Thank you very much for your clarification. Context and a bit more info does make a big difference when it comes to claims as it was.
I do agree about her expertise in Law vs Politics and Standards and other add-ons being done at/with Groklaw.
PJ is getting better at subjects outside courtroom related issues. It'll just take time and learning when to make conclusions and when to let it ride, letting the evidence speak for itself.
Everyone thinks they "know computers" today so they don't listen to the person with 20 years experience.
No, they don't listen. If you make enough noise, they just fire you because you are a trouble maker. Then when the plan they fired you over flops over, they contract to have it fixed for 8 times the price of your former salary. But that is ok, it comes out of a different budget.
Then they try to get you back for the same pay rate. And all you have to do is laugh and say "XX% increase for pain and suffering" or just say "No".
About as long as it takes to restore my/home/$username and fix any simple permissions issues and add myself to the 7 or so groups I need to be a part of.
On my old machine do: dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt New machine do: cat installed.txt | dpkg --set-selections && apt-get dselect-upgrade
I walk away from the machine for a bit, come back a few minutes later and sit down and do real work.
The location 38.9518N, 77.1456W It is in the CIA Complex located in Northern Fairfax County Virginia. Right by the Langley Fork Park and Near the GW Park along the Potomac.
they could strip the device drivers directory down to bare essentials, rather than pay whatever royalties the hardware vendors demand
What you fail to realize, is the Hardware Vendors PAY to have the drivers ertified and included with Windows. No, really they pay for every update too.
If an bug/exploit/bufferoverflow/glitch is traced to the drivers they provide, they pay an engineering fee to keep them in the Drivers tree.
Got a bit of info on the new 3ware product coming out in about April/May.
12 IDE ports on the card, basically just another cascade on board. It'll be 32/64-bit and be able to run at ATA133 with >128GB devices. Best part is the current drivers will(should) work with it!!!
At the rate HD prices are coming down and GB per device is going up... shouldn't be long before we see 10TB (with RAID5 + hot swap per 12 drives) for US $18K. That would be $1.80/GB for this kind of storage. And now that iSCSI is "working" with Linux... you could prolly use it as a SAN Storage server... Hmmm.... GB ethernet SAN.... hmmm....
Now, bring on an IBM 3494 Tape Library and 3590K Tape Drives and media... we all set. Of course let's not forget TSM (or what used to be ADSM) and a machine to to backups only.(1 Cabinet and 2 Drives, full of media $120K)
Blackboard is the platform in which we as a College use to coordinate many of our courses. We are currently running Courseinfo 4.1x (the product directly leading to BB5). Now there are many nice things about BlackBoard... They use many...many different technologies all rolled up into a nice little ball.
They have a "Tutuornet" and Virtual Chat room all written in JAVA, Level1 Blackboard still uses MySQL, the run on APACHE, they use PERL, CGI, works on LINUX, SOLARIS, (ick)NT(retch), W2K(p-tuey). I have gotten it to run on FreeBSD and NetBSD, though not officially supported.
Another good thing is, BlackBoard has teamed up with TextBook Publisher and other Publisher to come up with "plug-in" modules for Teachers to use as a "template" for thier course. I think they have somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 - 600 pre-made modules, ready for customization.
Some of the things Blackboard does have now, is a "student portal" or a "MY-Blackboard" setup. Makes it easy to help the student know what they need to know as far as schedules, what your grades are for what class, you next counselor meeting or when OPen registration startes for the next term. Blackboard is used by more than 3000 Learning institutions, there has gotta be a reason for that. It works..well.
Something else... I only maintain the "system", the instructors/professors/faculty maintain the rest.... SO it has GOT to be easy to use else they couldna do it very easily. No I am not talking about the CS Profs here, I am talking about the Business School Old Farts that teach Typing and dictation.... and HATE these darn computers thingies.
I guess what it comes down to, is that you either take a look at it or you don't. Believe me, I was amazed when I actually was told to install it. I had very little work to do then, as I still have very little to do now. The upgrades are fast and easy, I have test Migration to the new ersion several times, but the teacher don't wanna "have more to do" cause BB5 really makes a jump in functionality.
