Assuming that it _DOES_ take 98 tons of plant material to produce one gallon of gasoline, they're still wrong. Gas is just one of the things that comes from crude oil. Think they just throw the rest away? Nope. It all gets used: Grease, Fuel-grade oil, Diesel, whatever. There's a market for every grade. How many plants does it make for a gallon of crude? And how much of that becomes gasoline? That's the real number that matters.
Even worse, rather then paying you a half million, they pay _PERHAPS_ 50-100k to their own people to implement the service themselves.... stringing you along until they get theirs online.
Basically, it's a case of fragrent contract violation and open-and-shut. The audacity of it is why they're still liable for punative damages.
"Here, we'll pay you to do this for us. Just kidding. But thanks for designing the system we just stole from you."
Patents? Apparently the editors saw "lawsuite!" and assumed patents. I guess the SCO case is about patents, too. And those dammed violent videogames are infringing on the Diabold Orbital Mind Control Lasers patent, too.
I was just WAITING for some asshole to put in a snide comment in this thread about "I do my job so much better than you. You are incompetent".
Bitterness. The last refuge of a Minesweeper Certified Solitare Expert.
I know it must hurt that you went to one of those "Free Pizza!" Tech Seminars to "Reboot your Career!" and you found out that the real world wasn't QUITE what they promised you. Out here you have to compete with people who know more about computers then where the power button is. Who can hot-patch a box without any user-noticible downtime (a few milliseconds for http if you do it right). Hell, we do it _ROUTINELY_, out of habit. Our servers are no mystery to us, and if something happens we don't have to go scrambling for an activation code to get them back online.
There's more to being an administrator then a piece of paper that a hundred thousand other "Admins" have. And when you've worked long enough in the real world, you'll realize that.
Until then, do everyone a favor and take the man's advice. Don't call yourself something you are not. Playing golf dosn't make you Tiger Woods. Playing Minsweeper dosn't make you a computer guru.
Nothing, dpkg prints a list of services that depend on libc and asks you if you want to restart them now.
In fact, the only things I have to remember are custom projects that I havn't pulled into package management yet. If I add them in the dependancies right, dpkg works them out as well.
I don't mind booting linux, I'm just disgusted that the faster/more powerful machines get, the slower and more obnoxious the BIOS POST is.
DELL: I'm looking at you on this one. On-board RAID that refuses to boot until it does a *SLOW ASS* BIOS resync. All 200 gig of it. That's the last time I buy any of their shit.
And there's talk of making the two networks compatable in the future. Freenet is hindered #1 by java. It just dosn't lend itself to an async message based protocol. Lots of blocking threads and context switches. The alternative is Non-Blocking IO, which was only recently added to java and buggy as hell. Entropy is a good starting point for a native-language implementation of freenet.
Certanly a lot of extremely expensive crypto would do better as native code, maintained by other people. (OpenSSL, anyone?)
However, freenet DOES work. I can browse freesites that havn't been inserted in months, so apparently the data is still around. I think a lot of the slowdown is due to java NIO bugs causing two nodes to continually wait on a write to complete to the other before reading. Eventually the problem will be tracked down and fixed and we'll all go back to the fast freenet we were used to.
... yet on the other hand, you can buy stock printheads and all the information you need to drive them from the major manufacturers. Inkjet generally. I know this because we priced them out
for a custom address printer for bulk mail (Bills, bank notices, things like that. Not "bulk" in the sense that everyone gets the same thing, "Bulk" in that a bank may have to send out 100k statements a month.)
The reason we were called in to design it was they had an existing system where it printed the page, trifolded, and stuffed... but then had to be labeled seperately. All they wanted was to modify the stuffer to print the envelopes as they went in.
In the end, the printing was trivial but the control system was not. The final solution was to buy a standalone envelope printer and print the stack, and load the stack into the stuffer. Syncronizing the two wasn't as bad as trying to do it on-the-fly.
