Wide screen, DVD, CDRW (external firewire), 30G drive, Radeon Mobile gfx, 512M, 1000/100/10bT ethernet, and an internal 802.11b card. Mac OS X is really sweet. I can run CorelDraw and IE5 right next to a bash prompt and GAIM.:)
Granted, the damned thing cost me almost $3200 but I love it still.
Actually...I am, a bit. I've read all of Spike Walker's books, which seem to be pretty accurate. I know that there is fishing (crabbing?) for king crab up in the Bering Sea during the winter. He might be working in a cannery or doing maintainence on boats. Who knows... I'm just going off of what I've read in his forums.
I'm an open source developer and have dealt with plenty of this with my own project. I'd like to comment on a few of his reasons...
* Tired of unappreciative people.
Fact: most people don't give a flip about how much time you spent coding. Perhaps he should focus more on those who love his work (I'm one of those folks).
* Tired of people who think they are owed immediate support.
Procmail does wonders. If its happening on the mailing list, ignore it. If they keep persisting, kick them from the list.
* Tired of being yelled at by above people.
See above.
* Tired of people that complain about bugs but won't help fix. note: you do not need to be a coder to help fix. testers and analyzers are always handy
Hey, at least they are using the software. When I first started coding Bronc, I was grateful to receive so much as a flame from one of my users. At least people are paying attention!
* Tired of defending decisions.
Defending decisions? It's *his* software!! He doesn't have to defend a thing. If someone doesn't like it, they can fork his code and start their own project.
* Tired of people using the mailing list instead of the docs.
Welcome to free software, bro.:)
* Tired of working with people that make money off of other peoples work without credit. here we get to some of the headline.
You don't have to work with them. Sue them if you want. If you don't want to do that, you can always tweak your code to keep it from working with their product.:)
Interesting point. It seems kind of vague, though. Perhaps they should spell out exactly what a "prominent" notice means. Does that mean that it should be at the very top of every source file? What about the application, since most people will never look at the source?
Before anyone starts bashing the macosx.forked.net guys, let's keep a few things in mind:
1) There's nothing wrong with charging for access to files. You pay your ISP, right?
2) Apex *is*, apparently, working to comply with the GPL. From what I've read in the past on his site, he works in the commercial fishing industry up in Alaska. I would imagine that his time to work on the site and the packages is limited.
3) Apex has been very helpful in the past on the forums hosted on his server. Lots of people have requested ports of software (some of which are difficult) and he has come through for them.
Actually, it was the Airport cards that did not allow a TCP/IP connection to AOL to be established. AOL works just fine behind nearly all of the home routers out there. This problem was limited to AOL
The leonids were a let-down in 1999? Whatever. I drove 20 miles north of San Antonio (which has horrible light pollution) with my girlfriend. We sat out in my pickup truck bed and got the show of a lifetime.
Well, the terrorists may *try* to bring their gear to the show but they will be appalled when they see the bill from the unionized workers who moved their stuff from the van to the booth. I'm sure that they have a "dangerous goods" charge that they'll tack on top of the extortionate rates that the unionized guys charge.
(For those that don't already know, you cannot so much as wipe your ass at a convention center without getting in trouble with the Ass Wipers Local 570 union.)
Actually, I believe that they are trying to sell that Audiotron thing to the average slashdotter. Note the thinkgeek link in the story. This seems to be happening more and more lately. There are a lot less links to the actual manufacturer of the product and more links to places that sell it (ie Thinkgeek). This site used to be about information; now it seems to mostly exist to sell products to us.
Yeah, I'm serious. It's not the ads that bother me so much (if they were images, I'd remove them w/ my transparent proxy), it's that I want good service from them. Here are my reasons:
- The site is always up and if its not, I want my money back.
- I like their search technology. I want to help ensure that they are profitable and stay around.
- I never, ever want anyone to be able to improve their rankings on the results that I view.
I would gladly pay a reasonable (~$5.00/month or so...) for use of Google's search engine without ads.
I would pay a little extra (maybe another $5.00) for a customized search service. For example, Google offers BSD users a way to search BSD-related pages. I would like to have additional topic-relevant searches that I could define (or pick from a list). For instance, I'd like a Mac OS X search, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever search, a Jeep search, etc., etc.
If they would provide a search bar for Mozilla (like the Google bar for IE, sans spyware), I would pay a one-time fee for this.
There are lots of ways for this company to make money. I hope that they go that route.
Chris
Problem with the -2 for Funny
on
Slashdot Updates
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
This feature could be a problem. If there was a +4 Informative post, I could mod it to +5 Funny and it disappears for everyone who has the -2 Funny feature enabled.
A better solution: find the average of the ratings: If there are 4 Informative's and 1 Funny, Informative is how the post is rated.
Don't kid yourself. These companies are not tanking because of the downturn of the internet economy. They are tanking because they flushed good cash down the toilet. Take a tour of an Exodus datacenter and you'll see what I mean. Bulletproof glass. Alarmed manhole covers. Biometric (hand and body weight) entrances. Armored CAT5 cable. It's nuts, really. When is the last time you heard about someone storming into a datacenter and stealing, for example, one of Best Buy's Web servers? The way that these companies spent money is almost
criminal. It must have been like an everyday Christmas for their purchasing folks. The "build it and they will come" mentality is what killed them.
