Keep in mind that at every company, HR is the enemy. They are the enemy of those who want to be hired, and they are the enemy of those inside the company who wish to hire people.
They are the gamut you have to run, even if the company itself and the people you would actually work with are good people. They have no idea what the stuff on your resume means, and they don't care to know, but unless you pass their checklist, your actual qualifications will never make it to the people who are really interested in it.
So yes, I'd worry about what they might find in a cursory search based only on your name, or a name that vaguely resembles your name.
Huh? I guess that means BSA will be going out of business soon?
The number of businesses whose installed base of proprietary software exceeds their licenses by a large margin is enormous. Larger companies may fit the profile you suggest (their lawyers probably insist) but the BSA makes their living nailing small to medium size companies for all the unlicensed copies of MS Office, etc that they are running.
I've fought that battle myself. Upper level managers in many companies don't always take their IT department's warning seriously about the importance of licenses. "Just install it already. We'll buy more licenses when we can afford it."
The difference is that you can't patent an idea (you patent a "method.") That specifically includes mathematical algorithms. Courts have consistently ruled that pure math cannot be patented, and software is mathematics.
If you construct a method which involves specific hardware that has a "physical effect" in conjunction with software, then the entire system can reasonably be patented, but software by itself is math.
FWIW, he's still right in this case. You pointed to Sleeping Beauty, he was talking about Cinderella. The site you pointed to did not have Cinderella available.
`cmd - ipconfig' isn't the easiest way to do it. Tell her to point her browser to http://whatismyipaddress.com
And then tell her to read the number at the top of the screen. My mom lives 600 miles away, and when I need to VNC into her system, that's what I have her do. Using 'ipconfig' wouldn't work anyway, since I put her behind a NAT firewall years ago (with a hole for VNC -- she only "clicks the big V" when I tell her to, so the VNC server only runs when we need it.)
Do a google search on the phrase, "What's my ip" and you'll find a ton of sites that will provide that information.
As I recall, those erasures were (probably) deliberate. Debatably, they might have been accidental, but they were almost certainly not caused by tape deterioration.
That's always an option, I suppose, but most modern distros are fairly well documented and/or have very active and supportive user communities. Most problems are fairly easy to solve by using this combination of resources.
You may be able to legitimately argue that Microsoft support is easier to come by. I happen to think that supporting Windows will beat you to death, and I'd much rather support all-Linux labs than all-Windows labs, but that's just me. (That's why I have 120 Linux machines in my labs and 15 Windows.) But to claim that Linux "support means reading the source code" is just silly.
I imagine that's going to change. A recent high profile train accident while the engineer was texting instead of driving the train has gotten people's attention.
Cacti is fairly easy to install on either a Linux or a Windows server. It seems to be very configurable -- I'm still figuring out how to do some things.
The Cacti community has a bunch of scripts and templates that can be imported into your setup. The templates seem to be version specific, so if someone created it in a version other than what you're using, you may not be able to use it.
A decade ago I was pretty excited about 20G drives. I don't remember "a few hundred GB" available at any price for a desktop. We had A SAN that had over 3 TB for our servers (shared among all of them.) It was less than a million dollars -- but not a *lot* less.
We had a somewhat lower performance RAID array that had "only" 200G, and it was a lot cheaper. Less than $10,000. That wasn't used on a desktop either...
Only the "unsuccessful" athletes get diplomas. The "successful" ones get pro contracts. A high percentage of athletes (not all, but including a lot of the unsuccessful ones) are counting on that pro contract. The don't care much about the diploma.
The workstations I *support* (about 90 of them) are not. They're all running Ubuntu 8.04. My x86 servers are all running Debian Etch.
I love Gentoo on my desktop. I can get it set up exactly like I want it. But the "fiddle factor" is very high, and I don't particularly want the workstations I support to take that much of my time, or come to that, be all that configurable.
I set up the server to send me a message when there were certain problems with a peripheral.
Then campus IT shut down the network for a day, which caused problems with that peripheral. The *next* day I get about 300 messages, once the network came back online. That cost me about $30 to *receive* those messages.
This is in California, which, despite what some people may think, is definitely in the US. True, it was one of those fly-by-night wireless companies (called Cingular...)
You think the system administrator has the power to do that?
That's state property, folks. I have an old dead UPS in my server room that I would love to sell off (cheap) but if I want to get rid of it I have to call the property clerk and he will (theoretically) come haul it away. Of course he has a bad back and can't lift more than 25 pounds...
And a free edition is available, formatted for most any ebook reader you can think of (including Kindle and Sony reader.) Manybooks.net has all 16 volumes. Manybooks got them from Gutenberg.
The last jury I was on, we had one juror that spent the whole first day of deliberation (which was less than an hour) disagreeing with the consensus. The second day he told us that he had been acting as devil's advocate, because he wanted to be sure we actually considered all the evidence. I was proud of the rest of the jury -- everyone agreed that was a good idea, but we were all committed to going over everything carefully anyway.
Well, the Classmate hardware specs *are* better than the XO -- but only "conventional" specs.
