AUSTIN, Sept. 21 -- Three top political aides to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) were indicted Tuesday on charges of illegally raising political funds from corporations in 2002, much of which was funneled into the Republican takeover of the Texas legislature.
As much as I would like this to happen; It won't. We know ABC and FOX are out. Perhaps CBS is a shot, but they are VERY family friendly with their mix of shows... they wouldn't want a religious right boycott. And all the cable networks are consolidated now, so there's no independent voice there either. "AOL" Time Warner's new crop of old media executives will keep it off their networks. Bravo and USA are owned by NBC. I would guess NBC is the closest shot at getting it aired. I discount ABC because Disney is the parent company, and FOX, well shit Rupert Murdoch isn't going to have any of that film on his stations.
Isn't media consolidation great? Thanks FCC.
All that being said, we'd be far better off in educating America if Bush's Brain was aired on television. That is a much more enlightening film. No offense Michael, I love your work, but Karl Rove is more dangerous than the Bush family ties to bin Laden.
Disclaimer: I have given to Kerry Edwards 2004, I have even have a sign in my yard (TEXAS) Not only that, I voted twice for Ross Perot. I remain an independent.
You left off Darwin & Mac OS X itself. Since you included non-enterprise versions of other distributions, these should be in the list too.
If you don't need apple's windowserver, Darwin is a free option. Depending on your definition of Free, it's BSD free, but not GPL free.
If you don't need any of Apple's server additions to OS X, then OS X itself is decent - although it does tend to give higher priority to windowserver than does os x server (one of the tweaks, but you can tell it always boot into console if you want!)
If you bought Apple G5 xserve hardware, then you'll want all the monitoring tweaks they include for free with the 10-client edition of osxs. The client limiter only applies to AFP connections, so if its not a mac file server, you don't need unlimited edition. (read the license!) I find it a weak argument for anybody to claim your getting charged extra for the 10-client os above the bare metal, due to the low price.
hardware : either sparc, intel, or amd
os : either solaris or linux
a full length layer : java
a full length layer : gnome
That's right. Sun is whoring its Java brand to sell desktop linux running GNOME, paired with the JRE, network computing and support contracts to enterprises.
BRAVO. This is absolutely the RIGHT thing to do for beating on Microsoft hegemony. I don't see anyone else using their brand this way to reach out to Enterprise Desktops. Perhaps Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards/PeopleSoft, Siebel, IBM, maybe even Apple and anyone else with real "street-cred" in enterprise should be shipping a linux-based JDS type OS too.
So what if Sun has a great high-capacity platform that you can run the backend on, if the linux x86 offerings don't fit the bill. They have to compete with IBM mainframes running linux for the backend.
[blockquote]
Sun = Saruman
Microsoft = Sauron
[/blockquote]
Wtf does that refer to? Those sound like fictional characters, but not any classic work suitable for reference which I'm familar with...
It's really good for last mile broadband though, f' the phone company and cable company. I'll pipe off a bonded T1 installed in a cabinet somewhere nearby (downtown fibuh, oooh, *drool*) and be done with it.
Anyways, I really look forward to this - except I was about to purchase a 3.6ghz licensed system. Um, I'll be looking for another slice of bandwidth. Thanks slashdot!
I like you. You know math. SOOOO many professionals would look at that, look at the formula for the area of a circle, and still go huh!?!
Not to mention how often people f'up percentages.
(yes some of it's offtopic, but nobody else is posting on this topic)
From an enterprise application deployment aspect, this makes it possible to deploy GNU/Linux apps and tools, without ripping out the windows apps in concert. How much more valuable can you get? You can even do low-impact trials of GNU/Linux solutions for regular users.
Do I really need to explain this any further?
Probably.
NO PORTING. FEWER BUGS. FEWER ISSUES.
Even if you can't get rid of your windows oem workstation tax on your OEM desktop, and you won't be rid of the "WHERE'S MY WINDOWS" screamers, you can be rid of ALL of the OTHER Microsoft 'taxes', by running linux apps, even one of the excellent office suites.
Besides, local users are used to their workstations crashing by now. Maybe 10 years from now, you can just run a linux desktop for everyone, but it takes time.
