Oh why oh why did I waste my mod points yesterday. If your post doesn't deserve to be a +5 Informative, I don't know what does. You should wander over to broadbandreports.com and post this very same comment in a number of threads in their Comcast HSI forum. Their advice is almost always to call support and to play dumb. However playing dumb is what results in threads like "4th call to Crapcast and they still won't send a tech out to fix my Internet."
I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a couple of years to finally figure this out. I kept thinking, well their CSRs are trained to deal with dummies, so I have to pretend to be an moron to get them to do anything. However the truth of the matter is you need to as quickly as possible get away from them and over to a higher tier that knows and can do something.
I know the Ubuntu board should have helped with the problem, but the people who participate in that board are likely to be just as new to Ubuntu as you are. In these so called easy to use distros, you'll see this problem a lot. I have a similar problem with fedoraforum.org. Most of my questions go unanswered, get answered wrongly, or it feels like I'm talking to a Comcast customer support script reader. This is because most of the users are not Linux gurus, but inexperienced people. There's nothing you can do about this except look for help else where and if you find the solution post it back to help educated them.
The Democrats should at a minimum cancel Bush's state of the union address. There is no constitutional requirement for the state of the union to be a speech. Deny him the trappings of office. Cancel funding for the Veeps office and airforce one while they are at it. I'm sure you really don't think that will happen. I mean the Democrats can't even cut funding for the War after they were elected to stop it. In fact they allowed this surge to happen and the War to be intensified. By their actions they're perfectly happy with King George.
Frankly I don't have a problem with what our King^H^H^H^HPresident has done. 30 months in jail for not remembering correctly is just outrageous. That's almost as long as some murders serve. And don't forget, no one has been even charged with revealing the identity of what's-their-name. That's the "crime" that was being investigated. I'm disappointed that anyone can think Justice was being served by this prosecution. At best it is some media circus designed to distract us from the real problems.
I've only been using Xen since RHEL 5 came out. So I'm not an expert.
Here are my thoughts on Xen:
1) Hardware cost savings isn't a good as you'd think. For every virtual box, you still need CPU(s), RAM, and harddrive space. i.e. If you've only got X CPUs on in a physical box, you're limited to X-1 virtual boxes assuming just one CPU per virtual box (performance degrades horribly if you start assigning more CPUs than you physically have). The real savings is probably in power consumption, but that only matters if your Google or a Fortune100 company.
2) Don't try to use a GUI on a virtual Linux install. The mouse is horribly broken. RH even admits this in their documentation.
3) The only place to get help is a high traffic email list where your question can easily be lost. Don't even think of asking in the Xen forum unless you're paying Xensource $$$
4) How-To's are few and far between and often contradictory.
5) WinXP runs extremely well under Xen. I've got 4 in production now. Linux also works fine (I've got 3 in production) as long as you don't need the GUI.
5) #2-#4 will probably work themselves out in the next year or two.
6) Overall in spite of the above problems, Xen is extremely cool and can save your company some resources and make it more productive. It will also only get better as time goes on. If you're not using it, you should at least start to consider it and start testing with some non-critical systems.
Do not keep all of your eggs in one basket. It's just a very bad idea. Discount hosts have a major tendency to quickly go down hill in terms of service and support. Host 10 domains on the same discount webhost for more than a year or two and suddenly you've got 10 clients screaming at you that their site is down or their email isn't working.
Most of these discount hosting companies have very similar features and costs. It really doesn't cost you any more to host 10 domains on 10 different webhosts, as long as they provide the same uptime and service. In fact it saves you problems in the future. Eventually there will be downtime or a webhost will go bad. In stead of having all 10 of your sites experience down time and need to move them all at once, you'll only have to worry about one site.
My problem is that I've only found two good discount hosts (and one of them is starting to go bad I think). I'm just glad most of my clients have grown and need their own servers. Otherwise I'd be very nervous.
What's going on in Darfur is a localized war. Like all war it's not pretty and lots of people die.
