According to this Yahoo! page the CEO of Cox makes $1.5M a year, it does not list what the chairman makes but it's up there too. The sum total of all of the officers listed is $2.92 million dollars a year, and this is only for three officers. That comes out to $243,000 a month. So one way to think of it is that the big wigs want a raise:)
What does this proove? That all three parties do what they say they will do. The libertarians dont want to spend money on proprietary software because they believe in absolute freedom for each and every person.
The democrats use free software because they hate big corporations and want communism. I have heard open source software described as being communistic in nature, and I dont entirely disagree.
The republicans are rich, like big companies, and like to support big companies. True capatalists, not nessecarily a bad thing.
My vote goes to the Libertarian Pary. Just my $0.02.
Judging from the number of time's I've been suckered into looking at it, and that someone somewhere is paying for each of those views, I'll bet that the aggregate cost for Goat Sex is in the trillions.
I've been reading the articles about this virus for the last 10 minutes and I just realized that it's name is Simile and not Smile. Plus I admit that I login as root a lot. And all along I thought my IQ was over 100. Bummer.
I love PuTTY, it's small, fast and has a lot of nice features, and best of all it's free. It's the first thing I do to any Windoze box I come in contact with. Launch about 5 PuTTY sessions and forget about Windoze.
If I were doing this I would create a "I want that" sort of environment. What I mean is pick a Linux distro that has a lot of eye candy and cool features, ala SuSE or Mandrake, and give it to some of your more advanced users, those willing to experiment a little bit. Let them play around with it, and give them some freedom to customize as much as they want. Once they start to really make the GUI look nice, and playing with some of the stuff that is just not available with out of the box Windows/Office they will start to attract other users. Have them tell the rest of the staff that this is the "future" and they are beta testing for the optimal environment. It wouldn't hurt if you got them new machine, or monitors, give a users some incentive to learn and use Linux.
With KDE 3 it's really not that hard to learn the OS, how many Windows users use a CMD shell, the same will be true for the average run of the mill Linux user if the GUI is setup right. I have been using KDE3 for a while now and it is at least as easy if not easier than Windows to do just about anything.
If you allow fairly unrestricted Internet access I would make sure that all of the multimedia apps are working correctly, and that flash is working as well. These are big things for the weenies, they want the bells and whistles that Windows provides, and with a good distro they're all there, but they may need some tweaking to get them running flawlessly.
Thank you. I couldn't agree more. I am a farily clean person, I shower once a day, use soap and shampoo. I brush my teeth, and sometimes if I've been working outside or on my car I even wash my hands before I eat, but I am not a zealot when it comes to keeping my life completely bacteria free. I have asthma, was a smoker, and have never really excercised much, and I still get sick way less than anyone I know who is worried about bacteria. I usually get pretty sick with a cold/flu funk about once a year, and the sniffles in the summer. I haven't had a fever in 15 or so years and the last time I puked (aside from binge drinking or the occasional robitussin/DXM trip) was when I was 10.
The funny thing is that people that I know who use paper towels to open restroom doors, or use ass gaskets on a perfectly dry toilet seat seem to me to be always sick. These are the ones who have that antibacterial evaporating hand rub crap in their desks and who constantly worry about bacteria, they are always sick. I've told them my theories about how killing all of the bacteria makes your immune system weaker, and how trying to sterilize your life just makes you more vunerable to colds and the flu, but they just blame me for being dirty and making them sick, so I just sneeze at them and walk away.
I recently when to Ghana in Africa, and because of some problems I went for a week without any malaria medication or without my yellow fever immunization. The only health problem I had was a little travellers diareah when I got back and nothing was going to stop that. IMHO the only thing that this huge antibacterial craze is helping is the companys that make the REALLY expensive products that clean you, and the bacteria itself, because it is getting stronger.
I have to say thank you. I have been running SuSE for several years now. I'm looking at my 6.0 box right now. On a side note I love the graphics on the boxes. One pattern that has definately emerged with SuSE is that the *.0 release are always very buggy, other distros too, but SuSE is what I have the most experience with. The ideas and concepts are great, but there is some work to be done still. From what I can tell this seems to be holding true for 8.0 as well. The other pattern that I have noticed is that the *.1 will be coming very shortly. I will probably wait for that or 8.2 until I upgrade, as I am happily running 7.3 with KDE 3.0 right now and it rox. Whether SuSE does this deliberatly or not is up for debate, but I have decided to stop rewarding them for releaseing a buggy 8.0. They are a great company and I really think that they have hands down the best distro out there. Your mileage may vary, but in my experience SuSE 7.3 has been the best thing I've run. IMHO RedHat is lagging way behind, and all they have to offer is a nasty red hat, and interchange is cool too.
