Support contracts would seem to be a good way to gauge enterprise use and give some idea where the money^h^h^h^h^h I mean where people were putting their attention, and 'voting' in a way for better future releases. Support experience should ideally trickle back into new releases.
Is the worm the rumour, and can we track it through google zeitergeist and/or a dummy worm exe/code/honeynet that script kiddies (sort of like myself allegedly) might not realise is not the real thing?
Representation is needed in both the source of the work and where the work is done, international contract enforcement between non multinationals is difficult, so once an arrangement has been established there is a large barrier to expanding into new legal and business practice terrirories, until the current resource has been over utilised.
Ireland may be an example of a tapped out resource as it is so small, and already has so many multinationals getting work done here. India and China are not overly utilised, tapped out resources.
Indians competing with each other and Chinese competing with each other will keep wages down for all but the most skilled and experienced Chinese and Indian, there is no pressing reason to go outside these huge developing buckets of cheap labour. I am trying to facilitate offshore outsourcing to Belarus and Russia, from Ireland, but the Irish companies or divisions of American companies in Ireland are not interested enough - yet.
Is there scope in the market for a non sex based matchmaking service, a 'FindPeer' service to encourage one on one peer (or coach or mentor) based short relationships? I did a rough spec and wiki page on such a service but at 10 hits from google in 4 months maybe it is not worth more investigation without more marketing!
Most newsgroups and slashdot items seldom lead to interesting one on one discussion except perhaps for aggressive self opinionated 'experts' (allegedly).
FYI I may have time for some one on one discussion but not necessarily to join an open source programming project, and the local linux group does not seem approachable enough for this purpose. Also the peer development may not necessarily be in the computing field.
Signed a meek want-to-be peer developed with 10 years developer experience.
I have nothing against getting coding done, I just do not seem to be up to it at my old age (33). Loafing on the job is easy, I want to be a better coder so I can loaf less at my next job, or even this one if I stay on the payroll. Maybe other threads: Laid off? What are You Doing w/ Your Newfound Freedom? may also be useful.
(Supersonic) Concorde is too expensive to operate
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Therefore it (also:) ) has been grounded: Concorde With a few token efforts to keep it in the air. I blame the economy stupid.
Should(do other) people moderate their own weblogs?
I have almost a blog at http://www.geocities.com/totierne/mylog.txt or http://www.geocities.com/totierne/Breakdown.html . For the last 6 months I have been giving a moderation score to each entry, I found I can moderate my entry myself when I have written it, but not when I start to write. The moderation has been verified by my one long suffering reader (my sister).
Is this a useful idea that should spread? I am posting this too late to get moderate slashdot moderation so I will estimate score 1 and a 10% chance of a reply.
I Am Not An American, and if America chooses to kill 100,000 people or more this time I prefer to have made a stand to make a better stand next time. If the US chooses to use its proxys to reach me for attempting to deconstruct their weapons of mass destruction, go ahead shoot me.
This is the passive majority view here, and I am just a want-to-be activist. The rabid reaction just shows how out of touch America is with free speech etc. I could couch my words in meally mouthed terms like 'some Americans' or the 'American government', but why should I speak oddly for war mungerers or their apologists?
Just thinking conversely, as if linux is always considered as catching up on Unix or Windows, it is in danger of being seen as non innovative, and second best at everything.
The truth is basically GPL will set you free, from beowolf to Sharp Zaurus to a (motorola) mobile phone, to... presumably there is a linux watch or even pacemaker in prototype somewhere...
Actually being non innovative and 2nd best at everything, ubiquitus, and bundling everything, never did Microsoft Windows any harm.
The best place for a hacker to be is countering US electronic attacks on Iraq, it is anti war, and you get to be mildly subversive and get to earn your spurs defending rather than attacking.
Do they give logs of what the US military have been doing so there can be a community deconstruction and defense?
Well who can prove I am not?[Or will not be, 'Minority Report' anyone?] Text me and implicate yourself. +353 86 825 6032 They cannot arrest/intern/investigate everyone, or if they can the AI programs used may be dual use enough to be really useful, and information processing/database company shares, like the one I work for, will skyrocket. They might backtrack and find you when I take out a city block.[Unabomber meme- I'll not handwrite anything]:)
When they came for the terrorists, I did not say anything because I did not realise they considered me a terrorist. http://www.geocities.com/totierne
I am an experience shell scripter [9 years, experienced as in they are not pretty but they work], I am also an experienced C programmer and more recently a java programmer [5 years]. I have written up some short notes on sed and shell coding [Shell_Boot_Camp] (and examples).