By participating in the Darfur media circus, Google is helping the side that wants the US and other governments to intervene. Intervention will only serve to widen the war to a regional or global conflict instead of a local one. It will be another Vietnam or Iraq, only it has the potential to be a lot worse given the amount of violence we've already seen there.
So basically the interventionists want to increase the amount of strife and death in the world. If that isn't evil I don't know what is. I agree with the person who said "Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL."
Often times I find myself without an Internet connection or without a fast and reliable one. I don't want to get caught having to find an Internet connection just to bring up gmail to find the email that tells me what time my meeting is. I should be able to just fire up pine and find the email locally.
That said, I have found that I prefer gmail's spam filtering and archiving features to be very useful. So useful in fact that I retired pine last year and haven't looked back.
Yes this is pretty accurate. The longest thing I've ever had to write (and it was a lot like a short Physics report) was to determin which log analyis too we should purchase (or should we go with webalizer, analog, or some free one). I've been out of college 15 years and that was the only thing I've had to write that came close to being like something I had to write in college. Everything else has been short single page memos or emails (which is good b/c I never could get up to the minimum word/page requirements in school).
There's a quote by Ben Franklin that goes something like this: "I'm sorry my letter is so long, I didn't have enough time to shorten it."
I'm sure someone here will come up with the full correct quote.
Term papers have their place, however business isn't really where they're used.
The Verizon plan in question is marketed towards business professionals who are on the road a lot and need an internet connection for their laptop. Ture, the EVDO card you get with the plan uses the cell phone network to transfer your data. However it is meant to be your laptop's internet connection. Your cell phone does not use this plan at all.
I was on the road for a solid month last year and used their little EVDO card. My company is big enough that we have some exclusive deal where we really do get unlimited bandwidth. Just looking at the emails I downloaded in the first week I think I went over the 5GB. In the emails, there were 4 ppt files, 20 doc files, and 1 xls file. That xls file alone totaled just under 2GB (which is the max file size allowed by our server).
So at least in my case 5GB/month would really not work and I'm lucky to work for a big enough client that they can really get the unlimited bandwith.
The card was so good (speed was very close to my crapcast cable modem) and worked really everywhere (except in some very very very rual parts of Wyoming and Montana) that I was thinking about getting one for my personal use. Then I saw the that not only do you pay a fifty-some dollars a month but there is also a per kilobit charge on top of the monthly fee too. Now that I see there is a 5GB limit, I'm really glad I didn't get one.
If you really want CRTC to go away, you need to take action. Start a group to lobby for the abolition of the CRTC. Wishing to god and Complaining on/. ain't going to help. You're preaching to the choir mostly likely and well most of this choir probably doesn't even live in Canada (god only helps those who help themselves). Please do us all a favor as well as your fellow countrymen and go out and take action.
Ever tried setting up X forwarding on windows for that occasional unix gui application?
Yes and I was shocked at how easy it was. First install cygwin. Then Install PuTTY. Configure PuTTY to enable X-forwarding. From cygwin run startxwin.bat From PuTTY ssh to the remote box. On the remote box start your gui app. Volia! It works nicely.
However I do agree with you, if most of your work is for a *nix system, you're better off having your desktop being the same or very similar *nix.
For the person who asked about getting $BIG_COMPANY to let him use *nix on his desktop, I'd suggest going dual boot. That's what I do. It is a pain whenever you have to use $BIG_COMPANY_IE_ONLY_APP, however for most of the time you don't have to be in Windoze. I finally convinced my place to spring for a laptop, which I keep Windoze and use all of the IE only company apps, but my desktop is now 100% Linux. I understand a lot of progress has been made with virturalization, so maybe you can run a virturalized Windoze box on your desktop. Just do it and tell them you need it and here's your plan for dealing with the company apps.
Instead of running and hiding from these people she should stand strong. If she is really afraid for her life, she should take some self defense classes as well as some training with a firearm. Then she'll be prepared for most anything the morons can come up with.