Exactly, and I think among most Linux/UNIX/Mac (is there such a thing;) admins you would find an overwhelming agreement with your statement. The problem for Windows is that it is IMHO very rarely the best solution.
This creates a twofold problem. The first part is that Windows geeks know that there are other platforms, but are unwilling to admit that other platform does something as good or better than Windows does. If you dont believe me try telling a Windows zealot that IIS is not secure. The second part of the problem is that in seeing the other platforms as irrelevant the Windows geek will rely on unsubstantiated Microsoft FUD as arguments against the alternative.
I am halfway to a NT4 MCSE (I quit a long time ago when I realized what it really was) and a main undercurrent in the material was that Windows is best and there are no alternatives, which is how all of the MCSE's that I know view the world. I believe that Microsoft did this on purpose in order to further the monopoly.
Don't get me wrong, there are Linux users that will tell you that there is no alternative to Linux, and that everything that Windows does is crap. Most of the time I am like this because even if Microsoft does something right I feel that we cannot give them any more power. It's a good thing that Microsoft rarely does anything right. On the other hand I am always willing to look at the alternatives to what I am proposing because I don't not have all of the information, and there may be a better or more elegant solution that I have not considdered. Very very few Microsoft admins are even willing to do this.
3Com does something very similar with the 990 family of cards. The engine is called the 3XP which is an ARM 9 RISC processor. All this for only $99 US, this will definately be in my next Linux box.
What my clients fail to understand is that when my software prints "You Suck" or "You are a loser" I am referring to myself, and not the idiot who found the bug;)
This is based on the viewpoint that the Linux community is shrinking, or that Linux users are not using nvidia cards. Both statements to me seem somewhat untrue. I think that nvidia has realized that Linux is not just a fad, but is here to stay, and right now this business model is working for them, and for me (and a lot of other nvidia/Linux users I presume). Maybe in the future they will realize that having only a closed source solution is not optimal and will realease the specs, I hope they do this, but I have no way of knowing. What I am fairly certain about though is that while nvidia is king of the hill they are going to keep support for the Linux community because it is not shrinking.
Amen to this, I've been using nvidia cards for years, and have not had that many problems with them. KDE freezes my machine more than the nvidia drivers (properly configured of course).
Absolutely, I used to have a pair of those $100 Sony Noise Cancelling headphones (before I stopped travelling 38 weeks a year, and after my dad stole them from me) that I would wear without a cd-player sometimes just for the noise cancelling. They could turn a 737-500 with a screaming kid next to me into a very quiet relaxing environment that I could read without distraction in.
The Bose headsets look REALLY nice, and I'm thinking about gettting a set, but I work from home now, and am alone listening to techno or a dvd, which is the optimal work environment if you ask me.
So that means that I'm now going to have to have swineakin@hotmail.com tatooed across my forhead? Why oh why didn't I pick a cooler name like 7337 hax0r?
Actually I was one of those people that thought and still thinks that XP is nasty looking and feeling, and from the quick look that I took the crystal icon theme is about the same level of nastyness as XP is. I do like the feel of KDE though. I'll install the Crystal on my kids computer, I'll keep mine the way it is. You can go play with autohide on Windows 95.
developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information
The problem is with the word entirely in that sentance. IANAL, but I watch the Practice and Law and Order all the time, and I think that means that if you have ever, in the least bit worked on that code using your employers machine or time then technically it belongs to the employer.
What company Tilly works for? As soon as I find out I will surely boycott that company. This is where the Open Source community needs to stand together and show companies that they cannot get away with this. If we do not use any of this companies products or services and tell our family/friends/co-workers not to either we can really make life miserable for this company. Do your part, help Tilly and boycott this company.
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According to this Yahoo! page the CEO of Cox makes $1.5M a year, it does not list what the chairman makes but it's up there too. The sum total of all of the officers listed is $2.92 million dollars a year, and this is only for three officers. That comes out to $243,000 a month. So one way to think of it is that the big wigs want a raise :)
# telnet www.lp.org 80 /index.html HTTP/1.1
/index.html HTTP/1.1
/index.html HTTP/1.1
GET
Host: www.lp.org
Blah...
