Personally I don't like wiping my ass with the GPL... I prefer to have them signed in triplicate by the developers, sent in to SGI, sent back to ibm, queried for by script kiddies, lost by SCO, found under a rug in sketachwan, subjected to public enquiry at the 9th circut court, lost again but this time by janet reno, and finally buried in soft porn for three months and recycled as firelighters for the SCO license buring at high noon.
That is pretty stupid, espically since people like me with older g3's that really cannot benefit from the newer panther opted out from doing the 120$ upgrade.
Yeah it's interesting. A friend of mine who uses his g5 for his design business is relativly pissed about panther. Quicktime broke, a bunch of 3rd party utilities broke. A couple of his linotype apps broke. All are 10 native so it's not a emulate problem. Ended up lending him my old g3 with 10.2 so he could complete his work for the weekend. He's not a happy camper.
what are you looking for anyway? Someone who can work with linux in a novel environment or someone who can write a kernel level device driver to alter the fabric of space and time through a named pipe?
Why buy a license anyway. A license would be for the pre-trial version of linux. During trial all offensive code (if there really is any except for acient public knowlage code that has been out for a long long time.) should be revealed right? (IANAL) it'd be a matter of days before a "no sco code" version of the linux kernel comes out. Hence, not licensable by sco. Is that incorrect? I mean that's putting alot of pressure and dependance on the kernel coder's that are out there in the world but I think they have their own vested interest into making sure they can continue to have a product that cannot be profited by someone who contributed nothing. It just seems to me that the only issue is pre-buying a license before anything has actually been proven in court is somewhat akin to making a law after the fact and trying to procecute someone for something they did before it was a law. Or simpler, extortion. Isn't that the real issue anyway?
Windows needs tons of patches and reboots, where as Linux does not. You just download a patch, apply it and your done. What brain dead idiot would use WSH to do ANYTHING on a critical ATM machine? Oh, and MS has NEVER made anything 100% secure. There has never been a 100% secure system from anyone.
This is an interesting point that seems to elude people everytime there is a discussion about MSWin security vs. Linux. WinOS is a kernel-application layer all together. The services and daemons are preinstalled. Take the fileshare/network sharing services for example. Here is a inexplicably installed set of services (well ports) that are tied into the os very tightly in winos. Linux is just the kernel. Then there are a series of packages you can install to provide services. The security issues are not actually with linux itself but with these other applications. Try it sometime, install linux and ONLY linux on a system. Not very hackable unless you have console access, and even then not very useful untill you start installing packages to extend the OS into something useful. Maybe I am just arguing symantics here but Linux the actual linux kernel is secure. The linux packages, applications, some of those have some problems. However, WinOS, out of the box, is insecure.
Actually, as a net admin at an ISP, I think the black lists are great. They enable me to filter out nearly 60% of confirmed spam sources. I see nothing wrong with being black listed for having a incorrectly configured server. The down side is some of the attitudes given by the admins of SOME of the black lists. And we have had client servers black listed for stupid mistakes in the past (mistakes that are not made any more I assure you). At anyrate, last time I checked of the over 600k connections to our mail servers, only 8% were legitimate mail. 60% were repeated RBL delivery attempts, the rest were found by spam assassin, virus check and content filters.
the carte blanche RBL's are bad is a pretty closed way of thinking about it. All of our spam filtering servers are "opt outable" by our customers but out of the 1500 customers we have I've only had 3 people who have decided that the few false positives superceed recieving 100+ spam messages a day. The rest, when explained and demonstrated find other ways to communicate with black listed servers.
Same thing with Covad and their resellers. I work for a little ISP out in the middle of no wheres california. We tried reselling covad DSL but the pricing for US was 30 dollars more a line then what Covad themselves were offering the lines. What goes through customer minds... "Why should I pay you 100 a month when it only costs me 70 a month directly with covad?" The other big issue is when you resell for covad, YOU are responsible for tech support, they will not talk to end customers only to the reseller. SO when a line goes down, customer calls us, then we have to call covad. doesn't sound too bad execpt you end up being on hold for 1-2 hours with covad. The other really buggy thing is they wont even talk to you unless you are on site. so all and all it is totally not worth it to resell DSL at a gain of 30 a month when they are underselling you at the same time.
not sure if this is what sbc is doing but I really would not be surprised.
