Mini-Microsoft was expecting that 10%-ers (that's poorly performing employees) would be the ones to be let go, but based on comments at that blog, it doesn't appear to be the case. The layoffs are apparently random by team rather than by performance.
Mini-Microsoft expected the layoffs to be the 10%-ers, but that doesn't appear to be the case. In addition, they only laid off 1400 and are waiting for the other 3600 until much later. Employees are feeling like they need to backstab in order to keep their jobs. This is a really bad way to do layoffs. Cut deep once and get the damn thing over.
According to a published IEEE report, embedded Linux was at 15% in 2004, ahead of both MS and Wind River. A Linux Devices survey shows 2007 at ~50%, but ~40% in 2004, ahead of the IEEE report. This indicates a ~25% increase. Ars says "According to the Canalys report on Q2 2007 market share, Linux holds 13.3 percent of the global smartphone market, which puts it ahead of the Windows, BlackBerry, and Palm operating systems."
"Most" embedded systems don't run any one system, but Linux leads the pack in almost every report.
I use LXDE on my old PIII laptops with 128MB RAM. They work well and LXDE + PCManFM make a nice, modern system. Sure, it won't run OO.o well, but FF3, Abiword, and Gnumeric are fine.
The biggest w32 virus right now only requires the user to click on what appears to be the normal choice for safe viewing of USB key contents, but other USB trojans don't even need that much. Most of the other forms of malware are installed via drive-by download or by worm propogation. I doubt 99.99% of malware needs user action, or worms, USB Trojans, and drive bys wouldn't be so dangerously prevalent.
I guess you could call "visiting a website" or "plugging in a USB key" user user action, but there's no action needed to be infected by a worm.
Wait. You're right. Users have to turn on their machines.
All my Brit friends use stone / pounds and my Canadian friends use pounds. I've lived outside the U.S. for almost ten years now and am continually surprised that metric is lagging in most English-speaking countries.
I also think it has to do with being a start-up and not having ten years' work-flow to be replaced. FOSS is a better deal on new roll-outs in most cases.
According to this, Microsoft's ODF implementation isn't inter-operable with the other implementations already available. That makes it useless for this (or any) purpose.
Samba can act as an AD PDC with the option of using LDAP as a backend. The absolute easiest way to set one of these (with LDAP) up is to use eBox on Ubuntu 8.04. Check the box marked "PDC" and ad the accounts. That's my recommendation.
It offers multiple nodes, mail, files, Jabber, and a bunch of other stuff.
There was a conversation about this last month on the FD.o mailing list
> Mark Seaborn wrote: > > I have written a hack for Gtk which replaces Gtk's usual file chooser > > with a file chooser implemented in a separate process. > > Nice, this could be useful. I'm not sure yet if there is a concise > in-process solution. If not, I'll have a closer look on your code.
The current version is an LD_PRELOAD library that replaces some Gtk API calls. It works with a lot of applications, but not with Firefox, which dlopen()s libgtk. The successor is a work-in-progress; it's a patch to Gtk, which you can find here: http://repo.or.cz/w/gtk-with-powerbox.git (code) http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/Story20 (notes)
The intention is that the Gtk code will be separate from the RPC mechanism used, which is implemented in libpowerbox, of which there can be different implementations. For example, there is a DBus implementation: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/plash/scratch/powerbox-dbus/ and the intention is that there will also be a version using Plash's object-capability comms protocol.
Maybe I should rename libpowerbox to something more descriptive such as libtrustedpathfilechooser (that's a bit long-winded though).
> Is there a chance that you'll give me permission to "reuse" your > code under the terms of the MIT-License?
I'm open to the idea of relaxing the licence, but which bits of code do you have in mind? The Gtk hooks are quite Gtk-specific.
You were modded "troll" because you were trolling. This post farther down insults various aspects of the Linux desktop but gets modded +5 Interesting. Compare it to your own and learn something.
I propose that I be allowed to work on your project. If you approve of my submissions (actually yours, but you can fake the attribution), there's an envelope with 50% of the grant money in it waiting for you.
Not ignoring anything. Just calling you what you are. You've been doing "Abble" and "Linuzzz" for probably a year now, maybe longer. They're just as lame and childish as "M$" is. That one of the three is in your sig right now says a lot about you.
You belong in this story with Twitter and his adolescence, though. I'll give you that much.
I don't know the exact setup of ADS, but Linux clusters do auto-image all the time. There are plenty of tools for that. SystemImager probably does what you want.
For the whole Exchange server / Sharepoint thing, you're going to pay or you're going to opt for the "free for education" Google Docs.
Open Admin is an extremely mature school management package, and SchoolTool is an up-and-coming one, but school reporting requirements are so strict that many packages won't pass muster.
This kind of migration is extremely difficult and I think you're making too light of it.
So it's not psychologically different from making your gang's new recruit kill "an enemy" so that the recruit bonds to the gang and can't allow himself / herself to defect and suffer the anguish of having killed an innocent person? Interesting proposition. May I subscribe to your newsletter?
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Mini-Microsoft was expecting that 10%-ers (that's poorly performing employees) would be the ones to be let go, but based on comments at that blog, it doesn't appear to be the case. The layoffs are apparently random by team rather than by performance.
Mini-Microsoft expected the layoffs to be the 10%-ers, but that doesn't appear to be the case. In addition, they only laid off 1400 and are waiting for the other 3600 until much later. Employees are feeling like they need to backstab in order to keep their jobs. This is a really bad way to do layoffs. Cut deep once and get the damn thing over.
