There was a lot of technology MS wanted to 'innovate' from Yahoo, not just the advertising/search services (Yahoo Groups, Zimbra, YahooMail, a lot of PHP coders and code). Though I think MS thought Yahoo would be more desperate and be able to finagle something cheaper, but they misjudged them.
Nice thing of us having an all Mac office (even better would be Linux) is that users generally don't have compatible software, so employee installation are at a minimum.
On a few of our networks we have a wifi outside of the internal network which could be connected, though we provide enough computers so they should not require that.
I think part of the thing admins should look into is why are they wanting to connect their stuff or install software. If there is a valid unfilled need, then that should be addressed instead of throwing more roadblocks on them trying to do their jobs.
probably the other formats the directory starts on track 1 near the hub of the disk, where on the C64 and other DOS 2 disks the tracks started in the middle (track 18 of 35). So by doing a partial formatting you could write two formats on a disk.
I think fame is overrated, the two I met I marked them as famous for programs they wrote in the 80s, not their current work. One was Brad Templeton, to me famous for Time Trek and Power/Power 64 utility for the Commodore PET & 64, though now he is probably best known for his work in the EFF. The second, Kermit Woodal, who wrote a while back a SIDplayer program for the Commodore 64, I met him at an Amiga conference, from my impression he is still best remembered for that SIDplayer program, which does not always help him in his current projects.
So I think becoming famous in the tech field can have a similar trap like it is to actors, through your fame, you may become typecast into some sort of programming role.
At the last Maker Faire in San Mateo I asked one of the guys at the hybrid car conversion booth and got some really flippant snide remarks. Not very helpful at all belaying any of my concerns.
There were a lot of 'email me's and talk about bad htps settings but not much content on really what needs to be done for fixing an existing site or properly setting up a new site to be secure.
Uses SSH (secure) Cross Platform (we back up our Macs to a Linux server with it) GPL Darn easy to set up and maintain (one app on the client and server, create a config file on the client, setup server backup folder for client data and that's about it)
... continuing, Microsoft ISO will be re-branding and release thier flagship ISO product line:
ISO Office - The professional version includes ISO Access
ISO Works
ISO Internet Explorer
ISO OS (previously called ISO Windows, removed the Windows name to help avoid confusion so corporate consumers will know "ISO OS" is an official ISO product.)
After the new product roll out, MS plans to re-evaluate its current acquired portfolio of ISO standard offerings and "...cancel or re-vamp those that are not in MS customers' best interest; to better suit the Microsoft ecology." as stated by an MS marketing rep.
(just in case someone is reading this, seriously, It's a joke, dude! Really!)
For many a lot of traction OSs get is because they are looking for something better. I don't know about many of you but so far there hasn't been anything compelling my to go past Ubuntu, it just works, is well updated and the community is great. Then again same goes for KDE 3.x for me right now.
What got me to Ubuntu was dissatisfaction with one element or another form different distributions, like package management, hardware support, proprietary can rattling, etc.
What could gOS do? Look at what people want that Ubuntu doesn't provide, some I can think of:
Pre-installed codecs and multi-media support (can never get web page MIDIs to play right since leaving SuSE.
pre-installed hardware support (especially all those wifi cards that need ndiswrapper)
Apps others don't have (Printshop/Printmaster like app for Liunx?)
Pre-installed Wine (I wouldn't use it but a lot of Windows converts would be tempted, if programs 'just installed and ran'). ry (Envy and xfree reconfigure are great but you have to remember the shell command to activate maybe add a 'fixme' script that can make the process painless.)
Printer drivers that are consistent (gutenprint is nice, till your try to print a #10 envelope on a Laserjet)
Better (brainless/painless) disk repartitioning and setup (around Dapper the partitioner for Ubuntu got tougher).
More pre-installed backgrounds, screen savers, clip art, and OOo templates, system sounds, etc. (doesn't sound like much but such things go a long way to a 'user')
A good multimedia, graphics, Office suite of pre-configured on initial install (choosing between Kaffiene, Amarok, Xine, etc. turns many users off.)
Not thinking/saying Gnome is like Mac OS, which it really isn't.
I went to PHP5 quite a while back. I started with 4 and had already been programing nice (long tags in html, program with globals off, etc.) so there was no issue for me, everything just worked on 5. I do have one script I found on sourceforge (dead project) that doesn't work on 5, probably used something deprecated from 3 slated for removal after 4. I don't expect conversion of that to be too serious either.