I wonder what it'd take to develop a new registry for domain names. Just something to get us away from the current set of registrars and their ilk.
Check out OpenNIC. They've got a whole scheme of new TLD's and a system to register names within their TLD's.
They're not perfect. Instead of fighting when ICANN usurped their.biz TLD, the basically rolled over. However the fact that they're still around means there is support for a non-ICANN system. They just need to learn to stand up to ICANN and we'll have a real alternative.
In case you are too young to remember, Burger King actually built their market niche on that problem. The other big Hamburger restaurant had developed a model where the food was prepared in advance and special orders were a problem.
I discovered at McD's and most other fast food places, if you asked for a special order one of two things would happen...1) they'd take back one of the already prepared items and scrape off whatever you didn't want (or add whatever you did want) or more likely 2) they'd make a fresh one just for you.
This is why I still usually will ask for a special order. Usually the special order is cooked fresh and hadn't been sitting out under a heat lamp. Of course now most places have changed to cook everything fresh and process special orders just like they process regular orders so it's a lot less effective.
I will never ever use SELinux. I've had two very bad experiences with it. As far as I'm concerned I'll take malware over it.
First problem. I had a shiny new install of FC3. I try to get apache to start serving webpages. It only works in one directory. The folks at fedoraforum.org were useless as usual. A couple of posts on an apache email list had me remove the php, apache, and mysql rpms and reinstall from source. After a week of nothing working, I finally stumbled upon some vague reference about SELinux could cause my problem. I was on the right track, but fixing the SELinux policy was almost impossible and I had to just disable it.
My second problem happened right after I upgraded to FC5. The first boot, it claims it needs to do an SELinux relabel. WTF? 5 min later it finally finishes the bootup. However even root can't login to the box. Box is destroyed. A few days later, somehow I managed to get into the single user mode, I found that the config file still had SELINUX=disabled in it. So now SELinux was ignoring its own config file! The only way I could finally disable it was to go into grub and put the selinux=0 into the boot line. I'm scared to death to upgrade to FC6. What happens with SELinux ignores the boot line? If there is an option to take it off my system when I upgrade, you bet I'll take it.
I'm actually putting off upgrading. I'm looking for a distro that doesn't use SELinux. I've been using RH since 6.1, but this SELinux thing is probably the straw that broke the camel's back.
Don't follow the advice of the people who are saying sign it and forget about it that it won't or can't be enforce. While it is unlikely that it will be enforced and a good case can be made that a judge will strike the clause if it ever comes to trial, what happens when your boss/company is a jerk and tries to enforce the clause? Do you really want a legal cloud over you? It can take years to fight it. Do you have the money to pay a lawyer for that long? Heck even a speedy trial can run you thousands to tens of thousands. Plus your new employer might decide to drop you when they find out about your legal problems.
Demand that it be taken out or accept the fact your employment opportunities after this job will be limited. If you can get it modified that might be ok as well although I don't see how it could really be modified to be acceptable.
As for the actual question about what to do when your current employer decides to make you sign one...Well the job market isn't too bad right now. If they insist, you can probably quit and get another job pretty quickly. Of course you have to be willing to quit and risk being unemployed for some time.
We had similar problems. However all you have to do is when you install the newer version of python, do make altinstall instead of a make install. When you need the newer version, you just do/usr/bin/python2.4 when you start your app. Python takes care if it all. Really simple.
I've found RHEL to be by far the easiest distro that just works out of the box. It also pretty easily can be customized without having support issues. The worst that might happen are the above two issues. Everything else is even more simple. I didn't think Linux would ever be this easy! Now if they could just get the Fedora Crap project on track and not behaving like alpha and beta software, I'd be happy (until they do I'll use CentOS at home).
Funny how with Linux there isn't any danger of your entire system breaking. I know we spent every day since the Windows patches were relased, testing and make sure the patches don't break anything. So far our Exchange server had to be restored from backup once already b/c all the calendar entries got screwed up.
