I had no printer at home for a very long time, and finally bought one, which I used to print two time sheets. At work I print nothing, unless it is for a client to look at, and I always offer it in electronic format first unless the client is coming onsite.
If a book is available at Gutenberg's site, I read it online, or have my speech synth read it to me.
Now, the downside is we are still depleting resources, because of the electricity that allows you to be online anyway. Wasting trees to produce papers that will be referred to only once, however, seems so WRONG that I just can't bring myself to do it.
He's one of those guys that understood his 8-bit machine, maybe inside and out, then one day stopped learning, and now insists ridiculously "I REALLY DO GROK THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY!"
At this point he is resorting to arrogance in order to cause a stir. He knows he is missing the point, but as long as he has comments and readers, he has a column.
All of this ruckus about where to position Linux in the enterprise is foolish. A commercial OS might need to identify its niche, and justify it, but a free OS can crash the party anywhere it pleases, and screw em if they can't take a joke, if it doesn't work out, the worst that happens is the admin doesn't download it again. If only 10 people still thought Linux was keen a year from now, I'll bet at least one would still be actively developing it.
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Well put. The reason that Linux is a good operating system is that is like Unix. Unix at home can be a bit like flying a kite indoors to the savvy user; its power comes from the ability to have 100 luser accounts and one wise guru account... in that instance none of the user needs to be particularly familiar with the system, and it can be as user friendly as the admin makes it.
There is no such category for the home user. You simply must be the wise guru person, or you should be running Be or something instead. The consequence of letting people water down the OS alarm me.
First of all, it's a consulting firm. If your employees can't ramp up on new technologies on a regular basis, it sounds like you have a pretty narrow market, and unless that market is going to be around for a long time, you are in trouble.
Contractors can give the client confidence in the early phases of the project by kicking it off while the other employees get up to speed. It is important that the contractors be included in all meetings where specs are given.
The employees can certainly ramp up if you give them the support and resources that they need. Unless they are learning something completely unreasonable, you should be able to expect experienced coders to pick up a new language or technology in a month's time.
Adding contractors near a deadline to speed things up is common, and some people swear by it. I have been that contractor before, and many code warriors are up to the task. I would take the time to consider why you are missing the deadline before making that call, however. The contractor isn't omniscient; he or she has to ramp up also!
He may have hated the lines, but he delivered them like a champ. The new Obi-Wan didn't get any lines that were better. When you analyze the performances in the first Star Wars, I don't think many people would be likely to call Guiness' a bad one.
So, he did his job well, and having done so, let him criticize all he wants.
I suppose you can tell me why you think that voting for Linus Torvalds as person of the year in a meaningless poll for the fun and good spirit of it is worship?
Linus got to where he is by bringing people together. He isn't famous because of the people that fought and died for him, or because of who he ordered to kill. He wrote a kernel for fun. It was a pretty good kernel, so people all over helped him.
Now this openness and sharing is trickling through to other areas, not necessarily for the right reasons, but can something so pure be corrupted, even by marketroids? This is a great accomplishment.
Of course, if we want to praise Unix, there are others more deserving. That doesn't seem to be the point however.
Yes, realistically, it's just because slashdotters like polls. Still, even if Time won't give him the cover, it's nice to give him the vote he deserves.
Psion has apparently been quite helpful in getting the kernel to run on their palmtop, and made their information available to developers. Even if the kernel isn't 100% yet, it will be.
I was looking at palmtops and pdas, and was going to buy one tomorrow. After visiting the Calcaria page, I decided to order one from buy.com tonight.
Intermail from Software.Com has POP3, IMAP, and is designed for the 5000+ client market.
It is pretty easy to configure, and if it is like their other product, Post.Office, a Unix version is available.
I guess I have never run a system with that many users, but wouldn't an appropriately beefy set of boxen with a clever DNS MX scheme, running Sendmail, and the freely available POP3 and IMAP4 daemons of your choice do the trick?
I logged more hours in front of various versions of Turbo Pascal than a growing boy should have. I wrote terminal software, inventory programs; it made me the programmer I am today.
Even though I never touch Pascal now, I suppose I will never lose my proficiency, ingrained as it is.
It is a nice thought that perhaps a new generation will cut their teeth on this software like I did, but now there is Free Pascal. I'd personally just recommend Perl and C these days, anyway.
