Remember, your average non technie does NOT install the OS or configure hardware.
Usuability issues with linux are in terms of getting things setup. Your average user buys a computer that already has everything setup and calls the local tech shop or grandkid when he needs to install something else.
Well I turn on the computer, type in my user name and password.
Then to open a program I double click on one of the icons on my desktop, or click it on the quick launch or launch it from the menu.
I'm using "insert operating system here".
Pretty much EVERY major operating system has this feature. Your going to have to dig a little deeper to indicate that windows is simpler than the others.
Have we forgotten the entire point of the space program is to get US to other worlds?
Studying the rocks is great and all, and yes we can do that with robots. But the purpose of space exploration isn't to study rocks, it's not to get rovers up there. It's not to look for life on alien worlds, nasa isn't a glorified seti. The purpose is to learn enough that we can get people there, and eventually get people living there.
I can get you a dual operteron pc with scsi drives for $1000 or less. That's were people get that Sun is costly. As for Dell, Dell is costly as well. All of the major vendors are a ripoff.
Solaris doesn't offer you anything linux doesn't in terms of OS stability these days. You want support? Every piece of that hardware comes with at LEAST a 3yr warranty. The OS support contracts are cheaper as well.
Don't have time to assemble? This job doesn't exactly take expertise, hire in a couple teenage monkeys to assemble the systems for $6/hr. You can have them assemble 100 systems for what you saved on a single Sun box.
Rockets? Are you crazy? What a waste of resources!
You may think robots light, but I'll tell ya, they are pretty fscking heavy if you ask me. A quick google didn't yield the weight but I imagine if it's typical of robots it weighed almost as much or more than the fuel to get it there.
Now on the other hand with people you don't fuel at all. A few possible alternatives to rockets which use expensive fuel would be a giant slingshot, or possibly a catapult. Ballista maybe (something like a giant crossbow)? There are surely other ways, such as putting someone in a small space with walls that show nonstop showtunes and giant speaker in the floor... Feed them beans every 30 minutes and tada, instant rocket. Cheap as dirt too.
Now regardless of which launch method you use, you want to make it comfortable for them. So you just make sure they zip up their jackets, and give them a backpack and a couple bags of doritos (wouldn't want them to starve after all) and a 12pack of moutain dew.
If they don't make it, you just launch another one. I mean really we have several billion people on earth, even if you figure the odds are 1 in a billion of this being successful then we are bound to end up with 2 or 3 people on Mars. It's inevitable.
Ah well, you win some, you lose some... your right, Jefferson not Jackson (I did remember it was against Adams at least). And it looks like your also correct, although he barely squeezed it through he did win the popular vote, just not by much.
ummm nope, actually the job LOSSES and recession were the result of clinton's presidentcy. Generally the effects a president has on the economy don't hit until the next president, that's the point.
During the next presidentcy keep that in mind, whether good or bad know it's the result of bushes tax cuts, wars, etc. I suspect you'll find the economy strongly improving in the next presidentcy. I haven't seen what the next guy will do so I couldn't begin to guess what effect he had.
But I said it months before the election and I'll say it again. I said the economy is going sour, that means it's time to bring in a republican president, that way we can bitch while he starts wars and cuts benign programs to save our economy. He WILL save our economy, he might be dirty, underhanded, cruel, insentive and an all around dick. But we will turn our heads, maybe even bitch about what he's doing, but we all know we put him there to do exactly the dirty underhanded crap we are bitching about so that we will be able to feed our kids tomorrow.
"More voters - in the U.S. as a whole and in Florida - went to the polls to cast their ballots for Gore than for Bush"
Yup, not the first time that's happened, actually the first time it happened it was Andrew Jackson, he's the founder of the democratic party as I recall.
The robots aren't cheap, human beings are cheap animals, we have LOTS of them. They are actually plentiful and resourceful.
They come with half assed AI and are fairly fragile but I suppose we can probably live with that.
Yeah great, it's a safari. It's not a question of IF all life on earth will be wiped out. It's merely a question of WHEN. We are already running short on space here one earth and more rapidly yet running short on resources.
