I am also a VMWare fan and was very happy when they released VMWare server for free a while back. I use VMware Server every day to run a Windows XP machine and Ubuntu Server in a virtual networked environment which I develop client/server apps on. It works awesome.. although I long for faster hardware emulation.
I'm rooting for KVM to take over, however it probally needs some time to settle down. Networking is harder to setup, and I've noticed graphical glitches in winXP.
WOW, this guy is a fscking genius! There need to be more managers like this dude. Seriously!
Yes, it's rocket science to most managers to even faintly understand what motivates employees. Could be as simple as not taking away their basketball break.. or not bashing them in public. WOW, amazing!
you have to spend the $$$, or you don't get it the next year. That's probally why the bridge to the airport was created.. 1) it was needed, those 50 people can't take boats to the airport all the time. 2) That money would have been taken away from Alaska budget the next year if they didn't spend it. So blame somthing besides the bridge when you decide to gripe about money spent. Blame your state not having an Oil reserve instead.
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I second that. Wonder if anyone's upgraded an Xgl dapper installation to edgy. Currently I'm running Xgl + beryl + emerald. It's beautiful, and the packages work awesome even with tons of apt upgrades.
way to go. RPMs are dead to me. I actually was thinking CentOS wasn't all that bad, until I tried to uninstall sendmail in favor of a MTA I was compiling from scratch. And guess what? mdadm depends on sendmail.. would you like to uninstall mdadm? UM NO, ACTUALLY I USE THAT.
well too bad, CentOS wouldn't uninstall sendmail without taking away my software raid ability. Never understood people complaining about RPM dependancies until now. Just makes me even more happy to use apt.
it sounds like the key to getting a job there, is to not want a job there even the slightest. Sweet. Now I just gotta focus more on getting to know VCs and/or tons of freetime and bandwidth.
Do you think they would hire me for Data Center Tech, having not graduated from college? I just got really bored at college, and now I'm a professional System Administrator cause I enjoy Linux/Programming. I've tried interviewing for the SysAdmin positions at Google, but I get thrown by the low level questions. Unfortunately, I think I've been a System Administrator for too long, and I've forgotten which unix call can list the contents of an Inode and also how many IP's in a/16 network. Without having internet access (not allowed during interview), I'm afraid I won't be able to recite any specific factoids because my brain has already un-learned the stuff I know I can find online. I think i'd be a great fit at google, but unfortunately I'll never make it through the hiring process. Their loss. Actually now I'm considering a career change (after about 8 years of Linux experience in the field). Cause I got stuck in the wrong SysAdmin job and now I'm kinda hating IT in general (never work for a windows shop).
"IT" is broken. Software has too many bugs to list, all causing rampant ID theft and computer crime. Patents are out of control. Air traffic controllers have a less stressful job than "IT". My salary hasn't gone up in the last 8 years. My co-workers all got outsourced. Management thinks they can push their infrastructure (and me) to the brink, cause they don't understand the big picture. Well, it's a job, and it pays the bills. I just duno how much longer I can last at an un-enlightened company. Anyways, I think I'm going to try freelancing again while I get my head on straight. Being self taught from the begining, I may never be able to tolerate 'school'. Blackhat has a certain allure these days, and this will give me some time to sharpen my blackhat skillz. After all, a blackhat never gets asked for his 'resume'.
seems like you could get all the support you need for free, and from the sound of it the free support would be better than what you've already purchased. Don't use QT if it's so expensive, I think that one is more for cross-platform use. Also, use CentOS instead of RedHat if you're looking to save a buck. You'll never use RedHat support and you only need it if you're running Oracle. Anyway, OSS was meant to be community supported, check out the community around the technology you use.. Become a part of that community and help support yourself, after all you've got the code!
Installed linspire for some people, and they were so dumb they didn't realize when CNR expired their license. Anyways, that led to the system being compromised and eventually rendered un-usable. I had to rescue their files, and then I installed Ubuntu. Free updates = More users. Damn you linspire, you shoulda done this sooner.
Yeah, I too once thought playing games in an emulated wine environment was the future. However, this doesn't seem to be happening too well (it's buggy and slow to release a new game).
So, let's just all focus on making dual-booting MUCH MUCH faster. Remember loadlin.exe? we need some binaries to loadwindows uber quickly so we can play our games, then we can loadlin.exe back quickly also. Even hibernating both OSs would be a step. Then once this is completed, we can make plugins that remove-WGA, defeat MS money schemes etc.