(x) This plan costs the spammers money to keep spamming. That's New. Good Work!
(x) It fails to account for the number of domains they'll flood us with, they'll just need about 4000 of them each. Better luck next time.
(x) Spammer will pay off a offshore registrar to do mass bulk registrations, and ICANN will do nothing about it.
That being said, I'm going to enable it on a test basis tomorrow first thing on one of the sendmail boxes.
Sounds like I'm talking about the US, but I'm talking OS UI design. Even if you have a "secure by design" OS, with quality implementation practices and design patterns, the end-run is, the user is not going to be allowed to do whatever they please to a secured os. If you have access to run untrusted/approved code on the box, you cannot be secure. Prove me wrong. You can get close, but there will be always be a local memory map hole of some sort.
As long as you are allowing the "power user" to have the unfettered access to modify the system, its a pipe dream to think you can prevent bad code from running. Even on Mac OS X, the "administrator rights" dialog is simply a nuisance, to be dismissed with the login/pwd. Users are trained to enter it, because it occurs so much. It should be SO difficult to run code at elevated privileges, then just maybe application developers wouldn't annoy their users with the authorization. Almost nothing folks run needs elevated privileges, unless your a true uber geek.
I think most here would agree with the following: if you have local hardware access, there is no software/hardware security past the lock on the door.
But with careful UI design, and good enterprise software distribution, you can get pretty close to a secure OS, that still lets you get the job done. I don't know how you teach Joe Home User not to run a Trojan, aside from flashing horrible warnings that he's likely to be running one now... (unsigned/modified after signing code, etc.) But as we've witnessed, hardly any developers mess with the Microsoft Signing, unless its a driver that shipped with windows:| Perhaps the FSF or a major linux binary distro could start a code signing initiative. There is nothing wrong with compiled code for the masses... (don't make me slap you!)
You have to pound the crap out of any middleware that is allowed to run remote code.. like ActiveX and JavaScript. Your system policies can prevent unsigned ActiveX from running - JavaScript on the browser can get too deep into the bowels of the OS, and if that OS isn't secure by design... well don't run untrusted JavaScript either. System policies can handle this too. Unsigned MS Office Macro's are rediculous to ever allow to run. The same goes with any code block before it's allowed to execute in an email message. Throw up a stern warning.
When big isps only accept mail from servers registered in the.mail tld, then that takes away my ability to run my own mailserver for my own private domains. How do you mean nothing is taken away from the end user.
So you'll have to trunk your email through your ISP's upstream mail server, which is configured to trust yours.
Boo hoo. I prefer this too. Maybe you bastards will start encrypting your mail if your worried about somebody sniffing it's traffic.
$2000 a year seems pretty high though. I understand ICANN fees are very expensive, and they need to recoup this, but a way for small businesses to become certified and not pay the same tax as exxon might be a step forward.
At $2000 a pop, that would be a HUGE cash cow for spamhaus, and I'd have a problem that. I'll do it for donations, I'm 100% sure I could get several datacenter operators to donate rack space and bandwidth to run a TLD registry. That and a team of trusted hackers together (a real hacker, not a cracker you kids...) to run the ops - no problem. SSL cert signing verification is already a problem solved, and the same front-end for issuing a.mail domain is done - just issue it to whomever has the domain.
That all being said, this is really no different than the SPF proposal, it just formalizes it the way DNS is designed. More meta like SPF provides can be tagged into TXT records or other RR's created to handle the problem. I think I'd like to see either a.mail TLD go through - or a IETF std for DNS records to handle the trusted sender problem.
I would LOVE to watch Nasa TV too. Too bad its not available in HOUSTON on analog cable (see proof). Until very recently, it wasn't even on Digital Cable. It's stuffed in with EWTN now.
For that matter I've been in houses that have been completely re-wired a couple times, and you can't tell from the inside. Wall spaces are empty, meaning they serve double duty as conduit.
Really? Sorry, that's a cheap house. Interior insulation is great for efficiency, and especially when you have kids. Unless you aren't very loud during the act...
