And in other news today, the Government announced that funding for the University of Toronto had been cut by 50%. A source that would not be identified believes that this is reliation for an effort by academics to reduce censorship of the internet.
An official spokesman at the Education Department could not be reached for comment.
[for Sun to]...to get rid of Star Office or at least make it seem like its support will be limited.
I don't get this. Isn't Openoffice open source? Isn't the idea that the community and others could take Openoffice and support it, polish it, whatever, if there's a market for it ?
BTW for those who want to turn it off by default, all you need to do is rename the plugin, eg mv/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.temp
And if you REALLY need it, like those horrific sites that don't actually use HTML (car manufacturer sites are the worst offenders I come across) you can rename it back
Here I was reading Tad Williams Otherland where one of the characters (Orlando Gardiner), is very ill and spends most of his time in a virtual world as an escape from reality.
but is not exactly a new conycept. It's been around in the knowledge management world for many years.Eg, here's a link that mentions it from 1998, but I'm sure that there were a number of research papers that refer to this from earlier.
...I think several of his failures are really all about something that I've come across on several occasions.
Timing is everything. In particular, if you get too far ahead of what today is really about, you get sucked into a lot of additional things that a small/medium business can do without - like having to build the market (lots of marketing costs), explaining everything to everyone.
Anyways, all you need to do to "un-MS" this is to substitute other non-MS technologies where they are/were (or if they are/were) available. I think his points are still, in the main, valid.
Generally, yes, people do answer it. You would be extremely surprised with some of the answers.
If you just keep saying 'no, never', then I'd put a mark next to your name. Either you're a liar, or you can't make independent assessments. (Of course, that's just one point for judgment. Many of these questions are actually networked in the behaviours they reveal).
I am one of the perhaps few here on slashdot who shudders at the thought of upgrading a kernel. Compiling a kernel and patching it makes the blood supply stop going to my brainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn (Sorry passed out onto the keyboard there for a minute).
But I do try to learn and understand where things have been fixed and should show up for me. So, while I've been using Redhat and SuSE, the latest incarnations of those only use 2.4.21-x. And I know that 2.4.22 fixes some issues I had with my power mgmt and digital camera support!! It might even fix issues I had with the funky graphics card in my new laptop (though I need to check on that).
Armed with this information, I will have a go at Mandrake!
Actually, you touch on an important factor (if not the most important) that I always work into hiring. It's what you may call attitude or behavioural traits.
There's several theories around HR and hiring that are based on behavioural observations. ie that what you have done before, you will do again.(Yes you can change behaviours, but it's hard and takes a while, so you're better of hiring someone that has those behaviours already).
Basically, you ask questions that relate to the behaviours that you want. Eg, for a sysadmin, I need someone with integrity - that won't go stealing passwords, building backdoors, or downing the system if they happened to get laid off.So you can ask a question like "Everyone breaks the rules sometime. Is there a specific situation where you broke the rule that in retrospect you think you shouldn't have ?"
In effect, you keep probing for proof of past behaviour. Generalizations are not acceptable. You need specific instances. "Do you have an example of that?", "What specifically was your role?", "Could you be more specific?" etc
Some of you may have encountered this in interviews. There are some 'interview tip' sites that actually talk about this. It can be quite akward for both the interviewer and interviewee, but I have found it to be quite effective.
I have a theory that part of the effectiveness is that the interviewee has not been exposed to this before, so I usually ask if they are familiar with it up front and explain it may be unusual and somewhat uncomfortable, but don't worry, everyone else is going through the same hell.
Quoting one paragraph out of context of the contract tells you jack squat.
The section could start off with "The following will not apply". Unlikely, but I've seen one contract that flipped negatives 3 times.
In most of the contracts I've seen, the key section would be the one on termination which outlines what survives and what doesn't. And the definitions section is usually pretty important too. Like the definition of SOFTWARE PRODUCT. I'd expect that to be the Unix source code that AT &T provided to them.
All this says is that they could terminate the contract.So, excuse me if I don't take the word of a public relations dude.
(No, IANAL, but I've had to deal with some of that stuff).
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And in other news today, the Government announced that funding for the University of Toronto had been cut by 50%. A source that would not be identified believes that this is reliation for an effort by academics to reduce censorship of the internet.
An official spokesman at the Education Department could not be reached for comment.
Seems like the US is abusing their 'monopoly' to force a 'vendor' to accept terms that are 'lock in'.
Can Australia sue the US for antitrust violation?
Excellent resource with awesome instructions on how to create DVDs or do a HD install as SuSE doesn't provide ISO's. Links to ISO's too.
I don't get this. Isn't Openoffice open source? Isn't the idea that the community and others could take Openoffice and support it, polish it, whatever, if there's a market for it ?
I just tried one of the linked docs in Open Office.
Edit/Changes/Show
What do you know?
OpenOffice filters are pretty good.
I guess it's another case that security by obscurity doesn't work?
I'm off to visit some porn sit^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...err, I mean do some testing!