I had no problem getting the clause removed. I said "I've done work outside the company that's unrelated to your buisness concerns. And, while I know nobody here would take advantage of the clause, if we merge/are bought out/whatever how do I know the new management won't?"
If they won't remove those clauses, it's because they fully intend to take advantage of you. A contract that includes everything I do 24/7 will cost about 4 times as much as a contract that only owns me from 9-5 M-F.
Mind you, I've got skills in a diverse set of technical fields and have been doing this before, through and after the.com. A lot of people who can't find work are the ones who jumped into the tech industry to get those 6 figure startup salarys. They're great, as long as you want a cheap college grad for gruntwork. Finding someone who can program in any language you throw at them, network routers, understand cryptosystems, develop on both servers and embedded systems. Well, they arn't as common. They're also the ones still employed.
You've obviously spent a LONG time thinking about this, havn't you? Free clue: People buy video cards. Video cards require drivers. So, if you ever buy a video card made after the game, the game becomes instantly unplayable!
Idiots.
This is EXACTLY what hardware abstraction layers are supposed to fix. That's why we've got OpenGL and DirectX. Post less, think more.
The other thing is making sure you find someone who can reverse engineer your 'rsync' solution. This is one reason companies tend to prefer out of the box apps for system level stuff. They can send someone to training for it.
Yea, that "rsync" is so rare and unusual that it takes a $10k certification to run it. Hint: Anyone on the unix side of the fence knew exactly what he was talking about. It's not real-time replication, though, just differential backups.
... One, it's a cat3. Two, it won't hit the east
coast till Thursday. So, I guess what I'm doing to prepare is taking an extra two days to get everything done right.
That's nationwide. It used to be 5-10 (or more, if you knew people in the NOC) but people whined that they were getting a slower connect then techs. So The Powers That Be decided everyone should get 2m/384k. And that's what we've got.
Honestly, I don't mind. It's more then fast enough for me and my IP only changes every two months. I've got a script that wgets a page on my server every 15 minutes, so if my IP changes while I'm at work I can still ssh in. The only inbound port that's blocked is 80.
And, from the opposite perspective, a manufacturer has every right to expect that their hardware is NOT supported on other platforms without their approval! Why? Because in many cases the hardware (and thus the manufacturer) gets a bad name, because of a poorly implemented driver.
They can fuckoff for all I care. If they don't care enough about their product to support it, then they get a bad name. I ONLY buy hardware which works (well) in linux. Why? Because it's usually not a shoddy piece of shit.
As for "it's unfair!" well shit, I bought it and it works like crap. Perhaps the hardware vendor could get off their fat ass and email the docs to the linux driver maintainer? If they can't do that, well, then they must be hiding how shitty their device is in the first place.
Walk out each day after 8 hours. No compensation for overtime? No overtime. Something breaks while you're on (unpaid) call? Wait till monday morning to fix it. Let them know that you're going to treat the company as it treats you. If the entire department does that there's pretty much nothing they can do about it. They can't fire you for cause in that situation, the amount they'd have to pay in wrongful termination would be staggering.
Would you like to try to convince a judge and jury that these 'lazy' workers were fired because they refused to work unpaid overtime? Didn't think so.
I lost 2 of 3 drives on a RAID array under ReiserFS. One was only partially damaged, so I moved it to another machine, copied the raw disk to another disk, and moved it back into the array. Obviously, the filesystem was completely trashed. (Multiple versions of on-disk data conflicting, etc)
I ran the long reiserfsck "Find all blocks and attach them" and recovered pretty much all my files.
It recovered quite a few deleted files as well. *POKE POKE HANS WHEN DO WE GET UNDELETE TOOLS?*
Aside from oddly named directories, I got lucky on a recovery. Saved me hours of restore time.
The underlying datastructure is incredibly resiliant.
The other fact is doctors are supposed to have a clue, and frankly I wouldn't trust any I've dealt with to tie my shoelaces.