BUT WATCH THE MONEY. All these add ons cost money, a little planning will reveal that not much is likely to change, so why spend extra money planning for a change that won't happen? Instead plan for todays needs, and the obvious needs of the future, and counts on the far future taking care of itself
Now that's sound advice. You could run conduit, but the cable itself is CHEAP. Just run gobs of it, and terminate it in boxes without faceplates. Those plates & proper termination can really add up. As well as central termination block systems. It doesn't have to be pretty in a closet somewhere. If you don't hook up the tail end to a faceplate, why bother hooking up the head end to a splitter/patch panel?
An employment law attorney will probably have an amendment to employment contract on file that they can charge you a stock fee and possibily an additional billable hour. Sometimes the "stock form fee" is a minimum of a billable hour in itself. That's reasonable.
If you don't feel comfortable with a lawyer, ask for a referral to one with experience in this field. They are usually bound by their state bars' rules to honor that request. If they can't even give you a referral, run! =)
Don't think HR NEVER agrees to an amendment - a relative of mine was employed by a major defense contractor starting in the 50's, and they even pulled that in the 50's. He had no problem getting them to agree to an amendment to the employment contract for IP clauses. Your employer's HR should expect that the contract is negotiable. They have submitted their offer, now submit your counter.
I'll second this - I suddenly realize that I measure my legos by their volume, not their weight - seems like such a meaninglessly high number anyway - what's the difference between 150 or 160 lbs anyway!!.
My now wife, then-gf, gave me a tub of legos for our first valentine's day - not one of those silly sets, but a genuine TUB. Now that's when you know you've got the one!
What indisputably exists is a rapidly expanding set of free software which more and more perfectly substitutes for commercial software, and in many cases excels it. Particularly considering its low cost, there is no need to explain the demand for this software. The challenge is, to explain the supply.
also
Richard, I agree with your pitch on free software to some extent, but how exactly are we in the IT business going to make a living if all (or most) of the software is free in the future? Why shouldnt someone charge for their software if its good and useful, why should they give away the design or their work, and isnt a little commerical competition good? If software developers should work for free, why not electronic engineers, architects, every profession? Like you, I dont agree with monopolies and those that abuse them, but thats another issue. If being a professional (charging) software developer becomes "bad" or "unfashionable", then isnt that a bit unfair on good, honest and reliable developers? We dont live in a 23rd century moneyless community, and communism didnt really take off in its various guises, so what are you promoting, a utopian future in every sense, a turn away from capitalism? But how can this just apply to software?
Let's separate the discussion of revenue for IT support staff from developers. First of all, there will likely be a increasing need for support staff, no matter if the software is proprietary or Free Software, so let's not worry about that profession.
The point has been raised that it would cost far more to develop Free Software than to purchase licenses to proprietary software. Multiply those licenses by hundreds and thousands of seats, add maintenance fees. Even then it might not be a cost-savings. But then multiply that cost by a handful of companies. Now suppose business are formed whose objective is fill that need: Develop Free Software funded through cooperatives. These cooperatives would secondarily be a mill producing staff with intimate knowledge of the software to provide support, or train others to provide support. So they can still charge for support contracts, as well as having a profit center from the development itself. I believe companies are ready to invest in cooperatives to develop Free Software that they need for their business computing. An enterprising group of software developers might make a nice living for themselves pursuing this path.
I would do invest in a cooperative for several classes of software, rather than attempt to roll our own. Customers involved in the cooperatives better understand their requirements than anybody else. (With the caveat that oftentimes customers have nobody who knows what the requirements should really be, but that's what a good consultant can do for you.)
A longtime mac bloggish site is linking to amazon, and offering actual discounts on a variety of apple hardware. Including the iPod.
Click on over to MacInTouch for a little bit off. It's linked off towards the bottom of the home page. It's not a huge discount, but the only one I've seen:
That fine, but THIS hole (and it is a hole, not a bloody feature, IMHO), grants anyone on your subnet r00t access on your MAC.
IF you are running with DHCP.
And if you are on a network doing this?
Trap out any unauthorized DHCP servers on your switches. You probably are already doing this to prevent headaches from people plugging in private 802.11 devices and screwing things up. Or you could just have an explicit allow list of MAC's (the standard accepted meaning of MAC, not your CaPsEd Mac.) Both are a standard network security measure.
