Now I won't have to teach them b!7ch3s how to be a slackers and still GTD.
But I do agree with the thinking that IT jobs no longer hold the elite/cool factor they did in 1997. Now a days it's, "Oh you don't like the spec? What do you mean vacation! Do the f@ck!n9 work or I'll replace you with a contractor who doesn't think he's a f@ck!n9 Rock Star, mister ""let's take our time and do it right!!""
But I could not imagine doing any other kind of work. I love writing code and hacking business logic. This shit is fun. It's like a RTS where I need to defeat the bugs by using mad logic and clever skills.
Someone in real-life told me that want to be a computer programmer because it pays well and seems like a lot of fun.:\ Fail.
This book has very little to offer in the way of helping.NET or Java Developers.
The first section goes over how blogs work and different ways blogs can be used in a business. It's like he wrote this so you could then show it to your boss to convince him to let you department using blogs internally.
This is a book for using ROME, Blogging Roller and the new Windows RSS Platform. There are better.NET code examples at codeproject.com. The code in the book is tries to explain how to build a full syndication system that can push either RSS or Atom but instead of sticking to the subject of blogging the example code is trying to build a file syndication manager based on a files from the file system instead of data from a databse where most syndicated content comes from.
This book also spends a chapter promoting the value of the Technorati API but gives few (if any as I recall) exampls of actually using it.
This book fails just like "Beginning RSS and Atom" from Wrox because it focuses more on current tools then on theroy and pratical advide.
Since the author choose to focus on the Windows RSS Platform (IE7? or Vista) he misses the current audince using.NET 1 & 2.
I was a Gonzo writer in college. All of my papers involved drugs, the abuse of social norms and college girls. Some of my professors found it interesting and insightful writing and others were deeply offended. When ever I wrote a live music reviews for the school paper I had to write 2 versions: one was what actually happened and the other was what could be published.
I really don't think that the Gonzo writing style and technology mix at all. Tech articles are about how to get things done or how someone else got something done. Gonzo, in it's true form is about pissing off the roof of society while drinking rum from a grapefruit and ranting about the injustice of government involvement in the media.
So why aren't there any Gonzo writers? Be we American are so uptight about what others will think of us that we walk the center line of being a good citizen and never tell people how we truly feel.
And I am just as guilty as the next person.
Oh and here's a real world example: I reviewed an album by a local man-hating female singer. I then proceeded to write about how much I disliked the new album and how each song was about how much she hated men. A few months later I showed up at one of her shows to interview her and she refused to even speak with me. Oh well.
Back when HST was ranting and raving people weren't so up tight and could take a joke or criticism. But today people get offended if you fart in their general direction. Pussies.
Last week I had a few beers in me so I decided I'd do a port-scanning on some computers in my sub-net and the next day I blogged my adventure. And what do you know some jerk sends me an email telling me that I shouldn't do things like that because it's against the law.
See Gonzo and technology do not mix.
Best Buy sells a 3 year extended warranty for $200 or a 3 year extended warranty with accidental damager form $300. In the warranty it clearly states that if the computer is brought in for a 4th repair that Best Buy must replace it with a system of comparable spec. The best part is when they replace the "faulty" laptop the'll sell you another 3 year warranty.
I don't even care if this is the right time or place to say this but the reason Linux is sucking is the god-damn hardware support. For instance I've got a killer brand-new fucking laptop and the damn monitor isn't supported so I've got to use generic LCD settings. And let me tell you a it makes the laptop like like a peice of junk. The there is the fucking wifi card that isn't reconized!! And yes I've tried all of the hacks and several different distros. FUCK ME!! It's so fustrating but I will not give up trying to get it to work.
It wouldn't matter if MS Vista and came out 2007 or not because as long as hardware support on linux is shit and we all know it is, MS will remain on the desktop.
As for OSS and all that jazz. As long as people have options MS in the eyes of the law are not a monoply. MS knows damn well that they could spend a year getting Office to run on Linux but why would that want to do that. Why would that want to create a product that will cause that to loose market share? Why would that want to give IT managers a reason to use Linux?
The masses take the Blue Pill everyday because that is what they are suposed to do.
Those that take the Red Pill do so because someone encouraged them to do so.
It's the FUD promoted in TFA that encourages people to continue taking the Blue Pill.
This article is just one writter who was instruced to write a Linux article.
FTFA: And getting some of the systems to work required more time and effort than I was willing to exert.
The saying goes you get what you give. He was not willing to give so he got nothing.
You can't just wake up one day and say, "I am going to take the Red Pill." Doing so will only result in dissapointment. Each person must come to the conclusion on their own through encouragement and support.
The writter would have been better off a if he had sought out someone who has taken the Red Pill and said to them, "I want to take the Red Pill."
"Why do you want to take the Red Pill?"