My wife is EXTREMELY allergic to pennicilin, and all derivitives. Whenever she goes to the doctor it's right there on her chart. She also makes it a point to remind them that if they're prescribing antibiotics.
So, she gets strep throat, they prescribe an antibiotic she hadn't heard of, and she gets it filled. Takes it and has a horrible reaction. Heart problems, temprature problems, sweating, etc. Looks up the pills online, "This is a pennicillin derivitave. Do not take if allergic to pennicillin."
Sorry. Fuck revoking the licence. At that point you just take them out back and shoot the fucker before they hurt anyone else.
"I'm a doctor and you're just a lowly patient. What do you know about allergic reactions?"
A few public executions^W^W"incorrect diagnoses" will clean the field up nicely.
So, your $4000 advertising campaign failed, and the free-MP3 download campaign failed, how can you possibly get your name out there?
My reccomendation would be to post it to a highly-trafficed internet site and use sympathetic keywords like 'End of RIAA' and 'independant publisher'. Try to make it look like a real story rather then just an ad, and watch the money come rolling in!
Cynically, this probably IS a paid placement, folks. Welcome to the New Slashdot.
I've seen many projects where some manager said something like "You should use XYZZY to send messages". When asked "Why", the answer was always, "Because it's a standard!"
Well, news flash....sending messages between to programs that'll never hook up to anything else doesn't require an existing bloated standard. Sometimes it's better just to use your own messages.
... until, of course you are asked to have your programs ALSO communicate with a third-party tool for accounting statistics gathering. Of course, it speaks XYZZY, the industry standard in accounting gizmos.
Anyone actually get 56kbps out of their modem in the States? No, because the FCC limits them to 52.3k.
Bzzt.
I work at an ISP and our users connect at 53333 and 54667 frequently. So either you're wrong, or a lot of companies have violated FCC regs. Hint: You're wrong. USRobotics couldn't get X2 running at 56k without going outside the bounds. k56flex/v.90 did NOT have that problem. It was a lovely piece of FUD. "We'd work at 56k if the FCC would let us. (implied = the other standard is false advertising.)"
I havn't seen a 56k connect in quite a while, though.
As has been already pointed out, it's bullshit. There is no law requiring it, it's merely guidelines issued by the EEOC. Secondly, it's a fairly interesting interpretation of what an 'applicant' is. As pointed out in the article, many (if not most) companies don't consider you an applicant just because your resume spit out of their fax (or showed up in their inbox)
Secondly, what's the big deal with emailed resumes anyway? Store 'em in the form they came in on. When you get 650 meg of them, burn to CD and toss it in a filing cabinet. That's a LOT of resumes.
Bouncing back a form letter saying 'not accepting applications' tends to indicate that the person is not an applicant, as well. It's FUD. Cynically, it's advertising for lawyers, who will tell you where you stand. For a fee, of course.
Ummm I am guessing No. Nobody bails on a CTO slot in today's economy unless he is really really frustrated, really really mad, or going to make GOBS more cash at his next position. Line coders -maybe- but not at the Chief Technology Officer level.
Sorry, the job shortage is for us peons. Executive level staff are being headhunted like mad. Since medium-small companies can't get a big name C-type, they're pulling from small-small companies. He's just advancing his career.
Best way to keep them is to have them own the company, especially at the micro-company level. Calling someone a 'CTO' when they're just a sysadmin/programmer is great for their resume, and bad for you keeping them.
obviously. But this doesn't change the fact that packages break every day because of this inconsistancy. Many packages aren't built for flexability, but for it to just work by default. Once you start changing where you install the package to, you run into untested territory. This is why on windows98,Me,2000,XP, you can download a package, install it, and the package doesn't have to know what distribution its going into. It just installs it (either default location, or where you tell it) and looks in the standard location for any libraries it needs, and thats it.
Let me point out that you're completely wrong on this point. In order to work on all the windoze flavors, each application has to build in knowledge of how to run on each one. There are both layout and API differences between them. The hard work of making the install 'painless' has been done by A) The creator of the software and B) the installprogram guys.