I don't believe any home user should need to worry about this - broadband users using dhcp to get on the internet are likely to have unauthorized dhcp responses being filtered out already. That sort of activity would cause a lot of unnecessary support calls!
A debian developer (who I'm not going to name but it's not exactly a secret) revealed his password by logging into some machine that had been rooted. Shame on him for using the same password, and the Debian project for not policing that kind of thing. (That said, people do this all the time, even people who do/ought to know better.)
I'm going to have to beat into all the distro maintainers. Your servers should adopt OPIE one-time passwords. Failing that, enforce keypair authentication with your users. Put it right into your ssh_config. Force it. I recently engaged in a pro/con discussion of OPIE v. keypair authentication with another unix sysadmin. OPIE, by design, doesn't store the passphrase on either local or remote hosts. If you a rooted/keystroke logger on a connecting client, the password will not get them access after 30 seconds or so (depends on your OPIE config timeouts...) OPIE removes the possibility of keypairs being stolen. I do believe there is still a serious vulnerability to keystroke loggers capturing your OPIE passphrase, if entered on a compromised host. But this removes the possibility of a user's password being discovered with the easier methods.
You could always encourage folks to run their opie calculator on their cell-phone/pda, instead of a host directly attached to a network. (Are people hacking into your mobile yet?) No way to enforce that via policy though.
OPIE provides a one-time password system for POSIX-compliant UNIX-like operating systems. The system should be secure against the passive attacks now commonplace on the Internet (see RFC 1704 for more details). The system is vulnerable to active dictionary attacks, though these are not widespread at present and can be detected through proper use of system audit software. The NRL OPIE software is derived in part from and is backwards compatible with the Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) S/Key(TM) Version 1 Software Distribution. Because Bellcore claims "S/Key" as a trademark for their software, NRL has been forced to use a different name (they picked "OPIE") for its software distribution.
And I don't think anyones going to mars in one of those little tin cans. Imagine a year in that thing?
I would go in one of those tin cans, given enough supplies (which means a slightly bigger tin can). I expect there are a lot of people who would give up their comfort to fly around mars (not even landing...)
I've never gotten much of answer out of developer relations on this: Why the hell doesn't apple use Motorola's or IBM's set of compilers instead of gcc?
Is it masochism?
Apple says they've made lots of PPC specific optimizations in the compiler, but they NEVER prove it head to head against IBM or Metrowerks (motorola) compilers. I don't believe that Apple's tweaks to gcc make it faster, or even marginally close, to the code performance of alternative compilers.
At least they could compile the OS with the best compilers available, even if licensing issues would prevent them shipping free tools to everyone and their dog.
What you need to do is simply organize a walkout. You don't have to fully organize to get the point accross. Appoint a negotiator, and start with a simple demand, pay us the overtime too. Chances are they won't make any money now on the contract, but they keep their customer as their customer, which should be even more important to management than simply breaking even.
First get a core group of peers together outside of work.
Split of the remaining developers amongst you and get alternate email or home phone numbers together.
It is important to act fast - wait until the night before want to stage the walkout, and don't give your management time to come down and say "any walk-out participants will be fired" etc. You must contact the employees the night before you want to do the walk-out. Don't wait even an hour after everyone is in the next morning.
Don't forget to leave a note or email right as you are walking out with your demand and appointed representative.
Don't think you have to go to a lot of pre-organization here to get the job done. Another tip, figure out how many developers they can't afford to lose at all, and make that your core group. It is also like going to help your cause not to ask to keep the overtime after the project is complete.
Salaried employment has its advantages, unless they aren't allowing you that professional working environment, i.e. making you punch a time clock or refusing errand runs, requiring 4 weeks notice for even one day off, in which case, f'em, ask to go hourly, you already are an hourly grunt anyway in that case.
This is actually bad news. The MPC7457 still doesn't make full use of the bandwidth available in the DDR400 RAM the Macs are currently using. The MPC7470 does, but we're still not getting that chip - for whatever reason - I assume its a manufacturing & design issue. It's been a very long delay.
