Edges of the Earth: A Man, a Woman, a Child in the Alaskan Wilderness by Richard Leo. Amazon says it's out of print, but maybe I'll get a used copy. His follow-up book appears to be a dud, though.
I'll look for your friend's stuff. I've always had a fascination with the world's more remote places and after reading In Siberia by Colin Thubron I'm always looking for similar writings.
If you are, go to a retirement community and teach seniors how to use computers to access the Internet (mail and web). You will be bowled over by how thankful they are and how excited it makes some of them.
Don't you see what happens? Either the Slashbot apologists or the editors themselves slap you around, picking "Offtopic" and smashing that Moderate button with fury. That'll learn ya!
Your post was a funny way of pointing out a goof, but these days, the only posts deemed funny have SCO or M$ in them...
I've been using the USPS for ten years (since I left home basically) and I've never had an issue with its service outside of a torn cover on a Car and Driver. I've never had any of my outgoing mail lost, and everything I was supposed to receive, I did. I do all eBay shipping with them now, especially since UPS is not always careful with the fragile stuff. The postal service is more reliable per use in my personal experience than the D.C. Metro system is these days.
Just a shout out to the USPS, especially the carriers...
Especially with RedHat. They have a commercial interest in you looking at their distro and deciding that it offers something more than the rest.
And really, it's the differentiators that drive development anyway. You need your widget to do something the other one doesn't, and if you're passionate enough about the widget you're developing, you're going to strive to make it stand out. You'll get your believers and haters, and now your product is a choice among many. Do this with a hundred different software tools and one distro looks very different from another... and there's a lot of room left in that pool.
/etc/rc3.d is not really there, but in fact is at/etc/rc.d/rd3.d. I know there's a symlink, but coming from Solaris, it's slowed me down a bit in the past.
Oh, and it needs to be spelled Linnix, so we're all on the same page re: how it's pronounced.
*BSD might as well be dead to the commercial and government enterprises. Until you see the likes of Dell and IBM slapping FreeBSD on their shiny metal systems, your run-of-the-mill IT buyer will still regard the OS as something whose name simply rings a bell or is the answer to an IT-related trivia question.
I work at a gov't site. We have plenty of systems in production and dev environments running Linux, in part because the project managers were able to use the Dell fed contract to get those servers with Linux. So, Linux is recognized by those buyers as a legitimate OS for business use. I can certainly slap SomeBSD on those machines, but whoops, the Oracle vendor said Linux was good, but not this SomeBSD.
When BSD is embraced by top-level vendors, companies will consider it.
I have few gripes with most of the open-source tools I've tried, but something that can bring my work to a near-stop is inaccurate or insufficient documentation. I understand that these projects are labors of love and time is generally short as it is for project developers, but decent+ documentation not only opens your audience beyond hard-core tinkerers but also demonstrates thoroughness and dedication to "dotting the i's" -- which I believe not only attracts new users but encourages those users to simply spend more time working with your software.
I'm an asshole and you've made it illegal for me to be an asshole, but I make money at it! And so do others! You're putting us out of work! That's unfair! I'm going to have to do something other than being an asshole!
Viruses, for end users, often create a situation where a computer becomes somewhat "squirrelly." A call goes out to IT, perhaps, and the response is someone discovering a virus and either repairing the damage or taking other steps to resolve the problem. The effect of a virus can be similar to bugs in the OS, problems with hardware, and so on. Many times users don't even know their systems are infected until someone from the security group stops by with the news that their PC is trying to DOS someone outside the site.
There is little mystery with spam. It's annoying, resource intensive, and above all, obvious. It affects virtually anyone with an e-mail account, so people see it at work as well as at home, and it doesn't discriminate about whose mailbox it ends up in.
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Oops... I'm sorry Taco, did I give away the ending here?
The Scorecard: The Official Point System for Keeping Score in the Relationship Game is a hilarious book (seriously, it's LOL kind of stuff) which tells men what they've scored for what they've done in various relationship scenarios.
Amazon says it's out of print, but you could probably find it in someplace like Walden's humor section...
I agree that HR can often times be a wasteland. I'm not saying that generalization is not deserved... but without some of the things HR provides, companies would have a difficult time getting and especially keeping people. That costs money, sometimes BIG money, companies depend on it, but it's not tied directly to generating revenue.
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I stare at a screen enough during the day... I generally prefer the pulpy versions of any kind of book.
Edges of the Earth: A Man, a Woman, a Child in the Alaskan Wilderness by Richard Leo. Amazon says it's out of print, but maybe I'll get a used copy. His follow-up book appears to be a dud, though.
I'll look for your friend's stuff. I've always had a fascination with the world's more remote places and after reading In Siberia by Colin Thubron I'm always looking for similar writings.
