When I was working for a Big 5 firm, we were going under a fairly intense restructing due to people leaving. So many people were leaving, that guarenteed every Friday we'd have a farewell party.
It got so bad that the Partners tried to curb the "celebrations" - hilarous.
A resignation letter had been circulating around the office, so it was basically a cut-paste jobbie for most people resigning. I can only imagine the HR department having a laugh.
I still felt I left on fairly good terms, even offered them to walk me out the building but unfortunately they didn't. I had my bags packed and everything! So if you got paid out, be happy. Don't be offended - its just business.
Needless to say I walked into the next job, paying double the salary.
No matter what Novell/SuSe say, changing the default window manager to GNOME is the first indication that Novell wants to shift focus to the free GTK toolkit.
You can put as much sugar on the subject as you like Novell PR, the proof is in the pudding.
Only offering KDE support to technical-savvy users that know one window manager from the other is an attempt to appease the well-grounded pioneers of the SuSe platform.
It is clear that this is a business decision to change the default to GNOME, and for all their newly created Mono tools to be used throughout all desktop offerings.
You can bet your bottom dollar that those Mono related Novell tools that will be created in the future will not be written also with the QT libraries. This doesn't make good business sense.
So the fact remains, the users that choose KDE will be short changed. A dependancy to run those new Novell tools on GTK libraries will be a requirement within KDE - mark my words.
My recent purchase of a powerbook has re-affirmed my initial gut feeling towards the Linux desktop (I have been a Linux fan/developer since the mid 90's), that collaboration simply isn't on the proverbial menu.
1) Depending on the size of the company and how slick their processes are will determine how they handle the purchasing of the laptop. For instance, my company isn't so up to scratch and the salary sacrifising just been launched - I had to buy the laptop out of my own money, and then send the invoice to our third party salary sacrifice partners. On my next pay, the pre-tax dollars were sent to the salary sacrifice partner who then would forward the money to me. Yep - its a bit silly but its how they do it here. I know some companies like you mention will do the buying for you thus will be much more transparent but not necessarily..
2) The number of sacrifise payouts is based on your salary. If you're earning 90K+ (or so) you can definately obtain the pre-tax payout in one lump sum.
You can absolutely learn the toolkit on the opensource license, for free, which is what I'm doing right now. I'll buy a license when I start coding for the commercial app.
Am happy to fork out the $1800 as the toolkit itself is going to save me thousands of dollars in development work I that I don't have to do...
Sure it does. It just doesn't allow you to distribute that code. You can sit down, write all the programs you'd like with the free version, test it out yourself, then switch to the commercial version when it's time to release.
This is actually *NOT* the case. As per the QT license, you must BUY the licence before you start coding the application.
"Can we use the Open Source Edition while developing our non-opensource application and then purchase commercial licenses when we start to sell it?
No. Our commercial license agreements only apply to software that was developed with Qt under the commercial license agreement. They do not apply to code that was developed with the Qt Open Source Edition prior to the agreement. Any software developed with Qt without a commercial license agreement must be released as Open Source software."
The CISSP isnt too hard to complete if you have a couple of years in this space.
I even know some accountants that have this accreditation and they have next to no experience in this field.
As for the type of tool to use, it comes down to your objective.
I teach Foundstone stuff, and we sell it too. Its probably the best VA tool I've ever seen and I've been in this space for about 8 years now. But its not really an audit/compliance tool.
I turned to PostgreSQL years ago and havent looked back - but the SQL wars are now as holy as that of the Ooperating System ones.
I'm in the process of writing my own compliance based tool specifically designed for auditors from scratch which is in stark difference to whats on the market now - however I'd prefer to leave it at that for now:-) Its going to blow the socks off.....
I have to disagree. I'm a CISA (certified information security auditor) and have used Nessus in audits.
I've got the CISA too, but last time I checked it was: Certified Information Systems Auditor
Besides, feedback has its place, provding it doesnt write code. Nessus were more concerned with lack of code input.