According to a published IEEE report, embedded Linux was at 15% in 2004, ahead of both MS and Wind River. A Linux Devices survey shows 2007 at ~50%, but ~40% in 2004, ahead of the IEEE report. This indicates a ~25% increase. Ars says "According to the Canalys report on Q2 2007 market share, Linux holds 13.3 percent of the global smartphone market, which puts it ahead of the Windows, BlackBerry, and Palm operating systems."
"Most" embedded systems don't run any one system, but Linux leads the pack in almost every report.
I use LXDE on my old PIII laptops with 128MB RAM. They work well and LXDE + PCManFM make a nice, modern system. Sure, it won't run OO.o well, but FF3, Abiword, and Gnumeric are fine.
MacOS is NeXT branded by Apple.
Fixed that for you.
I just want a REALLY powerful smart phone with docks at work and at home.
The biggest w32 virus right now only requires the user to click on what appears to be the normal choice for safe viewing of USB key contents, but other USB trojans don't even need that much. Most of the other forms of malware are installed via drive-by download or by worm propogation. I doubt 99.99% of malware needs user action, or worms, USB Trojans, and drive bys wouldn't be so dangerously prevalent.
I guess you could call "visiting a website" or "plugging in a USB key" user user action, but there's no action needed to be infected by a worm.
Wait. You're right. Users have to turn on their machines.
All my Brit friends use stone / pounds and my Canadian friends use pounds. I've lived outside the U.S. for almost ten years now and am continually surprised that metric is lagging in most English-speaking countries.
Good thing, then, that Scott hates MS and wants to "fucking kill them."
Try talking to Brits or Canadians about their weight and/or height in metric. You'll get blank stares.
I also think it has to do with being a start-up and not having ten years' work-flow to be replaced. FOSS is a better deal on new roll-outs in most cases.
Only tools surround their entire posts with <tt> tags.
According to this, Microsoft's ODF implementation isn't inter-operable with the other implementations already available. That makes it useless for this (or any) purpose.
Samba can act as an AD PDC with the option of using LDAP as a backend. The absolute easiest way to set one of these (with LDAP) up is to use eBox on Ubuntu 8.04. Check the box marked "PDC" and ad the accounts. That's my recommendation.
It offers multiple nodes, mail, files, Jabber, and a bunch of other stuff.
Gnome apps are preferred to be in Vala now, which is a high-level, C#-like language which translates code into straight C before compilation.
There was a conversation about this last month on the FD.o mailing list
> Mark Seaborn wrote:
> > I have written a hack for Gtk which replaces Gtk's usual file chooser
> > with a file chooser implemented in a separate process.
>
> Nice, this could be useful. I'm not sure yet if there is a concise
> in-process solution. If not, I'll have a closer look on your code.
The current version is an LD_PRELOAD library that replaces some Gtk
API calls. It works with a lot of applications, but not with Firefox,
which dlopen()s libgtk. The successor is a work-in-progress; it's a
patch to Gtk, which you can find here:
http://repo.or.cz/w/gtk-with-powerbox.git (code)
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/Story20 (notes)
The intention is that the Gtk code will be separate from the RPC
mechanism used, which is implemented in libpowerbox, of which there
can be different implementations.
For example, there is a DBus implementation:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/plash/scratch/powerbox-dbus/
and the intention is that there will also be a version using Plash's
object-capability comms protocol.
Maybe I should rename libpowerbox to something more descriptive such
as libtrustedpathfilechooser (that's a bit long-winded though).
> Is there a chance that you'll give me permission to "reuse" your
> code under the terms of the MIT-License?
I'm open to the idea of relaxing the licence, but which bits of code
do you have in mind? The Gtk hooks are quite Gtk-specific.
Mark
I hope that it happens, too.
You were modded "troll" because you were trolling. This post farther down insults various aspects of the Linux desktop but gets modded +5 Interesting. Compare it to your own and learn something.
I propose that I be allowed to work on your project. If you approve of my submissions (actually yours, but you can fake the attribution), there's an envelope with 50% of the grant money in it waiting for you.
If he knew the entire economy was ready to collapse but was legally restricted from talking about it by federal law, the situation is FUBAR.
Not ignoring anything. Just calling you what you are. You've been doing "Abble" and "Linuzzz" for probably a year now, maybe longer. They're just as lame and childish as "M$" is. That one of the three is in your sig right now says a lot about you.
You belong in this story with Twitter and his adolescence, though. I'll give you that much.
Since you're a "Linuzzz" troll, we all already know what you think about "Free as in speech."
I don't know the exact setup of ADS, but Linux clusters do auto-image all the time. There are plenty of tools for that. SystemImager probably does what you want.
For the whole Exchange server / Sharepoint thing, you're going to pay or you're going to opt for the "free for education" Google Docs.
Open Admin is an extremely mature school management package, and SchoolTool is an up-and-coming one, but school reporting requirements are so strict that many packages won't pass muster.
This kind of migration is extremely difficult and I think you're making too light of it.
In your case, don't install Autoconf, Flex, Bison, GCC etc. on computers serving a desktop (thin or thick).
So the competition to Windows is Windows 4N-10? ;)
So it's not psychologically different from making your gang's new recruit kill "an enemy" so that the recruit bonds to the gang and can't allow himself / herself to defect and suffer the anguish of having killed an innocent person? Interesting proposition. May I subscribe to your newsletter?