I just hosted Richard Stallman at my university (http://csee.wvu.edu/rms video coming soon). After the lecture was finished a student asked him "What can I do to be a better programmer" to which he responded "Learn LISP."
I can say from my experience with the language, that RMS, ESR, and PG are all right. Learn LISP. It will change how you think.
Here at WVU in the CS department we run everything on linux. Most of the greater campus is penguin friendly. There's two clubs here working to make the campus even more interoperable with linux.
You can reverse your configuration options, apply what I'm saying abstractly.
Have a blanket DENY option. Then when you find a friend you can add them specifically. Much simpler than having to start blocking the internet.
For example, on my personal wiki page I have registration set to disabled right now. When I find a friend needs access I enable registration.
Furthermore, to avoid some of the/. effect you could protect the actual pages. The entire contents of the folders storing your board HTML and code could be authorization required.
I agree with request tracker. If you are a professional at what you do and take your job seriously you won't have problems with RT performance. Configuring and tuning your RT instance will be crucial.
DocBook sounds like you could benefit from it a lot. It's a standardized XML namespace (http://www.docbook.org/) which allows you to use the more popular XSLT stylesheets. AND you can put a customization layer on top of that should you want.
You'll typically transform from XML to TeX and then to any of the 98234098409234 other formats that tex can be exported into.
Jeff Gould seems to be making the simple mistake of assuming that Ubuntu == Canonical. Ubuntu is not selling out, that is obvious. He even points it out in his article quoting Ubuntus Netzero-esque slogan that "it will always be free".
Is Canonical selling out? Not by far. Canonical has never made the assertion that they will be producing software and services free of charge. Various websites will say the definition of sellout is an act of betrayal or "When a band changes themselves just for money or fame." Neither of these two statements apply to canonical.
I hate to be one of those/.ers that take a quote and pick it apart point by point, but I feel the necessity right now.
"Our mission
Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations by:
* delivering the world's best free software platform
* ensuring its availability to everyone
* supporting it with high quality professional service offerings
* facilitating the continued growth and development of the free software community"
Deliver the worlds best free software platform? "Best" is objective, but they are delivering a free (beer + some speech) software platform. Is it for everyone? Yep! It has many translations and it's not limited to anyone acquiring it.
Supporting it? They have their free (beer) online forums that they host and pay the bills for. Notice that this bullet lacks the word 'free' (beer). They never claim to be offering support or extra functionality for free (beer) of charge. They restrict their free (beer) offering of product to the software platform they "make available".
Facilitate the continued growth of the free software community? They are doing that too! When developers of Ubuntu, either sponsored by canonical or on their whim, maintain or enhance the offerings of software in the "free software platform" that Canonical "makes available" for free (beer).
Jeff Gould, please take a moment to think about the entities you make broad sweeping comments about when you post articles on the internet. Your article title does not refer to the correct entity. I feel that you suggesting "Ubuntu" is selling out was done not as a misunderstanding in your subject matter, but as a way to get more readers, a trolling headline to get people interested in your misguided article.
Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition.'"
Marketing? Once you are the monopoly you don't have to do all that much work. Add on that mac OS was pretty shitty before 10 and you can see how MS got so much market.
Fending off competition? Yeah, I remember a story about that, I think they either bought their competition with their monopoly-money, or sued them to ruin.
I think a key factor that unicies have in advantage over windows is that, you really don't have to worry about OS upgrades. You can have software from 1992 running still and be running YourDistributions newest version. Upgrades the OS and things still run. What IMHO throws business off from Vista is that they JUST probably got settled with with XP. You know how it goes, new OS comes out (XP) you spend time waiting for your software to get rewritten for it, and tested, then spend time deploying it, then spend time training on it, then spend time getting your users onto it. Vista comes out now and people ARE happy with what they have. In fact, the last thing I'd want as a sysadmin is to have to upgrade now. Everything is settled down, you would have to have a very compelling reason, more so than "We have aero, and sidebar, and DX10." As I see it, there is no compelling reason to move to Vista.
"There is still no full consensus over how certain things should be displayed."
www.w3c.org
I think you may be wrong?
"So you'd have to do the page two or three times to make it compatible with every browser. But that, in turn, would cost more money."
In my world, I call that "doing my job." That is to say, not half assing it. When I design something I concurrently test it in both browsers. Being a web developer in the polybrowser world means testing your product as you develop it, anything less is unprofessional.