If you want software straight from the source, Wirth's Oberon environment is a free download, and can run under DOS, Linux, or can boot standalone.
I picked up one of these recently and my back thanks me. If you go to a decent office furniture store, you may be able to get a previously rented one for under $300.
There is a 9 adjustment model as well, if you are quite tall and need to move the lower part of the seat forward or back, otherwise the 7 adjustment model gives you everything you'd need.
This $3500 chair is cool, but maybe you'd be better of getting the La-Z-Boy, a chair mount keyboard/mouse holder, and an LCD projector...
Agreed. That is the type of design that comes from too many photoshop plugins and too little browsing.
All I wanted to see was a picture of a chair, the price, perhaps a description and a nice button for ordering one. Instead I got a pair of strobing irises that will never focus again.
And hey, neat, if there is no such legal entity, if they don't get all 10,000, maybe they can just put a "Superior Systems" label on them and sell them for $500 apiece.
SS certainly does exist. No scam, as far as that goes. How a company of that size can continue making money while maintaining 10,000 machines, I am not sure.
Are they going to build a hydroelectric dam on the Mississippi? Rent out space for the cluster in the old Heileman six pack?
I am sure there are a lot of Ueberdoods just waiting for these machines so they can have shell accounts and crack password files in record time.
From the account given, it doesn't appear that anyone has given much thought as to what one would do with over 10,000 machines. I doubt they have the physical space, much less the administration resources.
Keep your computer and install a nice bathroom terminal. If you use it at all it will have been a better investment.
There is a sanctity that has been disrupted. Domain names are for providing a convenient way to get to an IP address. What that name is shouldn't be important, though it is certainly nice to have it describe your endeavour.
In any case, however, the domain name is intended to be used, not put aside in order to extract cash from an unfortunate party that got the idea second.
Again, nothing illegal, nothing wrong. No class, however. At one time, you just tacked your name onto the monolithic host file. First come first serve; take only what you need. Just because a commercial entity now manages the names doesn't mean you have to be impolite and register that which you will not use. You aren't adding value, convenience, or support. You are simply adding cost, and for many hackers this is despicable.
Domain name hogging, like spamming, lying, or selling broken software, shouldn't even need to be illegal. The population should just notice that someone who does these things has no class.
People and businesses that conduct themselves with honour should be rewarded. Those that just don't get it should be ignored, boycotted, censured, just like these domain hogs are right now.
First of all, the people that are expected to grow up, for the most part, likely see little incentive to do so. Part of the reason is that they are dabblers, chirping disagreement with any issue, in order to reinforce their own comic book anti-hero self-image. Many people grow out of it. Some do not. This isn't likely to change.
Second, there are no obvious repercussions for being a hyper-reactive asshole. Oh, as a community we feel it, but I suspect this loud minority doesn't think twice about their comments after they hit 'send'.
You can't silence those that will jump at the chance to criticise things that they don't understand. Those that do understand, however, do very well to put forth the effort to explain to the unwashed masses.
If you have something with more worth than a simple opinion, post it and let the world know. The people that are willing to listen will see the clear contrast between fact and flame.
If you are going to accept the position as a spokesperson, performer, or cult leader, you are spinning your wheels if you are trying to change your audience. It is you who need to adapt in order to let them resonate with your message.
The day that Microsoft can make or break a standard depending on their adoption in an operating system is a sad day indeed. Of course, that day will never come. RFC's are alive and well, thanks.
But that's it. I can't stand any more of this.
Bill Gates, you are a villain and a cur. I would merely cane you, but your wealth and past work identify you as a fallen member of my class. Therefore I challenge you to a duel. You have until 5:00pm CST on Thursday to respond, after which time I must label you as a coward.
These stunts that Microsoft pull are shameless. Like the guy at the bar that walks up to the woman you are talking to and compliments her eyes and leaves with her, somehow these stunts are effective.
How can we, while maintaining our honour, fight against such tactics?
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I had no printer at home for a very long time, and finally bought one, which I used to print two time sheets. At work I print nothing, unless it is for a client to look at, and I always offer it in electronic format first unless the client is coming onsite.
If a book is available at Gutenberg's site, I read it online, or have my speech synth read it to me.
Now, the downside is we are still depleting resources, because of the electricity that allows you to be online anyway. Wasting trees to produce papers that will be referred to only once, however, seems so WRONG that I just can't bring myself to do it.