"I want to see the light."
Eventhough this article has been tagged as "moron", "troll" & "fud" there are a number of people who will read this article presented to them from sources other than/.. And those people are the ones that sign the pay-checks at the end of the day. To us we see the "moron" and "troll" part but we are immune to the "fud". The other group of non-tech stock-market watching people are going to see the "fud" and start looking at how much thay have invested in MSFT versus other "open source like" companies.
Microsoft controls the market becaues Microsoft is generating income. When Microsoft stops generating income the market will turn on them.
First Time User Tips
The first thing a Windows User should do is find a BootDisk and boot to a Command Prompt. (This the screen is all black and the mouse doesn't work.) You'll need to use that big piece of plastic that came with your computer called a "Key-Board". Type in word 'fdisk' , then hit the enter button and the follow the instructions to 'clean' your hard-drive. Doing this will clean up all of the extra files that computer doesn't need.
OR
Before you start the computer open the cd tray and place the OpenSuSE cd in it. Feel free to use any tools you can find to pry the cd try open. Close the tray and start the computer. Once the application starts it will guide you through Updating the Operating System (The Windows).
Good Luck.
If read "Just for Fun" by Linus you will see where/why Linux failed to take over. Linus did not want to take sides which is is right. But if he had chossen a camp back in 1996/1997 like RedHat or SuSE that distro would be one every desktop and and Vista would be a pipe dream.
"What distro should I use?"
You should build you own from the Linux Source.
That's what it's there for isn't it?
But seriously I am leaning towards CentOS because it's based on RedHat.
I've been a fan of RedHat since 1998 when you could go over to Quantum Books in Kendal Square and buy the packaged software for $29.99 which came with 3 CD's, free technical support for 90 days and best of all "Powered by RedHat" stickers!!
Ubuntu will never make it on to desktops simply because of it name.
RedHat - now that's a Linux distro name. But at $150 a seat they can shove the hat... Mandrake - another good name but it's gone Mandriva - border line bad oh the the company is going down like a whore at the prom Debian - solid name too bad it's maintaind by relinux zealots SuSe - kind of lame, kind of free, Yast is very hand for lazy people Fedora - border line good name, just don't install it on any hardwars older that last week CRUX - CRAP blag - all I can think of Barf-Bag SLAX - Trousers (Pants! Pants! Pants! to you limey's) Slackware - Old Navy's new clothing like for the unemployed Gentoo - more junk but the name's ok Xrandos - cool name it's too bad this distro costs money and sucks donkey snot MEPIS - Me Piss Damn Small Linux - That's not a name that's an in-complete sentence KNOPPIX - good name now if it were only a real distrobution PCLinuxOS - just in-case you don't know Linux is an OS that runs on PC's Kubuntu - really? Frugalware - again really? Puppy Linux - hahahahahaha when it becomes v2.0 will it be renamed to Dog Linux XP - Sure I'm running XP. Turbolinux - now that's a name. Too bad this distro sucks and it's not FREE
We live in a world where bling is the thing. When J.Crew looks form models for their catalogs they look form people that are easy on the eyes and are not going to detract form their cloths. Sure some male models may have long hair but it doesn't look like a rats nest. The same goes for LLBean. Long haired gernola eatin hippies that look nice.
I've said this before in another post.
Van Husen is your friend. They sell nice looking well fitting cloths (invisible elastice waist-bands for you chubsters) that are wrinkle-free. Wrinkle free means if wash it, dry it,iron it and then hang it up you've got a shirt or trousers that you can ware at least twice before you need to iron them again.
The prices are not bad. $40 Will get you a nice pair of trousers and an Oxford Button-down. $50 will get some nice expand-O waist Trousers and a Button-down. Another $50 will get you a blazer. If you don't own a blazer buy one. Get a Navy-Blue one because it will go with any shirt and trousers. The other cool thing with Van Husen is that there cloths are designe form modularity. You can mix-and-match their stuff and you'll still look good.
If you're really on a budget Target has a line of cloths called Merona which need a little more ironing but look good and won't break the bank.
Face it social perceptions out weigh your skills and knowledge.
Anyway all of the above information is useless if you don't shower and comb you hair!!
BTW- I'm not gay, I've just been married for too long.
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Now I won't have to teach them b!7ch3s how to be a slackers and still GTD. But I do agree with the thinking that IT jobs no longer hold the elite/cool factor they did in 1997. Now a days it's, "Oh you don't like the spec? What do you mean vacation! Do the f@ck!n9 work or I'll replace you with a contractor who doesn't think he's a f@ck!n9 Rock Star, mister ""let's take our time and do it right!!"" But I could not imagine doing any other kind of work. I love writing code and hacking business logic. This shit is fun. It's like a RTS where I need to defeat the bugs by using mad logic and clever skills. Someone in real-life told me that want to be a computer programmer because it pays well and seems like a lot of fun. :\ Fail.