If you are, go to a retirement community and teach seniors how to use computers to access the Internet (mail and web). You will be bowled over by how thankful they are and how excited it makes some of them.
Where are you in relation to Fairbanks?
Are there any good books (fic or non-fic) that you'd recommend about life in Alaska, especially rural Alaska?
Don't you see what happens? Either the Slashbot apologists or the editors themselves slap you around, picking "Offtopic" and smashing that Moderate button with fury. That'll learn ya!
Your post was a funny way of pointing out a goof, but these days, the only posts deemed funny have SCO or M$ in them...
Oh. Oh, well, carry on then!
I've been using the USPS for ten years (since I left home basically) and I've never had an issue with its service outside of a torn cover on a Car and Driver. I've never had any of my outgoing mail lost, and everything I was supposed to receive, I did. I do all eBay shipping with them now, especially since UPS is not always careful with the fragile stuff. The postal service is more reliable per use in my personal experience than the D.C. Metro system is these days.
Just a shout out to the USPS, especially the carriers...
Especially with RedHat. They have a commercial interest in you looking at their distro and deciding that it offers something more than the rest.
And really, it's the differentiators that drive development anyway. You need your widget to do something the other one doesn't, and if you're passionate enough about the widget you're developing, you're going to strive to make it stand out. You'll get your believers and haters, and now your product is a choice among many. Do this with a hundred different software tools and one distro looks very different from another... and there's a lot of room left in that pool.
/etc/rc3.d is not really there, but in fact is at /etc/rc.d/rd3.d. I know there's a symlink, but coming from Solaris, it's slowed me down a bit in the past.
Oh, and it needs to be spelled Linnix, so we're all on the same page re: how it's pronounced.
"I didn't know the goatse guy posted on slashdot."
;-)
Now I've been accused of a lot of things in my time, but this is a first
You've finally been outed. Nice ring, BTW.
*BSD might as well be dead to the commercial and government enterprises. Until you see the likes of Dell and IBM slapping FreeBSD on their shiny metal systems, your run-of-the-mill IT buyer will still regard the OS as something whose name simply rings a bell or is the answer to an IT-related trivia question.
I work at a gov't site. We have plenty of systems in production and dev environments running Linux, in part because the project managers were able to use the Dell fed contract to get those servers with Linux. So, Linux is recognized by those buyers as a legitimate OS for business use. I can certainly slap SomeBSD on those machines, but whoops, the Oracle vendor said Linux was good, but not this SomeBSD.
When BSD is embraced by top-level vendors, companies will consider it.
I have few gripes with most of the open-source tools I've tried, but something that can bring my work to a near-stop is inaccurate or insufficient documentation. I understand that these projects are labors of love and time is generally short as it is for project developers, but decent+ documentation not only opens your audience beyond hard-core tinkerers but also demonstrates thoroughness and dedication to "dotting the i's" -- which I believe not only attracts new users but encourages those users to simply spend more time working with your software.
Chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, linux.
Aaaand... nope. Can't get my head around that.
Whether we like it or not. And apparently, your level-headedness and sensibility have been rewarded by a slashbot with a -1, Troll.
I'm sorry, but I believe we have some parting gifts for you.
I hate to have to correct you, it's not Sony. His name was Panasonic.
But you got the Tubbs one right.
I'm an asshole and you've made it illegal for me to be an asshole, but I make money at it! And so do others! You're putting us out of work! That's unfair! I'm going to have to do something other than being an asshole!
Or... I could go work for those SCO folks...
Viruses, for end users, often create a situation where a computer becomes somewhat "squirrelly." A call goes out to IT, perhaps, and the response is someone discovering a virus and either repairing the damage or taking other steps to resolve the problem. The effect of a virus can be similar to bugs in the OS, problems with hardware, and so on. Many times users don't even know their systems are infected until someone from the security group stops by with the news that their PC is trying to DOS someone outside the site.
There is little mystery with spam. It's annoying, resource intensive, and above all, obvious. It affects virtually anyone with an e-mail account, so people see it at work as well as at home, and it doesn't discriminate about whose mailbox it ends up in.
Oops... I'm sorry Taco, did I give away the ending here?
Two words: Sally Struthers
It's
Which clan is yours (and which game)? It sounds ... well, well-balanced!
The Scorecard: The Official Point System for Keeping Score in the Relationship Game is a hilarious book (seriously, it's LOL kind of stuff) which tells men what they've scored for what they've done in various relationship scenarios.
Amazon says it's out of print, but you could probably find it in someplace like Walden's humor section...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
Who's got a G5 to start hacking up?
I agree that HR can often times be a wasteland. I'm not saying that generalization is not deserved... but without some of the things HR provides, companies would have a difficult time getting and especially keeping people. That costs money, sometimes BIG money, companies depend on it, but it's not tied directly to generating revenue.