Is there an equivalent small reservoir of java programs that do much the same thing, ie a bit of regex, find and pipeing? Whenever I have a small problem to solve that can be scripted I can never be bothered to gear up a java program 'from scratch' so I never build up a small set of java programs to do the job.
I feel I thrash so much between techniques, I should stick to java where possible, as this is the closest to one size fits all.
Hey I work in migration so the same goes from moving, or switching back and forth, between different languages, so equivalent hello regexp, find and pipe in shell (csh,bash,ksh),c, perl, msdos batch files, java, python would make a good entry in a migrationdotcom site. This is currently a very small hint at what a database migration community site might look at, but is so light on implementation it could go any where, but most likely nowhere...
Windows menus change depending on most used, this seems like the way to go: the interface learning you as much as you learning the interface. However the configuration needs to be portable so that you can use the next machine in the office or at home, or even let your configuration spread around the office like a virus (or a meme).
Maybe people could just sell their configuration/cookie set on ebay...
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,145,00.html or the brick like older cousin, I may pick one up second hand just for fun...
I do like the integrated pda as phone idea, and if I cant have linux, a bigger than phone screen, keyboard and decent memory for old/new sms text might be just what I want, never used my old palm though, a piece of paper, a pen(cil) and an GSM sms enabled phone is enough for between work and home computer off line hops.
Nash Equilibrium, optimisation, annealing, systems
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A whole pile of systems, local vs global optimisation, strange attractors, economics and equilibrium things I have not yet completely forgotten, what is left is like the cheshire cat grin from, damn I cannot nail the reference, I am sure it can be googled...
Hey how googleable is a search for functional code with no searchable function names...
Ok looking at Microsoft Visual Basic as the also ran, rather than the also also ran just shows my seige mentality! The figures from the previous thread (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/ 01/04/2311217&mode=thread):
For server development, using the 'free' marketing offer mentioned, IIS.net is required, this is of course more convienient and more integrated with.net than apache, but it does cost money/mindshare/time. Apache costs mindshare/time but one can move off windows into server land with apache/tomcat/jboss/bea-weblogic/...insert j2ee vendor advertisement here....
You can laugh at java, but it is where the jobs are, as a survey last week on slashdot pointed out (java was narrowly ahead of Microsoft Visual Basic).
Actually migration off IIS.net is (very close to) my job so I am interested in what real as apposed to marketing and FUD alternatives there are.
[My actual job is migrating people between databases [I actually get someone else to do the database part, while I do migrate the sql in the VB/ASP application]]
I was going to spout off here, the entagled post of me saying something useful is even now hitting the next galaxy. By reading this the entangled posts probability wave function has collapsed to a score 5, while this posts has collapsed to a -1.
I do not see entanglement increasing my karma in this universe.
>My Jewish friends are the least streetwise people I know.
Interesting. My (unfortunately few) Jewish friends are learned but not very streetwise.
Just to get reflective, do Jews generally read slashdot or do they (sensibly) prefer to read or write useful (or should I say 'sacred') texts?
>For the last 30 years I've been trying to teach myself to be a social theorist. I would love to hear the bluffers guide to that subject, or is it all so close to nostradamous as to be, oops cynical mode was winding up. I'll look up the faq on social theory Real Soon Now, as soon it is street wise to know that stuff.
I am not as cynical as this rebuttal suggests. x 100
The only option is to set up terrorist cells openly and decide to act iff they do not pick you up. see Minority Report.
Seriously though: First they came after the 'terrorist' and I did not speak because I did not realise they defined me as a 'terrorist'. -- http://www.geocities.com/totiern e/4_minutes.html Exaggerate: moi?
Ok so there is always sex, but surely the spammers will be able to target spam at people who just have not decided to buy their product yet, and may actually want er 'info-email'.
Does anyone have click through rates and 'success' of spam?
Slashdot Mirror
Support contracts would seem to be a good way to gauge enterprise use and give some idea where the money^h^h^h^h^h I mean where people were putting their attention, and 'voting' in a way for better future releases. Support experience should ideally trickle back into new releases.
Is the worm the rumour, and can we track it through google zeitergeist and/or a dummy worm exe/code/honeynet that script kiddies (sort of like myself allegedly) might not realise is not the real thing?
The problem is trying to grab all sorts of information and not being able to discern what is likely to be useful in a work or social context.
