1) the new CEO can shit out the cash to rent a ballroom to give a "Hi, my name is ${whatever}, and let's some arrange some deck chairs on the Titanic" speech, but we can't cough up enough money to have a christmas party. The humorous part is that the speech ballroom was in the same hotel we had our christmas party last year.
2) a potluck christmas party? yeah, we'll be lucky if someone doesn't poison the food...
3) bonus? yeah right...the oldtimers talk about them, but I've never actually seen one.
at least I didn't get one of those dolls...I would have burned it as an effigy, right after submitting my 2 weeks noticing and smashing in that asshole's luxury car's windows.
I've seen pirated movies before, and they're generally pretty lousy. I saw a copy of Attack of the Clones that was filmed from the back of a theater, complete w/ people walking in front, coughing, etc. So you lose the magical experience of seeing it in the theater ( just make sure you catch a late show @ a good theater a week or so after it opens, so you don't have to deal w/ screaming brats, fat guys who make the armrests dissapear when they sit down, and obnoxious teenage jocks whose parents will sic the law on you when you kick their teeth in ), and you deal w/ crappy quality. no thanks, I'll just fantasize about the movie until it comes out.
mmm...hot elf chicks...balrogs with flaming whips...
even better, hot elf chicks w/ whips...
reminds of me of neal stephenson's the diamond age...to a certain degree. most of the communities in this book were more formal and static, but i remember one community that was a distributed network entirely based upon trust. i.e. one person walks into a room, loads a gun and leaves, another person walks in 5 minutes later, unloads the gun and leaves, then person A walks back in, puts the gun against his/her head and pulls the trigger, trusting that person B has fulfilled their task, entirely independent of each other.
an extension, and less static organization, is the mutual interest concept. i don't believe it would be so smooth in the real world, or maybe people would give each other trust points...for example, the guy who shares his umbrella walking through the rain, you might assign him a few trust points, whereas some asshole who cuts in a line or lets a door slam in the face of an old lady, you could slag him down some points. i'm sure that it would end up fragmenting into a wide variety of smaller networks, but that's how real life is. myself, as a tattooed/pierced punk rock guy, might be viewed as a suspicious character if I offered a ride to a young lady whose car had broken down, whereas if this lady was into the tattoing/punk rock scene, she might view me as a more trustworthy individual than someone who is subculturally less familiar.
this could be very interesting in how it would make your actions have direct repurcussions (sp?), which is something that city culture has somewhat taken away. for example, you can be a total asshole to someone one night, then go out the next night and act totally different, and noone would know if you are in a different area/location. it might restore what i consider a vital part of society : accountability and personal responsibility. or it might just break down into a nightmarish chaos of retribution and personal attacks. who knows, but it would be interesting to find out.
and, yes, I know I'm somewhat off-topic, but these ideas occurred to me and I felt like sharing them.
please come to Houston and wage this battle...if I have to listen to N'Sync or Nellie one more time while some asshole cabbie tells me "In my country, we not have music like this, the (insert fanatical religious dictatorship of choice here) do not let listen." I will grease up my rifle and go water-tower hunting.
Sorry late reply, had to sleep...GNOME2 on it feels like it's a tad bit slower than CDE, but not much. As far as Solaris 9, it's fine by me. I've run 6,7,8, and 9 all on the same class ( Ultra 1 ) of machine, roughly same processor speeds and RAM ( 512 MB ), and not noticed a difference speedwise. But I very rarely compile anything on it, as I don't do much work/development on Solaris, just Linux, so for me the important things on Solaris 9 are vi, shell utilities ( bash, sed, awk, etc. ), perl, and ssh.
Give it a shot...or try running Linux on it ( I remember the Redhat 6,2 distro ran nicely on an Ultra 1 a few years ago, haven't tried it since ).