There has been a lot of talk lately in the press about Loki going public. This company centers around a new technology developed on the Internet called Linux. Linux is an operating system developed by Linux Torvalx.
I know there has been a lot of positive press, but just forget about it because Linux is a rehash of the old Share-ware concept, plus it [Linux] is Unix, a non-standard, fragmented operating system that no one uses and nobody wants that.
Selling Linux will do no good anyway because the product is too unstable and causes blindness in laboratory tests with Mac users.
Businesses will not buy Linux because there is no one to sue. Ignore the fact that anybody who has tried to sue Microsoft has typically ended up bankrupt, and wishing they had attempted something less risky such as using the money to purchase lotto tickets. End users don't want Linux because it is too hard to use, so it's generally a bad investment.
Besides, everyone who competes with Microsoft fails. Linux is just like the OS/2 thing and we all know where that ended up. Billy crushed it like a bug! He's going to do the same thing to these companies, just you wait. Never mind that under-cutting a free product is impossible. Billy will find a way to pay people to take Windows, and still make money.
Linux has failed to make serious inroads into the corporate marketplace. Just forget those fortune 500 companies that IDC surveyed. Forget that Linux had over 200% growth in 1998. Those International Data Corp. guys can't be trusted because they aren't independent like Mindcraft.Moreover, the system lacks the applications - graphics, word processing capabilities, databases - to compete with Microsoft's personal computer business.
People won't develop these applications anyway, because they will pay too much for the development tools.
Don't believe the stuff you read over at freshmeat.net. There's a lot of false Linux propaganda on that site that you can't trust. Also forget you saw Wordperfect, Star Office, The Gimp, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and a million other productivity and mission critical applications, free or proprietary.
You're obviously a Religious Open Source Cult member if you buy any of that stock. Never mind that I'm probably selling most of my Microsoft stock as we speak, and putting it in mutual funds because keeping it is getting too risky.
If you have comments or suggestions about this article, please feel free to flame^H^H^H^H^Hemail me at HERE.
There has been a lot of talk lately in the press about Red Hat going public. This company centers around a new technology developed on the Internet called Linux. Linux is an operating system developed by Linux Torvalx.
I know there has been a lot of positive press, but just forget about it because Linux is a rehash of the old Share-ware concept, plus it [Linux] is Unix, a non-standard, fragmented operating system that no one uses and nobody wants that.
Selling Linux will do no good anyway because the product is too unstable and causes blindness in laboratory tests with Mac users.
Businesses will not buy Linux because there is no one to sue. Ignore the fact that anybody who has tried to sue Microsoft has typically ended up bankrupt, and wishing they had attempted something less risky such as using the money to purchase lotto tickets. End users don't want Linux because it is too hard to use, so it's generally a bad investment.
Besides, everyone who competes with Microsoft fails. Linux is just like the OS/2 thing and we all know where that ended up. Billy crushed it like a bug! He's going to do the same thing to these companies, just you wait. Never mind that under-cutting a free product is impossible. Billy will find a way to pay people to take Windows, and still make money.
Linux has failed to make serious inroads into the corporate marketplace. Just forget those fortune 500 companies that IDC surveyed. Forget that Linux had over 200% growth in 1998. Those International Data Corp. guys can't be trusted because they aren't independent like Mindcraft.Moreover, the system lacks the applications - graphics, word processing capabilities, databases - to compete with Microsoft's personal computer business.
People won't develop these applications anyway, because they will pay too much for the development tools.
Don't believe the stuff you read over at freshmeat.net. There's a lot of false Linux propaganda on that site that you can't trust. Also forget you saw Wordperfect, Star Office, The Gimp, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and a million other productivity and mission critical applications, free or proprietary.
You're obviously a Religious Open Source Cult member if you buy any of that stock. Never mind that I'm probably selling most of my Microsoft stock as we speak, and putting it in mutual funds because keeping it is getting too risky.
If you have comments or suggestions about this article, please feel free to flame^H^H^H^H^Hemail me at HERE.
Office does indeed save in XML, but if you were to look at the XML in the document, I believe you would see that it is just a bunch of, ummm, "Proprietary" tags.
