Or maybe they bought the company for the tech? O2 (a Telefonica subsiuary) just launched the TUGO app on android and ios that allows users to place calls and send texts from their phones over any WiFI connection, using their own phone number rather than an extra 'skype in' type of number.
I live in the sticks and a service like that is very useful when you can't get a connection in your house....
I am an open source BI consultant, we use loads of different open source software when developing solutions for clients. Sadly clients don't always pay for the open source software, they believe open source is free.
That being said we also offer a piece of open source BI software, until yesterday (this is true) we were GPL based, and to be honest dealing with requests regadding embedding, in a SAAS solution, not in a SAAS solution, was a pain in the ass. So we changed it to Apache 2 now to make our lives easier. All that aside, we have found that our clients really pay for open source software when they feel they will need support, people don't like to support other peoples software, so sell support packages.
On top of support we find that people are happy to pay for extra functionality, we offer cheaper development rates for people happy to include the new feature back into the open source version, if not we charge standard consulting rates. And last but not least, clients then find we offer a wider range of Bi consulting and we gain more work from that.
So we find that offering extra services on top of the software is what makes us our money, the software itself, whilst people pay for, isn't what keeps us afloat.
I actually had the same issue, I knew i was very competent with computers but had no experience to get me a job. So I put some white lies on my CV, nothing too outrageous I knew I could back up my psuedo experience with my ability and demonstrate it if required, and I got a mate of mine to act as a reference, turns out i didn't need him. Anyway long story short, once I got the job I stuck at it for a few years to get the real experience i needed, after all once you are in the profession, qualifications count for just about nothing.
Tom
I just left a company after 3 years. What amazed me(as a developer) was that not only did we have local admin rights, we had global rights. This was ok for me as I have an element of sysadmin understanding, but my ex boss who used to be an administrator but now runs the BI systems did quite 'get' admin rights and the systems we ran.
Every day he'd randomly reboot servers, install different software in different places and generally make administration and licencing a nightmare. Also as a developer he didn't really have a clue as to how to organize things properly so things like SQL Server could only run one database on one machine, if he'd actually asked around (ie the sys admins) things would have been far easier, and I wouldn't have quit.
So in a nutshell testing servers with admin rights, fair enough, online servers with admin rights, don't let developers near them.
Well when I was visiting Vancouver I decided to pay a visit to the police museum. Ironically I walked down a street full of druggies and day time hookers, which was about 300 yards from the main police station. Maybe its keeping your friends close and your enemies closer;)
What are they gaining by adding the hash and stopping people working it out? I've got an old Ipod but I will need to upgrade sometime and I use linux. I like ITunes but I wouldn't install Windows for it, so that would then make me go looking for a different Mp3 player.
I'm sure the hash will get cracked, but I don't see whats the big deal.
I started as a chief photocopier, then moved on to find a niche in Java based BI which was fun for a while, then made the natural progression into Java based programming. The firm I worked for wasn't a tech firm which may have worked in my favour, but they were sure happy with the work I did as my reference said, and helped my progress onto somewhere else more up my street. In the mean time as I'm sure is mentioned above the BI package is open source, so I spend plenty of time honing my skills giving time back to the project.
Whilst I'm not overly surprised by the decision why have they left it this late, as its a well documented problem thats been around since the beginning of space flight.
You know I've been reading slashdot for years, long before the tagging stuff came in and its taken until reading this article to realise that you click the little arrows to add tags, I always wondered how it was done:)
Well I don't really believe these figures. When they were asking for beta testers the asked you for various details and what OS you used I of course tapped in linux and was told that I didn't fall within the criteria.
I'd like to see how many people were logged as linux users from the sign up, I think that would give a good indication of what the BBC were thinking during the development stage.
I hope it not flying past a star at that distance I doubt you'd be able to see it.:)
It may fly in front of a star but that wont make any real difference, its more likely to be a larger amount of gas and other material being ejected from its core as it gets closer to our Sun.
I don't think the poster was referring about his system and how to optimize it, I think he's interested in learning HA/Failover techniques that don't yet need to be implemented in his database.
I do vaguely recall an article a while back about, myspace iirc and how they had so much trouble expanding as soon as the boom took off, it wasn't very practical but gave a nice insight into how a large load on servers can cause interesting challenges.
Tom
Me and a friend currently run a little organisation shipping recycled computers and medial/police supplies out to Afghanistan, I'm yet to go to Iraq but Afghanistan is hairy enough for me. Kudos to people who want to go and help, I just hope its not all for money and greed, although I'm sure if he stays he'll have plenty of the stuff before to long.
Tom
Well our network uses Surfcontrol to block access to numerous sites including some webmail sites, so I used SSH as a socks proxy on port 80 as 22 is blocked to log into my box at home and tell firefox to use it as my default route, slight lag but otherwise works a treat.
Slashdot Mirror
The article said it landed on Rosetta, if this was the case it wouldn't have been much use. Instead it landed on Comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasminko
Its not like they had a famous actor die in one of their cars recently.... or anyone
Or maybe they bought the company for the tech? O2 (a Telefonica subsiuary) just launched the TUGO app on android and ios that allows users to place calls and send texts from their phones over any WiFI connection, using their own phone number rather than an extra 'skype in' type of number. I live in the sticks and a service like that is very useful when you can't get a connection in your house....
