i think you should try drinking the coffee and squirting it up your ass at the same time. this way you can "ingest" the coffee at twice the rate you would if you just drank it. all those capillaries in your bowels will soak up the caffine lickity split.
maybe you can also experiment to see how many cups of Decaf you have to drink in order to kill yourself.
1) 667mhz 15" tibook(yeah, it's getting long in the tooth, the paint start to chip off and aligator in spots) 2) leatherman wave, by far THE best multitool. all others are wannabes 3) verizon v60. not as sexy as other phones, but works great 4) usb data cable for the v60. lets me use the phone as a modem when wifi isn't avaiable 5) casio exilim ex-s20 - great camera, sucks because of the charging and cradle scene, but super-portable and quick for documentation purposes 6) ancient vst firewire drive for xfer files 7) moleskine notebook(trashed my palm v, drooling for the ux50 when i get cash) 8) iogear usb to serial converter 9) high sierra laptop backpack - doesn't look like a laptop bag(covert) 10)ecg j-500 - butane soldering iron 11) network cables, velcro strips
for example, what about those companies which have purchased and used sun appliances, specifically the cobalt line of products as a network edge appliance for email or webhosting? or what about linksys/cisco for that matter, for home networking? sco could choose any company in the white pages, and chances are, somewhere in the enterprise is a linux based appliance (if not at the enterprise location, perhaps at a home office...).
face it sco, linux is everywhere, and there are foundation companies which are using/deploying it(sun, ibm, novell, cisco, nokia) and threatening one of their end users with your pathetic attempts will only cause more companies to join the team against you.
i do this quite a bit for my company, with verizon and cingular. here's an example: we hire a new sales person who's had his cell number for a gazillion years and doesn't want to part with it, but his provider/plan suck in comparison to our corporate plan, and we don't want to get stuck paying for a sucky plan/service.
we contact the phone company, request for an assumption of service in which the company now take on the financial responsibilities of the service contract. this usually take a tax id number, but between individuals you would use a social security number. once the billing is switched over in the company name, we port the number into our corporate plan.
if the employee leaves and wants to retain their phone number, the process is simply reversed. the process is easy, what's difficult is that each provider wants to lock you into their service plan. in the case of assuming an individual number into a group plan, since the group plan already exists, we're not bothered to sign any contracts. on the other hand, if the individual wants to break their number from our plan, they need to commit to a some type of time commitment( 1 or 2 year plan) before they can assume responsibility and service.
quality will continue to increase in the next 24 months. price will continue to come down. i think it would be better to get more frequent hardware updates by investing in cheaper hardware than investing in the best there is(currently), only to find out that a new manufacturing process has reduced your great camrea feature into a commonpalace item.
for example, features like night shot or image stabilization. these were features that only existed on a few select cameras only a couple of years ago, but now, they are now more likely to be standard features. the fellow who spent $1500 plus last year on a camera might be less hesitant to upgrade, compared to the guy who spent $600 on a cheaper camera in the same timeframe...
get into a cheaper camera now so you can quickly upgrade to a nicer camera in a year when you first born is soon to arrive!
take a look at the elura/optura line from canon, if you need a place to start. these are decent camera that can be had for less than $500 and still offer good features/performance.
...has delt a deathblow in to the sails of SCO's lawsuit...
legalese is not a plain language, but it seems pretty clear in this recent letter (read thru the eyes of a layman) that AT&T clearly sez that aside from the original source code, it lays no claim on any other work, i.e. "we made the foundation, and it is un-equivcocably ours, but what you build on top of our foundation is all yours."
looks like SCO is gonna have to take novell's instruction as to how thay can apply the license for unix...
DAD: I said "NO!" DARL: but... DAD: "NO!" means no! no "if", "ands" or "buts"! DARL: but.. DAD: that's it. Go to your room until i tell you to come out. DARL:... i was just... DAD: sorry son. this is going to hurt me more that you.
necessary for corporate expansion (i know there's a joke here somewhere), but not discussed in mixed company (boardmembers, clients, etc). okay, maybe i'm stretching the analogy, but IT is important, and a smart managment group will recognize this.
