That's what the "body mod" types do. Have you seen the ones that are trying to make it into a church? The "Church of Body Modification" and everything. There's some girl that's suing Costo for religious discrimination because they told her to take out her piercings while at work.
At what point can an employer draw the line? Personally, I think piercings outside of the ear are pretty nasty and I don't like talking to people with metal sticking out of their faces. Will it soon be illegal to create policies against such behaviour in the workplace?
Asking a question, only to find that the only answers you get are those 50+ people being told to "Go Google for it. Sheesh!".... and then not a single answer.
I run into that on occasion, like with my current mod_perl problems.:|
I've been wondering how Lightning was coming along.
* Can you send calendar invites to other users? * If you can, will the recipient be able to just click it and add it to their calendar?
Those are two really basic things that are useful to have in a corporate/small business calendaring solution. Sadly, they're features that can tie people into Outlook..:(
(Check back, some people actually modded comments as "Troll".. heh.)
The Mozilla Org's "lightning" project is interesting. I had a question published in one of the interviews with the project leads but didn't get a real answer, more of a vague response.
Now that Red Hat has released Netscape Directory Server, are there plans to release Netscape Calendaring Server at all? How about Oracle Calendar? (Cross platform, works well) Isn't Novell doing something?
Fact is, calendaring in the open source world pretty much sucks. This isn't a troll or flamebait. It's a straight up fact. If it was doing well, would we be asking these kinds of questions? No, because we'd have a decent calendaring application.
Right now, the best hope is for the Mozilla Foundation folks to bust some ass on Sunbird and make it into a triumphant cross platform application. Look at the features that keep people tied to Outlook and figure out how to make them a reality in the free/oss world.
You know, I hate to say it, but even the 384kbps stream looks pretty damn good. I'm watching leaves fluttering around in the wind and it's not dropping any frames.
After hearing about all of these features that Longhorn *won't* have.. have we seen a confirmed list of stuff that it *will* have?
Right now, it's beginning to look like nothing more than Windows XP Service Pack 3, just with a new name and bigger price tag to keep the stockholding twatwaffles happy.
iirc, they laid off all of their US staff, outsourced most everything to India, and immediately took a huge delay on the Mac OS X version.
Meanwhile, what were basically 1st year Objective C questions from Quark 'developers' started showing up on mailing lists.
Adobe has been killing them with Indesign. I knew a lot of Mac users that couldn't upgrade to OS X (and sometimes, new hardware) because of Quark's feet dragging and horrible product delays.
I'm surprised that they're still around and nobody has bought them up. Maybe the existing Mac OS 9.x versions are keeping them alive with expensive support calls. (Ever called them?)
Man, I'm in the wrong line of work. Where can I sign up?;)
Last time I went near a school's IT stuff, it was a bunch of Windows 95 boxes sitting on a token ring network. I ran away screaming. But for $100,000, I'd fix it.;)
That would be nice, wouldn't it? I know that I'd pay for TV show episodes.. if I could keep them and watch them on any computer that I own. Right now, I grab stuff off of bittorrent and watch it on the train.
Even "albums" I've found online are of poor quality.. like someone downloaded the individual tracks from various p2p services and then made a torrent out of it. One such album frustrated me, so I ended up just buying the damn thing.. but no such luck with some of the out of print albums.:(
Yah, I know the feeling. here at work, I only see the same ol list of 12 iTunes shares. I've already listened to what they all have to offer. I want more!
And man, I've never seen so much ABBA in my life. Holy cow..
Ok, I read that *Red Hat* was going to release it. Then Red Hat spins off Fedora..
Now this is showing up under the Fedora project pages?
So, are they releasing it as an actual product that can/will be supported by Red Hat's support & support contracts, or are they just saying "Ok, Fedora project, you can have this. Have fun!" and letting it go at that?
