The developers should arrange that once a new article is tagged, up pops a list of references to all other articles with a similar tags match (arranged in reverse chronological order) so they can check for dupes - or would that be too sensible - or does it happen but the editors are just sloppy?
You would soon know if you were running multiple Windows Virtual Machines because within minutes of the infection you would receive an email from Microsoft demanding you pay for the additional licences.
"My work involved doing quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations to extract equation of state (EOS) data for the tungsten wires used in the z-pinches. The highest temperatures I remember the simulations reaching, however, were only about 40,000 Kelvin."
I bothered with a PDA as I can use it to run RDP sessions to Windows-based servers and also use PockeTTY to SSH into our linux servers for emergency remote support without having to lug even a small footprint laptop around when I am 'off duty'.
I also use it to test wifi strength around buildings and to sniff out open access points. Oh, and of course it syncs with my desktop calendar.
My iPAQ fits easily into a trouser or suit pocket. On phones the screen is too small and I don't want a phone with a large screen 'cos then I'd have a stupidly large phone.
The second message has now been cracked and it contained three interesting bits of 'technology history'...
It warned other units that a local garage mechanic had offered to 'improve' their Enigma machine to make it run faster, but after he left they discovered he'd inserted a small additional module which meant that whatever was transmitted, there was an extra last line which read "Come to Fritz's autos for a great deal on used Volkswagens". The cracked message told all other users only to visit trusted garages and not accept any offers of performance upgrades because such offers were the work of 'trojan enemy conspirators that operated like an unwanted virus in the body of our glorious Fatherland'.
There were also complaints of many false messages being received that decoded into offers to supply the German solders with 'processed meat rations' captured from allied troops - the cracked message warned Enigma users to ignore the flood of 'unwanted messages about spam that deflect focus from our vital war efforts' and not to reply as this only confirmed that the messages were being received, which guaranteed even more 'spam messages'.
The final bit of the decoded message related to trials with a new rotor wiring system produced by a local engineer. Apparently, the system promised to make the Enigma machines easier to use, but the coloured insulation on the wiring was rubbing away, (presumably an interaction between the synthetic dyes being used with early, less stable plastics), exposing the conductors and causing the whole machine to short circuit and stop working ('die' as the message coldly put it). The cracked message warned other users to check their rotors to see whether they had any of the 'brightly coloured experimental wiring' and if so, to stop using them and return the rotors to 'Wilhelm Gatz' if they identified the so-called 'blue screening of death'.
a) At work? In which case his boss isn't going to be too happy if half the workforce are bypassing the secured, corporate gateway to the outside word.
or
b) Sitting on a toilet somewhere (local Mall or gym?) in his makeshift 'office'? - in which case I'm staying well away from Dave and he needs to get a life.
"Also in the new Admin Suite is Sabayon. This powerful tool allows administrators to create profiles for groups of users"
Under W*nd*ws, this would be called the 'Group Profile Creator' and everyone would be happy AND would recognise what the tool did when they tripped over it.
Those at the core of the Linux development world need to recognize that the names they choose can actually hinder adoption of their creations. I'm still uncomfortable promoting 'Kubuntu' to the board and I do not look forward to the day someone needs a graphical editor (GIMP) - it was bad enough moving our Web site to Joomla!
"By contrast, the OSS community knew that names were better if they bore no linguistic connection to the actual function of the product. (grep, cat, and vi, I'm talking to you.)"
[I can't work out if you are being ironic - just in case you are not...I've put my marketing consultant hat on...]
Nah - they were handy for quick typing on a TTY - no more.
With most potential desktop Linux users likely to use a GUI, the name of the underlying executable is irrelevant and we have now moved on to a 'marketing' track where the name bears some relevance to the acceptability of the program - trust me, calling a graphics application 'The GIMP' does not make managers warm to it. Similarly, mentioning at meetings that we are using the 'Joomla' CMS always makes me slighly uneasy as I look round the room.
If OpenOffice was called ONMO (OpenOffice is Not Microsoft Office), for example, I bet its adoption would be slower - trust me, it *IS* an issue; why do you think companies spend thousands just getting the name, shape and theme of a new product 'just right'.
Trouble is that too many developers live in the world of Monty Python, Tolkein and Terry Pratchett and think it l33t to name their poducts with a nod to their favourite characters etc. - as a simple exercise, ask a Manager whether they think it would be easer to recommend to the Board of Directors that the organization should migrate to the 'BilboScript' Word Processor or 'MavenWord'. If you think it all comes down to the features comparison matrix you are sadly deluded - names matter, even if it's more of a knee-jerk reaction.
Since Office 2000 Professional does all we want I see little need for changing - all the extra bloat is pointless for us. If I was going to make a jump it would be to a more trimmed, more polished copy of OpenOffice - maybe Q3/4 2006??
