"Great, now even less chance I can identify NSFW links before they are blocked by my work's big brother app and my boss is notified... again."
If this is a common problem for you, turn off your browser's "load images" setting. Not a perfect solution, but better than a flashing neon animated GIF of bouncing boobs right as your boss walks by. Myself, I've a number of people I follow on twitter who post links and often fail to mention if they're work appropriate, so I set up PuTTY to be an SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy (scroll down to, "PuTTY for WindowsXP") to my home file server.
Geek culture has been around for a long while now. A large number of movies have been based on comic books lately and have been successful. The SyFy channel is enjoying some of the highest viewership it has ever had and, in part, due to remakes of some Science Fiction classics like Battlestar Galactica (even MST3K pokes fun at Battlestar, for crying out loud!). Video games are considered a daily activity by many. Don't even get me started at how huge Magic: The Gathering got... The fact of the matter is, Geek Culture is now a staple of American culture. The resident computer geek is someone that gets thanked, paid and taken out to dinner for stripping all the crap off of your friend's computer. I'd have to say John hasn't been paying very close attention.
using BitTorrent for downloads can help alleviate the load...
apt-get install aria2c and you can download from multiple mirrors + BitTorrent in parallel to both divide the load while downloading and help start seeding sooner.
Nope, it won't. My now defunct (but for different reasons) website that ran Drupal got hacked via FTP and incompetence of the managed hosting company. In that case, blocking port 80 would only prevent people from seeing it was hacked.
Imagine what would a PC user who wants to try Linux reacts if he sees 50+ different distributions of Linux on the shelf!
But, that *is* how it's like. There really are 50+ distributions of Linux out there. DistroWatch is proof enough of that.
I have to say that I feel like you've got it a little bit backwards. It's more like the 50+ *brands* of PCs out there running Windows. That's to say many different brands of hardware, but they're all running the same OS. Granted they've all got their own tweaks and slight differences depending on how the manufacturer configures the software, but anyone used to using Windows on a Dell isn't going to have much trouble using Windows on an HP. This is more or less what Android is doing for the handheld market. Folks that have gotten used to the G1 are going to feel well enough at home on a Samsung Moment or HTC Hero.
Wow. As someone who works in the medical industry, I can tell you that this isn't funny (despite the moderation). The amount of paperwork typically involved due to FDA regulations just to prove you've been trained on (let alone use daily) the machine makes TFM look like a leaflet. Forget about the amount of paperwork involved just to prove to the FDA that the machine is reasonably safe and the additional paperwork to prove that the specific machine is okay to send the customer.
The fact of the matter is, the FDA does everything they can to make sure medical devices are reasonably safe and to avoid the hell that is having your company under FDA control, companies make damn sure employees are following SOPPs. However, things still get missed, software has bugs and people are going to miss-communicate and end up with configurations that shouldn't be in place.
Some people argue that the machine shouldn't be able to put out this much radiation, but let's think about it this way: If you ask an electrician to do some re-wiring in your house (the person configuring the xray machine) and you don't explain clearly that your electric oven should get 220v (the misconfiguration), do you really think your microwave oven is still going to be safe?
I can't speak about your printer specifically, but I know that there's a whole online community of folks who are still pluggin' away with their Apple Personal LaserWriter NT/NTR and similar workhorse Apple printers from back-in-the-day. Heck, I even once found a site that sold nothing but replacement parts for LaserWriters. It could be worth your time too see if such a community exists surrounding Silentwriter printers.
Computer Science Department.
Based on personal experience, I'd say take a look at the school's CS dept. If they teach mainly off Open Source tools and platforms, you're set. There was strong group of Gentoo users at the school I went to and there was almost always someone around in the CS lounge that was eager to help. A lot of these folks also worked at the school's help desk and while Linux wasn't officially supported, the school did (maybe still does) have a custom Fedora build and assuming you got the right (read: knowledgeable) person, they'd likely help.
Based on that experience, I'd guess that if the school sees Computer Science as a business degree or solely teaches Microsoft tools and processes, you'll have significantly less luck.
Second reaction: Hm. Well, so long as MS doesn't get to define what can be patented, it could be the opportunity to do some much needed patent reform. Doing away with silly software patents, for example... the result is Microsoft's worst nightmare and not my own.
