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Bill G looks exactly the way he wants to, a suit and 90$ haircut aern't the isn't the only way to look good. I'm sure Bill choose the nerdy look because it allows him to catch other buisness persons offguard when he steps up and plays world class executive after making them downplay him (proy dosen't work so well anymore, but I'm sure it worked very well once upon a time). Also I've never heard of Bill G as being a bad dresser, I've heard he dresses slightly nerdy, but nerdy isn't bad, it's just not powersuit and stylist following him around all day.
I guarntee until your friends with your boss/co-workers the better looking person who gets along with everyone looks better in the managments eyes. Starting as the messy dreser vs the guy who irons his well matched (not really expensive/powersuit) outfit and has a decent haircut, the decent looking guy is above you. Naturally once everyone knows eachother well it's less important, but your appearance is the first thing people see about you when you make a first impression.
I seem to have done pretty well by following the rule 'always dress better than your co-workers, and do more work than them', so I would feel safe advising it on other people. If your milage varied, good for you, but for me I'll continue dressing just slightly below my managments outfit because it works for me.
To my mind a DJ is good when you don't actually notice them...
Exactly this is something alot of people that haven't done real clubbing don't get. Bad dj's totally ruin the party (and a stream of random songs is perhaps slightly better than a bad dj), but a good dj will make it a memorable night. Not because you spent any time paying attention to him, but because you never did, and the music just moved along with the mood of the night.
You can take it back (eg: blender), you can change the liscense (eg: mozilla), you can multi-liscense it (eg: mozilla), you can revoke all further distributions of the current code set from *your sources*, and you can leave any version hanging and make all proprietary products from your former codebase from that.
Other people cannot make proprietary products (w/o tons of legalities) from any of your GPL codebase.
If you keep track of the system is stated, there was no way to track the vote-tracking number to the person who voted.
He just described the *ONLY* way that we should be considering sending our secure vote in this era of 2002.
I would have lost the smart card in favor of a good old randomly generated PIN number, but I'm sure that a smart card is actually a better solution now that I think about it.
grep for "BSD" on everything (or at least the executable/library stuff) in your windows directory, compare that to the credit given for that code, see deficit, laugh.
Use logs in (same as now). User gets prety desktop (same as now). User clicks start menu (same as now). User selects application to run (same as now). User does work (same as now).
Users applications should be set up to do printing transparently, and users should not even know they are using something non-windows except for the diffrent widgets. And office should be run off citrix servers if it's something your users actually use (most users don't actually use it, they just use "a word processor" or "a spreadsheet", I bet if you checked you have about 1/50 users that even knows what an excel macro is).
The only situation where I could understand your case is if you had alot of ActiveX scripts floating around, other than that I can't imagine your running anything that wouldn't do just fine on a citrix server.
In any case, you would gain tigher control over the machines, real useage auditing, the ability to stop people from instaling all the spyware/virii of the month that breaks the machine weekly. You would loose the ability for the user to install spyware/virii/networkstack breaking apps, and since your running your custom/windows apps on citrix (I guarntee linux boxen hitting off a expensive citrix boxen will be cheaper than your next windows upgrade, which should be coming up when win98 expires later this year..) you have total control over the configuration.
You gain the ability to ssh/remote into any machine, with a real proticol (RDP is junk, sorry). You gain the ability to push upgrades w/o any in house or perchased software.
I can continue all day, but I can gurantee that if you would do some real research you would find except in the few cases (we have about 40/3000 windows boxen here) users don't actually need a windows license sitting in front of them to do real work, and the cost of retraining is nothing as you just explain "we changed the start menu icon".
Actually I've been fairly impressed by ActiveX and now.net, they are strong technologies.
I think part of MS's dominance is they spend a great deal of money making sure a code monkey can create a professional looking app, whereas in linux a code monkey can create code monkey apps.
Try FreeBSD if you just want stuff to "work". It's a beautiful OS, and runs just as deep as linux, but if your not afraid of a little (key word little) CLI then it is a very "working" os if your not into "deep".
