Man, you obviously have no idea whatsoever about *NIX. My company is running 20+ sites across few continents with 50 - 120 Linux client machines per site. Users are not only new to Linux but pretty much new to computers - yes it's IT Training company.
Every single thing on these ~1500 PCs is centrally managed and administered - from software installation to OS upgrades. Based on number of admins we have now, we could easily handle 10 times more. Our users are not able to crap up the machine. Soon they won't be even aware that Win2K Advanced Server training they do is running inside the VMware session on Red Hat desktop.
Is everybody here drunk or on some other, stronger stuff?
I was under impression that PC stands for Personal Computer, regardless of what's under the hood - Mac, x86, Sparc, whatever. Same is with desktop (sits on top of the desk), laptop (sits on top of the lap, although that can be dangerous).
News is that GNU/Linux will soon be #2, apparently running on x86 based PCs.
Having worked in NZ for the last 6 years, I'll offer my insights.
When I started, the economic climate was very different, as in other western economies. Attitudes of both sides reflected this in a way that everybody seemed more relaxed, which produced results avoiding too much pressure. At the time, I used to work as a salaried contractor (with hours/week specified in the contract) and overtime (if required) paid at 1:1. Company was pretty large for NZ conditions.
Few of my friends at the time worked as salaried employees for few other companies, some NZ some overseas based, some small shops some multinationals and had very similar experiences in all of those places - they were able to get time off (for family matters) without much fuss almost always, there was reasonable amount of performance/results pressure and everybody seemed happy. Christmas parties used to be paid in full by companies and the most important part of it was to bring families along. Not all of those friends were in the IT, so I guess 6 years ago you could say working environment was more balanced, putting fair amount of importance on both sides.
After 6 years and two more companies, one of which was small local IT shop and present one US based Fortune 500, I can tell you that lot has changed. Job and buck are all that matter, all around the place. More of the above mentioned friends are out of work than employed and those employed share the feeling - it's not a happy place that it used to be. Things became VERY different over the course of last 2.5 years and I don't have a feeling that I still work for the same company I started with. I'm lucky though to have a job that I really like and that I am good at, with deadlines being more an exemption than a rule (sysadmin) but I can see changes everywhere, from cashiers in supermarkets, whose average age used to be 16-17 with a smile and now it's 40+ and they seem to have forgotten what the smile is, to highly skilled software developers who are busting their buts on very tight schedules and earning peanuts. In short, employers are taking full advantage of the fact that we all have to feed our families and that job market is pretty much in a 'stand still' mode.
Hope this answeres some of the questions. If not a secret, why do you ask? Perhaps planning to come over?
Talking about font scale in Open Office. I'm on 7.3, installed OO myself, changed 100 to 110% and font indeed looks much better.
He says that scale is set to 110% in OO install from RH8 by default.
True. But I have also seen sysadmins with more then just strong opinions - couple of them were the closest I've ever met to ressemble what's thought to be a 'guru' - who were very unfortunate to first work under clever and clueful management and then get completely changed management team, filled with monkeys.
Good part of the system had to be re-engineered to accommodate particular vendor's solution with no aparent benefit. Extensive and very well argumented analisys of why this wouldn't be a good move did not help. Those two guys got sacked, there is always something that needs to be fixed on the new system producing unnecesarry downtime, company has spent a fortune on crap, users are bitching (with a good reason) all the time and new management have collected their EOY bonuses, so they're spending well deserved holidays on exotic islands.
So you see, it's all very relative and depends on all sorts of other circumstances. Common sense aproach to real world problems is often not possible, due to deviations caused mostly by the behind the scenes happenings that always seem to be beyond the logic.
And yes, I sound bitter because I am affected with the change, trying to sysadmin this new system. Gotta feed the family though, so there isn't much choice for me here.
Limit is actually 1024X768. 800X600, according to the article gives the best overall picture quality. You're right though - pretty unusable for serious work.
I think AC is making a bit of overstatement here. Not being an American myself, I cannot agree or disagree with him, simply because I do not know enough Americans and do not fully understand internal US political/sociological issues, to be able to form an accurate opinion on the subject. Let alone taking/. crowd as a representative cross-section of the US society. However, looking from the outside, you guys don't seem to be xenophobic at all - perhaps more accurate description would be that most of you just don't care - and I don't mean this in a defamatory/offending way.
As for the China subject, you're absolutelly right about the decades of brutality and totalitarianism. However, I honestly believe that they are opening and relaxing the right way. You know, they saw what happened in USSR, Romania, Yugoslavia...That experience shows us that 'controlled' transition is perhaps the only way to make transition properly - opressed people are often thirsty of revenge, so freedom quickly becomes anarchy because they just don't know what the real freedom is and how to enjoy it. Can you imagine the scale of anarchy after letting 1.5 B people completelly lose? I really think they are wise not to repeat other's mistakes.