Motorola looks pretty amateurish with this feeble boost. This is a manufacturing tweak that intel and IBM have made months ago in their primary foundries. The MPC7457 likely isn't going to get used in any serious Macintoshes - perhaps it will go into the iBook and iMacs eventually.
So perhaps Motorola has given up on the MPC7470, and conceded that market to IBM's 970 and 980 chips. Let's hope so; I would like to buy a new workstation pretty soon.;-)
The following was posted Friday. How interesting - I guess even with Steve Case gone, you can still get called into the principal's office.
On a further note, can they really state this, that is revoke their license, once issued? The GPL doesn't seem to allow for that, right?
NOTICE OF UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE
An unauthorized copy of Nullsoft's copyrighted software was briefly
posted on this website on or about Wednesday May 28, 2003. The
software was identified as "WASTE" (the "Software") and includes
the files "waste-setup.exe", "waste-source.zip",
"waste-source.tar.gz" and any additional files contained in these
files.
Nullsoft is the exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in
the Software. The posting of the Software on this website was not
authorized by Nullsoft.
If you downloaded or otherwise obtained a copy of the Software, you
acquired no lawful rights to the Software and must destroy any and
all copies of the Software, including by deleting it from your
computer. Any license that you may believe you acquired with the
Software is void, revoked and terminated.
Any reproduction, distribution, display or other use of the
Software by you is unauthorized and an infringement of Nullsoft's
copyright in the Software as well as a potential violation of other
laws.
Slashdot Mirror
See Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A395 63-2004Sep21.html/
As much as I would like this to happen; It won't. We know ABC and FOX are out. Perhaps CBS is a shot, but they are VERY family friendly with their mix of shows... they wouldn't want a religious right boycott. And all the cable networks are consolidated now, so there's no independent voice there either. "AOL" Time Warner's new crop of old media executives will keep it off their networks. Bravo and USA are owned by NBC. I would guess NBC is the closest shot at getting it aired. I discount ABC because Disney is the parent company, and FOX, well shit Rupert Murdoch isn't going to have any of that film on his stations.
Isn't media consolidation great? Thanks FCC.
All that being said, we'd be far better off in educating America if Bush's Brain was aired on television. That is a much more enlightening film. No offense Michael, I love your work, but Karl Rove is more dangerous than the Bush family ties to bin Laden.
Disclaimer: I have given to Kerry Edwards 2004, I have even have a sign in my yard (TEXAS) Not only that, I voted twice for Ross Perot. I remain an independent.
You left off Darwin & Mac OS X itself. Since you included non-enterprise versions of other distributions, these should be in the list too.
If you don't need apple's windowserver, Darwin is a free option. Depending on your definition of Free, it's BSD free, but not GPL free.
If you don't need any of Apple's server additions to OS X, then OS X itself is decent - although it does tend to give higher priority to windowserver than does os x server (one of the tweaks, but you can tell it always boot into console if you want!)
If you bought Apple G5 xserve hardware, then you'll want all the monitoring tweaks they include for free with the 10-client edition of osxs. The client limiter only applies to AFP connections, so if its not a mac file server, you don't need unlimited edition. (read the license!) I find it a weak argument for anybody to claim your getting charged extra for the 10-client os above the bare metal, due to the low price.
That's right. Sun is whoring its Java brand to sell desktop linux running GNOME, paired with the JRE, network computing and support contracts to enterprises.
BRAVO. This is absolutely the RIGHT thing to do for beating on Microsoft hegemony. I don't see anyone else using their brand this way to reach out to Enterprise Desktops. Perhaps Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards/PeopleSoft, Siebel, IBM, maybe even Apple and anyone else with real "street-cred" in enterprise should be shipping a linux-based JDS type OS too.
So what if Sun has a great high-capacity platform that you can run the backend on, if the linux x86 offerings don't fit the bill. They have to compete with IBM mainframes running linux for the backend.
[blockquote] Sun = Saruman Microsoft = Sauron [/blockquote] Wtf does that refer to? Those sound like fictional characters, but not any classic work suitable for reference which I'm familar with...
Thank you sir!
