Actually, from what I've felt from the JBoss site and third person accounts, I wouldn't have delt with the JBoss people if it depended on my business either.
This fork-of-developers is great, I hope that java technologies gain from it and prove themselves based on merit, not ego.
Aside from multiple distribution support, is anyone taken aback about how many companies are essentially peddeling what an admin can do with apt-get/cfengine (with updates to cfengine configs via rsync/ssh) with Debian?
I too support hundreds of machines, and I find my worst experience is making sure i've got a decent, up to date for bleeding edge kernel handy and a discover database to match it. Nevermind X.:) Since I follow woody and roll in some of my own updates alongside other users updates, its quite easy to have a 'modern' gnome2 system that has been updated against major security issues.
Having a nice automatic installer (autoinstall, heavily hacked, ask for source if you care) and good remote mass administration tools are the two things that make my life easier.
Be weary of supporting these companies, I just don't think they have many peoples best interests in mind if you have a clue handy. Ximian is supporting propretiary file formats (doc!) now, redhat is selling 2 year development cycles (wasn't that a debian complaint a ways back?), and many of them are only selling their 64-bit installers for nearly $1k a pop.
And before then we will see EDGE from T-Mobile and AT&T. (I'm guessing AT&T will beat them all with 3g, they have cool features like buddy location allready, too.)
The t39m is a better phone anyway. It's small, functional, and has real battery life. It does GPRS and Bluetooth well, and doesn't glob on a lame ass low quality camera.:)
Of course, you forget that most economists say the *Consumer* drives the market, not the shennagians of enterprise.
We've been without crazy investment for a few years and the consumers had no problems running up insane debt until life got better. The real problem is that life *didn't* get better, and it won't get better until we get all this god damn uncertainty out of the market.:|
Eazy way to fix this is to mount y: to a UNC name like \\homesserver\home , we use samba to host a box that maps home to whatever user is connected. Lots more applications than mozilla dont support this.
Yeah, the docking 'pods' on the Fascination are damn cool. The side thrusters are something to be heard on the last morning of sailing when your trying to sleep at 5am, though.
People with real CS degrees go on to form neat companies with technologies like Tivo and Google.
What your mistaking for CS majors are not "Scientists" but more like "Technologists" as a field. There is a difference. IMO, if it turns into a profession where your doing *exactly* what people tell you to design without using your expertise, you better only have one of those 2 year 'programming' degrees from a community college.
CS is what you make of it. Remember that.
Same applies to system administrators, but not in the same fashion.
In any profession, I think, you need to come up with goals early that you are working for someone and trying to gain as much freedom to do the best things for your employer under minimal supervision. If your employer won't let you do that on your own, theres a problem. Micromanaged workplaces suck.
You would have to be a bona-fide moron to think windows has competitors that actually force market prices. Compare ximian connector to the costs of maintaining outlook on a windows box.
Ximian, unlike microsoft, has to deal with market pressure. Microsoft is in such a position to not succept itself to market pressure as easily.
Meaning that I've got little options to buy either of them ever. I'm still stuck with my shitty motorola t193. I'm thinking of a ericsson t39, though. Looks like a very nice not-bells-and-whistles-based phone.
So instead of effeciencies, we plunder the hardware stash and make a UI that uses all your HW to death. Too bad the bulk of machines I see running OSX (iBooks, mostly the 12in variety) dont have the hardware to really do Quartz Extreme.
I like having battery life on my lifebook, anyhow.
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Actually, from what I've felt from the JBoss site and third person accounts, I wouldn't have delt with the JBoss people if it depended on my business either.
This fork-of-developers is great, I hope that java technologies gain from it and prove themselves based on merit, not ego.
Aside from multiple distribution support, is anyone taken aback about how many companies are essentially peddeling what an admin can do with apt-get/cfengine (with updates to cfengine configs via rsync/ssh) with Debian?
:) Since I follow woody and roll in some of my own updates alongside other users updates, its quite easy to have a 'modern' gnome2 system that has been updated against major security issues.
I too support hundreds of machines, and I find my worst experience is making sure i've got a decent, up to date for bleeding edge kernel handy and a discover database to match it. Nevermind X.
