There's nothing wrong with CSS in and of itself, but the because issue facing the LDP is NOT how they should handle presentation. It's the seriously outdated content in many HOWTOs and FAQs.
If I had a say, that's where I'd "vote".
now that Digitemp has stopped producing and selling their 1 wire interfaces, are there similarly priced alternatives ? Their kits used to be less than $50 with a handful of probes, but it's more than $100 for the equivalent now on the links they supply...
Kicking myself for not ordering before....
I'm sorry but they emailed me an offer like three weeks ago. The deadline to accept the position (software architect) is July 1st.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but they can withdraw that offer without a second thought. It's pretty crappy, but the people who extended it to you most likely had no idea that the layoff was coming.
I sadly was involved in layoffs at my work, and one minute I was talking to one of my employees about his 6-month/1-year/2-year goals, and the next, I was laying him off. I knew business was slow, but I didn't realize we were anywhere close to letting people go. That was in late 2000. We've had 2 more blood-letting since.
The other fun bit was that I had lined up a co-op position for a friend of my girlfriend. Without even telling me, HR withdrew the offer. I managed to get that fixed up, but if I wasn't "tight" with the right people, that coop would have been toast.
What the fuck is this?? A goddamn story about a red fucking stapler?
Gene Kan is dead. Got it? Dead. From a probable self-inflicted, but we're not sure, but we'll probably call it that, even though his employer says otherwise, and his family for some odd fucking reason doesn't want any details released, gunshot wound. A guy who has just about everything a young cali bro could want, a fancy car collection, respect from his peers, a PAYING job (sorry slashdork crew), you name it. Dead.
Oh, but the red stapler story is boss.
They actually REJECTED my story submission this morning.
what is the motive for suing a search engine to remove your pages? isn't it practically free advertising? Also, could they win a suit against goole? I'm fairly certain that google mentions on the site, that to have your pages removed from thier DB, you jsut have to send them an email with your URL and asking to bt removed....isnt sueing jumping the gun a little bit?
First of all, you should read the article, it answers most of your questions.
They already asked google to take it down the hyperlinks and cached copies, but they didn't, so now they're suing
It's a tough situation : a handbook on how to destroy rail tracks is hardly worth fighting for - but even in those instances, freedom of speech must be absolute
but it sucks having to do it over some dangerous wingnuts' propaganda...
Linus hasn't had a real development (odd-minor-numbered) kernel for over a year. Now, he's accepting everything he wanted to before, but didn't because it could break too many things.
It sounds like a neat idea, but I just hope it doesn't interfere with all my X10 stuff. The protocol is unreliable enough already, we don't need more problems !
Someone the government can call if it breaks and say "fix it!" - and have someone working on it less than 4 hours later. If some Linux company can provide that, then we have a chance.
And of course, you know that's doesn't really happen, right ?
Companies like HP or Sun don't jump because a customer says so. Much less in 4 hours.
Customers have this illusion that they call the shots, but the truth of the matter is that you can threaten "I'll dump Sun/HP if this is not fixed pronto!", but no one in their right mind actually does this. The cost of switching to another vendor is way too prohibitive. And companies know this.
And I know this because I've worked both for the goverment, and for the "Big Company"
That's an interesting statement. It seems to presuppose that the only real kind of "wealth" has a dollar figure and is based on stock prices. The thing about high-tech stock prices is that they are based largely on speculation, especially for emerging industries. High-tech stocks are usually valued at 20 to 50 times their company's annual profits, though, of course, most dot-coms never actually made a profit.
Whether or not it was overvalued wasn't central to my argument. My point is that a lot of people would have believed their own hype and gone "rockstar" after something like that
All around him, people try to make him or Linux more than it really is - and invariably, Linus brings it down a notch and puts it in perspective
It's amazing that this guy gets constantly hero-worshiped, his baby created billion dollars of wealth (at one point, at least), and yet just keeps his feet firmly planted
Compare that to the clowns that get high and mighty because they rUleZ at Quake, or on some IRC channel... The geek community could learn a LOT from trying to emulate Linus' behaviour.
Why is there always this stereotypical assumption that because you cut code for a living you must be some kind of antisocial, introverted misfit? Coders have friends too y'know.
I think it's all the leet people that try to cultivate the hacker mystique. Frankly, I think it's silly.
I've been looking for something just like that! Funny that it didn't turn up when I searched 'meat... I was actually considering writing my own, but this looks like it willl fit the bill nicely ! Awesome!
Thanks for the pointer - I'll make sure to let you know how it turns out!
aaargh.... not to flame or anything, but having to run an SQL database for an email client is just... insane. (Incidently, that goes double for MP3 players! There's a few of those on freshmeat...)