No that is a link to apt and their apt respository which contains all the security updates you'd need, and they have an apt rpm for 6.2 right on that page.
I'm not sure if firebird is in that respository but since it's not included with redhat anyway I don't see where it really falls in the thread? If redhat hadn't dropped support for 7.2 you STILL wouldn't be able to find a supported RPM.
Actually just checked, firebird isn't in the reponsitory, just mozilla.
Your best bet there is to download the firebird source, figure out how to compile it, and build your own rpm and install (that way you keep everything in rpm happy).
"1) Racism is alive and well. Go to any black in LA and ask them whether the LAPD are racist or not. I still get called a "chink" every now and then, although less so now these few years. And when I get called a "chink", it's not in a conversational manner, as in "Excuse me sir, but are you a chink?". When they say it, they say it derogatorily. Yes, the word itself was created as an insult, with the crux of it being that you are Chinese, and therefore inferior, and so we will call you a "chink". Yes, it is a bad word. Accept that. It's like saying "son of a bitch". What's so bad about canines? Nothing. The term was created as an insult, and therefore it *is* an insult. Is that so hard to understand?"
I may have missed something in here, are you trying to convince me of things I said myself in my previous point? I never disputed that these terms were considered derogatory. What I disputed is whether or not they are anymore derogatory than calling someone a son of a bitch.
Bad words are a day to day thing, they are used by every person alive daily with and without anger. What makes your bad word a plague that must be eradicated from the face of the earth?
"And when I called you "fucking stupid", it was in response to something you DID (namely, asserting that "Chinese" and "Chink" are synonymous). When you call someone a "chink", it is in response about something they ARE from birth, and can never change. Think about that. Note the injustice. Get it? No? Then go think some more."
Ok, here is where you explain what makes it special and why it should be eradicated. Let's try to stick with "fucking stupid" you are pointing out that it's because of something I did or said. I'd like to point out that if I analyzed those terms "stupid" is inherent and "fucking" doesn't even make sense.
If you dropped a bowl of oatmeal on me (or some such) and in response I called you a "fucking chink". I believe you wouldn't have much of an argument trying to claim I insulted you in response to being chinese, I clearly insulted you in response to your own actions.
Now if I walked up to you when you were walking down the street, and we had no prior history of interaction, grabbed you and told you to come this way you fucking chink and carved bonzi on your forehead just before hanging you. THEN it would be more serious than saying words like "damn" "shit" "fuck" "asshole" "prick" "dumbfuck" "pig" "shit for brains" etc etc etc. Until that point this is a normal part of our culture, we have words like this for just about everything, race is one of many. It's normal and does not especially need to eradicated.
"While you are correct in that counter-racism exists, it is called "counter-racism" for a reason. It is there in response to an original racism. Yes, there is racism today. I have only been called a "chink" by whites. If you like the naive belief that the world is free from racism and that all races are happy and equal, fine. Obviously you're quite firm in this belief, and honestly I don't feel like writing a dissertation here."
The only one I've heard calling it "counter-racism" is you. I don't care to write a dissertation either, this post is long enough. So I'll use Asians as an example. In the case of Asians they have always closed themselves off from outsiders, strong suspicion and racism has arisen from this. Be a white man in china town and it's not exactly difficult to experience this rather quickly. They have special terms outsiders that have become racist remarks against whites (the most populous of the "outsiders").
That's not in response to anything, it's not counter anything and the root of MOST asian racism I've seen. You'd have a better argument for white racism against asians being counter-racism to asian racism against whites. Personally I don't believe it is however, I'm simply saying that argument would have more evidence and weight behind it.
Partitioning the drive is relatively easy without a doubt. Although it's an extremely simple task and there is no justification for a tool in an installer which actually requires prior knowledge of that tool or even prior knowledge of partitioning to use.
Yes you should know how to partition a drive if running a server (you should know a hell of alot more than that if it's in a production environment... although there is no reason a home user shouldn't be able to setup a simple webserver with their personal homepage without knowing much). What level of knowledge someone should be at before performing a task really is irrelevant to how simple installation of the tool to perform that task should be. It should be no more complex than is reasonably neccesary.
