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article over at Forbe's has an interesting quote.
We gave IBM notice that they're in violation of the contract that they had," Sontag told Reuters.
"If they continue to ignore the termination order and with the damages that will rack up every day, we're not in a hurry to settle anymore." - Chris Sontag, a general manager in charge of SCO's Unix licensing efforts
With their bluff called it sounds like even SCO has realized this is pointless.
Re:Do younger minds absorb quicker?
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What I need are people who can meet with the users and the analysts and still get code out that serves our business well
absa-fucking-lutely!!/me waves arms in the air while shouting "testify brother!"
In business I would rather have a well rounded personable engineer then a brilliant but otherwise worthless programmer. Someone who can evaluate a requirments document and find the holes that need to be filled and take it upon themselves to contact the customer/user and get the holes filled. Someone I could take to a meeting with "the client" and be able to communicate and work with everyone to find the proper solution and then go back and do a bang up job implementing that solution.
People like that are the kind that continue to excel and progress in an organization as opposed to just being stuck in front of a monitor doing the same old drugery for years and years. You've got to be well rounded and sharp in all aspects of the software business in order to really succeed. A CS graduate brilliant in programming but ignorant in the rest of the process would not cut it for me.
I work for a pharmacy company, we have about 12 pharm's located around Texas. Our main office has about 50 users. I rolled out a VPN based on freeSWAN over DSL to the pharms and one of the services I installed on the VPN was Jabber. Now all of our collectors and other administrative types can talk securely to the pharmacists without expensive long distance calls. So far the results have been very positive. The only problem is convincing users who have never been exposed to IM to use it instead of the phone.
btw, For the windows machines i used the Exodus client and for my Linux workstations i used Gaim.
What you think the mysql vs. postgresql flame wars aren't good enough!!! what are you thinking!! i don't mean to flame but the Vi vs. Emacs flame wars are nothing compared to the mysql vs. postgresql flame wars!!!!
... I am ashamed this guy is from Texas.
Do I get to appear naked on the cover of Entertainment Magazine now or what?
Re:Everything can be related to math.
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Imaginary numbers are part of math.
what like eleventeen and thirtytwelve?
Re:Fibre is just a network cable, relax guys...
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I'd kill for a 10Mbit link, let alone 100Mbit
Another thing people miss is the fact that just because you have 100Mbit link to your computer doesn't mean you are going to get 100Mbit/sec xfer rates. put two ( and only two ) normal everyday PC's on a 100Mbit switched LAN and ftp a file between them, if you get above 60Mbit/sec I'd be surprised.
An open phone would be badass. java + linux would be perfect. SDK's are readily available and an open source kernel and operating system opens the doors to all types of cool hacks. The missing piece would be a telephony protocol ( don't know if that is the right term ) that ran over IP, something like VOIP but better, so now we have an open phone on an IP network.
You could do text messaging via jabber, ftp files to/from your phone ( having a copy of winscp and putty on your cell would come in handy for sys admins. ), store docs on your phone, regular email, run a webserver-post-on-slashdot-crash-webserver, all kinds of nifty stuff.
I can imagine a beautiful, peaceful alien race. Free of crime, war, and violence.
you know its strange, a LOT of people automatically assume a civilized alien race would be this great utopian society eager to enlighten us and save us from our follies. They would have technology to stop hunger and suffering and answers to prevent war. But who knows, they could just as easily show up as lamers preaching some religeon X and kill everyone who doesn't worship God Y... just like the lamers here.
I don't mean to rant but i have been working on hardware all morning while my software projects slip further behind so i'm kind of in a bad mood but hte abolishment of all religeon or the adoption of a single global religeon would be the greatest thing to happen to the human race... maybe contact with something other then us would set us on that track.