Personally, I think that it'd be a little underwhelming to just release it to the world and say "here.." This product is something that could be quite useful to many organizations, but without that level of support available, it'll be seen as "more open source stuff with no support" by the PHBs and bean counters.:(
(yeah, I know, the "if you had competant admins you wouldn't need support" line, but if that was the way management types thought, Windows Server 2003 wouldnt be selling as well as it is..)
Good! I get frustrated when I tell people that I use bittorrent to download Linux ISOs and they say "Yeah, right."
I was starting to wonder if maybe I really was the only person on the planet that really used Bittorrent to download Linux ISOs. Heck, I just grabbed FreeBSD 5.4 the other day. Got a Knoppix CD, Gentoo 2005.0, the Fedora CDs, an Ubuntu CD... all from bittorrent.
Fast, easy to use.. it'd be a shame to see the RIAA/MPAA put a big dent in it.
There was some new tag recently that had to do with Google and blogs.. I wish that I could remember it. "no-follow" or something?
The thing is, I think that the blog community *likes* the attention that it gets from Google, even if it's totally irrelevant information. They don't put up blogs to have nobody read them.;)
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That's what the "body mod" types do. Have you seen the ones that are trying to make it into a church? The "Church of Body Modification" and everything. There's some girl that's suing Costo for religious discrimination because they told her to take out her piercings while at work.
At what point can an employer draw the line? Personally, I think piercings outside of the ear are pretty nasty and I don't like talking to people with metal sticking out of their faces. Will it soon be illegal to create policies against such behaviour in the workplace?
Interesting dilemna, it is..
I found something slightly more annoying..
.... and then not a single answer.
:|
Asking a question, only to find that the only answers you get are those 50+ people being told to "Go Google for it. Sheesh!"
I run into that on occasion, like with my current mod_perl problems.
I've been wondering how Lightning was coming along.
:(
* Can you send calendar invites to other users?
* If you can, will the recipient be able to just click it and add it to their calendar?
Those are two really basic things that are useful to have in a corporate/small business calendaring solution. Sadly, they're features that can tie people into Outlook..
(Check back, some people actually modded comments as "Troll".. heh.)
The Mozilla Org's "lightning" project is interesting. I had a question published in one of the interviews with the project leads but didn't get a real answer, more of a vague response.
Now that Red Hat has released Netscape Directory Server, are there plans to release Netscape Calendaring Server at all?
How about Oracle Calendar? (Cross platform, works well)
Isn't Novell doing something?
Fact is, calendaring in the open source world pretty much sucks. This isn't a troll or flamebait. It's a straight up fact. If it was doing well, would we be asking these kinds of questions? No, because we'd have a decent calendaring application.
Right now, the best hope is for the Mozilla Foundation folks to bust some ass on Sunbird and make it into a triumphant cross platform application. Look at the features that keep people tied to Outlook and figure out how to make them a reality in the free/oss world.
Or am I just dreaming?
You know, I hate to say it, but even the 384kbps stream looks pretty damn good. I'm watching leaves fluttering around in the wind and it's not dropping any frames.
After hearing about all of these features that Longhorn *won't* have.. have we seen a confirmed list of stuff that it *will* have?
Right now, it's beginning to look like nothing more than Windows XP Service Pack 3, just with a new name and bigger price tag to keep the stockholding twatwaffles happy.
iirc, they laid off all of their US staff, outsourced most everything to India, and immediately took a huge delay on the Mac OS X version.
Meanwhile, what were basically 1st year Objective C questions from Quark 'developers' started showing up on mailing lists.
Adobe has been killing them with Indesign. I knew a lot of Mac users that couldn't upgrade to OS X (and sometimes, new hardware) because of Quark's feet dragging and horrible product delays.
I'm surprised that they're still around and nobody has bought them up. Maybe the existing Mac OS 9.x versions are keeping them alive with expensive support calls. (Ever called them?)
Die, Quark.
Man, I'm a little short of that several hundred thousand dollars of cash. Hrm.
;)
Maybe it's cheaper to get into New Zealand. that seems to be where everyyone is going anyway.