I guess mass adoption is the mark of genius. I have long suspected such. The French apparently dig Jerry Lewis, but is he a genius?
HTTP betamaxed the efficient and textual gopher protocol, which is one of the greatest inventions since ANSI-BBS.
It says it is written in "Java script", giving developers the broadest cross-platform support available.
Come on.
Really?
He's one of those guys that understood his 8-bit machine, maybe inside and out, then one day stopped learning, and now insists ridiculously "I REALLY DO GROK THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY!"
At this point he is resorting to arrogance in order to cause a stir. He knows he is missing the point, but as long as he has comments and readers, he has a column.
All of this ruckus about where to position Linux in the enterprise is foolish. A commercial OS might need to identify its niche, and justify it, but a free OS can crash the party anywhere it pleases, and screw em if they can't take a joke, if it doesn't work out, the worst that happens is the admin doesn't download it again. If only 10 people still thought Linux was keen a year from now, I'll bet at least one would still be actively developing it.
Well put. The reason that Linux is a good operating system is that is like Unix. Unix at home can be a bit like flying a kite indoors to the savvy user; its power comes from the ability to have 100 luser accounts and one wise guru account... in that instance none of the user needs to be particularly familiar with the system, and it can be as user friendly as the admin makes it.
There is no such category for the home user. You simply must be the wise guru person, or you should be running Be or something instead. The consequence of letting people water down the OS alarm me.
First of all, it's a consulting firm. If your employees can't ramp up on new technologies on a regular basis, it sounds like you have a pretty
narrow market, and unless that market is going to be around for a long time, you are in trouble.
Contractors can give the client confidence in the early phases of the project by kicking it off while the other employees get up to speed. It is important that the contractors be included in all meetings where specs are given.
The employees can certainly ramp up if you give them the support and resources that they need. Unless they are learning something completely unreasonable, you should be able to expect experienced coders to pick up a new language or technology in a month's time.
Adding contractors near a deadline to speed things up is common, and some people swear by it. I have been that contractor before, and many code warriors are up to the task. I would take the time to consider why you are missing the deadline before making that call, however. The contractor isn't omniscient; he or she has to ramp up also!
But can it edit text?
He may have hated the lines, but he delivered them
like a champ. The new Obi-Wan didn't get any
lines that were better. When you analyze the performances in the first Star Wars, I don't think many people would be likely to call Guiness' a bad one.
So, he did his job well, and having done so, let him criticize all he wants.
I suppose you can tell me why you think that
voting for Linus Torvalds as person of the year
in a meaningless poll for the fun and good spirit
of it is worship?
Greyface.
Beautifully put, troll boy.
There is no award given as a result of this poll
anyway; it is just for sh*ts and giggles.
Grow up or something.
Linus got to where he is by bringing people together. He isn't famous because of the people that fought and died for him, or because of who he ordered to kill. He wrote a kernel for fun. It was a pretty good kernel, so people all over helped him.
Now this openness and sharing is trickling through to other areas, not necessarily for the right reasons, but can something so pure be corrupted, even by marketroids? This is a great accomplishment.
Of course, if we want to praise Unix, there are others more deserving. That doesn't seem to be the point however.
Yes, realistically, it's just because slashdotters like polls. Still, even if Time won't give him the cover, it's nice to give him the vote he deserves.
But Bruce Lee should win.
Psion has apparently been quite helpful in getting
the kernel to run on their palmtop, and made
their information available to developers. Even if the kernel isn't 100% yet, it will be.
I was looking at palmtops and pdas, and was going to buy one tomorrow. After visiting the Calcaria page, I decided to order one from buy.com tonight.
Intermail from Software.Com has POP3, IMAP, and
is designed for the 5000+ client market.
It is pretty easy to configure, and if it is like
their other product, Post.Office, a Unix version is available.
I guess I have never run a system with that many users, but wouldn't an appropriately beefy
set of boxen with a clever DNS MX scheme, running
Sendmail, and the freely available POP3 and IMAP4 daemons of your choice do the trick?
I logged more hours in front of various versions
of Turbo Pascal than a growing boy should have.
I wrote terminal software, inventory programs; it
made me the programmer I am today.
Even though I never touch Pascal now, I suppose
I will never lose my proficiency, ingrained as it is.