Like hell this country should spend tax dollars to keep these con men afloat
Does anyone have any information on how to upgrade a
Mandrake box w/o toasting the existing
configuration? Forgive me, I'm a FreeBSD user who
is accustomed to 'make world'.:-)
I called the Store in Tyson's Corner this morning and talked to a tech who was very tired of people calling and asking if they could burn CDRs of the update. Here's what he told me:
1) No, you cannot burn 10.1 on CDR at the Apple Store
2) When I talked to him at around 11AM, he did not know of any plans to _sell_ the update in-store. He didn't rule it out completely; he just said that they had not received any of the update packages. However, I read an Apple press release later in the afternoon that indicated otherwise: updates (in limited quantities) will be available at the stores.
Now, I did talk with one of my co-workers and found out the the CDR rumor had some truth to it originally but it was completely unofficial. Now that so many people have been calling the Apple Stores, I don't think this will be happening at all.
Heh, this reminds me of a scene from an old Cheech and Chong movie. Cheech had stolen a slot machine and taken it home in his van but he went inside the house for a few minutes and returned to find it stolen yet again.
"Hey man, they ripped off the thing I ripped off!!!"
There's no "moral" to your story. If an employee is owed wages, they can go to bankruptcy court and submit a claim against the assets like the rest of the investors and vendors. Stealing shit to make a point is wrong and cheats those who have invested much more in the company out of their share of the remaining scraps.
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Wide screen, DVD, CDRW (external firewire), 30G drive, Radeon Mobile gfx, 512M, 1000/100/10bT ethernet, and an internal 802.11b card. Mac OS X is really sweet. I can run CorelDraw and IE5 right next to a bash prompt and GAIM.
Granted, the damned thing cost me almost $3200 but I love it still.
Chris
Actually...I am, a bit. I've read all of Spike Walker's books, which seem to be pretty accurate. I know that there is fishing (crabbing?) for king crab up in the Bering Sea during the winter. He might be working in a cannery or doing maintainence on boats. Who knows... I'm just going off of what I've read in his forums.
I'm an open source developer and have dealt with plenty of this with my own project. I'd like to comment on a few of his reasons...
:)
:)
* Tired of unappreciative people.
Fact: most people don't give a flip about how much time you spent coding. Perhaps he should focus more on those who love his work (I'm one of those folks).
* Tired of people who think they are owed immediate support.
Procmail does wonders. If its happening on the mailing list, ignore it. If they keep persisting, kick them from the list.
* Tired of being yelled at by above people.
See above.
* Tired of people that complain about bugs but won't help fix. note: you do not need to be a coder to help fix. testers and analyzers are always handy
Hey, at least they are using the software. When I first started coding Bronc, I was grateful to receive so much as a flame from one of my users. At least people are paying attention!
* Tired of defending decisions.
Defending decisions? It's *his* software!! He doesn't have to defend a thing. If someone doesn't like it, they can fork his code and start their own project.
* Tired of people using the mailing list instead of the docs.
Welcome to free software, bro.
* Tired of working with people that make money off of other peoples work without credit. here we get to some of the headline.
You don't have to work with them. Sue them if you want. If you don't want to do that, you can always tweak your code to keep it from working with their product.
* Tired of spending every waking hour on fink.
I hear ya.
Chris
Interesting point. It seems kind of vague, though. Perhaps they should spell out exactly what a "prominent" notice means. Does that mean that it should be at the very top of every source file? What about the application, since most people will never look at the source?
Don't feed the trolls, please. Thank you, drive through.
Before anyone starts bashing the macosx.forked.net guys, let's keep a few things in mind:
1) There's nothing wrong with charging for access to files. You pay your ISP, right?
2) Apex *is*, apparently, working to comply with the GPL. From what I've read in the past on his site, he works in the commercial fishing industry up in Alaska. I would imagine that his time to work on the site and the packages is limited.
3) Apex has been very helpful in the past on the forums hosted on his server. Lots of people have requested ports of software (some of which are difficult) and he has come through for them.
Chris
Actually, it was the Airport cards that did not allow a TCP/IP connection to AOL to be established. AOL works just fine behind nearly all of the home routers out there. This problem was limited to AOL
Well, they only update the information every minute or so. I would imagine that the plane went off radar pretty quickly.
Here's the flight tracking info from Flytecomm. Please don't kill my server. Thanks.
The leonids were a let-down in 1999? Whatever. I drove 20 miles north of San Antonio (which has horrible light pollution) with my girlfriend. We sat out in my pickup truck bed and got the show of a lifetime.
1990-1993 Ran a BBS while in high school
:)
:)
1993-1995 Went to college at Vanderbilt University. Admined Mac machines and did videotaping for the graduate business school.
1995 Worked at a (then) small ISP back home in Texas doing tech support and modem maintainence. Installed linux on my desktop.