It's really good for last mile broadband though, f' the phone company and cable company. I'll pipe off a bonded T1 installed in a cabinet somewhere nearby (downtown fibuh, oooh, *drool*) and be done with it.
Anyways, I really look forward to this - except I was about to purchase a 3.6ghz licensed system. Um, I'll be looking for another slice of bandwidth. Thanks slashdot!
I like you. You know math. SOOOO many professionals would look at that, look at the formula for the area of a circle, and still go huh!?!
Not to mention how often people f'up percentages.
(yes some of it's offtopic, but nobody else is posting on this topic)
Buzzword alert:Heterogenous Enterprise Deployment
From an enterprise application deployment aspect, this makes it possible to deploy GNU/Linux apps and tools, without ripping out the windows apps in concert. How much more valuable can you get? You can even do low-impact trials of GNU/Linux solutions for regular users.Do I really need to explain this any further?
Probably.
NO PORTING. FEWER BUGS. FEWER ISSUES.
Even if you can't get rid of your windows oem workstation tax on your OEM desktop, and you won't be rid of the "WHERE'S MY WINDOWS" screamers, you can be rid of ALL of the OTHER Microsoft 'taxes', by running linux apps, even one of the excellent office suites.
Besides, local users are used to their workstations crashing by now. Maybe 10 years from now, you can just run a linux desktop for everyone, but it takes time.
(x) This plan costs the spammers money to keep spamming. That's New. Good Work!
(x) It fails to account for the number of domains they'll flood us with, they'll just need about 4000 of them each. Better luck next time.
(x) Spammer will pay off a offshore registrar to do mass bulk registrations, and ICANN will do nothing about it.
That being said, I'm going to enable it on a test basis tomorrow first thing on one of the sendmail boxes.
Sounds like I'm talking about the US, but I'm talking OS UI design. Even if you have a "secure by design" OS, with quality implementation practices and design patterns, the end-run is, the user is not going to be allowed to do whatever they please to a secured os. If you have access to run untrusted/approved code on the box, you cannot be secure. Prove me wrong. You can get close, but there will be always be a local memory map hole of some sort.
As long as you are allowing the "power user" to have the unfettered access to modify the system, its a pipe dream to think you can prevent bad code from running. Even on Mac OS X, the "administrator rights" dialog is simply a nuisance, to be dismissed with the login/pwd. Users are trained to enter it, because it occurs so much. It should be SO difficult to run code at elevated privileges, then just maybe application developers wouldn't annoy their users with the authorization. Almost nothing folks run needs elevated privileges, unless your a true uber geek.
I think most here would agree with the following: if you have local hardware access, there is no software/hardware security past the lock on the door.
But with careful UI design, and good enterprise software distribution, you can get pretty close to a secure OS, that still lets you get the job done. I don't know how you teach Joe Home User not to run a Trojan, aside from flashing horrible warnings that he's likely to be running one now... (unsigned/modified after signing code, etc.) But as we've witnessed, hardly any developers mess with the Microsoft Signing, unless its a driver that shipped with windows :| Perhaps the FSF or a major linux binary distro could start a code signing initiative. There is nothing wrong with compiled code for the masses... (don't make me slap you!)
You have to pound the crap out of any middleware that is allowed to run remote code.. like ActiveX and JavaScript. Your system policies can prevent unsigned ActiveX from running - JavaScript on the browser can get too deep into the bowels of the OS, and if that OS isn't secure by design... well don't run untrusted JavaScript either. System policies can handle this too. Unsigned MS Office Macro's are rediculous to ever allow to run. The same goes with any code block before it's allowed to execute in an email message. Throw up a stern warning.
So you'll have to trunk your email through your ISP's upstream mail server, which is configured to trust yours.
Boo hoo. I prefer this too. Maybe you bastards will start encrypting your mail if your worried about somebody sniffing it's traffic.
$2000 a year seems pretty high though. I understand ICANN fees are very expensive, and they need to recoup this, but a way for small businesses to become certified and not pay the same tax as exxon might be a step forward.