What about innovative features that the XO embodies? The sunlight readable screen, the tablet like e-book mode, the ultra low power capabilities, the mesh networking? Admittedly, you could argue that the mesh networking is as much software as hardware, but the hardware is a part of it.
In addition, is the Classmate as rugged as the XO?
I don't think just adding Sugar to the Classmate would match up. I submit that despite the higher specs on CPU speed, RAM, and storage, the Classmate hardware represents inferior hardware for the stated purpose as compared to the XO. Those specs are not very significant to the mission that both these units claim to aim at. The hardware advantages that the XO brings to the table *do* make a difference to that mission.
And it wouldn't be easy to save a ton of money by dropping Windows. MS is deathly afraid of non-MS OSes taking hold in the developing world -- they are offering Windows in that market at $3 a pop.
I don't have any Windows machines handy, and my ability to use the Sony hasn't been impaired. I didn't get to use my "free" $50 credit from Sony, and I'll have to track down a Windows machine for the first time I decide to flash the ROM, but other than that I don't have any need for Windows. Books load onto my SD card just fine -- what more do I need?
As I understand it, after the first ROM flash, the newer ROM allows you to flash subsequent versions from the card. So far I haven't bothered to do that.
A Palm Vx is my secondary book reader. It's in my pocket now, and yes, that makes it convenient.
But the Sony e-ink is a far better reading experience. Lots easier on my eyes. I've never used the backlighting on the Palm to read, but that *doesn't* look like it would be easy on my eyes.
Exactly. There's a disconnect. High price for the device, high prices for the books, and they are DRMed. RSS feeds, but from Amazon only, and all "monetized".
I'll stick with the Sony. The unit is also high priced (although not as high priced as the Kindle) but since it accepts user content much more readily, inexpensive content is much easier to find. My SD card on the Sony has about 130 books on it, mostly either classics or inexpensive content from Baen or the like. Sure there's a lot of content that's not available in un-DRMed form -- in those cases I buy dead tree or skip them entirely. I am not looking to replace all my reading with the e-reader. I carry 'real' books around as well, just less than I used to.
I just like having a whole library available to me at the drop of a hat. I also read material that I used to print out from electronic sources -- now I can dump it on to the Sony. That was the *real* compelling reason for getting it. The Kindle doesn't sound like it will offer that opportunity.
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Keep in mind that at every company, HR is the enemy. They are the enemy of those who want to be hired, and they are the enemy of those inside the company who wish to hire people.
They are the gamut you have to run, even if the company itself and the people you would actually work with are good people. They have no idea what the stuff on your resume means, and they don't care to know, but unless you pass their checklist, your actual qualifications will never make it to the people who are really interested in it.
So yes, I'd worry about what they might find in a cursory search based only on your name, or a name that vaguely resembles your name.
Businesses are less likely to do such a thing
Huh? I guess that means BSA will be going out of business soon?
The number of businesses whose installed base of proprietary software exceeds their licenses by a large margin is enormous. Larger companies may fit the profile you suggest (their lawyers probably insist) but the BSA makes their living nailing small to medium size companies for all the unlicensed copies of MS Office, etc that they are running.
I've fought that battle myself. Upper level managers in many companies don't always take their IT department's warning seriously about the importance of licenses. "Just install it already. We'll buy more licenses when we can afford it."
The difference is that you can't patent an idea (you patent a "method.") That specifically includes mathematical algorithms. Courts have consistently ruled that pure math cannot be patented, and software is mathematics.
If you construct a method which involves specific hardware that has a "physical effect" in conjunction with software, then the entire system can reasonably be patented, but software by itself is math.
FWIW, he's still right in this case. You pointed to Sleeping Beauty, he was talking about Cinderella. The site you pointed to did not have Cinderella available.
Not that I consider that any sort of disaster...
Umm. He said 40 miles square. That would be about 1600 square miles, so he thinks it's bigger than you do. :)
`cmd - ipconfig' isn't the easiest way to do it. Tell her to point her browser to http://whatismyipaddress.com
And then tell her to read the number at the top of the screen. My mom lives 600 miles away, and when I need to VNC into her system, that's what I have her do. Using 'ipconfig' wouldn't work anyway, since I put her behind a NAT firewall years ago (with a hole for VNC -- she only "clicks the big V" when I tell her to, so the VNC server only runs when we need it.)
Do a google search on the phrase, "What's my ip" and you'll find a ton of sites that will provide that information.
As I recall, those erasures were (probably) deliberate. Debatably, they might have been accidental, but they were almost certainly not caused by tape deterioration.
"Where support means reading the source code?"
Umm. No.
That's always an option, I suppose, but most modern distros are fairly well documented and/or have very active and supportive user communities. Most problems are fairly easy to solve by using this combination of resources.
You may be able to legitimately argue that Microsoft support is easier to come by. I happen to think that supporting Windows will beat you to death, and I'd much rather support all-Linux labs than all-Windows labs, but that's just me. (That's why I have 120 Linux machines in my labs and 15 Windows.) But to claim that Linux "support means reading the source code" is just silly.
I imagine that's going to change. A recent high profile train accident while the engineer was texting instead of driving the train has gotten people's attention.