Hardware, in case you haven't noticed in your vast experience setting up hardware under linux. If your not already intimately familiar with setting up hardware under linux this can be extremely daunting. Assuming a user knows the process, that still leaves a pretty significant problem... what modules to use?
A few examples, lets start with those you listed. I won't bother getting too specific because my point is the reason you listed them. They cover ALOT of cards. The module names typically indicate very specific models or ranges of cards. That's great, except that those same modules actually include code specifically to make cards that have nothing or little to do with what the name of the module indicates. Overtime each of those modules has come to include more cards than their original scope determined. There are also multiple Etherexpress pro modules, and both them work (and as a result prevent there from a seperate module for) cards which are certainly not Etherexpress 100 cards.
This is certainly HARD and obfuscated by definition, expecting someone to wade through a new piece of hardware and find the appropriate module is ridiculous. A few distro's include good hardware detection to resolve this obvious problem. Redhat includes the best hardware detection I've ever seen next to MacOS (which cheats since they only have to deal with a small subset of hardware which is entirely defined).
So it is perfectly possible to load the debian installer on a system which is 100% linux compatible (but hardware you aren't familiar with) and FAIL to successfully setup your hardware EVEN KNOWING the concepts behind hardware on linux. Hell it's even possible having written a kernel module!
Another very specific example off the top of my head. WHO on god's green earth would think to load the PALM visor module to make their SONY clie run on linux? Sorry buddy module to hardware mapping is only easy after you've experienced the pain 10,000 times and already know what hardware works with what modules or RESEARCH the matter before installing the hardware. There is no excuse for having to pull up good just to install a common device.
There are a few things that should be done here, debian should adopt anaconda on ALL it's distributions. That's why god invented open source. And symlinks to the best known appropriate module should be added for the actual name or at least chipset of every card known. The kernel make modules_install could take care of this with an easy to update text file of card2module mappings.
A good online database could be maintained as well with a simple script to pull mappings that are rated high by public feedback to be added to the kernel mappings. I could help with this actually... anybody have LOTS of bandwidth and want to see something like this?
P.S. If you need a support contract, there are many besides redhat who offer them. Most of them write code and are just as qualified as redhat to handle you (it's not like windows, and even with windows the "most" qualified give the worst support;) ).
Security updates are also still available, in fact they are more timely than redhats ever were.
http://apt.freshrpms.net
They are still updating 6.2. I wouldn't worry much about 7.3 or 8.0 for awhile.
You can upgrade to a newer version when you do become scared with an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade.
Who said anything about reviewing ALL their source code? But I may well review some of their sourcecode and certainly anything they have developed since that should not only be open source, it should be public domain.
They are accountable to ME the taxpayer, the people who hired them, the people who ultimately CAN and will if need be fire them. If I want to have the source code available for everything they use as part of that accountablity. So I can be sure the information regarding me they handle is secure, so I can verify they are telling the truth if they claim all the power grids in the state went down due a glitch. So I can verify pretty much anything I want AT NEED not neccesarily as an automatic process. They damn well better do it.
Not every individual person will read every line of source code, that is nearly an impossible task with comprehension. However if every citizen reads just two lines of code they could review 1000's of times the amount of software used by the state. But the reason the state needs the source open is so that the citizens can check up on them. And to ensure they don't spend my money developing for proprietary software when they could have developed code that would benefit anyone without advertising a private company.
Yes as a matter of fact I am. Besides that the military contributes BILLIONS to research with no immediate use. The military has at least spent SOME of my tax dollars developing software I can review and which is available to everyone.
Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK. I wish people would get that through their heads.
The state of mass however does NOT work on issues of national security at all. If they have software developed it should be open source and available to the public. It should also be out in the open so that taxpayers can review the states purchasing decisions and determine whether or not the current state and local governments need fired.
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damn I want one! How long does it take to warm a frozen burrito in that thing! What about a hot pocket?
