Marketing speak does not translate to real world performance.
Seems to me that if I was spending 100K plus on a software package (or system) I would test it first to make sure it fit my needs, as opposed to listening to a marketing drone...
We already have laws against all the "activities" that this law is supposed to cover.
Tell me, when will the US actually start *enforcing* the already existing laws, as opposed to wasting time making up new laws to overlap the existing ones?
I was doing some work for a private religious school that had software of the CIPA type installed on their server, and it was preventing the students (grade schoolers) from doing their research.
The topic at hand was something on their favourite sports team. The CIPA type software had a default not to allow access to such things.
I looked into the config files, and modified the defaults to allow sports-type web pages to be accessed.
I decided to test this (with all the kiddies watching no less) by going to www.nfl.com
Lo and behold it worked, with the front page of the NFL talking about the suspension, and jail time, of a star player for drug use, rape and murder of his pregnant girlfriend....
I just installed Rehhat 9 on my tecra 8100 and am in the process of understanding linux and now this comes along! I'm already behind the curve and I feel my knowledge slipping away from my grasp, furthe.....wait a minute, what is this clicky thing here???
I refuse to have a mobile phone (or pager for that matter)
Little story about why, for those that care:
When I was a building inspector I was actually between the walls of a University dorm. To get there, it took about 45 minutes of going thorugh a boiler room and all kinds of other hidden and remote access points.
While I was in there, my pager when off with the home office number. Knowing how long it took to get where I was, I ignored it.
Five minutes later, the same number came back with a "911" attached, of course meaning an emergency.
As I extracated myself from within the walls, the pager kept going off with "911" attached and it got worse and worse.
As I rushed to the phone to call the office, visions of an environmental meltdown were running through my mind, and I feared the worst.
As I got in touch with the secretary, and asked what the emergency was, her response was "oh, no emergency, I just wanted to know if you'd be back before close today"
All that crap for that?!? After that, I tossed the things in the trash and claim I lost them.
Never again will I have important work disrupted by some idiot with access to a phone.
I walked out of an OSHA/EPA type job after 8 years. Typical issues, corruption, bribery, etc.
Best move I ever did.
So on the next day I tried to decide what I wanted to do. I realized I wasn't really qualified to do anything else (my whole professional career revolved around EPA type work) so I looked into doing something I *wanted* to do.
So I goofed off for a year, did odd jobs to pay the bills, sold some old stuff, etc, and landed a job doing what I really wanted to do, and 4 years later I am much happier for it.
The thing is, *nix is always playing catchup with everyone else because it's too busy copying Windows to bother to be innovative, original, or just plain clean.
Bullshit. Writing code from scratch is the *only* way to go if your existing code base is too hosed. Look at, for example, the Be Operating System. Written from scratch, from the ground up, and it shows just how much a computer can really accomplish if you start with a clean slate.
Sooner or later someone is going to buy them (if that's SCO's intentions all along), drop the suit and look like good guys again. Stocks will go up and new offerings will be made...
You'll note that nowhere in my post did I rag on Linux. Nowhere. What I was replying to was this comment:...I'm pretty sure that the extremely easy access to software for windows is one of the main reasons why so many use the crap instead of free/open source software...
I don't use Linux, personally, I think it is crap (but then I think windows is too) but in this comment I put aside the OS and concentrated on what the poster was saying, which was in effect:
"Use free software! Don't be a slave to commercial software!"
My response was simply "Bollocks"
One of the labs I support use, of all things, the Mac OS (7.5.3 to boot) to control a Cytometer.
You can be damned sure the software isn't some cobbled together POS either, it's written by professionals, for professionals and it's priced accordingly. But you know what? If something goes wrong, there are people standing behind the product to make certain it gets fixed, and I'm willing to place money on the fact that your genetic sequencer program is identical.
I had a chance to look at the classified edition
on
IT at the CIA
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· Score: 3, Funny
Editing out the more sensitive bits (I'll put periods in for the text), here's what it says:
"...all.....your......base......are.....not....b el ong....to....us...."
