Why not generify it and upload it to somewhere like github? That way you can use it, maintain some (artistic?) ownership, and possibly spread the joy. Then you could download it and use it at work like any other piece of software.
You might want to talk to a lawyer about whether work would own this, though.
I've worked with cops and I'm not terribly surprised - "excessive" wear and tear was always a problem. This isn't the first expensive system I've heard of being kept in a closet. Give it a few years and the dust might have been a factor too.
(I'm not sure if it's actually a surveillance state if nobody's looking through the broken cameras.)
I was in an Apple store, having my first look at macosx - it reminded me too much of nextstep for me to want one. (The job I had at the time made me really hate anything NeXT-related.)
That said, I have a number of shrink-wrapped NeXTStep 3.3 box sets knocking around, if you lot are all so interested in nextstep I may just go finish the flog-them-on-ebay procedure.;-)
This was my option, some years ago - I made my own templating script in Perl. It does everything I need it to, and I've used it to create several sites and to manage my own few little pages. It can parse a rudimentary config file, modify links in include files, and so on. My motivation was that there was no Dreamweaver for Debian - and that I didn't want anything of Dreamweaver except for a decent templating system.
Of course, I came in having learned HTML before I touched Dreamweaver, and then having learned Perl/PHP after. So it wasn't out of the question for me to use my own templating system.
This gadget was also the very first thing I made in Perl after reading the Llama book. It reads like a bit of a joke, but it's still useful and I use it.
www.topmudsites.com is a good place to start. If you like MMORPG's, and you enjoy a more literate, deeper, and more immersive game playing experience, MUDs could be for you.
... give these people whatever you wouldn't mind having them ask you questions about. It sounds like you're setting yourself up to be tech support guy for your christmas card list.
Keeping in mind the past history of Microsoft products when stacked up against competitors...
Was MS Windows 1.0 better than an X-capable terminal? Or a similar GUI of that era?
I'll be interested to see how Microsoft's search offering stacks up against its competitors in twenty or more years down the road.
My point being that Microsoft's successes have come from the years of refining its products in a monopolistic environment, not from the initial offering. How will this product do when bundled with Longhorn?
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I wouldn't know about Oracle support and such, but you can run Oracle 9 on Debian Woody, having done it at a previous workplace.
Of course, I didn't fancy my luck calling up Oracle tech support and saying "my Oracle-on-Debian installation is being odd". Heh.
I recall (off the top of my head) that from the base system I had to put in locales and libstdc++, among others. I also had to choose the EN_US locale so that the universal installer would work, as well as create a symlink with a RedHat-ish name so that the installer and/or Oracle (can't remember which) would find said c++ libs. Of course, this is off the top of my head. YMMV.
Still, I was able to exp/imp a database from an old system to this new system, and use the data in a java application (Sun's java rpm installed using alien to get the deb, heh). So it did work.
Note that I'm more the sysadmin guy than the dba guy.
Bicycles can be impractical in rural Canada in winter. It's not just the ice -- it's the snow, and the ice, and the cold, and the long hours of darkness, and the poor visibility.
...all these outsourcing companies run out of newer, cheaper places to go? Asia, Africa, South America - all these places, as they climb the economic ladder, will eventually not be the cheapest place to outsource labour to.
I wonder what sort of economic adjustments will happen when price isn't such a huge consideration in the provision of IT services?
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Why not generify it and upload it to somewhere like github? That way you can use it, maintain some (artistic?) ownership, and possibly spread the joy. Then you could download it and use it at work like any other piece of software.
You might want to talk to a lawyer about whether work would own this, though.
I've worked with cops and I'm not terribly surprised - "excessive" wear and tear was always a problem. This isn't the first expensive system I've heard of being kept in a closet. Give it a few years and the dust might have been a factor too.
(I'm not sure if it's actually a surveillance state if nobody's looking through the broken cameras.)
I hope so too. Will I have to chmod -R -w /path/to/firefox-dir?
Do I have to weld it on or something?
While it's post-hoc, it looks like quiet, no-fuss GPL compliance.
I'm good with it as long as they don't keep it up with the post-hoc part.
I was in an Apple store, having my first look at macosx - it reminded me too much of nextstep for me to want one. (The job I had at the time made me really hate anything NeXT-related.)
;-)
That said, I have a number of shrink-wrapped NeXTStep 3.3 box sets knocking around, if you lot are all so interested in nextstep I may just go finish the flog-them-on-ebay procedure.
This was my option, some years ago - I made my own templating script in Perl. It does everything I need it to, and I've used it to create several sites and to manage my own few little pages. It can parse a rudimentary config file, modify links in include files, and so on. My motivation was that there was no Dreamweaver for Debian - and that I didn't want anything of Dreamweaver except for a decent templating system.
Of course, I came in having learned HTML before I touched Dreamweaver, and then having learned Perl/PHP after. So it wasn't out of the question for me to use my own templating system.
This gadget was also the very first thing I made in Perl after reading the Llama book. It reads like a bit of a joke, but it's still useful and I use it.
www.topmudsites.com is a good place to start. If you like MMORPG's, and you enjoy a more literate, deeper, and more immersive game playing experience, MUDs could be for you.
... give these people whatever you wouldn't mind having them ask you questions about. It sounds like you're setting yourself up to be tech support guy for your christmas card list.
Keeping in mind the past history of Microsoft products when stacked up against competitors...
Was MS Windows 1.0 better than an X-capable terminal? Or a similar GUI of that era?
I'll be interested to see how Microsoft's search offering stacks up against its competitors in twenty or more years down the road.
My point being that Microsoft's successes have come from the years of refining its products in a monopolistic environment, not from the initial offering. How will this product do when bundled with Longhorn?
I wouldn't know about Oracle support and such, but you can run Oracle 9 on Debian Woody, having done it at a previous workplace.
Of course, I didn't fancy my luck calling up Oracle tech support and saying "my Oracle-on-Debian installation is being odd". Heh.
I recall (off the top of my head) that from the base system I had to put in locales and libstdc++, among others. I also had to choose the EN_US locale so that the universal installer would work, as well as create a symlink with a RedHat-ish name so that the installer and/or Oracle (can't remember which) would find said c++ libs. Of course, this is off the top of my head. YMMV.
Still, I was able to exp/imp a database from an old system to this new system, and use the data in a java application (Sun's java rpm installed using alien to get the deb, heh). So it did work.
Note that I'm more the sysadmin guy than the dba guy.
Bicycles can be impractical in rural Canada in winter. It's not just the ice -- it's the snow, and the ice, and the cold, and the long hours of darkness, and the poor visibility.
Your lack of knowledge is simple to fix. Read:
man ldd
man grep
man bash (for the pipe - no, some people don't know)
...all these outsourcing companies run out of newer, cheaper places to go? Asia, Africa, South America - all these places, as they climb the economic ladder, will eventually not be the cheapest place to outsource labour to.
I wonder what sort of economic adjustments will happen when price isn't such a huge consideration in the provision of IT services?
Enough said. I'm not.