In recent scifi I think this is classed as "turk" work, a unfortunate term based on the scam of the Mechanical Turk, which Amazon also adopted for one of their service offerings.
This term is used in at least the Metatropolis story anthologies by multiple authors (John Scalzi editing) and there's development on the theme in the plot of some stories (Detroit) so I don't want to give too many details.
There's some parallel with "runners" from various cyberpunk scifi and gaming, too: Work for money with little formal relationship with the source of the contracts ("Mr Johnson") and a very simple professional code of ethics.
It will be fun to see this go up against the Americans With Disabilities Act (et al) in court in a few weeks/year when citizens rely on digital devices to augment their biology.
EG, as soon as my spectacles have on-board tech this fails fast.
Hey, would someone get on that? Why can't I snap picks like Spider yet?
Most TI vendors at least offer some free feeds to suggest they have valuable content before asking you to pay up. Adoption of this new service isn't going to very good if no one can try it out/use it for free. *shrug*
Getting a government security clearance is a long and painful process that is entirely besides any status of enlistment or commision and includes additional oaths and regulations well beyond those.
In fact civilians can get a clearance without being in the military at all (I know a fewe folks who haev done this). The oaths are probably publically available but no one with a clearance is likely to volunteer to post them on/., if I had to guess.
But it got nerfed into Mission Control in Lion 10.7 and is half-functional. You can't rename, reorder, arrange, or configure your "spaces" anymore. Shortcut keys still work for now...
They'll probably finish it off in Mountain Goat (10.8) since iOS is perfect and has no desktops so surely Mac OS X doesn't need them either.
When you say quirky, or asking nicely, could you give details?
"An error has occurred" and no log messages that I can find are not making me very pleased. When I got "you may only redeem a code once" I was starting to be annoyed.
It runs on hypervisors like VMWare and Parallels which is great for development and testing and actually pretty popular for professional server deployments.
I'm snagging one to light up in VMWare Fusion, for instance.
Software testing is an entire profession including having its own graduate programs, but there are lots of resources to help you get started from books and online, just poke around.
There are books just about testing (TCS), books about integrating testing into a development methodology(Agile and Scrum include testing), and plenty of books on specific testing technologies (JUnit, Cucumber,...). Most modern languages/toolkits include at least some support for basic software testing (unit or functional) such as Perl, Python, Ruby or have it readily available such as JUnit for Java, NUnit for C#. For testing web applications go look at Selenium, a great package of tools for web testing that includes browser plugins.
And *plug* I've had great experiences with the online resources including low-cost online classes available from the AST, at http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/ The BBST courses are very informative and quite challenging. */plug*
in which the universe has depth and the depth determines how fast things can go including neural tissue, computation, and intergalactic travel. I have long suspected that Earth is towards the shallow end...
You have it right, variously. Sugar's origins led to this state, but it's being rectified.
The OLPC XO software distribution included Sugar. Or was Sugar then, back then before Sugar left the building, and made it into Ubuntu. Now the XO distribution is a "spin" of Fedora that has Sugar installed and configured as default (or it will).
Seriously, as public statements and press coverage go that is about the best interview of Prof N about OLPC I have ever seen. It was sneaky that the bit the FA is named after is in a pullout outside the main article.
The OLPC XO effort was fantastic and developed some great technology AND a really neat little computer with the most open specifications ever. Sugar's software architecture is still not portable enough and that is a problem, but it is one that could be solved with programmer hours. You buy those with money, and SugarLabs is a charity. So, go code or donate, eh? I'll throw in on a bounty to increase Sugar portability. Get it to build and run natively (not X Window, mind... there's some native GTK stuff) on Mac OS X 10.3 or newer and I've got $100 USD for you. I expect some other folks will chip in for a similar offer for a version that runs natively on Win32/64 (also no X Window, native GTK exists).
Now, where the heck is My TouchBook! On that note, how does Sugar work on armel, hmm?
Mac OS X and Server are now virtualizable in recent Vmware Fusion and Parallels installs (at least). Although there were technical and legal challenges to parallelizing OS X installs, these have apparently been surmounted.