I've been using the Gnome2 ( pre-release beta 3, IIRC ) Sun beta on an Ultra 1 in my office for quite some time, and even though the ancient graphics card only supports 8-bit graphics and 1280X1024 resolution, it rocks. hard. you can't deny the power of Motif, but as far as a solid desktop goes, GNOME has it. KDE is excellent as well, but I personally prefer GNOME.
I just hope Red Hat and Sun don't gut each other fighting over the corporate workstation market. I am perfectly content using both platforms, both at home and at work, and would like to see both prosper. Ximian is excellent as well ( actually I'm writing this from a RedHat 7.3 boxen w/ Ximian GNOME ).
I'm drooling at the thought of Solaris 10 right now...
one of those magical things you can do with a computer is UPLOAD an image into another computer
and, I quote, :
then input it to a program to set the robot
gee, I think I already said that
it's not the same...I have designed tattoos before. Actually, I've designed seven of the ones I currently bear on my body, and none of them are small. Part of what I was trying to say is that there is a certain human element that makes a tattoo wonderful. Like adjusting the lines or background according to the contours of the body, or to meld nicely w/ the surrounding tattoos, none of which I would trust a robot to do. I trust a computer to faithfully execute the image it is given, but as far as judgement goes, it has none beyond the responses to situations it is programmed with.
So I don't trust a computer to have human judgement or a sense of art. You have a nice idea about how this thing should work, but I take it that you've never sat down and worked over a rough sketch w/ your tattoo artist, and then sat down and made it work with the other six tattoos covering that part of your body, huh?
...and former body piercer ( as well as being a computer science major and sysadmin, just for background ), i don't think this thing has a chance in hell. As it currently exists, the quality is shoddy compared to the level of competency I expect from a professional tattoo artist. I'm sure that if money were thrown into it, a better tattoo robot could be built, but it would only be good for flash ( off the wall, FYI ) pieces, and even then, it would lack the creative touches that make even a flash tattoo memorable. A lot of people get custom tattoos ( most of mine are ) that will never be worn by anyone else, so the overhead to draw the sketch, then input it to a program to set the robot ( or program the robot yourself ) is prohibitive. The body modification scene puts a heavy emphasis on art and style, and I don't see any shop owners running out to buy one of these.
I wouldn't get a tattoo by a robot. I'm a total technofetishist, but I would miss the human interaction. I pick certain artists for their style of doing things. Someone really has to be into the style of the tattoo for me to get the work done. No machine can duplicate that.
Now, for the police state implications, hell, they could have already invented it, but I think that's going to far, and even the people who accept ( largely through ignorance ) the post-911 shenanigans of the government agencies and police would balk at this. It's too sinister. If they could pull it off, they undoubtedly would have done so already.
Just my $0.02.
would probably just look at the IPs commonly in the history file, and put in the entire range of IPs for that subnet, then begin making connections. once you're infected, you're screwed. the same as we have viruses that currently disable firewalls, we also will have viruses that circumvent this as a matter of routine...
yep, I was slated to go, and then got told "no, we don't have the money in the budget"...and to top it off, even/. is rubbing it in...
puts head down and weeps as images of shiny, multi-colored SGI systems float through my head
if other posters are correct, it's been done already, by other companies.
and, I could do it myself. Just slap a WiFi card into my laptop, connect to an Xserver on another machine, and BAM! a remote display. Yes, it requires a second machine, but what geek doesn't have one or more machines? This basically sounds like one step removed from that scenario, kind of like VNC on a thin display over WiFi. All just some minor hardware tweaks. Not earth-shattering news.
and, more importantly, it will be implemented by Microsoft, w/ their not-so-glorious security record. which means that I could probably buy one of these things, spend a day or two tweaking it and googling, and be able to walk into any corporate building and get a display/login on someone's machine. And since this kind of toy will probably only be used by managment, I'll be able to get all kinds of nifty stuff ( because they undoubtably knocked out their security so they could do this or that nifty shiny feature )...information warfare...
