I haven't needed windows for many years now, however my girlfriend does. I run KDE with a seperate user called "windows" which runs qemu with WinXP full screen on login. She chooses to use her standard KDE login most of the time, but some of her uni cds are windows only.
QEMU is so good, it not only does her needs, but I've started playing around with.NET (which I never bothered to do before because of the effort of buying another machine or partitioning etc etc).
The speed is excellent, it works with the CD, SAMBA to the host machine (home drives) and sound...it's got everything we want...plus, running full screen on a seperate login it's just like if you partitioned the drive except that you can switch in real time using KDE 'switch user' feature and share data between the two by making your home drive a samba network drive in windows.
Linux and Windows finally operating seemlessly together, thank you QEMU:)
You're going to sde a lot posts about "show him the business reasons" and "make a business case for it" and "find a company that's currenlty benefiting from open source and share that"...and they're all great reasons if you want to spend the next 2 years convincing him (in which time your framework will be out of date and worthless).
Or you could take a couple of steps back and think a bit about human nature. Most people (99.9999%..ok, I can't back up those stats) will take 2 years to make a logical decision and 2 minutes to make an emotional one (yes, even CEOs)...and what's the biggest emotional motivator? Fear!
"Hey bob, did you hear company X (where X is a random competitor) is open sourcing their framework?"
Now forget all about it, go have a coffee, when you come back to the office you will miraculously have one of upper management not only giving you permission, but actively directing and tasking you on his/her new "open source vision"...which he/she will sell as their idea, which is a double bonus, because if anything goes wrong it's not you in the firing line, however if it all goes right then people know who wrote the code:)
Almost every pub (bar) in australia has more gambling machines than you would think believable. If grandma stays at home and does her gambling online, the government would miss out on the massive revenue it collects from poker machine taxes.
I'm a programmer with rsi...I found this http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ helps better than standard dvorak...I also edited the maps and switched backspace with tab, capslock and enter
It's great for rsi but my qwerty is shot...but my hands still work:)
An artist, lawyer and programmer are sitting at a pub, having a few drink and soon the conversation turns towards cheating on their wives.
The lawyer pipes up. "Don't do it guys, I don't care how pretty she is. I see this every day in my profession, some fool cheats on his wife with some pretty little thing, she finds out, before you know it he's lost half his house, half his assets, half his future paycheck and can't even see his kids any more...And with all that stress, it's just not worth it."
Then the artist pipes in. "no no no no...life is for living...how can you live in fear like that. Imagine the romance...the passion...the secrecy and mystery. That is what life is about my friend, who cares if you get caught, life should be lived dangerously and passionately."
The programmer looks up over his glasses and says "yeah, I've got mistress...have had one for quite a few years now".
The lawyer and artist are shocked. The certainly wouldn't have expected that from thier geeky little friend. The artist pipes up:
"Oh my friend...tell us, what's it like. Are you always stressed out worried about what you could loose...is it passionate and wonderful...what?"
The programmer looks up again and say "It's great...best thing I've every done.........wife thinks I'm with the girlfriend, girlfriend thinks I'm with the wife, I can go get some coding done."
What's the point in subsidizing orange growth in Florida, if Brazil has perfect soil and climate for growing oranges, while Florida is only marginally adequate for oranges? Why does Europe grow sugar beets if sugar cane produces sugar at much lower costs?
I heard this argument put to a european diplomat onces and the answer he gave, which I though insightful, was something like (not verbatim):
It's true that the crops our farmers grow can be grown cheaper elsewhere, however we choose to recognise that farms and farming communities give us more than just their agricultural output. They give us values, a community. They give us a connection with our heritage and control over our food supplies. They are custodians of the land and maintain our country side. They assist in preserving agricultural knowledge and preserving a way of life that is beneficial to all our citizens. We realise there is a premium to be payed for all of this and are willing to pay it though subsidies.
piffle...sydney isn't that expensive...I moved down here from Brisbane and the cost of living increase is way less than the pay increase....the only difference is that there's more things to do so you end up spending more.
first, if you want to take a couple of months off to work on OSS, fantastic...but do what most people do if they want to take a couple of months off...save up...don't take taxes away from other initiatives (hospitals etc) to support your holiday. And second...do you really think you can survive on the $100/week you would get on the dole after coming from a job that I'm guessing pays anywhere between $1500-$3000 a week (pretax)?
