About a year ago I developed a web based power monitoring application for data centers. The application was designed to monitor thousands of individual branch circuits using current transducers at the breaker panels. Among other things, the data logging requirments were to provide one year of min/max/mean measurement data with one minute resolution per circuit. Since I had all the hardware for testing, I figured what better way to test things than to install it in my own home.
I work as a systems administrator. Thats the first thing I suggest when someone actually starts paying attention to the logs. I invariably get a similar cross-eyed look.
Maybe they find it more exciting to talk about then to address.
If you'd used 'private intranet' or even 'password protected' I'd have bought it. Your obviously overlooking some things.
Primarily the fact that the internet is not by definition a private place. Websites are very public.
A more astute analogy for your innocent porn loving beer drinker would have been if in college he liked hanging out in strip clubs and on day decided to have public sex, a few years later a friend of his tells him he googled and found an image of him having (public) sex.
Public webpages should be considered no more private then your public life.
If what your doing shouldn't be available to the public then keep it private. Its not that difficult.
Of course your second example treads similar water. Your ladies website would have been decidedly more private (unless she was doing it more as a hobby and left it open) so public archiving services wouldn't be showing as much.
Both your examples seem to carry the same basic pretense: you can do things on the internet you might be ashamed of, publicly, and then simly erase them in a stroke of the delete key and they never happened.
I wish real life worked like that too sometimes.:)
I've been using Linux fulltime on the desktop since 1999-2000. What pisses me off is applications switching between ok/cancel positions themselves. When I don't need to worry about where the OK button is going to pop up in Firefox/Mozilla then I'll start to worry about the rest of the OE.
I think part of the problem is Linux (as a Unix) is just so damn good on the server. So we get the distro's/developers with a kind of hybrid mindset. There needs to be some kind of official split between the Desktop and the Unix server (don't get me wrong, I love the server and cry when I have to work on our Solaris..2.8.. boxes, but hey).
I mean seriously, where are the UI RFC's?
So for the record this portion of we still thinks Linux on the desktop is more of a hobbyists adventure (I love a good adventure).
Its easy now. What is hard has been getting legitimate media with the same convenience. I've got cash like I'm sure most people here do, I just don't have a lot of time or patience. Add it up.
Does anyone even use SCO? We use Sun at my shop but its only as a stop-gap before we convert more systems over to Linux. Even the shops I know of that don't use Linux are quite happy with BSD.
Besides, whats so great about SCO using open source projects anyway? Its just free software to them (software their customers, assuming they still have any, would have been complaining about not having anyway).
I hardly see how that would be considered friendly, it may show contempt.
Apple has already annouced they are tying the OS to their hardware. Maybe because Intel higher production the per unit cost will be somewhat lower but even so most us who don't use Apple hardware aren't suddenly going to discover a reason to buy it.
If anything its going to have kind of a starnge effect on Apple users. My father is one of them and he's always been quite proud about the superiour PPC chip and generally exclusiveness of the Apple hardware, now he's going to be running OSX on still pretty good hardware but he'll know at its root its just an x86 core.
Maybe this won't effect most of you (I'd be more then happy to use it on the x86, but only on my existing hardware) but my father isn't the only one with a commitment based on this kind of hardware based pride, this will certainly be a blow to peaple like him.
I imagine a lot of Linux users would. Of course the added benefit would be you can use OSS software under fink and I'm assuming with the x86 processor you'd be able to compile Linux applications unaltered? So I could use OS X while continuing to contribute to the growth of Linux..
So considering I'd need a PC to do work anyway the only thing the console is going to save me is buying a nice video card, which more realistically comes in around $200-$400. And of course I can still do a lot of other things at my PC (and sometimes work).
I've never been a big fan, being that I've used Linux for years on the desktop but I rescently applied for a job at a SC colo and the shop was running FreeBSD on all their servers and OSX on the desktops.
I'd expect FreeBSD to be gaining some pretty decent marketshare (although I'll be using Debian on my personal server).