I totally support them moving to this closed model, because it will guarentee a continued quality product. Plus I see no problem in buying software that helps my job. (I used to work for an audit firm in a prior life). The amount of cash these firms make in this work is amazing.
I used to love MySQL back in the hayday, but then they changed their license model, thus it was "good night sweet prince".
Most other decent databases use something similar to LGPL for use of their libraries, thus there is no need to disclose your source code in an application that uses the database. This is rather a critical feature identified by almost all database vendors. Even Microsoft SQL has an LGPL-like license that doesnt mean you have to share your code.
Once MySQL was reaching critical mass, they decided to change the rules and restrict the license. PHP and others revolted and dumped MySQL for SQLite as the default database for PHP 5. Some could argue it was due to library mixup hell, with multiple versions of libraries on the system, but we all know the main reason was behind the license.
MySQL got a bit scared and made this silly license exception to the top 20 FOSS projects (don't quote me on that, recalled from memory) so they could be LPGL.
In the process I moved all my code to PostgreSQL and havent looked back.
Cinema Fault: Poor movies Expensive Popcorn / Sweets / Drinks Expensive Tickets Can't use Gift Vouchers (Fully Paid) with new movies Bad seating - I've seen some *shockers* in some cinemas 20 minutes of ads before the show Those silly piracy ads on stealing music - yep thats right, we all have to put up with that
Customer Fault: Noisy movie goers / pranksters Mobile phone calls and constant rings Children screaming in tense moments Seat fighting
Its all just not worth it - wait a month or so, buy for it less than the cinema price, grab some take away and watch it on your nice big digital entertainment unit @ home - and keep the damn movie!
An Austrian citizen commits a crime, say - peer to peer music / software piracy in Austria - the US still prosecute and obtain warrant to extradite to the US.
If the US can do that, and they have been known todo - then I'm sure they can protect their own in another country.
Not only to ackowledge that cracked screens, but then to turn around and say that scratching is not as bad as the other models - sounds like a load of PR hogwash - no matter how good or trendy their technology is.
I was considering a Nano, but will now wait until the 2nd or 3rd release of it. Happy with my minimal-scratched Gen 3 iPod which I havent treated pretty badly - and it still comes back for more:)
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When I was working for a Big 5 firm, we were going under a fairly intense restructing due to people leaving. So many people were leaving, that guarenteed every Friday we'd have a farewell party.
It got so bad that the Partners tried to curb the "celebrations" - hilarous.
A resignation letter had been circulating around the office, so it was basically a cut-paste jobbie for most people resigning. I can only imagine the HR department having a laugh.
I still felt I left on fairly good terms, even offered them to walk me out the building but unfortunately they didn't. I had my bags packed and everything! So if you got paid out, be happy. Don't be offended - its just business.
Needless to say I walked into the next job, paying double the salary.
Good times.
Anyone know if there is a gentoo package for this? - Even if it's not the most up to date.
I've searched used such strings as "ldap", "nss", "directory" etc - but nothing comes up too interesting.
How is this comment insightful?
Obviously he doesn't own a mac and has no idea what his talking about.
For the record, not all updates require a reboot.
Secondly, to presume that OS X is the biggest Unix "distro" available is downright laughable.
Mod this parent chump down.
Yep, it works in Windows XP with no drivers required.
I just inserted the interface into the USB socket and it detected it as a Plantronics headset - no dramas.
Skype is great.
.Audio 85 Headphone:s p?id=33411
I bought a powerbook about 5 months ago, and whilst overseas working (I'm Australian) I bought a headset from an Apple store in NYC in Soho.
It was around $60 USD or something like that.
Plantronics
http://www.macaudiopro.com/articles/viewarticle.j
Highly recommended.
Comes with a DSP, and is USB. A LONG cable with a comfortable headset thats foldable a big bonus for frequently travellers like myself.
I was totally impressed on the mac, no drivers to install, and it Just Worked. Skype detects it as a Plantronics in Skype config.
Totally cool..
Although I am seeing some high-end financial-transactional based systems running Redhat lately, I am glad that Sun has its ear close to the ground.