well, I'm considering going into business myself, as the maker of The Disgruntled Sysadmin Doll(TM pending)
on a more serious note, I wasn't part of the dot-bomb, so I'm not affected by that. I am affected by the downturn in the geophysical industry. Thankfully, I still have a job, even if my responsibilities have tripled, while my pay has not ( like getting a shit "raise" by being put back on hourly pay to get overtime for hours that I was working anyways...more money, but in principle it's still not a fucking raise and fighting the beancounters for every penny is driving me out of my head). The only good thing that I've seen out of the downturn in my industry is trimming deadwood.
that, and it's pretty funny to watch a bunch of useless bastards try to justify their jobs...
those "Teach Yourself ${whateverThing} in 24 Hours" books aren't worth the paper they're printed on...the 30 days ones aren't bad for just learning the nuances of a language ( like GTK+ ), but you can get more sysadmin knowledge from buying your sysadmin 8 pints, listen to him rant and rave, and then take him back to the computer room hell-bent on vengeance w/ a screwdriver in hand...actually, you might have his job if you can talk him into a little cathode ray tube repair ( those suckers pack a lot of voltage )
I can give you a few good leads, just let me know what class of dense you'd like :
1) the IT guy who blinks, looks at your GNOME desktop, and goes "Is this some kinda skin?"...then complains when you push him out the door and lock it
2) our "systems engineer" guy who couldn't even sort out which node to unplug , ex. :
me: (name omitted), node16 in rack 5 lost a CPU, go throw a spare in and do a warranty call
(nameless) : dude, no problem
( 5 minutes go by, operators call screaming about a job failing)
( i ping node, it's still dead in the water, do a parallel ping on all nodes, yep, jackass knocked out node16 in rack 4 )
me : (nameless)...what rack did you yank node16 from?
(nameless) : when?
me : ten minutes ago
(steam begins to come from behind ears, reaching for blunt object close at hand)
(nameless) : oh, yeah, that one in rack 4, with the bad memory, right?
me : CPU, rack 5, motherfucker, CPU, rack 5!!!
(nameless) : dude, i did what you told me...
( i just pull hair out, do it myself )
3) or the ever-famous "dense" admin who has consumed so many potato chips that his ass is beginning to swallow the chair he's sitting in...
let me know, we just laid off all of the above...
all about odds
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Kathleen Budz grins and bears big winnings that only a Net-generation slot machine like the IGT units (bottom) can pay out.
okay, here's the cynics take on it :
you're playing against 40,000 people for 4 million rather than 1,000 for 100k. Your odds aren't getting any better, they're actually getting worse ( on winning anything worth a shit ). and if anyone really thinks that the odds stay the same on a nationwide network, well, i invented this mirable cream that will MAKE YOUR COCK GROW FIVE INCHES and AM REALLY INTERESTED IN SHARING MY SECRETS TO SUCCESS!!!
gambling and the lottery are for people that are bad at math...i'm talking worse than i am:)
as someone who has talked to IBM and other companies about leased/on-demand computing resources, this would have to be a very widely adopted strategy for it to work.
basically, everyone that I've dealt w/ that knows the technology understands the turnover rate on technology, esp. PCs, makes it hard for a single company to implement a cycle/hour/etc. based situation and make money. if you just lease cycles ( not the actual computers ), you end up w/ machines that are obselete in 3-5 years : make sure that you're charging enough that you end up making as much or more than you would have just selling the damn things. a lot of people don't look at the amount of power and A/C it takes to run a computer room, which is one of the main costs, and needs to be figured into the model as well.
now, this has a lot of interesting potential as more than a single-vendor based market. if I ( or my company ) could lease cycles off my/our machines, hell yes I would. but on 1 condition : the software that handles ops would have to be open-source. there's no way in hell that i would let some piece of crap, no-security proprietary code run on my box, and i'm reasonably sure that most companies feel that way as well, though they would be reassured by company promises, I'm not.
of course, this might be like IBM's linux initiative : they spent %90 of the pledged money telling everyone that they were spending X amount of money, or at least that's the running joke among my colleagues.