That's not what defines lock in at all. It has nothing to do with price or capability whatsoever.
Vendor lockin means that something is proprietary and locking in your data in it's own proprietary formats/protocols and/or it fails to function if replaced by something else.
Basically how locked in your are is ENTIRELY dependent on your REALISTIC ability to toss it in the trash. You can always throw away a piece of software, if your willing ot lose all of your critical data and throw a billion in the trash of course. That's why its about your REALISTIC ability.
From the article: Oldroyd says. "We want Windows to be the best platform for interoperability."
I think they have a LONG way to go. This would pretty much require destroying all their API's as they exist today, a complete rewrite of windows eliminating all proprietary protocols. Adding noncrippled and nonslow support for all the standard protocols and filesystems out there. Putting a stop to the automatic mbr clearing their OS does on the install.
And that would only get them IN THE BALLPARK of being close to equal to their competition in this respect.
For one thing, I never said anything about ME lying.
For another I never said anything about fibbing about what you know how to do. I advised him to get a job the only way it is possible for him and gain some legitimate experience. Aside from that, I've yet to meet anyone with a legitimate resume.
Whether it's creating a phantom job (easy enough to do, I've known people who created phantom companies and had a girlfriend answer the phone. I had co-workers at Sony who used this trick to get hired).
Or padding time between or in addition to actual work experience to alter unemployed time periods. This I even do, and so does everyone else able to get jobs. NEVER show a period of unemployment on your resume if you want to get a job.
And if they ask for OS experience that is impossible in their listed requirements. And you have the experience which IS possible. Put down what they are asking for.
You don't bs the people your working with, HR it's okay to bullshit, since HR is the very definition of bullshit.
If the requested credentials for a job are ridiculous, it calls for a ridiculous resume (if you are desperate enough to submit your resume to such a job anyway). If the job lists reasonable requirements, you list your real requirements. If you can't competently perform the job function, you don't apply at all.
Does this affect 2k pro as well? The reason I ask is that we recently went through a host of backup solutions for small businesses, trying to find something that worked well and was inexpensive.
Zips are too small for alot of business while tapes are too expensive, slow, and have issues.
We really aren't looking for a solution that can handle MASSIVE transfers. If it maxed out at 20-40gb that would be just fine.
In any case we finally settled on usb enclosures. The enclosures had no ventilation so I was concerned about heat, but in testing we found that while they seemed to be hot as a pancake they worked fine for the several months we tested.
We setup several of these on workstations out there until finally we setup a solution for a company that runs win2k on EVERY workstation. We started getting write delay errors. After applying service pack 4 the write delay errors go away but the backup still hangs sometime in the middle. The issue you describe does not match what microsoft described to along with the delayed write errors. Their explanation involved network locking.
I was going there tommorow to replace the enclosures with true 40gb usb drives instead of regular drives in enclosures getting hot (at 16gb this is the largest backup we've had going on these to date).
My Advice, bullshit a couple years experience if you are confident you can wing it. Then apply for a job at a tech shop.
Here on slashdot you hear about in house staff and network admins in the sense of people who actually work for the company they admin the network for. That's true in a fortune 500 or a large business, but the large business's call outside expertise in when they need work done, and small businesses don't have inhouse techs at all.
MOST technicians out there are on the payroll of a company that builds and services networks for a ALOT of businesses, not A business. Your 2yr fib will land you a job with one of these and from there you can get a couple years experience.
Your co-workers pretty much expect you to know nothing and may even prefer it so they can train you. Since you'll be learning from experienced technicians on the job, that two years will be equivelent in reality to 4. Just keep the fictious initial job on the resume until you have enough realworld experience you don't need it anymore.
lol, yeah, the local health department has an admin like that.
It's pretty sad really, he has dual lcd's and 5 test stations in his office. A really pretty looking dell and far overpriced rack for the servers. Anytime something goes wrong, bam my cell phone starts ringing. He makes twice what I do and his job is basically calling me to fix anything that goes wrong.
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Remember, your average non technie does NOT install the OS or configure hardware.