Simple... you try something new, it doesn't work - but you don't know it isn't working until you try. The old VM "worked", in that it functioned as a VM, but certain problems came to light, and fixing them proved to be more complicated than just choosing a new, simpler, VM.
But shouldn't that have been caught in the 2.3.x series ? I thought the stable series (ie: 2.4.x) were to catch small "ooopsies", not "let's chuck out a key part of the kernel"
Maybe the pressure Linus got to release 2.4 was a the culprit ? I recall the Zdnet's of this world making quite a bit of hay over the fact that 2.4 was long in coming....
Knowing when it's time to give up on a bad job, chuck it out and give something else a chance is a valuable thing (but not something to do lightly, or often).
Well, I don't disagree with you on that. Rules are meant to be broken.
But in some ways, Linus got lucky - AA's VM worked much better than RvR's, so it makes look like it was the right decision. But the real question is - if RvR's VM was so broken, how did it get in there in the first place ?
I think this is a situation where 2 wrongs made a right : bad move introducing RvR's VM when it was not ready for prime time (or at least, no tested enough to know if it was), and then switching VMs in a "stable" tree.
I have to ask... shouldn't a NUMA-efficient VM be left as a patch, or thru a kernel fork ? I mean, how many people have access to NUMA machines, let alone own one ?
The VM in the mainstream kernel should be optimized for what Linux runs on 99% of the time : single CPU, with a "standard" memory bus.
With that being said, I couldn't believe that Linus made such a major change in a stable kernel. I'm glad it works, and that Alan Cox has agreed to go with it, but it wasn't an example of software engineering at its finest...
The world is full of noisy, shameless self-promoters who want the whole world to take notice of what they do. Most of them, of course, are totally frustrated.
Would it not be simple for ISPs to check what kind of machine they just gave an IP address to (generally, via dhcp or whatever), and if it's running IIS, disable port 80 access ?
Not hard to implement, and it's not a blanket ban for all port 80s. People who get their port 80 disabled probably don't even know they had it on to begin with.
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There's nothing wrong with CSS in and of itself, but the because issue facing the LDP is NOT how they should handle presentation. It's the seriously outdated content in many HOWTOs and FAQs. If I had a say, that's where I'd "vote".
now that Digitemp has stopped producing and selling their 1 wire interfaces, are there similarly priced alternatives ? Their kits used to be less than $50 with a handful of probes, but it's more than $100 for the equivalent now on the links they supply... Kicking myself for not ordering before ....
I'm sorry but they emailed me an offer like three weeks ago. The deadline to accept the position (software architect) is July 1st.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but they can withdraw that offer without a second thought. It's pretty crappy, but the people who extended it to you most likely had no idea that the layoff was coming.
I sadly was involved in layoffs at my work, and one minute I was talking to one of my employees about his 6-month/1-year/2-year goals, and the next, I was laying him off. I knew business was slow, but I didn't realize we were anywhere close to letting people go. That was in late 2000. We've had 2 more blood-letting since.
The other fun bit was that I had lined up a co-op position for a friend of my girlfriend. Without even telling me, HR withdrew the offer. I managed to get that fixed up, but if I wasn't "tight" with the right people, that coop would have been toast.
Try this one for $9.
It's serial (not USB) so that might be a downside, but it has linux support too !
I've been using one on my mp3 player box, and it's great!
What the fuck is this?? A goddamn story about a red fucking stapler?
Gene Kan is dead. Got it? Dead. From a probable self-inflicted, but we're not sure, but we'll probably call it that, even though his employer says otherwise, and his family for some odd fucking reason doesn't want any details released, gunshot wound. A guy who has just about everything a young cali bro could want, a fancy car collection, respect from his peers, a PAYING job (sorry slashdork crew), you name it. Dead.
Oh, but the red stapler story is boss.
They actually REJECTED my story submission this morning.
New low for Slashdot... if you can believe that!
If anyone knows the embedded arena, it's Wind River.
And one thing Wind River DOESN'T know is SUPPORT, the strong suit of Linux, be it on the desktop, server or embedded.
They're missing the point. The reason we left WRS behind where I work is for the lack of support they (don't) give their small customers.
With Linux, there's plenty, and our hands aren't tied when we find a problem.
If anything is "doomed", it's vendors like WRS, and those who tried to emulate WRS using Linux
First of all, you should read the article, it answers most of your questions.
They already asked google to take it down the hyperlinks and cached copies, but they didn't, so now they're suing
It's a tough situation : a handbook on how to destroy rail tracks is hardly worth fighting for - but even in those instances, freedom of speech must be absolute
but it sucks having to do it over some dangerous wingnuts' propaganda...
I can see paying X dollars to surf without ads. A simple flat rate.