i had a really good experience...Time Warner Cable supposedly only supports windows, but my cable guy didn't give a shit when I broke out a linux laptop, made sure I could get an IP, even gave me an extra segment of co-ax when I asked for it. the only shit i have is occasionally they will start blocking my traffic when i run gtk-gnutella, so i just restart my network services and i'm fine. haven't quite sorted out what they're doing, looks like it's being done at the switch level, but it's easy enough to avoid.
maybe I'm just being paranoid, but look at it :
prior to the swinging of the executive pendulum towards the republicans, more of their money went to democrats. but ( and it would be interesting to see what they gave in 97 and 99 ) when things took a turn for the worse publicly ( interns, cigars, cum-stained clothing ), more money goes to the republicans. i'd like to see what they did in 99, when everyone sort of just said fuck it, so what if he banged an intern? look at hillary... and got over it.
looking at the numbers, i'd say they were hedging their bets in 98-00, and then went w/ the winner when dubya got in. judging from the results of the case, i'd say it paid off.
does anyone other than me find it interesting that the chief exec of chrysalis is on one side ( Chris Wright ) and the co-founder ( Doug D'Arcy ) is on the other? I can just see the post-debate conversation :
Chris : Doug, you know, the board has been thinking about your future here with the company...
Doug : Yes, really?
Chris : Well, with the beliefs that you have espoused, and your stance on some matters, we've been thinking that it might be time for you to move on to other projects...
Doug : Remember those pictures of Hilary, you, and an inflatable sheep? Well, I still have the negatives...
Chris :...
on a side note, is anyone really surprised by their defeat? they are wrong on most of these issues, and really have very little evidence other than FUD to back anything they say. no big surprise there.
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1) the new CEO can shit out the cash to rent a ballroom to give a "Hi, my name is ${whatever}, and let's some arrange some deck chairs on the Titanic" speech, but we can't cough up enough money to have a christmas party. The humorous part is that the speech ballroom was in the same hotel we had our christmas party last year.
2) a potluck christmas party? yeah, we'll be lucky if someone doesn't poison the food...
3) bonus? yeah right...the oldtimers talk about them, but I've never actually seen one.
at least I didn't get one of those dolls...I would have burned it as an effigy, right after submitting my 2 weeks noticing and smashing in that asshole's luxury car's windows.
Ah, yes, little grasshopper, but that is why you must whack on, whack off...
giggles while karma burns...
int sexualStatus ( char *sexuality ) {
if ( (strcmp(sexuality,"I'm not gay goddamnit")) == 0 ) {
recommendGayPorn();
fputs("Sorry, Dave, we think you're gay", stdout);
} else {
recommendGayPorn();
return 1;
}
now Microsoft is blaming Russia?
and the first thing that popped in my head was :
how long before darwinawards.com has a story about someone putting their penis in it?
I've seen pirated movies before, and they're generally pretty lousy. I saw a copy of Attack of the Clones that was filmed from the back of a theater, complete w/ people walking in front, coughing, etc. So you lose the magical experience of seeing it in the theater ( just make sure you catch a late show @ a good theater a week or so after it opens, so you don't have to deal w/ screaming brats, fat guys who make the armrests dissapear when they sit down, and obnoxious teenage jocks whose parents will sic the law on you when you kick their teeth in ), and you deal w/ crappy quality. no thanks, I'll just fantasize about the movie until it comes out.
mmm...hot elf chicks...balrogs with flaming whips...
even better, hot elf chicks w/ whips...
reminds of me of neal stephenson's the diamond age...to a certain degree. most of the communities in this book were more formal and static, but i remember one community that was a distributed network entirely based upon trust. i.e. one person walks into a room, loads a gun and leaves, another person walks in 5 minutes later, unloads the gun and leaves, then person A walks back in, puts the gun against his/her head and pulls the trigger, trusting that person B has fulfilled their task, entirely independent of each other.
