Oh don't worry, once they find out I'm sure they'll take a picture of the log file, will wrap the image up in a Powerpoint file and will email the.ppt to all of their coworkers.
You could say the same thing about any country vs. any country.
Except that the UN has laws protecting established legitimate countries. The UN doesn't recognize Sealand. There is no international protection. There are few entities that consider Sealand as a nation are geeks and other micronations.
All the UK has to do is send 2 dozen soldiers to the platform, arrest the occupants, and throw them in jail. Few people are going to care, outside of Slashdot and some micronations.
Will the UK go out and seize any other country with a weak army, just because they don't like the laws of their country?
Many wars are justified that way. It's been done in the past, and it's done today. Iraq was just seized because the UK & US felt threatened by the leadership of the country.
Actually, this is why I like to use Sans-serif fonts like Arial. With Times New Roman, all those little serif's get snagged on things as the 1's travel down the wire.
This is a good reason to keep your optical fiber cables hidden when it is outside the server room.
I've been to more then one place where a major fiber is laying there in the open. I could easily see a disgruntled worker bending the cable a little bit. The fiber in these installations is usually for some mission-critical app, a bend fiber can cause a big financial loss.
With cut copper cable, it's easy to spot the two broken strands of cable. With fiber, it's harder to spot. Someone could easily bend the cable, and then straighten it out. All that's left is a minor kink in the wire and the plastic sheathing that is discolored from being stretched.
With the Sealand "Royal Family" outlawing the exploitation of the difference in IP law, HaveCo is surely doomed to failure.
Sealand's very existance teeters on the edge. If they violated too many of the UK IP laws, the UK might decide to stop playing games and just seize the island outright.
At the very least, shutting down HavenCo for the duration of the legal battle would put HavenCo out of business.
Gee, why would people think it's an emulator? Don't get too upset, but it is an emulator in many senses of the word (Yes, I know WINE is an acronymn for Wine Is Not an Emulator).
- It just happens to implement a similar look and feel as Win - It implements the Windows API on a non Windows system - I can use it to execute the same Windows programs and achieve the same results as with MS Windows, which fits the the dictionary definition - Oh, and it ends in 'E'. What does that stand for? Ethereal?
SCO is guarding their code, because they say it's theirs, but with Linux code is already out in the open. So how do we know WHEN SCO created their code?
SCO has had a pretty extensive version control system for a number of years, which contains code checkin dates, code author, etc. It's easy to forge some dates at a superficial level, but I'm hoping the judge would require a code audit of some of the sources which are harder to forge, such as backup tapes or the institutional memory of some ex-employees (SCO has thousands of bitter, layed-off ex-employees).
However, SCO doesn't have to prove it to you Mr. Slashdot reader, just to the courts. So you and I will probably always remain in the dark unless IBM or RedHat let us know more.
Ximian's recent focus on Mono shows a change in their company strategy. They are looking to design cross-platform applications that use networks extensively.
Novell is a networking company. They have a good deal of experience dealing with multiple platforms.
From that angle, it makes more sense (but is still wierd).
It may be poor customer service, but look at it from his perspective: Which is more important?
Look at it from his perspective. The sale to Novell involved millions of dollars, and may have guarenteed Ximian's survival for a while longer.
Giving a sales presentation to you involved much less money, even if you were evaluating XD2 for thousands of desktops. Also, you were just a potential sale.
Look at it from his perspective. Which is more important?
True, they probably should have sent someone else to the meeting.
Again, ZERO sense. Xiamian has tons more experience with.NET - why would adding Novell to mix help Novell?
Novell does have 15 years experience in running applications over the network..NET and Mono are one way of doing this.
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purchased one of the few Linux desktops that could potentially give Microsoft a run for its money.
I really like the Ximian Desktop. It's just want Linux needs to get into enterprise environments.
However, Ximian is a pretty small company, and on their own I doubt that they could give anyone a run for their money. Left on their own, Ximian probably would have gone out of business soon.
If the founders of Ximian were confident about the future of their company, they wouldn't have sold it to Novell.
In the last year, it seemed as through Ximian was paring down their offerings in order to focus on a few key markets: Ximian stopped shipping it's desktop for Solaris workstations, and HPUX dropped their contract with Ximian. RH started shipping a decent desktop with Gnome2.2. Ximian dropped support for Debian. Sounds a little desperate.
Novell is a bigger company. The Linux Desktop requires an investment that may not pay off for a while. Novell can take a bigger short term loss then Ximian could.
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Novell isn't unusual in government offices. Not sure why you are suprised by that, since you once worked for one. Novell fit their needs a decade ago, and governments are slow to change to new technologies.