It's unlikely you'll ever get the BATFE to respond. I understand they're not processing the applications, until Congress gives them a lot more money. I hope you'll continue to update us on this process with the BATFE. It will be interesting to see how they handle a high profile case.
I've never stayed at a job for longer than 3 years. Most of them have been for less than a year. The jobs that I hated, I stayed for less than two months. The first thing you do when you're hired is update your resume and your profile on all the recruiting sites.
Your example of a 50% pay increase for 50% more hours is not an actual pay increase. You're just working more hours. Most people get paid in $/hr. If that increases 10% then go for it. If you fall for the trap of being a salaried employee, you need to figure out what the $/hr will work out to. Most salaried people I've seen seem to work 60-80hrs/week and while their total income is twice as high as mine, I figure their $/hr is the same or maybe less.
Take the job!
Seriously if you get an increase of more than 10% you should take the job. By time the offers stop comming, you'll be in a high paying job and it won't matter if you're not getting offers any more. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, the only reason to have a job is to get money. All other considerations are secondary. Take the money and run!
The new bulbs cost more because they cost more to make. Costing more to make means it takes more resources or rarer resources. In the long run this is not sustainable.
Plus my experience with these bulbs is that they burn out almost twice as fast as regular bulbs.
All this will do is benefit certain bulb makers and their suppliers and will cost the public millions in the long run.
He complains about not being able to submit his patches, yet he refuses to sign up for bugzillia which is the way everything is tracked.
Linus has done a lot of very impressive things. However there is a fine line between genius and insanity. He started crosssing that line when he rejected Specs and started going after people using the word Linux. He needs to get a grip and chill out for a while. Otherwise in another year or two we'll be seeing an article about him checking into a mental hospital.
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Oh why oh why did I waste my mod points yesterday. If your post doesn't deserve to be a +5 Informative, I don't know what does. You should wander over to broadbandreports.com and post this very same comment in a number of threads in their Comcast HSI forum. Their advice is almost always to call support and to play dumb. However playing dumb is what results in threads like "4th call to Crapcast and they still won't send a tech out to fix my Internet."
I'm ashamed to admit that it took me a couple of years to finally figure this out. I kept thinking, well their CSRs are trained to deal with dummies, so I have to pretend to be an moron to get them to do anything. However the truth of the matter is you need to as quickly as possible get away from them and over to a higher tier that knows and can do something.
I've seen the infamous thread in question. I think your real problem is that you should have tried some other place to answer your question.
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It's a GRUB error so you should start with the folks who make GRUB.
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
Google turns up some useful links as well:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg1
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthrea
http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showt
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive291-2006-7-15
I know the Ubuntu board should have helped with the problem, but the people who participate in that board are likely to be just as new to Ubuntu as you are. In these so called easy to use distros, you'll see this problem a lot. I have a similar problem with fedoraforum.org. Most of my questions go unanswered, get answered wrongly, or it feels like I'm talking to a Comcast customer support script reader. This is because most of the users are not Linux gurus, but inexperienced people. There's nothing you can do about this except look for help else where and if you find the solution post it back to help educated them.
Frankly I don't have a problem with what our King^H^H^H^HPresident has done. 30 months in jail for not remembering correctly is just outrageous. That's almost as long as some murders serve. And don't forget, no one has been even charged with revealing the identity of what's-their-name. That's the "crime" that was being investigated. I'm disappointed that anyone can think Justice was being served by this prosecution. At best it is some media circus designed to distract us from the real problems.
