I'd love to do something similar, but most companies I've left have been on not so good terms due to personal illness (high stress & chronic depression etc.).
I used eDirectory on Linux and Netware and it every now & then we'd login to one of the main directory boxen and see the whole console filled with abends. As far as file-serving went it was absolutely rock solid, but never managed to see how it fared on Linux (I left the company when they were still using nw6.5 and unitedlinux/sles) because we just didn't "trust" it when our existing setup worked fine.
I don't know how far they've gotten along with making SuSE more streamlined, but at the time most of our Linux installs were authenticating against the eDirectory servers via LDAP, whenever these went down nss_ldap, pam_ldap and friends would fsck up completely until rebooted... (it would hang forever logging in, even as `root`).
Their whole approach seems to be trying to weigh the monetary cost of each option, keeping netware alive vs using linux, adopting to linux vs "trusted" stability and so on... not a position I'd like to be in.
Irregardless of if they were going to offer me the job or not, to me it was yet another ill fitting position the recruiter had found and not something I really had my heart set on (bashing together classic ASP/VBScript stuff for an intranet is not my idea of fun).
The point being that you can use 64bit native for apps that matter, and 32bit for everything else.
Ofcourse that means having two sets of libs installed which takes up more space, and people whine and bitch about not being "real 64bit" because their `ls` and `more` commands aren't 64bit native.
From my perspective, running everything as 64bit is just a waste of memory which the apps which are worth running as 64bit native have less resources because of that.
Unfortunately it can also be a problem in real-life, generally when I'm being sarcastic I sound and act exactly as if I wasn't, combine this with my quirky personalty and it gets interesting.
(while in a job interview) Interviewer: so what kind of hobbies do you have, apart from coding? Me: Well, rock climbing, some music production, necrophelia and subtle dark humor.
I wanted to convey that he's just trying to make small-talk to cover up the fact that he's already decided they weren't going to employ me, instead his face twitched for a second and his mouth opened and you could see his brain clicking away trying to digest what I'd just said.
Um yah, getting back ontopic you can be sarcastic on the internet if people know you well, we all understand subtle humour & emotions while reading what other people write, but for complete strangers that's pretty much impossible.
I presume it wouldn't need to provide perfect sensory feedback, the way we adapt to use new tools which essentially extend our own hands and become a part of our body means that they just have to be good enough to provide the basic functions and we'll work out how to use it best.
For example if you removed a finger and placed it in the palm of the hand, even if it's sense was extremely numbed you would eventually learn to make good use of it (as has been shown with everybody who's had limbs removed or relies on aids to make them capable).
What about places like PC World who sell average market price PCs/laptops and extortionately marked up accessories, and who's service is terrible etc. yet they have the money from all those high profit accessories to cover it all up with marketing?
The other issue is that if being able to say "But officer, this image is not of a REAL child rape, it is merely a depiction by actors" were sufficient to make an image non-infringeing, obviously all the perps would be doing it. Complicated, isn't it?
Well, in the UK the laws state that pornography must only show consenting adults (of 18 years or older), so in my view as long as that's true then there's no problem: sure dress up as a schoolgirl/schoolboy and act like you're getting raped, as long as it stays within the realm of fantasy.
Another issue arises from the fact that "children" are sexual well before 18, at 13 I was looking at porn and desiring sex with my girlfriend, and I dare say we took some photos of each other nude, IMO this only becomes a problem (e.g. the child is at risk or is being abused) when exploitation is involved, say for example by somebody considerably older.
Our laws however try to make this a black & white contrast between legal and illegal, and are repeatedly interpreted conservatively and side with illegality for some things entirely innocent.
Personally I'd rather interpret the laws as "If the person viewing the images were to have produced them, would it be considered exploitation or abuse", otherwise more and more innocent seeming images will be marked as obscene simply because they have naked children in.
How about this: for every new monitoring scheme they setup they repeal a whole bunch of useless or minor laws. Presumably you'd want them repealing enough laws that very quickly they'd have to make fundamental choices about what to repeal or to stop monitoring and reach a sort of equilibreum.
A stupid pipe dream I know, bringing sanity into the world is frowned upon.
I wouldn't be too concerned with your business-confidential data leaking into the private sector via some unscrupulous NSA employee (who have a higher bar to employment I would hope, than say a TSA employee).
I'm much more concerned about the NSA collecting data about foreign nationals who happen to be using whichever SaaS app they happen to be snooping, and that's ontop of all the feature creep that could end up being used to abuse US citizens.
As for C/C++ IDEs I've tried and disliked both KDevelop and Anjuta, Eclipse/CDE and Sun's netbeans based stuff are quite nice, but my poor little laptop doesn't like them.
I ended up settling with Code::Blocks, it's lightweight and native (C++/wxWidgets) and supports all the de-factor features.
Oh, and not to mention the last company I dealt with that implements WiMax (who will remain nameless) was managed by a bunch of asshats who had engineers and tech staff trying to jump ship and generally avoid them at any cost.