I moved to PosgreSQL 2 years ago, and this has re-affirmed my confidence in Sun in embracing open source initiatives.
I guess it was absolutely something that had to happen, to re-invent yourself. IBM did it, Apple did it.
The future for Sun should be interesting in the next couple of years, I most certainly will be watching.
Maybe we should buy shares in Sun? Sitting on $3.68, Apple NOW sitting on $64.52.
What is this company hope to obtain in order of the suit, a pair of used baby bottles and a couple of hand me down t-shirts?
God must be blessing America, or maybe the people do that?
How is this news worthy? The company in question should be shamed.
Robin, what did you use to make the videos?
Its pretty neat to also support audio!
Our company bought a license for camtasia which is very powerful, but I wouldn't mind something that's free for home use.
Yes I think you're right.
:)
Looking closely - you can notice the VNC icon down in the task bar
I'm impressed it supports audio!
No matter what Novell/SuSe say, changing the default window manager to GNOME is the first indication that Novell wants to shift focus to the free GTK toolkit.
You can put as much sugar on the subject as you like Novell PR, the proof is in the pudding.
Only offering KDE support to technical-savvy users that know one window manager from the other is an attempt to appease the well-grounded pioneers of the SuSe platform.
It is clear that this is a business decision to change the default to GNOME, and for all their newly created Mono tools to be used throughout all desktop offerings.
You can bet your bottom dollar that those Mono related Novell tools that will be created in the future will not be written also with the QT libraries. This doesn't make good business sense.
So the fact remains, the users that choose KDE will be short changed. A dependancy to run those new Novell tools on GTK libraries will be a requirement within KDE - mark my words.
My recent purchase of a powerbook has re-affirmed my initial gut feeling towards the Linux desktop (I have been a Linux fan/developer since the mid 90's), that collaboration simply isn't on the proverbial menu.
Welldone mate on the explanation.
Just one or two things worth noting:
1) Depending on the size of the company and how slick their processes are will determine how they handle the purchasing of the laptop. For instance, my company isn't so up to scratch and the salary sacrifising just been launched - I had to buy the laptop out of my own money, and then send the invoice to our third party salary sacrifice partners. On my next pay, the pre-tax dollars were sent to the salary sacrifice partner who then would forward the money to me. Yep - its a bit silly but its how they do it here. I know some companies like you mention will do the buying for you thus will be much more transparent but not necessarily..
2) The number of sacrifise payouts is based on your salary. If you're earning 90K+ (or so) you can definately obtain the pre-tax payout in one lump sum.
I bought a PowerBook in the Sydney city store about 4 months ago.
Cost was $3918 including GST.
It came with a DVD burner, 1 Gig Ram on a 15" jobbie.
But the bonus is that I salary sacrifised the entire laptop and was able to reclaim $2000 in one single months salary rotation.
A highly recommend this option if you earn a highish salary.
This essentially meant I got the laptop for half price with no further tax penalities.
Talk to your employer, they may be able to salary package at no to little cost.
Remember we pay 49 cents in the dollar in tax anyway!
The problem being, all that goes out the window if you easily spend the same amount of money on dinner for two, maybe 2 cocktails if you're lucky.
I know which option i'd prefer - and it doesnt involve sitting at home doing math!
The centerpiece of this system is a new spacecraft designed to carry four astronauts to and from the moon
We want battle star destroyer size ships, capable of shuttling thousands of troops, citizens and refugees between orbits.
No horsing around now, why is NASA peddling "four astronauts" when they could be rock'n roll troopers like those of Star Wars and Battlestar Galatica?
You can absolutely learn the toolkit on the opensource license, for free, which is what I'm doing right now. I'll buy a license when I start coding for the commercial app.
Am happy to fork out the $1800 as the toolkit itself is going to save me thousands of dollars in development work I that I don't have to do...
Sure it does. It just doesn't allow you to distribute that code. You can sit down, write all the programs you'd like with the free version, test it out yourself, then switch to the commercial version when it's time to release.
