I only donate time (and all the money I spend during that time)
I only do things in my locality (due to travel time)
I refuse to give a penny to or have anything to do with abrahamics (judaism, christianity, & islam) as they cause enough misery without my help.
I only work about 20 hours a week and this keeps me really busy, I've become quite the handyman and good with filling out various forms for the local government.
You don't have to look far before you find something worthy your time and money and if you are the one spending the money you can be sure to it's going to good works... This week I swung by the local homeless shelter/kitchen & fixed some stuff, it cost me about 60 euros and about 8 hours work. No big deal... but makes an impact where I live and that gets me out of bed early in the mornings.
Oh... and because this is/. I should add that I fix a bunch of PC's for schools and temples around town... again no big deal but the recipients are appreciative.
Actually, I'd go so faw and say that learning how to use other devices like a sliderule, an abacus, and various old tables are also a good way to learn about math. They provide interesting insites on the relationships in math.
Providing a correct answer using a calculator proves only that you know how to use it and pushed the right buttons!
Your comment of "the PHB on-high" makes me think you still don't really get the nature of multinationals... We have legions of of PHB's and hundreds of PHB's on-high.
The CFO is just a banker and as such is as evil as the rest of the bankers
Rember IT is a commodity, which leaves it in the hands of operations. Operations only job is to maintain the status quo
I wish more effort was spent in the area of proving risk-reduction, it's the only thing that matters.
This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start....
We're talking about big multinational companies, so a lot of your evangelical strategies won't work, are inappropriate, aren't welcome and would get you fired. For example:
In Step One: I work in R&D and my Boss (in fact the whole food chain from me up) is a Ph.D. Physical Chemist, and despite the fact and he's got the message (he uses firefox at home, for example) he has no control (or interest) over what IT does and thus I would be preaching to choir. All of the desktops in the company are standardized (choice of 4 types) and locked down, no one has write privileges to the local drives or local admin rights. Running an application that is not approved is a fireable offense, So is modifying the registry, Running a P2P app, Running a server, and Bypassing security. Setting up and running a wireless network will result in the IT guys immediately, on discovery (random 802.11x sweeps), escort you out of the building. Need something different or package installed? It's no problem, but you can't do it, IT does it remotely.
In Step Two: Are you kidding me? They are not my servers to do anything with! I can not even enter the room they are in! They'd escort you out of the building.
Step Three... Back to the PHB thing, the head of IT does not live or work in the same country I do, he's never even been on site, there is no way I could drop anything on his desk and if I did, it would be extremely unwelcome because not only am I not in his field, he's never met me. BSA is meaningless to us, we have site licenses for Microsoft's, Adobe's, & PTC's entire portfolio (along with a pile of other's, it's a 48 page catalog) and we're big enough to say, piss off you can't come in and inspect (trade secrets, you know).
Step Four is the only thing you've said that makes sense or even vaguely doable, but it lacks a keyword: "Validated" and because of that would not considered.
So what does that leave me with? Only things in MY domain: Data Collection, Device Control, Device Firmware and Molecular modeling. Here I've done a fair job. I use SuSE linux on most of the data collection and machine control boxes. I use SuSE, Free-DOS and Win-XP to develop on. If you look under the skirts of a lot of our devices you find that only the older ones have custom kernels, while the newer ones run NetBSD or Linux.
I hope I haven't offended you or been overly negative, but a lot of OSS evangelists do NOT understand big companies. That's a large part of why we're still using Microsoft products.
amazing isn't it! I love this quote from TFA: Laura Creighton, software entrepreneur, venture capitalist and vice-president of FFII, comments:
"Before today it was possible for generous people to look charitably at this
text as an example of a tragic mistake, not malice. But not with this
last-minute maneuvering. Only the most committed opponent to the democratic
process would believe that the proper response to the widespread consensus
that there is something profoundly wrong with the Council's text, is to race
it through with an A-item approval the week before Christmas in a Fisheries
Council Meeting. The bad smell coming from Brussels has nothing to do with
the fish."
You know, because I work for big Pharma, I think about this every time one of these studies comes out.
