I opened an account with E-trade as soon as/. mentioned redhat's intention to go public. Later, I decided to try to get in an IPO to make sure I could do it when RedHat came about. I too was naievely honest and filled out I didn't have much experience, and it rejected me.
I called E-trade and complained and they explained that it's the SEC's regulations that decides it, not them, and it was out of their hands. At that point I wasn't eligable for that IPO, but they said future IPO's I could change my profile and maybe I'd be eligable. It hurt, because it was for china.com which doubled within days after the IPO...
Well, the next one came about, and I changed my profile to say I knew what I was doing, and sure enough I was able to get to that one.
Bottom line, it's SEC's regulations, not E-trade, not a microsoft conspiracy, not a government/republican plot, not anything else. Plain and simple.....
For my two cents worth, to some degree I can agree with "protecting the children" but only to the point that it doesn't interfere on adult's rights, or an adult's right to choose for their own children.
Thanks to gratutious litigation, all corporations are hyper-sensitive to the possibility of offending or being responsible for anything. Sadly, this is what has caused things like this to happen -- the theaterss have to protect themselves at all costs or risk a lawsuit with unrealitic punitive damages -- or so the argument goes. Yes, in some instances the punitive damages get thrown out in appeals (i.e. the case of the woman scalded by McDonalds Coffee in appeals didn't get the $2 Million punitive damave, she just got medical costs), but the cost of litigating claims, not to mention the cost of bad publicity, are more then any punitive damage can inflict.
I have to say the only intellegent thing Dan Quale ever said was there was too much litigation and there needs to be reform (of course, as was his style, he was speaking before the bar association when he said this). When the corporations can stop having to cover their butts from everything, sensibility might return (one hopes).
Ok, I had a TRS-80 Model I, then got a model III, and somewhere picked up an atari 800. I miss them all. Anyone else wean themselves on a TRS-80??
And here's an obscure product I can't believe didn't make it big time -- anyone remember the Exatron Stringy-floppy? In those days [trs80 model I days] a floppy drive was too expensive because you had to buy the expansion module ($200-$400) then get the floppy ($100-$200). For a kid with a paper route to fund his hobby, this was TOO expensive. Exatron came out with a small, credit card sized, fast continuous loop tape cartrages that you would insert into an external box that looked like those boxes for garage security systems. It held much more then a floppy, as was as fast if not faster then a floppy (for sequential access anyway). Beat the 500 baud tapes all to heck...
Also, anyone remember the "freeware" tape subscription service called "cload"?? For a yearly fee, each month they would send you a cassette tape (the common interface on TRS-80's) of 4-8 programs that were cool. I do miss those simpler times, but on the other hand, I don't..
The article falls victim to what it is discussing - rampant over-analysis. Red hat is a company trying to make a living at supporting Linux for the business workplace. Is it so wrong for them to defend their image that they've worked to hard to build? Everyone fears the "Bill-Borg" so bad we're doing a witch hunt on anyone who smacks of success.
Lest we forget the days of Apple vs. IBM where it was the hobbists versus the Mega Corporate Monster, remember what became of that (besides spawning the "Bill-Borg") -- legitimization of the PC as a tool, not a toy. Same with Red Hat. They are going to turn the "hacker os" into a legitimate os and we'll all be better for it because since it's open source code, the os can't be the leverage to force another monopoly.
So let Red Hat be the company they want to be, and in this modern democracy vote your opinion with the standard business voting ballot -- the allmighty dollar.
Well DUH... It's NOT for everyone, it's for all us admin types who companies feel should be on 24 hour availability.
Ever tried lugging around a laptop and a cell phone and a beeper to go bar hopping for in case something crashes at work durring your not-so-free time? THAT's what it's for.
Why do you need a moble "web browser"? If you're gonna browse, stay at home and browse or go to some coffee house with web access.
1) If you look at the balance sheets from the IPO posting, they're making a ton of money and reinvesting it in themselves, as they should instead of sitting on cash.
2) Red Hat has been spending heavily to strike up many of their strategic alliences with businesses like Atria, Oracle and many others.
3) Red Hat is positioning themselves to be a "Linux for Business", not [just] for the hobbiest - that's why they give their releases away. They know most people would copy it even if it wasn't freely distributed. Businesses want a company they can rely on for support of their machines O/S's, and that's the service Red Hat provides and sells along with ushering in the big companies to port to Linux (or Red Hat's version) and help legitimize Linux as a business platform. No shame in that, and people shouldn't get into the holy wars of "best distribution" because that's not what Red Hat is doing -- they are trying to get business to embrace Linux.