It is a nice thought that perhaps a new generation will cut their teeth on this software like I did, but now there is Free Pascal. I'd personally just recommend Perl and C these days, anyway.
If you want software straight from the source, Wirth's Oberon environment is a free download, and can run under DOS, Linux, or can boot standalone.
I wonder if it will compile the kernel. I am curious as to the difference in size and speed of a gcc-compiled and bcc-compiled linux kernel.
Is the kernel gcc-specific?
It would be interesting to try on things like X11 and window managers; things of that sort.
-Gabriel
I picked up one of these recently and my back thanks me. If you go to a decent office furniture store, you may be able to get a previously rented one for under $300.
There is a 9 adjustment model as well, if you are
quite tall and need to move the lower part of the
seat forward or back, otherwise the 7 adjustment model gives you everything you'd need.
This $3500 chair is cool, but maybe you'd be better of getting the La-Z-Boy, a chair mount keyboard/mouse holder, and an LCD projector...
Agreed. That is the type of design that comes
from too many photoshop plugins and too little
browsing.
All I wanted to see was a picture of a chair, the
price, perhaps a description and a nice button for
ordering one. Instead I got a pair of strobing
irises that will never focus again.
And hey, neat, if there is no such legal entity,
if they don't get all 10,000, maybe they can
just put a "Superior Systems" label on them and
sell them for $500 apiece.
SS certainly does exist. No scam, as far as that
goes. How a company of that size can continue
making money while maintaining 10,000 machines,
I am not sure.
Are they going to build a hydroelectric dam on
the Mississippi? Rent out space for the cluster in the old Heileman six pack?
I am sure there are a lot of Ueberdoods just waiting for these machines so they can have shell accounts and crack password files in record time.
From the account given, it doesn't appear that anyone has given much thought as to what one would do with over 10,000 machines. I doubt they have the physical space, much less the administration resources.
Keep your computer and install a nice bathroom terminal. If you use it at all it will have been a better investment.
There is a sanctity that has been disrupted. Domain names are for providing a convenient way to
get to an IP address. What that name is shouldn't be important, though it is certainly nice to have it describe your endeavour.
In any case, however, the domain name is intended to be used, not put aside in order to extract cash from an unfortunate party that got the idea second.
Again, nothing illegal, nothing wrong. No class, however. At one time, you just tacked your name
onto the monolithic host file. First come first
serve; take only what you need. Just because a
commercial entity now manages the names doesn't mean you have to be impolite and register that which you will not use. You aren't adding value, convenience, or support. You are simply adding cost, and for many hackers this is despicable.
Domain name hogging, like spamming, lying,
or selling broken software, shouldn't even need
to be illegal. The population should just
notice that someone who does these things has
no class.
People and businesses that conduct themselves
with honour should be rewarded. Those that
just don't get it should be ignored, boycotted,
censured, just like these domain hogs are right
now.
First of all, the people that are expected to grow up, for the most part, likely see little incentive to do so. Part of the reason is that they are dabblers, chirping disagreement with any issue, in order to reinforce their own comic book anti-hero self-image. Many people grow out of it. Some do not. This isn't likely to change.
Second, there are no obvious repercussions for being a hyper-reactive asshole. Oh, as a community we feel it, but I suspect this loud minority doesn't think twice about their comments after they hit 'send'.
You can't silence those that will jump at the chance to criticise things that they don't understand. Those that do understand, however, do very well to put forth the effort to explain to the unwashed masses.
If you have something with more worth than a simple opinion, post it and let the world know. The people that are willing to listen will see the clear contrast between fact and flame.
If you are going to accept the position as a spokesperson, performer, or cult leader, you are
spinning your wheels if you are trying to change your audience. It is you who need to adapt in order to let them resonate with your message.
The day that Microsoft can make or break a standard depending on their adoption in an operating system is a sad day indeed. Of course, that day will never come. RFC's are alive and well, thanks.
But that's it. I can't stand any more of this.
Bill Gates, you are a villain and a cur. I would merely cane you, but your wealth and past work identify you as a fallen member of my class. Therefore I challenge you to a duel. You have until 5:00pm CST on Thursday to respond, after which time I must label you as a coward.
These stunts that Microsoft pull are shameless.
Like the guy at the bar that walks up to the woman you are talking to and compliments her eyes and leaves with her, somehow these stunts are effective.
How can we, while maintaining our honour, fight against such tactics?