Liberals come from cities, Conservatives come from rural areas
I disagree. there has to be something more to it than that. As proof, why isn't Cincinnati (southwest Ohio) or Columbus (central ohio) shaded blue? Also, just because the map is shaded blue or red does not mean that everyone in that color votes Democratic (blue) or Republican (red).
I bet you will find plenty of Republicans in any city as well as plenty of Democrates in the rural areas.
I think the fact that there is a HOWTO for this speaks volumes about why there are not more women involved in IT.
Some places even offer seminars... given by women for men:
Seminars for Men
Once again, the female staff of the University will be offering courses to men, regardless of marital status. Please note that the name of some courses have recently been changed. Attendance to at least 10 of the following courses is mandatory. The seminars are in great demand, so please register early.
* Economics
-- 101: Understanding Your Financial Incompetence
-- 102: We Do Not Want Sleazy Underthings For Christmas- Give Us Jewelry or Money
* English
-- 101: Spelling- Even You Can Get It Right
-- 102: The Attainable Goal- Omitting "*#?$@" From Your Vocabulary
-- 110: How Not to Act Like an Jerk When You're Obviously Wrong
* Environmental Studies
-- 101: Garbage- Getting It to the Curb
-- 102: Why It Is Unacceptable to Relieve Yourself Anywhere But the Bathroom
-- 103: You Can Do Housework, Too
-- 104: How to Fill an Icetray
-- 105: How to Put the Toilet Lid Down (must be taken concurrently with Environmental Studies 106)
-- 106: Learning to Aim- It Can Be Done (must be taken with ES 105)
* Health
-- 102: Parenting- It Doesn't End With Conception (also Psych 102)
-- 103a: You Can Fall Asleep Without It If You Really Try
-- 104: Changing Your Underwear- It Really Works
-- 110: You, Too, Can Be a Designated Driver
-- 201: Honest, You Don't Look Like Mel Gibson- Especially When You're Naked (also Psych 201)
* Leisure Studies
-- 101: The Weekend and Sports Are Not Synonymous
-- 102: How to Go Shopping With a Woman Without Getting Lost
-- 110: Helpful Posture Hints for Couch Potatoes
* Psychology
-- 100: Combating Stupidity
-- 101: PMS- Learn When to Keep Your Mouth Shut
-- 102: see Health 102
-- 103: Understanding the Female Response When You Come In Drunk at 3am
-- 104: How to Not Act Younger Than Your Children
-- 111: Give Me a Break- Why We Know Your Excuses are Bull
-- 201: see Health 201
-- 250: Learning Self-Control- How Not to Pick Your Nose or Adjust Yourself in Public
* Sociology
-- 101: YOU- The Weaker Sex
-- 102: Reasons to Give Flowers
-- 115: Why Fluffing the Blankets After Farting is Not Necessary
-- 210: Male Bonding- How to Leave Your Friends At Their Homes
* Textiles and Apparels
-- 101: Wonderful Laundry Techniques (Formerly: Don't Wash My Silk)
-- 102: I'll Wear It If I Darn Well Please
-- 104: Yes, They Really Smell After Being Worn More Than Once
Their latest trick was to get us to sign a contract giving the unlimited power of attourney. I crossed *that* out about 5 seconds after getting the agreement.
dude... I would seriously consider new employment if my employer (current or future) tried to slip that one past me. There has to be a certain degree of trust and respect between you and your employer. If you are the one lacking in trust/respect, then as an employer, I would release you from your job. there's not telling what you would do to the company and I wouldn't want to take the chance. On the flip side, if the company is lacking in trust/respect, then I would leave it. My guess is that they would not have any problem "screwing you over" when push came to shove.
With a contract like the one you described above, it seems your employer is lacking in resprect toward you. Run now before they have a chance to screw you!
The book was originally to be titled "girl.com" but that turned out to be a porn site, so they changed it to "katie.com" instead
Question: If the publishers knew that katie.com was taken, why didn't they just call the book katietarbox.com or katherine.com instead? (Assuming that neither of those domains have been taken).