...if you can't get a very well paying job as a programmer in australia at the moment then you must be a technical moron who shouldn't be let anywhere near a computer or open source software. Companies are experiencing a massive skills shortage over here at the moment...the only people this is going to attract are morons that think they can get out of doing manual labour...and that means crap code.
Two fifty to hear some twat tell you that a new technology is good, but only in the right circumstances used by trained people.
What bollocks.
Do any CIOs still buy this crap? Do the sensationalist headlines do the job and actually sell this bs? "AOP considered harmful"...be afraid...be very afraid!
I personally don't have a week go by when we don't find another great use for AOP...and we write financial apps...so that blows his 'frameworks only' theory out of the water.
But I suppose "AOP, useful sometimes in the right circumstances if you make sure you train your people on how to use it, not so useful in others" doesn't exactly sell those $250 a pop articles, does it Carl
A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine in which Moore's Law was first announced, a University of Illinois engineering library noticed that one of its two copies had disappeared.
So it was actually stolen in April 20, 1965 - however intels' shananigans prompted them to go look.
it's surprising how often you can connect two completely unrelated events/actions and make them seem interdependent simply by matter-of-factly asserting that the connection exists.
Manager: How can we fix all these security holes? You: We can fix them no problem, I'll need another unix box for scanning and a 20% pay rise. Manager: Ha ha ha...very funny. You: I'm deadly serious. Manager: What...you're serious...why a 20% pay rise! You: Ok...you're right...10% is closer to the reality. Manager: That's better...thought you could pull one over on ol' Bill, didn't you eh? You: Yeah...sorry about that.
I am writing to ask for your assistence in a matter of great urgency. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I find myself incarcerated by my opressive government for liberating a corrupt system of $350, 000. This money is being held in hidden bank accounts the details of which only I know about. Due to my unfortunate situation, I find myself unable to transfer the money out of the country and am humbly writing to request your assistence in this most urgent of matter. Should you decided to help me with this I will gladly share half the money with you. This matter is most urgent and requires your immediate reply.
Hence my statement about self regulation. That one developer could put an entire company out of work...you want to explain that it's 'ok' because it's just 'one' bad apple to all the bitkeep programmers who have families thay have to feed.
And what IP did he try to "steal"?
He used a position of trust to obtain information that he would normally not have access to, and against the wishes of the company freely supplying him their product as a good faith action. You can play all the sementic games you want, but at the end of the day that's a dishonourable act, and yes, I equate it to theft even if you don't.
What BitMover did is like...
What bitkeeper did is take the only steps left available to them after repeatedly being ignored by the community and their employers, in order to save the jobs of their employees.
There is not one developer I've spoken with that hasn't said that bitkeeper is revolutionary technology....the open source community didn't figure out how to make a revolutionary new way of approaching source control did they? So what do you call it when someone doesn't have the brains and skill to come up with a solution, so they violate both a good faith agreement and the contractual agreement of the company that did to figure out how they did it and create a copy of it...that's slimy and I think a lot of people would agree it was theft.
I hope they find a way to sue him back to the stone age.
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Open DRM...in fact, why don't you go one further Sun...open it up...pull out its guts...nail it to a frisbee and go fling it over a rainbow
DRM is still DRM
I haven't needed windows for many years now, however my girlfriend does. I run KDE with a seperate user called "windows" which runs qemu with WinXP full screen on login. She chooses to use her standard KDE login most of the time, but some of her uni cds are windows only.
.NET (which I never bothered to do before because of the effort of buying another machine or partitioning etc etc).