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Ok, So I can say I've had similar experiences. All the net job listings are through Headhunters, and I've met many who are idiots. My last job I dealt with 5 different placement companies, rainging from complete idiots to having some idea. However, there wasn't much that panned out, and I took what I thought was a "decent" job.
This job was the pits, and after 2 months I figured it was either bail out now or be stuck another year or two. So, this time I tried going through temp companies. I called a few and got lots of good responses.
HERE'S THE KICKER -- MANY of them had contract-to-hire jobs!!! Most companies go through the recruters, get sickened and can't find a employee they want, and then instead hire a temp as a "try-before-you-buy" idea. I had 5-6 offers and within 2 weeks was working at a place that is paying nearly double what I was working and will pay more when they hire me on. I still get calls from temp companies saying if this doesn't pan out they have good contract-to-hire positions.
I have found this is the way to go, and I'd reccomend it to anyone over going through "placement" companies. Most of the "placement" companies I dealt with are just now getting into the IT field, and figure it's the same as placing a manager. It isn't.. Even when I was going through the recruters the first time I had talked to some consulting companies and they gave me better leads then the "placement" companies.
Consulting companies have to know the business to survive, while "placement" companies try to put a square peg in a round hole (or "any IT person for any position" theorem).
In O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration" book, the first chapter gives a good history of the development of *nix systems. BSD is along a different development path from linux (Unix system V). To swich from BSD to linux is a paradigm shift - not necessarly going from better to worse or worse to better. BSD is more stable, but is a different development from Linux and Unix system V.
First understand this before switching -- commands will seem similar, but there will be differences. One obvious differencing is BSD versus SYS V printing. Also, command flags are different and file locations are different.
I would guess there is realy too much differences to be able to do a "conversion" FAQ...
I believe about a year or so ago there was some stock people trying to make RAM memory a commody that was openly traded. That too failed because it isn't as generic as one thought. This will probably do be the same. I mean cellular companies can't do this with airtime (i.e. share with other companies so they can charge a flat rate anywhere), why would something even more complex fly?
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Geez, I love all the conspiracy postings....
/. mentioned redhat's intention to go public. Later, I decided to try to get in an IPO to make sure I could do it when RedHat came about. I too was naievely honest and filled out I didn't have much experience, and it rejected me.
I opened an account with E-trade as soon as
I called E-trade and complained and they explained that it's the SEC's regulations that decides it, not them, and it was out of their hands. At that point I wasn't eligable for that IPO, but they said future IPO's I could change my profile and maybe I'd be eligable. It hurt, because it was for china.com which doubled within days after the IPO...
Well, the next one came about, and I changed my profile to say I knew what I was doing, and sure enough I was able to get to that one.
Bottom line, it's SEC's regulations, not E-trade, not a microsoft conspiracy, not a government/republican plot, not anything else. Plain and simple.....
For my two cents worth, to some degree I can agree with "protecting the children" but only to the point that it doesn't interfere on adult's rights, or an adult's right to choose for their own children.
Thanks to gratutious litigation, all corporations are hyper-sensitive to the possibility of offending or being responsible for anything. Sadly, this is what has caused things like this to happen -- the theaterss have to protect themselves at all costs or risk a lawsuit with unrealitic punitive damages -- or so the argument goes. Yes, in some instances the punitive damages get thrown out in appeals (i.e. the case of the woman scalded by McDonalds Coffee in appeals didn't get the $2 Million punitive damave, she just got medical costs), but the cost of litigating claims, not to mention the cost of bad publicity, are more then any punitive damage can inflict.
I have to say the only intellegent thing Dan Quale ever said was there was too much litigation and there needs to be reform (of course, as was his style, he was speaking before the bar association when he said this). When the corporations can stop having to cover their butts from everything, sensibility might return (one hopes).
Ok, I had a TRS-80 Model I, then got a model III, and somewhere picked up an atari 800. I miss them all. Anyone else wean themselves on a TRS-80??
And here's an obscure product I can't believe didn't make it big time -- anyone remember the Exatron Stringy-floppy? In those days [trs80 model I days] a floppy drive was too expensive because you had to buy the expansion module ($200-$400) then get the floppy ($100-$200). For a kid with a paper route to fund his hobby, this was TOO expensive. Exatron came out with a small, credit card sized, fast continuous loop tape cartrages that you would insert into an external box that looked like those boxes for garage security systems. It held much more then a floppy, as was as fast if not faster then a floppy (for sequential access anyway). Beat the 500 baud tapes all to heck...