It's a textbook of explanations wrapped around a whole bunch of script(1) captures of them setting up ntp,dns,k5,ldap,openafs,samba, etc on Debian with Windows, Mac, Ubuntu clients. You can find the table of contents and an excerpt at the book's site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-540-36633-1
Things I would have liked to had on hand rather than having to make up / discover:
* subnets and addressing schemes, and the DHCP config doing it * yes, the commonly used shared admin passwords * diagrams of the physical network and location of any wireless AP * brief descriptions of critical services and the servers they run on * ibid on applications, web sites, mail domains, fax farms... whatever there is * patch / antivirus / backup schedules * backup policy, procedure, media location and any other DR plans * any user policy that's been circulated * known exceptions to the rules
Hope that gives you some ideas. As a tech the format of your documentation can be pretty simple, so you can use your favorite tools ($EDITOR, wiki, dia, gimp...) For your own respect or a larger organization a nice print out in a binder is pretty standard.
I've googled around, and remain quite curious as to any advantage gained by inventing a new package system and utilities instead of using an existing one. I'm quite comfortable with Debian's system, but there are others as well..
I have fiddled with Nextena and really like some of their ideas. Why did Sun (Ian?!) do IPS instead? When will IPS catch up with the ZFS extension to their apt tools?
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In recent scifi I think this is classed as "turk" work, a unfortunate term based on the scam of the Mechanical Turk, which Amazon also adopted for one of their service offerings.
This term is used in at least the Metatropolis story anthologies by multiple authors (John Scalzi editing) and there's development on the theme in the plot of some stories (Detroit) so I don't want to give too many details.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/...
There's some parallel with "runners" from various cyberpunk scifi and gaming, too: Work for money with little formal relationship with the source of the contracts ("Mr Johnson") and a very simple professional code of ethics.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wik...
Doomo chums!
It will be fun to see this go up against the Americans With Disabilities Act (et al) in court in a few weeks/year when citizens rely on digital devices to augment their biology.
EG, as soon as my spectacles have on-board tech this fails fast.
Hey, would someone get on that? Why can't I snap picks like Spider yet?
hth
adric
Pebble Steel might meet your requirements. It's still a bit squarish but most people seem to think it looks nice enough.
https://getpebble.com/steel
-adric (still wearing my plastic KS pebble, thanks)
CMX Consumer and/or Taggant SSV (price US $8,000.00)
Access to CMX for 1 year
Access to Taggant System IEEE Public Root Key, and blacklist for one year
http://standards.ieee.org/deve...
Most TI vendors at least offer some free feeds to suggest they have valuable content before asking you to pay up. Adoption of this new service isn't going to very good if no one can try it out/use it for free. *shrug*
In case you aren't trolling...
Getting a government security clearance is a long and painful process that is entirely besides any status of enlistment or commision and includes additional oaths and regulations well beyond those.
In fact civilians can get a clearance without being in the military at all (I know a fewe folks who haev done this). The oaths are probably publically available but no one with a clearance is likely to volunteer to post them on /., if I had to guess.
Join and contribute ssh/firewall logs to DShield or another collaboration system so that others can benefit from the information you are collecting.
http://dshield.org/howto.html
If you want to report unwanted activity against your network your ISP may be able to help. Try opening a ticket with their Abuse team.
But it got nerfed into Mission Control in Lion 10.7 and is half-functional. You can't rename, reorder, arrange, or configure your "spaces" anymore. Shortcut keys still work for now...
They'll probably finish it off in Mountain Goat (10.8) since iOS is perfect and has no desktops so surely Mac OS X doesn't need them either.
*snarl*
The new one, the last one is a bit pricey for individuals, though certainly worth it for institutions:
Encyclopaedia Britannica - The Final Print Edition $1,395.00
and now that I think of it I never finished reading the one my parents got for me when I was in elementary school.
Cheers,
adric
I thought it was well understood "he" was playing Skee-Ball.
God really likes Skee-Ball.
I grant you 2 future mod points for this, though I haven't any in stock today.
When you say quirky, or asking nicely, could you give details?
"An error has occurred" and no log messages that I can find are not making me very pleased. When I got "you may only redeem a code once" I was starting to be annoyed.
It runs on hypervisors like VMWare and Parallels which is great for development and testing and actually pretty popular for professional server deployments.
I'm snagging one to light up in VMWare Fusion, for instance.
hth,
adric
Software testing is an entire profession including having its own graduate programs, but there are lots of resources to help you get started from books and online, just poke around.