Slashdot crowd? Always interesting subject. Seems that there is more and more people here whose brains are being brainwashed (Quake/UT?), so that they don't have anything meaningful to say and argue their stands. They post just because posting to/. is kind of cool thing to do. Heh, perhaps/. should impose age limit on posting? Nah, that would be totalitarian brutality, I guess.
I don't quite understand what you're saying. Can you please explain where do Outlook/Office apps come into picture when talking about mission critical systems? If anything, they may make those systems only less reliable, due to their proneness to viruses.
Most people seem to make fun of everything China does in the last decade or so and I expect a huge number of posts on those lines in this thread.
Changes in China, although hapenning at a much slower rate than what western world got used to, are happening, and that's what is important. They know what they're doing and they're doing it the right way. Patience is the mother of wisdom.
Heh, if I had enough time to spare, maybe I'd give it a shot. Perhaps cut a bit on Slashdot postings?
Seriously, though, list is a bit more Dutch-centric than, given the size of Dutch population, one would think is fair. If, as you say, they wanted to include people that have affected them more, I don't see how did Gandhi or ML King acomplish this.
Whit it, troll, offtopic and flamebait posts would be auto-erradicated enabling moderators to dedicate points to quality posts.
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Maybe but it takes much greater man to forgive, convince others to forgive and move on than to accept innevitable under the preasure from in and outside.
Perhaps someone else in De Klerk's position would not be as insightful to accept this as quickly, thus creating unnecessary bloodshed but practicality and common sense do not get one onto my 'Saints list'.
Of course it does, since Bochs is free. However, VMware, at around A$150.00 isn't really that expensive, if you take into account amazing quality of the product.
I just love moderators when they waist points on crap that nobody's interested in, anyway. Get real and get a life - this is just Slashdot, for fuck sake.
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Man, you obviously have no idea whatsoever about *NIX. My company is running 20+ sites across few continents with 50 - 120 Linux client machines per site. Users are not only new to Linux but pretty much new to computers - yes it's IT Training company. Every single thing on these ~1500 PCs is centrally managed and administered - from software installation to OS upgrades. Based on number of admins we have now, we could easily handle 10 times more. Our users are not able to crap up the machine. Soon they won't be even aware that Win2K Advanced Server training they do is running inside the VMware session on Red Hat desktop.
Now, you may go back to cave.
1. Collect data
2. Do some mining
3. ???
4. Profit!
fs/reiserfs/inode.c: /* crap, we are writing to a hole */
drivers/usb/uhci.c: * is just crap, written by a committee.
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c: /* Old crap is replaced with new one.
drivers/sbus/audio/cs4231.c: * how this crap gets set.
drivers/net/3c501.c: Do not purchase this card, even as a joke. It's performance is horrible
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c: I have no idea, how it will masquearde or NAT them (it is joke, joke :-))
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c: * Funny. This algorithm seems to be very broken.
I don't know but if it's meant to be used for storing information in some kind of computer, that one for sure won't be using AMD processors.
I was under impression that PC stands for Personal Computer, regardless of what's under the hood - Mac, x86, Sparc, whatever. Same is with desktop (sits on top of the desk), laptop (sits on top of the lap, although that can be dangerous).
News is that GNU/Linux will soon be #2, apparently running on x86 based PCs.
When I started, the economic climate was very different, as in other western economies. Attitudes of both sides reflected this in a way that everybody seemed more relaxed, which produced results avoiding too much pressure. At the time, I used to work as a salaried contractor (with hours/week specified in the contract) and overtime (if required) paid at 1:1. Company was pretty large for NZ conditions.
Few of my friends at the time worked as salaried employees for few other companies, some NZ some overseas based, some small shops some multinationals and had very similar experiences in all of those places - they were able to get time off (for family matters) without much fuss almost always, there was reasonable amount of performance/results pressure and everybody seemed happy. Christmas parties used to be paid in full by companies and the most important part of it was to bring families along. Not all of those friends were in the IT, so I guess 6 years ago you could say working environment was more balanced, putting fair amount of importance on both sides.