In other words, M$ is trying ONCE AGAIN to change the standard by flooding the market with polluted stuff.
Pity, most people won't ever know the difference, as they are shang-hai'd by M$ from the start and never see anything different.
As always,
Recruiters!!! of course this you know this means..
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War!!!
On second thought, I am currently going through the trugdery of finding the right company to work for. Yes, everyone says I should just NOT use a recruiter, but I differ with most of you here.
I have put my resume out on Monster, HeadHunters, America Talent bank and so on. Yes I have gotten about 29M calls from "typical" head-hunters/resume pushers, but I received a call from a REAL recruiter, that takes his job seriously, does an awful lot of ground work for the companies he searches for, basically he screens all of his candidates before sending them to the company.
Now, there is a difference, Gary Markell is his name, and this man has single handedly changed my opinion about recruiters. He is considerate, thorough, sincere, open-minded and most of all HONEST and ETHICAL. I think most of us are of the opinion that most head-hunters are similar to snake-oil salesman...Well, Gary is not one of them.
He has been able to match myself and a company that works the way I do, and present me in such a way that my strengths are amplified, and my weaknesses are reduced/explained as a part of a "results oriented"/Direct person. Believe me, I am very Direct nad very results oriented.
Anyone that doesn't know what I am talking about, I feel for you, as my experience with one of the "TRUE" I.S. recruiters in the country is worth any time or effort to get things done.
Seems that internet time, has caught the site with it's pants down. I left a Voice message with Kristin Wahl that the site needs attention. Should get taken care of soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you very much for your clarification. Context and a bit more info does make a big difference when it comes to claims as it was.
I do agree about her expertise in Law vs Politics and Standards and other add-ons being done at/with Groklaw.
PJ is getting better at subjects outside courtroom related issues. It'll just take time and learning when to make conclusions and when to let it ride, letting the evidence speak for itself.
WHAT? Umm, PJ not level headed or insightful?
What the Aych-Eee-Double-Hockey-Sticks are you talking about... and what alternate reality have you been living in?
No, they don't listen. If you make enough noise, they just fire you because you are a trouble maker. Then when the plan they fired you over flops over, they contract to have it fixed for 8 times the price of your former salary. But that is ok, it comes out of a different budget.
Then they try to get you back for the same pay rate. And all you have to do is laugh and say "XX% increase for pain and suffering" or just say "No".
About as long as it takes to restore my /home/$username and fix any simple permissions issues and add myself to the 7 or so groups I need to be a part of.
On my old machine do: dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
New machine do: cat installed.txt | dpkg --set-selections && apt-get dselect-upgrade
I walk away from the machine for a bit, come back a few minutes later and sit down and do real work.
/me runs away, screeeeaming for his LIFE!
The location 38.9518N, 77.1456W It is in the CIA Complex located in Northern Fairfax County Virginia. Right by the Langley Fork Park and Near the GW Park along the Potomac.
Out in the CIA yard
As if nobody can use Google anymore...
That is the American 110V version. The Japanese use other voltages.
Anyway, the BEST one you can get, uses 660V 3-Phase. It works even faster.
Whoa, every time I try to get there, I get connection refused.
I have even done a *LOUD* NMap scan. I only get port: 22 (filtered)
And that is it. Hmmm.
Boy they MUST have a really well setup system. Either that or you are an Idiot.
The only movie I have EVER fell asleep in.
I don't share these at all. Because big olde RIAA/MPAA might just come a knocking. I only use them for my personal use.
Got a bit of info on the new 3ware product coming out in about April/May.
12 IDE ports on the card, basically just another cascade on board. It'll be 32/64-bit and be able to run at ATA133 with >128GB devices. Best part is the current drivers will(should) work with it!!!
At the rate HD prices are coming down and GB per device is going up... shouldn't be long before we see 10TB (with RAID5 + hot swap per 12 drives) for US $18K. That would be $1.80/GB for this kind of storage. And now that iSCSI is "working" with Linux... you could prolly use it as a SAN Storage server... Hmmm.... GB ethernet SAN.... hmmm....