The best part is, if you use the FreeBSD Handbook as your refrence, you can acomplish all the tasks a normal user would need to acomplish, and they are spelled out for you in plain english.
You know, I think I would have actually started cracking up.
Just imagine how much that would scare your boss
"I do hate to tell you this, but we are going to have to let you go"
*uncontroled lafter*
"uh, are you alright?"
slowly: "Yes, yes.. alright I'm better now. Ok, can I get a letter of recomendation from you when I come in to get my stuff tomorow? I've got some meetings to set up today"
"uh... fine"
*you leave*
*manager picks up phone*
"Security? Yes, I need an armed guard for Ealar Dlanvuli tomorow, I think he might be going to try something stupid"
For everything he cites except X11 (it's not going away -- ever -- it sucks but true), all he has to do is switch to FreeBSD.
I really can't understand how people use linux after having all of the hardware on every machine I've ever put it on detected, and the ports/package system is just a *minor* [sarcasm] good thing.
FreeBSD is basically debian thats more up to date than 4 years ago, and it seems silly to use debian while it is an option.
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Bill G looks exactly the way he wants to, a suit and 90$ haircut aern't the isn't the only way to look good. I'm sure Bill choose the nerdy look because it allows him to catch other buisness persons offguard when he steps up and plays world class executive after making them downplay him (proy dosen't work so well anymore, but I'm sure it worked very well once upon a time). Also I've never heard of Bill G as being a bad dresser, I've heard he dresses slightly nerdy, but nerdy isn't bad, it's just not powersuit and stylist following him around all day.
I guarntee until your friends with your boss/co-workers the better looking person who gets along with everyone looks better in the managments eyes. Starting as the messy dreser vs the guy who irons his well matched (not really expensive/powersuit) outfit and has a decent haircut, the decent looking guy is above you. Naturally once everyone knows eachother well it's less important, but your appearance is the first thing people see about you when you make a first impression.
I seem to have done pretty well by following the rule 'always dress better than your co-workers, and do more work than them', so I would feel safe advising it on other people. If your milage varied, good for you, but for me I'll continue dressing just slightly below my managments outfit because it works for me.
To my mind a DJ is good when you don't actually notice them...
Exactly this is something alot of people that haven't done real clubbing don't get. Bad dj's totally ruin the party (and a stream of random songs is perhaps slightly better than a bad dj), but a good dj will make it a memorable night. Not because you spent any time paying attention to him, but because you never did, and the music just moved along with the mood of the night.
Because how you look is 50% of how well you do.
the rest is 25% social skills, 25% work skill/effort.
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.
why not just buy a citrix boxen (or even a X boxen) and run the programs BEHIND THE FIREWALL?
makes life easier.
You can take it back (eg: blender), you can change the liscense (eg: mozilla), you can multi-liscense it (eg: mozilla), you can revoke all further distributions of the current code set from *your sources*, and you can leave any version hanging and make all proprietary products from your former codebase from that.
Other people cannot make proprietary products (w/o tons of legalities) from any of your GPL codebase.
Where is the lack of ownership there?
er, are you retarded.
If you keep track of the system is stated, there was no way to track the vote-tracking number to the person who voted.
He just described the *ONLY* way that we should be considering sending our secure vote in this era of 2002.
I would have lost the smart card in favor of a good old randomly generated PIN number, but I'm sure that a smart card is actually a better solution now that I think about it.
You fail to understand, the problem with the EQ dev team is they all play EQ.
1: such accounts normally need the VP/P of the bank's hand stamping to be touched
2: you would go to jail for a *very very* long time
grep for "BSD" on everything (or at least the executable/library stuff) in your windows directory, compare that to the credit given for that code, see deficit, laugh.
Just to correct you, w2k, WME, and WXP all use a prety much cut-n-paste 'BSD network stack.
It's rather sick that they didn't even bother to give a tip of the hat for 'borrowing' that code.
uh, thats doable today..