:)
QEMU is so good, it not only does her needs, but I've started playing around with
The speed is excellent, it works with the CD, SAMBA to the host machine (home drives) and sound...it's got everything we want...plus, running full screen on a seperate login it's just like if you partitioned the drive except that you can switch in real time using KDE 'switch user' feature and share data between the two by making your home drive a samba network drive in windows.
Linux and Windows finally operating seemlessly together, thank you QEMU
You're going to sde a lot posts about "show him the business reasons" and "make a business case for it" and "find a company that's currenlty benefiting from open source and share that"...and they're all great reasons if you want to spend the next 2 years convincing him (in which time your framework will be out of date and worthless).
:)
:)
Or you could take a couple of steps back and think a bit about human nature. Most people (99.9999%..ok, I can't back up those stats) will take 2 years to make a logical decision and 2 minutes to make an emotional one (yes, even CEOs)...and what's the biggest emotional motivator? Fear!
"Hey bob, did you hear company X (where X is a random competitor) is open sourcing their framework?"
Now forget all about it, go have a coffee, when you come back to the office you will miraculously have one of upper management not only giving you permission, but actively directing and tasking you on his/her new "open source vision"...which he/she will sell as their idea, which is a double bonus, because if anything goes wrong it's not you in the firing line, however if it all goes right then people know who wrote the code
Niccolo would be proud
Almost every pub (bar) in australia has more gambling machines than you would think believable. If grandma stays at home and does her gambling online, the government would miss out on the massive revenue it collects from poker machine taxes.
I'm a programmer with rsi...I found this http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/ helps better than standard dvorak...I also edited the maps and switched backspace with tab, capslock and enter
:)
It's great for rsi but my qwerty is shot...but my hands still work
An artist, lawyer and programmer are sitting at a pub, having a few drink and soon the conversation turns towards cheating on their wives.
:)
The lawyer pipes up. "Don't do it guys, I don't care how pretty she is. I see this every day in my profession, some fool cheats on his wife with some pretty little thing, she finds out, before you know it he's lost half his house, half his assets, half his future paycheck and can't even see his kids any more...And with all that stress, it's just not worth it."
Then the artist pipes in. "no no no no...life is for living...how can you live in fear like that. Imagine the romance...the passion...the secrecy and mystery. That is what life is about my friend, who cares if you get caught, life should be lived dangerously and passionately."
The programmer looks up over his glasses and says "yeah, I've got mistress...have had one for quite a few years now".
The lawyer and artist are shocked. The certainly wouldn't have expected that from thier geeky little friend. The artist pipes up:
"Oh my friend...tell us, what's it like. Are you always stressed out worried about what you could loose...is it passionate and wonderful...what?"
The programmer looks up again and say "It's great...best thing I've every done.........wife thinks I'm with the girlfriend, girlfriend thinks I'm with the wife, I can go get some coding done."
boom tish
What's the point in subsidizing orange growth in Florida, if Brazil has perfect soil and climate for growing oranges, while Florida is only marginally adequate for oranges? Why does Europe grow sugar beets if sugar cane produces sugar at much lower costs?
I heard this argument put to a european diplomat onces and the answer he gave, which I though insightful, was something like (not verbatim):
It's true that the crops our farmers grow can be grown cheaper elsewhere, however we choose to recognise that farms and farming communities give us more than just their agricultural output. They give us values, a community. They give us a connection with our heritage and control over our food supplies. They are custodians of the land and maintain our country side. They assist in preserving agricultural knowledge and preserving a way of life that is beneficial to all our citizens. We realise there is a premium to be payed for all of this and are willing to pay it though subsidies.
what happens when a company buys back all it's stock? Is it answerable to no one?
Morgan Stanley is going to be a harbinger
no....Moran Stanley is going to be pissed......very very pissed.
piffle...sydney isn't that expensive...I moved down here from Brisbane and the cost of living increase is way less than the pay increase....the only difference is that there's more things to do so you end up spending more.
or assuming that if a programmer can't get a job in brisbane and can walk into a $80k/year job in sydney he/she'd move!
first, if you want to take a couple of months off to work on OSS, fantastic...but do what most people do if they want to take a couple of months off...save up...don't take taxes away from other initiatives (hospitals etc) to support your holiday. And second...do you really think you can survive on the $100/week you would get on the dole after coming from a job that I'm guessing pays anywhere between $1500-$3000 a week (pretax)?