This is actually *NOT* the case. As per the QT license, you must BUY the licence before you start coding the application.
Refer to the license FAQ: http://www.trolltech.com/developer/faqs/index.htm
"Can we use the Open Source Edition while developing our non-opensource application and then purchase commercial licenses when we start to sell it?
No. Our commercial license agreements only apply to software that was developed with Qt under the commercial license agreement. They do not apply to code that was developed with the Qt Open Source Edition prior to the agreement. Any software developed with Qt without a commercial license agreement must be released as Open Source software."
Just don't call it Kokia!
And yes I haven't read the article because its slashdotted
Web site seems fine to me.....
If you're happy with MySQL than great.
Its offered at most ASP's for next to nothing.
But just to let you know PostgreSQL 8.x now offers a native build for Windows - and is extremely powerful.
The CISSP isnt too hard to complete if you have a couple of years in this space.
:-) Its going to blow the socks off.....
I even know some accountants that have this accreditation and they have next to no experience in this field.
As for the type of tool to use, it comes down to your objective.
I teach Foundstone stuff, and we sell it too. Its probably the best VA tool I've ever seen and I've been in this space for about 8 years now. But its not really an audit/compliance tool.
I turned to PostgreSQL years ago and havent looked back - but the SQL wars are now as holy as that of the Ooperating System ones.
I'm in the process of writing my own compliance based tool specifically designed for auditors from scratch which is in stark difference to whats on the market now - however I'd prefer to leave it at that for now
I have to disagree. I'm a CISA (certified information security auditor) and have used Nessus in audits.
I've got the CISA too, but last time I checked it was:
Certified Information Systems Auditor
Besides, feedback has its place, provding it doesnt write code. Nessus were more concerned with lack of code input.
I totally support them moving to this closed model, because it will guarentee a continued quality product. Plus I see no problem in buying software that helps my job. (I used to work for an audit firm in a prior life). The amount of cash these firms make in this work is amazing.
I used to love MySQL back in the hayday, but then they changed their license model, thus it was "good night sweet prince".
Most other decent databases use something similar to LGPL for use of their libraries, thus there is no need to disclose your source code in an application that uses the database. This is rather a critical feature identified by almost all database vendors. Even Microsoft SQL has an LGPL-like license that doesnt mean you have to share your code.
Once MySQL was reaching critical mass, they decided to change the rules and restrict the license. PHP and others revolted and dumped MySQL for SQLite as the default database for PHP 5. Some could argue it was due to library mixup hell, with multiple versions of libraries on the system, but we all know the main reason was behind the license.
MySQL got a bit scared and made this silly license exception to the top 20 FOSS projects (don't quote me on that, recalled from memory) so they could be LPGL.
In the process I moved all my code to PostgreSQL and havent looked back.
Cinema Fault:
Poor movies
Expensive Popcorn / Sweets / Drinks
Expensive Tickets
Can't use Gift Vouchers (Fully Paid) with new movies
Bad seating - I've seen some *shockers* in some cinemas
20 minutes of ads before the show
Those silly piracy ads on stealing music - yep thats right, we all have to put up with that
Customer Fault:
Noisy movie goers / pranksters
Mobile phone calls and constant rings
Children screaming in tense moments
Seat fighting
Its all just not worth it - wait a month or so, buy for it less than the cinema price, grab some take away and watch it on your nice big digital entertainment unit @ home - and keep the damn movie!
No wonder we don't bother going !
An Austrian citizen commits a crime, say - peer to peer music / software piracy in Austria - the US still prosecute and obtain warrant to extradite to the US.
If the US can do that, and they have been known todo - then I'm sure they can protect their own in another country.
Not only to ackowledge that cracked screens, but then to turn around and say that scratching is not as bad as the other models - sounds like a load of PR hogwash - no matter how good or trendy their technology is.
:)
I was considering a Nano, but will now wait until the 2nd or 3rd release of it. Happy with my minimal-scratched Gen 3 iPod which I havent treated pretty badly - and it still comes back for more