I have to agree with you. If the purpose of bringing Inet access to low-income families is to help them in their situation then the money could be better spent elsewhere.However, bringing Inet access to a school where the majority of students are low income would not be a bad idea. Teach them how to use the Inet and encourage the student's curiousity and maybe a path would open up to somewhere else besides the 'hood. Of course this requires a good teacher who gives a fsck and good luck finding that in a poor school where teachers/authority_figures priority is just surviving to see tomorrow.
btw, if you want to do something about the rest of the world where people have really fucked-up lives read eveything you can about Fred Cuny ( the good and the bad, he was murdered in Chechnya IIRC ) and use your tech skills to make a difference. WiFi for emergency comm networks in disaster areas anyone?
.. there's more to being an engineer then just writing technical memos that nobody reads. Sometimes someone reads one and then you have to find a scapegoat or take some vacation time and hope the whole thing blows over.
Read the Scientists, Engineers and other odd people chapter in The Dilbert Principle. That chapter is a pretty good portrayal.
i made something similar...
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in high school. Took a bunch of the smaller coffee cans and cut half moons in the bottom. I then duct taped about 5 togather alternating the half moons. Last I punched a nail hole in the bottom can. You poor about a half cup of alcohol in the top and shake the whole thing until all the surface area is covered then give it a minute so that the alcohol can evaoporate. Stick something in the top ( plastic gatorade bottles worked well ) and strike a match near the nail hole. It was very very loud and powerfull. The last time i ever used it I set everything up like I'd done a hundred times before but when I put the match next to the nail hole the whole thing went off like bomb ( I think it was a taping failure)! The detonation was so loud and violent that I was completely disoriented for about 30 seconds. Then the realization that I prolly have invisible burning alcohol all over me and I couldn't feel my hands brought me back to reality. A check for hands/fingers and burning sensations soon followed. I haven't touched it since ( about 8 years ago ).
Re:Not impossible...
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Unfortunately, because the piece order is by definition random..
Given the fact that all digital devices are deterministic finite state atomotons and random behavior is non deterministic, given a set of states the probability of a state transition is equal for all states, isn't it impossible for a digital device to act randomly? I know computers can generate random *enough* numbers but by what measure?
actually what made this especially bad was UDP. Not many programs run on UDP ports almost always they are TCP. TCP has a VERY important feature and that is upon a non-ack'd window it throttles back the send rate. This is a way to get congestion feedback to a host and tell it to "settle down". The problem with UDP is there is no way to tell it to slow down. Also, the fact that the Internet is a "best effort" network means that no matter what the UDP incoming rate the routers will do their best to deliver the packets. This comes at the expense of all other traffic flows in the router, no way to get congestion feedback to the host means no way to limit the incoming rate.
Even if the routers just dropped the packets that still increases CPU and RAM utilization and with the volume that was happening would still probably bring traffic throughput to a trickle.
Well he is a master of social engineering. He prolly had all the inmates he didn't like fearing for their lives, the inmates he did like waiting on him hand and foot and all the prison guard's credit card numbers.
it doesn't have a web server built in then we could/. it and keep people from getting there drinks. Maybe a fight would break out and spread to the street. A few bystanders get involved and we have the first/riot.
I found a post-it stuck to my monitor yesturday from the local office cutie with her phone number saying she wants to see LOTR. So now I get to see the movie and have a date. Life is good.
that you can make money with Linux and with open source.
I'm at work and on a Redhat 7.3 box and I got Redhat 8.0 workstations directly behind me and all my servers run Redhat. I have 10 remote locations connected by Redhat gateways running FreeSwan. Everything is very stable ( I can tell how long I've worked here by the uptime on the file servers ) Thanks Redhat your success is well earned and for real.
most of the major technical advancments took place during war time or when national security was at risk?
ARPA was founded in response to Sputnik. The world wars brought so much technical advancment its hard to imagine ( radar, A-bomb, modern flying machines ect.. ).
I bet if you plotted technical advancment and U.S. national risk over the last 100 years the graphs would be identical.
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they lock you in a room and throw the room away.
they have perl on computers now? thats unpossible!
yeah well i only had ones and zeros and sometimes I didn't even have ones. I once wrote an entire database using only zeros.