IMHO you shouldn't go into the meeting airing departmental dirty laundry, and don't use the opportunity to settle any political scores. do realize that the IT department is an important corporate entity, leverage that fact, and don't be afraid to be a little political.
maybe the group of you should all meet before hand and come up with a list of things you've accomplished as a dept, things you'd like to accomplish in the next year(2 or 3 years even), and list the reasons how these improvements can help save/make money for the company.
if you play your cards right, you might even find yourself being the big swinging dicks of your company...
another thing... IMHO you should get a bag that doesn't attract a lot of attention... there's a lot of cool options out there, but getting the nike e1 or boblebee is just waving a red flag that you got something precious. look at the backpacks that don't have florescent colors or exoskeletons... shoot for the units that protect your unit(heh) without the flash.
if you have the coinage, spring for the brenthaven executive... not only does it have space for your laptop, but other necessary items(socks, tshirt, and other overnite stuff, books, power adapter, peripherals, etc)... i've got friends who sware by them,but i felt $200 a little too pricey($280 about two years ago). i ended up going to a suitcase store(irvs) and got myself a backpack from high sierra that has a nice padded sleeve, and totally doesn't look like a laptop container(nice and covert, key in an urban environ)...
i'll prolly spring for a brenthaven next time around, but when i was in the market, there were very few laptop-backpacks which would fit a 15" tibook. i think market demand for carrying bigger screen laptops has changed that though.
don't be a dumbass;-) get a new bag to protect your gear(and your livelihood)!
fix the post title, man... most used os, perhaps, popular, no. popular denotes that the end user might have some choice in the matter, as far as deciding the OS to be used. prolific because a manufacturer predetermined for the end user.
windows might be a pretty popular, but that's mostly because OEM's don't always have a choice of which operating system they can bundle... 90% of the worlds computers are using some redmond derivative operating system, but once again, probably not always by end user choice...
mac os might be a popular choice, but it requires specific hardware... so using/purchasing the os is a much steeper entry point, however, to claim a user base(world wide) of 3-5% might be seen as being pretty popular...
linux, bsd, and other un*x derivative might also be considered much more popular than itron... why? because the end user(s) chose to install it amongst other choices.
1) old 16mhz sparc classic(lunchbox) packed with 32mb RAM, used more as a terminal station more than anything else... it's in mint condition, complete with keyboard, mouse,monitor and matching scsi2 cdrom.
2) one of the first computers i used at my old job was a quadra 700, upgraded with a genisis accelerator card for a blistering 50 mhz... when i left, they allowed me to take my quadra, still works, currently using it as a netbsd box
3) bought a compaq III portable, 2 meg RAM, DOS3.11, 10 meg HDD, thinking about a mini-itx conversion... 4) compaq reliant server, quad xeon 500mhz, currently utilized as an NT server/print spooler with some proprientary software...
5) cabletron smartswitch router 2000... great networking hardware 6) currently in storage, but they do get rotated into use are older harddrives(old wren full height drives, 500mg.
you should first discuss budget, i.e. do you have a budget in mind? based on the budget they give you, you can determine whether you want to actually proceed or not. you should still have an idea for what each target should take you time wise, but at least by quoting per target, you won't get nickeled-and-dimed for every minute...
the company who approached you probably sees functionality in you project which is similar to a commercial product. find out if the commercial product IS your competition, perhaps that is one way of determining what value your project has for this company.
if the company has no budget, proceed with caution. open source doesn't have to mean that companies can avoid paying the true value of software, it should mean that they have input in expanding the capabilities.
at the end of the day, it is your project, you have to decide whether you want to give it up, maintain it for someone else, or expand its capabilities with the feedback/input of paying customers.
P.S. $25/hour is too cheap. insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, 401k, etc, all the benefits you don't get because you are a "contractor" should be applied to your hourly charge. if you go hourly, $50-75/hour is a better starting rate.
it's a little off topic, but i remember watching something on cable about how interpol was using a computer program to map out the relationship within organized crime. what was interesting was that the map was a similar ferris wheel shape, and seemingly unrelated crime activities recorded a in conventional paper trail was shown to have strong ties when mapped in a ferris wheel chart.
seems that bill is interested in other things besides making money, which is what i got out of the wired article. perhaps all the hubbub with M$ and SCO has finally caused one of the chief architects of BSD to think about the "ecology" of software, commercial and open source.
most of my mail goes in chronological order, and every few months, i'll migrate old mail into sub-folders('02, '99, etc) i've kept an archive of email going back 4 years and it's saved my ass a few times. i'll tag/label my mail so i don't miss internal email, usually in red(eudora or entourage)
regarding vendor based mail, i usually only keep mail from a vendor if it's relating to a specific tech support issue, which ends up turning into a mini knowledge base for myself.
