Hi,
If you're gonna get all cute with the configurable color schemes, _please_ make sure as to require that links be different colors than regular text, and selected links be different colors than unselected links..
My Abit BP6 hangs when trying to sync soft-RAIDed disks on its Highpoint adapters so I have to run striped on a single IDE interface, which is kind of beside the point..
but you have to be the hardest of the hard core to live with Linux and Linux apps on the desktop full time.
You flatter me unduly;)
StarOffice does pretty much everyting I need in an office app, Nutscrape's available (as is Flash, acroread, realplay, other toys) for browsing. xmovie plays decoded.vobs and MPEG files. XMMS handles my playlists. I do my filesharing over samba so I don't have to worry about exposing uid mapping nonsense via NFS (and my SMB performance is better, hmmph).. I have not had to boot a WinXX machine on my work desktop for well over 1.5 years now... Even the Exchange mail system 2 jobs ago had a web-browsable interface installed..
Now if only I could get broadcast2000 talking without crashing to my D8 camcorder over ieee1394, life without windows would be dandy!
Yeah we do, with our wallets. Or, thanks to filesharing, with our mice.
I currently vote to buy only discounted CDs (and only on rare occasions), rip 'em and trade 'em over my corporate LAN and among a close circle of pals, and to not bother with Napster and its ilk. But that's just me.
While two wrongs (price gouging, copyright infringement) don't make a right, they certainly do grab attention..
Also it is damn hard to find a job and even harder to find a job if you have been laid off,
News to me: I keep getting job offers to do AIX or Solaris contract work in Tokyo..
But I won't wear a tie or work for a bank, and I definitely won't fly coach to asia.. But I definitely _would_ be interested in a biz-class seat for a short term, if only for the sushi and the gadgets..
Um, actually, Seattle Weekly is from Seattle. Bill G lives in Medina, works in Redmond, and probably reads the Eastside Business Journal.
Close enough. I wonder how much corporate tax the state of WA gets from Herr Gates? Remember, state taxes are spent throughout the state, not just in the locality in which they're received... Or am I writing to another tool?
Shit, maybe WA doesn't collect corporate taxes! If that were the case tho, every corporation on this planet would HQ there...
That's like me saying that New Jersey makes New York City do its bidding.
Heh heh, in some ways it does.. Can you say Port Authority? Can you say 'giving tax breaks to prevent luring'? Can you say 'Ellis Island bridge'? Where do you think the folks who work in NYC live? Why do you think there's an hour of traffic to drive ~1 mile across the Hudson River at 3 separate points in the morning? And that's _with_ one of the largest public transportation networks on the PLANET?
And we haven't even mentioned the northern and eastern suburbs, which are actually more apropos as they're in the same state...
But I digress. Moody is still a twit, and a partial one at that. Find me evidence otherwise.
As for CmdrTaco: it wouldn't hurt to exercise some judgement. This is just another one of those Slashdot entries that are guaranteed to end up as a flamewar.
Well, what else do you think pays for this site? Page views and banner CPM...
Paranoid? I don't think I'm paranoid _enough_..
(to be fair though, I'm sure that CT would have heard from hundreds of submitters about not posting this stupid article, and if any site deserves to have an exception in my junkbuster filters, it's this one (so far:p ))
seattleweekly? Where the hell do you think that is?
Who butters his bread? Who subscribes to his publication? Who contributes to the taxbase in his community and provides dollars for city services, education, etc? Who patronizes his publication's sponsors and provides for a pleasant civic environment (in theory: haven't been there in 15 years)?
No shit he doesn't like Linux.. It threatens his community!
If he had balls (or a clue: he may not know he's compromised!) he'd admit it.. If he's lucky, he's an acolyte of the Redmondian Illuminati.. I bet he's just a stooge, a patsy, a clueless tool..
.. hey guys, let's SHIP A GODDAMN FULLY FUNCTIONAL RELEASE VERSION OF THE BROWSER FIRST?!??!?!??!??
(yes, I know it's redundant and obvious, but the delays in getting a real Moz ver out the door are leading to this kind of loss of concentration. CONCENTRATE ON THE TASK AT HAND and get it done first, _then_ start thinking about other new widgets...)
(pre mod'd down for your convenience) Your Working Boy,
I tried to get a summer job during the early '90s
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... during college to cover my expenses away from home, 1992, and when applying for a sales job at Radio Shack I was up against 6-8 compsci/engineering grads for 2 positions:p
I simply can't vote for either party any longer. For these reasons, this year I'm voting Ralph Nader for President.