IMHO, there can never be too little Flash.
/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so.temp
BTW for those who want to turn it off by default, all you need to do is rename the plugin, eg
mv
And if you REALLY need it, like those horrific sites that don't actually use HTML (car manufacturer sites are the worst offenders I come across) you can rename it back
...see if you can sort out the swing, awt, eclipse native widget fiasco.
J2EE seems strong at the backend. With a strong frontend, maybe MS has to react for a change.
Is this the death of two up ?
Average Joe: MS Security sucks
MS: DRM = security
Average Joe: So, I must need DRM
Game over.
Here I was reading Tad Williams Otherland where one of the characters (Orlando Gardiner), is very ill and spends most of his time in a virtual world as an escape from reality.
Is this science following fiction ?
For a minute there, I thought Michael had come out of the closet!
As rated by "nearly everybody" ? 21 ratings and 6 of those from The Onion ?
but is not exactly a new conycept. It's been around in the knowledge management world for many years.Eg, here's a link that mentions it from 1998, but I'm sure that there were a number of research papers that refer to this from earlier.
...I think several of his failures are really all about something that I've come across on several occasions.
Timing is everything. In particular, if you get too far ahead of what today is really about, you get sucked into a lot of additional things that a small/medium business can do without - like having to build the market (lots of marketing costs), explaining everything to everyone.
Anyways, all you need to do to "un-MS" this is to substitute other non-MS technologies where they are/were (or if they are/were) available. I think his points are still, in the main, valid.
CreatorofSmallTruths said:
The fact that Israel is in Asia doesn't mean a
thing...
Must post reply.....Aarrggh!...too many jokes.....brain exploding....
Ummm. Did you look at your sig ?
In that case, it's not called forking, it's called job security.
Looks to me like they're selling the Desktop - ie the OS + Java + StarOffice. That doesn't include hardware.
Hardware has marginal cost. Marginal cost for software itself is $0. Ask Microsoft.
So it's just a matter of making sure that services/support are covered.
Generally, yes, people do answer it. You would be extremely surprised with some of the answers.
If you just keep saying 'no, never', then I'd put a mark next to your name. Either you're a liar, or you can't make independent assessments.
(Of course, that's just one point for judgment. Many of these questions are actually networked in the behaviours they reveal).
If you're using at least Debian 3.0 stable (woody), install devfsd, install a devfs kernel, reboot, and everything should Just Work.
Debian 3.0 may not be so stable. You better go checking up on this.
Dude, this is scary!
I have hired someone for accounting. That 'integrity' example I gave was actually for an accounting position.
Is that you, Darl?
I am one of the perhaps few here on slashdot who shudders at the thought of upgrading a kernel. Compiling a kernel and patching it makes the blood supply stop going to my brainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
(Sorry passed out onto the keyboard there for a minute).
But I do try to learn and understand where things have been fixed and should show up for me. So, while I've been using Redhat and SuSE, the latest incarnations of those only use 2.4.21-x. And I know that 2.4.22 fixes some issues I had with my power mgmt and digital camera support!! It might even fix issues I had with the funky graphics card in my new laptop (though I need to check on that).
Armed with this information, I will have a go at Mandrake!
Actually, you touch on an important factor (if not the most important) that I always work into hiring. It's what you may call attitude or behavioural traits.
There's several theories around HR and hiring that are based on behavioural observations. ie that what you have done before, you will do again.(Yes you can change behaviours, but it's hard and takes a while, so you're better of hiring someone that has those behaviours already).
Basically, you ask questions that relate to the behaviours that you want. Eg, for a sysadmin, I need someone with integrity - that won't go stealing passwords, building backdoors, or downing the system if they happened to get laid off.So you can ask a question like "Everyone breaks the rules sometime. Is there a specific situation where you broke the rule that in retrospect you think you shouldn't have ?"
In effect, you keep probing for proof of past behaviour. Generalizations are not acceptable. You need specific instances. "Do you have an example of that?", "What specifically was your role?", "Could you be more specific?" etc
Some of you may have encountered this in interviews. There are some 'interview tip' sites that actually talk about this. It can be quite akward for both the interviewer and interviewee, but I have found it to be quite effective.
I have a theory that part of the effectiveness is that the interviewee has not been exposed to this before, so I usually ask if they are familiar with it up front and explain it may be unusual and somewhat uncomfortable, but don't worry, everyone else is going through the same hell.
Quoting one paragraph out of context of the contract tells you jack squat.
The section could start off with "The following will not apply". Unlikely, but I've seen one contract that flipped negatives 3 times.
In most of the contracts I've seen, the key section would be the one on termination which outlines what survives and what doesn't. And the definitions section is usually pretty important too. Like the definition of SOFTWARE PRODUCT. I'd expect that to be the Unix source code that AT &T provided to them.
All this says is that they could terminate the contract.So, excuse me if I don't take the word of a public relations dude.
(No, IANAL, but I've had to deal with some of that stuff).