maillists go in their appropriate folders so i don't inadvertantly toss them out, but these email don't get archived.
are safe from SCO, as far as unix variants go. do i see an attack of SGI for releasing NUMA and XFS to the community? how about attacking lucent for allowing ken thompson to develop tarpipe? all of a sudden it's a million lines of (kernel?) code that's tainted. this is probably a copyright tactic, as the 2.4/2.5 kernel(s) has over 4 million line of code, perhaps they're going for a non-fair use tactic...
watching/reading the legal misadventures of SCO is like watching a drunk walking the edge of a cliff. your schadenfreude kicks in, you know he's gonna fall but you can't help but watch...
i can't be sure of the exact figures, but the 2.4 kernel is just a little over 3 million lines of code(2.2 was 1.7 million lines). SCO claims 'approximately 148 files of direct Sequent UNIX code to the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels, containing 168,276 lines of code' we're talking about 5% of code (could be less if comments are stripped out?). i think once this gets to court, the argument is going to end up boiling down to fair usage...
IANAL, but as i understand it, legally there is no set percentage or figure for what is considered fair usage.
so isn't it possible that a legal injunction can be brought against sco to prevent them from redistributing the disputed kernel/sco linux? how can a company be talking from both sides of their mouth, crying foul in one breath and blaming others for breech of contract/licenses, and continuing to distribute linux under gpl themselves? i would think some type of restraining order preventing sco from distributing linunx would bring things to a head...
i like this a lot... maybe it can be turned into physically spamming SCO with tons of monopoly dough! this could be a great method of flooding sco's mailbox with tons of useless paper if it can be organized to take place at the same time( like maybe doing it over this weekend, so that sco gets flooded tues or wed next week).
in the article at eweek, sco states "It will now offer SCO UnixWare licenses tailored to support run-time, binary use of Linux for all commercial users of Linux based on the 2.4 kernel and later." but nobody at sco will state exactly what code is in question. so what does darl and company intend to do if they do not release information on the portions of linux that trample their copyright? be the final authority on the kernel?
this is a little OT, but what exactly does constitute a copyright violation? if you are an artist or musican, fair use allows for a certain amount of reusing someone elses work. also, in terms of coding structure, there maybe instances when something can only be written one way. read the proceeding from the USL vs BSDi for a more detailed clarification on this topic.
until this thing goes to court(sco vs ibm), paying sco a license fee of any sort is just feeding their fud. don't do it!
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i think you should try drinking the coffee and squirting it up your ass at the same time. this way you can "ingest" the coffee at twice the rate you would if you just drank it. all those capillaries in your bowels will soak up the caffine lickity split.
maybe you can also experiment to see how many cups of Decaf you have to drink in order to kill yourself.
Quick! do it fast!
1) 667mhz 15" tibook(yeah, it's getting long in the tooth, the paint start to chip off and aligator in spots)
2) leatherman wave, by far THE best multitool. all others are wannabes
3) verizon v60. not as sexy as other phones, but works great
4) usb data cable for the v60. lets me use the phone as a modem when wifi isn't avaiable
5) casio exilim ex-s20 - great camera, sucks because of the charging and cradle scene, but super-portable and quick for documentation purposes
6) ancient vst firewire drive for xfer files
7) moleskine notebook(trashed my palm v, drooling for the ux50 when i get cash)
8) iogear usb to serial converter
9) high sierra laptop backpack - doesn't look like a laptop bag(covert)
10)ecg j-500 - butane soldering iron
11) network cables, velcro strips
for example, what about those companies which have purchased and used sun appliances, specifically the cobalt line of products as a network edge appliance for email or webhosting? or what about linksys/cisco for that matter, for home networking? sco could choose any company in the white pages, and chances are, somewhere in the enterprise is a linux based appliance (if not at the enterprise location, perhaps at a home office...).
face it sco, linux is everywhere, and there are foundation companies which are using/deploying it(sun, ibm, novell, cisco, nokia) and threatening one of their end users with your pathetic attempts will only cause more companies to join the team against you.
give it up! you lost!
i do this quite a bit for my company, with verizon and cingular. here's an example: we hire a new sales person who's had his cell number for a gazillion years and doesn't want to part with it, but his provider/plan suck in comparison to our corporate plan, and we don't want to get stuck paying for a sucky plan/service.
we contact the phone company, request for an assumption of service in which the company now take on the financial responsibilities of the service contract. this usually take a tax id number, but between individuals you would use a social security number. once the billing is switched over in the company name, we port the number into our corporate plan.