As a personal anecdote, which I'm sure we all can attest to: I've seen plenty of pages that render properly in IE and Firefox. Corporate ones at that. Even http://www.microsoft.com/ renders properly in both.:-)
When backpacking around the world you should make it your goal to stop in as many interwebnets cafes as possible. Add on to that: meeting random cool people and utilizing their intarwebs and you're well on your way to having something to write about in your crappy blog:)
Great example of more FUD for the fire (no pun intended). Why just post a bug report to the bug list like everyone else when you can make a 'proof of concept' bug, post it on slashdot and increase visitors to your site? No no, we can't go the normal route, that wouldn't make IE look better. All a proof of concept virus does is make all the new people want to flock back to IE
Surely there must be some way for the Slashdot crowd to twist this into an anti-Bush/Ashcroft rant.
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Thanks. You've just given me my new signature. My previous one was election based.
no, clearly this is more proof that linux is superior.
The internet archive has a lot more info than that. And grows by a lot each month. If they think walmarts 460 Tb of data is > than the internet I'd wager that they're wrong.
The problem is that sure, more companies can start with smaller initial capital, and sure some products will be cheaper, but more americans will be out of work.
How will you feel when your boss comes up to you and says "you are fired, we are replacing you with some one over seas who will work for 1/8 what you make and doesnt want any benefits"
Thats the problem with out sourcing. Americans are not getting jobs they could be getting, and some Americans are losing their jobs.
What do you say to this? "get a different job?" Well, when you have studied for 6 years in a university to get a degree in whatever you do, you are going to want to apply it to that field of work arent you? But you can't now can you? Thats right, that job you could you could get is now in India, or Tailand.
So, you go on ahead and enjoy your wasted degree, and you have fun knowing that when outsourcing happens more people are unhappy in a job they don't want. At least some things will be cheaper and we'll have more start up companies... right?
Slashdot Mirror
I just hosted Richard Stallman at my university (http://csee.wvu.edu/rms video coming soon). After the lecture was finished a student asked him "What can I do to be a better programmer" to which he responded "Learn LISP."
I can say from my experience with the language, that RMS, ESR, and PG are all right. Learn LISP. It will change how you think.
Here at WVU in the CS department we run everything on linux. Most of the greater campus is penguin friendly. There's two clubs here working to make the campus even more interoperable with linux.
I'm downloading the x64 Jaunty Beta right now via bit torrent at a rate of 2 MB/sec. I'm saturating my 16 Mbps connection :-)
To continue...
You can reverse your configuration options, apply what I'm saying abstractly.
Have a blanket DENY option. Then when you find a friend you can add them specifically. Much simpler than having to start blocking the internet.
For example, on my personal wiki page I have registration set to disabled right now. When I find a friend needs access I enable registration.
Furthermore, to avoid some of the /. effect you could protect the actual pages. The entire contents of the folders storing your board HTML and code could be authorization required.
I agree with request tracker. If you are a professional at what you do and take your job seriously you won't have problems with RT performance. Configuring and tuning your RT instance will be crucial.
DocBook sounds like you could benefit from it a lot. It's a standardized XML namespace (http://www.docbook.org/) which allows you to use the more popular XSLT stylesheets. AND you can put a customization layer on top of that should you want.
You'll typically transform from XML to TeX and then to any of the 98234098409234 other formats that tex can be exported into.
I saw the headline before I saw the photograph and my first thought was "I bet some Asian guy made that."
Imagine my surprise when I saw the photograph....
Jeff Gould seems to be making the simple mistake of assuming that Ubuntu == Canonical. Ubuntu is not selling out, that is obvious. He even points it out in his article quoting Ubuntus Netzero-esque slogan that "it will always be free".
Is Canonical selling out? Not by far. Canonical has never made the assertion that they will be producing software and services free of charge. Various websites will say the definition of sellout is an act of betrayal or "When a band changes themselves just for money or fame." Neither of these two statements apply to canonical.
I hate to be one of those /.ers that take a quote and pick it apart point by point, but I feel the necessity right now.
Deliver the worlds best free software platform? "Best" is objective, but they are delivering a free (beer + some speech) software platform. Is it for everyone? Yep! It has many translations and it's not limited to anyone acquiring it.
Supporting it? They have their free (beer) online forums that they host and pay the bills for. Notice that this bullet lacks the word 'free' (beer). They never claim to be offering support or extra functionality for free (beer) of charge. They restrict their free (beer) offering of product to the software platform they "make available".