Server: Apache 1.3.23 (Unix) PHP/4.1.2
More Blah
# telnet www.democrats.org
GET
Host: www.democrats.org
Blah...
Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26
More Blah
# telnet www.gop.org 80
GET
Host: www.gop.org
Blah...
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
More Blah
What does this proove? That all three parties do what they say they will do. The libertarians dont want to spend money on proprietary software because they believe in absolute freedom for each and every person.
The democrats use free software because they hate big corporations and want communism. I have heard open source software described as being communistic in nature, and I dont entirely disagree.
The republicans are rich, like big companies, and like to support big companies. True capatalists, not nessecarily a bad thing.
My vote goes to the Libertarian Pary. Just my $0.02.
Judging from the number of time's I've been suckered into looking at it, and that someone somewhere is paying for each of those views, I'll bet that the aggregate cost for Goat Sex is in the trillions.
Actually if Porsche would release their specs you could build one yourself.
I've been reading the articles about this virus for the last 10 minutes and I just realized that it's name is Simile and not Smile. Plus I admit that I login as root a lot. And all along I thought my IQ was over 100. Bummer.
Would it be in bad tase for the kid next door to fly his model airplanes into this?
At least Microsoft is always translated the same :)
I love PuTTY, it's small, fast and has a lot of nice features, and best of all it's free. It's the first thing I do to any Windoze box I come in contact with. Launch about 5 PuTTY sessions and forget about Windoze.
If I were doing this I would create a "I want that" sort of environment. What I mean is pick a Linux distro that has a lot of eye candy and cool features, ala SuSE or Mandrake, and give it to some of your more advanced users, those willing to experiment a little bit. Let them play around with it, and give them some freedom to customize as much as they want. Once they start to really make the GUI look nice, and playing with some of the stuff that is just not available with out of the box Windows/Office they will start to attract other users. Have them tell the rest of the staff that this is the "future" and they are beta testing for the optimal environment. It wouldn't hurt if you got them new machine, or monitors, give a users some incentive to learn and use Linux.
With KDE 3 it's really not that hard to learn the OS, how many Windows users use a CMD shell, the same will be true for the average run of the mill Linux user if the GUI is setup right. I have been using KDE3 for a while now and it is at least as easy if not easier than Windows to do just about anything.
If you allow fairly unrestricted Internet access I would make sure that all of the multimedia apps are working correctly, and that flash is working as well. These are big things for the weenies, they want the bells and whistles that Windows provides, and with a good distro they're all there, but they may need some tweaking to get them running flawlessly.
Just my $0.02, but that is what I would do.
Macgyver did this with a glass and some candle wax :)
Thank you. I couldn't agree more. I am a farily clean person, I shower once a day, use soap and shampoo. I brush my teeth, and sometimes if I've been working outside or on my car I even wash my hands before I eat, but I am not a zealot when it comes to keeping my life completely bacteria free. I have asthma, was a smoker, and have never really excercised much, and I still get sick way less than anyone I know who is worried about bacteria. I usually get pretty sick with a cold/flu funk about once a year, and the sniffles in the summer. I haven't had a fever in 15 or so years and the last time I puked (aside from binge drinking or the occasional robitussin/DXM trip) was when I was 10.
The funny thing is that people that I know who use paper towels to open restroom doors, or use ass gaskets on a perfectly dry toilet seat seem to me to be always sick. These are the ones who have that antibacterial evaporating hand rub crap in their desks and who constantly worry about bacteria, they are always sick. I've told them my theories about how killing all of the bacteria makes your immune system weaker, and how trying to sterilize your life just makes you more vunerable to colds and the flu, but they just blame me for being dirty and making them sick, so I just sneeze at them and walk away.
I recently when to Ghana in Africa, and because of some problems I went for a week without any malaria medication or without my yellow fever immunization. The only health problem I had was a little travellers diareah when I got back and nothing was going to stop that. IMHO the only thing that this huge antibacterial craze is helping is the companys that make the REALLY expensive products that clean you, and the bacteria itself, because it is getting stronger.
