There is nothing wrong with other nations developing their space technology. Sure, the naysayers will frown upon this and say that this will be used in ICBMs but we cant be elitist anymore.
In the long run, the US and Russia alone cannot run the International Space Station....they just cant afford it. This will give other nations a change to chip in.
Ofcourse this being/., there will be a barrage of posts saying that China, Brazil, India, etc. should concentrate on feeding their people and improving human rights situation. So much for intelligent, objective conversations...sigh.
Multisync IMHO has a better approach, since it lets us select the two devices/databases to be sync'ed. In the hopefully not too distant future, I envision being able to use it to sync with evolution for email and addresses, gnotes for todo notes, and maybe even to the KDE counterparts for the few times I use them.
Qtopiadesktop is useless coz it only serves as a backup...i cant use the addressbook in it when composing email in evolution, or can i?
Of all the Linux PDAs out there has anybody been successful with syncing them to Linux apps and Windows apps without any pain?
I own a Sharp Zaurus 5500, and I am not impressed with its syncing prowess. Luckily, I know enough to back up the whole PDA using 'scp', but that doesnt go for Joe and Jane.
I hope Multisync does on to become the defacto tool for synchronizing all kinds of handhelds, mobiles with email, calendar, address books, etc.
And I didn't have a job for 7 months after a graduated with a Masters in Computer Engineering. What I found is that it just takes some time and effort and networking and some good old-fashioned coding knowledge and skills.
IMHO, what the outsourcing is doing is cleaning out a lot of trash that was generated from every TOM, DICK AND HARRY getting trained for M$ Office during the Dot-Bomb days and getting to work as a bloody network administrator! I have dealt with those types.
I know its difficult without a job...and I am not being insensitive about it...but seriously...stop cribbing and start doing something.
Looks like/. covers one such story every other days now. Stop Cribbing, Guys! Get your skills upto date....there is no dearth of jobs for quality workers.
Referring to point 1, so you think Micro$oft, Sun, Intel, Texas Instruments don't have IP? All of them have premier development centers in India, China, etc.
Referring to point 2, whats wrong with having mixed results? You agree it happens in the US, why not let it happen offshore at 1/10th the cost?
$ cd/path/to/kernel
$ make menuconfig # Replace menuconfig with xconfig if you want
-Select the options you need in your kernel and save it
$ make dep bzImage
-Look in arch//boot/ for the bzImage file
-Install it for your favourite bootloader (grub/lilo) and reboot machine
-gloat:)
That's right. We are looking for 802.11g support in Linux for our products. And we will go with the first hardware manufacturer who ships those drivers.
I hope somebody from their side is reading this, because its a PITA for customers to not get what they want.
All I am saying is that I dont think that IBM continued sharing the source code for too long.
The reason IBM has held onto it's mainframe business is similar to how Microsoft has held on to its PC software business: closed source, proprietary formats
And yes, they have differents OSes that can run on the mainframe, the latest that I know of being VM and OS/390.
I am not a Microsoft-lover, infact quite the opposite, but your assertion that Microsoft invented closed-source seems flawed.
I think that credit would go to IBM, with their mainframe OSes, dont you think? IBM was selling many of those machines much before M$ came into the picture.
Try Mandrake or Suse. The reason most distros can't configure all the plugins for you is mostly copyright and licencing issues. But AFAIK Mandrake and Suse provide convenient links to almost automate these installs.
Or you could try the OEOne desktop which a a browser-based desktop.
As someone previously said, It's a different world out there. OS/390 is an amazing OS, we had 5 instances of it running at once on the mainframe (2 production and 3 development regions) and then I installed Linux too:-D
Initially I was given a measly 5% CPU for my Linux region....but that's more than enough for Linux to make a mark!
Coming back to the point, the reason for the different world can be summarized in two words - Batch Jobs . So the task of the operators will be to keep staring at the console to look out for requests to load up cartridges (yes, thats the primary backup medium) that a job needs to read stuff off or start some massive printing and computational jobs from time to time. I worked for a large conglomerate, employing more than 30,000 people, so every month the pay-check printing job on huge line printers took about 4 days to complete. Other task included checking DASD usage (mainframe harddrives) to check upcoming shortages , etc.
Even programming for it was fun, I was primarily in charge of the opensystems portion of it, including Domino Go Webserver, O-MVS (unix) and Linux. But I can understand why there is a shortage of manpower. The cool technology does not hit the mainframe world, so you won't get to work on wireless communications, kernel hacking, etc. I am now a Linux systems programmer and I dont wanna go back too, but it was an experience worth getting.