I think a lot of the FUD is being placed on ISPs who run PHP4 servers and may have outdated cpanels or other pre-set PHP apps. I would think maybe a weeks worth of work for most mom and pops to get the upgrade complete (a lot it setting up automating on any data upgrade conversions) but it's surely not the end of the world.
Well then the few hundered of our dollars contributed. Just to clarify, people don't need to pay Red Hat to support Linux, just in case you were thinking Red Hat != Linux, there are many many other co.s and individuals supporting Linux development as well.
Red Hat isn't bad, I stated that it wasn't as necessary for us as I had initially expected and we don't really require that much TA through a paid service like theirs. I can see it could be a benefit to those places that want turn-key Linux solution support - just it's not for everyone. Many businesses can do just fine without.
Cross platform (i.e. Linux/Mac/Windows) we are currently using Unison (lower setup/install on client and server) but probably will go to Backula next. Looked at Amanda, it seemed to have pretty steep setup curve (at least at the time I was looking at it).
We started with RHEL3, especially since we ordered a Dell Server and it could come with the server, thus I knew RH would just work on it. Never seemed to get my money's worth out of support (if you are going to administer it, you might as well learn it, so I answered most questions by myself.) A year or so later, instead of going RHEL4 I went to CentOS 4 next, as it had the same necessary apps and updates, support didn't matter so I had the OS without the bothersome RedHat Network license validation nag screens.
About a year after that I got tired of CentOS - when I started looking at options for a cross-platform backup solution, CentOS was the low man on the compatible distribution totem pole, sometimes not even there at all, most support requestes ended with some vague problem with dependencies and an 'oh well'.
Also learned to shy away from SuSE then too, as I noticed around that time any Novell associated projects usually dropped any non-SuSE binaries (i.e. iFolder).
But Ubuntu had just about everything there, was well updated, and a lot of forums with solutions. Granted, Ubuntu lacked the nice SAMBA admin program (GSAMBAD needs help), but I never have any problems finding apps or resolving installation issues quickly.
- Data Conversion - Data Normalization - Equipment setup from a set of boxes - computer, monitor, printer a full set-up and configured system - Switch rack untangle/rewire - Deploy a network (you get a router, switch and an bunch of computers/printers and unconnected wires. (netwalk in real life) - Create a spreadsheet (from handwritten copy)- I've had to do this a lot. - Move a system or a network to another location (includes packing up and setup, could be part of a tech-biathlon or pentathlon. - Phone Support
(all of these can have marks for speed presentation, faults and innovation)
Not really worded as the author states, and is quite interesting - mainly the meat is the Risk Factors section where they must report the possible situations on investment/profit risk. Nothing really much there about stealing ideas, but what was omitted by the author was the probable losses incurred by MS "opening up" on some interoperability technology as well as being forced to open up other standards due to high court rulings.
They still call their Licensing "Ownership" as in Cost of Ownership... sigh.
This is a message that our current legislators think that serving the corporate recording and distribution industry is far more important than allowing kids to get an education. The primary subject they are voting for is to let a small portion of selfish interests be able to dictate frivolous laws on what all of us should do and don't do regardless of what consequences and damages it puts on the judicial and justice system.
Have you tried it? Part of the draw may be the speed and the images next to the search results, but realistically, not really the best results, and the pictures that come up on the results are stock photos - not any relation to the site content at all. (if you have your own domain, search for it and see what I am talking about)
Also have the programmer themselves have to use the application for 'a day', in a real-world example - the guy who knows the UI in and out, so training is not a problem.
But as a programmer he/she will see what doesn't work when they have to enter data live (i.e. entering client data with client sitting across the desk) - and they will get a pretty good idea of what needs fixing and how to get it done. For more complex concepts they may have to be the keyboard pilot with an expert telling them what they want done, but having that hands-on dose of reality will help smooth out the worst bits.
I program for a small NP, and have to use my programs as well, it gives me a lot of perspective for the end user as well as the clients we serve while the staff use the system.
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There was a lot of technology MS wanted to 'innovate' from Yahoo, not just the advertising/search services (Yahoo Groups, Zimbra, YahooMail, a lot of PHP coders and code). Though I think MS thought Yahoo would be more desperate and be able to finagle something cheaper, but they misjudged them.
Well, by golly! It worked!