At $2000 a pop, that would be a HUGE cash cow for spamhaus, and I'd have a problem that. I'll do it for donations, I'm 100% sure I could get several datacenter operators to donate rack space and bandwidth to run a TLD registry. That and a team of trusted hackers together (a real hacker, not a cracker you kids...) to run the ops - no problem. SSL cert signing verification is already a problem solved, and the same front-end for issuing a .mail domain is done - just issue it to whomever has the domain.
That all being said, this is really no different than the SPF proposal, it just formalizes it the way DNS is designed. More meta like SPF provides can be tagged into TXT records or other RR's created to handle the problem. I think I'd like to see either a .mail TLD go through - or a IETF std for DNS records to handle the trusted sender problem.
I would LOVE to watch Nasa TV too. Too bad its not available in HOUSTON on analog cable (see proof). Until very recently, it wasn't even on Digital Cable. It's stuffed in with EWTN now.
totally. i agree. worth the karma. props to you sir, but:
Mother Fuckers.I just told my teenage son last night it was okay to use limewire again (well..Acquistion). Guess not.
Ass-Munchers. May the Bastard Operator have his way with you.
IANALBMWS (but my wife is..)
An employment law attorney will probably have an amendment to employment contract on file that they can charge you a stock fee and possibily an additional billable hour. Sometimes the "stock form fee" is a minimum of a billable hour in itself. That's reasonable.
If you don't feel comfortable with a lawyer, ask for a referral to one with experience in this field. They are usually bound by their state bars' rules to honor that request. If they can't even give you a referral, run! =)
Don't think HR NEVER agrees to an amendment - a relative of mine was employed by a major defense contractor starting in the 50's, and they even pulled that in the 50's. He had no problem getting them to agree to an amendment to the employment contract for IP clauses. Your employer's HR should expect that the contract is negotiable. They have submitted their offer, now submit your counter.
I'll second this - I suddenly realize that I measure my legos by their volume, not their weight - seems like such a meaninglessly high number anyway - what's the difference between 150 or 160 lbs anyway!!.
My now wife, then-gf, gave me a tub of legos for our first valentine's day - not one of those silly sets, but a genuine TUB. Now that's when you know you've got the one!
Let's separate the discussion of revenue for IT support staff from developers. First of all, there will likely be a increasing need for support staff, no matter if the software is proprietary or Free Software, so let's not worry about that profession.
The point has been raised that it would cost far more to develop Free Software than to purchase licenses to proprietary software. Multiply those licenses by hundreds and thousands of seats, add maintenance fees. Even then it might not be a cost-savings. But then multiply that cost by a handful of companies. Now suppose business are formed whose objective is fill that need: Develop Free Software funded through cooperatives. These cooperatives would secondarily be a mill producing staff with intimate knowledge of the software to provide support, or train others to provide support. So they can still charge for support contracts, as well as having a profit center from the development itself. I believe companies are ready to invest in cooperatives to develop Free Software that they need for their business computing. An enterprising group of software developers might make a nice living for themselves pursuing this path.
I would do invest in a cooperative for several classes of software, rather than attempt to roll our own. Customers involved in the cooperatives better understand their requirements than anybody else. (With the caveat that oftentimes customers have nobody who knows what the requirements should really be, but that's what a good consultant can do for you.)
A longtime mac bloggish site is linking to amazon, and offering actual discounts on a variety of apple hardware. Including the iPod.
Click on over to MacInTouch for a little bit off. It's linked off towards the bottom of the home page. It's not a huge discount, but the only one I've seen:
iPod 10GB: $284.05
iPod 20GB: $379.05
iPod 40GB: $474.05
IF you are running with DHCP.
And if you are on a network doing this? Trap out any unauthorized DHCP servers on your switches. You probably are already doing this to prevent headaches from people plugging in private 802.11 devices and screwing things up. Or you could just have an explicit allow list of MAC's (the standard accepted meaning of MAC, not your CaPsEd Mac.) Both are a standard network security measure.
I don't believe any home user should need to worry about this - broadband users using dhcp to get on the internet are likely to have unauthorized dhcp responses being filtered out already. That sort of activity would cause a lot of unnecessary support calls!