if the employee leaves and wants to retain their phone number, the process is simply reversed. the process is easy, what's difficult is that each provider wants to lock you into their service plan. in the case of assuming an individual number into a group plan, since the group plan already exists, we're not bothered to sign any contracts. on the other hand, if the individual wants to break their number from our plan, they need to commit to a some type of time commitment( 1 or 2 year plan) before they can assume responsibility and service.
little as you can.
quality will continue to increase in the next 24 months. price will continue to come down. i think it would be better to get more frequent hardware updates by investing in cheaper hardware than investing in the best there is(currently), only to find out that a new manufacturing process has reduced your great camrea feature into a commonpalace item.
for example, features like night shot or image stabilization. these were features that only existed on a few select cameras only a couple of years ago, but now, they are now more likely to be standard features. the fellow who spent $1500 plus last year on a camera might be less hesitant to upgrade, compared to the guy who spent $600 on a cheaper camera in the same timeframe...
get into a cheaper camera now so you can quickly upgrade to a nicer camera in a year when you first born is soon to arrive!
take a look at the elura/optura line from canon, if you need a place to start. these are decent camera that can be had for less than $500 and still offer good features/performance.
...has delt a deathblow in to the sails of SCO's lawsuit...
legalese is not a plain language, but it seems pretty clear in this recent letter (read thru the eyes of a layman) that AT&T clearly sez that aside from the original source code, it lays no claim on any other work, i.e. "we made the foundation, and it is un-equivcocably ours, but what you build on top of our foundation is all yours."
looks like SCO is gonna have to take novell's instruction as to how thay can apply the license for unix...
DAD: I said "NO!"
DARL: but...
DAD: "NO!" means no! no "if", "ands" or "buts"!
DARL: but..
DAD: that's it. Go to your room until i tell you to come out.
DARL:... i was just...
DAD: sorry son. this is going to hurt me more that you.
HA HA!!!
even the thought of asparagus-ified cat piss turns my stomach...
necessary for corporate expansion (i know there's a joke here somewhere), but not discussed in mixed company (boardmembers, clients, etc). okay, maybe i'm stretching the analogy, but IT is important, and a smart managment group will recognize this.
IMHO you shouldn't go into the meeting airing departmental dirty laundry, and don't use the opportunity to settle any political scores. do realize that the IT department is an important corporate entity, leverage that fact, and don't be afraid to be a little political.
maybe the group of you should all meet before hand and come up with a list of things you've accomplished as a dept, things you'd like to accomplish in the next year(2 or 3 years even), and list the reasons how these improvements can help save/make money for the company.
if you play your cards right, you might even find yourself being the big swinging dicks of your company...
set up as JBOD. you'd need a little more intelligence for simple raid structures, but OSX can raid multiple drives, i'm sure XP can too.
they prolly put in a couple oxford 911/912's, daisy chained them internally, and give you access to only one end of the interface...
another thing... IMHO you should get a bag that doesn't attract a lot of attention... there's a lot of cool options out there, but getting the nike e1 or boblebee is just waving a red flag that you got something precious. look at the backpacks that don't have florescent colors or exoskeletons... shoot for the units that protect your unit(heh) without the flash.
i'll prolly spring for a brenthaven next time around, but when i was in the market, there were very few laptop-backpacks which would fit a 15" tibook. i think market demand for carrying bigger screen laptops has changed that though.
don't be a dumbass ;-) get a new bag to protect your gear(and your livelihood)!
yeah. your right...
i really haven't checked the specs on the classic since i first got it...
fix the post title, man...
most used os, perhaps, popular, no.
popular denotes that the end user might have some choice in the matter, as far as deciding the OS to be used. prolific because a manufacturer predetermined for the end user.
windows might be a pretty popular, but that's mostly because OEM's don't always have a choice of which operating system they can bundle... 90% of the worlds computers are using some redmond derivative operating system, but once again, probably not always by end user choice...
mac os might be a popular choice, but it requires specific hardware... so using/purchasing the os is a much steeper entry point, however, to claim a user base(world wide) of 3-5% might be seen as being pretty popular...
linux, bsd, and other un*x derivative might also be considered much more popular than itron... why? because the end user(s) chose to install it amongst other choices.
2) one of the first computers i used at my old job was a quadra 700, upgraded with a genisis accelerator card for a blistering 50 mhz... when i left, they allowed me to take my quadra, still works, currently using it as a netbsd box
3) bought a compaq III portable, 2 meg RAM, DOS3.11, 10 meg HDD, thinking about a mini-itx conversion...