Cacti is fairly easy to install on either a Linux or a Windows server. It seems to be very configurable -- I'm still figuring out how to do some things.
The Cacti community has a bunch of scripts and templates that can be imported into your setup. The templates seem to be version specific, so if someone created it in a version other than what you're using, you may not be able to use it.
Other than that it seems pretty easy to set up.
Define "almost a decade."
A decade ago I was pretty excited about 20G drives. I don't remember "a few hundred GB" available at any price for a desktop. We had A SAN that had over 3 TB for our servers (shared among all of them.) It was less than a million dollars -- but not a *lot* less.
We had a somewhat lower performance RAID array that had "only" 200G, and it was a lot cheaper. Less than $10,000. That wasn't used on a desktop either...
Only the "unsuccessful" athletes get diplomas. The "successful" ones get pro contracts. A high percentage of athletes (not all, but including a lot of the unsuccessful ones) are counting on that pro contract. The don't care much about the diploma.
Doesn't matter. It's bait.
I don't much care for worms. Doesn't much matter, as long as the fish like 'em.
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*My* workstations are all Gentoo.
The workstations I *support* (about 90 of them) are not. They're all running Ubuntu 8.04. My x86 servers are all running Debian Etch.
I love Gentoo on my desktop. I can get it set up exactly like I want it. But the "fiddle factor" is very high, and I don't particularly want the workstations I support to take that much of my time, or come to that, be all that configurable.
I set up the server to send me a message when there were certain problems with a peripheral.
Then campus IT shut down the network for a day, which caused problems with that peripheral. The *next* day I get about 300 messages, once the network came back online. That cost me about $30 to *receive* those messages.
This is in California, which, despite what some people may think, is definitely in the US. True, it was one of those fly-by-night wireless companies (called Cingular...)
You think the system administrator has the power to do that?
That's state property, folks. I have an old dead UPS in my server room that I would love to sell off (cheap) but if I want to get rid of it I have to call the property clerk and he will (theoretically) come haul it away. Of course he has a bad back and can't lift more than 25 pounds...
In 52 years I've been counted once, to my knowledge. It was either the 1980 or 1990 census. Never before or since.
And a free edition is available, formatted for most any ebook reader you can think of (including Kindle and Sony reader.) Manybooks.net has all 16 volumes. Manybooks got them from Gutenberg.
The last jury I was on, we had one juror that spent the whole first day of deliberation (which was less than an hour) disagreeing with the consensus. The second day he told us that he had been acting as devil's advocate, because he wanted to be sure we actually considered all the evidence. I was proud of the rest of the jury -- everyone agreed that was a good idea, but we were all committed to going over everything carefully anyway.
Now is your citation of -$30 per copy speculation, or do you have actual information to that effect?
Well, the Classmate hardware specs *are* better than the XO -- but only "conventional" specs.
What about innovative features that the XO embodies? The sunlight readable screen, the tablet like e-book mode, the ultra low power capabilities, the mesh networking? Admittedly, you could argue that the mesh networking is as much software as hardware, but the hardware is a part of it.
In addition, is the Classmate as rugged as the XO?
I don't think just adding Sugar to the Classmate would match up. I submit that despite the higher specs on CPU speed, RAM, and storage, the Classmate hardware represents inferior hardware for the stated purpose as compared to the XO. Those specs are not very significant to the mission that both these units claim to aim at. The hardware advantages that the XO brings to the table *do* make a difference to that mission.
And it wouldn't be easy to save a ton of money by dropping Windows. MS is deathly afraid of non-MS OSes taking hold in the developing world -- they are offering Windows in that market at $3 a pop.
I don't have any Windows machines handy, and my ability to use the Sony hasn't been impaired. I didn't get to use my "free" $50 credit from Sony, and I'll have to track down a Windows machine for the first time I decide to flash the ROM, but other than that I don't have any need for Windows. Books load onto my SD card just fine -- what more do I need?
As I understand it, after the first ROM flash, the newer ROM allows you to flash subsequent versions from the card. So far I haven't bothered to do that.
A Palm Vx is my secondary book reader. It's in my pocket now, and yes, that makes it convenient.
But the Sony e-ink is a far better reading experience. Lots easier on my eyes. I've never used the backlighting on the Palm to read, but that *doesn't* look like it would be easy on my eyes.
Exactly. There's a disconnect. High price for the device, high prices for the books, and they are DRMed. RSS feeds, but from Amazon only, and all "monetized".
I'll stick with the Sony. The unit is also high priced (although not as high priced as the Kindle) but since it accepts user content much more readily, inexpensive content is much easier to find. My SD card on the Sony has about 130 books on it, mostly either classics or inexpensive content from Baen or the like. Sure there's a lot of content that's not available in un-DRMed form -- in those cases I buy dead tree or skip them entirely. I am not looking to replace all my reading with the e-reader. I carry 'real' books around as well, just less than I used to.
I just like having a whole library available to me at the drop of a hat. I also read material that I used to print out from electronic sources -- now I can dump it on to the Sony. That was the *real* compelling reason for getting it. The Kindle doesn't sound like it will offer that opportunity.