Arrgggh..i have been barfing too long...back to work!
Slashdot Mirror
In the long run, the US and Russia alone cannot run the International Space Station....they just cant afford it. This will give other nations a change to chip in.
Ofcourse this being /., there will be a barrage of posts saying that China, Brazil, India, etc. should concentrate on feeding their people and improving human rights situation. So much for intelligent, objective conversations...sigh.
Qtopiadesktop is useless coz it only serves as a backup...i cant use the addressbook in it when composing email in evolution, or can i?
I own a Sharp Zaurus 5500, and I am not impressed with its syncing prowess. Luckily, I know enough to back up the whole PDA using 'scp', but that doesnt go for Joe and Jane.
I hope Multisync does on to become the defacto tool for synchronizing all kinds of handhelds, mobiles with email, calendar, address books, etc.
What mini-PCI card are you using? Details would be nice.
Did somebody manage to mirror the mirror? No really!
Well said...i couldn't have put it better!
And I didn't have a job for 7 months after a graduated with a Masters in Computer Engineering. What I found is that it just takes some time and effort and networking and some good old-fashioned coding knowledge and skills.
IMHO, what the outsourcing is doing is cleaning out a lot of trash that was generated from every TOM, DICK AND HARRY getting trained for M$ Office during the Dot-Bomb days and getting to work as a bloody network administrator! I have dealt with those types.
I know its difficult without a job...and I am not being insensitive about it...but seriously...stop cribbing and start doing something.
Looks like /. covers one such story every other days now. Stop Cribbing, Guys! Get your skills upto date....there is no dearth of jobs for quality workers.
Referring to point 1, so you think Micro$oft, Sun, Intel, Texas Instruments don't have IP? All of them have premier development centers in India, China, etc.
Referring to point 2, whats wrong with having mixed results? You agree it happens in the US, why not let it happen offshore at 1/10th the cost?
So its sort of using the best tool for the job.
Want to download stuff to/from the network: use the wifi link
want to do less intensive stuff: use the cellular link.
$ cd /path/to/kernel :)
$ make menuconfig # Replace menuconfig with xconfig if you want
-Select the options you need in your kernel and save it
$ make dep bzImage
-Look in arch//boot/ for the bzImage file
-Install it for your favourite bootloader (grub/lilo) and reboot machine
-gloat
I hope somebody from their side is reading this, because its a PITA for customers to not get what they want.
Is it possible to use this on the Sharp Zaurus? Is it worth trying?
This is great stuff! This is what i was alluding to in my previous posts, though w/o this beautiful timeline.
The reason IBM has held onto it's mainframe business is similar to how Microsoft has held on to its PC software business: closed source, proprietary formats
And yes, they have differents OSes that can run on the mainframe, the latest that I know of being VM and OS/390.
I think that credit would go to IBM, with their mainframe OSes, dont you think? IBM was selling many of those machines much before M$ came into the picture.
Or you could try the OEOne desktop which a a browser-based desktop.
Good Luck.
Wow.....blue screens that huge will be awesome to look at!!!!
I run Redhat on my personal system, why?
As someone previously said, It's a different world out there. OS/390 is an amazing OS, we had 5 instances of it running at once on the mainframe (2 production and 3 development regions) and then I installed Linux too :-D
Initially I was given a measly 5% CPU for my Linux region....but that's more than enough for Linux to make a mark!
Coming back to the point, the reason for the different world can be summarized in two words - Batch Jobs . So the task of the operators will be to keep staring at the console to look out for requests to load up cartridges (yes, thats the primary backup medium) that a job needs to read stuff off or start some massive printing and computational jobs from time to time. I worked for a large conglomerate, employing more than 30,000 people, so every month the pay-check printing job on huge line printers took about 4 days to complete. Other task included checking DASD usage (mainframe harddrives) to check upcoming shortages , etc.
Even programming for it was fun, I was primarily in charge of the opensystems portion of it, including Domino Go Webserver, O-MVS (unix) and Linux. But I can understand why there is a shortage of manpower. The cool technology does not hit the mainframe world, so you won't get to work on wireless communications, kernel hacking, etc. I am now a Linux systems programmer and I dont wanna go back too, but it was an experience worth getting.
Arrgggh..i have been barfing too long...back to work!
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