Don't use him. He was ALWAYS the industry patsy and after Roper died its been nothing but a one-sided show. Does he make money for being quoted on the movie boxes or something (aside from the extra exposure)?
The technology was replaced years ago and has only been around as the tediously slow transition takes place. Real (affordable, plentiful) broadband (still at least a few years out) will be the final nail in the coffin and he expects we are going to be conned into changing for that?
CSS2 sounds like its not going to happen (at least yet). One of the people responding to the post points out that CSS2 is SEVEN years old.
Personally it just makes me want to develop for Firefox and tag the sites (using IE conditional comments of course) with "this site is best view with a standards compatible browswer" and links to all the other browsers that generally seem to have the chops.
I had the same problem with my networking core program (word/powerpoint). The answer is simple (your probably already using it): Open Office.
As far as giving your son a computer with Suse installed, you really do still need to be pretty technical to use Linux. I mean installing it is smooth now (why didn't he install?) but in the course of using it there are always little problems that require understanding the quirks and being comfortable working on it (Linux).
Well, the Wachowski brothers stole it...
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Here is a rather extensive account of Sophia Stewart's case. No major media outlets really seemed to pick it up which I found surprising until I read an article pointing out that Warner Brothers *is* the major media (who she was also suing).
Personally I don't get why they are making such a big deal that she's black (a talented writer is a talented writer) but she won her suit and the story goes a long way to explain why their story started off so good and ended so badly. Maybe if they'd collaborated with the actual author they'd have pulled off something truly remarkable. But we'll never know.
Here's another article that has more of the same. I like the quote at the end of the article.
"Some people can't believe a Black woman wrote The Matrix or The Terminator. I didn't't write it with my skin; I wrote it with my brain"
Anyhow, she won her suit and is now proceeding with racketeering charges. I enjoyed the Matrix but if Warner Brothers wants to target individuals for (comparatively) small-scale copyright infringement why shouldn't they be held to the same standards?
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I work as a systems administrator. Thats the first thing I suggest when someone actually starts paying attention to the logs. I invariably get a similar cross-eyed look.
Maybe they find it more exciting to talk about then to address.
If you'd used 'private intranet' or even 'password protected' I'd have bought it. Your obviously overlooking some things.
:)
Primarily the fact that the internet is not by definition a private place. Websites are very public.
A more astute analogy for your innocent porn loving beer drinker would have been if in college he liked hanging out in strip clubs and on day decided to have public sex, a few years later a friend of his tells him he googled and found an image of him having (public) sex.
Public webpages should be considered no more private then your public life.
If what your doing shouldn't be available to the public then keep it private. Its not that difficult.
Of course your second example treads similar water. Your ladies website would have been decidedly more private (unless she was doing it more as a hobby and left it open) so public archiving services wouldn't be showing as much.
Both your examples seem to carry the same basic pretense: you can do things on the internet you might be ashamed of, publicly, and then simly erase them in a stroke of the delete key and they never happened.
I wish real life worked like that too sometimes.
Gnome is like a little world of its own. "High-minded" is right, and as usual only the user suffers. No harm, no foul?
I've been using Linux fulltime on the desktop since 1999-2000. What pisses me off is applications switching between ok/cancel positions themselves. When I don't need to worry about where the OK button is going to pop up in Firefox/Mozilla then I'll start to worry about the rest of the OE.
..2.8.. boxes, but hey).
I think part of the problem is Linux (as a Unix) is just so damn good on the server. So we get the distro's/developers with a kind of hybrid mindset. There needs to be some kind of official split between the Desktop and the Unix server (don't get me wrong, I love the server and cry when I have to work on our Solaris
I mean seriously, where are the UI RFC's?
So for the record this portion of we still thinks Linux on the desktop is more of a hobbyists adventure (I love a good adventure).
Its easy now. What is hard has been getting legitimate media with the same convenience. I've got cash like I'm sure most people here do, I just don't have a lot of time or patience. Add it up.