Usuability issues with linux are in terms of getting things setup. Your average user buys a computer that already has everything setup and calls the local tech shop or grandkid when he needs to install something else.
Well I turn on the computer, type in my user name and password.
Then to open a program I double click on one of the icons on my desktop, or click it on the quick launch or launch it from the menu.
I'm using "insert operating system here".
Pretty much EVERY major operating system has this feature. Your going to have to dig a little deeper to indicate that windows is simpler than the others.
begone grammar troll.
Have we forgotten the entire point of the space program is to get US to other worlds?
Studying the rocks is great and all, and yes we can do that with robots. But the purpose of space exploration isn't to study rocks, it's not to get rovers up there. It's not to look for life on alien worlds, nasa isn't a glorified seti. The purpose is to learn enough that we can get people there, and eventually get people living there.
I can get you a dual operteron pc with scsi drives for $1000 or less. That's were people get that Sun is costly. As for Dell, Dell is costly as well. All of the major vendors are a ripoff.
Solaris doesn't offer you anything linux doesn't in terms of OS stability these days. You want support? Every piece of that hardware comes with at LEAST a 3yr warranty. The OS support contracts are cheaper as well.
Don't have time to assemble? This job doesn't exactly take expertise, hire in a couple teenage monkeys to assemble the systems for $6/hr. You can have them assemble 100 systems for what you saved on a single Sun box.
Rockets? Are you crazy? What a waste of resources!
You may think robots light, but I'll tell ya, they are pretty fscking heavy if you ask me. A quick google didn't yield the weight but I imagine if it's typical of robots it weighed almost as much or more than the fuel to get it there.
Now on the other hand with people you don't fuel at all. A few possible alternatives to rockets which use expensive fuel would be a giant slingshot, or possibly a catapult. Ballista maybe (something like a giant crossbow)? There are surely other ways, such as putting someone in a small space with walls that show nonstop showtunes and giant speaker in the floor... Feed them beans every 30 minutes and tada, instant rocket. Cheap as dirt too.
Now regardless of which launch method you use, you want to make it comfortable for them. So you just make sure they zip up their jackets, and give them a backpack and a couple bags of doritos (wouldn't want them to starve after all) and a 12pack of moutain dew.
If they don't make it, you just launch another one. I mean really we have several billion people on earth, even if you figure the odds are 1 in a billion of this being successful then we are bound to end up with 2 or 3 people on Mars. It's inevitable.
Right election, right person, wrong name :)
Ah well, you win some, you lose some... your right, Jefferson not Jackson (I did remember it was against Adams at least). And it looks like your also correct, although he barely squeezed it through he did win the popular vote, just not by much.
ummm nope, actually the job LOSSES and recession were the result of clinton's presidentcy. Generally the effects a president has on the economy don't hit until the next president, that's the point.
During the next presidentcy keep that in mind, whether good or bad know it's the result of bushes tax cuts, wars, etc. I suspect you'll find the economy strongly improving in the next presidentcy. I haven't seen what the next guy will do so I couldn't begin to guess what effect he had.
But I said it months before the election and I'll say it again. I said the economy is going sour, that means it's time to bring in a republican president, that way we can bitch while he starts wars and cuts benign programs to save our economy. He WILL save our economy, he might be dirty, underhanded, cruel, insentive and an all around dick. But we will turn our heads, maybe even bitch about what he's doing, but we all know we put him there to do exactly the dirty underhanded crap we are bitching about so that we will be able to feed our kids tomorrow.
"More voters - in the U.S. as a whole and in Florida - went to the polls to cast their ballots for Gore than for Bush"
Yup, not the first time that's happened, actually the first time it happened it was Andrew Jackson, he's the founder of the democratic party as I recall.
The robots aren't cheap, human beings are cheap animals, we have LOTS of them. They are actually plentiful and resourceful.
They come with half assed AI and are fairly fragile but I suppose we can probably live with that.
Yeah great, it's a safari. It's not a question of IF all life on earth will be wiped out. It's merely a question of WHEN. We are already running short on space here one earth and more rapidly yet running short on resources.
