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Star Office is great for those of us that know about it. But it will take more than star office (or open office) to remove MS-Office from the world. I think Google knows that.
If Google is going to take on MS, it will be with something much smarter and more subtle than a direct head-on frontal assault. So no matter how cool we think that would be, expect something else. Google has been pretty good at "thinking different" so far, and I don't expect that to change.
I think this quote from Ronin. They teach you "when you have a doubt, there is no doubt."
So, when you start asking yourself if its time to leave. Its time to leave. I have stayed at 2 different jobs a year too long. You don't want to stay too long if you can help it.
Sounds like he really likes FireFly and Serenity. And that is high praise from the writter of Ender's Game. I always ask people who hate Sci-Fi to read Ender's Game, and no one who has read it has been disappointed!
I have been thinking about encryption options for files on a USB drive for a slightly different reason. I want to keep finical info like tax returns, investment records, etc. on a USB drive for the reason that if my box does get compromised then the stuff that could REALLY f%&k me over will not be on it. The basic idea is there is data I want to store digitally, but I don't want it on a computer that is connected to the internet 24/7.
So I'm really naive about encryption options and would like my data to be readable on Linux, OS X, and Windows at minimum. What options do I have besides a password protected zipfile? Are password protected zipfiles encrypted using the password as the key?
How reliable are USB drives? How many backups should I make?
Looked cool until I saw it ran Windows. Although I'm sure someone will figure out how to put linux or BSD on it soon enough.
Really if it were $200 and booted off of 512MB or a 1 GB of flash I think it would be MORE useful. I used to work in an industrial environment where a fan-less, disk-less internet computer would have been ideal. The catch is that it would have to support Java applets in the browser, and from the description I'm not sure this device will by default.
Since logical partitions is the only cool technology I have heard of that is new in Solaris 10, Linux needs this LPAR support (everywhere) to keep making in roads in Fortune 500 comapanies' datacenters.
I remember articles like this being news back in the 90's. Today I assumed most POS terminals run linux. I think this was first done ALMOST a decade ago.
How long has slashdot been around anyway? These stories were there in the first 2 years of slashdot.
Meanwhile, my friends majoring in the liberal arts pulled dandy grades while studying little. "You just wait," I thought, gazing upon them like the ant regarding the grasshopper in the summer. "You party and blow off homework now, but in ten years, you'll be making merely wonderful money as investment bankers and consultants, while I'll be getting laid off from a great job at General Electric."
The real problem I see in the working world is that management at most companies has no repect, if not out right contempt, for the more technically minded staff. Given that, I don't know that I would recommend engineering to anyone today. I enjoy the work, but the lack of corporate respect makes it a less than rewarding experiance.
Frankly at this point I really want to believe that McBride really did believe that IBM had stolen the code. . . . The only other answer is he is delusional.
IANAL - But if you follow the logic of this guys arguement, then no company could ever hire an employee from its competition. For example Ford could never hire an engineer from GM. If they did then the car(s) that that engineer helped design would be a legal target for a lawsuite by GM.
The stance of the community is that you don't need a clean room to "reverse engineer" unix. So much of the basics of Unix were already placed in the Public Domain before Linux existed, that this can NOT be considered copyright infringment.
Is Linux Unix? -
I have this discussion at work all the time. In the huge company where I work, Solaris is called UNIX, and linux is called linux. This causes all sorts of problems in the reviews of documentation I right for software that runs on Solaris and Linux. I now have a boilerplate paragraph I insert into documentation explaining that neither Linux or Solaris are UNIX. UNIX is a trademark currently owned by SCO. There are many Operating Systems similar to UNIX, they go by their own trademarked names of Solaris, AIX, OS X, Linux, etc.
Is this true of everything in GB? I have for years read the all companies seem to screw the Engliahman when it comes to price. Didn't Volvo get sued a few years back for charging more for the same car in GB than in Europe.
Of course moving the steering well and pedals around probably isn't cheap!
Sun sells alot of single and two CPU systems. I work with many of them (running Solaris 8). The thing is they seem REALLY slow compared to my linux boxes. I think that spead is due mostly to the hardware. Lets face it a 550Mhz or 900Mhz sparc is no match for a 2.2Ghz Intel. I don't see any real comparisons of Linux and Solaris on comparable hardware.
Any one got benchmark results for Linux and Solaris on the same Opteron hardware?
Also remember Oracle recommends Linux on 4 way Intel boxes over 8-way Sparcs running Solaris!
Ironicly the "liberalism" you are talking about used to be the conservative agenda. But the "new conservitives" have strayed from the path. Constitutional Conservatives are what I think you are looking for.
If the libertarians don't ever wake up and realize the name of their party has doomed, their issues will go NO where.
I have been an Ameritrade customer since they ought Datek. I'd like to move somewhere where they will help a little more with Tax preperation.
Are there on-line brokerages services that keep track of cost basis and report it to you? To me that would be the single biggest thing to bring me away from Ameritrade. So give me a place to go to, and I'll start closing the 4 accounts we have with them.
When will the music industry accept their own slumping market? We all saw the headline that men spend more on video games than on music.
I mean yes there is piracy, but there always was. Before P2P, there was FM radio and tapes. When I was in college CD's were still kinda new, and people swapped CD's all the time. Little known fact is that a hifi-vcr will record audio at CD quality in an analog medium.
All this MP3 stuff is compressed and less than CD quality. Frankly things have gotten better for the music industry. They are just looking for reason for why people don't want to buy the crappy music they keep trying to shove down our throats today.