A debian developer (who I'm not going to name but it's not exactly a secret) revealed his password by logging into some machine that had been rooted. Shame on him for using the same password, and the Debian project for not policing that kind of thing. (That said, people do this all the time, even people who do/ought to know better.)
I'm going to have to beat into all the distro maintainers. Your servers should adopt OPIE one-time passwords. Failing that, enforce keypair authentication with your users. Put it right into your ssh_config. Force it. I recently engaged in a pro/con discussion of OPIE v. keypair authentication with another unix sysadmin. OPIE, by design, doesn't store the passphrase on either local or remote hosts. If you a rooted/keystroke logger on a connecting client, the password will not get them access after 30 seconds or so (depends on your OPIE config timeouts...) OPIE removes the possibility of keypairs being stolen. I do believe there is still a serious vulnerability to keystroke loggers capturing your OPIE passphrase, if entered on a compromised host. But this removes the possibility of a user's password being discovered with the easier methods.
You could always encourage folks to run their opie calculator on their cell-phone/pda, instead of a host directly attached to a network. (Are people hacking into your mobile yet?) No way to enforce that via policy though.
OPIE provides a one-time password system for POSIX-compliant UNIX-like operating systems. The system should be secure against the passive attacks now commonplace on the Internet (see RFC 1704 for more details). The system is vulnerable to active dictionary attacks, though these are not widespread at present and can be detected through proper use of system audit software. The NRL OPIE software is derived in part from and is backwards compatible with the Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) S/Key(TM) Version 1 Software Distribution. Because Bellcore claims "S/Key" as a trademark for their software, NRL has been forced to use a different name (they picked "OPIE") for its software distribution.
And I don't think anyones going to mars in one of those little tin cans. Imagine a year in that thing?
I would go in one of those tin cans, given enough supplies (which means a slightly bigger tin can). I expect there are a lot of people who would give up their comfort to fly around mars (not even landing...)
No accounting for taste! Perhaps Jay Leno is your favorite comedian. Yeah I know troll me, but screw the other mods for upping the parent.
I've never gotten much of answer out of developer relations on this: Why the hell doesn't apple use Motorola's or IBM's set of compilers instead of gcc?
Is it masochism?
Apple says they've made lots of PPC specific optimizations in the compiler, but they NEVER prove it head to head against IBM or Metrowerks (motorola) compilers. I don't believe that Apple's tweaks to gcc make it faster, or even marginally close, to the code performance of alternative compilers.
At least they could compile the OS with the best compilers available, even if licensing issues would prevent them shipping free tools to everyone and their dog.
What you need to do is simply organize a walkout. You don't have to fully organize to get the point accross. Appoint a negotiator, and start with a simple demand, pay us the overtime too. Chances are they won't make any money now on the contract, but they keep their customer as their customer, which should be even more important to management than simply breaking even.
Don't think you have to go to a lot of pre-organization here to get the job done. Another tip, figure out how many developers they can't afford to lose at all, and make that your core group. It is also like going to help your cause not to ask to keep the overtime after the project is complete.
Salaried employment has its advantages, unless they aren't allowing you that professional working environment, i.e. making you punch a time clock or refusing errand runs, requiring 4 weeks notice for even one day off, in which case, f'em, ask to go hourly, you already are an hourly grunt anyway in that case.
Good luck!
This is actually bad news. The MPC7457 still doesn't make full use of the bandwidth available in the DDR400 RAM the Macs are currently using. The MPC7470 does, but we're still not getting that chip - for whatever reason - I assume its a manufacturing & design issue. It's been a very long delay.
Motorola looks pretty amateurish with this feeble boost. This is a manufacturing tweak that intel and IBM have made months ago in their primary foundries. The MPC7457 likely isn't going to get used in any serious Macintoshes - perhaps it will go into the iBook and iMacs eventually.
So perhaps Motorola has given up on the MPC7470, and conceded that market to IBM's 970 and 980 chips. Let's hope so; I would like to buy a new workstation pretty soon. ;-)
The following was posted Friday. How interesting - I guess even with Steve Case gone, you can still get called into the principal's office.
On a further note, can they really state this, that is revoke their license, once issued? The GPL doesn't seem to allow for that, right?
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