However, after to speaking with a few of the higher up IT guys at various trade shows and other events where we accidentally windup in the same room. I have concluded money has very little to do with us using Microsoft products. Rather it's other things like: PHB's (almost by definition) aren't highly technical people but maintainers of the status quo, "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft", and most importantly the incredible inertia of big companies like ours
In summary: Despite the wide usage of FOSS in R&D it would take something on the scale of Nuclear War to draw enough attention & create the motivation it would require to make the change from Microsoft to anything else for the Desktop and most servers and Old 'Enterprise level' UNIX for the important stuff.
Never before have I read a series (and listened to the audio books) which made me suffer through such awful tripe to experience a small core of good ideas, story telling and fantasy. It is as if parts of a book geared towards 7 year olds were pasted in a book for folks at least in or past high-school. The recurring theme of the juvenile 'battle of the sexes' ruins the story and is out of place!
oh... the audio aooks really are much better than just reading the paper books.
Why? What's wrong with SSH? Why devote the computation power required to do that on a server or a device who's primary function has nothing to do with the desktop sort of model?
"It's a real newspaper published by a church -- The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Mass., USA.... let's be clear: The Christian Science church doesn't publish news to propagate denominational doctrine; it provides news purely as a public service. Here's why: If the basic theology of that church says that what reaches and affects thought shapes experience, it follows that a newspaper would have significant impact on the lives of those who read it.
A newspaper whose motive is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind," as its founder charged, would have a "leavening" effect on society, as well as on individual lives -- to use a metaphor Eddy herself appreciated and used. The idea is that the unblemished truth is freeing (as a fundamental human right); with it, citizens can make informed decisions and take intelligent action, for themselves and for society."
On a side note, I've just read throught the comments and I'm amazed at the number people that have made comments showing that they know no science... did IQs suddenly drop while I was away?
Actually, There isn't port for the 8086 (As another post has said you must have a mmu, which an 8086 lacks) but your point is still valid. I have found that by the time a project is complex enough (computationally speaking) to require an OS, most of the CPUs that fit the requirements have one. NetBSD can be pruned down to be quite small and I'm usually able to get the port working quickly and easily.
Idly I have pined for a busybox for NetBSD, I think it would be a great addition.
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What's stopping them?
No problem and they'd be sticking it to the 'man'.
Gotta go, need to find my dreadlocks wig
Oh! The Humanity!
I've got a GF and two girls!
I need 5 of these!
???
Profit
Man, I need a shower after that
I only do things in my locality (due to travel time)
I refuse to give a penny to or have anything to do with abrahamics (judaism, christianity, & islam) as they cause enough misery without my help.
I only work about 20 hours a week and this keeps me really busy, I've become quite the handyman and good with filling out various forms for the local government.
You don't have to look far before you find something worthy your time and money and if you are the one spending the money you can be sure to it's going to good works... This week I swung by the local homeless shelter/kitchen & fixed some stuff, it cost me about 60 euros and about 8 hours work. No big deal... but makes an impact where I live and that gets me out of bed early in the mornings.
Oh... and because this is /. I should add that I fix a bunch of PC's for schools and temples around town... again no big deal but the recipients are appreciative.
This SOLLOG is simply the sum of /.
Come to think of it, it would make a better fit in my PowerMac Cube too!
Doesn't that happen in Vegas all the time?
Providing a correct answer using a calculator proves only that you know how to use it and pushed the right buttons!
The CFO is just a banker and as such is as evil as the rest of the bankers
Rember IT is a commodity, which leaves it in the hands of operations. Operations only job is to maintain the status quo
I wish more effort was spent in the area of proving risk-reduction, it's the only thing that matters.
That's that new Depleted Uranium paper the military has been using!
We're talking about big multinational companies, so a lot of your evangelical strategies won't work, are inappropriate, aren't welcome and would get you fired. For example:
In Step One: I work in R&D and my Boss (in fact the whole food chain from me up) is a Ph.D. Physical Chemist, and despite the fact and he's got the message (he uses firefox at home, for example) he has no control (or interest) over what IT does and thus I would be preaching to choir. All of the desktops in the company are standardized (choice of 4 types) and locked down, no one has write privileges to the local drives or local admin rights. Running an application that is not approved is a fireable offense, So is modifying the registry, Running a P2P app, Running a server, and Bypassing security. Setting up and running a wireless network will result in the IT guys immediately, on discovery (random 802.11x sweeps), escort you out of the building. Need something different or package installed? It's no problem, but you can't do it, IT does it remotely.