No that is a link to apt and their apt respository which contains all the security updates you'd need, and they have an apt rpm for 6.2 right on that page.
I'm not sure if firebird is in that respository but since it's not included with redhat anyway I don't see where it really falls in the thread? If redhat hadn't dropped support for 7.2 you STILL wouldn't be able to find a supported RPM.
Actually just checked, firebird isn't in the reponsitory, just mozilla.
Your best bet there is to download the firebird source, figure out how to compile it, and build your own rpm and install (that way you keep everything in rpm happy).
"1) Racism is alive and well. Go to any black in LA and ask them whether the LAPD are racist or not. I still get called a "chink" every now and then, although less so now these few years. And when I get called a "chink", it's not in a conversational manner, as in "Excuse me sir, but are you a chink?". When they say it, they say it derogatorily. Yes, the word itself was created as an insult, with the crux of it being that you are Chinese, and therefore inferior, and so we will call you a "chink". Yes, it is a bad word. Accept that. It's like saying "son of a bitch". What's so bad about canines? Nothing. The term was created as an insult, and therefore it *is* an insult. Is that so hard to understand?"
I may have missed something in here, are you trying to convince me of things I said myself in my previous point? I never disputed that these terms were considered derogatory. What I disputed is whether or not they are anymore derogatory than calling someone a son of a bitch.
Bad words are a day to day thing, they are used by every person alive daily with and without anger. What makes your bad word a plague that must be eradicated from the face of the earth?
"And when I called you "fucking stupid", it was in response to something you DID (namely, asserting that "Chinese" and "Chink" are synonymous). When you call someone a "chink", it is in response about something they ARE from birth, and can never change. Think about that. Note the injustice. Get it? No? Then go think some more."
Ok, here is where you explain what makes it special and why it should be eradicated. Let's try to stick with "fucking stupid" you are pointing out that it's because of something I did or said. I'd like to point out that if I analyzed those terms "stupid" is inherent and "fucking" doesn't even make sense.
If you dropped a bowl of oatmeal on me (or some such) and in response I called you a "fucking chink". I believe you wouldn't have much of an argument trying to claim I insulted you in response to being chinese, I clearly insulted you in response to your own actions.
Now if I walked up to you when you were walking down the street, and we had no prior history of interaction, grabbed you and told you to come this way you fucking chink and carved bonzi on your forehead just before hanging you. THEN it would be more serious than saying words like "damn" "shit" "fuck" "asshole" "prick" "dumbfuck" "pig" "shit for brains" etc etc etc. Until that point this is a normal part of our culture, we have words like this for just about everything, race is one of many. It's normal and does not especially need to eradicated.
"While you are correct in that counter-racism exists, it is called "counter-racism" for a reason. It is there in response to an original racism. Yes, there is racism today. I have only been called a "chink" by whites. If you like the naive belief that the world is free from racism and that all races are happy and equal, fine. Obviously you're quite firm in this belief, and honestly I don't feel like writing a dissertation here."
The only one I've heard calling it "counter-racism" is you. I don't care to write a dissertation either, this post is long enough. So I'll use Asians as an example. In the case of Asians they have always closed themselves off from outsiders, strong suspicion and racism has arisen from this. Be a white man in china town and it's not exactly difficult to experience this rather quickly. They have special terms outsiders that have become racist remarks against whites (the most populous of the "outsiders").
That's not in response to anything, it's not counter anything and the root of MOST asian racism I've seen. You'd have a better argument for white racism against asians being counter-racism to asian racism against whites. Personally I don't believe it is however, I'm simply saying that argument would have more evidence and weight behind it.
Partitioning the drive is relatively easy without a doubt. Although it's an extremely simple task and there is no justification for a tool in an installer which actually requires prior knowledge of that tool or even prior knowledge of partitioning to use.
Yes you should know how to partition a drive if running a server (you should know a hell of alot more than that if it's in a production environment... although there is no reason a home user shouldn't be able to setup a simple webserver with their personal homepage without knowing much). What level of knowledge someone should be at before performing a task really is irrelevant to how simple installation of the tool to perform that task should be. It should be no more complex than is reasonably neccesary.