This article over at Forbe's has an interesting quote.
We gave IBM notice that they're in violation of the contract that they had," Sontag told Reuters. "If they continue to ignore the termination order and with the damages that will rack up every day, we're not in a hurry to settle anymore."
- Chris Sontag, a general manager in charge of SCO's Unix licensing efforts
With their bluff called it sounds like even SCO has realized this is pointless.
What I need are people who can meet with the users and the analysts and still get code out that serves our business well
/me waves arms in the air while shouting "testify brother!"
absa-fucking-lutely!!
In business I would rather have a well rounded personable engineer then a brilliant but otherwise worthless programmer. Someone who can evaluate a requirments document and find the holes that need to be filled and take it upon themselves to contact the customer/user and get the holes filled. Someone I could take to a meeting with "the client" and be able to communicate and work with everyone to find the proper solution and then go back and do a bang up job implementing that solution.
People like that are the kind that continue to excel and progress in an organization as opposed to just being stuck in front of a monitor doing the same old drugery for years and years. You've got to be well rounded and sharp in all aspects of the software business in order to really succeed. A CS graduate brilliant in programming but ignorant in the rest of the process would not cut it for me.
I work for a pharmacy company, we have about 12 pharm's located around Texas. Our main office has about 50 users. I rolled out a VPN based on freeSWAN over DSL to the pharms and one of the services I installed on the VPN was Jabber. Now all of our collectors and other administrative types can talk securely to the pharmacists without expensive long distance calls. So far the results have been very positive. The only problem is convincing users who have never been exposed to IM to use it instead of the phone.
btw, For the windows machines i used the Exodus client and for my Linux workstations i used Gaim.
Not to mention the flames caused by Vi and EMACS.
What you think the mysql vs. postgresql flame wars aren't good enough!!! what are you thinking!! i don't mean to flame but the Vi vs. Emacs flame wars are nothing compared to the mysql vs. postgresql flame wars!!!!
... I am ashamed this guy is from Texas.
Do I get to appear naked on the cover of Entertainment Magazine now or what?
Imaginary numbers are part of math.
what like eleventeen and thirtytwelve?
I'd kill for a 10Mbit link, let alone 100Mbit
Another thing people miss is the fact that just because you have 100Mbit link to your computer doesn't mean you are going to get 100Mbit/sec xfer rates. put two ( and only two ) normal everyday PC's on a 100Mbit switched LAN and ftp a file between them, if you get above 60Mbit/sec I'd be surprised.
An open phone would be badass. java + linux would be perfect. SDK's are readily available and an open source kernel and operating system opens the doors to all types of cool hacks. The missing piece would be a telephony protocol ( don't know if that is the right term ) that ran over IP, something like VOIP but better, so now we have an open phone on an IP network.
You could do text messaging via jabber, ftp files to/from your phone ( having a copy of winscp and putty on your cell would come in handy for sys admins. ), store docs on your phone, regular email, run a webserver-post-on-slashdot-crash-webserver, all kinds of nifty stuff.
I can imagine a beautiful, peaceful alien race. Free of crime, war, and violence.
you know its strange, a LOT of people automatically assume a civilized alien race would be this great utopian society eager to enlighten us and save us from our follies. They would have technology to stop hunger and suffering and answers to prevent war. But who knows, they could just as easily show up as lamers preaching some religeon X and kill everyone who doesn't worship God Y... just like the lamers here.
I don't mean to rant but i have been working on hardware all morning while my software projects slip further behind so i'm kind of in a bad mood but hte abolishment of all religeon or the adoption of a single global religeon would be the greatest thing to happen to the human race... maybe contact with something other then us would set us on that track.