Not only do they make magnesium bike frames, in the 60's Formula One/Can Am/GT/etc tyre rims and a wide variety of other bits and parts of the cars were made from cast magnesium.
Al Gore is often plagued with the unfortunate quote about him inventing the internet. According to an interview after that incident he did explain that while he didn't invent the internet and he regrets making that comment, in his own defense "I was jet lagged and tired because we were up late the night before inventing the camcorder"
Ah well thats it isn't it. The solution for everything. While I totally agree your roommate appears to be a complete and total 100% moronic jerk, I completly disagree with your summing up of ADD. The focusing on a inconsequential task for hours on end is the hyperfixation problem with ADD. It's a wonderfully powerful too but thing is, it can't be turned on and off like a switch. I would think that yes this person is not handling it well at all but I don't think you should hold your whole basis of the problem on that one person.
That and the fact that ADD is not a on/off situation. It's a disorder with different levels of affliction. Mild touches of ADD to complete inability to concentrate and almost autistic symptoms.
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Does that mean schizophrenia doesn't exist? I mean the cause is completly unknown. The results are manifested in a social arena. They don't really understand how the drugs use for treatment work.
I understand what you are saying though. ADD/ADHD is used as blanket label for "problem" children. But first ADD and ADHD are different; Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Not every one has ADD with hyperactivity. Second, sufferers of ADD/ADHD have different levels of affliction. It is not a on or off situation. Some people have mild ADD, some people have extreamly severe ADD.
It doesn't matter what your score is, this is a screening test. used in the initial interview with an adult to help rule out "other" issues. The basis goes that the first 10 questions are obviously important and if there are 20-30 checkmarks that this person may benefit from further analysis.
I personally have 4 no's and 6 sometimes's on this particular screen.
On of the symptoms of ADD is hyper fixation. This means there is a tendency to fixate on something to the possible exclusion of all else for an extended peroid of time. By the time you are an adult, social pressures have tempered the hyperfixation you had as a child.
A more complete look at the "checklist" of the initial screening that is sometimes used with the diagnoses of Adult ADD.
A. Past History
1. History of ADD symptoms in childhood, such as distractibility, short attention span, impulsivity or restlessness. ADD doesn't start at age 30.
2. History of not living up to potential in school or work (report cards with comments such as "not living up to potential")
3. History of frequent behavior problems in school (mostly for males)
4. History of bedwetting past age 5
5. Family history of ADD, learning problems, mood disorders or substance abuse problems
B. Short Attention Span/Distractibility
1. Short attention span, unless very interested in something
2. Easily distracted, tendency to drift away (although at times can be hyper-focused)
3. Lacks attention to detail, due to distractibility
4. Trouble listening carefully to directions
5. Frequently misplaces things
6. Skips around while reading, or goes to the end first, trouble staying on track
7. Difficulty learning new games, because it is hard to stay on track during directions
8. Easily distracted during sex, causing frequent breaks or turn-offs during lovemaking
C. Poor listening skills
1. Tendency to be easily bored (tunes out)
2. Inattentive to conversation (looks like they are there, but actually mentally elsewhere)
3. Repetitious questioning
4. Tendency to avoid eye contact or seemily has attention else where
D. Restlessness
1. Restlessness, constant motion, legs moving, fidgetiness
2. Has to be moving in order to think
3. Trouble sitting still, such as trouble sitting in one place for too long, sitting at a desk job for long periods, sitting through a movie
4. An internal sense of anxiety or nervousness
E. Impulsivity
1. Impulsive, in words and/or actions (spending)
2. Say just what comes to mind without considering its impact (tactless)
3. Trouble going through established channels, constantly taking procedural shortcuts, trouble following proper procedure, an attitude of "read the directions when all else fails"