Hardware, in case you haven't noticed in your vast experience setting up hardware under linux. If your not already intimately familiar with setting up hardware under linux this can be extremely daunting. Assuming a user knows the process, that still leaves a pretty significant problem... what modules to use?
A few examples, lets start with those you listed. I won't bother getting too specific because my point is the reason you listed them. They cover ALOT of cards. The module names typically indicate very specific models or ranges of cards. That's great, except that those same modules actually include code specifically to make cards that have nothing or little to do with what the name of the module indicates. Overtime each of those modules has come to include more cards than their original scope determined. There are also multiple Etherexpress pro modules, and both them work (and as a result prevent there from a seperate module for) cards which are certainly not Etherexpress 100 cards.
This is certainly HARD and obfuscated by definition, expecting someone to wade through a new piece of hardware and find the appropriate module is ridiculous. A few distro's include good hardware detection to resolve this obvious problem. Redhat includes the best hardware detection I've ever seen next to MacOS (which cheats since they only have to deal with a small subset of hardware which is entirely defined).
So it is perfectly possible to load the debian installer on a system which is 100% linux compatible (but hardware you aren't familiar with) and FAIL to successfully setup your hardware EVEN KNOWING the concepts behind hardware on linux. Hell it's even possible having written a kernel module!
Another very specific example off the top of my head. WHO on god's green earth would think to load the PALM visor module to make their SONY clie run on linux? Sorry buddy module to hardware mapping is only easy after you've experienced the pain 10,000 times and already know what hardware works with what modules or RESEARCH the matter before installing the hardware. There is no excuse for having to pull up good just to install a common device.
There are a few things that should be done here, debian should adopt anaconda on ALL it's distributions. That's why god invented open source. And symlinks to the best known appropriate module should be added for the actual name or at least chipset of every card known. The kernel make modules_install could take care of this with an easy to update text file of card2module mappings.
A good online database could be maintained as well with a simple script to pull mappings that are rated high by public feedback to be added to the kernel mappings. I could help with this actually... anybody have LOTS of bandwidth and want to see something like this?
P.S. If you need a support contract, there are many besides redhat who offer them. Most of them write code and are just as qualified as redhat to handle you (it's not like windows, and even with windows the "most" qualified give the worst support ;) ).
Security updates are also still available, in fact they are more timely than redhats ever were.
http://apt.freshrpms.net
They are still updating 6.2. I wouldn't worry much about 7.3 or 8.0 for awhile.
You can upgrade to a newer version when you do become scared with an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade.
ease of installation? The strain must really be getting to you.
Who said anything about reviewing ALL their source code? But I may well review some of their sourcecode and certainly anything they have developed since that should not only be open source, it should be public domain.
They are accountable to ME the taxpayer, the people who hired them, the people who ultimately CAN and will if need be fire them. If I want to have the source code available for everything they use as part of that accountablity. So I can be sure the information regarding me they handle is secure, so I can verify they are telling the truth if they claim all the power grids in the state went down due a glitch. So I can verify pretty much anything I want AT NEED not neccesarily as an automatic process. They damn well better do it.
Not every individual person will read every line of source code, that is nearly an impossible task with comprehension. However if every citizen reads just two lines of code they could review 1000's of times the amount of software used by the state. But the reason the state needs the source open is so that the citizens can check up on them. And to ensure they don't spend my money developing for proprietary software when they could have developed code that would benefit anyone without advertising a private company.
Yes as a matter of fact I am. Besides that the military contributes BILLIONS to research with no immediate use. The military has at least spent SOME of my tax dollars developing software I can review and which is available to everyone.
Security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK. I wish people would get that through their heads.
The state of mass however does NOT work on issues of national security at all. If they have software developed it should be open source and available to the public. It should also be out in the open so that taxpayers can review the states purchasing decisions and determine whether or not the current state and local governments need fired.
damn I want one! How long does it take to warm a frozen burrito in that thing! What about a hot pocket?