I've only been using Xen since RHEL 5 came out. So I'm not an expert. Here are my thoughts on Xen: 1) Hardware cost savings isn't a good as you'd think. For every virtual box, you still need CPU(s), RAM, and harddrive space. i.e. If you've only got X CPUs on in a physical box, you're limited to X-1 virtual boxes assuming just one CPU per virtual box (performance degrades horribly if you start assigning more CPUs than you physically have). The real savings is probably in power consumption, but that only matters if your Google or a Fortune100 company. 2) Don't try to use a GUI on a virtual Linux install. The mouse is horribly broken. RH even admits this in their documentation. 3) The only place to get help is a high traffic email list where your question can easily be lost. Don't even think of asking in the Xen forum unless you're paying Xensource $$$ 4) How-To's are few and far between and often contradictory. 5) WinXP runs extremely well under Xen. I've got 4 in production now. Linux also works fine (I've got 3 in production) as long as you don't need the GUI. 5) #2-#4 will probably work themselves out in the next year or two. 6) Overall in spite of the above problems, Xen is extremely cool and can save your company some resources and make it more productive. It will also only get better as time goes on. If you're not using it, you should at least start to consider it and start testing with some non-critical systems.
Do not keep all of your eggs in one basket. It's just a very bad idea. Discount hosts have a major tendency to quickly go down hill in terms of service and support. Host 10 domains on the same discount webhost for more than a year or two and suddenly you've got 10 clients screaming at you that their site is down or their email isn't working. Most of these discount hosting companies have very similar features and costs. It really doesn't cost you any more to host 10 domains on 10 different webhosts, as long as they provide the same uptime and service. In fact it saves you problems in the future. Eventually there will be downtime or a webhost will go bad. In stead of having all 10 of your sites experience down time and need to move them all at once, you'll only have to worry about one site. My problem is that I've only found two good discount hosts (and one of them is starting to go bad I think). I'm just glad most of my clients have grown and need their own servers. Otherwise I'd be very nervous.
What's going on in Darfur is a localized war. Like all war it's not pretty and lots of people die. By participating in the Darfur media circus, Google is helping the side that wants the US and other governments to intervene. Intervention will only serve to widen the war to a regional or global conflict instead of a local one. It will be another Vietnam or Iraq, only it has the potential to be a lot worse given the amount of violence we've already seen there. So basically the interventionists want to increase the amount of strife and death in the world. If that isn't evil I don't know what is. I agree with the person who said "Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL."
Often times I find myself without an Internet connection or without a fast and reliable one. I don't want to get caught having to find an Internet connection just to bring up gmail to find the email that tells me what time my meeting is. I should be able to just fire up pine and find the email locally. That said, I have found that I prefer gmail's spam filtering and archiving features to be very useful. So useful in fact that I retired pine last year and haven't looked back.
Yes this is pretty accurate. The longest thing I've ever had to write (and it was a lot like a short Physics report) was to determin which log analyis too we should purchase (or should we go with webalizer, analog, or some free one). I've been out of college 15 years and that was the only thing I've had to write that came close to being like something I had to write in college. Everything else has been short single page memos or emails (which is good b/c I never could get up to the minimum word/page requirements in school).
There's a quote by Ben Franklin that goes something like this:
"I'm sorry my letter is so long, I didn't have enough time to shorten it."
I'm sure someone here will come up with the full correct quote.
Term papers have their place, however business isn't really where they're used.
The Verizon plan in question is marketed towards business professionals who are on the road a lot and need an internet connection for their laptop. Ture, the EVDO card you get with the plan uses the cell phone network to transfer your data. However it is meant to be your laptop's internet connection. Your cell phone does not use this plan at all.
I was on the road for a solid month last year and used their little EVDO card. My company is big enough that we have some exclusive deal where we really do get unlimited bandwidth. Just looking at the emails I downloaded in the first week I think I went over the 5GB. In the emails, there were 4 ppt files, 20 doc files, and 1 xls file. That xls file alone totaled just under 2GB (which is the max file size allowed by our server).
So at least in my case 5GB/month would really not work and I'm lucky to work for a big enough client that they can really get the unlimited bandwith.