This book has very little to offer in the way of helping .NET or Java Developers.
The first section goes over how blogs work and different ways blogs can be used in a business. It's like he wrote this so you could then show it to your boss to convince him to let you department using blogs internally.
This is a book for using ROME, Blogging Roller and the new Windows RSS Platform. There are better .NET code examples at codeproject.com. The code in the book is tries to explain how to build a full syndication system that can push either RSS or Atom but instead of sticking to the subject of blogging the example code is trying to build a file syndication manager based on a files from the file system instead of data from a databse where most syndicated content comes from.
This book also spends a chapter promoting the value of the Technorati API but gives few (if any as I recall) exampls of actually using it.
This book fails just like "Beginning RSS and Atom" from Wrox because it focuses more on current tools then on theroy and pratical advide.
Since the author choose to focus on the Windows RSS Platform (IE7? or Vista) he misses the current audince using .NET 1 & 2.
Pirates are so "in" this year!!
I was a Gonzo writer in college. All of my papers involved drugs, the abuse of social norms and college girls. Some of my professors found it interesting and insightful writing and others were deeply offended. When ever I wrote a live music reviews for the school paper I had to write 2 versions: one was what actually happened and the other was what could be published. I really don't think that the Gonzo writing style and technology mix at all. Tech articles are about how to get things done or how someone else got something done. Gonzo, in it's true form is about pissing off the roof of society while drinking rum from a grapefruit and ranting about the injustice of government involvement in the media. So why aren't there any Gonzo writers? Be we American are so uptight about what others will think of us that we walk the center line of being a good citizen and never tell people how we truly feel. And I am just as guilty as the next person. Oh and here's a real world example: I reviewed an album by a local man-hating female singer. I then proceeded to write about how much I disliked the new album and how each song was about how much she hated men. A few months later I showed up at one of her shows to interview her and she refused to even speak with me. Oh well. Back when HST was ranting and raving people weren't so up tight and could take a joke or criticism. But today people get offended if you fart in their general direction. Pussies. Last week I had a few beers in me so I decided I'd do a port-scanning on some computers in my sub-net and the next day I blogged my adventure. And what do you know some jerk sends me an email telling me that I shouldn't do things like that because it's against the law. See Gonzo and technology do not mix.
Best Buy sells a 3 year extended warranty for $200 or a 3 year extended warranty with accidental damager form $300. In the warranty it clearly states that if the computer is brought in for a 4th repair that Best Buy must replace it with a system of comparable spec. The best part is when they replace the "faulty" laptop the'll sell you another 3 year warranty.
"It does so warm my heart that no one's even bothering to mod you down."
Me too.
I totlaly flipped out yesterday and ranted my ass off.
I don't even care if this is the right time or place to say this but the reason Linux is sucking is the god-damn hardware support. For instance I've got a killer brand-new fucking laptop and the damn monitor isn't supported so I've got to use generic LCD settings. And let me tell you a it makes the laptop like like a peice of junk. The there is the fucking wifi card that isn't reconized!! And yes I've tried all of the hacks and several different distros. FUCK ME!! It's so fustrating but I will not give up trying to get it to work.
It wouldn't matter if MS Vista and came out 2007 or not because as long as hardware support on linux is shit and we all know it is, MS will remain on the desktop.
As for OSS and all that jazz. As long as people have options MS in the eyes of the law are not a monoply. MS knows damn well that they could spend a year getting Office to run on Linux but why would that want to do that. Why would that want to create a product that will cause that to loose market share? Why would that want to give IT managers a reason to use Linux?
Like we need a FUCKING reason let alone 20!
Is there any thing we can do about this?
How about creating the worlds largets LAN Party?
Anonymous Coward. That's a good name for you.
The masses take the Blue Pill everyday because that is what they are suposed to do.
Those that take the Red Pill do so because someone encouraged them to do so.
It's the FUD promoted in TFA that encourages people to continue taking the Blue Pill.
This article is just one writter who was instruced to write a Linux article.
FTFA: And getting some of the systems to work required more time and effort than I was willing to exert.
The saying goes you get what you give. He was not willing to give so he got nothing.
You can't just wake up one day and say, "I am going to take the Red Pill." Doing so will only result in dissapointment. Each person must come to the conclusion on their own through encouragement and support.
The writter would have been better off a if he had sought out someone who has taken the Red Pill and said to them, "I want to take the Red Pill."
"Why do you want to take the Red Pill?"
"I want to see the light."
By the time Office 2007 is released blogging will be so last year.
I say they bring back Clippy!! Now that is one useful feature.