You're kidding right?..I'm pretty sure that the extremely easy access to software for windows is one of the main reasons why so many use the crap instead of free/open source software...
Ah yes, well, please, do tell me an equivalent OSS program that will replace my "crappy" AutoCAD, EagleCAD or VersaCAD.
Go on...I'm waiting....
The real reason people don't usee OSS is because the software they *need* doesn't exist. Period.
Open your eyes for a moment and get out of your parent's basement and look into the real world. You know that world, it's where people work and money is made. "Crappy" windows-only software is used to make this money and these people aren't interested in OSS, they want software that *works*, and can be supported by a real company, not some dweeb that sits in his basement and cranks out aplha-quality code and says "Look! My software can do what you need! Use it instead."
Right...tell me, which OSS package do *you* use to control (in real time mind you) milling machines that make hydraulic components for the cranes that build skyscrapers?
None...because it doesn't exist.
I could go on, but I have to go to *work* and use real software to get *real* things done.
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Marketing speak does not translate to real world performance.
Seems to me that if I was spending 100K plus on a software package (or system) I would test it first to make sure it fit my needs, as opposed to listening to a marketing drone...
We already have laws against all the "activities" that this law is supposed to cover.
Tell me, when will the US actually start *enforcing* the already existing laws, as opposed to wasting time making up new laws to overlap the existing ones?
Oh silly me, there I go thinking again...
probably off topic.
I was doing some work for a private religious school that had software of the CIPA type installed on their server, and it was preventing the students (grade schoolers) from doing their research.
The topic at hand was something on their favourite sports team. The CIPA type software had a default not to allow access to such things.
I looked into the config files, and modified the defaults to allow sports-type web pages to be accessed.
I decided to test this (with all the kiddies watching no less) by going to www.nfl.com
Lo and behold it worked, with the front page of the NFL talking about the suspension, and jail time, of a star player for drug use, rape and murder of his pregnant girlfriend....
perhaps those filters are in place for a reason?
if it's considered "art" or "fun" or even "monkey vomit", so long as it (the game) holds my interest.
Doh! But what else can I say? "Where's my penguin?" doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
SCO is now goping after the Father/Son/Holy Ghost that is Linus T.? Where's my pitchfork?
Dang!
..wait a minute, what is this clicky thing here???
I just installed Rehhat 9 on my tecra 8100 and am in the process of understanding linux and now this comes along! I'm already behind the curve and I feel my knowledge slipping away from my grasp, furthe...
(with apologies to Dilbert)
I refuse to have a mobile phone (or pager for that matter)
Little story about why, for those that care:
When I was a building inspector I was actually between the walls of a University dorm. To get there, it took about 45 minutes of going thorugh a boiler room and all kinds of other hidden and remote access points.
While I was in there, my pager when off with the home office number. Knowing how long it took to get where I was, I ignored it.
Five minutes later, the same number came back with a "911" attached, of course meaning an emergency.
As I extracated myself from within the walls, the pager kept going off with "911" attached and it got worse and worse.
As I rushed to the phone to call the office, visions of an environmental meltdown were running through my mind, and I feared the worst.
As I got in touch with the secretary, and asked what the emergency was, her response was "oh, no emergency, I just wanted to know if you'd be back before close today"
All that crap for that?!? After that, I tossed the things in the trash and claim I lost them.
Never again will I have important work disrupted by some idiot with access to a phone.
From the post...Many educated people have still not heard of it. Why?...
I know it exists, I don't use it though. Several reasons:
(1) I use AmiPro (back, way back before it was bought out) and I am *comfortable* with it.
(2) Don't like the bloat
(3) If it ain't broke, don't switch.
I changed careers.
I walked out of an OSHA/EPA type job after 8 years. Typical issues, corruption, bribery, etc.
Best move I ever did.
So on the next day I tried to decide what I wanted to do. I realized I wasn't really qualified to do anything else (my whole professional career revolved around EPA type work) so I looked into doing something I *wanted* to do.
So I goofed off for a year, did odd jobs to pay the bills, sold some old stuff, etc, and landed a job doing what I really wanted to do, and 4 years later I am much happier for it.