I think quality of MS's released software in the last few years (5 or so) has advanced from Alpha quality to near Beta quality. None of it is production quality.
I would prefer Beta Firefox to "production" IE any day. For that matter I would prefer Beta Firefox to production Firefox.:-)
Is the problem the fact they we use Froogle or similar to find the drive that is $2.50 cheaper than the next most expensive one and buy that?
It is true that the goal of the manufacturer is to sell their product, if 2% of price is more important to the buyer than long term reliability then that would explain the issues.
I haven't had as bad luck as the poster, but my experiance with recent equipment is worse than with CD players from > 5 years ago.
Also what problems do people see with Media, both new and burned?
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A refinance action should not be public record, because the realestate did not change hands. Companies are supposed to have your permission to check your credit. Still the data is getting out there some how!
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If Google is going to take on MS, it will be with something much smarter and more subtle than a direct head-on frontal assault. So no matter how cool we think that would be, expect something else. Google has been pretty good at "thinking different" so far, and I don't expect that to change.
So, when you start asking yourself if its time to leave. Its time to leave. I have stayed at 2 different jobs a year too long. You don't want to stay too long if you can help it.
Sounds like he really likes FireFly and Serenity. And that is high praise from the writter of Ender's Game. I always ask people who hate Sci-Fi to read Ender's Game, and no one who has read it has been disappointed!
You just gotta luv RedDawrf references...
I have been thinking about encryption options for files on a USB drive for a slightly different reason. I want to keep finical info like tax returns, investment records, etc. on a USB drive for the reason that if my box does get compromised then the stuff that could REALLY f%&k me over will not be on it. The basic idea is there is data I want to store digitally, but I don't want it on a computer that is connected to the internet 24/7.
So I'm really naive about encryption options and would like my data to be readable on Linux, OS X, and Windows at minimum. What options do I have besides a password protected zipfile? Are password protected zipfiles encrypted using the password as the key?
How reliable are USB drives? How many backups should I make?
Really if it were $200 and booted off of 512MB or a 1 GB of flash I think it would be MORE useful. I used to work in an industrial environment where a fan-less, disk-less internet computer would have been ideal. The catch is that it would have to support Java applets in the browser, and from the description I'm not sure this device will by default.
Since logical partitions is the only cool technology I have heard of that is new in Solaris 10, Linux needs this LPAR support (everywhere) to keep making in roads in Fortune 500 comapanies' datacenters.
How long has slashdot been around anyway? These stories were there in the first 2 years of slashdot.
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The real problem I see in the working world is that management at most companies has no repect, if not out right contempt, for the more technically minded staff. Given that, I don't know that I would recommend engineering to anyone today. I enjoy the work, but the lack of corporate respect makes it a less than rewarding experiance.
There are two general purpose robot announcements, a smallest robot, this contest, and a life guard. Links to articles here. Kinda makes one think.
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Only other answer? It could be that he is
The stance of the community is that you don't need a clean room to "reverse engineer" unix. So much of the basics of Unix were already placed in the Public Domain before Linux existed, that this can NOT be considered copyright infringment.
Is Linux Unix? - I have this discussion at work all the time. In the huge company where I work, Solaris is called UNIX, and linux is called linux. This causes all sorts of problems in the reviews of documentation I right for software that runs on Solaris and Linux. I now have a boilerplate paragraph I insert into documentation explaining that neither Linux or Solaris are UNIX. UNIX is a trademark currently owned by SCO. There are many Operating Systems similar to UNIX, they go by their own trademarked names of Solaris, AIX, OS X, Linux, etc.
From BoingBoing, but above is the link to the real article. It doesn't answer that buring question: Does Bush listen to the Dixie Chicks?
Of course moving the steering well and pedals around probably isn't cheap!
Any one got benchmark results for Linux and Solaris on the same Opteron hardware?
Also remember Oracle recommends Linux on 4 way Intel boxes over 8-way Sparcs running Solaris!
If the libertarians don't ever wake up and realize the name of their party has doomed, their issues will go NO where.
I have been an Ameritrade customer since they ought Datek. I'd like to move somewhere where they will help a little more with Tax preperation. Are there on-line brokerages services that keep track of cost basis and report it to you? To me that would be the single biggest thing to bring me away from Ameritrade. So give me a place to go to, and I'll start closing the 4 accounts we have with them.
So what is the Big O of PGP? Is encrypting data slower than say transfering it at 10Mb/s?
I mean yes there is piracy, but there always was. Before P2P, there was FM radio and tapes. When I was in college CD's were still kinda new, and people swapped CD's all the time. Little known fact is that a hifi-vcr will record audio at CD quality in an analog medium.
All this MP3 stuff is compressed and less than CD quality. Frankly things have gotten better for the music industry. They are just looking for reason for why people don't want to buy the crappy music they keep trying to shove down our throats today.
I think quality of MS's released software in the last few years (5 or so) has advanced from Alpha quality to near Beta quality. None of it is production quality.
:-)
I would prefer Beta Firefox to "production" IE any day. For that matter I would prefer Beta Firefox to production Firefox.
It is true that the goal of the manufacturer is to sell their product, if 2% of price is more important to the buyer than long term reliability then that would explain the issues.
I haven't had as bad luck as the poster, but my experiance with recent equipment is worse than with CD players from > 5 years ago.
Also what problems do people see with Media, both new and burned?
A refinance action should not be public record, because the realestate did not change hands. Companies are supposed to have your permission to check your credit. Still the data is getting out there some how!