I am also disheartened by the lack of true choices in modern American politics. What's even more dangerous and troubling IMHO is the pervasive lack of trust in our representation. In a Democracy, having your politicians ranked lower in public trust than your lawyers (I wouldn't doubt it) is scary, corrosive, and self-destructive. Would putting a man like Nader (many of whose positions I disagree with substantially, but whose integrity I respect) provide a swift enough kick in the ass to this country to get it talking on a mature level about real issues?
America seems to me, at this point, to be in a very childish phase. It wants things but won't pay for them, it wants rights but no responsibilities. Can an environment like this even support a mature debate on civics and the role of government in society?
Something many Americans don't realize is that in many Western countries (Sweden in particular) the citizenry has basically decided to incorporate the government into society as their advocate, trusting them to do so. In the US, you don't get the sense of the government as the citizen's advocate, except in very rare occasions (NTSB, FDA, GAO come to mind).
I've been told many times over my life "America: love it or leave it". I'm thinking these days, perhaps I may end up doing both.. A country like the Netherlands, where they've a history of tolerance and freedom and a large percentage of English-fluency, seems like an ideal candidate.. Every time I go back there (Amsterdam, Den Haag) it seems more and more attractive.. Lots of IT jobs, relatively inexpensive housing (compared to NY/SF), great food/culture/people..
Is America too big to fix?
Your Working Boy,
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Right. And then a buncha Silicon Valley geeks and dot-commers raised housing prices so high they all had to move out.
Serves the pretentious bastards right.
Of course, when the nanotech billionaires move in and herd out the net.nerds, I'm sure there'll be YAO (Yet Another Outcry)..
(pre mod'd down for your convenience) Your Working Boy,
Heh, I had a good experience with their storage group in Austin when I was working for their Internet Division in White Plains.. Had to get a 7135 RAIDiant array working with AIX 3.2.5, but the controller and drive microcode apparently had issues with the most recent PTF sets (thank you fixdist!) loaded on the box, so I ended up being escalated to an engineer who helped design and build the thing, and he FTP'd me the latest microcode fixes that day, had everything working fine the next..
.. I don't know bout you, but while I support the ideal, I'm just bloody tired of the effort in getting the thing working... Is that criminal to say?
Which is why I'm still using 4.74 Communicator. It may have bugs, it may not have lots of whiz-bang features, but I can do SSL IMAP and read The Register with it without having to think. Something as commodity as a browser needs to just get the hell out of the way.. Part of the "problem" is that Communicator is good enough for most users' needs.. Maybe Galeon will do it for me, if I can find an alternate GUI SSL IMAP client for Linux..
OK, maybe I'm whinging, but at least in the US, the customer is always right:|
(pre mod'd down for your convenience) Your Working Boy,
2mbps isn't good enough? It's enough for me to get my laptop routing thru my cell in my pocket, or for exchanging info with people without having to pull the palm out of the pocket, hit 'send', point at victim, etc.. It seems pretty neat to me for what it is...
it intentionally doesn't have enough range to be a substitute for wireless ethernet.
Why bother? 802.11 seems to be doing well enough, but its power requirements may not be suitable for small/light/low-power devices..
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Hi,
If you're gonna get all cute with the configurable color schemes, _please_ make sure as to require that links be different colors than regular text, and selected links be different colors than unselected links..
Very annoying..
Your Working Boy,
Yah,
My Abit BP6 hangs when trying to sync soft-RAIDed disks on its Highpoint adapters so I have to run striped on a single IDE interface, which is kind of beside the point..
:(
Your Working Boy,
.. and if any of you are overpaid computer geeks taking net.freedom for granted, I encourage you to do the same..
And yeah, they might not have premiums, but my liberty is worth more than a tote bag..
Your Working Boy,
from project to project 'cause Big Blue really *enjoyed* canning projects!
Hey, at least Chairman Lou killed our project in a keynote!
InfoSage was pretty solid for the time, though definitely overpriced for the market...
Your Working Boy,
.. to hack into Natalie Portman's G-String?
Your Working Boy,
If there's a Windows version, it should do well ..
I hate to say it, but there it is.
Your Working Boy,
It may surpise the zealots of Slahsdot, but there are legitimate and sound reasons for running a Microsoft product.
We're working on it.
Your Working Boy,
Terminus does...
Your Working Boy,
but you have to be the hardest of the hard core to live with Linux and Linux apps on the desktop full time.