I live in the SF Bay Area (Unix central), and most of the city & county governments still run Novell at some level. I've spoken to a number of IT managers at bigger cities throughout the US in the last year, and they all talked about their Novell network.
It certainly is a problem trying to get it working, especially when trying to get it working alongside an hybrid NT/Un*x network. But moving to a different architecture can also be a big problem.
the medium of communication for higher education in India is *English*
I never said there were English problems, I said "communication" problems. Are you aware of the distinction? We just demonstrated a communication problem. Add in the necessity of a phone call or email thread to correct the problem, and you the impact of the problem increases.
When someone works in the same office as me, I can walk over, and we can resolve the problem in 30 seconds. With a phone call or email overseas, it can easily take 10 times that long to resolve a simple issue.
It's ironic. For years, many businesses didn't like employees to telecommute because of communication problems, and the boss couldn't keep an eye on you to make sure you were working. In my mind, telecommuniting 1-2 times a week is great, as long as you get the work done.
And yet many of these same places have no problem outsourcing the same work half-way around the globe. Judging by the poor quality of some of the code I've seen from these outsourceing places (not all), there are a fair amount of communication issues, and then places aren't getting the work done properly.
It's a cliche, but in today's market it's not what you know, but who you know.
As someone who can see the writing on the wall (Good for you), I highly reccommend you start networking now: Contact your friends, old coworkers, business partners now.
Throw a party, host a dining event at your local sushi place, meet for beer, meet for coffee. Have fun, re-establish your connections, and don't talk about work all the time. However, you should become somewhat familiar with their workplace. See if you want to work there. Make sure you are aware of how their business is doing, and if interested, let them know.
It is sometims better for you to leave your job on your own then to wait for your buiness to lay you off.
When you are out of a job, it is sometimes very hard to get people to take you seriously. When you have a job in this economy, it makes you even more employable if you decide to move to another business.
but this is certainly not the worst economy since the great depression, at least from an employment perspective.
It may not be the worst, but it is among the worst. Employment is only one aspect of measuring the economy's performance. There are a number of factors. Employment is down, forcasts are down, personal debt is up, federal debt is up, 2001 was a recession. From my perspective, things are pretty bad. I know that for some people, things are going fine.
The unemployment statistics you state are nationwide. Unemployment in California is approximately 8%, and has gone UP or remained stable almost every month for the last couple years. In the Bay Area is higher, and unemployment in the Tech sector of the Bay Area is even higher.
No time to find the link now. Sorry.
Some people may say "Don't like it? Move!" I own a house here, my wife has a stable job, I have roots in the area, family in the area, and I want to stay. Long term this will probably be a great place to stay. Short term, it hurts.
While there are obvious problems with this method, 80% of people get jobs through networking.
And to be honest, if you interviewed unknown people who saw your posting on Dice, many of them would also have unremarkable skills that may not be obvious in an interview. A technical test is only so effective. Personal skills are even harder to find out during an interview.
At least if the VP of Engineering vouches for these people, you know they did a decent job and have reasonable person skills. At least in his eyes.
Coding skills can be learned. People skills are much harder to learn.
All the truely qualified software engineers are not unemployed. If you have the skills to back up what's written on your resume, there really is no problem finding a job.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. Have you been unemployeed recently? You are aware that the economy is in one of the worst states it's been in since the Great Depression?
There are many qualified people who have trouble finding jobs.
I know a number of well qualified people in a number of sectors who have trouble finding work. This includes Java engineers with over 6 years java experience, Unix admins with 10+ years experience, telecom folks, production managers, office managers, etc. Most sectors of the economy are suffering.
Finding a job depends on networking-- who do you know that can help you get a job. Technical skills are very secondary.
In the SF Bay Area, we're flirting with a 10% unemployment rate in the tech sector. 25% of residents in the Bay Area have been laid off in the last several years. Average job search lasts 8 months.
That is caused by more then the "java in 21 days" problem that you suggested.
In fact, Diebold laid off a good number of their QA, code integrity staff and software developers in late-2001/early-2002, when this product was under heavy development.
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niutil -createprop . /users/myusername shell /bin/tcsh
Gee whiz, why do you Mac users always do things the hard way. You should try an easier Operating System, like Linux.
I think he was specifially talking about Case-insensitive completion, which isn't mentioned in the article you referenced.
Oh don't worry, once they find out I'm sure they'll take a picture of the log file, will wrap the image up in a Powerpoint file and will email the .ppt to all of their coworkers.
That is, if they know about the logfiles.
(This post is based on a true story).
If the DMV computers crashed and all services came screeching to a halt, would the people waiting in line even notice?