The card was so good (speed was very close to my crapcast cable modem) and worked really everywhere (except in some very very very rual parts of Wyoming and Montana) that I was thinking about getting one for my personal use. Then I saw the that not only do you pay a fifty-some dollars a month but there is also a per kilobit charge on top of the monthly fee too. Now that I see there is a 5GB limit, I'm really glad I didn't get one.
If you really want CRTC to go away, you need to take action. Start a group to lobby for the abolition of the CRTC. Wishing to god and Complaining on /. ain't going to help. You're preaching to the choir mostly likely and well most of this choir probably doesn't even live in Canada (god only helps those who help themselves). Please do us all a favor as well as your fellow countrymen and go out and take action.
Yes and I was shocked at how easy it was. First install cygwin. Then Install PuTTY. Configure PuTTY to enable X-forwarding. From cygwin run startxwin.bat From PuTTY ssh to the remote box. On the remote box start your gui app. Volia! It works nicely.
However I do agree with you, if most of your work is for a *nix system, you're better off having your desktop being the same or very similar *nix.
For the person who asked about getting $BIG_COMPANY to let him use *nix on his desktop, I'd suggest going dual boot. That's what I do. It is a pain whenever you have to use $BIG_COMPANY_IE_ONLY_APP, however for most of the time you don't have to be in Windoze. I finally convinced my place to spring for a laptop, which I keep Windoze and use all of the IE only company apps, but my desktop is now 100% Linux. I understand a lot of progress has been made with virturalization, so maybe you can run a virturalized Windoze box on your desktop. Just do it and tell them you need it and here's your plan for dealing with the company apps.
Once a Treaty is ratified by the Senate, it becomes part of the Supreme Law of the Land. Please read the U.S. Constitution.
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Useful Links:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/commo
Instead of running and hiding from these people she should stand strong. If she is really afraid for her life, she should take some self defense classes as well as some training with a firearm. Then she'll be prepared for most anything the morons can come up with.
Check out OpenNIC. They've got a whole scheme of new TLD's and a system to register names within their TLD's.
They're not perfect. Instead of fighting when ICANN usurped their .biz TLD, the basically rolled over. However the fact that they're still around means there is support for a non-ICANN system. They just need to learn to stand up to ICANN and we'll have a real alternative.
I discovered at McD's and most other fast food places, if you asked for a special order one of two things would happen...1) they'd take back one of the already prepared items and scrape off whatever you didn't want (or add whatever you did want) or more likely 2) they'd make a fresh one just for you.
This is why I still usually will ask for a special order. Usually the special order is cooked fresh and hadn't been sitting out under a heat lamp. Of course now most places have changed to cook everything fresh and process special orders just like they process regular orders so it's a lot less effective.
I will never ever use SELinux. I've had two very bad experiences with it. As far as I'm concerned I'll take malware over it.
First problem. I had a shiny new install of FC3. I try to get apache to start serving webpages. It only works in one directory. The folks at fedoraforum.org were useless as usual. A couple of posts on an apache email list had me remove the php, apache, and mysql rpms and reinstall from source. After a week of nothing working, I finally stumbled upon some vague reference about SELinux could cause my problem. I was on the right track, but fixing the SELinux policy was almost impossible and I had to just disable it.
My second problem happened right after I upgraded to FC5. The first boot, it claims it needs to do an SELinux relabel. WTF? 5 min later it finally finishes the bootup. However even root can't login to the box. Box is destroyed. A few days later, somehow I managed to get into the single user mode, I found that the config file still had SELINUX=disabled in it. So now SELinux was ignoring its own config file! The only way I could finally disable it was to go into grub and put the selinux=0 into the boot line. I'm scared to death to upgrade to FC6. What happens with SELinux ignores the boot line? If there is an option to take it off my system when I upgrade, you bet I'll take it.
I'm actually putting off upgrading. I'm looking for a distro that doesn't use SELinux. I've been using RH since 6.1, but this SELinux thing is probably the straw that broke the camel's back.