They could have thier own website up and running, posting whatever they wanted. Instead, they currently have the stubborn owner of katie.com with the website and mounting legal fees. Plus if they owned their own domain (like katietarbox.com), they would (possibly) be making more $$ from their domain.
oh, and for the record, I am on the side of the original owner of the katie.com domain. I just don't understand why people are so stupid sometimes.
But everybody they've sued is a current or former licensee of SCO's,....
Well, all except Novell. I believe that they are sueing (sp?) Novell because Novell now has a competing product with SCO (SUSE Linux). From what I understand, once Novell so SCO the rights to distribute UnixWare, Novell agreed not to distribute a competing product. Once SUSE was purchased, a competing product was being distributed, at least in SCO's eyes.
The only question I have is this: Isn't Netware a competing product to SCO's Unix product? Technically, I believe it is. When you think about it, it is really kind of funny. SCO could have sued Novell for having a competing product once they purchased UnixWare.
"The scariest part of the article, however, is when a spokesman for iBackup, an Internet-based backup company, disclaims,'We do not provide a 100 percent guarantee that the backup will take place' of customers' data being stored with them for a fee."
Scary? No, that's plain honesty. Which should be respected.
I have a problem with this. If a file or directory (or two) is missed on one backup, then fine, it happens. However, wouldn't the next backup pick up the missing file or directory? The backup company has to have more than one backup job from which they can restore... somewhere! I don't think the person who lost all of her data would be too angry if she at least had her data restored from a week ago (or even a month ago).
If I told my boss that I could not restore any data because a) I missed it and b) I have only one backup job from which to restore, he would have my ass! Heck, our backup rotation involves keeping the monthly backup jobs from up to a year ago. Granted, this may not be realistic for the site in question (hotmail), but data from a month or two ago is within reason.
Most customers don't plan to interact much with the OS on their database servers, and want to use whatever Oracle says will be best.
I believe that there is another reason that Oracle is "recommending" the linux platform and I am a little surprised that no one has yet to metion it: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
I thought that it was common knowledge that Ellison hates MS. Or at the very least, he wants his company to be better than MS. If that is the case, then why would Oracle want to "recommend" that their customers use the Windows platform to run oracle? That is just more money into MS's pockets. By "recommending" linux, then there is less money going to Microsoft.
Another thought is that by keeping MS out of the picture and recommending Linux, the less likely that their client will be stolen away by MS in favor of the MS SQL server. I wonder how many times (if any) that Oracle lost a client to MS SQL server because the consultant who setup the server suggested SQL Server?
...or Evercrack, which ever you prefer. Anyway, do a search on eBay and you will find plenty of stuff for sale there: characters, gold, magic items.... Selling evercrack stuff on eBay is just one step lower than being a professional gamer.
They cannot, at gunpoint, force consumers to purchase their products.
But they can (or at least 'did') force OEM's to sell you a copy of Windows when you purchase a new computer. Regardless of whether you wanted a copy of windows or not. It may not be a gunpoint, but it's close enough.
Microsoft made computing mainstream and gives most consumers exactly what they want. Isn't that kind enough
That is an arguable point. I always thought that IBM made computing mainstream. IBM also gave JFS (as well as other technologies) to the OSS community.
Only on/. can Microsoft contribute a product to sourceforge and be bashed for it.
After comments like "Linux is a virus," and their constant attacks on the OSS community, how can we trust them? If they are turning over a new leaf, then great! If that is the case, then we would come to have a certain amount of trust and respect for them. However, I belive there is something else behind the contribution.
...the new Office will run on all versions of Windows, whereas it was previously going to be available only on the new XP system...
I saw this too and wondered why they would try to make the new office only run on new versions of windows. If a company wanted the new office, they would have to upgrade the OS also. But some companies I know can barely afford a new copy of Office on each PC, let alone the new office AND a OS. It seems to me that they would be painting themselves into a corner (ie, less revenue) if they were to restrict which Windows OS the office software would run on.
Virus' Due to install base?!?
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Mr. Friedrichs says the majority of viruses and worms today are aimed at Windows, because of its large installed base. Threats that target Windows also tend to have more impact and get more publicity than those aimed at Linux, because there are so many Windows-equipped computers for them to affect, he says.