In Step Two: Are you kidding me? They are not my servers to do anything with! I can not even enter the room they are in! They'd escort you out of the building.
Step Three... Back to the PHB thing, the head of IT does not live or work in the same country I do, he's never even been on site, there is no way I could drop anything on his desk and if I did, it would be extremely unwelcome because not only am I not in his field, he's never met me. BSA is meaningless to us, we have site licenses for Microsoft's, Adobe's, & PTC's entire portfolio (along with a pile of other's, it's a 48 page catalog) and we're big enough to say, piss off you can't come in and inspect (trade secrets, you know).
Step Four is the only thing you've said that makes sense or even vaguely doable, but it lacks a keyword: "Validated" and because of that would not considered.
So what does that leave me with? Only things in MY domain: Data Collection, Device Control, Device Firmware and Molecular modeling. Here I've done a fair job. I use SuSE linux on most of the data collection and machine control boxes. I use SuSE, Free-DOS and Win-XP to develop on. If you look under the skirts of a lot of our devices you find that only the older ones have custom kernels, while the newer ones run NetBSD or Linux.
I hope I haven't offended you or been overly negative, but a lot of OSS evangelists do NOT understand big companies. That's a large part of why we're still using Microsoft products.
Don't get me wrong, I want to believe!
"Before today it was possible for generous people to look charitably at this text as an example of a tragic mistake, not malice. But not with this last-minute maneuvering. Only the most committed opponent to the democratic process would believe that the proper response to the widespread consensus that there is something profoundly wrong with the Council's text, is to race it through with an A-item approval the week before Christmas in a Fisheries Council Meeting. The bad smell coming from Brussels has nothing to do with the fish."
Amazing isn't it! My sister has made a small fortune being good with ugly, convulted COBOL
Given what an addiction handys are here in Austria, I'm really thinking of making some auf Deutsch.
However, after to speaking with a few of the higher up IT guys at various trade shows and other events where we accidentally windup in the same room. I have concluded money has very little to do with us using Microsoft products. Rather it's other things like: PHB's (almost by definition) aren't highly technical people but maintainers of the status quo, "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft", and most importantly the incredible inertia of big companies like ours
In summary: Despite the wide usage of FOSS in R&D it would take something on the scale of Nuclear War to draw enough attention & create the motivation it would require to make the change from Microsoft to anything else for the Desktop and most servers and Old 'Enterprise level' UNIX for the important stuff.
Never before have I read a series (and listened to the audio books) which made me suffer through such awful tripe to experience a small core of good ideas, story telling and fantasy. It is as if parts of a book geared towards 7 year olds were pasted in a book for folks at least in or past high-school. The recurring theme of the juvenile 'battle of the sexes' ruins the story and is out of place!
oh... the audio aooks really are much better than just reading the paper books.
I feel much better now...
Why? What's wrong with SSH? Why devote the computation power required to do that on a server or a device who's primary function has nothing to do with the desktop sort of model?
"It's a real newspaper published by a church -- The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Mass., USA.... let's be clear: The Christian Science church doesn't publish news to propagate denominational doctrine; it provides news purely as a public service. Here's why: If the basic theology of that church says that what reaches and affects thought shapes experience, it follows that a newspaper would have significant impact on the lives of those who read it.
A newspaper whose motive is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind," as its founder charged, would have a "leavening" effect on society, as well as on individual lives -- to use a metaphor Eddy herself appreciated and used. The idea is that the unblemished truth is freeing (as a fundamental human right); with it, citizens can make informed decisions and take intelligent action, for themselves and for society."
On a side note, I've just read throught the comments and I'm amazed at the number people that have made comments showing that they know no science... did IQs suddenly drop while I was away?
Now, what would be the point of making sure KDE or Gnome work on these devices.
2: Many, now go buy one and get started... IBM's Gekko & ATI's Flipper might be a good place to start...
...But then again I have thing about cubes
Are you an embedded developer too!?
Idly I have pined for a busybox for NetBSD, I think it would be a great addition.
Interesting, I wonder if it somehow could be used with Babylon Pro?
Rich? It's worth about 1/3 of what it was in the summer of 2001. I have it and I'm not rich!
I live 1 hour and 30 minutes from Budapest, the grandparent is full of shit