If the engineers seem to be going well then it bodes quite well for the company.
and I am proud of how willing they are to make this project succeed. I admire them because they are willing to go out of their way to make this work.
sorry, I've worked too long in the industry and instantly presume comments filled with praise about anything IT related to have spewed from the foul orifice of a marketing drone.
Thankfully you're not a marketing drone, and it seems I've just been jaded by too many marketing types polluting the internet.
You know what I'd really like to see? A pie chart showing the breakdown of what you pay and where it goes, and auditing of record companies to make sure that the money goes where it's supposed to.
Only then will I pay $0.99 per track, and only if it's cut reasonably between all parties involved.
As the G8 president he can use his position to set agendas and to push his position on other members, hopefully they won't take it any further.
The G8 is just yet another platform of power on the international level, it doesn't matter that it's too far removed from the public - that's likely of no matter; getting other high-ranking officials to take it on-board may lead to setting their own policies in a similar vain.
You'd have thought after all this time they could've corrected one of the most annoying "features" which stops me using Windows for any amount of time? It certainly appears like after X amount of inactivity (whatever it may be classified as) stuff just gets swapped out even if you have enough physical memory!
Considering the way I normally work is to have many applications open, perhaps an IDE, a handful of terminals, a web browser, e-mail client, then spend X amount of time with one application, then switch to another (test/deploy/whatever), then maybe check e-mail & web, by the time I get around to switching to my next task the previous applications have at least partially been swapped to disk.
When I was using Windows at work, by the end of each day I was getting so incensed by it'd be a big hands in the air and muffled swearing whenever it happened, a total productivity killer.
Lets just say I'm back in Linux & Solaris land now, I have almost the same set of applications open with no problems - and that's on top of running my testing environment on the same machine.
Well, after installing our OSX anti-virus product none of our customers computers have been infected by anything, perhaps I could also interest you in our range of tiger repelling medallions, not one tiger attack in over 20 years.
Yes.. and why do I even bother having me@example.com coming through to my VoIP phone wherever I am, along with email and OpenID? SRV and MX records are doing nicely for now.
Statistics show a 100% mortality rate among people who breathe oxygen, terrorism is just a drop in the ocean compared to the devistation nature is doing every day!!!!!
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I'd love to do something similar, but most companies I've left have been on not so good terms due to personal illness (high stress & chronic depression etc.).
Sucks to be me I suppose.
I used eDirectory on Linux and Netware and it every now & then we'd login to one of the main directory boxen and see the whole console filled with abends. As far as file-serving went it was absolutely rock solid, but never managed to see how it fared on Linux (I left the company when they were still using nw6.5 and unitedlinux/sles) because we just didn't "trust" it when our existing setup worked fine.
I don't know how far they've gotten along with making SuSE more streamlined, but at the time most of our Linux installs were authenticating against the eDirectory servers via LDAP, whenever these went down nss_ldap, pam_ldap and friends would fsck up completely until rebooted... (it would hang forever logging in, even as `root`).
Their whole approach seems to be trying to weigh the monetary cost of each option, keeping netware alive vs using linux, adopting to linux vs "trusted" stability and so on... not a position I'd like to be in.
How many pixels will it save?
Think about it, 60hz refresh rate, 500 pixels saved every 60th of a second..
Oh, wait! Bugger.
Irregardless of if they were going to offer me the job or not, to me it was yet another ill fitting position the recruiter had found and not something I really had my heart set on (bashing together classic ASP/VBScript stuff for an intranet is not my idea of fun).
The point being that you can use 64bit native for apps that matter, and 32bit for everything else.
Ofcourse that means having two sets of libs installed which takes up more space, and people whine and bitch about not being "real 64bit" because their `ls` and `more` commands aren't 64bit native.
From my perspective, running everything as 64bit is just a waste of memory which the apps which are worth running as 64bit native have less resources because of that.
For as long as a 64bit linux JVM has existed it has supported webstart through the `javaws` program which takes the URL of your jnlp file.
Unfortunately it can also be a problem in real-life, generally when I'm being sarcastic I sound and act exactly as if I wasn't, combine this with my quirky personalty and it gets interesting.
(while in a job interview)
Interviewer: so what kind of hobbies do you have, apart from coding?
Me: Well, rock climbing, some music production, necrophelia and subtle dark humor.
I wanted to convey that he's just trying to make small-talk to cover up the fact that he's already decided they weren't going to employ me, instead his face twitched for a second and his mouth opened and you could see his brain clicking away trying to digest what I'd just said.
Um yah, getting back ontopic you can be sarcastic on the internet if people know you well, we all understand subtle humour & emotions while reading what other people write, but for complete strangers that's pretty much impossible.
All the comments we /.ers left in dismay have been deleted for some reason.
Networkworld was already far down on my list of reputable IT news sites, and has slipped even further today.
You mean this?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KwymOX6ey_g the red dwarf us pilot
I presume it wouldn't need to provide perfect sensory feedback, the way we adapt to use new tools which essentially extend our own hands and become a part of our body means that they just have to be good enough to provide the basic functions and we'll work out how to use it best.