I wouldn't know, I don't use either of them, in fact, I don't use *nix at all...
You guys with your "vi!", "emacs!" argument need something new to shout about, well, here ya go....
My handwriting sucks, always has, always will, but after a stint with an Architectural firm, my print is neater than ever.
The important thing here, I believe, is not if you can print or do cursive, but can you get your message across?
I saw the 1st video they ever played..."Video killed the radio star" by the Buggles.
I also remember when the only "commerical" they ran was "MTV, watch us 24 hours a day or you'll miss something"
Days would pass before they played the same video again.
I can easily name a few:
OS/2 and BeOS.
The thing is, *nix is always playing catchup with everyone else because it's too busy copying Windows to bother to be innovative, original, or just plain clean.
Too bad too.
Sure but- ...Good composers borrow, great composers steal. ...
Linux is not a great OS, it is merely a so-so OS with very little original within.
There are (or were) several major OSes that didn't copy from each other...why can't *nix do the same?
3rd party support has nothing to do with what the BeOS could do with said clean slate design.
Bullshit. Writing code from scratch is the *only* way to go if your existing code base is too hosed. Look at, for example, the Be Operating System. Written from scratch, from the ground up, and it shows just how much a computer can really accomplish if you start with a clean slate.
No exposure is bad exposure.
Sooner or later someone is going to buy them (if that's SCO's intentions all along), drop the suit and look like good guys again. Stocks will go up and new offerings will be made...
You'll note that nowhere in my post did I rag on Linux. Nowhere. What I was replying to was this comment: ...I'm pretty sure that the extremely easy access to software for windows is one of the main reasons why so many use the crap instead of free/open source software...
I don't use Linux, personally, I think it is crap (but then I think windows is too) but in this comment I put aside the OS and concentrated on what the poster was saying, which was in effect:
"Use free software! Don't be a slave to commercial software!"
My response was simply "Bollocks"
One of the labs I support use, of all things, the Mac OS (7.5.3 to boot) to control a Cytometer.
You can be damned sure the software isn't some cobbled together POS either, it's written by professionals, for professionals and it's priced accordingly. But you know what? If something goes wrong, there are people standing behind the product to make certain it gets fixed, and I'm willing to place money on the fact that your genetic sequencer program is identical.
Editing out the more sensitive bits (I'll put periods in for the text), here's what it says:
b el ong....to....us...."
"...all.....your......base......are.....not....
You're kidding right? ..I'm pretty sure that the extremely easy access to software for windows is one of the main reasons why so many use the crap instead of free/open source software...
Ah yes, well, please, do tell me an equivalent OSS program that will replace my "crappy" AutoCAD, EagleCAD or VersaCAD.
Go on...I'm waiting....
The real reason people don't usee OSS is because the software they *need* doesn't exist. Period.
Open your eyes for a moment and get out of your parent's basement and look into the real world. You know that world, it's where people work and money is made. "Crappy" windows-only software is used to make this money and these people aren't interested in OSS, they want software that *works*, and can be supported by a real company, not some dweeb that sits in his basement and cranks out aplha-quality code and says "Look! My software can do what you need! Use it instead."
Right...tell me, which OSS package do *you* use to control (in real time mind you) milling machines that make hydraulic components for the cranes that build skyscrapers?
None...because it doesn't exist.
I could go on, but I have to go to *work* and use real software to get *real* things done.
looks like his server's monitor is flatlined :)
Perhaps we should have used better bandwidth instead on concentrating on better RAM?
I read this somewhere on the 'net, so don't give me credit for it.
Step 1: You must have an office with a door, otherwise this won't work.
Step 2: Scatter some paper clips about the office, making sure to get some under your desk.
Step3: Close the door and lie down on the carpet. Place your feet firmly on the door and reach for a paperclip under your desk.
Step4: Sleep the day away.
If someone should try and opne your door, you will be jarred awake and you can say that you dropped some paper clips and were just reaching for them.
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From my own personal experience, this works very well.