The fact that you're only 5 employees and already thinking you need a sysadmin, means that you do need one. I'm sure there's plenty of cheap mediocre talent you could hire, have them there fulltime to do your windows grunt work and answer your questions like a good little google proxy (were talking interns here). Whatever you do, don't get fooled into thinking you can have a SysAdmin that works remotely *all the time. Won't work, and you'll get pissed at the turnaround time. If the intern sucks, just fire them until you find someone smart. They're out there Im pretty sure (and they need $$$). Just hard to find somtimes.
they were talkin about this in an earlier thread, but it was annoyingly misled.
basically, the short answer is no. The long answer is that nothing does a true PUSH, not even your blackberry most likely!!;) That being said, if you make your requests more lightweight (for example, not refreshing the whole page and using caching techniques), then you could likely emulate a push well enough to suit your needs in AJAX.
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don't take it personally, most of these guys are still thinking they're gonna MetaRefresh their tables and use JS for mouseOver on links
ajax plus caching is the bomb, now if only we all had time to program up those objects in Javascript. Well I don't, so I'm waiting for this : http://www.morfik.com/
don't worry about it, that's what Enterprise Linux means, is you shell out the extra kizzy$ for Oracle. I'd be stoked if Knoppix got in on this, and made a Enterprise thin client / full blown linux desktop distro.
do me a fping favor and try to make it cheap this time guys!! don't be afraid to undercut RedHAT!! I wanna see Desktops 30-50$
I think, at least for me, it was the lack of a land-line phone that kept me away from TivO. Not $$$. Cause I spent way more on my HTPC 3.2Ghz Prescott w/PVR250x2 and Snapstream BeyondTV. There are also many plusses to having direct control over the MPEG2's that get recorded.. And I've got sweet GameZ on there too, like Mame32 and HL2.
how this became a slashdot story. How does this happen? I'll tell you, the slashdot story pickers think it's cool to start flame wars, because it's more popular than actual news. Kinda like the TV news. Who doesn't enjoy a good diss on our ever friendlier back-stabbing neighbors from India..
I completely agree. I had to take back an egronomic POS mouse for this reason. Whenever I picked the darn thing up (to do a 180turn in 1st person shooter for example), I would accidentally push all those thumb buttons!@!! arggh!
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I am also a VMWare fan and was very happy when they released VMWare server for free a while back. I use VMware Server every day to run a Windows XP machine and Ubuntu Server in a virtual networked environment which I develop client/server apps on. It works awesome.. although I long for faster hardware emulation.
I'm rooting for KVM to take over, however it probally needs some time to settle down. Networking is harder to setup, and I've noticed graphical glitches in winXP.
WOW, this guy is a fscking genius! There need to be more managers like this dude. Seriously! Yes, it's rocket science to most managers to even faintly understand what motivates employees. Could be as simple as not taking away their basketball break.. or not bashing them in public. WOW, amazing!
no wonder that site is soooo slooooooow.
you have to spend the $$$, or you don't get it the next year. That's probally why the bridge to the airport was created.. 1) it was needed, those 50 people can't take boats to the airport all the time. 2) That money would have been taken away from Alaska budget the next year if they didn't spend it. So blame somthing besides the bridge when you decide to gripe about money spent. Blame your state not having an Oil reserve instead.
I second that. Wonder if anyone's upgraded an Xgl dapper installation to edgy. Currently I'm running Xgl + beryl + emerald. It's beautiful, and the packages work awesome even with tons of apt upgrades.
way to go. RPMs are dead to me. I actually was thinking CentOS wasn't all that bad, until I tried to uninstall sendmail in favor of a MTA I was compiling from scratch. And guess what? mdadm depends on sendmail.. would you like to uninstall mdadm? UM NO, ACTUALLY I USE THAT. well too bad, CentOS wouldn't uninstall sendmail without taking away my software raid ability. Never understood people complaining about RPM dependancies until now. Just makes me even more happy to use apt.
it sounds like the key to getting a job there, is to not want a job there even the slightest. Sweet. Now I just gotta focus more on getting to know VCs and/or tons of freetime and bandwidth.
Do you think they would hire me for Data Center Tech, having not graduated from college? I just got really bored at college, and now I'm a professional System Administrator cause I enjoy Linux/Programming. I've tried interviewing for the SysAdmin positions at Google, but I get thrown by the low level questions. Unfortunately, I think I've been a System Administrator for too long, and I've forgotten which unix call can list the contents of an Inode and also how many IP's in a /16 network. Without having internet access (not allowed during interview), I'm afraid I won't be able to recite any specific factoids because my brain has already un-learned the stuff I know I can find online. I think i'd be a great fit at google, but unfortunately I'll never make it through the hiring process. Their loss. Actually now I'm considering a career change (after about 8 years of Linux experience in the field). Cause I got stuck in the wrong SysAdmin job and now I'm kinda hating IT in general (never work for a windows shop).