...if you can't get a very well paying job as a programmer in australia at the moment then you must be a technical moron who shouldn't be let anywhere near a computer or open source software. Companies are experiencing a massive skills shortage over here at the moment...the only people this is going to attract are morons that think they can get out of doing manual labour...and that means crap code.
What a wank
ack!!! The company I work for has just begun implementing the balanced scorecard approach!!! Do you have a link?
Two fifty to hear some twat tell you that a new technology is good, but only in the right circumstances used by trained people.
What bollocks.
Do any CIOs still buy this crap? Do the sensationalist headlines do the job and actually sell this bs? "AOP considered harmful"...be afraid...be very afraid!
I personally don't have a week go by when we don't find another great use for AOP...and we write financial apps...so that blows his 'frameworks only' theory out of the water.
But I suppose "AOP, useful sometimes in the right circumstances if you make sure you train your people on how to use it, not so useful in others" doesn't exactly sell those $250 a pop articles, does it Carl
A day after Intel said it would offer $10,000 for a copy of a magazine in which Moore's Law was first announced, a University of Illinois engineering library noticed that one of its two copies had disappeared.
So it was actually stolen in April 20, 1965 - however intels' shananigans prompted them to go look.
well I guess the programmers who work for www.gaypornnow.com are pretty safe in their jobs then
...is that thing _still_ around?
....under DMCA.
Elvis living in Peoria under an alias created for him by the Federal Witness Protection Program.
Move in boys, this one knows too much...
it's surprising how often you can connect two completely unrelated events/actions and make them seem interdependent simply by matter-of-factly asserting that the connection exists.
Manager: How can we fix all these security holes?
You: We can fix them no problem, I'll need another unix box for scanning and a 20% pay rise.
Manager: Ha ha ha...very funny.
You: I'm deadly serious.
Manager: What...you're serious...why a 20% pay rise!
You: Ok...you're right...10% is closer to the reality.
Manager: That's better...thought you could pull one over on ol' Bill, didn't you eh?
You: Yeah...sorry about that.
Not having compatability harms Freedom.
Do you even read your own posts....If you don't do it our way it's not freedom
You ass!
...wow, this guy really plays his cards close to his chest.
I am writing to ask for your assistence in a matter of great urgency. Due to circumstances beyond my control, I find myself incarcerated by my opressive government for liberating a corrupt system of $350, 000. This money is being held in hidden bank accounts the details of which only I know about. Due to my unfortunate situation, I find myself unable to transfer the money out of the country and am humbly writing to request your assistence in this most urgent of matter. Should you decided to help me with this I will gladly share half the money with you. This matter is most urgent and requires your immediate reply.
.......
Sincerely
one developer
Hence my statement about self regulation. That one developer could put an entire company out of work...you want to explain that it's 'ok' because it's just 'one' bad apple to all the bitkeep programmers who have families thay have to feed.
And what IP did he try to "steal"?
He used a position of trust to obtain information that he would normally not have access to, and against the wishes of the company freely supplying him their product as a good faith action. You can play all the sementic games you want, but at the end of the day that's a dishonourable act, and yes, I equate it to theft even if you don't.
What BitMover did is like...
What bitkeeper did is take the only steps left available to them after repeatedly being ignored by the community and their employers, in order to save the jobs of their employees.
There is not one developer I've spoken with that hasn't said that bitkeeper is revolutionary technology....the open source community didn't figure out how to make a revolutionary new way of approaching source control did they? So what do you call it when someone doesn't have the brains and skill to come up with a solution, so they violate both a good faith agreement and the contractual agreement of the company that did to figure out how they did it and create a copy of it...that's slimy and I think a lot of people would agree it was theft.
I hope they find a way to sue him back to the stone age.