From what I have read and understand, the install base has nothing to do with it (or very little at least). The problem is that MS software is so easy to crack.
For example, MS Exchange has roughly a 85 million install base. That email system has been hit hard over the past several years. Lotus Notes has not been hit nearly as hard (if at all) during the same time frame. If install base had anything to do with it, then one would assume that Lotus Notes has a substantially lower install base than MS Exchange. The fact is that Lotus Notes has a comparable install base (of roughly 90 million).
It's the insecure software that is the problem, people!
Just make Winduxthe new name for the os. Make sure that everyone knows that the new (proper) pronunciation of the name is wind 'deks and all the legal fees will go away...
something like 90% or our population is within a few hours of the US border
For those of you who have trouble calculating distances with units of time, I shall translate:
Translating a few hours as meaning two hours and driving at 60 Miles per hour, then we have 120 miles. so 90% of the Candanian population is within 120 miles of the US border.
Americans stop here. For those of you on the metric system, 100 kilometers = (roughly) 61 miles. 120 miles is equal to (roughly) 200 kilometers. So 90% of the Candanian population is within 200 kilometers of the US border.
As your code improves, it will increasingly weed out the beta testers who are not quite good enough.
Yea! and you can make a show out of it like Survivor or The Apprentice. Wait!! Survivor would make the perfect name for this new reality show.
by making it a reality show, you can sell it to the TV stations *and* get willing volunteers *and* beta test the code, all at the same time. What a bargain!!!
now if today was not April 1, we could have something here...
the deep irony of being given 5 moderator points to/. on April 1?
too bad that we can't get moderator points for the slashdot editors. They would pick their stories a little better. I can see it now:
Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux (Score: +3, informative)
Book Reviews: The Power of Persuasion (Score: +2, Interesting)
British Chicken-Warmed Nuke (Score:-1, Bad April fools day joke)
Your Rights Online: IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case (Score: +5, Excellent!)
Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free (Score: +4, Funny)
Your Rights Online: PanIP Drops E-commerce Patent Lawsuits (Score: -1, Boring)
Novell will see its new business increasingly tied to NDS+Linux rather than the old bundle of NDS+NetWare
Please note that the file/print sharing portion of netware will be made available on the Linux kernal as well as the netware kernal. Admins will have the option of installing the file sharing part on either kernal/platform.
hmmm... maybe, in the future, Novell will open source the Netware Kernal?
This product lacks focus," said Betsy Burton, analyst with the Gartner Group. "They're doing all sorts of stuff with it, first scalability was the issue, then XML support, then.Net activities, and then business intelligence and now security. The gut issue is, what is the purpose of this release? As a team trying to develop a product you have to know where you're going," she said.
This is the paragraph that explains it all. This product lacks focus. Why? Who knows? But if you cannot give your troops clear, concise goals, then everyone will go in a million different directions. And nothing will get done!
When this project first started out, it may have had the clear, concise goals. But then they started to add extra things to the project as it progressed. Sometimes adding a new feature or what-not means starting from scratch (if you wanna do it right).
If MS wants to do this right (and not delay the shipping date), then they should put a freeze on adding new features. Otherwise, it will either slip again, or a critical flaw will be found with the software.
Telnet? How are you going to download anything with telnet? Granted, an uber-geek probably could download something with it. However, FTP, on the other hand is a basic application with which you can download a browser (or anything else for that matter).
It would be hard enough trying to talk my mom through the use of FTP. I can't imagine how hard it would be with telnet (assuming you could download something with it).
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Liberals come from cities, Conservatives come from rural areas
I disagree. there has to be something more to it than that. As proof, why isn't Cincinnati (southwest Ohio) or Columbus (central ohio) shaded blue? Also, just because the map is shaded blue or red does not mean that everyone in that color votes Democratic (blue) or Republican (red).
I bet you will find plenty of Republicans in any city as well as plenty of Democrates in the rural areas.
I think the fact that there is a HOWTO for this speaks volumes about why there are not more women involved in IT.
