A great example of this is male elementary school teachers. Many school districts are going to great lengths to try to attract males, because little boys, especially the ones parented by single mothers, need a strong, positive male role model.
There has been some discussion on the problems that short men face, not in IT so much as upper management and the presidency. If you feel that strongly about it, set up a mailing list and organize. Just be aware that you will face the same sort of redicule that LinuxChix is facing now. And yes, your sarcasm did come through, you just didn't make a very good point.
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OK, so far today we've discussed various Linux books, had multiple reviews of stormix, discussed recoving from a rc.local foul-up, cvs, and safe ways to edit the password file. And that's just what I remember off of the top of my head. The list has been very busy today.
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I didn't see any of those messages, but then again, I have been subscribed for very long.
One quick suggestion for you, you might try thinking for yourself and try to get beyond stereotypes. All mailing lists have noise. Now go back and review the discussion about how to get the DAT drive to work and come back and talk to us again.
What is it in particular that you don't like about what I said? You don't think that guys will belittle women who use a woman specific distribution? You think that there are not enough Linux distributions?
You might need to re-read the article, but the overwhelming consensus was that it is not a good idea to create a new distribution. The reason that we had this discussion was that someone wanted to talk about it. Like any mailing list you take the wheat with the chaff; we have had good discussions about security and how to get a DAT drive to work.
I totally agree that women need to make an effort to integrate into existing Linux groups. However, as an experiment go to a local quilting bee (imagine that you really like to quilt). Now imagine a quilting bee where the quilters were predominately male (assuming you are male). It would be quite a different experience and while both would be fun, the second would make you feel more at home and "normal" as it were.
When my friends and I sit around and speculate what we would do with all that money (if we ever became even a tenth as rich as Paul Allen), someone always comes up with the idea of hiring the smartest technical people that we could find, putting them in a building together, letting them do whatever they wanted and seeing what they came up with. Call it giving back to the community.
Transmeta has been around for years and has not officially produced anything. They buzz/hype builds up and then dies down on a cyclical basis. Transmeta is clearly enjoying it - they could kill this type of hype easily if they wanted - but they don't. I think this is directly attributable to their sense of humor.
Maybe this is Paul Allen's way of giving back to the community. If this is the case, then the joke is - there will never be a product.
Good ideas, except that users who are posting from behind a firewall, often come from the same IP. For a large company, some users may never hit the 4 minute window.
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A great example of this is male elementary school teachers. Many school districts are going to great lengths to try to attract males, because little boys, especially the ones parented by single mothers, need a strong, positive male role model.
There has been some discussion on the problems that short men face, not in IT so much as upper management and the presidency. If you feel that strongly about it, set up a mailing list and organize. Just be aware that you will face the same sort of redicule that LinuxChix is facing now.
And yes, your sarcasm did come through, you just didn't make a very good point.
OK, so far today we've discussed various Linux books, had multiple reviews of stormix, discussed recoving from a rc.local foul-up, cvs, and safe ways to edit the password file. And that's just what I remember off of the top of my head. The list has been very busy today.
I didn't see any of those messages, but then again, I have been subscribed for very long.
One quick suggestion for you, you might try thinking for yourself and try to get beyond stereotypes. All mailing lists have noise. Now go back and review the discussion about how to get the DAT drive to work and come back and talk to us again.
What is it in particular that you don't like about what I said?
You don't think that guys will belittle women who use a woman specific distribution?
You think that there are not enough Linux distributions?
You might need to re-read the article, but the overwhelming consensus was that it is not a good idea to create a new distribution. The reason that we had this discussion was that someone wanted to talk about it. Like any mailing list you take the wheat with the chaff; we have had good discussions about security and how to get a DAT drive to work.
I totally agree that women need to make an effort to integrate into existing Linux groups. However, as an experiment go to a local quilting bee (imagine that you really like to quilt). Now imagine a quilting bee where the quilters were predominately male (assuming you are male). It would be quite a different experience and while both would be fun, the second would make you feel more at home and "normal" as it were.
Hopefully that lame analogy helps just a little.
When my friends and I sit around and speculate what we would do with all that money (if we ever became even a tenth as rich as Paul Allen), someone always comes up with the idea of hiring the smartest technical people that we could find, putting them in a building together, letting them do whatever they wanted and seeing what they came up with. Call it giving back to the community.
Transmeta has been around for years and has not officially produced anything. They buzz/hype builds up and then dies down on a cyclical basis. Transmeta is clearly enjoying it - they could kill this type of hype easily if they wanted - but they don't. I think this is directly attributable to their sense of humor.
Maybe this is Paul Allen's way of giving back to the community. If this is the case, then the joke is - there will never be a product.
Good ideas, except that users who are posting from behind a firewall, often come from the same IP. For a large company, some users may never hit the 4 minute window.
Alan,
Are there any current plans to add kernel support for a single system image across a cluster? What do you have to do to add that support?
Thanks for all of your work!