I wonder how many mod points can I generate if i just touch thi
My site was on the second page of sites for "commodore" and my name, Larry Anderson, was 5th among all the other Larry Andersons. Not bad. :-)
Today, my site is on the fifth page and I'm near the top of page two. Still pretty good. :-)
Nice thing of us having an all Mac office (even better would be Linux) is that users generally don't have compatible software, so employee installation are at a minimum.
On a few of our networks we have a wifi outside of the internal network which could be connected, though we provide enough computers so they should not require that.
I think part of the thing admins should look into is why are they wanting to connect their stuff or install software. If there is a valid unfilled need, then that should be addressed instead of throwing more roadblocks on them trying to do their jobs.
probably the other formats the directory starts on track 1 near the hub of the disk, where on the C64 and other DOS 2 disks the tracks started in the middle (track 18 of 35). So by doing a partial formatting you could write two formats on a disk.
I think fame is overrated, the two I met I marked them as famous for programs they wrote in the 80s, not their current work. One was Brad Templeton, to me famous for Time Trek and Power/Power 64 utility for the Commodore PET & 64, though now he is probably best known for his work in the EFF. The second, Kermit Woodal, who wrote a while back a SIDplayer program for the Commodore 64, I met him at an Amiga conference, from my impression he is still best remembered for that SIDplayer program, which does not always help him in his current projects.
So I think becoming famous in the tech field can have a similar trap like it is to actors, through your fame, you may become typecast into some sort of programming role.
"I'm a PC and I turn #2* into energy!"
I dunno, it just seems so appropriate for the Microsoft Ad.
*#2 = shit.
> Here is a picture from the control room which I'm sure makes sense to someone that isn't
Looks like one of those freeware DOS screensavers from the 90s.
At the last Maker Faire in San Mateo I asked one of the guys at the hybrid car conversion booth and got some really flippant snide remarks. Not very helpful at all belaying any of my concerns.
There were a lot of 'email me's and talk about bad htps settings but not much content on really what needs to be done for fixing an existing site or properly setting up a new site to be secure.
The 80s and 90s called - they want their technology back.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Uses SSH (secure)
Cross Platform (we back up our Macs to a Linux server with it)
GPL
Darn easy to set up and maintain (one app on the client and server, create a config file on the client, setup server backup folder for client data and that's about it)
... continuing, Microsoft ISO will be re-branding and release thier flagship ISO product line:
ISO Office
- The professional version includes ISO Access
ISO Works
ISO Internet Explorer
ISO OS (previously called ISO Windows, removed the Windows name to help avoid confusion so corporate consumers will know "ISO OS" is an official ISO product.)
After the new product roll out, MS plans to re-evaluate its current acquired portfolio of ISO standard offerings and "...cancel or re-vamp those that are not in MS customers' best interest; to better suit the Microsoft ecology." as stated by an MS marketing rep.
(just in case someone is reading this, seriously, It's a joke, dude! Really!)
For many a lot of traction OSs get is because they are looking for something better. I don't know about many of you but so far there hasn't been anything compelling my to go past Ubuntu, it just works, is well updated and the community is great. Then again same goes for KDE 3.x for me right now.
What got me to Ubuntu was dissatisfaction with one element or another form different distributions, like package management, hardware support, proprietary can rattling, etc.
What could gOS do? Look at what people want that Ubuntu doesn't provide, some I can think of:
Pre-installed codecs and multi-media support (can never get web page MIDIs to play right since leaving SuSE.
pre-installed hardware support (especially all those wifi cards that need ndiswrapper)
Apps others don't have (Printshop/Printmaster like app for Liunx?)
Pre-installed Wine (I wouldn't use it but a lot of Windows converts would be tempted, if programs 'just installed and ran').
ry (Envy and xfree reconfigure are great but you have to remember the shell command to activate maybe add a 'fixme' script that can make the process painless.)
Printer drivers that are consistent (gutenprint is nice, till your try to print a #10 envelope on a Laserjet)
Better (brainless/painless) disk repartitioning and setup (around Dapper the partitioner for Ubuntu got tougher).
More pre-installed backgrounds, screen savers, clip art, and OOo templates, system sounds, etc. (doesn't sound like much but such things go a long way to a 'user')
A good multimedia, graphics, Office suite of pre-configured on initial install (choosing between Kaffiene, Amarok, Xine, etc. turns many users off.)
Not thinking/saying Gnome is like Mac OS, which it really isn't.