A land rush rather than persistent related lines of inquiry.
What can one be a socially acceptable Aspergers like 'little expert' on at the age of over 21?
Ignore me, I am a manic depressive.
What are peoples top coping strategies in life,
do you play to your strengths or fight to be average?
For example:
If you only work one to one, should you seek one to one opportunities or practice working in groups?
Smart ass answer: do both.
Ignore me, I'm bipolar.
Representation is needed in both the source of the work and where the work is done, international contract enforcement between non multinationals is difficult, so once an arrangement has been established there is a large barrier to expanding into new legal and business practice terrirories, until the current resource has been over utilised.
Ireland may be an example of a tapped out resource as it is so small, and already has so many multinationals getting work done here. India and China are not overly utilised, tapped out resources.
Indians competing with each other and Chinese competing with each other will keep wages down for all but the most skilled and experienced Chinese and Indian, there is no pressing reason to go outside these huge developing buckets of cheap labour. I am trying to facilitate
offshore outsourcing to Belarus and Russia, from Ireland, but the Irish companies or divisions of American companies in Ireland are not interested enough - yet.
Is there scope in the market for a non sex based matchmaking service, a 'FindPeer' service to encourage one on one peer (or coach or mentor) based short relationships? I did a rough spec and
wiki page on such a service but at 10 hits from google in 4 months maybe it is not worth more investigation without more marketing!
Most newsgroups and slashdot items seldom lead to interesting one on one discussion except perhaps for aggressive self opinionated 'experts' (allegedly).
FYI I may have time for some one on one discussion but not necessarily to join an open source programming project, and the local linux group does not seem approachable enough for this purpose. Also the peer development may not necessarily be in the computing field.
Signed a meek want-to-be peer developed with 10 years developer experience.
I have nothing against getting coding done, I just do not seem to be up to it at my old age (33). Loafing on the job is easy, I want to be a better coder so I can loaf less at my next job, or even this one if I stay on the payroll. Maybe other threads: Laid
off? What are You Doing w/ Your Newfound Freedom? may also be useful.
Therefore it (also :) ) has been grounded:
Concorde
With a few token efforts to keep it in the air.
I blame the economy stupid.
Should(do other) people moderate their own weblogs?
I have almost a blog at http://www.geocities.com/totierne/mylog.txt or http://www.geocities.com/totierne/Breakdown.html . For the last 6 months I have been giving a moderation score to each entry, I found I can moderate my entry myself when I have written it, but not when I start to write. The moderation has been verified by my one long suffering reader (my sister).
Is this a useful idea that should spread?
I am posting this too late to get moderate slashdot moderation so I will estimate score 1 and a 10% chance of a reply.
Slashdot should be an advertisement paid service, publish the click through results and have a click through top 10 and discussion once a month....
Get slashdot paid and focus ad revenue by clicking through on what you want to see more of advert wise....
Marketing as education, information and comment, who would have thought.
Score 2 - personal high stats:
replies: 10% of my posts
Score 2: 5% of my posts
Troll, rant - whats the difference? (Rhetorical)
IANAA
I Am Not An American, and if America chooses to kill 100,000 people or more this time I prefer to have made a stand to make a better stand next time. If the US chooses to use its proxys to reach me for attempting to deconstruct their weapons of mass destruction, go ahead shoot me.
This is the passive majority view here, and I am just a want-to-be activist. The rabid reaction just shows how out of touch America is with free speech etc. I could couch my words in meally mouthed terms like 'some Americans' or the 'American government', but why should I speak oddly for war mungerers or their apologists?
Just thinking conversely, as if linux is always considered as catching up on Unix or Windows, it is in danger of being seen as non innovative, and second best at everything.
... presumably there is a linux watch or even pacemaker in prototype somewhere...
The truth is basically GPL will set you free, from beowolf to Sharp Zaurus to a (motorola) mobile phone, to
Actually being non innovative and 2nd best at everything, ubiquitus, and bundling everything, never did Microsoft Windows any harm.
The best place for a hacker to be is countering US electronic attacks on Iraq, it is anti war, and you get to be mildly subversive and get to earn your spurs defending rather than attacking.
Do they give logs of what the US military have been doing so there can be a community deconstruction and defense?
Well who can prove I am not?[Or will not be, 'Minority Report' anyone?] :)
Text me and implicate yourself. +353 86 825 6032
They cannot arrest/intern/investigate everyone, or if they can the AI programs used may be dual use enough to be really useful, and information processing/database company shares, like the one I work for, will skyrocket.