For example if you removed a finger and placed it in the palm of the hand, even if it's sense was extremely numbed you would eventually learn to make good use of it (as has been shown with everybody who's had limbs removed or relies on aids to make them capable).
What about places like PC World who sell average market price PCs/laptops and extortionately marked up accessories, and who's service is terrible etc. yet they have the money from all those high profit accessories to cover it all up with marketing?
The other issue is that if being able to say "But officer, this image is not of a REAL child rape, it is merely a depiction by actors" were sufficient to make an image non-infringeing, obviously all the perps would be doing it. Complicated, isn't it?
Well, in the UK the laws state that pornography must only show consenting adults (of 18 years or older), so in my view as long as that's true then there's no problem: sure dress up as a schoolgirl/schoolboy and act like you're getting raped, as long as it stays within the realm of fantasy.
Another issue arises from the fact that "children" are sexual well before 18, at 13 I was looking at porn and desiring sex with my girlfriend, and I dare say we took some photos of each other nude, IMO this only becomes a problem (e.g. the child is at risk or is being abused) when exploitation is involved, say for example by somebody considerably older.
Our laws however try to make this a black & white contrast between legal and illegal, and are repeatedly interpreted conservatively and side with illegality for some things entirely innocent.
Personally I'd rather interpret the laws as "If the person viewing the images were to have produced them, would it be considered exploitation or abuse", otherwise more and more innocent seeming images will be marked as obscene simply because they have naked children in.
How about this: for every new monitoring scheme they setup they repeal a whole bunch of useless or minor laws. Presumably you'd want them repealing enough laws that very quickly they'd have to make fundamental choices about what to repeal or to stop monitoring and reach a sort of equilibreum.
A stupid pipe dream I know, bringing sanity into the world is frowned upon.
I wouldn't be too concerned with your business-confidential data leaking into the private sector via some unscrupulous NSA employee (who have a higher bar to employment I would hope, than say a TSA employee).
I'm much more concerned about the NSA collecting data about foreign nationals who happen to be using whichever SaaS app they happen to be snooping, and that's ontop of all the feature creep that could end up being used to abuse US citizens.
As for C/C++ IDEs I've tried and disliked both KDevelop and Anjuta, Eclipse/CDE and Sun's netbeans based stuff are quite nice, but my poor little laptop doesn't like them.
I ended up settling with Code::Blocks, it's lightweight and native (C++/wxWidgets) and supports all the de-factor features.
Oh, and not to mention the last company I dealt with that implements WiMax (who will remain nameless) was managed by a bunch of asshats who had engineers and tech staff trying to jump ship and generally avoid them at any cost.
If the engineers seem to be going well then it bodes quite well for the company.
sorry, I've worked too long in the industry and instantly presume comments filled with praise about anything IT related to have spewed from the foul orifice of a marketing drone.
Thankfully you're not a marketing drone, and it seems I've just been jaded by too many marketing types polluting the internet.
I think you forgot to sign your post with:
- Clearwire Marketing Droid
You know what I'd really like to see? A pie chart showing the breakdown of what you pay and where it goes, and auditing of record companies to make sure that the money goes where it's supposed to.
Only then will I pay $0.99 per track, and only if it's cut reasonably between all parties involved.
As the G8 president he can use his position to set agendas and to push his position on other members, hopefully they won't take it any further.
The G8 is just yet another platform of power on the international level, it doesn't matter that it's too far removed from the public - that's likely of no matter; getting other high-ranking officials to take it on-board may lead to setting their own policies in a similar vain.
You'd have thought after all this time they could've corrected one of the most annoying "features" which stops me using Windows for any amount of time? It certainly appears like after X amount of inactivity (whatever it may be classified as) stuff just gets swapped out even if you have enough physical memory!
Considering the way I normally work is to have many applications open, perhaps an IDE, a handful of terminals, a web browser, e-mail client, then spend X amount of time with one application, then switch to another (test/deploy/whatever), then maybe check e-mail & web, by the time I get around to switching to my next task the previous applications have at least partially been swapped to disk.
When I was using Windows at work, by the end of each day I was getting so incensed by it'd be a big hands in the air and muffled swearing whenever it happened, a total productivity killer.
Lets just say I'm back in Linux & Solaris land now, I have almost the same set of applications open with no problems - and that's on top of running my testing environment on the same machine.
Well, after installing our OSX anti-virus product none of our customers computers have been infected by anything, perhaps I could also interest you in our range of tiger repelling medallions, not one tiger attack in over 20 years.
The /. ID key overflowed, he's only been here a few days.
Yes.. and why do I even bother having me@example.com coming through to my VoIP phone wherever I am, along with email and OpenID? SRV and MX records are doing nicely for now.
So tell me, why again do we need .tel?
Statistics show a 100% mortality rate among people who breathe oxygen, terrorism is just a drop in the ocean compared to the devistation nature is doing every day!!!!!