;)
.vobs and MPEG files. XMMS handles my playlists. I do my filesharing over samba so I don't have to worry about exposing uid mapping nonsense via NFS (and my SMB performance is better, hmmph).. I have not had to boot a WinXX machine on my work desktop for well over 1.5 years now... Even the Exchange mail system 2 jobs ago had a web-browsable interface installed..
You flatter me unduly
StarOffice does pretty much everyting I need in an office app, Nutscrape's available (as is Flash, acroread, realplay, other toys) for browsing. xmovie plays decoded
Now if only I could get broadcast2000 talking without crashing to my D8 camcorder over ieee1394, life without windows would be dandy!
Your Working Boy,
and you'd boot your computer if you wanted to play others (Ultima, Castle Wolfenstein, MS Flight Simulator).
;)
For shame! It was SubLOGIC Flight Simulator!
Still, I did love Karateka, Elite, Kabul Spy (ok, I hated Kabul Spy), Infocom.*..
*reminisce*
Your Working Boy,
We don't vote to decide on the price of things.
Yeah we do, with our wallets. Or, thanks to filesharing, with our mice.
I currently vote to buy only discounted CDs (and only on rare occasions), rip 'em and trade 'em over my corporate LAN and among a close circle of pals, and to not bother with Napster and its ilk. But that's just me.
While two wrongs (price gouging, copyright infringement) don't make a right, they certainly do grab attention..
Your Working Boy,
Also it is damn hard to find a job and even harder to find a job if you have been laid off,
News to me: I keep getting job offers to do AIX or Solaris contract work in Tokyo..
But I won't wear a tie or work for a bank, and I definitely won't fly coach to asia.. But I definitely _would_ be interested in a biz-class seat for a short term, if only for the sushi and the gadgets..
Your Working Boy,
Who runs Quake 3 in X? Windows 2000 for the games, baby!
I like to play games, but I also value my soul...
Your Working Boy,
Um, actually, Seattle Weekly is from Seattle. Bill G lives in Medina, works in Redmond, and probably reads the Eastside Business Journal.
Close enough. I wonder how much corporate tax the state of WA gets from Herr Gates? Remember, state taxes are spent throughout the state, not just in the locality in which they're received... Or am I writing to another tool?
Shit, maybe WA doesn't collect corporate taxes! If that were the case tho, every corporation on this planet would HQ there...
That's like me saying that New Jersey makes New York City do its bidding.
Heh heh, in some ways it does.. Can you say Port Authority? Can you say 'giving tax breaks to prevent luring'? Can you say 'Ellis Island bridge'? Where do you think the folks who work in NYC live? Why do you think there's an hour of traffic to drive ~1 mile across the Hudson River at 3 separate points in the morning? And that's _with_ one of the largest public transportation networks on the PLANET?
And we haven't even mentioned the northern and eastern suburbs, which are actually more apropos as they're in the same state...
But I digress. Moody is still a twit, and a partial one at that. Find me evidence otherwise.
Or not.
Your Working Boy,
As for CmdrTaco: it wouldn't hurt to exercise some judgement. This is just another one of those Slashdot entries that are guaranteed to end up as a flamewar.
:p ))
Well, what else do you think pays for this site? Page views and banner CPM...
Paranoid? I don't think I'm paranoid _enough_..
(to be fair though, I'm sure that CT would have heard from hundreds of submitters about not posting this stupid article, and if any site deserves to have an exception in my junkbuster filters, it's this one (so far
Your Working Boy,
... sk8hard posted his addy as 'fmoody@seattleweekly.com'..
seattleweekly? Where the hell do you think that is?
Who butters his bread? Who subscribes to his publication? Who contributes to the taxbase in his community and provides dollars for city services, education, etc? Who patronizes his publication's sponsors and provides for a pleasant civic environment (in theory: haven't been there in 15 years)?
No shit he doesn't like Linux.. It threatens his community!
If he had balls (or a clue: he may not know he's compromised!) he'd admit it.. If he's lucky, he's an acolyte of the Redmondian Illuminati.. I bet he's just a stooge, a patsy, a clueless tool..
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Your Working Boy,
.. hey guys, let's SHIP A GODDAMN FULLY FUNCTIONAL RELEASE VERSION OF THE BROWSER FIRST?!??!?!??!??
(yes, I know it's redundant and obvious, but the delays in getting a real Moz ver out the door are leading to this kind of loss of concentration. CONCENTRATE ON THE TASK AT HAND and get it done first, _then_ start thinking about other new widgets...)