an extension, and less static organization, is the mutual interest concept. i don't believe it would be so smooth in the real world, or maybe people would give each other trust points...for example, the guy who shares his umbrella walking through the rain, you might assign him a few trust points, whereas some asshole who cuts in a line or lets a door slam in the face of an old lady, you could slag him down some points. i'm sure that it would end up fragmenting into a wide variety of smaller networks, but that's how real life is. myself, as a tattooed/pierced punk rock guy, might be viewed as a suspicious character if I offered a ride to a young lady whose car had broken down, whereas if this lady was into the tattoing/punk rock scene, she might view me as a more trustworthy individual than someone who is subculturally less familiar.
this could be very interesting in how it would make your actions have direct repurcussions (sp?), which is something that city culture has somewhat taken away. for example, you can be a total asshole to someone one night, then go out the next night and act totally different, and noone would know if you are in a different area/location. it might restore what i consider a vital part of society : accountability and personal responsibility. or it might just break down into a nightmarish chaos of retribution and personal attacks. who knows, but it would be interesting to find out.
and, yes, I know I'm somewhat off-topic, but these ideas occurred to me and I felt like sharing them.
please come to Houston and wage this battle...if I have to listen to N'Sync or Nellie one more time while some asshole cabbie tells me "In my country, we not have music like this, the (insert fanatical religious dictatorship of choice here) do not let listen." I will grease up my rifle and go water-tower hunting.
Sorry late reply, had to sleep...GNOME2 on it feels like it's a tad bit slower than CDE, but not much. As far as Solaris 9, it's fine by me. I've run 6,7,8, and 9 all on the same class ( Ultra 1 ) of machine, roughly same processor speeds and RAM ( 512 MB ), and not noticed a difference speedwise. But I very rarely compile anything on it, as I don't do much work/development on Solaris, just Linux, so for me the important things on Solaris 9 are vi, shell utilities ( bash, sed, awk, etc. ), perl, and ssh.
Give it a shot...or try running Linux on it ( I remember the Redhat 6,2 distro ran nicely on an Ultra 1 a few years ago, haven't tried it since ).
I've been using the Gnome2 ( pre-release beta 3, IIRC ) Sun beta on an Ultra 1 in my office for quite some time, and even though the ancient graphics card only supports 8-bit graphics and 1280X1024 resolution, it rocks. hard. you can't deny the power of Motif, but as far as a solid desktop goes, GNOME has it. KDE is excellent as well, but I personally prefer GNOME.
I just hope Red Hat and Sun don't gut each other fighting over the corporate workstation market. I am perfectly content using both platforms, both at home and at work, and would like to see both prosper. Ximian is excellent as well ( actually I'm writing this from a RedHat 7.3 boxen w/ Ximian GNOME ).
I'm drooling at the thought of Solaris 10 right now...
another web server brought to it's knees! There should be a counter on the site somewhere...
one of those magical things you can do with a computer is UPLOAD an image into another computer
and, I quote, :
then input it to a program to set the robot
gee, I think I already said that
it's not the same...I have designed tattoos before. Actually, I've designed seven of the ones I currently bear on my body, and none of them are small. Part of what I was trying to say is that there is a certain human element that makes a tattoo wonderful. Like adjusting the lines or background according to the contours of the body, or to meld nicely w/ the surrounding tattoos, none of which I would trust a robot to do. I trust a computer to faithfully execute the image it is given, but as far as judgement goes, it has none beyond the responses to situations it is programmed with.
So I don't trust a computer to have human judgement or a sense of art. You have a nice idea about how this thing should work, but I take it that you've never sat down and worked over a rough sketch w/ your tattoo artist, and then sat down and made it work with the other six tattoos covering that part of your body, huh?