That's not what defines lock in at all. It has nothing to do with price or capability whatsoever.
Vendor lockin means that something is proprietary and locking in your data in it's own proprietary formats/protocols and/or it fails to function if replaced by something else.
Basically how locked in your are is ENTIRELY dependent on your REALISTIC ability to toss it in the trash. You can always throw away a piece of software, if your willing ot lose all of your critical data and throw a billion in the trash of course. That's why its about your REALISTIC ability.
Of course. However they damn well better not spend my tax dollars on something I can't review.
From the article:
Oldroyd says. "We want Windows to be the best platform for interoperability."
I think they have a LONG way to go. This would pretty much require destroying all their API's as they exist today, a complete rewrite of windows eliminating all proprietary protocols. Adding noncrippled and nonslow support for all the standard protocols and filesystems out there. Putting a stop to the automatic mbr clearing their OS does on the install.
And that would only get them IN THE BALLPARK of being close to equal to their competition in this respect.
For one thing, I never said anything about ME lying.
For another I never said anything about fibbing about what you know how to do. I advised him to get a job the only way it is possible for him and gain some legitimate experience. Aside from that, I've yet to meet anyone with a legitimate resume.
Whether it's creating a phantom job (easy enough to do, I've known people who created phantom companies and had a girlfriend answer the phone. I had co-workers at Sony who used this trick to get hired).
Or padding time between or in addition to actual work experience to alter unemployed time periods. This I even do, and so does everyone else able to get jobs. NEVER show a period of unemployment on your resume if you want to get a job.
And if they ask for OS experience that is impossible in their listed requirements. And you have the experience which IS possible. Put down what they are asking for.
You don't bs the people your working with, HR it's okay to bullshit, since HR is the very definition of bullshit.
If the requested credentials for a job are ridiculous, it calls for a ridiculous resume (if you are desperate enough to submit your resume to such a job anyway). If the job lists reasonable requirements, you list your real requirements. If you can't competently perform the job function, you don't apply at all.
Does this affect 2k pro as well? The reason I ask is that we recently went through a host of backup solutions for small businesses, trying to find something that worked well and was inexpensive.
Zips are too small for alot of business while tapes are too expensive, slow, and have issues.
We really aren't looking for a solution that can handle MASSIVE transfers. If it maxed out at 20-40gb that would be just fine.
In any case we finally settled on usb enclosures. The enclosures had no ventilation so I was concerned about heat, but in testing we found that while they seemed to be hot as a pancake they worked fine for the several months we tested.
We setup several of these on workstations out there until finally we setup a solution for a company that runs win2k on EVERY workstation. We started getting write delay errors. After applying service pack 4 the write delay errors go away but the backup still hangs sometime in the middle. The issue you describe does not match what microsoft described to along with the delayed write errors. Their explanation involved network locking.
I was going there tommorow to replace the enclosures with true 40gb usb drives instead of regular drives in enclosures getting hot (at 16gb this is the largest backup we've had going on these to date).
My Advice, bullshit a couple years experience if you are confident you can wing it. Then apply for a job at a tech shop.
Here on slashdot you hear about in house staff and network admins in the sense of people who actually work for the company they admin the network for. That's true in a fortune 500 or a large business, but the large business's call outside expertise in when they need work done, and small businesses don't have inhouse techs at all.
MOST technicians out there are on the payroll of a company that builds and services networks for a ALOT of businesses, not A business. Your 2yr fib will land you a job with one of these and from there you can get a couple years experience.
Your co-workers pretty much expect you to know nothing and may even prefer it so they can train you. Since you'll be learning from experienced technicians on the job, that two years will be equivelent in reality to 4. Just keep the fictious initial job on the resume until you have enough realworld experience you don't need it anymore.
lol, yeah, the local health department has an admin like that.
It's pretty sad really, he has dual lcd's and 5 test stations in his office. A really pretty looking dell and far overpriced rack for the servers. Anytime something goes wrong, bam my cell phone starts ringing. He makes twice what I do and his job is basically calling me to fix anything that goes wrong.