1996 Went back to Vanderbilt; got a job on campus as a systems administrator with the student-run computer center.
1996 Quit Vanderbilt, moved to New Mexico to attend UNM. Got a job on campus admining SGIs for the physics department.
1997 Left the Physics department for the Computer Science department, which had more UNIX boxen.
1998 Dropped out of UNM to go to the Bay Area and work for @Home as a sysadmin.
1999 Fired from @Home. Moved to Utah and got a job with iMALL as a sysadmin. iMALL bought by @Home (they're following me!!! AGGH!!!).
2000 Quit iMALL to start Blue Aspen Software.
2000 Blue Aspen fails, moved to LA to work for Ticketmaster CitySearch.
2001 Quit TMCS to work for my fathers company for a few months, to help him out.
2001 Moved to Boston to work for small startup, Compete.com.
2001 Bailed from Compete.com to move to Virginia and work for one of the largest companies on the Net, who shall remain unnaimed.
There you have it.
Well, the terrorists may *try* to bring their gear to the show but they will be appalled when they see the bill from the unionized workers who moved their stuff from the van to the booth. I'm sure that they have a "dangerous goods" charge that they'll tack on top of the extortionate rates that the unionized guys charge.
(For those that don't already know, you cannot so much as wipe your ass at a convention center without getting in trouble with the Ass Wipers Local 570 union.)
Actually, I believe that they are trying to sell that Audiotron thing to the average slashdotter. Note the thinkgeek link in the story. This seems to be happening more and more lately. There are a lot less links to the actual manufacturer of the product and more links to places that sell it (ie Thinkgeek). This site used to be about information; now it seems to mostly exist to sell products to us.
Yeah, I'm serious. It's not the ads that bother me so much (if they were images, I'd remove them w/ my transparent proxy), it's that I want good service from them. Here are my reasons:
- The site is always up and if its not, I want my money back.
- I like their search technology. I want to help ensure that they are profitable and stay around.
- I never, ever want anyone to be able to improve their rankings on the results that I view.
Oops, that link doesn't point to the correct URL. Here is what I was talking about.
I would gladly pay a reasonable (~$5.00/month or so ...) for use of Google's search engine without ads.
I would pay a little extra (maybe another $5.00) for a customized search service. For example, Google offers BSD users a way to search
BSD-related pages. I would like to have additional topic-relevant searches that I could define (or pick from a list). For instance, I'd like a Mac OS X search, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever search, a Jeep search, etc., etc.
If they would provide a search bar for Mozilla (like the Google bar for IE, sans spyware), I would pay a one-time fee for this.
There are lots of ways for this company to make money. I hope that they go that route.
Chris
This feature could be a problem. If there was a +4 Informative post, I could mod it to +5 Funny and it disappears for everyone who has the -2 Funny feature enabled.
A better solution: find the average of the ratings: If there are 4 Informative's and 1 Funny, Informative is how the post is rated.
Chris
How about Ralf Engelschall's WML language? According to the copyright, WML came about in 1996.
Good lord, this is old news. This was on FC days ago.
The kevlar fronting and bulletproof glass is for when their investors come-a-calling.
Don't kid yourself. These companies are not tanking because of the downturn of the internet economy. They are tanking because they flushed good cash down the toilet. Take a tour of an Exodus datacenter and you'll see what I mean. Bulletproof glass. Alarmed manhole covers. Biometric (hand and body weight) entrances. Armored CAT5 cable. It's nuts, really. When is the last time you heard about someone storming into a datacenter and stealing, for example, one of Best Buy's Web servers? The way that these companies spent money is almost
criminal. It must have been like an everyday Christmas for their purchasing folks. The "build it and they will come" mentality is what killed them.
Like hell this country should spend tax dollars to keep these con men afloat
Does anyone have any information on how to upgrade a :-)
Mandrake box w/o toasting the existing
configuration? Forgive me, I'm a FreeBSD user who
is accustomed to 'make world'.
Chris
I called the Store in Tyson's Corner this morning and talked to a tech who was very tired of people calling and asking if they could burn CDRs of the update. Here's what he told me:
1) No, you cannot burn 10.1 on CDR at the Apple Store
2) When I talked to him at around 11AM, he did not know of any plans to _sell_ the update in-store. He didn't rule it out completely; he just said that they had not received any of the update packages. However, I read an Apple press release later in the afternoon that indicated otherwise: updates (in limited quantities ) will be available at the stores.
Now, I did talk with one of my co-workers and found out the the CDR rumor had some truth to it originally but it was completely unofficial. Now that so many people have been calling the Apple Stores, I don't think this will be happening at all.
Heh, this reminds me of a scene from an old Cheech and Chong movie. Cheech had stolen a slot machine and taken it home in his van but he went inside the house for a few minutes and returned to find it stolen yet again.
"Hey man, they ripped off the thing I ripped off!!!"
There's no "moral" to your story. If an employee is owed wages, they can go to bankruptcy court and submit a claim against the assets like the rest of the investors and vendors. Stealing shit to make a point is wrong and cheats those who have invested much more in the company out of their share of the remaining scraps.