There are books just about testing (TCS), books about integrating testing into a development methodology(Agile and Scrum include testing), and plenty of books on specific testing technologies (JUnit, Cucumber, ...). Most modern languages/toolkits include at least some support for basic software testing (unit or functional) such as Perl, Python, Ruby or have it readily available such as JUnit for Java, NUnit for C#. For testing web applications go look at Selenium, a great package of tools for web testing that includes browser plugins.
And *plug* I've had great experiences with the online resources including low-cost online classes available from the AST, at http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/ The BBST courses are very informative and quite challenging. */plug*
hth,
adric
Um, actually, she is or at least was, richer than the Queen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2979033.stm
JK Rowling 'richer than Queen'
Boy wizard Harry Potter has made author JK Rowling richer than the Queen, according to The Sunday Times Rich List.
Perhaps you can reconstruct your argument?
about the nature of computation and lightspeed and the like as explored in the wonderful novel A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought)
in which the universe has depth and the depth determines how fast things can go including neural tissue, computation, and intergalactic travel. I have long suspected that Earth is towards the shallow end ...
The docking station for Mac laptops is third party: http://www.bookendzdocks.com/
I have lusted for one for years...
When did any of these things stop happening?
What planet are you posting from?
It is a bit of a shame, but the work is being done.
I'm sure we could use more help, so dig in:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-olpc-list
hth,
adric
You have it right, variously. Sugar's origins led to this state, but it's being rectified.
The OLPC XO software distribution included Sugar. Or was Sugar then, back then before Sugar left the building, and made it into Ubuntu. Now the XO distribution is a "spin" of Fedora that has Sugar installed and configured as default (or it will).
cf: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5
Seriously, as public statements and press coverage go that is about the best interview of Prof N about OLPC I have ever seen. It was sneaky that the bit the FA is named after is in a pullout outside the main article.
The OLPC XO effort was fantastic and developed some great technology AND a really neat little computer with the most open specifications ever. Sugar's software architecture is still not portable enough and that is a problem, but it is one that could be solved with programmer hours. You buy those with money, and SugarLabs is a charity. So, go code or donate, eh? I'll throw in on a bounty to increase Sugar portability. Get it to build and run natively (not X Window, mind ... there's some native GTK stuff) on Mac OS X 10.3 or newer and I've got $100 USD for you. I expect some other folks will chip in for a similar offer for a version that runs natively on Win32/64 (also no X Window, native GTK exists).
Now, where the heck is My TouchBook! On that note, how does Sugar work on armel, hmm?
Yikes, I'm replying to an AC.
Mac OS X and Server are now virtualizable in recent Vmware Fusion and Parallels installs (at least). Although there were technical and legal challenges to parallelizing OS X installs, these have apparently been surmounted.
Now I just need more RAM.
I have felt your pain. I just got my used copy of Distributed Services with OpenAFS: for Enterprise and Education and it looks pretty awesome so far.
It's a textbook of explanations wrapped around a whole bunch of script(1) captures of them setting up ntp,dns,k5,ldap,openafs,samba, etc on Debian with Windows, Mac, Ubuntu clients. You can find the table of contents and an excerpt at the book's site: http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-540-36633-1
hth and Good Luck!
adric
Things I would have liked to had on hand rather than having to make up / discover:
* subnets and addressing schemes, and the DHCP config doing it ... whatever there is
* yes, the commonly used shared admin passwords
* diagrams of the physical network and location of any wireless AP
* brief descriptions of critical services and the servers they run on
* ibid on applications, web sites, mail domains, fax farms
* patch / antivirus / backup schedules
* backup policy, procedure, media location and any other DR plans
* any user policy that's been circulated
* known exceptions to the rules
Hope that gives you some ideas. As a tech the format of your documentation can be pretty simple, so you can use your favorite tools ($EDITOR, wiki, dia, gimp ...) For your own respect or a larger organization a nice print out in a binder is pretty standard.
I've googled around, and remain quite curious as to any advantage gained by inventing a new package system and utilities instead of using an existing one. I'm quite comfortable with Debian's system, but there are others as well..
I have fiddled with Nextena and really like some of their ideas. Why did Sun (Ian?!) do IPS instead? When will IPS catch up with the ZFS extension to their apt tools?
Thanks,
adric
So, it's probably fine in standard Wine too once you have your configuration solid.
Oh, and this is on my Mac , CrossOver Games 7.1 from codeweavers.com :D
Thanks GoG!