...and former body piercer ( as well as being a computer science major and sysadmin, just for background ), i don't think this thing has a chance in hell. As it currently exists, the quality is shoddy compared to the level of competency I expect from a professional tattoo artist. I'm sure that if money were thrown into it, a better tattoo robot could be built, but it would only be good for flash ( off the wall, FYI ) pieces, and even then, it would lack the creative touches that make even a flash tattoo memorable. A lot of people get custom tattoos ( most of mine are ) that will never be worn by anyone else, so the overhead to draw the sketch, then input it to a program to set the robot ( or program the robot yourself ) is prohibitive. The body modification scene puts a heavy emphasis on art and style, and I don't see any shop owners running out to buy one of these.
I wouldn't get a tattoo by a robot. I'm a total technofetishist, but I would miss the human interaction. I pick certain artists for their style of doing things. Someone really has to be into the style of the tattoo for me to get the work done. No machine can duplicate that.
Now, for the police state implications, hell, they could have already invented it, but I think that's going to far, and even the people who accept ( largely through ignorance ) the post-911 shenanigans of the government agencies and police would balk at this. It's too sinister. If they could pull it off, they undoubtedly would have done so already.
Just my $0.02.
would probably just look at the IPs commonly in the history file, and put in the entire range of IPs for that subnet, then begin making connections. once you're infected, you're screwed. the same as we have viruses that currently disable firewalls, we also will have viruses that circumvent this as a matter of routine...
yep, I was slated to go, and then got told "no, we don't have the money in the budget"...and to top it off, even /. is rubbing it in...
puts head down and weeps as images of shiny, multi-colored SGI systems float through my head
if other posters are correct, it's been done already, by other companies.
and, I could do it myself. Just slap a WiFi card into my laptop, connect to an Xserver on another machine, and BAM! a remote display. Yes, it requires a second machine, but what geek doesn't have one or more machines? This basically sounds like one step removed from that scenario, kind of like VNC on a thin display over WiFi. All just some minor hardware tweaks. Not earth-shattering news.
and, more importantly, it will be implemented by Microsoft, w/ their not-so-glorious security record. which means that I could probably buy one of these things, spend a day or two tweaking it and googling, and be able to walk into any corporate building and get a display/login on someone's machine. And since this kind of toy will probably only be used by managment, I'll be able to get all kinds of nifty stuff ( because they undoubtably knocked out their security so they could do this or that nifty shiny feature )...information warfare...
well, I'm considering going into business myself, as the maker of The Disgruntled Sysadmin Doll(TM pending)
on a more serious note, I wasn't part of the dot-bomb, so I'm not affected by that. I am affected by the downturn in the geophysical industry. Thankfully, I still have a job, even if my responsibilities have tripled, while my pay has not ( like getting a shit "raise" by being put back on hourly pay to get overtime for hours that I was working anyways...more money, but in principle it's still not a fucking raise and fighting the beancounters for every penny is driving me out of my head). The only good thing that I've seen out of the downturn in my industry is trimming deadwood.
that, and it's pretty funny to watch a bunch of useless bastards try to justify their jobs...
is right here
those "Teach Yourself ${whateverThing} in 24 Hours" books aren't worth the paper they're printed on...the 30 days ones aren't bad for just learning the nuances of a language ( like GTK+ ), but you can get more sysadmin knowledge from buying your sysadmin 8 pints, listen to him rant and rave, and then take him back to the computer room hell-bent on vengeance w/ a screwdriver in hand...actually, you might have his job if you can talk him into a little cathode ray tube repair ( those suckers pack a lot of voltage )
I can give you a few good leads, just let me know what class of dense you'd like : : (name omitted), node16 in rack 5 lost a CPU, go throw a spare in and do a warranty call
1) the IT guy who blinks, looks at your GNOME desktop, and goes "Is this some kinda skin?"...then complains when you push him out the door and lock it
2) our "systems engineer" guy who couldn't even sort out which node to unplug , ex. :
me
(nameless) : dude, no problem
( 5 minutes go by, operators call screaming about a job failing)
( i ping node, it's still dead in the water, do a parallel ping on all nodes, yep, jackass knocked out node16 in rack 4 )
me : (nameless)...what rack did you yank node16 from?