Change the search to, "Why is your mom so expensive?" and the first result is "Why Are Bulldog Puppies So Expensive" but somehow I doubt that Microsoft is "pro-your mom" and "anti-bulldog" puppies.
My perception (granted I'm not privy to in-depth knowledge) has been that MS wants to bury Google and that Big G has more or less shrugged its corporate shoulders and been doing business as usual with the exception that it picks up a few extra companies here and there spending only enough to keep a competitive edge. While in contrast, MS keeps re-branding, rebuilding and blowing wads of cash trying to find a competitive edge.
It reminds me a bit of the cold war where, in the end, it comes down to who can outspend who.
...once again, I'm late to the/. party, but here I go.
There was one time I randomly jumped to the middle of my application and changed a '+' to a '&' (or maybe an || to an &, or maybe a - to a &&... I don't really recall anymore), hit [ctrl]+[home], compiled, grumbled that the compiler was happy with the change and then had to figure out what I broke.
Most recently, I started changing my variables to Hungarian notation. This didn't get me far, so I've switched gears and while I'm on the train to and from work, I'm back to pen and paper sorting out how I want to design my SQLight database which has proven to be fun and re-motivating... but not quite as motivating as my level 80 boomkin druid.
Before I got laid off, err, "participated in a workforce reduction" from Accenture, I pushed, multiple times, to have people who are 'benched' to use their downtime to contribute back to the Open Source projects that Accenture and their clients use (Hibernate is a fantastic example). Despite having a great points as to why this was a good idea and some good backing from both peers and my so-called "higher ups," no one was ready to approve this kind of use of bench time. I guess real experience and good corporate karma are no substitute for SkillSoft training.
Granted I'm being very cynical, but there has to be a reason why this doesn't make good business sense even for people who are basically getting paid to do next to nothing (benched folk). Can anyone provide insight as to why?
Once again, I'm late to the slashdot party, but I still wanted to point out that an entire generation of people (my peers) got opened up to the world of computing by one game: Oregon Trail
Why is this mod'd insightful? It's a pretty trivial matter to set grub to automatically boot you to windows and I'd be willing to bet that Dell is going to do for us by default.
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I think that there are much more serious areas to contend with first.
If this is a common problem for you, turn off your browser's "load images" setting. Not a perfect solution, but better than a flashing neon animated GIF of bouncing boobs right as your boss walks by. Myself, I've a number of people I follow on twitter who post links and often fail to mention if they're work appropriate, so I set up PuTTY to be an SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy (scroll down to, "PuTTY for WindowsXP") to my home file server.
Geek culture has been around for a long while now. A large number of movies have been based on comic books lately and have been successful. The SyFy channel is enjoying some of the highest viewership it has ever had and, in part, due to remakes of some Science Fiction classics like Battlestar Galactica (even MST3K pokes fun at Battlestar, for crying out loud!). Video games are considered a daily activity by many. Don't even get me started at how huge Magic: The Gathering got ... The fact of the matter is, Geek Culture is now a staple of American culture. The resident computer geek is someone that gets thanked, paid and taken out to dinner for stripping all the crap off of your friend's computer. I'd have to say John hasn't been paying very close attention.
apt-get install aria2c and you can download from multiple mirrors + BitTorrent in parallel to both divide the load while downloading and help start seeding sooner.
Isn't that called a bicycle?
Nope, it won't. My now defunct (but for different reasons) website that ran Drupal got hacked via FTP and incompetence of the managed hosting company. In that case, blocking port 80 would only prevent people from seeing it was hacked.
Out of curiosity, where would " Our freedom" fall under?
But, that *is* how it's like. There really are 50+ distributions of Linux out there. DistroWatch is proof enough of that.
I have to say that I feel like you've got it a little bit backwards. It's more like the 50+ *brands* of PCs out there running Windows. That's to say many different brands of hardware, but they're all running the same OS. Granted they've all got their own tweaks and slight differences depending on how the manufacturer configures the software, but anyone used to using Windows on a Dell isn't going to have much trouble using Windows on an HP. This is more or less what Android is doing for the handheld market. Folks that have gotten used to the G1 are going to feel well enough at home on a Samsung Moment or HTC Hero.