Does anyone even use SCO? We use Sun at my shop but its only as a stop-gap before we convert more systems over to Linux. Even the shops I know of that don't use Linux are quite happy with BSD. Besides, whats so great about SCO using open source projects anyway? Its just free software to them (software their customers, assuming they still have any, would have been complaining about not having anyway).
I hardly see how that would be considered friendly, it may show contempt.
Apple has already annouced they are tying the OS to their hardware. Maybe because Intel higher production the per unit cost will be somewhat lower but even so most us who don't use Apple hardware aren't suddenly going to discover a reason to buy it.
If anything its going to have kind of a starnge effect on Apple users. My father is one of them and he's always been quite proud about the superiour PPC chip and generally exclusiveness of the Apple hardware, now he's going to be running OSX on still pretty good hardware but he'll know at its root its just an x86 core.
Maybe this won't effect most of you (I'd be more then happy to use it on the x86, but only on my existing hardware) but my father isn't the only one with a commitment based on this kind of hardware based pride, this will certainly be a blow to peaple like him.
*cough* Vi *cough*
Revoked.
I imagine a lot of Linux users would. Of course the added benefit would be you can use OSS software under fink and I'm assuming with the x86 processor you'd be able to compile Linux applications unaltered? So I could use OS X while continuing to contribute to the growth of Linux..
That all sounds too good.
Sheesh, do I care if my snail-mail letters are carried via pigeon, car, truck, plane or train, as long as the bill is marked "paid" on time!
At the very least it would be something to discuss.
So considering I'd need a PC to do work anyway the only thing the console is going to save me is buying a nice video card, which more realistically comes in around $200-$400. And of course I can still do a lot of other things at my PC (and sometimes work).
I don't see any nails in the coffin.
I've never been a big fan, being that I've used Linux for years on the desktop but I rescently applied for a job at a SC colo and the shop was running FreeBSD on all their servers and OSX on the desktops.
I'd expect FreeBSD to be gaining some pretty decent marketshare (although I'll be using Debian on my personal server).
He always kissed-ass. Siskel did the reviews.
I put my foot in my mouth.
Don't use him. He was ALWAYS the industry patsy and after Roper died its been nothing but a one-sided show. Does he make money for being quoted on the movie boxes or something (aside from the extra exposure)?
The technology was replaced years ago and has only been around as the tediously slow transition takes place. Real (affordable, plentiful) broadband (still at least a few years out) will be the final nail in the coffin and he expects we are going to be conned into changing for that?
Crime is much older then computers. Computers just change the landscape a little.
The alpha transparency is supposed to be fixed in IE7.
CSS2 sounds like its not going to happen (at least yet). One of the people responding to the post points out that CSS2 is SEVEN years old.
Personally it just makes me want to develop for Firefox and tag the sites (using IE conditional comments of course) with "this site is best view with a standards compatible browswer" and links to all the other browsers that generally seem to have the chops.
Try CSS conditional comments like:
<!--[if IE]>
<style>
div.logo {
margin-left: 10px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
or
<!--[if gte IE 6]>
<style>
div.logo {
margin-left: 50px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
I had the same problem with my networking core program (word/powerpoint). The answer is simple (your probably already using it): Open Office.
As far as giving your son a computer with Suse installed, you really do still need to be pretty technical to use Linux. I mean installing it is smooth now (why didn't he install?) but in the course of using it there are always little problems that require understanding the quirks and being comfortable working on it (Linux).
Well, it says here, here and here that she did.
Personally I don't get why they are making such a big deal that she's black (a talented writer is a talented writer) but she won her suit and the story goes a long way to explain why their story started off so good and ended so badly. Maybe if they'd collaborated with the actual author they'd have pulled off something truly remarkable. But we'll never know.
Here's another article that has more of the same. I like the quote at the end of the article. Anyhow, she won her suit and is now proceeding with racketeering charges. I enjoyed the Matrix but if Warner Brothers wants to target individuals for (comparatively) small-scale copyright infringement why shouldn't they be held to the same standards?
Now you've gone and ruined it! Jerry Springer? :)