4. Impatient, low frustration tolerance
5. A prisoner of the moment
6. Frequent traffic violations (and road rage)
7. Frequent, impulsive job changes
8. Tendency to embarrass others
9. lying or stealing on impulse
F. Poor Organization
1. Poor organization and planning, trouble maintaining an organized work/living area
2. Chronically late or chronically in a hurry
3. Often have piles of stuff
4. Easily overwhelmed by tasks of daily living
5. Poor financial management (late bills, check book a mess, spending unnecessary money on late fees)
6. Some adults with ADD are very successful, but often only if they are surrounded with people who organize them.
G. Problems Getting Started and Following Through
1. Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started
2. Starting projects but not finishing them, poor follow through
3. Enthusiastic beginnings but poor endings
4. Spends excessive time at work because of inefficiencies
5. Inconsistent work performance
H. Negative Internal Feelings
1. Chronic sense of underachievement, feeling you should be much further along in your life than you are
2. Chronic problems with self-esteem
3. Sense of impending doom
I. Mood swings
1. Negativity
2. Frequent feeling of demoralization or that things won't work out for you
J. Relational Difficulties
1. Trouble sustaining friendships or intimate relationships, promiscuity, sexual impulsivity and compulsivity
2. Trouble with intimacy
3. Difficulty with commitment, dissatisfaction; "grass is always greener" syndrome
4. Tendency to be immature
5. Self-centered; immature interests
6. Narcissistic; failure to see others' needs or activities as important
7. With
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It was determined that I had ADD (not hyperactivity but hyper defixation) back in the early 90's. Way before Adult ADD was a going thing. Anyway, my marriage was on the rocks, my worklife was on a serious decline, blah blah. I was given an unspoken ultimatium by my wife get help or get away. At anyrate, as a precursor I have a stupid little anectode to tell. I used to have a fiat (no fiat jokes please, I've heard them all) and I worked on it. I loved working on the car but it was an extreamly frustrating process. I had the ADD related goal issues and follow through issues. I would usually start working on the car and get bored and do something else. Anyway, car sat in the driveway for a year with a broken transmission.
My Wife aquired a sample of ritalin and as a good will gesture I took it. I worked on the transmission. This is what happened from my wife's point of view: At a point I was ready to drop the transmission out of the car and I wanted someone there in case something happened since I didn't have a lift or the proper tools. ready to go I lowered the jack and nothing happened. I fiddled, I hummed and hawed at it. This is the point in any of my endeavors where I would become frustrated to all high heck, but I laughed. For her that was the total sign.
Anyway, went to a couple doctors, both had extensive interviews about my history and childhood and so on and so forth. Both doctors confirmed that I had a nice deep case of ADD. I remember this one doctor after the interview having a nice chuckle and explaining to me that the fact that I got up 3 times during the interview to get a diffrent toy from the stack of kids toys he had in the corner of his office with out dropping the conversation was prolly the best indicator of my issue along with my personal history.
The only issue I have with ADD or ADHD is, yes I do think they are over medicating children. That ADD/ADHD has become a "problem child" solution. Family doctors and educators dictating the ritalin pill. I don't think ADHD/ADD is something that can be thrown around like that. history and observation are paramount in the determination of ADD/ADHD.
Anyway, Cylert is what he prescribed, a neural stimulant. The really nice thing about cylert is the lack of the "peak-crash" effect of ritalin. Ritalin has an immediate effect on the brain the moment it's introduced into the blood stream. Cylert takes time, weeks to a month in fact to start taking "effect". but it really elimiates the "peak-crash" effect.
Cylert was also on the controled substance list thing back then (not so sure now) so I felt obligated to inform my boss. Things went well about that. They were pretty cool about it actually. And they did see a marked improvement of my performance (I was a programmer at the time, Rapid Application Development) and which reflected in the projects they gave me over the next few years. In the late 90's, some personal life changes (code burn out) made me decided to change careers. And for personal reasons I decided to stop taking cylert. I can honestly tell you that yes, my performance has dropped. My ADD is just as rampent as before. However, the years on Cylert taught me things. Time management skills, goal devlopment and realization skills, communications skills and planing/organization skills that I think non-add people take for granted, are things that I learned. These are things you learn as a kid when you pay attention to the world around you I guess. While I am no where near as productive as I used to be, I think alot of these skills I've been ABLE to learn have helped in the time after medication.
I don't really know where I was going with this other then I thought it would be neat to share a history of someone who's lived with ADD for a long long time. But then again, I've been known to be wrong.
Whats really bad about all this, IMHO, are the people taking "action" against SCO on their own terms, DOS attacks, Telephone calls, and other forms of harassment. What better ammo for SCO to say "Look at these unruly and horrible Linux people attacking us! Are these really the sort of people that you want responsible for an OS?"
