SAIC doesn't only do intelligence and defense work (even tho they do a lot of that). I work for them as well, as a contractor doing UNIX administration for NASA. Since I work at a NASA facility, I barely have any contact with SAIC corporate, except that every two weeks they give me a paycheck:)
(standard disclaimers apply, i'm speaking for myself not for SAIC, etc)
There is a fairly neat open source PVR at mythtv.org. It is still rather early in development, but has neat features like an on-screen display, a program guide, pausing and rewinding of live TV, etc. Pretty neat stuff.
Things have changed a bit, but just putting Linux on your resume used to be a great way of *not* getting a job. There are way too many people out there who think that having a network of 2 linux boxes makes them a fully qualified admin...
Any Y2K problems are not going to make ANYTHING think it's 100AD. More likely 1900AD. It's funny, but I guess I'm just picky.
actually, this is a perl-ism. Perl returns the year as the actual year -1900. Therefore, a lot of perl scripts will show 100 for the date if the programmer doesn't add the 1900 back to it.
Meanwhile, my friend scoured the net for the appropriate RPM's. Then found out he had to find RPM's for the libraries, etc.
not all distros were created equal. Those of us who use debian feel sorry for our little brothers who can't just type apt-get install and have apt d/l the app and all dependancies and set it up.
seriously, though, I've never actually used the FreeBSD package manager, but it is hard to imagine anything nicer than debian's apt/dpkg system.
Heh -- what a maroon. I have yet to build a box (mine are usually random parts) that didn't happily boot FreeBSD. Nice try. Next!
hmm, I tried to install FreeBSD on a Compaq Deskpro EP, completely stock, at my last job and the install froze completely when trying to setup the network card (an Intel eepro). I installed both Debian and Redhat linux distros on the same box with no problems. I'm not an insane linux advocate, but I do want to use what *works*.
I agree with what you say, with some caveats...I think that perhaps people will move to other systems, but I think that certain projects will go along with them. For example, I'm a big fan of the Enlightenment window manager. If any new system that I play with has X, I should be able to get E running on it. I think that these smaller communities will probably last, even when bigger ones fragment over the whole underground/popularity thing.
"Broken" fonts? You mean like PostScript and TrueType fonts?
No, I think he's talking about fonts like the nexus font (among others). If you've ever used xfontsel, those fonts don't show up because they don't have a true font string embedded in them, I ran into this problem trying to use the gtk fontselect box...fonts under X just suck.
My biggest problem with the way esr writes is that he has an unfortunate tendency to joust with straw men. His deconstruction of "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a rather sophmoric set of straw men. It always surprises me to see such fuzzy thinking from people who otherwise pride themselves on rational thought.
I have to wonder how many of the people who were surveyed got into computers in college because they were told it was such a lucrative field. My programming classes were full of these people, who knew nothing about computers and couldn't have given a crap about them, they just wanted the big bucks when they got out of school. Where I work now I'm surrounded by these people...so I got a new job at a place where the people seem interested in computers and what they're working on. It seems like the people who got into the tech industry because they liked computers already do fine, it's just the people who got into to make the big $$$ who get burntout. Or something.
My family moved to CA, after far too long of this hell, and I went to a school were people were TOLERATED. Had I changed in those short months of the summer? No. But my environment had. No longer was school a living hell. Yes, it took me years to recover, but at least I was able to.
Same here. I was lucky enough to get out for grades 11 & 12, to a sane school. It didn't totally alleviate my problems (I still have a lot of trouble with depression) but if I hadn't gotten out the result would have been ugly...
It was mentioned on Howard Stern this morning that Rosie O'Donnell started crying over the Colorado thing on her show and said that it was because of guns...but she shills for K-Mart, a store that sells guns! Another instance of hypocrits on the television...
I too had similar experiences in middle/high school. I still haven't had a sucessful experience with college, I still won't forgive my parents, and I'm still on anti-depressants from it. It sucks. The only thing that saved me was getting the hell out--I convinced my parents to send me to a small Quaker boarding school for the last two years of high school. There, the number of "freaks" was even with the number of "jocks", and I got respect from teachers and administrators. The only advice I can give to kids who are going through the same thing is to try to convince your parents to let you get out. There are good high schools out there, if you can convince your parents to let you go.
That's absolutely right. I was so damaged by high school I tried to kill myself! It took _years_ to heal from all that, especially because I didn't realise it WAS NOT the real world. It's been a long hard road learning that lesson. But now, I have self-respect and know who I am and where I have value, and you know what? I may have faults, but there are ways in which I'm just _better_ than the people I felt so less than in high school.
I'm with you on this one. I came out of high school in a similar condition, and I was lucky enough to get moved to an awesome school for the last 2 years! It was impossible for me to have a good college experience, because of the leftover deitris in my mind from middle/high school. I'm still on anti-depressants and haven't worked out things with my parents, I still feel like *they should have known what was going on* (even tho I never told them). High school is a killer, literally.