Having a nice automatic installer (autoinstall, heavily hacked, ask for source if you care) and good remote mass administration tools are the two things that make my life easier.
Be weary of supporting these companies, I just don't think they have many peoples best interests in mind if you have a clue handy. Ximian is supporting propretiary file formats (doc!) now, redhat is selling 2 year development cycles (wasn't that a debian complaint a ways back?), and many of them are only selling their 64-bit installers for nearly $1k a pop.
Yeah, I've got that problem too.
KC0OBS.
Actually, the best paying jobs require you to be trustworthy and get stuff done without being told.
Lots of people have forgotten this and want to be told what to do. Thats their own loss.
And before then we will see EDGE from T-Mobile and AT&T. (I'm guessing AT&T will beat them all with 3g, they have cool features like buddy location allready, too.)
Ditto, I do the same with a Currie on my bike when the weather is ok out. (Minnesota Winters are not conducive to biking!)
Enough Said. Ax-Man is *the* place.
The t39m is a better phone anyway. It's small, functional, and has real battery life. It does GPRS and Bluetooth well, and doesn't glob on a lame ass low quality camera. :)
www.surfthing.com -- free wifi.
Of course, you forget that most economists say the *Consumer* drives the market, not the shennagians of enterprise.
:|
We've been without crazy investment for a few years and the consumers had no problems running up insane debt until life got better. The real problem is that life *didn't* get better, and it won't get better until we get all this god damn uncertainty out of the market.
Ditto. Buy a lifebook. They rock. I can't think of life without the P2040.
We've had the traffic mapping info for a long time Here!
Eazy way to fix this is to mount y: to a UNC name like \\homesserver\home , we use samba to host a box that maps home to whatever user is connected. Lots more applications than mozilla dont support this.
Yeah, the docking 'pods' on the Fascination are damn cool. The side thrusters are something to be heard on the last morning of sailing when your trying to sleep at 5am, though.
Crusing rocks.
Note: it looks fine on gnome based desktops, imagine.
On the other end of things, I can keep my pc laptop unplugged all day and not care. /me hugs his Transmeta based Fujitsu Lifebook.
Naa naa na naaa naa.
Hell, just convince any 'smaller' dog to lay near your feet, or on them. :)
Downside, our golden (http://winterstar.info/goldens.shtml) likes to lick my feet instead if i dont have socks on!
I figure the extra $25 dollars they want for it is worth me buying DVD's instead.
People with real CS degrees go on to form neat companies with technologies like Tivo and Google.
What your mistaking for CS majors are not "Scientists" but more like "Technologists" as a field. There is a difference. IMO, if it turns into a profession where your doing *exactly* what people tell you to design without using your expertise, you better only have one of those 2 year 'programming' degrees from a community college.
CS is what you make of it. Remember that.
Same applies to system administrators, but not in the same fashion.
In any profession, I think, you need to come up with goals early that you are working for someone and trying to gain as much freedom to do the best things for your employer under minimal supervision. If your employer won't let you do that on your own, theres a problem. Micromanaged workplaces suck.
You would have to be a bona-fide moron to think windows has competitors that actually force market prices. Compare ximian connector to the costs of maintaining outlook on a windows box.
Ximian, unlike microsoft, has to deal with market pressure. Microsoft is in such a position to not succept itself to market pressure as easily.
duh.
Meaning that I've got little options to buy either of them ever. I'm still stuck with my shitty motorola t193. I'm thinking of a ericsson t39, though. Looks like a very nice not-bells-and-whistles-based phone.
AOL (and here is some text to get through the filters)
AOL/TW Uses Scientific Atlanta set-top equipment for digital cable.
Then you need to make RealOne work on Unix. I've got better things to do than use a windows machine to listen to the radio streams.
So instead of effeciencies, we plunder the hardware stash and make a UI that uses all your HW to death. Too bad the bulk of machines I see running OSX (iBooks, mostly the 12in variety) dont have the hardware to really do Quartz Extreme.
I like having battery life on my lifebook, anyhow.