If you wanted to, could you? I've always wondered that.. since so many Mexicans come up here, could things go the other direction at all? ;)
It's stuff like this that can keep Samba out of many places where it could be very handy, and instead allows a Windows Server 2003 box in.
I hope the EU tells Microsoft off.
$100,000 to patch stuff that NMAP shows?!
;)
;)
Man, I'm in the wrong line of work. Where can I sign up?
Last time I went near a school's IT stuff, it was a bunch of Windows 95 boxes sitting on a token ring network. I ran away screaming. But for $100,000, I'd fix it.
The link went to some sign up form..
Did they ask small businesses? Or were they asking corporate CIO types that are currently in the midst of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance audits?
More government oversight these days, y'know...
That would be nice, wouldn't it? I know that I'd pay for TV show episodes.. if I could keep them and watch them on any computer that I own. Right now, I grab stuff off of bittorrent and watch it on the train.
:(
Even "albums" I've found online are of poor quality.. like someone downloaded the individual tracks from various p2p services and then made a torrent out of it. One such album frustrated me, so I ended up just buying the damn thing.. but no such luck with some of the out of print albums.
Yah, I know the feeling. here at work, I only see the same ol list of 12 iTunes shares. I've already listened to what they all have to offer. I want more!
And man, I've never seen so much ABBA in my life. Holy cow..
If they used an older version of AMANDA to run the backups, no problem. That piece of crap has trouble reading its own tapes half the time. :P
Anyone that gets ahold of the tapes will throw up their arms in frustration and mail them back.
Oh, I bet spam & antivirus scanners just LOVE it when users mail huge ass files around. ;)
Not all of that is inbound.. some organizations scan outbound email for spam/virii as well.
Novell's iFolders were supposed to help with this situation as well..
Dude, best information I've seen on Slashdot all day. Thanks! :D
Ok, I read that *Red Hat* was going to release it. Then Red Hat spins off Fedora..
:(
Now this is showing up under the Fedora project pages?
So, are they releasing it as an actual product that can/will be supported by Red Hat's support & support contracts, or are they just saying "Ok, Fedora project, you can have this. Have fun!" and letting it go at that?
Personally, I think that it'd be a little underwhelming to just release it to the world and say "here.." This product is something that could be quite useful to many organizations, but without that level of support available, it'll be seen as "more open source stuff with no support" by the PHBs and bean counters.
(yeah, I know, the "if you had competant admins you wouldn't need support" line, but if that was the way management types thought, Windows Server 2003 wouldnt be selling as well as it is..)
Sadly, I don't think that the /. effect is anywhere near what it was several years ago.
Fark takes down sites faster.
Good! I get frustrated when I tell people that I use bittorrent to download Linux ISOs and they say "Yeah, right."
I was starting to wonder if maybe I really was the only person on the planet that really used Bittorrent to download Linux ISOs. Heck, I just grabbed FreeBSD 5.4 the other day. Got a Knoppix CD, Gentoo 2005.0, the Fedora CDs, an Ubuntu CD... all from bittorrent.
Fast, easy to use.. it'd be a shame to see the RIAA/MPAA put a big dent in it.
I'd love to, but "www.pithycommentary.com" was already taken! ;)
You're absolutely correct. Thanks for the reminder! :D Comment spam is annoying enough as it is.
Yup. Of all of the TLDs we have, .blog would actually a)be useful and b)get used.
.coop - even chicken.coop isn't loading. ;)
I still haven't seen one single website using
There was some new tag recently that had to do with Google and blogs.. I wish that I could remember it. "no-follow" or something?
;)
The thing is, I think that the blog community *likes* the attention that it gets from Google, even if it's totally irrelevant information. They don't put up blogs to have nobody read them.
"They are known within the industry as "bottom feeders" who don't show any brand or merchant loyalty."
No, lawyers and marketing dicks are the "bottom feeders." the rest of us are just trying to avoid getting screwed by both parties.