Some places even offer seminars... given by women for men:
Seminars for Men
Once again, the female staff of the University will be offering courses to men, regardless of marital status. Please note that the name of some courses have recently been changed. Attendance to at least 10 of the following courses is mandatory. The seminars are in great demand, so please register early.
* Economics
-- 101: Understanding Your Financial Incompetence
-- 102: We Do Not Want Sleazy Underthings For Christmas- Give Us Jewelry or Money
* English
-- 101: Spelling- Even You Can Get It Right
-- 102: The Attainable Goal- Omitting "*#?$@" From Your Vocabulary
-- 110: How Not to Act Like an Jerk When You're Obviously Wrong
* Environmental Studies
-- 101: Garbage- Getting It to the Curb
-- 102: Why It Is Unacceptable to Relieve Yourself Anywhere But the Bathroom
-- 103: You Can Do Housework, Too
-- 104: How to Fill an Icetray
-- 105: How to Put the Toilet Lid Down (must be taken concurrently with Environmental Studies 106)
-- 106: Learning to Aim- It Can Be Done (must be taken with ES 105)
* Health
-- 102: Parenting- It Doesn't End With Conception (also Psych 102)
-- 103a: You Can Fall Asleep Without It If You Really Try
-- 104: Changing Your Underwear- It Really Works
-- 110: You, Too, Can Be a Designated Driver
-- 201: Honest, You Don't Look Like Mel Gibson- Especially When You're Naked (also Psych 201)
* Leisure Studies
-- 101: The Weekend and Sports Are Not Synonymous
-- 102: How to Go Shopping With a Woman Without Getting Lost
-- 110: Helpful Posture Hints for Couch Potatoes
* Psychology
-- 100: Combating Stupidity
-- 101: PMS- Learn When to Keep Your Mouth Shut
-- 102: see Health 102
-- 103: Understanding the Female Response When You Come In Drunk at 3am
-- 104: How to Not Act Younger Than Your Children
-- 111: Give Me a Break- Why We Know Your Excuses are Bull
-- 201: see Health 201
-- 250: Learning Self-Control- How Not to Pick Your Nose or Adjust Yourself in Public
* Sociology
-- 101: YOU- The Weaker Sex
-- 102: Reasons to Give Flowers
-- 115: Why Fluffing the Blankets After Farting is Not Necessary
-- 210: Male Bonding- How to Leave Your Friends At Their Homes
* Textiles and Apparels
-- 101: Wonderful Laundry Techniques (Formerly: Don't Wash My Silk)
-- 102: I'll Wear It If I Darn Well Please
-- 104: Yes, They Really Smell After Being Worn More Than Once
She was complaining about our eyes glazing over, not our eyes glaring down at her chest.
otherwise known as eye magnets.
Their latest trick was to get us to sign a contract giving the unlimited power of attourney. I crossed *that* out about 5 seconds after getting the agreement.
dude... I would seriously consider new employment if my employer (current or future) tried to slip that one past me. There has to be a certain degree of trust and respect between you and your employer. If you are the one lacking in trust/respect, then as an employer, I would release you from your job. there's not telling what you would do to the company and I wouldn't want to take the chance. On the flip side, if the company is lacking in trust/respect, then I would leave it. My guess is that they would not have any problem "screwing you over" when push came to shove.
With a contract like the one you described above, it seems your employer is lacking in resprect toward you. Run now before they have a chance to screw you!
The book was originally to be titled "girl.com" but that turned out to be a porn site, so they changed it to "katie.com" instead
Question: If the publishers knew that katie.com was taken, why didn't they just call the book katietarbox.com or katherine.com instead? (Assuming that neither of those domains have been taken).
They could have thier own website up and running, posting whatever they wanted. Instead, they currently have the stubborn owner of katie.com with the website and mounting legal fees. Plus if they owned their own domain (like katietarbox.com), they would (possibly) be making more $$ from their domain.
oh, and for the record, I am on the side of the original owner of the katie.com domain. I just don't understand why people are so stupid sometimes.
Capitalization is the difference between "Helping your uncle Jack off a horse
Capitalization? I always thought comma's did better job of keeping your message clear. For example:
Helping your uncle, jack, off a horse.