First, we need a coherent set of tools that let peripherals such as smartphones and PDAs sync with Linux calendaring apps as easy as they do with Outlook - something that's as transparent as plugging the device into a USB port and it 'Just Works'(TM) - that will start to make some lukewarm-to-Linux Managers sit up and take note.
For the 'interim', we also need a bridge between Outlook and whatever app is being used under Linux - eGroupware (for example) is getting there with Outlook integration, but it still has some very rough edges.
Looking at my desktiop needs, the only things that really stop me going 100% Linux are Outlook and Corel Draw. The other things I use regularly in Windows are easily sorted:
Firefox
FileZilla
SecureCRT/PuTTY
PSFTP (SFTP batch file transfers)
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Looking at my users' needs there's two problems:
1) A proprietary app written in A Windows dev framework with an SQL server back-end. Our current supplier has no intention of porting to a LAMP (or Java) environment but one other has written a really good alternative using JBoss that works with a MYSQL back-end and they may get our business.
2) A spreadsheet app that copes with Macros and has 100% interoperability with Excel - we have a few complex spreadsheets with some macros and pivot functions which just choke on OpenOffice but without the Excel-specific stuff we couldn't do half the things we need.
The other issue, of course, is whatever we do internally, we will always be thrown stuff (docs, spreadsheets etc.) from external sources and will just look plain daft if we cannot handle it, plus we are in a specialist medical care environment and some tools we use (or have demo'd to us) are Windows-based so we'd be at a disadvantage if we were 100% Linux.
And if you set your phone to check for mail every 10 mins and you have a contract that allow free calls to specified 'business-connected' phone lines you have a workable solution without the need for proprietary servers and very little cost. We also use via wifi links from our PDAs - VERY workable.
Slashdot Mirror
"Looks like you are writing a letter- man, that's sooo boring - hows about I fire up Duke Nuken Forever and we play one on one for a while?"
For example - - Digg!
(I'll get my coat...)
...your dog wants respawn!
So, according to the article, both times it fired in 'anger' it managed to shoot down a friendly plane and hit a nearby friendly ship - nice going.
Meh! Call me back when it has a frickin' laser.
Note to editors - new category required:
[+] power, fuelcell, laptops, dupe (tagging beta)
The developers should arrange that once a new article is tagged, up pops a list of references to all other articles with a similar tags match (arranged in reverse chronological order) so they can check for dupes - or would that be too sensible - or does it happen but the editors are just sloppy?
You would soon know if you were running multiple Windows Virtual Machines because within minutes of the infection you would receive an email from Microsoft demanding you pay for the additional licences.
Typical porn movies per hour (TPMH)??
I was only commenting on your poor heating efforts, not you personally!!
(PS: I'm one of those dreaded IT consultants - £50/hour minimum)
"My work involved doing quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) simulations to extract equation of state (EOS) data for the tungsten wires used in the z-pinches. The highest temperatures I remember the simulations reaching, however, were only about 40,000 Kelvin."
Loser!
Is Ric Romero writing for the NYT now!?
Can we borrow an 'obvious' tag from our friends at Fark.com?
I bothered with a PDA as I can use it to run RDP sessions to Windows-based servers and also use PockeTTY to SSH into our linux servers for emergency remote support without having to lug even a small footprint laptop around when I am 'off duty'.
I also use it to test wifi strength around buildings and to sniff out open access points. Oh, and of course it syncs with my desktop calendar.
My iPAQ fits easily into a trouser or suit pocket. On phones the screen is too small and I don't want a phone with a large screen 'cos then I'd have a stupidly large phone.
Maybe 1.2M people each got 5000,000 emails from these guys?
The second message has now been cracked and it contained three interesting bits of 'technology history'...
It warned other units that a local garage mechanic had offered to 'improve' their Enigma machine to make it run faster, but after he left they discovered he'd inserted a small additional module which meant that whatever was transmitted, there was an extra last line which read "Come to Fritz's autos for a great deal on used Volkswagens". The cracked message told all other users only to visit trusted garages and not accept any offers of performance upgrades because such offers were the work of 'trojan enemy conspirators that operated like an unwanted virus in the body of our glorious Fatherland'.
There were also complaints of many false messages being received that decoded into offers to supply the German solders with 'processed meat rations' captured from allied troops - the cracked message warned Enigma users to ignore the flood of 'unwanted messages about spam that deflect focus from our vital war efforts' and not to reply as this only confirmed that the messages were being received, which guaranteed even more 'spam messages'.
The final bit of the decoded message related to trials with a new rotor wiring system produced by a local engineer. Apparently, the system promised to make the Enigma machines easier to use, but the coloured insulation on the wiring was rubbing away, (presumably an interaction between the synthetic dyes being used with early, less stable plastics), exposing the conductors and causing the whole machine to short circuit and stop working ('die' as the message coldly put it). The cracked message warned other users to check their rotors to see whether they had any of the 'brightly coloured experimental wiring' and if so, to stop using them and return the rotors to 'Wilhelm Gatz' if they identified the so-called 'blue screening of death'.