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Personally I don't like wiping my ass with the GPL... I prefer to have them signed in triplicate by the developers, sent in to SGI, sent back to ibm, queried for by script kiddies, lost by SCO, found under a rug in sketachwan, subjected to public enquiry at the 9th circut court, lost again but this time by janet reno, and finally buried in soft porn for three months and recycled as firelighters for the SCO license buring at high noon.
(apologies to Douglas Adams, SLTAF)
That is pretty stupid, espically since people like me with older g3's that really cannot benefit from the newer panther opted out from doing the 120$ upgrade.
Oh well, time to instal yellow dog.
Yeah it's interesting. A friend of mine who uses his g5 for his design business is relativly pissed about panther. Quicktime broke, a bunch of 3rd party utilities broke. A couple of his linotype apps broke. All are 10 native so it's not a emulate problem. Ended up lending him my old g3 with 10.2 so he could complete his work for the weekend. He's not a happy camper.
thats what mailing lists are for. :)
what are you looking for anyway? Someone who can work with linux in a novel environment or someone who can write a kernel level device driver to alter the fabric of space and time through a named pipe?
Why buy a license anyway. A license would be for the pre-trial version of linux. During trial all offensive code (if there really is any except for acient public knowlage code that has been out for a long long time.) should be revealed right? (IANAL) it'd be a matter of days before a "no sco code" version of the linux kernel comes out. Hence, not licensable by sco. Is that incorrect? I mean that's putting alot of pressure and dependance on the kernel coder's that are out there in the world but I think they have their own vested interest into making sure they can continue to have a product that cannot be profited by someone who contributed nothing. It just seems to me that the only issue is pre-buying a license before anything has actually been proven in court is somewhat akin to making a law after the fact and trying to procecute someone for something they did before it was a law. Or simpler, extortion. Isn't that the real issue anyway?
By labeling sending of spam a terrorist act. Easy Cheesy.
it's a free post as in beer. Lots of beer. Too much beer. Maybe some scotch too. And rum. And vodka. To top off the evening a glass of zinfindel.
This is an interesting point that seems to elude people everytime there is a discussion about MSWin security vs. Linux. WinOS is a kernel-application layer all together. The services and daemons are preinstalled. Take the fileshare/network sharing services for example. Here is a inexplicably installed set of services (well ports) that are tied into the os very tightly in winos. Linux is just the kernel. Then there are a series of packages you can install to provide services. The security issues are not actually with linux itself but with these other applications. Try it sometime, install linux and ONLY linux on a system. Not very hackable unless you have console access, and even then not very useful untill you start installing packages to extend the OS into something useful. Maybe I am just arguing symantics here but Linux the actual linux kernel is secure. The linux packages, applications, some of those have some problems. However, WinOS, out of the box, is insecure.
You save lives by making a tech that kills the other guy before they kill your guys. Like catapults and Goblins in baloons.
Actually, as a net admin at an ISP, I think the black lists are great. They enable me to filter out nearly 60% of confirmed spam sources. I see nothing wrong with being black listed for having a incorrectly configured server. The down side is some of the attitudes given by the admins of SOME of the black lists. And we have had client servers black listed for stupid mistakes in the past (mistakes that are not made any more I assure you). At anyrate, last time I checked of the over 600k connections to our mail servers, only 8% were legitimate mail. 60% were repeated RBL delivery attempts, the rest were found by spam assassin, virus check and content filters.
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the carte blanche RBL's are bad is a pretty closed way of thinking about it. All of our spam filtering servers are "opt outable" by our customers but out of the 1500 customers we have I've only had 3 people who have decided that the few false positives superceed recieving 100+ spam messages a day. The rest, when explained and demonstrated find other ways to communicate with black listed servers.
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buy a beowulf cluster of uptodate hardware.
Same thing with Covad and their resellers. I work for a little ISP out in the middle of no wheres california. We tried reselling covad DSL but the pricing for US was 30 dollars more a line then what Covad themselves were offering the lines. What goes through customer minds... "Why should I pay you 100 a month when it only costs me 70 a month directly with covad?" The other big issue is when you resell for covad, YOU are responsible for tech support, they will not talk to end customers only to the reseller. SO when a line goes down, customer calls us, then we have to call covad. doesn't sound too bad execpt you end up being on hold for 1-2 hours with covad. The other really buggy thing is they wont even talk to you unless you are on site. so all and all it is totally not worth it to resell DSL at a gain of 30 a month when they are underselling you at the same time.
not sure if this is what sbc is doing but I really would not be surprised.