I have always considered intelligence to be a measure of how fast you can learn...
...and a willingness and/or the desire to learn.
I would add to that:
what good is being able to learn fast if you are not willing to learn or have no desire to learn?
you forgot ...
9) Profit!!
But everybody they've sued is a current or former licensee of SCO's, ....
Well, all except Novell. I believe that they are sueing (sp?) Novell because Novell now has a competing product with SCO (SUSE Linux). From what I understand, once Novell so SCO the rights to distribute UnixWare, Novell agreed not to distribute a competing product. Once SUSE was purchased, a competing product was being distributed, at least in SCO's eyes.
The only question I have is this: Isn't Netware a competing product to SCO's Unix product? Technically, I believe it is. When you think about it, it is really kind of funny. SCO could have sued Novell for having a competing product once they purchased UnixWare.
"The scariest part of the article, however, is when a spokesman for iBackup, an Internet-based backup company, disclaims,'We do not provide a 100 percent guarantee that the backup will take place' of customers' data being stored with them for a fee."
Scary? No, that's plain honesty. Which should be respected.
I have a problem with this. If a file or directory (or two) is missed on one backup, then fine, it happens. However, wouldn't the next backup pick up the missing file or directory? The backup company has to have more than one backup job from which they can restore... somewhere! I don't think the person who lost all of her data would be too angry if she at least had her data restored from a week ago (or even a month ago).
If I told my boss that I could not restore any data because a) I missed it and b) I have only one backup job from which to restore, he would have my ass! Heck, our backup rotation involves keeping the monthly backup jobs from up to a year ago. Granted, this may not be realistic for the site in question (hotmail), but data from a month or two ago is within reason.
Most customers don't plan to interact much with the OS on their database servers, and want to use whatever Oracle says will be best.
I believe that there is another reason that Oracle is "recommending" the linux platform and I am a little surprised that no one has yet to metion it: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
I thought that it was common knowledge that Ellison hates MS. Or at the very least, he wants his company to be better than MS. If that is the case, then why would Oracle want to "recommend" that their customers use the Windows platform to run oracle? That is just more money into MS's pockets. By "recommending" linux, then there is less money going to Microsoft.
Another thought is that by keeping MS out of the picture and recommending Linux, the less likely that their client will be stolen away by MS in favor of the MS SQL server. I wonder how many times (if any) that Oracle lost a client to MS SQL server because the consultant who setup the server suggested SQL Server?
just a thought...
...or Evercrack, which ever you prefer. Anyway, do a search on eBay and you will find plenty of stuff for sale there: characters, gold, magic items.... Selling evercrack stuff on eBay is just one step lower than being a professional gamer.
They cannot, at gunpoint, force consumers to purchase their products.
/. can Microsoft contribute a product to sourceforge and be bashed for it.
But they can (or at least 'did') force OEM's to sell you a copy of Windows when you purchase a new computer. Regardless of whether you wanted a copy of windows or not. It may not be a gunpoint, but it's close enough.
Microsoft made computing mainstream and gives most consumers exactly what they want. Isn't that kind enough
That is an arguable point. I always thought that IBM made computing mainstream. IBM also gave JFS (as well as other technologies) to the OSS community.
Only on
After comments like "Linux is a virus," and their constant attacks on the OSS community, how can we trust them? If they are turning over a new leaf, then great! If that is the case, then we would come to have a certain amount of trust and respect for them. However, I belive there is something else behind the contribution.
So, no, Groklaw is not the top Anti-Sco site on the net...
Yea! Slashdot is the top Anti-SCO site on the net.
Soon after he meets his new roomate Bubba...
No, his new roommate is not named Bubba. His name is Ben Dover. I think Bubba is his nick name.
...the new Office will run on all versions of Windows, whereas it was previously going to be available only on the new XP system...
I saw this too and wondered why they would try to make the new office only run on new versions of windows. If a company wanted the new office, they would have to upgrade the OS also. But some companies I know can barely afford a new copy of Office on each PC, let alone the new office AND a OS. It seems to me that they would be painting themselves into a corner (ie, less revenue) if they were to restrict which Windows OS the office software would run on.