They might backtrack and find you when I take out a city block.[Unabomber meme- I'll not handwrite anything]
When they came for the terrorists, I did not say anything because I did not realise they considered me a terrorist.
http://www.geocities.com/totierne
I am an experience shell scripter [9 years, experienced as in they are not pretty but they work], I am also an experienced C programmer and more recently a java programmer [5 years]. I have written up some short notes on sed and shell coding [Shell_Boot_Camp] (and examples) .
...
Is there an equivalent small reservoir of java programs that do much the same thing, ie a bit of regex, find and pipeing? Whenever I have a small problem to solve that can be scripted I can never be bothered to gear up a java program 'from scratch' so I never build up a small set of java programs to do the job.
I feel I thrash so much between techniques, I should stick to java where possible, as this is the closest to one size fits all.
Hey I work in migration so the same goes from moving, or switching back and forth, between different languages, so equivalent hello regexp, find and pipe in shell (csh,bash,ksh),c, perl, msdos batch files, java, python would make a good entry in a migrationdotcom site.
This is currently a very small hint at what a database migration community site might look at, but is so light on implementation it could go any where, but most likely nowhere
Windows menus change depending on most used, this seems like the way to go: the interface learning you as much as you learning the interface. However the configuration needs to be portable so that you can use the next machine in the office or at home, or even let your configuration spread around the office like a virus (or a meme).
Maybe people could just sell their configuration/cookie set on ebay...
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,145,00.html or the brick like older cousin, I may pick one up second hand just for fun...
I do like the integrated pda as phone idea, and if I cant have linux, a bigger than phone screen, keyboard and decent memory for old/new sms text might be just what I want, never used my old palm though, a piece of paper, a pen(cil) and an GSM sms enabled phone is enough for between work and home computer off line hops.
A whole pile of systems, local vs global optimisation, strange attractors, economics and equilibrium things I have not yet completely forgotten, what is left is like the cheshire cat grin from, damn I cannot nail the reference, I am sure it can be googled...
Hey how googleable is a search for functional code with no searchable function names...
Now I am disassociating... but it is slashdot.
Ok looking at Microsoft Visual Basic as the also ran, rather than the also also ran just shows my seige mentality! The figures from the previous thread (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/ 01/04/2311217&mode=thread):
Java 2739 1000* 1957 27.82%
C++ 2103 1000* 1534 22.65%
Visual Basic 2070 969 1127 20.35%
For server development, using the 'free' marketing offer mentioned, IIS.net is required, this is of course more convienient and more integrated with .net than apache, but it does cost money/mindshare/time. Apache costs mindshare/time but one can move off windows into server land with apache/tomcat/jboss/bea-weblogic/...insert j2ee vendor advertisement here....
You can laugh at java, but it is where the jobs are, as a survey last week on slashdot pointed out (java was narrowly ahead of Microsoft Visual Basic).
Actually migration off IIS.net is (very close to) my job so I am interested in what real as apposed to marketing and FUD alternatives there are.
[My actual job is migrating people between databases [I actually get someone else to do the database part, while I do migrate the sql in the VB/ASP application]]
http://www.geocities.com/totierne
I was going to spout off here, the entagled post of me saying something useful is even now hitting the next galaxy. By reading this the entangled posts probability wave function has collapsed to a score 5, while this posts has collapsed to a -1.
I do not see entanglement increasing my karma in this universe.
>My Jewish friends are the least streetwise people I know.
Interesting. My (unfortunately few) Jewish friends are learned but not very streetwise.
Just to get reflective, do Jews generally read slashdot or do they (sensibly) prefer to read or write useful (or should I say 'sacred') texts?
>For the last 30 years I've been trying to teach myself to be a social theorist.
I would love to hear the bluffers guide to that subject, or is it all so close to nostradamous as to be, oops cynical mode was winding up. I'll look up the faq on social theory Real Soon Now, as soon it is street wise to know that stuff.
I am not as cynical as this rebuttal suggests. x 100
The only option is to set up terrorist cells openly and decide to act iff they do not pick you up. see Minority Report.
n e/4_minutes.html
Seriously though: First they came after the 'terrorist' and I did not speak because I did not realise they defined me as a 'terrorist'.
--
http://www.geocities.com/totier
Exaggerate: moi?
Ok so there is always sex, but surely the spammers will be able to target spam at people who just have not decided to buy their product yet, and may actually want er 'info-email'.
Does anyone have click through rates and 'success' of spam?