Not only do they make magnesium bike frames, in the 60's Formula One/Can Am/GT/etc tyre rims and a wide variety of other bits and parts of the cars were made from cast magnesium.
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Al Gore is often plagued with the unfortunate quote about him inventing the internet. According to an interview after that incident he did explain that while he didn't invent the internet and he regrets making that comment, in his own defense "I was jet lagged and tired because we were up late the night before inventing the camcorder"
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actual quote. look it up
Ah well thats it isn't it. The solution for everything. While I totally agree your roommate appears to be a complete and total 100% moronic jerk, I completly disagree with your summing up of ADD. The focusing on a inconsequential task for hours on end is the hyperfixation problem with ADD. It's a wonderfully powerful too but thing is, it can't be turned on and off like a switch. I would think that yes this person is not handling it well at all but I don't think you should hold your whole basis of the problem on that one person.
That and the fact that ADD is not a on/off situation. It's a disorder with different levels of affliction. Mild touches of ADD to complete inability to concentrate and almost autistic symptoms.
Does that mean schizophrenia doesn't exist? I mean the cause is completly unknown. The results are manifested in a social arena. They don't really understand how the drugs use for treatment work.
I understand what you are saying though. ADD/ADHD is used as blanket label for "problem" children. But first ADD and ADHD are different; Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Not every one has ADD with hyperactivity. Second, sufferers of ADD/ADHD have different levels of affliction. It is not a on or off situation. Some people have mild ADD, some people have extreamly severe ADD.
It doesn't matter what your score is, this is a screening test. used in the initial interview with an adult to help rule out "other" issues. The basis goes that the first 10 questions are obviously important and if there are 20-30 checkmarks that this person may benefit from further analysis.
I personally have 4 no's and 6 sometimes's on this particular screen.
On of the symptoms of ADD is hyper fixation. This means there is a tendency to fixate on something to the possible exclusion of all else for an extended peroid of time. By the time you are an adult, social pressures have tempered the hyperfixation you had as a child.
A more complete look at the "checklist" of the initial screening that is sometimes used with the diagnoses of Adult ADD.
A. Past History
1. History of ADD symptoms in childhood, such as distractibility, short attention span, impulsivity or restlessness. ADD doesn't start at age 30.
2. History of not living up to potential in school or work (report cards with comments such as "not living up to potential")
3. History of frequent behavior problems in school (mostly for males)
4. History of bedwetting past age 5
5. Family history of ADD, learning problems, mood disorders or substance abuse problems
B. Short Attention Span/Distractibility
1. Short attention span, unless very interested in something
2. Easily distracted, tendency to drift away (although at times can be hyper-focused)
3. Lacks attention to detail, due to distractibility
4. Trouble listening carefully to directions
5. Frequently misplaces things
6. Skips around while reading, or goes to the end first, trouble staying on track
7. Difficulty learning new games, because it is hard to stay on track during directions
8. Easily distracted during sex, causing frequent breaks or turn-offs during lovemaking
C. Poor listening skills
1. Tendency to be easily bored (tunes out)
2. Inattentive to conversation (looks like they are there, but actually mentally elsewhere)
3. Repetitious questioning
4. Tendency to avoid eye contact or seemily has attention else where
D. Restlessness
1. Restlessness, constant motion, legs moving, fidgetiness
2. Has to be moving in order to think
3. Trouble sitting still, such as trouble sitting in one place for too long, sitting at a desk job for long periods, sitting through a movie
4. An internal sense of anxiety or nervousness
E. Impulsivity
1. Impulsive, in words and/or actions (spending)
2. Say just what comes to mind without considering its impact (tactless)
3. Trouble going through established channels, constantly taking procedural shortcuts, trouble following proper procedure, an attitude of "read the directions when all else fails"