(pre mod'd down for your convenience)
Your Working Boy,
... during college to cover my expenses away from home, 1992, and when applying for a sales job at Radio Shack I was up against 6-8 compsci/engineering grads for 2 positions :p
I simply can't vote for either party any longer. For these reasons, this year I'm voting Ralph Nader for President.
I am also disheartened by the lack of true choices in modern American politics. What's even more dangerous and troubling IMHO is the pervasive lack of trust in our representation. In a Democracy, having your politicians ranked lower in public trust than your lawyers (I wouldn't doubt it) is scary, corrosive, and self-destructive. Would putting a man like Nader (many of whose positions I disagree with substantially, but whose integrity I respect) provide a swift enough kick in the ass to this country to get it talking on a mature level about real issues?
America seems to me, at this point, to be in a very childish phase. It wants things but won't pay for them, it wants rights but no responsibilities. Can an environment like this even support a mature debate on civics and the role of government in society?
Something many Americans don't realize is that in many Western countries (Sweden in particular) the citizenry has basically decided to incorporate the government into society as their advocate, trusting them to do so. In the US, you don't get the sense of the government as the citizen's advocate, except in very rare occasions (NTSB, FDA, GAO come to mind).
I've been told many times over my life "America: love it or leave it". I'm thinking these days, perhaps I may end up doing both.. A country like the Netherlands, where they've a history of tolerance and freedom and a large percentage of English-fluency, seems like an ideal candidate.. Every time I go back there (Amsterdam, Den Haag) it seems more and more attractive.. Lots of IT jobs, relatively inexpensive housing (compared to NY/SF), great food/culture/people..
Is America too big to fix?
Your Working Boy,
Right. And then a buncha Silicon Valley geeks and dot-commers raised housing prices so high they all had to move out.
Serves the pretentious bastards right.
Of course, when the nanotech billionaires move in and herd out the net.nerds, I'm sure there'll be YAO (Yet Another Outcry)..
(pre mod'd down for your convenience)
Your Working Boy,
I've actually seen IBM fix something. Fast. Once.
Heh, I had a good experience with their storage group in Austin when I was working for their Internet Division in White Plains.. Had to get a 7135 RAIDiant array working with AIX 3.2.5, but the controller and drive microcode apparently had issues with the most recent PTF sets (thank you fixdist!) loaded on the box, so I ended up being escalated to an engineer who helped design and build the thing, and he FTP'd me the latest microcode fixes that day, had everything working fine the next..
The next best thing to opensource!
Your Working Boy,
.. I don't know bout you, but while I support the ideal, I'm just bloody tired of the effort in getting the thing working... Is that criminal to say?
:|
Which is why I'm still using 4.74 Communicator. It may have bugs, it may not have lots of whiz-bang features, but I can do SSL IMAP and read The Register with it without having to think. Something as commodity as a browser needs to just get the hell out of the way.. Part of the "problem" is that Communicator is good enough for most users' needs.. Maybe Galeon will do it for me, if I can find an alternate GUI SSL IMAP client for Linux..
OK, maybe I'm whinging, but at least in the US, the customer is always right
(pre mod'd down for your convenience)
Your Working Boy,
A phone that doesn't ring every 30 seconds (especially when it is a fax machine that calls four times because someone forgot to dial 9).
Dude, you pick up the phone?
If it's not in email (documented, logged and backed-up for future evidence) I don't know about it. That includes problems with email.
OK, OK, some people (my boss and staff) have my mobile, but I have CID and they know my abuse policy...
Your Working Boy,
any single hot secretaries might consider FUCKing the sysadmin on Sys-Admin Appreciation Day.
Married's no problem either..
YOW-za!!
Your Working Boy,
it isn't designed to be very high-bandwidth
2mbps isn't good enough? It's enough for me to get my laptop routing thru my cell in my pocket, or for exchanging info with people without having to pull the palm out of the pocket, hit 'send', point at victim, etc.. It seems pretty neat to me for what it is...
it intentionally doesn't have enough range to be a substitute for wireless ethernet.
Why bother? 802.11 seems to be doing well enough, but its power requirements may not be suitable for small/light/low-power devices..
I'm interested to see where bluetooth goes..
Your Working Boy,
Regardless of what protocol you choose, it should be TCP/IP :)
IPv6! How else to account for all that address space from millions (if not billions eventually) of devices?
;)
Your Working Boy,