I went to PHP5 quite a while back. I started with 4 and had already been programing nice (long tags in html, program with globals off, etc.) so there was no issue for me, everything just worked on 5. I do have one script I found on sourceforge (dead project) that doesn't work on 5, probably used something deprecated from 3 slated for removal after 4. I don't expect conversion of that to be too serious either.
I think a lot of the FUD is being placed on ISPs who run PHP4 servers and may have outdated cpanels or other pre-set PHP apps. I would think maybe a weeks worth of work for most mom and pops to get the upgrade complete (a lot it setting up automating on any data upgrade conversions) but it's surely not the end of the world.
Well then the few hundered of our dollars contributed. Just to clarify, people don't need to pay Red Hat to support Linux, just in case you were thinking Red Hat != Linux, there are many many other co.s and individuals supporting Linux development as well.
Red Hat isn't bad, I stated that it wasn't as necessary for us as I had initially expected and we don't really require that much TA through a paid service like theirs. I can see it could be a benefit to those places that want turn-key Linux solution support - just it's not for everyone. Many businesses can do just fine without.
Cross platform (i.e. Linux/Mac/Windows) we are currently using Unison (lower setup/install on client and server) but probably will go to Backula next. Looked at Amanda, it seemed to have pretty steep setup curve (at least at the time I was looking at it).
We started with RHEL3, especially since we ordered a Dell Server and it could come with the server, thus I knew RH would just work on it. Never seemed to get my money's worth out of support (if you are going to administer it, you might as well learn it, so I answered most questions by myself.) A year or so later, instead of going RHEL4 I went to CentOS 4 next, as it had the same necessary apps and updates, support didn't matter so I had the OS without the bothersome RedHat Network license validation nag screens.
About a year after that I got tired of CentOS - when I started looking at options for a cross-platform backup solution, CentOS was the low man on the compatible distribution totem pole, sometimes not even there at all, most support requestes ended with some vague problem with dependencies and an 'oh well'.
Also learned to shy away from SuSE then too, as I noticed around that time any Novell associated projects usually dropped any non-SuSE binaries (i.e. iFolder).
But Ubuntu had just about everything there, was well updated, and a lot of forums with solutions. Granted, Ubuntu lacked the nice SAMBA admin program (GSAMBAD needs help), but I never have any problems finding apps or resolving installation issues quickly.
Some I thought of right off hand
- Data Conversion
- Data Normalization
- Equipment setup from a set of boxes - computer, monitor, printer a full set-up and configured system
- Switch rack untangle/rewire
- Deploy a network (you get a router, switch and an bunch of computers/printers and unconnected wires. (netwalk in real life)
- Create a spreadsheet (from handwritten copy)- I've had to do this a lot.
- Move a system or a network to another location (includes packing up and setup, could be part of a tech-biathlon or pentathlon.
- Phone Support
(all of these can have marks for speed presentation, faults and innovation)
Not really worded as the author states, and is quite interesting - mainly the meat is the Risk Factors section where they must report the possible situations on investment/profit risk. Nothing really much there about stealing ideas, but what was omitted by the author was the probable losses incurred by MS "opening up" on some interoperability technology as well as being forced to open up other standards due to high court rulings.
They still call their Licensing "Ownership" as in Cost of Ownership... sigh.
Very interesting read.
The title should read: Congress Thinks Commercial profits > (greater than) Education
(though in general it's more like money greater than citizens...)
This is a message that our current legislators think that serving the corporate recording and distribution industry is far more important than allowing kids to get an education. The primary subject they are voting for is to let a small portion of selfish interests be able to dictate frivolous laws on what all of us should do and don't do regardless of what consequences and damages it puts on the judicial and justice system.
I think there will be a pop.
Have you tried it? Part of the draw may be the speed and the images next to the search results, but realistically, not really the best results, and the pictures that come up on the results are stock photos - not any relation to the site content at all. (if you have your own domain, search for it and see what I am talking about)
Also have the programmer themselves have to use the application for 'a day', in a real-world example - the guy who knows the UI in and out, so training is not a problem.
But as a programmer he/she will see what doesn't work when they have to enter data live (i.e. entering client data with client sitting across the desk) - and they will get a pretty good idea of what needs fixing and how to get it done. For more complex concepts they may have to be the keyboard pilot with an expert telling them what they want done, but having that hands-on dose of reality will help smooth out the worst bits.
I program for a small NP, and have to use my programs as well, it gives me a lot of perspective for the end user as well as the clients we serve while the staff use the system.