I just spilled hot coffee on my lap. But, wait, it's not my fault that I was driving around with hot coffee in my crotch and it spilled, it's the place who sold it to me, because they sold it hot."
I'm sorry, but this pisses me off. Do you know anything at all about the case to which you refer? I doubt it. The woman wasn't holding the cup between her legs, it was in her hand. The bottom of the cup dropped out and spilled the coffee on her lap. McDonalds had gotten multiple complaints that the coffee was served too hot (~300F, I believe!) and that the cups couldn't take that temperature safely. The coffee was so hot she suffered 1 degree burns all over her lap. She initially just wanted McDonalds to pay her medical bills, after she was told that there had been many similar complaints about the heat of the coffee and the McDonalds had ignored them. McDonalds refused, so she took them to court. A jury slapped McDonalds with a huge punative damage fee, because McDonalds tried to try the woman in the press. This "urban myth" about it being her fault is bullshit.
heheheeeh, I wonder how long it'll take before the MIT kids paint it blue, or put a big reset button on it? "The Gates CS Center has to be rebooted at least once a week, sources said"
However, Enlightenment doesn't seem anywhere near completetion... or is it? The latest Gnome (99.8) has Enlightenment.15! None of the other wm work as nicely with gnome... I love window maker, but it clashes aethetically with gnome, even if it is compliant. Does anyone have an idea as to when E will be finished?
What do you mean by finished? This discussion has come up on the e-develop list lately, and people should be reminded how dev. version numbering works. 0.14 (the current released dev. version of E) is the 14th release of the development version. 0.15, which will be out RSN, will be the 15th release. It doesn't mean that it is 15% done...just like kernel v 2.1.132 wasn't 132% done.:)
That having been said, E 0.15 (from CVS or snaps) has been quite stable for me:)
That's one of the reaons why I like sites like this: they don't pontificate 24/7 erm, I read ars technica, and there is definitely as much pontification from them as anywhere else. Actually, maybe more because, as far as I can tell, they are taken in by "market speak" more often then the average/. article. They also are quite irrational about Macs.
hmm, the facts in the article are a little screwy...enlightenment doesn't replace X, it runs under (over?) X...but anyway, enlightenment 0.15 (available via anonymous cvs) rules!
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SAIC doesn't only do intelligence and defense work (even tho they do a lot of that). I work for them as well, as a contractor doing UNIX administration for NASA. Since I work at a NASA facility, I barely have any contact with SAIC corporate, except that every two weeks they give me a paycheck :)
(standard disclaimers apply, i'm speaking for myself not for SAIC, etc)
Ummm...both Epitaph and Fat are members of the RIAA (I would point you to the official RIAA website, but it is impossible to get to). Nice try.
You mean mythtv.org, not mythtv.com
There is a fairly neat open source PVR at mythtv.org. It is still rather early in development, but has neat features like an on-screen display, a program guide, pausing and rewinding of live TV, etc. Pretty neat stuff.
low /. uids, don't make you leet, after all, RADKade1 has one in the double digits I think...
Things have changed a bit, but just putting Linux on your resume used to be a great way of *not* getting a job. There are way too many people out there who think that having a network of 2 linux boxes makes them a fully qualified admin...
The stuff that freeamp has is gpl'd, as well, which is ultra-nice.
Any Y2K problems are not going to make ANYTHING think it's 100AD. More likely 1900AD. It's funny, but I guess I'm just picky.
actually, this is a perl-ism. Perl returns the year as the actual year -1900. Therefore, a lot of perl scripts will show 100 for the date if the programmer doesn't add the 1900 back to it.
Meanwhile, my friend scoured the net for the appropriate RPM's. Then found out he had to find RPM's for the libraries, etc.
not all distros were created equal. Those of us who use debian feel sorry for our little brothers who can't just type apt-get install and have apt d/l the app and all dependancies and set it up.
seriously, though, I've never actually used the FreeBSD package manager, but it is hard to imagine anything nicer than debian's apt/dpkg system.
Heh -- what a maroon. I have yet to build a box (mine are usually random parts) that didn't happily boot FreeBSD. Nice try. Next!
hmm, I tried to install FreeBSD on a Compaq Deskpro EP, completely stock, at my last job and the install froze completely when trying to setup the network card (an Intel eepro). I installed both Debian and Redhat linux distros on the same box with no problems. I'm not an insane linux advocate, but I do want to use what *works*.
I agree with what you say, with some caveats...I think that perhaps people will move to other systems, but I think that certain projects will go along with them. For example, I'm a big fan of the Enlightenment window manager. If any new system that I play with has X, I should be able to get E running on it. I think that these smaller communities will probably last, even when bigger ones fragment over the whole underground/popularity thing.
"Broken" fonts? You mean like PostScript and TrueType fonts?
No, I think he's talking about fonts like the nexus font (among others). If you've ever used xfontsel, those fonts don't show up because they don't have a true font string embedded in them, I ran into this problem trying to use the gtk fontselect box...fonts under X just suck.