After 6 years and two more companies, one of which was small local IT shop and present one US based Fortune 500, I can tell you that lot has changed. Job and buck are all that matter, all around the place. More of the above mentioned friends are out of work than employed and those employed share the feeling - it's not a happy place that it used to be. Things became VERY different over the course of last 2.5 years and I don't have a feeling that I still work for the same company I started with. I'm lucky though to have a job that I really like and that I am good at, with deadlines being more an exemption than a rule (sysadmin) but I can see changes everywhere, from cashiers in supermarkets, whose average age used to be 16-17 with a smile and now it's 40+ and they seem to have forgotten what the smile is, to highly skilled software developers who are busting their buts on very tight schedules and earning peanuts. In short, employers are taking full advantage of the fact that we all have to feed our families and that job market is pretty much in a 'stand still' mode.
Hope this answeres some of the questions. If not a secret, why do you ask? Perhaps planning to come over?
Talking about font scale in Open Office. I'm on 7.3, installed OO myself, changed 100 to 110% and font indeed looks much better. He says that scale is set to 110% in OO install from RH8 by default.
I so wish to have mod points for gems like this one but that never happens. You've made me laugh.
Good part of the system had to be re-engineered to accommodate particular vendor's solution with no aparent benefit. Extensive and very well argumented analisys of why this wouldn't be a good move did not help. Those two guys got sacked, there is always something that needs to be fixed on the new system producing unnecesarry downtime, company has spent a fortune on crap, users are bitching (with a good reason) all the time and new management have collected their EOY bonuses, so they're spending well deserved holidays on exotic islands.
So you see, it's all very relative and depends on all sorts of other circumstances. Common sense aproach to real world problems is often not possible, due to deviations caused mostly by the behind the scenes happenings that always seem to be beyond the logic.
And yes, I sound bitter because I am affected with the change, trying to sysadmin this new system. Gotta feed the family though, so there isn't much choice for me here.
Limit is actually 1024X768. 800X600, according to the article gives the best overall picture quality. You're right though - pretty unusable for serious work.
As for the China subject, you're absolutelly right about the decades of brutality and totalitarianism. However, I honestly believe that they are opening and relaxing the right way. You know, they saw what happened in USSR, Romania, Yugoslavia...That experience shows us that 'controlled' transition is perhaps the only way to make transition properly - opressed people are often thirsty of revenge, so freedom quickly becomes anarchy because they just don't know what the real freedom is and how to enjoy it. Can you imagine the scale of anarchy after letting 1.5 B people completelly lose? I really think they are wise not to repeat other's mistakes.
Slashdot crowd? Always interesting subject. Seems that there is more and more people here whose brains are being brainwashed (Quake/UT?), so that they don't have anything meaningful to say and argue their stands. They post just because posting to /. is kind of cool thing to do. Heh, perhaps /. should impose age limit on posting? Nah, that would be totalitarian brutality, I guess.
...should really go to the Organisation of UK ISPs for nominating RIAA and ts.com for sponsoring this particular award.
I don't quite understand what you're saying. Can you please explain where do Outlook/Office apps come into picture when talking about mission critical systems? If anything, they may make those systems only less reliable, due to their proneness to viruses.
Changes in China, although hapenning at a much slower rate than what western world got used to, are happening, and that's what is important. They know what they're doing and they're doing it the right way. Patience is the mother of wisdom.
Heh, if I had enough time to spare, maybe I'd give it a shot. Perhaps cut a bit on Slashdot postings?
Seriously, though, list is a bit more Dutch-centric than, given the size of Dutch population, one would think is fair. If, as you say, they wanted to include people that have affected them more, I don't see how did Gandhi or ML King acomplish this.
That list is weird, I tell you.
Whit it, troll, offtopic and flamebait posts would be auto-erradicated enabling moderators to dedicate points to quality posts.
Perhaps someone else in De Klerk's position would not be as insightful to accept this as quickly, thus creating unnecessary bloodshed but practicality and common sense do not get one onto my 'Saints list'.
Bowie?
Steve Jobs?
Plus about 20-25% seem to be Dutch?
I take it's hard to create totally unbiased list of this sort but this one's just ridiculous.
According to release notes, not much has happened but I hope it'll run even smooter.
Good to see serious Linux company able to keep the pace up.
Of course it does, since Bochs is free. However, VMware, at around A$150.00 isn't really that expensive, if you take into account amazing quality of the product.
Unfortunately, it was just at first glance.
I just love moderators when they waist points on crap that nobody's interested in, anyway. Get real and get a life - this is just Slashdot, for fuck sake.
Nope, Bob, you failed. For that to happen you have to be 1st!
IN SOVIET RUSSIA...
Conference is permanent. During breaks participants don't go out to eat Chinese, they eat YOU. Too bad I have no idea where to include spam...
Oh, and comrades, it's much more fun posting these while logged on!
None taken, of course, this is just Slashdot :o)
By the way, you're sig seems to be working pretty well.