I am an open source BI consultant, we use loads of different open source software when developing solutions for clients. Sadly clients don't always pay for the open source software, they believe open source is free.
That being said we also offer a piece of open source BI software, until yesterday (this is true) we were GPL based, and to be honest dealing with requests regadding embedding, in a SAAS solution, not in a SAAS solution, was a pain in the ass. So we changed it to Apache 2 now to make our lives easier. All that aside, we have found that our clients really pay for open source software when they feel they will need support, people don't like to support other peoples software, so sell support packages.
On top of support we find that people are happy to pay for extra functionality, we offer cheaper development rates for people happy to include the new feature back into the open source version, if not we charge standard consulting rates. And last but not least, clients then find we offer a wider range of Bi consulting and we gain more work from that.
So we find that offering extra services on top of the software is what makes us our money, the software itself, whilst people pay for, isn't what keeps us afloat.
I actually had the same issue, I knew i was very competent with computers but had no experience to get me a job. So I put some white lies on my CV, nothing too outrageous I knew I could back up my psuedo experience with my ability and demonstrate it if required, and I got a mate of mine to act as a reference, turns out i didn't need him. Anyway long story short, once I got the job I stuck at it for a few years to get the real experience i needed, after all once you are in the profession, qualifications count for just about nothing. Tom
He supports Arsenal.... so he can do as he pleases :)
I just left a company after 3 years. What amazed me(as a developer) was that not only did we have local admin rights, we had global rights. This was ok for me as I have an element of sysadmin understanding, but my ex boss who used to be an administrator but now runs the BI systems did quite 'get' admin rights and the systems we ran.
Every day he'd randomly reboot servers, install different software in different places and generally make administration and licencing a nightmare. Also as a developer he didn't really have a clue as to how to organize things properly so things like SQL Server could only run one database on one machine, if he'd actually asked around (ie the sys admins) things would have been far easier, and I wouldn't have quit.
So in a nutshell testing servers with admin rights, fair enough, online servers with admin rights, don't let developers near them.
Well when I was visiting Vancouver I decided to pay a visit to the police museum. Ironically I walked down a street full of druggies and day time hookers, which was about 300 yards from the main police station. Maybe its keeping your friends close and your enemies closer ;)
What are they gaining by adding the hash and stopping people working it out? I've got an old Ipod but I will need to upgrade sometime and I use linux. I like ITunes but I wouldn't install Windows for it, so that would then make me go looking for a different Mp3 player. I'm sure the hash will get cracked, but I don't see whats the big deal.
I started as a chief photocopier, then moved on to find a niche in Java based BI which was fun for a while, then made the natural progression into Java based programming. The firm I worked for wasn't a tech firm which may have worked in my favour, but they were sure happy with the work I did as my reference said, and helped my progress onto somewhere else more up my street. In the mean time as I'm sure is mentioned above the BI package is open source, so I spend plenty of time honing my skills giving time back to the project.
Whilst I'm not overly surprised by the decision why have they left it this late, as its a well documented problem thats been around since the beginning of space flight.
You know I've been reading slashdot for years, long before the tagging stuff came in and its taken until reading this article to realise that you click the little arrows to add tags, I always wondered how it was done :)
The images are also here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm
When will UK carriers pick up these open source phones and supply them to contract customers is what I want to know! :)
Well I don't really believe these figures. When they were asking for beta testers the asked you for various details and what OS you used I of course tapped in linux and was told that I didn't fall within the criteria. I'd like to see how many people were logged as linux users from the sign up, I think that would give a good indication of what the BBC were thinking during the development stage.
I hope it not flying past a star at that distance I doubt you'd be able to see it. :)
It may fly in front of a star but that wont make any real difference, its more likely to be a larger amount of gas and other material being ejected from its core as it gets closer to our Sun.
I don't think the poster was referring about his system and how to optimize it, I think he's interested in learning HA/Failover techniques that don't yet need to be implemented in his database.
I do vaguely recall an article a while back about, myspace iirc and how they had so much trouble expanding as soon as the boom took off, it wasn't very practical but gave a nice insight into how a large load on servers can cause interesting challenges.
Tom
Most of the parent is bollocks, but it should be marked up purely for associating MS with cock-smoking teabaggers.
Well I use it on my box at home so I can access all my stuff easily, and it runs fine on a 2.6 Intel with 1GB Ram, with a few users.
Me and a friend currently run a little organisation shipping recycled computers and medial/police supplies out to Afghanistan, I'm yet to go to Iraq but Afghanistan is hairy enough for me. Kudos to people who want to go and help, I just hope its not all for money and greed, although I'm sure if he stays he'll have plenty of the stuff before to long. Tom
You may jest but Windows already runs on a number of British Submarines so is it to out of the question???
Probably, not even he's that daft.
Don't you mean you like you licenses like your women??
Or have you been missing out all these years?
Well our network uses Surfcontrol to block access to numerous sites including some webmail sites, so I used SSH as a socks proxy on port 80 as 22 is blocked to log into my box at home and tell firefox to use it as my default route, slight lag but otherwise works a treat.
how on earth is this tagged informative??
Does no one read the posts anymore??
whos to say they couldn't change the code but not allow additions or removals from the repository??