Mr. Friedrichs says the majority of viruses and worms today are aimed at Windows, because of its large installed base. Threats that target Windows also tend to have more impact and get more publicity than those aimed at Linux, because there are so many Windows-equipped computers for them to affect, he says.
From what I have read and understand, the install base has nothing to do with it (or very little at least). The problem is that MS software is so easy to crack.
For example, MS Exchange has roughly a 85 million install base. That email system has been hit hard over the past several years. Lotus Notes has not been hit nearly as hard (if at all) during the same time frame. If install base had anything to do with it, then one would assume that Lotus Notes has a substantially lower install base than MS Exchange. The fact is that Lotus Notes has a comparable install base (of roughly 90 million).
It's the insecure software that is the problem, people!
Just make Winduxthe new name for the os. Make sure that everyone knows that the new (proper) pronunciation of the name is wind 'deks and all the legal fees will go away...
Oh wait...
something like 90% or our population is within a few hours of the US border
For those of you who have trouble calculating distances with units of time, I shall translate:
Translating a few hours as meaning two hours and driving at 60 Miles per hour, then we have 120 miles. so 90% of the Candanian population is within 120 miles of the US border.
Americans stop here. For those of you on the metric system, 100 kilometers = (roughly) 61 miles. 120 miles is equal to (roughly) 200 kilometers. So 90% of the Candanian population is within 200 kilometers of the US border.
As your code improves, it will increasingly weed out the beta testers who are not quite good enough.
Yea! and you can make a show out of it like Survivor or The Apprentice. Wait!! Survivor would make the perfect name for this new reality show.
by making it a reality show, you can sell it to the TV stations *and* get willing volunteers *and* beta test the code, all at the same time. What a bargain!!!
now if today was not April 1, we could have something here...
the deep irony of being given 5 moderator points to /. on April 1?
too bad that we can't get moderator points for the slashdot editors. They would pick their stories a little better. I can see it now:
Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux (Score: +3, informative)
Book Reviews: The Power of Persuasion (Score: +2, Interesting)
British Chicken-Warmed Nuke (Score:-1, Bad April fools day joke)
Your Rights Online: IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case (Score: +5, Excellent!)
Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free (Score: +4, Funny)
Your Rights Online: PanIP Drops E-commerce Patent Lawsuits (Score: -1, Boring)
Novell will see its new business increasingly tied to NDS+Linux rather than the old bundle of NDS+NetWare
Please note that the file/print sharing portion of netware will be made available on the Linux kernal as well as the netware kernal. Admins will have the option of installing the file sharing part on either kernal/platform.
hmmm... maybe, in the future, Novell will open source the Netware Kernal?
This product lacks focus," said Betsy Burton, analyst with the Gartner Group. "They're doing all sorts of stuff with it, first scalability was the issue, then XML support, then .Net activities, and then business intelligence and now security. The gut issue is, what is the purpose of this release? As a team trying to develop a product you have to know where you're going," she said.
This is the paragraph that explains it all. This product lacks focus. Why? Who knows? But if you cannot give your troops clear, concise goals, then everyone will go in a million different directions. And nothing will get done!
When this project first started out, it may have had the clear, concise goals. But then they started to add extra things to the project as it progressed. Sometimes adding a new feature or what-not means starting from scratch (if you wanna do it right).
If MS wants to do this right (and not delay the shipping date), then they should put a freeze on adding new features. Otherwise, it will either slip again, or a critical flaw will be found with the software.
My $0.02
Try explaining telnet & gopher to your mom.
Telnet? How are you going to download anything with telnet? Granted, an uber-geek probably could download something with it. However, FTP, on the other hand is a basic application with which you can download a browser (or anything else for that matter).
It would be hard enough trying to talk my mom through the use of FTP. I can't imagine how hard it would be with telnet (assuming you could download something with it).
I'd like to see the price of toner and ink cartridges go down....
If you feel that the various manufactures are charging too much, try these guys:
http://www.lasermonks.com/
Their products are remanufactured, but the prices are more affordable.