Do we assume that Dave is...
a) At work? In which case his boss isn't going to be too happy if half the workforce are bypassing the secured, corporate gateway to the outside word.
or
b) Sitting on a toilet somewhere (local Mall or gym?) in his makeshift 'office'? - in which case I'm staying well away from Dave and he needs to get a life.
I am *so* with you on this:
"Also in the new Admin Suite is Sabayon. This powerful tool allows administrators to create profiles for groups of users"
Under W*nd*ws, this would be called the 'Group Profile Creator' and everyone would be happy AND would recognise what the tool did when they tripped over it.
Those at the core of the Linux development world need to recognize that the names they choose can actually hinder adoption of their creations. I'm still uncomfortable promoting 'Kubuntu' to the board and I do not look forward to the day someone needs a graphical editor (GIMP) - it was bad enough moving our Web site to Joomla!
I *have* mod points but you're already maxed out at 5, so please accept this token #6.
Great post!
Yeah, sure they say they're hot babes....
Hadn't considered Gnumeric - will give it a go - thanks.
"By contrast, the OSS community knew that names were better if they bore no linguistic connection to the actual function of the product. (grep, cat, and vi, I'm talking to you.)"
[I can't work out if you are being ironic - just in case you are not...I've put my marketing consultant hat on...]
Nah - they were handy for quick typing on a TTY - no more.
With most potential desktop Linux users likely to use a GUI, the name of the underlying executable is irrelevant and we have now moved on to a 'marketing' track where the name bears some relevance to the acceptability of the program - trust me, calling a graphics application 'The GIMP' does not make managers warm to it. Similarly, mentioning at meetings that we are using the 'Joomla' CMS always makes me slighly uneasy as I look round the room.
If OpenOffice was called ONMO (OpenOffice is Not Microsoft Office), for example, I bet its adoption would be slower - trust me, it *IS* an issue; why do you think companies spend thousands just getting the name, shape and theme of a new product 'just right'.
Trouble is that too many developers live in the world of Monty Python, Tolkein and Terry Pratchett and think it l33t to name their poducts with a nod to their favourite characters etc. - as a simple exercise, ask a Manager whether they think it would be easer to recommend to the Board of Directors that the organization should migrate to the 'BilboScript' Word Processor or 'MavenWord'. If you think it all comes down to the features comparison matrix you are sadly deluded - names matter, even if it's more of a knee-jerk reaction.
Oh, and PLEASE will someone rename Ogg Vorbis!!
Since Office 2000 Professional does all we want I see little need for changing - all the extra bloat is pointless for us. If I was going to make a jump it would be to a more trimmed, more polished copy of OpenOffice - maybe Q3/4 2006??
Sorry about the formatting - I've just switched 'plain old text' to be my default now.
First, we need a coherent set of tools that let peripherals such as smartphones and PDAs sync with Linux calendaring apps as easy as they do with Outlook - something that's as transparent as plugging the device into a USB port and it 'Just Works'(TM) - that will start to make some lukewarm-to-Linux Managers sit up and take note. For the 'interim', we also need a bridge between Outlook and whatever app is being used under Linux - eGroupware (for example) is getting there with Outlook integration, but it still has some very rough edges. Looking at my desktiop needs, the only things that really stop me going 100% Linux are Outlook and Corel Draw. The other things I use regularly in Windows are easily sorted: Firefox FileZilla SecureCRT/PuTTY PSFTP (SFTP batch file transfers) Word Excel PowerPoint Looking at my users' needs there's two problems: 1) A proprietary app written in A Windows dev framework with an SQL server back-end. Our current supplier has no intention of porting to a LAMP (or Java) environment but one other has written a really good alternative using JBoss that works with a MYSQL back-end and they may get our business. 2) A spreadsheet app that copes with Macros and has 100% interoperability with Excel - we have a few complex spreadsheets with some macros and pivot functions which just choke on OpenOffice but without the Excel-specific stuff we couldn't do half the things we need. The other issue, of course, is whatever we do internally, we will always be thrown stuff (docs, spreadsheets etc.) from external sources and will just look plain daft if we cannot handle it, plus we are in a specialist medical care environment and some tools we use (or have demo'd to us) are Windows-based so we'd be at a disadvantage if we were 100% Linux.
Scientist: "When we caught Gerald in 1996 he was completely wild"
Gerald the Monkey: "Wild? I was livid!"
And if you set your phone to check for mail every 10 mins and you have a contract that allow free calls to specified 'business-connected' phone lines you have a workable solution without the need for proprietary servers and very little cost. We also use via wifi links from our PDAs - VERY workable.