I have to say thank you. I have been running SuSE for several years now. I'm looking at my 6.0 box right now. On a side note I love the graphics on the boxes. One pattern that has definately emerged with SuSE is that the *.0 release are always very buggy, other distros too, but SuSE is what I have the most experience with. The ideas and concepts are great, but there is some work to be done still. From what I can tell this seems to be holding true for 8.0 as well. The other pattern that I have noticed is that the *.1 will be coming very shortly. I will probably wait for that or 8.2 until I upgrade, as I am happily running 7.3 with KDE 3.0 right now and it rox. Whether SuSE does this deliberatly or not is up for debate, but I have decided to stop rewarding them for releaseing a buggy 8.0. They are a great company and I really think that they have hands down the best distro out there. Your mileage may vary, but in my experience SuSE 7.3 has been the best thing I've run. IMHO RedHat is lagging way behind, and all they have to offer is a nasty red hat, and interchange is cool too.
Exactly, and I think among most Linux/UNIX/Mac (is there such a thing ;) admins you would find an overwhelming agreement with your statement. The problem for Windows is that it is IMHO very rarely the best solution.
This creates a twofold problem. The first part is that Windows geeks know that there are other platforms, but are unwilling to admit that other platform does something as good or better than Windows does. If you dont believe me try telling a Windows zealot that IIS is not secure. The second part of the problem is that in seeing the other platforms as irrelevant the Windows geek will rely on unsubstantiated Microsoft FUD as arguments against the alternative.
I am halfway to a NT4 MCSE (I quit a long time ago when I realized what it really was) and a main undercurrent in the material was that Windows is best and there are no alternatives, which is how all of the MCSE's that I know view the world. I believe that Microsoft did this on purpose in order to further the monopoly.
Don't get me wrong, there are Linux users that will tell you that there is no alternative to Linux, and that everything that Windows does is crap. Most of the time I am like this because even if Microsoft does something right I feel that we cannot give them any more power. It's a good thing that Microsoft rarely does anything right. On the other hand I am always willing to look at the alternatives to what I am proposing because I don't not have all of the information, and there may be a better or more elegant solution that I have not considdered. Very very few Microsoft admins are even willing to do this.
3Com does something very similar with the 990 family of cards. The engine is called the 3XP which is an ARM 9 RISC processor. All this for only $99 US, this will definately be in my next Linux box.
What my clients fail to understand is that when my software prints "You Suck" or "You are a loser" I am referring to myself, and not the idiot who found the bug ;)
This is based on the viewpoint that the Linux community is shrinking, or that Linux users are not using nvidia cards. Both statements to me seem somewhat untrue. I think that nvidia has realized that Linux is not just a fad, but is here to stay, and right now this business model is working for them, and for me (and a lot of other nvidia/Linux users I presume). Maybe in the future they will realize that having only a closed source solution is not optimal and will realease the specs, I hope they do this, but I have no way of knowing. What I am fairly certain about though is that while nvidia is king of the hill they are going to keep support for the Linux community because it is not shrinking.
Amen to this, I've been using nvidia cards for years, and have not had that many problems with them. KDE freezes my machine more than the nvidia drivers (properly configured of course).
Heh, I'm trying to convince my boss that /. is a snazzy front end for CPAN :)
Absolutely, I used to have a pair of those $100 Sony Noise Cancelling headphones (before I stopped travelling 38 weeks a year, and after my dad stole them from me) that I would wear without a cd-player sometimes just for the noise cancelling. They could turn a 737-500 with a screaming kid next to me into a very quiet relaxing environment that I could read without distraction in.
The Bose headsets look REALLY nice, and I'm thinking about gettting a set, but I work from home now, and am alone listening to techno or a dvd, which is the optimal work environment if you ask me.So that means that I'm now going to have to have swineakin@hotmail.com tatooed across my forhead? Why oh why didn't I pick a cooler name like 7337 hax0r?
See my .sig
This on definately wins the whisky tango (white trash) award. If only he would have shocked himself to death, he'd be up for a darwin.
Actually I was one of those people that thought and still thinks that XP is nasty looking and feeling, and from the quick look that I took the crystal icon theme is about the same level of nastyness as XP is. I do like the feel of KDE though. I'll install the Crystal on my kids computer, I'll keep mine the way it is. You can go play with autohide on Windows 95.
developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information
The problem is with the word entirely in that sentance. IANAL, but I watch the Practice and Law and Order all the time, and I think that means that if you have ever, in the least bit worked on that code using your employers machine or time then technically it belongs to the employer.
What company Tilly works for? As soon as I find out I will surely boycott that company. This is where the Open Source community needs to stand together and show companies that they cannot get away with this. If we do not use any of this companies products or services and tell our family/friends/co-workers not to either we can really make life miserable for this company. Do your part, help Tilly and boycott this company.