlier enjoyed a few beers
Either the poster you responded to is unusually stupid or he/she is just trolled you...
Your rampant misspellings also detract from your message, as they make you sound like a 13-year-old script kiddie rather than a serious programmer. If you don't want to learn how to spell English properly, at least add a spellchecker to the list of software you know how to use...
Most coders will crank out mass quantities of code, but are not very good at documentation because it requires a different skillset. That's why companies hire technical writers.
Besides, specialization makes sense in this case. Companies WANT their coders to spend time programming and their writers to spend their time documenting the project/process.
I ended up not running gnome-session; I found it is enough to run sawfish and optionally the gnome panel. Sawfish is great, I don't miss the desktop icons at all and the mouse-driven menus are nice. The gnome panel is O.K. too, but I think I like KDE's Kicker a little better...
I find it funny that your average cartoon character has a thumb and three fingers and could probably operate a two-button mouse while apparently your average Mac user can't!
So much for "ergonomics" and "human design"...
You would have gotten double word credit for apropos/ apropos
The liberals stay in school, get their Ph.Ds and become professors in those socialist hotbeds called universities. Either that or they become journalists and join the liberal media conspiracy!
I had wanted to say "you must be a White male because I have noticed that White males deny racism exists," but I decided against it because that would be racist!
I think what really got me fired was when I pointed out that IT management was composed of 100% White people. This is in Houston, Texas, a city with over 60% minority population and a diverse citizen population with people from all over the world...Ouch! Let's hope the poor guy didn't have a suicidal-type personality!
I am pretty much a *NIX zealot myself but I got lucky -- I run Mandrake 8.2 on my desktop (KDE 3 is sweet!) and administer a Redhat server. I get to pick the software I get use in my projects, so I can use PHP and MySQL to work on some interesting stuff.
But I must confess, I will work on Windows when I have to. I will be the first to admit 2000 has been pretty stable on our desktops, and the users seem pretty happy with it so who am I to argue? (My deepest, darkest secret: I have a Win 98 box mainly for Office 97 and to access PeopleSoft).
My advice is to diversify IT-wise. You may make more money specializing in a particular product or technology, but that puts you more at the whims of market forces out of your control.I agree that good companies don't have a dress code, but I feel that you don't need to adopt a minimum uniform. You only need to dress to the level of who you have to meet.
I work for a community college and I have to meet students and instructors, so khakis and polo shirts would be overdressed. I am partial to black jeans and hawaiian shirts myself...I wouldn't want to work for a company who arbitarily gives out raises and promotions on the basis of discriminating on a person's appearance. One of the instructors I work with is originally from Africa and often wears native dress. What is better: to force him to wear a coat and tie or to respect his cultural background?
Besides, if you are going to discriminate based on WHAT someone looks like, it is just slide down the old slippery slope to discriminating based on WHO someone is. Your company/superiors can claim a negative personnel action is based on how someone dresses, but how can you prove it is not really based on bias against that particular person due to their sex, race, ethnicity, or age?
Without personal knowledge of an impending criminal act you will not be able to stop it. I doubt you possess the super-hero crime-fighting skills needed to stop something of that magnitude by yourself. I know I do.
While the FBI may not be able to either, but at least they have more manpower and resources available to them than you or I could possibly have individually. I pro-civil liberties but recognize that those rights are not absolute, as they routinely get restricted or suspended during wartime...
While I love the CLI, the pretty GUI is nice too. While it is nice to be able to administer a server solely using through a CLI, I find I can get more work done using VNC. That way it is possible to run multiple CLI sessions at the same time while still having the GUI tools available to you...
Anyway, if you are going to the trouble to format your help pages why not just use HTML instead?