Facilitate the continued growth of the free software community? They are doing that too! When developers of Ubuntu, either sponsored by canonical or on their whim, maintain or enhance the offerings of software in the "free software platform" that Canonical "makes available" for free (beer).
Jeff Gould, please take a moment to think about the entities you make broad sweeping comments about when you post articles on the internet. Your article title does not refer to the correct entity. I feel that you suggesting "Ubuntu" is selling out was done not as a misunderstanding in your subject matter, but as a way to get more readers, a trolling headline to get people interested in your misguided article.
"But no. Now we have a 6 hour golf meeting every day for all employees, Caviar and wine spewing drinking fountains." You must work at google!
I think a key factor that unicies have in advantage over windows is that, you really don't have to worry about OS upgrades. You can have software from 1992 running still and be running YourDistributions newest version. Upgrades the OS and things still run. What IMHO throws business off from Vista is that they JUST probably got settled with with XP. You know how it goes, new OS comes out (XP) you spend time waiting for your software to get rewritten for it, and tested, then spend time deploying it, then spend time training on it, then spend time getting your users onto it. Vista comes out now and people ARE happy with what they have. In fact, the last thing I'd want as a sysadmin is to have to upgrade now. Everything is settled down, you would have to have a very compelling reason, more so than "We have aero, and sidebar, and DX10." As I see it, there is no compelling reason to move to Vista.
"There is still no full consensus over how certain things should be displayed."
:-)
www.w3c.org
I think you may be wrong?
"So you'd have to do the page two or three times to make it compatible with every browser. But that, in turn, would cost more money."
In my world, I call that "doing my job." That is to say, not half assing it. When I design something I concurrently test it in both browsers. Being a web developer in the polybrowser world means testing your product as you develop it, anything less is unprofessional.
As a personal anecdote, which I'm sure we all can attest to: I've seen plenty of pages that render properly in IE and Firefox. Corporate ones at that. Even http://www.microsoft.com/ renders properly in both.
When backpacking around the world you should make it your goal to stop in as many interwebnets cafes as possible. Add on to that: meeting random cool people and utilizing their intarwebs and you're well on your way to having something to write about in your crappy blog :)
It's on the front page infact
A ppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=9EE597FB&nclm=MacBook Pro
obligatory link:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
Great example of more FUD for the fire (no pun intended). Why just post a bug report to the bug list like everyone else when you can make a 'proof of concept' bug, post it on slashdot and increase visitors to your site? No no, we can't go the normal route, that wouldn't make IE look better. All a proof of concept virus does is make all the new people want to flock back to IE
Face it people, Bugs like this are reported and fixed all the time. Just because another person decided to post about their 'proof of concept' on slashdot doesn't mean the world is coming to an end
And wow, games were still made, and bought! imagine that...
think of your average geek, sitting there, tapping his foot while he reads slashdot. That could easily pass for 'activity'.
If it's a c++ project KDevelop will show you a list of functions and classes and what files they're in. Things of that nature. Try it out, it's free.
Surely there must be some way for the Slashdot crowd to twist this into an anti-Bush/Ashcroft rant. ------ Thanks. You've just given me my new signature. My previous one was election based. no, clearly this is more proof that linux is superior.
The internet archive has a lot more info than that. And grows by a lot each month. If they think walmarts 460 Tb of data is > than the internet I'd wager that they're wrong.
Must have at least 5 years expirence.
And if I'm right then Nader will Win
There is always... this http://www.lilik.it/~michelefi/files/images/micro/ Bill_Nazi.jpg
Netcraft confirms it, kicking a dead horse is still fun.
The problem is that sure, more companies can start with smaller initial capital, and sure some products will be cheaper, but more americans will be out of work.
How will you feel when your boss comes up to you and says "you are fired, we are replacing you with some one over seas who will work for 1/8 what you make and doesnt want any benefits"
Thats the problem with out sourcing. Americans are not getting jobs they could be getting, and some Americans are losing their jobs.
What do you say to this? "get a different job?" Well, when you have studied for 6 years in a university to get a degree in whatever you do, you are going to want to apply it to that field of work arent you? But you can't now can you? Thats right, that job you could you could get is now in India, or Tailand.
So, you go on ahead and enjoy your wasted degree, and you have fun knowing that when outsourcing happens more people are unhappy in a job they don't want. At least some things will be cheaper and we'll have more start up companies... right?