Considering SCO has risen from 1 point to near 15 points in less then 6 months, outperforming the rest of the market by a large percent, a drop of 11% in one day isn't all that signifigant.
You could say the same thing about any country vs. any country.
Except that the UN has laws protecting established legitimate countries. The UN doesn't recognize Sealand. There is no international protection. There are few entities that consider Sealand as a nation are geeks and other micronations.
All the UK has to do is send 2 dozen soldiers to the platform, arrest the occupants, and throw them in jail. Few people are going to care, outside of Slashdot and some micronations.
Will the UK go out and seize any other country with a weak army, just because they don't like the laws of their country?
Many wars are justified that way. It's been done in the past, and it's done today. Iraq was just seized because the UK & US felt threatened by the leadership of the country.
Are you kidding? Why would they try to swallow little airplanes when little balloons are much easier?
Sheesh! Some people.
those ones get hung up in the corners.
Actually, this is why I like to use Sans-serif fonts like Arial. With Times New Roman, all those little serif's get snagged on things as the 1's travel down the wire.
This is a good reason to keep your optical fiber cables hidden when it is outside the server room.
I've been to more then one place where a major fiber is laying there in the open. I could easily see a disgruntled worker bending the cable a little bit. The fiber in these installations is usually for some mission-critical app, a bend fiber can cause a big financial loss.
With cut copper cable, it's easy to spot the two broken strands of cable. With fiber, it's harder to spot. Someone could easily bend the cable, and then straighten it out. All that's left is a minor kink in the wire and the plastic sheathing that is discolored from being stretched.
With the Sealand "Royal Family" outlawing the exploitation of the difference in IP law, HaveCo is surely doomed to failure.
Sealand's very existance teeters on the edge. If they violated too many of the UK IP laws, the UK might decide to stop playing games and just seize the island outright.
At the very least, shutting down HavenCo for the duration of the legal battle would put HavenCo out of business.
Wine Is Not an Emulator!!!
Gee, why would people think it's an emulator? Don't get too upset, but it is an emulator in many senses of the word (Yes, I know WINE is an acronymn for Wine Is Not an Emulator).
- It just happens to implement a similar look and feel as Win
- It implements the Windows API on a non Windows system
- I can use it to execute the same Windows programs and achieve the same results as with MS Windows, which fits the the dictionary definition
- Oh, and it ends in 'E'. What does that stand for? Ethereal?
And GNU is Un*x.
SCO is guarding their code, because they say it's theirs, but with Linux code is already out in the open. So how do we know WHEN SCO created their code?
SCO has had a pretty extensive version control system for a number of years, which contains code checkin dates, code author, etc. It's easy to forge some dates at a superficial level, but I'm hoping the judge would require a code audit of some of the sources which are harder to forge, such as backup tapes or the institutional memory of some ex-employees (SCO has thousands of bitter, layed-off ex-employees).
However, SCO doesn't have to prove it to you Mr. Slashdot reader, just to the courts. So you and I will probably always remain in the dark unless IBM or RedHat let us know more.
Not sure if Novell is going for the Desktop.
Ximian's recent focus on Mono shows a change in their company strategy. They are looking to design cross-platform applications that use networks extensively.
Novell is a networking company. They have a good deal of experience dealing with multiple platforms.
From that angle, it makes more sense (but is still wierd).
It may be poor customer service, but look at it from his perspective: Which is more important?
Look at it from his perspective. The sale to Novell involved millions of dollars, and may have guarenteed Ximian's survival for a while longer.
Giving a sales presentation to you involved much less money, even if you were evaluating XD2 for thousands of desktops. Also, you were just a potential sale.
Look at it from his perspective. Which is more important?
True, they probably should have sent someone else to the meeting.
Again, ZERO sense. Xiamian has tons more experience with .NET - why would adding Novell to mix help Novell?
.NET and Mono are one way of doing this.
Novell does have 15 years experience in running applications over the network.
purchased one of the few Linux desktops that could potentially give Microsoft a run for its money.
I really like the Ximian Desktop. It's just want Linux needs to get into enterprise environments.
However, Ximian is a pretty small company, and on their own I doubt that they could give anyone a run for their money. Left on their own, Ximian probably would have gone out of business soon.
If the founders of Ximian were confident about the future of their company, they wouldn't have sold it to Novell.
In the last year, it seemed as through Ximian was paring down their offerings in order to focus on a few key markets: Ximian stopped shipping it's desktop for Solaris workstations, and HPUX dropped their contract with Ximian. RH started shipping a decent desktop with Gnome2.2. Ximian dropped support for Debian. Sounds a little desperate.