"IT" is broken. Software has too many bugs to list, all causing rampant ID theft and computer crime. Patents are out of control. Air traffic controllers have a less stressful job than "IT". My salary hasn't gone up in the last 8 years. My co-workers all got outsourced. Management thinks they can push their infrastructure (and me) to the brink, cause they don't understand the big picture. Well, it's a job, and it pays the bills. I just duno how much longer I can last at an un-enlightened company. Anyways, I think I'm going to try freelancing again while I get my head on straight. Being self taught from the begining, I may never be able to tolerate 'school'. Blackhat has a certain allure these days, and this will give me some time to sharpen my blackhat skillz. After all, a blackhat never gets asked for his 'resume'.
seems like you could get all the support you need for free, and from the sound of it the free support would be better than what you've already purchased. Don't use QT if it's so expensive, I think that one is more for cross-platform use. Also, use CentOS instead of RedHat if you're looking to save a buck. You'll never use RedHat support and you only need it if you're running Oracle. Anyway, OSS was meant to be community supported, check out the community around the technology you use.. Become a part of that community and help support yourself, after all you've got the code!
Installed linspire for some people, and they were so dumb they didn't realize when CNR expired their license. Anyways, that led to the system being compromised and eventually rendered un-usable. I had to rescue their files, and then I installed Ubuntu. Free updates = More users. Damn you linspire, you shoulda done this sooner.
Yeah, I too once thought playing games in an emulated wine environment was the future. However, this doesn't seem to be happening too well (it's buggy and slow to release a new game). So, let's just all focus on making dual-booting MUCH MUCH faster. Remember loadlin.exe? we need some binaries to loadwindows uber quickly so we can play our games, then we can loadlin.exe back quickly also. Even hibernating both OSs would be a step. Then once this is completed, we can make plugins that remove-WGA, defeat MS money schemes etc.
or maybe you could buy a better wireless card after researching to see which one works in linux. Usually the 5$ cards don't work too well.
The fact that you're only 5 employees and already thinking you need a sysadmin, means that you do need one. I'm sure there's plenty of cheap mediocre talent you could hire, have them there fulltime to do your windows grunt work and answer your questions like a good little google proxy (were talking interns here). Whatever you do, don't get fooled into thinking you can have a SysAdmin that works remotely *all the time. Won't work, and you'll get pissed at the turnaround time. If the intern sucks, just fire them until you find someone smart. They're out there Im pretty sure (and they need $$$). Just hard to find somtimes.
works beautifully for me. Linksys wireless G and B PCMCIA cards. This is likely why no one is reverse-engineering them anymore, no point.
M$ is spyware friendly on purpose!! Wow, I always suspected, but now I have proof.
Careful out there.
they were talkin about this in an earlier thread, but it was annoyingly misled. basically, the short answer is no. The long answer is that nothing does a true PUSH, not even your blackberry most likely!! ;) That being said, if you make your requests more lightweight (for example, not refreshing the whole page and using caching techniques), then you could likely emulate a push well enough to suit your needs in AJAX.
don't take it personally, most of these guys are still thinking they're gonna MetaRefresh their tables and use JS for mouseOver on links
ajax plus caching is the bomb, now if only we all had time to program up those objects in Javascript. Well I don't, so I'm waiting for this : http://www.morfik.com/
don't worry about it, that's what Enterprise Linux means, is you shell out the extra kizzy$ for Oracle. I'd be stoked if Knoppix got in on this, and made a Enterprise thin client / full blown linux desktop distro.
do me a fping favor and try to make it cheap this time guys!! don't be afraid to undercut RedHAT!! I wanna see Desktops 30-50$
I think, at least for me, it was the lack of a land-line phone that kept me away from TivO. Not $$$. Cause I spent way more on my HTPC 3.2Ghz Prescott w/PVR250x2 and Snapstream BeyondTV. There are also many plusses to having direct control over the MPEG2's that get recorded.. And I've got sweet GameZ on there too, like Mame32 and HL2.
And I'm FAT!! Mod me up!
try using an FM transmitter.
how this became a slashdot story. How does this happen? I'll tell you, the slashdot story pickers think it's cool to start flame wars, because it's more popular than actual news. Kinda like the TV news. Who doesn't enjoy a good diss on our ever friendlier back-stabbing neighbors from India..
you are a liar!
I completely agree. I had to take back an egronomic POS mouse for this reason. Whenever I picked the darn thing up (to do a 180turn in 1st person shooter for example), I would accidentally push all those thumb buttons!@!! arggh!
hey! i'm not the only one, this story almost ruined my day till i read this. :) THANK you.