Now, bring on an IBM 3494 Tape Library and 3590K Tape Drives and media... we all set. Of course let's not forget TSM (or what used to be ADSM) and a machine to to backups only.(1 Cabinet and 2 Drives, full of media $120K)
Blackboard is the platform in which we as a College use to coordinate many of our courses. We are currently running Courseinfo 4.1x (the product directly leading to BB5). Now there are many nice things about BlackBoard... They use many...many different technologies all rolled up into a nice little ball.
They have a "Tutuornet" and Virtual Chat room all written in JAVA, Level1 Blackboard still uses MySQL, the run on APACHE, they use PERL, CGI, works on LINUX, SOLARIS, (ick)NT(retch), W2K(p-tuey). I have gotten it to run on FreeBSD and NetBSD, though not officially supported.
Another good thing is, BlackBoard has teamed up with TextBook Publisher and other Publisher to come up with "plug-in" modules for Teachers to use as a "template" for thier course. I think they have somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 - 600 pre-made modules, ready for customization.
Some of the things Blackboard does have now, is a "student portal" or a "MY-Blackboard" setup. Makes it easy to help the student know what they need to know as far as schedules, what your grades are for what class, you next counselor meeting or when OPen registration startes for the next term. Blackboard is used by more than 3000 Learning institutions, there has gotta be a reason for that. It works..well.
Something else... I only maintain the "system", the instructors/professors/faculty maintain the rest.... SO it has GOT to be easy to use else they couldna do it very easily. No I am not talking about the CS Profs here, I am talking about the Business School Old Farts that teach Typing and dictation.... and HATE these darn computers thingies.
I guess what it comes down to, is that you either take a look at it or you don't. Believe me, I was amazed when I actually was told to install it. I had very little work to do then, as I still have very little to do now. The upgrades are fast and easy, I have test Migration to the new ersion several times, but the teacher don't wanna "have more to do" cause BB5 really makes a jump in functionality.
BTW, they are at:
www.blackboard.com
That is, until it froze up (in Windows 2000; that means there's something wrong)
Ummm yeah, SOMETHING IS BROKE!!... Windows 2000.
BAHHHH, Hah Hah Hah Hah...
Darn it.... The article isn't on Bloomberg anymore... At least I can't see it!!!
I know there has been a lot of positive press, but just forget about it because Linux is a rehash of the old Share-ware concept, plus it [Linux] is Unix, a non-standard, fragmented operating system that no one uses and nobody wants that.
Selling Linux will do no good anyway because the product is too unstable and causes blindness in laboratory tests with Mac users.
Businesses will not buy Linux because there is no one to sue. Ignore the fact that anybody who has tried to sue Microsoft has typically ended up bankrupt, and wishing they had attempted something less risky such as using the money to purchase lotto tickets. End users don't want Linux because it is too hard to use, so it's generally a bad investment.
Besides, everyone who competes with Microsoft fails. Linux is just like the OS/2 thing and we all know where that ended up. Billy crushed it like a bug! He's going to do the same thing to these companies, just you wait. Never mind that under-cutting a free product is impossible. Billy will find a way to pay people to take Windows, and still make money.
Linux has failed to make serious inroads into the corporate marketplace. Just forget those fortune 500 companies that IDC surveyed. Forget that Linux had over 200% growth in 1998. Those International Data Corp. guys can't be trusted because they aren't independent like Mindcraft.Moreover, the system lacks the applications - graphics, word processing capabilities, databases - to compete with Microsoft's personal computer business.
People won't develop these applications anyway, because they will pay too much for the development tools.
Don't believe the stuff you read over at freshmeat.net. There's a lot of false Linux propaganda on that site that you can't trust. Also forget you saw Wordperfect, Star Office, The Gimp, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and a million other productivity and mission critical applications, free or proprietary.
You're obviously a Religious Open Source Cult member if you buy any of that stock. Never mind that I'm probably selling most of my Microsoft stock as we speak, and putting it in mutual funds because keeping it is getting too risky.
If you have comments or suggestions about this article, please feel free to flame^H^H^H^H^Hemail me at HERE.
- greg
If you really knew who I am, you would understand that "IT'S A JOKE" I am using the ANTI-IPO HOW-TO.