/etc dir on my FreeBSD laptop because I have wildly diffrent configs at home and work.
I don't use linux, but I know I don't have a valid
Um, my X has been up for 141 days, kernel up for 157.
Want to try again?
what user retraining?
Use logs in (same as now). User gets prety desktop (same as now). User clicks start menu (same as now). User selects application to run (same as now). User does work (same as now).
Users applications should be set up to do printing transparently, and users should not even know they are using something non-windows except for the diffrent widgets. And office should be run off citrix servers if it's something your users actually use (most users don't actually use it, they just use "a word processor" or "a spreadsheet", I bet if you checked you have about 1/50 users that even knows what an excel macro is).
The only situation where I could understand your case is if you had alot of ActiveX scripts floating around, other than that I can't imagine your running anything that wouldn't do just fine on a citrix server.
In any case, you would gain tigher control over the machines, real useage auditing, the ability to stop people from instaling all the spyware/virii of the month that breaks the machine weekly. You would loose the ability for the user to install spyware/virii/networkstack breaking apps, and since your running your custom/windows apps on citrix (I guarntee linux boxen hitting off a expensive citrix boxen will be cheaper than your next windows upgrade, which should be coming up when win98 expires later this year..) you have total control over the configuration.
You gain the ability to ssh/remote into any machine, with a real proticol (RDP is junk, sorry). You gain the ability to push upgrades w/o any in house or perchased software.
I can continue all day, but I can gurantee that if you would do some real research you would find except in the few cases (we have about 40/3000 windows boxen here) users don't actually need a windows license sitting in front of them to do real work, and the cost of retraining is nothing as you just explain "we changed the start menu icon".
or you could type rm bl[tab]. Or use one of the 500000000000 Graphical File Managers, and select and hit [del]
.#ae's /*.[1-2]ae/
Do this in windows in under a second on a dir of 10000
Actually I've been fairly impressed by ActiveX and now .net, they are strong technologies.
I think part of MS's dominance is they spend a great deal of money making sure a code monkey can create a professional looking app, whereas in linux a code monkey can create code monkey apps.
Try FreeBSD if you just want stuff to "work". It's a beautiful OS, and runs just as deep as linux, but if your not afraid of a little (key word little) CLI then it is a very "working" os if your not into "deep".
The best part is, if you use the FreeBSD Handbook as your refrence, you can acomplish all the tasks a normal user would need to acomplish, and they are spelled out for you in plain english.
You know what, they don't have to.
Install KDE3, X4.2.0, xmms, openoffice, Mozilla, Evolution. Show them where they can save files.
You have a windows box with diffrent widgets.
I'm failing to see your point.
I wouldn't find it hard to believe MS paid for this press release, it's certainly a very easy logic jump to make.
For some reason I want to say the spanish did as well, but I can't remember the date or location.
You know, I think I would have actually started cracking up.
Just imagine how much that would scare your boss
"I do hate to tell you this, but we are going to have to let you go"
*uncontroled lafter*
"uh, are you alright?"
slowly: "Yes, yes.. alright I'm better now. Ok, can I get a letter of recomendation from you when I come in to get my stuff tomorow? I've got some meetings to set up today"
"uh... fine"
*you leave*
*manager picks up phone*
"Security? Yes, I need an armed guard for Ealar Dlanvuli tomorow, I think he might be going to try something stupid"
I shall over geek my friends the next time we watch that movie.
I thank you, oh holyness.
heh be careful, at my uni when I told them about a readable password file they threatened to expel me for "hacking".
For everything he cites except X11 (it's not going away -- ever -- it sucks but true), all he has to do is switch to FreeBSD.
I really can't understand how people use linux after having all of the hardware on every machine I've ever put it on detected, and the ports/package system is just a *minor* [sarcasm] good thing.
FreeBSD is basically debian thats more up to date than 4 years ago, and it seems silly to use debian while it is an option.
The main power controling transistor has a tendancy to fall off v5 6k's..
Quality building, eh?