Novell is a bigger company. The Linux Desktop requires an investment that may not pay off for a while. Novell can take a bigger short term loss then Ximian could.
Novell isn't unusual in government offices. Not sure why you are suprised by that, since you once worked for one. Novell fit their needs a decade ago, and governments are slow to change to new technologies.
I live in the SF Bay Area (Unix central), and most of the city & county governments still run Novell at some level. I've spoken to a number of IT managers at bigger cities throughout the US in the last year, and they all talked about their Novell network.
It certainly is a problem trying to get it working, especially when trying to get it working alongside an hybrid NT/Un*x network. But moving to a different architecture can also be a big problem.
Cities are often several
Episode 1 [slashdot.org] : Microsoft is a failure
This was a great episode. We even got Steve Balmer to pretend he was Jar Jar Binks!
the medium of communication for higher education in India is *English*
I never said there were English problems, I said "communication" problems. Are you aware of the distinction? We just demonstrated a communication problem. Add in the necessity of a phone call or email thread to correct the problem, and you the impact of the problem increases.
When someone works in the same office as me, I can walk over, and we can resolve the problem in 30 seconds. With a phone call or email overseas, it can easily take 10 times that long to resolve a simple issue.
It's ironic. For years, many businesses didn't like employees to telecommute because of communication problems, and the boss couldn't keep an eye on you to make sure you were working. In my mind, telecommuniting 1-2 times a week is great, as long as you get the work done.
And yet many of these same places have no problem outsourcing the same work half-way around the globe. Judging by the poor quality of some of the code I've seen from these outsourceing places (not all), there are a fair amount of communication issues, and then places aren't getting the work done properly.
Double standard?
but I can see the writing on the wall
(...)
It's a cliche, but in today's market it's not what you know, but who you know.
As someone who can see the writing on the wall (Good for you), I highly reccommend you start networking now: Contact your friends, old coworkers, business partners now.
Throw a party, host a dining event at your local sushi place, meet for beer, meet for coffee. Have fun, re-establish your connections, and don't talk about work all the time. However, you should become somewhat familiar with their workplace. See if you want to work there. Make sure you are aware of how their business is doing, and if interested, let them know.
It is sometims better for you to leave your job on your own then to wait for your buiness to lay you off.
When you are out of a job, it is sometimes very hard to get people to take you seriously. When you have a job in this economy, it makes you even more employable if you decide to move to another business.
But starting now would be very wise.
but this is certainly not the worst economy since the great depression, at least from an employment perspective.
It may not be the worst, but it is among the worst. Employment is only one aspect of measuring the economy's performance. There are a number of factors. Employment is down, forcasts are down, personal debt is up, federal debt is up, 2001 was a recession. From my perspective, things are pretty bad. I know that for some people, things are going fine.
The unemployment statistics you state are nationwide. Unemployment in California is approximately 8%, and has gone UP or remained stable almost every month for the last couple years. In the Bay Area is higher, and unemployment in the Tech sector of the Bay Area is even higher.
No time to find the link now. Sorry.
Some people may say "Don't like it? Move!" I own a house here, my wife has a stable job, I have roots in the area, family in the area, and I want to stay. Long term this will probably be a great place to stay. Short term, it hurts.
While there are obvious problems with this method, 80% of people get jobs through networking.
And to be honest, if you interviewed unknown people who saw your posting on Dice, many of them would also have unremarkable skills that may not be obvious in an interview. A technical test is only so effective. Personal skills are even harder to find out during an interview.
At least if the VP of Engineering vouches for these people, you know they did a decent job and have reasonable person skills. At least in his eyes.
Coding skills can be learned. People skills are much harder to learn.
All the truely qualified software engineers are not unemployed. If you have the skills to back up what's written on your resume, there really is no problem finding a job.
Sorry, but that's bullshit. Have you been unemployeed recently? You are aware that the economy is in one of the worst states it's been in since the Great Depression?
There are many qualified people who have trouble finding jobs.
I know a number of well qualified people in a number of sectors who have trouble finding work. This includes Java engineers with over 6 years java experience, Unix admins with 10+ years experience, telecom folks, production managers, office managers, etc. Most sectors of the economy are suffering.
Finding a job depends on networking-- who do you know that can help you get a job. Technical skills are very secondary.
In the SF Bay Area, we're flirting with a 10% unemployment rate in the tech sector. 25% of residents in the Bay Area have been laid off in the last several years. Average job search lasts 8 months.
That is caused by more then the "java in 21 days" problem that you suggested.
Very good point.
In fact, Diebold laid off a good number of their QA, code integrity staff and software developers in late-2001/early-2002, when this product was under heavy development.