Come-on people get a life and realize when someon is pulling your leg.
Take a look at this and SEE.
- greg
I know there has been a lot of positive press, but just forget about it because Linux is a rehash of the old Share-ware concept, plus it [Linux] is Unix, a non-standard, fragmented operating system that no one uses and nobody wants that.
Selling Linux will do no good anyway because the product is too unstable and causes blindness in laboratory tests with Mac users.
Businesses will not buy Linux because there is no one to sue. Ignore the fact that anybody who has tried to sue Microsoft has typically ended up bankrupt, and wishing they had attempted something less risky such as using the money to purchase lotto tickets. End users don't want Linux because it is too hard to use, so it's generally a bad investment.
Besides, everyone who competes with Microsoft fails. Linux is just like the OS/2 thing and we all know where that ended up. Billy crushed it like a bug! He's going to do the same thing to these companies, just you wait. Never mind that under-cutting a free product is impossible. Billy will find a way to pay people to take Windows, and still make money.
Linux has failed to make serious inroads into the corporate marketplace. Just forget those fortune 500 companies that IDC surveyed. Forget that Linux had over 200% growth in 1998. Those International Data Corp. guys can't be trusted because they aren't independent like Mindcraft.Moreover, the system lacks the applications - graphics, word processing capabilities, databases - to compete with Microsoft's personal computer business.
People won't develop these applications anyway, because they will pay too much for the development tools.
Don't believe the stuff you read over at freshmeat.net. There's a lot of false Linux propaganda on that site that you can't trust. Also forget you saw Wordperfect, Star Office, The Gimp, Oracle, Informix, DB2, and a million other productivity and mission critical applications, free or proprietary.
You're obviously a Religious Open Source Cult member if you buy any of that stock. Never mind that I'm probably selling most of my Microsoft stock as we speak, and putting it in mutual funds because keeping it is getting too risky.
If you have comments or suggestions about this article, please feel free to flame^H^H^H^H^Hemail me at HERE.
- greg,
Office does indeed save in XML, but if you were to look at the XML in the document, I believe you would see that it is just a bunch of, ummm, "Proprietary" tags.
In other words, M$ is trying ONCE AGAIN to change the standard by flooding the market with polluted stuff.
Pity, most people won't ever know the difference, as they are shang-hai'd by M$ from the start and never see anything different.
As always,
War!!!
On second thought, I am currently going through the trugdery of finding the right company to work for. Yes, everyone says I should just NOT use a recruiter, but I differ with most of you here.
I have put my resume out on Monster, HeadHunters, America Talent bank and so on. Yes I have gotten about 29M calls from "typical" head-hunters/resume pushers, but I received a call from a REAL recruiter, that takes his job seriously, does an awful lot of ground work for the companies he searches for, basically he screens all of his candidates before sending them to the company.
Now, there is a difference, Gary Markell is his name, and this man has single handedly changed my opinion about recruiters. He is considerate, thorough, sincere, open-minded and most of all HONEST and ETHICAL. I think most of us are of the opinion that most head-hunters are similar to snake-oil salesman...Well, Gary is not one of them.
He has been able to match myself and a company that works the way I do, and present me in such a way that my strengths are amplified, and my weaknesses are reduced/explained as a part of a "results oriented"/Direct person. Believe me, I am very Direct nad very results oriented.
Anyone that doesn't know what I am talking about, I feel for you, as my experience with one of the "TRUE" I.S. recruiters in the country is worth any time or effort to get things done.
FYI, URL = Management Recruiters® of North Oakland County, a place to really make sure you get lined up with a great job, that really fits you.
BTW, I am not advertising here, just my own personal experience I am trying to share here.
As Always!It ain't down, the maximum users at rawhide.redhat.com is 50.
ftp.redhat.com is for private redhat use only now.
Just wait a while, whould be a good thing in a bit. Order the CD from cheapbytes.com in a couple of days.
Seems that internet time, has caught the site with it's pants down. I left a Voice message with Kristin Wahl that the site needs attention. Should get taken care of soon.
As always:
JCoates@tribune.com
Is his e-mail. Please feel free to re-butt him.