Sound familiar? Yup, it should: you get the creator of the software AND the distro packager in linux too! Wow!
To recap, you're comparing roll-your-own on linux to packaged installs on windows and wondering why it's so different.
For that matter, if you have more than one disk in windows, a fairly large percentage of programs REFUSE to install on anything but C:. Bad, especially if it's a small disk.
As someone who has used RootHacked linux and Debian for what, 7-8 years now? I can point out that a newbie should never need to do anymore then use their GUI installer, and an expert will generally use the CLI package installer. (An intermediate will think it's cool to roll his own, but once you've done that enough you realize that constantly recompiling EVERY PACKAGE on your system is a bitch, and drop back to only doing it for one or two things that you really need.)
Even when I do compile my own software (innd, some apache/perl modules) it's painless. Perhaps that's because I run on debian, which has the most sane filesystem layout. (They get rid of a lot of old cruft that comes from people independantly inventing the same concept.)
Hell, they also support having multiple versions of the same software installed. I've got 3 versions of GCC, 2 sets of mozilla + phoenix and of course many generations of libraries.
But yes, let's just throw it all away. Where do you want to go today? To/Users/gobo, of course!
Perhaps you should re-learn it, because obviously you didn't catch it all the first time.
If any user's home directory is inaccessable, you'll end up in / You won't be prevented from logging in. Root doesn't need a home directory.
... except when/home is NFS mounted and the network goes kaput. Then anything trying to access it hangs waiting on the network, and you are fucked. Having/root in this case lets you
get into the system and fix it.
Remember what he said about decades of wisdom? You may want to figure some of that out before spouting shit you learned from a one-computer installation.
If someone wants to make a pretty VFS view from some KnomEnmentMaker GUI filemanager, more power to them. If something breaks, I can always Ctl-Alt-Backspace and get rid of the extra layer of stupidity added on to make things familiar to windows users.
Besides, we want our drive letters, so make a kernel patch to make root "a-z" so you have a:\ b:\ c:\ etc. Don't let you mount anywhere except the a-zfs. Then it'd be JUST LIKE WINDOWS! YAY!
Oh wait, that's not yay at all, that sucks.
I like being able to mount more then 26 drives.
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Assuming that it _DOES_ take 98 tons of plant material to produce one gallon of gasoline, they're still wrong. Gas is just one of the things that comes from crude oil. Think they just throw the rest away? Nope. It all gets used: Grease, Fuel-grade oil, Diesel, whatever. There's a market for every grade. How many plants does it make for a gallon of crude? And how much of that becomes gasoline? That's the real number that matters.
Basically, it's a case of fragrent contract violation and open-and-shut. The audacity of it is why they're still liable for punative damages.
"Here, we'll pay you to do this for us. Just kidding. But thanks for designing the system we just stole from you."
Patents? Apparently the editors saw "lawsuite!" and assumed patents. I guess the SCO case is about patents, too. And those dammed violent videogames are infringing on the Diabold Orbital Mind Control Lasers patent, too.
Bitterness. The last refuge of a Minesweeper Certified Solitare Expert.
I know it must hurt that you went to one of those "Free Pizza!" Tech Seminars to "Reboot your Career!" and you found out that the real world wasn't QUITE what they promised you. Out here you have to compete with people who know more about computers then where the power button is. Who can hot-patch a box without any user-noticible downtime (a few milliseconds for http if you do it right). Hell, we do it _ROUTINELY_, out of habit. Our servers are no mystery to us, and if something happens we don't have to go scrambling for an activation code to get them back online.
There's more to being an administrator then a piece of paper that a hundred thousand other "Admins" have. And when you've worked long enough in the real world, you'll realize that.
Until then, do everyone a favor and take the man's advice. Don't call yourself something you are not. Playing golf dosn't make you Tiger Woods. Playing Minsweeper dosn't make you a computer guru.