Also, anyone remember the "freeware" tape subscription service called "cload"?? For a yearly fee, each month they would send you a cassette tape (the common interface on TRS-80's) of 4-8 programs that were cool. I do miss those simpler times, but on the other hand, I don't..
The article falls victim to what it is discussing - rampant over-analysis. Red hat is a company trying to make a living at supporting Linux for the business workplace. Is it so wrong for them to defend their image that they've worked to hard to build? Everyone fears the "Bill-Borg" so bad we're doing a witch hunt on anyone who smacks of success.
Lest we forget the days of Apple vs. IBM where it was the hobbists versus the Mega Corporate Monster, remember what became of that (besides spawning the "Bill-Borg") -- legitimization of the PC as a tool, not a toy. Same with Red Hat. They are going to turn the "hacker os" into a legitimate os and we'll all be better for it because since it's open source code, the os can't be the leverage to force another monopoly.
So let Red Hat be the company they want to be, and in this modern democracy vote your opinion with the standard business voting ballot -- the allmighty dollar.
Well DUH... It's NOT for everyone, it's for all us admin types who companies feel should be on 24 hour availability.
Ever tried lugging around a laptop and a cell phone and a beeper to go bar hopping for in case something crashes at work durring your not-so-free time? THAT's what it's for.
Why do you need a moble "web browser"? If you're gonna browse, stay at home and browse or go to some coffee house with web access.
As I see it, everyone's missing the point...
1) If you look at the balance sheets from the IPO posting, they're making a ton of money and reinvesting it in themselves, as they should instead of sitting on cash.
2) Red Hat has been spending heavily to strike up many of their strategic alliences with businesses like Atria, Oracle and many others.
3) Red Hat is positioning themselves to be a "Linux for Business", not [just] for the hobbiest - that's why they give their releases away. They know most people would copy it even if it wasn't freely distributed. Businesses want a company they can rely on for support of their machines O/S's, and that's the service Red Hat provides and sells along with ushering in the big companies to port to Linux (or Red Hat's version) and help legitimize Linux as a business platform. No shame in that, and people shouldn't get into the holy wars of "best distribution" because that's not what Red Hat is doing -- they are trying to get business to embrace Linux.
Ok, So I can say I've had similar experiences. All the net job listings are through Headhunters, and I've met many who are idiots. My last job I dealt with 5 different placement companies, rainging from complete idiots to having some idea. However, there wasn't much that panned out, and I took what I thought was a "decent" job.
This job was the pits, and after 2 months I figured it was either bail out now or be stuck another year or two. So, this time I tried going through temp companies. I called a few and got lots of good responses.
HERE'S THE KICKER -- MANY of them had contract-to-hire jobs!!! Most companies go through the recruters, get sickened and can't find a employee they want, and then instead hire a temp as a "try-before-you-buy" idea. I had 5-6 offers and within 2 weeks was working at a place that is paying nearly double what I was working and will pay more when they hire me on. I still get calls from temp companies saying if this doesn't pan out they have good contract-to-hire positions.
I have found this is the way to go, and I'd reccomend it to anyone over going through "placement" companies. Most of the "placement" companies I dealt with are just now getting into the IT field, and figure it's the same as placing a manager. It isn't.. Even when I was going through the recruters the first time I had talked to some consulting companies and they gave me better leads then the "placement" companies.
Consulting companies have to know the business to survive, while "placement" companies try to put a square peg in a round hole (or "any IT person for any position" theorem).
In O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration" book, the first chapter gives a good history of the development of *nix systems. BSD is along a different development path from linux (Unix system V).
To swich from BSD to linux is a paradigm shift - not necessarly going from better to worse or worse to better. BSD is more stable, but is a different development from Linux and Unix system V.
First understand this before switching -- commands will seem similar, but there will be differences. One obvious differencing is BSD versus SYS V printing. Also, command flags are different and file locations are different.
I would guess there is realy too much differences to be able to do a "conversion" FAQ...
I believe about a year or so ago there was some stock people trying to make RAM memory a commody that was openly traded. That too failed because it isn't as generic as one thought. This will probably do be the same. I mean cellular companies can't do this with airtime (i.e. share with other companies so they can charge a flat rate anywhere), why would something even more complex fly?