Eventhough this article has been tagged as "moron", "troll" & "fud" there are a number of people who will read this article presented to them from sources other than /.. And those people are the ones that sign the pay-checks at the end of the day. To us we see the "moron" and "troll" part but we are immune to the "fud". The other group of non-tech stock-market watching people are going to see the "fud" and start looking at how much thay have invested in MSFT versus other "open source like" companies.
Microsoft controls the market becaues Microsoft is generating income. When Microsoft stops generating income the market will turn on them.
So, what would the 'right thing' to do be; release a new version of Windows based on Linux and give it away for free?
Yeah, for starters C# doesn't hog enough memory and that's gotta change.
This is so tech I don't even undersatnd what they are talking about yet I am very "Intellectually Curious".
Wouldn't that give an entirely new meaning to the words "Blow Job"?
and "Skull Fuck"
Easy to use/install
Knoppix
SLAX
OpenSuSE
First Time User Tips
The first thing a Windows User should do is find a BootDisk and boot to a Command Prompt. (This the screen is all black and the mouse doesn't work.) You'll need to use that big piece of plastic that came with your computer called a "Key-Board". Type in word 'fdisk' , then hit the enter button and the follow the instructions to 'clean' your hard-drive. Doing this will clean up all of the extra files that computer doesn't need.
OR
Before you start the computer open the cd tray and place the OpenSuSE cd in it. Feel free to use any tools you can find to pry the cd try open. Close the tray and start the computer. Once the application starts it will guide you through Updating the Operating System (The Windows).
Good Luck.
If read "Just for Fun" by Linus you will see where/why Linux failed to take over. Linus did not want to take sides which is is right. But if he had chossen a camp back in 1996/1997 like RedHat or SuSE that distro would be one every desktop and and Vista would be a pipe dream.
Anonymous Coward
"What distro should I use?"
You should build you own from the Linux Source.
That's what it's there for isn't it?
But seriously I am leaning towards CentOS because it's based on RedHat.
I've been a fan of RedHat since 1998 when you could go over to Quantum Books in Kendal Square and buy the packaged software for $29.99 which came with 3 CD's, free technical support for 90 days and best of all "Powered by RedHat" stickers!!
Anonymous Coward.
Ubuntu will never make it on to desktops simply because of it name.
RedHat - now that's a Linux distro name. But at $150 a seat they can shove the hat...
Mandrake - another good name but it's gone
Mandriva - border line bad oh the the company is going down like a whore at the prom
Debian - solid name too bad it's maintaind by relinux zealots
SuSe - kind of lame, kind of free, Yast is very hand for lazy people
Fedora - border line good name, just don't install it on any hardwars older that last week
CRUX - CRAP
blag - all I can think of Barf-Bag
SLAX - Trousers (Pants! Pants! Pants! to you limey's)
Slackware - Old Navy's new clothing like for the unemployed
Gentoo - more junk but the name's ok
Xrandos - cool name it's too bad this distro costs money and sucks donkey snot
MEPIS - Me Piss
Damn Small Linux - That's not a name that's an in-complete sentence
KNOPPIX - good name now if it were only a real distrobution
PCLinuxOS - just in-case you don't know Linux is an OS that runs on PC's
Kubuntu - really?
Frugalware - again really?
Puppy Linux - hahahahahaha when it becomes v2.0 will it be renamed to Dog
Linux XP - Sure I'm running XP.
Turbolinux - now that's a name. Too bad this distro sucks and it's not FREE
Listen up kids!!
,iron it and then hang it up you've got a shirt or trousers that you can ware at least twice before you need to iron them again.
We live in a world where bling is the thing. When J.Crew looks form models for their catalogs they look form people that are easy on the eyes and are not going to detract form their cloths. Sure some male models may have long hair but it doesn't look like a rats nest. The same goes for LLBean. Long haired gernola eatin hippies that look nice.
I've said this before in another post.
Van Husen is your friend. They sell nice looking well fitting cloths (invisible elastice waist-bands for you chubsters) that are wrinkle-free. Wrinkle free means if wash it, dry it
The prices are not bad.
$40 Will get you a nice pair of trousers and an Oxford Button-down.
$50 will get some nice expand-O waist Trousers and a Button-down.
Another $50 will get you a blazer.
If you don't own a blazer buy one. Get a Navy-Blue one because it will go with any shirt and trousers.
The other cool thing with Van Husen is that there cloths are designe form modularity. You can mix-and-match their stuff and you'll still look good.
If you're really on a budget Target has a line of cloths called Merona which need a little more ironing but look good and won't break the bank.
Face it social perceptions out weigh your skills and knowledge.
Anyway all of the above information is useless if you don't shower and comb you hair!!
BTW- I'm not gay, I've just been married for too long.
There is a silver lining to the delays on their Office and OS Suites.
The delay gives the whole world a few extra months to save up their money before Microsoft modifiy's their licensing plans again.