Also recommended is "What Color is your Parachute"
Don't follow the advice of the people who are saying sign it and forget about it that it won't or can't be enforce. While it is unlikely that it will be enforced and a good case can be made that a judge will strike the clause if it ever comes to trial, what happens when your boss/company is a jerk and tries to enforce the clause? Do you really want a legal cloud over you? It can take years to fight it. Do you have the money to pay a lawyer for that long? Heck even a speedy trial can run you thousands to tens of thousands. Plus your new employer might decide to drop you when they find out about your legal problems.
Demand that it be taken out or accept the fact your employment opportunities after this job will be limited. If you can get it modified that might be ok as well although I don't see how it could really be modified to be acceptable.
As for the actual question about what to do when your current employer decides to make you sign one...Well the job market isn't too bad right now. If they insist, you can probably quit and get another job pretty quickly. Of course you have to be willing to quit and risk being unemployed for some time.
RedHat isn't to blame for your problems.
/usr/bin/python2.4 when you start your app. Python takes care if it all. Really simple.
/ thread/e19e4d7ab309ed3b/2e18b77fa8c54b83?lnk=st&q= install+multiple+versions+of+php&rnum=13&hl=en#2e1 8b77fa8c54b83">playing with the apache handlers.
We had similar problems. However all you have to do is when you install the newer version of python, do make altinstall instead of a make install. When you need the newer version, you just do
As for your php problem. Remove all of the php rpms and install from source. It does not invalidate your support (at least it hasn't invalidated ours). You can get multiple version of php running on the same server. You can do it with mulitple apache installs or through http://groups.google.com/group/alt.php/browse_frm
I've found RHEL to be by far the easiest distro that just works out of the box. It also pretty easily can be customized without having support issues. The worst that might happen are the above two issues. Everything else is even more simple. I didn't think Linux would ever be this easy! Now if they could just get the Fedora Crap project on track and not behaving like alpha and beta software, I'd be happy (until they do I'll use CentOS at home).
(Why am I seeing two posts when I preview??)
Funny how with Linux there isn't any danger of your entire system breaking. I know we spent every day since the Windows patches were relased, testing and make sure the patches don't break anything. So far our Exchange server had to be restored from backup once already b/c all the calendar entries got screwed up.
It's unlikely you'll ever get the BATFE to respond. I understand they're not processing the applications, until Congress gives them a lot more money. I hope you'll continue to update us on this process with the BATFE. It will be interesting to see how they handle a high profile case.
I've never stayed at a job for longer than 3 years. Most of them have been for less than a year. The jobs that I hated, I stayed for less than two months. The first thing you do when you're hired is update your resume and your profile on all the recruiting sites.
Your example of a 50% pay increase for 50% more hours is not an actual pay increase. You're just working more hours. Most people get paid in $/hr. If that increases 10% then go for it. If you fall for the trap of being a salaried employee, you need to figure out what the $/hr will work out to. Most salaried people I've seen seem to work 60-80hrs/week and while their total income is twice as high as mine, I figure their $/hr is the same or maybe less.
Take the job! Seriously if you get an increase of more than 10% you should take the job. By time the offers stop comming, you'll be in a high paying job and it won't matter if you're not getting offers any more. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, the only reason to have a job is to get money. All other considerations are secondary. Take the money and run!
The new bulbs cost more because they cost more to make. Costing more to make means it takes more resources or rarer resources. In the long run this is not sustainable.
Plus my experience with these bulbs is that they burn out almost twice as fast as regular bulbs.
All this will do is benefit certain bulb makers and their suppliers and will cost the public millions in the long run.
More proof that he's gone off the deep end. :(
He complains about not being able to submit his patches, yet he refuses to sign up for bugzillia which is the way everything is tracked.
Linus has done a lot of very impressive things. However there is a fine line between genius and insanity. He started crosssing that line when he rejected Specs and started going after people using the word Linux. He needs to get a grip and chill out for a while. Otherwise in another year or two we'll be seeing an article about him checking into a mental hospital.
This is yet another sad day for Linux users.