4. Impatient, low frustration tolerance
5. A prisoner of the moment
6. Frequent traffic violations (and road rage)
7. Frequent, impulsive job changes
8. Tendency to embarrass others
9. lying or stealing on impulse
F. Poor Organization
1. Poor organization and planning, trouble maintaining an organized work/living area
2. Chronically late or chronically in a hurry
3. Often have piles of stuff
4. Easily overwhelmed by tasks of daily living
5. Poor financial management (late bills, check book a mess, spending unnecessary money on late fees)
6. Some adults with ADD are very successful, but often only if they are surrounded with people who organize them.
G. Problems Getting Started and Following Through
1. Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started
2. Starting projects but not finishing them, poor follow through
3. Enthusiastic beginnings but poor endings
4. Spends excessive time at work because of inefficiencies
5. Inconsistent work performance
H. Negative Internal Feelings
1. Chronic sense of underachievement, feeling you should be much further along in your life than you are
2. Chronic problems with self-esteem
3. Sense of impending doom
I. Mood swings
1. Negativity
2. Frequent feeling of demoralization or that things won't work out for you
J. Relational Difficulties
1. Trouble sustaining friendships or intimate relationships, promiscuity, sexual impulsivity and compulsivity
2. Trouble with intimacy
3. Difficulty with commitment, dissatisfaction; "grass is always greener" syndrome
4. Tendency to be immature
5. Self-centered; immature interests
6. Narcissistic; failure to see others' needs or activities as important
7. With
It was determined that I had ADD (not hyperactivity but hyper defixation) back in the early 90's. Way before Adult ADD was a going thing. Anyway, my marriage was on the rocks, my worklife was on a serious decline, blah blah. I was given an unspoken ultimatium by my wife get help or get away. At anyrate, as a precursor I have a stupid little anectode to tell. I used to have a fiat (no fiat jokes please, I've heard them all) and I worked on it. I loved working on the car but it was an extreamly frustrating process. I had the ADD related goal issues and follow through issues. I would usually start working on the car and get bored and do something else. Anyway, car sat in the driveway for a year with a broken transmission.
My Wife aquired a sample of ritalin and as a good will gesture I took it. I worked on the transmission. This is what happened from my wife's point of view: At a point I was ready to drop the transmission out of the car and I wanted someone there in case something happened since I didn't have a lift or the proper tools. ready to go I lowered the jack and nothing happened. I fiddled, I hummed and hawed at it. This is the point in any of my endeavors where I would become frustrated to all high heck, but I laughed. For her that was the total sign.
Anyway, went to a couple doctors, both had extensive interviews about my history and childhood and so on and so forth. Both doctors confirmed that I had a nice deep case of ADD. I remember this one doctor after the interview having a nice chuckle and explaining to me that the fact that I got up 3 times during the interview to get a diffrent toy from the stack of kids toys he had in the corner of his office with out dropping the conversation was prolly the best indicator of my issue along with my personal history.
The only issue I have with ADD or ADHD is, yes I do think they are over medicating children. That ADD/ADHD has become a "problem child" solution. Family doctors and educators dictating the ritalin pill. I don't think ADHD/ADD is something that can be thrown around like that. history and observation are paramount in the determination of ADD/ADHD.
Anyway, Cylert is what he prescribed, a neural stimulant. The really nice thing about cylert is the lack of the "peak-crash" effect of ritalin. Ritalin has an immediate effect on the brain the moment it's introduced into the blood stream. Cylert takes time, weeks to a month in fact to start taking "effect". but it really elimiates the "peak-crash" effect.
Cylert was also on the controled substance list thing back then (not so sure now) so I felt obligated to inform my boss. Things went well about that. They were pretty cool about it actually. And they did see a marked improvement of my performance (I was a programmer at the time, Rapid Application Development) and which reflected in the projects they gave me over the next few years. In the late 90's, some personal life changes (code burn out) made me decided to change careers. And for personal reasons I decided to stop taking cylert. I can honestly tell you that yes, my performance has dropped. My ADD is just as rampent as before. However, the years on Cylert taught me things. Time management skills, goal devlopment and realization skills, communications skills and planing/organization skills that I think non-add people take for granted, are things that I learned. These are things you learn as a kid when you pay attention to the world around you I guess. While I am no where near as productive as I used to be, I think alot of these skills I've been ABLE to learn have helped in the time after medication.
I don't really know where I was going with this other then I thought it would be neat to share a history of someone who's lived with ADD for a long long time. But then again, I've been known to be wrong.
Whats really bad about all this, IMHO, are the people taking "action" against SCO on their own terms, DOS attacks, Telephone calls, and other forms of harassment. What better ammo for SCO to say "Look at these unruly and horrible Linux people attacking us! Are these really the sort of people that you want responsible for an OS?"
According to some, you cannot be trusted to trust.