4) compaq reliant server, quad xeon 500mhz, currently utilized as an NT server/print spooler with some proprientary software...
5) cabletron smartswitch router 2000... great networking hardware
6) currently in storage, but they do get rotated into use are older harddrives(old wren full height drives, 500mg.
you should first discuss budget, i.e. do you have a budget in mind? based on the budget they give you, you can determine whether you want to actually proceed or not. you should still have an idea for what each target should take you time wise, but at least by quoting per target, you won't get nickeled-and-dimed for every minute...
the company who approached you probably sees functionality in you project which is similar to a commercial product. find out if the commercial product IS your competition, perhaps that is one way of determining what value your project has for this company.
if the company has no budget, proceed with caution. open source doesn't have to mean that companies can avoid paying the true value of software, it should mean that they have input in expanding the capabilities.
at the end of the day, it is your project, you have to decide whether you want to give it up, maintain it for someone else, or expand its capabilities with the feedback/input of paying customers.
P.S. $25/hour is too cheap. insurance, workman's comp, unemployment, 401k, etc, all the benefits you don't get because you are a "contractor" should be applied to your hourly charge. if you go hourly, $50-75/hour is a better starting rate.
use a keyspan usb-to-serial adapter.
that's what mac users have been doing for years...
it's a little off topic, but i remember watching something on cable about how interpol was using a computer program to map out the relationship within organized crime. what was interesting was that the map was a similar ferris wheel shape, and seemingly unrelated crime activities recorded a in conventional paper trail was shown to have strong ties when mapped in a ferris wheel chart.
seems that bill is interested in other things besides making money, which is what i got out of the wired article. perhaps all the hubbub with M$ and SCO has finally caused one of the chief architects of BSD to think about the "ecology" of software, commercial and open source.
most of my mail goes in chronological order, and every few months, i'll migrate old mail into sub-folders('02, '99, etc) i've kept an archive of email going back 4 years and it's saved my ass a few times. i'll tag/label my mail so i don't miss internal email, usually in red(eudora or entourage)
regarding vendor based mail, i usually only keep mail from a vendor if it's relating to a specific tech support issue, which ends up turning into a mini knowledge base for myself.
maillists go in their appropriate folders so i don't inadvertantly toss them out, but these email don't get archived.
are safe from SCO, as far as unix variants go. do i see an attack of SGI for releasing NUMA and XFS to the community? how about attacking lucent for allowing ken thompson to develop tarpipe? all of a sudden it's a million lines of (kernel?) code that's tainted. this is probably a copyright tactic, as the 2.4/2.5 kernel(s) has over 4 million line of code, perhaps they're going for a non-fair use tactic...
watching/reading the legal misadventures of SCO is like watching a drunk walking the edge of a cliff. your schadenfreude kicks in, you know he's gonna fall but you can't help but watch...
YOU SUCK!
i can't be sure of the exact figures, but the 2.4 kernel is just a little over 3 million lines of code(2.2 was 1.7 million lines). SCO claims 'approximately 148 files of direct Sequent UNIX code to the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels, containing 168,276 lines of code' we're talking about 5% of code (could be less if comments are stripped out?). i think once this gets to court, the argument is going to end up boiling down to fair usage...
IANAL, but as i understand it, legally there is no set percentage or figure for what is considered fair usage.
so isn't it possible that a legal injunction can be brought against sco to prevent them from redistributing the disputed kernel/sco linux? how can a company be talking from both sides of their mouth, crying foul in one breath and blaming others for breech of contract/licenses, and continuing to distribute linux under gpl themselves? i would think some type of restraining order preventing sco from distributing linunx would bring things to a head...
i like this a lot... maybe it can be turned into physically spamming SCO with tons of monopoly dough!
this could be a great method of flooding sco's mailbox with tons of useless paper if it can be organized to take place at the same time( like maybe doing it over this weekend, so that sco gets flooded tues or wed next week).
you could even do it anonymously...
this is a little OT, but what exactly does constitute a copyright violation? if you are an artist or musican, fair use allows for a certain amount of reusing someone elses work. also, in terms of coding structure, there maybe instances when something can only be written one way. read the proceeding from the USL vs BSDi for a more detailed clarification on this topic.
until this thing goes to court(sco vs ibm), paying sco a license fee of any sort is just feeding their fud. don't do it!