Nothing, dpkg prints a list of services that depend on libc and asks you if you want to restart them now.
In fact, the only things I have to remember are custom projects that I havn't pulled into package management yet. If I add them in the dependancies right, dpkg works them out as well.
I don't mind booting linux, I'm just disgusted that the faster/more powerful machines get, the slower and more obnoxious the BIOS POST is.
DELL: I'm looking at you on this one. On-board RAID that refuses to boot until it does a *SLOW ASS* BIOS resync. All 200 gig of it. That's the last time I buy any of their shit.
Perhaps with the link I gave that slashdot ate.
Guess suing researchers still isn't a good move.
And there's talk of making the two networks compatable in the future. Freenet is hindered #1 by java. It just dosn't lend itself to an async message based protocol. Lots of blocking threads and context switches. The alternative is Non-Blocking IO, which was only recently added to java and buggy as hell. Entropy is a good starting point for a native-language implementation of freenet. Certanly a lot of extremely expensive crypto would do better as native code, maintained by other people. (OpenSSL, anyone?) However, freenet DOES work. I can browse freesites that havn't been inserted in months, so apparently the data is still around. I think a lot of the slowdown is due to java NIO bugs causing two nodes to continually wait on a write to complete to the other before reading. Eventually the problem will be tracked down and fixed and we'll all go back to the fast freenet we were used to.
The reason we were called in to design it was they had an existing system where it printed the page, trifolded, and stuffed... but then had to be labeled seperately. All they wanted was to modify the stuffer to print the envelopes as they went in.
In the end, the printing was trivial but the control system was not. The final solution was to buy a standalone envelope printer and print the stack, and load the stack into the stuffer. Syncronizing the two wasn't as bad as trying to do it on-the-fly.
I had no problem getting the clause removed. I said "I've done work outside the company that's unrelated to your buisness concerns. And, while I know nobody here would take advantage of the clause, if we merge/are bought out/whatever how do I know the new management won't?" If they won't remove those clauses, it's because they fully intend to take advantage of you. A contract that includes everything I do 24/7 will cost about 4 times as much as a contract that only owns me from 9-5 M-F. Mind you, I've got skills in a diverse set of technical fields and have been doing this before, through and after the .com. A lot of people who can't find work are the ones who jumped into the tech industry to get those 6 figure startup salarys. They're great, as long as you want a cheap college grad for gruntwork. Finding someone who can program in any language you throw at them, network routers, understand cryptosystems, develop on both servers and embedded systems. Well, they arn't as common. They're also the ones still employed.
Idiots.
This is EXACTLY what hardware abstraction layers are supposed to fix. That's why we've got OpenGL and DirectX. Post less, think more.
... One, it's a cat3. Two, it won't hit the east coast till Thursday. So, I guess what I'm doing to prepare is taking an extra two days to get everything done right.
Um, 2.6.0-test4 blows for X. Any time mozilla is rendering a complex frame the mouse jerks like an epileptic chinchilla.
Honestly, I don't mind. It's more then fast enough for me and my IP only changes every two months. I've got a script that wgets a page on my server every 15 minutes, so if my IP changes while I'm at work I can still ssh in. The only inbound port that's blocked is 80.
As for "it's unfair!" well shit, I bought it and it works like crap. Perhaps the hardware vendor could get off their fat ass and email the docs to the linux driver maintainer? If they can't do that, well, then they must be hiding how shitty their device is in the first place.
Would you like to try to convince a judge and jury that these 'lazy' workers were fired because they refused to work unpaid overtime? Didn't think so.
--Dan
I ran the long reiserfsck "Find all blocks and attach them" and recovered pretty much all my files. It recovered quite a few deleted files as well. *POKE POKE HANS WHEN DO WE GET UNDELETE TOOLS?*
Aside from oddly named directories, I got lucky on a recovery. Saved me hours of restore time. The underlying datastructure is incredibly resiliant.