But of I have to start thinking "should I hit reload and waste a page view", it will make using Slashdot very awkward.
Time to install junkbuster
People bitch about the DMCA but if Blizzard comes out with a must have game, will you go out and buy it anyway ?
Time to show you intend to punish companies that wield the DMCA to clobber the little guys.
Boycott Blizzard.
Linus hasn't had a real development (odd-minor-numbered) kernel for over a year. Now, he's accepting everything he wanted to before, but didn't because it could break too many things.
You mean, like, a ....VM ????
..... grin .....
It sounds like a neat idea, but I just hope it doesn't interfere with all my X10 stuff. The protocol is unreliable enough already, we don't need more problems !
I don't think I could live without it now
Swapping hardware is a hell of a lot different than fixing bug in an operating system. Which is what he was talking about.
I don't think IBM will fix bugs in AIX or Linux within 4 hour, no matter how much money you throw at them
Someone the government can call if it breaks and say "fix it!" - and have someone working on it less than 4 hours later. If some Linux company can provide that, then we have a chance.
And of course, you know that's doesn't really happen, right ?
Companies like HP or Sun don't jump because a customer says so. Much less in 4 hours.
Customers have this illusion that they call the shots, but the truth of the matter is that you can threaten "I'll dump Sun/HP if this is not fixed pronto!", but no one in their right mind actually does this. The cost of switching to another vendor is way too prohibitive. And companies know this.
And I know this because I've worked both for the goverment, and for the "Big Company"
That's an interesting statement. It seems to presuppose that the only real kind of "wealth" has a dollar figure and is based on stock prices. The thing about high-tech stock prices is that they are based largely on speculation, especially for emerging industries. High-tech stocks are usually valued at 20 to 50 times their company's annual profits, though, of course, most dot-coms never actually made a profit.
Whether or not it was overvalued wasn't central to my argument. My point is that a lot of people would have believed their own hype and gone "rockstar" after something like that
Linus did not.
I enjoy reading Linus' thoughts so much.
All around him, people try to make him or Linux more than it really is - and invariably, Linus brings it down a notch and puts it in perspective
It's amazing that this guy gets constantly hero-worshiped, his baby created billion dollars of wealth (at one point, at least), and yet just keeps his feet firmly planted
Compare that to the clowns that get high and mighty because they rUleZ at Quake, or on some IRC channel ... The geek community could learn a LOT from trying to emulate Linus' behaviour.
I think it's all the leet people that try to cultivate the hacker mystique. Frankly, I think it's silly.
This was posted last week already.
As a counter-argument to this, do a search for "cd player" on Freshmeat.
...grin...
Dude!
I've been looking for something just like that! Funny that it didn't turn up when I searched 'meat... I was actually considering writing my own, but this looks like it willl fit the bill nicely ! Awesome!
Thanks for the pointer - I'll make sure to let you know how it turns out!
aaargh.... not to flame or anything, but having to run an SQL database for an email client is just ... insane. (Incidently, that goes double for MP3 players! There's a few of those on freshmeat...)
But shouldn't that have been caught in the 2.3.x series ? I thought the stable series (ie: 2.4.x) were to catch small "ooopsies", not "let's chuck out a key part of the kernel"
Maybe the pressure Linus got to release 2.4 was a the culprit ? I recall the Zdnet's of this world making quite a bit of hay over the fact that 2.4 was long in coming ....
Well, I don't disagree with you on that. Rules are meant to be broken.
But in some ways, Linus got lucky - AA's VM worked much better than RvR's, so it makes look like it was the right decision. But the real question is - if RvR's VM was so broken, how did it get in there in the first place ?
I think this is a situation where 2 wrongs made a right : bad move introducing RvR's VM when it was not ready for prime time (or at least, no tested enough to know if it was), and then switching VMs in a "stable" tree.
I have to ask ... shouldn't a NUMA-efficient VM be left as a patch, or thru a kernel fork ? I mean, how many people have access to NUMA machines, let alone own one ?
The VM in the mainstream kernel should be optimized for what Linux runs on 99% of the time : single CPU, with a "standard" memory bus.
With that being said, I couldn't believe that Linus made such a major change in a stable kernel. I'm glad it works, and that Alan Cox has agreed to go with it, but it wasn't an example of software engineering at its finest...
The world is full of noisy, shameless self-promoters who want the whole world to take notice of what they do. Most of them, of course, are totally frustrated.
Hey now, leave ESR alone.
Yea, I can't stand that windbag.
Would it not be simple for ISPs to check what kind of machine they just gave an IP address to (generally, via dhcp or whatever), and if it's running IIS, disable port 80 access ?
Not hard to implement, and it's not a blanket ban for all port 80s. People who get their port 80 disabled probably don't even know they had it on to begin with.