My biggest problem with the way esr writes is that he has an unfortunate tendency to joust with straw men. His deconstruction of "The Tragedy of the Commons" is a rather sophmoric set of straw men. It always surprises me to see such fuzzy thinking from people who otherwise pride themselves on rational thought.
I have to wonder how many of the people who were surveyed got into computers in college because they were told it was such a lucrative field. My programming classes were full of these people, who knew nothing about computers and couldn't have given a crap about them, they just wanted the big bucks when they got out of school. Where I work now I'm surrounded by these people...so I got a new job at a place where the people seem interested in computers and what they're working on. It seems like the people who got into the tech industry because they liked computers already do fine, it's just the people who got into to make the big $$$ who get burntout. Or something.
My family moved to CA, after far too long of this hell, and I went to a school were people were TOLERATED. Had I changed in those short months of the summer? No. But my environment had. No longer was school a living hell. Yes, it took me years to recover, but at least I was able to.
Same here. I was lucky enough to get out for grades 11 & 12, to a sane school. It didn't totally alleviate my problems (I still have a lot of trouble with depression) but if I hadn't gotten out the result would have been ugly...
That's a shame, but as a personal monument to Alan Turing, I named my cat Turing. (My teddybear is named Babbage)
It was mentioned on Howard Stern this morning that Rosie O'Donnell started crying over the Colorado thing on her show and said that it was because of guns...but she shills for K-Mart, a store that sells guns! Another instance of hypocrits on the television...
I too had similar experiences in middle/high school. I still haven't had a sucessful experience with college, I still won't forgive my parents, and I'm still on anti-depressants from it. It sucks. The only thing that saved me was getting the hell out--I convinced my parents to send me to a small Quaker boarding school for the last two years of high school. There, the number of "freaks" was even with the number of "jocks", and I got respect from teachers and administrators. The only advice I can give to kids who are going through the same thing is to try to convince your parents to let you get out. There are good high schools out there, if you can convince your parents to let you go.
That's absolutely right. I was so damaged by high school I tried to kill myself! It took _years_ to heal from all that, especially because I didn't realise it WAS NOT the real world. It's been a long hard road learning that lesson. But now, I have self-respect and know who I am and where I have value, and you know what? I may have faults, but there are ways in which I'm just _better_ than the people I felt so less than in high school.
I'm with you on this one. I came out of high school in a similar condition, and I was lucky enough to get moved to an awesome school for the last 2 years! It was impossible for me to have a good college experience, because of the leftover deitris in my mind from middle/high school. I'm still on anti-depressants and haven't worked out things with my parents, I still feel like *they should have known what was going on* (even tho I never told them). High school is a killer, literally.
I just spilled hot coffee on my lap. But, wait, it's not my fault that I was driving around with hot coffee in my crotch and it spilled, it's the place who sold it to me, because they sold it hot."
I'm sorry, but this pisses me off. Do you know anything at all about the case to which you refer? I doubt it. The woman wasn't holding the cup between her legs, it was in her hand. The bottom of the cup dropped out and spilled the coffee on her lap. McDonalds had gotten multiple complaints that the coffee was served too hot (~300F, I believe!) and that the cups couldn't take that temperature safely. The coffee was so hot she suffered 1 degree burns all over her lap. She initially just wanted McDonalds to pay her medical bills, after she was told that there had been many similar complaints about the heat of the coffee and the McDonalds had ignored them. McDonalds refused, so she took them to court. A jury slapped McDonalds with a huge punative damage fee, because McDonalds tried to try the woman in the press. This "urban myth" about it being her fault is bullshit.
heheheeeh, I wonder how long it'll take before the MIT kids paint it blue, or put a big reset button on it? "The Gates CS Center has to be rebooted at least once a week, sources said"
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However, Enlightenment doesn't seem anywhere near completetion ... or is it? The latest Gnome (99.8) has Enlightenment .15! None of the other wm work as nicely with gnome ... I love window maker, but it clashes aethetically with gnome, even if it is compliant. Does anyone have an idea as to when E will be finished?
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What do you mean by finished? This discussion has come up on the e-develop list lately, and people should be reminded how dev. version numbering works. 0.14 (the current released dev. version of E) is the 14th release of the development version. 0.15, which will be out RSN, will be the 15th release. It doesn't mean that it is 15% done...just like kernel v 2.1.132 wasn't 132% done.
That having been said, E 0.15 (from CVS or snaps) has been quite stable for me
That's one of the reaons why I like sites like this: they don't pontificate 24/7 erm, I read ars technica, and there is definitely as much pontification from them as anywhere else. Actually, maybe more because, as far as I can tell, they are taken in by "market speak" more often then the average /. article. They also are quite irrational about Macs.
hmm, the facts in the article are a little screwy...enlightenment doesn't replace X, it
runs under (over?) X...but anyway, enlightenment 0.15 (available via anonymous cvs) rules!