(nameless) : when?
me : ten minutes ago
(steam begins to come from behind ears, reaching for blunt object close at hand)
(nameless) : oh, yeah, that one in rack 4, with the bad memory, right?
me : CPU, rack 5, motherfucker, CPU, rack 5!!!
(nameless) : dude, i did what you told me...
( i just pull hair out, do it myself )
3) or the ever-famous "dense" admin who has consumed so many potato chips that his ass is beginning to swallow the chair he's sitting in...
let me know, we just laid off all of the above...
Kathleen Budz grins and bears big winnings that only a Net-generation slot machine like the IGT units (bottom) can pay out.
:)
okay, here's the cynics take on it :
you're playing against 40,000 people for 4 million rather than 1,000 for 100k. Your odds aren't getting any better, they're actually getting worse ( on winning anything worth a shit ). and if anyone really thinks that the odds stay the same on a nationwide network, well, i invented this mirable cream that will MAKE YOUR COCK GROW FIVE INCHES and AM REALLY INTERESTED IN SHARING MY SECRETS TO SUCCESS!!!
gambling and the lottery are for people that are bad at math...i'm talking worse than i am
as someone who has talked to IBM and other companies about leased/on-demand computing resources, this would have to be a very widely adopted strategy for it to work.
basically, everyone that I've dealt w/ that knows the technology understands the turnover rate on technology, esp. PCs, makes it hard for a single company to implement a cycle/hour/etc. based situation and make money. if you just lease cycles ( not the actual computers ), you end up w/ machines that are obselete in 3-5 years : make sure that you're charging enough that you end up making as much or more than you would have just selling the damn things. a lot of people don't look at the amount of power and A/C it takes to run a computer room, which is one of the main costs, and needs to be figured into the model as well.
now, this has a lot of interesting potential as more than a single-vendor based market. if I ( or my company ) could lease cycles off my/our machines, hell yes I would. but on 1 condition : the software that handles ops would have to be open-source. there's no way in hell that i would let some piece of crap, no-security proprietary code run on my box, and i'm reasonably sure that most companies feel that way as well, though they would be reassured by company promises, I'm not.
of course, this might be like IBM's linux initiative : they spent %90 of the pledged money telling everyone that they were spending X amount of money, or at least that's the running joke among my colleagues.
i had a really good experience...Time Warner Cable supposedly only supports windows, but my cable guy didn't give a shit when I broke out a linux laptop, made sure I could get an IP, even gave me an extra segment of co-ax when I asked for it. the only shit i have is occasionally they will start blocking my traffic when i run gtk-gnutella, so i just restart my network services and i'm fine. haven't quite sorted out what they're doing, looks like it's being done at the switch level, but it's easy enough to avoid.
maybe I'm just being paranoid, but look at it :
prior to the swinging of the executive pendulum towards the republicans, more of their money went to democrats. but ( and it would be interesting to see what they gave in 97 and 99 ) when things took a turn for the worse publicly ( interns, cigars, cum-stained clothing ), more money goes to the republicans. i'd like to see what they did in 99, when everyone sort of just said fuck it, so what if he banged an intern? look at hillary... and got over it.
looking at the numbers, i'd say they were hedging their bets in 98-00, and then went w/ the winner when dubya got in. judging from the results of the case, i'd say it paid off.
does anyone other than me find it interesting that the chief exec of chrysalis is on one side ( Chris Wright ) and the co-founder ( Doug D'Arcy ) is on the other? I can just see the post-debate conversation :
...
Chris : Doug, you know, the board has been thinking about your future here with the company...
Doug : Yes, really?
Chris : Well, with the beliefs that you have espoused, and your stance on some matters, we've been thinking that it might be time for you to move on to other projects...
Doug : Remember those pictures of Hilary, you, and an inflatable sheep? Well, I still have the negatives...
Chris :
on a side note, is anyone really surprised by their defeat? they are wrong on most of these issues, and really have very little evidence other than FUD to back anything they say. no big surprise there.