--Dan
My wife is EXTREMELY allergic to pennicilin, and all derivitives. Whenever she goes to the doctor it's right there on her chart. She also makes it a point to remind them that if they're prescribing antibiotics.
So, she gets strep throat, they prescribe an antibiotic she hadn't heard of, and she gets it filled. Takes it and has a horrible reaction. Heart problems, temprature problems, sweating, etc. Looks up the pills online, "This is a pennicillin derivitave. Do not take if allergic to pennicillin."
Sorry. Fuck revoking the licence. At that point you just take them out back and shoot the fucker before they hurt anyone else.
"I'm a doctor and you're just a lowly patient. What do you know about allergic reactions?"
A few public executions^W^W"incorrect diagnoses" will clean the field up nicely.
--Dan
My reccomendation would be to post it to a highly-trafficed internet site and use sympathetic keywords like 'End of RIAA' and 'independant publisher'. Try to make it look like a real story rather then just an ad, and watch the money come rolling in!
Cynically, this probably IS a paid placement, folks. Welcome to the New Slashdot.
--Dan
--Dan
I work at an ISP and our users connect at 53333 and 54667 frequently. So either you're wrong, or a lot of companies have violated FCC regs. Hint: You're wrong. USRobotics couldn't get X2 running at 56k without going outside the bounds. k56flex/v.90 did NOT have that problem. It was a lovely piece of FUD. "We'd work at 56k if the FCC would let us. (implied = the other standard is false advertising.)"
I havn't seen a 56k connect in quite a while, though.
--Dan
Secondly, what's the big deal with emailed resumes anyway? Store 'em in the form they came in on. When you get 650 meg of them, burn to CD and toss it in a filing cabinet. That's a LOT of resumes.
Bouncing back a form letter saying 'not accepting applications' tends to indicate that the person is not an applicant, as well. It's FUD. Cynically, it's advertising for lawyers, who will tell you where you stand. For a fee, of course.
Best way to keep them is to have them own the company, especially at the micro-company level. Calling someone a 'CTO' when they're just a sysadmin/programmer is great for their resume, and bad for you keeping them.
--Dan
Sound familiar? Yup, it should: you get the creator of the software AND the distro packager in linux too! Wow!
To recap, you're comparing roll-your-own on linux to packaged installs on windows and wondering why it's so different.
For that matter, if you have more than one disk in windows, a fairly large percentage of programs REFUSE to install on anything but C:. Bad, especially if it's a small disk.
As someone who has used RootHacked linux and Debian for what, 7-8 years now? I can point out that a newbie should never need to do anymore then use their GUI installer, and an expert will generally use the CLI package installer. (An intermediate will think it's cool to roll his own, but once you've done that enough you realize that constantly recompiling EVERY PACKAGE on your system is a bitch, and drop back to only doing it for one or two things that you really need.)
Even when I do compile my own software (innd, some apache/perl modules) it's painless. Perhaps that's because I run on debian, which has the most sane filesystem layout. (They get rid of a lot of old cruft that comes from people independantly inventing the same concept.)
Hell, they also support having multiple versions of the same software installed. I've got 3 versions of GCC, 2 sets of mozilla + phoenix and of course many generations of libraries.
But yes, let's just throw it all away. Where do you want to go today? To /Users/gobo, of course!
(Who needs NFS, right?)
--Dan
Remember what he said about decades of wisdom? You may want to figure some of that out before spouting shit you learned from a one-computer installation.
If someone wants to make a pretty VFS view from some KnomEnmentMaker GUI filemanager, more power to them. If something breaks, I can always Ctl-Alt-Backspace and get rid of the extra layer of stupidity added on to make things familiar to windows users.
Besides, we want our drive letters, so make a kernel patch to make root "a-z" so you have a:\ b:\ c:\ etc. Don't let you mount anywhere except the a-zfs. Then it'd be JUST LIKE WINDOWS! YAY! Oh wait, that's not yay at all, that sucks. I like being able to mount more then 26 drives.
--Dan