I have to agree with you. If the purpose of bringing Inet access to low-income families is to help them in their situation then the money could be better spent elsewhere.However, bringing Inet access to a school where the majority of students are low income would not be a bad idea. Teach them how to use the Inet and encourage the student's curiousity and maybe a path would open up to somewhere else besides the 'hood. Of course this requires a good teacher who gives a fsck and good luck finding that in a poor school where teachers/authority_figures priority is just surviving to see tomorrow.
btw, if you want to do something about the rest of the world where people have really fucked-up lives read eveything you can about Fred Cuny ( the good and the bad, he was murdered in Chechnya IIRC ) and use your tech skills to make a difference. WiFi for emergency comm networks in disaster areas anyone?
.. there's more to being an engineer then just writing technical memos that nobody reads. Sometimes someone reads one and then you have to find a scapegoat or take some vacation time and hope the whole thing blows over.
Read the Scientists, Engineers and other odd people chapter in The Dilbert Principle. That chapter is a pretty good portrayal.
fffttt i did my taxes over a year ago.
in high school. Took a bunch of the smaller coffee cans and cut half moons in the bottom. I then duct taped about 5 togather alternating the half moons. Last I punched a nail hole in the bottom can. You poor about a half cup of alcohol in the top and shake the whole thing until all the surface area is covered then give it a minute so that the alcohol can evaoporate. Stick something in the top ( plastic gatorade bottles worked well ) and strike a match near the nail hole. It was very very loud and powerfull. The last time i ever used it I set everything up like I'd done a hundred times before but when I put the match next to the nail hole the whole thing went off like bomb ( I think it was a taping failure)! The detonation was so loud and violent that I was completely disoriented for about 30 seconds. Then the realization that I prolly have invisible burning alcohol all over me and I couldn't feel my hands brought me back to reality. A check for hands/fingers and burning sensations soon followed. I haven't touched it since ( about 8 years ago ).
Unfortunately, because the piece order is by definition random..
Given the fact that all digital devices are deterministic finite state atomotons and random behavior is non deterministic, given a set of states the probability of a state transition is equal for all states, isn't it impossible for a digital device to act randomly? I know computers can generate random *enough* numbers but by what measure?
actually what made this especially bad was UDP. Not many programs run on UDP ports almost always they are TCP. TCP has a VERY important feature and that is upon a non-ack'd window it throttles back the send rate. This is a way to get congestion feedback to a host and tell it to "settle down". The problem with UDP is there is no way to tell it to slow down. Also, the fact that the Internet is a "best effort" network means that no matter what the UDP incoming rate the routers will do their best to deliver the packets. This comes at the expense of all other traffic flows in the router, no way to get congestion feedback to the host means no way to limit the incoming rate. Even if the routers just dropped the packets that still increases CPU and RAM utilization and with the volume that was happening would still probably bring traffic throughput to a trickle.
Well he is a master of social engineering. He prolly had all the inmates he didn't like fearing for their lives, the inmates he did like waiting on him hand and foot and all the prison guard's credit card numbers.
it doesn't have a web server built in then we could /. it and keep people from getting there drinks. Maybe a fight would break out and spread to the street. A few bystanders get involved and we have the first /riot.
doesn't it look like the business end of that symbian thing?
I found a post-it stuck to my monitor yesturday from the local office cutie with her phone number saying she wants to see LOTR. So now I get to see the movie and have a date. Life is good.
that you can make money with Linux and with open source.
I'm at work and on a Redhat 7.3 box and I got Redhat 8.0 workstations directly behind me and all my servers run Redhat. I have 10 remote locations connected by Redhat gateways running FreeSwan. Everything is very stable ( I can tell how long I've worked here by the uptime on the file servers ) Thanks Redhat your success is well earned and for real.
god only on slashdot would this get modded as insightfull
most of the major technical advancments took place during war time or when national security was at risk?
ARPA was founded in response to Sputnik. The world wars brought so much technical advancment its hard to imagine ( radar, A-bomb, modern flying machines ect.. ).
I bet if you plotted technical advancment and U.S. national risk over the last 100 years the graphs would be identical.