Wow. As someone who works in the medical industry, I can tell you that this isn't funny (despite the moderation). The amount of paperwork typically involved due to FDA regulations just to prove you've been trained on (let alone use daily) the machine makes TFM look like a leaflet. Forget about the amount of paperwork involved just to prove to the FDA that the machine is reasonably safe and the additional paperwork to prove that the specific machine is okay to send the customer.
The fact of the matter is, the FDA does everything they can to make sure medical devices are reasonably safe and to avoid the hell that is having your company under FDA control, companies make damn sure employees are following SOPPs. However, things still get missed, software has bugs and people are going to miss-communicate and end up with configurations that shouldn't be in place.
Some people argue that the machine shouldn't be able to put out this much radiation, but let's think about it this way: If you ask an electrician to do some re-wiring in your house (the person configuring the xray machine) and you don't explain clearly that your electric oven should get 220v (the misconfiguration), do you really think your microwave oven is still going to be safe?
Wow. I'm instantly instilled with the urge to plug an XKCD comic into this and see what happens.
There. Fixed that for you.
I can't speak about your printer specifically, but I know that there's a whole online community of folks who are still pluggin' away with their Apple Personal LaserWriter NT/NTR and similar workhorse Apple printers from back-in-the-day. Heck, I even once found a site that sold nothing but replacement parts for LaserWriters. It could be worth your time too see if such a community exists surrounding Silentwriter printers.
Computer Science Department. Based on personal experience, I'd say take a look at the school's CS dept. If they teach mainly off Open Source tools and platforms, you're set. There was strong group of Gentoo users at the school I went to and there was almost always someone around in the CS lounge that was eager to help. A lot of these folks also worked at the school's help desk and while Linux wasn't officially supported, the school did (maybe still does) have a custom Fedora build and assuming you got the right (read: knowledgeable) person, they'd likely help. Based on that experience, I'd guess that if the school sees Computer Science as a business degree or solely teaches Microsoft tools and processes, you'll have significantly less luck.
Change the search to, "Why is your mom so expensive?" and the first result is "Why Are Bulldog Puppies So Expensive" but somehow I doubt that Microsoft is "pro-your mom" and "anti-bulldog" puppies.
WikiConstitution
no, it'll say
1. Internet Explorer (recommended)
and 90% of the users won't get past that point.
My perception (granted I'm not privy to in-depth knowledge) has been that MS wants to bury Google and that Big G has more or less shrugged its corporate shoulders and been doing business as usual with the exception that it picks up a few extra companies here and there spending only enough to keep a competitive edge. While in contrast, MS keeps re-branding, rebuilding and blowing wads of cash trying to find a competitive edge.
It reminds me a bit of the cold war where, in the end, it comes down to who can outspend who.
...once again, I'm late to the /. party, but here I go.
There was one time I randomly jumped to the middle of my application and changed a '+' to a '&' (or maybe an || to an &, or maybe a - to a && ... I don't really recall anymore), hit [ctrl]+[home], compiled, grumbled that the compiler was happy with the change and then had to figure out what I broke.
Most recently, I started changing my variables to Hungarian notation. This didn't get me far, so I've switched gears and while I'm on the train to and from work, I'm back to pen and paper sorting out how I want to design my SQLight database which has proven to be fun and re-motivating ... but not quite as motivating as my level 80 boomkin druid.
... I can't help but to wonder if the RIAA is scraping the data and Last.fm is letting it slide.
Before I got laid off, err, "participated in a workforce reduction" from Accenture, I pushed, multiple times, to have people who are 'benched' to use their downtime to contribute back to the Open Source projects that Accenture and their clients use (Hibernate is a fantastic example). Despite having a great points as to why this was a good idea and some good backing from both peers and my so-called "higher ups," no one was ready to approve this kind of use of bench time. I guess real experience and good corporate karma are no substitute for SkillSoft training.
Granted I'm being very cynical, but there has to be a reason why this doesn't make good business sense even for people who are basically getting paid to do next to nothing (benched folk). Can anyone provide insight as to why?
Once again, I'm late to the slashdot party, but I still wanted to point out that an entire generation of people (my peers) got opened up to the world of computing by one game: Oregon Trail
Sadly, I have no mod points to give to you.
Why is this mod'd insightful? It's a pretty trivial matter to set grub to automatically boot you to windows and I'd be willing to bet that Dell is going to do for us by default.